1st CFP: Semantic Web Applications and Tools Workshop (SWAT'06) at ASWC, September 2006, Beijing China.

(Apologies for multiple cross postings)

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1st Call for Papers
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Semantic Web Applications and Tools Workshop (SWAT'06)
affiliated with 
1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2006), September 3-7, 2006
Beijing, China.

http://research.ihost.com/swat

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WORKSHOP THEME
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With the help of W3C on the world standards of RDF, OWL, Semantic Web Rule Language and Semantic Web Serivces, there emerges many interesting applications based on Semantic Web technologies, such as eHealth, eGovernment, eTourism, Semantic Blogging, Semantic Wiki, Semantic e-Business, eCommerce, Semantic Grid, eCommunity, eLearning, eScience and so on. Some predict a killer application may finally bootstrap the Semantic Web. Some predict small Semantic Webs within specific application domains and environments may take form first and evolve and interconnect to each other later to form the one Semantic Web. Whichever is true, applications that demonstrate the value of the Semantic Web technologies and vision is critically important for the widespread adoption and bootstrapping of Semantic Web.

On the other hand, building applications that use Semantic Web technologies is still a relatively new practice for most software developers. They need to deal with new kinds of artifacts (e.g. ontologies, rules, and facts), new kinds of operations (e.g. mapping, transformation, SPARQL query and reasoning) on these artifacts and probably new kinds of user interactions and visualizations. Hence, tools to help deal with these artifacts and operations in Semantic Web application development is in high demand.

This workshop intents to bring together both Semantic Web applications and Semantic Web tools researchers and developers to present and discuss the latest progress in each area, to identify the gap between the applications and needed tools, and to possibly blueprint the roadmap of the Semantic Web applications and their supporting tools.

This workshop will target at both academic and industrial audience and tries to identify the gap of applying Semantic Web technology to real life cases and of applying Semantic Web tools to building applications. It can provide important feedback to Semantic Web community, especially the W3C Working Group on Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment.


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INVITED SPEAKER (to be confirmed)
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Prof. Guus Schreiber, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands (chair of W3C working Group on Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment).


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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The main topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following:

Applications that need Semantic Web technologies 

 . eHealth 
 . eGovernment 
 . eTourism 
 . Semantic Blogging 
 . Semantic Wiki 
 . Semantic e-Business 
 . eCommerce 
 . Semantic Grid 
 . eCommunity 
 . eLearning 
 . eScience 

Tools for developing and using Semantic Web 

 . Ontology building, mapping, merging and visualization tools 
 . Development practices 
 . Programming models 
 . Developer tools 
 . Integrated development environmentsEnd user interaction tools 
 . Model Driven Architecture and Semantic Web 



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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline:  June 1st, 2006 
Notification:   July 1st, 2006 
Camera Ready Copies:  July 15th, 2006 
Workshop date:   September 4th, 2006 


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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Papers are solicited for any of the topics of interest listed above. We invite contributions of different kinds. We solicit regular research papers which may report on:

. completed work 
. description of current, but mature, work in progress 
. discussion papers comparing different approaches, or account of practical experiences of Semantic Web applications and tools 

In addition, we invite people wishing to participate in the workshop to submit a short position paper concerning statements of interest, or technical or policy issues. Spaces will be limited and those who have submitted a paper will be given priority for registration. Both types of papers will provide the framework for the discussions during the workshop. Papers must be written in English.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee, and selected on the basis of their relevance and originality. Both research and position papers should be formatted according to the official formatting guidelines of the ASWC 2006 main conference. Research papers should not exceed 8 pages, while position statements should not exceed 2 pages.

All enquiries and submissions should be directed to Omair Shafiq (omair.shafiq@deri.org) and Lei Zhang (lzhangl@cn.ibm.com).


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Ying Ding, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Innsbruck, Austria 
Omair Shafiq, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Innsbruck, Austria 
Yue Pan, IBM China Research Lab, Beijing, China 
Lei Zhang, IBM China Research Lab, Beijing, China 
Zhixiong Zhang, Information Technology Department, Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences (LCAS), China 
Yong Yu, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China 
Juanzi Li, Computer Science Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 



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Programme Committee (being extended)
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Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA 
Martin Hepp, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
Jens Hartmann, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany 
Michal Zaremba, DERI Innsbruck, Austria 
Borislav Popov, Ontotext, Balgarian 
Peter Mika, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck, Austria 
Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA 
Hong-Gee Kim, DERI Korea, Seoul National University, Korea 
Naohiko Uramoto, IBM Research, Japan 
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan 
Guo Tong Xie, IBM Research, China 
Zuo Quan Lin, Peking University, China 
Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, USA 
XiaoFeng Meng, RenMin University, China 
CunGen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
BiQing Huang, Tsinghua University, China 
Richard Goodwin, IBM Research, USA 
Ning Zhang, Peking University, China 
ZhiQiang Gao, Southeast University, China 
Ming Zhang, Peking University, China 
Sven Groppe, DERI Innsbruck, Austria 
Willam Song, University of Durahm, UK 
Li Ma, IBM Research, China 
Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan 
Hiroki Suguri, Communication Technologies, Japan 
Sheng Ping Liu, IBM Research, China