SWFAT: SEMANTIC WEB FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATION TECHNOLOGIES








CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SEMANTIC WEB FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATION TECHNOLOGIES





SWFAT SCHEDULE (tentative)

Time
Schedule
9:15-9:25
Opening
9:25-10:15
Invited Talk (1) Stephan Decker
10:15-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-12:00
Parallel Session
Room 1: Session A, Room 2: Session C
12:00-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:20
Invited Talk (2) Carole Goble
14:20-15:35
Parallel Session
Room 1: Session B, Room 2: Session D
15:35-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:40
Panel Discussion
17:40-17:50
Closing Session


Invited Talk

"Handling heterogeneous semantic data models on the Web"
Stefan Decker (ISI, University of Southern California, USA)

"The Semantic Grid: The Grid meets the Semantic Web"
Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK)


Panel Discussion

"A glimpse into the future: how will Semantic Web change our lives in the next ten years?"


Session A: Ontology Authoring/Development

"Extensible framework of authoring tools for Web document annotation"
Masahiro Hori, Mari Abe and Kouichi Ono

"RDF authoring environment for end users"
Dennis Quan, David R. Karger and David F. Huynh

"Open Ontology Forge: An environment for text mining in a Semantic Web world"
Nigel Collier, Koichi Takeuchi and Ai Kawazoe


Session B: Ontology Integration

"Semantic coordination of Web services based on multi-layered repository"
Noriaki Izumi, Takahira Yamaguchi

"Management of dependency between two or more ontologies in an environment for distributed development"
Eiichi Sunagawa, Kouji Kozaki, Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi

"Approximate query reformulation based on hierarchical ontology mapping"
Jun-ichi Akahani, Kaoru Hiramatsu and Tetsuji Satoh


Session C: Protocols and Standards

"Develop the ontology for Internet commerce by reusing existing standards"
Yuxiao Zhao

"XML declarative description with negative constraints"
Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse and Kiyoshi Akama


Session D: Human Networking

"A framework for communication support agents - Implementation of an
RDF-based personal repository"
Koji Kamei, Sen Yoshida and Kazuhiro Kuwabara

"Find better friends? - Re-configuration of personal networks by the neighborhood matchmaker method"
Masahiro Hamasaki and Hideaki Takeda


Posters:

"An ontological schema for sharing conceptual engineering knowledge"
Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi

"Development of the prototype system for collection and integration of concept systems"
Hideaki Takeda, Masahiro Hamasaki, Ryutaro Ichise

"Owl-based frame descriptions for spoken dialog systems"
Masahiro Araki

"Designing interactive multi-agent systems with semantic 3D environments"
Zhiqiang Gao

"An ontologically-motivated annotation scheme for coreference"
Ai Kawazoe and Nigel Collier