The Semantic Web – ASWC 2006: First Asian Semantic Web Conference, Beijing, China, September 3-7, 2006. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Asian Semantic Web Conference, ASWC 2006, held in Beijing, China, in September 2006.

The 36 revised full papers and 36 revised short papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 208 full paper submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on annotation, ontology alignment, documents and recommendation, social networks and RSS, ontology integration and interoperability, reasoning, applications, information search, databases, semantic Web services, ontologies and tools, ontologies and theory, peer-to-peer, and industrial applications.