Using knowledge graphs to increase situational awareness and resilience

7 Apr | Prof. Krzysztof Janowicz willl examine knowledge graphs and their applications in integrating data, and spurring action in the fields of humanitarian relief and supply chain management.  

by Xiong Yap
Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash

Modern societies blossom on a densely connected network of energy, transport, communication, manufacturing, finance, health, and safety-related services. Consequently, studying and improving the resilience of each service and society at large cannot be done in isolation. Nonetheless, we tend to organize data about these services into isolated layers together with their own tooling, communities, literature, and so forth. This talk will introduce a large-scale knowledge graph - the KnowWhereGraph - that integrates data from dozens of highly heterogeneous sources across the interface between humans and their environment. Next, I will showcase how such a graph can be utilized to improve the situational awareness of decision-makers and data scientists and discuss the value proposition of knowledge graphs for application areas such as humanitarian relief and supply chain management.

Webinar Details

Date: Thu, 7 April
Time: 3-4pm (SGT), 9-10am (CET)
Join here: external pagehttps://ethz.zoom.us/j/63258087357

 

About the speaker

external pageKrzysztof Janowicz is a full professor for Geoinformatics at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on how humans conceptualize the space around them based on their behavior, focusing particularly on regional and cultural differences with the ultimate goal of assisting machines to better understand the information needs of an increasingly diverse user base. Janowicz’s expertise is in knowledge representation and reasoning as they apply to spatial and geographic data, e.g., in the form of knowledge graphs.

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