ISWC 2008 in Karlsruhe

Oct 21 2008. The Seventh International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) will be held in Karlsruhe from 26-30 October 2008. ISWC is the major international forum, where visionary and state-of-the-art research of all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented.

This year's ISWC conference is organised by the Institute AIFB of the technical University of Karlsruhe, with Professor Rudi Studer (the co-scientific co-ordinator of the NeOn Project) as the local conference chair.

NeOn is a gold sponsor of ISWC 2008 and represented by its partners who will be contributing to the conference by presenting and demonstrating NeOn research results and technologies.

There will be many opportunities to learn more about NeOn and to discuss NeOn with its researchers, developers and practitioners at ISWC 2008.

At the NeOn booth, participants will be able to sample the NeOn Toolkit, its plugins and three prototype applications, both in the pharmaceutical and in the fisheries domain. The first 30 participants to visit the NeOn booth will receive an exclusive NeOn USB wristband with the lastest version of the NeOn Toolkit ready to run on any computer.

Research results from from NeOn partners will be presented in numerous paper presentations, demos and posters, including:

Research Papers

• Algebras of ontology alignment relations - Jérôme Euzenat:
• On the Semantics of Trust and Caching in the Semantic Web - Simon Schenk
• A Kernel Revision Operator for Terminologies - Algorithms and Evaluation - Guilin Qi, Peter Haase, Zhisheng Huang, Qiu Ji, Jeff Z. Pan and Johanna Voelker
• Comparing ontology distances: preliminary results - Jérôme David and Jérôme Euzenat
• ELP: Tractable Rules for OWL 2 - Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Pascal Hitzler

Posters

• Finding Equivalent Ontologies in Watson - Carlo Allocca, Mathieu d'Aquin, Enrico Motta
• Optimizing SPARQL Queries over Disparate RDF Data Sources through Distributed Semi-Joins - Jan Zemánek, Simon Schenk

Demos

• Reusing Knowledge from the Semantic Web with the Watson Plugin - Mathieu d'Aquin, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta
• Relation Discovery from the Semantic Web - Marta Sabou, Mathieu d'Aquin, Enrico Motta

Details about presentation times can be found in the conference program.

You may also be interested in the various tutorials and workshops organized by NeOn members taking place immediately before the conference. For example, the Tutorial Introduction to the Semantic Web, will feature the following presentations from NeOn members:

• Ontology Engineering Methodologies - Asunción Gómez-Pérez
• Ontology Design - Aldo Gangemi
• Semantic Interoperability - Jerome Euzenat and Natasha Noy
• Using the Semantic Web - Mathieu d'Aquin
• Formal Concept Analysis tutorial - Johanna Volker

Finally, the following workshops are organized with the support from NeOn members:

Workshops and Tutoirals:

• OM-2008 On fixing semantic alignment evaluation measures - Jérôme David and Jérôme Euzenat
• DSSim results for OAEI 2008 - Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Piotr Stolarski
• Spider: bringing non-equivalence mappings to OAEI - Marta Sabou and Jorge Gracia

We look forward to seeing you at ISWC 2008!

Story by Peter Haase