A paper by a group of University of Southampton academics which proposes a new way for engineers to use the Semantic Web will receive an award next week.

Dr. Richard Crowder at the British university's School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) and team will receive the 2009 Richard E. Fulton SEIKM (Systems, Engineering, Information and Knowledge Management) Best Paper Award for a paper entitled Navigation Over a Large Ontology for Industrial Web Applications for which he was lead author.

The award, which will be presented at the CIE (Computers and Information in Engineering) Awards Lunch on Monday in San Diego, Calif., recognizes original research and/or implementation and technology application contributions to the fields covered by the Systems Engineering, Information and Knowledge Management Technical Committee.

Dr. Crowder's paper considered the fact that Semantic Web searches for industrial applications are often very large and unearth a large pool of technical terminology. With this in mind, he and the co-authors of the paper developed three approaches to ontology presentations to limit the amount of information presented to the user at any one time.

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