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Best Practices in Cloud Computing - Design Workshop

October 25, 2009 - October 25, 2009
Orlando, Florida, USA

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.


8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) (ISWC 2009)

October 25, 2009 - October 29, 2009
Washington, DC, USA

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).


IEEE SCC 2009 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2009)

September 21, 2009 - September 25, 2009
Bangalore, India

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)

September 16, 2009 - September 18, 2009
Guildford, UK

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)

September 14, 2009 - September 16, 2009
Berkeley, CA, USA

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.


Joint workshop of LarKC and SOA4All

September 4, 2009 - September 4, 2009
Berlin, Germany

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.


1st ACTIVE Summer School on Advanced Technologies for a Knowledge-Powered Enterprise

September 4, 2009 - September 6, 2009
Bled, Slovenia

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.


Web Service Crawling and Annotation

September 1, 2009 - September 1, 2009
Berlin, Germany

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.


Future Internet Symposium 2009 (FIS 2009)

September 1, 2009 - September 3, 2009
Berlin, Germany

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.


Lightweight Semantic Annotations for Services on the Web

August 12, 2009 - August 12, 2009
Taipei, Taiwan

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.


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