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Call for Participation and Proposals - The Metadata Committee of The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2010
by Jie Bao 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

*Call for Participation and Proposals* The Metadata Committee of The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2010 Nov 7th-11th, 2010. Shanghai, China ==Objectives== In the past decade, the semantic web technologies have been matured, and the amount of semantic data published on the Web has increased dramatically. The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), one of the major events for the Semantic Web, has collected data about the conference itself (e.g., papers, people and satellite events) since 2004. The data, along with data from several other Web-related conferences such as ESWC and WWW, is publicly accessible from the "Semantic Web Dog Food" (SWDF) server (http://data.semanticweb.org) The International Semantic Web Conference 2010 plans to extend the scope of the data it will collect about the event, and to encourage the development of innovative applications that use the ISWC data as well other linked data (including other SWDF data). The goal is to demonstrate the value of semantic technologies, to explore novel approaches in building semantic applications, and to better serve the Semantic Web community by "eating our own dog food". ==How to Participate== For this goal, ISWC 2010 establishes a Metadata Committee. Each member of the committee will be responsible for a specific project that contributes new data related to the conference or builds an application consuming the ISWC data. To participate in the committee, interested parties should submit a proposal for participation that contains information about * Type of the project (e.g., data contribution or application development) * Topic (e.g., scope of the data or the functionality of the application) * Brief description about the proposed approach * Project schedule * Participants and contact information Interested parties should email the proposal to the Metadata Committee Chair (Jie Bao, baojie(a)cs.rpi.edu) by the submission deadline. During ISWC 2010, participants of the committee will report their work at an "ISWC Metadata Demonstration Session" session. Successful participants are expected to submit a paper after the conference describing their projects. Selected papers will be published online at CEUR proceedings. ==Topics of the Proposal== Topics of the proposal include but are not limited to * New forms of data related to ISWC (e.g., about submissions, participants, schedule, on-site activities, etc.) * Mashup ISWC data with Social Web data (e.g., from Facebook or Twitter) * Visualization of ISWC data * Applications to improve real-time interactive of conference participants. * Better means for searching ISWC data * Applying ISWC data to improve community building * Discovering community-related knowledge from ISWC data ==Proposal Deadlines== * Proposal due: June 7th, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: June 14th, 2010 * Presentation about the project: Nov 7th-11th, 2010 (TBD)

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Call for papers (Deadline Extended): HPCS-10, USA, July 2010
by John Edward 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

It would be highly appreciated if you could share this announcement with your colleagues, students and individuals whose research are in parallel computing, distributed systems, operating systems, computer architecture, grid-computing, VLSI, and related areas. Call for papers (Deadline Extended): HPCS-10, USA, July 2010 The 2010 International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. HPCS is an important event in the areas of high performance computing, grid computing and related topics. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10. • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10) • International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) • International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) • International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10) • International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) • International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) • International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10) • International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10) • International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10) • International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10) MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites. It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World® Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining — all situated on 10 tropically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando. We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details. Sincerely John Edward

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CFP: Using Provenance in the Semantic Web
by Paul Groth 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

(Apologies for cross-posting) Call for Papers: Journal of Web Semantics Special Issue on Using Provenance in the Semantic Web Editors: Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute Paul Groth, Free University of Amsterdam The Web is a decentralized system full of information provided by diverse open sources of varying quality. For any given question there will be a multitude of answers offered, raising the need for assessing their relative value and for making decisions about what sources to trust. In order to make effective use of the Web, we routinely evaluate the information we get, the sources that provided it, and the processes that produced it. A trust layer was always present in the Web architecture, and Berners-Lee envisioned an “oh-yeah?” button in the browser to check the sources of an assertion. The Semantic Web raises these questions in the context of automated applications (e.g. reasoners, aggregators, or agents), whether trying to answer questions using the Linked Data cloud, use a mashup appropriately or determine trust on a social network. Therefore, provenance is an important aspect of the Web that becomes crucial in Semantic Web research. This special issue on “Using Provenance in the Semantic Web” of the Journal of Web Semantics aims to collect representative research in handling provenance while using and reasoning about information and resources on the web. Provenance has been addressed in a variety of areas in computer science targeting specific contexts, such as databases and scientific workflows. Provenance is important in a variety of contexts, including open science, open government, and intellectual property and copyright. Provenance requirements must be understood for specific kinds of Web resources, such as documents, services, ontologies, workflows, and datasets. We seek high quality sSubmissions should that describe ongoing workrecent projects, articulate research challenges, or put forward synergistic perspectives on provenance. We solicit submissions that advance the Semantic Web through exploiting provenance, addressing research issues including: • representing provenance • relating provenance to the underlying data and information • managing provenance in a distributed web • reasoning about trust based on provenance • handling incomplete provenance • taking advantage of the web’s structure for provenance Submissions may focus on uses of provenance in the Semantic Web for: • linked data • social networking • data integration • inference from diverse sources • trust and proof Papers may also focus on application areas, highlighting the challenges and benefits of using provenance: • provenance in open science • provenance in open government • provenance in copyright and intellectual property for documents • provenance in web publishing Important Dates We will aim at an efficient publication cycle in order to guarantee prompt availability of the published results. We will review papers on a rolling basis as they are submitted and explicitly encourage submissions well before the submission deadline. Submission deadline: 5 September 2010 Author notification: 15 December 2010 Revisions submitted: 1 February 2010 Final decisions: 15 March 2011 Publication: 1 April 2011 The submission site is http://ees.elsevier.com/jws/default.asp. Submission guidelines The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific contributions of high quality. Following the overall mission of the journal, we emphasize the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative semantic methods and applications. The publication of large-scale experiments and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate scenarios and methods that introduce semantics into existing Web interfaces, contents and services. Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in accordance with instructions given in the "Guide for Authors" (available from the publisher), details can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/671322/authori…. The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's Web-based EES system available at http://ees.elsevier.com/jws/default.asp. Final decisions of accepted papers will be approved by an editor in chief. About the Journal of Web Semantics The Journal of Web Semantics is published by Elsevier since 2003. It is an interdisciplinary journal based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of a knowledge-intensive and intelligent service Web. These areas include: knowledge technologies, ontology, agents, databases and the semantic grid, obviously disciplines like information retrieval, language technology, human-computer interaction and knowledge discovery are of major relevance as well. All aspects of the Semantic Web development are covered. Editors-in-Chief: Tim Finin, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Steffen Staab For all editors information, see http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/671322/edit…. The Journal of Web Semantics offers to its authors and readers: * Free availability of papers on the Web at http://www.semanticwebjournal.org * Professional support with publishing by Elsevier staff * Indexed by Thomson-Reuters web of science * Impact factor 3.41: the third highest out of 92 titles in Thomson-Reuters' category "Computer Science, Information Systems

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Call for papers: HPCS-10, USA, July 2010
by John Edward 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

It would be highly appreciated if you could share this announcement with your colleagues, students and individuals whose research are in parallel computing, distributed systems, operating systems, computer architecture, grid-computing, VLSI, and related areas. Call for papers: HPCS-10, USA, July 2010 The 2010 International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. HPCS is an important event in the areas of high performance computing, grid computing and related topics. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10. • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10) • International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) • International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) • International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10) • International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) • International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) • International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10) • International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10) • International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10) • International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10) MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites. It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World® Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining — all situated on 10 tropically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando. We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details. Sincerely John Edward

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