- From: Elias Torres <elias@torrez.us>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:11:03 -0400
- To: www-rdf-calendar@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4448F607.6090400@torrez.us>
I have user from Argentina using my service (http://torrez.us/ics2rdf)
based on the toIcal.py scripts. However, he has non-ascii characters and
the script is failing. I just wanted to report the bug.
-Elias
File "index.py", line 24, in ?
main()
File "index.py", line 15, in main
fromIcal.interpret(sx, ical, url, ['X-'])
File "/_ics2rdf/fromIcal.py", line 142, in interpret
doComponents(sx, calendars, iCalendarDefs, suppressed = suppressed)
File "/_ics2rdf/fromIcal.py", line 350, in doComponents
doComponents(sx, subs, subDecls, 'component', suppressed = suppressed)
File "/_ics2rdf/fromIcal.py", line 345, in doComponents
doProperties(sx, '', props, propDecls, suppressed = suppressed)
File "/_ics2rdf/fromIcal.py", line 467, in doProperties
doCalAddress(sx, elt, params, val)
File "/_ics2rdf/fromIcal.py", line 662, in doCalAddress
sx.characters(pv, 0, len(pv))
File "/_ics2rdf/XMLWriter.py", line 79, in characters
doChars(o, ch, start, length)
File "/_ics2rdf/XMLWriter.py", line 92, in doChars
o.write(ch[i:])
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/codecs.py", line 178, in write
data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
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DESCRIPTION:Mobile Services and Ontologies Workshop\n(MoSO 2006)\nhttp\://w
ww.deri.at/events/workshops/mdm2006/\n\nat The 7th International Conference
on Mobile Data Management\n(MDM'06)\nhttp\://www.mdm2006.kddilabs.jp/\n\nM
ay 9\, 2006\, Nara\, Japan\n-----------------------------------------------
---------\n\nTHEME OF THE WORKSHOP\n\nThe theme of the workshop is the inte
rsection of three major trends in todays\ncomputing\:\n\n * mobile comp
uting becomes more and more important. Mobile portable\n devices have
outnumbered already traditional desktop computers and\n will mould the
view of computers future generations will have.\n * service-oriented co
mputing is viewed by many analysts as the computing\n paradigm of the
near future. It allows for the dynamic integration of\n functionality
provided by different parties.\n * research on ontologies\, in particula
r in connection with work on the\n semantic web and semantic web servi
ces allows for machine understandable\n description of functionality a
nd for automatic interaction of devices without\n the need for human i
nvolvement.\n\nThe proposed workshop investigates how mobile computing can
benefit from\nservice-orientation and ontologies and vice versa. The vision
is to extend the\ntypically rather limited capabilities of mobile devices
by using services offered\nby other devices\, network providers or third pa
rties. Adding ontologies to this\nscenario allows this extension to be tran
sparent to the human user.\n\nGENERAL OVERVIEW\n\nToday\, computers are cha
nging from big\, grey\, and noisy things on our desks\nto small\, portable\
, and ever networked devices most of us are carrying around.\nThis new form
of mobility imposes a shift in how we view computers and the\nway we work
with them. In developing countries like India and China Mobile\nInternet
can become the only Internet a large portion of population will get\naccess
to.\n\nServices offer the possibility to overcome the limitations of indiv
idual mobile\ndevices by making functionality offered by others available t
o them on an\nas-needed basis. Thus\, using the service-oriented computin
g paradigm in\nmobile environments will considerably enlarge the variety of
accessible\napplications and will enable new business opportunities in the
mobile space\nby delivering integrated functionalities across wireless net
works. Network\nhosted mobile services will allow mobile operators and thir
d party mobile\nservices provider to extend their businesses by making thei
r network services\navailable to a broader audience (e.g. developers\, serv
ice providers\, etc.)\; device\nhosted service will allow great potential f
or big innovations for applications and\nservices that can be provided by i
ndividual mobile device owners.\n\nThese mobile services offer functionalit
ies and behaviors that can be described\,\nadvertised\, discovered\, and co
mposed by others. Eventually\, they will be able\nto interoperate even thou
gh they have not been designed to work together. This\ntype of interoperabi
lity is based on the ability to understand other services and\nreason about
their functionalities and behaviors when necessary. In this respect\,\nmob
ile services can benefit from marrying the Semantic Web\, which provides\nt
he infrastructure for the extensive usage of distributed knowledge\, to be\
ndeployed for modeling services and add meaning\, through ontologies\, enab
ling\nlightweight discovery and composition of mobile services. The ability
to\nappropriately combine mobility and semantic grounded data sharing has\
ngenerated and is continuously triggering challenging questions in several
areas\nof computer science\, engineering and networking.\n\nThis workshop a
ims to tackle the research problems around methods\, concepts\,\nmodels\, l
anguages and technologies that enable new opportunities in the mobile\nspac
e through adoption\, usage\, and integration of mobile services and ontolog
ies.\nOf particular interest are the methodologies and technologies that wo
uld allow\nautomatic tasks to be performed with respect to mobile services
and the use of\nontologies in this context.\n\nThis proposed workshop aims
to bring together researchers and industry\nattendees addressing many of th
ese issues\, and promote and foster a greater\nunderstanding of mobile serv
ice and ontologies and their potential in enabling\nnew business opportunit
ies in the mobile space.\n\n\nTOPICS\n\nThe following indicates the general
focus of the workshop. However\, related\ncontributions are welcome as wel
l.\n\n- architectures for mobile internet services\n- languages for describ
ing mobile services\n- discovery and matchmaking of ontology based mobile s
ervices\n- adaptive selection of mobile services\n- ontology management in
mobile environments\n- contracting and negotiation with ontology-based mobi
le services (service\nlevel agreements)\n- approaches to composition of ont
ology based mobile services\n- invocation\, adaptive execution\, monitoring
\, and management of mobile services\n- interaction protocols and conversat
ion models for mobile services\n- ontology-based security and privacy issue
s in mobile services\n- mobile service applications\n- analysis and design
approaches for mobile services\n- reasoning with mobile services\n- ontolog
y-based policies for mobile services\n- tools for discovery\, matchmaking\,
selection\, mediation\, composition\,\nmanagement\, and monitoring of mobi
le services\n- mobile service development\n- multi agent systems and mobile
services\n\n\nWORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE\n\nThe program will occupy a
full day\, and will include presentations of\npapers selected from the full
papers category (see 'submissions' below)..\n\nPlease note that at least o
ne author of each accepted submission must\nattend the workshop. The MDM 20
06 conference formalities are applied\nfor fees and respective organization
al aspects. Submission of a paper\nis not required for attendance at the wo
rkshop. However\, in the event\nthat the workshop cannot accommodate all wh
o would like to participate\,\nthose who have submitted a paper (in any cat
egory) will be given\npriority for registration.\n\n\nSUBMISSIONS\n\nTwo ca
tegories of submissions are solicited\:\n\n(1) Full papers (up to 8 pages).
\n(2) Position papers (up to 2 pages).\n\nAll submissions should be formatt
ed in the IEEE style. Formatting\ninstructions and LaTeX macros are availab
le on the IEEE computer\nsociety site\:\n\nLaTex macros\:\n\nftp\://pubftp.
computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip\n\nFormatting ins
tructions\:\n\nftp\://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instru
ct.doc\nftp\://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf\
nftp\://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct.ps\n\nAll t
he papers should be submitted in electronic format (pdf version) using\nthe
following link\:\nhttp\://www.easychair.org/MOSO06/submit/.\n\nFull papers
will receive a peer-review. Position statements are intended\nto present v
ery early or planned future work that is regarded as relevant\nto the works
hop. Position statements are limited to 2 pages\; position\nstatements will
not receive a peer-review.\n\nAll accepted full papers as well as all posi
tion papers of attendees will be\npublished in post workshop proceedings in
IEEE DL. Additionally\, authors\nof selected papers will have the opportun
ity to submit extended versions\nof their papers for publication with a maj
or publisher. For these extended\nversions\, an additional review will take
place.\n\nIMPORTANT DATES\n\nSubmissions\: February 6\, 2006\nAcceptance\:
March 13\, 2006\nFinal copy\: April 1\, 2006\nWorkshop day\: May 9\, 2006\
n\nORGANIZING COMMITTEE\n\nChristoph Bussler (DERI\, Ireland)\nBirgitta Kön
ig-Ries (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena\, Germany)\nDumitru Roman (DER
I Innsbruck\, Austria)\nJari Veijalainen (University of Potsdam\, Germany)\
n\nPROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed\; to be extended)\n\nNelson Baloyian\, Univ
ersity of Chile\, Chile\nMartin Bauer\, NEC Europe\, Germany\nSonia Ben Mok
htar\, INRIA\, France\nRichard Benjamins\, iSOCO\, Spain\nYolande Berbers\,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven\, Belgium\nPatricia Charlton\, Motorola Lab
s\, UK\nJohn Domingue\, Open University\, UK\nDieter Fensel\, DERI\, Austri
a and Ireland\nFabien Gandon\, INRIA Sophia Antipolis\, France\nWalter Goix
\, Telecom Italia\, Italy\nMartin Hepp\, DERI Innsbruck\, Austria\nEero Hyv
önen\,
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DESCRIPTION: MAS*BIOMED'06\n Call for Pape
rs Second International Workshop on\n Agents in Medicine\, Computational B
iology\, and Bioinformatics\n (htt
p\://www.diee.unica.it/biomed06/)\n \n Workshop to be he
ld at the\n Fifth International Joint Conference on\n Au
tonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006)\n (http\
://www.fun.ac.jp/aamas2006/)\n \n Future University-Hakoda
te\, Japan\n 9th May 2006\n \n \nImportant Dates
\nSubmission Deadline\: January 15\, 2006\; extended to Feb\, 1\nN
otification of Acceptance\: February 19\, 2006\nCamera ready\:
March 5\, 2006\nWorkshop\: May 9\, 2006\n \n \nMo
tivation and Description\nThere is growing evidence that agent technology c
an be useful in designing and implementing solutions aimed at supporting th
e automation of medical and biological procedures. While it is essential fo
r computer scientists and software developers to understand the specific pr
oblems in medicine and biology\, it is also essential for an expert of eith
er domain to understand the capabilities of agent technology. The main purp
ose of this workshop is to bring together and create synergies between rese
archers on these fields in order to discuss relevant issues and approaches
aimed at assessing and promoting the adoption of agent technology. It is in
tended that the workshop mainly focuses on the benefits of adopting agent t
echnology in\:\n(i) storing\, accessing\, and distributing relevant medical
or biological data\,\n(ii) implementing the automation of information-gath
ering and information-inference processes in medical and biological setting
s\,\n(iii) supporting e-Health\,\n(iv) simulating and modeling biological s
ystems.\n \nThis workshop aims to attract both theoretically and practicall
y oriented papers in these thriving areas in the intersection of medicine a
nd biology with computer science. The workshop will also focus on supportin
g infrastructures\, such as agent-based systems\, tools\, languages\, ontol
ogies\, and networking facilities for medicine\, bioinformatics and computa
tional biology. Papers on the application and evaluation of agent approache
s to the solution of problems in these fields will be particularly sought.\
n \n \nTopics of interest include but are not limited to\:\n* Multi-Agent I
nteraction in Medical or Biological Settings\n Coordination of tasks and
data\n Collaboration in peer-to-peer networks\n Multi-strategy and m
eta- learning for cooperative information agents\n \n* Analysis and Modelin
g of Data and Tasks\n Multi-agent systems for medical pre-detection\, di
agnosis\, and treatment\n Multi-agent systems for patient scheduling\, t
ransplant management\, community care\, information access\, training\,\n
internal hospital and clinic tasks\, etc.\n Integrated genotyping and
gene linkage analysis\n Multi-agent approaches to gene expression analys
is\n Modeling of biological processes\n \n* Architectures\, Languages\,
Tools\, and Applications\n Agent-based architectures and frameworks tail
ored for medical or biological domains\n Customization of agent-based to
ols\, languages\, and libraries for medical or biological domains\n \n* Kno
wledge management\n Agent-based integration of biological knowledge\n
Agent-based data mining and knowledge discovery in medical or biological d
omains\n Multi-agent information gathering in medical or biological sett
ings\n Integration of heterogeneous data sources and/or services\n \n* O
ntologies for Medical or Biological Domains\n Collaborative ontology con
struction\n Distributed ontology management\n \n \nSubmission Procedure\
nThose wishing to participate in the workshop are requested to submit an or
iginal research paper\, not published or submitted elsewhere. Papers will b
e peer reviewed by at least two referees from the workshops program commit
tee based on the technical relevance\, quality\, clarity of presentation\,
objective analysis of the reported experiences\, and novelty. High-profile
survey papers could be also considered for publication. The length of a pap
er must not exceed 15 single-spaced A4 pages including figures\, tables\, a
nd references. Papers should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. Te
mplates are available at Springer. The language of the workshop is English.
At least one of the authors per each accepted paper should be able to regi
ster with and attend the workshop and present the paper. All submissions sh
ould be sent by email\, either in PDF or in PostScript format\, to\nbiomed0
6 AT diee.unica.it.\nThe subject of the email should contain medicine or
biology within square brackets to facilitate the organizing committee in
the task of associating papers to referees. All the accepted papers will be
printed in the workshop proceedings of the workshop.\nA selection of the b
est papers presented at this workshop will be considered for a special issu
e on the same theme at Multiagent and Grid Systems - an International Jour
nal by IOS press.\n \n \nOrganizing Committee\nGiuliano Armano (giuliano.a
rmano@diee.unica.it)\nDept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Univ
. of Cagliari (Italy)\nPiazza DArmi 09123 Cagliari (Italy)\n \nAndrew Ma
rtin (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk)\nDept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Univ. College London (UK)\nDarwin Building - Gower Street London WC1E 6BT
- England\n \nHuaglory Tianfield (h.tianfield@gcal.ac.uk)\nGlasgow Caledon
ian University\, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences\, SRIF/SHEFC
\nCentre for Virtual Organization Technology Enabling Research (VOTER) Di
rector\n70 Cowcaddens Road\, Glasgow\, G4 0BA\, UK\n \nRainer Unland (Unlan
dR@informatik.uni-essen.de)\nInst. for Computer Science and Business Inform
ation Systems (ICB)\, University of Duisburg-Essen\nSchuetzenbahn 70\, 4511
7 Essen\, Germany\n \n \nPublishing Chair\nEloisa Vargiu (vargiu@diee.unica
.it)\nDept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Univ. of Cagliari (I
taly)\nPiazza DArmi 09123 Cagliari (Italy)\n \n \nPreliminary Program Co
mmittee\n Martin Beer\, Sheffield Hallam University (UK)\nHans Czap\, Univ
. of Trier (Germany)\nJoerg Denzinger\, Univ. of Calgary (Canada)\nJürgen K
lüver\, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)\nPatty Kostkova\, City Unive
rsity (UK)\nEmanuela Merelli\, Univ. of Camerino (Italy)\nLuciano Milanesi\
, Institute of Biomedical Technologies I.T.B. (Italy)\nSimon Miles\, Univer
sity of Southampton (UK)\nAgostino Poggi\, Univ. of Parma (Italy)\nDavid Ri
año\, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain)\nMargarita Sordo\, Harvard Medica
l School (US)\nJürgen Stausberg\, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)\nC
hristina Stoica\, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)\nEloisa Vargiu\, U
niv. of Cagliari (Italy)\n\n-- \n\n\n\n
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DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOP ON MODELS OF TRUST FOR THE WEB (MTW'06)\nto be held in
conjunction with WWW 2006 \nEdinburgh\, Scotland\, May 22/23\, 2006\nhttp\
://www.l3s.de/~olmedilla/events/MTW06_Workshop.html\n\n\nWorkshop Outline\n
----------------\n\n \"There are three types of lies - lies\, damn lies\
, and facts found\non the Web.\"\n Dr. Tim Finin\, paraphrasing the well
known quotation by \n Benjamin Disraeli on Statistics\n \nAs it gets e
asier to add information to the web via html pages\, wikis\, \nblogs\, and
other documents\, it gets tougher to distinguish accurate \ninformation fro
m inaccurate or untrustworthy information. A search\nengine query usually r
esults in several hits that are outdated and/or \nfrom unreliable sources a
nd the user is forced to go through the \nresults and pick what she/he cons
iders the most reliable information \nbased on her/his trust requirements.
With the introduction of web \nservices\, the problem is further exacerbate
d as users have to come up \nwith a new set of requirements for trusting we
b services and web \nservices themselves require a more automated way of tr
usting each \nother. Apart from inaccurate or outdated information\, we als
o need to \nanticipate Semantic Web Spam (SWAM) -- where spammers publish f
alse \nfacts and scams to deliberately mislead users. This workshop is \nin
terested in all aspects of enabling trust on the web.\n\nThis workshop will
bring together researchers and experts from \ndifferent communities (e.g.\
, Information Systems\, Database\, Semantic \nWeb\, Web Services) intereste
d in topics like trust\, provenance\,\nprivacy\, security\, reputation and
spam\, in order to address current\nchallenges of their application to dist
ributed environments like the\nWeb. The workshop will deliver a state-of-th
e-art overview\,\nsuccessful research advances in the area as well as guide
lines for \nfuture research.\n \n\nTopics\n------\n\nWorkshop topics includ
e\, but are not limited to\, the following\:\n\n * Trust specification a
nd reasoning\n * Trust policies representation and enforcement\n * Ce
rtificate management for trust\n * Relationship between provenance and t
rust\n * Modeling and maintaining provenance\n * Reputation managemen
t\n * Models for learning trust and the evolution of trust\n * Decent
ralized trust models\n * Case studies\n * How trust helps in identify
ing spam and SWAM (Semantic Web Spam)\n * Legal notion of trust\n * H
ow to work without trust (e.g. risk management)\n * Requirements for tru
sting information\, services\, users on the web\n * Trust in business ru
les and contracts\n * Justification for conclusions\n * Explanations
for advanced query answering\n * Trust negotiation\n * Information qu
ality\n\n\nSubmissions\n-----------\n\nFull research papers describing comp
leted research as well as position\npapers describing proposed research are
welcome. We also seek\ndemonstration papers outlining practical work in th
is field.\n\nSubmissions must conform to the ACM formatting guidelines for
WWW2006 (follow\nthe instructions for \"Formatting your Paper\") and must n
ot exceed 10 pages for\nfull (research) papers and 5 pages for demo\, short
or position papers\,\nincluding all text\, references\, appendices\, and f
igures. Submissions must be\nin Portable Document Format (PDF).\n\nPapers s
hould be submitted electronically via the MTW EasyChair page at \nhttp\://w
ww.easychair.org/MTW06/submit/\n\nRegistration for the workshop is via the
WWW2006 website. For accepted papers\,\nat least one author is expected to
participate in the workshop. The organizers\nreserve the right to withdraw
from the proceedings a paper whose authors do\nnot attend the workshop. If
you have any questions\, please contact one of the\norganizing committee.\n
\nImportant dates \:\n * Submission deadline\: February 10\, 2006\n *
Notification for acceptance\: March 10\, 2006\n * Camera ready due\: Ma
rch 31\, 2006\n\n\nVenue\n-----\n\nThe workshop will be held at the 15th In
ternational World Wide Web Conference\non May 22/23\, 2006 in Edinburgh\, S
cotland\n\n\nOrganizing Committee\n--------------------\n Tim Finin\, Un
iversity of Maryland Baltimore County\n Lalana Kagal\, Massachusetts Ins
titute of Technology\n Daniel Olmedilla\, L3S Research Center and Hanove
r University\n\n\nProgram Committee\n-----------------\n\n * Elisa Berti
no\, Purdue University\n * Chris Bizer\, FU Berlin\n * Piero Bonatti\
, University of Naples\n * Tim Finin\, UMBC\n * Rino Falcone\, Instit
ute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies\n * Jennifer Golbeck\, UMD\n
* Sandro Hawke\, W3C & MIT\n * Anupam Joshi\, UMBC\n * Lalana Kaga
l\, MIT\n * Brian LaMacchia\, Microsoft\n * Jiangtao Li\, Purdue Univ
ersity\n * Fabio Martinelli\, CNR\n * Deborah McGuinness\, Stanford\n
* Rebecca Montanari\, University of Bologna\n * Wolfgang Nejdl\, L3S
and University of Hannover\n * Daniel Olmedilla\, L3S and University of
Hannover\n * Filip Perich\, Shared Spectrum & UMBC\n * Omer F. Rana\
, Cardiff University\n * Norman Sadeh\, CMU\n * Kent Seamons\, BYU\n
* Nahid Shahmehri\, Linkopings universitet\n * Bhavani Thuraisingham\
, UT Dallas\n * Mahesh Tripunitara\, Motorola Labs\n * Marianne Winsl
ett\, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\n * Sheng Zhong\, State
University of New York at Buffalo\n\n=====================================
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DESCRIPTION:Special Track & Forecasting Competition on \n\"FORECASTING WITH
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS\"\nhttp\://www.neural-forecasting.com/ISF_2006.
htm\n\n@ The 26th International Symposium on Forecasting 2006\nJune 11-14\,
2006\, Santander\, Spain\nhttp\://www.isf2006.org \n\n====================
=============================\n\nDear Researchers and Practitioners!\nYou a
re invited to submit an abstract related to the theory and practice of\nfor
ecasting with artificial neural networks to the special track at the 2006\n
International Symposium of Forecasting. All accepted and presented abstract
s\nwill be invited to submit full papers to be considered for post conferen
ce\npublication. Please find instructions below or visit the special sessio
n\nwebsite at http\://www.neural-forecasting.com/ISF_2006.htm \n\nTo partic
ipate & receive updates\, please indicate your interest by sending\nan empt
y email to s.crone@neural-forecasting.com with \"ISF2006 info\" in the\nsub
ject line.\n\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------
--------\nGeneral CfP\n----------------------------------------------------
---------------\nWe invite abstracts related to the theory and practice of
forecasting with\nneural networks\, describing new techniques\, methods and
models and novel\napplications. Particular emphasis is given to submission
s related to the use\nof NN in changing environments\, the 2006 ISF theme.
We strongly encourage\nsubmissions from practitioners documenting successfu
l AND unsuccessful novel\napplications of NN in practice. A list of topics
of interest is given below\:\n\nMethods (include but are not limited to)\:\
n- artificial neural networks (all paradigms)\n- feedforward & recurrent\n-
single methods & ensembles\n- support vector machines & regression\n- NN r
elated & hybrid soft computing methods\n- etc.\n\nApplications (include but
are not limited to)\:\n- business forecasting & demand planning\n- time se
ries prediction & analysis \n- predictive classification & data mining\n- e
tc.\n\nTheory\n- Use of NN in changing environments\n- Stability & retraini
ng of networks\n- Principles of modelling NN for forecasting\n- Data-prepro
cessing for NN forecasting \n- Model selection of NN candidates\n- etc.\n\n
\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\nFore
casting Competition CfP\n--------------------------------------------------
-----------------\nIn addition to the general track\, we invite submissions
to a \"forecasting\ncompetition\". As in the previous year\, we invite res
earch and practitioner\nteams to participate in a forecasting competition o
pen to neural networks\nand methods from computational intelligence. The 20
06 competition will focus\non river flood forecasting and will be organised
by Chris Dawson. To present\nresults each participant must also submit an
abstract and register at the\nconference. More information and datasets may
be found at\nhttp\://www.neural-forecasting.com/ISF06_Neural_forecasting_c
ompetition.htm \n\n\n------------------------------------------------------
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------------------------------------------\nProspective authors are invited
to submit their abstract (limit of 300\nwords\, Arial\, 10pt\, no mathemat
ics\, no references\, a blank line between\nparagraphs) electronically on t
he conference website www.isf2006.org\nfollowing the guidelines posted ther
e. The review process will contain at\nleast two independent reviewers. For
the forecasting competition\, the\nabstract should describe the NN model a
nd modelling process applied. Full\nsubmissions in a Springer publication o
n \"Advances in Forecasting with\nNeural Networks\" will be encouraged afte
r the conference. All submissions\nmust be received by February 28th 2006.
\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\nCo
nference Information \n----------------------------------------------------
---------------\nThe 26th International Symposium on Forecasting\, organise
d annually by the\nInternational Institute of Forecasting\, is the premier
conference for\nresearchers and practitioners in forecasting. The 2005 conf
erence in San\nAntonio attracted over 200 presentations in all areas of for
ecasting\, with\n31 presentations dedicated to neural networks for forecast
ing in 7 sessions\,\nspread across 3 tracks of NN theory\, NN applications
and a NN forecasting\ncompetition. It comprised one of the largest gatherin
gs focussed on neural\nforecasting in 2006 and provided a premier opportuni
ty for networking within\nthe field. All recent ISF conferences have hosted
a dedicated track on NN in\naddition to various submissions to alternative
tracks of nonlinear methods\,\nand application focused tracks such as fina
ncial forecasting\, forecasting in\nsports etc \n\nThe Symposium will be he
ld at the Magdalena Palace\, the former summer\nresidence of the Kings of S
pain\, in Santander's historic peninsula which\nboasts superb views of Sant
ander's famous harbour. The organisers are\nlooking forward to giving you a
taste of Spanish hospitality and special\nimpressions of their splendid ci
ty and exciting country! For Information on\nSantander please follow the li
nks from the conference website at\nwww.isf2006.org \n\n-------------------
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------------------------------------------------------------\nFebruary 28th
\, 2006 Abstracts due\nMarch 27th\, 2006 Notification of acceptance\nApril
17th\, 2006 Registration deadline\nJune 11-14\, 2006 25th International Sym
posium on Forecasting 2006\nAugust 2006 Call for Post-conference publicatio
ns\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n
Contact Information \n-----------------------------------------------------
--------------\n\nTrack Chair\nSven F. Crone\n\nLancaster University\nResea
rch Centre for Forecasting\nDept. of Management Science\nCentre for Forecas
ting\n\ns.crone@neural-forecasting.com\n\n\n\n\n\n
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DESCRIPTION:5th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2006)\,\n
http\://www.dexa.org/drupal/?q=webs\n\n
in conjunction with\n DEXA 2006\n 17th
International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications\n\n
September 4 - 8\, 2006 Krakow\, Poland\n
http\://www.dexa.org/ \n\nDear Colleagues\,\n\nyou are invited
to submit your papers to the 5th International Workshop on Web Semantics (
part of the 17th International Workshop\non Database and Expert Systems App
lications DEXA)\, to be held in Krakow\, Poland\, September 4 - 8\, 2006.\n
\nThe objective of the workshop Web Semantics (WebS) is to bring together r
esearchers\, developers and practitioners to discuss\nresearch issues and e
xperience in developing and deploying Semantic Web concepts\, applications\
, and solutions being an\ninternational forum for the presentation of both
theoretical and applicative results. Papers describing Semantic Web applica
tion\nexperiences are particularly encouraged.\n\n\nTOPICS\:\n=======\nThe
relevant topics include the following (but are not limited to)\:\n\n * Kno
wledge Management and Sharing\n * Domain Specific vs. Upper Level Ontologi
es\n * Visual Modeling of Semantic Webs\n * Semantic Web for e-learning\n
* Semantic Web for e-sciences\n * Semantic Web for e-business\n * Seman
tic Information Brokering and Interoperability\n * Document Analysis and S
emantic Extraction\n * Semantic Web Mining\n * Semantic Web Inferences Sc
hemes\n * Semantic Web Applications\n o Database Technologies for t
he Semantic Web\n o Intelligent User Interfaces\n o Dynamic O
ntology Generation and Adaptation\n o Languages\, Tools and Methodol
ogies for Semantic Annotations of Web Data\n o Applications on Mobil
e Devices\n o Enhanced Accessibility and Multimodal Interfaces\n
o Reasoning\n * Special Interoperability\n\n\nPAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS
\:\n=========================\nAuthors are invited to submit original\, unp
ublished research and application papers that are not being considered in a
nother forum.\nManuscripts will be limited to 5 two-column pages (IEEE Proc
eeding style) including figures and references. Please follow the IEEE\nCom
puter Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. A
uthors of accepted papers are requested to sign the\nIEEE copyright form. T
he author guidelines can be found at IEEE Conference Publishing Services -
Proceedings Author Forms.\nElectronic submission of manuscripts (in postscr
ipt\, word or pdf format) is required and will be handled via the workshop
Web site\nhttp\://www.dexa.org/drupal/?q=webs. For any questions please con
tact webs@faw.uni-linz.ac.at.\n\nAt least one author of each accepted paper
is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Papers accepte
d for\npresentation will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as pro
ceedings of the DEXA'06 workshops.\nAuthors are requested to send the abstr
act of their paper to be received by February 24\, 2006. The file of the fu
ll paper should be\nsubmitted to be received by March 03\, 2006.\n\n\nEVALU
ATION PROCESS\:\n===================\nAll submissions will be evaluated for
originality\, significance\, clarity\, and technical soundness. Each paper
will be refereed by\nat least two to three researchers in the topical area
.\n\n\nIMPORTANT DATES\:\n================\nAbstract submission\: February
24\, 2006\nPaper submission\: March 03\, 2006\nNotification of acceptance\:
May 9\, 2006\nCamera-ready copies due\: May 26\, 2006\nWebs 2006 Workshop\
: September 4 - 8\, 2006\n\n\nWEBS CHAIRS\:\n============\nEva Gahleitner (
FAW\, Johannes Kepler University of Linz\, Austria)\nWolfram Wöß (FAW\, Joh
annes Kepler University of Linz\, Austria)\n\n\nPROGRAMM COMMITTEE\:\n-----
--------------\nAbramowicz Witold\, Poznan University of Economics\, Poland
\nAdiba Michel\, Laboratoire IMAG-LSR\, France\nAldana Montes José Francisc
o\, Universidad de Málaga\, Spain\nBaralis Elena\, Politecnico di Torino\,
Italy\nBernardino Jorge\, ISEC\, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra\, Portuga
l\nBhowmick Sourav Saha\, Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\nBin
der Walter\, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory\, Swiss Federal Institute o
f Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)\, Switzerland\nBlake Brian\, Georgetown Uni
versity\, Washington\, DC\, USA\nBodenhofer Ulrich\, Software Competence Ce
nter Hagenberg\, Austria\nBrank Janez\, Jozef Stefan Institute\, Ljubljana\
, Slovenia\nBuhler Paul\, College of Charleston\, USA\nBurget Radek\, Facul
ty of Information Technology\, Brno\, Czech Republic\nBurstein Mark\, BBN T
echnologies\, Boston\, MA\, USA\nCalleja Antonio\, CRC Information Technolo
gies\, Spain\nCarminati Barbara\, University of Insubria\, Italy\nCatania B
arbara\, DISI\, University of Geneve\, Switzerland\nCavedon Lawrence\, CSLI
\, Stanford University\, CA\, USA\nChalupsky Hans\, University of Southern
California\, USA\nChoenni Sunil\, University of Twente\, The Netherlands\nC
ostilla Carmen\, Ciudad Universitaria\, Madrid\, Spain\nCremades José\, CRC
Information Technologies\, Spain\nDe Antonellis Valeria\, Dipartimento di
Elettronica per l'Automazione\, Brescia\, Italy\nde Souza Baptista Cláudio\
, DSC\, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande\, Brasilia\nDebenham John\,
University of Technology\, Sydney\, Australia\nDemurjian Steven A.\, Univer
sity of Connecticut\, USA\nDenker Grit\, SRI International\, Menlo Park\, C
A\, USA\nDickinson Ian J\, HP Labs\, Bristol\, UK\nDillon Tharam\, Universi
ty of Technology Sydney\, Australia\nDing Ying\, University of Innsbruck\,
Austria\nFeng Ling\, University of Twente\, The Netherlands\nFensel Dieter\
, University Innsbruck\, Austria\nFerrara Alfio\, DICO - Università degli S
tudi di Milano\, Italy\nFerrari Elena\, University of Insubria\, Italy\nGah
leitner Eva\, Johannes Kepler University of Linz\, Austria\nGanascia Jean-G
abriel\, Université Paris VI\, France\nGandon Fabien\, ISRI\, Carnegie Mell
on University\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, USA\nGoderis Antoon\, University of Manch
ester\, UK\nGómez Jorge Carlos Marx\, Universität Magdeburg\, Germany\nGupt
a S.K.\, IIT Delhi\, India\nHameurlain Abdelkader\, Université Paul Sabatie
r\, France\nHara Carmem Satie\, Universidade Federal do Parana\, Brasilia\n
Hayes Pat\, University of West Florida\, USA\nHess Andreas\, University Col
lege\, Dublin\, Ireland\nHeymans Stijn\, VUB\, Universiteit Brussel\, Belgi
um\nHori Masahiro\, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory\, Japan\nHotho Andreas\,
University of Karlsruhe\, Germany\nHoward Randy\, George Manson University\
, USA\nIsoird Gael\, Le Laboratoire d'Informatique\, de Robotique et de Mic
roélectronique de Montpellier\, France\nKalinis Panos\, National University
of Singapore\, Singapore\nKaski Samuel\, University of Helsinki\, Finland\
nKawano Hiroyuki\, Kyoto University\, Japan\nKlein Michael\, University of
Karlsruhe\, Germany\nKlein Michel\, Vrije Universiteit\, The Netherlands\nK
lischewski Ralf\, Faculty of Management Technology\, German University in C
airo\, Egypt\nKlusch Matthias\, German Research Center for Artificial Intel
ligence\, Saarbrucken\, Germany\nKo In-Young\, Information and Communicatio
ns University\, Korea\nLara Rubén\, Institut fuer Informatik (IFI)\, Univer
sity Innsbruck\, Austria\nLeonard Michel\, University of Geneve\, Switzerla
nd\nLilien Leszek\, Western Michigan University\, USA\nMadhusudan Therani\,
Department of MIS\, University of Arizona\, Tucson\, USA\nMadria Sanjay Ku
mar\, University of Missouri-Rolla\, USA\nMalyankar Raphael\, Arizona State
University\, USA\nMatthews Brian\, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory\,
Didcot\, UK\nMcGinnis Jarred\, University of Edinburgh\, Scotland\, UK\nMic
hlmayr Elke\, WIT\, TU Wien\, Austria\nMissikoff Michele\, Lab for Enterpri
se Knowledge and Systems\, IASI - CNR\, Italy\nMondal Anirban\, University
of Tokyo\, Japan\nNavas Delgado Ismael\, Universidad de Málaga\, Spain\nNav
erette Toni\, Departament de Technologia\, Universitat Pompeu Fabra\, Barce
lona\, Spain\nNg Wee Keong\, Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\n
Omelayenko Borys\, Free University Amsterdam\, The Netherlands\nPalacios Ju
an Pablo\, Sindbad Information and Database Systems\, Spain\nPaolucci Massi
mo\, DoCoMo EuroLabs\, USA\nParaboschi Stefano\, Politecnico di Milano\, It
aly\nPaslaru Bontas Elena\, Freie Universität Berlin\, Germany\nPedersen To
rben Bach\, Aalborg University\, Denmark\nPenin Manuel Lama\, University of
Santiago de Compostela\, Spain\nPlexousakis Di
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DESCRIPTION:1st International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collabor
ative\nApplications STICA06 \n \nat the \n \n15th IEEE International Works
hops on Enabling Technologies\: \nInfrastructures\nfor Collaborative Enterp
rises (WETICE-2006) The University of \nManchester\,\nManchester\, U.K. (26
th-28th June 2006)\n \nhttp\://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06\n \n======
====================================================\n \nMOTIVATION\n======
============\nWith distributed information systems and the Internet continu
ally \nincreasing in significance\, collaboratively creating and managing \
ninformation has become an essential requirement for the success of (virtua
l)\n\norganizations. This situation has led to a plethora of platforms supp
orting \ncooperation as well as joint information access among geographical
ly\ndispersed \nuser communities that have emerged in the last decades\: co
llaborative \ninformation spaces\, tele-cooperation\, autonomous agents or\
, more recently\, \nvarious Web-related forms of communication and cooperat
ion such as\ndiscussion forums\, \ncommunity portals\, Wikis and blogs.\n \
nA fundamental requirement for an effective collaboration is the \nAvailabi
lity of technologies and tools which provide an explicit and \nunambiguous
representation of the shared information and a feasible\nmanagement of \nsu
ch semantics-enhanced information repositories. The emergence of the \nSem
antic Web has marked an important stage in the evolution of semantic \ntech
nologies. In this context the knowledge components i.e. ontologies are \nfo
rmalized using Web-suitable\, but in the same time semantically unambiguous
\nrepresentation languages\, are accessible and can be shared and reused ac
ross\nthe World Wide Web. \n \nThe Semantic Web offers new opportunities f
or the next generation of\ncollaborative \napplications\: it provides us wi
th novel means to classify information items\ni.e. \nby means of ontologies
which formally represent the consensual understanding\nof the \napplicatio
n users w.r.t. a particular domain of interest. Taking advantage\nof this t
echnology\, \nthe first promising implementations of Semantic Web-based col
laboration\nplatforms \nsuch as Semantic Web portals\, semantic Wikis and b
logs\, to name only a few\,\nhave been proposed. \n \nThis workshop aims at
contributing to this young application field by\nproviding a forum \nfor p
ractitioners and researchers to present innovative approaches to\napplying
Semantic Web \ntechnologies in collaborative environments and to discuss th
e opportunities\nand challenges \nrelated to this topic.\n \nOBJECTIVES\n==
==============\nThe primary objective of this workshop is to gather researc
hers and\npractitioners working \nin different emerging aspects of semantic
s-enabled collaboration\, ranging\nfrom \ndiscovering new application scena
rios\, proposing new methods to apply\nSemantic Web and \nrelated emerging
technologies to current environments\, pointing out issues \nthat still nee
d to be solved\, and reporting results and experiences gained\nduring \nthe
deployment of collaborative methods and the realization of support\nsystem
s.\n \nTOPICS OF INTEREST\n=================\nWe invite original academic a
nd industry contributions which report on\nissues related to \nsemantic col
laboration. \nTopics of interest include but are not limited to\: \n \n
-- Methodologies for collaboratively creating and managing\nshared
information \n -- Collaborative ontology engineering \n
-- Semantic collaboration applications \n -- Collaborative Se
mantic Web portals \n -- Semantic community support systems \n
-- Semantic Wikis \n -- Semantic Blogging \n
-- Semantic Mindmapping and Conceptmapping \n -- Case studies\
, lessons learned and experience reports on\nsemantics-aware \ncollaborativ
e applications \n -- Studies on the value added to collaboration
by semantic\ntechnologies\n -- Future research directions in th
e area of semantic\ncollaboration \n \nORGANIZERS\n=================\nRober
t Tolksdorf\, Elena Paslaru Bontas\, Klaus Schild\n \nFreie Universität Ber
lin\nAG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme\nTakustr. 9\nD-14195 Berlin\nGerma
ny\n \n{tolk|paslaru|schild}@inf.fu-berlin.de \n\nPROGRAM COMMITTEE\n======
===========\nSören Auer\, Universität Leipzig \nDavid Aumüller\, Universitä
t Leipzig \nMatteo Bonifacio\, University of Trento \nAlberto J. Cañas\, In
stitute for Human & Machine Cognition \nBjörn Decker\, FhG IESE \nJohn Domi
ngue\, Open University \nNicola Henze\, Universität Hannover \nMartin Hepp\
, DERI Innsbruck \nPeter Mika\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam \nSofia Pinto\
, University of Lisbon \nDirk Riehle\, Bayave Software GmbH \nSebastian Sch
affert\, Salzburg Research \nHans Peter Schnurr\, Ontoprise \nAdam Souzis\,
Liminal Systems \nSteffen Staab\, Universität Koblenz-Landau \nHeiner Stuc
kenschmidt\, Universität Mannheim \nYork Sure\, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
\nChristoph Tempich\, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) \nLudger van Elst\, DFKI\n
\nSUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS\n===========================\nSubmission of p
apers will take place electronically at \nhttp\://conference.ag-nbi.de/stic
a06. The papers should be submitted in \nPDF format and should not exceed 6
pages in IEEE format \n(this will also be the page limit for the proceedin
gs).\n\nAll submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three pe
ople. \nThe accepted papers and the summary report on the workshop will be
published\nin \nthe post-conference proceedings and directly mailed to the
registered\nauthors \nby the IEEE Computer Press after the conference. Plea
se note that in order\nfor \nan accepted paper to be published in the confe
rence proceedings at least one\nof \nits authors is required to register an
d present the paper at WETICE-2006.\n\nIMPORTANT DATES\n================\nD
eadline for paper submission\: February 10\, 2006\nDecision to paper author
s\: April 7\, 2006\nFinal version of accepted papers due to IEEE\: May 12\,
2006 \nAdvance Registration discount and deadline \nOn-site registration a
fter this date\: May 12\, 2006 \nWETICE-2006 Workshops and On-site registra
tion\: June 26-28\, 2006\n
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DESCRIPTION:===========================================\neChallenges e-2006
Conference & Exhibition \nBarcelona\, Spain\n25 - 27 October 2006\n=======
====================================\n\nDear Colleagues\,\n \neChallenges e
-2006 Conference & Exhibition takes place in Barcelona\, \nSpain 25 - 27 Oc
tober. This is the sixteenth in a series of Annual \nConferences supported
by the European Commission\, which regularly \nattracts over 550 delegates
from leading commercial\, government and \nresearch organisations around th
e world to share knowledge and \nexperience\, lessons learnt and good pract
ice. \n \nThe International Programme Committee for e-2006 is now inviting
\nextended abstracts (1\,000 - 1\,200 words) for technical papers\, \nvisio
nary papers and business case studies. Proposals to arrange \nworkshop sess
ions are also welcome. Related themes and suggestions \nfor papers and sess
ions are outlined in the Call for Papers \nhttp\://www.echallenges.org/e200
6/default.asp?page=c4p\n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nKeynote Speakers\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~\nKeynote Speakers confirmed to date include \n- Maravillas Rojo Torreci
lla\, Councillor for Employment and \nInnovation\, Ajuntament de Barcelona
\n- Joao Da Silva\, Director of the European Commission\n- Ingo Juraske\, V
P EMEA\, Hewlett Packard Europe\n- Rosalie Zobel\, Director of the European
Commission\n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nMajor Sponsors\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nMajor Sponso
rs confirmed to date include \n- Generalitat de Catalunya\n- Ajuntament de
Barcelona\n- Hewlett-Packard Europe\n \neChallenges e-2006 is also supporte
d by the European Commission. \n \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nTechnical Co-Spon
sors\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nTechnical Co-Sponsors include \n- IEEE Region
8 (Europe\, Middle East\, Africa)\n- IEEE Spain Section\n- IEEE Spain Compu
ter Chapter\n- IEEE Spain Signal Processing & Communications Joint Chapter\
n- IEEE UKRI Computer Chapter\n- IEEE Control and Communications (Ireland)
Joint Chapter\n \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nPapers and Workshop Subm
issions\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nAll abstracts (www.echallenges.or
g/e2006/default.asp?page=submission) \nmust be submitted online by 28 Febru
ary for double blind peer review \nby the International Programme Committee
\n(http\://www.echallenges.org/e2006/default.asp?page=committees). \n \nPa
pers should focus on a research or eAdoption topic on which a case \nstudy\
, initial or final results can be published. General project \ndescriptions
are not appropriate. All papers must highlight the level \nof innovation a
nd actual or expected impact. \n \nPlease bear in mind that the extended ab
stracts submitted are double \nblind reviewed so they should not provide co
ntact details within the \ntext of the abstract submitted at this stage. Co
ntact details are \nregistered online and the paper reference number is ass
ociated with \nthe author's userId.\n \nWorkshop proposals must also be reg
istered by 28 February 2006 \nhttp\://www.echallenges.org/e2006/default.asp
?page=submission-ws Each \nworkshop proposal should be supported by a mini
mum of two papers per \nworkshop session. Authors submit abstracts via Abst
ract Submission \nprocess\, as these will be double blind reviewed by the I
PC.\n \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nCore Thematic Prio
rities for eChallenges e-2006\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~\n- eBusiness - Future forms of organisations\, Technology and \nApplica
tions\n- eGovernment - Services to Citizens and Business\, Organisational \
nTransformation\n- eLearning and ICT Skills\n- Collaborative Working Enviro
nments \n- International Co-operation on IST\n \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nRelated Th
emes\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nRelated themes include but are not restricted to\:\n-
i2010 and ICT take-up by SMEs \n- Digital Content & Digital Rights Managem
ent - issues\, applications \n& technologies\n- eDemocracy \, eVoting\, ePa
rticipation\n- eHealth - issues\, applications & technologies\n- eInclusion
and eAccessibility\n- eTourism and Cultural Heritage \n- eServices in the
European Research Area\n- Future Emerging Technologies\n- GRID - issues\, a
pplications and technologies\n- Knowledge management and technologies\n- In
teroperability and Standardisation \n- Mobility - issues\, applications & t
echnologies\n- Open Source Technologies and Applications\n- Security - issu
es\, applications & technologies\n- Semantic and knowledge based systems\n-
Smart and Virtual Organisations\n \nMore information is available at \nhtt
p\://www.echallenges.org/e2006/default.asp?page=themes\n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~\n \n
We kindly ask you to forward this Call for Papers to your colleagues\, \ngo
vernment or business partners interested in these topics.\n \nWe look forwa
rd to receiving your paper and workshop submissions by \n28 February.\n \n~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\neChallenges e-2006 Organising Commi
ttee\nEmail\: secretariat@eChallenges.org \nwww.eChallenges.org\n~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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DESCRIPTION:JOINT CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE-BASED\nSOFTWARE ENGINEERING 2006
(JCKBSE'2006)\n\n August 28-31\, 2006\n Tallinn\, Estonia\n http\://www
.ioc.ee/jckbse06\n\n\nThe Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engi
neering brings together\nresearchers and practitioners to share ideas on th
e foundations\, techniques\,\ntools\, and applications of knowledge-based s
oftware engineering theory and\npractice. We invite contributions that addr
ess theoretical foundations\,\npractical techniques\, software tools\, appl
ications and/or experience reports in\nknowledge-based software engineering
.\n\nThis is the seventh JCKBSE held biennially and steered by the followin
g\ninternational committee\:\nChristo Dichev\, Winston-Salem State Universi
ty\, USA\nPavol Navrat\, Slovak University of Technology\, Slovakia\nVadim
L. Stefanuk\, IITP\, Russian Academy of Sciences\, Russia\nShuichiro Yamamo
to\, NTT Data\, Japan\nSeiichi Komiya\, Shibaura Institute of Technology\,
Japan\nIvan Rozman\, University of Maribor\, Slovenia\n\nJCKBSE'2006 encour
ages contributions describing basic research\, novel\napplications\, and ex
perience reports relevant to knowledge-based software\nengineering activiti
es. Solicited topics include\, but are not limited to\:\n\n* Knowledge tech
nologies for semantic web\n* Ontology engineering\n* Ontologies and pattern
s in UML modeling\n* Knowledge technologies for web services\n* Architectur
e of knowledge-based systems\, including intelligent agents and\nsoftbots\n
* Knowledge-based requirements engineering\, domain analysis and modeling\n
* Knowledge engineering for process management and project management\n* In
telligent user interfaces and human-machine interaction\n* Methodology and
tools for knowledge discovery and data mining\n* Automating software design
and synthesis\n* Knowledge-based methods and tools for testing\, verificat
ion and\nvalidation\, maintenance and evolution\n* Decision support methods
for software engineering\n* Knowledge management for business processes\,
workflows and enterprise\nmodeling\n* Program understanding\, programming k
nowledge\, modeling programs and\nprogrammers\n* Knowledge-based methods an
d tools for software engineering education\n* Knowledge-based methods for s
oftware metrics.\n\nProgram co-chairs\:\nEnn Tyugu (tyugu@ieee.org)\, Talli
nn University of Technology\, Estonia\nTakahira Yamaguchi (yamaguti@ae.keio
.ac.jp)\, Keio University\, Japan\n\nLocal chair\:\nVahur Kotkas (vahur@cs.
ioc.ee)\, Tallinn University of Technology\, Estonia\n \nPaper submission\:
\nAll papers should be written in English\, traditionally structured (inclu
ding\nabstract and keywords) and clearly identify their novel contributions
that are\ncompared with relevant related work. Regular papers should not e
xceed 10 pages\non A4 paper using 10 or 12 points font. Short papers should
not exceed 4 pages\non A4 paper using 10 or 12 points font. All papers sho
uld be submitted\nelectronically in pdf format not later than March 20\, 20
06. More details are\navailable at http\://www.ioc.ee/jckbse06\n\nProceedin
gs\:\nAccepted papers will be published by IOS Press\, Netherlands in Serie
s\n\"Frontiers\nin Artificial Intelligence and Applications \" and will be
available at the\nconference. Selected papers from the conference will be c
onsidered for\npublication in a special issue of IEICE in Japan\:\nhttp\://
www.ieice.org/eng/index.html.\n\nImportant dates\:\nMarch 20\, 2006
Paper submission deadline\nMay 5\, 2006 Author notification\nMa
y 25\, 2006 Camera-ready paper submission and conference\nregistra
tion deadline \nAugust 28-31 2006 Conference\n\n-----------------------
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sit the conference website\n http\://www.ioc.ee/jckbse06 or contact prog
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DESCRIPTION:JCDL 2006\n\n**Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories
Workshop** Thursday\,\nJune 15\, 2006\, 8\:30 a.m.-5\:00 p.m.\n\n\nThis is
an open call to participate in the Metadata Tools for Digital\nResource Re
positories Workshop\n(http\://ils.unc.edu/mrc/jcdl_2006_tools_workshop.html
) at JCDL\: 2006 in\nChapel Hill\, NC\, USA.\n\n\n**Workshop Description**
\n\nMetadata tools are vital for DLs (digital library) and digital resource
\nrepository growth. Sharable ontologies and metadata schemas supporting a\
nwide range of functions have helped initiate tool development. The DL\ncom
munity needs to share developments\, knowledge\, and evaluation\nmethodolog
ies specific to DL metadata tools. This workshop will\nfacilitate dialog am
ong people interested in metadata tools including\,\nbut not limited to use
rs\, tool developers\, and companies. The workshop\nseeks to improve commun
ication in the DL/metadata tool community and\nadvance the state-of-the-art
for tools in this environment. Specific\nobjectives are\nto\:\n\n1. Commun
icate challenges and solutions specific DL metadata tools and\nsoftware\, i
ncluding metadata creation\, management\, preservation\,\ndisplay\, and ret
rieval issues.\n\n2. Exhibit a range of tools developed to aid creators\, m
anagers\, and\nusers of information systems\, specifically in their work wi
th metadata\nschemas and vocabularies.\n\n3. Foster discussion between soft
ware developers\, DL leaders\, digital\ncollection managers and application
users.\n\n\n**Participation & Exhibitors Call**\n\nParticipation is open f
or general workshop attendance. We invite users\,\nresearchers\, tool devel
opers and companies. We are also seeking\nparticipants who plan to exhibit
their tools in the Tools Exhibition\npart of the workshop.\n\nExhibitors ne
ed to submit a brief abstract about the functionalities and\nspecial featur
es of their application to be shared with workshop\nparticipants.Deadline f
or submission\: May 15\, 2006. Notification\, May\n20\, 2006. Exhibitors sh
ould submit a brief abstract about the\nfunctionalities and special feature
s of their application to Thomas\nSeveriens\: severiens AT mathematik.uni-o
snabrueck.de\, or Jane Greenberg\:\njaneg AT ils.unc.edu.\n\n\n**Important
Dates**\n\nEarly registration deadline\: May 15\, 2006 Regular registration
deadline\:\nMay 25\, 2006 Deadline for Exhibitors' Proposals\: May 15\, 20
06\n\n\n**Preliminary Schedule**\n\nThe preliminary schedule for the worksh
op is available at\:\nhttp\://ils.unc.edu/mrc/jcdl_2006_tools_workshop_sche
dule.html\n\n\n**Registration**\n\nYou can register at the JCDL website at\
:\nhttp\://jcdl2006.org/registration/\n\n\n**Workshop logistics**\n\nDate\:
Thursday\, June 15\, 2006\n\nTime\: 8\:30 a.m. -- 5\:00 p.m.\n\nLocation
\: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Room location to\nbe deter
mined)\n\nRegistration cost\: ASIST\, IEEE or ACM Members\: $140.00\; Non
-members\:\n$200.00\; Student Members\: $95.00\; Student Non-members\: $1
20.00\; Other\:\n$0 (to-be-determined)\n\n\nWorkshop Co-Chairs\: Jane Gre
enberg\, Associate Professor and Director\,\nMetadata Research Center\, Sch
ool of Information and Library Science\,\nUniversity of North Carolina at C
hapel Hill\, (janeg AT ils.unc.edu)\, and\n\nThomas Severiens\, Researcher
and Project Manager Fachbereich\nMathematik/Informatik\, Universitat Osnabr
uck\, (severiens AT\nmathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de)
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DESCRIPTION:*International Workshop on Semantic e-Science*\n3rd September\,
2006\, Beijing\, China. (SeS2006)\, co-located with ASWC2006\nhttp\://km.a
ifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/SeS2006/\n-----------------------------------------
-----------\n<Apologize for cross-posting>\n\n=======Call for Papers=======
=\n\nIn the successful series of Semantic Grid and e-Science events we\nint
end to bring together researchers and practitioners around the\nworld from
the quickly developing research areas of the Semantic Web\,\nGrid and e-Sci
ence. As semantic technologies are being widely accepted\nin various e-scie
nce areas such as life science or bioinformatics\, it\nis necessary and urg
ent to offer semantically enriched methods\, tools\,\nmiddleware to facilit
ate semantic modeling\, system building\,\nsearching\, and data analyzing i
n e-science applications. Former\nSemantic Grid research aimed at the Grid
level\, in which often the\nbasic premises of the science-like environment
are forgotten or\ndisregarded. Thus the main goal of this workshop is to la
y the\nfoundations for e-Science within the Semantic Web scenario.\n\nThe a
im of this workshop is to ground Semantic e-Science firmly on the\nneeds of
the Semantic Web and general science research community. We\nwant to encou
rage and stimulate discussion about the current state of\nthe art in Semant
ic e-Science and its future direction. Currently\,\nontologies and the Sema
ntic Web attract researchers from all around\nthe world and from various di
sciplines. There have been many\napproaches of using ontologies in the e-Sc
ience domain\, which has been\nintroduced in several past Semantic Grid and
e-Science events.\nHowever\, the role of ontology in the Semantic e-Scienc
e research has\nstill not been unambiguously formalized. On the other hand\
,\nontology-based tools for various e-Science branches have been widely\nde
veloped and already attracted the attention from traditional science\nresea
rch community and provided real cases and experience for applying\nSemantic
Web technologies. We regard it as necessity to set a research\nagenda at t
his point in time\, in order to steer the development and\nthe research eff
orts in the most rewarding direction towards our\ncommon goal of realizing
the Semantic e-Science. Otherwise we fear\nthat effort\, motivation and fun
ding may be invested less effectively\,\nslowing the realization and adapta
tion of the Semantic Web technology\nin the e-Science research. Furthermore
\, there is also a great\nopportunity for the building the collaboration be
tween the EU and\nnon-EU universities\, especially Asian universities\, whi
ch locate at\nthe one of the most active economical areas around the world.
The\nholding of this workshop would help to build closer connection betwee
n\nresearchers from both sides\, and consolidate the collaborations.\n\n\nM
ain topics of interest include but are not limited to\:\n------------------
----------------------------------\nSemantic e-Science Foundations\:\n* Sem
antic Infrastructure and Architecture for e-Science\n* Semantic Web and Gri
d middleware\n* Service Oriented Architecture for Semantic Grid\n* Scalabil
ity and flexibility of e-Science infrastructure\n* Semantic Data Integratio
n for e-Science\n* Semantic Web services for e-Science\n* Ontology Engineer
ing for e-Science\n* Web Trust for e-Science\n* Knowledge Management for e-
Science\n* Complex e-Science Process Management\n* Complex Semantic Network
\n\nSemantic Web Applications and Ontologies for\:\n* System Biology\, Bio&
Medical Informatics\n* Complex Biological Network Modeling.\n* Geography\,
Environment and Climate\n* Chemistry\, Physics and Mechanics\n* Web Service
applications\n* P2P applications\n* Digital Libraries and Scientific Publi
cation\n* Ubiquitous and Mobile Semantic Web applications\n* Information Re
trieval and Machine Learning\n* HCI issues and Usability\n* Case study and
user issues\n\nSubmission and Proceedings\n--------------------------------
--------------------\nInterested authors should submit an electronic PDF an
d source version\nof their papers to *Yimin Wang* prior to the paper submis
sion\ndeadline. The first page of submitted papers should include\: title\,
\nauthor names\, affiliations\, postal addresses\, electronic mail\naddress
es\, telephone and fax numbers for all authors\, and a brief\nabstract. All
correspondence will be sent to the author mentioned as\ncontact person in
the electronic title page (by default\, the first\nauthor). Submissions sho
uld not exceed 10 pages and should be\nformatted according to the guideline
s of the Springer Lecture Notes.\nWe are currently pursuing to publish the
proceedings as a journal\nspecial issue and as printed proceedings.\n\n\nIm
portant Dates\n----------------------------------------------------\nDeadli
ne paper submissions\: *June 20th*\, 2006\nNotification of acceptance\: Jul
y 20th\, 2006\nCamera ready deadline\: July 31st\, 2006\nWorkshop date\: Se
ptember 3th or 4th\, 2006 (to be settled)\n\n\nOrganization Committee\n----
------------------------------------------------\nYimin Wang (co-chair)\nIn
stitute AIFB\, University of Karlsruhe\, Gemany\nywa@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de\
n\nHuajun Chen (co-chair)\nCCNT\, Zhejiang University\, China\nhuajunsir@zj
u.edu.cn\n\nPeter Haase\nInstitute AIFB\, University of Karlsruhe\, Germany
\npha@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de\n\nZhaohui Wu\nCCNT\, Zhejiang University\, Chi
na\nwzh@cs.zju.edu.cn\n\nRudi Studer\nInstitute AIFB\, University of Karlsr
uhe\, Germany\nstuder@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de\n\n\nProgram Committee\n-------
---------------------------------------------\nNigel Shadbolt\, University
of Southampton\, UK\nCarole Goble\, University of Manchester\, UK\nNong Xia
o\, National Defense University\, China\nYork Sure\, University of Karlsruh
e\, Germany\nJeff Pan\, University of Aberdeen\, UK\nMinglu Li\, Shanghai J
iaotong University\, China\nRudi Studer\, University of Karlsruhe\, Germany
\nKeqing He\, Wuhan University\, China\nChristopher Baker\, Concordia Unive
rsity\, Canada\nYanbo Han\, China Academy of Science\, China\nHeiner Stucke
nschmidt\, University of Mannheim\, Germany\nBingLi\, Wuhan University\, Ch
ina\nWilliam Cheng\, Hong Kong Baptist University\, China HK\nTakahira Yama
guchi\, Keio University\, Japan\nRobert Stevens\, University of Manchester\
, UK\nHai Wang\, University of Machester\, UK
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DESCRIPTION:2ND WORKSHOP ON ONTOLOGIES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS (WONTO2006)\
n==============================================================\n\n27 Octob
er 2006\nRibeirão Preto\, SP\, Brazil\nhttp\://www.icmc.usp.br/iarn2006/coe
vents/wonto.php\n\n\nA collocated event at the International Joint Conferen
ce IBERAMIA-SBIA-SBRN06\nIBERAMIA'2006 (the X Ibero-American Artificial In
telligence Conference)\nSBIA'2006 (the XVIII Brazilian Artificial Intellige
nce Symposium)\nSBRN'2006 (the IX Brazilian Neural Networks Symposium).\nht
tp\://www.icmc.usp.br/~iarn2006/\n\nAfter pursuing a long tradition of stud
y in Philosophy\, the term ontology has become the new buzzword in comput
er science. It is receiving special attention not only from an active commu
nity of researchers pertaining to many areas of informatics but also from t
he industry\, which is providing increasing budgets and investments to deve
lop this technology and make it available in business as soon as possible.\
nThere is at least one main reason for this recognition\: ontologies consti
tute the backbone of the Semantic Web\, as they are responsible for providi
ng context to pages\, thus promising to make a relevant part of the Web con
tents understandable and processable by the software. However\, there are s
ome challenging obstacles that should be tackled to make ontologies wide-sp
read reputation shift from a promise to a daily used technology. For instan
ce\, heterogeneity and evaluation are two of these obstacles.\nAs for heter
ogeneity\, ontology is composed of knowledge and knowledge is naturally div
erse in its various features\: form\, expression\, syntax\, contents\, mean
ing\, points of view\, perspectives\, uses\, terminology\, premises\, among
other features. Of course\, this variety would be reflected on its encodin
g on ontologies and would pose subtle questions for its application. Dealin
g with heterogeneity in its many types has become a recurrent research issu
e for ontology employment\, and also a good source of ontology usage\, e.g.
for problems like information integration of heterogeneous databases and s
ystems.\nAs for evaluation\, in many applications\, ontologies are applied
in machine reasoning\, thus requiring knowledge from them to encompass a gr
eat variety of point of views\, and\, most important\, to sanction correct
inferences that correspond to the reality being dealt with by the reasoner
component.\nFollowing the success of the first edition of the Workshop on O
ntologies and their Applications\, we intend\, with this second edition\, t
o enrich the discussion on how to enhance ontologies applicability\, thus
realizing this promising technology in general\, but also in specific sett
ings\, such as e-business and e-commerce to name but a few.\n\n\nTopics of
Interest\:\n===================\n\nTopics of interest include\, but are not
limited to\:\n\nOntology Engineering\n- methodologies\n- capture and learn
ing\n- management\n\nSemantic consistency\n- foundational ontologies\n- upp
er-level ontologies\n- evaluation methods\, applications and problems\n\nSe
mantic Interoperability\n- composition and modularity\n- merging\, mapping
and alignment\n- ontology language interoperability\n\nEnhancement of ontol
ogy applicability\n- linguistic ontologies applied to text processing\n- pa
tterns of ontologies for specific applications\n\nOntologies for Informatio
n Sharing\n- ontology-based information integration\n- mediators and broker
s\n- agents and ontologies\n\nOntology Applications\n- Semantic Web\n- know
ledge management\n- e-commerce\, e-government\n- e-learning and e-science\n
- information retrieval\n\n\nWorkshop format and attendance\:\n============
===================\n\nWe intend to avoid the usual conference format\, whe
re papers are presented and the audience plays a rather passive role. There
fore\, the emphasis for this one-day workshop is on working groups. In orde
r to foster lively and fruitful discussion\, the workshop sessions will be
defined according to groups of topics formed from accepted papers. In each
group of topics\, we plan to allocate around one-third of the time for deba
tes.\n\nAttendance will be limited to 60 registrations\, formed by workshop
papers authors and interested members of the community. Workshop attendees
are required to register at the main joint conference IBERAMIA-SBIA-SBRN2
006. For more information\, please have a look at the conference website at
http\://www.icmc.usp.br/~iarn2006.\n\n\nSubmission procedure\:\n==========
===========\n\nWe encourage the submission of high-quality papers based on
entirely new work or surveys\, both meeting the foci of the workshop. Paper
s must be written in English and may have a length of up to 12 pages\, incl
uding tables\, figures\, and references. Like the main conference\, papers
must conform to the Springer LNCC/LNAI style. It is recommended that author
s use Springer-Verlag template files (see http\://www.springer.de/comp/lncs
/authors.html\, section \"Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes\" for
formatting instructions) to minimize possible conflicts of paper length whe
n preparing the camera ready.\n\nPapers should be formatted in PDF (preferr
ed) or PostScript\, and submitted electronically only\, through the EDAS Co
nference Management System web site (at https\://submissoes.sbc.org.br/Pape
r.cgi?c=332&track=740).\n\nSubmission is a three-step process. In a first s
tep authors are required to register as new authors with JEMS. After regist
ration as author the login data will be sent to the specified email address
. This data can be used to access the system. In a second step authors have
to register their paper (click the submit paper button in JEMS). The third
step consists on uploading the paper.\n\nSubmitted papers will be peer-rev
iewed by at least two program committee members and/or additional reviewers
/referees. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings\,
in the CDROM with the joint conference technical papers and in the CEURS on
line.\n\nAt least one of the authors of accepted papers has to register for
the main conference (IBERAMIA-SBIA-SBRN2006)\, otherwise the paper will n
ot be included in the proceedings.\n\nAny other questions regarding papers
submission may be directed to one of the organizers.\n\n\nSpecial Issue\n==
===========\n\nAuthors of best papers will be recommended to submit expande
d versions for a Special Issue on Ontologies and their Applications at The
Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). You can check that at http\:
//www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/special_issues/in_preparation.html (see at the
bottom of the page).\n\nJ\,UCS - The Journal of Universal Computer Science
- is a high-quality electronic publication that deals with all aspects of
computer science. J.UCS has been appearing monthly since 1995 and is thus o
ne of the oldest electronic journals with uninterrupted publication since i
ts foundation. J.UCS is a joint publication of the Know-Center\, Graz\, Aus
tria\, in cooperation with the IICM\, Graz University of Technology\, Austr
ia\, Joanneum Research\, Austria and Springer Pub. Co.\n\n\nImportant dates
\:\n================\n\nJune 13 2006 - Deadline for workshop papers\nJu
ly 13 2006 - Notification of workshop paper acceptance\nAugust 13 2006
- Deadline for workshop camera-ready papers\n\nOctober 23-27 2006 - Joint
Conference IBERAMIA-SBIA-SBRN06 technical program\nOctober 27-28 2006 - 2
nd Workshop on Ontologies & their Applications\n\n\nProgram Committee\:\n==
================\n\nTroels Andreasen\, Roskilde Universitetscenter\, Danmar
k\nStefano Borgo\, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA)\, ISTC-CNR\, Italy
\nJoost Breuker\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, Netherlands\nVirginia Bril
hante\, Universidade Federal do Amazonas\, Brazil\nRonald Cornet\, Amsterda
m Medical Center\, Netherlands\nMonica Crubezy\, SMI\, Stanford University\
, USA\nHenrik Eriksson\, Linköping University\, Sweden\nJérôme Euzenat\, IN
RIA\, France\nMariano Fernandez-López\, CEU\, Spain\nFred Freitas\, Univers
idade Federal de Pernambuco\, Brazil\nGiancarlo Guizzardi\, Laboratory for
Applied Ontology (LOA)\, ISTC-CNR\, Italy\nMichel Klein\, Vrije Universitei
t Amsterdam\, Netherlands\nKonstantinos Kotis\, University of the Aegean\,
Greece\nAndreia Malucelli\, PUC/PR\, Brazil\nLeo Obrst\, Mitre Corporation\
, USA\nH.Sofia Pinto\, IST/INESC-ID\, Portugal\nJorge Santos\, Instituto Po
litécnico de Porto\, Portugal\nStefan Sc
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DESCRIPTION:Workshop at the microlearning conference 2006-02-06\nhttp\://ww
w.microlearning.org/index.php?blogid=1 <http\://www.microlearning.org/index
.php?blogid=1 >\n \nSemantic Learning Objects and Semantic Learning Organiz
ations\: Semantics for micro-learning?\nhttp\://www.eamil.org/mediawiki/ind
ex.php/Call_for_Papers <http\://www.eamil.org/mediawiki/index.php/Call_for_
Papers >\n\nInnsbruck\, Austria\, June 7 - 9\, 2006\n\nMotivation\:\n\nRece
nt standardization and specification efforts in the area of learning techno
logy have resulted in a considerable improvement in the interoperability of
learning resources across different Learning Management Systems (LMS) and
Learning Object Repositories (LOR). The central paradigm of such reuse-orie
nted technology is the notion of learning objects as digital reusable piece
s of learning activities or contents. However\, transportability across pla
tforms is only a basic step towards higher levels of automation and possibi
lities of delegation of tasks to software agents or modules. Such advanced
technology requires richer semantics than those offered by current metadata
specifications for learning resources. Semantic Web technology and the use
of ontology are able to provide the required computational semantics for t
he automation of tasks related to learning objects as selection or composit
ion. In addition\, Semantic Web Services (SWS) provide the technical archit
ecture and mediation facilities for semantic interoperability. In the Infor
mation Systems context\, the \"semantic learning organization\" (SLO) is a
novel concept that extends the notion of learning organization in the techn
ological dimension\, so that a SLO can be considered as a learning organiza
tion in which learning activities are mediated and enhanced through a kind
of technology that provides a shared knowledge representation about the dom
ain and context of the organization. If we understand microlearning primari
ly as \"learning from microcontent\" from \"small pieces\, loosely joined
\" \, the challenge of semantics in micro-learning is that of providing me
chanisms for the easy creation of semantic metadata at the level of micro-c
ontent\, and providing loosely coupled middleware that enables the exploita
tion of that metadata.\n\nTopics\:\n\nThis workshop will be open to all asp
ects and applications of semantic learning objects and learning organizatio
ns\, with an emphasis on micro-content. Suggested topics include but are no
t limited to the following\:\n\n* Leaning Objects and micro-learning object
s\n\n* Learning Object Repositories (LOR) and distributed micro-repositorie
s.\n\n* Learning Management Systems (LMS) and semantics.\n\n* Semantic Web
Services in e-learning.\n\n* Reputation and Trust for contents.\n\n* Social
networking and micro-content\n\n* Intellectual property rights.\n\n* Busin
ess process choreographies as applied to e-learning\n\n* Semantic Learning
Organizations\: micro\, macro- and social perspectives\n\nSubmissions\:\n\n
One single category of submissions are solicited\:\n\n* Short papers (up to
10 pages)\n\nPlease send submissions as PDF documents via email to msicili
a@uah.es or sinuhe.arroyo@uah.es formatted according to the Springer LNCS s
tyle\n\nRevised versions of selected papers will be considered for the Inte
rnational Journal of Knowledge and Learning ( http\://www.inderscience.com/
ijkl/ < http\://www.inderscience.com/ijkl/> ).\n\nImportant Dates\:\n\nSubm
issions\: 30\, April 2006\n\nNotification\: 15\, May 2006\n\nCamera Ready\:
25\, May 2006\n\nWorkshop Chairs\:\n\nMartin Hepp\, DERI (Austria)\nMartin
Lindner\, Research Studios Austria (Austria)\nMiguel-Angel Sicilia-Urbán\,
University of Alcalá de Henares (Spain)\nAmbjörn Naeve\, Uppsala Learning
Lab (Sweden)\,\nJosé Manuel Lopez-Cobo\, Atos Origin SAE (Spain)\nJulià Min
guillón\, UOC (Spain)\nDaniel Olmedilla\, L3S (Germany)
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SUMMARY:Micromedia & eLearning 2.0\: Getting the Big Picture
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DESCRIPTION: Third International Workshop on\n\n Semantic a
nd Dynamic Web Processes \n\n (SDWP 2006)\n http\
://dme.uma.pt/jcardoso/Research/Conferences/SDWP06/\n\n
In conjunction with the\n 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Serv
ices (ICWS'2006)\n September 18-22\, 2005\, Chicago\, USA\n \n\n
\nSDWP Workshop aims and Objectives\n----------------------------------\nO
rganizations are increasingly faced with the challenge of managing\ne-busin
ess systems and e-commerce applications managing Web services and Web\nproc
esses. Web services promise universal interoperability and integration.\nSe
veral researchers agree that it is essential for Web services to be\nmachin
e understandable in order to support all the phases of the lifecycle\nof We
b processes. The intelligent combination of Web services and the\nSemantic
Web can start off a technological revolution with the development\nof Seman
tic Web Processes. These processes can bring together autonomous and\nheter
ogeneous applications\, data\, services\, and components residing in\ndistr
ibuted environments. These technological advances can ultimately lead\nto a
new breed of Web-based applications. The major goal of the workshop is\nto
bring researchers\, scientists from both industry and academics\,\nand rep
resentatives from different communities together to study\,\nunderstand\, a
nd explore the phases that compose the lifecycle of Semantic\nWeb Processes
. In particular\, we wish to emphasize the research and\ntechnological issu
es related to supporting more flexible\, dynamic and\nscalable Web processe
s to meet the advanced needs of the organizational\nprocesses in the networ
ked global economy.\n\nProceedings publication\: \n------------------------
--------\nThe contributions from the first workshop were published in the L
ecture\nNotes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (Volume 3387\, lunch date F
eb. 2005).\nSelected\, revised and extended contributions from the second w
orkshop were\npublished the book \"Semantic Web Services\, Processes and Ap
plications\"\,\nCardoso\, J. Sheth\, A.\, by Springer. This year the contri
butions will be\npublished by the IEEE society.\n\nTopics of Interest\n----
--------------\nThe theme of the workshop is\: Semantic and Dynamic Web Pro
cesses. One of the\nmain points of this workshop is to focus on one of the
most promising\nsolution to support all Web Process lifecycle phases\, the
use semantics.\nSemantics include rich descriptions of Web services and Web
processes that\ncan be used by computers for automatic processing in vario
us applications.\nWhile enterprises have sought to apply semantics to manag
e and exploit data\nor content\, for example to support data integration\,
Web Processes are the\nway to exploit their applications\, increasingly mad
e interoperable as Web\nServices. Submissions are invited that focus specif
ically on the challenges\nin applying semantics to each of the steps in the
Semantic Web Process\nlifecycle. In particular we present the role of sema
ntics in\:\n\n - Annotation (Semantic Annotation of Web Services)\n - Dis
covery (Semantic Web Service Discovery)\n - Composition (Semantic Process
Composition)\n - Process Execution/Enactment (Semantic Web Process Orchest
ration)\, and\nQuality of Service\n of Semantic Web Processes\n\nWe invi
te researchers and experts of web service and semantics to submit\noriginal
research papers as well as reports on work in progress related to\nSemanti
c Web Process lifecycle. Suggested topics include but are not\nrestricted t
o\: \n\n- Semantic Web Processes\n- Dynamic Web Processes\n- Web Processes
Lifecyle\n- Use of Semantics in Annotation\, Discovery\, Composition\, and
Orchestration\nof Web Services and Processes\n- Semantic Selection of Web S
ervices\n- Semantic Web Process Quality of Service \n- Dynamic Changes and
Composition of Semantic Web Processes\n- Web Process Reasoning\n- Web Proce
sses Complexity\n- Ontological representation of QoS and Execution Semantic
s\n- Exploiting Domain Specific Semantics for Web Services (e.g. domains\ni
nclude\, but not limited to\, bioinformatics\, telecommunication\, travel\,
\nfinancial\, and legal)\n- SOA and Grid Computing with dynamic allocation
and semantics\n- Workflow Technologies and Semantics\n- Standards extension
s (incl. WSDL\, UDDI\, BPEL) to support dynamic\nevolution/changes\, and se
mantics\n\n\nPaper Submission and Review\n---------------------------\nAuth
ors are invited to submit original\, unpublished research papers that are\n
not being considered in another forum. Submitted manuscripts will be limite
d\nto 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using t
he\nIEEE Proceedings template. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Pres
s\nProceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. At least one autho
r is\nrequired to attend the conference and present the paper. An electroni
cally\nsubmitted abstract will be required prior to the submission of the f
ull\npaper. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word formats) i
s\nrequired. Submissions should include the paper title\, abstract\, name o
f\nauthors\, their affiliations\, emails addresses\, and postal addresses.
In\naddition\, the author responsible for correspondence should include his
/her\ntelephone number and complete email address. Please go to\nhttp\://co
nferences.computer.org/icws/2006/submission.html for more details.\n \nPape
rs submitted to the workshop will undergo a peer-review process. \n\nOn thi
s year's edition\, we have set up an online submission and reviewing\nsyste
m so that the whole track management process is simplified. Please go\nto h
ttp\://dme.uma.pt/jcardoso/Research/Conferences/sDWP06/OpenConf/ to\nsubmit
your paper.\n\nImportant Dates\n---------------\nPapers submission deadlin
e\: April 29\, 2006\nAuthor notification\: May 21\, 2006\nCamera rea
dy\: Jun 4\, 2006\nWorkshop\: Sep 18\, 2006
\n\nWorkshop Organization\n-----------------------------------\nJorge Cardo
so\, University of Madeira\, Portugal\, jcardoso@uma\,pt\nAmit Sheth\, Univ
ersity of Georgia\, USA\, amit@cs.uga.edu\nRama Akkiraju\, IBM TJ Watson Re
search Center Hawthorne\, USA\,\nakkiraju@us.ibm.com\n\n\nPC Members\n-----
----------------------\nAmit Sheth \, University of Georgia (USA) \nAnca-an
dreea Ivan\,IBM\nBiplav Srivastava\,IBM India ?\nChristoph Bussler \, CISCO
(USA) \nDimitris Plexousakis \, ICS - FORTH (Greece) \nE. M. (Max) Maximil
ien\, IBM Almaden Research Lab\nJacek Kopecky\, DERI\nJorge Cardoso \, Univ
ersity of Madeira (Portugal) \nKarthik Gomadam\, University of Georgia\nKun
al Verma \, University of Georgia (USA) \nLeo Obrst \, The MITRE Corporatio
n (USA) \nMalu Castellanos \, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (USA) \nMarco Pi
store \, University of Trento (Italy) \nMark Burstein \, BBN Technologies (
USA) \nMark Little \, Arjuna Technologies (UK) \nMathias Weske \, Universit
y of Potsdam (Germany) \nRama Akkiraju \, IBM (USA) \nRyusuke Masuoka \, Fu
jitsu Laboratories of America\, Inc. (USA) \nSanjay Chaudhary \, DA-IICT (I
ndia) \nSiegfried Handschuh \, FZI\, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) \nSo
nia Bergamaschi \, DII - Universita` di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy) \nTh
omas Vitvar\, DERI\nAlain Leger \, France Telecom (France)\n\nTo be complet
ed...\n\n\nKind Regards\,\nThe Workshop Organization\,\n\nJorge Cardoso\, j
cardoso@uma.pt \nAmit Sheth\, amit@cs.uga.edu\nRama Akkiraju\, akkiraju@us.
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DESCRIPTION:Ontology Evaluation Challenge at the\n4th International EON Wor
kshop\nWorkshop on Evaluation of Ontologies for the Web (EON2006)\n\n<http\
://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2006>\n\nHeld in conjunction with the\n15
th International World Wide Web Conference\n\nEdinburgh International Confe
rence Center\, Edinburgh\, UK\nMay 22nd\, 2006\n\n*************************
**********************************************\n\nOBJECTIVES\n==========\n\
nIn this year's EON workshop we bring together researchers and practitioner
s interested in the evaluation of ontologies for the web. The aim of this w
orkshop is to ground Ontology Evaluation firmly on the needs of the Semanti
c Web\, especially regarding its web-like characteristics like high interco
nnectivity\, constant change and incompleteness.\n\nEVALUATION AND DEMOS\n=
===================\n\nAt the EON workshop there will be a practical sessio
n\, where a number of ontologies are to be evaluated by the participants be
forehand and the results being discussed at the workshop. In order to obtai
n an intensive exchange of ideas between the participants\, there will be l
eft extensive time for discussion. The previous workshops (EON2002\, EON200
3 and EON2004) proposed a series of experiments for evaluating different as
pects of ontology tools\, e.g. their expressiveness and interoperability ca
pabilities.\n\nThis year we focus on ontologies themselves. The EON2006 wor
kshop is intended to be a platform to discuss results and further steps wit
h interested parties. We explicitly encourage people to make demos of their
tools. We will reserve time slots for demos in the workshop.\n\nWe ask all
participants to evaluate a number of ontologies according to their approac
hes. The workshop will facilitate discussion by comparing the results of th
e participants. This is not meant as a test or as homework\, because we als
o dont know the correct results\, if there are any it is the goal of thi
s workshop to move towards an answer for this very question. The ontologies
can be downloaded at the workshops website.\n\nA final panel will discuss
the research agenda for the coming years\, based on the presentations and
results from the demos\, evaluations and discussions.\n\nIMPORTANT DATES\n=
==============\n\nDemo proposals due\: April 14th\, 2006\nEvaluation result
s submission\: April 14th\, 2006\nNotification on demos\: April 21st\, 2006
\nNotification on evaluation\: April 21st\, 2006\nWorkshop\: May 22nd\, 200
6\n\nSUBMISSIONS FOR DEMO PROPOSALS\n==============================\n\nInte
rested presenters should submit an electronic PDF of their demo proposal to
eon2006@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de prior to the deadline. The proposal should i
nclude include\: title\, author names\, affiliations\, and electronic mail
addresses for all authors\, a brief abstract\, a screenshot\, and a short d
escription of what will be shown in the demo. All correspondence will be se
nt to the author mentioned as contact person in the electronic title page (
by default\, the first author). Demo proposals should not exceed 2 pages an
d should be formatted according to the guidelines of the WWW conference (se
e <http\://www2006.org/cfp/submissions.php> ).\n\nSUBMISSIONS OF EVALUATION
RESULTS\n=================================\n\nInterested authors should su
bmit an electronic PDF and source version of their evaluation results to eo
n2006@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de prior to the deadline. Evaluation results shoul
d be formatted according to the guidelines of the WWW conference (see http\
://www2006.org/cfp/submissions.php ). All correspondence will be sent to th
e author mentioned as contact person in the electronic title page (by defau
lt\, the first author).\n\nEvaluations need to include the following\: titl
e\, author names\, affiliations\, and electronic mail addresses for all aut
hors\, a brief abstract\, a short summary of the evaluation approach (up to
one page)\, the results of each performed ontology evaluation\, sorted by
the ontologies\, and how much time the evaluation of each ontology took. Fo
r each ontology you did not evaluate explain why. We do not want to limit t
he length of the evaluation results\, as this will depend heavily on your a
pproach\, but we ask you to keep them concise. Detailed results should be d
elivered in an ontology itself. A simple starting point for the format is p
rovided\, but needs to be extended by the evaluators needs. For the publica
tion of the ontology evaluation results we will work out a format with the
authors individually\, depending on the number and form of submissions. For
the workshop we will distribute all accepted evaluation results in order t
o ease discussion. The form of the final publication of the evaluation resu
lts will be decided later and depends on the quality and number of submitte
d evaluations.\n\nONTOLOGIES\n==========\n\nThe ontologies are available at
<http\://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2006/ontoeval.zip>\nHere we descri
be the ontologies shortly. We ask you to evaluate each of the four ontologi
es\, so that we can discuss our findings and compare the evaluation approac
hes.\n\noe1\: This is a single file with metadata about Elvis impersonators
. It was developed by a single person.\n\noe2\: The ROVE ontology describes
the Summer School for Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web 2005. It w
as developed by a small team.\n\noe3\: This is the metadata about the AIFB
institute. The SWRC ontology provides the vocabulary. The instance data\, a
lthough offered in one file\, is being editet by all members of the AIFB in
stitute\, not all of them knowledgeable in the Semantic Web domain.\n\noe4\
: This is a collection of more than a hundred FOAF-files taken from the web
. The source URIs are included. We regard this collection as a standard sit
uation on the Semantic Web\, where information will be compiled from severa
l\, decentralized sources. We regard this collection as one ontology.\n\n\n
ORGANIZERS\n==========\n\n* Denny Vrandecic\, Institute AIFB\, University o
f Karlsruhe\, Germany\n* Mari Carmen Suarez-Figueroa\, Facultad de Informat
ica\, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid\, Spain\n* Aldo Gangemi\, Laborator
y for Applied Ontology\, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technology\,
Rome\, Italy\n* York Sure\, Institute AIFB\, University of Karlsruhe\, Germ
any\n\nPROGRAM COMMITTEE\n=================\n\n* Sean Bechhofer\, Universit
y of Manchester (UK)\n* Christopher Brewster\, University of Sheffield (UK)
\n* Dan Brickley\, Semantic Web Vapourware Ltd and ILRT\, University of Bri
stol (UK)\n* Oscar Corcho\, University of Manchester (UK)\n* Roberta Cuel\,
University of Trento (IT)\n* Mariano Fernandez-Lopez\, Universidad Politec
nica de Madrid (ES)\n* Asuncion Gomez-Perez\, Universidad Politecnica de Ma
drid (ES)\n* Marko Grobelnik\, Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)\n* Nicola Guarin
o\, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (IT)\n* Kouji Kozaki\, Osaka University
(JP)\n* Deborah McGuinness\, Stanford University (US)\n* Libby Miller\, As
emantics (IT)\n* Enrico Motta\, Open University (UK)\n* Elena Paslaru Bonta
s\, Freie Universitaet Berlin (DE)\n* Sofia Pinto\, Technical University of
Lisbon (PT)\n* Robert Porzel\, European Media Laboratory (DE)\n* Steffen S
taab\, Universität Koblenz (DE)\n* Rudi Studer\, University of Karlsruhe (D
E)\n* Chris Welty\, IBM (US)\n\nCONTACT\n=======\n\nYou may enquire all fur
ther information from Denny Vrandecic\, denny@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de\n\nWORK
SHOP HOMEPAGE\n=================\n\nhttp\://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon
2006
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DESCRIPTION:Call for participation\n3rd European Semantic Web Conference\n1
1 - 14 June 2006\nBudva (Montenegro)\nhttp\://www.eswc2006.org/\n\nThe ESWC
conference invites International researchers\, business leaders? and acad
emics to sign up for four days of stimulating discussions on the latest re
sults in research and applications of Semantic Web Technologies. Sessions
include specialised lectures\, workshops\, tutorials\, demonstrations and
poster sessions that focus on innovative research areas such as Ontology M
anagement\, Semantic Web Services or Semantic Desktop.\n\nThe Conference w
ill be taking place from June 11th -14th on the beautiful Adriatic coastli
ne of Budva\, Montenegro.\n\nREGISTRATION\nOnline registration is available
from http\://www.eswc2006.org/ until May 26\, 2006. Early bird registrati
on deadline\: April 15th.\n\nEarly registration dates\: February 15th - Apr
il 15th.\nEarly registration fees\: Euros 335\n\n\nTRAVEL INFORMATION\:\nTh
e nearest international airports to Budva are Podgorica\, Tivat\, and Dubro
vnik (Republic of Croatia). Local bus services at a special rate of around
20 euros per leg will be available from each of the three airports before a
nd after the conference.\n\nA free shuttle bus service will be provided bet
ween the conference hotel and the other recommended hotels. Additional info
rmation available at http\://www.eswc2006.org/venue.html\n\nINVITED SPEAKER
S\nFrank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)\: \"Where does it bre
ak?\" or \"Why the Semantic Web is not just 'research as usual' \"\nEdward
Hovy (Information Sciences Institute\, University of Southern California)\
: \"Toward large-scale shallow semantics for higher-quality NLP\"\nAnthony
Jameson (DFKI and International University in Germany)\: \"Usability and
the Semantic Web\"\n\nAll abstracts are available from http\://www.eswc2006
.org/\n\nSEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES\n\nAs an event at the forefront of Seman
tic Web research\, ESWC 2006 is aiming to leave a significant semantic foo
tprint. This legacy of the event will\ninclude semantic markup generated f
rom existing sources\, annotations from delegates at the conference\, and
the experience of using leading Semantic\nWeb applications to support a re
al event.\nAll participants in the conference can help create this legacy\,
and in return gain experience of the entire Semantic Web lifecycle from
knowledge capture to use and reuse. From now onwards there will be opportu
nities to contribute to the project by providing additional information an
d annotations when registering\, submitting camera-ready pape
rs\, and at the conference itself.\n\nMore information available at\: http\
://www.eswc2006.org/technologies/\n\nACCEPTED PAPERS\:\nTo view all 48 acce
pted papers by title and author please visit http\://www.eswc2006.org/.\n
\n\nPROGRAM CHAIR\nYork Sure (University of Karlsruhe\, DE)\, sure@aifb.uni
-karlsruhe.de\n\nGENERAL CHAIR\nJohn Domingue (Open University\, UK)\, j.b.
domingue@open.ac.uk
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DESCRIPTION:First Jena User Conference\nHPLabs environment\nhosted by HPLab
s\n\nWe would like to invite users of the Jena semantic web platform to joi
n the Jena developers and other members of the community to the First Jena
User Conference\, to be held at HP Labs in May 2006.\n\nThis will be an opp
ortunity for you to meet the Jena team and other semantic web application d
evelopers. The conference will include presentations on\:\n\n * applicat
ions and tools developed by Jena users\n * demos\n * in-depth explora
tions of Jena features\n * tutorials\n * discussions about the future
development of Jena\n\nWe invite all Jena users to submit work that may be
of interest to the Jena community for inclusion in the conference programm
e.\n\nWe have a poster for the conference - please feel free to print a cop
y and display as appropriate in your institution.\n
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DESCRIPTION: 2nd International Workshop on the use of\n Semantic
Web Technologies for Ubiquitous and\n Mobile Applications (SWUMA'06)
\n\n Trentino\, Italy\, August 28th 2006\n \n
http\://www.swuma.org/\n\nImportant Dates\n===============\nEXTENDED sub
mission deadline\: April 21st\, 2006\nNotification\: May 10th
\, 2006\nCamera Ready Copies\: May 24th\, 2006\nWorkshop date\: A
ugust 28th\, 2006\n\nWorkshop Theme\n\nMobile and ubiquitous computing refe
rs to an emerging computing paradigm that aims at providing hardware and so
ftware means for offering user-friendly information and communication servi
ces\, anywhere and anytime. The central concept is to empower users through
a digital environment that is aware of their presence and context\, able t
o provide personalized services to their requirements\, capable of anticipa
ting their behaviour and responding to their presence.\nAn essential aspect
for the ubiquitous vision to become true is therefore the provisioning of
small\, handheld\, wireless computing devices that enable interaction betwe
en users and environments (e.g.\, sensors\, actuators\, interactive screens
\, displays\, etc.)\, and computing elements (usually hardwired) that carry
out specific networking functions such as data processing\, storage and ro
uting. These devices offer functionalities that can be described\, advertis
ed and discovered by others and they are eventually able to interoperate ev
en though they have not been designed to work together. This type of intero
perability is based on the ability to understand other devices and reason a
bout their functionalities when necessary. Knowledge deployed in mobile and
ubiquitous applications is therefore pervasive\, distributed\, heterogeneo
us\, and dynamic by nature. In this respect\, mobile and ubiquitous applica
tions can benefit from marrying the Semantic Web\, which provides the infra
structure for the extensive usage of distributed knowledge\, to be deployed
for modelling devices functionalities and add meaning (through ontologies)
\, enabling lightweight discovery and composition of device functionalities
(using annotations and reasoning for service matchmaking)\, and coordinati
on of processes (using negotiation strategies). The ability to appropriatel
y combine ubiquity and semantic grounded data sharing has generated and is
continuously triggering challenging questions in several areas of computer
science\, engineering and networking.\n\nThe workshop on Semantic Web techn
ology for mobile and ubiquitous applications aims to gather input covering
the above mentioned challenges\, and it is intended as a lively forum of di
scussion for bringing together and fostering the interaction of practitione
rs and researchers coming from the many disciplines contributing to the des
ign and deployment of mobile and ubiquitous applications in a semantic-grou
nded perspective.\n\n TOPICS OF INTEREST\n The main topics of interest incl
ude but are not restricted to\:\n Lightweight semantic negotiatio
n for mobile and\n ubiquitous applications\;\n
Semantic Web and p2p\;\n Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous sys
tems\;\n Semantic Web Technology for Context aware applications\;
\n Personalisation\;\n Knowledge representation\, disco
very and management in mobile\n and ubiquitous applicatio
ns\;\n Knowledge representation\, discovery and management for\n
semantic web services in mobile and ubiquitous environme
nts\;\n Semantic web services\;\n Dynamic composition o
f semantic web services\;\n Agent technologies for mobile and ubi
quitous systems\;\n Integration of agent-based services and web s
ervices\;\n Mobile and ubiquitous databases and information retri
eval.\n\n\nSUBMISSION\n\nPapers are solicited for any of the topics of int
erest listed above. We invite contributions of different kinds. We solicit
regular research papers which may report on\:\n completed work\;\
n description of current\, but mature\, work in progress\;\n
discussion papers comparing different approaches\, or\n
account of practical experiences of using SW technology in\n
mobile and ubiquitous applications..\nIn addition\, we invite pe
ople wishing to participate in the workshop to submit a short position pape
r concerning statements of interest\, or technical or policy issues. Spaces
will be limited and those who have submitted a paper will be given priorit
y for registration. Both type of papers will provide the framework for the
discussions during the workshop. Papers must be written in English.\n\nSubm
itted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the programme co
mmittee\, and selected on the basis of their relevance and originality. Bot
h research and position papers should be formatted according to the officia
l formatting guidelines of the ECAI main conference. Research papers shoul
d not exceed twelve pages\, while position statements should not exceed fiv
e pages. Papers and position statements can be submitted to submissions@swu
ma.org\n\nORGANISERS\nAll enquiries and submissions should be directed to c
hair@swuma.org\n\nTerry Payne\, University of Southampton (Co-Chair)\nValen
tina Tamma\, University of Liverpool (Co-Chair)\nDavid Tarrant\, University
of Southampton (Webmaster)\nTim Finin\, University of Maryland Baltimore C
ounty\nNorman M. Sadeh\, ISRI\, Carnegie Mellon University\nMassimo Paolucc
i\, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe\nOra Lassila\, Nokia Research
Center\, Cambridge\, MA\n\nPROGRAM COMMITTEE\n\nAkio Sashima\, AIST\, Japa
n\nAshok Mallya\, North Carolina State University\, NC\nChiara Ghidini\, IT
C Trento\, Italy\nChris van Aart\, Y'all The Netherlands\nDave de Roure\, U
niversity of Southampton\, UK\nDeepali Khushraj\, Nokia MA\, USA\nDonato Ma
lerba\, University of Bari\, Italy\nFabien Gandon\, INRIA Sophia Antipolis\
, France\nFilip Perich\, Cougaar Software\, USA\nFloriana Grasso\, Universi
ty of Liverpool\, UK\nGrigoris Antoniou\, ICS Forth\, Greece\nHarry Chen\,
Image Matters\, LLC\, USA\nJinghai Rao\, CMU\, PA\, USA\nKaoru Hiramatsu\,
NTT Corporation\, Japan\nKendall Clark\, MINDLAB\, University of Maryland\,
USA\nLuigi Iannone\, University of Liverpool\, UK\nLalana Kagal\, MIT CSAI
L\, MA\, USA\nManolis Koubarakis\, Technical University of Crete\, Greece\n
Matthias Klusch\, DFKI\, Germany\nMichael Berger\, Siemens\, Germany\nmonic
a mc schraefel\, University of Southampton\nRichard Benjamins\, iSOCO\, Spa
in\nRyusuke Masuoka\, Fujitsu Labs of America\, MD\, USA\nSergio Tessaris\,
Free University of Bolzano/Bozen\, Italy\nSimon Thompson\, Intelligent Sys
tems Lab\, BTexact Technologies\, UK\nYork Sure\, University of Karlsruhe\,
Germany\nZakaria Maamar\, Zayed University\, United Arab Emirates\n
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DESCRIPTION: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS\n\n Fifth Internatio
nal Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006)\n November 5 -
9\, 2006\n Athens\, Georgia\, USA\n htt
p\://iswc2006.semanticweb.org\n\nThe dream of the Web was to create a human
communication and collaboration\nplatform for sharing knowledge and enabli
ng a universal space for\ninformation and services. We all are now much mor
e connected\, and in turn\nface new resulting problems\: service and inform
ation overload caused by\ninsufficient support for information selection\,
organization and\ncollaboration. The Semantic Web\, by providing standards
for formulating and\ndistributing metadata and ontologies\, enables means f
or information\norganization and selective access. However\, the Semantic W
eb requires new\ninfrastructure on all levels - e.g.\, human-computer inter
action\, expressive\nrepresentation and query languages\, reasoning engines
\, data representation\nand integration\, interoperability middleware\, and
distributed computing.\n\nTo foster the exchange of ideas and collaboratio
n\, the International\nSemantic Web Conference brings together researchers
in relevant disciplines\nsuch as artificial intelligence\, databases\, dist
ributed computing\, web\nengineering\, information systems\, and human-comp
uter interaction.\n\nThe Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2
006) follows on the\nsuccess of previous conferences and workshops in Galwa
y\, Ireland (2005)\,\nHiroshima\, Japan (2004)\, Sanibel Island\, USA (2003
)\, Sardinia\, Italy (2002)\,\nand Stanford\, USA (2001).\n\nThe organizing
committee is soliciting contributions for the various\nactivities.\nPlease
see http\://iswc2006.semanticweb.org for submission details.\n\n\nImportan
t dates are\:\n\nResearch/Academic Track\n\nMay 15\, 2006 (Midnight Hawaii
time)\: Paper submissions due \nJuly 26\, 2006\: Paper acceptance notificat
ion \nAugust 25\, 2006\: Camera-ready papers due \n \nSemantic Web in Use T
rack\n\nMay 15\, 2006 (Midnight Hawaii time)\: Paper submissions due \nJuly
26\, 2006\: Paper acceptance notification \nAugust 25\, 2006\: Camera-read
y papers due \n \nDoctoral Consortium Track\n\nMay 15\, 2006\: Paper submis
sions due \nJuly 26\, 2006\: Notification of acceptance \nAugust 25\, 2006\
: Final versions due \n \nPosters and Demos \n\nJuly 14\, 2006\: Deadline f
or submissions \nSeptember 8\, 2006\: Notification of acceptance \nSeptembe
r 29\, 2006\: Deadline for camera-ready paper \n \nSemantic Web Challenge \
n\nJuly 14\, 2006\: Paper submissions due \nAugust 7\, 2006\: Notification
of acceptance \nAugust 21\, 2006\: Camera-ready papers due \n \nTutorial Pr
oposals\n\nMay 19\, 2006\: Tutorial proposals due \nJune 19\, 2006\: Notifi
cation of proposal acceptance \nJuly 16\, 2006\: Deadline for receipt of UR
L for tutorial web page \nSeptember 8\, 2006\: Deadline for sending the tut
orial chair the tutorial\nnotes and the technical paper \nNovember 4\, 2006
\: Presentation of Tutorial Program\n
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LOCATION:Athens\, Georgia\, USA
SEQUENCE:1
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:ISWC 2006
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
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