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MULTICONF-10 Call for papers

2009-11-21T11:22:53Z

MULTICONF-10 Call for papers

The 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10) (website: http://www.promoteresearch.org) will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10.

· International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10)

· International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10)

· International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10)

· International Conference on Computer Networks (CN-10)

· International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10)

· International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10)

· International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10)

· International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10)

· International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10)

· International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10)

We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.promoteresearch.org for more details.

Sincerely

James Eugene

Publicity committee

Last CFP Agent-Directed Simulation, April 12-14, 2010, Orlando, Florida

2009-11-20T17:46:25Z

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CALL FOR PAPERS and POSTERS
Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium (ADS'10)
Orlando, Florida, USA
April 12-14, 2010

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~oren/conf-org/ADS_2010/ADS-CFP.htm
Manuscript Submission: November 30, 2009.

Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation
International (SCS) in collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM.
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As part of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multi-conference (SpringSim'10)
http://www.scs.org/confernc/springsim/springsim10/springsim10.htm

the 2010 Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium is a premier platform to
explore all three aspects of the synergy of simulation and agent
technologies. Hence, it has a special place within simulation and
agent conferences, including agent-based (social) simulation
conferences. Therefore the ADS symposium fills a gap in the agent
community as well as the simulation community.

The purpose of the ADS symposium is to facilitate dissemination of the
most recent advancements in the theory, methodology, application, and
toolkits of agent-directed simulation. Agent-directed simulation is
comprehensive in the integration of agent and simulation technologies,
by including models that use agents to develop domain-specific
simulations, i.e., agent simulation (this is often referred to as
agent-based simulation -when other two important aspects are not
considered), and by also including the use of agent technology to
develop simulation techniques and toolkits that are subsequently
applied, either with or without agents.

Hence, agent-directed simulation consists of three distinct, yet
related areas that can be grouped under two categories as follows:

1. Simulation for Agents (agent simulation): simulation of agent
systems in engineering, human and social dynamics, military
applications etc.
2. Agents for Simulation (which has two aspects): agent-supported
simulation deals with the use of agents as a support facility to
enable computer assistance in problem solving or enhancing
cognitive capabilities; and agent-based simulation that focuses
on the use of agents for the generation of model behavior in a
simulation study.

Through the theme of agent-directed simulation, the symposium will
bring together agent technologies, tools, toolkits, platforms,
languages, methodologies, and applications in a pragmatic manner. In
this symposium, established researchers, educators, and students are
encouraged to come together and discuss the benefits of agent
technology in their use and application for simulation. It is a way
for people to discuss why and how they have used agent technology in
their simulations, and describe the benefit of having done so.

The theme of ADS'10 is based on the observation of the following
premises.

* The growth of new advanced distributed computing standards along
with the rapid rise of e-commerce are providing a new context that
acts as a critical driver for the development of next generation
systems. These standards revolve around service-oriented
technologies, pervasive computing, web-services, Grid, autonomic
computing, ambient intelligence etc. The supporting role that
intelligent agents play in the development of such systems is
becoming pervasive, and simulation plays a critical role in the
analysis and design of such systems.

* The use of emergent agent technologies at the organization,
interaction (e.g., coordination, negotiation, communication) and
agent levels (i.e. reasoning, autonomy) are expected to advance
the state of the art in various application technologies is
difficult. Using agent-supported simulation techniques for
testing complex agent systems is up and coming field.

* To facilitate bridging the gap between research and application,
there is a need for tools, agent programming languages, and
methodologies to analyze, design, and implement complex,
non-trivial agent-based simulations. Existing agent-based
simulation tools are still not mature enough to enable developing
agents with varying degrees cognitive and reasoning capabilities.

ADS'10 will provide a leading forum to bring together researchers and
practitioners from diverse simulation societies within computer science,
social sciences, engineering, business, education, human factors, and
systems engineering. The involvement of various agent-directed
simulation groups will enable the cross-fertilization of ideas and
development of new perspectives by fostering novel advanced solutions,
as well as enabling technologies for agent-directed simulation

AUTHOR GUIDE

* Technical papers provide a longer format for presenting experience
reports, research results, or descriptions of "work in progress".
They are limited to 8 pages.

* Short position papers are targeted at raising a question or framing
an issue for discussion during the symposium. Position papers are
limited to 3 pages.

* Poster presentations present an opportunity to present work in
progress and receive feedback from colleagues. A one page write-up
of the poster presentations will be included in the proceedings.

(For all, required font sizes are: min 10 pt for text and min 9 pt for
figures or references).

Papers should be submitted electronically to
http://www.softconf.com/scs/ADS10/ .
All papers will be subject to a peer-reviewing process by three program
committee members. (Please see the key dates listed below.)

FINAL PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All prospective authors, whose papers are accepted for inclusion in the
program, will be invited to submit their position or technical papers
to ADS'10. Accepted and registered papers will be published in the
conference proceedings by the SCS. In addition, the committee will
select a set of best papers. Authors of these papers will be encouraged to
submit appropriately expanded versions of these papers for journal
publication.

KEY DATES
Nov 30, 2009: Manuscript submission
Dec 30, 2009: Notification of acceptance
Jan 20, 2010: Full Camera-ready papers
Apr 12-14, 2010: ADS'10 Symposium

General Co-Chair
Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University
Tuncer Ören, University of Ottawa
Program Co-Chair
Gregory Madey, University of Notre Dame
Maarten Sierhuis, Carnegie Mellon University, NASA Ames Research Center
Yu Zhang, Trinity University

Two PhD positions in Knowledge & Data Engineering Group, University of Kassel

2009-11-20T12:41:26Z

The Hertie Chair of Knowledge and Data Engineering, University of
Kassel, Germany, opens two positions for

Research Assistants (Wiss. Mitarbeiter/in, BAT IIa).

Further information can be found at <http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/jobs>.

As the position requires at least basic knowlede of the German language,
the remainder of this mail will be in German. We apologise to all
non-German speakers.

An der Universität Kassel wird im Rahmen der hessischen Landes-Offensive
zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz (LOEWE) der
interdisziplinäre Forschungsschwerpunkt "Gestaltung technisch-sozialer
Vernetzung in situativen ubiquitären Systemen (VENUS)" eingerichtet.

Im Fachgebiet Wissensverarbeitung werden dafür zum 1. Januar 2010 auf
zunächst zwei Jahre die folgenden Stellen ausgeschrieben:

2 Stellen für wissenschaftliche(r) Mitarbeiter(in) (BAT IIa/TV-L E13)

Ziel des Schwerpunkts ist, die sozial akzeptable, ökonomisch sinnvolle
und rechtlich mögliche technische Gestaltung ubiquitärer Systeme unter
Berücksichtigung der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Technik, Nutzern und
sozialen Netzen zu erforschen.

Wir suchen hochmotivierte Mitarbeiter, die an der Schnittstelle von Data
Mining, Sozialer Netzwerkanalyse und Web 2.0 forschen möchten. Dafür
sind Kenntnisse in einem der Gebiete Data Mining, Web 2.0, Social
Network Analysis, Semantic Web sowie Programmierkenntnise von Vorteil.

Wenn Sie einen sehr guten Universitätsabschluss in Informatik,
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anstreben und an teamorientierter Forschungsarbeit auf internationalem
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Bewerbungsschluss ist der 26. November 2009. Die Universität Kassel ist
bestrebt, den Anteil an Frauen zu erhöhen und begrüßt deshalb besonders
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entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt berücksichtigt. Bitte richten Sie Ihre
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Filling the Gap between Semantic Web and Model Driven Engineering: The TwoUse Toolkit

2009-11-20T03:54:50Z

http://west.uni-koblenz.de/twouse

TwoUse Toolkit is an implementation of current OMG and W3C standards for developing ontology-based
software models and model-based OWL2 ontologies.

*For Model Driven Developers*

* Describe your UML Classes using OWL2 class descriptions.
* Semantically search for classes, properties and instances in your UML model.
* Model variability using OWL2 classes
* Extent software design patterns with OWL2 class descriptions
* Transform your graphical models to OWL2 functional syntax
* Make sense of your modeling by inference explanations
* Browse classes, subclasses, properties and individuals using the Class Hierarchy Viewer and
the Entity Browser.

*For OWL Ontology Engineers*

* Graphically model OWL2 ontologies and OWL2 safe rules using OMG UML Profile for OWL and UML
Profile for SWRL.
* Graphically model OWL2 ontologies and OWL2 Safe Rules using the OWL2 Graphical Editor.
* Graphically model and store ontology design patterns as templates.
* Transform your graphical models to OWL2 functional syntax
* Write and safe SPARQL queries using the SPARQL Editor with syntax highlight.
* Specify and safe OWL2 ontologies using the OWL2 functional syntax with syntax highlight.

And coming soon:

* Validate UML Class Diagrams
* Validate BPMN model refinements
* Design Domain Specific Languages
* Extent your metamodels with OWL2 class descriptions

* Specify ontology APIs using the Agogo Editor.
* Specify ontology data translations using the MBOTL Editor.
* Write queries using:
o the SAIQL plug-in
o SPARQL-DL Functional Syntax

*Try it today*

* Get Eclipse Classic on http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/
* Install TwoUse Toolkit from Update Site on
http://twouse.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/de.uniko.isweb.updatesite/
* Install the TopCased UML Editor from Update Site on
http://topcased-mm.gforge.enseeiht.fr/release/update-site3.5/
* Try the installed examples

*Examples, Documentation and More Information*

http://west.uni-koblenz.de/twouse

If you are interest in testing some of the coming soon functionalities, please contact us.

Fernando Silva Parreiras
parreiras@...
SIG Software Web
Institute for Web Science Technologies
University of Koblenz-Landau
Universitaetstrasse 1, B114
56070 Koblenz
+49 (0)261 287 2786
http://west.uni-koblenz.de

*Related Publications*

2009

Walter, Tobias; Ebert, Jürgen (2009): Combining DSLs and Ontologies using Metamodel Integration. In:
Domain-Specific Languages. Springer. Bd. 5658. S. 148-169.

Silva Parreiras, Fernando; Walter, Tobias; Staab, Steffen; Saathoff, Carsten; Franz, Thomas (2009):
APIs agogo: Automatic Generation of Ontology APIs. In: Poster & Demo Session, ESWC 2009.

Silva Parreiras, Fernando; Walter, Tobias; Staab, Steffen; Saathoff, Carsten; Franz, Thomas (2009):
APIs agogo: Automatic Generation of Ontology APIs. In: Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International
Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2009), September 14-16, 2009, Santa Clara, California, USA.
IEEE Computer Society.

Ren, Yuan; Gröner, Gerd; Lemcke, Jens; Rahmani, Tirdad; Friesen, Andreas; Zhao, Yuting; Pan, Jeff
Z.; Staab, Steffen (2009): Validating Process Refinement with Ontologies. In: Poster & Demo Session
ESWC 2009.

Ren, Yuan; Gröner, Gerd; Lemcke, Jens; Rahmani, Tirdad; Friesen, Andreas; Zhao, Yuting; Pan, Jeff
Z.; Staab, Steffen (2009): Validating Process Refinement with Ontologies. In: Int. Workshop on
Description Logics (DL).

Walter, Tobias; Silva Parreiras, Fernando; Staab, Steffen (2009): OntoDSL: An Ontology-Based
Framework for Domain-Specific Languages. In: ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on Model Driven
Engineering Languages and Systems, 12th International Conference, MODELS 2009. Springer. Bd. 5795.
S. 408-422.

Silva Parreiras, Fernando; Pan, Jeff. Z.; Assmann, Uwe (2009): Second Workshop on Transforming and
Weaving Ontologies and Model Driven Engineering (TWOMDE 2009) at MoDELS 2009, October 4th, Denver,
Colorado, USA. In: TWOMDE.

Silva Parreiras, Fernando; Pan, Jeff. Z.; Assmann, Uwe; Wende, Christian (2009): Model-Driven
Software Development with Ontologies. In: Tutorial at ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on
Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS 2009, October 4-9, 2009, Denver, Colorado, USA..

Gröner, Gerd; Staab, Steffen (2009): Modeling and Query Pattern for Process Retrieval in OWL. In:
Poster & Demo Session K-CAP 2009.

Walter, Tobias (2009): Combining Domain-Specific Languages and Ontology Technologies. In: MoDELS
Doctoral Symposium 2009.

Walter, Tobias; Ebert, Jürgen (2009): Combining ontology-enriched Domain-Specific Languages. In:
Proceedings of the of the Second Workshop on Transforming and Weaving Ontologies in Model Driven
Engineering (TWOMDE) at MoDELS.

Walter, Tobias; Miksa, Krzysztof; Kasztelnik, Marek; Sabina , Pawel (2009): Towards semantic
modelling of network physical devices. In: Proceedings of the of the Second Workshop on Transforming
and Weaving Ontologies in Model Driven Engineering (TWOMDE) at MoDELS.

Groener, Gerd; Staab, Steffen (2009): Modeling and Query Pattern for Process Retrieval in OWL. In:
Proceedings of 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). Nr. 5823.

Ren, Yuan; Groener, Gerd; Lemcke, Jens; Rahmani, Tirdad; Friesen, Andreas; Zhao, Yuting; Pan, Jeff
Z.; Staab, Steffen (2009): Validating Process Refinement with Ontologies. In: 5th International
Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE).

Jekjantuk, Nophadol; Groener, Gerd; Pan, Jeff Z. (2009): Reasoning in Metamodeling Enabled
Ontologies. In: Proc. of 6th Int. Workshop OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED).

2008

Silva Parreiras, Fernando; Staab, Steffen; Schenk, Simon; Winter, Andreas (2008): Model Driven
Specification of Ontology Translations. In: Lia, Qing; Spaccapietra, Stefano; Yu, Eric: Conceptual
Modeling - ER 2008, 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Barcelona, Spain, October
23-26, 2008, Proceedings. Springer. Nr. 5231. S. 484-497.

Silva Parreiras, Fernando; Staab, Steffen; Pan, Jeff. Z.; Miksa, Krzysztof ; Kühn, Harald; Zivkovic,
Srdjan; Tinella, Stefano; Assmann, Uwe; Henriksson, Jakob (2008): Semantics for Software Modeling.
In: Sheu, Phillip ; Yu, Heather; Ramamoorthy, C. V.; Joshi, Arvind K.; Zadeh, Lotfi A.: Semantic
Computing. IEEE Press/Wiley. S. 25.

Silva Parreiras, Fernando; Pan, Jeff. Z.; Assmann, Uwe; Henriksson, Jakob (2008): First Workshop on
Transforming and Weaving Ontologies and Model Driven Engineering (TWOMDE 2008) at MoDELS 2008, 28
September, Toulouse, France. In: TWOMDE.

Silva Parreiras, Fernando; Staab, Steffen; Winter, Andreas (2008): Improving Design Patterns by
Description Logics: A Use Case with Abstract Factory and Strategy. In: Kühne, Thomas; Reisig ,
Wolfgang; Steimann, Friedrich: Modellierung 2008, 12.-14. März 2008, Berlin. GI. Nr. 127.

Gröner, Gerd; Staab, Steffen; Winter, Andreas (2008): Graph Technology and Semantic Web in Reverse
Engineering - A Comparison -. In: Proceedings of ICPC 2008 Workshop: Semantic Technologies in System
Maintenance.

2007

Silva Parreiras, Fernando; Staab, Steffen; Winter, Andreas (2007): TwoUse: Integrating UML Models
and OWL Ontologies. Institut für Informatik, Universität Koblenz-Landau. Nr. 16/2007.
Arbeitsberichte aus dem Fachbereich Informatik.

Silva Parreiras, Fernando; Staab, Steffen; Winter, Andreas (2007): On Marrying Ontological and
Metamodeling Technical Spaces. In: Proceedings of the 6th joint meeting of the European Software
Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software
Engineering, 2007, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 3-7. ACM Press.

Call for Papers/Workshop Proposals Participantion (GPC-10, UIC-10, MTPP-10, ICA3PP-10, FC-10, SMPE-10, FutureTech-10, BodyNets-10)

2009-11-20T03:40:34Z

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** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. **
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Dear Colleague:

Please disseminate this message in your networks / subscribed lists.
We also take this chance to invite you contribute a paper / proposal
to these events. Thanks in advance.

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Call for Participation:
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1. Conference: IEEE SOCA 2009 (The IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications)
Web: http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/soca09
Place/Date: Taipei, Taiwan / December 14-15, 2009

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Call for Workshop Proposals
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1. Conference: GPC 2010 (The 5th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing)
Web: http://gpc2010.ndhu.edu.tw/
Place/Date: Hualien, Taiwan / May 10-14, 2010
Publication: LNCS, Springer
Proposal Due: 10 December, 2009
Contact: Prof. Shi-Jim Yen (sjyen@... ); Prof. Robert C. Hsu (chh@...)

2. Conference: UIC 2010 (The 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence Computing)
Place/Date: Xian, China / October 26-29, 2010
Publication: IEEE CS (EI indexed, IEEE Digital library)
Proposal Due: January 31, 2010
Contact: Prof. Robert C. Hsu (chh@...); Prof. Mieso Denko (denko@...)

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Call for Research Papers
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1. Conference: SMPE 2010 (The Fourth International Symposium on Security and Multimodality in Pervasive Environments)
Web: http://www.ftrg.org/smpe2010/
Place/Date: Perth, Australia / April 20-23, 2010
Publication: IEEE CS (EI indexed, IEEE Digital library)
Submission Due: November 25, 2009

2. Conference: ICA3PP 2010 (The 10th International Conference on Algorithms and Architecture for Parallel Processing)
Web: http://cse.stfx.ca/~ica3pp2010/
Place/Date: Busan, Korea / May 21-23, 2010
Publication: LNCS, Springer (EI Indexed, DBLP)
Submission Due: November 30, 2009

3. Conference: FutureTech 2010 (The 5th International Cnoference on Future Information Technology)
Web: http://www.ftrg.org/futuretech2010/
Place/Date: Busan, Korea / May 21-23, 2010
Publication: IEEE CS (EI indexed, IEEE Digital library)
Submission Due: November 30, 2009

4. Conference: ISA 2010 (The 4th International Conference on Information Security and Assurance)
UCMA 2010 (The 1st International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Multimedia Applications)
ACN 2010 (The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Communication and Networking)
AST 2010 (The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology)
Web: http://www.sersc.org/ISA2010/
http://www.sersc.org/UCMA2010/
http://www.sersc.org/ACN2010/
http://www.sersc.org/AST2010/
Place/Date: Hyatt Regency Kolkata, Kolkata, India/ June 3-5, 2010
Publication: LNCS/CCIS, Springer (EI Indexed)
Submission Due: December 10, 2009

5. Conference: IET FC 2010 (The IET International Conference on Frontier Computing)
Web: http://fc2010.cs.pu.edu.tw/
Place/Date: Taichung, Taiwan / July 19-21, 2010
Publication: IET Press (EI Indexed, IEEE Digital library)
Submission Due: December 25, 2009

6. Conference: MTPP 2010 (The 2nd Russia-Taiwan Symposium on Methods and Tools of Parallel Programming Multicomputers)
Web: http://grid.chu.edu.tw/mtpp2010/
Place/Date: Vladivostok, Russia / May 17-19, 2010
Publication: LNCS, Springer (EI Indexed, DBLP)
Submission Due: January 10, 2010

7. Conference: BodyNets 2010 (The Fifth International Conference on Body Area Networks)
Web: http://www.bodynets.org/
Place/Date: Corfu Island, Greece / Spetember 10-12, 2010
Publication: LNICST (EI indexed, DBLP)
Submission Due: March 22, 2010

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Journal Special Issues:
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1. Journal: IEEE Transactions on CI and AI in Games
Theme: Computational Intelligence and AI in Economic and Financial Games
Guest editors: Han La Poutre, Edward Tsang, Athanasios V.Vasilakos
Submission Due: December 15 2009
Publication: Summer/Autumn 2010

2. Journal: International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
Theme: Cloud Computing: Technologies and Services
Guest editors: Manish Parashar, Chung-Ming Huang, Jiannong Cao, Rajkumar Buyya, Robert C. H. Hsu
Submission Due: 31 January, 2010

Re: data.semanticweb.org down?

2009-11-20T02:45:19Z

All DERI-hosted services should be up and running now again. Please ping me
in case you encounter some unexpected behaviour or you find one of our sites
or services not online as expected and please do accept our apologies for
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> From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@...>
> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:49:17 +0100
> To: Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@...>
> Cc: Semantic Web community <semantic-web@...>, Linked Data community
> <public-lod@...>
> Subject: Re: data.semanticweb.org down?
> Resent-From: Linked Data community <public-lod@...>
> Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:49:54 +0000
>
> On 18 Nov 2009, at 15:37, Juan Sequeda wrote:
>> Is this because of the rain problems DERI is having?
>
> Yes. The DERI datacenter is powered down due to local flooding. This
> affects many DERI-hosted services, including sindice.com, sig.ma,
> data.semanticweb.org, pedantic-web.org, deri.ie and others.
>
> Hopefully everything will be up again in the next few hours, or
> tomorrow morning at the latest.
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
>
>>
>> Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student
>> Dept. of Computer Sciences
>> The University of Texas at Austin
>> www.juansequeda.com
>> www.semanticwebaustin.org
>
>

Call for Papers: IEEE International Conference on Web Services (2010)

2009-11-19T19:09:18Z

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and
students. Thanks!

ICWS 2010 Submission Site is Open:
http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2010/submission.html

::::::::::::::::::::::::: CALL FOR PAPERS :::::::::::::::::::::::::
The 8th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2010)
http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2010/ or http://icws.org
July 5-10, 2010, Miami, FL, USA

Theme: Innovations for Web-based Services

Sponsored by:
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing
(http://tab.computer.org/tcsc) &
Services Society (http://www.servicessociety.org) (Approval Pending)

*************************************** NEWS **********************
Call For Papers: IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC,
http://computer.org/tsc). Special theme issues from ICWS 2010 will be
published in TSC.

Call For Papers: International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR,
http://www.servicescomputing.org/jwsr/) has been indexed by SCI-E and EI.
According to Thomson Scientific, JWSR is listed in the 2008 Journal Citation
Report with an Impact Factor of 1.200. The journal ranks #47 of 99 in the
Computer Science, Information Systems and ranks #37 of 86 in Computer
Science, Software Engineering.

Call For papers: International Journal of Business Process Integration and
Management (IJBPIM, http://ijbpim.servicescomputing.org/)
********************************************************************

ICWS 2010 organizing committee invites you to participate in the eighth
edition of ICWS, to be held in Miami, FL, USA.

ICWS has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry
practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of
the art and practice of Web services, identify emerging research topics, and
define the future of Web-based services. ICWS 2010 is sponsored by IEEE
Computer Society. It is the eighth year of gathering to formally explore
"Services" Science and Technology in the field of Services Computing, which
was formally promoted by IEEE Computer Society since 2003.

ICWS 2010 will be co-located with the 6th IEEE 2010 World Congress on
Services (SERVICES 2010), the 3rd IEEE 2010 International Conference on
Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2010), and the 7th IEEE 2010 International Conference
on Services Computing (SCC 2010) to grow itself to continute to be the most
prestigious professional conference dedicated to Web services.

The technical program of ICWS 2010 will include a refereed research track,
an application and industry track, a work-in-progress track, and a poster
track. The research track will highlight foundational work that strives to
push beyond the limits of existing Web services platforms and products,
including experimental efforts, innovative systems and investigations that
identify weaknesses in the existing Web services models.

The ICWS 2010 research track seeks original, UNPUBLISHED research papers
reporting substantive new work in various aspects of Web services. Research
papers must properly cite related work and clearly indicate their
contributions to the field of Web services. All topics relevant to Web
services are of interest, but the conference program committee particularly
encourages submissions related to the following aspects of Web services:

Foundations of Web Services

* Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Evolutions
* Models, methodologies, and tools (including analysis, design,
modeling, and composition)
* Publishing, discovery, and selection (including in mobile
settings)
* Validation and testing (including risk assessment and tracking)
* Management and governance (including monitoring, QoS, privacy,
trust)
* Formal methods (including modeling and specification, data and
process semantics, type systems, security, QoS, and other properties)
* Standards and implementation and deployment technologies

Web-based Services

* Web 2.0 and Web X.0 concepts in Web services settings
* Software as a Service (SaaS)
* Service As Software
* Cloud Computing
* Technologies for building and operating massive data centers
(including middleware)

Web Services Applications beyond Web

* Applications (including mobile, scientific, Grid and utility,
autonomic, and embedded computing)
* Business process management (including business protocols,
business intelligence, service level agreements, and business licensing
models)

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program
committee members. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected
papers published in the ICWS 2010 will be invited through a fast review
channel for potential publication in the IEEE Transactions on Services
Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) and
the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management
(IJBPIM). Both the ICWS Proceedings and JWSR are included in EI Compendex.
JWSR is also indexed in SCI-E.

Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 10 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages
and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template.
Unformatted papers and papers beyond 10 pages will not be reviewed.
Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required.
Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel
proposals, tutorial proposals, workshop proposals, and review process can be
found at http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2010/. At least one author of
each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present
the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be
granted at ICWS 2010. The first author of the best student paper must be a
full-time student.
If your paper is application or solution oriented, you can consider
submitting it to ICWS 2010 Applications and Industry Track. Manuscripts
submitted to the Research Track focusing on application or solution
descriptions may be recommended to the Applications and Industry Track for
further consideration if the session slots are available. Submitted papers
with novel ideas but not accepted by the Research Track and Applications and
Industry Track may also be recommended for potential consideration by the
chairs of the Work-in-Progress Track and Poster Track of ICWS 2010, and
other tracks and workshops of SERVICES 2010.

ICWS Program Committee requires that authors adopt the keywords and index
terms in Services Computing "M" from the IEEE CS taxonomy
(computer.org/tsc).

Important Dates:
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Abstract Submission Deadline: Feb. 15, 2010
Paper Submission Due Date: Feb. 15, 2010
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 15, 2010
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of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to
others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper
under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge that
access provides. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program
committees should be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same
manner. The Conference Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere
to this practice.

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for the oral presentations and discussions of all accepted papers. An
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accepting an invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the
meeting to deliver the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the
time of submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the
program chair should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute
arrangements should be made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for
the Conference to require advance registration together with the submission
of the final manuscript.

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ESWC2010: 2nd Call for Papers - Note separate research tracks

2009-11-19T02:35:15Z

[sorry for cross posting]

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ESWC2010: CALL FOR PAPERS

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7th Extended Semantic Web Conference | ESWC 2010
30 May - 3 June 2010 | Heraklion, Greece
http://www.eswc2010.org/

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ABOUT THE ESWC2010

The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010) is to
bring
together researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of
semantics on the Web. ESWC2010 builds on the success of the former
European
Semantic Web Conference series, but seeks to extend its focus by
collaborating with other communities and research areas, in which web
semantics play an important role -- within and outside ICT. At the same
time, ESWC2010 is a truly international conference, not only "European".

Semantics of web content, enriched with domain theories (ontologies),
data
about web usage, natural language processing, etc. will enable a web
that
provides a qualitatively new level of functionality. It will weave
together
a large network of human knowledge and make this knowledge
machine-processable. Various automated services, based on reasoning with
metadata and ontologies, will help the users to achieve their goals by
accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form.
This
network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent
systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making
tasks.
Research about web semantics can benefit from ideas and cross-
fertilization
with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language
Processing,
Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia,
Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science.

ESWC2010 will present the latest results in research and applications
in its
field. The research program will be organised in targeted research
tracks.
In addition, the conference will feature a tutorial program, system
descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium, and a
number of
collocated workshops. The individual calls for these events can be
found on
the conference Web site (http://www.eswc2010.org/).

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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission December 15, 2009 (compulsory)
Full Paper Submission December 22, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notification February 24, 2010 Camera Ready March 10, 2010

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CONFERENCE TRACKS

To reflect its extended scope, the ESWC2010 research program is
organised in
a number of tracks. Their specific topics of interest and submission
addresses are listed below.

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WEB OF DATA

Over the last several years, billions of triples have been published as
Linked Open Data. This networked data set provides a resource for both
the
development of novel applications and the enrichment of others. While
there
are some existing applications (e.g. generic linked data browsers),
there
are still numerous research challenges in creating and supporting
applications based on the Web of Data.

We encourage submissions to this track that build on existing, Linked
Open
Data sources for evaluation and implementation. In the context of the
Web of
Data, this track is interested, among others, in the following topics:

- Applications that use Linked Data
- Data source discovery
- Browsing and aggregating approaches
- Integrating, matching, consolidating and interlinking
- Emergent semantics
- Privacy and security
- Trust and provenance
- Data quality and expressivity
- Caching and scalability
- Dynamic ("Real-time") Systems
- Quantitative and statistical approaches (hybrid reasoning)
- Intellectual property rights
- Novel data sources (posters)
- Novel scenarios for the usage (position papers)

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010webofdatatrack

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ONTOLOGIES AND REASONING

The Ontologies and Reasoning programme involves the management of and
reasoning with ontologies and rules, so as to support their
applications.
The central idea of this vision is to use (1) ontologies to encode
application data in a machine understandable form, in order to be able
to
automatically integrate data from different sources and to be able to
support semantic search for information based on its meaning rather
than its
syntactic form, and (2) rules to perform conditional decision, event
processing and actions on behalf of the user.

In this track we invite high-quality submissions related (but not
limited)
to the following topics:

- Rules and ontology management (creation, evolution, reuse, evaluation,
etc.)
- Searching, visualizing, navigating and browsing ontologies
- Ontology reasoning and query answering
- Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web
- Ontology usability
- Query languages and optimization for ontologies
- Combining rules and ontologies
- Declarative rule-based reasoning techniques
- Rule languages, standards, and rule systems
- Ontology-based search
- Ontology alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and
reconciliation)
- Ontology learning and metadata generation (e.g., HLT and ML
approaches)
- Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction
- Corporate Semantic Web - applications in enterprises and economic
valuation
- Language extensions of OWL, ODM, RIF, RuleML, ...

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010ontologiesandreasoning

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SOFTWARE AND SERVICES

The software industry in Europe competes aggressively, both for a
share of
the local market (representing 30% of global spending), and worldwide,
resulting in a revenue in billions of euros. Increasingly Software as a
Service (SaaS) is opening up previously entrenched markets so that it is
essential to support its adoption. Already, service-orientation has
rapidly
risen to prominence in application construction at enterprise scale, and
ontology-based semantics has proven its usefulness in this arena. At the
same time Web-based systems, especially in the context of Web 2.0 and
the
Semantic Web, are increasingly built from more lightweight, so-called
RESTful services. This track is interested in both ends of this
spectrum,
and on the cross-fertilization of semantics-based support for the
engineering, deployment, provisioning and consumption of services.
Particular topics of relevance are:

- Novel semantic descriptions for services and service-based systems,
including RESTful services
- Use of semantics in the service engineering process
- Matchmaking/discovery, ranking and selection of services
- Data and protocol/process mediation
- Tools for the manual creation of semantic service descriptions
- Extraction of semantic service descriptions from unstructured and
semi-structured sources
- Automated composition and federation of semantic web services
- Service science
- Case studies and issues regarding adoption of semantics in services
- Exploiting semantics for service quality assurance
- The role of semantics in context-driven service adaptation

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010servicesandsoftwaretra

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MOBILITY

The web is used more and more in a ubiquitous way through mobile
phones and
devices. They interact directly with our physical environment, and are
used
in a personalized and contextualied setting. This track solicits papers
dealing with issues related to web semantics and mobility in, e.g., the
following areas:

- Semantics in mobile and ubiquitous computing
- Semantic mobile web (data models, query languages and mash-ups)
- Semantically enhanced location-based services and geo-spatial
applications
- Semantic models for services, users and context (e.g. location and
places)
- Sharing and social communities in mobile systems
- Semantic Web technology for personalization
- Intelligent mobile UIs
- Semantic web technology for mobile collaboration and cooperation
- Semantic data management for distributed data sources in mobile
environments, e.g. stream-based reasoning

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010mobilitytrack

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SENSOR NETWORKS

Millions of sensors are currently deployed in sensor networks around the
globe, and are actively collecting enormous amounts of data. Together
with
legacy data sources, specialized software modules (e.g., modules for
mathematical modeling and simulation) and Web 2.0 technologies such as
mashups, sensor networks give us the opportunity to develop unique
applications in a variety of sectors (environment, agriculture, health,
transportation, surveillance, public security etc.). Although many of
the
engineering issues associated with managing sensor network data are
solved,
managing effective access to this data remains a challenge. We would
like to
receive papers that deal with how the core ideas and technologies of the
Semantic Web have been or can be applied to sensor networks to help
manage
access.

In this track we invite high-quality submissions related to (but not
limited
to) one or more of the following topics:

- Data models and languages for semantic sensor networks
- Architectures and middleware for semantic sensor networks
- Ontologies and rules for semantic sensor networks
- Annotation tools for semantic sensor networks
- Social/human-in-the-loop sensing data
- Semantic data integration and fusion of heterogeneous sensor network
data
streams
- Spatio-temporal aspects of semantic sensor networks
- Mashup technologies for semantic sensor networks
- Semantic sensor network use cases and applications
- Standardisation efforts in semantic sensor networks

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010sensornetworkstrack

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WEB SCIENCE

Web Science bridges and formalizes the social and technical aspects of
the
World Wide Web. Its research questions include, for example: How do
people
and organisations behave on-line when doing business and in private
life?
How is security, privacy, and trust created and maintained on the Web?
How
can the Web be kept stable and pro-human in the future? Answering
questions
like these requires understanding of human behaviour, semantics and
pragmatics, and technological design on the web.

The themes of this track include (but are not limited to) the following
topics:

- Trust and reputation
- Security and privacy
- Government and political life
- Culture on-line
- Cybercrime
- e-Health
- E-commerce
- e-Learning

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010websciencetrack

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SOCIAL WEB

The success of Social Web applications (often called “Web2.0”
applications),
such as Twitter, Wikipedia and Facebook, is evidenced by the fast
growing
social networking and Web content contributed by millions of end
users. The
Social Web has simplified the data publishing process using end user
friendly, interactive tools and has increased user motivation to
contribute
data. The combination of Social Web with approaches from the emerging
Semantic Web allowed end users to massively produce and utilize semantic
data through tagging and other annotations, which in turn enables
smarter
applications in various Web domains including Social Web itself to
mine the
semantic data and discover relationships that were not obvious
previously.
These can be exploited for various purposes, for example, to personalize
applications, recommend content, and generate new knowledge. In the
past two
years, there have been growing efforts in building a Social Semantic Web
that exploits both the Social Web and semantic techniques. This track is
aimed at bringing together researchers from the two communities to
address
various challenges from improving Social Web user experiences with
semantic
techniques to building novel semantic applications using Social Web
data.
Successful submissions will address at least some aspect of both areas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Collaborative and collective semantic data generation and publishing
- Social and semantic bookmarking, tagging and annotation
- Enriching Social Web with semantic data: RDFs, micro formats and other
approaches
- Linked data on the Social Web
- Semantically-enabled social platforms and applications: semantic
wikis,
semantic desktops, semantic portals, semantic blogs, semantic calendars,
semantic email, semantic news, etc.
- Querying, mining and analysis of social semantic data
- User profile construction based on tagging and annotations
- Reasoning and personalization based on semantics: recommendations,
social
navigation, social search, etc.
- Privacy, policy and access control on Social Semantic Web
- Provenance, reputation and trust on Social Semantic Web
- Semantically-Interlinked online communities
- Semantic formation and management of online communities

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010socialwebtrack

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SEMANTIC WEB IN USE

Demonstrating the beneficial use of research results in real world
settings
is a major challenge. The Semantic Web in Use track is particularly
devoted
to showcase implemented applications, learned best practices as well as
assessments and evaluations of semantic technologies in specific
domains.
Submissions to this track should substantially contribute to the
transition
from research labs into mainstream adoption in areas such as industry,
science, society, government or entertainment.

In this track we invite high-quality submissions related to (but not
limited
to) one or more of the following topics:

- Description of concrete problems in specific application domains, for
which Semantic Web technologies can provide a solution.
- Description of an implemented application of Semantic Web
technologies in
a specific domain.
- Assessment of the pros and cons of using Semantic Web technologies to
solve a particular business problem or other practical problems in a
specific domain.
- Comparison with alternative or competing approaches using
conventional or
competing technologies.
- Assessment of the costs and benefits of the application of Semantic
Web
Technologies, e.g. time spent on implementation and deployment, efforts
involved, user acceptance, returns on investment.
- Evidence of deployment of the application, and assessment/evaluation
of
usage/uptake.
- Domains of interest include, but are not limited to: semantics in the
enterprise, improving access to governmental data, semantics based
solutions
for health care and life sciences, digital libraries, games with a
purpose,
semantic geo-data management.

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010semanticwebinusetrack

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SUBMISSIONS

ESWC2010 welcomes the submission of original research and application
papers
dealing with all aspects of representing and using semantics on the
web. We
encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and applications
papers.

The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's
Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing for
ESWC2010 will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Papers
should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted
according to the information for LNCS authors.

Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format)
format
and will *not* be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15
pages
or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically
without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide
semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission -- details
of this
process will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of
acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register
for the
conference.

Each paper must be submitted to the most appropriate of the eight
research
tracks:

- Web of Data
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010webofdatatrack
- Ontologies and Reasoning
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010ontologiesandreasoning
- Software and Services
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010servicesandsoftwaretra
- Mobility http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010mobilitytrack
- Web Science
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010websciencetrack
- Social Web
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010socialwebtrack
- Sematic Web in Use Track
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010semanticwebinusetrack

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BEST PAPER AWARD

An award will be given to the best paper (or papers) submitted to the
conference as judged by the Program and Track Chairs in collaboration
with
the Program Committee.

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INFORMATION AND CONTACT

For further information please visit the conference website
(http://www.eswc2010.org) or contact eswc2010_info@...

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ESTC2009 - meet innovative start-ups and listen to leading semantic technology experts

2009-11-18T11:19:22Z

Dear all,

The ESTC2009 conference program covers high quality contributions from world's leading thinkers, innovators, developers, engineers and senior practitioners active in the field of semantic technologies. Invited talks by Susie Stephens from Johnson&Johnson and Michael Brodie from Verizon Communications, high quality panels with representatives from leading companies like AstraZeneca, iSOCO, Ontoprise, Ontotext, Thomson Reuters and Vulcan are only some examples of the impressive conference program.

Click here to view the detailed conference program.

CONFERENCE DETAILS

3rd European Semantic Technology Conference 2009
December 2-3, 2009
Hotel Le Meridien | Vienna, Austria
www.estc2009.com

ESTC2009 INNOVATION SEED CAMP - we proudly present the best business ideas of 2009

22 high quality applications from 12 different nations didn’t make it easy to decide which ones should be present in the next round of the competition. In the end 16 applications were chosen by the jury and will take part in the 1st ESTC Innovation Seed Camp, which involves elevator pitches, mentoring sessions and an the highly interesting VC panel, discussing the actual market and finance situation for startups and revealing practical insights: how to approach VCs.

Click here to view the list of Innovation Seed Camp finalists.

Detailed information about the VC panel and other panels available here.

OPEN DEMO SPACE – ensure a time slot for your presentation!

This year ESTC2009 invites all interested parties to hold a 20 minutes presentation at the Open Demo Space. Present your business solution or application to the target audience! To request a slot at the Open Demo Space, send an email to submissions@... First come, first served. A few time slots are still available.

MATCHMAKING @ ESTC2009 – promote your business for free!

ESTC2009 is offering this year's conference participants a unique way to network and the chance to meet new business partners and refresh old co-operations.
The online matchmaking tool enables an efficient yet smooth way for participants to view business profile of other participants, make new business contacts and schedule bilateral meetings with other participants to take place during the two matchmaking sessions integrated in the conference program.
Matchmaking @ ESTC2009 opens up a unique way to advertise your own business to the target audience.

To register for the ESTC2009 and participate in the Matchmaking Event please click here.

Detailed information about Matchmaking @ ESTC2009 availble here.

SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

A huge thanks to all sponsors and supporters of the ESTC2009!

ESTC2009 is supported by:

AVCO - The Austrian Private Equity and Venture Capital Organisation
BMVIT - Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology
CELTIC - Telecommunication Solutions for European Leadership in Telecommunications
FFG - The Austrian Research Promotion Agency
iSOCO - Intelligent Software Components S.A.
OCG - The Austrian Computer Society
The University of Sheffield

ESTC2009 is sponsored by:

ACTIVE - A consortium of twelve partner organisations from seven different European countries, co-ordinated by British Telecommunications, which aims to increase the productivity of knowledge workers in a pro-active, contextualised, yet easy and unobtrusive way.
AWS - The Austrian National Promotion Bank
Franz Inc. - The US company which developed AllegroGraph.
MATRIXWARE - Provides the users of patent information worldwide with innovative solutions.
iQser AG - Based in Switzerland, designs and develops novel, innovative technologies in the area of intelligent information systems.
NeOn - Aiming to advance the state of the art in using ontologies for large-scale semantic applications.
Ontotext AD - A leading developer of core semantic technology.
seekda GmbH - Based upon recent research results from the World Wide Web, seekda is developing high-end industry solutions for e-Tourism.
Service Web 3.0 - A support action from the EU whose mission is to prepare European research and industry for the emerging Internet of Services.
SOA4All - Aims at realizing a world where billions of parties are exposing and consuming services via advanced Web technology
STI Innbruck - Is a world leading research institute working on the Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures.
VALUE-IT - Aimes at promoting market driven alignment of EU RTD, fostering innovation and accelerating adoption of Semantic Technologies for the Enterprise.
X-Media - Studies, develops and implements large scale methodologies and techniques for knowledge management able to support sharing and reuse of knowledge that is distributed in different media and repositories.

GENERAL CONTACT

STI International
Lejla Ibralic Halilovic
lejla.ibralic-halilovic@...
phone: +43 1 23 64 002
fax: +43 1 23 64 002-99

ESTC2009 - brought to you by STI International

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-18T11:17:31Z

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 15:17 +0100, Sebastian Hellmann wrote:
> So basically XHTML+RDFa is incompatible with RDF/XML in this respect.
> Let's say the original data is kept in XHTML+RDFa. If it is spread in
> the Web of Data from host to host and somebody tries to serialize it
> in RDF/XML his parser/serializer is bound to fail.

That is true. But this is a problem with RDF/XML rather than XHTML+RDFa.
Neither of these formats is capable of representing all RDF graphs,
though the latter is closer than the former. RDF/XML falls down because
some URIs cannot be encoded into QNames. But both are restricted by the
fact that certain characters are not allowed in XML.

Turtle and N-Triples should be able to cope with any RDF graph that you
want to serialise. Each of these are pretty widely supported and both
are kinda almost W3C Recommendations. (A very Turtle-like syntax forms
the basis of the SPARQL Query Language, which is a Rec; N-Triples is
described in the RDF Test Cases Rec.)

--
Toby A Inkster
<mailto:mail@...>
<http://tobyinkster.co.uk>

Research position in Semantic Web Services at KMI, The Open University, UK

2009-11-18T10:43:25Z

****** Apologies for multiple postings ******

Research Assistant/Associate Position in Semantic Web Services at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
£27,183 - £35,469, Ref: 6149
Based in Milton Keynes
Two temporary contracts, up to 12 months

KMi has two Research Assistants/Associates positions to undertake research on Semantic Web Services in the context of the EU project SOA4All - http://www.soa4all.eu and http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/soa4all/. SOA4All aims at supporting the deployment of services in a Web scale by combining Web 2.0, semantic Web and SOA technologies, setting up the basis for a Web of billions of services. Successful candidates will play a major role in achieving project's objectives by contributing to a fully-fledged Web-based framework supporting the annotation of services, the creation of mashups and complex processes, their execution and analysis.

You should have strong software development experience with Java and AJAX and prior experience in developing applications using Semantic Web technologies, Web services and RESTful services. A good publication record, knowledge of Web Services Modelling Ontology (WSMO - http://www.wsmo.org) and its variants notably WSMO-Lite and MicroWSMO, and previous experience with NetKernel, workflow engines or rule engines will also be highly desirable.

For detailed information and how to apply go to http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy-6149.php

**Closing date for applications: 21st December 2009**

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr. Carlos Pedrinaci (c.pedrinaci [at] open.ac.uk)

The Open University promotes diversity in employment and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Further particulars are available in large print, disk or audiotape. (Minicom +44 (0) 1908 654901 for hard of hearing).

Dr. Carlos Pedrinaci

Knowledge Media Institute - The Open University

Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 1908 654773

Fax: +44 1908 653169

The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-18T09:21:54Z

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 16:14, Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@...> wrote:

> Sebastian Hellmann wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>> we (especially Matthias Weidl @ KAIST) are currently working on producing
>> a Korean DBpedia.
>> We encountered a problem again that we are not really able to solve but
>> can only produce a workaround. The property URIs in korean completely have
>> special Characters. If we try to URL encode them, serialisation in RDF/XML
>> is bound to fail.
>>
>> For a property like:
>> http://dbpedia.org/property/l%E3%A4ngengrad
>> Jena produces the following:
>> <ns0:ngengrad xmlns:ns0="http://dbpedia.org/property/l%E3%A4">
>> because % is not a valid character in an XML tag.
>> But if the property only contains special characters, it can not work any
>> more:
>> http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90
>>
>> In DBpedia we created a work around for this, replacing % with _percent_
>> but it is clearly not a satisfactory solution.
>>
>> How shall we resolve this matter?
>> Is XML conformity still necessary or is there a motion to only use turtle
>> in the future?
>>
>>
>
> Sorry I am late to this thread.
> Why are you percent encoding the special chars. Why not just leave them in
> Korean?
> Semantic Web standards are based on IRIs that allow all this chars
>
> Jeremy

Hi,

I don't know the details of IRIs, but that sounds like a good idea.

For a moment I thought that N-Triples wouldn't allow IRIs, but
then I realized that there's a difference between 'URI' and
'URI reference'. If I understand [1] and [2] correctly, we could
(and probably should) generate N-Triples like the following:

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Glinde%2C_Schleswig-Holstein>
<http://dbpedia.org/property/l\u00E4ngengrad> "10/12/40/E"@de .

instead of

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Glinde%2C_Schleswig-Holstein>
<http://dbpedia.org/property/l%C3%A4ngengrad> "10/12/40/E"@de .

(Besides, the encoded property URIs we currently use are
broken - E3 A4 is not even a valid UTF-8 byte sequence.
The correct UTF-8 encoding of 'ä' is C3 A4.)

Christopher

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/#sec-uri-encoding
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#dfn-URI-reference

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-18T07:14:22Z

Sebastian Hellmann wrote:

> Dear all,
> we (especially Matthias Weidl @ KAIST) are currently working on
> producing a Korean DBpedia.
> We encountered a problem again that we are not really able to solve
> but can only produce a workaround. The property URIs in korean
> completely have special Characters. If we try to URL encode them,
> serialisation in RDF/XML is bound to fail.
>
> For a property like:
> http://dbpedia.org/property/l%E3%A4ngengrad
> Jena produces the following:
> <ns0:ngengrad xmlns:ns0="http://dbpedia.org/property/l%E3%A4">
> because % is not a valid character in an XML tag.
> But if the property only contains special characters, it can not work
> any more:
> http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90
>
> In DBpedia we created a work around for this, replacing % with _percent_
> but it is clearly not a satisfactory solution.
>
> How shall we resolve this matter?
> Is XML conformity still necessary or is there a motion to only use
> turtle in the future?
>
>

Sorry I am late to this thread.
Why are you percent encoding the special chars. Why not just leave them
in Korean?
Semantic Web standards are based on IRIs that allow all this chars

Jeremy

>
>

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-18T07:08:10Z

Sebastian Hellmann wrote:

>>
>> As it happens, some properties containing lots of percent-encoding can
>> be represented fine in RDF/XML. e.g. <http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA
>> %B4%91%EC%9E%8F> which can be:
>>
>> <foo:F xmlns:foo="http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%8">
>>
>> The problems arise when neither hex digit of the last character is in
>> the range A-F.
>>

This example is flawed. While your RDF/XML parser may read this as you
state, such behavior is incorrect.

The XML Namespaces rec assigns namespaces prefixes (such as foo above)
with IRI references.
http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%8 is not an IRI reference.
Therefore a very strict XML parser should reject
xmlns:foo="http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%8"
However, I believe they are explicitly allowed to not check for this (I
haven't referred to chapter and verse).
But, an argument based on this flawed example is suspect

Jeremy

Re: data.semanticweb.org down?

2009-11-18T06:49:17Z

On 18 Nov 2009, at 15:37, Juan Sequeda wrote:
> Is this because of the rain problems DERI is having?

Yes. The DERI datacenter is powered down due to local flooding. This
affects many DERI-hosted services, including sindice.com, sig.ma,
data.semanticweb.org, pedantic-web.org, deri.ie and others.

Hopefully everything will be up again in the next few hours, or
tomorrow morning at the latest.

Best,
Richard

>
> Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student
> Dept. of Computer Sciences
> The University of Texas at Austin
> www.juansequeda.com
> www.semanticwebaustin.org

data.semanticweb.org down?

2009-11-18T06:37:04Z

Is this because of the rain problems DERI is having?

Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
www.juansequeda.com
www.semanticwebaustin.org

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-18T06:17:12Z

Toby Inkster schrieb:

> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 10:13 +0000, Damian Steer wrote:
>
>> RDF/XML remains the only recommended rdf serialisation, but it can't
>> serialise every rdf graph.
>>
>> Not a happy situation.
>>
>
> Actually XHTML+RDFa is a W3C Recommendation, with the same (de jure)
> status as RDF/XML. It's capable of representing almost every RDF graph.
> (With the exception of literals containing certain Unicode control
> characters which are completely illegal in XML.)
>
> XHTML+RDFa uses CURIEs rather than QNames. CURIEs are a superset of
> QNames and allow a much wider set of characters to be used.
>
> For example, <http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90> can be
> serialised as:
>
> <div xmlns:dbp-ko="http://dbpedia.org/property/"
> property="dbp-ko:%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90">
>
> As it happens, some properties containing lots of percent-encoding can
> be represented fine in RDF/XML. e.g. <http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA
> %B4%91%EC%9E%8F> which can be:
>
> <foo:F xmlns:foo="http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%8">
>
> The problems arise when neither hex digit of the last character is in
> the range A-F.
>

So basically XHTML+RDFa is incompatible with RDF/XML in this respect. Let's
say the original data is kept in XHTML+RDFa. If it is spread in the Web of Data
from host to host and somebody tries to serialize it in RDF/XML his
parser/serializer is bound to fail. This still does not sound optimal.
I will discuss this issue with the rest of the DBpedia team. Maybe we will just skip the
underscore workaround then and produce a clean solution, albeit not compatible
with RDF/XML anymore, but still with turtle and XHTML+RDFa.
Regards,
Sebastian

--
Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org

Protege-OWL Short Course, March 24-26, 2010, Stanford University

2009-11-17T15:54:40Z

(apologies for crossposting)

The Protege Team is pleased to announce that we will be holding a
Protege-OWL Short Course at Stanford University from March 24th-26th,
2010. The course provides an introduction to ontology development in
OWL, both from a theoretical standpoint and from a practical
standpoint through hands-on use of the Protege platform. The course
also emphasizes how to use OWL ontologies, and other semantic
technologies like SWRL, to build semantic applications with examples
from real-world use cases. More details about course content [1], as
well as a complete course schedule [2] are available online.

The course is especially geared toward beginner and intermediate users
of Protege-OWL, but everyone is welcome to register. Online
registration is available on the course website [3].

The course will be taught by members of the Protege staff [4] and
enrollment is limited to ensure optimal learning experiences. We are
currently offering a 10% discount for groups of five or more people
from the same organization. Please contact the course organizers if
you have additional questions about the short course:

protege-shortcourse at lists.stanford.edu

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

Homepage: http://protege.stanford.edu

[1] http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/protege-owl/201003/content.html
[2] http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/protege-owl/201003/schedule.html
[3] http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/protege-owl/201003/register.html
[4] http://protege.stanford.edu/aboutus/aboutus.html

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-17T05:16:43Z

Toby Inkster wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 10:13 +0000, Damian Steer wrote:
>> RDF/XML remains the only recommended rdf serialisation, but it can't
>> serialise every rdf graph.
>>
>> Not a happy situation.
>
> Actually XHTML+RDFa is a W3C Recommendation, with the same (de jure)
> status as RDF/XML.

Doh! Situation is now much less embarrassing.

Thanks Toby,

Damian

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-17T04:53:49Z

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 10:13 +0000, Damian Steer wrote:
> RDF/XML remains the only recommended rdf serialisation, but it can't
> serialise every rdf graph.
>
> Not a happy situation.

Actually XHTML+RDFa is a W3C Recommendation, with the same (de jure)
status as RDF/XML. It's capable of representing almost every RDF graph.
(With the exception of literals containing certain Unicode control
characters which are completely illegal in XML.)

XHTML+RDFa uses CURIEs rather than QNames. CURIEs are a superset of
QNames and allow a much wider set of characters to be used.

For example, <http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90> can be
serialised as:

<div xmlns:dbp-ko="http://dbpedia.org/property/"
property="dbp-ko:%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90">

As it happens, some properties containing lots of percent-encoding can
be represented fine in RDF/XML. e.g. <http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA
%B4%91%EC%9E%8F> which can be:

<foo:F xmlns:foo="http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%8">

The problems arise when neither hex digit of the last character is in
the range A-F.

--
Toby A Inkster
<mailto:mail@...>
<http://tobyinkster.co.uk>

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-17T04:43:47Z

Richard Cyganiak wrote:
> Just throwing in one comment: I *believe* (but am not 100% sure) that
> XML element names may contain characters outside of the US-ASCII range,
> such as “ä”. So, <dbpedia:längengrad> might actually be a valid XML
> element.

This is true for both xml 1.0 and 1.1, see [1] and [2]. IIRC the
exclusions are mostly obvious, non-printable things once you're beyond
ascii.

> I have no idea if this also applies to RDF/XML. The
> relationships between URIs, IRIs, RDF, XML, UTF-8 etc are incredibly
> complex... But it might be worth trying if a URI such as
> <http://de.dbpedia.org/property/längengrad> is actually somehow allowed
> *in the RDF data model*, and how it would be serialized in the different
> RDF surface syntaxes.

Things will probably go pear shaped once the IRI has been converted to a
URI, particularly comparisons. I doubt any libraries are routinely
normalising incoming IRIs.

Damian

[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/#NT-NCNameStartChar>
[2] <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#IDAKUDS>

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-17T03:56:28Z

Just throwing in one comment: I *believe* (but am not 100% sure) that
XML element names may contain characters outside of the US-ASCII
range, such as “ä”. So, <dbpedia:längengrad> might actually be a valid
XML element. I have no idea if this also applies to RDF/XML. The
relationships between URIs, IRIs, RDF, XML, UTF-8 etc are incredibly
complex... But it might be worth trying if a URI such as <http://de.dbpedia.org/property/längengrad
> is actually somehow allowed *in the RDF data model*, and how it
would be serialized in the different RDF surface syntaxes.

Best,
Richard

On 17 Nov 2009, at 12:38, Sebastian Hellmann wrote:

> Hello,
> thank you very much, this will actually work. I tested it with OWL
> API and Raptor
> and they both can read and reserialize it (Jena can also).
> OWL API even puts it in the header:
> <!ENTITY E "http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/
> %EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90" >
> ...
> <E:_>4.5</E:_>
>
> So, I guess, this is a valid workaround, although it results in a
> strange rule for URI designers:
> "If your encoded URIs contain any % followed by two numbers, add an
> underscore"
> But well, maybe focus will be on Turtle some day.
>
> @Matthias, please use the underscore
> (maybe we should even use it for all Korean (and other languages
> than English) properties as it should be uniform)
>
> Many thanks,
> Sebastian
>
>
>
> Damian Steer schrieb:
>> Sebastian Hellmann wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>>> You could look at adding an _
>>>> (http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90) for the
>>>> problem
>>>> cases, or add a fragment
>>>> (http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90#it)? The
>>>> latter has
>>>> its own issues, so I'd try the former.
>>>>
>>>> Damian
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Does not seem to work, see below (third last line). <dbp:_%EA
>>> %B4%91%EC%9E%90>4.5</dbp:_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90>
>>> </Lager>
>>> </rdf:RDF>
>>>
>>
>> Sorry Sebastian, fingers didn't type what I was thinking:
>>
>> http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90_
>>
>> <j.0:_
>> xmlns:j.0="http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90">4.5</
>> j.0:_>
>>
>> Damian
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
> Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
> Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
> Research Group: http://aksw.org
>
>

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-17T03:38:11Z

Hello,
thank you very much, this will actually work. I tested it with OWL API
and Raptor
and they both can read and reserialize it (Jena can also).
OWL API even puts it in the header:
<!ENTITY E
"http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90"
>
...
<E:_>4.5</E:_>

So, I guess, this is a valid workaround, although it results in a
strange rule for URI designers:
"If your encoded URIs contain any % followed by two numbers, add an
underscore"
But well, maybe focus will be on Turtle some day.

@Matthias, please use the underscore
(maybe we should even use it for all Korean (and other languages than
English) properties as it should be uniform)

Many thanks,
Sebastian

Damian Steer schrieb:

> Sebastian Hellmann wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>> You could look at adding an _
>>> (http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90) for the problem
>>> cases, or add a fragment
>>> (http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90#it)? The latter has
>>> its own issues, so I'd try the former.
>>>
>>> Damian
>>>
>>>
>> Does not seem to work, see below (third last line).
>> <dbp:_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90>4.5</dbp:_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90>
>> </Lager>
>> </rdf:RDF>
>>
>
> Sorry Sebastian, fingers didn't type what I was thinking:
>
> http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90_
>
> <j.0:_
> xmlns:j.0="http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90">4.5</j.0:_>
>
> Damian
>
>
>

--
Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-17T02:51:28Z

Sebastian Hellmann wrote:

> Hello,
>
>> You could look at adding an _
>> (http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90) for the problem
>> cases, or add a fragment
>> (http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90#it)? The latter has
>> its own issues, so I'd try the former.
>>
>> Damian
>>
>
> Does not seem to work, see below (third last line).
> <dbp:_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90>4.5</dbp:_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90>
> </Lager>
> </rdf:RDF>

Sorry Sebastian, fingers didn't type what I was thinking:

http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90_

<j.0:_
xmlns:j.0="http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90">4.5</j.0:_>

Damian

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-17T02:28:50Z

Hello,

> You could look at adding an _
> (http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90) for the problem
> cases, or add a fragment
> (http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90#it)? The latter has
> its own issues, so I'd try the former.
>
> Damian
>

Does not seem to work, see below (third last line). Included in the beer
ontology. Is there a correct way of using it now or not? We do not have
a problem with it, which needs fixing, but if we include it in DBpedia,
we are worried that data from DBpedia will bust a lot of XML parsers and
serializers.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#"
xmlns:dbp="http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/"
xmlns="http://www.purl.org/net/ontology/beer#"
>
<owl:Ontology rdf:about="">
<owl:versionInfo>beer_v0.4.owl, based on
http://purl.org/net/ontology/beer_v0.3.owl</owl:versionInfo>
</owl:Ontology>

<owl:Class rdf:ID="Lager">
<rdfs:label xml:lang="de">Helles</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>

<Lager rdf:ID="Krieger">
<hasAlcoholicContent>4.5</hasAlcoholicContent>
<dbp:_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90>4.5</dbp:_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90>
</Lager>
</rdf:RDF>

Reagrds, Sebastian

Damian Steer schrieb:

> Sebastian Hellmann wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> we (especially Matthias Weidl @ KAIST) are currently working on
>> producing a Korean DBpedia.
>> We encountered a problem again that we are not really able to solve but
>> can only produce a workaround. The property URIs in korean completely
>> have special Characters. If we try to URL encode them, serialisation in
>> RDF/XML is bound to fail.
>>
>> For a property like:
>> http://dbpedia.org/property/l%E3%A4ngengrad
>> Jena produces the following:
>> <ns0:ngengrad xmlns:ns0="http://dbpedia.org/property/l%E3%A4">
>> because % is not a valid character in an XML tag.
>> But if the property only contains special characters, it can not work
>> any more:
>> http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90
>>
>> In DBpedia we created a work around for this, replacing % with _percent_
>> but it is clearly not a satisfactory solution.
>>
>> How shall we resolve this matter?
>> Is XML conformity still necessary or is there a motion to only use
>> turtle in the future?
>
> RDF/XML remains the only recommended rdf serialisation, but it can't
> serialise every rdf graph.
>
> Not a happy situation.
>
> You could look at adding an _
> (http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90) for the problem
> cases, or add a fragment
> (http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90#it)? The latter has
> its own issues, so I'd try the former.
>
> Damian
>

--
Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org

Re: XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-17T02:13:29Z

Sebastian Hellmann wrote:

> Dear all,
> we (especially Matthias Weidl @ KAIST) are currently working on
> producing a Korean DBpedia.
> We encountered a problem again that we are not really able to solve but
> can only produce a workaround. The property URIs in korean completely
> have special Characters. If we try to URL encode them, serialisation in
> RDF/XML is bound to fail.
>
> For a property like:
> http://dbpedia.org/property/l%E3%A4ngengrad
> Jena produces the following:
> <ns0:ngengrad xmlns:ns0="http://dbpedia.org/property/l%E3%A4">
> because % is not a valid character in an XML tag.
> But if the property only contains special characters, it can not work
> any more:
> http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90
>
> In DBpedia we created a work around for this, replacing % with _percent_
> but it is clearly not a satisfactory solution.
>
> How shall we resolve this matter?
> Is XML conformity still necessary or is there a motion to only use
> turtle in the future?

RDF/XML remains the only recommended rdf serialisation, but it can't
serialise every rdf graph.

Not a happy situation.

You could look at adding an _
(http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/_%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90) for the problem
cases, or add a fragment
(http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90#it)? The latter has
its own issues, so I'd try the former.

Damian

Postdoctoral Research Position in EURECOM: Speech recognition / Semantic Web / Video Accessibility

2009-11-17T02:00:22Z

Post-doctoral Position:
-----------------------
http://www.eurecom.fr/resources/documents//0_Institut/Open_Positions/MM/MM_Post_doc_nov2009_english.pdf

Title: Automatic speech recognition and collaborative annotation for
improving accessibility on video sharing websites by the visually and
hearing impaired.
Department: Multimedia Communications
URL: http://www.eurecom.fr/research/

Start Date: January 2010
Duration: 18 months up to 24 months

Description:
Eurecom’s Multimedia Communications Department invites applications for
a full-time post-doctoral researcher to work on the ACAV (Annotation
Collaborative pour l'Accessibilité Vidéo) project funded as part of the
"Web Innovant" call. The project aims to improve the accessibility of
video on popular content sharing websites by the visually and hearing
impaired. The first part of the project involves the development of an
automatic speech recognition system (preferably using freely available,
open-source software), to transcribe web-based video data. The second
part of the work entails the design and implementation of a system to
improve the accessibility of the content to the visually and hearing
impaired, based on semantic web and collaborative annotations
technologies. The position requires significant experience in speech
recognition research. Training on semantic web technologies and ontology
modelling will be provided. The project consortium is composed of
Dailymotion, LIRIS - University of Lyon 1 and EURECOM.

Requirements:
The successful candidate will have been awarded a PhD degree, involving
automatic speech recognition (preferably large vocabulary, continuous
speech), prior to their joining Eurecom. Expertise in enviromental
robustness, speaker adaptation and/or speaker diarization, i.e. speaker
atributed speech-to-text, is a bonus, as is any experience relevant to
ontology modelling and semantic web languages. You will have a strong
research track record with significant publications at leading
international conferences and/or in journals. You will be highly
motivated to undertake challenging, applied research and have good
English language speaking and writing skills. French language skills are
a bonus.

Applications:
Please send to the address below (i) a one page statement of your
research interests and motivation, (ii) your CV and (iii) two letters of
reference no later than 20th of December 2009.
Contact: Dr. Raphaël Troncy AND Dr. Nicholas Evans
Postal Address: 2229 Route des Crêtes BP 193, F-06904 Sophia Antipolis
cedex, France
Email address: raphael.troncy@... AND nick.evans@...
Web address: http://www.eurecom.fr/main/institute/job.en.htm
Phone: +33/0 4 93 00 82 42 AND +33/0 4 93 00 81 14
Fax: +33/0 4 93 00 82 00

Institut Eurécom is located in Sophia Antipolis, a vibrant science park
on the French Riviera. It is in close proximity with a large number of
research units of leading multi-national corporations in the
telecommunications, semiconductor and biotechnology sectors, as well as
other outstanding research and teaching institutions. A freethinking,
multinational population and the unique geographic location provide a
quality of life without equal.

--
Raphaël Troncy
EURECOM, Multimedia Communications Department
2229, route des Crêtes, 06560 Sophia Antipolis, France.
e-mail: raphael.troncy@... & raphael.troncy@...
Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242
Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200
Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/

XML problems with percent encoding

2009-11-17T01:16:21Z

Dear all,
we (especially Matthias Weidl @ KAIST) are currently working on
producing a Korean DBpedia.
We encountered a problem again that we are not really able to solve but
can only produce a workaround. The property URIs in korean completely
have special Characters. If we try to URL encode them, serialisation in
RDF/XML is bound to fail.

For a property like:
http://dbpedia.org/property/l%E3%A4ngengrad
Jena produces the following:
<ns0:ngengrad xmlns:ns0="http://dbpedia.org/property/l%E3%A4">
because % is not a valid character in an XML tag.
But if the property only contains special characters, it can not work
any more:
http://ko.dbpedia.org/property/%EA%B4%91%EC%9E%90

In DBpedia we created a work around for this, replacing % with _percent_
but it is clearly not a satisfactory solution.

How shall we resolve this matter?
Is XML conformity still necessary or is there a motion to only use
turtle in the future?

Regards,
Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW
PS: please use reply all

Christopher Jona Sahnwaldt schrieb:

> Robert hat's gerade ausprobiert - Jena verwendet einen
> Hack und macht z.B. aus der Property URI
> http://dbpedia.org/property/l%E3%A4ngengrad
> folgendes XML:
>
> <ns0:ngengrad xmlns:ns0="http://dbpedia.org/property/l%E3%A4">
>
> Dieser Hack funktioniert nicht bei Property URIs, die mit
> einem URI-codierten Zeichen aufhören - bei denen wäre
> der Elementname leer...
>
>
> 2009/11/16 Christopher Jona Sahnwaldt <christopher@...>:
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2434538&group_id=190976&atid=935520
>>
>> Bug report von Sven Hartrumpf:
>>
>> Some URLs contain one ore more _percent_ parts where I would expect a
>> simple %
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Antwort von Richard:
>>
>> This is intentional. It is only for property URIs. Property URIs containing
>> the % sign in the local name cannot (cleanly) be serialized in RDF/XML,
>> therefore the % sign is encoded again.
>>
>> It's really ugly and probably not an optimal solution.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Sprich: RDF/XML verwendet XML Elemente für Predicates. Die
>> Namen der Elemente werden aus den URIs der Predicates
>> generiert. In Namen von XML-Elementen sind Prozentzeichen
>> nicht erlaubt, also dürfen die URIs unserer Predicates keine
>> Prozentzeichen enthalten.
>>
>> Ich habe eine Weile im Web gesucht, aber keine Lösung
>> für dieses Problem gefunden. Anscheinend sind wir die
>> ersten, die darüber stolpern...
>>
>> Gruß,
>> Christopher
>>

--
Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org

2nd Call for Chapter - Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances

2009-11-16T17:11:06Z

SECOND CALL FOR CHAPTERS
(Proposals Submission Deadline: 15 DECEMBER 2009)

Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances

A book edited by Wilson Wong, Wei Liu and Mohammed Bennamoun
University of Western Australia, Australia
http://explorer.csse.uwa.edu.au/editedbook

Introduction
========================================================================================
Ontologies provide formal specifications of what might exist in a domain to ensure reusability and interoperability of multiple heterogeneous systems. Ontologies form an indispensable part of the Semantic Web standard stack. While the Semantic Web is still our vision into the future, ontologies have already found a myriad of applications such as document retrieval, question answering, image retrieval, agent interoperability and document annotation. In recent years, automatic ontology learning from text has provided support and relief for knowledge engineers from the labourious task of manually engineering of ontologies. Ontology learning research, an area integrating advances from information retrieval, text mining, data mining, machine learning and natural language processing, has attracted increasing interests from a wide spectrum of application domains (e.g. bioinformatics, manufacturing). Being a rapidly growing area, it is crucial to collect the recent advances in tools and technologies in ontology learning and related areas.

Objective Of The Book
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The main objective of this book is to provide relevant theoretical foundations, and disseminate new research findings and expert views on the remaining challenges in ontology learning. In particular, the book focuses on the following questions:
# Can ontology learning continue to rely on techniques borrowed from related areas that were conceived for other purposes? Has the time arrived for us to look at certain peculiar requirements of ontology learning and develop specific techniques to meet these requirements?
# Lightweight ontologies are the most common type of ontologies in a variety of existing Semantic Web applications (e.g. knowledge management, document retrieval, communities of practice, data integration). Can these lightweight ontologies be easily extended to formal ones? If so, how?
# The poor coverage, rarity and maintenance cost related to manually-created resources such as semantic lexicons (e.g. WordNet, UMLS) and text corpora (e.g. BNC, GENIA corpus) have prompted an increasing number of researchers to turn to dynamic Web data for ontology learning. There is currently a lack of study concentrating on the systematic use of Web data as background knowledge for all phases of ontology learning. How do we know if we have the necessary background knowledge to carry out all our ontology learning tasks? Where do we look for more background knowledge if we know that what we have is inadequate?
# More and more practitioners in the domain of biology, health care, chemistry, manufacturing, etc are looking up to ontology learning techniques for solutions to their knowledge sharing and reusability needs. How much more difficult is it to automatically learn ontologies from news articles, as compared to clinical notes or biomedical literature? To what extent can the current techniques meet the requirements of learning from texts across different domains? Is the field of automatic ontology learning from text ready for the industry?

Target Audience
========================================================================================
This proposed book will be an invaluable resource as a library or personal reference for a wide range of audience, including, graduate students, researchers and industrial practitioners. Postgraduate students who are in the process of looking for future research directions, and carving out their own niche area will find this book particularly useful. Due to the detailed scope and wide coverage of the book, it also has the potential of being an upper-level course supplement for senior undergraduate students in Artificial Intelligence, and a resource for lecturers in Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Text Mining, Information Extraction, and Ontology Learning.

Recommended Topics Include, But Are Not Limited To
========================================================================================
Area 1: Text Processing
# Web data pre-processing
# Noisy text analytics
# Text annotation/Sentence parsing
# Textual content extraction/Boilerplates removal
# Automatic corpus construction

Area 2: Taxonomy Construction/Concept Formation
# Named entity recognition/noun phrase chunking
# Feature-based/featureless similarity and distance measures
# Term recognition/term extraction/terminology mining
# Cluster analysis/term clustering
# Entity disambiguation
# Relevance/contrastive analysis
# Latent semantic analysis
# Other machine learning-based techniques
# Other corpus-based techniques

Area 3: Relation and Axiom Discovery/Ontology Languages
# Lexico-syntactic patterns
# Use of dynamic Web data (e.g. Wikipedia mining, online dictionaries)
# Sub-categorisation frames
# Association rules mining
# Inductive logic programming
# Other corpus-based techniques
# Logic-based/frame-based/markup ontology languages

Area 4: Applications of Ontologies
# Bioinformatics
# Risk management
# Manufacturing
# Health care
# Other relevant application areas

Submission Procedure
========================================================================================
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before 15 DECEMBER 2009, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns together with a tentative organisation (i.e. section titles with section summaries) of their proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 15 JANUARY 2010 about the status of their proposals. Authors of accepted proposals will be sent guidelines and templates to prepare the full chapter of 8,000 - 10,000 words. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by 15 MARCH 2010. All submitted full chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. All proposals and chapters should be typewritten in English in APA style and be submitted in Microsoft Word® format to wilson@.... Unfortunately, LaTex files cannot be accepted. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.). For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=724. This publication is anticipated to be released late 2010.

Important Dates
========================================================================================
15 DECEMBER 2009, Proposal Submission Deadline
15 JANUARY 2010, Notification of Acceptance
15 MARCH 2010, Full Chapter Submission
15 JULY 2010, Review Results Returned
15 AUGUST 2010, Final Chapter Submission

Editorial Advisory Board Members
========================================================================================
Dr Christopher Brewster, Aston University, UK
Associate Professor Chunyu Kit, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dr Philipp Cimiano, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands
Professor Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK
Professor Tharam Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Dr Venkata Subramaniam, IBM India Research, India

Inquiries and Submissions
========================================================================================
Wilson Wong
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
M002 University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY 6009 WA
Australia
Fax: +61-8-6488-1089
E-mail: wilson@...
Up-to-date information about this call is available at http://explorer.csse.uwa.edu.au/editedbook

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Semantic Infrastructures

2009-11-16T00:39:28Z

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Semantic Infrastructures

University of Aberdeen
RCUK Digital Economy Hub

Salary range:
£29,704-£32,458 per annum

Closing Date:
20-Nov-2009

Digital Economy is an RCUK cross-council programme, aimed at realising the transformational impact of ICT for all aspects of business, society and economy. The Rural Digital Economy Hub at the University of Aberdeen is one of three large multi-disciplinary research hubs funded through this programme, and commenced its activities in October 2009.

The Hub award to Aberdeen is worth £12.4M and will fund five years of activity. The Hub will bring together a large team of researchers (70+) working in and across the disciplines of computer science, communication engineering, human geography, sociology, transport studies, health sciences and environmental science. For further details, see: www.digital-rural.org

To support our ambitious research programme we have begun our first phase of recruitment involving 8 research studentships and 9 postdoctoral fellowships. As part of this activity we are looking to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to work in the area of Semantic Infrastructures.

The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of the fundamental concepts underlying the Semantic Web, and the computational realisation and application of these techniques. Some knowledge of machine learning/data-mining would also be beneficial. They candidate will have a PhD or be about to complete a PhD in Computer Science. Enthusiasm for digital technology and innovation relevant to society and the economy is essential as is the ability to work in a cross-disciplinary team including colleagues in medicine and the social sciences.

Should you require a visa to undertake paid employment in the UK you will be required to fulfil the minimum points criteria to be granted a Certificate of Sponsorship and Tier 2 visa.

For further information on this post (including how to apply):
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=RDH013R

Informal enquiries may be made to: Professor Peter Edwards
(p.edwards@...)

The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.

JWS on facebook and twitter

2009-11-15T21:35:17Z

The Journal of Web Semantics [1] now has a facebook page and a Twitter
account to augment its blog [2]. All three will be used for news and
announcements of call for papers, special issues, availability of new
papers, etc. As you might expect, the tweets will be terse items, the
facebook updates longer notes and the blog posts full of details.

Those who are interested can follow @journalWebSem [3] on Twitter, become
a fan of the JWS on facebook [4], and subscribe to the blog's feed [5].

[1] http://ees.elsevier.com/jws/
[2] http://journalofwebsemantics.blogspot.com/
[3] http://twitter.com/journalWebSem
[4] http://www.facebook.com/pages/Journal-of-Web-Semantics/181730910961

Second Call For Papers: JWS special issue on SemanticSearch

2009-11-14T12:03:22Z

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Second call for papers for a
JWS special issue on Semantic Search

Yong Yu and Rudi Studer are editing a special issue of the Journal of
Web
Semantics on "Semantic Search" that will appear in the summer 2010.

Semantic technologies, namely expressive ontology and resource
description
languages, scalable repositories, reasoning engines and information
extraction techniques are now in a mature state such that they can be
applied to enable a higher level of semantic underpinning in real-world
Information Retrieval (IR) systems. This application of semantic
technologies to IR tasks is typically referred to as Semantic Search.
Challenges on this way include (i) identifying tasks and paradigms for
semantic search systems, (ii) devising expressive annotation frameworks
as
well as scalable algorithms and infrastructures, (iii) investigating
innovative query paradigms for semantic search systems, and (iv)
applying
machine learning and information extraction techniques in the context of
semantic search.

This special issue shall covers interdisciplinary topics between
Semantic
Web and search. These include but are not limited to:

.. Information retrieval tasks on the Semantic Web
.. Incentives and interaction paradigms for resource annotation
.. Interaction paradigms for semantic search
.. Semantic technologies for query interpretation, refinement and
routing
.. Modeling expressive resource descriptions
.. natural language processing and information extractions for the
acquisition of resource descriptions
.. Scalable repositories and infrastructures for semantic search
.. Crawling, storing and indexing of expressive resource
descriptions
.. fusion of semantic search results on the Semantic Web
.. Algorithms for matching expressive queries and resource
descriptions
.. Algorithms and procedure to deal with vagueness, incompleteness
and
inconsistencies in semantic search
.. Evaluation methodologies for semantic search
.. Standard datasets and benchmarks for semantic search

We solicit contributions to tackle the above mentioned challenges, as
well
as reports on novel applications with the potential to push semantic
search
practical.

Submission guidelines
The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific contributions
of
high quality. Following the overall mission of the journal, we emphasize
the
publication of papers that combine theories, methods and experiments
from
different subject areas in order to deliver innovative semantic methods
and
applications. The publication of large-scale experiments and their
analysis
is also encouraged to clearly illustrate scenarios and methods that
introduce semantics into existing Web interfaces, contents and services.
Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any
translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not
being
submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article, the
author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the
publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination
of
information. Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in
accordance
with instructions given in the JWS Guide for Authors. The submission and
review process will be carried out using Elsevier's Web-based EES
system.
Final decisions of accepted papers will be approved by an editor in
chief.

About the Journal of Web Semantics
The Journal of Web Semantics is published by Elsevier since 2003. It is
an
interdisciplinary journal based on research and applications of various
subject areas that contribute to the development of a
knowledge-intensive
and intelligent service Web. These areas include: knowledge
technologies,
ontology, agents, databases and the semantic grid, obviously disciplines
like information retrieval, language technology, human-computer
interaction
and knowledge discovery are of major relevance as well. All aspects of
the
Semantic Web development are covered. Editors-in-Chief: Tim Finin,
Riichiro
Mizoguchi, Steffen Staab For all editors information, see
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/671322/e
dito
rialboard The Journal of Web Semantics offers to its authors and
readers:
.. Free availability of papers on the Web at
http://www.semanticwebjournal.org/
.. Professional support with publishing by Elsevier staff
.. Indexed by Thomson-Reuters web of science
.. Impact factor 3.41: the third highest out of 92 titles in
Thomson-Reuters' category "Computer Science, Information Systems"

Important Dates
.. Papers due Jan 20, 2010
.. Reviews due March 14, 2010
.. Notification due March 20, 2010
.. Final Revisions by April 16, 2010
.. Publication July 2010

Contact Information
For any further questions regarding the special issue (appropriateness
of
your contribution, editorial issues, etc.), please feel free to contact
the
guest editors:
.. Yong Yu (yyu at apex sjtu edu cn)
.. Rudi Studer (studer at aifb uni-karlsruhe de)

Re: Best practices: representing homonym relationships in SKOS

2009-11-14T04:07:41Z

Le 12 nov. 2009 à 19:55, Bradley Allen a écrit :
> is there any best practice or, failing that, good ideas for
> representing
> homonymy in SKOS?

homophone: same sound, different meaning
or homograph: same graph, different meaning

Maybe a better list is public-swd-wg@...

The use case has been mentioned in 2006 but not directly addressed
http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/search?type-index=public-swd-wg&index-type=t&keywords=homonymy&search=Search

But it is a domain where it matters for VoiceXML, in PLS 1.0
Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0

There are two sections on homophone and homographe
http://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-lexicon/#S5.4

--
Karl Dubost
Montréal, QC, Canada
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/

Extended deadline - Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web (DESWEB) @ICDE 2010

2009-11-13T04:11:46Z

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*** Extended Paper Submission Due: November 22, 2009 ***

1st Intl Workshop on
Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web (DESWeb2010)
(Towards semantic-based data engineering for the Web)
Co-located with ICDE 2010
http://DESWeb2010.unimore.it

Modern web applications like Wikis, social networking sites and
mashups, are radically changing the nature of modern Web from a
publishing-only environment into a vivant place for information
exchange. The successful exploitation of this information largely
depends on the ability to successfully communicate the data semantics,
which is exactly the vision of the Semantic Web. In this context, new
challenges emerge for semantic-aware data management systems.

The contribution of the data management community in the Semantic Web
effort is fundamental. RDF has already been adopted as the
representation model and exchange format for the semantics of the data
on the Web. Although, until recently, RDF had not received
considerable attention, the recent publication in RDF format of large
ontologies with millions of entities from sites like Yahoo! and
Wikipedia, the huge amounts of microformats in RDF from life science
organizations, and the gigantic RDF bibliographic annotations from
publishers, have made clear the need for advanced management
techniques for RDF data.

On the other hand, traditional data management techniques have a lot
to gain by incorporating semantic information into their
frameworks. Existing data integration, exchange and query solutions
are typically based on the actual data values stored in the
repositories, and not on the semantics of these values. Incorporation
of semantics in the data management process improves query accuracy,
and permit more efficient and effective sharing and distribution
services. Integration of new content, on-the-fly generation of
mappings, queries on loosely structured data, keyword searching on
structured data repositories, and entity identification, are some of
the areas that can benefit from the presence of semantic knowledge
alongside the data.

The goal of DESWeb is to bring together researchers and practitioners
from both fields of Data Management and Semantic Web. It aims at
investigating the new challenges that Semantic Web technologies have
introduced and new ways through which these technologies can improve
existing data management solutions. Furthermore, it intends to study
what data management systems and technologies can offer in order to
improve the scalability and performance of Semantic Web applications.

*Topics of Interest*
DESWeb welcomes papers on topics related, but not limited, to:

Semantic Data Integration:
* Semantic-aware matching and mapping
* Management of incomplete information on the Semantic Web
* Dataspaces and the Semantic Web
* Semantic-aware search engines
* Role of ontologies in data integration and data exchange
* Semantic-based keyword searching in databases
* Probabilistic data and query answering
* Data Management for Social Networking
* Semantic-based lifecycle management
* Database support for social Web2.0 applications
* Entity identification on the Semantic Web
* Tool support for developing and deploying data intensive Semantic
Web applications
* Publishing relational data on the Semantic Web
* Semantic annotation
* Semantic evolution
* Understanding and managing Wiki/Blog data
* Semantic Web technologies for cooperation and collaboration
* Business processes on the Semantic Web
* Semantic-based service discovery and composition
* Interoperation via Semantic Web services
* Query languages for RDF and the Semantic Web
* Multimedia management on the Semantic Web

Core Database Technologies for RDF Data:
* Data models and query languages for RDF
* RDF querying processing and optimization
* Indexing and access methods for RDF data
* RDF storage and compression
* Update management and maintenance of RDF data
* Query answering techniques on RDF databases
* Benchmarking RDF Systems and applications

*Submission Guidelines*
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers
that are not being considered for publication in any other
forum. Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files, be
formatted according to the standard ICDE format and be at most 6 pages
in length.

All accepted papers will be published in the ICDE proceedings and will
also become publicly available in IEEE Xplore.

Papers should be submitted at the following web site:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DESWeb2010

Important dates
* Submission deadline: Nov 22nd, 2009 (deadline extended)
* Notification to authors: Dec 22nd, 2009
* Camera Ready version: Jan 5th 2010

Workshop Chairs
* Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento
* Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Panel Chair
* Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Program Committee
* Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo!, USA
* Paolo Atzeni, Università di Roma Tre, Italy
* Michael Benedikt, Oxford University, UK
* Omar Boucelma, Université Aix-Marseille, France
* John Breslin, DERI, Ireland
* Nieves Brisaboa, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
* Tiziana Catarci, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
* Vassilis Christophides, University of Crete & ICS-FORTH, Greece
* Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and Università della Calabria, Italy
* Roberto De Virgilio, Università di Roma Tre, Italy
* AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
* Alfio Ferrara, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
* Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH, Greece
* Ramanathan Guha, Google Inc, USA
* Howard Ho, IBM Almaden, USA
* Arantza Illarramendi, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
* Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM Watson, USA
* Manolis Koubarakis, University of Athens, Greece
* Ioana Manolescu, INRIA, France
* Ahsan Morshed, FAO, Italy
* John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
* Felix Naumanm, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany
* Stelios Paparizons, Microsoft Research, USA
* Flavio Rizzolo, Carleton University, Canada
* Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina, Italy
* Peter Spyns, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Armando Stellato, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
* Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* James Terwilliger, Microsoft Research, USA
* Raquel Trillo Lado, University of Zaragoza, Spain
* Cong Yu, Yahoo!, USA

dott. ing. Francesco Guerra
Researcher in Computer Engineering, Ph. D.
Dipartimento di Economia Aziendale
Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Phone: +39 059 205 6264 / +39 059 205 6869
Fax: +39 059 205 6129
Web: www.dbgroup.unimo.it/~guerra
Email: francesco.guerra@...

CFP: Czech Republic-Prague- NDT2010

2009-11-13T03:01:12Z

The Second International Conference on 'Networked Digital
Technologies' (NDT2010)
Prague, Czech Republic, July 7-9, 2010
http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010
==========================================================================

Location: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Date: July. 7-9, 2010.
=========================================================================
Topics:

Information and Data Management
Data and Network Mining
Intelligent Agent-Based Systems, Cognitive and Reactive Distributed AI Systems
Internet Modeling
User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling
XML-Based Languages
Security and Access Control
Trust Models for Social Networks
Information Content Security
Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design
New Architectures for Web-Based Social Networks
Semantic Web, Ontologies (Creation, Merging, Linking and Reconciliation)
Web Services Security
Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
Data management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks
Indexing and Query Processing for Moving Objects
User Interfaces and Usability Issues form Mobile Applications
Mobile Social Networks
Peer-to-Peer Social Networks
Sensor Networks and Social Sensing
Social Search
Social Networking Inspired Collaborative Computing
Information Propagation on Social Networks
Resource and Knowledge Discovery Using Social Networks
Measurement Studies of Actual Social Networks
Simulation Models for Social Networks
Cloud computing
Grid computing
Green Computing

=========================================================================
IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Date: April 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2010
Camera Ready submission: May 10, 2010
Registration: May 15, 2010
Conference date: July 7-9, 2010

=========================================================================
SUBMISSION:
Submission instructions are listed at
http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010/submission.asp

Nabble - w3.org - semantic-web

MULTICONF-10 Call for papers

Last CFP Agent-Directed Simulation, April 12-14, 2010, Orlando, Florida

Two PhD positions in Knowledge & Data Engineering Group, University of Kassel

Filling the Gap between Semantic Web and Model Driven Engineering: The TwoUse Toolkit

Call for Papers/Workshop Proposals Participantion (GPC-10, UIC-10, MTPP-10, ICA3PP-10, FC-10, SMPE-10, FutureTech-10, BodyNets-10)

Re: data.semanticweb.org down?

Call for Papers: IEEE International Conference on Web Services (2010)

ESWC2010: 2nd Call for Papers - Note separate research tracks

ESTC2009 - meet innovative start-ups and listen to leading semantic technology experts

CONFERENCE DETAILS

ESTC2009 INNOVATION SEED CAMP - we proudly present the best business ideas of 2009

OPEN DEMO SPACE – ensure a time slot for your presentation!

MATCHMAKING @ ESTC2009 – promote your business for free!

SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

ESTC2009 is supported by:

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GENERAL CONTACT

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Research position in Semantic Web Services at KMI, The Open University, UK

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Protege-OWL Short Course, March 24-26, 2010, Stanford University

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Postdoctoral Research Position in EURECOM: Speech recognition / Semantic Web / Video Accessibility

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2nd Call for Chapter - Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances

Postdoctoral Research Fellow ­ Semantic Infrastructures

JWS on facebook and twitter

Second Call For Papers: JWS special issue on SemanticSearch

Re: Best practices: representing homonym relationships in SKOS

Extended deadline - Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web (DESWEB) @ICDE 2010

CFP: Czech Republic-Prague- NDT2010

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Semantic Infrastructures