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The First International Semantic Web Conference

2002-06-09 (Sunday)

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09:00 - 17:00 Semantic web services (Tutorial Track)
presenter(s): Terry Payne,Katia Sycara,Dieter Fensel,Christoph Bussler
09:00 - 12:00 Jena Tutorial (Tutorial Track)
presenter(s): Jeremy Carroll,Brian McBride,Andy Seaborne
09:00 - 12:00 Ontologies: Representation, Engineering, Learning and Applications (Tutorial Track)
presenter(s): Steffen Staab,Alexander Maedche
14:00 - 17:00 Description Logics for Conceptual Design, Information Access, and Ontology Integration: Research Trends (Tutorial Track)
presenter(s): Enrico Franconi

2002-06-10 (Monday)

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09:00 - 09:15 Opening ceremony
09:15 - 10:15 InvitedTalk: The Grid, Grid Services and the Semantic Web: Technologies and Opportunities
chair(s): Carole A. Goble
presenter(s): Carl Kesselman
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:30 Session: Infrastructure I (Main Track)
chair(s): Peter F. Patel-Schneider
1. TRIPLE - A Query, Inference, and Transformation Language for the Semantic Web, Michael Sintek and Stefan Decker Research Track Paper
2. Global vs. Community Metadata Standards: Empowering Users for Knowledge Exchange, Marek Hatala and Griff Richards Research Track Paper
3. The Usable Ontology: An Environment for Building and Assessing a Domain Ontology, Michele Missikoff,Roberto Navigli and Paola Velardi Research Track Paper
4. Ontology-Based Integration of XML Web Resources, Bernd Amann,Catriel Beeri,Irini Fundulaki and Michel Scholl Research Track Paper
5. Four Steps Towards the Widespread Adoption of a Semantic Web, Brian McBride Position Paper
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:15 Session: Services I (Main Track)
chair(s): Rudi Studer
1. Towards High-Precision Service Retrieval, Abraham Bernstein and Mark Klein Research Track Paper
2. Bringing Together Semantic Web and Web Services, Joachim Peer Research Track Paper
3. Concurrent Execution Semantics of DAML-S with Subtypes, Anupriya Ankolekar,Frank Huch and Katia P. Sycara Research Track Paper
4. Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities, Massimo Paolucci,Takahiro Kawamura,Terry R. Payne and Katia P. Sycara Research Track Paper
5. Browsing Schedules - An Agent-Based Approach to Navigating the Semantic Web, Terry R. Payne,Rahul Singh and Katia P. Sycara System Descriptions
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 - 18:30 Session: Languages I (Main Track)
chair(s): Massimo Marchiori
1. Layering the Semantic Web: Problems and Directions, Peter F. Patel-Schneider and Dieter Fensel Research Track Paper
2. Notions of Indistinguishability for Semantic Web Languages, Jaap Kamps and Maarten Marx Research Track Paper
3. Representing Disjunction and Quantifiers in RDF, Drew V. McDermott and Dejing Dou Research Track Paper
4. Nonmonotonic Rule Systems on Top of Ontology Layers, Grigoris Antoniou Position Paper
5. Three Implementations of SquishQL, a Simple RDF Query Language, Libby Miller,Andy Seaborne and Alberto Reggiori System Descriptions
19:30 - 21:00 Welcome reception
CAMINO Terrace

2002-06-11 (Tuesday)

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09:00 - 10:15 Panel: Research Challenges for the Semantic Web (panel)
chair(s): Ian Horrocks
presenter(s): Noboru Shimizu,Murray Burke,Hans-Georg Stork,Bhavani Thuraisingham
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:30 Session: Tools and applications (Main Track)
chair(s): Heiner Stuckenschmidt
1. OntoEdit: Collaborative Ontology Development for the Semantic Web, York Sure,Michael Erdmann,Jürgen Angele,Steffen Staab,Rudi Studer and Dirk Wenke Research Track Paper
2. A Data Integration Framework for e-Commerce Product Classification, Sonia Bergamaschi,Francesco Guerra and Maurizio Vincini Research Track Paper
3. SWAD-Europe: Semantic Web Advanced Development in Europe, Dan Brickley,S. Buswell,B. M. Matthews,L. Miller,D. Reynolds and Michael D. Wilson Position Paper
4. ClaiMaker: Weaving a Semantic Web of Research Papers, Gangmin Li,Victoria S. Uren,Enrico Motta,Simon Buckingham Shum and John Domingue System Descriptions
5. WebTheme™: Understanding Web Information through Visual Analytics, Mark A. Whiting and Nick Cramer System Descriptions
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:15 Session: Poster session (Poster Track)
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 - 18:30 Session: Infrastructure II (Main Track)
chair(s): Steffen Staab
1. Benchmarking RDF Schemas for the Semantic Web, Aimilia Magkanaraki,Sofia Alexaki,Vassilis Christophides and Dimitris Plexousakis Research Track Paper
2. Integrating Vocabularies: Discovering and Representing Vocabulary Maps, Borys Omelayenko Research Track Paper
3. Towards a Modification Exchange Language for Distributed RDF Repositories, Wolfgang Nejdl,Wolf Siberski,Bernd Simon and Julien Tane Research Track Paper
4. Towards Semantic Web Mining, Bettina Berendt,Andreas Hotho and Gerd Stumme Research Track Paper
5. Consistency Checking of Semantic Web Ontologies, Kenneth Baclawski,Mieczyslaw M. Kokar,Richard J. Waldinger and Paul A. Kogut System Descriptions
20:00 - 22:30 Conference diner
Restaurant LE DUNE (on the Lagoon)

2002-06-12 (Wednesday)

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09:00 - 09:15 Best paper and best reviewer awards ceremony
09:15 - 10:15 InvitedTalk: Semantic Web Enabled Web Services
chair(s): James Hendler
presenter(s): Dieter Fensel
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:25 Session: Services II (Main Track)
chair(s): Yun Peng
1. Semantic Configuration Web Services in the CAWICOMS Project, Alexander Felfernig,Gerhard Friedrich,Dietmar Jannach and Markus Zanker Research Track Paper
2. DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web, Mark H. Burstein,Jerry R. Hobbs,Ora Lassila,David L. Martin,Drew V. McDermott,Sheila A. McIlraith,Srini Narayanan,Massimo Paolucci,Terry R. Payne and Katia P. Sycara Research Track Paper
3. Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema, Jeen Broekstra,Arjohn Kampman and Frank van Harmelen Research Track Paper
4. A Mini-experiment in Semantic Annotation, Guus Schreiber,Inger I. Blok,Daan Carlier,Wouter P. C. van Gent,Jair Hokstam and Uri Roos Position Paper
5. Business and Enterprise Ontology Management with SymOntoX, Michele Missikoff and Francesco Taglino System Descriptions
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:15 Session: Languages II (Main Track)
chair(s): Jérôme Euzenat
1. Building the Semantic Web on XML, Peter F. Patel-Schneider and Jérôme Siméon Research Track Paper
2. Taking the RDF Model Theory Out for a Spin, Ora Lassila Research Track Paper
3. A Formal Model for Topic Maps, Pascal Auillans,Patrice Ossona de Mendez,Pierre Rosenstiehl and Bernard Vatant Research Track Paper
4. Is Participation in the Semantic Web Too Difficult?, Stefan Haustein and Jörg Pleumann System Descriptions
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 - 18:30 Session: Infrastructure III (Main Track)
chair(s): Brian McBride
1. Automatic Generation of Java/SQL Based Inference Engines from RDF Schema and RuleML, Andreas Eberhart Research Track Paper
2. Matching RDF Graphs, Jeremy J. Carroll Research Track Paper
3. Trusting Information Sources One Citizen at a Time, Yolanda Gil and Varun Ratnakar Research Track Paper
4. Querying the Semantic Web: A Formal Approach, Ian Horrocks and Sergio Tessaris Research Track Paper
5. An RDF NetAPI, Andy Seaborne Position Paper