Extended Semantic Web Conference 2010 - Call for Tutorials

ESWC 2010 – Call for Tutorials The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010: http://www.eswc2010.org) is to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of semantics on the Web. ESWC2010 is an international conference that builds on the success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series, but seeks to extend its focus by engaging with other communities within and outside ICT, in which semantics can play an important role. Semantics of web content, coming from ontologies (a.k.a. vocabularies, domain theories, schemata), linked data, data about web usage, natural language processing, etc., is enabling a web that provides a qualitatively new level of functionality. It is weaving together a large network of human knowledge and making it machine-processable. Various automated services, based on reasoning with semantic data, are helping the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems would ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which can be employed for various complex decision-making tasks. The 7th Annual ESWC (Extended Semantic Web Conference) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. In addition to the regular research and workshop programme, ESWC2010 invites tutorials on relevant topics of interest (see this call). A tutorial should present the state of the art in a Semantic Web area, enabling attendees to fully appreciate the current issues, main schools of thought and possible application areas. ESWC2010 tutorials may be either for a full day or for a half day. Unless there is a clear rationale, we will give preference to half day tutorials over full day tutorials. Tutorials proposed for ESWC2010 should cover mature methods on a topic in appropriate depth, and present it in a manner that enables attendees to fully comprehend and apply Semantic Web technologies. We encourage including hands-on sessions, while of course, tutorials can focus entirely on theoretical aspects when appropriate. In case of tutorials that employ tools that need an Internet connection, we appreciate some “plan B” devised in the proposals, in case of connection failure. We finally require proposers to consider tutorials as educational events first, which means that accepted tutorials should provide the attendees with appropriate and complete references to the state-of-the-art work in their respective fields, not only in a specific approach. Important Dates Proposal Submissions: January 4, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 18, 2010 Tutorial camera-ready notes submissions: April 26, 2010 Tutorial days at the conference: May 30-31, 2010 For accepted tutorials, the presenters will need to submit the material for hand-outs (the slide sets and / or additional information; software installation and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions) to the organization committee for preprinting and placement on the ESWC2010 website. Submission Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information: • abstract (200 words maximum, for inclusion on the ESWC2010 website) • tutorial description (aims, target audience, presentation method, technical requirements) • justification for the tutorial, including timeliness and relevance to ESWC2010 • outline of the tutorial content and schedule • information on presenters (name, affiliation, expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation) Tutorial proposals are to be submitted as single PDF files by email to both fensel@ftw.at and aldo.gangemi@cnr.it. Submitted proposals that follow the above guidelines will be reviewed by the ESWC2010 organizing committee with respect to relevance and maturity of the topic, content and presentation method, and presenters’ expertise. Tutorial Chairs Anna Fensel (FTW, AT) Aldo Gangemi (CNR, IT) Conference Topics of Interest and Area Keywords Topics of interest for ESWC2010 tutorials include, but are not limited to the following: 1. Ontologies and Reasoning • Rules and ontology management (creation, evolution, reuse, reengineering, 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, ... 2. Software and Services • 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 3. Mobility • 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 4. Sensor Networks • 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 5. Web of Data • • 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 6. Web Science • Trust and reputation • Security and privacy • Government and political life • Culture on-line • Cybercrime • e-Health • e-commerce • e-Learning 7. Social Web • 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 Dr. Anna Fensel | Senior Researcher fon +43/1/5052830 -45 | fax -99 | web http://userver.ftw.at/~zhdanova | fensel@ftw.at FTW Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien GmbH Donau-City-Straße 1/3 | A-1220 Vienna | Austria | www.ftw.at