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-- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS --
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First International Workshop on Nature inspired Reasoning for the Semantic
Web (NatuReS08)
http://natures.few.vu.nl/
October 27, 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany
This workshop is organized in conjunction with the
7th international Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008)
http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/
Workshop Description and topics
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The Semantic Web (SW) carries out the vision of a Web of data usable for
both human
and machines. This web, consisting of inter-connected instance data
annotated with
possibly expressive ontologies, promises a huge opportunity for Web-based
applications
in many domains. In this web the vision of distributed reasoning has
replaced the
myth of a commonly agreed upon ontology every data provider would rely on.
However, existing reasoning techniques often fail to this live up to this
distributed
vision of knowledge on the web. Reasoner may not be able to cope with the
high number
of instances and/or the expressiveness of the ontologies describing them
(scalability
problem) or fail to deal with a sometimes unreliable network, lack of
maintenance of
information or the variety in quality (robustness problem).
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the Semantic Web
community with more Nature inspired communities, such as the people
interested in
Computational Intelligence (CI), Neural Networks and to discuss on current
trends
in Semantic Web. The workshop will feature invited talks from experts in the
corresponding areas as well as contributed talks presenting submitted papers.
We encourage the submission of papers investigating the use of nature inspired
techniques to address knowledge representation and reasoning problems. Those
problems
includes (but are not restricted to) the following topics :
* Data storage and retrieval: how to efficiently create and manage a
repository of
potentially billions of (RDF) triples.
* Data integration: how to find correspondences among the different
ontologies (alignments).
* Complex reasoning: how to find implicit information efficiently in large,
expressive, or distributed ontologies.
* Neural Networks,
* Evolutionary computing (EA and others),
* Potential field methods,
* Simulated annealing,
* Artificial immune systems,
* Epidemic protocols (Gossiping),
* Swarm intelligence (Ants, PSO, flocking birds),
* Ontology alignment,
* Reasoning,
* Distributed Knowledge Management System,
* Complex systems,
* Data integration,
* Semantic Web
Important Dates
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* New submission deadline : 1 August, 2008
* Acceptance notification : 5 Sept, 2008
* Camera ready papers: 26 Sept, 2008
* Workshop: 27 Oct, 2008
Submission
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Submitted paper should not exceed 15 pages and must be written in English.
All papers should be submitted in electronic format (pdf version) using the
following link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=natures08
Organizers
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Organizing committee :
* Christophe Guéret, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
* Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
* Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Program committee :
* Özalp Babaoglu, University Bologna, Italy
* Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Oxford, UK
* Guszti Eiben, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
* Artur Garcez, City University London, UK
* Andreas Harth, DERI, Galway
* Barbara Hammer, Clausthal, Germany
* Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
* Alexander Löser, SAP
* Peter Mika, Yahoo, Barcelona, Spain
* Nicolas Monmarché, Polytech' Tours, France
* Hans-Jürgen Ohlbach, University of Muenchen, Germany
* Axel Polleres, DERI, Galway
* Lael Schooler, MPI, Berlin
* Christoph Schmitz, 1&1 Internet AG, Karlsruhe
* Martijn Schut, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
* Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
* Peter Tino, University of Birmingham, UK
Contact
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If you have any question, please contact : Christophe Guéret ([log in to unmask])
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