RE: [semantic-web] extended call for papers

******(Extended Deadline: 30th of Sept.)********

2nd International Workshop on "Intelligent Systems for Engineering
Environmental Knowledge" (i-SEEK'10)

(In conjunction with CISIS'2010: http://www.cisis-conference.eu/)

February 15-18, 2010
Krakow, Poland


Second (2nd) CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended Deadline: 30th of Sept.)

Aim and Scope

The complexity and heterogeneity of knowledge and data within environmental
engineering is a key driver of this workshop. Relevant data is difficult to
be located, retrieved and managed due to their varying formats and
semantics. For example, for a typical modelling task a researcher needs to
acquire knowledge of individual computational models, search, gather and
analyze raw data, ensure the high quality of data, transform the data into
formats appropriate for the computation models that he is to use, and then
to perform the modelling. This process may take several days to months.
Semantic technologies have clearly emerged and in several disciplines have
been demonstrated, to address these problems. Semantics can be
understandable to both humans and machines, improving data sharing and
integration. Semantics can be used to specify several domain concepts and
describe a variety of domain models being used within environmental
engineering. The overall goal is to achieve efficient content-based
retrieval of environmental datasets, integration of environmental
heterogeneous data, and interoperability between environmental engineering
tasks. By solving this problem, we believe that the roadmap to Intelligent
Systems for engineering environmental information is open to meet current
and future environmental engineering challenges.

As a continuation of the i-SEEK 2009 workshop, we emphasize on the use of
semantics for the effective utilization of environmental information in the
large scale: Integration of highly heterogeneous, distributed and large
information sources, distributed exploitation of such information, high
degree of interoperability among environmental engineering computational
tasks/systems, performance and scalability of systems, are major concerns in
this context.

I-SEEK 2010, focusing on the abovementioned concerns, aims to report on
highly innovative work for the intelligent management of information towards
solving environmental engineering problems.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

.       Knowledge representation and reasoning for environmental expert
systems
.       Semantics for efficient environmental data management
.       Semantically-enabled environmental services, tools, and applications
.       Engineering semantically rich environmental applications
.       Semantic technologies in environmental sensors networks
.       Information integration for environmental applications/systems
.       Aligning and reaching agreement on environmental ontologies
.       Interoperability of environmental computation tasks/applications via
semantically rich models of information and services
.       Exploitation of semantically rich information for environmental
education
.       Towards environmental markup languages and standards
.       Environmental ontologies


Workshop Organization
Konstantinos Kotis, AI-Lab, Dept. of ICSEng., University of the Aegean
(Chair)

Steering Committee
-	Deborah L. McGuinness, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair
and Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, USA 
-	George A. Vouros, Professor of AI, Dean of School of Sciences,
Department of Information and Communications Systems Engineering, University
of the Aegean, Greece 
-	Peter Fox, Tetherless World Constellation Chair and Professor of
Earth and Environmental Science and Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, USA


Program Committee 
Geoff James, Sensor Networks, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Laurent Lefort,
CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Tim Wark, Sensor Networks - Autonomous Systems
Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Jennifer Sampson, EPSIS, Norway
Franz Wotawa, Institute for Software Technology, Graz University of
Technology, Austria Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology,
Austria Pieter De Leenheer, Semantics Technology & Applications Research
Laboratory (STARLab), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Kwok-wing Chau,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Christopher James Tuot, German
Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Germany Peter Haase,
Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB),
Germany Thanh Tran, Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description
Methods (AIFB), Germany Thomas Roth-Berghofer, German Research Center for
Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Germany Heracles Polatidis, Energy
Management Lab, Dept. of Environment, University of the Aegean, Greece
Vassilios Vescoukis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
George Kovacs, SZTAKI, Hungary Pavel Shvaiko, TasLab, Informatica Trentina,
Italy Adam Jatowt, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
Kouji Kozaki, ISIR, Osaka University, Japan Osamu SAITO, Waseda University,
Japan Takanori MATSUI, Department of Sustainable Energy and Environmental
Eng., Osaka University, Japan Luigi Ceccaroni, Knowledge Engineering &
Machine Learning Group, LSI, UPC, Spain Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, IDSIA,
Switzerland Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, IDSIA, Switzerland Ioannis
Kotsiopoulos, University of Manchester, UK Norman Morrison, NERC
Environmental Bioinformatics Centre (NEBC) / School of Computer Science, The
University of Manchester, UK Richard J. Williams, Microsoft Research Ltd.,
UK Alexey Voinov, Chesapeake Research Consortium Community Modeling Program
& Johns Hopkins Univ., Geography and Env. Eng. Dept., USA Joel Sachs,
ebiquity research group, UMBC, USA John Schnase, Goddard Space Flight
Center, NASA, USA Matt Jones, National Center for Ecological Analysis and
Synthesis, UCSB, USA Peter Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Rob
Raskin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, CalTech, USA

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit both Research and Application papers following
the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns,
single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number
each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author
Guidelines at one of the following web pages:

o       http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html
o       or http://www.tinmith.net/tabletop2006/IEEE/Format/instruct.htm

The regular papers (Research or/and Application papers) should be 6 pages
long. They will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance,
technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The papers should be
submitted electronically via CISIS-2010 website. If there is any problem
during submission please contact the Workshop Co-Chairs.

Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the
final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.
Proceedings of the Workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society
Press.

In addition to regular papers, we also solicit submissions of position
papers articulating vision statements describing challenging future
directions, critiquing research problems, and placing new research
questions. Authors are encouraged to use 'Position Paper' in the title of
these papers to distinguish them from regular papers (Research or
Application Paper). The position papers should be prepared using the IEEE CS
format, two columns layout, single-spaced, 10-point, and using page numbers.
The length should not exceed 4 pages (including figures and tables).
Position papers will be reviewed and published in the proceedings of the
workshop by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper. The papers should be submitted via CISIS'10
Web site. Authors whose papers have been accepted and presented at CISIS'10,
including both conference and workshop papers, are invited to submit their
extended and revised papers to special issues. For more information please
visit
http://www.cisis-conference.eu/conf/index.php/special-issues-of-internationa
l-journals.

IMPORTANT DATES
.       Submission Deadline: September 30, 2009 (extended)
.       Author Notification: November 1st, 2009
.       Revised version of manuscripts: November 14th, 2009
.       Proceedings Version: November 30th, 2009
.       Author Registration: November 30th, 2009
.       Workshop Dates: Feb. 15-18, 2010

For further inquiries please contact:

Dr. Konstantinos Kotis
AI-Lab
ICSEng. Dept.
University of the Aegean
E-mail: kotis at aegean dot gr
Web page: http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/kotis

Workshop on-line:
http://semanticweb.org/wiki/i-SEEK10
http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/kotis/i-SEEK10




Dr. Konstantinos Kotis
http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/kotis
AI-Lab
Dept. of Information and Communication Systems Eng.
School of Sciences
University of the Aegean
Karlovassi, Samos
83200 Greece
Tel.  +30 22730 89150
Fax. +30 22730 82009
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