- From: Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:46:58 +0200
- To: destinataires inconnus:;destinataires:;
[Apologies for cross and multiple postings. Please circulate to colleagues and prospective interested parties.] ======================================================================= 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008) Tenerife, Spain, June 1-5 2008. ======================================================================== Call for Panel Proposals: ------------------------- Proposal submission deadline: February 8, 2008 Notification date: February 29, 2008 Final panel description for inclusion in the proceedings: March 14, 2008 The ESWC is the leading European Conference on Theory, Practice and Applications of Semantic Web Technologies, constantly attracting a high number of high quality submissions participants from academia and industry. For the first time, ESWC will host panels during the main technical programme. ESWC2008 panels should focus on emerging technologies, controversial issues, or unsolved problems in the Semantic Web community. Panels are expected to stimulate lively, thoughtful, and sometimes provocative discussions. Panelists are expected to actively engage the audience and help them broaden their understanding of the issues. All areas of interests to ESWC participants are acceptable as a panel topic. Panel proposals will be accepted on the basis of their audience appeal, credentials of panelists, originality, and focus on disputed topics. Panel Proposal Submission Procedure: ------------------------------------ Panel proposals must include: * Panel title * Panel organizer(s)/moderator(s) * Short description of the topic (suitable for inclusion in the program) * Panel objective, scope, and target audience * Extended abstract of the panel, including suitable references * Panel format * The names and affiliations of the panelists * A statement for each panelist, indicating whether the panelist's participation is (a) confirmed or (b) pending in the case s/he has already been contacted and is not yet committed or (c) not yet contacted. Please append short bios for moderator and each panelist, from whom prior approval to participate should be obtained. Each panel proposal should also indicate whether other similar panels have happened in other recent conferences or workshops. If there have been similar panels then the panel proposal should point out the differences between the previous panels and the proposed panels. Proposals should be 4-6 pages long and can be submitted in either HTML or PDF. Please send proposals for ESWC2008 panels to <raphael.troncy@cwi.nl> Panel formats: -------------- Panels should last 90 minutes and typically include three to five panelists plus a moderator. Be creative about the panel format. A typical format includes: * moderator introduction * brief position statements by domain experts (It is essential that this part of the panel does not exceed a total of 30 minutes.) * discussions (at least 40 minutes) * closing statements from panelists and moderator You are also welcome to use various forms of multimedia presentations to help engage the audience. Duties of the Panel Moderator: ------------------------------ The panel moderator is the most important participant in a panel. The moderator must take an active role during the panel to ensure that the panelists stay on time and on track and to stimulate debate. The most important part of the moderator's job, however, occurs well before the panel starts. It is the duty of the moderator to force the panelists to prepare lively and controversial initial presentations and to be prepared for the debate part of the panel. Panel moderators thus must spend a significant amount of time "herding cats", i. e., getting the panelists to adequately prepare. Raphaël Troncy (ESWC 2008 Panel Chair) -- Raphaël Troncy CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands e-mail: raphael.troncy@cwi.nl & raphael.troncy@gmail.com Tel: +31 (0)20 - 592 4093 Fax: +31 (0)20 - 592 4312 Web: http://www.cwi.nl/~troncy/
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