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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Workshop on
Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web - (SW)2
http://www.cs.pitt.edu/%7Erosta/EICK/
in conjunction with
The 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
June 29, 2009 - Turin, Italy
Jointly organized by:
- University of Turin, Italy
- University of Bari, Italy
- University of Pittsburgh, USA
MOTIVATIONS
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Web 2.0 introduced the remarkable phenomenon of user-generated content. Large numbers of most popular sites on the Web are currently mainstream Web 2.0 applications with rich user-generated content. Wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr, and del.icio.us are classical examples of those sites. Web 2.0 allows users to do more than just retrieving information, since it is based upon architecture of participation that reduces the barriers of online collaboration and encourages the generation and distribution of content. For this reason it is also called as Social Web.
Users are encouraged to provide data and metadata in simple ways such as tagging, ratings, comments, and blogging. As a result, Web 2.0 applications are collecting large amount of data. However, this data is poorly structured, highly subjective and often buried in a low-quality content. The more data, the more challenging it becomes for users to find relevant information.
Social web applications prefer not to deal with this problem and simply present this content to users as it is, in a form of fuzzy aggregations, such as scattered tag clouds and folksonomies that become very confusing and ineffective for users.
Adding formal semantics to tags can be an important step in the direction of a better navigation and searching and should help to transform tag clouds and folksonomies into valuable aggregations representing a sort of "collective knowledge". There is the opportunity to exploit such Web 2.0 collective knowledge (together with the individual user knowledge) in order to achieve the vision of Web 3.0.
Web 3.0, also called the Intelligent Web, refers to the provision of a more productive, personalized and intuitive environment through the integration of Semantic Web and in general Artificial Intelligence technologies emphasizing the information understanding. Semantics seems a necessary part of the next generation of the Web. The information has to be structured in such a way that machines can read and understand it as much as humans can, without ambiguity. Collective knowledge can also represent a useful source for adaptive applications, since tags (and folksonomies) represent a novel aspect to be considered in any collaborative scenario.
The main goal of this workshop is to provide a forum where current researchers and practitioners from different fields can meet and discuss the state of the art and latest ideas and issues in the use of collective knowledge, user modelling through semantic social web.
During the workshop, participants will interact face-to-face to formulate a coherent synthesis of the contributions. After the workshop, interested participants will help to bring the results into a form suitable for publication (e.g., as a journal article or a special issue).
TOPICS
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The focus of the workshop includes but is not restricted to the following topics:
- Characterization of Web 3.0
- Advantages of "semantic social web" over semantic or social web
- Creation of "structured" collective knowledge from users' contributions
- Folksonomies vs controlled vocabularies or ontologies
- Semantic tagging and annotation for social web
- Information retrieval in the Web 3.0 scenario
- Personalization and recommender systems in the Web 3.0 scenario
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
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We welcome works at all stages of development. Papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions:
- Full papers (8-10 pages): Original mature research results
- Short papers (4 pages): Original ongoing research
- Posters (2 pages): Original ongoing research or research ideas
Papers will be peer reviewed and accepted contributions will be published online in a volume of the CEUR workshop proceedings, a publication series by Deutsche Bibliothek, ISSN 1613-0073.
All submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Accepted formats are Postscript and PDF.
At least one of the authors of an accepted submission must register for the conference and participate to the workshop.
Papers must be submitted by e-mail at the following address: [log in to unmask]
IMPORTANT DATES
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March, 30 2009 Paper submission
April, 30 2009 Acceptance/rejection notification
May, 18 2009 Camera-ready
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Federica Cena, University of Turin, Italy, [log in to unmask]
Pasquale Lops, University of Bari, Italy, [log in to unmask]
Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh, USA, [log in to unmask]
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Fabian Abel - University of Hannover, Germany
Lora M. Aroyo - Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Peter Brusilosky - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.
Francesca Carmagnola - University of Turin, Italy
Marco de Gemmis - University of Bari, Italy
Jill Freyne - University College Dublin, Ireland
Cristina Gena - University of Turin, Italy
Andreas Hotho - University of Kassel, Germany
Bhaskar Metha - Google Inc., Zurich, Switzerland
Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy
Sergey Sosnovsky - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.
Ilaria Torre - University of Turin, Italy
CONTACT/INFO
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If you have further questions please contact one of the organizers or send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask]
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