ESWC 2007: Innsbruck, Austria

Invited Talks

• Ron Brachman:
  Emerging Sciences of the Internet: Some New Opportunities. 1-3
  
• Stefano Ceri, Marco Brambilla, Emanuele Della Valle:
  Design Abstractions for Innovative Web Applications: The Case of the SOA Augmented with Semantics. 4-15
  
• Robert Baumgartner, Oliver Frölich, Georg Gottlob:
  The Lixto Systems Applications in Business Intelligence and Semantic Web. 16-26
  
• Ning Zhong:
  Ways to Develop Human-Level Web Intelligence: A Brain Informatics Perspective. 27-36
  

Best Papers

• René Witte, Yonggang Zhang, Juergen Rilling:
  Empowering Software Maintainers with Semantic Web Technologies. 37-52
  
• Sergio Muñoz, Jorge Pérez, Claudio Gutiérrez:
  Minimal Deductive Systems for RDF. 53-67
  

Semantic Web Services

• Marco Alberti, Federico Chesani, Marco Gavanelli, Evelina Lamma, Paola Mello, Marco Montali, Paolo Torroni:
  Web Service Contracting: Specification and Reasoning with SCIFF. 68-83
  
• Tomas Vitvar, Maciej Zaremba, Matthew Moran:
  Dynamic Service Discovery Through Meta-interactions with Service Providers. 84-98
  
• Michael Stollberg, Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, Stijn Heymans:
  Two-Phase Web Service Discovery Based on Rich Functional Descriptions. 99-113
  
• Stephan Grimm, Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, Gábor Nagypál:
  A Reasoning Framework for Rule-Based WSML. 114-128
  

Ontology Learning, Inference and Mapping I

• Martin Hepp, Jos de Bruijn:
  GenTax: A Generic Methodology for Deriving OWL and RDF-S Ontologies from Hierarchical Classifications, Thesauri, and Inconsistent Taxonomies. 129-144
  
• Krys Kochut, Maciej Janik:
  SPARQLeR: Extended Sparql for Semantic Association Discovery. 145-159
  
• Eyal Oren, Sebastian Gerke, Stefan Decker:
  Simple Algorithms for Predicate Suggestions Using Similarity and Co-occurrence. 160-174
  
• Johanna Völker, Denny Vrandecic, York Sure, Andreas Hotho:
  Learning Disjointness. 175-189
  

Case Studies

• Violeta Damjanovic, Wernher Behrendt, Manuela Plößnig, Merlin Holzapfel:
  Developing Ontologies for Collaborative Engineering in Mechatronics. 190-204
  
• Wouter van Atteveldt, Stefan Schlobach, Frank van Harmelen:
  Media, Politics and the Semantic Web. 205-219
  
• Emanuele Della Valle, Dario Cerizza, Irene Celino, Jacky Estublier, Germán Vega, Mick Kerrigan, Jaime Ramírez, Boris Villazon, Pascal Guarrera, Gang Zhao, Gabriella Monteleone:
  SEEMP: An Semantic Interoperability Infrastructure for e-Government Services in the Employment Sector. 220-234
  
• Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Uldis Bojars, Harold Boley, John G. Breslin, Malgorzata Mochol, Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Axel Polleres, Anna V. Zhdanova:
  Combining RDF Vocabularies for Expert Finding. 235-250
  

Social Semantic Web

• Jin Yingzi, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
  Extracting Social Networks Among Various Entities on the Web. 251-266
  
• Jason J. Jung, Jérôme Euzenat:
  Towards Semantic Social Networks. 267-280
  
• Nicholas J. Kings, Caroline Gale, John Davies:
  Knowledge Sharing on the Semantic Web. 281-295
  

Ontologies: Requirements and Analysis

• Timo Weithöner, Thorsten Liebig, Marko Luther, Sebastian Böhm, Friedrich W. von Henke, Olaf Noppens:
  Real-World Reasoning with OWL. 296-310
  
• Denny Vrandecic, York Sure:
  How to Design Better Ontology Metrics. 311-325
  
• Xi Deng, Volker Haarslev, Nematollaah Shiri:
  Measuring Inconsistencies in Ontologies. 326-340
  

Personalization I

• Alistair Duke, Tim Glover, John Davies:
  Squirrel: An Advanced Semantic Search and Browse Facility. 341-355
  
• Osma Suominen, Kim Viljanen, Eero Hyvönen:
  User-Centric Faceted Search for Semantic Portals. 356-370
  
• Rafael Liberato Roberto, Sérgio Roberto P. da Silva:
  An Approach for Identification of User's Intentions During the Navigation in Semantic Websites. 371-383
  

Foundations of the Semantic Web

• Thomas Lukasiewicz:
  A Novel Combination of Answer Set Programming with Description Logics for the Semantic Web. 384-398
  
• Yue Ma, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Lin:
  Algorithms for Paraconsistent Reasoning with OWL. 399-413
  
• Azzurra Ragone, Umberto Straccia, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. Donini:
  Vague Knowledge Bases for Matchmaking in P2P E-Marketplaces. 414-428
  
• Anne Cregan:
  Symbol Grounding for the Semantic Web. 429-442
  

Natural Languages and Ontologies

• Anastasia Karanastasi, Stavros Christodoulakis:
  Ontology-Driven Semantic Ranking for Natural Language Disambiguation in the OntoNL Framework. 443-457
  
• Norbert E. Fuchs, Rolf Schwitter:
  Web-Annotations for Humans and Machines. 458-472
  
• Chong Wang, Miao Xiong, Qi Zhou, Yong Yu:
  PANTO: A Portable Natural Language Interface to Ontologies. 473-487
  
• Peyman Sazedj, Helena Sofia Pinto:
  Mining the Web Through Verbs: A Case Study. 488-502
  

Applications

• Sören Auer, Jens Lehmann:
  What Have Innsbruck and Leipzig in Common? Extracting Semantics from Wiki Content. 503-517
  
• Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Knud Möller, Stefan Decker:
  SALT - Semantically Annotated LaTeX for Scientific Publications. 518-532
  
• Ronald Schroeter, Jane Hunter, Andrew Newman:
  Annotating Relationships Between Multiple Mixed-Media Digital Objects by Extending Annotea. 533-548
  
• Thomas Albertsen, Eva Blomqvist:
  Describing Ontology Applications. 549-563
  

Querying and Web Data Models

• Olaf Hartig, Ralf Heese:
  The SPARQL Query Graph Model for Query Optimization. 564-578
  
• Trivikram Immaneni, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan:
  A Unified Approach to Retrieving Web Documents and Semantic Web Data. 579-593
  
• Michael Sintek, Ludger van Elst, Simon Scerri, Siegfried Handschuh:
  Distributed Knowledge Representation on the Social Semantic Desktop: Named Graphs, Views and Roles in NRL. 594-608
  
• Christoph Kiefer, Abraham Bernstein, Hong Joo Lee, Mark Klein, Markus Stocker:
  Semantic Process Retrieval with iSPARQL. 609-623
  

Ontology Learning, Inference and Mapping II

• Lucia Specia, Enrico Motta:
  Integrating Folksonomies with the Semantic Web. 624-639
  
• Norberto Fernández García, José M. Blázquez del Toro, Luis Sánchez, Ansgar Bernardi:
  IdentityRank: Named Entity Disambiguation in the Context of the NEWS Project. 640-654
  
• Ondrej Sváb, Vojtech Svátek, Heiner Stuckenschmidt:
  A Study in Empirical and 'Casuistic' Analysis of Ontology Mapping Results. 655-669
  
• Johanna Völker, Pascal Hitzler, Philipp Cimiano:
  Acquisition of OWL DL Axioms from Lexical Resources. 670-685
  

Personalization II

• Kay-Uwe Schmidt, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Nenad Stojanovic, Susan Thomas:
  On Enriching Ajax with Semantics: The Web Personalization Use Case. 686-700
  
• Stefan Dietze, Alessio Gugliotta, John Domingue:
  A Semantic Web Service Oriented Framework for Adaptive Learning Environments. 701-715
  
• Naouel Karam, Serge Linckels, Christoph Meinel:
  Semantic Composition of Lecture Subparts for a Personalized e-Learning. 716-728
  

System Descriptions

• David Aumüller, Erhard Rahm:
  Caravela: Semantic Content Management with Automatic Information Integration and Categorization (System Description). 729-738
  
• Abraham Bernstein, Michael Dänzer:
  The NExT System: Towards True Dynamic Adaptations of Semantic Web Service Compositions. 739-748
  
• Marin Dimitrov, Alex Simov, Vassil Momtchev, Mihail Konstantinov:
  WSMO Studio - A Semantic Web Services Modelling Environment for WSMO. 749-758
  
• Henrik Eriksson:
  An Annotation Tool for Semantic Documents. 759-768
  
• Ismail Fahmi, Junte Zhang, Henk Ellermann, Gosse Bouma:
  SWHi System Description: A Case Study in Information Retrieval, Inference, and Visualization in the Semantic Web. 769-778
  
• Donato Griesi, Maria Teresa Pazienza, Armando Stellato:
  Semantic Turkey : A Semantic Bookmarking Tool (System Description). 779-788
  
• Mick Kerrigan, Adrian Mocan, Martin Tanler, Dieter Fensel:
  The Web Service Modeling Toolkit - An Integrated Development Environment for Semantic Web Services. 789-798
  
• Olaf Noppens, Thorsten Liebig:
  Understanding Large Volumes of Interconnected Individuals by Visual Exploration. 799-808
  
• Luciano T. E. Pansanato, Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes:
  System Description: An Orienteering Strategy to Browse Semantically-Enhanced Educational Wiki Pages. 809-818
  
• Onni Valkeapää, Olli Alm, Eero Hyvönen:
  Efficient Content Creation on the Semantic Web Using Metadata Schemas with Domain Ontology Services (System Description). 819-828