International Semantic Web Conference 2006: Athens, GA, USA

Research Track

• Harith Alani, Christopher Brewster, Nigel Shadbolt:
  Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank. 1-15
  
• Antoine Zimmermann, Jérôme Euzenat:
  Three Semantics for Distributed Systems and Their Relations with Alignment Composition. 16-29
  
• Jorge Pérez, Marcelo Arenas, Claudio Gutierrez:
  Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL. 30-43
  
• Joseph Hassell, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar:
  Ontology-Driven Automatic Entity Disambiguation in Unstructured Text. 44-57
  
• Melanie Aurnhammer, Peter Hanappe, Luc Steels:
  Augmenting Navigation for Collaborative Tagging with Emergent Semantics. 58-71
  
• Jie Bao, Doina Caragea, Vasant Honavar:
  On the Semantics of Linking and Importing in Modular Ontologies. 72-86
  
• Ulrich Basters, Matthias Klusch:
  RS2D: Fast Adaptive Search for Semantic Web Services in Unstructured P2P Networks. 87-100
  
• Sean Bechhofer, Simon Harper, Darren Lunn:
  : Semantic Annotation for Accessibility. 101-115
  
• Khalid Belhajjame, Suzanne M. Embury, Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Carole A. Goble:
  Automatic Annotation of Web Services Based on Workflow Definitions. 116-129
  
• Ahlem Ben Hassine, Shigeo Matsubara, Toru Ishida:
  A Constraint-Based Approach to Horizontal Web Service Composition. 130-143
  
• Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann:
  GINO - A Guided Input Natural Language Ontology Editor. 144-157
  
• Emmanuel Pietriga, Christian Bizer, David R. Karger, Ryan Lee:
  Fresnel: A Browser-Independent Presentation Vocabulary for RDF. 158-171
  
• Marco Brambilla, Irene Celino, Stefano Ceri, Dario Cerizza, Emanuele Della Valle, Federico Michele Facca:
  A Software Engineering Approach to Design and Development of Semantic Web Service Applications. 172-186
  
• Saartje Brockmans, Robert M. Colomb, Peter Haase, Elisa F. Kendall, Evan K. Wallace, Christopher A. Welty, Guo Tong Xie:
  A Model Driven Approach for Building OWL DL and OWL Full Ontologies. 187-200
  
• Liliana Cabral, John Domingue, Stefania Galizia, Alessio Gugliotta, Vlad Tanasescu, Carlos Pedrinaci, Barry Norton:
  IRS-III: A Broker for Semantic Web Services Based Applications. 201-214
  
• Kwok Cheung, Jane Hunter:
  Provenance Explorer - Customized Provenance Views Using Semantic Inferencing. 215-227
  
• Klaas Dellschaft, Steffen Staab:
  On How to Perform a Gold Standard Based Evaluation of Ontology Learning. 228-241
  
• Li Ding, Tim Finin:
  Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web. 242-257
  
• Andreas Harth, Jürgen Umbrich, Stefan Decker:
  MultiCrawler: A Pipelined Architecture for Crawling and Indexing Semantic Web Data. 258-271
  
• Michiel Hildebrand, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hardman:
  /facet: A Browser for Heterogeneous Semantic Web Repositories. 272-285
  
• Wolfgang Holzinger, Bernhard Krüpl, Marcus Herzog:
  Using Ontologies for Extracting Product Features from Web Pages. 286-299
  
• Wei Hu, Yuzhong Qu:
  Block Matching for Ontologies. 300-313
  
• Carlos A. Hurtado, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter T. Wood:
  A Relaxed Approach to RDF Querying. 314-328
  
• Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham:
  Mining Information for Instance Unification. 329-342
  
• Achille Fokoue, Aaron Kershenbaum, Li Ma, Edith Schonberg, Kavitha Srinivas:
  The Summary Abox: Cutting Ontologies Down to Size. 343-356
  
• Jihie Kim, Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar:
  Semantic Metadata Generation for Large Scientific Workflows. 357-370
  
• Loredana Laera, Valentina A. M. Tamma, Jérôme Euzenat, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Terry R. Payne:
  Reaching Agreement over Ontology Alignments. 371-384
  
• Freddy Lécué, Alain Léger:
  A Formal Model for Semantic Web Service Composition. 385-398
  
• Erietta Liarou, Stratos Idreos, Manolis Koubarakis:
  Evaluating Conjunctive Triple Pattern Queries over Large Structured Overlay Networks. 399-413
  
• Vanessa Lopez, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta:
  PowerMap: Mapping the Real Semantic Web on the Fly. 414-427
  
• Luke McDowell, Michael J. Cafarella:
  Ontology-Driven Information Extraction with OntoSyphon. 428-444
  
• Jing Mei, Li Ma, Yue Pan:
  Ontology Query Answering on Databases. 445-458
  
• Adrian Mocan, Emilia Cimpian, Mick Kerrigan:
  Formal Model for Ontology Mapping Creation. 459-472
  
• Alessandra Toninelli, Rebecca Montanari, Lalana Kagal, Ora Lassila:
  A Semantic Context-Aware Access Control Framework for Secure Collaborations in Pervasive Computing Environments. 473-486
  
• Junichiro Mori, Takumi Tsujishita, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
  Extracting Relations in Social Networks from the Web Using Similarity Between Collective Contexts. 487-500
  
• Boris Motik, Ian Horrocks, Riccardo Rosati, Ulrike Sattler:
  Can OWL and Logic Programming Live Together Happily Ever After? 501-514
  
• Makoto Nakatsuji, Yu Miyoshi, Yoshihiro Otsuka:
  Innovation Detection Based on User-Interest Ontology of Blog Community. 515-528
  
• Matthias Nickles:
  Modeling Social Attitudes on the Web. 529-543
  
• Natalya Fridman Noy, Abhita Chugh, William Liu, Mark A. Musen:
  A Framework for Ontology Evolution in Collaborative Environments. 544-558
  
• Eyal Oren, Renaud Delbru, Stefan Decker:
  Extending Faceted Navigation for RDF Data. 559-572
  
• Övünç Öztürk, Tugba Özacar, Murat Osman Ünalir:
  Reducing the Inferred Type Statements with Individual Grouping Constructs. 573-582
  
• Cartic Ramakrishnan, Krys Kochut, Amit P. Sheth:
  A Framework for Schema-Driven Relationship Discovery from Unstructured Text. 583-596
  
• Shirin Sohrabi, Nataliya Prokoshyna, Sheila A. McIlraith:
  Web Service Composition Via Generic Procedures and Customizing User Preferences. 597-611
  
• Wolf Siberski, Jeff Z. Pan, Uwe Thaden:
  Querying the Semantic Web with Preferences. 612-624
  
• Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Christoph Tempich, York Sure:
  : A Cost Estimation Model for Ontology Engineering. 625-639
  
• Jie Tang, MingCai Hong, Juan-Zi Li, Bangyong Liang:
  Tree-Structured Conditional Random Fields for Semantic Annotation. 640-653
  
• Tom Gardiner, Dmitry Tsarkov, Ian Horrocks:
  Framework for an Automated Comparison of Description Logic Reasoners. 654-667
  
• Shenghui Wang, Jeff Z. Pan:
  Integrating and Querying Parallel Leaf Shape Descriptions. 668-681
  
• Taowei David Wang, Bijan Parsia, James A. Hendler:
  A Survey of the Web Ontology Landscape. 682-694
  
• Taowei David Wang, Bijan Parsia:
  CropCircles: Topology Sensitive Visualization of OWL Class Hierarchies. 695-708
  
• Christopher A. Welty, J. William Murdock:
  Towards Knowledge Acquisition from Information Extraction. 709-722
  
• Willem Robert van Hage, Hap Kolb, Guus Schreiber:
  A Method for Learning Part-Whole Relations. 723-735
  

Semantic Web in Use

• Sören Auer, Sebastian Dietzold, Thomas Riechert:
  OntoWiki - A Tool for Social, Semantic Collaboration. 736-749
  
• Huajun Chen, Yimin Wang, Heng Wang, Yuxin Mao, Jinmin Tang, Chunying Zhou, Aining Yin, Zhaohui Wu:
  Towards a Semantic Web of Relational Databases: A Practical Semantic Toolkit and an In-Use Case from Traditional Chinese Medicine. 750-763
  
• Dimitre A. Dimitrov, Jeff Heflin, Abir Qasem, Nanbor Wang:
  Information Integration Via an End-to-End Distributed Semantic Web System. 764-777
  
• Norberto Fernández García, José M. Blázquez del Toro, Jesús Arias-Fisteus, Luis Sánchez, Michael Sintek, Ansgar Bernardi, Manuel Fuentes, Angelo Marrara, Zohar Ben-Asher:
  NEWS: Bringing Semantic Web Technologies into News Agencies. 778-791
  
• Peter Fox, Deborah L. McGuinness, Don Middleton, Luca Cinquini, J. Anthony Darnell, Jose Garcia, Patrick West, James L. Benedict, Stan Solomon:
  Semantically-Enabled Large-Scale Science Data Repositories. 792-805
  
• Yusuke Fukazawa, Takefumi Naganuma, Kunihiro Fujii, Shoji Kurakake:
  Construction and Use of Role-Ontology for Task-Based Service Navigation System. 806-819
  
• Marie Gustafsson, Göran Falkman, Fredrik Lindahl, Olof Torgersson:
  Enabling an Online Community for Sharing Oral Medicine Cases Using Semantic Web Technologies. 820-832
  
• Steven B. Kraines, Weisen Guo, Brian Kemper, Yutaka Nakamura:
  EKOSS: A Knowledge-User Centered Approach to Knowledge Sharing, Discovery, and Integration on the Semantic Web. 833-846
  
• Eetu Mäkelä, Eero Hyvönen, Samppa Saarela:
  Ontogator - A Semantic View-Based Search Engine Service for Web Applications. 847-860
  
• J. William Murdock, Deborah L. McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Christopher A. Welty, David A. Ferrucci:
  Explaining Conclusions from Diverse Knowledge Sources. 861-872
  
• Jinghai Rao, Dimitar Dimitrov, Paul Hofmann, Norman M. Sadeh:
  A Mixed Initiative Semantic Web Framework for Process Composition. 873-886
  
• Leo Sauermann, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, Malte Kiesel, Christiaan Fluit, Heiko Maus, Dominik Heim, Danish Nadeem, Benjamin Horak, Andreas Dengel:
  Semantic Desktop 2.0: The Gnowsis Experience. 887-900
  
• Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O'Connor, David B. Parrish, Amar K. Das:
  Towards Semantic Interoperability in a Clinical Trials Management System. 901-912
  
• Amit P. Sheth, S. Agrawal, Jon Lathem, Nicole Oldham, H. Wingate, P. Yadav, K. Gallagher:
  Active Semantic Electronic Medical Record. 913-926
  

Semantic Web Challenge

• Òscar Celma:
  Foafing the Music: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Music Recommendation. 927-934
  
• Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandecic, Max Völkel:
  Semantic MediaWiki. 935-942
  
• Giovanni Tummarello, Christian Morbidoni, Michele Nucci:
  Enabling Semantic Web Communities with DBin: An Overview. 943-950
  
• Guus Schreiber, Alia K. Amin, Mark van Assem, Viktor de Boer, Lynda Hardman, Michiel Hildebrand, Laura Hollink, Zhisheng Huang, Janneke van Kersen, Marco de Niet, Borys Omelayenko, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Ronny Siebes, Jos Taekema, Jan Wielemaker, Bob J. Wielinga:
  MultimediaN E-Culture Demonstrator. 951-958
  
• Vlad Tanasescu, Alessio Gugliotta, John Domingue, Rob Davies, Leticia Gutiérrez-Villarías, Mary Rowlatt, Marc Richardson, Sandra Stincic:
  A Semantic Web Services GIS Based Emergency Management Application. 959-966
  

Doctoral Consortium

• Jie Bao, Doina Caragea, Vasant Honavar:
  Package-Based Description Logics - Preliminary Results. 967-969
  
• Özgü Can, Murat Osman Ünalir:
  Distributed Policy Management in Semantic Web. 970-971
  
• Jirí Dokulil:
  Evaluation of SPARQL Queries Using Relational Databases. 972-973
  
• Carolina Howard Felicíssimo:
  Dynamic Contextual Regulations in Open Multi-agent Systems. 974-975
  
• Harry Halpin:
  From Typed-Functional Semantic Web Services to Proofs. 976-977
  
• Jan Henke:
  Towards a Usable Group Editor for Ontologies. 978-979
  
• Esther Kaufmann:
  Talking to the Semantic Web - Query Interfaces to Ontologies for the Casual User. 980-981
  
• Yaozhong Liang, Harith Alani, Nigel Shadbolt:
  Changing Ontology Breaks Queries. 982-985
  
• Zhengxiang Pan:
  Towards a Global Scale Semantic Web. 986-987
  
• François Scharffe:
  Schema Mappings for the Web. 988
  
• M. Omair Shafiq:
  Triple Space Computing for Semantic Web Services - A PhD Roadmap. 989-991
  
• Cui Tao:
  Toward Making Online Biological Data Machine Understandable. 992-993
  

Keynote Abstracts

• Tom Gruber:
  Where the Social Web Meets the Semantic Web. 994
  
• Rudi Studer:
  The Semantic Web: Suppliers and Customers. 995-996
  
• Jane E. Fountain:
  The Semantic Web and Networked Governance: Promise and Challenges. 997-998