The Semantic Web - ISWC 2004

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Papers

   1. How to Build Google2Google – An (Incomplete) Recipe –

      • Wolfgang Nejdl

      Pages 1-5

   2. Small Can Be Beautiful in the Semantic Web

      • Marie-Christine Rousset

      Pages 6-16

3. Data Semantics

   1. A Method for Converting Thesauri to RDF/OWL

      • Mark van Assem, Maarten R. Menken, Guus Schreiber, Jan Wielemaker, Bob Wielinga

      Pages 17-31

   2. Contexts for the Semantic Web

      • Ramanathan Guha, Rob McCool, Richard Fikes

      Pages 32-46

   3. Bipartite Graphs as Intermediate Model for RDF

      • Jonathan Hayes, Claudio Gutierrez

      Pages 47-61

   4. A Model Theoretic Semantics for Ontology Versioning

      • Jeff Heflin, Zhengxiang Pan

      Pages 62-76

   5. Extending the RDFS Entailment Lemma

      • Herman J. ter Horst

      Pages 77-91

   6. Using Semantic Web Technologies for Representing E-science Provenance

      • Jun Zhao, Chris Wroe, Carole Goble, Robert Stevens, Dennis Quan, Mark Greenwood

      Pages 92-106

4. P2P Systems

   1. GridVine: Building Internet-Scale Semantic Overlay Networks

      • Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Manfred Hauswirth, Tim Van Pelt

      Pages 107-121

   2. Bibster – A Semantics-Based Bibliographic Peer-to-Peer System

      • Peter Haase, Jeen Broekstra, Marc Ehrig, Maarten Menken, Peter Mika, Mariusz Olko et al.

      Pages 122-136

   3. Top-k Query Evaluation for Schema-Based Peer-to-Peer Networks

      • Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uwe Thaden, Wolf-Tilo Balke

      Pages 137-151

5. Semantic Web Mining

   1. Learning Meta-descriptions of the FOAF Network

      • Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes, Pete Edwards, Alun Preece

      Pages 152-165

   2. From Tables to Frames

      • Aleksander Pivk, Philipp Cimiano, York Sure

      Pages 166-181

6. Tools and Methodologies for Web Agents

   1. The Specification of Agent Behavior by Ordinary People: A Case Study

      • Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Alon Halevy

      Pages 182-197

7. User Interfaces and Visualization

   1. Visual Modeling of OWL DL Ontologies Using UML

      • Sara Brockmans, Raphael Volz, Andreas Eberhart, Peter Löffler

      Pages 198-213

   2. What Would It Mean to Blog on the Semantic Web?

      • David R. Karger, Dennis Quan

      Pages 214-228

   3. The Protégé OWL Plugin: An Open Development Environment for Semantic Web Applications

      • Holger Knublauch, Ray W. Fergerson, Natalya F. Noy, Mark A. Musen

      Pages 229-243

   4. OntoTrack: Combining Browsing and Editing with Reasoning and Explaining for OWL Lite Ontologies

      • Thorsten Liebig, Olaf Noppens

      Pages 244-258

   5. Tracking Changes During Ontology Evolution

      • Natalya F. Noy, Sandhya Kunnatur, Michel Klein, Mark A. Musen

      Pages 259-273

The 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004) was held Nov- ber 7–11, 2004 in Hiroshima, Japan. If it is true what the proverb says: “Once by accident, twice by habit, three times by tradition,” then this third ISWC did indeed ?rmly establish a tradition. After the overwhelming interest in last year’s conference at Sanibel Island, Florida, this year’s conference showed that the Semantic Web is not just a one-day wonder, but has established itself ?rmly on the research agenda. At a time when special interest meetings with a Sem- tic Web theme are springing up at major conferences in numerous areas (ACL, VLDB, ECAI, AAAI, ECML, WWW, to name but a few), the ISWC series has established itself as the primary venue for Semantic Web research. Response to the call for papers for the conference continued to be strong. We solicited submissions to three tracks of the conference: the research track, the industrial track, and the poster track. The research track, the premier venue for basic research on the Semantic Web, received 205 submissions, of which 48 were accepted for publication. Each submission was evaluated by three p- gram committee members whose reviews were coordinated by members of the senior program committee. Final decisions were made by the program co-chairs in consultation with the conference chair and the senior program committee. The industrial track, soliciting papers describing industrial research on the - mantic Web, received 22 submissions, of which 7 were accepted for publication.

• knowledge management
• ontology
• semantic web
• semantics
• tools
• visualization
• web mining

• Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,  

  Sheila A. McIlraith

• Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H., Heraklion, Greece

  Dimitris Plexousakis

• AI Department, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

  Frank Harmelen

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