SUO: SemWeb@KR2002 - deadline approaching

[Diego Calvanese <calvanese@dis.uniroma1.it>]

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                         Deadline approaching

                         WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

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                             SemWeb@KR2002

             Formal Ontology, Knowledge Representation and
              Intelligent Systems for the World Wide Web

                  19-20 April 2001, Toulose (France)
                   
              http://profs.sci.univr.it/~cristani/semweb/

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PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 February 2002;
(For non-research papers: 28 February 2002)

AIMS AND SCOPE

To realize the vision of the ``Semantic Web'' contributions by
different communities within the field of Artificial Intelligence will
be needed.  SemWeb@KR02 wants to provide a forum to compare and
discuss the different perspectives on the problem of adding meaning to
the Web.  The workshop will particularly welcome contributions that
are of a general multidisciplinary interest.

On the one hand, creating semantic annotations for the World Wide Web
is an interesting topic for researchers working on formal ontologies
as tools for knowledge management--a particularly relevant topic for
the Semantic Web community--and more generally, for those concerned
with ontology-driven Web applications.

On the other hand, this topic is equally interesting for those who
are developing languages for the representation of knowledge on the
World Wide Web, both for general purposes and for restricted domains
like space, time, etc.

In addition, this topic is relevant to strictly applied research such
as ontology-based web portals or semantic web search engines. 
The workshop will therefore reserve a specific space for the
presentation of prototypes and real-world applications, as well as for
true software exhibitions.

In particular, for these application, we strongly encourage people to
describe detailed use cases and scenarios which REQUIRE a semantic
web.


CALL FOR PAPERS

Topics of interest include (not exclusively):

- the Web and formal ontologies; 
- the Web and KR languages; 
- knowledge annotation by markup languages; 
- knowledge management on the Web; 
- ontology-driven Web applications; 
- representation of metaknowledge on the Web; 
- representation of general knowledge on the Web; 
- representation of domain-specific knowledge on the Web; 
- semantic portals; 
- cooperative Web knowledge representation; 
- reasoning on the Web; 
- intelligent search engines; 
- Web expert systems. 

The workshop solicits three kinds of submissions: research papers,
presentations of experimental applications and prototypes, and
software exhibitions.


WORKSHOP POLICY

The Semantic Web is a largely addressed theme.  SemWeb@KR02 focuses on
those papers on this topic that are within the scope of the KR
conference, as well as those applications that are related to KR.

We will provide a first selection step to prevent papers from 
being reviewed that are not within the scope of the workshop.  
This will guarantee fast feedback to the authors of papers that are out 
of scope, although they may be relevant to other Semantic Web events.

We will admit a maximum of 20 research papers, a maximum of 10
application presentations and a maximum of 10 software exhibitions,
independently of the number of submissions we will receive.
A special track of the workshop will be reserved for presentations and
software exhibitions.


AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS

Research papers have to be submitted by email to

         cristani@sci.univr.it 

by 15 February 2002 in the same format as submissions to KR 2002.
Authors will be notified of acceptance also by email before
15 February 2002.

Presentations of experimental applications and prototypes as well as
software exhibitions will be accepted on the basis of an abstract of
no more than 5 pages in the same format as research papers.  Abstracts
have to be submitted by 28 February 2002.

Non-research submissions will have been evaluated by March 21th 2002.


DEADLINES

Research paper submission               15 February 2002        
Application presentation submission     28 February 2002        
Software exhibition submission          28 February 2002        
Research paper notification             15 March 2002   
Non-research paper notification         15 March 2002   
Early registration deadline             21 March 2002   
Final version due                       21 March 2002   
Workshop                                19-20 April 2002        


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

     Matteo Cristani, Università di Verona, ITALY
     Paolo Bouquet, Università di Trento, ITALY
     Diego Calvanese, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", ITALY
     Enrico Franconi, University of Manchester, UK
     Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University, USA
     Pat Hayes, University of West Florida, USA
     Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK
     Mary-Anne Williams, University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
     Nicola Guarino, Ladseb-CNR, Padova, ITALY
     Werner Nutt, Heriot-Watt University, UK
     Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell-Laboratories, USA
     Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
     Christopher Welty, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, USA