- From: Thorsten Liebig <thorsten.liebig@uni-ulm.de>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:58:26 +0200
- To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
********************************************************************* We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************* LAST CALL FOR PAPERS (WITH DEADLINE EXTENSION) THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCALABLE SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS (SSWS '07) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=ssws2007cfp ON THE MOVE FEDERATED CONFERENCES 2007 (OTM'07) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 25 - 30, 2007 Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag ********************************************************************* WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION This workshop aims at creating a forum for discussing a critical issue for the Semantic Web, that is, scalability. As the Semantic Web evolves, scalability becomes increasingly important. This workshop will focus on addressing of the scalability issue with respect to the development and deployment of knowledge base systems on the Semantic Web. Typically, such systems deal with information described in Semantic Web languages like OWL and RDF(S), and provide services such as storing, reasoning, querying and debugging. There are two basic requirements for these systems. First, they have to satisfy the application's semantic requirements by providing sufficient reasoning support. Second, they must scale well in order to be of practical use. Given the sheer size and distributed nature of the Semantic Web, these requirements impose additional challenges beyond those addressed by earlier knowledge base systems. This has been well recognized by the community. We expect that the above issue is going to challenge the Semantic Web for a long time of period and significant effort is needed in order to tackle the problem. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners to share their recent ideas and progresses towards building scalable knowledge base systems for the Semantic Web. The workshop will be centered on the discussion of three major aspects: 1. foundations, methods and technologies for pushing forward the state-of-the-art; 2. performance evaluation and related principles, methodologies and tools; 3. identification of important issues and future research directions. WORKSHOP TOPICS TOPICS OF INTERESTS for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Reasoning mechanisms, techniques and systems * Query evaluation and optimization * Performance evaluation and benchmarks * Large Semantic Web repositories * Distributed and concurrent knowledge base systems and P2P systems * Large scale knowledge base management * Semantic Web-based information integration In addition, the workshop will include a working session on benchmarking and other relevant topics solicited beforehand to participants. In order to be able to evaluate scalability, the existence of agreed benchmarking datasets is of crucial importance. In many related domains such as databases and theorem proving, standard benchmarks exist and are ready to guide research on optimization techniques. In the Semantic Web area, such benchmarking shave only just started to emerge and there is no commonly agreed benchmark dataset for RDF and OWL reasoning and querying. The workshop will address this issue in a special working session on benchmarking. In this session, existing benchmarking initiatives will be presented and discussed by organizers and participants of the workshop. The aim is to agree on a classification of the existing datasets and requirements for additional datasets. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline July 20, 2007 (EXTENDED) Paper Submission Deadline July 26, 2007 Acceptance Notification September 1, 2007 Camera Ready Due September 10, 2007 Registration Due September 10, 2007 OTM Conferences November 25 - 30, 2007 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of expression, and relevance to SSWS. All submissions must be in English, and will be refereed by a program committee comprising members of the Working Group. Research submissions must not exceed 10 pages following the Springer format. Submissions should be made in PDF format. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. The paper submission site is located at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ssws/2007/papers/ ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Achille Fokoue IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA (Contact Person) (http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/achille.index.html, achille@us.ibm.com) Yuanbo Guo Microsoft Corp (http://www.lehigh.edu/~yug2, yug2@lehigh.edu) Thorsten Liebig Ulm University, Germany (http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/ki/liebig.html, thorsten.liebig@uni-ulm.de) Bijan Parsia University of Manchester, UK (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~bparsia/, bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk) Program Committee Members Pascal Hitzler - University of Karlsruhe, Germany York Sure - University of Karlsruhe, Germany Kavitha Srinivas - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Takahira Yamaguchi - Keio University, Japan Raúl García Castro - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Aditya Kalyanpur - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Oscar Corcho - University of Manchester, UK Jeff Heflin - Lehigh University, USA Ralf Möller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Ian Horrocks - University of Manchester, UK Boris Motik - University of Manchester, UK Pierre-Antoine Champin - Lyon 1 University, France Ying Ding - University of Innsbruck, Austria Marko Luther - DoCoMo Eurolabs Munich, Germany Timo Weithöner - Ulm University, Germany Andy Seaborne - Hewlett-Packard, UK Ulrike Sattler - University of Manchester, UK Jan Wielemaker - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Volker Haarslev - Condordia University, Canada
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