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Subject: [STI-community] FINAL CALL: charting the
future of semantics - STI 3rd Roadmapping Workshop
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BE A PART OF CHARTING
THE FUTURE OF
SEMANTICS
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>>>Submission
deadline: 9th of April,
2009<<<
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3rd STI Roadmapping
Workshop
"Charting the next generation of semantic technology"
Monday,
June 1st 2009 co-located with ESWC 2009
Aldemar Knossos Village,
Heraklion, Crete,
Greece
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*DESCRIPTION*
In the last 15
years the World Wide Web has radically changed how our
society
communicates, connects, does business, shares information and
performs
tasks. It can be expected that another paradigm shift will be seen
over
the next 15 years, in which many terms are already part of the
vision:
cloud, utility, services, mobile, ubiquitous, virtual worlds etc.
In the
semantic technologies community there is the expectation that
semantics are
on the cusp of maturity and wider uptake, and a large body
of research work
demonstrates their relevance to all of the
aforementioned areas.
How will the semantic landscape look like in 15
years from now? What path
will be taken to get there? This workshop
solicits submissions from
visionaries in the semantic research community
as well as early adopter
industry, addressing the question of what role
semantic technologies will
play in the next developments of the
Web.
Our aim is to bring together experts to chart together the
requirements on
research and necessary steps in education and technology
transfer that exist
to ensure semantics will achieve their full potential
for society and
industry over the next 15 years. In the workshop, visions
can be shared and
discussed, and actions identified which will result in,
after the workshop,
an expert roadmap for semantic technologies. This
roadmap is expected to
form a significant input to future efforts around
semantic technology.
*BACKGROUND*
This workshop is an action
of the Roadmapping Service of STI International.
The Roadmapping Service
exists to initiate and coordinate the specification
of research roadmaps
for the future research and development of semantic
technologies. The aim
is to provide an integrated plan for future research
and development
activities, which then serves as the basis for coordinating
cross-project
activities as well as for standardization work ensuring
sustainability
and global impact.
The results of the previous workshop event, looking at
semantics through to
2019, can be found here:
http://roadmap.sti2.org/wiki*PROGRAM
OUTLINE*
This year we expect an one day workshop consisting
of:
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An invited talk from Prof. Dr. Fabio
Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK
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''Six
Impossible Things''
In this talk I will try to look into the future of
SemanticTechnologies in
15 years time. I will start by looking at how the
past generations have
looked at the possible present and discuss where
they were right and they
were wrong. Then I will present my vision for
the next 5, 10 and 15 years of
semantic technologies, discussing
scenarios and requirements.
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Curriculum
Vitae
Fabio is Full Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies at
the
University of Sheffield where He coordinates the Organisations,
Information
and Knowledge (OAK) Group. His research field concerns
methodologies and
technologies for the Intelligent and Semantic Web, with
focus on Knowledge
Management applications. He is Director of the
integrated project IST
X-Media, and principal investigator in the EU IPs
WeKnowIt and
SmartProducts. He isprincipal investigator in the project
IPAS-XWB funded by
Rolls-Royce plc. He is also principal investigator in
the ERC-funded project
Archaeotools about analysing 1m documents from the
grey literature. In the
past he was director of the EU project
Dot.Kom
(
http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/dot.kom/) and co-investigator in the
EPSRC IRC AKT
project (
www.aktors.org) He has considerable engagement with
industry and
user communities with projects funded by Rolls Royce, Kodak
Eastman, Lycos,
and the Environment Agency.
He is part of the
editorial board of the International Journal on ''Web
Semantics'' and of
the International Journal of Human Computer Studies. He
is director of
research of K-Now, a spin-off company of the University of
Sheffield
focusing on supporting dynamic distributed communities in
large
organizations. He holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia
and a
doctorship from the University of Torino,
Italy
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*FORMAT*
We expect an one day
workshop consisting of:
- An invited talk from a semantic technologies
visionary
- Presentations of submissions, including sufficient time for
discussion.
Where possible, presentations will be split into sessions
grouped around
specific Web developments (cloud, services, ubiquity,
virtual worlds etc.)
- "Stand-up" session for all other
submittees/attendees of a short 2-3 slide
presentation of an idea or
vision. These are not refereed.
- Interactive session charting the next
15 years of semantic technology
(group activity)
Accepted
submissions will be published in a workshop proceedings as well
as
acknowledged in the STI roadmap document and all other publications
derived
from it.
*CALL FOR SUBMISSION*
Submissions are
welcomed from any member of the research or professional
community. They
should take the form of a position paper, giving grounded
reasons for a
particular vision of semantic technology use in our future
society and
identifying research challenges that must be met, educational
needs that
must be covered and technology transfer that must take place
before this
vision can become reality. Position papers should be no more
than 5 pages
LNCS format and be submitted in PDF format.
Accepted submissions will be
presented at the workshop in short
presentations with sufficient time for
questions. All attendees are invited
to give a 2-3 slide ''stand up''
presentation of their ideas.
Submissions should be sent to
lyndon.nixon@xxxxxxxx*DEADLINES*
Submissions
- April 09
Notification of acceptance - April 30
''Stand up'' slides
to be submitted by May 30
*ORGANIZERS*
Lyndon Nixon, STI
International, AT
Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, IT
Raphael Volz,
Raphael Volz Innovation Consulting GmbH, DE
*PROGRAM
COMMITTEE*
Alexander Wahler, STI International, AT
Barry Norton, Open
University, UK
Dieter Fensel, STI Innsbruck, AT
Elena Simperl, STI
Innsbruck, AT
Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL, IT
Fabio Ciravegna,
University of Sheffield, UK
Guus Schreiber, VU Amsterdam, NL
John
Davies, British Telecom, UK
John Domingue, Open University, UK
Marko
Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Institute, SL
Mathieu D'Aquin, Open University,
UK
Michael Brodie, Verizon, USA
Michal Zaremba, STI innsbruck,
AT
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, DE
Witold Abramowicz, Poznan
University of Economics,
PL
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