-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] new journal: "Semantic Web" by IOS Press Datum: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:39:44 -0500 Von: Pascal Hitzler pascal.hitzler@wright.edu An: Krzysztof Janowicz janowicz@uni-muenster.de
Announcement of a new journal
Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability
Publisher: IOS Press ISSN: 1570-0844 http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/
Scope
The journal Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability brings together researchers from various fields which share the vision and need for more effective and meaningful ways to share information across agents and services on the future internet and elsewhere. As such, Semantic Web technologies shall support the seamless integration of data, on-the-fly composition and interoperation of Web services, as well as more intuitive search engines. The semantics – or meaning – of information, however, cannot be defined without a context, which makes personalization, trust, and provenance core topics for Semantic Web research. New retrieval paradigms, user interfaces, and visualization techniques have to unleash the power of the Semantic Web and at the same time hide its complexity from the user. Based on this vision, the journal welcome contributions ranging from theoretical and foundational research over methods and tools to descriptions of concrete ontologies and applications in all areas. We especially welcome papers which add a social, spatial, and temporal dimension to Semantic Web research, as well as application-oriented papers making use of formal semantics. The journal is peer-reviewed and will be published quarterly. IOS Press is a leading international publisher of scientific books and journals in many fields including computer& communications sciences and especially also the Semantic Web.
Submissions
The journal invites submissions on all topics related to the Semantic Web. Submissions can fall in one of the following categories.
* Full papers – containing original research results. Results previously published at conferences may be submitted as extended versions.
* Survey articles – full-length papers surveying the state of the art on core Semantic Web topics.
* Descriptions of ontologies – short papers describing ontology modeling and creation efforts.
* Application reports – short papers describing deployed applications of Semantic Web technologies.
* Reports on tools and systems – short papers describing mature Semantic Web related tools and systems.
Review process
The journal uses an open and transparent review process. Submitted manuscripts are posted on the journal homepage and are publicly available. In addition to solicited reviews, public reviews can be made by any researcher. Reviews and review responses are posted on the journal homepage. All reviewers will be acknowledged in the final printed version. While we encourage reviewers to participate in the open and transparent review process, it is also be possible to submit anonymous reviews.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief:
Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA Krzysztof Janowicz, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
Board of Editors:
Claudia d’Amato, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada Philipp Cimiano, Universität Bielefeld, Germany Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University, UK Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Canada Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland, New Zealand Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil Manfred Hauswirth, University of Galway, Ireland Tom Heath, Talis, UK Rinke Hoekstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands Andreas Hotho, Universität Würzburg, Germany Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK Martin Raubal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK Christoph Schlieder, University of Bamberg, Germany Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA Jie Tang, Tsinghua University Beijing, China Kunal Verma, Accenture, USA
Contact
Journal website: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/
Contact the Editors-in-Chief: Pascal Hitzler: pascal.hitzler@wright.edu Krzysztof Janowicz: jano@psu.edu