2007 Semantic Technology Conference | May 20-24, 2007 | San Jose, California
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Sunday, May 20

Introductory Tutorial

4:30p - 6:30p
Semantic Technology - an Introduction
Dave McComb,
Semantic Arts, Inc.
Monday, May 21

Tutorials

8:30a - 12:00 noon

Introduction to Ontologies and Semantics

Michael Uschold
The Boeing Company

OWL - An Introduction to the Web Ontology Language for Knowledge Representation and Ontology Development

Elisa Kendall,
Sandpiper Software

Deborah McGuinness,
Stanford University

Semantics for Service Oriented Architectures

Dave McComb,
Semantic Arts

Simon Robe,
Semantic Arts

Taxonomies and Vocabularies as Stepping Stones to Semantics

Darin Stewart,
Oregon Health & Science University

Building Semantic Applications in a Semantic Wiki

Mills Davis,
Project10X

Conor Shankey,
Visual Knowledge

Semantic Web Applications Development Using Jena

Ian Dickinson,
Hewlett Packard

Putting the Web Back into the Semantic Web

Brian Sletten,
Zepheira

David Wood,
Zepheira

Lunch

12:00 noon - 1:15p

Tutorials

1:15p - 4:45p

Semantic Wave 2007

Mills Davis,
Project10X

Building Semantically
Enabled Scientific Applications

Peter Fox,
HAO/NCAR

Deborah McGuinness,
Stanford University

Using SAWSDL for Semantic Service Interoperability

Kunal Verma,
Accenture

Amit Sheth,
Wright State University

Use of OWL Ontologies for Biological Pathways

Daniel Rubin,
Stanford University

Nigam Shah,
Stanford University

Formal Ontology: A Practical Guide

Adam Pease,
Articulate Software

Programming to the OWL API

Sean Bechhofer,
University of Manchester

Using Web 3.0 Technology to Build a Web 2.0 Application Today

Martin Dragomirecky,
Cisco Voice Technology Group

Paul Boone,
Mind Bucket

Conference Sessions

5:00p - 6:00p

Peeling Away Semantic Layers of the ONION ... Without Tears

Carl Mattocks,
MetLife

Semantics and Ontology in IT Data Management

Tom Johnston,
Mindful Data, Inc.

Liquid Information: Flexible, Linkable Data

Josh Knauer,
MAYA Design, Inc.

A Semantic Web Approach to Integrative Biosurveillance

Narendra Kunapareddy,
The Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics Research, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center

Alan Wu,
Oracle Incorporated

Business Aware Web Clients

Alex Kass,
Accenture Technology Labs

Peter Yeh,
Accenture Technology Labs

Working with SPARQL: Large datasets, fast queries - what you need to know

Richard Newman,
Franz, Inc.

Protégé Community of Practice

Natasha Noy,
Stanford University

Tim Redmond,
Stanford University

Tania Tudorache,
Stanford University

Jennifer Vendetti,
Stanford University

Tuesday, May 22
Communities of Practice
7:15a - 8:15a

Keynote Presentations and Panel

8:30a - 10:00a
Delivering Business Value with Semantic Technology
-Robert Shimp, Oracle
Leveraging Standards to Build Semantic Systems Today
-Richard Mark Soley, OMG
A Little Semantics Can Go a Long Way
-Dave Beckett, Yahoo
Billions of Triples and Counting
-Tom Ilube, Garlik
Semantic Web Technologies for Very Complex Data Problems
-Andrew Schain, NASA Headquarters
 

Break

10:00a - 10:30a

Conference Sessions

10:30a - 11:30a

Enabling Virtual Observatories, Grids and Data Systems

Deborah McGuinness,
Stanford University

Peter Fox,
High Altitude Observatory

Database Infrastructure to Build Semantic Applications

Melliyal Annamalai,
Oracle USA

Xavier Lopez,
Oracle USA

Securing the Semantic Web

Eric Monk,
McDonald Bradley, Inc

Kevin Smith,
McDonald Bradley, Inc

Semantic Mapping of Learning Plans to Organizational Goals

Steven Forth,
eMonitor a member of The Monitor Group

Neil Davies,
eMonitor a member of The Monitor Group

Kaite Wong,
eMonitor a member of The Monitor Group

Semantic Microformats

Uche Ogbuji,
Zepheira

Case Study - Impact of Semantic Services on Integrated Justice

Alan Greenblatt,
Metatomix

Semantic Content Management

Walter Chang,
Adobe Systems

Denise Bedford,
Georgetown University,
University of Tennessee,
World Bank

Related Search using Semantics: A Case Study from CNET

Tim Musgrove,
TextDigger, Inc.

Room Change

11:30a - 11:45a

Conference Sessions

11:45a - 12:45p

Six Weeks to the Semantic Web

Kevin Lynch,
Raytheon

Christine Connors,
Intuit

A Hole in the Ground: 12,476 ways to describe an oil well

d'Armond Speers,
IHS Inc.

Semantic Technologies for Manufacturing and Systems Integration

Ray Piasecki,
BAE Systems

Steven Ray,
National Institute of Standards & Technology

Improving Legal Publishing at LexisNexis® in France with Ontology Driven Processes

Jamal Rezzouk,
LexisNexis

Jean Delahousse,
Mondeca

Progress Report on Using SBVR Structured English to Generate OWL Models

Donald Chapin,
Business Semantics Ltd

A Semantic Web Without RDF/XML: Building RDF Applications in Atom

Bradley Allen,
Siderean Software, Inc.

Panel: Semantic Services and their Use in an SOA Enterprise

Sam Ceccola,
BEA Systems

Alan McCutchen,
Modus Operandi

Randall Hauch,
Revelytix

Deploying RDF Technology in Mission Systems Today

Art Conroy,
BearingPoint, Inc.

Lunch

12:45p - 2:00p

Conference Sessions

2:00p - 3:00p

Case Study Year 2: USAF 45th Space Wing’s Knowledge Management Initiative

Kent Bimson,
Bimson Consulting

Richard Sirmons,
45 RMS/ RMRC

Expressive Syndication on the Web using Semantic Web Technologies: Applications

Christian Halaschek-Wiener
The University of Maryland

Self-learning Model for Semantic Recognition: Scalable Automation for Product Data Quality

Ed Green
Silver Creek Systems

Using Open Source tools to Integrate Criminal Justice Domain Ontologies into the FEA

Leila Tite
Hennepin County Sheriff's Office

An Analysis of Publicly Available OWL Ontologies and Their Properties

Baden Hughes
The University of Melbourne

The Semantics of Simplicity - M2M Intelligence and Complex Adaptive Systems

Geoff Brown
m2mi Corp

Rick Hayes-Roth
m2mi Corp

Spectrum of Reasoning and Applications

John Sowa
VivoMind Intelligence, Inc.

Michael Uschold
The Boeing Company

Brand Niemann
EPA

From
Ontology Design to Deployment: Semantic Application Development
with TopBraid

Holger Knublauch
TopQuadrant, Inc.

Break

3:00p - 3:15p

Semantic Solutions

3:15p - 3:45p

Semantics in the Database: Managing RDF and OWL Data in Oracle

Xavier Lopez,
Oracle USA

Semantic Search: Offering Meaningful Results for the Web 2.0 Era

Erik Schwartz,
Convera

Relation Navigation: Delivering on the Promise of a Semantic Web

Bradley Allen,
Siderean Software, Inc.

Toward Semantically Self-Aware Data Transformations - The XFY Approach

David A. Evans,
JustSystems Corporation

Transforming Information Into Knowledge

Inderbir Sidhu
fourthcodex

Experiences in Automated Aggregation of Rich Product Content

Tatyana Vidrevich,
XSB, Inc

Tales from the Taxonomy Coalface: Troubles and Triumphs in Enterprise Implementations

Bill Hutchinson,
Wordmap

Semantic Crawling Technology for Aggregating Social Media Content

Nagaraju Bandaru,
BooRah

Room Change

3:45p - 4:00p

Semantic Solutions

4:00p - 4:30p

Cloudwall: Ontological Reasoning over Real-time Events and Federated Data

Richard Hull,
Modus Operandi, Inc.

Building the Practical Semantic Web With Focus on Reasoning

Lars Hard,
ExpertMaker

Semantic Wiki

Michael Lang,
Revelytix

Expozé: A Clustering-Based Approach for Semantic Interoperability

Mala Mehrotra,
Pragati Synergetic Research Inc.

OWL DBMS

Tom Atwood,
Data-Grid

Garlik: Betting the Ranch on Semantic Web Technology

Tom Ilube,
Garlik

JeromeDL - the Semantic Digital Library

Sebastian Ryszard Kruk,
DERI, Galway

Stefan Decker,
DERI, Galway

EXHIBITS

4:30p - 8:30p
Wednesday, May 23

Conference Sessions

8:00a - 9:00a

The Critical First Year: Introducing Semantic Technologies into an Organization

John M. Linebarger,
Sandia National Laboratories

Natural Language Understanding of Clinical Text: A Semantic Web Approach

Parsa Mirhaji,
The Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics Research, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center

A Practical Application of Semantic-Based Search and Reporting

Rusty Coleman,
Semantra

Dan James,
Semantra

The Entity
Instance
Relationship
Model™ as a Semantic container for the semantic web

Thomas Bascom
LinkSpace, LLC

Data Modeling and OWL: Two Ways to Structure Data

David Hay,
Essential Strategies, Inc.

Semantics in Declarative Systems

Dan McCreary,
Dan McCreary & Associates

Semantic SOA: Aligning IT with Business Operations

Larry Lafferty,
SoftPro

Break

9:00a - 9:15a

Conference Sessions

9:15a - 10:15a

The Enterprise Semantic Web in Practice

Susie Stephens,
Eli Lilly

Jeff Pollock,
Oracle Corporation

Two Years Later – Bigger, Better, and Very, Very Real

Henry Meeter,
Integrity GmbH

Migrations: Moving From a Relational World to a Semantic One

Barbara McGlamery,
Time Inc.

Using Ontology-based XML Schemas for Interoperability

Ralph Hodgson,
TopQuadrant, Inc.

Semantic Intelligence as "The" Enabler of Mobile Search

Luca Scagliarini,
Expert System

Darryl Cohen,
AskMeNow

Insert Magic Here: Transforming OWL to WSDL and XML Schema

Gary Unger,
Harland Financial Solutions

Brett Jones,
Harland Financial Solutions

Stories of Semantic Uptake: What it takes to capture Business Vocabulary and Business Rules

Ronald G. Ross,
Business Rule Solutions, LLC

The Roadmap from SOA to Semantic SOA

Thiru Thangarathinam
Intel

Coffee Break

10:15a - 11:00a

Poster Sessions

10:15a - 11:00a

Knowledge Sharing and Filtering on Semantic Web 2.0

Sebastian Ryszard Kruk,
DERI, Galway

Semantics in Digital Content Repositories

Ewelina Kruk
DERI, Galway


A Metadata-Ontology System Based on OWL

Anthony Dymond,
Dymond and Associates, LLC

Rebeca, A Real-Time RDF Triple Event Condition Action Paradigm with Dependency Tracking

Steven Haflich,
Franz, Inc.

Babble: Simple Conversations With a Computer

Karen Blaedow,
Custom Technology, Ltd

Collaborative Ontology Development with MarcOnt Portal

Maciej Dabrowski,
DERI, Galway

EXHIBITS

10:15a - 1:15p

Semantic Solutions

11:00a - 11:30a

Semandex’s Netlink – A Real-Time Knowledge Network in Action

Jaime Gomezjurado,
Semandex Networks

Improved Precision and Recall with Linguistic Semantics

Kathleen Dahlgren,
Cognition Technologies, Inc.

Visualising Search Results with Aduna AutoFocus

Christiaan Fluit,
Aduna

AllegroGraph: A highly scalable graph database for real-time BI and Business Analytics

Jans Aasman,
Franz Inc.

Semantic Web Technology for Better Knowledge Management Within Document Management Systems

Halvor Kalve,
Correlate AS

Policy Wiki for Compliance and Risk

Edgar Rodriguez,
Cogo, Inc.

Semantic Technology for Next Generation Telecommuniation Service

Tony Lee,
Saltlux

Room Change

11:30a - 11:45a

Semantic Solutions

11:45a - 12:15p

Ontology Factory: Automating Natural Language Ontologies

Chris Moran,
Attensity

Bridging the gap between business users and information technology with ontology based systems - Ontomantics case study

Philippe Baumann,
Ontomantics S.A.S

Modeling, Discovering, and Verifying Knowledge in State Fusion Centers

Danielle Forsyth,
Thetus Corporation

Cameron Hunt,
Scientific Research Corporation

Semantic Technologies for Real Commercial Applications: Experiences based on Digesting and Summarizing Multilingual-Text Collections

Daniel Hladky,
Ontos Intl AG

Vladimir F. Khoroshevsky,
Ontos AG

Faceted Search and Popularity Trends through Co-Occurrence Analysis on Semantic Annotations

Borislav Popov,
Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Corp

Atanas Kiryakov,
Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Corp

Rule-based Development Support in Automotive Industry

Juergen Angele,
ontoprise GmbH

Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform

Gunar Penikis,
Adobe Systems

Lunch

12:15p - 1:15p

Conference Sessions

1:15p - 2:15p

SEX: Semantic User Experience

Ross Centers,
Project10X

James Huckenpahler,
Project10X

Rob Bauman,
Visual Knowledge

Semantics for Enterprise Knowledge Management – a Business Case from the Oil Industry

Roar Fjellheim,
Computas AS

David Norheim,
Computas AS

Stop Programming and Start Modeling: Developing Work-Centered Semantic Applications

Andrew Crapo,
GE Global Research

Eclectic Intelligence Exploitation - Balancing Core Vocabularies Across Varied Views

Marguerite Ardito,
Information Exchange

David C. Roberts,
CIA

Kevin S. Lynch,
CIA

Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM)

Elisa Kendall,
Sandpiper Software

Representing Taxonomies: What am I looking at here?

Rachel Lovinger,
Avenue A | Razorfish

Semantic Data Management for Rails: ActiveRDF and ActiveOWL

Eyal Oren,
Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway

Tom Atwood,
Data-Grid

Semantic Mashup: A pragmatic approach for information integration at NASA

Andrew Schain,
NASA

Break

2:15p - 2:30p

Conference Sessions

2:30p - 3:30p

Avoiding Babel: Potential Pitfalls and Perils on the Road to Shared Understanding

Larry Lefkowitz
Cycorp, Inc.

Semantic Query: Solving the Needs of a Net-Centric Data Sharing Environment

Matt Fisher,
BBN Technologies

Mike Dean,
BBN Technologies

Tools for Next Generation of Content Management Systems: XML, RDF, and GRDDL

Chimezie Ogbuji,
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Automatic Generation of Natural Language Reports from Semantic Research Results

Chuck Rehberg,
Semantic Insights

Connecting the Dots: Semantic Integration to Situational Awareness

Mary Armijo,
Sierra Nevada Corporation

Daniel Vela,
Sierra Nevada Corporation

Semantic Requirements for Decision Automation

Neil Raden,
Hired Brains

Mark 3, Universal Knowledge Management Platform

Richard L. Ballard,
Knowledge Foundations, Inc.

Applications of Analogical Reasoning

John Sowa,
VivoMind Intelligence

Break

3:30p - 4:00p

Poster Sessions

3:30p - 4:00p

Knowledge Sharing and Filtering on Semantic Web 2.0

Sebastian Ryszard Kruk,
DERI, Galway

Semantics in Digital Content Repositories

Ewelina Kruk
DERI, Galway


A Metadata-Ontology System Based on OWL

Anthony Dymond,
Dymond and Associates, LLC

Rebeca, A Real-Time RDF Triple Event Condition Action Paradigm with Dependency Tracking

Steven Haflich,
Franz, Inc.

Babble: Simple Conversations With a Computer

Karen Blaedow,
Custom Technology, Ltd

Collaborative Ontology Development with MarcOnt Portal

Maciej Dabrowski,
DERI, Galway

Keynote Panel

4:00p - 5:15p
-Mills Davis, Project10X, (Moderator)
-Nova Spivack, Radar Networks
-Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc.
-Bradley Allen, Siderean
-Russell Glass, Zoom Information
-Jamie Taylor, Metaweb
-Eghosa Omoigui, Intel Capital
-Safa Rashtchy, Piper Jaffray

Special Interest Conference Sessions

5:30p - 6:30p

JENA SIG

Ian Dickinson,
Hewlett Packard, Bristol Labs

Advanced OWL

Elisa Kendall,
Sandpiper Software

Deborah McGuinness,
Stanford University

An Introduction to SKOS, XSLT, and Transforming RDF Resources for use in a Semantic Search Application

Bettina Schimanski,
Sandia National Laboratories

Extending NetKernel for Semantic Web Processing

David Wood,
Zepheira

Brian Sletten,
Zepheira

An Application of Semantic Technology to the Management of Computerized Patient Medical Records

Christopher Pierce,
Cleveland Clinic

On Selective Sharing and Reuse of Ontologies

Vasant Honavar,
Iowa State University

Late Breaking News


Thursday, May 24

Conference Sessions

8:30a - 9:30a

Five High-Yield Collaborative Applications for Semantic Wikis

Conor Shankey,
Visual Knowledge

Semantics and Systemics Seed Next Generation Intelligence

Jack Ring,
Kennen Technologies LLC

Exploring
Enterprise
Information:
Sesame and
Tools for Open
Source Enterprise
Search

Jeroen Wester,
Aduna

The Business of Recombinant Data

Eric Miller,
Zepheira

Fishbowl Discussion (Part 1): Why are Ontologies Alien for Many People?

Ralph Hodgson,
TopQuadrant

Advanced Intelligence Community R&D Meets the Semantic Web!

Lucian Russell,
Expert Reasoning & Decisions LLC

Brand Niemann,
EPA

Semantic Business Process Integration

Eyal Oren,
Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway

Break

9:30a - 9:45a

Conference Sessions

9:45a - 10:45a

What’s the Difference between an Enterprise Conceptual Model and an Enterprise Ontology?

Bonnie O'Neil,
Project Performance Corporation

Ontology and Application Data Base Integration

Jack Myers,
The Metadata Company

Semantic Exchange Contracts

Fran Clark,
Arpeggio Technology

A Framework for Semantic-Enabled Software Engineering

Thaddeus Singarayan,
School of Computer Science, Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur

Fishbowl Discussion (Part 2): Why are Ontologies Alien for Many People?

Ralph Hodgson,
TopQuadrant

gist at WSDOT: Case Report - SOA Built on an Upper Ontology

Dave McComb,
Semantic Arts, Inc.

Deploying Semantic Technologies for Digital Publishing: A Case Study from Logos Bible Software

Sean Boisen,
Logos Research Systems

Break

10:45a - 11:00a

Keynote