Call for Participation: Fifth European Semantic Web Conference

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> Call for Particiation
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> 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008) 1-5 June 2008
> Tenerife, Spain
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> http://www.eswc2008.org/
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> Conference program: http://www.eswc2008.org/main_program.html
> Registration: http://www.eswc2008.org/formulario-registro.jsf
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> Early registration ends April 21, 23:59 CET.
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> ESWC 2008 statistics:
> 51 research papers, 3 keynotes, 2 panels, 26 demos, PhD symposium,
> 12 workshops, 7 tutorials
> ESWC 2008 is the latest in a series of annual, international events
> focusing on
> dissemination and discussion of the latest research and applications of
> Semantic Web technologies. The call for papers saw over 270 submissions
> and the
> program committee selected 51 papers to be presented at the conference
> (see
> below, also available at http://www.eswc2008.org/papers.html).
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> ESWC 2008 keynotes:
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> Garlik: Semantic Technology for the Consumer
> Nigel Shadbolt (Garlik Ltd. and University of Southampton)
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> From Capturing Semantics to Semantic Search: A Virtuous Cycle
> Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona)
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> Foundations of RDF Databases
> Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile)
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> ESWC 2008 will feature 2 high-profile panels:
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> Panel 1: Does the Semantic Web Need Web Science?
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> * Moderator: Wendy Hall (Univeristy of Southampton, UK)
> * Panelists:
> o Stefan Decker, DERI, Galway
> o Frank van Harmelen, Free University Amsterdam
> o Kieron O'Hara, University of Southampton, UK
> o Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK
> o Guus Schreiber, Free University Amsterdam
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> Panel 2: Social Network Portability: Is the Semantic Web Ready?
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> * Moderator: Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh, UK)
> * Panelists:
> o Dan Brickley, ASemantics
> o Danny Ayers, Talis
> o Stefan Decker, DERI, National University of Ireland
> o Kingsley Idehen, OpenLink
> o Peter Mika, Yahoo! Inc
> o Alexandre Passant, LaLIC, University Paris-Sorbonne
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> In addition to the technical research paper track, a system demo track
> is included, with its own review process. Twenty-six demo papers were
> selected for presentation during the conference.
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> The following 12 workshops are co-located with ESWC 2008:
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> * ESWC-08 Workshop on Advancing Reasoning on the Web: Scalability and
> Commonsense
> * International Workshop on Ontologies: Reasoning and Modularity
> (WORM-08)
> * 1st international workshop on Identity and Reference on the Semantic
> Web
> (IRSW2008)
> * 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Reuse and Reengineering over
> the
> Semantic Web
> * ESWC-08 Workshop on Semantic Search
> * 1st International Workshop on Semantic Metadata Management and
> Applications
> * 6th International Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based tools and
> the
> Semantic Web Service Challenge (EON & SWS-Challenge 2008)
> * 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop
> * 4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web
> * 1st International Workshop on Collective Semantics: Collective
> Intelligence &
> the Semantic Web (CISWeb 2008)
> * 3rd international Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management
> * First Workshop on Semantic Interoperability in the European Digital
> Library
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> ESWC 2008 tutorials:
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> * Pattern-based Ontology Design
> * What Semantic Web researchers need to know about Machine Learning
> * Linking Social Networks, Microformats, and the Semantic Web using GRDDL
> * Ontology Engineering and Plug-in Development with the NeOn Toolkit
> * Transitioning Legacy Applications to Ontologies: A Hands-on Tutorial
> * Semantic Wikis
> * Semantic Web Rule Languages and Rule Interchange on the Web
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> Accepted papers:
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> (see also http://www.eswc2008.org/papers.html)
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> * Andre Bolles, Marco Grawunder and Jonas Jacobi. Streaming SPARQL -
> Extending
> SPARQL to process data streams
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> * Glen Hart, Martina Johnson and Catherine Dolbear. Rabbit: Developing a
> Control Natural Language for Authoring Ontologies
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> * Yolanda Blanco-Fernandez, José J. Pazos-Arias, Alberto Gil-Solla,
> Manuel
> Ramos-Cabrer and Martin Lopez-Nores. Semantic Reasoning: A Path To New
> Possibilities of Personalization
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> * Edoardo Pignotti, Peter Edwards, Alun Preece, Nick Gotts and Gary
> Polhill. Enhancing Workflow with a Semantic Description of Scientist's
> Intent
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> * Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn. Module Extraction and Incremental
> Classification:
> A Pragmatic Approach for EL+ Ontologies
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> * Christoph Kiefer, Abraham Bernstein and André Locher. Adding Data
> Mining
> Support to SPARQL via Statistical Relational Learning Methods
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> * Caecilia Zirn, Vivi Nastase and Michael Strube. Distinguishing between
> Instances and Classes in the Wikipedia Taxonomy
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>
> * Jun Zhao, Graham Klyne and David Shotton. Building a Semantic Web Image
> Repository for Biological Research Images
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> * Idoia Berges, Jesus Bermudez, Alfredo Gońi and Arantza Illarramendi.
> Semantic
> Web technology for Agent Communication Protocols
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> * Yannis Tzitzikas, Yannis Theoharis and Dimitris Andreou. On Storage
> Policies
> for Semantic Web Repositories that Support Versioning
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>
> * Eero Hyvönen, Kim Viljanen, Jouni Tuominen and Katri Seppälä. Building
> a
> National Semantic Web Ontology and Ontology Service Infrastructure- The
> FinnONTO Approach
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>
> * Zhe Wang, Kewen Wang, Rodney Topor and Jeff Z. Pan. Restricting and
> forgetting in DL-Lite
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> * Haofen Wang, Kang Zhang, Qiaoling Liu, Duc Thanh Tran and Yong
> Yu. Q2Semantic: A Lightweight Keyword Interface to Semantic Search
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> * Kay-Uwe Schmidt, Jörg Dörflinger, Tirdad Rahmani, Mehdi Sahbi, Susan
> Thomas
> and Ljiljana Stojanovic. An User Interface Adaptation Architecture for
> Rich
> Internet Applications
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>
> * Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, Davide Lorusso, Tobias Henrik Näth and
> Ralf
> Moeller. Mapping Validation by Probabilistic Reasoning
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> * Tomi Kauppinen, Jari Väätäinen and Eero Hyvönen. Creating and Using
> Geospatial Ontology Time Series in a Semantic Cultural Heritage Portal
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> * Vassilis Spiliopoulos, Alexandros Valarakos and George Vouros. CSR:
> Discovering Subsumption Relations for the Alignment of Ontologies
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>
> * Ravish Bhagdev, Sam Chapman, Fabio Ciravegna, Vitaveska Lanfranchi and
> Daniela Petrelli. Hybrid Search: Effectively Combining Keywords and
> Ontology-based Searches
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>
> * Naiwen Lin, Ugur Kuter and Evren Sirin. Web Service Composition with
> User
> Preferences
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>
> * Waseem Akhtar, Jacek Kopecky, Thomas Krennwallner and Axel Polleres.
> XSPARQL:
> Traveling between the XML and RDF worlds and avoiding the
> XSLT Pilgrimage
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>
> * Reinhard Pichler, Axel Polleres, Fang Wei and Stefan Woltran. dRDF:
> Entailment for Domain-restricted RDF
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>
> * Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Toshiyuki Takasaki and Satoshi Oyama.
> Assisting
> Pictogram Selection with Semantic Interpretation
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>
> * Christoph Kiefer and Abraham Bernstein. The Creation and Evaluation of
> iSPARQL Strategies for Matchmaking
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>
> * Matthias Bräuer and Henrik Lochmann. An Ontology for Software Models
> and its
> Practical Implications for Semantic Web Reasoning
>
>
> * Katharina Siorpaes and Martin Hepp. OntoGame: Weaving the Semantic Web
> by
> Online Games
>
>
> * Aurona Gerber, Alta Van der Merwe and Andries Barnard. A Functioal
> Semantic
> Architecture
>
>
> * VinhTuan Thai, Siegfried Handschuh and Stefan Decker. IVEA: An
> Information
> Visualization Tool for Personalized Exploratory Document Collection
> Analysis
>
>
> * Bastian Quilitz and Ulf Leser. Querying Distributed RDF Data Sources
> with
> SPARQL
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>
> * Stefan Dietze, Alessio Gugliotta and John Domingue. Conceptual
> Situation
> Spaces for Semantic Situation-Driven Processes
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>
>* Antoine Isaac, Henk Matthezing, Lourens van der Meij, Stefan Schlobach,
> Shenghui Wang and Claus Zinn. Putting ontology alignment in context:
> usage
> scenarios, deployment and evaluation in a library case
>
>
> * Valentin Tablan, Danica Damljanovic and Kalina Bontcheva. A Natural
> Language
> Query Interface to Structured Information
>
>
> * Kinga Schumacher, Michael Sintek and Leo Sauermann. Combining Fact and
> Document Retreival with Spreading Activation for Semantic Desktop
> Search
>
>
> * Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Knud Möller and Stefan Decker.
> KonneX-SALT:
> First Steps towards a Semantic Claim Federation Infrastructure
>
>
> * Dumitru Roman, Michael Kifer and Dieter Fensel. WSMO Choreography: From
> Abstract State Machines to Concurrent Transaction Logic
>
>
> * Andreas Langegger, Wolfram Wöß and Martin Blöchl. A Semantic Web
> middleware
> for Virtual Data Integration on the Web
>
>
> * Paolo Bouquet, Heiko Stoermer and Barbara Bazzanella. An Entity Naming
> System
> (ENS) for the Semantic Web
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>
> * Gunnar Grimnes, Peter Edwards and Alun Preece. Istance Based clustering
> of
> Semantic Web Resources
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>
> * Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi and Floriana Esposito. Query Answering
> and
> Ontology Population: an Inductive Approach
>
>
> * Anthony Ventresque, Sylvie Cazalens, Philippe Lamarre and Patrick
> Valduriez. Improving interoperability using query interpretation in
> semantic
> vector spaces
>
>
> * Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ulrike Sattler, Thomas
> Schneider
> and Rafael Berlanga-Llavori. Safe and Economic re-use of ontologies: a
> logic-based methodology and tool support
>
>
> * Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato and Floriana Esposito. Conceptual
> Clustering
> and its Application to Concept Drift and Novelty Detection
>
>
> * Tomas Vitvar, Jacek Kopecky, Jana Viskova and Dieter Fensel. WSMO-Lite
> Annotations for Web Services
>
>
> * Mauricio Espinoza, Asunción Gómez-Pérez and Eduardo Mena. Enriching an
> Ontology with Multilingual Information* Riccardo Rosati. Finite model
> reasoning in DL-Lite
>
>
> * Carlos Pedrinaci, John Domingue and Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros. A Core
> Ontology for Business Process Analysis
>
>
> * Sebastian Dietzold, Jörg Unbehauen and Sören Auer. xOperator -
> Interconnecting the Semantic Web and Instant Messaging Networks
>
>
> * Simon Scerri, Siegfried Handschuh and Stefan Decker. Semantic Email as
> a
> communication medium for the Social Semantic Desktop
>
>
> * Angela Maduko, Kemafor Anyanwu, Amit Sheth and Paul Schliekelman. Graph
> Summaries for Subgraph Frequency Estimation
>
>
> * Laura Hollink, Mark van Assem, Antoine Isaac, Shenghui Wang and Guus
> Schreiber. Two Variations on Ontology Alignment Evaluation:
> Methodological
> Issues
>
>
> * Richard Cyganiak, Renaud Delbru, Holger Stenzhorn, Giovanni Tummarello
> and
> Stefan Decker. Semantic Sitemaps: Efficient and Flexible Access to
> Datasets
> on the Semantic Web
>
>
> * Dimitrios Kourtesis and Iraklis Paraskakis. Combining SAWSDL, OWL- DL
> and UDDI
> for Semantically Enhanced Web Service Discovery
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Received on Tue Apr 15 07:54:46 2008