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# URSW '07
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Volume 3

### Proceedings of the Third ISWC Workshop on
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
Busan, Korea, November 12, 2007

Edited by

### Fernando Bobillo (1)
Paulo C. G. da Costa (2)
Claudia D'Amato (3)
Nicola Fanizzi (3)
Francis Fung (4)
Thomas Lukasiewicz (5)
Trevor Martin (6)
Matthias Nickles (7)
Yun Peng (8)
Michael Pool (9)
Pavel Smrz (10)
Peter Vojtas (11)

(1) Universidad de Granada, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenierías Informática y de Telecomunicación, Granada, Spain
(2) George Mason University Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
(3) Università degli Studi di Bari, Dipartimento di Informatica, Via Orabona, 4, I-70125, Bari, Italy
(4) Information Extraction and Transport, Inc., 1911 Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, VA, 22209, USA
(5) Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica,Roma, Italy
(6) University of Bristol, Department of Engineering Mathematics, Bristol, BS8 1TR, UK
(7) University of Bath, Department of Computer Science, BA2 7AY, UK
(8) University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Baltimore, PA, USA
(9) Convera, Inc., 1921 Gallows Road, Suite 200 Vienna, VA 22182, USA
(10) Brno University of Technology, Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Bozetéchova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic
(11) Charles University, Malostranské námestí 25, 118 00, Prague, Czech Republic
URSW'07 was held in conjunction with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference. (ISWC2007).
The workshop was supported by:

## Table of Contents

> ### Foreword

### Technical Papers

1. Probabilistic Geospatial Ontologies
   Sumit Sen
2. A Framework for Representing Ontology Mappings under Probabilities and Inconsistency
   Andrea Calì, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Livia Predoiu, and Heiner Stuckenschmid
3. A Mass Assignment Approach to Granular Association Rules for Multiple Taxonomies
   Trevor Martin, Yun Shen, and Ben Azvine
4. Rough Description Logics for Modeling Uncertainty in Instance Unification
   Michel C.A. Klein, Peter Mika, and Stefan Schlobach
5. Optimizing the Crisp Representation of the Fuzzy Description Logic SROIQ
   Fernando Bobillo, Miguel Delgado, and Juan Gómez-Romero
6. Approximate Measures of Semantic Dissimilarity under Uncertainty
   Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d’Amato, and Floriana Esposito
7. Using the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence to Resolve ABox Inconsistencies
   Andriy Nikolov, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta and Anne de Roeck
8. An Ontology-based Bayesian Network Approach for Representing Uncertainty in Clinical Practice Guidelines
   Hai-tao Zheng, Bo-Yeong Kang, and Hong-Gee Kim
9. Uncertainty Issues in Automating Process Connecting Web and User
   Alan Eckhard, Tomás Horváth, Dusan Maruscák, Róbert Novotny, and Peter Vojtas

### Position Papers

1. Axiom-oriented Reasoning to Deal with Inconsistency Between Ontology and Knowledge Base
   Tuan A. Luu, Tho T. Quan, Tru H. Cao, and Jin-Song Dong
2. Uncertain Reasoning for Creating Ontology Mapping on the Semantic Web
   Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera, and Enrico Motta
3. A Fuzzy Ontology-Approach to improve Semantic Information Retrieval
   Silvia Calegari and Elie Sanchez
4. Trustworthiness-related Uncertainty of Semantic Web-style Metadata: A Possibilistic Approach
   Paolo Ceravolo, Ermesto Damiani, and Cristiano Fugazza
5. Extending Fuzzy Description Logics with a Possibilistic Layer
   Fernando Bobillo, Miguel Delgado, and Juan Gómez-Romero
6. A Pattern-based Framework for Representation of Uncertainty in Ontologies
   Miroslav Vacura, Vojtech Svátek, Pavel Smrz, and Nick Simou

The printed version of the URSW2007 workshop can be downloaded from this link.

submitted by Paulo Cesar G Costa, 8-Mar-2008
published on CEUR-WS.org, 8-Mar-2008