CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Special Issue on “Bridging Communities: Semantically Augmented Metadata for Services, Grids, and Software Engineering” The International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) --> Submission Deadline: May 15, 2005 <-- http://www.upb.de/pc2/cfp-idea Guest Editors: Odej Kao, Felix Heine Introduction ------------ In large-scale distributed system, semantically rich metadata is a key issue, e.g. for machine-processible description of entities. Examples are the behavioral description of interfaces in service oriented architectures, as well as the description of resources in Grid environments. Semantically rich descriptions are necessary preconditions for automatic management, automatic configuration, and user-friendly discovery of entities. They are a vital part of future information repositories and brokering applications, in order to resolve interoperability problems in large heterogeneous environments. Researchers from different fields are working on these topics. The Grid community has started the Semantic Grid initiative, which exploits technologies from the Semantic Web community like Ontologies and Description Logics. Research targets the description of resources, services and workflows, but also the description of contents of databases and many more application specific issues. Researchers from the software engineering community are developing different technologies following a similar goal, e.g. graph-based approaches to describe the behavior of services to support the software engineering process, and for online composition of modules and services. The Semantic Web community has e.g. designed the OWL-S ontology for service description. Objective of the Special Issue ------------------------------ This special issue aims to bridge research communities which focus on the common goal of augmenting metadata to semantically-rich information. Papers of interest include surveys of the methods presently used in these fields, papers highlighting the relationship between different methods, and papers presenting new approaches, also from fields not mentioned here. Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following: ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Semantically rich metadata - Ontologies for resource and service description - Graph-based service description - Metadata based on Description Logics - Standards for the description of services - New methods for service description - Architectures for white-, yellow and green pages - Algorithms for semantically rich matching of descriptions - Description and matching of workflows - Semantic metadata for databases SUBMISSION PROCEDURE -------------------- Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 15, 2005, papers for this special theme issue on “Bridging Communities: Semantically Augmented Metadata for Services, Grids, and Software Engineering”. All submissions must be original and not be under review by another publication. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by July 15, 2005 about the acceptance status and sent paper organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 15, 2005. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a blind review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. The special issue of the journal is tentatively scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc. <www.idea-group.com>, publisher of the “Idea Group Publishing,” “Information Science Publishing,” “IRM Press,” CyberTech Publishing" and "Idea Group Reference". Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically to: ------------------------------------------------------------- Felix Heine, fh@upb.de Program Committee (preliminary) ------------------------------- John Brooke, University of Manchester Gregor Engels, Paderborn University Carole Goble, University of Manchester Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Montreal Patrick Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola Ralf Möller, TU Hamburg-Harburg Dave Snelling, Fujitsu Benno Stein, University Weimar -- Felix Heine Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing Paderborn University, Fuerstenallee 11, 33102 Paderborn, Germany phone: +49 (0) 5251 60-6322 fax: +49 (0) 5251 60-6297 mailto:fh@upb.de http://www.upb.de/pc2/