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Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:02 PM
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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