The Semantic Web 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ASWC 2008, Bangk
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ASWC 2008, held in Bankok, Thailand, in December 2008. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions. The papers addr
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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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 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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John Domingue Chutiporn Anutariya (Eds.)
The Semantic Web 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ASWC 2008 Bangkok, Thailand, December 8-11, 2008 Proceedings.
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Volume Editors John Domingue The Open University Knowledge Media Institute Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK6 7AA, United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected] Chutiporn Anutariya Shinawatra University 99 Moo 10 Bangtoey, Samkok Pathum Thani, 12160, Thailand E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008939865 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.4, H.3, C.2, H.5, F.3, I.2, K.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
This volume contains the main proceedings of the 3rd Annual Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008) held in Bangkok, Thailand, during December 8–11, 2008. As such, ASWC 2008 showcased the latest results in the research and application of Semantic Web technologies—applying semantics at a planetary scale. Over the last few years we have been witnessing a trend in which the Semantic Web has been transforming from a niche research area to the mainstream in academia and industry. The European Semantic Web Conference, held earlier this year
