ESWC 2005 Schedule

29/05/2005

9:00-12:30

[Polymnia+Ourania] Tutorial: Semantic web services

[Hermes] Tutorial: Schema and ontology matching

[Royal Mare Hotel, Bridge-TV room] Tutorial: Text-mining for ontology construction

[Apolon] Workshop: End-user aspects of the semantic web

[TV Room] Workshop: FP6 Project collaboration for the future SW

[Kalia+Erato] Workshop: Multimedia and the semantic web

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-18:00

[Polymnia+Ourania] Tutorial: Semantic web services

[Hermes] Tutorial: Human language technology for knowledge acquisition in the semantic web

[Royal Mare Hotel, Bridge-TV room] Tutorial: MDA for ontology developments

[Apollon] Workshop: End-user aspects of the semantic web

[TV Room] Workshop: FP6 Project collaboration for the future SW

[Kalia+Erato] Workshop: Multimedia and the semantic web

30/05/2005

9:00-12:30

[Hermes+Apollon] Technical session: Industry forum (Chair: Alain Léger)

What are Web services worth?

Gio Wiederhold (MITRE Corp., USA)

Industry requirements for multimedia and the Semantic Web

Paola Hobson (Motorola Labs, UK)

Semantic web applications for the petroleum industry

Bertrand Brunschweig (Institut Français du Pétrole, France)

Knowledge Management needs for Train travel services

Alessandra Molani (Trentitalia, Italy)

Economic and Financial Information Management and semantic web

Rubén Lara (TIF Tecnologia, Informacion y Finanzas, Madrid, Spain)

[Thalia+Erato] Workshop: Ontologies in P2P communities

[Polymnia+Urania] Workshop: Scripting the semantic web

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-18:00

[Hermes+Apollon] Technical session: Industry forum (Chair: Alain Léger)

Business rules in the semantic web, are there any or are they different?

Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT, The Netherlands)

Expressing Business semantics

Tony Morgan (Northface University, USA)

The Need for Business Vocabulary and Rules Management in Knowledge-Intensive Multinationals

Donald Chapin (Business Semantics, UK)

Semantic web, use cases and chalenges at EADS for aerospace

Anne Monceaux (EADS, France)

Science publishing the Semantic Web, or: why are you reading this on paper?

Anita de Waard (Elsevier, The Netherlands)

Semantic integration in the real world

John Taylor (Software AG, Germany)

[Polymnia+Urania] Workshop: Scripting the semantic web

20:00-22:00

[Hermes+Apollon+Polymnia+Urania] Poster session: Posters and demos (Chair: Heiner StukenschmidtStefan Decker)

31/05/2005

9:00-10:30

[Hermes+Apollon] Invited talk: Towards a theory of formal classification (Chair: Jérôme Euzenat)

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

[Hermes] Technical session: OWL (Chair: York Sure)

OWL-Eu: Adding Customised Datatypes into OWL

Jeff Z. Pan, Ian Horrocks

Towards a Fuzzy Description Logic for the Semantic Web: Preliminary Report

Umberto Straccia

Consistent Evolution of OWL Ontologies

Peter Haase, Ljiljana Stojanovic

[Apollon] Technical session: Natural language (Chair: Hamish Cunningham)

Generating Tailored Textual Summaries from Ontologies

Kalina Bontcheva

AquaLog: An Ontology-portable Question Answering System for the Semantic Web

Vanessa Lopez, Michele Pasin, Enrico Motta

Lexicallly evaluating ontology triples generated automatically from textsa

Peter Spyns, Marie-Laure Reimberger

[Polymnia+Ourania+Kalia+Erato] Technical session: Applications (Chair: Alain Léger)

Semantic-based Automated Composition of Distributed Learning Objects for Personalized E-Learning

Simona Colucci, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. Donini, Azzurra Ragone

Monitoring Research Collaborations Using Semantic Web Technologies

Harith Alani, Nicholas Gibbins, Hugh Glaser, Stephen Harris, Nigel Shadbolt

Enabling real world Semantic Web applications through a coordination middleware

Robert Tolksdorf, Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Elena Paslaru Bontas, Franziska Liebsch, Duc Minh Nguyen, Franziska Liebsch

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

[Hermes] Technical session: RDF (Chair: Frank van Harmelen)

Temporal RDF

Claudio Gutierrez, Carlos Hurtado, Alejandro Vaisman

Multilingual RDF and OWL

Jeremy J. Carroll, Addison Phillips

RDFSculpt: Managing RDF Schemas under Set-like Semantics

Zoi Kaoudi, Theodore Dalamagas, Timos Sellis

REDD: an algorithm for redundancy detection in RDF models

Floriana Esposito, Luigi Iannone, Ignazio Palmisano, Domenico Redavid, Giovanni Semeraro

[Apolon] Technical session: Annotation (Chair: Dunja Mladenic)

Pedro Ontology Services: A framework for rapid ontology markup

Kevin Garwood, Phillip Lord, Helen Parkinson, Norman W. Paton, Carole Goble

Semantic Annotation of Images and Videos for Multimedia Analysis

Stephan Bloehdorn, Kosmas Petridis, Carsten Saathoff, Nikos Simou, Vassilis Tzouvaras, Yannis Avrithis, Siegfried Handschuh, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Steffen Staab, Michael G. Strintzis

RELFIN - Topic Discovery for Ontology Enhancement and Annotation

Markus Schaal, Roland M. Müller, Marko Brunzel, Myra Spiliopoulou

Semantic Web-based Document: Editing and Browsing in AktiveDoc

Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Fabio Ciravegna, Daniela Petrelli

[Polymnia+Ourania+Kalia+Erato] Technical session: Metadata, link, and communities (Chair: John Davis)

Product Information Meta-Search Framework for Electronic Commerce through Ontology Mapping

Wooju Kim, Dae Woo Choi, Sangun Park

Activity Based Metadata for Semantic Desktop Search

Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Rita Gavriloaie, Stefania Ghita, Wolfgang Nejdl, Raluca Paiu

Towards Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities

John G. Breslin, Andreas Harth, Uldis Bojars, Stefan Decker

The Personal Publication Reader: Illustrating Web Data Extraction, Personalization and Reasoning for the Semantic Web

Robert Baumgartner, Nicola Henze, Marcus Herzog

16:00-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

[Hermes+Apollon] Panel: Funding Strategies for the Semantic Web: Current Activities and Future Trends (Chair: Rudi Studer)

20:00-

[By the pool] Dinner

01/06/2005

9:00-10:30

[Hermes+Apollon] Invited talk: The Semantic Grid: Past, Present and Future (Chair: Asunsion Gomez Perez)

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

[Hermes] Technical session: Reasoning (Chair: Jeremy Carroll)

DRAGO: Distributed Reasoning Architecture for the Semantic Web

Luciano Serafini, Andrei Tamilin

Nonmonotonic Ontological and Rule-based Reasoning with Extended Conceptual Logic Programs

Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir

Dually Structured Concepts in the Semantic Web: Answer Set Programming Approach

Patryk Burek, Rafal Grabos

[Apollon] Technical session: Architecture (Chair: Valentina Tamma)

Towards an Ontology-based Distributed Architecture for Paid Content

Wernher Behrendt, Aldo Gangemi, Wolfgang Maass, Rupert Westenthaler

Ontology-Based Policy Specification and Management

Wolfgang Nejdl, Daniel Olmedilla, Marianne Winslett, Charles C. Zhang

An Argumentation Ontology for DIstributed, Loosely-controlled and evolvInG Engineering processes of oNTologies (DILIGENT)

Christoph Tempich, H. Sofia Pinto, York Sure, Steffen Staab

[Polymnia+Ourania+Kalia+Erato] Technical session: SWS localization (Chair: Terry Payne)

Automatic Location of Services

Uwe Keller, Rubén Lara, Holger Lausen, Axel Polleres, Dieter Fensel

Feta: A light-weight architecture for user oriented semantic service discovery

Phillip Lord, Pinar Alper, Chris Wroe, Carole Goble

The OWL-S Editor - A Development Tool for Semantic Web Services

Daniel Elenius, Grit Denker, David Martin, Fred Gilham, John Khouri, Shahin Sadaati, Rukman Senanayake

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

[Hermes] Technical session: Querying (Chair: Stefan Decker)

Approximating Description Logic Classification for Semantic Web Reasoning

Perry Groot, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Holger Wache

AIS and Semantic Query

Rana Kashif Ali, Steve Cayzer

Querying RDF Data from a Graph Database Perspective

Renzo Angles, Claudio Gutierrez

[Apollon] Technical session: Ontologies and users

Collaborative and Usage-driven Evolution of Personal Ontologies

Peter Haase, Andreas Hotho, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, York Sure

Debugging and Semantic Clarification by Pinpointing

Stefan Schlobach

Web Explanations for Semantic Heterogeneity Discovery

Pavel Shvaiko, Fausto Giunchiglia, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah McGuinness

[Polymnia+Ourania+Kalia+Erato] Technical session: SWS applications (Chair: John Domingue)

Orchestration of Semantic Web Services for Large-Scale Document Annotation

Barry Norton, Sam Chapman, Fabio Ciravegna

A Semantic Service Environment: A Case Study in Bioinformatics

Stephen Potter, Stuart Aitken

Towards B2B Integration in Telecommunications with Semantic Web Services

Alistair Duke, Marc Richardson, Sam Watkins, Martin Roberts

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:30

[Hermes] Technical session: Information retrieval (Chair: Heiner Stuckenschmidt)

Multiple vehicles for a semantic navigation across hyper-environments

Irene Celino, Emanuele Della Valle

An Ontology-Based Information Retrieval Model

David Vallet, Miriam Fernandez, Pablo Castells

Knowledge Sharing by Information Retrieval in the Semantic Web

Neyir Sevilmis, André Stork, Tim Smithers, Jorge Posada, Massimiliano Pianciamore, Rui Castro, Ivan Jimenez, Gorka Marcos, Marmo Mauri, Paolo Selvini, Bruno Thelen, Vicenzo Zecchino

[Apollon] Technical session: Aligning (Chair: Marc Ehrig)

Extending HCONE-merge by approximating the intended meaning of ontology concepts iteratively

George A. Vouros, Konstantinos Kotis

Soundness of Schema Matching Methods

M. Benerecetti, Paulo Bouquet, Stefano Zanobini

Efficient Semantic Matching

Fausto Giunchiglia, Mikalai Yatskevich, Enrico Giunchiglia

[Polymnia+Ourania+Kalia+Erato] Technical session: SWS composition

Optimally Distributing Interactions between Composed Semantic Web Services

Ion Constantinescu, Walter Binder, Boi Faltings

A POP-based Replanning Agent for Automatic Web Service Composition

Joachim Peer

Process-level composition of executable Web services: "on-the-fly" versus "once-for-all" composition

Marco Pistore, Pierluigi Roberti, Paolo Traverso