Reasoning Web. Semantic Technologies for Information Systems 5th Int

This book contains a collection of seven thoroughly revised tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the 5th International Summer School on the Reasoning Web, held in Brixen-Bressanone, Italy, from August 30 to September 4, 2009.

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Sergio Tessaris Enrico Franconi Thomas Eiter Claudio Gutierrez Siegfried Handschuh Marie-Christine Rousset Renate A. Schmidt (Eds.)

Reasoning Web Semantic Technologies for Information Systems 5th International Summer School 2009 Brixen-Bressanone, Italy, August 30 – September 4, 2009 Tutorial Lectures

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Volume Editors Sergio Tessaris Enrico Franconi Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy E-mail:{tessaris,franconi}@inf.unibz.it Thomas Eiter Technische Universität Wien, Austria E-mail: [email protected] Claudio Gutierrez Universidad de Chile, Chile E-mail: [email protected] Siegfried Handschuh National University of Ireland, Ireland E-mail: [email protected] Marie-Christine Rousset University of Grenoble, France E-mail: [email protected] Renate A. Schmidt The University of Manchester, UK E-mail: [email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2009932138 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.5, I.2.4, H.3, C.2, I.1, F.3, F.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

The Semantic Web is one of the major current endeavours of applied computer science. The Semantic Web aims at enriching the existing Web with meta-data and processing methods so as to pro