- From: Stijn Heymans <heymans@kr.tuwien.ac.at>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:28:48 +0200
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
*******Last Call for Papers - Submission deadline 30 July 2008 ********** FLOW 2008 First International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web http://www.cwi.ugent.be/flow2008/ Sydney, Australia in conjunction with the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2008) http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/ ********************************************************************* A lot of research on how to make the Web Intelligent is centered around the question of how to introduce a form of automated reasoning in Web-related activities. For example, an intelligent search would amount to posing queries that use deduction to obtain results instead of queries that return results based on the keywords of the query. An important subgoal of establishing this kind of automated reasoning is to make knowledge on the Web understandable by machines. As witnessed by approaches like the Semantic Web the traditional choice of establishing machine-understandability was obtained by formalizing knowledge using two-valued logics like Description Logics or Logic Programming. However, fuzzy logic is inherently better suited for expressing knowledge on the Web, i.e., knowledge that is uncertain, imprecise, and potentially inconsistent. Nonetheless, the take-up of fuzzy logic for making the Web more intelligent is a slow one, and a major issue is the lack of cross-fertilization between the world of fuzzy logic researchers and the world of Web researchers. Hence, the workhop's main goal will be to bring these two worlds closer together, and thus stimulate cross-over research between two different areas that are trying to make the Web more intelligent. The workshop will be an important part of events of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology which has been ranked at top 15 from 620 Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning conferences in the following popular rankings: http://www.cs-conference-ranking.org/home.html Topics: ------- Applications of fuzzy logic to Web areas such as * Ontology languages * Intelligent Search * Knowledge management and reasoning * Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment * Web Service Description, Discovery, Composition * Information extraction / Multimedia retrieval * Collaborating agents * Social Network Analysis * Web-based recommender systems * Question answering systems * Geographic Information Retrieval * ... Sumbission Details: ------------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. All workshops are required to use the WI-IAT 2008 Cyberchair system for on-line paper submission and review process: http://wi-consortium.org/cyberchair/wiiat08/scripts/ws_submit.php. The length of accepted papers should NOT exceed 4 pages (IEEE-CS format, extra payment is only available for one more extra page). Accepted workshop papers will be published in the Proceedings of WI-IAT08 Workshops by IEEE-CS Press. Important Dates: ---------------- Deadline for Submissions: July 30, 2008 Notification of acceptance: September 3, 2008 Camera-ready versions: September 30, 2008 Workshop: December 9, 2008 WI-IAT 2008 Conference: December 9 - 12, 2008 Program Committee: ------------------ Paulo Cesar G. da Costa, George Mason University, USA Ernesto Damiani, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Pieter De Leenheer, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Cristina Feier, TU Vienna, Austria Martin Hepp, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany Mustafa Jarrar, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Anne Laurent, LIRMM, France Jie Lu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University / TU Vienna, U.K. / Austria Trevor Martin, University of Bristol, UK Jose Angel Olivas Varela, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano, Italy Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Umberto Straccia, IST-C.N.R, Italy Ankur Teredesai, University of Washington, USA Peter Vojtas, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Organization: ------------- Stijn Heymans Knowledge Based Systems Group Institute of Information Systems Vienna University of Technology Martine De Cock Computational Web Intelligence Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Ghent University Dirk Vermeir Theoretical Computer Science Lab Dept. of Computer Science Vrije Universiteit Brussel Elie Sanchez Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale Biomathematiques et Informatique Medicale Faculte de Medecine (Universite Aix-Marseille II) -- Dr. Stijn Heymans Vienna University of Technology http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/heymans/
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