- From: Jeff Z. Pan <jpan@csd.abdn.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:21:40 -0000 (GMT)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Apologies for cross-posting! ************************************************************************ * * PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS * Submission deadline: Mar 12, 2007 * * 3rd Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering - SWESE 2007 * * * located at the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007) * June 6th or 7th, 2007 * Innsbruck, Austria * ************************************************************************ Workshop Description The advent of the World Wide Web has led many corporations to web-enable their business applications and to the adoption of web service standards in middleware platforms. Marking a turning point in the evolution of the Web, the Semantic Web is expected to provide more benefits to software engineering. Over the past five years there have been a number of attempts to bring together languages and tools, such as the Unified Modelling Language (UML), developed for Software Engineering, with Semantic Web languages such as RDF and OWL. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to investigate potential benefits. A related international standardisation activity is OMG's Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), which was formally adopted in October 2006. It has been argued that the advantages of Semantic Web Technologies in software engineering include reusability and extensibility of data models, improvements in data quality, and discovery and automated execution of workflows. According to SETF's note "A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers" (http://www.w3.org/TR/sw-oosd-primer/), the Semantic Web can serve as a platform on which domain models can be created, shared and reused. However, are there any other potential benefits related to the reversal of this approach and the use of Semantic Web concepts in the field of Software Engineering? Could the Web-based, semantically rich formality of OWL be combined with emerging model driven development tools such as the Eclipse Modelling Framework to provide some badly needed improvements in both the process and product of software development activities? What is it about the amalgamation of OWL, UML and the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) that could make a difference? Certainly, there appear to be a number of strong arguments in favour of this approach but consensus on the best way forward, or if there is indeed a way forward at all has not yet formed. This workshop seeks to build on prior events that have begun to explore and evaluate this important area. The workshop organisers believe that the informal nature of the workshop, located at the major event on the Semantic Web, will aid to further exchange between practitioners and researchers working on these and other issues related to Semantic Web enabled software engineering by providing a forum for discussing the major challenges of the area and the different approach being taken to resolve them. In fact, the first two SWESE workshops at ISWC2005 and ISWC2006 turned out to be huge successes, with more than 50 participants in SWESE2005 and more than 60 in SWESE2006. Intended Audience While the intended audience for this workshop includes those with experience or interest in Semantic Web languages and tools, it is also crucial to have participation by those with expertise in other areas such as Automatic Software Engineering, Software Engineering, OO/UML/MDA, Semantic Web, and Software/legacy Modernization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Visions for Semantic Web driven software engineering - Tools developed or being developed for software engineering using SW languages - Integration or application development projects combining Software Engineering techniques and Semantic Web tools or languages - Lessons learned in Automatic Software Engineering or KBSE applicable to SW based SE - Shortcomings of the Semantic Web with respect to Software Engineering - Uses, extensions and/or issues with ODM - Visions for SW driven software modernization - Integration of UML, OO programming languages and Semantic Web languages - Integration of formal methods and Semantic Web languages - Software specification and Semantic Web languages - Ontologies for software engineering - Component discovery and ontologies - Feature modelling and ontologies - Ontology-based reasoning for software engineering - Semantic annotations in software engineering - Ontology-Driven Architecture: How to introduce Semantic Web technology into mainstream development processes Workshop Format and Attendance This will be an all day workshop a poster session and technical talks discussing competing visions for Semantic Web enabled software engineering (final format will be dependent on submissions; keynotes and panel are pending; a tutorial may also be included). This workshop is open to all members of the ISWC community, as well as other communities identified in the Intended Audience discussion above. Although submission of a paper is not a requirement for attendance at the workshop, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper will be given priority for registration. We encourage those who plan to attend this workshop, to register early in order to help conference organisers with their planning as well as insure that the workshop is not cancelled do to projected poor attendance. Organizing Committee - Elisa F. Kendall, Sandpiper Software - Evan Wallace, NIST - Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen (contact) - Phil Tetlow, IBM - Marwan Sabbouh, MITRE - Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI at University of Karlsruhe Program Committee (available soon) Submissions and Publication We invite three forms of submission to this workshop: Full papers Short position papers Posters Format required for submissions: Technical papers shall be up to 15 pages length, position papers 5 pages. The workshop content will be available for publication in separate ESWC2007 workshop proceedings. Please use the Springer's LNCS format for accepted papers. Complete details on this format are available at Springeronline. http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0, 00.html Technical papers will be peer reviewed by a group of experts representing a cross-section of fields relevant to Semantic Web enabled software engineering. Publication: All accepted papers will be published online as part of the workshop proceedings. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their papers for a special issue of a major Semantic Web journal. [NB: the best papers in SWESE2005 are to be published in the Journal of Web Semantics, while those in SWESE2006 are invited to submit to the Journal of Data Semantics.] Important Dates Submission deadline: March 12, 2007 Acceptance notification: April 4, 2007 Camera-ready deadline: April 24, 2007 Workshop dates: June 6-7, 2007
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