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Call for Papers
Semantic Web
WWW-10 Workshop
May 1, 2001
Hongkong
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Comprehensive information to be found at
http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Workshop Outline
The "Semantic Web", a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, is used to
denote the next evolution step of the Web. Associating meaning with
content or establishing a layer of machine understandable data would
allow automated agents, sophisticated search engines and interoperable
services, will enable higher degree of automation and more intelligent
applications. The ultimate goal of the Semantic Web is to allow
machines
the sharing and exploitation of knowledge in the Web way, i.e. without
central authority, with few basic rules, in a scalable, adaptable,
extensible manner. With RDF as the basic platform for the Semantic Web,
a multitude of tools, methods and systems have just appeared on the
horizon. The goal of the workshop is to share experiences about these
systems, exchange ideas about improvements of existing tools and
creation of new systems, principles and applications. Also an important
goal is to develop a cooperation model among Semantic Web developers,
and to develop a common vision about the future developments.
Relevant workshop topics include (non-exhaustive list):
· Language and Representation issues
· Semantic Web infrastructure and architectures
· Metadata and conceptual models for annotating content, resources,
and portals
· Automatic annotation/tagging/metadata creation and recommendation
· Tools, systems and methodologies for Semantic Web
· Application of semantic web technology
· Migrating information to semantic formats & Information Filtering
· Trust in the Semantic Web
· Query languages for the Semantic Web
· Information correlation, integration, mediation and brokering on
the Web
· Resource discovery
· Distributed inference services
· Semantic Web mining
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission 1 Jan 2001
Notification of acceptance 1 Feb 2001
Deadline final contributions 1 Apr 2001
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
In addition, a few selected best papers will be considered for
publication in a special issue of the ETAI Semantic Web Journal
(http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/).
Submission Information
We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics
related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in
participating should submit either a technical paper or a position
paper addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals
for panel discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions
for
the semantic web. Submit by e-mail before January 1, 2001 following the
format instructions at http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de to
Organizing Committee
Stefan Decker, Database Group, Stanford University
Database Group, Stanford University
Gates Hall 4A, Room 425
Stanford, CA 94305-9040, USA
email: stefan@db.stanford.edu
phone: +1 650-723-1422
fax: +1 650-725-2588
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~stefan/
Dieter Fensel, VU Amsterdam
Division of Mathematics & Computer Science,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, NL
The Netherlands
Email: dieter@cs.vu.nl
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dieter
Amit Sheth, Univ. of Georgia
Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab, Computer Sc.,
415 GSRC, University of Georgia, Athens GA 30602-7404 USA
Also, Taalee Inc.
Email: amit@cs.uga.edu
http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu, http://www.taalee.com
Steffen Staab (Contact),
AIFB, Karlsruhe University,
76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Also, Ontoprise GmbH
email: staab@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de,staab@ontoprise.de
phone: +49-721-608 4751
fax: +49-721-693 717
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sst
Programm Committee
Dan Brickley, Univ. of Bristol (UK)
Vassilis Christophides, ICS-FORTH (Greece)
Peter Eklund, Griffith University (Australia)
Jim Hendler, Univ. of Maryland (USA)
Rick Hull, Bell Labs, Lucent Tech. (USA)
Manolis Koubarakis, Techn. Univ. of Crete (Greece)
Fred Lochovsky, HKUST (Hong Kong)
Alain Michard, INRIA (France)
John Mylopoulos, Univ. of Toronto (Canada)
Claire Nedellec, LRI (France)
Dimitris Plexousakis, Univ. of Crete (Greece)
Louiqa Raschid, Univ. of Maryland (USA)
Marie-Christine Rousset, Univ. of ORSAY (France)
Guus Schreiber, VU Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Tarcisio de Souza Lima, Federal Univ. of Juiz de Fora (Brazil)
Katia Sycara, CMU (USA)
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