- From: Akiko Inaba <ina@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:22:02 +0900
- To: ISWC2004_adv_e00@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp, ISWC2004_adv_e01@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
* APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE MORE THAN ONCE * ======================================================================== CALL FOR POSTERS DEADLINE: MONDAY JULY 12 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 conference comprises a research track, an industrial track and a poster track, as well as exhibitions, demos and other events. Deadlines for submissions of research and indutrial track papers has already passed. The organizing committee now solicits submission for the ISWC2004 poster track. Details of the solicitation can be found at: http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/CF/posters.php POSTER TRACK SUBMISSIONS -------------------------- The Poster Session at ISWC2004 is an opportunity for presenting late- breaking results, ongoing research projects, speculative or innovative work- in-progress. Posters are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems, completed work, or work in progress are all welcome. Posters are very appropriate for material which is not yet ready for a full paper submission. Authors submit a two page summary or extended abstracts for evaluation. This MUST clearly demonstrate a relevance to the Semantic Web. Submissions will be evaluated for acceptability by the reviewers. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Authors of full papers may submit poster summaries that emphasize "where next" with the research presented in the full paper. Such submissions can be made before or after notification concerning the related full paper, and are welcome whether the full paper is accepted or rejected. Rejected full papers will not automatically be considered for the poster track; a separate poster submission must be made. Each poster summary will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers from the Program Committee and the Industrial Track Committee. Any additional reviewers will be listed here. At least one of the poster authors must be present at the conference, and attend the poster session. Posters are intended to convey a scientific result or work-in-progress and are not intended as advertisements for software packages. The summaries of accepted posters will be given to all conference attendees and published on the conference web site. They will not be included in the proceedings. Topics for posters 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 IMPORTANT DATES (revised) -------------------------- 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 extensions will be given. SUBMISSION DETAILS ------------------ Submissions must consist of a camera-ready summary or extended abstract of the work to be described in the poster, not to exceed two (2) pages in IJCAI two- column format. All submissions must be made via the Poster Submissions page at the ISWC2004 Web Site (http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/submission/index_poster.php). Submissions must be in either PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) or PostScript. Contact Jeremy Carroll ( jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com ) if you have questions or experience problems with your submission. All submissions must be received by July 12, 2004. Submissions which are late, too long, or require substantial revision, will not be considered. Submissions must be in camera-ready format; gven the tight publication schedule, revisions after September 20, 2004 will not be feasible. 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. CONFERENCE 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 (Keio 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) --- Akiko Inaba ISIR, Osaka University 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047 E-mail: ina@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
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