The Semantic Web: Research and Applications

Christoph Bussler is Staff Software Engineer at BEA Systems, Inc., working in the core WebLogic application server product development organization. Before joining BEA, Chris was architect at Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, CA, USA, responsible for the service-oriented architecture at Cisco Systems'Quote-to-Cashbusiness unit. Before taking this position he was Science Foundation Ireland Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway in Ireland and Executive Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI). In addition to his role as Executive Director of DERI, Chris led the Semantic Web Services research group at DERI. Chris has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Erlangen, Germany and a Master in computer science from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Chris published a book titled'B2B Integration', two books on workflow management, over 100 research papers in journals and academic conferences, gave tutorials on several topics including B2B integration, workflow management and service-oriented architectures and was keynote speaker at many conferences and workshops on topics like workflow management, B2B and EAI integration as well as Semantic Web.

Ontology Engineering.- Towards On-the-Fly Ontology Construction - Focusing on Ontology Quality Improvement.- OntoEdit Empowering SWAP: a Case Study in Supporting DIstributed, Loosely-Controlled and evolvInG Engineering of oNTologies (DILIGENT).- A Protégé Plug-In for Ontology Extraction from Text Based on Linguistic Analysis.- Ontology Matching and Mapping.- Formal Support for Representing and Automating Semantic Interoperability.- S-Match: an Algorithm and an Implementation of Semantic Matching.- Ontology Mapping - An Integrated Approach.- Ontology-Based Querying.- Application of Ontology Techniques to View-Based Semantic Search and Browsing.- Active Ontologies for Data Source Queries.- Ontology Merging and Population.- Knowledge Discovery in an Agents Environment.- The HCONE Approach to Ontology Merging.- Question Answering Towards Automatic Augmentations of Ontology Instances.- Infrastructure.- The SCAM Framework: Helping Semantic Web Applications to Store and Access Metadata.- Publish/Subscribe for RDF-based P2P Networks.- Streaming OWL DL.- Semantic Web Services.- Mathematics on the (Semantic) NET.- Approaches to Semantic Web Services: an Overview and Comparisons.- OWL-S Semantics of Security Web Services: a Case Study.- Service Discovery and Composition.- Directory Services for Incremental Service Integration.- A Framework for Automated Service Composition in Service-Oriented Architectures.- Reusing Petri Nets Through the Semantic Web.- Data for the Semantic Web.- Methods for Porting Resources to the Semantic Web.- Learning to Harvest Information for the Semantic Web.- Reverse Engineering of Relational Databases to Ontologies.- Knowledge Representation.- No Registration Needed: How to Use Declarative Policies and Negotiation to Access Sensitive Resources onthe Semantic Web.- Semantic Annotation Support in the Absence of Consensus.- Uncertainty in Knowledge Provenance.- Applications.- Collaborative Semantic Web Browsing with Magpie.- Toward a Framework for Semantic Organizational Information Portal.- CS AKTiveSpace: Building a Semantic Web Application.- Content Management.- Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web.- Neptuno: Semantic Web Technologies for a Digital Newspaper Archive.- Information Management and Integration.- MIKSI - A Semantic and Service Oriented Integration Platform.- Semantic Web Technologies for Economic and Financial Information Management.