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- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:52:46 +0200
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[Apologies for multiple copies.] ****** The workshop deadline has been extended to September 26, 2005. ****** 2nd Italian Semantic Web Workshop SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES (SWAP) Centro Congressi Panorama, University of Trento, Italy 15-16 December 2005 http://www.swap2005.org/ INTRODUCTION ------------ The Semantic Web is currently one of the most interesting and ambitious technological challenges. The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that they can be used by machines - and hopefully by people as well - not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of information across various applications. This project has already attracted a lot of attention and investments, as proved by the interest it got in the VI Framework Programme of the European Commission. In particular, the goal of providing semantics and automated reasoning capabilities to the Web involved research in many areas, SUCH as Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software Engineering, Distributed Computing and Information Systems. After years of international efforts, the core concepts and philosophy of the Semantic Web are still a matter of debate, and a lot of research and implementation work needs to be done in order to prove and exploit the great potential of the semantic web vision. This two-day workshop aims at creating the possibility for a meeting and a debate between Italian and international researchers on Semantic Web. AUDIENCE -------- The workshop aims at being the Italian meeting table for researchers, developers and interested people. However, contributions and participants from other countries are expected and very welcome. TOPICS ------ The workshop will cover theoretical, practical and implementational issues on Semantic Web. The following is a partial list of topics of interests: * Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and e-learning * Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data * Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web * Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution * Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment * Database technologies for the Semantic Web * Semantic Web middleware * Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web * Semantic Web services * Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Agents * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation * Semantic multimedia * Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids * Searching, querying, visualizing and interpreting the Semantic Web * Evaluation of semantic Web techniques * Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Data * Large Scale Knowledge Management * Data Semantics * Knowledge Portals * Semantic Brokering * Semantic coordination, integration, matching and interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Information Retrieval * Visualization and Modelling * Semantic Web Personalization * Systems of collaborative annotation * Systems of annotation extraction * Applications of Semantic Web technologies * Presentation and discussions of application scenarios SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ----------------------- We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, government, and consulting. Students, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit an abstract (max. 1000 words) describing their work. Abstracts must be in English. Accepted formats are Postscript and PDF. Abstracts must be submitted electronically at the address: swap05-info@dit.unitn.it Accepted contributions will be included in a volume of working notes and distributed in a CD with ISBN. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Guidelines (see instructions on http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). The workshop working notes and the CD will be distributed to participants. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- 26 September 2005 Abstract submission (max 1000 words) 21 October 2005 Acceptance/rejection notification 15 November 2005 Camera-ready of full papers 15-16 December 2005 SWAP-2005 LOCATION/REGISTRATION --------------------- Participation to the event is free. The event will take place at the Centro Congressi Panorama, Sardagna (Trento), a beautiful location in the surroundings of Trento, which can be reached by car or by cable car ("funivia"). We invite participants to do a preliminary registration, using the subscription form on the workshop website. We ALSO invite registered participants who can no longer join the meeting, to cancel their registration. The online registration form will be made available at the following URL: http://www.swap2005.org/ WORKSHOP LANGUAGE ----------------- Official languages are English and Italian. However, abstracts, slides and contributions must be in English. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Oreste Signore, W3C Office in Italy/CNR [Conference Chair] Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento [Programme Co-Chair] Giovanni Tummarello, Universita` Politecnica delle Marche [Programme Co-Chair] PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- Danny Ayers Sonia Bergamaschi, Dept. of Science Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy Jeen Broekstra, VU Amsterdam (Nederlands) Zavisa Bjelogrlic, independent J.Jeremy Carroll, HP Labs Silvana Castano, Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, University of Milano (Italy) Enrico Franconi, Faculty of computer science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Fausto Giunchiglia, Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento Nicola Guarino, Laboratory of Applied Ontology, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Tecnologies, CNR, Italy Ivan Herman, W3C Lenzerini Maurizio, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica "Antonio Ruberti", Università di Roma "La Sapienza",Italy Stefano Mazzocchi, MIT, USA Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Giovanni Semeraro, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Bari, Italy Luciano Serafini, Centro Per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy Steffen Staab, Institute for Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Koblenz-Landau Sergio Tessaris, Faculty of computer science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Fabio Vitali, Department of Computer Science University of Bologna, Italy. LOCAL ORGANIZATION ------------------ Elisabetta Fauri Heiko Stoermer Stefano Zanobini CONTACT/INFO ------------ Elisabetta Fauri Email: swap05-info@dit.unitn.it Phone: +39-0461-883383 -- Stefano Zanobini University of Trento email: stefano@stefanozanobini.net homepage: www.stefanozanobini.net
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