The Semantic Web: Research and Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Talks

   1. From Capturing Semantics to Semantic Search: A Virtuous Cycle

      • Ricardo Baeza-Yates

      Pages 1-2

   2. Foundations of RDF Databases

      • Claudio Gutierrez

      Pages 3-3

   3. Garlik: Semantic Technology for the Consumer

      • Nigel Shadbolt

      Pages 4-4

3. Agents

   1. Semantic Web Technology for Agent Communication Protocols

      • Idoia Berges, Jesús Bermúdez, Alfredo Goñi, Arantza Illarramendi

      Pages 5-18

   2. xOperator – Interconnecting the Semantic Web and Instant Messaging Networks

      • Sebastian Dietzold, Jörg Unbehauen, Sören Auer

      Pages 19-33

4. Application Ontologies

   1. An Ontology for Software Models and Its Practical Implications for Semantic Web Reasoning

      • Matthias Bräuer, Henrik Lochmann

      Pages 34-48

   2. A Core Ontology for Business Process Analysis

      • Carlos Pedrinaci, John Domingue, Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros

      Pages 49-64

5. Applications

   1. Assisting Pictogram Selection with Semantic Interpretation

      • Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Toshiyuki Takasaki, Satoshi Oyama

      Pages 65-79

   2. KonneXSALT: First Steps Towards a Semantic Claim Federation Infrastructure

      • Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Knud Möller, Stefan Decker

      Pages 80-94

   3. Building a National Semantic Web Ontology and Ontology Service Infrastructure –The FinnONTO Approach

      • Eero Hyvönen, Kim Viljanen, Jouni Tuominen, Katri Seppälä

      Pages 95-109

   4. Creating and Using Geospatial Ontology Time Series in a Semantic Cultural Heritage Portal

      • Tomi Kauppinen, Jari Väätäinen, Eero Hyvönen

      Pages 110-123

   5. Semantic Email as a Communication Medium for the Social Semantic Desktop

      • Simon Scerri, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker

      Pages 124-138

   6. IVEA: An Information Visualization Tool for Personalized Exploratory Document Collection Analysis

      • VinhTuan Thai, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker

      Pages 139-153

   7. Building a Semantic Web Image Repository for Biological Research Images

      • Jun Zhao, Graham Klyne, David Shotton

      Pages 154-169

6. Formal Languages

   1. Mapping Validation by Probabilistic Reasoning

      • Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, Davide Lorusso, Tobias Henrik Näth, Ralf Möller

      Pages 170-184

   2. Safe and Economic Re-Use of Ontologies: A Logic-Based Methodology and Tool Support

      • Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ulrike Sattler, Thomas Schneider, Rafael Berlanga

      Pages 185-199

   3. dRDF: Entailment for Domain-Restricted RDF

      • Reinhard Pichler, Axel Polleres, Fang Wei, Stefan Woltran

      Pages 200-214

   4. Finite Model Reasoning in DL-Lite

      • Riccardo Rosati

      Pages 215-229

   5. Module Extraction and Incremental Classification: A Pragmatic Approach for \(\ensuremath{\mathcal{EL}^+}\) Ontologies

      • Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn

      Pages 230-244

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2008, held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, in June 2008. The 51 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks and 25 system description papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 270 submitted papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on agents, application ontologies, applications, formal languages, foundational issues, learning, ontologies and natural language, ontology alignment, query processing, search, semantic Web services, storage and retrieval of semantic Web data, as well as user interfaces and personalization.

• Alignment
• Processing
• Web Services
• agents
• formal language
• learning
• ontology
• semantic web

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