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

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. Semantic Web Enabled Web Services 1; Dieter Fensel, Christoph Bussler, Alexander Maedche; The Grid, Grid Services and the Semantic Web:; Technologies and Opportunities 3; Carl Kesselman; Research Papers: Matching RDFGraphs 5; Jeremy J Carroll; Layering the Semantic Web: Problems and Directions 16; Peter F Patel-Schneider, Dieter Fensel; Notions of Indistinguishability for Semantic Web Languages 30; Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx; The Usable Ontology:; An Environment for Building and Assessing a Domain Ontology 39; Michele Missiko, Roberto Navigli, Paola Velardi; Sesame: A Generic Architecture; for Storing and Querying RDFand RDFSc hema 54; Jeen Broekstra, Arjohn Kampman, Frank van Harmelen; A Formal Model for Topic Maps 69; Pascal Auillans, Patrice Ossona de Mendez, Pierre Rosenstiehl, ; Bernard Vatant; Towards High-Precision Service Retrieval 84; Abraham Bernstein, Mark Klein; Automatic Generation of Java/SQL Based Inference Engines; from RDFSc hema and RuleML 102; Andreas Eberhart; Ontology-Based Integration of XML Web Resources 117; Bernd Amann, Catriel Beeri, Irini Fundulaki, Michel Scholl; XIV Table of Contents; Benchmarking RDFSc hemas for the Semantic Web 132; Aimilia Magkanaraki, So a Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, ; Dimitris Plexousakis; Building the Semantic Web on XML 147; Peter F Patel-Schneider, Jérôme Siméon; Trusting Information Sources One Citizen at a Time 162; Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar; Querying the Semantic Web: A Formal Approach 177; Ian Horrocks, Sergio Tessaris; Semantic Con guration Web Services in the CAWICOMS Project 192; Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Dietmar Jannach, ; Markus Zanker; Integrating Vocabularies:; Discovering and Representing Vocabulary Maps 206; Borys Omelayenko; OntoEdit: Collaborative Ontology Development for the Semantic Web 221; York Sure, Michael Erdmann, Juergen Angele, Ste en Staab, ; Rudi Studer, Dirk Wenke; Towards a Modi cation Exchange Language; for Distributed RDFRep ositories 236; Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Bernd Simon, Julien Tane; Representing Disjunction and Quanti ers in RDF 250; Drew McDermott, Dejing Dou; Towards Semantic Web Mining 264; Bettina Berendt, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme; Bringing Together Semantic Web and Web Services 279; Joachim Peer; Global vs Community Metadata Standards:; Empowering Users for Knowledge Exchange 292; Marek Hatala, Gri R ichards; Taking the RDFMo del Theory Out for a Spin 307; Ora Lassila; Concurrent Execution Semantics of DAML-S with Subtypes 318; Anupriya Ankolekar, Frank Huch, Katia Sycara; Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities 333; Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R Payne, Katia Sycara; Table of Contents XV; DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web 348; DAML-S Coalition: Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R Hobbs, ; Ora Lassila, David Martin, Drew McDermott, Sheila A McIlraith, ; Srini Narayanan, Massimo Paolucci, Terry Payne, Katia Sycara; TRIPLE-A Query, Inference, and Transformation Language; for the Semantic Web 364; Michael Sintek, Stefan Decker; A Data Integration Framework for e-Commerce Product Classi cation 379; Sonia Bergamaschi, Francesco Guerra, Maurizio Vincini; Position Papers: Nonmonotonic Rule Systems on Top of Ontology Layers 394; Grigoris Antoniou; An RDFNetAPI 399; Andy Seaborne; A Mini-experiment in Semantic Annotation 404; Guus Schreiber, Inger I Blok, Daan Carlier, Wouter P C van Gent, ; Jair Hokstam, Uri Roos; SWAD-Europe: Semantic Web Advanced Development in Europe 409; D Brickley, S Buswell, B M Matthews, L Miller, D Reynolds, ; M D Wilson; Preemptive Rei cation 414; Steven R Newcomb; Four Steps Towards the Widespread Adoption of a Semantic Web 419; Brian McBride; System Descriptions: Three Implementations of SquishQL, a Simple RDFQuery Language 423; Libby Miller, Andy Seaborne, Alberto Reggiori; ClaiMaker: Weaving a Semantic Web of Research Papers 436; Gangmin Li, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum, ; John Domingue; Business and Enterprise Ontology Management with SymOntoX 442; Michele Missiko, Francesco Taglino; Is Participation in the Semantic Web Too Di cult? 448; Stefan Haustein, Jörg Pleumann; XVI Table of Contents; Consistency Checking of Semantic Web Ontologies 454; Kenneth Baclawski, Mieczyslaw M Kokar, Richard Waldinger, ; Paul A Kogut; WebThemeTM: Understanding Web Information through Visual Analytics 460; Mark A Whiting, Nick Cramer; Browsing Schedules - An Agent-Based Approach; to Navigating the Semantic Web 469; Terry R Payne, Rahul Singh and Katia Sycara Semantic Web Enabled Web Services....Pages 1-2 The Grid, Grid Services and the Semantic Web: Technologies and Opportunities....Pages 3-4 Matching RDF Graphs....Pages 5-15 Layering the Semantic Web: Problems and Directions....Pages 16-29 Notions of Indistinguishability for Semantic Web Languages....Pages 30-38 The Usable Ontology: An Environment for Building and Assessing a Domain Ontology....Pages 39-53 Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema....Pages 54-68 A Formal Model for Topic Maps....Pages 69-83 Towards High-Precision Service Retrieval....Pages 84-101 Automatic Generation of Java/SQL Based Inference Engines from RDF Schema and RuleML....Pages 102-116 Ontology-Based Integration of XML Web Resources....Pages 117-131 Benchmarking RDF Schemas for the Semantic Web....Pages 132-146 Building the Semantic Web on XML....Pages 147-161 Trusting Information Sources One Citizen at a Time....Pages 162-176 Querying the Semantic Web: A Formal Approach....Pages 177-191 Semantic Configuration Web Services in the CAWICOMS Project....Pages 192-205 Integrating Vocabularies: Discovering and Representing Vocabulary Maps....Pages 206-220 OntoEdit: Collaborative Ontology Development for the Semantic Web....Pages 221-235 Towards a Modification Exchange Language for Distributed RDF Repositories....Pages 236-249 Representing Disjunction and Quantifiers in RDF....Pages 250-263 Towards Semantic Web Mining....Pages 264-278 Bringing Together Semantic Web and Web Services....Pages 279-291 Global vs. Community Metadata Standards: Empowering Users for Knowledge Exchange....Pages 292-306 Taking the RDF Model Theory Out for a Spin....Pages 307-317 Concurrent Execution Semantics of DAML-S with Subtypes....Pages 318-332 Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities....Pages 333-347 DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web....Pages 348-363 TRIPLE—A Query, Inference, and Transformation Language for the Semantic Web....Pages 364-378 A Data Integration Framework for e-Commerce Product Classification....Pages 379-393 Nonmonotonic Rule Systems on Top of Ontology Layers....Pages 394-398 An RDF NetAPI....Pages 399-403 A Mini-experiment in Semantic Annotation....Pages 404-408 SWAD-Europe: Semantic Web Advanced Development in Europe A Position Paper....Pages 409-413 Preemptive Reification....Pages 414-418 Four Steps Towards the Widespread Adoption of a Semantic Web....Pages 419-422 Three Implementations of SquishQL, a Simple RDF Query Language....Pages 423-435 ClaiMaker: Weaving a Semantic Web of Research Papers....Pages 436-441 Business and Enterprise Ontology Management with SymOntoX....Pages 442-447 Is Participation in the Semantic Web Too Difficult?....Pages 448-453 Consistency Checking of Semantic Web Ontologies....Pages 454-459 WebThemeTM: Understanding Web Information through Visual Analytics....Pages 460-468 Browsing Schedules - An Agent-Based Approach to Navigating the Semantic Web....Pages 469-473 The two-volume set LNCS 7649 + 7650 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2012, held in Boston, MA, USA, in November 2012. In addition, it presents 8 contributions to the evaluations and experiments track and 7 long papers and 8 short papers of the doctoral consortium. These are 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 selected from a total of 133 submissions.