PLEASE NOTE: Deadline is April 30th

--- IASW-2005 ---
1st International IFIP/WG12.5 Working Conference on
Industrial Applications of Semantic Web

2nd Call for Papers

Jyvaskyla, Finland
25-28 August, 2005

http://www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/OntoGroup/IASW-2005/

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 30th, 2005.

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Semantic Web is expected to become a next-generation of the Web
assuming
that besides existing content there will be a conceptual layer of
machine-understandable metadata, making the content available for
processing by intelligent software. This allows automatic resource
integration and provides interoperability between heterogeneous
systems.
Next generation of intelligent applications will be capable to make use
of
such metadata to perform resource discovery and integration based
on its
semantics. Semantic Web, aims at developing a global environment
on top of
Web with interoperable heterogeneous applications, agents, web
services,
data repositories, humans, and so on. On the technology side, Web-
oriented
languages and technologies are being developed (e.g. RDF, OWL,
OWL-S,
WSMO, etc.), and the success of the Semantic Web will depend on a
widespread industrial adoption of these technologies. Trend within
worldwide activities related to Semantic Web definitely shows that the
technology has emerging grows of interest both academic and
industry during a relatively small time interval.

The main focus of the Conference is related to industrial applications
of Semantic Web. The three more specific concerns within the focus are
as follows:

- The growing interest to the Semantic Web, as a research and
educational domain, from the academy is evident. New
scientific results and interesting challenges in the area
appear rapidly. International networks cover topics related to
intersections of various former scientific domains with
Semantic Web technology and discover new challenging
opportunities. Basic standards have been announced and the
amount of pilot tools and applications around these standards
is exponentially increasing. The question is how much the
researchers are taking into account the applicability of their
results to the industry? The Conference concerns to collect
cases from scientists about industrial implementation of their
Semantic Web related solutions or to hear arguments in favor
of possibilities for such implementation.

- In spite of growing hype around Semantic Web and appropriate
standards, industry developed and continuously developing own
standards for interoperability and integration. What are the
obstacles, companies will face or reasons for refusing wider
scale implementation of Semantic Web standards? The
Conference aims to collect grounded critics and doubts,
related to Semantic Web standards and activities, from
industry to raise open discussion between industry and
academy concerning future of industrial approval of the
Semantic Web technology.

- On the other hand, more and more companies are being involved
to various projects related to Semantic Web. Industrial
investments to research projects aimed to monitor the status
of the technology are also growing. Some companies are
extensively involved to the appropriate business. There are
at least two categories of such enterprises: those who are
producers and providers of Semantic Web based products and
services and those who are consumers of these products and
services. It would be interesting to hear an answer to the
question “Why?” they are doing this. We are encouraging
representatives from industry to present their opinions about
feasibility of Semantic Web technology for their businesses.

The Conference aims to collect grounded optimistic arguments,
cases and success-stories from such companies in favor of
Semantic Web utilization.


Conference Topics
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- Semantic Web-Based Knowledge Management
- Semantics in Enterprise Application Integration
- Semantic Knowledge Portals
- Semantic Web for e-Business
- Semantic Integration and Interoperability
- Semantic Content Management
- Semantically Enhanced Products and Services
- Semantic Web Services and GRID Computing
- Semantic Web Services and P2P Computing
- Multimedia Semantic Indexing and Retrieval
- Semantics in Industrial Automation, Control and Maintenance
- Mobile and Ubiquitous Applications based on Semantic Web
- Security, Privacy and Trust in Industrial Semantic Web Services


Submission
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Conference Proceedings will be published in Springer IFIP Book
series.
Authors are invited to submit electronically full papers to
[log in to unmask] . Submitted papers must be original,
unpublished, and
not submitted to another journal or conference for consideration of
publication. Papers must be written in English; they should be at most
15
pages in length and conform to the Springer’s Single-Column
Proceedings
Style. We accept papers in PDF and PS format. All papers will be
reviewed
on the basis of relevance, clarity, and technical quality.


Important Dates
===============
Submission of full papers: 30 April
Notification: 30 May
Camera ready papers: 15 June
Conference: 25-28 August


Registration:
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Information about the registration will be available on the 5th of May.



Program Committee:
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Terziyan, Vagan (Co-Chair),University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Bramer, Max (Co-Chair), University of Portsmouth,UK
Bergenti, Federico, FrameTech S.R.L., Italy
Berger, Michael, Siemens AG, Germany
Binder, Walter, EPFL, Switzerland
Denker, Grit, SRI International, USA
Devedzic, Vladan, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Dourgnon-Hanoune, Anne, EDF R&D (Électricité de France), France
Ermolayev, Vadim, Zaporozye State University, Ukraine
Fensel, Dieter, DERI, Innsbruck, Austria
Fernández, Alberto, URJC, Spain
García-Serrano, Ana, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Helin, Heikki, TeliaSonera, Helsinki ,Finland
Klusch Matthias, DFKI, Germany
Laukkanen, Mikko, TeliaSonera, Helsinki, Finland
Mercier-Laurent, Eunika, EML Conseil Knowledge Management,
France
Navrat, Pavol, University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
Nykanen, Ossi, W3C Finland, Tampere, Finland
Poslad, Stefan, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Pyotsiä, Jouni, Metso Automation, Helsinki, Finland
Salminen, Airi, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Schuldt, Heiko, UMIT, Austria
Seilonen, Ilkka, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Stuckenschmidt, Heiner, Free University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands,
Studer, Rudi, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany,
Toivonen, Santtu, VTT Information Technology, Finland
Tsalgatidou, Aphrodite, University of Athens, Greece


Invited Speakers:
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- Ora Lassila – Research Fellow & Head of Competence Area, Nokia
Research, Center, Boston, USA
- Alain Leger –France Telecom R&D, France


Congress Management:
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P.-L. Pitkänen, Jyväskylä Congresses, Finland


Local Organizing Committee:
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- Olena Kaykova, Industrial Ontologies Group, University of Jyväskylä
- Oleksiy Khriyenko, Industrial Ontologies Group, University of
Jyväskylä
- Pekka Neittaanmäki, Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä
- Airi Salminen, CS&IS Department, University of Jyväskylä
- Timo Tiihonen, MIT Department, University of Jyväskylä
- Jari Veijalainen, ITRI, University of Jyväskylä
- Andriy Zharko, Industrial Ontologies Group, University of Jyväskylä


Conference Partners:
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- Metso Corporation, (http://www.metsoautomation.com)
- TeliaSonera Corporation, (http://www.teliasonera.fi)
- Industrial Ontologies Group, (http://www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/OntoGroup)


Contact information:
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- Conference e-mail address (for general information and paper
submission): [log in to unmask]
- Conference URL: http://www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/OntoGroup/IASW-2005/
- Conference Postal address: IASW-2005, MIT Department,
University of
Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (Agora), FIN-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.
- Tel: +358(0)14-260-2347
- Fax: +358(0)14-260-2731