GGF16 Semantic Grid workshop
Colleagues Just to let you know we are proposing to hold a Semantic Grid workshop at GGF16, which is in Athens, February 13-16, 2006. This will be the first GGF Semantic grid workshop in Europe, and I believe the timing is good as many e-Science projects and IST programme Grid projects now have some very interesting and useful Semantic grid experiences to share with the community. More information will be available in a few days, but I wanted to let you know now so that you can pencil this into your diaries. Thanks -- Dave
I am pleased to announce the 3rd GGF Semantic Grid Workshop, to be held at GGF16 which is in Athens, Greece, February 13-16, 2006. The workshop will be on Wednesday February 15, with a "Semantic Grid 101" on Tuesday 14. You are invited to submit short position papers, which need to be received by January 12 to be considered for presentation in the workshop programme. All positions will be published on the Web. Please circulate the Call for Papers, which is included below and available on http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf16/GGF16semgridCFP.html Text and PDF versions are also available from the workshop website http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf16/ Many thanks - we look forward to receiving your papers. -- Dave Semantic Grid Workshop at GGF16 Call for Position Papers ------------------------ GGF16 Athens, Greece. February 13-16, 2006. Semantic Grid Workshop Wednesday Feb 15 1:30pm-7:00pm (with a preparatory Semantic Grid 101 session Tuesday Feb 14 10:30am-12pm) Building on the experiences of the current Semantic Grid activities and on the latest challenges in Grid computing, the 3rd GGF Semantic Grid Workshop aims to broaden discussion and awareness of Semantic Grid activities and set the scene for future work. This is an exciting opportunity for people to present their work and for others to discover the state of the art in Semantic Grid. All uses of Semantic Web technologies (such as RDF for metadata representation), in both Grid middleware and applications, are in scope. The workshop is based around position papers, which are invited under the themes described below. All position papers will be published on the Web, and the Programme Committee will select a subset for presentation at the workshop in order to provide a balanced programme of interest to a wide range of participants. At the end of the workshop there will be a panel session looking at future challanges to set an agenda for the GGF Semantic Grid Research Group. Before the workshop we will hold a Semantic Grid 101 session which will provide a quick introduction to Semantic Web and Semantic Grid for newcomers, so that everyone can gain maximum benefit from the workshop. This session is open to everyone whether or not they attend the workshop. The themes are as follows: * Use cases. Real examples which demand a Semantic Grid approach (whether or not a Semantic Grid approach has been attempted so far!) These are wide-ranging, from information services in semantic datagrids to service discovery and negotiation in Grid middleware to social networks and distributed collaboration to novel applications. * Experience reports. What worked and what didn't when you used Semantic Web technologies in your Grid middleware and applications (e.g. semantically described services and resources, knowledge services, semantic datagrid, RDF triplestores and query languages, ontologies such as OWL-S). Where did your metadata come from? What was the reaction of your users? What lessons did you learn? * Ontologies. Tell us about the ontologies (and folksomonies) you are using, in whatever representation (e.g. RDFS or OWL), whether new or whether you've imported existing schemas representation; e.g. CIM in OWL. How might the community benefit from your ontologies? * Tools and technologies. Especially for "technology innovators", tell us about the approaches you wish to promote to address the challenges and to realise the opportunities arising from the semantically-enabled Grid. This includes Semantic Web tools and technologies but also agent-based systems, peer-to-peer and other approaches that utilize machine processable metadata. * Open Laptop Demonstrations. Short demos you can do informally on your laptop in a coffee break (interactive or videos). Note that individuals and projects may submit multiple position papers (plus a demo) if you wish; e.g. a Grid project using semantic technologies may wish to present both use cases and experiences. The Workshop will be open to all GGF attendees but is limited to 50 participants - priority will be given to those who have submitted position papers. All workshop materials, including papers and presentations, will be made available to the community via the Web. Submission details Papers should be 2-5 pages in length and be submitted in Word or PDF format to Nicky Harding nch@ecs.soton.ac.uk. To be considered for presentation these must be received by 12 January 2006. We will acknowledge receipt of your submission. The preliminary programme will be announced on 16th January, four weeks before the event. Programme Committee David De Roure University of Southampton, UK Geoffrey Fox Indiana University, USA Carole Goble University of Manchester, UK Jonathan Dale Fujitsu, USA Jane Hunter University of Queensland, Australia Jim Myers National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA Enquiries If you have any queries or seek further information, please contact Nicky Harding by email on nch@ecs.soton.ac.uk or by phone on +44 23 8059 4474. Web page maintained by David De Roure, dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk Last updated Monday, 12-Dec-2005 23:06:56 GMT
Hello The GGF16 Program Schedule is now on the GGF web site on http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/ You'll see the "Semantic Grid 101" session on Tuesday, February 14 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Location: Macedonia A and the workshop in three sessions on Wednesday, February 15th 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Location: Kozani. Reminder - the advance registration deadline for GGF16 is 28th December. And don't forget - we need your 2-5 page position papers by Jan 12th please, in order to be considered for inclusion in the programme of presentations at the workshop. For those celebrating Christmas, this deadline is only a few working days away...best get writing... :) Thanks everyone -- Dave
This workshop will be of interest to some of you, and in particular is an excellent opportunity for us to look at the emerging "semantic collaborative grid" (semantic annotation, social tagging, communities of practice, ...). Deadline is Feb 7. Please circulate the call. There are other formats available on http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/cts06/ Thanks -- Dave CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Collaboration Grids and Community Networks A Joint Call from CTS06 and the Global Grid Forum The 2006 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS06) May 14-17, 2006 Luxor Hotel, Resort and Casino Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/wsmari/cts06/ Submission Deadline: February 7, 2006 Brief Description: This special session on Collaboration Grids and Community Networks - to be held as an integrated part of the 2006 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'06) - is a dedicated session that aims to foster closer interactions among researchers and users communities, providing an excellent opportunity for them to meet and discuss their ideas. Collaboration is being revolutionized by the increasing power of communication infrastructure which allows both new modes of collaboration and new technologies to support existing approaches. Traditional central (MCU) approaches to audio-video conferencing are being challenged by P2P (peer to peer) models like Skype. Grids are enabling scientific collaboratories that will be essential for managing the deluge of information coming from sensors and instruments from the tiniest environmental monitor to distributed high throughput biological devices and the mammoth CERN LHC and shared international satellites. Social or community networks are being created by intelligent bookmarking tools like del.icio.us and linked back to scientific grids by projects like Connotea. Further Wikis and collaborative collections of MP3 files point to other models of resource sharing. We believe that Collaboration will drive new approaches to business, science and the harmonizing of civilizations. Further, it seems likely that we will support multiple modes of collaboration with multiple technologies. Thus this special session of CTS06 will bring together researchers interested in bridging the gaps between technologies and applications. We invite original contributions from researchers in academia and computer industry on the technology practice and user experience for these emerging and important areas. Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): * Technology practice and User experience for Collaboration and Community Networks * Linkage of Grids and P2P systems and other collaboration, resource sharing and network building technologies * Service oriented architectures for Collaboration and Community Networks * Any practice and experience bridging application areas and technologies * The implications of issues like trust and technologies like the Semantic Web and Grid * Digital Libraries and Grids and Community Networks Instructions for Authors: Authors are invited to submit 4 page extended abstracts to the special session organizers by February 7, 2006. Electronic (postscript or pdf) submissions should be sent to gcf@indiana.edu. All submitted manuscripts will have at least three reviewers. Include up to 5 keywords and an abstract of no more than 250 words. Submissions should also include the title, author's name, affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and postal address. In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence must be indicated. If accepted, final manuscript will follow the CTS 2006 format (up to 10 IEEE pages) that will be available on the conference web site. All such accepted papers will be published as CTS06 papers in the conference proceedings. We will accept and evaluate late extended abstracts if there is space available in the session with an absolute cutoff date of April 1, 2006. Only abstracts submitted by February 7, 2006 can be published in CTS06 proceedings, once accepted. Further, all session speakers (whether or not they met CTS06 proceedings deadline) may submit enhanced manuscripts for a refereed special issue of the journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, with full papers due July 1 2006. Abstracts and Presentations for all accepted submissions will be made available on both GGF and CTS06 web sites. Important Dates: Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: February 7, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 2006 Full CTS06 Paper Due: March 10, 2006 Journal Special Issue due date: July 1, 2006 Special Session Organizers: Dr. Geoffrey Fox Community Grids Laboratory Indiana University 501 N. Morton, Suite 224 Bloomington, IN 47404 Email: gcf@indiana.edu Dr. Wenjun Wu Community Grids Laboratory Indiana University 501 N. Morton, Suite 224 Bloomington, IN 47404 Email:wewu@indiana.edu Technical Program Committee: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special session technical program committee members. * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University * Tony Hey, Microsoft * David De Roure, University of Southampton * Wenjun Wu, Indiana Universit * Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences Other members of the committee will be announced later If you have questions regarding session paper submission or the session content, please contact Geoffrey Fox at gcf@indiana.edu. For information or questions about the full Symposium's program, tutorials, exhibits, demos, panel and special sessions organization, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/wsmari/cts06/ or contact the symposium co-chairs: Bill McQuay at AFRL/IFSD, WPAFB (William.McQuay@wpafb.af.mil) or Waleed W. Smari at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton (Waleed.Smari@notes.udayton.edu).
All I just wanted to thank everyone for their interest, work and contributions over the last year... The Dagstuhl seminar was a key event, where those at the intersection of Semantic Web and Grid brought together new people from both fields for the first time and in a unique setting - it demonstrated the value of being locked in a castle for a few days in terms of building a community! Thanks to York Sure for helping to organise things and getting the proceedings online. The key moment for me was dinner with Jim Myers where we drew embryonic VO and WSRF ontologies on the tablecloth, called Dave Snelling over and by the end of the evening everyone was building the ontology on the whiteboard and in their favourite editors - a new form of party game... :) As well as organising Dagstuhl with York and Carl, Carole has continued to inform and entertain with some excellent keynotes this year including the epic "Putting Semantics into e-Science and the Grid" in Melbourne recently (I've just put this up on the Web site). This must surely be the definitive Semantic Grid presentation at this time. The GGF group has been looking to the future where we have loads of services out there, particularly at what we can learn from agent- oriented systems, and we're beginning to see these communities working together. Thanks to everyone who's helping build the bridges, including Nick Jennings (with Ian and Carl), Jonathan Dale, Mike Wooldridge and Yolanda Gil. Thanks to all our GGF presenters and colleagues, and to Marlon for helping run the group. The key next event is the GGF16 Semantic Grid workshop in Athens in February, which is based on position papers in order to keep a broad scope and lots of participation - this is exciting as it's the first workshop at a GGF in Europe and I'm sure there'll be lots to report and lots to learn. This workshop will help us map out future Semantic Grid activities. Meanwhile the first round UK e-Science pilot projects have finished, including myGrid, CombeChem and Geodise which carried significant parts of the Semantic Grid agenda stemming from the original Semantic Grid report for the e-Science programme back in 2001. We appear to have converted Jeremy Frey (CombeChem) from a chemist into a Semantic DataGrid evangelist :) The European "Grid House" projects are making excellent progress on the semantic and knowledge fronts. People are increasingly talking about "Semantic Grid Services" and "Semantic OGSA", and it's exciting to see OntoGrid producing a reference architecture - we'll be hearing more from Asun, Carole and others about this. Also look out for a forthcoming document from the "Next Generation Grids" experts group which talks about Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities. We've recently had the the first International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid in Beijing. Hai Zhuge put together this very successful event and was also an excellent host for Geoffrey Fox, Raj Buyya and myself. Lots of activity there, and we look forward to the SKG2006 event next year in Guilin. We've had some really good discussions with W3C colleagues this year and I'm looking forward to more developments there, with some grid and Web events currently being planned - e.g. the WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh in May is a great opportunity in this regard. It's very clear that Life Sciences and Semantic Grid go well together, and given the W3C interest in this domain we have some exciting times ahead. Another rich area for the future is Semantic Grid in arts, humanities and social sciences - there is increasing activity and lots of potential. Thanks to Allison Clark for building these bridges and Reagan Moore for his enthusiasm and support via WUNgrid. I'm particularly excited by discussions we've had with Stephen Downie at UIUC about semantic annotation and Semantic Grid in music information retrieval. For me a really interesting development has been the increasing interest in Semantic Grid for collaboration (is that "Semantic Collaborative Grid" or "Collaborative Semantic Grid?") - this takes us into semantic annotation, social tagging etc. The social networks aspect, and the symbiosis between social networks and VOs, came through strongly at the recent NSF SNAC workshop at NCSA (thanks to Noshir Contractor for involving me), and Geoffrey Fox is planning a very interesting event in May. Incidentally, the special issue of the Journal of Web Semantics is coming along nicely (thanks for your papers and reviews!) and we're having discussions about a Semantic Grid book. All for now. I'm sure I've missed thanking some people, so thanks to everyone else too, and best wishes to everyone for a semantically-assisted 2006! -- Dave
Happy New Year everyone! Can I just remind you please that we need your position papers submitted by next Thursday (Jan 12) for the GGF16 workshop in Athens on Feb 15. These are short documents (2-5 pages) under any of the themes in the CFP below (i.e. use cases, experience reports, ontologies, tools and technologies, and demonstrations). Remember our aim is to broaden discussion so we look forward to a wide range of positions. Projects might want to submit multiple position papers. Submissions to Nicky Harding please (nch@ecs.soton.ac.uk). BTW The workshop web site is http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf16/ Thanks - we look forward to your papers! -- Dave 3rd GGF Semantic Grid Workshop ------------------------------ http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf16/ Wednesday Feb 15, 2006 GGF16 Athens, Greece Call for Position Papers Building on the experiences of the current Semantic Grid activities and on the latest challenges in Grid computing, the 3rd Semantic Grid Workshop at the Global Grid Forum aims to broaden discussion and awareness of Semantic Grid activities and set the scene for future work. This is an exciting opportunity for people to present their work and for others to discover the state of the art in Semantic Grid. All uses of Semantic Web technologies, in both Grid middleware and applications, are in scope. The workshop is based around position papers, which are invited under the themes described below. All position papers will be published on the Web, and the Programme Committee will select a subset for presentation at the workshop in order to provide a balanced programme of interest to a wide range of participants. At the end of the workshop there will be a panel session looking at future challanges to set an agenda for the GGF Semantic Grid community. The themes are as follows: * Use cases. Real examples which demand a Semantic Grid approach (whether or not a Semantic Grid approach has been attempted so far!) These are wide-ranging, from information services in semantic datagrids to service discovery and negotiation in Grid middleware to social networks and distributed collaboration to novel applications. * Experience reports. What worked and what didn't when you used Semantic Web technologies in your Grid middleware and applications (e.g. semantically described services and resources, knowledge services, semantic datagrid, RDF triplestores and query languages, ontologies such as OWL-S). Where did your metadata come from? What was the reaction of your users? What lessons did you learn? * Ontologies. Tell us about the ontologies (and folksomonies) you are using, in whatever representation (e.g. RDFS or OWL), whether new or whether you've imported existing schemas representation; e.g. CIM in OWL. How might the community benefit from your ontologies? * Tools and technologies. Especially for "technology innovators", tell us about the approaches you wish to promote to address the challenges and to realise the opportunities arising from the semantically- enabled Grid. This includes Semantic Web tools and technologies but also agent-based systems, peer-to-peer and other approaches that utilize machine processable metadata. * Open Laptop Demonstrations. Short demos you can do informally on your laptop in a coffee break (interactive or videos). Note that individuals and projects may submit multiple position papers (plus a demo) if you wish; e.g. a Grid project using semantic technologies may wish to present both use cases and experiences. The Workshop will be open to all GGF attendees but is limited to 50 participants - priority will be given to those who have submitted position papers. All workshop materials, including papers and presentations, will be made available to the community via the Web by January 31. Note. On Tuesday Feb 14 (10:30am-12pm) we will hold a Semantic Grid 101 session which will provide a quick introduction to Semantic Web and Semantic Grid for newcomers, so that everyone can gain maximum benefit from the workshop. This session is open to everyone whether or not they attend the workshop. Submission details Papers should be 2-5 pages in length and be submitted in Word or PDF format to Nicky Harding nch@ecs.soton.ac.uk, indicating which of the above categories the paper is in. To be considered for presentation these must be received by January 12, 2006. We will acknowledge receipt of your submission. The preliminary programme will be announced on January 16, four weeks before the event. For demos please give a title and one paragraph outline by email, suitable for listing on a Web page. Programme Committee David De Roure University of Southampton, UK Geoffrey Fox Indiana University, USA Carole Goble University of Manchester, UK Jonathan Dale Fujitsu, USA Jane Hunter University of Queensland, Australia Jim Myers National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA Enquiries If you have any queries or seek further information, please contact Nicky Harding by email on nch@ecs.soton.ac.uk or by phone on +44 23 8059 4474.
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