MiniConference: Semantic Web and Web 2.0 for the Knowledge Society

FIRST MINI CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC WEN AND WEB 2.0 FOR THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY 

http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/miniconf1.htm 

10 Special Issues - 4 in ISI SCI Journals 

2 Main Tracks 

Deadline: 30th June 2008 

Proceedings: Springer LNCS - 

CHAIRS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy,
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece,
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,
Gottfried Vossen , University of Muenster, Germany 

At a glance: 

Sponsoring Journals of the Event: 

All accepted papers will be invited for consideration in one of the 10 
sponsoring journals of the event 

IEEE Transactions on Man Systems And Cybernetics
PART A: Systems and Humans 

Special Issue on: 

The Human Semantic Web
Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge and Identity, Systems for 
the Knowledge Society 

http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/IEEE-TSMC.pdf 


Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 

Special Issue on: 

Advances of Semantic Web and Web 2.0 for Computer Assisted Learning: Towards 
Personalized and Adaptive Learning
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/JCAL.txt 


International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems
Special Special Section on
Semantic Web and Ontologies: Applications
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/issue5.pdf 


IMPORTANT NOTE: 

THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS WILL PUBLISH ALSO SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 
MINICONFERENCE: 

IJ of Knowledge and Learning
http://www.inderscience.com/ijkl 

Special Issue on
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 

IJ of Social and Humanistic Computing
http://www.inderscience.com/ijshc
Special Issue on
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR HUMANISTIC COMPUTING 

IJ of Electronic Democracy
http://www.inderscience.com/ijed
Special Issue on
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY
AND ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT 


IJ of Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism
http://www.inderscience.com/ijdcet
Special Issue on
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR DIGITAL CULTURE 

IJ of Electronic Trade
http://www.inderscience.com/ijetrade
Special Issue on
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR E-BUSINESS 

IJ of Electronic Banking
Special Issue on
http://www.inderscience.com/ijebank
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR E-BANKING 

DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS 

TWO THEMES: 

The Human Semantic Web: Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge 
and Identity, Systems for the Knowledge Society” 

Web 2.0 for the Knowledge Society: Social Netowrking, Collaboration, 
Management of Knowledge in Social Networks 

EDITORS/CHAIRS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy, E-mail: damiani@dti.unimi.it
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece, Email: 
Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, E-mail:amb@nada.kth.se
Gottfried Vossen , University of Muenster, Germany, Email: 
vossen@helios.uni-muenster.de 

Program Committee Members 

William Grosky, Professor and Chair. Department of Computer and Information 
Science University of Michigan, USA 

Hend S. Al-Khalifa, Assistant Professor, Information Technology Department, 
CCIS, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia 

John Davies, PhD, Next Generation Web Research IT Futures Research Centre, 
UK 

Christopher Brewster, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science, University of 
Sheffield, UNITED KINGDOM 

Miguel Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain 

Prof.. José Enrique Armendáriz-Iñigo, Universidad 
Pública de Navarra, Spain 

Prof. Rajkumar Kannan, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, 
Slovakia 

Prof. Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, University of Oviedo, Spain 

Prof. Claudio Sartori, Universita' di Bologna, Italy 

Prof. Luis Álvarez Sabucedo, University of Vigo, Spain 

Dr. Karim Mohammed Rezaul, Centre for Applied Internet Research, University 
of Wales, UK 

Prof. Luis Álvarez Sabucedo, University of Vigo, Spain 

Prof. Raquel Trillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain 

Maria Vargas-Vera, Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University, UK
[TO BE COMPLETED]
CALL FOR PAPERS 

The Human Semantic Web: Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge 
and Identity, Systems for the Knowledge Society”
Workshop for a Special Issue on an IEEE Transactions Special Issue 

The mini-conference “Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Collaboration 
Technologies for the Knowledge Society” will promote a knowledge 
transfer channel where academics, practitioners, and researchers can 
discuss, analyze, criticize, synthesize, communicate, elaborate, and 
simplify the more-than-promising technology of the semantic Web in the 
context of information systems. This mini-conference aims to establish 
value-adding knowledge transfer and personal development channels in three 
distinctive areas: academia, industry, and government. 

Within the Conference there are two pillars: 

The Semantic Web vision has evolved in the last years as a blueprint for a 
knowledge-based framework aimed at crossing the chasm from the current Web 
of unstructured information resources to a Web equipped with metadata and 
oriented to delegation of tasks to software agents. Ontologies are the key 
piece of this framework in that they provide shared semantics to metadata, 
thus enabling a degree of semantic interoperability. The requirements of 
large-scale deployment and interoperability of the Semantic Web vision 
represent a major challenge to data and knowledge engineering, which raises 
a number of issues and requirements regarding how to represent, create, 
manage and use both ontologies as shared knowledge representations, but also 
large volumes of metadata records used to annotate Web resources of a 
diverse kind. The special issue aims at helping in communicating and 
disseminating relevant recent research in knowledge and data engineering as 
applied to the context of Information Systems. The scope of the call 
includes Knowledge Engineering for organizational applications, Semantic Web 
approaches to Information Systems and Ontology-Based Information Systems 
research, as well as the diverse underlying Database and Knowledge 
Representation aspects. Papers dealing with aspects that touch both aspects 
are especially sought. This is intended to initiate a dialog between the 
organizational and more technical views of the field. 

 

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: 

1. Applications of the Human Semantic Web to the Knowledge Society:
• Potentially large-scale applications (e.g. to Personal Knowledge 
Management, Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
• Data Semantics and Web Semantics in peer-to-peer systems, grids, 
multimedia
• Communication, dialogue and argumentation models
• Mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution 

2. Representing and Managing Semantic Web Data and Services:
• Languages, Tools, Methodologies, Rules
• Database, IR and AI technologies
• Integration, Analysis and Visualization
• Robust and scalable logics, knowledge management and reasoning
• Machine learning and information extraction
• Semantic Interoperability, Workflows, Web Mining
• Semantic Web Services and Processes (description, discovery, 
invocation, composition, choreography, cleaning, assurance, trust, 
provenance, etc.)
• Middleware and services for Personalization and User Modelling
• Semantic matching of user needs and web resources 

3. Ontologies:
• Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and 
reconciliation)
• Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g. HLT and ML 
approaches)
• Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.)
• Ontology Modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution
• Searching and Ranking ontologies 

4. Social Semantic Web:
• Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
• Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
• Representing and reasoning about Trust, Privacy, Security and 
Intellectual Property Rights
• Tools and processes for sense-making, analysis and decision-making
• Supporting strategic communication 

5. User Interfaces:
• Interacting with Semantic Web Data
• Semantic Web content creation and annotation
• Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Web 2.0 for the Knowledge Society: Social Netowrking, Collaboration, 
Management of Knowledge in Social Networks 


EDITORS/CHAIRS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy, E-mail: damiani@dti.unimi.it
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece, Email: 
Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, E-mail:amb@nada.kth.se
Gottfried Vossen , University of Muenster, Germany, Email: 
vossen@helios.uni-muenster.de 

 

The key objective of the miniconference is to advancing the knowledge on 
design variables and conditions for social networks. Knowledge Management 
and Semantic Web are used as the technological lenses for the specification 
and analysis of these variables towards a new era of social interactions and 
human experiences with computers. 

As semantic technologies prove their value with targeted applications, there 
are increasing opportunities to consider their application insocial contexts 
for learning and human development. Knowledge management has been accepted 
as a critical enabler aiming to increase knowledge-related performance by 
better use of intellectual assets, in addition to which many governments are 
forced to increasingly deal with knowledge services that form larger parts 
of the global economy and society. Thus there are recent examples of 
applications of semantics for empowering knowledge management or better 
supporting knowledge services for social networks. The special issue aims at 
communicating and disseminating recent research and success stories that 
bring the power of semantics to improve upon traditional knowledge 
management approaches, or realize emerging requirements of knowledge 
services for social networks. 

In the context of knowledge management, social and human issues are of equal 
if not higher importance than the technical issues that have tended to 
receive the bulk of attention in the past. Consequently, papers that touch 
these aspects, or those that extend technical and domain knowledge to social 
and human issues are especially sought. This is intended to initiate a 
dialog between the social, psychological and technical views of the field. 

References:
[1]. Lytras M. (2005), Semantic Web and Information Systems: An Agenda Based 
on Discourse with Community Leaders, in International Journal on Semantic 
Web and Information Systems, Inaugural Issue, 1(1), pp: i-xii
[2]. Sheth, A. Ramakrishnan C., Thomas C., (2005). Semantics for the 
Semantic Web: The Implicit, the Formal and the
Powerful, in International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, 
Inaugural Issue, 1(1), 1-18.
[3] Downes S. (2005). Semantic networks and social networks, in The Learning 
Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 411-417
[3] Finin T., Ding L. and Zou L. (2005), Social networking on the semantic 
web, in The Learning Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 418-435
[4] Lytras M., Sicilia M.A., Kinshuk, Sampson D. (2005), Special Issue on 
semantic and social aspects of learning in organizations, , in The Learning 
Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5,
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&c 
ontainerId=22676 


Topics:
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Design variables and conditions for social networks
* New forms of interaction in social systems
* Blogging as a social activity and approaches to semantic blogs
* Collaborative filtering in social settings
* Analysing social interaction for finding knowledge on Web users
* Semantic Desktops
* Social Network Analysis enabled by the Semantic Web
* Learning and Knowledge Communities
* Analysis of Large Online Communities Web Communities of Practice
* Network Analysis for Building Social Networks
* Implicit, Formal, and Powerful Semantics in Communities
* Semantic Social Networks Metadata and Annotation Techniques
* Metadata schema describing individuals and social ties
* Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based categorization systems
* Wikis, semantic Wikis and other collaborative knowledge creation systems
* Online Social Networking
* Applications of Online Semantic Networks
* Knowledge Management with Semantic Networks
* Emerging Human Experiences in Social Networks
* Analysis of Human Behaviour in Semantic Social Networks 

 

Please feel free to contact Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr if you have any 
questions. 

International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems (included in 
SCI, Thompson Scientific) and Information Sciences (included in SCI) + One 
more IEEE Transactions Issue. 

Deadline for Paper Submission 

Deadline for full paper submission is June 30, 2008. 

Click here to submit your article 

More information about the Summit 

Website: http://knowledge-summit.org/
Sponsor of the Summit: The Open Research Society (ORS) 
www.open-knowledge-society.org/ 


A GREAT THANK YOU TO THE CONTRIBUTORS OF PAPERS IN THE GENERAL CALL OF THE 
FIRST WORLD SUMMIT ON THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY:
150+SUBMISSIONS FROM 51 COUNTRIES.
MORE INFO AT: http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/wsks2008update.pdf 

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