Introduction, Course Overview

• Hammer, J., and McLeod, D., An Approach to Resolving Semantic Heterogeneity in a Federation of Autonomous, Heterogeneous Database Systems. International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, Volume 2, Number 1, 1993, Pages 51-83.
  (Presenter: Sisi Zhang )
• Gil, Y., Interactive Knowledge Capture in the New Millennium: How the Semantic Web Changed Everything. Knowledge Engineering Review, 2011.
  (Presenter: Ola Dokun)

• 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: Daoyuan Zhai)
• 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: Omkar Chavan)
• Li Ding and Tim Finin. Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web. In Proceedings of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006).
  (Presenter: Roopa Dharap)

• 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: Prashni Taneja)
• 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: Adarsh Khare)
• 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: Ip Sae Park )

• 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: Yaoxuan Wang)
• Muhammad Abulaish and Lipika Dey. Interoperability among Distributed Overlapping Ontologies - A Fuzzy Ontology Framework. In Proceedings of Web Intelligence (WI 2006).
  (Presenter: Zhibin Du)
• 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: Om Prasad Patri)

• Goksel Aslan and Dennis McLeod. Semantic heterogeneity resolution in federated databases by metadata implantation and stepwise evolution. VLDB Journal. 8(2): 120-132 (1999)
  (Presenter:Yujie Chen )
• Sangsoo Sung and Dennis McLeod. Ontology-Driven Semantic Matches between Database Schemas. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Database Interoperability (ICDEW 2006).
  (Presenter:Yinuo Zhang)
• 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: Neelima Agarwal)

• 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: Rupinder Kaur Pandher)
• Latifur Khan, Dennis McLeod, and Eduard Hovy. A Framework for Effective Annotation of Information from Closed Captions Using Ontologies. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. 25(2): 181-205 (2005).
  (Presenter: Dan Huang)
• 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: Supriya Singh )

• Lina Zhou. Ontology Learning: State of the Art and Open Issues. Journal of Information Technology Management: 8:241-252 (2007).
  (Presenter: Bing Tuo)
• 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: Zhi Ma)
• 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: Sriram Sham)

• 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: Yazhou Zhou)
• 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).
  (Presenter: Jingtao Tong)
• 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: Kuai Yu )

• Danushka T. Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Measuring the similarity between implicit semantic relations from the web. In Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web (WWW 2009).
  (Presenter: Jingyi Du)
• Benjamin Markines, Ciro Cattuto, Filippo Menczer, Dominik Benz, Andreas Hotho, and Gerd Stumme. Evaluating similarity measures for emergent semantics of social tagging. In Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web (WWW 2009).
  (Presenter: Hao Xu)
• Roberto Mirizzi, Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, and Eugenio Di Sciascio. Semantic tags generation and retrieval for online advertising. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM 2010).
  (Presenter: Shangsong Ji)

• Meeyoung Cha, Hamed Haddadi, Fabricio Benevenuto, Krishna P. Gummadi. Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2010).
  (Presenter: Yinuo Zhang)
• Jure Leskovec, Daniel Huttenlocher, and Jon Kleinberg. Predicting positive and negative links in online social networks. In Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web (WWW 2010).
  (Presenter: Abhishek Mantri)
• Kristina Lerman and Tad Hogg. Using a model of social dynamics to predict popularity of news. In Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web (WWW 2010).
  (Presenter: Om Prasad Patri )

• Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia, and James A. Hendler. Trust Networks on the Semantic Web. In Proceedings of Cooperative Intelligent Agents (CIA 2003).
  (Presenter: Yi Lin )
• 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).
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• 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).
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• 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).
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• 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: Yi Lin )