From info at folli.org Mon Jan 6 15:53:21 2003 From: info at folli.org (info at folli.org) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 15:53:21 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP: ESSLLI'03 Student Session Message-ID: <200301061453.h06ErLT02810@mendieta.science.uva.nl> !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!! !!! Please circulate and post among students !!! We apologise if you receive this message more than once. ESSLLI-2003 STUDENT SESSION SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS August 18-29 2003, Vienna, Austria Deadline: February 24, 2003 http://www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03 We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 15th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2003), which will be held in Vienna from August 18-29 2003. We invite submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2003 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. PURPOSE: This eighth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the previous editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates (before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates (before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. Papers may be accepted for full presentation (30 minutes including 10 minutes of discussion) or for a poster presentation. All the accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI-2003 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during the summer school. REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. We welcome submissions with topics within the areas Logic, Language and Computation. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit a full paper, written in English, not to exceed 7 pages of length exclusive of references. Note that the length of the final version of the accepted papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. For any submission, a plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent separately, using the following format: Title: title of the submission First author: firstname lastname Address: address of the first author ...... Last author: firstname lastname Address: address of the last author Short summary: abstract (5 lines) Subject area (one or two of): Logic | Language | Computation In case the paper is being submitted to another conference or workshop, this must be clearly indicated on the identification page. The paper submission should be in one of the following formats: PostScript, PDF, RTF, or plain text. (In case of acceptance, the final version of the paper will have to be submitted in LaTeX format.) The papers must use single column A4 size pages, 11pt or 12pt fonts, and standard margins, and may not exceed 7 pages of length exclusive of references. Submissions not in accordance with these formatting and length requirements may be subject to rejection without review. The paper and separate identification page must be sent by e-mail to b.ten.cate at hum.uva.nl by FEBRUARY 24th 2003. ESSLLI-2003 INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at ESSLLI-2003 Student Session, at least one student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant at ESSLLI-2003. The authors of accepted papers will be eligible for reduced registration fees even after the deadline for early registration. For all information concerning ESSLLI-2003, please consult the ESSLLI-2003 web site at www.logic.at/esslli03. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission of papers : February 24, 2003. Authors notifications : April 22, 2003. Final version due : May 19, 2003. ESSLLI-2003 Student Session : August 18-29, 2003. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Laura Alonso Alemany, University of Barcelona Roberto Bonato, University of Verona, University Bordeaux I Balder ten Cate, University of Amsterdam Paul Egre, University Paris I Dan Flickinger, Stanford University Maria Fuentes Forte, University of Girona Gabriel Infante Lopez, University of Amsterdam Jakob Kellner, University of Vienna Favio Miranda-Perea, LMU Muenchen Christian Retore, INRIA, LaBRI Bordeaux Sergio Tessaris, University of Bolzano For more information concerning the ESSLLI-2003 Student Session, please consult the web-site www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03 . Also, for specific questions do not hesitate to contact me: Balder ten Cate ILLC, University of Amsterdam Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31.20.5254552 Fax: +31.20.5254503 E-mail: b.ten.cate at hum.uva.nl From olivier.dameron at chu-rennes.fr Wed Jan 8 17:09:21 2003 From: olivier.dameron at chu-rennes.fr ([IDM] Olivier Dameron) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:09:21 +0100 Subject: [DL] Metaclasses and DL Message-ID: <200301081607.h08G7nrD001485@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Dear list members, In the papers on description logics that I have read so far, the fact that the domain and the range of the interpretation function "I" are disjoint seems supposed. However, what hapens if they are not ? Let's call D the domain and R the range. 1. D\R would be the "top level" metaclasses 2. D inter R would be intermediate level metaclasses (since they are elements of D, they are classes; since they are also elements of R, they are instances of class(es)). 3. R\D would be the set of "terminal" or "real" individuals Does this makes sense to you ? If so, don't we risk to fall into a recursive loop ? Best regards, Olivier Dameron From welty at us.ibm.com Wed Jan 8 23:06:13 2003 From: welty at us.ibm.com (Christopher Welty) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:06:13 -0500 Subject: [DL] ICSE Workshop on Requirements Engineering in Open Systems Message-ID: All, At http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~fickas/REOS/ you will find information on a workshop to be held at the International Conference on Software Engineering that will focus on problems relating to Requirements Engineering in Open Systems, May 3-4 in Portland, Oregon. This is an area in which KR has played a role in the past,and should once again play a role. Many people agree in principle that requirements engineering should ultimately be based on something like ontology development and that the process should involve automated reasoning, however the community is very heavily made up of software engineers who, like all researchers, have a background and agenda that takes research focus away from those areas. In addition, orienting this problem towards open systems clearly requires STANDARD ways to exchange this kind of information on the web, and thus is another potential RDF or OWL application. I'd like to try to stir up some activity in the KR and Semantic Web communities on this problem. Take a look at the page and let me know if you are interested (or just submit a paper or position statement). -Chris Dr. Christopher A. Welty, Knowledge Structures Group IBM Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Dr. Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA Voice: +1 914.784.7055, IBM T/L: 863.7055 Fax: +1 914.784.6078, Email: welty at us.ibm.com From franconi at inf.unibz.it Thu Jan 9 16:36:04 2003 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:36:04 +0000 Subject: [DL] Metaclasses and DL In-Reply-To: <200301081607.h08G7nrD001485@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> References: <200301081607.h08G7nrD001485@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Message-ID: <15901.38628.158248.224491@galahad.cs.man.ac.uk> On January 8, [IDM] Olivier Dameron writes: > Dear list members, > In the papers on description logics that I have read so far, the fact that > the domain and the range of the interpretation function "I" are disjoint > seems supposed. > However, what hapens if they are not ? Let's call D the domain and R the > range. > 1. D\R would be the "top level" metaclasses > 2. D inter R would be intermediate level metaclasses (since they are elements > of D, they are classes; since they are also elements of R, they are instances > of class(es)). > 3. R\D would be the set of "terminal" or "real" individuals > > Does this makes sense to you ? > If so, don't we risk to fall into a recursive loop ? Taken from a pure semantic point of view having a domain including both individuals and (meta)classes makes sense. In general, you may want to have a well foundedness condition which rules out what you call the recursive loop, but it is not strictly required (like in rdf, for example). cheers -- e. Enrico Franconi - franconi at inf.unibz.it Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - http://www.inf.unibz.it/~franconi/ Faculty of Computer Science - Phone: (+39) 0471-315-642 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy - Fax: (+39) 0471-315-649 From baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Fri Jan 10 10:23:10 2003 From: baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Prof. Franz Baader) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:23:10 +0100 (MET) Subject: [DL] Metaclasses and DL Message-ID: <200301100923.h0A9NAvM020966@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> From kruse at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Fri Jan 10 15:04:18 2003 From: kruse at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Rudolf Kruse) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:04:18 +0100 (MET) Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: KI2003 Message-ID: <200301101404.h0AE4Iw08242@enterprise.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> ******************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * ******************** 26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2003) http://www.ki2003.de September 15-18, 2003 University of Hamburg, Germany The conference invites original research papers in all areas of AI. Besides papers on the foundations of AI we also welcome reports on innovative applications. TOPICS Possible Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Agent Technology, Automated Reasoning, Case-Based Reasoning, Cognitive Modeling, Configuration and Diagnosis, Decision Support Systems, Image Understanding, Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management, Machine Learning, Multi Media, Natural Language Processing, Ontologies, Neural Networks, Planning and Scheduling, Reasoning under Uncertainty, Robotics, Semantic Web, Soft Computing, Temporal and Spatial Reasoning, Vision A special focus of the conference is on Multi Modality. Papers in this area are particularly welcome. SUBMISSION Important Dates Submission of electronic abstracts and papers: April 7, 2003 Notification for conference papers: June 2, 2003 Camera-Ready copies for conference papers: June 30, 2003 Submission Guidelines Conference submissions is electronic in postscript format. Submitted papers must not exceed 15 pages and should conform to Springer LNCS style (see details for paper Submission on the conference web-page). The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer series ?Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence?. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and present the work at the conference. INVITED SPEAKERS Jennings, Nick, University of Southampton Keim, Daniel, University of Konstanz Sandewall, Eric, University of Link?ping Studer, Rudi, University of Karlsruhe Wahlster, Wolfgang, DFKI Saarbr?cken ORGANIZATION GENERAL CHAIR: Bernd Neumann, University of Hamburg PROGRAM CHAIR: Rudolf Kruse, University of Magdeburg PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andr?, Elizabeth, University of Augsburg Baader, Franz, University of Dresden Brauer, Wilfried, TU M?nchen Bramer, Max, University of Portsmouth Brewka, Gerhard, University of Leipzig Buhmann, Joachim, University of Bonn Burkhard, Hans-Dieter, HU Berlin B?rckert, Hans-J?rgen, DFKI Saarbr?cken Dubois, Didier, IRIT, Toulouse Eklund, Peter, University of Queensland Fensel, Dieter, University of Innsbruck Freksa, Christian, University of Bremen G?rz, Gunter, University of Erlangen G?nter, Andreas, University of Hamburg Habel, Christopher, University of Hamburg Herzog, Otthein, University of Bremen Jensen, Finn, University of Aalborg Kirn, Stefan, TU Ilmenau K?hler, Jana, IBM Research Laboratory, Z?rich Lakemeyer, Gerhard, RWTH Aachen M?ntaras, Ramon Lpez de, University of Barcelona Menzel, Wolfgang, University of Hamburg Mertsching, University of Hamburg Miksch, Silvia, TU Wien Milne, Rob, Intelligent Applications, Livingston Nagel, Hans Hellmut, University of Karlsruhe Nauck, Detlef, BT Exact, Ipswich Nebel, Bernhard, University of Freiburg Neumann, Bernd, University of Hamburg Niemann, Heinrich, University of Erlangen Puppe, Frank, University of W?rzburg Ritter, Helge, University of Bielefeld Rojas, Paul, University of Berlin Rollinger, Claus, University of Osnabr?ck Saitta, Lorenza, Universita de Torino Studer, Rudi, University of Karlsruhe Wolkenhauer, Olaf, UMIST Manchester Wrobel, Stefan, Fraunhofer AIS, Bonn Wysotzki, Fritz, TU Berlin WORKSHOP CHAIR: Christopher Habel, University of Hamburg POSTER CHAIR: Wolfgang Menzel, University of Hamburg EXHIBITION CHAIR: B?rbel Mertsching, University of Hamburg ORGANIZATION CHAIR: Andreas G?nter, University of Hamburg CONTACT KI2003 Fachbereich Informatik Universit?t Hamburg Andreas G?nter Vogt-K?lln-Stra?e 30 Tel.; +49(0)4042883-2456/ -2451 22527 Hamburg info at ki2003.de www.ki2003.de From ckemke at cs.umanitoba.ca Fri Jan 10 15:19:19 2003 From: ckemke at cs.umanitoba.ca (Christel Kemke) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:19:19 -0600 Subject: [DL] Metaclasses and DL References: <200301100923.h0A9NAvM020966@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Message-ID: <3E1ED667.2070405@cs.umanitoba.ca> Hi, I followed the last e-mails on the question of whether the domain (T-Box concepts) and range (individual elements of the universe, structure, domain) of an interpretation of a T-Box can be the same - and how and why. From my understanding, the only thing we save, is to deal with additional names or symbols used in the universe/structure/domain. From my point of view, to use the same names in both domain and range of the I-function would make sense only when we want to deal with individuals again as concepts (or predicates) which means they would be used to denote meta-classes, so that we can have an individual (which is the interpretation of a concept) again as a concept. But Baader mentions, that this would not be necessarily the case. Secondly, since there is no distinction between concepts and individuals, and if I allow I(C)=C, where C is the name of a concept as well as of an individual, this also should allow I(I(C)) and so forth, i.e. (unlimited, infinite) recursion. In response to Baader's comment: I don't see how the interpretation function (if one and the same function is used) could figure out whether a C is supposed to be treated as a concept or as an individual - no matter whether I have I(C)=C or I(A)={A,B}. From Franconi's e-mail, I understand or guess that a solution could be to base this recursion on a fixed-point semantics of the interpretation function but I don't really see this for the described case of concept definitions and interpretations (what is the fix-point if there is no groundedness?). It probably works if we simply state that one level (or another fixed amount) of applications of the I-function is enough but then: what do we gain? Finally, I am asking (myself / the list) again: Does this really make sense or does it only create (unnecessary) confusion? Regards, Christel Kemke -- Christel Kemke Dr.rer.nat., Dipl.-Inform., B.Sc. (Honours), Dip.Psych. (Open University) Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Machray Hall, Room 562 University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2 Canada Phone: +1 (204) 474-8674 Fax: +1 (204) 474-7609 From olivier.dameron at chu-rennes.fr Fri Jan 10 17:12:41 2003 From: olivier.dameron at chu-rennes.fr ([IDM] Olivier Dameron) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:12:41 +0100 Subject: [DL] Metaclasses and DL In-Reply-To: <3E1ED667.2070405@cs.umanitoba.ca> References: <200301100923.h0A9NAvM020966@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> <3E1ED667.2070405@cs.umanitoba.ca> Message-ID: <200301101610.h0AGAwrD029799@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> On Friday 10 January 2003 15:19, Christel Kemke wrote: > Secondly, since there is no distinction between concepts and > individuals, and if I allow I(C)=C, where C is the name of a concept as > well as of an individual, this also should allow I(I(C)) and so forth, I think I(C)=C is a particular case, for which we do fall into a loop indeed, but I can't think of any "real" example for C (a concept that is an instance of itself). As for me, I had in mind I(C) = D \and I(D) = anIndividual > i.e. (unlimited, infinite) recursion. In response to Baader's comment: I > don't see how the interpretation function (if one and the same function > is used) could figure out whether a C is supposed to be treated as a > concept or as an individual Intermediate-level metaclasses should be treated both as concept and as individual. ...Or is it more complex ? Olivier From clynch at clarkson.edu Mon Jan 13 06:51:59 2003 From: clynch at clarkson.edu (Christopher Lynch) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:51:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] CADE 19 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: Note that title and abstract must be submitted by January 24, and full paper must be submitted by January 31. CALL FOR PAPERS CADE-19 The 19th International Conference on Automated Deduction Miami, USA July 28 - August 2, 2003 CADE-19 invites paper submissions related to all aspects of automated deduction, including foundations, implementations, and applications. Original research papers, papers on applications of automated deduction methods and systems, and descriptions of working automated deduction systems are solicited. TOPICS Logics of interest include propositional, first-order, equational, higher-order, classical, intuitionistic, constructive, modal, temporal, many-valued, substructural, description, and meta-logics, logical frameworks, type theory and set theory. Methods of interest include saturation, resolution, tableaux, sequent calculi, term rewriting, induction, unification, constraint solving, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, natural deduction, proof planning, proof presentation, proof checking, and explanation. Applications of interest include hardware and software development, systems analysis and verification, deductive databases, functional and logic programming, computer mathematics, natural language processing, computational linguistics, robotics, planning, knowledge representation, and other areas of AI. PAPER SUBMISSION Conference submission is electronic in postscript format. Submitted papers should conform to the Springer LNCS style. In addition to papers on foundations (15 pages), we encourage the submission of application papers (10 pages), and of short system descriptions (5 pages). Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. In the case of doubts on this point please contact the program chair. Papers that are too long will not be considered. IMPORTANT DATES December 15, 2002: Deadline for submission of workshop and tutorial proposals January 15, 2003: Notification of acceptance of workshops and tutorials January 24, 2003: Deadline for electronic submission of title and short abstract January 31, 2003: Deadline for electronic submission of papers March 31, 2003: Notification of acceptance of papers April 30, 2003: Deadline for final version of accepted papers CONFERENCE CHAIRS Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA) Jeff Pelletier (University of Alberta, Canada) PROGRAM CHAIR Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Armando (Universita di Genova, Italy) Gilles Dowek (INRIA Rocquencourt, France) Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Harald Ganzinger (Max-Planck-Institute, Germany) Bernhard Gramlich (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Reiner Hahnle (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Miki Hermann (Ecole Polytechnique, France) Andreas Herzig (Universite Paul Sabatier, France) Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester, UK) Dieter Hutter (DFKI, Germany) Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA) Reinhold Letz (LMU Munich, Germany) Christopher Lynch (Clarkson University, USA) Fabio Massacci (University of Trento, Italy) John C. Mitchell (Stanford University, USA) Ilkka Niemela (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Lawrence C. Paulson (University of Cambridge, UK) Nicolas Peltier (IMAG Grenoble, France) Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Albert Rubio (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Natarajan Shankar (SRI, USA) John Slaney (Australian National University, Australia) Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa , USA) Moshe Vardi (Rice University, USA) Toby Walsh (University of York, UK) WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL CHAIR Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa , USA) PUBLICITY CHAIR Christopher Lynch (Clarkson University, USA) INVITED SPEAKERS Ed Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Anthony Cohn (University of Leeds, UK) Helene Kirchner (LORIA-CNRS & INRIA, France) Greg Nelson (HP SRC Classic, USA) More details are available on the conference webpage http://www.CADE-19.info -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: cfp.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 5854 bytes Desc: URL: From ue at doc.ic.ac.uk Mon Jan 13 21:17:26 2003 From: ue at doc.ic.ac.uk (Ulle Endriss) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:17:26 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CFP] Automated Reasoning Workshop 2003 Message-ID: <3E231ED6.80805@doc.ic.ac.uk> 1st Call for Papers / Participation TENTH WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATED REASONING: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE Liverpool University, UK, 15-16th April 2003 http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~clare/arw03/ http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/endriss/ARW/ Following in the highly successful series of Workshops on Automated Reasoning, this workshop will provide an informal forum for the automated reasoning community. This workshop series aims to bring together researchers from all areas of automated reasoning in order to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among researchers from various disciplines; among researchers from academia, industry and government; and between theoreticians and practitioners. Topics ****** The workshop will cover the full breadth and diversity of automated reasoning and will include topics such as: - Theorem proving in classical and non-classical logics - Equational reasoning - Unification - Induction - Verification - Specification - Constraint solving - Decision procedures - Formal methods - Interactive theorem proving - Nonmonotonic reasoning - Abduction - Logic-based knowledge representation - Description logics - Implementation of automated reasoning systems - Experiments Submission of Abstracts *********************** We invite interested persons to submit a camera-ready two-page abstract in either Postscript or PDF format by email to Clare Dixon at clare at csc.liv.ac.uk about recent work or work in progress, or a system description. Each submission should include the names and complete addresses (including email) of all authors. Correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless otherwise indicated. The main objective of the abstracts is to spread information about recent work in our community. Abstracts will be published in informal workshop notes and be made available by WWW. Panel Sessions ************** Proposals for panel sessions should be made as soon as possible. Please email the proposal to Clare Dixon at clare at csc.liv.ac.uk Student Grants ************** We have a limited number of grants available to PhD students who wish to attend ARW 2003. To indicate your interest please send a short email to Ulle Endriss at ue at doc.ic.ac.uk anytime before 19 March 2003. Important Dates *************** Abstract submission: any day before 3 March 2003 Notification of authors: shortly after submission Grant application: any day before 19 March 2003 Workshop dates: 15th-16th April 2003 Format of the Workshop ********************** The workshop is intended to be an inclusive event, with participants encouraged from the broad spectrum covered by the field of automated reasoning. We encourage the participation of experienced researchers as well as those new to the field, especially students. There will be invited talks, panel sessions, short presentations of the papers, and poster sessions. The workshop will last 2 days. More precise programme details will be announced later. Organising Committee ******************** Brandon Bennett (University of Leeds) Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) David Crocker (Escher Technologies) Clare Dixon (University of Liverpool) -- ARW 2003 Programme Chair Ulle Endriss (Imperial College London) -- Secretary/Treasurer Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool) Alan Frisch (University of York) -- Organising Committee Chair Ian P. Gent (University of St. Andrews) Ullrich Hustadt (University of Liverpool) Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University) Manfred Kerber (University of Birmingham) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester) Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester) Toby Walsh (University College Cork) -- Ulle Endriss Department of Computing Tel: +44 20 7594 8204 Imperial College London Fax: +44 20 7581 8024 180 Queen's Gate Email: ue at doc.ic.ac.uk London SW7 2AZ (UK) http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ue/ From marta at dia.uniroma3.it Wed Jan 15 14:28:43 2003 From: marta at dia.uniroma3.it (Marta Cialdea) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:28:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] Tableaux 2003 call for papers and tutorials Message-ID: The usual apologies for multiple copies... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Call for Papers and Tutorials %% %% TABLEAUX 2003 %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% International Conference TABLEAUX 2003 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Roma, Italy September 9-12, 2003 (co-located with TPHOLs 2003 and Calculemus 2003) IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of tutorial proposals: January 24, 2003 Notification of acceptance of tutorials: February 28, 2003 Deadline for electronic submission of title and short abstract: March 18, 2003 Deadline for electronic submission of papers: March 21, 2003 Notification of acceptance of papers: May 17, 2003 Deadline for final version of accepted papers: June 9, 2003 GENERAL INFORMATION This conference is a continuation of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods held in Lautenbach near Karlsruhe (1992), Marseille (1993), Abingdon near Oxford (1994), St Goar near Koblenz (1995), Terrasini near Palermo (1996), Pont-a-Mousson near Nancy (1997), Oisterwijk near Tilburg (1998), Saratoga Springs, NY (1999), St Andrews (2000), and Copenhagen (2002). In 2001 TABLEAUX was part of IJCAR 2001 in Siena. In September 2003, the conference will be held in Rome, Italy. The proceedings will again be published in Springer's LNAI series. See the main TABLEAUX page for general details about this series of meetings: it is at http://i12www.ira.uka.de/TABLEAUX/ The International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics (TPHOLs 2003) and the 11th Symposium on the Integration of Symbolic Computation and Mechanized Reasoning (Calculemus 2003) will also be held in Rome in the same period, with opportunities for joint registration. TOPICS Tableau methods are a convenient formalism for automating deduction in various non-standard logics as well as in classical logic. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, and system diagnosis. The conference brings together researchers interested in all aspects -- theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications -- of the mechanization of reasoning with tableaux and related methods. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): * analytic tableaux for various logics (theory and applications) * related techniques and concepts, e.g., model checking and BDDs * related methods (model elimination, sequent calculi, connection method, ...) * new calculi and methods for theorem proving in classical and non-classical logics (modal, description, intuitionistic, linear, temporal, ...) * systems, tools, implementations and applications (e.g. verification) One or more TUTORIALS will be part of the conference program. SUBMISSIONS The conference will include contributed papers, tutorials, system descriptions, position papers and invited lectures. Submissions are invited in four categories: A Research papers (reporting original theoretical and/or experimental research, up to 15 pages), B System descriptions (up to 5 pages), C Position papers and brief reports on work in progress D Tutorials in all areas of analytic tableaux and related methods from academic research to applications (proposals up to 5 pages). Submissions in categories A and B will be reviewed by peers, typically members of the program committee. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. The cover page should include the title, the name, address, e-mail address and phone number of each author and the submission category. Accepted papers in these categories will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions in category C will be reviewed by members of the program committee and accepted papers in this category will be available as Technical Report of Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Universita` di Roma Tre. Tutorial submissions (Category D) may be at introductory, intermediate, or advanced levels. Novel topics and topics of broad interest are preferred. The submission should include the title, the author, the topic of the tutorial, its level, its relevance to conference topics, and a description of the interest and the scientific contents of the proposed tutorial. Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by members of the program committee. They must be submitted by email, to cialdea at dia.uniroma3.it, in either plain text or in PS/PDF format. PS/PDF submissions should be sent as attachments. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner, U. Koblenz-Landau, Germany Bernhard Beckert, Karlsruhe U. Germany Serenella Cerrito, U. d'Evry Val d'Essonne, France Marta Cialdea Mayer, U. Roma Tre, Italy (chair) Marcello D'Agostino, U. Ferrara, Italy Roy Dyckhoff, U. St Andrews, UK Uwe Egly, Vienna, U. of Techn., Austria Christian Ferm?ller, TU Wien, Austria Melvin Fitting City U. of New York, USA Ulrich Furbach, Koblenz U., Germany Didier Galmiche LORIA Nancy, France Rajeev P. Gore', Australian National U. Jean Goubault-Larrecq, ENS Cachan, France Reiner Haehnle, Chalmers U. of Techn., Sweden Christoph Kreitz, Cornell U., USA Reinhold Letz, Techn. U. of Munich, Germany Fabio Massacci, U. Trento, Italy Neil V. Murray, State U. of New York-Albany, USA Nicola Olivetti, U. Turin, Italy Fiora Pirri, U. Roma "La Sapienza", Italy (vice-chair) Peter H. Schmitt, Karlsruhe U., Germany ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Marta Cialdea Mayer, Carla Limongelli (U. Roma Tre), Fiora Pirri (U. Roma "La Sapienza") INFORMATION Conference E-mail: cialdea at dia.uniroma3.it WWW: http://tab2003.dia.uniroma3.it/ _______________________________________________ Tab03 mailing list Tab03 at pop.dia.uniroma3.it http://pop.dia.uniroma3.it/mailman/listinfo.cgi/tab03 From kv_viswana at yahoo.com Fri Jan 17 15:47:22 2003 From: kv_viswana at yahoo.com (K. V. Viswanathan) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 06:47:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: [DL] Guidance on applying DL Message-ID: <20030117144722.24286.qmail@web12306.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, I am almost completely new to the field of DL and am looking for advice. I have a problem requiring KR and inference in the field of planning. I have read some of the introductory chapters from the forthcoming DL handbook. I need to represent facts and many causal links such as "A affects B" or "an increase in A will cause a decrease in B" and the like. Armed with such a knowledge base, I then need to study the impact of adding new facts into the KB. Would the upcoming OWL (Web Ontology Language) be a suitable candidate for this representation and reasoning problem? Or should I be considering other languages? Pointers to and links to useful readings that will enable me to come up to speed will also be much welcome. Thanks, K. V. Viswanathan __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com From franconi at inf.unibz.it Sun Jan 19 13:18:47 2003 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:18:47 +0000 Subject: [DL] Guidance on applying DL In-Reply-To: <20030117144722.24286.qmail@web12306.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030117144722.24286.qmail@web12306.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <15914.38823.41781.879972@galahad.cs.man.ac.uk> On January 17, K. V. Viswanathan writes: > I have a problem requiring KR and inference in the field of > planning. I have read some of the introductory chapters from the > forthcoming DL handbook. > > I need to represent facts and many causal links such as "A affects > B" or "an increase in A will cause a decrease in B" and the > like. Armed with such a knowledge base, I then need to study the > impact of adding new facts into the KB. > > Would the upcoming OWL (Web Ontology Language) be a suitable > candidate for this representation and reasoning problem? Or should I > be considering other languages? Pointers to and links to useful > readings that will enable me to come up to speed will also be much > welcome. Most likely you need a logic which is able to talk not only about static information (like a plain DL), but also about causes/effects, state changes, actions and plans. Plain OWL (or plain DLs) are able only to talk about states (i.e., non dynamic information). To have a fairly complete (but not completely up-to-date, since it is 3 years old) overview of the field of modelling dynamic information with description logics (with approaches that span from temporal extensions to Strips-like extensions) check: Alessandro Artale and Enrico Franconi (2001). A Survey of Temporal Extensions of Description Logics. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI), Vol. 30 No. 1-4, 2001, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Available at: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/papers/amai-00.ps.gz For practical purposes, you may resort to simpler logic based approaches that do not require the full expressivity of a description logic to represent state information. In fact, the problem gets quite complex when states are characterised by means of complex logics. cheers -- e. Enrico Franconi - franconi at inf.unibz.it Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - http://www.inf.unibz.it/~franconi/ Faculty of Computer Science - Phone: (+39) 0471-315-642 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy - Fax: (+39) 0471-315-649 From george at cs.ucy.ac.cy Mon Jan 20 10:47:24 2003 From: george at cs.ucy.ac.cy (George Angelos Papadopoulos) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:47:24 +0200 (WET) Subject: [DL] Academic Vacancies -- CS Dept -- Univ. of Cyprus Message-ID: *** ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACADEMIC POSITIONS *** The University of Cyprus announces the following tenure track posts (Assistant Professor or Lecturer): DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 1 post in the field of Computer Networks 1 post in the field of Database Systems 1 post in the following fields of study: * Agents and Artificial Intelligence * Cooperative Information Systems * Distributed Systems * Human-Computer Interaction * Programming Languages * Theoretical Computer Science For all academic ranks, a Ph.D. from a recognized University is required. PLEASE NOTE: The languages of instruction are Greek and Turkish. For the above mentioned posts, knowledge of Greek is necessary. Applicants need not be citizens of the Republic of Cyprus. The annual gross salaries for these positions (including the 13th salary) are: Assistant Professor (Scale A13-A14) CY23,587 - CY31,816 Lecturer (Scale A12-A13) CY19,919 - CY29,175 (At present 1 CY = 1.7401 sterling and 1 CY = 1.7865 dollars.) Interested individuals must submit the following items by Thursday 17th of April 2003: I A letter stating the department, the academic rank or ranks for which the applicant is interested in, the field or fields of study and the date when he/she may be able to assume duties in the event of selection. II A Curriculum Vitae (6 copies). III A brief summary of previous work and a statement of plans for future research (up to 1500 words - 6 copies). IV A list of publications (6 copies). V Copies pf the three most representative publications (6 copies). VI Copies of degree certificates. In addition, the applicants must request three academic referees to send letters of recommendation directly to the University; the names and addresses of these referees must be submitted with the application. Additional confidential information may be sought. The letters of recommendation must reach the University by the 17th of April, 2003. The Curriculum Vitae and the brief summary of the research work should be written in Greek and in one international language, preferably English. Applications, other documents and reference letters submitted in the past will NOT be considered and must be re-submitted. Applications that are incomplete will not be considered. The above must be delivered to the University by 2 pm, Thursday 17th of April 2003 at the following address: The Registrar University of Cyprus P O Box 20537 CY-1678 Nicosia CYPRUS Tel: +357-22-892054 Fax: +357-22-892005 For more details and other information interested individuals may contact the Head of the Department of Computer Science, Associate Professor Antonis Kakas: Tel: +357-22-892231 Fax: +357-22-339062 E-mail: antonis at cs.ucy.ac.cy From john.a.thompson at boeing.com Mon Jan 20 21:07:19 2003 From: john.a.thompson at boeing.com (Thompson, John A) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:07:19 -0800 Subject: [DL] Guidance on applying DL Message-ID: On January 17, K. V. Viswanathan writes: > I have a problem requiring KR and inference in the field of > planning. I have read some of the introductory chapters from the > forthcoming DL handbook. > > I need to represent facts and many causal links such as "A affects > B" or "an increase in A will cause a decrease in B" and the > like. Armed with such a knowledge base, I then need to study the > impact of adding new facts into the KB. > > Would the upcoming OWL (Web Ontology Language) be a suitable > candidate for this representation and reasoning problem? Or should I > be considering other languages? Pointers to and links to useful > readings that will enable me to come up to speed will also be much > welcome. The description of this problem matches my understanding of what a Bayesian Network is designed to handle. I would suggest that you look into Bayesian Network tools, but I don't have any specific software references to give you. John Thompson Boeing From ckemke at cs.umanitoba.ca Tue Jan 21 19:46:55 2003 From: ckemke at cs.umanitoba.ca (Christel Kemke) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:46:55 -0600 Subject: [DL] Guidance on applying DL References: <20030117144722.24286.qmail@web12306.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <3E2D959F.9080704@cs.umanitoba.ca> I would suggest - if you do not insist on using exactly DL - to look into Rule-Based /Expert-System languages. In particular I would recommend to check out CLIPS, which includes an inference engine for reasoning based on a set of (given initial) facts. It allows more and other specifications of rules than usual logic-based systems and languages like PROLOG. There is also an extension to CLIPS, called COOL, which integrates object-oriented programming, including inheritance (I think meta-classes, too), and this you can use to implement some form of DL. Regards, Christel Kemke K. V. Viswanathan wrote: >Hi, > >I am almost completely new to the field of DL and am >looking for advice. > >I have a problem requiring KR and inference in the >field of planning. I have read some of the >introductory chapters from the forthcoming DL >handbook. > >I need to represent facts and many causal links such >as "A affects B" or "an increase in A will cause a >decrease in B" and the like. Armed with such a >knowledge base, I then need to study the impact of >adding new facts into the KB. > >Would the upcoming OWL (Web Ontology Language) be a >suitable candidate for this representation and >reasoning problem? Or should I be considering other >languages? Pointers to and links to useful readings >that will enable me to come up to speed will also be >much welcome. > >Thanks, > >K. V. Viswanathan > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >http://mailplus.yahoo.com >--- >** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for more ** >** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. ** > > -- Christel Kemke Dr.rer.nat., Dipl.-Inform., B.Sc. (Honours), Dip.Psych. (Open University) Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Machray Hall, Room 562 University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2 Canada Phone: +1 (204) 474-8674 Fax: +1 (204) 474-7609 From jleite at di.fct.unl.pt Wed Jan 22 13:43:20 2003 From: jleite at di.fct.unl.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Alexandre_Leite?=) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:43:20 -00 Subject: [DL] CFP: DALT'03 - 1st Int. Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies Message-ID: <414-220031322124320101@ANIMAL> [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message.] =========================================================== F I R S T C A L L F O R P A P E R S DALT 2003 First International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies Melbourne, Australia July 2003 http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/dalt03/index.htm In conjunction with AAMAS 2003 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems http://www.aamas-conference.org/ Submission: 11 of April, 2003 Post-Proceedings by Springer-Verlag (LNAI) =========================================================== TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION Agent metaphors and technologies are ever more adopted to harness and govern the complexity of today's systems. As a consequence, the growing complexity of agent systems calls for models and technologies that promote system predictability, and enable feature discovery and verification. Recent advances in the area of logics and formal methods make declarative languages and technologies a mostly promising approach to the modeling and engineering of complex agent systems. DALT aims at fostering a discussion forum to export, on the one hand, such techniques into the broader community of agent researchers and practitioners and, on the other hand, to bring in the issues of real-world, complex, and possibly large-scale agent system design in the perspective of formal methods and declarative technologies. DALT 2003 will take place in Melbourne, Australia, in conjunction with AAMAS, the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Declarative agent communication and coordination languages * Knowledge-based and knowledge-intensive MAS * Modeling of agent rationality * Declarative approaches to the engineering of MAS * High level agent specification languages * Practical aspects of declarative agent programming and implementation * Formal methods for the specification and verification of MAS * Computational logics in MAS * Argumentation and dialectical systems in MAS * Declarative description of contracts and negotiation issues in MAS * Lessons learned from the design and implementation of MAS * Declarative paradigms for the combination of heterogeneous agents * Constraints and MAS * Declarative representation of policies and security in MAS SUBMISSIONS We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. 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Ortiz, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA * Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain * Lu?s Moniz Pereira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, London, UK * Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan * Michael Schroeder, City University, London, UK * Onn Shehory, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel * Carles Sierra, Spanish Research Council, Barcelona, Spain * V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, MD, USA * Francesca Toni, Imperial College, London, UK * Wiebe van der Hoek, The University of Liverpool, UK * Franco Zambonelli, Universit? di Modena, Italy ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Co-chairs: Jo?o Alexandre Leite (Contact Person) Universidade Nova de Lisboa jleite at di.fct.unl.pt Andrea Omicini Universit? di Bologna aomicini at deis.unibo.it Leon Sterling The University of Melbourne leon at cs.mu.oz.au Paolo Torroni Universit? di Bologna ptorroni at deis.unibo.it From info at folli.org Fri Jan 24 13:53:22 2003 From: info at folli.org (info at folli.org) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:53:22 +0100 Subject: [DL] [ESSLLI03] 1st Call Message-ID: <200301241253.h0OCrMP10121@mendieta.science.uva.nl> ESSLLI 2003 15th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information August 18-29, Vienna http://www.logic.at/esslli03/ Each year the European Association for Logic, Language and Information, (FoLLi) organizes a European Summer School (ESSLLI) the main focus of which is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Courses at foundational, introductory and advanced level are given, the aim of which is to provide for researchers and postgraduate as well as advanced master students the possibility to familiarize themselves with other areas of research, and to enable students and researchers to acquire more specialized knowledge about topics they are already familiar with. The school also features several workshops, and a student session in which Master and PhD students can present their work. This year the 15th ESSLLI Summer School will take place at the Technical University of Vienna, the beautiful and cultural capital of Austria. During two weeks 43 courses will be given. They cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Language and Logic, Language and Computation, and Logic and Computation. There will be a series of invited lectures, and several workshops with open calls for papers. Please, visit our website at http://www.logic.at/esslli03/ for detailed information. For information about FoLLi and the previous editions of ESSLLI see http://www.folli.org/ Deadline of the early registration: June 15, 2003. For other information please send an email to: esslli03 at logic.at International Program Committee: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (chair) Alexander Leitsch (co-chair) Karen Sparck Jones Gosse Bouma Wojciech Buszkowski Johan Bos Thomas Eiter Ian Horrocks Local Organizing Committee Matthias Baaz (chair) Arnold Beckmann Agata Ciabattoni Rosalie Iemhoff Norbert Preining Sebastiaan Terwijn From wi-iat at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK Sun Jan 26 20:35:10 2003 From: wi-iat at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK (wi-iat) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:35:10 -0800 Subject: [DL] IEEE/WIC Web Intelligence 2003: Call For Papers Message-ID: <3E34386E.1060203@comp.hkbu.edu.hk> ################################### IEEE/WIC WEB INTELLIGENCE 2003 ------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S ################################### 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003) Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) October 13-17, 2003 Tianlun Dynasty Hotel, BEIJING, CHINA ******************************************** Homepage: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03/ ******************************************** Web Intelligence (WI) is a new direction for scientific research and development that explores the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced Information Technology (IT) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities. The 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003 jointly held with the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT03). The IEEE/WIC 2003 joint conferences are sponsored and organized by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI) (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/%7Exwu/tfvi/index.shtml) and by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org). ++++++++ Topics ++++++++ The topics and areas include, but not limited to: * Intelligent Web-Based Business and Grid Computing Business Intelligence Customer Relationship Management Direct Marketing Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business Measuring and Analyzing Web Merchandising Price Dynamics and Pricing Algorithms Web-Based EDI Web Marketing Web Publishing * Knowledge Networks and Management Digital Library Information and Knowledge Markets Knowledge Community Formation and Support Ontology Engineering Semantic Web Visualization of Information and Knowledge Web-Based Decision Support Web Regularities and Models * Ubiquitous Computing and Social Intelligence Competitive Dynamics of Web Sites Computational Societies and Markets Dynamics of Information Sources Reputation Mechanisms Theories of Small World Web Ubiquitous Learning Systems Web-Based Cooperative Work Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust * Intelligent Human-Web Interaction Adaptive Web Interfaces Multimedia Representation Multimodal Data Processing Science and Art of Web Design * Web Information Management Data Models for the Web Integrated Exploration and Exploitation Internet and Web-Based Data Management Multi-Dimensional Web Databases and OLAP Multimedia Information Management Object Oriented Web Information Management Personalized Information Management Semi-Structured Data Management Use and Management of Metadata Web-Based Distributed Information Systems o Web Information Retrieval Automatic Cataloging and Indexing Conceptual Information Extraction Multi-Linguistic Information Retrieval Multimedia Retrieval Multimodal Information Retrieval Ontology-Based Information Retrieval o Web Agents Conversational Systems E-mail Filtering and Automatic Handling Global Information Foraging Information Filtering Navigation Guides Recommender Systems Remembrance Agents Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms Semantic Web Agents o Web Mining and Farming Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Learning User Profiles Multimedia Data Mining Text Mining Web-Based Ontology Learning Web-Based Reverse Engineering Web Farming Web-Log Mining Web Warehousing o Emerging Web Technology New Web Information Description and Query Languages Web Intelligence Development Tools Web Protocols Wisdom Web +++++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++++ Electronic submission of full papers: March 20, 2003 (Research track and industry track) Notification of paper acceptance: May 2003 (Research track and industry track) Workshop and tutorial proposal submission: June 1, 2003 Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 2003 Notification of workshops and tutorials: July 2003 Conference & workshops: October 13-17, 2003 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI 2003 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) versions. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. WI 2003 also welcomes Industry Track submissions, Workshop and Tutorial proposals. More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the WI 2003 homepage (http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03). A selected number of WI 2003 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html) The IEEE/WIC best paper awards will be conferred on the authors of the best papers at the conference. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization +++++++++++++++++++++++++ ***** Organizing Committee ***** Organizing Chairs Tieyong Zuo China Xiaoming Liu China Conference Chair Ning Zhong Japan Conference Co-Chairs Nick Cercone Canada Ruqian Lu China Toyoaki Nishida Japan Program Chair Jiming Liu HK Program Co-Chairs Boi Faltings Switzerland Matthias Klusch Germany Chunnian Liu China Industry Track Chairs Jianchang Mao USA Yiming Ye USA Lizhu Zhou China Workshop Chairs Cory Butz Canada Zhongzhi Shi China Yiyu Yao Canada Tutorial Chairs Jeffrey Bradshaw USA Jinglong Wu Japan Publicity and Web Chair Yiu-Ming Cheung HK IEEE-CS-TCCI Chair Xindong Wu USA WIC Co-Chairs/Directors Ning Zhong Japan Jiming Liu HK WIC Advisory Board Edward A. Feigenbaum USA Setsuo Ohsuga Japan Benjamin Wah USA Philip Yu USA L.A. Zadeh USA WIC Technical Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee Nick Cercone Canada Dieter Fensel The Netherlands Georg Gottlob Austria Lakhmi Jain Australia W. Lewis Johnson USA Jianchang Mao USA Toyoaki Nishida Japan Xindong Wu USA Yiyu Yao Canada ***** WI 2003 Program Committee ***** Sarabjot Singh Anand (UK) Sourav Bhattacharya (USA) Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze (Japan) Hendrik Blockeel (Belgium) Cory Butz (Canada) Rajkumar Buyya (Australia) Keith Chan (HK SAR) Hsinchun Chen (USA) David Cheung (HK SAR) Yiu-ming Cheung (HK SAR) Joongmin Choi (Korea) Stefan Decker (USA) Peter W. Eklund (Australia) Fensel (The Netherlands) Fabien Gandon (France) Wen Gao (China) Ali A. Ghorbani (Canada) Xiaohua Tony Hu (USA) Janusz Kacprzyk (Poland) Dimitrios Kalles (Greece) Samuel Kaski (Finland) Yasuhiko Kitamura (Japan) Donald H. Kraft (USA) Rudolf Kruse (Germany) Vipin Kumar (USA) Yuefeng Li (Australia) Chun-hung Li (HK SAR) T.Y. Lin (USA) Carles X. Ling (Canada) Bing Liu (Singapore) Frederick H. Lochovsky (HK SAR) Michael Lyu (HK SAR) Philippe Martin (Australia) Ernestina Menasalvas (Spain) Luc Moreau (UK) Akira Namatame (Japan) Jian-Yun Nie (Canada) Henry O. Nyongesa (UK) Sankar Kumar Pal (India) Seog Park (Korea) Terry R. Payne (UK) Loris Penserini (Italy) Omer F. Rana (UK) Javier Segovia (Spain) Qiang Shen (UK) Timothy K. Shih (Taiwan) Milan Simunek (Czech) Steffen Staab (Germany) Yasuyuki Sumi (Japan) Einoshin Suzuki (Japan) Roman W. Swiniarski (USA) Atsuhiro Takasu (Japan) Pang-Ning Tan (USA) Pierre Tchounikine (France) Andrew Tomkins (USA) Shusaku Tsumoto (Japan) Paola Velardi (Italy) Jose M. Vidal (USA) Gottfried Vossen (Germany) Lipo Wang (Singapore) Zijun James Wang (USA) Takashi Washio (Japan) Graham Williams (Australia) Zonghuan Wu (USA) Seiji Yamada (Japan) Qiang Yang (HK SAR) Yoneo Yano (Japan) Yiyu Yao (Canada) Yiming Ye (USA) Tetuya Yoshida (Japan) Yaqin Zhang (China) Lizhu Zhou (China) Wojciech Ziarko (Canada) From tw at 4c.ucc.ie Mon Jan 27 18:38:18 2003 From: tw at 4c.ucc.ie (Toby Walsh) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:38:18 GMT Subject: [DL] IJCAI 2003 Call for Posters Message-ID: <200301271738.h0RHcIoN001973@4c23.ucc.ie> IJCAI-03 Call for Posters The IJCAI-03 Program Committee invites submissions for the poster track of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence that is to be held in Acapulco, Mexico from August 9th to 15th 2003. The poster track is for more topical and preliminary work that nevertheless meets the high standards of the IJCAI conference. Poster authors should register on the IJCAI-03 web-based poster submission software at http://www.4c.ucc.ie/ijcai/ and submit a formatted electronic version of their poster through this software no later than Monday, February 10, 2003. Submissions received after the deadline or that do not meet the length or formatting requirements detailed on the IJCAI-03 web site will not be accepted for review. Notification of receipt of the electronic paper will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. The last day for inquiries regarding lost submissions is February 19, 2003. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted posters will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) by March25, 2003. Camera-ready copy of accepted posters must be received by the publisher by April 11, 2003. Note that at least one author of each accepted poster is required to attend the conference to present the work. Paper Length and Format Poster paper submissions must be formatted according to the guidelines at http://ww.ijcai-03.org Poster must not exceed two formatted pages. Overlength papers will not be accepted for review. Each accepted poster paper will be allowed two pages in the proceedings. Review Process Poster papers will be subject to blind peer review. The decision of the Poster Chair will be final and cannot be appealed. Papers selected will be scheduled for presentation in a plenary poster session and will be printed in the Proceedings. Poster submissions inquiries should be directed to ijcai at aaai.org All other inquiries should be sent to: Toby Walsh IJCAI-03 Poster Track Chair Cork Constraint Computation Centre University College Cork Cork, Ireland posters03 at ijcai.org From dcristea at infoiasi.ro Sun Feb 2 12:43:18 2003 From: dcristea at infoiasi.ro (Dan Cristea) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:43:18 +0200 Subject: [DL] EUROLAN-2003 Summer School - First call for participation Message-ID: <00ab01c2cab0$c1edd7c0$ab1ee7c1@iasony> Dear Colleagues, Could you, please, distribute the enclosed information on the EUROLAN-2003 Summer School on "Semantic Web and Language Technology" to persons that can be potentially interested (students, graduate students, young faculty, researchers, etc.). Please excuse multiple copies of this message. Thank you, Dan Cristea ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EUROLAN-2003 Summer School on "The Semantic Web and Language Technology - Its Potential and Practicalities" 28 July - 8 August 2003 Bucharest - Romania http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/eurolan2003 - First Call For Participation - The Eurolan series of summer schools was established in 1993 and has been held every other year, with the goal of stimulating young researchers from all over the world to pursue high-level research in natural language processing and language technology. Theme The fifth EUROLAN in the series will have as topic all aspects of the developing Semantic Web technology and consider its potential and the practicalities of applying it to enhance language processing applications. The promise of the Semantic Web has evoked enormous interest within the community developing language technologies. On the one hand, it offers the potential to exploit ontological descriptions of language data in order to enable inferencing capabilities, which may not only drastically enhance semantic processing, but also alter our conceptions of the ways in which knowledge is represented and exploited in language processing applications. On the other hand, to take full advantage of this evolving technology, researchers and developers will need to understand the potential as well as the limitations of the Semantic Web and master a range of new technologies that have been designed to enable it. Finally, the language technology community must be ready to contribute to Semantic Web development in order to ensure that it meets the requirements for language processing applications. The so-called "Semantic Web community" encompasses several research communities that have previously worked independently of one another, including researchers in knowledge representation, ontology development, and "knowledge exploitation"; web developers (including developers of standards such as XML, RDF, OWL, etc.); and those who directly need to exploit knowledge in applications. Linguistic knowledge used in language processing at its various levels (morphological, syntactic, lexical, discourse, etc.) includes a substantial part of general knowledge and poses a significant challenge to Semantic Web developers in order to handle the precision and complexity required for language processing applications. Whatever the Semantic Web may evolve to be, researchers and developers in language technology clearly need to learn what it is and how it can be exploited for language processing, and at the same time, work with semantic web developers to ensure that the semantic web infrastructure is maximally usable for language processing applications. EUROLAN-2003 will provide two weeks of intensive study of semantic web technology and its application to natural language processing. Internationally known scholars and researchers involved in leading-edge work in relevant areas will serve as professors at the school, providing half- and full-day seminars and hands-on labs to provide students with in-depth understanding and experience. Topics to be covered in the school include the following: * What is the Semantic Web? * Potential and limitations of the semantic web * Supporting web technologies (XML, RDF) * Ontologies, ontology design and development * Ontology exploitation via inferencing * Description logics and other approaches to inferencing * Lexical semantics and the semantic web * Use of the semantic web and related technologies in language processing applications The list of invited personalities is as follows: * Dan Cristea, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania * Thierry Declerck, DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany * James Hendler, University of Maryland at College Park, USA * Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, USA * Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA * Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy * Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium * Srini Narayanan, SRI-International, Menlo Park, SUA * Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico University, USA * Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania * Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI and University of Saarbruecken, Germany * Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarbruecken, Germany * Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, England Program Eurolan-2003 will take place between 28 July and 8 August 2003 in Bucharest - Romania. The summer school will be organized to allow for both lectures and hands-on experience for each of the areas covered. Morning sessions will be devoted to tutorials, followed by afternoon sessions at which students will work in collaboration with professors on practical applications. The school will also include one workshop as well as round tables and work meetings on topics of particular interest related to the school?s theme. They will be announced at a later date. On Sunday, 3 August, a trip to significant Romanian landmarks will be organized. Registration and Fees Information about registration and fees will be posted at a later date. Program Committee Dan Cristea Nancy Ide Jerry Hobbs Dan Tufis Hans Uszkoreit Information on previous Eurolan events can be consulted at the address: http://www.infoiasi.ro/fcs/en/events.html. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peter at uni-koblenz.de Mon Feb 3 11:10:08 2003 From: peter at uni-koblenz.de (Peter Baumgartner) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:10:08 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: IJCAI-03 Workshop 'Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning for E-Learning Systems' Message-ID: <15934.16384.187024.732713@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE August 2003 Workshop on Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning for E-Learning Systems CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop description at http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~peter/ijcai-03-elearning/ Important Dates: March 7, 2003: Paper submission deadline April 7, 2003: Notification of acceptance May 23, 2003: Camera ready copy due (according to IJCAI-03 demands) August 9-11, 2003: IJCAI-03 workshop program Organizers: Peter Baumgartner Universit?t Koblenz-Landau, Germany Email: peter at uni-koblenz.de Paul A. Cairns University College London, UK Email: p.cairns at ucl.ac.uk Michael Kohlhase Carnegie Mellon University, USA Email: kohlhase+ at cs.cmu.edu Erica Melis Deutsches Forschungszentrum f?r K?nstliche Intelligenz, Germany Email: melis at dfki.de -- Peter Baumgartner peter at uni-koblenz.de Tel. +49 261 287-2777 http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~peter/ From ismis03 at wi-lab.com Thu Feb 6 13:44:23 2003 From: ismis03 at wi-lab.com (ismis03 at wi-lab.com) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 21:44:23 +0900 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: ISMIS 2003 Message-ID: <200302061244.h16CiNBg027214@bigslope.dyndns.org> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ================================================= Call for Papers: ISMIS 2003 FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan October 28-31, 2003 http://www.wi-lab.com/ismis03/ The Due Date of Paper Submission is March 10, 2003 ================================================== ISMIS has established a prestigious tradition by organizing a leading international conference on intelligent systems. The conference provides a unique opportunity for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements accomplished by the international community. The previous events were held in Knoxville, Tennessee (1986, 1990), Charlotte, North Carolina (1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000), Turin (1988), Trondheim (1993), Zakopane (1996), Warsaw (1999), Lyon (2002). This Symposium is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas: Active Media Human-Computer Interaction Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation Intelligent Agent Technology Intelligent Information Retrieval Intelligent Information Systems Knowledge Representation and Integration Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Logic for Artificial Intelligence Soft Computing Web Intelligence In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. human genome, global change, manufacturing, health care, etc. Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, the series homepage: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html) and will be available at the symposium. Any necessary information concerning typesetting can be obtained directly from Springer-Verlag page at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Authors are invited to submit their manuscript in the LNCS/LNAI style (maximum 10 pages). All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference homepage at http://www.wi-lab.com/ismis03/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Papers: March 10, 2003 Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2003 Final Paper: June 30, 2003 A selected number of ISMIS 2003 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (http://www.wkap.nl/journal/) by Kluwer, Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/kais.html) by Springer-Verlag, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems journal (http://wi-consortium.org/) by IOS Press, and Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://wi-consortium.org/) by World Scientific. For additional information contact: Professor Zbigniew W. Ras (ISMIS 2003) University of North Carolina Dept. of Computer Science Charlotte, NC 28226 Fax: 704-547-3516 E-mail: ras at uncc.edu Professor Ning Zhong (ISMIS 2003) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan Telephone & Fax: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp From info at folli.org Fri Feb 7 15:14:38 2003 From: info at folli.org (info at folli.org) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:14:38 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP: ESSLLI'03 Student Session Message-ID: <200302071414.h17EEc602073@mendieta.science.uva.nl> !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!! !!! Please circulate and post among students !!! We apologise if you receive this message more than once. ESSLLI-2003 STUDENT SESSION * LAST CALL FOR PAPERS * August 18-29 2003, Vienna, Austria Deadline: February 24, 2003 http://www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03 We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 15th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2003), which will be held in Vienna from August 18-29 2003. We invite submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2003 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. PURPOSE: This eighth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the previous editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates (before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates (before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. Papers may be accepted for full presentation (30 minutes including 10 minutes of discussion) or for a poster presentation. All the accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI-2003 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during the summer school. Most probably, a Best Paper Prize will be awarded. KLUWER BEST PAPER AWARD: As in previous years, the best paper will be selected by the program committee and will be awarded a prize, offered by Kluwer Academic Publishers. REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. We welcome submissions with topics within the areas Logic, Language and Computation. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit a full paper, written in English, not to exceed 7 pages of length exclusive of references. Note that the length of the final version of the accepted papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. For any submission, a plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent separately, using the following format: Title: title of the submission First author: firstname lastname Address: address of the first author ...... Last author: firstname lastname Address: address of the last author Short summary: abstract (5 lines) Subject area (one or two of): Logic | Language | Computation In case the paper is being submitted to another conference or workshop, this must be clearly indicated on the identification page. The paper submission should be in one of the following formats: PostScript, PDF, RTF, or plain text. (In case of acceptance, the final version of the paper will have to be submitted in LaTeX format.) The papers must use single column A4 size pages, 11pt or 12pt fonts, and standard margins, and may not exceed 7 pages of length exclusive of references. Submissions not in accordance with these formatting and length requirements may be subject to rejection without review. The paper and separate identification page must be sent by e-mail to b.ten.cate at hum.uva.nl by FEBRUARY 24th 2003. ESSLLI-2003 INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at ESSLLI-2003 Student Session, at least one student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant at ESSLLI-2003. The authors of accepted papers will be eligible for reduced registration fees even after the deadline for early registration. For all information concerning ESSLLI-2003, please consult the ESSLLI-2003 website at www.logic.at/esslli03. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission of papers : February 24, 2003. Authors notifications : April 22, 2003. Final version due : May 19, 2003. ESSLLI-2003 Student Session : August 18-29, 2003. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Laura Alonso Alemany, University of Barcelona Roberto Bonato, University of Verona, University Bordeaux I Balder ten Cate, University of Amsterdam Paul Egre, University Paris I Dan Flickinger, Stanford University Maria Fuentes Fort, University of Girona Gabriel Infante Lopez, University of Amsterdam Jakob Kellner, University of Vienna Favio Miranda-Perea, LMU Muenchen Christian Retore, INRIA, LaBRI Bordeaux Sergio Tessaris, University of Bolzano For more information concerning the ESSLLI-2003 Student Session, please consult the website www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03 . Also, for specific questions do not hesitate to contact me: Balder ten Cate ILLC, University of Amsterdam Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31.20.5254552 Fax: +31.20.5254503 E-mail: b.ten.cate at hum.uva.nl From peter at uni-koblenz.de Mon Feb 10 15:37:26 2003 From: peter at uni-koblenz.de (Peter Baumgartner) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:37:26 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: CADE-19 Workshop 'Model Computation - Principles, Algorithms, Applications' Message-ID: <15943.47398.650312.241922@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CADE-19 Workshop Model Computation - Principles, Algorithms, Applications Miami, Florida, USA July 29, 2003 CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full workshop description at http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~peter/models03/ Invited Speakers * Ilkka Niemel?, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. (More to be announced) Workshop Organization Peter Baumgartner University of Koblenz, Germany Email: peter at uni-koblenz.de Chris Fermueller University of Technology Vienna, Austria Email: chrisf at logic.tuwien.ac.at Important Dates April 14, 2003 Paper submissions deadline May 16, 2003 Notification of acceptance May 23, 2003 Early registration June 30, 2003 Final versions due July 29, 2003 Worskhop See http://www.cade-19.info/ for more information on CADE-19. -- Peter Baumgartner peter at uni-koblenz.de Tel. +49 261 287-2777 http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~peter/ From hereth at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de Mon Feb 10 17:25:58 2003 From: hereth at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de (J. Hereth) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:25:58 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation: ICFCA03 Message-ID: <20030210172558.X3686@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de> Call for Participation The fz?bw - Research Center on Conceptual Knowledge Processing invites to the First International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis: The State of the Art Darmstadt University of Technology February 27th -- March 1st 2003 Formal Concept Analysis arose around 1980 out of attempts of restructuring lattice theory to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since then Formal Concept Analysis has been increasingly developed as a field of research stimulated by a broad spectrum of applications. Today researchers from all over the world contribute to Formal Concept Analysis and apply methods and results of Formal Concept Analysis. Therefore it is time for a firrst international conference on Formal Concept Analysis on which the state of the art of this promising field of research and application can be presented. Invited speakers: * Robert Brandom (Philosophy; Pittsburgh/Stanford, USA) * Claudio Carpineto (Information Retrieval; Rom, Italy) * Vincent Duquenne (Data Analysis; Paris, France) * Peter Eklund (Information Technology; Brisbane, Australia) * Bernhard Ganter (Mathematics/Computer Science; Dresden, Germany) * Robert Godin (Computer Science; Montreal, Canada) * Sergei Kuznetsov (Mathematics; Moscow, Russia) * Lotfi Lakhal (Computer Science; Aix-en-Provence, France) * Uta Priss (Information Science; Edinburgh, Scotland) * Gregor Snelting (Computer Science; Passau, Germany) * Gerd Stumme (Applied Computer Science; Karlsruhe, Germany) * Rudolf Wille (Mathematics/Philosophy; Darmstadt, Germany) * Karl Erich Wolff (Mathematics; Darmstadt, Germany) Participation: Fees are 50 EUR (10 EUR for students). Applications should be sent to Julia Klinger by Thursday, 20 February 2003. Further Information: The conference announcement is available at http://fzbw.de/icfca03/Herunterladen.html The conference is organized by the fz?bw - Forschungszentrum fuer Begrffiche Wissensverarbeitung (Research Center on Conceptual Knowledge Processing) and supported by DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the ErnstSchroederZentrum, and navicon GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). -- J. Hereth Correia Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Mathematics From hereth at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de Mon Feb 10 17:26:11 2003 From: hereth at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de (J. Hereth) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:26:11 +0100 Subject: [DL] ICFCA03 Workshop: Designing and Building Conceptual Data Systems Message-ID: <20030210172611.Y3686@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de> ICFCA-Workshop: Designing and Building Conceptual Data Systems Begin: Tuesday, 25 February 2003, 15:00 End: Wednesday, 26 February 2003, 18:00 at Darmstadt University of Technology In the context of the ICFCA03 - First International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis a workshop on designing and building Conceptual Data Systems is organized by the fz?bw - Research Center on Conceptual Knowledge Processing. Conceptual Data Systems use methods of Formal Concept Analysis for presenting the data in an accessible fashion to the user and allow interactive research and analysis by graphical means. Conceptual Data Systems have been applied in numerous projects that contributed to the research on Formal Concept Analysis. The course covers the basic topics of database management and the application of the current versions of Toscana. The course fee is 150 EUR. Reductions are available for members of universities (75 EUR) and students (20 EUR). Additionally, we have a 10 EUR discount for participants of the main conference. The fee ist to be paid on place. Questions or applications should be sent before Tuesday, 18 February 2003 to Joachim Hereth Correia -- J. Hereth Correia Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Mathematics From gsr100 at cambridge.org Mon Feb 10 18:48:48 2003 From: gsr100 at cambridge.org (Graham Robertson) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:48:48 +0000 Subject: [DL] Description Logic Handbook now in stock Message-ID: Now available from Cambridge University Press: 'The Description Logic Handbook' edited by Franz Baader, Diego Calvanese, Deborah McGuinness, Daniele Nardi and Peter Patel-Schneider. ?80.00 | Hardback | 570 pages 14 tables 53 figures | ISBN: 0521781760 Contents: 1.An introduction to description logics; Part I. Theory: 2. Basic description logics; 3. Complexity of reasoning; 4. Relationships with other formalisms ; 5. Expressive description logics; 6. Extensions to description logics; Part II. Implementation: 7. From description logic provers to knowledge representation systems; 8. Description logics systems; 9. Implementation and optimisation techniques; Part III. Applications: 10. Conceptual modeling with description logics; 11. Software engineering; 12. Configurations; 13. Medical informatics; 14. Digital libraries and web-based information systems; 15. Natural language processing; 16. Description logics for datadl at dl.kr.orgbases; Appendix. Description logic terminology; Bibliography. More details can be obtained at the Cambridge web site: http://books.cambridge.org/0521781760.htm or from Graham Robertson at gsr100 at cambridge.org From Vasile.Palade at comlab.ox.ac.uk Mon Feb 10 19:07:00 2003 From: Vasile.Palade at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Vasile Palade) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:07:00 +0000 Subject: [DL] KES2003 Deadline Extended Message-ID: <3E47EA43.4C8E1BEA@comlab.ox.ac.uk> This is just to let you know that the DEADLINE for paper submission for KES2003 was extended to 17th February 2003. Many apologies if you receive multiple copies ******************************************************************************** Call for Papers KES'2003 - 7th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems 3, 4 & 5 September 2003 Oxford, United Kingdom http://www.brighton.ac.uk/kes/kes2003/ ******************************************************************************** The seventh conference in the very successful KES series will be held at Oxford - UK, one of the most famous university and cultural sites in the world as well as most popular tourist destination in England. We are pleased to invite papers on Intelligent Systems and Techniques, Applications of Intelligent Techniques and related areas within Information Technology and Advanced Internet Technologies. The conference will consist of plenary sessions and contributory sessions on the theory and applications of various intelligent techniques, including but not limited to the following topics of interest and areas of application:- TOPICS Generic Topics of Interest: -------------------------- Knowledge-Based Systems, Expert Systems, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Techniques and Systems, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing, Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Machine Learning, Cognitive Modelling, Knowledge Representation and Management, Planning, Spatial & Temporal Reasoning, Knowledge Acquisition. Intelligent Applications: ------------------------ Industrial Control and Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis, Robotics, Image Processing, Machine & Computer Vision, Medical & Diagnostic Systems, Financial & Stock Market Monitoring and Prediction, Speech Processing and Synthesis, Natural Language Processing, Environmental Monitoring, Power Electronics & Drives, High Voltage Systems, Engine Control and Vehicle Applications; Signal Processing & Wavelets Emerging Intelligent Technologies: --------------------------------- Artificial Intelligence and the Internet, Information Agents on the Internet, E-commerce/E-business and E-learning, Intelligent Information Retrieval, Intelligent Web Mining & Applications, Intelligent User Interfaces, Bioinformatics using Intelligent & Machine Learning Techniques, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Virtual Reality & Multi-Media Intelligent Information Systems, Artificial Life SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests on the indicated conference topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period. Contributions from more applied related fields in industry and commerce are very welcome. Please see the web site for details of the required paper format and submission details. All oral and poster papers must be presented by one of the authors. To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by KES2003 Programme Committee. The conference proceedings will be published in LNAI series from Springer-Verlag. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems (www.brighton.ac.uk/kes/ journal/). IMPORTANT DEADLINES For General Sessions:- * Submission of papers (new): 17 February 2003 * Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2003 * Final papers to reach KES Secretariat by: 1 May 2003 * Special Session/ Workshop Proposal: 1 March 2003 If you have been invited to contribute a paper for a Special/Invited Session, please contact the Session Chair for deadlines relating to the Session. Final papers for Special/Invited Sessions must reach the KES Secretariat by 1 May 2003. All presenting authors (both General and Special/Invited Sessions) must register with payment by the 1st June 2003 deadline for their papers to appear in the proceedings. SPECIAL SESSIONS Scientists who would like to organise a special session of 5/6 papers on some topics falling within the scope of the conference are invited to contact the General Chair/KES Secretariat. Proposals for special workshops or tutorials are also welcome. EXHIBITORS Manufacturers of hardware and software, publishers, etc., are invited to apply to exhibit their products to the international audience that will attend the conference. CONFERENCE VENUE KES2003 is organized by the University of Oxford in co-operation with KES Administration Secretariat based at the University of Brighton, UK, and is hosted at St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK. Oxford has many places of cultural interests with centuries of history to unveil and it is well renowned as a seat of learning and traditions for over 800 years. With its honey-gold buildings, traditional colleges, river setting and gardens, Oxford is one of the most famous tourist attractions in England. It is located in a wonderful setting about 80km north-west of London and about 60km from Heathrow international airport. Oxford is excellently served by road and train networks that give instant and direct access to all London airports as well as to other big international airports and important attractions in England. Low cost accommodation will be provided in student study-rooms, or there are many good-quality hotels in the city. Delegates will be invited to a conference reception, for a formal welcome, as well as to a conference banquet in a traditional Oxford college. ORGANIZERS General Chair: V. Palade, Oxford University, UK Executive Chair: R.J. Howlett, University of Brighton, UK Honorary Founder and Programme Committee Chair: L.C. Jain, University of South Australia,Australia PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ajith Abraham, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, USA Uwe Aickelin, University of Bradford, UK Norio Baba, Osaka-Kyoiku University, Japan Robert Babuska, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Andrzej Bargiela, Nottingham Trent University, UK Severin Bumbaru, University of Galati, Romania Jonathon Chambers, King's College London, UK Susan Craw, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Didier Dubois, Universit? Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Colette Faucher, University of Aix-Marseille III, France Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan Kunihiko Fukushima, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan Colin Fyfe, University of Paisley, UK Bogdan Gabrys, University of Paisley, UK Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas, Austin, USA Mark Girolami, University of Paisley, UK Adolf Grauel, University of Applied Sciences, Germany Altay G?venir, Bilkent University of Ankara, Turkey Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin - Parkside, USA Robert F Harrison, University of Sheffield, UK Akira Hirose, University of Tokio, Japan Nikhil Ichalkaranje, University of South Australia, Australia Takumi Ichimura, Hiroshima City University, Japan Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Yoshiteru ISHIDA, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Naohiro Ishii, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Fakhri Karray, University of Waterloo, Canada Ron Kates, REK Consulting, Germany Andreas K?nig, University of Dresden, Germany Ludmilla I. Kuncheva, University of Wales Bangor, UK C. P. Lim, University of Science, Malaysia Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Donald MacDonald, University of Paisley, UK Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland Jun Munemori, Wakayama University, Japan Hirofumi Nagashino, University of Tokushima, Japan Zensho Nakao, University of the Ryukyus, Japan Daniel Neagu, University of Bradford, UK Mircea Negoita, Wellington Institute of Technology, New Zeeland Toyoaki Nishida, University of Tokyo, Japan Vesa A. Niskanen, University of Helsinki, Finland Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India Ron J. Patton, University of Hull, UK Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Bhanu Prasad, Georgia South Western State University, USA Bernd Reusch, University of Dortmund, Germany Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, UK David Sanchez, Neurocomputing, Elsevier, USA Manfred Schmitt, Technical University of Munich, Germany Jonathan Shapiro, University of Manchester, UK Clarence W. de Silva, University of British Columbia, Canada Ashwin Srinivasan, Oxford University, UK Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan Lionel Tarassenko, Oxford University, UK Eiichiro Tazaki, Toin University of Yokohama, Japan George Tecuci, George Mason University, USA Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, Technical University of Iassy, Romania Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane Medical University, Japan Dan Tufis, Artificial Intelligence Institute of Romanian Academy, Romania Spyros Tzafestas, Technical University of Athens, Greece Jose Verdegay, University of Granada, Spain Rao Vemuri, University of California at Davies, USA Rob Vingerhoeds, ENIT, France Simon D. Walters, University of Brighton Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA KES2003 CONTACT DETAILS ======================= For enquiries about KES2003, please contact: Dr. V. Palade, Oxford University, Computing Laboratory, Parks Road, OX1 3QD, Oxford, UK Email: Vasile.Palade at comlab.ox.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)1865 283606 Fax: +44 (0)1865 283532 Web site: www.brighton.ac.uk/kes/kes2003/ For general enquiries about KES Conferences or the KES Journal please contact: The KES Secretariat, Engineering Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Brighton, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, BN2 4GJ, United Kingdom. Email: KES at brighton.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)1273 642305 Fax: +44 (0)1273 642444 Send us your details if you wish to be added to the KES2003 mail list. From info at folli.org Thu Feb 13 14:17:03 2003 From: info at folli.org (info at folli.org) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:17:03 +0100 Subject: [DL] Beth Dissertation Prize 2003: Call for Nominations Message-ID: <200302131317.h1DDH3J13558@mendieta.science.uva.nl> [ We apologise if you receive this message more than once ] The European Association for Logic, Language and Information http://www.folli.org E. W. BETH DISSERTATION PRIZE 2003: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nominations are invited for the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize awarded by the European Association for Logic, Language and Information to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language and Information. The prize will be awarded to the best dissertation which resulted in a PhD in the year 2002. The dissertations will be judged on the impact they made in their respective fields, breadth and originality of the work, and also on the interdisciplinarity of the work. Ideally the winning dissertation will be of interest to researchers in all three fields. -- Who qualifies? -- Those who were awarded the PhD degree in the area of Logic, Language and Information between the 1st of January, 2002 and the 31st of December, 2002. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the PhD was granted. However, after a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. -- How to submit? -- We only accept electronic submissions. The following documents are required: 1. the thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted). 2. a ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii format. 3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not possible; each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was awarded. 4. Two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically to beth_award at cs.nott.ac.uk . Hard copy submissions are not possible. If you experience any problems with the email submission or do not receive a notification from us within two working days, please write to beth_award at cs.nott.ac.uk or nza at cs.nott.ac.uk . -- Important dates: -- Deadline for Submissions: 28 February 2003 Notification of Decision: 1 June 2003 The prize will be handed to the winners at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information in Vienna (Austria), 18 - 29 August 2003. Prize winners will be expected to attend the ceremony; funding to make this possible is currently being secured. From ue at doc.ic.ac.uk Fri Feb 14 17:53:29 2003 From: ue at doc.ic.ac.uk (Ulle Endriss) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:53:29 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CFP] Automated Reasoning Workshop 2003 Message-ID: <3E4D1F09.9010603@doc.ic.ac.uk> 2nd Call for Papers / Participation TENTH WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATED REASONING: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE Liverpool University, UK, 15-16th April 2003 http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~clare/arw03/ http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/endriss/ARW/ Following in the highly successful series of Workshops on Automated Reasoning, this workshop will provide an informal forum for the automated reasoning community. This workshop series aims to bring together researchers from all areas of automated reasoning in order to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among researchers from various disciplines; among researchers from academia, industry and government; and between theoreticians and practitioners. Topics ****** The workshop will cover the full breadth and diversity of automated reasoning and will include topics such as: - Theorem proving in classical and non-classical logics - Equational reasoning - Unification - Induction - Verification - Specification - Constraint solving - Decision procedures - Formal methods - Interactive theorem proving - Nonmonotonic reasoning - Abduction - Logic-based knowledge representation - Description logics - Implementation of automated reasoning systems - Experiments Invited Speakers **************** * Tom Melham (Oxford) * Frank Wolter (Liverpool) * further speakers to be announced Submission of Abstracts *********************** We invite interested persons to submit a camera-ready two-page abstract in either Postscript or PDF format by email to Clare Dixon at clare at csc.liv.ac.uk about recent work or work in progress, or a system description. Each submission should include the names and complete addresses (including email) of all authors. Correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless otherwise indicated. The main objective of the abstracts is to spread information about recent work in our community. Abstracts will be published in informal workshop notes and be made available by WWW. Student Grants ************** We have a limited number of grants available to PhD students who wish to attend ARW 2003. To indicate your interest please send a short email to Ulle Endriss at ue at doc.ic.ac.uk anytime before 19 March 2003. Important Dates *************** Abstract submission: any day before 3 March 2003 Notification of authors: shortly after submission Grant application: any day before 19 March 2003 Workshop dates: 15th-16th April 2003 Format of the Workshop ********************** The workshop is intended to be an inclusive event, with participants encouraged from the broad spectrum covered by the field of automated reasoning. We encourage the participation of experienced researchers as well as those new to the field, especially students. There will be invited talks, a panel session on "Grand Challenges in Automated Reasoning", and short presentations of the submitted abstracts followed by poster sessions. Organising Committee ******************** Brandon Bennett (University of Leeds) Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) David Crocker (Escher Technologies) Clare Dixon (University of Liverpool) -- ARW 2003 Programme Chair Ulle Endriss (Imperial College London) -- Secretary/Treasurer Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool) Alan Frisch (University of York) -- Organising Committee Chair Ian P. Gent (University of St. Andrews) Ullrich Hustadt (University of Liverpool) Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University) Manfred Kerber (University of Birmingham) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester) Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester) Toby Walsh (University College Cork) Sponsorship *********** ARW 2003 is sponsored by CoLogNet, the European Network of Excellence in Computational Logic, and by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. -- Ulle Endriss Department of Computing Tel: +44 20 7594 8204 Imperial College London Fax: +44 20 7581 8024 180 Queen's Gate Email: ue at doc.ic.ac.uk London SW7 2AZ (UK) http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ue/ From wias at wi-consortium.org Sat Feb 15 13:30:32 2003 From: wias at wi-consortium.org (wias at wi-consortium.org) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:30:32 +0900 Subject: [DL] CFP: the Web Intelligence & Agent Systems journal Message-ID: <200302151230.h1FCUWMf027009@bigslope.dyndns.org> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================================== Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal ----------------------------------------------------------- Publisher: IOS Press (http://www.iospress.nl/site/html/15701263.html) (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) ISSN 1570-1263 Home Page: http://wi-consortium.org/ ==================================== Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (WIAS) is an official journal of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC, homepage: http://wi-consortium.org/), an international organization dedicated to promoting collaborative scientific research and industrial development in the era of Web and agent intelligence. WIAS seeks to collaborate with major societies and international conferences in the fields. Presently, it has established a tie with the IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and the IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. WIAS is a peer-reviewed journal, which publishes 4 issues a year, in both electronic and hard copies. WIAS aims to achieve a disciplinary balance between Web technology and intelligent agent technology. It is committed to deepening the understanding of computational, logical, cognitive, physical, and social foundations as well as the enabling technologies for developing and applying Web-based intelligence and autonomous agents systems. The journal features high-quality, original research papers (including state-of-the-art reviews), brief papers, and letters in all theoretical and technology areas that make up the field of WIAS. The papers should clearly focus on some of the following areas of interest: o Agent infrastructure and architecture o Agent self-organization, learning, and adaptation o Agent-based knowledge discovery o Agent-mediated markets o Autonomy-oriented or autonomic computing o Cooperative problem solving o Distributed intelligence and emergent behavior o Emerging agent-based, Web-based systems and computing paradigms o Evaluation and standards for agent-based Web intelligence technologies o Knowlegde Grid and Grid intelligence o Information ecology o Knowledge management, networks, and communities o Mediators and middleware o Ontology engineering o Personalization techniques o Security issues in Web and agent systems o Semantic Web, Web services and interoperability o Ubiquitous computing and social intelligence o Web information filtering and retrieval o Web mining and farming o Wisdom Web WIAS Paper Submission Guidelines ================================ Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers, which have not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration for another journal or conference. Each manuscript prepared for WIAS must fall into one of the following categories: (1) Original research papers Articles will be full-length papers (approximately 20 journal pages) reporting well-defined theoretical results and empirical studies that have potential impact on understanding of computational, logical, cognitive, physical, and social foundations, as well as the enabling technologies for developing and applying Web-based intelligence and autonomous agents systems. It is assumed that the ideas presented are important, have been well analyzed or empirically validated, and are of value to Web and agent intelligence research community. (2) State-of-the-art reviews Articles can also be state-of-the-art reviews, which will be either perspective tutorial articles in rapidly evolving fields or comprehensive scholarly reviews of significant topics. (3) Brief papers A brief paper presents results that are important and original and are presented in concise form. (4) Letters A letter is used to convey only a few principal ideas or to comment on work previously published in the WIAS. The manuscripts submitted to WIAS are subjected to a rigorous review process handled by the Editors-in-Chief and designated Editorial Board Member(s). All manuscripts for consideration must be submitted electronically through an Electronic Submission Form, available from the Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) homepage at http://www.wi-consortium.org (under "WIAS journal"). In order to facilitate the review process, authors are required to mark the topics (within the Electronic Submission Form) to which their submissions are most relevant. From dmailharro at ilog.fr Tue Feb 18 14:40:58 2003 From: dmailharro at ilog.fr (Daniel Mailharro) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:40:58 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: IJCAI 2003: Workshop on Configuration Message-ID: IJCAI 2003 CONFIGURATION WORKSHOP Call for participation in conjunction with the 18th IJCAI August 11, Acapulco, Mexico - Introduction - Topics - Attendance and Submission Information - Important Dates - Web pages - Organizing Commitee - Program Commitee INTRODUCTION Representing and solving Configuration problems have always been subjects of interest for applying and developing AI techniques because powerful knowledge- representation models are necessary to capture the great variety and complexity of configurable product models, and efficient reasoning methods are required to provide intelligent interactive behavior in configurator software, such as solution search, satisfaction of user preferences, optimization, diagnosis, etc. Today, the number, the diversity and the complexity of configurable products available on the market is growing, expanding from conventional equipment configuration to software configuration, or to service configuration, such as loans, insurance, travel packages, and so forth. Configuration is more than ever a challenging area for applying novel AI techniques since more and more sophisticated reasoning tasks are delegated to the configurator software; the software must thus integrate product-assembly knowledge along with customer classification, adaptive sales strategies, and customer assistance. This integration becomes particularly critical for e-business applications where customers directly configure products through the Web with no human assistance and without a deep knowledge of the products they are buying. This workshop continues the series of Configuration workshops started at the AAAI 1996 Fall Symposium and continued at AAAI'99, ECAI 2000, IJCAI 2001 and ECAI 2002. The previous workshops were particularly successful since they had each more than 40 participants representing academia, end users and the major configurator vendors. The workshop gives AI researchers from different areas (e.g. description logics, constraint satisfaction, nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programs, case-based reasoning, ontologies, planning), real-application developers, and industrial configurator vendors the opportunity to exchange needs, ideas, work, methods, experiments, use-cases, and benchmarks related to the various problems met by configuration applications: theory, knowledge representation, reasoning, optimization, diagnosis, solution repair, interactivity, ontology, cooperative processes, etc. The goal of this IJCAI workshop on configuration is to promote high-quality research in configuration and to strengthen the interaction between industry and research. The workshop is intended for researchers and product developers interested in this area and more generally in the application of AI techniques to real problems and the research fostered by it. Submissions are sought from the researchers and developers working with the wide range of applicable AI technologies that complement each other. The workshop will be a one day event. Accepted submissions are organized as panels according to topics with short introductory presentations by panel members, allowing ample time for discussion to stimulate a workshop-like event. TOPICS We invite submissions describing novel and previously unpublished research (possibly in progress) or experiences with AI in configuration-related areas, including but not limited to: 1) Configuration problems and models: - Configuration problems typology - Knowledge representation & acquisition - fuzzy and incomplete knowledge - Knowledge base validation, diagnosis - Interaction with Product Data Management systems - Standardization of catalog exchange format 2) Reasoning methods - Constraint Satisfaction Problems and its extensions - Preference based reasoning - Descriptive logics, Rules, Case-based reasoning - Local search, Genetic algorithms, Neural networks - Problem decomposition - Optimization - Multi-criteria optimization - Symmetry breaking - Cooperative configuration processes - Re-configuration of existing systems - Explanations - Bench mark proposals 3) Interactivity & e-business - Personalization - Ontology - Intelligent man machine interaction - Machine learning - Client/Server architecture, Configuration server - Configuration Web service - Distributed configurators 4) Integration with other modules - Product Data Management - CAD - Pricer - ERP, Process configuration 5) Applications & Tools - Application reports - Case studies - Real world challenges We hope to attract a balance of - new and innovative papers on theoretical issues, justified by practical concerns, - practical applications, preferably applying a well-defined theory or model, - thorough case studies highlighting practical problems, needs and experiences, especially long-term experiences and new cases in e.g. e-commerce applications. In addition, we solicit papers containing a description of a configuration problem instance together with longer complete description. The longer descriptions will be made available on a web-site in order to build up a benchmark test base for configuration systems. ATTENDANCE and SUBMISSION INFORMATION All workshop participants must register to the IJCAI-2003 conference, which also handles the practical arrangements such as workshop registration, location, etc. Participation will be by invitation only, and will be limited to 40 participants. If you wish to participate, submit either a full paper of no more than 6 pages (or 6000 words), or a position statement, a short paper, or a problem instance (at most 3 pages or 3000 words). Short papers may address an important problem for further research or describe a practical problem or an interesting lesson learned. In addition, we solicit proposals for short demonstrations (at most 3 pages or 3000 words, and software demonstrations taking at most 15 minutes), emphasizing the original contribution, functionality or conceptual foundation of the system. If a short paper describes a problem instance, it can do this using natural language or any suitable formalism, in addition to giving details such as the source and domain (e.g. computer, car or telecommunications industry, possibly name of the company and product) of the problem, the possible system(s) used for solving it, performance data for the system(s), general characteristics such as the potential search space vs. the number of correct configurations or suitable configurations with respect to some requirements, and modeling method specific characteristics such as number of variables and the sizes of their domains for a CSP representation. However, the authors are strongly encouraged to formulate their descriptions based on the generally used concepts: components, attributes, ports and connections, resources, and functions (features). If necessary to preserve confidential information, you may rename the elements of the problem description to meaningless symbols to hide their origin and omit the names of the company and product. The problem instances should also be accompanied with a longer, possibly more detailed description file of the problem. The longer description should contain the same information as the shorter version in addition to giving a more detailed model and comments on the meaning and relation between different parts of model to make it accessible to other researchers willing to try their system on it. These descriptions will be made available on the web in the form of a benchmark test set for configurators, and by submitting such a problem description the authors give permission to publish it on the web. The submissions should follow the IJCAI-2003 style guide (when it becomes available) and guidelines pertaining to blind reviewing. Electronic submission to dmailharro at ilog.fr in both postscript and PDF format is preferred, i.e. submit two distinct pieces, one containing the paper without author identification, the other containing the title page with author identification, and both in both PS and PDF formats, altogether four files. Otherwise, send three hard copies of your paper and the title page to the contact address given below, to arrive at the submission deadline. No tracking numbers or declarations on submissions to other forums are needed. Each submission is blindly refereed by at least two members of the program committee. Refereeing criteria are relevance to workshop topics, significance and novelty of the research, technical content, discussion in relation to previous work and clarity of presentation. A contribution submitted as a long paper may be accepted as a short paper, if the program committee considers it to be inadequate for a long paper but to present an important issue. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 4, 2003 Reviews due : April 30, 2003 Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2003 Camera-ready version deadline: May 23, 2003 Workshop: August 11, 2003 WEB PAGES: IJCAI: http://www.ijcai-03.org Workshop: http://www2.ilog.com/ijcai-03 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Chair and contact person: Daniel Mailharro. ILOG S.A., 9 rue de Verdun, 94253 Gentilly Cedex, France. Tel: +33 1 49 08 35 70, Fax: +33 1 49 08 35 10 E-mail: dmailharro at ilog.fr Prof. Michel Aldanondo. Ecole des Mines d'Albi Carmaux, France Prof. Eugene Freuder. University College Cork, Ireland Prof. Gerhard Friedrich. University Klagenfurt, Austria Dr. Ulrich Junker. ILOG S.A., France Prof. Timo Soininen. Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Prof. Markus Stumptner. University of South Australia, Australia PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Michel Aldanondo, Ecole des Mines d'Albi Carmaux, France Claire Bagley, Oracle, USA Ronen I.Brafman, University of Beer-Sheva, Israel David Brown, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Alexander Felfernig, University Klagenfurt, Austria Cipriano Forza, Universita di Padova, Italy David Franke, Trilogy, USA Felix Frayman, Felix Frayman Consulting, USA Esther Gelle, ABB Corporate Research Ltd., Switzerland Albert Haag, SAP AG, Germany Dietmar Jannach, University Klagenfurt, Austria Ulrich Junker, ILOG S.A., France Daniel Mailharro, ILOG S.A., France Tomi M?nnist?, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Klas Orsv?rn, Tacton AB, Sweden Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland Carsten Sinz, University of Tubingen, Germany Timo Soininen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Markus Stumptner, Technische Universit?t Wien, Austria Pietro Torasso, Universita di Torino, Italy From wi-iat at wi-lab.com Wed Feb 19 12:48:36 2003 From: wi-iat at wi-lab.com (wi-iat at wi-lab.com) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 20:48:36 +0900 Subject: [DL] IEEE/WIC WI 2003: Call For Papers Message-ID: <200302191148.h1JBmag0019678@bigslope.dyndns.org> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC WEB INTELLIGENCE 2003 ------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S ##################################################################### 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003) Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) October 13-17, 2003 Tianlun Dynasty Hotel, BEIJING, CHINA ******************************************** Homepage: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03/ ******************************************** Web Intelligence (WI) is a new direction for scientific research and development that explores the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced Information Technology (IT) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities. The 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003 jointly held with the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT03). The IEEE/WIC 2003 joint conferences are sponsored and organized by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI) (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/tcci/index.shtml) and by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org). ++++++++ Topics ++++++++ The topics and areas include, but not limited to: * Intelligent Web-Based Business and Grid Computing Business Intelligence Customer Relationship Management Direct Marketing Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business Measuring and Analyzing Web Merchandising Price Dynamics and Pricing Algorithms Web-Based EDI Web Marketing Web Publishing * Knowledge Networks and Management Digital Library Information and Knowledge Markets Knowledge Community Formation and Support Ontology Engineering Semantic Web Visualization of Information and Knowledge Web-Based Decision Support Web Regularities and Models * Ubiquitous Computing and Social Intelligence Competitive Dynamics of Web Sites Computational Societies and Markets Dynamics of Information Sources Reputation Mechanisms Theories of Small World Web Ubiquitous Learning Systems Web-Based Cooperative Work Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust * Intelligent Human-Web Interaction Adaptive Web Interfaces Multimedia Representation Multimodal Data Processing Science and Art of Web Design * Web Information Management Data Models for the Web Integrated Exploration and Exploitation Internet and Web-Based Data Management Multi-Dimensional Web Databases and OLAP Multimedia Information Management Object Oriented Web Information Management Personalized Information Management Semi-Structured Data Management Use and Management of Metadata Web-Based Distributed Information Systems o Web Information Retrieval Automatic Cataloging and Indexing Conceptual Information Extraction Multi-Linguistic Information Retrieval Multimedia Retrieval Multimodal Information Retrieval Ontology-Based Information Retrieval o Web Agents Conversational Systems E-mail Filtering and Automatic Handling Global Information Foraging Information Filtering Navigation Guides Recommender Systems Remembrance Agents Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms Semantic Web Agents o Web Mining and Farming Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Learning User Profiles Multimedia Data Mining Text Mining Web-Based Ontology Learning Web-Based Reverse Engineering Web Farming Web-Log Mining Web Warehousing o Emerging Web Technology New Web Information Description and Query Languages Web Intelligence Development Tools Web Protocols P2P Computing Wisdom Web +++++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++++ Electronic submission of full papers: March 20, 2003 Notification of paper acceptance: May 2003 Industry track/workshop submission: June 2003 Notification of industry track & workshops: July 2003 Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 2003 Conference & workshops: October 13-17, 2003 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI 2003 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) versions. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. WI 2003 also welcomes Industry Track submissions, Workshop and Tutorial proposals. More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the WI 2003 homepage (http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03). A selected number of WI 2003 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html) The IEEE/WIC best paper awards will be conferred on the authors of the best papers at the conference. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization +++++++++++++++++++++++++ ***** Organizing Committee ***** Organizing Chairs Tieyong Zuo China Xiaoming Liu China Conference Chair Ning Zhong Japan Conference Co-Chairs Nick Cercone Canada Ruqian Lu China Toyoaki Nishida Japan Program Chair Jiming Liu HK Program Co-Chairs Boi Faltings Switzerland Matthias Klusch Germany Chunnian Liu China Industry Track Chairs Jianchang Mao USA Yiming Ye USA Lizhu Zhou China Workshop Chairs Cory Butz Canada Zhongzhi Shi China Yiyu Yao Canada Tutorial Chairs Jeffrey Bradshaw USA Jinglong Wu Japan Publicity and Web Chair Yiu-Ming Cheung HK IEEE-CS-TCCI Chair Xindong Wu USA WIC Co-Chairs/Directors Ning Zhong Japan Jiming Liu HK WIC Advisory Board Edward A. Feigenbaum USA Setsuo Ohsuga Japan Benjamin Wah USA Philip Yu USA L.A. Zadeh USA WIC Technical Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee Nick Cercone Canada Dieter Fensel The Netherlands Georg Gottlob Austria Lakhmi Jain Australia W. Lewis Johnson USA Jianchang Mao USA Toyoaki Nishida Japan Xindong Wu USA Yiyu Yao Canada ***** WI 2003 Program Committee ***** Sarabjot Singh Anand (UK) Sourav Bhattacharya (USA) Hendrik Blockeel (Belgium) Cory Butz (Canada) Rajkumar Buyya (Australia) Keith Chan (HK SAR) Hsinchun Chen (USA) David Cheung (HK SAR) Yiu-ming Cheung (HK SAR) Joongmin Choi (Korea) Stefan Decker (USA) Peter W. Eklund (Australia) Fensel (The Netherlands) Fabien Gandon (France) Wen Gao (China) Ali A. Ghorbani (Canada) Xiaohua Tony Hu (USA) Janusz Kacprzyk (Poland) Dimitrios Kalles (Greece) Samuel Kaski (Finland) Yasuhiko Kitamura (Japan) Donald H. Kraft (USA) Rudolf Kruse (Germany) Vipin Kumar (USA) Yuefeng Li (Australia) Chun-hung Li (HK SAR) T.Y. Lin (USA) Carles X. Ling (Canada) Bing Liu (Singapore) Frederick H. Lochovsky (HK SAR) Michael Lyu (HK SAR) Philippe Martin (Australia) Ernestina Menasalvas (Spain) Luc Moreau (UK) Akira Namatame (Japan) Jian-Yun Nie (Canada) Henry O. Nyongesa (UK) Sankar Kumar Pal (India) Seog Park (Korea) Terry R. Payne (UK) Loris Penserini (Italy) Omer F. Rana (UK) Javier Segovia (Spain) Qiang Shen (UK) Timothy K. Shih (Taiwan) Steffen Staab (Germany) Yasuyuki Sumi (Japan) Einoshin Suzuki (Japan) Roman W. Swiniarski (USA) Atsuhiro Takasu (Japan) Pang-Ning Tan (USA) Pierre Tchounikine (France) Andrew Tomkins (USA) Shusaku Tsumoto (Japan) Paola Velardi (Italy) Jose M. Vidal (USA) Gottfried Vossen (Germany) Lipo Wang (Singapore) Zijun James Wang (USA) Takashi Washio (Japan) Graham Williams (Australia) Zonghuan Wu (USA) Seiji Yamada (Japan) Qiang Yang (HK SAR) Yoneo Yano (Japan) Yiyu Yao (Canada) Yiming Ye (USA) Tetuya Yoshida (Japan) Yaqin Zhang (China) Lizhu Zhou (China) Wojciech Ziarko (Canada) From tinelli at cs.uiowa.edu Thu Feb 20 19:05:05 2003 From: tinelli at cs.uiowa.edu (Cesare Tinelli) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:05:05 -0600 Subject: [DL] CFP: CADE Workshop on Pragmatics of Decision Procedures in AR Message-ID: <3E5518D1.7040006@cs.uiowa.edu> (Apologies for cross postings) =========================================================================== CADE-19 Workshop PDPAR'03 Pragmatics of Decision Procedures in Automated Reasoning Miami, Florida, USA July 28-29, 2003 CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================================== The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the pragmatical aspects of decision procedures in automated reasoning, giving them a forum for presenting and discussing implementation and evaluation techniques. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) * algorithms and data structures to implement decision procedures * techniques for the rapid prototyping of decision procedures * techniques to implement combination or incorporation schemes * benchmarks to evaluate and/or to compare decision procedures * methodologies to test decision procedures * the role of decision procedures in real-world verification efforts * techniques to promote the re-use and the exchange of code implementing decision procedures, combination and integration schemas, ... Another goal of the workshop is to provide a discussion forum for the SMT-LIB initiative, a research initiative aimed at establishing a common standard for the specification of benchmarks and background theories for satisfiability modulo theories, and at creating a repository of such benchmarks. (See http://combination.cs.uiowa.edu/smtlib/ for more info.) The workshop will host panel discussions on the SMT-LIB format. ----------- Submissions ----------- Extended abstracts addressing the pragmatical aspects of decision procedures are solicited. Submitted abstracts should not exceed 8 pages and should be written in LaTeX with the following settings: 11pt, one column, a4paper and standard margins. Submissions should be sent by email to pdpar03 at cs.uiowa.edu and contain: 1. title, author(s) (names, correspondence addresses, e-mail addresses); 2. small abstract (< 300 words), in plain text; 3. extended abstract in postscript or PDF format, as an attachment; 4. a single file with the LaTeX2e source of the abstract, including any non-standard macro used, again as an attachment. Submissions will be peer-reviewed. The authors of accepted submissions are expected to give a 25' presentation at the workshop. The proceedings of PDPAR'03 will be published as an INRIA technical report, and will be distributed at the workshop. ------------ Registration ------------ Joint registration with the CADE-19 conference is possible but is not required. Refer to the CADE-19 web site for registration instructions and deadlines. ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- * Silvio Ranise (LORIA & INRIA-Lorraine, France) [Co-chair] * Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) [Co-chair] * Alessandro Armando (University of Genova, Italy) * Clark Barrett (New York University, USA) * Sergey Berezin (Stanford University, USA) * Alessandro Cimatti (IRST-ITC, Italy) * Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA) * Predrag Janicic (University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia) * Greg Nelson (HP SRC Classic, USA) * Christophe Ringeissen (LORIA & INRIA-Lorraine, France) * Harald Ruess (SRI, USA) * Roberto Sebastiani (University of Trento, Italy) * Ofer Strichman (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) * Aaron Stump (Washington University, USA) * Ashish Tiwari (SRI, USA) --------------- Important Dates --------------- April 14, 2003 Submissions of extended abstracts May 16, 2003 Notification of acceptance May 23, 2003 Early registration June 30, 2003 Final versions due July 28, 2003 Worskhop July 29, 2003 Worskhop ---------------- More Information ---------------- See http://www.loria.fr/~ranise/pdpar03/ for PDPAR'03, and http://www.cade-19.info/ for CADE-19. From ras at uncc.edu Mon Feb 24 16:54:39 2003 From: ras at uncc.edu (Zbyszek Ras) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:54:39 -0500 Subject: [DL] ISMIS'03 Call for papers Message-ID: <3E5A403E.AD35ABC@uncc.edu> Call for Papers: ISMIS 2003 FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan October 28-31, 2003 http://www.wi-lab.com/ismis03/ ISMIS has established a prestigious tradition by organizing a leading international conference on intelligent systems. The conference provides a unique opportunity for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements accomplished by the international community. The previous events were held in Knoxville, Tennessee (1986, 1990), Charlotte, North Carolina (1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000), Turin (1988), Trondheim (1993), Zakopane (1996), Warsaw (1999), Lyon (2002). This Symposium is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas: Active Media Human-Computer Interaction Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation Intelligent Agent Technology Intelligent Information Retrieval Intelligent Information Systems Knowledge Representation and Integration Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Logic for Artificial Intelligence Soft Computing Web Intelligence In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. human genome, global change, manufacturing, health care, etc. Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, the series homepage: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html) and will be available at the symposium. Any necessary information concerning typesetting can be obtained directly from Springer-Verlag page at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Authors are invited to submit their manuscript in the LNCS/LNAI style (maximum 10 pages). All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference homepage at http://www.wi-lab.com/ismis03/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Papers: March 10, 2003 Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2003 Final Paper: June 30, 2003 A selected number of ISMIS 2003 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (http://www.wkap.nl/journal/) by Kluwer, Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/kais.html) by Springer-Verlag, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems journal (http://wi-consortium.org/) by IOS Press, and Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://wi-consortium.org/) by World Scientific. For additional information contact: Professor Zbigniew W. Ras (ISMIS 2003) University of North Carolina Dept. of Computer Science Charlotte, NC 28226 Fax: 704-547-3516 E-mail: ras at uncc.edu Professor Ning Zhong (ISMIS 2003) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan Telephone & Fax: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Tue Feb 25 12:27:59 2003 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:27:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] Research and teaching position available Message-ID: *** Research and teaching position available at the Chair for Automata Theory of Prof. Franz Baader at Technical University Dresden. We invite applications of PhD students and postdocs for a research and teaching position available for 3-5 years, starting in May 2003. Applicants should have research experience in one or more of the following areas: logic in computer science, knowledge representation, automated deduction, automata theory. The holder of the position will be a tutor (german Uebungsgruppenleiter) in Computer Science courses and in courses of the international master course "Computational Logic". Moreover, postdocs will have the opportunity to offer own lectures as part of the Computer Science and Computational Logic curriculum. Experience as tutor or lecturer in logic or theoretical computer science, either in german or english language, are expected. Successful applicants will become a member of the internationally renowned research group of Prof. Baader, which works in knowledge representation (in particular description logics and modal logics) and automated deduction (in particular term rewriting and unification theory). For more information on the group and its projects see the homepage http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/index-en.html Please send applications to Prof. Baader (preferably by Email; applications will be considered until the positions are filled). Prof. Franz Baader Technische Universitaet Dresden Fakultaet Informatik Institut fuer Theoretische Informatik 01062 Dresden Germany mail: baader at inf.tu-dresden.de phone: (++49 351)-463 39160 fax: (++49 351)-463 37959 From info at folli.org Tue Feb 25 17:28:42 2003 From: info at folli.org (info at folli.org) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:28:42 +0100 Subject: [DL] Deadline Extension: ESSLLI'03 Student Session Message-ID: <200302251628.h1PGSgc11096@mendieta.science.uva.nl> !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!! !!! Please circulate and post among students !!! We apologise if you receive this message more than once. ESSLLI-2003 STUDENT SESSION * DEADLINE EXTENSION * August 18-29 2003, Vienna, Austria *** EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 7, 2003 *** http://www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03 We would like to remind you of the Student Session of the 15th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI- 2003), which will be held in Vienna from August 18-29 2003. We invite submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2003 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. PURPOSE: This eighth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the previous editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates (before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates (before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. Papers may be accepted for full presentation (30 minutes including 10 minutes of discussion) or for a poster presentation. All the accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI-2003 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during the summer school. KLUWER BEST PAPER AWARD: As in previous years, the best paper and the best poster presentation will be selected by the program committee and will be awarded a prize, offered by Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Best Paper award will consist of 500 euros to be spent on books, and the Best Poster award will consist of 100 euros to be spent on books. REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. We welcome submissions with topics within the areas Logic, Language and Computation. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit a full paper, written in English, not to exceed 7 pages of length exclusive of references. Note that the length of the final version of the accepted papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. For any submission, a plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent separately, using the following format: Title: title of the submission First author: firstname lastname Address: address of the first author ...... Last author: firstname lastname Address: address of the last author Short summary: abstract (5 lines) Subject area (one or two of): Logic | Language | Computation In case the paper is being submitted to another conference or workshop, this must be clearly indicated on the identification page. The paper submission should be in one of the following formats: PostScript, PDF, RTF, or plain text. (In case of acceptance, the final version of the paper will have to be submitted in LaTeX format.) The papers must use single column A4 size pages, 11pt or 12pt fonts, and standard margins, and may not exceed 7 pages of length exclusive of references. Submissions not in accordance with these formatting and length requirements may be subject to rejection without review. The paper and separate identification page must be sent by e-mail to b.ten.cate at hum.uva.nl by March 7th 2003. ESSLLI-2003 INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at ESSLLI-2003 Student Session, at least one student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant at ESSLLI-2003. The authors of accepted papers will be eligible for reduced registration fees even after the deadline for early registration. For all information concerning ESSLLI-2003, please consult the ESSLLI-2003 website at www.logic.at/esslli03. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission of papers : March 7, 2003. Authors notifications : April 22, 2003. Final version due : May 19, 2003. ESSLLI-2003 Student Session : August 18-29, 2003. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Laura Alonso Alemany, University of Barcelona Roberto Bonato, University of Verona, University Bordeaux I Balder ten Cate, University of Amsterdam Paul Egre, University Paris I Dan Flickinger, Stanford University Maria Fuentes Fort, University of Girona Gabriel Infante Lopez, University of Amsterdam Jakob Kellner, Vienna University of Technology Favio Miranda-Perea, LMU Muenchen Christian Retore, INRIA, LaBRI Bordeaux Sergio Tessaris, University of Bolzano For more information concerning the ESSLLI-2003 Student Session, please consult the website www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03 . Also, for specific questions do not hesitate to contact me: Balder ten Cate ILLC, University of Amsterdam Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31.20.5254552 Fax: +31.20.5254503 E-mail: b.ten.cate at hum.uva.nl From steven.krauwer at elsnet.org Wed Feb 26 11:51:53 2003 From: steven.krauwer at elsnet.org (steven.krauwer at elsnet.org) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:51:53 +0100 (MET) Subject: [DL] CfP: ACL2003 Resources Infrastucture Workshop Message-ID: <200302261051.h1QAprO07265@synergy.let.uu.nl> ACL2003 Resources Information Infrastructure Workshop _________________________________________________________________ CALL for PAPERS Towards a Resources Information Infrastructure Workshop at ACL2003 in Sapporo (Japan) July 11 and 12 2003 Organised by ENABLER / ELSNET Description The problem addressed by this workshop is the well-known information problem. People are creating, exploring and exploiting language resources all over the world. Those who are working with resources know a lot about their own and other resources, and they are generally prepared to share this knowledge, their expertise and in many cases even their resources with others via publications in journals, presentations at conferences, and via the web. Unfortunately this information, however public, is not accessible in any systematic way for those who need resources, who want to know what sort of resources exist, how resources should be annotated, which standards to adhere to, which tools to use, etc etc. We will call this problem the 'Resources Information Problem'. The problem has also a geographical dimension: As work on specific languages is very often concentrated in specific parts of the world, much relevant information has a tendency to stay in one geographical place. This is an obstacle for those who are working on these same languages in different parts of the world, and it makes it harder to port knowledge and expertise gained on one language to other languages. The above observation are far from novel, and it would be naive to think that the problems will ever go away. At the same time one can observe that there are organisations (associations, agencies, projects, networks, etc) that have access to parts or fragments of this information and that have their own infrastructures that facilitate access to this information by internal or external people. The purpose of this workshop is to investigate how we can exploit the existing infrastructures to a maximum in order to facilitate world-wide access to information on language resources. The role of the workshop will be to bootstrap this process. Approach * First of all we will try to make an initial map of the language resources landscape world-wide. This map will include actors, organisations, repositories, standards, projects, tool libraries, etc etc. All participants will be asked beforehand to submit pointers to such items. They will be collected and published. * At the workshop we will invite representatives of a number of organisations that can be seen as key actors in the field, and they will be asked to present ideas about the way their organisation could contribute to solving the Resources Information Problem. These ideas could range from very concrete and immediately implementable proposals to longer term and visionary actions. * A round table discussion at the workshop will aim at the creation of convergence, coherence and synergies between the proposed actions. The intended output is a catalogue of actions to facilitate access to resources information that could be implemented (almost) immediately, a skeleton plan for longer term actions, and firm commitment from key players to make these things happen. Target audience Representatives of parties that could play a key role in providing access to resources information, such as (but not limited to) * Resources distribution agencies, e.g. LDC and ELDA/ELRA * Professional organisations, e.g. ACL, ISCA, and their regional branches, e.g. EACL, AACL, JACL, Asian NLP federation * Networks and resources infrastructure projects, e.g. ENABLER, ISLE. ELSNET * Committees, e.g. ICWLR, COCOSDA * National resources or infrastructure projects, e.g. Technolangue, Collate * International actions, e.g. OLAC * Researchers and developers interested in improving the language resources infrastructure for our community Invited and submitted papers We expect to invite some 15 representatives to give their presentations, but in addition we are issuing an open call for papers addressing the resources information problem and possible solutions. These papers will be reviewed in the usual way. Submission format Please submit full papers of maximum 8 pages (including references, figures etc). Authors should follow the main conference ACL style format. Electronic submission only. Send the pdf, postscript, or MS Word form of your submission to: Steven Krauwer (steven.krauwer at elsnet.org) who will also answer any queries regarding the submission. Important Dates Submission deadline for workshop papers: 13 April 2003 Notification of accepted papers: 14 May 2003 Deadline for camera ready copies 29 May 2003 Workshop dates: 11-12 July 2003 Workshop Format It will be a two-day workshop, with invited and submitted presentations in the mornings, and topical panels and round table discussion in the afternoons, including an open meeting of the newly created International Coordination Committee for Written Language Resources. Programme Committee As this workshop is jointly proposed by ELSNET and ENABLER (two EU funded projects aimed at providing collaboration infrastructures), we have invited all ca 60 members of the ELSNET and ENABLER Boards to constitute the core programme committee. We may want to invite additional members from Asia and other parts of the world in order to ensure sufficient geographical coverage. A full list of PC members will be published on the workshop website at http://www.elsnet.org/acl2003-workshop The workshop will be jointly chaired by Steven Krauwer (ELSNET) and Nicoletta Calzolari/Antonio Zampolli (ENABLER) Historical note This workshop can be seen as a follow-up of the workshop organised at ACL2000 in Hong Kong, entitled 'Towards infrastructures for global collaboration'. One of the conclusions of this workshop was that the field of language resources would offer good opportunities for collaborative actions, and the first concrete goal was the creation of an international resources federation, a first step towards which is now embodied by the proposal to set up an International Committee for Written Language Resources. The proposed workshop should lead to the definition of concrete actions to be carried out under the auspices of ICWLR, in collaboration with other organisations. Contact info Steven Krauwer (steven.krauwer at elsnet.org), ELSNET (http://www.elsnet.org) From info at folli.org Wed Feb 26 18:08:17 2003 From: info at folli.org (info at folli.org) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:08:17 +0100 Subject: [DL] Reminder: ESSLLI 2003 Call for Workshop Paper Message-ID: <200302261708.h1QH8HV32298@mendieta.science.uva.nl> ------------------------------------------------- ESSLLI 2003 Workshop Programme and Call for Workshop Papers 15th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information August 18-29, Vienna http://www.logic.at/esslli03/ ------------------------------------------------- Title: Student Session Dates: August 18-29, 2003 Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2003 (extended) Website: http://www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03 Organizer(s): Balder ten Cat Contact email: b.ten.cate at hum.uva.nl ----- Title: Direct Reference and Specificity Section: Logic&Language Dates: August 18.-22. 2003 Deadline for submissions: March 15st, 2003 Website: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/DirRefSpec/ Organizer(s): Klaus von Heusinger and Hans Kamp Contact email: klaus.heusinger at uni-konstanz.de hans at ims.uni-stuttgart.de ----- Title: Conditional and Unconditional Modality Section: Logic&Language Dates: August 25.-29.2003 Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2003 Website: http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sigmod/ESSLLI03/ Organizer(s): Veltman, Frank and Condoravdi, Cleo and Kaufmann, Stefan Contact email: veltman at hum.uva.nl ------ Title: Workshop on Interval Temporal Logics and Duration Calculi Section: Logic & Computation Dates: August 25.-29.2003 Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2003 Website: keine ofizielle Website Organizer(s): Goranko, Valentin and Montanari, Angelo Contact email: vfg at na.rau.ac.za montana at dimi.uniud.it ------ Title: The Meaning and Implementation of Discourse Particles Section: Language & Computation Dates: August 18.-22. 2003 Deadline for submissions: April 4, 2003 Website: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~stede/essllicfp.html Organizer(s): Stede, Manfred and Zeevat, Henk Contact email: stede at ling.uni-potsdam.de henk at illc.uva.nl ------- Title: Ideas and Strategies for Multilingual Grammar Development Section: Language & Computation Dates: August 25.-29.2003 Deadline for submissions: 14 March 2003 to multigram at coli.uni-sb.de. Website: http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~siegel/esslli/ Organizer(s): Fouvry, Frederik and Siegel, Melanie and Flickinger, Dan and Bender, Emily Contact email: siegel at dfki.uni-sb.de fouvry at coli.uni-sb.de danf at csli.stanford.edu bender at csli.stanford.edu ------ Title: Adaptation of Automatic Learning Algorithms for Analytical and Inflectional Languages Section: Language & Computation Dates: August 18.-22. 2003 Deadline for submissions: Mar 14, 2003 Website: http://ckl.mff.cuni.cz/~alaf03 Organizer(s): Hladka, Barbora and Ribarov Kiril Contact email: alaf03 at ckl.mff.cuni.cz ------ Title: Language Evolution and Computation Section: Language & Computation Dates: August 25.-29.2003 Deadline for submissions: 28th February 2003 Website: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~simon/esslli.html Organizer(s): Kirby, Simon (University of Edinburgh) Contact email: simon at ling.ed.ac.uk -- Dr. ing. Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova Chair of the Program Committee ESSLLI 2003 Computerlinguistik, Universitaet des Saarlandes, http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~korbay/ From marta at dia.uniroma3.it Mon Mar 3 11:35:45 2003 From: marta at dia.uniroma3.it (Marta Cialdea) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 11:35:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] Tableaux 2003 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: The usual apologies for multiple copies... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Call for Papers and Tutorials %% %% TABLEAUX 2003 %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% International Conference TABLEAUX 2003 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Roma, Italy September 9-12, 2003 (co-located with TPHOLs 2003 and Calculemus 2003) http://tab2003.dia.uniroma3.it/ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for electronic submission of title and short abstract: March 18, 2003 Deadline for electronic submission of papers: March 21, 2003 Notification of acceptance of papers: May 17, 2003 Deadline for final version of accepted papers: June 9, 2003 GENERAL INFORMATION This conference is a continuation of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods held in Lautenbach near Karlsruhe (1992), Marseille (1993), Abingdon near Oxford (1994), St Goar near Koblenz (1995), Terrasini near Palermo (1996), Pont-a-Mousson near Nancy (1997), Oisterwijk near Tilburg (1998), Saratoga Springs, NY (1999), St Andrews (2000), and Copenhagen (2002). In 2001 TABLEAUX was part of IJCAR 2001 in Siena. In September 2003, the conference will be held in Rome, Italy. The proceedings will again be published in Springer's LNAI series. See the main TABLEAUX page for general details about this series of meetings: it is at http://i12www.ira.uka.de/TABLEAUX/ The International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics (TPHOLs 2003) and the 11th Symposium on the Integration of Symbolic Computation and Mechanized Reasoning (Calculemus 2003) will also be held in Rome in the same period, with opportunities for joint registration. TOPICS Tableau methods are a convenient formalism for automating deduction in various non-standard logics as well as in classical logic. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, and system diagnosis. The conference brings together researchers interested in all aspects -- theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications -- of the mechanization of reasoning with tableaux and related methods. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): * analytic tableaux for various logics (theory and applications) * related techniques and concepts, e.g., model checking and BDDs * related methods (model elimination, sequent calculi, connection method, ...) * new calculi and methods for theorem proving in classical and non-classical logics (modal, description, intuitionistic, linear, temporal, ...) * systems, tools, implementations and applications (e.g. verification) The conference program includes invited lectures by: Thierry Coquand, Chalmers University of Technology, G?teborg, Sweden (joint speaker with Calculemus 2003) Johann Schumann, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA and the following tutorials: Agata Ciabattoni (Technische Universit?t Wien), Hypersequent calculi for non classical logics. Gerhard Lakemeyer (Aachen University of Technology), The Situation Calculus. Jan von Plato (University of Helsinki), Proofs and types in constructive geometry. SUBMISSIONS Beyong invited lectures and tutorials, the conference will include contributed papers, system descriptions and position papers. Submissions are invited in three categories: A Research papers (reporting original theoretical and/or experimental research, up to 15 pages), B System descriptions (up to 5 pages), C Position papers and brief reports on work in progress Submissions in categories A and B will be reviewed by peers, typically members of the program committee. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers in these categories will be published in the conference proceedings (within the LNAI series of Springer). Submissions in category C will be reviewed by members of the program committee and accepted papers in this category will be available as Technical Report of Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Universita` di Roma Tre. Submission procedure Submissions in categories A, B and C should preferably be in LaTeX2e llncs style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers have to be submitted in postscript format through the special submission page at www.lugroma3.org/ConfMan/REG-paper/. Papers have to be registered at the same page by March 18, 2003. The registration form includes title, short abstract and a list of keywords. The deadline for paper submission is March 21, 2003. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner, U. Koblenz-Landau, Germany Bernhard Beckert, Karlsruhe U. Germany Serenella Cerrito, U. d'Evry Val d'Essonne, France Marta Cialdea Mayer, U. Roma Tre, Italy (chair) Marcello D'Agostino, U. Ferrara, Italy Roy Dyckhoff, U. St Andrews, UK Uwe Egly, Vienna, U. of Techn., Austria Christian Ferm?ller, TU Wien, Austria Melvin Fitting City U. of New York, USA Ulrich Furbach, Koblenz U., Germany Didier Galmiche LORIA Nancy, France Rajeev P. Gore', Australian National U. Jean Goubault-Larrecq, ENS Cachan, France Reiner Haehnle, Chalmers U. of Techn., Sweden Christoph Kreitz, Cornell U., USA Reinhold Letz, Techn. U. of Munich, Germany Fabio Massacci, U. Trento, Italy Neil V. Murray, State U. of New York-Albany, USA Nicola Olivetti, U. Turin, Italy Fiora Pirri, U. Roma "La Sapienza", Italy (vice-chair) Peter H. Schmitt, Karlsruhe U., Germany ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Marta Cialdea Mayer, Carla Limongelli (U. Roma Tre), Fiora Pirri (U. Roma "La Sapienza") INFORMATION Conference E-mail: tab2003 at dia.uniroma3.it cialdea at dia.uniroma3.it WWW: http://tab2003.dia.uniroma3.it/ _______________________________________________ Tab03 mailing list Tab03 at pop.dia.uniroma3.it http://pop.dia.uniroma3.it/mailman/listinfo.cgi/tab03 From ismis03 at wi-lab.com Tue Mar 4 08:23:49 2003 From: ismis03 at wi-lab.com (ismis03 at wi-lab.com) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:23:49 +0900 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: ISMIS 2003 Message-ID: <200303040723.h247NnOQ003854@bigslope.dyndns.org> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ================================================= Call for Papers: ISMIS 2003 FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan October 28-31, 2003 http://www.wi-lab.com/ismis03/ ************************** Papers Due: March 10, 2003 ************************** ================================================== ISMIS has established a prestigious tradition by organizing a leading international conference on intelligent systems. The conference provides a unique opportunity for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements accomplished by the international community. The previous events were held in Knoxville, Tennessee (1986, 1990), Charlotte, North Carolina (1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000), Turin (1988), Trondheim (1993), Zakopane (1996), Warsaw (1999), Lyon (2002). This Symposium is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas: Active Media Human-Computer Interaction Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation Intelligent Agent Technology Intelligent Information Retrieval Intelligent Information Systems Knowledge Representation and Integration Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Logic for Artificial Intelligence Soft Computing Web Intelligence In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. human genome, global change, manufacturing, health care, etc. Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, the series homepage: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html) and will be available at the symposium. Any necessary information concerning typesetting can be obtained directly from Springer-Verlag page at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Authors are invited to submit their manuscript in the LNCS/LNAI style (maximum 10 pages). All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference homepage at http://www.wi-lab.com/ismis03/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Papers: March 10, 2003 Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2003 Final Paper: June 30, 2003 A selected number of ISMIS 2003 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (http://www.wkap.nl/journal/) by Kluwer, Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/kais.html) by Springer-Verlag, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems journal (http://wi-consortium.org/) by IOS Press, and Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://wi-consortium.org/) by World Scientific. For additional information contact: Professor Zbigniew W. Ras (ISMIS 2003) University of North Carolina Dept. of Computer Science Charlotte, NC 28226 Fax: 704-547-3516 E-mail: ras at uncc.edu Professor Ning Zhong (ISMIS 2003) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan Telephone & Fax: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp From dl03 at dis.uniroma1.it Tue Mar 4 11:33:43 2003 From: dl03 at dis.uniroma1.it (DL'03) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:33:43 +0100 Subject: [DL] DL'03 first CfP - Description Logics Workshop 2003 Message-ID: <15972.33031.194636.959292@dis.uniroma1.it> 2003 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'03) Call for Papers Rome, Italy September 5-7, 2003 homepage: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/dl03/ The 2003 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'03) continues the tradition of international workshops devoted to discussing developments and applications of knowledge representation formalisms based on Description Logics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions of technical papers of 8 pages and short position papers (for people that want to participate in the workshop without giving talks). Authors of accepted technical and position papers will be invited to participate in the workshop (participation will be by invitation only). Accepted technical papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. The workshop proceedings will be distributed in paper form at the workshop, and will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2002 Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2003 Camera ready papers due: July 11, 2003 DL'03 Workshop: September 5-7, 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of Description Logics. Possible subjects include -- Foundations of Description Logics, including distinguishing features of Description Logics with respect to other formalisms, expressive power of Description Logics, decidability and complexity of reasoning, and novel inference problems and reasoning techniques for solving these problems. -- Extensions of Description Logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages. -- Integration of Description Logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems. -- Use of Description Logics in applications or areas such as natural language, planning, learning, databases, document management, semistructured data, ontology design, ontology languages, ontology engineering, semantic web, and grid computing. -- Building systems based on Description Logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS Interested parties are invited to submit a technical paper not exceeding 8 pages or a short position paper indicating interest in Description Logics and the workshop. Both kinds of submission should be formatted according to the guidelines to be found at http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/dl03/cfp.html and must arrive by May 18, 2003. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces Francesco M. Donini Volker Haarslev Frank van Harmelen Ian Horrocks Ralf Kuesters Patrick Lambrix Carsten Lutz Ralf Moeller Peter Patel-Schneider ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Diego Calvanese Giuseppe De Giacomo Enrico Franconi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From kruse at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Tue Mar 4 16:06:45 2003 From: kruse at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Rudolf Kruse) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:06:45 +0100 (MET) Subject: [DL] KI2003: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <200303041506.h24F6jL20998@enterprise.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> *************************** * SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS * *************************** 26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2003) http://www.ki2003.de September 15-18, 2003 University of Hamburg, Germany The conference invites original research papers in all areas of AI. Besides papers on the foundations of AI we also welcome reports on innovative applications. TOPICS Possible Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Agent Technology, Automated Reasoning, Case-Based Reasoning, Cognitive Modeling, Configuration and Diagnosis, Decision Support Systems, Image Understanding, Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management, Machine Learning, Multi Media, Natural Language Processing, Ontologies, Neural Networks, Planning and Scheduling, Reasoning under Uncertainty, Robotics, Semantic Web, Soft Computing, Temporal and Spatial Reasoning, Vision A special focus of the conference is on Multi Modality. Papers in this area are particularly welcome. SUBMISSION Important Dates Submission of electronic abstracts and papers: April 7, 2003 Notification for conference papers: June 2, 2003 Camera-Ready copies for conference papers: June 30, 2003 Submission Guidelines Conference submissions is electronic in postscript format. Submitted papers must not exceed 15 pages and should conform to Springer LNCS style (see details for paper Submission on the conference web-page). The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer series ?Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence?. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and present the work at the conference. INVITED SPEAKERS Jennings, Nick, University of Southampton Keim, Daniel, University of Konstanz Sandewall, Eric, University of Link?ping Studer, Rudi, University of Karlsruhe Wahlster, Wolfgang, DFKI Saarbr?cken ORGANIZATION GENERAL CHAIR: Bernd Neumann, University of Hamburg PROGRAM CHAIR: Rudolf Kruse, University of Magdeburg PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andr?, Elizabeth, University of Augsburg Baader, Franz, University of Dresden Brauer, Wilfried, TU M?nchen Bramer, Max, University of Portsmouth Brewka, Gerhard, University of Leipzig Buhmann, Joachim, University of Bonn Burkhard, Hans-Dieter, HU Berlin B?rckert, Hans-J?rgen, DFKI Saarbr?cken Dubois, Didier, IRIT, Toulouse Eklund, Peter, University of Queensland Fensel, Dieter, University of Innsbruck Freksa, Christian, University of Bremen G?rz, Gunter, University of Erlangen G?nter, Andreas, University of Hamburg Habel, Christopher, University of Hamburg Herzog, Otthein, University of Bremen Jensen, Finn, University of Aalborg Kirn, Stefan, TU Ilmenau K?hler, Jana, IBM Research Laboratory, Z?rich Lakemeyer, Gerhard, RWTH Aachen M?ntaras, Ramon L?pez de, University of Barcelona Menzel, Wolfgang, University of Hamburg Mertsching, University of Hamburg Miksch, Silvia, TU Wien Milne, Rob, Intelligent Applications, Livingston Nagel, Hans Hellmut, University of Karlsruhe Nauck, Detlef, BT Exact, Ipswich Nebel, Bernhard, University of Freiburg Neumann, Bernd, University of Hamburg Niemann, Heinrich, University of Erlangen Puppe, Frank, University of W?rzburg Ritter, Helge, University of Bielefeld Rojas, Paul, University of Berlin Rollinger, Claus, University of Osnabr?ck Saitta, Lorenza, Universita de Torino Studer, Rudi, University of Karlsruhe Wolkenhauer, Olaf, UMIST Manchester Wrobel, Stefan, Fraunhofer AIS, Bonn Wysotzki, Fritz, TU Berlin WORKSHOP CHAIR: Christopher Habel, University of Hamburg POSTER CHAIR: Wolfgang Menzel, University of Hamburg EXHIBITION CHAIR: B?rbel Mertsching, University of Hamburg ORGANIZATION CHAIR: Andreas G?nter, University of Hamburg CONTACT KI2003 Fachbereich Informatik Universit?t Hamburg Andreas G?nter Vogt-K?lln-Stra?e 30 Tel.; +49(0)4042883-2456/ -2451 22527 Hamburg info at ki2003.de www.ki2003.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- Rudolf Kruse, Prof.Dr. E-mail: kruse at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Fakultaet fuer Informatik WWW: fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~kruse OvG-Universitaet Magdeburg Fax: +49-391-67-12018 Universitaetsplatz 2 Voice: +49-391-67-18706 (office) D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany +49-531-514133 (home) From chris.bussler at oracle.com Tue Mar 4 20:28:44 2003 From: chris.bussler at oracle.com (Christoph Bussler) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 11:28:44 -0800 Subject: [DL] Special Issue of the International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC) Message-ID: <3E64FE6C.EC8C42CA@oracle.com> Semantic Web Services and Their Role in Enterprise Application Integration and E-Commerce Special Issue of the International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC) (http://www.gvsu.edu/ssb/ijec/) Editors Christoph Bussler, Oracle Corporation Dieter Fensel, Leopold Franzens Universit?t Innsbruck Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University Introduction This special issue of the International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC) focuses on the proposed intersection of three domains that have very recently started drawing enormous attention throughout academia and industry and is of utmost importance as well as relevance for computer science and the business world: - Web Service Technology (manifested through SOAP, WSDL and UDDI) - Semantic Web Technology (manifested through ontology languages) and - Enterprise Integration (manifested through Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and E-Commerce in form of Business-to-Business (B2B) Integration as well as Business-to-Consumer (B2C)). The promise is that Web Service Technology in conjunction with Semantic Web Technology ('Semantic Web Services') will make Enterprise Integration dynamically possible for all types and sizes of enterprises compared to the 'traditional' technologies, such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or Value Added Networks (VANs). In addition, Enterprise Integration will become more reliable as well as easier to achieve without the low-level implementation problems that can be observed in today's approaches. Because these strong promises are made a series of questions arises: to what extent are these different technologies already integrated today? How does the combination of those technologies look like? How does this combination make the Enterprise Integration problem easier to solve and the solution more reliable? 'Traditional' technologies exist (in some cases for over 30 years) and significant progress has been made over time due to the lessons learned in the real world and sometimes in large scale deployments. Today, the major problems of Enterprise Integration in EAI and E-Commerce are: - Semantic Unification. Data exchanged between application systems or trading partners (endpoints) are defined based on different schemas. When data are exchanged in the form of messages, a data mediation problem arises that requires resolution. A minor and related issue is that different application systems or trading partners use different forms of syntax, too, in addition to different schemas for messages. Even if endpoints describe their data in the form of ontologies, the semantic unification problem remains to be solved. - Message Behavior. Different endpoints expect specific messages in a specific order and with specific sequencing. Communicating endpoints have to guarantee and to enforce the exchange behavior as agreed to establish interoperability. - Endpoint Discovery. The manual establishing of trading relationships is considered error prone, slow and inflexible. Discovery mechanisms are put in place (for example in the form of UDDI) that promise to make the automatic discovery process easier and more reliable. - Message Security and Trust Relationships. Communicating endpoints require assurance of message confidentiality and non-repudiation. Various security schemes are being developed that attempt to address these requirements. Furthermore, endpoints need to establish sufficient trust to engage in a trading relationship. - Process Management. Supply-chain processes are very complex and highly dynamic. Attempts have been made to enable dynamic supply-chain reconfiguration with agent technology and dynamic workflow technology. A large body of work exists that has not yet found its way into industry and real applications. - Integration Standards. A mind-boggling number of standards exists in the area of Enterprise Integration. All of these have to be dealt with to some extent by the various enterprises. - Legacy Application Connectivity. Most data that are communicated are managed by existing application systems that are not necessarily designed to be integrated. Adapter technology exists that allows to connect easily to application systems. Traditional technologies are able to address all these major problems today. They can implement Enterprise Integration predictably and reliably. However, new technologies like Web Services Technology in combination with Semantic Web Technology have (or have not?) the potential to address these requirements much better. The special issue on 'Semantic Web Services and their Role in Enterprise Application Integration and E-Commerce' seeks contributions that address the Enterprise Integration problems with the new technologies. Articles are sought that address specifically the intersection of Web Service Technology, Semantic Web Technology and Enterprise Integration. It is the goal to show the relevance and applicability of the new integration technologies in that they provide a 'better' solution to well-understood problems in the EAI and E-Commerce space. Contributions are encouraged to make a very good and well-founded case for the new technologies based on rigorous and solid arguments. However, contributions that are critical in nature based on a solid argumentation and also state the deficiencies that have to be overcome are equally welcome. Articles that 're-wrap' or 're-sell' existing work or achieved results with the new technologies are not considered relevant for the special issue. Abstract articles that provide conceptual models or architectures without clearly proving their applicability to real-world problems and in real-world situations are not the focus of the special issue, either. Articles that focus only on a small subset of the problems or requirements of Enterprise Integration are not sought; these are typically targeted toward scientific conferences. Timeline - Submission date: May 31st, 2003 - Acceptance notification: September 30th, 2003 Submission Instructions - Please submit articles for this special issue following the formatting instructions below on or before the submission date to Christoph Bussler at ChBussler at aol.com (and not to the IJEC Editor-in-chief Vladimir Zwass as the IJEC web site requires). - The formatting instructions for submissions can be found at the IJEC web site http://www.gvsu.edu/ssb/ijec/ following the link "Submissions". -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Bussler Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA http://members.aol.com/chbussler -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision. Among those are languages for semantic annotation of Web documents, ontologies, technologies and methodologies for building multi-agent systems, semantic interoperation of programs that have been developed totally independently, technologies and methodologies for describing, searching and composing Web Services, and more. ISWC2003 welcomes the submission of original industrial papers dealing with all aspects of the Semantic Web, particularly those relating to the subject areas indicated by the topics below. We encourage papers relating to industrial efforts and experiences with Semantic Web projects. These papers will be presented in the Industrial Track. The industrial track of the conference encourages submissions covering innovative commercial implementations of semantic web technology, novel applications of semantic web technology, and experience in applying research advances to practical situations. Such papers should describe innovative implementations, new approaches to fundamental challenges (such as large scale ontologies or semantic complexity), or other major technical improvements to the state-of-the-practice. Industrial / application / experience submissions may be either full papers whose technical density is comparable to research submissions or extended abstracts. Discouraged are papers or abstracts that are marketing oriented or are pure product descriptions or specifications. The goal of the industrial track is to demonstrate the application of research results in software products as well as state real world requirements from practical applications that might encourage further research into specific domains of semantic web technology. Conference Topics Of Interest and Area Keywords Suggested topics include: * Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotations of Web Data * Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation) * Large Scale Knowledge Management * Data Semantics * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web * Knowledge Portals * Tools and Methodologies for Multi-Agent Software Systems * Semantic Brokering * Semantic Interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Web Services (service description, discovery, invocation, composition) * Semantic Web Inference Schemes * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic Web for e-Business and e-Learning * Searching and Querying * User Interfaces * Visualization and modelling INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant, USA) Bill Andersen (OntologyWorks, USA) J?rgen Angele (Ontoprise, Germany) John Davis (British Telekom, UK) Satish Thatte (Microsoft) David Trastour (Hewlett-Packard) Michael Uschold (The Boeing Company, USA) Arian Zwegers (Baan, Netherlands) Important Dates April 15, 2003 Paper submission June 15, 2003 Acceptance Notification July 15, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers due Please note that the deadline for paper submission is strict: no extensions will be allowed. Submission Details * Paper submission and reviewing for ISWC2003 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org * The only formats allowed for submission are PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format). These are widely supported and well-known standards: papers will not be accepted in any other format (e.g., MS Word) because of compatibility problems between software versions, machines, and nationalities. See the conference WWW site for information about how to convert other formats (e.g., MS Word) to PDF/PostScript. * Note that the electronic submission site is likely to be very busy around the paper submission deadline. You are strongly urged to submit your abstract and your paper as far in advance of the deadline as possible. * Submitted papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. * Papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including figures and references, when formatted using the style files provided. Overlength papers will be rejected. * ISWC2003 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. * PLEASE monitor http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org for further submission details or changes. About the Conference Venue The conference will be held at the Sundial Resort on Sanibel Island: http://www.sundialresort.com/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF ISWC2003 General Chair: Dieter Fensel (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Program Chair: Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Program Co-Chair: John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada) Tutorial Chair: Asun Gomez-Perez (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) Workshops Chairs: Sheila McIlraith (Stanford University, USA) and Dimitris Plexousakis (University of Crete, Greece) Industrial Track Chair: Christoph Bussler (Oracle, USA) Poster Chair: Raphael Malyankar (Arizona State University, USA) Finance Chair: Jerome Euzenat (INRIA, Rhone-Alpes, France) Publicity Chair: Mike Dean (BBN, USA) Local Arrangements Chair: Jeff Bradshaw (University of West Florida, USA) Sponsor Chairs: Ying Ding (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Massimo Paolucci (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Demonstration Chair: Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA) Registration Chair: Atanas Kiryakov (Sirma AI, Ltd, Bulgaria) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Bussler Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA http://members.aol.com/chbussler -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: chris.bussler.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 256 bytes Desc: Card for Christoph Bussler URL: From mdean at bbn.com Thu Mar 6 05:26:51 2003 From: mdean at bbn.com (Mike Dean) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 20:26:51 -0800 Subject: [DL] ISWC2003 Second Announcement Message-ID: <200303060427.UAA08417@escher.SD.BBN.COM> 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) Sanibel Island, Florida, USA 20-23 October 2003 http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org Contents: Call for Papers Call for Posters Industrial Track Call Call for Demos Call for Sponsors Organizing Committee This information is also available from the conference home page http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org. ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The vision of the Semantic Web is to make web data machine processable, and rests on the premise that to do so we need to accommodate, somehow, the semantics of these data. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision. Among those are languages for semantic annotation of Web documents, ontologies, technologies and methodologies for building multi-agent systems, semantic interoperation of programs that have been developed totally independently, technologies and methodologies for describing, searching and composing Web Services, and more. Following the success of the First International Semantic Web Conference in Sardinia, Italy in 2002, the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference is announced for 2003. The conference will be co-located with the K-CAP (Knowledge Capture) conference. Joint sessions of the two conferences will be planned so that participants can share papers and invited speakers of common interest. Submissions ISWC2003 welcomes the submission of original research papers dealing with all aspects of the Semantic Web, particularly those relating to the subject areas indicated by the topics below. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical and applications papers. In addition to those, we encourage the submission of papers relating to industrial efforts and experiences with Semantic Web projects. These papers will be presented in the Industrial Track and will be submitted to the Industrial Track Chair. The conference also encourages the submission of proposals for workshops and tutorials, submission of posters as well as system demonstrations. Please see the Web site http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org. Conference Topics Of Interest and Area Keywords Suggested topics include: * Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotations of Web Data * Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation) * Large Scale Knowledge Management * Data Semantics * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web * Knowledge Portals * Tools and Methodologies for Multi-Agent Software Systems * Semantic Brokering * Semantic Interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Web Services (service description, discovery, invocation, composition) * Semantic Web Inference Schemes * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic Web for e-Business and e-Learning * Searching and Querying * User Interfaces * Visualization and modelling Senior Program Committee Paolo Atzeni (Universita di Roma, Tre, Italy) Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena, Italy) Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Umesh Dayal (Hewlett-Packard, USA) Stefan Decker (USC ISI, USA) Oren Etzioni (University of Washington, USA) Alon Halevy (University of Washington, USA) Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Jerry Hobbs (USC ISI, USA) Masahiro Hori (IBM, Japan) Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester, UK) Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine, USA) Roger King (University of Colorado, USA) Ora Lassila (Nokia, USA) David Martin (SRI, USA) Brian McBride (Hewlett-Packard, UK) Deborah McGuinness (Stanford University, USA) Robert Meersman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Riichiro Mizogouchi (Osaka University, Japan) Peter Patel-Schneider (Lucent, USA) Guus Schreiber (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Zbigniew Rus (University of North Carolina, USA) Amit Sheth (University of Georgia, USA) Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Gerhard Weikum (University of Saarland, Germany) Reviewers Karl Aberer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Anupriya Ankolekar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Budak Arpinar (University of Georgia, USA) Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Harold Boley (National Research Council, Canada) Mark Burstein (BBN, USA) Vassilis Christophides (ICS-FORTH, Greece) Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Susan Davidson (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Steven Demurjian (University of Connecticut, USA) Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) David Embley (Brigham Young University, USA) Wenfei Fan (Bell Laboratories and Temple University, USA) Richard Fikes (Stanford University, USA) Tim Finin (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Jeremy Frumkin (University of Arizona, USA) Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel) Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK) Benjamin Grosof (MIT, USA) Nicola Guarino (CNR, Italy) Zack Ives (University of Washington, USA) Anupam Joshi (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Gerti Kappel (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Alfons Kemper (University of Passau, Germany) Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Donald Kossmann (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Georg Lausen (University of Freiburg, Germany) Chen Li (University of California, Irvine, USA) Ling Liu (Georgia Tech, USA) Bertram Ludaescher (University of California, San Diego, USA) Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, France) Massimo Marchiori (W3C and University of Venice, Italy) Frank McCabe (Fujitsu, USA) Luke McDowell (University of Washington, USA) Pavlos Moraitis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Enrico Motta (Open University, UK) Natasha F. Noy (Stanford University, USA) Terry Payne (University of Southampton, UK) Adam Pease (Teknowledge, USA) Erhard Rahm (University of Leipzig, Germany) Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA) Michael Sintek (DFKI, Germany) Divesh Srivastava (Bell Laboratories, USA) Stefan Staab (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Claude Vogel (CONVERA, USA) Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany) Carlo Zaniolo (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Important Dates April 15, 2003 Paper submission June 15, 2003 Acceptance Notification July 15, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers due Please note that the deadline for paper submission is strict: no extensions will be allowed. Submission Details * Paper submission and reviewing for ISWC2003 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org * The only formats allowed for submission are PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format). These are widely supported and well-known standards: papers will not be accepted in any other format (e.g., MS Word) because of compatibility problems between software versions, machines, and nationalities. See the conference WWW site for information about how to convert other formats (e.g., MS Word) to PDF/PostScript. * Note that the electronic submission site is likely to be very busy around the paper submission deadline. You are strongly urged to submit your abstract and your paper as far in advance of the deadline as possible. * Submitted papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. * Papers must be no longer than 16 pages, including figures and references, when formatted using the style files provided. Overlength papers will be rejected. * ISWC2003 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. * PLEASE monitor http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org for further submission details or changes. About the Conference Venue The conference will be held at the Sundial Resort on Sanibel Island: http://www.sundialresort.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR POSTERS The Poster Session at ISWC2003 is an opportunity to discuss late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and innovative work-in-progress which may not yet be ready for a full paper. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems, completed work, or work in progress are all welcome. Summaries or extended abstracts MUST clearly demonstrate a relevance to the Semantic Web. Submissions will be evaluated for acceptability by the Poster Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, significance, and clarity. High quality papers not accepted for publication as conference papers may be considered for inclusion as posters with the permission of the authors. In this event, the author(s) will need to submit a 2-page camera-ready version for the poster collection. Papers appearing in the main conference or as posters may also be submitted to specialized ISWC workshops. Accepted posters will be displayed at the conference. Details about poster size, display materials, session, etc., will be made available later. Extended abstracts/summaries for accepted posters will be distributed to conference attendees and will also be made available on the Web. At least one author must register for the conference and attend the poster session. Submissions Submissions must consist of a camera-ready extended abstract or summary of the work to be described in the poster, not to exceed two (2) pages in IJCAI two-column format. Further details about format for poster submissions will be made available at the conference Web site. The primary means of submission will be electronic. Submissions should be in PDF or Postscript format. Abstracts and summaries must be submitted via the Poster Submissions page at the ISWC2003 Web site (http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org). Contact Raphael Malyankar (iswc-posters at asu.edu) if you cannot use this page, have questions, or experience problems with your submission. All submissions must be received by July 13, 2003. Early submission is encouraged. Decisions about acceptance or rejection will be made on an ongoing basis, and early submissions are expected to receive early notifications. Submissions which are late, too long, or require substantial revision, will not be considered. Submissions must be in camera-ready format; gven the tight publication schedule, revisions after August 31, 2003 will not be feasible. Important Dates July 13, 2003 Abstract/summary submission cutoff date August 31, 2003 Notifications will be sent by this date ------------------------------------------------------------ INDUSTRIAL TRACK CALL The industrial track of the conference encourages submissions covering innovative commercial implementations of semantic web technology, novel applications of semantic web technology, and experience in applying research advances to practical situations. Such papers should describe innovative implementations, new approaches to fundamental challenges (such as large scale ontologies or semantic complexity), or other major technical improvements to the state-of-the-practice. Industrial / application / experience submissions may be either full papers whose technical density is comparable to research submissions or extended abstracts. Discouraged are papers or abstracts that are marketing oriented or are pure product descriptions or specifications. The goal of the industrial track is to demonstrate the application of research results in software products as well as state real world requirements from practical applications that might encourage further research into specific domains of semantic web technology. Conference Topics Of Interest and Area Keywords Suggested topics include: * Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotations of Web Data * Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation) * Large Scale Knowledge Management * Data Semantics * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web * Knowledge Portals * Tools and Methodologies for Multi-Agent Software Systems * Semantic Brokering * Semantic Interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Web Services (service description, discovery, invocation, composition) * Semantic Web Inference Schemes * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic Web for e-Business and e-Learning * Searching and Querying * User Interfaces * Visualization and modelling Industrial Track Committee Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant, USA) Bill Andersen (OntologyWorks, USA) J|rgen Angele (Ontoprise, Germany) John Davies (British Telecom, UK) Satish Thatte (Microsoft, USA) David Trastour (Hewlett-Packard, UK) Michael Uschold (The Boeing Company, USA) Arian Zwegers (Baan, Netherlands) Important Dates April 15, 2003 Paper submission June 15, 2003 Acceptance Notification July 15, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers due Please note that the deadline for paper submission is strict: no extensions will be allowed. Submission Details * Paper submission and reviewing for ISWC2003 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org * The only formats allowed for submission are PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format). These are widely supported and well-known standards: papers will not be accepted in any other format (e.g., MS Word) because of compatibility problems between software versions, machines, and nationalities. See the conference WWW site for information about how to convert other formats (e.g., MS Word) to PDF/PostScript. * Note that the electronic submission site is likely to be very busy around the paper submission deadline. You are strongly urged to submit your abstract and your paper as far in advance of the deadline as possible. * Submitted papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. * Papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including figures and references, when formatted using the style files provided. Overlength papers will be rejected. * ISWC2003 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. * PLEASE monitor http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org for further submission details or changes. About the Conference Venue The conference will be held at the Sundial Resort on Sanibel Island: http://www.sundialresort.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR DEMOS The ISWC 2003 Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. This program is intended to showcase state-of-the-art Semantic Web implementations. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their innovation, relevance, scientific contribution, presentation, and user friendliness, as well as potential logistical constraints. This program is primarily to encourage the early exhibition of research prototypes, but interesting mature systems are also eligible (commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstration program). Areas of Interest We would like to encourage the submission of proposals for demonstrations of software related to any areas of the Semantic Web. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - User tools - Annotation tools - Novel query interfaces - Ontology development environments - Ontology libraries - Tools for merging or integrating ontologies - Reusable components - Parsers (RDF, DAML+OIL, OWL, etc.) - Repositories and inference systems - Applications - Agent systems embedded in the Semantic Web - Systems that identify and compose web services - Knowledge portals Format for Submission Demo proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be sent to the Demo Chair. * An abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated, not to exceed two pages, including title, authors, full contact information, references and acknowledgments. * A detailed description of hardware and software requirements expected to be provided by the local organizer. Demonstrators are encouraged to be flexible in their requirements (possibly with different demos for different logistical situations). Please state what you can bring yourself and what you absolutely must have provided. We will do our best to provide equipment and resources but nothing can be guaranteed at this point beyond space and power. Please contact the demo chair at one of the addresses below for any specific questions. * A "Script Outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying narrative, and either a web address for accessing the demo or visual aids (e.g., screen-shots, snapshots, or sketches). No more than 6 pages, total. Submissions Procedure Both electronic and hardcopy submissions are welcome. Electronic submissions should be plain text, HTML, or PDF format. Please submit proposals and any inquiries to the ISWC 2003 Demo Chair: Jeff Heflin Computer Science and Engineering Lehigh University 19 Memorial Drive West Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA heflin at cse.lehigh.edu phone: (610) 758-6533 fax: (610) 758-4096 Important Dates July 13, 2003 Demo proposal submission cutoff date August 31, 2003 Notifications will be sent by this date ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR SPONSORS ISWC2003 offers you the opportunity to be a corporate sponsor of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), which will be held in Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, 20-23 October 2003 (See http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org/ for conference details). This meeting builds on the success of the Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS) held at Stanford University during the summer of 2001 and the 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002) held in Sardinia, Italy during the summer of 2002. These conferences were very successful and each attracted over 200 attendees from university, government, and industry. The meeting's sponsors include innovative companies both small and large and several US and EC government organizations. The ISWC conference is a major meeting for bringing researchers and practitioners together, and for helping both to describe critical paths for web development and to help in transferring this emerging technology to industrial use. The Semantic Web area is an important and dynamic sub-field of web R&D, which attracts a growing industrial community as well as from the World Wide Web consortium and significant interest and funding from both the US and EU governments. This increasing interest presents an opportunity for your organization to be associated with this important trend in the web of the future. The Semantic Web is already producing a new Web that provides a machine understandable meaning to Web pages. By accessing directly the meaning of pages, computers can harvest information, saving us the time and effort to read pages and pages to find the information we seek. To this extent the Semantic Web is becoming a fertile environment for Data Mining and Information Retrieval across the web and across heterogeneous Databases. Furthermore, the growing community of Web Services is already taking advantage of the emergence of the Semantic Web to reduce the automatic interoperability barrier. To highlight the growing range of industrial applications of the Semantic Web, in ISWC2003 we will organize an industrial track that will provide an opportunity to showcase new products and the contribution from industry side. The exhibition will be held during the conference, and it will offer an excellent chance you should not miss to brand your company with your products and services. We have created several sponsorship levels to make it easier for small companies to have an opportunity to get involved or for larger companies to make their presence felt. The sponsorship levels and benefits are: * Silver (1000$US) - your logo on our web site - your logo in our published proceedings, - acknowledgement of your support in our published proceedings - pay extra 500$US more, you will have one free exhibition * Gold (2500$US) - silver - one free registration - the distribution to all participants of short materials (brochure or advertisement) that you provide - pay extra 500$US more, you will have one free exhibition * Platinum (5000$US): - gold - an additional (2nd) registration - one free exhibition during the conference Notes: If you are only interested in the exhibition, you need to pay 1000$US for it. In addition, we have opportunities for higher sponsorship levels including the ability to sponsor conference or affiliated events. Please contact one of the sponsorship chairs below for more information. Thank you for your support! * Ying Ding: Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 13, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria (Email: ying.ding at uibk.ac.at, Tel: +43 512 507 6112, Fax: +43 512 507 9872) * Massimo Paolucci: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes ave, Pittsburgh PA, 15213-3891, USA (Email: paolucci at cs.cmu.edu, Tel +1 (412) 268-7019, Fax +1 (412) 268-5569) ------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Program Chair: Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Program Co-Chair: John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada) Tutorial Chair: Asun Gomez-Perez (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) Workshops Chairs: Sheila McIlraith (Stanford University, USA) and Dimitris Plexousakis (University of Crete, Greece) Industrial Track Chair: Christoph Bussler (Oracle, USA) Poster Chair: Raphael Malyankar (Arizona State University, USA) Finance Chair: Jerome Euzenat (INRIA, Rhone-Alpes, France) Publicity Chair: Mike Dean (BBN, USA) Local Arrangements Chair: Jeff Bradshaw (University of West Florida, USA) Sponsor Chairs: Ying Ding (University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Massimo Paolucci (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Demonstration Chair: Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA) Registration Chair: Atanas Kiryakov (Sirma AI, Ltd, Bulgaria) From peter at uni-koblenz.de Wed Mar 12 15:17:07 2003 From: peter at uni-koblenz.de (Peter Baumgartner) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:17:07 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: deadline extension: IJCAI-03 Workshop 'Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning for E-Learning Systems' Message-ID: <15983.16739.105718.821420@lexington.uni-koblenz.de> EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE August 2003 Workshop on Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning for E-Learning Systems CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop description at http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~peter/ijcai-03-elearning/ Important Dates: March 31, 2003: Paper submission deadline (extended deadline) April 7, 2003: Notification of acceptance May 23, 2003: Camera ready copy due (according to IJCAI-03 demands) August 9-11, 2003: IJCAI-03 workshop program Organizers: Peter Baumgartner Universit?t Koblenz-Landau, Germany Email: peter at uni-koblenz.de Paul A. Cairns University College London, UK Email: p.cairns at ucl.ac.uk Michael Kohlhase Carnegie Mellon University, USA Email: kohlhase+ at cs.cmu.edu Erica Melis Deutsches Forschungszentrum f?r K?nstliche Intelligenz, Germany Email: melis at dfki.de -- Peter Baumgartner peter at uni-koblenz.de Tel. +49 261 287-2777 http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~peter/ From marta at dia.uniroma3.it Wed Mar 19 18:29:55 2003 From: marta at dia.uniroma3.it (Marta Cialdea) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:29:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] Tableaux 2003 Deadline extension for position paper submission Message-ID: The usual apologies for multiple copies... DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR POSITION PAPER SUBMISSIONS International Conference TABLEAUX 2003 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Roma, Italy September 9-12, 2003 (co-located with TPHOLs 2003 and Calculemus 2003) http://tab2003.dia.uniroma3.it/ Position papers and brief reports on work in progress will be accepted until Monday, March 31st. Submissions in this category will be reviewed by members of the program committee and accepted papers in this category will be published in a volume by ARACNE Editrice (Italy), as a Technical Report of Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Universita` di Roma Tre. Papers have to be submitted in postscript format through the special submission page at www.lugroma3.org/ConfMan/REG-paper/. Papers have to be registered at the same page by March 26, 2003. The registration form includes title, short abstract and a list of keywords. -- Marta Cialdea Mayer Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione Via Vasca Navale, 79 00146 Roma (Italia) tel +39-06-55173232 fax +39-06-5573030 _______________________________________________ Tab03 mailing list Tab03 at pop.dia.uniroma3.it http://pop.dia.uniroma3.it/mailman/listinfo.cgi/tab03 From m4m at science.uva.nl Fri Mar 21 19:14:42 2003 From: m4m at science.uva.nl (Methods for Modalities) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:14:42 +0100 Subject: [DL] M4M-3, First Call for Papers Message-ID: <20030321191442.B6074@science.uva.nl> ================================================================== Apologies for multiple messages ================================================================== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS METHODS FOR MODALITIES 3 (M4M-3) INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France. September 22-23, 2003 www.science.uva.nl/~m4m DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: June 30, 2003 THEME The workshop Methods for Modalities (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, hybrid logics, feature logic, temporal logic, etc. SPECIAL FEATURES To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will be centered around a number of long presentations by leading researchers; these presentations aim to provide both the general background and inside information in a number of key areas. To complement these, we are inviting submissions of short, focussed presentations aimed at highlighting new developments and applications, and submissions of system demonstrations. M4M-3 is the third installment of this bi-anual workshop series. SUBMISSIONS We invite three kinds of submissions: A. Research papers on proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic as well as their applications. Submissions in this category need not be unpublished work; they can be up to 10 A4 size pages. B. System descriptions can be up to 4 A4 size pages, they should focus on actual implementations explaining system architecture issues and specific implementation techniques. Every system description should be accompanied by a system demo at M4M. C. Application descriptions can be up to 6 A4 size pages, they should focus on experiences of using modal-like languages to solve specific real-world tasks. A description of the problem should be given, together with an explanation of how modal like inference systems were used to tackle/analyse it. If available, demos of the final product/solution can be organized during M4M. The primary means of submission will be electronic, in PostScript or PDF format. Final versions should be done in Latex, using the styles provided in the Workshop home pages. Submissions should be sent to m4m at science.uva.nl. PROGRAM COMMITTEE The program committee for M4M-3 consists of Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine (co-chair); Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine (co-chair); Torben Brauner, Roskilde University; Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam; Holger Schlingloff, Humboldt University in Berlin; Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester; and Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool. IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2003 * Notification: August 8, 2003 * Camera ready versions: September 8, 2003 * Workshop dates: September 22-23, 2003 FURTER INFORMATION Please visit www.science.uva.nl/~m4m for further information about M4M. -- M4M: Methods for Modalities www.science.uva.nl/~m4m From m4m at science.uva.nl Fri Mar 21 19:01:24 2003 From: m4m at science.uva.nl (Methods for Modalities) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:01:24 +0100 Subject: [DL] ICoS-4, First Call for Papers Message-ID: <20030321190124.A5715@science.uva.nl> ==================================================================== Apologies for multiple copies ==================================================================== *** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** Fourth workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-4 Nancy, France, 25-26 September 2003 http://www.loria.fr/~areces/ICoS-4 (Submission deadline: 30 June 2003) ==================================================================== ABOUT ICoS ---------- Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely and easily available. A wide variety of new tools (statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics. Most importantly of all, computational semantics seems to have reached the stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its most pressing tasks - and there's a lot of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously. ICoS-4 is intended to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic, in order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural language semantics. ICoS-4 will take place in Nancy, France, on 25-26 September 2003. It will be part of a special Nancy Inference Week: on the day before ICoS-4 (24 September) there will be a one day school on Description Logic and its applications in linguistics, and on the two days preceding that (22-23 September 2003) the third Method for Modalities (M4M-3) will be held. ICoS-4 is endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission Deadline: June 30, 2003. Notification: August 8, 2003. Final Versions: September 8, 2003. INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- We anticipate having three invited talks at ICoS-4. The speakers will be announced shortly. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- James Allen Carlos Areces Peter Baumgartner Patrick Blackburn (co-chair) Johan Bos (co-chair) Harry Bunt Anne Copestake Dick Crouch Kees van Deemter Helen Gaylard Nissim Francez Shalom Lappin Alexander Koller Jeff Pelletier Ian Pratt-Hartmann Maarten de Rijke Michael Schiehlen Matthew Stone SUBMISSIONS ----------- We invite two kinds of submission: - Research papers on inference methods in computational semantics as well as their applications (10 pages). - System descriptions (6 pages) focusing on actual implementations and explaining system architecture issues and specific implementation techniques. The systems described will be demonstrated at ICoS-4. Submission deadline: June 30, 2003. Notification: August 8, 2003. Submission is by email. Either Postscript or PDF files can be sent to: icos4 at aplog.org Authors are advised to prepare their contributions in LaTeX using the style file which can be found at: http://www.loria.fr/~areces/ICoS-4/style.tgz The workshop proceedings (which will be distributed at the conference) will be produced using these style files. As well as the workshop proceedings, we plan to publish a selection of accepted papers as a special journal issue. ==================================================================== From wi-iat at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK Mon Mar 24 00:40:52 2003 From: wi-iat at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK (wi-iat) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:40:52 -0800 Subject: [DL] WI 2003 & IAT 2003 -- EXTENDED Submission Deadline Message-ID: <3E7E4604.1010005@comp.hkbu.edu.hk> **************************************************** IEEE/WIC Web Intelligence & IEEE/WIC Intelligent Agent Technology submission deadline: >>> 4 APRIL 2003 <<< **************************************************** http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03/ http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT03/ Many people have so far expressed that they are very keen to submit their present works to either WI 2003 or IAT 2003, and would like to ask for extension of submission due date. In light of the huge number of on-going requests, the organizers of WI 2003 & IAT 2003 joint conferences have now agreed to EXTEND the Research-Track and Industry-Track paper submission deadlines to: >>> 4 APRIL 2003 <<< Please note that WI 2003 and IAT 2003 will accept on-line submissions ONLY, containing PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) files. More instructions on submission, and the "On-Line Submission Form" can readily be found from the conference homepages at: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03/ http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT03/ Thank you for your attention. Secretariat for WI 2003 & IAT 2003 ============== ABOUT THE WI-IAT JOINT CONFERENCES ============== WI 2003 and IAT 2003 are sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and will be held in Beijing, China, on 13-17 October 2003. Both WI and IAT conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. WI/IAT Keynote and Invited Speakers include: Professor MARVIN MINSKY (upon final confirmation) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences MIT Media Lab and MIT AI Lab Professor LOTFI A. ZADEH University of California, Berkeley Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) Dr. PHILIP S. YU Manager of the Software Tools and Techniques Group IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Professor MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool Dr. YAQIN ZHANG Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia Professor ZHIWEI XU Deputy Director of the Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences From jleite at di.fct.unl.pt Tue Mar 25 19:22:59 2003 From: jleite at di.fct.unl.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Alexandre_Leite?=) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:22:59 -00 Subject: [DL] CFP: DALT'03 - 1st Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies Message-ID: <414-220033225182259675@ANIMAL> =========================================================== S E C O N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S DALT 2003 First International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies Melbourne, Australia July 15th 2003 http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/dalt03/index.htm In conjunction with AAMAS 2003 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems http://www.aamas-conference.org/ Submission: 11 of April, 2003 Post-Proceedings publishe by Springer-Verlag (LNAI) =========================================================== TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION Agent metaphors and technologies are ever more adopted to harness and govern the complexity of today's systems. As a consequence, the growing complexity of agent systems calls for models and technologies that promote system predictability, and enable feature discovery and verification. Recent advances in the area of logics and formal methods make declarative languages and technologies a mostly promising approach to the modeling and engineering of complex agent systems. DALT aims at fostering a discussion forum to export, on the one hand, such techniques into the broader community of agent researchers and practitioners and, on the other hand, to bring in the issues of real-world, complex, and possibly large-scale agent system design in the perspective of formal methods and declarative technologies. DALT 2003 will take place in Melbourne, Australia, in conjunction with AAMAS, the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Declarative agent communication and coordination languages * Knowledge-based and knowledge-intensive MAS * Modeling of agent rationality * Declarative approaches to the engineering of MAS * High level agent specification languages * Practical aspects of declarative agent programming and implementation * Formal methods for the specification and verification of MAS * Computational logics in MAS * Argumentation and dialectical systems in MAS * Declarative description of contracts and negotiation issues in MAS * Lessons learned from the design and implementation of MAS * Declarative paradigms for the combination of heterogeneous agents * Constraints and MAS * Declarative representation of policies and security in MAS SUBMISSIONS We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, which can be obtained at (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), and not exceed 16 pages including figures, references, etc. Send your paper in PostScript (PS) or Portable Document Format (PDF) to jleite at di.fct.unl.pt. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission, 11 of April, 2003 * Notification, 6 of May, 2003 * Camera Ready, 16 of May, 2003 PROCEEDINGS To encourage and promote the discussion, early and final versions of the accepted papers will be available online, at the workshop's web page, as soon as they are available. A printed volume with the proceedings will be available at the workshop. Authors of papers presented at the workshop will be asked to extend their contributions, possibly incorporating the results of the workshop discussion, to be included in the workshop post-proceedings. Post-proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rafael Bordini, The University of Liverpool, UK Jeff Bradshaw, The University of West Florida, FL, USA Antonio Brogi, Universit? di Pisa, Italy Stefania Costantini, Universit? degli Studi di L'Aquila, Italy Yves Demazeau, Institut IMAG, Grenoble, France J?rgen Dix, The University of Manchester, UK Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan Catholijn Jonker, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Daniel Kudenko, University of York, UK Alessio Lomuscio, King's College, London, UK Viviana Mascardi, DISI, Genova, Italy Paola Mello, Universit? di Bologna, Italy John Jules Ch. Meyer, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Charles L. Ortiz, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain Lu?s Moniz Pereira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, London, UK Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan Michael Schroeder, City University, London, UK Onn Shehory, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel Carles Sierra, Spanish Research Council, Barcelona, Spain V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, MD, USA Francesca Toni, Imperial College, London, UK Wiebe van der Hoek, The University of Liverpool, UK Franco Zambonelli, Universit? di Modena, Italy ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Co-chairs: Jo?o Alexandre Leite (Contact Person) Universidade Nova de Lisboa jleite at di.fct.unl.pt Andrea Omicini Universit? di Bologna aomicini at deis.unibo.it Leon Sterling The University of Melbourne leon at cs.mu.oz.au Paolo Torroni Universit? di Bologna ptorroni at deis.unibo.it From george at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Mar 29 13:42:58 2003 From: george at cs.ucy.ac.cy (George Angelos Papadopoulos) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:42:58 +0200 (WET) Subject: [DL] Academic Vacancies -- CS Dept -- Univ. of Cyprus Message-ID: *** ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACADEMIC POSITIONS *** The University of Cyprus announces the following tenure track posts (Assistant Professor or Lecturer): DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 1 post in the field of Computer Networks 1 post in the field of Database Systems 1 post in the following fields of study: * Agents and Artificial Intelligence * Cooperative Information Systems * Distributed Systems * Human-Computer Interaction * Programming Languages * Theoretical Computer Science For all academic ranks, a Ph.D. from a recognized University is required. PLEASE NOTE: The languages of instruction are Greek and Turkish. For the above mentioned posts, knowledge of Greek is necessary. Applicants need not be citizens of the Republic of Cyprus. The annual gross salaries for these positions (including the 13th salary) are: Assistant Professor (Scale A13-A14) CY23,587 - CY31,816 Lecturer (Scale A12-A13) CY19,919 - CY29,175 (At present 1 CY = 1.7401 sterling and 1 CY = 1.7865 dollars.) Interested individuals must submit the following items by Thursday 17th of April 2003: I A letter stating the department, the academic rank or ranks for which the applicant is interested in, the field or fields of study and the date when he/she may be able to assume duties in the event of selection. II A Curriculum Vitae (6 copies). III A brief summary of previous work and a statement of plans for future research (up to 1500 words - 6 copies). IV A list of publications (6 copies). V Copies pf the three most representative publications (6 copies). VI Copies of degree certificates. In addition, the applicants must request three academic referees to send letters of recommendation directly to the University; the names and addresses of these referees must be submitted with the application. Additional confidential information may be sought. The letters of recommendation must reach the University by the 17th of April, 2003. The Curriculum Vitae and the brief summary of the research work should be written in Greek and in one international language, preferably English. Applications, other documents and reference letters submitted in the past will NOT be considered and must be re-submitted. Applications that are incomplete will not be considered. The above must be delivered to the University by 2 pm, Thursday 17th of April 2003 at the following address: The Registrar University of Cyprus P O Box 20537 CY-1678 Nicosia CYPRUS Tel: +357-22-892054 Fax: +357-22-892005 For more details and other information interested individuals may contact the Head of the Department of Computer Science, Associate Professor Antonis Kakas: Tel: +357-22-892231 Fax: +357-22-339062 E-mail: antonis at cs.ucy.ac.cy From mdean at bbn.com Sun Apr 6 01:02:28 2003 From: mdean at bbn.com (Mike Dean) Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 15:02:28 -0800 Subject: [DL] ISWC2003 CFP deadline extended Message-ID: <200304052302.PAA16077@escher.SD.BBN.COM> Due to schedule conflicts with the DAML PI Meeting and EU FP6 proposals, the deadline for submission of full papers to the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) has been extended: paper titles, authors, abstracts, and keywords are still due on April 15 (the original deadline for everything) full papers are now due on May 2 An updated announcement appears below. Submissions are now being accepted at [1]. Mike [1] http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org/submit 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) Sanibel Island, Florida, USA 20-23 October 2003 http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org Contents: Call for Papers Call for Posters Industrial Track Call Call for Demos Call for Sponsors Organizing Committee This information is also available from the conference home page http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org. ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The vision of the Semantic Web is to make web data machine processable, and rests on the premise that to do so we need to accommodate, somehow, the semantics of these data. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision. Among those are languages for semantic annotation of Web documents, ontologies, technologies and methodologies for building multi-agent systems, semantic interoperation of programs that have been developed totally independently, technologies and methodologies for describing, searching and composing Web Services, and more. Following the success of the First International Semantic Web Conference in Sardinia, Italy in 2002, the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference is announced for 2003. The conference will be co-located with the K-CAP (Knowledge Capture) conference. Joint sessions of the two conferences will be planned so that participants can share papers and invited speakers of common interest. Submissions ISWC2003 welcomes the submission of original research papers dealing with all aspects of the Semantic Web, particularly those relating to the subject areas indicated by the topics below. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical and applications papers. In addition to those, we encourage the submission of papers relating to industrial efforts and experiences with Semantic Web projects. These papers will be presented in the Industrial Track and will be submitted to the Industrial Track Chair. The conference also encourages the submission of proposals for workshops and tutorials, submission of posters as well as system demonstrations. Please see the Web site http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org. Conference Topics Of Interest and Area Keywords Suggested topics include: * Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotations of Web Data * Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation) * Large Scale Knowledge Management * Data Semantics * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web * Knowledge Portals * Tools and Methodologies for Multi-Agent Software Systems * Semantic Brokering * Semantic Interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Web Services (service description, discovery, invocation, composition) * Semantic Web Inference Schemes * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic Web for e-Business and e-Learning * Searching and Querying * User Interfaces * Visualization and modelling Senior Program Committee Paolo Atzeni (Universita di Roma, Tre, Italy) Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena, Italy) Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Umesh Dayal (Hewlett-Packard, USA) Stefan Decker (USC ISI, USA) Oren Etzioni (University of Washington, USA) Alon Halevy (University of Washington, USA) Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Jerry Hobbs (USC ISI, USA) Masahiro Hori (IBM, Japan) Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester, UK) Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine, USA) Roger King (University of Colorado, USA) Ora Lassila (Nokia, USA) David Martin (SRI, USA) Brian McBride (Hewlett-Packard, UK) Deborah McGuinness (Stanford University, USA) Robert Meersman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Riichiro Mizogouchi (Osaka University, Japan) Peter Patel-Schneider (Lucent, USA) Guus Schreiber (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Zbigniew Rus (University of North Carolina, USA) Amit Sheth (University of Georgia, USA) Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Gerhard Weikum (University of Saarland, Germany) Reviewers Karl Aberer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Anupriya Ankolekar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Budak Arpinar (University of Georgia, USA) Bettina Berendt (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Harold Boley (National Research Council, Canada) Mark Burstein (BBN, USA) Vassilis Christophides (ICS-FORTH, Greece) Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Susan Davidson (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Steven Demurjian (University of Connecticut, USA) Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) David Embley (Brigham Young University, USA) Wenfei Fan (Bell Laboratories and Temple University, USA) Richard Fikes (Stanford University, USA) Tim Finin (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Jeremy Frumkin (University of Arizona, USA) Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel) Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK) Benjamin Grosof (MIT, USA) Nicola Guarino (CNR, Italy) Andreas Hotho (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Zack Ives (University of Washington, USA) Anupam Joshi (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Gerti Kappel (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Alfons Kemper (University of Passau, Germany) Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Donald Kossmann (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Georg Lausen (University of Freiburg, Germany) Chen Li (University of California, Irvine, USA) Ling Liu (Georgia Tech, USA) Bertram Ludaescher (University of California, San Diego, USA) Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, France) Massimo Marchiori (W3C and University of Venice, Italy) Frank McCabe (Fujitsu, USA) Luke McDowell (University of Washington, USA) Pavlos Moraitis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Enrico Motta (Open University, UK) Natasha F. Noy (Stanford University, USA) Terry Payne (University of Southampton, UK) Adam Pease (Teknowledge, USA) Erhard Rahm (University of Leipzig, Germany) Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA) Michael Sintek (DFKI, Germany) Divesh Srivastava (Bell Laboratories, USA) Stefan Staab (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Gerd Stumme (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Claude Vogel (CONVERA, USA) Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany) Carlo Zaniolo (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Important Dates April 15, 2003 Paper titles, authors, abstracts, and keywords due May 2, 2003 Full Paper Submission June 15, 2003 Acceptance Notification July 15, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers due Please note that the deadline for paper submission is strict: no extensions will be allowed. Submission Details * Paper submission and reviewing for ISWC2003 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org * The only formats allowed for submission are PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format). These are widely supported and well-known standards: papers will not be accepted in any other format (e.g., MS Word) because of compatibility problems between software versions, machines, and nationalities. See the conference WWW site for information about how to convert other formats (e.g., MS Word) to PDF/PostScript. * Note that the electronic submission site is likely to be very busy around the paper submission deadline. You are strongly urged to submit your abstract and your paper as far in advance of the deadline as possible. * Submitted papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. * Papers must be no longer than 16 pages, including figures and references, when formatted using the style files provided. Overlength papers will be rejected. * ISWC2003 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. * PLEASE monitor http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org for further submission details or changes. About the Conference Venue The conference will be held at the Sundial Resort on Sanibel Island: http://www.sundialresort.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR POSTERS The Poster Session at ISWC2003 is an opportunity to discuss late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and innovative work-in-progress which may not yet be ready for a full paper. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems, completed work, or work in progress are all welcome. Summaries or extended abstracts MUST clearly demonstrate a relevance to the Semantic Web. Submissions will be evaluated for acceptability by the Poster Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, significance, and clarity. High quality papers not accepted for publication as conference papers may be considered for inclusion as posters with the permission of the authors. In this event, the author(s) will need to submit a 2-page camera-ready version for the poster collection. Papers appearing in the main conference or as posters may also be submitted to specialized ISWC workshops. Accepted posters will be displayed at the conference. Details about poster size, display materials, session, etc., will be made available later. Extended abstracts/summaries for accepted posters will be distributed to conference attendees and will also be made available on the Web. At least one author must register for the conference and attend the poster session. Submissions Submissions must consist of a camera-ready extended abstract or summary of the work to be described in the poster, not to exceed two (2) pages in IJCAI two-column format. Further details about format for poster submissions will be made available at the conference Web site. The primary means of submission will be electronic. Submissions should be in PDF or Postscript format. Abstracts and summaries must be submitted via the Poster Submissions page at the ISWC2003 Web site (http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org). Contact Raphael Malyankar (iswc-posters at asu.edu) if you cannot use this page, have questions, or experience problems with your submission. All submissions must be received by July 13, 2003. Early submission is encouraged. Decisions about acceptance or rejection will be made on an ongoing basis, and early submissions are expected to receive early notifications. Submissions which are late, too long, or require substantial revision, will not be considered. Submissions must be in camera-ready format; gven the tight publication schedule, revisions after August 31, 2003 will not be feasible. Important Dates July 13, 2003 Abstract/summary submission cutoff date August 31, 2003 Notifications will be sent by this date ------------------------------------------------------------ INDUSTRIAL TRACK CALL The industrial track of the conference encourages submissions covering innovative commercial implementations of semantic web technology, novel applications of semantic web technology, and experience in applying research advances to practical situations. Such papers should describe innovative implementations, new approaches to fundamental challenges (such as large scale ontologies or semantic complexity), or other major technical improvements to the state-of-the-practice. Industrial / application / experience submissions may be either full papers whose technical density is comparable to research submissions or extended abstracts. Discouraged are papers or abstracts that are marketing oriented or are pure product descriptions or specifications. The goal of the industrial track is to demonstrate the application of research results in software products as well as state real world requirements from practical applications that might encourage further research into specific domains of semantic web technology. Conference Topics Of Interest and Area Keywords Suggested topics include: * Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotations of Web Data * Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation) * Large Scale Knowledge Management * Data Semantics * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web * Knowledge Portals * Tools and Methodologies for Multi-Agent Software Systems * Semantic Brokering * Semantic Interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Web Services (service description, discovery, invocation, composition) * Semantic Web Inference Schemes * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic Web for e-Business and e-Learning * Searching and Querying * User Interfaces * Visualization and modelling Industrial Track Committee Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant, USA) Bill Andersen (OntologyWorks, USA) J|rgen Angele (Ontoprise, Germany) John Davies (British Telecom, UK) Alain Leger (France Telecom, France) Andreas Persidis (Biovista, Greece) Satish Thatte (Microsoft, USA) David Trastour (Hewlett-Packard, UK) Michael Uschold (The Boeing Company, USA) Arian Zwegers (Baan, Netherlands) Important Dates April 15, 2003 Paper titles, authors, abstracts, and keywords due May 2, 2003 Full Paper Submission June 15, 2003 Acceptance Notification July 15, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers due Please note that the deadline for paper submission is strict: no extensions will be allowed. Submission Details * Paper submission and reviewing for ISWC2003 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org * The only formats allowed for submission are PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format). These are widely supported and well-known standards: papers will not be accepted in any other format (e.g., MS Word) because of compatibility problems between software versions, machines, and nationalities. See the conference WWW site for information about how to convert other formats (e.g., MS Word) to PDF/PostScript. * Note that the electronic submission site is likely to be very busy around the paper submission deadline. You are strongly urged to submit your abstract and your paper as far in advance of the deadline as possible. * Submitted papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. * Papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including figures and references, when formatted using the style files provided. Overlength papers will be rejected. * ISWC2003 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. * PLEASE monitor http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org for further submission details or changes. About the Conference Venue The conference will be held at the Sundial Resort on Sanibel Island: http://www.sundialresort.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR DEMOS The ISWC 2003 Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. This program is intended to showcase state-of-the-art Semantic Web implementations. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their innovation, relevance, scientific contribution, presentation, and user friendliness, as well as potential logistical constraints. This program is primarily to encourage the early exhibition of research prototypes, but interesting mature systems are also eligible (commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstration program). Areas of Interest We would like to encourage the submission of proposals for demonstrations of software related to any areas of the Semantic Web. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - User tools - Annotation tools - Novel query interfaces - Ontology development environments - Ontology libraries - Tools for merging or integrating ontologies - Reusable components - Parsers (RDF, DAML+OIL, OWL, etc.) - Repositories and inference systems - Applications - Agent systems embedded in the Semantic Web - Systems that identify and compose web services - Knowledge portals Format for Submission Demo proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be sent to the Demo Chair. * An abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated, not to exceed two pages, including title, authors, full contact information, references and acknowledgments. * A detailed description of hardware and software requirements expected to be provided by the local organizer. Demonstrators are encouraged to be flexible in their requirements (possibly with different demos for different logistical situations). Please state what you can bring yourself and what you absolutely must have provided. We will do our best to provide equipment and resources but nothing can be guaranteed at this point beyond space and power. Please contact the demo chair at one of the addresses below for any specific questions. * A "Script Outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying narrative, and either a web address for accessing the demo or visual aids (e.g., screen-shots, snapshots, or sketches). No more than 6 pages, total. Submissions Procedure Both electronic and hardcopy submissions are welcome. Electronic submissions should be plain text, HTML, or PDF format. Please submit proposals and any inquiries to the ISWC 2003 Demo Chair: Jeff Heflin Computer Science and Engineering Lehigh University 19 Memorial Drive West Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA heflin at cse.lehigh.edu phone: (610) 758-6533 fax: (610) 758-4096 Important Dates July 13, 2003 Demo proposal submission cutoff date August 31, 2003 Notifications will be sent by this date ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR SPONSORS ISWC2003 offers you the opportunity to be a corporate sponsor of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), which will be held in Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, 20-23 October 2003 (See http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org/ for conference details). This meeting builds on the success of the Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS) held at Stanford University during the summer of 2001 and the 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002) held in Sardinia, Italy during the summer of 2002. These conferences were very successful and each attracted over 200 attendees from university, government, and industry. The meeting's sponsors include innovative companies both small and large and several US and EC government organizations. The ISWC conference is a major meeting for bringing researchers and practitioners together, and for helping both to describe critical paths for web development and to help in transferring this emerging technology to industrial use. The Semantic Web area is an important and dynamic sub-field of web R&D, which attracts a growing industrial community as well as from the World Wide Web consortium and significant interest and funding from both the US and EU governments. This increasing interest presents an opportunity for your organization to be associated with this important trend in the web of the future. The Semantic Web is already producing a new Web that provides a machine understandable meaning to Web pages. By accessing directly the meaning of pages, computers can harvest information, saving us the time and effort to read pages and pages to find the information we seek. To this extent the Semantic Web is becoming a fertile environment for Data Mining and Information Retrieval across the web and across heterogeneous Databases. Furthermore, the growing community of Web Services is already taking advantage of the emergence of the Semantic Web to reduce the automatic interoperability barrier. To highlight the growing range of industrial applications of the Semantic Web, in ISWC2003 we will organize an industrial track that will provide an opportunity to showcase new products and the contribution from industry side. The exhibition will be held during the conference, and it will offer an excellent chance you should not miss to brand your company with your products and services. We have created several sponsorship levels to make it easier for small companies to have an opportunity to get involved or for larger companies to make their presence felt. The sponsorship levels and benefits are: * Silver (1000$US) - your logo on our web site - your logo in our published proceedings, - acknowledgement of your support in our published proceedings - pay extra 500$US more, you will have one free exhibition * Gold (2500$US) - silver - one free registration - the distribution to all participants of short materials (brochure or advertisement) that you provide - pay extra 500$US more, you will have one free exhibition * Platinum (5000$US): - gold - an additional (2nd) registration - one free exhibition during the conference Notes: If you are only interested in the exhibition, you need to pay 1000$US for it. In addition, we have opportunities for higher sponsorship levels including the ability to sponsor conference or affiliated events. Please contact one of the sponsorship chairs below for more information. Thank you for your support! * Ying Ding: Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 13, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria (Email: ying.ding at uibk.ac.at, Tel: +43 512 507 6112, Fax: +43 512 507 9872) * Massimo Paolucci: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes ave, Pittsburgh PA, 15213-3891, USA (Email: paolucci at cs.cmu.edu, Tel +1 (412) 268-7019, Fax +1 (412) 268-5569) ------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Program Chair: Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Program Co-Chair: John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada) Tutorial Chair: Asun Gomez-Perez (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) Workshops Chairs: Sheila McIlraith (Stanford University, USA) and Dimitris Plexousakis (University of Crete, Greece) Industrial Track Chair: Christoph Bussler (Oracle, USA) Poster Chair: Raphael Malyankar (Arizona State University, USA) Finance Chair: Jerome Euzenat (INRIA, Rhone-Alpes, France) Publicity Chair: Mike Dean (BBN, USA) Local Arrangements Chair: Jeff Bradshaw (University of West Florida, USA) Sponsor Chairs: Ying Ding (University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Massimo Paolucci (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Demonstration Chair: Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA) Registration Chair: Atanas Kiryakov (Sirma AI, Ltd, Bulgaria) From peter at uni-koblenz.de Mon Apr 7 14:10:08 2003 From: peter at uni-koblenz.de (Peter Baumgartner) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:10:08 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: Reminder: CADE-19 Workshop 'Model Computation - Principles, Algorithms, Applications' Message-ID: <16017.27296.751732.321859@lexington.uni-koblenz.de> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:37:26 +0100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CADE-19 Workshop Model Computation - Principles, Algorithms, Applications Miami, Florida, USA July 29, 2003 CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================ Paper submission deadline: April 14, 2003 ================================================ Full workshop description at http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~peter/models03/ Invited Speakers * Ilkka Niemel?, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. (More to be announced) Workshop Organization Peter Baumgartner University of Koblenz, Germany Email: peter at uni-koblenz.de Chris Fermueller University of Technology Vienna, Austria Email: chrisf at logic.tuwien.ac.at Important Dates April 14, 2003 Paper submissions deadline May 16, 2003 Notification of acceptance May 23, 2003 Early registration June 30, 2003 Final versions due July 29, 2003 Worskhop See http://www.cade-19.info/ for more information on CADE-19. -- Peter Baumgartner peter at uni-koblenz.de Tel. +49 261 287-2777 http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~peter/ From jleite at di.fct.unl.pt Mon Apr 7 21:40:36 2003 From: jleite at di.fct.unl.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Alexandre_Leite?=) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 20:40:36 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: DALT'03 - 1st Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies Message-ID: <414-22003417194036679@ANIMAL> =========================================================== F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S DALT 2003 First International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies Melbourne, Australia July 15th 2003 http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/dalt03/index.htm In conjunction with AAMAS 2003 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems http://www.aamas-conference.org/ Submission: 11 of April, 2003 Post-Proceedings publishe by Springer-Verlag (LNAI) =========================================================== TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION Agent metaphors and technologies are ever more adopted to harness and govern the complexity of today's systems. As a consequence, the growing complexity of agent systems calls for models and technologies that promote system predictability, and enable feature discovery and verification. Recent advances in the area of logics and formal methods make declarative languages and technologies a mostly promising approach to the modeling and engineering of complex agent systems. DALT aims at fostering a discussion forum to export, on the one hand, such techniques into the broader community of agent researchers and practitioners and, on the other hand, to bring in the issues of real-world, complex, and possibly large-scale agent system design in the perspective of formal methods and declarative technologies. DALT 2003 will take place in Melbourne, Australia, in conjunction with AAMAS, the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Declarative agent communication and coordination languages * Knowledge-based and knowledge-intensive MAS * Modeling of agent rationality * Declarative approaches to the engineering of MAS * High level agent specification languages * Practical aspects of declarative agent programming and implementation * Formal methods for the specification and verification of MAS * Computational logics in MAS * Argumentation and dialectical systems in MAS * Declarative description of contracts and negotiation issues in MAS * Lessons learned from the design and implementation of MAS * Declarative paradigms for the combination of heterogeneous agents * Constraints and MAS * Declarative representation of policies and security in MAS SUBMISSIONS We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, which can be obtained at (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), and not exceed 16 pages including figures, references, etc. Send your paper in PostScript (PS) or Portable Document Format (PDF) to jleite at di.fct.unl.pt. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission, 11 of April, 2003 * Notification, 6 of May, 2003 * Camera Ready, 16 of May, 2003 PROCEEDINGS To encourage and promote the discussion, early and final versions of the accepted papers will be available online, at the workshop's web page, as soon as they are available. A printed volume with the proceedings will be available at the workshop. Authors of papers presented at the workshop will be asked to extend their contributions, possibly incorporating the results of the workshop discussion, to be included in the workshop post-proceedings. Post-proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rafael Bordini, The University of Liverpool, UK Jeff Bradshaw, The University of West Florida, FL, USA Antonio Brogi, Universit? di Pisa, Italy Stefania Costantini, Universit? degli Studi di L'Aquila, Italy Yves Demazeau, Institut IMAG, Grenoble, France J?rgen Dix, The University of Manchester, UK Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan Catholijn Jonker, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Daniel Kudenko, University of York, UK Alessio Lomuscio, King's College, London, UK Viviana Mascardi, DISI, Genova, Italy Paola Mello, Universit? di Bologna, Italy John Jules Ch. Meyer, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Charles L. Ortiz, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain Lu?s Moniz Pereira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, London, UK Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan Michael Schroeder, City University, London, UK Onn Shehory, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel Carles Sierra, Spanish Research Council, Barcelona, Spain V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, MD, USA Francesca Toni, Imperial College, London, UK Wiebe van der Hoek, The University of Liverpool, UK Franco Zambonelli, Universit? di Modena, Italy ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Co-chairs: Jo?o Alexandre Leite (Contact Person) Universidade Nova de Lisboa jleite at di.fct.unl.pt Andrea Omicini Universit? di Bologna aomicini at deis.unibo.it Leon Sterling The University of Melbourne leon at cs.mu.oz.au Paolo Torroni Universit? di Bologna ptorroni at deis.unibo.it From tinelli at cs.uiowa.edu Tue Apr 8 19:23:31 2003 From: tinelli at cs.uiowa.edu (Cesare Tinelli) Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 12:23:31 -0500 Subject: [DL] CFP: Pragmatics of Decision Procedures in AR Message-ID: <3E930593.2050107@cs.uiowa.edu> (Apologies for cross postings) =========================================================================== CADE-19 Workshop PDPAR'03 Pragmatics of Decision Procedures in Automated Reasoning Miami, Florida, USA July 28-29, 2003 CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================================== The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the pragmatical aspects of decision procedures in automated reasoning, giving them a forum for presenting and discussing implementation and evaluation techniques. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) * algorithms and data structures to implement decision procedures * techniques for the rapid prototyping of decision procedures * techniques to implement combination or incorporation schemes * benchmarks to evaluate and/or to compare decision procedures * methodologies to test decision procedures * the role of decision procedures in real-world verification efforts * techniques to promote the re-use and the exchange of code implementing decision procedures, combination and integration schemas, ... Another goal of the workshop is to provide a discussion forum for the SMT-LIB initiative, a research initiative aimed at establishing a common standard for the specification of benchmarks and background theories for satisfiability modulo theories, and at creating a repository of such benchmarks. (See http://combination.cs.uiowa.edu/smtlib/ for more info.) The workshop will host panel discussions on the SMT-LIB format. --------------- Important Dates --------------- April 14, 2003 Submissions of extended abstracts May 16, 2003 Notification of acceptance May 23, 2003 Early registration June 30, 2003 Final versions due July 28, 2003 Worskhop July 29, 2003 Worskhop ----------- Submissions ----------- Extended abstracts addressing the pragmatical aspects of decision procedures are solicited. Submitted abstracts should not exceed 8 pages and should be written in LaTeX with the following settings: 11pt, one column, a4paper and standard margins. Submissions should be sent by email to pdpar03 at cs.uiowa.edu and contain: 1. title, author(s) (names, correspondence addresses, e-mail addresses); 2. small abstract (< 300 words), in plain text; 3. extended abstract in postscript or PDF format, as an attachment; 4. a single file with the LaTeX2e source of the abstract, including any non-standard macro used, again as an attachment. Submissions will be peer-reviewed. The authors of accepted submissions are expected to give a 25' presentation at the workshop. The proceedings of PDPAR'03 will be published as an INRIA technical report, and will be distributed at the workshop. ------------ Registration ------------ Joint registration with the CADE-19 conference is possible but is not required. Refer to the CADE-19 web site for registration instructions and deadlines. --------------- Invited Speaker --------------- Mark Stickel, SRI, USA ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- * Silvio Ranise (LORIA & INRIA-Lorraine, France) [Co-chair] * Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) [Co-chair] * Alessandro Armando (University of Genova, Italy) * Clark Barrett (New York University, USA) * Sergey Berezin (Stanford University, USA) * Alessandro Cimatti (IRST-ITC, Italy) * Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA) * Predrag Janicic (University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia) * Greg Nelson (HP SRC Classic, USA) * Christophe Ringeissen (LORIA & INRIA-Lorraine, France) * Harald Ruess (SRI, USA) * Roberto Sebastiani (University of Trento, Italy) * Ofer Strichman (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) * Aaron Stump (Washington University, USA) * Ashish Tiwari (SRI, USA) ---------------- More Information ---------------- See http://www.loria.fr/~ranise/pdpar03/ for PDPAR'03, and http://www.cade-19.info/ for CADE-19. From Heinrich.Wansing at mailbox.tu-dresden.de Wed Apr 9 17:43:24 2003 From: Heinrich.Wansing at mailbox.tu-dresden.de (Heinrich.Wansing at mailbox.tu-dresden.de) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 17:43:24 +0200 Subject: [DL] 75 Years of Predicate Logic Message-ID: <3E945BBC.9627.20491DE@localhost> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Apologies for multiple copies % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Please note that the deadline for submissions to FOL75 75 years of Predicate Logic, Berlin, September 18 -21, 2003 has been extended to April 30. The new notification date is June 15. For information please visit: http://www.fol75.philog.ruc.dk/fol75welcome.html The invited speakers of FOL75 are: Hajnal Andreka (Hungary) George Englebretsen (Canada) William Ewald (USA) Jeroen Groenendijk (The Netherlands) Petr Hajek (Czech Republic) Jaakko Hintikka (USA) Wilfrid Hodges (UK) Istvan Nemeti (Hungary) Alan Robinson (USA) Dana Scott (USA) Martin Stokhof (The Netherlands) Valentin Shehtman (Russia) CALL FOR PAPERS Contributions to FOL75 are invited in the form of papers according to the following areas related to First-order logic, FOL: FOL and the History of Logic; Extensions of and Alternatives to FOL; Cognition and Knowledge Representation; The Unity of Logic and FOL as the lingua franca of the Formal Sciences; FOL and Ontology, FOL and Natural Language Semantics Anonymous submissions in terms of extended abstracts of up to 10 pages (sent preferably in postscript format by e-mail to Prof. Uwe Scheffler, fol75 at philosophie.hu-berlin.de, with the subject line "Submission FOL75" accompanied by a covering letter with name and address of author(s)) must be received by April 30, 2003. The abstracts must be written in English and give enough detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the work. The abstracts should start with a brief statement of the issues, a summary of the main results, and a statement of their significance and relevance to the conference. References and comparisons with related work is also expected. Results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia, workshops or conferences. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to attend the conference in order to present it. Authors will be notified of acceptance by June 15, 2003, and final versions (in LaTeX2e format) will be due by November 30, 2003. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to send a short abstract of two pages for the conference booklet. The full invited and accepted contributed papers will appear in a proceedings published by Logos Verlag in Berlin. From icdm at wi-lab.com Fri Apr 11 11:14:56 2003 From: icdm at wi-lab.com (icdm at wi-lab.com) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:14:56 +0900 Subject: [DL] IEEE Data Mining 2003: Call for Papers Message-ID: <200304110914.h3B9EuIl025855@bigslope.dyndns.org> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ICDM '03: The Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining ================================================================ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Melbourne, Florida, USA November 19 - 22, 2003 http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-03.html Call for Papers *************** (Papers Due: June 10, 2003) Invited Speakers ================ - Thomas G. Dietterich, Oregon State University, USA - Usama M. Fayyad, digiMine.com, USA - Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland - Gene W. Myers, University of California, Berkeley, USA - Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA The 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM '03) provides a leading international forum for the sharing of original research results and practical development experiences among researchers and application developers from different data mining related areas such as machine learning, automated scientific discovery, statistics, pattern recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, and knowledge-based systems. The conference seeks solutions to challenging problems facing the development of data mining systems, and shapes future directions of research by promoting high quality, novel and daring research findings. As an important part of the conference, the workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives, and the tutorial program will cover emerging data mining technologies and the state-of-the-art of data mining developments. Topics of Interest ================== Topics related to the design, analysis and implementation of data mining theory, systems and applications are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: - Foundations of data mining - Data mining and machine learning algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and association analysis), and in new areas - Mining text and semi-structured data, and mining temporal, spatial and multimedia data - Data and knowledge representation for data mining - Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature transformation - Post-processing of data mining results - Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining - Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty management for data mining - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining - Human-machine interaction and visualization in data mining, and visual data mining - High performance and distributed data mining - Pattern recognition and scientific discovery - Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining results - Process-centric data mining and models of data mining process - Security, privacy and social impact of data mining - Data mining applications in electronic commerce, bioinformatics, computer security, Web intelligence, intelligent learning database systems, finance, marketing, healthcare, telecommunications, and other fields Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards ================================================== High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful and supportive reviews. There are two types of paper submissions for IEEE ICDM '03: (1) research-track submissions and (2) industry-track submissions. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please use the Submission Form at the ICDM '03 webpage to submit your paper. For research-track submissions, papers should be limited to a maximum of 6,000 words (approximately 20 A4 pages), and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. For industry-track submissions, please make sure that the following conditions are met: (a) Papers cannot exceed 3,000 words, (b) At least one author of each industry-track paper should be from an industrial company, and the paper should be about industrial or other real-world applications of data mining, AND (c) a description of how the application has been conceived, developed and deployed must be provided. (Papers that present interesting data mining applications but do not qualify as industry-track submissions according to the these criteria can be submitted to the research track.) The conference will provide an opportunity for the authors of accepted industry-track papers to showcase their efforts in front of the world's finest data miners via a software demonstration. All papers submitted to the industry track will also be reviewed by the Program Committee, and each accepted industry-track paper will be allocated 4 pages in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A selected number of IEEE ICDM '03 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in an expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/kais.html) by Springer-Verlag. IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Papers from the industry track and application-oriented papers from the research track will both be considered for the best application award. Important Dates =============== May 15, 2003 Workshop proposals due June 10, 2003 Research-track paper submissions Industry-track paper submissions Tutorial proposals June 30, 2003 Panel proposals due August 15, 2003 Paper acceptance notices September 10, 2003 Final camera-readies November 19, 2003 Workshops Tutorials November 20-22, 2003 Conference All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference home page at http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-03.html Conference Chair: ================= Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin - Madison (shavlik at cs.wisc.edu) Program Committee Chairs: ========================= Xindong Wu, University of Vermont (xwu at cs.uvm.edu) Alex Tuzhilin, New York University (atuzhili at stern.nyu.edu) Vice Chairs: ============ Christopher W. Clifton, Purdue University, USA Douglas H. Fisher, Vanderbilt University, USA Paolo Frasconi, Universit di Firenze, Italy Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA Rajeev Rastogi, Lucent, USA Michele Sebag, Universite Paris-Sud, France Dale Schuurmans, University of Waterloo, Canada Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Industry Track Chair: ===================== Roberto Bayardo, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA (bayardo at almaden.ibm.com) Panels Chair: ============= Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University (nick at cs.dal.ca) Workshops Chair: ================ David Page, University of Wisconsin - Madison (page at biostat.wisc.edu) Tutorials Chair: ================ Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University (ester at cs.sfu.ca) Publicity Chair: ================ Balaji Padmanabhan, University of Pennsylvania (balaji at wharton.upenn.edu) Local Arrangements Chair: ========================= Philip Chan, Florida Institute of Technology (pkc at cs.fit.edu) Web Master: =========== Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology (zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp) ICDM Steering Committee ======================= Xindong Wu (Chair), University of Vermont, USA Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets, USA Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Further Information =================== Professor Xindong Wu (ICDM 2003) Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, 351 Votey Building, Burlington, VT 05405, USA Phone: +1-802-656-7839 Fax: +1-802-656-0696 E-mail: xwu at cs.uvm.edu From tinelli at cs.uiowa.edu Tue Apr 15 18:59:28 2003 From: tinelli at cs.uiowa.edu (Cesare Tinelli) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:59:28 -0500 Subject: [DL] PDPAR'03 Deadline EXTENDED Message-ID: <3E9C3A70.8020803@cs.uiowa.edu> (Apologies for cross postings) The submission deadline has been extended to **April 28**. =========================================================================== CADE-19 Workshop PDPAR'03 Pragmatics of Decision Procedures in Automated Reasoning Miami, Florida, USA July 28-29, 2003 CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================================== The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the pragmatical aspects of decision procedures in automated reasoning, giving them a forum for presenting and discussing implementation and evaluation techniques. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) * algorithms and data structures to implement decision procedures * techniques for the rapid prototyping of decision procedures * techniques to implement combination or incorporation schemes * benchmarks to evaluate and/or to compare decision procedures * methodologies to test decision procedures * the role of decision procedures in real-world verification efforts * techniques to promote the re-use and the exchange of code implementing decision procedures, combination and integration schemas, ... Another goal of the workshop is to provide a discussion forum for the SMT-LIB initiative, a research initiative aimed at establishing a common standard for the specification of benchmarks and background theories for satisfiability modulo theories, and at creating a repository of such benchmarks. (See http://combination.cs.uiowa.edu/smtlib/ for more info.) The workshop will host panel discussions on the SMT-LIB format. --------------- Important Dates --------------- April 28, 2003 Submissions of extended abstracts (EXTENDED) May 16, 2003 Notification of acceptance May 23, 2003 Early registration June 30, 2003 Final versions due July 28, 2003 Worskhop July 29, 2003 Worskhop ----------- Submissions ----------- Extended abstracts addressing the pragmatical aspects of decision procedures are solicited. Submitted abstracts should not exceed 8 pages and should be written in LaTeX with the following settings: 11pt, one column, a4paper and standard margins. Submissions should be sent by email to pdpar03 at cs.uiowa.edu and contain: 1. title, author(s) (names, correspondence addresses, e-mail addresses); 2. small abstract (< 300 words), in plain text; 3. extended abstract in postscript or PDF format, as an attachment; 4. a single file with the LaTeX2e source of the abstract, including any non-standard macro used, again as an attachment. Submissions will be peer-reviewed. The authors of accepted submissions are expected to give a 25' presentation at the workshop. The proceedings of PDPAR'03 will be published as an INRIA technical report, and will be distributed at the workshop. ------------ Registration ------------ Joint registration with the CADE-19 conference is possible but is not required. Refer to the CADE-19 web site for registration instructions and deadlines. --------------- Invited Speaker --------------- Mark Stickel, SRI, USA ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- * Silvio Ranise (LORIA & INRIA-Lorraine, France) [Co-chair] * Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) [Co-chair] * Alessandro Armando (University of Genova, Italy) * Clark Barrett (New York University, USA) * Sergey Berezin (Stanford University, USA) * Alessandro Cimatti (IRST-ITC, Italy) * Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA) * Predrag Janicic (University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia) * Greg Nelson (HP SRC Classic, USA) * Christophe Ringeissen (LORIA & INRIA-Lorraine, France) * Harald Ruess (SRI, USA) * Roberto Sebastiani (University of Trento, Italy) * Ofer Strichman (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) * Aaron Stump (Washington University, USA) * Ashish Tiwari (SRI, USA) ---------------- More Information ---------------- See http://www.loria.fr/~ranise/pdpar03/ for PDPAR'03, and http://www.cade-19.info/ for CADE-19. From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Thu Apr 17 16:08:35 2003 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 16:08:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] KRDB 2003 Call for Papers Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive this more than once. You're receiving this message since you are a subscriber of a relevant mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 10th International Workshop on KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES (KRDB-2003) http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/KRDB-2003/ Hamburg (Germany), September 15-18, 2003 With a focus on: Knowledge Representation and Databases for the Semantic Web In conjunction with: KI 2003 (26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence) -------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Call for papers The 10th International KRDB Workshop continues the tradition of annual international workshops devoted to facilitate cross-fertilization between the fields of knowledge representation (KR) and databases (DB), started in 1994. KRDB-2003 will be held in Hamburg (Germany), September 2003, as a workshop of the 26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2003), see http://www.ki2003.de/. KRDB is a forum for exchanging ideas between DB and KR researchers. Equally important is the KRDB tradition of stimulating the discussion between researchers and practitioners. As every year, KRDB 2003 focusses on a selected topic. ----------- Topic Databases have always been a very important issue for the World Wide Web, and, conversely, the WWW has stimulated interesting research on databases, for example in the area of semi-structured data. Due to the recent and immense interest in the semantic web initiative, knowledge representation has also gained a considerable amount of attention by the WWW community, and the pollinating impact of this fact on research in knowledge representation is already clearly visible. For these reasons, the focus of KRDB-2003 is on Knowledge Representation and Databases for the World-Wide Web. For the workshop, we thus solicit contributions that address the interplay between knowledge representation and databases, particularly in contexts related to the World-Wide Web. Specific issues we would like to discuss are: * Languages and techniques required to support a semantic web * Construction and maintenance of large ontologies for use in the WWW * Web service modeling and declarative web service retrieval * Context adaption, user models, and adaptive web systems * Query languages for the Web and semi-structured data * Data modeling and typing for XML and semi-structured data We also solicit submissions that concern the relationship of knowledge representation and databases, but do not fall inside this year's selected topic. ----------- Program Committee * Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, New Jersey) * Stefan Conrad (University of Duesseldorf, Germany) * Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) * Nicola Henze (University of Hannover, Germany) * Bertin Klein (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany) * Ralf Kuesters (University of Kiel, Germany) * Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen, Germany) * Massimo Marchiori (University of Venice, Italy) * David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany) ----------- Organizing Committee Francois Bry (University of Munich, Germany) Francois.Bry at informatik.uni-muenchen.de Carsten Lutz (TU Dresden, Germany) lutz at lat.inf.tu-dresden.de Ulrike Sattler (TU Dresden, Germany) sattler at lat.inf.tu-dresden.de Mareike Schoop (RWTH Aachen and University of Muenster, Germany) schoop at informatik.rwth-aachen.de ----------- Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline June 23, 2003 Acceptance Notification July 18, 2003 Final Version Due August 15, 2003 The Workshop September 15-18, 2003 (one day only) ----------- Proceedings The workshop proceedings will be electronically published in the CEUR series of workshop proceedings at http://www.CEUR-WS.org/ At the workshop, a hard copy of the proceedings will be handed out to the participants. ----------- Information for authors Your submission should be no longer than 12 pages formatted according to the example LaTeX file available at http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/KRDB-2003/ Please avoid headers, footers, and page numbering. Submissions should be sent by June 23, 2003 as self-contained standard Postscript attachments to: lutz at lat.inf.tu-dresden.de ----------- Registration Information Participants of KRDB-2003 have to register for the main KI-2003 conference. Please see KI-2003's webpage for more information: http://www.ki2003.de/ From zaiqingn at hotmail.com Fri Apr 18 08:20:54 2003 From: zaiqingn at hotmail.com (ZAIQING NIE) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 06:20:54 +0000 Subject: [DL] Announcing BibFinder: a bibliography search engine for your use Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ------------------------------------------------------ Dear all, You can now use the BibFinder tool to get information on all sorts of information about CS papers. check out http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/bibfinder BibFinder is a free computer science bibliography search engine. It integrates CSB, DBLP, ACM Digital Library, Network Bibliography, ScienceDirect, CiteSeer, and Google. These sources are partially overlapping both in tuples and attributes. For example, some sources may have bibtex for a paper, some may have pdf file for the paper, some may have abstract. By combining them, present a unified andmore complete view to the user. More detailed information about BibFinder is available at http://kilimanjaro.eas.asu.edu/about.html If you want to put a link on your homepage to get a collated list of your publications, you can do so with the following link: http://kilimanjaro.eas.asu.edu/servlets/Search?author=your_firstname+your_lastname (or any other query which can identify your publications). Best, Nie --------------- Zaiqing Nie CSE, ASU _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus From horrocks at cs.man.ac.uk Sun Apr 20 22:46:37 2003 From: horrocks at cs.man.ac.uk (Ian Horrocks) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 21:46:37 +0100 Subject: [DL] Posts in Ontologies and KR Tools Message-ID: <16035.1837.196070.640609@merlin.horrocks.net> THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE POSTDOCTORAL OR GRADUATE POSTS IN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION & ONTOLOGIES FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB (Ref. no. 336/03) One postdoctoral researcher and two graduate or postdoctoral researchers are required in Manchester to join an international research team working on tools and technologies for use in the Semantic Web and E-Science Programme. The CO-ODE project, an international collaboration between Stanford's PROT?G? team and Manchester and Southampton Universities' OWL and CommonKADS ontology development teams, aims to harmonise two Knowledge Representation paradigms: frames and description logics. HyOntUse, a separate project, will build on CO-ODE's harmonised platform to produce a robust end-user ontology authoring environment that will be a key part of the UK and international Semantic Web infrastructure, particularly for biomedicine. CO-ODE: we are looking for two graduate or postdoctoral candidates with experience of all stages of software development, from requirements analysis through specification, build, test and document. You should be a fast learner, as comfortable working with poorly specified problems as with those that are very well understood but highly complex. HyOntUse: one postdoctoral candidate, or a graduate with suitable experience in lieu of a PhD, is required. You should be capable of innovative research in a new area and of carrying it through to practical software. All applicants should have strong skills in software engineering and Java programming with a background which includes knowledge representation, object oriented design, and/or HCI and tool development. Working familiarity with web technologies (XML, XSLT, XML Schema, RDF, etc.) is highly desirable. The ability to work in a team and be sensitive to the controversies that inevitably arise in collaborations is essential. Knowledge of the biomedical domain would be an advantage but is not required. For further information please see http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/ All posts are tenable immediately. The CO-ODE posts are for two years in the first instance, the HyOntUse post for three years. Starting salary in the range: ?25451 to ?30660 per annum. Additional PhD studentships are available in related areas. See http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/ for details. Informal enquiries may be made to Dr. Jeremy Rogers or Prof. Alan Rector, Medical Informatics Group, Department of Computer Science, Kilburn Building, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 275 6133/6239/6188; fax: +44 (0)161 275 6204; email: arector at cs.man.ac.uk or jrogers at cs.man.ac.uk or Karon Mee tel +44 (0)161 275 6248; email: kmee at cs.man.ac.uk Application forms and further particulars are available at http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies or from the Office of the Director of Personnel, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 275 2028; fax: +44 (0)161 275 2471; Minicom (for the hearing impaired): +44 (0)161 275 7889; e-mail: personnel at man.ac.uk. Please quote ref: 336/03. Closing date for applications: 9 May 2003 (Interviews will probably be held during the week beginning 26 May 2003) AS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER THE UNIVERSITY WELCOMES APPLICATIONS FROM SUITABLY QUALIFIED PEOPLE FROM ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDER OR DISABILITY. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From clynch at clarkson.edu Mon Apr 21 07:42:12 2003 From: clynch at clarkson.edu (Christopher Lynch) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 01:42:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] Re: CADE student travel award (fwd) Message-ID: CADE-19 Woody Bledsoe and CologNET Student Travel Award The Woody Bledsoe Student Travel Award was created to honor the memory of Woody Bledsoe, for his contributions to mathematics, artificial intelligence, and automated theorem proving, and for his dedication to students. It is funded by CADE Inc. and intended to enable selected students to attend the International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE) by covering some of their expenses. The CoLogNET Student Travel Award is funded by the European Union Network of Excellence in Computational Logic, and is intended to enable selected students from Europe to attend CADE-19. CADE-19 will take place from July 28 to August 2, 2003 in Miami, Florida, USA (for further information see http://www.CADE-19.info/). The winners will be reimbursed (to a maximum of Euro 500 for the CoLogNET award and $500 for Woody Bledsoe award) for their conference registration, transportation, and accomodation expenses. Preference will be given to students who will play an active role in the conference, including the attached workshops and who do not have alternative funding covering all their expenses. Students who have just begun their research in automated deduction or are considering the field, are also encouraged to apply. A nomination consists of a recommendation letter of up to 300 words from the student's supervisor. Nominations for CADE-19 should be sent by e-mail to the CADE-19 PC Chair (baader at inf.tu-dresden.de). The award committee consists of Franz Baader, CADE-19 Program Chair Geoff Sutcliffe, CADE-19 Conference Chair Ulrich Furbach, CADE President Neil V. Murray, CADE Treasurer Nominations must arrive no later than Mai 13, 2003, and the winners will be notified by May 20, 2003 (the CADE-19 early registration deadline is May 23, 2003). From clynch at clarkson.edu Mon Apr 21 07:51:23 2003 From: clynch at clarkson.edu (Christopher Lynch) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 01:51:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] Accepted papers to CADE-19 Message-ID: Accepted Papers to CADE-19 in Miami July 28 - August 2 http://www.cade-19.info/ Stay tuned for registration information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research Papers Unification modulo ACUI plus Homomorphisms/Distributivity Siva Anantharaman, Paliath Narendran, Michael Rusinowitch Superposition with Equivalence Reasoning and Delayed Clause Normal Form Transformation Harald Ganzinger, J|rgen Stuber A Principle for Incorporating Axioms into the First-Order Translation of Modal Formulae Renate A. Schmidt, Ullrich Hustadt Matching in a Class of Combined Non-Disjoint Theories Christophe Ringeissen Reasoning about iteration in Goedel's class theory Johan G. F. Belinfante Optimizing a BDD-based Modal Solver Guoqiang Pan, Moshe Y. Vardi Efficient instance retrieval with standard and relational path indexing Alexandre Riazanov, Andrei Voronkov AC-compatible Knuth-Bendix Orderings Konstantin Korovin, Andrei Voronkov Canonization for disjoint unions of theories Sava Krstic, Sylvain Conchon Optimizing higher-order pattern unification Brigitte Pientka, Frank Pfenning Automating the Dependency Pair Method Nao Hirokawa, Aart Middeldorp Proving Pointer Programs in Higher-Order Logic Farhad Mehta, Tobias Nipkow The Complexity of Finite Model Reasoning in Description Logics Carsten Lutz, Ulrike Sattler, Lidia Tendera Deciding Inductive Validity of Equations J|rgen Giesl, Deepak Kapur Extraction of Short Natural Deduction Proofs from Resolution without Using Choice Axioms Hans de Nivelle Certifying solutions to permutation group problems Arjeh Cohen, Scott Murray, Martin Pollet, Volker Sorge Monodic Temporal Resolution Anatoly Degtyarev, Michael Fisher, Boris Konev A Translation of Alternating Automata to Description Logics Jan Hladik, Ulrike Sattler Decidability of Arity-Bounded Higher-Order Matching Manfred Schmidt-Schau_ A Metalogical Approach to Foundational Certified Code Karl Crary, Susmit Sarkar Equational Abstractions Jose Meseguer, Miguel Palomino, Narciso Marti-Oliet Adbmal Dimitri Hendriks, Vincent van Oostrom Algorithms for Ordinal Arithmetic Panagiotis Manolios, Daron Vroon The Model Evolution Calculus Peter Baumgartner, Cesare Tinelli Superposition modulo a Shostak Theory Harald Ganzinger, Thomas Hillenbrand, Uwe Waldmann Source-tracking Unification Venkatesh Choppella, Christopher T. Haynes A Randomized Satisfiability Procedure for Arithmetic and Uninterpreted Function Symbols Sumit Gulwani, George C. Necula Subset types and partial functions Aaron Stump Saturation Decision Procedures Christopher Lynch System Descriptions The HOMER System Simon Colton, Sophie Huczynska How to prove inductive theorems? Quodlibet! J|rgen Avenhaus, Ulrich Kuehler, Tobias Schmidt-Samoa, Claus-Peter Wirth TRP 2.0: A temporal resolution prover Ullrich Hustadt, Boris Konev IsaPlanner: A Prototype Proof Planner in Isabelle Lucas Dixon, Jacques Fleuriot `Living Book` :- `Deduction`, `Slicing`, `Interaction`. Peter Baumgartner, Ulrich Furbach, Margret Gross-Hardt, Alex Sinner About VeriFun Christoph Walther, Stephan Schweitzer The New Waldmeister Loop at Work Jean-Marie Gaillourdet, Thomas Hillenbrand, Bernd Lvchner, Hendrik Spies From lmp at di.fct.unl.pt Mon Apr 21 10:39:52 2003 From: lmp at di.fct.unl.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs_Moniz_Pereira?=) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:39:52 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: III CMSRA Message-ID: <005a01c307e1$ae3b1710$f6d016d5@MENS> Please distribute among your colleagues: ------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SCIENTIFIC REASONING AND APPLICATIONS (III CMSRA) Argentine National Library, Buenos Aires September 14-15, 2003 Draft Papers due by May 30, 2003. A special issue of the Journal of Applied Logic (edited by Dov Gabbay) will be devoted to the best original papers presented in the workshop. (please see also www.lip.uns.edu.ar/cmsra) Purpose ------- The purpose of this workshop is to bring together practitioners in the several fields involved in the computational models of scientific reasoning (Logic, KR&R, Cognitive Sciences, Epistemology and Theory of Science, among others) in order to exchange the results of their ongoing research, share their experiences and speculate about their impact on the new information technologies. Scope ----- The scope of the workshop includes (but is not limited to) the following areas: 1. Inference Procedures Ampliative Inference Argumentative and Defeasible Reasoning Analogy, Induction and Abduction Paraconsistent Logics Plausible and Hypothetical Reasoning Causal and Explanatory Reasoning Hypothesis Formation, Learning and Discovery Coherence, Explanation and Acceptance Procedural Rationality Distributed Scientific Inference 2. Philosophical Aspects of the Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning Computational Epistemology and Theory of Science Cognitive Theory Formation Acceptance and Decision Making Reasoning as opposed to Logic Concept Formation and Conceptual Change Design in Scientific Method The Growth of Knowledge 3. Social Metaphors Science as Distributed Computing Models of Science Distributed over Large Networks (grids, semantic webs) Internet Epistemology Self-Organizing Agents Team Theory Rules of Negotiation Social Choice Sociology of Knowledge Evolutionary Epistemology 4. Applications New Information Technologies Computational Theories in the Sciences Intelligent Data Mining Agent-Based Scientific Discovery Modelling Agreement Intelligent Protocols for E-Commerce Program Committee ----------------- Diderik Batens Wijsbegeerte Universiteit Gent - Belgium Diderik.Batens at rug.ac.be Jean-Yves B?ziau Institut de Logique Universit? de Neuch?tel - Switzerland Jean-Yves.Beziau at unine.ch Ot?vio Bueno Department of Philosophy University of South Carolina - USA obueno at sc.edu Walter Carnielli Centre for Logic and Epistemology State University of Campinas - Brasil carniell at cle.unicamp.br Marcelo Coniglio Centre for Logic and Epistemology State University of Campinas - Brasil coniglio at cle.unicamp.br Claudio Delrieux Universidad Nacional del Sur - Argentina claudio at acm.org Steven French School of Philosophy University of Leeds - UK s.r.d.french at leeds.ac.uk Lorenzo Magnani Department of Philosophy & Computational Philosophy Laboratory University of Pavia - ITALY, and Program in Philosophy, Science, and Technology Georgia Institute of Technology - USA lmagnani at cc.gatech.edu David Pearce Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid - Spain d.pearce at escet.urjc.es Luis Moniz Pereira Centro de Intelig?ncia Artificial - CENTRIA Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Portugal lmp at di.fct.unl.pt Submission Information ---------------------- Submissions should arrive by May 30. Electronic submissions (LaTeX, Acrobat pdf or poscript) are preferred. Send a 5 page draft paper to: Claudio Delrieux Universidad Nacional del Sur - ARGENTINA p. o. box 127 - (8000) Bahia Blanca - Argentina claudio at acm.org Tel: 54 - 291 - 4595101 ext. 3381 Fax: 54 - 291 - 4595154 Important Dates --------------- May 30: Draft papers (about 5 pages) due June 30: Notification of acceptance July 30: Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stefan at isi.edu Mon Apr 14 21:18:02 2003 From: stefan at isi.edu (Stefan Decker) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:18:02 -0700 Subject: [DL] CFP: Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases (colocated with VLDB 2003) Message-ID: <5.1.1.5.2.20030414121508.03a35068@nitro.isi.edu> : *******CALL FOR PAPERS******* Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases colocated with VLDB 2003 Berlin, Germany September 7-8, 2003 Workshop URL: http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/SWDB/ Topics and Content ----------------------------------- The Semantic Web is a key initiative being promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as the next generation of the current web. Machine-understandable metadata is emerging as a new foundation for component-based approaches to application development. Within the context of reusable distributed components, Web services represent the latest architectural advancement. Such concepts can be synthesized providing powerful new mechanisms for quickly modeling, creating and deploying complex applications that readily adapt to real world need. The objective of this workshop is to present database and information system research as they relate to the Semantic Web and more broadly, to gain insight into the Semantic Web technology as it relates to databases and information systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Infrastructure: component models (e.g., J2EE, .NET); distributed object-based architectures; scalability, extensibility and robustness of applications; algebras for modeling and ontology management; creation, maintenance and versioning of annotations, metadata and mappings; tools (including visual tools) for creating components (e.g., ontologies, mappings, views, etc.); workflow systems, web services and quality of service contracts; support for negotiation and trust; security; Peer-to-Peer systems. Semantics: conceptual clustering and statistical approaches; social networks and consensus analysis approaches; information analysis accuracy (e.g., precision, recall, false positives); ontologies, conceptual models, taxonomies; semantic interoperability and integration; semantic composition of web services; view definition and transformations (e.g., global/local as view); query algebras for combined data and metadata queries; semantics-based query relaxation techniques, loss of information; logic based (centralized and distributed) inferences; intensional query answering; emergent semantics. Applications: Semantic Web applications (prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on XML, RDF, and various variants; web services based applications (prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on WSDL, SOAP, UDDI, ebXML and other related standards; natural language processing; Semantics-based integration of data/applications within enterprises; geographical information systems; bio-informatics; business aspects for Semantic Web applications (e.g., return of investment, sustainable business models). Joint Sessions ----------------------------------- We are aiming at organizing a joint session with the International Workshop On Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (http://www.intelligence.tuc.gr/dbisp2p/) about "Semantics in P2P Systems". Submission and Important Dates ----------------------------------- We invite the submission of short (up to six pages) and long papers (up to twenty pages) on: *research, focusing on foundational or technological aspects *experience, describing industrial aspects *position, discussing a wide variety of issues The submitted papers should be formatted as close as possible to the rules of Springer LNCS (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, section "Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes" for formatting instructions). Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to Isabel Cruz (ifc at cs.uic.edu) and Stefan Decker (stefan at isi.edu). Submission Deadline: May 15, 2003. Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2003. Camera Ready Papers Due: August 13, 2003. Workshop: September 7-8, 2003. Workshop Chairs ----------------------------------- Program Committee Chairs Isabel Cruz University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ifc at cs.uic.edu Vipul Kashyap National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA kashyap at nlm.nih.gov Proceedings and Publicity Chair Stefan Decker USC Information Sciences Institute, USA stefan at isi.edu Organization Chair Rainer Eckstein Humboldt University, Germany Rainer. Eckstein at informatik.hu-berlin.de Program Committee ----------------------------------- *Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland *Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic I., USA *Paolo Atzeni, U. Rome Tre, Italy *Olivier Bodenreider, NLM, NIH, USA *Alex Borgida, Rutgers U., USA *St?phane Bressan, National U. of Singapore *Christoph Bussler, Oracle, USA *Isabel Cruz, U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA *Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA *Stefan Decker, USC-ISI, USA *Max Egenhofer, U. Maine, USA *Rainer Eckstein, Humboldt U., Germany *Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria *Mary Fernandez, AT&T Labs - Research, USA *Susan Gauch, U. Kansas, USA *Carole Goble, U. Manchester, UK *Rick Hull, Lucent Technology, USA *Vipul Kashyap, NLM-NIH, USA *Maurizio Lenzerini, U. Rome "La Sapienza", Italy *Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA *Robert Meersman, Vrije U., Belgium *John Mylopoulos, U. Toronto, Canada *Aris Ouksel, U. Illinois at Chicago, USA *Dimitris Plexousakis, U. Crete, Greece *Steve Ray, NIST, USA *Amit Sheth, U. Georgia and Semagix, USA *Surya Sripada, Boeing, USA *Munindar Singh, N. Carolina U., USA *V.S. Subrahmanian, U. Maryland, USA *Rudi Studer, U. Karlsruhe, Germany *Ram Sriram, NIST, USA *Clement Yu, U. Illinois at Chicago, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From louis-c at ifrance.com Wed Apr 23 00:40:43 2003 From: louis-c at ifrance.com (Louis.Chevallier) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:40:43 +0200 Subject: [DL] dl systems with concrete domain Message-ID: <001301c30920$39691fa0$baad273e@oemcomputer> Sorry for the naive question, but it is buzzing me for so long time: Is there any real DL systems currently available that implement concrete domain together with reasonnably expressive logics and that allow "attribute chains". I am thinking about seemingly simple need like the need of stating that any father is older than his son(s) A statement that would involve a hasAge real attribute. Racer does propose real attribute but it seems that some mysterious difficulties prevent me from entering such constraints Any clue? Thanks louis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Thu Apr 24 10:09:33 2003 From: sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (York Sure) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:09:33 +0200 Subject: [DL] CfP: Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2003) Message-ID: <3EA7B7DD.23697.446D6A@localhost> --------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive this message more than once. --------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2003) http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003 Workshop at the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003) 20 October 2003 Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- *** OBJECTIVES *** In the Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools workshop we intend to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fastly developing research areas Ontologies and Semantic Web. Currently the semantic web attracts researchers from all around the world. Numerous tools and applications of semantic web technologies are already available and the number is growing fast. However, deploying large scale ontology solutions typically involves several separate tasks and requires applying multiple tools. Therefore pragmatic issues such as interoperability are key if industry is to be encouraged to take up ontology technology rapidly. The main aim of this workshop is therefore to encourage and stimulate discussions about the evaluation of ontology-based tools. The large visibility of the semantic web, it?s tools and applications already attract industrial partners . In particular, as tools move from academic institutions into commercial environments they have to fulfil stronger requirements and in some cases new requirements (e.g. concerning scalability and multi-user access). Different tools from different sources need to interoperate. Typically tools are not anymore standalone solutions but integrated into a framework. This framework must be open to other commercialapplications and provide connectors and interfaces to industrial standards. Larger applications need also larger ontologies and therefore require substantially more performance and scalability. A systematic evaluation of the tools might lead to a consistent level of quality and thus acceptance by industry. For the future this might lead into certification efforts for such tools. *** TOPICS OF INTEREST *** Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Interoperability of tools (e.g. turnaround abilities) - Integration of tools into frameworks - Performance benchmarks - Scalability of tools - Certification of tools Tools include e.g.: - Annotation tools - Inference engines - Ontology editors and browsers - Ontology servers - Ontology mapping tools - Repositories - Retrieval tools - Semantic search engines *** PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS *** The first workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2002) was celebrated in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2002), in September 30th, 2002. EON2002: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/eon2002 *** SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS *** We invite three types of submissions for this workshop: - Technical papers (10 pages) in any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not limited to them) - Short position papers (2 pages) in any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not limited to them) - Experiment papers (10 pages) describing the results of the experiment proposed. The experiment description can be found in the following URL: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003/experiment.pdf If you are interested in participating in the experiment we encourage you to send us an expression of interest until the 15th. More details on the workshop submissions can be found at the workshop website: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Experiment expression of interest: May 15th, 2003 Deadline paper submissions: July 14th, 2003 Notification of acceptance: August 25th, 2003 Camera ready deadline: September 22nd, 2003 Workshop: October 20th, 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- *** WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *** York Sure (Contact Person) Institute AIFB University of Karlsruhe sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Oscar Corcho Ontology Group Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid ocorcho at fi.upm.es J?rgen Angele Ontoprise GmbH angele at ontoprise.de *** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE *** Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant, Inc. (US) Bill Anderson, Ontology Works, Inc. (US) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Universit? P. Sabatier (FR) Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester (UK) Richard Benjamins, iSOCO (ES) John Davies, BT (UK) Carole Goble, University of Manchester (UK) Asunci?n G?mez-P?rez, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (ES) Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University (US) Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText Lab / Sirma AI, Ltd. (BG) Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University (JP) Natasha F. Noy, Stanford University (US) Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics (US) Henrik Oppermann, Ontoprise (DE) Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University (US) Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Mike Uschold, Boeing (US) -- York Sure eMail: sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu Institute AIFB University of Karlsruhe (TH) D-76128 Karlsruhe (Germany) From R.Cornet at amc.uva.nl Thu Apr 24 17:23:27 2003 From: R.Cornet at amc.uva.nl (Ronald Cornet) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:23:27 +0200 Subject: [DL] dl systems with concrete domain In-Reply-To: <001301c30920$39691fa0$baad273e@oemcomputer> Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20030424171939.028dca98@webmail.amc.nl> Louis, Good to have "naive" questions on this list. Not that I'm sure about the answer, though. My guess is that this involves second order logic. Your rule (father is older than son) is comparable to : a jealous-man has less cars than its neighbor. This also cannot be expressed in DL, being limited to FOL (with some extension eventually). Hope this helps, and more, I hope to be correct ;-) Ronald At 00:40 23-04-03 +0200, Louis.Chevallier wrote: >Sorry for the naive question, but it is buzzing me for so long time: > >Is there any real DL systems currently available that implement concrete >domain together with reasonnably expressive logics and that allow >"attribute chains". > >I am thinking about seemingly simple need like the need of stating that >any father is older than his son(s) A statement that would involve a >hasAge real attribute. > >Racer does propose real attribute but it seems that some mysterious >difficulties prevent me from entering such constraints > >Any clue? > >Thanks > >louis ###################################################################### Ronald Cornet, M.Sc. email: R.Cornet at amc.uva.nl dept. of Medical Informatics phone: +31 (0)20 566 5188 Academic Medical Center, Room J2-256 fax: +31 (0)20 691 9840 P.O.Box 22700 1100 DE Amsterdam The Netherlands 'The truth is out there' From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Thu Apr 24 17:24:06 2003 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:24:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] dl systems with concrete domain In-Reply-To: <001301c30920$39691fa0$baad273e@oemcomputer> Message-ID: On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Louis.Chevallier wrote: > > Sorry for the naive question, but it is buzzing me for so long time: > > Is there any real DL systems currently available that implement > concrete domain together with reasonnably expressive logics and that > allow "attribute chains". No. I believe that there is no DL reasoner at all that supports concrete domains with attribute chains (except perhaps for some experimental systems that have been abandoned long ago). > I am thinking about seemingly simple need like the need of stating > that any father is older than his son(s) A statement that would > involve a hasAge real attribute. Yes, and attribute chains do not even suffice since I suppose that "son" is not functional (and hence not an attribute). So you would need a sequence "R g" with R role and g (concrete) attribute. > Racer does propose real attribute but it seems that some mysterious > difficulties prevent me from entering such constraints > > Any clue? Racer does not support (attribute or role) chains with concrete domains. It is thus not suprising that you have problems with the above example. You would need a logic such as the one described in Carsten Lutz, Adding Numbers to the SHIQ Description Logic-First Results. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2002). Morgan Kaufman, 2002. This logic allows to model your above example in a straightforward way. But you want an implementation and the logic described in the above paper has not (yet?) been implemented. The main hindrance is that all known decidability proofs for this logic are automata-based whereas modern DL systems are tableau-based. I have some plans to try to find a tableau algorithm for this logic in the near future, and perhaps some of the system developers would like to take it up and extend their systems accordingly (Volker from RACER indicated interest in this). But that's dreams of the future... greetings, Carsten -- * Carsten Lutz, Institut f"ur Theoretische Informatik, TU Dresden * * Office phone:++49 351 46339171 mailto:lutz at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de * From chris.bussler at oracle.com Fri Apr 25 17:16:00 2003 From: chris.bussler at oracle.com (Christoph Bussler) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:16:00 -0700 Subject: [DL] ISWC 2003 Industrial Track - DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: <3EA95130.2EF0DED0@oracle.com> Dear colleague, the deadline for the below call for ISWC 2003 industrial contributions has been extended to May 31st, 2003. Looking forward to your submission and best regards, Christoph Bussler ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) Sanibel Island, Florida, USA 20-23 October 2003 http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org CALL FOR INDUSTRY PAPERS The vision of the Semantic Web is to make web data machine processable, and rests on the premise that to do so we need to accommodate, somehow, the semantics of these data. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision. Among those are languages for semantic annotation of Web documents, ontologies, technologies and methodologies for building multi-agent systems, semantic interoperation of programs that have been developed totally independently, technologies and methodologies for describing, searching and composing Web Services, and more. ISWC2003 welcomes the submission of original industrial papers dealing with all aspects of the Semantic Web, particularly those relating to the subject areas indicated by the topics below. We encourage papers relating to industrial efforts and experiences with Semantic Web projects. These papers will be presented in the Industrial Track. The industrial track of the conference encourages submissions covering innovative commercial implementations of semantic web technology, novel applications of semantic web technology, and experience in applying research advances to practical situations. Such papers should describe innovative implementations, new approaches to fundamental challenges (such as large scale ontologies or semantic complexity), or other major technical improvements to the state-of-the-practice. Industrial / application / experience submissions may be either full papers whose technical density is comparable to research submissions or extended abstracts. Discouraged are papers or abstracts that are marketing oriented or are pure product descriptions or specifications. The goal of the industrial track is to demonstrate the application of research results in software products as well as state real world requirements from practical applications that might encourage further research into specific domains of semantic web technology. Conference Topics Of Interest and Area Keywords Suggested topics include: * Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotations of Web Data * Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation) * Large Scale Knowledge Management * Data Semantics * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web * Knowledge Portals * Tools and Methodologies for Multi-Agent Software Systems * Semantic Brokering * Semantic Interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Web Services (service description, discovery, invocation, composition) * Semantic Web Inference Schemes * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic Web for e-Business and e-Learning * Searching and Querying * User Interfaces * Visualization and modelling INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant, USA) Bill Andersen (OntologyWorks, USA) J?rgen Angele (Ontoprise, Germany) John Davies (British Telecom, UK) Alain Leger (France Telecom, France) Andreas Persidis (Biovista, Greece) Satish Thatte (Microsoft, USA) David Trastour (Hewlett-Packard, UK) Michael Uschold (The Boeing Company, USA) Arian Zwegers (Baan, Netherlands) Important Dates NEW NEW: May 31, 2003 Paper submission NEW June 15, 2003 Acceptance Notification July 15, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers due Please note that the deadline for paper submission is strict: no extensions will be allowed. Submission Details * Paper submission and reviewing for ISWC2003 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org * The only formats allowed for submission are PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format). These are widely supported and well-known standards: papers will not be accepted in any other format (e.g., MS Word) because of compatibility problems between software versions, machines, and nationalities. See the conference WWW site for information about how to convert other formats (e.g., MS Word) to PDF/PostScript. * Note that the electronic submission site is likely to be very busy around the paper submission deadline. You are strongly urged to submit your abstract and your paper as far in advance of the deadline as possible. * Submitted papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. * Papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including figures and references, when formatted using the style files provided. Overlength papers will be rejected. * ISWC2003 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. * PLEASE monitor http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org for further submission details or changes. About the Conference Venue The conference will be held at the Sundial Resort on Sanibel Island: http://www.sundialresort.com/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF ISWC2003 General Chair: Dieter Fensel (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Program Chair: Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Program Co-Chair: John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada) Tutorial Chair: Asun Gomez-Perez (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) Workshops Chairs: Sheila McIlraith (Stanford University, USA) and Dimitris Plexousakis (University of Crete, Greece) Industrial Track Chair: Christoph Bussler (Oracle, USA) Poster Chair: Raphael Malyankar (Arizona State University, USA) Finance Chair: Jerome Euzenat (INRIA, Rhone-Alpes, France) Publicity Chair: Mike Dean (BBN, USA) Local Arrangements Chair: Jeff Bradshaw (University of West Florida, USA) Sponsor Chairs: Ying Ding (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Massimo Paolucci (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Demonstration Chair: Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA) Registration Chair: Atanas Kiryakov (Sirma AI, Ltd, Bulgaria) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Bussler Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA http://members.aol.com/chbussler -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From chris.bussler at oracle.com Fri Apr 25 18:52:26 2003 From: chris.bussler at oracle.com (Christoph Bussler) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:52:26 -0700 Subject: [DL] Special Issue of the International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC) Message-ID: <3EA967CA.F04D4B7E@oracle.com> Semantic Web Services and Their Role in Enterprise Application Integration and E-Commerce Special Issue of the International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC) (http://www.gvsu.edu/ssb/ijec/) Editors Christoph Bussler, Oracle Corporation Dieter Fensel, Leopold Franzens Universit?t Innsbruck Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University Introduction This special issue of the International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC) focuses on the proposed intersection of three domains that have very recently started drawing enormous attention throughout academia and industry and is of utmost importance as well as relevance for computer science and the business world: - Web Service Technology (manifested through SOAP, WSDL and UDDI) - Semantic Web Technology (manifested through ontology languages) and - Enterprise Integration (manifested through Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and E-Commerce in form of Business-to-Business (B2B) Integration as well as Business-to-Consumer (B2C)). The promise is that Web Service Technology in conjunction with Semantic Web Technology ('Semantic Web Services') will make Enterprise Integration dynamically possible for all types and sizes of enterprises compared to the 'traditional' technologies, such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or Value Added Networks (VANs). In addition, Enterprise Integration will become more reliable as well as easier to achieve without the low-level implementation problems that can be observed in today's approaches. Because these strong promises are made a series of questions arises: to what extent are these different technologies already integrated today? How does the combination of those technologies look like? How does this combination make the Enterprise Integration problem easier to solve and the solution more reliable? 'Traditional' technologies exist (in some cases for over 30 years) and significant progress has been made over time due to the lessons learned in the real world and sometimes in large scale deployments. Today, the major problems of Enterprise Integration in EAI and E-Commerce are: - Semantic Unification. Data exchanged between application systems or trading partners (endpoints) are defined based on different schemas. When data are exchanged in the form of messages, a data mediation problem arises that requires resolution. A minor and related issue is that different application systems or trading partners use different forms of syntax, too, in addition to different schemas for messages. Even if endpoints describe their data in the form of ontologies, the semantic unification problem remains to be solved. - Message Behavior. Different endpoints expect specific messages in a specific order and with specific sequencing. Communicating endpoints have to guarantee and to enforce the exchange behavior as agreed to establish interoperability. - Endpoint Discovery. The manual establishing of trading relationships is considered error prone, slow and inflexible. Discovery mechanisms are put in place (for example in the form of UDDI) that promise to make the automatic discovery process easier and more reliable. - Message Security and Trust Relationships. Communicating endpoints require assurance of message confidentiality and non-repudiation. Various security schemes are being developed that attempt to address these requirements. Furthermore, endpoints need to establish sufficient trust to engage in a trading relationship. - Process Management. Supply-chain processes are very complex and highly dynamic. Attempts have been made to enable dynamic supply-chain reconfiguration with agent technology and dynamic workflow technology. A large body of work exists that has not yet found its way into industry and real applications. - Integration Standards. A mind-boggling number of standards exists in the area of Enterprise Integration. All of these have to be dealt with to some extent by the various enterprises. - Legacy Application Connectivity. Most data that are communicated are managed by existing application systems that are not necessarily designed to be integrated. Adapter technology exists that allows to connect easily to application systems. Traditional technologies are able to address all these major problems today. They can implement Enterprise Integration predictably and reliably. However, new technologies like Web Services Technology in combination with Semantic Web Technology have (or have not?) the potential to address these requirements much better. The special issue on 'Semantic Web Services and their Role in Enterprise Application Integration and E-Commerce' seeks contributions that address the Enterprise Integration problems with the new technologies. Articles are sought that address specifically the intersection of Web Service Technology, Semantic Web Technology and Enterprise Integration. It is the goal to show the relevance and applicability of the new integration technologies in that they provide a 'better' solution to well-understood problems in the EAI and E-Commerce space. Contributions are encouraged to make a very good and well-founded case for the new technologies based on rigorous and solid arguments. However, contributions that are critical in nature based on a solid argumentation and also state the deficiencies that have to be overcome are equally welcome. Articles that 're-wrap' or 're-sell' existing work or achieved results with the new technologies are not considered relevant for the special issue. Abstract articles that provide conceptual models or architectures without clearly proving their applicability to real-world problems and in real-world situations are not the focus of the special issue, either. Articles that focus only on a small subset of the problems or requirements of Enterprise Integration are not sought; these are typically targeted toward scientific conferences. Timeline - Submission date: May 31st, 2003 - Acceptance notification: September 30th, 2003 Submission Instructions - Please submit articles for this special issue following the formatting instructions below on or before the submission date to Christoph Bussler at ChBussler at aol.com (and not to the IJEC Editor-in-chief Vladimir Zwass as the IJEC web site requires). - The formatting instructions for submissions can be found at the IJEC web site http://www.gvsu.edu/ssb/ijec/ following the link "Submissions". -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Bussler Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA http://members.aol.com/chbussler -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Further details are available here: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/ki2003 Deadline for submission of 3-page abstracts: June 15, 2003 Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2003 Deadline for camera-ready (up to 10 pages) papers: August 1, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Background ---------- Two schools of thought are gradually beginning to crystallize in the domain of information systems ontology. On the one hand is the school which focuses primarily on the representational adequacy of an underlying ontological theory, leaving for others the task of transforming this theory into working applications. On the other hand is the (much larger) school which focuses primarily on the construction of ontologies as working applications at the expense of representational adequacy, and which is associated with current developments under the heading of the Semantic Web. The goal of the workshop is to bring together representatives of these two schools of thought for a structured debate, which is designed as a contribution to the clarification of the foundations of information systems ontology in the future. The terms ?reference ontology? and ?applications ontology? were introduced by Nicola Guarino, who draws the basic distinction as follows: ??... what kinds of ontologies do we need? This is still an open issue. Some people believe that very general ontologies involving rich axiomatic characterizations are important, others think they are a waste of time, and prefer to concentrate on lightweight ontologies, focusing on the minimal terminological structure (often just a taxonomy) which fits the needs of a specific community.?? Guarino uses ?reference ontology? (which he now calls ?foundational ontology?) to refer to ontological theories whose focus is to clarify the intended meanings of terms used in specific domains. Smith has proposed a more radical definition within the framework of philosophical realism: a reference ontology is a theory of some independently existing domain of entities which seeks to maximize descriptive or representational adequacy to the maximal degree compatible with the constraints of formal rigour and computational usefulness. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Objective --------- One goal of this workshop would be to prepare the ground for more coherent debate by fixing on one correct usage of terms such as ?reference ontology?, ?foundational ontology, ?application ontology?, ?lightweight ontology? and indeed of ?ontology? itself. Additional goals will be: 1. To clarify the range of current approaches to ontology and to demonstrate their relative merits and demerits. 2. To set forth the basics of the reference ontology approach and of its underlying rationale. To survey the institutions involved in developing reference ontologies. To address the role of realism, and of intended meanings, and intended models, in information systems ontology. 3. To set forth the basics of the application ontology approach and of its relation to the use of the specific machinery of Description Logics. 4. To present reports on case studies of the use of ontology in applications with special reference to domains such as medical informatics and spatial reasoning. The benefits of the reference ontology approach are that it can bring a rich framework for resolving terminological incompatibilities and classificatory underdetermination. The benefits of the applications ontology approach are that it can yield ontologies which run in real time. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Format ------ The workshop will be a half-day event, featuring a maximum of 6 speakers in all and leaving a large amount of time for open discussion. We will seek a balance of speakers from both sides of the reference/applications ontology spectrum. Contributions will be selected on the basis of short (3-page) abstracts, which will be subject to a process of refereeing by the Scientific Committee. Send abstract to the chair of the Scientific Committee: Chris Menzel (cmezel at tamu.edu). The maximal length of final papers is 10 pages. Guideline for formatting camera-ready papers will be announced on the workshop webpage (http://ontology.buffalo.edu/ki2003). The proceedings of the workshop are to be published at CEUR-WS (http://www.CEUR-WS.org). Papers not accepted for presentation during the workshop may be included in the workshop notes to be published in the IFOMIS Technical Report Series. Chris Menzel and Barry Smith will present opening statements. Smith will describe the work of IFOMIS (http://ifomis.de) and will sketch the details of its partnership with Language and Computing (http://www.landc.be) in constructing a reference ontology in the domain of healthcare phenomena which will be tested by evaluating its success in bringing about improvements in efficiency and reliability in the field of medical text processing. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Organizer ------------------ Prof. Barry Smith Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science University of Leipzig H?rtelstra?e 16-18 04107 Leipzig, Germany phismith at buffalo.edu http://ifomis.de Scientific Committee: -------------------- Prof. Christopher Menzel (Chair) Department of Philosophy Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77840-4237, USA cmenzel at tamu.edu http://philebus.tamu.edu/~cmenzel/ Dr Brandon Bennett Division of Artificial Intelligence School of Computing University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom brandon at comp.leeds.ac.uk http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/brandon/ Dr. Thomas Bittner Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science University of Leipzig H?rtelstra?e 16-18 04107 Leipzig, Germany thomas.bittner at ifomis.uni-leipzig.de Dr. Werner CEUSTERS Language & Computing nv Hazenakkerstraat 20a 9520-Zonnegem, Belgium werner at landc.be http://www.landcglobal.com Prof. Dr. Ulrich Frank Institut f?r Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungsinformatik Universit?t Koblenz-Landau Universit?tsstr. 1 56070 Koblenz, Germany ulrich.frank at uni-koblenz.de http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~iwi Nicola Guarino Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council Via Solteri, 38 38100 Trento, Italy Nicola.Guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it http://ontology.ip.rm.cnr.it Prof. Achille C. 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If you have developed a Semantic Web portal or have some information about portals already working, please contact us at: Thank you in advance. ruben.lara at uibk.ac.at sung-kook.han at uibk.ac.at Institut f?r Informatik (IFI) Universit?t Innsbruck Technikerstrasse 13, 6020 Innsbruck Austria Phone: +43 512 507 6489 +43 512 507 6484 Fax: +43 512 507 9872 Next Generation Web research group http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/infweb/ Best regards Rub?n Lara Hern?ndez Institut f?r Informatik (IFI) Universit?t Innsbruck Technikerstrasse 13, 6020 Innsbruck Austria Phone: +43 512 507 6489 Fax: +43 512 507 9872 E-mail: Ruben.Lara at uibk.ac.at http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~c703225/ Next Generation Web research group http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/infweb/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Also, the paper schedule has just appeared on the website From stefan at isi.edu Tue May 6 09:59:59 2003 From: stefan at isi.edu (Stefan Decker) Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 00:59:59 -0700 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation: Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing at WWW2003 Message-ID: <5.1.1.5.2.20030506005740.034c1c08@nitro.isi.edu> *******CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND ACCEPTED PAPERS******* 1st Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing at the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference 20 May 2003, Budapest, Hungary in cooperation with the GGF Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-GRD) Workshop URL: http://www.isi.edu/~stefan/SemPGRID Registration at: http://www.www2003.org/registration.html Topics and Content ----------------------------------- The Semantic Web is widely accepted as a means to enhance the Web with machine processable content. However, mostly the Semantic Web is aiming at techniques and technologies for static information, in contrast to dynamic services or distributed computing. Several interest groups and efforts are working on infrastructure for enabling distributed computing. The organization of these efforts are in part top down organized efforts, involving multiple formal organizations and dedicated projects, and bottom-up efforts, sometimes started by single organizations or individuals in a grassroots effort. The Grid is aiming at technologies which allow the flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources, enabling virtual organizations. Problems encountered include authentication, authorization, resource access, resource discovery, and interoperation of active services. The same problems are eminent in the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) area, where projects are typically organized in a bottom-up fashion. Reusable infrastructures like SUN's JXTA are emerging, attracting numerous applications. However, each application uses its own data format, and it is hard to see how applications interoperate. A related area is Web Services: driven by industry efforts numerous specifications are developed, which are of interest for the Grid projects as well as for the Peer-to-Peer efforts. Although there is an agreement that Web Services would benefit from more semantics, little systematic research has been done on the problem of how to combine the notions of Web Services with the results of the Semantic Web, Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing. The workshop will be organized around talks presenting research results in the intersection of the Semantic Web, P2P and Grid computing and discussions. Accepted Papers and Schedule ----------------------------------- 09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and Workshop Overview 09:15 - 10:00 Invited Talk: Jim Hendler: Titel TBA 10:00 - 10:30 Takeshi Kato, Norihiro Ishikawa, Hiromitsu Sumino, Johan Hjelm, Ye Yu, and Zhongwu Zhu (NTT DoCoMo Inc & Ericsson): A Platform for Peer-to-Peer Communications and its Relation to Semantic Web Applications 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 Session Semantics in P2P System 11:00 - 11:30 Jeen Broekstra, Marc Ehrig, Peter Haase, Frank van Harmelen, Arjohn Kampman, Marta Sabou1, Ronny Siebes, Steffen Staab, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christoph Tempich (Free University of Amsterdam and University of Karlsruhe): A Metadata Model for Semantics-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems 11:30 - 12:00 Jing Zhou, Vijay Dialani, David De Roure, Wendy Hall (University of Southampton): A Semantic Search Algorithm for Peer-to-Peer Open Hypermedia Systems Authors 12:00 - 12:30 A. Castano, S. Ferrara, S. Montanelli, E. Pagani, G.P. Rossi (University of Milan): Ontology-Addressable Contents in P2P Networks 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 Session Semantics in Grids 14:00 - 14:30 Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, Stefan Decker, Carl Kesselman (University of Southern California): Ontology-based Resource Matching - The Grid meets the Semantic Web 14:30 - 15:00 Huang Lican, Wu Zhaohui, and Pan Yunhe (Zhejiang University): A Scalable and Eeffective Architecture for Grid services? Discovery 15:00 - 15:30 Mario Cannataro and Carmela Comito (University ?Magna Gr?cia? of Catanzaro): A Data Mining Ontology for Grid Programming 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:30 Short and Position Paper Presentations and Workshop Result Discussion 16:00 - 16:20 Mario T. Schlosser and Sepandar D. Kamvar (Stanford University): Simulating a P2P File-Sharing Network 16:20 - 16:35 David Bell, Mark Lycett (Brunel University): The Grid: Discovery with Utilisation Context and Knowledge (DUCK) 16:35 - 16:50 Senthil Ayyasamy and Yugyung Lee (University of Missouri - Kansas City): Semantic Web Services and DHT-based Peer to Peer Networks: A New Symbiotic Relationship 16:50 - 17:30 Facilitator Presentation, Discussion and Summary 19:00 - .... Social Event: Dinner. Location TBA Workshop Chairs ----------------------------------- Karl Aberer Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland karl.aberer at epfl.ch, http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/aberer/ Stefan Decker Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, USA stefan at isi.edu http://www.isi.edu/~stefan David De Roure University of Southampton, UK dder at ecs.soton.ac.uk, http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dder/ Carole Goble The University of Manchester, UK carole at cs.man.ac.uk, http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~carole/ Program Committee ----------------------------------- * Karl Aberer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) * Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne) * Stefan Decker (ISI/USC) * David de Roure (University of Southampton) * Johannes Ernst (R-Objects) * Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck) * Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory) * Yolanda Gil (ISI/USC) * Carole Goble (University of Manchester) * Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam) * Jim Hendler (University of Maryland) * Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester) * Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine) * Carl Kesselman (ISI/USC) * Chen Li (University of California at Irvine) * Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover and Learninglab Lower Saxony) * Sylvia Ratnasamy (U.C.Berkeley) * Mario Schlosser (McKinsey & Company) * Amit Sheth (University of Georgia * Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe) * Bernard Traversat (SUN Microsystems) From marta at dia.uniroma3.it Fri May 9 10:16:53 2003 From: marta at dia.uniroma3.it (Marta Cialdea) Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 10:16:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] Tableaux 2003 Calculemus 2003 Last Call for Papers (fwd) Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Calculemus 2003 Last call for papers We kindly recall you that the deadline for Calculemus 2003 is approaching. About This Symposium -------------------- The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers interested in both symbolic computation and mechanized reasoning. It has been recognized that the integration of computing and deduction would enhance the power of mathematical software systems. However it is not yet clear which is the right way to achieve such an integration. The symposium provides a forum for discussing and investigating the various approaches possible including integration of reasoning into computer algebra systems, integration of efficient computations in theorem provers, and frameworks, languages, or protocols for integrating both symbolic computation and mechanized reasoning. More details at http://calfor.lip6.fr/~rr/Calculemus03/ Deadlines --------- Abstract Submission: May 19, 2003 Submission Deadline: May 23, 2003 Notification if acceptance: June 16, 2003 Camera ready version: July 8, 2003 Addresses --------- e-mail: calculemus2003 at calfor.lip6.fr URL: http://www-calfor.lip6.fr/~rr/Calculemus03/ Surface mail: CALCULEMUS'2003 Therese Hardin LIP6-UPMC 8 rue du Capitaine Scott F-75015 Paris (France) Phone number: +33-1-4427-7369 Fax number: +33-1-4427-8878 CALCULEMUS'2003 Renaud Rioboo LIP6-UPMC 8 rue du Capitaine Scott F-75015 Paris (France) Phone number: +33-1-4427-3341 Fax number: +33-1-4427-8878 _______________________________________________ Tab03 mailing list Tab03 at pop.dia.uniroma3.it http://pop.dia.uniroma3.it/mailman/listinfo.cgi/tab03 From volz at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Fri May 9 15:43:14 2003 From: volz at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Raphael Volz) Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 15:43:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: Workshop on PRACTICAL AND SCALABLE SEMANTIC SYSTEMS Message-ID: ________________________________________________________ Workshop on PRACTICAL AND SCALABLE SEMANTIC SYSTEMS http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/psss03 Collocated with ISWC 2003, October 19th-23th, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS -- Submission deadline: July 1, 2003 ________________________________________________________ The Semantic Web is widely accepted as a means to enhance the Web with machine processable content. For making the Semantic Web work in practice it is paramount to be able to use the existing infrastructure, and to enable an evolutionary transition from today's infrastructure towards a connected web using Semantic Web technologies. Making Semantic Web technology practical has two facets: o **Making existing technologies work**: often useful *tricks of the trade* are required to make existing systems work with Semantic Web technology. Examples include various mappings of semi-structured data on relational databases or the realization of ontology languages for relational, object-relational, and object-oriented databases. Only these *tricks of the trade* enable to spread Semantic Web technology. o **Identifying different research assumptions**: the existing research in databases is often based on slightly different assumptions than required by Semantic Web technologies. Existing research on semi-structured data storage and retrieval does not take into account that stored data might have heterogeneous semantics, e.g., based on different ontology languages. Based on the identification of different assumptions, new research tasks, based on existing database research, can be identified. Both aspects are critical for the success of the Semantic Web ??? the first aspect provides necessary solutions for how to make the Semantic Web practical right now, whereas the second aspect indicate the long term research by identifying the different assumptions behind past database research and current Semantic Web needs, and how to bridge the gap between both fields. The workshop provides a forum for both aspects, which did not exist yet. Important Dates o July, 1st 2003 Paper Submissions o September, 1st 2003 Author Notification o September, 20th 2003 Final Version Due o October, 19th 2003 Workshop takes place at ISWC 2003, Sanibal Island, Florida, USA Submission Instructions Your submission should be formatted according to the guidlines for the "Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS)" (cf. http://www.jucs.org/jucs_submit/style_guide.html). Latex style sheets and Word templates are provided. The paper should not exceed 14 pages, longer papers will not be accepted for review. Submissions have to be received by the first of July 2003 and must be send electronically in PDF or PS format. Topics Specific example topics include, but are not limited to: o **Integration of semi-structured data technologies** with ontology languages, mappings, storage and query techniques. First results have been published, but a systematic evaluation of possible alternatives is still missing. Example technologies include relational, object-relational and object-oriented databases o **Query optimization for RDF repositories**. Although some results from the semi-structured database field are reusable, those results usually have the assumption that the data has no semantics by itself. Ontology languages provide a semantics, which needs to be taken into account by the storage and retrieval system for querying the instance data as well as the ontologies itself. o **Integration of Semantic Web technologies in current software** and network technology. Query languages and interfaces are required for the effective use of Semantic Web databases in applications. A couple of interfaces exist so far, but no systematic comparison had been conducted yet. o **Evaluation and benchmarking suites**, allowing to compare performance and utility of existing technologies. Program Committee (Partialy Unconfirmed): o Karl Aberer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) o Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden) o Jose-Luis Ambite (ISI/USC) o Juergen Angele (Ontoprise, Karlsruhe, Germany) o Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester) o Jeen Broekstra (Free University of Amsterdam) o Chris Bussler (Oracle Corporation) o Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago) o Stefan Decker (ISI/USC) o Rainer Eckstein (Humbold University, Berlin) o Benjamin Grosof (MIT, Cambridge ) o R.V. Guha (IBM Almaden, San Jose) o Alon Halevy (University of Washington) o Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam) o Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester) o Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine) o Michael Kifer (SUNY) o Bertram Ludaescher (SDSC/UCSD) o Alexander Maedche (Bosch, Germany) o Boris Motik (FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany) o Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover and Learninglab Lower Saxony) o Brian McBride (Hewlett Packard) o Amit Sheth (University of Georgia) o Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe) o Raphael Volz (University of Karlsruhe) o Ubbo Visser (University of Bremen) The Workshop is organized by: o Isabel Cruz (The University of Illinois at Chicago) o Stefan Decker (USC Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles) o Raphael Volz (Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) From info at folli.org Fri May 9 18:43:41 2003 From: info at folli.org (info at folli.org) Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 18:43:41 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI-2004 Call for Proposals Message-ID: <200305091643.h49Ghff07902@mendieta.science.uva.nl> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Sixteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2004 August 9-21, 2004, Nancy, France %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------- The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-2004 is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). The ESSLLI-2004 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 16th annual Summer School on a wide range of timely topics that have demonstrated their relevance in the following fields: LANGUAGE & COMPUTATION LANGUAGE & LOGIC LOGIC & COMPUTATION In addition to courses and workshops there will be a Student Session. A Call for Papers for the Student Session will be distributed separately. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted through a web form available through . All proposals should be submitted no later than Wednesday July 16, 2003. Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Wednesday September 17, 2003. Proposers should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate can not be considered. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: Anyone interested in lecturing or organizing a workshop during ESSLLI-2004, please read the following information carefully. ALL COURSES: Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers. They typically consist of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course). Each session lasts 90 minutes. Timetable for Course Proposal Submission: Jul 16, 2003: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 17, 2003: Notification Nov 15, 2003: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s) information, course description and prerequisites Jun 2, 2004: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are really elementary courses not assuming any background knowledge. They are intended for people to get acquainted with the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key competences of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses may presuppose some experience with scientific methods in general, so as to be able to concentrate on the issues that are germane to the area of the course. INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are intended to equip students and young researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques. Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and Computation, can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared to standard texts in the area (if available). ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or PhD students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in some detail. WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work. A workshop has a theme. At most one organizer is paid. The organizers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop and give a general introduction in the first session. They are also responsible for the program of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers. Each workshop organizer will be responsible for producing a Call for Papers for the workshop by November 15, 2003. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the LLI community. It should also note that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop). Sessions are normally 90 minutes. Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions Jul 16, 2003: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 17, 2003: Notification Nov 15, 2003: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers (by ESSLLI PC chair) Dec 1, 2003: Workshop organizers send out (First) Call for Papers Mar 12, 2004: Deadline for Papers (suggested) Apr 30, 2004: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested) May 14, 2004: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Program May 31, 2004: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of Workshop notes May 31, 2004: Deadline for Final Workshop Program FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS: The web-based form for submitting course and workshop proposals is accessible at . You will be required to submit the following information: * Name (name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer) * Address (contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer; where possible, please include phone and fax numbers) * Title (title of proposed course/workshop) * Type (is this a workshop, a foundational course, an introductory course, or an advanced course?) * Section (does your proposal fit in Language & Computation, Language & Logic or Logic & Computation? name only one) * Description (in at most 150 words, describe the proposed contents and substantiate timeliness and relevance to ESSLLI) * External funding (will you be able to find external funding to help fund your travel and accommodation expenses? if so, how?) * Further particulars (any further information that is required by the above guidelines should be included here) FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Prospective lecturers and workshop organizers should be aware that all teaching and organizing at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible. Lecturers and organizers are not paid for their contribution, but are reimbursed for travel and accommodation. The guidelines for funding and reimbursement are as follows. As pointed out above, as a rule each course/workshop lasts a single week and is taught/organized by a single lecturer/organizer. For each course/workshop of one week, one lecturer/organizer will be reimbursed for his/her travel expenses (economy/APEX only) and his/her accomodation for the duration of the one week course/workshop (plus the weekend preceding or following the course, so as to enable the purchase of reasonably priced plane tickets). Lecturers/organizers of one week courses/workshops are entitled to attend the entire two-week summer school without having to pay registration fees; their accommodation will only be paid for for a single week, though). In case a course is to be taught by two lecturers, a lump sum is paid to cover travel and accommodation expenses. The splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers. In exceptional cases, a course may last two weeks instead of a single week; for the purpose of reimbursements, a two week course counts as two one week courses, which means that up to two lecturers can get their travel expenses refunded (economy/APEX only), and either two lecturers can each get one week of accommodation or a single lecturer gets the full two weeks of accommodation refunded. Two week workshops are not an option. Please allow us to underline that the organizers highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses. Workshop speakers are required to register for the Summer School; however, workshop speakers will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined by the Organizing Committee. Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School can in general guarantee only to reimburse travel costs for travel from destinations within Europe to Nancy. Exceptions will be made depending on the financial situation. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chair: Antal van den Bosch Attn: ESSLLI-2004 ILK / Computational Linguistics Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 NL-5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands Phone: +31.13.4663117 Email: Antal.vdnBosch at kub.nl Local co-chair: Philippe de Groote (Philippe.de.Groote at loria.fr) Language and Logic: Tim Fernando (Tim.Fernando at tcd.ie) Ge'rard Huet (Gerard.Huet at inria.fr) Logic and Computation: David Pym (d.j.pym at bath.ac.uk) Francesca Rossi (frossi at math.unipd.it) Language and Computation: Paul Buitelaar (paulb at dfki.de) Detlef Prescher (prescher at science.uva.nl) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Patrick Blackburn (chair) Email: Patrick.Blackburn at loria.fr FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information, visit the ESSLLI site through . For this year's summer school, please see the web site for ESSLLI-2003 at . From volz at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Fri May 9 15:43:14 2003 From: volz at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Raphael Volz) Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 15:43:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: Workshop on PRACTICAL AND SCALABLE SEMANTIC SYSTEMS Message-ID: ________________________________________________________ Workshop on PRACTICAL AND SCALABLE SEMANTIC SYSTEMS http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/psss03 Collocated with ISWC 2003, October 19th-23th, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS -- Submission deadline: July 1, 2003 ________________________________________________________ The Semantic Web is widely accepted as a means to enhance the Web with machine processable content. For making the Semantic Web work in practice it is paramount to be able to use the existing infrastructure, and to enable an evolutionary transition from today's infrastructure towards a connected web using Semantic Web technologies. Making Semantic Web technology practical has two facets: o **Making existing technologies work**: often useful *tricks of the trade* are required to make existing systems work with Semantic Web technology. Examples include various mappings of semi-structured data on relational databases or the realization of ontology languages for relational, object-relational, and object-oriented databases. Only these *tricks of the trade* enable to spread Semantic Web technology. o **Identifying different research assumptions**: the existing research in databases is often based on slightly different assumptions than required by Semantic Web technologies. Existing research on semi-structured data storage and retrieval does not take into account that stored data might have heterogeneous semantics, e.g., based on different ontology languages. Based on the identification of different assumptions, new research tasks, based on existing database research, can be identified. Both aspects are critical for the success of the Semantic Web ??? the first aspect provides necessary solutions for how to make the Semantic Web practical right now, whereas the second aspect indicate the long term research by identifying the different assumptions behind past database research and current Semantic Web needs, and how to bridge the gap between both fields. The workshop provides a forum for both aspects, which did not exist yet. Important Dates o July, 1st 2003 Paper Submissions o September, 1st 2003 Author Notification o September, 20th 2003 Final Version Due o October, 19th 2003 Workshop takes place at ISWC 2003, Sanibal Island, Florida, USA Submission Instructions Your submission should be formatted according to the guidlines for the "Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS)" (cf. http://www.jucs.org/jucs_submit/style_guide.html). Latex style sheets and Word templates are provided. The paper should not exceed 14 pages, longer papers will not be accepted for review. Submissions have to be received by the first of July 2003 and must be send electronically in PDF or PS format. Topics Specific example topics include, but are not limited to: o **Integration of semi-structured data technologies** with ontology languages, mappings, storage and query techniques. First results have been published, but a systematic evaluation of possible alternatives is still missing. Example technologies include relational, object-relational and object-oriented databases o **Query optimization for RDF repositories**. Although some results from the semi-structured database field are reusable, those results usually have the assumption that the data has no semantics by itself. Ontology languages provide a semantics, which needs to be taken into account by the storage and retrieval system for querying the instance data as well as the ontologies itself. o **Integration of Semantic Web technologies in current software** and network technology. Query languages and interfaces are required for the effective use of Semantic Web databases in applications. A couple of interfaces exist so far, but no systematic comparison had been conducted yet. o **Evaluation and benchmarking suites**, allowing to compare performance and utility of existing technologies. Program Committee (Partialy Unconfirmed): o Karl Aberer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) o Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden) o Jose-Luis Ambite (ISI/USC) o Juergen Angele (Ontoprise, Karlsruhe, Germany) o Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester) o Jeen Broekstra (Free University of Amsterdam) o Chris Bussler (Oracle Corporation) o Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago) o Stefan Decker (ISI/USC) o Rainer Eckstein (Humbold University, Berlin) o Benjamin Grosof (MIT, Cambridge ) o R.V. Guha (IBM Almaden, San Jose) o Alon Halevy (University of Washington) o Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam) o Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester) o Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine) o Michael Kifer (SUNY) o Bertram Ludaescher (SDSC/UCSD) o Alexander Maedche (Bosch, Germany) o Boris Motik (FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany) o Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover and Learninglab Lower Saxony) o Brian McBride (Hewlett Packard) o Amit Sheth (University of Georgia) o Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe) o Raphael Volz (University of Karlsruhe) o Ubbo Visser (University of Bremen) The Workshop is organized by: o Isabel Cruz (The University of Illinois at Chicago) o Stefan Decker (USC Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles) o Raphael Volz (Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) ---------------- KAW-list home: http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/mailing-lists/kaw/home.html archive: http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/mailing-lists/kaw/recent.html From stefan at ISI.EDU Sun May 11 20:51:51 2003 From: stefan at ISI.EDU (Stefan Decker) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 11:51:51 -0700 Subject: [DL] CFP: Extended Deadline: June 25: Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases (colocated with VLDB 2003) Message-ID: <5.1.1.5.2.20030511114614.040ff3b8@nitro.isi.edu> *******CALL FOR PAPERS******* New: Extended Deadline: June 25, 2003 Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases colocated with VLDB 2003 Berlin, Germany September 7-8, 2003 Workshop URL: http://swdb.semanticweb.org Topics and Content ----------------------------------- The Semantic Web is a key initiative being promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as the next generation of the current web. Machine-understandable metadata is emerging as a new foundation for component-based approaches to application development. Within the context of reusable distributed components, Web services represent the latest architectural advancement. Such concepts can be synthesized providing powerful new mechanisms for quickly modeling, creating and deploying complex applications that readily adapt to real world need. The objective of this workshop is to present database and information system research as they relate to the Semantic Web and more broadly, to gain insight into the Semantic Web technology as it relates to databases and information systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Infrastructure: component models (e.g., J2EE, .NET); distributed object-based architectures; scalability, extensibility and robustness of applications; algebras for modeling and ontology management; creation, maintenance and versioning of annotations, metadata and mappings; tools (including visual tools) for creating components (e.g., ontologies, mappings, views, etc.); workflow systems, web services and quality of service contracts; support for negotiation and trust; security; Peer-to-Peer systems. Semantics: conceptual clustering and statistical approaches; social networks and consensus analysis approaches; information analysis accuracy (e.g., precision, recall, false positives); ontologies, conceptual models, taxonomies; semantic interoperability and integration; semantic composition of web services; view definition and transformations (e.g., global/local as view); query algebras for combined data and metadata queries; semantics-based query relaxation techniques, loss of information; logic based (centralized and distributed) inferences; intensional query answering; emergent semantics. Applications: Semantic Web applications (prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on XML, RDF, and various variants; web services based applications (prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on WSDL, SOAP, UDDI, ebXML and other related standards; natural language processing; Semantics-based integration of data/applications within enterprises; geographical information systems; bio-informatics; business aspects for Semantic Web applications (e.g., return of investment, sustainable business models). Joint Sessions ----------------------------------- We are aiming at organizing a joint session with the International Workshop On Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (http://www.intelligence.tuc.gr/dbisp2p/) about "Semantics in P2P Systems". Submission and Important Dates ----------------------------------- We invite the submission of short (up to six pages) and long papers (up to twenty pages) on: *research, focusing on foundational or technological aspects *experience, describing industrial aspects *position, discussing a wide variety of issues The submitted papers should be formatted as close as possible to the rules of Springer LNCS (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, section "Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes" for formatting instructions). Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to Isabel Cruz (ifc at cs.uic.edu) and Stefan Decker (stefan at isi.edu). Revised Submission Deadline: June 25, 2003. Notification of Acceptance: August 11, 2003. Camera Ready Papers Due: August 18, 2003. Workshop: September 7-8, 2003. Workshop Chairs ----------------------------------- Program Committee Chairs Isabel Cruz University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ifc at cs.uic.edu Vipul Kashyap National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA kashyap at nlm.nih.gov Proceedings and Publicity Chair Stefan Decker USC Information Sciences Institute, USA stefan at isi.edu Organization Chair Rainer Eckstein Humboldt University, Germany Rainer. Eckstein at informatik.hu-berlin.de Program Committee ----------------------------------- *Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland *Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic I., USA *Paolo Atzeni, U. Rome Tre, Italy *Olivier Bodenreider, NLM, NIH, USA *Alex Borgida, Rutgers U., USA *St?phane Bressan, National U. of Singapore *Christoph Bussler, Oracle, USA *Isabel Cruz, U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA *Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA *Stefan Decker, USC-ISI, USA *Max Egenhofer, U. Maine, USA *Rainer Eckstein, Humboldt U., Germany *Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria *Mary Fernandez, AT&T Labs - Research, USA *Susan Gauch, U. Kansas, USA *Carole Goble, U. Manchester, UK *Rick Hull, Lucent Technology, USA *Vipul Kashyap, NLM-NIH, USA *Maurizio Lenzerini, U. Rome "La Sapienza", Italy *Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA *Robert Meersman, Vrije U., Belgium *John Mylopoulos, U. Toronto, Canada *Aris Ouksel, U. Illinois at Chicago, USA *Dimitris Plexousakis, U. Crete, Greece *Steve Ray, NIST, USA *Amit Sheth, U. Georgia and Semagix, USA *Surya Sripada, Boeing, USA *Munindar Singh, N. Carolina U., USA *V.S. Subrahmanian, U. Maryland, USA *Rudi Studer, U. Karlsruhe, Germany *Ram Sriram, NIST, USA *Clement Yu, U. Illinois at Chicago, USA From clynch at clarkson.edu Mon May 12 05:45:36 2003 From: clynch at clarkson.edu (Christopher Lynch) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 23:45:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] CADE student travel award (second call) Message-ID: CADE-19 Woody Bledsoe and CologNET Student Travel Award The Woody Bledsoe Student Travel Award was created to honor the memory of Woody Bledsoe, for his contributions to mathematics, artificial intelligence, and automated theorem proving, and for his dedication to students. It is funded by CADE Inc. and intended to enable selected students to attend the International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE) by covering some of their expenses. The CoLogNET Student Travel Award is funded by the European Union Network of Excellence in Computational Logic, and is intended to enable selected students from Europe to attend CADE-19. CADE-19 will take place from July 28 to August 2, 2003 in Miami, Florida, USA (for further information see http://www.CADE-19.info/). The winners will be reimbursed (to a maximum of Euro 500 for the CoLogNET award and $500 for Woody Bledsoe award) for their conference registration, transportation, and accomodation expenses. Preference will be given to students who will play an active role in the conference, including the attached workshops and who do not have alternative funding covering all their expenses. Students who have just begun their research in automated deduction or are considering the field, are also encouraged to apply. A nomination consists of a recommendation letter of up to 300 words from the student's supervisor. Nominations for CADE-19 should be sent by e-mail to the CADE-19 PC Chair (baader at inf.tu-dresden.de). The award committee consists of Franz Baader, CADE-19 Program Chair Geoff Sutcliffe, CADE-19 Conference Chair Ulrich Furbach, CADE President Neil V. Murray, CADE Treasurer Nominations must arrive no later than May 13, 2003, and the winners will be notified by May 20, 2003 (the CADE-19 early registration deadline is May 23, 2003). From dl03 at dis.uniroma1.it Tue May 13 14:05:26 2003 From: dl03 at dis.uniroma1.it (DL'03) Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:05:26 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2003 Description Logics Workshop (DL'03) - deadline approaching Message-ID: <16064.57222.189037.511963@dis.uniroma1.it> 2003 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'03) Call for Papers Rome, Italy September 5-7, 2003 homepage: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/dl03/ The 2003 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'03) continues the tradition of international workshops devoted to discussing developments and applications of knowledge representation formalisms based on Description Logics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions of technical papers of 8 pages and short position papers (for people that want to participate in the workshop without giving talks). Authors of accepted technical and position papers will be invited to participate in the workshop (participation will be by invitation only). Accepted technical papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. The workshop proceedings will be distributed in paper form at the workshop, and will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://CEUR-WS.org/). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2002 Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2003 Camera ready papers due: July 11, 2003 DL'03 Workshop: September 5-7, 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of Description Logics. Possible subjects include: -- Foundations of Description Logics, including distinguishing features of Description Logics with respect to other formalisms, expressive power of Description Logics, decidability and complexity of reasoning, and novel inference problems and reasoning techniques for solving these problems. -- Extensions of Description Logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages. -- Integration of Description Logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems. -- Use of Description Logics in applications or areas such as natural language, planning, learning, databases, document management, semistructured data, ontology design, ontology languages, ontology engineering, semantic web, and grid computing. -- Building systems based on Description Logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS Interested parties are invited to submit a technical paper not exceeding 8 pages or a short position paper indicating interest in Description Logics and the workshop. Both kinds of submission should be formatted according to the guidelines to be found at http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/dl03/cfp.html and must arrive by May 18, 2003. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces Francesco M. Donini Volker Haarslev Frank van Harmelen Ian Horrocks Ralf Kuesters Patrick Lambrix Carsten Lutz Ralf Moeller Peter Patel-Schneider ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Diego Calvanese Giuseppe De Giacomo Enrico Franconi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mdereno at cs.cmu.edu Tue May 13 22:11:25 2003 From: mdereno at cs.cmu.edu (Monika De Reno) Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:11:25 -0400 Subject: [DL] ICEC'03 Workshops- Call for Papers Message-ID: <009c01c3198b$e5dbed50$16cd0280@isri.cmu.edu> To All- ICEC 2003, the leading academic conference in eBusiness, is pleased to announce its workshop program. The conference will be held in Pittsburgh September 30-October 3, 2003. Important dates for workshops are: Submission Deadline: June 1, 2003 Author Notification: July 15, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers due: August 1, 2003 Workshop Dates: Likely September 30, but possibly during the conference Oct. 1-3. The workshops that will be at ICEC 2003 are: 1. Online Dispute Resolution ( http://www.icec03.org/ws1.htm) Chairs: Ethan Katsh and Colin Rule (Univ. of Massachusetts) 2. Semantic Web Services for Enterprise Integration and eCommerce ( http://www.icec03.org/ws2.htm) Chairs: Chris Bussler (Oracle) and Dieter Fensel (Univ. of Innsbruck) 3. eGovernment Services ( http://www.icec03.org/ws3.htm) Chairs: Marijn Janssen (Delft Univ.), Bill Ferguson (CMU), Renve Wagenaar (Delft Univ.) and Kim Andersen (Copenhagen Business School) 4. Agents and Electronic Commerce ( http://www.icec03.org/ws4.htm) Chairs: Brian Blake (Georgetown Univ.), Jae Kyu Lee (KAIST), Giacomo Cabri (Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Michael Shaw (Univ. of Illinois) and Onn Shehory (IBM) 5. Modeling eServices ( http://www.icec03.org/ws5.htm) Chairs: Jaap Gordijn, J.M. Akkermans (Free Univ. of Amsterdam) and Steve Kimbrough (Univ. of Pennsylvania) 6. M-Commerce: Re-thinking the Future ( http://www.icec03.org/ws6.htm) Chairs: Yannis Labrou (Fujitsu) and Marisa Viveros (IBM) 7. Revolutionary Strategies and Tactics in Research Design and Data Collection for eBusiness Management Research ( http://www.icec03.org/ws7.htm) Chairs: Rob Kauffman (Univ. of Minnesota), Gove Allen (Tulane University), Ravi Bapna (Univ. of Connecticut) and Chuck Wood (Notre Dame Univ.) Thanks, Bruce McLaren Workshop Chair ICEC 2003 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please note also the other date changes. - Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Enrico Franconi (DL'03 organizers) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2003 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'03) Call for Papers Rome, Italy September 5-7, 2003 homepage: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/dl03/ The 2003 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'03) continues the tradition of international workshops devoted to discussing developments and applications of knowledge representation formalisms based on Description Logics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions of technical papers of 8 pages and short position papers (for people that want to participate in the workshop without giving talks). Authors of accepted technical and position papers will be invited to participate in the workshop (participation will be by invitation only). Accepted technical papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. The workshop proceedings will be distributed in paper form at the workshop, and will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://CEUR-WS.org/). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2003 (new) Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2003 (new) Camera ready papers due: July 18, 2003 (new) DL'03 Workshop: September 5-7, 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of Description Logics. Possible subjects include: -- Foundations of Description Logics, including distinguishing features of Description Logics with respect to other formalisms, expressive power of Description Logics, decidability and complexity of reasoning, and novel inference problems and reasoning techniques for solving these problems. -- Extensions of Description Logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages. -- Integration of Description Logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems. -- Use of Description Logics in applications or areas such as natural language, planning, learning, databases, document management, semistructured data, ontology design, ontology languages, ontology engineering, semantic web, and grid computing. -- Building systems based on Description Logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS Interested parties are invited to submit a technical paper not exceeding 8 pages or a short position paper indicating interest in Description Logics and the workshop. Both kinds of submission should be formatted according to the guidelines to be found at http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/dl03/cfp.html and must arrive by May 18, 2003. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces Francesco M. Donini Volker Haarslev Frank van Harmelen Ian Horrocks Ralf Kuesters Patrick Lambrix Carsten Lutz Ralf Moeller Peter Patel-Schneider ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Diego Calvanese Giuseppe De Giacomo Enrico Franconi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From clynch at clarkson.edu Mon May 19 22:44:07 2003 From: clynch at clarkson.edu (Christopher Lynch) Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 16:44:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] CADE 19 early registration deadline Friday Message-ID: This Friday, May 23, is the deadline for early registration to CADE. Go to the CADE website to register: http://www.cade-19.info/ The conference will take place in Miami Beach from July 30 to August 3, with workshops and tutorials on July 28 and 29. There has been one change to the schedule. The workshops on "Grand Challenges for Automated Reasoning" and "Novel Applications of Deduction Systems" have merged to become one workshop called "Workshop on Challenges and Novel Applications for Automated Reasoning" which will take place on Monday July 28. From cri at info.fundp.ac.be Tue May 20 10:46:35 2003 From: cri at info.fundp.ac.be (Conseil de la Recherche de l'Institut) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 10:46:35 +0200 (MEST) Subject: [DL] Postdoc positions Message-ID: <200305200846.h4K8kZ519736@backus.info.fundp.ac.be> Postdoctoral Research Positions at the University of Namur, Belgium ----------------------------------- Five postdoctoral research positions are be available in six research areas at the University of Namur, among which, two are in computer science: - Cognitive and semantic approaches to building large concept graphs - Agent-oriented features All the details concerning these positions are available at http://www.fundp.ac.be/recherche/PostDoc_FUNDP_CERUNA_2003.pdf Note in particular that the application deadline is June 6 2003. From Steve.Minton at fetch.com Wed May 21 23:33:04 2003 From: Steve.Minton at fetch.com (Steve Minton) Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:33:04 -0700 Subject: [DL] JAIR article Message-ID: Readers of this list may be interested in this recently published JAIR article. Patel-Schneider, P.F. and Sebastiani, R. (2003) "A New General Method to Generate Random Modal Formulae for Testing Decision Procedures", Volume 18, pages 351-389. Available in PDF, PostScript and compressed PostScript. For quick access via your WWW browser, use this URL: http://www.jair.org/abstracts/patelschneider03a.html More detailed instructions are below. Abstract: The recent emergence of heavily-optimized modal decision procedures has highlighted the key role of empirical testing in this domain. Unfortunately, the introduction of extensive empirical tests for modal logics is recent, and so far none of the proposed test generators is very satisfactory. To cope with this fact, we present a new random generation method that provides benefits over previous methods for generating empirical tests. It fixes and much generalizes one of the best-known methods, the random CNF_[]m test, allowing for generating a much wider variety of problems, covering in principle the whole input space. Our new method produces much more suitable test sets for the current generation of modal decision procedures. We analyze the features of the new method by means of an extensive collection of empirical tests. The article is available via: -- comp.ai.jair.papers (also see comp.ai.jair.announce) -- World Wide Web: The URL for our World Wide Web server is http://www.jair.org/ For direct access to this article and related files try: http://www.jair.org/abstracts/patelschneider03a.html -- Anonymous FTP from Carnegie-Mellon University (USA): ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/jair/volume18/patelschneider03a.ps The compressed PostScript file is named patelschneider03a.ps.Z (422K) For more information about JAIR, visit our WWW or FTP sites, or contact jair-ed at isi.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marta at dia.uniroma3.it Mon May 26 18:20:51 2003 From: marta at dia.uniroma3.it (Marta Cialdea) Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 18:20:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] TABLEAUX 2003 registration Message-ID: Early registration for TABLEAUX 2003 in Rome has begun. The conference will take place on September 9-12. Go to http://tab2003.dia.uniroma3.it/ to register for the conference. Early registration closes on June 30. The webpage also contains information about accommodations, tutorials, social events and excursion. The paper schedule will appear soon on the website TABLEAUX 2003 organization committee __________________________________________________________________________ | | Organization Committee TABLEAUX 2003 | |__________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tab03 mailing list Tab03 at pop.dia.uniroma3.it http://pop.dia.uniroma3.it/mailman/listinfo.cgi/tab03 From mdereno at cs.cmu.edu Tue May 27 21:54:21 2003 From: mdereno at cs.cmu.edu (Monika De Reno) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:54:21 -0400 Subject: [DL] ICEC'03 Workshops- Call for Papers Message-ID: <00a101c32489$d375ad50$16cd0280@isri.cmu.edu> To All- ICEC 2003, the leading academic conference in eBusiness, is pleased to announce its workshop program. The conference will be held in Pittsburgh September 30-October 3, 2003. Important dates for workshops are: Submission Deadline: June 1, 2003 Author Notification: July 15, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers due: August 1, 2003 Workshop Dates: Likely September 30, but possibly during the conference Oct. 1-3. The workshops that will be at ICEC 2003 are: 1. Online Dispute Resolution ( http://www.icec03.org/ws1.htm) Chairs: Ethan Katsh and Colin Rule (Univ. of Massachusetts) 2. Semantic Web Services for Enterprise Integration and eCommerce ( http://www.icec03.org/ws2.htm) Chairs: Chris Bussler (Oracle) and Dieter Fensel (Univ. of Innsbruck) 3. eGovernment Services ( http://www.icec03.org/ws3.htm) Chairs: Marijn Janssen (Delft Univ.), Bill Ferguson (CMU), Renve Wagenaar (Delft Univ.) and Kim Andersen (Copenhagen Business School) 4. Agents and Electronic Commerce ( http://www.icec03.org/ws4.htm) Chairs: Brian Blake (Georgetown Univ.), Jae Kyu Lee (KAIST), Giacomo Cabri (Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Michael Shaw (Univ. of Illinois) and Onn Shehory (IBM) 5. Modeling eServices ( http://www.icec03.org/ws5.htm) Chairs: Jaap Gordijn, J.M. Akkermans (Free Univ. of Amsterdam) and Steve Kimbrough (Univ. of Pennsylvania) 6. M-Commerce: Re-thinking the Future ( http://www.icec03.org/ws6.htm) Chairs: Yannis Labrou (Fujitsu) and Marisa Viveros (IBM) 7. Revolutionary Strategies and Tactics in Research Design and Data Collection for eBusiness Management Research ( http://www.icec03.org/ws7.htm) Chairs: Rob Kauffman (Univ. of Minnesota), Gove Allen (Tulane University), Ravi Bapna (Univ. of Connecticut) and Chuck Wood (Notre Dame Univ.) Thanks, Bruce McLaren Workshop Chair ICEC 2003 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marta at dia.uniroma3.it Thu May 29 12:30:08 2003 From: marta at dia.uniroma3.it (Marta Cialdea) Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 12:30:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] Tableaux 2003 TSC elections Message-ID: The term of office for the three members Marcello D'Agostino Melvin Fitting Uli Furbach of the Tableau Steering Committee expire this year. New TSC members to replace them will be elected at the Tableau Business Meeting during the Tableau Conference in Rome. With this message I want to solicite names of candidates. Please, send the names of candidates you want to see nominated for the upcoming election. I appreciate receiving your suggestions before July, 11. Yours Sincerely Peter H. Schmitt (TSC Vice President) ------------------------------------------------ Please, reply to: Prof. Dr. Peter H. Schmitt (in the CC field of this message) ----------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tab03 mailing list Tab03 at pop.dia.uniroma3.it http://pop.dia.uniroma3.it/mailman/listinfo.cgi/tab03 From icdm at wi-lab.com Fri May 30 08:31:37 2003 From: icdm at wi-lab.com (icdm at wi-lab.com) Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 15:31:37 +0900 Subject: [DL] IEEE Data Mining 2003: Call for Papers Message-ID: <200305300631.h4U6VbM5019401@bigslope.dyndns.org> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ICDM '03: The Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining ================================================================ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Melbourne, Florida, USA November 19 - 22, 2003 http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-03.html Call for Papers *************** (Papers Due: June 10, 2003) Invited Speakers ================ - Thomas G. Dietterich, Oregon State University, USA - Usama M. Fayyad, digiMine, Inc., USA - Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland - Gene W. Myers, University of California, Berkeley, USA - Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA The 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM '03) provides a leading international forum for the sharing of original research results and practical development experiences among researchers and application developers from different data mining related areas such as machine learning, automated scientific discovery, statistics, pattern recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, and knowledge-based systems. The conference seeks solutions to challenging problems facing the development of data mining systems, and shapes future directions of research by promoting high quality, novel and daring research findings. As an important part of the conference, the workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives, and the tutorial program will cover emerging data mining technologies and the state-of-the-art of data mining developments. Topics of Interest ================== Topics related to the design, analysis and implementation of data mining theory, systems and applications are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: - Foundations of data mining - Data mining and machine learning algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and association analysis), and in new areas - Mining text and semi-structured data, and mining temporal, spatial and multimedia data - Data and knowledge representation for data mining - Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature transformation - Post-processing of data mining results - Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining - Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty management for data mining - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining - Human-machine interaction and visualization in data mining, and visual data mining - High performance and distributed data mining - Pattern recognition and scientific discovery - Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining results - Process-centric data mining and models of data mining process - Security, privacy and social impact of data mining - Data mining applications in electronic commerce, bioinformatics, computer security, Web intelligence, intelligent learning database systems, finance, marketing, healthcare, telecommunications, and other fields Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards ================================================== High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful and supportive reviews. There are two types of paper submissions for IEEE ICDM '03: (1) research-track submissions and (2) industry-track submissions. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please use the Submission Form at the ICDM '03 webpage to submit your paper. For research-track submissions, papers should be limited to a maximum of 6,000 words (approximately 20 A4 pages), and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. For industry-track submissions, please make sure that the following conditions are met: (a) Papers cannot exceed 3,000 words, (b) At least one author of each industry-track paper should be from an industrial company, and the paper should be about industrial or other real-world applications of data mining, AND (c) a description of how the application has been conceived, developed and deployed must be provided. (Papers that present interesting data mining applications but do not qualify as industry-track submissions according to the these criteria can be submitted to the research track.) The conference will provide an opportunity for the authors of accepted industry-track papers to showcase their efforts in front of the world's finest data miners via a software demonstration. All papers submitted to the industry track will also be reviewed by the Program Committee, and each accepted industry-track paper will be allocated 4 pages in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A selected number of IEEE ICDM '03 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in an expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/kais.html) by Springer-Verlag. IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Papers from the industry track and application-oriented papers from the research track will both be considered for the best application award. Important Dates =============== June 10, 2003 Research-track paper submissions Industry-track paper submissions Tutorial proposals June 30, 2003 Panel proposals due August 15, 2003 Paper acceptance notices September 10, 2003 Final camera-readies November 19, 2003 Workshops Tutorials November 20-22, 2003 Conference All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference home page at http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-03.html Conference Chair: ================= Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin - Madison (shavlik at cs.wisc.edu) Program Committee Chairs: ========================= Xindong Wu, University of Vermont (xwu at cs.uvm.edu) Alex Tuzhilin, New York University (atuzhili at stern.nyu.edu) Vice Chairs: ============ Christopher W. Clifton, Purdue University, USA Douglas H. Fisher, Vanderbilt University, USA Paolo Frasconi, Universit di Firenze, Italy Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA Rajeev Rastogi, Lucent, USA Michele Sebag, Universite Paris-Sud, France Dale Schuurmans, University of Waterloo, Canada Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Industry Track Chair: ===================== Roberto Bayardo, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA (bayardo at almaden.ibm.com) Panels Chair: ============= Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University (nick at cs.dal.ca) Workshops Chair: ================ David Page, University of Wisconsin - Madison (page at biostat.wisc.edu) Tutorials Chair: ================ Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University (ester at cs.sfu.ca) Publicity Chair: ================ Balaji Padmanabhan, University of Pennsylvania (balaji at wharton.upenn.edu) Local Arrangements Chair: ========================= Philip Chan, Florida Institute of Technology (pkc at cs.fit.edu) Web Master: =========== Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology (zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp) ICDM Steering Committee ======================= Xindong Wu (Chair), University of Vermont, USA Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets, USA Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Further Information =================== Professor Xindong Wu (ICDM 2003) Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, 351 Votey Building, Burlington, VT 05405, USA Phone: +1-802-656-7839 Fax: +1-802-656-0696 E-mail: xwu at cs.uvm.edu From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Mon Jun 2 18:31:33 2003 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 18:31:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] KRDB'03 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive this more than once. You're receiving this message since you are a subscriber of a relevant mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 10th International Workshop on KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES (KRDB-2003) http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/KRDB-2003/ Hamburg (Germany), September 15-18, 2003 With a focus on: Knowledge Representation and Databases for the Semantic Web In conjunction with: KI 2003 (26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence) -------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Call for papers The 10th International KRDB Workshop continues the tradition of annual international workshops devoted to facilitate cross-fertilization between the fields of knowledge representation (KR) and databases (DB), started in 1994. KRDB-2003 will be held in Hamburg (Germany), September 2003, as a workshop of the 26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2003), see http://www.ki2003.de/. KRDB is a forum for exchanging ideas between DB and KR researchers. Equally important is the KRDB tradition of stimulating the discussion between researchers and practitioners. As every year, KRDB 2003 focusses on a selected topic. ----------- Topic Databases have always been a very important issue for the World Wide Web, and, conversely, the WWW has stimulated interesting research on databases, for example in the area of semi-structured data. Due to the recent and immense interest in the semantic web initiative, knowledge representation has also gained a considerable amount of attention by the WWW community, and the pollinating impact of this fact on research in knowledge representation is already clearly visible. For these reasons, the focus of KRDB-2003 is on Knowledge Representation and Databases for the World-Wide Web. For the workshop, we thus solicit contributions that address the interplay between knowledge representation and databases, particularly in contexts related to the World-Wide Web. Specific issues we would like to discuss are: * Languages and techniques required to support a semantic web * Construction and maintenance of large ontologies for use in the WWW * Web service modeling and declarative web service retrieval * Context adaption, user models, and adaptive web systems * Query languages for the Web and semi-structured data * Data modeling and typing for XML and semi-structured data We also solicit submissions that concern the relationship of knowledge representation and databases, but do not fall inside this year's selected topic. ----------- Program Committee * Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, New Jersey) * Stefan Conrad (University of Duesseldorf, Germany) * Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) * Nicola Henze (University of Hannover, Germany) * Bertin Klein (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany) * Ralf Kuesters (Stanford University, USA) * Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen, Germany) * Massimo Marchiori (University of Venice, Italy) * David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany) ----------- Organizing Committee Francois Bry (University of Munich, Germany) Francois.Bry at informatik.uni-muenchen.de Carsten Lutz (TU Dresden, Germany) lutz at lat.inf.tu-dresden.de Ulrike Sattler (TU Dresden, Germany) sattler at lat.inf.tu-dresden.de Mareike Schoop (RWTH Aachen and University of Muenster, Germany) schoop at informatik.rwth-aachen.de ----------- Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline June 23, 2003 Acceptance Notification July 18, 2003 Final Version Due August 15, 2003 The Workshop September 15-18, 2003 (one day only) ----------- Proceedings The workshop proceedings will be electronically published in the CEUR series of workshop proceedings at http://www.CEUR-WS.org/ At the workshop, a hard copy of the proceedings will be handed out to the participants. ----------- Information for authors Your submission should be no longer than 12 pages formatted according to the example LaTeX file available at http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/KRDB-2003/ Please avoid headers, footers, and page numbering. Submissions should be sent by June 23, 2003 as self-contained standard Postscript attachments to: lutz at lat.inf.tu-dresden.de ----------- Registration Information Participants can choose to register for KRDB-2003 and the main KI-2003 Conference (210,- Euros) or to register only for the KRDB workshop (60,- Euros). In either case, registration is via the official KI-2003 webpage, and the official KI-2003 deadlines apply. From mdereno at cs.cmu.edu Tue Jun 3 20:41:37 2003 From: mdereno at cs.cmu.edu (Monika De Reno) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:41:37 -0400 Subject: [DL] ICEC 2003 WORKSHOP PROGRAM- CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED Message-ID: <003a01c329ff$dfd0d3b0$16cd0280@isri.cmu.edu> Hi All! We have received a number of requests to extend the deadline for submitting papers to the workshops collocated with the FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (ICEC 2003, www.icec03.org). Based on this, we have decided to move the deadline to June 30. Important dates for the Workshops now are: Submission Deadline: June 30, 2003 Author Notification: July 31, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers due: August 23, 2003 Workshop Dates: Likely September 30, but possibly during the conference Oct. 1-3. The workshops collocated with ICEC 2003 are: 1. Online Dispute Resolution ( http://www.icec03.org/ws1.htm) Chairs: Ethan Katsh and Colin Rule (Univ. of Massachusetts) 2. Semantic Web Services for Enterprise Integration and eCommerce ( http://www.icec03.org/ws2.htm) Chairs: Chris Bussler (Oracle) and Dieter Fensel (Univ. of Innsbruck) 3. eGovernment Services ( http://www.icec03.org/ws3.htm) Chairs: Marijn Janssen (Delft Univ.), Bill Ferguson (CMU), Renve Wagenaar (Delft Univ.) and Kim Andersen (Copenhagen Business School) 4. Agents and Electronic Commerce ( http://www.icec03.org/ws4.htm) Chairs: Brian Blake (Georgetown Univ.), Jae Kyu Lee (KAIST), Giacomo Cabri (Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Michael Shaw (Univ. of Illinois) and Onn Shehory (IBM) 5. Modeling eServices ( http://www.icec03.org/ws5.htm) Chairs: Jaap Gordijn, J.M. Akkermans (Free Univ. of Amsterdam) and Steve Kimbrough (Univ. of Pennsylvania) 6. M-Commerce: Re-thinking the Future ( http://www.icec03.org/ws6.htm) Chairs: Yannis Labrou (Fujitsu) and Marisa Viveros (IBM) 7. Revolutionary Strategies and Tactics in Research Design and Data Collection for eBusiness Management Research ( http://www.icec03.org/ws7.htm) Chairs: Rob Kauffman (Univ. of Minnesota), Gove Allen (Tulane University), Ravi Bapna (Univ. of Connecticut) and Chuck Wood (Notre Dame Univ.) Thanks, Bruce McLaren Workshop Chair ICEC 2003 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chabane.djeraba at polytech.univ-nantes.fr Wed Jun 4 16:40:53 2003 From: chabane.djeraba at polytech.univ-nantes.fr (Chabane Djeraba) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:40:53 +0200 Subject: [DL] VLDB/MDDE-2003 - Deadline extended References: <200305311725.h4VHPjE15902@ritter.ist.psu.edu> Message-ID: <025901c32aa7$f7ffb020$2410a8c0@ireste.fr> 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering (MDDE-2003) www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/recherche/sic/djeraba/mdde03/mdde-2003.html September, 8th 2003, Berlin, Germany, in conjunction with 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB-2003) http://www.vldb.informatik.hu-berlin.de/ OBJECTIVES The 3rd international Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering is aimed to bring together experts from all aspects of multimedia data and document engineering, including experts in data mining, documents engineering, digital media content analysis, multimedia databases and domain experts from diverse applied disciplines with potential in multimedia data and document engineering. Particularly, the workshop will address the following questions: - What are the problems and the applications addressed by multimedia data and document engineering? - What are the specific issues in knowledge extraction from multimedia data and documents composed of image, sound and video? - What are the advanced architectures for multimedia data and document storage and retrieval? - What are suitable representations and formats that can facilitate multimedia data and document management? - How can the existing database and data mining techniques be adapted and enhanced for knowledge discovery from unstructured complex multimedia data and documents? Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topics: - Analysis, indexing and retrieval of multimedia data and documents - Models and languages for documents and semi-structured data - Semantic modeling and retrieval - Content description definition languages and metadata - Mining from semi structured data (video, image, audio, web documents) - Content-based multimedia indexing and retrieval - Video analysis and content exploration - Video genre classification - Multimedia database management systems - Relevance ranking of video clips for queries - Query processing and optimization - Multimedia Standardization Models (MPEG7, MPEG4, SMIL) IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 9, 2003 Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2003 Camera-ready papers due: August 20, 2003 Workshop: September 8, 2003 PROGRAM CHAIR Sadiye Guler, Northrop Grumman Information Technology / TASC, USA PROGRAM COMITTEE MEMBERS Michel Adiba (University of Joseph Fourier, France) Mokrane Bouzeghoub (University of Versaille, France) Chabane Djeraba (University of Nantes, France) Dave Doermann (University of Maryland, USA) Jianping Fan (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) Elena Ferrari (University of Milano, Italy) Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University, USA) William Grosky (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) Alex Hauptman (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Tom D. Little (Boston University, USA) Andrew Merlino (Virage Inc., USA) Deb Kumar Roy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Gunther Saake (Universit?t Magdeburg, Germany) Mohand-Said Hacid (University of Lyon, France) Ishwar Sethi (Oakland University, USA) Mubarak Shah (University of Central Florida, USA) Christine Vanoirbeck (EPFL, Switzerland) Aidong Zhang (University of Buffalo, USA) SUBMISSIONS Only electronic submission is accepted. The submission deadline is June 9, 2003. Please follow the instructions given below. Papers will be reviewed using a double blind review process and accepted papers will appear in MDDE'03 proceedings. Proceedings will be distributed to all participants at the workshop. If you have any questions or problems regarding the submission process, please send e-mail to SGuler at northropgrumman.com with subject MDDE03. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION 1.. Prepare your manuscript, in English, using one of the two provided style files, either LaTeX (in tar gzipped format) or Microsoft Word 97/2000 (in Zip format). The submitted manuscript should correspond to the full paper and be no longer than 8 (double-column) pages. 2.. Create a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of your manuscript. 3.. Send your manuscript in PDF to SGuler at northropgrumman.com From fgandon at cs.cmu.edu Wed Jun 4 19:14:23 2003 From: fgandon at cs.cmu.edu (- Fabien Gandon -) Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:14:23 -0400 Subject: [DL] Semantic Web Services for Enterprise Application Integration and e-Commerce: extended deadline - June 30 Message-ID: <3EDE28EF.5080101@cs.cmu.edu> - We apologize if you receive this message more than once. - ------------------------------------------------------------ EXTENDED DEADLINE : June 30 ---------------------------- * ----------------------------- Semantic Web Services for Enterprise Application Integration and e-Commerce (SWSEE03) Workshop held in conjunction with ICEC 2003 Pittsburgh, PA, September 30, 2003 ( http http://www.icec03.org/ws2.htm ) ---------------------------- * ----------------------------- Scope ===== The workshop "Semantic Web Services for Enterprise Application Integration and E-Commerce" focuses on the proposed intersection of three domains that very recently started drawing enormous attention throughout academia and industry and is of utmost importance as well as relevance for computer science and the business world: * Web Service Technology (manifested through SOAP, WSDL and UDDI) * Semantic Web Technology (manifested through ontology-based modelling framework such as RDF, RDFS, DAML+OIL and OWL) * Enterprise Integration (manifested through Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and E-Commerce in form of Business-to-Business (B2B) Integration as well as Business-to-Consumer (B2C)). The currently brought forward 'promise' is that Semantic Web Services, i.e., Web Service technology in conjunction with Semantic Web technology, will make dynamic Enterprise Integration and Virtual Enterprises possible for all types and sizes of enterprises compared to 'traditional' technology like Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or Value Added Networks (VANs). These strong promises raise a series of questions: to what extend are these different technologies already integrated today? How does the combination of those technologies look like? How does this combination make the Enterprise Integration problem easier to solve and the solution more reliable? 'Traditional' technologies exist (in some cases for over 30 years) and a lot of progress has been made over time due to the lessons learned in real world and sometimes large scale deployments. Today, the major problems of Enterprise Integration in form of EAI and E-Commerce are: * Endpoint Discovery * Semantic and Syntactic Unification * Interaction Protocols * Message Security and Trust Relationships * Process Management * Integration Standards * Legacy Application Connectivity Traditional technologies are able to address individually all these major problems today; they can implement predictable and reliable Enterprise Integration. However, Semantic Web Technologies may have the potential to lay the foundations for frameworks seamlessly addressing these requirements as a whole, at the semantic level and relying on unified standards. The workshop seeks contributions that address the Enterprise Integration problems with the new technologies. Submissions are sought that address specifically the intersection of Web Service Technology, Semantic Web Technology and Enterprise Integration. It is the goal to show the relevance and applicability of the new integration technologies in that they provide a 'better' solution to well-understood problems in the EAI and E-Commerce space. Contributions are encouraged to make a very good and well-founded case for the new technologies based on rigorous and solid arguments. However, contributions that are critical in nature based on a solid argumentation and also state the deficiencies that have to be overcome are equally welcome. Case studies that are very detailed are encouraged, too, in order to show the applicability of the new technologies. Further details can be found at http://www.icec03.org/ws2.htm Topics of Interest ================== * Case study for complex inter-enterprise processes * Formal process languages for distributed process management * Integration process management * Integration standard comparisons and proposals * Legacy system integration * Semantic interoperability and integration * Mapping and management of heterogeneous ontologies in cooperating enterprises * Scaleable ontology-based frameworks and business languages * Public and private process management * Trading partner discovery and management * Trust relationship formation and evolution * Non-repudiation management for complex processes * Quality of service and service level agreement management * Security policies, management and frameworks * Comprehensive web service infrastructures * Semantic description, discovery, and selection of web services * Scaleable, semantic web service composition for heterogeneous environments Workshop Chairs =============== Christoph Bussler, Oracle Corporation, USA, mailto:ChBussler at aol.com Dieter Fensel, Leopold-Franzens Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria, mailto:Dieter.Fensel at uibk.ac.at Organizing Committee ==================== Rose Dieng-Kuntz, INRIA, France, mailto:Rose.Dieng at sophia.inria.fr Fabien Gandon, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, mailto:Fabien.Gandon at cs.cmu.edu Terry Payne, University of Southampton, UK, mailto:trp at ecs.soton.ac.uk Program Committee ================= Prof. Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia Prof. Brian Blake, Georgetown University, USA Prof. Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Dr. Fabio Casati, HP Labs, USA Dr. Umeshwar Dayal, HP Labs, USA Mr. Ludger van Elst, DFKI GmbH, Germany Prof. Mark S. Fox, University of Toronto, Canada Prof. Benjamin Grosof, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA Prof. Michael N. Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Dr. Frank Leymann, IBM, Germany Dr. Mark Little, Arjuna Labs, United Kingdom Dr. Alexander Maedche, Robert Bosch Corp., Germany Prof. Michele Missikoff, IASI-CNR Prof. Maria Orlowska, University of Queensland, Australia Prof. Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Prof. Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Prof. Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA Dr. Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Prof. Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, IBM, USA Dr. Jian Yang, Tilburg University, Netherlands Dr. Gang Zhao, STAR Lab, Belgium Publication =========== Papers should be: - a maximum of 10 pages in the style posted at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html - submitted in electronic form (Postscript, PDF, or RTF) via email to Christoph Bussler at chbussler at aol.com CMU will publish the workshop proceedings. We will use the publishing guidelines posted at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Important Dates =============== * Submission Deadline: June 30, 2003 * Author Notification: August 15, 2003 * Camera-Ready Papers due: September 1, 2003 * Workshop Dates: Likely September 30, but possibly during the ICEC conference: Oct. 1-3. -- ____________ |__ _ |_ http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/fgandon/ | (_||_) Carnegie Mellon Univ. - ph# (1) 412-268-1357 From sha at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Thu Jun 5 09:51:03 2003 From: sha at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Siegfried Handschuh) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:51:03 +0200 Subject: [DL] KCAP 03 Markup and Annotation Workshop Message-ID: <200306050951.03879.sha@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation October 25-26, 2003 at Sanibel, Florida, USA Workshop at the Second International Conference for Knowledge Capture K-CAP'2003 is held in conjunction with the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) --- Call for Papers --- Capturing knowledge by using markup techniques and by supporting semantic annotations is a major technique for creating metadata. It is beneficial in a wide range of content-oriented intelligent applications. One important application, for instance, is the Semantic Web. Here, knowledge markup is a major challenge, i.e. the problem is the providing of knowledge structures for existing syntactic or multimedia resources. The workshops intend to bring together researchers and practitioners from such communities as W3C, MPEG-7, AI, Natural Language technologies and KR to discuss various aspects of knowledge markup and semantic annotation. Submission Papers: Practitioners and researchers interested in participating should submit either a full paper (less than 6000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing relevant issues. Submit before July 21, 2003 in electronic form (pdf) to: handschuh at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de. Topics of Interest includes, but are not limited to: * authoring/annotation tools * web page annotation * collaborative, shared annotation * knowledge markup in the Semantic Web * ontology-based markup * using semantic annotations to define knowledge tools for supporting knowledge markup * integrated software architecture based on semantic annotation * multimedia annotation (e.g. by using MPEG-7) * image/picture annotation * linguistic aspects of semantic annotation * capturing knowledge through Information Extraction and NLP * text mining for creating knowledge markup * evaluation of manual annotation * Usage of Annotations, e.g. learning resource metadata Although not required for the initial submission, we recommend to follow the format guidlines of K-Cap 2001 , as this will be the required format for accepted papers. Organization Committee: Siegfried Handschuh (AIFB) Marja-Riitta Koivunen (W3C) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA) Steffen Staab (AIFB) Program Committee: Ana Belen Benitez (Columbia University) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI) Philipp Cimiano (AIFB) Olivier Corby (INRIA) Grit Denker (SRI International) Martin Frank (ISI) Fabien Gandon (CMU) Carole Goble (University of Manchester) Yolanda Gil (ISI) Harry N. Keeling (Howard University) Guenter Neumann (DFKI) Sofia Pinto (Instituto Superior Tecnico) Alun Preece (University of Aberdeen) Guus Schreiber (Free University Amsterdam) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, University Paris-Nord) Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Maria Vargas-Vera (Open University) Martin Wolpers (Learning Lab Lower Saxony) Contact: Siegfried Handschuh (handschuh at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) From vipul_kashyap at yahoo.com Wed Jun 11 00:55:15 2003 From: vipul_kashyap at yahoo.com (Vipul Kashyap) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:55:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [DL] CFP: VLDB Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases Message-ID: <20030610225515.6774.qmail@web11806.mail.yahoo.com> *******CALL FOR PAPERS******* NEW: SELECTED PAPERS FROM WORKSHOP WILL FIGURE IN SPECIAL ISSUE OF DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL DATABASES JOURNAL (DAPD) FIFTEEN DAYS TO GO FOR PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE Extended Deadline: June 25, 2003 Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases colocated with VLDB 2003 Berlin, Germany September 7-8, 2003 Workshop URL: http://swdb.semanticweb.org Topics and Content ----------------------------------- The Semantic Web is a key initiative being promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as the next generation of the current web. Machine understandable metadata is emerging as a new foundation for component based approaches to application development. Within the context of reusable distributed components, Web services represent the latest architectural advancement. Such concepts can be synthesized providing powerful new mechanisms for quickly modeling, creating and deploying complex applications that readily adapt to real world need. The objective of this workshop is to present database and information system research as they relate to the Semantic Web and more broadly, to gain insight into the Semantic Web technology as it relates to databases and information systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: INFRASTRUCTURE component models (e.g., J2EE, .NET); distributed object-based architectures; scalability, extensibility and robustness of applications; algebras for modeling and ontology management; creation, maintenance and versioning of annotations, metadata and mappings; tools (including visual tools) for creating components(e.g., ontologies, mappings, views, etc.); workflow systems, web services and quality of service contracts; support for negotiation and trust; security; Peer-to-Peer systems. SEMANTICS conceptual clustering and statistical approaches; social networks and consensus analysis approaches; information analysis accuracy (e.g., precision, recall, false positives); ontologies, conceptual models, taxonomies; semantic interoperability and integration; semantic composition of web services; view definition and transformations (e.g., global/local as view); query algebras for combined data and metadata queries; semantics-based query relaxation techniques, loss of information; logic based (centralized and distributed) inferences; intensional query answering; emergent semantics. APPLICATIONS Semantic Web applications(prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on XML, RDF, and various variants; web services based applications (prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on WSDL, SOAP, UDDI, ebXML and other related standards; natural language processing; Semantics-based integration of data/applications within enterprises; geographical information systems; bio-informatics; business aspects for Semantic Web applications (e.g., return of investment, sustainable business models). Joint Sessions ----------------------------------- We are aiming at organizing a joint session with the International Workshop On Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (http://www.intelligence.tuc.gr/dbisp2p/)about "Semantics in P2P Systems". Submission and Important Dates ----------------------------------- We invite the submission of short (up to six pages) and long papers (up to twenty pages) on: * research, focusing on foundational or technological aspects * experience, describing industrial aspects * position, discussing a wide variety of issues The submitted papers should be formatted as close as possible to the rules of Springer LNCS (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, section "Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes" for formatting instructions). Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to Isabel Cruz (ifc at cs.uic.edu) and Stefan Decker (stefan at isi.edu). Revised Submission Deadline: June 25, 2003. Notification of Acceptance: August 11, 2003. Camera Ready Papers Due: August 18, 2003. Workshop: September 7-8, 2003. Workshop Chairs ----------------------------------- Program Committee Chairs Isabel Cruz University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ifc at cs.uic.edu Vipul Kashyap National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA kashyap at nlm.nih.gov Proceedings and Publicity Chair Stefan Decker USC Information Sciences Institute, USA stefan at isi.edu Organization Chair Rainer Eckstein Humboldt University, Germany Rainer. Eckstein at informatik.hu-berlin.de Program Committee ----------------------------------- *Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland *Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic I., USA *Paolo Atzeni, U. Rome Tre, Italy *Olivier Bodenreider, NLM, NIH, USA *Alex Borgida, Rutgers U., USA *St?phane Bressan, National U. of Singapore *Christoph Bussler, Oracle, USA *Isabel Cruz, U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA *Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA *Stefan Decker, USC-ISI, USA *Max Egenhofer, U. Maine, USA *Rainer Eckstein, Humboldt U., Germany *Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria *Mary Fernandez, AT&T Labs - Research, USA *Susan Gauch, U. Kansas, USA *Carole Goble, U. Manchester, UK *Rick Hull, Lucent Technology, USA *Vipul Kashyap, NLM-NIH, USA *Maurizio Lenzerini, U. Rome "La Sapienza", Italy *Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA *Robert Meersman, Vrije U., Belgium *John Mylopoulos, U. Toronto, Canada *Aris Ouksel, U. Illinois at Chicago, USA *Dimitris Plexousakis, U. Crete, Greece *Steve Ray, NIST, USA *Amit Sheth, U. Georgia and Semagix, USA *Surya Sripada, Boeing, USA *Munindar Singh, N. Carolina U., USA *V.S. Subrahmanian, U. Maryland, USA *Rudi Studer, U. Karlsruhe, Germany *Ram Sriram, NIST, USA *Clement Yu, U. Illinois at Chicago, USA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com From m4m at uva.nl Wed Jun 11 17:01:14 2003 From: m4m at uva.nl (Methods for Modalities) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:01:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] Second Call for Papers: M4M-3 Message-ID: <20030611150114.GA3860@science.uva.nl> CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS METHODS FOR MODALITIES 3 (M4M-3) INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France. September 22-23, 2003 www.science.uva.nl/~m4m DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: June 30, 2003 THEME The workshop Methods for Modalities (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, hybrid logics, feature logic, temporal logic, etc. SPECIAL FEATURES To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will be centered around a number of long presentations by leading researchers; these presentations aim to provide both the general background and inside information in a number of key areas. To complement these, we are inviting submissions of short, focussed presentations aimed at highlighting new developments and applications, and submissions of system demonstrations. M4M-3 is the third installment of this bi-anual workshop series. SUBMISSIONS We invite three kinds of submissions: A. Research papers on proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic as well as their applications. Submissions in this category need not be unpublished work; they can be up to 10 A4 size pages. B. System descriptions can be up to 4 A4 size pages, they should focus on actual implementations explaining system architecture issues and specific implementation techniques. Every system description should be accompanied by a system demo at M4M. C. Application descriptions can be up to 6 A4 size pages, they should focus on experiences of using modal-like languages to solve specific real-world tasks. A description of the problem should be given, together with an explanation of how modal like inference systems were used to tackle/analyse it. If available, demos of the final product/solution can be organized during M4M. The primary means of submission will be electronic, in PostScript or PDF format. Final versions should be done in Latex, using the styles provided in the Workshop home pages. Submissions should be sent to m4m at science.uva.nl. PROGRAM COMMITTEE The program committee for M4M-3 consists of Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine (co-chair); Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine (co-chair); Torben Brauner, Roskilde University; Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam; Holger Schlingloff, Humboldt University in Berlin; Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester; and Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool. IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2003 * Notification: August 8, 2003 * Camera ready versions: September 8, 2003 * Workshop dates: September 22-23, 2003 FURTER INFORMATION Please visit www.science.uva.nl/~m4m for further information about M4M. -- M4M: Methods for Modalities www.science.uva.nl/~m4m From vipul_kashyap at yahoo.com Sun Jun 15 23:38:00 2003 From: vipul_kashyap at yahoo.com (Vipul Kashyap) Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [DL] CFP: VLDB Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases In-Reply-To: <20030610225515.6774.qmail@web11806.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20030615213800.15426.qmail@web11803.mail.yahoo.com> *******CALL FOR PAPERS******* NEW: SELECTED PAPERS FROM WORKSHOP WILL FIGURE IN SPECIAL ISSUE OF DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL DATABASES JOURNAL (DAPD) TEN DAYS TO GO FOR PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE !! Extended Deadline: June 25, 2003 Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases colocated with VLDB 2003 Berlin, Germany September 7-8, 2003 Workshop URL: http://swdb.semanticweb.org Topics and Content ----------------------------------- The Semantic Web is a key initiative being promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as the next generation of the current web. Machine understandable metadata is emerging as a new foundation for component based approaches to application development. Within the context of reusable distributed components, Web services represent the latest architectural advancement. Such concepts can be synthesized providing powerful new mechanisms for quickly modeling, creating and deploying complex applications that readily adapt to real world need. The objective of this workshop is to present database and information system research as they relate to the Semantic Web and more broadly, to gain insight into the Semantic Web technology as it relates to databases and information systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: INFRASTRUCTURE component models (e.g., J2EE, .NET); distributed object-based architectures; scalability, extensibility and robustness of applications; algebras for modeling and ontology management; creation, maintenance and versioning of annotations, metadata and mappings; tools (including visual tools) for creating components(e.g., ontologies, mappings, views, etc.); workflow systems, web services and quality of service contracts; support for negotiation and trust; security; Peer-to-Peer systems. SEMANTICS conceptual clustering and statistical approaches; social networks and consensus analysis approaches; information analysis accuracy (e.g., precision, recall, false positives); ontologies, conceptual models, taxonomies; semantic interoperability and integration; semantic composition of web services; view definition and transformations (e.g., global/local as view); query algebras for combined data and metadata queries; semantics-based query relaxation techniques, loss of information; logic based (centralized and distributed) inferences; intensional query answering; emergent semantics. APPLICATIONS Semantic Web applications(prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on XML, RDF, and various variants; web services based applications (prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on WSDL, SOAP, UDDI, ebXML and other related standards; natural language processing; Semantics-based integration of data/applications within enterprises; geographical information systems; bio-informatics; business aspects for Semantic Web applications (e.g., return of investment, sustainable business models). Joint Sessions ----------------------------------- We are aiming at organizing a joint session with the International Workshop On Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (http://www.intelligence.tuc.gr/dbisp2p/)about "Semantics in P2P Systems". Submission and Important Dates ----------------------------------- We invite the submission of short (up to six pages) and long papers (up to twenty pages) on: * research, focusing on foundational or technological aspects * experience, describing industrial aspects * position, discussing a wide variety of issues The submitted papers should be formatted as close as possible to the rules of Springer LNCS (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, section "Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes" for formatting instructions). Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to Isabel Cruz (ifc at cs.uic.edu) and Stefan Decker (stefan at isi.edu). Revised Submission Deadline: June 25, 2003. Notification of Acceptance: August 11, 2003. Camera Ready Papers Due: August 18, 2003. Workshop: September 7-8, 2003. Workshop Chairs ----------------------------------- Program Committee Chairs Isabel Cruz University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ifc at cs.uic.edu Vipul Kashyap National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA kashyap at nlm.nih.gov Proceedings and Publicity Chair Stefan Decker USC Information Sciences Institute, USA stefan at isi.edu Organization Chair Rainer Eckstein Humboldt University, Germany Rainer. Eckstein at informatik.hu-berlin.de Program Committee ----------------------------------- *Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland *Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic I., USA *Paolo Atzeni, U. Rome Tre, Italy *Olivier Bodenreider, NLM, NIH, USA *Alex Borgida, Rutgers U., USA *St?phane Bressan, National U. of Singapore *Christoph Bussler, Oracle, USA *Isabel Cruz, U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA *Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA *Stefan Decker, USC-ISI, USA *Max Egenhofer, U. Maine, USA *Rainer Eckstein, Humboldt U., Germany *Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria *Mary Fernandez, AT&T Labs - Research, USA *Susan Gauch, U. Kansas, USA *Carole Goble, U. Manchester, UK *Rick Hull, Lucent Technology, USA *Vipul Kashyap, NLM-NIH, USA *Maurizio Lenzerini, U. Rome "La Sapienza", Italy *Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA *Robert Meersman, Vrije U., Belgium *John Mylopoulos, U. Toronto, Canada *Aris Ouksel, U. Illinois at Chicago, USA *Dimitris Plexousakis, U. Crete, Greece *Steve Ray, NIST, USA *Amit Sheth, U. Georgia and Semagix, USA *Surya Sripada, Boeing, USA *Munindar Singh, N. Carolina U., USA *V.S. Subrahmanian, U. Maryland, USA *Rudi Studer, U. Karlsruhe, Germany *Ram Sriram, NIST, USA *Clement Yu, U. Illinois at Chicago, USA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com From pierre.grenon at ifomis.uni-leipzig.de Tue Jun 17 19:04:08 2003 From: pierre.grenon at ifomis.uni-leipzig.de (Pierre Grenon) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:04:08 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: COSIT workshop on Spatial and Geographic Ontologies Message-ID: <20030617170409.059F015941@hogwarts.imise.uni-leipzig.de> WORKSHOP ON FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN SPATIAL AND GEOGRAPHIC ONTOLOGIES Tuesday 23rd September 2003 To be held in conjunction with: COSIT'03 Conference on Spatial Information Theory 24-28 September, Ittingen, Switzerland http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~cosit03/home.html There is currently much interest in the development of Ontologies to support a wide variety of tasks including knowledge reuse, data integration, knowledge acquisition, knowledge management, web-based services and many other information applications. The spatial and geographic domains involve a rich and highly interdependent conceptual structure. Some kind of ontology specifying the meanings and logical connections between these concepts is essential to supporting: a) applications which can access this data in a flexible way; and b) sharing of spatial information between applications. However, spatial and geographic concepts present particularly acute problems for ontology construction. They stand in highly complex relationships to underlying physical reality and are often associated with deep ontological issues such as problems of vagueness and identity through time. The workshop will focus on those aspects of spatial and geographic information where the nature of the domain has a fundamental impact on ontology construction. It will provide a forum for presentation of new work in the following and related areas: * key problems and issues in the construction of spatial and geographic ontologies, including: - foundational ontology of spatial properties and relations, - vague and ambiguous spatial and geographic concepts, - the relationship between geographic and physical concepts, - modelling spatial granularity, - events and spatio-temporal processes, - identity of spatial/geographic objects through time, - aggregate objects * examination of strengths and weaknesses of state-of-the-art spatial and geographic ontologies. * appropriate methodologies for constructing and evaluating ontologies in the spatial domain. * mechanisms for integration and inter-operation among different spatial/geographic ontologies. We invite interested parties to submit either position papers (1-2 pages) or full research papers (up to 12 pages) on any topic related to the above areas. Papers should be submitted by email in PDF format to Brandon Bennett AND Pierre Grenon The submission deadline is 1/8/03 Authors will be notified of acceptance on 15/8/03 A registration fee will be charged to cover the cost of room hire. This will be kept as low as possible. Further details of the workshop will be posted on the web site at: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/brandon/cosit03ontology.html Please distribute this call for participation to anyone you think might be interested. Best Regards, Brandon Bennett and Pierre Grenon -- Pierre Grenon IFOMIS Uni Leipzig Haertelstr. 16-18 04107 Leipzig http://people.ifomis.uni-leipzig.de/pierre.grenon/ pgrenon at ifomis.uni-leipzig.de phone: 49(0)351971672 fax: 49(0)3519716179 From fgandon at cs.cmu.edu Wed Jun 18 01:03:16 2003 From: fgandon at cs.cmu.edu (- Fabien Gandon -) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:03:16 -0400 Subject: [DL] Workshop on Knowledge Management and Semantic Web (K-CAP'2003) Message-ID: <3EEF9E34.5010708@cs.cmu.edu> -------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - *K-CAP'2003 Workshop on Knowledge Management and Semantic Web* - - Sanibel, Florida, October 25 or 26, 2003 - - http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/KCAP2003-KMSW/call.html - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- *** *Scope* *** The next generation of the Web will be the semantic Web where semantic contents of the Web resources will be interpretable not only by human but also by machine. One popular approach for Semantic Web consists of describing this semantic contents through metadata. Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the key progress factors in organizations. It involves explicit and persistent representation of knowledge of (geographically) dispersed groups of people in the organization, so as to improve the activities of the organization. When the organization knowledge is distributed among several experts and documents, the Internet or an Intranet inside the organization and Web technologies can be a privileged means for acquisition, modelling, management of this distributed knowledge. One promising approach relies on the analogy between the resources constituting a corporate memory and the resources accessible through the Web. A corporate memory can thus be materialised in a "corporate semantic Web" made up of documents, ontologies and semantic annotations on these documents by using the conceptual vocabulary of ontologies. The objective of the workshop is to enable fruitful discussions between "Semantic Web" and "Knowledge Management" communities, about possible approaches of knowledge management based on such corporate semantic Webs. Long papers or position papers are welcome in any area concerning knowledge management through corporate semantic Webs. We specially expect papers discussing about the following issues: o Role of enterprise models in corporate semantic Webs ? o What kind of ontologies can be useful for such corporate semantic Webs? o How to build such ontologies ? o Techniques for (semi-)automatic building of such ontologies or annotations from the corporate information sources (such as textual or multimedia documents or databases)? o Possible role of indexing techniques and of thesaurus in a corporate semantic Web approach? o Ontology representation languages for a corporate semantic Web? o How to tackle multiple viewpoints in a corporate semantic Web? o Interoperability between ontologies or integration of multiple ontologies, o Cooperative building, adaptation and evolution of a corporate semantic Web? o Query languages for a corporate semantic Web, (Intelligent) Information retrieval from a corporate semantic Web ? o Agent-based approaches for building and management of a corporate semantic Web and for information retrieval from a corporate semantic Web ? o Users interfaces for building and using a corporate semantic Web? o Features specific to corporate semantic Web w.r.t. open Semantic Web ? o Concrete applications of corporate semantic Webs ? o Techniques for optimising metadata storage and query processing for a corporate semantic Web? o Management of multilinguism in a corporate semantic Web. *** *Important dates* *** o Submission deadline: July 11, 2003 o Notification of acceptance: August 22, 2003 o Camera (Web)-ready: September 15, 2003 o Workshop: October 25-26, 2003 *** *Submission format* *** Contributions are invited in the form of a full paper (max. 15 pages) or of a position paper (max. 6 pages). The title page should include name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the contributor. Papers will be judged on their contribution to the discussion. Papers have to be submitted electronically (pdf only) to the contact persons : kcap2003-KMSW at sophia.inria.fr. The proceedings will be published on the WWW and as a report. *** *Workshop organizing committee* *** Rose Dieng-Kuntz (co-chair and contact person) INRIA Acacia Project, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex FRANCE Phone: +33 4 92 38 78 10 Fax: +33 4 92 38 77 83 mailto:Rose.Dieng at sophia.inria.fr Fabien Gandon (co-chair) Carnegie Mellon University ISRI - School of Computer Science 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891, U.S.A. Tel: +1 (412) 268-1357 Fax: +1 (412) 268 2338 mailto:Fabien.Gandon at cs.cmu.edu Philippe P?rez Atos Origin France Le Thalassa B, 444 route des Dolines. B.P. 67 - 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex - France mailto:philippe.perez at atosorigin.com Joel Quinqueton LIRMM 161, rue Ada 34392 MONTPELLIER Cedex 5, France mailto:jq at lirmm.fr Paola Turci Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell Informazione University of Parma Parco Area delle Scienze, 181A 43100, Parma, Italy FAX +39 0521 905723 mailto:turci at ce.unipr.it *** *Program committee* *** o Andreas Abecker, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany) o Richard Benjamins, Isoco, Spain o Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands o Olivier Corby, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, France o Rose Dieng-Kuntz, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, France o Peter Eklund, Griffith University (Australia) o Fabien Gandon, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) o Dani?le H?rin, LIRMM, Montpellier, France o Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences Solothurn, Switzerland o Joachim Hackstein, T-Systems Nova (Germany) o Gilles Kassel, LARIA, universit? d'Amiens (France) o Alain Mille, Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon I, France o Juergen Muller, T-Systems Nova (Germany) o Amedeo Napoli, INRIA-Lorraine (Fr) o Philippe P?rez, ATOS (Fr) o Joel Quinqueton, LIRMM (Fr) o Ulrich Reimer, Bauer (Switzerland) o Chantal Reynaud, LRI, France o David G. Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) o Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany) o Paola Turci, University of Parma (Italy) -- ____________ |__ _ |_ http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/fgandon/ | (_||_) Carnegie Mellon Univ. - ph# (1) 412-268-1357 From vipul_kashyap at yahoo.com Sun Jun 22 17:46:22 2003 From: vipul_kashyap at yahoo.com (Vipul Kashyap) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 08:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [DL] CFP: VLDB 2003 Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases Message-ID: <20030622154622.79704.qmail@web11807.mail.yahoo.com> *******CALL FOR PAPERS******* NEW: SELECTED PAPERS FROM WORKSHOP WILL FIGURE IN SPECIAL ISSUE OF DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL DATABASES JOURNAL (DAPD) LAST FEW DAYS !!! Extended Deadline: June 25, 2003 Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases colocated with VLDB 2003 Berlin, Germany September 7-8, 2003 Workshop URL: http://swdb.semanticweb.org Topics and Content ----------------------------------- The Semantic Web is a key initiative being promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as the next generation of the current web. Machine understandable metadata is emerging as a new foundation for component based approaches to application development. Within the context of reusable distributed components, Web services represent the latest architectural advancement. Such concepts can be synthesized providing powerful new mechanisms for quickly modeling, creating and deploying complex applications that readily adapt to real world need. The objective of this workshop is to present database and information system research as they relate to the Semantic Web and more broadly, to gain insight into the Semantic Web technology as it relates to databases and information systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: INFRASTRUCTURE component models (e.g., J2EE, .NET); distributed object-based architectures; scalability, extensibility and robustness of applications; algebras for modeling and ontology management; creation, maintenance and versioning of annotations, metadata and mappings; tools (including visual tools) for creating components(e.g., ontologies, mappings, views, etc.); workflow systems, web services and quality of service contracts; support for negotiation and trust; security; Peer-to-Peer systems. SEMANTICS conceptual clustering and statistical approaches; social networks and consensus analysis approaches; information analysis accuracy (e.g., precision, recall, false positives); ontologies, conceptual models, taxonomies; semantic interoperability and integration; semantic composition of web services; view definition and transformations (e.g., global/local as view); query algebras for combined data and metadata queries; semantics-based query relaxation techniques, loss of information; logic based (centralized and distributed) inferences; intensional query answering; emergent semantics. APPLICATIONS Semantic Web applications(prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on XML, RDF, and various variants; web services based applications (prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on WSDL, SOAP, UDDI, ebXML and other related standards; natural language processing; Semantics-based integration of data/applications within enterprises; geographical information systems; bio-informatics; business aspects for Semantic Web applications (e.g., return of investment, sustainable business models). Joint Sessions ----------------------------------- We are aiming at organizing a joint session with the International Workshop On Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (http://www.intelligence.tuc.gr/dbisp2p/)about "Semantics in P2P Systems". Submission and Important Dates ----------------------------------- We invite the submission of short (up to six pages) and long papers (up to twenty pages) on: * research, focusing on foundational or technological aspects * experience, describing industrial aspects * position, discussing a wide variety of issues The submitted papers should be formatted as close as possible to the rules of Springer LNCS (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, section "Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes" for formatting instructions). Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to Isabel Cruz (ifc at cs.uic.edu) and Stefan Decker (stefan at isi.edu). Revised Submission Deadline: June 25, 2003. Notification of Acceptance: August 11, 2003. Camera Ready Papers Due: August 18, 2003. Workshop: September 7-8, 2003. Workshop Chairs ----------------------------------- Program Committee Chairs Isabel Cruz University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ifc at cs.uic.edu Vipul Kashyap National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA kashyap at nlm.nih.gov Proceedings and Publicity Chair Stefan Decker USC Information Sciences Institute, USA stefan at isi.edu Organization Chair Rainer Eckstein Humboldt University, Germany Rainer. Eckstein at informatik.hu-berlin.de Program Committee ----------------------------------- *Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland *Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic I., USA *Paolo Atzeni, U. Rome Tre, Italy *Olivier Bodenreider, NLM, NIH, USA *Alex Borgida, Rutgers U., USA *St?phane Bressan, National U. of Singapore *Christoph Bussler, Oracle, USA *Isabel Cruz, U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA *Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA *Stefan Decker, USC-ISI, USA *Max Egenhofer, U. Maine, USA *Rainer Eckstein, Humboldt U., Germany *Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria *Mary Fernandez, AT&T Labs - Research, USA *Susan Gauch, U. Kansas, USA *Carole Goble, U. Manchester, UK *Rick Hull, Lucent Technology, USA *Vipul Kashyap, NLM-NIH, USA *Maurizio Lenzerini, U. Rome "La Sapienza", Italy *Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA *Robert Meersman, Vrije U., Belgium *John Mylopoulos, U. Toronto, Canada *Aris Ouksel, U. Illinois at Chicago, USA *Dimitris Plexousakis, U. Crete, Greece *Steve Ray, NIST, USA *Amit Sheth, U. Georgia and Semagix, USA *Surya Sripada, Boeing, USA *Munindar Singh, N. Carolina U., USA *V.S. Subrahmanian, U. Maryland, USA *Rudi Studer, U. Karlsruhe, Germany *Ram Sriram, NIST, USA *Clement Yu, U. Illinois at Chicago, USA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com From volz at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Mon Jun 23 12:18:33 2003 From: volz at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Raphael Volz) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:18:33 +0200 Subject: [DL] Workshop on PRACTICAL AND SCALABLE SEMANTIC SYSTEMS (2nd Call for Papers) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: !!!! 8 DAYS TO GO !!!! ________________________________________________________ Workshop on PRACTICAL AND SCALABLE SEMANTIC SYSTEMS http://psss.semanticweb.org/ Collocated with ISWC 2003, October 19th-23th, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org/ 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS -- Submission deadline: July 1, 2003 ________________________________________________________ The Semantic Web is widely accepted as a means to enhance the Web with machine processable content. For making the Semantic Web work in practice it is paramount to be able to use the existing infrastructure, and to enable an evolutionary transition from today's infrastructure towards a connected web using Semantic Web technologies. Making Semantic Web technology practical has two facets: o **Making existing technologies work**: often useful *tricks of the trade* are required to make existing systems work with Semantic Web technology. Examples include various mappings of semi-structured data on relational databases or the realization of ontology languages for relational, object-relational, and object-oriented databases. Only these *tricks of the trade* enable to spread Semantic Web technology. o **Identifying different research assumptions**: the existing research in databases is often based on slightly different assumptions than required by Semantic Web technologies. Existing research on semi-structured data storage and retrieval does not take into account that stored data might have heterogeneous semantics, e.g., based on different ontology languages. Based on the identification of different assumptions, new research tasks, based on existing database research, can be identified. Both aspects are critical for the success of the Semantic Web ??? the first aspect provides necessary solutions for how to make the Semantic Web practical right now, whereas the second aspect indicate the long term research by identifying the different assumptions behind past database research and current Semantic Web needs, and how to bridge the gap between both fields. The workshop provides a forum for both aspects, which did not exist yet. Important Dates o July, 1st 2003 Paper Submissions o September, 1st 2003 Author Notification o September, 20th 2003 Final Version Due o October, 19th 2003 Workshop takes place at ISWC 2003, Sanibal Island, Florida, USA Submission Instructions Your submission should be formatted according to the guidlines for the "Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS)" (cf. http://www.jucs.org/jucs_submit/style_guide.html). Latex style sheets and Word templates are provided. The paper should not exceed 14 pages, longer papers will not be accepted for review. Submissions have to be received by the first of July 2003 and must be send electronically in PDF or PS format. Topics Specific example topics include, but are not limited to: o **Integration of semi-structured data technologies** with ontology languages, mappings, storage and query techniques. First results have been published, but a systematic evaluation of possible alternatives is still missing. Example technologies include relational, object-relational and object-oriented databases o **Query optimization for RDF repositories**. Although some results from the semi-structured database field are reusable, those results usually have the assumption that the data has no semantics by itself. Ontology languages provide a semantics, which needs to be taken into account by the storage and retrieval system for querying the instance data as well as the ontologies itself. o **Integration of Semantic Web technologies in current software** and network technology. Query languages and interfaces are required for the effective use of Semantic Web databases in applications. A couple of interfaces exist so far, but no systematic comparison had been conducted yet. o **Evaluation and benchmarking suites**, allowing to compare performance and utility of existing technologies. Program Committee (Partialy Unconfirmed): o Karl Aberer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) o Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden) o Jose-Luis Ambite (ISI/USC) o Juergen Angele (Ontoprise, Karlsruhe, Germany) o Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester) o Jeen Broekstra (Free University of Amsterdam) o Chris Bussler (Oracle Corporation) o Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago) o Stefan Decker (ISI/USC) o Rainer Eckstein (Humbold University, Berlin) o Benjamin Grosof (MIT, Cambridge ) o R.V. Guha (IBM Almaden, San Jose) o Alon Halevy (University of Washington) o Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam) o Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester) o Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine) o Michael Kifer (SUNY) o Bertram Ludaescher (SDSC/UCSD) o Alexander Maedche (Bosch, Germany) o Boris Motik (FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany) o Brian McBride (Hewlett Packard) o Amit Sheth (SEMAGIX Corporation & University of Georgia) o Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe) o Raphael Volz (University of Karlsruhe) o Ubbo Visser (University of Bremen) The Workshop is organized by: o Isabel Cruz (The University of Illinois at Chicago) o Stefan Decker (USC Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles) o Raphael Volz (Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) From iswcpost at enws451.eas.asu.edu Tue Jun 24 21:32:33 2003 From: iswcpost at enws451.eas.asu.edu (For ISWC2002) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:32:33 -0700 (MST) Subject: [DL] Poster submissions invited for ISWC2003 Message-ID: <200306241932.h5OJWXH26728@mercator.eas.asu.edu> 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) Sanibel Island, Florida, USA 20-23 October 2003 http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org Poster submissions invited for the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) The 2nd International Semantic Web Conference will be held October 20-23, 2003 at the Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida. The Poster Session at ISWC2003 is an opportunity to discuss late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and innovative work-in-progress which may not yet be ready for a full paper. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems, completed work, or work in progress are all welcome. The submission period for the poster session at ISWC 2003 is still open. For more information about due dates and submission requirements, see the conference web site at: http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org [This message is being sent to multiple mailing lists - apologies if you get more than one copy.] R Malyankar ISWC 2003 posters chair From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Fri Jun 27 15:20:32 2003 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:20:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] KRDB-2003 Deadline Extension Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive this more than once. You're receiving this message since you are a subscriber of a relevant mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 10th International Workshop on KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES (KRDB-2003) *** DEADLINE EXTENSION *** http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/KRDB-2003/ Hamburg (Germany), September 15-18, 2003 With a focus on: Knowledge Representation and Databases for the Semantic Web In conjunction with: KI 2003 (26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence) -------------------------------------------------------------------- The paper submission deadline for KRDB-2003 has been extended to *** July, 16 *** and other important dates have also been changed; please see the "Important Dates" section below. ----------- Call for papers The 10th International KRDB Workshop continues the tradition of annual international workshops devoted to facilitate cross-fertilization between the fields of knowledge representation (KR) and databases (DB), started in 1994. KRDB-2003 will be held in Hamburg (Germany), September 2003, as a workshop of the 26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2003), see http://www.ki2003.de/. KRDB is a forum for exchanging ideas between DB and KR researchers. Equally important is the KRDB tradition of stimulating the discussion between researchers and practitioners. As every year, KRDB 2003 focusses on a selected topic. ----------- Topic Databases have always been a very important issue for the World Wide Web, and, conversely, the WWW has stimulated interesting research on databases, for example in the area of semi-structured data. Due to the recent and immense interest in the semantic web initiative, knowledge representation has also gained a considerable amount of attention by the WWW community, and the pollinating impact of this fact on research in knowledge representation is already clearly visible. For these reasons, the focus of KRDB-2003 is on Knowledge Representation and Databases for the World-Wide Web. For the workshop, we thus solicit contributions that address the interplay between knowledge representation and databases, particularly in contexts related to the World-Wide Web. Specific issues we would like to discuss are: * Languages and techniques required to support a semantic web * Construction and maintenance of large ontologies for use in the WWW * Web service modeling and declarative web service retrieval * Context adaption, user models, and adaptive web systems * Query languages for the Web and semi-structured data * Data modeling and typing for XML and semi-structured data We also solicit submissions that concern the relationship of knowledge representation and databases, but do not fall inside this year's selected topic. ----------- Invited Speakers * An invited talk will be given by Diego Calvanese, University of Rome "La Sapienza". ----------- Program Committee * Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, New Jersey) * Stefan Conrad (University of Duesseldorf, Germany) * Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) * Nicola Henze (University of Hannover, Germany) * Bertin Klein (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany) * Ralf Kuesters (Stanford University, USA) * Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen, Germany) * Massimo Marchiori (University of Venice, Italy) * David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany) ----------- Organizing Committee Francois Bry (University of Munich, Germany) Francois.Bry at informatik.uni-muenchen.de Carsten Lutz (TU Dresden, Germany) lutz at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Ulrike Sattler (TU Dresden, Germany) sattler at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Mareike Schoop (RWTH Aachen and University of Muenster, Germany) schoop at informatik.rwth-aachen.de ----------- Important Dates (Updated!) Paper Submission Deadline July 16, 2003 Acceptance Notification July 30, 2003 Final Version Due August 22, 2003 The Workshop September 15-18, 2003 (one day only) ----------- Proceedings The workshop proceedings will be electronically published in the CEUR series of workshop proceedings at http://www.CEUR-WS.org/ At the workshop, a hard copy of the proceedings will be handed out to the participants. ----------- Information for authors Your submission should be no longer than 12 pages formatted according to the example LaTeX file available at http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/KRDB-2003/ Please avoid headers, footers, and page numbering. Submissions should be sent by July 16, 2003 as self-contained standard Postscript attachments to: lutz at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de ----------- Registration Information Participants can choose to register for KRDB-2003 and the main KI-2003 Conference (210,- Euros) or to register only for the KRDB workshop (60,- Euros). In either case, registration is via the official KI-2003 webpage, and the official KI-2003 deadlines apply. From m4m at uva.nl Mon Jun 30 20:41:21 2003 From: m4m at uva.nl (Methods for Modalities) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:41:21 +0200 Subject: [DL] M4M-3: Deadline Extension!!! Message-ID: <20030630184120.GA24268@science.uva.nl> ################################################################## ####################### DEADLINE EXTENSION ####################### ################################################################## METHODS FOR MODALITIES 3 (M4M-3) INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France. September 22-23, 2003 www.science.uva.nl/~m4m NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: July 7, 2003 THEME The workshop Methods for Modalities (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, hybrid logics, feature logic, temporal logic, etc. SPECIAL FEATURES To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will be centered around a number of long presentations by leading researchers; these presentations aim to provide both the general background and inside information in a number of key areas. To complement these, we are inviting submissions of short, focussed presentations aimed at highlighting new developments and applications, and submissions of system demonstrations. M4M-3 is the third installment of this bi-anual workshop series. SUBMISSIONS We invite three kinds of submissions: A. Research papers on proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic as well as their applications. Submissions in this category need not be unpublished work; they can be up to 10 A4 size pages. B. System descriptions can be up to 4 A4 size pages, they should focus on actual implementations explaining system architecture issues and specific implementation techniques. Every system description should be accompanied by a system demo at M4M. C. Application descriptions can be up to 6 A4 size pages, they should focus on experiences of using modal-like languages to solve specific real-world tasks. A description of the problem should be given, together with an explanation of how modal like inference systems were used to tackle/analyse it. If available, demos of the final product/solution can be organized during M4M. The primary means of submission will be electronic, in PostScript or PDF format. Final versions should be done in Latex, using the styles provided in the Workshop home pages. Submissions should be sent to m4m at science.uva.nl. PROGRAM COMMITTEE The program committee for M4M-3 consists of Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine (co-chair); Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine (co-chair); Torben Brauner, Roskilde University; Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam; Holger Schlingloff, Humboldt University in Berlin; Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester; and Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool. IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for submissions: July 7, 2003 * Notification: August 8, 2003 * Camera ready versions: September 8, 2003 * Workshop dates: September 22-23, 2003 FURTER INFORMATION Please visit www.science.uva.nl/~m4m for further information about M4M. -- M4M: Methods for Modalities www.science.uva.nl/~m4m From handschuh at acm.org Wed Jul 2 20:21:42 2003 From: handschuh at acm.org (Siegfried Handschuh) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:21:42 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2 CfP: KCAP 03 Markup and Annotation Workshop Message-ID: <200306050951.03879.sha@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation October 25-26, 2003 at Sanibel, Florida, USA Workshop at the Second International Conference for Knowledge Capture K-CAP'2003 is held in conjunction with the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) --- Call for Papers --- Capturing knowledge by using markup techniques and by supporting semantic annotations is a major technique for creating metadata. It is beneficial in a wide range of content-oriented intelligent applications. One important application, for instance, is the Semantic Web. Here, knowledge markup is a major challenge, i.e. the problem is the providing of knowledge structures for existing syntactic or multimedia resources. The workshops intend to bring together researchers and practitioners from such communities as W3C, MPEG-7, AI, Natural Language technologies and KR to discuss various aspects of knowledge markup and semantic annotation. Submission Papers: Practitioners and researchers interested in participating should submit either a full paper (less than 6000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing relevant issues. Submit before July 21, 2003 in electronic form (pdf) to: handschuh at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de. Topics of Interest includes, but are not limited to: * authoring/annotation tools * web page annotation * collaborative, shared annotation * knowledge markup in the Semantic Web * ontology-based markup * using semantic annotations to define knowledge tools for supporting knowledge markup * integrated software architecture based on semantic annotation * multimedia annotation (e.g. by using MPEG-7) * image/picture annotation * linguistic aspects of semantic annotation * capturing knowledge through Information Extraction and NLP * text mining for creating knowledge markup * evaluation of manual annotation * Usage of Annotations, e.g. learning resource metadata Although not required for the initial submission, we recommend to follow the format guidlines of K-Cap 2001 , as this will be the required format for accepted papers. Organization Committee: Siegfried Handschuh (AIFB) Marja-Riitta Koivunen (W3C) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA) Steffen Staab (AIFB) Program Committee: Ana Belen Benitez (Columbia University) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI) Philipp Cimiano (AIFB) Olivier Corby (INRIA) Grit Denker (SRI International) Martin Frank (ISI) Fabien Gandon (CMU) Carole Goble (University of Manchester) Yolanda Gil (ISI) Harry N. Keeling (Howard University) Guenter Neumann (DFKI) Sofia Pinto (Instituto Superior Tecnico) Alun Preece (University of Aberdeen) Guus Schreiber (Free University Amsterdam) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, University Paris-Nord) Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Maria Vargas-Vera (Open University) Martin Wolpers (Learning Lab Lower Saxony) Contact: Siegfried Handschuh (handschuh at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) From info at folli.org Thu Jul 3 13:46:12 2003 From: info at folli.org (info at folli.org) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:46:12 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2004 final call for proposals Message-ID: <200307031146.h63BkC129095@mendieta.science.uva.nl> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Sixteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2004 August 9-21, 2004, Nancy, France %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% FINAL CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------------- - proposal deadline: Wednesday July 16, 2003 - The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-2004 is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). The ESSLLI-2004 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 16th annual Summer School on a wide range of timely topics that have demonstrated their relevance in the following fields: LANGUAGE & COMPUTATION LANGUAGE & LOGIC LOGIC & COMPUTATION In addition to courses and workshops there will be a Student Session. A Call for Papers for the Student Session will be distributed separately. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted through a web form available through . All proposals should be submitted no later than Wednesday July 16, 2003. Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Wednesday September 17, 2003. Proposers should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate can not be considered. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: Anyone interested in lecturing or organizing a workshop during ESSLLI-2004, please read the following information carefully. ALL COURSES: Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers. They typically consist of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course). Each session lasts 90 minutes. Timetable for Course Proposal Submission: Jul 16, 2003: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 17, 2003: Notification Nov 15, 2003: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s) information, course description and prerequisites Jun 2, 2004: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are really elementary courses not assuming any background knowledge. They are intended for people to get acquainted with the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key competences of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses may presuppose some experience with scientific methods in general, so as to be able to concentrate on the issues that are germane to the area of the course. INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are intended to equip students and young researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques. Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and Computation, can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared to standard texts in the area (if available). ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or PhD students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in some detail. WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work. A workshop has a theme. At most one organizer is paid. The organizers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop and give a general introduction in the first session. They are also responsible for the program of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers. Each workshop organizer will be responsible for producing a Call for Papers for the workshop by November 15, 2003. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the LLI community. It should also note that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop). Sessions are normally 90 minutes. Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions Jul 16, 2003: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 17, 2003: Notification Nov 15, 2003: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers (by ESSLLI PC chair) Dec 1, 2003: Workshop organizers send out (First) Call for Papers Mar 12, 2004: Deadline for Papers (suggested) Apr 30, 2004: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested) May 14, 2004: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Program May 31, 2004: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of Workshop notes May 31, 2004: Deadline for Final Workshop Program FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS: The web-based form for submitting course and workshop proposals is accessible at . You will be required to submit the following information: * Name (name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer) * Address (contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer; where possible, please include phone and fax numbers) * Title (title of proposed course/workshop) * Type (is this a workshop, a foundational course, an introductory course, or an advanced course?) * Section (does your proposal fit in Language & Computation, Language & Logic or Logic & Computation? name only one) * Description (in at most 150 words, describe the proposed contents and substantiate timeliness and relevance to ESSLLI) * External funding (will you be able to find external funding to help fund your travel and accommodation expenses? if so, how?) * Further particulars (any further information that is required by the above guidelines should be included here) FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Prospective lecturers and workshop organizers should be aware that all teaching and organizing at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible. Lecturers and organizers are not paid for their contribution, but are reimbursed for travel and accommodation. The guidelines for funding and reimbursement are as follows. As pointed out above, as a rule each course/workshop lasts a single week and is taught/organized by a single lecturer/organizer. For each course/workshop of one week, one lecturer/organizer will be reimbursed for his/her travel expenses (economy/APEX only) and his/her accomodation for the duration of the one week course/workshop (plus the weekend preceding or following the course, so as to enable the purchase of reasonably priced plane tickets). Lecturers/organizers of one week courses/workshops are entitled to attend the entire two-week summer school without having to pay registration fees; their accommodation will only be paid for for a single week, though). In case a course is to be taught by two lecturers, a lump sum is paid to cover travel and accommodation expenses. The splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers. In exceptional cases, a course may last two weeks instead of a single week; for the purpose of reimbursements, a two week course counts as two one week courses, which means that up to two lecturers can get their travel expenses refunded (economy/APEX only), and either two lecturers can each get one week of accommodation or a single lecturer gets the full two weeks of accommodation refunded. Two week workshops are not an option. Please allow us to underline that the organizers highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses. Workshop speakers are required to register for the Summer School; however, workshop speakers will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined by the Organizing Committee. Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School can in general guarantee only to reimburse travel costs for travel from destinations within Europe to Nancy. Exceptions will be made depending on the financial situation. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chair: Antal van den Bosch Attn: ESSLLI-2004 ILK / Computational Linguistics Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 NL-5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands Phone: +31.13.4663117 Email: Antal.vdnBosch at kub.nl Local co-chair: Philippe de Groote (Philippe.de.Groote at loria.fr) Language and Logic: Tim Fernando (Tim.Fernando at tcd.ie) Ge'rard Huet (Gerard.Huet at inria.fr) Logic and Computation: David Pym (d.j.pym at bath.ac.uk) Francesca Rossi (frossi at math.unipd.it) Language and Computation: Paul Buitelaar (paulb at dfki.de) Detlef Prescher (prescher at science.uva.nl) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Patrick Blackburn (chair) Email: Patrick.Blackburn at loria.fr FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information, visit the ESSLLI site through . For this year's summer school, please see the web site for ESSLLI-2003 at . From tab2003 at dia.uniroma3.it Fri Jul 4 13:56:02 2003 From: tab2003 at dia.uniroma3.it (Tableaux 2003) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 13:56:02 +0200 (MEST) Subject: [DL] Tableaux 2003 early registration deadline Message-ID: The deadline for TABLEAUX 2003 early registrations is ****************** MONDAY, 7 JUNE ******************* The scientific programme and preliminary schedule of the conference is now available at TABLEAUX 2003 Web page. TABLEAUX 2003 Organizing Committee http://tab2003.dia.uniroma3.it _______________________________________________ Tab03 mailing list Tab03 at pop.dia.uniroma3.it http://pop.dia.uniroma3.it/mailman/listinfo.cgi/tab03 From B.Konev at csc.liv.ac.uk Mon Jul 7 11:19:46 2003 From: B.Konev at csc.liv.ac.uk (Boris Konev) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:19:46 +0100 (BST) Subject: [DL] 4th International workshop on the Implementation of Logics. Call for submissions Message-ID: <200307070919.h679Jk102201@konev.staff.csc.liv.ac.uk> Call for submissions 4th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics September 27th, 2003, Almaty, Kazakhstan http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~konev/wil2003/ Following a series of successful workshops on the implementation of logics held in conjunction with the LPAR conference, there will be a fourth workshop on this topic, to be held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, LPAR 2003, September 22-26, Almaty, Kazakhstan (see http://www.lpar.net/2003/). We are looking for contributions describing implementation techniques of automated reasoning programs, theorem provers for various logics, logic programming systems, and related technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * System descriptions * Data structures and algorithms for the efficient representation of logical concepts * Practical constraint handling * Implementation of provers for different logics * Implementation of logic programming * Efficient model generation * Issues of reliability, proof generation and verification * Propositional logic and decision procedures * Implementation of higher order logics and lambda-calculus * Proof search organisation and efficient heuristics for classical and inductive provers * Experiences with new or unusual calculi * Evaluation and benchmarking of provers and other logic-based systems We are particularly interested in contributions that help the community to understand how to build useful and powerful reasoning systems in practice. Researchers interested in participating are invited to send a short abstract, experimental paper, position paper, system description, or research paper of between 2 and 15 pages to B.Konev at csc.liv.ac.uk. Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Submissions should be in standard-conforming Postscript or plain ASCII. Final versions should be in Postscript and will be included in the proceedings of the workshop which will be edited by Boris Konev and distributed to the participants. Following the workshop, final versions of the accepted papers will be made available electronically in the workshop's homepage. Important dates: * Submission of abstracts: July 27th, 2003 * Notification: August 15th * Final version: September 1st * Workshop: September 27th, with LPAR 2003. Registration: LPAR 2003 registration fee covers the workshop. Workshop only registration will be open soon; the workshop only fee is 120 EUR. For further details on travel, registration, accommodation, and related issues please see the LPAR 2003 web page (http://www.lpar.net/2003/). Program committee: Elvira Albert Universidad Complutense de Madrid Bart Demoen Catholic Univ. Leuven Thom Fruehwirth Universitaet Ulm Ullrich Hustadt Univ. Liverpool Boris Konev (co-chair) Univ. Liverpool William McCune Argonne National Laboratory Gopalan Nadathur Univ. Minnesota Alexandre Riazanov Univ. Manchester Kostis Sagonas Uppsala University Renate Schmidt (co-chair) Univ. Manchester Stephan Schulz Technische Universitaet Muenchen / RISC Linz Mark Stickel SRI International Hantao Zhang University of Iowa Previous events: Reunion Workshop (held in conjunction with LPAR'2000 on Reunion Island), Second Workshop in Cuba (together with LPAR'2001 in Havana, Cuba), Third workshop on in Tbilisi (together with LPAR'2002 in Tbilisi, Georgia). From carole at cs.man.ac.uk Mon Jul 7 22:46:14 2003 From: carole at cs.man.ac.uk (Carole Goble) Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 21:46:14 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP:Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific data Message-ID: <3F09DC16.80306@cs.man.ac.uk> Deadline approaching fast! Apologies for duplicates. Call for Papers Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific Data Monday, October 20, 2003 Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/scisw2003/cfp.htm A workshop in conjunction with The Second International Semantic Web Conference Submission of papers: July 18, 2003 Notification of acceptance: August 22, 2003 Submission of camera-ready version: September 19, 2003 Workshop: October 20, 2003 This one-day workshop aims at exploring the Semantic-Web requirements for scientific communities. The particular focus is on methods for search and retrieval of scientific data that match the needs of domain scientists. In most scientific disciplines today, such as earth sciences, bio-informatics, environmental science, physical sciences, medical informatics and others, scientists access a number of online sources that provide information and services in that domain. Currently available methods and capabilities for searching, locating, retrieving, querying, and integrating scientific data from multiple online sources are inadequate for scientists who still use collections of stand-alone sources. There are several efforts in progress on applying semantic web technology for data retrieval in scientific domains such as integrating Geospatial data, integrating bio-informatics sources and services, integration of GeoSciences data, Earth Science information sources and also Medical Informatics data sources, which are all based on tailoring upcoming Semantic Web technologies to science data search and retrieval. The objective of this workshop is to gain new insights into the information search and retrieval needs of scientists and the applicability of semantic web technology to this task by reviewing efforts in progress as well as new perspectives on building semantic web-based approaches for scientific communities. We welcome submissions that describe a vision or work in progress on building a semantic web for a particular science discipline. Topics of Interest (Include but are not limited to) - Types of search and retrieval requests typical for science data users. - Iterative search scenarios typical for a scientists search profile. - Specifications of properties of scientific data sets relevant for successful search, inference, and retrieval. - Granularities of ontologies for scientific data. - Specifications of search purpose and search result within the setting of scientific investigations. - Ontological differences about fundamental concepts that are present across different scientific domains, such as space, time, and processes. - Experience reports with using state-of-the-art technologies for developing building blocks such as "wrappers" or interfaces to science information sources. - Application or development of semantics-based search, query, and retrieval agents and softbots. - Connections between ontologies for scientific and generic use, over the same domains. - Semantic web technologies aiding interdisciplinary science activities. - Data quality, pedigree and provenance issues. - Scientific workflows and applicability of Web services to workflows. Paper Submission We invite submissions of short papers in the area of Semantic-Web-based search and retrieval of scientific data. Papers are solicited in the following categories: - Experience papers (upto 6 pages) describing completed work or work in progress. - Position papers (upto 3 pages) articulating a new problem, approach, vision, or position. Authors should submit a PDF file of their paper to scisw2003 at email.arc.nasa.gov Organizing Committee Naveen Ashish USRA RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center, USA ashish at email.arc.nasa.gov Max Egenhofer University of Maine, USA max at sparial.maine.edu Carole Goble University of Manchester, UK carole.goble at cs.man.ac.uk Program Committee Terence Critchlow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania Natasha Fridman Noy, Stanford University School of Medicine Kathleen Hornsby, University of Maine Vipul Kashyap, National Library of Medicine Bertram Lud?scher, San Diego Supercomputer Center Brian McBride, HP Laboratories Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California Eric Miller, W3C World Wide Web Consortium Amit Sheth, University of Georgia For questions or comments, please send email to scisw2003 at email.arc.nasa.gov From horrocks at cs.man.ac.uk Fri Jul 11 11:47:18 2003 From: horrocks at cs.man.ac.uk (Ian Horrocks) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:47:18 +0100 Subject: [DL] PostDoctoral research in KR & Ontologies for the Semantic Web Message-ID: <16142.34726.874056.865506@merlin.horrocks.net> UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION & ONTOLOGIES FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB (REF 548/03) See: http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research.html#548 A postdoctoral researcher is required to take a leadership role in an internationally outstanding research team developing tools and technologies for the Semantic Web and E-Science Programmes. The post is available immediately for a period up to three years. The HyOntUse project aims to develop tools and methodologies to make the new Web Ontology Language (OWL) easier for end users to understand and use. The goal is to produce tools that can be used directly by domain experts in cooperative distributed environments - e.g. biologists, doctors, librarians, astronomers, etc. indeed by any group of users needing to formalise and catalogue their knowledge. The initial approaches will include debugging aids, visualisation and explanation tools, and mechanisms for maintaining multiple views. The project is one of a pair funded jointly by the EPSRC and JISC and forms part of a collaboration with Stanford and Southampton Universities to develop environments integrating OWL and frames by integrating OilEd developed at Manchester with Prot?g? developed at Stanford. It will link closely with existing E-Science projects. The combined projects are designed to have a critical mass of both developers and users to produce and disseminate major advances. The successful candidate will lead the development of the underlying methodologies and work with the team to extend the combined OilEd-Prot?g? framework. The candidate should be capable of innovative research in a new area and carrying it through into practical software. His or her background should ideally include some combination of knowledge representation, object oriented design and/or HCI and tools development. Knowledge of OWL, its predecessor languages DAML+Oil, or the underlying description logic framework would be a distinct advantage. The candidate should have practical experience of developing systems in Java, and software engineering skills and a working familiarity with web technologies (XML, XSLT, XML Schema, RDF, etc) would be an advantage. The post will involve some travel to collaborators at Stanford and both academic and commercial users' centres in the UK, US and possibly continental Europe. The ability to work in a team and be sensitive to the controversies that inevitably arise in collaborations is essential. Although the post is offered at the post-doctoral level, candidates with other appropriate experience will be considered. Salary in the range: ?25,451 - ?33,679 per annum. Informal enquiries may be made to Dr. Jeremy Rogers or Prof. Alan Rector, Medical Informatics Group, Department of Computer Science, Kilburn Building, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 275 6133/6239/6188; fax: +44 (0)161 275 6204; email: arector at cs.man.ac.uk or jrogers at cs.man.ac.uk or Karon Mee tel +44 (0)161 275 6248; email: kmee at cs.man.ac.uk The following are available in pdf format: Further particulars Application form (also in RTF format) Equal opportunities monitoring form For further information on the University see www.man.ac.uk/ Application forms and further particulars are also available from the Office of the Director of Personnel, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 275 2028; fax: +44 (0)161 275 2471; Minicom (for the hearing impaired): +44 (0)161 275 7889; e-mail: personnel at man.ac.uk Quote ref 548/03. Closing date 11 August 2003. Interviews will probably be held during the week beginning 23 August 2003. From jleite at di.fct.unl.pt Fri Jul 11 15:20:31 2003 From: jleite at di.fct.unl.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Alexandre_Leite?=) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:20:31 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: CLIMA IV - 4th Intl. Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems Message-ID: <414-220037511132031127@ANIMAL> ========================================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CLIMA IV Fourth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems January 6-7, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/climaIV/index.htm Post-Proceedings will be published in Springer Verlag LNAI Submission Deadline: September 19th Co-located with the 7th LPNMR and the 8th AIMATH =========================================================================== Over recent years, the notion of agency has claimed a major role in defining the trends of modern research. Influencing a broad spectrum of disciplines such as Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy and many more, the agent paradigm virtually invaded every sub-field of Computer Science, not least because of the Internet and Robotics. Multi-agent Systems (MAS) are communities of problem-solving entities that can perceive and act upon their environments to achieve their individual goals as well as joint goals. The work on such systems integrates many technologies and concepts in artificial intelligence and other areas of computing. There is a full spectrum of MAS applications that have been and are being developed; from search engines, educational aids to electronic commerce and trade. Although commonly implemented by means of imperative languages, mainly for reasons of efficiency, the agent concept has recently increased its influence in the research and development of computational logic based systems. Computational Logic, by virtue of its nature both in substance and method, provides a well-defined, general, and rigorous framework for systematically studying computation, be it syntax, semantics, procedures, or implementations, environments, tools, and standards. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about multi-agent systems in a formal way. This is clearly a major challenge for computational logic, to deal with real world issues and applications. Following the workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Logic Programming affiliated with ICLP'99, the first CLIMA workshop took place in London, UK, affiliated with CL'2000. The 2001 edition of CLIMA, took place in Paphos, Cyprus, affiliated with ICLP'01. CLIMA'02 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was affiliated with ICLP'02 and part of FLOC'02. We solicit unpublished papers that address formal approaches to multi-agent systems. The approaches as well asbeing formal must make a significant contribution to the practice of multi-agent systems. Relevant techniques include, but are not limited to, the following: * Nonmonotonic reasoning in MAS * Planning under incomplete information in MAS * Logical foundations of MAS * Usage of abduction in MAS * Representation of knowledge and belief in MAS * Knowledge and belief updates in MAS * Temporal reasoning for MAS * Theory of argumentation for MAS * Negotiation and co-operation for MAS * Communication languages for MAS * Distributed constraint satisfaction in MAS * Modal logic approaches to MAS * Logic based programming languages for MAS * Distributed theorem proving for MAS * Logic based implementations of MAS * Decision theory for MAS * Logic based agents for the Internet SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Please refer to the workshop web pages for further instructions concerning the submission procedures. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: September 19th, 2003 * Notification of Acceptance: October 17th, 2003 * Final version due: November 13th, 2003 * CLIMA IV: January 6-7th, 2004 PROCEEDINGS Post-proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Informal proceedings will be available at the workshop and online. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA * Gerd Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany * J?rgen Dix, The University of Manchester, UK * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany * Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK * James Harland, Royal Melbourne Inst. of Tech., Australia * Katsumi Inoue, Kobe University, Japan * Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen Univ. of Technology, Germany * Jo?o Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Yves Lesp?rance, York University, Canada * John Jules Ch. Meyer, Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands * Leora Morgenstern, IBM, USA * Lu?s Moniz Pereira, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, UK * Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK * Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina * V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA * Francesca Toni, Imperial College, UK * Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy * Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK * Cees Witteveen, Delft Univ. of Tech., The Netherlands WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: * J?rgen Dix, The University of Manchester, UK (dix at cs.man.ac.uk) * Jo?o Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal (jleite at di.fct.unl.pt) INQUIRIES: Please send program suggestions and inquires to either of the organizers. From Wolfgang.Windsteiger at risc.uni-linz.ac.at Tue Jul 15 12:15:06 2003 From: Wolfgang.Windsteiger at risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Wolfgang Windsteiger) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:15:06 +0200 Subject: [DL] Professorship position at RISC-Linz available! Message-ID: <609306211.20030715121506@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> The Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, School of Science and Technology, welcomes all applications for the position of Professor in Computational Science (Symbolic Computation) (succession of Prof. Bruno Buchberger) at the Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC-Linz). The position is to be filled at the earliest possible date. For further details see also the web page http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/institute/Ausschreibung From trp at ecs.soton.ac.uk Tue Jul 8 12:58:15 2003 From: trp at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Terry R. Payne) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:58:15 +0100 Subject: [DL] CALL FOR PAPERS: Semantic Web Services - 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium Series Message-ID: <031b01c3453f$d6dade30$3e404e98@ecs.soton.ac.uk> [Apologies for cross-posting] --- Semantic Web Services --- 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium Series Stanford University, CA http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/SSS-SWS04.html Services, i.e. network pervasive programs or devices, facilitate interoperation by exposing their interfaces to each other. Such service-oriented research includes: * Web Services - standardized enterprise components offered across the Web; * Grid Services - scientific/computing resources that facilitate large-scale e-science research; * Multi-Agent Systems - heterogeneous agents that cooperate or compete to solve distributed AI problems. Whilst services deliver dynamic, personalised, and relevant applications though discovery, invocation and composition, a key remaining challenge is to support automated interoperability without necessitating human intervention. The inclusion and use of Semantic Web annotations promise to make Web-based information and services both accessible and understandable to agents and other applications. Emerging ontologies (e.g. DAML-S) are being used to construct semantically rich service descriptions. Techniques for planning, composing, editing, reasoning and analysing about these descriptions are being investigated, and deployed to resolve semantic interoperability between services within scalable, open environments. Key research challenges in the area of Web services, Grid services and Multi-Agent computing include the construction of ontologies for service description, ontologies of service types (i.e. describing classes of services), etc, as well as techniques that support the manipulation of service descriptions to automate service discovery, translation, composition, etc. This proposed symposium aims to bring together researchers addressing many of these issues, and promote and foster a greater understanding of how the Semantic Web can assist Grid, Web Services and Multi Agent System research. Topics of Interest include: =========================== Ontologies that support service descriptions Ontologies for service classification Semantic interoperability and integration Quality of service and service level agreement management Semantic Web security policies, management and frameworks Semantic description, discovery, and selection of services Scaleable service composition for heterogeneous environments Knowledge Representation for Semantic Web Services DAML-S services Semantics in Agent Communication Languages Semantics for service delegation and knowledge aggregation Architectures for supporting Semantic Web Services Service enactment/invocation frameworks Service Negotiation Rules within Semantic Web Services Submission Information ====================== Those interested in participating should send either 1-3 page extended abstract, or an 8-page paper to Terry Payne (trp at ecs.soton.ac.uk) by the submission deadline. Electronic submissions (Postscript or PDF) in AAAI format preferred Dates ===== Abstracts Due: October 3, 2003 Acceptance Notices: November 7, 2003 Camera Ready: January 20, 2004 Registration: February 27, 2004 Symposium: March 22-24, 2004 Committee ========= Terry Payne (Chair) Keith Decker Ora Lassila Sheila McIlraith Katia Sycara _______________________________________________________________________ Terry R. Payne, PhD.????? | http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~trp/index.html University of Southampton | Voice: +44(0)23 8059 8343 [Fax: 8059 2865] Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK | Email: terry at acm.org / trp at ecs.soton.ac.uk From sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Tue Jul 15 15:16:18 2003 From: sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (York Sure) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:16:18 +0200 Subject: [DL] Deadline Extension: EON2003 at ISWC2003 Message-ID: <3F141AC2.25724.10663D78@localhost> --------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive this message more than once. --------------------------------------------------------------- ***** DEADLINE EXTENSION: JULY, 28th ***** Call for papers Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2003) http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003 Workshop at the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003) 20 October 2003 Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- *** OBJECTIVES *** In the Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools workshop we intend to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fastly developing research areas Ontologies and Semantic Web. Currently the semantic web attracts researchers from all around the world. Numerous tools and applications of semantic web technologies are already available and the number is growing fast. However, deploying large scale ontology solutions typically involves several separate tasks and requires applying multiple tools. Therefore pragmatic issues such as interoperability are key if industry is to be encouraged to take up ontology technology rapidly. The main aim of this workshop is therefore to encourage and stimulate discussions about the evaluation of ontology-based tools. The large visibility of the semantic web, it?s tools and applications already attract industrial partners . In particular, as tools move from academic institutions into commercial environments they have to fulfil stronger requirements and in some cases new requirements (e.g. concerning scalability and multi- user access). Different tools from different sources need to interoperate. Typically tools are not anymore standalone solutions but integrated into a framework. This framework must be open to other commercialapplications and provide connectors and interfaces to industrial standards. Larger applications need also larger ontologies and therefore require substantially more performance and scalability. A systematic evaluation of the tools might lead to a consistent level of quality and thus acceptance by industry. For the future this might lead into certification efforts for such tools. *** TOPICS OF INTEREST *** Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Interoperability of tools (e.g. turnaround abilities) - Integration of tools into frameworks - Performance benchmarks - Scalability of tools - Certification of tools Tools include e.g.: - Annotation tools - Inference engines - Ontology editors and browsers - Ontology servers - Ontology mapping tools - Repositories - Retrieval tools - Semantic search engines *** PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS *** The first workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2002) was celebrated in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2002), in September 30th, 2002. EON2002: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/eon2002 *** SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS *** We invite three types of submissions for this workshop: - Technical papers (10 pages) in any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not limited to them) - Short position papers (2 pages) in any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not limited to them) - Experiment papers (10 pages) describing the results of the experiment proposed. The experiment description can be found in the following URL: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003/experiment.pdf More details on the workshop submissions can be found at the workshop website: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** New Deadline paper submissions: July 28th, 2003 Notification of acceptance: August 25th, 2003 Camera ready deadline: September 22nd, 2003 Workshop: October 20th, 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- *** WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *** York Sure (Contact Person) Institute AIFB University of Karlsruhe sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Oscar Corcho Ontology Group Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid ocorcho at fi.upm.es J?rgen Angele Ontoprise GmbH angele at ontoprise.de *** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE *** Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant, Inc. (US) Bill Anderson, Ontology Works, Inc. (US) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Universit? P. Sabatier (FR) Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester (UK) Richard Benjamins, iSOCO (ES) John Davies, BT (UK) Carole Goble, University of Manchester (UK) Asunci?n G?mez-P?rez, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (ES) Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University (US) Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText Lab / Sirma AI, Ltd. (BG) Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University (JP) Natasha F. Noy, Stanford University (US) Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics (US) Henrik Oppermann, Ontoprise (DE) Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University (US) Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Mike Uschold, Boeing (US) -- York Sure eMail: sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu Institute AIFB University of Karlsruhe (TH) D-76128 Karlsruhe (Germany) From franconi at inf.unibz.it Tue Jul 15 17:08:29 2003 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:08:29 +0200 Subject: [DL] Description Logics workshop: Call for Participation Message-ID: <316ADACE-B6D6-11D7-8C0F-000A9575BDDE@inf.unibz.it> - We apologise if you receive this more than once. You're receiving - - this message since you are a subscriber of a relevant mailing list - 2003 International Description Logic Workshop (DL'03) Rome, Italy -- 5-7 September 2003 http://dl.kr.org/dl2003/ Registration to the workshop is now open; check the information at the workshop web site. Participation to the workshop is by invitation only. If you wish to participate and you have not already submitted a paper or a statement of interest, please contact the organizers at dl03 at dis.uniroma1.it PROGRAM: Friday, September 5 8:00 - 9:00 REGISTRATION 9:00 - 10:15 INVITED TALK: John Mylopoulos 10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 10:45 - 12:25 TECHNICAL SESSION: "Applications I" Reducing OWL Entailment to DL Satisfiability (Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider) Index Selection for Embedded Control Applications using DLs (Lubomir Stanchev, Grant Weddell) Rule Based Computation of Updates to Terminologies (Sanjay Modgil) Reasoning on UML Class Diagrams is EXPTIME-hard (Daniela Berardi, Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo) 12:25 - 14:00 LUNCH 14:00 - 15:40 TECHNICAL SESSION: "Techniques for Standard Inferences" Restricted role-value-maps in a DL with existential restrictions and terminological cycles (Franz Baader) Handling Boolean ABoxes (C. Areces, P. Blackburn, B. Martinez Hernandez, M. Marx) Subsumption of concepts in DL FL_0 for (cyclic) terminologies with respect to descriptive semantics is PSPACE-complete (Yevgeny Kazakov, Hans de Nivelle) A Tableau Algorithm for ALCN(o,U) (Fabio Grandi) 15:40 - 16:10 COFFEE BREAK 16:10 - 18:00 POSTER SESSION Saturday, September 6 9:00 - 10:15 INVITED TALK: Richard Hull 10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 10:45 - 12:25 TECHNICAL SESSION: "Applications II" e-Service Composition by DL-based Reasoning (D. Berardi, D. Calvanese, G. De Giacomo, M. Lenzerini, M. Mecella) Incremental Query Answering for Implementing Document Retrieval Services (Volker Haarslev, Ralf Moeller) RDFS(FA): A DL-ised Sub-language of RDFS (Jeff Z. Pan, Ian Horrocks) Rewriting Aggregate Queries using DL (David DeHaan, David Toman, Grant Weddell) 12:25 - 14:00 LUNCH 14:00 - 15:40 TECHNICAL SESSION: "Non-standard Reasoning Services" Concept Abduction and Contraction in DLs (S. Colucci, T. Di Noia, E. Di Sciascio, F. Donini, M. Mongiello) Data Mining in Hybrid Languages via ILP (Francesca A. Lisi) Explanation of Terminological Reasoning (Stefan Schlobach) Reasoning about concepts and similarity (Carsten Lutz, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyaschev) 15:40 - 16:10 COFFEE BREAK 16:10 - 16:35 TECHNICAL SESSION: "Systems" DL Reasoner vs. First-Order Prover (Dmitry Tsarkov, Ian Horrocks) 16:35 - 18:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION 20:00 - ... SOCIAL DINNER Sunday, September 7 9:00 - 10:15 TECHNICAL SESSION: "Extensions of DLs" Fixpoint Extensions of Temporal DLs (Enrico Franconi, David Toman) Finite Model Reasoning in ALCQI is ExpTime-complete (Carsten Lutz, Ulrike Sattler, Lidia Tendera) E-connections of DLs (O. Kutz, C. Lutz, F. Wolter, M. Zakharyaschev) 10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 10:45 - 11:35 TECHNICAL SESSION: "Implementations" Implementing Matching in ALE - First Results (Sebastian Brandt) The DIG DL Interface (Sean Bechhofer, Ralf Moeller, Peter Crowther) 11:35 - 13:00 DL-2003 WRAP UP SESSION Discussion about next DL Workshop POSTERS: Applying DL to Product Bahavioural Design within Advanced CAD Systems (Francois de Bertrand de Beuvron, Amadou Coulibaly) Computing least common subsumers for FLE_trans (Sebastian Brandt, Anni-Yasmin Turhan) Reasoning about Nominals with FaCT and RACER (Jan Hladik) Wine Agent: Testbed Application for Semantic Web Technologies (Eric Hsu, Deborah McGuinness) From Lexicon To Mammographic Ontology: Experiences and Lessons (Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Nigel Shadbolt) Visualising a DL Knowledge Base with DeLogViz (Bo Hu, Nigel Shadbolt) Comparing natural language documents: a DL based approach (Naouel Karam, Michel Schneider) Merging DAML+OIL bio-ontologies (Patrick Lambrix, Anna Edberg, Carolyn Manis, He Tan) On the Problems of Computing Approximation and Representing LSC in DLs. (Chan Le Duc and Nhan Le Thanh) Matchmaking Using an Instance Store: Some Preliminary Results (Lei Li, Ian Horrocks) Graphical Interfaces for Racer: Querying DAML+OIL and RDF documents (Ralf Moeller, Ronald Cornet, Volker Haarslev) DL-Based Natural Language Understanding for Geometry Tutoring (Octav Popescu, Ken Koedinger) Simple Concrete Domains Constraints for ALCQI (Mathieu Roger, Ana Simonet, Michel Simonet) Detecting Inconsistencies between UML Models Using DL (Ragnhild Van Der Straeten, Jocelyn Simmonds, Tom Mens) From Amedeo.Napoli at loria.fr Tue Jul 15 19:04:54 2003 From: Amedeo.Napoli at loria.fr (Amedeo Napoli) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:04:54 +0200 Subject: [DL] post-doctoral positions at INRIA Message-ID: <16148.13366.823201.864121@gaumont.loria.fr> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bonjour, a number of post-doctoral positions are available at INRIA. For further details, please see the web following pages: in French: http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/aci-postdocs and in English, http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/aci-postdocs/index.en.html bye, Amedeo Napoli --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kruse at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Thu Jul 17 16:54:19 2003 From: kruse at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Rudolf Kruse) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:54:19 +0200 (MEST) Subject: [DL] KI 2003 - Call for Participation - Message-ID: <200307171454.h6HEsJY23312@enterprise.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> - Call for Participation - 26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence - KI 2003 Hamburg, Germany September 15-18, 2003 * * * Early registration deadline: August 8th * * * The program of the 26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence has been established, and we look forward to an exciting conference with 5 invited talks by W.Wahlster, R. Studer, E. Sandewall, D. Keim, and N. Jennings. The program features 18 refereed papers, 24 posters, 11 workshops, an exhibition and, of course, attractive social activities in the beautiful town of Hamburg. We invite everybody to come to Hamburg and to enjoy this stimulating conference. Information about social events, hotels, registration, and the conference-site are available at http://www.ki2003.de * * * From Mary-Anne at it.uts.edu.au Mon Jul 21 01:18:34 2003 From: Mary-Anne at it.uts.edu.au (Mary-Anne Williams) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:18:34 +1000 Subject: [DL] KR2004 CALL for PAPERS Submission Deadline: November 26, 2003 Message-ID: <006201c34f15$41c78c50$0100000a@humbug> We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. It has been posted to a large number of email-lists. KR2004 CALL FOR PAPERS Ninth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning June 2 - 5, 2004 Whistler, Canada Submission Deadline: November 26, 2003 Sponsored by KR Inc, IBM, SFU and UTS Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavor. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web technologies and the design of software agents, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R. We intend KR2004 to be a forum for the exchange of news, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. We encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the applicability of the results to implemented and implementable systems. We also encourage "reports from the field'' of applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and must include a section on evaluation. KR2004 will collocate with the International Conference on Advanced Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-2004), with one day in common. We strongly encourage papers which would be of interest to both communities. Topics of interest include: o Exception Tolerant and Inconsistency-Tolerant Reasoning, Default Logics, Conditional Logics, Paraconsistent Logics, Argumentation o Temporal Reasoning, Spatial reasoning, Causal Reasoning, Abduction, Explanations, Extrapolation, Model-based diagnosis o Reasoning about Actions, Situation Calculus, Action Languages, Dynamic Logic o Reasoning, Planning, or Decision Making under Uncertainty, Probabilistic and Possibilistic approaches, Belief Functions and Imprecise Probabilities o Representations of Vagueness, Many-valued and Fuzzy Logics, o Concept Formation, Similarity-based reasoning o Information Change, Belief Revision, Update o Information Fusion, Ontologies, Ontology Methodology o Qualitative reasoning and decision theory, Preference modeling, Reasoning about preference, reasoning about physical systems o Intelligent agents, negotiation, group decision making, cooperation, interaction, game theory, common knowledge, cognitive robotics o Algebraic foundations of knowledge representations, graphical representations o Modal logics and reasoning, belief, preference networks, constraints o Knowledge representation languages, Description logics, Logic programming, constraint logic programming, inductive logic programming, complexity analysis o Natural language processing, learning, discovering and acquiring knowledge, belief networks, summarization, categorization o Applications of KR&R, Knowledge-based Scheduling, WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration, Electronic commerce and auctions o Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence Important Dates Electronic Submission Deadline: November 26, 2003 Notification of acceptance: January 14, 2004 Camera-ready papers due: March 3, 2004 KR2004 Conference: June 2 -5, 2004 Paper Submission The Program Committee will review extended abstracts rather than complete papers. Submissions must be at most twelve (12) pages, excluding the bibliography, with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt). If you have a separate title page containing at most the title, author information, keywords and abstract, this will not be counted in the twelve page limit. Over length submissions will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit substantially longer full papers for the conference proceedings. Authors must submit an online title page and an electronic version of their paper in pdf format only. The electronic process will be made available on the KR2004 website closer to the submission date. Papers not in pdf format will be rejected without review. Invited Speakers Keynote Speakers Patrick Doherty, University of Linkoping, Sweden Itzhak Gilboa, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research, USA "Great Moments in Knowledge Representation" Series John McCarthy, Stanford University William Woods, Sun Microsystems Conference Chair: Mary-Anne Williams University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs: Didier Dubois, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France Christopher Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Local Arrangements: Jim Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Workshops Coordination Chair: Sheila McIlraith, Stanford University, USA Treasurer: Alankar Karol, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee William Andersen, Ontology Works, USA Franz Baader, University of Dresden, Germany Philippe Balbiani, IRIT, France Salem Benferhat, University of Artois, France Brandon Bennett, University of Leeds, UK Ronen Brafman, University of Tel-Aviv, Israel Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany Marco Cadoli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Vinay Chaudhri, SRI, USA Tony Cohn, Leeds, UK Marie-Odile Cordier, Rennes, France Adnan Darwiche, UCLA, USA Ernest Davis, New York University, USA John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney Rina Dechter, UCLA, USA Jon Doyle, North Carolina State Univ., USA Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Tech, Austria Peter Eklund, University of Queensland, Australia Thomas Ellman, Vassar College, USA Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA Tim Finin, University of Maryland, USA Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK Aldo Gangemi, CNR Roma, Italy Hector Geffner, University of Pomeu Fabra, Spain Enrico Giunchiglia, Universita of Genova, Italy Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK Lluis Godo, IIIIA-CSIC Barcelona, Spain Asunci?n G?mez-P?rez, Univ. Poli. de Madrid, Spain Nicola Guarino, LOA-ISTC, Italy Pat Hayes, University of West Florida, USA Andreas Herzig, IRIT, France Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK Anthony Hunter, University College London, USA Henry Kautz, University of Washington, USA Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Univ. of Hagen, Germany Jerome Lang, IRIT, France Fritz Lehmann, Ontology Consulting Corp, USA Hector Levesque, University of Toronto, Canada Paolo Liberatore, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Tech China Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Rome, Italy Pierre Marquis, Univ. Lens, France Sheila McIlraith, Stanford University, USA John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, NL Guy Mineau, Universite Laval, Canada Leora Morgenstern, IBM Research, USA Erik Mueller, IBM Research, USA Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College, UK Daniele Nardi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Bernhard Nebel, University of Freiburg, Germany Ilkka Niemela, Tech. Univ. Helsinki, Finland Lin Padgham, RMIT, Australia Pavlos Peppas, AIT, Greece Ramon Pino-Perez, Univ. de Los Andes, Venezuela David Poole, University of British Columbia, Canada David Randell, Imperial College London, UK Marie Christine Rousset, Univ. Paris-Sud, France Guus Schreiber, University of Amsterdam, NL Colleen Seifert, University of Michigan, USA Bart Selman, Cornell University, USA Stuart C. Shapiro, SUNY Buffalo, USA Helena Sofia-Pinto, IST Lisboa, Portugal Liz Sonenberg, University of Melbourne, Australia Rudi Studer, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany Michael Thielscher, Univ. Dresden, Germany Rich Thomason, University of Michigan, USA Pietro Torasso, University of Torino, Italy Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Laure Vieu, LOA-ISTC, Italy Toby Walsh, University of York, UK Michael Whitbrock, Cycorp, USA Brian Williams, MIT, USA Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK Mike Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK Websites: http://www.KR.org and http://magic.it.uts.edu.au/KR2004/ ------- Professor Mary-Anne Williams Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory Faculty of Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney NSW 2007 Australia http://research.it.uts.edu.au/magic/Mary-Anne -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bernardi at let.uu.nl Mon Jul 21 08:07:42 2003 From: bernardi at let.uu.nl (Raffaella.Bernardi) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:07:42 +0200 (MEST) Subject: [DL] E.W. Beth Dissertation Award 03 Message-ID: ************* E.W. Beth dissertation award: 2003 winner **************** The selection for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize for the year 2003 has been concluded. The quality of submissions was very high and the competition intense. After careful deliberation the committee has reached the following decision: The E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2003 has been awarded to JASON BALDRIDGE (University of Edinburgh) for the dissertation ``Lexically Specified Derivational Control in Combinatory Categorial Grammar''. The abstract can be found at: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~nza/beth02 FoLLI would like to congratulate the winner for his excellent thesis, and to thank all applicants who responded to the call for submissions and the members of the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize Committee (Anne Abeille, Natasha Alechina (chair), Patrick Blackburn, Nissim Francez, Valentin Goranko, Larry Moss, Francesco Orilia, Manfred Pinkal, Christian Retore, Rob van der Sandt and Henriette de Swart) for doing a great job. An award ceremony will take place during ESSLLI 03 in Vienna, on Monday, August 25 at 20:00 hrs. For further information see the ESSLLI 03 web page: http://www.logic.at/esslli03/ Finally, our thanks go to the E.W. Beth Foundation which kindly sponsors the prize. On behalf of FoLLI, Raffaella Bernardi From tab2003 at dia.uniroma3.it Tue Jul 22 13:16:33 2003 From: tab2003 at dia.uniroma3.it (Tableaux 2003) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:16:33 +0200 (MEST) Subject: [DL] Tableaux 2003 TCS elections Message-ID: Dear All, Nomination of candidates for the Tableau Steering Committee is completed. Five people have been proposed, four accepted. You will find the names and a short statement below. The election will take place at the Tableau Business Meeting in Rome, Friday September 12, 17:00. Looking forward to meeting you there. Peter H. Schmitt (TSC Vice President) ==================================================================== Peter Baumgartner My main research area is automated deduction, with focus on classical first-order logic and rule-based knowledge representation languages. For this, I consider Tableau calculi and their implementations, and I am particularly interested in practical applications. I attended the TABLEAUX conferences (workshops) from the very beginning on, and I co-authored four TABLEAUX workshop and four TABLEAUX conference contributions. I served on the programme committee several times, was the publicity chair in 2001 (when Tableau joined IJCAR) and co-edited the proceedings of the 1995 meeting. Concerning the future of TABLEAUX, I think it is important to preserve its status as an attractive and established conference. To this end, I am very much in favor of co-locating TABLEAUX with related conferences or workshops (as FTP - First-Order Theorem Proving) and also integrating Tableaux into IJCAR. ================================================================== Bernhard Beckert: TABLEAUX has come a long way from its beginnings as a workshop in a small village in the Black Forest to a well-established annual conference. In recent years it faces some fundamental problems, in particular a decreasing number of submissions - as do all the other Automated Reasoning conferences. Many believe that this is mainly due to an increasing fragmentation and propose joint events, such as IJCAR, as the solution. They are definitely right, but there is another reason as well: Automated Deduction has developed into a mature field. And although that is a basically positive development, obtaining new results is becoming increasingly difficult. As a consequence we have seen at TABLEAUX more and more papers on new calculi for non-classical logics (which is fine as long as the logics are not too obscure). I believe that TABLEAUX should make more use of the positive effects of a maturing research field: More and more possible applications emerge, and many researchers now work on applying tableau calculi. I myself am (still) interested in, using, and developing new tableau-like calculi. But my focus has shifted from fundamental questions - equality handling, skolemisation, free variables - towards applications of tableau calculi in software verification. TABLEAUX should embrace areas where tableau-like calculi are applied (such as verification, knowledge representation, computer algebra, etc.) and should try to attract papers from these research fields. My views on the future of TABLEAUX are: * TABLEAUX is part of a joint conference (IJCAR) every second or third year. In particular, TABLEAUX does not join FLoC as a separate conference but as part of IJCAR. This allows a close interaction with the other sub-fields of automated deduction and gives the automated reasoning community a high visibility. * TABLEAUX is a separate conference at least every second year, possibly co-located with (small) related events such as FTP and TPHOL. Thus, TABLEAUX preserves its identity and allows for the closer interaction of its participants that is only possible at small events. We should also not forget that there are researchers in the tableau community who are not interested in automated reasoning and will only participate in TABLEAUX when it is not part of IJCAR. * TABLEAUX tries to attract more papers on the application of tableau-like calculi, by selecting researchers from application areas as invited speakers or even members of the program committee and by co-locating with workshops or conferences from these areas. * The standards of the refereeing process have always been very high at TABLEAUX. Since a good refereeing process is one of the best ways to attract good papers, we have to work hard to keep it that way. In particular, the way we use the software for electronic PC meetings is not always optimal and should be improved. My relation to TABLEAUX: I have done research on tableau-like calculi for the last ten years, attended all TABLEAUX workshops and conferences, published nine papers in the TABLEAUX conference series, gave a tutorial at TABLEAUX'99, and have been on the program committee since 1999. ===================================================================== Jean Goubault-Larrecq Jean Goubault-Larrecq is professor of computer science at ENS Cachan, a leading "grande cole" near Paris, France. He is head of the INRIA Futurs SECSI team; one of the main themes of this team is formal and automated verification of security properties of cryptographic protocols and programs. Jean Goubault-Larrecq has about 40 publications in areas of automated deduction (BDDs, tableaux), lambda-calculus (and in particular calculi of explicit substitutions), modal logics and algebraic topology, and computer security. He has been a regular member of the Tableau programme committee since 1994. See http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/~goubault/?lang=en Statement: The Tableaux conferences are now well-established in the landscape of logic conferences today, with a steady pool of submissions each year. While Tableaux is no LICS or CADE, it manages to attract sufficient submissions of good quality each year to get a respectable status. Nevertheless, Tableaux is in need of a definition of its purpose, if only to define its social utility, compared to the leading conferences of the field. In particular, Tableaux could be a place for papers on tableaux methods for various exotic logics, but exotic logics should not be the foundations of Tableaux. The relationships with domains such as description logics, BDD, and other "related methods" should also be reinforced. For that matter, regular colocations or associations with conferences in nearby domains is welcome, provided Tableaux does not get swamped among a zillion other conferences. In other words, I am in favour of other IJCARs (which was profitable to the Tableux community), not of other FLoCs. ==================================================================== Neil Murray I am honored to have been nominated to serve on the Tableaux Steering Committee. I'll give a brief synopsis of my research interests and professional duties, followed by some comments on my perception of TABLEAUX vis-a'-vis the logic and computing community. My main research interest is in automated deduction; this has included both theoretical and experimental studies. The development of inference techniques for negation normal form (NNF) formulas and related tableau-based techniques is central. NNF-based techniques are also promising for producing a representation of the models of a (propositional) formula. This capability is important for many more practical applications than was previously thought to be the case. Planning is one example, and fault-diagnosis is another. These issues are closely related to recent developments in ``Decomposable Negation Normal Form (DNNF)'' (Darwiche, J.ACM (48,4), July 2001) and to my contribution (with Erik Rosenthal) in the upcoming TABLEAUX. I am currently a Professor and the Chair in the Department of Computer Science, University at Albany, USA, as well as co-Director of the Institute for Informatics, Logics, and Security Studies there. I am the Treasurer and ex-officio Trustee of CADE, Inc. In the last six years or so, there has been much discussion of the various logic communities and the extent to which they form in total a large global community. Here is a statement I made about three years ago: TABLEAUX is one of many logic related conferences that may have arisen as a result of both positive and negative forces. It has fostered much good work that otherwise would perhaps not have found a home, yet contributes somewhat to fragmentation of the wider community. To counter fragmentation while retaining our identity, I lean towards alternating (in some fashion) joint and independent conferences; the joint events can be co-located with other(s) such as in 2000, or held as a more general federated event such as FLoC or the proposed IJCAR. In the intervening time, I've played a role as CADE Trustee in the decisions that have led to participation of both TABLEAUX and CADE in various FLoC and IJCAR meetings. Things seemed to have worked out not too differently from what I had suggested. The current pattern seems to be roughly that of three year cycles of 1) IJCARs, 2) FLoCs, and 3) independent meetings. I believe this is working well so far. Both 2) and 3) help preserve the identity of the individual communities (which I favor), while both 1) and 2) contribute to cross-fertilization amongst them (which I also favor). Of course, it is not necessary to preserve this pattern precisely. But I favor maintaining this balance, at least to some extent, in the future. -- TABLEAUX 2003 Organizing Committee http://tab2003.dia.uniroma3.it _______________________________________________ Tab03 mailing list Tab03 at pop.dia.uniroma3.it http://pop.dia.uniroma3.it/mailman/listinfo.cgi/tab03 From info at folli.org Tue Jul 22 13:52:27 2003 From: info at folli.org (info at folli.org) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:52:27 +0200 Subject: [DL] call for participation Message-ID: <200307221152.h6MBqRF01954@mendieta.science.uva.nl> =============================================================== We apologize for multiple copies of this call for participation =============================================================== ESSLLI 2003 15th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information August 18-29, Vienna http://www.logic.at/esslli03/ Each year the European Association for Logic, Language and Information, (FoLLi) organizes a European Summer School (ESSLLI) the main focus of which is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Courses at foundational, introductory and advanced level are given, the aim of which is to provide for researchers and postgraduate as well as advanced master students the possibility to familiarize themselves with other areas of research, and to enable students and researchers to acquire more specialized knowledge about topics they are already familiar with. The school also features several workshops, and a student session in which Master and PhD students can present their work. This year the 15th ESSLLI Summer School will take place at the Technical University of Vienna, the beautiful and cultural capital of Austria. During two weeks 43 courses will be given. They cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Language and Logic, Language and Computation, and Logic and Computation. There will be a series of invited lectures, and several workshops with open calls for papers. Please, visit our website at http://www.logic.at/esslli03/ for detailed information. For information about FoLLi and the previous editions of ESSLLI see http://www.folli.org/ Registration is through the Internet: http://www.logic.at/esslli03/give-page.php?6 The registration fees for this year are: Student 370 Scholar 610 Industry 850 The registration fee includes participation in all social events (see http://www.logic.at/esslli03/) INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (chair) Alexander Leitsch (co-chair) Karen Sparck Jones Gosse Bouma Wojciech Buszkowski Johan Bos Thomas Eiter Ian Horrocks LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Matthias Baaz, Chair Arnold Beckmann Agata Ciabattoni Christian Ferm=FCller Rosalie Iemhoff Norbert Preining Sebastiaan Terwijn COLOCATED EVENTS FGVienna (16/17. August) The 8th conference on Formal Grammar See http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/fg03/. CoLogNET (23 August) Workshop on Logic-based Methods for Information Integration See http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/colognet_ws/ From not-for-mail at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK Wed Jul 23 12:02:44 2003 From: not-for-mail at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK (Undisclosed Sendor) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:02:44 +0800 (CST) Subject: [DL] CFP: Workshop on Applications, Products and Services of Web-based Support Systems Message-ID: <200307231002.h6NA2iJN019554@karpos.comp.hkbu.edu.hk> (We apologize if you are receiving duplicates through different channels...) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Workshop on Applications, Products and Services of Web-based Support Systems October 13, 2003, Halifax, Canada http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~jtyao/Workshop_WI03/Workshop_WI03.html In conjunction with 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Web provides a new medium for storing, presenting, gathering, sharing, processing and using information. The impacts of the Web can be felt in almost all aspects of life. Web Intelligence is a sub-field of computer science that tries to meet the challenges and take advantages of the opportunities offered by the Web. The workshop aims to a particular field of Web Intelligence by providing a forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas and information by researchers, students, and professionals on the issues and challenges brought on by the Web technology for various support systems. One of our goals is to find out how applications and adaptations of existing methodologies on the Web platform benefit our decision-makings and various activities. Topics: -------- Some suggested topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Web-based Decision Support Systems - Web-based Information Retrieval Support Systems - Web-based Multimedia Systems - Web-based Groupware System - Web-based Knowledge Management System - Web-based Educational System - Web-based Research Support Systems - Web-based Business Support Systems - Web-based Financial and Economic Systems - Web-based Internet Banking System - Web-based Applications - Web-based Negotiation Support Systems - XML and Semi-structured Data Management on the Web - Web Information Management - Web Information Retrieval - Web Mining and Farming - CASE tools and software for developing web-based applications - User-interface design issues for web-based applications - Visualizations of web-based systems - Systems Analysis and Design methods for web-based applications - Security issues related to web-based applications - Web-based Systems Development Important Dates: ----------------- August 22, 2003 Deadline for submission of papers September 6, 2003 Notification of acceptance (1 week prior to Early Registration deadline) September 26, 2003 Final copy due October 13, 2003 Conference Submissions: ------------- Submitted papers should be formatted in the style of IEEE-Computer Society Format: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm The page limit for the final version is 12 pages. We only accept electronic submissions. Please send your manuscripts in PDF format to the program chairs: Dr. JingTao Yao Dr. Pawan Lingras University of Regina Saint Mary's University Canada Canada jtyao at cs.uregina.ca pawan at cs.stmarys.ca Publication: ------------ The onsite proceedings of the workshop will be published by WI 2003. We may have a post-workshop special issue on a journal or an edited book for selected papers with revision and extension. From bernardi at let.uu.nl Fri Jul 25 09:00:43 2003 From: bernardi at let.uu.nl (Raffaella.Bernardi) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:00:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] 2nd CoLogNET-ElsNET Symposium: CfP Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS *Submission Deadline: 1st of September* 2nd CoLogNET-ElsNET Symposium "Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives" 18 December 2003, Amsterdam (NL) (http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/~ctl/workshops/CES03/) Co-located event: 14th Amsterdam Colloquium, 19/21 December 2003 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC03/) INVITED SPEAKERS: Werner Ceusters (Language and Computing) Jeroen Groenendijk (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Karen Sparck Jones (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) SPECIAL ISSUE: A selection of contributions will be published as special issue of the Journal of Applied Logic (ELSEVIER). (See below for author instructions.) BACKGROUND: The symposium is the second of three devoted to the exploration of the common ground between the "Logic and Natural Language Processing" Area of CoLogNET (Network of Excellence in Computational Logic, http://www.colognet.org/) and ELSNET (Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies, http://www.elsnet.org/). The topic of this session is 'Questions and Answers'. The symposium will address both the logical foundations underlying these notions, and technological implications for question answering systems. It aims at bringing together researchers interested in a combination of theoretical and applied perspectives, and invites an exchange of ideas between computational linguists, computer scientists and logicians. It will feature invited talks by leading researchers from academia and industry as well as a number of contributed talks. SCOPE: Human language is the only medium we have for storing and transmitting complex information, especially propositional knowledge. Language is also the most natural medium for solliciting information. If we want to know something, we simply ask questions. The adequate formal treatment of questions has long been recognized as a central challenge for semantics. The interpretation of questions by computer programs has been the major problem for all attempts to make databases accessible by natural language. Yet before simple question-answering systems could be realized, researchers had already extended the challenge to systems that would be able to particpate in coherent and informative dialogues. With the explosive growth of freely available digital information on the WWW the need for reliable question-answering keeps increasing. A promising new line of research concentrates on open-domain question answering by exploiting the unstructured textual information on the web. Against this background, we invite papers on formalization of querying systems for integrated structured domains (like databases, ontologies,..) as well as for open domain sources (like web-based documents). A (non-exclusive) list of potential areas and issues of interest is given below. Areas: Formal Semantics, Knowledge Representation, Discourse/Dialogue, Question Anwering, Semantic Web, IR -- Search Engines Issues: Questions: linguistic analysis of interrogatives, theoretical and practical approaches to question semantics, presuppositions/implicatures in questions, interpretation of questions in context, query interpretation and query extension in IR, questions that do not look like questions, paraphrasing of questions for answer detection, asking for cause and reason. Answers: comparing (possible) answers, evaluating (possible) answers, contextual binding of (possible) answers -- i.e., temporal and spatial dependencies, quantified and conditional questions, with quantified and conditional answers, etc. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Paper submissions must be anonymous and are limited to at most 8 pages including references, figures etc. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please email your submission -- pdf (preferred), or postscript -- to Raffaella.Bernardi at unibz.it; write "Symposium: Submission" in the subject. A notification will be sent to you. Each submission should also specify the author's name, affiliation, postal address, email address and title in the body of the email message. For more information, please contact the workshop co-chairs. Camera ready versions of accepted papers should use the ELSEVIER Harvard style (http://authors.elsevier.com/). IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for Submissions: 01 September 2003 Notification of Acceptance: 15 October 2003 Deadline for Proceedings: 15 November 2003 CoLogNET-ElsNET symposium: 18 December 2003 14th Amsterdam Colloquium: 19/21 December 2003 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Raffaella Bernardi (co-chair), Free University of Bolzano Michael Moortgat (co-chair), University of Utrecht Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bolzano Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam Hans Uszkoreit, University of Saarland Bonnie Weber, University of Edinburgh ORGANIZATION: The CoLogNET-ElsNET symposia are organized by the ``Logic and Natural Language Processing'' area of CoLogNET (Area 6), in collaboration with ELSNET. CoLogNET is a three year European NoE (2002-2004) in Computational Logic, whereas ELSNET is dedicated to human language technologies. For any further information visit the symposium web site: http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/~ctl/workshops/CES03/ or contact: Raffaella Bernardi Free University of Bolzano-Bozen P.zza Domenicani 3 39100 Bolzano-Bozen, Italy Phone: +39-0471-315 620 Fax: +39-0471-315 649 e-mail: Raffaella.Bernardi at unibz.it From peter at uni-koblenz.de Fri Jul 25 18:36:32 2003 From: peter at uni-koblenz.de (Peter Baumgartner) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:36:32 +0200 Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2004 - Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <16161.23697.7226.700419@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> ============================================================ IJCAR 2004 Second International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning 04 July - 08 July, 2004 Imperial Hotel Cork, County Cork, Ireland http://4c.ucc.ie/ijcar/ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ============================================================ General ------- IJCAR 2004 is the Second International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) and will be held in Cork, Ireland from July 4th to 8th, 2004. The first IJCAR was held in Siena, Italy, in late June 2001, merging CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FTP (Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving) and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods). The second IJCAR will merge CADE, FTP, TABLEAUX, FroCoS (Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and CALCULEMUS. Workshops will be held on July 4 and July 5, 2004. They will run for one or two days, but half-day ones are possible as well. Scope ----- Workshop proposals on IJCAR related topics as mentioned in the "Call for Papers" are solicited (cf. http://4c.ucc.ie/ijcar/submission.html). Proposals that promise to bring new topics into IJCAR, of either practical or theoretical importance, or provide a forum for more detailed discussion on central topics of continuing importance are highly welcome. Workshops that close the gap between automated reasoning and related areas, like for instance formal methods or software engineering, are especially encouraged. Recent workshops of participating conferences have included, for instance, automation of proofs by induction, empirical studies in logic algorithms, mechanization of partial functions, proof search in type-theoretic languages, strategies in automated deduction, automated theorem proving in software engineering and in mathematics, future directions in automated reasoning, precise modelling and deduction for OO-software development, verification, unification, strategies in automated deduction, mechanized reasoning about languages with variable bindings, theory and application of quantified boolean formulas, proof transformations, proof presentations and complexity of proofs, issues in the design and experimental evaluation of systems for modal and temporal logics, integration of symbolic computation and deduction, deductive software components, pragmatics of decision procedures in automated reasoning, challenges and novel applications for automated reasoning, and automated model computation. How to Propose a Workshop ------------------------- Workshop proposals must contain the necessary information for the programme committee to judge the importance, quality and community interest in the proposed topic. Each workshop must have one or more designated organizers and may have a programme committee as well. Workshop proposals must be limited to three pages and provide at least the following information: * The title of the workshop. * Description of the workshop topic and goals. Why do you believe this is an interesting and significant topic? What are the main goals of the workshop? * Intended audience. From which areas do you expect potential participants to come? How many participants do you expect? Are there any limitations to participation (e.g., maximum number of participants, or by invitation only)? How are you going to publicize your workshop? * Organization of the workshop. Describe the intended format of the workshop, its expected duration (from half a day to two days) and preferred dates (July 4, 5, or both). Are you going to schedule invited talks, presentations, panel discussions, and other methods for ensuring an interactive atmosphere? Are there any plans to document the workshop results beyond online distribution on the Web and IJCAR's workshop notes? * Organizers' details. Provide complete affiliations and contact details (email, web page, phone, fax, etc.) of all organizers and committee members. For the designated organizers, briefly describe their background in the proposed topic, together with a list of workshops previously organized in the workshop's or related areas. Workshop proposals should be sent as plain text and as postscript or PDF to the workshop chair (peter at uni-koblenz.de) no later than November 16, 2003. Further notes ------------- * Workshop organizers are expected to maintain a web site showing all the relevant information of their workshop, including online versions of accepted papers. * Workshop organizers are responsible on their own for sufficient distribution of their call for papers and other publicity (there will be general IJCAR announcements mentioning also the IJCAR workshops as well). * The IJCAR organizers offer to copy and distribute the workshop notes to registered workshop participants. * We suggest workshop participation to be open, i.e. anyone interested can register, and not be based on invitation or limited to authors of accepted papers. In case of questions or problems with these suggestions please contact the workshop chair. Important dates --------------- * Deadline for proposal submissions: 16 November 2003 * Acceptance/rejection notification: 12 December 2003 * Deadline for camera-ready copy of workshop notes: 13 June 2004 * Workshop Date: 04 July 2004 - 05 July 2004 Workshop chair -------------- Peter Baumgartner peter at uni-koblenz.de -- Peter Baumgartner peter at uni-koblenz.de Tel. +49 261 287-2777 http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~peter/ From mikhail.kazakov at opencascade.com Fri Jul 25 19:04:48 2003 From: mikhail.kazakov at opencascade.com (Mikhail Kazakov) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:04:48 +0200 Subject: [DL] DL-workbench: a meta model based ontological platform Message-ID: <20030725170505.515CDC0002AF@mwinf0302.wanadoo.fr> Dear colleagues, We have released the first prototype of our new platform for ontology manipulation: DL?workbench. DL-workbench can be viewed from two perspectives. From one side, DL-workbench is an editor for SHIQ description logic (with the support of DAMl+OIL persistence and DIG 1.0 compatible reasoner). From another side, DL-workbench is an API that was designed to be easily integrated with third-party solutions export to them ontological and reasoning services. This delivery is a first software milestone of our research project on intelligent semi-automated integration of engineering components. The project is mainly dedicated to automated enterprise CAD-to-FEM integration, however can be helpful for other areas of enterprise application integration. DL?workbench is published under the Open Cascade?s open source license and can be used by a variety of researchers and interested parties all around the world. DL?workbench can be freely downloaded from http://www.opencascade.org/dl-workbench web site and used for ontology engineering. DL?workbench has an open modular structure integrated with IBM Eclipse? environment. That allows integrating the DL?workbench with many Eclipse-compatible environments such as IBM WebSphere? or IBM?s Rational XDE? for Java?. The tool is made of three independent Eclipse modules: * Meta-modeling module ? an Eclipse-independent module that implements a meta-model repository and a language for description of ontological formalisms and data structures. * Generic ontology editor module ? an Eclipse plug-in based on the meta-model, independent from a specific ontological formalism used. The user interface of this module captures the ontological model from a meta-model repository and generates all necessary UI controls for managing the lifecycle of ontological elements. * SHIQ description logic editor module ? an extension of the generic ontology editor for very expressive description logic SHIQ and its persistent representation in DAML+OIL language. This module defines SHIQ logic in terms of a meta-model and provides an extended user interface for complex logical expressions and axioms. Each module of the DL?workbench exports an open pattern-based Java? API. That allows third party developers to reuse existing modules and to develop new ones. The web site contains some useful links and materials that shall help with using the prototype. DL-workbench WWW site ? http://www.opencascade.org/dl-workbench. If you have any comments, remarks or critics on the project, the authors will be happy to have your feedback. Please send an email to Mikhail Kazakov (mikhail.kazakov at opencascade.com) The area of intelligent software integration is an emerging activity within the Open CASCADE company. This research is intended for the further strengthening of the Open CASCADE?s leading position in CAD-to-FEM integration domain. DL?workbench prototype was created by Mikhail Kazakov within the bounds of its Ph.D. thesis with the active participation of CNRS PSI laboratory of INSA de Rouen, France. P.S. IMPORTANT! Published software is a prototype. It still has bugs, incomplete documentation and non-documented source codes. We appologize for all these inconvenience and will be constantly working on improvement of the system Sincerely yours Mikhail Kazakov in behalf of our research team 23 July 2003 ? Mikhail Kazakov, Open Cascade SA, 2003 From william at comp.hkbu.edu.hk Sat Aug 2 05:20:56 2003 From: william at comp.hkbu.edu.hk (william at comp.hkbu.edu.hk) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 12:20:56 +0900 Subject: [DL] CFP:Workshop on Applications, Products and Services of Web-based Support Systems Message-ID: <200308020323.h723N8ir016869@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> (We apologize if you are receiving duplicates through different channels...) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Workshop on Applications, Products and Services of Web-based Support Systems October 13, 2003, Halifax, Canada http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~jtyao/Workshop_WI03/Workshop_WI03.html In conjunction with 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Web provides a new medium for storing, presenting, gathering, sharing, processing and using information. The impacts of the Web can be felt in almost all aspects of life. Web Intelligence is a sub-field of computer science that tries to meet the challenges and take advantages of the opportunities offered by the Web. The workshop aims to a particular field of Web Intelligence by providing a forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas and information by researchers, students, and professionals on the issues and challenges brought on by the Web technology for various support systems. One of our goals is to find out how applications and adaptations of existing methodologies on the Web platform benefit our decision-makings and various activities. Some suggested topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Web-based Decision Support Systems - Web-based Information Retrieval Support Systems - Web-based Multimedia Systems - Web-based Groupware System - Web-based Knowledge Management System - Web-based Educational System - Web-based Research Support Systems - Web-based Business Support Systems - Web-based Financial and Economic Systems - Web-based Internet Banking System - Web-based Applications - Web-based Negotiation Support Systems - XML and Semi-structured Data Management on the Web - Web Information Management - Web Information Retrieval - Web Mining and Farming - CASE tools and software for developing web-based applications - User-interface design issues for web-based applications - Visualizations of web-based systems - Systems Analysis and Design methods for web-based applications - Security issues related to web-based applications - Web-based Systems Development Important Dates: August 22, 2003 Deadline for submission of papers September 6, 2003 Notification of acceptance (1 week prior to Early Registration deadline) September 26, 2003 Final copy due October 13, 2003 Conference Submissions: Submitted papers should be formatted in the style of IEEE-Computer Society Format: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm The page limit for the final version is 12 pages. We only accept electronic submissions. Please send your manuscripts in PDF format to the program chairs: Dr. JingTao Yao Dr. Pawan Lingras University of Regina Saint Mary's University Canada Canada jtyao at cs.uregina.ca pawan at cs.stmarys.ca Publication: The onsite proceedings of the workshop will be published by WI 2003. We may have a post-workshop special issue on a journal or an edited book for selected papers with revision and extension. From jleite at di.fct.unl.pt Sun Aug 3 19:17:00 2003 From: jleite at di.fct.unl.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Alexandre_Leite?=) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 18:17:00 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: CLIMA IV - 4th Intl. Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems Message-ID: <414-220038031717027@ANIMAL> ========================================================================== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS CLIMA IV Fourth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems January 6-7, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/climaIV/index.htm Post-Proceedings will be published in Springer Verlag LNAI Submission Deadline: September 19th Co-located with the 7th LPNMR and the 8th AIMATH =========================================================================== Over recent years, the notion of agency has claimed a major role in defining the trends of modern research. Influencing a broad spectrum of disciplines such as Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy and many more, the agent paradigm virtually invaded every sub-field of Computer Science, not least because of the Internet and Robotics. Multi-agent Systems (MAS) are communities of problem-solving entities that can perceive and act upon their environments to achieve their individual goals as well as joint goals. The work on such systems integrates many technologies and concepts in artificial intelligence and other areas of computing. There is a full spectrum of MAS applications that have been and are being developed; from search engines, educational aids to electronic commerce and trade. Although commonly implemented by means of imperative languages, mainly for reasons of efficiency, the agent concept has recently increased its influence in the research and development of computational logic based systems. Computational Logic, by virtue of its nature both in substance and method, provides a well-defined, general, and rigorous framework for systematically studying computation, be it syntax, semantics, procedures, or implementations, environments, tools, and standards. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about multi-agent systems in a formal way. This is clearly a major challenge for computational logic, to deal with real world issues and applications. Following the workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Logic Programming affiliated with ICLP'99, the first CLIMA workshop took place in London, UK, affiliated with CL'2000. The 2001 edition of CLIMA, took place in Paphos, Cyprus, affiliated with ICLP'01. CLIMA'02 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was affiliated with ICLP'02 and part of FLOC'02. We solicit unpublished papers that address formal approaches to multi-agent systems. The approaches as well asbeing formal must make a significant contribution to the practice of multi-agent systems. Relevant techniques include, but are not limited to, the following: * Nonmonotonic reasoning in MAS * Planning under incomplete information in MAS * Logical foundations of MAS * Usage of abduction in MAS * Representation of knowledge and belief in MAS * Knowledge and belief updates in MAS * Temporal reasoning for MAS * Theory of argumentation for MAS * Negotiation and co-operation for MAS * Communication languages for MAS * Distributed constraint satisfaction in MAS * Modal logic approaches to MAS * Logic based programming languages for MAS * Distributed theorem proving for MAS * Logic based implementations of MAS * Decision theory for MAS * Logic based agents for the Internet SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Please refer to the workshop web pages for further instructions concerning the submission procedures. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: September 19th, 2003 * Notification of Acceptance: October 17th, 2003 * Final version due: November 13th, 2003 * CLIMA IV: January 6-7th, 2004 PROCEEDINGS Post-proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Informal proceedings will be available at the workshop and online. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA * Gerd Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany * J?rgen Dix, The University of Manchester, UK * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany * Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK * James Harland, Royal Melbourne Inst. of Tech., Australia * Katsumi Inoue, Kobe University, Japan * Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen Univ. of Technology, Germany * Jo?o Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Yves Lesp?rance, York University, Canada * John Jules Ch. Meyer, Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands * Leora Morgenstern, IBM, USA * Lu?s Moniz Pereira, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, UK * Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK * Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina * V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA * Francesca Toni, Imperial College, UK * Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy * Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK * Cees Witteveen, Delft Univ. of Tech., The Netherlands WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: * J?rgen Dix, The University of Manchester, UK (dix at cs.man.ac.uk) * Jo?o Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal (jleite at di.fct.unl.pt) INQUIRIES: Please send program suggestions and inquires to either of the organizers. From ChBussler at aol.com Mon Aug 4 10:41:49 2003 From: ChBussler at aol.com (ChBussler at aol.com) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 04:41:49 EDT Subject: [DL] Digital Enterprise Research Institute: Research Positions at all Levels Message-ID: DIGITAL ENTERPRISE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (DERI) NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY GALWAY IRELAND PH. D., POST-DOC, RESEARCHER and RESEACH FELLOW POSITIONS The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) (www.deri.ie), located at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, received significant funding from the Science Foundation Ireland. Accordingly, DERI has positions available on all levels, including Ph.D., Post-Doc, Researcher and Research Fellow positions in two major exciting research areas: - Semantic Web Technology - Semantic Web Service Technology DERI has has been successfully acquiring large European research projects in these areas such as SWWS (Semantic Web-Enabled Web Services), DIP (Data, Integration and Processes) and KnowledgeWeb. In addition, DERI has established a significant cooperation link with the Next Web Generation Group (www.nextwebgeneration.org) in Innsbruck, Austria. The institute is headed by Prof. Dieter Fensel and Prof. Christoph Bussler. The main focus of DERI is to address the existing and future challenges in Semantic Web Technology and Semantic Web Service Technology. DERI emphasizes research and applied science equally on a national as well as international level. 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URL: From william at comp.hkbu.edu.hk Tue Aug 5 07:30:28 2003 From: william at comp.hkbu.edu.hk (william at comp.hkbu.edu.hk) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:30:28 +0900 Subject: [DL] CFP:Workshop on Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence Message-ID: <200308050532.h755Wsir014994@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> (We apologize if you are receiving duplicates through different channels...) --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence October 13, 2003, Halifax, Canada http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~william/KGGI03/index.html In conjunction with 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence / Intelligent Agent Technology http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT03 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Grid Computing has evolved from the earlier days of merely sharing distributed resources for solving big computational tasks to the latest trend of developing the Grid as a service-oriented architecture to support transparent and reliable distributed systems integration. Thanks to its recent marriage with Web Services and the Semantic Web. While the Semantic Web + Web Services emphasizes on the interoperability of different on-line systems, the Grid complements it by providing the infrastructure to handle large-scale distributed enterprises information systems. We envision that the success of using the Grid for distributed system integration will reply on how to have the resources of the Grid, with its increasing scale and complexity, well managed. ``Grid intelligence'' refers to a newly emerging research field focusing on how the data and information available on different levels of Grid services (e.g., HTML/XML/RDF/... documents, hyperlinks, Web usage, service response time, service quality, ...) can be carefully acquired, preprocessed, represented, interchanged, integrated and eventually converted into unique intelligences (knowledge) -- to enhance the overall Grid performance. Related research issues include intelligent mechanisms for resource specification, discovery, brokering/matchmaking, scheduling, negotiation, etc. Agent-based technologies address the autonomy, socialablity, adaptability and goal-driven properties of software systems and thus provide the most suitable computing paradigm for the dynamically changing Grid environment. As higher-level knowledge is going to play a more important role in the future Grid applications (e.g., e-science, e-business), issues related to knowledge representation, discovery, integration, interchange of different types of media in a distributed environment have to be carefully addressed. Related Web intelligence techniques including data mining and knowledge discovery, text and multimedia content analysis, semantic information extraction and integration, ontology engineering, etc. can be applied. We believe that eventually the Data Grid and Computational Grid can integrated with the "Knowledge Grid", making a lot of used-to-be complicated and computationally expensive tasks truly just-in-time and on-demand. Some related areas are listed as but not limited to: - Web intelligence solutions for knowledge grids - Data/Information/Knowledge Grids integration, mediation and middleware - Knowledge representation and ontology learning - Data mining and knowledge discovery in distributed datasets - Text and multimedia content analysis and indexing - Semantic Web mining and metadata generation - Semantically interoperable Web services - Knowledge management in Grid environment - Agent-based Workflow systems - Applications in e.g., e-science (computation, visualization), e-business (distributed system integration) - Agent architectures on and for the Grid - Agent decision making model - Self-organizing systems and emergent organization - Distributed problem solving on the grids - Distributed coordination - Collective, self-organized intelligence - Modeling and characterization of agent dynamics - Coalition formation - Conflicts, conflict resolution and negotiation - Grid service and policy semantics and ontologies - Grid service creation, advertisement, registration, contract creation, delivery - Robust/automonic/self-organized mechanisms for Grid service discovery, matchmaking, scheduling and resource management - Computational economy - Online negotiation of access to Grid services - Grid service usage policy management and enforcement - Dynamic formation and management of virtual organizations in Grid - Security, privacy and agents Important Dates: September 1, 2003 Deadline for submission of papers September 14, 2003 Notification of acceptance September 26, 2003 Final copy due October 13, 2003 Workshop Submissions: Submitted papers should be formatted in the style of IEEE-Computer Society Format: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm The page limit for the final version is 12 pages. We only accept electronic submissions. Please send your manuscripts in PDF format to the program chairs: Program Chairs: Dr. William Kwok-Wai Cheung Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Email: william at comp.hkbu.edu.hk Dr. Yiming Ye IBM T.J. Watson Research Center USA Email: yiming at watson.ibm.com Program Committee: (tentative) Mark A. Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK Jim Blythe, University of Southern California, USA Yike Guo, Imperial College, UK Chun-Nan Hsu, Academia Sinica Taiwan, Taiwan Borys Omelayenko, Free University, the Netherlands Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales, Australia Wlodek Zadrozny, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China From ismis03 at wi-lab.com Wed Aug 6 09:09:42 2003 From: ismis03 at wi-lab.com (ismis03 at wi-lab.com) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:09:42 +0900 Subject: [DL] ISMIS 2003: Call for Participation Message-ID: <200308060710.h767Awir018605@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ============================================= ISMIS 2003: Call for Participation ============================================= FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan October 28-31, 2003 ************************************************* !!! Advance Registration by 10 September 2003 !!! ------------------------------------------------- On-line registration (and other information) at http://www.wi-lab.com/ismis03/ ************************************************* SPONSORS: Maebashi Institute of Technology Maebashi Convention Bureau Maebashi City Government Gunma Prefecture Government Gunma Information Service Industry Association Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Web Intelligence Lab, Inc. Ryomo Systems Co., Ltd US AFOSR/AOARD Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science In Cooperation with Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence ISMIS has established a prestigious tradition by organizing a leading international conference on intelligent systems. The conference provides a unique opportunity for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements accomplished by the international community. The previous events were held in Knoxville, Tennessee (1986, 1990), Charlotte, North Carolina (1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000), Turin (1988), Trondheim (1993), Zakopane (1996), Warsaw (1999), Lyon (2002). This Symposium is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas: Active Media Human-Computer Interaction Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation Intelligent Agent Technology Intelligent Information Retrieval Intelligent Information Systems Knowledge Representation and Integration Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Logic for Artificial Intelligence Soft Computing Web Intelligence In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. human genome, global change, manufacturing, health care, etc. Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) and will be available at the symposium. INVITED TALKS +++++++++++++ ISMIS'03 features 4 invited/keynote talks: New Challenges in the World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) Research Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Grounding to the Real World: Architecture for Ubiquitous Computing Hideyuki Nakashima, Cyber Assist Research Center, AIST, Japan Data Mining: Fast Algorithms vs. Fast Results Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA Knowledge Discovery Services and Tools on Grids Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS (Oct. 28) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Tutorial and Workshop programs of ISMIS'03 include: T1: Computational and Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics by Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan T2: Indexing and Mining Audiovisual Data by Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, University of Technology of Compiegne, France W1: Second International Workshop on Active Mining (AM03) http://www.shimane-med.ac.jp/med_info/am2003 W2: Second International Workshop on M-Services - Concepts, Approaches, Tools - http://abiody.com/MServices2003/ MAIN CONFERENCE (Oct. 29-31) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The main conference of ISMIS'03 contains 17 sessions including: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Knowledge Representation and Integration Intelligent Information Systems Rough Sets Intelligent Agent Technology Text Mining Logic for AI and Logic Programming Soft Computing Intelligent Information Retrieval Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation Multi-Media Data Processing All the papers were selected from nearly 200 submissions received from over 37 countries and regions. SOCIAL PROGRAM ++++++++++++++ The conference will organize a tour during the conference to Ikaho hot spring resort area, one of the most famous hot springs areas in Japan, and have a banquet at Kogure Hotel in Ikaho, as well as a reception at the Maebashi TERRSA. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From nutt at macs.hw.ac.uk Thu Aug 7 18:28:40 2003 From: nutt at macs.hw.ac.uk (Werner Nutt) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 17:28:40 +0100 Subject: [DL] (no subject) Message-ID: School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (MACS) Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh RESEARCH POST IN INFORMATION INTEGRATION FOR SEMANTIC GRIDS Applications are invited for a research associate post within a project on integrating partial and incomplete information in scientific applications. The primary application areas will be - the monitoring of computational Grids used in high energy physics (see http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ceeawc/dis4g) - the integration of astronomy data (see http://www.roe.ac.uk/wfau/ag). The project is funded by the UK e-Science programme. The successful applicant will join the research group on Grid Information Systems at Heriot-Watt University. Heriot-Watt is a technical university located at the outskirts of Edinburgh. The research approach of the group is to develop systems for real applications and, at the same time, to base those systems on thorough theoretical foundations. Hence, we seek candidates with capabilities and interests in one or more of: query languages, query processing, computational logic, distributed computing, and middleware. Applicants should hold an MSc or an equivalent degree in Computer Science or in a closely related field. The contract will be for 30 months duration and is available from 1st October 2003. The salary will be approximately ?20,000 per annum. An extension will depend on the availability of further funding. The candidate will be expected to work towards a PhD degree. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, references and (optionally) copies of publications to: Dr Werner Nutt, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom, or by email to: nutt at macs.hw.ac.uk. Informal enquiries are welcome and may be directed to the same address. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. From bulkmail at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK Thu Aug 7 02:37:17 2003 From: bulkmail at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK (Call-For-Paper) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 08:37:17 +0800 (CST) Subject: [DL] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: WI'03 and IAT'03 Message-ID: <200308070037.h770bHpG008392@karpos.comp.hkbu.edu.hk> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ====================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ====================== IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'03) IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'03) October 13-16, 2003, Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, Canada Sponsored and organized by The IEEE Computer Society and Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) ************************************************* !!! Advance Registration by 13 September 2003 !!! ------------------------------------------------- On-line registration (and other information) at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT03 ************************************************* Following the great success of previous WI and IAT conferences, WI'03 and IAT'03 will provide a leading international forum for researchers and practitioners (1) to present the state-of-the-art WI and agent technologies, and (2) to cross-fertilize ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent information systems as well as new models, new methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems. INVITED TALKS +++++++++++++ WI'03 and IAT'03 feature 5 invited/keynote talks: "Web Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic" Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh University of California, Berkeley Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh/ "Mining and Monitoring Data Streams" Dr. Philip S. Yu Manager of the Software Tools and Techniques Group IBM T.J. Watson Research Center http://www.research.ibm.com/people/p/psyu/ "Reasoning about Cooperation" Professor Michael Wooldridge Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/ "Web information Extraction with Lixto: Visual Logic and Expressive Power" Professor Georg Gottlob Head of Department of Computer Science Vienna University of Technology http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/staff/gottlob/ "Grid Research in China and the Vega Grid Project at ICT" Professor Zhiwei Xu Deputy Director of the Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences http://www.ict.ac.cn/page/xzw.htms TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS (Oct. 13) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Tutorial and Workshop programs of WI'03 and IAT'03 include: T1: "A Glimpse at the Future of Agent Technology" Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL USA T2: "Adaptive Web-based Systems: Technologies and Examples" Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA W1: Workshop on Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~william/KGGI03/index.html W2: Workshop on Applications, Products and Services of Web-based Support Systems http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~jtyao/Workshop_WI03/Workshop_WI03.html W3: Workshop on Collaboration Agents: Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Environments http://www.cs.unb.ca/~ghorbani/ca/index.html MAIN CONFERENCE (Oct. 14-16) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The main conference of WI'03 and IAT'03 contains 13 WI sessions and 14 IAT sessions. All the papers were selected from the 592 submissions received from over 48 countries and regions. WI'03 Technical Sessions: Categorization and Ranking Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation Context-Aware Computing E-Business and E-Technology Intelligent Human-Web Interaction Ontology Engineering Web Agents Web Information Extraction and Management Web Information Search and Retrieval Web Mining and Data Engineering Web Prefetching Web Services Web Topology and Social Networks IAT'03 Technical Sessions: Agent Behaviors and Reinforcement Learning Agent-Based Simulation Autonomous Auctions Autonomous Information Services Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) Cooperative Problem Solving Distributed Problem Solving Embodied Agents and Applications Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents Mobile Agents Multi-Agent Modeling and Methodology Pricing and Negotiation Task-Oriented Agents Ubiquitous and E-Technology Agents (NOTE: WI'03 acceptance rates are: 16% for Regular Papers and 20% for Short Papers. IAT'03 acceptance rates are: 23% and 20%, respectively.) SOCIAL PROGRAM ++++++++++++++ The WI'03 and IAT'03 joint conference offers an exciting social program; the Lobster Banquet will naturally become one of the conference highlights. From m4m at science.uva.nl Fri Aug 15 14:28:38 2003 From: m4m at science.uva.nl (Methods for Modalities) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:28:38 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation NIW (M4M-3, DLD, ICoS-4) Message-ID: <20030815142838.A17540@science.uva.nl> ==================================================================== Call for Participation NANCY INFERENCE WEEK Method for Modalities 3 (M4M-3) Description Logic Day (DLD) Inference in Computational Semantics 4 (ICoS-4) LORIA, Nancy, France, 22-26 September 2003 http://www.loria.fr/~areces/NIW/ ==================================================================== The first Nancy Inference Week (NIW) will take place at LORIA, Nancy, France, during the week of the 22-26 of September, 2003. Nancy Inference Week will consist of the following events: o Method for Modalities 3 (M4M-3): September 22-23. o Description Logic Day (DLD): September 24. o Inference in Computational Semantics 4 (ICoS-4): September 25-26. These three events are separate, but are linked by the common theme of inference. M4M is a workshop devoted to inference techniques for modal logic and their applications. DLD is a one day workshop which introduces Description Logic, an important formalism for representation and inference in Artificial Intelligence. ICoS is a workshop on applying inference techniques to the semantics for natural language (in a computational setting). The Nancy Inference Week webpage at http://www.loria.fr/~areces/NIW/ has pointers to the websites for all three events. You can register for any of the NIW events by filling in the registration form you will find there. The deadline for registration for Nancy Inference Week is: 15 September 2003 No registration will be possible after this date. In particular, you won't be able to register on the days of the workshop ("on-the-spot" registrations are not possible). ==================================================================== -- M4M: Methods for Modalities www.science.uva.nl/~m4m From bernardi at let.uu.nl Fri Aug 22 14:18:20 2003 From: bernardi at let.uu.nl (Raffaella.Bernardi) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:18:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] Extended Deadline: 2nd CoLogNET-ElsNET Symposium: CfP Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS *Extended Submission Deadline: 9th of September* 2nd CoLogNET-ElsNET Symposium "Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives" 18 December 2003, Amsterdam (NL) (http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/~ctl/workshops/CES03/) Co-located event: 14th Amsterdam Colloquium, 19/21 December 2003 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC03/) INVITED SPEAKERS: Werner Ceusters (Language and Computing) Jeroen Groenendijk (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Karen Sparck Jones (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) SPECIAL ISSUE: A selection of contributions will be published as special issue of the Journal of Applied Logic (ELSEVIER). (See below for author instructions.) BACKGROUND: The symposium is the second of three devoted to the exploration of the common ground between the "Logic and Natural Language Processing" Area of CoLogNET (Network of Excellence in Computational Logic, http://www.colognet.org/) and ELSNET (Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies, http://www.elsnet.org/). The topic of this session is 'Questions and Answers'. The symposium will address both the logical foundations underlying these notions, and technological implications for question answering systems. It aims at bringing together researchers interested in a combination of theoretical and applied perspectives, and invites an exchange of ideas between computational linguists, computer scientists and logicians. It will feature invited talks by leading researchers from academia and industry as well as a number of contributed talks. SCOPE: Human language is the only medium we have for storing and transmitting complex information, especially propositional knowledge. Language is also the most natural medium for solliciting information. If we want to know something, we simply ask questions. The adequate formal treatment of questions has long been recognized as a central challenge for semantics. The interpretation of questions by computer programs has been the major problem for all attempts to make databases accessible by natural language. Yet before simple question-answering systems could be realized, researchers had already extended the challenge to systems that would be able to particpate in coherent and informative dialogues. With the explosive growth of freely available digital information on the WWW the need for reliable question-answering keeps increasing. A promising new line of research concentrates on open-domain question answering by exploiting the unstructured textual information on the web. Against this background, we invite papers on formalization of querying systems for integrated structured domains (like databases, ontologies,..) as well as for open domain sources (like web-based documents). A (non-exclusive) list of potential areas and issues of interest is given below. Areas: Formal Semantics, Knowledge Representation, Discourse/Dialogue, Question Anwering, Semantic Web, IR -- Search Engines Issues: Questions: linguistic analysis of interrogatives, theoretical and practical approaches to question semantics, presuppositions/implicatures in questions, interpretation of questions in context, query interpretation and query extension in IR, questions that do not look like questions, paraphrasing of questions for answer detection, asking for cause and reason. Answers: comparing (possible) answers, evaluating (possible) answers, contextual binding of (possible) answers -- i.e., temporal and spatial dependencies, quantified and conditional questions, with quantified and conditional answers, etc. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Paper submissions must be anonymous and are limited to at most 8 pages including references, figures etc. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please email your submission -- pdf (preferred), or postscript -- to Raffaella.Bernardi at unibz.it; write "Symposium: Submission" in the subject. A notification will be sent to you. Each submission should also specify the author's name, affiliation, postal address, email address and title in the body of the email message. For more information, please contact the workshop co-chairs. Camera ready versions of accepted papers should use the ELSEVIER Harvard style (http://authors.elsevier.com/). IMPORTANT DATES: *Extended Deadline for Submissions: 01 September 2003* Notification of Acceptance: 15 October 2003 Deadline for Proceedings: 15 November 2003 CoLogNET-ElsNET symposium: 18 December 2003 14th Amsterdam Colloquium: 19/21 December 2003 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Raffaella Bernardi (co-chair), Free University of Bolzano Michael Moortgat (co-chair), University of Utrecht Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bolzano Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam Hans Uszkoreit, University of Saarland Bonnie Weber, University of Edinburgh ORGANIZATION: The CoLogNET-ElsNET symposia are organized by the ``Logic and Natural Language Processing'' area of CoLogNET (Area 6), in collaboration with ELSNET. CoLogNET is a three year European NoE (2002-2004) in Computational Logic, whereas ELSNET is dedicated to human language technologies. For any further information visit the symposium web site: http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/~ctl/workshops/CES03/ or contact: Raffaella Bernardi Free University of Bolzano-Bozen P.zza Domenicani 3 39100 Bolzano-Bozen, Italy Phone: +39-0471-315 620 Fax: +39-0471-315 649 e-mail: Raffaella.Bernardi at unibz.it From gkatsi at cs.toronto.edu Wed Sep 3 00:14:15 2003 From: gkatsi at cs.toronto.edu (George Katsirelos) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 18:14:15 -0400 Subject: [DL] Call For Papers: AI+MATH 04 Message-ID: <200309022214.h82MEFa28786@cs.toronto.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS Eighth International Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MATHEMATICS January 4-6, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~amai Paper submission deadline: October 3, 2003 APPROACH OF THE SYMPOSIUM: The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics is the eighth of a biennial series. The series was started by Martin Golumbic and the editorial board of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence serves as the permanent Advisory Committee. The objective of the Symposium is to foster interactions between mathematics, theoretical CS, and artificial intelligence. Traditionally, the Symposium attracts around 100 participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for active scientific exchange. The Symposium includes invited speakers, special topic sessions, and presentations of submitted papers. INVITED SPEAKERS: Robert Bixby, ILOG Inc. Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel An additional speaker to be announced at a later date SPECIAL TOPIC SESSIONS: Preferences Organizer: Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Portfolio Design for Combinatorial Problems Organizers: Carla Gomes, Bart Selman, Cornell, USA Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory Organizers: Kevin Leyton-Brown, Stanford, USA Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors must email either Adobe PDF (pdf) or Postscript (ps) files of their extended abstracts (up to 8 pages, 12pt font, single column format) to vanbeek at uwaterloo.ca to be received by October 3, 2003. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by November 3, 2003. Final versions of accepted extended abstracts, for inclusion in the conference volume, are due by November 28, 2003. Full versions of a selected set of papers from the Symposium will be published in a special volume in the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Kluwer Academic Publishers. SPONSORS: The Symposium is partially supported by the Annals of Math and AI and Florida Atlantic University. ORGANIZERS: General Chair: Martin Golumbic, University of Haifa, Israel Conference Chair: Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University, USA Program Co-Chairs: Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto, Canada Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo, Canada Publicity Chair: George Katsirelos, University of Toronto, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany), Peter Bartlett (UC Berkeley, USA), Endre Boros (Rutgers, USA), Adnan Darwiche (UCLA, USA), Rina Dechter (UC Irvine, USA), Boi Faltings (EPFL, Switzerland), Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), John Franco (U. of Cincinnati, USA), Hector Geffner (UPF, Spain), Ian Gent (U. of St. Andrews, UK), Enrico Giunchiglia (U. of Genova, Italy), Robert Given (Purdue, USA), Joerg Hoffmann (Albert-Ludwigs-Univ., Germany), Holger Hoos (UBC, Canada), Peter Jonsson (U. of Linkoeping, Sweden), Henry Kautz (U. of Washington, USA), Sven Koenig (Georgia Tech, USA), Richard Korf (UCLA, USA), Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Omid Madani (U. of Alberta, Canada), Heikki Mannila (U. of Helsinki, Finland), Anil Nerode (Cornell, USA), Ronald Parr (Duke, USA), Pascal Poupart (U. of Toronto, Canada), Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew University, Israel), Sam Roweis (U. of Toronto, Canada), Dale Schuurmans (U. of Alberta, Canada), Allen Van Gelder (UCSC, USA), Toby Walsh (4C, UCC, Ireland). The 8th Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics will be collocated with the following conferences: * LPNMR-7 7th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning January 6-8, 2004 * CLIMA IV Fourth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems January 6-7, 2004 From airamia at prodigy.net.mx Wed Sep 3 06:28:48 2003 From: airamia at prodigy.net.mx (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Antonio_Avi=F1a?=) Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 21:28:48 -0700 Subject: [DL] DL's semantics and model cheking questions ... Message-ID: <3F556E00.5060106@prodigy.net.mx> Hiya ... Frist of all, I do thank you in advance for all your help. Right, basically I have three questions: 1.- Why simple model cheking is not enough when querying a DL KB?, I found a short explanation in a paper on Query Answering (by Tessaris and Horrocks Ian) but to be honest this matter remains unclear to me :-) . 2.- By assumming either a closed world assumption or epistemic-like queries, simple model checking would be enough for querying a DL KB? 3.- Where I can find more info about Tarski declarative semantics in order to get a better understanding on DL Semantics? cheers Jose From aiml04 at cs.man.ac.uk Wed Sep 3 17:31:52 2003 From: aiml04 at cs.man.ac.uk (AiML04 Conference) Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:31:52 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP: Advances in Modal Logic 2004 Message-ID: <200309031531.h83FVrH24312@pg012.cs.man.ac.uk> [Apologies for multiple copies] FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AiML-2004 Advances in Modal Logic September 9-11, 2004, Manchester DEADLINE: April 15, 2004 Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML-2004 is the fifth conference organized as part of this initiative. It will be held September 9-11, 2004 in Manchester, UK. TOPICS Topics of interest include: o complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics, o deontic logic, o description logics, o dynamic logic, o epistemic logic, o modal logics of space, o modal logic and game theory, o modal logic and grammar formalisms, o modal and temporal logic programming and theorem proving, o model theory and proof theory of modal logics, o computational aspects of modal logics, o correspondence theory, duality theory, o representation of time in natural language semantics, o non-monotonic modal logics, o modal logics for agent-based systems, o modal logic in Computer Science and AI, o provability logic, o mathematics of modal logic, o philosophy of modal logic. Papers on related subjects will also be considered. SPECIAL SESSION During the conference there will be a special session on Modal Logics for Knowledge and Action. INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers include: o Philippe Balbiani (Toulouse, France) o Keith Devlin (Stanford, USA) o Valentin Goranko (Johannesburg, Rep. South Africa) o Wiebe van der Hoek (Liverpool, UK) o Maarten Marx (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) o Robert Stalnaker (MIT, USA) PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit a detailed abstract of a full paper of at most 10 pages (a4paper, 11pt) by e-mail to one of the programme chairs, using `AiML Submission' as the subject line. The cover page should include title, names of authors, the co-ordinates of the corresponding author, and some keywords describing the topic of the paper. To be considered, submissions must be received no later than April 15, 2004. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for and attend the conference to present the paper. (Otherwise there is a risk of not being invited to the formal proceedings volume.) PUBLICATION DETAILS Preliminary versions of the full papers will be made available at the meeting. Authors will be invited to submit a full version, which will again be refereed. The selected papers will be included in the formal proceedings to be published by King's College Publications. Notification date for the conference is June 15, 2004; for the formal proceedings it is December 1, 2004. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Patrick Blackburn (Nancy, France) Alexander Chagrov (Tver, Russia) Vincent Hendricks (Roskilde, Denmark) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester, UK) Mark Reynolds (Perth, Australia) Maarten de Rijke (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Ulrike Sattler (Manchester, UK) Holger Schlingloff (Berlin, Germany) Renate Schmidt (Manchester, UK) Nobu-Yuki Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden, Germany) Frank Wolter (Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (London, UK) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Mark Reynolds Murdoch University, Perth, Australia e-mail: m.reynolds at murdoch.edu.au Heinrich Wansing Dresden University of Technology, Germany e-mail: wansing at rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de LOCAL ORGANIZERS Renate Schmidt (schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk), University of Manchester, UK Ian Pratt-Hartmann (ipratt at cs.man.ac.uk), University of Manchester, UK IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 15, 2004 Acceptance notification: June 15, 2004 Conference: September 9-11, 2004 Preliminary versions for conference due: July 15, 2004 Notification of acceptance for full papers: December 1, 2004 FURTHER INFORMATION Information about AiML-2004 can be obtained at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aiml04/ E-mail enquiries about AiML-2004 should be directed to the local organizers or the program co-chairs. Information about AiML can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net From pfps at research.bell-labs.com Wed Sep 3 18:19:00 2003 From: pfps at research.bell-labs.com (Peter F. Patel-Schneider) Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:19:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] WWW2004 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Message-ID: <20030903.121900.20490313.pfps@research.bell-labs.com> WWW2004 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference May 17-22, 2004 New York City, NY USA http://www2004.org/ Paper submission deadline: November 14, 2003 The WWW2004 conference will be held in Manhattan at the Sheraton Hotel. The technical program will include refereed paper presentations, alternate track presentations, plenary sessions, panels, and poster sessions. Tutorials and workshops will precede the main program, and a Developers Day, devoted to in-depth technical sessions designed specifically for Web developers, will follow. IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial/workshop proposals deadline: October 15, 2003 Paper submission deadline: November 14, 2003 Panel proposals deadline: November 14, 2003 Poster submission starts: January 15, 2004 Poster submission deadline: February 7, 2004 Author notification (papers): January 31, 2004 Developers Day deadline: February 14, 2004 Final papers due: February 28, 2004 Author notification (posters): March 14, 2004 Industrial Practice track deadline: March 15, 2004 Conference:May 17-22, 2004 REFEREED PAPERS TRACK WWW2004 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Papers should not have been published or be in submission at another conference or journal. Topics include but are not limited to: Applications Browsers and User Interfaces Data Mining Electronic Commerce (potential papers should be submitted to the EC'04 Conference, which is co-located with WWW2004) Mobility and Wireless Access Performance and Reliability Search Security and Privacy Semantic Web Web Engineering Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from an International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and will also be accessible to the general public via http://www2004.org/. Authors are not required to transfer copyright. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format, and must be formatted using the ACM proceedings format. Detailed formatting requirements will be available on http://www2004.org/. The official language of the conference is English. Inquiries can be sent to www2004-pc-chairs at cs.wpi.edu. ALTERNATE TRACKS Alternate tracks include a combination of peer-reviewed papers and invited presentations. Topics include: Education Web of Communities Web Services Industrial Practice Panels W3C Track (latest news and views from the World Wide Web Consortium) Invited papers only Inquiries can be sent to www2004-pc-chairs at cs.wpi.edu. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Marc Najork, Microsoft Research Craig Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute POSTERS Posters provide a forum for late-breaking research, and facilitate feedback in an informal setting. Posters are peer-reviewed. Formatting and publication details will be available on http://www2004.org/. The poster area provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent Web-related research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. It gives conference attendees a way to learn about innovative works in progress in a timely and informal manner. TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS A program of tutorials will cover topics of current interest to Web design, development, services, operation, use, and evaluation. These half and full-day sessions will be led by internationally recognized experts and experienced instructors using prepared content. Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers, designers, leaders, and practitioners to explore current Web R&D issues through a more focused and in-depth manner than is possible in a traditional conference session. Participants typically present position statements and hold in-depth discussions with their peers within the workshop setting. DEVELOPERS DAY Developers Day (D-Day) will be devoted to the interests of Web developers, and will offer in-depth discussions of technologies and tools at the forefront of the Web. This day-long program will consist of several parallel streams focused on specific content areas. D-Day sessions are designed to be timely and state-of-the-art. REFEREED TRACK AREA CHAIRS Applications: Vice Chair: Corin Anderson, Google, USA Deputy Vice Chair: Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts, USA Browsers and UI: Vice Chair: Andreas Paepcke, Stanford University, USA Deputy Vice Chair: Bay-Wei Chang, Google, USA Data Mining: Vice Chair: Krishna Bharat, Google, USA Deputy Vice Chair: Ramakrishnan Srikant, IBM Almaden, USA Electronic Commerce: WWW2004 Liason to EC2004 Conference: David Pennock, Overture Services, USA WWW2004 Liason to EC2004 Conference: Mark Manasse, Microsoft Research, USA Mobility and Wireless Access: Vice Chair: Yoelle Maarek, IBM Haifa, Israel Deputy Vice Chair: Jason Nieh, Columbia University, USA Performance and Reliability: Vice Chair: Mike Dahlin, University of Texas Austin, USA Deputy Vice Chair: Steve Gribble, University of Washington, USA Search: Vice Chair: Prabhakar Raghavan, Verity, USA Deputy Vice Chair: Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA Security and Privacy: Vice Chair: Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Research, USA Deputy Vice Chair: Patrick McDaniel, AT&T Research, USA Semantic Web: Vice Chair: Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs, USA Deputy Vice Chair: Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Web Engineering: Vice Chair: Daniel Schwabe, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Deputy Vice Chair: Martin Gaedke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany ALTERNATE TRACK CHAIRS Education: Co-Chair: Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA Co-Chair: Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany Web of Communities: Co-Chair: David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK Co-Chair: Liddy Nevile, La Trobe University, Australia Industrial Practice: Chair: Raymie Stata, University of California Santa Cruz, USA Deputy Chair: William Cook, University of Texas Austin, USA Web Services: Chair: Francisco (Paco) Curbera, IBM Research, USA Deputy Chair: Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands W3C: Chair: Marie-Claire Forgue, W3C, France Panels: Chair: Lloyd Rutledge, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Deputy Chair: Mary Ellen Zurko, IBM, USA TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Arun Iyengar, IBM Research, USA Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA POSTER CO-CHAIRS Chair: Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Deputy Chair: Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA DEVELOPERS DAY CO-CHAIRS: TBD CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Stuart Feldman, IBM Michael Uretsky, New York University IW3C2 Liason to WWW2004 Vincent Shen, W3C IW3C2 LIAISON TO THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Arun Iyengar, IBM Research, USA CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) New York University Center For Advanced Technology IBM ACM CONFERENCE PARTNERS IFIP Working Group 6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) General questions about WWW2004 may be sent to info at www2004.org From franconi at inf.unibz.it Wed Sep 3 20:23:05 2003 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:23:05 +0200 Subject: [DL] DL's semantics and model cheking questions ... In-Reply-To: <3F556E00.5060106@prodigy.net.mx> Message-ID: On Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003, at 06:28 Europe/Rome, Antonio Avi?a wrote: > 1.- Why simple model cheking is not enough when querying a DL KB?, I > found a short explanation in a paper on Query Answering (by Tessaris > and Horrocks Ian) but to be honest this matter remains unclear to me > :-) . Because an ABox does not devise a unique model. In general a TBox+ABox KB admits a set of models, and queries should be answer with what is true in all of them. This is deduction, not model checking. > 2.- By assumming either a closed world assumption or epistemic-like > queries, simple model checking would be enough for querying a DL KB? This depends. There is a good description on when this happens with epistemic queries in the DL handbook in the chapter 6 on Extensions to Description Logics by Franz Baader, Ralph Kuesters, Frank Wolter. Or the original paper: Francesco M. Donini, Maurizio Lenzerini, Daniele Nardi, Werner Nutt, Andrea Schaerf: An Epistemic Operator for Description Logics. Artificial Intelligence 100(1-2): 225-274 (1998). > 3.- Where I can find more info about Tarski declarative semantics in > order to get a better understanding on DL Semantics? In the DL handbook you will find all the answers to your questions :-) cheers --e. From Philippe.Balbiani at irit.fr Wed Sep 3 15:12:30 2003 From: Philippe.Balbiani at irit.fr (Philippe BALBIANI) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:12:30 +0200 Subject: [DL] JANCL: special issue devoted to dynamic logic Message-ID: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Special issue of the Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics devoted to PDL CALL FOR PAPERS (please distribute) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics (JANCL) is an international tribune. It aims at promoting the development of non-classical logics in computer science. Propositional dynamic logic (PDL) is one of the most prominent applied non-classical logics. There are by now a number of books and survey papers treating PDL and a great deal is known concerning its complexity and its proof theory. Additional topics related to PDL include results concerning comparative expressive power, decidability, complexity and completeness of a number of variants obtained by extending or restricting PDL in various ways: deterministic programs, restricted tests, nonregular programs, programs as automata, complementation and intersection of programs, converse and infinite computations, etc. The editors of the JANCL intend to publish a special issue devoted to PDL and related topics such as first-order dynamic logic, algorithmic logic, mu-calculus, process logic, etc. Applications are also welcome if they illustrate the usefulness of dynamic concepts in logic. Authors are invited to submit a full paper by email to Philippe Balbiani (balbiani at irit.fr) using ``Special issue of the JANCL'' as the subject line. The cover page should include title, names of authors and the coordinates of the corresponding author. To be considered, submissions must be received no later than April 2004. Important dates: - April 2004: electronic submission deadline - August 2004: notification of acceptance - October 2004: camera-ready papers due - December 2004: publication of the special issue The editors highly recommend to submit papers using the Latex article-style or the Latex style of the JANCL. Please ask Dominique Longin (longin at irit.fr), the journal administrator, for details. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From fgrandi at deis.unibo.it Mon Sep 8 12:19:44 2003 From: fgrandi at deis.unibo.it (Fabio Grandi) Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 12:19:44 +0200 Subject: [DL] DL'03 paper Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030908114844.02e364c8@pop.deis.unibo.it> This is a due note concerning my paper "A Tableau Algorithm for ALCN(o,U)" that appeared in the DL'03 proceedings. The claim at p. 72: <> is wrong. I thank very much Franz Baader and Uli Sattler for having pointed it out. As it is, the algorithm does not always produce a complete ABox. By removing precondition 1. in the atmost-rule, the algorithm produces a complete ABox but is not guaranteed to terminate. Hence decidability of ALCN(o,U) actually remains an open problem. Regards, -- Fabio Grandi From jleite at di.fct.unl.pt Mon Sep 8 19:12:08 2003 From: jleite at di.fct.unl.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Alexandre_Leite?=) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:12:08 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: CLIMA IV - Deadline Extended Message-ID: <414-2200391817128545@ANIMAL> ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS CLIMA IV Fourth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems January 6-7, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/climaIV/index.htm Post-Proceedings will be published in Springer Verlag LNAI ***new*** Submission Deadline: September 26th Co-located with the 7th LPNMR and the 8th AIMATH =========================================================================== Over recent years, the notion of agency has claimed a major role in defining the trends of modern research. Influencing a broad spectrum of disciplines such as Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy and many more, the agent paradigm virtually invaded every sub-field of Computer Science, not least because of the Internet and Robotics. Multi-agent Systems (MAS) are communities of problem-solving entities that can perceive and act upon their environments to achieve their individual goals as well as joint goals. The work on such systems integrates many technologies and concepts in artificial intelligence and other areas of computing. There is a full spectrum of MAS applications that have been and are being developed; from search engines, educational aids to electronic commerce and trade. Although commonly implemented by means of imperative languages, mainly for reasons of efficiency, the agent concept has recently increased its influence in the research and development of computational logic based systems. Computational Logic, by virtue of its nature both in substance and method, provides a well-defined, general, and rigorous framework for systematically studying computation, be it syntax, semantics, procedures, or implementations, environments, tools, and standards. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about multi-agent systems in a formal way. This is clearly a major challenge for computational logic, to deal with real world issues and applications. Following the workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Logic Programming affiliated with ICLP'99, the first CLIMA workshop took place in London, UK, affiliated with CL'2000. The 2001 edition of CLIMA, took place in Paphos, Cyprus, affiliated with ICLP'01. CLIMA'02 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was affiliated with ICLP'02 and part of FLOC'02. We solicit unpublished papers that address formal approaches to multi-agent systems. The approaches as well asbeing formal must make a significant contribution to the practice of multi-agent systems. Relevant techniques include, but are not limited to, the following: * Nonmonotonic reasoning in MAS * Planning under incomplete information in MAS * Logical foundations of MAS * Usage of abduction in MAS * Representation of knowledge and belief in MAS * Knowledge and belief updates in MAS * Temporal reasoning for MAS * Theory of argumentation for MAS * Negotiation and co-operation for MAS * Communication languages for MAS * Distributed constraint satisfaction in MAS * Modal logic approaches to MAS * Logic based programming languages for MAS * Distributed theorem proving for MAS * Logic based implementations of MAS * Decision theory for MAS * Logic based agents for the Internet SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Please refer to the workshop web pages for further instructions concerning the submission procedures. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: September 26th, 2003 * Notification of Acceptance: October 31th, 2003 * Final version due: November 28th, 2003 * CLIMA IV: January 6-7th, 2004 PROCEEDINGS Post-proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Informal proceedings will be available at the workshop and online. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA * Gerd Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany * J?rgen Dix, The University of Manchester, UK * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany * Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK * James Harland, Royal Melbourne Inst. of Tech., Australia * Katsumi Inoue, Kobe University, Japan * Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen Univ. of Technology, Germany * Jo?o Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Yves Lesp?rance, York University, Canada * John Jules Ch. Meyer, Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands * Leora Morgenstern, IBM, USA * Lu?s Moniz Pereira, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, UK * Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK * Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina * V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA * Francesca Toni, Imperial College, UK * Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy * Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK * Cees Witteveen, Delft Univ. of Tech., The Netherlands WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: * J?rgen Dix, The University of Manchester, UK (dix at cs.man.ac.uk) * Jo?o Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal (jleite at di.fct.unl.pt) INQUIRIES: Please send program suggestions and inquires to either of the organizers. From studer at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Thu Sep 11 19:22:31 2003 From: studer at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Studer) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:22:31 +0200 Subject: [DL] Postdoc / Ph.D. positions Semantic Web Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20030911192103.045067f0@localhost> The Research Group Knowledge Management at the University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB, seeks applicants for PostDoc Positions and Ph.D. Positions within several new international research projects. The research group Knowledge Management is one of the leading institutions in the Semantic Web area. Relevant research topics include Semantic Web, ontologies, data and text mining, logic-based knowledge representation, peer-to-peer, and Web services. The prospective applicants are expected to hold a Ph.D. degree or master's Degree/German diploma, respectively. The PostDoc position is paid according to German C1 (roughly 39.000 Euro gross income per year depending on age and marital status), Ph.D. students are paid according to German BAT IIa (roughly 35.000 Euro gross income). Basic knowledge of the German language may be helpful. Potential candidates may find more detailed information at http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS or may contact and send their application to Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany studer at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Deadline is September 28, 2003. Further information may also be obtained from Dr. Lars Schmidt-Thieme, lsc at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Dr. Steffen Staab, staab at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de From m4m at science.uva.nl Thu Sep 11 19:21:28 2003 From: m4m at science.uva.nl (Methods for Modalities) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:21:28 +0200 Subject: [DL] Last Call for Participation: M4M-3 | DLD | ICoS-4 Message-ID: <20030911192128.A14169@science.uva.nl> ==================================================================== !!! DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: Monday, September 15 !!! ==================================================================== Last Call for Participation NANCY INFERENCE WEEK Method for Modalities 3 (M4M-3) Description Logic Day (DLD) Inference in Computational Semantics 4 (ICoS-4) LORIA, Nancy, France, 22-26 September 2003 http://www.loria.fr/~areces/NIW/ ==================================================================== The first Nancy Inference Week (NIW) will take place at LORIA, Nancy, France, during the week of the 22-26 of September, 2003. Nancy Inference Week will consist of the following events: o Method for Modalities 3 (M4M-3): September 22-23. o Description Logic Day (DLD): September 24. o Inference in Computational Semantics 4 (ICoS-4): September 25-26. These three events are separate, but are linked by the common theme of inference. M4M is a workshop devoted to inference techniques for modal logic and their applications. DLD is a one day workshop which introduces Description Logic, an important formalism for representation and inference in Artificial Intelligence. ICoS is a workshop on applying inference techniques to the semantics for natural language (in a computational setting). The Nancy Inference Week webpage at http://www.loria.fr/~areces/NIW/ has pointers to the websites for all three events. You can register for any of the NIW events by filling in the registration form you will find there. The deadline for registration for Nancy Inference Week is: 15 September 2003 No registration will be possible after this date. In particular, you won't be able to register on the days of the workshop ("on-the-spot" registrations are not possible). ==================================================================== -- M4M: Methods for Modalities www.science.uva.nl/~m4m From heflin at cse.lehigh.edu Thu Sep 11 19:44:46 2003 From: heflin at cse.lehigh.edu (Jeff Heflin) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:44:46 -0400 Subject: [DL] Special Track on AI and the Web at FLAIRS 2004 Message-ID: <3F60B48E.CCE80195@cse.lehigh.edu> The 17th International FLAIRS Conference Special Track on AI and the Web http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~heflin/conf/flairs/ The Palms South Beach Hotel Miami Beach, Florida May 17-19, 2004 Call for Papers --------------- The World Wide Web has made a wealth of digital information available on demand, impacting AI in two ways. First, it allows traditional AI techniques to be evaluated with large amounts of real-world data. This introduces complexities not found in toy problems, while at the same time avoiding many of the difficulties inherent in the physical world. As such, the Web makes for a good testbed for AI researchers. Second, the Web proposes new problems and challenges for AI. The sheer size and distributed nature of the Web has fueled novel research in extracting information from Web pages, efficiently integrating information from distributed sources, and extending the Web with ontologies to enable the Semantic Web. The focus of this special track is on what the Web can do for AI research and what AI research can do for the Web. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: - Information extraction - Information integration - Intelligent Web search - Intelligent Web services - Machine learning for classifying Web documents - NLP for understanding Web documents - Question answering from Web documents - Semantic Web - User modeling and adaptation for the Web - Web-based agents Submission Instructions ----------------------- Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should not exceed 6 pages and are due by October 24, 2003. The papers should not identify the author(s) in any manner. All submissions will be done electronically via the FLAIRS web submission system, which will be available through the conference web site (see the link under General Conference, below). Authors should indicate "AI and the Web" as the special track when submitting their papers. General Conference ------------------ FLAIRS 2004 promises to be an especially exciting conference. Invited speakers include Justine Cassell from MIT, Edward Feigenbaum from Stanford University, Jim Hendler from the University of Maryland, and Tom Mitchell from Carnegie Mellon University. For more information on FLAIRS and this year's conference, please see the following web sites: FLAIRS: http://www.flairs.com/ FLAIRS 2004: http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004/ Important Dates --------------- - Paper submissions due: October 24, 2003 - Notification letters sent: January 7, 2004 - Camera ready copy due: February 6, 2004 Program Committee ----------------- Larry Birnbaum Northwestern University Stefan Decker USC ISI AnHai Doan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County Gary Flake Overture Services Paolo Frasconi University of Florence Lee Giles Penn State University Siegfried Handschuh University of Karlsruhe Pat Hayes University of West Florida Jeff Heflin (chair) Lehigh University Ian Horrocks University of Manchester Eduard Hovy USC ISI Vipul Kashyap National Library of Medicine Craig Knoblock USC ISI Nick Kushmerick University College Dublin Marco Maggini University of Siena Dunja Mladenic J. Stefan Institute Ion Muslea University of California, Irvine Natasha Noy Stanford University Bijan Parsia University of Maryland Dragomir Radev University of Michigan Sarah Zelikovitz College of Staten Island Further Information ------------------- Specific questions regarding the AI and the Web track may be addressed to: Jeff Heflin Computer Science and Engineering Lehigh University 19 Memorial Drive West Bethlehem, PA 18034 E-mail: jeh3 at lehigh.edu Phone: 610-758-6533 From gkatsi at cs.toronto.edu Fri Sep 19 17:05:36 2003 From: gkatsi at cs.toronto.edu (George Katsirelos) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:05:36 -0400 Subject: [DL] Call For Papers: AI+MATH 04 Message-ID: <200309191505.h8JF5aB19043@cs.toronto.edu> Please note that deadline for paper submission is 2 weeks away. CALL FOR PAPERS Eighth International Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MATHEMATICS January 4-6, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~amai Paper submission deadline: October 3, 2003 APPROACH OF THE SYMPOSIUM: The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics is the eighth of a biennial series. The series was started by Martin Golumbic and the editorial board of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence serves as the permanent Advisory Committee. The objective of the Symposium is to foster interactions between mathematics, theoretical CS, and artificial intelligence. Traditionally, the Symposium attracts around 100 participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for active scientific exchange. The Symposium includes invited speakers, special topic sessions, and presentations of submitted papers. INVITED SPEAKERS: Robert Bixby, ILOG Inc. Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel An additional speaker to be announced at a later date SPECIAL TOPIC SESSIONS: Preferences Organizer: Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Portfolio Design for Combinatorial Problems Organizers: Carla Gomes, Bart Selman, Cornell, USA Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory Organizers: Kevin Leyton-Brown, Stanford, USA Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors must email either Adobe PDF (pdf) or Postscript (ps) files of their extended abstracts (up to 8 pages, 12pt font, single column format) to vanbeek at uwaterloo.ca to be received by October 3, 2003. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by November 3, 2003. Final versions of accepted extended abstracts, for inclusion in the conference volume, are due by November 28, 2003. Full versions of a selected set of papers from the Symposium will be published in a special volume in the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Kluwer Academic Publishers. SPONSORS: The Symposium is partially supported by the Annals of Math and AI and Florida Atlantic University. ORGANIZERS: General Chair: Martin Golumbic, University of Haifa, Israel Conference Chair: Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University, USA Program Co-Chairs: Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto, Canada Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo, Canada Publicity Chair: George Katsirelos, University of Toronto, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany), Peter Bartlett (UC Berkeley, USA), Endre Boros (Rutgers, USA), Adnan Darwiche (UCLA, USA), Rina Dechter (UC Irvine, USA), Boi Faltings (EPFL, Switzerland), Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), John Franco (U. of Cincinnati, USA), Hector Geffner (UPF, Spain), Ian Gent (U. of St. Andrews, UK), Enrico Giunchiglia (U. of Genova, Italy), Robert Given (Purdue, USA), Joerg Hoffmann (Albert-Ludwigs-Univ., Germany), Holger Hoos (UBC, Canada), Peter Jonsson (U. of Linkoeping, Sweden), Henry Kautz (U. of Washington, USA), Sven Koenig (Georgia Tech, USA), Richard Korf (UCLA, USA), Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Omid Madani (U. of Alberta, Canada), Heikki Mannila (U. of Helsinki, Finland), Anil Nerode (Cornell, USA), Ronald Parr (Duke, USA), Pascal Poupart (U. of Toronto, Canada), Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew University, Israel), Sam Roweis (U. of Toronto, Canada), Dale Schuurmans (U. of Alberta, Canada), Allen Van Gelder (UCSC, USA), Toby Walsh (4C, UCC, Ireland). The 8th Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics will be collocated with the following conferences: * LPNMR-7 7th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning January 6-8, 2004 * CLIMA IV Fourth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems January 6-7, 2004 From gkatsi at cs.toronto.edu Fri Sep 19 23:20:56 2003 From: gkatsi at cs.toronto.edu (George Katsirelos) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:20:56 -0400 Subject: [DL] Call For Papers: AI+MATH 04 - updated Message-ID: <200309192120.h8JLKu321647@cs.toronto.edu> Apologies for sending this twice in a day. Note that the invited speakers section is update. Also, please note that the deadline for paper submission is 2 weeks away. CALL FOR PAPERS Eighth International Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MATHEMATICS January 4-6, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~amai Paper submission deadline: October 3, 2003 APPROACH OF THE SYMPOSIUM: The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics is the eighth of a biennial series. The series was started by Martin Golumbic and the editorial board of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence serves as the permanent Advisory Committee. The objective of the Symposium is to foster interactions between mathematics, theoretical CS, and artificial intelligence. Traditionally, the Symposium attracts around 100 participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for active scientific exchange. The Symposium includes invited speakers, special topic sessions, and presentations of submitted papers. INVITED SPEAKERS: Robert Bixby, ILOG Inc. Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Henry Kautz, University of Washington SPECIAL TOPIC SESSIONS: Preferences Organizer: Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Portfolio Design for Combinatorial Problems Organizers: Carla Gomes, Bart Selman, Cornell, USA Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory Organizers: Kevin Leyton-Brown, Stanford, USA Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors must email either Adobe PDF (pdf) or Postscript (ps) files of their extended abstracts (up to 8 pages, 12pt font, single column format) to vanbeek at uwaterloo.ca to be received by October 3, 2003. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by November 3, 2003. Final versions of accepted extended abstracts, for inclusion in the conference volume, are due by November 28, 2003. Full versions of a selected set of papers from the Symposium will be published in a special volume in the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Kluwer Academic Publishers. SPONSORS: The Symposium is partially supported by the Annals of Math and AI and Florida Atlantic University. ORGANIZERS: General Chair: Martin Golumbic, University of Haifa, Israel Conference Chair: Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University, USA Program Co-Chairs: Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto, Canada Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo, Canada Publicity Chair: George Katsirelos, University of Toronto, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany), Peter Bartlett (UC Berkeley, USA), Endre Boros (Rutgers, USA), Adnan Darwiche (UCLA, USA), Rina Dechter (UC Irvine, USA), Boi Faltings (EPFL, Switzerland), Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), John Franco (U. of Cincinnati, USA), Hector Geffner (UPF, Spain), Ian Gent (U. of St. Andrews, UK), Enrico Giunchiglia (U. of Genova, Italy), Robert Given (Purdue, USA), Joerg Hoffmann (Albert-Ludwigs-Univ., Germany), Holger Hoos (UBC, Canada), Peter Jonsson (U. of Linkoeping, Sweden), Henry Kautz (U. of Washington, USA), Sven Koenig (Georgia Tech, USA), Richard Korf (UCLA, USA), Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Omid Madani (U. of Alberta, Canada), Heikki Mannila (U. of Helsinki, Finland), Anil Nerode (Cornell, USA), Ronald Parr (Duke, USA), Pascal Poupart (U. of Toronto, Canada), Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew University, Israel), Sam Roweis (U. of Toronto, Canada), Dale Schuurmans (U. of Alberta, Canada), Allen Van Gelder (UCSC, USA), Toby Walsh (4C, UCC, Ireland). The 8th Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics will be collocated with the following conferences: * LPNMR-7 7th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning January 6-8, 2004 * CLIMA IV Fourth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems January 6-7, 2004 From rhodgson at topquadrant.com Tue Sep 23 00:51:19 2003 From: rhodgson at topquadrant.com (rhodgson) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:51:19 -0400 Subject: [DL] Proceedings of Semantic Technologies for eGov - White House Conference Center, September 8th Message-ID: <008301c3815c$198162b0$bed05b18@TQBEDFORD> The proceedings of a recent well-attended conference on Semantic Technologies are available on the web at http://www.topquadrant.com/conferences/tq_proceedings.htm. The "Semantic Technologies for E-Government" Conference was held at the White House Conference Center on September 8th. This was a very successful event with over 130 attendees. Among many agencies represented were Army, Census Bureau, CIA, DIA, DOE, EPA, GSA, IRS, Navy, NARA, NASA, NSA, NSF, SSA, USDA and US Patent Office. A number of attendees were from non-profit organizations such as Aerospace.org and Mitre. Major goverment contractors were also well represented by the attendees from BBN, CSC, Lockheed Martin and SAIC. Ralph Hodgson Lead for Semantic Technologies Pilot, CIO Council XML Web Services Working Group Executive Partner TopQuadrant, Inc. Office: (724) 846-9300, Fax: (425) 955-5469, Cell: (781) 789-1664 http://www.topquadrant.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mariapaola.bonacina at univr.it Tue Sep 23 20:15:53 2003 From: mariapaola.bonacina at univr.it (Maria Paola Bonacina) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:15:53 +0200 Subject: [DL] ijcar 2004 cfp : please post Message-ID: <3F708DD9.8060109@univr.it> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: cfpIJCAR2004.txt URL: From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Wed Sep 24 15:10:51 2003 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Ulrike Sattler) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:10:51 +0100 (BST) Subject: [DL] Research positions available Message-ID: <20030924131051.B48261C3B8@ulipc.cs.man.ac.uk> Three research positions are offered on a collaborative EPSRC Research Project in Computer Science between the University of Liverpool (Prof. F Wolter), University of Manchester (Prof. I Horrocks), and King's College London (Prof. M Zakharyaschev). Within this project, we will untertake specific research and development concerning the foundations of service description languages for the semantic web and grid. Thus, a background in logic, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning would be desirable. ===================================================================== A summary of the project: Current research on Semantic Web/Grid services aims to make web based services more readily accessible to automated processes. In particular, it should be possible to automatically discover and use web/grid based services in order to perform some given task, and automatically compose multiple services in order to perform more complex tasks. Ontologies are set to play a key role in the Semantic Web/Grid by providing precisely defined vocabulary that can be used to describe and reason about content of web documents and web services. To describe services, however, current web based ontology languages have several limitations, one of the most serious of which is that they are inherently "static": they have no means to model changes in the world that may result from, e.g., performing services. Extending these languages in a principled manner will first require an extension of the underlying logical languages on which they are based, namely expressive description logics, in order to better describe dynamic situations. We propose to do this by extending existing description logics with notions of time (both qualitative and quantitative), and with the ability to represent and reason about actions. This will include theoeratical investigations of the properties of such logics, the development of inference algorithms for key reasoning problems and the evaluation of their utility in prototypical implementations. ===================================================================== So far, the following researchers participate in this project: Anatoli Degtyarev (www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/anatoli/) Clare Dixon (www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~clare/) Carole Goble (www.cs.man.ac.uk/~carole/) Ian Horrocks (www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks) Agi Kurucz (www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/) Ulrike Sattler (www.cs.man.ac.uk/~sattler) Frank Wolter (www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~frank/) Micha Zakharyaschev (www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/mz/) The positions are tenable for three years, with a salary: ?18.265 - ?22191 pa (under review), and are available from February 2004. Informal enquiries about the project and positions are very welcome and should be addressed to one of the following: Uli Sattler (sattler at cs.man.ac.uk) in Manchester or Frank Wolter (frank at csc.liv.ac.uk) in Liverpool or Michael Zakharyaschev (mz at dcs.kcl.ac.uk) at King's College London. If you want to apply to one of these positions, you need to follow a certain formal procedure, which depends on the university: King's College London, see http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/mz03_2.html University of Liverpool, see http://uniwww.connect.org.uk/jobs/jb263121.html University of Manchester, see http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research.html#643 From F.Wolter at csc.liv.ac.uk Thu Oct 2 11:44:02 2003 From: F.Wolter at csc.liv.ac.uk (Frank Wolter) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:44:02 +0100 Subject: [DL] new book on modal, description, temporal and spatial logic Message-ID: <200310021044.02924.frank@csc.liv.ac.uk> New book on computational properties of modal logics with introductory chapters on basic description logics, temporal logic, epistemic logic, spatial logic, etc. Other features relevant for DL: Chapters on tableaux for and the decidability and complexity of temporal, epistemic and modal description logics. Many-Dimensional Modal Logics: Theory and Applications. Author: D. Gabbay, A. Kurucz, F. Wolter, M. Zakharyaschev (Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics, 148, Elsevier, North-Holland, 2003, 0-444-50826-0), http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/6/8/0/8/3/9/index.htt From icdm at wi-lab.com Mon Oct 6 14:17:16 2003 From: icdm at wi-lab.com (icdm at wi-lab.com) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 21:17:16 +0900 Subject: [DL] IEEE Data Mining'03: Call for Participation Message-ID: <200310061217.h96CHGde004772@bigslope.dyndns.org> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] IEEE Data Mining 2003: Call for Participation ============================================= The 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) to be held at the Holiday Inn Oceanfront, Melbourne, Florida, USA November 19 - 22, 2003, invites you to attend. * On-line registration (and other information) is available at http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-03.html Register by October 17 to get the early-bird rate! * Registration includes a half-day tour of the NASA Kennedy Space Center! * Be sure to book hotel rooms by October 31 at 5pm for discounted rates (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm/hotel-03.shtml) ICDM received a total of 501 paper submissions this year, from which 58 regular papers, 61 short papers, and 9 industry-track papers were selected for presentation. Conference highlights include the following. * Five Invited Speakers: - Thomas G. Dietterich, Oregon State University, USA. "Sequential Supervised Learning: General Methods for Sequence Labeling and Segmentation" - Usama M. Fayyad, DMX Group, LLC, USA. "Grand Challenges on the Road to Practical Data Mining Systems" - Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland. "Global Structure from Sequences" - Gene W. Myers, University of California, Berkeley, USA. "Pattern Discovery for Genomics" - Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA. "Real-Time Monitoring and Surveillance using Data Stream Mining" * Four Tutorials: November 19, Morning - Chris Ding, "Bioinformatics and Machine Learning Methods" - Ronen Feldman, "Information Extraction: Theory and Practice" November 19, Afternoon - Alexander Hinneburg and Daniel Keim, "Advances in Clustering and Applications" - Aleksandar Lazarevic, Jaideep Srivastava, and Vipin Kumar, "Data Mining for Security Applications" * Six Full-Day Workshops (November 19): - Clustering Large Data Sets - Data Mining for Computer Security (DMSEC '03) - Foundations and New Directions in Data Mining - Frequent Itemset Mining Implementations (FIMI '03) - Privacy Preserving Data Mining (PPDM) - VDM at ICDM2003: The 3rd International Workshop on Visual Data Mining * One Panel: "Security and Data Mining: Funding Priorities and Opportunities" Panel Chair: Michael J. Pazzani, National Science Foundation, USA. * 128 Technical Paper Presentations (November 20 - 22, 2003): There are sessions on Association Analysis, Bayesian Networks, Clustering, Databases and Datamining, Feature Selection, Mining Sequential and Hierarchical Data, Mining User Behavior, Spatial and Temporal Tasks, Support Vector Machines, Nearest-Neighbor Methods, Privacy-Preserving Datamining, Linkage-based Methods, Rule-Based Methods, Text Mining, Visualization, Image Processing, Issues in Supervised Learning, and Applications. From sha at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Mon Oct 6 16:10:52 2003 From: sha at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Siegfried Handschuh) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:10:52 +0200 Subject: [DL] SEMANNOT2003 Program Message-ID: <200310061610.52805.sha@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> **************************************************************** 2nd Int. Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (SEMANNOT2003) Collocated with 2nd Int. Conf. on Knowledge Capture (KCAP2003) Sanibel Island, Florida, October 26, 2003 http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/semannot2003/ **************************************************************** Dear all, the schedule of the workshop is now available at: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/semannot2003/schedule.html (Apologies if you received multiple copies) We are looking forward to fruitful discussions and seeing you there! Siegfried Handschuh, Marja-Riitta Koivunen, Rose Dieng, Steffen Staab -- Siegfried Handschuh University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Tel.: +49-(0)721-608 6554, Fax.: +49-(0)721-608 6580 sha at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/sha From rhodgson at topquadrant.com Mon Oct 6 20:08:50 2003 From: rhodgson at topquadrant.com (rhodgson) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:08:50 -0400 Subject: [DL] MINDLab Semantic Technologies Tutorials Announcement - Nov 3-6, 2003 Message-ID: <00ae01c38c34$facbe3c0$bed05b18@TQBEDFORD> ************************************************************************ Tutorials at MINDLab, College Park, MD, November 3-6, 2003 ************************************************************************ Following the White House Conference Center September 8th conference on Semantic Technologies, TopQuadrant with Jim Hendler would like to bring to your attention a new Semantic Technology Tutorial Series. The program launch will take place in the Washington, DC, area at Jim Hendler's MINDLab facility, at the University of MD, College Park, MD in early November. These in-depth one and two day tutorials cover topical semantic and knowledge technology areas. Each is jointly designed and delivered with Jim Hendler to feature the latest content, developments, standards and state-of-the-art knowledge and experience in this important, emerging field. The tutorials have been created based on the requests that we have received for a pragmatic program for education and exploration of the emerging semantic technologies. Three tutorials are offered: An Introduction to Semantic Technologies -- Nov. 3, 2003 ************************************************************ A one day overview of the concepts behind Semantic Technologies - this course is non-technical in content and suitable for business and technical managers, as well as solution architects and information architects. It focuses on the application of the elements of semantic technology that are "ready for use", exploring how these technologies are being applied today to solve problems faced by many enterprises. Adopting Taxonomy and Ontology Solutions -- Nov. 4, 2003 ************************************************************ This one day course provides an overview of the use of taxonomies for business applications including the state of the art and best practices of taxonomy deployment today, case studies and a survey of the capabilities provided by taxonomy software products. It also explores the role of taxonomies as a foundation for more powerful semantic solutions and offers a roadmap for migrating taxonomy solutions to ontology-based semantic solutions. The course has been designed for information modelers, taxonomists, content managers and anyone who is involved in the organization of enterprise information. ************************************************************************ ************************* Beyond XML: A tutorial and comparative review of RDF/S, Topic Maps, and OWL -- Nov. 5-6, 2003 ************************************************************************ ************************* A two day, hands on, technical introduction to the technologies underlying the semantic web - this course has been designed for technical managers, architects and developers seeking an understanding of the standards and tools to support semantic integration, information mark-up for semantic portals, and the Semantic WEB. Familiarity with XML is required. The course will cover the different strengths and goals of the three leading standards, their compatibility with other standards and the implications of their syntax and semantics. Hands-on exercises using semantic modeling tools are featured. For a detailed description of each tutorial and the overall series, and to register to attend, please www.topquadrant.com/seminars/tq_tutorials.htm. The curriculum emphasizes the practical use of semantic technology for enabling the next generation of enterprise solutions for business and government. Each class includes interactive participation, exploration and evaluation. Additional classes are planned for the series. Any offering can be tailored to the specific needs of groups or organizations on request. Contact us at 724-846-9300 or tutorials at topquadrant.com for questions or requests. ____________________________ Jim Hendler is Professor at the University of Maryland and Director of Semantic Web and Agent Technology at the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory. As Chief Scientist and Program Manager at DARPA for the DAML program, he has been one of the major drivers in the creation of the Semantic Web, and continues to be a prominent player in the W3C's Semantic Web Activity. ____________________________ TopQuadrant maintains a constant watch on semantic technology products, vendors and standards in order to act as a trusted intermediary for customers who want to deploy successful solutions and gain an early advantage from these emerging technologies. Recently, TopQuadrant co-organized the landmark event "Semantic Technologies for e-Government" at the White House Conference Center, on September 8th 2003, and was awarded Special Recognition by the Federal CIO Council's XML Web Services Working Group for exceptional performance on the "Semantic Technologies for eGov" Pilot Project. _____________________________ From jane at dcs.kcl.ac.uk Tue Oct 7 17:10:35 2003 From: jane at dcs.kcl.ac.uk (Jane Spurr) Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 16:10:35 +0100 Subject: [DL] De Morgan Workshop - November 03 Message-ID: <3F82D76B.5080703@dcs.kcl.ac.uk> We would like to draw your attention to the Fifth De Morgan Workshop on Knowledge Representation and the Reasoning Agent. Please visit http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/gllc/ADMW03/ and we hope to welcome you to King's in November. -- Department of Computer Science, tel: + (0)20 7848 2987 King's College, Strand, fax: + (0)20 7240 1071 London WC2R 2LS. email: jane at dcs.kcl.ac.uk From piero.fraternali at polimi.it Wed Oct 8 09:38:17 2003 From: piero.fraternali at polimi.it (Piero Fraternali) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:38:17 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: Fourth International Conference on Web Engineering ICWE'04 Message-ID: <025501c38d6f$27c9d1d0$1901a8c0@pcfraterna> ** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement ** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth International Conference on Web Engineering ICWE'04 July 28-30, 2004 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t Munich, Germany http://www.icwe2004.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Conference on Web Engineering will be organised and hosted by the Institute for Informatics of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen. The ICWE'04 Conference continues the tradition of ICWE'03 in Oviedo, Spain, ICWE'02 in Santa F?, Argentina and ICWE'01 in C?ceres, Spain. The ICWE'04 conference aims at bringing together the international community of experts in Web Engineering research, practice and education, to share their experiences and to foster discussion on the present status of and future trends in this rapidly growing field. The conference focuses on the methodologies, techniques and tools that are the foundation of Web Engineering and support the development, use, and evaluation of complex Web applications. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following areas: * Business Processes for Applications on the Web * CASE Tools for Web Applications * Code Generation for Web Applications * Collaborative Web Development * Conceptual Modelling of Web Applications * Data Models for Web Information Systems * Development Process and Process Improvement of Web Applications * Empirical Web Engineering * Integrated Web Application Development Environments * Multimedia Authoring Tools and Software * Performance of Web-based Applications * Personalisation and Adaptation of Web Applications * Process Modelling of Web Applications * Prototyping Methods and Tools * Quality Control and Testing * Requirements Engineering for Web Applications * Semantic Web Applications * Software Factories for/on the Web * Testing Automation, Methods and Tools for Web Applications * Ubiquitous and Mobile Web Applications * UML and the Web * Usability of Web Applications * Web Accessibility * Web Design Methods * Web Engineering Education * Web Interface Design * Web Metrics, Cost Estimation, and Measurement * Web Project Management and Risk Management * Web Services Development and Deployment ICWE'04 invites original submissions in the mentioned and other related areas. Contributions may fall in any of the following categories: papers, demonstrations, workshops and tutorials. The submissions may cover new approaches in Web Engineering, novel viewpoints and challenges on any aspect of Web Engineering, reports on the implementation or deployment of advanced Web projects in an industrial or application scenario, or descriptions of Web Engineering education experiences. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html) Papers may not exceed 14 pages in the Springer LNCS format. Submitted papers may be accepted either as full papers, or as short papers or poster presentations. All the accepted submissions will be included in the Conference Proceedings. Additionally, an extended version of selected papers will be published on a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering after the conference (http://www.rintonpress.com/journals/jwe). TUTORIALS -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial proposals should be submitted to the Tutorial Co-Chairs, Klaus Turowski (klaus.turowski at wiwi.uni-augsburg.de ) and Jose Emilio Labra (labra at pinon.ccu.uniovi.es). Tutorials may last for a half-day or full day and they are held on 26-27 July. A tutorial proposal should include the following: - Title of the tutorial. - Names and affiliations of the organizer(s), identifying one primary contact. - Abstract of the tutorial with no more than 200 words, describing its main topics, goals and expected outcomes. - A table of contents, with short explanations of the contents of individual sections. - Target audience. Specify assumed background knowledge needed, if any. - Facilities, equipments and materials required. - Biography of each presenter. WORKSHOPS -------------------------------------------------------------------- We solicit workshop proposals promoting highly interactive forums for exchanging novel results, conducting in-depth discussions on a specific topic, or coordinating work among representatives of a technical community. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the Workshop Co-Chairs, Sara Comai (sara.comai at polimi.it) and Maristella Matera (maristella.matera at polimi.it). Workshops last for one full day and will be held on 26-27 July. A workshop proposal should include the following items: - Name of the workshop. - Names and affiliations of the organiser(s), identifying one primary contact. - Abstract of the workshop with no more than 200 words, including its major topics, goals and expected outcomes. - Motivation: relevance of the workshop to the Web Engineering community; references to other workshops organised by the proponents at ICWE or other conferences. - Desired number of workshop participants (minimum and maximum). - Facilities, equipments and materials required. - A draft of the Call for Papers/Presentations briefly describing the goals of the workshop, the maximum number of accepted participants, the participant selection process, the schedule of the activities, and the organisers' biography. - A short description of the activities that Workshop organisers propose to undertake for the success of the workshop upon acceptance of the proposal. DEMONSTRATIONS AND POSTERS -------------------------------------------------------------------- ICWE 2004 provides a forum for discussing ongoing work. We welcome poster reports on in-progress projects, demonstrations of early versions of software tools and products, invitations to cooperate on new project ideas, etc. Please submit demonstration proposals to the Poster and Demo Chair, Alexander Knapp (knapp at informatik.uni-muenchen.de). Accepted posters and demonstrations will have a two-page description in the Conference Proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline for paper abstracts: 15 February Deadline for paper submissions: 22 February Deadline for workshop/tutorial/demonstration proposals: 22 February Notification of workshop/tutorial acceptance: 19 March Notification of paper acceptance: 5 April Notification of demonstration acceptance: 5 April Deadline for final versions: 26 April PROGRAMME COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paolo Atzeni, Universita' di Roma Tre (Italy) Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Philip A. Bernstein, Microsoft Research (USA) Michael Bieber, NJIT (USA) Alex Buchmann, Darmstadt University (Germany) Christoph Bussler, Oracle Corporation (USA) Leslie Carr, University of Southampton (UK) Fabio Casati, HP Labs (USA) Vassilis Christophides, FORTH (Greece) Ernesto Damiani, Universita' di Milano (Italy) Paul Dantzig, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (USA) Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) Yogesh Deshpande, University of Western Sydney (Australia) Klaus R. Dittrich, Universitaet Zuerich (Switzerland) Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University Ankara (Turkey) Juliana Freire, Oregon Graduate Institute (USA) Martin Gaedke, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) Athula Ginige, University of Western Sydney (Australia) Jaime G?mez, Universidad de Alicante (Spain) Martin Gonzalez Rodriguez, Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland) Geert-Jan Houben, Eindhoven University (The Netherlands) Martti Jeenicke, University of Hamburg (Germany) Gerti Kappel, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) Nick Kushmerick, University College Dublin (Ireland) Frank Leymann, IBM Software Group (Germany) Xiaoming Li Peking University (China) Stephen W. Liddle, Brigham Young University (USA) Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore (Singapore) David Lowe, University of Technology Sydney (Australia) Luis Mandel, FAST (Germany) Massimo Marchiori, W3C (USA) Heinrich Mayr, University of Klagenfurt (Austria) Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita' della Basilicata (Italy) Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland (New Zeland) Sandro Morasca, Universit? di Milano (Italy) San Murugesan, Southern Cross University (Australia) Moira Norrie, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) Luis Olsina, Universidad de La Pampa (Argentina) Oscar Pastor, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia (Spain) Vicente Pelechano, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia (Spain) Mario Piattini, Castilla-La Mancha University (Spain) Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina) Arthur Ryman, IBM Toronto Lab (Canada) Arno Scharl, University of Western Australia (Australia) Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Massey University (New Zealand) Michel Scholl, CNAM Paris (France) Daniel Schwabe, PUC Rio (Brazil) Wieland Schwinger, Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria) David Stotts, University of North Carolina (USA) Jianwen Su, UCSB (USA) Bernhard Thalheim, Brandenburg Tech. Univ. at Cottbus (Germany) Antonio Vallecillo, University of Malaga (Spain) Jean Vanderdonckt, Universit? Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (USA) James Whitehead, University of California Santa Cruz (USA) Carlo Zaniolo, University of California Los Angeles (USA) Yanchun Zhang, University of Victoria (Australia) ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nora Koch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany (kochn at informatik.uni-muenchen.de) Piero Fraternali, Politecnico Milano, Italy (piero.fraternali at polimi.it) Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany (wirsing at informatik.uni-muenchen.de) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From acs at math.ist.utl.pt Thu Oct 9 10:46:03 2003 From: acs at math.ist.utl.pt (Amilcar Sernadas) Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 09:46:03 +0100 Subject: [DL] CombLog'04 - Call for Contributions Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20031009094424.01ee3490@mailcentral.math.ist.utl.pt> CombLog'04 Workshop on Combination of Logics: Theory and Applications CLC, Department of Mathematics, IST, Lisbon, Portugal July 28-30, 2004 http://www.cs.math.ist.utl.pt/comblog04/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions The workshop aims to provide a forum for interaction and exchange of ideas among a limited number of participants in the general area of analysis and synthesis of logics and related topics. Prospective contributors are invited to submit an extended abstract (up to six pages) describing innovative proposals and results. Electronic submissions in the form of ps or pdf files to be sent to acs at math.ist.utl.pt by February 01, 2004. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics Different forms of composing and decomposing logics, such as fibring, fusion, splicing, splitting, synchronization and temporalization. Transference results between the whole and the component logics, such as preservation of completeness, interpolation properties and decidability. Application domains, such as security, software specification and verification, knowledge representation and formal ethics. Important dates February 01, 2004 - Deadline for submitting extended abstracts (up to 6 pages including references). April 01, 2004 - Notification of program and list of participants. May 01, 2004 - Deadline for reception of final version of extended abstracts. May 15, 2004 - Deadline for registration and hotel booking through the organization. Organization Walter A. Carnielli, CLE, University of Campinas. Marcelo E. Coniglio, CLE, University of Campinas. Paulo Mateus, CLC, IST, Technical University of Lisbon. Till Mossakowski, University of Bremen. Am?lcar Sernadas (Chair), CLC, IST, Technical University of Lisbon. Keynote speakers (confirmed) Dov Gabbay, King's College, London. Joseph Halpern, Cornell University. Dick de Jongh, University of Amsterdam. Gabriel Sandu, University of Helsinki. Andrzej Tarlecki, Warsaw University. Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool. Other invited participants (to be confirmed) Carlos Areces, Langue et Dialog (LED), INRIA Lorraine. Marcelo Finger, IME, S?o Paulo University. Joseph Goguen, University of California, San Diego. Don Pigozzi, Iowa State University. Luca Vigan?, ETH Zentrum, Z?rich. Alberto Zanardo,University of Padova. Publication Electronic publication of extended abstracts at CLE e-Prints. Publication (planned) of selected full papers in the series Studies in Logic and Computation, King's College Publications, Research Studies Press, England. Sponsors ASL: The Association for Symbolic Logic, USA (ASL student members are encouraged to apply for the ASL travel funds available for sponsored meetings). CLC: Center for Logic and Computation, IST, Lisbon, Portugal. CLE: Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil. FLIRTS Interest Group. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information contact acs at math.ist.utl.pt. Last update: October 6, 2003. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From seanb at cs.man.ac.uk Wed Oct 15 11:45:31 2003 From: seanb at cs.man.ac.uk (Sean Bechhofer) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:45:31 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) Subject: [DL] ANNOUNCEMENT: OWL API now available Message-ID: We are pleased to announce an initial release of an API for OWL [1]. The API consists of a number of Java interfaces providing access to objects representing OWL ontologies. The data model is based on the OWL Abstract Syntax [2], and provides a view of the ontology objects which is separated from any particular concrete representation (e.g. RDF triples or the OWL XML Schema [3]). A default reference in-memory implementation is supplied, along with a parser which will parse OWL-RDF. Sample applications, including a Species Validator are also included in the distribution. The API and implementation code can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/owlapi Further information is also available from: http://wonderweb.semanticweb.org/owl A paper describing some of the decisions behind the design of the API will be presented at the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference at Sanibel Island [4]. The code is being made available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). For further details, please contact the authors. Our apologies if you receive this message more than once. -- Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester [seanb at cs.man.ac.uk] Raphael Volz, University of Karlsruhe [rvo at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de] [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-semantics/ [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-xmlsyntax/ [4] http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org From baumgart at mpi-sb.mpg.de Wed Oct 15 22:06:03 2003 From: baumgart at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Peter Baumgartner) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:06:03 +0200 Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2004 - Call for Workshop Proposals (2nd) Message-ID: <16269.43179.679819.366554@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> ============================================================ IJCAR 2004 Second International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning 04 July - 08 July, 2004 University College Cork Cork, County Cork, Ireland http://4c.ucc.ie/ijcar/ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 16 November 2003 ============================================================ General ------- IJCAR 2004 is the Second International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) and will be held in Cork, Ireland from July 4th to 8th, 2004. The first IJCAR was held in Siena, Italy, in late June 2001, merging CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FTP (Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving) and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods). The second IJCAR will merge CADE, FTP, TABLEAUX, FroCoS (Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and CALCULEMUS. Workshops will be held on July 4 and July 5, 2004. They will run for one or two days, but half-day ones are possible as well. Scope ----- Workshop proposals on IJCAR related topics as mentioned in the "Call for Papers" are solicited (cf. http://4c.ucc.ie/ijcar/submission.html). Proposals that promise to bring new topics into IJCAR, of either practical or theoretical importance, or provide a forum for more detailed discussion on central topics of continuing importance are highly welcome. Workshops that close the gap between automated reasoning and related areas, like for instance formal methods or software engineering, are especially encouraged. Recent workshops of participating conferences have included, for instance, automation of proofs by induction, empirical studies in logic algorithms, mechanization of partial functions, proof search in type-theoretic languages, strategies in automated deduction, automated theorem proving in software engineering and in mathematics, future directions in automated reasoning, precise modelling and deduction for OO-software development, verification, unification, strategies in automated deduction, mechanized reasoning about languages with variable bindings, theory and application of quantified boolean formulas, proof transformations, proof presentations and complexity of proofs, issues in the design and experimental evaluation of systems for modal and temporal logics, integration of symbolic computation and deduction, deductive software components, pragmatics of decision procedures in automated reasoning, challenges and novel applications for automated reasoning, and automated model computation. How to Propose a Workshop ------------------------- Workshop proposals must contain the necessary information for the programme committee to judge the importance, quality and community interest in the proposed topic. Each workshop must have one or more designated organizers and may have a programme committee as well. Workshop proposals must be limited to three pages and provide at least the following information: * The title of the workshop. * Description of the workshop topic and goals. Why do you believe this is an interesting and significant topic? What are the main goals of the workshop? * Intended audience. From which areas do you expect potential participants to come? How many participants do you expect? Are there any limitations to participation (e.g., maximum number of participants, or by invitation only)? How are you going to publicize your workshop? * Organization of the workshop. Describe the intended format of the workshop, its expected duration (from half a day to two days) and preferred dates (July 4, 5, or both). Are you going to schedule invited talks, presentations, panel discussions, and other methods for ensuring an interactive atmosphere? Are there any plans to document the workshop results beyond online distribution on the Web and IJCAR's workshop notes? * Organizers' details. Provide complete affiliations and contact details (email, web page, phone, fax, etc.) of all organizers and committee members. For the designated organizers, briefly describe their background in the proposed topic, together with a list of workshops previously organized in the workshop's or related areas. Workshop proposals should be sent as plain text and as postscript or PDF to the workshop chair (Peter Baumgartner, baumgart at mpi-sb.mpg.de) no later than November 16, 2003. Further notes ------------- * Workshop organizers are expected to maintain a web site showing all the relevant information of their workshop, including online versions of accepted papers. * Workshop organizers are responsible on their own for sufficient distribution of their call for papers and other publicity (there will be general IJCAR announcements mentioning also the IJCAR workshops as well). * The IJCAR organizers offer to copy and distribute the workshop notes to registered workshop participants. We are currently exploring the possibility of optionally publishing workshop proceedings in the Elsevier ENTCS series. * We suggest workshop participation to be open, i.e. anyone interested can register, and not be based on invitation or limited to authors of accepted papers. In case of questions or problems with these suggestions please contact the workshop chair. Important dates --------------- * Deadline for proposal submissions: 16 November 2003 * Acceptance/rejection notification: 12 December 2003 * Deadline for camera-ready copy of workshop notes: 13 June 2004 * Workshop Date: 04 July 2004 - 05 July 2004 Workshop chair -------------- Peter Baumgartner MPI Saarbruecken and Universitaet Koblenz-Landau, Germany baumgart at mpi-sb.mpg.de http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~peter/ -- Peter Baumgartner MPI Saarbruecken and Universitaet Koblenz-Landau baumgart at mpi-sb.mpg.de http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~peter/ From Mary-Anne at it.uts.edu.au Mon Oct 20 15:14:35 2003 From: Mary-Anne at it.uts.edu.au (Mary-Anne Williams) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:14:35 +1000 Subject: [DL] KR2004 CALL for PAPERS Submission Deadline: November 26, 2003 Message-ID: <000501c3970c$1f6e4d30$7ecc36cb@humbug> > We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. > It has been posted to a large number of email-lists. > > > > KR2004 CALL FOR PAPERS > > Ninth International Conference on the > Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning > June 2 - 5, 2004 > Whistler, Canada > Submission Deadline: November 26, 2003 > Sponsored by KR Inc, IBM, SFU and UTS > > > Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and > exciting field of > human endeavor. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in > computer science, > and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in > a wide > range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. > > Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines > are an > integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web > technologies > and the design of software agents, in particular, provide significant > challenges > for KR&R. > > We intend KR2004 to be a forum for the exchange of news, issues, and > results among > the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R > systems. We > encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles > of KR&R > systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the > applicability > of the results to implemented and implementable systems. We also > encourage "reports > from the field'' of applications, experiments, developments, and > tests. Such papers > should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the > authors, to ensure > appropriate reviewing, and must include a section on evaluation. > > KR2004 will collocate with the International Conference on Advanced > Planning and > Scheduling (ICAPS-2004), with one day in common. We strongly encourage > papers > which would be of interest to both communities. > > Topics of interest include: > o knowledge modeling and management > o reasoning techniques for incomplete & uncertain knowledge > > o implemented KR systems > o KR in software engineering and planning > o KR in robotics and intelligent agents > o the Semantic Web > > > Important Dates > Electronic Submission Deadline: November 26, 2003 > Notification of acceptance: January 14, 2004 > Camera-ready papers due: March 3, 2004 > KR2004 Conference: June 2 -5, 2004 > > Paper Submission > The Program Committee will review extended abstracts rather than > complete papers. > Submissions must be at most twelve (12) pages, excluding the > bibliography, with > a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per > line > (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt). If you have a > separate title > page containing at most the title, author information, keywords and > abstract, > this will not be counted in the twelve page limit. Over length > submissions will > be rejected without review. Authors of accepted papers will be > expected to submit > substantially longer full papers for the conference proceedings. > Authors must > submit an online title page and an electronic version of their paper > in pdf format > only. The electronic process will be made available on the KR2004 > website closer > to the submission date. Papers not in pdf format will be rejected > without review. > > Invited Speakers > Keynote Speakers > Patrick Doherty, University of Linkoping, Sweden > Itzhak Gilboa, Tel-Aviv University, Israel > Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research, USA > > "Great Moments in Knowledge Representation" Series > John McCarthy, Stanford University > William Woods, Sun Microsystems > > Conference Chair: Mary-Anne Williams > University of Technology, Sydney, Australia > > Program Chairs: Didier Dubois, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France > Christopher Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA > > Local Arrangements: Jim Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada > > Workshops Coordination Chair: Sheila McIlraith, Stanford University, > USA > > Treasurer: Alankar Karol, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia > > Program Committee > William Andersen, Ontology Works, USA > Franz Baader, University of Dresden, Germany > Germany Philippe Balbiani, IRIT, France > Salem Benferhat, University of Artois, France > Brandon Bennett, University of Leeds, UK > Ronen Brafman, University of Tel-Aviv, Israel > Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany > Marco Cadoli, Universita of Roma, Italy > Vinay Chaudhri, SRI, USA > Tony Cohn, Leeds, UK > Marie-Odile Cordier, Rennes, France > Adnan Darwiche, UCLA, USA > Ernest Davis, New York University, USA > John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney > Rina Dechter, UCLA, USA > Jon Doyle, North Carolina State Univ., USA > Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Tech, Austria > Peter Eklund, University of Queensland, Australia > Thomas Ellman, Vassar College, USA > Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA > Tim Finin, University of Maryland, USA > Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK > Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR, Italy > Hector Geffner, University of Pomeu Fabra, Spain > Enrico Giunchiglia, Universita di Genova, Italy > Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK > Lluis Godo, IIIIA-CSIC Barcelona, Spain > Asunci?n G?mez-P?rez, Univ. Poli. de Madrid, Spain > Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR, Italy > Pat Hayes, University of West Florida, USA > Andreas Herzig, IRIT, France > Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK > Anthony Hunter, University College London, USA > Henry Kautz, University of Washington, USA > Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Univ. of Hagen, Germany > Jerome Lang, IRIT, France > Fritz Lehmann, Ontology Consulting Corp, USA > Hector Levesque, University of Toronto, Canada > Paolo Liberatore, University of Rome, Italy > Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA > Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Tech, China > Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Rome, Italy > Pierre Marquis, Univ. Lens, France > John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, NL > Guy Mineau, Universite Laval, Canada > Leora Morgenstern, IBM Research, USA > Erik Mueller, IBM Research, USA > Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College, UK > Daniele Nardi, University of Rome, Italy > Bernhard Nebel, University of Freiburg, Germany > Ilkka Niemela, Tech. Univ. Helsinki, Finland > Lin Padgham, RMIT, Australia > Pavlos Peppas, AIT, Greece > Ramon Pino-Perez, Univ. LA, Venezuela > David Poole, University of BC, Canada > David Randell, Imperial College London, UK > Debbie Richards, Macquarie University, Australia > Marie Christine Rousset, Univ. Paris-Sud, France > Guus Schreiber, Free University Amsterdam, NL > Colleen Seifert, University of Michigan, USA > Bart Selman, Cornell University, USA > Stuart C. Shapiro, SUNY Buffalo, USA > Helena Sofia-Pinto, IST Lisboa, Portugal > Liz Sonenberg, University of Melbourne, Australia > Rudi Studer, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany > Michael Thielscher, Univ. 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URL: From patla at ida.liu.se Mon Oct 27 15:24:50 2003 From: patla at ida.liu.se (Patrick Lambrix) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:24:50 +0100 (MET) Subject: [DL] Vacant position postdoctoral fellow in computer science with specialization in bioinformatics Message-ID: <200310271424.h9REOot6017417@portofix.ida.liu.se> Link?pings universitet announces a vacant position as Postdoctoral Fellow in computer science with specialization in bioinformatics. The position is available immediately for a period up to four years. We are looking for candidates to participate in research and education. The position involves development of theories, methods and tools for bioinformatics. Interesting areas are e.g. biological databases and ontologies, text mining and data mining of biological data, comparitive genomics, visualization of biological data, identification and modeling of networks, gene regulation and protein structure. The position is placed at the ADIT division (http://www.ida.liu.se/divisions/adit/) at the Department of Computer and Information Science (http://www.ida.liu.se/). The ADIT group is one of several at the university that studies bioinformatics and we have good contacts with the other groups. A PhD degree is required as well as the ability to teach in Swedish or English. For more information, the official announcement and details about the application procedure we refer to: http://www.liu.se/en/job/show.html?1076 Applications must reach the registrar at Link?pings universitet no later than November 26, 2003. From mariapaola.bonacina at univr.it Thu Oct 30 22:44:38 2003 From: mariapaola.bonacina at univr.it (Maria Paola Bonacina) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:44:38 +0100 Subject: [DL] ijcar 2004: 2nd cfp Message-ID: <3FA18646.3000705@univr.it> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates (before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates (before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. Papers may be accepted for full presentation (30 minutes including 5 to 10 minutes of discussion) or for a poster presentation. All the accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI-2004 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during the summer school. REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. We welcome submissions with topics within the areas of Logic, Language and Computation. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Student authors are invited to submit a full paper, not to exceed 7 pages of length exclusive of references. Note that the length of the final version of the accepted papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. The submissions will be reviewed by the student session programme committee and additional reviewers. A plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent separately, using the following format: Title: title of the submission First author: firstname lastname Address: address of the first author ...... Last author: firstname lastname Address: address of the last author Short summary: abstract (5 lines) Subject area (one or two of): Logic | Language | Computation In case the paper is being submitted to another conference or workshop, this must be clearly indicated on the identification page. The preferred formats of submissions are PostScript, PDF, or plain text, although other formats will also be accepted. In case of acceptance, the final version of the paper will have to be submitted in LaTeX format. The papers must use single column A4 size pages, 11pt or 12pt fonts, and standard margins. Submissions not in accordance with the specified formatting and length requirements may be subject to rejection without review. The paper and separate identification page must be sent electronically to: paulegre at magic.fr by FEBRUARY 22, 2004. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Laura Alonso i Alemany (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona) Carlos Areces (LORIA, Nancy) Jaume Baixeries (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) Willem Comradie (Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa) Benoit Crabb? (LORIA, Nancy) Paul Egr? (IHPST, Universit? Paris 1, IJN) Judit Gervain (SISSA, Trieste) Bart Geurts (University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen) Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (Universit?t des Saarlandes, Saarbr?cken) Marco Kuhlmann (Universit?t des Saarlandes, Saarbr?cken) M? Magdalena Ortiz de la Fuente (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla) Benjamin Spector (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Universit? Paris 7, ENS) IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission of papers : February 22, 2004. Authors notifications : April 19, 2004. ESSLLI early registration : May 1, 2004. Final papers for proceedings : May 15, 2004. ESSLLI-2004 Student Session : August 9-20, 2004. ESSLLI-2004 INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at ESSLLI-2004 Student Session, at least one student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant at ESSLLI-2004. The authors of accepted papers will be eligible for reduced registration fees even after the deadline for early registration. For all information concerning ESSLLI-2004, please consult the ESSLLI-2004 main website at http://esslli2004.loria.fr/ For more information about the ESSLLI'04 student session, consult the ESSLLI'04 student session website at: http://lingua.fil.ub.es/~lalonso/stusESSLLI04/. 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URL: From kochn at pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de Thu Dec 11 13:15:20 2003 From: kochn at pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Nora Koch) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:15:20 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: ICWE'04 - 4th International Conference on Web Engineering Message-ID: <3f3dbc335c04cc7a.5c04cc7a3f3dbc33@tcs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> ** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement ** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth International Conference on Web Engineering ICWE'04 July 28-30, 2004 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t Munich, Germany http://www.icwe2004.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Conference on Web Engineering will be organised and hosted by the Institute for Informatics of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen. The ICWE'04 Conference continues the tradition of ICWE'03 in Oviedo, Spain, ICWE'02 in Santa F?, Argentina and ICWE'01 in C?ceres, Spain. The ICWE'04 conference aims at bringing together the international community of experts in Web Engineering research, practice and education, to share their experiences and to foster discussion on the present status of and future trends in this rapidly growing field. The conference focuses on the methodologies, techniques and tools that are the foundation of Web Engineering and support the development, use, and evaluation of complex Web applications. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following areas: * Business Processes for Applications on the Web * CASE Tools for Web Applications * Code Generation for Web Applications * Collaborative Web Development * Conceptual Modelling of Web Applications * Data Models for Web Information Systems * Development Process and Process Improvement of Web Applications * Empirical Web Engineering * Integrated Web Application Development Environments * Multimedia Authoring Tools and Software * Performance of Web-based Applications * Personalisation and Adaptation of Web Applications * Process Modelling of Web Applications * Prototyping Methods and Tools * Quality Control and Testing * Requirements Engineering for Web Applications * Semantic Web Applications * Software Factories for/on the Web * Testing Automation, Methods and Tools for Web Applications * Ubiquitous and Mobile Web Applications * UML and the Web * Usability of Web Applications * Web Accessibility * Web Design Methods * Web Engineering Education * Web Interface Design * Web Metrics, Cost Estimation, and Measurement * Web Project Management and Risk Management * Web Services Development and Deployment ICWE'04 invites original submissions in the mentioned and other related areas. Contributions may fall in any of the following categories: papers, demonstrations, workshops and tutorials. The submissions may cover new approaches in Web Engineering, novel viewpoints and challenges on any aspect of Web Engineering, reports on the implementation or deployment of advanced Web projects in an industrial or application scenario, or descriptions of Web Engineering education experiences. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html) Papers may not exceed 14 pages in the Springer LNCS format. Submitted papers may be accepted either as full papers, or as short papers or poster presentations. All the accepted submissions will be included in the Conference Proceedings. Additionally, an extended version of selected papers will be published on a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering after the conference. TUTORIALS -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial proposals should be submitted to the Tutorial Co-Chairs, Klaus Turowski (klaus.turowski at wiwi.uni-augsburg.de ) and Jose Emilio Labra (labra at pinon.ccu.uniovi.es). Tutorials may last for a half-day or full day and they are held on 26-27 July. A tutorial proposal should include the following: - Title of the tutorial. - Names and affiliations of the organizer(s), identifying one primary contact. - Abstract of the tutorial with no more than 200 words, describing its main topics, goals and expected outcomes. - A table of contents, with short explanations of the contents of individual sections. - Target audience. Specify assumed background knowledge needed, if any. - Facilities, equipments and materials required - Biography of each presenter WORKSHOPS -------------------------------------------------------------------- We solicit workshop proposals promoting highly interactive forums for exchanging novel results, conducting in-depth discussions on a specific topic, or coordinating work among representatives of a technical community. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the Workshop Co-Chairs, Sara Comai (sara.comai at polimi.it) and Maristella Matera (maristella.matera at polimi.it). Workshops last for one full day and will be held on 26-27 July. A workshop proposal should include the following items: - Name of the workshop. - Names and affiliations of the organiser(s), identifying one primary contact. - Abstract of the workshop with no more than 200 words, including its major topics, goals and expected outcomes. - Motivation: relevance of the workshop to the Web Engineering community; references to other workshops organised by the proponents at ICWE or other conferences. - Desired number of workshop participants (minimum and maximum). - Facilities, equipments and materials required. - A draft of the Call for Papers/Presentations briefly describing the goals of the workshop, the maximum number of accepted participants, the participant selection process, the schedule of the activities, and the organisers' biography. - A short description of the activities that Workshop organisers propose to undertake for the success of the workshop upon acceptance of the proposal. DEMONSTRATIONS AND POSTERS -------------------------------------------------------------------- ICWE 2004 provides a forum for discussing ongoing work. We welcome poster reports on in-progress projects, demonstrations of early versions of software tools and products, invitations to cooperate on new project ideas, etc. Please submit demonstration proposals to the Poster and Demo Chair, Alexander Knapp (knapp at informatik.uni-muenchen.de). Accepted posters and demonstrations will have a two-page description in the Conference Proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline for paper abstracts: 15 February Deadline for paper submissions: 22 February Deadline for workshop/tutorial/demonstration proposals: 22 February Notification of workshop/tutorial acceptance: 19 March Notification of paper acceptance: 5 April Notification of demonstration acceptance: 5 April Deadline for final versions: 26 April PROGRAMME COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paolo Atzeni, Universita' di Roma Tre (Italy) Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Philip A. Bernstein, Microsoft Research (USA) Michael Bieber, NJIT (USA) Alex Buchmann, Darmstadt University (Germany) Christoph Bussler, Oracle Corporation (USA) Leslie Carr, University of Southampton (UK) Fabio Casati, HP Labs (USA) Vassilis Christophides, FORTH (Greece) Ernesto Damiani, Universita' di Milano (Italy) Paul Dantzig, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (USA) Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) Yogesh Deshpande, University of Western Sydney (Australia) Klaus R. Dittrich, Universitaet Zuerich (Switzerland) Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University Ankara (Turkey) Juliana Freire, Oregon Graduate Institute (USA) Martin Gaedke, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) Athula Ginige, University of Western Sydney (Australia) Jaime G?mez, Universidad de Alicante (Spain) Martin Gonzalez Rodriguez, Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland) Geert-Jan Houben, Eindhoven University (The Netherlands) Martti Jeenicke, University of Hamburg (Germany) Gerti Kappel, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) Nick Kushmerick, University College Dublin (Ireland) Frank Leymann, IBM Software Group (Germany) Xiaoming Li Peking University (China) Stephen W. Liddle, Brigham Young University (USA) Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore (Singapore) David Lowe, University of Technology Sydney (Australia) Luis Mandel, FAST (Germany) Massimo Marchiori, W3C (USA) Heinrich Mayr, University of Klagenfurt (Austria) Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita' della Basilicata (Italy) Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland (New Zeland) Sandro Morasca, Universit? di Milano (Italy) San Murugesan, Southern Cross University (Australia) Moira Norrie, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) Luis Olsina, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa (Argentina) Mario Piattini, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina) Arthur Ryman, IBM Toronto Lab (Canada) Arno Scharl, Wirtschaftuniversit?t Wien (Austria) Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Massey University (New Zealand) Michel Scholl, CNAM Paris (France) Daniel Schwabe, PUC Rio (Brazil) Wieland Schwinger, Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria) David Stotts, University of North Carolina (USA) Jianwen Su, UCSB (USA) Bernhard Thalheim, Brandenburg Tech. Univ. at Cottbus (Germany) Antonio Vallecillo, University of Malaga (Spain) Jean Vanderdonckt, Universit? Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (USA) James Whitehead, University of California Santa Cruz (USA) Carlo Zaniolo, University of California Los Angeles (USA) Yanchun Zhang, University of Victoria (Australia) ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nora Koch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany (kochn at informatik.uni-muenchen.de) Piero Fraternali, Politecnico Milano, Italy (piero.fraternali at polimi.it) Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany (wirsing at informatik.uni-muenchen.de) From mengxw at bupt.edu.cn Thu Dec 11 15:55:14 2003 From: mengxw at bupt.edu.cn (Meng Xiangwu أددىخل 05/22/2001) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:55:14 +0800 Subject: [DL] [seweb-list] References: <5.2.1.1.0.20031206132440.0305fbd0@mail1.uibk.ac.at> Message-ID: <01da01c3bff6$c8b4fbb0$4f05ccca@my> Hi I want to know if having research about telecommunication ontology. If semantic web technology can use in Mobile Location Services, or telecommnication platform. If you know , please tell me references and research team etc. Best regard William From hdp at cs.nmsu.edu Sat Dec 13 17:57:07 2003 From: hdp at cs.nmsu.edu (Heather D. Pfeiffer) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:57:07 -0700 Subject: [DL] Call For Papers - ICCS2004 Message-ID: <16347.17635.163237.36245@gargle.gargle.HOWL> HI. This is the call for papers for ICCS2004. Please feel free to forward it to any and all people that you think would be interested :-) -Heather, Karl Erich and Harry CALL FOR PAPERS ICCS 2004 12th International Conference on Conceptual Structures: Conceptual Structures at Work July 19 - 23, 2004, Huntsville, Alabama * Aims and Scope The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) has been held annually in Europe, Australia, and North America since 1993. The central focus is the formal representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge with research and business applications focusing on artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and related areas of computer science. Historically, a group of researchers working on the theory and applications of Conceptual Graphs founded the ICCS. Over the years, they have broadened the scope to include a wider range of theories, among them Formal Concept Analysis, Description Logics, Situation Theory, Discourse Representation Theory, and related techniques. Papers for ICCS 2004 are invited on the following topics: conceptual structures (theory, applications, and experience with case studies); their interplay with language, semantics and pragmatics; formal methods for concept analysis and contextual logic, modeling, representation, and visualization of concepts; conceptual knowledge acquisition; and the theory and applications of formal ontologies. Comparisons of methods and representations on the basis of reasoning ability, expressiveness, ease of use, and computational performance are welcome. Integration of methodologies, user interfaces, knowledge use, reuse, and integration, and business product tools descriptions are all of high interest at ICCS 2004. Papers on the ICCS 2004 theme of "Conceptual Structures at Work" are particularly encouraged. The conference will focus on applications of conceptual structures in knowledge processing in practice oriented fields, mainly in all kinds of industrial applications, with special emphasize on practically successful conceptual formalizations. Of special interest is the question to which extent formal representations of conceptual structures can support human communication and knowledge creation. Papers which discuss such research or applications in the area of bringing together Formal Concept Analysis and Contextual Logic, Conceptual Graphs, formal ontologies within the Semantic Web or other areas are strongly encouraged, as well as papers linking conceptual structures to other fields or applications. Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and practical research. Papers accepted or under review by other conferences or journals are not acceptable as submissions to ICCS. The language of the conference will be English. * Authors' Information Papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer's format. We strongly recommend the use of LaTeX2e for the final version. For more details see . Position papers (2 pages) are also welcome. For all papers, a one page abstract in PostScript or PDF format must be received by Monday December 29, 2003. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. The electronic submission of the full paper in Postscript or PDF format must be received on or before Friday, January 9, 2004. Submit your abstract and your paper via email to Heather D. Pfeiffer (hdp at cs.nmsu.edu) with ICCS2004 in the subject line. Please include your name and your full address. In case you have problems with electronic submission, contact Harry Delugach as early as possible. An address is given below. Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if accepted, must be presented at the conference. Papers accepted for publication will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series by Springer-Verlag. Position papers and papers which are not included in the LNAI volume , but are of sufficient quality and interest to the community, will be published in supplementary proceedings. A precondition for publication (for all papers) is that the final version is in full compliance with Springer's format. * Call for Workshop Proposals Workshop proposals for ICCS 2004 are invited on any of the areas of interest to the Conceptual Structures community, including specialized sub-areas. Previous workshops have included CG tools, PORT Pragmatic Web and Concept lattice-based Knowledge Discovery. The deadline for submission of workshop proposals to the Program Chair Heather Pfeiffer, hdp at cs.nmsu.edu, is February 1, 2004. * Conference Chairs and Editorial Board General Chair: Harry Delugach (University of Alabama Huntsville, USA) Program Chairs: Heather D. Pfeiffer (New Mexico State University, USA), Karl Erich Wolff (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Editorial Board: Galia Angelova (Bulgaria) Michel Chein (France) Dan Corbett (Australia) Aldo de Moor (Netherlands) Peter Eklund (Australia) Bernhard Ganter (Germany) Mary Keeler (USA) Sergei Kuznetsov (Russia) Lotfi Lakhal (France) Wilfried Lex (Germany) Guy Mineau (Canada) Bernard Moulin (Canada) Marie-Laure Mugnier (France) Uta Priss (UK) John Sowa (USA) Gerd Stumme (Germany) Bill Tepfenhart (USA) Rudolf Wille (Germany) * Further Information This call for papers and the latest information regarding the conference can be found on the World Wide Web at: http://concept.cs.uah.edu/> Harry Delugach, PhD. Computer Science Department Technology Hall N-351 University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35899 U.S.A. Phone: 1-256-824-6614 Fax: 1-256-824-6239 From brandon at comp.leeds.ac.uk Wed Dec 17 15:35:13 2003 From: brandon at comp.leeds.ac.uk (Brandon Bennett) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:35:13 +0000 Subject: [DL] Automated Reasoning Workshop 2004 CFP Message-ID: <3FE069A1.90406@comp.leeds.ac.uk> 1st Call for Papers / Participation ELEVENTH WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATED REASONING: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE (co-located with AISB'04) University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 31st March - 1st April 2004** ** Provisional upon final scheduling of AISB events (certainly between 30th Mar & 1st Apr) http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/brandon/ARW04.html Continuing the highly successful series of Workshops on Automated Reasoning, this event will provide an informal forum for the automated reasoning community. The ARW workshop series aims to bring together researchers from all areas of automated reasoning in order to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among researchers from various disciplines; among researchers from academia, industry and government; and between theoreticians and practitioners. Details of the ARW organisation and of previous ARW events can be found at http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/endriss/ARW/. Topics ****** The workshop will cover the full breadth and diversity of automated reasoning and will include topics such as: * Theorem proving in classical and non-classical logics * Reasoning systems and mechanisms: - Description logics - Equational reasoning, unification - Induction - Constraint Satisfaction - Specialised decision procedures * Formal methods in software analysis: - specification, verification * Non-classical inference: - Nonmonotonic reasoning, abduction - intuitionistic reasoning * Logic-based knowledge representation: - Ontology specification, - Domain specific reasoning (spatial, temporal, epistemic etc) * Reasoning for agents (or about agents) * Interactive theorem proving * Implementation issues and empirical results Invited Speakers **************** To be announced shortly. Submission of Abstracts *********************** We invite interested persons to submit a camera-ready two-page abstract about recent work or work in progress, or a system description. Anyone wishing to attend but not interested in presenting should send a shorter position statement (1/2 - 1 page). Submissions should be sent in in either Postscript or PDF format by email to Brandon Bennett: brandon at comp.leeds.ac.uk Each submission should include the names and complete addresses (including email) of all authors. Correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless otherwise indicated. The main objective of the abstracts is to spread information about recent work in our community. Abstracts will be published in informal workshop notes and be made available by WWW. Panel Sessions ************** Proposals for panel sessions should be made as soon as possible. Please email the proposal to Brandon Bennett (brandon at comp.leeds.ac.uk). Student Grants ************** We have a limited number of grants available to PhD students who wish to attend ARW 2002. To indicate your interest please send a short email to Ulle Endriss (endriss at dcs.kcl.ac.uk) anytime before 15th March 2002. Important Dates *************** Abstract submission: up to 23rd February 2004 Notification of authors: shortly after submission Grant application: up to 1st March 2004 Early registration: up to 14th March 2004 Workshop dates: 31st March and 1st April 2004 ** ** This is provisional on final scheduling and room allocation for AISB symposia. Final date will be announced very soon. In any event ARW will take place in the range 29th March to 1st April. Format of the Workshop ********************** The workshop is intended to be an inclusive event, with participants encouraged from the broad spectrum covered by the field of automated reasoning. We encourage the participation of experienced researchers as well as those new to the field, especially students. There will be invited talks, panel sessions, short presentations of the papers, and poster sessions. The workshop will last 2 days and will be co-located with the AISB'04 convention which runs 29th March to 1st April 2002. Details of AISB'04 can be found at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/aisb/. Organising Committee ******************** Brandon Bennett (University of Leeds) -- 2004 Programme chair Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) Simon Colton (Imperial College London) David Crocker (Escher Technologies Limited) Clare Dixon (University of Liverpool) Ulle Endriss (King's College London) -- Secretary/Treasurer Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool) Alan Frisch (University of York) -- Organising Committee Chair Ian P. Gent (University of St. Andrews) Ullrich Hustadt (University of Liverpool) Manfred Kerber (University of Birmingham) Tom Melham (Oxford University Computing Laboratory) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester) Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester) Toby Walsh (University College Cork) From mariapaola.bonacina at univr.it Wed Dec 17 19:24:24 2003 From: mariapaola.bonacina at univr.it (Maria Paola Bonacina) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:24:24 +0100 Subject: [DL] ijcar 2004: last call for papers Message-ID: <3FE09F58.7070100@univr.it> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: cfpIJCAR2004.txt URL: From horrocks at cs.man.ac.uk Thu Dec 18 14:21:24 2003 From: horrocks at cs.man.ac.uk (Ian Horrocks) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:21:24 +0000 Subject: [DL] Lecturer position at University of Manchester Message-ID: <16353.43476.27927.297599@merlin.horrocks.net> Lecturer in Semantic-Based Information Systems Department of Computer Science University of Manchester UK (REF 952/03) The Department of Computer Science's Information Management Group at the University of Manchester is seeking applications for a Lecturer in the area of Semantic-based Information Systems and Applications. The group has an international reputation in the technologies for the Semantic Web, e-Science and the Grid, and their practical application to scientific and business problems, in particular in bio-medicine. Manchester is a world leader in these subject areas, and a pioneer in the new hybrid research area, the Semantic Grid. The successful applicant should have a background in knowledge, ontology and metadata technologies and their practical deployment in applications. They will be expected to open up new areas of opportunity as well as actively contribute to the group's current extensive programme of research in e-Science, the Grid and the Semantic Web. Applicants for the post will be expected to have a good honours degree and preferably a PhD in Computer Science or related area. They will also possess a good research track record of publications and grant activity, and preferably demonstrate experience in international collaboration. Informal enquiries should be made to Professor Carole Goble (email: carole at cs.man.ac.uk , tel: +44 161 275 6195). Further details on the activities of the IMG are available from http://img.cs.man.ac.uk . The appointment will be on the Lecturer scale ?22,191 to ?25,451 per annum on Lecturer Grade A or up to ?27,339 per annum on Lecturer Grade B (under review). The following are available in pdf format: Further particulars - ref 952/03 http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/952.pdf Application form - academic & related http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/academic.pdf Equal opportunities monitoring form http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/EqOpps2.pdf For further information on the University see http://www.man.ac.uk/ Application forms and further particulars are also available from the Office of the Director of Personnel, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. Tel: +44 (0)161 275 2028; fax: +44 (0)161 275 2471; email: personnel at man.ac.uk Quote ref 952/03. Closing date 09 January 2004. UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester will form a single university from autumn 2004. Both universities guarantee to all staff in their employment at the time a post in the new institution at a salary level and with conditions of service equivalent to those they currently enjoy. This guarantee also applies to any staff recruited in the meantime who will be in post when the single university is formed Employer Profile http://www.jobs.ac.uk/ep/links/92/ From R.Cornet at amc.uva.nl Mon Dec 22 15:06:44 2003 From: R.Cornet at amc.uva.nl (Ronald Cornet) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:06:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: K R - M E D 2 0 0 4 Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20031222150640.02dd3cb0@webmail.amc.nl> Call for Papers: K R - M E D 2 0 0 4 First International Workshop on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation Collocated with KR 2004 http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/pub/krmed2004 KR-MED, a one day KR 2004 Workshop, will be held in Whistler (BC, Canada) on the 1st of June 2004. This Workshop is the first of this kind, organized by the recently founded Special Interest Group "Formal (Bio-)Medical Knowledge Representation" of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). The engineering of large-scale domain knowledge, mostly in form of controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and classification systems constitutes an important branch of activities in Medical Informatics. The recent growth of interest in genomics and molecular biology has set another focus on the organization of the fast growing terminological knowledge in this domain. Despite recent advances in using formal languages for biomedical concept representation, many fundamental issues (ontological basis, expressivity, scalability) remain unresolved. This workshop aims at bringing together people dealing with the design and implementation of (bio)medical concept systems with those dedicated to formal ontologies and representation languages. The goal is to analyze in which aspects (theoretical) KR research can be used for a new generation of biomedical concept systems. The scope of KR-MED 2004 includes the following areas: - Biomedical Knowledge representation, aquisition, validation and maintenance - Ontological Foundations of Biomedicine - Representation of Temporal, Spatial and Causal Knowledge in Biomedical Systems - Knowledge Representation languages, Description Logics - Formal Approaches to Large Biomedical Controlled Terminologies and Vocabularies - Formal Approaches to Protocols and Guidelines - Semantic Web Applications - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Important Dates Submission of papers: January 31, 2004 Acceptance decision by: March 13, 2004 Camera ready copy due: April 10, 2004 Workshop: June 1, 2004. ** After the workshop, the authors of the best ** submissions will be invited to expand and ** refine their papers for possible publication ** in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine ** (Elsevier). Sumission details cf. http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/pub/krmed2004/author.html Organizing Committee: Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital Ronald Cornet, Amsterdam Academic Medical Center Program Committee : Chair: Udo Hahn, Freiburg University Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine James Cimino, Columbia University Peter Elkin, Mayo Clinic John Gennari, Stanford University Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester Mark Musen, Stanford University Domenico Pisanelli, CNR, Italy Alan Rector, University of Manchester Cornelius Rosse, University of Washington Barry Smith, Leipzig University Chris Welty, IBM Research I'm looking forward to see you at KR-MED 2004 Ronald Cornet