The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 6th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2009 Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 31–June 4, 2009 Proceedings

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by  James A. Hendler (auth.), Lora Aroyo, Paolo Traverso, Fabio Ciravegna, Philipp Cimiano, Tom Heath, Eero Hyvönen, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Eyal Oren, Marta Sabou, Elena Simperl (eds.)

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Marta Sabou Elena Simperl (Eds.)
The Semantic Web:
Research
and Applications
6thEuropeanSemanticWebConference,ESWC2009
Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 31–June 4, 2009
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EyalOren
VUAmsterdam,TheNetherlands,E-mail:{l.m.aroyo,eyal}@cs.vu.nl
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FBKIRST,Trento,Italy,E-mail:[email protected]
FabioCiravegna
UniversityofSheffield,UK,E-mail:[email protected]
PhilippCimiano
TUDelft,TheNetherlands,E-mail:[email protected]
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TalisInformationLtd.,Birmingham,UK,E-mail:[email protected]
EeroHyvönen
HelsinkiUniversityofTechnology,Finland,E-mail:Eero.Hyvonen@tkk.fi
RiichiroMizoguchi
OsakaUniversity,Japan,E-mail:[email protected]
MartaSabou
TheOpenUniversity,MiltonKeynes,UK,E-mail:[email protected]
ElenaSimperl
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Preface
This volume contains papers from the technical program of the 6th European
Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009), held from May 31 to June 4, 2009,
in Heraklion, Greece. ESWC 2009 presented the latest results in research and
applicationsofSemantic Webtechnologies.Inadditionto the technicalresearch
track, ESWC 2009 featured a tutorial program, a PhD symposium, a system
demo track, a poster track, a number of collocated workshops, and for the first
timeintheseriesaSemanticWebin-usetrackexploringthebenefitsofapplying
Semantic Web technology in real-life applications and contexts.
Thetechnicalresearchpapertrackreceivedover250submissions.Thereview
process was organized using a two-tiered system, where each submission was
reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Vice Program
CommitteeChairsorganizedadiscussionbetweenreviewers,collectedadditional
reviewswhen necessaryand provideda metareview for eachsubmission.During
a physical Program Committee meeting, the Vice Program Committee Chairs
together with the Program Chairs selected 45 research papers to be presented
at the conference.
Inadditiontothetechnicalresearchpapertrack,thisyeararefereedSemantic
Web in-use track was introduced. This track complements the more theoretical
aspects of the technical research paper track by providing accounts of rigorous,
principled and original work in the Semantic Web field that has a more practi-
cal flavor. The Semantic Web in-use track received 27 submissions, which were
thoroughly peer-reviewed by a separate Program Committee of Semantic Web
researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. Eight papers were
selected for publication in the ESWC 2009 proceedings, and for presentation at
the conference in two in-use sessions, titled “Bringing Legacy Content to the
Semantic Web” and “Linked Data.”
The ESWC 2009 proceeding also include eight PhD symposium papers pre-
sented at a separate track preceeding the main conference and 24 demo papers
giving a brief description of the system demos that were accepted for presenta-
tion in a dedicated session during the conference.
ESWC 2009 had four keynote speakers. “Tonight’s Dessert: Semantic Web
LayerCakes”wasgivenduringtheconferencedinnerbyJimHendler,Tetherless
WorldProfessorofComputerandCognitiveScience,andtheAssistantDeanfor
Information Technology, at Rennselaer. He gave his vision of the future work
on the Semantic Web by looking at the layer cake evolution over time. Craig
Knoblock, Senior Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute and a
Research Professor in Computer Science at the University of Southern Cali-
fornia (USC), discussed work on discovering and building semantic models of
Web sources. Alan Smeaton, Professor of Computing and Deputy Director of
CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, at Dublin City University,
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Ireland,discussedvideosemanticsandtheSensorWeb,inthecontextofcontent-
based video retrieval. “Keys, Money and Mobile Phone” presented by Matthias
Wagner, Senior Manager of the Smart and Secure Services Research Group
at DOCOMO Euro-Labs, the European research laboratories of the leading
Japanese mobile operator NTT DOCOMO, discussed how semantic technolo-
gies can add value to mobile services.
To encourage deployment of Semantic Web technologies and to gather and
sharesemanticdata,inthetraditionof“eatingourowndogfood,”themetadata
co-chairs this year extended the usual publication of a rich set of conference
semanticmetadatawiththelaunchofanambitioussocialexperimentwherethe
Semantic Web, the SocialWeb, andthe PhysicalWorldcame togetherto create
a rich and integrated network of information.
Special thanks go to all the members of the Program Committee of the dif-
ferent refereed tracks and the additional reviewers who helped with the review
processandcontributedtoensuringthe scientificqualityofESWC 2009,aswell
as the members of the Organizing Committee for their hard work in selecting
outstanding tutorials, workshops, panels, lightning talks, demos, posters and
PhD symposium papers. We wouldlike to also thank the Sponsorship Chair for
reachingouttoindustryandvariousorganizationssupportingthe2009editionof
the conference, as well as the local organization,website and conference admin-
istrationteamputtogetherbySTIInternationalfortheirexcellentcoordination
during the conference preparation.
Finally, we would like to thank the Proceedings Chair for the hard work in
preparingtheseproceedings,toSpringerforthe supportwiththepreparationof
the proceedingsandto the developersofthe EasyChairconferencemanagement
system,whichwasusedto managethe submissionandreviewofpapers andthe
production of this volume.
June 2009 Lora Aroyo
Paolo Traverso
Fabio Ciravegna
Philip Cimiano
Tom Heath
Eero Hyvo¨nen
Riichiro Mizoguchi
Eyal Oren
Marta Sabou
Elena Simperl
Organization
General Chair
Fabio Ciravegna University of Sheffield, UK
Program Chairs
Lora Aroyo VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paolo Traverso FBK IRST, Italy
In-Use Chairs
Tom Heath Talis Information Ltd., UK
Eero Hyvo¨nen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Tutorial Chairs
Philippe Cudr´e-Mauroux Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Chiara Ghidini FBK IRST, Italy
Workshop Chairs
J´erˆome Euzenat INRIA and LIG, Grenoble, France
Valentina Presutti ISTC-CNR, Italy
Demo and Poster Chairs
Philipp Cimiano TU Delft, The Netherlands
Elena Simperl STI Innsbruck, Austria
Sponsorship Chair
PascalHitzler AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Panel Chair
Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy
Proceedings Chair
Eyal Oren VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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PhD Symposium Chairs
Riichiro Mizoguchi Osaka University, Japan
Marta Sabou The Open University, UK
Semantic Web Technology Coordinators
Harith Alani University of Southampton, UK
Michael Hausenblas DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
Treasurer
Alexander Wahler STI International, Austria
Local Organizer
Lejla Ibralic-Halilovic STI International, Austria
Publicity Chair
Charlotte Finkbeiner STI International, Austria
Vice-Chairs – Research Track
Karl Aberer Masahiro Hori
Sean Bechhofer Ian Horrocks
Isabel Cruz Matthias Klusch
David De Roure Manolis Koubarakis
John Davies Natasha Noy
John Domingue Massimo Paolucci
Thomas Eiter Luciano Serafini
Asunci´on Go´mez-P´erez Frank van Harmelen
Nicola Guarino Chris Welty
Martin Hepp
Program Committee – Research Track
Jos´e Ju´lio Alferes Alessandro Artale
Yuan An Yannis Avrithis
Ion Androutsopoulos Danny Ayers
Galia Angelova Christopher Baker
Anupriya Ankolekar Cristina Baroglio
Marcelo Arenas Nick Bassiliades
Organization IX
Zohra Bellahsene Masahiro Hori
Abraham Bernstein Andreas Hotho
Leopoldo Bertossi Geert-Jan Houben
Walter Binder Jane Hunter
Kalina Bontcheva Carlos Hurtado
Alex Borgida Arantza Illarramendi
Paolo Bouquet Antoine Isaac
John Breslin Epaminondas Kapetanios
Dan Brickley David Karger
Jos de Bruijn Vangelis Karkaletsis
Franc¸ois Bry Yevgeny Kazakov
Paul Buitelaar Anastasios Kementsietsidis
Christoph Bussler Hak Lae Kim
Andrea Cali Mieczyslaw Kokar
Diego Calvanese Yiannis Kompatsiaris
Mario Cannataro Georgia Koutrika
Silvana Castano Rub´en Lara
Vinay Chaudhri Georg Lausen
Paul-Alexandru Chirita Nicola Leone
Fabio Ciravegna Yaoyong Li
Oscar Corcho Francesca Alessandra Lisi
Bernardo Cuenca Grau Joanne Luciano
Mike Dean Bertram Ludaescher
Thierry Declerck Alexander Lo¨ser
Vania Dimitrova V´eronique Malais´e
Ying Ding Jan Maluszynski
Wlodek Drabent Zlatina Marinova
Martin Dzbor M. Scott Marshall
Boi Faltings Mihhail Matskin
Giorgos Flouris Wolfgang May
Gerhard Friedrich Diana Maynard
Fabien Gandon Peter Mika
Aldo Gangemi Simon Miles
Nicholas Gibbins Dunja Mladenic
Christine Golbreich Ralf Moeller
John Goodwin Boris Motik
Guido Governatori Saikat Mukherjee
Mark Greaves Wolfgang Nejdl
Gianluigi Greco Lyndon Nixon
Peter Haase Daniel Oberle
Mohand-Said Hacid Leo Obrst
Axel Hahn Daniel Olmedilla
Harry Halpin Jacco van Ossenbruggen
Herman ter Horst Sascha Ossowski
Laura Hollink Georgios Paliouras
X Organization
Jeff Z. Pan Giorgos Stoilos
Bijan Parsia Ljiljana Stojanovic
Terry Payne Michael Stollberg
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva Umberto Straccia
Marco Pistore Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Axel Polleres Rudi Studer
Line Pouchard Gerd Stumme
Jinghai Rao York Sure
Alan Rector Vojtech Svatek
Gerald Reif Hideaki Takeda
Ulrich Reimer Andrei Tamilin
Mark Roantree Bernhard Thalheim
Riccardo Rosati Robert Tolksdorf
Marie-Christine Rousset Christos Tryfonopoulos
Alan Ruttenberg Victoria Uren
Vasilis Samoladas Costas Vassilakis
Kai-Uwe Sattler Laure Vieu
Sebastian Schaffert Ubbo Visser
Stefan Schlobach Tomas Vitvar
Michael Schumacher Raphael Volz
PavelShvaiko George Vouros
Wolf Siberski Holger Wache
Alkis Simitsis Chris Welty
Munindar Singh Graham Wilcock
Michael Sintek Peter Wood
Sergej Sizov Takahira Yamaguchi
Spiros Skiadopoulos Milena Yankova
Jin Song Dong Yiyu Yao
Kavitha Srinivas Djamel Zighed
Giorgos Stamou Michal Zaremba
Heiko Stoermer
Program Committee – In-Use Track
Harith Alani Stefan Decker
So¨ren Auer Catherine Dolbear
Mathieu d’Aquin Robert Engels
Chris Bizer Lee Feigenbaum
Andreas Blumauer Hugh Glaser
Christopher Brewster Mark Greaves
O`scar Celma Siegfried Handschuh
Sam Chapman Martin Hepp
Huajun Chen Ivan Herman
Mariano Consens Andreas Hotho
John Davies Anthony Jameson
Organization XI
Brian McBride Daniel Schwabe
Eetu Ma¨kela¨ Andy Seaborne
Knud Mo¨ller John Sheridan
Lyndon Nixon Susie Stephens
Daniel Olmedilla York Sure
Eyal Oren Klaus Tochtermann
Yuzhong Qu Robert Tolksdorf
Yves Raimond Rapha¨el Troncy
Dave Reynolds Denny Vrandeˇci´c
Alan Ruttenberg Jan Wielemaker
Marta Sabou Milena Yankova
Leo Sauermann
Sebastian Schaffert
Program Committee – Demo and Poster Track
Harith Alani Raul Palma
Anupriya Ankolekar Viktoria Pammer
Mathieu d’Aquin Jeff Z. Pan
So¨ren Auer Sofia Pinto
Christopher Brewster Angus Roberts
Paul Buitelaar Dumitru Roman
Klaas Dellschaft Sebastian Rudolph
Alfio Ferrara Marta Sabou
Agata Filipowska Leo Sauermann
Florian Fischer Arno Scharl
Blaz Fortuna Simon Schenk
Dragan Gaˇsevi´c Michael Sintek
Birte Glimm Katharina Siorpaes
Peter Haase Giorgos Stoilos
Willem van Hage Michael Stollberg
Siegfried Handschuh Vojtech Svatek
Tom Heath Vlad Tanasescu
Martin Hepp Rapha¨el Troncy
Stijn Heymans Tania Tudorache
Nicholas J. Kings Giovanni Tummarello
Reto Krummenacher Victoria Uren
Markus Kro¨tzsch Denny Vrandeˇci´c
Jens Lehmann Johanna Vo¨lker
Francesca Alessandra Lisi Haofen Wang
Diana Maynard Ingo Weber
Adrian Mocan Ren´e Witte
Malgorzata Mochol Maciej Zaremba
Lyndon Nixon Anna Zhdanova
Eyal Oren