KWEPSY2007
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Knowledge Web PhD Symposium 2007
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| Subevent of | ESWC2007 |
| Start | June 6 2007 (iCal) |
| End | June 6 2007 |
| Homepage: | KWEPSY2007 |
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| City: | Innsbruck |
| Country: | Austria |
| Important dates | |
| Submissions due: | March 2, 2007 |
| Notification: | April 13, 2007 |
| Camera ready due: | April 13, 2007 |
Event in series KWEPSY
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KWEPSY2007 is the Knowledge Web PhD Symposium 2007, co-located with the 4th Annual European Semantic Web Conference in . The Knowledge Web PhD
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Important Dates (GMT)
Call for Contributions
Though organized under the umbrella of Knowledge Web , the symposium is open to all PhD students carrying out research on topics related to the Semantic Web.The applicants are required to send an extended abstract of their doctoral work, which should address the following aspects:
- Describe the research problem of the PhD thesis and argument its relevant for the Semantic Web area.
- Describe the state of the art, emphasizing the need for improvement and the feasibility of your approach.
- Summarize the expected contributions and outline the real-world use cases (applications, target audience) which will mainly benefit from your work.
- Sketch the research methodology that you have adopted (or you are planning to adopt), in particular your approach to evaluating/validating the results.
- Describe your proposed approach, clearly differentiating between the results achieved so far, the remaining work and the (planned) evaluation.
- Compare and contrast your approach with other existing approaches, in particular highlighting the shortcomings of other approaches, which your approach is planning to tackle.
- Conclude your summary with an outline of the planned future work.
Papers should not exceed 5 pages. They should be formatted according to the format and submitted as PDF documents per mail to simperl at inf.fu-berlin.de. Applicants should also specify how long they have worked on their doctoral work.
All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the scientific advisory board. The submissions will be reviewed against the following criteria (in this order):
- Novelty and originality of the research work.´
- Rigorousness and scientific soundness of the overall approach and of the results so far.
- Clarity of the presentation.
- Relevance of the work with respect to the Semantic Web field.
The selected participants will be given the opportunity to open their work up to discussion in front of other students and an expert audience (either in a regular presentation session or in a poster session). Each accepted contribution will be assigned to a scientific advisor who will provide extended feedback to the presented research achievements and to the accuracy of the applied methodology. A template for structuring the paper presentations will be be provided after the final program of the symposium has been set up. In addition to full papers, a limited number of papers will be accepted as posters, for which the authors will be required to submit a 2 page version of the original submission due to the camera-ready deadline.
For accepted submissions (full papers and posters), at least one author must register for the symposium in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the program. Accepted papers and posters will be published online at CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Accepted Papers and Posters
We received 55 submissions, from which 12 have been accepted as full papers and 17 as posters.
- Accepted Papers
- Caching for Semantic Web Services, Michael Stollberg, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck
- Towards Novel Techniques for Reasoning in Expressive Description Logics based on Binary Decision Diagrams, Uwe Keller, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck
- Process Mediation in Semantic Web Services, Emilia Cimpian, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck
- Scalable Web Service Composition with Partial Matches, Adina Sirbu, Jörg Hoffmann, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck
- Improving Email Conversation Efficiency by Enhancing Email with Semantics, Simon Scerri, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
- Towards Distributed Ontologies with Description Logics, Martin Homola, Comenius University
- A Framework for Distributed Reasoning on the Semantic Web Based on Open Answer Set Programming, Cristina Feier, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck
- Logic as a power tool to model negotiation mechanisms in the Semantic Web Era, Azzura Ragone, SisInfLab, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
- Improving the Usability of Large Ontologies by Modularization, Anne Schlicht, University of Mannheim
- Inferential Ontology Learning, Vit Novacek, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
- Imprecise SPARQL: Towards a Unified Framework for Similarity-Based Semantic Web Tasks, Christoph Kiefer, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich
- Semiautomatic Creation of Semantic Networks, Lars Bröcker, Fraunhofer IAIS
- Accepted Posters
- Towards Cross-Media Document Annotation, Ajay Chakravarthy, Department of Computer Science, Sheffield
- Semantic Business Process Modeling, Yan Zhixian, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck
- Towards Open Ontology Engineering, Katharina Siorpaes, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck
- Ontology-based Virtual Data Integration for E-Science Girds, Andreas Langegger, Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing, Johannes Kepler University of Linz
- Research on collaborative information sharing systems, Davide Eynard, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano
- On the communication and coordination issues of Semantic Web Services using Triple Space Compunting, Omair Shafiq, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck
- Reasoning with Large Data Sets, Darko Anicic, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck
- Towards a Semantic Wiki for Science, Christoph Lange, Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
- Ontology-Driven Management of Space Middleware, Reto Krummenacher, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck
- Intelligent Search in a Collection of Video Lectures, Angela Fogarolli, Dept. of Information and Communication Tech., University of Trento
- A Collaborative Semantic Space for Enterprise, Alexandre Passant, Laboratoire LaLICC, Universite Paris IV Sorbonne
- A Directed Hypergraph Model for RDF, Amadis Antonio Martinez Morales, Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela
- Applying Semantic Technologies to the Design of Open Serivce-oriented Architectures for Geospatial Applications, Thomas Usländer, Fraunhofer IITB
- Pattern-based Ontology Construction, Eva Blomqvist, Jönköping University
- Semantic Group Formation, Asma Ounnas, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southhampton
- Combining HTN-DL Planning and CBR to compound Semantic Web Services, Antonio Sanchez-Ruiz, Dep. Ingenieria del Software e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Ontology Mapping Specification Language, Francois Scharffe, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck
Symposium Program
The symposium is scheduled as a full-day event on June, 6 09:00 - 18:00. It will consist of full paper presentations and a poster session. Each full paper will be presented in a talk of 25 minutes (15 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion). In order to give time for discussions and feedback we recommend each presenter to seriously consider the 15 minutes time frame allocated for the talk (between 8-12 slides). As a general template for the presentations the speakers could use the following structure:
- Problem statement (1-2 slides)
- Research questions and expected contributions (1 slide)
- Proposed solution (4-6 slides)
- Evaluation or evaluation plans (1-2 slides)
- Future work (1 slide)
- 09:00 - 09:05 Opening
- 09:05 - 09:30 Caching for Semantic Web Services, Michael Stollberg
- 09:30 - 09:55 Towards Novel Techniques for Reasoning in Expressive Description Logics based on Binary Decision Diagrams, Uwe Keller
- 09:55 - 10:20 Process Mediation in Semantic Web Services, Emilia Cimpian
- 10:20 - 10:45 Scalable Web Service Composition with Partial Matches, Adina Sirbu, Jörg Hoffmann
- 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 - 11:25 Improving Email Conversation Efficiency by Enhancing Email with Semantics, Simon Scerri
- 11:25 - 11:50 Towards Distributed Ontologies with Description Logics, Martin Homola
- 11:50 - 12:15 A Framework for Distributed Reasoning on the Semantic Web Based on Open Answer Set Programming, Cristina Feier
- 12:15 - 12:50 Logic as a power tool to model negotiation mechanisms in the Semantic Web Era, Azzura Ragone
- 12:50 - 14:00 Lunch break
- 14:00 - 14:25 Improving the Usability of Large Ontologies by Modularization, Anne Schlicht
- 14:25 - 14:50 Inferential Ontology Learning, Vit Novacek
- 14:50 - 15:15 Imprecise SPARQL: Towards a Unified Framework for Similarity-Based Semantic Web Tasks, Christoph Kiefer
- 15:15 - 15:50 Semiautomatic Creation of Semantic Networks, Lars Bröcker
- 15:50 - 16:15 Coffee break
- 16:15 - 17:30 Poster session
- 17:30 - 18:00 Wrap-up and closing
Best paper award
From the accepted full papers mentioned above the following three have been selected as best paper candidates based on the recommendations of the reviewers:
- Caching for Semantic Web Services, Michael Stollberg, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck
- Towards Distributed Ontologies with Description Logics, Martin Homola, Comenius University, Slovakia
- Improving the Usability of Large Ontologies by Modularization, Anne Schlicht, University of Mannheim, Germany
The best paper award was sponsored by the BIT Joint School for Information Technology and was won by Anne Schlicht from the University of Mannheim. Congratulations on behalf of the organizers and the scientific advisors!
Proceedings
Proceedings are published online at CEUR-WS Vol 275.
- Citing
The proceedings are usually cited as follows:
Elena Simperl, Joerg Diederich and Guus Schreiber (eds.): Proc. of 2nd Knowledge Web PhD Symposium (KWEPSY2007). Colocated with the 4th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2007), Innsbruck, Austria, June 6, 2007, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-275/.
A paper in CEUR-WS.org should be cited using its online URL, e.g.,
Uwe Keller: Towards Novel Techniques for Reasoning in Expressive Description Logics based on Binary Decision Diagrams. Proc. of 2nd Knowledge Web PhD Symposium (KWEPSY2007). Colocated with the 4th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2007), Innsbruck, Austria, June 6, 2007, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-275/paper02.pdf.
- BibTeX
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/esws/2007,
editor = { Elena Simperl and
Joerg Diederich and
Guus Schreiber},
title = { Proc. of 2nd Knowledge Web PhD Symposium (KWEPSY2007). Colocated with the 4th Annual
European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2007), Innsbruck, Austria, June 6, 2007},
booktitle = {KWEPSY2007},
publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
volume = {275},
year = {2007},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
Topics
Topics of interest to the symposium include (but are not restricted to):
- Ontology management (e.g. creation, evolution, evaluation)
- Ontology alignment (e.g. mapping, matching, merging, alignment, mediation and reconciliation)
- Ontology learning
- Ontology population
- Business-oriented aspects of ontology engineering (costs, business measurements, cost benefit analysis)
- Semantic Web-based multimedia
- Semantic annotation of data
- Semantic Web trust, privacy, security and intellectual property rights
- Semantic Web represenation and query languages
- Reasoning on the Web (e.g. scalability, fuzziness, distribution)
- Searching, querying, visualizing, navigating and browsing the Semantic Web
- Personalization and user modelling
- User interfaces and Semantic Web
- Semantic Grid and Middleware
- Semantic Web Services (e.g. description, discovery, invocation, composition)
- Semantic Web Applications for knowledge management, eBusiness, eCulture, eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning, eScience etc.
- Database technologies for the Semantic Web
- Semantic interoperability
- Semantic data integration
- Semantic Web mining
- See also
Organising Committee
- Elena Simperl, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Joerg Diederich, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
- Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Scientific Advisors
- Alain Leger, France Telecom, France
- Asuncion Gomez Perez, Universidad Politecnica Madrid, Spain
- Anupriya Ankolekar, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Axel Polleres, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
- Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
- Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
- Elena Simperl, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK´
- Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
- Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy
- Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
- Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
- Joerg Diederich, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
- Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
- John Breslin, NUI Galway, Ireland
- Lora Aroyo, University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Lyndon Nixon, Free University of Berlin, Germany
- Marco Ronchetti, University of Trento, Italy
- Martin Dzbor, The Open University, UK
- Michal Zaremba, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy
- Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Philipp Cimiano, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Richard Benjamins, Isoco, Spain
- Robert Tolksdorf, Free University of Berlin, Germany
- Rose Dieng, INRIA, France
- Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Stefan Decker, NUI Galway, Ireland
- Tomas Vitvar, NUI Galway, Ireland
- Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
- Walter Binder, EPFL, CH
- Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
- Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
- York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Contact
Please contact Elena Simperl (elena.simperl at deri.org) if you have any questions regarding this event.
Sponsoring
The PhD Symposium is supported by the EU funded Network of Excellence [Knowledge Web - Realizing the Semantic Web], by STI International and DERI Innsbruck. Special travel grants to support the participation of female PhD students are also available. Please take a look at the [Hoppers@Kweb] and web site for more details.
The best paper award was sponsored by the
