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ISWC 2012 Call for Tutorial Proposals -- Submission Deadline May 6
by Oshani Seneviratne 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Tutorial Proposals http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/call-tutorial-proposals In conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/ Boston - USA November 11-15, 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the primary conference on the use of semantic technologies on the web and linked data, constantly attracting a high number of high quality submissions participants from academia and industry. It brings together researchers from different areas of computer science, like artificial intelligence, databases, natural language process, information retrieval and others that aim at the development and use of novel technologies for accessing, interpreting and using information on the web in a more effective way. Besides the main technical program, ISWC will host a number of tutorials on all major topics related to the Semantic Web / Linked Data research, enabling attendees to fully appreciate current issues, main schools of thought, and possible application areas. In order to meet these goals, tutorials should address topics that satisfy the following criteria: - the topic falls in the general scope of ISWC 2012, - there is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or - application, and - there is a sufficiently large community interested in the topic. In particular, we encourage the submission of tutorial proposals on: - fundamental problems of the Semantic Web/Linked Data such as ontology mining, heterogeneity, scalability and distribution, - applications of Semantic Web technologies in specific domains and trends, - important enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the Semantic Web, - aspects of semantic web research that have been neglected so far, and - techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research (e.g., machine learning, NLP). Additionally, we expect tutorials to: - have practical parts in terms of examples or preferably exercises to be carried out by the participants Proposers of accepted tutorials have to prepare a tutorial webpage containing detailed information about the tutorial. Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------- Tutorial proposals should be submitted via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2012tutorials as a single PDF file of no more than 5 pages and should contain the following information: - Title - Abstract (200 words) - Motivation on why the topic is of particular interest at this time - Overview of content, description of the aims, presentation style, potential/preferred prerequisite knowledge - Indication on whether the tutorial should be considered for a half-day or full-day - Intended audience and expected number of participants - Audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements (for hands-on sessions, any software needed and download sites must be provided by the tutorial presenters) - Data of the presenters (name, affiliation, email address, homepage) and short description of their expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation Important Dates -------------------------- - Event: November 11 & 12, 2012 - Tutorial proposal due: May 6, 2012 - Tutorial Notifications: May 20, 2012 Chairs -------------- Claudia d’Amato, Unversity of Bari Thomas Scharrenbach, University of Zurich Follow ISWC 2012 on Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/iswcboston

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2nd CfP: WoMO 2012 - 6th Int'l Workshop on Modular Ontologies
by WoMO 2012 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

======================================================== 6th Int'l Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Graz, Austria, July 24, 2012 held in conjunction with FOIS 2012 --- Second Call for Papers --- ======================================================== Submission deadline: May 11, 2012 ======================================================== INVITED SPEAKERS: * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Title TBA * Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy Multi context logics: a formal support for structuring knowledge and beliefs (Tentative title) http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~ts/womo2012 MODULARITY, studied for years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. In formal and applied ontology, modularity is central to reducing the complexity of designing and understanding ontologies, and to facilitating ontology verification, reasoning, development, maintenance and integration. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a solid foundation and exciting prospects for further research and development. The workshop continues a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest and current work; the most recent WoMOs were held at FOIS 2010 and ESSLLI 2011. TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is modularity?: kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/foundational studies: conservativity; modular ontology languages; reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; heterogeneity; - Algorithmic approaches: distributed and incremental reasoning; modularization and module extraction; sharing, linking, reuse; privacy; evaluation of modularization approaches; complexity of reasoning; implemented systems; - Applications: semantic web; life sciences; bio-ontologies; natural language processing; space and time; ambient intelligence; social intelligence; collaborative ontology development and ontology versioning. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: May 11, 2012 Notification: June 12, 2012 Camera ready: July 1, 2012 Workshop: July 24, 2012 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We welcome submissions on modularity in a broad sense. The workshop is open to papers of theoretical or practical nature. Submissions should be of up to 11 pages in length, formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html ), prepared in PDF format and submitted no later than May 11, 2012, through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2012 ). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be made available in the proceedings to be published electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (see http://www.ceur-ws.org ). (Find the WoMO 2010 and 2011 proceedings here http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=16268 and http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=20369 ) WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Thomas Schneider, University of Bremen, Germany Dirk Walther, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Kenneth Baclawski, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA Stefano Borgo, Italian National Research Council, Trento, Italy Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford, UK Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Silvio Ghilardi, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada Janna Hastings, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK Robert Hoehndorf, University of Cambridge, UK Boris Konev, University of Liverpool, UK Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck College, London, UK Thomas Meyer, Meraka Institute, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa Till Mossakowski, University of Bremen, Germany Immanuel Normann, Birkbeck College, London, UK Leo Obrst, MITRE, McLean, VA, USA Adrian Paschke, Free University of Berlin, Germany David Perez del Rey, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

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Call for Tutorial Proposals co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012)
by Oshani Seneviratne 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Tutorial Proposals http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/call-tutorial-proposals In conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/ Boston - USA November 11-15, 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the primary conference on the use of semantic technologies on the web and linked data, constantly attracting a high number of high quality submissions participants from academia and industry. It brings together researchers from different areas of computer science, like artificial intelligence, databases, natural language process, information retrieval and others that aim at the development and use of novel technologies for accessing, interpreting and using information on the web in a more effective way. Besides the main technical program, ISWC will host a number of tutorials on all major topics related to the Semantic Web / Linked Data research, enabling attendees to fully appreciate current issues, main schools of thought, and possible application areas. In order to meet these goals, tutorials should address topics that satisfy the following criteria: - the topic falls in the general scope of ISWC 2012, - there is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or - application, and - there is a sufficiently large community interested in the topic. In particular, we encourage the submission of tutorial proposals on: - fundamental problems of the Semantic Web/Linked Data such as ontology mining, heterogeneity, scalability and distribution, - applications of Semantic Web technologies in specific domains and trends, - important enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the Semantic Web, - aspects of semantic web research that have been neglected so far, and - techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research (e.g., machine learning, NLP). Additionally, we expect tutorials to: - have practical parts in terms of examples or preferably exercises to be carried out by the participants Proposers of accepted tutorials have to prepare a tutorial webpage containing detailed information about the tutorial. Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------- Tutorial proposals should be submitted via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2012tutorials as a single PDF file of no more than 5 pages and should contain the following information: - Title - Abstract (200 words) - Motivation on why the topic is of particular interest at this time - Overview of content, description of the aims, presentation style, potential/preferred prerequisite knowledge - Indication on whether the tutorial should be considered for a half-day or full-day - Intended audience and expected number of participants - Audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements (for hands-on sessions, any software needed and download sites must be provided by the tutorial presenters) - Data of the presenters (name, affiliation, email address, homepage) and short description of their expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation Important Dates -------------------------- - Event: November 11 & 12, 2012 - Tutorial proposal due: May 6, 2012 - Tutorial Notifications: May 20, 2012 Chairs -------------- Claudia d’Amato, Unversity of Bari Thomas Scharrenbach, University of Zurich

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Extend CFP: ICIA2012 - Malaysia
by The International Conference on Informatics & Applications 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

The International Conference on Informatics & Applications (ICIA2012) University Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia June 3-5, 2012 http://www.sdiwc.net/icia2012/ ======================================================================== The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at University Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, From June 3-4, 2012 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: - Information Ethics - Information Content Security - Data Compression - E-Technology - E-Government - E-Learning - Cloud Computing - Grid Computing - Green Computing - Access Controls - Data Mining - Social Search - Computer Forensics - Computer Security - Peer-to-Peer Social Networks - Information and Data Management - Network Security - Social Networks - Real-Time Systems - Internet Modeling - Assurance of Service - Image Processing - Web Services Security - Multimedia Computing - Software Engineering - Biometrics Technologies - Wireless Communications - Semantic Web, Ontologies - Mobile Social Networks - Distributed and Parallel Applications - Embedded Systems and Software - Critical Computing and Storage - Critical Infrastructure Management - Soft Computing Techniques - Confidentiality Protection - Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity - Anti-cyberterrorism - Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications - Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications - Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems - Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications - User Interfaces,Visualization and Modeling - Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management - Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design - Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance - Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems - Computational Intelligence - Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks - Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks - Indexing and Query Processing for Moving Objects - User Interfaces and Usability Issues form Mobile Applications - Sensor Networks and Social Sensing - XML-Based Languages - Cryptography and Data Protection - Information Propagation on Social Networks - Resource and Knowledge Discovery Using Social Networks - Computer Crime Prevention and Detection Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees. Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered. Important Dates ============== Submission Date : Apr. 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance : Apr. 30, 2012 Camera Ready submission : May 12, 2012 Registration : May 12, 2012 Conference dates : June 3-5, 2012 ---------------------------------------- If you want to unsubscribe to this mail message from SDIWC, just follow this link http://dcmrf.net/Filemailer2/sdiwc-mailer/unsubscribe.php?id=57d3393ef8a14c…

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