2nd CfP: Applications of Logic Programming in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services (ALPSWS2006)

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************************ 2nd Call for Papers **************************
                       International Workshop on
                   Applications of Logic Programming
            in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services
                              (ALPSWS2006)
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co-located with the

    International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP2006),
    part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC2006),
    Seattle, Washington, August 10 - 22, 2006

          http://www.deri.at/events/workshops/alpsws2006

Description of the Workshop Topic:
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The advent of the Semantic Web promises machine readable semantics
and a machine-processable next Generation of the Web. The first step
in this direction is the annotation of static data on the Web by machine
processable information about knowledge and its structure by means of
Ontologies. The next step in this direction is the annotation of dynamic
applications and services invocable over the Web in order to facilitate
automation of discovery, selection and composition of semantically 
described services and data sources on the Web by intelligent methods, 
which is called Semantic Web Services. Many workshops and conferences 
were dedicated to these promising areas mostly with generic topics and 
bringing together people from a widespread variety of research fields 
with different understandings of the topic. The plethora of these 
workshops and conferences makes it hard to keep track of the various 
approaches of a particular technology such as declarative logic 
programming in our case.

In this workshop we want to advance the applications of Logic 
Programming as a paradigm for declarative knowledge representation and 
reasoning for the Web. The idea is to bring together the impressive body 
of work related to applications of LP to Semantic Web and Semantic Web 
Services. This brings the following major benefits:

     *  Bringing together people from different sub-disciplines of LP and
        focus on technological solutions and applications from LP to the
        problems of the Web.

     *  Promoting further research in this interesting application field.


Topics
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Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

     * Logic Programming based approaches for reasoning about Semantic
       Web languages such as RDF, RDFS, WSML, OWL, OWL-S, RuleML
     * Logic Programming based rule languages for the Semantic Web
     * Ontology Modeling and Mediation using Logic Programming
     * Deductive query answering in a Semantic Web Context
     * Reasoning over large-scale Ontologies
     * Combinations of Logic Programming and Description Logics
     * Modeling of and Reasoning about Web Services
     * Applications of Reasoning about actions and dynamics in the
       context of Web Services Discovery and Composition
     * Interactions of Logic Programming with other technologies such as
       agents, constraint programming, etc. in a (Semantic) Web context
     * Applications, use cases, experimental results and benchmarks
     * Extensions of Logic Programming engines for Semantic Web
       applications
     * Paraconsistent reasoning on the (Semantic) Web


Important Dates
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     * 12 May 2006, Submission of papers
     * 9 June 2006, Notification of acceptance
     * 23 June 2006, Camera-ready versions due
     * 16 August 2006, Workshop

Submission Format
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Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in 
English, following the LNCS format. Papers must not exceed 16 pages.

Besides full papers, we also encourage short paper submissions of up to
6 pages which present preliminary results, system descriptions or 
practical real-world use cases and implementations.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee. Papers must be submitted electronically in either PDF 
(preferred) or postscript format. For paper submission we use the 
EasyChair conference management system:

      http://www.easychair.org/ALPSWS2006/

For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the 
workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be 
scheduled in the workshop program. The best papers in the workshop will 
be published in a dedicated section of a special issue on 'Logic 
Programming and the Web' in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic 
Programming (TPLP), see

      http://www.dsi.unive.it/~tplp/

More information on the venue, registration, hotels, and related events 
will be available at the conference web site.

Workshop Organization
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The workshop deals with the area that is the intersection of Semantic 
Web and Logic Programming. The workshop will be organized in part around 
talks presenting research results in this area selected from the 
accepted submissions. Another important part of the workshop will be to 
identify challenges and open problems in this area and provide an 
opportunity for new ideas and initiatives to bubble up and get the 
attention they deserve.

In order to facilitate and enable a rich interaction environment a part 
of the workshop will be dedicated towards discussion using the 
open-space methodology. Open-space methodology facilities and enables 
effective on site agenda building and execution.

The co-organizers of the workshop have successfully deployed open-space
agenda building in scientific workshops in the past - e.g., the 
Semantics in P2P and Grid Computing Workshops at the World Wide Web 
Conference 2004 and the Friend of a Friend Workshop in Galway, 2004.

There the workshop and especially the way the agenda was built in
interaction with the audience, enabled new initiatives to develop and
had impact on the future of these fields. We hope to achieve the same
within this workshop and to reconnect the Semantic Web and Logic 
Programming field.

We further plan to set up an online platform to exchange information and
to keep the discussion alive even after the workshop.

Organizing Committee
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     * Axel Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid
     * Stefan Decker, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
     * Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas
     * Jos de Bruijn, DERI, Leopold-Franzens Universitaet Innsbruck

Program Committee
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     * Jürgen Angele, Ontoprise GmbH
     * Chitta Baral, Arizona State University
     * Robert Baumgartner, Lixto Software GmbH
     * Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University
     * Francois Bry, Ludwig Maximilians University
     * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology
     * Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlruhe
     * Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria
     * Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto
     * David Pearce, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
     * Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology
     * Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft
     * Andy Seaborne, HP
     * Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology
     * Adrian Walker, Reengineering
     * Guizhen Yang, SRI

-- 
Dr. Axel Polleres
email: axel@polleres.net  url: http://www.polleres.net/

Received on Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:54:54 UTC