Advances in Web Semantics I

Katia Sycara received her PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Aegean (2004). She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the recipient of the 2002 ACM/SIGART Agents Research Award. She has given numerous invited talks, and has authored or co-authored more than 300 technical papers dealing with Multiagent Systems, Agents Supporting Human Teams, Human-Agent Interaction, Negotiation, Multi-Agent Learning and the application of these techniques to crisis action planning, scheduling, operations planning and e-commerce. She has served as the Program Chair of the Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), as General Chair of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 98). She is a founding member and member of the Board of Directors of the International Foundation of Multiagent Systems (IFMAS). She is a founding member of the Semantic Web Science Association, and serves as the US co-chair of the US-Europe Semantic Web Services Initiative.

The all pervasive web is influencing all aspects of human endeavour. In order to strengthen the description of web resources, so that they are more meaningful to both humans and machines, web semantics have been proposed. These allow better annotation, understanding, search, interpretation and composition of these - sources. The growing importance of these has brought about a great increase in research into these issues. We propose a series of books that will address key issues in web semantics on an annual basis. This book series can be considered as an extended journal published annually. The series will combine theoretical results, standards, and their realizations in applications and implementations. The series is titled "Advances in Web Sem- tics" and will be published periodically by Springer to promote emerging Semantic Web technologies. It will contain the cream of the collective contribution of the Int- national Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Web Semantics Working Group; WG 2. 12 & WG 12. 4. This book, addressing the current state of the art, is the first in the series. In subsequent years, books will address a particular theme, topic or issue where the greatest advances are being made. Examples of such topics include: (i) process semantics, (ii) web services, (iii) ontologies, (iv) workflows, (v) trust and reputation, (vi) web applications, etc. Periodically, perhaps every five years, there will be a scene-setting state of the art volume.

This book is the first in a series focusing on web semantics. The fourteen papers in this book are divided into three sections: Ontologies and Knowledge Sharing; Applied Semantic Web; and Web Services.

1: Ontologies and Knowledge Sharing.- Ontology Engineering - The DOGMA Approach.- Process Mining towards Semantics.- Models of Interaction as a Grounding for Peer to Peer Knowledge Sharing.- Extraction Process Specification for Materialized Ontology Views.- Advances in Ontology Matching.- Multi-site Software Engineering Ontology Instantiations Management Using Reputation Based Decision Making.- 2: Applied Semantic Web.- Representing and Validating Digital Business Processes.- Towards Automated Privacy Compliance in the Information Life Cycle.- Web Semantics for Intelligent and Dynamic Information Retrieval Illustrated within the Mental Health Domain.- Ontologies for Production Automation.- Determining the Failure Level for Risk Analysis in an e-Commerce Interaction.- 3: Web Services.- Process Mediation of OWL-S Web Services.- Latent Semantic Analysis - The Dynamics of Semantics Web Services Discovery.- Semantic Web Services for Satisfying SOA Requirements.