Final SWAE Deadline is approaching

Final SWAE Deadline is approaching

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DEADLINE EXTENDED

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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
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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

Received on Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:14:44 UTC