- From: Akiko Inaba <ina@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp>
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:30:30 +0900
- To: ina@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
TWO WEEK EXTENSION TO ISWC2004 SUBMISSION DEADLINE In response to numerous requests, the ISWC2004 Research Track and Industrial Track submission deadlines have been extended to Friday April 30 (11:59pm Hawaii Time). 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004) Sunday, November 7 -- Thursday, November 11, 2004 Hiroshima Prince Hotel, Hiroshima, Japan http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/ The vision of the Semantic Web is to make the contents of the Web unambiguously computer interpretable, enabling automation of a diversity of tasks currently performed by human beings. The goal of providing semantics and automated reasoning capabilities for the Web draws upon research in a broad range of areas including Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software Engineering, Distributed Computing and Information Systems. Contributions to date have included languages for semantic annotation of Web documents, automated reasoning capabilities for Web languages, ontologies, query and view languages, semantic translation of Web contents, semantic integration middleware, technologies and principles for building multi-agent and Grid systems, semantic interoperation of programs and devices, technologies and principles for describing, searching and composing Web Services, and more. The 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004) follows on the success of previous conferences and workshops in Sanibel Island, USA in 2003 (http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org), Sardinia, Italy in 2002 (http://iswc2002.semanticweb.org), and Stanford, USA in 2001 (http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/). The organizing committee solicits research submissions for the main research track of the conference, as well as for the accompanying industrial and posters track: - research track (http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/CF/researchTrack.php) - industrial track (http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/CF/industrialTrack.php) - posters track (http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/CF/posterTrack.php) ISWC2004 also encourages the submission of proposals for workshops and tutorials, and system demonstrations. Please see the ISWC2004 Web site for pertinent details. RESEARCH TRACK SUBMISSIONS -------------------------- The research track of ISWC2004 solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, empirical and application-related aspects of the Semantic Web. Papers must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web. Topics include but are not limited to the following: - Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Data - Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation) - Large Scale Knowledge Management - Data Semantics - Database Technologies for the Semantic Web - Semantic Web Middleware - Knowledge Portals - Tools and Methodologies for Web Agents - Peer to Peer Systems - Semantic Brokering - Semantic Integration and Interoperability - Semantic Web Mining - Semantic Web Services (description, discovery, invocation, composition) - Semantic Web Inference Schemes - Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights - Semantic Web for e-Business and e-Learning - Searching, Querying and Viewing the Semantic Web - User Interfaces - Visualization and Modelling INDUSTRIAL TRACK SUBMISSIONS ---------------------------- The industrial track of ISWC2004 invites the submission of original papers describing industrial advances in semantic technologies. The goals of the track are to help researchers understand the current status and needs of industry, as well as to allow industry to communicate recent advances. Papers must be designated as belonging to one of the following three broad areas: - Deployed applications, demonstrating the application of Semantic Web technologies to real-world problems and assessing their impact - Industrialization of technology, demonstrating successful efforts at an industrial scale on productization of research results and assessing their competitiveness and/or potential - Industrial innovations, describing novel applications of new capabilities and deployment plans in an industrial setting Please consult the Industrial Track Web page for further information. (http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/CF/industrialTrack.php) POSTER TRACK SUBMISSIONS ------------------------ To accommodate late-breaking results and work in progress, the poster track of ISWC2004 solicits contribution of poster submissions. Accepted posters will be presented in a separate plenary poster session during the conference and poster summaries will be distributed to conference attendees and published on the Web. Please consult the Poster Track Web page for further information. (http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/CF/posterTrack.php) IMPORTANT DATES (revised) -------------------------- Paper titles & abstracts - Research & Industrial Tracks: April 30 Paper submission - Research & Industrial Tracks: April 30 Acceptance notification - Research & Industrial Tracks: June 28 Camera-ready papers - Research & Industrial Tracks: September 6 Poster summary submissions - Poster Track: July 12 Poster acceptance notification: September 6 Camera-ready poster summaries - Poster Track: September 20 The deadlines for submissions are strict: no further extensions will be given. SUBMISSION DETAILS ------------------ Research and industrial track papers must be submitted electronically via the ISWC2004 Web page at http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/. Authors will be asked to designate whether they are submitting to the research paper track, the industrial track or the poster track. Papers must be submitted in either PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. Research and industrial track paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format f or Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers must be no longer than 15 pages in Springer LNCS format. Poster summaries must be no longer than 2 pages in IJCAI03 format (linked from: http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/format/). Over-length papers will be rejected. ISWC2004 will not accept any paper in the research or industrial track which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to mark up the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details will be provided on the conference Web page, at the time of acceptance. Please monitor http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/ for further submission details or changes. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE VENUE -------------------------- The conference will be held at the Hiroshima Prince Hotel, which is a four- star equivalent hotel located at the edge of a small peninsula facing the picturesque islands that dot the Seto Inland Sea. Hiroshima city has two World Heritages one of which is called Miyajima to which fast-boat transportation is available at the hotel port. Miyajima has one of the best Shrines to visit in Japan. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Chair: Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands) Program Co-Chairs: Sheila McIlraith (University of Toronto, Canada), Dimitris Plexousakis (University of Crete. Greece) Local Arrangements Chair: Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Industrial Track Co-Chairs: Jun-ichi Akahani (NTT Laboratories, Japan) Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant Inc., USA) Posters Chair: Jeremy Carroll (Hewlett-Packard Labs, UK) Tutorial Co-Chairs: Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine, USA) Takahira Yamaguchi (Shizuoka University, Japan) Workshop Chair: Natasha Noy (Stanford University, USA) Metadata Chair: Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Semantic Web Challenge Co-Chairs: Michael Klein (Vrije University, Netherlands) Ubbo Visser (University of Bremen, Germany) Software Demonstrations Chair: Stefan Decker (DERI, Ireland) Sponsor Co-Chairs: Akira Maeda (Hitachi Ltd., Japan) Massimo Paolucci (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Publicity Chair: Akiko Inaba (Osaka University, Japan)
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