Introduction, Course Scope and Plans

• Peter F. Patel-Schneider and Dieter Fensel. Layering the Semantic Web: Problems and Directions. In Proceedings of the 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2002).
  (Presenter: Paul Chao-hua Hsieh)
• Li Ding and Tim Finin. Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web. In Proceedings of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006).
  (Presenter: Nidhi Singh)
• Peter F. Patel-Schneider and Ian Horrocks. Position paper: a comparison of two modelling paradigms in the Semantic Web. In Proceedings of World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006).

Labor Day

• Seokkyung Chung, Jongeun Jun, and Dennis McLeod. WebSim: A Pathway to Unveiling Term Relationships using a Web Search Technology. In Proceedings of VLDB Workshop on Ontologies-based Techniques for Databases and Information Systems (2006).
  (Presenter: Arun Shankar)
• Joseph Hassell, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, and Ismailcem Budak Arpinar. Ontology-Driven Automatic Entity Disambiguation in Unstructured Text. In Proceedings of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006).
  (Presenter: Arnab Dutta)
• Pablo Castells, Miriam Fernandez, and David Vallet. An Adaptation of the Vector-Space Model for Ontology-Based Information Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 19(2): 261-272 (2007)
  (Presenter: Charalampos Chelmis)

• M. Andrea Rodriguez and Max J. Egenhofer. Determining Semantic Similarity among Entity Classes from Different Ontologies. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 15(2): 442-456 (2003)
  (Presenter: Huy Pham)
• L Khan, D McLeod, and E Hovy. A Framework for Effective Annotation of Information from Closed Captions Using Ontologies. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. 25(2): 181-205 (2005)
  (Presenter: Malay Parekh)
• Muhammad Abulaish and Lipika Dey. Interoperability among Distributed Overlapping Ontologies - A Fuzzy Ontology Framework. In Proceedings of Web Intelligence (WI 2006).
  (Presenter: Raghav Bhatnagar)

• G Aslan and D McLeod. Semantic heterogeneity resolution in federated databases by metadata implantation and stepwise evolution. VLDB Journal. 8(2): 120-132 (1999)
  (Presenter: Sangeet Lohariwala)
• Sudha Ram and Jinsoo Park. Semantic Conflict Resolution Ontology (SCROL): An Ontology for Detecting and Resolving Data and Schema-Level Semantic Conflicts. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 16(2): 189-202 (2004)
  (Presenter: Nishant Sehgal)
• Sangsoo Sung and Dennis McLeod. Ontology-Driven Semantic Matches between Database Schemas. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Database Interoperability (ICDEW 2006).
  (Presenter: Raviteja Atluri)

• R Jasper and M Uschold. A Framework for Understanding and Classifying Ontology Applications. In Proceedings of IJCAI ontology workshop (1999).
  (Presenter: Ed Dawa)
• Jaime Reinoso, Adrian Silvescu, Doina Caragea, Jyotishman Pathak, and Vasant Honavar. Information Extraction and Integration from Heterogeneous, Distributed, Autonomous Information Sources : A Federated Ontology-Driven Query-Centric Approach. In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2003).
  (Presenter: Jitendra Patil)
• Vasco Calais Pedro, Eric Nyberg, and Jaime Carbonell. Federated Ontology Search. In Proceedings of First International Workshop of Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery (SIIK 2006).
  (Presenter: Nagarjuna Kimidi)

• Stefan Decker, Sergey Melnik, Frank van Harmelen, Dieter Fensel, Michel C. A. Klein, Jeen Broekstra, Michael Erdmann, and Ian Horrocks. The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF . IEEE Internet Computing 4(5): 63-74 (2000)
  (Presenter: Sangeet Lohariwala)
• Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Marcus, Samuel Madden, and Katherine J. Hollenbach. Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning. In proceedings of the 33th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. (VLDB 2007).
  (Presenter: Na Chen)
• Grigoris Antoniou and Antonis Bikakis. DR-Prolog: A System for Defeasible Reasoning with Rules and Ontologies on the Semantic Web. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 19(2): 233-245 (2007)

• Aditya Kalyanpur, Jennifer Golbeck, Jay Banerjee, and James Hendler. OWL : Capturing Semantic Information using a Standardized Web Ontology Language. Multilingual Computing & Technology Magazine Vol. 15, issue 7, Nov 2004
  (Presenter: Rahul Parundekar)
• Bangyong Liang, Jie Tang, Juan-Zi Li, and Kehong Wang. Using DAML+OIL to Enhance Search Semantics. Web Intelligence 2004: 465-468
  (Presenter: Raviteja Atluri)
• Jeff Z. Pan and Ian Horrocks. RDFS(FA): Connecting RDF(S) and OWL DL. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 19(2): 192-206 (2007)
  (Presenter: George Konstantinidis)

• Zoltan Gyongyi, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Jan Pedersen. Combating web spam with TrustRank . In proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. (VLDB 2004).
  (Presenter: Kaijian Xu)
• Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia, and James A. Hendler. Trust Networks on the Semantic Web. In proceedings of Cooperative Intelligent Agents (CIA 2003).
  (Presenter: Leo Hsu)
• Paolo Massa and Paolo Avesani. Trust-aware Collaborative Filtering for Recommender Systems . In proceedings of International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS/DOA/ODBASE 2004).
  (Presenter: Akhil Gada)

• Elisa Bertino, Beng Chin Ooi, Yanjiang Yang, and Robert H. Deng. Privacy and Ownership Preserving of Outsourced Medical Data. In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005).
  (Presenter: Hardik Patel)
• Gagan Aggarwal, Mayank Bawa, Prasanna Ganesan, Hector Garcia-Molina, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Nina Mishra, Rajeev Motwani, Utkarsh Srivastava, Dilys Thomas, Jennifer Widom, and Ying Xu. Vision Paper: Enabling Privacy for the Paranoids. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2004).
  (Presenter: Hardik Patel)
• Patrick Stahlberg, Gerome Miklau, and Brian Neil Levine. Threats to privacy in the forensic analysis of database systems. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007).
  (Presenter: Nidhi Singh)

• Sangsoo Sung, Seokkyung Chung, and Dennis McLeod. Efficient Concept Clustering for Ontology Learning using an Event Life Cycle on the Web In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Ceara, Brazil, March 2008 (Best Paper Award)
  (Presenter: Nishant Sehgal)
• Bollegala, D. T., Matsuo, Y., and Ishizuka, M. Measuring the Similarity Between Implicit Semantic Relations From the Web. In Proceedings of the 18th international Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2009).
  (Presenter: Raghav Tulshibagwale)
• Ciro Cattuto, Dominik Benz, Andreas Hotho, and Gerd Stumme. Semantic Grounding of Tag Relatedness in Social Bookmarking Systems. In Proceedings of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008).
  (Presenter: Malay Parekh)

• Lisa B. Grant, Andrea Donnellan, Dennis McLeod, Marlon Pierce, Geoffrey C. Fox, Anne Yun-An Chen, Miryha M. Gould, Sang-Soo Sung, and Paul Rundle. A Web-Service Based Universal Approach to Heterogeneous Fault Databases. Computing in Science and Engineering Special Issue on Multi-Physics Modeling, 2007
  (Presenter: Poorak Kashyap)
• Jihie Kim, Yolanda Gil, and Varun Ratnakar. Semantic Metadata Generation for Large Scientific Workflows. In Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006).
  (Presenter: Raghav Bhatnagar)
• Hu Changjun, Zhang Xiaoming, Zhao Qian, and Zhao Chongchong. Ontology-Based Semantic Integration Method for Domain-Specific Scientific Data. In Proceedings of the 8th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2007).
  (Presenter: Arnab Dutta)

• Jean-Pierre Bardet, Dennis McLeod, Gisele Ragusa, and Nazila Mokarram. Ontologies and Web-Semantics for Improvement of Curriculum in Civil Engineering. In Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Conference (2008).
  This paper will not be presented. Instead, The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF (1st paper on Ocv 12) is presented.
• Fei Wu, and Daniel S. Weld. Automatically Refining the Wikipedia Infobox Ontology. In Proceeding of the 17th international Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2008).
  (Presenter: Huy Pham)
• Ramakrishna Soma, and Viktor K. Prasanna. Detecting Dirty Queries during Iterative Development of OWL Based Applications. In Proceedings of the OTM 2008 Confederated international Conferences, Coopis, Doa, Gada, Is, and ODBASE (2008).
  (Presenter: Na Chen)