- From: Stefan Decker <stefan.decker@deri.org>
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:45:45 +0100
- To: semanticweb@yahoogroups.com, semantic-web@w3.org
International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS[1]) Editor in Chief: Prof. Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University Special Issue on Scalability and Performance of Semantic Web Systems http://www.ijswis.org/cfp/Special-Issue-Scalability-cfp.htm Extended Submission Deadline: October 1, 2008 Guest Editors: Vassilis Christophides (University of Crete and FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Greece) christop@ics.forth.gr Stefan Decker (DERI National University of Ireland, Galway) stefan.decker@deri.org Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA) heflin@cse.lehigh.edu Scope and Topics There has been an explosion recently in the development of Semantic Web (SW) applications in various application areas (e.g. in e-science, digital libraries). As the size of the SW is expected to further grow in the coming years, scalability and performance of SW systems becomes increasingly important. Typically, such systems deal with information described in SW languages like OWL and RDF(S), and provide services for storing, querying, updating and reasoning over large volumes of triples. Defining adequate performance targets is one of the major challenges for the development of SW systems that integrate reasoning with manipulation of large scale RDF/OWL ontologies and their instances. In particular, many traditional reasoning algorithms raise serious scalability concerns because they do not rely on secondary storage and appropriate indexing techniques. In order to be able to evaluate the scalability and performance of SW systems, the existence of agreed benchmarking datasets is also of crucial importance. In many related domains such as databases and theorem proving, standard benchmarks exist and are ready to guide research on optimization techniques. In the SW area, such benchmarks have only just started to emerge (e.g. LUBM). Yet, there is no commonly agreed benchmark covering the complexity of real SW ontologies and related instances. Further research need to be conducted on the synthetic generation of SW datasets that simulate the various distributions of graph features (in/ out property degrees, subsumption relationships, etc.) exhibited by existing SW applications. TOPICS OF INTERESTS for the IJSWIS special issue include, but are not limited to: * Foundations, methods and tools for SW benchmarking; * Scalability metrics and performance targets of SW systems; * Performance evaluation of existing SW query, update and reasoning services; * Design and implementation of high performance SW systems; * Analysis of synthetic and real large-scale SW repositories. Submission Process Submissions to this special issue should follow the journal's guidelines for submission (http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?ID=4625&v=guidelines ). After submitting the paper, please also inform guest editors by an email with the paper ID assigned by the submission system. Papers must be of high quality and should clearly state the technical issue(s) being addressed as related to scalability and performance of SW systems. Research papers should present a proof of concept for any novel technique they are proposing. Case studies should discuss the significance and applicability of their proposed architecture/system. If a submission is based on a prior publication in a workshop or conference, the journal submission must involve substantial advance (a min. of 30%) in conceptual terms as well as in exposition (e.g., more comprehensive testing/evaluation/validation or additional applications/usage). All papers must be submitted by September 1, 2008. The editors recommend that the number of pages should not exceed 35. All papers are subject to peer review performed by three established researchers selected from a panel of experts established for this special issue. Accepted papers have an opportunity for further revision and an additional round of reviewer feedback. Information on the journal with online submission can be found at: http://www.ijswis.org. Please submit manuscripts through that online system. Important Dates * Submissions: September 1, 2008 * Completion of first round of reviews November 1, 2008 * Notifications: November 10, 2008 * Revised papers: December 20, 2008 * Notifications of final acceptance: January 15, 2009 * Final papers: February 27, 2009 * Publication: Next available issue of 2009 (vol 5) Useful Links http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/?p=14 http://esw.w3.org/topic/RdfStoreBenchmarking [1] IJSWIS (http://ijswis.org) is indexed by Thomson Scientific/ISI and other major indices. CfP for special issues can be found at: http://www.igi-pub.com/journals/details.asp?ID=4625&v=callForPapers or http://www.ijswis.org/cfp.html Content of earlier issues can be found at http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp? id=4625&mode=tocVolumes.
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