I. Budak Arpinar

General Terms (2009)

I. Budak Arpinar

Populated ontologies continue to be an important component in techniques and applications in semantic technologies. Thus, it is necessary to evaluate their quality. Our focus is the detection of...

Template Based Semantic Similarity for Security Applications (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Christian Halaschek-wiener, Satya Sanket Sahoo, I. Budak Arpinar

Today’s search technology delivers impressive results in finding relevant documents for given keywords. However many applications in various fields including genetics, pharmacy, social networks,...

General Terms (2008)

I. Budak Arpinar

Populated ontologies continue to be an important component in techniques and applications in semantic technologies. Thus, it is necessary to evaluate their quality. Our focus is the detection of...

Association Analytics for Network Connectivity in a Bibliographic and Expertise Dataset (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Sheron L. Decker, Delroy Cameron, I. Budak Arpinar

This chapter highlights the benefits of semantics for analysis of the collaboration network in a bibliography dataset. The metadata of publications can be used for extracting keywords and terms,...

Context-Aware Semantic Association Ranking 1 (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Chris Halaschek, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit Sheth

Abstract. Discovering complex and meaningful relationships, which we call Semantic Associations, is an important challenge. Just as ranking of documents is a critical component of today’s search...

Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection (2008)

Nagarajan Cartic Ramakrishnan, Amit P. Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar

In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers various...

Context-Aware Semantic Association Ranking 1 (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Chris Halaschek, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit Sheth

Abstract. Discovering complex and meaningful relationships, which we call Semantic Associations, is an important challenge. Just as ranking of documents is a critical component of today’s search...

Handbook of Geographic Information Science, Eds: J. P. Wilson and A. S. Fotheringham, Blackwell Publishing (in print 2004) Geospatial Ontology Development and Semantic Analytics (2008)

I. Budak Arpinar, Amit Sheth, Cartic Ramakrishnan, E. Lynn Usery, Molly Azami, Mei-po Kwan

Abstract. Geospatial ontology development and semantic knowledge discovery addresses the need for modeling, analyzing and visualizing multimodal information, and is unique in offering integrated...

Conflict of Interest • Should Arpinar review Verma’s paper? (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...

• Situation(s) that may bias a decision • Why it is important to detect COI? – for transparency in circumstances such as contract allocation, IPOs, corporate law, and peer-review of scientific...

ES3N: A Semantic Approach to Data Management in Sensor Networks (2008)

Micah Lewis, Delroy Cameron, Shaohua Xie, I. Budak Arpinar

Abstract. In this paper, we present a Data Management Tool called ES3N, which uses Semantic Web techniques to manage and query data collected from a minidome Sensor Network. Our tool supports complex...

A.P.: SwetoDblp Ontology of Computer Science Publications (submitted for publication, http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/semdis/swetodblp/SwetoDbl p-AHAS06.pdf (2007)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Farshad Hakimpour, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth

Abstract. SwetoDblp is a large populated ontology with a shallow schema yet a large number of real-world instance data. We describe how such ontology is built from an XML source and how it can be...

SEMEF: A Taxonomy-Based Discovery of Experts, Expertise and Collaboration Networks (2007)

Delroy Cameron, Boanerges Aleman-meza, Sheron L. Decker, I. Budak Arpinar

Abstract. Finding relevant experts in research is often critical and essential for collaboration. Semantics can be useful in this process. In particular, a taxonomy of Computer Science topics,...

Collecting Expertise of Researchers for Finding Relevant Experts in a Peer-Review Setting. Paper presented at the 1st International ExpertFinder Workshop (2007)

Delroy Cameron, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar

We present ideas for determining the expertise of researchers across various areas of computer science and for finding relevant experts/reviewers in a peerreview setting. We explain how Semantic Web...

Collecting Expertise of Researchers for Finding Relevant Experts in a Peer-Review Setting. Paper presented at the 1st International ExpertFinder Workshop (2007)

Delroy Cameron, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar

We present ideas for determining the expertise of researchers across various areas of computer science and for finding relevant experts/reviewers in a peerreview setting. We explain how Semantic Web...

Ontology-Driven Automatic Entity Disambiguation in Unstructured Text (2006)

Joseph Hassell, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar

Abstract. Precisely identifying entities in web documents is essential for document indexing, web search and data integration. Entity disambiguation is the challenge of determining the correct entity...

Semantic analytics on social networks: experiences in addressing the problem of conflict of interest detection (2006)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...

In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers...

Arpinar Discovery of Semantic Relations between Web Services (2006)

Lin Lin, I. Budak Arpinar

Discovering and assembling individual Web services into more complex yet new and more useful Web processes has received significant attention from academia recently. In this paper, we explore using...

Ontology-Driven Automatic Entity Disambiguation in Unstructured Text (2006)

Joseph Hassell, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar

Abstract. Precisely identifying entities in web documents is essential for document indexing, web search and data integration. Entity disambiguation is the challenge of determining the correct entity...

Semantic analytics on social networks: experiences in addressing the problem of conflict of interest detection (2006)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...

In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers...

Geospatial Ontology Development and Semantic Analytics (2005)

I. Budak Arpinar, Amit Sheth, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Lynn Usery, Molly Azami, Mei-po Kwan

Abstract. Geospatial ontology development and semantic knowledge discovery addresses the need for modeling, analyzing and visualizing multimodal information, and is unique in offering integrated...

OntoQA: Metric-based ontology quality analysis (2005)

Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar, Michael Moore, Amit P. Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-meza

As the Semantic Web gains importance for sharing knowledge on the Internet this has lead to the development and publishing of many ontologies in different domains. When trying to reuse existing...

Discovering Semantic Relations between Web Services Using Their Pre and Post-Conditions (2005)

Lin Lin, I. Budak Arpinar

Discovering and assembling individual Web services into more complex yet new and more useful Web processes receive significant attention from the academia recently. In this paper, we explore using...

Ranking Complex Relationships on the Semantic Web (2005)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Christian Halaschek-wiener, I. Budak Arpinar, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Amit Sheth

Abstract. The focus of contemporary Web information retrieval systems has been to provide efficient support for the querying and retrieval of relevant documents. More recently, information retrieval...

Semantic Association Identification and Knowledge Discovery for National Security Applications (2005)

A. Sheth, B. Aleman-Meza, F. S. Arpinar, Amit Sheth, C. Ramakrishnan, C. Bertram, ...

Public and private organizations have access to vast amount of internal, deep Web and open Web information. Transforming this heterogeneous and distributed information into actionable and insightful...

Ranking Complex Relationships on the Semantic Web (2005)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Christian Halaschek-wiener, I. Budak Arpinar, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Amit Sheth

Abstract. The focus of contemporary Web information retrieval systems has been to provide efficient support for the querying and retrieval of relevant documents. More recently, information retrieval...

OntoQA: Metric-based ontology quality analysis (2005)

Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar, Michael Moore, Amit P. Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-meza

As the Semantic Web gains importance for sharing knowledge on the Internet this has lead to the development and publishing of many ontologies in different domains. When trying to reuse existing...

Discovering and ranking semantic associations over a large rdf metabase (2004)

Chris Halaschek, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth

Information retrieval over semantic metadata has recently received a great amount of interest in both industry and academia. In particular, discovering complex and meaningful relationships among this...

Trusted (2004)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar, Chris Halaschek

� Many new techniques and software tools from emerging Semantic Web (SW) community � Need a common infrastructure for testing � Need of an open and freely available ontology with a very large...

Ontology-Driven Web Services Composition (2004)

I. Budak Arpinar, Ruoyan Zhang, Boanerges Aleman-meza, Angela Maduko

Abstract. Discovering and composing individual Web Services into more complex yet new and more useful Web Processes is an important challenge. In this paper, we present three techniques for (semi)...

Semantic Association Identification and Knowledge Discovery for National Security Applications (2004)

Amit Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar, Clemens Bertram, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Chris Halaschek, ...

Abstract. Enterprises have access to vast amount of internal, deep Web and open Web information. Transforming this heterogeneous and distributed information into actionable and insightful information...

SWETO: Large-Scale Semantic Web Test-bed (2004)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Chris Halaschek, Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar, Gowtham Sannapareddy

The emergent Semantic Web community needs a common infrastructure for testing the scalability and quality of new techniques and software which use machine processable data. Since ontologies are a...

Discovering and ranking semantic associations over a large rdf metabase (2004)

Chris Halaschek, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth

Information retrieval over semantic metadata has recently received a great amount of interest in both industry and academia. In particular, discovering complex and meaningful relationships among this...

Ontology-driven Web services composition platform (2004)

I. Budak Arpinar, Boanerges Aleman-meza, Ruoyan Zhang, Angela Maduko

Discovering and assembling individual Web Services into more complex yet new and more useful Web Processes is an important challenge. In this paper, we present techniques for (semi) automatically...

Relationships at the heart of semantic web: Modeling, discovering, and exploiting complex semantic relationships (2003)

Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar, Vipul Kashyap

Abstract. The primary goal of today’s search and browsing techniques is to find relevant documents. As the current web evolves into the next generation termed the Semantic Web, the emphasis will...

Relationships at the heart of semantic web: Modeling, discovering, and exploiting complex semantic relationships (2003)

Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar, Vipul Kashyap

Abstract. The primary goal of today’s search and browsing techniques is to find relevant documents. As the current web evolves into the next generation termed the Semantic Web, the emphasis will...

B.: Automatic composition of semantic web services (2003)

Ruoyan Zhang, I. Budak Arpinar, Boanerges Aleman-meza

With the growing number of Web services, importance of composing existing Web Services into more complex services in order to achieve new and more useful solutions is increasing. However, in order to...

Relationships at the heart of semantic web: Modeling, discovering, and exploiting complex semantic relationships (2003)

Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar, Vipul Kashyap

Abstract. The primary goal of today’s search and browsing techniques is to find relevant documents. As the current web evolves into the next generation termed the Semantic Web, the emphasis will...

Towards Peer-to-Peer Semantic Web: A Distributed Environment for Sharing Semantic Knowledge on the Web (2001)

Madhan Arumugam, Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar

Abstract. The real value of Semantic Web vision can be demonstrated if people and applications can create and discover new and interesting knowledge and share this knowledge in a transparent manner...