CFP: Workshop on Role of Semantic Web in Provenance Management (ISWC'09)

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS - SWPM 2009
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The First International Workshop on Role of Semantic Web in Provenance 
Management (SWPM 2009)
                   http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/SWPM-2009
 
    Co-located with ISWC'09, October 25/26 2009, Washington D.C., USA
   
    (Submission Deadline: Friday, July 31, 2009 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time)
 

INTRODUCTION

The growing eScience infrastructure is enabling scientists to generate 
scientific data on an industrial scale. Similarly, the Web 2.0 paradigm 
is enabling Web users to create focused applications that combine data 
from multiple sources, popularly referred to as "mashups", on an 
extremely large scale. The importance of managing various forms of 
apparently ancillary metadata, in addition to the primary data products 
of eScience, Web, and business applications is increasingly being 
recognized as critical for the correct interpretation of the data. The 
workshop on Role of Semantic Web in Provenance Management (SWPM 2009) 
focuses specifically on metadata that describes the origins of the data. 
The term provenance, from the French word "provenir" meaning "to come 
from", describes the lineage, or origins, of a data entity. Provenance 
metadata is required to correctly interpret the results of a process, to 
validate data processing tools, to verify the quality of data, and to 
associate trust value with the data.

The primary objective of this workshop is to explore the role of 
Semantic Web and its standards in addressing some of the critical 
challenges facing provenance management, namely:

1. Efficiently capturing and propagating provenance information as data 
is processed, fragmented and recombined across multiple applications and 
domains on a Web scale.

2. A common representation model for provenance, underpinned by a formal 
theory for use by both agents and humans.

3. Interoperability of provenance information generated in distributed 
environments such as the Web and the Grid.

4. Tools leveraging the Semantic Web for visualization of provenance 
information. 

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KEYNOTE TALK
Prof. Carole Goble
School of Computer Science, University of Manchester

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TOPICS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
The workshop solicits the submission of original research papers dealing 
with analytical, theoretical, and practical aspects of provenance 
management using Semantic Web. Topics of interest include, but are not 
restricted to:

* Representation models for provenance, provenance ontologies
* Provenance analysis (reasoning, knowledge discovery, user-defined rules)
* Annotation of scientific data using provenance ontologies
* Role of provenance in social networks, social media, open science, 
collaborative science, and Web 2.0 (mashups)
* Interoperability and propagation of provenance across applications
* Large scale storage and efficient querying of provenance
* Provenance infrastructure for eScience, business, and Web applications
* Role of provenance in scientific data management

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SUBMISSIONS
Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing 
system. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three members the 
Program Committee. Accepted papers will be available in form of 
electronic proceedings and attendees will get a printed copy of proceedings.

All submissions should be 6-8 pages long (in IEEE format 
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html) in PDF 
format.

Please submit your paper using the EasyChair site at: 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swpm2009

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Submissions due: Friday, July 31, 2009 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time
Notification: Sunday, August 30 2009
Workshop Date: October 25/26 2009, Westfields Conference Center, 
Washington D.C., USA.
 
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ORGANIZATION
Chairs
1. Amit Sheth
   Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA

2. Vassilis Christophides
   ICS-FORTH Crete, Greece

Organizing Committee/PC Co-Chairs

1. Juliana Freire
   University of Utah, USA

2. Paolo Missier
   University of Manchester, UK

3. Satya S. Sahoo
   Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Aleksander Slominski, IBM Research
Bertram Ludäscher, University of California Davis
Beth Plale, Indiana University
Claudio Silva, University of Utah
Francisco Curbera, IBM Research
Giorgos Flouris, FORTH-ICS, Greece
Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD
James Cheney, University of Edinburgh
Jun Zhao, Oxford University
Kei Cheung, Yale University
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University
Luc Moreau, University of Southampton
Nirmal Mukhi, IBM Research
Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, NIH
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, University of Texas at El Paso
Peter Fox, Tetherless World Research Constellation, RPI
Roger Barga, Microsoft Research
Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Universite Paris-Sud
Sudha Ram, Arizona State University
Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania
 
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SWPM Workshop Website:  http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/SWPM-2009

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Dr. Jun Zhao
Image Bioinformatics Research Group

Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
E-mail: jun.zhao@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Direct phone: +44-(0)1865-281094
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