- From: Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:57:47 -0400
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To accommodate some difficulties in sending out previous
announcements, the submission deadline is being extended to July 31.
However, this is a hard deadline in order to meet other ISWC
commitments. More information about the workshop is available at:
http://www.iet.com/iswc/2006/ursw/.
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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 31, 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 van Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Bill Andersen - Ontology Works, Inc., USA.
Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA.
Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Bruce D'Ambrosio - Cleverset, Inc., USA.
Francis Fung - Information Extraction & Transport, Inc., USA.
Linda van der Gaag - Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Ivan Herman - C.W.I. , the Netherlands. W3C Activity Lead for the
Semantic Web.
Markus Holi - Helsinki University of TechnologyA, Finland.
Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA.
Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA. Member of the W3C
Advisory Board.
Thomas Lukasiewicz - Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy.
Anders Madsen - Hugin Expert A/S, Denmark.
Scott Marshall - Integrative Bioinformatics Unit, 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.
Yung 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. Manager of the W3C Office in 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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Ken Laskey
MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934
7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379
McLean VA 22102-7508
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