The Semantic Web: Research and Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First European Semantic Web Symposium, ESWS 2004, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in May 2004.

Ontology Engineering.- Towards On-the-Fly Ontology Construction - Focusing on Ontology Quality Improvement.- OntoEdit Empowering SWAP: a Case Study in Supporting DIstributed, Loosely-Controlled and evolvInG Engineering of oNTologies (DILIGENT).- A Protégé Plug-In for Ontology Extraction from Text Based on Linguistic Analysis.- Ontology Matching and Mapping.- Formal Support for Representing and Automating Semantic Interoperability.- S-Match: an Algorithm and an Implementation of Semantic Matching.- Ontology Mapping - An Integrated Approach.- Ontology-Based Querying.- Application of Ontology Techniques to View-Based Semantic Search and Browsing.- Active Ontologies for Data Source Queries.- Ontology Merging and Population.- Knowledge Discovery in an Agents Environment.- The HCONE Approach to Ontology Merging.- Question Answering Towards Automatic Augmentations of Ontology Instances.- Infrastructure.- The SCAM Framework: Helping Semantic Web Applications to Store and Access Metadata.- Publish/Subscribe for RDF-based P2P Networks.- Streaming OWL DL.- Semantic Web Services.- Mathematics on the (Semantic) NET.- Approaches to Semantic Web Services: an Overview and Comparisons.- OWL-S Semantics of Security Web Services: a Case Study.- Service Discovery and Composition.- Directory Services for Incremental Service Integration.- A Framework for Automated Service Composition in Service-Oriented Architectures.- Reusing Petri Nets Through the Semantic Web.- Data for the Semantic Web.- Methods for Porting Resources to the Semantic Web.- Learning to Harvest Information for the Semantic Web.- Reverse Engineering of Relational Databases to Ontologies.- Knowledge Representation.- No Registration Needed: How to Use Declarative Policies and Negotiation to Access Sensitive Resources onthe Semantic Web.- Semantic Annotation Support in the Absence of Consensus.- Uncertainty in Knowledge Provenance.- Applications.- Collaborative Semantic Web Browsing with Magpie.- Toward a Framework for Semantic Organizational Information Portal.- CS AKTiveSpace: Building a Semantic Web Application.- Content Management.- Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web.- Neptuno: Semantic Web Technologies for a Digital Newspaper Archive.- Information Management and Integration.- MIKSI - A Semantic and Service Oriented Integration Platform.- Semantic Web Technologies for Economic and Financial Information Management.