Frank van Harmelen

Dimitris Plexousakis

Sheila A. McIlraith

The 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004) was held Nov- ber 7–11, 2004 in Hiroshima, Japan. If it is true what the proverb says: “Once by accident, twice by habit, three times by tradition,” then this third ISWC did indeed ?rmly establish a tradition. After the overwhelming interest in last year’s conference at Sanibel Island, Florida, this year’s conference showed that the Semantic Web is not just a one-day wonder, but has established itself ?rmly on the research agenda. At a time when special interest meetings with a Sem- tic Web theme are springing up at major conferences in numerous areas (ACL, VLDB, ECAI, AAAI, ECML, WWW, to name but a few), the ISWC series has established itself as the primary venue for Semantic Web research. Response to the call for papers for the conference continued to be strong. We solicited submissions to three tracks of the conference: the research track, the industrial track, and the poster track. The research track, the premier venue for basic research on the Semantic Web, received 205 submissions, of which 48 were accepted for publication. Each submission was evaluated by three p- gram committee members whose reviews were coordinated by members of the senior program committee. Final decisions were made by the program co-chairs in consultation with the conference chair and the senior program committee. The industrial track, soliciting papers describing industrial research on the - mantic Web, received 22 submissions, of which 7 were accepted for publication.

Third International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 7-11, 2004. Proceedings

The Semantic Web - ISWC 2004

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2004, held in Hiroshima, Japan in November 2004. The 55 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 227 submitted papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on data semantics, p2p systems, semantic Web mining, tools and methodologies for Web agents, user interfaces and visualization, large scale knowledge management, semantic Web services, inference, searching and querying, semantic Web middleware, integration and interoperability, ontologies, and industrial track.

Jian Yang

Richard Hull

Christoph Bussler

Barbara Pernici

Maria E. Orlowska

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web, WES 2002, held in Toronto, Canada in May 2002 in conjunction with CAiSE 2002. The 18 revised full papers presented together with two keynote papers were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on web services, e-business, and e-services and the semantic web.

CAiSE 2002 International Workshop, WES 2002, Toronto, Canada, May 27-28, 2002, Revised Papers

Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web

Sheila A. McIlraith

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