Semantic Web Working Symposium
Program and Proceedings

Program and Proceedings at a Glance
The full proccedings (incl. foreword, index etc. (12MB PDF-File)) are also available
Please have also a look at the Position Papers.

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8:00-9:00
SWWS Registration and Breakfast (at the TCSEQ Center)
9:00-9:30
Welcome (Organizers & Jim Hendler)
(TCSEQ 200)
9:30-10:30
Invited Talk by Eric Miller (W3C Semantic Web Activity Leader)
(TCSEQ 200)
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break (at the TCSEQ Center)
11:00-12:30

Working Track 1 (CIS-X101)
Ontology and Ontology Maintenance

(Facilitators: Mark Tuttle, Apelon and Deborah McGuinness, KSL, Stanford University)

The Semantic Web As "Perfection Seeking": A View from Drug Terminology
Mark Tuttle, S. Brown, K. Campbell, J. Carter, K. Keck, M. Lincoln, S. Nelson, M. Stonebraker

Industrial Strength Ontology Management
Aseem Das, Wei Wu & Deborah McGuinness

OntoMap or How to Choose Upper-Model in One Day
Atanas Kirakov, Kiril Simov, Marin Dimitrov

Working Track 2
(Packard 101)
Interoperability, Integration, Composition
(Facilitator: Vipul Kashyap, Telcordia)

Towards Semantic Interoperability in Agent-based Coalition Command Systems
David Allsopp, Patrick Beautement, John Carson, and Michael Kirton

Object Interoperability for Geo spatial Applications
Isabel F. Cruz and Paul Calnan

Semantic Brokerage of Intellectual Property Rights
Roberto Garcia and Jaime Delgado

 

 

Working Track 3
(Bio T175)
(Web-)Services and Applications
(Facilitators: Jim Hendler, DARPA and Sheila McIlraith, KSL, Stanford University)

DAML-S: A Semantic Markup Language For Web Services
Anupriya Ankolenkar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David L. Martin, Sheila A. McIlraith, Srini Narayanan, Massimo Paolucci, Terry Payne, Katia Sycara, Honglei Zeng

Serching for services on the semantic web using process ontologies
Mark Klein, Abraham Bernstein

Approach to Service Description for Matchmaking and Negotiation of Services
David Trastour, Claudio Bartolini

Tutorial Track
(TCSEQ 200)
(Chair: Charles Petrie)


Ontology Engineering
(Natalya F. Noy, SMI, Stanford University)
(slides in PowerPoint format)

12:30-
02:00

Lunch (at the TCSEQ Center),
Demos 12:45 - 1:45 (at Gates 104),
Demos by Verticalnet, Spirit-Soft, Mondeca, Empolis, SC4, Lastmileservices, UMBC,
Stanford Medical Informatics, Griffith University, University of Bristol, University of Karlsruhe

02:00-
03:30

Working Track 1
(CIS-X101)
Ontology and Ontology Maintenance

The "Emergent" Semantic Web: An approach for derivation of semantic agreements on the Web
Clifford Behrens, Vipul Kashyap

Ontology versioning on the Semantic Web
Michel Klein & Dieter Fensel

Ontology Library Systems: The key for successful Ontology Reuse
Ying Ding & Dieter Fensel

Working Track 2 (Packard 101)
Interoperability, Integration, Composition

Adding Multimedia to the Semantic Web: Building an MPEG-7 ontology
Jane Hunter

Overcoming Ontology Mismatches in Transactions with Self-Describing Agents
Drew McDermott, Mark Burstein and Douglas Smith

Working Track 3
(Bio T175)
(Web-)Services and Applications

The Briefing Associate: A Role for COTS applications in the Semantic Web
Marcelo Tallis, Neil Goldman, Robert Balzer

ITTALKS: A Case Study in the Semantic Web and DAML
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Harry Chen, Lalana Kagal, Filip Perich, Youyong Zou, Sovrin Tolia

Open Learning Repositories and Metadata Modeling
Hadhami Dhraief, Wolfgang Nejdl, Boris Wolf, Martin Wolpers

Tutorial Track
(TCSEQ 200)


Semantic B2B Integration
(Christoph Bussler Oracle Corporation)

(please contact the author at chris.bussler@oracle.com for the slides)

03:30-
04:00
Coffee Break (at the TCSEQ Center)
04:00-
06:00

Working Track 1 (Room CIS-X101)
Ontology and Ontology Maintenance

UML and the Semantic Web
Stephen Cranefield

Metamodeling Architecture of Web Ontology Languages
Jeff Pan, Ian Horrocks

DAML+OIL is not Enough
Sean Bechhofer, Carole Goble, Ian Horrocks

Semantic Web Modeling and Programming with XDD
Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse, Kiyoshi Akama, Vichit Wattanapailin

Working Track 2 (Packard 101)
Interoperability, Integration, Composition

A Framework for Ontology Integration
Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo and Maurizio Lenzerini

A Scalable Framework for Interoperation of Information Sources
Prasenjit Mitra, Gio Wiederhold and Stefan Decker

On the Integration of Topic Maps data with RDF data
Martin S. Lacher and Stefan Decker

A formal infrastructure for Interoperability on the Semantic Web
Jerome Euzenat

Working Track 3
(Bio T175)
(Web-)Services and Applications

CREAM: Creating relational metadata with a component-based, ontology-driven annotation framework
Siegfried Handschuh, Steffen Staab, Alexander Maedche

OntoWebber: Model-Driven Ontology-Based Web Site Management
Yuhui Jin, Stefan Decker, Gio Wiederhold

Indexing a web site with a terminology oriented ontology
E. Desmontils, C. Jacquin

A semantic model for specifying data-intensive Web applications using WebML
Sara Comai, Piero Fraternali

Tutorial Track
TCSEQ 200
Demos

Verticalnet - Aseem Das

Spirit-Soft - Steve Ross-Talbot

Mondeca - Bernard Vatant

Empolis - Hans Holger Rath

LastMileServices - Raj Bapna

Stanford Medical Informatics - Mark Musen, Monica Crubezy, Natalya F. Noy

DSTC/Griffith University
Peter Eklund

07:00
Banquet at the Faculty Club
 

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08:00-
09:00
SWWS Registration and Breakfast (at the TCSEQ Center)
09:00-
10:00
Invited Talk: Michel Biezunski, Steven Newcomb on TopicMaps ( TCSEQ 200)
10:00-
10:30
Coffee Break (at the TCSEQ Center)
10:30-
12:00

Panel: Emerging Semantics ( TCSEQ 200)
Vipul Kashyap

Panelists:

Ora Lassila (NOKIA Research)
Jim Hendler (DARPA)
Dieter Fensel (Free University of Amsterdam)
Umeshwar Dayal (Hewlett-Packard)
Clifford A Behrens (Telcordia)

12:00-
01:30
Lunch (at the TCSEQ Center),
Demos 12:15 - 1:15 (Gates 104),
Demos by Verticalnet, Spirit-Soft, Mondeca, Empolis, SC4, Lastmileservices, UMBC,
Stanford Medical Informatics, Griffith University, University of Bristol, University of Karlsruhe


01:30-
03:30

Working Track 1
(Room CIS-X101)
Ontology and Ontology Maintenance

Utilizing Host-Formalisms to Formally Extend RDF-Semantics
Wolfram Conen, Reinhold Klapsing

RDF M&S revisited: From Reification to Nesting, from Containers to Lists, from Dialect to pure XML Wolfram Conen, Reinhold Klapsing, Eckhart Köppen

Development of a Simple Ontology Definition Language (SOntoDL) and Its Application to a Medical Information Service on the World Wide Web
Rolf Grütter and Claus Eikemeier (Note: author can not come to SWWS)

Track summary and discussion
Mark Tuttle, Deborah McGuinness and Stuart Nelson

Working Track 2
(Packard 101)
Interoperability, Integration, Composition

Describing Computation within RDF
Chris Goad

Design Rationale for RuleML: A Markup Language for Semantic Web Rules
Harold Boley, Said Tabet and Gerd Wagner

Enabling Semantic Web Programming by Integrating RDF and Common Lisp
Ora Lassila

Track Summary and Discussion
Vipul Kashyap

Working Track 3
(Braun Auditorium)
(Web-)Services and Applications

Invited Talk: Web Services, UDDI, and WSDL
James Snell Emerging Technologies, IBM
(slides in PowerPoint format)

Track Summary and Discussion
Jim Hendler and Sheila McIlraith

Tutorial Track
(TCSEQ 200)

Models and Languages for Describing and Discovering E-services
(Fabio Casati and Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett-Packard)
(slides in PDF format)
03:30-
04:00
Coffee Break (at the TCSEQ Center)
04:00-
06:00
Facilitators Report and Announcement of BOF Sessions (TCSEQ 200)
07:30

Joint Reception with ICCS at the Faculty Club

8:30pm Doug Engelbart will talk about the Semantic Web and the Bootstrap Institute (see here for a short introduction of the Bootstrap Institute (Word.doc))

 

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8:00-9:00
Breakfast (at the TCSEQ Center)
09:00-10:30
Birds of the Feather Sessions in
Gates 104 (40)
Packard 101 (100)
TCSEQ 200
CIS-101 (100)
Joint Session with ICCS/DL
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break (at the TCSEQ Center)
11:00-12:00
BOF Wrap Up, Follow-up actions and Farewell (TCSEQ 200)

 

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