CfP: 3rd International ExpertFinder Workshop: PICKME2008 (Personal Identification and Collaborations - Knowledge Mediation and Extraction)

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Pre-final Call for Papers
===============

3rd International ExpertFinder Workshop: PICKME2008
(Personal Identification and Collaborations - Knowledge Mediation and 
Extraction)
http://expertfinder.info/pickme2008


Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2008
co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008)


The Semantic Web, Social Networks and other emerging technology streams 
promise to enable
finding experts more efficiently on a Web scale across boundaries. To 
leverage synergies
among these streams, the ExpertFinder initiative started in 2006 
(http://wiki.foaf-project.org/ExpertFinder)
with the aim of devising vocabularies, rule extensions (for e.g. FOAF 
and SIOC) and best practices to
annotate and extract expertise-relevant information from personal and 
organizational web pages, blogs, wikis,

conferences, publication indexes, etc.  
Following two previous workshops - EFW 
(http://www.expertfinder.info/efw2007) and
FEWS (http://www.expertfinder.info/fews2007) - we solicit new research 
contributions from the
Semantic Web community towards the tasks of formally representing and 
reusing knowledge of
skills and collaborations on the Web and consequently finding people 
according to their
expertise. The goal of PICKME2008 is to discuss:
* the feasibility of a Web-scale infrastructure for the creation, 
publication and use of
semantic descriptions of experts and their collaborations on the Web,
* concrete application scenarios such as group management, disaster 
response, recruitment,
team building, problem solving and on-the-fly consultation (Such 
scenarios can be found at
http://wiki.foaf-project.org/ExpertFinderUseCases),
* enabling technologies such as annotation, knowledge extraction, 
ontology engineering,
reasoning, ontology mediation, social network and interaction analysis.


Topics of Interest
=================
We welcome all research contributions that contribute to one or more of 
the following topics:
* Specification of vocabularies and reuse of existing 
standards/taxonomies to describe experts to capture knowledge

about people,
their expertise  and collaborations with other people,
* Extraction of descriptions of persons and collaborations from loosely 
structured data (e.g. Web pages) and databases,
* Use of microformats to express and extract knowledge about persons and 
collaborations,
* International & cross-organizational heterogeneity issues in personal 
descriptions,
* Algorithms for expert & expertise finding and recommendation (e.g. 
mining of social networks),
* Expressivity extensions (in logics, rules) to support expertise 
extraction from knowledge about collaborations,
* Tools for the intuitive creation and maintenance of personal and 
organizational descriptions and associated rules,
* Web infrastructures for the publication and sharing of personal and 
organizational descriptions (storage, access,

querying, rule execution, coordination, communication),
* Extension of collaborative tools, e.g. blogs and wikis, to capture 
knowledge about persons and collaborations,
* Security, trust and privacy aspects of expert & expertise finding, and
* Deployment of these areas in business scenarios and requirements for 
the industrial uptake of these applications.


Event Information
=================
The workshop will take place during the 7th International Semantic Web 
Conference (ISWC2008).
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 Information
======================
We invite submissions of full papers no longer than 12 pages or position 
papers no longer than 2 pages (both including

figures, references and appendices). Paper submissions must be formatted 
in the style of the Springer Publications

format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Guidelines and templates are available at 
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0.
Papers need to be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system

(http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=pickme2008).
Both full and position papers will be published in accompanying online 
proceedings (CEUR).


Important Dates
===============
August 04, 2008:    Submission of papers
September 05, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
September 26, 2008:    Camera-ready
October, 27, 2008:    PICKME2008 Workshop


Program Committee
=================
W. Abramowicz, Poznan Unviersity of Economics, Poland;
D. Berrueta, CTIC Foundation, Spain;
C. Bizer, Freie Unversität Berlin;
A.-M. Boanerges, LSDIS Lab, Univ. of Georgia, USA;
H. Boley, NRC Institute of Information Technology, Canada;
I. Celino, CERIEL Politecnico di Milano, Italy;
A. Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain;
T. Heath, Talis Information Lt, UK;
A. Leger, France Telekom, France;
N. Li, University of Surrey, UK;
B. Nowack, semsol web semantics, Germany;
C. Petrie, Stanford Unviersity, USA;
R. Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany;
H. Wache, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland 
(FHNW), School of Business, Switzerland.


Organizing Committee
====================
Malgorzata Mochol, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Anna V. Zhdanova, ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria
Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Free University of Berlin, Germany
John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
Axel Polleres, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland

-- 
Dipl.-Inf. Malgorzata Mochol         | Freie Universitaet Berlin
E-Mail: mochol@inf.fu-berlin.de	  | Institut fuer Informatik
Tel: +49-30-838-75226                | Netzbasierte Informationssysteme
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