[DL] CfP: Applications of Semantic Technologies AST2006

[Pascal Hitzler]

Call for Papers
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AST 2006 - Applications of Semantic Technologies

1st International AST Workshop located at the Informatik 2006
5-6 October, 2006 (Workshop days), Dresden, Germany

http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ast2006

Organized by Pascal Hitzler and York Sure, AIFB, University of
Karlsruhe, Germay

==== Deadline for paper submissions: June 16th, 2006 ====

Objectives
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Semantic Web is a major international research effort with the goal to
make web content available for intelligent knowledge processing. It
draws on standard and novel techniques from various disciplines within
Computer Science, including Knowledge Management, Artificial
Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology, Software Agents,
eCommerce, etc. The methods and tools developed and integrated for this
purpose – often called Semantic Technologies – are generic and have a
very large application potential outside the domain of the Semantic Web.

Such applications are currently being investigated in various
disciplines within Computer Science, including Ambient Intelligence,
Software Engineering, Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge
Management, Bioinformatics, etc. We believe that Semantic Technologies
provide methods and tools which will persist in these and other
application areas for the foreseeable future.

Program
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To ensure a creative atmosphere during the workshop, the participants
will be selected based on their submitted papers, posing important
issues to be presented and discussed at the workshop. The workshop will
consist of short presentations followed by discussions about the goals
of the workshop: Applications of Semantic Web Technologies and outlining
a plan for future research. In order to obtain an intensive exchange of
ideas between the participants, there will be extensive time for discussion.

A final panel will discuss the research agenda for the coming years,
based on the presentations and results from the demos, evaluations and
discussions.

Topics of Interest
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This workshop shall bring together researchers and practitioners who
work on applications of Semantic Technologies. It shall further the
cross-fertilization between application areas and aid the technology
transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop shall
cover diverse application areas of Semantic Technologies, including, but
not limited to, the following.

     * Ambient Intelligence
     * Cognitive Systems
     * Data Integration
     * Multimedia Data Management
     * Software Engineering
     * Cognitive Systems
     * Machine Learning
     * eScience
     * Information Extraction
     * Grid Computing
     * Peer-to-Peer Systems
     * eCommerce
     * eGovernment
     * Bioinformatics

Program Committee
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     * Jürgen Angele, ontoprise GmbH Karlsruhe, Germany
     * Elmar Dorner, SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany
     * Carole Goble, University of Manchester, Germany
     * Gerhard Goos, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
     * Wolfgang Hesse, Marburg, Germany
     * Knut Hinkelmann, Solothurn, Schweiz
     * Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
     * Harald Kosch, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
     * Thorsten Liebig, University of Ulm, Germany
     * Jin Liu, T-Systems Berlin, Germany
     * Rainer Malaka, EML Heidelberg, Germany
     * Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
     * Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen,
Switzerland
     * Alexander Reinefeld, ZIB Berlin, Germany
     * Stefan Schlobach, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Germany
     * Michael Sintek, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
     * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
     * Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
     * Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
     * Giovanni Tummarello, University of Ancona, Italy
     * Walter Waterfeld, Software AG, Germany
     * Uwe Thaden, L3S Hannover, Germany
     * Matthias Wagner, DoCoMo, Germany
     * Christoph Weinhardt, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
     * Guo-Qiang Zhang, CWRU Cleveland, USA

Submission and Proceedings
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Submissions shall not exceed 8 pages in LNAI style (see
http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/). Submissions shall be
sent to hitzler [at] aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de.

Important Dates (new! changed deadlines!)
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     * Deadline for paper submissions: June 16th, 2006
     * Notification of acceptance: July 21st, 2006
     * Camera-ready versions: August 4th, 2006
     * Workshop: 5th or 6th of October, 2006

This event is supported by
     * KnowledgeWeb http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/
     * SEKT http://www.sekt-project.com/
     * Graduate college Information Management and Market Engineering
http://www.ime.uni-karlsruhe.de/
     * SmartWeb http://www.smartweb-project.de/

Please address all questions to the workshop organizers under
hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de or sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de