The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006 : 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006, Athens, GA, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) <Vol. 4273>

§16§"Evolve or perish" - this is the motto for living systems. Judging by this saying, the Web is alive and well: new sites and business ideas are coming online almost daily and are able to attract millions of users often. The more recently coined term "Web 2.0" summarizes many of the new developments, capturing efforts making the Web more interactive (like Ajax), more collaborative (like Wikis), or more relationship oriented (like online social networks), aiming to partially fulfill the original promise of the Web. These new Web developments offer an opportunity and challenge for the Semantic Web: what previously manifested itself mostly in "dry" specifications is now becoming the foundation for information exchange on the Web, creating a shared semantic information space. These and other challenges have been picked up by several hundred computer scientists, developers, vendors, government workers, venture capitalists, students, and users, gathered in Athens, Atlanta, USA, November 5 §16§-9, 2006, for the Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006). Building on previous successful meetings in Sardinia, Sanibel Island, Hiroshima, and Galway, this sixth annual conference demonstrates new research results, technology, and applications that show current incarnations of the Semantic Web. Especially encouraging is the shift towards more applications-whereas the Research Track attracted roughly as many papers as in the previous year, the contributions submitted to the In-Use Track doubled. §02§Dean Allemang is the chief scientist at TopQuadrant, Inc.-the first company in the United States devoted to consulting, training, and products for the Semantic Web. He co-developed (with Professor Hendler) TopQuadrant's successful Semantic Web training series, which he has been delivering on a regular basis since 2003. He has served as an invited expert on numerous international review boards, including a review of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute - the world's largest Semantic Web research institute - and the Innovative Medicines Initiative, a collaboration between 10 pharmaceutical companies and the European Commission to set the roadmap for the pharmaceutical industry for the near future. §04§- Formal Model for Ontology Mapping Creation.- A Semantic Context-Aware Access Control Framework for Secure Collaborations in Pervasive Computing Environments.- Extracting Relations in Social Networks from the Web Using Similarity Between Collective Contexts.- Can OWL and Logic Programming Live Together Happily Ever After?.- Innovation Detection Based on User-Interest Ontology of Blog Community.- Modeling Social Attitudes on the Web.- A Framework for Ontology Evolution in Collaborative Environments.- Extending Faceted Navigation for RDF Data.- Reducing the Inferred Type Statements with Individual Grouping Constructs.- A Framework for Schema-Driven Relationship Discovery from Unstructured Text.- Web Service Composition Via Generic Procedures and Customizing User Preferences.- Querying the Semantic Web with Preferences.- ONTOCOM: A Cost Estimation Model for Ontology Engineering.- Tree-Structured Conditional Random Fields for Semantic Annotation.- Framework for an Automated Compariso §04§n of Description Logic Reasoners.- Integrating and Querying Parallel Leaf Shape Descriptions.- A Survey of the Web Ontology Landscape.- CropCircles: Topology Sensitive Visualization of OWL Class Hierarchies.- Towards Knowledge Acquisition from Information Extraction.- A Method for Learning Part-Whole Relations.- Semantic Web in Use.- OntoWiki - A Tool for Social, Semantic Collaboration.- Towards a Semantic Web of Relational Databases: A Practical Semantic Toolkit and an In-Use Case from Traditional Chinese Medicine.- Information Integration Via an End-to-End Distributed Semantic Web System.- NEWS: Bringing Semantic Web Technologies into News Agencies.- Semantically-Enabled Large-Scale Science Data Repositories.- Construction and Use of Role-Ontology for Task-Based Service Navigation System