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========================= CALL FOR PAPERS =========================<br><br>
Second International Workshop: "New forms of reasoning for the Semantic<br>
Web: scaleable, tolerant and dynamic"<br><br><a href="http://nefors08.larkc.eu/" target="_blank">http://nefors08.larkc.eu</a><br><br>
Co-located with the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008)<br><a href="http://www.aswc2008.org/" target="_blank">http://www.aswc2008.org/</a><br><br>
Pathumthani, Thailand, 8th-11th December 2008<br><br>
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Workshop Objectives<br>
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The Semantic Web is the vision of a Web of data usable for both humans<br>
but also machines. This web, consists of inter-connected instance data<br>
annotated with possibly expressive ontologies. Therefore a tremendous<br>
amount of information becomes available that should be processed based<br>
on formal semantics attached to it. The Semantic Web community has<br>
developed a number of languages (such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL) that<br>
deploy logic for this purpose. Impressive progress has been made on<br>
scalable storage, querying and inference for these languages, and they<br>
are successfully being deployed on large intranets and medium-scale<br>
web-applications.<br><br>
However existing reasoning techniques often fail to live up to the<br>
expectations put into them in this context. They can often neither deal<br>
with high number of instances, the expressiveness of the ontologies<br>
describing them or the inherent inconsistency and incompleteness of data<br>
on the Web.<br><br>
This workshop is intended to focus on these problems of scalability and<br>
robustness of reasoning on the Web, and furthermore to investigate<br>
alternative reasoning methods, which take incompleteness and<br>
distribution of data and knowledge as inherent properties into account.<br><br>
NeForS08 is the follow-up of the first international workshop on "New<br>
forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scalable, tolerant and<br>
dynamic", which took place in Busan, Korea in November 2007 and was<br>
co-located with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC<br>
2007) and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2007).<br><br><br>
Topics of Interest<br>
==================<br>
We welcome all research contributions that address one or more of the<br>
following topics:<br>
* Reasoning for the Web<br>
* Querying and searching<br>
* Scalability to the Web level<br>
* Efficient storage of structured data that scale to a very large size<br><br>
We also aim to attract participants from scientific fields not typically<br>
seen at Semantic Web events:<br>
* Economics can tell us about cost-benefit trade-off models, sunk-cost<br>
theory and the role of negotiation in obtaining near-optimal results<br>
under bounded resources<br>
* Cognitive Science can tell us about strategies of human memory and<br>
human reasoning which is so succesful in reaching good enough conclusion<br>
in limited time-spans, using methods such as priming, attention scoping,<br>
recency-based self-optimising memory, etc.<br>
* Computational Learning Theory has contributions to make with their<br>
notions of Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) computing, and<br>
strategies for abstraction and compression of information.<br>
* Combinatorial Search has made recent breakthroughs in handling massive<br>
search-spaces with heuristics based on Monte Carlo simulations.<br><br><br>
Event Information<br>
=================<br>
The workshop will take place during the 3rd Asian Semantic Web<br>
Conference (ASWC2008) as a full-day event.<br>
It will be organized as a full day event and include an invited talk by<br>
Kyung-il Tony Lee, president and CEO of Saltlux Inc. on the industrial<br>
view on semantic technologies and the need for large-scale reasoning.<br><br>
Please note that for every accepted paper at least one of the authors<br>
must attend the workshop and must register for the workshop and the main<br>
conference.<br>
Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop.<br>
However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would<br>
like to participate, those who have submitted a paper will be given<br>
priority.<br><br><br>
Submissions<br>
===========<br>
The workshop invites full papers (up to 15 pages) as well as short<br>
papers (up to 5 pages). All contributions will be peer reviewed by the<br>
program commitee (see <a href="http://nefors08.larkc.eu/" target="_blank">http://nefors08.larkc.eu</a>) and accepted submissions<br>
will be published in a dedicated book. The number of accepted papers<br>
will be kept deliberately low in order to leave sufficient time for<br>
discussion after presentations.<br>
Additionally we are considering a special issue in a journal on<br>
semantic computing for extended versions of selected, high quality<br>
submissions.<br><br>
Submitted papers must be written in English and one of the following<br>
format must be used for the first submission: PDF, PS, DOC. For<br>
submissions please follow LNCS formatting instructions (see<br><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com<wbr>/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2<wbr>-72376-0</a> for details)<br>
to prepare your paper and consider using the camera ready format even<br>
for the first submission.<br><br>
Furthermore papers need to be submitted electronically through the<br>
EasyChair using the following link:<br><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=nefors08" target="_blank">http://www.easychair.org<wbr>/conferences?conf=nefors08</a><br><br><br>
Important Dates<br>
===============<br>
* September 15, 2008: Submission of papers<br>
* September 30, 2008: Notification of acceptance<br>
* October 15, 2008: Camera-ready version due<br>
* December 8, 2008: Workshop<br><br><br>
Organizers<br>
==========<br>
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br>
Uwe Keller, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria<br>
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan and The<br>
International WIC Institute/BJUT, China<br><br>
Program Committee<br>
=================<br>
Ruzica Piskac, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland<br>
Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br>
Lael Schooler, MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany<br>
Pascal Hitzler, Institut for Angewandte Informatik und Formale<br>
Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany<br>
Yue Pan, IBM Research Laboratory, Beijing, China<br>
Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China<br>
Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL, Milano, Italy<br>
Stefania Galizia, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton<br>
Keynes, United Kingdom<br>
Guilin Qi, Institut for Angewandte Informatik und Formale<br>
Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany<br>
Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, Austin, Texas, USA<br>
Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China<br>
Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Trento, Italy<br><br>
Steering Committee<br>
===================<br>
Dieter Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck,<br>
Austria<br>
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br><br><br>
Contact<br>
=======<br>
Florian Fischer<br>
Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria<br>
Technikerstr. 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria<br>
E <a href="mailto:florian.fischer@sti2.at">florian.fischer@sti2.at</a></div></div></div><br>
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