2nd Call For Papers - WAODS at IEEE/ACM CSTST'08

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First IEEE/ACM Workshop on Applied Ontologies in Distributed Systems  
(WAODS)
in conjunction with CSTST'08, sponsored by IEEE and in cooperation  
with ACM SigAPP.fr
October 26--30, 2008, Cergy Pontoise, France

Ontologies are becoming widespread in several and disconnected  
domains. Their usage lead to new software architectures, especially in  
the field of distributed systems. It is however difficult to measure  
the impact of the use of ontologies in those systems.
Obviously, feed backs from innovative software driven by knowledge  
management systems are mandatory for a better comprehension on how  
ontologies are used in real use case (how does ontologies perform in  
practice ? What is the benefit for the software architect using them ?  
What is the benefit for the user ? What are their limitations ? What  
are the drawbacks of using ontologies, rules for special domains etc.).

WAODS is a unique chance to make people interested in knowledge-based  
systems meet, from theoretical aspects to applied research project.

WAODS solicits research submissions on all topics related to  
ontologies in distributed systems, including but not limited to the  
following list:
- Knowledge Based Systems (KBS)
- Use cases and feed backs involving domain ontologies
- Ontologies integration
- Knowledge Engineering
- Rule based applications
- Common mistakes in ontologies design
- Interoperability and ontologies
- Semantic web and ontologies deployments
- Edition tools for ontologies
- Verification tools for ontologies
- Knowledge Management in distributed systems
- KBS in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Semantic information retrieval
- Ontologies in SAO and Web Services
- Web 3.0 ("Web 2.0 + ontologies")
- Ontologies and computer supported collaborative work
- Ontologies in e-commerce, e-government
- Ontologies in e-learning and e-science
- Ontologies and security
- Ontologies and Social Networks
- Ontologies in the Enterprise
- Evaluation of KBS
- Querying of KBS
- Communities in ontologies driven information systems
- Ontologies and Content Management Systems (CMS)
- Implementation issues for OWL and SWRL


Workshop co-chairs:
Dr. Christophe Gravier, Jean Monnet University of Saint-Etienne, France
Dr. Jacques Fayolle, Jean Monnet University of Saint-Etienne, France
Dr. Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Manchester, UK

Workshop Program committee:
Dr. Cuzzocrea Alfredo, University of Calabria, Italy
Dr. Pokorny Jaroslav, FEE CTU Prague, Prague
Dr. Kosch Harald, University of Passau, Germany
Dr. Martin O'Connor, Stanford University, USA
Dr. Vassilios Peristeras, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
Dr. Thierry Villemur, LAAS CNRS, France

Important dates:
Paper Submission: June 15, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2008
Camera-ready Version: September 17, 2008
Conference Dates: October 26--30, 2008

Submission Guidelines:
Full paper submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 6 pages.
Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 independent reviewers  
of the PC.
At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.

The papers must be uploaded using the online system provided at the  
workshop website: http://waods.istase.fr/openconf/openconf.php

The conference Proceedings will be indexed by ACM Digital Libraries  
and published with an ISBN.

Contact:
For more informations, please visit the workshop website : http://waods.istase.fr 
  or contact the workshop chairs at waods08@gmail.com

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