International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)

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General Chair
James Hendler
Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742, USA
hendler@cs.umd.edu
Program Chair
Ian Horrocks
Department of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL, ENGLAND UK
horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk
Organisation chair
Michele Missikoff
Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica - CNR
Viale Manzoni, 30
00185 Roma - Italy
missikof@iasi.rm.cnr.it

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Program
(ISWC2002)

June 9-12th, 2002

Sardinia, Italia

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DARPA Program

ISWC Schedule

09/6/2002

9:00-12:00

Tutorial: Ontologies: Representation, Engineering, Learning and Applications

Alexander Maedche, Steffen Staab

Tutorial: Jena Tutorial

Jeremy Carroll, Brian McBride, Andy Seaborne

Tutorial: Semantic web services

Christoph Bussler, Dieter Fensel, Terry Payne, Katia Sycara

14:00-17:00

Tutorial: Description Logics for Conceptual Design, Information Access, and Ontology Integration: Research Trends

Enrico Franconi

Tutorial: Semantic web services

Christoph Bussler, Dieter Fensel, Terry Payne, Katia Sycara

10/6/2002

9:00-9:15

Opening ceremony

9:15-10:15

Invited talk: The Grid, Grid Services and the Semantic Web: Technologies and Opportunities (Chair: Carole Goble)

Carl Kesselman (USC/Information Sciences Institute)

10:15-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:30

Technical session: Infrastructure I (Chair: Peter Patel-Schneider)

TRIPLE - A Query, Inference, and Transformation Language for the Semantic Web
Michael Sintek, Stefan Decker
Global vs. Community Metadata Standards: Empowering Users for Knowledge Exchange
Marek Hatala, Griff Richards
The Usable Ontology:An Environment for Building and Assessing a Domain Ontology
Michele Missikoff, Roberto Navigli, Paola Velardi
Ontology-Based Integration of XML Web Resources
Bernd Amann, Catriel Beeri, Irini Fundulaki, Michel Scholl
Four Steps Towards the Widespread Adoption of the Semantic Web
Brian McBride

12:30-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:15

Technical session: Services I (Chair: Rudi Studer)

Towards High-Precision Service Retrieval
Abraham Bernstein, Mark Klein
Bringing together Semantic Web and Web Services
Joachim Peer
Concurrent Execution Semantics for DAML-S with Subtypes
Anupriya Ankolekar, Frank Huch, Katia Sycara
Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities
Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry Payne, Katia Sycara
Browsing Schedules - An Agent-based approach to navigating the Semantic Web
Terry Payne, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara

16:15-16:45

Coffee break

16:45-18:30

Technical session: Languages I (Chair: Massimo Marchiori)

Layering the Semantic Web: Problems and Directions
Peter Patel-Schneider, Dieter Fensel
Notions of Indistinguishability for Semantic Web Languages
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx
Representing Disjunction and Quantifiers in RDF
Drew McDermott, Dejing Dou
Nonmonotonic Rule Systems on top of Ontology Layers
Grigoris Antoniou
Three Implementations of SquishQL, a Simple RDF Query Language
Libby Miller, Andy Seaborne, Alberto Reggiori

19:30-21:00

[CAMINO Terrace] Welcome reception

11/6/2002

9:00-10:15

Panel (Chair: Ian Horrocks)

Murray Burke (DARPA/IXO), Hans-Georg Stork (EU/IST), Bhavani Thuraisingham (NSF), Noboru Shimizu (INTAP/NEC)

10:15-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:30

Technical session: Tools and applications (Chair: Heiner Stuckenschmidt)

OntoEdit: Collaborative Ontology Development for the Semantic Web
York Sure, Michael Erdmann, Juergen Angele, Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer, Dirk Wenke
A Data Integration Framework for E-commerce Product Classification
Sonia Bergamaschi, Francesco Guerra, Maurizio Vincini
SWAD-Europe: Semantic Web Advanced Development in Europe
D Brickley, S Buswell, B Matthews, L Miller, D Reynolds, M Wilson
ClaiMaker: Weaving a Semantic Web of Research Papers
Gangmin Li, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum, John Domingue
WebTheme: Understanding Web Information through Visual Analytics
Mark Whiting, Nick Cramer

12:30-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:15

Poster session

16:15-16:45

Coffee break

16:45-18:30

Technical session: Infrastructure II (Chair: Steffen Staab)

Benchmarking RDF Schemas for the Semantic Web
Aimilia Magkanaraki, Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, Dimitris Plexousakis
Integrating vocabularies: discovering, representing and compiling vocabulary maps
Borys Omelayenko
Towards a modification exchange language for distributed RDF repositories
Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Bernd Simon, Julien Tane
Towards Semantic Web Mining
Bettina Berendt, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme
Consistency Checking of Semantic Web Ontologies
Kenneth Baclawski, Mieczyslaw Kokar, Richard Waldinger, Paul Kogut

20:00-22:30

[Restaurant LE DUNE (on the Lagoon)] Conference diner

12/6/2002

9:00-9:15

Best paper and best reviewer awards ceremony

9:15-10:15

Invited talk: Semantic Web Enabled Web Services (Chair: Jim Hendler)

Dieter Fensel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

10:15-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:25

Technical session: Services II (Chair: Yun Peng)

Semantic Configuration Web Services in the CAWICOMS project
Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Dietmar Jannach, Markus Zanker
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web
A. Ankolekar, M. Burstein, J. Hobbs, O. Lassila, D. Martin, D. McDermott, S. McIlraith, S. Narayanan, M. Paolucci, T. Payne, K. Sycara
Sesame: a Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema
Jeen Broekstra, Arjohn Kampman, Frank van Harmelen
A Mini-Experiment in Semantic Annotation
A. Th. Schreiber, I. Blok, D. Carlier, W. van Gent, J. Hokstam, U. Roos
Business and Enterprise Ontology Management with SymOntoX
Michele Missikoff, Francesco Taglino

12:30-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:15

Technical session: Languages II (Chair: Jérôme Euzenat)

Building the Semantic Web on XML
Peter Patel-Schneider, Jerome Simeon
Taking the RDF Model Theory Out For a Spin
Ora Lassila (Nokia)
A formal model for topic maps
Pascal Auillans, Patrice Ossona de Mendez, Pierre Rosenstiehl, Bernard Vatant
Is Participating in the SemanticWeb too Difficult?
Stefan Haustein, Joerg Pleumann

16:15-16:45

Coffee break

16:45-18:30

Technical session: Infrastructure III (Chair: Brian McBride)

Automatic Generation of Java/SQL based Inference Engines from RDF Schema and RuleML
Andreas Eberhart
Matching RDF Graphs
Jeremy Carroll
Trusting Information Sources one Citizen at a Time
Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar
Querying the Semantic Web: a Formal Approach
Ian Horrocks, Sergio Tessaris
An RDF NetAPI
Andy Seaborne

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