The Semantic Web – ISWC 2004: Third International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 7-11, 2004. Proceedings

Wolfgang Nejdl (auth.), Sheila A. McIlraith, Dimitris Plexousakis, Frank van Harmelen (eds.)3540237984, 9783540237983, 9783540304753

The 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004) was held Nov- ber 7–11, 2004 in Hiroshima, Japan. If it is true what the proverb says: “Once by accident, twice by habit, three times by tradition,” then this third ISWC did indeed ?rmly establish a tradition. After the overwhelming interest in last year’s conference at Sanibel Island, Florida, this year’s conference showed that the Semantic Web is not just a one-day wonder, but has established itself ?rmly on the research agenda. At a time when special interest meetings with a Sem- tic Web theme are springing up at major conferences in numerous areas (ACL, VLDB, ECAI, AAAI, ECML, WWW, to name but a few), the ISWC series has established itself as the primary venue for Semantic Web research. Response to the call for papers for the conference continued to be strong. We solicited submissions to three tracks of the conference: the research track, the industrial track, and the poster track. The research track, the premier venue for basic research on the Semantic Web, received 205 submissions, of which 48 were accepted for publication. Each submission was evaluated by three p- gram committee members whose reviews were coordinated by members of the senior program committee. Final decisions were made by the program co-chairs in consultation with the conference chair and the senior program committee. The industrial track, soliciting papers describing industrial research on the – mantic Web, received 22 submissions, of which 7 were accepted for publication.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
How to Build Google2Google – An (Incomplete) Recipe –….Pages 1-5
Small Can Be Beautiful in the Semantic Web….Pages 6-16
A Method for Converting Thesauri to RDF/OWL….Pages 17-31
Contexts for the Semantic Web….Pages 32-46
Bipartite Graphs as Intermediate Model for RDF….Pages 47-61
A Model Theoretic Semantics for Ontology Versioning….Pages 62-76
Extending the RDFS Entailment Lemma….Pages 77-91
Using Semantic Web Technologies for Representing E-science Provenance….Pages 92-106
GridVine: Building Internet-Scale Semantic Overlay Networks….Pages 107-121
Bibster – A Semantics-Based Bibliographic Peer-to-Peer System….Pages 122-136
Top- k Query Evaluation for Schema-Based Peer-to-Peer Networks….Pages 137-151
Learning Meta-descriptions of the FOAF Network….Pages 152-165
From Tables to Frames….Pages 166-181
The Specification of Agent Behavior by Ordinary People: A Case Study….Pages 182-197
Visual Modeling of OWL DL Ontologies Using UML….Pages 198-213
What Would It Mean to Blog on the Semantic Web?….Pages 214-228
The Protégé OWL Plugin: An Open Development Environment for Semantic Web Applications….Pages 229-243
OntoTrack : Combining Browsing and Editing with Reasoning and Explaining for OWL Lite Ontologies….Pages 244-258
Tracking Changes During Ontology Evolution….Pages 259-273
An Evaluation of Knowledge Base Systems for Large OWL Datasets….Pages 274-288
Structure-Based Partitioning of Large Concept Hierarchies….Pages 289-303
Semantic Web Service Interaction Protocols: An Ontological Approach….Pages 304-319
ASSAM: A Tool for Semi-automatically Annotating Semantic Web Services….Pages 320-334
Information Gathering During Planning for Web Service Composition….Pages 335-349
Applying Semantic Web Services to Bioinformatics: Experiences Gained, Lessons Learnt….Pages 350-364
Automating Scientific Experiments on the Semantic Grid….Pages 365-379
Automated Composition of Semantic Web Services into Executable Processes….Pages 380-394
A Conceptual Architecture for Semantic Web Services….Pages 395-409
From Software APIs to Web Service Ontologies: A Semi-automatic Extraction Method….Pages 410-424
Applying KAoS Services to Ensure Policy Compliance for Semantic Web Services Workflow Composition and Enactment….Pages 425-440
Knowledge-Intensive Induction of Terminologies from Metadata….Pages 441-455
Inferring Data Transformation Rules to Integrate Semantic Web Services….Pages 456-470
Using Vampire to Reason with OWL….Pages 471-485
Generating On the Fly Queries for the Semantic Web: The ICS-FORTH Graphical RQL Interface (GRQL)….Pages 486-501
A Comparison of RDF Query Languages….Pages 502-517
Information Retrieval Support for Ontology Construction and Use….Pages 518-533
Rules-By-Example – A Novel Approach to Semantic Indexing and Querying of Images….Pages 534-548
Query Answering for OWL-DL with Rules….Pages 549-563
A Semantic Web Resource Protocol: XPointer and HTTP….Pages 564-575
On the Emergent Semantic Web and Overlooked Issues….Pages 576-590
Metadata-Driven Personal Knowledge Publishing….Pages 591-604
An Extensible Directory Enabling Efficient Semantic Web Service Integration….Pages 605-619
Working with Multiple Ontologies on the Semantic Web….Pages 620-634
Opening Up Magpie via Semantic Services….Pages 635-649
Towards a Symptom Ontology for Semantic Web Applications….Pages 650-667
Patching Syntax in OWL Ontologies….Pages 668-682
QOM – Quick Ontology Mapping….Pages 683-697
An API for Ontology Alignment….Pages 698-712
Specifying Ontology Views by Traversal….Pages 713-725
Automatic Generation of Ontology for Scholarly Semantic Web….Pages 726-740
Querying Real World Services Through the Semantic Web….Pages 741-751
Public Deployment of Semantic Service Matchmaker with UDDI Business Registry….Pages 752-766
SemanticOrganizer: A Customizable Semantic Repository for Distributed NASA Project Teams….Pages 767-781
SWS for Financial Overdrawn Alerting….Pages 782-796
OntoViews – A Tool for Creating Semantic Web Portals….Pages 797-811
Applying Semantic Web Technology to the Life Cycle Support of Complex Engineering Assets….Pages 812-822
ORIENT: Integrate Ontology Engineering into Industry Tooling Environment….Pages 823-837
Back Matter….Pages –