CFP: WWW-2002 Semantic Web Workshop

Call for Participation: Semantic Web Workshop at the
2002 World-Wide
Web Conference

The term "Semantic Web" denotes the next evolutionary
step of the Web,
which establishes a layer of machine-understandable
data for automated
agents, sophisticated search engines, and information
integration and
interoperability services. The ultimate goal of the
Semantic Web is to
allow machines to share and use knowledge worldwide in
a scalable,
adaptable and extensible manner, without any central
authority and
just a few basic rules.

The Semantic Web workshop at WWW-2002 will complement
the Semantic Web
track at the main conference by providing a forum for
active
discussion on the current achievements, pitfalls, and
the future
research directions of the Semantic Web. Our goal is
to provide a
forum for fruitful discussion sessions rather than a
mini-conference. We solicit papers, but at the
workshop itself the
emphasis will be on sharing experiences with time for
all participants
to contribute. The workshop will be structured around
group
discussions designed to help us achieve greater
understanding of the
following issues: What are the recent successes in
Artificial
Intelligence, Databases, Information Integration, and
other Computer
Science fields that are relevant to the Semantic Web? 
What are the
unique challenges of the Semantic Web that do not
allow us to apply
that research directly? How do we overcome these
challenges?  What are
new areas of basic research that the Semantic Web
needs? What are
possible killer applications for the Semantic Web? How
can we achieve
the critical mass of ontologies, annotated data,
tools, and agents to
make the Semantic Web as ubiquitous as the regular Web
is today?

Besides the papers about up-to-date progress of
research, we solicit
reports from Semantic Web practitioners. We also
encourage submissions
from researchers in established areas of Computer
Science discussing
the possibilities and challenges of applying
traditional techniques to
the Semantic Web, with its de-centralization and
scale. Practitioners'
reports will give us the opportunity to discuss the
gap between the
current practices and the visions. The challenge
papers will help us
achieve a coherent picture of the Semantic Web to
come.

Relevant workshop topics include but are not limited
to:  
* Language and Representation issues of the Semantic
Web
  (e.g. RDF, OIL, DAML, Topic-Maps, RSS)
* Query languages for RDF
* Tools, systems and methodologies for engineering of,
storing of and 
  reasoning with RDF data
* Migrating existing information to be usable for RDF
applications
* Trust in the Semantic Web
* Information integration and Mediation on the Web
* Semantic Web applications


Organizing Committee

Martin Frank, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
Steffen Staab, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany


Program Committee

Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, United
Kingdom
Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany
Fabio Ciravegna, U Sheffield, UK
Peter Crowther, Network Inference, UK
Monica Crubézy, Stanford University, USA
Mike Dean, BBN, USA
Stefan Decker, Stanford University (DB), USA
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France
Dieter Fensel, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
Tim Finin, University of Maryland-Baltimore County,
USA
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
Asun Gómez-Pérez, Polytechnic University of Madrid,
Spain
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University, USA
Martin Lacher, Technische Universität München, Germany
Yannis Labrou, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Fred Lochovsky, HKUST, Hong Kong
Alexander Maedche, FZI, Germany
Brian McBride, HP Laboratories, UK
Sergey Melnik, Stanford University, USA
Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK
Louiqa Raschid, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Katia Sycara, CMU, USA
Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
Mike Uschold, Boeing, USA


Submission procedure

We invite three types of submission: research papers,
application
papers, and position statements. Research and
application papers
should not exceed 12 pages (including bibliography).
Position
statements should not exceed 3 pages and address some
of the questions
in this announcement. Indicate the type of paper in
large fonts on the
first page of your submission. We will accept only
electronic
submissions in PDF format. To submit the paper, send
the PDF file or
the URL where we can download it to
noy@smi.stanford.edu

For additional information about the workshop, visit 
http://semanticweb2002.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

For additional information about WWW-2002, visit
http://www2002.org


Important dates

Submission of papers: March 1st
Notification of acceptance: April 1st
Submission of camera-ready copy: April 15th


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Received on Monday, 7 January 2002 14:05:08 UTC