- From: Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:00:15 -0400
- To: seweb-list@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at, semantic-web@w3.org, semanticweb@yahoogroups.com
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CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
In conjunction with the
5th International Semantic Web Conference
Athens, GA - USA November 5/6, 2006
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You are invited to participate in the upcoming
workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the
Semantic Web (http://www.iet.com/iswc/
2006/ursw), to be held as part of the 5th
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC -
http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/index.html). ISWC
is a major international forum for presenting
visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic
Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop is an
exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-
fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning
community and the Semantic Web community.
Practical methods for reasoning under uncertainty
are vital for realizing many aspects of the
Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-
generation web technology to handle uncertainty
is extremely limited. Recently, there has been a
groundswell of demand for uncertainty reasoning
technology among Semantic Web researchers and
developers, as evidenced by the remarkable level
of interest and participation the first URSW
(http://www.iet.com/iswc/2005/ursw) received
during last year’s ISWC. There is also increasing
awareness in areas such as search and service
oriented architectures where uncertainty and semantics are growing concerns.
This surge of interest creates a unique opening
to bring together communities with a clear
commonality of interest but little history of
interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity,
URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision.
Audience
The intended audience for this workshop includes the following:
- Researchers in uncertainty reasoning
technologies with interest in Semantic Web and Web-related technologies
- Semantic web developers and researchers
- People in the knowledge representation
community with interest in the Semantic Web
- Ontology researchers and ontological engineers
- Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web
- Developers of tools designed to support
semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena
developers, Protege and Protege-OWL developers
Topic List
We intend to have an open discussion on any topic
relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in
the Semantic Web. Therefore, the following list
should be just an initial guide.
- Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic
Web languages to enable representation of uncertainty
- Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web languages
- Probability theory as a means of assessing the
likelihood that terms i different ontologies
refer to the same or similar concepts
- Architectures for applying plausible reasoning
to the problem of ontology mapping
- The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web
- Best practices for representing uncertain,
incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web
- The role of uncertainty as it relates to Web services
- Interface protocols with support for
uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among Web services
- Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web
- Existing implementations of uncertainty
reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web
- Issues and techniques for integrating tools for
representing and reasoning with uncertainty
- The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web
Important Dates
July 20, 2006 Paper submissions due
August 25, 2006 Paper acceptance notification
September 15, 2006 Camera-ready papers due
November 5/6, 2006 2nd Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the
Semantic Web
Submission Details
The URSW will be accepting submissions of
technical papers and position papers. Each
submission will be evaluated for acceptability by
at least three members of the Program Committee.
Decisions about acceptance will be based on
relevance to the above topic list, originality,
potential significance, topicality and clarity.
Since all accepted papers will be presented at
the workshop, we require that at least one of the
submitting authors must be a registered
participant at the ISWC 2006 Conference, and
committed to attend the URSW Workshop.
Submission to the Workshop is only accepted in
electronic format and should be sent to the
organizing committee via the workshop email address:
URSW2006_submissions@iet.com
Papers must be submitted in PDF format, and
follow the same submission format used by the
ISWC 2006 Conference, the Springer Publications
format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), available at:
www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html
Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop
must not exceed 10 pages, including figures.
Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed.
Position papers consist of a summary of ideas,
projects, or any research efforts that are
relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 2 pages.
Following the general acceptance rules of the
ISWC 2006 conference, papers that, at the time of
submission, are under review for or have already
been published in or accepted for publication in
a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop.
Presentation and Publication
All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented
during the workshop and published in the workshop
proceedings, which will be available as a
separate publication after the Conference.
Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20
minutes to present their work, while authors of
accepted position papers will have a 5-minute slot to share their ideas.
In addition, both technical and position papers
will be published in the URSW Workshop
proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2006 Conference.
Program Committee
The program committee is as follows (in alphabetical order):
Ameen Abu-Hanna Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Bill Andersen Ontology Works, Inc., USA.
Paulo C. G. Costa George Mason University, USA.
Fabio G. Cozman Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Bruce D’Ambrosio Cleverset, Inc., USA.
Francis Fung Information Extraction & Transport, Inc., USA.
Ivan Herman CWI, the Netherlands.
Markus Holi University of Helsinki, Finland.
Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA.
Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA.
Thomas Lukasiewicz Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy.
Anders Madsen Hugin Expert A/S, Denmark.
M. Scott Marshall Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Trevor Martin University of Bristol, UK.
Kirk Martinez University of Southampton, UK.
Bill McDaniel DERI, Ireland.
Leo Obrst MITRE Corporation, USA.
Yun Peng University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.
Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA.
Dave Robertson The University of Edinburgh, UK.
Oreste Signore Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'
Informazione "A. Faedo", Italy.
Masami Takikawa Information Extraction & Transport, Inc., USA.
Frans Voorbraak Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Organizing Committee
The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order):
Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University
Francis Fung Information Extraction & Transport, Inc.
Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University
Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation
Michael Pool - Convera, Inc.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the workshop!
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