International Semantic Web Conference 2008: Karlsruhe, Germany
Amit P. Sheth, Steffen Staab, Mike Dean, Massimo Paolucci, Diana Maynard, Timothy W. Finin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan (Eds.): The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008, 7th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008. Proceedings. Springer 2008 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-540-88563-4
Research Track
Ontology Engineering
Vania Dimitrova, Ronald Denaux, Glen Hart, Catherine Dolbear, Ian Holt, Anthony G. Cohn: Involving Domain Experts in Authoring OWL Ontologies. 1-16
Tania Tudorache, Natalya Fridman Noy, Samson W. Tu, Mark A. Musen: Supporting Collaborative Ontology Development in Protégé. 17-32
Gang Wu, Juanzi Li, Ling Feng, Kehong Wang: Identifying Potentially Important Concepts and Relations in an Ontology. 33-49
Brian Davis, Ahmad Ali Iqbal, Adam Funk, Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Siegfried Handschuh: RoundTrip Ontology Authoring. 50-65
Data Management

Michael Schmidt, Thomas Hornung, Norbert Küchlin, Georg Lausen, Christoph Pinkel: An Experimental Comparison of RDF Data Management Approaches in a SPARQL Benchmark Scenario. 82-97
Eyal Oren, Christophe Guéret, Stefan Schlobach: Anytime Query Answering in RDF through Evolutionary Algorithms. 98-113
Software and Service Engineering
Colin Puleston, Bijan Parsia, James Cunningham, Alan L. Rector: Integrating Object-Oriented and Ontological Representations: A Case Study in Java and OWL. 130-145
Dengping Wei, Ting Wang, Ji Wang, Yaodong Chen: Extracting Semantic Constraint from Description Text for Semantic Web Service Discovery. 146-161
Simon Ferndriger, Abraham Bernstein, Jin Song Dong, Yuzhang Feng, Yuan-Fang Li, Jane Hunter: Enhancing Semantic Web Services with Inheritance. 162-177
Non-standard Reasoning with Ontologies
Zhisheng Huang, Frank van Harmelen: Using Semantic Distances for Reasoning with Inconsistent Ontologies. 178-194
Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato, Floriana Esposito: Statistical Learning for Inductive Query Answering on OWL Ontologies. 195-212
Pavel Klinov, Bijan Parsia: Optimization and Evaluation of Reasoning in Probabilistic Description Logic: Towards a Systematic Approach. 213-228
Semantic Retrieval
Chaitanya Chemudugunta, America Holloway, Padhraic Smyth, Mark Steyvers: Modeling Documents by Combining Semantic Concepts with Unsupervised Statistical Learning. 229-244
Leandro Balby Marinho, Krisztian Buza, Lars Schmidt-Thieme: Folksonomy-Based Collabulary Learning. 261-276
OWL
Georgios Meditskos, Nick Bassiliades: Combining a DL Reasoner and a Rule Engine for Improving Entailment-Based OWL Reasoning. 277-292
Rolf Grütter, Thomas Scharrenbach, Bettina Bauer-Messmer: Improving an RCC-Derived Geospatial Approximation by OWL Axioms. 293-306

Ontology Alignment
Shenghui Wang, Gwenn Englebienne, Stefan Schlobach: Learning Concept Mappings from Instance Similarity. 339-355
Christian Wartena, Rogier Brussee: Instanced-Based Mapping between Thesauri and Folksonomies. 356-370
Natalya Fridman Noy, Nicholas Griffith, Mark A. Musen: Collecting Community-Based Mappings in an Ontology Repository. 371-386
Jérôme Euzenat: Algebras of Ontology Alignment Relations. 387-402
Description Logics
Julian Dolby, Achille Fokoue, Aditya Kalyanpur, Li Ma, Edith Schonberg, Kavitha Srinivas, Xingzhi Sun: Scalable Grounded Conjunctive Query Evaluation over Large and Expressive Knowledge Bases. 403-418
Guilin Qi, Peter Haase, Zhisheng Huang, Qiu Ji, Jeff Z. Pan, Johanna Völker: A Kernel Revision Operator for Terminologies - Algorithms and Evaluation. 419-434
Sebastian Rudolph, Markus Krötzsch, Pascal Hitzler: Description Logic Reasoning with Decision Diagrams: Compiling SHIQ to Disjunctive Datalog. 435-450
User Interfaces
Lushan Han, Tim Finin, Cynthia Sims Parr, Joel Sachs, Anupam Joshi: RDF123: From Spreadsheets to RDF. 451-466
Leo Sauermann, Dominik Heim: Evaluating Long-Term Use of the Gnowsis Semantic Desktop for PIM. 467-482
Raphaël Troncy: Bringing the IPTC News Architecture into the Semantic Web. 483-498
Web Data and Knowledge
Zoi Kaoudi, Iris Miliaraki, Manolis Koubarakis: RDFS Reasoning and Query Answering on Top of DHTs. 499-516
Faezeh Ensan, Weichang Du: An Interface-Based Ontology Modularization Framework for Knowledge Encapsulation. 517-532
Simon Schenk: On the Semantics of Trust and Caching in the Semantic Web. 533-549
Semantic Web Services

Tomas Vitvar, Adrian Mocan, Maciej Zaremba: Formal Model for Semantic-Driven Service Execution. 567-582
Dimitrios Skoutas, Dimitris Sacharidis, Verena Kantere, Timos K. Sellis: Efficient Semantic Web Service Discovery in Centralized and P2P Environments. 583-598
Semantic Social Networks
Harry Halpin, David J. Zielinski, Rachael Brady, Glenda Kelly: Exploring Semantic Social Networks Using Virtual Reality. 599-614
Ciro Cattuto, Dominik Benz, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme: Semantic Grounding of Tag Relatedness in Social Bookmarking Systems. 615-631
Martin Szomszor, Harith Alani, Iván Cantador, Kieron O'Hara, Nigel Shadbolt: Semantic Modelling of User Interests Based on Cross-Folksonomy Analysis. 632-648
Rules and Relatedness


Laurent Mazuel, Nicolas Sabouret: Semantic Relatedness Measure Using Object Properties in an Ontology. 681-694
Semantic Web in Use Track
Knowledge Management
Jan Wielemaker, Michiel Hildebrand, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Guus Schreiber: Thesaurus-Based Search in Large Heterogeneous Collections. 695-708
Conny Christl, Chiara Ghidini, Joanna Guss, Stefanie N. Lindstaedt, Viktoria Pammer, Marco Rospocher, Peter Scheir, Luciano Serafini: Deploying Semantic Web Technologies for Work Integrated Learning in Industry - A Comparison: SME vs. Large Sized Company. 709-722
Ravish Bhagdev, Ajay Chakravarthy, Sam Chapman, Fabio Ciravegna, Vitaveska Lanfranchi: Creating and Using Organisational Semantic Webs in Large Networked Organisations. 723-736
Tamas Hauer, Dmitri Rogulin, Sonja Zillner, Andrew Branson, Jetendr Shamdasani, Alexey Tsymbal, Martin Huber, Tony Solomonides, Richard McClatchey: An Architecture for Semantic Navigation and Reasoning with Patient Data - Experiences of the Health-e-Child Project. 737-750
Business Applications
Kunal Verma, Alex Kass: Requirements Analysis Tool: A Tool for Automatically Analyzing Software Requirements Documents. 751-763
Martin Hepp, Andreas Wechselberger: OntoNaviERP: Ontology-Supported Navigation in ERP Software Documentation. 764-776
Manuel Salvadores, Landong Zuo, S. M. Hazzaz Imtiaz, John Darlington, Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbolt, James Dobree: Market Blended Insight: Modeling Propensity to Buy with the Semantic Web. 777-789
Applications from Home to Space
Dario Bonino, Fulvio Corno: DogOnt - Ontology Modeling for Intelligent Domotic Environments. 790-803
Sebastian Böhm, Johan Koolwaaij, Marko Luther, Bertrand Souville, Matthias Wagner, Martin Wibbels: Introducing IYOUIT. 804-817
Reuben Wright, Manuel Sánchez-Gestido, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, María S. Pérez-Hernández, Rafael González-Cabero, Óscar Corcho: A Semantic Data Grid for Satellite Mission Quality Analysis. 818-832
Services and Infrastructure
Michael Wolverton, David Martin, Ian W. Harrison, Jérôme Thoméré: A Process Catalog for Workflow Generation. 833-846
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah L. McGuinness, Nicholas Del Rio, Li Ding: Inference Web in Action: Lightweight Use of the Proof Markup Language. 847-860
Shengping Liu, Yang Yang, Guo Tong Xie, Chen Wang, Feng Cao, Cassio Dos Santos, Robert J. Schloss, Yue Pan, Kevin Shank, John Colgrave: Supporting Ontology-Based Dynamic Property and Classification in WebSphere Metadata Server. 861-874
David de Francisco Marcos, Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Germán Toro del Valle: Towards a Multimedia Content Marketplace Implementation Based on Triplespaces. 875-888
Doctoral Consortium Track
Sofia Angeletou: Semantic Enrichment of Folksonomy Tagspaces. 889-894
Christian Baumann: Contracting and Copyright Issues for Composite Semantic Services. 895-900
Jürgen Bock: Parallel Computation Techniques for Ontology Reasoning. 901-906
Colm Conroy: Towards Semantic Mapping for Casual Web Users. 907-913
Michiel Hildebrand: Interactive Exploration of Heterogeneous Cultural Heritage Collections. 914-919
Thomas Scharrenbach: End-User Assisted Ontology Evolution in Uncertain Domains. 920-925
Philipp Sorg: Learning Methods in Multi-grained Query Answering. 926-931



