Network Inference Sponsors International Semantic Web Conference

Network Inference, the leading provider of adaptive software infrastructure-based on the W3C's OWL and RDF standards, today announced it is a gold sponsor of the third annual International Semantic Web Conference, which is taking place November 7-11 in Hiroshima, Japan. The event, which brings together a worldwide community of academics, industrial partners, and standards bodies with the largest attendance in its three-year history, sees a number of major technical announcements impacting internet computing, enterprise integration, and business process technologies.

"Network Inference is proud to sponsor the ISWC for the third consecutive year," said John Kelly, CEO of Network Inference. "It is an essential place for researchers, software vendors, and industrial consumers to come together and exchange ideas, share research results and help set the direction of community standards."

During the event, Network Inference is demonstrating late-breaking results from customer implementations of Semantic Web technologies. Actual deployments of inference-driven applications include a chart of accounts financial reporting application for a Fortune 500 electronics manufacturer and a common operational picture application built for a major NATO military fighting force. These applications demonstrate the power of OWL and RDF applications in real-world, non-academic environments and contribute to the overall focus of ISWC 2004 to show how Semantic Web applications are being adopted within commercial industries.

"The ISWC presents an ideal forum for Semantic Web researchers across the globe to exchange research results," said Professor Ian Horrocks, Network Inference's Chief Scientist. "Cutting-edge topics discussed here today will make their way into enterprise software tomorrow."

Network Inference supports a robust research program to ensure that its customers are getting proven technology grounded in solid science and international community standards. Professor Horrocks, for example, is presenting recent results of a feasibility study on the use of a first order logic theorem prover to reason with the description logic-based version of the W3C standard OWL and the emerging rules language SWRL (semantic web rules language).

Network Inference joins Nokia, France Telecom, Toshiba, NEC, Unisys, and Fujitsu, among others, as a sponsor of the ISWC 2004 event.

About Network Inference

Network Inference is the leading provider of standards-based, enterprise-ready, semantic technologies. Network Inference enterprise solutions offer Global 2000 organizations short-term payback through lower maintenance costs and project risk, and new integration and application capabilities, while providing a standards-driven pragmatic roadmap towards the model-driven Adaptive Enterprise. Network Inference's flagship Cerebra Server and Construct visual modeler provide an enterprise-strength integration and business application environment on an SOA ready platform based on the W3C's OWL, RDF, XML, SOAP, and WSDL standards. Network Inference's corporate offices include Carlsbad, CA; Menlo Park, CA; Boston, MA; and Manchester, UK. For more information, see http://www.networkinference.com.

Contact: Matthew Quinlan 1 760 476 0650 matthew.quinlan@networkinference.com