Dear colleagues,
My apologies in advance for multiple postings.
All the best,
Paulo
CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd Workshop on
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw2007
In conjunction with the
6th International Semantic Web Conference
Busan - Korea
November 12, 2007
You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop
on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as
part of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in
November of 2007 in Busan - Korea.
ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research
on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning
Workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-
fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the
Semantic Web community.
Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for
realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of
current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty is extremely
limited. Recently, there has been a groundswell of demand for
uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and
developers.
This surge of interest creates a unique opening to bring together two
communities with a clear commonality of interest but little history
of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark
dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision.
Audience
The intended audience for this workshop includes the following
· Researchers in uncertainty reasoning technologies with
interest in Semantic Web and Web-related technologies
· Semantic web developers and researchers
· People in the knowledge representation community with interest
in the Semantic Web
· Ontology researchers and ontological engineers
· Web services researchers and developers with interest in the
Semantic Web
· Developers of tools designed to support semantic web
implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protege and Protege-OWL
developers
Topic List
We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the
general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web. Therefore, the
following list should be just an initial guide.
· Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web languages
to enable representation of uncertainty
· Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web
languages
· Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that
terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts
· Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem
of ontology mapping
· The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to
the Semantic Web
· Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete,
ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web
· The role of uncertainty as it relates to Web services
· Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to
improve interoperability among Web services
· Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in
the Semantic Web
· Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the
context of the Semantic Web
· Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing
and reasoning with uncertainty
· The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web
Important Dates
July 25, 2007 Paper submissions due
September 12, 2007 Paper acceptance notification
October 02, 2007 Camera-ready papers due
November 12, 2007 3rd Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the
Semantic Web
Submission Details
The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and
position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability
by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about
acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list,
originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since
all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require
that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered
participant at the ISWC 2007 Conference, and committed to attend the
URSW Workshop.
Submissions to the Workshop are only accepted in electronic format
and should be sent via the workshop’s submission site: http://
c4i.gmu.edu/ursw2007/files/submission.html#submit.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format, and follow the same
submission format used by the ISWC 2007 Conference, the Springer
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS),
available at http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/
0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html.
Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12
pages, including figures. Submissions exceeding this limit will not
be reviewed.
Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any
research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not
exceed 2 pages.
Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2007 conference,
papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have
already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or
another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop.
Presentation and Publication
All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop
and published in the workshop proceedings, which will be available as
a separate publication after the Conference. Authors of accepted
technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while
authors of accepted position papers will have a 5-minute slot to
share their ideas.
In addition, both technical and position papers will be published in
the URSW Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2007
Conference.
Program Committee
The program committee is as follows (in alphabetical order):
· Ameen Abu-Hanna - Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
· Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain.
· Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA.
· Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
· Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy.
· Ernesto Damiani - University of Milan, Italy.
· Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy.
· Francis Fung - Information Extraction & Transport, Inc., USA.
· Ivan Herman - C.W.I., the Netherlands. W3C Activity Lead for
the Semantic Web.
· Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA.
· Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA. Member of the W3C
Advisory Board.
· Thomas Lukasiewicz - Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy.
· Anders L. Madsen - Hugin Expert A/S, Denmark.
· Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK.
· Bill McDaniel - DERI, Ireland.
· Matthias Nickles - Technical University of Munich, Germany.
· Leo Obrst - MITRE Corporation, USA.
· Yung Peng - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.
· Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA.
· Livia Predoiu - Universität Mannheim, Germany.
· Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK.
· Daniel Sánchez – University of Granada, Spain.
· Elie Sanchez - Université de La Méditerranée Aix-Marseille
II , France.
· Oreste Signore – Istituto di Scienza e Technologie
dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, Italy. Manager of the W3C Office in Italy.
· Nematollaah Shiri - Concordia University, Canada.
· Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.
· Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.
· Umberto Straccia - Istituto di Scienza e Technologie
dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, Italy.
· Heiner Stuckenschmidt - Universität Mannheim, Germany.
· Masami Takikawa - Cleverset, Inc., USA.
· Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech Republic.
Organizing Committee
The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order):
· Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain.
· Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA.
· Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy.
· Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy.
· Francis Fung - Information Extraction & Transport, Inc., USA.
· Thomas Lukasiewicz - Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy.
· Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK.
· Matthias Nickles - Technical University of Munich, Germany.
· Yung Peng - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.
· Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA.
· Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.
· Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech Republic.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Busan!
_______________________________
Dr. Paulo Cesar G. da Costa
Assistant Professor - C4I Center
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA - USA
http://mason.gmu.edu/~pcosta
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