Overview

The advent of the Semantic Web promises machine readable semantics and a machine-processable next Generation of the Web. The first step in this direction is the annotation of static data on the Web by machine processable information about knowledge and its structure by means of Ontologies. The next step in this direction is the annotation of dynamic applications and services invocable over the Web in order to facilitate automation of discovery, selection and composition of semantically described services and data sources on the Web by intelligent methods, which is called Semantic Web Services. Many workshops and conferences were dedicated to these promising areas mostly with generic topics and bringing together people from a widespread variety of research fields with different understandings of the topic. The plethora of these workshops and conferences makes it hard to keep track of the various approaches of a particular technology such as declarative logic programming in our case.

In this workshop we want to advance the applications of Logic Programming as a paradigm for declarative knowledge representation and reasoning for the Web. The idea is to bring together the impressive body of work related to applications of LP to Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services.

Program

• ALPSWS program
• ALPSWS accepted papers
• ALPSWS pre-proceedings

Workshop Organization

The workshop deals with the area that is the intersection of Semantic Web and Logic Programming. The workshop will be organized in part around talks presenting research results in this area selected from the accepted submissions. Another important part of the workshop will be to identify challenges and open problems in this area and provide an opportunity for new ideas and initiatives to bubble up and get the attention they deserve.

In order to facilitate and enable a rich interaction environment a part of the workshop will be dedicated towards discussion using the open-space methodology. Open-space methodology facilities and enables effective on site agenda building and execution.

The co-organizers of the workshop have successfully deployed open-space agenda building in scientific workshops in the past - e.g., the Semantics in P2P and Grid Computing Workshops at the World Wide Web Conference 2004 and the Friend of a Friend Workshop in Galway, 2004.

There the workshop and especially the way the agenda was built in interaction with the audience, enabled new initiatives to develop and had impact on the future of these fields. We hope to achieve the same within this workshop and to reconnect the Semantic Web and Logic Programming field.

We further plan to set up an online platform to exchange information and to keep the discussion alive even after the workshop.

Organizing Committee

• Axel Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid
• Stefan Decker, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
• Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas
• Jos de Bruijn, DERI, Leopold-Franzens Universitaet Innsbruck

Program Committee

• Jürgen Angele, Ontoprise GmbH
• Chitta Baral, Arizona State University
• Robert Baumgartner, Lixto Software GmbH
• Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University
• Francois Bry, Ludwig Maximilians University
• Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology
• Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlruhe
• Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria
• Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto
• David Pearce, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
• Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology
• Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft
• Andy Seaborne, HP
• Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology
• Adrian Walker, Reengineering
• Guizhen Yang, SRI