November 7
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9:00 10:30 Opening Welcome + Keynote: Gruber  CHAIR: Daniel Schwabe - Mahler Auditorium, 1st floor
10:30 11:00 Break          
Research 1: Social Software CHAIR: Riichiro Mizoguchi     Research 2: Robust and Scalable Semantic Web Techniques CHAIR: Siegfried Handschuh     In-Use 1: Knowledge Management CHAIR: Matt Johnson     Industry 1 CHAIR: Kunal Verma    
Mahler Auditorium, 1st floor     Room F/G, 2nd floor     Room K/L, 2nd floor     Masters Hall, 1st floor    
Innovation Detection based on User-Interest Ontology of Blog Community Makoto Nakatsuji, Yu Miyoshi, Yoshihiro Otsuka  11:00 11:30  Framework for an Automated Comparison of Description Logic Reasoners  Dmitry Tsarkov, Tom Gardiner, Ian Horrocks  11:00 11:30 Semantic web technology for expert knowledge sharing and discovery Steven Kraines,Weisen Guo,Brian Kemper,Yutaka Nakamura 11:00 11:30 Managing Richly Connected Information Pankaj Mehra, HP Labs 11:30 12:00
Extracting Relations in Social Networks from Web using Similarity between Collective Contexts Junichiro Mori, Takumi Tsujishita, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka  11:30 12:00 The Summary Abox: Cutting Ontologies Down to Size Aaron Kershenbaum, Li Ma, Edith Schonberg, Kavitha Srinivas, Achille Fokoue  11:30 12:00 NEWS: bringing Semantic Web Technologies into News Agencies Norberto Fernandez,Jose M. Blazquez,Jesus A. Fisteus,Luis Sanchez,Michael Sintek,Ansgar Bernardi,Manuel Fuentes,Angelo Marrara,Zohar Ben-Asher 11:30 12:00 Semantic Solutions: Generating Business Value from Semantic Web Technologies Tony Stuart, IBM Almaden Research Labs 12:00 12:30
Modeling Social Attitudes on the Web Matthias Nickles  12:00 12:30 Reducing the Inferred Type Statements with Individual Grouping Constructs Ovunc Ozturk, Tugba Ozacar, Murat Osman Unalir  12:00 12:30 OntoWiki - A Tool for Social, Semantic Collaboration Sören Auer,Thomas Riechert,Sebastian Dietzold 12:00 12:30 Customer Service accelerated by Semantics Angele Jürgen, Ontoprise 12:30 13:00
12:30 14:00 Lunch          
Research 3: Ontology Mapping, Merging, and Alignment I  CHAIR: Steffen Staab     Research 4: Evaluation of Semantic Web Techniques CHAIR: Deborah McGuinness     Research 5: Ontology-Driven Information Extraction CHAIR: Tim Finin            
Room K/L, 2nd floor     Mahler Auditorium, 1st floor     Masters Hall, 1st floor            
Towards Knowledge Acquisition from Information Extraction  Chris Welty, J. William Murdock  14:00 14:30 ONTOCOM: A Cost Estimation Model for Ontology Engineering Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Christoph Tempich, York Sure  14:00 14:30 Ontology-Driven Automatic Entity Disambiguation in Unstructured Text Joseph Hassell, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Budak Arpinar  14:00 14:30     14:00 14:30
Three Semantics for Distributed Systems and their Relations with Alignment Composition  Antoine Zimmermann, Jérôme Euzenat  14:30 15:00 Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank Harith Alani, Christopher Brewster, Nigel Shadbolt  14:30 15:00 Ontology-driven Information Extraction with OntoSyphon  Luke McDowell, Michael Cafarella  14:30 15:00     14:30 15:00
Formal Model for Ontology Mapping Creation  Adrian Mocan, Emilia Cimpian, Mick Kerrigan  15:00 15:30 A Survey of the Web Ontology Landscape Taowei Wang, Bijan Parsia, Jim Hendler  15:00 15:30 A Framework for Schema-Driven Relationship Discovery from Unstructured text  Cartic Ramakrishnan, Krys Kochut, Amit Sheth  15:00 15:30     15:00 15:30
15:30 16:00 Break
Research 6: Database Technologies CHAIR: Jos de Bruijn      Research 7: Semantic Web Service Composition CHAIR: John Domingue      Research 8: Languages, Tools, and Methodologies for Representing and Managing Data  CHAIR: Avi Bernstein            
Mahler Auditorium, 1st floor     Masters Hall, 1st floor     Room K/L, 2nd floor            
Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL  Marcelo Arenas, Jorge A. Perez, Claudio Gutierrez  16:00 16:30 A formal model for semantic Web service composition  Freddy Lécué, Alain Léger  16:00 16:30 /facet: A Browser for Heterogeneous Semantic Web Repositories  Michiel Hildebrand, Jacco Ossenbruggen, van, Lynda Hardman  16:00 16:30     16:00 16:30
Ontology Query Answering on Databases  Jing Mei, Li Ma, Yue Pan  16:30 17:00 Web Service Composition via Generic Procedures and Customizing User Preferences  Sheila McIlraith, Shirin Sohrabi, Nataliya Prokoshyna  16:30 17:00 Fresnel: A Browser-Independent Presentation Vocabulary for RDF  Christian Bizer, Emmanuel Pietriga, David Karger, Ryan Lee  16:30 17:00     16:30 17:00
Querying the Semantic Web with Preferences  Wolf Siberski, Jeff Pan, Uwe Thaden  17:00 17:30 A Constraint-based Approach to Horizontal Web Service Composition  Ahlem Ben Hassine, Shigeo Matsubara, Toru Ishida 17:00 17:30 Extending faceted navigation for RDF data  Eyal Oren, Renaud Delbru, Stefan Decker  17:00 17:30     17:00 17:30
                 
17:30 18:00 Funding Panel - Mahler Auditorium, 1st floor
Chairs: Amit Sheth, Manfred Hauswirth
Panelists: Mark Greaves, Todd Hughes, Isidro Laso-Ballesteros, James Milligan, Frank Olken
18:00 18:30
18:30 19:00
19:00 21:00 Posters Reception - Lower Lobby, Hill Atrium and Banquet Area
November 8
Track 1     Track 2     Track 3     Track 3    
9:00 10:30 Keynote: Fountain CHAIR: Isabel Cruz - Mahler Auditorium, 1st floor
10:30 11:00 Break
Research 9: Collaboration and Cooperation CHAIR: Siegfried Handschuh     Research 10: Rule and Ontology Languages CHAIR: Terry Payne     In-Use 2: Semantic Integration CHAIR: Mike Dean     Industry 2 CHAIR: Alain Leger    
Room F/G, 2nd floor     Mahler Auditorium, 1st floor     Room K/L, 2nd floor     Masters Hall, 1st floor    
Augmenting Navigation for Collaborative Tagging with Emergent Semantics Melanie Aurnhammer, Peter Hanappe, Luc Steels  11:00 11:30 Can OWL and Logic Programming Live Together Happily Ever After?  Boris Motik, Ian Horrocks, Riccardo Rosati, Ulrike Sattler  11:00 11:30 Semantic Desktop 2.0: The Gnowsis Experience Leo Sauermann, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, Malte Kiesel, Christiaan Fluit, Dominik Heim, Danish Nadeem, Benjamin Horak, Andreas Dengel 11:00 11:30 Integrating Enterprise Data with Semantic Technologies Susie Stephens, Oracle 11:00 11:30
A Semantic Context-Aware Access Control Framework for Secure Collaborations in Pervasive Computing Environments Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Toninelli, Lalana Kagal, Ora Lassila  11:30 12:00 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, Guo Tong Xie  11:30 12:00 Information Integration via an End-to-End Distributed Semantic Web System Dimitre Dimitrov, Jeff Heflin, Abir Qasem, Nanbor Wang 11:30 12:00 Deploying Enterprise Level, Ontology-Driven Faceted Search Ralph Hodgson and Willie Milnor, TopQuadrant 11:30 12:00
A Framework for Ontology Evolution in Collaborative Environments  Natalya Noy, Abhita Chugh, William Liu, Mark Musen  12:00 12:30 On the Semantics of Linking and Importing in Modular Ontologies  Jie Bao, Doina Caragea, Vasant Honavar  12:00 12:30 Explaining Conclusions from Diverse Knowledge Sources J William Murdock, Deborah McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Chris Welty, David Ferrucci 12:00 12:30 From the Bench to the Bedside: The role of Semantics in enabling the vision of Translational Medicine Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System 12:00 12:30
12:30 14:00 Lunch
Research 11: Ontology Mapping, Merging, and Alignment II CHAIR: Natasha Noy     Research 12: Semantic Web Services CHAIR: Massimo Paolucci     In-Use 3: E-Science CHAIR: Joanne Luciano            
Maher Auditorium, 1st floor     Room K/L, 2nd floor     Masters Hall, 1st floor            
PowerMap: Mapping the Real Semantic Web on the Fly  Vanessa Lopez, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta  14:00 14:30 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  14:00 14:30 Enabling an Onlince Community for Sharing Oral Medicine Cases Using Semantice Web Technologies Marie Gustafsson, Göran Falkman, Fredrik Lindahl, Olof Torgersson 14:00 14:30     14:00 14:30
Block Matching for Ontologies  Wei Hu, Yuzhong Qu  14:30 15:00 RS2D: Fast Adaptive Search for Semantic Web
Services in Unstructured P2P Networks 
Matthias Klusch, Ulrich Basters  14:30 15:00 From Legacy Relational Databases to the Semantic Web: an In-Use Application for Traditional Chinese Medicine Huajun Chen, Yimin Wang, Zhaohui Wu, Meng Cui, Ainin Yin, Heng Wang, Yuxin Mao, Jinmin Tang, Chunyin Zhou 14:30 15:00     14:30 15:00
Reaching agreement over ontology alignments Loredana Laera, Valentina Tamma, Jérôme Euzenat, Trevor Bench-Capon, Terry Payne  15:00 15:30 IRS-III: A Broker for Semantic Web Services based Applications  Liliana Cabral, John Domingue, Stefania Galizia, Alessio Gugliotta, Barry Norton, Vlad Tanasescu, Carlos Pedrinaci  15:00 15:30 Towards Semantic Interoperability in a Clinical Trials Management System Ravi Shankar, Susana martins, Martin O, David Parrish, Amar Das 15:00 15:30     15:00 15:30
            15:30 16:00 Semantically-Enabled Large-Scale Science Data Repositories Peter Fox,  Deborah McGuinness 15:30 16:00     15:30 16:00
16:00 16:30 Break
16:30 17:00 Web 2.0 Panel (Mark Greaves) - Mahler Auditorium, 1st floor
17:00 17:30
17:30 18:00
Banquet - Banquet Area
19:30
November 9
Track 1     Track 2     Track 3     Track 4    
9:00 10:30 Keynote: Studer CHAIR: Stefan Decker - Mahler Auditorium, 1st floor
10:30 11:00 Break
Research 13: Applications of SW Technologies with Lessons Learned CHAIR: Jérôme Euzenat     Research 14: User-Centered Applications  CHAIR: Marta Sabou     Research 15: e-Science and Workflows  Chair: Joanne Luciano     Industry 3 CHAIR: Michael Uschold    
Mahler Auditorium, 1st floor     Room F/G, 2nd floor     Room K/L, 2nd floor     Masters Hall, 1st floor    
Crawling and Indexing Semantic Web Data  Andreas Harth, Juergen Umbrich, Stefan Decker  11:00 11:30 SADIe: Semantic Annotation for Accessibility  Sean Bechhofer, Simon Harper, Darren Lunn  11:00 11:30 Semantic Metadata Generation for Large Scientific Workflows  Jihie Kim, Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar  11:00 11:30 Knowledge Representation in Practice: Project Halo and the Semantic Web Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc. 11:00 11:30
Using Ontologies for Extracting Product Features from Web Pages Wolfgang Holzinger, Bernhard Kruepl, Marcus Herzog  11:30 12:00 GINO - A Guided Input Natural Language Ontology Editor  Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann  11:30 12:00 Provenance Explorer – Tailored Provenance Views Using Semantic Inferencing  Kwok Cheung, Jane Hunter  11:30 12:00 How Co-Occurrence can Complement Semantics? Atanas Kiryakov and Borislav Popov, Ontotext 11:30 12:00
Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web  Li Ding, Tim Finin  12:00 12:30 CropCircles: Topology Sensitive Visualization of OWL Class Hierarchies  Taowei Wang, Bijan Parsia  12:00 12:30 Automatic Annotation of Web Services based on Workflow Definitions  Khalid Belhajjame, Suzanne M. Embury, Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Carole A. Goble  12:00 12:30 Semantic Web @ W3C: Activities, Recommendations and State of Adoption Ivan Herman, W3C 12:00 12:30
12:30 14:00 Lunch
Research 16: Machine Learning and Query Evaluation  CHAIR: Vinay Chaudhri     Research 17: Human-Language Technologies l  CHAIR: Guus Schreiber     In-Use 4: Services and Middleware CHAIR: Oscar Corcho            
Masters Hall, 1st floor     Room K/L, 2nd floor     Mahler Auditorium, 1st floor            
On How to Perform a Gold Standard Based Evaluation of Ontology Learning  Klaas Dellschaft, Steffen Staab  14:00 14:30 Integrating and Querying Parallel Leaf Shape Descriptions  Shenghui Wang, Jeff Z. Pan  14:00 14:30 Construction and Use of Role-ontology for Task-based Service Navigation System Yusuke Fukazawa, Takefumi Naganuma, Kunihiro Fujii, Shoji Kurakake 14:00 14:30     14:00 14:30
Tree-structured Conditional Random Fields for Semantic Annotation  Jie Tang, Mingcai Hong, Juanzi Li  14:30 15:00 A Method for Learning Part-Whole Relations  Willem van Hage, Hap Kolb, Guus Schreiber  14:30 15:00 Ontogator --- A Semantic View-Based Search Engine Service for Web Applications Eetu Mäkelä, Eero Hyvönen, Samppa Saarela 14:30 15:00     14:30 15:00
Evaluating Conjunctive Triple Pattern Queries over Large Structured Overlay Networks  Erietta Liarou, Stratos Idreos, Manolis Koubarakis  15:00 15:30 Mining Information for Instance Unification  Kalina Bontcheva, Niraj Aswani, Hamish Cunningham  15:00 15:30 Active Semantic Electronic Medical Record Nicole Oldham, Amit Sheth, Subodh Agrawal, Jonathan Lathem, Harry Wingate, Prem Yadav, Kelly Gallagher 15:00 15:30     15:00 15:30
A Relaxed Approach to RDF Querying  Carlos Hurtado, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter Wood  15:30 16:00     15:30 16:00 A Mixed Initiative Semantic Web Framework for Process Composition Jinghai Rao,  Dimitar Dimitrov,  Paul Hofmann,  Norman Sadeh 15:30 16:00     15:30 16:00
16:00 16:30 Break
16:30 17:00 Closing Cerimony - Awards, Next Year's Presentation - Mahler Auditorium, 1st floor