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Subject: SemPGRID04: Call for Paper (DATE CORRECTIONS!) Date: Wednesday 07 January 2004 19:57 From: Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit hongsuda@ISI.EDU To: news-announce-conferences@uunet.uu.net
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****************** CALL FOR PAPERS ************************
2nd Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing (SemPGRID) at the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference 17-18 May 2004, New York, USA in cooperation with the GGF Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-GRD) Workshop URL: http://www.isi.edu/~hongsuda/SemPGRID04
Topics and Content -----------------------------------
The Semantic Web is widely accepted as a means to enhance the Web with machine processable content. However, mostly the Semantic Web is aiming at techniques and technologies for static information, in contrast to dynamic services or distributed computing. Several interest groups and efforts are working on infrastructure for enabling distributed computing. The organization of these efforts are in part top down organized efforts, involving multiple formal organizations and dedicated projects, and bottom-up efforts, sometimes started by single organizations or individuals in a grassroots effort.
The Grid is aiming at technologies which allow the flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources, enabling virtual organizations. Problems encountered include authentication, authorization, resource access, resource discovery, and interoperation of active services. The same problems are eminent in the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) area, where projects are typically organized in a bottom-up fashion. Infrastructures like the TeraGrid and SUN's JXTA are emerging, attracting numerous applications. However, each application uses its own data format, and it is hard to see how applications interoperate.
A related area is Web Services: driven by industry efforts numerous specifications are developed, which are of interest for the Grid projects as well as for the Peer-to-Peer efforts. Although there is an agreement that Web Services would benefit from more semantics, little systematic research has been done on how to combine the notions of Web Services with the Semantic Web, Peer-to-Peer and/or Grid computing technologies.
Topics of interest for technical papers include, but are not limited to, the following: * Scalable infrastructures for service discovery in Grid computing and P2P networks, e.g., based on reconfiguration of the network with respect to shared interests or shared ontologies * Interoperation infrastructure for enabling heterogeneous peers to exchange and translate information * Emergent Semantics and incrementally learning and evolution of ontologies in an P2P environment * Metadata infrastructures for P2P and Grid computing * Task ontologies and service composition languages * Service Composition framework * Data Integration of P2P and Grid applications * Interaction of the Semantic Web and Grid Services * Semantics-based routing * Agent-Architectures based on P2P and Grid Computing technology * The role of Semantics in the Open Grid Service Architecture
The workshop will be organized in part around talks presenting research results in the intersection of the Semantic Web, P2P and Grid computing. Another important part of the workshop will be break-out groups, focusing on the amalgamation of Semantic Web and distributed computing. We hope the break-out groups will evolve into independent working groups and generate follow-up activities, which contribute to the technology areas. The proceedings will be published on the Web.
Submission and Important Dates ----------------------------------- We invite the submission of technical papers as well as position statements. The submitted papers should be formatted as close as possible to the rules of Springer LNCS (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, section "Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes" for formatting instructions). Technical papers should have max. 20 pages including references, Position papers should not exceed 2 pages. Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to hongsuda@isi.edu.
* Submissions due: March 10, 2004 * Notification for acceptance: April 1, 2004 * Camera ready due: April 15, 2004 * Workshop date*: May 17-18, 2004
Workshop Chairs ----------------------------------- Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland karl.aberer@epfl.ch, http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/aberer/
Stefan Decker, DERI Galway, Ireland and USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA stefan@isi.edu http://www.isi.edu/~stefan
David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk, http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dder/
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK carole@cs.man.ac.uk, http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~carole/
Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA hongsuda@isi.edu, http://www.isi.edu/~hongsuda
Program Committees ----------------------------------- * Karl Aberer (EPFL) * I. Budak Aripnar (University of Georgia) * Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne) * Mario Cannataro (University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro) * Stefan Decker (USC-ISI) * David de Roure (University of Southampton) * Johannes Ernst (R-Objects) * Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory) * Yolanda Gil (ISI/USC) * Carole Goble (University of Manchester) * Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam) * Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester) * Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine) * David Karger (MIT) * Carl Kesselman (ISI/USC) * Chen Li (University of California at Irvine) * Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover and Learninglab Lower Saxony) * Sylvia Ratnasamy (U.C.Berkeley) * Mario Schlosser (McKinsey & Company) * Amit Sheth (University of Georgia * Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe) * Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit (USC-ISI) * Bernard Traversat (SUN Microsystems)
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