Final CFP & DEADLINE EXTENSION: 4th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web

                                   FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

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    4th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the  
Semantic Web

                        http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw2008

                          In conjunction with the

                  7th International Semantic Web Conference

                            Karlsruhe - Germany

                              October 26, 2008


               !!!!! EXTENDED DEADLINE: August, 5 !!!!!


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     You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on  
Uncertainty

Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 7th

International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October of 2008 in  
Karlsruhe -

Germany.

     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.

     Effective 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.

     This surge of interest creates a unique opening to bring together  
two

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 (including fuzzy theory,  
probability

theory, and other approaches). 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  
in

   different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts  
Architectures for

   applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping

- Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within  
ontologies

- 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 25, 2008                      Paper submissions due **EXTENDED TO  
AUGUST, 5**

September 5, 2008            Paper acceptance notification

September 26, 2008          Camera-ready papers due

October 26, 2008                4th International 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 2008 Conference, and committed to  
attend the

URSW Workshop.

Submissions to the Workshop are only accepted in electronic

format and should be sent via the workshop's submission site:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2008. Papers must be  
submitted in

PDF format, and follow the same submission format used by the ISWC 2008

Conference, the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in  
Computer

Science (LNCS), available at

http://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 12  
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 2008 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



URSW 2008 will be a full day workshop with four sessions. Two of those  
sessions

will be devoted to a specific theme, while the remaining sessions will  
be

planned in a format that invites an open debate on the results,  
conclusions,

recommendations, and follow-up work of the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning  
for the

World Wide Web Incubator Group

( http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/urw3/XGR-urw3/ ).

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 2008 Conference.



Program Committee



The program committee is as follows (in alphabetical order):



Ameen Abu-Hanna - Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain.

Silvia Calegari - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.

Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA.

Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy.

Ernesto Damiani - University of Milan, Italy.

Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy.

Francis Fung - Eduworks, Inc., USA.

Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA.

Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA. Member of the W3C Advisory  
Board.

Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK.

Anders L. Madsen - Hugin Expert A/S, Denmark.

M. Scott Marshall - Adaptive Information Disclosure, Universiteit van

Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK.

Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK.

Yung Peng - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.

Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA.

Livia Predoiu - University of Mannheim, Germany.

Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK.

Daniel Sanchez - University of Granada, Spain.

Elie Sanchez - Universite de La Mediterranee Aix-Marseille II, France.

Oreste Signore - Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell' Informazione

     "A. Faedo", Italy. Manager of the W3C Office in Italy.

Nematollaah Shiri - Concordia University, Canada.

Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.

Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.

Umberto Straccia - Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell' Informazione

     "A. Faedo", Italy.

Heiner Stuckenschmidt - University of Mannheim, Germany.

Masami Takikawa - Cleverset, Inc., USA.

Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech Republic.



Organizing Committee



The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order):

Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain.

Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA.

Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy.

Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy.

Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA.

Ken Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA.

Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK.

Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK.

Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK.

Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA.

Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.



We are looking forward to seeing you in Karlsruhe!




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