The ExpertFinder Initiative

Welcome to the website for the workshop on Finding Experts on the Web with Semantics, which will be held at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference on 12th November 2007.

The workshop invites participants to form an interactive agenda along with paper presentations and includes a keynote given by Harold Boley.

The proceedings of the workshop are available online as a CEUR Workshop Proceedings volume:

Anna V. Zhdanova, Lyndon J.B. Nixon, Malgorzata Mochol, John G. Breslin (eds.): Finding Experts on the Web with Semantics 2007. Proc. 2nd Intl. ISWC+ASWC ExpertFinder Workshop (FEWS’07), Busan, Korea, November, 2007, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-290/.

The paper submission process is now complete.

For accepted authors, camera-ready submissions may be made at cmt.research.microsoft.com/ISWC2007.

14:00

Introduction: Finding Experts on the Web with Semantics

John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway

14:00 - 14:25

Constructing a Semantic Campus for Academic Collaboration

Natenapa Sriharee, Ravikarn Punnarut

King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Thailand

14:25 - 14:50

Finding Experts Using Wikipedia

Gianluca Demartini

Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

14:50 - 15:30

Keynote: Expert Querying and Redirection with Rule Responder

• Witold Abramowicz, The Poznan University of Ecomonics, Poland
• Diego Berrueta, CTIC Foundation, Spain
• Chris Bizer, Free University of Berlin, Germany
• Uldis Bojars, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
• Aleman-Meza Boanerges, LSDIS Lab, University of Georgia, USA
• Irene Celino, CERIEL Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Tom Heath, KMI, Open University, UK
• Tomasz Kaczmarek, The Poznan University of Ecomonics, Poland
• Uwe Keller, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
• Alain Leger, France Telekom, France
• Ning Li, University of Surrey, UK
• Benjamin Nowack, semsol web semantics, Germany
  

• Dr. Anna V. Zhdanova, ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria
• Malgorzata Mochol, Free University of Berlin, Germany
• Dr. John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland

Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Harold Boley, Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Canada, and leader of the Semantic Web Laboratory at NRC IIT, Fredericton.

Dr. Harold Boley developed the Relational-Functional Markup Language before starting and co-leading the Rule Markup Initiative. He co-designed the Semantic Web Rule Language, which combines the W3C-recommended Web Ontology Language OWL and RuleML. He led the design of a First-Order Logic Web language and contributed to the design of the Semantic Web Services Language. He is co-editor of the W3C Rule Interchange Format Core.

2nd International ExpertFinder Workshop: FEWS2007 (Finding Experts on the Web with Semantics)
Busan, Korea, November 2007

co-located with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007) and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2007)

ExpertFinder is an emerging collaborative initiative with the aim of devising vocabulary, rule extensions (for e.g. FOAF and SIOC) and best practices to annotate personal home pages, as well as web pages of institutions, conferences, publication indexes, etc. with adequate metadata to enable computer agents to find experts on particular topics.