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Call for Workshops, Tutorials, Posters, and Demos - Fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009)
by Jie Bao 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

( WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ) Call for Workshops, Tutorials, Posters, and Demos Fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) 6-9 December, 2009 Shanghai, China http://www.aswc2009.org/ The Asian Semantic Web Conference is the yearly conference on theoretical foundations, technological building blocks and practical applications of semantic technologies on the Asian continent. Targeted at both academia and industry, the conference will present the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It will bring together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling, logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. Besides presenting papers including latest research in the Semantic Web area, this year the conference will also include workshops, tutorials and a poster and demo session. For these three events, we welcome submissions that are aligned with the topics of the conference (http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track) Further details about the calls for workshops, tutorials, posters, and demos can be found in the conference web page: * ASWC2009 Call for Workshops (http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/callworkshops) * ASWC2009 Call for Tutorials (http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/calltutorials) * ASWC2009 Call for Posters and Demos (http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/callpostersdemos) ===Important dates=== 'Workshop Track * Proposal due: 27 Aug 2009 * Notification : 3 Sept 2009 * The important dates for accepted workshops are: ** Paper Submissions: 3 Oct 2009 ** Paper Notification: 15 Oct 2009 ** Paper Camera-ready: 22 Oct 2009 ** Workshop days: 6-7 Dec 2009 Tutorial Track * 10 Sept 2009: Proposal submission * 17 Sept 2009: Notification * 5 Nov 2009: Tutorial notes (handouts) to tutorial chair * Tutorial days: 6-7 Dec 2009 Poster and Demo Track * Poster and demo submission: 17 Sept 2009 * Notification of acceptance: 1 Oct 2009 * Camera-ready version: 15 Oct 2009 ** Poster and Demo days: 8-9 Dec 2009 ===Contacts=== * ASWC2009 Workshop Chair: Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University, Korea (hgkim(a)snu.ac.kr) * ASWC2009 Tutorial Chair: Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (baojie(a)cs.rpi.edu) * ASWC2009 Poster and Demo Chair: Raúl García-Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain (rgarcia(a)fi.upm.es)

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Deadline extension: ISWC Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge - CK 2009
by Tania Tudorache 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues and mailing lists. CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND DEMOS ==================================================================== Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge October 25, 2009 Collocated with ISWC-2009 Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA ******* DEADLINE EXTENSION TO: August 13, 2009 ******* http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gc3/iswc-workshop/ ==================================================================== Objectives ----------- Many have argued that the next generation of the Web (Web 3.0) will grow out of an integration between Semantic Web and Social Web (Web 2.0) technologies.Can ontology management benefits from social web? Can Wikipidia be a style of collaborative ontology authoring? How to exploit user feedback for constructing structured knowledge? In these and many other questions lie the opportunity and the challenge to integrate knowledge bases approaches to social web ones. This integration involves several very different aspects of technology and social practice. Recent workshops and journal special issues have been devoted to methods for extracting ontologies and other structured knowledge from resources such as Wikipedia and other loosely structured data; or on using Semantic Web representations to describe the social structures and interactions in Web 2.0; or on mapping existing data using semantic technologies. In this workshop, we want to focus on another aspect of linkage between Social Web and Semantic Web techniques: collaborative and distributed methods for constructing and maintaining ontologies, terminologies, vocabularies, and mappings between them, throughout their entire life cycle. Topics of interest ------------------- They include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative creation and editing of structured knowledge - Collaborative creation of ontology mappings - Efficient methods for maintenance and evolution of structured knowledge that was created collaboratively - Individual and group incentives for collaborative knowledge construction and maintenance - Ontology repositories, knowledge bases, and their utility in the Social Web. - Metadata management - User interfaces for collaborative tools for creating structured knowledge - Inconsistency management and user-specific views of ontologies - Workflows for collaborative construction and linking of structured knowledge - Evaluation of collaborative tools: methods, metrics, and experimental reports Submission guidelines --------------------- Papers submitted to the workshop must follow the same submission guidelines of the ISWC'09 conference. Submissions must be in PDF format in Springer format (for instruction see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0) We solicit in this workshop two types of contributions: 1. Research papers analysing the process of collaborative construction, management and linkage of structured knowledge; the requirements for supporting technologies and the field of exploitation of such knowledge. Formatted papers must not be longer than 10 pages. 2. Demos papers describing relevant tools and prototypes. Formatted papers must not be longer than 2 pages. Important dates ---------------- Paper submission: 10 August 2009 Notification : 31 August 2009 Workshop : 25 October 2009 Organizing committee --------------------- Tania Tudorache (co-chair), Stanford University Gianluca Correndo (co-chair), University of Southampton Natasha Noy, Stanford University Harith Alani, University of Southampton Mark Greaves, Vulcan inc. Program Committee ------------------ Mathieu D'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, UK Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany Ken Baklawski, Northeastern University, US Simone Braun, FZI, Germany Raul Garcia Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Vinay Chaudhri, SRI international, USA Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France Sean Falconer, University of Victoria, Canada Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR, Italy John Graybeal, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software, USA Peter Mika, Yahoo Research, Spain Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR, Italy Marta Sabou, Knowledge Media Institute, UK Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK Gerd Stumme, Universität Kassel, Germany Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, Ireland Denny Vrandecic, AIFB, Germany Anna Zhdanova, FTW, Austria

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Call for Participation: K-CAP 2009 The 5th Intl. Conference on Knowledge Capture
by Tania Tudorache 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues and mailing lists. ==================================================================== K-CAP 2009 The 5th International Conference on Knowledge Capture 1-4 September, 2009 Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, California, USA http://kcap09.stanford.edu DEADLINES APPROACHING: ------------------------------------- Discounted hotel reservation: August 2, 2009 INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------------- Professor Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) Professor Daniel Weld (University of Washington) ==================================================================== In today's knowledge-driven world, effective access to and use of information is a key enabler for progress. Modern technologies not only are themselves knowledge-intensive technologies, but also produce enormous amounts of new information that we must process and aggregate. These technologies require knowledge capture, which involve the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse sources of information as well as its acquisition directly from users. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Web, the study of knowledge capture has a renewed importance. Researchers that work in the area of knowledge capture traditionally belong to several distinct research communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and the Semantic Web. K-CAP 2009 will provide a forum that brings together members of disparate research communities that are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing. We solicit high-quality research papers for publication and presentation at our conference. Our aim is to promote multidisciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. K-CAP 2009 follows on the success of four previous conferences in 2007 (Whistler, Canada), in 2005 (Banff, Canada), in 2003 (Florida, USA), and 2001 (Victoria, Canada). The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2009 will feature Invited Talks, Technical Papers, Workshops, Posters and Demos on a range of topics including: * Knowledge acquisition tools * Authoring tools * Knowledge extraction systems * Knowledge management environments * Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition * Learning apprentices * Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools * Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge * Knowledge-based markup techniques * Advice taking systems * Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies ABOUT THE VENUE The conference will be held in the beautiful Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, which is only 7 miles (11.2 km) away from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The location is only steps from the Redondo Beach and the bike path that runs along the South Bay in Los Angeles. Also within walking distance is a marina that offers opportunities for fishing, sailing, and free outdoor concerts. The marina has many restaurants, a water park, and seal flocks. K-CAP 2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Yolanda Gil, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Program Chair: Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany Technology Chair: Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA

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