ISWC 2002 First Call for Papers and for Tutorials

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ISWC 2002

The International Semantic Web Conference

Sardinia, Italy, June 10-12th, 2002

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 15th, 2002

TUTORIAL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: January 21st, 2002

http://iswc.semanticweb.org/

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CALL FOR PAPERS
===============

ISWC will be the major international forum at which research on all
aspects of the Semantic Web is presented. ISWC 2002 follows on from
the success of the first Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS), which
was held in Stanford in July, 2001 [1].  ISWC 2002 will take place on
the beautiful Mediteranian island of Sardinia [2], Italy, 10th-12th
June, 2002, immediately preceding the OntoWeb workshop [3].

ISWC 2002 invites submissions related to all aspects of the Semantic
Web. Both technical and survey/overview papers are solicited, as well
as descriptions of working Semantic Web systems, position statements
and reports on work in progress.


Topics
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Papers MUST clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic
Web. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
    * Agents
    * Applications
    * Bootstrapping, growth and economic models
    * Database technologies
    * Data/Information/Knowledge integration, mediation and storage
    * Digital libraries, publishing, and e-Books
    * e-business and large-scale knowledge management
    * e-learning 
    * e-science and the Grid
    * Knowledge portals
    * Knowledge representation and reasoning
    * Languages and infrastructure
    * Metadata (including metadata generation and authoring)
    * Mobile, situated and diffuse computing
    * Multimedia data
    * Natural language
    * Ontologies
    * Ontology learning
    * Scalability
    * Searching and querying
    * Services, including description, discovery and interoperation
    * Socio-cultural and collaborative aspects
    * Technological requirements
    * Trust and meaning
    * User interfaces
    * Visualisation and modelling
    * Web mining


Paper Submission
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The conference will include contributed papers, system presentations,
and invited lectures. There are three categories of submissions:


A. Research papers.

  Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in Springer's LNCS
  format [4]. They should describe original research (practical or
  theoretical), or provide a survey/overview of an area of research
  that is contributing to the realisation of the Semantic Web. Note
  that longer system/application papers are welcome in this category.

B. Short system descriptions.

  Papers should not exceed five (5) pages in Springer's LNCS format
  [4]. They should describe an implemented tool or service that
  contributes to the realisation of the Semantic Web.

C. Position papers and reports on work in progress.

  Papers should not exceed five (5) pages in Springer's LNCS format
  [4]. They should consist of a brief statement of the author's
  position on some aspect of Semantic Web research, or describe work
  that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature to warrant
  attention.

Papers of category (A) and (B) must be original and not submitted
concurrently for publication to a journal or to another conference. In
the case of doubts on this point please contact the program chair.

Accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNCS series, both in
book form and electronically. The proceedings will be available at the
conference.


Submission Details
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All submissions must be received by February 15th, 2002.  Submissions
that are late or too long or require substantial revision will not be
considered. 

AUTHORS WILL BE REQUIRED TO MARKUP THE ABSTRACT OF THEIR SUBMISSION
(help will be provided for this task) for the (Semantic) Web. Details
will be provided on the web page.

Details of the submission format can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. 

Details of the submission procedure will be available via the
conference web site (http://iswc.semanticweb.org/). The primary means
of submission will be electronic. Authors without internet access
should contact the program chair in order to make alternative
arrangements.


Organisation
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General Chair

      James Hendler 
      Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab
      University of Maryland
      College Park, MD 20742, USA

      http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler
      hendler@cs.umd.edu

Program Chair

    Ian Horrocks
    Department of Computer Science
    University of Manchester
    Oxford Road
    Manchester M13 9PL, ENGLAND UK

    http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks
    Email: horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk

Organisation chair 
      Michele Missikoff 
      Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica - CNR
      Viale Manzoni, 30
      00185 Roma - Italy

      http://www.iasi.rm.cnr.it/iasi/personnel/missikoff.html
      missikof@iasi.rm.cnr.it 

Program Committee

    See http://iswc.semanticweb.org/


Schedule
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PAPER submission deadline: February 15th, 2002
Notification of acceptance: March 11th, 2002
Camera ready:  April 1st, 2002
Conference: June 10th - 12th, 2002



CALL FOR TUTORIALS
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We invite proposals for three or four-hour tutorials on topics related
to the main topics of the conference.  Proposals for tutorials should
contain:

    * A brief description of the tutorial, including: goals, detailed
      outline, justification of why the tutorial is important,
      background knowledge required and potential attendees.
 
    * Information about the tutorial speakers including name, address,
      affiliation, email, phone and fax.

    * A Short CV of the presenter(s), including background in the
      tutorial area, references to published work in the area and
      evidence of teaching experience.

    * A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special
      room requirements.

Tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF to the ISWC 2002
Tutorial Chair:
 
Asunción Gómez-Pérez
Facultad de Informatica
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Campus de Montegancedo sn
28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/miembros/ASUN/asun_CV_Esp.html
asun@fi.upm.es


Schedule
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TUTORIAL submission deadline: January 21st, 2002
Notification of acceptance: February  21st, 2002
Camera ready tutorial notes: May 10th , 2002
Conference: June 10th - 12th, 2002



[1] http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/
[2] http://www.crs4.it/Sardinia.html
[3] http://www.ontoweb.org/
[4] http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

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