*** EXTENDED DEADLINE MARCH 25th 2010 ***
Call for Papers
I-Semantics 2010: 6th International Conference on
Semantic Systems
Graz,
Austria,
1 - 3 September 2010
http://www.i-semantics.at
including
Call for Papers
5th AIS SigPrag International Conference on Pragmatic
Web
(ICPW 2010)
&
Call for Submissions
3rd Triplification Challenge
Latest News:
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Paper Submission Deadline extended to MARCH 25th
I-SEMANTICS proceedings published by ACM ICPS
Tim Berners-Lee official patron of Triplification
Challenge 2010
Peter Gloor (MIT) to Hold Keynote at I-SEMANTICS 2010
Prof. Marti Hearst gives a Keynote at I-SEMANTICS
‘10
Elsevier Data & Knowledge Engineering on
“Pragmatic Web” forthcoming
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Scope
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I-SEMANTICS 2010 (www.i-semantics.at) is the 6th
conference in the I-SEMANTICS series and provides a forum for academic and
industrial research & development that focuses on semantic technologies and
the Semantic Web. I-SEMANTICS 2010 will bring together both researchers and
practitioners in the areas of Linked Data, Social Software and the Semantic Web
in order to present and develop innovative ideas that help realising the
“Social Semantic Web” and the “Corporate Semantic Web”.
I-SEMANTICS 2010 will be the host of this year`s
regional Pragmatic Web Conference as well as the third edition of the
TRIPLIFICATION Challenge. Further on I-SEMANTICS will be complemented by I-KNOW
(www.i-know.at), the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management. This
setup is aiming to reflect the increasing importance and convergence of
knowledge management and semantic systems.
Topics
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The special focus of I-SEMANTICS 2010 is
„Towards a Web of Linked Data”.
As a conference aiming to bring together science and
industry, I-SEMANTICS encourages both, scientific (research/application) and
industrial contributions. The following table summarises the topics we are
interested in:
Web of Data and Linked Data
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• Triplification of existing data
• Vocabularies, taxonomies and schemas for use
on the Web of Data
• Querying, searching and browsing over Linked
Data
• Coreference detection and dataset
reconciliation
• Information provenance and quality assessment
on the Web of Data
• User interaction and visualisation
• Applications utilizing open data sets
• Linked Enterprise Data, Linked Government
Data
Corporate Semantic Web
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• Corporate thesauri, corporate business
vocabularies / ontologies and business rules
• Semantic Business Information Systems
• Semantic Business Process Management
• Semantic Decision Management
• Semantics, Pragmatics and Semiotics in
Organizations
• Economic and entrepreneurial aspects and
business models of Semantic Enterprises
Semantic Social Software
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• Semantic blogging, wikis and content
management systems
• Semantic Desktop
• Semantic mashups
• Semantic/structured tagging
• Social semantic web and mobile services
Semantic Content Engineering
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• Ontology Engineering & Ontology Merging
• Ontology Design Patterns
• Ontology Life Cycle Management
• Ontology Learning
• Linguistic and statistic approaches
(text-mining, NLP, etc.) for structuring and extracting content and entities
• Automated annotation, extreme tagging and
digital curation approaches
Building Blocks for Semantic Web Applications
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• Scalable inference, retrieval, and
persistence of semantic data
• Design processes from requirements to
maintenance
• Design patterns, Best practices and Reference
Models
• User-interface components, template languages
• Integration of distributed repositories
• Policy Awareness & Policy Aware Web
• Semantic web services
Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks
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• Case studies of and benchmarks in semantic
systems usage
• Evaluation perspectives, methods and Semantic
Web research methodologies
• Technology assessment, acceptance/media
choice theories
• Usability and user interaction with semantic
technologies
• Quality analysis of socially generated
semantic content
• Trust and privacy issues in semantic applications
• Economic effects generated by large scale
semmantic systems
Pragmatic Web Track
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The Conference on PRAGMATIC WEB is centered around
the study of “pragmatics” in the Semantic Web. That is, it draws
attention to how communicative actions with a pragmatic context are performed
via Web media and illuminates how mutual understanding and commitments to
actions can evolve in conversations. For further information about the
Pragmatic Web see http://www.pragmaticweb.info/
Topics of Interest
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• Pragmatic Web Science
• Theories, Frameworks, Models and Methods
…inspired by Pragmatics and Pragmatism, or less formally, case study
reflections on “pragmatic” uses of the Web that supported the
negotiation of social/work relationships and common ground
• Applied pragmatic theory
• Communication, dialogue and argumentation
models
• Pragmatic Web media for communicative actions
• Pragmatic collaboration and coordination
tools
• Pragmatic context models (e.g. within
conversation-based collaborations)
• Pragmatic design principles for Web contents
where trust and commitment to action play a role
• Vocabularies / ontologies for pragmatic
primitives (e.g. speech acts, deontic primitives, etc.)
• Linguistic metaphor: its value for framing
the Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Web
• Pragmatic model of scientific inquiry in
Semantic Web research
• Negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution,
and coordination combining existing ontologies and schemata, collaborative
ontology sharing and matching techniques
• Integrative frameworks: approaches to
integrating insights from component disciplines (e.g. language-action
perspectives, cognition, linguistics, semiotics, knowledge representation,
philosophy, interaction design, negotiation, media studies)
• Pragmatic reasoning supporting adaptive
semantic collaboration and virtual collaborative teams
• Sense making, analysis and decision-making in
a cooperative or non-cooperative pragmatic model
• Argumentation, dialogue and debate
• Personalized / role-based Pragmatic Web
Agents and intelligent conversation or action based web services
• Pragmatic Web based human-human and
human-computer interaction
• Semiotically motivated approaches to
information systems
• Semiotic engineering and Semiotics in
business computing
• Semiotic theory, concepts, methods and
techniques, and their practical applications
Triplification Challenge
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The challenge is open to anyone interested in
applying Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies. This includes students,
developers, researchers, and people from industry. Individual or group
submissions are both acceptable. We envision submissions in three categories:
• Novel data sets that are published as part of
the Web of Data, according to Linked Data principles, and demonstrating
potential benefit of use within applications;
• Novel generic mechanisms, approaches, and
technologies that convert certain types and formats of information into
triples, interlink them to other data sets, and expose them as Linked Data;
• Applications showcasing the benefits of
Linked Data to end-users such as for information syndication, specialized
search, browsing, or augmentation of content.
Criteria
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Entries shall consist of a 2-3 page description and
will be assessed according to the extent to which they:
• demonstrate innovation through the _expression_
of existing data structures as Linked Data;
• reasonably reuse existing vocabularies and
alignment ontologies (e.g., the datasets from the Linking Open Data cloud.)
• highlight the technical capabilities of the
Semantic Web and bring real benefits to potential users.
All three criteria will be given equal importance in
selecting the winning entry. In the event of a tie, the entry deemed to bring
greatest benefits to potential users will be awarded the prize.
Please find further information at
http://triplify.org/Challenge/2010
http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/triplification_challenge
Submission Information
======================
All accepted papers of I-SEMANTICS 2010 will be
published in the digital library of the ACM ICP series.
Submissions must be original and must not have been
submitted for publication elsewhere. Articles should follow the ACM ICPS
guidelines for formatting
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and must be
submitted via the online submission system available at the conference website
as PDF documents (other formats will not be accepted). For the camera-ready
version, we will also need the source files (Latex, Word Perfect, Word).
Research/Application Papers
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Research/Application papers report on novel research
and/or applications relevant to the topics of the conference. The number of
pages of research papers is limited to 8 pages including references and an
optional appendix.
Posters, Demos & Tutorials
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The conference also particularly welcomes the
submission of posters, demos, and tutorials. Submissions should consist of a
2-4 page description that allows us to judge the quality of your presentation. Descriptions
will also be published as part of the proceedings.
Important Dates
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• [Old Paper Submission Deadline: 8 March 2010]
• Extended Submission Deadline: 25 March 2010
• Notification of Acceptance: to be announced
• Camera-Ready Paper: to be announced
• I-SEMANTICS 2010: 1–3 September 2010
Committee (in alphabetical order)
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Programme Chairs
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* Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company)
* Richard Cyganiak (DERI, National University of
Ireland)
* Nicola Henze (Leibniz University Hannover)
* Adrian Paschke (Free University of Berlin)
* Bernhard Schandl (University of Vienna)
* Juan Sequeda (University of Texas)
* Hans Weigand (University of Tilburg)
Organisation Chairs
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* Tassilo Pellegrini (Semantic Web Company)
Program Committee
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Please go to:
http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/scientific-track/program-committee/