Dr. Amit Sheth
Amit P. Sheth
Founding Director, AI Institute@UofSC
NCR Chair and Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Impact
Research Innovations

Accomplishments

1987

Heterogeneous/federated databases

1988

Schema integration tool

1989

Attribute relationships (showing serious deficiency in prior schema integration work) and advocacy for "real-world semantics"

1991

Multi-database transactions (ticketing)

1992

Comprehensive semantic interoperability/semantic proximity including complex/inexact (semantic) mappings (So far schematically yet so near semantically)

1993-1994

Data integration supported by multiple/federated ontologies

1993

METEOR: distributed workflows/formalization

1994

InfoHarness: faceted search over heterogeneous (Web and nonWeb) data from Mozilla browser (ADAPT/X Harness - commercial product: 1995)

1996

Metadata on Web links/MREF (1998: in RDF)

1996

OBSERVER: multi-ontology query processing; inter-ontological relationships

1996

Searching ontologies

1998

VisualHarness: keyword+attribute/faceted+content based search of text, images and Web data; Information Landscape

1998

InfoQuilt: ontology mapping (now alignment) and complex relationships (including causal)

1999

VideoAnywhere: set top box based and Web based video search and management

2000

MediaAnywhere (commercial): Semantic Search Engine for A/V Web content

2000-2002

First Semantic Web related patent covering Semantic Search, Browsing, Interactive Marketing/Advertisement, Personalization; Voquette-SCORE & Semagix Freedom: Semantic Application Development Platform

2002

"Relationships at the heart of Semantic Web"

2003

Data/functional/execution/QoS semantics for Web services

2008

Semantic Sensor Web

2008

Citizen Sensing; Spatio-temporal-thematic analysis of social data

2008

Computing for Human Experience

2010

Continuous Semantic

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Professor Amit P. Sheth
Artificial Intelligence Institute
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of South Carolina
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