- From: Lejla Ibralic Halilovic <lejla.ibralic-halilovic@sti2.org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:36:51 +0200
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[apologies for multiple postings] *********************************************** Call for Papers International Workshop on Evaluation of Semantic Technologies (IWEST 2010) Full-day Workshop held at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010), Shanghai, China <http://oeg-lia3.dia.fi.upm.es/iwest2010/> http://oeg-lia3.dia.fi.upm.es/iwest2010/ *********************************************** *Deadline extended to September 1st* The consistent evaluation of semantic technologies is critical not only for future scientific progress but also for their widespread industrial adoption. Such evaluation needs to address development quality (correctness or robustness) as well as deployment qualities (interoperability or scalability). While the community is evolving towards a more thorough evaluation of semantic technologies, the field's inherent dynamism makes the evaluation of semantic technologies a difficult task: as previous evaluation methods and techniques become obsolete, new ones have to be developed as fast as semantic technologies evolve. IWEST workshop aims are twofold: (1) to discuss the current trends and future challenges of evaluating semantic technologies, and (2) to support communication and collaboration with the goal of aligning the various evaluation efforts within the community and accelerating innovation in all the associated fields as has been the case with both the TREC benchmarks in information retrieval and the TPC benchmarks in database research. In line with the goals of the workshop, we will also incorporate the results of the 1st International Evaluation Campaign for Semantic Technologies - a wide-ranging evaluation campaign which has been organised by the Semantic Evaluation At Large Scale (SEALS) Initiative ( <http://www.seals-project.eu> http://www.seals-project.eu). Submissions *********** High quality papers are invited from researchers interested in all aspects of formal evaluation and benchmarking with reference to semantic technologies ('Regular Papers'). In addition, we also invite papers from participants of the 1st International Evaluation Campaign for Semantic Technologies ('Evaluation Campaign Papers'). We invite contributions describing benchmarking approaches applied to semantic technologies including, but not limited to: * Ontology Engineering Tools * Semantic Search Tools * Semantic Web Services * Ontology Matching * Storage and Reasoning We encourage full papers (max 12 pages), short papers (max 6 pages) and short demo papers (max 2 pages) describing significant work in progress, late breaking results or ideas / challenges for the domain. Submissions must be in PDF. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer's Author Instructions at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Regular Papers and Evaluation Campaign Abstracts should be submitted to <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwest2010> http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwest2010 no later than 23:59 GMT on September 1st, 2010. Full Evaluation Campaign Papers should be submitted to <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwest2010> http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwest2010 no later than 23:59 GMT on September 24th, 2010. Please note, submission of an Evaluation Campaign Paper is dependent upon submission of an Evaluation Campaign Abstract by September 1st, 2010. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Important Dates *************** Regular Papers Sep 1, 2010 (extended) Evaluation Campaign Papers (Abstract) Sep 1, 2010 (extended) Evaluation Campaign Papers (Paper) Sep 24, 2010 (extended) Notifications Oct 1, 2010 Camera-ready Versions Oct 15, 2010 Workshop Nov 8, 2010 Organizing Committee ******************** Prof. Dr. Asunción Gómez-Pérez (Main contact) Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Prof. Fabio Ciravegna University of Sheffield, UK Prof. Dr. Frank van Harmelen VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands Dr. Jeff Heflin Lehigh University, USA Evaluation Campaign Committee ***************************** Dr. Raúl García Castro Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Dr. Stuart Wrigley University of Sheffield Dr. Zhisheng Huang Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
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