The Semantic Web Fourth Asian Conference, ASWC 2009, Shanghai, China

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference, ASWC 2009, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2009. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. These submissi

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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 TU Dortmund University, 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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Asunción Gómez-Pérez Yong Yu Ying Ding (Eds.)

The Semantic Web Fourth Asian Conference, ASWC 2009 Shanghai, China, December 6-9, 2009 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Asunción Gómez-Pérez Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Facultad de Informática Dpto. de Inteligencia Artificial Ontology Engineering Group Campus de Montegancedo s/n 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, E-mail: [email protected] Yong Yu Shanghai Jiao Tong University Data and Knowledge Management Shanghai, 200030, China E-mail: [email protected] Ying Ding Indiana University School of Library and Information Science 1320 E. 10th St., LI 025 Bloomington, IN 47405, USA E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2009939925 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2.8, I.2.4, I.2.6, H.3.5, H.1, H.3.3, H.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 Annual Asian Semantic Web Conference is one of the largest regional events in Asia with focused topics related to the Semantic Web. With the decade-round endeavor of Semantic Web believers, researchers and practitioners, the Semantic Web has made remarkable progress recently. It has raised significant attention from US and UK governments, as well as the European Commission w