The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008 7th International Semantic Web Conferen

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, during October 26-30, 2008. The volume contains 43 revised full research papers selected from a total of 261 submission

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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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Amit Sheth Steffen Staab Mike Dean Massimo Paolucci Diana Maynard Timothy Finin Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan (Eds.)

The Semantic Web – ISWC 2008 7th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008 Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Amit Sheth Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435-0001, USA E-mail: {amit.sheth,t.k.prasad}@wright.edu Steffen Staab University of Koblenz, 56016 Koblenz, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Mike Dean BBN Technologies, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA E-mail: [email protected] Massimo Paolucci DOCOMO Euro-Labs, 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Diana Maynard University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK E-mail: [email protected] Timothy Finin University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA E-mail: fi[email protected] The picture of Karlsruhe Castle on the cover of this volume was kindly provided by Monika Müller-Gmelin from the Bildstelle Stadtplanungsamt Karlsruhe Library of Congress Control Number: 2008937502 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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