5th European Semantic Web Conference

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The following papers were presented at 5th European Semantic Web Conference:
  1. A Core Ontology for Business Process Analysis
  2. A Functional Semantic Web Architecture
  3. A Natural Language Query Interface to Structured Information
  4. A Semantic Web Middleware for Virtual Data Integration on the Web
  5. Adding Data Mining Support to SPARQL via Statistical Relational Learning Methods
  6. An Entity Naming System for the Semantic Web
  7. An Ontology for Software Models and its Practical Implications for Semantic Web Reasoning
  8. An User Interface Adaptation Architecture for Rich Internet Applications
  9. Assisting Pictogram Selection with Semantic Interpretation
  10. Building a National Semantic Web Ontology and Ontology Service Infrastructure----The FinnONTO Approach
  11. Building a Semantic Web Image Repository for Biological Research Images
  12. CSR: Discovering Subsumption Relations for the Alignment of Ontologies
  13. Combining Meta Data and Document Search with Spreading Activation for Semantic Desktop Search
  14. Combining SAWSDL, OWL-DL and UDDI for Semantically Enhanced Web Service Discovery
  15. Conceptual Clustering and its Application to Concept Drift and Novelty Detection
  16. Conceptual Situation Spaces for Semantic Situation-Driven Processes
  17. Creating and Using Geospatial Ontology Time Series in a Semantic Cultural Heritage Portal
  18. Distance Based clustering of Semantic Web Resources
  19. Distinguishing between Instances and Classes in the Wikipedia Taxonomy
  20. Enhancing Workflow with a Semantic Description of Scientist's Intent
  21. Enriching an Ontology with Multilingual Information
  22. Entailment for Domain-restricted RDF
  23. Finite model reasoning in DL-Lite
  24. Graph Summaries for Subgraph Frequency Estimation
  25. Hybrid Search: Effectively Combining Keywords and Ontology-based Searches
  26. IVEA: An Information Visualization Tool for Personalized Exploratory Document Collection Analysis
  27. Improving interoperability using query interpretation in semantic vector spaces
  28. KonneX-SALT: First Steps towards a Semantic Claim Federation Infrastructure
  29. Mapping Validation by Probabilistic Reasoning
  30. Module Extraction and Incremental Classification: A Pragmatic Approach for EL+ Ontologies
  31. On Storage Policies for Semantic Web Repositories that Support Versioning
  32. OntoGame: Weaving the Semantic Web by Online Gaming
  33. Putting ontology alignment in context: usage scenarios, deployment and evaluation in a library case
  34. Q2Semantic: A Lightweight Keyword Interface to Semantic Search
  35. Query Answering and Ontology Population: an Inductive Approach
  36. Querying Distributed RDF Data Sources with SPARQL
  37. Rabbit: Developing a Control Natural Language for Authoring Ontologies
  38. Restricting and forgetting in DL-Lite
  39. Safe and Economic re-use of ontologies: a logic-based methodology and tool support
  40. Semantic Email as a communication medium for the Social Semantic Desktop
  41. Semantic Reasoning: A Path To New Possibilities of Personalization
  42. Semantic Sitemaps: Efficient and Flexible Access to Datasets on the Semantic Web
  43. Semantic Web technology for Agent Communication Protocols
  44. Streaming SPARQL - Extending SPARQL to process data streams
  45. The Creation and Evaluation of iSPARQL Strategies for Matchmaking
  46. Two Variations on Ontology Alignment Evaluation: Methodological Issues
  47. WSMO Choreography: From Abstract State Machines to Concurrent Transaction Logic
  48. WSMO-Lite Annotations for Web Services
  49. Web Service Composition with User Preferences
  50. XSPARQL: Traveling between the XML and RDF worlds – and avoiding the XSLT pilgrimage
  51. xOperator - Interconnecting the Semantic Web and Instant Messaging Networks

The following people were involved in 5th European Semantic Web Conference: Abraham Bernstein, Alberto Gil-Solla, Alessio Gugliotta, Alexandre Passant, Alexandros Valarakos, Alfio Ferrara, Alfredo Goñi, Alta Van der Merwe, Alun Preece, Amit Sheth, Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros, Andre Bolles, Andreas Langegger, Andries Barnard, André Locher, Angela Maduko, Anthony Ventresque, Antoine Isaac, Arantza Illarramendi, Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Aurona Gerber, Axel Polleres, Barbara Bazzanella, Bastian Quilitz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn, Caecilia Zirn, Carlos Pedrinaci, Catherine Dolbear, Chris Bizer, Christoph Kiefer, Claudia d'Amato, Claudio Gutierrez, Claus Zinn, Dan Brickley, Danica Damljanovic, Daniela Petrelli, David Shotton, Davide Lorusso, Dieter Fensel, Dimitrios Kourtesis, Dimitris Andreou, Duc Thanh Tran, Dumitru Roman, Edoardo Pignotti, Eduardo Mena, Eero Hyvönen, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Evren Sirin, Fabio Ciravegna, Fang Wei, Floriana Esposito, Frank van Harmelen, Gary Polhill, George Vouros, Giovanni Tummarello, Glen Hart, Graham Klyne, Grigoris Antoniou, Gunnar Grimnes, Guus Schreiber, Haofen Wang, Harry Halpin, Heeryon Cho, Heiko Stoermer, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Henk Matthezing, Henrik Lochmann, Holger Stenzhorn, Ian Davis, Idoia Berges, Iraklis Paraskakis, Jacek Kopecky, Jana Viskova, Jari Väätäinen, Jeff Z. Pan, Jesus Bermudez, Joerg Hoffmann, John Domingue, Jonas Jacobi, José J. Pazos-Arias, Jouni Tuominen, Jun Zhao, Jörg Dörflinger, Jörg Unbehauen, Kalina Bontcheva, Kang Zhang, Katharina Siorpaes, Katri Seppälä, Katy Esteban-Gonzalez, Kay-Uwe Schmidt, Kemafor Anyanwu, Kewen Wang, Kieron O'Hara, Kim Viljanen, Kinga Schumacher, Kingsley Idehen, Knud Möller, Laura Hollink, Leo Sauermann, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Lourens van der Meij, Manfred Hauswirth, Manolis Koubarakis, Manuel Ramos-Cabrer, Marco Grawunder, Mark van Assem, Martin Blöchl, Martin Hepp, Martin Lopez-Nores, Martina Johnson, Matthias Bräuer, Mauricio Espinoza, Mehdi Sahbi, Michael Kifer, Michael Sintek, Michael Strube, Naiwen Lin, Nick Gotts, Nicola Fanizzi, Nigel Shadbolt, Oscar Corcho, Paolo Bouquet, Patrick Valduriez, Paul Schliekelman, Peter Edwards, Peter Mika, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Philippe Lamarre, Qiaoling Liu, Rafael Berlanga-Llavori, Ralf Moeller, Raphael Troncy, Raul Garcia Castro, Ravish Bhagdev, Reinhard Pichler, Renaud Delbru, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Riccardo Rosati, Richard Cyganiak, Rodney Topor, Sam Chapman, Satoshi Oyama, Sean Bechhofer, Sebastian Dietzold, Shenghui Wang, Siegfried Handschuh, Silvana Castano, Simon Scerri, Stefan Decker, Stefan Dietze, Stefan Schlobach, Stefan Woltran, Susan Thomas, Sylvie Cazalens, Sören Auer, Thomas Krennwallner, Thomas Schneider, Tirdad Rahmani, Tobias Henrik Näth, Tomas Vitvar, Tomi Kauppinen, Toru Ishida, Toshiyuki Takasaki, Tudor Groza, Ugur Kuter, Ulf Leser, Ulrike Sattler, Valentin Tablan, Vassilis Spiliopoulos, VinhTuan Thai, Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Vivi Nastase, Waseem Akhtar, Wendy Hall, Wolfram Wöß, Yannis Theoharis, Yannis Tzitzikas, Yolanda Blanco-Fernandez, Yong Yu, York Sure, Zhe Wang


The following workshops took place at 5th European Semantic Web Conference: