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The Third International Semantic Web Conference

2004-11-07 (Sunday)

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08:00 - 17:00 Registration
08:30 - 12:30 T1: XQuery: the query language, its applications and its implementations (Tutorial Track)
chair(s): Donald Kossman,Daniela Florescu
Abstract: XML is a versatile markup language, capable of labeling information contentfromof diverse information sources including structured and semi-structured documents, relational databases, and object repositories. XQuery is a declarative query language that uses the structure of XML intelligently. It can express queries across all these kinds of data, whether physically stored in XML or viewed as XML via middleware and it is designed to be broadly applicable across many types of XML data sources, independently of their original format or location. XQuery is currently under standardization as part of the World Wide Web Consortium and already adopted by industry, research and open source communities alike. Given that it is likely that large amounts of information will be represented in near future using XML, XQuery will play a fundamental role for data search, integration and aggregation; it will be the basic building block for such activities. XQuery is currently and will be in the future used in a variety of different environments. Examples to date include XML database systems, XML document repositories, XML data integration on the Web and within single economical structures, workflow systems, and publish and subscribe systems. In addition, XPath of which XQuery is a superset is used in various products such as Web browsers. Although the W3C XQuery specification has not yet attained recommendation status, and the definition of the language has not entirely stabilized, a number of alternative proposals to implement and optimize XQuery have appeared both in industry and in the research community. Given the wide range of applications for which XQuery is applicable, a wide spectrum of alternative techniques has been proposed for XQuery processing. Some of these techniques are only useful for certain applications, other techniques are general-purpose.
Room 8
08:30 - 12:30 T2: Ontology Design Patterns and Problems: Practical Ontology Engineering using Protege-OWL (Tutorial Track)
chair(s): Natalya Noy,Mark A. Musen,Holger Knublauch,Guus Schreiber,Alan Rector
Abstract: The Task Force on Ontology Engineering and Patterns of the W3C working group on Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment will have completed most of its work by the time of the conference. The Task Force has already produced a series of first working draft notes on common ontology design patterns. These patterns analogous to the programming design patterns used by software engineers are directly influencing the development of the Protégé-OWL ontology development environment and its extensions by the CO-ODE project. This tutorial will introduce attendees to the concept of ontology patterns and discuss key patterns developed by the Task Force and others. Example patterns include quantities and units, value partitions, n-nary relations, problems of distinguishing classes and individuals, the choice between representing relationships as classes or properties, and qualified cardinality restrictions. (The final choice of issues will be driven by the results of the Task Force.) The tutorial will provide practical hands-on experience with the patterns using the Protégé-OWL tools and CO-ODE extensions. The style of the tutorial will be lecture demonstration. The software and examples will be made available in advance and attendees will be encouraged to gain hands on experience and explore the trade-offs between alternative patterns by working through the examples on their laptops. (See http://protege.stanford.edu and http://www.co-ode.org) The quality, availability and breadth of coverage of ontologies will be a major factor in determining the success of the Semantic Web. Patterns and tools to make it easier to develop high quality ontologies is therefore crucial to the Semantic Web Development. However, the idea of ontology patterns is relatively new. Many controversies remain. Ample time will be provided for feedback, questions and discussion. Three of the proposers are members of the Task Force, and one of them, Guus Schreiber, chairs the W3C Working Group.
Room 10
08:30 - 12:30 T3: Tools and Technologies for Semantic Web Services (Tutorial Track)
chair(s): Christoph Bussler,Katia Sycara,Liliana Cabral,Michael Zaremba,John Domingue,Michael Stollberg,Sinuhe Arroyo,Matthew Moran
Abstract: Web Services combined with Semantic Web are being considered as the Next Big Wave of innovation in e-commerce and B2B integration. Web Services are also offered across Grid Computing in support of e-science. Recent industrial interest in Web Services, Semantic Web and the availability of tools and standards to enable automated invocation of business functionality through message exchange (e.g. SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, BEPL etc) holds the promise of fast progress in this area. An increasing number of Web Services using basic semantics are starting to appear. Today, services (e.g. travel services, book selling services, stock reporting services etc) are discovered and invoked manually by human users. In the near future, such service discovery and use will be mediated by computational entities, thus making the Web and Web Services computer understandable. Instead of being populated with human-readable documents, the Web will be populated with computer-mediated services. This tutorial will take an in-depth look at the current state of the art in the Semantic Web and Web Services and sort through the increasing and confusing array of relevant tools, languages and theories both from academia and industry. The tutorial will also present and discuss semantics for Web Services and their potential for business value added. Many examples to illustrate the described concepts, techniques, tools and their use will be presented. The tutorial brings together material and tools from the Semantic Web and Web Service standards technologies. In addition, the tutorial will present different approaches for enhancing Web Services with semantics. More importantly, the tutorial will discuss limitations of current technologies and present value added advanced concepts, such as distributed service composition, Semantic Web enabled Web Services, agent-mediated Web Services, as well as open issues that must be addressed. Alternative approaches will be presented and compared and a substantial list of references will be provided. The tutorial is self contained and accessible to practitioners, researchers and students. In particular this tutorial will focus on presenting semantics for Web Services with illustrations from two approaches, OWL-S and WSMO, that will be presented concurrently in order to emphasize their commonalities and differences. OWL-S (http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/) is an effort supported by DARPA and is part of the DAML program. WSMO (http://www.wsmo.org) is an effort supported by European national and international projects.
Room 4
09:00 - 18:00 Workshop: W1: Semantic Web technology for mobile and ubiquitous applications
chair(s): Valentina Tamma,Terry Payne,Monique Calisti,Kaoru Hiramatsu,Chiara Ghidini
Room 5
09:00 - 18:00 Workshop: W2: Trust, Security, and Reputation on the Semantic Web
chair(s): Wolfgang Nejdl,Piero Bonatti,Marianne Winslett,Jennifer Golbeck
Room 7
10:30 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Top of Hiroshima, Level 23
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Top of Hiroshima, Level 23
14:00 - 18:00 T4: RDF and Topic Maps Interoperability in Practice (Tutorial Track)
chair(s): Steve Pepper,Lars Marius Garshol
Room 8
14:00 - 18:00 T5: Theory and Practice of RDF Query Processing (Tutorial Track)
chair(s): Richard Vdovjak,Jeen Broekstra,Heiner Stuckenschmidt,Geert-Jan Houben,Ad Aerts
Room 10
14:00 - 18:00 T6: Semantic Web Rules with Ontologies, and their E-Business Applications (Tutorial Track)
chair(s): Mike Dean,Benjamin Grosof
Room 4
15:00 - 16:00 Tea Break
Top of Hiroshima, Level 23

2004-11-08 (Monday)

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08:00 - 17:00 Registration
09:00 - 18:00 Workshop: W3: SW-EL'04: Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning
chair(s): Yukihiro Itoh,Riichiro Mizoguchi,Lora Aroyo,Darina Dicheva
Room 10
09:00 - 18:00 Workshop: W4: Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2004)
chair(s): York Sure,Todd Hughes,Oscar Corcho,Jerome Euzenat
Room 7
09:00 - 18:00 Workshop: W5: Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web
chair(s): Harold Boley,Grigoris Antoniou
Room 5
09:00 - 18:00 Workshop: W6: Semantic Web Services: Preparing to Meet the World of Business Applications
chair(s): Takahira Yamaguchi,Rubén Lara Hernández,David Martin
Room 4
09:00 - 18:00 Workshop: W7: Meaning coordination and negotiation
chair(s): Paolo Bouquet,Luciano Serafini
Room 8
09:00 - 18:00 Workshop: W8: Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (Semannot2004)
chair(s): Thierry Declerck,Siegfried Handschuh
Room 9
10:30 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Top of Hiroshima, Level 23
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Top of Hiroshima, Level 23
15:00 - 16:00 Tea Break
Top of Hiroshima, Level 23

2004-11-09 (Tuesday)

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09:00 - 09:30 Opening Ceremony
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09:30 - 10:30 InvitedTalk: The Semantic Web Story -- It's already 2004. Where are we?
chair(s): Frank van Harmelen
presenter(s): Edward Feigenbaum
Room 1
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Room 4
11:00 - 12:30 Session: S1: Integration (Research Track)
1. An Extensible Directory Enabling Efficient Semantic Web Service Integration, Ion Constantinescu,Walter Binder and Boi Faltings Integration and Interoperability
2. Opening Up Magpie via Semantic Services, Martin Dzbor,Enrico Motta and John Domingue Integration and Interoperability
3. Working with Multiple Ontologies on the Semantic Web, Bernardo Cuenca Grau,Bijan Parsia and Evren Sirin Integration and Interoperability
Room 1
11:00 - 12:30 Session: S2: Searching & Querying (Research Track)
1. A Comparison of RDF Query Languages, Peter Haase,Jeen Broekstra,Andreas Eberhart and Raphael Volz Searching and Querying
2. Generating On the Fly Queries for the Semantic Web: The ICS-FORTH Graphical RQL Interface (GRQL), Nikolaos Athanasis,Vassilis Christophides and Dimitris Kotzinos Searching and Querying
3. Information Retrieval Support for Ontology Construction and Use, Willem Robert van Hage,Maarten de Rijke and Maarten Marx Searching and Querying
Room 2
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Top of Hiroshima, Level 23
14:00 - 15:30 Session: S3: SW Services (Research Track)
1. A Conceptual Architecture for Semantic Web Services, Chris Preist Semantic Web Services
2. Applying KAoS Services to Ensure Policy Compliance for Semantic Web Services Workflow Composition and Enactment, Andrzej Uszok,Jeffrey M. Bradshaw,Renia Jeffers,Austin Tate and Jeff Dalton Semantic Web Services
3. Applying Semantic Web Services to Bioinformatics: Experiences Gained, Lessons Learnt, Phillip W. Lord,Sean Bechhofer,Mark D. Wilkinson,Gary S. Schiltz,Damian Gessler,Duncan Hull,Carole A. Goble and Lincoln Stein Semantic Web Services
Room 1
14:00 - 15:30 Session: S4: User Interfaces & Visualization (Research Track)
1. OntoTrack: Combining Browsing and Editing with Reasoning and Explaining for OWL Lite Ontologies, Thorsten Liebig and Olaf Noppens User Interfaces and Visualization
2. The Protégé OWL Plugin: An Open Development Environment for Semantic Web Applications, Holger Knublauch,Ray W. Fergerson,Natalya Fridman Noy and Mark A. Musen User Interfaces and Visualization
3. Tracking Changes During Ontology Evolution, Natalya Fridman Noy,Sandhya Kunnatur,Michel C. A. Klein and Mark A. Musen User Interfaces and Visualization
Room 2
15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break
Room 4
16:00 - 17:00 Session: S5: SW Mining (Research Track)
1. From Tables to Frames, Aleksander Pivk,Philipp Cimiano and York Sure Semantic Web Mining
2. Learning Meta-descriptions of the FOAF Network, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes,Peter Edwards and Alun D. Preece Semantic Web Mining
Room 1
16:00 - 17:00 Session: S6: Large Scale Knowledge Mgmt (Research Track)
1. An Evaluation of Knowledge Base Systems for Large OWL Datasets, Yuanbo Guo,Zhengxiang Pan and Jeff Heflin Large Scale Knowledge Management
2. Structure-Based Partitioning of Large Concept Hierarchies, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Michel C. A. Klein Large Scale Knowledge Management
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17:00 - 18:30 Posters & 1st half of Demos with Drinks & Snacks
Room 5, Room 6

2004-11-10 (Wednesday)

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09:00 - 10:30 InvitedTalk: How to Build Google2Google - An (Incomplete) Recipe
chair(s): S. McIlraith
presenter(s): Wolfgang Nejdl
Room 1
10:30 - 19:00 Exhibition
Room 5
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Room 5
11:00 - 12:30 Session: S7: Ontologies (Research Track)
1. QOM - Quick Ontology Mapping, Marc Ehrig and Steffen Staab Ontologies
2. Specifying Ontology Views by Traversal, Natalya Fridman Noy and Mark A. Musen Ontologies
3. Towards a Symptom Ontology for Semantic Web Applications, Kenneth Baclawski,Christopher J. Matheus,Mieczyslaw M. Kokar,Jerzy Letkowski and Paul A. Kogut Ontologies
Room 1
11:00 - 12:30 Session: S8: Inference (Research Track)
1. Inferring Data Transformation Rules to Integrate Semantic Web Services, Bruce Spencer and Sandy Liu Inference
2. Knowledge-Intensive Induction of Terminologies from Metadata, Floriana Esposito,Nicola Fanizzi,Luigi Iannone,Ignazio Palmisano and Giovanni Semeraro Inference
3. Using Vampire to Reason with OWL, Dmitry Tsarkov,Alexandre Riazanov,Sean Bechhofer and Ian Horrocks Inference
Room 2
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Top of Hiroshima, Level 23
14:00 - 15:30 Session: S10: SW Services (Research Track)
1. ASSAM: A Tool for Semi-automatically Annotating Semantic Web Services, Andreas Heß,Eddie Johnston and Nicholas Kushmerick Semantic Web Services
2. Automated Composition of Semantic Web Services into Executable Processes, Paolo Traverso and Marco Pistore Semantic Web Services
3. Automating Scientific Experiments on the Semantic Grid, Shalil Majithia,David W. Walker and W. A. Gray Semantic Web Services
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14:00 - 15:30 Session: S9: Data Semantics (Research Track)
1. A Method for Converting Thesauri to RDF/OWL, Mark van Assem,Maarten R. Menken,Guus Schreiber,Jan Wielemaker and Bob J. Wielinga Data Semantics
2. Contexts for the Semantic Web, Ramanathan V. Guha,Rob McCool and Richard Fikes Data Semantics
3. Bipartite Graphs as Intermediate Model for RDF, Jonathan Hayes and Claudio Gutiérrez Data Semantics
Room 1
15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break
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16:00 - 17:00 Session: S11: Searching & Querying (Research Track)
1. Query Answering for OWL-DL with Rules, Boris Motik,Ulrike Sattler and Rudi Studer Searching and Querying
2. Rules-By-Example - A Novel Approach to Semantic Indexing and Querying of Images, Suzanne Little and Jane Hunter Searching and Querying
Room 1
16:00 - 17:00 Session: S12: SW Middleware (Research Track)
1. A Semantic Web Resource Protocol: XPointer and HTTP, Kendall Clark,Bijan Parsia,Bryan B. Thompson and Bradley R. Bebee Semantic Web Middleware
2. Metadata-Driven Personal Knowledge Publishing, Ikki Ohmukai,Hideaki Takeda,Masahiro Hamasaki,Kosuke Numa and Shin Adachi Semantic Web Middleware
Room 2
17:00 - 18:30 2nd half of Demos & Posters viewing
Room 5,Room 6
19:00 - 23:00 Banquet
Room 3, Room 4

2004-11-11 (Thursday)

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09:00 - 10:00 InvitedTalk: Small Can Be Beautiful in the Semantic Web.
chair(s): D. Plexousakis
presenter(s): Marie-Christine Rousset
Room 1
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Room 4
10:30 - 12:00 Session: S15: Industrial 1 (Industrial Track)
1. Applying Semantic Web Technology to the Life Cycle Support of Complex Engineering Assets, David Price and Rob Bodington Industrial Track Paper
2. ORIENT: Integrate Ontology Engineering into Industry Tooling Environment, Lei Zhang,Yong Yu,Jing Lu,Chenxi Lin,Kewei Tu,MingChuan Guo,Zhuo Zhang,Guo Tong Xie,Zhong Su and Yue Pan Industrial Track Paper
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10:30 - 12:00 Session: S13: Ontologies (Research Track)
1. An API for Ontology Alignment, Jérôme Euzenat Ontologies
2. Automatic Generation of Ontology for Scholarly Semantic Web, Thanh Tho Quan,Siu Cheung Hui,Alvis Cheuk M. Fong and Tru Hoang Cao Ontologies
3. Patching Syntax in OWL Ontologies, Sean Bechhofer and Raphael Volz Ontologies
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10:30 - 12:00 Session: S14: P2P Systems (Research Track)
1. Bibster - A Semantics-Based Bibliographic Peer-to-Peer System, Peter Haase,Jeen Broekstra,Marc Ehrig,Maarten Menken,Peter Mika,Mariusz Olko,Michal Plechawski,Pawel Pyszlak,Björn Schnizler,Ronny Siebes,Steffen Staab and Christoph Tempich P2P Systems
2. GridVine: Building Internet-Scale Semantic Overlay Networks, Karl Aberer,Philippe Cudré-Mauroux,Manfred Hauswirth and Tim Van Pelt P2P Systems
3. Top-k Query Evaluation for Schema-Based Peer-to-Peer Networks, Wolfgang Nejdl,Wolf Siberski,Uwe Thaden and Wolf-Tilo Balke P2P Systems
Room 2
12:00 - 12:30 Semantic Web Challenge Award
Room 1
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Top of Hiroshima, Level 23
14:00 - 15:30 Session: S18: Industrial 2 (Industrial Track)
1. OntoViews - A Tool for Creating Semantic Web Portals, Eetu Mäkelä,Eero Hyvönen,Samppa Saarela and Kim Viljanen Industrial Track Paper
2. SemanticOrganizer: A Customizable Semantic Repository for Distributed NASA Project Teams, Richard M. Keller,Daniel C. Berrios,Robert E. Carvalho,David R. Hall,Stephen J. Rich,Ian B. Sturken,Keith J. Swanson and Shawn R. Wolfe Industrial Track Paper
3. Public Deployment of Semantic Service Matchmaker with UDDI Business Registry, Takahiro Kawamura,Jacques-Albert De Blasio,Tetsuo Hasegawa,Massimo Paolucci and Katia P. Sycara Industrial Track Paper
Room 5
14:00 - 15:30 Session: S16: Data Semantics (Research Track)
1. A Model Theoretic Semantics for Ontology Versioning, Jeff Heflin and Zhengxiang Pan Data Semantics
2. Extending the RDFS Entailment Lemma, Herman J. ter Horst Data Semantics
3. Using Semantic Web Technologies for Representing E-science Provenance, Jun Zhao,Chris Wroe,Carole A. Goble,Robert Stevens,Dennis Quan and R. Mark Greenwood Data Semantics
Room 1
14:00 - 15:30 Session: S17: SW Services (Research Track)
1. From Software APIs to Web Service Ontologies: A Semi-automatic Extraction Method, Marta Sabou Semantic Web Services
2. Information Gathering During Planning for Web Service Composition, Ugur Kuter,Evren Sirin,Dana S. Nau,Bijan Parsia and James A. Hendler Semantic Web Services
3. Semantic Web Service Interaction Protocols: An Ontological Approach, Ronald Ashri,Grit Denker,Darren Marvin,Mike Surridge and Terry R. Payne Semantic Web Services
Room 2
15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break
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16:00 - 17:00 Session: S21: Industrial 3 (Industrial Track)
1. Querying Real World Services Through the Semantic Web, Kaoru Hiramatsu,Jun-ichi Akahani and Tetsuji Satoh Industrial Track Paper
2. SWS for Financial Overdrawn Alerting, José Manuel López Cobo,Silvestre Losada,Óscar Corcho,V. Richard Benjamins,Marcos Niño and Jesús Contreras Industrial Track Paper
Room 5
16:00 - 17:00 Session: S19: User Interfaces & Visualization (Research Track)
1. Visual Modeling of OWL DL Ontologies Using UML, Saartje Brockmans,Raphael Volz,Andreas Eberhart and Peter Löffler User Interfaces and Visualization
2. What Would It Mean to Blog on the Semantic Web?, David R. Karger and Dennis Quan User Interfaces and Visualization
Room 1
16:00 - 17:00 Session: S20: Middleware and Agents (Research Track)
1. The Specification of Agent Behavior by Ordinary People: A Case Study, Luke McDowell,Oren Etzioni and Alon Y. Halevy Tools and Methodologies for Web Agents
2. On the Emergent Semantic Web and Overlooked Issues, Yannis Kalfoglou,Harith Alani,W. Marco Schorlemmer and Chris Walton Semantic Web Middleware
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17:00 - 17:15 Closing Ceremony
Room 1