The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: First European Semantic Web Symposium, ESWS 2004 Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 10-12, 2004. Proceedings

Naoki Sugiura, Yoshihiro Shigeta, Naoki Fukuta, Noriaki Izumi, Takahira Yamaguchi (auth.), Christoph J. Bussler, John Davies, Dieter Fensel, Rudi Studer (eds.)9783540219996, 3540219994

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First European Semantic Web Symposium, ESWS 2004, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in May 2004.

The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontology engineering, ontology matching and mapping, ontology-based querying, ontology merging and population, infrastructure, semantic web services, service discovery and composition, data from the semantic web, knowledge presentation, applications, content management, and information management and integration.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Towards On-the-Fly Ontology Construction – Focusing on Ontology Quality Improvement….Pages 1-15
OntoEdit Empowering SWAP: a Case Study in Supporting DIstributed, Loosely-Controlled and evolvInG Engineering of oNTologies (DILIGENT)….Pages 16-30
A Protégé Plug-In for Ontology Extraction from Text Based on Linguistic Analysis….Pages 31-44
Formal Support for Representing and Automating Semantic Interoperability….Pages 45-60
S-Match: an Algorithm and an Implementation of Semantic Matching….Pages 61-75
Ontology Mapping – An Integrated Approach….Pages 76-91
Application of Ontology Techniques to View-Based Semantic Search and Browsing….Pages 92-106
Active Ontologies for Data Source Queries….Pages 107-120
Knowledge Discovery in an Agents Environment….Pages 121-136
The HCONE Approach to Ontology Merging….Pages 137-151
Question Answering Towards Automatic Augmentations of Ontology Instances….Pages 152-166
The SCAM Framework: Helping Semantic Web Applications to Store and Access Metadata….Pages 167-181
Publish/Subscribe for RDF-based P2P Networks….Pages 182-197
Streaming OWL DL….Pages 198-212
Mathematics on the (Semantic) NET….Pages 213-224
Approaches to Semantic Web Services: an Overview and Comparisons….Pages 225-239
OWL-S Semantics of Security Web Services: a Case Study….Pages 240-253
Directory Services for Incremental Service Integration….Pages 254-268
A Framework for Automated Service Composition in Service-Oriented Architectures….Pages 269-283
Reusing Petri Nets Through the Semantic Web….Pages 284-298
Methods for Porting Resources to the Semantic Web….Pages 299-311
Learning to Harvest Information for the Semantic Web….Pages 312-326
Reverse Engineering of Relational Databases to Ontologies….Pages 327-341
No Registration Needed: How to Use Declarative Policies and Negotiation to Access Sensitive Resources on the Semantic Web….Pages 342-356
Semantic Annotation Support in the Absence of Consensus….Pages 357-371
Uncertainty in Knowledge Provenance….Pages 372-387
Collaborative Semantic Web Browsing with Magpie….Pages 388-401
Toward a Framework for Semantic Organizational Information Portal….Pages 402-416
CS AKTiveSpace: Building a Semantic Web Application….Pages 417-432
Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web….Pages 433-444
Neptuno: Semantic Web Technologies for a Digital Newspaper Archive….Pages 445-458
MIKSI – A Semantic and Service Oriented Integration Platform….Pages 459-472
Semantic Web Technologies for Economic and Financial Information Management….Pages 473-487
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