|  | The Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing SEMAPRO 2009  October 11-16, 2009 - Sliema, Malta | 
     
     
     SEMAPRO Advisory Chairs
     Petre Dini, Cisco  Systems Inc.,  USA /   Concordia University,  Canada
James Hendler,  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -   Troy,  USA
Josef Noll,  ConnectedLife@UNIK /   UiO-  Kjeller,  Norway
     SEMAPRO 2009 Industry-Research Chairs
     Massimo Paolucci, DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe  GmbH -   Munich,  Germany
     Peter Yeh, Accenture  Technology Labs,   USA
     SEMAPRO 2009  Publicity Chairs
     Sofia J. Athenikos,   Drexel University,  USA
Nima Dokoohaki, Royal  Institute of Technology (KTH)-  Kista,   Sweden
Arun Kumar, IBM India  Research Laboratory-New Delhi,   India
Meena Nagarajan,   Wright  State University,  USA     
     SEMAPRO 2009 Technical Program Committee
     Chairs:
     René Witte,   Concordia University,  Canada
Filip  Zavoral,  Charles   University   in   Prague,  Czech Republic
Dumitru Roman,   University of Innsbruck,  Austria
     Umberto Straccia, ISTI - CNR, Italy
      Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK
       José F. Aldana Montes, University of Málaga, Spain
       Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Polytechnic University of Victoria, Mexico
       Sofia J. Athenikos, Drexel University, USA
       Sören Auer, AKSW-Universität Leipzig, Germany
       Jie Bao,  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute-  Troy,  USA
       Mark Birbeck, webBackplane, UK
       Eva Blomqvist, Jönköping University, Sweden
       Janez Brank, Jozef  Stefan Institute-Ljubljana, Slovenia
       Ozgu Can, Ege University, Turkey
       Stefania Costache, L3S Research Center/University  of Hannover, Germany
       Anne Cregan, NICTA/UNSW/Intersect, Australia
       Arthur Culbertson, Raytheon, USA
       Sérgio Roberto P. da Silva, Universidade  Estadual de Maringá - DIN/UEM, Brazil
       Mathieu d'Aquin, KMI/The Open University, UK
       Violeta Damjanovic, Salzburg Research  Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H., Austria
       David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
       Hendrik Decker, Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain
       Paola di Maio, Strathclyde University-Glasgow,  UK
       Jan Dìdek, Charles University in Prague,   Czech Republic
       Alexiei Dingli, The University of Malta, Malta
       Nima Dokoohaki, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)-Kista, Sweden
       Jiri Dokulil, Charles University  in Prague, Czech Republic
       Martin Dzbor, The Open University, UK
       Raimund K. Ege, Northern Illinois University, USA
       Stefania Galizia, INNOVA   S.p.A,  Italy
       Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
       Raúl García Castro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
       Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
       Marsal Gavaldà, Nexidia   Inc.-Atlanta, USA  & CUIMPB-Barcelona, Spain
       Fabio Grandi, University of Bologna, Italy
       Daniela Grigori, University of Versailles, France
       Carole Goble,   University of Manchester,  UK
       Sotirios K. Goudos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
       Stephan Grimm, FZI-Research Center for Information Technologies Karlsruhe, Germany
       Alessio Gugliotta, Innova Spa, Italy
       Georg Güntner, Salzburg Research  Forschungsges.m.b.H., Austria
       Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
       Ralf Heese, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
       Christian F. Hempelmann, RiverGlass Inc. - Champaign  & Purdue University - West Lafeyette, USA
       James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  - Troy, USA
       Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe  (TH), Germany
       Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw  University of Technology, Poland
       Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University  -Ames,  USA
       Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester, UK
       Carolina Howard Felicissimo, Pontifícia Universidade Católica  do Rio de Janeiro,  Brazil
       Zhisheng Huang, Vrije Unversity Amsterdam, The  Netherlands
       Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia
       Prasad Jayaweera, University  of Namur, Belgium
       Ivan Jelinek, Czech Technical  University - Prague, Czech Republic
       Yingzi Jin, University of Tokyo, Japan
       Rajkumar Kannan, Bishop Heber College-Trichy, India
       Jana Katreniakova, Comenius  University Bratislava, Slovakia
       Mick  Kerrigan, STI Innsbruck, Austria
       Nicholas J. Kings, BT Innovate, UK
       Ralf Krestel, L3S Research Center, Germany
       Arun Kumar, IBM India Research Laboratory-New  Delhi, India
       Kyu-Chul Lee, Chungnam National  University-Daejeon, South Korea
       Sang-goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
       Thorsten Liebig, Ulm  University, Ulm, Germany
       Zongmin Ma, Northeastern University, China
       Jiangang Ma, Victoria  University, Australia
       Massimo Marchiori, University of Padua, Italy
       Christian Meilicke, University Mannheim/KR &  KM Research  Group,   Germany
       Paola Mello, DEIS- University of Bologna, Italy
       Gregoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
       Elisabeth Metais, CNAM/CEDRIC, France
       Vasileios Mezaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
       Parsa Mirhaji,   The University of Texas / Health Science Center at Houston,  USA
       Paolo Missier, University of Manchester, UK
       Diane Mueller-Klingspor, XBRL Development/JustSystems,  USA
       Meena Nagarajan, Wright State University, USA
       Ekawit Nantajeewarawat, SIIT-Thammasat  University, Thailand
       Hyun Namgoong, Seoul National University, Korea
       Lyndon Nixon, STI International, Austria
       JungHwan Oh, University of North Texas,   USA
       Sascha Opletal, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
       Massimo Paolucci, DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH -  Munich, Germany
       Jyotishman Pathak, Mayo Clinic-Rochester, USA
       Adam Pease, Articulate Software Inc., USA
       Carlos Pedrinaci, Knowledge Media Institute -  The Open University, UK
       Tassilo Pellegrini, Semantic Web Company, Austria
       Andrea Perego, Università degli Studi  dell'Insubria-Varese, Italy
       Jeff Pollock, Oracle, USA
       Jaime Ramírez, Universidad Politécnica de  Madrid, Spain
       Isidro Ramos, Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain
       Juergen Rilling,   Concordia University,  Canada
       Tarmo Robal, Tallinn University of Technology,  Estonia
       David Robertson, The University of Edinburgh, UK
       Ronald G. Ross, Business Rules Journal, USA
       Murat Osman Ünalir, Ege University, Turkey
       Melike Şah, University of Southampton, UK
       Satya Sahoo, Wright State University, USA
       Michel Sala, LIRMM / Université Montpellier 1,  France
       Munehiko Sasajima, Osaka University, Japan
       Christoph Schmitz, 1&1 Internet AG -  Karlsruhe, Germany
       Aman Shakya, National Institute of  Informatics-Tokyo, Japan
       Seung-Jae Song, Seoul National University, Korea
       William Wei Song, University of Durham, UK
       Umberto Straccia, ISTI - CNR, Italy
       Darin Stewart, Oregon Health & Science  University & University of Oregon, USA
       Cui Tao, Mayo Clinic,  USA
       Konstantinos Tarabanis,  University of Macedonia - Thessaloniki,  Greece
       Christoph Tempich, Detecon International   GmbH ,   Germany
       Dirk Vermeir, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
       Boris Villazón-Terrazas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
       Tomas Vitvar, University of Innsbruck, Austria
       Johanna Völker, Institute AIFB, University of  Karlsruhe, Germany
       George Voutsadakis, Iowa State University-Ames,  USA
       Roland Wagner, University of Linz (JKU), Austria
       Haofen Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
       Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The  Netherlands
       René Witte, Concordia University, Canada
       W L Woo, Newcastle  University-Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
       Xian Wu, IBM China Research  Lab, China
       Kaifeng Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
       Peter Yeh, Accenture  Technology Labs, USA
       Rosa Laura Zavala Gutierrez, University of South Carolina, USA
       Filip Zavoral, Charles University  in Prague, Czech Republic
       Nadia Zerida, University    of Caen, France
       Yuting Zhao, University of Aberdeen, UK
       Anna V. Zhdanova, ftw. Telecommunications  Research Center-Vienna, Austria
       Hai-Tao Zheng, Seoul National University, Korea