- From: Mari Carmen Suárez de Figueroa Baonza <mcsuarez@fi.upm.es>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:49:48 +0100
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[Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] =============================================================================================== Special Session on Intelligent Components producing and consuming Knowledge and Data (SS4-ICP) 11th Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2013) Salamanca, 22nd-24th May, 2013 http://www.paams.net/special-sessions/SS4-ICP =============================================================================================== * Motivation* Intelligent components, by which we mean agents, processes and services, are characterised by complex decision making in order to achieve some objectives. Usually this activity is based on knowledge about the agents themselves, the environment in which they are situated and on the communication patterns they engage in. Often the knowledge needed to make complex decisions is owned by the agent, however with novel models of interactions especially within open environments, this knowledge needs to be shared in order to support opportunistic collaboration between autonomous disparate entities. Ontologies play a pivotal role in enabling agents to share knowledge. The Linked Data initiative has spun a plethora of datasets that are published and accessed on the Web and whose content is formally captured by schemas and ontologies, thus promoting the ability to link data from diverse domains. The ability to integrate and perform some form of analysis over this data is becoming increasingly important in applications that make use of data and knowledge in order to achieve a given task. Open environments like the web require the ability to share data and knowledge in a seamless opportunistic fashion with very little or no assumption on the way the content is modelled and represented. The only assumption is that knowledge and data are represented according to some common format, but their content and the constraints on their use are not assumed to be known a priori. Two crucial questions arise given the context we outlined above: (1) “How can semantics help to represent processes and data?” and (2) “How can the use of semantics (knowledge and data) support intelligent decision making especially when little is known of the environment and/or other components?”. This special session aims at discussing the synergy between semantic technologies, including linked data, and intelligent software components (agents and processes/services). * Topics* Topics of interest span a wide spectrum in both theory and practice of ontology development methodologies and guidelines, knowledge management, linked data creation, data validation, context-aware intelligent agents, mobile agents, multi-agent systems, collaboration and cooperation, information retrieval agent communities, knowledge enabled services, recommender systems, and so on. The topics of submissions to this special session are not strictly limited but should primarily focus on: - Agent-based Linked (Open) Data - Ontologies and agents for specific areas and domains - Ontology-based multi-agent systems - Ontology engineering for open agent environments - Ontology integration (mapping, matching, alignment, merging) - Ontology reuse methods and approaches - Ontology search and repositories - Crawling, caching and querying Linked Data - Evaluation of semantic technologies and agents - Languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing semantic data - Guidelines, methods, and tools for Linked Data engineering and their use in agent systems - Semantic-aware intelligent agents/processes/services - Technologies for the Semantic Web and for Linked Data, including languages, tools and infrastructures for knowledge representation and rational agents * Important dates * **Extended submission deadline: 20th January, 2013** Notification of acceptance: 10th February, 2013 Camera ready submission deadline: 20th February, 2013 * Contributions * All papers should be written in English and must be formatted according to the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing Series Springer template, with a maximum length of 8 pages in length, including figures and references for the PAAMS 2013 Special Sessions. This template can be downloaded here: - Microsoft Word Format (http://www.paams.net/sites/default/files/word.zip) - Latex Format (http://www.paams.net/sites/default/files/latex.zip) All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the PAAMS 2013 conference management system for special sessions (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paams13ss). At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the special session to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag. * Chairs * - Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Ontology Engineering Group (OEG), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool * Program Committee (to be completed) * - Sonia Bergamaschi, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy - Stefan Decker, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland - Mariano Fernández-López, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Spain - Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy - Massimo Paolucci, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany - Terry Payne, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom - Carlos Pedrinaci, Open University, United Kingdom - Murat Sensoy, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom - Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy - Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France - Boris Villazón-Terrazas, iSOCO, Spain -- ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa Assistant Professor Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial Facultad de Informática Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo, s/n Boadilla del Monte - 28660 Madrid Phone: (+34) 91 336 36 72 Fax: (+34) 91 352 48 19 e-mail: mcsuarez@fi.upm.es Office: 3205 ----------------------------------------------
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