The Semantic Web meets the Deep Web (SWDW'08)

Part of the vision of the Semantic Web is to achieve the automation of E-business processes and E-services by equipping agent programs like softbots with rich semantic knowledge and reasoning capabilities to roam the Web, find data and services, and combine them to achieve business goals. However, a large amount of valuable E-commerce information on the Web is not “visible” to general search engines, Web crawlers and agent programs, because this information is typically stored in backend databases. It is only accessible through Web services or Web form interfaces that pose challenges to the fully automated access by crawlers and agents. This “hidden, invisible and non-indexable” content on the Web is called the Deep Web.

This workshop is intended to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to formulate a vision for the next generation of the Web, combining the Deep Web and the Semantic Web (“the Semantic Deep Web”) where E-businesses and other E-services will be dynamically composed into ad-hoc coalitions and virtual enterprises. Research approaches, techniques and methodologies to model, query, extract and annotate Deep Web resources are needed to provide a semantic layer on top of the Deep Web. Semantic Web knowledge constructs, such as ontologies, are needed for policy and process negotiations, semantic interoperation, and discovery, composition and flexible adaptation of cross-enterprise services. In addition, existing and new Semantic Web research and approaches are needed to tap into the Deep Web with more intelligent agents and better techniques in order to understand, access, analyze and visualize E-commerce Deep Web sources, including those with multimedia contents.

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