First International IFIP/WG12.5 Working Conference on Industrial
Applications of Semantic Web
http://www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/OntoGroup/IASW-2005/index.html
August 25-28, 2005, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Call for papers (*deadline for submission 30 April!*)
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
researchprojects 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.
Paper submissions are expected to address one of the above
concerns and to be related to the industrial application domains of
the Semantic Web technology, which are (but not limited to) the
following ones.
Conference topics
· 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
*Submissions
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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 style:
http://www.wkap.nl/subjects/single_column_proceedings_vol. We
accept papers in PDF and PS format. All papers will be reviewed
on the basis of relevance, clarity, and technical quality. It is
planned to publish the Conference Proceedings in Springer IFIP
Book series.
*Important Dates *
Submission of full papers: 30 April
Notification: 30 May
Camera ready papers: 15 June
Conference: 25-28 August
*Program Committee (to be expanded) *
Vagan Terziyan (Co-Chair) University of Jyväskylä Finland
Max Bramer (Co-Chair) University of Portsmouth UK
Bergenti, Federico FrameTech S.R.L. Italy
Berger, Michael Siemens AG Germany
Binder, Walter EPFL Switzerland
Devedzic, Vladan University of Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro
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
Navrat, Pavol University of Technology in Bratislava Slovakia
Nykanen, Ossi W3C Finland, Tampere Finland
Pyotsiä, Jouni Metso Automation, Helsinki Finland
Salminen, Airi University of Jyväskylä Finland
Schuldt, Heiko UMIT Austria
Toivonen, Santtu VTT Information Technology Finland
Tsalgatidou, Aphrodite University of Athens Greece
Invited Speakers:
To be announced later.
*Sponsors: *
Metso Corporation, TeliaSonera Corporation, Jyväskylä Science
Park
Local Organizing Committee**
Kaykova, Olena Industrial Ontologies Group, University of Jyväskylä
Khriyenko, Oleksiy Industrial Ontologies Group, University of
Jyväskylä
Neittaanmäki, Pekka Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä
Salminen, Airi CS&IS Department, University of Jyväskylä
Tiihonen, Timo MIT Department, University of Jyväskylä
Veijalainen, Jari ITRI, University of Jyväskylä
Zharko, Andriy Industrial Ontologies Group, University of Jyväskylä
Congress Management
P.-L. Pitkänen, Jyväskylä Congresses, Finland
Conference Location
The Jyväskylä Region represents the Finnish experience at its
purest. Jyväskylä, reached by planes, trains and busses, is a
small city located in the middle of extremely beautiful nature, full of
clean lakes and rich forests. You will have an opportunity for a lot
of exotic outdoor activities including ship cruises on the lakes,
fishing, sauna, berry-picking and many others. For all of these
activities August is an excellent time. Conference organizers will
offer you something from typical Finnish attractions. In the same
time the city has excellent infrastructure, including airport,
comfortable hotels, University, shopping centers, museums,
Internet and GSM communications, etc., and also English is
understood almost everywhere.
Read more in: http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/international/
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