2. CfP Semantic Web Technologies in Electronic Business (SWEB2004)

                      CALL FOR PAPERS
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                    International Workshop on
   Semantic Web Technologies in Electronic Business (SWEB2004)
              13 October 2004, Berlin, Germany
              http://sweb.xml-clearinghouse.de
            as part of the Berliner XML Tage 2004
               http://www.berliner-xmltage.de
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Important Dates:
    9 July 2004  - Paper Submission Deadline
    20 August 2004 - Notification of Acceptance
    3 September 2004 - Camera Ready Copy
    13 October 2004 - Workshop


Objectives:

The vision of the Semantic Web as a web of machine processable
data provides the basis for a wide range of new distributed
knowledge-based applications. This workshop focuses on applications
in the field of Electronic Business and their relationship
to Semantic Web technologies. The aim of SWEB 2004 is to bring
researches working on base technologies and infrastructure components
together with the early adopters of these technologies.

The workshop is colocated with the Workshop "XSW 2004 - XML
Technologies for the Semantic Web" as part of the Berlin XML-Days.

Invited Speaker:

Guus Schreiber, Chair of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and
                Deployment Working Group

Topics:

In contrast to the broader scope of the workshop XSW 2004 this
workshop focuses on applying Semantic Web technologies within
E-Business applications:

* Ontologies for E-Business
* Semantic Mapping and Matching
* Semantic Data Interoperability
* Semantic Web Services
* Processing of Semantic Annotations
* Technology induced Changes of the Value Chain
* Information Quality in the Semantic Web
* Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security
* Application Scenarios and Prototypes
* Industrial Efforts and Experiences

The workshop is supported by
* InterVal - Berlin Research Center on Internet Economics
* KnowledgeWeb - Realizing the Semantic Web, EU Network of Excellence

Submission of Papers
Only electronic submissions via our online submission system
(http://www.xml-clearinghouse.de/ws/SWEB2004/submit/) will be
accepted. Full papers present contributions to the mentioned topics,
whereas short papers introduces current research ideas or wohk in
progress. The workshop language is english.

The submitted paper must not be published or be submitted elsewhere. All
submissions will be reviewed by the program committee.

Using the templates full papers should not exceed the limit of 12 pages
and 6 pages for short papers. The submitted file must be in PDF format.
Please consider the guidelines for authors of the GI series Lecture Notes
in Informatics (http://www.gi-ev.de/LNI/autorenrichtlinien/index.html).
There you will also find template files for Latex and Word.


Chairs:

Rainer Eckstein, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Program Committee:

Steve Battle, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, England
Christoph Bussler, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Ernesto Damiani, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italia
Elmar Dorner, SAP Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Alain Legler, France Telecom, France
Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Arnold Picot, Universität München, Germany
Chris Preist, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, England
Klaus Schild, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Holger Schwarz, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA


Contact:

SWEBchair@xml-clearinghouse.de

Received on Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:26:09 UTC