ERCIM News No.51, October 2002

	ERCIM News No. 51, October 2002 - Contents

	The FNR becomes ERCIM's Luxembourg Member by Raymond Bausch
	Framework VI: ERCIM's Expressions of Interest
	Euro-Legal by Heather Weaver

	A Few Words about the Semantic Web and its Development in the ERCIM Institutes by Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA
	The Semantic Web lifts off by Tim Berners-Lee and Eric Miller, W3C
	Semantic Web Technologies in Europe's IST Programme 1998 - 2002 by Hans-Georg Stork, European Commission
	Activities of INTAP Semantic Web Committee in Japan by Tomihiko Kojima, Interoperability Technology Association for Information Processing, Japan
	OntoWeb: The Thematic Network for the Semantic Web by Ying Ding and Dieter Fensel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	Semantic Web Advanced Development in Europe by Brian Matthews and Michael Wilson, CLRC, and Dan Brickley, W3C
	Calendars, Schedules and the Semantic Web by Terry R. Payne, University of Southampton, UK and Libby Miller, University of Bristol, UK
	The ICS-FORTH RDFSuite: High-level Scalable Tools for the Semantic Web by Sofia Alexaki, Nikos Athanasis, Vassilis Christophides, Greg Karvounarakis, Aimilia Maganaraki, Dimitris Plexousakis and Karsten Tolle, FORTH
	Corporate Semantic Webs by Rose Dieng-Kuntz, INRIA
	Joint Research Centre of the EC to use Semantic Web for New Privacy Agent by Giles Hogben and Marc Wilikens, Joint Research Center, Italy
	Exmo: Assessing Semantic Properties of Knowledge Transformations by Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA
	CORES: A Forum on Shared Metadata Vocabularies by Tom Baker, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
	Towards Syntax-Independent B2B by Birgit Hofreiter, Christian Huemer and Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna
	Extended Faceted Taxonomies for Web Catalogs by Yannis Tzitzikas, Nicolas Spyratos, Panos Constantopoulos and Anastasia Analyti, FORTH
	Migrating Thesauri to the Semantic Web by Michael Wilson and Brian Matthews, CLRC
	Semantic Characterisation of Links and Documents by Silvia Martelli and Oreste Signore, ISTI-CNR
	An Ontology-Oriented Solution for Knowledge-Intensive Organisation by Emanuele Della Valle and Maurizio Brioschi, CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
	Combining XML and Description Logics for Describing and Querying Documents by Rim Alhulou and Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, France
	Harmonise: An Ontology-Based Approach for Semantic Interoperability by Michele Missikoff, IASI-CNR
	Reducing the Complexity of Information Retrieval by Weighted Querying by Peter Vojtás and Jan Vinar, P. J. Safárik University, Kosice (SRCIM)
	Hypermedia Presentation Generation on the Semantic Web by Lynda Hardman, CWI
	Profile-Based Adaptability in the Semantic Web by Santtu Toivonen, VTT Information Technology
	Integrating Multimedia Components into a Semantic Web by Benjamin Jung, Trinity College Dublin and Lyndon JB Nixon, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
	Ontologies for Semantic Web Components by Claus Pahl, Dublin City University
	Concepts on Enriching, Understanding and Retrieving the Semantics on the Web by Arne Sølvberg, Sari Hakkarainen, Terje Brasethvik, Xiaomeng Su, Mihhail Matskin and Darijus Strasunskas, NTNU
	Negotiating on Your Own Terms! by Declan O'Sullivan and Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin

	gViz: Visualisation Middleware for E-Science: A New Project in the UK E-Science Programme by Julian Gallop, CLRC
	Dealing with Massive Volumetric Visualisation: Progressive Algorithms and Data Structures by Rita Borgo, Valerio Pascucci and Roberto Scopigno
	RADIUS: Looking for Robots' Help in Computer Science Research and Education by Jozef Kelemen and Ales Kubík
	Consensus Creation on Universal Access in Health Telematics by Constantine Stephanidis and Demosthenes Akoumianakis, FORTH
	A Body-Monitoring System with EEG and EOG Sensors by Mária Bieliková
	WebRemUSINE: A Tool for Usability Evaluation of Web Applications by Laila Paganelli and Fabio Paternò
	Digital Factories, Production Networks by László Monostori, Géza Haidegger, József Váncza and Zsolt János Viharos, SZTAKI
	GenoStar: A Bioinformatics Platform for Exploratory Genomics by François Rechenmann, INRIA

	Reports
	SEKE'02 Conference Report by Filomena Ferrucci
	The Trading Agent Competition - TAC 2002 by Joakim Eriksson and Sverker Janson, SICS
	CONCUR 2002 Conference Report by Lubos Brim
	CEOI 2002 - Central European Olympiad in Informatics 2002 by Gabriela Andrejková and Jan Vinar, P. J. Safárik University, Kosice (SRCIM)
	For conference announcements, see:
	Calendar of Events and Conferences related to IT and Applied Mathematics

	CNR: Piero Maestrini has been appointed Director of the newly constituted 'Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione' (ISTI)... CWI: Jaco W. de Bakker received a high Royal Decoration... CWI: Professor Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died... Book review: 'Internet for a Mobile Generation'...

ERCIM News No. 51, October 2002 - Contents