To be held at ESTC 2007, in Vienna, Austria, May 31 - June 1, 2007
Making Semantics Work For Business
co-located with Business Aspects of Semantic Technologies (BAST)
Objectives
The goal of the MSWFB workshop is to promote the wider use of semantics in
businesses. The vision of the Semantic Web is of machine-processable data
which can be distributed across wide area networks and used by computer
agents to perform tasks automatically and dynamically. Today's business
processes are often very labour-intensive and error-prone, and this vision
appeals to the needs to automate processes and interpret and validate the data
that they contain. Re-engineering of enterprise IT solutions is a necessity in
today's rapidly changing business markets to maintain competitiveness. Hence
in this workshop we address how businesses can apply semantics in their IT
processes to gain from the Semantic Web vision.
Agenda
The workshop will be held Thursday, May 31st 2007 as part of the European Semantic Technology conference
in Vienna, Austria. Please refer to the conference
site for all organisational issues.
Our planned agenda is as follows:
- 10:15 - 10:30 - short presentation of the workshop aims (by organizers)
- 10:30 - 11:00 - Tip 'n Tell: Product-Centered Mobile Reasoning Support for Tangible Shopping (Wolfgang Maass, Andreas Filler)
- 11:00 - 11:30 - Pragmatic Design and Maintenance of a Taxonomy for Knowledge Management (Thomas Hoppe)
- 11:30 - 12:00 - Transitioning Applications to Ontologies (Jaime Garcia Saez)
- 12:00 - 12:30 - Suitable employees wanted? Find them with semantic techniques. (Malgorzata Mochol, Anja Jentzsch, Holger Wache)
- 12:30 - 13:00 - Portfolio strategies for a Semantic Web Roadmap (Christoph Tempich)
- 13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch break
- 14:00 - 15:30 - Conference invited talk
- 15:30 - 16:00 - Aiding the Data Integration in Medicinal Settings by Means of Semantic Technologies (Vit Novacek, Loredana Laera, Siegfried Handschuh)
- 16:00 - 16:30 - Creating Semantic Web Services with the Web Service Modeling Toolkit (Mick Kerrigan, Adrian Mocan, Martin Tanler, Werner Bliem)
- 16:30 - 16:45 - Coffee break
- 16:45 - 17:45 - Panel discussion
- 17:45 - 18:00 - Closing discussion
Organizing committee
- Lyndon Nixon (FU Berlin, Germany), contact email: nixon at inf.fu-berlin.de
- Roberta Cuel (University of Trento, Italy)
- David de Francisco (Telefonica, Spain)
Program committee
- Rainer Eckstein, ESE GmbH, Germany
- Matthias Flügge, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
- Tim Geisler, webXcerpt Software GmbH, Germany
- Yiannis Kompatsiaris, ITI-CERTH, Greece
- Ruben Lara, Tecnologia, Informacion and Finanzas, Spain
- Ozelin López, ISOCO, Spain
- Paul Warren, British Telecom, UK
- David Wood, MIND Lab, University of Maryland, US
- Xuan Zhou, SAP, Germany
Support
The event is supported by KnowledgeWeb,
the EU funded Network of Excellence on Realizing the Semantic Web