The Semantic Web - Iswc 2002: First International Semantic Web Conference, Sardinia, Italy, June 9-12, 2002, Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540437604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 476 str.

I. Horrocks; J. Hendler; Ian Horrocks

Opis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2002, held in Sardinia, Italy, in June 2002.The 27 revised full research papers, 6 position papers, and 7 system descriptions presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 133 submissions. All current issues in this exciting new field are addressed, ranging from theoretical aspects to applications in various fields.

Spis treści

Invited Papers.- Semantic Web Enabled Web Services.- The Grid, Grid Services and the Semantic Web: Technologies and Opportunities.- Research Papers.- Matching RDF Graphs.- Layering the Semantic Web: Problems and Directions.- Notions of Indistinguishability for Semantic Web Languages.- The Usable Ontology: An Environment for Building and Assessing a Domain Ontology.- Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema.- A Formal Model for Topic Maps.- Towards High-Precision Service Retrieval.- Automatic Generation of Java/SQL Based Inference Engines from RDF Schema and RuleML.- Ontology-Based Integration of XML Web Resources.- Benchmarking RDF Schemas for the Semantic Web.- Building the Semantic Web on XML.- Trusting Information Sources One Citizen at a Time.- Querying the Semantic Web: A Formal Approach.- Semantic Configuration Web Services in the CAWICOMS Project.- Integrating Vocabularies: Discovering and Representing Vocabulary Maps.- OntoEdit: Collaborative Ontology Development for the Semantic Web.- Towards a Modification Exchange Language for Distributed RDF Repositories.- Representing Disjunction and Quantifiers in RDF.- Towards Semantic Web Mining.- Bringing Together Semantic Web and Web Services.- Global vs. Community Metadata Standards: Empowering Users for Knowledge Exchange.- Taking the RDF Model Theory Out for a Spin.- Concurrent Execution Semantics of DAML-S with Subtypes.- Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities.- DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web.- TRIPLE—A Query, Inference, and Transformation Language for the Semantic Web.- A Data Integration Framework for e-Commerce Product Classification.- Position Papers.- Nonmonotonic Rule Systems on Top of Ontology Layers.- An RDF NetAPI.- A Mini-experiment in Semantic Annotation.- SWAD-Europe: Semantic Web Advanced Development in Europe A Position Paper.- Preemptive Reification.- Four Steps Towards the Widespread Adoption of a Semantic Web.- System Descriptions.- Three Implementations of SquishQL, a Simple RDF Query Language.- ClaiMaker: Weaving a Semantic Web of Research Papers.- Business and Enterprise Ontology Management with SymOntoX.- Is Participation in the Semantic Web Too Difficult?.- Consistency Checking of Semantic Web Ontologies.- WebTheme™: Understanding Web Information through Visual Analytics.- Browsing Schedules - An Agent-Based Approach to Navigating the Semantic Web.

O autorze

James A. Hendler is an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and one of the originators of the Semantic Web. He was the Director for Semantic Web and Agent Technology at the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory as well as a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the British Computer Society. He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of IEEE Intelligent Systems and is the first computer scientist to serve on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science. Hendler was co-author of the article 'The Semantic Web' which appeared in Scientific American in 2001, now the most cited paper in the Semantic Web area.