Conference Timetable

Pre-Registration: 17:00 - 21:00 Radisson Hotel

Please note: Room allocation at the Radisson Hotel will be announced after registration closes.

Morning Tutorials:

• Semantic Web Rules with Ontologies, and Their E-Services Applications: [Venue: Inis Mór Ballroom 3]
  Benjamin Grosof, Micheal Kifer, Mike Dean
• MDA Standards for Ontology Development: [Venue: Inis Mór Ballroom 2]
  Dragan Gasevic, Dragan Djuric, Vladan Devedzic

Afternoon Tutorials:

• Semantic Web Service Systems and Tools: [Venue: Inis Mór Ballroom 2]
  Christoph Bussler, Liliana Cabral, John Domingue, Matthew Moran, Michael Stollberg, Michal Zaremba
• Ontology Design Patterns and Problems: Practical Ontology Engineering using Protégé-OWL: [Venue: Inis Mór Ballroom 3]
  Alan Rector, Natalya F. Noy, Mark A. Musen, Matthew Horridge, Nick Drummond, Robert Stevens
  

Workshops (2 full-day workshops)

• 1. Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE): [Venue: The Quinn Suite]
  Evan Wallace, Jeff Z. Pan, Phil Tetlow, Elisa F. Kendall
• 2. The Semantic Desktop - Next Generation Personal Information Management and Collaboration Infrastructure: [Venue: Inis Mór Ballroom 1]
  Stefan Decker, Jack Park, Dennis Quan, Leo Sauermann
  

Industry Day [Venue: Aula Maxima, NUI Galway; Time: 13.45 – 17:00]

This is a prestigious "invitation only" event at which senior business executives will be exposed to recent advances in information technology. This will include a reception afterwards from the President's Office at the National University of Ireland. Full details are available here.

Doctoral Symposium [Venue: Joyce Suite, Radisson Hotel; Time: All Day Event]

Workshops (7 in total)

Half-day workshops:

3. Uncertainty Reasoning For the Semantic Web (morning workshop) [Venue: Inis Mór Ballroom 3]

4. Ontology Patterns for the Semantic Web (afternoon workshop) [Venue: Inis Mór Ballroom 1]

5. Semantic Web Case Studies and Best Practices for eBusiness (SWCASE) (afternoon session) [Venue: Inis Mór Ballroom 3]

Full day workshops:

6. End User Semantic Web Interaction: [Venue: Backstage bar]

7. Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (Semannot2005): [Venue: Inis Mór Ballroom 2]

8. Semantic Network Analysis: [Venue: The Quinn Suite]

9. The Semantic Web and Policy Workshop (SWPW): [Venue: Marinas Restaurant]

ISWC begins

09:00 ­ 09:15: Introductions and welcome

09:15 - 09:30: Awards

09:30 - 10:30: Invited Talk:

Professor Carole Goble, University of Manchester
Using the Semantic Web for e-Science - Inspiration, Incubation, Irritation

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break:

11:00 to 12:30 - Three parallel sessions.

Paper Session Ia, Inis Mór Ballroom 1
Research / Academic Track Papers I-A: SOCIAL NETWORKS
Chair: Stefan Decker

• “Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics”
  Peter Mika.
• "Searching Dynamic Communities with Personal Indexes"
  Christoph Tempich, Alexander Löser, Bastian Quilitz, Steffen Staab, Wolf-Thilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl
• "Semantically Rich Recommendations in Social Networks for Sharing, Exchanging and Ranking Semantic Context"
  Wolfgang Nejdl, Stefania Ghita, Raluca Paiu

Paper Session Ib, Inis Mór Ballroom 2
Research / Academic Track Papers I-B: EDITING AND VISUALIZING ONTOLOGIES
Chair: John Domingue

• "Towards Imaging Large-Scale Ontologies for Quick Understanding and Analysis"
  KeWei Tu, Miao Xiong, HaiPing Zhu, Jie Zhang, Yong Yu
• "Querying Ontologies: A Controlled English Interface for End-users"
  Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann, Anne Goehring, Christoph Kiefer
• "Using triples for implementation: the Triple20 ontology-manipulation tool"
  Jan Wielemaker, Guus Schreiber, Bob Wielinga

Paper Session Ic, Inis Mór Ballroom 3
Research / Academic Track Papers I-C: E-SCIENCE
Chair: Terry Payne

• "A Little Semantic Web Goes a Long Way in Biology"
  Katy Wolstencroft, Andy Brass, Ian Horrocks, Phillip Lord, Ulrike Sattler, Robert Stevens, Daniele Turi
• "Provenance-based Validation of E-Science Experiments"
  Sylvia C Wong, Simon Miles, Weijian Fang, Paul Groth, Luc Moreau
• "Seven Bottlenecks to Workflow Reuse and Repurposing"
  Antoon Goderis, Carole Goble, Ulrike Sattler, Phillip Lord

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch

13:30 to 15:00 -Three parallel streams.

Paper Session IIa, Inis Mór Ballroom 1
Research / Academic Track Papers II-A: EVALUATION AND BENCHMARKING
Chair: Sean Bechhofer

• "A Large Scale Taxonomy Mapping Evaluation"
  Paolo Avesani, Fausto Giunchiglia, Mikalai Yatskevich
• "Rapid Benchmarking for Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems"
  Sui-Yu Wang, Yuanbo Guo, Abir Qasem, Jeff Heflin
• "Automatic Evaluation of Ontologies (AEON)"
  Johanna Völker, Denny Vrandecic, York Sure
• "Guidelines for Evaluating the Performance of Ontology Management APIs"
  Raul Garcia-Castro, Asuncion Gomez-Perez

Paper Session IIb, Inis Mór Ballroom 2
Research / Academic Track Papers II-B: ONTOLOGY EVOLUTION
Chair: York Sure

• “Ontology Change Detection using a Version Log”
  Peter Plessers, Olga De Troyer
• “RUL: A Declarative Update Language for RDF”
  Matoula Magiridou, Stavros Saxtouris, Vassilis Christophides, Manolis Koubarakis
• “On Applying the AGM Theory to DLs and OWL”
  Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou
  

Paper Session IIc, Inis Mór Ballroom 3
Research / Academic Track Papers II-C: SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES
Chair: Sheila McIlraith

• “Information Modeling for End to End Composition of Semantic Web Services”
  Arun Kumar, Biplav Srivastava, Sumit Mittal
• “Choreography in IRS-III – Coping with Heterogeneous Interaction Patterns in Web Services”
  John Domingue, Stefania Galizia, Liliana Cabral
• “Web Service Composition with Volatile Information”
  Tsz-Chiu Au, Ugur Kuter, Dana Nau
• “Towards a Formal Verification of OWL-S Process Models”
  Anupriya Ankolekar, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara

15:00 - 15:30: Coffee break

15:30 to 17:00 - Three parallel streams.

Paper Session IIIa, Inis Mór Ballroom 1
Research / Academic Track Papers III-A: DEBUGGING AND INCONSISTENCY MANAGEMENT
Chair: Guus Schreiber

• “Debugging OWL-DL Ontologies: A Heuristic Approach”
  Hai Wang, Matthew Horridge, Alan Rector, Nick Drummond, Julian Seidenberg
• “A General Diagnosis Method for Ontologies”
  Gerhard Friedrich, Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin
• “A Framework for Handling Inconsistency in Changing Ontologies”
  Peter Haase, Frank van Harmelen, Zhisheng Huang, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, York Sure
  

Paper Session IIIb, Inis Mór Ballroom 2
Research / Academic Track Papers III-B: LOGIC AND REASONING
Chair: Fausto Giunchiglia

• “On the Properties of Metamodeling in OWL”
  Boris Motik
• “RDF Entailment as a Graph Homomorphism”
  Jean-François Baget
• “On Logical Consequence for Collections of OWL Documents”
  Yuanbo Guo, Jeff Heflin
  

Paper Session IIIc, Inis Mór Ballroom 3
Industrial Track Papers III-C: WEB SERVICES
Chair: Alain Leger

• “Automated Business-to-Business Integration of a Logistics Supply Chain using Semantic Web Services Technology”
  Chris Preist, Javier Esplugas Cuadrado, Steve Battle, Stuart Williams, Stephan Grimm
• “Ontological Approach to Generating Personalized User Interfaces for Web Services”
  Deepali Khushraj, Ora Lassila
• “An Application of Semantic Web Technologies to Situation Awareness”
  Christopher Matheus, Mieczyslaw Kokar, Kenneth Baclawski, Jerzy Letkowskios

19:00 – 19:30: Set up for Exhibitors with Posters & Demos & Semantic Web Challenge [Venue: Inis Mór Ballroom 1,2,3]

19:30 – 22:00: Posters and Demos Session & Semantic Web Challenge (including drinks reception)

ISWC continues

09:00 - 10:00: Invited Talk:

Dr Alfred Spector, Vice President of Strategy and Technology IBM Software Group
"The Practical Web" - Semantic Acceleration Helping Realize the Semantic Web Vision

10:00 - 10:30: Coffee Break:

10:30 to 12:00 - Three parallel streams.

Paper Session IVa, Inis Mór Ballroom 1
Research / Academic Track Papers IV-A: SEMANTIC MARKUP AND BROWSING
Chair: Frank van Harmelen

• “Piggy Bank: Experience The Semantic Web Within Your Web Browser”
  David Huynh, Stefano Mazzocchi, David Karger
• “A Template-based Markup Tool for Semantic Web Content”
  Brian Kettler, James Starz, William Miller, Peter Haglich
• “Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web”
  Li Ding, Rong Pan, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Pranam Kolari
  

Paper Session IVb, Inis Mór Ballroom 2
Research / Academic Track Papers IV-B: AGENTS AND DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURES
Chair: Alun Preece

• “A Strategy for Automated Meaning Negotiation in Distributed Information Retrieval”
  Vadim Ermolayev, Natalya Keberle, Wolf-Ekkehard Matzke, Vladimir Vladimirov
• “Introducing autonomic behaviour in semantic web agents”
  Valentina Tamma, Ian Blacoe, Ben Lithgow Smith, Michael Wooldridge
• “An ontological framework for dynamic coordination”
  Valentina Tamma, Chris van Aart, Thierry Moyaux, Shamima Paurobally, Ben Lithgow Smith, Michael Wooldridge
  

Paper Session IVc, Inis Mór Ballroom 3
Industrial Track Papers IVC: SECTOR APPLICATIONS I
Chair: Nigel Shadbolt

• “LKMS – A Legal Knowledge Management System exploiting Semantic Web technologies”
  Luca Gilardoni, Christian Biasuzzi, Massimo Ferraro, Roberto Fonti, Piercarlo Slavazza
• “Do not use this gear with a switching lever! Automotive industry experience with semantic guides”
  Hans-Peter Schnurr, Jürgen Angele
• “Definitions Management: A semantics-based approach for clinical documentation in healthcare delivery”
  Vipul Kashyap, Alfredo Morales, Tonya Hongsermeier, Qi Li

12:00 - 13:00: Lunch:

13:00 to 14:30 - Three parallel streams.

Paper Session Va, Inis Mór Ballroom 1
Research / Academic Track Papers V-A: RDF QUERYING AND STORAGE
Chair: Bijan Parsia

• "Benchmarking Database Representations of RDF/S Stores"
  Yannis Theoharis, Vassilis Christophides, Grigoris Karvounarakis
• "Containment and Minimization of RDF/S Query Patterns" Giorgos Serfiotis, Ioanna Koffina, Vassilis Christophides, Val Tannen
• "BRAHMS: A workBench RDF store And High performance Memory System for Semantic Association Discovery" Maciej Janik, Krzysztof Kochut
  
  

Paper Session Vb, Inis Mór Ballroom 2
Research / Academic Track Papers V-B: ONTOLOGY MAPPING AND ALIGNMENT I
Chair: Deborah McGuinness

• “Bootstrapping Ontology Alignment Methods with APFEL”
  Marc Ehrig, Steffen Staab, York Sure
• “A Method to Combine Linguistic Ontology-Mapping Techniques”
  Willem Robert von Hage
• “A String Metric for Ontology Alignment”
  Giorgos Stoilos, Giorgos Stamou, Stefanos Kollias
  

Paper Session Vc, Inis Mór Ballroom 3
Industrial Track Papers V-C: SECTOR APPLICATIONS II
Chair: Hans-Peter Schnurr

• “Ubiquitous Service Finder - Discovery of Services semantically derived from metadata in Ubiquitous Computing”
  Takahiro Kawamura
• “Task Knowledge Based Retrieval for Service Relevant to Mobile User’s Activity”
  Takefumi Naganuma, Shoji Kurakake
• “MediaCaddy - Semantic Web based On-Demand Content Navigation System for Entertainment”
  Amit Goswami, Shishir Garg, Senthil Jaganathan, Jeremy Huylebroeck, Pramila Mullan

Wednesday Afternoon

14:30 - 15:00: Coffee:

15:00 to 16:30 - Three parallel streams.

Paper Session VIa, Inis Mór Ballroom 1
Research / Academic Track Papers VI-A: ONTOLOGY CREATION
Chair: Marta Sabou

• “RelExt: A Tool for Relation Extraction from Text in Ontology Extension”
  Alexander Schutz, Paul Buitelaar
• “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, Cecile Guigard
• “Ontology Design Patterns for Semantic Web Content”
  Aldo Gangemi
  

Paper Session VIb, Inis Mór Ballroom 2
Research / Academic Track Papers VI-B: ONTOLOGY MAPPING AND ALIGNMENT II
Chair: Jerome Euzenat

• “Constructing Complex Semantic Mappings between XML Data and Ontologies”
  Yuan An, Alex Borgida, John Mylopoulos
• “Ontology Mapping Discovery with Uncertainty”
  Prasenjit Mitra, Natasha Noy, Anuj R. Jaiswal
• “A Bayesian Network Approach to Ontology Mapping”
  Rong Pan, Zhongli Ding, Yang Yu, Yun Peng
  

Paper Session VIc, Inis Mór Ballroom 3
Industrial Track Papers VI-C: METHODOLOGY
Chair: Luca Gilardoni

• “On Identifying Knowledge Processing Requirements”
  Alain Leger, Lyndon Nixon, Pavel Shvaiko
• “Towards a Killer App for the Semantic Web”
  Harith Alani, Yannis Kalfoglou, Kieron O'Hara, Nigel Shadbolt
• “Enterprise Architecture Reference Modeling in OWL/RDF”
  Irene Polikoff, Ralph Hodgson, Dean Allemang

16:30 to 18:00:

• EU Future Funding Session:
  Back to the drawing board: Options and directions for FP7 research

Wednesday Evening

• Gala Dinner

ISWC - final day

09:00 - 10:00: Invited Talk:

Daniel J Weitzner, Technology and Society Domain Leader, W3C
“Semantic Web Public Policy Challenges: Privacy, Provenance, Property and Personhood”

10:00 - 10:30: Coffee Break

10:30 to 12:00 - Three parallel streams.

Paper Session VIIa, Inis Mór Ballroom 1
Research / Academic Track Papers VII-A: RULES
Chair: Ian Horrocks

• "Combining RDF and OWL with Rules: Semantics, Decidability, Complexity" Herman ter Horst
• "Stable Model Theory for Extended RDF Ontologies" Anastasia Analyti, Grigoris Antoniou, Carlos Viegas Damasio, Gerd Wagner
• "Resolution-Based Approximate Reasoning for OWL DL" Pascal Hitzler, Denny Vrandecic
  

Paper Session VIIb, Inis Mór Ballroom 2
Research / Academic Track Papers VII-B: TRUST AND POLICIES
Chair: Norman Sadeh

• “Preferential Reasoning on a Web of Trust”
  Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
• “On Partial Encryption of RDF-Graphs”
  Mark Giereth
• “Representing Web Service Policies in OWL-DL”
  Vladimir Kolovski, Bijan Parsia, Yarden Katz, James Hendler
  

Paper Session VIIc, Inis Mór Ballroom 3
Industrial Track Papers VII-C: APPLIED TECHNOLOGY
Chair: Chris Priest

• “Gnowsis Adapter Framework: Treating Structured Data Sources as Virtual RDF Graphs”
  Leo Sauerman, Sven Schwarz
• “The Concept Object Web for Knowledge Management”
  James Starz, Brian Kettler, Peter Haglich, Jason Losco, Gary Edwards, Mark Hoffman
• “Supporting Rule System Interoperability on the Semantic Web with SWRL”
  Martin O'Connor, Holger Knublauch, Samson Tu, Mark Musen

12:00 - 13:00: Lunch:

13:00 to 14:00 - Three parallel streams.

Paper Session VIIIa, Inis Mór Ballroom 1
Research / Academic Track Papers VIII-A: SEMANTIC SEARCH AND BROWSING
Chair: Paul Buitelaar

• “RitroveRAI: a Web application for semantic indexing and hyperlinking of multimedia news”
  Roberto Basili, Marco Cammisa, Emanuele Donati
• “Semantic Browsing of Digital Collections”
  Trevor Collins, Paul Mulholland, Zdenek Zdrahal
  
  

Paper Session VIIIb, Inis Mór Ballroom 2
Research / Academic Track Papers VIII-B: VERSIONING AND CONTEXT
Chair: Jeff Heflin

• “Reasoning with Multi-Version Ontologies: a Temporal Logic Approach”
  Zhisheng Huang, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
• “Decentralized Case-Based Reasoning for the semantic Web”
  Mathieu d'Aquin, Jean Lieber, Amedeo Napoli
  

Paper Session VIIIc, Inis Mór Ballroom 3
Industrial Track Papers: VIII-C: SECTOR APPLICATIONS III
Chair: Dean Allemang

• “A Semantic Search Engine for the International Relation Sector”
  Luis Rodrigo, V. Richard Benjamins, Jesús Contreras, Diego Paton, S. David Navarro,
  Robert Salla, Mercedes Blázquez, Pilar Tena, Isabel Martos
• “Semantic Service Integration for Water Resource Management”
  Ross Ackland, Kerry Taylor, Laurent Lefort, Mark Cameron, Joel Rahman

14:00 - 14:30: Coffee

14:30 to 16:30: - Plenary Session

• 14:30 – 15:00 Semantic Web Challenge
• 15:00 – 15:15 RuleML Opening Remarks
• 15:15 to 16:15 - Invited Talk:
  Sir Tim Berners Lee, Director, World Wide Web Consortium
• 16:15 – 16:30 ISWC Closing Remarks
  

ISWC 2005 Conference ends “Slán agus beannacht libh go léir”

Rule ML Conference begins