IST Project Fact Sheet

REWERSE - Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics

Funded under Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)

Action Line: Semantic-based knowledge systems

Objectives

The objective of REWERSE is to establish Europe as a leader in reasoning languages for the Web by

networking and structuring a scientific community that needs it, and by
providing tangible technological bases that do not exist today for an industrial software development of advanced Web systems and applications.

The community networked and structured by REWERSE will

develop a coherent and complete, yet minimal, collection of inter-operable reasoning languages for advanced Web systems and applications;
test these languages on context-adaptive Web systems and Web-based decision support systems selected as test-beds for proof-of-concept purposes;
bring the proposed languages to the level of open pre-standards amenable to submissions to standardisation bodies such as the W3C.

REWERSE will develop Education and Training activities targeted at Universities as well as Technology Transfer and Awareness activities targeted at the European industry on reasoning languages for Web systems and applications.

Impact

Reasoning languages for the Web are an emerging technology that does not exist today. This technology will soon represent an essential breakthrough for Web systems and applications. Thus, REWERSE will promote research on an issue of a considerable economical importance. Doing so, REWERSE will contribute to the international competitiveness of the European industry in an essential field of today's Information Technologies.

REWERSE will establish itself as the world leading virtual research centre on reasoning languages and methods for the Web. REWERSE will ensure that this novel technology is fully exploited and translated into real competitive advantages for the European industry.

Network Structure

REWERSE involves 27 European research and industry organisations and about 100 computer science researchers and professionals playing key roles in applied reasoning. REWERSE is coordinated by the University of Munich (research group of the professors François Bry and Hans Jürgen Ohlbach). The EU Commission and Switzerland will support REWERSE with more than 5 million Euro over 4 years. REWERSE has started on March 1st, 2004. REWERSE's activities can be followed at http://rewerse.net.

Coordination and Management

Coordinatation and Management

Coordinators:

Prof. François Bry (coordinator)

phone: +49-89-2180-9310, fax: +49-89-2180-9311

email: francois.bry [at] ifi.lmu.de
www: http://www.ifi.lmu.de/~bry

Prof. Hans Jürgen Ohlbach (deputy coordinator)

email: ohlbach [at] informatik.uni-muenchen.de
www: http://www.ifi.lmu.de /~ohlbach

Prof. Jan Małuszyński (deputy coordinator), Linköping, Sweden

email: janma [at] ida.liu.se
www: http://www.ida.liu.se/~janma/

Management Office:

Dr. Uta Schwertel (project manager)

phone: +49-89-2180-9018, , fax: +49-89-2180-9017
email: uta.schwertel [at] ifi.lmu.de
www: http://www.ifi.lmu.de/~schwerte

Stefanie Heidmann (administrative assistant)

phone: +49-89-2180-9016, fax: +49-89-2180-9017
email: stefanie.heidmann [at] ifi.lmu.de
www: http://www.ifi.lmu.de/~heidmann

Organisation:

Department of Informatics
University of Munich
Oettingenstr. 67
D-80538 Munich
Germany

Participants and Corresponding Participants

Participants
Short Name	Full Name Participant Representative	Country
MUNICH	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Dr. François Bry, Professor	GERMANY
BUCHAREST	Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare in Informatica Dr. Liviu Badea, Senior Scientist	ROMANIA
EDINBURGH	Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Dr. M. Howard Williams, Professor	UNITED KINGDOM
EINDHOVEN	Eindhoven University of Technology Dr. Gerd Wagner, Assistant Professor	NETHERLANDS
GÖTTINGEN	Universität Göttingen Dr. Wolfgang May, Professor	GERMANY
HANNOVER	Universität Hannover and Learning Lab Lower Saxony Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl, Professor	GERMANY
HERAKLION	Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas Dr. Grigoris Antoniou, Professor	GREECE
JENA	Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Dr. Rolf Backofen, Professor	GERMANY
LIBRT	LibRT B.V., Amsterdam Silvie Spreeuwenberg, Chief Technical Officer	NETHERLANDS
LINKÖPING	Linköpings Universitet Dr. Jan Małuszyński, Professor	SWEDEN
LISBON	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Dr. Luís Moniz Pereira, Professor	PORTUGAL
DRESDEN	Technische Universität Dresden Dr. Michael Schroeder, Professor	GERMANY
MALTA	University of Malta Dr. Matthew Montebello, Professor	MALTA
MANCHESTER	The Victoria University of Manchester Dr. Ian Horrocks, Professor	UNITED KINGDOM
NANCY	INRIA - Unité de Recherche Lorraine (LORIA) Dr. Claude Kirchner, Senior Scientist	FRANCE
NAPLES	Università di Napoli Dr. Piero A. Bonatti, Professor	ITALY
PARIS	INRIA Rocquencourt Dr. François Fages, Senior Scientist	FRANCE
SKÖVDE	Högskolan i Skövde Dr. Mikael Berndtsson, Assistant Professor	SWEDEN
ST. GALLEN	Universität St. Gallen Dr. Rolf Grütter, Project Manager	SWITZERLAND
TEKNIKER	Fundacion Tekniker, Eibar Aitor Arnaiz, Senior Scientist	SPAIN
TELEFONICA	Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Madrid Sara Carro Martínez, Project Manager	SPAIN
TURIN	Università degli Studi di Torino Dr. Alberto Martelli, Professor	ITALY
VENICE	Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Dr. Massimo Marchiori, Assistant Professor	ITALY
VIENNA	Technische Universität Wien Dr. Thomas Eiter, Professor	AUSTRIA
WARSAW	Instytut Podstaw Informatyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk Dr. Włodzimierz Drabent, Associate Professor	POLAND
WEBXCERPT	webXcerpt Software GmbH, München Tim Geisler, Managing Partner	GERMANY
ZURICH	Universität Zürich Dr. Norbert E. Fuchs, Senior Research Associate	SWITZERLAND
Corresponding Participants
CAIRO	German University in Cairo Dr. Slim Abdennadher, Professor	EGYPT
ENIGMATEC	Enigmatec Corporation Ltd., London Steve Ross-Talbot, Senior Scientist	UNITED KINGDOM
MELBOURNE	The University of Melbourne Dr. James Bailey, Senior Lecturer	AUSTRALIA
NEW YORK	University of New York Dr. Michael Kifer, Professor	U.S.A.

Project Details

Project details
Project Acronym: Project Reference: Start Date: Duration: Contract Type: End Date: Project Status: Project Funding EU commission part: Swiss part:	REWERSE 506779 2004-03-01 48 months Network of Excellence 2008-02-29 Execution 5 150 000 Euro 360 720 Euro