The Semantic Web - ISWC 2002 First International Semantic Web Conference, Sardinia, Italy, June 9-12, 2002, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2002, held in Sardinia, Italy, in June 2002.The 27 revised full research papers, 6 position papers, and 7 system descriptions presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 133 submissions. All current issues in this exciting new field are addressed, ranging from theoretical aspects to applications in various fields.

Invited Papers.- Semantic Web Enabled Web Services.- The Grid, Grid Services and the Semantic Web: Technologies and Opportunities.- Research Papers.- Matching RDF Graphs.- Layering the Semantic Web: Problems and Directions.- Notions of Indistinguishability for Semantic Web Languages.- The Usable Ontology: An Environment for Building and Assessing a Domain Ontology.- Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema.- A Formal Model for Topic Maps.- Towards High-Precision Service Retrieval.- Automatic Generation of Java/SQL Based Inference Engines from RDF Schema and RuleML.- Ontology-Based Integration of XML Web Resources.- Benchmarking RDF Schemas for the Semantic Web.- Building the Semantic Web on XML.- Trusting Information Sources One Citizen at a Time.- Querying the Semantic Web: A Formal Approach.- Semantic Configuration Web Services in the CAWICOMS Project.- Integrating Vocabularies: Discovering and Representing Vocabulary Maps.- OntoEdit: Collaborative Ontology Development for the Semantic Web.- Towards a Modification Exchange Language for Distributed RDF Repositories.- Representing Disjunction and Quantifiers in RDF.- Towards Semantic Web Mining.- Bringing Together Semantic Web and Web Services.- Global vs. Community Metadata Standards: Empowering Users for Knowledge Exchange.- Taking the RDF Model Theory Out for a Spin.- Concurrent Execution Semantics of DAML-S with Subtypes.- Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities.- DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web.- TRIPLE—A Query, Inference, and Transformation Language for the Semantic Web.- A Data Integration Framework for e-Commerce Product Classification.- Position Papers.- Nonmonotonic Rule Systems on Top of Ontology Layers.- An RDF NetAPI.- A Mini-experiment inSemantic Annotation.- SWAD-Europe: Semantic Web Advanced Development in Europe A Position Paper.- Preemptive Reification.- Four Steps Towards the Widespread Adoption of a Semantic Web.- System Descriptions.- Three Implementations of SquishQL, a Simple RDF Query Language.- ClaiMaker: Weaving a Semantic Web of Research Papers.- Business and Enterprise Ontology Management with SymOntoX.- Is Participation in the Semantic Web Too Difficult?.- Consistency Checking of Semantic Web Ontologies.- WebTheme™: Understanding Web Information through Visual Analytics.- Browsing Schedules - An Agent-Based Approach to Navigating the Semantic Web.