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Elsevier's JOURNAL OF WEB SEMANTICS
Special Issue on SEMANTIC GRID
http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/semanticgrid/
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Description ---------------
One of the key challenges in today's Grids is the need to deal with knowledge and data sources that are distributed, heterogeneous, and dynamic, and where effective elicitation of implicit knowledge is a necessary component of the overall system. In such systems, a complete global viewpoint or understanding is impossible to achieve. We therefore need to go beyond centralised knowledge service provision, and develop effective open, distributed, knowledge-based solutions.
The Semantic Grid aims to overcome this problem by adding meaning (ontologies, annotations and negotiation processes as studied in the Semantic Web and Software Agent paradigms) to the Grid. In this way, the Semantic Grid not only provides a general semantic-based computational network infrastructure, but a rich, seamless collection of intelligent, knowledge-based services for enabling the management and sharing of complex resources and reasoning mechanisms. In the Semantic Grid knowledge and semantics are deployed explicitly for Grid applications and for the development of innovative Grid infrastructures. This knowledge-oriented semantics-based approach to the Grid goes hand-in-hand with the exploitation of techniques and methodologies from intelligent software agents and web services representing various components of the virtual organizations and interacting in a P2P way.
This special issue of the journal (http://www.websemanticsjournal.org) is soliciting highest-quality submissions on all topics related to Semantic Grid.
Guest Editors -------------------
York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Englerstr. 11 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Tel.: +49 721 608 6592 URL: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu/
David De Roure School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Tel.: +44 23 8059 2418 URL: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dder/
Submission Instructions --------------------------------
Submissions should be sent by email to both guest editors in the form of a *single PDF file*. Submissions should not exceed 30 (single column) pages.
Please refer to the journal's instructions for authors and artwork instructions: http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=671322&dc=GFA http://authors.elsevier.com/ArtworkInstructions.html?dc=AI1
Important Dates -----------------------------------
September 15th, 2005 -- Submissions due (negotiable) November 1st, 2005 -- Selection decisions with recommendations for revision December 1st, 2005 -- Submission of revised papers January 15th, 2006 -- Final acceptance decisions February 15th, 2006 -- Final versions of accepted papers
-- Dr. York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592 web: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu