ISWC 2003 Schedule
20/10/2003
08:00-9:15
Breakfast and registration
09:15-13:15
13:15-14:00
[Pool deck] Lunch
14:00-18:00
19:00-21:00
[Pool deck] Reception
21/10/2003
8:00-9:15
Breakfast and registration
9:15-10:45
[Sanibel] Technical session: Multimedia
- Semi-automatic Semantic Annotation of Images Using Machine Learning Techniques
- Oge Marques, Nitish Barman
- Integrating Structure and Semantics into Audio-visual Documents
- Raphaël Troncy
- SCULPTEUR: Towards a new paradigm for multimedia museum information handling
- Matthew Addis, Mike Boniface, Simon Goodall, Paul Grimwood, Sanghee Kim, Paul Lewis, Kirk Martinez, Alison Stevenson
[Sundial] Technical session: Foundations
- Representing the UMLS? Semantic Network using OWL (Or "What's in a Semantic Web Link?")
- Vipul Kashyap, Alex Borgida
- Reducing OWL Entailment to Description Logic Satisfiability
- Ian Horrocks, Peter Patel-Schneider
- RDFS(FA) and RDF MT: Two Semantics for RDFS
- Jeff Pan, Ian Horrocks
[Captiva] Technical session: Industrial track
- ODESeW. Automatic Generation of Knowledge Portals for Intranets and Extranets
- Oscar Corcho, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Angel López-Cima, Mariá del Carmen Suárez-Figueroa
- Making Businness sense of the Semantic Web
- Alberto Reggiori, Zavisa Bjelogrlic, Dirk-Willem van Gulik
10:45-11:15
Coffee break
11:15-12:45
[Sanibel] Technical session: Multimedia/Information Retrieval
- Towards Ontology-driven Discourse
- Joost Geurts, Stefano Bocconi, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hardman
- Querying Semantic Web Resources Using TRIPLE Views
- Zoltan Miklos, Gustaf Neumann, Michael Sintek, Uwe Zdunet
- Automatic Annotation of Content-Rich HTML Documents: Structural and Semantic Analysis
- Saikat Mukherjee, I.V. Ramakrishnan, Guizhen Yanget
[Sundial] Technical session: Foundations
- Web Ontology Reasoning with Datatype Groups
- Jeff Pan, Ian Horrocks
- Merging Topics in Well-formed XML Topic Maps
- Richard Widhalm , Thomas Mueck
- Semantic Processing of the Semantic Web
- Kunal Patel, Gopal Gupta
[Captiva] Technical session: Industrial track
- KIM - Semantic Annotation Platform
- Borislav Popov, Atanas (Kiryakov), Angel Kirilov, Dimitar Manov, Damyan Ognyanoff, Miroslav Goranov
- Ontology-Oriented Programming: Static Typing for the Inconsistent Programmer
- Neil Goldman
- A Semantic Infosphere
- Michael Uschold, Peter Clark, Fred Dickey, Casey Fung, Sonia Smith, Stephen Uczekaj, Michael Wilke, Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks
12:45-14:15
[Pool deck] Lunch
14:15-14:30
Announcements
14:30-15:30
[Sundial] Invited talk: On Beyond Ontology: Returning to AI from the Semantic Web
Jim Hendler (Universty of Maryland)15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-18:00
[Sanibel] Technical session: Information retrieval/Ontological Reasoning
- Semantic Annotation, Indexing, and Retrieval
- Atanas Kiryakov, Borislav Popov, Damyan Ognyanoff, Dimitar Manov, Angel Kirilov, Miroslav Goranovet
- An Approach for the Ranking of Query Results in the Semantic Web
- Nenad Stojanovic, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Rudi Studer
- Semantic coordination: a new approach and an application
- Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, Stefano Zanobini
[Sundial] Technical session: Foundations
- Viewing the Semantic Web Through RVL Lenses
- Aimilia Magkanaraki, Val Tannen, Vassilis Christophides, Dimitris Plexousakis
[Captiva] Technical session: Industrial track
- Task Computing - The Semantic Web Meets Pervasive Computing
- Ryusuke Masuoka, Bijan Parsia, Yannis Labrou
- Ontology-based Information Integration in the Automotive Industry
- Andreas Maier, Hans-Peter Schnurr, York Sure
- Ontology-Based Query and Answering in Chemistry: OntoNova@Project Halo
- Juergen Angele, Eddie Moench, Henrik Oppermann, Steffen Staab, D. Wenke
18:30-21:30
[Sundial] Poster session: Posters and demos
22/10/2003
8:00-9:15
Breakfast
9:15-10:45
[Sanibel/Captiva] Technical session: Ontological Reasoning/Semantic Web Services
- C-OWL: Contextualizing Ontologies
- Paolo Bouquet, Fausto Giunchiglia, Frank van Harmelen, Luciano Serafini, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
- Web ontology language requirements w.r.t expressiveness of taxononomy and axioms in medecine
- Christine Golbreich, Olivier Dameron, Bernard Gibaud, Anita Burgun
- Automating DAML-S Web Services Composition Using SHOP2
- Dan Wu, Bijan Parsia, Evren Sirin, James Hendler, Dana Nau
[Sundial] Technical session: Agents and the Semantic Web
- An Environment for Distributed Ontology Development Based on Dependency Management
- Eiichi Sunagawa, Kouji Kozaki, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Riichiro Mizoguchi
- Beyond Ontology Construction - Ontology Services as Online Knowledge Sharing Communities
- Yang Li, Simon Thompson, Zhu Tan, Nick Giles, Hamid Gharib
- Semantic Web Languages for Policy Representation and Reasoning: A Comparison of KaoS, Rei, and Ponder
- Gianluca Tonti, Jeffrey Bradshaw, Renia Jeffers, Rebecca Montanari, Niranjan Suri , Andrzej Uszok
10:45-11:15
Coffee break
11:15-12:45
[Sanibel/Captiva] Technical session: Semantic web services
- Surfing the Service Web
- Sudhir Agarwal, Siegfried Handschuh, Steffen Staab
- Adapting BPEL4WS for the Semantic Web: The Bottom-Up Approach to Web Service Interoperation
- Daniel Mandell, Sheila McIlraith
- Request Rewriting-based Web Service Discovery
- Boualem Benatallah, Mohand-Said Hacid, Christophe Rey, Farouk Toumani
[Sundial] Technical session: Agents and the Semantic Web/Foundations/Applications
- An Agent Framework for Inter-personal Information Sharing with an RDF-based Repository
- Koji Kamei, Sen Yoshida, Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Jun-ichi Akahani, Tetsuji Satoh
- Infrastructure for Web Explanations
- Deborah McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva
- FrameNet meets the Semantic Web
- Srini Narayanan, Collin Baker, Charles Fillmore, Miriam Petruck
12:45-14:15
[Pool deck] Lunch
14:15-14:30
Announcements
14:30-15:30
[Sundial] Invited talk:
Michael Brodie (Verizon)15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-18:00
[Sanibel/Captiva] Technical session: Semantic web services
- Learning to Attach Semantic Metadata to Web Services
- Andreas Hess, Nicholas Kushmerick
- The DAML-S Virtual Machine
- Massimo Paolucci, Anupriya Ankolekar, Naveen Srinivasan, Katia Sycara
- Semantic Markup for Semantic Web Tools: A DAML-S Description of an RDF-Store
- Debbie Richards, Marta Sabou
- RS-II: A Framework and Infrastructure for Semantic Web Services
- Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Liliana Cabral, Mauro Gaspari
[Sundial] Technical session: Applications
- WebScripter: Grass-roots Ontology Alignment via End-User Report Authoring
- Baoshi Yan, Martin Frank, Pedro Szekely, Robert Neches, Juan Lopez
- Magpie - towards a semantic web browser
- Martin Dzbor, John Domingue, Enrico Motta
- Ontology-based Resource Matching
- Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, Stefan Decker, Carl Kesselman
- A Q-Based Architecture For Semantic Information Interoperability On Semantic Web
- Zhen-Jie Wang, Huan-ye Sheng, Peng Ding
19:30-22:00
[Pool deck] Dinner
23/10/2003
8:00-9:15
Breakfast
9:15-10:45
[Sanibel/Captiva] Technical session: Semantic web services/Security, Trust and Privacy
- Towards a Knowledge-based Approach to Semantic Service Composition
- Liming Chen, Nigel Shadbolt, Carole Goble, Feng Tao, Simon Cox, Colin Puleston, P.R. Smart
- Security for DAML Web Services: Annotation and Matchmaking
- Grit Denker, Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara
- Trust Management for the Semantic Web
- Matthew Richardson, Rakesh Agrawal, Pedro Domingos
[Sundial] Technical session: Applications/Tools and Metodologies
- Haystack: A Platform for Authoring End User Semantic Web Applications
- Dennis Quan, David Huynh, David Karger
- Mangrove: Enticing Ordinary People onto the Semantic Web via InstantGratification
- Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Steven Gribble, Alon Halevy, Henry Levy, William Pentney, Deepak Verma, Stani Vlasseva
- Cooking the Semantic Web with the OWL API
- Sean Bechhofer, Raphael Volz, Phillip Lord
10:45-11:15
Coffee break
11:15-12:45
[Sanibel/Captiva] Technical session: Security, Trust and Privacy
- Signing RDF Graphs
- Jeremy Carroll
- A Semantic e-Wallet to Reconcile Privacy and Context Awareness
- Fabien Gandon, Norman Sadeh
- A Policy Based Approach to Security for the Semantic Web
- Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
[Sundial] Technical session: Tools and Metodologies
- Benchmarking DAML+OIL Repositories
- Yuanbo Guo, Jeff Heflin, Zhengxiang Pan
- DAMLJessKB: A Tool for Reasoning with the Semantic Web
- Joseph Kopena, William Regli
- Prolog-based Infrastructure for RDF: Scalability and Performance
- Jan Wielemaker, Guus Schreiber, Bob Wielinga
12:45-14:15
[Pool deck] Lunch
14:15-14:30
Announcements
14:30-15:30
[Sundial] Invited talk: Semantic Web: Where to direct our energy?
Tim Berners-Lee (W3C)15:30-16:00
Coffee break