[doceng] Advanced Semantic Technologies 2006

The paper deadline is a week-and-a-half away as of 4/7/06.

  - Bob Futrelle
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The paper submission deadline has been EXTENDED to April 17, 2006!



                      I-Know 2006 Special Track on

               Advanced Semantic Technologies 2006 (AST '06)

                Wednesday, 6th September 2006, Graz, Austria

                        http://www.i-know.at/ast


Call for Papers for the I-KNOW '06 Special Track on Advanced Semantic
Technologies 2006 (AST '06).


Introduction

The I-KNOW '06 Special Track on Advanced Semantic Technologies
addresses the emerging field of semantic technologies in knowledge
management and information retrieval. Original papers are solicited
and will be reviewed by a board of international experts.

Topics include but are not limited to:

* Retrieval based on knowledge organisation systems (KOS)
* Ontology powered information systems
* Ontologies and knowledge representation in applied knowledge
management
* Probabilistics in knowledge representation
* Ontology learning and extraction
* Modeling and retrieval of semantic metadata
* Semantic analysis of structured and unstructured data
* Knowledge discovery in the Semantic Web
* Semantic agent technologies

Submissions might also address applications of semantic technologies
in areas such as knowledge management, competency management,
workflow management, search engines, decision support, e-learning,
healthcare, mobile and pervasive computing or bioinformatics.


Background

The area of semantic technologies combines a series of hot topics:
The Semantic Web, knowledge organization systems (KOS), agent
technologies and ontologies. While the Semantic Web is based on a
series of definitions and aims to build a new way of sharing and
searching for information in the Internet, knowledge organization
systems and ontologies allow the formal definition of explicit
knowledge. Agent technologies benefit from the explicit knowledge
provided in the semantic web through processing it for completing
their programmed tasks.
The areas of information retrieval and information systems find
themselves facing new requirements: In information retrieval
knowledge has to be integrated in the process of finding and ranking
search results as well as in the processes of clustering and
classifying information. Information systems aim to include
ontologies for enhancing their results by using a knowledge base.
Within the Special Track on Advanced Semantic Technologies we aim to
bring together researchers from different areas of semantic and
knowledge based systems research to exchange experiences, present and
talk about the results of their work and discuss hot topics.


Target Group

The topics mentioned above are addressed at researchers and
developers as well as at innovative practitioners and providers in
the fields of semantic technologies. The special track will be held
in English.


Submission Instructions and Procedure

Submissions should be handed in as full papers and should not exceed
8 pages. Please use the I-KNOW style guides (http://www.i-know.at/
author_guidelines) and submit your contribution in PDF or MS Word
format. In case of problems or questions concerning the submission
(http://www.i-know.at/i_know_06/topics/submission) of papers, please
contact the track chairs at ast@know-center.at.

Submissions, regardless of category, should include title, author(s),
abstract, keywords, body, and references. Submissions are to be made
electronically in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) or MS Word
format. Submissions are treated as confidential communications during
the review process, so submission does not constitute public
disclosure of any ideas therein. Submissions should contain no
information or materials that will be proprietary or confidential at
the time of publication, and should cite no publications that are
proprietary or confidential at the time of publication.


Important Dates

      * 17 April     2006 - Submission of the full paper (8 pages)
      * 22 May       2006 - Notification of acceptance
      * 26 June      2006 - Camera ready paper (8 pages)
      * 06 September 2006 - AST 2006 special track


Publication

Accepted papers will be published within the I-KNOW '06 conference
proceedings in cooperation with J.UKM and Springer Co. Pub. At least
one author of an accepted paper must register for the I-KNOW
conference before the deadline for camera-ready-copies of the papers
(26 June 2006). Otherwise the paper will not be published.


Conference Organization

The 6th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW '06,
http://www.i-know.at) is organized by the Know-Center, Austria's
Competence Center for knowledge management. The organization team of
the Special Track on Advanced Semantic Technologies consists of the
following people:

      * Mathias Lux, mlux@know-center.at
      * Peter Scheir, pscheir@know-center.at
      * Michael Granitzer, mgrani@know-center.at
      * Stefanie Lindstaedt, slind@know-center.at


Program Committee

      * Wernher Behrendt (Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft,
Salzburg, Austria)
      * Paul Buitelaar (German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence, Saarbrücken, Germany)
      * Rainer Eckstein (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany)
      * Harald Kosch (Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria)
      * Mathias Lux (Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria)
      * Sven Meyer zu Eissen (Bauhaus University Weimar)
      * Peter Scheir (Know-Center, Graz, Austria)
      * Luciano Serafini (Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e
Tecnologica, Trento, Italy)
      * Marc Spaniol (RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany)
      * York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany)
      * Douglas Tudhope (University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, United
Kingdom)
      * Albert Weichselbraun (Vienna University of Economics and
Business Administration, Vienna, Austria)

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DI Mathias Lux
Know-Center & Graz University of Technology, Austria
Institute for Knowledge Management (IWM)
Inffeldgasse 21a, 8010 Graz, Austria
Email  : mlux@know-center.at
Tel: +43 316 873 9274  Fax: +43 316 873 9252






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