ISWC 2002
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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

Intelligent Brokering on the Web

Chris van Aart, Bob Wielinga, Wouter Jansweijer, Anjo Anjewierden

Learning Organizational Memory

Marie-Helene Abel, Dominique Lenne, Omar Cisse

Approximate Ontology Translation and its Application to Regional Information Services

Jun-ichi Akahani, Kaoru Hiramatsu, Kiyoshi Kogure

Adding Semantics to Scientific Collaboration Documents

Muthukkaruppan Annamalai, Lito Cruz, Leon Sterling, Glenn Moloney

Web Service Enablement for B2C Interactions

L. Ardissono, A. Goy, G. Petrone

Svolgo: A Graph Framework

Daniel Ayers

Semantic Web and learning environments

Francesco Maria Aymerich, Nicoletta Dessi, Barbara Pes

COHSE: Semantic Web Gives a Better Deal for the Whole Web?

Sean Bechhofer, Carole Goble, Les Carr, Simon Kampa

Giving semantics to RDF by mapping into rewriting logic

Margarita Bradley, Luis Llana, Narciso Marti-Oliet, Tomas Robles, Joaquin Salvachua, Alberto Verdejo

Integrating Metadata Standards, Ontologies and the Web Services Model for Information Mediators

Cesar Carranza, Dieter Fensel

Context-Sensitive User Interface Support for Ontology-Based Web Applications

Pablo Castells, Jose A. Macias

Melita: Active Document Enrichment using Adaptive Information Extraction from Text

Fabio Ciravegna, Alexiei Dingli, Daniela Petrelli

Six Challenges for the Semantic Web

V. Richard Benjamins, Jesus Contreras, Oscar Corcho, Asuncion Gomez-Perez

An Ontology for Intellectual Property Rights: IPROnto

Jaime Delgado, Isabel Gallego, Roberto Garcia, Rosa Gil

CONTESSA: A CONTEnt Semantic Service Agent

Schahram Dustdar, Harald Gall, Gerald Reif, Klaus Niederacher, Alexander Wahler

An Evolutionary Approach to the Semantic Web

Oren Etzioni, Steve Gribble, Alon Halevy, Henry Levy, Luke McDowell

SemTalk: Authoring the Semantic Web with MS Visio

Christian Fillies, Gay Wood-Albrecht, Frauke Weichhardt

Towards a Semantic Portal for Minority Rights in Europe

Johann Gamper, Paolo Dongilli

The definition of a formal ontological framework aimed at semantic interoperability: the case for fishery domain

Aldo Gangemi, Domenico M. Pisanelli, Frehiwot Fisseha, Johannes Keizer, Marc Taconnet, Ian Pettman

Semantic Web Tools from MIND SWAP

Jennifer Golbeck, Ron Alford, Ross Baker, Mike Grove, Jim Hendler, Aditya Kalyanpur, Amy Loomis, Ron Reck

Challenging DAML+OIL by a Commercial Technology - What can the Semantic Web learn from it? (Preliminary Results)

Rolf Gruetter, Joachim Peer, Beat F. Schmid

Reconciling Experts' Ontologies for the Semantic Web

Adil Hameed, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece

X-pmi : An eXtensible Personal Mobility Interface (Semantic Web of Mobility Devices)

Simon Harper, Stephen Pettitt, Carole Goble

Information System Concepts based on semiotics: The FRISCO Approach

Wolfgang Hesse

S-CREAM - Semi-automatic CREAtion of Metadata

Siegfried Handschuh, Steffen Staab, Fabio Ciravegna

Cultural Semantic Interoperability on the Web: Case Finnish Museums Online

Eero Hyvonen, Suvi Kettula, Vilho Raatikka, Kim Viljanen

Semantic Commitment for Designing Ontologies: A Tool Proposal

Antoine Isaac, Raphael Troncy

Towards A Commercial Ontology Development Environment

Elisa F. Kendall, Mark E. Dutra, Deborah L. McGuinness

ELENA - Creating a Smart Space for Learning

Barbara Kieslinger, Bernd Simon, Gorazd Vrabic, Gustaf Neumann, Juan Quemada, Nicola Henze, Sigrun Gunnersdottir, Stefan Brantner, Tilman Kuechler, Wolf Siberski, Wolfgang Nejdl

Knowledge Control System - The Backbone Of Ontology Middleware

Atanas Kiryakov , Damyan Ognyanov , Kiril Simov, Borislav Popov, Stanislav Jordanov

OntoView: Comparing and Versioning Ontologies

Michel Klein, Dieter Fensel, Atanas Kiryakov, Damyan Ognyanoff

Editing Learning Object Metadata: Schema Driven Input of RDF Metadata

T. Kunze, J. Brase, W. Nejdl

ScadaOnWeb: Modelling and Web-Exchange of Process and Engineering Information

D. Leal, R. Bacher, A. Schroder

Lowering the entry level: Lessons from the Web and the Semantic Web for the World-Wide-Mind

Ciaran O`Leary, Mark Humphrys

The Travel Agent Of The Next Generation Web

Thorsten Liebig

Analytic Reports from KDD: Integration into Semantic Web

Vaclav Lin, Jan Rauch, Vojtech Svatek

Ontology-based Communication Forum

Marian Mach, Peter Macej, Jan Hreno

DAML Agents for Science Data Web

Sanda Mandutianu

Using Shared Ontologies for Communication and Personalization

Claude Moulin, Sylvain Giroux, Raffaella Sanna, Alessandro Soro, Gavino Paddeu

Model Discovery with the TAIM and Intelligent W-Interfaces

Cyrus F. Nourani

Extending Datatype Support in Web Ontology Reasoning

Jeff Z. Pan, Ian Horrocks

Ontology Harmonisation towards the Semantic Web

Manjula Patel

A Tool For Mapping Concepts Between Two Ontologies

Sushama Prasad, Yun Peng, Tim Finin

An action description model for active components in the Semantic Web

Nicolas Sabouret, Jean-Paul Sansonnet

MyCampus: A Semantic Web Environment for Context-Aware Mobile Services

Norman Sadeh, Enoch Chan, Wilson Lau, Yoshinori Shimazaki, Linh Van

Modelling a distributed multimedia conference with RDF

Joaquin Salvachua, Gabriel Huecas, Blanca Rodriguez, Juan Quemada

Personalization System based on Dynamic Learning

Akira Sato, Takahisa Ando, Hiroya Inakoshi, Seishi Okamoto

Ontology-based Search and Broadcast in HyperCuP

Mario Schlosser, Michael Sintek, Stefan Decker, Wolfgang Nejdl

Publishing Technology in Spoken Languages from XML Database

Yohei Seki

Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web

Urvi Shah, Tim Finin, Yun Peng, James Mayfield

BOR: A Pragmatic DAML+OIL reasoner

Kiril Simov, Stanislav Jordanov

CS-Engine: A Cross-Search Engine for Searching Heterogeneous Multiple Databases

Min Song, Il-Yeol Song

Approximate Terminological reasoning for the Semantic Web

Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Frank van Harmelen, Perry Groot

SemanticMiner: Smarter Knowledge Retrieval

York Sure, Eddie Moench

Towards the Discovery of Implicit Metadata in Commercial Web Pages

Vojtech Svatek, Martin Kavalec, Jiri Klemperer

KAON-Server - A Semantic Web Management System

Raphael Volz, Boris Motik, Alexander Maedche