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[CFP] DEADLINE EXTENSION Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS 2006)
by Holger Wache 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Due to many last minute requests the deadline will be postponed to *August 4th, 2006* ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on *Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS 2006)* http://www.cs.vu.nl/~holger/ssws2006/ November 5 or 6, 2006 during 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006) This workshop aims at creating a forum for discussing a critical issue for the Semantic Web, that is, scalability. As the Semantic Web evolves, scalability becomes increasingly important. This workshop will focus on addressing of the scalability issue with respect to the development and deployment of knowledge base systems on the Semantic Web. Typically, such systems deal with information described in Semantic Web languages like OWL and RDF(S), and provide services such as storing, reasoning, querying and debugging. There are two basic requirements for these systems. First, they have to satisfy the applicationÚs semantic requirements by providing sufficient reasoning support. Second, they must scale well in order to be of practical use. Given the sheer size and distributed nature of the Semantic Web, these requirements impose additional challenges beyond those addressed by earlier knowledge base systems. This has been well recognized by the community. We expect that the above issue is going to challenge the Semantic Web for a long time of period and significant effort is needed in order to tackle the problem. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners to share their recent ideas and progresses towards building scalable knowledge base systems for the Semantic Web. The workshop will be centered on the discussion of three major aspects: * foundations, methods and technologies for pushing forward the state-of-the-art; * performance evaluation and related principles, methodologies and tools; * identification of important issues and future research directions. This workshop is a follow-on event of the SSWS2005 workshop. Workshop Topics ---------------- Topics of interests for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Reasoning mechanisms, techniques and systems * Query evaluation and optimization * Performance evaluation and benchmarks * Large Semantic Web repositories * Distributed and concurrent knowledge base systems and P2P systems * Large scale knowledge base management * Semantic Web-based information integration In addition, the workshop will include a working session on benchmarking. In order to be able to evaluate scalability, the existence of agreed benchmarking datasets is of crucial importance. In many related domains such as databases and theorem proving, standard benchmarks exist and are ready to guide research on optimization techniques. In the Semantic Web area, such benchmarking shave only just started to emerge and there is no commonly agreed benchmark dataset for RDF and OWL reasoning and querying. The workshop will address this issue in a special working session on benchmarking. In this session, existing benchmarking initiatives will be presented and discussed by organizers and participants of the workshop. The aim is to come up with a set of requirements and a list of candidate datasets. Paper Submissions ------------------ We invite papers that report on completed or work in progress on relevant topic areas including use-cases and descriptions of demonstrations. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. The contributions should be prepared in PDF format according to the formatting guidelines for Springer-Verlag (LNCS). Submissions should be limited to a maximum of 14 pages for full papers Submissions in PDF form should be emailed to ssws06-list(a)few.vu.nl, no later than August 4th, 2006. Important Dates ---------------- Submissions Due: August 4, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2006 Camera-ready versions due: September 15, 2006 Workshop: November 5 or 6, 2006 Organizers ----------- Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK Yuanbo Guo, Lehigh University, USA Tim Finin, University of Maryland, USA Dave Beckett, Yahoo, USA Program committee ------------------ Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland) Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete &ICS FORTH, Greece) Pierre-Antoine Champin (Lyon 1 University, France) Jeen Broekstra (Aduna, The Netherlands) Raul Garcia Castro (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester, UK) Ying Ding (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Volker Haarslev (Concordia University, Canada) Steve Harris (Garlik, UK) Andreas Harth (Deri, Ireland) Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA) Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Atanas Kiryakov (Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group, Bulgaria) Boris Motik (University of Manchester, UK) Paulo Pinheiro da Silva (The University of Texas at El Paso, USA) Dennis Quan (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) Andy Seaborne (HP, UK) York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Danille Turi (University of Manchester, UK) Jan Wielemaker (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Takahira Yamaguchi (Keio University, Japan)

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CFP: WS-Agreement workshop at GGF18
by David De Roure 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

============================================================= First WS-Agreement Workshop September 10, 2006 Washington DC, USA in conjunction with Global Grid Forum 18 Deadline for 2-page contribution: *** August 20 **** Call for Participation ---------------------- The first workshop on WS-Agreement aims to identify: - Current WS-Agreement implementations - WS-Agreement interoperability concerns - Common terms used in WS-Agreement templates - Application specific terms used in WS-Agreement - Use cases for WS-Agreement *** All authors are requested to relate their work to the current version of WS-Agreement, which can be found at: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/listDocuments/projects.graap-wg /docman.root.current_drafts *** Submission Process ------------------ Developers/authors are requested to provide a 2-page document (in PDF format) single column, 10pt font size. The document should describe details of the WS-Agreement implementation and how it relates to the specification available at the above Web site. The 2-page document should be sent to Wolfgang Ziegler (wolfgang.ziegler(a)scai.fraunhofer.de) Omer F. Rana (o.f.rana(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk) or Philipp Wieder (ph.wieder(a)fz-juelich.de) by August 20, 2006. The contributions will be evaluated and authors will be informed on August 28, 2006, whether their contribution has been accepted. Workshop details ---------------- Authors of accepted contributions are requested to present their work at the workshop. Demonstrations of work are particularly welcome. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Global Grid Forum 19, on September 10, 2006, at the Washington Convention Center 801 Mount Vernon Place NW Washington, DC 20001 For more information regarding the venue, registration, and lodging, please visit http://www.ggf.org/GGF18/ggf_events_ggf18.htm. ============================================================= -- http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/User/O.F.Rana/index.html / work-fax:+44(0)29-2087-4598 work:+44(0)29-2087-5542 / other:+44(0)7956-299981 / distributed collaborative computing / room n2.14 / school of computer science / cardiff university queen's buildings / newport road / cardiff cf24 3aa / wales / uk -- See <http://www.cs.umbc.edu/agentslist> for list info & archives.

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2nd Call for papers- Workshop "Semantic InformationIntegration on Knowledge Discovery"-(SIIK 2006)
by Nguyen Manh Tho 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students) CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st International Workshop "Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery" - (SIIK 2006) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ares-conf.org/siik in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS2006)-http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2006/ 4-6 December 2006, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Introduction ------------- Knowledge Discovery has been widely accepted as a key technology for enterprises and organizations to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data. With the exponential growing amount of information to be included in the decision making process, the data to be considered becomes more and more complex in both structure and semantics, located in heterogeneous and distributed systems. Furthermore, the explosive growth and popularity of the world-wide web has resulted in a huge number of information sources on the Internet. Consequently, the process of retrieval and knowledge discovery from this huge amount of heterogeneous complex data builds the litmus-test for the research in the area. Information Integration subsumes all technologies needed to provide form manipulation of information scattered over many information systems while supporting a single system image. Information integration has been a long standing challenge for the database community in the last decades. Although there are several distinct research and development areas explicitly or implicitly addressing data integration, the schematic and semantic heterogeneity is still one of the most difficulties in the integration of heterogeneous knowledge and information systems - one of the perquisite steps of knowledge discovery process. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to present their recent work, discuss and identify problems, synergize different views of techniques and policies, and brainstorm future research/development directions on semantic information integration used in knowledge discovery. The research on progress, draft idea, architecture submissions are also welcome. Particularly, we strongly encourage submissions dealing with real world applications such as information integration in science information systems, health-care systems, e-government, e-commerce, workflow management systems, web information systems, etc. Topics of interests ------------------- The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Standards based Information Integration - Managing metadata for information integration - Semantic Integration - Information extraction - Information quality/data cleaning - Resolving inconsistency across sources - Ontologies for Information Integration - Ontology mapping and merging - Schema mapping/evaluating/integrating - On-the-fly Integration - Secure Information Integration - Information Integration architectures - Reviews and evaluation of existing Integration approaches - Tools for supporting Information Integration - Data Integration in data warehousing/ data mining - Data integration in P2P/Grid systems - Data Integration in Health Care systems - Data Integration in e-Commerce applications - Data Integration in e-Government applications - Data Integration in e-Science applications - Data Integration Management for mobile applications - Workflow Information Integration - Data Integration across Institutional Borders Submission Instructions ----------------------- The SIIK workshop accepts full and short research papers. For paper registration and electronic submission please use the following website: http://www.ares-conf.org/siik/review The length of the full paper should not exceed 10 pages and short paper should not exist 5 pages. Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). (to be found at http://www.ocg.at/activities/books/Richtlinien.pdf) Submitted papers will be blind reviewed and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if it is submitted to other conferences/workshops/journals or it has been already accepted to be published in other conferences/workshops/journals. Duplicate submissions thus will be automatically rejected without reviews. The submission implies that at least one author must register at the iiWAS conference and present the paper. Important Dates --------------- September 15, 2006 Full Papers submission October 6, 2006 Acceptance Notification October 15, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers December 4-6,2006 Workshop at iiWAS Conference Publication ------------ All accepted workshop papers will be published in the Austrian Computer Society book series. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of : [1] International Journal of Web Information Systems (http://www.troubador.co.uk/ijwis) [2] International Journal of Web and Grid Services (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=47) [3] International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=143) [4] More are pending approval Workshop Organizers ------------------- Nguyen Manh Tho, Ph.D. (main contact) Institute of Software Technique and Interactive System, Vienna University of Technology , Favoriten strasse 9-11/188 A1040 Vienna, Austria tho(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at Benhard Sitohang, Ph.D. School of electrical engineering & Informatics, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia Benhard(a)informatika.org Programme Committee ------------------- Ahmad Ashari, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia Andrea Cali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy R. Scott Cost, The Johns Hopkins University, USA Mohand-Said Hacid, University Lyon 1, France Danile Herin, Montpellier II University. LIRMM, France Ela Hunt, ETH Zurich, Switzland Ralf-Detlef Kutsche, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Ramon Lawrence, University of British Columbia Okanagan, USA Domenico Lembo, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita' della Basilicata, Italy Marco Mesiti, DICO - University of Milano, Italy Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Marta Sabou, KMi, The Open University, UK Benhard Sitohang, School of electrical engineering & Informatics - ITB, Indonesia Putri Saptawati, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI, National Unversity of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Basuki Widodo, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November, Indonesia Huiyong Xiao, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

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Call for papers - Workshop "Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery" - (SIIK 2006)
by Nguyen Manh Tho 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students. CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- The 1st International Workshop "Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery" - (SIIK 2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- http://www.ares-conf.org/siik in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS2006)-http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2006/ 4-6 December 2006, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Introduction ------------- Knowledge Discovery has been widely accepted as a key technology for enterprises and organizations to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data. With the exponential growing amount of information to be included in the decision making process, the data to be considered becomes more and more complex in both structure and semantics, located in heterogeneous and distributed systems. Furthermore, the explosive growth and popularity of the world-wide web has resulted in a huge number of information sources on the Internet. Consequently, the process of retrieval and knowledge discovery from this huge amount of heterogeneous complex data builds the litmus-test for the research in the area. Information Integration subsumes all technologies needed to provide form manipulation of information scattered over many information systems while supporting a single system image. Information integration has been a long standing challenge for the database community in the last decades. Although there are several distinct research and development areas explicitly or implicitly addressing data integration, the schematic and semantic heterogeneity is still one of the most difficulties in the integration of heterogeneous knowledge and information systems - one of the perquisite steps of knowledge discovery process. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to present their recent work, discuss and identify problems, synergize different views of techniques and policies, and brainstorm future research/development directions on semantic information integration used in knowledge discovery. The research on progress, draft idea, architecture submissions are also welcome. Particularly, we strongly encourage submissions dealing with real world applications such as information integration in science information systems, health-care systems, e-government, e-commerce, workflow management systems, web information systems, etc. Topics of interests ------------------- The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Standards based Information Integration - Managing metadata for information integration - Semantic Integration - Information extraction - Information quality/data cleaning - Resolving inconsistency across sources - Ontologies for Information Integration - Ontology mapping and merging - Schema mapping/evaluating/integrating - On-the-fly Integration - Secure Information Integration - Information Integration architectures - Reviews and evaluation of existing Integration approaches - Tools for supporting Information Integration - Data Integration in data warehousing/ data mining - Data integration in P2P/Grid systems - Data Integration in Health Care systems - Data Integration in e-Commerce applications - Data Integration in e-Government applications - Data Integration in e-Science applications - Data Integration Management for mobile applications - Workflow Information Integration - Data Integration across Institutional Borders Submission Instructions ----------------------- The SIIK workshop accepts full and short research papers. For paper registration and electronic submission please use the following website: http://www.ares-conf.org/siik/review The length of the full paper should not exceed 10 pages and short paper should not exist 5 pages. Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). (to be found at http://www.ocg.at/activities/books/Richtlinien.pdf) Submitted papers will be blind reviewed and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Important Dates --------------- September 15, 2006 Full Papers submission October 6, 2006 Acceptance Notification October 15, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers December 4-6,2006 Workshop at iiWAS Conference Publication ------------ All accepted workshop papers will be published in the Austrian Computer Society book series. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of : [1] International Journal of Web Information Systems (http://www.troubador.co.uk/ijwis) [2] International Journal of Web and Grid Services (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=47) [3] International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=143) [4] More are pending approval Workshop Organizers ------------------- Nguyen Manh Tho, Ph.D. (main contact) Institute of Software Technique and Interactive System, Vienna University of Technology , Favoriten strasse 9-11/188 A1040 Vienna, Austria tho(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at Benhard Sitohang, Ph.D. School of electrical engineering & Informatics, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia Benhard(a)informatika.org Programme Committee ------------------- Ahmad Ashari, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia Andrea Cali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy R. Scott Cost, The Johns Hopkins University, USA Mohand-Said Hacid, University Lyon 1, France Danile Herin, Montpellier II University. LIRMM, France Ela Hunt, ETH Zurich, Switzland Ralf-Detlef Kutsche, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Domenico Lembo, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita' della Basilicata, Italy Marco Mesiti, DICO - University of Milano, Italy Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Marta Sabou, KMi, The Open University, UK Benhard Sitohang, School of electrical engineering & Informatics - ITB, Indonesia Putri Saptawati, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI, National Unversity of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Basuki Widodo, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November, Indonesia Huiyong Xiao, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

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Call for papers - Workshop "Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery" - (SIIK 2006)
by Nguyen Manh Tho 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students. CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- The 1st International Workshop "Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery" - (SIIK 2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- http://www.ares-conf.org/siik in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS2006)-http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2006/ 4-6 December 2006, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Introduction ------------- Knowledge Discovery has been widely accepted as a key technology for enterprises and organizations to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data. With the exponential growing amount of information to be included in the decision making process, the data to be considered becomes more and more complex in both structure and semantics, located in heterogeneous and distributed systems. Furthermore, the explosive growth and popularity of the world-wide web has resulted in a huge number of information sources on the Internet. Consequently, the process of retrieval and knowledge discovery from this huge amount of heterogeneous complex data builds the litmus-test for the research in the area. Information Integration subsumes all technologies needed to provide form manipulation of information scattered over many information systems while supporting a single system image. Information integration has been a long standing challenge for the database community in the last decades. Although there are several distinct research and development areas explicitly or implicitly addressing data integration, the schematic and semantic heterogeneity is still one of the most difficulties in the integration of heterogeneous knowledge and information systems - one of the perquisite steps of knowledge discovery process. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to present their recent work, discuss and identify problems, synergize different views of techniques and policies, and brainstorm future research/development directions on semantic information integration used in knowledge discovery. The research on progress, draft idea, architecture submissions are also welcome. Particularly, we strongly encourage submissions dealing with real world applications such as information integration in science information systems, health-care systems, e-government, e-commerce, workflow management systems, web information systems, etc. Topics of interests ------------------- The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Standards based Information Integration - Managing metadata for information integration - Semantic Integration - Information extraction - Information quality/data cleaning - Resolving inconsistency across sources - Ontologies for Information Integration - Ontology mapping and merging - Schema mapping/evaluating/integrating - On-the-fly Integration - Secure Information Integration - Information Integration architectures - Reviews and evaluation of existing Integration approaches - Tools for supporting Information Integration - Data Integration in data warehousing/ data mining - Data integration in P2P/Grid systems - Data Integration in Health Care systems - Data Integration in e-Commerce applications - Data Integration in e-Government applications - Data Integration in e-Science applications - Data Integration Management for mobile applications - Workflow Information Integration - Data Integration across Institutional Borders Submission Instructions ----------------------- The SIIK workshop accepts full and short research papers. For paper registration and electronic submission please use the following website: http://www.ares-conf.org/siik/review The length of the full paper should not exceed 10 pages and short paper should not exist 5 pages. Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). (to be found at http://www.ocg.at/activities/books/Richtlinien.pdf) Submitted papers will be blind reviewed and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Important Dates --------------- September 15, 2006 Full Papers submission October 6, 2006 Acceptance Notification October 15, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers December 4-6,2006 Workshop at iiWAS Conference Publication ------------ All accepted workshop papers will be published in the Austrian Computer Society book series. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of : [1] International Journal of Web Information Systems (http://www.troubador.co.uk/ijwis) [2] International Journal of Web and Grid Services (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=47) [3] International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=143) [4] More are pending approval Workshop Organizers ------------------- Nguyen Manh Tho, Ph.D. (main contact) Institute of Software Technique and Interactive System, Vienna University of Technology , Favoriten strasse 9-11/188 A1040 Vienna, Austria tho(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at Benhard Sitohang, Ph.D. School of electrical engineering & Informatics, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia Benhard(a)informatika.org Programme Committee ------------------- Ahmad Ashari, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia Andrea Cali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy R. Scott Cost, The Johns Hopkins University, USA Mohand-Said Hacid, University Lyon 1, France Danile Herin, Montpellier II University. LIRMM, France Ela Hunt, ETH Zurich, Switzland Ralf-Detlef Kutsche, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Domenico Lembo, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita' della Basilicata, Italy Marco Mesiti, DICO - University of Milano, Italy Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Marta Sabou, KMi, The Open University, UK Benhard Sitohang, School of electrical engineering & Informatics - ITB, Indonesia Putri Saptawati, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI, National Unversity of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Basuki Widodo, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November, Indonesia Huiyong Xiao, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

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