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ISWC 2009 Call for Papers
The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) will be held 25 - 29 October, 2009, in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. Invited speakers include Patrick Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and Nova Spivack, Radar Networks.
IS WC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented.
As the Semantic Web is rapidly entering the mainstream, IS WC 2009 will pay particular attention to showcasing scalable and usable solutions, which bring semantic technologies to web users in authentic application settings.
The tracks for ISWC 2009 include Research, Semantic Web in Use, Posters & Demonstrations, Industry, Doctorial Consortium, Tutorials, and Workshops. Calls for each of these tracks is below.
The International Semantic Web Conference (IS WC) series is organized and managed by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA ).
See http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/ for full details.
Research Track - Call for Papers The web continues to grow and increasing amounts of data are available for human and machine consumption, processing, and re-dissemination. As Semantic Web technologies (including linked data approaches) mature and become usable by end-users we can expect to encounter new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications that enable us to "surf" this web of data. These new approaches give rise to new challenges - both from a technical and human-computer interaction perspective. The goal of the research track at ISWC is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and users from the areas of artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, soft computing, and human-computer interaction to discuss the biggest challenges and proposed solutions. It solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of all areas of Semantic Web research. Papers to the research track are expected to clearly present their contribution and provide some well-principled means of evaluation. We especially encourage papers that ensure the repeatability of their experiments and share with the community their data and test harnesses. General Information ISWC 2009 calls for papers for its research track. The research track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of all areas of Semantic Web research. Papers to the research track are expected to clearly present their contribution and provide some well-principled means of evaluation. We especially encourage papers that ensure the repeatability of their experiments, and share with the community their data and test harnesses. Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· User Interfaces · Interacting with Semantic Web data 1 Semantic Web content creation and annotation 2 Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes 3 Novel interaction paradigms aimed at linked data 4 Semantic web applications to Web-2.0 sites
· Data Semantics and Ontologies · Beyond Description Logic: New formalisms for semantics (such as probabilistic approaches) 1 Lightweight semantics (linked data, microformats, etc). 2 Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution 3 Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment 4 Searching and ranking ontologies 5 Ontology evaluation
· Applications of the Semantic Web · Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations 1 Semantic Web for large scale applications, desktops or personal information management 2 Semantic Web technologies for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness 3 Semantic Web technologies for P2P, services, agents, grids and middleware
· Management of Semantic Web Data · Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data 1 Database, IR and AI technologies for the Semantic Web 2 Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web 3 Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web 4 Machine learning and information extraction for the Semantic Web 5 Cleaning, assurance, trust, provenance of Semantic Web data, services and processes
· Social Semantic Web · Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web 1 Semantic Web technologies for collaboration and cooperation 2 Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security
General questions can be sent to iswc2009 <you know what symbol> semanticweb.org Evaluation of Submitted Research Papers ISWC is a highly attractive and competitive conference series. From all previous ISWC conferences, we have seen researchers and practitioners making best use of the methods and technologies reported at the event for their own research and practice. We are very eager to maintain this high level of impact achieved by ISWC papers in the future. For this purpose, all papers will be critically reviewed by 3 reviewers and one vice chair.
To assess papers, reviewers will judge originality of papers, significance for further research and/or practice related to the Semantic Web, technical soundness of the proposed approaches and readability of the submitted papers.
Specific weight will be given to the evaluation of the approaches described in the papers. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable. Depending on the type of the paper and the proposed approach indications for repeatability may vary. For instance, theoretical papers may want to upload full proofs of theorems (as supplementary data), empirical work may want to upload training/test data, experimental results, or supporting movies (as supplementary data), case study work may link to case study journals for deeper insights, system papers may provide download of the software or a Web client together with full assessments in user studies, approaches that describe algorithms may want to provide the algorithm in source code and in an easy-to-install manner. Submission of Abstracts and Papers Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing system. Pre-submission of abstracts will be a strict requirement. Final papers can be submitted until 21 June 2009, 23:59 hrs, Hawaiian time. The submission platform will be opened from the beginning of May.
Note the we made a special effort to cut all slack from the reviewing schedule in order to assure that we will have the newest results presented at the conference. We will, therefore, be unable to make any extensions to this submission deadline!
Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Format Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 ).
Formatted papers must be no longer than 16 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review.
ISWC 2009 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task) and submit a version of their paper to a special conference discussion system. Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. Important Dates - Research Track * Abstracts due: Monday, June 8, 2009, 23:59 Hawaii Time (GMT-10) * Submissions due: Monday, June 15 2009 23:59 Hawaii Time (GMT-10) * Rebuttal phase: July 15 - July 20, 2009 * Notification: August 4, 2009 * Camera ready: August 14, 2009 Program Committee · Chairs · Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland 1 David Karger, MIT, USA
* Vice Chairs To Be Announced
Semantic Web In Use - Call for Papers Semantic Web technologies continue to make the transition from research labs into mainstream adoption. The Semantic Web In Use track at ISWC 2009 provides a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying Semantic Web technology in real-life applications and contexts, such as industry, science, society, government or entertainment.
Submissions to the Semantic Web In Use track may employ scientific methods (qualitative and/or quantitative) to understand in greater detail the application of Semantic Web technologies, or present novel practical approaches that are relevant to the deployment of Semantic Web technologies but may not otherwise gain an outlet in the ISWC series.
We therefore invite the submission of original, principled papers organized around some of or all of the following aspects:
* Description of concrete problems in specific application domains, for which Semantic Web technologies can provide a solution. * Description of an implemented application of Semantic Web technologies in a specific domain. * Assessment of the pros and cons of using Semantic Web technologies to solve a particular business problem or other practical problems in a specific domain. * Comparison with alternative or competing approaches using conventional or competing technologies. * Learned best practices for deploying an application based on Semantic Web technologies. * Assessment of the costs and benefits of the application of Semantic Web Technologies, e.g. time and cost of implementation and deployment, integration with legacy IT systems, user acceptance, returns on investment. * Assessment/evaluation of usage and uptake of a deployed Semantic Web application.
The Semantic Web In Use track is open to submissions based on a wide-range of hypotheses, methodologies and conclusions. However priority will be given to submissions that demonstrate rigor in the methodology and analysis on which conclusions are based. Submissions/Format Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing system. Pre-submission of abstracts is preferred but not required. Final papers can be submitted until 15 June 2009, 23:59 hrs, Hawaiian time. The submission platform will be opened from the beginning of May.
Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0). Formatted papers must be no longer than 16 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review.
ISWC 2009 will not accept papers to the Semantic Web In Use track that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.
Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task) and submit a version of their paper to a special conference discussion system. Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. Authors of papers submitted to the Semantic Web In Use track (whether accepted or not) are encouraged to also consider submitting their work to the ISWC2009 Poster and Demo track, where appropriate. Please note that such submissions must be made separately to In Use track submissions and must adhere strictly to the submission requirements for Posters and Demos.
Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Important Dates - Semantic Web in Use * Submission Deadline: Monday, June 15, 2009 (23:59 Hawaii Time) * Notification of Acceptance: August 4, 2009 * Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: August 14, 2009 Program Committee · Chairs · Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics, USA 1 Tom Heath, Talis, UK
Posters and Demonstrations - Call for Proposals ISWC 2009 will hold combined poster and demonstration sessions. The Poster/Demo Session is an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters and demos are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems, descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies. Submissions/Format Authors must submit a two-page paper with a short abstract for evaluation. The abstract must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity.
A detailed list of suggested topics can be found in the calls for papers both for the Research Track and for the Semantic Web In Use track. Posters and demos are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and are not intended as advertisements for software packages.
Authors submitting a full paper to another track in ISWC 2009 may also submit the same work for consideration in the Demo/Poster track, either before or after result notification for the full paper. For example, a demo can be provided for an accepted paper, or a poster can be used to present work that was insufficiently mature for the other track.
For demo submissions, authors are strongly encouraged to include in their submission a link to where the demo (live or recorded video) can be found.
At least one of the Poster/Demo authors must be a registered participant at the conference, and attend the Poster/Demo Session to present the work. The abstracts for all accepted posters and demos will be given to all conference attendees and published on the conference web site. They will not be included in the formal proceedings.
Poster and demo papers must be submitted in ACM format. For complete details, see ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. Please remove the ACM copyright box from the first page of your submission. Poster/Demo papers must be submitted in PDF format, and no other format will be accepted. Poster/Demo papers that exceed the page limit could be rejected without review.
Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification.
Please submit papers at the ISWC 2009 submission page. Important Dates - Posters & Demonstrations * August 7, 2009: Deadline for submissions * August 24 , 2009: Notification of acceptance * September 8, 2009: Camera ready abstracts due
Time for all deadlines above will be 23:59 pm Hawaiian time (GMT-10). Further Information For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Posters and Demonstration co-chairs Tania Tudorache and Harith Alani. Organizing Chairs · Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA 1 Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK Program Committee * To be announced
Industry Track - Call for Proposals ISWC 2009 is hosting an Industry Track to enable the business community to present products that utilize or enrich the Semantic Web. We invite industry vendors to submit brief presentations for this track. No formal accompanying paper is required. We encourage product and service vendors who may or may not be exhibiting at ISWC 2009 to give a presentation about their products or services. While such presentations can explicitly focus on vendor-branded products and services, we seek to allow vendors to (1) give more in-depth discussion about the specific aspects of Semantic Web technologies in their products and services; (2) explain how their products and services are helping transition clients into the Semantic Web; and (3) describe the innovative plans for their products and services that lead to greater adoption of Semantic Web standards and interoperability.
The key dates for the Call for Presentations are close to the conference date to encourage vendors to include last-minute updates and innovations of general interest to ISWC attendees. We want to provide a venue for companies who might otherwise not submit a formal paper to ISWC, but nevertheless have valuable insights and engineering acumen regarding various Semantic Web technologies and their applicability. Submissions/Format Authors must submit a presentation for consideration. It is recommended that each submission also include an abstract of a maximum of 200 words. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Decisions for acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, technical depth and business applicability. Marketing and sales material will not be considered.
Submissions should be in one of the following formats: * HTML * PowerPoint (PPT) slides * PDF slides * MPEG2 or MPEG4 (Screencasts)
No formal paper is required. While it is difficult to handle the entire range of presentation technologies, we are willing to negotiate accommodations if one of the above formats is not suitable. If your technology is not listed and is critical to your presentation, please contact the Industry Track co-chairs. Presentations may be fully automated (e.g. screencasts) or narrated live during the conference. Submissions should also include presentation needs (e.g. projector, Internet connectivity). You may submit hyperlinks to your presentation (including the final presentation), but if you require Internet access for your presentation, please submit a backup final presentation in the unlikely event of connection problems.
Presentations are expected to be either 20 or 50 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. A presentation may be mixed media (any of the above formats) and include demonstrations, but must adhere to the 20 or 50 minute limit.
Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification.
Please submit presentations at the ISWC 2009 submission page. Topics Potential topics are listed below but are not inclusive. See the Research Track for additional topic areas. * Ontology Management * Reasoning Engines * Collaboration and the Semantic Web * Open Data on the Semantic Web * Open Source Strategies for Semantic Web Businesses Important Dates - Industry Track * August 1, 2009: Draft presentations due * August 31, 2009: Notification of acceptance * September 10, 2009: Final presentations due Further Information For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Industry Track co-chairs Matthew Fisher and John Callahan. Program Committee · Chairs · Matthew Fisher, Progeny Systems, USA 1 John Callahan, JHUAPL, USA
Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers Introduction The ISWC 2009 Doctoral Consortium will take place as part of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference at the Westfields Conference Center http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/iadwf-westfields-marriott-washington-dulles/ near Washington, DC. Alongside the plenary sessions which afford opportunity for the scientific exchange and presentation of high quality research in all aspects of the Semantic Web, this forum will allow doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors as well as to meet other postgraduate students in the field. The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to create an opportunity for PhD students to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plans, and receive constructive criticism and insights related to their future work and career perspectives. A mentor (peer researcher and expert in the field) will be assigned to each student of an accepted paper, to provide individual feedback and advice on the paper, the focus of the work and further developments. Students who are submitting papers on specific portions of their work to the main conference are also invited to apply to the Doctoral Consortium. In this case, the short paper for the Doctoral Consortium should give an overview of the student's dissertation research, and the paper for the main conference should focus on a specific piece of this work. All papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium stream will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The best submissions will be selected for presentation at the ISWC 2009 Doctoral Consortium sessions. Full papers will be published in the main ISWC proceedings. Some papers will be accepted as posters rather than full papers, depending on the nature of the submission. The poster session will take place as part of the Doctoral Consortium. Topics The Doctoral Consortium track of ISWC 2009 solicits submission of PhD research papers dealing with foundational and core issues, application domains and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Topics include, but are not limited to: · Applications of the Semantic Web · Applications with clear lessons learned 1 Evaluations of Semantic Web technologies 2 Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and other application domains 3 Semantic Web technologies for multimedia content 4 Personal Information Management · Management of Semantic Web Data · Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data 1 Database technologies for the Semantic Web 2 Search, query, and visualization of the Semantic Web 3 Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web 4 Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web 5 Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction · Ontologies · Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution 1 Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment 2 Evaluation and tanking of ontologies 3 Ontology search · Semantic Web Architecture · Semantic Web middleware 1 Semantic Web services 2 Agents on the Semantic Web 3 Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids · Social Semantic Web · Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web 1 Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation · Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security Submissions/Format Doctoral Consortium papers should include a clear presentation of the PhD research direction, sound situation of the PhD research in the context of Semantic Web and related fields, a report on the work done so far and a plan of further research. They should indicate at what stage of the PhD the author is at. All submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, in the same format as is used for the main conference papers. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions. http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 Papers must be submitted electronically through the conference submission site. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. ISWC 2009 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org http://data.semanticweb.org/ . Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Important Dates - Doctorial Consortium * June 15, 2009 (11:59pm Hawaii time, GMT-10): Doctoral consortium paper submissions due * July 21, 2009: Doctoral consortium paper acceptance notification * August 7, 2009: Doctoral consortium camera-ready papers due * October 24, 2009: Doctoral consortium * October 25-29, 2009: ISWC conference Further Information For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Doctoral Consortium Chair Diana Maynard mailto:d.maynard@dcs.shef.ac.uk . For more information about ISWC 2009, please contact the ISWC General Chair. Program Committee * Chair Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
Tutorials - Call for Proposals The Web continues to grow and new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications are being developed. Building on this growth, Semantic Web technologies aim at providing a shared semantic information space, qualitatively changing our experiences on the Web. As Semantic Web technologies mature and permeate more and more application areas, new research challenges are becoming apparent and some unsolved ones are becoming more acute. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, ISWC brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. In addition to the regular research and workshop program, ISWC'09 aims to feature a tutorial program that would address the interests of its varied audience: novices to the Semantic Web, representatives of government and funding agencies, Semantic Web practitioners that wish to learn new technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to Semantic Web research, including, but not limited to those of relevance for ISWC'09 (http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/). We expect proposals of the following types of tutorials: * Tutorials providing an introduction to the Semantic Web; * Tutorials describing the application of Semantic Web technology in specific domains (e.g., business intelligence, life-sciences, health care). Applications to government and e-government are especially encouraged; * Tutorials presenting concrete Semantic Web technologies and trends. We encourage proposals describing both established technologies that are increasingly used by the community and novel, ground-breaking technologies. * Tutorials presenting techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research. (e.g., machine learning, NLP). Important Organizers' Responsibilities Organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for preparing and maintaining a Web site that describes the tutorial and includes other relevant information. The URL of the tutorial site should be submitted to the tutorial chair by 14 August 2009. The description should make it clear that the tutorial is open to all members of the ISWC community. It should also mention that all tutorial participants must pay the ISWC'09 conference registration fee, as well as the tutorial fee.
The tutorial organizers will also be asked to provide some metadata about their tutorial, conforming to the Semantic Web Conference ontology (detailed instructions will be provided). Organizers are also responsible for the production and distribution of all technical material to be used for teaching the tutorial (slides, notes, technical papers, etc.) except for the reproduction of hard copies of printed materials, which will be handled by ISWC. In the case of a hands-on tutorial requiring software, it is strongly recommended that the organizers provide CDs from which the participants can install the software needed on their computers. (It is not realistic to expect tutorial attendees to download the software at the beginning of the tutorial!) Tutorial presenters will need to submit the material for printed hand-outs to the tutorial organizers for pre-printing. (The deadline for this is given below.) The ISWC 2009 Organizing Committee will be responsible for the following: * Providing publicity for the tutorial as a whole on the conference's web page. The ISWC 2009 page will include the tutorial abstract and provide a link to the tutorial's local page. * Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the tutorial. * In conjunction with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time. * Production of sufficient copies of printed tutorial materials provided by the tutorial organizers. Submissions/Format ISWC'09 tutorials may be either for a full day or for a half day. Although tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects, we encourage organisers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages in Springer LNCS format and should contain the following information: * An abstract (200 words maximum; to be published on the ISWC'09 website); * A justification of the tutorial, including its relevance to this conference and its relation to similar tutorials presented at other events; * A brief description of tutorial, including aims, overview of content, presentation style, target audience, and prerequisite knowledge; * An indication of full- or half-day, and a draft outline of the tutorial content and schedule * Audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements; * For a hands-on tutorial, please briefly describe the software that will be used for the hands-on activities, the planned procedure to allow the participants to install the software on their computers, and any special technical requirements related to these activities. Please note that any software needed for hands-on activities, and download sites for the software, must be provided by the tutorial presenters. * Information on presenters (name, affiliation, contact info, expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation). Please indicate which presenter is the primary contact. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Please submit tutorial proposals by email to Jennifer Golbeck at jgolbeck@umd.edu. Important Dates - Tutorials * June 19, 2009: Tutorial proposals due * July 10, 2009: Notification of proposal acceptance * August 14, 2009: Deadline for receipt of URL for tutorial web page * September 25, 2009: Deadline for sending the tutorial notes (handouts) to the tutorial chair for reproduction (PDF preferred) * October 25-26, 2009: Presentation of Tutorial Program Program Committee · Chairs · Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, jgolbeck@umd.edu · Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK, r.m.sabou@open.ac.uk
Workshops - Call for Proposals ISWC 2009, the Eighth International Semantic Web Conference, will be held on October 25-29 2009 at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington DC. Co-located workshops at previous ISWC conferences have become an important meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange ideas concerning focused Semantic Web topics. ISWC 2009 plans to continue with this tradition and invites proposals for the Workshop Track. General Information * Co-located workshops must be on topics that are of interest to ISWC attendees. * Workshop duration can be half a day or a full day. * We strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. * Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events. We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions. * The decision on acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal as well as how it fits in with the conference. * The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website), and proceedings. They will be required to closely cooperate with the Workshops Chairs and the ISWC 2009 local organizers to finalize all details mentioned above. * The workshop organizers will also be asked to provide some metadata about their workshop, conforming to the Semantic Web Conference ontology (detailed instructions will be provided). * Workshop attendees must pay the ISWC 2009 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. * Accepted workshops will receive one free registration to the main conference. Submissions/Format Workshop proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length, should be in text or PDF format and should contain the following information:
* A title. * A 200 words abstract. * A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time. * A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest, the workshop audience, as well as the expected number of participants. * A brief description of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion. * A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal). * An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day meeting. * A description of past versions of the workshop, including URLs as well as submission and acceptance counts. * The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organizing committee and short description of their relevant experience.
Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification.
Please send your proposals by *May 1*, 2009 to iswc09workshops@lists.csail.mit.edu. Important Dates - Workshops · *May 1*, 2009 - Workshop proposals are due. · Proposals should be submitted to iswc09workshops@lists.csail.mit.edu . · May 22, 2009 - Notification of acceptance/rejection.
· The important dates for accepted workshops will be: · June 8, 2009 - Workshop Call for Papers out (suggested). 1 July 31, 2009 - Submissions to workshops (suggested) 2 August 30, 2009 - Acceptance of papers for workshops (suggested) 3 October 2, 2009 - Camera ready papers 4 October 9, 2009 - Camera ready proceedings 5 October 25 - 26, 2009 - Workshops days Program Committee · Chairs · Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, MIT, USA 1 Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University, USA
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