- From: Mitch Kokar <mkokar@vistology.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:24:01 -0400
- To: Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org>
- Cc: public-xg-urw3@w3.org
Does not look like much overlap to me. The issue of scale is pretty orthogonal to the issue of uncertainty, in my opinion. ==Mitch On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Ken Laskey wrote: > There seems to be some overlap with what we are looking at but I'm > not sure I recognize any of the names as having participated in URSW > workshops. We may at some point want to do some outreach. > > Ken > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: guilin qi <guilin_qi@yahoo.co.uk> >> Date: June 22, 2008 4:43:35 PM EDT >> To: semanticweb@yahoogroups.com, seweb-list@cs.vu.nl, sw-announce@semanticplanet.com >> , ontoweb-list@lists.deri.org, seweb-list@www2-c703.uibk.ac.at, seweb-list@lists.deri.org >> , ontoweb-language-sig@cs.man.ac.uk, semantic-web@w3.org, www-webont-wg@w3.org >> , public-sws-ig@w3.org, public-owl-dev@w3.org, semanticweb@yahoogroups.com >> , dl@dl.kr.org, ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net, >> ontology@buffalo.edu, www-ws@w3.org, topicmapmail@infoloom.com, diglib@infoserv.inist.fr >> , aiia@dis.uniroma1.it, dai-list@ece.sc.edu, kweb- >> all@lists.deri.org, rewerse-all@rewerse.net, sioc-dev@googlegroups.com >> , semantic_web@googlegroups.com >> Cc: ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net, wsmo-discussion@lists.deri.org, web-semantics-italia@yahoogroups.com >> , semanticweb@yahoogroups.com >> Subject: [semanticweb] [DIGLIB] CALL FOR PAPERS: 2nd International >> Workshop on "New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web" >> >> >> ========================= CALL FOR PAPERS ========================= >> >> Second International Workshop: "New forms of reasoning for the >> Semantic >> Web: scaleable, tolerant and dynamic" >> >> http://nefors08.larkc.eu >> >> Co-located with the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008) >> http://www.aswc2008.org/ >> >> Pathumthani, Thailand, 8th-11th December 2008 >> >> ============================== >> ===================================== >> >> >> Workshop Objectives >> =================== >> The Semantic Web is the vision of a Web of data usable for both >> humans >> but also machines. This web, consists of inter-connected instance >> data >> annotated with possibly expressive ontologies. Therefore a >> tremendous >> amount of information becomes available that should be processed >> based >> on formal semantics attached to it. The Semantic Web community has >> developed a number of languages (such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL) that >> deploy logic for this purpose. Impressive progress has been made on >> scalable storage, querying and inference for these languages, and >> they >> are successfully being deployed on large intranets and medium-scale >> web-applications. >> >> However existing reasoning techniques often fail to live up to the >> expectations put into them in this context. They can often neither >> deal >> with high number of instances, the expressiveness of the ontologies >> describing them or the inherent inconsistency and incompleteness of >> data >> on the Web. >> >> This workshop is intended to focus on these problems of scalability >> and >> robustness of reasoning on the Web, and furthermore to investigate >> alternative reasoning methods, which take incompleteness and >> distribution of data and knowledge as inherent properties into >> account. >> >> NeForS08 is the follow-up of the first international workshop on "New >> forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scalable, tolerant and >> dynamic", which took place in Busan, Korea in November 2007 and was >> co-located with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC >> 2007) and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2007). >> >> >> Topics of Interest >> ================== >> We welcome all research contributions that address one or more of the >> following topics: >> * Reasoning for the Web >> * Querying and searching >> * Scalability to the Web level >> * Efficient storage of structured data that scale to a very large >> size >> >> We also aim to attract participants from scientific fields not >> typically >> seen at Semantic Web events: >> * Economics can tell us about cost-benefit trade-off models, sunk- >> cost >> theory and the role of negotiation in obtaining near-optimal results >> under bounded resources >> * Cognitive Science can tell us about strategies of human memory and >> human reasoning which is so succesful in reaching good enough >> conclusion >> in limited time-spans, using methods such as priming, attention >> scoping, >> recency-based self-optimising memory, etc. >> * Computational Learning Theory has contributions to make with their >> notions of Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) computing, and >> strategies for abstraction and compression of information. >> * Combinatorial Search has made recent breakthroughs in handling >> massive >> search-spaces with heuristics based on Monte Carlo simulations. >> >> >> Event Information >> ================= >> The workshop will take place during the 3rd Asian Semantic Web >> Conference (ASWC2008) as a full-day event. >> It will be organized as a full day event and include an invited >> talk by >> Kyung-il Tony Lee, president and CEO of Saltlux Inc. on the >> industrial >> view on semantic technologies and the need for large-scale reasoning. >> >> Please note that for every accepted paper at least one of the authors >> must attend the workshop and must register for the workshop and the >> main >> conference. >> Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. >> However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who >> would >> like to participate, those who have submitted a paper will be given >> priority. >> >> >> Submissions >> =========== >> The workshop invites full papers (up to 15 pages) as well as short >> papers (up to 5 pages). All contributions will be peer reviewed by >> the >> program commitee (see http://nefors08.larkc.eu) and accepted >> submissions >> will be published in a dedicated book. The number of accepted papers >> will be kept deliberately low in order to leave sufficient time for >> discussion after presentations. >> Additionally we are considering a special issue in a journal on >> semantic computing for extended versions of selected, high quality >> submissions. >> >> Submitted papers must be written in English and one of the following >> format must be used for the first submission: PDF, PS, DOC. For >> submissions please follow LNCS formatting instructions (see >> http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 for >> details) >> to prepare your paper and consider using the camera ready format even >> for the first submission. >> >> Furthermore papers need to be submitted electronically through the >> EasyChair using the following link: >> http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=nefors08 >> >> >> Important Dates >> =============== >> * September 15, 2008: Submission of papers >> * September 30, 2008: Notification of acceptance >> * October 15, 2008: Camera-ready version due >> * December 8, 2008: Workshop >> >> >> Organizers >> ========== >> Zhisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands >> Uwe Keller, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, >> Austria >> Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan and The >> International WIC Institute/BJUT, China >> >> Program Committee >> ================= >> Ruzica Piskac, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland >> Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands >> Lael Schooler, MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany >> Pascal Hitzler, Institut for Angewandte Informatik und Formale >> Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany >> Yue Pan, IBM Research Laboratory, Beijing, China >> Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, >> Hefei, China >> Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL, Milano, Italy >> Stefania Galizia, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, >> Milton >> Keynes, United Kingdom >> Guilin Qi, Institut for Angewandte Informatik und Formale >> Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany >> Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, Austin, Texas, USA >> Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China >> Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Trento, Italy >> >> Steering Committee >> =================== >> Dieter Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute, University of >> Innsbruck, >> Austria >> Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands >> >> >> Contact >> ======= >> Florian Fischer >> Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria >> Technikerstr. 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria >> E florian.fischer@sti2.at >> >> Sent from Yahoo! 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