Applications of Semantic Technologies AST2008
3rd International Workshop
Organisers: Stephan Grimm1, Pascal Hitzler2
1Forschungszentrum Informatik, 76131 Karlsruhe, grimm@fzi.de
2AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe, hitzler@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Organised in cooperation with the
Knowledge Representation Fachgruppe of the German Informatics Society (GI).
1 Objectives
Semantic Web is a major international research effort with the goal to make web content available for intelligent knowledge processing. It draws on standard and novel techniques from various disciplines within Computer Science, including Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology, Software Agents, eCommerce, etc. The methods and tools developed and integrated for this purpose – often called Semantic Technologies – are generic and have a very large application potential outside the domain of the Semantic Web.
Such applications are currently being investigated in various disciplines within Computer Science, including Ambient Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge Management, Bioinformatics, etc. We believe that Semantic Technologies provide methods and tools that will persist in these and other application areas for the foreseeable future.
This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners who work on applications of Semantic Technologies. It furthers the cross-fertilization between application areas and aids the technology transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop covers diverse application areas of Semantic Technologies, including the following.
• Ambient Intelligence
• Cognitive Systems
• Data Integration
• Multimedia Data Management
• Software Engineering
• Service-Oriented Computing
• Machine Learning
• eScience
• Information Extraction
• Grid Computing
• Peer-to-Peer Systems
• eCommerce
• eGovernment
• Bioinformatics
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2 Programme
9thof September 2008
09:00 – 09:30 Witold Abramowicz, Dominik Flejter, Tomasz Kaczmarek, Monika Starzecka and Adam Walczak.
Semantically Enhanced Deep Web 09:30 – 10:00 Andreas Billig and Kurt Sandkuhl.
Enterprise Ontology based Artefact Management 10:00 – 10:30 Felix Burkhardt, Jon Atle Gulla, Jin Liu, Christian Weiss
and Jianshen Zhou.
Semi Automatic Ontology Engineering in Business Applications coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Willy Chen, Thomas Syldatke and Claudia Hess.
Business-oriented CAx Integration with Semantic Technologies 11:30 – 12:00 Ana I. Flores and Eduardo Villoslada.
SIS: Semantic Intelligent Search Engine from heterogeneous information sources applied to e-commerce
12:00 – 12:30 Mark Giereth, Michael Wörner, Harald Bosch, Patrick Baier and Thomas Ertl.
Utilization of Semantic Annotations in Interactive User Interfaces for Large Documents
lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 Invited keynote byRobert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin coffee break
15:30 – 16:00 Andreas Langegger, Wolfram Wöß and Martin Blöchl.
SemWIQ – Semantic Web Integrator and Query Engine 16:00 – 16:30 Karen Sutherland, Kenneth McLeod and Albert Burger.
Semantically linking web pages to web services in Bioinformatics 16:30 – 17:30 Business meeting of the Special Interest Group on Knowledge
Representation (Fachgruppe Wissensverarbeitung) of the German Informatics Society (GI)
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3 Committees
3.1 Workshop Organising Committee
Stephan Grimm is a researcher at the FZI Research Center for Information Technologies and previously was a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics. He has a diploma and master’s degree in computer science from the University for Applied Sciences FH-Karlsruhe and Eastern Michigan University, respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Karlsruhe. He has contributed to several projects funded by the European Union related to the topics of Semantic Web Services (SWWS,DIP) and ontology-based information retrieval (WIDE). His research interests are primarily centered around ontologies, knowledge representation and reasoning. He serves as a reviewer for international journals, conferences and workshops in the field of Semantic Web. He is an editor of a recent book on Semantic Web Services (Semantic Web Service – Concepts, Technologies and Applications, Springer 2007).
PD Dr. Pascal Hitzler is assistant professor and project leader at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. Beforehand, he graduated in Mathematics at Tübingen University, did his dissertation at the National University of Ireland in Cork, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the AI institute at TU Dresden. The focus of his research is foundations and applications of knowledge representation and reasoning, and his research record lists over 130 publications in such diverse areas as semantic web, neural- symbolic integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, lattice and domain theory, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic topology. He is co-author of the first German textbook on the foundations of the Semantic Web (Semantic Web – Grundlagen, Springer 2008). He is a steering committee member of the conference series Web Reasoning and Rules System (as vice-chair) and of the International Conference on Conceptual Structures, and also of the workshop series OWL – Experiences and Directions. He has also been an organiser of and teacher at international enhancement programmes for highly skilled students in Mathematics and Computer Science, and has served as an editor for several books in this area. For more information, please see http://www.pascal-hitzler.de.
3.2 Programme Committee
• Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany
• Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
• Christoph Beierle, University of Hagen, Germany
• Stephan Bloehdorn, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Johannes Busse, ontoprise GmbH, Germany
• François Bry, University of Munich, Germany
• Elmar Dorner, SAP AG, Germany
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• Andreas Friesen, SAP AG, Germany
• Thomas Fuhr, Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Germany
• Gerhard Goos, University of Karlsruhe and FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
• Jens Hartmann, TZI Bremen, Germany
• Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany
• Knut Hinkelmann, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Switzerland
• Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Dortmund, Germany
• Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
• Daniel Krause, L3S Hannover, Germany
• Holger Lausen, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Thorsten Liebig, University of Ulm, Germany
• Jin Liu, T-Systems Berlin, Germany
• Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
• Ralf Möller, TU Hamburg-Harburg and Racer Systems, Germany
• Daniel Oberle, SAP AG, Germany
• Axel Polleres, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
• Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
• Stefan Schlobach, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Germany
• Michael Sintek, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
• Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
• Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin, Germany
• Guo-Qiang Zhang, CWRU Cleveland, USA
• Jürgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
4 Sponsors
AST2008 is supported by:
• The EU IST Integrated Project “Lifecycle Support for Networked Ontologies”
(NeOn)
• The THESEUS project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology (BMWi)
• The EU IST Integrated Project “Large Scale Knowledge Sharing and Reuse Across Media” (X-Media)
• The DFG Graduate School Information Management and Market Engineering (IME) at University of Karlsruhe (TH)
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