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Yolanda Gil, Information Sciences Institute Enrico Motta, The Open University V Richard Benjamins, iSOCO, S.A.
Natasha F Noy, Stanford University R.V. Guha, Google Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University Michel Klein, Vrjie Universiteit Amerdam Ubbo Visser, Universitat Bremen Edward Curry, National University of Ireland, Galway Enda Ridge, University of York Eric Miller, W3C Liam O’Móráin, DERI Galway Christoph Bussler, DERI Galway Stefan Decker, DERI Galway Brian Cummins, DERI Galway Seaghan Moriarty, DERI Galway Johannes Breitfuss, DERI Innsbruck
Semantic Network Analysis Workshop (SNA’05)
Monday, November 7, 2005 at Galway, Ireland Organising Committee Programme Committee Lada Adamic (HP Labs) Vladimir Batagelj (University of Ljublijana) Stefan Bornholdt (University of Bremen) Ulrik Brandes (University of Konstanz) John Davies (BT Exact) Patrick Doreian (University of Pittsburg) Tim Finin (University of Maryland) Stéphane Laurière (Mandrake) Nick Kings (BT Exact) Sebastian Kruk (DERI Galway) Kieron O'Hara (University of Southampton) Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz) Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe) Andrew Tomkins (IBM Almaden Research Center) Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel)
Introduction During the past years a shift in the fundamental understanding of the aims of Computer Science, especially in AI, could be observed. While early research in AI aimed at replacing the human being with better tools, the prevalent current vision is nowadays to support him in his tasks. This shows up in the rise of research areas like communities of practice, knowledge management, web communities, and peer to peer. In particular the notion of collaborative work - and thus the need of its systematic analysis - becomes more and more important.
On the other hand, techniques for analyzing such structures have a long tradition within sociology. While in the beginnings, researchers in that area had to spent huge efforts in collecting data, they nowadays often come for free in the WWW. Popular examples are citation and coauthor graphs, friend of a friend etc.
Thus there exists an increasing interest of the social network analysis community in the web. The semantic web provides an additional aspect as it distinguishes between different kinds of relations, allowing for more complex analysis schemes.
Our aim is to bring the two communities together in order to learn from each other. We expect especially that the semantic web community can largely benefit from the long tradition present in social network analysis.
Besides analyzing social networks and cooperative structures within the (semantic) web, our second aim is to exploit the results for supporting and improving communities in their interaction. An important research topic is thus how to include network analysis tools in working environments such as knowledge management systems, peer to peer systems or knowledge portals. A Case Study on Emergent Semantics in Communities
Elke Michlmayr Personalizing Applications through Integration of Inferred Trust Values in Semantic Web-Based Social Networks
Jennifer Golbeck Generalized Preferential Attachment: Towards Realistic Socio-Semantic Network Models
Camille Roth Network Analysis as a Basis for Partitioning Class Hierarchies
Heiner Stuckenschmidt The Social Semantics of LiveJournal FOAF: Structure and Change from 2004 to 2005
John C. Paolillo, Sarah Mercure, Elijah Wright Position Paper Invited Talk Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics
Peter Mika