PICKME 2008 Program

14:00 - 14:05

Introduction: Personal Identification and Collaborations - Knowledge Mediation and Extraction (PICKME2008)

Axel Polleres* and Malgorzata Mochol**

*DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland / **Free University of Berlin, Germany

14:05 - 14:50

Keynote: Does Your Mobile Device Need to be Socially Aware? A Semantic Web Perspective

Ora Lassila

Nokia Research Center Cambridge, US

14:50 - 15:10

The Hoonoh Ontology for describing Trust Relationships in Information Seeking

Tom Heath* and Enrico Motta**

*Talis Information Limited, Knights Court, United Kingdom / ** Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University Walton Hall, United Kingdom

15:10 - 15:30

Finding Experts on the Semantic Desktop

Gianluca Demartini and Claudia Niederée

L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:20

Requirements for expertise location systems in biomedical science and the Semantic Web

Titus Schleyer, Heiko Spallek, Brian S. Butler, Sushmita Subramanian, Daniel Weiss, M. Louisa Poythress, Phijarana Rattanathikum, and Gregory Mueller

School of Dental Medicine University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA / Joseph M Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA / Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA / The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA / Brulant, Inc., Beachwood, OH / Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose/ Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

16:20 - 16:40

Smushing RDF instances: are Alice and Bob the same open source developer?

Lian Shi*, Diego Berrueta*, Sergio Fernández*, Luis Polo*, and Silvino Fernández**

*Fundacion CTIC, Gijon, Asturias, Spain / **R&D Technological Centre (CDT), ArcelorMittal Asturias Aviles, Asturias, Spain

16:40 - 17:00

Topic Extraction from Scientific Literature for Competency Management

Paul Buitelaar and Thomas Eigner

DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab & Competence Center Semantic Web, Saarbrücken, Germany

17:00 - 17:20

Finding Experts By Semantic Matching of User Profiles

Rajesh Thiagarajan*, Geetha Manjunath**, and Markus Stumptner*

*Advanced Computing Research Centre, University of South Australia / **Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, India

17:20 - 17:30

Wrap up

Axel Polleres* and Malgorzata Mochol**

*DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland / **Free University of Berlin, Germany