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7th Extended Semantic Web Conference
30 May - 3 June 2010 | Heraklion, Greece (02)
ESWC 2010 Call for Tutorials (03)
The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010) 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. (04)
Important Dates (05)
Proposal Submissions: January 4, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) (06)
Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 18, 2010
Tutorial camera-ready notes submissions: April 26, 2010
Tutorial days at the conference: May 30-31, 2010 (07)
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. (08)
Submission (09)
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) (010)
Tutorial proposals are to be submitted as single PDF files by email to
both fensel@xxxxxx and aldo.gangemi@xxxxxxx (011)
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. (012)
Tutorial Chairs
Anna Fensel (FTW, AT) (013)
Aldo Gangemi (CNR, IT) (014)
Conference Topics of Interest and Area Keywords (015)
Topics of interest for ESWC2010 tutorials include, but are not limited
to the following: (016)
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, ... (017)
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 (018)
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 (019)
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 (020)
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 (021)
6. Web Science
Trust and reputation
Security and privacy
Government and political life
Culture on-line
Cybercrime
e-Health
e-commerce
e-Learning (022)
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 (023)
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