2nd CfP: Semantic Technology Adoption Results at ASWC 2008 (Deadline 15.09.2008)

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> SASTAR Workshop
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> State of the Art:
> Semantic Technology Adoption Results
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> co-located with the Asian Semantic Web Conference 2008
> Bangkok, Thailand 8-11 December 2008
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> http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/net-economy/SASTAR/index.htm
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> Objectives
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> The goal of the SASTAR workshop is to demonstrate the early adoption
> of semantic technologies by enterprises, and to promote further
> technology transfer from Semantic Web research to industry. It will
> bring industry and research together to present and discuss the pros
> and cons of applying semantic technologies in business processes, not
> only to identify how industrial requirements can be met, but also
> important issues of technology maturity, accessibility, integration
> into existing enterprise IT structures and maintenance throughout the
> entire ontology and metadata lifecycle.
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> Call for papers
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> We seek concrete  results from technology transfer from research to
> industry of Semantic Web technologies. In particular, we invite
> researchers to report on their experiences from the application and
> use of semantic technology within business processes.
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> We want to focus on:
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> · how semantic technology is being used TODAY in industry
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> · what still needs to be done by researchers to ensure that it will
> still be getting used TOMORROW (i.e. open requirements that have been
> identified in the transfer)
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> The workshop provides an opportunity to inform an industry audience of
> real applications of semantic technology for enterprises today and
> gain feedback on open issues and unmet industry requirements.
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> We plan to have a small number of presentations, a larger number of
> posters/demos and a significant timeslot for discussion (with a short
> keynote).
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> Posters/demos will be made by technology developers who want to
> showcase semantic solutions in a smaller event with a high potential
> of direct contacts.
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> Topics of Interest
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> We aim for a broad range of topics to be covered in terms of their
> industrial value and barriers to uptake, including (but not limited
> to):
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> · Ontology Engineering,
> · Metadata Extraction,
> · Reasoning,
> · Mediation,
> · Data Integration,
> · Semantic Web Services,
> · Search and Personalization,
> · Ontology methodologies in business practice,
> · Ontologies and corporate knowledge,
> · Representation of knowledge and business processes,
> · Linguistic representation in organizational knowledge,
> · Enterprise modelling,
> · Ontology evaluation
> · Ontologies and electronic catalogs,
> · Ontologies and e-commerce,
> · Ontologies in the practice of engineering,
> · Ontologies in the practice of medical sciences,
> · Ontologies in finance, Ontologies and e-government.
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> Important Dates
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> 15 September 2008 - Paper Submission
> 30 September 2008 - Notification of Acceptance
> 15 October 2008 - Camera Ready
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> Submission
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> Workshop submissions will be electronic and should follow the ASWC
> 2008 guidelines.
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> Both researchers and practitioners can submit papers in two forms:
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> 1) papers which might be accepted as theoretical or case study
> presentations (up to 6 pages). These should come from industry
> scenarios, presenting examples of semantic technologies adoption, new
> theoretical (both organizational and computer science) open problems,
> industry requirements, or other business experiences.
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> 2) poster-demos which might be accepted as application presentations
> (up to 2 pages). The content should come from European, American or
> Asian technology providers, presenting examples of industry-suitable
> semantic tools. It is required a short description of the tool,
> justifying its usefulness in industry and describing the demo that
> will be made.
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> The workshop proceeding format is LNCS (ASWC) see the conference website.
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> Papers and poster-demos will be submitted to the EasyChair conference
> system available soon on line .
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> For further information, please feel free to send any request to both
> Lyndon Nixon (nixon[at]inf.fu-berlin.de) and Roberta Cuel
> (roberta.cuel[at]economia.unitn.it).
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> Organizing Committee
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> · Roberta Cuel (University of Trento, Italy), contact email:
> roberta.cuel[at]economia.unitn.it
> · Lyndon Nixon (Free University Berlin , Germany), contact email:
> nixon[at]inf.fu-berlin.de
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> Program Committee
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> Hans Akkermans, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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> Norbert Baumgartner, Communication Technology Management Ltd., Vienna,
> Austria
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> · Wernher Behrendt, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria
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> · Francesco Bellomi, Creactive Consulting S.p.A, Italy
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> · Richard Benjamin, ISOCO, Spain
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> · Claudio Bergamini, Imola Group, Italy
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> · Elmar Dorner, SAP AG, Germany
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> · Alexandre Delteil, France Telecom, France
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> · Christian Fillies, Semtation Gmbh, Germany
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> · Tim Geisler, webXcerpt Software GmbH, Germany
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> · Gilles Kassel, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, France
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> · Ruben Lara, Telefonica R&D, Spain
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> · Paulo Leitao, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e de Gestao, Polytechnic
> Institute of Braganca, Portugal
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> · Riichiro Mizoguchi, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research,
> Osaka University
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> · Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
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> · Andreas Persidis, Biovista, Greece
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> · Daniele Radicioni, University of Turin, Italy
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> · Gerstner Ralf, Springer, Germany
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> · Jean Rohmer, Thales group, France
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> · Marialuisa Sanseverino, Centro Ricerche Fiat, Turin, Italy
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> · Hans-Peter Schnurr, Ontoprise and Customer, Germany
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> · Elena Simpler, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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> · Christoph Tempich, Detecon International GmbH, Germany
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> · Chris van Aart, Sogeti, The Netherlands
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> · Paul Warren, British Telecom, UK
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> · Matthew West, Shell International Petroleum Company Limited, UK
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> · David Wood, Zepheira LLC, USA
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