-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: Semantic-Based Resource , Discovery, Retrieval and Composition Datum: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:48:25 +0200 Von: Massimo Paolucci paolucci@docomolab-euro.com Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

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======================= CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================

Semantic-Based Resource Discovery, Retrieval and Composition SDRC http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sac2007/

TECHNICAL TRACK at the 22nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing SAC 2007 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2007/

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SAC 2007

For the past twenty-one years, the ACM Sym-posium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2007 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by Seoul National University in Seoul and The Suwon University in Gyeonggi-do.

SEMANTIC-BASED RESOURCE DISCOVERY, RETRIEVAL AND COMPOSITION Track

This track aims at gathering researchers from various fields, spanning from web/mobile services discovery and composition, to intelligent multimedia retrieval, to planning in artificial intelligence, to matchmaking in electronic commerce. We envisage the following topics as central for the track:

- retrieval of resource descriptions - knowledge management - supply chain formation - web/mobile service discovery and composition - node discovery in P2P networks - matchmaking of resource request and resource providers - planning and scheduling - semantic-based resource negotiation - semantic annotation for multimedia - information integration - semantic grid

All these topics share as central the notion of "Semantically-annotated Resource" in general searching problems with respect to a request. A resource is a broad term comprising goods in electronic commerce, information available in remote sites, services announced through Internet, learning objects, digital images, to mention a few. Whatever their nature, the term "resource" is used in a general sense for whatever might be identified atomically and univocally. Hence, the problem of resource matching and retrieval arises in several scenarios. The front-end of a resource is always a description of what the resource is, what it provides, who can access it, possibly with side economic constraints. All this information can be semantically annotated, either directly in XML, or using some upper strata for defining standard terms as in ebXML, or OWL-S. While semantic annotation rules out ambiguities of Natural Language, the problem raises about how well a single resource fits a particular request, or whether there is a pool of resources which - suitably composed - cover a request. Side economic conditions in resource descriptions, such as cost, method of payment, payments delay, can make compositions difficult to be properly formed, while economic constraints in resource request usually filter out some solutions.

SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit original papers related, but not limited to, the proposed track topics. Submissions fall into the following categories: - Original and unpublished research work - Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas - Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains - Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems

Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will blindly review submissions to that track. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

The proposed schedule of important dates for the track is as follows:

- Paper Submission deadline - Sept. 8, 2006 - Notification of acceptance - October 16, 2006 - Camera-ready version deadline - October 30, 2006 - Track Date - March 11 - 15, 2007

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To be completed)

Marco Aiello - University of Trento - Italy Daniela Berardi - University of Rome "La Sapienza" - Italy Flavius Frasincar - Eindhoven University of Technology - Nederlands Michael C. Jaeger - TU Berlin - Germany Tomasz Kacmarek - The Poznan University of Economics - Poland Ignazio Palmisano - University of Bari - Italy Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari - Italy

ORGANIZATION

Tommaso Di Noia - Technical University of Bari - Italy Eugenio Di Sciascio - Technical University of Bari - Italy Francesco M. Donini - University of Tuscia - Italy Massimo Paolucci - DoCoMO Euro-Labs - Germany

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