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# ESWC 2008 Ph.D. Symposium

### Proceedings of the ESWC 2008 Ph.D. Symposium
Tenerife, Spain, June 2, 2008.

Edited by

### Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, MIT, USA.

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## Table of Contents

1. Towards Semantic Web-based Adaptive Hypermedia Model
   Martin Balik, pages 1-5
2. Techniques to Produce Good Web Service Compositions in The Semantic Grid
   Eduardo Blanco, pages 6-10
3. Metadata goes where Metadata is: contextual networks in the photographic domain
   Rodrigo Fontenele Carvalho, pages 11-15
4. Process Mediation for Semantic Web Services
   Emilia Cimpian, pages 16-20
5. Towards Ontology Mapping for Ordinary People
   Colm Conroy, pages 21-25
6. Methodology for Searching Entities on the Web
   Renaud Delbru, pages 26-30
7. Event and Sentiment Detection in Financial Markets
   Uta Hellinger, pages 31-35
8. Access rights and collaborative ontology integration for reuse across security domains
   Martin Knechtel, pages 36-40
9. Acquisition and Management of Semantic Web Service Descriptions
   Maria Maleshkova, pages 41-45
10. Ontological Description of Image Content Using Regions Relationships
    Zurina Muda, pages 46-50
11. Semantic Web-based Group Formation for E-learning
    Asma Ounnas, pages 51-55
12. Identifying Individuals using Identity Features and Social Information
    Matthew Rowe, pages 56-60
13. An Approach to Evaluate and Enhance the Retrieval of Web Services Based on Semantic Information
    Stefan Schulte, pages 61-65
14. OntoGame: Games with a Purpose for the Semantic Web
    Katharina Siorpaes, pages 66-70
15. Trend Mining with Semantic-based Learning
    Olga Streibel, pages 71-77
16. Semantics-aware Software Project Repositories
    Jonas Tappolet, pages 78-82

12-Jun-2008: submitted by P. Cudre-Mauroux
16-Jun-2008: published on CEUR-WS.org