- From: Giovanni Tummarello <g.tummarello@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:23:00 +0200
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Apologizes for possible multiple posts. --------------------------------------- Official Call, please note the submission deadline is October 16, slightly changed from the previous announcement. 3nd Italian Semantic Web Workshop SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES (SWAP) Pisa University, Italy 19-20 December 2006 http://www.swapconf.it/2006 INTRODUCTION ------------ The Semantic Web is currently one of the most interesting and ambitious challenges facing the scientific and technological community. While great progresses have been made in terms of consolidation of base tools and philosophy, new aspects and issues are emerging as Semantic Web tools seek to find their way into actual real world deployment. In first place, it seems likely that there will not be a single flavor of Semantic Web but rather several scenarios. This to respond to different needs such as those ranging from world wide Database and service integration to social cooperative annotations. Then, to explain and reproduce the clear success of many Web 1.x-2.0 social networking and cooperation phenomena, there is the need for research in the ares which embrace and mix very diverse topics. To evoke the so much needed "web effect" on the use of Semantic Web technology, it seems more and more likely that classic disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Data Mining, Knowledge extraction and Distributed Computing are to be mixed in real world Semantic Web Applications with others such as Usability, Human Machine interaction, possibly all the way to Economics, in broad sense, and Social Sciences. This two-day workshop aims at creating the possibility for a meeting and a debate among Italian and international researchers on Semantic Web, with a special focus on aspects which might enable wide scale use of Semantic Web technologies. AUDIENCE -------- The workshop aims at being an occasion to meet for Italian researchers, developers and interested people. However, contributions and participants from other countries are invited and very welcome. TOPICS ------ The workshop will cover theoretical, practical and implementational issues on Semantic Web. The following is a partial list of topics of interests: * Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and e-learning * Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data * Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web * Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution * Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment * Semantic Web middleware * Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web * Social networks based on Semantic Web technologies * Semantic Web services * Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Agents * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation * Semantic multimedia * Semantics in P2P systems and grids * Searching, querying, visualizing and interpreting the Semantic Web * Evaluation of semantic Web techniques * Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Data * Large Scale Knowledge Management * Data Semantics * Knowledge Portals * Semantic Brokering * Semantic coordination, integration, matching and interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Information Retrieval * Visualization and Modelling * Semantic Web Personalization * Systems of collaborative annotation * Systems of annotation extraction * Applications of Semantic Web technologies * Social aspects of distributed cooperative annotation * Presentation and discussions of application scenarios SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ----------------------- We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, government, and consulting. Accepted formats are Postscript and PDF. Abstracts must be submitted electronically at the conference website. Accepted contributions will be published online in a volume of the CEUR workshop proceedings, a publication series by Deutsche Bibliothek, ISSN 1613-0073. Authors of accepted contributions will be able to express their preference for an oral or poster presentation. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Guidelines (see instructions on http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/mainsite/menuitem.818c0c39e85ef176fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=corp_level1&path=pubs/transactions&file=stylesheets.xml&xsl=generic.xsl). The maximum length of a paper for SWAP is 8 pages. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- 16 October 2006 Paper submission 15 November 2006 Acceptance/rejection notification 1 December 2006 Camera-ready 19-20 December 2006 SWAP-2006 LOCATION/REGISTRATION --------------------- Thanks to the support from W3C Italy and the other sponsors, SWAP features a registration fee of only 50 euro for the 2 day event. The event will take place at the Pisa University. The online registration form will be available at the following URL: http://www.swapconf.it/2006 WORKSHOP LANGUAGE ----------------- Official languages are English and Italian. However, abstracts, slides and contributions must be in English. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- [Conference Chair] Giovanni Tummarello, Universita` Politecnica delle Marche [Programme Co-Chairs] Oreste Signore, W3C Office in Italy/CNR Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- Danny Ayers - Independent Zavisa Bjelogrlic - @Semantics Dan Brickley - SkyPixel Jeen Broekstra - Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Silvana Castano - University of Milano Aldo Gangemi - LOA-CNR Roberto García González - Universitat de Lleida Fausto Giunchiglia - University of Trento Nicola Guarino - ISTC-CNR Pascal Hitzler - University of Karlsruhe Massimo Marchiori - University of Padova Stefano Mazzocchi - MIT Christian Morbidoni - Universita' Politecnica delle Marche Daniel Olmedilla - L3S Reseach Center and Hanover University Paolo Puliti - Universita' Politecnica delle Marche Paolo Romano - National cancer Research Institute of Genoa, IST Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari Luciano Serafini - IRST-ITC Maria Simi - University of Pisa Steffen Staab - University Koblenz Heiko Stoermer - University of Trento Umberto Straccia - ISTI-CNR Sergio Tessaris - Free University of Bozen - Bolzano Elias Torres - IBM Advanced Internet Technologies LOCAL ORGANIZATION ------------------ Oreste Signore, W3C Office in Italy/CNR CONTACT/INFO ------------ Email: g.tummarello@gmail.com Phone: +39-071-2204841
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