Information Systems
The Information Systems group carries out world leading research covering several broad and overlapping areas:
- Databases, where the focus is on topics ranging from query languages and optimisation to web data extraction and the implementation of lightweight database applications for devices such as mobile phones;
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, where the focus is on knowledge representation formalisms, ontology languages, reasoning systems, and applications in areas such as e-Science and the Semantic Web;
- Computational Linguistics, where the focus is on combining established knowledge-based approaches with statistical and machine learning methods;
- Spatial Reasoning, where the focus is on problems whose solution is highly dependent on the exact shape of objects, such as collision detection, path planning, wire-loom design, and assembling jig-saws; and
- Multiagent Systems, where the focus is on the computational aspects of rational action in systems composed of multiple self-interested computational systems.
Recent News
Publications
Top cited papers in Journal of Web Semantics and Artificial Intelligence
The paper 'Managing uncertainty and vagueness in description logics for the Semantic Web', by Thomas Lukasiewicz and Umberto Straccia, is currently one of the top 3 cited articles (published in the last five years) in the Journal of Web Semantics.
Projects
Livia Predoiu joins the department on a Marie Curie Fellowship
Livia Predoiu joins the department on a Marie Curie Fellowship
Links
Information Systems Group website
Related seminar series
- Oxford Computational Linguistics Seminars
- Categories, Logic and Foundations of Physics
- Information Systems Seminar
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