The EASTWEB project started the series of Asian Autumn School on the Semantic Web. The first edition was held in Korea in 2007, the second edition will take place in Thailand in December 2008.

The School aims to teach its attendees how to apply semantic technologies in their own projects and environments. The school is targeted at PhD students, young researchers and other interested parties affiliated to academia or industry. It is particularly our goal to bring together international experts in the field and to invite the leading research groups in Asia to be part of the program.

Presentations by leading international experts in the field will introduce the core technologies of the Semantic Web, such as:

• Standard knowledge representation languages such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) or Web Ontology Language (OWL), including tools for exploiting their reasoning capabilities.
• Principles, methods and tools to build and manage ontologies.
• The current directions in Semantic Web Services, in particular the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) and the related Web Service Modeling Language (WSML) and Web Service Execution Environment (WSMX).

Tutorials, hands-on sessions and exercises  provide additional insights into these topics and guide the students in applying the technologies in particular situations. These learning modules  are complemented by invited talks which report on the deployment of semantic technologies in real-world business scenarios, handed over by representatives of well-known international companies.

Finally the participants are involved in projects, in which they will develop prototypical Semantic Web applications in small teams on the basis of a pre-defined scenario specification.