CfP: Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies (AST 2011) @ INFORMATIK 2011

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AST 2011 - 6th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies

Located at INFORMATIK 2011, Berlin, Germany

October 6th, 2011

http://km.aifb.kit.edu/ws/ast2011/

Important Dates
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      * Deadline for paper submissions: May 15th, 2011
      * Notification of acceptance:     June 17th, 2011
      * Camera-ready versions:          July 1st, 2011
      * Workshop:                       October 6th, 2011

Objectives
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Semantic Web is a major international research effort with the goal to make web 
content available for intelligent knowledge processing. The Semantic Web draws 
on standard and novel techniques from various disciplines related to Computer 
Science, including Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology, 
Software Agents, Ontologies, Knowledge Management and eCommerce. The developed 
and integrated methods and tools – often called Semantic Technologies – are 
generic and have a very large application potential outside the domain of 
Semantic Web.

Applications of Semantic Technologies are currently being investigated in 
various fields, including Ambient Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cognitive 
Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge Management and Bioinformatics. In recent 
years the amount of data published on the Semantic Web as so-called Linked Data 
has exploded. We believe that the methods and tools provided by Semantic 
Technologies will play a crucial role in these and other application areas for 
the foreseeable future, in particular for community-based information platforms.

Topics of Interest
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This workshop shall bring together researchers and practitioners who work on 
applications of Semantic Technologies. It shall further the cross-fertilization 
between application areas and aid the technology transfer from foundational 
research into practice. The workshop shall cover diverse application areas of 
Semantic Technologies, including, but not limited to, the following.

     * Ambient Intelligence
     * Bioinformatics, eHealth and Life Sciences
     * Business Process Management
     * Cognitive Systems
     * Digital Libraries
     * eCommerce
     * eGovernment
     * eScience
     * Grid and Cloud Computing
     * Information Integration
     * Internet of Things
     * Machine Learning
     * Mobile Computing
     * Multimedia Data Management
     * Social Sciences
     * Software Engineering
     * Service-Oriented Computing
     * Service Innovation and Management
     * Text Mining and Information Extraction
     * and any other application area of Semantic Technologies

Along the spotlight topic "Service Science" of Informatik 2011, we specifically 
encourage submissions that cover applications of Semantic Technologies in the 
aforementioned areas of Service-Oriented Computing, Service Innovation and 
Management, Business Process Management and other areas relevant for our 
increasingly services-led economy. We plan to cluster these topics in a 
spotlight session of the AST 2011 workshop.

Organisers
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     Catherina Burghart, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
     Stephan Grimm, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
     Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
     Jens Wissmann, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany

Program Committee (tentative)
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     Andreas Abecker, disy Informationssysteme, Germany
     Christoph Beierle, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
     Stephan Bloehdorn, KIT, Germany
     Francois Bry, University of Munich, Germany
     Thomas Fuhr, University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Germany
     Armin Haller, CSIRO, Australia
     Jens Hartmann, EnBW, Germany
     Claudia Hess, Systec-CAx, Germany
     Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, USA
     Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Germany
     Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
     Thorsten Liebig, Uni Ulm, Germany
     Markus Luczak-Roesch, Free University of Berlin, Germany
     Carolin Michels, Fraunhofer ISI, Germany
     Daniel Oberle, SAP, Germany
     Stefan Schulte, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

Submission and Proceedings
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Submissions must not exceed 6 pages and must comply with the requirements laid 
out at http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/

Submissions shall be submitted online via EasyChair
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=informatik2011

Submissions shall be in English language.

You can contact the workshop chairs at 
ast.workshop@googlemail.com<mailto:ast.workshop@googlemail.com> .

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