CfP: Applications of Semantic Technologies AST2007

Call for Papers
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AST 2007 - Applications of Semantic Technologies

2nd International AST Workshop located at the Informatik 2007
September 25th, 2007
Bremen, Germany

http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ast2007

Organized by Pascal Hitzler and York Sure, AIFB, University of 
Karlsruhe, Germay



==== Deadline for paper submissions: April 29th, 2007 ====



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

Such applications are currently being investigated in various 
disciplines within Computer Science, including Ambient Intelligence, 
Software Engineering, Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledg 
Management, Bioinformatics, etc. We believe that Semantic Technologies 
provide methods and tools which will persist in these and other 
application areas for the foreseeable future.


Program
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To ensure a creative atmosphere during the workshop, the participants 
will be selected based on their submitted papers, posing important 
issues to be presented and discussed at the workshop. The workshop will 
consist of short presentations followed by discussions about the goals 
of the workshop: Applications of Semantic Web Technologies and outlining 
a plan for future research. In order to obtain an intensive exchange of 
ideas between the participants, there will be extensive time for discussion.

A final panel will discuss the research agenda for the coming years, 
based on the presentations and results from the demos, evaluations and 
discussions.


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

     * Ambient Intelligence
     * Cognitive Systems
     * Data Integration
     * Multimedia Data Management
     * Software Engineering
     * Service-Oriented Computing
     * Machine Learning
     * eScience
     * Information Extraction
     * Grid Computing
     * Peer-to-Peer Systems
     * eCommerce
     * eGovernment
     * Bioinformatics
     * Digital Libraries


Invited Speaker
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Massimo Paolucci, NTT DoCoMo, Munich, Germany


Discussion Panel
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There will be a Panel on Applications of Semantic Technologies. 
Panelists include Ralf Möller (TU Hamburg-Harburg) and Massimo Paolucci 
(NTT DoCoMo Munich).


Program Committee
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     * Jürgen Angele, ontoprise GmbH Karlsruhe, Germany
     * Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
     * Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany
     * Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
     * Jörg Diederich, L3S Hannover, Germany
     * Elmar Dorner, SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany
     * Gerhard Goos, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
     * Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany
     * Knut Hinkelmann, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Switzerland
     * Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
     * Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
     * Daniel Krause, L3S Hannover, Germany
     * Thorsten Liebig, University of Ulm, Germany
     * Jin Liu, T-Systems Berlin, Germany
     * Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
     * Daniel Oberle, SAP AG, Germany
     * Axel Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain
     * Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen, 
Switzerland
     * Stefan Schlobach, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Germany
     * Christoph Schmitz, University of Kassel, Germany
     * Michael Sintek, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
     * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
     * Giovanni Tummarello, University of Ancona, Italy
     * Walter Waterfeld, Software AG, Germany
     * Guo-Qiang Zhang, CWRU Cleveland, USA
     * Jürgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany



Submission and Proceedings
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Submissions must not to exceed 5 pages and must comply with the 
requirements laid out under http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/.

Submissions shall be sent to hitzler@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de.
Submissions shall be in english language.

Submissions will be reviewed. Accepted publications will appear as part 
of a book in the Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) series, bearing an 
ISSN/ISBN number.


Important Dates
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     * Deadline for paper submissions: April 29th, 2007
     * Notification of acceptance: May 28th, 2007
     * Camera-ready versions: June 26th, 2007
     * Workshop: September 25th, 2007


This event is supported by
     * KnowledgeWeb http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/
     * NeOn http://www.neon-project.de
     * X-Media http://www.x-media-project.de
     * Graduate college Information Management and Market Engineering 
http://www.ime.uni-karlsruhe.de/
     * SmartWeb http://www.smartweb-project.de/

Please address all questions to the workshop organizers under 
hitzler@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de or sure@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

Received on Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:14:27 UTC