The Semantic Web - ISWC 2003

Foundations.- Representing the UMLS® Semantic Network Using OWL.- Reducing OWL Entailment to Description Logic Satisfiability.- RDFS(FA) and RDF MT: Two Semantics for RDFS.- Web Ontology Reasoning with Datatype Groups.- Merging Topics in Well-Formed XML Topic Maps.- Semantic Processing of the Semantic Web.- Viewing the Semantic Web through RVL Lenses.- Infrastructure for Web Explanations.- Ontological Reasoning.- Semantic Coordination: A New Approach and an Application.- Interoperability on XML Data.- C-OWL: Contextualizing Ontologies.- Web Ontology Language Requirements w.r.t Expressiveness of Taxonomy and Axioms in Medicine.- Semantic Web Services.- Automating DAML-S Web Services Composition Using SHOP2.- Surfing the Service Web.- Adapting BPEL4WS for the Semantic Web: The Bottom-Up Approach to Web Service Interoperation.- Request Rewriting-Based Web Service Discovery.- Learning to Attach Semantic Metadata to Web Services.- Semantic Markup for Semantic Web Tools: A DAML-S Description of an RDF-Store.- The DAML-S Virtual Machine.- IRS-II: A Framework and Infrastructure for Semantic Web Services.- Towards a Knowledge-Based Approach to Semantic Service Composition.- Security, Trust, and Privacy.- Security for DAML Web Services: Annotation and Matchmaking.- Trust Management for the Semantic Web.- Signing RDF Graphs.- A Semantic E-Wallet to Reconcile Privacy and Context Awareness.- A Policy Based Approach to Security for the Semantic Web.- Agents and the Semantic Web.- Semantic Web Languages for Policy Representation and Reasoning: A Comparison of KAoS, Rei, and Ponder.- An Agent Framework for Inter-personal Information Sharing with an RDF-Based Repository.- An Environment for Distributed Ontology Development Based on Dependency Management.- Beyond Ontology Construction; Ontology Services as Online Knowledge Sharing Communities.- Information Retrieval.- Semantic Annotation, Indexing, and Retrieval.- An Approach for the Ranking of Query Results in the Semantic Web.-

Katia Sycara received her PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Aegean (2004). She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the recipient of the 2002 ACM/SIGART Agents Research Award. She has given numerous invited talks, and has authored or co-authored more than 300 technical papers dealing with Multiagent Systems, Agents Supporting Human Teams, Human-Agent Interaction, Negotiation, Multi-Agent Learning and the application of these techniques to crisis action planning, scheduling, operations planning and e-commerce. She has served as the Program Chair of the Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), as General Chair of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 98). She is a founding member and member of the Board of Directors of the International Foundation of Multiagent Systems (IFMAS). She is a founding member of the Semantic Web Science Association, and serves as the US co-chair of the US-Europe Semantic Web Services Initiative.