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The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008

7th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008, Proceedings

Editors:

  1. Amit Sheth

    1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, USA

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  2. Steffen Staab

    1. Institut für Informatik, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

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  3. Mike Dean

    1. BBN Technologies, Ann Arbor, USA

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  4. Massimo Paolucci

    1. DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH, Munich, Germany

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  5. Diana Maynard

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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  6. Timothy Finin

    1. CSEE Department, UMBC, Baltimore, USA

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  7. Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan

    1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5318)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

Conference series link(s): ISWC: International Semantic Web Conference

Conference proceedings info: ISWC 2008.

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Table of contents (64 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Research Track

    1. Ontology Engineering

      1. Involving Domain Experts in Authoring OWL Ontologies
        • Vania Dimitrova, Ronald Denaux, Glen Hart, Catherine Dolbear, Ian Holt, Anthony G. Cohn
        Pages 1-16
      2. Supporting Collaborative Ontology Development in Protégé
        • Tania Tudorache, Natalya F. Noy, Samson Tu, Mark A. Musen
        Pages 17-32
      3. Identifying Potentially Important Concepts and Relations in an Ontology
        • Gang Wu, Juanzi Li, Ling Feng, Kehong Wang
        Pages 33-49
      4. RoundTrip Ontology Authoring
        • Brian Davis, Ahmad Ali Iqbal, Adam Funk, Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham et al.
        Pages 50-65

    2. Data Management

      1. nSPARQL: A Navigational Language for RDF
        • Jorge Pérez, Marcelo Arenas, Claudio Gutierrez
        Pages 66-81
      2. An Experimental Comparison of RDF Data Management Approaches in a SPARQL Benchmark Scenario
        • Michael Schmidt, Thomas Hornung, Norbert Küchlin, Georg Lausen, Christoph Pinkel
        Pages 82-97
      3. Anytime Query Answering in RDF through Evolutionary Algorithms
        • Eyal Oren, Christophe Guéret, Stefan Schlobach
        Pages 98-113
      4. The Expressive Power of SPARQL
        • Renzo Angles, Claudio Gutierrez
        Pages 114-129

    3. Software and Service Engineering

      1. Integrating Object-Oriented and Ontological Representations: A Case Study in Java and OWL
        • Colin Puleston, Bijan Parsia, James Cunningham, Alan Rector
        Pages 130-145
      2. Extracting Semantic Constraint from Description Text for Semantic Web Service Discovery
        • Dengping Wei, Ting Wang, Ji Wang, Yaodong Chen
        Pages 146-161
      3. Enhancing Semantic Web Services with Inheritance
        • Simon Ferndriger, Abraham Bernstein, Jin Song Dong, Yuzhang Feng, Yuan-Fang Li, Jane Hunter
        Pages 162-177

    4. Non-standard Reasoning with Ontologies

      1. Using Semantic Distances for Reasoning with Inconsistent Ontologies
        • Zhisheng Huang, Frank van Harmelen
        Pages 178-194
      2. Statistical Learning for Inductive Query Answering on OWL Ontologies
        • Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d’Amato, Floriana Esposito
        Pages 195-212

    5. Semantic Retrieval

      1. Modeling Documents by Combining Semantic Concepts with Unsupervised Statistical Learning
        • Chaitanya Chemudugunta, America Holloway, Padhraic Smyth, Mark Steyvers
        Pages 229-244
      2. Comparison between Ontology Distances (Preliminary Results)
        • Jérôme David, Jérôme Euzenat
        Pages 245-260
      3. Folksonomy-Based Collabulary Learning
        • Leandro Balby Marinho, Krisztian Buza, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
        Pages 261-276

    6. OWL

      2. Improving an RCC-Derived Geospatial Approximation by OWL Axioms
        • Rolf Grütter, Thomas Scharrenbach, Bettina Bauer-Messmer
        Pages 293-306
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About this book

The Web is a globalinformationspace consistingoflinked documents andlinked data. As the Web continues to grow and new technologies, modes of interaction, and applications are being developed, the task of the Semantic Web is to unlock the power of information available on the Web into a common semantic inf- mation space and to make it available for sharing and processing by automated tools as well as by people. Right now, the publication of large datasets on the Web, the opening of data access interfaces, and the encoding of the semantics of the data extend the current human-centric Web. Now, the Semantic Web c- munity is tackling the challenges of how to create and manage Semantic Web content, how to make Semantic Web applications robust and scalable, and how to organize and integrate information from di?erent sources for novel uses. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, the International Semantic Web Conference brings together researchers and practitioners in relevant disciplines such as arti?cial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, soft c- puting, and human–computer interaction. This volume contains the main proceedings of ISWC 2008, which we are - cited to o?er to the growing community of researchers and practitioners of the Semantic Web. We got a tremendous response to our call for research papers from a truly international community of researchers and practitioners from 41 countries submitting 261 papers. Each paper receivedan averageof 3.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, USA

    Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan

  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

    Steffen Staab

  • BBN Technologies, Ann Arbor, USA

    Mike Dean

  • DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH, Munich, Germany

    Massimo Paolucci

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Diana Maynard

  • CSEE Department, UMBC, Baltimore, USA

    Timothy Finin

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