International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems - New Submission and review system + CFP's of special issues

Dear All,
 
We are very happy to announce that a new online submission and review system ( <http://www.ijswis.org/submissions.html> http://www.ijswis.org/submissions.html) is on air for our International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems. Please use this system ( <http://www.ijswis.org/opeconf/> http://www.ijswis.org/opeconf/), whenever you submit a manuscript for consideration in IJSWIS (and send a copy with a mail to  <mailto:Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr> Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr).
 
We recently completed the IJSWIS 2(2) 2006 (125 pages) issue with 3 excellent articles. Very shortly an official announcement will be made. 
 
RESEARCH PAPERS
Events in Multimedia Electronic Chronicles (E-Chronicles)
Utz Westermann, University of California, Irvine, USA
Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine, USA
This paper discusses some of the fundamental issues that must be addressed in general multimedia information management systems. It presents multimedia electronic chronicles (echronicles)
as an example of emerging systems that need such technology.
 
R-DEVICE: An Object-Oriented Knowledge Base for RDF Metadata
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
This paper presents R-DEVICE, a deductive object-oriented knowledge base system for reasoning over RDF metadata. R-DEVICE imports RDF documents into the CLIPS production
rule system by transforming RDF triples into COOL objects and uses a deductive rule language for reasoning about them. R-DEVICE is based on an OO RDF data model, different than the
established triple-based model.
 
Ontology-Based Automatic Annotation of Learning Content
Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Dragan Gaševic, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada
Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
This paper presents an ontology-based approach to automatic annotation of learning objects'
(LOs) content units that we tested in TANGRAM, an integrated learning environment for the
domain of Intelligent Information Systems. The approach provides a solution for automatic
metadata generation for LOs' components.
 
We feel that in every issue we reach a new level of high quality thanks to our contributors and the tough review standards set by our EIC, Prof. Amit Sheth and our Editorial Board, and this will be reflected in the ISI citation index listing of our journal shortly according to our strategy. Allow me 
 
Last but not least an update on the scheduled special issues of IJSWIS. 
We are finalizing the review of the submissions for the special issue on MULTIMEDIA SEMANTICS, Special Issue Guest Editors: William Grosky, and Farshad Fotouhi, with a publication schedule for IJSWIS 2(3) 2006.
 
Currently there are two open calls that cover extremely important research issues:
 
Special Issue on Semantics of People and Culture,  <http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/publications/ijswis-culturalsemantics%20-cfp.txt> http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/publications/ijswis-culturalsemantics -cfp.txt, Special Issue Guest Editors: Hugo Liu and Pattie Maes, The Media Laboratory, MIT, USA 
[IMPORTANT DATES, Email Interest in Submitting: As soon as possible, Paper Submission Deadline: 15 October 2006, Planned Publication: IJSWIS Volume 3, Issue 2 (2007)]
 
Special Issue on Ontology Matching, http://www.ijswis.org/cfp/ontmatching.html, Special Issue Guest Editors, Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento , and Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, 
 
[IMPORTANT DATES: 
Submission Deadline for Papers: 30th  June, 2006 . 
Completion of the 1st Round of Reviews: 30 th September 2006 . 
Major/Minor Revisions Due: 30 th November 2006 . 
Completion of the 2nd Round of Reviews: 15 th January 2007 . 
Editorial Decisions Sent: 15 th February 2007 . 
Planned Publication: IJSWIS Volume 3, Issue 3 (2007)]
 
Finally, we have accepted two more special issue proposals that will be announced officially soon. 
a.      Special Issue on Semantic Web and Data Warehousing, Guest Editors Gottfried Vossen, University of Münster, Bodo Hüsemann, Jens Lechtenbörger.
 
And a last piece of news. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) has elected our EIC, Prof. Amit P. Sheth, to the rank of IEEE Fellow in the 2006 Class. The IEEE Board of Directors confers this award upon people who have an extraordinary record of accomplishments. Our congratulations to Amit for this great achievement with the wish to leading our efforts for an excellent quality A class journal on SW and IS. 
 
With best regards
 
Dr. Miltiadis Lytras
Executive Editor, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems,  <http://www.ijswis.org/> http://www.ijswis.org 
 
 
If you want to help IJSWIS:
 
1. We need 2-3 PhD students to help us in supporting IJSWIS infrastructure, e.g. Web Site, and Submission and Review System. Don't hesitate to contact me if you are interested in. 
 
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