CFP: SEBIZ 2006 - ISWC Workshop on APPLICATIONS AND BUSINESS ASPECTS OF THE SEMANTIC WEB

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				   CALL FOR PAPERS

                             SEBIZ 2006
                  http://www.ag-nbi.de/conf/SEBIZ06
                            November 6, 20006

                    1st international workshop
               APPLICATIONS AND BUSINESS ASPECTS OF THE
                            SEMANTIC WEB

                        at  ISWC 2006
                 5th Int. Semantic Web Conference
              November 5 - 9, 2006 Athens, Georgia, USA

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Within the past five years, the Semantic Web research community has brought
to maturity a comprehensive set of foundational technology components, and
this both at the conceptual level and in the form of prototypes and
software.  However, in order for these research achievements to materialize
into large scale corporate applications, they must be complemented by
prototypes, methods, and best practices which support enterprises in the
adoption of Semantic Web technology. This includes:

**  Convincing showcases and proofs-of-concept that demonstrate the
    technical feasibility in relevant business scenarios.

**  Methods to assess the costs and business value of semantic
    technology; in particular, such that help estimate the costs
    involved in the development and usage of ontologies, and to quantify
    the operational and strategic benefits of ontology-based systems.

**  Metrics to evaluate and compare existing ontologies, ontology
    engineering methodologies, and tools in terms of technical quality
    and organizational fit. This includes metrics to determine the
    usability of a particular ontology in a specific business scenario.

**  Means to monitor the quality of ontology development and deployment
    processes.


The availability of best practices, convincing showcases, and quantitative
and qualitative metrics that help manage the various stages of building
ontologies and ontology-based systems will be important catalysts for
disseminating Semantic Web research into enterprise applications.


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CALL FOR PAPERS
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We invite original research papers and project reports from academia and
industry that address any of the above mentioned aspects of Semantic Web
technology in business applications.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:


*   Best practices and use cases of semantic technology in enterprise
    applications, e.g.,

    - Business Process Management (BPM)
    - Business Intelligence (BI)
    - Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
    - Decision Support Systems
    - Ontology-based content integration tasks in business and public
        sector applications (catalog data integration, spend analysis); and
    - Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).

*   Methods to assess the costs and business value of semantic
    technology, in particular

    - Methods to monitor the costs associated with the development and
        usage of ontologies
    - Methods to estimate the total costs of ontology ownership; and
    - Methods that help e quantify the business value, in the sense of
        operational and strategic benefits, of ontology-based systems in
        organizations.

*   Methods for evaluating ontologies and monitoring ontology
    development on a technical level, e.g.

    - Metrics to evaluate and compare existing ontologies, ontology
        engineering methodologies, and tools in terms of technical quality
        and organizational fit
    - Metrics to determine the usability of a particular ontology in a
        specific business scenario
    - Methods to measure the interdependencies among ontologies and
        organizational processes; and
    - Quality frameworks for ontologies, ontology engineering
        methodologies, methods and tools.


Especially welcome will be papers that integrate the various aspects of the
enumerated problems.


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IMPORTANT DATES
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extended to August 5, 2006 Paper submissions due September 8, 2006
Acceptance notification September 18, 2006 Camera-ready papers due October
6, 2006 Electronic version of the proceedings available November 6, 2006
Workshop at the ISWC2006


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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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We invite submissions of short or full
papers reflecting both research in progress and validated results that
address any relevant dimension of the problem. All papers will be
peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee.
Papers should be formatted in Springer LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and submitted as PDF
documents. Full papers should be 15 pages, short papers should be up to 8
pages.

Submission of papers will take place electronically at

    http://conference.ag-nbi.de/sebiz06

For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop
in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in
the workshop program. Accepted papers will be published online at CEUR
Workshop Proceedings.


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Free University of Berlin, Germany Martin
Hepp, University of Innsbruck, Semantics in Business Information Systems,
Austria Sang-goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Christoph Tempich,
AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Richard Benjamins (iSOCO)
Chris Bizer (Free University of Berlin)
Christoph Bussler (Cisco Systems)
Jorge Cardoso (University of Madeira)
Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester)
Roberta Cuel (University of Trento)
John Davies (BT)
Jos de Bruijn (University of Innsbruck)
Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari)
John Domingue (Open University)
Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck)
Doug Foxvog (National University of Ireland Galway) Fausto Giunchiglia
(University of Trento) Michel Klein (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Juhnyoung
Lee (IBM Research) Alain Leger (France Telecom) Miltiadis Lystras (Athens
University of Economics & Business) Dumitru Roman (University of Innsbruck)
York Sure (University of Karlsruhe) Robert Tolksdorf (Free University of
Berlin) Ioan Toma (UNniversity of Innsbruck) Yuxiao Zhao (Linköping
University)


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SUPPORT
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The event is supported by the EU funded Network of Excellence KnowledgeWeb -
Realizing the Semantic Web.

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