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# Semantic Integration

### Proceedings of the Semantic Integration Workshop
Collocated with the Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-03)
Sanibel Island, Florida, October 20, 2003.

Edited by

### AnHai Doan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alon Halevy, University of Washington
Natasha Noy, Stanford University

## Table of Contents

### Research papers

1. Approximate Query Reformulation for Ontology Integration
   J. Akahani, K. Hiramatsu, and T. Satoh
2. Fund Finder Wrapper: A case study of database-to-ontology mapping
   J. Barrasa, O. Corcho, A. Gómez-Pérez
3. Building an Ontology with MOMIS
   D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra
4. An algorithm for semantic coordination
   P. Bouquet, L. Serafini, S. Zanobini, M. Benerecetti
5. Exploiting Ontologies to Achieve Semantic Convergence Between Different CC/PP-like RDF Schemes for Representing Devices Capabilities: the SADiC Approach
   F. Cannistrà
6. An integrative proximity measure for ontology alignment
   J. Euzenat, P. Valtchev
7. Semantic matching
   F. Giunchiglia and P. Shvaiko
8. Semantic integration through invariants
   M. Grüninger and J. Kopena
9. Semantic Integration in the IFF
   R. Kent
10. Evolution Management for Interconnected Ontologies
    M. Klein and H. Stuckenschmidt
11. From an ontology-based search engine towards a mediator for medical and biological information integration
    G. Marquet, C. Golbreich, A. Burgun
12. SCL: A Logic Standard for Semantic Integration
    C. Menzel, P. Hayes
13. A Controlled Language for Semantic Annotation and Interoperability in e-Business Applications
    M.Missikoff, F.Schiappelli , F.Taglino
14. On Semantic Interoperability and the Flow of Information
    M. Schorlemmer and Y. Kalfoglou
15. Developing Consensus Ontologies for the Semantic Web
    L. Stephens, A. Gangam, and M. Huhns
16. Evaluating Ontological Analysis
    C. Welty, R. Mahindru, and J.Chu-Carroll
17. Using Domain Ontologies to Discover Direct and Indirect Matches for Schema Elements
    L. Xu and D. Embley
18. Translating Naive User Queries on the Semantic Web
    B. Yan, R.MacGregor
19. Knowledge Augmentation for Aligning Ontologies: An Evaluation in the Biomedical Domain
    S. Zhang, O. Bodenreider

### Demo Descriptions

1. Efficient development of data migration transformations
   P. Carreira and H. Galhardas
2. Mediating Knowledge between Application Components
   M. Crubézy, Z. Pincus, and M. A. Musen
3. COntext INterchange (COIN) System Demonstration
   A. Firat, M. Kaleem, P. Lee, S. Madnick, A.Moulton, M.Siegel, H. Zhu
4. OntoBuilder: Fully Automatic Extraction and Consolidation of Ontologies from Web Sources
   A. Gal, G. Modica, and H. Jamil
5. A Collaborative Development Environment for Ontologies (CODE)
   P. Hayes, R. Saavedra, T. Reichherzer
6. Service-Oriented Ontology Mapping System
   N. Silva, J. Rocha
7. Resolving Schema and Value Heterogeneities for XML Web Querying
   N.Wiegand, N. Zhou, I. Cruz and W. Sunna

### Position statements

1. Semantic Integration in Biomedicine
   O. Bodenreider and S. Zhang
2. Complex Alignments Between Ontology Universes
   A. Borgida
3. Efficient development of data migration transformations
   P. Carreira, H. Galhardas
4. Semantic Integration and Inconsistency
   S. Easterbrook
5. Towards composing and benchmarking ontology alignments
   J. Euzenat
6. Evaluating Matching Algorithms: the Monotonicity Principle
   A. Gal
7. Position Statement
   F. Giunchiglia, P. Shvaiko
8. Challenges for Biomedical Information Integration
   C. Golbreich, A. Burgun
9. Semantic Integration: Position Statement
   M. Grüninger and J. Kopena
10. What do we need for ontology integration on the Semantic Web
    N. Noy
11. Position statement
    M. Schorlemmer, Y. Kalfoglou
12. Challenges in Making Context Interchange Part of the Semantic Web
    M. Siegel, S. Madnick, A. Firat, A. Moulton, H. Zhu
13. Consensus Ontologies for Semantic Reconciliation
    L. Stephens and M. Huhns
14. Semantic Matching in the SWAP Project
    KR & R Group, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
15. Position statement
    N. Wiegand, I. Cruz, N. Zhou, and W. Sunna
16. Grassroots Semantic Web Tools
    B. Yan, R. MacGregor, I. Ko, J. Lopez

Submitted by N.Noy, September 25, 2003
Updated by N. Boy, September 26, 2003
Updated by N.Noy, December 8, 2003