Semantics of a Networked World. Semantics for Grid Databases First International IFIP Conference on Semantics of a Networked World: ICSNW 2004, Paris, France, June 17-19, 2004. Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Conference on Semantics of a Networked World: Semantics for Grid Databases, ICSNW 2004, held in Paris, France in June 2004.
The 16 revised full papers presented togehter with 2 invited papers and 7 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from close to 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on semantic data integration, peer-to-peer systems, semantics for scientific applications, interoperability and mediation, and global services and schemas.

Invited Talks.- Databases and the Grid: JDBC in WSDL, or Something Altogether Different?.- Emergent Semantics Systems.- Integration.- User-Specific Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Data: The SIRUP Approach.- Towards a Mediation System Framework for Transparent Access to Largely Distributed Sources.- Null Values Revisited in Prospect of Data Integration.- Peer to Peer.- Semantic-Based Query Routing and Heterogeneous Data Integration in Peer-to-Peer Semantic Link Networks.- Peer Selection in Peer-to-Peer Networks with Semantic Topologies.- Autonomous Gossiping: A Self-Organizing Epidemic Algorithm for Selective Information Dissemination in Wireless Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.- Hyper: A Framework for Peer-to-Peer Data Integration on Grids.- Semantics for Scientific Applications.- Semantically Linking and Browsing Provenance Logs for E-science.- Emergent Semantics: Towards Self-Organizing Scientific Metadata.- Semantic Visualization of Biochemical Databases.- Interoperability and Mediation.- Semantic Information Interoperability in Open Networked Systems.- A New Mechanism for the Interoperability of Data Systems.- An Architecture for Recommendation Based Service Mediation.- Global Services and Schemas.- Static–Dynamic Integration of External Services into Generic Business Processes.- Knowledge Sifter: Agent-Based Ontology-Driven Search over Heterogeneous Databases Using Semantic Web Services.- Managing Grid Schemas Globally.- Posters.- Relational Graphical Models of Computational Workflows for Data Mining.- InfoGrid: Information Resource Integration.- Semantic Annotation of Classification Data for KDD Support Services.- Role of the Ontologies in the Context of Grid Computing and Application for the Human Disease Studies.- Cluster Entries for Semantic Organization of Peer-to-Peer Network.- A Peer-to-Peer Service Supporting Data Quality: Design and Implementation Issues.- Analysis Patterns for the Geographic Database Conceptual Schema: An Ontology Aided Approach.