Semantic web strategic workshop: presentations

Wednesday, October 3rd

Opening notes

Languages

The semantic web from W3C perspective
Eric Miller
RDF, RDF-Schema and the possible evolutions
Brian McBride
Currents developments of DAML+OIL
Frank van Harmelen
Inference systems
Ian Horrocks
Topic maps
Michel Biezunski

Resources and infrastructure

Ontological resources and top-level ontologies
Nicola Guarino
Perspective in document annotations and metadata
Eric Miller
Gathering and assembling knowledge structure
Stefan Decker
Database technology for the SW
Vassilis Christophides
Towards a safer and semantic web
Jérôme Euzenat

Thursday, October 4th

Clients and human interface

Adaptive SW
Henri Lieberman
Human-Centred aspects of the SW
Simon Buckingham-Shum
Secure semantic web
Bhavani Thuraisingham

The semantic web in application areas

Ontology-based retrieval of resources
Deborah McGuinness
SW for e-science and education
Enrico Motta
Bioinformatics and science databases
Carole Goble
Semantic web for generalized knowledge management
Rudi Studer
Semantic eCommerce
Dieter Fensel

Friday, October 5th

Synthesis of the discussions/working groups

Languages
Deborah McGuinness, Frank van Harmelen, Ian Horrocks, Michel Biezunski, Vassilis Christophides
Infrastructure
Jérôme Euzenat, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Brian McBride, Stefan Decker
Human-related issue
Simon Buckingham-Shum, Henri Lieberman, Enrico Motta, Carole Goble
Ontologies
Nicola Guarino, Rudi Studer,
Closing