[DL] ** DEADLINE EXTENDED ** - CFP - SPECIAL ISSUE: ONTOLOGIES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS - J.UCS

[Fred Freitas]

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> CALL FOR PAPERS - ** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED - MAY 1ST **
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> SPECIAL ISSUE: ONTOLOGIES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
> JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE (J.UCS - http://www.jucs.org/)
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> After pursuing a long tradition of study in Philosophy, the term 
> “ontology” has become the new buzzword in computer science. It is 
> receiving special attention not only from an active community of 
> researchers pertaining to many areas of informatics but also from the 
> industry, which is providing increasing budgets and investments to 
> develop this technology and make it available in business as soon as 
> possible.
> There is at least one main reason for this recognition: ontologies 
> constitute the backbone of the Semantic Web, as they are responsible 
> for providing context to pages, thus promising to make a relevant part 
> of the Web contents understandable and processable by the software. 
> However, there are some challenging obstacles that should be tackled 
> to make ontologies wide-spread reputation shift from a promise to a 
> daily used technology. For instance, heterogeneity and evaluation are 
> two of these obstacles.
> Following the realization of the Brazilian "Workshop on Ontologies and 
> their Applications" series (see http://www.ws.onto.ufal.br/ for the 
> first edition and http://www.icmc.usp.br/iarn2006/coevents/wonto.php 
> for the second), we planned this Special Issue as a follow-up for the 
> last edition of the workshop, although by no means limited to its 
> authors or participants only. With this Special Issue, we intend to 
> enrich the discussion on how to enhance ontologies’ applicability, 
> thus realizing this promising technology in general, but also in 
> specific settings, such as e-business and e-commerce to name but a few.
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> Topics of Interest:
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> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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> Ontology Engineering
> - methodologies
> - capture and learning
> - management
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> Semantic consistency
> - foundational ontologies
> - upper-level ontologies
> - evaluation methods, applications and problems
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> Semantic Interoperability
> - composition and modularity
> - merging, mapping and alignment
> - ontology language interoperability
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> Enhancement of ontology applicability
> - linguistic ontologies applied to text processing
> - patterns of ontologies for specific applications
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> Ontologies for Information Sharing
> - ontology-based information integration
> - mediators and brokers
> - agents and ontologies
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> Ontology Applications
> - Semantic Web
> - knowledge management
> - e-commerce, e-government
> - e-learning and e-science
> - information retrieval
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> Submission procedure:
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> We encourage the submission of high-quality papers based on entirely 
> new work or surveys, both meeting the foci of the Special Issue. 
> Papers must be written in English and may have a length from 20 to 30 
> pages, including tables, figures, and references.
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> As for the format, papers must conform to the J.UCS style, formatted 
> in PDF (preferred) or PostScript. It is recommended that authors use 
> the J.UCS template files (see 
> http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/style_guide.html for 
> formatting instructions) to minimize possible conflicts when preparing 
> the camera ready. Word and Latex J.UCS style samplers are provided in 
> http://www.jucs.org/jucs_info/submissions.
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> Papers should be submitted electronically only to one of the guest 
> editors (see e-mail addresses below) up to the deadline (April 
> 15,2007). Authors should not neglect that, together with the 
> camera-ready version of the paper, a Copyright Transfer Statement 
> (which can be downloaded from 
> http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/copyright.html) must be 
> signed and sent/faxed by each author to Mrs Dana Kaiser, Manager of 
> the J.UCS, via web (dkaiser at iicm.tu-graz.ac.at) or by fax (+43 316 873 
> 5699).
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> Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three qualified 
> reviewers/referees. Any other questions regarding papers submission 
> must also be directed to the guest editors.
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> Schedule:
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> May 1 2007 - Submission due date - **  DEADLINE EXTENDED **
> July 1 2007 - Notification of paper acceptance
> September 15 2007 - Camera-ready paper due
> October 2007 - Publication of the Special Issue on Ontologies & their 
> Applications
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> Guest Editors of the Special Issue on Ontologies and their Applications:
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> 
 Dr. Fred Freitas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil 
> (contact person)
> fred at cin.ufpe.br
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> 
 Prof. Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
> heiner @ informatik.uni-mannheim.de
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> 
 Dr. H.Sofia Pinto, IST/INESC-ID, Portugal
> sofia at algos.inesc-id.pt
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> 
 Dr. Andreia Malucelli, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - 
> Brazil
> malu at ppgia.pucpr.br
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