Final Program and Call for Participation : 2nd Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases

		Semantic Web and Databases Workshop 2004 
                                Final Program & Call for Participation 

             The Second Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases
		 http://swdb.semanticweb.org
                        In Conjunction with VLDB 2004
                                 Toronto, Canada
                                August 29-30, 2004


Please use the VLDB registration system under http://www.vldb04.org/
to register for SWDB'04.

Program for SWDB 2004
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AUGUST 29 
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM : Joint Keynote with TES-04
(TBA)

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM : Break

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM : Aftrernoon Session 

DYNAMIC AGENT COMPOSITION FROM SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES
Michael Czajkowski, Anna L. Buczak, Martin O. Hofmann

ONTOLOGY-EXTENDED COMPONENT-BASED WORKFLOWS : A FRAMEWORK FOR
CONSTRUCTING COMPLEX WORKFLOWS FROM SEMANTICALLY HETEROGENEOUS SOFTWARE
COMPONENTS
Jyotishman Pathak, Doina Caragea, Vasant G Honavar

DATA PROCUREMENT FOR ENABLING SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS: ON EXPLORING
INTER-ANT PARASITISM
Shawn Bowers, David Thau, Rich Williams, Bertram Ludaescher

HCOME: A TOOL-SUPPORTED METHODOLOGY FOR COLLABORATIVELY DEVISING LIVING
ONTOLOGIES
Konstantinos Kotis, George A. Vouros, Jerónimo Padilla Alonso


AUGUST 30 
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8:30 AM - 10:00 AM :Keynote Speech 

DATA SEMANTICS REVISITED
Alex Borgida and John Mylopoulos 

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM : Morning Session  I

REFINING SEMANTIC MAPPINGS FROM RELATIONAL TABLES TO ONTOLOGIES
Alex Borgida, Yuan An, John Mylopoulos

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM : Break

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM : Morning Session II

R2O, AN EXTENSIBLE AND SEMANTICALLY BASED DATABASE-TO-ONTOLOGY MAPPING
LANGUAGE.
Jesús Barrasa, Óscar Corcho, Asunción Gómez-Pérez

TRIADIC RELATIONS: AN ALGEBRA FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB
Edward L Robertson

SEMANTICALLY UNLOCKING DATABASE CONTENT THROUGH ONTOLOGY-BASED
MEDIATION
Pieter Verheyden, Jan De Bo, Robert Meersman

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM : Afternoon Session I 

CONTEXT MEDIATION IN THE SEMANTIC WEB: HANDLING OWL ONTOLOGY AND DATA
DISPARITY THROUGH CONTEXT INTERCHANGE
Philip Tan, Stuart Madnick, Kian-Lee Tan

REPRESENTATION AND REASONING ABOUT CHANGING SEMANTICS IN DATA SOURCES
Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel

XSDL: MAKING XML SEMANTICS EXPLICIT
Shengping Liu, Jing Mei, Anbu Yue, and Zuoquan Lin

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM : Break

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM : Afternoon Session II 

QUERY ANSWERING BY REWRITING IN GLAV DATA INTEGRATION SYSTEMS UNDER
CONSTRAINTS
Andrea Calì

UTILIZING RESOURCE IMPORTANCE FOR RANKING SEMANTIC WEB QUERY RESULTS
Bhuvan Bamba and Sougata Mukherjea

QUERYING FACETED DATABASES
Kenneth A. Ross and Angel Janevski

CONSTRUCTING AND QUERYING P2P WAREHOUSES OF WEB RESOURCES
Serge Abiteboul, Ioana Manolescu, Nicoleta Preda


END OF SWDB WORKSHOP
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