Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific Data

         Sundial Resort , Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, Monday Oct 20, 2003                               

A workshop in conjunction with the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference

 

 Keynote Talks                         Online Proceedings                             Call for Papers
Dr. Michael Pazzani (NSF)
Prof. Amit Sheth (University of Georgia and Semagix Inc)
Dr. Barney Pell (NASA)

Workshop Schedule                                              

8:00am-9:15 am : Breakfast, registration, and poster set-up

9:15 am: Welcome

9:25 am : Keynote Talk by Dr. Michael Pazzani (NSF)
Talk Title: Science & Engineering Information Integration and Informatics at NSF

10:00 am : Paper Session 1: Scientific Integration Applications, Chair: Carole Goble

Supporting Collaborative Science Through a Data and Knowledge Management Portal
William Pike, Ola Ahlqvist, Mark Gahegan and Sachin Oswal

A System for Semantic Integration of Geologic Maps via Ontologies
Kai Lin and Bertam Ludaescher

The Earth System Grid Discovery and Semantic Web Technologies
 Line Pouchard, Luca Cinquini and Gary Strand

11:00 am -11:20 am : Coffee Break

11:20  am : Paper Session 2: Data Provenance, Chair: Bertram Ludaescher

Multi-Scale Science, Supporting Emerging Practice with Semantically Derived Provenance
James Myers, Carmen Panerella, Carina Lansing, Karen Schuchardt and Brett Didier

Annotating, linking and browsing provenance logs for e-Science 
Jun Zhao, Carole Goble, Mark Greenwood, Chris Wroe and Robert Stevens

12 noon - 12:40 pm: Keynote Talk by Prof Amit Sheth (University of Georgia and Semagix Inc.)
Talk Title: Semantics Powered Bioinformatics: What, Why and How of Semantic Search, Integration, Processes and Analytics

12:40 pm -1:45 pm : Lunch, and final poster set-up

1:45pm-2:30 pm : Poster Session 

2:30  pm : Position Papers

Towards a Generic Framework for Semantic Registration of Scientific Data
Shawn Bowers and Bertram Ludascher

Interoperability and Semantics for Heterogeneous Earthquake Science Data
Anne Yun-An Chen, Seokkyung Chung, Shan Gao, Dennis McLeod, Andrea Donellan, Jay Parker, Geoffrey Fox, Marlon Pierce, Miryha Gould, Lisa Grant and John Rundle

3pm-3:20 pm : Coffee Break

3:20 pm: Paper Session 3: Integration Technologies, Chair: Naveen Ashish

Exploring a New Approach to the Alignment of Ontologies
Isabel Cruz and Afsheen Rajendran

Towards Ontologies on Demand
Youngja Park, Roy Byrd and Branimir Boguraev

A Model-based K-means Algorithm for Name Disambiguation
Hui Han, Hongyuan Zha and C.Lee Giles

4:20pm - 4:30 pm: Break

4:30 pm: Keynote Talk by Dr. Barney Pell (NASA) 
Talk Title: Discovery Systems: Accelerating Scientific Discovery at NASA

5:10 pm: Paper Session 4: Scientific Networks, Chair: Richard Keller

Efficient data store discovery in a scientific P2P network
Alexander Löser, Martin Wolpers, Wolf Siberski and Wolfgang Nejdl

Using Semantic Annotations for Automatic Hypertext Link Generation in Scientific Texts
Massimo Melucci and Joe Rehder

5:50 pm: Wrap up

For questions or comments, please send email to scisw2003@email.arc.nasa.gov