The 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, 2007
Busan, Korea - To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, the International Semantic Web Conference brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction.
The World-Wide Web continues to grow and new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications are being developed. Building on this growth, Semantic Web technologies aim at providing a shared semantic information space, changing qualitatively our experiences on the Web. As Semantic Web technologies mature and permeate more and more application areas, new research challenges are coming to the fore and some unsolved ones are becoming more acute. These issues include creating and managing Semantic Web content, making Semantic Web applications robust and scalable, organizing and integrating information from different sources for novel uses, making semantics explicit in order to improve our overall experience with information technologies, and thus enabling us to use the wealth of information that is currently available in digital form for addressing our everyday tasks. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, the International Semantic Web Conference brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction.
In addition to this call for papers for the research track, ISWC 2007 will include a Semantic Web In Use track, a poster and demonstration track, a doctoral consortium, and a special competition known as the Semantic Web Challenge. The calls for those tracks can be found on the ISWC 2007 Web site, http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org.
The research track of ISWC 2007 solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Applications of the Semantic Web
- Applications with clear lessons learned
- Evaluations of Semantic Web technologies
- Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and other application domains
- Semantic Web technologies for multimedia content
- Personal Information Management
Management of Semantic Web Data
- Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data
- Database technologies for the Semantic Web
- Search, query, and visualization of the Semantic Web
- Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
- Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web
- Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction
Ontologies
- Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution
- Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
- Evaluation and ranking of ontologies
- Ontology search
Semantic Web Architecture
- Semantic Web middleware
- Semantic Web services
- Agents on the Semantic Web
- Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids
Social Semantic Web
- Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
- Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
- Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security
Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions
Papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission site. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. Formatted papers must be no longer than 14 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. ISWC 2007 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details 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.
We will also accept a small number of high-quality position papers that take stock in the Semantic Web field today and suggest new directions for the field. Position papers should follow the same formatting guidelines as the research papers, but should be no longer than 8 pages long. They also must have words "Position paper" as part of the title. The submission deadline for position papers is the same as for regular research papers.
If you have any questions, please send inquiries to [email protected]
Programme:
DAY1(11th, November)
Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web
Tommaso Di Noia, Ruben Lara, Axel Polleres, Ioan Toma, Takahiro Kawamura, Matthias Klusch, Abraham Bernstein, Massimo Paolucci, Alain Leger, David Martin
From Text to Knowledge: The Lexicon/Ontology Interface
Paul Buitelaar, Key-Sun Choi, Aldo Gangemi, Chu-Ren Huang, Alessandro Oltramari
New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scaleable, tolerant and dynamic
Frank van Harmelen, Ruzica Piskac, Ning Zhong
First Industrial Results of Semantic Technologies
Roberta Cuel, Lyndon Nixon, Claudio Bergamini
Workshop on Semantic Web and Web 2.0 in Architectural, Product and Engineering Design
Fabio Ciravegna, Dean Allemang, Sanghee Kim, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Yong Se Kim, Rob H. Bracewell
Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based tools
Denny Vrandecic, Raúl García-Castro, Asunción Gómez Pérez, York Sure, Zhisheng Huang
Workshop on Ontology Matching
Pavel Shvaiko, Jérôme Euzenat, Fausto Giunchiglia, Bin He
DAY2(12th, November)
Finding Experts on the Web with Semantics
Anna V. Zhdanova, Lyndon J B Nixon, Malgorzata Mochol, John Breslin
Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web
Lora Aroyo, Eero Hyvonen, Jacco van Ossenbruggen
(CANCELLED)Mastering the Gap 2007: From Information Extraction to Semantic Representation and its Evolution
Paolo Bouquet, Claudia Niederée, Jean-Pierre Chanod, Roberto Brunelli
International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution
Peter Haase, Andreas Hotho, Luke Chen, Ernie Ong, Philippe Cudre Mauroux
Workshop on Privacy Enforcement and Accountability with Semantics(PEAS2007)
Tim Finin, Lalana Kagal, Daniel Olmedilla
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
Fernando Bobillo, Paulo Costa, Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Francis Fung, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Trevor Martin, Matthias Nickles, Yun Peng, Michael Pool, Pavel Smrz, Peter Vojtas
Semantic Web in Ubiquitous Healthcare
Theodoros N. Arvanitis, Frank van Harmelen, Bin Hu, Bo Hu, Shi Yuanchun
