An Animating Spark: Mundane Computing and the Web of Data

Network connectivity is reaching more and more into the physical world. This is potentially transformative – allowing every object and service in the world to talk to one other—and to their users—through any networked interface; where online services are the connective tissue of the physical world and where physical objects are avatars of online services.

Crowds: Anonymity for Web Transactions

This is the original Crowds paper from Reiter and Rubin. Please consider it required reading.

INFO6003 (2013) Crowds: Anonymity for Web Transactions -- Paper

This is the original Crowds paper from Reiter and Rubin. Please consider it required reading.

Pre-course survey Web Science

Pre-course survey Web Science

Web Science(2) Participant Information Sheet

Web Science(2) Participant Information Sheet

Web Science_Participant Information Sheet

Web Science_Participant Information Sheet

WAIS seminar: Ontologies on the Web: An Alternative Model

Wednesday 2nd April 2014 Speaker(s): Stefan Decker Time: 02/04/2014 11:00-11:50 Location: B2/1083 File size: 897 Mb Abstract Ontologies have been promoted and used for knowledge sharing. Several models for representing ontologies have been developed in the Knowledge Representation field, in particular associated with the Semantic Web. In my talk I will summarise developments so far, and will argue that the currently advocated approaches miss certain basic properties of current distributed information sharing infrastructures (read: the Web and the Internet). I will sketch an alternative model aiming to support knowledge sharing and re-use on a global basis.