Martin Svihla, PhD.
personal web site / svihlm1 (at) fel (dot) cvut (dot) cz
Education
I graduated from
University of Zilina (Slovakia) in 2003 with a MS degree in informatics, and from
Czech Technical University in Prague in 2007 with a PhD.
I am a member of
Webing Research Group at CTU Prague and
Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG) at the University of Economics in Prague.
Research interests
I am interested in communication, information sharing and retrieval. That's why I am fascinated by internet and especially Web.
My main research area is Semantic web, but I am interested also in other Web technologies.
In the domain of Semantic web, my recent work is generating of Semantic web content and metadata-based knowledge management on the Web.
Projects
METAmorphoses
METAmorphoses is a two-layer model of mapping of relational database content to RDF due to a particular ontology.
Main features are speed of mapping and usability.
As a proof-of-concept I wrote also METAmorphoses processor, that implements the idea and is able to map data from a relational database to RDF according to given ontology.
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SeWebis
SeWebis is the semantic web version of the web portal of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CTU in Prague.
Every relevant HTML page of the portal has its RDF metadata representation.
We used our
METAmorphoses processor for the metadata generation.
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RSeminarS - Automatic interchange of (aikido) seminar information on the web
Almost every aikido (or budo) organization has its own website with a list of seminars. Number of organizations, websites and seminars increases and one can easily miss interesting events. The goal of this project is to enable automatic interchange of seminar information so that it would be possible to syndicate seminars among aikido websites.
The data interchange is based on format RSS1.0, which is commonly used for a web article syndication. This format was extended so that our it can carry seminar information. This extended format we call RSeminarS.
Moreover, the programming library (now only in PHP) to work with this format was implemented. This library can generate and process documents in RSeminarS.
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Grants
Web Resources Integration Using Semantic Web Technologies (IGS 2005 - in the process)
Internal grant of Czech Technical University (IGS) under the external number CTU0507513.
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Metadata Generation for the Semantic Web (FRVŠ 2005 - in the process)
Czech Goverment Support for Science: FRVŠ grant no. 1804/2005.
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Publications
Relevant publications
Svihla M., Jelínek I.: Benchmarking RDF Production Tools
In: Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA. Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, s. 700-710. ISBN 978-3-540-74467-2.
Download: PDF
Very old papers, posters and other publications
Svihla M., Jelínek I.: Transparent Knowledge Interchange on the Semantic Web
In: Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (Compsystech) 2005, Bulgaria, Varna
Svihla M., Jelínek I.: Sémantické rozsírenie školského webového informačného systému (Semantic Extension of an University Web Portal)
In: Proceedings of EMTECH 2005, Czech republic, Prague
Svihla M., Jelínek I.: Two Layer Mapping from Database to RDF
In: Proceedings of Electronic Computers and Informatics (ECI) 2004, Slovakia, Kosice
Download: PDF
Svihla M., Jelínek I.: METAmorphoses - SQL to RDF mapping for semantic web
SAER 2004, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Svihla M., Jelínek I.: Generating Semantic Web Content Directly from Data Source
In: Proceedings of Workshop 2004. Prague: CTU, 2004, vol. A, pp. 260-261. ISBN 80-01-02945-X.
Svihla M.: Simple Generation of RDF Metadata
In: 8th International Student Conference on Electrical Engineering, POSTER 2004, May 20 2004, Prague [CD-ROM]. Praha: CVUT FEL Praha, 2004, pp. IC54.
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Svihla M., Jelínek I.: Sémantický web a automatické generování jeho obsahu
In: Tvorba softwaru 2004. Ostrava: Tanger, 2004, pp. 294-300. ISBN 80-85988-96-8.
Sémantický web - tutoriál (Semantic Web Tutorial)
Semantic web state-of-the-art. Quite large (one hour long) presentation for Webing Research Group.
June 2004. Slovak language.
Download: SXI, PPT
Sémantický web (Semantic Web)
Introduction to Semantic web concept for Webing Research Group at CTU Prague.
January 2004. Slovak language.
Download: PPT
Generovanie obsahu sémantického webu priamo zo zdroja dát (Generating Semantic Web Content Directly from Data Source)
Introduction to my future work for Webing Research Group at CTU Prague.
January 2004. Slovak language.
Download:
PPT
Ontológie - krátky úvod (Ontologies - Brief Introduction)
Very short introduction to ontologies.
December 2003. Slovak language.
Download: PDF, SXI, PPT
Educational activities
Y36TW1 - Tvorba webových aplikací 1 (Web Application Development 1)
In 2007, I designed, prepared and taught a subject about web application development at CTU in Prague.
X36ALG - Algoritmizace (Algorithms and Programming)
Basics of algoritmization for first-year students at our faculty. Java is used as a programming language.
X36AVT - Aplikace výpočetní techniky (Applications of Computer Science)
Current programming techniques overview - basics of OOP, interfaces, exceptions, applets etc.
Everything is coded in Java, so that subject is practically introduction to the language.
I was part of team preparing the curriculum and I am an author of
webpage of the subject. I prepared also some official tutorials for the subject.
PJV - Programování v jazyku Java (Programming in Java)
I was external lector at Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering at CTU Prague. The subject is focused on core features of the language.
Experiment Robocode
With my students from the subjects above I tried some basic exercises in
Robocode. Robocode is a programming game in Java and it can be helpful with teaching both basic algorithms and advanced programming techniques.
I made "Experiment Robocode"
webpage with some exercises (sorry, only czech language) for my students and I wrote three articles at the topic for the magazine
www.root.cz.