ISWC 2009 Research Track
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The Research Track includes peer reviewed original, principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of Semantic Web technologies.
See the Call for Papers and Program Committee.
Accepted papers
PDFs of the accepted papers camera ready copy (which are not exactly the published copies) can be found here [1] as well as below.
Preliminary Schedule
Note: This schedule is still in some flux but should firm up in the next few days.
The program committee has identified a number of papers as being of General Interest. The committee recommends these papers as particularly accessible and informative to attendees of all backgrounds seeking an overview of research activity taking place in the various subfields of Semantic Web research.
Tue Oct 27
10:30 User and the Social Semantic Web (Collaboration, Policy, and Trust)
- Chaired by Natasha Noy
- 160 - Analysis of a Real Online Social Network using Semantic Web Frameworks General Interest
- Guillaume Ereteo, Michel Buffa, Fabien Gandon, Olivier Corby
- 375 - Policy Aware Content Reuse on the Web General Interest
- Oshani Seneviratne, Lalana Kagal, Tim Berners-Lee
- 137 - Social Trust Based Web Service Composition General Interest
- Ugur Kuter, Jennifer Golbeck
- 335 - Multi Visualisation and Dynamic Query for Effective Exploration of Semantic Data General Interest
- Daniela Petrelli, Suvodeep Mazumdar, Aba-Sah Dadzie, Fabio Ciravegna
10:30 Management: Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
- Chaired by Umberto Straccia
- 241 - Parallel Materialization of the Finite RDFS Closure for Hundreds of Millions of Triples
- Jesse Weaver, James Hendler
- 253 - A Decomposition-based Approach to Optimizing Conjunctive Query Answering in OWL DL
- Jianfeng Du, Guilin Qi, Jeff Z. Pan, Yi-Dong Shen
- 374 - Scalable Distributed Reasoning using MapReduce
- Jacopo Urbani, Spyros Kotoulas, Eyal Oren, Frank van Harmelen
- 361 - Towards Lightweight and Robust Large Scale Emergent Knowledge Processing
- Vit Novacek, Stefan Decker
14:00 Semantics: Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution
- Chaired by Thomas Lukasiewicz
- 161 - On Detecting High-Level Changes in RDF/S KBs
- Vicky Papavassiliou, Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki, Dimitris Kotzinos, Vassilis Christophides
- 217 - Graph-Based Ontology Construction from Heterogenous Evidences General Interest
- Christoph Boehm, Philip Groth, Ulf Leser
- 405 - OntoCase - Automatic Ontology Enrichment Based on Ontology Design Patterns General Interest
- Eva Blomqvist
14:00 Semantics: Alignment
- Chaired by Valentina Tamma
- 380 - What Four Million Mappings Can Tell You About Two Hundred Ontologies
- Amir Ghazvinian, Natalya Noy, Clement Jonquet, Nigam Shah, Mark Musen
- 206 - Actively Learning Ontology Matching via User Interaction
- Feng Shi, Juanzi Li, Jie Tang, Guotong Xie, Hanyu Li
- 311 - A Conflict-based Operator for Mapping Revision--Theory and and Implementation
- Guilin Qi, Qiu Ji, Peter Haase
16:00 Lightning talks
- Chaired by Abraham Bernstein and David R. Karger
- The Lightning Talks will provide an open forum for people to present a topic of their choosing important to the community. This is a very informal forum but every presentation will be limited to 1 slide (in total) and a 1 minute presentation. We will allow for one question (time permitting more).
- Please fill out the form at [2] . Be sure to fill it out today (Tuesday) before 3 pm.
- You will have to submit a URL to a one-page PDF (and only PDF) slide.
16:45 Panel: Does the Semantic Web Need Ontologies?
- Panelists: Enrico Motta, Frank van Harmelen, Michael Witbrock, Tom Heath
- Chaired by Joel Sachs
- Abstract / Main questions
- Do ontologies help or hurt?
- Should they be intelligently designed, or should they emerge from the information soup?
- How much can be done without them?
- When are they crucial?
- The panel will attempt to tease out the type and amount of ontological infrastructure required for a range of semantic web use cases. The audience will be invited to participate.
Wed Oct 28
10:30 Applications: Semantic Web technologies for Services
- Chaired by David Martin
- 219 - Automatically Constructing Semantic Web Services from Online Sources
- Jose Luis Ambite, Sirish Darbha, Aman Goel, Craig A. Knoblock, Kristina Lerman, Rahul Parundekar, Thomas Russ
- 305 - Optimizing QoS-Aware Semantic Web Service Composition
- Freddy Lécué
- 387 - Optimizing Web Service Composition while Enforcing Regulations
- Shirin Sohrabi, Sheila A. McIlraith
- 524 - Exploiting User Feedback to Improve Semantic Web Service Discovery
- Anna Averbakh, Daniel Krause, Dimitrios Skoutas
10:30 Semantics: Reasoning with Rules or Modules
- Chaired by Frank van Harmelen
- 424 - Queries to Hybrid MKNF Knowledge Bases through Oracular Tabling
- Jose Alferes, Matthias Knorr, Terrance Swift
- 251 - Goal-Directed Module Extraction for Explaining OWL DL Entailments
- Jianfeng Du, Guilin Qi, Qiu Ji
- 484 - Task Oriented Evaluation of Module Extraction Techniques
- Ignazio Palmisano, Valentina Tamma, Terry Payne, Paul Doran
- 152 - Decidable Order-Sorted Logic Programming for Ontologies and Rules with Argument Restructuring
- Ken Kaneiwa, Philip Nguyen
14:00 Applications: Semantic Web technologies for software and systems engineering - Process Models
- Chaired by Evren Sirin
- 278 - Semantically-aided business process modeling
- Chiara Di Francescomarino, Chiara Ghidini, Marco Rospocher, Luciano Serafini, Paolo Tonella
- 323 - Modeling and Query Patterns for Process Retrieval in OWL
- Gerd Groener, Steffen Staab
- 360 - Synthesizing Semantic Web Service Compositions with jMosel and Golog
- Tiziana Margaria, Daniel Meyer, Christian Kubczak, Malte Isberner, Bernhard Steffen
14:00 Management: Search and query 1
- Chaired by Peter Mika
- 279 - TripleRank: Ranking Semantic Web Data By Tensor Decomposition General Interest
- Thomas Franz, Antje Schultz, Sergej Sizov, Steffen Staab
- 403 - Using Naming Authority to Rank Data and Ontologies for Web Search General Interest
- Andreas Harth, Sheila Kinsella, Stefan Decker
- 301 - Executing SPARQL Queries over the Web of Linked Data
- Olaf Hartig, Christian Bizer, Johann-Christoph Freytag
Thu Oct 29
10:30 Management: Search and Query 2
- Chaired by Chris Bizer
- 203 - XLWrap - Querying and Integrating Arbitrary Spreadsheets with SPARQL
- Andreas Langegger, Wolfram Wöß
- 347 - Functions over RDF Language Elements
- Bernhard Schandl
- 391 - Investigating the Semantic Gap through Query Log Analysis
- Peter Mika, Edgar Meij, Hugo Zaragoza
- 240 - A Practical Approach for Scalable Conjunctive Query Answering on Acyclic EL+ Knowledge Base
- Jing Mei, Shengping Liu, Guotong Xie, Aditya Kalyanpur, Achille Fokoue, Yuan Ni, Hanyu Li, Yue Pan
10:30 Semantics: Reasoning and Provenance
- Chaired by Claudia d'Amato
- 106 - Exploiting Partial Information in Taxonomy Construction
- Rob Shearer, Ian Horrocks
- 370 - A Weighted Approach for Partial Matching in Mobile Reasoning
- Luke Steller, Shonali Krishnaswamy, Mohamed Gaber
- 423 - Concept and Role Forgetting in ALC Ontologies
- Kewen Wang, Zhe Wang, Rodney Topor, Jeff Z. Pan, Grigoris Antoniou
- 286 - A Generic Approach for Large-Scale Ontological Reasoning in the Presence of Access Restrictions to ...
- Franz Baader, Martin Knechtel, Rafael Peñaloza
- 165 - Coloring RDF Triples to Capture Provenance
- Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki, Panagiotis Pediaditis, Yannis Theoharis, Vassilis Christophides
14:00 Management: Database Technologies
- Chaired by Steffen Staab
- 125 - Dynamic Querying of Mass-Storage RDF Data with Rule-Based Entailment Regimes
- Giovambattista Ianni, Thomas Krennwallner, Alessandra Martello, Axel Polleres
- 290 - DOGMA: A Disk-Oriented Graph Matching Algorithm for RDF Databases
- Matthias Broecheler, Andrea Pugliese, V. S. Subrahmanian
- 136 - Efficient Query Answering for OWL 2
- Héctor Pérez-Urbina, Ian Horrocks, Boris Motik
14:00 Discovering Semantics
- Chaired by Fabio Ciravegna
- 306 - Discovering and Maintaining Links on the Web of Data General Interest
- Julius Volz, Christian Bizer, Martin Gaedke, Georgi Kobilarov
- 174 - Context and Domain Knowledge Enhanced Entity Spotting in Informal Text
- Daniel Gruhl, Meena Nagarajan, Jan Pieper, Christine Robson, Amit Sheth
- 501 - Learning Semantic Query Suggestions
- Edgar Meij, Marc Bron, Laura Hollink, Bouke Huurnink, Maarten de Rijke
Accepted Papers with links to the PDF
Modeling and Query Patterns for Process Retrieval in OWL
- Gerd Groener, University of Koblenz-Landau
- Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau
A Decomposition-based Approach to Optimizing Conjunctive Query Answering in OWL DL
- Jianfeng Du, Institute of Business Intelligence & Knowledge Discovery, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Guilin Qi, AIFB, University Karlsruhe and School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University
- Jeff Z. Pan, Department of Computing Science, The University of Aberdeen
- Yi-Dong Shen, State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Executing SPARQL Queries over the Web of Linked Data
- Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin
- Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Concept and Role Forgetting in ALC Ontologies
- Kewen Wang, Griffith University
- Zhe Wang, Griffith University
- Rodney Topor, Griffith University
- Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen
- Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete
Semantically-aided business process modeling
- Chiara Di Francescomarino, FBK-irst
- Chiara Ghidini, FBK-irst
- Marco Rospocher, FBK-irst
- Luciano Serafini, FBK-irst
- Paolo Tonella, FBK-irst
Optimizing QoS-Aware Semantic Web Service Composition
- Freddy Lécué, The University of Manchester
Context and Domain Knowledge Enhanced Entity Spotting in Informal Text
- Daniel Gruhl, IBM Almaden Research Center
- Meena Nagarajan, Kno.e.sis Research Center, Wright State University
- Jan Pieper, IBM Almaden Research Center
- Christine Robson, IBM Almaden Research Center
- Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis Research Center, Wright State University
Actively Learning Ontology Matching via User Interaction
- Feng Shi, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Juanzi Li, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Jie Tang, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Guotong Xie, IBM China Research Laboratory,Beijing China
- Hanyu Li, IBM China Research Laboratory,Beijing China
Exploiting Partial Information in Taxonomy Construction
- Rob Shearer, Oxford University Computing Laboratory
- Ian Horrocks, Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Scalable Distributed Reasoning using MapReduce
- Jacopo Urbani, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Spyros Kotoulas, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Eyal Oren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
A Conflict-based Operator for Mapping Revision--Theory and and Implementation
- Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe and Southeast University
- Qiu Ji, University of Karlsruhe
- Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe
Analysis of a Real Online Social Network using Semantic Web Frameworks
- Guillaume Ereteo, orange labs
- Michel Buffa, Kewi, I3S, university of Nice, France
- Fabien Gandon, Edelweiss, INRIA
- Olivier Corby, Edelweiss, INRIA
Policy Aware Content Reuse on the Web
- Oshani Seneviratne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Tim Berners-Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Task Oriented Evaluation of Module Extraction Techniques
- Ignazio Palmisano, University of Liverpool
- Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool
- Terry Payne, University of Liverpool
- Paul Doran, University of Liverpool
Efficient Query Answering for OWL 2
- Héctor Pérez-Urbina, University of Oxford
- Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford
- Boris Motik, University of Oxford
TripleRank: Ranking Semantic Web Data By Tensor Decomposition
- Thomas Franz, University of Koblenz-Landau
- Antje Schultz, University of Koblenz-Landau
- Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz-Landau
- Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau
DOGMA: A Disk-Oriented Graph Matching Algorithm for RDF Databases
- Matthias Broecheler, University of Maryland, USA
- Andrea Pugliese, University of Calabria, Italy
- V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA
Social Trust Based Web Service Composition
- Ugur Kuter, University of Maryland, College Park
- Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland, College Park
Discovering and Maintaining Links on the Web of Data
- Julius Volz, Chemnitz University of Technology
- Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin
- Martin Gaedke, Chemnitz University of Technology
- Georgi Kobilarov, Freie Universität Berlin
Using Naming Authority to Rank Data and Ontologies for Web Search
- Andreas Harth, National University of Ireland, Galway
- Sheila Kinsella, National University of Ireland, Galway
- Stefan Decker, National University of Ireland, Galway
OntoCase - Automatic Ontology Enrichment Based on Ontology Design Patterns
- Eva Blomqvist, ISTC-CNR
Decidable Order-Sorted Logic Programming for Ontologies and Rules with Argument Restructuring
- Ken Kaneiwa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
- Philip Nguyen, Government of South Australia
A Practical Approach for Scalable Conjunctive Query Answering on Acyclic EL+ Knowledge Base
- Jing Mei, IBM China Research Laboratory
- Shengping Liu, IBM China Research Laboratory
- Guotong Xie, IBM China Research Laboratory
- Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM Watson Research Center
- Achille Fokoue, IBM Watson Research Center
- Yuan Ni, IBM China Research Laboratory
- Hanyu Li, IBM China Research Laboratory
- Yue Pan, IBM China Research Laboratory
Optimizing Web Service Composition while Enforcing Regulations
- Shirin Sohrabi, University of Toronto
- Sheila A. McIlraith, University of Toronto
Exploiting User Feedback to Improve Semantic Web Service Discovery
- Anna Averbakh, L3S Research Center, Germany
- Daniel Krause, L3S Research Center, Germany
- Dimitrios Skoutas, L3S Research Center, Germany
Functions over RDF Language Elements
- Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna
Graph-Based Ontology Construction from Heterogenous Evidences
- Christoph Boehm, Hasso Plattner Institut, Potsdam
- Philip Groth, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
- Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
- Franz Baader, TU Dresden
- Martin Knechtel, SAP Research CEC Dresden
- Rafael Peñaloza, TU Dresden
On Detecting High-Level Changes in RDF/S KBs
- Vicky Papavassiliou, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH and University of Crete
- Giorgos Flouris, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH
- Irini Fundulaki, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH
- Dimitris Kotzinos, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH and TEI of Serres
- Vassilis Christophides, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH and University of Crete
Learning Semantic Query Suggestions
- Edgar Meij, University of Amsterdam
- Marc Bron, University of Amsterdam
- Laura Hollink, VU University Amsterdam
- Bouke Huurnink, University of Amsterdam
- Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
Synthesizing Semantic Web Service Compositions with jMosel and Golog
- Tiziana Margaria, Universität Potsdam
- Daniel Meyer, Universität Potsdam
- Christian Kubczak, Technische Universität Dortmund
- Malte Isberner, Technische Universität Dortmund
- Bernhard Steffen, Technische Universität Dortmund
Queries to Hybrid MKNF Knowledge Bases through Oracular Tabling
- Jose Alferes, CENTRIA
- Matthias Knorr, CENTRIA
- Terrance Swift, CENTRIA
A Weighted Approach for Partial Matching in Mobile Reasoning
- Luke Steller, Monash University
- Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University
- Mohamed Gaber, Monash University
Automatically Constructing Semantic Web Services from Online Sources
- Jose Luis Ambite, University of Southern California
- Sirish Darbha, University of Southern California
- Aman Goel, University of Southern California
- Craig A. Knoblock, University of Southern California
- Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California
- Rahul Parundekar, University of Southern California
- Thomas Russ, University of Southern California
Coloring RDF Triples to Capture Provenance
- Giorgos Flouris, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH
- Irini Fundulaki, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH
- Panagiotis Pediaditis, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH and University of Crete
- Yannis Theoharis, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH and University of Crete
- Vassilis Christophides, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH and University of Crete
Parallel Materialization of the Finite RDFS Closure for Hundreds of Millions of Triples
- Jesse Weaver, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
XLWrap - Querying and Integrating Arbitrary Spreadsheets with SPARQL
- Andreas Langegger, Johannes Kepler University Linz
- Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Towards Lightweight and Robust Large Scale Emergent Knowledge Processing
- Vit Novacek, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
- Stefan Decker, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
Goal-Directed Module Extraction for Explaining OWL DL Entailments
- Jianfeng Du, Institute of Business Intelligence & Knowledge Discovery, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Guilin Qi, AIFB, University Karlsruhe and School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University
- Qiu Ji, AIFB, University Karlsruhe
Multi Visualisation and Dynamic Query for Effective Exploration of Semantic Data
- Daniela Petrelli, University of Sheffield
- Suvodeep Mazumdar, University of Sheffield
- Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Sheffield
- Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield
Dynamic Querying of Mass-Storage RDF Data with Rule-Based Entailment Regimes
- Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria
- Thomas Krennwallner, Vienna University of Technology
- Alessandra Martello, University of Calabria
- Axel Polleres, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
Investigating the Semantic Gap through Query Log Analysis
- Peter Mika, Yahoo Research
- Edgar Meij, ISLA, University of Amsterdam
- Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo Research
What Four Million Mappings Can Tell You About Two Hundred Ontologies
- Amir Ghazvinian, Stanford University
- Natalya Noy, Stanford University
- Clement Jonquet, Stanford University
- Nigam Shah, Stanford University
- Mark Musen, Stanford University
