Program (ISWC2002) June 9-12th, 2002 Sardinia, Italia supported in part by the OntoWeb network in cooperation with the DARPA Program

ISWC Schedule

09/6/2002

9:00-12:00

Tutorial: Ontologies: Representation, Engineering, Learning and Applications

Tutorial: Jena Tutorial

Tutorial: Semantic web services

14:00-17:00

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

Tutorial: Semantic web services

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)

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)

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)

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