[topicmapmail] Call for Participation: WWW2002 Workshop on Real World RDF and Semantic Web Applications

[Vipul Kashyap]

		  Call for Participation
              
                ******WWW2002 Workshop ******

Real World RDF and Semantic Web Applications
in conjunction with the 2002 International WWW
Conference

                      May 7, 2002 
                   Honolulu, Hawaii
           
http://paul.rutgers.edu/~kashyap/workshop.html

The Semantic Web is a key initiative being promoted by
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as the next
generation of the current web. The objective of this
workshop is to discuss commercial applications that
make immediate advances and to gain insight into the
evolution of semantic web technology. Early commercial

applications that make use of machine-understandable
metadata range from information retrieval to
Web-enabling of old-tech IBM 3270 sessions. Current
developments include metadata-based Enterprise
Application Integration (EAI) systems, data modeling 
solutions, and wireless applications.
Machine-understandable metadata is emerging as a new
foundation for component-based approaches to
application development, with web services
representing the latest architectural advancement. In
the workshop we have presentations dealing with real
world issues and prototypes that attempt to realize
the
semantic web today, even if in a limited manner. The
workshop will have some long and mostly short
presentations and time will be reserved at the end for
open session of brainstorming and discussions

Tentative Program
=================

8:30 - 9:00
Welcome by the Organizers: Vipul and Leon

SEMANTIC SEARCH
---------------
9:00 - 9:30
Measuring Similarity of Texts using WordNet
Naraynan Unny E, Pushpak Bhattacharya, Indian
Institute of Technology, Mumbai

9:30 - 10:00
QuizRDF: Search Technology for the Semantic Web
John Davies, Richard Weeks and Uwe Krohn, BTexact
Technologies

10:00 - 10:30	COFFEE BREAK

XML BASED TOOLS AND WEB SERVICES
--------------------------------
10:30 - 11:00
Change Detection of XML Documents Using Signatures
Latifur Khan, Lei Wang, Yan Rao, University of Texas
at Dallas

11:00 - 11:20
Web-for-Web: A Tool for Evolving Data-Driven Web
Applications
Olga De Troyer, Jo De Greef, Peter Stuer, Vrije
Universiteit, Brussel

11:20 - 11:50
Composition Constraints for Semantic Web Services
Zhengang Chang, Munindar P. Singh, Mladen A. Vouk,
North Carolina State University

11:50 - 12:30	LUNCH BREAK

SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING
------------------------------------------
13:30 - 13:50
Hyperclip: A tool for gathering Metadata on User's
Activities by using Peer-to-Peer Technology
Hiroyuki Sato, Yutaka Abe, Atsushi Kanai, NTT
Information Sharing Labs

13:50 - 14:10
Pragmatic Representation and Markup of Ontologies:
Applications to Web 
Forms Generation
Marlon Dumas, Lachlan Aldred, Arthur H.M. ter
Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane

14:10 - 14:30
Annotation Tool for the Semantic Web
Venkatsubramani S, Raman RKVS, National Center for
Software Technology, Bangalore

14:30 - 14:50
Corese: A Corporate Semantic Web Engine
Olivier Corby and Catherine Faron-Zucker, INRIA Sophia
Antipolis

14:50 - 15:10
The Peer-to-Peer Semantic Web: A Distributed
Environment for Sharing Semantic Knowledge on the Web
Madhan Arumugam, Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar,
University of Georgia

15:10 - 15:30  COFFEE BREAK

SEMANTIC APPLICATION AND INFORMATION INTEGRATION
------------------------------------------------

15:10 - 15:30
NESSTAR: A Semantic Web Application for Statistical
Data and Metadata
Pasqualino Assini, Nesstar Ltd.

15:30 - 15:50
RDF Representation of Metadata for Semantic
Integration of Corporate Information Resources
Tom Barrett, David Jones, Jun Yuan, John Sawaya, Mike
Uschold, Tom Adams, Deborah Folger, The Boeing Company

15:50 - 16:10
An ontology based approach to loose-couple Web enabled
heterogeneous systems
Marwan Sabbouh, Vuhuy Phan, Stephan Nadeau, Amanda
Martinex, MITRE

16:10 - 17:30	ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
=================

Co-Chair: Vipul Kashyap, 	National Library of
Medicine, NIH, USA
Co-Chair: Leon Shklar, 		Information Architects, USA
Rafael Alonso,			Sarnoff Corporation, USA
Yogi Arumainayagam, 		Thomson Legal and Regulatory,
USA
Abraham Bernstein,		Stern School of Business, NYU, USA
Cliff Behrens, 			Telcordia Technologies, USA 
Klemens Boehm, 			ETH, Zurich, Switzerland 
Munir Cochinwala, 		Telcordia Technologies, USA
Mike Dean,			BBN Technologies, USA
Stefan Decker, 			Stanford University, USA 
Umesh Dayal, 			HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA 
Johannes Ernst, 		R-Objects, USA
Ora Lassila                  	Nokia Research, USA
Alexa McCray			National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA
Brian McBride                  	HP Labs, Bristol, UK 
Amit Sheth                  	Voquette, and LSDIS Lab,
UGA, USA 
Surya Sripada                 	Boeing, USA 


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