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Call for Papers:<br>
Journal of Web Semantics<br>
Special Issue on Using Provenance in the Semantic Web<br>
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Editors:<br>
Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California’s Information Sciences
Institute<br>
Paul Groth, Free University of Amsterdam<br>
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The Web is a decentralized system full of information provided by
diverse open sources of varying quality. For any given question there
will be a multitude of answers offered, raising the need for assessing
their relative value and for making decisions about what sources to
trust. In order to make effective use of the Web, we routinely
evaluate the information we get, the sources that provided it, and the
processes that produced it. A trust layer was always present in the
Web architecture, and Berners-Lee envisioned an “oh-yeah?” button in
the browser to check the sources of an assertion. The Semantic Web
raises these questions in the context of automated applications (e.g.
reasoners, aggregators, or agents), whether trying to answer questions
using the Linked Data cloud, use a mashup appropriately or determine
trust on a social network. Therefore, provenance is an important aspect
of the Web that becomes crucial in Semantic Web research. <br>
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This special issue on “Using Provenance in the Semantic Web” of the
Journal of Web Semantics aims to collect representative research in
handling provenance while using and reasoning about information and
resources on the web. Provenance has been addressed in a variety of
areas in computer science targeting specific contexts, such as
databases and scientific workflows. Provenance is important in a
variety of contexts, including open science, open government, and
intellectual property and copyright. Provenance requirements must be
understood for specific kinds of Web resources, such as documents,
services, ontologies, workflows, and datasets.<br>
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We seek high quality sSubmissions should that describe ongoing
workrecent projects, articulate research challenges, or put forward
synergistic perspectives on provenance. We solicit submissions that
advance the Semantic Web through exploiting provenance, addressing
research issues including:<br>
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• representing provenance<br>
• relating provenance to the underlying data and information<br>
• managing provenance in a distributed web<br>
• reasoning about trust based on provenance<br>
• handling incomplete provenance<br>
• taking advantage of the web’s structure for provenance<br>
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Submissions may focus on uses of provenance in the Semantic Web for:<br>
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• linked data<br>
• social networking<br>
• data integration<br>
• inference from diverse sources<br>
• trust and proof<br>
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Papers may also focus on application areas, highlighting the challenges
and benefits of using provenance:<br>
• provenance in open science<br>
• provenance in open government<br>
• provenance in copyright and intellectual property for documents<br>
• provenance in web publishing <br>
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Important Dates<br>
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We will aim at an efficient publication cycle in order to guarantee
prompt availability of the published results. We will review papers on
a rolling basis as they are submitted and explicitly encourage
submissions well before the submission deadline.<br>
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Submission deadline: 5 September 2010<br>
Author notification: 15 December 2010<br>
Revisions submitted: 1 February 2010<br>
Final decisions: 15 March 2011<br>
Publication: 1 April 2011<br>
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The submission site is <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ees.elsevier.com/jws/default.asp">http://ees.elsevier.com/jws/default.asp</a>. <br>
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Submission guidelines<br>
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The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific contributions
of high quality. Following the overall mission of the journal, we
emphasize the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and
experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative
semantic methods and applications. The publication of large-scale
experiments and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate
scenarios and methods that introduce semantics into existing Web
interfaces, contents and services. Submission of your manuscript is
welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been
copyrighted or published and is not being submitted for publication
elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked
to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer
will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in accordance with
instructions given in the "Guide for Authors" (available from the
publisher), details can be found at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/671322/authorinstructions">http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/671322/authorinstructions</a>.
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The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's
Web-based EES system available at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ees.elsevier.com/jws/default.asp">http://ees.elsevier.com/jws/default.asp</a>. <br>
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Final decisions of accepted papers will be approved by an editor in
chief.<br>
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About the Journal of Web Semantics<br>
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The Journal of Web Semantics is published by Elsevier since 2003. It is
an interdisciplinary journal based on research and applications of
various subject areas that contribute to the development of a
knowledge-intensive and intelligent service Web. These areas include:
knowledge technologies, ontology, agents, databases and the semantic
grid, obviously disciplines like information retrieval, language
technology, human-computer interaction and knowledge discovery are of
major relevance as well. All aspects of the Semantic Web development
are covered.<br>
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Editors-in-Chief: Tim Finin, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Steffen Staab<br>
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For all editors information, see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/671322/editorialboard">http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/671322/editorialboard</a>.
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The Journal of Web Semantics offers to its authors and readers:<br>
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* Free availability of papers on the Web at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.semanticwebjournal.org">http://www.semanticwebjournal.org</a> <br>
* Professional support with publishing by Elsevier staff<br>
* Indexed by Thomson-Reuters web of science<br>
* Impact factor 3.41: the third highest out of 92 titles in
Thomson-Reuters' category "Computer Science, Information Systems<br>
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Dr. Paul Groth (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pgroth@few.vu.nl">pgroth@few.vu.nl</a>)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.few.vu.nl/~pgroth">http://www.few.vu.nl/~pgroth</a><br>
Postdoc<br>
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Group<br>
Artificial Intelligence Section<br>
Department of Computer Science<br>
VU University Amsterdam<br>
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