-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] Call for Papers: 4th Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki2009) Datum: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:59:49 +0100 Von: Sebastian Schaffert sebastian.schaffert@salzburgresearch.at Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com
***Call for Papers***
Fourth Workshop on Semantic Wikis The Semantic Wiki Web [SemWiki2009] co-located with ESWC 2009, Heraklion, Crete 1st June 2009 http://www.semwiki.org/
Supported by the EU Project KiWi - Knowledge in a Wiki (http://www.kiwi-project.eu)
Goals and Motivation ====================
Wikis are a major success of Web 2.0. They are used for a large number of purposes, such as encyclopedias, project documentation, and coordination, both in open communities and in enterprises. Wikis have demonstrated how it is possible to transform a community of strangers into a community of collaborators. By integrating Semantic Web technologies, semantic wikis one the one hand allow this new community of contributors to produce formalized knowledge readable by machines and on the other hand support the users in ways ordinary wikis are not capable of, e.g. by personalisation, integration with other services, and reasoning. Authoring and usage of informal and formal data take place in the same system, leading to instant gratification. Some systems simply tag existing wiki content, others are full-fledged ontology editors, but the majority covers the large scale between informal and fully formalized content, guiding users from informal knowledge contained in texts to more formal structures.
Semantic wikis are a very promising way to establish a partnership between human and automated collaborators, creating communities for collaborative knowledge building and sharing. Some important steps have already been achieved with systems that are already adopted outside of the original Semantic Web community. Semantic wikis are thus even now a major success story of the Semantic Web and a reference that combines the advantage of Web 2.0 and the Web of data and have the potential to significantly contribute to the adoption of semantic technologies throughout the Web.
The goal of this workshop is to study how interactions within a semantic wiki between humans and between humans and machines can help both parties to collaboratively produce and share knowledge that is usable for human and computers. As semantic wikis contain many of the core Semantic Web challenges in an integrated fashion, we are also concerned about contributing results obtained in semantic wiki "petri dishes" to the overall Semantic Web effort.
Workshop Audience and Topics ============================
We want to bring together researchers and practitioners active in the development and application of traditional and semantic wiki systems, as well as researchers interested in knowledge acquisition in general and in computer supported cooperative work. This includes researchers working on semantic portals, personal and enterprise knowledge management systems and ontology authoring. We address researchers working on (but not limited to):
* Applications of semantic wikis in - e-science and e-learning - software and knowledge engineering - enterprise workflows and knowledge management - personal knowledge management - ... and other fields * Integration and reuse of semantic wikis or (semantic) wiki content: - integrations with other semantic applications; mashups - wikis and Linked Open Data; scaling wikis to the web - giving semantics to non-semantic wikis (e.g. Wikipedia) - reusing semantics gained from wikis (e.g. DBpedia) * Human and social factors of semantic wikis - usability studies, empirical studies, analyses of semantic wiki contributors and their contributions - overcoming entrance barriers, giving incentives for contributing - connecting knowledge and social interaction - community building * Knowledge representation and reasoning in semantic wikis - combining formal and informal knowledge, transforming informal to formal knowledge, making formal knowledge accessible - coping with inconsistencies - change management, truth maintenance, versioning, and undoing semantic changes - utilizing emerging knowledge models - semantic wikis for rapid prototyping of schema-driven applications - collaborative ontology engineering with wikis * Technologies for semantic wikis - privacy: permissions, trust, licensing, access control - browsing, navigating, visualizing semantically enhanced linked data - distributed semantic wikis: offline/distributed/real-time/multi- synchronous editing - innovative plugins and extensions for existing systems (e.g. Semantic MediaWiki)
Organisation Committee ====================== * Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany ch.lange@jacobs-university.de * Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria sebastian.schaffert@salzburgresearch.at * Hala Skaf-Molli, INRIA-Nancy University, France skaf@loria.fr * Max Völkel, University of Karlsruhe, Germany voelkel@fzi.de
Programme Committee ===================
* David Aumüller, Universität Leipzig (DE) * Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig (DE) * Joachim Baumeister, Universität Würzburg (DE) * Björn Decker, IESE (DE) * Sebastian Dietzold, Universität Leipzig (DE) * Ludger van Elst, DFKI (DE) - pending * Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise (DE) * Herman Geuvers, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen (NL) * Tudor Groza, DERI (IE) * Fabian Gandon, INRIA - Edelweiss (FR) * Siegfried Handschuh, DERI (IE) * Martin Hepp, UniBW M√ºnchen (DE) * Malte Kiesel, DFKI (DE) * Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen (DE) * Tobias Kuhn, Universität Zürich (CH) * Pascal Molli, Nancy Univerity, INRIA (FR) * Christine Müller, Jacobs University Bremen (DE) * Claudia Müller, Universität Stuttgart (DE) * Amedeo Napoli, CNRS, LORIA (FR) * Viktoria Pammer, Know-Center Graz (AT) * Jochen Reutelshöfer, Universität Würzburg (DE) * Jean Rohmer, Thales (FR) * Matthias Samwald, Semantic Web Company (AT) * Daniel Schwabe, University of Rio de Janeiro (BR) * Elena Simperl, STI Innsbruck (AT) * Harold Solbrig, Mayo Clinic (US) * Steffen Staab, Universität Koblenz-Landau (DE) * Jakob Vo√ü, GBV Göttingen (DE) * Friedel Völker, City Wiki Pforzheim-Enz (DE) * Peter Yim, CIM Engineering Inc. (US) * Alicia Diaz,LIFIA, Fac Informatica, UNLP (ARG) Further invitations are planned.
Submission and Proceedings ==========================
We invite the following different kinds of contributions: * full research or application papers (15 pages) describing recent research outcomes, mature work, prototypes, applications, or methodologies; authors of accepted full papers will be able to present their work in a 20 minute talk at the workshop * short position papers (5-10 pages) describing early work and new ideas that are not yet fully worked out; authors of short papers will be able to present their work in a 5-10 minute lightning talk at the workshop * demo outlines (5 pages) describing the demonstration of a software prototype in the poster and demo session during the workshop * poster descriptions (2 pages) outlining a poster to be presented in the poster and demo session during the workshop
Independently of the type of submission, all papers should be formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. For complete details on this issue see Springer's Author Instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0. Papers will be submitted using the EasyChair system. Access to EasyChair will be given in time on the workshop homepage (http://www.semwiki.org).
In addition to ordinary submissions, all attendees of the workshop are encouraged to informally present their work in an open space session during the workshop if they are not (yet) able to submit a description of their work or to also discuss more recent work that has been done after the submission deadline of the workshop.
Important Dates ===============
Paper Submission: 22nd February 2009 Author Notification: 4th April 2009 Workshop: 1st June 2009
In case of questions, feel free to contact any of the organisers at chair@semwiki.org