| Time |
Event |
Event |
Event |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 18:15 |
evening Welcome Reception |
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| 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
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Research 2: Ontology Reasoning I
Chair: Bernardo Cuenca Grau
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In Use 1: Making Value Out Of Semantic Web Data |
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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
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Research 4: Creating Semantic Web Content I
Chair: Enrico Motta
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In Use 2: Application of Semantics in the Public Sector |
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On the Foundations of Computing Deltas between RDF models Dimitris Zeginis, FORTH-ICS; Yannis Tzitzikas, FORTH-ICS; Vassilis Christophides, FORTH-ICS
Spotlight paper
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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
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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
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Research 6: Semantic Search
Chair: Asun Gomez-Perez
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SW Challenge (presentations by nominees) |
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A cognitive support framework for ontology mapping Sean Falconer, University of Victoria; Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria
Spotlight paper
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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 |
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| Potluck: Data Mash-Up Tool for Casual Users David Huynh, MIT CSAIL; Robert Miller, MIT CSAIL; David Karger, MIT
Spotlight paper
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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
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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
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Research 8: Semantic Web Services
Chair: Matthias Klusch
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In Use 3: Generating Knowledge for Business |
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Ontology Performance Profiling and Model Examination: First Steps Taowei Wang, University of maryland; Bijan Parsia
Spotlight paper
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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
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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
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Research 10: Natural-Language Interfaces
Chair: Knud Moller
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In Use 4: Bringing Research To Industrial Usefulness |
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Research 12: Ontology Alignment
Chair: Jerome Euzenat
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Lightning talks |
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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
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| 19:00 |
evening Conference Dinner |
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| 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
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Research 14: Semantic Web Languages
Chair: David Martin
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Research 15: Creating Semantic Web Content II
Chair: Hideaki Takeda
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combiSQORE: An Ontology Combination Algorithm Rachanee Ungrangsi, Shinawatra university; Chutiporn Anutariya, Shinawatra University; Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology
Spotlight paper
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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
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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 |
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Best paper and best student paper awards, Announcement of the Semantic Web Challenge winner, Demo of SWC winner, Presentation of ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe |
