Final Call for Software Solutions: ASWC2008 Industrial Track - Best Solutions to get Cash Prizes !!! - first official call

Final Call for Software Solutions: ASWC2008 Industrial Track - Best
Solutions to get Cash Prizes !!!
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>> Semantic Web and Semantic Web technologies have entered the maturity phase
>> where stable software prototypes can be put forward as possible solutions
>> for various business applications. The Industrial Track within ASWC 2008 is
>> making a Call for Software Solutions, where inventors and authors have the
>> opportunity to present an early positioning on the market of their solution,
>> being comprised of a business value proposition for their offering and
>> high-level technical description of the proposed solution. The goals of the
>> track are threefold: first to give the opportunity for inventors/authors to
>> expose their solution proposition to an audience made of business/industry
>> and academia - a very first business pitch,  second to allow business,
>> academia and inventors to attend thematic  round-tables where to
>> debate/exchange business and research issues and third, to allow all
>> participants at ASWC2008 to attend a business networking event, where the
>> attendees have a chance to interact in an informal manner. (
>> http://aswc2008.ait.ac.th/solutions.html)
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>> CASH PRIZES are going to be offered for the BEST SOLUTIONS as follows:
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>> Best Solution: 3,000 Euro;
>> 2nd best Solution: 1,300 Euro;
>> 3rd solution: 700 euro.
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>> (http://aswc2008.ait.ac.th/bsa.html)
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>> Submissions:
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>> The industrial track of ASWC2008 welcomes the submission of maximum 6
>> pages document, PDF format only, LNCS guidelines, describing proposed
>> solutions related to Semantic Web and Semantic Web technologies. The
>> document must have a first section where to describe the business value
>> proposition for their offering, a second section positioning the solution on
>> the market and a third one where to describe at high level the technical
>> solution proposal. The proposed solutions have to be designated as belonging
>> to one of the following areas:
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>> Area A - Innovative solutions: Here new ideas and/or patents already filed
>> as well as open-source solution that start to gather critical mass are
>> strongly encouraged to be presented.
>> Area B - Commercialization phase: Solutions describing a novel application
>> of a new capability in an industrial setting. Innovation projects can be
>> reported here prior to full deployment (e.g., as pilots or proofs of
>> concept).
>> Area C - Deployed applications: Papers must describe a deployed usage of
>> semantic technologies to a real-world problem, including a description of
>> the application and scope of the user base. A performance / qualitative
>> comparison of the employed semantic solution to competing conventional
>> technologies solutions is desired. This will be considered as a plus factor
>> in selecting the best solutions.
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>> Important Dates:
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>> 10 September 2008                Solution Submission date
>> 30 September 2008                Notification Date
>> 15 October 2008                    Camera Ready
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>> Submission Details:
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>> ASWC08 online submission system:
>> https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ASWC2008/Default.aspx
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>> ASWC 2008 Industrial Track Chairs:
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>>    * Roberta Cuel, Trento University, Italy
>>    * Lyndon J B Nixon, Free University of Berlin
>>    * Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI-Galway, Ireland
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>> Program committee:
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>>    - Michael Brodie, Chief Scientist, Verizon Information Technology, USA
>>    - N. Baumgartner, Communication Technology Management Ltd., Vienna,
>>    Austria
>>    - Francesco Bellomi, Creactive Consulting S.p.A, Italy
>>    - Maya Biersack, EsPresto AG, Germany
>>    - Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc. (Analytics Engineering
>>    Group), Redwood Shores, CA, USA
>>    - Alexandre Delteil, France Telecom, France
>>    - Christian Fillies, Semtation
>>    - Rolf Fricke, Condat AG
>>    - Gerstner Ralf, Springer, Germany
>>    - Marialuisa Sanseverino, Centro Ricerche Fiat, Turin, Italy
>>    - Christoph Tempich, Detecon International GmbH, Germany
>>    - France Matthew West, Shell International Petroleum Company Limited,
>>    UK
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