The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006

1. Front Matter

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2. Research Track

   1. Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank

      • Harith Alani, Christopher Brewster, Nigel Shadbolt

      Pages 1-15

   2. Three Semantics for Distributed Systems and Their Relations with Alignment Composition

      • Antoine Zimmermann, Jérôme Euzenat

      Pages 16-29

   3. Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL

      • Jorge Pérez, Marcelo Arenas, Claudio Gutierrez

      Pages 30-43

   4. Ontology-Driven Automatic Entity Disambiguation in Unstructured Text

      • Joseph Hassell, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, I. Budak Arpinar

      Pages 44-57

   5. Augmenting Navigation for Collaborative Tagging with Emergent Semantics

      • Melanie Aurnhammer, Peter Hanappe, Luc Steels

      Pages 58-71

   6. On the Semantics of Linking and Importing in Modular Ontologies

      • Jie Bao, Doina Caragea, Vasant G. Honavar

      Pages 72-86

   7. RS2D: Fast Adaptive Search for Semantic Web Services in Unstructured P2P Networks

      • Ulrich Basters, Matthias Klusch

      Pages 87-100

   8. SADIe: Semantic Annotation for Accessibility

      • Sean Bechhofer, Simon Harper, Darren Lunn

      Pages 101-115

   9. Automatic Annotation of Web Services Based on Workflow Definitions

      • Khalid Belhajjame, Suzanne M. Embury, Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Carole A. Goble

      Pages 116-129

   10. A Constraint-Based Approach to Horizontal Web Service Composition

       • Ahlem Ben Hassine, Shigeo Matsubara, Toru Ishida

       Pages 130-143

   11. GINO – A Guided Input Natural Language Ontology Editor

       • Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann

       Pages 144-157

   12. Fresnel: A Browser-Independent Presentation Vocabulary for RDF

       • Emmanuel Pietriga, Christian Bizer, David Karger, Ryan Lee

       Pages 158-171

   13. A Software Engineering Approach to Design and Development of Semantic Web Service Applications

       • Marco Brambilla, Irene Celino, Stefano Ceri, Dario Cerizza, Emanuele Della Valle, Federico Michele Facca

       Pages 172-186

   14. A Model Driven Approach for Building OWL DL and OWL Full Ontologies

       • Saartje Brockmans, Robert M. Colomb, Peter Haase, Elisa F. Kendall, Evan K. Wallace, Chris Welty et al.

       Pages 187-200

   15. IRS-III: A Broker for Semantic Web Services Based Applications

       • Liliana Cabral, John Domingue, Stefania Galizia, Alessio Gugliotta, Vlad Tanasescu, Carlos Pedrinaci et al.

       Pages 201-214

   16. Provenance Explorer – Customized Provenance Views Using Semantic Inferencing

       • Kwok Cheung, Jane Hunter

       Pages 215-227

   17. On How to Perform a Gold Standard Based Evaluation of Ontology Learning

       • Klaas Dellschaft, Steffen Staab

       Pages 228-241

   18. Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web

       • Li Ding, Tim Finin

       Pages 242-257

   19. MultiCrawler: A Pipelined Architecture for Crawling and Indexing Semantic Web Data

       • Andreas Harth, Jürgen Umbrich, Stefan Decker

       Pages 258-271

“Evolve or perish” – this is the motto for living systems. Judging by this saying, the Web is alive and well: new sites and business ideas are coming online almost daily and are able to attract millions of users often. The more recently coined term “Web 2.0” summarizes many of the new developments, capturing efforts making the Web more interactive (like Ajax), more collaborative (like Wikis), or more relationship oriented (like online social networks), aiming to partially fulfill the original promise of the Web. These new Web developments offer an opportunity and challenge for the Semantic Web: what previously manifested itself mostly in “dry” specifications is now becoming the foundation for information exchange on the Web, creating a shared semantic information space. These and other challenges have been picked up by several hundred computer scientists, developers, vendors, government workers, venture capitalists, students, and users, gathered in Athens, Atlanta, USA, November 5–9, 2006, for the Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006). Building on previous successful meetings in Sardinia, Sanibel Island, Hiroshima, and Galway, this sixth annual conference demonstrates new research results, technology, and applications that show current incarnations of the Semantic Web. Especially encouraging is the shift towards more applications—whereas the Research Track attracted roughly as many papers as in the previous year, the contributions submitted to the In-Use Track doubled.

• Alignment
• Navigation
• OWL
• architecture
• data engineering
• data semantics
• distributed systems
• e-science
• information engineering systems
• learning
• ontology-based information integration
• programming
• semantic Web
• semantic indexing
• semantics

• Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

  Isabel Cruz

• Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland

  Stefan Decker

• TopQuadrant, USA

  Dean Allemang

• HP Laboratories, Bristol, UK

  Chris Preist

• Departamento de Informática – Pontifícia, Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro,, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Daniel Schwabe

• Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain

  Peter Mika

• Boeing, Phantom Works, Seattle, USA

  Mike Uschold

• Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  Lora M. Aroyo

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