-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] IJSWIS 5(1) Datum: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:35:31 -0400 Von: Tonya Davis tonya.davis@wright.edu Antwort an: Tonya Davis tonya.davis@wright.edu An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 5, Issue 1, January-March 2009

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 1552-6283 EISSN: 1552-6291

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA

www.igi-global.com/ijswis

Editor-in-Chief: Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA

PAPER ONE

Solving Semantic Interoperability Conflicts in Cross-Border E-Government Services

Adrian Mocan, SAP Research CEC, Dresden, Germany

Federico M. Facca, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Nikolaos Loutas, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, and University of Macedonia, Greece

Vassilios Peristeras, National University of Ireland, Ireland

Sotirios K. Goudos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Konstantinos Tarabanis, University of Macedonia, Greece

Interoperability is one of the most challenging problems in modern cross-organizational information systems. Interoperability becomes very important for e-Government information systems that support cross-organizational communication especially in a cross-border setting. The main goal of this article is to seamlessly provide integrated services to the user (citizen). In this paper, the authors focus on Pan-European e-services and issues related with their integration. Our analysis uses basic concepts of the generic public service model, governance enterprise architecture (GEA), and Web service modeling ontology (WSMO) to express the semantic description of e-services. The authors present a mediation infrastructure capable of resolving semantic interoperability conflicts at a Pan-European level and provide several examples to illustrate both the need to solve such semantic conflicts and the actual solutions.

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PAPER TWO

A New Similarity Measure for Automatic Construction of the Unknown Word Lexical Dictionary

Myunggwon Hwang, Chosun University, South Korea

Pankoo Kim, Chosun University, South Korea

This article deals with research that automatically constructs a lexical dictionary of unknown words. The lexical dictionary has been usefully applied to various fields for semantic information processing; however, it has limitations, in which it only processes terms defined in the dictionary. Under this circumstance, the concept of �unknown word (UW)� is defined. UW is considered a word not defined in WordNet. A new method to construct UW lexical dictionary through inputting various document collections scattered on the Web is proposed. The authors grasp related terms of UW and measure semantic relatedness (similarity) between an UW and a related term(s). This research can extend UW lexical dictionary with an abundant number of UW.

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PAPER THREE

Extracting Concepts� Relations and Users� Preferences for Personalizing Query Disambiguation

Query Disambiguation

Yan Chen, Georgia State University, USA

Yan-Qing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA

For most Web searching applications, queries are commonly ambiguous because words usually contain several meanings. Traditional word sense disambiguation (WSD) methods use statistic models or ontology-based knowledge models to find the most appropriate sense for the ambiguous word. Since queries are usually short, the contexts of the queries may not always provide enough information for disambiguating queries. Thus, more than one interpretation may be found for one ambiguous query. In this paper, the authors propose a cluster-based WSD method, which finds all appropriate interpretations for the query. Because some senses of one ambiguous word usually have very close semantic relations, the authors group those similar senses together for explaining the ambiguous word in one interpretation.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJSWIS:

The International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) is an archival journal that publishes high quality original manuscripts in all aspects of Semantic Web that are relevant to computer science and information systems communities. IJSWIS is an open forum aiming to cultivate the Semantic Web vision within the information systems research community. The main focus is on information systems discipline and working towards the delivery of the main implications that the Semantic Web brings to information systems and the information/knowledge society.

Coverage of IJSWIS:

The journal�s area of interest is a superset of topics covered in conferences such as International Semantic Web Conference, European Semantic Web Conference, Asian Semantic Web Conference, the World Wide Web�Semantic Web track, and others. Topics to be discussed in the journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

Beyond Semantic Web (e.g., extending meaning with perception and experience)

Enterprise application integration

From e-government to e-democracy

Integration with other disciplines

Intelligent systems

Metadata-driven (bottom-up) versus ontology-driven (top-down) SW development

New Semantic Web enabled business models

New Semantic Web enabled information systems

New Semantic Web enabled tools for the citizen/ learner/ organization/ business

Ontologies, folksonomies, and associated knowledge representation issues

Real world applications towards the development of the knowledge society

Semantic enabled business intelligence

Semantic Web applications on the Web, enterprises, desktops, personal and mobile devices, e-science and e-government applications, and associated issues of provenance, trust, privacy, security, quality, scalability, and performance

Semantic Web data management

Semantic Web issues, challenges, and implications in each of the IS research streams

Semantics and human computer interfaces including visualization and mashups

Semantics in business processes and distributed computing and services

Social Semantic Web and people Web standards

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijswis.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Amit Sheth at amit.sheth@wright.edu

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