The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2012

Research Track.- MORe: Modular Combination of OWL Reasoners for Ontology Classification.- A Formal Semantics for Weighted Ontology.- Personalised Graph-Based Selection of Web APIs.- Instance-Based Matching of Large Ontologies Using Locality-Sensitive Hashing.- Automatic Typing of DBpedia Entities.- Performance Heterogeneity and Approximate Reasoning in Description Logic Ontologies.- Concept-Based Semantic Difference in Expressive Description Logics.- SPLODGE: Systematic Generation of SPARQL Benchmark Queries for Linked Open Data.- RDFS Reasoning on Massively Parallel Hardware.- An Efficient Bit Vector Approach to Semantics-Based Machine Perception in Resource-Constrained Devices.- Semantic Enrichment by Non-experts: Usability of Manual Annotation Tools.- Ontology-Based Access to Probabilistic Data with OWL QL.- Predicting Reasoning Performance Using Ontology Metrics.- Formal Verification of Data Provenance Records.- Cost Based Query Ordering over OWL Ontologies.- Robust Runtime Optimization and Skew-Resistant Execution of Analytical SPARQL Queries on Pig.- Large-Scale Learning of Relation-Extraction Rules with Distant Supervision from the Web.- The Not-So-Easy Task of Computing Class Subsumptions in OWL RL.- Strabon: A Semantic Geospatial DBMS.- DeFacto - Deep Fact Validation.- Feature LDA: A Supervised Topic Model for Automatic Detection of Web API Documentations from the Web.- Efficient Execution of Top-K SPARQL Queries.- Collaborative Filtering by Analyzing Dynamic User Interests Modeled by Taxonomy.- Link Discovery with Guaranteed Reduction Ratio in Affine Spaces with Minkowski Measures.- Hitting the Sweetspot: Economic Rewriting of Knowledge Bases.- Mining Semantic Relations between Research Areas.- Discovering Concept Coverings in Ontologies of Linked Data Sources.- Ontology Constraints in Incomplete and Complete Data.- A Machine Learning Approach for Instance Matching Based on Similarity Metrics.- Who Will Follow Whom? Exploiting Semantics for Link Prediction in Attention-Information Networks.- On the Diversity and Availability of Temporal Information in Linked Open Data.- Semantic Sentiment Analysis of Twitter.- CrowdMap: Crowdsourcing Ontology Alignment with Microtasks.- Domain-Aware Ontology Matching.- Rapidly Integrating Services into the Linked Data Cloud.- An Evidence-Based Verification Approach to Extract Entities and Relations for Knowledge Base Population.- Blank Node Matching and RDF/S Comparison Functions.- Hybrid SPARQL Queries: Fresh vs. Fast Results.- Provenance for SPARQL Queries.- SRBench: A Streaming RDF/SPARQL Benchmark.- Scalable Geo-thematic Query Answering.- In-Use Track.- Managing the Life-Cycle of Linked Data with the LOD2 Stack.- Achieving Interoperability through Semantics-Based Technologies: The Instant Messaging Case.- Linking Smart Cities Datasets with Human Computation - The Case of UrbanMatch.- ourSpaces - Design and Deployment of a Semantic Virtual Research Environment.- Embedded EL+ Reasoning on Programmable Logic Controllers.- Experiences with Modeling Composite Phenotypes in the SKELETOME Project.- Toward an Ecosystem of LOD in the Field: LOD Content Generation and Its Consuming Service.- Applying Semantic Web Technologies for Diagnosing Road Traffic Congestions.- deqa: Deep Web Extraction for Question Answering.- QuerioCity: A Linked Data Platform for Urban Information Management.- Semantic Similarity-Driven Decision Support in the Skeletal Dysplasia Domain.- Using SPARQL to Query BioPortal Ontologies and Metadata.- Trentino Government Linked Open Geo-data: A Case Study.- Semantic Reasoning in Context-Aware Assistive Environments to Support Ageing with Dementia.- Query Driven Hypothesis Generation for Answering Queries over NLP Graphs.- A Comparison of Hard Filters and Soft Evidence for Answer Typing in Watson.- Incorporating Semantic Knowledge into Dynamic Data Processing for Smart Power Grids.- Evaluations and Experiments Track.- Evaluating Semantic Search Query Approacheswith Expert and Casual Users.- Extracting Justifications from BioPortal Ontologies.- Linked Stream Data Processing Engines: Facts and Figures.- Benchmarking Federated SPARQL Query Engines: Are ExistingTestbeds Enough?.- Tag Recommendation for Large-Scale Ontology-Based Information Systems.- Evaluation of Techniques for Inconsistency Handling in OWL 2 QL Ontologies.- Evaluating Entity Summarization Using a Game-Based Ground Truth.- Evaluation of a Layered Approach to Question Answering over Linked Data.- Doctoral Consortium - Long Papers.- Cross Lingual Semantic Search by Improving Semantic Similarity and Relatedness Measures.- Quality Reasoning in the Semantic Web.- Burst the Filter Bubble: Using Semantic Web to Enable Serendipity.- Reconstructing Provenance.- Very Large Scale OWL Reasoning through Distributed Computation.- Replication for Linked Data.- Scalable and Domain-Independent Entity Coreference: Establishing High Quality Data Linkages across Heterogeneous Data Sources.- Doctoral Consortium - Short Papers.- Distributed Reasoning on Semantic Data Streams.- Reusing XML Schemas' Information as a Foundation for Designing Domain Ontologies .- A Multi-domain Framework for Community Building Based on Data Tagging.- Towards a Theoretical Foundation for the Harmonization of Linked Data.- Knowledge Pattern Extraction and Their Usage in Exploratory Search.- SPARQL Update for Complex Event Processing.- Online Unsupervised Coreference Resolution for Semi-structured Heterogeneous Data.- Composition of Linked Data-Based RESTful Services.