Symposium Schedule

 

Friday

9:15am-9:30am

Opening Remarks

9:30am-10am:

Towards Semi-automatic Ontology Building Supported by Large-scale Knowledge Acquisition
Yimin Wang, Johanna Volker, and Peter Haase

10am-10:30am

A Case Study in Applying Semantic Web Technologies to the XML-Based Tactical Assessment Markup Language (TAML)
Candance Childers, Don Brutzman, Curtis Blais, and Paul Young

10:30-11:00am

Coffee Break

11:00am-11:30am

A Hybrid Method for Image Taxonomy: Using CAPTCHA for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition
Bruno Norberto  da Silva and Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia

11:30am-12:00

Collaborative Knowledge Discovery in Databases: A Knowledge Exchange Perspective
Claudia Diamantini, Domenica Potena, and Waleed W. Smari

12:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00pm-2:30pm

Experimenting Ontology Web Services
Maurizio Giordani and Mario Mango Furnari

2:30pm-3:00pm

AIMS: Agent-based Information Management System
Srikanth Kallurkar, Donald Steiner, Apperson Johnson, and Robert Flo

3:00pm-3:30pm

Uncertainty Handling in the Context of Ontology Mapping for Question-Answering
Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera, and Enrico Motta

3:30pm-4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm-4:30pm

UDDI Registry for Knowledge Discovery in Databases Services
Claudia Diamantini, Domenica Potema, and Jessica Cellini

4:30pm-5:00pm

Building Knowledge about Buildings
Matthew T. Young and Eyal Amir

5:00pm-5:30pm

Open discussion

Saturday

9:15am-10am

Invited Talk: Henry Lieberman, MIT

10am-10:30am

A General Strategy for Knowledge Acquisition from Semantically Heterogeneous Data
Doina Caragea, Jie Bao, and Vasant Honavar

10:30-11:00am

Coffee Break

11:00am-11:30am

Using the Semantic Web to Support Ecoinformatics
Joel Sachs, Cynthia Parr, Andriy Parafiynk, Rong Pan, Lushan Han, Li Ding, Tim Finin, Allan Hollander, and David Wang

11:30am-12:00

Model-based Clustering on Semantically Heterogeneous Distributed Databases on the Internet
Shuai Zhang, Sally McClean, and Bryan Scotney

12:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00pm-2:30pm

Representing and Reasoning with Modular Ontologies
Jie Bao and Vasant Honavar

2:30pm-3:00pm

Distributed Creation and Revision of Domain Knowledge Based on Rich Semantic Web Clients
Giovanni Tummarello, Christian Morbidoni, and Michele Nucci

3:00pm-3:30pm

GuNQ - A Semantic Web Engine with a Keyword based Query Approach
Nipun Bhatia, Prashant Gaharwar, and Pratyus Patniak

3:30pm-4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm-4:45pm

Invited Talk: Todd Hughes, DARPA

4:45pm-5:45pm

Informal Discussions

5:45pm-7:15pm

Plenary Session

Sunday

9:15am-9:30am

Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous NASA Mission Data Sources
Richard M. Keller, Daniel C. Berrios, Shawn R. Wolfe, David R. Hall, and Ian B. Sturken

9:30-9:45am

An Ontological Approach to Geoscience Dataset Cataloging
Blumenthal, M.B., del Corral, J., Bell, M. and Grover-Kopec, E.

9:45am-10:00am

Collaborative Knowledge Sharing for E-Science
Kirk D. Borne and Timothy Eastman

10:00am-10:30am

Coffee Break

10:30am-10:45am

Two Layer Cakes
Syed H. Tirmizi and Daniel Miranker

10:45am-11:00am<

Inter-translation of Biomedical Coding Schemes Using UMLS
Jeffrey L. Painter, Kristopher M. Kleiner, and Gary H. Merrill

11:00am-11:15am

VIVO: Case Study of an Ontolgy-Based Web Site

Brian Caruso, Brian J. Lowe, Jon Corson-Rikert, and Medha Devare

11:15am-11:45am

Closing remarks