Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer

Part I:
- Data Storage and Access
- An RDF Query and Transformation Language
- RDF and Traditional Query Architectures
- Query Processing in RDF/S-based Peer-to-Peer Database Systems

Part II: .Querying the Network
- Cayley DHTs
- A Group-Theoretic Framework for Analyzing DHTs Based on Cayley Graphs
- Semantic Query Routing in Unstructured Networks Using Social Metaphors
- Expertise-Based Peer Selection
- Personalized Information Access in a Bibliographic Peer-to-Peer System
- Designing Semantic Publish/Subscribe Networks Using Super-Peers

Part III:
- Semantic Integration
- Semantic Coordination of Heterogeneous Classification Schemas
- Semantic Mapping by Approximation
- Satisficing Ontology Mapping
- Scalable, Peer-Based Mediation across XML Schemas and Ontologies
- Semantic Gossiping: Fostering Semantic Interoperability in Peer Data Management Systems

Part IV:
- Methodology and Systems
- A Methodology for Distributed Knowledge Management using Ontologies and Peer-to-Peer
- Distributed Engineering of Ontologies
- A Peer-to-Peer Solution for Distributed Knowledge Management
- Xarop - A Semantic Peer-to-Peer System for a Virtual Organization
- Bibster - A Semantics-Based Bibliographic Peer-to-Peer System.

PD Dr. Steffen Staab is a senior lecturer in applied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe. He has earned a M.S.E. from University of Pennsylvania, a Dr. rer. nat. from University of Freiburg and his habilitation from University of Karlsruhe. He has done research in the fields of computational linguistics, text mining, ontology engineering, knowledge management, and peer-to-peer. He has co-authored over 120 refereed publications and published 7 books, including a Handbook on Ontologies. In 1999, Steffen Staab has co-founded Ontoprise, the first Semantic Web company. He serves on the editorial board of IEEE Intelligent Systems, Journal of Web Semantics, Journal of Human-Computer Studies and Journal of Information Technology and Tourism. Steffen Staab has co-chaired a large number of workshops and several conferences. Recently, he serves as an area chair of ECAI-2004, Semantic Web track chair of WWW-2005, and co-chair of STAIRS-2004.

Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt Heiner Stuckenschmidt holds a post-doc position in the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam where he received his PhD for work on Ontology-Based Information Sharing on the Semantic Web. He works includes Semantic Web related topics such as ontology languages, knowledge-based meta data management and robust and scalable terminological reasoning. Before moving to Amsterdam, he was employed as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Bremen. His research activities in Bremen included the application of ontologies for information sharing in web based information systems with a special focus on semantics-preserving information integration and spatially related information. He is organizer of a series of workshops on ontologies at international conferences (IJCAI'01, ECAI'02, IJCAI'03) and member of program committees of several semantic web related conferences (SWWS'01, ISWC'02, WWW'03) and has held / will hold tutorial at different conferences (K-CAP