KWEPSY2007

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KWEPSY2007
Knowledge Web PhD Symposium 2007
Subevent of ESWC2007
Start June 6 2007 (iCal)
End June 6 2007
Homepage: KWEPSY2007
Location
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


KWEPSY2007 is the Knowledge Web PhD Symposium 2007, co-located with the 4th Annual European Semantic Web Conference [ESWC2007] in Innsbruck, Austria.

Contents

[edit] Executive Summary

The Knowledge Web PhD Symposium aims at bringing together doctoral students within the Semantic Web community to open their work up to discussion in a European forum, and to obtain valuable feedback from leading scientists in the field. However, in contrast with other similar initiatives, participants to the symposium will not only receive constructive comments with respect to topic-specific research issues; they will also be assisted in formulating a coherent research narrative for their doctoral work. In particular, students will be asked to submit an extended abstract, structured in accordance to a pre-defined template, which has been designed to highlight the key methodological components required for a sound research narrative. Generally speaking, priority will be given to 1st/2nd year PhD students (because they are still in the process of defining the scope of their research). However, all PhD students are welcome and encouraged to apply.

Just as in 2006 [KWEPSY 2006], the 2nd Symposium will be co-located with the 4th Annual European Semantic Web Conference [ESWC2007]. It is scheduled for the 6th of June 2007.

[edit] Important Dates (GMT)

  • Deadline for paper submissions: March 2, 2007
  • NEW Notification of acceptance for full papers and posters: April 13, 2007
  • NEW Camera-ready versions for full papers and posters: April 20, 2007
  • NEW Early registration ESWC: April 20, 2007
  • Symposium: June 6, 2007

[edit] Call for Contributions

Though organized under the umbrella of Knowledge Web [main Web page], 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 [Springer LNCS] 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):

  • Conformance of the submitted abstract to the given template.
  • 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.


[edit] 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 ina 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


[edit] 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

[edit] 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!

[edit] 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}
}

[edit] 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

[edit] Organising Committee

[edit] Scientific Advisors

[edit] Contact

Please contact Elena Simperl (elena.simperl at deri.org) if you have any questions regarding this event.

[edit] 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] web site for more details.

The best paper award was sponsored by the [BIT Joint School for Information Technology]

Facts about KWEPSY2007RDF feed
Camera ready due 13 April 2007  +, and 20 April 2007  +
End date 6 June 2007  +
Event in series KWEPSY  +
Has OC member Elena Simperl  +, Joerg Diederich  +, and Guus Schreiber  +
Has PC member Alain Leger  +, Asuncion Gomez Perez  +, Anupriya Ankolekar  +, Axel Polleres  +, Daniel Olmedilla  +, Carole Goble  +, Diana Maynard  +, Elena Simperl  +, Enrico Franconi  +, Enrico Motta  +, Fabien Gandon  +, Frank van Harmelen  +, Guus Schreiber  +, Heiner Stuckenschmidt  +, Holger Wache  +, Ilya Zaihrayeu  +, Jeff Z. Pan  +, Jerome Euzenat  +, Joerg Diederich  +, Sebastian Schaffert  +, John Breslin  +, Lora Aroyo  +, Lyndon Nixon  +, Marco Ronchetti  +, Martin Dzbor  +, Michal Zaremba  +, Pavel Shvaiko  +, Peter Haase  +, Philipp Cimiano  +, Richard Benjamins  +, Robert Tolksdorf  +, Rose Dieng  +, Sergio Tessaris  +, Stefan Decker  +, Tomas Vitvar  +, Valentina Tamma  +, Walter Binder  +, Wolfgang Nejdl  +, Yiannis Kompatsiaris  +, and York Sure  +
Has location city Innsbruck  +
Has location country Austria  +
Homepage http://ontoworld.org/wiki/KWEPSY2007  +
Notification 13 April 2007  +
Paper deadline 2 March 2007  +
Start date 6 June 2007  +
Subevent of ESWC2007  +
Submission deadline 2 March 2007  +
Title Knowledge Web PhD Symposium 2007  +
Retrieved from "http://semanticweb.org/wiki/KWEPSY2007"
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