ISWC 2002
The International Semantic Web Conference
Sardinia, Italy, June 10-12th, 2002
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 15th, 2002
TUTORIAL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: January 21st, 2002
CALL FOR PAPERS
ISWC will be the major international forum at which research on all aspects of the Semantic Web is presented. ISWC 2002 follows on from the success of the first Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS), which was held in Stanford in July, 2001 [1]. ISWC 2002 will take place on the beautiful Mediteranian island of Sardinia [2], Italy, 10th-12th June, 2002, immediately preceding the OntoWeb workshop [3].
ISWC 2002 invites submissions related to all aspects of the Semantic Web. Both technical and survey/overview papers are solicited, as well as descriptions of working Semantic Web systems, position statements and reports on work in progress.
Topics
Papers MUST clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: * Agents * Applications * Bootstrapping, growth and economic models * Database technologies * Data/Information/Knowledge integration, mediation and storage * Digital libraries, publishing, and e-Books * e-business and large-scale knowledge management * e-learning * e-science and the Grid * Knowledge portals * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Languages and infrastructure * Metadata (including metadata generation and authoring) * Mobile, situated and diffuse computing * Multimedia data * Natural language * Ontologies * Ontology learning * Scalability * Searching and querying * Services, including description, discovery and interoperation * Socio-cultural and collaborative aspects * Technological requirements * Trust and meaning * User interfaces * Visualisation and modelling * Web mining
Paper Submission
The conference will include contributed papers, system presentations, and invited lectures. There are three categories of submissions:
A. Research papers.
Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in Springer's LNCS format [4]. They should describe original research (practical or theoretical), or provide a survey/overview of an area of research that is contributing to the realisation of the Semantic Web. Note that longer system/application papers are welcome in this category.
B. Short system descriptions.
Papers should not exceed five (5) pages in Springer's LNCS format [4]. They should describe an implemented tool or service that contributes to the realisation of the Semantic Web.
C. Position papers and reports on work in progress.
Papers should not exceed five (5) pages in Springer's LNCS format [4]. They should consist of a brief statement of the author's position on some aspect of Semantic Web research, or describe work that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature to warrant attention.
Papers of category (A) and (B) must be original and not submitted concurrently for publication to a journal or to another conference. In the case of doubts on this point please contact the program chair.
Accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNCS series, both in book form and electronically. The proceedings will be available at the conference.
Submission Details
All submissions must be received by February 15th, 2002. Submissions that are late or too long or require substantial revision will not be considered.
AUTHORS WILL BE REQUIRED TO MARKUP THE ABSTRACT OF THEIR SUBMISSION (help will be provided for this task) for the (Semantic) Web. Details will be provided on the web page.
Details of the submission format can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Details of the submission procedure will be available via the conference web site (http://iswc.semanticweb.org/). The primary means of submission will be electronic. Authors without internet access should contact the program chair in order to make alternative arrangements.
Organisation
General Chair
James Hendler Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, USA http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler hendler@cs.umd.eduProgram Chair
Ian Horrocks Department of Computer Science University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL, ENGLAND UK http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks Email: horrocks@cs.man.ac.ukOrganisation chair Michele Missikoff Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica - CNR Viale Manzoni, 30 00185 Roma - Italy
http://www.iasi.rm.cnr.it/iasi/personnel/missikoff.html missikof@iasi.rm.cnr.itProgram Committee
See http://iswc.semanticweb.org/Schedule
PAPER submission deadline: February 15th, 2002 Notification of acceptance: March 11th, 2002 Camera ready: April 1st, 2002 Conference: June 10th - 12th, 2002
CALL FOR TUTORIALS
We invite proposals for three or four-hour tutorials on topics related to the main topics of the conference. Proposals for tutorials should contain:
* A brief description of the tutorial, including: goals, detailed outline, justification of why the tutorial is important, background knowledge required and potential attendees. * Information about the tutorial speakers including name, address, affiliation, email, phone and fax. * A Short CV of the presenter(s), including background in the tutorial area, references to published work in the area and evidence of teaching experience. * A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements.Tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF to the ISWC 2002 Tutorial Chair:
Asunción Gómez-Pérez Facultad de Informatica Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo sn 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain
http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/miembros/ASUN/asun_CV_Esp.html asun@fi.upm.es
Schedule
TUTORIAL submission deadline: January 21st, 2002 Notification of acceptance: February 21st, 2002 Camera ready tutorial notes: May 10th , 2002 Conference: June 10th - 12th, 2002
[1] http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/ [2] http://www.crs4.it/Sardinia.html [3] http://www.ontoweb.org/ [4] http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
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