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PROGRAM for Research Papers and Demos

 
 

Tuesday June 3rd, 2008

9:00-10:30

Invited Talk

Garlik: Semantic Technology for the Consumer
Nigel Shadbolt (Garlik Ltd. and University of Southampton)

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-13:00

Query Processing I
Phillipe Cudre-Mauroux

XSPARQL: Traveling Between the XML and RDF Worlds -- and Avoiding the XSLT Pilgrimage
Waseem Akhtar (DERI, Galway), Jacek Kopecký (STI Innsbruck), Thomas Krennwallner, Axel Polleres
(DERI, Galway)

Streaming SPARQL - Extending SPARQL to Process Data Streams
Andre Bolles, Marco Grawunder, Jonas Jacobi
(University of Oldenburg)

The Creation and Evaluation of iSPARQL Strategies for Matchmaking
Christoph Kiefer, Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich)

Adding Data Mining Support to SPARQL via Statistical Relational Learning Methods
Christoph Kiefer, Abraham Bernstein, André Locher
(University of Zurich)

Applications I
Fabio Ciravegna

Building a National Semantic Web Ontology and Ontology Service Infrastructure -- The FinnONTO Approach
Eero Hyvönen, Kim Viljanen, Jouni Tuominen, Katri Seppälä (Helsinki University of Technology and University of Helsinki)

KonneXSALT: First Steps towards a Semantic Claim Federation Infrastructure
Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Knud Möller, Stefan Decker (DERI, Galway)

Semantic Email as a Communication Medium for the Social Semantic Desktop
Simon Scerri, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
(DERI, Galway)

IVEA: An Information Visualization Tool for Personalized Exploratory Document Collection Analysis
VinhTuan Thai, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
(DERI, Galway)

Demo Papers I
Joerg Hoffmann

SemSearch: refining semantic search

xOperator - An extensible Semantic Agent for Instant Messaging Networks

Simplifying Access to Large-Scale Health Care and Life Sciences Datasets

User Profiling for Semantic Browsing in Medical Digital Libraries

Pronto: a Non-Monotonic Probabilistic Description Logic Reasoner

Enhancing a Semantic Wiki with Context Annotations

ODEWiki: A Semantic Wiki that Interoperates with the ODESeW Semantic Portal

SWiM - A Semantic Wiki for Mathematical Knowledge Management

WSMX: a Solution for B2B Mediation and Discovery Scenarios

Semantic Annotation and Composition of Business Processes with Maestro

The Web Service Modeling Toolkit

SWING: An Integrated Environment for Geospatial Semantic Web Services

GRISINO - An integrated infrastructure for Semantic Web services, Grid computing and Intelligent Objects

Previewing Semantic Web Pipes

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Formal Languages I
Axel Polleres

Mapping Validation by Probabilistic Reasoning
Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, Davide Lorusso (Università degli Study di Milano), Tobias Henrik Näth, Ralf Möller (Hamburg University of Technology)

Safe and Economic Re-use of Ontologies: A Logic-Based Methodology and Tool Support
Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz (Universitat Jaume I), Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford), Ulrike Sattler, Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester), Rafael Berlanga (Universitat Jaume I)

Module Extraction and Incremental Classification: A Pragmatic Approach for EL+ Ontologies
Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn
(TU Dresden)

Semantic Web Services I
Avi Bernstein

Combining SAWSDL, OWL-DL and UDDI for Semantically Enhanced Web Service Discovery
Dimitrios Kourtesis, Iraklis Paraskakis (Southeast European Research Centre (SEERC), Research Centre of the University of Sheffield and CITY College)

Enhancing Workflow with a Semantic Description of Scientific Intent
Edoardo Pignotti, Peter Edwards (University of Aberdeen), Alun Preece (Cardiff University), Nick Gotts (The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen), Gary Polhill
(University of Aberdeen)

Conceptual Situation Spaces for Semantic Situation-Driven Processes
Stefan Dietze, Alessio Gugliotta, John Domingue (KMI, The Open University)

Demo Papers II
Joerg Hoffmann

Cicero: Tracking Design Rationale in Collaborative Ontology Engineering

The combination of techniques for automatic semantic image annotation generation in the IMAGINATION application

Learning Highly Structured Semantic Repositories from Relational Databases - The RDBToOnto Tool

SCARLET: SemantiC relAtion discoveRy by harvesting onLinE onTologies

LabelTranslator - Automatically Localizing an Ontology

A Knowledge Driven Infrastructure for Linked Data Providers

Conceptual Spaces in ViCoS

Tagging-based Distributed Content Sharing

Demo: Visual Programming for the Semantic Desktop with Konduit

Semantic Browsing with PowerMagpie

Integrating Open Sources and Relational Data with SPARQL

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

16:30-18:00

Panel 1: Does the Semantic Web Need Web Science?
Moderator: Wendy Hall (University of Southampton)
Panelists: Stefan Decker (DERI, Galway), Frank van Harmelen (Free University Amsterdam), Kieron O’Hara (University of Southampton, UK), Nigel Shadbolt, (University of Southampton), Guus Schreiber (Free University Amsterdam)

19:00-20:00

Poster & Demo Session

Wednesday June 4th , 2008

9:00-10:30

Invited Talk

From Capturing Semantics to Semantic Search: A Virtuous Cycle
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo!Research, Barcelona)

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-13:00

Query Processing II
Peter Haase

A Semantic Web Middleware for Virtual Data Integration on the Web
Andreas Langegger, Wolfram Wöß, Martin Blöchl (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

Querying Distributed RDF Data Sources with SPARQL
Bastian Quilitz, Ulf Leser
(Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin)

Improving Interoperability Using Query Interpretation in Semantic Vector Spaces
Anthony Ventresque, Sylvie Cazalens, Philippe Lamarre (LINA, University of Nantes), Patrick Valduriez (INRIA and LINA, University of Nantes)

Graph Summaries for Subgraph Frequency Estimation
Angela Maduko (University of Georgia), Kemafor Anyanwu (North Carolina State University), Amit Sheth (Wright State University), Paul Schliekelman (University of Georgia)

Ontologies and Natural Language
Bernardo Cuenca Grau

Rabbit: Developing a Control Natural Language for Authoring Ontologies
Glen Hart, Martina Johnson, Catherine Dolbear (Ordnance Survey of Great Britain)

A Natural Language Query Interface to Structured Information
Valentin Tablan, Danica Damljanovic, Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield)

Ontologies and Natural Language: Enriching an Ontology with Multilingual Information
Mauricio Espinoza, Asunción Gómez-Pérez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Eduardo Mena (University of Zaragoza)

Distinguishing Between Instances and Classes in the Wikipedia Taxonomy
Cäcilia Zirn (EML Research gGmbH and University of Heidelberg), Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube (EML Research gGmbH)

Agents/Application Ontologies
Paolo Bouquet

Semantic Web Technology for Agent Communication Protocols
Idoia Berges, Jesús Bermúdez, Alfredo Goñi, Arantza Illarramendi (University of the Basque Country)

xOperator -- Interconnecting the Semantic Web and Instant Messaging Networks
Sebastian Dietzold (Universität Leipzing), Jörg Unbehauen (Leuphana – University of Lünenburg), Sören Auer (Universität Leipzing and University of Pennsylvania)

An Ontology for Software Models and its Practical Implications for Semantic Web Reasoning
Matthias Bräuer, Henrik Lochmann (SAP Research)

A Core Ontology for Business Process Analysis
Carlos Pedrinaci, John Domingue (KMI, The Open University), Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros (Technical University of Eindhoven)

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Search
Wolfgang Nejdl

Combining Fact and Document Retrieval with Spreading Activation for Semantic Desktop Search
Kinga Schumacher, Michael Sintek, Leo Sauermann (DFKI, Kaiserslautern)

Hybrid Search: Effectively Combining Keywords and Semantic Searches
Ravish Bhagdev, Sam Chapman, Fabio Ciravegna, Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Daniela Petrelli (University of Sheffield)

Q2Semantic: A Lightweight Keyword Interface to Semantic Search
Haofen Wang, Kang Zhang, Qiaoling Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Thanh Tran (Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe), Yong Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Applications II
Lyndon Nixon

Creating and Using Geospatial Ontology Time Series in a Semantic Cultural Heritage Portal
Tomi Kauppinen (Helsinki University of Technology and University of Helsinki), Jari Väätäinen (Geological Survey of Finland), Eero Hyvönen (Helsinki University of Technology and University of Helsinki)

Assisting Pictogram Selection with Semantic Interpretation
Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida (Kyoto University), Toshiyuki Takasaki (Kyoto R&D Center), Satoshi Oyama (Kyoto University)

Building a Semantic Web Image Repository for Biological Research Images
Jun Zhao, Graham Klyne, David Shotton (University of Oxford)

Learning
Marko Grobelnik

Query Answering and Ontology Population: an Inductive Approach
Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Floriana Esposito
(University of Bari)

Instance Based Clustering of Semantic Web Resources
Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes (DFKI Kaiserslautern), Peter Edwards (University of Aberdeen), Alun Preece (Cardiff University)

Conceptual Clustering and its Application to Concept Drift and Novelty Detection
Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato, Floriana Esposito
(University of Bari)

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

16:30-18:00

Panel 2: Social Network Portability: Is the Semantic Web Ready?

Moderator: Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh)
Panelists: Dan Brickley (ASemantics), Danny Ayers (Talis), Stefan Decker (DERI, Galway) and Kingsley Idehen (OpenLink) and Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona) and Alexandre Passant (LaLIC, University Paris-Sorbonne)

18:30-19:30

DERI Event

 

Thurday June 5th , 2008

9:00-10:30

Invited Talk

Foundations of RDF Databases
Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile)

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-13:00

Foundational Issues/Storage and Retrieval
Peter Mika

A Functional Semantic Architecture
Aurona Gerber, Alta Van der Merwe, Andries Barnard
(Meraka Institute and University of South Africa)

An Entity Name System (ENS) for the Semantic Web
Paolo Bouquet, Heiko Stoermer, Barbara Bazzanella (University of Trento)

Semantic Sitemaps: Efficient and Flexible Access to Datasets on the Semantic Web
Richard Cyganiak, Holger Stenzhorn, Renaud Delbru, Stefan Decker, Giovanni Tummarello (DERI Galway)

On Storage Policies for Semantic Web Repositories that Support Versioning
Yannis Tzitzikas, Yannis Theoharis, Dimitris Andreou (Unversity of Crete and Institute of Computer Science, FORTH)

Semantic Web Services II
Paolo Missier

Web Service Composition with User Preferences
Naiwen Lin, Ugur Kuter (University of Maryland), Evren Sirin (Clark & Parsia, LLC)

WSMO Choreography: From Abstract State Machines to Concurrent Transaction Logic
Dumitru Roman (STI Innsbruck), Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook), Dieter Fensel (STI Innsbruck)

WSMO-Lite Annotations for Web Services
Tomas Vitvar, Jacek Kopecký (STI Innsbruck), Jana Viskova (University of Zilina), Dieter Fensel (STI Innsbruck)

Ontology Alignment
Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Putting Ontology Alignment in Context: Usage Scenarios, Deployment and Evaluation in a Library Case
Antoine Isaac (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Koninklijke Bibliotheek), Henk Matthezing (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), Lourens van der Meij (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Koninklijke Bibliotheek), Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Shenghui Wang (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Koninklijke Bibliotheek), Claus Zinn (Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Two Variations on Ontology Alignment: Methodological Issues
Laura Hollink, Mark van Assem, Shenghui Wang, Antoine Isaac, Guus Schreiber (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

CSR: Discovering Subsumption Relations for the Alignment of Ontologies
Vassilis Spiliopoulos (University of the Aegean and Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR Demokritos), Alexandros G. Valarakos, George A. Vouros (University of the Aegean)

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Formal Languages II
Claudio Gutierrez

dRDF: Entailment for Domain-Restricted RDF
Reinhard Pichler (Technische Universität Wien), Axel Polleres (DERI Galway), Fang Wei, Stefan Woltran (Technische Universität Wien)

Finite Model Reasoning in DL-Lite
Riccardo Rosati (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Forgetting Concepts in DL-Lite
Zhe Wang, Kewen Wang, Rodney Topor (Griffith University), Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen)

User Interfaces and Personalization
Yannis Tzitzikas

Semantic Reasoning: A Path To New Possibilities of Personalization
Yolanda Blanco-Fernández, José J. Pazos-Arias, Alberto Gil-Solla, Manuel Ramos-Cabrer, Martín López-Nores (University of Vigo)

An User Interface Adaptation Architecture for Rich Internet Applications
Kay-Uwe Schmidt, Jörg Dörflinger, Tirdad Rahmani, Mehdi Sahbi (SAP Research, Karlsruhe), Ljiljana Stojanovic (FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik), Susan Marie Thomas (SAP Research, Karlsruhe)

OntoGame: Weaving the Semantic Web by Online Games
Katharina Siorpaes (STI Innsbruck), Martin Hepp (STI Innsbruck and Bundenswehr University Munich)

Lightning Talks

 

 

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

16:30-17:30

Awards and Closing