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class="">CALL FOR PAPERS</strong></h1>
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class=""><span style="color:rgb(160,0,0)" class="">11th</span> <strong
class="">International Workshop on</strong></h2>
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class=""><strong class="">Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic
Web</strong></h2>
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target="_blank" class="">http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2015</a>
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<span
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class="">In conjunction with the 14th International Semantic Web
Conference</span><br
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<span
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class="">Bethlehem, PA - US</span><br
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<span
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class="">October 11 or 12, 2015</span><br
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<span
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class="">You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop
on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held
as part of the </span><span
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class="">14th</span><span
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"
class=""> International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in </span><span
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(160,0,0)"
class="">October 11-15, 2015 Bethlehem, PA - US</span><br
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<span
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<span
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class="">ISWC is a major international forum for presenting
visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The
Uncertainty Reasoning workshop is an exciting opportunity for
collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty
reasoning community and the Semantic Web / Linked Data
community.</span><br
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<span
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class="">Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are
vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but
the ability of current-generation web technology to handle
uncertainty remains extremely limited. Thus, there is a
continuing demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among
Semantic Web researchers and developers, and the URSW workshop
creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with
a clear commonality of interest but limited history of
interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could
spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web
vision.</span><br
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class=""><strong class="">AUDIENCE</strong></h2>
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<span
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class="">The intended audience for this workshop includes the
following</span><br
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<ul style="padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;margin:0.5em 0px
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<li class="">Researchers in uncertain reasoning technologies
with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data</li>
<li class="">Semantic Web and Linked Data developers and
researchers</li>
<li class="">People in the knowledge representation community
with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data</li>
<li class="">Ontology researchers and ontological engineers</li>
<li class="">Web services researchers and developers with
interest in the Semantic Web</li>
<li class="">Developers of tools designed to support semantic
web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé developers,
OWL-API developers...</li>
</ul>
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class=""><strong class="">TOPIC LIST</strong></h2>
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<span
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class="">We intend to have an open discussion on any topic
relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic
Web and Linked Data (including fuzzy theory, probability theory,
and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be
just an initial guide.</span><br
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<ul style="padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;margin:0.5em 0px
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<li class="">Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web
/ Linked Data languages to enable representation of
uncertainty</li>
<li class="">Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in
Semantic Web / Linked Data languages</li>
<li class="">Probability theory as a means of assessing the
likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the
same or similar concepts</li>
<li class="">Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to
the problem of ontology mapping</li>
<li class="">Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise
concepts within ontologies</li>
<li class="">The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its
relevance to the Semantic Web</li>
<li class="">Best practices for representing uncertain,
incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the
Semantic Web / Linked Data</li>
<li class="">The role of uncertainty as it relates to web
services and cloud computing</li>
<li class="">Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as
a means to improve interoperability among web services</li>
<li class="">Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust
issues in the Semantic Web and Linked Data</li>
<li class="">Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning
tools in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Data</li>
<li class="">Issues and techniques for integrating tools for
representing and reasoning with uncertainty;</li>
<li class="">The future of uncertainty reasoning for the
Semantic Web and Linked Data</li>
</ul>
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class=""><strong class="">IMPORTANT DATES</strong></h2>
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<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(160,0,0)" class="">July 1:</span> Paper
submissions due</li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(160,0,0)" class="">July 30:</span> Paper
acceptance notification</li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(160,0,0)" class="">August
16:</span> Camera-ready papers due</li>
<li class=""><span
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class="">Oct 11 or 12</span>: <span
style="color:rgb(160,0,0)" class="">11th</span> Workshop on
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web</li>
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class=""><strong class="">SUBMISSION DETAILS</strong></h2>
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<span
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class="">The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical
papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated
for acceptability by at least three members of the Program
Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance
to the above topic list, originality, potential significance,
topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be
presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the
submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC </span><span
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class="">2015</span><span
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class=""> Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop.</span><br
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<span
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class="">Submissions to the workshop are only accepted in
electronic format and should be sent via the workshop’s
EasyChair submission site:</span><br
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class=""><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2015</a></span><br
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<span
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class="">Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC </span><span
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class="">2015</span><span
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"
class="">. For complete details, see Springer’s Author
Instructions </span></div>
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class="">(</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0"
target="_blank" class="">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</a>).</div>
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<span
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class="">Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not
exceed 12 pages, including figures and references. Submissions
exceeding this limit will not be reviewed.</span><br
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<span
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class="">Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects,
or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and
must not exceed 4 pages.</span><br
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<span
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class="">Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC </span><span
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class="">2015</span><span
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class=""> conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are
under review for or have already been published in or accepted for
publication in a journal or another conference will not be
accepted to the URSW workshop.</span><br
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class=""><strong class="">PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION</strong></h2>
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<span
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class="">URSW </span><span
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class="">2015</span><span
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class=""> will be a half-day workshop.</span><br
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<br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"
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<span
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"
class="">All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during
the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings. Authors of
accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their
work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a
10-minute slot to share their ideas. After each presentation, 5
minutes will be allocated to questions from the audience. Both
technical and position papers will be published in the URSW
workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC </span><span
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class="">2015</span><span
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class=""> conference.</span><br
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class=""><strong class="">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</strong></h2>
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<ul style="padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;margin:0.5em 0px
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class="">
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Fernando
Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Rommel N.
Carvalho - Brazil's Office of the Comptroller General /
University of Brasília, Brazil</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Davide
Ceolin - VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Paulo C. G.
Costa - George Mason University, USA</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Claudia
d’Amato - University of Bari, Italy</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Nicola
Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Kathryn
Laskey - George Mason University, USA</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Kenneth J.
Laskey – MITRE Corporation, USA</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Thomas
Lukasiewicz – University of Oxford, UK</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Trevor
Martin - University of Bristol, UK</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Matthias
Nickles – INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, National
University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Michael
Pool - Goldman Sachs, USA</span></li>
</ul>
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class=""><strong class="">PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBC)</strong></h2>
<ul style="padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;margin:0.5em 0px
0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"
class="">
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Fernando
Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Rommel N.
Carvalho - Brazil's Office of the Comptroller General /
University of Brasília, Brazil</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Davide
Ceolin - VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Paulo C. G.
Costa - George Mason University, USA</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Fabio G.
Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Claudia
d’Amato - University of Bari, Italy</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Nicola
Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Marcelo
Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Kathryn B.
Laskey - George Mason University, USA</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Kenneth J.
Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Thomas
Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Trevor
Martin - University of Bristol, UK</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Alessandra
Mileo - INSIGHT Galway, Ireland</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Matthias
Nickles - INSIGHT Galway, Ireland</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Jeff Z. Pan
- University of Aberdeen, UK</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Rafael
Peñaloza, Technical University Dresden, Germany</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Michael
Pool - Goldman Sachs, USA</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Livia
Predoiu - University of Oxford, UK</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Guilin Qi -
Southeast University, China</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Dave
Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Daniel
Sánchez - University of Granada, Spain</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Giorgos
Stoilos - National and Technical University of Athens, Greece</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Umberto
Straccia – ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Matthias
Thimm - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,160)" class="">Peter
Vojtas – Charles University, Czech Republic</span></li>
</ul>
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<span
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class="">We are looking forward to seeing you in </span><span
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