Semantic Web Days
2005

Program

Thursday, October 6, 2005 (speaker biographies and abstracts)

Program	Speaker	Title
Opening	Massimo Marchiori, W3C, MIT Lab for Computer Science, USA and University of Venice, Italy	The Grand Challenge of Reasoning on the Web
Keynote	Hermann Friedrich, Department Head Knowledge Management, Corporate Technology, Siemens AG, Germany	Semantic Web Technologies at Siemens: Where are we heading?- scenarios and applications
Workshop "Industrial Applications of Semantic Web"	Richard Benjamins, iSOCO, Spain	Semantic Web: out of the lab into the market
	Jürgen Angele, ontoprise, Germany	Ontologies @ work- Experience from Automotive and Engineering Industry
	Anita de Waard, Elsevier Sience B.V., The Netherlands	Semantic Structures for Scientific Writing
	Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText, Bulgaria	Recruitment Intelligence through Semantic Web technology
Workshop "Vocabularies and Rules for Enterprise Applications"	Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The Netherlands	Semantic Web and Business Rules - a good marriage?
	Donald Baisley, Unisys Corporation, USA	Semantics of Human Guidance
Presentation	Hans Jürgen Ohlbach, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany	Geospatial Information Processing for the Web

Friday, October 7, 2005 (speaker biographies and abstracts)

Program	Speaker	Title
Presentation	Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France	Opportunities and Challenges ahead for the Semantic Web
Keynote	Ivan Herman, Head of Offices at W3C, The Netherlands	Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web
Workshop "Semantic Web Services in Industry"	Jens Lemcke, SAP, Germany	Semantic Technologies for Enterprise Services
	Steve Battle, HP labs, United Kingdom	A Rough-Guide to Semantic Web-Services
	Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France	A Web of Processes is a Web of Rules is a Semantic Web of Services
Workshop "Semantic Web for Life Sciences "	Michael Schroeder, Biotechnologisches Zentrum, TU Dresden, Germany	GoPubMed, an ontology- based search engine for the life sciences
	Michael Alvers, Transinsight, Germany	From Proteins to Protein Networks: why a Semantic Web is needed for Systems Biology Research
Panel Discussion	Panel Chair: Pia Grund-Ludwig, Computerzeitung, Germany	Earning money with Semantic Web technologies - examples of best practice and outlook for promising projects of the future
	Panelists: Susie Stephens, Oracle Corporation, USA
	Massimo Marchiori, W3C, MIT Lab for Computer Science, USA and University of Venice, Italy
	Alexander Linden, Gartner Group, Germany
	Thomas Syldatke, Audi AG, Germany