- From: Jos de Bruijn <jos.de-bruijn@deri.ie>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:36:57 +0200
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** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. ** Call for Participation - first European Semantic Web Symposium ESWS2004 - 10-12 May 2004, Crete, Greece http://www.esws2004.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On-line registration is open until May 7th 2004 at http://www.esws2004.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's web via the exploitation of machine-processable meta data. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, accompanied with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together an incredibly large network of human knowledge and will complement it with machine processability. Various automated services will help the user achieve goals by accessing and providing information in machine-understandable form. This process may ultimately create extremely knowledgeable systems with various specialized reasoning services systems. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Human Language Technology, Machine Learning, Databases, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision. In the European context, the 6th framework programme has demonstrated the EU's commitment to this technology area and a number of exciting new projects in the Semantic Web area have been launched, aggregated in the SDK project cluster - see http://www.sdk-cluster.org/ for further details. A tutorial programme, based around these projects, offers the opportunity to get up to speed with European and global developments in this exciting new area. All 6th framework projects, as well as other leading projects, in the Semantic Web area will be represented with posters. The conference will be co-located with the OntoWeb thematic network seminar and the Knowledge Web network of excellence meeting – see http://www.ontoweb.org/ and http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/ for further details of OntoWeb and Knowledge Web events, respectively. CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST AND AREA KEYWORDS Conference topics include: • Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotation of Web Data • (Semi-)automatic ontology learning and metadata generation (Including HLT and machine learning approaches) • Ontology Management (creation, merging, linking, mediation and reconciliation) • Semantic Web Services (service description, discovery, invocation, composition) • Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management • Data Semantics • Database Technologies for the Semantic Web • Semantic Knowledge Portals • Semantic Brokering • Semantic Interoperability • Semantic Web Mining • Semantic Web Inference Schemes • Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights • Semantic Web for e-Business and e-Learning • Semantic Searching and Querying • Visualization and modelling ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Academic track: Dieter Fensel (DERI, Austria and Ireland), Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Tutorial programme: John Davies (BT, UK) Industrial track & Demo chair: Christoph Bussler (DERI, Ireland) Local arrangements: Jos de Bruijn (DERI, Austria), Martin Doerr (ICS-FORTH, Greece) Looking forward to seeing you in Crete! On behalf of the Organizing committee, Jos de Bruijn -- Jos de Bruijn, http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~c703239/ +43 512 507 6475 jos.de-bruijn@deri.ie Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) University of Innsbruck, http://www.deri.at/
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