On November 16, 2009, the School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS) organizes its annual SIKS-day. The location will be Grand Hotel Karel V in Utrecht.
The main aim of the event is to give SIKS-members, participating in research groups all over the country, the opportunity to meet each other in an informal setting and to inform them about current developments and some new activities and plans for the coming year. This year we also celebrate the fact that our school has been re-accredited by KNAW this summer for another period of six years. A small scientific symposium will be organized at the SIKS-day as well.
Program
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee and Tea
10.30 – 10.45 Welcome by Hans Akkermans (VU), Chair Board of Governors SIKS
10.45 – 11.30 “Self-organizing access and storage of correlated data: crossing the frontier of structured data management” by Peter Boncz (CWI)
11.30 – 12.15 “Knowlege Representation on the Web: what to do when success is becoming a problem?” by Frank van Harmelen (VU)
12.15 – 12.30 “SIKS: Accreditation Outcome and Future Plans” by Roel Wieringa (UT), Scientific Director SIKS
12.30 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 14.00 “The SIKS PhD Advisory Board: Going where the wild things are” by Nieske Vergunst (UU), Chair Phd Advisory Board
14.00 – 14.45 “The Minimum Description Length Principle for Data Mining” by Arno Siebes (UU)
14.45 – 15.15 Coffee and Tea
15.15 – 16.00 “On the Usability of Business Process Models: A Formal and Empirical Approach” by Hajo Reijers (TUE)
16.00 – 16.45 “Professor Kripke, let me introduce Professor Nash: Logic for Economic Mechanism Design” by Michael Wooldridge (Liverpool, UK)
16.45 – 18.00 Drinks