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7th International Semantic Web Conference

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The following papers were presented at 7th International Semantic Web Conference:
  1. A Bootstrapping Architecture for Integration of Relational Databases to the Semantic Web
  2. A Flexible API and Editor for SKOS
  3. A Kernel Revision Operator for Terminologies - Algorithms and Evaluations
  4. A Process Catalog for Workflow Generation
  5. A Semantic Data Grid for Satellite Mission Quality Analysis
  6. A Semantic Wiki on Cooperation in Public Administration
  7. A System to enable Relational Persistence and Semantic Web style access simultaneously for Objects
  8. A Visual Interface for Building SPARQL Queries in Konduit
  9. A framework for semantic web policies
  10. A method to rank nodes in an RDF graph
  11. ACE View --- an ontology and rule editor based on controlled English
  12. ACTIVE - Enabling the Knowledge-Powered Enterprise
  13. AN ONTOLOGY-BASED CLUSTER ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK
  14. Activity Recognition in an Event-Based RDF Database
  15. Algebras of Ontology Alignment Relations
  16. An Architecture for Semantic Navigation and Reasoning with Patient Data - Experiences of the Health-e-Child Project
  17. An Experimental Comparison of RDF Data Management Approaches in a SPARQL Benchmark Scenario
  18. An Interface-based Ontology Modularization Framework for Knowledge Encapsulation
  19. An ontology-based service-oriented application for mobility impaired users
  20. Anytime Query Answering in RDF through Evolutionary Algorithms
  21. BioPortal: A Web Repository for Biomedical Ontologies and Data Resources
  22. BioTop and ChemTop -- Top-Domain Ontologies for Biology and Chemistry
  23. Bioblitz Data on the Semantic Web
  24. BitMat: A Main-memory Bit Matrix of RDF Triples for Conjunctive Triple Pattern Queries
  25. Bringing the IPTC News Architecture into the Semantic Web
  26. COSIMail and COSIFile: Semantic Desktop Extensions for Email and File Management
  27. CROC: a Representational Ontology for Concepts
  28. Collaborative Protege: Enabling Community-based Authoring of Ontologies
  29. Collecting Community-based Mappings in an Ontology Repository
  30. Combining Semantic Wikis and Controlled Natural Language
  31. Combining a DL Reasoner and a Rule Engine for Improving Entailment-based OWL Reasoning
  32. Comparison between Ontology Distances (Preliminary Results)
  33. Consolidating User-defined Concepts with StYLiD
  34. Contracting and Copyright Issues for Composite Semantic Services
  35. Conversational Interface Agents for the Semantic Web -- a Case Study
  36. Creating a Semantic Integration System using Spatial Data
  37. Creating and Using Organisational Semantic Webs in Large Networked Organisations
  38. Deploying Semantic Web Technologies for Work Integrated Learning in Industry - A comparison: SME vs. Large Sized Company
  39. Description Logic Reasoning with Decision Diagrams: Compiling SHIQ to Disjunctive Datalog
  40. Designing Component-Based Semantic Web Applications with DESWAP
  41. Divergent Exploration of an Ontology
  42. DogOnt - Ontology Modeling for Intelligent Domotic Environments
  43. Dynamic Ontology Evolution in Open Environments
  44. ELP: Tractable Rules for OWL 2
  45. EUREEKA: Deepening the Semantic Web by More Efficient Emergent Knowledge Representation and Processing
  46. EdHibou: a Customizable Interface for Decision Support in a Semantic Portal
  47. Efficient Semantic Web Service Discovery in Centralized and P2P Environments
  48. End-User Assisted Ontology Evolution in Uncertain Domains
  49. Enhancing Semantic Web Services with Inheritance
  50. Evaluating Long-term use of the Gnowsis Semantic Desktop for PIM
  51. Evaluating the Structural Quality of Semantic Hierarchy Alignments
  52. Expanding Folksonomy Search with Ontologies
  53. Explanation of OWL Entailments in Protege 4
  54. Exploring Semantic Social Networks Using Virtual Reality
  55. Extending RDFHomepage: Semantic Web meets Web 2.0
  56. Extracting Communities of Interests for Semantics-based Graph Searches
  57. Extracting Semantic Constraint from Description Text for Semantic Web Service Discovery
  58. Extracting Structured Knowledge for Semantic Web by Mining Wikipedia
  59. Finding Equivalent Ontologies in Watson
  60. Folksonomy-based Collabulary Learning
  61. Formal Model for Semantic-driven Service Execution
  62. Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Collaborative Knowledge Bases in Natural Language Processing
  63. IYOUIT – Share, Life, Blog, Play
  64. Identifying Potentially Important Concepts and Relations in an Ontology
  65. Improving an RCC-derived Geospatial Approximation by OWL Axioms
  66. Indexing Social Semantic Data
  67. Inference Web in Action: Lightweight Use of the Proof Markup Language
  68. Instanced-based Mapping between Thesauri and Folksonomies
  69. Integrating Object-Oriented and Ontological Representations: A Case Study in Java and OWL
  70. Interactive Exploration of Heterogeneous Cultural Heritage Collections
  71. Introducing IYOUIT
  72. Involving Domain Experts in Authoring OWL Ontologies
  73. Knowledge Provenance in Virtual Observatories: Application to Image Data Pipelines
  74. LENA - Browsing RDF Data More Complex Than Foaf
  75. Laconic and Precise Justifications in OWL
  76. Language as a Foundation of the Semantic Web
  77. Learning Concept Mappings from Instance Similarity
  78. Learning Methods in Multi-grained Query Answering
  79. Learning Semantic Web rules within the framework of $\mathcal{SHIQ}$+log
  80. Learning of OWL Class Descriptions on Very Large Knowledge Bases
  81. MDS++: Supporting Ontology-based Dynamic Classification in WebSphere Metadata Server
  82. Making URIs published on Data Web RDF dereferencable
  83. Market Blended Insight: Modeling Propensity to Buy with the Semantic Web
  84. Modeling Documents by Combining Semantic Concepts with Unsupervised Statistical Learning
  85. Modeling Online Presence
  86. NITELIGHT: A Graphical Editor for SPARQL Queries
  87. OWL Datatypes: Design and Implementation
  88. OmniCat: Automatic Text Classification with Dynamically Defined Categories
  89. On the Semantics of Caching and Trust in the Semantic Web
  90. OntoNaviERP: Ontology-supported Navigation in ERP Software Documentation
  91. Ontology Alignment Using Multiple Contexts
  92. Ontology Learning in Business Intelligence Applications
  93. Optimization and Evaluation of Reasoning in Probabilistic Description Logic: Towards a Systematic Approach
  94. Optimizing SPARQL Queries over Disparate RDF Data Sources through Distributed Semi-Joins
  95. Parallel Computation Techniques for Ontology Reasoning
  96. Product modelling and the Semantic Web
  97. Progress Report from the RDB2RDF XG
  98. Pronto: Probabilistic Ontological Modeling in the Semantic Web
  99. RDF123: From Spreadsheets to RDF
  100. RDFS Reasoning and Query Answering on Top of DHTs
  101. ROO: Involving Domain Experts in Authoring OWL Ontologies
  102. Ranking Semantic Similarity Association in Semantic Web
  103. Realizing Semantic Web Portal Using Available Semantic Web Technologies and Tools
  104. Relation Discovery from the Semantic Web
  105. Requirements Analysis Tool: A Tool for Automatically Analyzing Software Requirements Documents
  106. Reusing Knowledge from the Semantic Web with the Watson Plugin
  107. RoundTrip Ontology Authoring
  108. SPARQL+, SPARQLScript, SPARQL Result Templates - SPARQL Extensions for the Mashup Developer
  109. SUBLIMA: a software stack for Inter-operable Topic-Centred Information Portals
  110. SUITS4RDF: Incremental Query Construction for the Semantic Web
  111. Scalable Conjunctive Query Evaluation Over Large and Expressive Knowledge Bases
  112. SemTree: Ontology-Based Decision Tree Algorithm for Recommender Systems
  113. Semantic Data Integration and Registration: Application to heterogeneous atmosphere and volcanic data sources
  114. Semantic Enrichment of Folksonomy Tagspaces
  115. Semantic Grounding of Tag Relatedness in Social Bookmarking Systems
  116. Semantic Image Annotation and Retrieval with IKen
  117. Semantic Knowledge Sharing within a Collaborative Work Environment
  118. Semantic Modelling of User Interests Based on Cross-folksonomy Analysis
  119. Semantic Relatedness Measure Using Object Properties in an Ontology
  120. Semantic Web Service Choreography: Contracting and Enactment
  121. Semantic Web technologies for digital preservation : the SPAR project
  122. Semantic framework for complex knowledge domains
  123. Skipforward---a lightweight ontology-based peer-to-peer recommendation system
  124. Statistical Learning for Inductive Query Answering on OWL Ontologies
  125. Supporting Collaborative Ontology Development in Protégé
  126. Supporting Ontology-based Dynamic Property and Classification in WebSphere Metadata Server
  127. TagCare: A Personal Portable Tag Repository
  128. Taking Enterprise Search to the Next Level
  129. Term Dependence on the Semantic Web
  130. The Expressive Power of SPARQL
  131. The TW Wine Agent: A Social Semantic Web Demo
  132. Thesaurus-based Search in Large Heterogeneous Collections
  133. Thinkbase: A Visual Semantic Wiki
  134. Toward an Ontology for Finite Algebras
  135. Towards Reactive Semantic Web Policies: Advanced Agent Control for the Semantic Web
  136. Towards Semantic File System Interfaces
  137. Towards Semantic Mapping for Casual Web Users
  138. Towards Social Webtops Using Semantic Wiki
  139. Towards a Multimedia Content Marketplace Implementation Based on Triplespaces
  140. UMRR: Towards an Enterprise-Wide Web of Models
  141. Unifying Semantic Wikis and Semantic Web Applications
  142. Unleash the power of Semantic Web in the Enterprise
  143. Using Semantic Distances for Reasoning with Inconsistent Ontologies
  144. Visualization of the Search Results of the Semantic Web Search Engines
  145. Web Search With Document Space Adapted Ontologies
  146. http://ontologydesignpatterns.org [ODP]
  147. nSPARQL: A Navigational Language for RDF
  148. oWSD: A Tool for Word Sense Disambiguation in Its Ontology Context
  149. semSL: Tagging and Data Linking for Second Life

The following people were involved in 7th International Semantic Web Conference: AK Sinha, Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Abraham Bernstein, Achille Fokoue, Adam Funk, Aditya Kalyanpur, Adrian Mocan, Ahmad Iqbal, Ajay Chakravarthy, Akimichi Tanaka, Alan Rector, Alberto Salvati, Aldo Gangemi, Alex Donaldson, Alex Kass, Alexa Breuing, Alexander Löser, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Alexey Tsymbal, Ali Mamat, Alistair Russell, Alvaro Graves, Aman Shakya, Amancio Bouza, America Holloway, Amit P. Sheth, Andreas Hotho, Andreas Wechselberger, Andrew Branson, Andrew Buttigieg, Anne Eberhardt, Anthony G. Cohn, Anupam Joshi, Anupriya Ankolekar, Aris van Dijk, Ashok Malhotra, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Axel Polleres, Bella Manoim, Benjamin Dai, Benjamin Grosof, Benjamin Nowack, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Bernhard Krabina, Bertram Ludaescher, Bertrand Souville, Bettina Bauer-Messmer, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Bijan Parsia, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Bob Schloss, Boris Motik, Brian Davis, Brian Kettler, C. Lee Giles, Carlo Allocca, Carlos Damasio, Carole Goble, Carsten Lutz, Cassio Dos Santos, Cassio Santos, Catherine Dolbear, Chaitanya Chemudugunta, Charlie Abela, Chen Wang, Cherie Youn, Chiara Ghidini, Chris Bizer, Christian Baumann, Christian Hirsch, Christian Jacquemin, Christian Kuschel, Christian Wartena, Christoph Bussler, Christoph Pinkel, Christophe Guéret, Christopher Matheus, Ciro Cattuto, Claudia d'Amato, Claudio Gutierrez, Clement Jonquet, Cliff Joslyn, Colin Puleston, Colm Conroy, Conny Christl, Conor Hayes, Craig Knoblock, Cynthia Parr, Dan Weld, Daniel Gruhl, Daniel Miranker, Daniel Oberle, Daniel Olmedilla, Daniel Rubin, Daniel Schwabe, Dario Bonino, Dave Reynolds, David De Roure, David Huynh, David J. Zielinski, David Karger, David Leal, David Martin, David Norheim, David de Francisco, David-Paul Mann, Dean Allemang, Deborah McGuinness, Deepali Khushraj, Dengping Wei, Derek Sleeman, Diana Maynard, Dimitrios Giakoumis, Dimitrios Skoutas, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Dimitris Sacharidis, Dionysios Kehagias, Dmitry Rogulin, Dominic Mainz, Dominik Benz, Dominik Heim, Dumitru Roman, Dunja Mladenic, Edith Schonberg, Edward Thomas, Eero Hyvönen, Elena Beisswanger, Elena Simperl, Elie Sanchez, Elisa Kendall, Emmanuelle Bermès, Enrico Daga, Enrico Minack, Enrico Motta, Erik van Mulligen, Evgeni Golov, Evren Sirin, Eyal Oren, Fabio Ciravegna, Fadi Badra, Faezeh Ensan, Fausto Giunchiglia, Felix Kratzer, Feng Cao, Floriana Esposito, Francesca Alessandra Lisi, Frank van Harmelen, François Bry, Frédéric Vernier, Fulvio Corno, Gang Wu, Gautier Poupeau, Georg Lausen, Georg Schmidt, George Fletcher, Georgios Meditskos, Gerald Reif, Gerard de Melo, Gerd Stumme, Gerhard Friedrich, Gerhard Weikum, Germán Toro del Valle, Gianni Vercelli, Gideon Zenz, Giorgos Stamou, Glen Hart, Glenda Kelly, Gong Cheng, Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz, Grigoris Antoniou, Guilin Qi, Guo Tong Xie, Guotong Xie, Guus Schreiber, Gwenn Englebienne, Hai Zhuge, Hamidah Ibrahim, Hamish Cunningham, Hanyu Li, Harald Gall, Harith Alani, Harry Halpin, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Hideaki Takeda, Holger Knublauch, Holger Lewen, Holger Stenzhorn, Holger Wache, Hong-Gee Kim, Horacio Saggion, Huib Aldewereld, Ian Emmons, Ian Harrison, Ian Holt, Ian Horrocks, Ignazio Palmisano, Igor Novakovic, Iris Miliaraki, Iryna Gurevych, Isabel Cruz, Isabella Peters, Ivan Cantador, Ivan Herman, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Jagannathan Srinivasan, James Cunningham, James Hendler, James Michaelis, Jan Maluszynski, Jan Wielemaker, Jan Zemánek, Jane Hunter, Jans Aasman, Jean Lieber, Jeff Heflin, Jeff Partyka, Jeff Z. Pan, Jennifer Golbeck, Jennifer Green, Jens Lehmann, Jerome Euzenat, Jerome Thomere, Jetendr Shamdasani, Ji Wang, Jie Bao, Jihie Kim, Jihye Lee, Jim Hendler, Jin Song Dong, Jing Mei, Joanna Guss, Joe Rockmore, Joel Sachs, Johan Koolwaaij, Johann-Christoph Freytag, Johanna Völker, John Colgrave, John Darlington, John Davies, John Dobree, John Domingue, John Giannandrea, John Goodwin, John Grundy, John Hosking, John Miller, Jorge Pérez, Jose Julio Alferes, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, José Luis Ambite, Juan F. Sequeda, Juanzi Li, Juergen Angele, Julian Dolby, Juri Luca De Coi, Jérôme David, Jörg Koch, Jürgen Bock, Jürgen Mainz, Kaarel Kaljurand, Kai Mainzer, Kalina Bontcheva, Karl Aberer, Katrin Weller, Kavitha Srinivas, Kay-Uwe Schmidt, Kehong Wang, Kemafor Anyanwu, Kevin Hass, Kevin Shank, Kieron O'Hara, Klaus Deissner, Knud Möller, Konstantina Garoufi, Kotaro Nakayama, Kouji Kozaki, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Kristina Lerman, Krisztian Buza, Krys Kochut, Kunal Verma, Lalana Kagal, Landong Zuo, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Latifur Khan, Laura Dragan, Laurent Mazuel, Leandro Balby Marinho, Lei Zhang, Leo Sauermann, Leopoldo Bertossi, Li Ding, Li Ma, Libby Miller, Lidia Rovan, Ling Feng, Lloyd Rutledge, Lora Aroyo, Luciano Serafini, Luigi Iannone, Lushan Han, Lyndon JB Nixon, László van den Hoek, Maciej Janik, Maciej Zaremba, Makoto Nakatsuji, Malte Kiesel, Manfred Hauswirth, Manolis Koubarakis, Manuel Salvadores, Manuel Sánchez-Gestido, Marcelo Arenas, Marco Rospocher, Marco Schorlemmer, Marianne Winslett, Mark A. Musen, Mark Ackerman, Mark Musen, Mark Steyvers, Marko Grobelnik, Marko Luther, Markus Krötzsch, Marlon Dumas, Marta Gonzalez, Marta Sabou, Martin Dzbor, Martin Hepp, Martin Huber, Martin Kost, Martin Szomszor, Martin Wibbels, María S. Pérez-Hernández, Massimo Paolucci, Mathieu d'Aquin, Matthew Horridge, Matthias Klusch, Matthias Wagner, Medha Atre, Melliyal Annamalai, Michael Denny, Michael Dorf, Michael Hausenblas, Michael Kifer, Michael Montegut, Michael Schmidt, Michael Schneider, Michael Sintek, Michael Smith, Michael Witbrock, Michael Wolverton, Michel Böhms, Michel Dumontier, Michiel Hildebrand, Mieczyslaw Kokar, Miguel Rezende da Silva, Mihaela Vela, Mike Dean, Mike Uschold, Milan Stankovic, Munindar P. Singh, Myon-Woong Park, Natasha F. Noy, Naveen Ashish, Neda Alipanah, Nicholas Del Rio, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas Griffith, Nick Bassiliades, Nicola Fanizzi, Nicolas Sabouret, Nigam Shah, Nigel R. Shadbolt, Nigel Shadbolt, Norbert Küchlin, Norwati Mustapha, Olaf Hartig, Olivier Bodenreider, Oscar Corcho, Oszkar Ambrus, Padhraic Smyth, Pankaj Mehra, Paola Di Maio, Paolo Bouquet, Pascal Hitzler, Patrick Paulson, Patrick West, Paul - Alexandru Chirita, Paul Doran, Paul Smart, Paul Warren, Paula Engelbrecht, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Pavel Klinov, Pavel Shvaiko, Paweł Lula, Peter Beck, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Peter Fox, Peter Haase, Peter Mika, Peter Scheir, Peter Vojtas, Peter Yeh, Philipp Cimiano, Philipp Kärger, Philipp Sorg, Philippe Thiran, Piero Bonatti, Premand Mohan, Qiu JI, Rachael Brady, Rafael González-Cabero, Ralf Moeller, Rama Akkiraju, Ramanathan Guha, Ramesh Jain, Raphael Troncy, Raphael Volz, Ravish Bhagdev, Renzo Angles, Reuben Wright, Ricardo Amador, Riccardo Rosati, Richard Cyganiak, Richard McClatchey, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Robert Engels, Robert Raskin, Robert Schloss, Robert W. McGrail, Rogier Brussee, Rolf Grütter, Ronald Denaux, Rudi Studer, SM Hazzaz Imtiaz, Sam Chapman, Samson Tu, Sang Keun Rhee, Sean Bechhofer, Sebastian Boehm, Sebastian Faubel, Sebastian Hellmann, Sebastian Rudolph, Sergej Sizov, Shahdad Shariatmadari, Shashi Shekhar, Shenghui Wang, Shengping Liu, Shoji Kurakake, Sibel Adali, Siegfried Handschuh, Simon Ferndriger, Simon Jupp, Simon Schenk, Sofia Angeletou, Sonja Zillner, Stefan Decker, Stefan Kopp, Stefan Schlobach, Stefan Schulz, Stefanie Lindstaedt, Stefano Bianchi, Steffen Staab, Stein L. Tomassen, Steve Sears, Stuart Taylor, Susie Stephens, Sven Schwarz, Syed Tirmizi, Sören Auer, Takeru Hirota, Tamás Hauer, Tania Tudorache, Taowei Wang, Terry Janssen, Terry Payne, Tharam Dillon, Thierry Declerck, Thies Pfeiffer, Thomas Eiter, Thomas Franz, Thomas Hornung, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Thomas Meilender, Thomas Scharrenbach, Thomas Schneider, Tim Finin, Timos Sellis, Ting Wang, Tiziana Margaria, Tobias Kuhn, Tom Heath, Tomas Vitvar, Tony Solomonides, Torsten Zesch, Toru Ishida, Trevor Martin, Udo Hahn, Uli Sattler, Ulrike Sattler, Umberto Straccia, Uwe Assmann, Valentin Tablan, Valentina Presutti, Valentina Tamma, Vania Dimitrova, Vasant Honavar, Vassilis Christophides, Veda Storey, Verena Kantere, Victoria Uren, Viktoria Pammer, Vilas Wuwongse, Vinay Chaudhri, Vipul Kashyap, Virginia Dignum, Vit Novacek, Vita Lanfranchi, Vojtech Svatek, Weichang Du, Wolf Siberski, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang May, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolfgang Prinz, Xia Wang, Xianyong Fang, Xingzhi Sun, Xuan Zhou, Yang Yang, Yannis Avrithis, Yaodong Chen, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Yolanda Gil, Yong Yu, York Sure, Yuan Ni, Yuan-Fang Li, Yue Pan, Yuzhang Feng, Yuzhong Qu, Zhisheng Huang, Zoi Kaoudi, henson graves, luigi sauro, robert Stevens

The following workshops took place at 7th International Semantic Web Conference: