ISWC 2006 - (LNCS 4273

Isabel Cruz, Stefan Decker, Dean Allemang, Chris Preist, Daniel Schwabe, Peter Mika, Mike Uschold, and Lora Aroyo (Eds.):

The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006

5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006
Athens, GA, USA, November 5-9, 2006. Proceedings

LNCS 4273

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1 Research Track

Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank
Harith Alani, Christopher Brewster, and Nigel Shadbolt
LNCS 4273, p. 1 ff.
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Three Semantics for Distributed Systems and Their Relations with Alignment Composition
Antoine Zimmermann and Jérôme Euzenat
LNCS 4273, p. 16 ff.
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Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL
Jorge Pérez, Marcelo Arenas, and Claudio Gutierrez
LNCS 4273, p. 30 ff.
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Ontology-Driven Automatic Entity Disambiguation in Unstructured Text
Joseph Hassell, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, and I. Budak Arpinar
LNCS 4273, p. 44 ff.
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Augmenting Navigation for Collaborative Tagging with Emergent Semantics
Melanie Aurnhammer, Peter Hanappe, and Luc Steels
LNCS 4273, p. 58 ff.
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On the Semantics of Linking and Importing in Modular Ontologies
Jie Bao, Doina Caragea, and Vasant G. Honavar
LNCS 4273, p. 72 ff.
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RS2D: Fast Adaptive Search for Semantic Web Services in Unstructured P2P Networks
Ulrich Basters and Matthias Klusch
LNCS 4273, p. 87 ff.
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SADIe: Semantic Annotation for Accessibility
Sean Bechhofer, Simon Harper, and Darren Lunn
LNCS 4273, p. 101 ff.
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Automatic Annotation of Web Services Based on Workflow Definitions
Khalid Belhajjame, Suzanne M. Embury, Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, and Carole A. Goble
LNCS 4273, p. 116 ff.
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A Constraint-Based Approach to Horizontal Web Service Composition
Ahlem Ben Hassine, Shigeo Matsubara, and Toru Ishida
LNCS 4273, p. 130 ff.
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GINO - A Guided Input Natural Language Ontology Editor
Abraham Bernstein and Esther Kaufmann
LNCS 4273, p. 144 ff.
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Fresnel: A Browser-Independent Presentation Vocabulary for RDF
Emmanuel Pietriga, Christian Bizer, David Karger, and Ryan Lee
LNCS 4273, p. 158 ff.
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A Software Engineering Approach to Design and Development of Semantic Web Service Applications
Marco Brambilla, Irene Celino, Stefano Ceri, Dario Cerizza, Emanuele Della Valle, and Federico Michele Facca
LNCS 4273, p. 172 ff.
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A Model Driven Approach for Building OWL DL and OWL Full Ontologies
Saartje Brockmans, Robert M. Colomb, Peter Haase, Elisa F. Kendall, Evan K. Wallace, Chris Welty, and Guo Tong Xie
LNCS 4273, p. 187 ff.
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IRS-III: A Broker for Semantic Web Services Based Applications
Liliana Cabral, John Domingue, Stefania Galizia, Alessio Gugliotta, Vlad Tanasescu, Carlos Pedrinaci, and Barry Norton
LNCS 4273, p. 201 ff.
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Provenance Explorer – Customized Provenance Views Using Semantic Inferencing
Kwok Cheung and Jane Hunter
LNCS 4273, p. 215 ff.
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On How to Perform a Gold Standard Based Evaluation of Ontology Learning
Klaas Dellschaft and Steffen Staab
LNCS 4273, p. 228 ff.
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Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web
Li Ding and Tim Finin
LNCS 4273, p. 242 ff.
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MultiCrawler: A Pipelined Architecture for Crawling and Indexing Semantic Web Data
Andreas Harth, Jürgen Umbrich, and Stefan Decker
LNCS 4273, p. 258 ff.
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/facet: A Browser for Heterogeneous Semantic Web Repositories
Michiel Hildebrand, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Lynda Hardman
LNCS 4273, p. 272 ff.
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Using Ontologies for Extracting Product Features from Web Pages
Wolfgang Holzinger, Bernhard Krüpl, and Marcus Herzog
LNCS 4273, p. 286 ff.
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Block Matching for Ontologies
Wei Hu and Yuzhong Qu
LNCS 4273, p. 300 ff.
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A Relaxed Approach to RDF Querying
Carlos A. Hurtado, Alexandra Poulovassilis, and Peter T. Wood
LNCS 4273, p. 314 ff.
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Mining Information for Instance Unification
Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, and Hamish Cunningham
LNCS 4273, p. 329 ff.
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The Summary Abox: Cutting Ontologies Down to Size
Achille Fokoue, Aaron Kershenbaum, Li Ma, Edith Schonberg, and Kavitha Srinivas
LNCS 4273, p. 343 ff.
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Semantic Metadata Generation for Large Scientific Workflows
Jihie Kim, Yolanda Gil, and Varun Ratnakar
LNCS 4273, p. 357 ff.
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Reaching Agreement over Ontology Alignments
Loredana Laera, Valentina Tamma, Jérôme Euzenat, Trevor Bench-Capon, and Terry Payne
LNCS 4273, p. 371 ff.
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A Formal Model for Semantic Web Service Composition
Freddy Lécué and Alain Léger
LNCS 4273, p. 385 ff.
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Evaluating Conjunctive Triple Pattern Queries over Large Structured Overlay Networks
Erietta Liarou, Stratos Idreos, and Manolis Koubarakis
LNCS 4273, p. 399 ff.
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PowerMap: Mapping the Real Semantic Web on the Fly
Vanessa Lopez, Marta Sabou, and Enrico Motta
LNCS 4273, p. 414 ff.
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Ontology-Driven Information Extraction with OntoSyphon
Luke K. McDowell and Michael Cafarella
LNCS 4273, p. 428 ff.
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Ontology Query Answering on Databases
Jing Mei, Li Ma, and Yue Pan
LNCS 4273, p. 445 ff.
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Formal Model for Ontology Mapping Creation
Adrian Mocan, Emilia Cimpian, and Mick Kerrigan
LNCS 4273, p. 459 ff.
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A Semantic Context-Aware Access Control Framework for Secure Collaborations in Pervasive Computing Environments
Alessandra Toninelli, Rebecca Montanari, Lalana Kagal, and Ora Lassila
LNCS 4273, p. 473 ff.
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Extracting Relations in Social Networks from the Web Using Similarity Between Collective Contexts
Junichiro Mori, Takumi Tsujishita, Yutaka Matsuo, and Mitsuru Ishizuka
LNCS 4273, p. 487 ff.
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Can OWL and Logic Programming Live Together Happily Ever After?
Boris Motik, Ian Horrocks, Riccardo Rosati, and Ulrike Sattler
LNCS 4273, p. 501 ff.
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Innovation Detection Based on User-Interest Ontology of Blog Community
Makoto Nakatsuji, Yu Miyoshi, and Yoshihiro Otsuka
LNCS 4273, p. 515 ff.
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Modeling Social Attitudes on the Web
Matthias Nickles
LNCS 4273, p. 529 ff.
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A Framework for Ontology Evolution in Collaborative Environments
Natalya F. Noy, Abhita Chugh, William Liu, and Mark A. Musen
LNCS 4273, p. 544 ff.
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Extending Faceted Navigation for RDF Data
Eyal Oren, Renaud Delbru, and Stefan Decker
LNCS 4273, p. 559 ff.
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Reducing the Inferred Type Statements with Individual Grouping Constructs
Övünç Öztürk, Tuba Özacar, and Murat Osman Ünalr
LNCS 4273, p. 573 ff.
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A Framework for Schema-Driven Relationship Discovery from Unstructured Text
Cartic Ramakrishnan, Krys J. Kochut, and Amit P. Sheth
LNCS 4273, p. 583 ff.
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Web Service Composition Via Generic Procedures and Customizing User Preferences
Shirin Sohrabi, Nataliya Prokoshyna, and Sheila A. McIlraith
LNCS 4273, p. 597 ff.
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Querying the Semantic Web with Preferences
Wolf Siberski, Jeff Z. Pan, and Uwe Thaden
LNCS 4273, p. 612 ff.
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ONTOCOM: A Cost Estimation Model for Ontology Engineering
Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Christoph Tempich, and York Sure
LNCS 4273, p. 625 ff.
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Tree-Structured Conditional Random Fields for Semantic Annotation
Jie Tang, Mingcai Hong, Juanzi Li, and Bangyong Liang
LNCS 4273, p. 640 ff.
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Framework for an Automated Comparison of Description Logic Reasoners
Tom Gardiner, Dmitry Tsarkov, and Ian Horrocks
LNCS 4273, p. 654 ff.
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Integrating and Querying Parallel Leaf Shape Descriptions
Shenghui Wang and Jeff Z. Pan
LNCS 4273, p. 668 ff.
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A Survey of the Web Ontology Landscape
Taowei David Wang, Bijan Parsia, and James Hendler
LNCS 4273, p. 682 ff.
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CropCircles: Topology Sensitive Visualization of OWL Class Hierarchies
Taowei David Wang and Bijan Parsia
LNCS 4273, p. 695 ff.
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Towards Knowledge Acquisition from Information Extraction
Chris Welty and J. William Murdock
LNCS 4273, p. 709 ff.
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A Method for Learning Part-Whole Relations
Willem Robert van Hage, Hap Kolb, and Guus Schreiber
LNCS 4273, p. 723 ff.
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2 Semantic Web in Use

OntoWiki – A Tool for Social, Semantic Collaboration
Sören Auer, Sebastian Dietzold, and Thomas Riechert
LNCS 4273, p. 736 ff.
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Towards a Semantic Web of Relational Databases: A Practical Semantic Toolkit and an In-Use Case from Traditional Chinese Medicine
Huajun Chen, Yimin Wang, Heng Wang, Yuxin Mao, Jinmin Tang, Cunyin Zhou, Ainin Yin, and Zhaohui Wu
LNCS 4273, p. 750 ff.
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Information Integration Via an End-to-End Distributed Semantic Web System
Dimitre A. Dimitrov, Jeff Heflin, Abir Qasem, and Nanbor Wang
LNCS 4273, p. 764 ff.
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NEWS: Bringing Semantic Web Technologies into News Agencies
Norberto Fernández, José M. Blázquez, Jesús A. Fisteus, Luis Sánchez, Michael Sintek, Ansgar Bernardi, Manuel Fuentes, Angelo Marrara, and Zohar Ben-Asher
LNCS 4273, p. 778 ff.
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Semantically-Enabled Large-Scale Science Data Repositories
Peter Fox, Deborah McGuinness, Don Middleton, Luca Cinquini, J. Anthony Darnell, Jose Garcia, Patrick West, James Benedict, and Stan Solomon
LNCS 4273, p. 792 ff.
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Construction and Use of Role-Ontology for Task-Based Service Navigation System
Yusuke Fukazawa, Takefumi Naganuma, Kunihiro Fujii, and Shoji Kurakake
LNCS 4273, p. 806 ff.
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Enabling an Online Community for Sharing Oral Medicine Cases Using Semantic Web Technologies
Marie Gustafsson, Göran Falkman, Fredrik Lindahl, and Olof Torgersson
LNCS 4273, p. 820 ff.
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EKOSS: A Knowledge-User Centered Approach to Knowledge Sharing, Discovery, and Integration on the Semantic Web
Steven Kraines, Weisen Guo, Brian Kemper, and Yutaka Nakamura
LNCS 4273, p. 833 ff.
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Ontogator — A Semantic View-Based Search Engine Service for Web Applications
Eetu Mäkelä, Eero Hyvönen, and Samppa Saarela
LNCS 4273, p. 847 ff.
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Explaining Conclusions from Diverse Knowledge Sources
J. William Murdock, Deborah L. McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Chris Welty, and David Ferrucci
LNCS 4273, p. 861 ff.
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A Mixed Initiative Semantic Web Framework for Process Composition
Jinghai Rao, Dimitar Dimitrov, Paul Hofmann, and Norman Sadeh
LNCS 4273, p. 873 ff.
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Semantic Desktop 2.0: The Gnowsis Experience
Leo Sauermann, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, Malte Kiesel, Christiaan Fluit, Heiko Maus, Dominik Heim, Danish Nadeem, Benjamin Horak, and Andreas Dengel
LNCS 4273, p. 887 ff.
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Towards Semantic Interoperability in a Clinical Trials Management System
Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O’Connor, David B. Parrish, and Amar K. Das
LNCS 4273, p. 901 ff.
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Active Semantic Electronic Medical Record
A. Sheth, S. Agrawal, J. Lathem, N. Oldham, H. Wingate, P. Yadav, and K. Gallagher
LNCS 4273, p. 913 ff.
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3 Semantic Web Challenge

Foafing the Music: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Music Recommendation
Òscar Celma
LNCS 4273, p. 927 ff.
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Semantic MediaWiki
Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandei, and Max Völkel
LNCS 4273, p. 935 ff.
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Enabling Semantic Web Communities with DBin: An Overview
Giovanni Tummarello, Christian Morbidoni, and Michele Nucci
LNCS 4273, p. 943 ff.
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MultimediaN E-Culture Demonstrator
Guus Schreiber, Alia Amin, Mark van Assem, Victor de Boer, Lynda Hardman, Michiel Hildebrand, Laura Hollink, Zhisheng Huang, Janneke van Kersen, Marco de Niet, Borys Omelayenko, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Ronny Siebes, Jos Taekema, Jan Wielemaker, and Bob Wielinga
LNCS 4273, p. 951 ff.
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A Semantic Web Services GIS Based Emergency Management Application
Vlad Tanasescu, Alessio Gugliotta, John Domingue, Rob Davies, Leticia Gutiérrez-Villarías, Mary Rowlatt, Marc Richardson, and Sandra Stini
LNCS 4273, p. 959 ff.
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4 Doctoral Consortium

Package-Based Description Logics - Preliminary Results
Jie Bao, Doina Caragea, and Vasant G. Honavar
LNCS 4273, p. 967 ff.
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Distributed Policy Management in Semantic Web
Özgü Can and Murat Osman Ünalr
LNCS 4273, p. 970 f.
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Evaluation of SPARQL Queries Using Relational Databases
Jií Dokulil
LNCS 4273, p. 972 f.
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Dynamic Contextual Regulations in Open Multi-agent Systems
Carolina Howard Felicíssimo
LNCS 4273, p. 974 f.
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From Typed-Functional Semantic Web Services to Proofs
Harry Halpin
LNCS 4273, p. 976 f.
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Towards a Usable Group Editor for Ontologies
Jan Henke
LNCS 4273, p. 978 f.
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Talking to the Semantic Web - Query Interfaces to Ontologies for the Casual User
Esther Kaufmann
LNCS 4273, p. 980 f.
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Changing Ontology Breaks Queries
Yaozhong Liang, Harith Alani, and Nigel Shadbolt
LNCS 4273, p. 982 ff.
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Towards a Global Scale Semantic Web
Zhengxiang Pan
LNCS 4273, p. 986 f.
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Schema Mappings for the Web
François Scharffe
LNCS 4273, p. 988
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Triple Space Computing for Semantic Web Services – A PhD Roadmap
M. Omair Shafiq
LNCS 4273, p. 989 ff.
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Toward Making Online Biological Data Machine Understandable
Cui Tao
LNCS 4273, p. 992 f.
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5 Keynote Abstracts

Where the Social Web Meets the Semantic Web
Tom Gruber
LNCS 4273, p. 994
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The Semantic Web: Suppliers and Customers
Rudi Studer
LNCS 4273, p. 995 f.
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The Semantic Web and Networked Governance: Promise and Challenges
Jane E. Fountain
LNCS 4273, p. 997 f.
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Author Index
LNCS 4273, p. 999 ff.
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