The Semantic Web: Fourth Asian Conference, ASWC 2009, Shanghai, China, December 6-9, 2008. Proceedings: 5926 (Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI) - Softcover

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The Annual Asian Semantic Web Conference is one of the largest regional events in Asia with focused topics related to the Semantic Web. With the decade-round endeavor of Semantic Web believers, researchers and practitioners, the Semantic Web has made remarkable progress recently. It has raised significant attention from US and UK governments, as well as the European Commission who are willing to deploy Semantic Web technologies to enhance the transparency of eGovernment. The Linked Open Data initiative is on its way to convert the current document Web into a data Web and to further enabling various data and service mashups. The fast adoption of Semantic Web technologies in medical and life sciences has created impressive showcases to the world. All these efforts are a crucial step toward enabling the take-off and the success of the Semantic Web. The First Asian Semantic Web Conference was successfully held in China in 2006. With the following editions in Korea in 2007 and Thailand in 2008, it fostered a regional forum for connecting researchers and triggering innovations. This year, the 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference was held in Shanghai, China. We received 63 submissions from Asia, Europe, and North America, and 25 papers were accepted (the acceptance rate is around 40%). Each submission was reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. The Chairs moderated the discussion of conflict reviews or invited external reviewers to reach the final decisions.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference, ASWC 2009, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2009.

The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. These submissions cover a broad range of topics including, query languages and optimization, rule and logics, scalable reasoning, semantic content generation, database and semantics, semantic web services, eSemantics (e.g., e-Business, e-Science, e-Learning, e-Culture, e-Health), social web and semantics, semantic graph mining, security for semantic web, ontology modeling, ontology management, to name a few.