CALL FOR PAPERS
You are invited to participate in the upcoming International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the
Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 7th International Semantic Web
Conference (ISWC) in October of 2008 in Karlsruhe - Germany. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research
on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The International Workshop on Uncertainty
Reasoning for the Semantic Web is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization
between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty
are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the
ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty is extremely
limited. Recently, there has been a groundswell of demand for uncertainty
reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers. This surge of interest creates a unique opening to
bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but little
history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark
dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. Audience The intended audience for this workshop includes the following · Researchers in uncertainty reasoning
technologies with interest in Semantic Web and Web-related technologies. · Semantic web developers and researchers. · People in the knowledge representation
community with interest in the Semantic Web. · Ontology researchers and ontological
engineers. · Web services researchers and developers with
interest in the Semantic Web. · Developers of tools designed to support
semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé and Protégé-OWL
developers. Topic List We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the
general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web (including fuzzy theory,
probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should
be just an initial guide. · Syntax and semantics for extensions to
Semantic Web languages to enable representation of uncertainty · Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in
Semantic Web languages · Probability theory as a means of assessing
the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar
concepts · Architectures for applying plausible
reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping · Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise
concepts within ontologies · The concept of a probabilistic ontology and
its relevance to the Semantic Web · Best practices for representing uncertain,
incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web · The role of uncertainty as it relates to Web
services · Interface protocols with support for
uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among Web services · Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to
trust issues in the Semantic Web · Existing implementations of uncertainty
reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web · Issues and techniques for integrating tools
for representing and reasoning with uncertainty · The future of uncertainty reasoning for the
Semantic Web Important Dates July 25, 2008 Paper
submissions due September 5, 2008 Paper
acceptance notification September 26, 2008 Camera-ready
papers due October 26-27, 2008 4th
Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web Submission
Details The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position
papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least
three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be
based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential
significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be
presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting
authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2008 Conference, and
committed to attend the URSW Workshop. Submissions to the Workshop are only accepted in electronic format and
should be sent via the workshop’s submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2008. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, and follow the same submission
format used by the ISWC 2008 Conference, the Springer Publications format for
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), available at http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html
. Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages,
including figures. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or
any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 2 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2008 conference,
papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already
been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another
conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. Presentation
and Publication URSW 2008 will be a full day
workshop divided into four sessions. Two of those sessions will be devoted to a
specific theme, while the remaining sessions will be planned in a format that
invites an open debate on the results, conclusions, recommendations, and
follow-up work of the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web
Incubator Group (http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/urw3/XGR-urw3/). All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop
and published in the workshop proceedings, which will be available as a
separate publication after the Conference. Authors of accepted technical papers
will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position
papers will have a 5-minute slot to share their ideas. In addition, both technical and position papers will be published in
the URSW Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2008 Conference. We are also planning to publish revised versions of selected papers
in an LNCS volume or a
special issue of an international journal. Program
Committee The program committee is still
being formed. Currently, it as follows (in alphabetical order): ·
Ameen Abu-Hanna - Universiteit van Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. · Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada,
Spain. · Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason
University, USA. · Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao
Paulo, Brazil. ·
Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy. ·
Ernesto Damiani - University of Milan, Italy. ·
Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy. ·
Francis Fung - Eduworks, Inc., USA. ·
Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University,
USA. ·
Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA.
Member of the W3C Advisory Board. ·
Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK. ·
Anders L. Madsen - Hugin Expert A/S, Denmark. ·
M. Scott Marshall - Adaptive Information
Disclosure, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ·
Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK. ·
Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK. ·
Yung Peng - University of Maryland, Baltimore
County, USA. · Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA. ·
Livia Predoiu - Universität Mannheim, Germany. ·
Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK. ·
Daniel Sánchez – University of Granada, Spain. · Elie Sanchez - Université de La
Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II , France. ·
Nematollaah Shiri - Concordia University,
Canada. ·
Oreste Signori - ISTI-CNR, Manager of the W3C
Office, Italy. ·
Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau,
Germany. ·
Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology,
Czech Republic. · Umberto Straccia - Istituto di Scienza e
Tecnologie dell' Informazione "A. Faedo", Italy. ·
Heiner Stuckenschmidt - Universität Mannheim,
Germany. ·
Masami Takikawa - Cleverset, Inc., USA. ·
Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech
Republic. Organizing
Committee The organizing committee is as
follows (in alphabetical order): ·
Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain. ·
Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University,
USA. ·
Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy. ·
Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy. ·
Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA. ·
Ken Laskey – MITRE Corporation, USA. ·
Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK. ·
Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK. ·
Matthias Nickles - University
of Bath, UK. · Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA. ·
Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology,
Czech Republic. We are looking forward to seeing you in Karlsruhe!
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