ESWC 2006: Budva, Montenegro

Invited Talks

• Frank van Harmelen:
  Where Does It Break? or: Why the Semantic Web Is Not Just "Research as Usual". 1
  
• Eduard H. Hovy:
  Toward Large-Scale Shallow Semantics for Higher-Quality NLP. 2
  
• Anthony Jameson:
  Usability and the Semantic Web. 3
  

Ontology Alignment

• Luciano Serafini, Stefano Zanobini, Simone Sceffer, Paolo Bouquet:
  Matching Hierarchical Classifications with Attributes. 4-18
  
• Andreas Heß:
  An Iterative Algorithm for Ontology Mapping Capable of Using Training Data. 19-33
  
• Anna V. Zhdanova, Pavel Shvaiko:
  Community-Driven Ontology Matching. 34-49
  
• Chiara Ghidini, Luciano Serafini:
  Reconciling Concepts and Relations in Heterogeneous Ontologies. 50-64
  
• Vít Novácek, Pavel Smrz:
  Empirical Merging of Ontologies - A Proposal of Universal Uncertainty Representation Framework. 65-79
  

Ontology Engineering

• Fausto Giunchiglia, Maurizio Marchese, Ilya Zaihrayeu:
  Encoding Classifications into Lightweight Ontologies. 80-94
  
• Mark van Assem, Véronique Malaisé, Alistair Miles, Guus Schreiber:
  A Method to Convert Thesauri to SKOS. 95-109
  
• Christoph Tempich, Helena Sofia Pinto, Steffen Staab:
  Ontology Engineering Revisited: An Iterative Case Study. 110-124
  

Ontology Evaluation

• Li Ma, Yang Yang, Zhaoming Qiu, Guo Tong Xie, Yue Pan, Shengping Liu:
  Towards a Complete OWL Ontology Benchmark. 125-139
  
• Aldo Gangemi, Carola Catenacci, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Jos Lehmann:
  Modelling Ontology Evaluation and Validation. 140-154
  
• Raul Garcia-Castro, Asunción Gómez-Pérez:
  Benchmark Suites for Improving the RDF(S) Importers and Exporters of Ontology Development Tools. 155-169
  

Ontology Evolution

• Aditya Kalyanpur, Bijan Parsia, Evren Sirin, Bernardo Cuenca Grau:
  Repairing Unsatisfiable Concepts in OWL Ontologies. 170-184
  
• Harith Alani, Stephen Harris, Ben O'Neil:
  Winnowing Ontologies Based on Application Use. 185-199
  
• Peter Plessers, Olga De Troyer:
  Resolving Inconsistencies in Evolving Ontologies. 200-214
  

Ontology Learning

• Ting Wang, Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Ji Wang:
  Automatic Extraction of Hierarchical Relations from Text. 215-229
  
• Yuangui Lei, Marta Sabou, Vanessa Lopez, Jianhan Zhu, Victoria S. Uren, Enrico Motta:
  An Infrastructure for Acquiring High Quality Semantic Metadata. 230-244
  
• Viktor de Boer, Maarten van Someren, Bob J. Wielinga:
  Extracting Instances of Relations from Web Documents Using Redundancy. 245-258
  

Rules and Reason

• Heiner Stuckenschmidt:
  Toward Multi-viewpoint Reasoning with OWL Ontologies. 259-272
  
• Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni, Roman Schindlauer, Hans Tompits:
  Effective Integration of Declarative Rules with External Evaluations for Semantic-Web Reasoning. 273-287
  
• Thomas Lukasiewicz, Jörg Schellhase:
  Variable-Strength Conditional Preferences for Ranking Objects in Ontologies. 288-302
  
• Saartje Brockmans, Peter Haase, Pascal Hitzler, Rudi Studer:
  A Metamodel and UML Profile for Rule-Extended OWL DL Ontologies. 303-316
  
• Joaquín Borrego-Díaz, Antonia M. Chávez-González:
  Visual Ontology Cleaning: Cognitive Principles and Applicability. 317-331
  
• Axel Polleres, Cristina Feier, Andreas Harth:
  Rules with Contextually Scoped Negation. 332-347
  

Searching and Querying

• Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Stefania Costache, Wolfgang Nejdl, Raluca Paiu:
  Beagle⁺⁺: Semantically Enhanced Searching and Ranking on the Desktop. 348-362
  
• Michael Sintek, Malte Kiesel:
  RDFBroker: A Signature-Based High-Performance RDF Store. 363-377
  
• Umberto Straccia, Raphaël Troncy:
  Towards Distributed Information Retrieval in the Semantic Web: Query Reformulation Using the oMAP Framework. 378-392
  
• Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria S. Uren:
  PowerAqua: Fishing the Semantic Web. 393-410
  
• Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Christoph Schmitz, Gerd Stumme:
  Information Retrieval in Folksonomies: Search and Ranking. 411-426
  

Semantic Annotation

• Jens Hartmann, Elena Paslaru Bontas, Raúl Palma, Asunción Gómez-Pérez:
  DEMO - Design Environment for Metadata Ontologies. 427-441
  
• Maria Teresa Pazienza, Armando Stellato:
  An Environment for Semi-automatic Annotation of Ontological Knowledge with Linguistic Content. 442-456
  
• Jon Iturrioz, Sergio Fernández Anzuola, Oscar Díaz:
  Turning the Mouse into a Semantic Device: The seMouse Experience. 457-471
  
• Alun D. Preece, Binling Jin, Edoardo Pignotti, Paolo Missier, Suzanne M. Embury, David Stead, Al Brown:
  Managing Information Quality in e-Science Using Semantic Web Technology. 472-486
  
• Octavian Udrea, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, V. S. Subrahmanian:
  Annotated RDF. 487-501
  
• Paul Buitelaar, Michael Sintek, Malte Kiesel:
  A Multilingual/Multimedia Lexicon Model for Ontologies. 502-513
  

Semantic Web Mining and Personalisation

• Bettina Hoser, Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Christoph Schmitz, Gerd Stumme:
  Semantic Network Analysis of Ontologies. 514-529
  
• Christoph Schmitz, Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Gerd Stumme:
  Content Aggregation on Knowledge Bases Using Graph Clustering. 530-544
  
• Jelena Jovanovic, Dragan Gasevic, Vladan Devedzic:
  Dynamic Assembly of Personalized Learning Content on the Semantic Web. 545-559
  
• Lora Aroyo, Ronald Denaux, Vania Dimitrova, Michael Pye:
  Interactive Ontology-Based User Knowledge Acquisition: A Case Study. 560-574
  

Semantic Web Services

• Stephan Grimm, Boris Motik, Chris Preist:
  Matching Semantic Service Descriptions with Local Closed-World Reasoning. 575-589
  
• Jos de Bruijn, Holger Lausen, Axel Polleres, Dieter Fensel:
  The Web Service Modeling Language WSML: An Overview. 590-604
  
• Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, Michael Stollberg:
  On the Semantics of Functional Descriptions of Web Services. 605-619
  
• Marco Pistore, Luca Spalazzi, Paolo Traverso:
  A Minimalist Approach to Semantic Annotations for Web Processes Compositions. 620-634
  
• Stuart K. Williams, Steven A. Battle, Javier Esplugas Cuadrado:
  Protocol Mediation for Adaptation in Semantic Web Services. 635-649
  

Semantic Wiki and Blogging

• Jochen Fischer, Zeno Gantner, Steffen Rendle, Manuel Stritt, Lars Schmidt-Thieme:
  Ideas and Improvements for Semantic Wikis. 650-663
  
• Angelo Di Iorio, Valentina Presutti, Fabio Vitali:
  WikiFactory: An Ontology-Based Application for Creating Domain-Oriented Wikis. 664-678
  
• Knud Möller, Uldis Bojars, John G. Breslin:
  Using Semantics to Enhance the Blogging Experience. 679-696
  

Trust and Policies

• Stefania Galizia:
  WSTO: A Classification-Based Ontology for Managing Trust in Semantic Web Services. 697-711
  
• Piero A. Bonatti, Claudiu Duma, Norbert E. Fuchs, Wolfgang Nejdl, Daniel Olmedilla, Joachim Peer, Nahid Shahmehri:
  Semantic Web Policies - A Discussion of Requirements and Research Issues. 712-724