ISWC2006 papers

The following papers have been accepted at the ISWC2006 conference. Abstracts for each paper are found in the respective articles. An unofficial but readable conference schedule is found at http://schedule.semanticweb.org.

Note: The order of authors has not been acounted for when creating articles for papers. Authors are thus listed in random order.

[edit] Best papers

The best paper award was won by <ask format="list"> ISWC2006</ask>.

The following papers have been nominated for the Best Paper awards at ISWC2006.

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[edit] Semantic Web Challenge finalists

The Semantic Web Challenge 2006 was won by <ask>Semantic Web Challenge 2006</ask>. The following papers present the finalists of Semantic Web Challenge 2006:

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[edit] List of all papers

• /facet: A Browser for Heterogeneous Semantic Web Repositories (by Jacco van Ossenbruggen Michiel Hildebrand Lynda Hardman)
• A Constraint-based Approach to Horizontal Web Service Composition (by Ahlem Ben Hassine Toru Ishida Shigeo Matsubara)
• A Framework for Ontology Evolution in Collaborative Environments (by Mark Musen William Liu Natalya Noy Abhita Chugh)
• A Framework for Schema-Driven Relationship Discovery from Unstructured text (by Cartic Ramakrishnan Amit Sheth Krys Kochut)
• A Method for Learning Part-Whole Relations (by Guus Schreiber Willem van Hage Hap Kolb)
• A Mixed Initiative Semantic Web Framework for Process Composition (by Norman Sadeh Paul Hofmann Dimitar Dimitrov Jinghai Rao)
• A Model Driven Approach for Building OWL DL and OWL Full Ontologies (by Robert M. Colomb Guo Tong Xie Saartje Brockmans Elisa F. Kendall Evan K. Wallace Chris Welty)
• A Relaxed Approach to RDF Querying (by Alexandra Poulovassilis Peter Wood Carlos Hurtado)
• A Semantic Context-Aware Access Control Framework for Secure Collaborations in Pervasive Computing Environments (by Lalana Kagal Rebecca Montanari Ora Lassila Alessandra Toninelli)
• A Software Engineering Approach to Design and Development of Semantic Web Service Applications (by Stefano Ceri Federico Michele Facca Irene Celino Marco Brambilla Dario Cerizza Emanuele Della Valle)
• A Survey of the Web Ontology Landscape
• A formal model for semantic Web service composition (by Freddy Lecue Alain Leger)
• Active Semantic Electronic Medical Record (by Kelly Gallagher Amit Sheth Subodh Agrawal Jonathan Lathem Nicole Oldham Prem Yadav Harry Wingate)
• Augmenting Navigation for Collaborative Tagging with Emergent Semantics (by Peter Hanappe Luc Steels Melanie Aurnhammer)
• Automatic Annotation of Web Services based on Workflow Definitions (by Suzanne M. Embury Carole Goble Norman W. Paton Khalid Belhajjame Robert Stevens)
• Block Matching for Ontologies (by Wei Hu Yuzhong Qu)
• Can OWL and Logic Programming Live Together Happily Ever After? (by Ulrike Sattler Boris Motik Riccardo Rosati Ian Horrocks)
• Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web (by Li Ding Tim Finin)
• Construction and Use of Role-ontology for Task-based Service Navigation System (by Kunihiro Fujii Shoji Kurakake Yusuke Fukazawa Takefumi Naganuma)
• CropCircles: Topology Sensitive Visualization of OWL Class Hierarchies (by Bijan Parsia Taowei Wang)
• Enabling an Onlince Community for Sharing Oral Medicine Cases Using Semantice Web Technologies (by Marie Gustafsson Fredrik Lindahl Olof Torgersson Göran Falkman)
• Evaluating Conjunctive Triple Pattern Queries over Large Structured Overlay Networks (by Erietta Liarou Stratos Idreos Manolis Koubarakis)
• Explaining Conclusions from Diverse Knowledge Sources (by Paulo Pinheiro da Silva Deborah McGuinness J William Murdock Chris Welty David Ferrucci)
• Extending faceted navigation for RDF data (by Eyal Oren Stefan Decker Renaud Delbru)
• Extracting Relations in Social Networks from Web using Similarity between Collective Contexts (by Mitsuru Ishizuka Takumi Tsujishita Yutaka Matsuo Junichiro Mori)
• Formal Model for Ontology Mapping Creation (by Emilia Cimpian Mick Kerrigan Adrian Mocan)
• Framework for an Automated Comparison of Description Logic Reasoners (by Ian Horrocks Dmitry Tsarkov Tom Gardiner)
• Fresnel: A Browser-Independent Presentation Vocabulary for RDF (by Emmanuel Pietriga David Karger Chris Bizer Ryan Lee)
• From Legacy Relational Databases to the Semantic Web: an In-Use Application for Traditional Chinese Medicine (by Heng Wang Ainin Yin Zhaohui Wu Yimin Wang Jinmin Tang Chunyin Zhou Yuxin Mao Huajun Chen Meng Cui)
• GINO - A Guided Input Natural Language Ontology Editor (by Abraham Bernstein Esther Kaufmann)
• IRS-III: A Broker for Semantic Web Services based Applications (by Vlad Tanasescu Liliana Cabral John Domingue Barry Norton Alessio Gugliotta Carlos Pedrinaci Stefania Galizia)
• ISWC2006 papers (by *)
• Information Integration via an End-to-End Distributed Semantic Web System (by Jeff Heflin Nanbor Wang Abir Qasem Dimitre Dimitrov)
• Innovation Detection based on User-Interest Ontology of Blog Community (by Yoshihiro Otsuka Makoto Nakatsuji Yu Miyoshi)
• Integrating and Querying Parallel Leaf Shape Descriptions (by Shenghui Wang Jeff Z. Pan)
• Mining Information for Instance Unification (by Hamish Cunningham Kalina Bontcheva Niraj Aswani)
• Modeling Social Attitudes on the Web (by Matthias Nickles)
• MultiCrawler: A Pipelined Architecture for Crawling and Indexing Semantic Web Data (by Stefan Decker Juergen Umbrich Andreas Harth)
• NEWS: bringing Semantic Web Technologies into News Agencies (by Luis Sanchez Michael Sintek Norberto Fernandez Zohar Ben-Asher Manuel Fuentes Ansgar Bernardi Angelo Marrara Jose M. Blazquez Jesus A. Fisteus)
• ONTOCOM: A Cost Estimation Model for Ontology Engineering (by York Sure Christoph Tempich Elena Simperl)
• On How to Perform a Gold Standard Based Evaluation of Ontology Learning (by Steffen Staab Klaas Dellschaft)
• On the Semantics of Linking and Importing in Modular Ontologies (by Vasant Honavar Doina Caragea Jie Bao)
• OntoWiki - A Tool for Social, Semantic Collaboration (by Sebastian Dietzold Sören Auer Thomas Riechert)
• Ontogator – A Semantic View-Based Search Engine Service for Web Applications (by Eetu Mäkelä Eero Hyvönen Samppa Saarela)
• Ontology Query Answering on Databases (by Yue Pan Li Ma Jing Mei)
• Ontology-Driven Automatic Entity Disambiguation in Unstructured Text (by Boanerges Aleman-Meza Joseph Hassell Budak Arpinar)
• Ontology-driven Information Extraction with OntoSyphon (by Michael Cafarella Luke McDowell)
• PowerMap: Mapping the Real Semantic Web on the Fly (by Vanessa Lopez Marta Sabou Enrico Motta)
• Provenance Explorer -- Tailored Provenance Views Using Semantic Inferencing (by Kwok Cheung Jane Hunter)
• Querying the Semantic Web with Preferences (by Wolf Siberski Jeff Z. Pan Uwe Thaden)
• RS2D: Risk-Driven Semantic OWL-S Service Retrieval in Unstructured P2P Networks (by Ulrich Basters Matthias Klusch)
• Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank (by Harith Alani Nigel Shadbolt Christopher Brewster)
• Reaching agreement over ontology alignments (by Loredana Laera Jérôme Euzenat Terry Payne Valentina Tamma Trevor Bench-Capon)
• Reducing the Inferred Type Statements with Individual Grouping Constructs (by Ovunc Ozturk Tugba Ozacar Murat Osman Unalir)
• SADIe: Semantic Annotation for Accessibility (by Sean Bechhofer Simon Harper Darren Lunn)
• Semantic Desktop 2.0: The Gnowsis Experience (by Christiaan Fluit Benjamin Horak Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes Andreas Dengel Danish Nadeem Leo Sauermann Dominik Heim Malte Kiesel)
• Semantic Metadata Generation for Large Scientific Workflows (by Yolanda Gil Jihie Kim Varun Ratnakar)
• Semantic web technology for expert knowledge sharing and discovery (by Brian Kemper Weisen Guo Steven Kraines Yutaka Nakamura)
• Semantically-Enabled Large-Scale Science Data Repositories (by Deborah McGuinness Peter Fox)
• Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL (by Marcelo Arenas Jorge Perez Claudio Gutierrez)
• The Summary ABox: Cutting Ontologies Down to Size (by Kavitha Srinivas Li Ma Achille Fokoue Aaron Kershenbaum Edith Schonberg)
• Three Semantics for Distributed Systems and their Relations with Alignment Composition (by Antoine Zimmermann Jérôme Euzenat)
• Towards Knowledge Acquisition from Information Extraction (by J. William Murdock Chris Welty)
• Towards Semantic Interoperability in a Clinical Trials Management System (by Amar Das Ravi Shankar Susana Martins Martin J. O'Connor David Parrish)
• Tree-structured Conditional Random Fields for Semantic Annotation (by Mingcai Hong Juanzi Li Jie Tang)
• Using Ontologies for Extracting Product Features from Web Pages (by Marcus Herzog Wolfgang Holzinger Bernhard Kruepl)
• Web Service Composition via Generic Procedures and Customizing User Preferences (by Shirin Sohrabi Nataliya Prokoshyna Sheila McIlraith)