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LAST CALL FOR PAPERS (WITH DEADLINE EXTENSION) (02)
THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
SCALABLE SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS (SSWS '07) (03)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=ssws2007cfp (04)
ON THE MOVE FEDERATED CONFERENCES 2007 (OTM'07)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf (05)
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 25 - 30, 2007
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag (06)
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION (08)
This workshop aims at creating a forum for discussing a critical issue
for the
Semantic Web, that is, scalability. As the Semantic Web evolves, scalability
becomes
increasingly important. This workshop will focus on addressing of the
scalability
issue with respect to the development and deployment of knowledge base systems
on the
Semantic Web. Typically, such systems deal with information described in
Semantic Web
languages like OWL and RDF(S), and provide services such as storing,
reasoning,
querying and debugging. There are two basic requirements for these systems.
First,
they have to satisfy the application's semantic requirements by providing
sufficient
reasoning support. Second, they must scale well in order to be of
practical use.
Given the sheer size and distributed nature of the Semantic Web, these
requirements
impose additional challenges beyond those addressed by earlier knowledge
base
systems. This has been well recognized by the community. We expect that the
above
issue is going to challenge the Semantic Web for a long time of
period and
significant effort is needed in order to tackle the problem. (09)
This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners to share
their
recent ideas and progresses towards building scalable knowledge base systems
for the
Semantic Web. The workshop will be centered on the discussion of three major
aspects: (010)
1. foundations, methods and technologies for pushing forward the
state-of-the-art;
2. performance evaluation and related principles, methodologies and tools;
3. identification of important issues and future research directions. (011)
WORKSHOP TOPICS (012)
TOPICS OF INTERESTS for the workshop include, but are not limited to: (013)
* Reasoning mechanisms, techniques and systems
* Query evaluation and optimization
* Performance evaluation and benchmarks
* Large Semantic Web repositories
* Distributed and concurrent knowledge base systems and P2P systems
* Large scale knowledge base management
* Semantic Web-based information integration (014)
In addition, the workshop will include a working session on benchmarking and
other
relevant topics solicited beforehand to participants. In order to be able to
evaluate
scalability, the existence of agreed benchmarking datasets is of
crucial
importance. In many related domains such as databases and theorem proving,
standard
benchmarks exist and are ready to guide research on optimization techniques.
In the
Semantic Web area, such benchmarking shave only just started to emerge and
there is
no commonly agreed benchmark dataset for RDF and OWL reasoning and
querying. The
workshop will address this issue in a special working session on
benchmarking. In
this session, existing benchmarking initiatives will be presented and
discussed by
organizers and participants of the workshop. The aim is to agree on a
classification
of the existing datasets and requirements for additional datasets. (015)
IMPORTANT DATES (016)
Abstract Submission Deadline July 20, 2007 (EXTENDED)
Paper Submission Deadline July 26, 2007
Acceptance Notification September 1, 2007
Camera Ready Due September 10, 2007
Registration Due September 10, 2007
OTM Conferences November 25 - 30, 2007 (017)
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (018)
All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance,
technical soundness, clarity of expression, and relevance to SSWS. All
submissions
must be in English, and will be refereed by a program committee comprising
members of
the Working Group. Research submissions must not exceed 10 pages
following the
Springer format. Submissions should be made in PDF format. Detailed
formatting
instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html (019)
The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to
commit
to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper
from the
proceedings.
The paper submission site is located at
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ssws/2007/papers/ (020)
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE (021)
Achille Fokoue
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA (Contact Person)
(http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/achille.index.html,
achille@xxxxxxxxxx) (022)
Yuanbo Guo
Microsoft Corp
(http://www.lehigh.edu/~yug2, yug2@xxxxxxxxxx) (023)
Thorsten Liebig
Ulm University, Germany
(http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/ki/liebig.html, thorsten.liebig@xxxxxxxxxx) (024)
Bijan Parsia
University of Manchester, UK
(http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~bparsia/, bparsia@xxxxxxxxxxxx) (025)
Program Committee Members (026)
Pascal Hitzler - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
York Sure - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Kavitha Srinivas - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Takahira Yamaguchi - Keio University, Japan
Raúl García Castro - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Aditya Kalyanpur - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Oscar Corcho - University of Manchester, UK
Jeff Heflin - Lehigh University, USA
Ralf Möller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Ian Horrocks - University of Manchester, UK
Boris Motik - University of Manchester, UK
Pierre-Antoine Champin - Lyon 1 University, France
Ying Ding - University of Innsbruck, Austria
Marko Luther - DoCoMo Eurolabs Munich, Germany
Timo Weithöner - Ulm University, Germany
Andy Seaborne - Hewlett-Packard, UK
Ulrike Sattler - University of Manchester, UK
Jan Wielemaker - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Volker Haarslev - Condordia University, Canada (027)
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