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I B. Omelayenko, M. Klein (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Transformation for the Semantic Web KTSW 2002 Workshop W7 at the 15-th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 23 July 2002, Lyon, France www.cs.vu.nl/˜borys/events/KTSW02 Preface The vision of the Semantic Web envisages the Web enriched with numerous domain ontologies, which specify formal se- mantics of data, allowing various intelligent services to perform knowledge-level information transformation, search and retrieval. Recent successful projects in the ontology area have resulted at creation of thousands ontologies, development of several ontology-based annotation tools and inference engines. However, the absence of an efficient transformation technology for distributed and evolving knowledge hampers further developments of the Semantic Web area. Preliminary non-automated knowledge transformation approaches, experimental research prototypes and early proposals of transformation languages need to evolve into a working technology with solid theoretical grounds and powerful tool support. The workshop attracted a number of high-quality submissions concerning different transformation issues and models pre- sented in the present book. The book is opened with an extended abstract of the invited talk of F. Casati presenting a discussion about the role of services at the Semantic Web. The first section of the proceedings is devoted to model transformation approaches. The paper on ‘Effective schema conver- sions between XML and relational models’ by D. Lee, M. Mani, and W. Chu is followed by the paper on ‘Transforming UML domain descriptions into configuration knowledge bases for the Semantic Web’ by A. Felfernig, G. Friedrich, D. Jannach, M. Stumptner, and M. Zanker. Generic model transformation issues are discussed in the paper ‘On modeling conformance for flexible transformation over data models’ by S. Bowers and L. Declambre. Specific modeling issues are again discussed in the second section. Namely, the problem of ‘Tracking changes in RDF(S) repositories’ by A. Kiryakov and D. Ognyanov, ‘Tracing data lineage using schema transformation pathways’ by H. Fan and A. Poulovassilis, and ‘An algebra for the composition of ontologies’ by P. Mitra and G. Wiederhold. The next section of the book is devoted to the papers on mapping conceptual models. First, ‘Knowledge representation and transformation in ontology-based data integration’ by S. Castano and A. Ferrara, then ‘MAFRA -An Ontology MAp- ping FRAmework in the context of the Semantic Web’ by A. Maedche, B. Motik, N. Silva and R. Volz. These are followed by application-driven approaches ‘Conceptual normalization of XML data for interoperability in tourism’ by O. Fodor, M. Dell’Erba, F. Ricci, A. Spada and H. Werthner; and ‘RDFT: a mapping meta-ontology for business integration’ by B. Ome- layenko. The fourth section contains the papers discussing configuration issues: ‘Enabling services for distributed environments: ontology extraction and knowledge-base characterization’ by D. Sleeman, D. Robertson, S. Potter and M. Schorlemmer; ‘The ‘Family of Languages’ approach to semantic interoperability’ by J. Euzenat and H. Stuckenschmidt; and ‘A logic programming approach on RDF document and query transformation’ by J. Peer. The last section is devoted to poster presentations and system demonstrations: ‘Information retrieval system based on graph matching’ by T. Miyata and K. Hasida; ‘Formal knowledge management in distributed environments’ by M. Schorlemmer, S. Potter, D. Robertson, and D. Sleeman; ‘Distributed semantic perspectives’ by O. Hoffmann and M. Stumptner; ‘The ontology translation problem’ by O. Corcho. We would like to thank the authors for their contributions and wish you to enjoy reading the book. June 2002 Borys Omelayenko, Michel Klein, co-chairs of workshop Organization The workshop on Knowledge Transformation for the Semantic Web was held on July 23-th during the 15-th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lyon, France, 21-26 July 2002. Program Commitee Michael Blaha OMT Associates, USA Harold Boley German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Christoph Bussler Oracle Corporation, USA Hans Chalupsky University of Southern California (ISI), USA Detlef Plump The University of York, UK Dieter Fensel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL Natasha F. Noy Stanford University (SMI), USA Michel Klein Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL Borys Omelayenko Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL Alex Poulovassilis University of London (Birkbeck Colledge), UK Chantal Reynaud University Paris-Sud, France Michael Sintek German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Heiner Stuckenschmidt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL Gerd Stumme University of Karsruhe (AIFB), Germany Additional referees Danny Ayers Alfio Ferrara Joachim Peer Shawn Bowers Oliver Fodor Stephen Potter Jeen Broekstra Oliver Hoffmann Rafael Pulido Mario Cannataro Alexander Madche¨ Marco Schorlemmer Wesley Chu Prasenjit Mitra Ronny Siebes Oscar Corcho Takashi Miyata Carlo Wouters Jer´ omeˆ Euzenat Damyan Ognyanoff Markus Zanker Hao Fan Borys Omelayenko Sponsoring Institutions OntoWeb thematic Network http://www.ontoweb.org/ Bibliographic Reference Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Transformation for the Semantic for the Semantic Web at the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KTSW-2002), Lyon, France, 23 July 2002. Available online at http://www.cs.vu.nl/˜borys/events/ktsw2002.pdf Workshop Homepage http://www.cs.vu.nl/˜borys/events/KTSW02 Table of Contents Invited Talk A Conversation on Web Services: what’s new, what’s true, what’s hot. And what’s not :::::::::::::::::::::::::: 1 Fabio Casati Modeling I Effective Schema Conversions between XML and Relational Models ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 3 Dongwon Lee, Murali Mani, Wesley W. Chu Transforming UML domain descriptions into Configuration Knowledge Bases for the Semantic Web :::::::::::::: 11 Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Dietmar Jannach, Markus Stumptner, Markus Zanker On Modeling Conformance for Flexible Transformation over Data Models ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 19 Shawn Bowers and Lois Delcambre Modeling II Tracking Changes in RDF(S) Repositories ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 27 Atanas Kiryakov, Damyan Ognyanov Tracing Data Lineage Using Schema Transformation Pathways :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 36 Hao Fan, Alexandra Poulovassilis An Algebra for the Composition of Ontologies ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 43 Prasenjit Mitra and Gio Wiederhold Mapping Knowledge Representation and Transformation in Ontology-based Data Integration :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 51 Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara MAFRA — A MApping FRAmework for Distributed Ontologies in the Semantic Web ::::::::::::::::::::::::: 60 Alexander Maedche, Boris Motik, Nuno Silva, Raphael Volz Conceptual Normalisation of XML Data for Interoperability in Tourism ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 69 Oliver Fodor, Mirella Dell’Erba, Francesco Ricci, Antonella Spada, Hannes Werthner RDFT: A Mapping Meta-Ontology for Business Integration ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 77 Borys Omelayenko Configuring Enabling Services for Distributed Environments: Ontology Extraction and Knowledge Base Characterisation :::::::: 85 Derek Sleeman, Stephen Potter, Dave Robertson, W. Marco Schorlemmer The ‘Family of Languages’ Approach to Semantic Interoperability ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 93 Jer´ omeˆ Euzenat, Heiner Stuckenschmidt A Logic Programming Approach To RDF Document And Query Transformation :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 101 Joachim Peer Posters Information Retrieval System Based on Graph Matching ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 110 Takashi Miyata, Koitiˆ Hasida Formal Knowledge Management in Distributed Environments :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 111 W. Marco Schorlemmer, Stephen Potter, David Robertson, Derek Sleeman Distributed Semantic Perspectives ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 112 Oliver Hoffmann and Markus Stumptner V A framework to solve the ontology translation problem :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 114 Oscar Corcho Author Index ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 115 VI A Conversation on Web Services: what’s new, what’s true, what’s hot. And what’s not Fabio Casati Hewlett-Packard 1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1142 Palo Alto, CA, USA, 94304 Fabio [email protected] Hi Tim, what are you doing? text of enterprise application integration. Everybody seems I am writing a paper on Web Services. They are the next to talk about “dynamic discovery”, “loosely-coupled”, “Se- wave of Internet-based applications. mantic”, and that’s where the hype seems to be. Oh! I heard about them, but I was never really able to Yes, Web services were not born with enterprise applica- understand what they are. What’s a web service? tion integration in mind. The original goal was (and still is, to Ah. I get this question a lot. It reminds me of when peo- some extent) to get to a do-it-for-me Internet. Basically, you ple were asking me ”what is an agent?”. Well, a Web service should be able to tell your “agent” what you need. Then, this is an application that exposes functionalities accessible via agent will search the Web for the available service that best the Internet, using standard Web protocols (that’s why they suits your need, finds out if and how it can talk to