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ESWC 2010:  CALL  FOR  PAPERS 
"SOFTWARE AND SERVICES" TRACK

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7th Extended Semantic Web Conference | ESWC 2010
30 May - 3 June 2010 | Heraklion, Greece
http://www.eswc2010.org/

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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission December 15, 2009 (compulsory)
Full Paper Submission December 22, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notification February 24, 2010 
Camera Ready March 10, 2010

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ABOUT THE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES TRACK

The software industry in Europe competes aggressively, both for a share
of
the local market (representing 30% of global spending), and worldwide,
resulting in a revenue in billions of Euros. Increasingly Software as a
Service (SaaS) is opening up previously entrenched markets so that it is
essential to support its adoption. Already, service-orientation has
rapidly
risen to prominence in application construction at enterprise scale, and
ontology-based semantics has proven its usefulness in this arena. At the
same time Web-based systems, especially in the context of Web 2.0 and
the
Semantic Web, are increasingly built from more lightweight, so-called
RESTful services. This track is interested in both ends of this
spectrum,
and on the cross-fertilization of semantics-based support for the
engineering, deployment, provisioning and consumption of services.
Particular topics of relevance are:

- Novel semantic descriptions for software services and service-based 
systems, including RESTful services
- Use of semantics in the service engineering process
- Matchmaking/discovery, ranking and selection of services
- Data and protocol/process mediation
- Tools for the manual creation of semantic service descriptions
- Extraction of semantic service descriptions from unstructured and
semi-structured sources
- Automated composition and federation of services
- Service science
- Case studies and issues regarding adoption of semantics in service and

software engineering
- Exploiting semantics for service quality assurance
- The role of semantics in context-driven service adaptation

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010servicesandsoftwaretr
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ABOUT THE ESWC2010

The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010) is to
bring
together researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of
semantics on the Web. ESWC2010 builds on the success of the former
European
Semantic Web Conference series, but seeks to extend its focus by
collaborating with other communities and research areas, in which web
semantics play an important role -- within and outside ICT. At the same
time, ESWC2010 is a truly international conference, not only "European".

Semantics of web content, enriched with domain theories (ontologies),
data
about web usage, natural language processing, etc. will enable a web
that
provides a qualitatively new level of functionality. It will weave
together
a large network of human knowledge and make this knowledge
machine-processable. Various automated services, based on reasoning with
metadata and ontologies, will help the users to achieve their goals by
accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form.
This
network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent
systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making
tasks.
Research about web semantics can benefit from ideas and
cross-fertilization
with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language
Processing,
Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia,
Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science.

ESWC2010 will present the latest results in research and applications in
its
field. The research program will be organised in targeted research
tracks.
In addition, the conference will feature a tutorial program, system
descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium, and a number
of
collocated workshops. The individual calls for these events can be found
on
the conference Web site (http://www.eswc2010.org/).

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SUBMISSIONS

ESWC2010 welcomes the submission of original research and application
papers
dealing with all aspects of representing and using semantics on the web.
We
encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and applications
papers.

The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's
Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing for
ESWC2010 will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Papers
should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted
according to the information for LNCS authors.

Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format)
format
and will *not* be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15
pages
or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically
without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide
semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission -- details of
this
process 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.

Submission site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010servicesandsoftwaretr
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BEST PAPER AWARD

An award will be given to the best paper (or papers) submitted to the
conference as judged by the Program and Track Chairs in collaboration
with
the Program Committee.


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INFORMATION AND CONTACT

For further information please visit the conference website
(http://www.eswc2010.org) or contact eswc2010_info@eswc2010.org

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