[CFP]ARea2008: International Workshop on Advancing Reasoning on the Web: Scalability and Commonsense collocated at ESWC2008

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Second CALL FOR PAPERS

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International Workshop on Advancing Reasoning on the Web: Scalability
and Commonsense(ARea 2008)
https://logic.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/wiki/ARea2008
Hosted by the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-08)
http://www.eswc2008.org/
June 1, 2008, Tenerife, Spain
Submission Deadline for full paper: 7th of March, 2008 (12.00 AM, GMT)
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Workshop Description
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Semantic Web Technologies provide concepts, architectures, and tools
for interconnected vocabularies and applications. One of the declared
goals of Semantic Web research is to enable intelligent software agents
to reason about information and knowledge which is pervaded on the Web.
To realize this, Semantic Web reasoning research has to face two
apparently contradictory challenges: On the one hand, scalability to
web size is crucial. On the other hand, expressive knowledge
representation capabilities are needed, as traditionally studied in the
area of commonsense reasoning.

Workshop Objectives and Topics of Interest
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We therefore seek to bring together researchers interested in scalable
reasoning solutions for the Semantic Web as well as researchers in
commonsense reasoning.

We invite technical contributions and short statements of interest
concerning all aspects of scalable reasoning and commonsense reasoning
on and for the semantic web.

These include:

  * new forms of reasoning
  * heuristic and approximate reasoning
  * querying and searching
  * scalability of reasoning to web level
  * nonmonotonicity for ontology languages
  * computational models of argumentation
  * dynamics of ontologies
  * contextualisation
  * temporal and spatial reasoning
  * inconsistency handling
  * rules and ontologies
  * uncertainty handling
  * planning and reasoning about action and change on the semantic web

Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: 7th of March 2008
Notification: 4th of April, 2008
Camera-ready version: 18th of April, 2008
Workshop day: to be decided (between 1st and 5th of June, 2008)

Submissions
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We will accept full papers (up to 15 pages) as well as short statements
of interest (2 pages) in LNCS format. Both of these will be reviewed by
members of the programme committee.

Proceedings will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (bearing an
ISSN number).

Submissions should be sent to Guilin Qi, gqi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de 
<mailto:gqi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>, no
later than 7th of March 2008.

Organizers
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Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Andreas Herzig, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Zuoquan Lin, Peking University, Beijing, China
Ruzica Piskac, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Guilin Qi, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Programme Committee
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Grigoris Antoniou,University of Crete, Greece
Henry Brighton, MPI for Human Develpment, Berlin, Germany
Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, Austria
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Anthony Hunter, University College London, UK
Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext, Sirma Labs, Bulgaria
Domenico Lembo, SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany
Thomas Meyer, Meraka Institute, South Africa
Henri Prade, IRIT-CNRS, France
Mark Reaves, Vulcan Inc. USA
Luciano Serafini, ITC-IRST, Italy
Umberto Straccia,ISTI-CNR, Italy
Kewen Wang,Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, Inc. Austin

Primary Contact: Guilin Qi, gqi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de 
<mailto:gqi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>