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Software SIG: Leveraging Semantic Web Technologies for Improved Decision Making
Where
Patrick Henry Library, Vienna; FDA Silver Spring; MITRE Bedford MA; MITRE Eatontow; MITRE Aberdeen,
Patrick Henry Library, 101 Maple Ave E, Vienna, VA 22180
FDA, Bld 66, room G512, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD
Various, Maryland
703-983-6127
When
Nov 29, 2011
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
(GMT -5:00) EST
Leveraging Semantic Web
Technologies for Improved Decision Making
by: Samuel
Chance
Tuesday November 29, 2011
As the
proliferation of sensors and bandwidth
increases, the quantity of available data
increases; and imposes additional time and
manpower overhead to interpret the data for
decision-makers. Increasingly, aspects of
decision-making are leaving the realm of human
senses, and crossing outside the limits of
human reaction times. Eventually it may become
impossible for humans to absorb and discern
knowledge value from the mounting data glut.
The result: decisions based on incomplete
information (i.e. conjecture). The technologies
and methodologies of the Semantic Web allow
machines to assist humans in interpreting the
data glut, and incorporating more data into the
construction of domain knowledge. Because
organizations and individuals desire the
highest possible degree of certainty from which
to make decisions, they pursue knowledge
wherever it is perceived to exist. While this
pursuit of knowledge is justified
theoretically, it is extremely difficult, time
consuming and complex to realize with current
WWW technologies. The Semantic Web will
abstract more of the complexities, and will
mitigate difficulties associated with data
aggregation and knowledge representation, all
of which is employed in the construction and
interpretation of knowledge to support decision
making. This presentation briefly describes the
Semantic Web construct, its overall function in
the progression of the Internet, and how it
enables the next major iteration of the
Internet. This presentation will also discuss
how semantic data integration liberates data
from application-specific silos to create
context which improves our ability to “know
what we know.”
6:30 PM – Networking and
Pizza(*)
7:00 - 8:00 PM –
Program
(*) There is no cost to
attend at McLean and Silver
Spring.
Locations:
Mr.
Chance will be presenting from
McLean,
with video tele-conferencing (VTC)
between:
MITRE, room 1N100 7515 Colshire
Drive McLean, VA
22102 host: Scott
Ankrum cell:
240-731-7581 |
FDA, Bld 66, room
G512 10903
New Hampshire
Ave Silver Spring,
MD
20993 cell: 301-996-4976 |
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MITRE, room
1M306 202 Burlington
Rd (Rt. 62) Bedford, MA
01730 host: Tim
Rice cell:
978-758-2704 | ||
For details and driving directions, see the
November Software SIG
Announcement.
If
you can host another location via VTC,
please contact Scott Ankrum
(below)
TO
ATTEND THE MeetingPlace Collaboration
CONFERENCE:
1.
Go to: http://audioconference.mitre.org/ 2. Click on Attend Meeting. If
MeetingPlace Collaboration Window does not
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·
Dial 703-983-6338 (x36338)
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region.
·
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from the Bedford, MA
region.
Meeting ID: 509509, when
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prompted.
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the web conference. Follow this link to the
browser test link on the
page.
Registration:
Registration Website: http://www.asq509.org/ht/d/DoSurvey/i/26913
You must register by noon on Monday, November 28. If you cannot attend at any location, select telephone dialin when you register. To RSVP for FDA (Silver Spring), please indicate citizenship. If not a US citizen, please provide your title, employer, and address. Allow two business days for registration before the meeting.