<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">Call for Papers<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">3rd European Semantic Web Conference<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">11 - 14 June 2006<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">Budva (Montenegro)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText"><A href="http://www.eswc2006.org/">http://www.eswc2006.org/</A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's web via the exploitation of machine-processable meta data. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, accompanied with domain theories (Ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together an incredibly large network of human knowledge and will complement it with machine processability. Various automated services will help the user to achieve goals by accessing and providing information in machine-understandable form. This process may ultimately create truly knowledgeable systems with various specialized reasoning services systems. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Human Language Technology, Machine Learning, Databases, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">The 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006) will present the latest results in research and application in semantic web technologies (including knowledge mark-up languages, semantic web services, ontology management and more). ESWC 2006 will also feature a special industry-oriented event providing European industry with an opportunity to become even more familiar with these technologies. It will offer a tutorial program to get up to speed with European and global developments in this exciting new area.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">ESWC 2006 is co-located with general assembly of the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence. Workshops and meetings of other European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects involved in the semantic web and semantic web technologies will be able to showcase their developments. In particular we will welcome the new projects accepted at the EU IST 4th Call.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">ESWC 2006 is sponsored by SDK - a group of three European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects known as SEKT, DIP and Knowledge Web. Together these projects aim to improve world-wide research and standardisation in the area of the Semantic Web. For more information on SDK, please visit <A href="http://www.sdk-cluster.org">www.sdk-cluster.org</A>.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">SUBMISSIONS<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">ESWC 2006 welcomes the submission of excellent original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of the semantic web, particularly those relating to the subject areas indicated by the topics below. We particularly encourage the submission of papers relating to industrial efforts and experiences with semantic web projects. We also encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical and applications papers. The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">Paper submission and reviewing for ESWC 2006 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: <A href="http://www.eswc2006.org">http://www.eswc2006.org</A>/. Papers, due to November 28th, 2005, should not exceed fifteen (15)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>pages in Springer LNCS format.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">IMPORTANT DATES<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">Full Paper Submission: November 28, 2005<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">Camera-Ready Papers due: March 31, 2006<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">Conference: June 11 - 14, 2006<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST AND AREA KEYWORDS<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">Topics of interest to the conference include (but are not restricted to):<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Ontology Management (e.g. creation, evolution, evaluation)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Ontology Alignment (e.g. mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (including e.g. HLT and machine learning approaches)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Annotation of Data<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Web Rules and Query Languages<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Reasoning in the Semantic Web (e.g. scalability, fuzziness, distribution)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Grid<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Web Services (e.g. description, discovery, invocation, composition)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Middleware<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Learning, e-Health, e-Government<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Database Technologies for the Semantic Web<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Data Semantics and Web Semantics<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Knowledge Portals<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Desktop<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Interoperability<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Web Mining<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Web Inference Schemes<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Semantic Searching, Querying, Navigation and Browsing<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">* Visualization and Modelling<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">PROGRAM CHAIR<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText">York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, DE), <A href="mailto:sure@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de">sure@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de</A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoPlainText"> <O:P></O:P></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>