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Workshop Semantic Web Technologies
22-23 November 2000, Luxembourg, Plateau de Kirchberg, Batiment Jean Monnet, Conference Centre, Room M6
Workshop Programme
Workshop chair: Franco Mastroddi, Dep. Head of Unit, European Commission, Information Society DG, Unit D5 "Content and Information Management".
| 22 Nov | Day 1 |
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| 13.00 | Registration |
| 13.30 | Welcome and introduction (Franco Mastroddi and Hans-Georg Stork, CEC DG INFSO/D5) |
| 14.00 | Invited talks |
| 14.45 | Beyond RDF(S): the Ontology perspective for the Semantic Web (Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe) Semantics for the wireless Web (Johan Hjelm, Ericsson) |
| 15.15 | Coffee |
| 15.30 | Short presentations 1 (Chair: Rudi Studer) On-to-Knowledge: Content-driven knowledge-management through evolving ontologies (Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam) OIL: an ontology language for the Semantic Web (Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester) Conceptual open hypermedia: informed WWW link navigation using ontologies (Carole Goble, University of Manchester) Enabling technologies for semantic interoperability (Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes) Objectifying the Web the "light" way: an RDF-based framework for the description of Web objects and services (Pasqualino Assini, The Data Archive - University of Essex) |
| 16.45 | Break |
| 17.00 | Short presentations 2 (Chair: Johan Hjelm) Querying RDF using an SQL-ish query language (Libby Miller, ILRT, University of Bristol) Defining and managing semantics and datatypes - Is there a role for ISO 13250 Topic Maps? (Martin Bryan, The SGML Centre) Notion System (R.A. Poell, TNO) The OpenMath project (Mike Dewar, NAG Ltd) An E-Commerce platform for complex configurable products and services (Jurgen Nicklisch-Franken, Persist AG; Heinz Schweppe, FU Berlin) |
| 18.00 | Discussion |
| 18.30 | End of day 1 |
| 23 Nov | Day 2 |
| 9.00 | Invited talks |
| 9.45 | Describing multimedia (Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna) Multimedia for the Semantic Web (Lynda Hardman, CWI) |
| 10.30 | Coffee |
| 10.45 | Short presentations 3 (Chair: Wolfgang Klas) Inferential semantics for networked image data: supporting the derivation and management of semantic attributes for Web-based multimedia content (Harold Boley, DFKI, and Jos De Roo, AGFA) Inducing Semantics from Structures (Paolo Avesani, ITC-IRST) Teachware on demand - the role of semantic annotations for individualised courses (Peter Fankhauser, GMD-IPSI) Semantic user and content modeling for an adaptive distance learning environment (Luca Botturi, Universita della Svizzera Italiana) Open Learning Repository: a project idea in the field of computer science and cognitive science (Heidrun Allert, University of Hannover) |
| 11.40 | Break |
| 11.50 | Short presentations 4 (Chair: Lynda Hardman) PhotoRDF and rdfpic,an application of RDF to holiday photos (Bert Bos, W3C/INRIA) A tool for pictorial contents retrieval (Zdenek Mikovec, Czech Technical University) Semantics for voice recognition systems - a project idea (Christian Gronoff, Semiosphere) Knowledge based indexing (Ralph Traphoener, tecinno GmbH) OntoMap: facilitate easier access, understanding and comparison of the existing upper-level models (Cyc, SENSUS, WordNet, EuroWordnet, SIMPLE, GUM) (Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText Lab., Sirma AI Ltd.) |
| 12.30 | Discussion |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Invited talks |
| 14.45 | Agents on the Semantic Web (David De Roure, University of Southampton) Business opportunities on the Semantic Web (Janne Saarela, ProSolutions, Nice) |
| 15.15 | Coffee |
| 15.30 | Short presentations 5 (Chair: David de Roure) Semantic interoperability in agentspace (Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz, Institute of Computer Science Polish Academy of Sciences) Non-holistic agents (Patrick De Causmaecker, KaHo Sint-Lieven) Visual modelling and the Web: conceptual browsing with Conzilla (Mikael Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) RSS 1.0 and its taxonomy module: bringing metadata back into RSS (Eric van der Vlist, DYOMEDEA) |
| 16.45 | Discussion |
| 17.15 | Conclusions |
| 17.30 | Close |