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CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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<b>Managing Vagueness and Uncertainty in the Semantic Web (VUSW-09)</b><br>
Milano, 15 th September 2009<br>
<a href="http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/vusw-2009/">http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/vusw-2009/</a><br>
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The Semantic Web has recently attracted much attention both from
academia and industry,<br>
and it is widely regarded as the next step in
the evolution of the World Wide Web, towards <br>
the Intelligent Web. It
aims at enhancing content on the World Wide Web (WWW) with <br>
meta-data,
enabling agents (machines or human users) to process, share and
interpret Web<br>
content. Nowadays, for many people, the WWW has become an
indispensable tool of<br>
research (it is used in order to provide useful
information to humans).<br>
Unfortunately, searching the Web in its current form is not well suited
for finding information<br>
which is ill-defined (in texts, pictures,
videos, and so on). Up to now, users are able to only<br>
find “precise
information”, using the underlying binary logic. An immediate problem
is that <br>
search engines usually provide a huge number of answers, many
of which are completely <br>
irrelevant, whereas some of the more
interesting answers are not found. One of the reasons <br>
for this
unsatisfactory state of affairs is that existing Web resources are
mainly oriented <br>
towards human understandability: the mark-up
(meta-data) only provides rendering information<br>
for textual and
graphical information intended for human consumption. Hence, a way to
improve<br>
the expressiveness of the Web-knowledge is to integrate it with
uncertain and vague features.<br>
The Semantic Web challenge is to develop frameworks to bring semantics
to Web contents, <br>
with the aim to make agents (i.e. machines and humans)
understand each other by sharing knowledge. <br>
Any agent might thus
process and interpret Web contents. This could only be performed if
imprecise <br>
and uncertain information can be correctly interpreted and
processed. Thus, to reach this scope, <br>
Web-based Retrieval Systems must
include new semantic features in order to retrieve semantically<br>
correlated information and to satisfy user's queries. However, up to
now, the use of the techniques <br>
for making the Web more intelligent is
still in the early stages. Hence, the objective of this workshop<br>
is to
provide a concrete study and analysis for making Web-knowledge more
expressive and fruitful, <br>
hosting novel research contributions (i) to
develop Semantic Web tools, models and languages <br>
(e.g., Jena
developers, ontologies editors developers), and (ii) to provide
facilities for representing <br>
knowledge and reasoning under uncertainty
and/or imprecision.
<p><b>Topics:</b><br>
The topics of main interest are: </p>
<ul>
<li>Fuzzy Ontology and Fuzzy Description Logics</li>
<li>Probabilistic Ontology and Probabilistic Description Logics</li>
<li>Ontology Approximation</li>
<li>Ontology languages</li>
<li>Granular computing tools for the Semantic Web</li>
<li>Uncertainty reasoning tools for the Semantic Web</li>
<li>Concept-based Information retrieval</li>
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<b>Submissions:</b><br>
All submitted papers will be reviewed on the
basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. <br>
All
workshops are required to use the WI-IAT 2008 Cyberchair system for
on-line paper submission process.<br>
The length of accepted papers should NOT exceed 4 pages (IEEE-CS
format, extra payment is only available<br>
for one more extra page).
Accepted workshop papers will be published in the Proceedings of
WI-IAT08 <br>
Workshops by IEEE-CS Press.<br>
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<b>Important dates:</b><br>
- <font color="#cc0000">Due date for full workshop papers submission:
April 30, 2009</font><br>
- <font color="#000000">Notification of paper acceptance to authors:
June 8, 2009<br>
- </font><font color="#000000">Camera-ready of accepted papers: June
30, 2009<br>
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<p> <b>Organizing Committee:</b><br>
Silvia Calegari, <em>Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy</em><br>
Davide Ciucci, <em>Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy</em><br>
<a href="mailto:ciucci@disco.unimib.it"></a>Elie Sanchez, <em>LIF,
Faculte de Medecine (Universite Aix-Marseille), France</em><br>
Umberto Straccia, <em>ISTI-CNR, Italy</em></p>
<b>Program Committee:</b><br>
Paulo Cesar da Costa, <em>George Mason University, USA</em><br>
Ernesto Damiani, <em>Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy</em><br>
Martine De Cock, <em>Ghent University, Belgium</em><br>
Stijn Heymans, <em>Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria</em><br>
Anne Laurent, <em>LIRMM, France</em><br>
Thomas Lukasiewicz, <em>Oxford University / TU Vienna, U.K. / Austria</em><br>
Trevor Martin, <em>University of Bristol, UK</em><br>
Peter Vojtas, <em>Charles University Prague, Czech Republic<br>
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Davide Ciucci
Researcher
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo)
University of Milano-Bicocca
Building U14 - Room 2001
Viale Sarca 336
20126 Milano, Italy
Tel.: +39 02 64487902
Fax: +39 02 64487839
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