- From: Peter Vojtas <peter.vojtas@mff.cuni.cz>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:49:32 +0200
- To: public-xg-urw3@w3.org
Asian Web conference is in collision with Web Intelligence http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/wi08/, is somebody going to submit? I will try. Peter Ken Laskey wrote: > I guess I was more drawn to the > >>> robustness of reasoning on the Web, and furthermore to investigate >>> alternative reasoning methods > > Ken > > On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Mitch Kokar wrote: > >> Does not look like much overlap to me. The issue of scale is pretty >> orthogonal to the issue of uncertainty, in my opinion. >> >> ==Mitch >> >> >> >> On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Ken Laskey wrote: >> >>> There seems to be some overlap with what we are looking at but I'm >>> not sure I recognize any of the names as having participated in URSW >>> workshops. We may at some point want to do some outreach. >>> >>> Ken >>> >>> Begin forwarded message: >>> >>>> From: guilin qi <guilin_qi@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:guilin_qi@yahoo.co.uk>> >>>> Date: June 22, 2008 4:43:35 PM EDT >>>> To: semanticweb@yahoogroups.com >>>> <mailto:semanticweb@yahoogroups.com>, seweb-list@cs.vu.nl >>>> <mailto:seweb-list@cs.vu.nl>, sw-announce@semanticplanet.com >>>> <mailto:sw-announce@semanticplanet.com>, ontoweb-list@lists.deri.org >>>> <mailto:ontoweb-list@lists.deri.org>, >>>> seweb-list@www2-c703.uibk.ac.at >>>> <mailto:seweb-list@www2-c703.uibk.ac.at>, seweb-list@lists.deri.org >>>> <mailto:seweb-list@lists.deri.org>, >>>> ontoweb-language-sig@cs.man.ac.uk >>>> <mailto:ontoweb-language-sig@cs.man.ac.uk>, semantic-web@w3.org >>>> <mailto:semantic-web@w3.org>, www-webont-wg@w3.org >>>> <mailto:www-webont-wg@w3.org>, public-sws-ig@w3.org >>>> <mailto:public-sws-ig@w3.org>, public-owl-dev@w3.org >>>> <mailto:public-owl-dev@w3.org>, semanticweb@yahoogroups.com >>>> <mailto:semanticweb@yahoogroups.com>, dl@dl.kr.org >>>> <mailto:dl@dl.kr.org>, ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net >>>> <mailto:ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net>, ontology@buffalo.edu >>>> <mailto:ontology@buffalo.edu>, www-ws@w3.org <mailto:www-ws@w3.org>, >>>> topicmapmail@infoloom.com <mailto:topicmapmail@infoloom.com>, >>>> diglib@infoserv.inist.fr <mailto:diglib@infoserv.inist.fr>, >>>> aiia@dis.uniroma1.it <mailto:aiia@dis.uniroma1.it>, >>>> dai-list@ece.sc.edu <mailto:dai-list@ece.sc.edu>, >>>> kweb-all@lists.deri.org <mailto:kweb-all@lists.deri.org>, >>>> rewerse-all@rewerse.net <mailto:rewerse-all@rewerse.net>, >>>> sioc-dev@googlegroups.com <mailto:sioc-dev@googlegroups.com>, >>>> semantic_web@googlegroups.com <mailto:semantic_web@googlegroups.com> >>>> Cc: ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net >>>> <mailto:ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net>, >>>> wsmo-discussion@lists.deri.org >>>> <mailto:wsmo-discussion@lists.deri.org>, >>>> web-semantics-italia@yahoogroups.com >>>> <mailto:web-semantics-italia@yahoogroups.com>, >>>> semanticweb@yahoogroups.com <mailto:semanticweb@yahoogroups.com> >>>> Subject: [semanticweb] [DIGLIB] CALL FOR PAPERS: 2nd International >>>> Workshop on "New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web" >>>> >>>> >>>> ========================= CALL FOR PAPERS ========================= >>>> >>>> Second International Workshop: "New forms of reasoning for the Semantic >>>> Web: scaleable, tolerant and dynamic" >>>> >>>> http://nefors08.larkc.eu >>>> >>>> Co-located with the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008) >>>> http://www.aswc2008.org/ >>>> >>>> Pathumthani, Thailand, 8th-11th December 2008 >>>> >>>> ============================== >>>> ===================================== >>>> >>>> >>>> Workshop Objectives >>>> =================== >>>> The Semantic Web is the vision of a Web of data usable for both humans >>>> but also machines. This web, consists of inter-connected instance data >>>> annotated with possibly expressive ontologies. Therefore a tremendous >>>> amount of information becomes available that should be processed based >>>> on formal semantics attached to it. The Semantic Web community has >>>> developed a number of languages (such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL) that >>>> deploy logic for this purpose. Impressive progress has been made on >>>> scalable storage, querying and inference for these languages, and they >>>> are successfully being deployed on large intranets and medium-scale >>>> web-applications. >>>> >>>> However existing reasoning techniques often fail to live up to the >>>> expectations put into them in this context. They can often neither deal >>>> with high number of instances, the expressiveness of the ontologies >>>> describing them or the inherent inconsistency and incompleteness of data >>>> on the Web. >>>> >>>> This workshop is intended to focus on these problems of scalability and >>>> robustness of reasoning on the Web, and furthermore to investigate >>>> alternative reasoning methods, which take incompleteness and >>>> distribution of data and knowledge as inherent properties into account. >>>> >>>> NeForS08 is the follow-up of the first international workshop on "New >>>> forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scalable, tolerant and >>>> dynamic", which took place in Busan, Korea in November 2007 and was >>>> co-located with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC >>>> 2007) and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2007). >>>> >>>> >>>> Topics of Interest >>>> ================== >>>> We welcome all research contributions that address one or more of the >>>> following topics: >>>> * Reasoning for the Web >>>> * Querying and searching >>>> * Scalability to the Web level >>>> * Efficient storage of structured data that scale to a very large size >>>> >>>> We also aim to attract participants from scientific fields not typically >>>> seen at Semantic Web events: >>>> * Economics can tell us about cost-benefit trade-off models, sunk-cost >>>> theory and the role of negotiation in obtaining near-optimal results >>>> under bounded resources >>>> * Cognitive Science can tell us about strategies of human memory and >>>> human reasoning which is so succesful in reaching good enough conclusion >>>> in limited time-spans, using methods such as priming, attention scoping, >>>> recency-based self-optimising memory, etc. >>>> * Computational Learning Theory has contributions to make with their >>>> notions of Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) computing, and >>>> strategies for abstraction and compression of information. >>>> * Combinatorial Search has made recent breakthroughs in handling massive >>>> search-spaces with heuristics based on Monte Carlo simulations. >>>> >>>> >>>> Event Information >>>> ================= >>>> The workshop will take place during the 3rd Asian Semantic Web >>>> Conference (ASWC2008) as a full-day event. >>>> It will be organized as a full day event and include an invited talk by >>>> Kyung-il Tony Lee, president and CEO of Saltlux Inc. on the industrial >>>> view on semantic technologies and the need for large-scale reasoning. >>>> >>>> Please note that for every accepted paper at least one of the authors >>>> must attend the workshop and must register for the workshop and the main >>>> conference. >>>> Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. >>>> However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would >>>> like to participate, those who have submitted a paper will be given >>>> priority. >>>> >>>> >>>> Submissions >>>> =========== >>>> The workshop invites full papers (up to 15 pages) as well as short >>>> papers (up to 5 pages). All contributions will be peer reviewed by the >>>> program commitee (see http://nefors08.larkc.eu) and accepted submissions >>>> will be published in a dedicated book. The number of accepted papers >>>> will be kept deliberately low in order to leave sufficient time for >>>> discussion after presentations. >>>> Additionally we are considering a special issue in a journal on >>>> semantic computing for extended versions of selected, high quality >>>> submissions. >>>> >>>> Submitted papers must be written in English and one of the following >>>> format must be used for the first submission: PDF, PS, DOC. For >>>> submissions please follow LNCS formatting instructions (see >>>> http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 for details) >>>> to prepare your paper and consider using the camera ready format even >>>> for the first submission. >>>> >>>> Furthermore papers need to be submitted electronically through the >>>> EasyChair using the following link: >>>> http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=nefors08 >>>> >>>> >>>> Important Dates >>>> =============== >>>> * September 15, 2008: Submission of papers >>>> * September 30, 2008: Notification of acceptance >>>> * October 15, 2008: Camera-ready version due >>>> * December 8, 2008: Workshop >>>> >>>> >>>> Organizers >>>> ========== >>>> Zhisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands >>>> Uwe Keller, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, >>>> Austria >>>> Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan and The >>>> International WIC Institute/BJUT, China >>>> >>>> Program Committee >>>> ================= >>>> Ruzica Piskac, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland >>>> Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands >>>> Lael Schooler, MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany >>>> Pascal Hitzler, Institut for Angewandte Informatik und Formale >>>> Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany >>>> Yue Pan, IBM Research Laboratory, Beijing, China >>>> Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, >>>> China >>>> Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL, Milano, Italy >>>> Stefania Galizia, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton >>>> Keynes, United Kingdom >>>> Guilin Qi, Institut for Angewandte Informatik und Formale >>>> Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany >>>> Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, Austin, Texas, USA >>>> Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China >>>> Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Trento, Italy >>>> >>>> Steering Committee >>>> =================== >>>> Dieter Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, >>>> Austria >>>> Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands >>>> >>>> >>>> Contact >>>> ======= >>>> Florian Fischer >>>> Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria >>>> Technikerstr. 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria >>>> E florian.fischer@sti2.at <mailto:florian.fischer@sti2.at> >>>> >>>> Sent from Yahoo! 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