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CFP SWUMA'06
by Terry Payne 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

C a l l f o r P a p e r s 2nd International Workshop on the use of Semantic Web Technologies for Ubiquitous and Mobile Applications (SWUMA'06) Trentino, Italy, August 28th 2006 http://www.swuma.org/ Important Dates =============== Electronic submission deadline: April 10th, 2006 Notification: May 10th, 2006 Camera Ready Copies: May 24th, 2006 Workshop date: August 28th, 2006 Workshop Theme Mobile and ubiquitous computing refers to an emerging computing paradigm that aims at providing hardware and software means for offering user-friendly information and communication services, anywhere and anytime. The central concept is to empower users through a digital environment that is aware of their presence and context, able to provide personalized services to their requirements, capable of anticipating their behaviour and responding to their presence. An essential aspect for the ubiquitous vision to become true is therefore the provisioning of small, handheld, wireless computing devices that enable interaction between users and environments (e.g., sensors, actuators, interactive screens, displays, etc.), and computing elements (usually hardwired) that carry out specific networking functions such as data processing, storage and routing. These devices offer functionalities that can be described, advertised and discovered by others and they are eventually able to interoperate even though they have not been designed to work together. This type of interoperability is based on the ability to understand other devices and reason about their functionalities when necessary. Knowledge deployed in mobile and ubiquitous applications is therefore pervasive, distributed, heterogeneous, and dynamic by nature. In this respect, mobile and ubiquitous applications can benefit from marrying the Semantic Web, which provides the infrastructure for the extensive usage of distributed knowledge, to be deployed for modelling devices functionalities and add meaning (through ontologies), enabling lightweight discovery and composition of device functionalities (using annotations and reasoning for service matchmaking), and coordination of processes (using negotiation strategies). The ability to appropriately combine ubiquity and semantic grounded data sharing has generated and is continuously triggering challenging questions in several areas of computer science, engineering and networking. The workshop on Semantic Web technology for mobile and ubiquitous applications aims to gather input covering the above mentioned challenges, and it is intended as a lively forum of discussion for bringing together and fostering the interaction of practitioners and researchers coming from the many disciplines contributing to the design and deployment of mobile and ubiquitous applications in a semantic-grounded perspective. TOPICS OF INTEREST The main topics of interest include but are not restricted to: • Lightweight semantic negotiation for mobile and ubiquitous applications; • Semantic Web and p2p; • Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous systems; • Semantic Web Technology for Context aware applications; • Personalisation; • Knowledge representation, discovery and management in mobile and ubiquitous applications; • Knowledge representation, discovery and management for semantic web services in mobile and ubiquitous environments; • Semantic web services; • Dynamic composition of semantic web services; • Agent technologies for mobile and ubiquitous systems; • Integration of agent-based services and web services; • Mobile and ubiquitous databases and information retrieval. SUBMISSION Papers are solicited for any of the topics of interest listed above. We invite contributions of different kinds. We solicit regular research papers which may report on: • completed work; • description of current, but mature, work in progress; • discussion papers comparing different approaches, or account of practical experiences of using SW technology in mobile and ubiquitous applications.. In addition, we invite people wishing to participate in the workshop to submit a short position paper concerning statements of interest, or technical or policy issues. Spaces will be limited and those who have submitted a paper will be given priority for registration. Both type of papers will provide the framework for the discussions during the workshop. Papers must be written in English. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee, and selected on the basis of their relevance and originality. Both research and position papers should be formatted according to the official formatting guidelines of the ECAI main conference. Research papers should not exceed twelve pages, while position statements should not exceed five pages. Papers and position statements can be submitted to submissions(a)swuma.org ORGANISERS All enquiries and submissions should be directed to chair(a)swuma.org Terry Payne, University of Southampton (Co-Chair) Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool (Co-Chair) David Tarrant, University of Southampton (Webmaster) Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County Norman M. Sadeh, ISRI, Carnegie Mellon University Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, MA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Akio Sashima, AIST, Japan Ashok Mallya, North Carolina State University, NC Chiara Ghidini, ITC Trento, Italy Chris van Aart, Y'all The Netherlands Dave de Roure, University of Southampton, UK Deepali Khushraj, Nokia MA, USA Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Filip Perich, Cougaar Software, USA Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK Grigoris Antoniou, ICS Forth, Greece Harry Chen, Image Matters, LLC, USA Jinghai Rao, CMU, PA, USA Kaoru Hiramatsu, NTT Corporation, Japan Kendall Clark, MINDLAB, University of Maryland, USA Luigi Iannone, University of Liverpool, UK Lalana Kagal, MIT CSAIL, MA, USA Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany Michael Berger, Siemens, Germany monica mc schraefel, University of Southampton Richard Benjamins, iSOCO, Spain Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Labs of America, MD, USA Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Simon Thompson, Intelligent Systems Lab, BTexact Technologies, UK York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates _______________________________________________________________________ Terry R. Payne, PhD. | http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~trp/index.html AgentLink III Co-coordinator | AgentLink III - http:// www.agentlink.org University of Southampton | Voice: +44(0)23 8059 8343 [Fax: 8059 2865] Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK | Email: terry(a)acm.org / trp(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk

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2nd CFP SWUMA'06
by Terry Payne 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Second C a l l f o r P a p e r s 2nd International Workshop on the use of Semantic Web Technologies for Ubiquitous and Mobile Applications (SWUMA'06) Trentino, Italy, August 28th 2006 http://www.swuma.org/ Important Dates =============== Electronic submission deadline: April 10th, 2006 Notification: May 10th, 2006 Camera Ready Copies: May 24th, 2006 Workshop date: August 28th, 2006 Workshop Theme Mobile and ubiquitous computing refers to an emerging computing paradigm that aims at providing hardware and software means for offering user-friendly information and communication services, anywhere and anytime. The central concept is to empower users through a digital environment that is aware of their presence and context, able to provide personalized services to their requirements, capable of anticipating their behaviour and responding to their presence. An essential aspect for the ubiquitous vision to become true is therefore the provisioning of small, handheld, wireless computing devices that enable interaction between users and environments (e.g., sensors, actuators, interactive screens, displays, etc.), and computing elements (usually hardwired) that carry out specific networking functions such as data processing, storage and routing. These devices offer functionalities that can be described, advertised and discovered by others and they are eventually able to interoperate even though they have not been designed to work together. This type of interoperability is based on the ability to understand other devices and reason about their functionalities when necessary. Knowledge deployed in mobile and ubiquitous applications is therefore pervasive, distributed, heterogeneous, and dynamic by nature. In this respect, mobile and ubiquitous applications can benefit from marrying the Semantic Web, which provides the infrastructure for the extensive usage of distributed knowledge, to be deployed for modelling devices functionalities and add meaning (through ontologies), enabling lightweight discovery and composition of device functionalities (using annotations and reasoning for service matchmaking), and coordination of processes (using negotiation strategies). The ability to appropriately combine ubiquity and semantic grounded data sharing has generated and is continuously triggering challenging questions in several areas of computer science, engineering and networking. The workshop on Semantic Web technology for mobile and ubiquitous applications aims to gather input covering the above mentioned challenges, and it is intended as a lively forum of discussion for bringing together and fostering the interaction of practitioners and researchers coming from the many disciplines contributing to the design and deployment of mobile and ubiquitous applications in a semantic-grounded perspective. TOPICS OF INTEREST The main topics of interest include but are not restricted to: • Lightweight semantic negotiation for mobile and ubiquitous applications; • Semantic Web and p2p; • Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous systems; • Semantic Web Technology for Context aware applications; • Personalisation; • Knowledge representation, discovery and management in mobile and ubiquitous applications; • Knowledge representation, discovery and management for semantic web services in mobile and ubiquitous environments; • Semantic web services; • Dynamic composition of semantic web services; • Agent technologies for mobile and ubiquitous systems; • Integration of agent-based services and web services; • Mobile and ubiquitous databases and information retrieval. SUBMISSION Papers are solicited for any of the topics of interest listed above. We invite contributions of different kinds. We solicit regular research papers which may report on: • completed work; • description of current, but mature, work in progress; • discussion papers comparing different approaches, or account of practical experiences of using SW technology in mobile and ubiquitous applications.. In addition, we invite people wishing to participate in the workshop to submit a short position paper concerning statements of interest, or technical or policy issues. Spaces will be limited and those who have submitted a paper will be given priority for registration. Both type of papers will provide the framework for the discussions during the workshop. Papers must be written in English. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee, and selected on the basis of their relevance and originality. Both research and position papers should be formatted according to the official formatting guidelines of the ECAI main conference. Research papers should not exceed twelve pages, while position statements should not exceed five pages. Papers and position statements can be submitted to submissions(a)swuma.org ORGANISERS All enquiries and submissions should be directed to chair(a)swuma.org Terry Payne, University of Southampton (Co-Chair) Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool (Co-Chair) David Tarrant, University of Southampton (Webmaster) Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County Norman M. Sadeh, ISRI, Carnegie Mellon University Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, MA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Akio Sashima, AIST, Japan Ashok Mallya, North Carolina State University, NC Chiara Ghidini, ITC Trento, Italy Chris van Aart, Y'all The Netherlands Dave de Roure, University of Southampton, UK Deepali Khushraj, Nokia Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Filip Perich, Cougaar Software, USA Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK Grigoris Antoniou, ICS Forth, Greece Harry Chen, Image Matters, LLC, US Jinghai Rao, CMU, US Kaoru Hiramatsu, NTT Corporation, Japan Kendall Clark, MINDLAB, University of Maryland, USA Luigi Iannone, University of Liverpool, UK Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany Michael Berger, Siemens, Germany monica mc schraefel, University of Southampton Richard Benjamins, iSOCO, Spain Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Labs of America, MD Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Simon Thompson, Intelligent Systems Lab, BTexact Technologies, UK York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates _______________________________________________________________________ Terry R. Payne, PhD. | http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~trp/index.html AgentLink III Co-coordinator | AgentLink III - http:// www.agentlink.org University of Southampton | Voice: +44(0)23 8059 8343 [Fax: 8059 2865] Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK | Email: terry(a)acm.org / trp(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk

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GGF16 Semantic Grid Workshop presentations
by David De Roure 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Below you will find the titles of the presentations at our workshop at GGF16 in Athens on Wednesday Feb 15, 2006 1:30pm-7:00pm. This is a great set of papers and I'm looking forward to a very interesting workshop. It's really good to see how much work has been done since our previous workshops, and new things coming in too. Thanks to everyone who submitted. The papers will be available on the Web from February 1. Although the presentations are now fixed, we are still able to accept position papers to go on the Web (i.e. the online workshop proceedings). These will be available and will inform discussion. Please submit them to Nicky Harding (copied) as before - they will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We're working on the programme at the moment, trying to take account of scheduling contraints due to parallel events. Note that any GGF attendee can attend the workshop (but if we run out of space we'll give priority to people who have submitted papers). Ss usual there's a "day rate" so it is possible to attend just for the workshop (for one or two days) and pay less than the full registration. I look forward to seeing you in Athens. -- Dave Accepted papers (in alphabetical order of first author): * Web Service Information Systems and Applications Mehmet S. Aktas, Galip Aydin, Geoffrey C. Fox, Harshawardhan Gadgil, Marlon E. Pierce, Ahmet Sayar * S-OGSA as a Reference Architecture for OntoGrid and for the Semantic Grid Pinar Alper, Oscar Corcho, Ioannis Kotsiopoulos, Paolo Missier, Sean Bechhofer, Dean Kuo, Carole Goble * Putting Semantics in Grid Workflow Management: the OWL-WS approach Stefano Beco, Barbara Cantalupo, Nikolaos Matskanis, Mike Surridge * Supporting the Music Information Retrieval Research Community - A Use Case for the Semantic Grid David De Roure, J. Stephen Downie * WS-DAIOnt: Ontology Access Provisioning in Grid Environments Miguel Esteban Guti�rrez, Asunci�n G�mez-P�rez, Oscar Muoz Garc�a, Boris Villaz�n Terrazas * A Semantic Search Engine for the Storage Resource Broker Stephen J. Jeffrey, Jane Hunter * Design and Implementation of OGSA-DAI-RDF Iao Kojima * Semantic Grid Resource Discovery using DHTs in Atlas Manolis Koubarakis, Zoi Kaoudi, Iris Miliaraki, Matoula Magiridou, Antonios Papadakis-Pesaresi * The Chemical SmartLab: Intelligent Information Publication for Chemists H. R. Mills, J. G. Frey, S. J. Coles, David De Roure * S-MDS: A Semantic Information Service for Advanced Resource Discovery and Monitoring in WS-Resource Framework Said Mirza Pahlevi, Isao Kojima * AgentWeb Gateway integration of FIPA Multi Agent System and W3C Web Service System M. Omair Shafiq, Arshad Ali, Hiroki Suguri, H. Farooq Ahmad * Using Triple Space Computing for Communication and Coordination of Services in Semantic Grid Omair Shafiq, Ioan Toma, Reto Krummenacher, Thomas Strang, Dieter Fensel * Improving a Satellite Mission System by means of a semantic grid architecture Manuel S�nchez-Gestido, Mar�a S. P�rez-Hern�ndez, Rafael Gonz�lez-Cabero, Asunci�n G�mez-Perez * The "5S" Grid in the Roadmap for Networked Organizations Ziga Turk, Peter Katranusckov

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Joint CFP - BSN'06 - SOS4CO'06 (Final Circulation)
by gagnon＠soa7.com 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Joint CFP: BSN'06 & SoS4CO'06 Please accept our apologies for cross posting. ********************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS BSN'06 - SoS4CO'06 2nd International Workshop on Business Service Networks 2nd International Workshop on Service oriented Solutions for Cooperative Organizations June 26, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co in conjunction with IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC-06) and on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE-06) http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06/ ********************************************************************* Business Services Networks (BSN's) are business networks, that is, a group of cooperative organizations either within an enterprise or between different enterprises, which are based on services. In that context, a service represents a set of encapsulated IT components implementing specific business functions. The service interface is self-describing in order to publish, discover and dynamically bind services using an underlying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), most often implemented using Web Services standards. However, this flexibility with regard to loose-coupling and the interoperability between cooperative organizations is being applied in current projects, especially in industrial projects. This workshop concentrates on all facets of BSN's and the architecture of service-oriented solutions supporting inter- enterprise collaboration, throughout the entire collaboration life- cycle. This includes the consideration of business strategies for the establishment of a BSN with cooperative organizations from different SOA environments and maturity, as well as the design of such cooperation and collaboration starting with the requirements until the final instantiation of the collaboration by discovering, composing, deploying, and invoking services. Based on the composed BSN, the cooperation and collaboration brings new research from the perspectives of business (e.g. provisioning) and technical (e.g. transactions), e.g. monitoring and auditing in a network of organizations. We invite papers addressing business and technical issues of BSN's from various perspectives, including development strategies of new BSNs, design of BSNs, as well as management and execution. We encourage contributions from both academia and industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: BSN Strategy * Business models * Integration alliances and interoperability * Value added for BSN vendors and adopters * Mobile operators, grid services, and utility computing BSN Design * Service-Oriented solutions * Requirements engineering for BSN * Ontologies, document structures, messaging formats, etc. * Match-making of choreographies of different organizations * Match-making of semantic service descriptions * Negotiating of inter-organizational business processes * Service discovery on advanced registry concepts beyond UDDI * Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS) negotiation * Role of Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) for BSN BSN Management & Execution * SOA-Enablement of software vendors * Service Level Agreements (SLA) * International provisioning and adoption barriers * Pricing and marketing on BSN demand software * Monitoring and enforcement of Quality of Service (QoS) * Distributed stateless and stateful transactions * Role of security, privacy and trust in BSN * Auditing of service evolution Submissions: Please submit paper via http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co/submit. Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, please use the IEEE double-column paper format at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/FORMAT.DOC. Papers can be at most 8 pages. Authors are invited to submit original and significant research contributions in the aforementioned areas. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the international program committee. We accept papers in DOC, PDF, and PS format. It is planned to select the best papers for a journal special issue. Further details will be announced soon. Registration: Please use the CEC/EEE site to register: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06. For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the workshop program. Important Dates: Paper Submission -- February 1, 2006 -- Extended >> February 12, 2006 Notification to Authors -- February 28, 2006 Response from Authors -- March 3, 2006 Organizers Confirm Program -- March 10, 2006 Author Kit Posted Online -- March 17, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers Due -- March 31, 2006 Organizers Finalize Proceedings -- April 5, 2006 Workshop Day -- June 26, 2006 Enquiries: Please direct all enquires by email to <bsnsos4co AT njit.edu>. Co-Chairs: Stéphane Gagnon, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Christian Huemer, University of Vienna, Austria Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales and Green Pea Software, Australia Program Committee: Antonia Albani, University of Augsburg, Germany Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada William Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Eric Dubois, Research Public Center Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Birgit Hofreiter, University of Vienna, Austria Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ottokar Kulendik, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany Franky Lam, National ICT Australia, Australia Bendick Mahleko, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Angel Ortiz, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Katia Passerini, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Pascal Pecquet, Université de Montpellier I, France Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA William Shui, University of New South Wales, Australia Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA Cheickna Sylla, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Australia Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada Ivana Trickovic, SAP AG, Germany Dan Zhang, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Hans Dieter Zimmermann, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

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