The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 5th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2008, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, June 1-5, 2008 Proceedings

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2008, held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, in June 2008.

The 51 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks and 25 system description papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 270 submitted papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on agents, application ontologies, applications, formal languages, foundational issues, learning, ontologies and natural language, ontology alignment, query processing, search, semantic Web services, storage and retrieval of semantic Web data, as well as user interfaces and personalization.

Author(s): Ricardo Baeza-Yates (auth.), Sean Bechhofer, Manfred Hauswirth, Jörg Hoffmann, Manolis Koubarakis (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5021 : Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2008

Language: English
Pages: 900
Tags: Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)

Front Matter....Pages -
From Capturing Semantics to Semantic Search: A Virtuous Cycle....Pages 1-2
Foundations of RDF Databases....Pages 3-3
Garlik: Semantic Technology for the Consumer....Pages 4-4
Semantic Web Technology for Agent Communication Protocols....Pages 5-18
xOperator – Interconnecting the Semantic Web and Instant Messaging Networks....Pages 19-33
An Ontology for Software Models and Its Practical Implications for Semantic Web Reasoning....Pages 34-48
A Core Ontology for Business Process Analysis....Pages 49-64
Assisting Pictogram Selection with Semantic Interpretation....Pages 65-79
KonneX SALT : First Steps Towards a Semantic Claim Federation Infrastructure....Pages 80-94
Building a National Semantic Web Ontology and Ontology Service Infrastructure –The FinnONTO Approach....Pages 95-109
Creating and Using Geospatial Ontology Time Series in a Semantic Cultural Heritage Portal....Pages 110-123
Semantic Email as a Communication Medium for the Social Semantic Desktop....Pages 124-138
IVEA: An Information Visualization Tool for Personalized Exploratory Document Collection Analysis....Pages 139-153
Building a Semantic Web Image Repository for Biological Research Images....Pages 154-169
Mapping Validation by Probabilistic Reasoning....Pages 170-184
Safe and Economic Re-Use of Ontologies: A Logic-Based Methodology and Tool Support....Pages 185-199
dRDF: Entailment for Domain-Restricted RDF....Pages 200-214
Finite Model Reasoning in DL-Lite ....Pages 215-229
Module Extraction and Incremental Classification: A Pragmatic Approach for $\ensuremath{\mathcal{EL}^+}$ Ontologies....Pages 230-244
Forgetting Concepts in DL-Lite....Pages 245-257
An Entity Name System (ENS) for the Semantic Web....Pages 258-272
A Functional Semantic Web Architecture....Pages 273-287
Query Answering and Ontology Population: An Inductive Approach....Pages 288-302
Instance Based Clustering of Semantic Web Resources....Pages 303-317
Conceptual Clustering and Its Application to Concept Drift and Novelty Detection....Pages 318-332
Enriching an Ontology with Multilingual Information....Pages 333-347
Rabbit: Developing a Control Natural Language for Authoring Ontologies....Pages 348-360
A Natural Language Query Interface to Structured Information....Pages 361-375
Distinguishing between Instances and Classes in the Wikipedia Taxonomy....Pages 376-387
Two Variations on Ontology Alignment Evaluation: Methodological Issues....Pages 388-401
Putting Ontology Alignment in Context: Usage Scenarios, Deployment and Evaluation in a Library Case....Pages 402-417
CSR : Discovering Subsumption Relations for the Alignment of Ontologies....Pages 418-431
XSPARQL: Traveling between the XML and RDF Worlds – and Avoiding the XSLT Pilgrimage....Pages 432-447
Streaming SPARQL - Extending SPARQL to Process Data Streams....Pages 448-462
The Creation and Evaluation of iSPARQL Strategies for Matchmaking....Pages 463-477
Adding Data Mining Support to SPARQL Via Statistical Relational Learning Methods....Pages 478-492
A Semantic Web Middleware for Virtual Data Integration on the Web....Pages 493-507
Graph Summaries for Subgraph Frequency Estimation....Pages 508-523
Querying Distributed RDF Data Sources with SPARQL....Pages 524-538
Improving Interoperability Using Query Interpretation in Semantic Vector Spaces....Pages 539-553
Hybrid Search: Effectively Combining Keywords and Semantic Searches....Pages 554-568
Combining Fact and Document Retrieval with Spreading Activation for Semantic Desktop Search....Pages 569-583
Q2Semantic: A Lightweight Keyword Interface to Semantic Search....Pages 584-598
Conceptual Situation Spaces for Semantic Situation-Driven Processes....Pages 599-613
Combining SAWSDL, OWL-DL and UDDI for Semantically Enhanced Web Service Discovery....Pages 614-628
Web Service Composition with User Preferences....Pages 629-643
Enhancing Workflow with a Semantic Description of Scientific Intent....Pages 644-658
WSMO Choreography: From Abstract State Machines to Concurrent Transaction Logic....Pages 659-673
WSMO-Lite Annotations for Web Services....Pages 674-689
Semantic Sitemaps: Efficient and Flexible Access to Datasets on the Semantic Web....Pages 690-704
On Storage Policies for Semantic Web Repositories That Support Versioning....Pages 705-719
Semantic Reasoning: A Path to New Possibilities of Personalization....Pages 720-735
An User Interface Adaptation Architecture for Rich Internet Applications....Pages 736-750
OntoGame: Weaving the Semantic Web by Online Games....Pages 751-766
SWING: An Integrated Environment for Geospatial Semantic Web Services....Pages 767-771
Semantic Annotation and Composition of Business Processes with Maestro....Pages 772-776
Learning Highly Structured Semantic Repositories from Relational Databases:....Pages 777-781
Cicero: Tracking Design Rationale in Collaborative Ontology Engineering....Pages 782-786
xOperator – An Extensible Semantic Agent for Instant Messaging Networks....Pages 787-791
LabelTranslator - A Tool to Automatically Localize an Ontology....Pages 792-796
RKBExplorer.com : A Knowledge Driven Infrastructure for Linked Data Providers....Pages 797-801
Semantic Browsing with PowerMagpie....Pages 802-806
Tagster - Tagging-Based Distributed Content Sharing....Pages 807-811
The Web Service Modeling Toolkit....Pages 812-816
Mymory: Enhancing a Semantic Wiki with Context Annotations....Pages 817-821
Pronto: A Non-monotonic Probabilistic Description Logic Reasoner....Pages 822-826
User Profiling for Semantic Browsing in Medical Digital Libraries....Pages 827-831
SWiM – A Semantic Wiki for Mathematical Knowledge Management....Pages 832-837
Integrating Open Sources and Relational Data with SPARQL....Pages 838-842
Previewing Semantic Web Pipes....Pages 843-848
Demo: Visual Programming for the Semantic Desktop with Konduit ....Pages 849-853
SCARLET: SemantiC RelAtion DiscoveRy by Harvesting OnLinE OnTologies....Pages 854-858
ODEWiki: A Semantic Wiki That Interoperates with the ODESeW Semantic Portal....Pages 859-863
Simplifying Access to Large-Scale Health Care and Life Sciences Datasets....Pages 864-868
GRISINO - An Integrated Infrastructure for Semantic Web Services, Grid Computing and Intelligent Objects....Pages 869-873
SemSearch: Refining Semantic Search....Pages 874-878
The Combination of Techniques for Automatic Semantic Image Annotation Generation in the IMAGINATION Application....Pages 879-883
WSMX: A Solution for B2B Mediation and Discovery Scenarios....Pages 884-889
Conceptual Spaces in ViCoS....Pages 890-894
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