Proceedings

USEWOD2011 - 1st International Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data at WWW2011

Bettina Berendt, Laura Hollink, Vera Hollink, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Knud Möller, David Vallet.
ACM, 2011

This workshop will investigate the synergy between semantics and semantic-web technology on the one hand and analysis and mining of usage data on the other hand. The two fields are a promising combination. First, semantics can be used to enhance the analysis of usage data. Usage logs contain information that can help to better understand users or to adapt a system to a user’s needs and preferences. Now that more and more explicit knowledge is represented on the Web, in the form of ontologies, folksonomies, or linked data, the question arises how these semantics can be used to aid large scale web usage analysis and mining. Second, usage data analysis can enhance semantic resources as well as Semantic Web applications. Traces of users can be used to evaluate, adapt or personalize Semantic Web applications. Since logs record real-life users, they provide an opportunity to create gold standards for search or recommendation tools. In addition, logs can form valuable resources from which knowledge (e.g., in the form of ontologies or thesauri) can be extracted bottom-up.

Also, the emerging Web of Data demands a re-evaluation of existing usage mining techniques; new ways of accessing information enabled by the Web of Data imply the need to develop or adapt algorithms, methods, and techniques to analyze and interpret the usage of Web data instead of Web pages. An important question at this time is how the Web of Data is being used: how are datasets being accessed by human users and how by machines, what kinds of queries are being performed, and what can we learn about the usage of semantic applications?

The primary goals of this workshop are to foment a new community of researchers from various fields sharing an interest in usage mining and semantics and to create a roadmap for future research in this direction.

Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web (VISSW 2011)

Siegfried Handschuh, Lora Aroyo, VinhTuan Thai.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011

Proceedings of Linked Data in the Future Internet at the Future Internet Assembly, Ghent

S\"oren Auer, Stefan Decker, Manfred Hauswirth.
FIA-Ghent2010-Proceedings, 2010

Proceedings of the ISWC 2010 Posters & Demonstrations Track: Collected Abstracts

Axel Polleres, Huajun Chen.
CEUR-WS.org, 2010

The posters and demonstrations track of ISWC 2010 continues the established tradition of providing an interaction and connection opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their new and innovative work-in-progress. The track gives conference attendees a way to learn about novel on-going research projects that might not yet be complete, but whose preliminary results are already interesting. The track also provides presenters with an excellent opportunity to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting from knowledgeable sources. New in this year, we also encouraged authors of accepted full research or in-use papers to present a practical demonstration or poster with additional results.

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2010)

John Breslin, Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, Sergio Fernández.
CEUR-ws.org, 2010

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Personal Semantic Data

Laura Dragan, Bernhard Schandl, Charlie Abela, Tudor Groza, Gunnar Grimnes, Stefan Decker.
CEUR-WS Workshop Proceedings, 2010

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks (CISWSN 2010)

Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Tudor Groza, Katarzyna Musial, Siegfried Handschuh.
IEEE Computer Society Press, 2010

Proceedings of the ESWC2010 Workshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web (SPOT2010)

Philipp Kärger, Daniel Olmedilla, Alexandre Passant, Axel Polleres.
CEUR-WS.org, 2010

1st International Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web

Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano, Elena Montiel-Ponsoda.
CEUR-WS.org , 2010

The 2010 International Workshop on Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks (UBSN 2010)

Thanos Vasilakos, Min Chen, John Breslin, Lei Shu, Ming Li.
ICST, 2010

Recently, there has been increased investigation into new types of wireless sensor networks located on or around the human body, which are generally known as body sensor networks (BSNs). Following continuous advances in wireless communication technologies, there has been growing interest in the design, development and deployment of BSN systems in applications for improving people's daily life, which has led to an increased demand for interconnecting BSNs with other emerging wireless technologies, such as RFID technology, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Zigbee, Bluetooth, WiBree, video surveillance systems, WPAN, WLAN, the Internet, and cellular networks. With BSNs being incorporated into these technologies, BSNs have become ubiquitous. As a result of this, and due to an increased demand for advanced e-healthcare management systems in recent years, the marketing opportunities for advanced consumer electronics and related services have greatly increased. More and more autonomous and intelligent applications which are closely integrated with a person's everyday life are being generated. For example, by using BSNs to collect patient information, and by deploying diverse wireless networking systems for enhanced diagnostic assistance and action handling, better e-healthcare management systems can be designed for providing more desirable services.

Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web (VISSW 2010)

Siegfried Handschuh, Tom Heath, VinhTuan Thai, Ian Dickinson, Lora Aroyo, Valentina Presutti.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2010

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems V

Julian Padget, Alexander Artikis, Wamberto Vasconcelos, Kostas Stathis, Viviane Torres da Silva, Eric Matson, Axel Polleres.
Springer, 2010

COIN 2009 International Workshops: COIN@AAMAS 2009 Budapest, Hungary, May 2009, COIN@IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, USA, July 2009, COIN@MALLOW 2009,Turin, Italy, September 2009, Revised Selected Papers.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2009.

UGS2009 - Workshop on User-generated Services at ICSOC2009

Schahram Dustdar, Manfred Hauswirth, Juan José Hierro, Javier Soriano, Florian Urmetzer, Knud Möller, Ismael Rivera.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2009

Web Reasoning and Rule Systems - Third International Conference, RR 2009

Axel Polleres, Terrance Swift.
Springer, 2009

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2009, held in Chantilly, VA, USA, in October 2009.

The 15 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers address all current topics in Web reasoning and rule systems such as proof/deduction procedures, scalability, uncertainty, knowledge amalgamation and querying, and rules for decision support and production systems.

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2009)

John Breslin, Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, Sergio Fernández.
CEUR-WS.org, 2009

The 2nd Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2009) co-located with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2009) aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Web.

Proceedings of the ESWC2009 Workshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web (SPOT2009)

Michael Hausenblas, Philipp Kärger, Daniel Olmedilla, Alexandre Passant, Axel Polleres.
CEUR-WS.org, 2009

Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009)

Siegfried Handschuh, Tom Heath, VinhTuan Thai.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2009

The 2009 International Workshop on Pervasive Multimedia Sensor Networks (PMSN 2009)

Yanxiang He, Jong Hyuk Park, Yan Zhang, Naixue Xiong, Zhiwen Yu, Lei Shu, Yong Zhu, Jiming Chen, Jinli Cao, Deqing Zou.
IEEE Computer Society, 2009

Having the development of low-cost imaging sensors, CMOS cameras, sensitive microphones, PMSN have been proposed and drawn lots of attention from the research community. PMSN are a new and emerging type of sensor network that contains sensor nodes equipped with cameras, microphones, and other sensors producing multimedia content. These networks have the potential to enable a large class of applications ranging from assisting elderly in public spaces to border protection that benefit from the use of numerous sensor nodes that deliver multimedia content, e.g., multimedia surveillance networks, target tracking, environmental monitoring, and traffic management systems. PMSNs require effective harvesting and communication of event features in the form of multimedia such as audio, image, and video. Comparing with traditional wireless sensor networks, a lot of new challenges are faced by PMSNs, e.g., energy efficient multimedia processing and communication, heterogeneous multimedia reliability definitions, tight QoS expectations, and high bandwidth demands.

The 2009 International Workshop on Advanced Sensor Integration Technology (ASIT 2009)

Yang Xiao, Victor Leung, Min Chen, Lei Shu, Ming Li, Xu Huang.
Springer LNICST, 2009

Recently, there is a growing interest in the design, development and deployment of sensor systems for applications of high-level inference, which leads to an increasing demand on interconnecting wireless sensor networks with other emerging technologies, such as RFID technology, multimedia based surveillance system, biomedical technology, mobile agent based networks, P2P technology, business process and semantic technology, etc. With sensor technology being incorporated into these technologies, demands from more and more autonomous and intelligent applications can be met.

The 2009 International Workshop on Mobile, Multimedia, Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks (MMASN 2009)

Takahiro Hara, Lei Shu, Min Chen, Lei Wang, Guangjie Han, Wen Ji.
IEEE, 2009

Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks have received tremendous attentions from both academic community and industry field for many years, since these networks are the key underlying infrastructure for realizing next generation networking and computing, e.g., ubiquitous computing, 4G all IP networks. Along with the fast development on the hardware and embedded systems, Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks are further developed towards a large number of mobile & multimedia applications, e.g., video surveillance, traffic enforcement and control systems, advanced health care delivery, structural health monitoring, and industrial process control. To eventually realizing these mobility & multimedia technologies combined applications, a lot of efforts are still needed from both academic community and industry field, since the requirements on supporting both mobility and multimedia streaming in Wireless Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks positioned many challenging issues, e.g., mobile network self-organization, limited resource intelligent allocation, cross-layer optimization, and intelligent content-aware transmission.

In this workshop, we solicit research papers on all aspects of mobile, multimedia, Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks. Especially, we are interested in the research submissions focusing on the following four key aspects: 1) Congestion control problem: when multiple multimedia source nodes are deployed in wireless multimedia sensor networks, and they try to send out the streaming data to a single base station at the same time, a well designed congestion control scheme is essentially necessary; 2) Mobility support problem: when both multimedia source nodes and sink node can be mobile, it is easy to see that there is an opportunity to apply the game theory to further solve some more complicated optimization problems; 3) Duty-cycle support problem: when sensor nodes in the wireless multimedia sensor networks are random duty-cycled based, the network topology and connectivity of sensor networks can change from time to time. It is important to further investigate a cross layer optimized sensor node sleeping scheduling scheme to guarantee the network connectivity for packet delivery; 4) Target tracking problem: when multiple video sensor nodes are deployed to tracking a certain target in the sensor networks, it is important to further explore the collaboration between multiple video sensor nodes for facilitating the target tracking task.

Proceedings of the 3rd Expert Finder Workshop on Personal Identification and Collaborations: Knowledge Mediation and Extraction (PICKME 2008)

Malgorzata Mochol, Anna V. Zhdanova, Lyndon Nixon, John Breslin, Axel Polleres.
CEUR-WS.org, 2008

The Semantic Web, Social Networks and other emerging technology streams promise to enable finding experts more efficiently on a Web scale across boundaries. To leverage synergies among these streams, the ExpertFinder Initiative started in 2006 with the aim of devising vocabularies, rule extensions (for e.g. FOAF and SIOC) and best practices to annotate and extract expertise-relevant information from personal and organizational web pages, blogs, wikis, conferences, publication indexes, etc. Following two previous workshops - EFW and FEWS - PICKME2008 solocited new research contributions from the Semantic Web community towards the tasks of formally representing and reusing knowledge of skills and collaborations on the Web and consequently finding people according to their expertise.

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008)

John Breslin, Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, Sergio Fernández.
CEUR-WS.org, 2008

Cooperative Information Agents XII

Matthias Klusch, Michal Pechoucek, Axel Polleres.
Springer, 2008

The objective of the international workshop series on cooperative information agents (CIA), since its establishment in 1997, is to provide a distinguished, interdisciplinary forum for researchers, programmers, and managers to get informed about, present, and discuss latest high quality results in research and development of agent-based intelligent and cooperative information systems, and applications for the Internet, Web and Semantic Web. Each event of the series offers regular and invited talks of excellence that are given by renown experts in the field, a selected set of system demonstrations, and honors innovative research and development of information agents by means of a best paper award, and respectively, a system innovation award. The proceedings of the series are regularly published as volumes of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series of the Springer Verlag. In keeping with its tradition, this year's workshop featured a sequence of regular and invited talks of excellence given by leading researchers covering a broad area of topics of interest. In particular, CIA 2008 featured five invited and nineteen regular papers selected from thirty-eight submissions. The result of the peer-review of all contributions is included in this volume that is, as we think, again rich of interesting, inspiring, and advanced work on research and development of intelligent information agents worldwide.

Workshop on E-Learning for Business needs

Dominik Flejter, Slawomir Grzonkowski, Tomasz Kaczmarek, Marek Kowalkiewicz, Tadhg Nagle, Jonny Parkes.
Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, 2008

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks (CISWSN 2008)

Jason J. Jung, Tudor Groza, Hak Lae Kim.
IEEE Computer Society Press, 2008

Proceedings of the SMR2 2007 Workshop on Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web (SMR2 2007)

Tommaso di Noia, Rubén Lara, Axel Polleres, Ioan Toma, Takahiro Kawamura, Matthias Klusch, Abraham Bernstein, Massimo Paolucci, Alain Leger, David Martin.
CEUR, 2007

One big challenge of service coordination in the Semantic Web is concerned with how to best connect the ultimate service requester with the ultimate service provider. Like intermediaries in the physical economy, a special kind of software agent, so called middle-agents, is supposed to solve this problem based on the declarative characterization of capabilities for both service requester and provider agents. In fact, the standard Web service interaction life cycle corresponds to a classical service matchmaking process. More generally, resource retrieval extends the notion of service matchmaking to the process of discovering any kind of resource (services, data, information, knowledge) for given settings, participating entities, and purposes. Such process is at the core of several scenarios in the Semantic Web area, going from Web-services, grid computing, and Peer-to-Peer computing, to applications such as e-commerce, human resource management, or social networks applications such as mating and dating services. The papers accepted for the first edition of SMR2 workshop try to cover several aspects related to semantic Web service (SWS) and resource retrieval. From SWS discovery to SWS composition up to retrieval based on Natural Language queries. Many of the approaches presented, propose and analyze solutions and techniques mainly related to semantic Web service (SWS) discovery. Among various open issues related to the discovery phase of a SWS, a particular emphasis is given to: approximate retrieval - how to go over pure classification-based techniques to find SWS satisfying, to some extent, user requests?; ranking criteria - given a pull of retrieved SWS, how to evaluate the best ones?; efficiency - how to speed up the discovery phase?

SAAKM 2007 - Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup

Siegfried Handschuh, Nigel Collier, Tudor Groza, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Anita de Waard, Michael Sintek.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2007

ALPSWS2007: 2nd International Workshop on Applications of Logic Programming in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services

Stijn Heymans, David Pearce, Axel Polleres, Edna Ruckhaus, Gopal Gupta.
CEUR, 2007

The advent of the Semantic Web promises machine readable semantics and a machine-processable next Generation of the Web. The first step in this direction

is the annotation of static data on the Web by machine processable information about knowledge and its structure by means of Ontologies. The next step in this direction is the annotation of dynamic applications and services invocable over the Web in order to facilitate automation of discovery, selection and composition of semantically described services and data sources on the Web by intelligent methods, which is called Semantic Web Services. This volume contains the papers presented at the second international workshop on Applications of Logic Programming to the Web, Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services (ALPSWS2007) held on September 13th, 2007 in Porto, Portugal as part of the 23nd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP07). Many previous workshops and conferences were dedicated to these promising areas mostly with generic topics. With the ALPSWS2007 workshop we have a slighlty di

Seventh International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing

Manfred Hauswirth, Alberto Montresor, Nahid Shahmehri, Klaus Wehrle, Adam Wierzbicki.
IEEE Computer Society, 2007

P2P 2007 is the seventh in a series of annual conferences concerned with overlay network technologies. Overlay networks combine and share the resources owned by devices that are distributed around the Internet, which are normally relegated to the role of clients. Examples of such technologies include Peer-to-Peer Systems and Grids, but in general, any large-scale distributed system characterized by decentralization and sharing of resources can benefit from an overlay-based approach.

This year, we received a record number of submissions: 137 regular papers, 9 short papers and 7 demonstration papers. Out of them, the program committee selected 26 regular papers, 6 short papers and 5 demonstration papers for presentation at the conference. The acceptance rate for regular paper is thus approximately 19%, reflecting the competitive nature of the conference and the high quality of the accepted papers.

Workshop on Correspondence and Equivalence for Nonmonotonic Theories (CENT 2007) Working Notes

David Pearce, Axel Polleres, Agustín Valverde, Stefan Woltran.
CEUR, 2007

This volume consists of the contributions presented at the Workshop Correspondence and Equivalence for Nonmonotonic Theories, CENT 2007, colocated with LPNMR 2007 in Tempe, Arizona, USA on May 14 2007. The systematic study of intertheory relations such as strong and uniform equivalence has recently become an active sub-area of research in the field of LPNMR. Various kinds of correspondence relations that may hold between logic programs or between nonmonotonic theories have been analysed and shown to be of practical relevance for theory or program transformation, optimisation and modularity. Several systems for verifying such relations have already been implemented. The papers in this volume explore this topic further and take it in several new directions.

Second International Workshop on Managing Context Information and Semantics in Mobile Environments

Manfred Hauswirth, Wathiq Mansoor.
IEEE Computer Society, 2007

The increasing popularity of mobile devices and sensor networks are enabling new classes of applications targeting environments characterized by being dynamic, mobile, reconfigurable, and personalized. This environment raises challenging problems for scientists and developers, as they have to deal with the variations in the execution context such as location, time, users' activities, and devices' capabilities. This also changes the role of context information and semantics as compared to traditional information systems, as now the physical environment immediately affects and interacts with the processing of data and communication. Context within mobile applications has been the topic of active research for many years. A lot of work has been done for capturing and managing context. Considerably less work exists for managing context using semantic techniques which is the main theme of the MCISME workshop.

The workshop has been organized by Prof. Manfred Hauswirth (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway) and Prof. Wathiq Mansoor (American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates). All papers submitted to the workshop have been thoroughly reviewed by leading researches in the field of managing context and semantic within mobile applications.

Proceedings of the WWW2007 Workshop i3: Identity, Identifiers, Identification

Paolo Bouquet, Heiko Stoermer, Giovanni Tummarello, Harry Halpin.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2007

The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006, 5th International Semantic Web Conference

Isabel F. Cruz, Stefan Decker, Dean Allemang, Chris Preist, Daniel Schwabe, Peter Mika, Michael Uschold, Lora Aroyo.
Springer, 2006

SemDesk 2006 - Semantic Desktop and Social Semantic Collaboration

Stefan Decker, Jack Park, Leo Sauermann, Sören Auer, Siegfried Handschuh.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2006

SAAW2006 - 1st Semantic Authoring and Annotation Workshop at ISWC2006

Knud Möller, Anita de Waard, Steve Cayzer, Marja-Riitta Koivunen, Michael Sintek, Siegfried Handschuh.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2006

Applications of Logic Programming in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services

Axel Polleres, Stefan Decker, Gopal Gupta, Jos de Bruijn.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2006

Semantic Desktop Workshop

Stefan Decker, Jack Park, Dennis Quan, Leo Sauermann.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2005

Proceedings of the Workshop on WWW Service Composition with Semantic Web Services 2005 (wscomps05)

Mark Burstein, Christoph Bussler, Marco Pistore, Dumitru Roman.
Springer, 2005

Proceedings of the Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2005 International Workshops, BPI, BPD, ENEI, BPRM, WSCOBPM, BPS - Revised Selected Papers

Christoph Bussler, Armin Haller.
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005

Proceedings of the 2nd WSMO Implementation Workshop (WIW 2005)

Christoph Bussler, Dieter Fensel, Uwe Keller, Brahmananda Sapkota.
CEUR, 2005

Proceedings of the WIW 2004 Workshop on WSMO Implementations

Christoph Bussler, Dieter Fensel, Holger Lausen, Eyal Oren.
CEUR, 2004

Proceedings of the ECAI 2004 Workshop on Application of Semantic Web Technologies to Web Communities

Ying Ding, Dieter Fensel, Rubén Lara, Holger Lausen, Michael Stollberg, Sung-Kook Han.
CEUR, 2004

The Semantic Web: Research and Applications

Christoph Bussler, John Davies, Dieter Fensel, Rudi Studer.
Springer, 2004

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First European Semantic Web Symposium, ESWS 2004, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in May 2004. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontology engineering, ontology matching and mapping, ontology-based querying, ontology merging and population, infrastructure, semantic web services, service discovery and composition, data from the semantic web, knowledge presentation, applications, content management, and information management and integration.

Proceedings of the WWW2004 Workshop on Application Design, Development and Implementation Issues in the Semantic Web

Christoph Bussler, Stefan Decker, Daniel Schwabe, Oscar Pastor.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2004

Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications

Christoph Bussler, Dieter Fensel.
Springer, 2004

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2004, held in Varna, Bulgaria in September 2004. The 52 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontology engineering, semantic Web services, knowledge representation and processing, machine learning and data mining, natural language processing, soft computing, neural networks, e-learning systems, multiagent systems, pattern recognition, intelligent decision making, and information retrieval.

Proceedings of the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference

Dieter Fensel, Katia Sycara, John Mylopoulos.
Springer, 2003

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2003, held at Sanibel Island, Florida, USA in October 2003. The 58 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundations; ontological reasoning; semantic Web services; security, trust, and privacy; agents and the semantic Web; information retrieval; multimedia; tools and methodologies; applications; and industrial perspectives.