Course No.	CIS 786
Sections	001
Title	Ontologies, Ontology Tool Design and Semantic Web
Course Website	web.njtt.edu/~perl
Prerequisite(s)	None
Instructor	Yehoshua Perl Office Room No. : 4316 GITC Office Phone : 973-596-3392 Fax : 973-596-5777 Email : perl@njit.edu Website: http://www.cs.njit.edu/~perl/ Lab :
Instructor Office Hours
Description	Ontologies, according to Gruber’s definition, describe “specification of a conceptualization.” They are knowledge representation systems helping to overcome terminological and communication gaps in application systems. The semantic web is the vision of Tim Berner Lee of the future web providing “semantic” agents support for users, beyond what current web is able to. Ontologies are crucial building blocks for the semantic web. Due to their huge size and complexity ontologies are hard to design, manage and comprehend. Ontology tools are designed with emphasis of human factors to help in this challenge. Those issues will be explored in this special topic course.
Topics	None
Text Book(s)	No textbook required, using papers
Time & Place	Wednesdays 10:00 AM - 12:55 PM Info 4415
Other Info	Academic Honor Code Grade: Grades are based on presentations Assignments: Oral powerpoint presentations based on papers. Tests: None The NJIT academic honor code (http://www.njit.edu/academics/honorcode.php)applies in full to this class. Note in particular that copying programs, in full or in part, is forbidden. You may discuss ideas and concepts with your fellow students, but you may NOT copy any code.

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