Saltlux named Gold Sponsor and Tutorial Facilitator for ASWC2006

“Saltlux named gold sponsor and tutorial facilitator for ASWC 2006, 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference” Saltlux Inc., a solution provider for semantic web-based IT convergence services, next generation information searching and text mining, is named a gold sponsor and a tutorial facilitator for the Asian Semantic Web Conference 2006 (ASWC2006), which will be held for the first time in Asia. Running as an extension of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) and the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), which are the biggest semantic web-related events in the world, the ASWC is the very first international conference to be held in Asia. The ASWC will be held in Beijing, China, from September 3 to 7. Various programs are planned for the conference, including presentations by reputable researchers, tutorials, workshops, technical programs, and demo booths. As many as 300 semantic web researchers in Korea, China and Japan, as well as other experts from Europe and North America, are scheduled to present their research findings. Presentations will cover latest semantic web-related research findings, ranging from ontology to reasoning, database, system integration, annotation, and semantic web services. Saltlux Inc. will be facilitating one of the three tutorials during the conference. Titled “Tools and Applications for the Enterprise Semantic Web,” Saltlux Inc. will be co-hosting this tutorial with ontoprise, a German firm. Leveraging on their rich industry experience, the two companies will give an overview of fundamental concepts for ontology modeling, reasoning, and semantic web-based applications in the business environment. Tutorial participants will also be given an opportunity to try out commercially available ontology modeling tools and reasoning engines. In addition, the two facilitators will introduce to the participants OntoBroker and KAON2, knowledge management and information searching applications for the actual enterprise environment, by providing their demonstrations.