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      4th Italian Semantic Web Workshop
SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES (SWAP)
 Dipartimento di Informatica, Universitą di Bari,
      Bari, Italy 18-20 December 2007

         http://www.swapconf.it/2007

Jointly organized by:
Dipartimento di Informatica, Universitą di Bari
SisInfLab (Dip. Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica), Politecnico di Bari


INTRODUCTION
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The Semantic Web is currently one of the most interesting and ambitious
challenges that the scientific and technological community is facing.
While great progresses have been made in terms of consolidation of base
philosophy, new issues, technologies and tools are emerging.

These issues include creating and managing Semantic Web content, making
semantics explicit in order to automatically integrate data from
different sources and to search for information based on its meaning
rather than its syntactic form. 

New and advanced methods, models, tools, and technologies for services
related to creation, access, retrieval, integration, and filtering of
Web content are being developed at the intersection of relevant
disciplines that are making the Semantic Web fly, such as Artificial
Intelligence, Databases, Distributed Computing, Multimedia Systems,
Natural Language Processing, and Human-Computer Interaction.

While applications that demonstrate the value of the Semantic Web
technologies are critically important, building applications that use
Semantic Web technologies is still a relatively new practice for most
software developers.
 
This workshop aims at creating the possibility for a meeting and a
fruitful debate among Italian and international researchers and
developers on Semantic Web, with a special focus on aspects which might
enable wide scale use of Semantic Web technologies.


AUDIENCE
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The workshop aims at giving an overview of work performed by the
(Italian) Semantic Web community, and aims to attract researchers,
developers and interested practitioners alike. 
Contributions and participants from other countries have been very
valuable for the past events, and are invited and very welcome. The
presentation language will be English.


TOPICS
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The workshop will cover theoretical, practical and implementation issues
on Semantic Web. The following is a partial list of topics of
interests:

* Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and e-learning
* Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing
Semantic Web data
* Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
* Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution
* Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
* Semantic Web middleware
* Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web
* Social networks based on Semantic Web technologies
* Semantic Web services
* Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Agents
* Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
* Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
* Semantic multimedia
* Semantics in P2P systems and grids
* Searching, querying, visualizing and interpreting the Semantic Web
* Evaluation of semantic Web techniques
* Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Data
* Large Scale Knowledge Management
* Data Semantics
* Knowledge Portals
* Semantic Brokering
* Semantic coordination, integration, matching and interoperability
* Semantic Web Mining
* Semantic Information Retrieval
* Visualization and Modeling
* Semantic Web Personalization
* Systems of collaborative annotation
* Systems of annotation extraction
* Applications of Semantic Web technologies
* Social aspects of distributed cooperative annotation
* Presentation and discussions of application scenarios
* Analysis of social online communities 
* Web 2.0 personalization
* Web 2.0 technologies for recommender systems
* Web 2.0 based ontology learning 
* Assistive technologies and the Semantic Web


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
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We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners in academia,
industry, government, and consulting. Accepted formats are Postscript
and PDF. Papers must be submitted electronically at the conference
website.

Accepted contributions will be published online in a volume of the CEUR
workshop proceedings, a publication series by Deutsche Bibliothek, ISSN
1613-0073, and in a book with ISBN Authors of accepted contributions
will be able to express their preference for 
an oral or poster presentation. 

Authors are invited to submit their manuscript in the LNCS/LNAI style.
Any further information concerning typesetting can be obtained directly
from the Springer-Verlag authors' section at:
www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html

The maximum length of a paper for SWAP is 10 pages.


IMPORTANT DATES 
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16 October 2007         Paper submission
15 November 2007        Acceptance/rejection notification
11 December 2007        Camera-ready
18 December 2007	Tutorial Day
19-20 December 2007	SWAP-2007 


LOCATION/REGISTRATION
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The event will take place at:
Department of Informatics, University of Bari.

Details about registration will be available at
the following URL:

http://www.swapconf.it/2007 


WORKSHOP LANGUAGE
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Official languages are English and Italian. However, abstracts, slides
and contributions must be in English.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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[SWAP series steering committee]
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento
Oreste Signore, W3C Office in Italy/CNR
Giovanni Tummarello, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway,
Ireland

[Workshop chair]
Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari

[Programme co-chairs]
Eugenio Di Sciascio, Technical University of Bari
Christian Morbidoni, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche
Heiko Stoermer, University of Trento

[Local Organization]
Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari
Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari
Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Bari
Leo Iaquinta, University of Bari
Pasquale Lops, University of Bari
Agnese Pinto, Technical University of Bari
Domenico Redavid, University of Bari
Michele Ruta, Technical University of Bari


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE [to be completed]
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Danny Ayers			- Independent
Roberto Basili		- University of Roma Tor Vergata
Sonia Bergamaschi		- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Silvana Castano		- University of Milano
Marco de Gemmis		- University of Bari
Tommaso Di Noia		- Technical University of Bari
Francesco Donini		- Universitą della Tuscia Viterbo
Floriana Esposito		- University of Bari
Aldo Gangemi		- LOA-CNR
Roberto Garcķa Gonzįlez	- Universitat de Lleida
Fausto Giunchiglia	- University of Trento
Francesco Guerra		- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Pasquale Lops		- University of Bari
Massimo Marchiori		- University of Padova
Massimo Martinelli	- ISTI-CNR
Daniel Olmedilla		- L3S Reseach Center and Hannover Univ.
Maria Teresa Pazienza	- University of Roma Tor Vergata
Valentina Presutti	- LOA-CNR
Paolo Romano		- National Cancer Research Inst. Genoa,IST
Leo Sauermann		- DFKI
Umberto Straccia		- ISTI-CNR
Giovanni Tummarello	- DERI, Galway, Ireland
Guido Vetere		- IBM Advanced Internet Technologies


CONTACT/INFO
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Email: swap2007@di.uniba.it

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