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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>First Call for
Papers STICA06</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>1st International
Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications STICA06 </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>at the </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>15th IEEE
International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for
Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2006) The </span></font><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>University</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'> of </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Manchester</span></font><font
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Manchester</span></font><font
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"Courier New"'>, </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>U.K.</span></font><font
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"Courier New"'> (</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>26th-28th June
2006</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>)</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06"><span lang=EN-GB>http://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06</span></a></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>==========================================================</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>MOTIVATION</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>==================</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>With distributed
information systems and the Internet continually increasing in significance,
collaboratively creating and managing information has become an essential
requirement for the success of (virtual) organizations. This situation has led
to a plethora of platforms supporting cooperation as well as joint information
access among geographically dispersed user communities that have emerged in the
last decades: collaborative information spaces, tele-cooperation, autonomous
agents or, more recently, various Web-related forms of communication and
cooperation such as discussion forums, community portals, Wikis and blogs.</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>A fundamental
requirement for an effective collaboration is the availability of technologies
and tools which provide an explicit and unambiguous representation of the
shared information and a feasible management of such semantics-enhanced
information repositories. The emergence of the Semantic Web has marked an
important stage in the evolution of semantic technologies. In this context the
knowledge components i.e. ontologies are formalized using Web-suitable, but in
the same time semantically unambiguous representation languages, are accessible
and can be shared and reused across the World Wide Web. </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The Semantic Web
offers new opportunities for the next generation of collaborative applications:
it provides us with novel means to classify information items i.e. by means of
ontologies which formally represent the consensual understanding of the
application users w.r.t. a particular domain of interest. Taking advantage of
this technology, the first promising implementations of Semantic Web-based
collaboration platforms such as Semantic Web portals, semantic Wikis and blogs,
to name only a few, have been proposed. </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>This workshop
aims at contributing to this young application field by providing a forum for
practitioners and researchers to present innovative approaches to applying
Semantic Web technologies in collaborative environments and to discuss the
opportunities and challenges related to this topic.</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>OBJECTIVES</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>================</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The primary
objective of this workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners working
in different emerging aspects of semantics-enabled collaboration, ranging from
discovering new application scenarios, proposing new methods to apply Semantic
Web and related emerging technologies to current environments, pointing out
issues that still need to be solved, and reporting results and experiences
gained during the deployment of collaborative methods and the realization of
support systems.</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>TOPICS OF
INTEREST</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>=================</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>We invite
original academic and industry contributions which report on issues related to
semantic collaboration. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Topics of
interest include but are not limited to: </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> --
Methodologies for collaboratively creating and managing shared information </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> --
Collaborative ontology engineering </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> --
Semantic collaboration applications </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> --
Collaborative Semantic Web portals </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> --
Semantic community support systems </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> --
Semantic Wikis </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> --
Semantic Blogging </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> --
Semantic Mindmapping and Conceptmapping </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> --
Case studies, lessons learned and experience reports on semantics-aware
collaborative applications </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> --
Studies on the value added to collaboration by semantic technologies</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> --
Future research directions in the area of semantic collaboration </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ORGANIZERS</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>=================</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Robert Tolksdorf, Elena
Paslaru Bontas, Klaus Schild</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Freie Universität Berlin</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>AG Netzbasierte
Informationssysteme</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Takustr. 9</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>D-14195 Berlin</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Germany</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>{tolk|paslaru|schild}@inf.fu-berlin.de
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>SUBMISSION AND
PROCEEDINGS</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>==================</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Submission of
papers will take place electronically. Detailed submission instructions will be
announced on the homepage of the workshop at </span></font><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06"><span lang=EN-GB>http://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06</span></a></span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'>. </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The papers should
be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE format (this
will also be the page limit for the proceedings).</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>All submitted
papers will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three people. </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The accepted
papers and the summary report on the workshop will be published in the
post-conference proceedings and directly mailed to the registered authors by
the IEEE Computer Press after the conference. Please note that in order for an
accepted paper to be published in the conference proceedings at least one of
its authors is required to register and present the paper at WETICE-2006.</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>IMPORTANT DATES</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>==================</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Deadline for
paper submission: </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>February 10,
2006</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Decision to paper
authors: </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>April 7, 2006</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Final version of
accepted papers due to IEEE: </span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'>May 12, 2006</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>WETICE-2006
Workshops and On-site registration: </span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'>June 26-28, 2006</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>------------------------------------------------------</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Dipl. -Inform. Elena Paslaru
Bontas Simperl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Netzbasierte
Informationssysteme</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Institut für Informatik</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Freie Universität Berlin</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>paslaru@inf.fu-berlin.de </span></font></p>
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