International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)

Annotated Abstracts and Schedule

Authors were requested to markup the title-pages and abstracts of their submissions for the Semantic Web. Thank you to the authors for all the input. These annotated abstracts are listed in the following table. If not marked otherwise the used ontology is iswc.daml.

Additionally, we have merged and cleaned the annotations. They can be downloaded here.
Paper # Paper Title Author(s)
144Viewing the Semantic Web Through RVL LensesAimilia Magkanaraki, Val Tannen, Vassilis Christophides, Dimitris Plexousakis1
Reducing OWL Entailment to Description Logic SatisfiabilityI. Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
C-OWL: Contextualizing ontologiesPaolo Bouquet, Fausto Giunchiglia, Frank van Harmelen, Luciano Serafini, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
RDFS(FA)* and RDF MT: Two Semantics for RDFSJeff Z. Pan, Ian Horrocks
Infrastructure for Web ExplanationsDeborah L. McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva
Semantic coordination: a new approach and an application Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, Stefano Zanobini
212Automating DAML-S Web Services Composition Using SHOP2, Instance Data OntologyDan Wu, Bijan Parsia, Evren Sirin, James Hendler and Dana Nau
Surfing the Service Web Sudhir Agarwal, Siegfried Handschuh, Steffen Staab
169Semantic Annotation, Indexing, and Retrieval Atanas Kiryakov, Borislav Popov, Damyan Ognyanoff, Dimitar Manov, Angel Kirilov, Miroslav Goranov
194Semantic Web Languages for Policy Representation and Reasoning: A Comparison of KAoS, Rei, and PonderGianluca Tonti, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Renia Jeffers, Rebecca Montanari, Niranjan Suri, Andrzej Uszok
22Merging Topics in Well-formed XML Topic MapsRichard Widhalm, Thomas A. Mueck
A Semantic e-Wallet to Reconcile Privacy and Context AwarenessFabien L. Gandon, Norman M. Sadeh
Semi-automatic semantic annotation of images using machine learning techniquesOge Marques, Nitish Barman
An Approach for the Ranking of Query Results in the Semantic WebNenad Stojanovic, Rudi Studer, Ljiljana Stojanovic
127Adapting BPEL4WS for the Semantic Web: The Bottom-Up Approach to Web Service InteroperationDaniel J. Mandell, Sheila A. McIlraith
Semantic Processing of the Semantic WebKunal Patel, Gopal Gupta
Semantic Reasoning for Web Services DiscoveryBoualem Benatallah, Mohand-Said Hacid, Christophe Rey, Farouk Toumani
47Magpie - towards a semantic web browserMartin Dzbor, John Domingue, Enrico Motta
Learning to Attach Semantic Metadata to Web ServicesAndreas Hess, Nick Kushmerick
A Q-Based Architecture For Semantic Information Interoperability On Semantic WebZhen-jie Wang, Huan-ye Sheng, and Peng Ding
Integrating Structure and Semantics into Audio-visual DocumentsRaphaël Troncy
56Semantic Markup for Semantic Web Tools: A DAML-S description of an RDF-StoreDebbie Richards, Marta Sabou
Benchmarking DAML+OIL Repositories Yuanbo Guo, Jeff Heflin, Zhengxiang Pan
SCULPTEUR: Towards a new paradigm for multimedia museum information handlingM. Addis, M. Boniface, S. Goodall, P. Grimwood, S. Kim, P. Lewis, K. Martinez, A. Stevenson
A Policy Based Approach to Security for the Semantic WebLalana Kagal, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
An Environment for Distributed Ontology Development Based on Dependency ManagementEiichi Sunagawa, Kouji Kozaki, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Riichiro Mizoguchi
Beyond ontology construction - Ontology Services as online knowledge sharing communitiesHamid Gharib, Nick Giles, Yang Li, Zhu Tan, Simon Thompson
214Mangrove: Enticing Ordinary People onto the Semantic Web via Instant GratificationLuke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Steven D. Gribble, Alon Halevy, William Pentney, Deepak Verma, Stani Vlasseva
Towards a Knowledge-based Approach to Semantic Service CompositionChen L., Shadbolt N.R., Goble C. , Tao F., Cox S.J., Puleston C., Smart P.R
Web Ontology Reasoning with Datatype GroupsJeff Z. Pan, Ian Horrocks
Ontology-based Resource MatchingStefan Decker, Carl Kesselman, Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit
287Web ontology language requirements w.r.t expressiveness of taxononomyChristine Golbreich, Olivier Dameron, Bernard Gibaud, Anita Burgun
DAMLJessKB: A Tool For Reasoning With The Semantic WebJoseph B. Kopena, William C. Regli
Haystack: A Platform for Authoring End User Semantic Web ApplicationsDennis Quan, David Huynh, David R. Karger
Interoperability on XML Data Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Fereidoon Sadri
The DAML-S Virtual MachineAnupriya Ankolekar, Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Katia Sycara
IRS-II: A Framework and Infrastructure for Semantic Web ServicesEnrico Motta, John Domingue, Liliana Cabral, Mauro Gaspari
Security for DAML Web Services: Annotation and MatchmakingGrit Denker, Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara
Querying Semantic Web Resources Using TRIPLE ViewsZoltán Miklós, Gustaf Neumann, Uwe Zdun, Michael Sintek
Automatic Annotation of Content-Rich HTML Documents: Structural and Semantic AnalysisSaikat Mukherjee, Guizhen Yang, I.V. Ramakrishnan
An Agent Framework for Inter-personal Information Sharing with an RDF-based RepositoryKoji Kamei, Sen Yoshida, Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Jun-ichi Akahani, Tetsuji Satoh
WebScripter: Grass-roots Ontology Alignment via End-User Report CreationBaoshi Yan, Martin Frank, Pedro Szekely, Robert Neches, Juan Lopez
Towards Ontology-driven Discourse: From Semantic Graphs to Multimedia Presentations Joost Geurts, Stefano Bocconi, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hardman
Trust Management for the Semantic WebMatthew Richardson, Rakesh Agrawal, Pedro Domingos
Prolog-based Infrastructure for RDF: Scalability and PerformanceJan Wielemaker, Guus Schreiber, Bob Wielinga
Representing the UMLS® Semantic Network using OWLVipul Kashyap, Alex Borgida
Cooking the Semantic Web with the OWL APISean Bechhofer, Raphael Volz, Phillip Lord
ScadaOnWeb - Web based supervisory control and data acquisitionThomas Dreyer, David Leal, Andrea Schröder, Michael Schwan
ODESeW. Automatic Generation of Knowledge Portals for Intranets and Extranets, Metadata AnnotationsO. Corcho, A. Gómez-Pérez, A. López-Cima, V. López-García, M.C. Suárez-Figueroa
Making Business Sense of the Semantic WebZavisa Bjelogrlic, Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Alberto Reggiori
168KIM – Semantic Annotation PlatformBorislav Popov, Atanas Kiryakov, Angel Kirilov, Dimitar Manov, Damyan Ognyanoff, Miroslav Goranov
184Ontology-Oriented Programming: Static Typing for the Inconsistent ProgrammerNeil M. Goldman
202Task Computing - the Semantic Web meets Pervasive ComputingRyusuke Masuoka, Bijan Parsia, Yannis Labrou
A Semantic InfosphereM. Uschold, P. Clark, F. Dickey, C. Fung, S. Smith, S. Uczekaj, M. Wilke, S. Bechhofer, I. Horrocks
Ontology-based Information Integration in the Automotive IndustryAndreas Maier, Hans-Peter Schnurr, York Sure
300Ontology-Based Query and Answering in Chemistry: OntoNova @ Project HaloJ. Angele, E. Moench, H. Oppermann, S. Staab, D. Wenke
Signing RDF GraphsJeremy Carroll
FrameNet meets the Semantic WebCollin Baker, Charles Fillmore, Srinivas Narayanan, Miriam Petruck

 

Tools

Applications and tools using the annotated papers are listed below. If you want to have your application listed here as well please send an email to Peter Haase.

Tools Author(s)
ISWC 2003 Portal Peter Haase
OntoMat-Annotizer Siegfried Handschuh
MINDSWAP Tool Suite UMCP MINDSWAP Project
Inference WEB Registrar Inference WEB Project

Ontologies

Ontologies used to annotate papers are listed below. If you want to have your ontology listed here as well please send an email to Peter Haase.

Ontology Author(s)
ISWC Ontology Siegfried Handschuh
ISWC Ontology in OWL UMCP MINDSWAP Project
Inference WEB Ontology Inference WEB Project

Annotation Process

If you have any further questions, feel free to contact Peter Haase.