SI: The Human Semantic Web: @ IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans:

CALL FOR PAPERS 

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and 
Humans 

SPECIAL ISSUE ON
The Human Semantic Web
Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge and Social Identity for 
the Knowledge Society 


IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and 
Humans seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on The Human Semantic 
Web scheduled to appear in a late 2009 issue.
The Semantic Web vision has evolved in the last years as a blueprint for a 
knowledge-based framework aimed at crossing the chasm from the current Web 
of unstructured information resources to a Web equipped with metadata and 
oriented to delegation of tasks to software agents. In spite of the 
orientation of Semantic Web technology to machine processing, a large part 
of useful Semantic Web applications require the building of semantic user 
models, and semantic end-user interfaces. The increasing popularity of open 
social systems has contributed an additional dimension to the complex 
picture of bringing semantics to the Web. Ontologies are the key piece of 
this framework in that they provide shared semantics to metadata, thus 
enabling a degree of semantic interoperability. The challenge of building 
person- and social-oriented semantic systems requires the integration of 
personal and social information models with domain and commonsense 
ontologies. Also, there is a need to combine metaknowledge on user interface 
and usability issues along with models of social networks, which may result 
in hybrid systems. Going a step further, cultural issues pervade the meaning 
of everyday’s objects and communication, so that successful applications 
need to consider these aspects. The special issue aims at helping in 
communicating and disseminating relevant recent research in systems 
engineering and human machine systems as applied to the context of personal 
and social information in the Semantic Web. The scope of the call includes 
systems engineering and human machine systems for organizational 
applications, Semantic Web approaches to Information Systems and 
Ontology-Based Information Systems research, as well as the diverse 
underlying personalization aspects, as long as they touch social, interface, 
cultural or personal issues. Papers dealing with aspects that touch several 
of these aspects are especially sought.Topics include, but are not limited 
to, the following: 

1. Applications of the Human Semantic Web to the Knowledge Society:
• Potentially large-scale applications (e.g. to Personal Knowledge 
Management, Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
• Data Semantics and Web Semantics in peer-to-peer systems, grids, 
multimedia
• Communication, dialogue and argumentation models
• Mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution
• Beyond HCI: Human-to-human interaction mediated by machines 


2. Representing and Managing Semantic Web Data and Services:
• Languages, Tools, Methodologies, Rules
• Database, IR and AI technologies
• Integration, Analysis and Visualization
• Robust and scalable logics, knowledge management and reasoning
• Machine learning and information extraction
• Semantic Interoperability, Workflows, Web Mining
• Semantic Web Services and Processes (description, discovery, invocation, 
composition, choreography, cleaning, assurance, trust, provenance, etc.)
• Middleware and services for Personalization and User Modelling
• Semantic matching of user needs and web resources 

3. Ontologies:
• Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and 
reconciliation)
• Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g. HLT and ML approaches)
• Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.)
• Ontology Modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution
• Searching and Ranking ontologies 

4. Social Semantic Web:
• Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
• Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
• Representing and reasoning about Trust, Privacy, Security and 
Intellectual Property Rights
• Tools and processes for sense-making, analysis and decision-making
• Supporting goal-focused conversations and strategic communication
• Human semantic recommender systems and delegatory systems (eg agents and 
avatars)
• Risks of using such systems for a human's reputation and authority 

5. User Interfaces:
• Interacting with Semantic Web Data
• Semantic Web content creation and annotation
• Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes 

Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently 
submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are 
responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You 
can access them by clicking on http://www.ieee-smc.org/publications/. Please 
thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Please submit your 
paper to Manuscript Central at http://smcaieee.
manuscriptcentral.com/ 


Please note the following important dates.
Important dates: 


Submission Deadline: 15-Nov-08
Completion of First-Round Reviews: 15-Dec-09
Revised Papers (after Minor Revisions): 19-Feb-09
Publication Materials Due: 23-March-09
Publication: in a Late 2009 issue. 


WORKSHOP FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON 1ST WORLD SUMMIT ON THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY:
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/miniconf1.htm 

Please address all other correspondence regarding this special issue to 

Guest Editors M. Lytras, E. Damiani, A. Naeve 

GUEST EDITORS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy, E-mail: damiani@dti.unimi.it
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece, Email: 
Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, E-mail:amb@nada.kth.se

Received on Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:37:15 UTC