Call for Software Solutions: ASWC2008 Industrial Track - Best Solutions to get Cash Prizes !!! - first official call

Call for Software Solutions: ASWC2008 Industrial Track - Best Solutions to
get Cash Prizes !!!

Semantic Web and Semantic Web technologies have entered the maturity phase
where stable software prototypes can be put forward as possible solutions
for various business applications. The Industrial Track within ASWC 2008 is
making a Call for Software Solutions, where inventors and authors have the
opportunity to present an early positioning on the market of their solution,
being comprised of a business value proposition for their offering and
high-level technical description of the proposed solution. The goals of the
track are threefold: first to give the opportunity for inventors/authors to
expose their solution proposition to an audience made of business/industry
and academia - a very first business pitch,  second to allow business,
academia and inventors to attend thematic  round-tables where to
debate/exchange business and research issues and third, to allow all
participants at ASWC2008 to attend a business networking event, where the
attendees have a chance to interact in an informal manner. (
http://aswc2008.ait.ac.th/solutions.html)

CASH PRIZES are going to be offered for the BEST SOLUTIONS as follows:

Best Solution: 3,000 Euro;
2nd best Solution: 1,300 Euro;
3rd solution: 700 euro.

(http://aswc2008.ait.ac.th/bsa.html)


Submissions:

The industrial track of ASWC2008 welcomes the submission of maximum 6 pages
document, PDF format only, LNCS guidelines, describing proposed solutions
related to Semantic Web and Semantic Web technologies. The document must
have a first section where to describe the business value proposition for
their offering, a second section positioning the solution on the market and
a third one where to describe at high level the technical solution proposal.
The proposed solutions have to be designated as belonging to one of the
following areas:

Area A - Innovative solutions: Here new ideas and/or patents already filed
as well as open-source solution that start to gather critical mass are
strongly encouraged to be presented.
Area B - Commercialization phase: Solutions describing a novel application
of a new capability in an industrial setting. Innovation projects can be
reported here prior to full deployment (e.g., as pilots or proofs of
concept).
Area C - Deployed applications: Papers must describe a deployed usage of
semantic technologies to a real-world problem, including a description of
the application and scope of the user base. A performance / qualitative
comparison of the employed semantic solution to competing conventional
technologies solutions is desired. This will be considered as a plus factor
in selecting the best solutions.

Important Dates:

10 September 2008                Solution Submission date (old date of 15th
September will be changed on the ASWC08 website)
30 September 2008                Notification Date
15 October 2008                    Camera Ready

Submission Details:

ASWC08 online submission system:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ASWC2008/Default.aspx

ASWC 2008 Industrial Track Chairs:

   * Roberta Cuel, Trento University, Italy
   * Lyndon J B Nixon, Free University of Berlin
   * Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI-Galway, Ireland

Program committee (to be extended):

N. Baumgartner, Communication Technology Management Ltd., Vienna, Austria
Francesco Bellomi, Creactive Consulting S.p.A, Italy
Maya Biersack, EsPresto AG, Germany
Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc. (Analytics Engineering Group),
Redwood Shores, CA, USA
Alexandre Delteil, France Telecom, France
Christian Fillies, Semtation
Rolf Fricke, Condat AG
Gerstner Ralf, Springer, Germany
Marialuisa Sanseverino, Centro Ricerche Fiat, Turin, Italy
Christoph Tempich, Detecon International GmbH, Germany
France Matthew West, Shell International Petroleum Company Limited, UK