<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span lang="EN-GB"><p><font face="Arial">========================================</font></p><p><font face="Arial">CALL FOR PAPERS</font></p><p><font face="Arial">Journal of Web Semantics</font></p><p><font face="Arial">Special Issue on Semantic Web Dynamics</font></p><p><font face="Arial">========================================</font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><b>Description</b></font></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Recent years have witnessed the arrival of more and more semantically annotated data and related ontologies in the Semantic Web. For example, the linked data initiative has been very successful in making datasets available online, with a total of about 5 billion triples all together so far. While existing semantic tools and reasoning engines are year after year getting better in dealing with time invariant domain of ontological knowledge, supporting rapidly changing information has not yet attracted sufficient attention.</span></p><p><font face="Arial">There are more and more heterogeneous and/or dynamic data types being created and which integration could lead to interesting applications and models (e.g. sensor data streams, geospatial information and imagery, financial transactions, news feeds, 3D models, engineering data, information for policy intelligence etc.). Current Stream Database Management Systems provide on the fly analysis of data streams, but they suffer several limitations: they cannot handle heterogeneous data streams originating from a variety of already deployed sensors; they cannot combine data streams with slowly evolving knowledge at query time; and they cannot perform reasoning tasks. And in the area of reasoning, while the problem of classical, time invariant domain of ontological knowledge has been extensively studied, the task of reasoning with rapidly changing information has been mostly neglected and constitutes a new challenge.</font></p><p><font face="Arial">Furthermore, ontologies, just like any structure holding knowledge and information, need to be updated too: changes could be initiated because of a change in the world being modelled; or by a change in the users needs which would require a different conceptualization; or by the acquisition of knowledge previously unknown, unclassified or otherwise unavailable; or by the noticing of a design flaw in the original conceptualization. In all these cases, the representation of knowledge in the ontology should be modified so as to form a more accurate or adequate conceptualization of the domain.</font></p><p><font face="Arial">This general issue of Semantic Web Dynamics includes difficulties from both practical and theoretical points of view, raising a variety of research questions and development challenges, such as how to support the ontology and data publishers in maintaining up-to-date, adequate representations; how to detect the need for evolution and changes; how to facilitate the integration of new, dynamic sources in existing datasets and ontologies; how to validate and evaluate the impact of the changes on semantic information; how to handle changes triggered from multiple sources and collaborative updates; and how to keep track of (possibly</font></p><p><font face="Arial">concurrent) versions of and ensure the delivery of up-to-date and valid knowledge.</font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><b>Topics of Interest</b></font></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">For this special issue, we seek articles describing foundational and theoretical work as well as technological solutions to these challenges.</span></p><p><font face="Arial">More specifically, we expect submission on (but not restricted to) the following topics:</font></p><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Foundational and formal aspects of Semantic Web dynamics</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Language extensions for Semantic Web dynamics</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Reasoning with dynamic data and ontologies</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Engineering dynamic data and ontologies</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Requirements and practical issues for Semantic Web dynamics</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Applications of dynamic data and ontologies</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Theory for stream reasoning</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Logic language for stream reasoning</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Scalability issues in stream reasoning</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Ontologies for dynamic environments</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Dynamic knowledge building, and (re-)use</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Ontology evolution and versioning</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Language extensions for evolution</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Belief revision for ontologies</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Change propagation in ontologies dynamic datasets and ontologies</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Inconsistency in evolving semantic information</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Incremental reasoning</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Case studies and applications of ontology and knowledge evolution</font></font></p><font size="3"></font><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Arial"> Tools to support dynamic data and ontologies</font></font></p><font size="3"><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><b>Important Dates</b></font></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">31 May 2010: Submission deadline</span></p><p><font face="Arial">31 August 2010: First-round reviews complete</font></p><p><font face="Arial">31 October 2010: Revised papers submitted</font></p><p><font face="Arial">23 December 2010: Final acceptance decisions</font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><b>Method of Submission</b></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><div>Submission should be realized through Elsevier's Electronic Submission system (EES) at <a href="http://ees.elsevier.com/jws">http://ees.elsevier.com/jws</a>, selecting "Special Issue: Semantic Web Dynamics" as article type.</div> <div>A guide for authors is available concerning the use of this system at <a href="http://epsupport.elsevier.com/al/12/1/article.aspx?aid=1520&bt=4">http://epsupport.elsevier.com/al/12/1/article.aspx?aid=1520&bt=4</a></div><div><br></div></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><b>Guest Editors/Contacts</b></font></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Grigoris Antoniou - FORTH, Greece (<a href="mailto:antoniou@ics.forth.gr">antoniou@ics.forth.gr</a>)</span></p><p><font face="Arial">Mathieu dAquin - The Open University, United Kingdom (<a href="mailto:m.daquin@open.ac.uk">m.daquin@open.ac.uk</a>)</font></p><p><font face="Arial">Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (<a href="mailto:jeff.z.pan@abdn.ac.uk">jeff.z.pan@abdn.ac.uk</a>)</font></p></font></span></div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div></body></html>