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The Semantic Web: Research and Applications

8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 – June 2, 2011. Proceedings, Part II

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6644)

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

Conference series link(s): ESWC: European Semantic Web Conference

Conference proceedings info: ESWC 2011.

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Table of contents (46 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Semantic Data Management Track

    1. Semantics and Optimization of the SPARQL 1.1 Federation Extension

      • Carlos Buil-Aranda, Marcelo Arenas, Oscar Corcho
      Pages 1-15
    2. Grr: Generating Random RDF

      • Daniel Blum, Sara Cohen
      Pages 16-30
    3. High-Performance Computing Applied to Semantic Databases

      • Eric L. Goodman, Edward Jimenez, David Mizell, Sinan al-Saffar, Bob Adolf, David Haglin
      Pages 31-45
    4. An Intermediate Algebra for Optimizing RDF Graph Pattern Matching on MapReduce

      • Padmashree Ravindra, HyeongSik Kim, Kemafor Anyanwu
      Pages 46-61
    5. Query Relaxation for Entity-Relationship Search

      • Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum
      Pages 62-76
    6. Optimizing Query Shortcuts in RDF Databases

      • Vicky Dritsou, Panos Constantopoulos, Antonios Deligiannakis, Yannis Kotidis
      Pages 77-92
    7. RDFS Update: From Theory to Practice

      • Claudio Gutierrez, Carlos Hurtado, Alejandro Vaisman
      Pages 93-107
    8. Benchmarking Matching Applications on the Semantic Web

      • Alfio Ferrara, Stefano Montanelli, Jan Noessner, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
      Pages 108-122
    9. Efficiently Evaluating Skyline Queries on RDF Databases

      • Ling Chen, Sidan Gao, Kemafor Anyanwu
      Pages 123-138
    10. The Design and Implementation of Minimal RDFS Backward Reasoning in 4store

      • Manuel Salvadores, Gianluca Correndo, Steve Harris, Nick Gibbins, Nigel Shadbolt
      Pages 139-153
  3. Semantic Web in Use Track

    1. miKrow: Semantic Intra-enterprise Micro-Knowledge Management System

      • Víctor Penela, Guillermo Álvaro, Carlos Ruiz, Carmen Córdoba, Francesco Carbone, Michelangelo Castagnone et al.
      Pages 154-168
    2. A Faceted Ontology for a Semantic Geo-Catalogue

      • Feroz Farazi, Vincenzo Maltese, Fausto Giunchiglia, Alexander Ivanyukovich
      Pages 169-182
    3. SoKNOS – Using Semantic Technologies in Disaster Management Software

      • Grigori Babitski, Simon Bergweiler, Olaf Grebner, Daniel Oberle, Heiko Paulheim, Florian Probst
      Pages 183-197
    4. Semantic Technologies for Describing Measurement Data in Databases

      • Ulf Noyer, Dirk Beckmann, Frank Köster
      Pages 198-211
    5. Ontology-Driven Guidance for Requirements Elicitation

      • Stefan Farfeleder, Thomas Moser, Andreas Krall, Tor Stålhane, Inah Omoronyia, Herbert Zojer
      Pages 212-226
    6. The Semantic Public Service Portal (S-PSP)

      • Nikolaos Loutas, Deirdre Lee, Fadi Maali, Vassilios Peristeras, Konstantinos Tarabanis
      Pages 227-242
    7. DataFinland—A Semantic Portal for Open and Linked Datasets

      • Matias Frosterus, Eero Hyvönen, Joonas Laitio
      Pages 243-254
    8. An Approach for More Efficient Energy Consumption Based on Real-Time Situational Awareness

      • Yongchun Xu, Nenad Stojanovic, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Darko Anicic, Rudi Studer
      Pages 270-284

About this book

The books (LNCS 6643 and 6644) constitute the refereed proceedings of the 8th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2011, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in May/June 2011. The 57 revised full papers of the research track presented together with 7 PhD symposium papers and 14 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 291 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital libraries track; inductive and probabilistic approaches track; linked open data track; mobile web track; natural language processing track; ontologies track; and reasoning track (part I); semantic data management track; semantic web in use track; sensor web track; software, services, processes and cloud computing track; social web and web science track; demo track, PhD symposium (part II).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Computer Science, FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

    Grigoris Antoniou, Dimitris Plexousakis

  • Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Marko Grobelnik

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Elena Simperl

  • University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Bijan Parsia

  • VU University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Pieter Leenheer

  • Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    Jeff Pan

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