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ISWC program
Version: 17 October 2007

Note: Some papers in the Research track are marked as Spotlight papers. A spotlight paper is one of the following:
  • a paper that generated a lot of controversy during the review process;
  • a paper that introduces a new interesting and unusual perspective;
  • a paper that reviewers thought should be highlighted for some other reasons.

Time Event Event Event
Sunday 11 November
9.00-12.30

Tutorials

T1: Ontology Engineering and Plug-in Development with the NeOn Toolkit
T2: What Semantic Web researchers need to know about Machine Learning
T3: User-Centered Design for the Semantic Web
T4: Invited Tutorial: An Introduction to the Semantic Web

Doctoral Consortium

9.00 - 9.30 Welcome and Introduction
9.30 - 10.00 Ondrej Svab: Exploiting patterns in Ontology Mapping
10.00 - 10.30 Ming Mao: Ontology Mapping: An Information Retrieval and Interactive Activation Network Based Approach
11.00 - 12.00 Fabio Ciravegna: Invited talk
12.00 - 12.30 Livia Predoiu: Probabilistic Information Integration and Retrieval in the Semantic Web

Workshops

W1: Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web
W2: From Text to Knowledge: The Lexicon/Ontology Interface
W3: New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scaleable, tolerant and dynamic
W4: First Industrial Results of Semantic Technologies
W5: Workshop on Semantic Web and Web 2.0 in Architectural, Product and Engineering Design
W6: Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based tools
W7: Workshop on Ontology Matching
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-17.30

Tutorials

T1: Ontology Engineering and Plug-in Development with the NeOn Toolkit
T2: What Semantic Web researchers need to know about Machine Learning
T3: User-Centered Design for the Semantic Web
T4: Invited Tutorial: An Introduction to the Semantic Web

Doctoral Consortium

14.00 - 14.30 Katharina Reinecke: Cultural Adaptivity for the Semantic Web
14.30 - 15.00 Reto Krummenacher: Ontology-Driven Management of Semantic Spaces
15.00 - 15.30 Amanda Bouffier: From Texts to Structured Documents: The Case of Health Practice Guidelines
16.00 - 17.15 Poster presentations
17.15 - 17.30 Closing and awards

Workshops

W1: Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web
W2: From Text to Knowledge: The Lexicon/Ontology Interface
W3: New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scaleable, tolerant and dynamic
W5: Workshop on Semantic Web and Web 2.0 in Architectural, Product and Engineering Design
W6: Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based tools
W7: Workshop on Ontology Matching
Monday 12 November
9.00-12.30

Tutorials

T5: Ontology-based Data Access
T6: Semantic Business Process Management
T7: Semantic Web Technologies for Knowledge Management in Large Distributed Organizations

Workshops

W9: Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web
W10: International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution
W11: Workshop on Privacy Enforcement and Accountability with Semantics(PEAS2007)
W12: Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
W13: Semantic Web in Ubiquitous Healthcare
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-17.30

Tutorials

T5: Ontology-based Data Access
T6: Semantic Business Process Management
T8: Using Social Network Analysis, Geotemporal Reasoning, and RDFS++ Reasoning for Business Intelligence

Workshops

W8: Finding Experts on the Web with Semantics
W9: Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web
W10: International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution
W11: Workshop on Privacy Enforcement and Accountability with Semantics(PEAS2007)
W12: Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
18:15 evening Welcome Reception
Tuesday 13 November
08.30-09.00

Opening Ceremony

9.00-10.30

Invited talk:

"Universal Access to Human Knowledge (Or Public Access to Digital Materials)" Brewster Kahle, The Internet Archive
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30

Research 1: Information Integration

Chair: Raphael Volz

Research 2: Ontology Reasoning I

Chair: Bernardo Cuenca Grau

In Use 1: Making Value Out Of Semantic Web Data

  An Event-based Approach for Semantic Metadata Interoperability Tuukka Ruotsalo, University of Helsinki; Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) Measuring Incoherence in Description Logic-based Ontologies Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe; Anthony Hunter, University College London Recipes for Semantic Web Dog Food - The ESWC and ISWC Metadata Projects Knud Möller, DERI, NUIG; Tom Heath, KMi, The Open University; Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland in Galway, Ireland; John Domingue, KMi, The Open University
Instance Migration in Heterogeneous Ontology Environments Andrei Tamilin, FBK-IRST; Luciano Serafini, IRS Trento Semantic Cooperation and Knowledge Reuse by Using Autonomous Ontologies Yuting Zhao, IIIS, the Griffith University; Kewen Wang, The Griffith University; Rodney Topor, Griffith University; Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen; Fausto Giunchiglia, U. Trento EIAW: Towards a Business-friendly Data Warehouse Using Semantic Web Technologies Guotong Xie, IBM China Research Laboratory; Yang Yang, IBM China Research Laboratory; Shengping Liu, IBM China Research Laboratory; Zhaoming Qiu, IBM China Research Laboratory; Xiongzhi Zhou, Taikang Life Insurance Company

RDFSync: efficient remote synchronization of RDF models Christian Morbidoni, Semedia italy; Giovanni Tummarello, DERI Ireland; Orri Erling, OpenLink Software; Reto Bachmann-Gmür, Talis Information Limited

Spotlight paper

Scalable Cleanup of Information Extraction Data Using Ontologies Julian Dolby, IBM Watson Research Center; James Fan, IBM Watson Research Center; Achille Fokoue, IBM Research; Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM Watson Research Center; Aaron Kershenbaum, IBM Research; Li Ma, IBM; William Murdock, IBM Watson Research Center; Kavitha Srinivas, ; Christopher Welty, IBM Watson Research Center DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data Sören Auer, University of Pennsylvania; Chris Bizer, FU Berlin; Jens Lehmann, Universität Leipzig; Georgi Kobilarov, FU Berlin; Richard Cyganiak, FU Berlin; Zachary Ives, University of Pennsylvania
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.30

Research 3: Ontology evolution

Chair: Takahira Yamaguchi

Research 4: Creating Semantic Web Content I

Chair: Enrico Motta

In Use 2: Application of Semantics in the Public Sector

On the Foundations of Computing Deltas between RDF models Dimitris Zeginis, FORTH-ICS; Yannis Tzitzikas, FORTH-ICS; Vassilis Christophides, FORTH-ICS

Spotlight paper

PORE: Positive-Only Relation Extraction from Wikipedia Text Gang Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Yong Yu, ApexLab; Haiping Zhu, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University HealthFinland - Finnish Health Information on the Semantic Web Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK); Kim Viljanen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK); Osma Suominen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)
History Matters: Incremental Ontology Reasoning Using Modules Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Univ Manchester; Yevgeny Kazakov, University of Manchester; Christian Halaschek-Wiener, University of Maryland SALT: Weaving the claim web Tudor Groza, DERI Galway; Knud Möller, DERI, NUIG; Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland in Galway, Ireland; Diana Trif, DERI Galway; Stefan Decker, DERI Galway

Spotlight paper

Unlocking the Potential of Public Sector Information with Semantic Web Technology Harith Alani, University of Southampton; David Dupplaw, ; John Sheridan, ; Kieron O'Hara, ; John Darlington, ; Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton; Carol Tullo,
The Fundamentals of iSPARQL: A Virtual Triple Approach For Similarity-Based Semantic Web Tasks Christoph Kiefer, University of Zurich; Abraham Bernstein, University Of Zurich; Markus Stocker, University Of Zurich Making More Wikipedians: Facilitating Semantics Reuse for Wikipedia Authoring Linyun Fu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Haofen Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Haiping Zhu, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Huajie Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Yang Wang, Shanghai JiaoTong University; Yong Yu, ApexLab Matching Patient Records to Clinical Trials Using Ontologies Kavitha Srinivas, ; Chintan Patel, Columbia University Medical Center; James Cimino, Columbia University Medical Center; Li Ma, IBM; Julian Dolby, IBM Watson Research Center; Achille Fokoue, IBM Research; Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM Watson Research Center; Aaron Kershenbaum, IBM Research; Edith Schonberg, IBM Watson Research Center
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.30

Research 5: User Interaction

Chair: Abraham Bernstein

Research 6: Semantic Search

Chair: Asun Gomez-Perez

SW Challenge (presentations by nominees)

  A cognitive support framework for ontology mapping Sean Falconer, University of Victoria; Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria

Spotlight paper

Ontology-based Interpretation of Keywords for Semantic Search Thanh Tran, University of Karlsruhe; Philipp Cimiano, "University of Karlsruhe, Germany"; Sebastian Rudolph, Universität Karlsruhe; Rudi Studer, Univ. Karlsruhe  
Potluck: Data Mash-Up Tool for Casual Users David Huynh, MIT CSAIL; Robert Miller, MIT CSAIL; David Karger, MIT

Spotlight paper

SPARK: Adapting Keyword Query to Semantic Search Qi Zhou, Apex Lab; Chong Wang, ApexLab; Miao Xiong, ApexLab; Yong Yu, ApexLab
The Semantic Web and Human Inference: A Lesson from Cognitive Science TAKASHI YAMAUCHI, TEXAS A&m UNIVERSITY

Spotlight paper

Web Search Personalization via Social Bookmarking and Tagging Michael Noll, Hasso-Plattner-Institut; Christoph Meinel, Hasso Plattner Institut (HPI)
17.30-18.00 Break
18.00-21.00

Posters

Demos

Semantic Web Challenge (demos)

Wednesday 14 November
9.00-10.30

Invited talk:

"Natural Language and the Semantic Web" Barney Pell, Powerset
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30

Research 7: Ontology Reasoning II

Chair: Fausto Giunchiglia

Research 8: Semantic Web Services

Chair: Matthias Klusch

In Use 3: Generating Knowledge for Business

  Ontology Performance Profiling and Model Examination: First Steps Taowei Wang, University of maryland; Bijan Parsia

Spotlight paper

A Caching Mechanism for Semantic Web Service Discovery Michael Stollberg, DERI; Martin Hepp, DERI; Jörg Hoffmann, DERI Purpose-Aware Reasoning about Interoperability of Heterogeneous Training Systems Daniel Elenius, SRI International; Mark Johnson, SRI International; Reginald Ford, SRI International; Grit Denker, SRI; David Martin, SRI International
Alternating-offers protocol for multi-issue bilateral negotiation in semantic-enabled marketplaces Azzurra Ragone, Politecnico di Bari; Eugenio Di Sciascio, POLITECNICO DI BARI; Tommaso Di Noia, ; Francesco Donini, Università della Tuscia Automatically Composing Data Workflows with Relational Descriptions and Shim Services Jose Luis Ambite, University of Southern California; Dipsy Kappor, USC/ISI

Spotlight paper

Ontology-based Information Extraction for Business Intelligence Horacio Saggion, University Of Sheffield; Kalina Bontcheva, ; Adam Funk, ; Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield
Using Tableau to Decide Expressive Description Logics with Role Negation Dmitry Tishkovsky, The University of Manchester; Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester Bringing Semantic Annotations to Web Services: OWL-S from the SAWSDL Perspective David Martin, SRI International; Massimo Paolucci, ; Matthias Wagner, A Collaborative Semantic Web Layer to Enhance Legacy Systems Aldo Gangemi, "CNR-ISTC, Italy"; Alfio Gliozzo, CNR-ISTC; Valentina Presutti, CNR-ISTC
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.30

Research 9: Semantic Web Data Management

Chair: Tom Heath

Research 10: Natural-Language Interfaces

Chair: Knud Moller

In Use 4: Bringing Research To Industrial Usefulness

  YARS2: A Federated Repository for Querying Graph Structured Data from the Web Andreas Harth, DERI/NUIG; Juergen Umbrich, Uni Karlsruhe; Aidan Hogan,DERI Galway; Stefan Decker, DERI Galway

Spotlight paper

Ontology-based Controlled Natural Language Editor Using CFG with Lexical Dependency Hyun Namgoong, Seoul National University; Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University Application of Ontology Translation James Ressler, Northrop Grumman; Mike Dean, BBN Technologies; Edward Benson, BBN; Eric Dorner, Northrop Grumman; Chuck Morris, Northrop Grumman
Sindice.com: Weaving the Open Linked Data Giovanni Tummarello, DERI Galway; Eyal Oren, DERI Galway; Renaud Delbru, DERI Galway

Spotlight paper

CLOnE: Controlled Language for Ontology Editing Adam Funk, University of Sheffield; Valentin Tablan, University of Sheffield; Kalina Bontcheva, "University of Sheffield, UK"; Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield; Brian Davis, ; Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland in Galway, Ireland

Spotlight paper

A semantic case-based reasoning framework for text categorization Valentina Ceausu, Paris V University; Sylvie Desprès , Paris V University
Enabling Advanced and Context-Dependent Access Control in RDF Stores Fabian Abel, ; Juri De Coi , L3S Research Center; Nicola Henze, Leibniz University Hannover; Arne Koesling, L3S Research Center; Daniel Krause, L3S Research Center; Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Research Center How Useful are Natural Language Interfaces to the Semantic Web for Casual End-users? Esther Kaufmann, University of Zurich; Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich

Spotlight paper

Spatially-Augmented Knowledgebase Dave Kolas, BBN Technologies; Troy Self, BBN Technologies
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-18.00

Research 11: Ontology Design and Evaluation

Chair: Carole Goble

Research 12: Ontology Alignment

Chair: Jerome Euzenat

Lightning talks

  Evaluating the Semantic Web: A Task-based Approach Marta Sabou, KMi, Open University; Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza; Sofia Angeletou, Knowledge Media Institute (KMi); Mathieu D'Aquin, "KMi, The Open University, UK"; Enrico Motta, Open University How Service Choreography Statistics Reduce the Ontology Mapping Problem Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh; David Robertson, University of Edinburgh The purpose of this session is to give all ISWC participants a chance to present a new idea, observation, or proposition relevant for the Semantic Web community. You will get 1 minute and 1 slide to give your lightning talk. You have until noon on Wed 14 Nov to indicate your interest in giving a lightning talk. You can show your interest by sending email to iswc-lightning@few.vu.nl, stating your name, affiliation, and at most one sentence about your talk.
An Ontology Design Pattern for Representing Relevance in OWL Juan Gómez-Romero, University of Granada; Fernando Bobillo, University of Granada; Miguel Delgado, University of Granada A method for recommending ontology alignment strategies He Tan, Linköpings universitet; Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings universitet
Lifecycle-Support in Architectures for Ontology-Based Information Systems Thanh Tran, University of Karlsruhe; Peter Haase, Karlsruhe U; Holger Lewen, Institute AIFB, University of karlsruhe; Óscar Muñoz-García, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid An empirical study of instance-based ontology matching Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Lourens Van der Meij, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
COMM: Designing a Well-Founded Multimedia Ontology for the Web Richard Arndt, University Koblenz-Landau; Raphael Troncy, CWI; Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau; Lynda Hardman, "CWI, Amsterdam"; Miroslav Vacura, University of Economics, Prague Discovering Simple Mappings Between Relational Database Schemas and Ontologies Wei Hu, Southeast University; Yuzhong Qu, Southeast University

Spotlight paper

19:00 evening Conference Dinner
Thursday 15 November
9.00-10.30

Invited talk:

"How I was right even when I was wrong" Christopher Welty, IBM
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-13.00

Research 13: Querying Semantic Web Data

Chair: Ian Horrocks

Research 14: Semantic Web Languages

Chair: David Martin

Research 15: Creating Semantic Web Content II

Chair: Hideaki Takeda

  combiSQORE: An Ontology Combination Algorithm Rachanee Ungrangsi, Shinawatra university; Chutiporn Anutariya, Shinawatra University; Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology

Spotlight paper

Conjunctive Queries for a Tractable Fragment of OWL 1.1 Markus Krötzsch, University of Karlsruhe; Sebastian Rudolph, University of Karlsruhe; Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe Creating a Dead Poets Society: Extracting a Social Network of Historical Persons from the Web Gijs Geleijnse, Philips Research; Jan Korst, Philips Research
Continuous RDF Query Processing over DHTs Erietta Liarou, CWI; Stratos Idreos, cwi; Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Spotlight paper

OBO and OWL: Leveraging Semantic Web Technologies for the Life Sciences Christine Golbreich, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin; Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester; Ian Horrocks, Oxford University Computing Laboratory; Boris Motik, Oxford University Computing Laboratory; Rob Shearer, Oxford University Computing Laboratory AllRight: Automatic Ontology Instantiation from Tabular Web Documents Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin, University of Klagenfurt; Dietmar Jannach, ; Gerhard Friedrich, University of Klagenfurt; Olga Kozeruk,
Kernel Methods for Mining Instance Data in Ontologies Stephan Bloehdorn, Institute AIFB, U Karlsruhe; York Sure, Institute AIFB, U Karlsruhe Logical Foundations of (e)RDF(S): Complexity and Reasoning Jos De Bruijn, Free University of Bolzano; Stijn Heymans, DERI, University of Innsbruck

An Unsupervised Model for Exploring Hierarchical Semantics from Social Annotations Mianwei Zhou, APEX Lab; Shenghua Bao, ; Xian Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; Yong Yu, ApexLab

Semplore: An IR Approach to Scalable Hybrid Query of Semantic Web Data Lei Zhang, IBM China Research Lab; QiaoLing Liu, Shanghai JiaoTong University; Jie Zhang, Shanghai JiaoTong University; Haofen Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Yue Pan, IBM China Research Lab; Yong Yu, ApexLab

Spotlight paper

Finding all Justifications of OWL DL Entailments Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM Watson Research Center; Bijan Parsia, ; Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester; Evren Sirin, Clark & Parsia From Web Directories to Ontologies: Natural Language Processing Challenges Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento; Lei Sun, University of Fudan; Fausto Giunchiglia, U. Trento; Wei Pan, University of Fudan; Qi Ju, Jilin University; Mingmin Chi, University of Fudan; Xuanjing Huang, University of Fudan
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-15.45

Panel "Prodigy or Sociopath: The Adolescent Semantic Web"

Panelists:
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck
Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Troy, NY
Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich
Frank van Harmelen, VU University Amsterdam
Carole Goble University of Manchester
(Moderator: Guus Schreiber, VU University Amsterdam)
15.45-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.00

Award & Closing Ceremony

  Best paper and best student paper awards, Announcement of the Semantic Web Challenge winner, Demo of SWC winner, Presentation of ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe