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1st International Workshop on Games for Knowledge Acquisition (PlayIT'11)
Many areas of knowledge acquisition inherently rely on the availability on large quantities of human input. The problem is that in many of these domains, users lack the motivation to contribute the required metadata. At the same time, there is a steady trend of people spending a substantial amount of time in playing games. As initially proposed by Luis von Ahnís "Games with a Purpose", one can benefit from the vast amount of hours spent on online playing, by applying mechanisms to extract meaningful information from game inputs. Since then, there have been many proposals to use casual games which capitalize on fun and competition as two key motivators for people, to willingly invest time and effort in knowledge-acquisition related tasks hiding behind an entertaining collaborative game experience.
The PLAYIT workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in Web technologies to discuss and exchange positions on the topic of using games for acquiring knowledge following the paradigm of human computation.
4th Workshop on Non-Functional Properties and SLA Management in Service-Oriented Computing @ECOWS'10
Non-functional properties play an important role in all service related tasks, especially in discovery, selection and substitution of services. It is simple to imagine a scenario in which multiple services which provide the same functionality can fulfill a user request. In this case the ability of the user to differentiate between the services depends upon their non-functional properties. Modeling, managing and performing service related tasks such as discovery, composition, negotiation and agreement based on NFPs become fundamental challenges in Service-Oriented Architectures especially in real business settings. Directly connected to the tasks mentioned above are the specification, enforcement and management of Service Level Agreements (SLAs). SLAs give the service consumer some level of guarantee that the provider and the service/s that they provide will operate within acceptable bounds - particularly with regards to non-functional properties and QoS values. At the same time SLAs serve a role for the provider in planning resource allocation and avoiding unexpected legal wrangles. With the ever-growing demand for eBusiness, service providers are increasingly interested in enforcing contracts electronically allowing autonomous supervision of service status and management. Machine-understandable NFPs and QoS models are therefore key to the widespread uptake of SLAs as well as all of the service related tasks mentioned above.
The workshop aims to tackle the research problems around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enable management of non-functional properties and Service Level Agreements in the context of Service Oriented Computing. This proposed workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry attendees addressing these issues, to promote and foster a greater understanding of how the management of NFP, QoS and SLAs can assist business to business and enterprise application integration.
INSEMTIVES ISWC2010 Tutorial - 10 Ways to make your Semantic App. addictive (Tutorial@ISWC2010)
Useful semantic content cannot be created fully automatically, but motivating people to become an active part of this endeavor is still an art more than a science. In this tutorial we will revisit fundamental design issues of semantic-content authoring technology in order to find out which incentives speak to people to become engaged with the Semantic Web, and to determine the ways they can be transferred into technology design.
We will present a combination of methods from areas as diverse as community support, participation management, usability engineering, and incentives theory, which can be applied to analyze semantically enabled systems and applications and design incentivized variants thereof, as well as empirically grounded best practices which should be taken into account in order to encourage large-scale user participation. We will demonstrate the utility of these methods in three case studies in the areas of enterprise knowledge management, media and entertainment, and IT ecosystems. Hiding the technicalities of knowledge engineering, semantic annotation and data integration behind captivating, entertaining games is one prominent instance of incentivized semantic content authoring technology.
Our tutorial will introduce a game design API together with a number of guidelines for realizing casual games which produce useful semantic content, and present several games based thereupon that have been developed in the European research project INSEMTIVES.
3rd Future Internet Symposium 2010 (FIS 2010)
The Future Internet Symposium (FIS 2010) is now in its third year and will once again offer a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss key issues in the Future Internet: networks, services, multimedia, Internet of Things, security and trust. This year we will offer a particular focus on the aspect of virtualisation of ICT resources and services.
VLDB Workshop on Semantic Data Management (SemData@VLDB)
The goal of the SemData workshop is to provide a platform for the discussion and investigation of various aspects related to semantic databases and data management in the large. Many of the semantic data management challenges cumulate in the need for scalable and performing database solutions for semantic data, a building block that runs largely behind comparable non-semantic technologies. In order to make semantic technologies take on the targeted market share, it is indispensable that technological progress allows semantic repositories to reach near performance parity with some of the best RDBMS solutions without having to omit the advantages of a higher query expressivity compared to basic key-value stores, or the higher schema flexibility compared to the relational model. It is time that one must no longer pay a heavy price in terms of longer run times or more expensive equipment for profiting from the flexibility of the generic physical model underlying the semantic graph-based structures of RDF. We also recognize that there will always be a burden with more flexibility. Hence, the goal is to minimize the drawbacks and maximize the advantages of the semantic RDF-minded repositories.
10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2010)
The Tenth International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2010) will be held July 5 - 9, 2010 in Vienna, Austria. ICWE 2010 aims at promoting research and scientific excellence on Web Engineering and at bringing together scientists and practitioners interested in technologies, methodologies, tools, and techniques used to develop and maintain Web-based applications and to enable and improve the dissemination and use of Web-related content.
ICWE 2010 invites original submissions in any of the following categories: research papers, industrial experience papers, workshop papers, demonstrations, posters, and tutorials. The submissions may cover new approaches in Web Engineering, novel viewpoints, challenges, and visions on any aspect of Web Engineering, as well as reports on the implementation and deployment of advanced Web projects in an industrial or application scenario.
Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010)
The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) is to bring together researchers and practioners dealing with different aspects of semantics on the Web. ESWC2010 builds on the success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series, but seeks to extend its focus by engaging with other communities within and outside ICT, in which semantics can play an important role. At the same time, ESWC2010 is a truly international conference. Semantics of web content, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), data about web usage, natural language processing, etc. will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of functionality. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and make this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services, based on reasoning with metadata and ontologies, will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making tasks. Research about web semantics can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science.
STI International Symposium 2010
The STI International Symposium 2010 is the annual event where representatives from the STI Member organizations gather together to share research achievements and establish beneficial relationships with fellow researchers and developers in the progressing field of semantic technologies. The Symposium is a broaden version of our previous two Offsites with more invited talks, as well as extended poster and demo sessions providing participants with more interactive time focusing on sharing their impressive accomplishments of the past year with fellows and colleagues from around the world. The STI International Symposium 2010 will take place in Kalamaki, Crete.
European Semantic Technology Conference 2009 (ESTC 2009)
The 3rd European Semantic Technology Conference - ESTC2009 - will be organized in Vienna, Austria for the third time in a row. The aim of the conference is to bring together the world's leading thinkers, innovators, developers, engineers, and senior practitioners within organizations responsible for information technology and systems in one place to learn about how to integrate this unparalleled technology into their operations. ESTC is Europe's most prominent and authoritative conference focusing on the growth of the ICT semantic technology markets, highlighted by showcased industry practices, advancements in the field of semantic technologies achieved in the past year, and successful marketing strategies in delivering semantic applications that generate new revenues. Participants will learn how to develop a cohesive strategy for managing semantic technology initiatives and how to utilizing these to evolve the operations and effectiveness of their organizations.
Web of Data in the Context of Multimedia (WoDMM)
The Web of Data aims at exposing data as resources on the Web and interlinking them with semantically related resources. This tutorial shows how multimedia content can be integrated into the Web of Data from a practical point of view and how users and developers can consume and benefit from linked data. Attendees will receive an easy introduction into the technical principles of the Web of Data, accompanied with practical demos. The tutorial is split into two parts: in the first part, an overview of the Web of Data and the Linking Open Data (LOD) initiative is given. The second part focuses on aspects of multimedia in the context of the Web of Data. All materials and demos will be available online.
Linked Data Camp Vienna
Heavily inspired by the idea of the VoCamp, the Linked Data Camp is a series of informal events where people can spend some dedicated time, discussing and working on the aforementioned aspects of an even better Web of Data, by designing and creating prototypes, vocabularies, mock-ups, or applications. People are asked to come together, to share their thoughts and to get hands on developing novel applications for the Web of Data. The emphasis of the events is not on creating the perfect result, a new technology, ready-to-use services, or a detailed concept for a new application, but on discovering and creating new building blocks and concepts that are good enough for other people to build upon.
The 7th International Joint Conference on Service Oriented Computing (Joint ICSOC&ServiceWave)
Service oriented computing is an interdisciplinary paradigm that revolutionizes the very fabric of distributed software development, including not only complex enterprise applications but also scientific, mobile, telecommuncations and embedded system-based applications.
This year ICSOC and its European partner ServiceWave Conference series are particularly pleased to join forces. The joint ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009 aims to provide a world-leading forum and unique opportunity for academic researchers and industry practitioners to report on groundbreaking research work in service oriented computing. The joint conference fosters the creation of cross-community scientific excellence by gathering academic and industrial experts from various disciplines such as business process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless & mobile communication networks, grid computing, networking, service science and software engineering.
ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009 places particular emphasis on outstanding research papers leading towards the convergence of the Internet of Services & Things.
The conference will feature research and industry talks, tutorials, demonstrations, and workshops.
The 3rd Workshop on Non-Functional Properties and SLA Management in Service-Oriented Computing (NFPSLAM-SOC'09)
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming a key aspect for rapidly evolving businesses that require agile system composability and flexibility. As core concepts of any SOA-based system, services have recently received significant interest. They can be used to support Business-to-Business (B2B), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), and collaborations within or between Virtual Organizations. Like other software components services expose both functional properties (i.e. what they do) and non-functional properties (i.e. the way they are supplied). Non-functional properties (NFPs) of a system are many and varied, including all properties, which are not directly related to the functionality provided. NFPs include quality of service (QoS) as well as other properties such as cost, adherence to standards and obligations on the consumer/provider. QoS is one of the most important subsets of non-functional properties. Although the term QoS is traditionally used to refer specifically to network performance and reliability characteristics (and methods of guaranteeing these properties) in the context of SOA the term must refer to a wider variety of service properties. This is because there are numerous properties which can be used as indicators of quality (including, e.g. performance, dependability, security, accuracy, customer service, trust, etc.). The term, as applied in SOA, must also refer to properties of system components at different levels of granularity (e.g. network, server, service, operation).
The 8th Semantic Web Services Challenge Workshop – SWSC 2009
This SWS Challenge workshop, in conjunction with ECOWS 2009, provides a forum for researchers and developers of Semantic Web Services to present and discuss the latest progress in the area and to discuss the gap between research, required methodologies, tools and their applications in practice.
The workshop invites the submission of papers related to the topics of interest below as well as papers describing a solution for one of the SWS-Challenge scenarios. Participants are also invited to propose industrially-relevant new scenarios to be incorporated into the official SWS Challenge testbed.
International Workshop on Semantic Extensions to Middleware: Enabling Large Scale Knowledge Applicat (SEMELS'09 - OTM)
With this workshop, we aim at bringing together promising middleware and Semantic Web research, which - in integration rather than in current isolation - support the quest for scalable and dynamic systems to manage and use distribute and heterogeneous data and services on the Web. We are looking for proposals that could contribute to a new semantic middleware layer that enables the Semantic Web in the true Web sense by considering the traditional issues of data and process heterogeneity, however with a clear focus on large-scale, open and distributed environments.
The outcome of the workshop is thus expected to provide new insights, ideas, and technologies that enable a semantic middleware that delivers a platform and virtualization layer for data integration, knowledge-driven collaboration, and service computing on the Web by exploiting the ever growing amounts of semantic artifacts that are made available online.
The workshop is collocated with the OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops.
8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) (ISWC 2009)
ISWC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. As the Semantic Web is rapidly entering the mainstream, ISWC 2009 will pay particular attention to showcasing scalable and usable solutions, which bring semantic technologies to web users in authentic application settings.
The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) series is organized and managed by theSemantic Web Science Association (SWSA).
Best Practices in Cloud Computing - Design Workshop
Cloud computing is the latest technology evolution and labelled among many as the next potential technology silver bullet. There are both great expectation and fear to what consequences these technologies might cause. We want to engage the development community in a series of workshops at OOPSLA09 to ensure that cloud computing evolves in a meaningful way for those who are likely to develop solutions on the cloud. This workshop will focus on design implications. Although there is already strong support for these technologies from companies such as IBM and Microsoft, there is a need to explore good ways of designing services for the Cloud to ensure quality and productivity. There are movements in the modelling community that require further investigation as well as surviving concepts from the SOA era that need to be captured. Capturing and discussing best practices on these subjects will contribute to a healthy movement in the right direction for those who will develop services for the Cloud.
IEEE SCC 2009 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2009)
Services account for a major part of the IT industry today. Companies increasingly like to focus on their core expertise area and use IT services to address all their peripheral needs. Services Computing is a new science which aims to study and better understand the foundations of this highly popular industry. It covers the science and technology of leveraging computing and information technology to model, create, operate, and manage business services. Since 2004, the International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) has provided a platform for practitioners to present the latest advances in services science. Like its predecessors, SCC 2009 will contribute in building the pillars of this important science and shaping the future of Services Computing.
4th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC) (EuroSSC 2009)
Smart Sensing and Context are the key enablers for smarter autonomous systems, providing transparent technologies to realise the vision of ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligent networks. (Wireless) sensor and actuator networks, tightly integrated into the fabric of the Internet – a Real World Internet – provide the underlying manifestation of the real world in the digital world. The realisation of this Real World Internet leads to emergence of smart surroundings, covered with objects and persons wearing clothing that provide networked sensing and feedback elements (through actuation) to infer user's needs and provide relevant context aware assistance. Networked smart sensors recognise context from raw data and utilise context to optimise sensing. Higher-level context is inferred locally or within a distributed network by combining and abstracting information from smart sensors.
Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2009)
The third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2009) continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of ICSC2007 and ICSC2008 as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying the emerging research topics and defining the future of the field. The event is located in Berkeley, California. The technical program of ICSC2009 includes workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, and more. Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited.
The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation and matching of the semantics of computational content to that of naturally expressed user intentions in order to retrieve, manage, manipulate or even create content, where "content" may be anything including video, audio, text, processes, services, hardware, networks, etc.
1st ACTIVE Summer School on Advanced Technologies for a Knowledge-Powered Enterprise
ACTIVE is an FP7 three year Integrated research Project co-funded by the European Commission that started on 1st March 2008. ACTIVE addresses the need for greater knowledge worker productivity with three integrated research themes: easier sharing of information through a combination of formal techniques based on ontologies and informal techniques based on user tags so-called folksonomies; sharing and reusing informal knowledge processes-by learning those knowledge processes from the user’s behaviour; and understanding the user’s context-so as to tailor the information presented to the user to fit the current task.
The 3-day summer school is mainly targeted at students, scholars and researchers from industries being interested in recent developments, solutions and technologies from the areas of: Semantic technologies and content, Social software and Web 2.0, Adaptive and context-aware systems, Context mining, Knowledge filters, Stream mining, Process mining, Anomaly detection, Meta learning, Forecasting, Social network analysis.
Joint workshop of LarKC and SOA4All
The purpose of this meeting is to begin the process of alignment between the integrating projects SOA4All and LarKC. Both of these projects are reaching a stage at which the first results are becoming available and it is now timely to identify those activities where collaboration will be mutually beneficial, most likely involving technology sharing and standardisation efforts. The outcome of the meeting should be a better mutual understanding of research goals and concrete steps to ensure a closer the coming years.
Future Internet Symposium 2009 (FIS 2009)
Following from our successful event in 2008 the Future Internet Symposium (FIS2009) will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the key issues in the areas of networks, services, security and trust, multimedia and Internet of things related to the design of a new network able to fully meet the needs of citizens, business and government in the 21st century.
Web Service Crawling and Annotation
The aim of this tutorial is to describe how semantic technologies can be employed for improving the large-scale discovery of Web Services. We concentrate on working with data dumps coming from a Web Service crawler that focuses only on service relevant parts of the Web, on building unique service objects out of the data and on semi-automatically annotating these services. Input to this tutorial comes from actual results of the FP7 European R&D projects Service-Finder and SOA4All. The tutorial will show in detail which kind of data we will have to deal with, i.e. WSDL services, Web APIs (a.k.a. RESTful services) and related Web documents. We will address the topic of document deduplication and explain how to infer unique service objects from the data. In a next step we will show how to automatically extract information from Web documents (both structured and unstructured data), and use them for semantic enrichment of the services. The automatic annotations, exemplified with the use of GATE, consist of both category annotations and generic service information annotations, described by the means of specific service ontologies. We will introduce these ontologies and will detail the semantic annotation via hands-on sessions. In a last step we will show how to use MicroWSMO to semantically annotate RESTful services.
Lightweight Semantic Annotations for Services on the Web
This tutorial “Lightweight Semantic Annotations for Services on the Web” tackles the ICEC’09 theme of “Service Innovations for E-commerce” and the question of how to effectively deliver values to internal and external customers in the face of an ever-increasing number of Web services and Web-based applications. The tutorial aims at providing basic and advanced insights on how the application of Service-Oriented Computing paradigm on a Web scale can address this challenge.
In this context, the tutorial places particular emphasis on the need for applying semantic technologies in an innovative way. Semantic technologies can potentially provide the means to achieve the scalability required to deal with the increasing number of Web services and Web-based applications shaping the present and future of e-commerce. To this end, the tutorial introduces Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), which is a popular new approach for supporting the rapid development of low-cost, interoperable, and evolvable distributed applications. Against this background, the tutorial presents and explains the next evolutionary step of SOA towards a Web of services driven by an underlying ambition to make services widely available as Web services on the Internet: SOA extended with Semantic Web Technology generating a global marketplace of services.
IEEE 2009 Summer School on Semantic Computing (SSSC2009)
Semantic Computing is currently emerging as a new field that integrates methods from multimedia (computer vision, speech processing), natural language processing, semantic web and ontology engineering, software engineering, and other fields with the goal of creating new applications that connect intuitively formulated user-intentions with the content of data.
The summer school will provide an introduction to the field to senior undergraduate and graduate students. A mix of young and well-established researchers and educators will present recent research results, as for example presented in the IEEE conferences on Semantic Computing or the International Journal on Semantic Computing. The tutorials will be complemented by keynote talks by renowned experts in the areas of Semantic Technologies, Ontologies, Multimedia or Natural Language Processing.
The 6-day event takes place on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in July 20-25, 2009.
Fifth European Conference on Model-Driven Architecture Foundations and Applications (ECMDA 2009)
Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is an initiative proposed by the Object Management Group (OMG) for platform-independent software development. It promotes the use of models in the specification, design, analysis, synthesis, deployment, and evolution of complex software systems. ECMDA-FA is dedicated to advancing the state of knowledge and fostering the industrialisation of the MDA methodology. Its focus is on engaging key figures of research and industry, in Europe and elsewhere, in a dialogue which will result in a stronger, more efficient industry, producing more reliable software on the basis of state-of-the-art research results. The 2009 conference is organised in two tracks dealing with the foundations and applications of MDA. There will be additional workshops and tools and poster exhibitions on these subjects. ECMDA-FA 2009 will be held at the University of Twente, in Enschede, the Netherlands.
6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009)
The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's Web by exploiting machine-processable metadata. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and makes this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making tasks. Semantic Web research can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Databases and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks and Web Engineering. Many advances within these areas can contribute towards the realization of the Semantic Web.
The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. ESWC2009 will also feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a PhD Symposium and a number of collocated workshops.
International Workshop on the Role of Services, Ontologies, and Context in Mobile Environments (RoSOC-M '09)
in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'09)
Today, computers are changing from big, grey, and noisy things on our desks to small, portable, and ever-networked devices most of us are carrying around. This new form of mobility imposes a shift in how we view computers and the way we work with them.
Services offer the possibility to overcome the limitations of individual mobile devices by making functionality offered by others available to them on an “as-needed” basis. Thus, using the service-oriented computing paradigm in mobile environments will considerably enlarge the variety of accessible applications and will enable new business opportunities in the mobile space by delivering integrated functionalities across wireless networks. Network hosted mobile services will allow mobile operators and third party mobile services provider to extend their businesses by making their network services available to a broader audience (e.g. developers, service providers, etc.); device hosted service will allow great potential for big innovations for applications and services that can be provided by individual mobile device owners.
1st Workshop on the Economics of Knowledge-based Technologies (ECONOM2009)
co-located with the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009), Poznan, Poland, April 29, 2009
Knowledge-based technologies use machine-understandable formalizations of expert knowledge to realize scalable, robust and economically feasible approaches and to support knowledge management, information integration or intelligent search. In order to encourage the wide industrial uptake of knowledge-based technologies, instruments to assess potential economic benefits of these technologies and to predict the total costs of their development and deployment are a must.
This workshop addresses economic aspects of knowledge-based technologies. This includes the assessment of their potential business value, more precisely the costs and benefits of their application, and qualitative and quantitative methods therefor. We are interested in original research looking into the aforementioned aspects for both knowledge-based systems and knowledge structures (i.e., ontologies, taxonomies, folksonomies) supporting these systems.
The goal of the workshop is to provide a communication platform for researchers to discuss ideas and results and to identify new challenges in the areas of economics and knowledge-based technologies. The workshop is also intended to be a networking event for participants from the industry willing to share their experiences on the adoption of knowledge-based technologies in enterprises.
Webcentives'09
Co-located with WWW '09, April 20-24 2009, in Madrid/Spain
The Web 2.0 movement has brought a new generation of usability and socio-technical change to the Web. At the same time, several so-called Web 2.0 applications had enormous success: Wikipedia, del.icio.us, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Geni – to name just a few. Having differing objectives, they all have something in common: huge amounts of enthusiastic users contributing and creating a plethora of content. The high acceptance of these applications with Web users from all over the world prove that they are usable and – more importantly – provide some kind of benefit. Each of the applications has incentive structure well in place, triggering user interest and involvement.
The aim of the workshop is to address the following questions around incentives and motivation of Web applications: what is the motivation for a user to (install and) use a tool? Which incentive structures can be applied to the Web, which cannot? Moreover, incentives are a crucial topic for future Web generations: Web paradigms, like the Semantic Web or the 3D Web, that are novel and unfamiliar to end users, aim to involve wide user bases. WEBCENTIVES will attract contributions analyzing, applying, and designing incentive structures for Web applications. We want to emphasize that the workshop also aims at failures, i.e. cases where incentives failed, in order to understand why they failed and to disseminate the lessons learned.
OCG Forum Semantic Systems
Computer Science in the 20th century was about perfect solutions in closed domains and applications. Computer Science in the 21st century will be about approximate solutions and means to capture the relationships between partial solutions and user requirements in terms of computational costs, ensuring a proper balance of their ratio, applicable in environments such as the Internet of the tomorrow. Semantics will provide the theoretical and technological framework for properly addressing this challenge.
The primary aim of the ÖCG Forum Semantic Systems 2008 is to bring together researchers, industry practitioners and decision makers to analyze the current state of play in the area of semantics and discuss its role in the global context of the ICT developments of the last years. A second aim of the event is to identify the instruments necessary to maximize the impact that semantic technologies can potentially have in the realization of the future Internet and to position Austrian R&D in this market at the European and international level.
The forum will be organized as a full-day event consisting of several sessions: invited talks by national and international key players, panel discussions, poster presentations and demonstrations, workshops. It will be held in the seminar facilities of ÖCG in Vienna.
Semantic Web Services Retreat (SWS Retreat '09)
The Semantic Web Service Retreat will be an intensive 5 day course, training existing and new researchers and practitioners in the field of Semantic Web Services. Please visit the website for further information, e.g. the preliminary program, and instructions on how to apply for participation.
11th International Symposium on Social Communication (ISSC2009)
The Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba's branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce the Eleventh International Symposium on Social Communication.
This interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and Folklore.
2nd Asian Semantic Web School (ASWS2008) (ASWS2008)
The Asian Semantic Web School aims to teach its attendees how to apply semantic technologies in their own projects and environments. The school is targeted at PhD students, young researchers and other interested parties affiliated to academia or industry. It is particularly our goal to bring together international experts in the field and to invite the leading research groups in Asia to be part of the program.
Presentations by renowned experts in the field will introduce the core technologies of the Semantic Web:
* Standard knowledge representation languages such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) or Web Ontology Language (OWL), including tools for exploiting their reasoning capabilities.
* Principles, methods and tools to build and manage ontologies and model domain knowledge.
* Methods and techniques for machine learning on the Semantic Web.
* The current directions in Semantic Web Services, in particular the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) and the related Web Service Modeling Language (WSML) and Web Service Execution Environment (WSMX).
2nd Non Functional Properties and Service Level Agreements in Service (NFPSLA-SOC'08)
The workshop aims to tackle the research problems around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enable management of non-functional properties and Service Level Agreements in the context of Service Oriented Computing. This proposed workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry attendees addressing these issues, to promote and foster a greater understanding of how the management of NFP, QoS and SLAs can assist business to business and enterprise application integration.
International Workshop on Semantic Extensions to Middleware: Enabling Large Scale Knowledge Applicat (SEMELS'08 (OTM))
This workshop addresses the need to extend existing middleware layers with semantic technologies to support future knowledge-centred information systems and their Web-based collaboration with other systems, abstracted from data and process models. Such semantically extended middleware can be applied in any context which involves large scale knowledge-based collaboration, such as in the biomedical and life sciences field or emergency planning, as well as facilitate new forms of intelligent Web-scale coordination of processes (a step towards the Service Web) which are currently not envisioned precisely because such a semantically-capable middleware layer is not existent.
The workshop is hosted at the OnTheMove (OTM) Federated Conferences and Workshops and supported by the EC STREP TripCom.
1st Workshop on Incentives for the Semantic Web (INSEMTIVE 2008)
One of the reasons for this state of affairs, almost seven years after the publication of the seminal article on the Semantic Web, has been always considered to be the lack of high quality semantic content. A critical mass of semantically annotated Web pages, semantically enhanced multimedia repositories, as well as business relevant, widely accepted ontologies would provide a feasible basis for the development of semantic applications of immediate added value for it users, and for the adoption of semantic technologies at industrial level. Despite a mature set of techniques, tools, and methods for authoring semantic content, one can observe very limited user involvement. The lack of semantic content and the missing engagement of users can be traced back to the missing incentive models incorporatd by semantic technology. This is very contrary to the Web 2.0 movement which lives great popularity and a huge amount of user contributions. Even though, there are also many failing Web 2.0 tools, applications like Wikipedia, Del.icio.us, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook or LinkedIn generate enormous user interest and massive amounts of data. Each of those applications implements an incentive that motivates people to contribute their time and human intelligence.
Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web (SMR2 2008)
Co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference Karlsruhe, Germany
The SMR2 workshop provides a forum for promoting, presenting, and discussing the latest scientific advances on semantic Web service and resource retrieval; and Establishing and fostering cross-disciplinary relations between relevant parties in research and/or business for the purpose of joint work on solutions to relevant problems in the domain.
Future Internet Symposium 2008 (FIS2008)
The program of the First Future Internet Symposium will be international in scope, and focused on research. It will host original research papers, workshops, invited talks from leading academic and industrial researchers, panel sessions and tutorials. The symposium will be highly interdisciplinary, open to all scientific areas, with an emphasis on the technologies driving the development of Web 3.0: semantics and services.
2nd European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC2008)
The European Semantic Technology Conference is the only European conference that brings together an international community of practitioners working to apply semantic technology in diverse media and leverage the technology in the commercial environment. ESTC gathers the world's leading thinkers, innovators, developers, engineers and senior practitioners within organizations responsible for information technology and systems in one place to learn about how to integrate this unparalleled technology into their operations.
10th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2008)
The International Conference on Electronic Commerce brings together the top of the scientific research community in e-commerce and e-business from all over the world. The theme of this conference is Semantic technology moving toward interoperability.
Middleware for the Semantic Web Workshop - 2nd ICSC (MSW Workshop)
With this workshop we aim at bringing together promising cutting-edge middleware and Semantic Computing research, which - in integration and coordination rather than in current isolation - address the aforementioned challenges and can form a new semantic middleware layer that enables the global Web of knowledge and services, and hence the true Semantic Web vision. We address the traditional issues of data and process heterogeneity, however with a clear focus on large-scale, open and distributed environments, i.e. in settings that match the Semantic Web in the true Web sense, rather than on a corporate or even application level.
Scalability in Semantic Computing:The European View
Mike Lynch, CEO and Founder of Autonomy, recently stated that “meaning-based computing is the way of the future as 85 per cent of information within enterprises is unstructured and that understanding this 'hidden' intelligence is at the heart of improving the way we interact with information”. Some of the most advanced use cases for such semantic computing today require reasoning about 10 billion RDF triples in less than 100 ms. These numbers originate from the telecom sector aiming at generating revenue streams through new context-sensitive and personalized mobile services. This is just one example of a general demand. A second equally important example is the Internet of the Future, which envisions an environment with billions of users, many billions of resources, trillions of services, and even more meta-data used to describe them. All of that will be integrated through a network of services. In order to establish meaning-based computing as a means to enable interoperability, it is important that semantic technologies scale to the size of such environments. This special session will give an overview of some of the most important achievements of European research in its enterprize towards the realization of scalable and robust semantic technologies. In particular the papers presented throughout the session will address the following topics:
- Semantic Service Orientation
- Semantic Middleware
- Semantic Web Reasoning
- Identity and Reference Management
- Semantic Business Process Management
Workshop on Coordination Models and Applications: Knowledge in Pervasive Environments (CoMA) (CoMA Workshop)
International IEEE Workshop on Coordination Models and Applications (CoMA): Knowledge in Pervasive Environments at the 17th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE).
The CoMa workshop is partially supported by the EU STREP TripCom and the EU STREP WORKPAD.
Turning data into risk knowledge (MUSING Workshop)
The programme will feature business and technology sessions focusing on:
- Data become knowledge: Modelling knowledge for risk governance·
- Innovative solutions for valuing data in risk management in the financial industry in Basel II age
- Emerging standards in the financial industry: XBRL at work
- How ontologies can help financial organisations in improving their risk management processes
- Integration of unstructured data into risk management for the financial industry
- Web-based services for SMEs’ risk self-assessment in the web2.0 era
- Alignment with European Commission’s policies
Interactive panel discussions will close the workshop offering the audience an insight into semantic services and best practices.
11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008)
"Business processes and social contexts - reaching beyond the enterprise".
Forum for the exchange and dissemination of topical research in the development, implementation, application and improvement of computer systems for business processes.
Industrieforum
Zukunft des Business Reporting
Perspektiven für Unternehmen, Banken und IT-Dienstleister durch Standardisierung von Finanzinformationen
Die Kommunikation von Unternehmen mit Kunden, Investoren und Aufsichtsbehörden sowie Analysten oder Ratingagenturen wird im Wettbewerb um Kunden und Marktanteile immer wichtiger. Harmonisierungsbestrebungen und die Bilanzskandale in den USA und in Europa haben dazu geführt, dass der Gesetzgeber die Publizitätsvorschriften für Unternehmen modernisiert und international gültige Standards geschaffen hat. Die Umstellung von einer nationalen auf internationale Rechnungslegungsgrundsätze ist nicht nur für börsennotierte Gesellschaften ein aktuelles Thema.
In vielen Unternehmen steht die Organisation von Controlling und Rechnungswesen auf dem Prüfstand, weil sich ihre herkömmliche Struktur angesichts der neuen Anforderungen als zu komplex und unflexibel erwiesen hat. Alle Bereiche eines Unternehmens müssen in Zukunft als Informationslieferanten für die interne Entscheidungsfindung und die Außendarstellung zusammenwirken. Die Herausforderung liegt darin, Unternehmensdaten auf möglichst sinnvolle Weise bedarfsgerecht und international vergleichbar aufzubereiten.
Semantic Web im Praxiseinsatz (Tiroler IT-Tag)
In der heutigen Gesellschaft wird Wissensmanagement immer wichtiger. Arbeiten und Probleme werden kollaborativ, vernetzt und auf globaler Basis angepackt. Wissen ist daher nicht mehr nur lokal vorhanden, sondern verteilt und abhängig von inkompatiblen Datenstrukturen. Zudem wächst die Menge an Information und Wissen fast exponentiell in allen Bereichen der Gesellschaft. Verschiedenste Organisationen generieren, verändern, erweitern und tauschen Informationen aus, so dass sich der Inhalt und die Struktur der vorhandenen Daten sehr schnell ändern. Das sogenannte „Semantic Web“ verspricht hier Lösungen. So sollen Informationen treffsicherer gefunden, der Datenaustausch vereinfacht und neue Impulse für das Wissensmanagement gegeben werden.
6th International Semantic Web Conference and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC and ASWC 07)
6th International Semantic Web Conference & 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference
ASWC is the forum to discuss the achievements in Semantic Web and Semantic Web technologies in Asia
BEXCO (Busan Exibition Convention Center), Busan, Korea
Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web (SMR2 2007)
Co-located with the 6th International Semantic Web 2007 Conference
The SMR2 workshop provides a forum for promoting, presenting, and discussing the latest scientific advances on semantic Web service and resource retrieval; and Establishing and fostering cross-disciplinary relations between relevant parties in research and/or business for the purpose of joint work on solutions to relevant problems in the domain.
Non Functional Properties and Service Level Agreements in Service Oriented Computing Workshop (NFPSLA-SOC'07)
co-located with The 5th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2007 )
This workshop aims to tackle the research problems around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enable management of non-functional properties and Service Level Agreements in the context of Service Oriented Computing. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry attendees addressing these issues, to promote and foster a greater understanding of how the management of NFP, QoS and SLAs can assist business to business and enterprise application integration.
9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp07)
After Tokio in 2005 and California in 2006, the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007) will come to Innsbruck in Tirol, Austria.
The annual UbiComp conference provides the premier forum in which to present research results in all areas relating to the design, implementation, application and evaluation of ubiquitous computing technologies, bringing together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines and geographical areas who are exploring the frontiers of computing as it moves beyond the desktop and becomes increasingly interwoven into the fabrics of our lives.
2nd Int'l Workshop on Applications of Logic Programming to the Web, Semantic Web and Web Services (ALPSWS2007)
This workshop is focused at applications of Logic Programming as a paradigm for declarative knowledge representation and reasoning for the Web. The idea is to bring together the large body of work related to applications of LP to the Web, Semantic Web and Web Services. This year's edition of ALPSWS is co-located with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2007) in Porto, Portugal. The previous workshop ALPSWS2006 was held in Seattle, Washington and co-located with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP2006), part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC2006).
Ninth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2007)
The International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) annually brings together the leaders of the scientific research community in e-commerce and e-business from all over the world.
The conference will showcase new ideas that have emerged from cross-disciplinary discovery and collaboration - directions that are at the heart of current efforts to further advance e-commerce as both a business and academic discipline. The conference theme of ICEC'07 will focus on the discovery of innovative techniques and technologies that strive to identify and overcome such difficulties, and set the foundation for new research endeavours that will allow e-commerce to grow much more rapidly in the years to come.
4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007)
4th European Semantic Web Conference will present the latest results in the research and application in Semantic Web technologies including: Semantic Web Services, Ontology Management, Multimedia and Semantic Web, Semantic Web Mining, Logics for the Semantic Web and many more.
ESWC 2007 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers, particularly those on industrial efforts and experiences with Semantic Web projects, theoretical, methodological, empirical, and applications papers.
International Workshop on Service Composition (sercomp'06)
Composition of services in dynamic environments has received much interest for its potential to support Business-to-Business (B2B) or Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). One of such dynamic environments is the World Wide Web, which makes available a huge and rapidly growing number of heterogeneous services. Recent efforts to develop ontology languages for the Web and ways of describing web services semantically in this environment have resulted in a number of prototype systems that can dynamically combine services and interact with them.
This workshop aims to tackle the research problems around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enable composition of services in the context of the WWW. Of particular interest are the methodologies that enable automatic or semiautomatic composition of services, semantic web service, web services, and e-services. The workshop especially welcomes contributions that exploit rich semantic descriptions of web services for semi-automatic and automatic composition using web intelligence and autonomous agents technology.
International Conference on Semantics - Semantics 2006 (Semantics 2006)
From Visions to Applications - Semantics: The New Paradigm Shift in IT
Semantics 2006 is the first concentrated event in Europe focussing on applied aspects of semantic technologies. The event addresses researchers to contribute new research ideas, interesting applications, industrial adoption scenarios and visions in the Semantic Web domain.
Besides the impact on the research community, Semantics 2006 aims to bring together researchers with industry representatives like Chief Level Executives, Project Managers, Software Vendors and Investors.
Semantics 2006 is a sequel of the Semantics 2005, which took place from 23rd – 25th of November 2005 at the Tech Gate Vienna and attracted 250 visitors. The annual event is organized by a consortium, consisting of the Austrian Computer Society, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NIWA websolutions, profactor Steyr, Salzburg New Media Lab and the Semantic Web School.
First International Workshop on Anthologizing Industrial Standards (OIS 2006)
A major bottleneck towards business applications of Semantic Web technology and machine reasoning is the lack of industry-strength ontologies that go beyond academic prototypes. The design of such ontologies from scratch in a textbook-style ontology engineering process is in many cases unattractive, for it would require significant effort, and because the resulting ontologies could not build on top of existing community commitment. Also, real-world problems of data and systems interoperability can only be overcome using Semantic Web technology if ontologies exist that represent the very standards currently in use in systems and databases.
5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006)
ISWC is a major international forum where visionary and state-of-the-art research of all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. ISWC2006 follows the 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002 which was held in Sardinia, Italy, 9-12 June 2002), the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003 which was held in Florida, USA, 20 - 23 October 2003), 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004 which was held in Hiroshima, Japan, 7 - 11 November 2004), and 4th International Semantic Web Conference 2005 (ISWC'05 which was held in Galway, Ireland, 6 - 10 November, 2005).
International Computer Software and Applications Conference (ESAS 2006)
An International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems will take place at the 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference in Chicago.
The workshop theme will be Applying Semantic Web Technologies in Research and Development of Software Agents, Mobile Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Apr 1, 2006 deadline for paper submission.
- May 15, 2006 notification of acceptance.
- June 16, 2006 camera-ready due.
Please follow the link for full details.
Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architecture Workshop (mda4soa'06)
A new paradigm – service-orientation – is currently emerging for distributed computing and e-business processing; it has evolved from object-oriented and component-based computing to enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries. This new paradigm utilizes services (autonomous platform-independent computational elements that can be described, published, discovered and accessed over the Internet using standard protocols) as fundamental elements for developing applications/solutions; services will be important for customers and not the specific software or hardware component that is used to implement the services. In this context, services become the next level of abstraction in the process of creating systems that would enable automation of e-businesses. This paradigm shift is changing the way the computer software is developed and used (designed, architected, delivered, consumed, and analysed), and this way of reorganizing software applications and infrastructure into a set of interacting services is usually referred to as Service-oriented Architectures (SOA).
Advances in Semantics for Web services 2006 Workshop (semantics4ws'06)
Web services have added a new level of functionality to the current Web by taking a first step towards seamless integration of distributed software components using Web standards. Nevertheless, current Web service technologies around SOAP, WSDL and UDDI operate at a syntactic level and, therefore, although they support interoperability (i.e. interoperability between the many diverse application development platforms that exist today) through common standards, they still require human interaction to a large extent. For example, the human programmer has to manually search for appropriate Web services in order to combine them in a useful manner, which limits scalability and greatly curtails the added economic value of envisioned with the advent of Web services.
Service Discovery on the WWW Workshop (sdisco`06)
co-located with The 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2006 )
This workshop aims to tackle the research problems around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enables discovery of services in the context of the WWW. Of particular interest are the methodologies that enable automatic or semi-automatic discovery of services, semantic web service, web services, and e-services. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry attendees addressing many of these issues, and promote and foster a greater understanding of how the discovery of services can assist business to business and enterprise application integration.
1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2006)
The vision of the Semantic Web is to make the contents of the Web unambiguously computer interpretable, enabling automation of a diversity of tasks currently performed by human beings. The goal of providing semantics and automated reasoning capabilities to the Web draws upon research in a broad range of areas including Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software Engineering, Distributed Computing and Information Systems. Contributions to date have included languages for semantic annotation of Web documents, automated reasoning capabilities for Web languages, ontologies, query and view languages, semantic translation of Web contents, semantic integration middleware, technologies and principles for building multi-agent and Grid systems, semantic interoperation of programs and devices, technologies and principles for describing, searching and composing Web Services, and more.
The 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC2006) has been established to foster research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technology in Asia. ASWC will be run by ASWC steering committee in harmony with the sister conferences such as International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) and European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC).
Applications of Logic Programming in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services (ALPSWS2006)
Co-located with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP2006), part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC2006), Seattle, Washington.
The advent of the Semantic Web promises machine readable semantics and a machine-processable next Generation of the Web. The first step in this direction is the annotation of static data on the Web by machine processable information about knowledge and its structure by means of Ontologies. The next step in this direction is the annotation of dynamic applications and services invocable over the Web in order to facilitate automation of discovery, selection and composition of semantically described services and data sources on the Web by intelligent methods, which is called Semantic Web Services. Many workshops and conferences were dedicated to these promising areas mostly with generic topics and bringing together people from a widespread variety of research fields with different understandings of the topic. The plethora of these workshops and conferences makes it hard to keep track of the various approaches of a particular technology such as declarative logic programming in our case.
In this workshop we want to advance the applications of Logic Programming as a paradigm for declarative knowledge representation and reasoning for the Web. The idea is to bring together the impressive body of work related to applications of LP to Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services.
W3C, Face-to-Face Meeting - Semantic Annotation of WSDL Working Group (SAWSDL Meeting)
On June 20 and 21, the W3C Semantic Annotations for WSDL (SAWSDL) Working Group is meeting at DERI Galway for its first face-to-face meeting. The SAWSDL WG was started recently in order to bring together the diverse Semantic Web Service research groups and build a standard that will serve as the common ground for describing Web Services semantically. The working group has members from such major Semantic Web Services research centers as DERI, University of Maryland, IBM and many others.
3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006)
The 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference will be held in Budva, Montenegro from the 11th - 14th June, 2006. It will present the latest results in research and application in semantic web technologies (including knowledge markup languages, Semantic Web services, ontology management and more).
ESWC 2006 will also feature a special industry-oriented event providing European industry with an opportunity to become even more familiar with these technologies. It will offer a tutorial program, focusing on the latest in Semantic Web technologies.
ESWC 2006 is co-located with a meeting of the Knowledge Web network of excellence . Workshops and meetings of other European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects involved in the semantic web and semantic web technologies will be able to showcase their developments.
For full conference details, please log on to the ESWC2006 website.
Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium (CSWWS 2006)
For the Canadian SWWS, the Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG) is inviting original, relevant (context of the semantic Web), high quality papers from all over the world. Some of the contributions may be full papers, short papers or tutorials proposals. Tutorials should be based on simple concepts, applications and tools of interest to a wide range of public.
WWW 2006 (www2006)
The 'New Wave' investigates the next wave of capability for the web, the semantic and pervasive web, and how these will transform society over the next decade. It will scrutinize the cyber future for business and industry and show how the commercial world is adopting and adapting the latest academic and industrial research.
7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2006)
The strong growth in wireless communications and the ever increasing availability of mobile multi-purpose devices have created a global computing environment that plays a key role in the daily activities of millions of people. Users communicate, work, and confer using a wide range of devices all connected via an array of communication networks that provide voice and data access regardless of geographic position.
This infrastructure aggregation presents a number of challenges especially when it comes to data-intensive applications: scale, variable and intermittent connectivity, provision of location-dependent applications, bandwidth/power consumption, device size limitations, and multimedia delivery across hybrid networks.
Conventional issues in data management have to be thought and evaluated anew in this rapidly changing environment. Non-traditional issues including semantics of data, location-centric data services, broadcast and multicast delivery, data availability techniques, security of data, as well as privacy questions have to be addressed. MDM'06 focuses on challenges and opportunities for data management and access technology in the evolving world of mobile, wearable, and pervasive computing.
eGalway Week (eGalway)
The central event of eGalway week will be the Broadband Conference & Expo on Wednesday 26th of April in the Radisson Hotel. At this, Internet Service Providers, eBusinesses and the Public sector will demonstrate the many uses of the Internet and the services and products people can avail of online. The Minister for Communications, Noel Dempsey, will be addressing the conference. There is no charge to attend the event in the Radisson and we are invited to attend.
Semantic Web Services Challenge 2006 Phase I (SWSC 2006)
The goal of the SWS Challenge is to develop common a common understanding of various technologies intended to facilitate the automation of mediation, choreography and discovery for Web Services. The intent of this challenge is to explore the trade-offs among existing approaches. Additionally we would like to figure out which parts of problem space may not yet be covered. The workshops aim to provide a forum for discussion based on a common application. This Challenge workshops seeks participation from industry and academic researchers developing software components and/or intelligent agents that have the ability to automate mediation, choreography and discovery processes between Web services.
Emerging Technologies for Web-based Communities, Workshop at IADIS 2006 (ET-WBC 2006)
The organizing committee of the Emerging Technologies for Web-based Communities (ET-WBC 2006) workshop is soliciting contributions as full, short or position papers. These papers may describe complete or work in progress about emerging theories, applications, technologies and tools of interest and value to Web-based communities.
Keynote speech by an expert in the field (to be announced). Selected papers to be published in the proceedings of the workshop and best papers to appear in related jounal recommended by the main conference organizers.
Submission Deadline (papers): November 25 th, 2005, Notification of acceptance: December 25th 2005, Final Manuscripts: January 10th, 2006.
International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2006)
The ICIW 2006 (International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services) inaugurates a series of co-located events that covers the complementary aspects related to designing and deploying of applications based on IP&Web-techniques and mechanisms. The main conference focuses on several tracks concerning Web technologies, design and development of Web-based applications, and interactions of these applications with other types of systems. Management aspects related to these applications and challenges on specialized domains are aided at too. Evaluation techniques and standard position on different aspects are part of the expected agenda. The call for submissions covers both theoretical and experimental topics. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas. Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints. Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.
4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005)
ISWC is a major international forum where visionary and state-of-the-art research of all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. ISWC2005 follows the 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002 which was held in Sardinia, Italy, 9-12 June 2002), the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003 which was held in Florida, USA, 20 - 23 October 2003) and 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004 which was held in Hiroshima, Japan, 7 - 11 November 2004).
W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services
Web Services standards, under development in the W3C Web Services Activity and other organizations, make up an integrated technology stack that Web applications developers can rely on to ensure interoperability. From the beginning, some research has been conducted to meet particular needs in this area, such as registering resources or services, discovering resources or services on the Web, composing a service by using several other services, etc. The early solutions consist of using Web agents, often using pre-defined directories, sometimes simply crawling the Web.
In parallel, starting from the need for metadata in resources, the W3C Semantic Web Activity has developed the initial building blocks of the Semantic Web technologies: the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The W3C Semantic Web Services Interest Group has shown a strong interest in having more integrated semantics inside the Web Services stack, and also provides evidence of a rich variety of research proceeding in this area. This work aims towards the general objective of a more comprehensive, more expressive framework for describing all aspects of services, which can enable more powerful tools and fuller automation of a broad range of Web services activities.
Recently, during the Constraints and Capabilities Workshop, proposals including Semantic Web technologies have already been discussed, in the light of requirements for expressing policies for Web Services. We now aim at looking into a generic extensible framework based on Semantic Web technologies, to support longer-term objectives, while continuing to develop immediate solutions for the most pressing Web Services requirements. The OWL-S submission has already demonstrated interest in this approach. Integration to the Web Services stack, and also in the Web architecture, should be key properties of such a framework.
The intent of the workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services is to provide advice to W3C on possible future work in the area, in particular the creation of a Working Group.
Semantic Web Services Week (SWSW)
Semantic Web Services aim to combine Semantic Web technology with Web Services, thereby providing an integrated solution for realising the vision of the Semantic Web. By using ontologies as the semantic data model for Web Service technologies this ensures adoption of the Semantic Web. Furthermore, semantically enhanced information processing allows development of high quality techniques for automated discovery, composition, contracting, and execution control for Web Services, thus enabling the promise of Web Services to become a reality.
2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2005)
The 2nd Annual European Semantic Web Conference was held in Heraklion, Crete May 29-June 1, 2005. It presented the latest results in research and application in semantic web technologies (including knowledge markup languages, semantic web services, ontology management and more).
ESWC 2005 also featured a special industry-oriented event providing European industry with an opportunity to become even more familiar with these technologies. It offered a tutorial program, focusing on the latest in semantic web technologies.
ESWC 2005 was co-located with a meeting of the Knowledge Web network of excellence. Workshops and meetings of other European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects involved in the semantic web and semantic web technologies were able to showcase their developments.
ESWC 2005 was sponsored by SDK, a group of three European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects known as SEKT, DIP and Knowledge Web. Together these projects aim to improve world-wide research and standardisation in the area of the Semantic Web.
Semantic Web Services: Preparing to meet the world of business applications Workshop (ISWC 2004)
Semantic Web Services are the next step in bringing the web to its full potential, after adding semantics to the static web. Web services can significantly increase the Web architecture's potential, by providing a way of automated program communication and discovery of services. This can be achieved by adding semantic annotations to the description of the component interfaces already available via standard technologies like WSDL, SOAP and UDDI.
Recently, a new major initiative (WSMO) has started in this area which has attracted a lot of attention. WSMO is an ontology for different aspects of Semantic Web Services aiming at solving the integration problem. The joint working groups around this initiative are developing a proper formalisation language for semantic web services and providing (WSML) and developing a reference implementation of WSMO (WSMX).
The objective of this workshop is to discuss different implementations related to WSMO, and to gain insight in problems related to implementing WSMO. We welcome papers on related topics and demonstrations of prototypes or deployed applications.
WSMO Implementation Workshop
Semantic Web Services are the next step in bringing the web to its full potential, after adding semantics to the static web. Web services can significantly increase the Web architecture's potential, by providing a way of automated program communication and discovery of services. This can be achieved by adding semantic annotations to the description of the component interfaces already available via standard technologies like WSDL, SOAP and UDDI.
Recently, a new major initiative (WSMO) has started in this area which has attracted a lot of attention. WSMO is an ontology for different aspects of Semantic Web Services aiming at solving the integration problem. The joint working groups around this initiative are developing a proper formalisation language for semantic web services and providing (WSML) and developing a reference implementation of WSMO (WSMX).
The objective of this workshop is to discuss different implementations related to WSMO, and to gain insight in problems related to implementing WSMO. We welcome papers on related topics and demonstrations of prototypes or deployed applications.
FOAF Workshop
This workshop on FOAF, social networking and the Semantic Web provides a first chance to discuss the unusual combination of perspectives - academic and scientific, engineering, social, legal and business - drawn together by these trends. The workshop aims to bring together for the first time researchers interested in the effects, analysis and application of social networks on the (Semantic) Web as well as practitioners building applications and infrastructure. The workshop will also try to give a snapshot of current developments, as well as setting a roadmap for the future of both FOAF and social networking - especially in the context of the Semantic Web.
ECAI Workshop
Various communities have taken advantage of the current Web functionalities to strengthen the communication and information exchange not only within the community, but also with external communities or individual users. Miscellaneous web portals have appeared with the purpose of providing an open and effective communication forum for their members. Nevertheless, current Web technology presents serious limitations to make information efficiently accessible for users. Moreover, users face the task of reading the documents retrieved in order to extract the information desired. These limitations naturally appear in existing Web communities based on this technology, making information searching, accessing, extracting, interpreting and processing a difficult and time-consuming task. In this context, Semantic Web technologies can considerably improve the information sharing process, overcoming the problems found in current Web communities to search, access, extract, interpret and process information. In this sense, Web communities based on Semantic Web technologies represent a natural evolution of existing Web communities. The workshop will provide a forum for workers in the fields of knowledge engineering, knowledge management, knowledge representation, language technology, ontological engineering, data, text and web mining and Semantic Web, to present their latest results and to discuss the potential joint application of these fields to Web communities, both analysing what has been achieved so far and what are the next steps to accomplish. The aim is to provide a snapshot of the state of the art and guidelines for further steps.
Official Launch of DERI Galway
The goal of our approach is to make web services a mature technology. This is a pre-requisite for their application in mission-critical applications. Businesses can be released from the burden of complex, slow and expensive software integration and focus instead on the value of their offerings and mission-critical tasks. Then the Internet will become a global common platform where organizations and individuals communicate with each other to carry out various commercial activities and to provide value-added services. Ultimately, virtual enterprises and supply-chains are automatically established, allowing enterprises to be more reactive and more effective.
1st European Semantic Web Symposium
In the European context, the 6th framework programme has demonstrated the EU's commitment to this technology area and a number of exciting new projects in the Semantic Web area have been launched, aggregated in the SDK project cluster - see www.sdk-cluster.org for further details. A tutorial programme, based around these projects, offers the opportunity to get up to speed with European and global developments in this exciting new area. All 6th framework projects, as well as other leading projects, in the Semantic Web area will be represented with posters. The conference will be co-located with the OntoWeb thematic network seminar and the Knowledge Web network of excellence meeting see www.ontoweb.org for further details of OntoWeb and Knowledge Web events, respectively.
Advanced Programming with Frame-based Logic Languages Tutorial
Michael Kifer from the Stony Brook University of New York, involved in the development of both F-Logic and HiLog and currently co-chair of the SWSI Language committee, will be coming to Innsbruck from 5 until 7 Januari 2004 to give a tutorial on Programming with Frame-based logic languages.
The tutorial will consist of two parts: a theoretical part, with an intensive tutorial on Frame-based logic languages and a practical part, consisting of a hands-on training of Advanced Programming with Frame-based Logic Languages using the F-Logic based tool FLORA2.
The tutorial will take place at the Institute for Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck Austria. Please check the location page for more details.
Description Logic Tutorial
Ian Horrocks and Sean Bechhofer from the University of Manchester, both involved in the field of Description Logics and the development of the Web Ontology Language OWL, will be coming to Innsbruck on 25 November to give a tutorial on Description Logic reasoning.
The tutorial will consist of two parts: a theoretical part, with an intensive tutorial on Description Logic and a practical part, consisting of a hands-on training of Description Logic reasoning using OilEd and FaCT.
The tutorial will take place at the Institute for Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck Austria.
International Semantic Web Conference 2003 (ISWC 2003)
ISWC2003 will include three days of technical sessions related to all aspects of the Semantic Web. The program includes both technical and survey/overview papers, as well as descriptions of working Semantic Web systems, position statements, and reports on work in progress.
Semantic Web Workshop at SIGIR 2003
The emergence of the Internet has brewed the revolution of information storage and retrieval. The web was initially designed for direct human processing. With its current structure, machine-based approaches to web applications are not possible unless its content is transformed into a machine-readable format encoding semantic information. Ontologies are the backbone technology for the Semantic Web by providing machine-processable semantics of data and information sources that can be communicated between different agents.
The Semantic Web goes beyond the simple bag-of-words approach currently used by search engines and get closer to the meaning of the texts. Semantic Web initiatives have met with growing enthusiasm of researchers and developers world-wide, both in academia and in, which encourages the integration of efforts that have been ongoing from different disciplines, involving specialists in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Knowledge Representation, Artificial Intelligence and database. These efforts are aimed at capturing the semantics of digital content of all sorts and origins, and making current Web to be easily accessed and precisely retrieved.
Interactive Tutorial on Recent Developments in the Web Services Area
Web services technology is all about distributed computing. There is no fundamentally new basic concept behind this and related technologies. What is really new is the reach of Web services and its ubiquitous support by literally all major vendors. Chances are high that heterogeneity will at the end no longer be a major obstruction for distributed applications. This will have impact on application architectures, middleware, as well as the way in which people will think about computing and businesses will use computing resources. We sketch relevant standards and standard proposals from this area, and sketch related middleware aspects.
