ESWC'2006 Semantic Web Personalization Workshop

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Semantic Web Personalization Workshop

@ 3rd European Semantic Web Conference

_http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/swp06/_ 
<http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/%7Ehenze/swp06/>

June 11 or 12, 2006 (tbc)

Budva (Montenegro)

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The ultimate goal of the Semantic Web is to enable applications which 
offer enhanced and efficient possibilities for end users to benefit from 
electronically stored information. The vision of a Semantic Web, "in 
which information is given a well-defined meaning, better enabling 
computers and people to work in cooperation" already stresses the 
importance of efficient end user support for accessing and working with 
Web information.

However, current development in the Semantic Web focuses on formalisms, 
languages, reasoning and the development of according technological 
frameworks, so to speak the first part of the vision. These technologies 
shall constitute an environment capable of enabling enhanced, efficient 
and user-centered applications, thus enabling the second part of the 
vision, and the goal of the Semantic Web.

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners in the 
fields of Semantic Web technologies and personalization in order to 
discuss their theoretical and practical knowledge, issues, and 
experiences for common benefit. It is organized along two thematical 
foci and corresponding sessions: Semantic Web-enabling Technologies for 
Personalization, and Semantic-based Content Personalization in 
Ubiquitous Environments.

For the first session on Semantic Web-enabling Technologies for 
Personalization, we expect submissions to discuss especially some of the 
following topics:

* Reasoning and rules for user modeling and personalization

in the Semantic Web

* Information extraction for capturing semantics

* Acquisition and application of user profiles

* Ontology aligning and evolution for user modeling

* User-aware querying in the Semantic Web

* Trust, privacy and transparency in the personalization process

* Semantic Web Services and Service-oriented architectures

for personalization

For the second session on Semantic-based Content Personalization in 
Ubiquitous Environments, we expect submissions to discuss especially 
some of the following topics:

* Semantically enriched user models for ubiquitous and

mobile environments

* Content-based filtering exploiting content semantics

* Social filtering (collaborative filtering) exploiting content

semantics

* Hybrid filtering technologies using content semantics

* Filtering technologies for heterogeneous content

based on semantics

* How to use semantics for preference description

Furthermore, for both sessions, submissions about best practices and 
applications are sought, discussing e.g.:

* Needs: scenarios where personalization brings benefits

* Experiences: lessons learnt from previous research

* Solutions: for personalized access to content in a Semantic Web

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Important Dates:

Submission deadline: March 20, 2006

Notification to authors: April 19, 2006

Camera-ready version: April 30, 2006

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Submission Guidelines:

Two submission categories are accepted for the workshop:

* Full papers: 10 pages

* Short papers: 5 pages

Submission process:

Prepare your submission according to the Springer LNCS Style, see:

_http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html_ and submit the paper in 
PDF format.

For the session on Semantic Web-enabling Technologies for

Personalization: Submit your paper via email to Nicola Henze 
(henze@kbs.uni-hannover.de), with your submission (in PDF format) attached.

For the session on Semantic-based Content Personalization in Ubiquitous 
Environments you can use the submission system at 
_http://www.comtec.e-technik.uni-kassel.de/conftool_scpue2006/_

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Organization and Commitees:

General Organizers

Makram Bouzid - Motorola, France

Nicola Henze - University of Hannover, Germany

Session Organizers

Semantic Web-enabling Technologies for Personalization Lora Aroyo - 
Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands Vania Dimitrova - 
University of Leeds, UK Nicola Henze - University of Hannover, Germany 
Massimo Marchiori - W3C and University of Venice, Italy

Semantic-based Content Personalization in Ubiquitous Environments Makram 
Bouzid - Motorola, France Bruno Defude - Institut National des 
Télécommunications, France Olaf Droegehorn - University of Kassel, Germany

Program Committee

First session: Semantic Web-enabling Technologies for Personalization 
Pragya Agarwal UCL, UK Lora Aroyo Technical University of Eindhoven, 
Netherlands Matteo Baldoni University of Torino, Italy Cristina Baroglio 
University of Torino, Italy Claudia Buzzi Institute of Informatics and 
Telematics, IIT Vania Dimitrova University of Leeds, UK Anthony Jameson 
International University in Germany Dominik Heckman DFGKI, Germany 
Nicola Henze University of Hannover, Germany Pascal Hitzler University 
of Karlsruhe, Germany Judy Kay University of Sidney, Australia Alexander 
Kroener DFKI, Germany Massimo Marchiori W3C and University of Venice, 
Italy Bamshad Mobasher DePaul University, USA Vivana Patti University of 
Torino, Italy Fabrizio Silvestri Information Science and Technology 
Institute, ISTI , Julita Vassileva University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Second session: Semantic-based Content Personalization in Ubiquitous 
Environments Paola Hobson - Motorola, UK Geert-Jan Houben - Vrije 
Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Lora Aroyo - Technical University of 
Eindhoven, Netherlands Alfons Salden - Telematica Instituut, Netherlands 
Klaus Moessner - University of Surrey, UK Yiannis Kompatsiaris - 
CERTH/ITI, Greece Samir Tata - Institut National des Télécommunications, 
France Myriam Ribière - Motorola, France Serge Garlatti - ENST Bretagne, 
France Christian Becker - University of Stuttgart, Germany Hamid R. 
Arabnia - The University of Georgia, USA Rose Dieng-Kuntz - INRIA Sophia 
Antipolis, France François Carrez - Alcatel, France Monica Crubezy - 
Stanford Medical Informatics, USA

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Questions, comments, problems, help? Please do not hesitate to ask 
Makram Bouzid (Makram.Bouzid@motorola.com) or Nicola Henze

(henze@kbs.uni-hannover.de)

Received on Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:07:20 UTC