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The Forth International Semantic Web Conference

2005-11-05 (Saturday)

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17:00 - 21:00 Pre-Registration

2005-11-06 (Sunday)

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09:00 - 17:30 Workshop: Full-Day Workshop: Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE)
chair(s): Phil Tetlow,Jeff Z. Pan,Evan K. Wallace,Elisa F. Kendall
The Quinn Suite
09:00 - 17:30 Workshop: Full-Day Workshop: The Semantic Desktop - Next Generation Personal Information Management and Collaboration Infrastructure
chair(s): Stefan Decker,Leo Sauermann,Jack Park,Dennis Quan
Inis Mór Ballroom 1
09:00 - 12:30 Morning Tutorial: MDA Standards for Ontology Development (Tutorial Track)
chair(s): Vladan Devedzic,Dragan Gasevic,Dragan Djuric
Inis Mór Ballroom 2
09:00 - 12:30 Morning Tutorial: Semantic Web Rules with Ontologies, and Their E-Service Applications (Tutorial Track)
chair(s): Mike Dean,Micheal Kifer,Benjamin Grosof
Inis Mór Ballroom 3
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Coffee
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:30 Afternoon Tutorial: Ontology Design Patterns and Problems: Practical Ontology Engineering using Protégé-OWL (Tutorial Track)
chair(s): Robert Stevens,Nick Drummond,Natalya Noy,Matthew Horridge,Mark A. Musen,Alan Rector
Inis Mór Ballroom 3
14:00 - 17:30 Afternoon Tutorial: Semantic Web Service Systems and Tools (Tutorial Track)
chair(s): Michal Zaremba,Michael Stollberg,Matthew Moran,Liliana Cabral,John Domingue,Christoph Bussler
Inis Mór Ballroom 2
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Coffee

2005-11-07 (Monday)

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09:00 - 17:30 Workshop: Full-Day Workshop: End User Semantic Web Interaction
chair(s): Ion Androutsopoulos,Duane Degler,Brian McBride,Abraham Bernstein
Backstage bar
09:00 - 17:30 Workshop: Full-Day Workshop: Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (Semannot2005)
chair(s): Thierry Declerck,Siegfried Handschuh,Marja-Riitta Koivunen
Inis Mór Ballroom 2
09:00 - 17:30 Workshop: Full-Day Workshop: Semantic Network Analysis
chair(s): Harith Alani,Gerd Stumme,Christoph Schmitz,Bettina Hoser
The Quinn Suite
09:00 - 17:30 Workshop: Full-Day Workshop: The Semantic Web and Policy Workshop (SWPW)
chair(s): Tim Finin,Lalana Kagal,James Hendler
Marinas Restaurant
09:00 - 17:00 ISWC2005 Doctoral Symposium
chair(s): Enda Ridge,Edward Curry
Joyce Suite, Radisson Hotel
09:00 - 12:30 Workshop: Morning Workshop: Uncertainty Reasoning For the Semantic Web
chair(s): Paulo Costa,Michael Pool,Kenneth J. Laskey,Kathryn B. Laskey
Inis Mór Ballroom 3
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Coffee
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
13:45 - 17:00 Industry Day – Information Juggernaut
chair(s): Brian Cummins
Aula Maxima, NUI Galway
14:00 - 17:30 Workshop: Afternoon Workshop: Ontology Patterns for the Semantic Web
chair(s): Chris Welty,Aldo Gangemi
Inis Mór Ballroom 1
14:00 - 17:30 Workshop: Afternoon Workshop: Semantic Web Case Studies and Best Practices for eBusiness (SWCASE)
chair(s): Robert Tolksdorf,Guus Schreiber,Alain Leger
Inis Mór Ballroom 3
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Coffee

2005-11-08 (Tuesday)

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09:00 - 09:15 ISWC2005 Introduction and Welcome
09:15 - 09:30 ISWC2005 Awards
09:30 - 10:30 InvitedTalk: Using the Semantic Web for e-Science - Inspiration, Incubation, Irritation
presenter(s): Carole A. Goble
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Coffee
11:00 - 12:30 Session: Paper Session Ia - SOCIAL NETWORKS (Research Track)
chair(s): Stefan Decker
1. Ontologies Are Us: A Unified Model of Social Networks and Semantics, Peter Mika Research Track Paper
2. Searching Dynamic Communities with Personal Indexes, Alexander Löser,Christoph Tempich,Bastian Quilitz,Wolf-Tilo Balke,Steffen Staab and Wolfgang Nejdl Research Track Paper
3. Semantically Rich Recommendations in Social Networks for Sharing, Exchanging and Ranking Semantic Context, Stefania Ghita,Wolfgang Nejdl and Raluca Paiu Research Track Paper
11:00 - 12:30 Session: Paper Session Ib - EDITING AND VISUALIZING ONTOLOGIES (Research Track)
chair(s): John Domingue
1. Towards Imaging Large-Scale Ontologies for Quick Understanding and Analysis, Kewei Tu,Miao Xiong,Lei Zhang 0007,Haiping Zhu,Jie Zhang and Yong Yu Research Track Paper
2. Querying Ontologies: A Controlled English Interface for End-Users, Abraham Bernstein,Esther Kaufmann,Anne Göhring and Christoph Kiefer Research Track Paper
3. Using Triples for Implementation: The Triple20 Ontology-Manipulation Tool, Jan Wielemaker,Guus Schreiber and Bob J. Wielinga Research Track Paper
11:00 - 12:30 Session: Paper Session Ic - E-SCIENCE (Research Track)
chair(s): Terry Payne
1. A Little Semantic Web Goes a Long Way in Biology, Katy Wolstencroft,Andy Brass,Ian Horrocks,Phillip W. Lord,Ulrike Sattler,Daniele Turi and Robert Stevens Research Track Paper
2. Provenance-Based Validation of E-Science Experiments, Sylvia C. Wong,Simon Miles,Weijian Fang,Paul T. Groth and Luc Moreau Industrial Track Paper
3. Seven Bottlenecks to Workflow Reuse and Repurposing, Antoon Goderis,Ulrike Sattler,Phillip W. Lord and Carole A. Goble Research Track Paper
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Session: Paper Session IIa - EVALUATION AND BENCHMARKING (Research Track)
chair(s): Sean Bechhofer
1. A Large Scale Taxonomy Mapping Evaluation, Paolo Avesani,Fausto Giunchiglia and Mikalai Yatskevich Research Track Paper
2. Rapid Benchmarking for Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems, Sui-Yu Wang,Yuanbo Guo,Abir Qasem and Jeff Heflin Research Track Paper
3. Automatic Evaluation of Ontologies (AEON), Johanna Völker,Denny Vrandecic and York Sure Research Track Paper
4. Guidelines for Benchmarking the Performance of Ontology Management APIs, Raul Garcia-Castro and Asunción Gómez-Pérez Research Track Paper
13:30 - 15:00 Session: Paper Session IIb - ONTOLOGY EVOLUTION (Research Track)
chair(s): York Sure
1. Ontology Change Detection Using a Version Log, Peter Plessers and Olga De Troyer Research Track Paper
2. RUL: A Declarative Update Language for RDF, Matoula Magiridou,S. Sahtouris,Vassilis Christophides and Manolis Koubarakis Research Track Paper
3. On Applying the AGM Theory to DLs and OWL, Giorgos Flouris,Dimitris Plexousakis and Grigoris Antoniou Research Track Paper
13:30 - 15:00 Session: Paper Session IIc - SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES (Research Track)
chair(s): Sheila McIlraith
1. Information Modeling for End to End Composition of Semantic Web Services, Arun Kumar,Biplav Srivastava and Sumit Mittal Research Track Paper
2. Choreography in IRS-III - Coping with Heterogeneous Interaction Patterns in Web Services, John Domingue,Stefania Galizia and Liliana Cabral Research Track Paper
3. Web Service Composition with Volatile Information, Tsz-Chiu Au,Ugur Kuter and Dana S. Nau Research Track Paper
4. Towards a Formal Verification of OWL-S Process Models, Anupriya Ankolekar,Massimo Paolucci and Katia P. Sycara Research Track Paper
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Coffee
15:30 - 17:00 Session: Paper Session IIIc - WEB SERVICES (Industrial Track)
chair(s): Alain Leger
1. Automated Business-to-Business Integration of a Logistics Supply Chain Using Semantic Web Services Technology, Chris Preist,Javier Esplugas Cuadrado,Steven A. Battle,Stephan Grimm and Stuart K. Williams Industrial Track Paper
2. Ontological Approach to Generating Personalized User Interfaces for Web Services, Deepali Khushraj and Ora Lassila Industrial Track Paper
3. An Application of Semantic Web Technologies to Situation Awareness, Christopher J. Matheus,Mieczyslaw M. Kokar,Kenneth Baclawski and Jerzy Letkowski Industrial Track Paper
15:30 - 17:00 Session: Paper Session IIIa - DEBUGGING AND INCONSISTENCY MANAGEMENT (Research Track)
chair(s): Guus Schreiber
1. Debugging OWL-DL Ontologies: A Heuristic Approach, Hai Wang,Matthew Horridge,Alan L. Rector,Nick Drummond and Julian Seidenberg Research Track Paper
2. A General Diagnosis Method for Ontologies, Gerhard Friedrich and Kostyantyn M. Shchekotykhin Research Track Paper
3. A Framework for Handling Inconsistency in Changing Ontologies, Peter Haase,Frank van Harmelen,Zhisheng Huang,Heiner Stuckenschmidt and York Sure Research Track Paper
15:30 - 17:00 Session: Paper Session IIIb - LOGIC AND REASONING (Research Track)
chair(s): Fausto Giunchiglia
1. On the Properties of Metamodeling in OWL, Boris Motik Research Track Paper
2. RDF Entailment as a Graph Homomorphism, Jean-François Baget Research Track Paper
3. On Logical Consequence for Collections of OWL Documents, Yuanbo Guo and Jeff Heflin Research Track Paper

2005-11-09 (Wednesday)

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09:00 - 10:00 InvitedTalk: "The Practical Web" - Semantic Acceleration Helping Realize the Semantic Web Vision
presenter(s): Alfred Spector
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00 Session: Paper Session IVc - SECTOR APPLICATIONS I (Industrial Track)
chair(s): Nigel R Shadbolt
1. LKMS - A Legal Knowledge Management System Exploiting Semantic Web Technologies, Luca Gilardoni,Christian Biasuzzi,Massimo Ferraro,Roberto Fonti and Piercarlo Slavazza Industrial Track Paper
2. Do Not Use This Gear with a Switching Lever! Automotive Industry Experience with Semantic Guides, Hans-Peter Schnurr and Jürgen Angele Industrial Track Paper
3. Definitions Management: A Semantics-Based Approach for Clinical Documentation in Healthcare Delivery, Vipul Kashyap,Alfredo Morales,Tonya Hongsermeier and Qi Li Industrial Track Paper
10:30 - 12:00 Session: Paper Session IVa - SEMANTIC MARKUP AND BROWSING (Research Track)
chair(s): Frank van Harmelen
1. Piggy Bank: Experience the Semantic Web Inside Your Web Browser, David Huynh,Stefano Mazzocchi and David R. Karger Research Track Paper
2. A Template-Based Markup Tool for Semantic Web Content, Brian P. Kettler,James Starz,William Miller and Peter Haglich Research Track Paper
3. Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web, Li Ding,Rong Pan,Timothy W. Finin,Anupam Joshi,Yun Peng and Pranam Kolari Research Track Paper
10:30 - 12:00 Session: Paper Session IVb - AGENTS AND DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURES (Research Track)
chair(s): Alun Preece
1. A Strategy for Automated Meaning Negotiation in Distributed Information Retrieval, Vadim Ermolayev,Natalya Keberle,Wolf-Ekkehard Matzke and Vladimir Vladimirov Research Track Paper
2. Introducing Autonomic Behaviour in Semantic Web Agents, Valentina A. M. Tamma,Ian Blacoe,Ben Lithgow Smith and Michael Wooldridge Research Track Paper
3. An Ontological Framework for Dynamic Coordination, Valentina A. M. Tamma,Chris van Aart,Thierry Moyaux,Shamimabi Paurobally,Ben Lithgow Smith and Michael Wooldridge Research Track Paper
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Session: Paper Session Vc - SECTOR APPLICATIONS II (Industrial Track)
chair(s): Hans-Peter Schnurr
1. Ubiquitous Service Finder Discovery of Services Semantically Derived from Metadata in Ubiquitous Computing, Takahiro Kawamura,Kouji Ueno,Shinichi Nagano,Tetsuo Hasegawa and Akihiko Ohsuga Industrial Track Paper
2. Task Knowledge Based Retrieval for Service Relevant to Mobile User's Activity, Takefumi Naganuma and Shoji Kurakake Industrial Track Paper
3. MediaCaddy - Semantic Web Based On-Demand Content Navigation System for Entertainment, Shishir Garg,Amit Goswami,Jérémy Huylebroeck,Senthil Jaganathan and Pramila Mullan Industrial Track Paper
13:00 - 14:30 Session: Paper Session Va - RDF QUERYING AND STORAGE (Research Track)
chair(s): Bijan Parsia
1. Benchmarking Database Representations of RDF/S Stores, Yannis Theoharis,Vassilis Christophides and Gregory Karvounarakis Research Track Paper
2. Containment and Minimization of RDF/S Query Patterns, Giorgos Serfiotis,Ioanna Koffina,Vassilis Christophides and Val Tannen Research Track Paper
3. BRAHMS: A WorkBench RDF Store and High Performance Memory System for Semantic Association Discovery, Maciej Janik and Krys Kochut Research Track Paper
13:00 - 14:30 Session: Paper Session Vb - ONTOLOGY MAPPING AND ALIGNMENT I (Research Track)
chair(s): Deborah McGuinness
1. Bootstrapping Ontology Alignment Methods with APFEL, Marc Ehrig,Steffen Staab and York Sure Research Track Paper
2. A Method to Combine Linguistic Ontology-Mapping Techniques, Willem Robert van Hage,Sophia Katrenko and Guus Schreiber Research Track Paper
3. A String Metric for Ontology Alignment, Giorgos Stoilos,Giorgos B. Stamou and Stefanos D. Kollias Research Track Paper
14:30 - 15:00 Afternoon Coffee
15:00 - 16:30 Session: Paper Session VIc - METHODOLOGY (Industrial Track)
chair(s): Luca Gilardoni
1. On Identifying Knowledge Processing Requirements, Alain Léger,Lyndon J. B. Nixon and Pavel Shvaiko Industrial Track Paper
2. Towards a Killer App for the Semantic Web, Harith Alani,Yannis Kalfoglou,Kieron O'Hara and Nigel Shadbolt Industrial Track Paper
3. Enterprise Architecture Reference Modeling in OWL/RDF, Dean Allemang,Irene Polikoff and Ralph Hodgson Industrial Track Paper
15:00 - 16:30 Session: Paper Session VIa - ONTOLOGY CREATION (Research Track)
chair(s): Marta Sabou
1. RelExt: A Tool for Relation Extraction from Text in Ontology Extension, Alexander Schutz and Paul Buitelaar Research Track Paper
2. Graph-Based Inferences in a Semantic Web Server for the Cartography of Competencies in a Telecom Valley, Fabien Gandon,Olivier Corby,Alain Giboin,Nicolas Gronnier and Cecile Guigard Research Track Paper
3. Ontology Design Patterns for Semantic Web Content, Aldo Gangemi Research Track Paper
15:00 - 16:30 Session: Paper Session VIb - ONTOLOGY MAPPING AND ALIGNMENT II (Research Track)
chair(s): Jerome Euzenat
1. Constructing Complex Semantic Mappings Between XML Data and Ontologies, Yuan An,Alexander Borgida and John Mylopoulos Research Track Paper
2. OMEN: A Probabilistic Ontology Mapping Tool, Prasenjit Mitra,Natasha F. Noy and Anuj R. Jaiswal Research Track Paper
3. A Bayesian Network Approach to Ontology Mapping, Rong Pan,Zhongli Ding,Yang Yu and Yun Peng Research Track Paper
16:30 - 18:00 EU Future Funding Session - Back to the drawing board: Options and directions for FP7 research

2005-11-10 (Thursday)

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09:00 - 10:00 InvitedTalk: Semantic Web Public Policy Challenges: Privacy, Provenance, Property and Personhood
presenter(s): Daniel J Weitzner
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00 Session: Paper Session VIIc - Applied Technology (Industrial Track)
chair(s): Chris Priest
1. Gnowsis Adapter Framework: Treating Structured Data Sources as Virtual RDF Graphs, Leo Sauermann and Sven Schwarz Industrial Track Paper
2. The Concept Object Web for Knowledge Management, James Starz,Brian P. Kettler,Peter Haglich,Jason Losco,Gary Edwards and Mark Hoffman Industrial Track Paper
3. Supporting Rule System Interoperability on the Semantic Web with SWRL, Martin J. O'Connor,Holger Knublauch,Samson W. Tu,Benjamin N. Grosof,Mike Dean,William E. Grosso and Mark A. Musen Industrial Track Paper
10:30 - 12:00 Session: Paper Session VIIa - RULES (Research Track)
chair(s): Ian Horrocks
1. Combining RDF and Part of OWL with Rules: Semantics, Decidability, Complexity, Herman J. ter Horst Research Track Paper
2. Stable Model Theory for Extended RDF Ontologies, Anastasia Analyti,Grigoris Antoniou,Carlos Viegas Damásio and Gerd Wagner Research Track Paper
3. Resolution-Based Approximate Reasoning for OWL DL, Pascal Hitzler and Denny Vrandecic Research Track Paper
10:30 - 12:00 Session: Paper Session VIIb - TRUST AND POLICIES (Research Track)
chair(s): Norman Sadeh
1. Preferential Reasoning on a Web of Trust, Stijn Heymans,Davy Van Nieuwenborgh and Dirk Vermeir Research Track Paper
2. On Partial Encryption of RDF-Graphs, Mark Giereth Research Track Paper
3. Representing Web Service Policies in OWL-DL, Vladimir Kolovski,Bijan Parsia,Yarden Katz and James A. Hendler Research Track Paper
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Session: Paper Session VIIIc - SECTOR APPLICATIONS III (Industrial Track)
chair(s): Dean Allemang
1. A Semantic Search Engine for the International Relation Sector, Luis Rodrigo,V. Richard Benjamins,Jesús Contreras,Diego Patón,D. Navarro,R. Salla,Mercedes Blázquez,P. Tena and I. Martos Industrial Track Paper
2. Semantic Service Integration for Water Resource Management, Ross G. Ackland,Kerry L. Taylor,Laurent Lefort,Mark A. Cameron and Joel Rahman Industrial Track Paper
13:00 - 14:00 Session: Paper Session VIIIa - SEMANTIC SEARCH AND BROWSING (Research Track)
chair(s): Paul Buitelaar
1. RitroveRAI: A Web Application for Semantic Indexing and Hyperlinking of Multimedia News, Roberto Basili,Marco Cammisa and Emanuele Donati Research Track Paper
2. Semantic Browsing of Digital Collections, Trevor D. Collins,Paul Mulholland and Zdenek Zdráhal Research Track Paper
13:00 - 14:00 Session: Paper Session VIIIb - VERSIONING AND CONTEXT (Research Track)
chair(s): Jeff Heflin
1. Reasoning with Multi-version Ontologies: A Temporal Logic Approach, Zhisheng Huang and Heiner Stuckenschmidt Research Track Paper
2. Decentralized Case-Based Reasoning for the Semantic Web, Mathieu d'Aquin,Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli Research Track Paper
14:00 - 14:30 Afternoon Coffee
14:30 - 15:00 Plenary Session: Semantic Web Challenge
15:00 - 15:15 Plenary Session: RuleML Opening Remarks
15:15 - 16:15 InvitedTalk: Plenary Session: Putting the Web back in Semantic Web
presenter(s): Tim Berners-Lee
16:15 - 16:30 Plenary Session: ISWC Closing Remarks