8:30 – 9:00

Welcome by the Organizers: Vipul and Leon

 

Semantic Search

9:00 – 9:30

Measuring Similarity of Texts using WordNet

Naraynan Unny E, Pushpak Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

9:30 – 10:00

QuizRDF: Search Technology for the Semantic Web

John Davies, Richard Weeks and Uwe Krohn, BTexact Technologies

10:00 – 10:30

break

 

XML-based tools and Web Services

10:30-11:00

Change Detection of XML Documents Using Signatures

Latifur Khan, Lei Wang, Yan Rao, University of Texas at Dallas

11:00 -11:20

Web-for-Web: A Tool for Evolving Data-Driven Web Applications

Olga De Troyer, Jo De Greef, Peter Stuer, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel

11:20 – 11:50

Composition Constraints for Semantic Web Services

Zhengang Chang, Munindar P. Singh, Mladen A. Vouk, North Carolina State University

11:50 – 12:30

Lunch Break

 

Semantic Annotations and Knowledge Sharing

13:30 – 13:50

Hyperclip: A tool for gathering Metadata on User's Activities by using Peer-to-Peer Technology

Hiroyuki Sato, Yutaka Abe, Atsushi Kanai, NTT Information Sharing Labs

13:50 – 14:10

Pragmatic Representation and Markup of Ontologies: Applications to Web Forms Generation

Marlon Dumas, Lachlan Aldred, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

14:10 – 14:30

Annotation Tool for the Semantic Web

Venkatsubramani S, Raman RKVS, National Center for Software Technology, Bangalore

14:30 – 14:50

Corese: A Corporate Semantic Web Engine

Olivier Corby and Catherine Faron-Zucker, INRIA Sophia Antipolis

14:50 -15:10

The Peer-to-Peer Semantic Web: A Distributed Environment for

Sharing Semantic Knowledge on the Web

Madhan Arumugam, Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar, University of Georgia

15:10 – 15:30

Break

 

Semantic Application and Information Integration

15:10 – 15:30

NESSTAR: A Semantic Web Application for Statistical Data and Metadata

Pasqualino Assini, Nesstar Ltd.

15:30 – 15:50

RDF Representation of Metadata for Semantic Integration of Corporate Information Resources

Tom Barrett, David Jones, Jun Yuan, John Sawaya, Mike Uschold, Tom Adams, Deborah Folger, The Boeing Company

15:50 – 16:10

An ontology based approach to loose-couple Web enabled heterogeneous systems

Marwan Sabbouh, Vuhuy Phan, Stephan Nadeau, Amanda Martinex, MITRE

16:10 – 17:30

Roundtable Discussion