-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: First CFP: Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems @ WISE 2005 Datum: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:28:03 -0400 Von: ssws2005 yug2@Lehigh.EDU Firma: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com
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Dear Colleagues,
We cordially invite you to submit your work to 2005 International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS 2005) to be held this November at New York City.
============================= 2005 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCALABLE SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS (SSWS 2005) http://swat.cse.lehigh.edu/workshops/ssws/
in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Engineering (WISE 2005), Nov. 20-22 2005, NYC, USA
* Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag LNCS series * =============================
============================= Important Dates (tentative) =============================
Paper Submissions Due: August 1st, 2005 Acceptance Notification Date: September 2nd, 2005 Camera-ready Copies Due: September 12th, 2005 Workshop Date: November 20th, 2005
============================= Goals and Topics =============================
The Semantic Web, as an emerging extension to the World Wide Web, is increasingly attracting the attention of research. The vision of the Semantic Web is to populate the current Web by metadata with well-defined meaning so that software agents can better process the wealth of information that is available. Amongst the building blocks of the Semantic Web, RDF provides a framework for representing the metadata describing Web resources and OWL is a language for defining ontologies that associate metadata to each other.
With the establishment of such standards as RDF and OWL, we could expect an increasing number of developments and deployments of systems that process the data on the "semantic web layer" and provide access services to human users or program applications. To this end, existing knowledge base engineering technologies may be exploited. However, since the Semantic Web represents much larger problem sizes than those traditionally found in artificial intelligence, scalability becomes a stronger and more critical requirement for a Semantic Web knowledge base system. To certain extent, the success of those systems hinges on their scalability. The importance of this issue has been widely recognized in the community.
The SSWS 2005 workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners to present recent ideas and results towards addressing the above challenge. The workshop will create a forum for discussing major questions including: the evaluation of existing Semantic Web knowledge base systems and the principles, methodologies and tools for evaluating the systems; foundations, methods and technologies to improve the state-of-the-art; identification of new challenges and research directions. We also welcome participants from related disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, and information integration.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Semantic Web repositories; - Query evaluation and optimization; - Performance evaluation and benchmarks; - Distributed knowledge base systems and P2P systems; - Large scale knowledge base management; - Inference and inconsistency; - Semantic Web-based information integration
============================= Workshop Co-Chairs =============================
Mike Dean (BBN Technologies, USA) Yuanbo Guo (Lehigh University, USA) Zhengxiang Pan (Lehigh University, USA)
============================= Program Committee =============================
Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete, ICS FORTH, Greece) Dave Beckett (University of Bristol, UK) Pierre-Antoine Champin (Lyon 1 University, France) Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester, UK) Ying Ding (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA) Atanas Kiryakov (Ontotext Lab, Sirma AI, Bulgaria) Brian McBride (HP Laboratories, UK) Peter F. Patel-Schneider (Bell Laboratories, USA) Dennis Quan (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) Paulo Pinheiro da Silva (Stanford University, USA) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (Vrije University, The Netherlands) York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) David Wood (University of Maryland, USA) Takahira Yamaguchi (Keio University, Japan)
(This list may be expanded. Please refer to the workshop website for the latest information.)
============================= Paper Submission and Publication =============================
Papers should be submitted in PDF or PostScript format and sent by email to Yuanbo Guo (yug2@lehigh.edu). Papers must be no longer than 12 pages in Springer LNCS format. For details about this format, please visit Springer Online (http://www.springeronline.com).
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to present the work during the workshop.
Note: The proceedings of the workshop will be published by Springer Verlag LNCS series.
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