- From: Yannis Velegrakis <velgias@disi.unitn.eu>
- Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:45:44 +0100
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Apologies for cross-postings **************************************** 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises SWAE08 http://www.dbgroup.unimo.it/swae08 in conjunction with DEXA 2008 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications Turin, Italy 1-5 September 2008 **************************************** AIMS AND SCOPE The Semantic Web vision aims at building a “web of data”, where applications may share their data on the Internet and relate them to real world objects for interoperability and exchange. Similar ideas have been applied to web services, where different modeling architectures have been proposed for adding semantics to web service descriptions making services on the web widely available. The potential impact envisaged by these approaches on real business applications is also important in areas such as: - Semantic-based business integration: business integration allows enterprises to share their data and services with other enterprises for business purposes. Making data and services available satisfies both "structural" requirements of enterprises (e.g. the possibility of sharing data about products or about available services), and "dynamic" requirement (e.g. business-to-business partnerships to execute an order). Information systems implementing semantic web architectures can enable and strongly support this process. - Semantic interoperability: metadata and ontologies support the dynamic and flexible exchange of data and services across information systems of different organizations. Adding semantics to representations of data and services allows accurate data querying and service discovering. - Semantic-based lifecycle management: metadata, ontologies and rules are becoming an effective way for modeling corporate processes and business domains, effectively supporting the maintenance and evolution of business processes, corporate data, and knowledge. - Knowledge management: ontologies and automated reasoning tools seem to provide an innovative support to the elicitation, representation and sharing of corporate knowledge. SWAE (Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises) aims at evaluating how and how much the Semantic Web vision has met its promises with respect to business and market needs. Papers and demonstrations of interest for the workshop will show and highlight the interactions between Semantic Web technologies and business applications. The workshop aims at collecting models, tools, use cases and practical experience in which Semantic Web techniques have been developed and applied to support any relevant business processes. It aims at assessing their degree of success, the challenges that have been addressed, the solutions that have been provided and the new tools that have been implemented. Special attention will be paid to proposals of “complete architecture”, i.e. applications that can effectively support the maintenance and evolution of business processes as a whole and applications that are able to combine representations of data and services in order to realize a common b usiness knowledge management system. TOPICS The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Semantic Integration * Information extraction * Managing metadata for information integration * Managing metadata for data classification * Semantic Web technologies for enterprises * Ontologies for Information Integration and data exchange * Ontology mapping and merging * Schema mapping/evaluating/integrating * On-the-fly Integration * Information Integration architectures * Reviews and evaluation of existing Integration approaches * Data Integration in e-Commerce applications * Integration of legacy applications in semantic web architectures * Semantic web and business processes * Reliability and scalability of Semantic Web technologies and tools * Enterprise-level tools and applications * Costs of semantic-based architectures for enterprises * Semantic Web and Integrated Information Systems * Semantic based systems and business applications: cost management, decision support systems, workflow management systems, etc. * Economic sustainability of semantic web based systems * Metrics to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the knowledge encoding process * Novel Web service architectures * Development and modeling frameworks for Web service applications * Modeling of semantic web services * Interoperability of web services * Unified management of data and services IMPORTANT DATES Submission of abstracts: (March 8, 2008) EXTENDED DEADLINE MARCH 25 Submission of Full Papers: (March 15, 2008) EXTENDED DEADLINE MARCH 25 Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2008 Camera-ready Copies: May 15, 2008 PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and application papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 5 two-column pages (IEEE Proceeding style) including figures and references. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers (http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp). Authors of accepted papers are requested to sign the IEEE copyright form. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Papers accepted for presentation will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA'08 workshops. Authors of accepted papers are requested to send the full paper to be received by May 15, 2008. PC CHAIRS Prof. Sonia Bergamaschi Department of Computer Science University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Dott. Francesco Guerra Department of Business Economics University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Dott. Yannis Velegrakis Department of Information and Communication Technology University of Trento PC COMMITTEE Francesco Bellomi, Università di Verona Omar Boucelma, Université Aix-Marseille, France Paolo Bouquet, Università di Trento, Italia Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, USA Jorge Cardoso, University of Madeira, Portugal Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester, UK Matteo Cristani, University of Verona , Italy Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Alfio Ferrara, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Mustafa Jarrar, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Alain Leger, France Telecom R&D, France Andrea Maurino, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Lyndon Nixon, University of Berlin, Germany Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Lucian Popa, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Christoph Quix, RWTH Aachen, Germany Peter Spyns, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Armando Stellato, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Research Labs, USA Zografoula Vagena, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
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