CFP: 3rd International IFIP Workshop on Semantic Web & Web Semantics (IFIP SWWS 2007)

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Third International IFIP Workshop on Semantic Web & Web Semantics (IFIP SWWS 2007)



In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM '07)



http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=swws2007cfp



Albufeira, Portugal

25 - 30, Nov 2007.



Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS


MOTIVATION 

The IFIP Working Group 2.12 & 12.4 on Semantic Web
(http://www.ceebi.curtin.edu.au/IFIP/) is a timely active international
community of scientists, engineers, and practitioners dedicated to advancing the
state of the art of research and practice in the emerging field of Semantic Web,
and meanwhile providing input and guidance on the direction, scope, and
importance of different aspects of artificial intelligence, data modelling, and
software theory and practice to Web semantics. It is unique in that it targets
to synthesize the concepts from these diverse fields in a comprehensive fashion
in the context of the semantics Web. 



The Web has now been in existence for quite some time and its pervasive in its
influence on all aspects of society and commerce. It has also produced a major
shift in our thinking on the nature and scope of information processing. However
in its technological nature and its supporting theoretical foundations, it has
remained relatively rudimentary, being currently largely suitable for
information dissemination. It is rapidly moving away from this, to application
deployment and knowledge deployment that require complex interactions and
properly structured underlying semantics. This has been a sudden upsurge of
research activity in the problems associated with adding semantics to the Web.
This work on semantics will involve data, knowledge, and process semantics. The
3rd IFIP SWWS 2007 will provide a forum for presenting original, unpublished
research results, and innovative ideas related to this voluminous quantity of
research. 



In SWWS 2007, as a complementary to the main OTM í07 conference themes, special
focus is aimed at looking some of the evolving areas of interest for the
Semantic Web, namely Security & Trust, Biomedical Informatics, Fuzzy Semantics
and Context-driven Methods for Ontologies.  Thus, as part of SWWS 2007, there
are four special tracks on:

1. Security & Trust

2. Fuzzy Semantics 

3. Biomedical Informatics

4. Context-driven Methods for Ontologie



Trust and Reputation are assuming an increasing importance in interaction and
commerce over the web. There are several trust and Reputation Systems (albeit
simple) increasingly finding development by major development by major internet
companies such as Amazon, eBay and Epinion. Also, there is a growing intend in
using an attention formulation for web semantics based on Fuzzy set, models and
protoforms. 



Conversely, ontologies are now adopted to represent semantic metadata and to
characterize different kind of information resources. Current reasoning
techniques still lack of context-dependent tools to enhance the sifting of
ontology instances, e.g., techniques to organize resources at different levels
of abstraction and to assess their similarity. This track encourages the
discussion on context-dependent instruments tailored to improve the browsing and
search of semantics annotated resources, taking advantage from the semantics
embedded in ontologies. 



The intention of the SWWS 2007 is to bring together a community of researchers
and practitioners who will provide a collection of work that is of utmost
importance to the advancement of the web semantics and its future, reviewed by
the top experts and minds in the field, in an area of the utmost importance to
business, IT and industry. 



WHOM SHOULD ATTEND

The workshop is intended for researchers, academic, practitioners, IFIP
Workgroup 2.12/12.4 members and organizations who are actively involved in
present and upcoming semantic web technologies. Moreover, the workshop concepts
covered is a good reference point for academic and industrial researchers who
want to familiarize themselves with emerging trends in semantic web research,
technologies and applications.

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST 

Topics of interest may include one or more of the following (but are not limited
to) themes; 

* Security & Trust 

* Fuzzy Semantics

* Biomedical Informatics

* Context-driven Methods for Ontologies



The following topics related to these themes including, but are not limited to:

* Formal and practical knowledge representation and inference for the semantic Web 

* Design, evaluation, and use of ontology 

* Metadata and knowledge markup 

* Knowledge Sharing

* Interoperability of data and Web services 

* Semantics of agent and Web interaction 

* Automated extraction of Information from regulatory documents.

* Content-based information and knowledge retrieval 

* Information extraction, automatic, and semi-automatic generation of metadata 

* Database technologies for the Semantic Web 

* Multimodality and visualization technologies for the Semantic Web 

* Applications on mobile devices 

* Human centred aspects specifically for the Semantic Web 

* Impact of Semantic Web computing on organizations and society 

* Evaluation of the quality of Web semantics 

* Semantics for ubiquitous computing  

* Engineering of regulatory ontologies: conceptual analysis, representation,
modularization and layering, reusability, evolution and dynamics, etc; 

* Multilingual and terminological aspects of regulatory ontologies; 

* Models of legal reasoning (from ontological viewpoint): regulatory compliance,
case-based reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, etc. 

* Sensitivity on and harmonization of regulations; 

* Regulatory metadata and content standardization (e.g. legal-XML/LeXML,
ADR/ODR-XML,...); 

* Regulatory ontologies of: property rights, persons and organizations, legal
procedures, contracts, legal causality, etc; 

* Task models for socially regulated activities; 

* Experiences with projects and applications involving regulatory ontologies in
legal knowledge based systems, legal information retrieval, e-governments,
e-commerce;

* Providing semantics for the web using Fuzzy set methods 

* Fuzzy models for the Semantic Web

* Protoforms

* Security and trust for the Semantic Web 

* Reputation Systems for the Semantic Web

* Biomedical Ontologies for Genetics, Proteomics, Diseases, Privacy etc.

* Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data

* Semantics in Biological Data Modeling

* Use of semantics to manage Interoperation in Biomedical Databases

* Semantic Web technologies and formalisms for Biomedical Data

* Ontology representation and exchange languages for Bioinformatics

* Support of Ontologies for Biological Information Retrieval and Web Services

* Change Management in Biomedical Ontologies

* Tools for Development and Management of Biomedical Ontologies

* Context-driven methods for ontology exploitation

* Semantic similarity among ontology instances 

* Semantic granularity

* Semantic ranking

* Context-driven methods in specialized domains, e.g.: 

* Context-driven methods for geographical information resources

* Context-driven methods for Multidimensional Media

* Context-driven methods for Digital Library

* Context-awareness for the Semantic Web

* Ontology views 

* Human centred aspects in sifting information resources w.r.t. context

* Context representation 

* Context elicitation 

* Context visualization 



SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS 

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, clarity of expression, and relevance to IFIP
WG 2.12 & WG 12.4. All submissions must be in English, and will be refereed by a
program committee comprising members of the Working Group. Research submissions
must not exceed 10 pages following the Springer format. Submissions should be
made in PDF format. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to
commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the
proceedings. 



ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Program Co-Chairs

	John Mylopoulos (jm@cs.toronto.edu)

	Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto, Canada.

       	

	Elizabeth Chang (Elizabeth.Chang@cbs.curtin.edu.au)

	Curtin University of Technology, Australia



Workshop Vice-Chairs

       Ernesto Damiani (edamiani@crema.unimi.it)

       Computer Science Department, Milan University, Italy

       

       Yoke Sure (sure@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de)

       Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany



Special Track Chairs

* Security & Trust - Elizabeth Chang

* Fuzzy Semantics - Ernesto Damiani

* Biomedical Informatics ń Amandeep Sidhu

* Context-driven Methods for Ontologies - Riccardo Albertoni, Elena Camossi



Publicity Chair

Rajugan Rajagopalapillai (rajugan@computer.org)

DEBII, Curtin University of Technology, Australia. 





IFIP WG 2.12/12.4 Chair 

Tharam S. Dillon (tharam.dillon@cbs.curtin.edu.au) 

DEBII, Curtin University of Technology, Australia. 



IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline	July 14, 2007

Paper Submission Deadline	July 22, 2007

Acceptance Notification		September 01, 2007

CR Version Due			September 10, 2007

Registration Due		September 10, 2007

OTM Conferences and workshops	Nov 25 - 30,  2007



Program Committee



Aldo Gangemi (Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italian National
Research Council, Italy)
Amandeep Sidhu (DEBII, Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Amit Sheth (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA)
Angela Schwering (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany)
Avigdor Gal (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Birgit Hofreiter (University of Vienna, Austria)
Carlos Sierra (Spanish National Research Council, Spain)
Carole Goble (Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK)
Chris Bussler (Oracle Corp., USA)
Claudia d'Amato (Dipartimento di Informatica, Universitŕ degli Studi di Bari, Italy)
David Bell (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Elena Camossi (CNR-IMATI-GE, Italy)
Elisa Bertino (CERIAS, Purdue University, USA)
Elizabeth Chang (DEBII, Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Ernesto Damiani (Computer Science Department, Milan University, Italy)
Farookh Hussain (DEBII, Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Feng Ling (Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, China)
Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete, Greece)
Hai Zhuge (Institute of Computing, Chinese Academy of Science, China)
Jaiwei Han (Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA)
John Debenham (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada)
Katia Sycara (Laboratory for Agents Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Krzysztof Janowicz (Institute for Geoinformatics Universitity of Münster, Germany)
Kokou Yetongnon (Universite de Bourgogne, France)
Kyu-Young Whang (Computer Science Department, KAIST, Korea)
Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Lizhu Zhou (Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University,
China)
Lotfi Zadeh (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing, USA)
Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, Galway, Ireland)
Maria Andrea Rodríguez-Tastets (Departamento de Ingeniería Informática y
Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Concepción, Chile)
Masoud Nikravesh (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing, USA)
Mihaela Ulieru (The University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Mohand-Said Hacid (University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 LIRIS – Villeurbanne, France)
Monica De Martino (IMATI-CNR, Italy)
Mukesh Mohania (Database Technologies, IBM India Research Lab, India)
Mustafa Jarrar (STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Nicola Guarino (Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italian
National Research Council, Italy)
Paolo Ceravolo (University of Milan, Italy)
Peter Spyns (STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Pierre-Yves Schobbens (Institut d’Informatique, University of Namur, Belgium)
Pilar Herrero (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Qing Li (Department of Computer Science, City  University of Hong Kong, China)
Rajugan Rajagopalapillai (DEBII, Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors Corporation, USA)
Riccardo Albertoni (CNR-IMATI-GE, Italy)
Robert Meersman (STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Robert Tolksdorf (Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
Stefan Decker (DERI, Galway, Ireland)
Susan Urban (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State
University Tempe, USA)
Tharam Dillon (DEBII, Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Usama M. Fayyad (Strategic Data Solutions Group, Yahoo, USA)
Wil van der Aalst (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Zahir Tari (School of Computer Science & IT, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)

Received on Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:48:04 UTC