The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Information extraction from the Deep Web, especially from E-commerce sites
• Semantic annotation and indexing of the Deep Web
• Discovery of E-commerce sites and E-services
• Semantic query languages for the Web
• Semantics-enabled search engines
• Web-based cross-enterprise environments
• Extraction of concepts, hierarchical and semantic relationships from the Deep Web
• Semi-automatic analysis of service descriptions and Web-Database entry-form pages
• Semi-automatic creation of ontologies from Deep Web sites
• Semi-automatic creation of E-service ontologies
• Semantic Web and Deep Web applications in E-commerce
• Semantic E-services
• Semi-automatic labeling of semantics of results retrieved by Deep Web search engines
• Agent and softbot technologies
• Quality of ontology (QoO) definitions, measurement and use
• Quality of ontology improvement methodologies
• Semantics-based interoperation, collaboration and virtual enterprises
• Security and privacy issues of Deep Web content extraction and annotation
• Deep Web schema understanding based on polling or sampling
• Semantic browsing and visualization of the Deep Web
• Visions of the Web 3.0 as a Semantic Deep Web