Workshop on Service Oriented Knowledge Technologies

Integration of data sources and tools, and performing computations on them is one of the key problems for using the data from experimental biology today (see e.g. CFP of the Workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and Tools (SOBDAT 2007), held in conjunction with ICWS/SCC 2007 9-13 July 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah). These resources are highly diverse in nature in terms of representation, data formats, and computer systems and are distributed across the network. Although this broad spectrum of information is accessible over the Web, each data source comes with its own structure, semantics, data formats, names, concepts, and access methods. Currently, the burden falls on the scientist to manually (via programs) convert between the data formats, resolve conflicts, integrate data, and interpret results in order to make viable use of this information.

This workshop intends to bring together JSI and Leiden researches with the intention to elaborate a joint service oriented approach to information fusion, for the needs of exploratory data analysis in the framework of inductive databases, enriched with ontology and text information available from the web. The goal of this workshop is to:

• //Present subgroup discovery, as a methodology for exploratory/explanatory data analysis in biomedical applications;//

• //Present an architecture for inductive databases, and an approach to extending this architecture to a service oriented architectures (SoA);//

• //Present details of the background data mining technologies: subgroup discovery and propositionalization approach to relational data mining;//

• //Enable ample brainstorming time on how to implement the SOKT architecture. SEGS workflow in a SoA framework, as a step in a more ambitious SoA approach to implementing workflows for exploratory data analysis;///

• //Presentation of the proposed architecture for the future Service Oriented Knowledge Technologies (SOKT) toolbox;//

• //Wrap-up session: Summary of achievements and plans for future work.//