[DL] CfP: Semantics 2006

[York Sure]

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International Conference on Semantics - Semantics 2006
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>From Visions to Applications - Semantics:
The New Paradigm Shift in IT

November 28 - 30, 2006
TechGate
Vienna, Austria

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Introductory Statement
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Semantics 2006 is the first concentrated event in Europe focussing on
applied aspects of semantic technologies. The event  addresses researchers
to contribute new research ideas, interesting applications, industrial
adoption scenarios and visions in the  Semantic Web domain.

Besides the impact on the research community, Semantics 2006 aims to bring
together researchers with industry representatives  like Chief Level
Executives, Project Managers, Software Vendors and Investors. 

The Semantic Web community aims to provide the theoretical background,
technologies and applications for a universal medium  for the exchange of
data on a higher level than the normal Web with its human readable HTML
pages, which are not meant for  being processed by machines, and XML by
considering additionally semantic information. Machine-readable data is a
prerequisite  to explore the rich amount of data on the web and generate
added value, by mutually sharing and processing information by  automated
tools as well as by people.

Semantic Web Services combine the advantages of the technologies of the
Semantic Web with Web Services, i.e. knowledge  can be reused across
applications. Web Services offer functionalities of services to the Web
accessible by every Web user. By  the combination with Semantic Web
technologies, additional automated tools can be provided, which offer
functionality like  automated Service Discovery and annotation of results of
services with semantic information besides the core functionality of the
services.

Semantic Social Software is at the meeting point between Semantic Web
technology, Social Software, and Knowledge  Management. By enriching Social
Software with Semantic Web technology, existing applications can be improved
and new kinds  of applications can be developed that offer richer kinds of
collaboration, social networking, interconnection, and participation. In a
sense, Semantic Social Software thus forms the heart of the proclaimed Web
2.0 development. 

Besides the scalable integration of heterogeneous data, many other
interesting applications of the Semantic Web (Services) have  been
investigated and have been developed to products in the area of ehealth &
life sciences, automotive industry, energy &  sustainable ecology, media
content industry and profiles. 

Semantics 2006 is a sequel of the Semantics 2005, which took place from 23rd
to 25th of November 2005 at the Tech Gate  Vienna and attracted 250
visitors. The annual event is organized by a consortium, consisting of the
Austrian Computer Society,  Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NIWA
websolutions, profactor Steyr, Salzburg New Media Lab and the Semantic Web
School.

 
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Topics of interest
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Researches, Chief Level Executives, Project Managers, Software Vendors and
Investors are encouraged to submit papers to the  following thematic areas,
which is not meant to be an exhaustive list of themes:

Scientific Papers:

- Semantic Web
  + Layers of the Semantic Web such as Unicode and XML, RDF, Schema
Languages, Transformation Languages, Logical Layer  and Proof Languages
  + Technologies like reasoner, technologies for developing, refining,
mapping, merging of ontologies and ontology-based data  mining
  + Semantic Web Standards
  + Semantic Web Technology Products like Inference Engines, Ontology
Transformation, RDF Databases and XML Databases

- Semantic Web Services
  + Languages for Semantic Web Services like SWSL, WSMO, WSML, WSMX, IRS
III, OWL-S and METEOR-S
  + Technologies for Semantics Web Services like grounding of Semantic Web
Services, Service Invocation, Service  Composition, Service Negotiation,
Service Selection, Service Execution, Service Monitoring, Service
Verification, Service  Discovery, Service Mapping, Service Authorization and
Service Encryption/Decryption
  + Semantic Web Services Standards

- Semantic Social Software
  + Semantic Wikis and Weblogs
  + Community-Based Knowledge Acquisition, Evolution of Knowledge
  + Tools and Technologies for Collaborative Knowledge Creation and
Management
  + Semantic Technology for supporting Collaboration between People and
Enterprises, Collaboration in Virtual Enterprises,
  + Semantic Modelling of Social Networks
  + Tagging, Folksonomies, and Collaborative Ontology Engineering
  + "Social" Recommender Systems

Application Papers:

- Semantic Systems
- Information and application integration
- Searching and findability
- Semantic social software
- Ehealth & life sciences
- Automotive industry
- Energy & sustainable ecology
- Media content industry
- Multimedia semantics
- Profiles

Industry Papers:

- Practical Scenarios & Show Cases
- Innovative commercial software & business models
- Novel applications
- Research directions in industry 
- Experiences in applying recent research advances

Submitted papers need to be of theoretical or conceptual nature along the
natural sciences or social sciences domain. Papers  aiming at commercial
presentations of products and services won´t be accepted for the conference
track.

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Submission
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Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for
publication elsewhere.  

Submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS
(http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,1-164-2-72376-0,00.html).
We only accept electronic submissions in PDF  format. For the camera-ready
versions, we require additionally the source files (tex or rtf).

We intend to publish selected papers in the Springer LNCS series by
Springer. Furthermore, we will provide local proceedings.

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Research Papers
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The number of pages of research papers should be between 8 and 15 pages
including References and an optional Appendix.  Papers should be submitted
electronically via the electronic Submission and Review System at the
conference's site.

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Application Papers
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The number of pages of applications papers should be between 6 and 8 pages.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the  electronic Submission and
Review System at the conference's site.

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Industry Papers
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The conference will include an industrial track for presentations on
innovative commercial software related with the topics of the  conference,
which include novel applications, experiences in applying recent research
advances to practical scenarios and  innovations. For the industrial track,
we require an extended abstract of 2 to 4 pages. The extended abstracts
should be submitted  electronically via the electronic Submission and Review
System at the conference's site.

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Call for Panels
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Panels should address timely and, preferably, controversial issues and must
be debate- oriented rather than series of short  presentations. A proposal
should include the topic title, a short statement about the importance and
relevance of the panel, the  potential issues of controversy, a tentative
list of questions that will be posed to the panelists and a short bio of the
panelist.  Panel proposals must be submitted electronically to the Program
Chairs of the Scientific Track (sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de;
Sven.Groppe at deri.org; sebastian.schaffert at salzburgresearch.at) by the
deadline of the submission.

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Call for Keynotes
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A proposal should include the topic title, a short statement about the
importance and relevance of the keynote, an outline of the  presentation and
a short bio of the presenter showing his expert knowledge by referred
publications of the presenter. Keynote  proposals must be submitted
electronically to the Program Chairs of the Scientific Track
(sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de;  Sven.Groppe at deri.org;
sebastian.schaffert at salzburgresearch.at) by the deadline of the submission.

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Important Dates
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Deadline for paper submission:        May 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance/rejection: August 8, 2006
Deadline for final paper submission:  September 5, 2006
Conference:                           November 28 - 30, 2006

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Committee
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Organizing Committee:
        Sven Groppe (DERI Innsbruck)
        Georg Güntner (Salzburg NewMediaLab)
        Christine Haas (Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft)
        Sigurd Harand (DERI Innsbruck)
        Eugen Mühlvenzl (Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft)
        Tassilo Pellegrini (Semantic Web School)
        Alois Reitbauer (Profactor)
        Alexander Wahler (NIWA WEB Solutions)

Program Chairs Scientific Track:
        York Sure (Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH))
        Sven Groppe (DERI Innsbruck)
        Sebastian Schaffert (Salzburg Research)

Program Chair Industry Track/Application Track:
        Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web School)

Program Committee:
        Sudhir Agarwal (Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH))
        Anupriya Ankolekar (Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH))
        Nitin Arora (Salzburg Research)
        Wernher Behrendt (Salzburg Research)
        Sourav Saha Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
        Jos de Bruijn (DERI Innsbruck)
        Christoph Bussler (Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose)
        Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester)
        John Davies (British Telecom)
        Grit Denker (SRI International)
        Jörg Diederich (University of Hannover and L3S)
        Ying Ding (DERI Innsbruck)
        Schahram Dustdar (Technische Universität Wien)
        Emilia Cimpian (DERI Innsbruck)
        Jinghua Groppe (DERI Innsbruck)
        Werner Haas (JOANNEUM RESEARCH)
        Siegfried Handschuh (DERI Galway)
        Alain Legere (France Telecom)
        Martin Hepp (DERI Innsbruck)
        Marcus Herzog (Technische Universität Wien)
        Stijn Heymans (DERI Innsbruck)
        Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel)
        Eero Hyvönen (Technical University of Finland)
        Kashif Iqbal (DERI Galway)
        Uwe Keller (DERI Innsbruck)
        Dominik Kuropka (Hasso-Plattner-Inst. für Softwaresystemtechnik)
        Brahmananda Sapkota (DERI Galway)
        Josef Noll (Telenor)
        Alois Reitbauer (Profactor)
        Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck)
        Michael Sintek (DFKI Kaiserslautern)
        Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz)
        Robert Tolksdorf (Freie Universität Berlin)
        Heiner Stuckenschmidt (Universität Mannheim)
        Ioan Toma (DERI Innsbruck)
        Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyväskylä)
        Ubbo Visser (Universität Bremen)
        Krzysztof Wecel (The Poznan University of Economics)
        Rupert Westenthaler (Salzburg Research)
        Holger Wache (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
        Anna V. Zhdanova (University of Surrey)
        ... list not yet completed ...

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Dr. York Sure
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH)
phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592
web: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu