James Hendler

Publications of James Hendler

• We've Come a Long Way, Maybe …

  Authors: James Hendler

  Intelligent Systems, IEEE. 10/2008; 23(5):2-3.

  Despite all the major AI successes, when it comes to really understanding the human mind, we still know very little.

• Why It Matters

  Authors: James Hendler, Jie Bao

  Intelligent Systems, IEEE. 08/2008; 23(4):2-3.

  Computer science research and technology can make a real difference in the world. The recent earthquake in China provides one example.

• A New Portrait of the Semantic Web in Action

  Authors: James Hendler

  Intelligent Systems, IEEE. 06/2008;

  This special issue, rather than focusing on tools specifically for ontologies, looks at how they're being used and becoming part of the overall Web ecology. This article is part of a special issueThis special issue, rather than focusing on tools specifically for ontologies, looks at how they're being used and becoming part of the overall Web ecology. This article is part of a special issue called Semantic Web Update.

• AI's 10 to Watch

  Authors: James Hendler, Philipp Cimiano, Dmitri Dolgov, Anat Levin, Peter Mika, Brian Milch, Louis-Philippe Morency, Boris Motik, Jennifer Neville, Erik B. Sudderth, Luis von Ahn

  Intelligent Systems, IEEE. 06/2008;

  The recipients of the 2008 IEEE Intelligent Systems 10 to Watch award—Philipp Cimiano, Dmitri Dolgov, Anat Levin, Peter Mika, Brian Milch, Louis-Philippe Morency, Boris Motik, Jennifer Neville, ErikThe recipients of the 2008 IEEE Intelligent Systems 10 to Watch award—Philipp Cimiano, Dmitri Dolgov, Anat Levin, Peter Mika, Brian Milch, Louis-Philippe Morency, Boris Motik, Jennifer Neville, Erik Sudderth, and Luis von Ahn—discuss their current research and their visions of AI for the future.

• Avoiding Another AI Winter

  Authors: James Hendler

  Intelligent Systems, IEEE. 04/2008; 23(2):2-4.

  Is artificial intelligence headed for another AI Winter? Not if we take action now.

• Reinventing Academic Publishing, Part 3

  Authors: James Hendler

  Intelligent Systems, IEEE. 02/2008; 23(1):2-3.

  Online scientific interaction outside the traditional journal space is becoming more and more important to academic communication.

• Reinventing Academic Publishing, Part 2

  Authors: James Hendler

  Intelligent Systems, IEEE. 12/2007;

  One possible model for scientific publishing is the overlay journal, which takes some interdisciplinary theme and provides links to papers published elsewhere. By providing links rather thanOne possible model for scientific publishing is the overlay journal, which takes some interdisciplinary theme and provides links to papers published elsewhere. By providing links rather than republishing, the overlay journal provides a service to both the reader, by linking to many publications, and the publishers, by bringing more eyeballs to their sites.

• Reinventing Academic Publishing-Part 1

  Authors: James Hendler

  Intelligent Systems, IEEE. 10/2007; 22(5):2-3.

  The nature of academic publishing is changing, and computer scientists need to lead the way.

• Agents Redux

  Authors: James Hendler

  Intelligent Systems, IEEE. 08/2007; 22(4):2-2.

  Editor in Chief James Hendler comments on responses he received about his essay "Where Are All the Intelligent Agents?" in the May/June issue.

• Where Are All the Intelligent Agents?

  Authors: James Hendler

  Intelligent Systems, IEEE. 06/2007; 22(3):2-3.

  There has been much research and talk about intelligent agents, but few real-world implementations.

• Department of Redundancy Department?

  Authors: James Hendler

  Intelligent Systems, IEEE. 04/2007;

  This issue features a new department: Applications: Homeland Security. Picking the name was no easy matter.

• Semantic Web Techniques to Support Interoperability in Distributed Networked Environments

  Authors: Dave Braines, Yannis Kalfoglou, Paul R Smart, Jie Bao, Nigel Shadbolt, James Hendler

  We explore two Semantic Web techniques arising from ITA research into semantic alignment and interoperability in distributed networks. The first is POAF (Portable Ontology Aligned Fragments) whichWe explore two Semantic Web techniques arising from ITA research into semantic alignment and interoperability in distributed networks. The first is POAF (Portable Ontology Aligned Fragments) which addresses issues relating to the portability and usage of ontology alignments. POAF uses an ontology fragmentation strategy to achieve portability, and enables subsequent usage through a form of automated ontology modularization. The second technique, SWEDER (Semantic Wrapping of Existing Data sources with Embedded Rules), is grounded in the creation of lightweight ontologies to semantically wrap existing data sources, to facilitate rapid semantic integration through representational homogeneity. The semantic integration is achieved through the creation of context ontologies which define the integrations and provide a portable definition of the integration rules in the form of embedded SPARQL construct clauses. These two Semantic Web techniques address important practical issues relevant to the potential future adoption of ontologies in distributed network environments.

• The Extended Mind and Network-Enabled Cognition

  Authors: Paul Smart, Paula Engelbrecht, Dave Braines, James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt

  In thinking about the transformative potential of network technologies with respect to human cognition, it is common to see network resources as playing a largely assistive or augmentative role. InIn thinking about the transformative potential of network technologies with respect to human cognition, it is common to see network resources as playing a largely assistive or augmentative role. In this paper we propose a somewhat more radical vision. We suggest that the informational and technological elements of a network system can, at times, constitute part of the material supervenience base for a human agent’s mental states and processes. This thesis (called the thesis of network-enabled cognition) draws its inspiration from the notion of the extended mind that has been propounded in the philosophical and cognitive science literature. Our basic claim is that network systems can do more than just augment cognition; they can also constitute part of the physical machinery that makes mind and cognition mechanistically possible. In evaluating this hypothesis, we identify a number of issues that seem to undermine the extent to which contemporary network systems, most notably the World Wide Web, can legitimately feature as part of an environmentally-extended cognitive system. Specific problems include the reliability and resilience of network-enabled devices, the accessibility of online information content, and the extent to which network-derived information is treated in the same way as information retrieved from biological memory. We argue that these apparent shortfalls do not necessarily merit the wholesale rejection of the network-enabled cognition thesis; rather, they point to the limits of the current state-of-the-art and identify the targets of many ongoing research initiatives in the network and information sciences. In addition to highlighting the importance of current research and technology development efforts, the thesis of network-enabled cognition also suggests a number of areas for future research. These include the formation and maintenance of online trust relationships, the subjective assessment of information credibility and the long-term impact of network access on human psychological and cognitive functioning. The nascent discipline of web science is, we suggest, suitably placed to begin an exploration of these issues.

• Using Semantic Web Technologies to Support Information Processing and Coalition Decision-Making

  Authors: Dave Braines, Paul Smart, Jie Bao, Alistair Russell, Nigel Shadbolt, James Hendler

  This paper outlines three techniques and tools which have recently arisen from Semantic Web research in the International Technology Alliance. The first of these techniques is POAF (Portable OntologyThis paper outlines three techniques and tools which have recently arisen from Semantic Web research in the International Technology Alliance. The first of these techniques is POAF (Portable Ontology Aligned Fragments), which addresses issues relating to the portability and usage of ontology alignments. POAF uses an ontology fragmentation strategy to achieve portability, and it enables subsequent usage of ontologies through a form of automated ontology modularization. The second technique, SWEDER (Semantic Wrapping of Existing Data sources with Embedded Rules), is grounded in the creation of lightweight ontologies to semantically wrap existing data sources, which facilitates rapid semantic integration through representational homogeneity and embedded rules. The third technique is NITELIGHT, which is a tool that has been created to better support end users with respect to the creation and editing of semantic queries. NITELIGHT uses a visual query language, called vSPARQL, and it is based on the W3C SPARQL query language specification. NITELIGHT supports end users by providing a set of graphical notations that represent semantic query language constructs. These enable the user to combine ontology navigation capabilities with graphical query visualisation techniques.