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Dear colleagues,
hope you are doing great. I am copying you a CFP for a conference we are
organizing concerning on SW and Web 2.0 for the knowledge society.

http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/miniconf1.htm
We have arranged some interesting things. I would greatly appreciate if
you fwd this CFP to your colleagues.
Best Regards

Miltiadis D. Lytras


FIRST MINI CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR THE KNOWLEDGE
SOCIETY

http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/miniconf1.htm

10 Special Issues - 4 in ISI SCI Journals

2 Main Tracks

Deadline: 30th June 2008

Proceedings: Springer LNCS -

CHAIRS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy,
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece,
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,
Gottfried Vossen , University of Muenster, Germany

At a glance:

Sponsoring Journals of the Event:

All accepted papers will be invited for consideration in one of the 10
sponsoring journals of the event

IEEE Transactions on Man Systems And Cybernetics
PART A: Systems and Humans

Special Issue on:

The Human Semantic Web
Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge and Identity, Systems
for the Knowledge Society

http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/IEEE-TSMC.pdf


Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Special Issue on:

Advances of Semantic Web and Web 2.0 for Computer Assisted Learning:
Towards Personalized and Adaptive Learning
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/JCAL.txt


International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems
Special Special Section on
Semantic Web and Ontologies: Applications
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/issue5.pdf


IMPORTANT NOTE:

THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS WILL PUBLISH ALSO SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE
MINICONFERENCE:

IJ of Knowledge and Learning
http://www.inderscience.com/ijkl

Special Issue on
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

IJ of Social and Humanistic Computing
http://www.inderscience.com/ijshc
Special Issue on
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR HUMANISTIC COMPUTING

IJ of Electronic Democracy
http://www.inderscience.com/ijed
Special Issue on
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY
AND ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT


IJ of Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism
http://www.inderscience.com/ijdcet
Special Issue on
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR DIGITAL CULTURE

IJ of Electronic Trade
http://www.inderscience.com/ijetrade
Special Issue on
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR E-BUSINESS

IJ of Electronic Banking
Special Issue on
http://www.inderscience.com/ijebank
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR E-BANKING

DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS

TWO THEMES:

The Human Semantic Web: Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge
and Identity, Systems for the Knowledge Society�

Web 2.0 for the Knowledge Society: Social Netowrking, Collaboration,
Management of Knowledge in Social Networks

EDITORS/CHAIRS
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
Gottfried Vossen , University of Muenster, Germany, Email:
vossen@helios.uni-muenster.de

Program Committee Members

William Grosky, Professor and Chair. Department of Computer and
Information Science University of Michigan, USA

Hend S. Al-Khalifa, Assistant Professor, Information Technology
Department, CCIS, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

John Davies, PhD, Next Generation Web Research IT Futures Research Centre,
UK

Christopher Brewster, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science, University of
Sheffield, UNITED KINGDOM

Miguel Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain

Prof.. Jos. Enrique Armend.riz-I.igo, Universidad P.blica de Navarra,
Spain

Prof. Rajkumar Kannan, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava,
Slovakia

Prof. Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, University of Oviedo, Spain

Prof. Claudio Sartori, Universita' di Bologna, Italy

Prof. Luis .lvarez Sabucedo, University of Vigo, Spain

Dr. Karim Mohammed Rezaul, Centre for Applied Internet Research,
University of Wales, UK

Prof. Luis .lvarez Sabucedo, University of Vigo, Spain

Prof. Raquel Trillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Maria Vargas-Vera, Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University,
UK
[TO BE COMPLETED]
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Human Semantic Web: Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge
and Identity, Systems for the Knowledge Society�
Workshop for a Special Issue on an IEEE Transactions Special Issue

The mini-conference �Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Collaboration
Technologies
for the Knowledge Society� will promote a knowledge transfer channel
where
academics, practitioners, and researchers can discuss, analyze, criticize,
synthesize, communicate, elaborate, and simplify the more-than-promising
technology of the semantic Web in the context of information systems. This
mini-conference aims to establish value-adding knowledge transfer and
personal development channels in three distinctive areas: academia,
industry, and government.

Within the Conference there are two pillars:

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. Ontologies are the key
piece of this framework in that they provide shared semantics to metadata,
thus enabling a degree of semantic interoperability. The requirements of
large-scale deployment and interoperability of the Semantic Web vision
represent a major challenge to data and knowledge engineering, which
raises a number of issues and requirements regarding how to represent,
create, manage and use both ontologies as shared knowledge
representations, but also large volumes of metadata records used to
annotate Web resources of a diverse kind. The special issue aims at
helping in communicating and disseminating relevant recent research in
knowledge and data engineering as applied to the context of Information
Systems. The scope of the call includes Knowledge Engineering for
organizational applications, Semantic Web approaches to Information
Systems and Ontology-Based Information Systems research, as well as the
diverse underlying Database and Knowledge Representation aspects. Papers
dealing with aspects that touch both aspects are especially sought. This
is intended to initiate a dialog between the organizational and more
technical views of the field.



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

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 strategic communication

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



CALL FOR PAPERS

Web 2.0 for the Knowledge Society: Social Netowrking, Collaboration,
Management of Knowledge in Social Networks


EDITORS/CHAIRS
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
Gottfried Vossen , University of Muenster, Germany, Email:
vossen@helios.uni-muenster.de



The key objective of the miniconference is to advancing the knowledge on
design variables and conditions for social networks. Knowledge Management
and Semantic Web are used as the technological lenses for the
specification and analysis of these variables towards a new era of social
interactions and human experiences with computers.

As semantic technologies prove their value with targeted applications,
there are increasing opportunities to consider their application insocial
contexts for learning and human development. Knowledge management has been
accepted as a critical enabler aiming to increase knowledge-related
performance by better use of intellectual assets, in addition to which
many governments are forced to increasingly deal with knowledge services
that form larger parts of the global economy and society. Thus there are
recent examples of applications of semantics for empowering knowledge
management or better supporting knowledge services for social networks.
The special issue aims at communicating and disseminating recent research
and success stories that bring the power of semantics to improve upon
traditional knowledge management approaches, or realize emerging
requirements of knowledge services for social networks.

In the context of knowledge management, social and human issues are of
equal if not higher importance than the technical issues that have tended
to receive the bulk of attention in the past. Consequently, papers that
touch these aspects, or those that extend technical and domain knowledge
to social and human issues are especially sought. This is intended to
initiate a dialog between the social, psychological and technical views of
the field.

References:
[1]. Lytras M. (2005), Semantic Web and Information Systems: An Agenda
Based on Discourse with Community Leaders, in International Journal on
Semantic Web and Information Systems, Inaugural Issue, 1(1), pp: i-xii
[2]. Sheth, A. Ramakrishnan C., Thomas C., (2005). Semantics for the
Semantic Web: The Implicit, the Formal and the
Powerful, in International Journal on Semantic Web and Information
Systems, Inaugural Issue, 1(1), 1-18.
[3] Downes S. (2005). Semantic networks and social networks, in The
Learning Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 411-417
[3] Finin T., Ding L. and Zou L. (2005), Social networking on the semantic
web, in The Learning Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 418-435
[4] Lytras M., Sicilia M.A., Kinshuk, Sampson D. (2005), Special Issue on
semantic and social aspects of learning in organizations, , in The
Learning Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5,
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&c
ontainerId=22676



Topics:
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Design variables and conditions for social networks
* New forms of interaction in social systems
* Blogging as a social activity and approaches to semantic blogs
* Collaborative filtering in social settings
* Analysing social interaction for finding knowledge on Web users
* Semantic Desktops
* Social Network Analysis enabled by the Semantic Web
* Learning and Knowledge Communities
* Analysis of Large Online Communities Web Communities of Practice
* Network Analysis for Building Social Networks
* Implicit, Formal, and Powerful Semantics in Communities
* Semantic Social Networks Metadata and Annotation Techniques
* Metadata schema describing individuals and social ties
* Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based categorization
systems
* Wikis, semantic Wikis and other collaborative knowledge creation systems
* Online Social Networking
* Applications of Online Semantic Networks
* Knowledge Management with Semantic Networks
* Emerging Human Experiences in Social Networks
* Analysis of Human Behaviour in Semantic Social Networks



Please feel free to contact Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr if you have any
questions.

International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems (included in
SCI, Thompson Scientific) and Information Sciences (included in SCI) + One
more IEEE Transactions Issue.

Deadline for Paper Submission

Deadline for full paper submission is June 30, 2008.

Click here to submit your article

More information about the Summit

Website: http://knowledge-summit.org/
Sponsor of the Summit: The Open Research Society (ORS)
www.open-knowledge-society.org/


A GREAT THANK YOU TO THE CONTRIBUTORS OF PAPERS IN THE GENERAL CALL OF
THE FIRST WORLD SUMMIT ON THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY:
150+SUBMISSIONS FROM 51 COUNTRIES.
MORE INFO AT: http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/wsks2008update.pdf

Note: If you are interested in publishing your article in the special issues
please contact Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras at miltiadis dot lytras at gmail.com

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