- From: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 08:49:58 +0200
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(Apologies for cross posting. Please send to interested colleagues and students) ************************ Last Call for Papers ************************** International Workshop on Applications of Logic Programming in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services (ALPSWS2006) *********************************************************************** co-located with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP2006), part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC2006), Seattle, Washington, August 10 - 22, 2006 http://www.deri.at/events/workshops/alpsws2006 Description of the Workshop Topic: ---------------------------------- The advent of the Semantic Web promises machine readable semantics and a machine-processable next Generation of the Web. The first step in this direction is the annotation of static data on the Web by machine processable information about knowledge and its structure by means of Ontologies. The next step in this direction is the annotation of dynamic applications and services invocable over the Web in order to facilitate automation of discovery, selection and composition of semantically described services and data sources on the Web by intelligent methods, which is called Semantic Web Services. Many workshops and conferences were dedicated to these promising areas mostly with generic topics and bringing together people from a widespread variety of research fields with different understandings of the topic. The plethora of these workshops and conferences makes it hard to keep track of the various approaches of a particular technology such as declarative logic programming in our case. In this workshop we want to advance the applications of Logic Programming as a paradigm for declarative knowledge representation and reasoning for the Web. The idea is to bring together the impressive body of work related to applications of LP to Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services. This brings the following major benefits: * Bringing together people from different sub-disciplines of LP and focus on technological solutions and applications from LP to the problems of the Web. * Promoting further research in this interesting application field. Topics ------ Possible topics include (but are not limited to): * Logic Programming based approaches for reasoning about Semantic Web languages such as RDF, RDFS, WSML, OWL, OWL-S, RuleML * Logic Programming based rule languages for the Semantic Web * Ontology Modeling and Mediation using Logic Programming * Deductive query answering in a Semantic Web Context * Reasoning over large-scale Ontologies * Combinations of Logic Programming and Description Logics * Modeling of and Reasoning about Web Services * Applications of Reasoning about actions and dynamics in the context of Web Services Discovery and Composition * Interactions of Logic Programming with other technologies such as agents, constraint programming, etc. in a (Semantic) Web context * Applications, use cases, experimental results and benchmarks * Extensions of Logic Programming engines for Semantic Web applications * Paraconsistent reasoning on the (Semantic) Web Important Dates --------------- * 12 May 2006, Submission of papers * 9 June 2006, Notification of acceptance * 23 June 2006, Camera-ready versions due * 16 August 2006, Workshop Submission Format ----------------- Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English, following the LNCS format. Papers must not exceed 16 pages. Besides full papers, we also encourage short paper submissions of up to 6 pages which present preliminary results, system descriptions or practical real-world use cases and implementations. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Papers must be submitted electronically in either PDF (preferred) or postscript format. For paper submission we use the EasyChair conference management system: http://www.easychair.org/ALPSWS2006/ For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the workshop program. The best papers in the workshop will be published in a dedicated section of a special issue on 'Logic Programming and the Web' in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), see http://www.dsi.unive.it/~tplp/ More information on the venue, registration, hotels, and related events will be available at the conference web site. Workshop Organization --------------------- The workshop deals with the area that is the intersection of Semantic Web and Logic Programming. The workshop will be organized in part around talks presenting research results in this area selected from the accepted submissions. Another important part of the workshop will be to identify challenges and open problems in this area and provide an opportunity for new ideas and initiatives to bubble up and get the attention they deserve. In order to facilitate and enable a rich interaction environment a part of the workshop will be dedicated towards discussion using the open-space methodology. Open-space methodology facilities and enables effective on site agenda building and execution. The co-organizers of the workshop have successfully deployed open-space agenda building in scientific workshops in the past - e.g., the Semantics in P2P and Grid Computing Workshops at the World Wide Web Conference 2004 and the Friend of a Friend Workshop in Galway, 2004. There the workshop and especially the way the agenda was built in interaction with the audience, enabled new initiatives to develop and had impact on the future of these fields. We hope to achieve the same within this workshop and to reconnect the Semantic Web and Logic Programming field. We further plan to set up an online platform to exchange information and to keep the discussion alive even after the workshop. Organizing Committee -------------------- * Axel Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid * Stefan Decker, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway * Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas * Jos de Bruijn, DERI, Leopold-Franzens Universitaet Innsbruck Program Committee ----------------- * Jürgen Angele, Ontoprise GmbH * Chitta Baral, Arizona State University * Robert Baumgartner, Lixto Software GmbH * Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University * Francois Bry, Ludwig Maximilians University * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology * Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlruhe * Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria * Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto * David Pearce, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos * Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology * Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft * Andy Seaborne, HP * Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology * Adrian Walker, Reengineering * Guizhen Yang, SRI -- Dr. Axel Polleres email: axel@polleres.net url: http://www.polleres.net/
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