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The group members for the winning SSSW07 mini-project were Aurona Gerber (front), Rabeen Abbassi (left), Laurian Gridinoc (middle right), Sofica Angeletou (middle left) and Alta van der Merwe from Unisa (right) |
The Meraka Institute is a national research centre managed by the CSIR.
Dr Aurona Gerber of the Meraka Institute walked off with the best poster award at the fifth Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW07) held in Cercedilla, Madrid, Spain in July 2007.
The title of her winning poster is Towards a comprehensive functional layered architecture for the semantic web, which is based on the publication titled Towards a semantic web layered architecture.
Gerber was one of 50 international participants at the school, all of whom were chosen to attend based on submissions made about their research. She describes the event as a "wonderful week with enthusiastic students and great names, including Dieter Fensel". Fensel is a well-known researcher in the field of formal languages and the semantic web. "It was a great privilege to have been selected as one of the 50 participants," Gerber says.
At SSSW07, Gerber was also required to work as a member of a group on a mini-project where members applied some of the technologies presented during the school. "Our group won the best mini-project award," she reveals.
As a computer scientist, Gerber is a senior researcher in the Intelligent Environments for Independent Living group, with a specific interest in ontologies and reasoning within information systems. An ontology is a data model that represents a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts. It is used to reason about the objects within that domain.
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