From martin at AI.SRI.COM Sat Jan 1 23:25:34 2005 From: martin at AI.SRI.COM (David Martin) Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 14:25:34 -0800 Subject: [DL] CFP: Web Service Semantics workshop at WWW2005 Message-ID: <41D7235E.7060700@ai.sri.com> [This CFP is being posted to multiple lists; we apologise if you see it multiple times.] C a l l f o r P a p e r s WEB SERVICE SEMANTICS: TOWARDS DYNAMIC BUSINESS INTEGRATION http://www.ai.sri.com/WSS2005 a workshop to be held at the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005) http://www2005.org/ Chiba, Japan Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 DESCRIPTION The description of Web services in a machine-understandable fashion is expected to have a great impact in the areas of e-Commerce and Enterprise Application Integration, as it can enable dynamic and scalable cooperation between independently developed systems and organisations. These potential benefits have led to the establishment of an important class of research activities, both in industry and academia, aimed at the practical deployment of declarative, semantically rich service and process descriptions and their use across the Web service lifecycle. This research, which draws on a variety of fields such as knowledge representation, automated software engineering, process modeling, workflow, and software agents, is happening under several headings, including Semantic Web services (SWS), Grid services and Semantic Grid services, and (some aspects of) Service-Oriented Computing. For ease of reference, in this call we refer to this general area of work as Semantic Web services (SWS). We note that here, "Semantic Web" does not denote any particular set of standards, although much work in this area does build on products of the Semantic Web activity at W3C. In addition, many SWS efforts are aligned with rapidly developing commercial Web service standards such as WSDL and UDDI. Many major challenges need to be addressed in this field. This workshop aims to provide a forum in which to focus on selected core technical challenges for deployment of SWS, and reach a better understanding of the relationships between commercial Web service standards, current SWS research efforts, and the ultimate requirements for full-scale deployment of these technologies. Another major focus will be on the relationship of work on SWS to the needs of business systems, and in particular the needs having to do with publishing policies associated with Web services, such as those discussed at the recent W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services (see http://www.w3.org/2004/06/ws-cc-cfp.html). Submissions related to semantics for Grid services are welcome. We particularly seek submissions that demonstrate innovative applications of SWS technologies to the challenges involved in automating online business transactions. TOPICS Relevant topics include: o Supporting SWS Deployment o Architectures for SWS Deployment o Semantics in Grid Services o Tools and Infrastructure o Applications of SWS to E-business and E-government o Supporting Enterprise Application Integration with SWS o Policies for Semantic Web Services o Advertising, Discovery, Matchmaking o SWS Conversational Protocols and Choreography o Ontologies and Languages for Service Description o Ontologies and Languages for Process Modeling o Foundations of Reasoning about Services and/or Processes o Contracts and Commitments o Composition of Semantic Web Services o Execution and Lifecycle Management of Semantic Web Services o Monitoring and Recovery Strategies for Semantic Web Services o Relationship of Semantic Web Services with Workflow Technologies o Security and Privacy for Semantic Web Services o Relationships between SWS, Grid Service, and Commercial WS Technologies INTENDED AUDIENCE The intended audience includes researchers working on Semantic Web services, Grid services, and related technologies; students interested in these topics; developers of commercial Web services standards (such as those engaged in these activities at W3C and OASIS); and commercial software developers who are investigating how to achieve greater flexibility and automation in the delivery of Web services. WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE The program will occupy one full day, and will include presentations of papers selected from the full papers category (see "Submissions" below). In some cases, papers may be presented as part of themed discussion panels. There will be one invited speaker. Subject to time constraints, there may also be a panel of experts on a selected topic. Registration will be open to all registrants of the WWW conference. Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper (in any category) will be given priority for registration. SUBMISSIONS Two categories of submissions are solicited: (1) Full papers (up to 12 pages). (2) Position papers (1-2 pages). All submissions should be formatted in the style required for the Refereed Paper Tracks of WWW 2005, which is specified here: http://www2005.org/papers/submission.html. Submissions should be sent by email to wss-submissions at ai.sri.com. Full papers will be peer-reviewed; position papers will receive no review. Accepted full papers will be scheduled for a presentation at the workshop. Shorter full papers may be given appropriately shortened time slots. In some cases, papers may be presented as part of themed discussion panels. All accepted full papers, and all position papers of attendees, will be published online, on a publicly available Web site. We emphasize that a larger word count does not necessarily confer any greater likelihood of acceptance. In some cases -- such as papers describing early work on a project -- it is appropriate for papers to be considerably shorter than 15 pages. Naturally, however, figures that help the reader to quickly grasp the essence of complex material are strongly encouraged. Position statements are limited to 2 pages and should include some or all of the following: * introduction of the author(s) * brief description of your work (and possibly other work at your institution) related to Semantic Web services * tools or testbeds you have to offer to the community * discussion of what you view as the most challenging issues in Semantic Web services and prospects for solving them * challenges, questions or issues that you'd like to see addressed at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: February 23, 2005 Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2005 Camera ready format due: April 6, 2005 ORGANIZATION Organizing Committee Christoph Bussler Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland Richard Goodwin IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Rub?n Lara Tecnolog?a, Informaci?n y Finanzas (TIF), Spain David Martin SRI International, USA Takahira Yamaguchi Keio University, Japan Program Committee (partial) Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Naoki Fukuta Shizuoka University, Japan Michael Kifer University at Stony Brook, USA Jae Kyu Lee KAIST, Korea Massimo Paolucci Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Marta Sabou Vrije Universiteit, NL Evren Sirin University of Maryland, College Park, USA Monika Solanki De Montfort University, UK Naveen Srinivasan Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Said Tabet Macgregor Group, USA Hideaki Takeda National Institute of informatics, Japan Laurentiu Vasiliu Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland Tomas Vitvar Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland Michal Zaremba Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland From csanto at diit.unict.it Mon Jan 3 16:20:51 2005 From: csanto at diit.unict.it (Corrado Santoro) Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:20:51 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: ETNGRID 2005 Message-ID: <41D962D3.2060503@diit.unict.it> (Apologies for multiple copies) =========================================================================== Second Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next generation GRID (ETNGRID-2005) 14th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2005) http://www.diit.unict.it/users/csanto/etngrid05/ Linkoping University, Sweden, June 13-15, 2005 ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Feb. 11, 2005 ***** =========================================================================== The Grid was originally designed as a large network of computer systems able to offer an environment where computing and storage resources are shared on-demand. To date, the development of standards, such as the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA), along with the introduction of new paradigms, such as the Semantic Grid, is leading the Grid toward an environment that is not only suited for computational-intensive applications, but also for computing scenarios typical of distributed systems, like service and information providing, multimedia environments, ubiquitous computing, etc. For these and other reasons, the Grid is becoming an interesting and challenging environment supporting both old and new services for cooperative applications. A relevant research effort is thus needed not only to investigate innovative Grid infrastructures but also to make the current Grid model suitable for these emerging usage scenarios. The objective of this workshop is to gather researchers working on different emerging Grid computing aspects relevant to enterprise collaboration, covering issues ranging from the middleware layer to application development and user interaction. The goals of the workshop include (but are not limited to) discovering new application scenarios, proposing new programming abstractions and tools, identifying the challenging problem that still need to be solved, and reporting results and experiences gained by researchers in building Grid-based middleware, applications and alike. Submission Requirements ----------------------- Participants are expected to submit an original research paper, not submitted or published elsewhere, by email to Corrado Santoro, corrado.santoro at diit.unict.it (make sure that the subject of the email says "ETNGRID'05 Submission"). Submission should include the title of the paper, the names and affiliations of the authors, a 150-word abstract and at most eight keywords. Submission should follow the IEEE format (single spaced, two columns, 10pt, Times font) and not exceed six pages, including figures. Accepted papers will be published along with the WETICE 2005 post-proceedings. The paper should be in either PS or PDF format. Papers must focus on various aspects of the Grid, including, but not limiting to, the following topics: * Middlewares for the Grid * Multimedia applications with the Grid * Reflective and Aspect-Oriented Grid systems * Reliability and Quality-of-Service aspects * Wireless and ubiquitous access to the Grid * Cooperative Agents and the Grid * Grids and Peer-to-peer systems * Web integration with the Grid * Abstractions and tools for collaborative application development in Grid environments * Semantic Grid * Experience reports on collaborative application development in Grid * Scalability and Performance issues in the Grid * Analysis of stability and bottlenecks for Grid applications * Resource-aware applications in the Grid * Architectures for Grid-oriented applications * Security and Verification Issues in Large Distributed Systems Important Dates --------------- * Paper Submission: February 11, 2005 * Notification of Acceptance: March 18, 2005 * Camera Ready Paper Due: May 9, 2005 Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Angelo Corsaro (acorsaro at amsjv.it), Alenia Marconi Systems, ITALY Antonella Di Stefano (adistefa at diit.unict.it), Dept. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Giuseppe Pappalardo (pappalardo at dmi.unict.it), Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Corrado Santoro (csanto at diit.unict.it), Dept. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Emiliano Tramontana (tramontana at dmi.unict.it), Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Program Committee Members ------------------------- M.Nedim Alpdemir ........ University of Manchester, UK Cosimo Anglano .......... University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Roberto Barbera ......... University of Catania, Italy Walter Cazzola .......... University of Milano, Italy Giovanni Chiola ......... University of Genova, Italy Paolo Ciancarini ........ University of Bologna, Italy Michele Colajanni ....... University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Geoffrey Coulson ........ Lancaster Universtity, UK Marco Fargetta .......... University of Catania, Italy Geoffrey Fox ............ Indiana University, USA Carol Goble ............. University of Manchester, UK Aniruddha Gokhale ....... Vanderbilt University, USA Pilar Herrero ........... Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Giulio Iannello ......... University of Naples Federico II, Italy Ryszard Janicki ......... McMaster University, Canada Maciej Koutny ........... University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Luigi Mancini ........... University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Sara Tucci Piergiovanni.. University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Agostino Poggi .......... University of Parma, Italy Svetlana Shasharina ..... Tech-X Corporation, USA Santosh Shrivastava ..... University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Giorgio Ventre .......... University of Naples Federico II, Italy Stephen Vinoski ......... IONA Technologies, USA Luca Vollero ............ CINI ITeM, Italy Ian Welch ............... Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Steven Willmott ......... Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain Nanbor Wang ............. Tech-X Corporation, USA -- ====================================================== Eng. Corrado Santoro, Ph.D. University of Catania - Engineering Faculty Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering Viale A. Doria, 6 - 95125 CATANIA (ITALY) Tel: +39 095 7382380 Fax: +39 095 7382397 +39 095 7382365 +39 095 7382364 EMail: csanto at diit.unict.it Personal Home Page: http://www.diit.unict.it/users/csanto NUXI Home Page: http://nuxi.iit.unict.it ====================================================== From bpientka at cs.mcgill.ca Mon Jan 3 18:41:44 2005 From: bpientka at cs.mcgill.ca (Brigitte Pientka) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:41:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] CADE 2005 : Second Call for Papers Message-ID: CADE-20 20th International Conference on Automated Deduction Tallinn, Estonia, July 22 - July 27, 2005 http://sise.ttu.ee/it/cade CALL FOR PAPERS CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. -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: Submission is electronic in postscript or PDF format. Submitted papers must conform to the Springer LNCS style, preferrably using LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class files. Submissions can be full papers , for work on foundations, applications or implementation techniques (15 pages), as well as system descriptions (5 pages), for describing publicly available systems. For further information and submission instructions, see the CADE-20 web page: http://sise.ttu.ee/it/cade. Important dates: E-submission of title and abstract: February 25, 2005 E-submission papers: March 4, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 22, 2005 Final version due: May 20, 2005 Workshops and tutorials: July 22-23, 2005 Conference: July 24-27, 2005 Invited talks: Invited talks will be given at CADE-20 by Randal Bryant (CMU), Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique) and by Frank Wolter (U. Liverpool). Organizing Chair: Tanel Tammet (Tallinn TU) Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Frank Pfenning (CMU) Program Chair: Robert Nieuwenhuis (UPC Barcelona) Publicity Chair: Brigitte Pientka (McGill) Program Committee : Franz Baader (TU Dresden) Peter Baumgartner (MPI) Amy Felty (U Ottawa) Ian Horrocks (U. Manchester) Deepak Kapur (U New Mexico) Chris Lynch (Clarkson U) Fabio Massacci (U Trento) Ilkka Niemela (TU Helsinki) Robert Nieuwenhuis (UPC Barcelona), chair Dale Miller (INRIA/Ecole Polytechnique) Tobias Nipkow (TU Munich) Frank Pfenning (CMU) Andreas Podelski (MPI) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Frankfurt U) Peter Schmitt (U Karlsruhe) Stephan Schulz (TU Munich) Carsten Schurmann (Yale U) Aaron Stump (Washington U) Geoff Sutcliffe (U of Miami) Tanel Tammet (Tallinn TU) Cesare Tinelli (U Iowa) Ashish Tiwari (SRI) Moshe Vardi (Rice U) Miroslav Velev (CMU) Andrei Voronkov (Manchester) Toby Walsh (CCC Cork) From bernardi at inf.unibz.it Mon Jan 10 12:34:57 2005 From: bernardi at inf.unibz.it (Raffaella Bernardi) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:34:57 +0100 Subject: [DL] Extension: CfP QA special issue Message-ID: ***Apologies for multiple postings*** Note: Due to large number of requests, the submission deadline has been postponed one month. New submission deadline: 28th of February 2005. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ "Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives" A Special Issue of the Journal of Applied Logic (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15708683) We have been invited by the "Journal of Applied Logic" to prepare a Special Issue stimulated by the 2nd CoLogNET-ELSNET Symposium on "Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives". BACKGROUND: The symposium was 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/). It addressed both the logical foundations underlying QA, and technological implications for question answering systems. TOPIC OF INTEREST FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Based on the successful symposium experience, we invite papers on both theoretical issues involved in question answering or practical issues involved in 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 relevant issues includes: - Questions: linguistic analysis of interrogatives - Theoretical and practical approaches to question semantics - Presuppositions/implicatures in questions and how to deal with them - Interpretation of questions in context - Query interpretation and query extension in IR - Questions that do not look like questions - Paraphrasing questions for answer detection, - Answering how and why questions - Questions/answers that relate multiple events - Comparing and/or evaluating answer candidates - Answering comparison questions - Contextual binding of candidate answers -- i.e., temporal and spatial dependencies, - Quantified and conditional questions - Quantified and conditional answers SUBMISSION DETAILS The final version of accepted papers has to follow the standard layout guidelines of the "Journal of Applied Logic". Instructions for authors and the latex style files are available from http://www.inf.unibz.it/~bernardi/qajal_style Although not mandatory, we suggest to use the corresponding style files from that web-page also for your initial submission. The issue aims at high quality papers with a length around 20 to max. 30 pages. Please send your submission in postscript or pdf no later than January 31st, 2005 to bernardi at inf.unibz.it. Please, write "QA special issue: Submission" in the subject. Notice that all papers will be refereed to ensure their suitability for journal publication. IMPORTANT DATES (Extended) Deadline for Submissions: February 28, 2005 (Extended) Notification Deadline: April 30, 2005 (Extended) Camera Ready Deadline: June 10, 2005 GUEST EDITORS of the Special Issue Raffaella Bernardi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) & Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh) ------------------------------------------------------- Raffaella Bernardi | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | Faculty of Computer Science | P.zza Domenicani 3 | I-39100 Bolzano | Room: 2.28 | Phone:+39 0471 0 16122 | Fax: +39 0471 0 16009 http://www.inf.unibz.it/~bernardi Research Assistant | CoLogNet (Area 6, Logic and NLP) | http://www.colognet.org -------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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For job details and application procedure, please see http://recruitment.csiro.au/ quoting reference number 2004/1589 To discuss the position, please contact Dr Kerry Taylor Tel: + 61 2 6216 7038 Email: Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au www: ict.csiro.au/esi From chomicki at cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Jan 12 21:28:01 2005 From: chomicki at cse.Buffalo.EDU (chomicki) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:28:01 -0500 Subject: [DL] TIME 2005 2nd CFP (extended deadline, submissions open) Message-ID: <41E58851.10708@cse.buffalo.edu> -- Dr. Jan Chomicki, Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Sci. and Engineering University at Buffalo, SUNY http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~chomicki -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: cfp2.txt URL: From sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Wed Jan 12 23:10:01 2005 From: sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (York Sure) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:10:01 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC 2005: Cf Posters and Software Demos Message-ID: <41E5AE49.10469.94364A@localhost> Call for Posters and Software Demos European Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2005 Heraklion, Crete May 29th - June 1st 2005 http://www.eswc2005.org The ESWC 2005 Program Committee invites proposals for the demonstrations and poster program. This program is intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their innovation, relevance, scientific contribution, reusability, and presentation, by an international committee. 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 related to Semantic Web technology include, but are not limited to: * Social Software and Portals * Semantic Desktop Systems and Tools * P2P systems * Annotation tools * Novel query and browsing interfaces * Data visualization * Ontology development environments * Ontology libraries and management systems * Tools for merging, integrating or articulating ontologies * Tools for merging, integrating or articulating instance data * Reusable components and APIs for RDF, DAML+OIL, OWL, etc. * Repositories and inference systems * Applications * Agent systems embedded in the Semantic Web * Systems that identify and compose web services Requested Contributions We are looking for contributions whose nature make them less suited for submission to the official paper track. We would like to emphasize this point and make clear that the poster session is more than a second chance for a rejected paper. In particular, we ask for contributions of the following kind: * Late-breaking and Speculative Results: Significant and original ideas and promising approaches to resolve open problems in semantic web research that are in an early stage and have not been verified and tested sufficiently to meet the requirements of a scientific publication. Submissions in this area will be evaluated like a scientific paper but limited to the aspects of originality, relevance and significance. * Systems and Infrastructure: Descriptions (preferably accompanied by demonstration) of new systems that use semantic web technology to solve important real world problems. We are also looking for software infrastructure supporting the development of systems that use semantic web technologies. Systems will be evaluated based on novelty and significance of the application as well as the use of semantic web technologies for solving the problem. Main criteria for contributions on infrastructure is successful use in existing applications as well as uniqueness of the provided services. * Projects and Initiatives: Descriptions of the objectives and results of ongoing projects and initiatives. The aim is to provide an overview of ongoing work in the area of the semantic web. Contributions in this area will be evaluated based on the importance and uniqueness of the objectives. Further criteria for project descriptions are the significance of results, descriptions of initiatives will also be evaluated with respect to the expected impact on the community . Submissions Format and Procedure -------------------------------- Submissions, not to exceed 2 pages, should be submitted in electronic form (PDF --- preferred, Postscript, HTML or Word) to conference website. Details will be published on the web site soon. The abstract should describe the content of the poster or demo to be demonstrated as well as the architecture and the availability of the software (if any) and should also include including title, authors, full contact information, and references (limited to a small number of closely related publications). Important Dates Abstract submission: March 1, 2005 Acceptance notification: April 8, 2005 Camera ready Abstracts due: May 2, 2005 Contact Information: Demo Chair Stefan Decker Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland stefan.decker at deri.org phone: +353 91 512483 fax2email: +1 503 905 7502 Poster Chair Heiner Stuckenschmidt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam heiner at cs.vu.nl phone: +31 20 598 7752 fax: +31 20 598 7653 -- Dr. York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu From alc9 at math.nsc.ru Sat Jan 15 08:28:08 2005 From: alc9 at math.nsc.ru (Asian Logic Conference 2005) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:28:08 +0600 Subject: [DL] ALC9 Message-ID: <5317743499.20050115132808@math.nsc.ru> Apologies for multiple copies due to using different mailing lists THE 9th ASIAN LOGIC CONFERENCE August 16--19, 2005 Novosibirsk, Russia CALL FOR PAPERS 1. General information This conference is the ninth in the series of logic conferences, which is held once every three years and rotates among countries in the Asia-Pacific region with interests in the broad area of logic including theoretical computer science. In the past, there were eight meetings in Singapore (1981), Bangkok, Thailand (1984), Bejing, China (1987), Tokyo, Japan (1990), Singapore (1993), Bejing, China (1996), Hsi-Tou, Taiwan (1999), and Chongqing, China (2002). In 2005, the conference takes place in Novosibirsk at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS, August 16--19. The purpose of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researches interested in the mathematical logic, logic in computer science, and philosophical logics. It aims at promoting activities of mathematical logic in the Asia-Pacific so that logicians both from within Asia and elsewhere would get together and exchange information and ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, recursion theory, set theory, proof theory, model theory and universal algebra, non-classical logic, and logic in computer science. 2. Invited lecturers Up to now, the following specialists in logic accepted our invitation to give a plenary lecture at the conference (in alphabetical order): Pavel Alaev (Russia) Lev Beklemishev (Russia, Netherlands) Yurii Ershov (Russia) Su Gao (USA) Sanjay Jain (Singapore) Bakhadyr Khoussainov (New Zealand) Andrei Mantsivoda (Russia) Joe Miller (USA) Hiroakira Ono (Japan) Vladimir Rybakov (Russia, Great Britain) Masahiko Sato (Japan) Moshe Vardi (USA) Andrei Voronkov (Great Britain) Xishun Zhao (China) 3. Deadlines The deadline for submission of abstracts of contributed talks is February 28, 2005. Acceptance of your submission will be notified till March 31, 2005. The deadline for participants registration is April 15, 2005. 4. Submission and registration The preferable way of submitting your abstract and registering is via the conference information system at http://www.sbras.ru/ws/ALC-9/index.en.html (English version) or http://www.sbras.ru/ws/ALC-9/ (Russian version). If it is not available to submit your abstract in such a way, please send it by e-mail in the PDF format to alc9 at math.nsc.ru or send a hard copy to The 9th Asian Logic Conference Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Acad. Koptyug avenue, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia 5. International Programme Committee Professor Sergei Goncharov (chair) (Russia) Professor Chi Tat Chong (Singapore) Professor John Crossley (Australia) Professor De-Cheng Ding (China) Professor Rodney Downey (New Zealand) Professor Yurii Ershov (Russia) Professor Qi Feng (China) Professor Bakhadyr Khoussainov (New Zealand) Professor Larisa Maksimova (Russia) Professor Andrei Morozov (Russia) Professor Hiroakira Ono (Japan) Professor Dmitrii Pal'chunov (Russia) Professor Evgenii Palutin (Russia) Professor Shih Ping Tung (Taiwan, R.O.C.) Professor Mariko Yasugi (Japan) 6. Organising Committee Sergei Odintsov (co-chair) (Russia) Andrei Morozov (co-chair) (Russia) Stanislav Bereznyuk (Russia) Asylkhan Khisamiev (Russia) Nurlan Kogabaev (Russia) Aleksandr Kravchenko (Russia) Galina Morozova (Russia) Aleksei Stukachev (Russia) Nikita Vinokurov (Russia) Yang Yue (Singapore) 7. Contact information The 9th Asian Logic Conference Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Acad. Koptyug avenue, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia tel. +7 3832 33 28 94 fax +7 3832 33 25 98 e-mail alc9 at math.nsc.ru www http://www.sbras.ru/ws/ALC-9/index.en.html http://www.sbras.ru/ws/ALC-9/ On behalf of the Organising Committee, Sergei Odintsov Aleksandr Kravchenko From icwe2005 at listserv.uts.edu.au Mon Jan 17 08:25:47 2005 From: icwe2005 at listserv.uts.edu.au (icwe2005 at listserv.uts.edu.au) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:25:47 +1100 Subject: [DL] [ICWE 2005] ICWE05 - FINAL Call for Papers Message-ID: <004d01c4fc65$c3d43fa0$ea28198a@eng1820> CFP: ICWE'05 - 5th International Conference on Web Engineering [ Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement ] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for paper submission: 11th February 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Fifth International Conference on Web Engineering ICWE'05 July 27-29, 2005 University of Technology, Sydney Sydney, Australia http://www.icwe2005.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth International Conference on Web Engineering will be held in July 2005 in Sydney, Australia at the University of Technology, Sydney. The ICWE'05 Conference continues the tradition of ICWE'04 in Munich, Germany, ICWE'03 in Oviedo, Spain, ICWE'02 in Santa F?, Argentina and ICWE'01 in C?ceres, Spain. The ICWE'05 conference aims to bring 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 which support the development, evolution, and evaluation of complex Web applications. Full details on the conference, and on paper submission, can be found at http://www.icwe2005.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- Late News: - Conference Dinner to be held in the world famous Sydney Opera House see http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/ - Conference venue to have full wireless access -------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper abstracts: 4 February 2005 Deadline for paper submissions: 11 February 2005 Deadline for workshop/tutorial/ demonstration/panel proposals: 11 February 2005 Notification of workshop/tutorial acceptance: 11 March 2005 Notification of paper acceptance: 1 April 2005 Notification of demonstration acceptance: 1 April Deadline for final versions: 19 April 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Icwe2005 mailing list Icwe2005 at listserv.uts.edu.au http://listserv.uts.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/icwe2005 From lpnmr05.publicity at mat.unical.it Mon Jan 17 14:12:01 2005 From: lpnmr05.publicity at mat.unical.it (lpnmr05.publicity at mat.unical.it) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:12:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] LPNMR'05: Call for Papers Message-ID: <20050117131201.44656FD01F@ml.mat.unical.it> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] Call for Papers 8th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'05) Diamante, Cosenza, Italy September 5-8, 2005 http://www.mat.unical.it/lpnmr05/ LPNMR'05 is the eighth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning. Seven previous meetings were held in Washington, D.C., (1991), in Lisbon, Portugal (1993), in Lexington, Kentucky (1995), in Dagstuhl, Germany (1997), in El Paso, Texas (1999), in Vienna, Austria (2001), and in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2004). LPNMR'05 will be organized by the Department of Mathematics of University of Calabria (Italy), and will be co-located with the INFOMIX Workshop on Data Integration. AIMS AND SCOPE -------------- LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers interested in the design and implementation of logic based programming languages and database systems, and researchers who work in the areas of knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass these theoretical and exprimental studies that lead to the construction of practical systems for declarative programming and knowledge representation. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on nonmonotonic aspects of logic programming and knowledge representation. We particularly encourage papers on application of LPNMR techniques to build significant applications. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: 1. Development and mathematical studies of logical systems with nonmonotonic entailment relations: - Semantics of new and existing languages; - Relationships between formalisms; - Complexity and expressive power; - Development of inference algorithms and search heuristics for LPNMR systems; - Extensions of ''classical'' LPNMR languages by new logical connectives and new inference capabilities such as abduction, reasoning by cases, etc; - Updates and other operations on LPNMR systems; - Uncertainty in LPNMR systems. 2. Implementation of LPNMR systems: - system descriptions, comparisons, evaluations; - LPNMR benchmarks. 3. Applications of LPNMR systems: - LPNMR languages and algorithms in planning, diagnosis, software engineering, decision making, and other domains; - Applications of LPNMR languages in Data Integration and Exchange systems; - Methodology of representing knowledge in LPNMR languages: theory and practice; - Integration of LPNMR systems with other computational paradigms; - Embedded LPNMR systems: Systems using LPNMR subsystems. SYSTEM AND APPLICATION DEMONSTRATION TRACKS ------------------------------------------- As part of the technical program, we also plan a special session devoted to presentations and demonstrations of implemented nonmonotonic reasoning systems. Systems and application demonstration tracks will be announced in a distinct call. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract Submission Deadline March 22, 2005, 23:59:59 GMT Paper Submission Deadline March 25, 2005, 23:59:59 GMT Notification (Accept/Reject) May 16, 2005 Conference Schedule June 6, 2005 Final Conference Papers June 10, 2005 Early Registration Deadline July 4, 2005 Conference September 5-8, 2005 SUBMISSION OF PAPERS -------------------- Papers must not exceed thirteen (13) pages including title page, references and figures, and must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNAI authors' instructions (see ). Papers must be written in English and present original research. Paper submission is electronic via the conference home page http://www.mat.unical.it/lpnmr05/. Papers must be registered (title, abstract, keywords, authors, contact information) by March 22, 2005, 23:59:59 GMT; the full paper must be uploaded by March 25, 2005, 23:59:59 GMT. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Nicola Leone (University of Calabria, Italy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Jose Alferes (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Pedro Cabalar (Corunna University, Spain) Gerhard Brewka (Leipzig University, Germany) Juergen Dix (Technical University of Clausthal, Germany) Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria, Italy) Norman Foo (National ICT Australia and University of New South Wales, Australia) Michael Gelfond (Texas Tech University, USA) Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Katsumi Inoue (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) Ilkka Niemel? (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) David Pearce (Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain) Alessandro Provetti (University of Messina, Italy) Francesco Scarcello (University of Calabria, Italy) Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam, Germany) Hans Tompits (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Francesca Toni (Imperial College, London, UK) Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky, USA) Marina de Vos (University of Bath, United Kingdom) PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, Italy) LOCAL ORGANIZATION CO-CHAIRS ---------------------------- Giovambattista Ianni (University of Calabria, Italy) Giorgio Terracina (University of Calabria, Italy) From carlos at science.uva.nl Wed Jan 19 12:54:52 2005 From: carlos at science.uva.nl (Carlos Areces) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:54:52 +0100 Subject: [DL] Beth Dissertation Prize Message-ID: <20050119115452.GA20147@remote.science.uva.nl> E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: call for submissions. Since 2002, FoLLI (the European Association for Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Submissions are invited for 2004. The prize will be awarded to the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. in the year 2004. 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 a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2004 and December 31st, 2004. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. However, after a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Prize: The prize consists of ? a certificate ? an invitation to present the thesis during ESSLLI 05 ? a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. ? fee waive for ESSLLI 05 attendance ? the possibility to publish the thesis (or a revised version of it) in the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be published by Springer-Verlag as part of LNCS or LNCS/LNAI. (Further information on this series will be posted on the FoLLI site soon.) 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 or pdf format; 3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: 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 officially 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 dimi.uniud.it. Hard copy submissions are not admitted. If you experience any problems with the email submission or do not receive a notification from us within three working days, please write to policriti at dimi.uniud.it or folli at inf.unibz.it * Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 2005. Notification of Decision: June 30, 2005. The prize will be officially assigned to the winner at ESSLLI'05 (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/), the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 9-19, 2005. Prize winner will be expected to attend the ceremony and to give a presentation of her/his Ph.D. dissertation at ESSLLI?05. Committee ? Anne Abeill? (Universit? Paris 7) ? Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) ? Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University) ? Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) ? Valentin Goranko (University of Johannesburg) ? Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) ? Ewa Orlowska (Institute of Telecommunications, Poland) ? Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) ? Alberto Policriti (chair) (Universit? di Udine) ? Christian Retor? (Universit? Bordeaux 1 ) ? Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) ? Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen) From jmj at info.fundp.ac.be Fri Jan 21 11:07:14 2005 From: jmj at info.fundp.ac.be (Jean-Marie JACQUET) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:07:14 +0100 (MET) Subject: [DL] Postdoctoral position in coordination languages and web services Message-ID: <200501211007.j0LA7E421151@backus.info.fundp.ac.be> [ Our apologies for multiple copies ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for applications ONE YEAR POSTDOCTORAL POSITION ON COORDINATION LANGUAGES AND WEB SERVICES University of Namur, Belgium http://www.fundp.ac.be/recherche/Postdoc_FUNDP_CERUNA_2005.pdf APPLICATION DEADLINE: MARCH 1ST 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the framework of the "Namur Institutional Programme of postdoctoral grants", a one-year postdoctoral position is available on the subject of coordination languages and web services at the University of Namur, Belgium. PROJECT DESCRIPTION It is more and more acknowledged that modern information systems will be formed out of numerous heterogeneous components, in general, disseminated through networks. This fact induces a radical change in the design of information systems perceived yesterday as isolated and recognized today as open, distributed, mobile, interactive, and heterogeneous. At the programming level, this evolution results in a growing interest for so-called coordination languages, coordination models, and component-based systems. At the application level, this has resulted in an increasing attention for web services, and, in particular, for the integration of these services. However, the foundations of this new way of thinking information systems is far from being completely understood. The proposed postdoctoral research aims at contributing to this goal by studying coordination models in the context of web service integration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - design of coordination mechanisms for web service integration - study of the expressiveness of such mechanisms - methods for verifying properties of web services - development of behavioral types for web services integration - methodologies for coordinating web services. PROFILE FOR THE APPLICANT Following the general policy of the university, candidates should be not older than 35 years and should have obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science within 5 years in a non-Belgian university. They should also have a research experience in coordination languages or web services, preferably in one of the topics listed above. RESEARCH GRANT The research grant includes a two-way air ticket and health insurances. The fellowship is of 1800 EUR (net) per month for 12 consecutive months starting during the academic year 2005-2006. APPLICATIONS Applications must include a CV, a motivation letter, and three letters of recommendation. They should be addressed by March 1st 2005 to Prof. Paul THIRY Chairman of the FUNDP Research Council University of Namur 61 rue de Bruxelles B-5000 Namur Belgium Facsimile applications should be sent to number +32 81 724913. Electronic submissions should be emailed to patricia.lonnoy at fundp.ac.be. INFORMATION For scientific questions about the projet, please contact Prof. Jean-Marie Jacquet (email: jmj at info.fundp.ac.be, web: www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jmj). For general questions regarding the application, please contact Prof. Paul Thiry (email: paul.thiry at fundp.ac.be). From martin at AI.SRI.COM Sat Jan 22 09:16:34 2005 From: martin at AI.SRI.COM (David Martin) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:16:34 -0800 Subject: [DL] CFP: Web Service Semantics workshop at WWW2005 Message-ID: <41F20BE2.8050903@ai.sri.com> [This CFP is being posted to multiple lists; we apologise if you see it multiple times.] C a l l f o r P a p e r s WEB SERVICE SEMANTICS: TOWARDS DYNAMIC BUSINESS INTEGRATION http://www.ai.sri.com/WSS2005 a workshop to be held at the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005) http://www2005.org/ Chiba, Japan Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 DESCRIPTION The description of Web services in a machine-understandable fashion is expected to have a great impact in the areas of e-Commerce and Enterprise Application Integration, as it can enable dynamic and scalable cooperation between independently developed systems and organisations. These potential benefits have led to the establishment of an important class of research activities, both in industry and academia, aimed at the practical deployment of declarative, semantically rich service and process descriptions and their use across the Web service lifecycle. This research, which draws on a variety of fields such as knowledge representation, automated software engineering, process modeling, workflow, and software agents, is happening under several headings, including Semantic Web services (SWS), Grid services and Semantic Grid services, and (some aspects of) Service-Oriented Computing. For ease of reference, in this call we refer to this general area of work as Semantic Web services (SWS). We note that here, "Semantic Web" does not denote any particular set of standards, although much work in this area does build on products of the Semantic Web activity at W3C. In addition, many SWS efforts are aligned with rapidly developing commercial Web service standards such as WSDL and UDDI. Many major challenges need to be addressed in this field. This workshop aims to provide a forum in which to focus on selected core technical challenges for deployment of SWS, and reach a better understanding of the relationships between commercial Web service standards, current SWS research efforts, and the ultimate requirements for full-scale deployment of these technologies. Another major focus will be on the relationship of work on SWS to the needs of business systems, and in particular the needs having to do with publishing policies associated with Web services, such as those discussed at the recent W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services (see http://www.w3.org/2004/06/ws-cc-cfp.html). Submissions related to semantics for Grid services are welcome. We particularly seek submissions that demonstrate innovative applications of SWS technologies to the challenges involved in automating online business transactions. TOPICS Relevant topics include: o Supporting SWS Deployment o Architectures for SWS Deployment o Semantics in Grid Services o Tools and Infrastructure o Applications of SWS to E-business and E-government o Supporting Enterprise Application Integration with SWS o Policies for Semantic Web Services o Advertising, Discovery, Matchmaking o SWS Conversational Protocols and Choreography o Ontologies and Languages for Service Description o Ontologies and Languages for Process Modeling o Foundations of Reasoning about Services and/or Processes o Contracts and Commitments o Composition of Semantic Web Services o Execution and Lifecycle Management of Semantic Web Services o Monitoring and Recovery Strategies for Semantic Web Services o Relationship of Semantic Web Services with Workflow Technologies o Security and Privacy for Semantic Web Services o Relationships between SWS, Grid Service, and Commercial WS Technologies INTENDED AUDIENCE The intended audience includes researchers working on Semantic Web services, Grid services, and related technologies; students interested in these topics; developers of commercial Web services standards (such as those engaged in these activities at W3C and OASIS); and commercial software developers who are investigating how to achieve greater flexibility and automation in the delivery of Web services. WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE The program will occupy one full day, and will include presentations of papers selected from the full papers category (see "Submissions" below). In some cases, papers may be presented as part of themed discussion panels. There will be one invited speaker. Subject to time constraints, there may also be a panel of experts on a selected topic. Registration will be open to all registrants of the WWW conference. Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper (in any category) will be given priority for registration. SUBMISSIONS Two categories of submissions are solicited: (1) Full papers (up to 12 pages). (2) Position papers (1-2 pages). All submissions should be formatted in the style required for the Refereed Paper Tracks of WWW 2005, which is specified here: http://www2005.org/papers/submission.html. Submissions should be sent by email to wss-submissions at ai.sri.com. Full papers will be peer-reviewed; position papers will receive no review. Accepted full papers will be scheduled for a presentation at the workshop. Shorter full papers may be given appropriately shortened time slots. In some cases, papers may be presented as part of themed discussion panels. All accepted full papers, and all position papers of attendees, will be published online, on a publicly available Web site. We emphasize that a larger word count does not necessarily confer any greater likelihood of acceptance. In some cases -- such as papers describing early work on a project -- it is appropriate for papers to be considerably shorter than 15 pages. Naturally, however, figures that help the reader to quickly grasp the essence of complex material are strongly encouraged. Position statements are limited to 2 pages and should include some or all of the following: * introduction of the author(s) * brief description of your work (and possibly other work at your institution) related to Semantic Web services * tools or testbeds you have to offer to the community * discussion of what you view as the most challenging issues in Semantic Web services and prospects for solving them * challenges, questions or issues that you'd like to see addressed at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: February 23, 2005 Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2005 Camera ready format due: April 6, 2005 ORGANIZATION Organizing Committee Christoph Bussler Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland Richard Goodwin IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Rub?n Lara Tecnolog?a, Informaci?n y Finanzas (TIF), Spain David Martin SRI International, USA Takahira Yamaguchi Keio University, Japan Steering Committee (partial) Sheila McIlraith University of Toronto, Canada Mathias Weske Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany Program Committee (partial) Sudhir Agarwal University of Karlsruhe, Germany Steve Battle Hewlett Packard, UK Richard Benjamins iSOCO, Spain Mark Burstein BBN Technologies, USA Marin Dimitrov Ontotext, Bulgaria John Domingue Open University, UK Dieter Fensel Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Austria / Ireland Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Naoki Fukuta Shizuoka University, Japan Michael Kifer University at Stony Brook, USA Jae Kyu Lee KAIST, Korea Alain L?ger France Telecom, France Pramila Mullan France Telecom R & D, USA Massimo Paolucci Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Bijan Parsia University of Maryland, College Park, USA Chris Priest HP Labs, UK Ulrich Reimer Business Operation Systems, Switzerland Marta Sabou Vrije Universiteit, NL Evren Sirin University of Maryland, College Park, USA Monika Solanki De Montfort University, UK Naveen Srinivasan Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Rudi Studer University of Karlsruhe, Germany Said Tabet Macgregor Group, USA Naohiko Uramoto IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan Laurentiu Vasiliu DERI, Ireland Tomas Vitvar DERI, Ireland Michal Zaremba DERI, Ireland From schlobac at few.vu.nl Wed Jan 26 13:51:11 2005 From: schlobac at few.vu.nl (schlobac at few.vu.nl) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:51:11 +0100 Subject: [DL] Research Positions: PostDoc, PhD student & Scientific Programmer Message-ID: <1106743871.41f7923f5d0da@www.few.vu.nl> Cultural-heritage collections are typically indexed with meta data derived from a range of different vocabularies, while access usually requires the combination of information from various data sources. The STITCH project aims at developing theory, methods and tools for allowing meta data interoperability through semantic links. It is problem-driven, and its deliverables comprise the full research cycle from theory to the development of relevant tools. The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Vrije Universiteit search for a PostDoc, a PhD student and a Scientific Programmer to work within the STITCH project. For all three positions excellent knowledge in a relevant research area is expected (e.g. in Knowledge Representation or related subfields of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science). The candidates have to be able to work on finding generic solutions, and to apply these solutions to concrete problems within the participating cultural heritage institution. For more information please contact: Prof. dr. Frank van Harmelen, tel 00 31 (0)20 598 7731/7483, Frank.van.Harmelen at cs.vu.nl Peter Wittenburg, tel. 0031 (0)24-3521113, Peter.Wittenburg at mpi.nl More information on the STITCH project can be found at: http://www.cs.vu.nl/STITCH Application ----------- Please send your application by e-mail to Frank.van.Harmelen at cs.vu.nl. Prerequisites for the positions: -------------------------------- 1. For the PhD student: A degree in a relevant field of Artificial Intelligence or related fields of Computer Science. 2. For the PostDoc: Ph.D. in a relevant field of Artificial Intelligence or related fields of Computer Science, and scientific experience proven by international peer-reviewed publications. 3. For the Programmer: A degree in Computer Science, with provable experience in the development and implementation of advanced Software. Experience with Web- and Internet technology will be an advantage. For all three positions the ability to collaborate in a team is essential. Finally, the candidates are expected to learn Dutch within the first year of their employment. From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Jan 26 15:32:07 2005 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:32:07 +0100 Subject: [DL] 2nd CfP: AAAI'05 workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O-2005) Message-ID: <014701c503b3$e2f9acd0$29e9a8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The AAAI-05 Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O-2005) http://www.c-and-o.net/ July 9-10, 2005, AAAI Workshop Program, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES The goal of the workshop is to bring together people from the context and ontology communities and to discuss the approaches they use for information integration. Therefore, the workshop will push the cross-fertilization and exchange of ideas (e.g., which of the methods from the ontology community can be successfully adopted in the context community, and vice versa), and, hence, make their meeting mutually beneficial. ------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Foundations: Coordination of multiple contexts and ontologies; Meaning negotiation of multiple contexts and ontologies; Languages for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies; Logics for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies. Theory & Practice: Techniques and tools for matching (aligning) contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for merging contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for transforming contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for translating contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for reconciling contexts and ontologies; Techniques for query answering based on multiple contexts and ontologies; Benchmarking of tools for integration of contexts and ontologies; Comparisons of techniques and tools for matching, merging, transforming, translating, and reconciling contexts and ontologies; Scalability of techniques for integration of contexts and ontologies; Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies. Applications: Semantic Web; DB model management; E-commerce; Telecommunications, multimedia, content indexing; Knowledge management solutions for large organizations; Pervasive computing systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED TALKS 1. Fausto Giunchiglia (http://www.dit.unitn.it/~fausto), University of Trento, Italy Title of the talk: "Contexts meet Ontologies: Past, Present and Future" 2. Christopher Welty (http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty/), IBM Research, USA Title of the talk: "Ontologies meet Contexts: Past, Present and Future" ------------------------------------------------------------------- FORMAT, ATTENDANCE AND SUBMISSIONS The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: keynote presentations, technical presentations, posters/demos, and general discussion. The audience is assumed to consist of both academia and industry. Thus, the workshop can improve academic awareness of industrial needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their business needs. Attendance is limited to active participants only. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers or statements of interest. Technical papers should be not longer than 8 pages using the AAAI-05 style (http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/workshops.html). Statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages using the AAAI-05 style. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be sent by email to Pavel Shvaiko: pavel at dit.unitn.it Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers and statements of interest will be published as AAAI Technical report series. Also we will publish the extended versions of the best technical papers of the workshop in the Journal on Data Semantics (http://lbdwww.epfl.ch/e/Springer/). ------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES March 11, 2005: Deadline for the submissions. April 15, 2005: Notification of acceptance/rejection. May 13, 2005: Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers. May 20, 2005: Camera-ready workshop notes. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy AnHai Doan, University of Illinois, USA Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA Timothy W. Finin, University of Maryland, USA Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Michael Gruninger, NIST, USA Ramanathan Guha, IBM Research, USA Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, USA Alain Leger, France Telecom R&D, France Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Natalya Noy, Stanford University, USA Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece Michel Plu, France Telecom, France Fano Ramparany, France Telecom, France Luciano Serafini, ITC-IRST, Italy Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Michael Uschold, Boeing, USA Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1.Jerome Euzenat INRIA Rhone-Alpes e-mail: Jerome.Euzenat at inrialpes.fr 2.Alain Leger France Telecom R&D Rennes e-mail: alain.leger at rd.francetelecom.com 3.Deborah L. McGuinness Stanford University e-mail: dlm at ksl.stanford.edu 4.Pavel Shvaiko (CHAIR) University of Trento e-mail: pavel at dit.unitn.it 5.Holger Wache Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam e-mail: holger at cs.vu.nl Cheers, ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko PhD Student, University of Trento Dept. of Information and Communication Technology Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY Tel: +39 (0461) 883914; Fax: +39 (0461) 882093 Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.paik at qut.edu.au Fri Jan 28 03:13:58 2005 From: h.paik at qut.edu.au (Hye-young Helen Paik) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:13:58 +1000 Subject: [DL] CFP: 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering Message-ID: <34b9f12d.c5825fb0.822e000@mail-msgstore01.qut.edu.au> CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering November 2005 New York City, New York http://www.cs.txstate.edu/wise05 WISE 2005 aims at presenting novel topics and approaches to Web engineering in the dynamic, diverse, distributed and ever increasing volume of WWW data and applications. In particular, we invite researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge of web technologies, methodologies and applications. WISE 2005 is the first WISE conference to be held in the US. Previous WISE conferences were held in China (2000), Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Italy (2003), and Australia (2004). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: * Web services discovery and composition * Semantic Web and ontologies * Grid computing * P2P systems * Mobile services * Service oriented architecture and systems * Service monitoring and management * Web mining and warehousing * Web security and trust management * Stream processing and optimization * Web quality of service and transaction * E-commerce and E-government * Web performance * Web information extraction and integration * Web agents and Web Intelligence * Innovative Web-based Applications * Web-based Scientific Data Management * Modeling and Learning * Collaboration and Coordination * XML and Semi-structured data Sponsored by: Telcordia Technologies Inc. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Abstracts due June 10, 2005 Papers due June 17, 2005 Decision notification Aug. 12, 2005 Camera-ready copies due Sept. 16, 2005 Workshop proposal March 26, 2005 Tutorial/panel proposal June 24, 2005 Abstracts and papers must be electronically submitted via the conference web site in pdf. Papers must use at least 11 pt fonts and not exceed 25 double spaced pages (including figures, tables, etc.). Papers due 11:59 PM US PST, June 17, 2005. ---------------------- Publication and Awards ---------------------- The proceedings of WISE 2005 and associated workshops will be published by Springer LNCS series. The Yahiko Kambayashi Best Paper Award (with $1000) will be given to the best paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue of the "Internet and Web Information Systems" or the "WWW Journal" published by Springer. ------------------ Industrial Program ------------------ The conference program will include a number of papers and invited presentations devoted to industrial developments. Papers intended for this program should be clearly marked as industrial track papers and submit to the industry program chair. The deadlines and requirements for industrial papers are the same as for research paper submissions. To submit industry paper, contact: Jen Yao Chung (jychung at us.ibm.com) ---------------------- Tutorial/Panel Program ---------------------- Tutorials will complement the research and industrial tracks. Tutorial proposals must include an abstract, an outline, a description of the target audience, and a short bio of the presenter(s). Proposals (in pdf) for tutorial/panel program are due on June 24, 2005. To submit a tutorial proposal, contact: Boualem Benatallah (boualem at cse.unsw.edu.au) To submit a panel proposal, please contact: James Geller (geller at la.njit.edu) --------- Workshops --------- The WISE program will include several workshops. Workshop proposals are due on March, 25 2005. To submit workshop proposals contact: Gail Kaiser (kaiser at cs.columbia.edu) ------------------- Conference Officers ------------------- General Co-Chairs Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA Vijay Alturi, Rutgers U., USA Program Co-chairs Masaru Kitsuregawa, U. of Tokyo, Japan Erich Neuhold, Fraunhofer- IPSI, Germany Anne Ngu, Texas State U., USA Industrial Program Chair Jen Yao Chung, IBM, USA Tutorial Chair Boualem Benatallah, U. of New South Wales, Australia Panel Chair James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Workshop Chair Gail Kaiser, Columbia U., USA Local Arrangements Chair Thimios Panagos, Telcordia, USA Soon Ae Chun, Seton Hall U., USA Publication Chair Dave Buttler, LLNL, USA Publicity Chair Helen Paik, Queensland U. of Technology, Australia WISE Steering Committee Liaisons Yanchun Zhang, Victoria U., Australia Marek Rusinkiewicz, Telcordia, USA ------------------------ Program Commitee Members ------------------------ Marco Aiello, University of Trento, Italy Rafael Alonso, Sarnoff Corporation, USA Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Athman Bouguettaya, Virgina Tech, USA Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Sang Kyun Cha, Seoul National Uni, Korea Sharma Chakravarthy, UT Arlington, USA Edward Chang, UCSB, USA Arbee L.P. Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Guihai Chen, Nanjing University, China Andrzej Cichocki, Telcordia Technologies, USA Anindya Datta, Georgia Tech University and Chutney, USA Gill Dobbie, University of Auckland, NZ Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Tina Eliassi-Rad, LLNL, USA Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue University, USA Peter Fankhauser , Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Paul Grefen, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Claude Godart, INRIA, France Wook-Shin Han, Kyung-Pook National University, Korea Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Switzerland Carol Hazelwood, Texas State University, USA Christian Hueme, Uni Wien, Austria Jane Hsui, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Keith Jeffery, BITD, UK George Karabatis, University of Maryland, USA Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT, India Martin Kersten, CWI, The Netherlands Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Herman Lam, University of Florida, USA Jianzhong Li, Harbin University of Technology, China Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China Kwei-Jay Lin, UC Irvine, USA XueMin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia Tok Wang Ling, NUS, Singapore Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jianguo Lu, University of Windsor, Canada Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Pat Martin, Queen's University, Canada Rubens Melo, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Robert Meersman, Free University, Brussels Michele Missikoff, Cnr Italy Miyuki Nakano, University of Tokyo, Japan Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo, Canada Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Dewayne Perry, University of Texas, USA Rodion Podorozhny, Texas State University, USA Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece Colette Rolland, Universite Paris France Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA Thomas Risse, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Michael Rys, Microsoft, USA Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea Mark Segal, Telcordia technologies, USA John Shepherd, University of New South Wales, Australia Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Massey University, New Zealand Ming-Chien Shan, HP Labs, USA Monica Scannapieco, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Amit Sheth, University of Gerogia, USA Jianwen Su, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Stanely Su, University of Florida, USA Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Trianatfillou, University of Patars, Greece Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece Roel Wieringa, Twente University, The Netherlands Leah Wong, SPAWAR System Center, USA Limsoon Wong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Ge Yu, Northeastern University, China Jeffrey Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China ASANO Yasuhito, Tohoku University, Japan Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nagoya University, Japan Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA LiangZhao Zeng, IBM T.J. Watson, USA Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia For more information please contact the conference website http:// www.cs.txstate.edu/wise05 which will be updated as additional information becomes available. From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Fri Jan 28 18:33:55 2005 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Ulrike Sattler) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:33:55 +0000 Subject: [DL] DL2005: first Call for Papers Message-ID: <41FA7783.9060709@cs.man.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive this more than once. You are receiving this message since you are a subscriber of a relevant mailing list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2005) 26th to 28th July 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK http://dl.kr.org/dl2005/ co-located with IJCAI 2005, http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ The 2005 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2000) continues the tradition of international workshops devoted to discussing developments and applications of knowledge representation formalisms based on Description Logics. DL2005 will be co-located with IJCAI 2005 (the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/, 30 July to 5 August 2005), and will take place from the 26th to 28th July 2005 in the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions of technical papers of 8 pages. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their papers at the workshop. Accepted papers will be included in the informal conference proceedings as normal papers (8 pages) or long papers (12 pages). We plan to make the conference proceedings available electronically via CEUR at http://www.ceur-ws.org. Please note that, in contrast to previous DL workshops, registration is open to everybody, and not by invitation only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: April 15th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: May 30th, 2005 Camera ready papers due: June 26th, 2005 DL 2005 Workshop: July 26th to 28th, 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of Description Logics, including but not limited to: * 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, fuzzy operators, temporal and spatial knowledge, 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 and engineering, e-Science, semantic web, and grid computing. * Building systems based on Description Logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques. * Tools that exploit Description Logic reasoning, such as ontology editors and database schema design and integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS Interested parties are invited to submit a technical paper not exceeding 8 pages that has been prepared according to the instructions found in http://dl.kr.org/dl2005/submission.tex In case you cannot use LaTeX, you can use the instructions found in http://dl.kr.org/dl2005/submission.ps To submit your paper, please follow the instructions at http:///www.easychair.org/DL-05/submit/ In case you have problems with electronic submissions, please contact one of the workshop organizers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK * Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Carlos Areces, France * Alessandro Artale, Italy * Giuseppe De Giacomo, Italy * Volker Haarslev, Canada * Ian Horrocks, UK * Holger Knublauch, US * Carsten Lutz, Germany * Maarten Marx, NL * Ralf Moeller, Germany * Bijan Parsia, USA * Peter Patel-Schneider, USA * Ulrike Sattler, UK * Luciano Serafini, Italy * David Toman, Canada * Holger Wache, NL * Frank Wolter, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information regarding costs, travel information, hotels, etc. will be distributed later. Check the home page of DL 2005 for updates. * Enquiries about the DL2000 workshop can be made by mailing to the organizing committee: dl2005 at cs.man.ac.uk * The official Description Logics WWW home page is at http://dl.kr.org/dl/ * Patrick Lambrix has a nice collection of DL references, researchers, etc. at: http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/iislab/people/patla/DL/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From djamal.benslimane at liris.cnrs.fr Sun Jan 30 11:27:22 2005 From: djamal.benslimane at liris.cnrs.fr (djamal Benslimane) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:27:22 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP - Context for Web Services Workshop - Paris - France Message-ID: <007201c506b6$4c1ef940$0100a8c0@lisiperso16> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] __________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers International Workshop on Context for Web Services (CWS'05) Held in conjunction with CONTEXT, the 5th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (http://context-05.org) July 5, 2005. Paris, France http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~dbenslim/CWS05/ Keynote Speaker: =============== - David Martin, SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center, CA, USA, http://www.ai.sri.com/people/martin Sponsors: ========= - International Sponsors: AgentLink, ObjectWeb - Local Sponsors: LIRIS Laboratory, Istase. Proceedings: ============ Papers of the Workshop will be published in ELSEVIER's Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier's ENTCS). Scope: ===== Web services are nowadays emerging as a major technology for deploying automated interactions between distributed and heterogeneous applications. Various standards support this deployment including WSDL, UDDI, and SOAP. These standards respectively support the definition of Web services, their advertisement to the community of potential users, and finally their binding for invocation purposes. In general, composing Web services rather than accessing a single service is essential and provides better benefits to users. Composition primarily addresses the situation of a user's request that cannot be satisfied by any available service, whereas a composite service obtained by combining available services might be used. Several questions raise during Web services composition and execution including which businesses have the capacity to provision Web services, when and where the provisioning of Web services occurs, and how Web services from independent parties coordinate their activities during execution so that conflicts are avoided. To address some of these questions, it is recommended considering the context in which the composition and execution of Web services occur. Context is generally perceived as the information that characterizes the interaction between humans, applications, and the surrounding environment. From a Web services perspective, it is expected that context should define a set of common data about the current status of a Web service and its capability of collaborating with other peers, possibly enacted by distinct providers. For example before a Web service agrees to participate in a composite service its status in terms of current participation is assessed. Moreover, before a back-up strategy is deployed an assessment of the exception that a Web service has raised is needed. Relevant topics: =============== - Ontologies and context for Web services - Context-based semantic matching for Web services composition - Context-based Web services deployment - Software agent-based approaches for context-based Web services interaction - Context-aware Web services - Security of context during Web services interactions - Software agents and context for Web services personalization Papers and Evaluations: ====================== Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers through CONTEXT'05 Web site (http://www.context-05.org). Papers length should be between 12 and 15 pages and must be in ELSEVIER's ENTCS submission format (http://www.math.tulane.edu/~entcs). All papers will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, clarity, and technical quality. Papers of the workshop will be published as post-proceedings in ELSEVIER's Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ELSEVIER's ENTCS, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/entcs). A first hard copy will be provided at the workshop. A special issue in an international journal is expected and will be dedicated to selected papers from the workshop. At least one author of each paper should attend the workshop to present the paper. For more information, please contact the workshop chairs at chirine.ghedira at liris.cnrs.fr, djamal.benslimane at liris.cnrs.fr, zakaria.maamar at zu.ac.ae. DEADLINES: ========== - Submissions due: March 25th, 2005 - Acceptance notification: April 15th, 2005 - Camera-ready papers received: April 30th, 2005 - Program on line: May 5th, 2005 - Workshop: July 5th, 2005 Workshop Organizers: =================== - C. Ghedira, Lyon 1 University, France - D. Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France - Z. Maamar, Zayed University, U.A.E Scientific Committee: ==================== - K. Baina, ENSIAS, Morocco - B. Benatallah, UNSW, Australia - M. Berger, Siemens, Germany - W. Binder, EPFL, Switzerland - L. Cavedon, Stanford University, USA - R.M. Dijkman, University of Twente, Netherlands - M. Dumas, QUT, Australia - J. Fayolle, Saint-Etienne University, France - M. S. Hacid, Lyon 1 University, France - R. Khalaf, IBM research, USA - M. Khedr, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt - F. Letellier, ObjectWeb Consortium, INRIA, France - Q. Mahmoud, Guelph University, Canada - B. Medjahed, Michigan University, USA - G. Kouadri M., Fribourg University, Switzerland - S. Kouadri M., Fribourg University, Switzerland - N. C. Narendra, IBM Software Labs, India - M. Nunez, Madrid University, Spain - Q. Z. Sheng, UNSW, Australia - P. Thiran, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands -- ========================================= Prof. Djamal BENSLIMANE Laboratoire LIRIS IUT A Informatique Universit? 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URL: From V.A.M.Tamma at csc.liv.ac.uk Tue Feb 1 13:51:47 2005 From: V.A.M.Tamma at csc.liv.ac.uk (Valentina Tamma) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:51:47 +0000 Subject: [DL] 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web Message-ID: <02673f26b90b1080f9e253e35a5b9973@csc.liv.ac.uk> Apologies for multiple postings --- Agents and the Semantic Web --- 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium Series Call for Papers Arlington, Virginia, USA 3rd-6th November, 2005 http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/AAAI-FSS05/ The Semantic Web is based on the idea of dynamic, heterogeneous, shared knowledge sources providing machine-readable content in a similar way to that in which information is shared on the World Wide Web. Integral to this vision was a synergy with Multi-Agent Systems technology; agents could utilize this knowledge to achieve their own goals, producing new knowledge that could be disseminated or published within a common framework. Conversely, the Semantic Web would benefit from autonomous, distributed agents responsible for gathering/aggregating knowledge, reasoning and inferring new facts, identifying and managing inconsistencies, and providing trust and security mechanisms. Previous workshops and discussion fora devoted to this topic have mainly focused on either the semantic web aspect or the agent aspect of the problem, and have failed to achieve an agreement on the common research themes. Thus there is a risk of missing significant opportunities for sharing results in areas such as: * Knowledge sharing. The agent paradigm is successfully employed in those applications where autonomous, heterogeneous, and distributed systems need to interoperate in order to achieve a common goal, however this is possible if agents are able to share knowledge. Ontologies are a powerful tool to achieve semantic interoperability among heterogeneous, distributed systems. * Syntactic Unification. Data exchanged between service providers are typically based on different syntaxes and conceptual schemas, raising the problem of data mediation for interoperability. Ontologies, and mechanisms for mapping and translating across ontologies can address these problems. * Discovery of agent capabilities. Semantic-based discovery mechanisms and languages/ontologies for describing agent capabilities and predefined coordination mechanisms are needed to make the automatic discovery of services offered by agents and other providers. * Agent coordination. Goal-directed composition typically involves planning across a space of existing actions, ensuring that data and control flow constraints are satisfied. Model checking techniques are required to ensure valid compositions, as well as temporal reasoning to validate control flow dependences. Such techniques need to accommodate semantic descriptions as well as avoiding live-lock situations that may lead to failure. * Interaction Protocols. Different agents expect specific messages to be choreographed in a precisely defined manner. Integration has to guarantee and enforce the communication protocols. Interoperable description frameworks are thus required to ensure that both parties understand and adhere to interaction protocols. The semantics of the terms used in these protocols is made explicit in ontologies. This symposium aims to promote and foster a greater understanding of the synergy between Multi-Agent Systems and the Semantic Web. Topics of Interest include: - Semantic interoperability and integration - Distributed, autonomous knowledge-management - Dynamic, semantic mapping across ontologies; - Use of negotiation techniques for reaching consensus; - Evolution of ontologies in multi-agent systems; - Scalability and versioning of ontologies in multi-agent systems; - Centralized and Distributed mechanisms for service invocation/enactment - Failure and Recovery mechanisms - Semantic descriptions of Autonomic mechanisms for robust, coordinated service communities - Semantic description, discovery, and selection of services and choreographies - Semantic Web Services (including OWL-S and WSMO) - Semantics in Agent Communication Languages - Semantics in Interaction Protocols - Semantics in Electronic Institutions - Semantics for service delegation and knowledge aggregation - Architectures for supporting Agents and Web Services within the Semantic Web Submissions =========== Papers are solicited for the issues discussed above. We invite contributions of different kinds. We solicit regular research papers which may report on: - Full Papers (8 pages) completed work; - Extended Abstracts (3 pages) summarising current (but mature) work in progress (accepted abstracts should be extended to full papers for the symposium proceedings) - Position papers (4 pages) comparing different approaches, or account of practical experiences of using Agent technologies within a Semantic Web Environment. All accepted papers will provide the framework for the discussions during the workshop. Papers must be written in English. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee, and selected on the basis of their relevance and originality. A selection of the best papers will be published in a post-symposium volume. Both research and position papers should be formatted according to the official formatting guidelines of AAAI available at http://aaai.org/Publications/Author/electronic-submissions.html The URL of the paper in Postscript, Adobe PDF format can be submitted electronically. Details on electronic submission can be found at http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/AAAI-FSS05/ Dates ===== Paper submissions: April 25th Acceptance Notifications: May 23rd Camera ready copies: tbd Registration Deadline: October 7th Symposium: November 3rd-6th Organizing Committee ==================== Terry Payne (Co-chair) University of Southampton Valentina Tamma (Co-chair) University of Liverpool Bijan Parsia University of Maryland David Martin SRI International Simon Parsons City University of New York Nick Gibbins University of Southampton Program Committee ================== Alun Preece, University of Aberdeen, UK Andreas Hess, University College, Dublin, Ireland Brian Blake, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Chiara Ghidini, ITC, Italy Chris Priest, HP Labs, UK Chris Walton, University of Edinburgh, UK David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK Evren Sirin, University of Maryland, MD Fabien Gandon, Inria, Sophia Antipolis, France Filip Perich, Cougar Software, McLean, VA Ian Dickinson, HP Labs, UK Ion Costantinescu, EPFL, Switzerland Jeffrey Bradshaw, University of West Florida, FL John Domingue, Open University, UK Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, PA Kaoru Hiramatsu, NTT Corporation, Japan Marta Sabou, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany Michael Klein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, SC Monica Crubezy, University of Stanfard, CA Monika Solanki, De Montfort Univeristy, UK Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, PA Onn Shehory, IBM, Israel Paul Buhler, College of Charleston, Pete Edwards, University of Aberdeen, UK Richard Benjamins, iSOCO, Spain Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Labs of America, MD Sheila MacIlraith, University of Toronto, CA Simon Thompson, BT Labs, UK Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany Steve Battle, HP Labs, UK Steven Willmott, University of Catalunya, Spain Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD Lalana Kagal, MIT, MA Carine Bournez, W3C Ashok Mallya, North Carolina State, NC Mary Pulvermacher, MITRE Corporation, CO From csanto at diit.unict.it Tue Feb 1 14:54:43 2005 From: csanto at diit.unict.it (Corrado Santoro) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:54:43 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: ETNGRID 2005 Message-ID: <41FF8A23.5030302@diit.unict.it> (Apologies for multiple copies) =========================================================================== Second Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next generation GRID (ETNGRID-2005) 14th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2005) http://www.diit.unict.it/users/csanto/etngrid05/ Linkoping University, Sweden, June 13-15, 2005 ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Feb. 11, 2005 ***** =========================================================================== The Grid was originally designed as a large network of computer systems able to offer an environment where computing and storage resources are shared on-demand. To date, the development of standards, such as the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA), along with the introduction of new paradigms, such as the Semantic Grid, is leading the Grid toward an environment that is not only suited for computational-intensive applications, but also for computing scenarios typical of distributed systems, like service and information providing, multimedia environments, ubiquitous computing, etc. For these and other reasons, the Grid is becoming an interesting and challenging environment supporting both old and new services for cooperative applications. A relevant research effort is thus needed not only to investigate innovative Grid infrastructures but also to make the current Grid model suitable for these emerging usage scenarios. The objective of this workshop is to gather researchers working on different emerging Grid computing aspects relevant to enterprise collaboration, covering issues ranging from the middleware layer to application development and user interaction. The goals of the workshop include (but are not limited to) discovering new application scenarios, proposing new programming abstractions and tools, identifying the challenging problem that still need to be solved, and reporting results and experiences gained by researchers in building Grid-based middleware, applications and alike. Submission Requirements ----------------------- Participants are expected to submit an original research paper, not submitted or published elsewhere, by email to Corrado Santoro, corrado.santoro at diit.unict.it (make sure that the subject of the email says "ETNGRID'05 Submission"). Submission should include the title of the paper, the names and affiliations of the authors, a 150-word abstract and at most eight keywords. Submission should follow the IEEE format (single spaced, two columns, 10pt, Times font) and not exceed six pages, including figures. Accepted papers will be published along with the WETICE 2005 post-proceedings. The paper should be in either PS or PDF format. Papers must focus on various aspects of the Grid, including, but not limiting to, the following topics: * Middlewares for the Grid * Multimedia applications with the Grid * Reflective and Aspect-Oriented Grid systems * Reliability and Quality-of-Service aspects * Wireless and ubiquitous access to the Grid * Cooperative Agents and the Grid * Grids and Peer-to-peer systems * Web integration with the Grid * Abstractions and tools for collaborative application development in Grid environments * Semantic Grid * Experience reports on collaborative application development in Grid * Scalability and Performance issues in the Grid * Analysis of stability and bottlenecks for Grid applications * Resource-aware applications in the Grid * Architectures for Grid-oriented applications * Security and Verification Issues in Large Distributed Systems Important Dates --------------- * Paper Submission: February 11, 2005 * Notification of Acceptance: March 18, 2005 * Camera Ready Paper Due: May 9, 2005 Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Angelo Corsaro (acorsaro at amsjv.it), Alenia Marconi Systems, ITALY Antonella Di Stefano (adistefa at diit.unict.it), Dept. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Giuseppe Pappalardo (pappalardo at dmi.unict.it), Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Corrado Santoro (csanto at diit.unict.it), Dept. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Emiliano Tramontana (tramontana at dmi.unict.it), Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Program Committee Members ------------------------- M.Nedim Alpdemir ........ University of Manchester, UK Cosimo Anglano .......... University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Roberto Barbera ......... University of Catania, Italy Walter Cazzola .......... University of Milano, Italy Giovanni Chiola ......... University of Genova, Italy Paolo Ciancarini ........ University of Bologna, Italy Michele Colajanni ....... University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Geoffrey Coulson ........ Lancaster Universtity, UK Marco Fargetta .......... University of Catania, Italy Geoffrey Fox ............ Indiana University, USA Carol Goble ............. University of Manchester, UK Aniruddha Gokhale ....... Vanderbilt University, USA Pilar Herrero ........... Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Giulio Iannello ......... University of Naples Federico II, Italy Ryszard Janicki ......... McMaster University, Canada Maciej Koutny ........... University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Luigi Mancini ........... University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Sara Tucci Piergiovanni.. University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Agostino Poggi .......... University of Parma, Italy Svetlana Shasharina ..... Tech-X Corporation, USA Santosh Shrivastava ..... University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Giorgio Ventre .......... University of Naples Federico II, Italy Stephen Vinoski ......... IONA Technologies, USA Luca Vollero ............ CINI ITeM, Italy Ian Welch ............... Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Steven Willmott ......... Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain Nanbor Wang ............. Tech-X Corporation, USA -- ====================================================== Eng. Corrado Santoro, Ph.D. University of Catania - Engineering Faculty Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering Viale A. Doria, 6 - 95125 CATANIA (ITALY) Tel: +39 095 7382380 Fax: +39 095 7382397 +39 095 7382365 +39 095 7382364 EMail: csanto at diit.unict.it Personal Home Page: http://www.diit.unict.it/users/csanto NUXI Home Page: http://nuxi.iit.unict.it ====================================================== From cladv at iccl.tu-dresden.de Fri Feb 4 16:32:37 2005 From: cladv at iccl.tu-dresden.de (Int. Center for Computational Logic) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:32:37 +0100 Subject: [DL] International M.Sc. Program in COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC Message-ID: <200502041532.j14FWbhu029722@spock.inf.tu-dresden.de> International M.Sc. Program in COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC The International Center for Computational Logic at the Technische Universitaet Dresden is offering a two-year study program, in English, leading to a master of science (M.Sc.) in computer science. This is part of the European Master's Program in Computational Logic, a distributed study program funded by the EU within Erasmus Mundus jointly run by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, the Technische Universitaet Dresden, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and the Technische Universitaet Wien. Courses focus on logic and constraint programming, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, type theory, model theory, proof theory, equational reasoning, databases, natural language processing, planning and formal methods, among others. At the end of the programme a research master thesis has to be prepared. Prerequisites are a good knowledge of the basics of logic, and familiarity with mathematical reasoning. Knowledge of foundations of artificial intelligence and declarative programming is desirable. It is indispensable being fluent in English; German is not necessary at all, but there are facilities for studying it if desired. A bachelor in Computer Science, or equivalent degree, is required by the beginning of courses, in October 2005. Dresden, on the river Elbe, is one of the most important art cities of Germany. The economy is growing rapidly and Dresden is a top high-tech centre. AMD built the most modern chip factory in Europe, Infineon Technologies, Siemens and many other companies invest here. The possibilities of getting a job after the master are excellent. The University is very well equipped and the teachers/students ratio is close to 1. International contacts make it easy for interested students to continue pursuing a career in research. Deadline for applications is June 15, 2005, but applications are processed as they come. To apply, please send all the relevant documents by post to the address below. Further information is on the web at www.computational-logic.org including information about possible scholarships. Paper information material is available on request. Please give this message broad distribution. Sylvia Epp, secretary International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universitaet Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany Tel: [49] (351) 463-38341 Fax: [49] (351) 463-38342 email: cl-secretary at Inf.TU-Dresden.DE From franconi at inf.unibz.it Tue Feb 8 00:30:11 2005 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 00:30:11 +0100 Subject: [DL] European Master in Computational Logic - Grants for non European citizens Message-ID: *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/emcl/ The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano, Italy, is offering the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Master in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica in Informatica). The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is an international distributed Master of Science course, in cooperation with the computer science departments in the following universities: * Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany * Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria * Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain This program involves studying one year at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and completing the second year with a stay in one of the partner universities. After this, the student will obtain, together with the European degree, two Master of Science degrees: the Laurea Specialistica in Informatica degree from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, with legal value in Italy, and the respective Master of Science degree from the visited university, with legal value in its country. APPLICATION DEADLINES: Non European citizens scholarships: ***17 FEBRUARY 2005*** Non European citizens pre-enrolment: June 2005 European citizens pre-enrolment: July 2005 Check the web page for detailed info on applications and scholarships. http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/emcl/ The study programme at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in this rapidly growing area. Based on a solid foundation in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and declarative programming students will acquire in-depth knowledge necessary to specify, implement and run complex systems as well as to prove properties of these systems. In particular, the focus of instruction will be in deduction systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, artificial intelligence, formal specification and verification, syntax directed semantics, logic and automata theory, logic and computability. This basic knowledge is then applied to areas like logic and natural language processing, logic and the semantic web, bioinformatics, information systems and database technology, software and hardware verification. Students will acquire practical experience and will become familiar in the use of tools within these applications. In addition, students will be prepared for a future PhD, they will come in contact with the international research community and will be integrated into ongoing research projects. They will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Laurea) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is part of the Master in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica in Informatica) and it has various strengths that make it unique amongst Italian and European universities: * Curriculum taught entirely in English: The programme is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene. * Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum. * Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities. * Other specialisations with streams in the hottest Computer Science areas, such as Web Technologies, Information and Knowledge Management, Databases and Software Engineering. * International student community. * Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment. * Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is one of the 19 European Masters awarded by the Erasmus Mundus programme. The Erasmus Mundus programme is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education which promotes the European Union as a centre of excellence in learning around the world. It supports European top-quality Masters Courses and enhances the visibility and attractiveness of European higher education in third-countries. It also provides EU-funded scholarships for third-country nationals participating in these Masters Courses, as well as scholarships for EU-nationals studying in third-countries. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, founded in 1997, boasts modern premises in the centre of Bozen-Bolzano. The environment is multilingual, South Tyrol being a region where three languages are spoken: German, Italian and Ladin. Studying in a multilingual area has shown that our students acquire the cutting edge needed in the international business world. Many of our teaching staff hails from abroad. Normal lectures are complemented with seminars, work placements and laboratory work, which give our students a vocational as well as theoretical training, preparing them for their subsequent professional careers. Studying at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano means, first and foremost, being guided all the way through the student's educational career. Bozen-Bolzano, due to its enviable geographical position in the centre of the Dolomites, also offers our students a multitude of opportunities for spending their free-time. The city unites the traditional with the modern. Young people and fashionable shops throng the city centre where ancient mercantile buildings are an attractive backdrop to a city that is in continual growth. To the south there is the industrial and manufacturing area with prosperous small and medium-sized businesses active in every economic sector. Back in the 17th century Bozen/Bolzano was already a flourishing mercantile city that, thanks to its particular geographic position, functioned as a kind of bridge between northern and southern Europe. As a multilingual town and a cultural centre Bozen/Bolzano still has a lot to offer today. Its plethora of theatres, concerts with special programmes, cinemas and museums, combined with a series of trendy night spots that create local colour make Bozen/Bolzano a city that is beginning to cater for its increasingly demanding student population. And if you fancy a very special experience, go and visit the city's favourite and most famous resident - "Oetzi", the Ice Man of Similaun, housed in his very own refrigerated room in the recently opened archaeological museum. Bozen/Bolzano and its surroundings are an El Dorado for sports lovers: jogging on the grass alongside the River Talfer/Talvera, walks to Jenesien/S. Genesio and on the nearby Schlern/Sciliar plateau, excursions and mountain climbing in the Dolomites, swimming in the numerous nearby lakes and, last but not least, skiing and snowboarding in the surrounding ski areas. For further information please contact: Prof. Enrico Franconi at franconi at inf.unibz.it European Masters Program in Computational Logic part of the MSc in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica). Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Domenicani, 3 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy Phone: +39 0471 016 000 Fax: +39 0471 016 009 Email: computer.science at unibz.it Web site: http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/emcl/ From sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Wed Feb 9 12:35:19 2005 From: sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (York Sure) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:35:19 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC05 -- Call for Posters and Software Demos Message-ID: <420A0387.26411.57B94D3@localhost> Call for Posters and Software Demos European Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2005 Heraklion, Crete May 29th - June 1st 2005 http://www.eswc2005.org The ESWC 2005 Program Committee invites proposals for the demonstrations and poster program. This program is intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their innovation, relevance, scientific contribution, reusability, and presentation, by an international committee. 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 related to Semantic Web technology include, but are not limited to: * Social Software and Portals * Semantic Desktop Systems and Tools * P2P systems * Annotation tools * Novel query and browsing interfaces * Data visualization * Ontology development environments * Ontology libraries and management systems * Tools for merging, integrating or articulating ontologies * Tools for merging, integrating or articulating instance data * Reusable components and APIs for RDF, DAML+OIL, OWL, etc. * Repositories and inference systems * Applications * Agent systems embedded in the Semantic Web * Systems that identify and compose web services Requested Contributions We are looking for contributions whose nature make them less suited for submission to the official paper track. We would like to emphasize this point and make clear that the poster session is more than a second chance for a rejected paper. In particular, we ask for contributions of the following kind: * Late-breaking and Speculative Results: Significant and original ideas and promising approaches to resolve open problems in semantic web research that are in an early stage and have not been verified and tested sufficiently to meet the requirements of a scientific publication. Submissions in this area will be evaluated like a scientific paper but limited to the aspects of originality, relevance and significance. * Systems and Infrastructure: Descriptions (preferably accompanied by demonstration) of new systems that use semantic web technology to solve important real world problems. We are also looking for software infrastructure supporting the development of systems that use semantic web technologies. Systems will be evaluated based on novelty and significance of the application as well as the use of semantic web technologies for solving the problem. Main criteria for contributions on infrastructure is successful use in existing applications as well as uniqueness of the provided services. * Projects and Initiatives: Descriptions of the objectives and results of ongoing projects and initiatives. The aim is to provide an overview of ongoing work in the area of the semantic web. Contributions in this area will be evaluated based on the importance and uniqueness of the objectives. Further criteria for project descriptions are the significance of results, descriptions of initiatives will also be evaluated with respect to the expected impact on the community . Submissions Format and Procedure -------------------------------- Please submit papers by the deadline by email (pdf/zipped HTML) to: eswc2005pd at semanticweb.org The abstract should describe the content of the poster or demo to be demonstrated as well as the architecture and the availability of the software (if any) and should also include including title, authors, full contact information, and references (limited to a small number of closely related publications). Important Dates Abstract submission: March 1, 2005 Acceptance notification: April 8, 2005 Camera ready Abstracts due: May 2, 2005 Contact Information: Demo Chair Stefan Decker Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland stefan.decker at deri.org phone: +353 91 512483 fax2email: +1 503 905 7502 Poster Chair Heiner Stuckenschmidt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam heiner at cs.vu.nl phone: +31 20 598 7752 fax: +31 20 598 7653 -- Dr. York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu From csanto at diit.unict.it Thu Feb 10 08:55:25 2005 From: csanto at diit.unict.it (Corrado Santoro) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:55:25 +0100 Subject: [DL] ETNGRID 2005: submission deadline extension In-Reply-To: <41D962D3.2060503@diit.unict.it> References: <41D962D3.2060503@diit.unict.it> Message-ID: <420B136D.7060604@diit.unict.it> (apologies for multiple copies) Dear Researcher, we would like to inform you that the deadline for the submission of manuscripts to the Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next-generation GRID - ETNGRID 2005 has been extended to * * * February 25, 2005 * * * You may find all the details for preparing your manuscript at the ETNGRID official web page: http://www.diit.unict.it/users/csanto/etngrid05/ The workshop will be held as a part of the WETICE 2005 event in Linkoping, Sweden. Best Regards, --ETNGRID Program Co-Chairs -- ====================================================== Eng. Corrado Santoro, Ph.D. University of Catania - Engineering Faculty Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering Viale A. Doria, 6 - 95125 CATANIA (ITALY) Tel: +39 095 7382380 Fax: +39 095 7382397 +39 095 7382365 +39 095 7382364 EMail: csanto at diit.unict.it Personal Home Page: http://www.diit.unict.it/users/csanto NUXI Home Page: http://nuxi.iit.unict.it ====================================================== From Bertram.Fronhoefer at inf.tu-dresden.de Sat Feb 12 13:07:33 2005 From: Bertram.Fronhoefer at inf.tu-dresden.de (Bertram Fronhoefer) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:07:33 +0100 Subject: [DL] ICCL Summer School: Logic-based Knowledge Representation Message-ID: <200502121207.j1CC7XFR014212@sulu.inf.tu-dresden.de> Call for Participation ICCL Summer School 2005 LOGIC-BASED KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION Technische Universit?t Dresden 2nd - 17th July 2005 http://www.computational-logic.org/iccl-ss-2005 TOPIC The topic of this year's summer school is Logic-based Knowledge Representation. Intelligent behavior is hard to imagine without the agent having a good knowledge about the surrounding world. For this reason, knowledge representation always played a crucial role in artificial intelligence. Right from the beginning of the field, there was a big discussion on whether sub-symbolic or symbolic approaches for representing knowledge are the right way to go. And even within the symbolic approach there was a conflict between proponents of logic-based approaches (like John MacCarthy and Pat Hayes) and proponents of graph-based or procedural approaches (like Marvin Minsky). The advantage of logic-based approaches for symbolic knowledge representation is that they provide the representation formalism with a formally well-founded semantics, which makes both the represented knowledge and the behavior of knowledge representation systems deducing implicit knowledge from the explicitly represented one comprehensible. The disadvantage is that the inference problems may become intractable or even undecidable if the expressive power of the formalism is large enough. For this reason, early systems employing the logic-based approach were either too inexpressive or too slow. This situation has changed drastically in the last 10-15 years. This is partially due to increased computing power. More importantly, however, were the recent theoretical and practical advances in the field of logic-based knowledge representation. The summer school will focus on several of the most successful subfields of this active research area: - reasoning about action and change, - nonmonotonic reasoning, - description logics and ontologies, and - action planning. REGISTRATION If you want to attend the summer school, we'd prefer that you register by April 9, 2005. For all who want to apply for a grant, this deadline is obligatory. After April 9 registration wil be possible as long as there are vacant places. (Since we intend to restrict participation to about 60 people, in case of excessive demand, we will have to select applicants to the summer school.) People applying until April 9 will be informed about admittance and decisions on grants until April 18, 2005. FEES We ask for a participation fee of 200 EUR. INTEGRATED workshop It will be possible for some participants to present their research work during a small workshop integrated in the summer school: please indicate in the registration form if you would like to do so and give us the title of your proposed talk there. In addition, please submit an extended abstract in postscript or pdf format of max. 5 pages to iccl05ws at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de by April 9, 2005. A program committee consisting of the summer school lecturers and organizers will select among the proposals. Notification of acceptance of a talk at the integrated workshop will be by May 9, 2005. GRANTS A limited number of grants may be available, please indicate in your application if the only possibility for you to participate is via a grant. Applications for grants must include an estimate of travel costs and they should be sent together with the registration. COURSE PROGRAM Nonmonotonic Logics: History, foundations, challenges Piero A. Bonatti (Universit? di Napoli `Federico II', Italy) Answer Set Programming Thomas Eiter (TU Wien, Austria) Ontologies Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Action Planning: Recent Theoretical and Practical Advances Bernhard Nebel (Universit?t Freiburg, Germany) Description Logics Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and Carsten Lutz (TU Dresden, Germany) Action Programming Languages Michael Thielscher (TU Dresden, Germany) Reasoning and Acting under Uncertainty Axel Gro?mann and Steffen H?lldobler (TU Dresden, Germany) ____________________________________________________________ From martin at AI.SRI.COM Mon Feb 14 07:52:26 2005 From: martin at AI.SRI.COM (David Martin) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:52:26 -0800 Subject: [DL] CFP: Web Service Semantics workshop at WWW2005 Message-ID: <42104AAA.1060703@ai.sri.com> [This CFP is being posted to multiple lists; we apologise if you see it multiple times.] C a l l f o r P a p e r s WEB SERVICE SEMANTICS: TOWARDS DYNAMIC BUSINESS INTEGRATION http://www.ai.sri.com/WSS2005 a workshop to be held at the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005) http://www2005.org/ Chiba, Japan Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 DESCRIPTION The description of Web services in a machine-understandable fashion is expected to have a great impact in the areas of e-Commerce and Enterprise Application Integration, as it can enable dynamic and scalable cooperation between independently developed systems and organisations. These potential benefits have led to the establishment of an important class of research activities, both in industry and academia, aimed at the practical deployment of declarative, semantically rich service and process descriptions and their use across the Web service lifecycle. This research, which draws on a variety of fields such as knowledge representation, automated software engineering, process modeling, workflow, and software agents, is happening under several headings, including Semantic Web services (SWS), Grid services and Semantic Grid services, and (some aspects of) Service-Oriented Computing. For ease of reference, in this call we refer to this general area of work as Semantic Web services (SWS). We note that here, "Semantic Web" does not denote any particular set of standards, although much work in this area does build on products of the Semantic Web activity at W3C. In addition, many SWS efforts are aligned with rapidly developing commercial Web service standards such as WSDL and UDDI. Many major challenges need to be addressed in this field. This workshop aims to provide a forum in which to focus on selected core technical challenges for deployment of SWS, and reach a better understanding of the relationships between commercial Web service standards, current SWS research efforts, and the ultimate requirements for full-scale deployment of these technologies. Another major focus will be on the relationship of work on SWS to the needs of business systems, and in particular the needs having to do with publishing policies associated with Web services, such as those discussed at the recent W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services (see http://www.w3.org/2004/06/ws-cc-cfp.html). Submissions related to semantics for Grid services are welcome. We particularly seek submissions that demonstrate innovative applications of SWS technologies to the challenges involved in automating online business transactions. TOPICS Relevant topics include: o Supporting SWS Deployment o Architectures for SWS Deployment o Semantics in Grid Services o Tools and Infrastructure o Applications of SWS to E-business and E-government o Supporting Enterprise Application Integration with SWS o Policies for Semantic Web Services o Advertising, Discovery, Matchmaking o SWS Conversational Protocols and Choreography o Ontologies and Languages for Service Description o Ontologies and Languages for Process Modeling o Foundations of Reasoning about Services and/or Processes o Contracts and Commitments o Composition of Semantic Web Services o Execution and Lifecycle Management of Semantic Web Services o Monitoring and Recovery Strategies for Semantic Web Services o Relationship of Semantic Web Services with Workflow Technologies o Security and Privacy for Semantic Web Services o Relationships between SWS, Grid Service, and Commercial WS Technologies INTENDED AUDIENCE The intended audience includes researchers working on Semantic Web services, Grid services, and related technologies; students interested in these topics; developers of commercial Web services standards (such as those engaged in these activities at W3C and OASIS); and commercial software developers who are investigating how to achieve greater flexibility and automation in the delivery of Web services. WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE The program will occupy one full day, and will include presentations of papers selected from the full papers category (see "Submissions" below). In some cases, papers may be presented as part of themed discussion panels. There will be one invited speaker. Subject to time constraints, there may also be a panel of experts on a selected topic. Registration will be open to all registrants of the WWW conference. Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper (in any category) will be given priority for registration. SUBMISSIONS Two categories of submissions are solicited: (1) Full papers (up to 12 pages). (2) Position papers (1-2 pages). All submissions should be formatted in the style required for the Refereed Paper Tracks of WWW 2005, which is specified here: http://www2005.org/papers/submission.html. Submissions should be sent by email to wss-submissions at ai.sri.com. Full papers will be peer-reviewed; position papers will receive no review. Accepted full papers will be scheduled for a presentation at the workshop. Shorter full papers may be given appropriately shortened time slots. In some cases, papers may be presented as part of themed discussion panels. All accepted full papers, and all position papers of attendees, will be published online, on a publicly available Web site. We emphasize that a larger word count does not necessarily confer any greater likelihood of acceptance. In some cases -- such as papers describing early work on a project -- it is appropriate for papers to be considerably shorter than 15 pages. Naturally, however, figures that help the reader to quickly grasp the essence of complex material are strongly encouraged. Position statements are limited to 2 pages and should include some or all of the following: * introduction of the author(s) * brief description of your work (and possibly other work at your institution) related to Semantic Web services * tools or testbeds you have to offer to the community * discussion of what you view as the most challenging issues in Semantic Web services and prospects for solving them * challenges, questions or issues that you'd like to see addressed at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: February 23, 2005 Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2005 Camera ready format due: April 6, 2005 ORGANIZATION Organizing Committee Christoph Bussler Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland Richard Goodwin IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Rub?n Lara Tecnolog?a, Informaci?n y Finanzas (TIF), Spain David Martin SRI International, USA Takahira Yamaguchi Keio University, Japan Steering Committee (partial) Sheila McIlraith University of Toronto, Canada Mathias Weske Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany Program Committee (partial) Sudhir Agarwal University of Karlsruhe, Germany Steve Battle Hewlett Packard, UK Richard Benjamins iSOCO, Spain Mark Burstein BBN Technologies, USA Marin Dimitrov Ontotext, Bulgaria John Domingue Open University, UK Dieter Fensel Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Austria / Ireland Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Naoki Fukuta Shizuoka University, Japan Michael Kifer University at Stony Brook, USA Jae Kyu Lee KAIST, Korea Alain L?ger France Telecom, France Pramila Mullan France Telecom R & D, USA Massimo Paolucci Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Bijan Parsia University of Maryland, College Park, USA Chris Priest HP Labs, UK Ulrich Reimer Business Operation Systems, Switzerland Marta Sabou Vrije Universiteit, NL Evren Sirin University of Maryland, College Park, USA Monika Solanki De Montfort University, UK Naveen Srinivasan Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Rudi Studer University of Karlsruhe, Germany Said Tabet Macgregor Group, USA Naohiko Uramoto IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan Laurentiu Vasiliu DERI, Ireland Tomas Vitvar DERI, Ireland Michal Zaremba DERI, Ireland From bernardi at inf.unibz.it Mon Feb 14 08:24:17 2005 From: bernardi at inf.unibz.it (Raffaella Bernardi) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:24:17 +0100 Subject: [DL] Last CfP: QA special issue JAL Message-ID: <6097a0534beb076a3435db9a6370e2e4@inf.unibz.it> ***Apologies for multiple postings*** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Submission deadline: 28th of February 2005. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ "Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives" A Special Issue of the Journal of Applied Logic (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15708683) We have been invited by the "Journal of Applied Logic" to prepare a Special Issue stimulated by the 2nd CoLogNET-ELSNET Symposium on "Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives". BACKGROUND: The symposium was 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/). It addressed both the logical foundations underlying QA, and technological implications for question answering systems. TOPIC OF INTEREST FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Based on the successful symposium experience, we invite papers on both theoretical issues involved in question answering or practical issues involved in 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 relevant issues includes: - Questions: linguistic analysis of interrogatives - Theoretical and practical approaches to question semantics - Presuppositions/implicatures in questions and how to deal with them - Interpretation of questions in context - Query interpretation and query extension in IR - Questions that do not look like questions - Paraphrasing questions for answer detection, - Answering how and why questions - Questions/answers that relate multiple events - Comparing and/or evaluating answer candidates - Answering comparison questions - Contextual binding of candidate answers -- i.e., temporal and spatial dependencies, - Quantified and conditional questions - Quantified and conditional answers SUBMISSION DETAILS The final version of accepted papers has to follow the standard layout guidelines of the "Journal of Applied Logic". Instructions for authors and the latex style files are available from http://www.inf.unibz.it/~bernardi/qajal_style Although not mandatory, we suggest to use the corresponding style files from that web-page also for your initial submission. The issue aims at high quality papers with a length around 20 to max. 30 pages. Please send your submission in postscript or pdf no later than February 28th, 2005 to bernardi at inf.unibz.it Please, write "QA special issue: Submission" in the subject. Notice that all papers will be refereed to ensure their suitability for journal publication. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Submissions: February 28, 2005 Notification Deadline: April 30, 2005 Camera Ready Deadline: June 10, 2005 GUEST EDITORS of the Special Issue Raffaella Bernardi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) & Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Paper submission: Submission is electronic in postscript or PDF format. Submitted papers must conform to the Springer LNCS style, preferrably using LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class files. Submissions can be full papers, for work on foundations, applications or implementation techniques (15 pages), as well as system descriptions (5 pages), for describing publicly available systems. For further information and submission instructions, see the updated CADE-20 web page: http:/deepthought.ttu.ee/it/cade/submission.html Organizing Chair: Tanel Tammet (Tallinn TU) Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Frank Pfenning (CMU) Program Chair: Robert Nieuwenhuis (UPC Barcelona) Publicity Chair: Brigitte Pientka (McGill) Invited talks: - Randal Bryant (CMU), - Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique) - Frank Wolter (U. Liverpool). Invited tutorials: - Bruno Blanchet An Automatic Security Protocol Verifier based on Resolution Theorem Proving - Enrico Giunchiglia Beyond SAT: QSAT, and SAT-based Decision Procedures Workshops and tutorials: July 22-23, 2005 - Empirically Successful Classical Automated Reasoning (ESCAR) Geoff Sutcliffe, Stephan Schulz, and Bernd Fischer - Workshop on Disproving: Non-Theorems, Non-Validity, Non-Provability Wolfgang Ahrendt, Peter Baumgartner and Hans de Nivelle - Empirically Successful Classical Automated Reasoning (ESCAR) Geoff Sutcliffe, Stephan Schulz, and Bernd Fischer - Constraints in Formal Verification 2005 (CFV'05). Joao Marques-Silva, Miroslav Velev - Tutorial: Integrating Object-Oriented Design and Deductive Verification of Software Wolfgang Ahrendt, Bernhard Beckert, Reiner Haehnle, Peter Schmitt From bhanu.prasad at famu.edu Tue Feb 15 21:51:35 2005 From: bhanu.prasad at famu.edu (Dr. Bhanu Prasad) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:51:35 -0500 Subject: [DL] IICAI-05 Call for Papers Message-ID: <0d0801c513a0$2b4da0d0$d815dfa8@cispcblb> *Apologies for cross posting. Please help forward to interested people* The 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05) (website: www.iiconference.org ) will be held in Pune, INDIA during December 20-22 2005. It is one of the major AI events in the world and focuses on ALL areas of Artificial Intelligence and related topics. The conference consists of keynote speeches, technical sessions, invited talks, paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, local tours, exhibition, and many more. We invite paper submissions for this event. Session proposals are welcome for the topics that are not already covered by the existing sessions. Please see the website for more details. Sincerely Bhanu Prasad IICAI-05 Chair Department of Computer and Information Sciences Florida A &M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA Email: bhanu.prasad at famu.edu PS: Please send an email to the above address in case you are not interested. We will promptly remove your name from the list. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Chris.Bussler at deri.org Wed Feb 16 14:04:58 2005 From: Chris.Bussler at deri.org (Chris Bussler) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:04:58 +0000 Subject: [DL] CALL FOR PAPERS - 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2005 Message-ID: <01LKVG4PHRGI004Q3V@bodkin.nuigalway.ie> ******* CALL FOR PAPERS ****** 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2005 http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org The 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) will take place from 6-10 November 2005 in Galway, Ireland. This conference addresses all aspects of analytical and practical research on the Semantic Web, and the real-world industrial applications of this technology. There will be several tracks to the conference: 1. Academic/Research track 2. Industrial track 3. Posters and Demos (combined) 4. Workshops: 5. Tutorials 6. the Semantic Web Challenge The call for papers is now LIVE. The deadline for submission of papers to the Academic/Research Track and the Industrial Track is 30 April 2005. For further detailed information about topics and key submission dates for each of the tracks please log on to http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org From noy at smi.stanford.edu Thu Feb 17 01:49:01 2005 From: noy at smi.stanford.edu (Natasha Noy) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:49:01 -0800 Subject: [DL] Call for proposals: ISWC 2005 Workshop Program Message-ID: <8b18aa2f47a02307338441fd90f3c014@smi.stanford.edu> The ISWC2005 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program of ISWC2005, the Fourth International Semantic Web Conference, to be held November 6-10, 2005, in Galway, Ireland. Workshops will be held on Monday, November 7, 2005. Details of the Call for Workshop Proposals are available at: http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/W_CallForWorkshops.html The purpose of the workshops is to provide an informal setting for workshop participants to discuss technical issues, to exchange research ideas, and to develop a community in the quickly emerging field of the Semantic Web. Workshop proposals should address current issues related to the Semantic Web that will benefit from small-group information exchange and discussion. Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences. We expect to have a wide range of workshops, including those that - focus on fundamental research issues, - bring together researchers from different disciplines, - support the interaction of research and industry for the deployment of Semantic Web applications. Workshops can vary in length from a half day to a full day. We strongly advise having more than one organizer, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. Workshop attendees must pay the ISWC2005 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. Please submit an informal letter expressing your intent to propose a workshop and containing the workshop title, topics, and a list of organizers as early as possible, but no later than March 4th, 2005. This letter is optional but we kindly request the workshop organizers to submit it. Workshop proposals are due on March 18th, 2005. Schedule ------------- March 4, 2005: Intent to propose a workshop due March 18, 2005: Workshop proposals due March 31, 2005: Notification of proposal acceptance April 25, 2005: URL for the workshop web page due October 7, 2005: Electronic version of working notes for the workshop due November 7, 2005: Workshop day November 6-10: ISWC2005 Technical Program. Requirements for Workshop Proposal Submission Workshop proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length, preferably 1-2 pages. They should contain the following information: - The title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that it will focus on. - A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time. - A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. - A brief description of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion. - An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day meeting. - A list of related workshops or similar events held in the last 3 years, or to be held in 2005. - The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organizing committee and short description of their relevant experience. This committee should consist of two or three people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed, preferably not coming from the same institution. Submitting a Proposal ------------------------------ To indicate your intent to propose a workshop, please send an email message with no attachments to noy at smi.stanford.edu. Workshop proposals may be submitted in one of the two formats: ASCII text or PDF. Please send your proposals and any inquiries by email to Natasha Noy (noy at smi.stanford.edu) From ue at doc.ic.ac.uk Fri Feb 18 16:47:15 2005 From: ue at doc.ic.ac.uk (Ulle Endriss) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:47:15 +0000 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: Automated Reasoning Workshop 2005 Message-ID: <42160E03.1080102@doc.ic.ac.uk> 1st Call for Papers / Participation TWELTH WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATED REASONING: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE (co-located with IJCAI 2005) National e-Science Centre and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 29th and 30th July 2005 http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/conferences/arw-05 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. One day of ARW 2005 will focus on applications of automated reasoning to e-Science. Topics ****** The workshop, which is co-located with IJCAI 2005, will cover the full breadth and diversity of automated reasoning and will include topics such as: * Applications of automated reasoning to e-Science - Assembly of web services - Virtual organisations - Quality of service - Provenance * 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 the workshop organisers at: arw2005 @ inf.ed.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 arw2005 @ inf.ed.ac.uk. Student Grants ************** We have a limited number of grants available to PhD students who wish to attend ARW 2005. To indicate your interest please send a short email to Ulle Endriss (ue @ doc.ic.ac.uk) anytime before the 1st of May 2005. Important Dates *************** Abstract submission: 1st May 2005 Grant application: 1st May 2005 Notification of authors: 31st May 2005 Workshop dates: 29th and 30th July 2005 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. Note that we expect to devote one day in the workshop to applications of automated reasoning in e-Science and especially invite contributions on this topic. 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 IJCAI 2005. Details of IJCAI 2005 can be found at: http://www.ijcai-05.org Local Arragenments Organisers ***************************** Dave Berry National e-Science Centre Alan Bundy University of Edinburgh Jacques Fleuriot University of Edinburgh Organising Committee ******************** Brandon Bennett University of Leeds Alan Bundy University of Edinburgh (2005 Programme Co-Chair) Simon Colton Imperial College London David Crocker Escher Technologies Clare Dixon University of Liverpool (Organising Committee Chair) Ulle Endriss Imperial College London (Secretary/Treasurer) Jacques Fleuriot University of Edinburgh (2005 Programme Co-Chair) Alan Frisch University of York Ian Gent University of St. Andrews Ullrich Hustadt University of Liverpool Manfred Kerber University of Birmingham Tom Melham University of Oxford Renate Schmidt University of Manchester Andrei Voronkov University of Manchester Toby Walsh University of New South Wales, Sydney From clarkp at puffin.rt.cs.boeing.com Mon Feb 21 07:49:17 2005 From: clarkp at puffin.rt.cs.boeing.com (Peter Clark) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:49:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: [DL] CFP KCap'05 - Third Int Conf on Knowledge Capture Message-ID: <200502210649.j1L6nHD12680@puffin.rt.cs.boeing.com> K-CAP 2005: Call For Papers THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE CAPTURE October 2-5, 2005, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada Website: http://www.kcap05.org/ Submission deadline: May 6, 2005 Information in all forms is increasingly available, but using it effectively requires a range of technologies for acquiring and representing that information. These technologies constitute knowledge capture, and involve the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse sources of information as well as its acquisition directly from users. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Internet, the study of knowledge capture has a renewed importance. Although there has been considerable work in the area of knowledge capture, activities have been distributed across several distinct research communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, and the Semantic Web community. K-CAP 2005 will provide a forum that brings together disparate research communities such as these, whose members are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for reasoning. We solicit high-quality research papers for publication and presentation at our conference. Our aim is to promote multidisciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. K-CAP 2005 follows on the success of two previous conferences in 2003 (Florida, USA) and 2001 (Victoria, Canada). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Knowledge acquisition tools * Advice taking systems * Authoring tools * Learning apprentices * Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies * Knowledge extraction systems * Knowledge management environments * Mixed-initiative decision-support tools * Knowledge-based markup techniques * Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge * Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: May 6, 2005 Review results available: June 17, 2005 Camera-ready version due: July 15, 2005 Conference: October 2-5, 2005 Papers may be accepted as full papers or as posters. For detailed submission information, please consult the conference website at http://www.kcap05.org. ABOUT THE VENUE Banff is located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, about 100 km west of Calgary. Banff is part of Banff National Park, which offers a multitude of outdoor activities. The Banff Centre was the traditional venue for the knowledge-acquisition workshops held between 1985-1996. More information: The Banff Centre: http://www.banffcentre.ca/ Banff National Park: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/banff/ ORGANIZATION Program Co-Chairs: Peter Clark, Boeing (peter.e.clark at boeing.com) Guus Schreiber, Free Univ Amsterdam (schreiber at cs.vu.nl) Treasurer: Jim Blythe, USC/ISI Local Arrangements Chair: Rob Kremer, University of Calgary Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Marie desJardins, Univ of Maryland, Baltimore Publicity Chair: Matthew Richardson, Microsoft Sponsorship Co-Chairs: Yolanda Gil, USC/ISI David Leake, Indiana University Steering Committee: Ken Forbus, Northwestern University Yolanda Gil, USC/ISI Mark Musen, Stanford University Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin at Madison Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen Program Committee: Ken Barker, University of Texas Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University Guy Boy, Eurisco Vinay Chaudhri , SRI International Paul Compton, University of New South Wales Rose Dieng, INRIA, France Adam Farquhar, The British Library Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck George Ferguson, University of Rochester Ken Ford, University of West Florida Aldo Gangemi, CNR Rome John Gennari, University of Washington Asun Gomez-Perez, Polytechnic University Madrid Udo Hahn, Universitat Freiburg Rob Holte, University of Alberta Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research Ed Hovy, USC/ISI Ross King, University of Wales at Aberystwyth Doug Lenat, Cycorp Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Laboratory Daniel Marcu, USC/ISI Vibhu Mittal, Google Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University Enrico Motta, The Open University Natasha Noy, Stanford University Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin Alan Rector, University of Manchester Claude Sammut, University of New South Wales Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton Rudy Studer, University of Karlsruhe Mike Uschold, Boeing Christopher Welty, IBM Research Bob Wielinga, University of Amsterdam From carlos at science.uva.nl Mon Feb 21 14:39:48 2005 From: carlos at science.uva.nl (Carlos Areces) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:39:48 +0100 Subject: [DL] Beth Dissertation Price - Call for Submissions Message-ID: <20050221133948.GA16631@remote.science.uva.nl> E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: call for submissions. Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association of Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Submissions are invited for 2005. The prize will be awarded to the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. in the year 2004. 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 a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2004 and December 31st, 2004. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. However, after a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Prize: The prize consists of ? a certificate ? an invitation to present the thesis during ESSLLI 05 ? a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. ? fee waive for ESSLLI 05 attendance ? the possibility to publish the thesis (or a revised version of it) in the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be published by Springer-Verlag as part of LNCS or LNCS/LNAI. (Further information on this series will be posted on the FoLLI site soon.) 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 or pdf format; 3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: 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 officially 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 dimi.uniud.it . Hard copy submissions are not admitted. If you experience any problems with the email submission or do not receive a notification from us within three working days, please write to policriti at dimi.uniud.it or folli at inf.unibz.it * Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 2005. Notification of Decision: June 30, 2005. The prize will be officially assigned to the winner at ESSLLI'05 (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/), the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 9-19, 2005. Prize winner will be expected to attend the ceremony and to give a presentation of her/his Ph.D. dissertation at ESSLLI?05. Committee ? Anne Abeill? (Universit? Paris 7) ? Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) ? Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University) ? Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) ? Valentin Goranko (University of Johannesburg) ? Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) ? Ewa Orlowska (Institute of Telecommunications, Poland) ? Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) ? Alberto Policriti (chair) (Universit? di Udine) ? Christian Retor? (Universit? Bordeaux 1 ) ? Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) ? Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen) From franconi at inf.unibz.it Mon Feb 21 22:38:27 2005 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:38:27 +0100 Subject: [DL] European MSc in Computational Logic - More grants for non European citizens Message-ID: <275d94538d79ac386d95f4a2d1918975@inf.unibz.it> *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/emcl/ The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano, Italy, is offering the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Master in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica in Informatica). The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is an international distributed Master of Science course, in cooperation with the computer science departments in the following universities: * Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany * Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria * Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain This program involves studying one year at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and completing the second year with a stay in one of the partner universities. After this, the student will obtain, together with the European degree, two Master of Science degrees: the Laurea Specialistica in Informatica degree from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, with legal value in Italy, and the respective Master of Science degree from the visited university, with legal value in its country. APPLICATION DEADLINES: Non European citizens scholarships: *15 MARCH 2005* (extended deadline) Non European citizens pre-enrolment: June 2005 European citizens pre-enrolment: July 2005 European citizens pre-enrolment: July 2005 SCHOLARSHIPS: In 2005/2006, the European Masters Program in Computational Logic offers 13 new Erasmus Mundus scholarships for non European citizens. In addition to the above 13 scholarships, the European Masters Program in Computational Logic offers 14 more new Erasmus Mundus scholarships specifically for students from India (5 scholarships), from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam (4 scholarships), from China (3 scholarships), from Malaysia (1 scholarship), from Thailand (1 scholarship). Scholarships amount to 21,000 EUR per academic year; this includes 10 monthly grants of 1,600 EUR and a fixed amount of 5,000 EUR for fees, travel expenses, relocation costs, etc. EU citizens - including citizens given parity of treatment (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland) or non-EU citizens with residence in Italy - can apply to scholarships which are granted purely on the basis of the yearly income of the applicant and of her/his parents or husband/wife. Scholarships amount up to 6,283 EUR per academic year, including facilities on the accommodation and total reimbursement of the enrolment fees. Check the web page for detailed info on applications and scholarships: http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/emcl/ THE STUDY PROGRAMME: The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in this rapidly growing area. Based on a solid foundation in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and declarative programming students will acquire in-depth knowledge necessary to specify, implement and run complex systems as well as to prove properties of these systems. In particular, the focus of instruction will be in deduction systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, artificial intelligence, formal specification and verification, syntax directed semantics, logic and automata theory, logic and computability. This basic knowledge is then applied to areas like logic and natural language processing, logic and the semantic web, bioinformatics, information systems and database technology, software and hardware verification. Students will acquire practical experience and will become familiar in the use of tools within these applications. In addition, students will be prepared for a future PhD, they will come in contact with the international research community and will be integrated into ongoing research projects. They will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Laurea) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is part of the Master in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica in Informatica) and it has various strengths that make it unique amongst Italian and European universities: * Curriculum taught entirely in English: The programme is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene. * Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum. * Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities. * Other specialisations with streams in the hottest Computer Science areas, such as Web Technologies, Information and Knowledge Management, Databases and Software Engineering. * International student community. * Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment. * Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is one of the 19 European Masters awarded by the Erasmus Mundus programme. The Erasmus Mundus programme is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education which promotes the European Union as a centre of excellence in learning around the world. It supports European top-quality Masters Courses and enhances the visibility and attractiveness of European higher education in third-countries. It also provides EU-funded scholarships for third-country nationals participating in these Masters Courses, as well as scholarships for EU-nationals studying in third-countries. THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO: The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, founded in 1997, boasts modern premises in the centre of Bozen-Bolzano. The environment is multilingual, South Tyrol being a region where three languages are spoken: German, Italian and Ladin. Studying in a multilingual area has shown that our students acquire the cutting edge needed in the international business world. Many of our teaching staff hails from abroad. Normal lectures are complemented with seminars, work placements and laboratory work, which give our students a vocational as well as theoretical training, preparing them for their subsequent professional careers. Studying at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano means, first and foremost, being guided all the way through the student's educational career. Bozen-Bolzano, due to its enviable geographical position in the centre of the Dolomites, also offers our students a multitude of opportunities for spending their free-time. The city unites the traditional with the modern. Young people and fashionable shops throng the city centre where ancient mercantile buildings are an attractive backdrop to a city that is in continual growth. To the south there is the industrial and manufacturing area with prosperous small and medium-sized businesses active in every economic sector. Back in the 17th century Bozen/Bolzano was already a flourishing mercantile city that, thanks to its particular geographic position, functioned as a kind of bridge between northern and southern Europe. As a multilingual town and a cultural centre Bozen/Bolzano still has a lot to offer today. Its plethora of theatres, concerts with special programmes, cinemas and museums, combined with a series of trendy night spots that create local colour make Bozen/Bolzano a city that is beginning to cater for its increasingly demanding student population. And if you fancy a very special experience, go and visit the city's favourite and most famous resident - "Oetzi", the Ice Man of Similaun, housed in his very own refrigerated room in the recently opened archaeological museum. Bozen/Bolzano and its surroundings are an El Dorado for sports lovers: jogging on the grass alongside the River Talfer/Talvera, walks to Jenesien/S. Genesio and on the nearby Schlern/Sciliar plateau, excursions and mountain climbing in the Dolomites, swimming in the numerous nearby lakes and, last but not least, skiing and snowboarding in the surrounding ski areas. FURTHER INFORMATION: Prof. Enrico Franconi at franconi at inf.unibz.it European Masters Program in Computational Logic part of the MSc in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica). Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Domenicani, 3 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy Phone: +39 0471 016 000 Fax: +39 0471 016 009 Email: computer.science at unibz.it Web site: http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/emcl/ From gil at ISI.EDU Mon Feb 21 23:33:00 2005 From: gil at ISI.EDU (Yolanda Gil) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:33:00 -0800 Subject: [DL] CFP ISWC 2005: Fourth International Semantic Web Conference Message-ID: <99735caa0a2dbd9fb9b5f8650135ef5a@isi.edu> CALL FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL TRACK PAPER SUBMISSIONS Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005) November 6 ?10, 2005 Galway, Ireland http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org Building on the current web architecture, Semantic Web technologies provide a wide range of tools and techniques to support automated reasoning over distributed representations of web content. The Semantic Web will enable a new generation of applications for education, business, science, consumer services, and general collaboration and research tools. The Semantic Web presents an unprecedented challenge of scale and heterogeneity to existing research in expressive representation and query languages, reasoning engines, data representation and integration, interoperability middleware, and distributed computing. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, the International Semantic Web Conference brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Distributed Computing, and Information Systems. The 4thInternational Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005) follows on the success of previous conferences and workshops in Hiroshima, Japan (2004), Sanibel Island, USA (2003), Sardinia, Italy (2002), and Stanford, USA (2001). The organizing committee is soliciting paper submissions for the research papers track and the industrial papers track. CALL FOR PAPERS: RESEARCH TRACK The research track of ISWC2005 solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical and practical aspects of semantic web research. Topics include but are not limited to: - Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data - Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the web - Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging and alignment - Database technologies for the Semantic Web - Semantic Web middleware - Applications of Semantic Web technologies - Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web - Semantic Web services - Agents on the Web - Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security - Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation - Social software - Semantic multimedia - Semantics in peer to peer systems and grids - Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Science, e-Government, and e-Learning - User-centered applications of the semantic web - Searching, querying, visualizing and interpreting the Semantic Web - Evaluation of semantic web techniques Research papers must be submitted electronically via the ISWC2005 Web page at http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org. Papers must be submitted in either PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. Research track paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Papers must be no longer than 15 pages in Springer LNCS format. Papers that exceed this limit will be automatically rejected without review. ISWC2005 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to annotate semantically the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance CALL FOR PAPERS: INDUSTRIAL TRACK The Semantic Web is enjoying a growing interest from industry and from the public at large. Semantic Web technology is moving out of research labs and into the market. A simple search in GoogleNews for "Semantic Web" returns almost 40 hits for published news articles for a period of less than one month. The objective of this year?s ISWC Industrial Track is to attract papers reporting on industrial applications of Semantic Web technology. Our emphasis is on applications of Semantic Web technology, not necessarily on complete Semantic Web applications. Papers submitted to the ISWC Industrial Track should describe an application within a particular organization or industry sector. Apart from a technological description, authors are encouraged to include a description of how the application improves business. We are particularly interested in practical experiences and in lessons learned regarding Semantic Web applications in industrial contexts that could be of interest to other organizations. An additional objective of the track is to attract papers that describe concrete problems in industry for which Semantic Web technology would provide a solution. Such papers should analyze the problem and argue for the appropriateness of Semantic Web technology, and provide an outline of possible solutions. A comparison to competing approaches using conventional technology is strongly encouraged. In order to understand better the actual and potential uptake of Semantic Web technology in different industries, authors are requested to indicate both the application task (e.g., B2B, Search, Call centers, Business Intelligence, KM, CRM, Portals, etc.) and business sector (Automotive, Telecom, Finance, Public Administration, Pharmaceutics, IT, FMCG, Healthcare, Aeronautics, etc.) of their applications and problems. For submitting a paper, authors should follow the general guidelines of the research track. TECHNICAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Mark A. Musen, Stanford University RESEARCH TRACK CO-CHAIRS Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California Enrico Motta, The Open University INDUSTRIAL TRACK CHAIR Richard Benjamins, iSOCO S.A. POSTERS AND DEMO CHAIR Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University SEMANTIC WEB CHALLENGE Michel Klein, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ubbo Visser, Universit?t Bremen TUTORIALS CHAIR R.V. Guha, IBM Almaden Research Laboratory WORKSHOPS CHAIR Natalya F. Noy, Stanford University IMPORTANT DATES April 30, 2005 Research track paper submissions due April 30, 2005 Industrial track paper submissions due November 6-10, 2005 ISWC 2005 Yolanda Gil Associate Director for Research, Intelligent Systems Division, USC/ISI Research Associate Professor, USC/CS Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001 Marina del Rey, CA 90292 (USA) Phone: (310) 448-8794 Fax: (310) 822-0751 http://www.isi.edu/~gil -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Specific Goal for Semantic Web Challenge 2005 --------------------------------------------- For the challenge 2005, we encourage people to show the benefit of re-using existing ontologies, schemas, or models. These can be standard ontologies, but also proprietary schemas developed for other applications. People from academia and from industry are invited to submit applications that illustrate the possibilities of the Semantic Web. The applications should integrate, combine, and deduce information from various sources to assist users in performing specific tasks. The submissions should at least satisfy the minimal requirements for a Semantic Web Application and preferably exhibit some of the additional desires. Although we expect that most applications will use RDF, RDF Schema, and OWL, this is not an official requirement. Minimal Requirements -------------------- A Semantic Web Application has to meet the following minimal requirements. 1. First, the information sources used should be geographically distributed, should have diverse ownerships (i.e. there is no control of evolution), should be heterogeneous (syntactically, structurally, and semantically), and should contain real world data, i.e. are more then toy examples. 2. It is required that all applications assume an open world, i.e. assume that the information is never complete. 3. Finally, the applications should use some formal description of the meaning of the data. Additional Desires ------------------ Besides the minimal criteria, a number of desires are formulated. The more desires are met,the higher an application can score. The desires are: - The application uses data sources for other purposes or in another way than originally intended - Using the contents of multi-media documents - Accessibility in multiple languages - Accessibility via devices other than the PC - Other applications than pure information retrieval - Combination of static and dynamic knowledge (e.g. combination of static ontologies and dynamic workflows) - The results should be as accurate as possible (e.g. use a ranking of results according to validity) - The application should be scalable (in terms of the amount of data used and in terms of distributed components working together) How to participate ------------------ Visit http://challenge.semanticweb.org in order to participate and register for the Semantic Web Challenge by submitting the required information as well as a link to the application on the online registration form. The form will be open until June 15, 2005, 12pm CET. The requirements of this entry are: 1.) Abstract: no more than 200 words. 2.) Description: The description will show details of the system including why the system is innovative, which features or functions the system provides, and why it is relevant tothe challenge. Examples of its use must be provided and if the application includes the additional desires these should be mentioned. The description should not exceed four pages (LNCS format). Selected descriptions will be published in the conference proceedings. 3.) Accessibility: The application should be accessible via the web. If the application is not publicly accessible, passwords should be provided. We also ask to provide a (short) instruction on how to start and use the application. Prizes ------ The prizes for the winners will be available as travel support and book vouchers. The winners will also be asked to give a live demonstration of their application at the ISWC 2005 conference. SWC Advisory Board ------------------- Dean Allemang J?rgen Angele Mike Dean Stefan Decker J?r?me Euzenat Frank van Harmelen Ian Horrocks Atanas Kiryakov Deborah McGuinness Rob Shearer Amit Sheth York Sure Mike Uschold Contact: -------- Michel Klein Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculty of Sciences - dep. of Computer Science De Boelelaan 1081a 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31 20 44 47782 Department fax: +31 20 44 47653 Email: Michel.Klein at cs.vu.nl Web: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mcaklein/ Ubbo Visser Universit?t Bremen TZI - Center for Computing Technologies Universit?tsallee 21-23 D-28359 Bremen Germany Tel: 0421/218-7840 Fax: 0421/218-7196 Email: visser at tzi.de Web: http://www.tzi.de/~visser/ From martin at AI.SRI.COM Wed Feb 23 05:49:25 2005 From: martin at AI.SRI.COM (David Martin) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:49:25 -0800 Subject: [DL] CFP: Web Service Semantics workshop at WWW Message-ID: <421C0B55.1020503@ai.sri.com> [This CFP is being posted to multiple lists; we apologise if you see it multiple times.] *** Please note: the submission deadline is extended to Monday, Feb. 28. (However, earlier submissions are appreciated.) C a l l f o r P a p e r s WEB SERVICE SEMANTICS: TOWARDS DYNAMIC BUSINESS INTEGRATION http://www.ai.sri.com/WSS2005 a workshop to be held at the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005) http://www2005.org/ Chiba, Japan Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 DESCRIPTION The description of Web services in a machine-understandable fashion is expected to have a great impact in the areas of e-Commerce and Enterprise Application Integration, as it can enable dynamic and scalable cooperation between independently developed systems and organisations. These potential benefits have led to the establishment of an important class of research activities, both in industry and academia, aimed at the practical deployment of declarative, semantically rich service and process descriptions and their use across the Web service lifecycle. This research, which draws on a variety of fields such as knowledge representation, automated software engineering, process modeling, workflow, and software agents, is happening under several headings, including Semantic Web services (SWS), Grid services and Semantic Grid services, and (some aspects of) Service-Oriented Computing. For ease of reference, in this call we refer to this general area of work as Semantic Web services (SWS). We note that here, "Semantic Web" does not denote any particular set of standards, although much work in this area does build on products of the Semantic Web activity at W3C. In addition, many SWS efforts are aligned with rapidly developing commercial Web service standards such as WSDL and UDDI. Many major challenges need to be addressed in this field. This workshop aims to provide a forum in which to focus on selected core technical challenges for deployment of SWS, and reach a better understanding of the relationships between commercial Web service standards, current SWS research efforts, and the ultimate requirements for full-scale deployment of these technologies. Another major focus will be on the relationship of work on SWS to the needs of business systems, and in particular the needs having to do with publishing policies associated with Web services, such as those discussed at the recent W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services (see http://www.w3.org/2004/06/ws-cc-cfp.html). Submissions related to semantics for Grid services are welcome. We particularly seek submissions that demonstrate innovative applications of SWS technologies to the challenges involved in automating online business transactions. TOPICS Relevant topics include: o Supporting SWS Deployment o Architectures for SWS Deployment o Semantics in Grid Services o Tools and Infrastructure o Applications of SWS to E-business and E-government o Supporting Enterprise Application Integration with SWS o Policies for Semantic Web Services o Advertising, Discovery, Matchmaking o SWS Conversational Protocols and Choreography o Ontologies and Languages for Service Description o Ontologies and Languages for Process Modeling o Foundations of Reasoning about Services and/or Processes o Contracts and Commitments o Composition of Semantic Web Services o Execution and Lifecycle Management of Semantic Web Services o Monitoring and Recovery Strategies for Semantic Web Services o Relationship of Semantic Web Services with Workflow Technologies o Security and Privacy for Semantic Web Services o Relationships between SWS, Grid Service, and Commercial WS Technologies INTENDED AUDIENCE The intended audience includes researchers working on Semantic Web services, Grid services, and related technologies; students interested in these topics; developers of commercial Web services standards (such as those engaged in these activities at W3C and OASIS); and commercial software developers who are investigating how to achieve greater flexibility and automation in the delivery of Web services. WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE The program will occupy one full day, and will include presentations of papers selected from the full papers category (see "Submissions" below). In some cases, papers may be presented as part of themed discussion panels. There will be one invited speaker. Subject to time constraints, there may also be a panel of experts on a selected topic. Registration will be open to all registrants of the WWW conference. Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper (in any category) will be given priority for registration. SUBMISSIONS Two categories of submissions are solicited: (1) Full papers (up to 12 pages). (2) Position papers (1-2 pages). All submissions should be formatted in the style required for the Refereed Paper Tracks of WWW 2005, which is specified here: http://www2005.org/papers/submission.html. Submissions should be sent by email to wss-submissions at ai.sri.com. Full papers will be peer-reviewed; position papers will receive no review. Accepted full papers will be scheduled for a presentation at the workshop. Shorter full papers may be given appropriately shortened time slots. In some cases, papers may be presented as part of themed discussion panels. All accepted full papers, and all position papers of attendees, will be published online, on a publicly available Web site. We emphasize that a larger word count does not necessarily confer any greater likelihood of acceptance. In some cases -- such as papers describing early work on a project -- it is appropriate for papers to be considerably shorter than 15 pages. Naturally, however, figures that help the reader to quickly grasp the essence of complex material are strongly encouraged. Position statements are limited to 2 pages and should include some or all of the following: * introduction of the author(s) * brief description of your work (and possibly other work at your institution) related to Semantic Web services * tools or testbeds you have to offer to the community * discussion of what you view as the most challenging issues in Semantic Web services and prospects for solving them * challenges, questions or issues that you'd like to see addressed at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: February 28, 2005 Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2005 Camera ready format due: April 6, 2005 ORGANIZATION Organizing Committee Christoph Bussler Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland Richard Goodwin IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Rub?n Lara Tecnolog?a, Informaci?n y Finanzas (TIF), Spain David Martin SRI International, USA Takahira Yamaguchi Keio University, Japan Steering Committee (partial) Sheila McIlraith University of Toronto, Canada Mathias Weske Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany Program Committee (partial) Sudhir Agarwal University of Karlsruhe, Germany Steve Battle Hewlett Packard, UK Richard Benjamins iSOCO, Spain Mark Burstein BBN Technologies, USA Marin Dimitrov Ontotext, Bulgaria John Domingue Open University, UK Dieter Fensel Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Austria / Ireland Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Naoki Fukuta Shizuoka University, Japan Michael Kifer University at Stony Brook, USA Jae Kyu Lee KAIST, Korea Alain L?ger France Telecom, France Pramila Mullan France Telecom R & D, USA Massimo Paolucci Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Bijan Parsia University of Maryland, College Park, USA Chris Preist HP Labs, UK Ulrich Reimer Business Operation Systems, Switzerland Marta Sabou Vrije Universiteit, NL Evren Sirin University of Maryland, College Park, USA Monika Solanki De Montfort University, UK Naveen Srinivasan Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Rudi Studer University of Karlsruhe, Germany Said Tabet Macgregor Group, USA Naohiko Uramoto IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan Laurentiu Vasiliu DERI, Ireland Tomas Vitvar DERI, Ireland Michal Zaremba DERI, Ireland From gpallis at ccf.auth.gr Thu Feb 24 09:11:11 2005 From: gpallis at ccf.auth.gr (Giwrgos Pallis) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:11:11 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for chapters "Web Data Management Practices:Emerging Techniques and Technologies" Message-ID: <200502240811.j1O8BCpT024815@hermes.ccf.auth.gr> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) **************************************************************************** CALL FOR CHAPTERS Submission Deadline: March 31, 2005 Web Data Management Practices: Emerging Techniques and Technologies A book edited by Assist. Prof. Athena Vakali and George Pallis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Publisher: Idea Group Inc. The explosive growth of the Web has dramatically changed the way in which information is managed and accessed. In this context, the need of various Web data management techniques and mechanisms has become obligatory in providing (useful to users) information and improving information circulation and dissemination over the Web. Such Web data management enabling practices (mainly) include Web data mining, scalable data warehousing and preprocessing, sequence discovery, real time processing, users and documents clustering and classification, user modeling and evaluation models. Due to the emerging and recent advances in the fields of Web data mining, Web information management, knowledge discovery etc., there exists a need for an edited collection of articles in this area. The book intends to provide a complete reference for current research and development activities in the area of Web data management. The book aims at studying how the Web information can be extracted, stored, analyzed, and processed to provide useful knowledge to both researchers and end users working over various (advanced database and Web) applications. The book is intended for professionals, practitioners, developers, researchers, (under)graduate students and managers interested in the mostly emerging topics such as Web modeling, Web intelligent, Web data clustering, Web semantics, Web data prefetching and caching. More specifically, the book will be suitable for scientists who wish to focus on this scientific area in order to proceed to advanced applications, or to basic and/or applied research. Moreover, the book will be ideal for researchers from other computer science disciplines who wish to get acquainted with this area and integrate it with their own field. The chapters should review the state-of-the-art in the area towards presenting research papers, existing tools and case studies which will provide insight into important new developments and future research trends. Therefore, we solicit high quality chapters in the topics which include, but and are not limited to, the following: * Web models and meta-data management * Web indexing, caching, replication and data storage on the web * Clustering/classification on the web * Web data extraction * The XML standard in web data management * Probabilistic models and web information retrieval * Directory services, and information management * Web services for effective web data accessing * Web communities * Web usage characterization and web user modeling SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 31, 2005, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. The proposals should be sent by email to one of the two editors. All chapter proposals will be peer reviewed. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by April 20, 2005 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by August 15, 2005. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least two reviewers on a blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints. IMPORTANT DATES March 31, 2005: submission of proposals for chapters April 20, 2005: notification of proposal acceptance/rejection August 15, 2005: submission of full chapters November 15, 2005: submission of revised chapters November 30, 2005: notification of final acceptance/rejection December 31, 2005: final version of chapters For more information please visit the Web site of the book at the following URL: http://www.csd.auth.gr/~oswinds/wdm Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically to one or both editors at the following address: Assist. 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URL: From ahrendt at cs.chalmers.se Fri Feb 25 14:13:30 2005 From: ahrendt at cs.chalmers.se (Wolfgang Ahrendt) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:13:30 +0100 Subject: [DL] CADE-20 Workshop on Disproving, CfP Message-ID: <421F247A.7090500@cs.chalmers.se> CADE-20 Workshop on DISPROVING Non-Theorems, Non-Validity, Non-Provability Tallinn, Estonia Friday, July 22, 2005 Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- for a web version of this CFP, see: www.cs.chalmers.se/~ahrendt/cade20-ws-disproving/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Background Automated Reasoning (AR) traditionally has focused on proving theorems. Because of this, AR methods and tools in the past were mostly applied to formulae which were already known to be true. If on the other hand a formula is not a theorem, then most traditional AR methods and tools cannot handle this properly (i.e. they will fail, run out of resources, or simply not terminate). The opposite of proving, which we call disproving, particularly aims at identifying non-theorems, i.e. showing non-validity resp. non-provability, and providing some kind of proof of non-validity (non-provability). The proof for example could be a counter model, or an instantiation making the formula false. Scope In the scope of the workshop is every method that is able to discover non-theorems and, ideally, provides explanation why the formula is not a theorem. Possible subjects are decision procedures, model generation methods, reduction to SAT, formula simplification methods, abstraction based methods, failed-proof analysis. Topics of relevance to the workshop therefore include * disproving conjectures in general, * extending standard proving methods with disproving capabilities, * approximative methods for identifying non-theorems, * counterexample generation, * counter model generation, * finite model generation, * decision procedures, * failure analysis, * reparation of non-theorems, * heuristics that help in identifying non-theorems, * applications and system descriptions. Workshop Goal The disproving workshops are intended as a platform for the exchange of ideas between researchers concerned with disproving in the broad sense. By discussing approaches across the different AR sub-communities, the workshop can identify common problems and solutions. Another goal is to elaborate known, and discover unknown, connections between other areas and disproving. Also, the meeting can enable an exchange of interesting examples for non-theorems. A long term goal is that the workshop series contributes to forming a disproving community within AR, and gives the work on disproving a greater visibility. Audience Non-theorems are an issue wherever one tries to prove statements which are not known to be valid in advance. Therefore, we aim at researchers from all areas of automated reasoning. The issue of the workshop is particularly relevant for all logics, calculi, and proving paradigms where non-validity is not covered by the (plain versions of) standard methods. This includes (but is not restricted to) first-order logic proving, inductive theorem proving, rewriting based reasoning, higher-order logic proving, logical frameworks, and special purpose logics like for instance program logics. We also target at the model generation community. Beside mature work, we also solicit preliminary work or work in progress to be presented. Technical Programme The technical program will include presentations of the accepted papers, discussions about the state and future of the field, and an invited talk. Invited Speakers * Byron Cook, Microsoft Research, Cambridge (shared speaker with ESCAR) * Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Programme Committee * Wolfgang Ahrendt (Organizer) * Peter Baumgartner (Organizer) * Johan Bos * Chris Fermueller * Uli Furbach * Bernhard Gramlich * Bill McCune * Hans de Nivelle (Organizer) * Renate Schmidt * Carsten Schuermann * Graham Steel * Cesare Tinelli * Andrei Voronkov * Calogero Zarba Submission Submissions should not exceed 10 pages. The submission procedure will be electronical only, and only PDF files are acceptable. Details will be announced in due time on the workshop web page. The deadline for submission is 1st of May 2005. Publication The final versions of the selected contributions will be collected in a volume to be distributed at the workshop and accessible on the web. The organisers plan for a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Computing, based on extended versions of selected workshop papers, but open to non-participants, in all cases with fresh reviewing. The decision of whether to do so will be taken after the workshop. (The according post proceedings of last years workshop are soon to appear within ENTCS.) Workshop Venue The workshop will be held on Friday, 22 July, as part of CADE-20 (20th International Conference on Automated Deduction) Tallinn, Estonia, 22 July - 27 July, 2005. Workshop Organizers Wolfgang Ahrendt Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburgh, Sweden Email: ahrendt at cs.chalmers.se Peter Baumgartner MPI fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany Email: baumgart at mpi-sb.mpg.de Hans de Nivelle MPI fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany Email: nivelle at mpi-sb.mpg.de Important Dates May 1: Paper submissions deadline June 1: Notification of acceptance June 26: Final versions due Friday, 22 July: new workshop date Links * Workshop web page: www.cs.chalmers.se/~ahrendt/cade20-ws-disproving/ * CADE-20 home page: http://deepthought.ttu.ee/it/cade/ For further information on the workshop, please contact any of the organizers. From stenzg at in.tum.de Tue Mar 1 11:02:30 2005 From: stenzg at in.tum.de (Gernot Stenz) Date: 01 Mar 2005 11:02:30 +0100 Subject: [DL] [TABLEAUX 2005] Second Call for Papers and Call for Tutorials Message-ID: Apologies if you receive multiple copies. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Call for Papers and Call for Tutorials %% %% TABLEAUX 2005 %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% International Conference TABLEAUX 2005 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Koblenz, Germany September 14-17, 2005 Co-located with FTP2005 http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial proposal submission deadline: March 31, 2005 Notification of acceptance of tutorials: April 10, 2005 Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2005 Notification of acceptance of papers: June 25, 2005 Final version of papers due: July 10, 2005 Conference: September 14-17, 2005 GENERAL INFORMATION This conference is a continuation of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods held 1992 in Lautenbach (Germany), 1993 in Marseille (France), 1994 in Abingdon (UK), 1995 in St. Goar (Germany), 1996 in Terrasini (Italy), 1997 in Pont-?-Mousson (France), 1998 in Oisterwijk (Netherlands), 1999 in Saratoga Springs (USA), 2000 in St Andrews (Scotland), 2002 in Copenhagen (Denmark), and 2003 in Rome (Italy). In 2001 TABLEAUX was part of IJCAR 2001 in Siena, and in 2004 it was part of IJCAR 2004 in Cork (Ireland). In September 2005, the conference will be held in Koblenz, Germany. The proceedings will again be published in Springer's LNAI series. See http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de for more information on TABLEAUX 2005, and http://i12www.ira.uka.de/TABLEAUX for information about the TABLEAUX conference series. The International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving (FTP 2005) will also be held in Koblenz at the same time, 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. TABLEAUX 2005 puts a special emphasis on applications. Papers describing applications of tableaux and related methods in areas such as, for example, hardware and software verification, knowledge engineering, semantic web, etc. are particularly invited. 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. Accepted papers in these categories will be published in the conference proceedings (within the LNAI series of Springer), which will be available at the conference. For category {\bf B} submissions a working implementation must exist and be available to the referees. Submissions in category C will be reviewed by members of the program committee and a collection of the accepted papers in this category will be published as a Technical Report of the Department of Computer Science, University of Koblenz. 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. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Further information and instructions about submissions can be found on the conference website at tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bernhard Beckert, U. of Koblenz, Germany (Chair) Peter Baumgartner, MPI Saarbruecken, Germany Marta Cialdea Mayer, U. Roma Tre, Italy Roy Dyckhoff, U. of St. Andrews, Scotland Christian Fermueller, Technical U. of Vienna, Austria Ulrich Furbach, U. of Koblenz, Germany Didier Galmiche, LORIA, U. Henri Poincare, France Martin Giese, Chalmers U., Gothenburg, Sweden Rajeev P. Gore, Australian National U., Canberra, Australia Jean Goubault-Larrecq, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France Reiner Haehnle, Chalmers U., Gothenburg, Sweden Ian Horrocks, U. of Manchester, UK Ullrich Hustadt, U. of Liverpool, UK Christoph Kreitz, U. of Potsdam, Germany Reinhold Letz, TU Muenchen, Germany Carsten Lutz, Dresden U. of Technology, Germany Maarten Marx, U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ugo Moscato, U. of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Neil V. Murray, U. at Albany, USA Ilkka Niemela, Helsinki U. of Technology, Finland Nicola Olivetti, U. of Torino, Italy Lawrence Paulson, U. of Cambridge, UK David A. Plaisted, U. of North Carolina, USA Peter H. Schmitt, U. of Karlsruhe, Germany Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI Saarbruecken, Germany Arild Waaler, U. of Oslo, Norway Calogero G. Zarba, LORIA and INRIA-Lorraine, France ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference Chair: Bernhard Beckert, University of Koblenz, Germany Publicity Chair: Gernot Stenz, TU Muenchen, Germany Local Organizers: Gerd Beuster Vladimir Klebanov Thomas Kleeman Jan Murray Oliver Obst Alex Sinner Christoph Wernhard Doris Wertz From zicari at informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Wed Mar 2 11:59:17 2005 From: zicari at informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Prof. Dott. Ing. Roberto Zicari) Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:59:17 +0100 Subject: [DL] [Mlnet] DBIS:Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiters (BAT II a). Message-ID: <42259C85.238B92AE@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> Dear Colleague may I kindly ask you to distribute this info as you see proper. Thank you Best Regards Roberto Zicari -------------------------------------------cut here----------------------------------------------------------------------- Im Fachbereich Biologie und Informatik (15) ist f?r die Professur Datenbanken und Informationssysteme (DBIS) zum 01. Mai 2005 eine Stelle eines Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiters (BAT II a), mit der M?glichkeit auf Promotion, befristet auf zun?chst 3 Jahre, zu besetzten. F?r die Befristung des Vertrages sind die Regelungen des Hochschulrahmengesetzes ma?geblich. F?r unser Team suchen wir einen motivierten, dynamischen und qualifizierten Kandidaten. Es wird eine aktive Mitarbeit bez?glich der Forschung der Professur und der Arbeit in kleinen dynamischen Gruppen erwartet. Die Forschung der Professur konzentriert sich auf die Bereiche E-Commerce, E-Market Places und Web Portals. Insbesondere stehen dabei folgende Punkte im Mittelpunkt: - dynamische Profilbildung - Personalisierung - On-line Targeting - Partnerprogramme - Informationsanbieter (Infomediaries) - Datenbank Schnittstellen Weiterhin wird eine aktive Unterst?tzung der Lehrt?tigkeit von DBIS erwartet. Diese umfasst sowohl Hauptstudiums- als auch Grundstudiumsveranstaltungen. Im einzelnen sind dies: - Hauptstudium o Datenbanksysteme 1 und 2 ? Vorlesungen und ?bungen o Principles of E-Commerce 1 und 2? Vorlesungen und ?bungen (auf engl.) o Datenbank Praktikum o Seminare zu den Bereichen Datenbanken und E-Commerce - Grundstudium o Einf?hrung in OO Programmierung und Java ? Vorlesung o Programmierpraktikum in Java Anforderungen: - Abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium der Informatik oder eines verwandten Fachs - fundiertes Grundlagenwissen sowohl zu den theoretischen Grundlagen, als auch im praktischen Umgang mit und den internen Abl?ufen innerhalb relationaler Datenbanktechnologien - sehr gute Kenntnisse der Prinzipien objektorientierter Technologien - sehr gute Programmierkenntnisse (vorzugsweise Java) - deutsch als Muttersprache und sehr gute englische Sprachkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift Als w?nschenswerte Zusatzqualifikationen sind Erfahrungen in bzw. Wissen ?ber Web Technologien wie Security, E-Payment, XML oder Datenbankunterst?tzung f?r Internet Anwendungen zu nennen. Contact: Prof. Dott. Ing. Roberto V. Zicari, Institute of Computer Science - Databases and Information Systems Robert-Mayer-Str. 11-15 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Phone: +49-69-798-28212, Fax: +49-69-798-25123, e-mail: zicari at informatik.uni-frankfurt.de ## _______________________________________________ Mlnet mailing list Mlnet at ais.fraunhofer.de http://lists.ais.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/mlnet From phitzler at t-online.de Wed Mar 2 17:06:18 2005 From: phitzler at t-online.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:06:18 +0100 Subject: [DL] PostDoc (project leader) position at AIFB University of Karlsruhe on Semantic Web In-Reply-To: <419CD5C1.6080207@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <419CD5C1.6080207@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Message-ID: <4225E47A.6060401@t-online.de> PostDoc (project leader) position available at AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany --------------------------------------------- The Knowledge Management research group at the Institute for Applied Iformatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB, www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS) at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, is an interdisciplinary team of computer scientics, mathematicians, and industrial engineers and one of the world leading institutes in the area of the Semantic Web. We are offering a project leader position for a PostDoc. The candidate should have expertise in at least one of the following - or related - areas: Web Services, Machine Learning, Information Extraction and Text Mining, Databases, Ontologies, or MDA/SOA. If you finished your dissertation in computer science or a related field within the last few years and with excellent results, if you are seeking further qualification and a career in a university environment, and if you are interested in team-oriented research and project management, then we are looking forward to receiving your application. The deadline is March 20th 2005. Late applications may be considered. Please send your application to Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH) Institut AIFB D-76128 Karlsruhe studer at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de If you have questions, please contact Dr. Pascal Hitzler Phone +49 (0)721 608-4751 hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de From gerhard.widmer at jku.at Thu Mar 3 15:01:08 2005 From: gerhard.widmer at jku.at (Gerhard Widmer) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:01:08 -0000 Subject: [DL] [Mlnet] Open University Position in Austria Message-ID: <416CF347.2060505@jku.at> OPEN POSITION AT THE JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ, AUSTRIA: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (LECTURER) AT THE POST-DOCTORAL LEVEL The newly founded DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL PERCEPTION at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, headed by Prof. Gerhard Widmer, has an open position for a Full-time Assistant Professor ("Universit?tsassistent") at the post-doctoral level, with a contract limited to 4-6 years. REQUIREMENTS: - a doctorate in computer science or a related field - research experience in one or several of the following areas: Artificial/Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Sensor Data Interpretation and Signal Analysis, Intelligent Audio/Music/Video/Image Processing, Intelligente Data Analysis, Time Series Processing, Pattern Recognition. The candidate is expected to build up his/her own research program, to be active in the acquisition of research funding, and to contribute to the department's teaching and administration. LANGUAGE: Fluency in German is not a prerequisite, though a passive command of the German language would be beneficial. Excellent English is required. Teaching can be done in English for the first one or two years. MORE INFORMATION: Prof. Gerhard Widmer Tel.: +43 - 732 - 2468 1510 e-mail: gerhard.widmer at jku.at WWW: www.oefai.at/~gerhard For some of our recent research in the area of machine learning and intelligent music processing see http://www.oefai.at/~gerhard or http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/ml/ Women are particularly encouraged to apply and will be given priority in case of equal qualification. The OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT (in German) can be found at http://www.cp.jku.at/stellenausschreibung.html . DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: October 27, 2004 Please send your application with relevant documents (CV, picture, publications list / sample publications, copies of academic documents) to: Personalabteilung der Zentralen Dienste der Universit?t Linz A-4040 Linz/Auhof AUSTRIA and make sure to refer to "Anzeigennummer 1148" (ID of this announcement) in your cover letter. The application can be written in English, of course. ***************************************************************** Gerhard Widmer Department of Computational Perception Tel: +43 732 2468 1510 Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Strasse 69 gerhard.widmer at jku.at A-4040 Linz, Austria http://www.cp.jku.at ***************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Mlnet mailing list Mlnet at ais.fraunhofer.de http://lists.ais.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/mlnet From pavel at dit.unitn.it Thu Mar 3 16:49:03 2005 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:49:03 +0100 Subject: [DL] Deadline Extension C&O-2005: AAAI'05 workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications Message-ID: <013301c52008$92928430$29e9a8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C&O-2005 deadlines are extended due to a switch in deadlines for the AAAI'05 conference. April 20, 2005: Deadline (extended) for the submissions. May 11, 2005: Deadline (extended) for the notification of acceptance/rejection. May 18, 2005: Deadline (extended) for the receipt of camera-ready papers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The AAAI-05 Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O-2005) http://www.c-and-o.net/ July 9-10, 2005, AAAI Workshop Program, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES The goal of the workshop is to bring together people from the context and ontology communities and to discuss the approaches they use for information integration. Therefore, the workshop will push the cross-fertilization and exchange of ideas (e.g., which of the methods from the ontology community can be successfully adopted in the context community, and vice versa), and, hence, make their meeting mutually beneficial. ------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Foundations: Coordination of multiple contexts and ontologies; Meaning negotiation of multiple contexts and ontologies; Languages for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies; Logics for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies. Theory & Practice: Techniques and tools for matching (aligning) contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for merging contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for transforming contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for translating contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for reconciling contexts and ontologies; Techniques for query answering based on multiple contexts and ontologies; Benchmarking of tools for integration of contexts and ontologies; Comparisons of techniques and tools for matching, merging, transforming, translating, and reconciling contexts and ontologies; Scalability of techniques for integration of contexts and ontologies; Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies. Applications: Semantic Web; DB model management; E-commerce; Telecommunications, multimedia, content indexing; Knowledge management solutions for large organizations; Pervasive computing systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED TALKS 1. Fausto Giunchiglia (http://www.dit.unitn.it/~fausto), University of Trento, Italy Title of the talk: "Contexts meet Ontologies: Past, Present and Future" 2. Christopher Welty (http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty/), IBM Research, USA Title of the talk: "Ontologies meet Contexts: Past, Present and Future" ------------------------------------------------------------------- FORMAT, ATTENDANCE AND SUBMISSIONS The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: keynote presentations, technical presentations, posters/demos, and general discussion. The audience is assumed to consist of both academia and industry. Thus, the workshop can improve academic awareness of industrial needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their business needs. Attendance is limited to active participants only. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers or statements of interest. Technical papers should be not longer than 8 pages using the AAAI-05 style (http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/workshops.html). Statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages using the AAAI-05 style. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be sent by email to Pavel Shvaiko: pavel at dit.unitn.it Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers and statements of interest will be published as AAAI Technical report series. Also we will publish the extended versions of the best technical papers of the workshop in the Journal on Data Semantics (http://lbdwww.epfl.ch/e/Springer/). ------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES April 20, 2005: Extended deadline for the submissions. May 11, 2005: Extended deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. May 18, 2005: Extended deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers. Note that this is a tight schedule: it allows only 1 week for preparing a camera-ready copy. Unfortunately, we are unable to change these dates. This tight timeline is due to scheduling problems in the AAAI'05 conference. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy AnHai Doan, University of Illinois, USA J?r?me Euzenat, INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes, France Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA Timothy W. Finin, University of Maryland, USA Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Michael Gruninger, NIST, USA Ramanathan Guha, IBM Research, USA Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, USA Alain L?ger, France Telecom R&D, France Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Natalya Noy, Stanford University, USA Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece Michel Plu, France Telecom, France Fano Ramparany, France Telecom, France Luciano Serafini, ITC-IRST, Italy Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Michael Uschold, Boeing, USA Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1.Jerome Euzenat INRIA Rhone-Alpes e-mail: Jerome.Euzenat at inrialpes.fr 2.Alain Leger France Telecom R&D Rennes e-mail: alain.leger at rd.francetelecom.com 3.Deborah L. McGuinness Stanford University e-mail: dlm at ksl.stanford.edu 4.Pavel Shvaiko (CHAIR) University of Trento e-mail: pavel at dit.unitn.it 5.Holger Wache Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam e-mail: holger at cs.vu.nl Cheers, ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko PhD Student, University of Trento Dept. of Information and Communication Technology Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY Tel: +39 (0461) 883914; Fax: +39 (0461) 882093 Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carlos at science.uva.nl Fri Mar 4 18:44:18 2005 From: carlos at science.uva.nl (Carlos Areces) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:44:18 +0100 Subject: [DL] Beth Dissertation Price - Last Call for Submissions Message-ID: <20050304174418.GA23397@remote.science.uva.nl> E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: Last Call for Submissions. Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association of Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Submissions are invited for 2005. The prize will be awarded to the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. in the year 2004. 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 a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2004 and December 31st, 2004. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. However, after a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Prize: The prize consists of ? a certificate ? an invitation to present the thesis during ESSLLI 05 ? a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. ? fee waive for ESSLLI 05 attendance ? the possibility to publish the thesis (or a revised version of it) in the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be published by Springer-Verlag as part of LNCS or LNCS/LNAI. (Further information on this series will be posted on the FoLLI site soon.) 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 or pdf format; 3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: 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 officially 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 dimi.uniud.it . Hard copy submissions are not admitted. If you experience any problems with the email submission or do not receive a notification from us within three working days, please write to policriti at dimi.uniud.it or folli at inf.unibz.it * Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 2005. Notification of Decision: June 30, 2005. The prize will be officially assigned to the winner at ESSLLI'05 (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/), the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 9-19, 2005. Prize winner will be expected to attend the ceremony and to give a presentation of her/his Ph.D. dissertation at ESSLLI?05. Committee ? Anne Abeill? (Universit? Paris 7) ? Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) ? Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University) ? Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) ? Valentin Goranko (University of Johannesburg) ? Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) ? Ewa Orlowska (Institute of Telecommunications, Poland) ? Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) ? Alberto Policriti (chair) (Universit? di Udine) ? Christian Retor? (Universit? Bordeaux 1 ) ? Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) ? Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen) From cfp2005 at micai.org Sun Mar 6 04:53:46 2005 From: cfp2005 at micai.org (Alexander Gelbukh) Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 21:53:46 -0600 Subject: [DL] [CFP] MICAI-2005, Mexican International conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Springer LNAI) Message-ID: <200503060348.j263mXNf026270@pollux.cic.ipn.mx> MICAI 2005 4th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE November 14-18, 2005 Monterrey, Mexico www.MICAI.org/2005 Proceedings: Springer LNAI. Submission: May 29 (abstract May 22). Keynote speakers: see website. FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** GENERAL INFORMATION *** MICAI is a high-level international conference covering all areas of Artificial Intelligence, traditionally held in Mexico. All previous editions of MICAI were published in Springer LNAI (N 1793, 2313, 2972). Acceptance rate of MICAI-2004 was 38% of submissions from 19 countries. The conference is organized by the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA) in cooperation with the Mexican Society for Computer Science (SMCC) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). The scientific program includes invited lectures, paper presentations, tutorials, panels, and workshops. *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Authors are invited to submit original previously unpublished research papers written in English, of up to 10 pages, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI format guidelines (see website). Submissions not following the format guidelines are rejected without review. Submissions are received electronically through the website, see www.MICAI.org/2005. The title and a short abstract must be submitted a week before the paper submission deadline (see website). All submissions will be subject to blind peer review by three program committee members. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** May 22: Paper registration deadline (title and abstract required). May 29: Paper submission deadline (only papers registered by May 22). July 17: Acceptance notification. August 7: Camera-ready deadline. *** TOPICS *** Topics of interest are all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to: - Expert Systems / KBS - Multiagent systems and Distributed AI - Knowledge Management - Intelligent Interfaces: Multimedia, Virtual Reality - Natural Language Processing / Understanding - Computer Vision - Neural Networks - Genetic Algorithms - Fuzzy logic - Belief Revision - Machine Learning - Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Data Mining - Knowledge Acquisition - Knowledge Representation - Knowledge Verification, Sharing and Reuse - Ontologies - Qualitative Reasoning - Model-Based Reasoning - Constraint Programming - Common Sense Reasoning - Case-Based Reasoning - Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Spatial and Temporal Reasoning - Robotics - Planning and Scheduling - Navigation - Assembly - Hybrid Intelligent Systems - Logic Programming - Automated Theorem Proving - Intelligent Organizations - Uncertainty / Probabilistic Reasoning - Philosophical and Methodological Issues of AI *** CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION *** Conference Chairs: Alvaro de Albornoz, Angel Kuri. Program Chairs: Alexander Gelbukh, Raul Monroy. Tutorial Chairs: Manuel Valenzuela, Horacio Martinez. Workshop Chairs: Ramon Brena, Jose Luis Aguirre. Keynote Talks Coordinator: Carlos Alberto Reyes. Local Chair: Hugo Terashima. Local Steering Committee: Rogelio Soto, Ricardo Swain. *** CONTACT *** General inquiries: micai2005 at MICAI dot org. Inquiries on submission requirements: submission at MICAI dot org. Inquiries on the conference program: program at MICAI dot org. See more contact options on www.MICAI.org/2005. We apology if you receive this CFP more than once. PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your students and colleagues. From e.motta at open.ac.uk Sat Mar 12 22:38:57 2005 From: e.motta at open.ac.uk (Enrico Motta) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:38:57 +0000 Subject: [DL] 3rd Summer School on Ontological Eng. and the Semantic Web Message-ID: ***APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*** ======================================= THE THIRD EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (SSSW-2005) ****************************************** Deadline for Registration Approaching Registration will close on 31 March 2005 ****************************************** http://babage.dia.fi.upm.es/sssw05 VENUE Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain. DATE 10-16, July 2005 DEADLINE FOR PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION 31 March, 2005 INTRODUCTION The KnowledgeWeb Network of Excellence is pleased to announce the third European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web. This summer school, presented by leading researchers in the field, is the successor to the well-received schools held in 2003, as part of the activities of the OntoWeb Network Consortium, and in 2004, as part of the activities of the KnowledgeWeb NoE. The school represents an opportunity for postgraduate students to equip themselves with the range of theoretical and practical skills necessary for full engagement with the challenges involved in developing Ontologies and Semantic Web applications. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants. APPROACH To avoid a passive learning experience we will augment theoretical material with practical workshops. Furthermore, we will ensure that the sessions are complementary to each other by linking them to a mini-project. Work on developing and presenting this project in cooperation with other participants will serve as a means of consolidating the knowledge and skills gained from lectures and practical sessions. Participants will be provided with a copy of all course lectures and access to a PC with all necessary tools and environments pre-installed. SSSW-2005 will provide a stimulating and enjoyable environment in which participants will benefit not only from the formal and practical sessions but also from informal and social interactions with established researchers and the other participants in the school. COURSE TOPICS Fundamentals of Ontological Engineering Knowledge Representation Languages for the Semantic Web Design Patterns in Knowledge Representation Ontology Mapping and Alignment Ontology Validation and Evaluation Semantic Web Services Human Language and Machine Learning Technologies for the Semantic Web TUTORS Sean Beachofer (University of Manchester, UK) Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, UK) John Domingue (The Open University, UK) Natasha Fridman Noy (Stanford University, US) Aldo Gangemi (National Research Council, Italy) Asun Gomez-Perez (Universidade Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) INVITED SPEAKERS Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam, NL) Roberto Basili (University of Rome, Italy) Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK) Jim Hendler (University of Maryland, US) Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz, Germany) Mike Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Enrico Motta (Director), e.motta at open.ac.uk Asun Gomez-Perez (Co-Director), asun at fi.upm.es Arthur Stutt (Project Co-ordinator), a.stutt at open.ac.uk ACCOMMODATION AND SOCIAL EVENTS Cercedilla is a small village in the mountains near Madrid. The school will be held in the Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid's student house. The student house has a range of facilities to make your stay more pleasant including en suite bathrooms, swimming pool, bars and restaurants in the village. There will be an afternoon excursion to a local tourist destination. Both this and a gala dinner will be included in the cost. PARTICIPANTS We welcome applicants from anywhere in the world. Normally, but not exclusively, applicants will be postgraduate students in relevant disciplines with some knowledge of ontological or knowledge engineering and/or the development of applications for the World Wide Web. Some basic acquaintance with knowledge representation is required. Participants to the school are expected to arrive at the school on sunday evening (july 10th) and to participate in the activities of the school until its end, at 2pm on saturday 16 July. Applications by students, who cannot commit themselves to a full participation to the school, will not be accepted. COST OF SUMMER SCHOOL INCLUDING ACCOMMODATION, MEALS AND EXCURSION (please note that at this stage this is still an estimate) Euros 750. TRAVEL AND LOCAL INFORMATION The nearest airport is Madrid-Barajas. Participants will be able to use local rail links from Madrid to Cercedilla. Further information about how to reach Cercedilla can be found on the web site, http://babage.dia.fi.upm.es/sssw05. REGISTRATION If you are interested in participating to SSSW-2005 then please fill in the online registration form at our web site: http://babage.dia.fi.upm.es/sssw05 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From e.motta at open.ac.uk Sat Mar 12 22:30:06 2005 From: e.motta at open.ac.uk (Enrico Motta) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:30:06 +0000 Subject: [DL] JOB: Senior Permanent Research Position at KMi Message-ID: ***APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*** ======================================= The Open University, UK Knowledge Media Institute / Centre for Research in Computing Readership / Senior Lectureship in Knowledge Media ***DEADLINE APPROACHING*** Closing date for receipt of applications is 18 March 2005. This is a permanent appointment as Reader or Senior Lecturer (depending upon the experience and qualifications of the candidate) at the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), a 60-strong interdisciplinary laboratory founded in 1995, and located in attractive offices at The Open University's main campus in Milton Keynes, UK. KMi undertakes high-profile advanced research and development in Knowledge Media: a convergence of the cognitive and instructional sciences, knowledge technologies, ontological engineering, artificial intelligence, new media technologies for learners, human computer interaction, and knowledge management. We offer a creative and flexible working environment unlike any other in Europe. The style, impact and content of our work are described in detail in our Web pages at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/. This post is intended to strengthen KMi's international research reputation and contribute to the overall profile of the OU's new Centre for Research in Computing, created as a partnership between KMi and the Department of Computing. Applicants should have a PhD and at least 5 years post-doctoral experience in computer science, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, or knowledge media, with evidence of an international reputation. It is essential that candidates can demonstrate a track record of leading innovative research projects, working collaboratively with other organizations, publishing widely, and obtaining substantial research income from external agencies. Candidates should ideally be conversant in cross-disciplinary knowledge media themes ranging from semantic technologies to new media solutions for learners. Consistently with the 'hands-on' ethos of the Knowledge Media Institute, the candidate should be able to demonstrate evidence of having deployed real technologies, in real contexts, for real users, a hallmark of most KMi activities. We are particularly interested in strengthening our profiles in one of the following areas (but will be open to strategic guidance from strong candidates on other related areas): semantic multimedia, smart devices, language technologies, semantic web, presence, social software, and hypermedia. The appointment will be made on the Reader / Senior Lecturer scale, ?37,558 - ?42,573 p.a. This is a permanent post. For further details of the vacancy, information on how to apply, and access details for disabled applicants please see the Further Particulars for this job at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy-1415.cfm. Informal enquiries can be made to the Director of KMi, Professor Enrico Motta (e.motta at open.ac.uk). The closing date for receipt of applications is 18 March 2005. THIS POST IS OPEN TO INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL APPLICANTS. We promote diversity in employment and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Disabled applicants who meet the essential job requirements will be interviewed. Further particulars are available in large print, disk or audiotape. (Minicom +44 (0) 1908 654901 for hard of hearing) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From letz at informatik.tu-muenchen.de Mon Mar 14 18:39:49 2005 From: letz at informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Reinhold Letz) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:39:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] first CFP FTP'2005 Message-ID: <20050314173949.01CB8291F4@atbroy59> [Apologies for multiple copies] ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving FTP'2005, September 14-17, 2005 Koblenz, Germany http://ftp2005.uni-koblenz.de/ ****************************************************************** Invited speaker: Hans-Juergen Ohlbach (Munich) Important Dates: Paper submissions May 27, 2005 Notification of acceptance July 29, 2005 Camera ready papers August 12, 2005 FTP'2003 workshop September 14-17, 2005 Scope: The series of FTP workshops is intended to focus on First-Order Theorem Proving as a core theme of Automated Deduction, and to provide a forum for presentation of recent work and discussion of research in progress. The workshop welcomes original contributions on: * theorem proving in first-order classical, many-valued, and modal logics, including: - resolution, - equational reasoning, - term rewriting, - model construction, - constraint reasoning, - unification, - description logics, - propositional logic, - specialized decision procedures, * strategies and complexity of theorem proving procedures, * applications of first-order theorem provers, for example to: - verification, - artificial intelligence, - mathematics, - education. The previous international workshops on First-Order Theorem Proving were held at Schloss Hagenberg (Austria, 1997), Vienna (Austria, 1998), St Andrews (Scotland, 2000), Valencia (Spain, 2003). In 2001 and 2004, FTP was part of the IJCAR Conferences, held in Siena (Italy) and Cork (Ireland), respectively. Paper Submissions: Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: * Extended abstracts of 8-10 pages, describing original results not published elsewhere. * System descriptions of 3-5 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones, especially including experiments; systems will have to be freely available online. * Position papers of 2 pages, describing the authors' research interests in the field, work in progress, or future directions of research. Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and the standard article class/style file (10pt or 11pt). The first page should contain the title, the authors' names, e-mail and postal addresses. Papers should be sent as a Postscript or PDF file to: ftp2005 @ uni-koblenz.de Papers should be received by May 27, 2005. All papers will be refereed by the program committee, and will be evaluated on their significance, technical merit, and relevance to the workshop. Publication: Accepted submissions (except position papers) will be published as a technical report of Koblenz University and will be available electronically before the workshop. As for the previous editions of FTP, a special issue of a journal is planned after the workshop. The submission will be open to papers on First-Order Theorem Proving. Program Committee: Alessandro Armando (Genova), B. Beckert (Koblenz), Chris Fermueller (Vienna), B. Gramlich (Vienna), R. Letz (Munich, chair), B. Loechner (Kaiserslautern), C. Lynch (Clarkson), P. Narendran (Albany), Nicolas Peltier (Grenoble), Michael Rusinowitch (Nancy), Renate Schmidt (Manchester), Miroslav Velev (Carnegie Mellon), L. Vigano (Zurich). Local Organization: G. Beuster, V. Klebanov (Koblenz) Steering Committee: A. Armando (Genova), P. Baumgartner (Koblenz, president), D. Crocker (Escher Tech.), I. Dahn (Koblenz), B. Gramlich (Vienna), R. Haehnle (Goeteborg), P. Narendran (Albany), Nicolas Peltier (Grenoble), S. Schulz (Verona), Cesare Tinelli (Iowa), Luca Vigano (Zurich), Laurent Vigneron (Nancy) Conference Venue: The workshop will be held in Koblenz, Germany, jointly with the International conference TABLEAUX 2005., with opportunities for joint registration. Invited lectures will be given by: - Enrico Giunchiglia (DIST, Genova, Italy) - Thomas Hillenbrand (MPI, Saarbruecken, Germany) - Dieter Hutter (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Further information: For regularly updated details of the workshop organization, visit the FTP'2005 web page: http://ftp2005.uni-koblenz.de/ For contacting the PC chair: ftp2005 @ uni-koblenz.de From wplhg05 at mpi-sb.mpg.de Tue Mar 15 18:02:27 2005 From: wplhg05 at mpi-sb.mpg.de (WPLHG05 Organising Committee) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:02:27 +0100 Subject: [DL] Workshop on Programming Logics in memory of Harald Ganzinger Message-ID: Workshop on Programming Logics in memory of Harald Ganzinger Saarbr?cken, June 3 and 4, 2005 The Max-Planck Institute for Informatics and the Department of Computer Science at Saarland University will organise a workshop on Programming Logics to commemorate the life and scientific achievements of Harald Ganzinger on the first anniversary of his sad and untimely death. The programme will include a special event: the inauguration of the Harald Ganzinger Lecture Hall. We will have talks covering the variety of research areas Harald has worked in. These will be given by colleagues and friends close to Harald. So far, the following have accepted our invitation to deliver talks: Manfred Broy Alexander Bockmayr Witold Charatonik Nachum Dershowitz Deepak Kapur Claude & H?l?ne Kirchner Pierre Lescanne Reinhold Letz Christopher Lynch David McAllester Robert Nieuwenhuis Leszek Pacholski Frank Pfenning David Plaisted Renate Schmidt Moshe Vardi Andrei Voronkov We plan to collect contributions for a Springer LNCS volume in memoriam of Harald Ganzinger; we hope to hand out the volume to every workshop participant. Please register at http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/conferences/WPLHG05/. The organisers (Andreas Podelski, Andrei Voronkov and Reinhard Wilhelm). From stenzg at in.tum.de Wed Mar 16 13:00:42 2005 From: stenzg at in.tum.de (Gernot Stenz) Date: 16 Mar 2005 13:00:42 +0100 Subject: [DL] [TABLEAUX 2005] Last Call for Tutorials Message-ID: Apologies if you receive multiple copies. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Call for Tutorials %% %% TABLEAUX 2005 %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% International Conference TABLEAUX 2005 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Koblenz, Germany September 14-17, 2005 Co-located with FTP2005 http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial proposal submission deadline: March 31, 2005 Notification of acceptance of tutorials: April 10, 2005 Conference: September 14-17, 2005 GENERAL INFORMATION This conference is a continuation of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods held 1992 in Lautenbach (Germany), 1993 in Marseille (France), 1994 in Abingdon (UK), 1995 in St. Goar (Germany), 1996 in Terrasini (Italy), 1997 in Pont-?-Mousson (France), 1998 in Oisterwijk (Netherlands), 1999 in Saratoga Springs (USA), 2000 in St Andrews (Scotland), 2002 in Copenhagen (Denmark), and 2003 in Rome (Italy). In 2001 TABLEAUX was part of IJCAR 2001 in Siena, and in 2004 it was part of IJCAR 2004 in Cork (Ireland). In September 2005, the conference will be held in Koblenz, Germany. The proceedings will again be published in Springer's LNAI series. See http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de for more information on TABLEAUX 2005, and http://i12www.ira.uka.de/TABLEAUX for information about the TABLEAUX conference series. The International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving (FTP 2005) will also be held in Koblenz at the same time, 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. TABLEAUX 2005 puts a special emphasis on applications. One or more tutorials will be part of the conference program. SUBMISSIONS Submissions are invited for tutorials in all areas of analytic tableaux and related methods from academic research to applications (proposals up to 5 pages) Tutorial submissions 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. Further information and instructions about submissions can be found on the conference website at tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bernhard Beckert, U. of Koblenz, Germany (Chair) Peter Baumgartner, MPI Saarbruecken, Germany Marta Cialdea Mayer, U. Roma Tre, Italy Roy Dyckhoff, U. of St. Andrews, Scotland Christian Fermueller, Technical U. of Vienna, Austria Ulrich Furbach, U. of Koblenz, Germany Didier Galmiche, LORIA, U. Henri Poincare, France Martin Giese, Chalmers U., Gothenburg, Sweden Rajeev P. Gore, Australian National U., Canberra, Australia Jean Goubault-Larrecq, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France Reiner Haehnle, Chalmers U., Gothenburg, Sweden Ian Horrocks, U. of Manchester, UK Ullrich Hustadt, U. of Liverpool, UK Christoph Kreitz, U. of Potsdam, Germany Reinhold Letz, TU Muenchen, Germany Carsten Lutz, Dresden U. of Technology, Germany Maarten Marx, U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ugo Moscato, U. of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Neil V. Murray, U. at Albany, USA Ilkka Niemela, Helsinki U. of Technology, Finland Nicola Olivetti, U. of Torino, Italy Lawrence Paulson, U. of Cambridge, UK David A. Plaisted, U. of North Carolina, USA Peter H. Schmitt, U. of Karlsruhe, Germany Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI Saarbruecken, Germany Arild Waaler, U. of Oslo, Norway Calogero G. Zarba, LORIA and INRIA-Lorraine, France ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference Chair: Bernhard Beckert, University of Koblenz, Germany Publicity Chair: Gernot Stenz, TU Muenchen, Germany Local Organizers: Gerd Beuster Vladimir Klebanov Thomas Kleeman Jan Murray Oliver Obst Alex Sinner Christoph Wernhard Doris Wertz From murray at uni-koblenz.de Fri Mar 18 15:22:49 2005 From: murray at uni-koblenz.de (Jan Murray) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:22:49 +0100 Subject: [DL] [KI-2005] CFP: 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2005) Message-ID: <16954.58425.732248.369833@comet.uni-koblenz.de> [apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] --------------------------------------------------------------- KI 2005 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence September 11-14, 2005 Koblenz, Germany http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/ Call for Papers 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. The main conference is accompanied by a number of workshops and tutorials. KI 2005 will be held together with MATES 2005 (www.mates2005.de) and co-located with Tableaux 2005 (tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de). 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 * Neural Networks * Planning and Scheduling * Ontologies * Reasoning under Uncertainty * Robotics * Semantic Web * Soft Computing * Temporal and Spatial Reasoning * Vision SUBMISSION DATES April 15, 2005: Submission of electronic abstracts and papers June 03, 2005: Notification for conference papers June 30, 2005: Camera-ready copies for conference papers SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Conference submission is electronic, in PDF or 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). Papers must be written in English. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) Series. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the contribution. INVITED SPEAKERS - Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University) - Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels) - Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester) ORGANIZATION General Chair: Ulrich Furbach, University Koblenz-Landau Program Committee: Slim Abdennadher, The German University in Cairo Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg Franz Baader, University of Dresden Peter Baumgartner, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics (Workshop Chair) Michael Beetz, University of Munich Susanne Biundo, University of Ulm Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin Juergen Dix, University of Clausthal Christian Freksa, University of Bremen Ulrich Furbach, University Koblenz-Landau (General Chair) Enrico Giunchiglia, Genova University Guenther Goerz, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nurenberg Andreas Guenther, University of Hamburg Joachim Hertzberg, University of Osnabrueck (Tutorial Chair) Otthein Herzog, TZI University of Bremen Steffen Hoelldobler, University of Dresden Werner Horn, University of Vienna Stefan Kirn, University of Hohenheim Gerhard Kraetzschmar, University of Ulm Rudolf Kruse, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg Nicholas Kushmerick, University College Dublin Gerhard Lakemeyer, University of Aachen Hans-Hellmut Nagel, University of Karlsruhe Bernhard Nebel, University of Freiburg Bernd Neumann, University of Hamburg Ilkka Niemelae, Helsinki University of Technologie Frank Puppe, University of Wuerzburg Martin Riedmiller, University of Osnabrueck Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, University of Paris 6 Joerg Siekmann, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Steffen Staab, University Koblenz-Landau Frieder Stolzenburg, University of Applied Studies and Research, Harz Sylvie Thiebaux, The Australian National University, Canberra Michael Thielscher, University of Dresden Toby Walsh, National ICT Australia Gerhard Weiss, University of Munich Workshop Chair: Peter Baumgartner, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics Tutorial Chair: Joachim Hertzberg, University of Osnabrueck CONTACT KI 2005 ki2005 at uni-koblenz.de http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de Regards, Jan Murray (AI Research Group, U Koblenz) From tho at ifs.tuwien.ac.at Mon Apr 4 01:12:05 2005 From: tho at ifs.tuwien.ac.at (Nguyen Manh Tho) Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 01:12:05 +0200 Subject: [DL] Second CFP:DaWak2005 (Copenhagen, Denmark), deadline April 22, 2005 In-Reply-To: <4225E47A.6060401@t-online.de> References: <419CD5C1.6080207@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> <4225E47A.6060401@t-online.de> Message-ID: <20050403231205.2843.qmail@nemesis.big.tuwien.ac.at> (Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students) ************************************************************************* Call for Papers DaWak2005 7th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery 22 - 26 August 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.dexa.org/ http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dawak2005/ *************** Important dates *************** * Submission of abstracts: April 15, 2005 * Submission of full papers: April 22, 2005 * Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2005 * Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 2005 ************************************************************************* Outline ------- The objective of the 7th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2005) is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss research issues and experience in developing and deploying data warehousing and knowledge discovery systems, applications, and solutions. This year the conference will also focus on autonomic aspect of data warehousing and knowledge discovery. Moreover, the conference will be supplemented with invited talks, panel discussion and industrial papers. Major Tracks: ------------- The topics of interest include in these tracks but are not limited to: * Autonomic Database Systems: ---------------------------- Architecture of autonomic system, Self-management of data management system, Self-optimization of indexing structure, Automatic data replication, ETL process, data clustering, query optimization and automatic analysis of data based on events. * Data Warehousing: ------------------ Active data warehousing, Analytical front-end tools, Data cleansing, Data warehouse architecture, Data warehouse design (conceptual, logical and physical), Data warehouse quality, Data warehouse design methodology, Data warehouse security and reliability, Design and maintenance of metadata repository, Distributed data warehousing, Multidimensional databases, View maintenance/adaptation, Multidimensional query languages, Query optimization, Parallel processing. * Knowledge Discovery: --------------------- Association rules and temporal association rules, Clustering, Data and knowledge representation, Data mining agents, Data mining support for the design of a data warehouse, Distributed and parallel data mining/knowledge discovery, Evaluating, consolidating, and explaining discovered knowledge, Incremental knowledge discovery, Integration of data warehousing and OLAP and data mining, Interactive data exploration and discovery, Languages and interfaces for data mining, Mining unstructured and structured texts. ********************************************************************* *************** Paper Submission Details *************** ********************************************************************* Authors are invited to submit research and application papers, not exceeding 5000 words, representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers that substantially exceed this limit will be rejected without review. However, it is possible to include additional, clarifying material in an appendix to the paper. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. Paper submissions in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) would be highly appreciated. The maximum number of pages for the final version will be 10 pages. We are negotiating an SCI journal for best four or even five papers of DaWak2005 conference. Authors are requested to send the abstract of their paper to be received by April 15, 2005. You should submit the file of your paper to be received by April 22, 2005. ********************************************************************* *************** Program Chairs: *************** ********************************************************************* A Min Tjoa (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Juan C. Trujillo (University of Alicante, Spain) ********************************************************************* *************** Program Committee *************** ********************************************************************* Alberto Abello (Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Spain) Mike Bain (University of New South Wales, Australia) Elena Baralis (Polytechnic University of Torino, Italy) Jorge Bernardino (Polytechnic of Coimbra, Portugal) Claudio Bettini (University of Milan, Italy) Sourav S. Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Ella Bingham (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Mokrane Bouzeghoub (University of Versailles, France) Stephane Bressan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Stephen Brobst (NCR, Teradata Corp., USA) Robert M. Bruckner (Microsoft, USA) Luca Cabibbo (Universita di Roma Tre, Italy) Chee-Yong Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Arbee L.P.Chen (National Chengchi University,Taipei, Taiwan) Sunil Choenni (University of Twente, Netherlands) Karen Davis (University of Cincinnati,Cincinnati, USA) Vladimir Estivill-Castro (Griffith University, USA) Christie Ezeife (University of Windsor, Canada) Ling Feng (University of Twente, Netherlands) Eduardo Ferrandez-Medina (University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain) Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (University Pierre et Marie Curie, France) Matteo Golfarelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Jerzy Grzymala-Busse (University of Kansas, USA) S.K. Gupta (Indian Institue of Technology, India) Mirsad Hadzikadic (College of Information Technology, UNC Charlotte, USA) Joachim Hammer (University of Bremen, Germany) Alexander Hinneburg (Martin-Luther-University Halle/Wittenberg, Germany) Tu Bao Ho (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Jaakko Hollmen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Se June Hong (IBM - The Data Analytics Research Project, USA) Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany) Matthias Jarke (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Germany) Manfred Jeusfeld (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Hiroyuki Kawano (Nanzan University, Japan) Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Jens Lechtenboerger (University of Muenster, Germany) Guanling Lee (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Yue-Shi Lee (Ming-Chuan University, Taiwan) Wolfgang Lehner (Dressen University of Technology, Germany) Tok Wang Ling (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Beate List (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Yannis Manolopoulos (Aristotle University, Greece) Mukesh Mohania (I.B.M. India Research Lab, India) Wee Keong Ng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Tho Manh Nguyen (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Dimitris Papadias (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jian Pei (The State University of New York, USA) Jaakko Peltonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Clara Pizzuti (Universita' della Calabria, Italy) David Powers (The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia) Zbigniew W. Ras (University of North Carolina,Charlotte, USA) Mirek Riedewald (Cornell University, USA) Stefano Rizzi (University of Bologna, Italy) Domenico Sacc? (Universita Della Calabria, Italy) Monica Scannapieco (University of Rome, Italy) Josef Schiefer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Markus Schneider (University of Florida, USA) Michael Schrefl (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Timos Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Manuel Serrano (University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain) Alkis Simitsis (National Technical University Of Athens, Greece) Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) Gerd Stumme (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) David Taniar (Monash University, Australia) Dimitri Theodoratos (New Jersey Institute of Technology,USA) Riccardo Torlone (Universit??nbsp; Roma Tre, Italy) Panos Vassiliadis, (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Millist Vincent (University of South Australia, Australia) Werner Winiwarter (University of Vienna, Austria) Marek Wojciechowski (Poznan University of Technology ul. Piotrowo, Poland) Wolfram W?? (University of Linz, Austria) Xindong Wu (University of Vermont, USA) Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada) Show-Jane Yen (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New York, USA) Long Zhang (IBM China Research Laboratory, China) Shichao Zhang (Sydney University of Technology, Australia) From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Mon Apr 4 17:21:00 2005 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Ulrike Sattler) Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:21:00 +0100 Subject: [DL] 10 more days to go: DL2005: second Call for Papers Message-ID: <42515B5C.50406@cs.man.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive this more than once. You are receiving this message since you are a subscriber of a relevant mailing list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2005) 26th to 28th July 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK http://dl.kr.org/dl2005/ co-located with IJCAI 2005, http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ The 2005 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2000) continues the tradition of international workshops devoted to discussing developments and applications of knowledge representation formalisms based on Description Logics. DL2005 will be co-located with IJCAI 2005 (the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/, 30 July to 5 August 2005), and will take place from the 26th to 28th July 2005 in the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions of technical papers of 8 pages. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their papers at the workshop. Accepted papers will be included in the informal conference proceedings as normal papers (8 pages) or long papers (12 pages). We plan to make the conference proceedings available electronically via CEUR at http://www.ceur-ws.org. Please note that, in contrast to previous DL workshops, registration is open to everybody, and not by invitation only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: April 15th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: May 30th, 2005 Camera ready papers due: June 26th, 2005 DL 2005 Workshop: July 26th to 28th, 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of Description Logics, including but not limited to: * 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, fuzzy operators, temporal and spatial knowledge, 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 and engineering, e-Science, semantic web, and grid computing. * Building systems based on Description Logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques. * Tools that exploit Description Logic reasoning, such as ontology editors and database schema design and integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS Interested parties are invited to submit a technical paper not exceeding 8 pages that has been prepared according to the instructions found in http://dl.kr.org/dl2005/submission.tex In case you cannot use LaTeX, you can use the instructions found in http://dl.kr.org/dl2005/submission.ps To submit your paper, please follow the instructions at http:///www.easychair.org/DL-05/submit/ In case you have problems with electronic submissions, please contact one of the workshop organizers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK * Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Carlos Areces, France * Alessandro Artale, Italy * Giuseppe De Giacomo, Italy * Volker Haarslev, Canada * Ian Horrocks, UK * Holger Knublauch, US * Carsten Lutz, Germany * Maarten Marx, NL * Ralf Moeller, Germany * Bijan Parsia, USA * Peter Patel-Schneider, USA * Ulrike Sattler, UK * Luciano Serafini, Italy * David Toman, Canada * Holger Wache, NL * Frank Wolter, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information regarding costs, travel information, hotels, etc. will be distributed later. Check the home page of DL 2005 for updates. * Enquiries about the DL2000 workshop can be made by mailing to the organizing committee: dl2005 at cs.man.ac.uk * The official Description Logics WWW home page is at http://dl.kr.org/dl/ * Patrick Lambrix has a nice collection of DL references, researchers, etc. at: http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/iislab/people/patla/DL/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Tue Apr 5 23:19:52 2005 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:19:52 +0200 Subject: [DL] call for papers: FOnt 2005 Message-ID: <425300F8.6000406@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> FOnt 2005 - Foundational Aspects of Ontologies A Workshop at the 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2005, Koblenz, Germany, September 11th, 2005 Call for Papers =============== Representing and reasoning with ontologies is the core technology for the Semantic Web, and is growing in importance in many other areas of Computer Science where structured and hierarchically organized knowledge is of importance. While the need for ontological knowledge representation formalisms for practical applications is abundant, it is apparent that only conceptually and mathematically sound frameworks can provide the means for a significant technological advance in this area. Indeed, formal and foundational aspects of ontologies are being studied in many application domains in order to serve practical needs. It lies in the nature of such fundamental research that a critical mass of different formal perspectives can generate a cross-fertilization of ideas and applications. We therefore intend to bring together researchers working on foundational aspects of ontologies in different application areas, in order to stimulate an exchange of ideas and methods between the subcommunities. We believe that a significant advance in understanding and establishing sound formal foundations for applied ontology research can this way be made. Aim and Scope ------------- The workshop is intended for researchers which contribute to the * algebraic, * logical, * category-theoretic, * philosophical, and other foundations of ontology research. Submissions ----------- We invite the submission of original papers that have not been submitted for review or been published elsewhere. Submitted papers must be written in English and should not exceed 15 pages. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to Pascal Hitzler (hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de). Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be distributed during the workshop. Dates ----- June 10th, 2005: paper submission July 15th, 2005: notification August 5th, 2005: camera-ready versions September 11th-14th: KI 2005 September 11th, 2005: workshop Keynote Speaker --------------- Till Mossakowski, Department of Computer Science, Universit?t Bremen, Germany Organizers ---------- Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany Carsten Lutz, Department of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany Gerd Stumme, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Universit?t Kassel, Germany Programme Committee ------------------- J?r?me Euzenat, INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes, Grenoble, France Bernhard Ganter, TU Dresden, Germany Joseph Goguen, University of California at San Diego, California, USA Wolfgang Hesse, Universit?t Marburg, Germany Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southhampton, UK Robert E. Kent, Ontologos, Pullman, USA Markus Kr?tzsch, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany Claudio Masolo, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Trento, Italy Fabian Neuhaus, Universit?t des Saarlandes, Saarbr?cken, Germany Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK Marco Schorlemmer, CSIC Barcelona, Spain Anthony K. Seda, University College Cork, Ireland Sergio Tessaris, Universit? di Bolzano, Italy Rudolf Wille, TU Darmstadt, Germany Guo-Qiang Zhang, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Contact ------- Contact Pascal Hitzler (hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) for all inquiries about the workshop. Workshop homepage: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/phi/FOnt2005/ -- Dr. Pascal Hitzler Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe email: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de fax: +49 721 608 6580 web: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de phone: +49 721 608 4751 http://www.neural-symbolic.org From Bertram.Fronhoefer at inf.tu-dresden.de Wed Apr 6 12:12:14 2005 From: Bertram.Fronhoefer at inf.tu-dresden.de (Bertram Fronhoefer) Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:12:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] REMINDER: ICCL Summer School: Logic-based Knowledge Representation Message-ID: <200504061012.j36ACEVM008645@sulu.inf.tu-dresden.de> Call for Participation ICCL Summer School 2005 LOGIC-BASED KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION Technische Universit?t Dresden 2nd - 17th July 2005 http://www.computational-logic.org/iccl-ss-2005 TOPIC The topic of this year's summer school is Logic-based Knowledge Representation. Intelligent behavior is hard to imagine without the agent having a good knowledge about the surrounding world. For this reason, knowledge representation always played a crucial role in artificial intelligence. Right from the beginning of the field, there was a big discussion on whether sub-symbolic or symbolic approaches for representing knowledge are the right way to go. And even within the symbolic approach there was a conflict between proponents of logic-based approaches (like John McCarthy and Pat Hayes) and proponents of graph-based or procedural approaches (like Marvin Minsky). The advantage of logic-based approaches for symbolic knowledge representation is that they provide the representation formalism with a formally well-founded semantics, which makes both the represented knowledge and the behavior of knowledge representation systems deducing implicit knowledge from the explicitly represented one comprehensible. The disadvantage is that the inference problems may become intractable or even undecidable if the expressive power of the formalism is large enough. For this reason, early systems employing the logic-based approach were either too inexpressive or too slow. This situation has changed drastically in the last 10-15 years. This is partially due to increased computing power. More importantly, however, were the recent theoretical and practical advances in the field of logic-based knowledge representation. The summer school will focus on several of the most successful subfields of this active research area: - reasoning about action and change, - nonmonotonic reasoning, - description logics and ontologies, and - action planning. REGISTRATION If you want to attend the summer school, we'd prefer that you register by April 9, 2005. For all who want to apply for a grant, this deadline is obligatory. After April 9 registration wil be possible as long as there are vacant places. (Since we intend to restrict participation to about 60 people, in case of excessive demand, we will have to select applicants to the summer school.) People applying until April 9 will be informed about admittance and decisions on grants until April 18, 2005. FEES We ask for a participation fee of 200 EUR. INTEGRATED WORKSHOP It will be possible for some participants to present their research work during a small workshop integrated in the summer school: please indicate in the registration form if you would like to do so and give us the title of your proposed talk there. In addition, please submit an extended abstract in postscript or pdf format of max. 5 pages to iccl05ws at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de by April 9, 2005. A program committee consisting of the summer school lecturers and organizers will select among the proposals. Notification of acceptance of a talk at the integrated workshop will be by May 9, 2005. GRANTS A limited number of grants may be available, please indicate in your application if the only possibility for you to participate is via a grant. Applications for grants must include an estimate of travel costs and they should be sent together with the registration. COURSE PROGRAM Nonmonotonic Logics: History, foundations, challenges Piero A. Bonatti (Universit? di Napoli `Federico II', Italy) Answer Set Programming Thomas Eiter (TU Wien, Austria) Ontologies Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Action Planning: Recent Theoretical and Practical Advances Bernhard Nebel (Universit?t Freiburg, Germany) Description Logics Carsten Lutz (TU Dresden, Germany) and Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Action Programming Languages Michael Thielscher (TU Dresden, Germany) Reasoning and Acting under Uncertainty Axel Gro?mann and Steffen H?lldobler (TU Dresden, Germany) PEOPLE INVOLVED Program Committee Franz Baader Carsten Lutz Organizing Committee Steffen H?lldobler Julia Koppenhagen Sylvia Epp Bertram Fronh?fer ____________________________________________________________ From chomicki at cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Apr 6 20:01:16 2005 From: chomicki at cse.Buffalo.EDU (chomicki) Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:01:16 -0400 Subject: [DL] TIME 2005: Call for Participation Message-ID: <425423EC.6010000@cse.buffalo.edu> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: time05particip.txt URL: From peter.e.clark at pss.Boeing.com Thu Apr 7 23:21:43 2005 From: peter.e.clark at pss.Boeing.com (Clark, Peter E) Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:21:43 -0700 Subject: [DL] Employment Opportunity at the Boeing Company Message-ID: <716621DCB4468F46BBCC1BCFBED45C1210D3E7@XCH-NW-2V2.nw.nos.boeing.com> The Mathematics and Computing Technology unit in Phantom Works, the central R&D organization in the Boeing Company, invites applications for the position of Advanced Computing Technologist, to work in the Information Management Group. M&CT technologists perform applied research and development in Mathematics and Computing Technologies to improve Boeing's aerospace industry. The Information Management group is carrying out leading edgeresearch and development in the areas of: * Knowledge Representation, * Knowledge Acquisition, * Knowledge Integration, * Natural Language Understanding, and * Commonsense Reasoning. In particular, we are actively developing technologies for: * Capturing knowledge using a simplified subset of English * Integrating new knowledge appropriately with an existing knowledge base * Performing machine reasoning and question-answering using formal representations * Encoding and using commonsense knowledge * Using knowledge to guide language understanding * Appropriately interacting with the user We are looking for a proactive, highly capable individual to join our team and contribute to research and development in these exciting areas. The candidate should have a strong interest and ability in both long-term research and Lisp-based implementation. Job Skills: * Prefer a PhD and 10 yrs of experience, but require at least a MSc and 5 yrs experience, or a PhD in computer science or related field, or equivalent with skills team approval. * Strong experience in Artificial Intelligence, in particular: - logic-based approaches to knowledge representation - machine reasoning - Preferably some exposure to natural language processing and semantics * Strong and proven ability in Lisp programming. Experience in other languages is also advantageous. * Demonstrated ability to perform innovative research and create novel solutions to difficult technical challenges. * Proven record of publications. * Enjoys applying research results to real-world problems. * Good interpersonal, teamwork, writing, and communication skills * Proactive and self-motivated About the Group: Boeing's Mathematics and Computing Technology Organization is conducting leading-edge research in many areas of Artificial Intelligence, including knowledge-based systems, language processing, data mining, agent technologies, ontological engineering, and neural networks, and is an exciting group to be a part of. We are situated in Seattle, Washington State, in one of the most beautiful parts of the USA, with beautiful mountains, ocean, and islands all nearby. The city and surrounding areas provide many cultural and recreational opportunities. Applications: via Boeing Web site at: https://jobs.boeing.com/JobSeeker/JobSearch Requisition number: 05-1004825 If you have any questions please contact Phil Mathews at: Phil Mathews (phil.mathews at boeing.com) The Boeing Company 562-593-3289 Thank you for your time and interest in The Boeing Company. Because of conflict of interest rules, Boeing has tried to exclude persons identified to it as government employees from distribution of this mailing. If you are in government or military service, please regard this package as widely distributed information only and not a solicitation. Government or military service members need to ensure they comply with any laws and regulations related to seeking employment outside of government before contacting Boeing. From guido at di.unito.it Fri Apr 8 22:08:42 2005 From: guido at di.unito.it (Guido Boella) Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 22:08:42 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium on Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective In-Reply-To: <020801c53079$cf6efa60$669ded82@dsv.su.se> References: <020801c53079$cf6efa60$669ded82@dsv.su.se> Message-ID: <4256E4CA.1070206@di.unito.it> ** We apologize for multiple copies of this CfP ** ** Please feel free to distribute it ** ------------------------------- 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective II Call for papers November 3-6, 2005, Hyatt Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia The notion of role is ubiquitous not only in many areas of artificial intelligence, but also in many other areas of computer science, like programming languages, software engineering, coordination and databases, multiagent systems, computational linguistics and conceptual modelling, and also in other scientific fields, like formal ontology, sociology, cognitive science, organizational science and linguistics. In sociology, on the one hand roles are often described as expected behavior of entities or agents, on the other hand roles are seen also as presentations of selves. In organizational science roles encompass more formal aspects such as rights and duties. Three different main viewpoints characterize research on roles: * roles as named places in relationships (especially in linguistics, databases and conceptual modelling) * roles as dynamic classification of entities (especially in programming languages and databases) * roles as instances to be adjoined to the entities which play the role (especially in ontologies, multiagent systems and programming languages). Undisputed distinguishing features of roles seem to be their dependence on some other entities and their dynamic character (Sowa 1984). These properties contrast roles with the notion of natural types. Natural type seems to be essential to an entity: if an entity changes its natural type, it loses its identity; in Guarino (1992)'s terms, roles lack the rigidity which natural types possess. Masolo et al. (2004) elaborate the relational nature of roles, highlighting their definitional dependence on other concepts. Discussions on roles are important not only to have a better understanding of theories using this notion, but also from the applicative point of view. E.g., integration of ontologies, programming languages, databases, simulation can benefit from the introduction of a well founded notion of role. However, as, e.g., Steinmann (2000) witnesses, there is no common agreement yet about what roles are, which are their properties and how they can be modelled in a uniform way in the different areas. One likely reason is that roles are discussed in very different contexts, so that interested researchers have little opportunity to meet with each other. Even if there are events where roles are discussed, they always appear as a sub-topic within the framework of more general issues (like the AOSE workshop about agent oriented software engineering, or the recent CoOrg05 workshop at Coordination05); hence, there are few venues for research integration. With this symposium we propose to gather researchers working across the boundaries of their subfields to explore new formal and computational techniques and research methodologies for integrating research results. For this reason this symposium will provide time for discussion besides paper presentations. Submissions Researchers interested in making a presentation should submit a paper about theoretical or applicative issues (not to exceed 5,000 words). Other participants should submit either a position paper or a research abstract in order to be involved in the discussion. Submissions should be uploaded at http://roles05.di.unito.it/ Questions should be sent to Guido Boella (guido [at] di.unito.it). Papers will be published in the symposium proceedings and the best papers of the symposium will be selected for publication on some renowed journal. Participants from all parts of the AI community as well as from other fields are encouraged. Instructions for authors can be found at website http://aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fall-symposia.html Deadlines * May 3, 2005: Submission due to organizers * May 24, 2005: Notifications of acceptance sent by organizers * November 3-6, 2005: Symposium Website http://normas.di.unito.it/zope/roles05 Organizing Committee Guido Boella - Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Torino guido[at]di.unito.it James Odell - Agentis, Ann Arbor (MI) USA mailbox[at]jamesodell.com Leendert van der Torre - CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands torre[at]cwi.nl Harko Verhagen - DSV, KTH/SU, Sweden verhagen[at]dsv.su.se References N. Guarino. Concepts, attributes and arbitrary relations. Data and Knowledge Engineering (8), 1992. C. Masolo and L. Vieu and E. Bottazzi and C. Catenacci and R. Ferrario and A. Gangemi and N. Guarino. Social roles and their descriptions. Procs. of KR04, 2004. J.F. Sowa. Conceptual structures. Addison Wesley, NY. 1984. F. Steimann. On the representation of roles in object-oriented and conceptual modelling. Data and Knowledge Engineering (35), 2000. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: roles05.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 17748 bytes Desc: not available URL: From sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Sat Apr 9 17:07:33 2005 From: sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (York Sure) Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:07:33 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESWC2005 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <200504091540.j39FeiZt021128@mx.mail.inf.tu-dresden.de> ----------------------------------------- Apologies for cross-postings ----------------------------------------- ++ ESWC2005 Call for Participation ++ ++ Early Registration until 15th April 05 ++ ++ Full program available online! ++ 2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2005) May 29 to June 1, 2005 Heraklion, Crete (Greece) http://www.eswc2005.org/ ----------------------------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's web via the exploitation of machine-processable meta data. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, accompanied with domain theories (Ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together an incredibly large network of human knowledge and will complement it with machine processability. Various automated services will help the user to achieve goals by accessing and providing information in machine-understandable form. This process may ultimately create extremely knowledgeable systems with various specialized reasoning services systems. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Human Language Technology, Machine Learning, Databases, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision. The 2nd Annual European Semantic Web Conference will present the latest results in research and application in semantic web technologies (including knowledge mark-up languages, semantic web services, ontology management and more). ESWC 2005 will also feature a special industry-oriented event providing European industry with an opportunity to become even more familiar with these technologies. It will offer a tutorial program to get up to speed with European and global developments in this exciting new area. ESWC 2005 is co-located with a meeting of the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence. Workshops and meetings of other European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects involved in the semantic web and semantic web technologies will be able to showcase their developments. ESWC 2005 is sponsored by SDK - a group of three European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects known as SEKT, DIP and Knowledge Web. Together these projects aim to improve world-wide research and standardisation in the area of the Semantic Web. For more information on SDK, please visit http://www.sdk-cluster.org. ----------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Early Registration: April 15, 2005 Conference: May 29-June 1, 2005 ----------------------------------------- CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST AND AREA KEYWORDS Topics of interest to the conference include: - Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotation of Web Data - (Semi-)automatic ontology learning and metadata generation (Including HLT and machine learning approaches) - Ontology Management (creation, alignment, merging, evolution, evaluation, linking, mediation and reconciliation) - Semantic Web Services (service description, discovery, invocation, composition) - Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management - Data Semantics - Database Technologies for the Semantic Web - Semantic Knowledge Portals - Semantic Brokering - Semantic Interoperability - Semantic Web Mining - Semantic Web Inference Schemes - Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights - Semantic Web for e-Business and e-Learning - Semantic Searching and Querying - Reasoning in the Semantic Web - Visualization and modelling ----------------------------------------- PROGRAM & MORE INFORMATION http://www.eswc2005.org/ ----------------------------------------- -- Dr. York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592 web: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu From martin at AI.SRI.COM Mon Apr 11 09:49:30 2005 From: martin at AI.SRI.COM (David Martin) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:49:30 -0700 Subject: [DL] W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services (Call for Participation) Message-ID: <425A2C0A.8090500@ai.sri.com> 3RD CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: WORKSHOP ON FRAMEWORKS FOR SEMANTICS IN WEB SERVICES W3C is holding a workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services. This workshop is being held to discuss the establishment of a generic extensible framework based on Semantic Web technologies, to support longer-term objectives, while continuing to develop immediate solutions for the most pressing Web Services requirements. The workshop results will be used in setting directions at W3C with respect to this vital technology area. Input is sought from researchers, developers, technology managers, tool builders, users, and other interested parties. When: 9-10 June 2005 Where: Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Innsbruck, Austria Other details about the workshop are available at: http://www.w3.org/2005/01/ws-swsf-cfp.html The event is being organized by the W3C Architecture Domain. The workshop will be chaired by Steve Battle, and David Martin, . Carine Bournez is the W3C Contact for this workshop. --------------------- Important Information --------------------- Other important dates and deadlines for this workshop are: April 22, 2005: Position papers due May 20, 2005: Final agenda available May 27, 2005: Registration closes Please note that: - There will be a limit of 80 participants. - Attendance is open to everyone, including non-W3C members, but each organization or individual wishing to participate must submit a position paper. - To ensure maximum diversity among participants, the authors of each accepted paper will be allowed to send two participants to the workshop. - There is no registration fee. ----- Scope ----- There are a great many relationships to existing Semantic Web efforts as well as to existing Web Services development, including: Semantic Web background technologies; e.g. RDF, OWL Web Services background technologies; e.g. SOAP, WSDL Registries, taxonomies, and search mechanisms; e.g. UDDI Rule languages; e.g. SWRL Ontologies for Web Services; e.g. OWL-S, WSMO Web Services Choreography; e.g. WS-CDL Business process; e.g. BPEL4WS Discussion of the relationship of these areas to the workshop topic is encouraged. We are looking forward to your participation and contributions to this workshop. From gada05 at gmail.com Mon Apr 11 18:04:41 2005 From: gada05 at gmail.com (GADA 05) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:04:41 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: GADA05 In-Reply-To: <65fa720d05041108331f1321f1@mail.gmail.com> References: <65fa720d05041108331f1321f1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <65fa720d05041109046243d6cf@mail.gmail.com> ******************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ******************************************************************** The Second International Workshop on Grid Computing and its Application to Data Analysis (GADA'05) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/gada2005cfp.html In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'05) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag ******************************************************************** Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 31 Oct - 4 Nov 2005 ******************************************************************** Grid computing has become one of the most important topics appeared and widely developed in the computing field in the last decade. The research area of grid computing is making rapid progress, owing to the increasing necessity of computation in the resolution of complex applications. Clusters are, in some sense, the predecessors of the grid technology. Clusters interconnect nodes through a local high-speed network, using commodity hardware, with the aim of reducing the costs of such infrastructures. Supercomputers have been replaced by cluster of workstations in a huge number of research projects, being the grid technology the natural evolution of clusters. One of the major goals of grid computing is to provide efficient access to data. Grids provide access to distributed computing and data resources, allowing data-intensive applications to improve significantly data access, management and analysis. Nowadays, there is a huge number of data-intensive applications, e.g. data mining systems extracting knowledge from large volumes of data. Existing data-intensive applications have been used in several domains, such as physics, climate modelling, biology or visualization. Grid systems responsible for tackling and managing large amounts of data in geographically distributed environments are usually named data grids. The great challenge of grid computing is the complete integration of heterogeneous computing systems and data resources with the aim of providing a global computing space. The achievement of this goal will involve revolutionary changes in the field of computation, because it will enable resource-sharing across networks, being data one of the most important ones. This workshop is intended for researchers in grid computing, who want to extend their background on this area and more specifically to those that use grid environments for managing and analysing data. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Computational grids * Data integration on grids * Grid-based data mining * Grid solutions for data-intensive applications * Grid infrastructures for data analysis * High-performance computing for data-intensive applications * Grid computing infrastructures, middleware and tools * Grid computing services * Grid and cluster computing * Collaboration technologies * Data analysis and management * Databases and the grid * Extracting knowledge from data grids * Agent-based management of data in distributed systems * Agent architectures for grid environments * Semantic Grid * Data grids for bioinformatics * Security in data grids SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Authors instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The paper submission site is located at: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/gada/2005/papers Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline June 24, 2005 Paper Submission Deadline June 24, 2005 Acceptance Notification July 29, 2005 Final Version Due August 20, 2005 Conference October 31 - November 4, 2005 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE * Pilar Herrero Facultad de Inform?tica Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo S/N 28660 Boadilla del Monte Madrid (Spain) Phone: (+34) 91.336.74.56 Fax: (+34) 91.336.65.95E mail: pherrero at fi.upm.es * Mar?a S. P?rez Facultad de Inform?tica Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo S/N 28660 Boadilla del Monte Madrid (Spain) Phone: (+34) 91.336.73.80 Fax: (+34) 91.336.73.73 Email: mperez at fi.upm.es * V?ctor Robles Facultad de Inform?tica Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo S/N 28660 Boadilla del Monte Madrid (Spain) Phone: (+34) 91.336.73.80 Fax: (+34) 91.336.73.73 Email: vrobles at fi.upm.es * Jan Humble School of Computer Science & IT University of Nottingham Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK Phone: +44 (115) 951 4226 Fax: +44 (115) 951 4254 email: jch at cs.nott.ac.uk PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Jemal Abawajy (Deakin University, Victoria, Australia) * Nedim Alpdemir (University of Manchester,UK) * Mark Baker (University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK) * Steve Benford (University of Nottingham,UK) * Jos? L. Bosque (URJC, Madrid, Spain) * Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia) * Mario Cannataro (University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy) * Elizabeth Chang (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) * Steve C. Chiu (Idaho State University, USA) * Toni Cortes (UPC, Barcelona, Spain) * Stefan Egglestone (University of Nottingham,UK) * Alvaro A. A. Fernandes (University of Manchester,UK) * Chris Greenhalgh (University of Nottingham,UK) * Alastair Hampshire (University of Nottingham,UK) * Eduardo Huedo (CSIC-INTA, Madrid, Spain) * Kostas Karasavvas (National e-Science Centre, UK) * Daniel S. Katz (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA) * Domenico Laforenza (Information Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI), Pisa, Italy) * Ignacio M. Llorente (UCM-CAB, Madrid, Spain) * Phillip Lord (University of Machester,UK) * Bertram Ludaescher (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego,USA) * Gianluca Moro (University of Bologna, Italy) * Jos? M. Pe?a (UPM, Madrid, Spain) * Omer Rana (Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK) * Francisco Rosales (UPM, Madrid, Spain) * Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester,UK) * Alberto S?nchez (UPM, Madrid, Spain) * Manuel Salvadores (Imbert Management Consulting Group, Spain) * Heinz Stockinger (University of Vienna, Austria ) * Oliver Storz (Lancaster University,UK) * Domenico Talia (Universita' della Calabria, Italy) * David Walker (University of Wales in Cardiff, UK) * Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) From awesome05 at gmail.com Mon Apr 11 19:56:31 2005 From: awesome05 at gmail.com (AWeSOMe05) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:56:31 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: AWeSOMe'05 Message-ID: ***************************************************** The First International Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe'05) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/awesome2005cfp.html In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'05) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag ***************************************************** Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 31 Oct - 4 Nov 2005 ***************************************************** Web services are a rapidly expanding approach to building distributed software systems across networks such as the Internet. A Web service is an operation typically addressed via a URI, declaratively described using widely accepted standards, and accessed via platform-independent XML-based messages. Emerging ontologies 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. Agents and multi-agent systems can benefit from this combination, and can be used for web service discovery, use and composition. In addition, web services and multi-agent systems bear certain similarities, such as a component-like behaviour, that can help to make their development much easier. This workshop is intended for researchers working in this topic who want to interact and exchange ideas with other participants. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Agent-based modelling and design techniques to address problems in web service system development; * Architectures and infrastructure for distributed agent- or service- based frameworks; * Architectures for supporting agents and web services within the semantic web; * Infrastructure and architectures for M-services; * Intelligent matchmaking and service brokering; * Interoperability of web services; * Multi-agent techniques to describing, organizing, and discovering web services; * Ontology or semantic-based approaches to describing and classifying services and capabilities; * Pricing and payment models for Web services; * Process modeling for service/agent composition, orchestration and coordination; * Scaleable service composition for heterogeneous environments; * Security support for agents and services, and agent-based approaches to service security; * Semantics for service delegation and knowledge aggregation; * Semantics in Agent Communication Languages; * Services and the semantic web, including initiatives such as OWL-S (formerly DAML-S); * Use of agent-based approaches for web service personalization; * Use of context and conversations for Web services composition; * Use of web service infrastructure and tools for building multi-agent systems. * Web service agreements, legal contracts, and social commitments between trading partners; SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Authors instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The paper submission site is located at: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/awesome/2005/papers Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline June 24, 2005 Paper Submission Deadline June 24, 2005 Acceptance Notification July 29, 2005 Final Version Due August 20, 2005 Conference October 31 - November 4, 2005 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE * Pilar Herrero Facultad de Inform?tica Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo S/N 28660 Boadilla del Monte Madrid (Spain) Phone: (+34) 91.336.74.56 Fax: (+34) 91.336.65.95E mail: pherrero at fi.upm.es * David Martin Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025 (USA) Phone: 650/859-4119 Email: martin at ai.sri.com * Lawrence Cavedon Center for the Study of Language and Information Stanford University 210 Panama St Stanford California 94305 (USA) Phone: (+1) 650-725-2318 Email: lcavedon at csli.stanford.edu * Gonzalo M?ndez Facultad de Inform?tica Universidad Complutense de Madrid C/ Prof. Jos? Garc?a Santesmases, s/n. 28040 Madrid (Spain) Phone: (+34) 91.394.75.99 Email: gmendez at fdi.ucm.es PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Chris van Aart, Acklin B.V., The Netherlands * Richard Benjamins, iSOCO, Spain * Adam Cheyer, SRI International, USA * Ian J. Dickinson, HP Labs, UK * Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore * Hamada H. Ghenniwa, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland * Mike Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA * Margaret Lyell, The MITRE Corporation, USA * W. Lewis Johnson, University of Southern California (USC), USA * E. Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Juan Pav?n Mestras, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain * Terry R. Payne, University of Southampton, UK * Jos? M. Pe?a, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain * Mar?a S. P?rez, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain * Debbie Richards, Macquarie University, Australia * V?ctor Robles, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain * Marta Sabou, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Holland * Manuel Salvadores, Imbert Management Consulting Group, Spain * Alberto S?nchez, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain * Jorge G?mez Sanz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain * Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology , Australia * Leon Sterling, University of Melbourne, Australia * Henry Tirri, Nokia Research Center(NRC), Finland * Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK * Santtu Toivonen, VTT Information Technology, Finland * Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada * Steve Willmott, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan From kaneiwa at nii.ac.jp Tue Apr 12 11:25:15 2005 From: kaneiwa at nii.ac.jp (Ken Kaneiwa) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:25:15 +0900 Subject: [DL] CFP: Special Session on Logic and Knowledge Representation at IICAI-05 Message-ID: <00e201c53f41$8bf01b80$6647bb88@KANEIWAR768SED> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session on Logic and Knowledge Representation at The 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05) December 20-22 2005, Pune, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Special Session on Logic and Knowledge Representation will be held during the 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05). The session invites papers in all areas of Logic and Knowledge Representation. IICAI-05 http://www.iiconference.org/index.html (special session: Logic and Knowledge Representation http://www.iiconference.org/logic.html) For many years, logic has been studied as an important topic of knowledge representation and reasoning. In fact, many AI researchers use logic for analyzing the problems and for modeling the reasoning process. In addition, the knowledge representation research in AI has been providing various extensions to logic in other fields such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, computer science, etc. The Special Session on Logic and Knowledge Representation provides an ideal platform for exchanging ideas in all the areas related to logic and knowledge representation. The topics covered by the session include but certainly not limited to: Abduction and Induction Automated Reasoning Belief Revision Complexity of Reasoning Description Logics Foundations of Knowledge Representation Hybrid Reasoning Systems Knowledge-base Systems Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Logic for Databases Logic for Multi-agent Systems Logic for the Semantic Web Logic Programming Logical Formalisms in AI Modal Logic Nonclassical Logic Nonmonotonic Reasoning Object-Oriented Deductive Languages Ontology Ontology Description Languages Order-Sorted Logic Philosophical Logic Proof Theory Reasoning About Actions and Change Temporal Representation and Reasoning Paper Submission and Publication: Authors are encouraged to submit the papers for the session. The papers can be submitted as an email attachment to the Chair of the Session (address is given below). The papers should be in MSWORD, PDF, or PS format and should be formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes instructions. The length of a paper should not exceed 20 pages. Shorter papers or papers on the work currently in progress are also welcome. The first page of the paper should contain the title, name(s) of the authors, affiliations, the postal and email addresses, and at least 3 keywords appropriate to the content of the paper. Further information regarding the paper submission can be obtained from the session chair or access the conference website. Each paper will be peer reviewed by at least two experts in the topical area. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under the title of the session. You may contact the General Chair of the conference for any additional information. Deadlines: May 16th 2005 (Monday): Paper manuscripts due. July 15th 2005 (Friday): Notification of acceptance. August 15th 2005 (Monday): Camera ready papers & Pre-registration due. December 20-22 2005: Special Session and the IICAI-05 Conference. Session Chair: Dr. Ken Kaneiwa, Ph.D. Foundations of Informatics Research Division National Institute of Informatics 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8430, Japan Phone: 81-3-4212-2591 Fax: 81-3-3556-1916 Email: kaneiwa at nii.ac.jp Website: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~kaneiwa From tho at ifs.tuwien.ac.at Fri Apr 15 12:24:25 2005 From: tho at ifs.tuwien.ac.at (Nguyen Manh Tho) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:24:25 +0200 Subject: [DL] Reminder: DaWak2005 CFP (Copenhagen, Denmark), deadline: April 22, 2005) In-Reply-To: <4225E47A.6060401@t-online.de> References: <419CD5C1.6080207@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> <4225E47A.6060401@t-online.de> Message-ID: <20050415102425.1813.qmail@nemesis.big.tuwien.ac.at> (Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students) ************************************************************************* Call for Papers DaWak2005 7th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery 22 - 26 August 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.dexa.org/ http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dawak2005/ *************** Important dates *************** * Submission of abstracts: April 15, 2005 * Submission of full papers: April 22, 2005 * Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2005 * Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 2005 ************************************************************************* Outline ------- The objective of the 7th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2005) is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss research issues and experience in developing and deploying data warehousing and knowledge discovery systems, applications, and solutions. This year the conference will also focus on autonomic aspect of data warehousing and knowledge discovery. Moreover, the conference will be supplemented with invited talks, panel discussion and industrial papers. Major Tracks: ------------- The topics of interest include in these tracks but are not limited to: * Autonomic Database Systems: ---------------------------- Architecture of autonomic system, Self-management of data management system, Self-optimization of indexing structure, Automatic data replication, ETL process, data clustering, query optimization and automatic analysis of data based on events. * Data Warehousing: ------------------ Active data warehousing, Analytical front-end tools, Data cleansing, Data warehouse architecture, Data warehouse design (conceptual, logical and physical), Data warehouse quality, Data warehouse design methodology, Data warehouse security and reliability, Design and maintenance of metadata repository, Distributed data warehousing, Multidimensional databases, View maintenance/adaptation, Multidimensional query languages, Query optimization, Parallel processing. * Knowledge Discovery: --------------------- Association rules and temporal association rules, Clustering, Data and knowledge representation, Data mining agents, Data mining support for the design of a data warehouse, Distributed and parallel data mining/knowledge discovery, Evaluating, consolidating, and explaining discovered knowledge, Incremental knowledge discovery, Integration of data warehousing and OLAP and data mining, Interactive data exploration and discovery, Languages and interfaces for data mining, Mining unstructured and structured texts. ********************************************************************* *************** Paper Submission Details *************** ********************************************************************* Authors are invited to submit research and application papers, not exceeding 5000 words, representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers that substantially exceed this limit will be rejected without review. However, it is possible to include additional, clarifying material in an appendix to the paper. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. Paper submissions in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) would be highly appreciated. The maximum number of pages for the final version will be 10 pages. We are negotiating an SCI journal for best four or even five papers of DaWak2005 conference. Authors are requested to send the abstract of their paper to be received by April 15, 2005. You should submit the file of your paper to be received by April 22, 2005. ********************************************************************* *************** Program Chairs: *************** ********************************************************************* A Min Tjoa (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Juan C. Trujillo (University of Alicante, Spain) ********************************************************************* *************** Program Committee *************** ********************************************************************* Alberto Abello (Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Spain) Mike Bain (University of New South Wales, Australia) Elena Baralis (Polytechnic University of Torino, Italy) Jorge Bernardino (Polytechnic of Coimbra, Portugal) Claudio Bettini (University of Milan, Italy) Sourav S. Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Ella Bingham (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Mokrane Bouzeghoub (University of Versailles, France) Stephane Bressan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Stephen Brobst (NCR, Teradata Corp., USA) Robert M. Bruckner (Microsoft, USA) Luca Cabibbo (Universita di Roma Tre, Italy) Chee-Yong Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Arbee L.P.Chen (National Chengchi University,Taipei, Taiwan) Sunil Choenni (University of Twente, Netherlands) Karen Davis (University of Cincinnati,Cincinnati, USA) Vladimir Estivill-Castro (Griffith University, USA) Christie Ezeife (University of Windsor, Canada) Ling Feng (University of Twente, Netherlands) Eduardo Ferrandez-Medina (University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain) Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (University Pierre et Marie Curie, France) Matteo Golfarelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Jerzy Grzymala-Busse (University of Kansas, USA) S.K. Gupta (Indian Institue of Technology, India) Mirsad Hadzikadic (College of Information Technology, UNC Charlotte, USA) Joachim Hammer (University of Bremen, Germany) Alexander Hinneburg (Martin-Luther-University Halle/Wittenberg, Germany) Tu Bao Ho (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Jaakko Hollmen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Se June Hong (IBM - The Data Analytics Research Project, USA) Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany) Matthias Jarke (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Germany) Manfred Jeusfeld (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Hiroyuki Kawano (Nanzan University, Japan) Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Jens Lechtenboerger (University of Muenster, Germany) Guanling Lee (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Yue-Shi Lee (Ming-Chuan University, Taiwan) Wolfgang Lehner (Dressen University of Technology, Germany) Tok Wang Ling (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Beate List (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Yannis Manolopoulos (Aristotle University, Greece) Mukesh Mohania (I.B.M. India Research Lab, India) Wee Keong Ng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Tho Manh Nguyen (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Dimitris Papadias (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jian Pei (The State University of New York, USA) Jaakko Peltonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Clara Pizzuti (Universita' della Calabria, Italy) David Powers (The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia) Zbigniew W. Ras (University of North Carolina,Charlotte, USA) Mirek Riedewald (Cornell University, USA) Stefano Rizzi (University of Bologna, Italy) Domenico Sacc? (Universita Della Calabria, Italy) Monica Scannapieco (University of Rome, Italy) Josef Schiefer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Markus Schneider (University of Florida, USA) Michael Schrefl (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Timos Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Manuel Serrano (University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain) Alkis Simitsis (National Technical University Of Athens, Greece) Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) Gerd Stumme (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) David Taniar (Monash University, Australia) Dimitri Theodoratos (New Jersey Institute of Technology,USA) Riccardo Torlone (University; Roma Tre, Italy) Panos Vassiliadis, (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Millist Vincent (University of South Australia, Australia) Werner Winiwarter (University of Vienna, Austria) Marek Wojciechowski (Poznan University of Technology ul. Piotrowo, Poland) Wolfram W?? (University of Linz, Austria) Xindong Wu (University of Vermont, USA) Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada) Show-Jane Yen (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New York, USA) Long Zhang (IBM China Research Laboratory, China) Shichao Zhang (Sydney University of Technology, Australia) From e.motta at open.ac.uk Mon Apr 18 13:15:17 2005 From: e.motta at open.ac.uk (Enrico Motta) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:15:17 +0000 Subject: [DL] Final CFP: 4th International Semantic Web Conference - ISWC 2005 Message-ID: <200504181048.j3IAm021017463@mx.mail.inf.tu-dresden.de> FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO THE RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL TRACKS Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005) November 6?10, 2005 Galway, Ireland http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org ************************************************************** DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: April 30, 2005 ************************************************************** Building on the current web architecture, Semantic Web technologies provide a wide range of tools and techniques to support automated reasoning over distributed representations of web content. The Semantic Web will enable a new generation of applications for education, business, science, consumer services, and general collaboration and research tools. The Semantic Web presents an unprecedented challenge of scale and heterogeneity to existing research in expressive representation and query languages, reasoning engines, data representation and integration, interoperability middleware, and distributed computing. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, the International Semantic Web Conference brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Distributed Computing, and Information Systems. The 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005) follows on the success of previous conferences and workshops in Hiroshima, Japan (2004), Sanibel Island, USA (2003), Sardinia, Italy (2002), and Stanford, USA (2001). The organizing committee is soliciting paper submissions for the research papers track and the industrial papers track. CALL FOR PAPERS: RESEARCH TRACK The research track of ISWC2005 solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical and practical aspects of semantic web research. Topics include but are not limited to: - Applications of Semantic Web technologies with clear lessons learned - Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and e-learning - User-centered applications of the Semantic Web - Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data - Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Database technologies for the Semantic Web - Semantic Web middleware - Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web - Semantic Web services - Agents on the Web - Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security - Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation - Social software - Semantic multimedia - Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids - Searching, querying, visualizing and interpreting the Semantic Web - Evaluation of semantic Web techniques Research papers must be submitted electronically via the ISWC2005 Web page at http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org. Papers must be submitted in either PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. Research track paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Papers must be no longer than 15 pages in Springer LNCS format. Papers that exceed this limit will be automatically rejected without review. ISWC2005 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to annotate semantically the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance CALL FOR PAPERS: INDUSTRIAL TRACK The Semantic Web is enjoying a growing interest from industry and from the public at large. Semantic Web technology is moving out of research labs and into the market. A simple search in GoogleNews for "Semantic Web" returns almost 40 hits for published news articles for a period of less than one month. The objective of this year?s ISWC Industrial Track is to attract papers reporting on industrial applications of Semantic Web technology. Our emphasis is on applications of Semantic Web technology, not necessarily on complete Semantic Web applications. Papers submitted to the ISWC Industrial Track should describe an application within a particular organization or industry sector. Apart from a technological description, authors are encouraged to include a description of how the application improves business. We are particularly interested in practical experiences and in lessons learned regarding Semantic Web applications in industrial contexts that could be of interest to other organizations. An additional objective of the track is to attract papers that describe concrete problems in industry for which Semantic Web technology would provide a solution. Such papers should analyze the problem and argue for the appropriateness of Semantic Web technology, and provide an outline of possible solutions. A comparison to competing approaches using conventional technology is strongly encouraged. In order to understand better the actual and potential uptake of Semantic Web technology in different industries, authors are requested to indicate both the application task (e.g., B2B, Search, Call centers, Business Intelligence, KM, CRM, Portals, etc.) and business sector (Automotive, Telecom, Finance, Public Administration, Pharmaceutics, IT, FMCG, Healthcare, Aeronautics, etc.) of their applications and problems. For submitting a paper, authors should follow the general guidelines of the research track. TECHNICAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Mark A. Musen, Stanford University RESEARCH TRACK CO-CHAIRS Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California Enrico Motta, The Open University INDUSTRIAL TRACK CHAIR Richard Benjamins, iSOCO S.A. POSTERS AND DEMO CHAIR Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University SEMANTIC WEB CHALLENGE Michel Klein, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ubbo Visser, Universit?t Bremen TUTORIALS CHAIR R.V. Guha, IBM Almaden Research Laboratory WORKSHOPS CHAIR Natalya F. Noy, Stanford University From vianu at cs.ucsd.edu Thu Apr 21 21:12:45 2005 From: vianu at cs.ucsd.edu (Victor Vianu) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:12:45 -0700 Subject: [DL] ASIAN'05 Call for Papers Message-ID: <4267FB2D.3030901@cs.ucsd.edu> ** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement ** ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------ ASIAN'05 Tenth Asian Computing Science Conference Data Management on the Web Kunming, China Yunan University December 7-9, 2005 http://www.ynu.edu.cn/asian05 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The series of annual Asian Computing Science Conferences (ASIAN) was initiated in 1995 by AIT, INRIA and UNU/IIST to provide a forum for researchers in computer science from the Asian region and to promote interaction with researchers from other regions. The first nine conferences have been held respectively in Bangkok, Singapore, Katmandu, Manila, Phuket, Penang, Hanoi, Mumbai and Chiang Mai. ASIAN 2005 will take place in Kunming, China, December 7-9. Each year, the conference focuses on a different theme at the cutting edge of computer science research. The theme of ASIAN 2005 will be data management on the Web. Keynote speakers ---------------- Richard Hull (Bell Laboratories, Lucent) Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University) Prabhakar Raghavan (Verity and Stanford) There will likely be additional invited talks and tutorials. Call for papers ------------------ ASIAN 2005 seeks original papers describing research on theoretical or practical aspects of data management on the Web. Papers should not have been published or be in submission at another conference or journal. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Semistructured data Data integration and provenance Data mining on the Web Search and information retrieval on the Web Security, Privacy and E-Commerce Semantic Web XML and Web Services Collaborative computing Peer-to-peer data management Data streams and publish-subscribe systems Web-based applications Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: July 6, 2005 Acceptance notification: August 19, 2005 Camera-ready paper due: September 15, 2005 Submission ---------- Submissions are limited to 10 pages (excluding references, font size at least 11 pts). Each submission must provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess its merits and should include appropriate references to and comparisons with the literature. It is recommended that each submission begins with a succinct statement of the problem, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance and relevance to the topic of the conference, all suited for the non-specialist. Technical development of the work, directed to the specialist, should follow. If the authors believe more details are necessary to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of the committee. Only electronic submissions are accepted. Instructions for (electronic) submissions will be posted on ASIAN's home page. Proceedings ----------- The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Please prepare your manuscript using the series' style, following the instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The proceedings papers will be limited to 15 pages. Conference Organization ----------------------- Steering Committee: Stephane Grumbach (INRIA, France) Joxan Jaffar (NUS, Singapore) Gilles Kahn (INRIA, France) Kanchana Kanchanasut (AIT, Thailand) R.K. Shyamasundar (TIFR, India) Kazunori Ueda (Waseda U., Japan) General Chair: Stephane Grumbach, INRIA Program Chair: Victor Vianu, UC San Diego Local Organization Chair: Yao Shaowen, Yunnan University Program Committee: Alin Deutsch (UC San Diego) AnHai Doan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Wenfei Fan (University of Edinburgh/Bell Labs) Mong-Li Lee (National University of Singapore) Maurizio Lenzerini (University of Rome "La Sapienza") Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka Univ) Frank Neven (Limburg University) Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay) Luc Segoufin (INRIA-Futurs) Jerome Simeon (IBM Yorktown Heights) Jayavel Shanmugasundaram (Cornell University) Yao Shaowen (Yunnan University) Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University) Jianwen Su (U.C. Santa Barbara) Dan Suciu (University of Washington) Victor Vianu (UC San Diego, PC Chair) Meng Xiaofeng (Renmin University) Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Nagoya University) Zheng Zhang (Microsoft Research China) From g.guizzardi at ewi.utwente.nl Thu Apr 28 13:41:41 2005 From: g.guizzardi at ewi.utwente.nl (Guizzardi, G. (Giancarlo)) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:41:41 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: International EDOC Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE'05) Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] First EDOC International Workshop on VOCABULARIES, ONTOLOGIES AND RULES FOR THE ENTERPRISE (VORTE 2005) http://arch.cs.utwente.nl/~guizzard/VORTE05/ as part of the The 9th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference 19-23 September 2005, Enschede, The netherlands http://www.edocconference.org THEMES AND GOALS Vocabularies, ontologies and rules are key components of a model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy. VORTE is the first of what we hope will be many workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modeling, information systems, semantic web, MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) and business rules to discuss the role of foundational and lightweight ontologies in the development of conceptual tools for enterprise computing. The Workshop Encourages Submissions on topics including (but not limited to) the following: * Business Vocabularies * Business Rules * Enterprise Integration and Interoperability * Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling * Vocabularies and Foundational Ontologies for Enterprise Information Systems * Enterprise Modeling and Simulation * Foundations for the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) * Enterprise Computing and the Semantic Web * Enterprise Reference Architectures * Enterprise Domain Engineering SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions will be formally peer reviewed. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages long in IEEE Computer Society format and include the author's name, affiliation and contact details. They should be submitted by e-mail as postscript or PDF files before June 30, 2005, to Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 29, 2005. At least one author of accepted papers should participate in the Workshop. Workshop proceedings will be published on the conference CD-ROM, and all accepted papers will appear in the IEEE Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop papers due: 30 June 2005 Author notification: 29 July 2005 Final papers due: 15 August 2005 Workshop date: 20 September 2005 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Gerd Wagner Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus (Germany) Giancarlo Guizzardi University of Twente (The Netherlands) & Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR (Italy) WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR (Italy) Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen (Norway) Andrey Naumenko, Triune Continuum Enterprise (Switzerland) Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney (Australia) Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center (USA) Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim (Germany) Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software (USA) Gerd Wagner, Brandeburg University of Technology at Cottbus (Germany) Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente (The Netherlands) & ISTC-CNR (Italy) Joerg Evermann, Victoria University Wellington (New Zealand) Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR (Italy) Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo (Brazil) Roel Wieringa, University of Twente (The Netherlands) Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden (Germany) Robert Colomb, University of Queensland (Australia) York Sure, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) *** Additional PC Members to be Included *** -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CFPVORTE05.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 30728 bytes Desc: CFPVORTE05.pdf URL: From cfp2005 at micai.org Thu Apr 28 04:04:46 2005 From: cfp2005 at micai.org (Alexander Gelbukh (MICAI)) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:04:46 -0500 Subject: [DL] CFP: MICAI-2005 Artificial Intelligence, Springer LNAI: submission reminder and CFP-2 Message-ID: MICAI 2005 4th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE November 14-18, 2005 Monterrey, Mexico www.MICAI.org/2005 Proceedings: Springer LNAI. Submission: May 29 (abstract May 22). Keynote speakers: see website. SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *** WHAT'S NEW *** - Submission is now open. We strongly encourage you to register your abstract right now, as expression of interest (you can upload the full paper later). - Collocated workshops: Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Information Access; others to be announced. *** GENERAL INFORMATION *** MICAI is a high-level international conference covering all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Acceptance rate of MICAI-2004 was 38% of submissions from 19 countries. See www.MICAI.org for more info. *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Authors are invited to submit original previously unpublished research papers, in English, up to 10 pages, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI format guidelines. Submissions are received through the website, see www.MICAI.org/2005. The title and abstract must be submitted by May 22, then the full paper by May 29. All submissions will be subject to blind peer review by three program committee members. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** May 22: Paper registration deadline (title and abstract required). May 29: Paper submission deadline (only papers registered by May 22). July 17: Acceptance notification. August 7: Camera-ready deadline. *** TOPICS *** Topics of interest are all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to: - Expert Systems / KBS - Multiagent systems and Distributed AI - Knowledge Management - Intelligent Interfaces: Multimedia, Virtual Reality - Natural Language Processing / Understanding - Computer Vision - Neural Networks - Genetic Algorithms - Fuzzy logic - Belief Revision - Machine Learning - Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Data Mining - Knowledge Acquisition - Knowledge Representation - Knowledge Verification, Sharing and Reuse - Ontologies - Qualitative Reasoning - Model-Based Reasoning - Constraint Programming - Common Sense Reasoning - Case-Based Reasoning - Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Spatial and Temporal Reasoning - Robotics - Planning and Scheduling - Navigation - Assembly - Hybrid Intelligent Systems - Logic Programming - Automated Theorem Proving - Intelligent Organizations - Uncertainty / Probabilistic Reasoning - Philosophical and Methodological Issues of AI *** CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION *** Conference Chairs: Alvaro de Albornoz, Angel Kuri. Program Chairs: Alexander Gelbukh, Raul Monroy. Tutorial Chairs: Manuel Valenzuela, Horacio Martinez. Workshop Chairs: Ramon Brena, Jose Luis Aguirre. Keynote Talks Coordinator: Carlos Alberto Reyes. Local Chair: Hugo Terashima. Local Steering Committee: Rogelio Soto, Ricardo Swain. *** CONTACT *** General inquiries: micai2005 at MICAI dot org. Inquiries on submission requirements: submission at MICAI dot org. Inquiries on the conference program: program at MICAI dot org. See more contact options on www.MICAI.org/2005. We apology if you receive this CFP more than once. PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your students and colleagues. From stenzg at in.tum.de Sun May 1 23:56:25 2005 From: stenzg at in.tum.de (Gernot Stenz) Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 23:56:25 +0200 Subject: [DL] [Tableaux2005] [TABLEAUX 2005] Submissions accepted until Wednesday, May 4, 2005 Message-ID: Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please note that submissions for all categories will be accepted until Wednesday, May 4, 2005. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Call for Papers and Call for Tutorials %% %% TABLEAUX 2005 %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% International Conference TABLEAUX 2005 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Koblenz, Germany September 14-17, 2005 Co-located with FTP2005 http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: May 4, 2005 Notification of acceptance of papers: June 25, 2005 Final version of papers due: July 10, 2005 Conference: September 14-17, 2005 GENERAL INFORMATION This conference is a continuation of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods held 1992 in Lautenbach (Germany), 1993 in Marseille (France), 1994 in Abingdon (UK), 1995 in St. Goar (Germany), 1996 in Terrasini (Italy), 1997 in Pont-?-Mousson (France), 1998 in Oisterwijk (Netherlands), 1999 in Saratoga Springs (USA), 2000 in St Andrews (Scotland), 2002 in Copenhagen (Denmark), and 2003 in Rome (Italy). In 2001 TABLEAUX was part of IJCAR 2001 in Siena, and in 2004 it was part of IJCAR 2004 in Cork (Ireland). In September 2005, the conference will be held in Koblenz, Germany. The proceedings will again be published in Springer's LNAI series. See http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de for more information on TABLEAUX 2005, and http://i12www.ira.uka.de/TABLEAUX for information about the TABLEAUX conference series. The International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving (FTP 2005) will also be held in Koblenz at the same time, 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. TABLEAUX 2005 puts a special emphasis on applications. Papers describing applications of tableaux and related methods in areas such as, for example, hardware and software verification, knowledge engineering, semantic web, etc. are particularly invited. 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 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), which will be available at the conference. For category B submissions a working implementation must exist and be available to the referees. Submissions in category C will be reviewed by members of the program committee and a collection of the accepted papers in this category will be published as a Technical Report of the Department of Computer Science, University of Koblenz. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Further information and instructions about submissions can be found on the conference website at tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bernhard Beckert, U. of Koblenz, Germany (Chair) Peter Baumgartner, MPI Saarbruecken, Germany Marta Cialdea Mayer, U. Roma Tre, Italy Roy Dyckhoff, U. of St. Andrews, Scotland Christian Fermueller, Technical U. of Vienna, Austria Ulrich Furbach, U. of Koblenz, Germany Didier Galmiche, LORIA, U. Henri Poincare, France Martin Giese, Chalmers U., Gothenburg, Sweden Rajeev P. Gore, Australian National U., Canberra, Australia Jean Goubault-Larrecq, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France Reiner Haehnle, Chalmers U., Gothenburg, Sweden Ian Horrocks, U. of Manchester, UK Ullrich Hustadt, U. of Liverpool, UK Christoph Kreitz, U. of Potsdam, Germany Reinhold Letz, TU Muenchen, Germany Carsten Lutz, Dresden U. of Technology, Germany Maarten Marx, U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ugo Moscato, U. of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Neil V. Murray, U. at Albany, USA Ilkka Niemela, Helsinki U. of Technology, Finland Nicola Olivetti, U. of Torino, Italy Lawrence Paulson, U. of Cambridge, UK David A. Plaisted, U. of North Carolina, USA Peter H. Schmitt, U. of Karlsruhe, Germany Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI Saarbruecken, Germany Arild Waaler, U. of Oslo, Norway Calogero G. Zarba, LORIA and INRIA-Lorraine, France ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference Chair: Bernhard Beckert, University of Koblenz, Germany Publicity Chair: Gernot Stenz, TU Muenchen, Germany Local Organizers: Gerd Beuster Vladimir Klebanov Thomas Kleeman Jan Murray Oliver Obst Alex Sinner Christoph Wernhard Doris Wertz _______________________________________________ Tableaux2005 mailing list Tableaux2005 at mailbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de https://mailbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tableaux2005 From aepia at dsic.upv.es Wed May 4 17:15:21 2005 From: aepia at dsic.upv.es (AEPIA) Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 17:15:21 +0200 Subject: [DL] [Mlnet] CALL FOR PAPERS: CAEPIA'05 References: <20050426193113.41e9a03b.Bruno.Cremilleux@info.unicaen.fr> Message-ID: <006801c550bc$1755f470$6fb92a9e@dsic.upv.es> CALL FOR PAPERS: CAEPIA'05 www-gsi.dec.usc.es/caepia05 Selected Papers in:LNCS (Springer) 16-18 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2005 SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (Spain) Summary -------- The Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA) is the forum where the research community working on AI meets together to present and discuss their research and developments. The 11th Conference will be held in Santiago de Compostela, on November 16-18, 2005 and it is organized by both University of A Coru?a and University of Santiago de Compostela. CAEPIA'05 will include tutorials and workshops on specific topics (November, 14-15). As in previous editions, held every two years, CAEPIA'05 will include invited lectures, scientific paper presentations, on-going research, system demonstrations, tutorials and workshops on specific topics. The goals of the Conference will be to create conditions for researchers to disseminate their research work, to strengthen the relationships among the AI research groups, and to facilitate the contact between new researchers and consolidated groups. Submissions of contributing, original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Topics of Interest ------------------ The conference covers all topics of AI, including the following: * AI foundations. Knowledge representation. * Machine learning. Knowledge discovery. Data mining. * Evolutionary computation. * Neural networks. Neuro-symbolic integration. * Robotics. Perception and vision. Pattern recognition. * AI architectures. Multiagent systems. Distributed AI. Ubiquitous computing. * Reactive control. Real time AI. * Knowledge engineering. Knowledge management. * Ontologies. Knowledge acquisition. Knowledge reuse. Verification and validation. * Decision support systems. * Semantic web. * Model based reasoning, Qualitative reasoning, Causal reasoning, Abductive reasoning, Case based reasoning. * Non-monotonic reasoning. Belief Revision. * Approximate reasoning. Bayesian reasoning. * Constraint satisfaction. Temporal reasoning. Spatial reasoning. * Planning and scheduling. Optimization. * AI applications. AI for diagnosis, configuration and design. AI in education. * Natural language processing. * Intelligent interfaces. User models. Multimodal interfaces. Collaborative agents. * Intelligent multimedia. Virtual reality. Augmented reality. Submissions ----------- Submitted paper must no be longer than 10 pages, which will be presented in ~20 minutes. They must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference. Additionally, PhD students are invited to present the topic as well as the state-of-art of their research, in order to obtain feedback from a panel of experts. The length of these papers should be no longer than 4 pages. Submitted papers must be written in Spanish or English and must be formatted in LNCS format (see www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format via the following link: quijote.dif.um.es/~caepia05 At least one author of each paper must register for the conference before the early registration deadline. The acceptance of the paper implies its oral presentation at the conference. Publication ----------- All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which are edited by the organization (with ISBN). A selection of the best papers presented at the Conference will be be published in a volume of the Springer Verlag series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (www.springer.de/comp/lncs). These papers will be subject to a strict selection and reviewing process by the International Program Committee. Awards ------ As a recognition of the research work, there will be awards to the best paper, the best on-going research (Doctoral Consortium or Short Paper) and the best application. Workshops --------- The goal of the workshop program is to provide a forum where new research can be presented in a more focused way. Also it is an ideal place for PhD. Students, young researches or new practitioners, in order to obtain feedback from specialists in the field. People interested in organizing a workshop within the conference are kindly invited to send a proposal description before May 13th 2005, including: 1. Title 2. Brief description (up to 1.000 words/two pages), goal and topics 3. Organizers, program committee, selection process, planned activities and potential number of participants. 4. Workshop format, reviewing process and estimated number of attendees. Tutorials --------- We invite interested people to send proposals of tutorials before May, 13th 2005. The proposals are opened to new formats in order to allow the combination of traditional tutorials with other activities, such as Discussion Rooms and Panel Sessions. Further details can be found in the "Tutorials" section at the Conference website. Proposals for tutorials should contain: * A brief description of the tutorial, including: goals, justification of why the tutorial is important, detailed program, required support and resources (hardware, software, Internet connection, etc.), background knowledge required and targeted audience. * Information about the tutorial speakers including name, address, affiliation, email, phone, and a brief Curriculum Vitae, including background in the tutorial area, previous experience and publications related to the tutorial topic. * A list of the support material to be given to tutorial attendees. Together with the slides used for the presentation, having a technical paper describing the content of the tutorial is strongly advised Promotion of the enterprise and publishing innovating activity -------------------------------------------------------------- The organization invites companies of the informatics area, including publishers, to take advantage of the opportunity to promote their products or services by means of their presentation or demonstration in CAEPIA 2005. The exchange with the academic and research community will be an excellent opportunity to gain the attention of decision makers, and those that influence purchasing and products dissemination. The synergy generated between commercial and academic participants can act as a catalyst for new collaborations, joint projects and new enterprises. A special session will be dedicated in CAEPIA to those promotions. In addition, any company related to educational and research activities in informatics, such as publishers, will have the chance to exhibit books, journals and any other publications. Exhibition spaces will be provided in the area dedicated to the Conference sessions. Further details can be found in the "Invitation to exhibit" section at the Conference website. To take advantage of the opportunity of promotions in the special session, to reserve a booth in the exhibition area, or if more details are required, please contact: Prof. Jos? Santos Reyes Facultad de Inform?tica University of A Coru?a telf: +34 981 167000 x 1257 santos at udc.es Important Dates --------------- Paper Submissions: Scientific papers on the conference topics must be submitted electronically at the official web site: - Paper submissions deadline: June 10 - Acceptance notification: September 9 - Final version submission: September 30 Workshops: - May 13, deadline for workshop proposals. - May 20, notification of workshop acceptance. - May 27, deadline for workshop submissions. - September 16, notification of workshop submission acceptance. - October 14, final version of workshop paper submissions deadline. - Workshops dates: November 14-15. Workshops Chair: Richard Jos? Duro Fern?ndez, University of A Coru?a (richard at udc.es) Tutorials: - May 13, deadline for tutorial proposals. - May 20, Notification of tutorial acceptance. - Tutorials dates: November 14-15. Tutorial Co-chairs: Manuel Lama Pen?n - University of Santiago de Compostela, (lama at dec.usc.es). Eduardo M. S?nchez Vila, University of Santiago de Compostela, (teddy at dec.usc.es) Early registration deadline: Early October Organizing Committee -------------------- Conference Co-chairs: Alberto J. Bugar?n Diz, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Jos? Santos Reyes, University of A Coru?a (Spain) Workshop Chair: Richard Jos? Duro Fern?ndez, University of A Coru?a (Espa?a) Tutorial Co-chairs: Manuel Lama Pen?n, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Eduardo M. S?nchez Vila, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Secretary: Ram?n P. Otero, University of A Coru?a (Spain) Organization Members: Alvaro Barreiro Garc?a, University of A Coru?a (Spain) Jos? Antonio Becerra Permuy, University of A Coru?a (Spain) Francisco Bellas Bouza, University of A Coru?a (Spain) Mar?a J. Carreira Nouche, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Juan Luis Crespo Mari?o, University of A Coru?a (Spain) Paulo F?lix Lamas, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Manuel Fern?ndez Delgado, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Pablo Garc?a Tahoces, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Adolfo Lamas Rodr?guez, University of A Coru?a (Spain) David E. Losada Carril, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Jes?s M. Rodr?guez Presedo, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Mar?a Jes?s Taboada Iglesias, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Carlos V?zquez Regueiro, University of A Coru?a (Spain) Program Committee ----------------- Chair: Roque Mar?n, University of Murcia (Spain) Vicechair: Eva Onaindia, Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). Program Committee Members: Carlos Alonso, University of Valladolid (Spain). Luis Alvarez, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). Jos? Angel Ba?ares, University of Zaragoza (Spain). Emilia Barakova, Brain Science Institute (Japan). Federico Barber, Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). Alvaro Barreiro, University of A Coru?a (Spain). Sen?n Barro, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Beatriz Barros, UNED (Spain). Daniel Borrajo, University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain). Vicent Botti, Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). Alberto Bugar?n, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Nuria Castell, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain). Helder Coelho, University of Lisboa (Portugal). Ricardo Conejo, University of M?laga (Spain). Juan M. Corchado, University of Salamanca (Spain). Ulises Cort?s, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain). Juan Jos? del Coz, University of Oviedo (Spain). Angel P. del Pobil, Universitat Jaume I (Spain). Alvaro del Val, University Aut?noma de Madrid (Spain). Miguel Delgado, University of Granada (Spain). Yves Demazeau, Leibniz, Institut IMAG (France). Rose Dieng, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Unit (France). Ed Durfee, University of Michigan (USA). Francisco Escolano, University of Alicante (Spain). Wolfgang Faber, University of Calabria (Italy). Luis Fari?as del Cerro, Universit? Paul Sabatier (France). Juan Pedro Febles Rodr?guez, Centro Nacional de Bioinform?tica (Cuba). Isabel Fern?ndez de Castro, University ofl Pa?s Vasco (Spain). Jos? Antonio G?mez, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). Ana Garc?a-Serrano, Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). Francisco Garijo, Telefonica I+D (Spain). Hector Geffner, University Pompeu Fabra (Spain). Llu?s Godo, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (Spain). Antonio G?mez Skarmeta, University of Murcia (Spain). Asunci?n G?mez-P?rez, Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). Manuel Hermenegildo, Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). Jos? Hern?ndez Orallo, Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). Miguel Angel Jaramillo, University of Extremadura (Spain). Elena Lazkano, University of the Basque Country (Spain). Peter Lucas, University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Lawrence Mandow, University of Malaga (Spain). Roque Mar?n, University of Murcia (Spain). Fernando Mart?n, University of Murcia (Spain). Mark Maybury, MITRE Corporation, (USA). Gaspar Mayor, University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). Erica Melis, Universit?t des Saarlandes (Germany). Jos? Mira, UNED (Spain). Seraf?n Moral, University of Granada (Spain). Eduardo Morales Manzanares, ITESM, Morelos (Mexico). Juan Jos? Moreno Navarro, Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). Jos? A. Moreno P?rez, University of La Laguna (Spain). Pablo Noriega, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (Spain). Nuria Oliver, Microsoft Corporation (USA). Eva Onaindia, Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain). Ram?n P. Otero, University of A Coru?a (Spain). Jos? Tom?s Palma, University of Murcia (Spain). David Pearce, University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain). Luigi Portinale, University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy). Maria Cristina Riff, Technical University Federico Santa Mar?a (Chile). Jos? Crist?bal Riquelme, University of Sevilla (Spain). Ram?n Rizo, University of Alicante (Spain). Jes?s Mar?a Rodr?guez Presedo, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Camino Rodr?guez Vela, University of Oviedo (Spain). Jos? Santos Reyes, University of A Coru?a (Spain). Abdul Sattar, Griffith University (Australia). Humberto Sossa, Nacional Polytechnic Institute (IPN) (Mexico). Luis Enrique Sucar, ITESM, Morelos (Mexico). Mar?a Jes?s Taboada, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Miguel Toro, University of Sevilla (Spain). Maite Urretavizcaya, University of the Basque Country (Spain). Felisa Verdejo, UNED (Spain). Jos? M. Vidal, University of South Caroline (USA). Enrique Vidal, Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). Gerson Zaverucha, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Changjiu Zhou, Singapore Polytechnic (Singapore). ******************************************************************************************************************** Asociaci?n Espa?ola Para la Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA) Secretar?a 2003-2005 Facultad de Inform?tica Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia Camino de Vera, s/n. 46022 - Valencia e-mail: aepia at aepia.org Tfnos.: 626 39 13 50 ? 96 387 70 00/03 Ext. 73550 Fax: (34) 963877209 http://www.aepia.org ******************************************************************************************************************* -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Mlnet mailing list Mlnet at ais.fraunhofer.de http://lists.ais.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/mlnet From Carlos.Areces at loria.fr Fri May 6 15:18:48 2005 From: Carlos.Areces at loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 15:18:48 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2006 - Call for Course and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <20050506131848.GA774@nantois.loria.fr> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 18th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 31 July - 11 August, 2006, Malaga, Spain http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------- The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering 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. The ESSLLI 2006 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 18th annual Summer School on a wide range of timely topics that have demonstrated their relevance in the following fields: - Logic and Language - Logic and Computation - Language and Computation PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted through a web form available at http://www.folli.org/submission.php All proposals should be submitted no later than ******* Friday June 17, 2005. ******* Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Friday September 23, 2005. 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-2006, please read the following information carefully. ALL COURSES: Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers. They consists of five sessions (a one-week course), each session lasting 90 minutes. Lecturers who want to offer a long, two-week course should structure it as two independent one week courses (ideally, with an introductory part in the first week of ESSLLI, and a more advanced part during the second). The ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of the two proposed courses. Timetable for Course Proposal Submission: Jun 17, 2005: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 23, 2005: Notification Jun 2, 2006: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material (by ESSLLI Local Organizers) FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are strictly 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 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. Workshops should have a well defined theme, and workshop organizers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop. It is a strict requirement that organizers give a general introduction to the them during the first session of the workshop. They are also responsible for the organization and program of the workshop including inviting the submission of papers, reviewing, expenses of invited speakers, etc. In particular, each workshop organizer will be responsible for producing a Call for Papers for the workshop by November 15, 2005. 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. Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions Jun 17, 2005: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 23, 2005: Notification Nov 11, 2005: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers (by ESSLLI PC chair) Nov 18, 2005: Workshop organizers send out (First) Call for Papers Mar 17, 2006: Deadline for Papers (suggested) Apr 28, 2006: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested) Jun 2, 2006: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of Workshop Proceedings (by ESSLLI Local Organizers) Notice that workshop speakers will be required to register for the Summer School; however, they will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined by the Local Organizers. FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS: The web-based form for submitting course and workshop proposals is accessible at http://www.folli.org/submission.php. 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; in particular, indicate here your teaching experience in an interdisciplinary field as the one addressed by ESSLLI.) 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 (up to a fixed, maximum amount that will be notified to lecturers when courses are accepted). It should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs, specially from destinations outside Europe. Please note the following: In case a course is to be taught by two lecturers, a lump sum is reimbursed to cover travel and accommodation expenses for one lecturer. The splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers. The local organizers highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses, and such issues might be taken into account when selecting courses. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chair: Carlos Areces INRIA Lorraine. 615, rue du Jardin Botanique 54602 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France phone : +33 (0)3 83 58 17 90 fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 e-mail : carlos.areces (at) loria.fr www : http://www.loria.fr/~areces Local co-chair: Manuel Diaz Area Specialists: Larry Moss and Gerhard Jaeger (Logic and Language) Valeria de Paiva and Juan Jose Moreno Navarro (Logic and Computation) Philip Miller and Anette Frank (Language and Computation) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Ernesto Pimentel (chair) FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information, visit the ESSLLI site at http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/. For this year's summer school, please see the web site at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05. From mvardi at cs.rice.edu Fri May 6 22:40:09 2005 From: mvardi at cs.rice.edu (Moshe Vardi) Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 15:40:09 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [DL] ACM Transactions on Computational Logic - Call for Nominations Message-ID: <20050506204009.1EFB24A9D1@cs.rice.edu> ACM ToCL -- Call for Nominations Nominations, including self nominations, are invited for the next Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (ToCL), see: http://www.acm.org/pubs/tocl/. The position is for a three-year term, starting on August 1, 2005; it may be renewed for a second term. Candidates should be well-established researchers in areas related to computational logic, broadly conceived. They should also have broad experience as journal editors and conference program committee members. Nominations, including a current curriculum vitae and a brief statement of their vision for ToCL, should be sent by June 1, 2005 to Moshe Y. Vardi . Final selection will be made by a Selection Committee, consisting of Moshe Y. Vardi (chair), Rice University, Joseph Y. Halpern, Cornell University, Gordon Plotkin, University of Edinburgh, and Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen. Nominations received after June 1, 2005, will also be considered if the position is not yet filled. From letz at informatik.tu-muenchen.de Tue May 10 15:32:40 2005 From: letz at informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Reinhold Letz) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:32:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] second CFP FTP'2005 Message-ID: <20050510133240.670DE27CB4@atbroy58> [Apologies for multiple copies] ****************************************************************** 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving FTP'2005, September 14-17, 2005 Koblenz, Germany http://ftp2005.uni-koblenz.de/ ****************************************************************** Invited speaker: Hans-Juergen Ohlbach (Munich) Important Dates: Paper submissions May 27, 2005 Notification of acceptance July 29, 2005 Camera ready papers August 12, 2005 FTP'2005 workshop September 14-17, 2005 Scope: The series of FTP workshops is intended to focus on First-Order Theorem Proving as a core theme of Automated Deduction, and to provide a forum for presentation of recent work and discussion of research in progress. The workshop welcomes original contributions on: * theorem proving in first-order classical, many-valued, and modal logics, including: - resolution, - tableau methods, - equational reasoning, - term rewriting, - model construction, - constraint reasoning, - unification, - description logics, - propositional logic, - specialized decision procedures, * strategies and complexity of theorem proving procedures, * applications of first-order theorem provers, for example to: - verification, - artificial intelligence, - mathematics, - education. The previous international workshops on First-Order Theorem Proving were held at Schloss Hagenberg (Austria, 1997), Vienna (Austria, 1998), St Andrews (Scotland, 2000), Valencia (Spain, 2003). In 2001 and 2004, FTP was part of the IJCAR Conferences, held in Siena (Italy) and Cork (Ireland), respectively. Paper Submissions: Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: A) Research papers of up to 12 pages, describing original results. B) System descriptions of 3-5 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones, especially including experiments; systems will have to be freely available online. C) Position papers of 2 pages, describing the authors' research interests in the field, work in progress, or future directions of research. Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and the layout described on the page: http://www4.in.tum.de/~letz/FTP2005/layout.txt Papers must be written in English and should be send as Postscript or PDF files. Papers can be submitted by uploading them to the workshop page: http://ftp2005.confmaster.net In order to upload a paper, you first have to register with the submission system. Papers must be received by May 27, 2005. It is possible (and encouraged) to register and upload title and abstract of the paper before that date without an immediate upload of the full paper. All papers will be refereed by the program committee, and will be evaluated on their significance, technical merit, and relevance to the workshop. Publication: Accepted submissions (except position papers) will be published as a technical report of Koblenz University and will be available electronically before the workshop. As for the previous editions of FTP, a special issue of a journal is planned after the workshop. The submission will be open to papers on First-Order Theorem Proving. Program Committee: A. Armando (Genova) B. Beckert (Koblenz) C. Fermueller (Vienna) B. Gramlich (Vienna) R. Letz (Munich, chair) B. Loechner (Kaiserslautern) C. Lynch (Clarkson) P. Narendran (Albany) N. Peltier (Grenoble) M. Rusinowitch (Nancy) R. Schmidt (Manchester) M. Velev (CMU) L. Vigano (Zurich) Local Organization: G. Beuster, V. Klebanov (Koblenz) Steering Committee: A. Armando (Genova) P. Baumgartner (Koblenz, president) D. Crocker (Escher Tech.) I. Dahn (Koblenz) B. Gramlich (Vienna) R. Haehnle (Goeteborg) P. Narendran (Albany) N. Peltier (Grenoble) S. Schulz (Verona) C. Tinelli (Iowa) L. Vigano (Zurich) L. Vigneron (Nancy) Conference Venue: The workshop will be held in Koblenz, Germany, jointly with the International conference TABLEAUX 2005, with opportunities for joint registration. Other invited lectures at the joint meeting will be given by: - Ian Horrocks (Manchester) - Diego Calvanese (Bolzano) - Eric Rosenthal (New Haven) Further information: For contacting the PC chair: ftp2005 @ uni-koblenz.de From wplhg05 at mpi-sb.mpg.de Wed May 11 08:35:51 2005 From: wplhg05 at mpi-sb.mpg.de (WPLHG05 Organising Committee) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 08:35:51 +0200 Subject: [DL] Workshop in memory of Harald Ganzinger Message-ID: Call for Participation Workshop on Programming Logics in memory of Harald Ganzinger Saarbr?cken, June 3 and 4, 2005 http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/conferences/WPLHG05/ The Max-Planck Institute for Informatics and the Department of Computer Science at Saarland University will organize a workshop on Programming Logics to commemorate the life and scientific achievements of Harald Ganzinger on the first anniversary of his sad and untimely death. The programme will include an official commemoration of Harald Ganzinger, and a joint workshop dinner in the building of MPI. Colleagues and friends close to Harald will give talks covering the variety of research areas Harald has worked in. A preliminary programme is attached below. We are collecting contributions for a Springer LNCS volume in memoriam of Harald Ganzinger; every workshop participant will receive the volume. Please register at http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/conferences/WPLHG05/. In order to facilitate the planning of the meals and the workshop dinner, participants are asked to register even if they participate only in parts of the event. The organisers (Andreas Podelski, Andrei Voronkov and Reinhard Wilhelm). === Preliminary Programme === === Friday June 3rd === 9:00 - 10:00 Opening (Reinhard Wilhelm) Andrei Voronkov (and Roberto Nieuwenhuis) The Scientific Life of Harald Ganzinger 10:30 - 12:30 Christopher Lynch Constructing Bachmair-Ganzinger Models Nachum Dershowitz tba Robert Nieuwenhuis First-order theorem proving by constraint propagation and by local search David Plaisted (and Swaha Miller) The Relative Power of Semantics and Unification. 13:30 - 15:00 Deepak Kapur Will Algebraic Geometry Rescue Program Verification? Pierre Lescanne Experiments in higher order epistemic logic with common knowledge using a proof assistant. Claude Kirchner, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne Kirchner, Fabrice Nahon Narrowing based Inductive Proof Search 15:30 - 16:30 Leszek Pacholski Guarded Logics Manfred Jaeger The probabilistic guarded fragment 16:45 - 17:45 Renate Schmidt First-Order Resolution Methods for Modal Logics Witold Charatonik Set constraints 18h Commemoration of Harald Ganzinger 19h Joint Workshop Dinner === Saturday June 4th === 9:00 - 10:15 Neil Jones Programs as Data Objects [short talk on collaboration with Harald] Manfred Broy Reasoning on feedback under lack of time Frank Pfenning Linear Logical Algorithms 10:30 - 11:30 David McAllester: Logical Algorithms and Generalized A* in Computer Vision and NLP Moshe Y. Vardi Alternation as an Algorithmic Construct 11:45 - 12:45 Jean-Pierre Jouannaud tba Christoph Meyer-Kirsch Real-Time Programming with Logic Execution Times 13:30 - 14:30 Robert Giegerich: The Power of Abstraction in Biosequence Analysis. Alexander Bockmayr Bio-Logics : Logic modeling of bioregulatory networks 15:15 - 16:45 Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans tba Uwe Waldmann tba Hans de Nivelle (and Ruzica Piskac) Verification of a Result Checker in Saturate 17:00 - 18:00 Reinhard Wilhelm >From Predicate Abstraction via Canonical Abstraction to Topology Abstraction Andreas Podelski (and Andrey Rybalchenko) Software Model Checking for Termination and Liveness From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Wed May 11 16:28:51 2005 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:28:51 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2nd CfP Workshop "Foundational Aspects of Ontologies" Message-ID: <428216A3.10304@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> FOnt 2005 - Foundational Aspects of Ontologies A Workshop at the 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2005, Koblenz, Germany, September 11th, 2005 Call for Papers =============== Representing and reasoning with ontologies is the core technology for the Semantic Web, and is growing in importance in many other areas of Computer Science where structured and hierarchically organized knowledge is of importance. While the need for ontological knowledge representation formalisms for practical applications is abundant, it is apparent that only conceptually and mathematically sound frameworks can provide the means for a significant technological advance in this area. Indeed, formal and foundational aspects of ontologies are being studied in many application domains in order to serve practical needs. It lies in the nature of such fundamental research that a critical mass of different formal perspectives can generate a cross-fertilization of ideas and applications. We therefore intend to bring together researchers working on foundational aspects of ontologies in different application areas, in order to stimulate an exchange of ideas and methods between the subcommunities. We believe that a significant advance in understanding and establishing sound formal foundations for applied ontology research can this way be made. Aim and Scope ------------- The workshop is intended for researchers which contribute to the * algebraic, * logical, * category-theoretic, * philosophical, and other foundations of ontology research. Submissions ----------- We invite the submission of original papers that have not been submitted for review or been published elsewhere. Submitted papers must be written in English and should not exceed 15 pages. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to Pascal Hitzler (hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de). Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be distributed during the workshop. Dates ----- June 10th, 2005: paper submission July 15th, 2005: notification August 5th, 2005: camera-ready versions September 11th-14th: KI 2005 September 11th, 2005: workshop Keynote Speaker --------------- Till Mossakowski, Department of Computer Science, Universit?t Bremen, Germany Organizers ---------- Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany Carsten Lutz, Department of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany Gerd Stumme, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Universit?t Kassel, Germany Programme Committee ------------------- J?r?me Euzenat, INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes, Grenoble, France Bernhard Ganter, TU Dresden, Germany Joseph Goguen, University of California at San Diego, California, USA Wolfgang Hesse, Universit?t Marburg, Germany Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southhampton, UK Robert E. Kent, Ontologos, Pullman, USA Markus Kr?tzsch, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany Claudio Masolo, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Trento, Italy Fabian Neuhaus, Universit?t des Saarlandes, Saarbr?cken, Germany Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK Marco Schorlemmer, CSIC Barcelona, Spain Anthony K. Seda, University College Cork, Ireland Sergio Tessaris, Universit? di Bolzano, Italy Rudolf Wille, TU Darmstadt, Germany Guo-Qiang Zhang, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Contact ------- Contact Pascal Hitzler (hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) for all inquiries about the workshop. Workshop homepage: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/phi/FOnt2005/ -- Dr. Pascal Hitzler Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe email: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de fax: +49 721 608 6580 web: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de phone: +49 721 608 4751 http://www.neural-symbolic.org From A.E.Maggs at csc.liv.ac.uk Fri May 13 11:10:22 2005 From: A.E.Maggs at csc.liv.ac.uk (A.E.Maggs at csc.liv.ac.uk) Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:10:22 +0100 Subject: [DL] AgentLink III European Agent Systems Summer School 05 Message-ID: <42847D0E.32430.7541BFF@localhost> AgentLink is proud to present the 7th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS05) Utrecht, The Netherlands, 18 - 22 July 2005. EASSS05 consists of a mixture of introductory and advanced courses delivered by internationally leading experts in the agent field, and it covers the full range of theoretical and practical aspects of agent-based computing. 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Preliminary Call for Papers KR2006 Tenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2006) June 2 - 6, 2006 (Provisional) Lake District, United Kingdom Sponsored by KR Inc (www.kr.org) Submission deadline: November 7, 2005 http://www.kr.org/KR2006 Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. 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, the design of software agents and Bio-Informatics technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R. We intend KR2006 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 or 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. KR2006 will be held immediately prior to ICAPS-06 in the Lake District of the U.K. Note that the dates of the conference are subject to change. Topics of interest include: * Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Default logics, Conditional logics, Paraconsistent logics, Argumentation * Temporal reasoning, Spatial reasoning, Causal reasoning, Abduction, Explanations, Extrapolation, Model-based diagnosis * Reasoning about actions, Situation calculus, Action languages, Dynamic logic * Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty, Probabilistic and possibilistic approaches, Belief functions and imprecise probabilities * Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics * Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning * Information change, Belief revision, Update * Information fusion, Database fusion * Ontologies, Ontology engineering * Qualitative reasoning and decision theory, Preference modeling, Reasoning about preference, Reasoning about physical systems * Intelligent agents, Negotiation, Group decision making, Cooperation, Interaction, Game theory, Common knowledge, Cognitive robotics * Algebraic foundations of knowledge representations, Graphical representations, Modal logics and reasoning, Belief, Preference networks, Constraints * Knowledge representation languages, Description logics, Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Inductive logic programming, Complexity analysis * Natural language processing, Learning, Discovering and acquiring knowledge, Belief networks, Summarization, Categorization * Applications of KR\&R, Knowledge-based scheduling, WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration, Electronic commerce and auctions * Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence Important Dates Electronic submission deadline: November 7, 2005 Notification of acceptance: January 14, 2006 Camera-ready papers due: March 3, 2006 KR2006 conference: June 2-6, 2006 (provisional) Paper Format 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. Overlength submissions will be rejected without review. Conference Chair Christopher Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Program Chairs Patrick Doherty, IDA, Linkoping University, Sweden John Mylopoulos, Bahen Centre for IT, University of Toronto, Canada Local Arrangements Ian Horrocks, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK Doctoral Consortium Chair Fangzhen Lin, Department of Computer Science Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Publicity Support Michael Thielscher, Department of Computer Science Dresden University of Technology, Germany Program Committee Eyal Amir University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA William Andersen Ontology Works, USA Grigoris Antoniou University of Crete and FORTH-ICS, Greece Franz Baader TU Dresden, Germany Philippe Balbiani IRIT-CNRS, France Chitta Baral Arizona State University, USA Brandon Bennett University of Leeds, UK Danny Bobrow Palo Alto Research Center, USA Alexander Borgida Rutgers University, USA Ronen Brafman Ben-Gurion University, Israel Gerhard Brewka University of Leipzig, Germany Marco Cadoli Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Diego Calvanese Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Marie-Odile Cordier Universite Rennes 1, IRISA, France Ernest Davis New York University, USA John Debenham University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Giuseppe De Giacomo Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Jon Doyle North Carolina State, USA Didier Dubois IRIT-CNRS, France Thomas Eiter Vienna University of Technology, Austria Peter Eklund University of Wollongong, Australia Thomas Ellman Vassar College, USA Dieter Fensel National University of Ireland & University of Innsbruck, Austria Richard Fikes Stanford University, USA Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Enrico Franconi Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Antony Galton University of Exeter, UK Aldo Gangemi ISTC-CNR Roma, Italy Hector Geffner University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain Enrico Giunchiglia Universita' di Genova, Italy Lluis Godo IIIA-CSIC Bellaterra, Spain Asuncion Gomez-Perez University Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Nicola Guarino ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy Andreas Herzig IRIT-CNRS, France Ian Horrocks University of Manchester, UK Anthony Hunter University College London, UK Gabriele Kern-Isberner University of Dortmund, Germany Iluju Kiringa University of Ottawa, Canada Jana Koehler IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Jan Komorowski Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala University, Sweden Manolis Koubarakis Technical University of Crete, Greece Gerhard Lakemeyer RWTH Aachen University, Germany Jerome Lang IRIT-CNRS, France Yves Lesperance York University, Canada Hector Levesque University of Toronto, Canada Paolo Liberatore Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Vladimir Lifschitz University of Texas at Austin, USA Fangzhen Lin Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Thomas Lukasiewicz Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy David Makinson Kings College London, UK Pierre Marquis CRIL/Universit d'Artois, Lens, France Deborah McGuinness Stanford University, USA Sheila McIlraith University of Toronto, Canada John-Jules Meyer Utrecht University, Netherlands Guy Mineau Universite Laval, Canada Leora Morgenstern IBM T.J. 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The KR emaillist which is only used to circulate information about the KR Conference Series at http://discuss.it.uts.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/kr, and 2. A moderated list which is used to circulate KR related announcements PLANETKR http://discuss.it.uts.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/planetkr If you sign up to PlanetKR you will automatically receive all messages sent to KR. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fred.freitas at tci.ufal.br Mon May 16 18:58:30 2005 From: fred.freitas at tci.ufal.br (Fred Freitas) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 13:58:30 -0300 Subject: [DL] CFP - BAOSW Workshop - Building and Applying Ontologies for the Semantic Web - Covilha, Portugal - Dec. 2005 Message-ID: <4288D136.303@tci.ufal.br> Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please, distribute it to interested people and lists. Building and Applying Ontologies for the Semantic Web ===================================================== December 2005 Covilha ? Portugal http://baosw.epia05.di.ubi.pt held in conjunction with 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence sponsored by APPIA, the Portuguese Association of AI http://epia05.di.ubi.pt Ontologies promise a shared and common understanding of a domain that can be communicated between people and application systems. Therefore, they have emerged as an important research area since the 1990?s. Ontologies are used for different purposes (natural language processing, e-commerce, e-learning, knowledge management, semantic web, information retrieval, etc) by different research communities (knowledge engineering, database, software engineering, etc). The emergence of the Semantic Web has marked another stage in the evolution of the ontology field. According to Berners-Lee, the Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. This cooperation can be achieved by using shared knowledge-components. Therefore ontologies have become a key instrument in developing the Semantic Web. They interweave human understanding of symbols with their machine processability. This workshop addresses the problems of building and applying ontologies in the Semantic Web and other areas listed below, as well as the theoretical and practical challenges arising from these applications. We invite contributions to enhance the state-of-the-art of creating, managing and using ontologies. Topics of Interest: ------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Ontology Engineering: ? methodologies ? capture and learning ? evaluation ? management ? evolution ? ontology learning Semantic Interoperability ? composition and modularity ? combining, merging, mapping and alignment ? translating and transforming ? ontology language interoperability Ontologies for Information Sharing ? ontology-based Information integration ? mediators and brokers ? agents and ontologies Ontology Applications ? semantic web ? knowledge management ? e-commerce, e-government, e-learning and e-science ? information retrieval ? p2p networks ? web services ? annotation Invited Speaker: ---------------- Christoph Bussler Science Foundation Ireland Professor and Executive Director Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Ireland http://hometown.aol.com/chbussler/ Workshop format and attendance: ------------------------------- All submitted papers will be peer reviewed and selected for presentation on the basis of these reviews. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: one invited speaker, technical presentations of accepted papers, and general discussion (some time will be allocated to discuss among the workshop participants about emerging topics). Attendance will be limited to workshop paper authors and a very limited set of members of the community. Workshop attendees are required to register for the main EPIA 2005 conference. For more information, please look up the conference website at http://epia05.di.ubi.pt Submission procedure: --------------------- We encourage the submission of high-quality original work. Papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Series guidelines (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/), must not exceed 12 pages and must be written in English. It will be blind reviewed. In order to make blind reviewing possible, authors should omit their names and affiliations from the paper. Also, while the references should include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works of the authors, it should not include unpublished works. Avoid including any information in the body of the paper or references that would identify the authors or their institutions. Such information can be added to the final camera-ready version for publication. Workshop full papers of higher quality will be selected for publication in the main volume of the conference proceedings (Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence - LNAI). The remaining accepted papers will be published in local workshop proceedings, in hard-copy and in the web. At least one of the authors of accepted papers has to register for the EPIA 2005, otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. The submission process will be available on the conference site. The only format allowed for electronic submission is PDF. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee members and/or additional reviewers/referees. Important dates: ---------------- 27-May-05 - Paper submission 15-Jul-05 - Notification of paper acceptance 28-Jul-05 - Camera-ready paper submission 05-Dec-05 - Conference begins Program Committee: ------------------ Aldo Gangemi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy Andreas Hotho, Kassel University, Germany Boris Motik, FZI, Germany Christopher Brewster, Sheffield University, UK Christopher Welty, Knowledge Structures Group, IBM, USA Eug?nio Oliveira, Porto University, Portugal Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije University, Netherlands John Domingue, Open University, England Jorge Santos, Porto Superior Engineering Institute, Portugal Jose Iria, Sheffield University, UK Leo Obrst, MITRE Corporation, USA Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI, Germany Luis Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Maria Vargas-Vera, Open University, England Mariano Fernandez-Lopez, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain Marta Sabou, Vrije University, Netherlands Michael Gruninger, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Oscar Corcho, Isoco, Spain Peter Mika, Vrije University, Netherlands Philipp Cimiano, AIFB, Karlsruhe University, Germany Rose Dieng, INRIA, France Siegfried Handschuh, Ontoprise, Germany Stefano Borgo, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italy Steffen Staab, Koblenz University, Germany Ubbo Visser, Bremen University, Germany Virginia Brilhante, Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, Netherlands Ying Ding, DERI, Insbruck University, Austria York Sure, AIFB, Karlsruhe University, Germany Organizing Committee: --------------------- H.Sofia Pinto, IST/INESC-ID, Portugal Andreia Malucelli, Porto University/PUCPR, Portugal Fred Freitas, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil Christoph Tempich, Karlsruhe University, Germany Workshop Venue: --------------- EPIA 2005 will be held in the city of Covilha, the city of snow and wool, in the Serra da Estrela National Park, which lies in the east of Portugal and hosted by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Beira Interior. Details on registration and accommodation will be available on the conference site. Fred Freitas, Dr. ***************** Associate Professor Departamento de Tecnologia de Informacao - TCI Universidade Federal de Alagoas - UFAL - Brazil Phone: +55 82 214 1363 Research interests: Ontologies, semantic web, ontology-based text processing From ha at ecs.soton.ac.uk Tue May 17 09:56:55 2005 From: ha at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Harith Alani) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:56:55 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: K-Cap 05 workshop on Ontology Management: Searching, Selection, Ranking, and Segmentation Message-ID: <200505170757.IAA15665@magpie.ecs.soton.ac.uk> [Apologies for cross-posting] Ontology Management: Searching, Selection, Ranking, and Segmentation K-Cap 2005 Workshop - Sunday, October 2, 2005 at Banff, Canada http://www.aktors.org/ontoman05/ Objectives ---------- Ontologies are a cornerstone of the Semantic Web, and are probably the most important form of knowledge representation currently used in both Artificial Intelligence and on the Semantic Web. Building the required ontologies represents a major challenge both because of the complexity of each knowledge domain and because of the sheer number of ontologies the Semantic Web will require. It takes a considerable amount of time and effort to construct a single ontology, and even more if the engineer lacks first hand knowledge of the domain they are trying to represent. However, one of the original motivations and supposed advantages of ontologies is that they facilitate "knowledge reuse". In theory, existing ontologies constructed by third parties could be reused, modified, extended and pruned as required, thereby avoiding the considerable effort of starting from scratch. To achieve this level of reuse, however, an appropriate infrastructure of tools and methods must be made available to allow the search, selection and general management of the existing resources. Ontology search systems permit the identification from the plethora of web resources of only those items which are proper ontologies. Ontology ranking involves the ranking of the retrieved entities in accordance with a number of criteria, including the presence and absence of certain terms, and their position in the ontology. Ontology segmentation involves the ability to select and extract a particular sub-section of an existing ontology for the current needs. In order to facilitate these procedures, ontology visualisation and editing are necessary. This workshop will encourage the presentation and exploration of solutions to key aspects of ontology management and it is expected to stimulate further research in these important issues. This workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from a wide area of research, such as semantic web, knowledge management, information retrieval, to discuss the issues above and exchange knowledge and experience. Topics of Interest ------------------ Includes but not limited to: - Ontology search engines - User interfaces for searching ontologies - Ontology reuse - Ontology ranking - Ontology partitioning - Ontology task-based evaluation - Ontology change management - Ontology versioning - Ontology merging, mapping and reconciliation - Ontology selection using visualisation Organisers ---------- - Harith Alani (University of Southampton, UK) ha at ecs.soton.ac.uk - Christopher Brewster (University of Sheffield, UK) C.Brewster at dcs.shef.ac.uk - Natasha Noy (Stanford Medical Informatics, USA) noy at smi.stanford.edu - Derek Sleeman (University of Aberdeen, UK) sleeman at csd.abdn.ac.uk Programme Committee ------------------- - Srinandan Dasmahapatra (University of Southampton, UK) - Mark Musen (Stanford Medical Informatics, USA) - Sofia Pinto (Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal) - Alun Preece (University of Aberdeen, UK) - Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) - Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton, UK) - Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz, Germany) - York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) - Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK) Submissions ----------- We welcome the submission of full papers (up to 8 pages) describing some ongoing work relevant to this workshop's topics of interest, and short papers (up to 4 pages) for position statements and new ideas. Papers must be formatted using the K-CAP 2005 formatting guidelines on the conference website (http://www.kcap05.org/). Please email your submissions in PDF to ha at ecs.soton.ac.uk, no later than 11:59pm 11th July 2005. Dates ----- Submissions due: July 11, 2005 Notification: August 8, 2005 Camera ready copy: September 5, 2005 Workshop: October 2, 2005 Dr Harith Alani Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Electronics & Computer Science University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ha From bhanu.prasad at famu.edu Tue May 17 23:01:11 2005 From: bhanu.prasad at famu.edu (Dr. Bhanu Prasad) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:01:11 -0400 Subject: [DL] IICAI-05 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <0cef01c55b23$8efc9cb0$d815dfa8@cispcblb> *Apologies for cross posting. Please help forward to interested people* The 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05) (website: http://www.iiconference.org ) will be held in Pune, INDIA during December 20-22 2005. This conference focuses on all areas of Artificial Intelligence and related fields. We invite paper submissions for this event. Paper submission deadline is June 1st 2005. Bhanu Prasad IICAI-05 Chair Department of Computer and Information Sciences Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA Email: bhanu.prasad at famu.edu PS: If you are not interested in this event then please send an email to the above address and we will promptly remove your name from our list. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Thu May 19 17:12:19 2005 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Ulrike Sattler) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 16:12:19 +0100 Subject: [DL] DL05 registration now open Message-ID: <428CACD3.5050106@cs.man.ac.uk> Dear all, the registration for DL05 is now open at http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/478/booking.cfm (see also http://dl.kr.org/dl2005/). The registration fees are as follows: Full time students: 90 pounds Regular participants: 160 pounds Late registration, from June 26, 05, for students and regular participants: 200 pounds Registration is a 2-stage process and, since the registration fee includes coffee breaks, lunches, and the social dinner, you should not forget to mention any dietary requirements (e.g., vegetarian) -- there is a field for this in Step 1. Looking forward to seeing you all in Edinburgh, Ian Horrocks, Uli Sattler, and Frank Wolter From WiebevanderHoek at csc.liv.ac.uk Fri May 20 12:25:21 2005 From: WiebevanderHoek at csc.liv.ac.uk (Wiebe van der Hoek) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:25:21 +0100 (BST) Subject: [DL] JOB: Lecturer in Multi-agent systems/Uni of Liverpool Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings-- please forward to anyone who might be interesting and interested! THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL * DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE LECTURER IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS The post will be attached to the Agent Application, Research and Technology group (Agent ART), and the successful candidate will have an excellent track record of research in this area. Current research interests of the group include: logical foundations of multi-agent systems, (particularly temporal, modal, epistemic, dynamic, and game logics for agent systems); argumentation and dialogue systems, and ontologies and the semantic web. Applicants with expertise in these areas are particularly welcome, but we welcome applicants with other related expertise. The post attracts a special HEFCE-funded "Golden Hello" to the value of GBP 9K paid in three instalments over three years, subject to individuals satisfying the eligibility criteria. Informal enquiries to: Professor Mike Wooldridge, Head of Department, mailto:mjw at csc.liv.ac.uk or Professor Wiebe van der Hoek, Head of Agent ART group, mailto:wiebe at csc.liv.ac.uk PLEASE QUOTE REF: B/488 IN ALL COMMUNICATIONS Closing Date for Applications: 17 June 2005 SALARY GBP 23,643-35,883 pa Further particulars and details of the application procedure should be requested from the Director of Personnel, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX on (+44 151) 794 2210 (24 hr answerphone), via email:jobs at liv.ac.uk or are available online at http://www.liv.ac.uk/university/jobs.html ** COMMITTED TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES ** --------------------------------------------------------------- Wiebe van der Hoek http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe/ Department of Computer Science tel (+44 151) 794 7480/3672 University of Liverpool fax (+44 151) 794 3715 Liverpool L69 7ZF, United Kingdom wiebe at csc.liv.ac.uk From bpientka at cs.mcgill.ca Mon May 23 15:14:23 2005 From: bpientka at cs.mcgill.ca (Brigitte Pientka) Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 09:14:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] CADE'05:Call for participation Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------- CADE-20 20th International Conference on Automated Deduction Tallinn, Estonia, July 22 - July 27, 2005 http://deepthought.ttu.ee/it/cade/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ----------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for early registration: 20. June, 2005. Deadline for non-cash payments: 12. July, 2005. Workshops: July 22-23, 2005 Conference: July 24-27, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------- CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. -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. INVITED TALKS: Invited talks will be given at CADE-20 by Randal Bryant (CMU), Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique) and by Frank Wolter (U. Liverpool). INVITED TUTORIALS: - Bruno Blanchet An Automatic Security Protocol Verifier based on Resolution Theorem Proving - Enrico Giunchiglia Beyond SAT: QSAT, and SAT-based Decision Procedures ACCEPTED PAPERS: - Tomasz Truderung: Regular Protocols and Attacks with Regular Knowledge - Greta Yorsh and Madan Musuvathi: A Combination Method for Generating Interpolants - Ullrich Hustadt, Boris Konev and Renate A. Schmidt. Deciding monodic fragments by temporal resolution - Guillaume Dufay, Amy Felty and Stan Matwin. Privacy-Sensitive Information Flow with JML - Viktor Kuncak, Hai, Huu Nguyen and Martin Rinard. An Algorithm for Deciding BAPA: Boolean Algebra with Presburger Arithmetic - Franz Baader and Silvio Ghilardi. Connecting many-sorted theories - Claudio Castellini and Alan Smaill. Proof Planning for First-Order Temporal Logic - Graham Steel. Deduction with XOR Constraints in Security API Modelling - Tal Lev-Ami, Neil Immerman, Siddharth Srivastava, Greta Yorsh, Mooly Sagiv and Thomas W. Reps. Simulating Reachability using First-Order Logic with Applications to Verification of Linked Data Structures - Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans. Hierarchic reasoning in local theory extensions - Kaustuv Chaudhuri and Frank Pfenning. A Focusing Inverse Method Prover for First-Order Linear Logic - Mizuhito Ogawa, Eiichi Horita and Satoshi Ono. Proving Properties of Incremental Merkel Trees - Evelyne Contejean and Pierre Corbineau. Reflecting Proofs in First-Order Logic with Equality - Chad Brown. Reasoning in Extensional Type Theory with Equality - Christian Fermueller and Reinhard Pichler. Model Representation via Contexts and Implicit Generalizations - Peter Baumgartner and Cesare Tinelli. ME-E -- The Model Evolution Calculus with Equality - Brigitte Pientka. Tabling for higher-order logic programming - Christian Urban and Christine Tasson. Nominal Techniques in Isabelle/HOL - Kumar Neeraj Verma, Helmut Seidl and Thomas Schwentick. On the Complexity of Equational Horn Clauses - Jordi Levy, Mateu Villaret and Joachim Niehren. Well-Nested Context Unification - Serge R. Autexier. The CORE Calculus - Guillem Godoy and Ashish Tiwari. Termination of Rewrite Systems with Shallow Right-Linear, Collapsing, and Right-Ground Rules - Jian Zhang. Computer Search for Counterexamples to Wilkie's Identity - John Harrison and Sean McLaughlin. A Proof Producing Decision Procedure for Real Arithmetic - Ting Zhang, Henny Sipma and Zohar Manna. The Decidability of the First-order theory of Knuth-Bendix Order SYSTEM DESCRIPTIONS - Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks and Daniele Turi. The OWL Instance Store (System Description) - Andreas Meier and Erica Melis. MULTI: A Multi-Strategy Proof Planner (System Description) - Marco Bozzano, Roberto Bruttomesso, Alessandro Cimatti, Tommi Junttila, Peter van Rossum, Stephan Schulz and Roberto Sebastiani. MathSAT 3 (System Description) - Marco Benedetti. sKizzo: A Suite to Evaluate and Certify QBFs (System Description) - Alex Sinner and Thomas Kleemann. KRHyper - In Your Pocket (System Description) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS: - Empirically Successful Classical Automated Reasoning (ESCAR) Geoff Sutcliffe, Stephan Schulz, and Bernd Fischer - Workshop on Disproving: Non-Theorems, Non-Validity, Non-Provability Wolfgang Ahrendt, Peter Baumgartner and Hans de Nivelle - Empirically Successful Classical Automated Reasoning (ESCAR) Geoff Sutcliffe, Stephan Schulz, and Bernd Fischer - Constraints in Formal Verification 2005 (CFV'05). Joao Marques-Silva, Miroslav Velev - Tutorial: Integrating Object-Oriented Design and Deductive Verification of Software Wolfgang Ahrendt, Bernhard Beckert, Reiner Haehnle, Peter Schmitt --------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Chair: Tanel Tammet (Tallinn TU) Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Frank Pfenning (CMU) Program Chair: Robert Nieuwenhuis (UPC Barcelona) Publicity Chair: Brigitte Pientka (McGill) -------------------------------------------------------------------- From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon May 23 16:23:05 2005 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com (clima VI ) Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 16:23:05 +0200 (MEST) Subject: [DL] Call for Participation and studentship applications for CLIMA VI Message-ID: <200505231358.j4NDvVwZ031295@evaristo.deis.unibo.it> [ Apologies for cross-postings ] [ Please send to interested colleagues and students ] *********************************************************** ** Call for Participation and Studentship applications ** ** ** ** CLIMA VI ** ** ** ** http://clima.deis.unibo.it/ ** ** ** ** Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems ** ** City University London, 27-29 June 2005 ** ** ** ** featuring this year: ** ** * The Sixth International CLIMA Workshop ** ** * The First CLIMA Contest ** ** * The First CLIMA Tutorial Programme ** ** * The SOCS Project Dissemination Workshop ** ** ** *********************************************************** The aim of the CLIMA workshop series is to bring together interested researchers from CL and MAS, and to give them the opportunity to show how the integration of techniques from both areas can lead to interesting results on a wide range of complex problems and domains. A secondary aim of CLIMA is to provide an opportunity for students to learn more about state-of-the-art research achievements in logic-based intelligent agent programming. Finally, CLIMA attempts to stimulate research in the area of multi-agent systems by identifying key problems and collecting suitable benchmarks that can serve as milestones for testing new approaches and techniques from CL. To these ends, CLIMA VI will host a rich tutorial programme and the First CLIMA competition, where logic-based MAS solutions will be confronted, and the role of benchmarks in logic-based MAS research will be explored. The CLIMA VI program is now public: http://clima.deis.unibo.it/program.html --> --> The early registration deadline is --> May 30, 2005 --> *********************************************************** ** Tutorial Programme ** ** http://clima.deis.unibo.it/tutorials.html ** *********************************************************** CLIMA VI is pleased to offer to all participants free access to the tutorial programme, consisting of six talks given by keynote speakers, to provide an wide spectrum overview of CL-based MAS research. *********************************************************** ** Studentships ** ** http://clima.deis.unibo.it/coming.html#Grants ** *********************************************************** We especially welcome students to attend! Thanks to sponsorship by SOCS, ALP and AgentLink III, CLIMA VI will offer a limited number of grants to cover part of registration fee, travel, and accommodation expenses. --> --> The deadline for studentship applications is --> May 27, 2005 --> *********************************************************** ** SOCS Dissemination Workshop ** ** http://lia.deis.unibo.it/research/socs/ ** *********************************************************** CLIMA VI will be held in conjunction with the EU-funded FP5 SOCS project dissemination workshop. Besides two tutorials on SOCS-based agent programming, we plan to dedicate a session to discussing about the results and achievements of a three years project on logic programming- based MAS. *********************************************************** From fred.freitas at tci.ufal.br Thu May 26 21:31:47 2005 From: fred.freitas at tci.ufal.br (Fred Freitas) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:31:47 -0300 Subject: [DL] ** DEADLINE EXTENDED ** BAOSW Workshop - Building and Applying Ontologies for the Semantic Web - Covilha, Portugal - Dec. 2005 Message-ID: <42962423.9010203@tci.ufal.br> Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please, distribute it to interested people and lists. ** DEADLINE EXTENDED ** 03-Jun-05 is the new due date for paper submission! Building and Applying Ontologies for the Semantic Web ===================================================== December 2005 Covilha ? Portugal http://baosw.epia05.di.ubi.pt held in conjunction with 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence sponsored by APPIA, the Portuguese Association of AI http://epia05.di.ubi.pt Ontologies promise a shared and common understanding of a domain that can be communicated between people and application systems. Therefore, they have emerged as an important research area since the 1990?s. Ontologies are used for different purposes (natural language processing, e-commerce, e-learning, knowledge management, semantic web, information retrieval, etc) by different research communities (knowledge engineering, database, software engineering, etc). The emergence of the Semantic Web has marked another stage in the evolution of the ontology field. According to Berners-Lee, the Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. This cooperation can be achieved by using shared knowledge-components. Therefore ontologies have become a key instrument in developing the Semantic Web. They interweave human understanding of symbols with their machine processability. This workshop addresses the problems of building and applying ontologies in the Semantic Web and other areas listed below, as well as the theoretical and practical challenges arising from these applications. We invite contributions to enhance the state-of-the-art of creating, managing and using ontologies. Topics of Interest: ------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Ontology Engineering: ? methodologies ? capture and learning ? evaluation ? management ? evolution ? ontology learning Semantic Interoperability ? composition and modularity ? combining, merging, mapping and alignment ? translating and transforming ? ontology language interoperability Ontologies for Information Sharing ? ontology-based Information integration ? mediators and brokers ? agents and ontologies Ontology Applications ? semantic web ? knowledge management ? e-commerce, e-government, e-learning and e-science ? information retrieval ? p2p networks ? web services ? annotation Invited Speaker: ---------------- Christoph Bussler Science Foundation Ireland Professor and Executive Director Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Ireland http://hometown.aol.com/chbussler/ Workshop format and attendance: ------------------------------- All submitted papers will be peer reviewed and selected for presentation on the basis of these reviews. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: one invited speaker, technical presentations of accepted papers, and general discussion (some time will be allocated to discuss among the workshop participants about emerging topics). Attendance will be limited to workshop paper authors and a very limited set of members of the community. Workshop attendees are required to register for the main EPIA 2005 conference. For more information, please look up the conference website at http://epia05.di.ubi.pt Submission procedure: --------------------- We encourage the submission of high-quality original work. Papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Series guidelines (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/), must not exceed 12 pages and must be written in English. It will be blind reviewed. In order to make blind reviewing possible, authors should omit their names and affiliations from the paper. Also, while the references should include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works of the authors, it should not include unpublished works. Avoid including any information in the body of the paper or references that would identify the authors or their institutions. Such information can be added to the final camera-ready version for publication. Workshop full papers of higher quality will be selected for publication in the main volume of the conference proceedings (Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence - LNAI). The remaining accepted papers will be published in local workshop proceedings, in hard-copy and in the web. At least one of the authors of accepted papers has to register for the EPIA 2005, otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. The submission process will be available on the conference site. The only format allowed for electronic submission is PDF. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee members and/or additional reviewers/referees. Important dates: ---------------- ** NEW ** 03-Jun-05 - Paper submission 15-Jul-05 - Notification of paper acceptance 28-Jul-05 - Camera-ready paper submission 05-Dec-05 - Conference begins Program Committee: ------------------ Aldo Gangemi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy Andreas Hotho, Kassel University, Germany Boris Motik, FZI, Germany Christopher Brewster, Sheffield University, UK Christopher Welty, Knowledge Structures Group, IBM, USA Eug?nio Oliveira, Porto University, Portugal Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije University, Netherlands John Domingue, Open University, England Jorge Santos, Porto Superior Engineering Institute, Portugal Jose Iria, Sheffield University, UK Leo Obrst, MITRE Corporation, USA Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI, Germany Luis Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Maria Vargas-Vera, Open University, England Mariano Fernandez-Lopez, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain Marta Sabou, Vrije University, Netherlands Michael Gruninger, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Oscar Corcho, Isoco, Spain Peter Mika, Vrije University, Netherlands Philipp Cimiano, AIFB, Karlsruhe University, Germany Rose Dieng, INRIA, France Siegfried Handschuh, Ontoprise, Germany Stefano Borgo, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italy Steffen Staab, Koblenz University, Germany Ubbo Visser, Bremen University, Germany Virginia Brilhante, Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, Netherlands Ying Ding, DERI, Insbruck University, Austria York Sure, AIFB, Karlsruhe University, Germany Organizing Committee: --------------------- H.Sofia Pinto, IST/INESC-ID, Portugal Andreia Malucelli, Porto University/PUCPR, Portugal Fred Freitas, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil Christoph Tempich, Karlsruhe University, Germany Workshop Venue: --------------- EPIA 2005 will be held in the city of Covilha, the city of snow and wool, in the Serra da Estrela National Park, which lies in the east of Portugal and hosted by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Beira Interior. Details on registration and accommodation will be available on the conference site. Fred Freitas, Dr. ***************** Associate Professor Departamento de Tecnologia de Informacao - TCI Universidade Federal de Alagoas - UFAL - Brazil Phone: +55 82 214 1363 Research interests: Ontologies, semantic web, ontology-based text processing From aldo.gangemi at istc.cnr.it Fri May 27 11:19:44 2005 From: aldo.gangemi at istc.cnr.it (Aldo Gangemi) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:19:44 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: ISWC05 Workshop on Ontology Patterns for the Semantic Web (OPSW) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Call for Papers: ISWC-05 OPSW Workshop: "Ontology Patterns for the Semantic Web" As interest in the semantic web increases, so, too, has the need for high-quality and reusable examples of semantic web ontologies. In this workshop, we will accept submissions on ontology content - that is, actual ontologies in OWL or RDFS that address an open, and general problem. The workshop will be of interest to anyone committed to using semantic web technology, or becoming part of the semantic web itself. Many newcomers find the technology daunting, and having a sound place to start will improve matters considerably. In addition, the W3C SWBPD WG task force on "Ontology Engineering and Patterns" will be able to use material submitted to this workshop as candidates to publish as W3C notes. This half-day workshop will focus on discussion instead of presentation. We will accept paper submissions that describe particular ontologies in RDFS and OWL. These papers will be reviewed for correctness, quality, and generality/reusibility, in addition to scholarship and readability. From the accepted submissions, we will select a smaller number to be presented. Each selected ontology will be assigned a responder from the workshop participants who will commit to carefully reviewing the work and providing directed comments and helping to lead the discussion. We expect roughly 20 minutes of presentation by the author, with 10 minutes of directed comment by the responder, and then 30 minutes of open discussion in the workshop. Finally, we would like to end the day with a panel on upper-level ontologies for the semantic web, to ensure we end on a lively note and have people talking about it during the conference proper. Related conferences are FOIS-2004 ( http://www.formalontology.org/ ) and Coront (http://www.loa-cnr.it/core_onto.html ). Submitting: Springer LNCS format, 15 pages. Authors are encouraged to apply the following paper outline: (a) Problem and context (b) Existing resources and past work (c) Proposed formalization. _________________________________ Deadline: July 20th, 2005 WKS date: November 7th, 2005, afternoon _________________________________ Organizers: Chris Welty IBM Research welty at us.ibm.com http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty/ Aldo Gangemi LOA-CNR aldo.gangemi at istc.cnr.it http://www.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html Program Committee: Pat Hayes, IHMC Alan Rector, U. Manchester Deborah McGuinness, Stanford KSL Mike Uschold, Boeing Research Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Natasha Noy, Stanford U. -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bernardo at mindswap.org Tue May 31 15:26:40 2005 From: bernardo at mindswap.org (Bernardo Cuenca Grau) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:26:40 -0400 Subject: [DL] CALL FOR PAPERS. " OWL: EXPERIENCES AND DIRECTIONS" Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. ************************************************************ Call for Papers: "OWL: EXPERIENCES AND DIRECTIONS" Galway, Ireland 11-12 November 2005 Workshop website: http://www.mindswap.org/OWLWorkshop Important Dates: Submissions due: 14th August, 2005 Notification of acceptance: 5th September, 2005 Final versions due: 30th September, 2005 Workshop: 11-12 November, 2005 Workshop Organisers: Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Maryland (USA) Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester (UK) Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland (USA) Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) ************************************************************* The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has now been a W3C recommendation for more than one year. OWL is playing an important role in an increasing number and range of applications, and is the focus of research into tools, reasoning techniques, formal foundations, language extensions etc. This level of experience with OWL means that the community is now in a good position to discuss how OWL be applied, adapted and extended to fulfil current and future application demands. The aim of the workshop is to establish a forum for practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers and others interested in OWL to describe real and potential applications, to share experience and to discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. The workshop will bring users, implementors and researchers together to measure the state of need against the state of the art, and to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Applications of and experience with OWL - Application-driven requirements for OWL - Performance and scalability issues - Extensions to OWL, including - non-monotonic extensions - rules extensions - extensions for representing temporal and spatial information - extended property constructors - keys - extended class constructors - extended datatype constructors - probabilistic and fuzzy Extensions - Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages - Reasoning-related tasks for OWL, including explanation - Security and Trust for OWL-based information - Tools for OWL, including - editors - visualisation tools - parsers and syntax checkers - versioning frameworks - OWL based Semantic Web Service frameworks Submissions can be either technical papers or short "position" papers. Submissions that base their conclusions on application experience are especially encouraged. Workshop Format: The goal of the workshop will be to maximise discussion. The technical sessions will therefore consist of short presentations of papers (grouped by topic area) followed by directed discussion, and a poster session, also followed by directed discussion. The workshop may also have one session in common with the International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML-2005) in which the integration of OWL with rules languages will be discussed. Submission details: All relevant submissions will be made available from the workshop web site; these may be updated with final versions after the reviewing process. Presentation materials from the workshop will also be placed on the web site. Submissions must be in PDF, and will not be accepted in any other format. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that their submission displays and prints correctly on common PDF viewers. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details see http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376- 0,00.html. Further details will be made available from the workshop web site at http://www.mindswap.org/OWLWorkshop Technical paper submissions must be no longer than 10 pages, and shorter submissions are welcome. Position paper submissions must be no longer than 4 pages. All submissions must be received before 11:59 PM PST 31 August 2005. Submission will be via the workshop web site. Reviewing and Participation: All submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Decisions on the acceptance of papers will be communicated to authors no later than 15 September 2005. Authors of accepted papers plus programme committee members will be invited to participate in the workshop. Authors who need invitations before this date should send a message to the workshop committee at owl-ws-organizers at mindswap.org indicating why they need an advance invitation and provide their qualifications to receive an invitation. Applications from other interested parties will be considered after submission-based invitations have been extended, but numbers will be strictly limited. Workshop Committee: Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA) Phil Archer, ICRA (UK) Michael Champion, Microsoft (USA) Dan Connolly, W3C (USA) Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (USA) Enrico Franconi, University of Bolzano (Italy) Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland (USA) Christine Golbreich, University Rennes 2 (France) Pat Hayes, University of West Florida (USA) Kaoru Hiramatsu, NTT (Japan) Joanne Luciano, BioPAX (USA) Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden (Germany) Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto (Canada) Boris Motik, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) Enrico Motta, Open University (UK) Gary Ng, Cerebra (USA) Natasha Noy, Stanford University (USA) Alan L. Rector, University of Manchester (UK) Andrew Schain, NASA (USA) Monica Schraefel, University of Southampton (UK) Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universitat Amsterdam (Netherlands) Evan Wallace, NIST (USA) Christopher Welty, IBM Research (USA) From SUZETTE at mitre.org Tue May 31 15:33:12 2005 From: SUZETTE at mitre.org (Stoutenburg,Suzette) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:33:12 -0400 Subject: [DL] RuleML 2005 Call For Papers Message-ID: <3F77017F2934754FACD16C022A947046045FF7@IMCSRV1.MITRE.ORG> **This CFP is being posted to multiple lists; we apologise if you see it multiple times.** RuleML-2005 International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web http://2005.ruleml.org Galway, Ireland 10-11 November 2005 Call For Papers Rules are widely recognized to be a major part of the frontier of the Semantic Web, and critical to the early adoption and applications of knowledge-based techniques in e-business, especially enterprise integration and B2B e-commerce. This includes knowledge representation (KR) theory and algorithms; markup languages based on such KR; engines, translators, and other tools; relationships to standardization efforts; and, not least, applications. Interest and activity in the area of Rules for the Semantic Web has grown rapidly over the last five years. The RuleML-2005 Conference is aimed to be this year's premiere scientific conference on the topic. It continues in topic, leadership, and collaboration with the previous series of three highly successful annual international workshops (last year's was RuleML-2004). RuleML-2005 is colocated with the International Semantic Web Conference (http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/) which meets 6-10 November 2005. This year's main conference theme is rule languages for reactive and proactive rules, complex event processing, and event-driven rules, for applications on the Semantic Web. Topics of Interest We encourage submissions on all topics related to rules and rule markup languages for the Semantic Web. In particular, the conference seeks papers addressing the syntax and semantics of rule languages, translations and interoperability between rule languages, associated theory, execution engines and processing models, implemented systems, use cases, and deployed applications. We are also interested in research and applications integrating declarative business Web Services, business processes, and rules. Particularly encouraged this year as the conference theme is: languages for reactive and proactive rules, complex event processing, and event-driven rules. Background: Rules complement and extend ontologies on the Semantic Web. Rules can be used in combination with ontologies, or as a means to specify ontologies. In particular, simple rules and axioms can be applied via ontology languages, either in conjunction with or as an alternative to description logics. Rules can also be applied over ontologies, so as to draw inferences, express constraints, specify policies, react to events/changes, discover new knowledge, transform data, etc. Rule markup languages enrich web ontologies so as to extend definitions of derived concepts, and supporting publishing rules on the Web, exchange rules between different systems and tools, share guidelines and policies, merge and maintain rulebases, and more. Topics of interest include the following. ? Rule-based policies: their specification, execution, and management ? Combining rules with ontologies ? Reaction rules for the Semantic Web ? Complex event processing ? Rules for event correlation ? Event-driven/action rule languages and models ? Semantic Rule Management ? Resolving conflicts in triggered action sets ? Extraction of rules from unstructured data sources ? Languages, including standards (RuleML, SWRL, Jess, N3, F-logic/FLORA-2, etc.) ? Execution models, rule engines, and environments ? Implemented tools and systems for active rules on the Semantic Web ? Combining active rules and ontologies ? Integrating active rules and description logics ? Applying active rules for Semantic Web Services ? Modeling of business rules and event-driven/active rules ? Rule-based software agents and the Semantic Web ? E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative strategies ? Connecting event-driven and reactive rules to legacy knowledge bases ? Integrating rule bases and distributed fact bases ? Rule base validation, verification and exception handling on the Semantic Web ? XSL transformations of event-driven and reactive rules Submission We invite articles of no more than 15 pages length formatted in Springer's LNCS style (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) describing original completed work, work in progress, or interesting problems or use cases. (Note that this page limit includes title, abstract, and all figures, and references.) Submitted papers will be fully refereed based on the originality and significance of the ideas presented as well as on technical aspects. Publication of the proceedings is again planned in the Springer LNCS series. Submissions should be made to http://witanweb.ca/ruleml2005/ BEFORE OR BY 1 July 2005. (Note: authors unable to submit PDF may instead submit Postscript format.) In the submission email, indicate the contact author including full name and affiliation, email address, and telephone number. Multiple Submission Policy: Papers may be submitted to ISWC-2005 and RuleML-2005, but cannot be presented at both conferences. If your paper has been submitted to ISWC-2005, you must indicate that fact at the top of the first page. Failure to do so may result in summary rejection of your paper. Important Dates ? 1 July 2005 -- Deadline for paper submissions. ? 5 August 2005-- Notification of acceptance. ? 2 September 2005 -- Final version of paper (camera-ready) due. ? 12 September 2005 -- Early registration deadline for conference authors. ? 10-11 November 2005 - RuleML 2005 Conference Program Co-Chairs ? Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel ? Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE Corporation, USA ? Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA Conference General Co-Chairs ? Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada ? Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Steering Committee ? Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel ? Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, FORTH, Greece ? Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada ? Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA ? Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA ? Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), University of Innsbruck, Austria, and National University of Ireland, Ireland ? Steve Ross-Talbot, Pi4 Technologies, USA ? Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE Corporation, USA ? Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA ? Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Program Committee ? Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, FORTH, Greece ? Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece ? Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada ? Scott Buffett, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada ? Carlos Damasio, New University of Lisbon, Portugal ? Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France ? Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA ? Andreas Eberhart, International University, Germany ? Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), University of Innsbruck, Austria, and National University of Ireland, Ireland ? National University of Ireland, Ireland ? Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA ? Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland, Australia ? John Hall, Model Systems, UK ? Sandro Hawke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA ? Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK ? Jay Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea ? Sandy Liu, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada ? Jan Maluszynski, Link?ping University, Sweden ? Massimo Marchiori, W3C, MIT, USA and University of Venice, Italy ? Donald Nute, University of Georgia, USA ? Royi Ronen, Technion, Israel ? Michael Schroeder, TU Dresden, Germany ? Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany ? Bruce Spencer, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada ? Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA ? Dmitry Tsarkov, University of Manchester, UK ? Paul Vincent, Fair Isaac, USA ? Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany ? 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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, Semantic Web, Ontologies, and related techniques. Presentations will cover 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, ease of use, expressiveness, and computational performance are welcome. Integration of methodologies, user interfaces, semantic web technologies, knowledge use, reuse, and integration, and business product tools descriptions are all of high interest. The conference will focus on the use of conceptual structures in formalizing and processing semantical content of ontologies, in particular in relation with the semantic web technologies. Of special interest is the question to which extent formal representations of conceptual structures can support human communication and knowledge creation. * Invited Speakers The following researchers have accepted to give an invited talk at ICCS 2005: Rose Dieng INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France Norbert Fuchs University of Z?rich, Switzerland Joseph Goguen UCSD, San Diego, USA Ian Horrocks Manchester, UK Eduard Hovy ISI, Los Angeles, USA Yannis Kalfoglou University of Southhampton, UK Aldo de Moor Tilburg University, Netherlands Ambj?rn Naeve KTH, Stockholm, Sweden George Paliouras NCSR, Athens, Greece * Workshops on July 17 - Formal and Semi-Formal Summaries - Pragmatic Support for Collaborative Inquiry - ICCS 2005 Tools Workshop * Tutorial on July 17 - Mathematical Foundations of Conceptual Graphs * Conference Chairs, Editorial Board, Programme Committee General Chair: Gerd Stumme (University of Kassel, Germany) Program Chairs: Frithjof Dau (Darmstadt Technical University, Germany) Marie-Laure Mugnier (LIRMM, France) - Editorial Board: Galia Angelova (Bulgaria) Michel Chein (France) Aldo de Moor (Netherlands) Harry Delugach (USA) Peter Eklund (Australia) Bernhard Ganter (Germany) Mary Keeler (USA) Sergei Kuznetsov (Russia) Wilfried Lex (Germany) Guy Mineau (Canada) Bernard Moulin (Canada) Heather D. Pfeiffer (USA) Uta Priss (UK) John Sowa (USA) Rudolf Wille (Germany) Karl Erich Wolff (Germany) - Programme Committee: Anne Berry (France) Tru Cao (Vietnam) Dan Corbett (Australia) Olivier Corby (France) Pavlin Dobrev (Bulgaria) David Genest (France) Ollivier Haemmerle (France) Roger Hartley (USA) Udo Hebisch (Germany) Joachim Hereth Correia (Germany) Richard Hill (UK) Pascal Hitzler (Germany) Kees Hoede (The Netherlands) Julia Klinger (Germany) Pavel Kocura (UK) Robert Kremer (Canada) Leonhard Kwuida (Germany) M. Leclere (France) Robert Levinson (USA) Michel Liquiere (France) Carsten Lutz (Germany) Philippe Martin (Australia) Engelbert Mephu Nguifo (France) Simon Polovina (UK) Anne-Marie Rassinoux (Switzerland) Gary Richmond (USA) Olivier Ridoux (France) Dan Rochowiak (USA) Sebastian Rudolph (Germany) Eric Salvat (France) Janos Sarbo (the Netherlands) Henrik Schaerfe (Denmark) Bill Tepfenhart (USA) Thanwadee T. Sunetnanta (Thailand) Sergiy Yevtushenko (Germany) GQ Zhang (USA) * Further Information This call for Participation and the latest information regarding the conference can be found on the World Wide Web at: An overview for all previous conferences on conceptual structures can be found at * Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering Department of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Kassel Germany Tel. ++49 561/804-6251 Fax ++49 561/804-6259 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de -- Gerd Stumme, Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Kassel 0561/804-6251, Fax: -6259 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de From Carlos.Areces at loria.fr Wed Jun 1 20:39:48 2005 From: Carlos.Areces at loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:39:48 +0200 Subject: [DL] [ESSLLI 2006] Second Call for Course and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <20050601183948.GF31514@nantois.loria.fr> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 18th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 31 July - 11 August, 2006, Malaga, Spain http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% SECOND CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS --------------------------------------------- (Please distribute as widely as possible) The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering 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. The ESSLLI 2006 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 18th annual Summer School on a wide range of timely topics that have demonstrated their relevance in the following fields: - Logic and Language - Logic and Computation - Language and Computation PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted through a web form available at http://www.folli.org/submission.php All proposals should be submitted no later than ******* Friday June 17, 2005. ******* Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Friday September 23, 2005. Proposers should follow the full submission guidelines privided in the full call at http://folli.loria.fr/cfp.txt while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate cannot be considered. -- Carlos Eduardo Areces INRIA Lorraine INRIA Lorraine. 615, rue du Jardin Botanique 54602 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France phone : +33 (0)3 83 58 17 90 fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 e-mail : carlos.areces at loria.fr www : http://www.loria.fr/~areces visit : http://hylo.loria.fr -> The Hybrid Logic's Home Page From hypaik at gmail.com Fri Jun 3 04:47:23 2005 From: hypaik at gmail.com (Helen Paik) Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:47:23 +1000 Subject: [DL] Deadline approaching: CFP WISE 2005 Message-ID: <694f405505060219473b505ba9@mail.gmail.com> CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering November 20-22 2005, New York City, New York http://www.cs.txstate.edu/wise05 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ABSTRACT DUE: 10 JUNE 2005 PAPERS DUE: 17 JUNE 2005 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Yahiko Kambayashi Best Paper Award (worth $1000) will be given to the best paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue of the "Internet and Web Information Systems" or the "WWW Journal" published by Springer. For more information please contact the conference website http://www.cs.txstate.edu/wise05 which will be updated as additional information becomes available. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue of the "Internet and Web Information Systems" or the "WWW Journal" published by Springer. WISE 2005 aims at presenting novel topics and approaches to Web engineering in the dynamic, diverse, distributed and ever increasing volume of WWW data and applications. In particular, we invite researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge of web technologies, methodologies and applications. WISE 2005 is the first WISE conference to be held in the US. Previous WISE conferences were held in China (2000), Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Italy (2003), and Australia (2004). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: * Web services discovery and composition * Semantic Web and ontologies * Grid computing * P2P systems * Mobile services * Service oriented architecture and systems * Service monitoring and management * Web mining and warehousing * Web security and trust management * Stream processing and optimization * Web quality of service and transaction * E-commerce and E-government * Web performance * Web information extraction and integration * Web agents and Web Intelligence * Innovative Web-based Applications * Web-based Scientific Data Management * Modeling and Learning * Collaboration and Coordination * XML and Semi-structured data Co-Sponsored by: Telcordia Technologies Inc. and WISE Society --------------- Important Dates --------------- Abstracts due June 10, 2005 Papers due June 17, 2005 Decision notification Aug. 12, 2005 Camera-ready copies due Sept. 12, 2005 Workshop proposal April 26, 2005 Tutorial/panel proposal June 24, 2005 Abstracts and papers must be electronically submitted via the conference web site in pdf. Papers must use at least 11 pt fonts and not exceed 25 double spaced pages (including figures, tables, etc.). Papers due 11:59 PM US PST, June 17, 2005. ---------------------- Publication and Awards ---------------------- The proceedings of WISE 2005 and associated workshops will be published by Springer LNCS series. The Yahiko Kambayashi Best Paper Award (with $1000) will be given to the best paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue of the "Internet and Web Information Systems" or the "WWW Journal" published by Springer. ------------------ Industrial Program ------------------ The conference program will include a number of papers and invited presentations devoted to industrial developments. Papers intended for this program should be clearly marked as industrial track papers and submit to the industry program chair. The deadlines and requirements for industrial papers are the same as for research paper submissions. To submit industry paper, contact: Jen Yao Chung (jychung at us.ibm.com) ---------------------- Tutorial/Panel Program ---------------------- Tutorials will complement the research and industrial tracks. Tutorial proposals must include an abstract, an outline, a description of the target audience, and a short bio of the presenter(s). Proposals (in pdf) for tutorial/panel program are due on June 24, 2005. To submit a tutorial proposal, contact: Boualem Benatallah (boualem at cse.unsw.edu.au) To submit a panel proposal, please contact: James Geller (geller at la.njit.edu) --------- Workshops --------- The WISE program will include several workshops. Workshop proposals are due on April 26 2005. To submit a workshop proposal, please contact: Alexandros Biliris (biliris at cs.columbia.edu) ------------------- Conference Officers ------------------- General Co-Chairs Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA Vijay Atluri, Rutgers U., USA Program Co-chairs Masaru Kitsuregawa, U. of Tokyo, Japan Erich Neuhold, Fraunhofer- IPSI, Germany Anne Ngu, Texas State U., USA Industrial Program Chair Jen Yao Chung, IBM, USA Tutorial Chair Boualem Benatallah, U. of New South Wales, Australia Panel Chair James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Workshop Chair Alexandros Biliris, Columbia U., USA Local Arrangements Chair Thimios Panagos, Telcordia, USA Soon Ae Chun, Rutgers U., USA Publication Chair Dave Buttler, LLNL, USA Publicity Chair Helen Paik, Queensland U. of Technology, Australia WISE Steering Committee Liaisons Yanchun Zhang, Victoria U., Australia Marek Rusinkiewicz, Telcordia, USA ---------------- Conference Venue ---------------- Hotel InterContinental, The Barclay New York, 111 east 48th Street, New York City ------------------------ Program Commitee Members ------------------------ Marco Aiello, University of Trento, Italy Rafael Alonso, Sarnoff Corporation, USA Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Athman Bouguettaya, Virgina Tech, USA Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Sang Kyun Cha, Seoul National Uni, Korea Sharma Chakravarthy, UT Arlington, USA Edward Chang, UCSB, USA Arbee L.P. Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Guihai Chen, Nanjing University, China Andrzej Cichocki, Telcordia Technologies, USA Anindya Datta, Georgia Tech University and Chutney, USA Gill Dobbie, University of Auckland, NZ Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Tina Eliassi-Rad, LLNL, USA Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue University, USA Peter Fankhauser , Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Paul Grefen, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Claude Godart, INRIA, France Wook-Shin Han, Kyung-Pook National University, Korea Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Switzerland Carol Hazelwood, Texas State University, USA Christian Hueme, Uni Wien, Austria Jane Hsui, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Keith Jeffery, BITD, UK George Karabatis, University of Maryland, USA Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT, India Martin Kersten, CWI, The Netherlands Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Herman Lam, University of Florida, USA Jianzhong Li, Harbin University of Technology, China Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China Kwei-Jay Lin, UC Irvine, USA XueMin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia Tok Wang Ling, NUS, Singapore Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jianguo Lu, University of Windsor, Canada Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Pat Martin, Queen's University, Canada Rubens Melo, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Robert Meersman, Free University, Brussels Michele Missikoff, Cnr Italy Miyuki Nakano, University of Tokyo, Japan Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo, Canada Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Dewayne Perry, University of Texas, USA Rodion Podorozhny, Texas State University, USA Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece Colette Rolland, Universite Paris France Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA Thomas Risse, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Michael Rys, Microsoft, USA Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea Mark Segal, Telcordia technologies, USA John Shepherd, University of New South Wales, Australia Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Massey University, New Zealand Ming-Chien Shan, HP Labs, USA Michael Sheng, University of New South Wales, Australia Monica Scannapieco, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Amit Sheth, University of Gerogia, USA Jianwen Su, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Stanely Su, University of Florida, USA Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Trianatfillou, University of Patars, Greece Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece Roel Wieringa, Twente University, The Netherlands Leah Wong, SPAWAR System Center, USA Limsoon Wong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Ge Yu, Northeastern University, China Jeffrey Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China ASANO Yasuhito, Tohoku University, Japan Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nagoya University, Japan Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA LiangZhao Zeng, IBM T.J. Watson, USA Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia For more information please contact the conference website http://www.cs.txstate.edu/wise05 which will be updated as additional information becomes available. -- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Helen Hye-young Paik c/o QUT School of Information Systems 2 George St Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia (P) +61 7 3864 1941 (F) +61 7 3864 1969 (H) http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/~paik -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- From Ulrike.Sattler at manchester.ac.uk Mon Jun 6 14:01:10 2005 From: Ulrike.Sattler at manchester.ac.uk (Ulrike Sattler) Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:01:10 +0100 Subject: [DL] DL05 -- Call for Participation Message-ID: <42A43B06.4050803@cs.man.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologise if you receive this more than once. You are receiving this message since you are a subscriber of a relevant mailing list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2005) 26th to 28th July 2005 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK http://dl.kr.org/dl2005/ co-located with IJCAI 2005, http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ The 2005 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2000) continues the tradition of international workshops devoted to discussing developments and applications of knowledge representation formalisms based on Description Logics. DL2005 will be co-located with IJCAI 2005 (the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/, 30 July to 5 August 2005), and will take place from the 26th to 28th July 2005 in the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION In contrast to previous DL workshops, registration is open to everybody, and not by invitation only. Registration is now open at http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/478/booking.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME A list of accepted papers and posters is available on-line at http://dl.kr.org/dl2005/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Ron Brachman, Arlington, Virginia * Thomas Eiter, Vienna, Austria * Robert Stevens, Manchester, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK * Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Carlos Areces, France * Alessandro Artale, Italy * Giuseppe De Giacomo, Italy * Volker Haarslev, Canada * Ian Horrocks, UK * Holger Knublauch, US * Carsten Lutz, Germany * Maarten Marx, NL * Ralf Moeller, Germany * Bijan Parsia, USA * Peter Patel-Schneider, USA * Ulrike Sattler, UK * Luciano Serafini, Italy * David Toman, Canada * Holger Wache, NL * Frank Wolter, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information regarding the workshops programme, travel information, hotels, etc. will be made available at the home page of DL 2005 -- please check for updates. * Enquiries about the DL2000 workshop can be made by mailing to the organising committee: dl2005 at cs.man.ac.uk * The official Description Logics WWW home page is at http://dl.kr.org/dl/ * Patrick Lambrix has a nice collection of DL references, researchers, etc. at: http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/iislab/people/patla/DL/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ying.ding at deri.org Mon Jun 6 14:00:44 2005 From: ying.ding at deri.org (Ying Ding) Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:00:44 +0200 Subject: [DL] Open positions on Post Docs and Senior Researchers - DERI, Austria Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20050606135744.014fd310@mail.deri.org> Post Docs (m/f) and Senior Researchers (m/f) DERI is one of the leading research groups in the area of Semantic Web technologies with excellent ties to relevant research groups worldwide and is located right in the heart of the Alps, with an exceptional standard of living and an attractive combination of a beautiful city and unique opportunities for sports activities all year round. We expect - an excellent PhD degree in Computer Science or related disciplines or an equivalent academic degree, - research interests in Logic, Ontology Languages, Semantic Web Services, Semantics in Business Information Systems, or related Semantic Web topics, and - the willingness to combine formal scientific work with application-oriented research in projects funded by the European Commission and national agencies, Candidates with a PhD degree in Business Information Systems will also be considered. We are looking for individuals who will continue their existing stream of research in related areas within our ongoing and new research projects. The senior positions will also include management responsibility for a research cluster with 3 ? 6 junior researchers. We offer - the stimulating environment of a leading research group in this area, - excellent ties to research groups worldwide, - up-to-date infrastructure and resources, including sufficient funding for attending international conferences, and - standardized exchange tracks with Stanford University and other universities. For further information regarding this position and DERI, please see http://www.deri.at. We invite your application by e-mail to hr at deri.org. Please include a current resume, a list of publications, and digital versions of your most relevant works. Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel Institut f?r Informatik University of Innsbruck Technikerstra?e 21a A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria From fairouz at macs.hw.ac.uk Mon Jun 6 16:08:07 2005 From: fairouz at macs.hw.ac.uk (Fairouz Kamareddine) Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:08:07 +0100 Subject: [DL] FINAL CALL FOR ESSLLI05 registration Message-ID: ======================================================================== || FINAL CALL FOR REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION BOOKING || || || || ESSLLI 2005, http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ || || 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information || || The annual summer school of FoLLI, || || the Association for Logic, Language and Information. || || Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland || || 8-19 August, 2005 || ||--------------------------------------------------------------------|| || THREE WEEKS LEFT FOR REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION BOOKING || || DEADLINE: 7 July 2005 || ||--------------------------------------------------------------------|| || REGISTRATION PROCEDURE ON LINE AT: || || http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/give-page.php?17 || || (Note, this is during the Edinburgh famous international festivals|| || http://www.eventful-edinburgh.com/ || || so accommodation must be reserved promptly to be guaranteed) || ||====================================================================|| From r.f.moeller at tu-harburg.de Wed Jun 8 17:50:07 2005 From: r.f.moeller at tu-harburg.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ralf_M=F6ller?=) Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:50:07 +0200 Subject: [DL] RacerPro 1.8 available Message-ID: <9297dd12f5cd432d8673c2bcb8f24cd7@tu-harburg.de> Dear colleagues, It took quite a long time to release a new version of Racer (about two years actually); so probably it is appropriate to send this message to this group. This is to inform you that RacerPro 1.8 is now available. Features: - RacerPro is a server program for which various APIs are available. + Descripion logic: SHIQ(Dn)- (TBoxes and ABoxes WITHOUT UNA) + nRQL query and rule language + OWL/RDF: OWL-DL plus qualified cardinality restrictions as an extension plus support for datatype properties in nRQL (with number restrictions on datatype properties) plus support for annotation properties in nRQL (fast access, used to store data in DL systems) + RacerPro can directly download RDF and OWL-DL files from the web (Restrictions: nominals are approximated with concepts, datatypes cannot be specified in external XML Schema files) - RacerPorter is the (remote) graphical user interface for RacerPro + Windows, Linux, Mac OS X + Just drop a knowledge base file onto the RacerPro icon to load it into Racer + Command shell with command completion etc. for effectively interacting with a RacerPro server. + TBox and Abox graph display, interactive composition of simple TBox and ABox queries + Dialog for inspecting the queries processed by a server + Dialog for managing rules used by the server - RacerPlus will be available soon. It includes RacerPorter directly within the server program (much faster because there is no communication overhead). Furthermore, RacerPlus contains an integrated (emacs-based) editor for developing knowledge bases and process them with a single key-press. - RacerMaster will be available soon. It includes a Common Lisp compiler and development environment as well as RacerPro in the appropriate object code (fasl) format. This lets you develop your own programs using the Common Lisp language with minimum effort. - RacerOWL-QL is a web service interface for a large OWL-QL fragment. This module is in preparation. Please check http://www.racer-systems.com for details about downloading and obtaining a license. - RacerPro, RacerPorter, RacerPlus, and RacerMaster can be licensed by companies as well as universities or research institutions (desktop, network, and site licenses). - RacerPro and RacerPorter are freely available as a desktop version for educational and research purposes. Have fun, Ralf From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Jun 13 17:20:36 2005 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:20:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR last CFP Message-ID: <20050613152036.13C98AF3A@sherman.cs.miami.edu> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LPAR-12 Montego Bay, Jamaica http://www.lpar.net/2005 2nd-6th December 2005 Last Call For Papers The 12th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR-12) will be held 2nd-6th December 2005, at the Wexford Hotel, Montego Bay, Jamaica. Submission of papers for presentation at the conference is now invited. Dates and Deadlines: + Submission of full paper abstracts 11th July + Submission of full papers 18th July + Submission of short papers 26th September Topics of interest include: + automated reasoning + propositional reasoning + interactive theorem proving + description logics + proof assistants + modal and temporal logics + proof planning + nonmonotonic reasoning + proof checking + constructive logic and type theory + rewriting and unification + lambda and combinatory calculi + software and hardware verification + logic programming + network and protocol verification + constraint programming + systems specification and synthesis + logical foundations of programming + model checking + computational interpretations of logic + proof-carrying code + logic and computational complexity + logic and databases + logic in artificial intelligence + reasoning over ontologies + knowledge representation and reasoning + reasoning for the semantic web + reasoning about actions Full and short papers are welcome. Full papers may be either regular papers containing new results, or experimental papers describing implementations or evaluations of systems. Short papers may describe work in progress or provide system descriptions. Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. The full paper proceedings of LPAR-12 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI series. Authors of accepted full papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. The short paper proceedings of LPAR-12 will be published by the conference. Submission Instructions ----------------------- Papers must be prepared using the Springer-Verlag instructions for authors (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers may be up to 15 pages. If proofs do not fit in 15 pages, an appendix with proofs may be added. Short papers may be up to 5 pages. Papers must be submitted in plain postscript or PDF format, through the online submission system (http://www.easychair.org/LPAR-05/submit/). Dates and Deadlines: + Submission of full paper abstracts 11th July + Submission of full papers 18th July + Notification of acceptance of full papers 12th September + Camera ready versions of full papers due 3rd October + Submission of short papers 26th September + Notification of acceptance of short papers 24th October + Camera ready versions of short papers due 7th November Questions related to submission may be sent to the program chairs, Geoff Sutcliffe and Andrei Voronkov. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jamaica ... Land of LPAR and Reggae -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From murray at uni-koblenz.de Tue Jun 14 15:20:47 2005 From: murray at uni-koblenz.de (Jan Murray) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:20:47 +0200 Subject: [DL] [KI-2005] Call for Participation Message-ID: <17070.55727.876089.237367@comet.uni-koblenz.de> Apologies if you receive multiple copies CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ************************************************************ - KI 2005 - 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence September 11 - 14, 2005 Koblenz, Germany http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/ ************************************************************ ----------- Quick Links ----------- Homepage: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de Program: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/program.html Workshops: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/workshops/index.html Tutorials: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/tutorials/index.html Invited Talks: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/invited_talks.html Registration: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/register.html Early Bird Registration until July 31, 2005 -------------------- About the Conference -------------------- KI 2005 cordially invites AI researchers and practitioners to meet in the beautiful town of Koblenz at the meeting point of Rhine and Mosella in September this year. An attractive technical program has been put together, which covers a particularly broad spectrum of subfields in AI theory and practice. It comprises high quality paper presentations, a variety of specialised workshops and tutorials and is highlighted by a number of invited talks. KI 2005 will be held together with MATES 2005. The conference is part of the International Conference Summer Koblenz, which also features SEFM 2005, TABLEAUX 2005 and FTP 2005. http://www.uni-koblenz.de/ag-ki/confsummer.html http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de http://www.mates2005.de ----------------- Technical Program ----------------- The technical program comprises 30 presentations from various fields of AI research. A list of accepted papers can be found at http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/program.html ------------- Invited Talks ------------- * Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University) '175 Miles through the Desert' * Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels) 'Emergent Semantics in Multi-Agent Systems' * Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester) 'Description Logics in Ontology Applications' http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/invited_talks.html --------- Tutorials --------- - Connectionist Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Techniques in Evolutionary Robotics and Neurodynamics http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/tutorials/index.html --------- Workshops --------- - Context-Aware Systems and Situation-Sensitive Applications - PuK 2005: 19. Workshop Planen, Scheduling und Konfigurieren - Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence - FOnt 2005 - Foundational Aspects of Ontologies - Knowledge Engineering und Software Engineering - Text-Based Information Retrieval (TIR-05) - Mixed-Reality as a Challenge for Image Understanding and Artificial Intelligence - Intelligent Learning and Teaching Systems - between Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering for Education - From Sensory to Social Presence - Techniques and Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces - Jahrestreffen der GI-Fachgruppe Deduktionssysteme (DedSys) - Kooperierende Teams mobiler Roboter in dynamischen Umgebungen http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/workshops/index.html ---------------- Conference Venue ---------------- Koblenz, the 2005 conference venue, is situated in the picturesque landscape of the Rhine and Moselle right in the middle of Europe. The city in the western part of Germany with a true Roman history was over the centuries captured by the Franks, chosen as a residence by German prince electors, conquered by the French and fortified by the Prussians. A truly European place. Koblenz is a meeting point for visitors from all over the world and an excellent starting point for trips into the fascinating landscape along the Rhine and the Moselle. From here it's only a short way to Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and France. Its abundance of cultural monuments and historic buildings, its cosy lanes and narrow alleyways, the relaxed and happy atmosphere of its squares and river promenades make Koblenz a friendly town where its guests feel right at home. Hope to see you all in Koblenz, Ulrich Furbach KI 2005 Program Chair From cimatti at itc.it Wed Jun 15 00:14:52 2005 From: cimatti at itc.it (Alessandro Cimatti) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:14:52 +0200 Subject: [DL] PDPAR'05 call for participation Message-ID: <20050614221452.GA32422@itc.it> PDPAR'05 -- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 3rd International Workshop on Pragmatics of DECISION PROCEDURES in Automated Reasoning July 12, 2005 University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK http://www.ai.dist.unige.it/pdpar05/ PDPAR'05 is the third workshop of a series dedicated to pragmatical aspects of decision procedures in automated reasoning. The workshop covers the issues related to the implementation and the assessment of the effectiveness of decision procedures. The workshop also serves as a forum for the development of the "Satisfiability Modulo Theories Library" (SMT-LIB, URL: http://combination.cs.uiowa.edu/smtlib) initiative, that aims at establishing a standardized library of relevant benchmarks for decision procedures. The two previous editions have been affiliated to CADE and IJCAR. This year, PDPAR'05 is a satellite event of CAV'05, to emphasize the increasing role of decision procedures in computer-aided verification. The program includes: * two keynote presentations by - Natarajan Shankar (SRI) - Eli Singerman (Intel) * a special session dedicated to SMT-COMP, the first "Satisfiability Modulo Theories" Competition. The organizers will present the set-up and the results of SMT-COMP. * 9 technical papers presentations The organizers of PDPAR'05 gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Microsoft Research. Additional details for PDPAR'05 (including the program) are available at http://www.ai.dist.unige.it/pdpar05/ PDPAR'05 Organizers: Alessandro Armando (DIST, University of Genova, Italy) Alessandro Cimatti (IRST, Trento, Italy) PDPAR'05 Program Committee: Alessandro Armando (DIST, University of Genova, Italy) [co-chair] Thomas Ball (Microsoft Research) Clark Barrett (New York University, USA) Randy Bryant (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) Alessandro Cimatti (IRST, Trento, Italy) [co-chair] David Dill (Stanford University, USA) Enrico Giunchiglia (University of Genova, Italy) Predrag Janicic (University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro) Greg Nelson (HP Labs, USA) Silvio Ranise (INRIA-Lorraine, France) Harald Ruess (SRI, USA) Roberto Sebastiani (University of Trento, Italy) Eli Singerman (Intel) Ofer Strichman (Technion - IIT, Israel) Aaron Stump (Washington University, USA) Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) From dovier at dimi.uniud.it Wed Jun 15 14:14:31 2005 From: dovier at dimi.uniud.it (Agostino Dovier) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:14:31 +0200 Subject: [DL] [Mlnet] WCB05 Second Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <20050531110041.99EB04855D@ramses2.inf-bio.uni-jena.de> References: <20050531110041.99EB04855D@ramses2.inf-bio.uni-jena.de> Message-ID: <6.0.2.0.0.20050615140438.02161d28@ten.dimi.uniud.it> [Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students] ================================================================= SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS WCB05 Workshop on Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics http://www.dimi.uniud.it/dovier/WCB05/ October 5st, 2005, Melia Sitges Hotel, Sitges (Barcelona) Spain ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Description ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bioinformatics is a challenging research area where every major contribution can have significant impact on medicine, agriculture, and industry. Among the various problems tackled in this area are those related to the recognition, analysis, and organization of DNA sequences, those related to the structure of macromolecules (like the prediction of the spatial form of a polymer, given the sequence of monomers constituting it, or the detection of common RNA sequence/structure motifs), and those related to biological systems simulations (for metabolic or regulatory networks) and those related to . All these problems can be naturally formalized using constraints over finite domains or intervals of reals. Moreover, Biological systems simulations can be easily designed using concurrent constraint programming. The main aim of this workshop is to share recent results in this area (new constraint solvers, new prediction programs) and to present new challenging problems that can be addressed using constraint-based methods. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2005 Notification to Authors: July 15th, 2005 Camera-ready copy due: August 16th, 2005 Workshop: October 5st, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee ----------------------------------------------------------------- Rolf Backofen (co-chair) Jena Univ., Germany Pedro Barahona Univ. Nova de Lisbona, Portugal Mats Carlsson SICS, Uppsala Sweden Alessandro Dal Palu' Udine Univ., Italy Agostino Dovier (co-chair) Udine Univ., Italy Francois Fages INRIA Rocquencourt, France Enrico Pontelli NMSU (USA) Sebastian Will Jena Univ., Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Details ----------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted papers can be * Summaries of already accepted or recently published results * Extended Abstracts of new results or * Abstract of ongoing works in any topic concerning bioinformatics and constraints. Submission style is the standard llncs style. Page limit is 6 pages. Please send the pdf or ps to WCB05 at dimi.uniud.it ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agostino Dovier Dip. di Matematica e Informatica, Universita' di Udine Via delle Scienze 206, I-33100 Udine (UD), Italy Phone: +39 (0432) 558 494 Fax: +39 (0432) 558 499 E-mail: dovier at dimi.uniud.it home-Page: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/dovier ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Mlnet mailing list Mlnet at ais.fraunhofer.de http://lists.ais.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/mlnet From holger.schlingloff at first.fhg.de Fri Jun 17 15:52:29 2005 From: holger.schlingloff at first.fhg.de (Holger Schlingloff) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:52:29 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: M4M-4 (Methods for Modalities 2005) Message-ID: <42B2D59D.9010705@first.fhg.de> Apologies if you receive this call more than once. Please distribute to whomever you think appropriate. __________________________________________________________________ First call for papers M4M-4 (Methods for Modalities 2005) The workshop "Methods for Modalities" (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers and posters, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. Regular papers should not exceed the length of 12 pages; short papers are up to six pages of length, and posters and tools can be presented on two pages of text. Proceedings will appear online and as a Humboldt university report. Depending on the submissions, papers may be selected to appear in a special issue of an appropriate journal. Submission is by email. Either Postscript or PDF files can be sent to m4m-4 at first.fraunhofer.de. The workshop will take place in Berlin - Adlershof, Germany, which is one of the worlds largest science and technology areas, comprising twelve research institutes, six faculties of the Humboldt University of Berlin, and more than 370 high tech companies. It is hosted by FIRST, the Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Architecture and Software Technology, in collaboration with the computer science institute of Humboldt University. For more information and registration information, see the M4M homepage at http://m4m.loria.fr/ Deadline for submissions: September 1st, 2005 Notification: October 17, 2005 Camera ready versions: November 8, 2005 Workshop dates: December 1-2, 2005 The program committee for M4M consists of Holger Schlingloff, Humboldt University / FIRST (local organizations); Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine; Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine; Torben Brauner, Roskilde University; Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan; Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bolzano; Rajeev Gore, University of Canberra; Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester; Joost-Pieter Katoen, University of Twente; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam; Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester; and Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool. __________________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Holger Schlingloff Head of the Synthesis, Validation and Testing Department Fraunhofer - Institute of Computer Architecture and Software Technology FHG-FIRST, Kekulestr 7, D-12489 Berlin, Germany Professor for Specification, Verification and Testing Theory Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-University Rudower Chaussee 25, D-12489 Berlin, Germany phone: ++49 30 6392 1907 mobile: ++49 179 5973372 fax: ++49 30 6392 1805 __________________________________________________________________ From floc at informatik.hu-berlin.de Mon Jun 20 20:15:14 2005 From: floc at informatik.hu-berlin.de (Kreutzer + Schweikardt) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:15:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] FLoC 2006: Call For Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <20050620181514.1060637CD6@riemann.informatik.hu-berlin.de> FLoC'06: The 2006 Federated Logic Conference Call For Workshop Proposals The fourth Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'06), will be held in Seattle, Wash., in August 2006, at the Seattle Sheraton. The following six conferences will participate in FLoC: - Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV). - International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP). - International Joint Conference on Automated Deduction (IJCAR). - IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS). - Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA). - International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT). For more information see http://research.microsoft.com/floc06/. The organizers have made arrangements to facilitate the running of pre-, post-, and mid-FLoC workshops. Each workshop will have its own registration. It is not necessary to register for FLoC in order to attend workshops. Meeting rooms and accommodations have been reserved at the Seattle Sheraton. - Pre-FLoC workshops: Thurs. August 10 - Fri. August 11, 2006. - Mid-FLoC workshops: Tues. August 15 - Wed. August 16, 2006. - Post-FLoC workshops: Mon. August 21 - Tues. August 22, 2006. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on topics relating logic, broadly understood, applied to computer science. Each workshop proposal must indicate one sponsoring conference among the participating conferences. (It is suggested that prospective workshop organizers contact the conference program chair before submitting a proposal.) Workshops will have to be financially self-supporting, unless the sponsoring conference accepts financial responsibility. The FLoC Organizing Committee will determine the final list of accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the sponsoring conferences and subject to the availability of space and facilities. Proposals should consist of two parts. First, a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance, and the particular benefits of a workshop. A second, organizational, part should include: - contact information about organizers - proposed format and agenda - procedures for selecting papers and participants - duration (which may vary from one day to three days) and preferred period. - proposed sponsoring conference Additional organizational plans may include names of potential invited speakers, proposed demo sessions and tutorials, plans for proceedings or other publications, etc. Proposals are due by July 31, 2005. Organizers will be notified by August 31, 2005. Proposals should be submitted either electronically, and should be addressed to the Program Chair of the sponsoring conference as well as to Gopal Gupta (Workshop Chair) Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75080 Email: gupta at utdallas.edu Phone: +1 972 883 4107 Fax: +1 972 883 2399 From stenzg at in.tum.de Mon Jun 27 16:47:12 2005 From: stenzg at in.tum.de (Gernot Stenz) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:47:12 +0200 Subject: [DL] [Tableaux2005] TABLEAUX 2005 Call for Participation Message-ID: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Call for Participation %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% International Conference TABLEAUX 2005 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Koblenz, Germany September 14-17, 2005 Co-located with FTP2005 http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de This conference, as a continuation of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, will be held in Koblenz, Germany, from September 14-17, 2005. The International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving (FTP 2005) will also be held in Koblenz at the same time, with opportunities for joint registration. CONFERENCE SCOPE AND 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. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME See http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de/programme.html for a description of the scientific programme. TABLEAUX 2005 is part of the International Conference Summer Koblenz 2005. See http://www.uni-koblenz.de/ag-ki/confsummer.html INVITED SPEAKERS Ian Horrocks University of Manchester DESCRIPTION LOGICS IN ONTOLOGY APPLICATIONS Diego Calvanese Free University of Bolzano/Bozen QUERY PROCESSING IN PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS: AN EPISTEMIC LOGIC Hans-J?rgen Ohlbach Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich AUTOMATED REASONING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SEMANTIC WEB Erik Rosenthal University of New Haven FORMAL VERSUS RIGOROUS MATHEMATICS: HOW TO GET YOUR PAPERS PUBLISHED TUTORIALS For tutorial abstracts, see http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de/tutorials - Instance Based Methods by Peter Baumgartner and Gernot Stenz - Analytic Systems and Dialogue Games by Chris Ferm?ller - Tutorial on Agda by Marcin Benke CONFERENCE AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Bernhard Beckert, University of Koblenz, Germany LOCATION The 2000-year-old town of Koblenz is situated in the picturesque landscape of the Rhine and Moselle and surrounded by four low mountain ranges. In 2002 the UNESCO ranked the upper Middle Rhine valley one of the most beautiful and oldest man-made landscapes, among the world cultural heritages. The chain of castles and palaces along the steep slopes, where the famous Rhine wines are grown, stretches from Koblenz to the legendary Loreley and continues to the cities of R?desheim and Bingen. ACCOMMODATION There are pre-reserved hotel room contingents for participants of TABLEAUX 2005 (see http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de/hotels.html). Reservations for rooms in these contingents can only be made until July 31, 2005. Due to the very limited number of available hotel rooms in Koblenz in September, we highly recommend room booking as soon as possible. REGISTRATION To register, please fill in the registration form available at http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de/registration.html Early registration ends July 31st, 2005. SCHOLARSHIPS TABLEAUX 2005 will support a limited number of attendees that otherwise cannot afford coming to Koblenz by providing a scholarship to cover (part of) their travel expenses and/or the conference fee. We welcome applications from everyone who has a particular interest in attending Tableaux (preference will be given to authors of accepted Tableaux 2005 papers) and who has a need for support. The deadline for applications is Friday, 15 July 2005. For details see http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de/scholarships.html. _______________________________________________ Tableaux2005 mailing list Tableaux2005 at mailbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de https://mailbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tableaux2005 From cimatti at itc.it Tue Jun 28 14:40:18 2005 From: cimatti at itc.it (Alessandro Cimatti) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:40:18 +0200 Subject: [DL] MathSAT: PhD positions at ICT-Trento Message-ID: <20050628124018.GB11077@itc.it> [[[ Apologies for mutiple copies of this message ]]] --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Ph.D. Positions Available on | | | | Decision Procedures for Formal Verification | | | | at the International Doctorate School on | | Information and Communication Technologies | | University of Trento, Italy | | | | Firm deadline: July 11th, 2005. | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- The MathSAT team at ITC-irst and at University of Trento is seeking candidates for two Ph.D. positions at the International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of the University of Trento, Italy. The activity will be carried out within the MathSAT project, and will aim at the design and development of decision procedures and their application to formal verification. Presentation and Inquiries ========================== Candidates interested in the above positions should introduce themselves and inquire for further information by sending email to: mathsat-recruit at itc.it Please use 'MATHSAT PHD' as subject, and include a statement of interest and a CV. PostScript, PDF, or plain text formats are encouraged. Application to the ICT School ============================= Full details are available from http://www.ict.unitn.it/ Candidate Profile ================= The ideal candidate should have a MS or equivalent (in either computer science, mathematics, electronic engineering or similar topics), and combine solid theoretical background and software development skills. The candidate shuold be be able to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving assigned objectives and reaching research excellence. Background knowledge and/or previous experience in the areas of formal verification, boolean reasoning, constaint solving, deduction systems, hardware description languages, though not mandatory, will be considered favourably. MathSAT ======= MathSAT (http://mathsat.itc.it/) is a decision procedure for logic theories combining boolean propositions with constraints over integer and real variables, and uninterpreted functions. It has been applied in different real-world application domains, ranging from formal verification of infinite state systems (e.g. timed and hybrid systems) to planning with resources, equivalence checking and model checking of RTL hardware designs. The MathSAT family of deciders is based on the extension of a DPLL-like propositional satisfiability procedure, used as an assignment enumerator. MathSAT pioneers a lazy and layered approach, where propositional reasoning is tightly integrated with solvers of increasing expressive power, in such a way that more expensive layers are called less frequently. Related Projects ================ Formal methods are widely applied as powerful verification and early debugging techniques in the development of complex industrial systems. In particular, formal checking at Register-Transfer Level (RTL) is currently a fundamental step in the design of hardware circuits. Most tools for formal checking, however, work at the boolean level, which is not expressive enough to capture the abstract, high level (e.g., structural, word level) information of RTL designs. Tools for formal checking are thus confronted with problems which are "flattened" down to boolean level so that a predominant part of their computational effort is wasted into brute force reasoning at boolean level. Thus, the checking process would greatly benefit from the ability to represent and exploit higher level informations. The activity of the selected candidates will be related to the the ORCHID project (Enhanced Formal Checkers for RTL Circuit Designs). The goal of the ORCHID project is to investigate enhanced SAT-based techniques for RTL formal checking and to deliver better verification tools for RTL designs. These tools will avoid flattening by working directly at a level of expressivity higher than boolean reasoning, and will be able to analyze larger scale RTL designs. The results of the research will be applicable to the extension of any existing formal checkers based on SAT procedures. The project is carried on with the external collaboration of the Logic and Validation Technologies, Intel Architecture Group in Haifa, Israel. Contact Persons =============== * Alessandro Cimatti mailto:cimatti at itc.it http://sra.itc.it/people/cimatti/ * Roberto Sebastiani mailto:roberto.sebastiani at dit.unitn.it http://www.dit.unitn.it/~rseba/ From lpnmr05 at mat.unical.it Fri Jul 1 17:31:32 2005 From: lpnmr05 at mat.unical.it (lpnmr05 at mat.unical.it) Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:31:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] LPNMR'05: Call for Participation Message-ID: <20050701153132.C6DCCFD087@ml.mat.unical.it> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] Call for Participation 8th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'05) Diamante, Cosenza, Italy September 5-8, 2005 http://www.mat.unical.it/lpnmr05/ LPNMR'05 is the eighth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning. Seven previous meetings were held in Washington, D.C., (1991), in Lisbon, Portugal (1993), in Lexington, Kentucky (1995), in Dagstuhl, Germany (1997), in El Paso, Texas (1999), in Vienna, Austria (2001), and in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2004). LPNMR'05 is organized by the Department of Mathematics of University of Calabria (Italy), and will be co-located with the INFOMIX Workshop on Data Integration. AIMS AND SCOPE -------------- LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers interested in the design and implementation of logic based programming languages and database systems, and researchers who work in the areas of knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass these theoretical and exprimental studies that lead to the construction of practical systems for declarative programming and knowledge representation. CONFERENCE PROGRAM ------------------ The technical program of LPNMR 2005 comprises three invited talks, 25 research papers, and two special tracks for application and system presentations (16 additional presentations). For further details on the scheduling of the talks, please visit our web site: http://www.mat.unical.it/lpnmr05/ INVITED TALKS ------------- J?rgen Angele (Ontoprise GmbH) Tohmas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA) WORKSHOPS --------- The conference will be co-located with the INFOMIX Workshop on Data Integration. The aim of the workshop is to discuss about recent research results on data integration exploiting LPNMR methods and systems, and capable of handling also data inconsistency and incompleteness. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Early Registration Deadline July 15, 2005 Conference September 5-8, 2005 REGISTRATION FEES ----------------- Early registration (before July 15th) Full Euro 250 Student Euro 140 Late registration (after July 15th) Full Euro 320 Student Euro 190 The registration fee includes the attendance to all technical sessions (including the special tracks) and invited talks of LPNMR?05, a copy of the LPNMR?05 proceedings (published by Springer Verlag), all coffee breaks, free participation to the INFOMIX Workshop on data integration, and the participation to the social dinner and the guided tour. REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION ------------------------------ To register and organize your trip to Diamante (accommodation, travel info, etc.), please visit the conference web site: http://www.mat.unical.it/lpnmr05/ From SUZETTE at mitre.org Fri Jul 1 20:13:15 2005 From: SUZETTE at mitre.org (Stoutenburg,Suzette) Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:13:15 -0400 Subject: [DL] Tim Berners-Lee to be Keynote Speaker at RuleML 2005 Message-ID: <8013B46C84D42A4C83EB3DBB9FD71B760D0076@IMCSRV1.MITRE.ORG> Please note that Tim Berners-Lee will be the keynote speaker. Deadline for paper submission has been extended to July 11. **This CFP is being posted to multiple lists; we apologise if you see it multiple times.** RuleML-2005 International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web http://2005.ruleml.org Galway, Ireland 10-12 November 2005 Final Call For Papers Rules are widely recognized to be a major part of the frontier of the Semantic Web, and critical to the early adoption and applications of knowledge-based techniques in e-business, especially enterprise integration and B2B e-commerce. This includes knowledge representation (KR) theory and algorithms; markup languages based on such KR; engines, translators, and other tools; relationships to standardization efforts; and, not least, applications. Interest and activity in the area of Rules for the Semantic Web has grown rapidly over the last five years. The RuleML-2005 Conference is aimed to be this year's premiere scientific conference on the topic. It continues in topic, leadership, and collaboration with the previous series of three highly successful annual international workshops (last year's was RuleML-2004). RuleML-2005 is colocated with the International Semantic Web Conference (http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/ ) which meets 6-10 November 2005. We are pleased to announce that Tim Berners-Lee will be the keynote speaker. This year's main conference theme is rule languages for reactive and proactive rules, complex event processing, and event-driven rules, for applications on the Semantic Web. The conference will also include an OWL Workshop, hosted by Peter Patel-Schneider. Topics of Interest We encourage submissions on all topics related to rules and rule markup languages for the Semantic Web. In particular, the conference seeks papers addressing the syntax and semantics of rule languages, translations and interoperability between rule languages, associated theory, execution engines and processing models, implemented systems, use cases, and deployed applications. We are also interested in research and applications integrating declarative business Web Services, business processes, and rules. Particularly encouraged this year as the conference theme is: languages for reactive and proactive rules, complex event processing, and event-driven rules. Background: Rules complement and extend ontologies on the Semantic Web. Rules can be used in combination with ontologies, or as a means to specify ontologies. In particular, simple rules and axioms can be applied via ontology languages, either in conjunction with or as an alternative to description logics. Rules can also be applied over ontologies, so as to draw inferences, express constraints, specify policies, react to events/changes, discover new knowledge, transform data, etc. Rule markup languages enrich web ontologies so as to extend definitions of derived concepts, and supporting publishing rules on the Web, exchange rules between different systems and tools, share guidelines and policies, merge and maintain rulebases, and more. Topics of interest include the following. * Rule-based policies: their specification, execution, and management * Combining rules with ontologies * Reaction rules for the Semantic Web * Complex event processing * Rules for event correlation * Event-driven/action rule languages and models * Semantic Rule Management * Resolving conflicts in triggered action sets * Extraction of rules from unstructured data sources * Languages, including standards (RuleML, SWRL, Jess, N3, F-logic/FLORA-2, etc.) * Execution models, rule engines, and environments * Implemented tools and systems for active rules on the Semantic Web * Combining active rules and ontologies * Integrating active rules and description logics * Applying active rules for Semantic Web Services * Modeling of business rules and event-driven/active rules * Rule-based software agents and the Semantic Web * E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative strategies * Connecting event-driven and reactive rules to legacy knowledge bases * Integrating rule bases and distributed fact bases * Rule base validation, verification and exception handling on the Semantic Web * XSL transformations of event-driven and reactive rules Submission We invite articles of no more than 15 pages length formatted in Springer's LNCS style (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) describing original completed work, work in progress, or interesting problems or use cases. (Note that this page limit includes title, abstract, and all figures, and references.) Submitted papers will be fully refereed based on the originality and significance of the ideas presented as well as on technical aspects. Publication of the proceedings is again planned in the Springer LNCS series. Submissions should be made to http://witanweb.ca/ruleml2005/ BEFORE OR BY 11 July 2005. (Note: authors unable to submit PDF may instead submit Postscript format.) In the submission email, indicate the contact author including full name and affiliation, email address, and telephone number. Multiple Submission Policy: Papers may be submitted to ISWC-2005 and RuleML-2005, but cannot be presented at both conferences. If your paper has been submitted to ISWC-2005, you must indicate that fact at the top of the first page. Failure to do so may result in summary rejection of your paper. Important Dates * 11 July 2005 -- Deadline for paper submissions. * 10 August 2005-- Notification of acceptance. * 2 September 2005 -- Final version of paper (camera-ready) due. * 12 September 2005 -- Early registration deadline for conference authors. * 10-12 November 2005 - RuleML 2005 Conference Program Co-Chairs * Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel * Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE Corporation, USA * Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA Conference General Co-Chairs * Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Steering Committee * Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel * Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, FORTH, Greece * Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA * Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Ireland * Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook * Steve Ross-Talbot, Pi4 Technologies, USA * Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE Corporation, USA * Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA * Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Program Committee * Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, FORTH, Greece * Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Scott Buffett, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Carlos Damasio, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France * Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA * Andreas Eberhart, International University, Germany * Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Ireland * Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland, Australia * John Hall, Model Systems, UK * Sandro Hawke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK * Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook * Jay Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea * Sandy Liu, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Jan Maluszynski, Link?ping University, Sweden * Massimo Marchiori, W3C, MIT, USA and University of Venice, Italy * Donald Nute, University of Georgia, USA * Royi Ronen, Technion, Israel * Michael Schroeder, TU Dresden, Germany * Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany * Bruce Spencer, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA * Dmitry Tsarkov, University of Manchester, UK * Paul Vincent, Fair Isaac, USA * Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany * Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia * Yuhong Yan, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Jul 4 18:16:08 2005 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 12:16:08 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR-12 Deadline Reminder Message-ID: <20050704161608.6582AAF0F@sherman.cs.miami.edu> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LPAR-12 Montego Bay, Jamaica http://www.lpar.net/2005 2nd-6th December 2005 Reminder The 12th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR-12) will be held 2nd-6th December 2005, at the Wexford Hotel, Montego Bay, Jamaica. Submission of papers for presentation at the conference is now invited. Dates and Deadlines: + Submission of full paper abstracts 11th July + Submission of full papers 18th July + Submission of short papers 26th September Details are available on the WWW site ... http://www.lpar.net/2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jamaica ... Land of LPAR and Reggae -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Tue Jul 5 10:10:04 2005 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Uli Sattler) Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 10:10:04 +0200 Subject: [DL] Research Positions available Message-ID: <2638faacc2da7775797e0ad41efa7897@cs.man.ac.uk> 2 RESEARCH ASSOCIATES FORMAL METHODS GROUP/INFORMATION MANAGEMENT GROUP REOL PROJECT (REF - EPS/144/05) Salary: ?21,640 to ?27,116 p.a. 1 RESEARCH ASSOCIATE/FELLOW INFORMATION MANAGEMENT GROUP TONES PROJECT (REF - EPS/145/05) Salary: ?21,640 to ?35,883 p.a. Applications are invited for two Research Associates and one Research Associate/Fellow to join the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. All three posts are available from 1 October 2005, or as soon as possible thereafter, for a period of three years. The School of Computer Science is a leading (5*) centre for research in Computer Science. The three available positions are in the Information Management Group (IMG) and in the Formal Methods (FM) Group, both of which are internationally recognised for their research in automated reasoning and logic-based knowledge representation. IMG focuses on the use of Description Logics (DLs) and DL based ontology languages, and on the development of DL based reasoning systems; members of the group have been responsible for the design of reasoning algorithms for the DLs that underpin state of the art ontology languages, as well as the development of implementation techniques that are now used in all state of the art DL reasoners. The FM group focuses on First Order reasoning and the development of First Order theorem provers; their Vampire system won the main category of the CASC theorem proving competition for the last four years. Of the three available posts, two are funded by the EPSRC, within the REOL project, and one is funded by the European Union 6 th Framework within the TONES project (which is a collaboration with research institutions in Rome , Bolzano , Dresden , and Hamburg ). Both projects aim at enhancing the reasoning services available for ontology design, maintenance, usage, and integration. REOL focuses on the development of effective reasoning for very expressive languages (up to full First Order Logic), while TONES focuses on extensions of Description Logics, improving the usability of existing reasoning services, and the design and investigation of novel reasoning services. Further details of the two projects can be found below. Given the aims of the two projects, we are seeking candidates with interests or capabilities in logics (preferably in description, modal, or first order logics) and automated reasoning. Successful applicants should possess a good first degree in computer science or a related discipline, and have at least some relevant postgraduate experience, preferably a PhD. Informal enquires: Dr Ulrike Sattler Tel: +44 (0)161 275 6176; email: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Professor Andrei Voronkov E-mail: voronkov at cs.man.ac.uk Ian Horrocks E-mail: horrocks at cs.man.ac.uk From Carlos.Areces at loria.fr Tue Jul 5 15:31:19 2005 From: Carlos.Areces at loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:31:19 +0200 Subject: [DL] E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize Winner Message-ID: <20050705133118.GB4474@nantois.loria.fr> **************** E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize Winner ************** Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. The dissertations are judged on the impact they made in their respective fields, breadth and originality of the work, and also on its interdisciplinarity. Ideally the winning dissertation will be of interest to researchers in all three fields. The selection for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize for the year 2005 is concluded. After careful deliberation the committee has reached the following decision: - The E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2005 has been awarded to Ash Asudeh from the University of Canterbury for the thesis 'Resumption as Resource Management'. (PhD awarded in the year 2004 at the Stanford University). 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 Abeill?, Johan van Benthem, Veronica Dahl, Nissim Francez, Valentin Goranko, Alessandro Lenci, Ewa Orlowska, Gerald Penn, Alberto Policriti (chair), Christian Retor?, Rob van der Sandt, and Wolfgang Thomas) for doing a great job. An award ceremony will take place during the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 05) in Edinburgh. For further information see the ESSLLI 05 web page: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ Finally, our thanks go to the E. W. Beth Foundation which kindly sponsors the prize. On behalf of FoLLI, Raffaella Bernardi From bozzano at irst.itc.it Wed Jul 6 14:53:59 2005 From: bozzano at irst.itc.it (Marco Bozzano) Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:53:59 +0200 Subject: [DL] ISAAC: Young Researcher Position at ITC-IRST, Trento Message-ID: <42CBD467.8000003@irst.itc.it> [[[ Apologies for multiple copies of this message ]]] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Young Researcher Position available on the ISAAC Project at ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Automated Reasoning Systems Division (SRA) at ITC-irst (http://sra.itc.it/) is seeking a young researcher to join the team of the ISAAC project. The position lasts up to January 2007 and is already open. Monthly salaries vary depending on age, qualification, and experience. The ISAAC Project ================== The ISAAC project (AST3-CT-2003-501848, see http://www.cert.fr/isaac/) -- Improvement of Safety Activities on Aeronautical Complex Systems -- is a Specific Targeted Research Project sponsored by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Program. The ISAAC consortium comprises aeronautical industries (Alenia Aeronautica, Airbus France, Airbus UK, Airbus Germany, Saab AB, Societa' Italiana Avionica, Dassault Aviation) and research centers leaders in formal verification, safety assessment, and tool development (ITC-irst, ONERA CERT, Kuratorium OFFIS e. V., Prover Technology AB). The goal of the ISAAC project is to define a methodology, based on formal methods, to improve the safety analysis practice for complex systems development in the aeronautic field, to set up a shared environment based on tools supporting the methodology, and to validate the methodology through its application to case-studies. The ISAAC project builds upon the results of the ESACS project (http://www.cert.fr/esacs/). The role of ITC-irst in the project is manifold. ITC-irst is developing the FSAP/NuSMV-SA safety analysis platform (http://sra.itc.it/tools/FSAP/) to support the safety analysis of complex systems. This platform is based on the following components: FSAP (Formal Safety Analysis Platform), providing a graphical user interface for easier user interaction, and NuSMV-SA, the core engine providing the safety analysis capabilities, which are implemented on top of the NuSMV model checker (http://nusmv.irst.itc.it). The platform is being evaluated against some case-studies provided by the industrial partners. Description of Activity ======================= The young researcher will be part of the ISAAC team at ITC-irst. The activity will include, as main responsibility, the design and implementation of new features in FSAP (Formal Safety Analysis Platform), and the preparation of project deliverables and the management of the FSAP/NuSMV-SA web site and the related documentation. Further activities may include modeling of industrial case-studies in the NuSMV language, and involvement in the implementation of the safety analysis algorithms in NuSMV-SA. Candidate Requirements ====================== The ideal candidate should have a Master in Computer Science, Engineering or related areas, very good programming skills, and be able to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving assigned objectives and reaching research excellence. The candidate is expected to be knowledgeable of: * Linux and Windows operating systems * Cygwin or MinGW platforms * C/C++ programming languages * XML language and parser (expat library) * standard SW maintenance and compilation tools (make, gcc, debugger, automake/autoconf tools) * FLTK library (http://www.fltk.org/) Background and/or previous experiences in the areas of safety analysis, formal verification and model checking, though not mandatory, will be considered favourably. Applications ============ Please send your applications via email to: isaac-recruit at itc.it using 'ISAAC Researcher: application' as subject, and including a statement of interest and a CV. PostScript, PDF, or plain text formats are strongly encouraged. Please use the above address also for further inquiries. From SUZETTE at mitre.org Thu Jul 7 19:19:35 2005 From: SUZETTE at mitre.org (Stoutenburg,Suzette) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:19:35 -0400 Subject: [DL] Final Call for Papers for International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web Message-ID: <8013B46C84D42A4C83EB3DBB9FD71B760D0268@IMCSRV1.MITRE.ORG> Only one more week for paper submission! Tim Berners-Lee will be keynote speaker. **This CFP is being posted to multiple lists; we apologise if you see it multiple times.** RuleML-2005 International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web http://2005.ruleml.org Galway, Ireland 10-12 November 2005 Final Call For Papers Rules are widely recognized to be a major part of the frontier of the Semantic Web, and critical to the early adoption and applications of knowledge-based techniques in e-business, especially enterprise integration and B2B e-commerce. This includes knowledge representation (KR) theory and algorithms; markup languages based on such KR; engines, translators, and other tools; relationships to standardization efforts; and, not least, applications. Interest and activity in the area of Rules for the Semantic Web has grown rapidly over the last five years. The RuleML-2005 Conference is aimed to be this year's premiere scientific conference on the topic. It continues in topic, leadership, and collaboration with the previous series of three highly successful annual international workshops (last year's was RuleML-2004). RuleML-2005 is colocated with the International Semantic Web Conference (http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/ ) which meets 6-10 November 2005. We are pleased to announce that Tim Berners-Lee will be the keynote speaker. This year's main conference theme is rule languages for reactive and proactive rules, complex event processing, and event-driven rules, for applications on the Semantic Web. The conference will also include an OWL Workshop, hosted by Peter Patel-Schneider. Topics of Interest We encourage submissions on all topics related to rules and rule markup languages for the Semantic Web. In particular, the conference seeks papers addressing the syntax and semantics of rule languages, translations and interoperability between rule languages, associated theory, execution engines and processing models, implemented systems, use cases, and deployed applications. We are also interested in research and applications integrating declarative business Web Services, business processes, and rules. Particularly encouraged this year as the conference theme is: languages for reactive and proactive rules, complex event processing, and event-driven rules. Background: Rules complement and extend ontologies on the Semantic Web. Rules can be used in combination with ontologies, or as a means to specify ontologies. In particular, simple rules and axioms can be applied via ontology languages, either in conjunction with or as an alternative to description logics. Rules can also be applied over ontologies, so as to draw inferences, express constraints, specify policies, react to events/changes, discover new knowledge, transform data, etc. Rule markup languages enrich web ontologies so as to extend definitions of derived concepts, and supporting publishing rules on the Web, exchange rules between different systems and tools, share guidelines and policies, merge and maintain rulebases, and more. Topics of interest include the following. * Rule-based policies: their specification, execution, and management * Combining rules with ontologies * Reaction rules for the Semantic Web * Complex event processing * Rules for event correlation * Event-driven/action rule languages and models * Semantic Rule Management * Resolving conflicts in triggered action sets * Extraction of rules from unstructured data sources * Languages, including standards (RuleML, SWRL, Jess, N3, F-logic/FLORA-2, etc.) * Execution models, rule engines, and environments * Implemented tools and systems for active rules on the Semantic Web * Combining active rules and ontologies * Integrating active rules and description logics * Applying active rules for Semantic Web Services * Modeling of business rules and event-driven/active rules * Rule-based software agents and the Semantic Web * E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative strategies * Connecting event-driven and reactive rules to legacy knowledge bases * Integrating rule bases and distributed fact bases * Rule base validation, verification and exception handling on the Semantic Web * XSL transformations of event-driven and reactive rules Submission We invite articles of no more than 15 pages length formatted in Springer's LNCS style (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) describing original completed work, work in progress, or interesting problems or use cases. (Note that this page limit includes title, abstract, and all figures, and references.) Submitted papers will be fully refereed based on the originality and significance of the ideas presented as well as on technical aspects. Publication of the proceedings is again planned in the Springer LNCS series. Submissions should be made to http://witanweb.ca/ruleml2005/ BEFORE OR BY 11 July 2005. (Note: authors unable to submit PDF may instead submit Postscript format.) In the submission email, indicate the contact author including full name and affiliation, email address, and telephone number. Multiple Submission Policy: Papers may be submitted to ISWC-2005 and RuleML-2005, but cannot be presented at both conferences. If your paper has been submitted to ISWC-2005, you must indicate that fact at the top of the first page. Failure to do so may result in summary rejection of your paper. Important Dates * 11 July 2005 -- Deadline for paper submissions. * 10 August 2005-- Notification of acceptance. * 2 September 2005 -- Final version of paper (camera-ready) due. * 12 September 2005 -- Early registration deadline for conference authors. * 10-12 November 2005 - RuleML 2005 Conference Program Co-Chairs * Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel * Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE Corporation, USA * Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA Conference General Co-Chairs * Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Steering Committee * Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel * Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, FORTH, Greece * Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA * Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Ireland * Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook * Steve Ross-Talbot, Pi4 Technologies, USA * Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE Corporation, USA * Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA * Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Program Committee * Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, FORTH, Greece * Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Scott Buffett, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Carlos Damasio, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France * Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA * Andreas Eberhart, International University, Germany * Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Ireland * Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland, Australia * John Hall, Model Systems, UK * Sandro Hawke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK * Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook * Jay Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea * Sandy Liu, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Jan Maluszynski, Link?ping University, Sweden * Massimo Marchiori, W3C, MIT, USA and University of Venice, Italy * Donald Nute, University of Georgia, USA * Royi Ronen, Technion, Israel * Michael Schroeder, TU Dresden, Germany * Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany * Bruce Spencer, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA * Dmitry Tsarkov, University of Manchester, UK * Paul Vincent, Fair Isaac, USA * Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany * Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia * Yuhong Yan, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From murray at uni-koblenz.de Fri Jul 8 14:54:22 2005 From: murray at uni-koblenz.de (Jan Murray) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:54:22 +0200 Subject: [DL] [KI-2005] Call for Participation Message-ID: <17102.30590.551106.49523@comet.uni-koblenz.de> Apologies if you receive multiple copies CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ************************************************************ - KI 2005 - 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence September 11 - 14, 2005 Koblenz, Germany http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/ ************************************************************ ----------- Quick Links ----------- Homepage: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de Accepted Papers: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/papers/accepted.html Workshops: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/workshops/index.html Tutorials: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/tutorials/index.html Invited Talks: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/invited_talks.html Registration: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/register.html Early Bird Registration until July 31, 2005 -------------------- About the Conference -------------------- KI 2005 cordially invites AI researchers and practitioners to meet in the beautiful town of Koblenz at the meeting point of Rhine and Mosella in September this year. An attractive technical program has been put together, which covers a particularly broad spectrum of subfields in AI theory and practice. It comprises high quality paper presentations, a variety of specialised workshops and tutorials and is highlighted by a number of invited talks. KI 2005 will be held together with MATES 2005. The conference is part of the International Conference Summer Koblenz, which also features SEFM 2005, TABLEAUX 2005 and FTP 2005. http://www.uni-koblenz.de/ag-ki/confsummer.html http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de http://www.mates2005.de ----------------- Technical Program ----------------- The technical program comprises 30 presentations from various fields of AI research. A list of accepted papers can be found at http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/papers/accepted.html ------------- Invited Talks ------------- * Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University) '175 Miles through the Desert' * Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels) 'Emergent Semantics in Multi-Agent Systems' * Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester) 'Description Logics in Ontology Applications' http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/invited_talks.html --------- Tutorials --------- - Connectionist Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Techniques in Evolutionary Robotics and Neurodynamics http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/tutorials/index.html --------- Workshops --------- - Context-Aware Systems and Situation-Sensitive Applications - PuK 2005: 19. Workshop Planen, Scheduling und Konfigurieren - Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence - FOnt 2005 - Foundational Aspects of Ontologies - Knowledge Engineering und Software Engineering - Text-Based Information Retrieval (TIR-05) - Mixed-Reality as a Challenge for Image Understanding and Artificial Intelligence - Intelligent Learning and Teaching Systems - between Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering for Education - From Sensory to Social Presence - Techniques and Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces - Jahrestreffen der GI-Fachgruppe Deduktionssysteme (DedSys) - Kooperierende Teams mobiler Roboter in dynamischen Umgebungen http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/workshops/index.html ---------------- Conference Venue ---------------- Koblenz, the 2005 conference venue, is situated in the picturesque landscape of the Rhine and Moselle right in the middle of Europe. The city in the western part of Germany with a true Roman history was over the centuries captured by the Franks, chosen as a residence by German prince electors, conquered by the French and fortified by the Prussians. A truly European place. Koblenz is a meeting point for visitors from all over the world and an excellent starting point for trips into the fascinating landscape along the Rhine and the Moselle. From here it's only a short way to Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and France. Its abundance of cultural monuments and historic buildings, its cosy lanes and narrow alleyways, the relaxed and happy atmosphere of its squares and river promenades make Koblenz a friendly town where its guests feel right at home. Hope to see you all in Koblenz, Ulrich Furbach KI 2005 Program Chair From sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Mon Jul 11 15:27:55 2005 From: sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (York Sure) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:27:55 +0200 Subject: [DL] ISWC2005: Call for Posters and Demos Message-ID: <200507111413.j6BEDDFQ026241@mx.tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> -------------------------- ISWC2005 Call for Posters and Demos -------------------------- ISWC 2005 will hold combined poster and demo sessions. In principle, posters will be backed up with demos, and vice versa. The Poster/Demo Session is an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters and demos are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems, descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies. Submission Authors must submit a two-page paper with a short abstract for evaluation. The paper must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web. Submissions will be evaluated for acceptability by the reviewers. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. If a poster will be accompanied by a live software demonstration, authors are requested to submit an additional one-page explanation of the demo, which will not be included in the Poster/Demo notes. Submit the demo explanation as the third page of your two-page paper. Full papers will not automatically be considered for the Demo/Poster track; a separate poster submission must be made. "Authors submitting a full paper to another track in ISWC 2005, may also submit the same work for consideration in the Demo/Poster track, either before or after result notification for the full paper. For example, a demo can be provided for an accepted paper, or a poster can be used to present work that was insufficiently mature for the research track. Other Information A detailed list of suggested topics can be found in the calls for papers both for the research track and for the industrial track. Posters and demos are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and are not intended as advertisements for software packages. At least one of the Poster/Demo authors must be a registered participant at the conference, and attend the Poster/Demo session to present the work. The abstracts for all accepted posters and demos will be given to all conference attendees and published on the conference Web site. They will not be included in the formal proceedings. Posters and demos must be submitted in accordance with the IJCAI format guidelines. IJCAI have kindly allowed us to make those available here for you to download. http://www.ijcai-03.org/1024/html/documentos.html Submit a Poster and demo here http://confious.ics.forth.gr/index.php?conf=88-NSKL-66d1f962 Important dates: July 22, 2005 Deadline for submission: September 9, 2005 Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2005 Deadline of camera-ready paper --------------------------------------------------------------------- Best wishes, Riichiro Mizoguchi The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047 Japan Phone: +81-6-6879-8415, 2125 Fax: +81-6-6879-2126(Urgent) +81-6-6879-2123(for large volume) URL: http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592 web: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu From franconi at inf.unibz.it Wed Jul 13 03:30:46 2005 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 03:30:46 +0200 Subject: [DL] European Master in Computational Logic - enrolment for European citizens Message-ID: *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/emcl/ The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is offering since two years the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Master in Computer Science program (Laurea Specialistica). The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is an international distributed Master of Science course, in cooperation with the computer science departments in the following universities: * Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany * Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria * Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain This program, completely in English, involves studying one year at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and possibly completing the second year with a stay in one of the partner universities. After this, the student will obtain, together with the European degree, two Master of Science degrees: the "Laurea Specialistica" degree from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, with legal value in Italy, and the respective Master of Science degree from the visited university, with legal value in its country. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ FOR 2005/2006 ENROLMENTS ARE ACCEPTED UNTIL 23 SEPTEMBER 2005 - a second deadline in November will allow late students to enrol - SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS There are several possibilities of scholarships and grants; all European students can apply. Non-European students can apply in January 2006 for the academic year 2006/2007; see the web site for more information. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ The program consists of foundation units, selected advanced units, a project, and a master theses, for a total of 120 ECTS credits. All participating universities offer the foundation units, while the advanced units will depend on the strengths of each university. The study program can be research-oriented or project-oriented. The best students are encouraged to continue the studies towards our PhD program, for which several scholarships and grants are available. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is part of the prestigious network of master courses awarded by the European Union's Erasmus Mundus programme. Moreover, the European Masters Program in Computational Logic is sponsored scientifically by the European Network of Excellence on Computational Logic (CoLogNET), the European Association of Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), the Italian Association for Informatics (AICA, member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), the Italian Association for Logic and its Applications (AILA), and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). For further informations visit the web site http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/emcl/ or contact the coordinator Prof. Enrico Franconi franconi at inf.unibz.it European Masters Program in Computational Logic Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Domenicani, 3 39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy Phone: +39 0471 016 000 Fax: +39 0471 016 009 Email: computer.science at unibz.it Web: http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/emcl/ From bernardo at mindswap.org Sat Jul 16 00:08:45 2005 From: bernardo at mindswap.org (Bernardo Cuenca Grau) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:08:45 -0400 Subject: [DL] CfP: OWL: Experiences and Directions Message-ID: ************************************************************ Call for Papers: "OWL: EXPERIENCES AND DIRECTIONS" Galway, Ireland 11-12 November 2005 Workshop website: http://www.mindswap.org/OWLWorkshop Submission website: http://www.easychair.org/OWL-2005/submit Important Dates: Submissions due: 14th August, 2005 Notification of acceptance: 5th September, 2005 Final versions due: 30th September, 2005 Workshop: 11-12 November, 2005 Workshop Organisers: Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Maryland (USA) Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester (UK) Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland (USA) Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) ************************************************************* The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has now been a W3C recommendation for more than one year. OWL is playing an important role in an increasing number and range of applications, and is the focus of research into tools, reasoning techniques, formal foundations, language extensions etc. This level of experience with OWL means that the community is now in a good position to discuss how OWL be applied, adapted and extended to fulfil current and future application demands. The aim of the workshop is to establish a forum for practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers and others interested in OWL to describe real and potential applications, to share experience and to discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. The workshop will bring users, implementors and researchers together to measure the state of need against the state of the art, and to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Applications of and experience with OWL - Application-driven requirements for OWL - Performance and scalability issues - Extensions to OWL, including - non-monotonic extensions - rules extensions - extensions for representing temporal and spatial information - extended property constructors - keys - extended class constructors - extended datatype constructors - probabilistic and fuzzy Extensions - Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages - Reasoning-related tasks for OWL, including explanation - Security and Trust for OWL-based information - Tools for OWL, including - editors - visualisation tools - parsers and syntax checkers - versioning frameworks - OWL based Semantic Web Service frameworks Submissions can be either technical papers or short "position" papers. Submissions that base their conclusions on application experience are especially encouraged. Workshop Format: The goal of the workshop will be to maximise discussion. The technical sessions will therefore consist of short presentations of papers (grouped by topic area) followed by directed discussion, and a poster session, also followed by directed discussion. The workshop may also have one session in common with the International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML-2005) in which the integration of OWL with rules languages will be discussed. Submission details: All relevant submissions will be made available from the workshop web site; these may be updated with final versions after the reviewing process. Presentation materials from the workshop will also be placed on the web site. Submissions must be in PDF, and will not be accepted in any other format. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that their submission displays and prints correctly on common PDF viewers. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details see http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376- 0,00.html. Further details will be made available from the workshop web site at http://www.mindswap.org/OWLWorkshop Technical paper submissions must be no longer than 10 pages, and shorter submissions are welcome. Position paper submissions must be no longer than 4 pages. All submissions must be received before 11:59 PM PST 14 August 2005. Submission will be via the workshop web site. Reviewing and Participation: All submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Decisions on the acceptance of papers will be communicated to authors no later than 5 September 2005. Authors of accepted papers plus programme committee members will be invited to participate in the workshop. Authors who need invitations before this date should send a message to the workshop committee at owl-ws-organizers at mindswap.org indicating why they need an advance invitation and provide their qualifications to receive an invitation. Applications from other interested parties will be considered after submission-based invitations have been extended, but numbers will be strictly limited. Workshop Committee: Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA) Phil Archer, ICRA (UK) Michael Champion, Microsoft (USA) Dan Connolly, W3C (USA) Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (USA) Enrico Franconi, University of Bolzano (Italy) Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland (USA) Christine Golbreich, University Rennes 2 (France) Pat Hayes, University of West Florida (USA) Kaoru Hiramatsu, NTT (Japan) Joanne Luciano, BioPAX (USA) Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden (Germany) Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Labs of America (USA) Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto (Canada) Boris Motik, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) Enrico Motta, Open University (UK) Gary Ng, Cerebra (USA) Natasha Noy, Stanford University (USA) Alan L. Rector, University of Manchester (UK) Andrew Schain, NASA (USA) Monica Schraefel, University of Southampton (UK) Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universitat Amsterdam (Netherlands) Evan Wallace, NIST (USA) Christopher Welty, IBM Research (USA) From aldo.gangemi at istc.cnr.it Mon Jul 18 21:50:57 2005 From: aldo.gangemi at istc.cnr.it (Aldo Gangemi) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:50:57 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final CFP and deadline extension: ISWC05 Workshop on Ontology Patterns for the Semantic Web (OPSW) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Final Call for Papers: ISWC-05 OPSW Workshop: "Ontology Patterns for the Semantic Web" http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty/OPSW-05/ *****Notice: deadline extended to July 25th As interest in the semantic web increases, so, too, has the need for high-quality and reusable examples of semantic web ontologies. In this workshop, we will accept submissions on ontology content - that is, actual ontologies in OWL or RDFS that address an open, and general problem. The workshop will be of interest to anyone committed to using semantic web technology, or becoming part of the semantic web itself. Many newcomers find the technology daunting, and having a sound place to start will improve matters considerably. In addition, the W3C SWBPD WG task force on "Ontology Engineering and Patterns" will be able to use material submitted to this workshop as candidates to publish as W3C notes. This half-day workshop will focus on discussion instead of presentation. We will accept paper submissions that describe particular ontologies in RDFS and OWL. These papers will be reviewed for correctness, quality, and generality/reusibility, in addition to scholarship and readability. From the accepted submissions, we will select a smaller number to be presented. Each selected ontology will be assigned a responder from the workshop participants who will commit to carefully reviewing the work and providing directed comments and helping to lead the discussion. We expect roughly 20 minutes of presentation by the author, with 10 minutes of directed comment by the responder, and then 30 minutes of open discussion in the workshop. Finally, we would like to end the day with a panel on upper-level ontologies for the semantic web, to ensure we end on a lively note and have people talking about it during the conference proper. Related conferences are FOIS-2004 ( http://www.formalontology.org/ ) and CorOnt-2004 (http://www.loa-cnr.it/core_onto.html ). Submitting: Springer LNCS format, 15 pages. Authors are encouraged to apply the following paper outline: (a) Problem and context (b) Existing resources and past work (c) Proposed formalization. _________________________________ ---->>> Deadline: July 25th, 2005 WKS date: November 7th, 2005, afternoon _________________________________ Organizers: Chris Welty IBM Research welty at us.ibm.com http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty/ Aldo Gangemi LOA-CNR aldo.gangemi at istc.cnr.it http://www.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html Program Committee: Pat Hayes, IHMC Alan Rector, U. Manchester Deborah McGuinness, Stanford KSL Mike Uschold, Boeing Research Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Natasha Noy, Stanford U. -- Aldo Gangemi Research Scientist Laboratory for Applied Ontology Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technology National Research Council (ISTC-CNR) Via Nomentana 56, 00161, Roma, Italy Tel: +390644161535 Fax: +390644161513 aldo.gangemi at istc.cnr.it http://www.istc.cnr.it/createhtml.php?nbr=71 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From C.Brewster at dcs.shef.ac.uk Tue Jul 19 23:15:51 2005 From: C.Brewster at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Christopher Brewster) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:15:51 +0100 Subject: [DL] REMINDER CFP for IJHCS: KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION WITH ONTOLOGIES: PRESENT CHALLENGES - FUTURE POSSIBLITIES Message-ID: <200507192138.j6JLcYUI015312@mx.tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Apologies for cross-posting. Call for Papers: Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies: "KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION WITH ONTOLOGIES: PRESENT CHALLENGES - FUTURE POSSIBILITIES" Guest Editors: Christopher Brewster and Kieron O'Hara http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~kiffer/IJHCS.html Recently, we have seen an explosion of interest in ontologies as artifacts to represent human knowledge and as critical components in knowledge management, the Semantic Web, business-to-business applications, and several other application areas. Various research communities commonly assume that ontologies are the appropriate modelling structure for representing knowledge. However, little discussion has occurred regarding the actual range of knowledge an ontology can successfully represent. What are the limits of ontology-based representation? Some types of knowledge are extremely suited to ontological representation, such as taxonomic information, but clearly this isn't always the case. We can't always easily represent certain types of knowledge (for example, skills or distributed knowledge), nor easily transform types of representation into ontology-appropriate formats (for example, diagrammatic knowledge). And with the expanded recognition of multiple modalities, does our vision of an ontology change? Can we speak of multi-media ontologies? This is of even greater significance as Knowledge Management recognises more exactly the range of knowledge that is embodied in an organisation. Most, but not all, definitions of "ontology" insist that an ontology specifically represents common, shared conceptual structures. Does this requirement for publicity help guarantee adequacy? And if so, can we talk of personal ontologies? If ontologies have to represent knowledge relatively coarsely or approximately, how much is this likely to matter in realistic contexts? Will scale be a problem? This special issue seeks outstanding papers on the potential and the limits of ontologies in the broad range of fields in which they have come to play a major part. We wish to stimulate discussion so as to facilitate a vision of where ontologies and knowledge representations are heading. Contributions should be original and unpublished studies. We are interested in both theoretical and practical research concerning the limits and value of ontologies, including: evaluations of the practical applicability of ontology based technologies; their limits and potentials; issues and solutions for problematic real-world applications; tools and techniques for ontology building and maintenance. Papers concerning the following topics will be particularly welcome, though any other topic relevant to the theme of the limits and value of ontological representations would be acceptable: - Limits of the knowledge representable in ontologies - New approaches to representing non-standard forms of knowledge using ontologies - Alternatives to/Evolution of ontologies - Formal vs. informal ontologies - Multimedia ontologies - Ontologies as corporate memories - Intellectual property and the commercial significance of ontologies - Issues in ontology maintenance - Ontologies for web-scale applications - The evaluation and trust of ontologies Important Dates ---------------------------------------- Paper submissions: 1 September, 2005 (negotiable) Notification of acceptance: 1 November, 2005 Final versions due: 1 February, 2006 Journal publication: Summer, 2006 Format for submissions --------------------------------------- Paper should be formatted in accordance with IJHCS guidelines available in the journal, or at http://authors.elsevier.com/journal/ijhcs and should be between 6000-8000 words in length. Authors of submitted journals may be invited to take part in the review process. Submission should be made in pdf or word format electronically to C.Brewster at dcs.shef.ac.uk. ***************************************************** Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield Tel: +44(0)114-22.21967 Fax: +44 (0)114-22.21810 Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street Sheffield S1 4DP UNITED KINGDOM Web: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~kiffer/ ***************************************************** A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of an idea within a wall of words.--- Samuel Butler From kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de Wed Jul 20 14:49:13 2005 From: kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de (Valia Kordoni) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:49:13 +0200 Subject: [DL] European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT) Message-ID: <42DE4849.1090509@coli.uni-sb.de> European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT) The following consortium of Universities 1. Saarland University in Saarbruecken, Germany (coordinator) 2. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3. Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy 4. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 5. University of Malta (the program at UoM is available from 2006/2007) 6. University Henri Poincare, Nancy 1, France 7. University of Nancy 2, France 8. Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (the program at Charles University is available to non-local students from 2006/2007) 9. Roskilde University, Denmark 10. Utrecht University, The Netherlands are offering the European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT). The European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies is an international distributed Master of Science course. This program is entirely composed of elements from already existing M.Sc. programs. It involves studying one year at one of the aforementioned Universities, and completing the second year with a stay in the other partner Universities. After this, the student will obtain two Master of Science degrees with legal value in the countries of issue. The Program in brief: Objectives: The European Masters Program in LCT is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in a rapidly growing area. It offers education and training opportunities for the next generations of leaders in research and innovation. It provides students with profound knowledge and insight into the various disciplines that contribute to the methods of language and communication technologies and it strengthens their ability to work according to scientific methods. Moreover, the students acquire practice-oriented knowledge by choosing appropriate combinations of modules in Language Technology, Computational and Theoretical Linguistics, and Computer Science. Duration: 2 years (120 ECTS credits) Language of instruction: English Summary of Study Programme: The course consists of Compulsory Modules and Advanced Modules in Language Technology and Computer Science, complemented by a Project, and a Masters thesis. APPLICATION DEADLINES: First Pre-enrolment: 15th of August 2005 Study Requirements: Applicants must satisfy the following study requirements: 1. a Bachelor degree or equivalent in the area of (Computational) Linguistics, Language Technology, Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, or other relevant disciplines 2. Proficiency in English (for non-native speakers) must be certified by one of the following: a. TOEFL score of at least 250 (computer-based test) or 575 (paper-based test). b. Cambridge Proficiency Exam -- pass. c. IELTS -- > 6.5. d. Possession of a first degree taught in English. e. As defined by the individual partner institutions as being sufficient for pursuit of university courses taught in English. For detailed info on applications, please, check the web pages: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/msc/lct/ (For applying at FUB, please, go to http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/lct/application.php) For further information please contact: Dr. Valia Kordoni at kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de Program coordinators: Prof. Hans Uszkoreit (hansu at coli.uni-sb.de) Dr. Valia Kordoni (kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de) Further contacts: University of Amsterdam: Dr. Henk Zeevat (henk.zeevat at uva.nl) Free University of Bozen - Bolzano: Dr. Raffaella Bernardi (bernardi at inf.unibz.it) Copenhagen Business School: Prof. Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen (ska.id at cbs.dk) University of Malta: Prof. Michael Rosner (mike.rosner at um.edu.mt) University Henri Poincare, Nancy 1: Dr. Patrick Blackburn (patrick at aplog.org) University of Nancy 2: Professor Guy Perrier (perrier at loria.fr) Charles University in Prague: Dr. Vladislav Kubon (vk at ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz) Roskilde University: Prof. Troels Andreasen (troels at ruc.dk) Utrecht University: Dr. Maaike Schoorlemmer (UiLOTS at let.uu.nl) -- PD Dr. Valia Kordoni, Computational Linguistics-Saarland University, P.O. Box 15 11 50, 66041 Saarbruecken, Germany and LT-Lab DFKI GmbH Tel: +49 681 302 4682 Fax: +49 681 302 4700 E-mail: kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~kordoni/ http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/msc/lct/ From bernardo at mindswap.org Fri Jul 22 02:08:43 2005 From: bernardo at mindswap.org (Bernardo Cuenca Grau) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:08:43 -0400 Subject: [DL] CfP: OWL: Experiences and Directions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting ************************************************************ Call for Papers: "OWL: EXPERIENCES AND DIRECTIONS" Galway, Ireland 11-12 November 2005 Workshop website: http://www.mindswap.org/OWLWorkshop Submission website: http://www.easychair.org/OWL-2005/submit Important Dates: Submissions due: 14th August, 2005 Notification of acceptance: 5th September, 2005 Final versions due: 30th September, 2005 Workshop: 11-12 November, 2005 Publication: The Workshop proceedings will be published online by CEUR. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics. Those papers will be subject to a ``fast track'' reviewing process. Workshop Organisers: Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Maryland (USA) Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester (UK) Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland (USA) Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) ************************************************************* The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has now been a W3C recommendation for more than one year. OWL is playing an important role in an increasing number and range of applications, and is the focus of research into tools, reasoning techniques, formal foundations, language extensions etc. This level of experience with OWL means that the community is now in a good position to discuss how OWL be applied, adapted and extended to fulfil current and future application demands. The aim of the workshop is to establish a forum for practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers and others interested in OWL to describe real and potential applications, to share experience and to discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. The workshop will bring users, implementors and researchers together to measure the state of need against the state of the art, and to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Applications of and experience with OWL - Application-driven requirements for OWL - Performance and scalability issues - Extensions to OWL, including - non-monotonic extensions - rules extensions - extensions for representing temporal and spatial information - extended property constructors - keys - extended class constructors - extended datatype constructors - probabilistic and fuzzy Extensions - Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages - Reasoning-related tasks for OWL, including explanation - Security and Trust for OWL-based information - Tools for OWL, including - editors - visualisation tools - parsers and syntax checkers - versioning frameworks - OWL based Semantic Web Service frameworks Submissions can be either technical papers or short "position" papers. Submissions that base their conclusions on application experience are especially encouraged. Workshop Format: The goal of the workshop will be to maximise discussion. The technical sessions will therefore consist of short presentations of papers (grouped by topic area) followed by directed discussion, and a poster session, also followed by directed discussion. The workshop may also have one session in common with the International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML-2005) in which the integration of OWL with rules languages will be discussed. Submission details: All relevant submissions will be made available from the workshop web site; these may be updated with final versions after the reviewing process. Presentation materials from the workshop will also be placed on the web site. Submissions must be in PDF, and will not be accepted in any other format. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that their submission displays and prints correctly on common PDF viewers. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details see http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376- 0,00.html. Further details will be made available from the workshop web site at http://www.mindswap.org/OWLWorkshop Technical paper submissions must be no longer than 10 pages, and shorter submissions are welcome. Position paper submissions must be no longer than 4 pages. All submissions must be received before 11:59 PM PST 14 August 2005. Submission will be via the workshop web site. The Workshop proceedings will be published online by CEUR. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics. Those papers will be subject to a ``fast track'' reviewing process. Reviewing and Participation: All submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Decisions on the acceptance of papers will be communicated to authors no later than 5 September 2005. Authors of accepted papers plus programme committee members will be invited to participate in the workshop. Authors who need invitations before this date should send a message to the workshop committee at owl-ws-organizers at mindswap.org indicating why they need an advance invitation and provide their qualifications to receive an invitation. Applications from other interested parties will be considered after submission-based invitations have been extended, but numbers will be strictly limited. Workshop Committee: Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA) Phil Archer, ICRA (UK) Michael Champion, Microsoft (USA) Dan Connolly, W3C (USA) Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (USA) Enrico Franconi, University of Bolzano (Italy) Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland (USA) Christine Golbreich, University Rennes 2 (France) Pat Hayes, University of West Florida (USA) Kaoru Hiramatsu, NTT (Japan) Joanne Luciano, BioPAX (USA) Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden (Germany) Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Labs of America (USA) Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto (Canada) Boris Motik, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) Enrico Motta, Open University (UK) Gary Ng, Cerebra (USA) Natasha Noy, Stanford University (USA) Alan L. Rector, University of Manchester (UK) Andrew Schain, NASA (USA) Monica Schraefel, University of Southampton (UK) Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universitat Amsterdam (Netherlands) Evan Wallace, NIST (USA) Christopher Welty, IBM Research (USA) From murray at uni-koblenz.de Mon Jul 25 15:18:36 2005 From: murray at uni-koblenz.de (Jan Murray) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:18:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] [KI-2005] KI2005 - Call for Participation (Early Deadline Approaching) Message-ID: <17124.59052.219413.800092@comet.uni-koblenz.de> Apologies if you receive multiple copies CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE APPROACHING ************************************************************ - KI 2005 - 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence September 11 - 14, 2005 Koblenz, Germany http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/ ************************************************************ The early registration deadline for KI 2005 is July 31, 2005. ----------- Quick Links ----------- Homepage: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de Accepted Papers: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/papers/accepted.html Program: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/scheduleki2005.html Workshops: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/workshops/index.html Tutorials: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/tutorials/index.html Invited Talks: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/invited_talks.html Registration: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/register.html -------------------- About the Conference -------------------- KI 2005 cordially invites AI researchers and practitioners to meet in the beautiful town of Koblenz at the meeting point of Rhine and Mosella in September this year. An attractive technical program has been put together, which covers a particularly broad spectrum of subfields in AI theory and practice. It comprises high quality paper presentations, a variety of specialised workshops and tutorials and is highlighted by a number of invited talks. KI 2005 will be held together with MATES 2005. The conference is part of the International Conference Summer Koblenz, which also features SEFM 2005, TABLEAUX 2005 and FTP 2005. http://www.uni-koblenz.de/ag-ki/confsummer.html http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de http://www.mates2005.de ------------- Invited Talks ------------- * Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University) '175 Miles through the Desert' * Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels) 'Emergent Semantics in Multi-Agent Systems' * Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester) 'Description Logics in Ontology Applications' http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/invited_talks.html Hope to see you all in Koblenz, Ulrich Furbach KI 2005 Program Chair From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Wed Jul 27 10:10:11 2005 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:10:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] Announcement and CFP: Natural Language and Knowledge Representation @FLAIRS 2006 Message-ID: NATURAL LANGUAGE AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (NL-KR) Special Track at FLAIRS 2006 ANNOUNCEMENT AND FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Holiday Inn Melbourne Oceanfront, Melbourne Beach, FLORIDA, USA MAIN CONFERENCE: 11-12-13 MAY 2006 Special track web page: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lady0641/Flairs06_NL_KR Main conference web page: http://www.indiana.edu/~flairs06 PURPOSE OF THE NL-KR TRACK We believe that the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the Knowledge Representation (KR) communities have common goals. They are both concerned with representing knowledge and with reasoning, since the best test for the semantic capability of an NLP system is performing reasoning tasks. Having these two essential common grounds, the two communities ought to have been collaborating, to provide a well-suited representation language that covers these grounds. However, the two communities also have difficult-to-meet concerns. Mainly, the semantic representation (SR) should be expressive enough and take the information in context into account, while the KR should be equipped with a fast reasoning process. The main objection against an SR or a KR is that they need experts to be understood. Non-experts communicate (usually) via a natural language (NL), and more or less they understand each other while performing a lot of reasoning. An essential practical value of representations is their attempt to be transparent. This will particularly be useful when/if the system provides a justification for a user or a knowledge engineer on its line of reasoning using the underlying KR (i.e. without generating back to NL). We all seem to believe that, compared to Natural Language, the existing Knowledge Representation and reasoning systems are poor. Nevertheless, for a long time, the KR community has dismissed the idea that NL can be a KR. That's because NL can be very ambiguous and there are syntactic and semantic processing complexities associated with it. However, researchers in both communities have started looking at this issue again. Possibly, it has to do with the NLP community making some progress in terms of processing and handling ambiguity, the KR community realising that a lot of knowledge is already 'coded' in NL and that one should reconsider the way they handle expressivity and ambiguity. This track is an attempt to provide a forum for discussion on this front, and to bridge a gap between NLP and KR. A KR in this track has a well-defined syntax, semantics and a proof theory. It should be clear what authors mean by NL-like, based on NL or benefiting from NL (if they are using one). It does not have to be a novel representation. NL-KR TRACK TOPICS For this track, we will invite submissions including, but not limited to: a. A novel NL-like KR or building on an existing one b. Reasoning systems that benefit from properties of NL to reason with NL c. Semantic representation used as a KR : compromise between expressivity and efficiency? d. More Expressive KR for NL understanding (Any compromise?) e. Any work exploring how existing representations fall short of addressing some problems involved in modelling, manipulating or reasoning (whether reasoning as used to get an interpretation for a certain utterance, exchange of utterances or what utterances follow from other utterances) with NL documents f. Representations that show how classical logics are not as efficient, transparent, expressive or where a one-step application of an inference rule require more (complex) steps in a classical environment and vice- versa; i.e. how classical logics are more powerful, etc g. Building a reasoning test collection for natural language understanding systems: any kind of reasoning (deductive, abductive, etc); for a deductive test suite see for e.g. deliverable 16 of the FraCas project (http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~fracas/). Also, look at textual entailment challenges 1 and 2 h. Comparative results (on a common test suite or a common task) of different representations or systems that reason with NL (again any kind of reasoning). The comparison could be either for efficiency, transparency or expressivity i. Knowledge acquisition systems or techniques that benefit from properties of NL to acquire knowledge already 'coded' in NL j. Automated Reasoning, Theorem Proving and KR communities views on all this NL_KR TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE James ALLEN, University of Rochester, USA Patrick BLACKBURN, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique, France Johan BOS, University of Edinburgh, UK Richard CROUCH, Palo Alto Research Centre, USA Maarten DE RIJKE, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Anette FRANK, DFKI, Germany Fernando GOMEZ, University of Central Florida, USA Sanda HARABAGIU, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Jerry HOBBS, Information Sciences Institute, USA Chung Hee HWANG, Raytheon Co., USA Shalom LAPPIN, King's College, UK Carsten LUTZ, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Dan MOLDOVAN, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Jeff PELLETIER, Simon Fraser University, Canada Lenhart SCHUBERT, University of Rochester, USA John SOWA, VivoMind Intelligence, Inc., USA Jana SUKKARIEH, University of Oxford, UK (Chair) Geoff SUTCLIFFE, Miami University, USA Timothy WILLIAMSON, University of Oxford, UK NL_KR TRACK INVITED SPEAKER John SOWA, VivoMind Intelligence, Inc., US FLAIRS 2006 INVITED SPEAKERS Alan BUNDY, University of Edinburg, Scotland Bob MORRIS, Nasa Ames Research Center, USA Mehran SAHAMI, Standford University and Google, USA Barry SMYTH, University College Dublin, Ireland NL-KR TRACK PROPOSED BY Jana Sukkarieh, University of Oxford, UK email: J.Sukkarieh.94 at cantab.net WEB and TECH SUPPORT Simon Dobnik, University of Oxford, UK email: Simon.Dobnik at clg.ox.ac.uk SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions must arrive no later than 21 November 2005. Only electronic submissions will be considered. Details about submission can be found on : http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lady0641/Flairs06_NL_KR/submission_details.html PROCEEDINGS Printed Proceedings will be published only on demand. Proceedings on CD will be provided to all. A special journal issue may also be arranged. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of papers: 21 November, 2005 * Notification of acceptance: 20 January, 2006 * Final version of the paper is due : 13 February, 2006 * Main Conference: 11-13 May 2006 * Track: max 1 day during the main conference Internet connections and various computer platforms and facilities will be available at the conference site. Those interested in running a demo please contact Jana Sukkarieh or Simon Dobnik . From stenzg at in.tum.de Mon Aug 1 16:15:52 2005 From: stenzg at in.tum.de (Gernot Stenz) Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:15:52 +0200 Subject: [DL] [Tableaux2005] TABLEAUX 2005 2nd Call for Participation Message-ID: Apologies if you receive multiple copies %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Call for Participation %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% International Conference TABLEAUX 2005 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Koblenz, Germany September 14-17, 2005 Co-located with FTP2005 http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de This conference, as a continuation of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, will be held in Koblenz, Germany, from September 14-17, 2005. The International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving (FTP 2005) will also be held in Koblenz at the same time, with opportunities for joint registration. CONFERENCE SCOPE AND 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. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME See http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de/programme.html for a description of the scientific programme. TABLEAUX 2005 is part of the International Conference Summer Koblenz 2005. See http://www.uni-koblenz.de/ag-ki/confsummer.html INVITED SPEAKERS Ian Horrocks University of Manchester DESCRIPTION LOGICS IN ONTOLOGY APPLICATIONS Diego Calvanese Free University of Bolzano/Bozen QUERY PROCESSING IN PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS: AN EPISTEMIC LOGIC Hans-J?rgen Ohlbach Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich AUTOMATED REASONING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SEMANTIC WEB Erik Rosenthal University of New Haven FORMAL VERSUS RIGOROUS MATHEMATICS: HOW TO GET YOUR PAPERS PUBLISHED TUTORIALS For tutorial abstracts, see http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de/tutorials - Instance Based Methods by Peter Baumgartner and Gernot Stenz - Analytic Systems and Dialogue Games by Chris Ferm?ller - Tutorial on Agda by Marcin Benke CONFERENCE AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Bernhard Beckert, University of Koblenz, Germany LOCATION The 2000-year-old town of Koblenz is situated in the picturesque landscape of the Rhine and Moselle and surrounded by four low mountain ranges. In 2002 the UNESCO ranked the upper Middle Rhine valley one of the most beautiful and oldest man-made landscapes, among the world cultural heritages. The chain of castles and palaces along the steep slopes, where the famous Rhine wines are grown, stretches from Koblenz to the legendary Loreley and continues to the cities of R?desheim and Bingen. ACCOMMODATION There are pre-reserved hotel room contingents for participants of TABLEAUX 2005 (see http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de/hotels.html). Reservations for rooms in these contingents can only be made until July 31, 2005. Due to the very limited number of available hotel rooms in Koblenz in September, we highly recommend room booking as soon as possible. REGISTRATION To register, please fill in the registration form available at http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de/registration.html Early registration ends July 31st, 2005. SCHOLARSHIPS TABLEAUX 2005 will support a limited number of attendees that otherwise cannot afford coming to Koblenz by providing a scholarship to cover (part of) their travel expenses and/or the conference fee. We welcome applications from everyone who has a particular interest in attending Tableaux (preference will be given to authors of accepted Tableaux 2005 papers) and who has a need for support. The deadline for applications is Friday, 15 July 2005. For details see http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de/scholarships.html. _______________________________________________ Tableaux2005 mailing list Tableaux2005 at mailbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de https://mailbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tableaux2005 From Francesco.Donini at dis.uniroma1.it Tue Aug 2 13:00:08 2005 From: Francesco.Donini at dis.uniroma1.it (Francesco Donini) Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:00:08 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: Semantic-Based Resource , Discovery, Retrieval and Composition TRACK at ACM SAC 2006 Message-ID: <42EF5238.8070107@dis.uniroma1.it> [We apologize for multiple copies] ======================= CALL FOR PAPERS =================================== Semantic-Based Resource Discovery, Retrieval and Composition RDRC http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sac2006/ TECHNICAL TRACK at the 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing SAC 2006 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2006 The Semantic-Based Resource Discovery, Retrieval and Composition -- RDRC track aims at gathering researchers from various fields, spanning from matchmaking in electronic commerce, to intelligent multimedia retrieval, to planning in artificial intelligence, to web services discovery and composition. We envisage the following topics as central for the track: - matchmaking of resource request and resource providers - planning and scheduling - semantic-based resource negotiation - semantic-based resource negotiation - retrieval of resource descriptions - semantic annotation for multimedia - information integration - supply chain formation - knowledge management - web-service discovery and composition - semantic grid - combinatorial auctions All these topics share as central the notion of "Resource" in general searching problems with respect to a request. A resource is a broad term comprising goods in electronic commerce, information available in remote sites, services announced through Internet, learning objects, digital images, to mention a few. Whatever their nature, the term "resource" is used in a general sense for whatever might be identified atomically and univocally. Hence, the problem of resource matching and retrieval arises in several scenarios. The front-end of a resource is always a description of what the resource is, what it provides, who can access it, possibly with side economic constraints. All this information can be semantically annotated, either directly in XML, or using some upper strata for defining standard terms as in ebXML, or OWL-S. While semantic annotation rules out ambiguities of Natural Language, the problem raises about how well a single resource fits a particular request, or whether there is a pool of resources which - suitably composed - cover a request. Side economic conditions in resource descriptions, such as cost, method of payment, payments delay, can make compositions difficult to be properly formed, while economic constraints in resource request usually filter out some solutions. Authors are invited to submit original papers related, but not limited to, the proposed track topics. Submissions fall into the following categories: - Original and unpublished research work - Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas - Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains - Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will blindly review submissions to that track. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES The proposed schedule of important dates for the track is as follows: - September 3, 2005 Paper Submission deadline - October 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance - November 5, 2005 Camera-ready version deadline - April 23-27, 2006 Track Date PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To be completed) Daniela Berardi - University of Rome "La Sapienza" - Italy Oscar Corcho - Univesity of Manchester - UK William Grosky - University of Michigan-Dearborn - USA Martin Hepp - DERI, University of Innsbruck - Austria Alain L?ger - France Telecom - France Enrico Motta - KMi, The Open University - UK Pavel Shvaiko - University of Trento - Italy ... ORGANIZATION Tommaso DI NOIA Politecnico di Bari Bari, Italy tel : +39 080 5963903 fax : +39 080 5963410 mail: t.dinoia at poliba.it Eugenio DI SCIASCIO Politecnico di Bari Bari, Italy tel : +39 080 5963903 fax : +39 080 5963410 mail: disciascio at poliba.it Francesco M. 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OWL: Experiences and Directions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > Apologies for cross-posting > > ************************************************************ > Call for Papers: "OWL: EXPERIENCES AND DIRECTIONS" > > Galway, Ireland 11-12 November 2005 > Workshop website: http://www.mindswap.org/OWLWorkshop > Submission website: http://www.easychair.org/OWL-2005/submit > > Important Dates: > > Submissions due: 14th August, 2005 > Notification of acceptance: 5th September, 2005 > Final versions due: 30th September, 2005 > Workshop: 11-12 November, 2005 > > Publication: The Workshop proceedings will be published online by CEUR. > Authors > of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their > paper > to Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics. Those papers will be subject to a > ``fast track'' > reviewing process. > > Workshop Organisers: > > Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Maryland (USA) > Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester (UK) > Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland (USA) > Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) > > ************************************************************* > > The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has now been a W3C recommendation > for more than one year. OWL is playing an important role in an > increasing number and range of applications, and is the focus of > research into tools, reasoning techniques, formal foundations, > language extensions etc. This level of experience with OWL means that > the community is now in a good position to discuss how OWL be > applied, adapted and extended to fulfil current and future > application demands. > > The aim of the workshop is to establish a forum for practitioners in > industry and academia, tool developers and others interested in OWL to > describe real and potential applications, to share experience and to > discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. > The workshop will bring users, implementors and researchers together > to measure the state of need against the state of the art, and to set > an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based > technologies into new applications. > Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: > - Applications of and experience with OWL > - Application-driven requirements for OWL > - Performance and scalability issues > - Extensions to OWL, including > - non-monotonic extensions > - rules extensions > - extensions for representing temporal and spatial information > - extended property constructors > - keys > - extended class constructors > - extended datatype constructors > - probabilistic and fuzzy Extensions > - Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages > - Reasoning-related tasks for OWL, including explanation > - Security and Trust for OWL-based information > - Tools for OWL, including > - editors > - visualisation tools > - parsers and syntax checkers > - versioning frameworks > - OWL based Semantic Web Service frameworks > > Submissions can be either technical papers or short "position" > papers. Submissions that base their conclusions on application > experience are especially encouraged. > > Workshop Format: > > The goal of the workshop will be to maximise discussion. The technical > sessions will therefore consist of short presentations of papers > (grouped by topic area) followed by directed discussion, and a poster > session, also followed by directed discussion. > The workshop may also have one session in common with the > International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the > Semantic Web (RuleML-2005) in which the integration of OWL with rules > languages will be discussed. > > Submission details: > > All relevant submissions will be made available from the workshop web > site; these may be updated with final versions after the reviewing > process. > > Presentation materials from the workshop will also be placed on the > web site. > > Submissions must be in PDF, and will not be accepted in any other > format. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that their > submission displays and prints correctly on common PDF viewers. > > Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications > format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details see > http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376- > 0,00.html. > > Further details will be made available from the workshop web site at > http://www.mindswap.org/OWLWorkshop > > > > Technical paper submissions must be no longer than 10 pages, and > shorter submissions are welcome. Position paper submissions must be > no longer than 4 pages. All submissions must be received before 11:59 > PM PST 14 August 2005. Submission will be via the workshop web site. > > The Workshop proceedings will be published online by CEUR. Authors > of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their > paper > to Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics. Those papers will be subject to a > ``fast track'' > reviewing process. > > > > Reviewing and Participation: > > > All submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Decisions > on the acceptance of papers will be communicated to authors no later > than 5 September 2005. Authors of accepted papers plus programme > committee members will be invited to participate in the > workshop. Authors who need invitations before this date should send a > message to the workshop committee at owl-ws-organizers at mindswap.org > indicating why they need an advance invitation and provide their > qualifications to receive an invitation. Applications from other > interested parties will be considered after submission-based > invitations have been extended, but numbers will be strictly limited. > > Workshop Committee: > > Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA) > Phil Archer, ICRA (UK) > Michael Champion, Microsoft (USA) > Dan Connolly, W3C (USA) > Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (USA) > Enrico Franconi, University of Bolzano (Italy) > Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland (USA) > Christine Golbreich, University Rennes 2 (France) > Pat Hayes, University of West Florida (USA) > Kaoru Hiramatsu, NTT (Japan) > Joanne Luciano, BioPAX (USA) > Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden (Germany) > Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Labs of America (USA) > Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto (Canada) > Boris Motik, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) > Enrico Motta, Open University (UK) > Gary Ng, Cerebra (USA) > Natasha Noy, Stanford University (USA) > Alan L. Rector, University of Manchester (UK) > Andrew Schain, NASA (USA) > Monica Schraefel, University of Southampton (UK) > Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universitat Amsterdam (Netherlands) > Evan Wallace, NIST (USA) > Christopher Welty, IBM Research (USA) > > From borgun at ics.mq.edu.au Thu Aug 4 14:49:53 2005 From: borgun at ics.mq.edu.au (bhavna) Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:49:53 -0400 Subject: [DL] CFP: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2005) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2005) http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~aow05/ as part of the The 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 5-9 December 2005, Sydney, Australia http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/ai05/ THEMES AND GOALS The use of formal ontologies in knowledge systems has many advantages. It allows for an unambiguous specification of the structure of knowledge in a domain, enables knowledge sharing and, as a result, makes it possible to perform automated reasoning about ontologies. In recent years there has been a worldwide increase in the use of ontologies, both in industry and in research laboratories. There is a growing community of researchers in Australia and New Zealand, working on various aspects of ontologies. The primary aim of this workshop is to bring together ontology researchers in the region. This event will be the first annual installment of the workshop in its most recent incarnation, and the continuation of an annual workshop series that has existed under various guises since 2001. The workshop will seek submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of ontology research, including (but not limited to) the following: * interoperability in ontologies; * multi-agent systems and ontologies; * ontologies and the semantic web; * description logics for ontologies; * reasoning with ontologies; * ontology harvesting on the web; * ontology of agents and actions; * ontology visualisation; * ontology merging, alignment and integration; * web ontology languages; * formal concept analysis and ontologies. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions will be formally peer reviewed. Submissions should not be more than 10 pages in length in using Springer's LNAI style available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and include the author's name, affiliation and contact details. They should be submitted by e-mail as PDF files before August 27, 2005, to aow05 at cse.unsw.edu.au Authors will be notified of acceptance by October 1, 2005. At least one author of accepted papers should participate in the Workshop. Workshop proceedings will be published on two different media: First, the proceedings of the AOW05 workshop will be published as part of the conference proceedings. Finally, they will also be available via the workshop web-site. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop papers due: 27 August 2005 Author notification: 1 October 2005 Workshop date: 6 December 2005 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Thomas Meyer Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) program of National ICT Australia (NICTA). Mehmet Orgun Intelligent Systems Group (ISG), Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney. WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mike Bain (UNSW) Werner Ceusters (ECOR/ Saarland University) Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, NZ) Anne Cregan (UNSW) Peter Eklund (University of Wollongong) Norman Foo (UNSW) Jane Hunter (DSTC) Bhavna Orgun (Macquarie University) Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW) Abhaya Nayak (Macquarie University) Abdul Sattar (Griffith University) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University) Barry Smith (ECOR/ SUNY Buffalo) Leon Sterling (University of Melbourne) York Sure (Karlsruhe University) Zahir Tari (RMIT) Kerry Taylor (CSIRO) Mary-Anne Williams (UTS) From mpbelanger at jarg.com Thu Aug 4 16:07:58 2005 From: mpbelanger at jarg.com (Michael Belanger) Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:07:58 -0400 Subject: [DL] RE: [semanticweb] Semantic Web for Bioinformatics - Tutorial-Workshop Aug 23 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <05Aug4.100906edt.199776-21344@yonge.cs.toronto.edu> Semantic Web for Bioinformatics - Tutorial/Workshop at Mass Biotech Council, Cambridge, MA USA on August 23, 10 am ? 3 pm Free for pre-registered MBC members, $25.00 for pre-registered non-members; $40 at the door. Light lunch provided. Introduction to the Semantic Web for Bioinformatics by: Kenneth Baclawski, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Biologists heavily use the web, but the web is geared much more toward human interaction than automated processing. While the web gives biologists access to information, it does not allow them to easily integrate different data sources or to incorporate additional analysis tools. The Semantic Web addresses these problems by annotating web resources and by providing reasoning and retrieval facilities from heterogeneous sources. This tutorial introduces the basic languages of the Semantic Web from the point of view of the life sciences, especially bioinformatics. The objective is to cover the major web ontology languages, what they mean and how they are used. The emphasis will be on pragmatic application issues. The goal is for participants to have a understanding of the Semantic Web sufficient for them to be able to make decisions about whether and how to use the Semantic Web. Ken Baclawski is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University. He is also affiliated with the Division of Preventive Medicine of Brigham and Women?s Hospital at the Harvard Medical School. His primary research area is formal ontologies, and he has been actively working in the area of biomedical ontologies since 1992. He is co-founder of Jarg Corporation and SemanTx Life Sciences, Inc. Prof. Baclawski has been active in the development of the Semantic Web since it was first proposed, being part of the team that developed the DAML+OIL language, later renamed the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Prof. Baclawski and Prof. Tianhua Niu of the Harvard Medical School have written a book on the subject of the proposed tutorial, titled Ontologies for Bioinformatics. This book has been accepted for publication by the MIT Press as part of their series on Computational Molecular Biology. The book is scheduled to ship in September, 2005. MIT PRESS ISBN 0-262-02591-4 7 x 9, 440 pp., 70 illus. $45.00/?29.95 (CLOTH) Series: Computational Molecular Biology "Ontologies for Bioinformatics" Kenneth Baclawski and Tianhua Niu Recent advances in biotechnology, spurred by the Human Genome Project, have resulted in the accumulation of vast amounts of new data. Ontologies -- computer-readable, precise formulations of concepts (and the relationship among them) in a given field -- are a critical framework for coping with the exponential growth of valuable biological data generated by high-output technologies. This book introduces the key concepts and applications of ontologies and ontology languages in bioinformatics and will be an essential guide for bioinformaticists, computer scientists, and life science researchers. The three parts of Ontologies for Bioinformatics ask, and answer, three pivotal questions: what ontologies are; how ontologies are used; and what ontologies could be (which focuses on how ontologies could be used for reasoning with uncertainty). The authors first introduce the notion of an ontology, from hierarchically organized ontologies to more general network organizations, and survey the best-known ontologies in biology and medicine. They show how to construct and use ontologies, classifying uses into three categories: querying, viewing, and transforming data to serve diverse purposes. Contrasting deductive, or Boolean, logic with inductive reasoning, they describe the goal of a synthesis that supports both styles of reasoning. They discuss Bayesian networks as a way of expressing uncertainty, describe data fusion, and propose that the World Wide Web can be extended to support reasoning with uncertainty. They call this inductive reasoning web the Bayesian web. Kenneth Baclawski is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University and Cofounder of Semantx Life Sciences; Div of Jarg Corp. Tianhua Niu is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Bioinformatics, Division of Preventive Medicine, at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. From letz at informatik.tu-muenchen.de Mon Aug 8 14:23:11 2005 From: letz at informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Reinhold Letz) Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:23:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] FTP'2005: call for participation Message-ID: <20050808122311.04D5A252A8@atbroy58> [Apologies for multiple copies] ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 5th International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving FTP'2005, September 15-17, 2005 Koblenz, Germany http://ftp2005.uni-koblenz.de/ ****************************************************************** Invited speaker: Hans-Juergen Ohlbach (Munich) Social events: - excursion to Fortress Ehrenbreitstein (Thursday) - excursion to St. Goar - Wine festival (Saturday) - Rhine in Flames (Saturday) Important Dates: Early registration deadline August 12, 2005 Camera ready papers August 18, 2005 FTP'2005 workshop September 15-17, 2005 Scope: The series of FTP workshops is intended to focus on First-Order Theorem Proving as a core theme of Automated Deduction, and to provide a forum for presentation of recent work and discussion of research in progress. The workshop welcomes original contributions on: * theorem proving in first-order classical, many-valued, and modal logics, including: - resolution, - tableau methods, - equational reasoning, - term rewriting, - model construction, - constraint reasoning, - unification, - description logics, - propositional logic, - specialized decision procedures, * strategies and complexity of theorem proving procedures, * applications of first-order theorem provers, for example to: - verification, - artificial intelligence, - mathematics, - education. The previous international workshops on First-Order Theorem Proving were held at Schloss Hagenberg (Austria, 1997), Vienna (Austria, 1998), St Andrews (Scotland, 2000), Valencia (Spain, 2003). In 2001 and 2004, FTP was part of the IJCAR Conferences, held in Siena (Italy) and Cork (Ireland), respectively. Program Committee: A. Armando (Genova) B. Beckert (Koblenz) C. Fermueller (Vienna) B. Gramlich (Vienna) R. Letz (Munich, chair) B. Loechner (Kaiserslautern) C. Lynch (Clarkson) P. Narendran (Albany) N. Peltier (Grenoble) M. Rusinowitch (Nancy) R. Schmidt (Manchester) M. Velev (CMU) L. Vigano (Zurich) Local Organization: G. Beuster, V. Klebanov (Koblenz) Conference Venue: The workshop will be held in Koblenz, Germany, jointly with the International conference TABLEAUX 2005, with opportunities for joint registration. Other invited lectures at the joint meeting will be given by: - Ian Horrocks (Manchester) - Diego Calvanese (Bolzano) - Eric Rosenthal (New Haven) Further information: For contacting the PC chair: ftp2005 @ uni-koblenz.de From sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Tue Aug 9 15:27:14 2005 From: sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (York Sure) Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:27:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] CfP: J of Web Semantics Special Issue on Semantic Grid Message-ID: <200508091327.j79DR7rV020883@mx.tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> ** Apologies for cross-postings! ** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Elsevier's JOURNAL OF WEB SEMANTICS Special Issue on SEMANTIC GRID http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/semanticgrid/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Description --------------- One of the key challenges in today's Grids is the need to deal with knowledge and data sources that are distributed, heterogeneous, and dynamic, and where effective elicitation of implicit knowledge is a necessary component of the overall system. In such systems, a complete global viewpoint or understanding is impossible to achieve. We therefore need to go beyond centralised knowledge service provision, and develop effective open, distributed, knowledge-based solutions. The Semantic Grid aims to overcome this problem by adding meaning (ontologies, annotations and negotiation processes as studied in the Semantic Web and Software Agent paradigms) to the Grid. In this way, the Semantic Grid not only provides a general semantic-based computational network infrastructure, but a rich, seamless collection of intelligent, knowledge-based services for enabling the management and sharing of complex resources and reasoning mechanisms. In the Semantic Grid knowledge and semantics are deployed explicitly for Grid applications and for the development of innovative Grid infrastructures. This knowledge-oriented semantics-based approach to the Grid goes hand-in-hand with the exploitation of techniques and methodologies from intelligent software agents and web services representing various components of the virtual organizations and interacting in a P2P way. This special issue of the journal (http://www.websemanticsjournal.org) is soliciting highest-quality submissions on all topics related to Semantic Grid. Guest Editors ------------------- York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Englerstr. 11 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Tel.: +49 721 608 6592 URL: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu/ David De Roure School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Tel.: +44 23 8059 2418 URL: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dder/ Submission Instructions -------------------------------- Submissions should be sent by email to both guest editors in the form of a *single PDF file*. Submissions should not exceed 30 (single column) pages. Please refer to the journal's instructions for authors and artwork instructions: http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=671322&dc=GFA http://authors.elsevier.com/ArtworkInstructions.html?dc=AI1 Important Dates ----------------------------------- September 15th, 2005 -- Submissions due (negotiable) November 1st, 2005 -- Selection decisions with recommendations for revision December 1st, 2005 -- Submission of revised papers January 15th, 2006 -- Final acceptance decisions February 15th, 2006 -- Final versions of accepted papers -- Dr. York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592 web: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu From Sergey.Berezin at synopsys.com Fri Aug 12 18:55:54 2005 From: Sergey.Berezin at synopsys.com (Sergey Berezin) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:55:54 -0700 Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2006: Call For Papers (CFP) Message-ID: <200508121655.j7CGtsoD018143@yellowstone.synopsys.com> (We appologize if you received this message multiple times) CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2006) August 16--21, 2006 Seattle, USA http://ijcar06.uni-koblenz.de/ The Third International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) is the fusion of several major conferences in Automated Reasoning: * CADE (Automated Deduction) * TABLEAUX (Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) * FTP (First-Order Theorem Proving) * FroCoS (Frontiers of Combining Systems) * TPHOLs (Theorem Proving in Higher-Order Logics). IJCAR 2006 will be part of the Federated Logic Conference, FLoC'06 (http://research.microsoft.com/floc06/), to be held in Seattle during August 10--22, 2006. Scope: IJCAR 2006 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. Original research papers and descriptions of working automated deduction systems are solicited. Logics of interest include: Propositional, first-order, classical, equational, higher-order, non-classical, constructive, modal, temporal, many-valued, substructural, description, metalogics, type theory, and set theory. Methods of interest include: Tableaux, sequent calculi, resolution, model-elimination, connection method, inverse method, paramodulation, term rewriting, induction, unification, constraint solving, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, semantic guidance, interactive theorem proving, logical frameworks, AI-related methods for deductive systems, proof presentation, efficient data-structures and indexing, integration of computer algebra systems and automated theorem provers, and combination of logics or decision procedures. Applications of interest include: Hardware and software verification, formal methods, program analysis and synthesis, computer arithmetic, metatheory of languages and logics, declarative programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation, computer security, natural language processing, linguistics, robotics, and planning. Submissions: Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Research papers can be up to 15 pages long, and system descriptions can be up to 5 pages long. In the research paper category, submissions of theoretical, practical and experimental nature are equally encouraged. Abstracts must be registered by Feb 27, 2006. All submissions must be received by March 6, 2006. Submissions that arrive late or are too long will not be considered. Submission Details: The proceedings of IJCAR 2006 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer "llncs" format, that can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Best Paper Awards: Awards will be given for the best paper and the best paper written solely by one or more students. The selection will be done by the program committee. A submission is eligible for the best student paper award if all authors are full-time students at the time of submission. The program committee may decline to make the awards or may split it among several papers. Important Dates: February 27, 2006: Paper registration March 6, 2006: Paper submissions April 24, 2006: Acceptance notification May 29, 2006: Camera-ready copy due August 16--21, 2006: IJCAR, Seattle, USA Program Chairs: Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, uli at uni-koblenz.de Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, shankar at csl.sri.com Program Committee: Alessandro Armando Matthias Baaz David Basin Bernhard Beckert Michael Beeson Maria Paola Bonacina Hubert Comon Amy Felty Rajeev Gore Martin Giese Jason Hickey Ian Horrocks Tom Henzinger Dieter Hutter Andrew Ireland Deepak Kapur Helene Kirchner Chris Lynch Michael Kohlhase Michael Maher Bill McCune Tom Melham Jose Meseguer Aart Middeldorp Ilkka Niemela Larry Paulson Christine Paulin-Mohring Carsten Schuermann Stephan Schulz John Slaney Mark Stickel Aaron Stump Geoff Sutcliffe Frank Wolter Hantao Zhang Conference Chair: John Harrison Intel Semiconductors, johnh at ichips.intel.com Workshop Chair: Maria Paola Bonacina Univ. of Verona, mariapaola.bonacina at univr.it Publicity Chair: Sergey Berezin Synopsys, berezin at synopsys.com Steering Committee: Franz Baader Peter Baumgartner Ulrich Furbach John Harrison Reiner Haehnle Tobias Nipkow Natarajan Shankar Cesare Tinelli Toby Walsh From mvardi at cs.rice.edu Fri Aug 12 19:01:30 2005 From: mvardi at cs.rice.edu (Moshe Vardi) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:01:30 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [DL] Information and Computation - Open-Access Experiment Message-ID: <20050812170130.87A784A9A0@cs.rice.edu> Please do not reply to this email. August 12, 2005 The Publisher and Editorial Board of Information and Computation are pleased to announce that for one year, effective immediately, online access to all journal issues back to 1995 will be available without charge. This includes unrestricted downloading of articles in pdf format. Journal articles may be obtained through the journal's web site http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~iandc or Elsevier's Sciencedirect at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/08905401 At the end of the year, the retrieval traffic during the open access period will be evaluated as future subscription policies are considered. Albert R. Meyer, Editor-in-Chief, MIT Computer Science & AI Lab Chris Leonard, Publishing Editor, Elsevier Moshe Y. vardi, Associate Editor, Rice University From stjames at encs.concordia.ca Sun Aug 14 04:05:29 2005 From: stjames at encs.concordia.ca (Genevieve St-James) Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 22:05:29 -0400 Subject: [DL] Knowledge Based Bioinformatics Workshop 2005 Message-ID: <1123985129.42fea6e9e1d28@mail.encs.concordia.ca> Dear Researcher, We are pleased to announce for September (21-23/09/2005) the Knowledge-Based Bioinformatics Workshop http://www.cs.concordia.ca/FungalWeb/KBB.html http://www.cs.concordia.ca/FungalWeb/Register.html Invited speaker abstracts are now online and poster abstract submissions from students are encouraged. Please print the attached poster on legal sized paper and display it in your department / organisation. Sincerely yours, Genevieve St-James Assistant to Dr. Christopher Baker Genome Quebec funded FungalWeb http://www.cs.concordia.ca/FungalWeb/index.html Knowledge Based Bioinformatics Workshop http://www.cs.concordia.ca/FungalWeb/KBB.html Tel: (514) 726 9904 or (514) 848 2424 ext. 4057 From murray at uni-koblenz.de Mon Aug 15 16:40:50 2005 From: murray at uni-koblenz.de (Jan Murray) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:40:50 +0200 Subject: [DL] [KI-2005] KI 2005 Call for Participation Message-ID: <17152.43378.956056.199862@comet.uni-koblenz.de> Apologies if you receive multiple copies CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ************************************************************ - KI 2005 - 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence September 11 - 14, 2005 Koblenz, Germany http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/ ************************************************************ ----------- Quick Links ----------- Homepage: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/ Program: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/scheduleki2005.html Workshops: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/workshops/index.html Tutorials: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/tutorials/index.html Invited Talks: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/invited_talks.html Registration: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/register.html -------------------- About the Conference -------------------- KI 2005 cordially invites AI researchers and practitioners to meet in the beautiful town of Koblenz at the meeting point of Rhine and Mosella in September this year. An attractive technical program has been put together, which covers a particularly broad spectrum of subfields in AI theory and practice. It comprises high quality paper presentations, a variety of specialised workshops and tutorials and is highlighted by a number of invited talks. KI 2005 will be held together with MATES 2005. The conference is part of the International Conference Summer Koblenz, which also features SEFM 2005, TABLEAUX 2005 and FTP 2005. http://www.uni-koblenz.de/ag-ki/confsummer.html http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de http://www.mates2005.de ----------------- Technical Program ----------------- The technical program comprises about 30 presentations from various fields of AI research. The program can be found at: http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/scheduleki2005.html ------------- Invited Talks ------------- * Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University) '175 Miles through the Desert' * Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels) 'Emergent Semantics in Multi-Agent Systems' * Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester) 'Description Logics in Ontology Applications' http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/invited_talks.html --------- Tutorials --------- - Connectionist Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Techniques in Evolutionary Robotics and Neurodynamics http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/tutorials/index.html --------- Workshops --------- - PuK 2005: 19. Workshop Planen, Scheduling und Konfigurieren - Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence - FOnt 2005 - Foundational Aspects of Ontologies - Knowledge Engineering und Software Engineering - Text-Based Information Retrieval (TIR-05) - Mixed-Reality as a Challenge for Image Understanding and Artificial Intelligence - Jahrestreffen der GI-Fachgruppe Deduktionssysteme (DedSys) - Kooperierende Teams mobiler Roboter in dynamischen Umgebungen http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/workshops/index.html ---------------- Conference Venue ---------------- Koblenz, the 2005 conference venue, is situated in the picturesque landscape of the Rhine and Moselle right in the middle of Europe. Koblenz is a meeting point for visitors from all over the world and an excellent starting point for trips into the fascinating landscape along the Rhine and the Moselle. From here it's only a short way to Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and France. Its abundance of cultural monuments and historic buildings, its cosy lanes and narrow alleyways, the relaxed and happy atmosphere of its squares and river promenades make Koblenz a friendly town where its guests feel right at home. Hope to see you all in Koblenz, Ulrich Furbach KI 2005 Program Chair From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Sat Aug 20 20:37:42 2005 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:37:42 +0200 Subject: [DL] Research position KRDB - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Message-ID: <963a9214766fbc71e40083defec3cf16@inf.unibz.it> RESEARCH ASSOCIATE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES (KRDB) RESEARCH CENTRE FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO PROJECT TONES (IST-007603) Salary: Euro 18,684 to 33,384 p.a. Applications are invited for a Research Associate to join the Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB) Research Centre at the Faculty of Computer Science - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. The post is available from 1 October 2005, or as soon as possible thereafter, for a period of three years. The KRDB Research Centre was founded in 2002, and it comprises 13 researchers (including three PhD students). The centre aims at being an international centre of excellence in basic and applied research on KRDB technologies and at proposing to selected enterprises innovative ideas and technologies based on the developed research. It is involved in two European projects and three European Networks of Excellence, and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Members of the centre have developed the foundational results underlying reasoning and computational complexity for state of the art ontology languages. The current research focus is on the development of tools applying relational database technology to reasoning over data intensive ontologies, on data management techniques in peer-to-peer systems, on data integration, and on query processing for semi-structured data. The available post is funded by the European Union 6th Framework within the IST-007603 TONES project (which is a collaboration with research institutions in Rome, Manchester, Dresden, and Hamburg). The project aims at enhancing and developing novel reasoning services for ontology design, maintenance, usage, and interoperation. The focus is, on the one hand on the study of novel techniques integrating ontology reasoning with efficient data management, that allow for scalability of ontology management to large amounts of data, and on the other hand on the extension of Description Logics, to improve the usability of reasoning services for ontology management. Given the aims of the project, we are seeking candidates with interests or capabilities in logics (preferably in description or modal logics), automated reasoning, and/or databases. Successful applicants should possess a good first degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related discipline, and have at least some relevant postgraduate experience, preferably a PhD. Please direct informal enquires to: Prof. Diego Calvanese email: calvanese at inf.unibz.it -- Diego Calvanese Faculty of Computer Science e-mail: calvanese at inf.unibz.it Free University of Bolzano/Bozen phone: +39-0471 016 160 Piazza Domenicani 3, fax: +39-0471 016 009 I-39100 Bolzano-Bozen BZ, Italy http://www.inf.unibz.it/~calvanese/ From jana.sukkarieh at clg.ox.ac.uk Thu Aug 25 12:38:07 2005 From: jana.sukkarieh at clg.ox.ac.uk (Jana Sukkarieh) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:38:07 +0100 Subject: [DL] Announcement and CFP: Natural Language and Knowledge Representation Message-ID: <008d01c5a961$14f26940$e25701a3@cpgljana> [Apologies for x-postings] NATURAL LANGUAGE AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (NL-KR) Special Track at FLAIRS 2006 ANNOUNCEMENT AND FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Holiday Inn Melbourne Oceanfront, Melbourne Beach, FLORIDA, USA MAIN CONFERENCE: 11-12-13 MAY 2006 Special track web page: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lady0641/Flairs06_NL_KR Main conference web page: http://www.indiana.edu/~flairs06 PURPOSE OF THE NL-KR TRACK We believe the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the Knowledge Representation (KR) communities have common goals. They are both concerned with representing knowledge and with reasoning, since the best test for the semantic capability of an NLP system is performing reasoning tasks. Having these two essential common grounds, the two communities ought to have been collaborating, to provide a well-suited representation language that covers these grounds. However, the two communities also have difficult-to-meet concerns. Mainly, the semantic representation (SR) should be expressive enough and should take the information in context into account, while the KR should be equipped with a fast reasoning process. The main objection against an SR or a KR is that they need experts to be understood. Non-experts communicate (usually) via a natural language (NL), and more or less they understand each other while performing a lot of reasoning. An essential practical value of representations is their attempt to be transparent. This will particularly be useful when/if the system provides a justification for a user or a knowledge engineer on its line of reasoning using the underlying KR (i.e. without generating back to NL). We all seem to believe that, compared to Natural Language, the existing Knowledge Representation and reasoning systems are poor. Nevertheless, for a long time, the KR community dismissed the idea that NL can be a KR. That's because NL can be very ambiguous and there are syntactic and semantic processing complexities associated with it. However, researchers in both communities have started looking at this issue again. Possibly, it has to do with the NLP community making some progress in terms of processing and handling ambiguity, the KR community realising that a lot of knowledge is already 'coded' in NL and that one should reconsider the way they handle expressivity and ambiguity. This track is an attempt to provide a forum for discussion on this front and to bridge a gap between NLP and KR. A KR in this track has a well-defined syntax, semantics and a proof theory. It should be clear what authors mean by NL-like, based on NL or benefiting from NL (if they are using one). It does not have to be a novel representation. NL-KR TRACK TOPICS For this track, we will invite submissions including, but not limited to: a. A novel NL-like KR or building on an existing one b. Reasoning systems that benefit from properties of NL to reason with NL c. Semantic representation used as a KR : compromise between expressivity and efficiency? d. More Expressive KR for NL understanding (Any compromise?) e. Any work exploring how existing representations fall short of addressing some problems involved in modelling, manipulating or reasoning (whether reasoning as used to get an interpretation for a certain utterance, exchange of utterances or what utterances follow from other utterances) with NL documents f. Representations that show how classical logics are not as efficient, transparent, expressive or where a one-step application of an inference rule require more (complex) steps in a classical environment and vice-versa; i.e. how classical logics are more powerful, etc g. Building a reasoning test collection for natural language understanding systems: any kind of reasoning (deductive, abductive, etc); for a deductive test suite see for e.g. deliverable 16 of the FraCas project (http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~fracas/). Also, look at textual entailment challenges 1 and 2 h. Comparative results (on a common test suite or a common task) of different representations or systems that reason with NL (again any kind of reasoning). The comparison could be either for efficiency, transparency or expressivity i. Knowledge acquisition systems or techniques that benefit from properties of NL to acquire knowledge already 'coded' in NL j. Automated Reasoning, Theorem Proving and KR communities views on all this NL_KR TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE James ALLEN, University of Rochester, USA Patrick BLACKBURN, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique, France Johan BOS, University of Edinburgh, UK Richard CROUCH, Palo Alto Research Centre, USA Maarten DE RIJKE, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Anette FRANK, DFKI, Germany Fernando GOMEZ, University of Central Florida, USA Sanda HARABAGIU, University of Texas at Dallas, USA John HARRISON, Intel, USA Jerry HOBBS, Information Sciences Institute, USA Chung Hee HWANG, Raytheon Co., USA Michael KOHLHASE, International University Bremen, Germany Shalom LAPPIN, King's College, UK Carsten LUTZ, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Dan MOLDOVAN, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Jeff PELLETIER, Simon Fraser University, Canada Stephen PULMAN, University of Oxford, UK Lenhart SCHUBERT, University of Rochester, USA John SOWA, VivoMind Intelligence, Inc., USA Jana SUKKARIEH, University of Oxford, UK (Chair) Geoff SUTCLIFFE, Miami University, USA Timothy WILLIAMSON, University of Oxford, UK NL_KR TRACK INVITED SPEAKER John SOWA, VivoMind Intelligence, Inc., US FLAIRS 2006 INVITED SPEAKERS Alan BUNDY, University of Edinburg, Scotland Bob MORRIS, Nasa Ames Research Center, USA Mehran SAHAMI, Standford University and Google, USA Barry SMYTH, University College Dublin, Ireland NL-KR TRACK PROPOSED BY Jana Sukkarieh, University of Oxford, UK email: J.Sukkarieh.94 at cantab.net WEB and TECH SUPPORT Simon Dobnik, University of Oxford, UK email: Simon.Dobnik at clg.ox.ac.uk SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions must arrive no later than 21 November 2005. Only electronic submissions will be considered. Details about submission can be found on : http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lady0641/Flairs06_NL_KR/submission_details.html Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special journal issue of "The journal of Logic and Computation". PROCEEDINGS Printed Proceedings will be published only on demand. Proceedings on CD will be provided to all. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of papers: 21 November, 2005 * Notification of acceptance: 20 January, 2006 * Final version of the paper is due : 13 February, 2006 * Main Conference: 11-13 May 2006 * Track: max 1 day during the main conference Those interested in running a demo please contact Jana Sukkarieh or Simon Dobnik . From SUZETTE at mitre.org Sat Aug 27 02:55:13 2005 From: SUZETTE at mitre.org (Stoutenburg,Suzette) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:55:13 -0400 Subject: [DL] Tim Berners-Lee to be Keynote Speaker at RuleML 2005 Message-ID: <8013B46C84D42A4C83EB3DBB9FD71B76425A45@IMCSRV1.MITRE.ORG> All, Rules are widely recognized to be a major part of the frontier of the Semantic Web, and critical to the early adoption and application of knowledge-based techniques in e-business, particularly enterprise integration and B2B e-commerce. This includes knowledge representation (KR) theory and algorithms; markup languages based on such KR; engines, translators, and other tools; relationships to standardization efforts; and, not least, applications. Interest and activity in the area of Rules for the Semantic Web has grown rapidly over the last five years. RuleML-2005 is aimed to be this year's premiere scientific conference on the topic. It continues in topic, leadership, and collaboration with the previous series of three highly successful international workshops. RuleML-2005 is co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference (http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/ ) and will meet 10-12 November 2005 in Galway. We are pleased to announce that Tim Berners-Lee will be the Keynote Speaker. This year's focus is on the application of reactive and proactive rules, complex event processing, and event-driven rules for the Semantic Web. The conference will also include an OWL Workshop, hosted by Peter Patel-Schneider. Register now to secure your participation in this most critical exchange of ideas! https://eurwebsite.com/mlrules/register.asp See you in November ! Regards, RuleML 2005 Program Co-Chairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From C.Brewster at dcs.shef.ac.uk Mon Aug 29 16:37:28 2005 From: C.Brewster at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Christopher Brewster) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:37:28 +0100 Subject: [DL] Deadline extended! - REMINDER CFP for IJHCS: KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION WITH ONTOLOGIES: PRESENT CHALLENGES - FUTURE POSSIBLITIES Message-ID: <200508291521.j7TFL344026304@mx.tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Apologies for cross-posting. Call for Papers: Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies: "KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION WITH ONTOLOGIES: PRESENT CHALLENGES - FUTURE POSSIBILITIES" Guest Editors: Christopher Brewster and Kieron O'Hara http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~kiffer/IJHCS.html ------------------------------------------- | Deadline extended to 15 September 2005 | ------------------------------------------- Recently, we have seen an explosion of interest in ontologies as artifacts to represent human knowledge and as critical components in knowledge management, the Semantic Web, business-to-business applications, and several other application areas. Various research communities commonly assume that ontologies are the appropriate modelling structure for representing knowledge. However, little discussion has occurred regarding the actual range of knowledge an ontology can successfully represent. What are the limits of ontology-based representation? Some types of knowledge are extremely suited to ontological representation, such as taxonomic information, but clearly this isn't always the case. We can't always easily represent certain types of knowledge (for example, skills or distributed knowledge), nor easily transform types of representation into ontology-appropriate formats (for example, diagrammatic knowledge). And with the expanded recognition of multiple modalities, does our vision of an ontology change? Can we speak of multi-media ontologies? This is of even greater significance as Knowledge Management recognises more exactly the range of knowledge that is embodied in an organisation. Most, but not all, definitions of "ontology" insist that an ontology specifically represents common, shared conceptual structures. Does this requirement for publicity help guarantee adequacy? And if so, can we talk of personal ontologies? If ontologies have to represent knowledge relatively coarsely or approximately, how much is this likely to matter in realistic contexts? Will scale be a problem? This special issue seeks outstanding papers on the potential and the limits of ontologies in the broad range of fields in which they have come to play a major part. We wish to stimulate discussion so as to facilitate a vision of where ontologies and knowledge representations are heading. Contributions should be original and unpublished studies. We are interested in both theoretical and practical research concerning the limits and value of ontologies, including: evaluations of the practical applicability of ontology based technologies; their limits and potentials; issues and solutions for problematic real-world applications; tools and techniques for ontology building and maintenance. Papers concerning the following topics will be particularly welcome, though any other topic relevant to the theme of the limits and value of ontological representations would be acceptable: - Limits of the knowledge representable in ontologies - New approaches to representing non-standard forms of knowledge using ontologies - Alternatives to/Evolution of ontologies - Formal vs. informal ontologies - Multimedia ontologies - Ontologies as corporate memories - Intellectual property and the commercial significance of ontologies - Issues in ontology maintenance - Ontologies for web-scale applications - The evaluation and trust of ontologies Important Dates ---------------------------------------- Paper submissions: 15 September, 2005 Notification of acceptance: 1 November, 2005 Final versions due: 1 February, 2006 Journal publication: Summer, 2006 Format for submissions --------------------------------------- Paper should be formatted in accordance with IJHCS guidelines available in the journal, or at http://authors.elsevier.com/journal/ijhcs and should be between 6000-8000 words in length. Authors of submitted journals may be invited to take part in the review process. Submission should be made in pdf or word format electronically to C.Brewster at dcs.shef.ac.uk. ***************************************************** Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield Tel: +44(0)114-22.21967 Fax: +44 (0)114-22.21810 Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street Sheffield S1 4DP UNITED KINGDOM Web: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~kiffer/ ***************************************************** A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of an idea within a wall of words.--- Samuel Butler From holger.schlingloff at first.fhg.de Mon Aug 29 17:20:14 2005 From: holger.schlingloff at first.fhg.de (Holger Schlingloff) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:20:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: M4M-4 "Methods for Modalities"; Berlin, Dec. 1-2, 2005 Message-ID: <431327AE.2020002@first.fhg.de> Apologies if you receive this CFP more than once. Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to Sep. 15th! *************************************************************************** The workshop "Methods for Modalities" (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers and posters, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. Invited speakers: Fran?ois Laroussinie, ENS Cachan and CNRS Martin Lange, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t Wim Martens, Hasselt University Boris Motik, Universit?t Karlsruhe Boris Konev, University of Liverpool Uwe Scheffler, Humboldt Universit?t Regular papers should not exceed the length of 12 pages; short papers are up to six pages of length, and posters and tools can be presented on two pages of text. Proceedings will appear online and as a Humboldt university report. Depending on the submissions, papers may be selected to appear in a special issue of an appropriate journal. Submission is by internet or email. You can (preferrably) upload your PostScript or PDF contribution to the address http://www.easychair.org/M4M-4/submit/ or (alternatively) send it to m4m-4 at first.fraunhofer.de. The workshop will take place in Berlin - Adlershof, Germany, which is one of the worlds largest science and technology areas, comprising twelve research institutes, six faculties of the Humboldt University of Berlin, and more than 370 high tech companies. It is hosted by FIRST, the Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Architecture and Software Technology, in collaboration with the computer science institute of Humboldt University. For more information and registration information, see the M4M homepage at http://m4m.loria.fr/ Deadline for submissions: September 15th, 2005 (extended!) Notification: October 17, 2005 Camera ready versions: November 8, 2005 Workshop dates: December 1-2, 2005 The program committee for M4M consists of Holger Schlingloff, Humboldt University / FIRST (local organizations); Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine; Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine; Torben Brauner, Roskilde University; Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan; Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bolzano; Rajeev Gore, Australian National University; Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester; Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam; Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester; and Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool. From martin.hepp at deri.org Thu Sep 1 01:41:39 2005 From: martin.hepp at deri.org (Martin Hepp (DERI extern)) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:41:39 -0400 Subject: [DL] DEADLINE EXTENDED: Workshop on Mediation in the Semantic Web Services at ICSOC 2005, deadline Sept. 30, 2005 Message-ID: <05Aug31.194148edt.200577-15608@yonge.cs.toronto.edu> (our apologies if you receive this message multiple times) ****************************************************************** Call for Papers First International Workshop on Mediation in Semantic Web Services (MEDIATE 2005) ****************************************************************** in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2005) Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 12th 2005 http://www.deri.at/events/workshops/mediate2005 Description of the Workshop Topic: ---------------------------------- The usage of computer systems is widely characterized by decentralized design and autonomous evolution, i.e. if we look at system components from a global perspective, they are often developed and modified without alignment in the design stage. Also, components follow individual paths of evolution during their life-cycles. It can be observed that this is a major cause for interoperability problems, contributing to the brittleness of systems integration efforts. If we want to increase the degree of automation in general, it seems important to provide software components that can help overcome occurring interoperability conflicts and this in an automated fashion. This functionality is known as mediation and the respective components are called mediators. Mediation can take place on a multiplicity of levels, e.g. on data, ontologies, processes, protocols, or goals. To a great extent, it will depend on the availability of sophisticated, industry-strength mediation support whether the promise of Semantic Web services can become reality. In this workshop we want to advance the theoretical and practical knowledge about the design and implementation of mediators in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web services. Focus of the Workshop: ---------------------- Possible topics include, but are not limited to - Conceptual Aspects of Mediation - Data Mediation - Ontology Mediation - Process Mediation - Protocol Mediation - Goal Mediation - Architecture and Implementation of Effective Mediation Services - Evolution, Learning, and Adaptability of Mediators - Versioning Issues - Grounding of Semantic Web Services Important Dates: ---------------- 2005-09-30: Submission of papers (extended) 2005-10-28: Notification of acceptance 2005-11-11: Camera-ready versions due 2005-12-12: Workshop Submission Format: ------------------ Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English, following the LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers must not exceed 16 pages. Shorter papers, presenting preliminary results, are welcome. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Please send your submissions in PDF format to mediate2005 at deri.org For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the workshop program. Postproceedings in the form of a book will be considered. More information on the venue, registration, hotels, and related events will be available at http://www.icsoc.org/ In addition, we will provide more detailed information on the workshop website at http://www.deri.at/events/workshops/mediate2005 Organizing Committee: --------------------- Michael Genesereth, Stanford University Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Martin Hepp, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), University of Innsbruck Axel Polleres, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), University of Innsbruck Program Committee: ------------------ Diego Calvanese (University of Bolzano/Bozen) Emilia Cimpian (DERI) Jos De Bruijn (DERI) John Domingue (Open University) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA) Dieter Fensel (DERI) Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento) Rick Hull (Bell Labs) Michael Kifer (University at Stony Brook) Deborah McGuinness (Stanford University) Enrico Motta (The Open University) Marco Pistore (University of Trento) Pavel Shvaiko (University of Trento) Jianwen Su (UC Santa Barbara) York Sure (AIFB) Paolo Traverso (ITC/IRST) Michael F. Uschold (Boeing) Ludger van Elst (DFKI) Holger Wache (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Gio Wiederhold (Stanford University) Administrative Contact: ----------------------- Martin Hepp Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) Innsbruck University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 21a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria Phone: +43 512 507 6465, Fax: +43 512 507 9872 e-mail: martin.hepp at deri.org ============================================ Help the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the USA! http://www.redcross.org (American Red Cross) http://www.salvationarmyusa.org (The Salvation Army) You can donate online by credit card. From mrmadhukar at hotmail.com Thu Sep 1 09:24:47 2005 From: mrmadhukar at hotmail.com (MAKAM MADHUKAR) Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:54:47 +0530 Subject: [DL] Which load testing tool useful for DIG protocol load testing Message-ID: Hi I am working with an application which uses DIG protocol. I need to load test the application. 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Thanks Madhukar From dix at in.tu-clausthal.de Thu Sep 1 12:48:52 2005 From: dix at in.tu-clausthal.de (Juergen Dix) Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:48:52 +0200 Subject: [DL] [CfP] Special Issue on Answer Set Programming (ASP) in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Message-ID: <20050901104852.GF17908@in.tu-clausthal.de> [we apologize for multiple copies of this e-mail] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: Special Issue on Answer Set Programming (ASP) in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence http://cig.in.tu-clausthal.de/ASP06/ * Special Issue Editors: Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig, Germany) Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) * About the Special Issue: Answer set programming (ASP) is a promising declarative programming paradigm which has proven to be successful in a variety of areas such as planning, diagnosis, configuration and space shuttle control. It emerged from deductive databases as wellas from non-monotonic reasoning. Answer sets are sets of literals representing intended models of generalized logic programs with two types of negation. They were introduced by Gelfond and Lifschitz and generalize stable models to more expressive logic programs. The basic idea underlying ASP is to represent a problem in a way such that answer sets correspond to solutions of the problem. A Working Group on ASP funded by the EC (http://wasp.unime.it/) coordinates and represents most of the work on ASP done in Europe. We invite papers describing original research advancing the state of the art in ASP. Contributions may range from theoretical foundations (e.g. language extensions, first order programs) to implementation methods (e.g. new answer set generation methods, intelligent grounding or related heuristics) and innovative applications (e.g. information extraction, agent technology,dynamic systems). In particular applications showing that ASP scales up or is competing with special-purpose techniques are welcome. * Relevant topics include the following (but are not limited to): - Foundations of ASP - Systems of ASP - Algorithms and heuristics - Language extensions (aggregates, preferences , etc.) - Integrated approaches (description logic, constraints, etc.) - ASP methodology (modularization, debugging etc.) - Planning in ASP - Knowledge representation in ASP - Innovative applications (bioinformatics, linguistics, etc.) * Submission Details: We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously unpublished research, be written in English, and not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere (previous publication of partial results at workshops with informal proceedings is allowed). Papers should be formatted according to the Instructions for AMAI submissions and should be between 20 and 40 pages long. (www.springeronline.com/journal/10472/submission) Please submit a PDF file of your paper by the 1st of December2005 at http://cig.in.tu-clausthal.de/ASP06/ (click on Submissions: you can enter your paper into the easychair system provided by Andrei Voronkov). * Important Dates: Submission Deadline: December 1, 2005 Author Notification: February 1, 2006 Final Paper Deadline: April 1, 2006 Special Issue: Fall 2006 * About the special issue editors: Gerhard Brewka is Professor for Intelligent Systems at Leipzig University (Germany) since 1996. Before that he was Professor for Knowledge-Based Systems at Technical University of Vienna. He is director of the Leipzig doctoral programme in Knowledge Representation. His research interests include knowledge representation, nonmonotonic reasoning, inconsistency handling, preference models and logic programming. Juergen Dix is Professor for Computational Intelligence at Clausthal University of Technology (Germany) (http://cig.in.tu-clausthal.de/). He is also member of the CS Department at the Technical University of Vienna, and honorary member at The University of Manchester, where he lived from 2000-2003. Since 1989 he is working in several areas of Computational Logic (nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation) and, in the past 7 years, also in Multi-Agent Reasoning. * About the journal: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) is devoted to reporting significant contributions on the interaction of mathematical and computational techniques reflecting the evolving disciplines of artificial intelligence: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/amai/. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence publishes edited volumes of original manuscripts, survey articles, monographs and well refereed conference proceedings of the highest caliber within this increasingly important field. All papers will be subject to the peer reviewing process with at least two referees per paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail was delivered to you by event at in.tu-clausthal.de, what is a moderated list runned by Computational Intelligence Group of Technical University of Clausthal, Germany. All event announcements sent through this list are also listed in our conference planner at http://cig.in.tu-clausthal.de/index.php?id=planner. In the case of any requests, questions, or comments, do not hesitate and contact event-owner at in.tu-clausthal.de ASAP. ****************************************************** * CIG does not take any responsibility for validity * * of content of messages sent through this list. * ****************************************************** Computational Intelligence Group Institute of Informatics Technical University Clausthal Germany http://cig.in.tu-clausthal.de/ From t.dinoia at poliba.it Sat Sep 3 13:45:22 2005 From: t.dinoia at poliba.it (Tommaso Di Noia) Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:45:22 +0200 Subject: [DL] DEADLINE EXTENSION: Semantic-Based Resource Discovery, Retrieval and Composition TRACK @ SAC2006 Message-ID: <200509031140.j83Be0Pt007208@mail.poliba.it> [We apologize for multiple copies] ======================= DEADLINE EXTENSION ================================ The new proposed schedule of important dates for the track is as follows: - September 12, 2005 Paper Submission deadline (EXTENDED) - October 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance - November 5, 2005 Camera-ready version deadline - April 23-27, 2006 Track Date ======================= CALL FOR PAPERS =================================== Semantic-Based Resource Discovery, Retrieval and Composition RDRC http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sac2006/ TECHNICAL TRACK at the 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing SAC 2006 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2006 The Semantic-Based Resource Discovery, Retrieval and Composition -- RDRC track aims at gathering researchers from various fields, spanning from matchmaking in electronic commerce, to intelligent multimedia retrieval, to planning in artificial intelligence, to web services discovery and composition. We envisage the following topics as central for the track: - matchmaking of resource request and resource providers - planning and scheduling - semantic-based resource negotiation - semantic-based resource negotiation - retrieval of resource descriptions - semantic annotation for multimedia - information integration - supply chain formation - knowledge management - web-service discovery and composition - semantic grid - combinatorial auctions All these topics share as central the notion of "Resource" in general searching problems with respect to a request. A resource is a broad term comprising goods in electronic commerce, information available in remote sites, services announced through Internet, learning objects, digital images, to mention a few. Whatever their nature, the term "resource" is used in a general sense for whatever might be identified atomically and univocally. Hence, the problem of resource matching and retrieval arises in several scenarios. The front-end of a resource is always a description of what the resource is, what it provides, who can access it, possibly with side economic constraints. All this information can be semantically annotated, either directly in XML, or using some upper strata for defining standard terms as in ebXML, or OWL-S. While semantic annotation rules out ambiguities of Natural Language, the problem raises about how well a single resource fits a particular request, or whether there is a pool of resources which - suitably composed - cover a request. Side economic conditions in resource descriptions, such as cost, method of payment, payments delay, can make compositions difficult to be properly formed, while economic constraints in resource request usually filter out some solutions. Authors are invited to submit original papers related, but not limited to, the proposed track topics. Submissions fall into the following categories: - Original and unpublished research work - Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas - Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains - Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will blindly review submissions to that track. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES The proposed schedule of important dates for the track is as follows: - September 12, 2005 Paper Submission deadline (EXTENDED) - October 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance - November 5, 2005 Camera-ready version deadline - April 23-27, 2006 Track Date PROGRAM COMMITTEE Daniela Berardi - University of Rome "La Sapienza" - Italy Oscar Corcho - Univesity of Manchester - UK William Grosky - University of Michigan-Dearborn - USA Martin Hepp - DERI, University of Innsbruck - Austria Alain L?ger - France Telecom - France Enrico Motta - KMi, The Open University - UK Axel Polleres - DERI, University of Innsbruck - Austria Pavel Shvaiko - University of Trento - Italy Stefan Rueger - Imperial College London - UK ORGANIZATION Tommaso DI NOIA Politecnico di Bari Bari, Italy tel : +39 080 5963903 fax : +39 080 5963410 mail: t.dinoia at poliba.it Eugenio DI SCIASCIO Politecnico di Bari Bari, Italy tel : +39 080 5963903 fax : +39 080 5963410 mail: disciascio at poliba.it Francesco M. DONINI Universit? della Tuscia Viterbo, Italy tel : +39 0761 357 861 fax : +39 0761 357 887 mail: donini at unitus.it From meo at di.unito.it Mon Sep 5 11:21:01 2005 From: meo at di.unito.it (Rosa Meo) Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:21:01 +0200 Subject: [DL] [Mlnet] CFP Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence Message-ID: <431C0DFD.6050604@di.unito.it> [ Apologies for multiple postings ] SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 7, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------- Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, April 3-5, 2006 http://www.mdai.info/mdai2006 AIMS AND GOALS: Decision making processes, and information fusion tools at large, are currently embedded in most Artificial Intelligence applications. As a consequence, systems based on decision making and fusion techniques are becoming pervasive. They are currently in use in all kind of environments, from entertainment gadgets to safety-critical or risk management software. MDAI (Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence) conferences were initiated (Barcelona, 2004; Tsukuba, 2005) with the aim of providing a forum to researchers for discussing models for decision and information fusion (aggregation operators) as well as computational methods and criteria for model selection and determination. PUBLICATION: Proceedings with accepted papers are intended to be published in the LNAI/LNCS series (Springer-Verlag), and distributed at the conference (MDAI 2004 and MDAI 2005 proceedings were published in LNCS/LNAI volumes 3131, and 3558, respectively). Besides, papers, that according to the evaluation of the referees, are not suitable for the LNAI but that have some merits will be published in separate conference proceedings (CD-ROM, ISBN 84-00-08306-7, in MDAI 2005). DEADLINES: Submission deadline: October 7, 2005 Acceptance notification: December 13, 2005 Final version of accepted papers: December 23, 2005 Conference: April 3-5, 2006 TOPICS OF INTEREST: (include, but not limited to) Methods and Tools: - Information fusion - Aggregation operators - Knowledge integration - Utility and decision theory - Model and operator selection L - Learning methods for parameter determination - Machine learning and statistical learning - Soft computing - Optimization methods Applications: - Information privacy and security - Multiagent systems - Data mining - Autonomous robots - Entertainment computing - Subjective evaluation - Medicine - Bioinformatics - Information access - Economic and management sciences General chairs: Aida Valls, Josep Domingo-Ferrer (URV, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain) Program co-chairs: Vicenc Torra (IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia, Spain) Yasuo Narukawa (Toho Gakuen, Japan) Local Organizing Committee Chairs: Antonio Moreno, David Riano (URV, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain) Program Committee: G. Beliakov (Australia), U. Bodenhofer (Austria), T. Calvo (Spain), J. Dujmovic (USA), M. Grabisch (France), E. Herrera-Viedma (Spain), F. Herrera (Spain), K. Hirota (Japan), M. Inuiguchi (Japan) J. Kacprzyk (Poland), Z.-Q. Liu (Hong Kong, China), L. Magdalena (Spain) J.-L. Marichal (Luxemburg), R. Meo (Italy), R. Mesiar (Slovak Republic) A. Moreno (Spain), S. Miyamoto (Japan), T. Murofushi (Japan) M. Ng (Hong Kong, China), T. Onisawa (Japan), G. Pasi (Italy) C. Sierra (Spain), R. R. Yager (USA), N. Zhong (Japan) Venue: Tarragona (100km south of Barcelona, on the Mediterranean sea) with its mild climate, its broad and clean beaches of fine sand, and its significant artistic and architectural heritage make Tarragona one of Europe's main tourist attractions. The city was the capital of the Roman province of Hispania Citerior (2000 years ago), and the Roman archaeological complex is now a World Heritage Site (UNESCO, 2000). The region is also well known for its gastronomy and also for its wines. When gastronomy is mentioned in Tarragona, it is usually a reference to sea-food. Reus (a nearway city) is the home town of Antoni Gaudi. For details see: http://www.porttarragona.es/empresa/apt/10raonsi.htm -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Mlnet mailing list Mlnet at ais.fraunhofer.de http://lists.ais.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/mlnet From dumitru.roman at deri.org Thu Sep 8 15:22:27 2005 From: dumitru.roman at deri.org (Titi Roman) Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:22:27 +0200 Subject: [DL] cfp: Web Service-based Systems and Applications (WEBSA) track at ICIW 2006 Message-ID: <43203B13.7050506@deri.org> **** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers **** Second Call for Submissions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Track on: WEB SERVICE-BASED SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS (WEBSA) at the International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2006) http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICIW06.html February 19-25, 2006, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean -------------------------------------------------------- We inaugurate a series of co-located events that covers complementary aspects related to designing and deploying of applications based on "Internet&Web techniques and mechanisms". The umbrella conference (ICIW 2006, International Conference on Internet&Web) consists of several mini conferences concerning Web technologies, design and development of Web-based applications, and interactions of these applications with other types of systems. Management aspects related to these applications and challenges on specialized domains are aided at too. Evaluation techniques and standard position on different aspects are part of the expected agenda. The mini conferences under this event are: ICIWA 2006, IP-Web Based Applications and Services ENSYS 2006, Entertainment Systems P2PSA 2006, P2P Systems and Applications WEBSA 2006, Web Service-based Systems and Applications ONLINE 2006, Online Communications, Collaborative Systems, and Social Networks Proceedings are published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Industry is also welcome with special contributions (see the web site mentioned below.) The conference will take place in Guadeloupe, French Caribbean. The submissions deadlines are: Submission deadline: September 30, 2005 Notification: October 28, 2005 Camera ready: November 15, 2005 Conference: February 23-25, 2006 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR WEBSA 2006 TRACK ========================================= The Call for Submissions for the Web Service-based Systems and Applications (WEBSA 2006) track covers both theoretical and experimental topics. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas. Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints. Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged. Topics that are expected to be covered, but not limited to are: Web services foundation, architectures, frameworks, languages Web services architecture and business continuity Special Web services mechanisms Semantic Web, Ontology, and Web services Web service applications Data Management aspects in Web Services Autonomic e-Business integration and collaboration Web service based Grid computing and P2P computing Web services based applications for e-Commerce Multimedia applications using Web Services Automatic computing for Web services Web services challenges on trust, security, performance, scalability Enterprise Web services Web services discovery, announcing, monitoring and management Platforms, technologies, mechanisms and case studies Grid architectures, middleware and toolkits WEBSA 2006 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ======================================== Kamel Adi, Universit? of Outaouais, Canada Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Richard Benjamin, ISOCO, Spain Djamal Benslimane, Universt? Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy Fabio Casati, HP, USA Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Michele Colajanni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Ewa Deelman, Information Science Institute, USA John Domingue, Open University, UK Jean-Jacques Dubray, Attachmate, USA Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Abdelkarim Erradi, The University of New South Wales, Australia Rik Eshuis, TUE, Netherlands Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy Geoffrey Fox, University of Indiana, USA Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University, USA Chirine Ghedira, Universt? Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Roy Gr?nmo, SINTEF, Norway Sung-Kook Han, Won Kwang University, Korea Laurent Henocque, LISIS, France Martin Hepp, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria Andy Hospodor, University of California Santa Cruz, USA Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Adriana Iamnitchi, Duke University, USA Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany Ryszard Kowalczyk, SWIN, Australia Birgitta K?nig-Ries, University of Jena, Germany Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany Welf L?we, V?xj? University, Sweeden Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Axel Martens, IBM Research, Hawthorn, USA Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle, England Josef Noll, Telenor Research, Norway Savas Parastatidis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Cesare Pautaso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Charles Petrie, Stanford University, USA Axel Polleres, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Matei Ripeanu, University of Chicago, USA Dumitru Roman, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria, [Chair] Steve Ross-Talbot, Enigmatec Corporation, UK Thomas Strang, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria Philippe Thiran, University of Namur, Belgium Ioan Toma, DERI, Austria Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI, Austria Alexander Wahler, Niwa Web Solutions, Austria Jim Webber, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales / Green Pea Software Pty / NICTA, Australia Michal Zaremba, DERI, Austria INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS ============================ The ICIW 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Conference deadlines are as follows: - Submission deadline: September 30th, 2005 - Notification: October 28th, 2005 - Camera ready: November 15th, 2005 - Conference: February 19-25, 2006 Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system. The files should be sent via http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitGuadaICIW06.html Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found via anonymous FTP site at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.pdf Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance. TECHNICAL MARKETING/BUSINESS/POSITIONING PRESENTATIONS ==================================================== The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference?s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre at iaria.org. TUTORIALS ========= Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to petre at iaria.org PANELS ======= The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. For more information, petre at iaria.org ICIW ADVISORY COMMITTEE ======================== Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada-Reno, USA Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Rafael Dueire Lins, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria Karim El Guemhioui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais , Canada Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada M?rio Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France Varol Yaakov, University of Nevada ? Reno, USA Looking forward for your contributions, WEBSA 2006 Chair Dumitru Roman, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria, dumitru.roman at deri.org ICIW 2006 Chair Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA, pdini at cisco.com From stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de Thu Sep 8 19:38:58 2005 From: stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de (Gerd Stumme) Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:38:58 +0200 Subject: [DL] CfP 4th Intl. Conf. on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 2006) Message-ID: <0F8011F66054388104454F7C@popeye.kde.informatik.uni-kassel.de> CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis Dresden, Germany, February 13-17, 2006 http://www.math.tu-dresden.de/~concept We call for scientific publications on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted. All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published in the LNCS/LNAI series of Springer Verlag. Authors are requested to follow the author instructions as indicated in the following Web page: http://w3.uqo.ca/icfca06/instructions.html. Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory to promote better communication between lattice theoretists and potential users of lattice theory. Since then Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a growing research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and an increasing number of applications in information and knowledge processing including vizualisation, data mining, analysis and knowledge management. The conference aims to unify theoretical and applied practitioners using Formal Concept Analysis drawing from the fields of Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences, Software Engineering, Linguistics, and Philosophy. Other aspects are welcome. The organization of the conference is as follows: GENERAL CHAIR: Bernhard Ganter, Dresden University of Technology, Germany PROGRAM CHAIRS: - Rokia Missaoui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais, Canada - J?rg Schmid, Math. Institut, Universit?t Bern, Switzerland. EDITORIAL BOARD - Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia, - Bernhard Ganter, Dresden University of Technology, Germany, - Robert Godin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada - Sergei Kuznetsov, VINITI and RSUH Moscow, Russia, - Uta Priss, Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, - Gregor Snelting, University of Passau, Germany, - Gerd Stumme, University Kassel, Germany, - Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany, - Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordini, Rome, Italy - Richard J. Cole, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia - Paul Compton, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia - Frithjof Dau, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Brian Davey, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia - Vincent Duquenne, Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France - Wolfgang Hesse, Universit?t Marburg, Germany - Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland - L?onard Kwuida, Universit?t Bern, Switzerland - Wilfried Lex, Universit?t Clausthal, Germany - Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, IUT de Lens - Universit? d'Artois, France - Rokia Missaoui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais, Canada - Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont Ferrand, France - Alex Pogel, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA - Sergei Obiedkov, University of Pretoria, South Africa - Sandor Radeleczki, University of Miskolc, Hungary - Stefan Schmidt, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Bernd Schr?der, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, USA - Selma Strahringer, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne , Germany - Petko Valtchev, DIRO, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada - Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA IMPORTANT DATES - Sept. 15, 2005: Submission of abstracts - Sept. 18, 2005: Submission of papers - November 11, 2005 : Notification of acceptance - December 2, 2005 : Camera ready paper due - Feb. 13-17, 2006: Conference. -- Gerd Stumme, Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Kassel 0561/804-6251, Fax: -6259 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de From e.motta at open.ac.uk Mon Sep 12 13:18:39 2005 From: e.motta at open.ac.uk (Enrico Motta) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:18:39 +0100 Subject: [DL] Professorship at Knowledge Media Institute Message-ID: <011601c5b78b$ba77aeb0$69196c89@open.ac.uk> Professor in Knowledge Media: Help us shape the future (Full-time Permanent Post - Vacancy ID: 2071) Closing date for receipt of applications is 31st October, 2005. This is a permanent appointment as Professor in The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), a 60-strong interdisciplinary laboratory founded in 1995, and located in attractive offices at The Open University's main campus in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. KMi undertakes high-profile advanced research and development in Knowledge Media: a convergence of knowledge technologies, ontological engineering, artificial intelligence, new media technologies for learners, human computer interaction, and cognitive science. KMi is one of the top research centres in the world in the area of knowledge and media technologies and we offer a creative and flexible working environment unlike any other in Europe. The style, impact and content of our work are described in detail in our Web pages at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/. This post is intended to consolidate KMi's international research reputation and contribute to the overall profile of The Open University's new Centre for Research in Computing, created as a partnership between KMi and the Department of Computing. Applicants should be leading personalities of high international standing in knowledge media, computer science, cognitive science, or human-computer interaction. It is essential that candidates can demonstrate a track record of leading innovative research projects, publishing widely, and obtaining substantial research income from external funding agencies and industrial sponsors. Ideally, candidates should be prominent authorities in cross-disciplinary research in knowledge media ranging from semantic technologies to new media solutions for learners. Given the 'hands-on' ethos of the Knowledge Media Institute, candidates should also be able to demonstrate evidence of having deployed real technologies, in real contexts, for real users; a hallmark of most KMi activities. We are particularly interested in strengthening our research profile in one of the following areas (but will be open to strategic guidance from strong candidates regarding other related areas): semantic multimedia, smart devices, language technologies, semantic web, presence, social software, and hypermedia. The appointment will be made on the Professorial Grade, starting on a scale at a minimum of ?44,947 p.a. This is a full-time permanent post For further details of the vacancy, information on how to apply and access details for disabled applicants please see the 'further particulars' at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy-2071.cfm Informal enquiries may be made to the Director of KMi, Professor Enrico Motta The closing date for receipt of applications is 31st October, 2005. Further details on The Open University's employment conditions can be found at: http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/benefits.asp You can download a word version of the application form from http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/appform.doc. Alternatively, requests for hard-copy documents/forms, further particulars, and application submissions can be directed to the KMi Recruitment Coordinator [ kmi at open.ac.uk ] at the Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK, Tel. +44 (0)1908 654774, Fax +44 (0)1908 653169. We promote diversity in employment and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Disabled applicants whose skills and experience meet the requirements of the job will be interviewed. Please let us know if you need your copy of the further particulars in large print, on computer disk, or on audio cassette tape. Hearing impaired persons may make enquiries on Milton Keynes +44 (0) 1908 654901 (Minicom answerphone). Equal Opportunity is University Policy. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From V.A.M.Tamma at csc.liv.ac.uk Tue Sep 13 19:14:34 2005 From: V.A.M.Tamma at csc.liv.ac.uk (Valentina Tamma) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:14:34 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 06) References: <38ECB470-F0AC-4853-BCFD-FB39E734F95E@csc.liv.ac.uk> Message-ID: <26D02570-C2DD-4C2E-AF85-0C1F92E5CFC1@csc.liv.ac.uk> APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS Call for Papers 3rd European Semantic Web Conference 11 - 14 June 2006 Budva (Montenegro) http://www.eswc2006.org/ The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's web via the exploitation of machine-processable meta data. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, accompanied with domain theories (Ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together an incredibly large network of human knowledge and will complement it with machine processability. Various automated services will help the user to achieve goals by accessing and providing information in machine-understandable form. This process may ultimately create truly knowledgeable systems with various specialized reasoning services systems. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Human Language Technology, Machine Learning, Databases, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision. The 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006) will present the latest results in research and application in semantic web technologies (including knowledge mark-up languages, semantic web services, ontology management and more). ESWC 2006 will also feature a special industry-oriented event providing European industry with an opportunity to become even more familiar with these technologies. It will offer a tutorial program to get up to speed with European and global developments in this exciting new area. ESWC 2006 is co-located with general assembly of the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence. Workshops and meetings of other European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects involved in the semantic web and semantic web technologies will be able to showcase their developments. In particular we will welcome the new projects accepted at the EU IST 4th Call. ESWC 2006 is sponsored by SDK - a group of three European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects known as SEKT, DIP and Knowledge Web. Together these projects aim to improve world-wide research and standardisation in the area of the Semantic Web. For more information on SDK, please visit www.sdk-cluster.org. SUBMISSIONS ESWC 2006 welcomes the submission of excellent original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of the semantic web, particularly those relating to the subject areas indicated by the topics below. We particularly encourage the submission of papers relating to industrial efforts and experiences with semantic web projects. We also encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical and applications papers. The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing for ESWC 2006 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: http://www.eswc2006.org/. Papers, due to November 28th, 2005, should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in Springer LNCS format. IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission: November 28, 2005 Camera-Ready Papers due: March 31, 2006 Conference: June 11 - 14, 2006 CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST AND AREA KEYWORDS Topics of interest to the conference include (but are not restricted to): * Ontology Management (e.g. creation, evolution, evaluation) * Ontology Alignment (e.g. mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) * Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (including e.g. HLT and machine learning approaches) * Semantic Annotation of Data * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic Web Rules and Query Languages * Reasoning in the Semantic Web (e.g. scalability, fuzziness, distribution) * Semantic Grid * Semantic Web Services (e.g. description, discovery, invocation, composition) * Semantic Middleware * Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management * Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Learning, e-Health, e-Government * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web * Data Semantics and Web Semantics * Semantic Knowledge Portals * Semantic Desktop * Semantic Interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Web Inference Schemes * Semantic Searching, Querying, Navigation and Browsing * Visualization and Modelling PROGRAM CHAIR York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, DE), sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From psi06 at iis.nsk.su Mon Sep 19 09:32:07 2005 From: psi06 at iis.nsk.su (PSI06 Conference) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:32:07 +0700 Subject: [DL] PSI 2006: First CFP Message-ID: <432ECBE7.32028.B2C486@localhost> ************************************************** ************************************************** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference PERSPECTIVES OF SYSTEM INFORMATICS 27--30 June 2006, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Russia http://www.iis.nsk.su/PSI06 [AIMS AND SCOPE] The conference is held to honor the 75th anniversary of academician Andrei Ershov (1931?1988) and his outstanding contri- butions towards advancing informatics. The first five conferences were held in 1991, 1996, 1999, 2001 and 2003, respectively, and proved to be significant international events. Andrei Ershov was one of the early Russian pioneers in the field of the theory of programming and systems programming, a founder of the Siberian Computer Science School. In 1974 he was nominated as a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. In 1981 he received the Silver Core Award for services rendered to IFIP. Andrei Ershov's brilliant speeches were always in the focus of public attention. Especially notable was his lecture on ?Aesthetic and human factor in programming? presented at the AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference in 1972. Andrei Ershov was not only an extremely gifted scientist, teacher and fighter for his ideas, but also a bright and many-sided personality. He wrote poetry, translated the works of R. Kipling and other English poets, and enjoyed playing guitar and singing. Everyone who had the pleasure of knowing Andrei Ershov and working with him will always remember his great vision, eminent achievements, and generous friendship. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the presentation and in-depth discussion of advanced research directions in computer science. For a developing science, it is important to work out consolidating ideas, concepts and models. Movement in this direction is another aim of the conference. Improvement of the contacts and exchange of ideas between researchers from the East and West are further goals. [CONFERENCE CHAIR] Alexander Marchuk A. P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems Novosibirsk, Russia [STEERING COMMITTEE] Dines Bjorner Institute of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling Denmark Manfred Broy Institut fur Informatik Technische Universitat Munchen Germany Alexandre Zamulin A. P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems Novosibirsk, Russia [PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS] Irina Virbitskaite A. P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems Novosibirsk, Russia Andrey Voronkov Microsoft Research Redmond, USA [CONFERENCE SECRETARY] Natalia Cheremnykh A. P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems 6, Acad. Lavrentjev pr. 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia tel.: +7-383-3307352 fax: +7-383-3323494 e-mail: psi06 at iis.nsk.su [CONFERENCE TOPICS] Conference topics include: 1. Foundations of Program and System Development and Analysis - specification, validation, and verification techniques, - program analysis, transformation and synthesis, - semantics, logic and formal models of programs, - partial evaluation, mixed computation, abstract interpretation, compiler construction, - theorem proving and model checking, - concurrency theory, - modeling and analysis of real-time and hybrid systems, - computer models and algorithms for bioinformatics. 2. Programming Methodology and Software Engineering - object-oriented, aspect-oriented, component-based and generic programming, - programming by contract, - program and system construction for parallel and distributed computing, - constraint programming, - multi-agent technology, - system re-engineering and reuse, - integrated programming environments, - software architectures, - software development and testing, - model-driven system/software development, - agile software development, - tools for software engineering, - program understanding and visualization. 3. Information Technologies - data models, - database and information systems, - knowledge-based systems and knowledge engineering, - ontologies and semantic Web, - digital libraries, collections and archives, Web publishing, - peer-to-peer data management. In addition to papers in the above list of topics, papers both bridging the gap between different directions and promoting mutual understanding of researchers are welcome. Papers defining the general prospects in Computer Science are also encouraged. [PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS] Scott W. Ambler, Ambysoft Inc., Toronto, Canada Egidio Astesiano, Univ. Genova, Italy Janis Barzdins, Univ. Latvia, Riga, Latvia Frederic Benhamou, Univ. Nantes, France Stefan Brass, Univ. Halle, Germany Ed Brinksma, Univ. Twente, The Netherlands Kim Bruce, Pomona College, California, USA Mikhail Bulyonkov, IIS SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia Albertas Caplinskas, IMI, Vilnius, Lithuania Sung-Deok Cha, KAIST, Taejon, South Korea Gabriel Ciobanu, Inst. Comp. Sc. RA, Iasi, Romania Paul C. Clements, Carnegie-Mellon Univ., USA Miklos Csuroes, Univ. Montreal, Canada Serge Demeyer, Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium Alexander Dikovsky, Univ. Nantes, France Javier Esparza, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany Jean Claude Fernandez, Univ. J. Fourier, Grenoble, France Chris George, UNU/ IIST, Macau Ivan Golosov, Intel, Novosibirsk, Russia Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands Alan Hartman, IBM Haifa Research Lab., Israel Victor Ivannikov, IPS RAS, Moscow, Russia Victor Kasyanov, IIS SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany Alexander Kleschev, IACP RAS, Vladivostok, Russia Nikolay Kolchanov, ICiG, Novosibirsk,, Russia Gregory Kucherov, INRIA/LORIA, Nancy, France Johan Lilius, Abo Akademi Iniv. Turku, Finland Dominique Mery, Univ. Henri Poincare, Nancy, France Torben Mogensen, Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark Bernhard Moeller, Univ. Augsburg, Germany Hanspeter Moessenboeck, JK Univ. Linz, Austria Peter Mosses, Univ. Wales, Swansea, UK Ron Morrison, St Andrews Univ., UK Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Fedor Murzin, IIS SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia Valery Nepomniaschy, IIS SB RAS, Russia Nikolaj Nikitchenko, Nat. Univ. Kiev, Ukraine Jose R. Parama, Univ. A Coruna, Spain Francesco Parisi-Presicce, GM Univ., Virginia, USA Wojciech Penczek, Inst. Comp. Sci., Warsaw, Poland Jaan Penjam, Tallinn Tech. Univ., Estonia Peter Pepper, Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany Alexander Petrenko, IPS RAS, Moscow, Russia Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles U., Prague, Czech Republic Wolfgang Reisig, Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany Viktor Sabelfeld, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany Timos Sellis, Nation. Tech. Univ. Athens, Greece Alexander Semenov, Intel, Novosibirsk, Russia Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Massey Univ, PN, New Zealand David Schmidt, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, USA Sibylle Schupp, Chalmers Univ. Tech., Sweden Nikolay Shilov, IIS SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia Alexander Tomilin, IPS RAS, Moscow, Russia Enn Tyugu, Inst. Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia Alexander L. Wolf, Univ. Colorado at Boulder, USA Tatyana Yakhno, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Izmir, Turkey Wang Yi, Uppsala Univ., Sweden [INVITED SPEAKERS (preliminary list)] 1. Amir Pnueli (Weizmann Inst. Science, Rehovot, Israel) 2. Eike Best (Univ. Oldenburg, Germany) 3. Peter Buneman (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK) 4. Robert Harper (Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, USA) 5. Alexander Letichevsky (Inst. Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine) 6. Sriram Rajamani (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) [LOCATION] The conference will be held in Akademgorodok (Academy town), 30 km South from Novosibirsk, the largest city of Siberia. Akademgorodok is located in a picturesque place near the Ob lake. It is surrounded with birch and pine forests and pleasant not only for work but for recreation as well. Silence, beautiful landscape, and pure air are the factors promoting scientific activity and creativity. [SUBMISSIONS] Submissions for extended abstracts must: - Contain original contributions that have not been published or submitted to other conferences/journals in parallel with this conference. - Clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. - Be in PS or PDF and formatted according to Springer LNCS Information for Authors: http://www.springeronline.com - Have a length that does not exceed 10 pages for a regular talk and 5 pages for a short talk. - Be in English and in a form that can be immediately included in the proceedings without major revision. - Be sent electronically (as a PostScript or PDF file) using website http://www.easychair.org/PSI2006/submit/ not later than January 23, 2006 [CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS] A book of extended abstracts of invited and accepted talks will be available at the conference. The full versions of the papers presented at the conference (roughly, 14 pages long for a regular talk and 7 pages long for a short talk) will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series after the conference. One can find the proceedings of the previous four conferences in LNCS, Vol. 1181, 1755, 2244 and 2890, respectively. A report on the previous conference can be found in EATCS Bulletin, No 81 (2003) 267-271, and also at the conference site: www.iis.nsk.su/PSI03/ [TRAVELLING] You can fly to Novosibirsk via Moscow by Aeroflot, Transaero or S7. Direct S7 flights will bring you from Frankfurt, Hannover, Tel-Aviv or Beijing to Novosibirsk and back. All participants will be met at the Novosibirsk airport and brought to Akademgorodok by a special transport. [WEATHER] The weather in Novosibirsk at the end of June is normally quite warm and sunny with the temperatures in the range of 25-30 C. Night swimming in the Ob lake is guaranteed. N.B. Three satellite workshops will be held in conjunction with PSI?06. They will be announced separately. [IMPORTANT DATES] January 23, 2006: submission deadline of extended abstracts April 7, 2006: notification of acceptance June27-30, 2006: the conference dates September 1, 2006: final papers due From borgun at ics.mq.edu.au Fri Sep 23 15:45:19 2005 From: borgun at ics.mq.edu.au (bhavna) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:45:19 -0400 Subject: [DL] Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2005): Call for Registration Message-ID: ======================================================================== Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2005): Call for Registration ======================================================================== AOW05 will take place in Sydney Australia on December 6th 2005, in conjunction with the 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The purpose of this one-day workshop is to bring together ontology researchers from both industry and academia in the Australasian region for interaction, discussion, sharing of results and initiation of new projects. This is the first Workshop in what will become an annual series, with the aim of providing a visible focal point for Ontology research within the Australasian region, and connection with the international Ontology community. Leading international researcher Professor Franz Baader of TU Dresden, editor of the "The Description Logic Handbook", is the keynote speaker for this inaugural workshop. Proceedings will be made available on the day, and selected papers will be published in a special issue of the CRPIT journal. The AOW 2005 Program Committee warmly encourages attendees from both industry and academic institutions who are interested in Ontology research to join us for this exciting inaugural event. Registration is now open at the main conference web site at http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/ai05/registration.htm For further details please visit the workshop web site at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~aow05/ We hope to see you in Sydney. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From V.A.M.Tamma at csc.liv.ac.uk Fri Sep 23 17:36:06 2005 From: V.A.M.Tamma at csc.liv.ac.uk (Valentina Tamma) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:36:06 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Tutorials: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006) Message-ID: <8F54E68E-CAA5-4C03-B50B-7469E31C6B7F@csc.liv.ac.uk> ***Apologies for multiple postings*** C a l l f o r T u t o r i a l s 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006) 11 ? 14 June 2006 Budva (Montenegro) http://www.eswc2006.org/ DESCRIPTION The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today?s web via the exploitation of machine-processable meta data. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, accompanied by domain theories (ontologies), will create a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service - weaving together an incredibly large network of human knowledge complemented by machine inference. A variety of automated services will help users to achieve goals by accessing and pro- viding information in a machine-understandable form. This process will ulti- mately lead to knowledgeable systems based composed of specialized reasoning services and systems. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Human Language Technology, Machine Learning, Databases, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering and Information Systems which are able to contribute towards this vision. The 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006) will showcase the latest results in the research and application in semantic web technologies - including knowledge mark-up languages, semantic web services, ontology management. The ESWC 2006 will also feature a special industry-oriented event providing European industry with an opportunity to engage with the semantic web community in a meaningful manner. For further information see the ESWC 2006 homepage at http://www.eswc2006.org/. In addition to the regular research and workshop programme, ESWC 2006 invites tutorials on relevant topics of interest. A tutorial should present the state of the art of a semantic web area enabling attendees to fully appreciate the current issues, main schools of thought and possible application areas. Proposals for tutorials are welcome for the ESWC 2006 topics of interest (see bottom); tutorial proposals are requested to follow the submission process defined below. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ESWC 2006 tutorials may be either for a full day or for a half day. Unless there is a clear rationale we will give preference to half day tutorials over full day tutorials. Tutorials proposed for the ESWC 2006 should cover one topic in appropriate depth (see ESWC 2006 topics below), and present this in a appropriate manner which enables attendees to fully comprehend and apply emerging Semantic Web techno- logies. Although tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects, we strongly encourage hands-on sessions where appropriate. Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages in DIN A4 format and should contain the following information: - abstract (200 words maximum; to be published on ESWC 2006 website) - tutorial description (aims, content, presentation style, technical requirements) - relevance of the tutorial to ESWC 2006 - outline of the tutorial content and schedule - information on presenters (name, affiliation, expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation) Tutorial proposals are to be submitted to Michael Stollberg, email: michael.stollberg at deri.org. Submitted proposals that follow the above guidelines will be reviewed by the ESWC 2006 organizing committee with respect to the relevance of the topic, the content, and the presentation style. Important Dates: - submission deadline for tutorial proposals: 28 November 2005 - notification of acceptance: 19 December 2005 - tutorial hand-outs due: 31 March 2006 - tutorial presentation date: 11 / 12 June 2006 For accepted tutorials, the presenters will need to submit the material for hand-outs (the slide sets and / or additional information; software installation and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions) to the organization committee for pre- printing and placement on the ESWC 2006 website. Accepted tutorials will receive 1 free registration to the ESWC 2006 (full registration incl. tutorial, workshop, conference, reception and conference dinner). TOPIC LIST The topics of interest for tutorials include, but are not limited to the following: - Ontology Management (e.g. creation, evolution, evaluation) - Ontology Alignment (e.g. mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) - Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (including e.g. HLT and machine learning approaches) - Semantic Annotation of Data - Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights - Semantic Web Rules and Query Languages - Reasoning in the Semantic Web (e.g. scalability, fuzziness, distribution) - Semantic Grid - Semantic Web Services (e.g. description, discovery, invocation, composition) - Semantic Middleware - Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management - Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Learning, e-Health, e-Government - Database Technologies for the Semantic Web - Data Semantics and Web Semantics - Semantic Knowledge Portals - Semantic Desktop - Semantic Interoperability - Semantic Web Mining - Semantic Web Inference Schemes - Semantic Searching, Querying, Navigation and Browsing - Visualization and Modelling TUTORIAL CHAIR Michael Stollberg (DERI Austria), michael.stollberg at deri.org Valentina Tamma Agent ART Group Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool tel +44-151-794 6797 fax +44-151-794 3715 www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~valli From ezolin at cs.man.ac.uk Tue Sep 27 01:06:51 2005 From: ezolin at cs.man.ac.uk (Evgeny Zolin) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:06:51 +0100 Subject: [DL] DL complexity navigator Message-ID: <000701c5c2ef$0cdadf10$34c15882@rpc179> Dear all, Here is presented a tool that is useful to those dealing with Description Logics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Many results on complexity of reasoning in various Description Logics (DL) have been obtained, mostly during the last decade. However, all these facts are spread among numerous papers, proceedings, reports, or even among chapters of the DL Handbook. The web page [1] cited below allows you to navigate through a variety of DLs and find out the results known about the complexity of reasoning (and some other properties) of the selected DLs. The results are given with references to papers where they were established. This resource is under permanent development, hence it is incomplete (and perhaps cannot be complete). Comments and suggestions are welcome to the e-mail address below. [1] http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ezolin/logic/complexity.html Best regards, Evgeny Zolin School of Computer Science The University of Manchester ezolin at cs.man.ac.uk From schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk Wed Sep 28 13:15:51 2005 From: schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk (Renate Schmidt) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:15:51 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP: Relations and Kleene Algebra in Computer Science 2006 Message-ID: <20050928111551.11BA537730@rspc.cs.man.ac.uk> [Apologies for multiple copies.] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % % First Call for Papers % % % % RELATIONS AND KLEENE ALGEBRA IN COMPUTER SCIENCE % % % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Joint 9th International Conference on RELATIONAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE and 4th International Workshop on APPLICATIONS OF KLEENE ALGEBRA (RelMiCS/AKA 2006) 29 August - 2 September 2006 Manchester, UK www.cs.man.ac.uk/relmics06/ GENERAL INFORMATION: The RelMiCS Conference is the main forum for the relational calculus as a conceptual and methodological tool. The AKA Workshop is a forum on topics related to Kleene algebras. As in previous years, the two events are co-organised; they have a joint programme committee and joint proceedings. RelMiCS/AKA 2006 will be held from 29 August to 2 September 2006 in Manchester. Visit the conference website www.cs.man.ac.uk/relmics06/ for more information. TOPICS: We invite submissions on the general topics of relations and Kleene algebra in computer science. Special focus will be on formal methods for software engineering, logics of programs and links with neighbouring disciplines. Particular topics of the conference cover, but are not limited to the theory of * relation algebras and Kleene algebras * related formalisms such as process algebras, fixed point calculi, idempotent semirings, quantales, allegories, dynamic algebras, cylindric algebras and their applications in areas such as * verification, analysis and development of programs and algorithms * algebraic approaches to logics of programs, modal and dynamic logics, interval and temporal logics * relational formal methods such as B or Z, tabular methods * algebraic semantics of programming languages * graph theory and combinatorial optimisation * games, automata and language theory * mechanised and automated reasoning, decision procedures * spatio-temporal reasoning, knowledge acquisition, preference and scaling methods * information systems IMPORTANT DATES: A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper. All submissions will be electronic. Abstract Submission: 27 February 2006 Paper Submission: 6 March 2006 Author Notification: 2 May 2006 Camera-ready papers: 2 June 2006 RelMiCS/AKA 2006: 29 August - 2 September 2006 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submissions must be in English, in postscript or pdf format and provide sufficient information to judge their merits. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. They may not exceed 15 pages in Springer LNCS style. Additional material may be provided by a clearly marked appendix or a reference to a manuscript on a website. This may be considered at the discretion of the PC. Deviation from these requirements may cause immediate rejection. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. Detailed instructions for electronic submission will appear on the conference web site in December/January. PUBLICATION DETAILS: The proceedings of the conference will most probably be published in the Springer LNCS series. The proceedings will be available at the conference. STUDENT PROGRAMME: A PhD training programme will be co-organised with the conference. Details will be published in a special call and on the conference website. COMMITTEES: General Chair: Renate Schmidt, Manchester, UK, schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk Programme Chair: Georg Struth, Sheffield, UK, g.struth at dcs.shef.ac.uk Programme Committee: Roland Backhouse, Nottingham, UK Brandon Bennett, Leeds, UK Rudolf Berghammer, Kiel, Germany Stephane Demri, Cachan, France Jules Desharnais, Laval, Canada Zoltan Esik, Szeged, Hungary & Tarragona, Spain Marcello Frias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Hitoshi Furusawa, AIST, Japan Stephane Gaubert, INRIA, France Steven Givant, Mills College, USA Valentin Goranko, Witwatersrand, South Africa Martin Henson, Essex, UK Ali Jaoua, Quatar Peter Jipsen, Chapman University, USA Wolfram Kahl, McMaster, Canada Yasuo Kawahara, Kyushu, Japan Zhiming Liu, UNU-IIST Macao, China Bernhard Moeller, Augsburg, Germany Damian Niwinski, Warsaw, Poland Ewa Orlowska, Warsaw, Poland Alban Ponse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ingrid Rewitzky, Stellenbosch, South Africa Ildiko Sain, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Holger Schlingloff, Berlin, Germany Gunther Schmidt, Muenchen, Germany Renate Schmidt, Manchester, UK Giuseppe Scollo, Verona, Italy Harrie de Swart, Tilburg, The Netherlands Michael Winter, St.Catharines, Canada Local Organisation: Renate Schmidt, Manchester, UK, schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk Zhen Liz, Manchester, UK David Robinson, Manchester, UK Iain Hart & ACSO, Manchester, UK From stenzg at in.tum.de Thu Sep 29 15:52:36 2005 From: stenzg at in.tum.de (Gernot Stenz) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:52:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] [Tableaux2005] Special Issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning Message-ID: Dear all, as already announced during the conference, there will be a special issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. Authors of papers presented at the TABLEAUX conference are welcome to submit extended and revised versions of their papers. However, contributions are not limited to those based on papers presented at TABLEAUX; other submission are welcome as well. The is a great opportunity to further promote tableau-based reasoning. So please consider submitting a paper to this special issue. Best regards Bernhard Beckert Call for papers Special issue of the JOURNAL OF AUTOMATED REASONING on AUTOMATED REASONING WITH ANALYTIC TABLEAUX AND RELATED METHODS IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: January 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2006 Publication: By the end of 2006 GENERAL INFORMATION 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. This special issue has its origins in the International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, which was held in Koblenz (Germany) in September 2005. It will be published by Springer within the Journal of Automated Reasoning. TOPICS This special issue focuses on automated reasoning with analytic tableaux. Topics of interest include the following: * 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, ...) * implementation techniques * applications SUBMISSIONS This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. Authors of papers presented at the TABLEAUX conference are welcome to submit extended and revised versions of their papers. However, contributions are not limited to those based on papers presented at TABLEAUX; other submission are welcome as well. All submissions should be written in terms understandable by general readers of the journal. And all submissions will be refereed to usual journal standards. Submissions should be formatted according to JAR's author guidelines (see the link on the special issue's web page below), and preferably be written in LaTeX. A LaTeX style file can be obtained here: http://www.springeronline.com/authors/jrnlstylefiles Submissions should be sent to (as a Postscript or PDF file): beckert at uni-koblenz.de EDITORS Bernhard Beckert (University of Koblenz, Germany) Lawrence Paulson (University of Cambridge, UK) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information visit the web page: http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de/JAR Or send an email to one of us: beckert at uni-koblenz.de or Larry.Paulson at cl.cam.ac.uk -- __o Gernot Stenz e-mail:stenzg at informatik.tu-muenchen.de /\ -\<, WWW: http://www4.in.tum.de/~stenzg /\/--\ _(_)/(_)_Fromentine - Paris: 3584 km______________________________/ \ _______________________________________________ Tableaux2005 mailing list Tableaux2005 at mailbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de https://mailbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tableaux2005 From V.A.M.Tamma at csc.liv.ac.uk Fri Sep 30 17:00:45 2005 From: V.A.M.Tamma at csc.liv.ac.uk (Valentina Tamma) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:00:45 +0100 Subject: [DL] 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006): Call for workshops Message-ID: <15CEC4E3-3DF3-4AA5-A7FB-3F4F8A64F9A1@csc.liv.ac.uk> Call for Workshop Proposals 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006) 11 - 14 June 2006 Budva (Montenegro) http://www.eswc2006.org/ ESWC 2006 invites the submission of workshop proposals on specific aspects of the Semantic Web, particularly relating to the subject areas indicated by the topics below. We encourage workshops which will discuss fundamental research issues driven by academic interests or more applied industrial or commercial concerns. The format of the workshop will be determined by the organizers. Workshops can vary in length from a half day to a full day. Having more than one co-organizer for a workshop is strongly advised. Accepted workshops will receive one free registration to the ESWC 2006 (full registration incl. tutorial, workshop, conference, reception and conference dinner). Workshop attendees must pay the ESWC 2006 workshop registration fee. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals due: November 28, 2005 Notification of proposal acceptance: December 19, 2006 URL for workshop website due: February 1, 2006 Workshop: June 11 - 12, 2006 PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS Proposals for workshops should be no more than 3 pages in length. They should contain the following information: 1. Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that will be its focus. 2. A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. 3. A list of related workshops or similar events held in the last 3 years, or to be held in 2006. 4. The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organizing committee. This committee should consist of two or three people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed, preferably not members of the same institution. 5. A description of the qualifications of the proposed organizing committee with respect to organizing this workshop (e.g., papers published in the proposed topic area, previous workshop organization, other relevant information). Each workshop organizing committee will be responsible for the following: * Producing a web page and a "Call for Papers/Participation" for their workshop. The URL should be sent to the workshop chair. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the Semantic Web community. It should also mention that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and that all workshop participants must pay the ESWC 2006 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference fee. Finally, it should also clearly describe the process by which the Organizing Committee will select the participants. * Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference web page and program. * Selecting the participants and the format of the workshop. * Advertising the workshop beyond the conference web page. * Producing a camera-ready version of the workshop proceedings. The ESWC 2006 Organizing Committee will be responsible for the following: * Providing a link to a workshop's local page. * Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop. * In conjunction with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. * Providing copies of the workshop proceedings to attendees. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Workshop proposals and any inquiries should be sent by e-mail to l.s.cabral at open.ac.uk. Proposals may be submitted in PDF, text or Microsoft Word format. Submitted proposals that follow the above requirements will be reviewed by the ESWC 2006 organizing committee with respect to the relevance of the topic and content. CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST AND AREA KEYWORDS Topics of interest to the conference include (but are not restricted to): * Ontology Management (e.g. creation, evolution, evaluation) * Ontology Alignment (e.g. mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) * Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (including e.g. HLT and machine learning approaches) * Semantic Annotation of Data * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic Web Rules and Query Languages * Reasoning in the Semantic Web (e.g. scalability, fuzziness, distribution) * Semantic Grid * Semantic Web Services (e.g. description, discovery, invocation, composition) * Semantic Middleware * Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management * Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Learning, e-Health, e-Government * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web * Data Semantics and Web Semantics * Semantic Knowledge Portals * Semantic Desktop * Semantic Interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Web Inference Schemes * Semantic Searching, Querying, Navigation and Browsing * Visualization and Modelling WORKSHOP CHAIR The ESWC 20006 Workshop chair is Liliana Cabral (KMi, The Open University, UK), l.s.cabral at open.ac.uk From suzette at mitre.org Wed Oct 5 01:52:07 2005 From: suzette at mitre.org (Stoutenburg, Suzette) Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:52:07 -0400 Subject: [DL] Call For Participation: International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web and OWL Workshop Message-ID: <8013B46C84D42A4C83EB3DBB9FD71B76512E62@IMCSRV1.MITRE.ORG> RuleML-2005 International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web and OWL Workshop Galway, Ireland 10-12 November 2005 Call for Participation Register Here: https://eurwebsite.com/mlrules/register.asp Preliminary Program Available Summary Rules are widely recognized to be a major part of the frontier of the Semantic Web, and critical to the early adoption and applications of knowledge-based techniques in e-business, especially enterprise integration and B2B e-commerce. This includes knowledge representation (KR) theory and algorithms; markup languages based on such KR; engines, translators, and other tools; relationships to standardization efforts; and, not least, applications. Interest and activity in the area of Rules for the Semantic Web has grown rapidly over the last five years. The RuleML-2005 Conference is aimed to be this year?s premiere scientific conference on the topic. It continues in topic, leadership, and collaboration with the previous series of three highly successful annual international workshops (last year?s was RuleML-2004). RuleML-2005 is collocated with the International Semantic Web Conference (http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/ ) which meets in Galway 6-10 November 2005. The theme for RuleML 2005 is rule languages for reactive and proactive rules, complex event processing, and event-driven rules, for applications on the Semantic Web. The conference will also include an OWL Workshop, hosted by Peter Patel-Schneider. Our keynote speaker is Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who will speak on the topic of ?Web of Rules?. The talk will discuss whether knowledge can be represented in a web-like way using rules, so as to derive serendipitous benefit from the unplanned reuse of such knowledge. Dr. Opher Etzion from IBM is also an invited speaker, who will discuss an architecture for event driven applications. Dr. Susie Stephens from Oracle will give a talk on the use of Semantic Web technologies and rules in life sciences. Conference Goal The goal of RuleML 2005 is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and providers to exchange information about requirements, applications, technology solutions, and the latest research on rule languages and standards, with the ultimate goal of advancing a standard framework for Semantic Web rules. Background Rules complement and extend ontologies on the Semantic Web. Rules can be used in combination with ontologies, or as a means to specify ontologies. In particular, simple rules and axioms can be applied via ontology languages, either in conjunction with or as an alternative to description logics. Rules can also be applied over ontologies, so as to draw inferences, express constraints, specify policies, react to events/changes, discover new knowledge, transform data, etc. Rule markup languages enrich web ontologies so as to extend definitions of derived concepts, and supporting publishing rules on the Web, exchange rules between different systems and tools, share guidelines and policies, merge and maintain rule bases, and more. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include the following. * Rule-based policies: their specification, execution, and management * Combining rules with ontologies * Reaction rules for the Semantic Web * Complex event processing * Rules for event correlation * Event-driven/action rule languages and models * Semantic Rule Management * Resolving conflicts in triggered action sets * Extraction of rules from unstructured data sources * Languages, including standards (RuleML, SWRL, Jess, N3, F-logic/FLORA-2, etc.) * Execution models, rule engines, and environments * Implemented tools and systems for active rules on the Semantic Web * Combining active rules and ontologies * Integrating active rules and description logics * Applying active rules for Semantic Web Services * Modeling of business rules and event-driven/active rules * Rule-based software agents and the Semantic Web * E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative strategies * Connecting event-driven and reactive rules to legacy knowledge bases * Integrating rule bases and distributed fact bases * Rule base validation, verification and exception handling on the Semantic Web * XSL transformations of event-driven and reactive rules Venue A limited number of rooms have been held for delegates in The Radisson SAS, Galway at a special online rate of ?135 for a single and ?160 for a double or twin. The above rates quoted include breakfast. Reservation requests are subject to availability and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If you wish us to reserve your accommodation, please indicate your requirements at the RuleML 2005 Registration Page . Important Dates * 11 July 2005 -- Deadline for paper submissions. * 10 August 2005-- Notification of acceptance. * 2 September 2005 -- Final version of paper (camera-ready) due. * 14 October 2005 -- Early registration deadline. * 10-12 November 2005 ? RuleML 2005 Conference Program Co-Chairs * Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel * Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE Corporation, USA * Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA Conference General Co-Chairs * Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Steering Committee * Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel * Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, FORTH, Greece * Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA * Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Ireland * Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook * Steve Ross-Talbot, Pi4 Technologies, USA * Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE Corporation, USA * Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA * Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Program Committee * Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, FORTH, Greece * Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA * Andreas Eberhart, International University, Germany * Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Ireland * Ilia Goldfarb * Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland, Australia * Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook * Sandy Liu, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Jan Maluszynski, Link?ping University, Sweden * Massimo Marchiori, W3C, MIT, USA and University of Venice, Italy * Donald Nute, University of Georgia, USA * Royi Ronen, Technion, Israel * Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany * Bruce Spencer, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada * Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA * Dmitry Tsarkov, University of Manchester, UK * Carlos Viegas Damasio * Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany * Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From V.A.M.Tamma at csc.liv.ac.uk Fri Oct 7 10:20:50 2005 From: V.A.M.Tamma at csc.liv.ac.uk (Valentina Tamma) Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:20:50 +0100 Subject: [DL] Research Position in Semantic Web Technologies, University of Liverpool UK Message-ID: <13D09BAA-C0CC-4793-8D7C-85F2249BDA79@csc.liv.ac.uk> Apologies for cross postings One Postoctoral Researcher Position, to work on an ongoing EU-funded project, PIPS, aimed at creating a virtual environment to provide access to relevant up-to-date medical guidelines. You should have (or be about to obtain) a PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or related disciplines, preferably with a strong emphasis on Ontologies, Knowledge Engineering or Semantic Web. You will join the internationally recognised Agent ART research group in the 5-rated Department. The post is available until December 2007. Salary will be in the range ?25,633 - ?27,194 pa (under review), depending on qualifications and experience. The closing date for applications is 21 October 2005. More details and guidelines for applications are at: http://uniwww.connect.org.uk/jobs/jb306749.html Informal enquiries to: Dr Floriana Grasso Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool tel +44-151-794 3680 fax +44-151-794 3715 www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana Dr Valentina Tamma Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool tel +44-151-794 6797 fax +44-151-794 3715 www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~valli From bernardo at mindswap.org Wed Oct 12 02:46:01 2005 From: bernardo at mindswap.org (Bernardo Cuenca Grau) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:46:01 -0400 Subject: [DL] CfParticipation: OWL: Experiences and Direction In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings *************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: OWL EXPERIENCES AND DIRECTIONS WORKSHOP *************************************************************** Early Registration Date: 15th October 11, 2005 Online Registration: http://www.mindswap.org/2005/OWLWorkshop/participation.shtml Workshop Dates: 11th and 12th November 2005 Workshop website: http://www.mindswap.org/2005/OWLWorkshop Accepted Papers: http://www.mindswap.org/2005/OWLWorkshop/accepted.shtml Programme: http://www.mindswap.org/2005/OWLWorkshop/programme.shtml Summary: The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has now been a W3C recommendation for more than one year. OWL is playing an important role in an increasing number and range of applications, and is the focus of research into tools, reasoning techniques, formal foundations, language extensions etc. This level of experience with OWL means that the community is now in a good position to discuss how OWL be applied, adapted and extended to fulfill current and future application demands. The aim of the workshop is to establish a forum for practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers and others interested in OWL to describe real and potential applications, to share experience and to discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. The workshop will bring users, implementors and researchers together to measure the state of need against the state of the art, and to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Applications of and experience with OWL - Application-driven requirements for OWL - Extensions to OWL, including - non-monotonic extensions - rules extensions - extensions for representing temporal and spatial information - extended property constructors - keys - extended class constructors - extended datatype constructors - probabilistic and fuzzy Extensions - Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages - Reasoning-related tasks for OWL, including explanation - Security and Trust for OWL-based information - Tools for OWL, including - editors - visualisation tools - parsers and syntax checkers - versioning frameworks - OWL based Semantic Web Service frameworks Organizing Committee: Bernardo Cuenca Grau Ian Horrocks Bijan Parsia Peter Patel-Schneider Program Committee: Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA) Phil Archer, ICRA (UK) Michael Champion, Microsoft (USA) Dan Connolly, W3C (USA) Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (USA) Enrico Franconi, University of Bolzano (Italy) Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland (USA) Christine Golbreich, University Rennes 2 (France) Pat Hayes, University of West Florida (USA) Kaoru Hiramatsu, NTT (Japan) Joanne Luciano, BioPAX (USA) Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden (Germany) Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto (Canada) Boris Motik, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) Enrico Motta, Open University (UK) Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Laboratories of America (USA) Gary Ng, Cerebra (USA) Natasha Noy, Stanford University (USA) Alan L. Rector, University of Manchester (UK) Andrew Schain, NASA (USA) monica schraefel, University of Southampton (UK) Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universitat Amsterdam (Netherlands) Evan Wallace, NIST (USA) Christopher Welty, IBM Research (USA) From ulle at illc.uva.nl Sat Oct 15 19:39:19 2005 From: ulle at illc.uva.nl (Ulle Endriss) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:39:19 +0200 Subject: [DL] PhD student positions at the "ILLC Centre for Logic and Games", Amsterdam, The Netherlands Message-ID: <43513EC7.50108@illc.uva.nl> -=====================- PhD Student Positions LOGIC AND GAMES Amsterdam -=====================- As part of the Marie Curie project GLoRiClass ("Games in Logic Reaching Out for Classical Game Theory"), the newly created ILLC Centre for Logic and Games invites applications for 4 PhD positions in the field of Logic and Games, one for each of the four Main Themes (GaMath, GaCS, GaLing and GaSocI, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/CLG/index.php?page=1). Job profile. We are looking for candidates with a strong background in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, theoretical linguistics or applied logic, and an interest in writing a dissertation on Logic and Games. The candidates are expected to have a strong interdisciplinary interest, connecting at least two of the Main Themes. While the focus of the appointment is on research training, it will include moderate teaching duties in logic-related courses. Successful candidates will have a research-oriented Master's degree (MSc/MA) or equivalent qualifications. Formal Eligibility. Since GLoRiClass is a Marie Curie project funded by the European Commission, the European Union's strict eligibility criteria apply. Please check carefully whether you are eligible before you apply. The following brief description of the eligibility criteria is not complete. For details, please check the Handbook for Marie Curie Host Fellowships at ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/fp6/docs/calls/mariecurie-action/handbook_est_200401_en_pdf.zip, in particular Section 5 "Which individual researchers can be funded by an EST". * Early Stage Component. Applicants need to be "early stage researchers". This means that they may not have a PhD degree and must be within four years of completing their Master's degree (or equivalent). * Mobility Component. GLoRiClass has a transnational mobility requirement for the students to be hired: they may not be Dutch nationals, and they may not have spent more than 12 months out of the last 36 in the Netherlands. The project is mainly aimed at researchers from the European Union and the so-called associated countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Turkey; Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland). It is possible to employ nationals of other countries, but only within the limits given by the European Commission (at most 30% of total students). More information. Further information about the positions can be obtained from Dr B Loewe (bloewe at science.uva.nl). Appointment. The appointment will be for a period of three years (one year plus an extension by two years after a positive evaluation) and should lead to a dissertation. The gross monthly salary will be in accordance with the University regulations for academic personnel, and will range from EUR 1877 (first year) up to a maximum of EUR 2296 (third year) gross per month. In addition, there will be salary supplements according to the rules of the European Commission. Job application. Applications should include a detailed curriculum vitae, a transcript of grades and courses from the applicants MSc degree, two letters of reference (one from the MSc thesis supervisor) and a motivated declaration of research interests (max. 1000 words). The letters of reference should be sent directly by the referees and not be included in the application sent by the applicant. Each application should clearly state for which of the four Main Themes the applicant would like to be considered (it is possible to mention more than one Main Theme). Applications must be sent before 15 November 2005 to: ILLC Centre for Logic and Games Mrs Ingrid van Loon Universiteit van Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24 1018 TV Amsterdam The Netherlands We do not accept e-mail applications. From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Sun Oct 16 13:27:13 2005 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:27:13 +0200 Subject: [DL] First CfP ICCS06 - 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures Message-ID: <43523911.4080103@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application July 16 - 21, Aalborg University, Denmark http://www.iccs-06.hum.aau.dk/ Call for Papers The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) has been held annually in Europe, Australia, or 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, Semantic Web, Ontologies, and related techniques. The theme of ICCS 2006 - Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application - points to a dual focus of interest. We intend to focus on inspirational sources that have led to the current status of research in our community as well as on ways in which these legacies can be employed to further advance theory and practice in the field of knowledge representation and processing. Papers for ICCS 2006 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, semantic web technologies, knowledge use, reuse, and integration, and business product tools descriptions are all of high interest. 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. Submission Details Papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer's LNCS format. We strongly recommend the use of LaTeX2e for the final version. For more details see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs. Position papers (2 pages) are also welcome. For all papers, a one page abstract must be received by Friday January 6, 2006. 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 PDF format must be received on or before Friday January 13, 2005. All papers must be submitted through the conference website. In case you have any problems with the electronic submission, please contact the chairs as early as possible at iccs06 at hum.aau.dk 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 (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs). 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. Conference Chairs General Chair: Peter ?hrstr?m (Aalborg University, Denmark) Program Chairs: Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe ? Germany) Henrik Sch?rfe (Aalborg University, Denmark) For further information, please contact the chairs at iccs06 at hum.aau.dk or Peter ?hrstr?m Department of Communication Kroghstraede 3, 9220 Aalborg East Phone: +45 9635 9048 e-mail: poe at hum.aau.dk Editorial Board: Galia Angelova (Bulgaria) Michel Chein (France) Frithjof Dau (Germany) Aldo de Moor (Belgium) Harry Delugach (USA) Peter Eklund (Australia) Bernhard Ganter (Germany) Mary Keeler (USA) Sergei Kuznetsov (Russia) Wilfried Lex (Germany) Guy Mineau (Canada) Bernard Moulin (Canada) Marie-Laure Mugnier (France) Peter ?hrstr?m (Denmark) Heather Pfeiffer (USA) Uta Priss (UK) John Sowa (USA) Gerd Stumme (Germany) Rudolf Wille (Germany) Karl Erich Wolff (Germany) Programme Committee: Anne Berry (France) Tru Cao (Vietnam) Dan Corbett (Australia). Pavlin Dobrev (Bulgaria) David Genest (France) Ollivier Haemmerle (France) Udo Hebisch (Germany) Joachim Hereth Correia (Germany) Richard Hill (UK) Pavel Kocura (UK) Yannis Kalfoglou (UK) Robert Kremer (Canada) Markus Kroetzsch (Germany) Leonhard Kwuida (Switzerland) Michel Leclere (France) Robert Levinson (USA) Michel Liquiere (France) Carsten Lutz (Germany) Philippe Martin (Australia) Claudio Masolo (Italy) Engelbert Mephu Nguifo (France) Sergei Obiedkov (Russia) Simon Polovina (UK) Anne-Marie Rassinoux (Switzerland) Gary Richmond (USA) Olivier Ridoux (France) Sebastian Rudolph (Germany) Eric Salvat (France) Janos Sarbo (The Netherlands) Bill Tepfenhart (USA) Petko Valtchev (Canada) GQ Zhang (USA) Conference Website: http://www.iccs-06.hum.aau.dk/ From dix at tu-clausthal.de Thu Oct 20 17:28:41 2005 From: dix at tu-clausthal.de (Prof. Dr. Juergen Dix) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:28:41 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: Nonmonotonic Reasoning Workshop (NMR 2006) Message-ID: <20051020152841.GS24862@in.tu-clausthal.de> *Eleventh International Workshop on* Non-Monotonic Reasoning ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Collocated with KR 2006* in the Lake District area of the UK. 30 May to 1 June 2006. Please visit http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.hunter/nmr/ for further information. Juergen Dix and Anthony Hunter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail was delivered to you by event at in.tu-clausthal.de, what is a moderated list runned by Computational Intelligence Group of Technical University of Clausthal, Germany. All event announcements sent through this list are also listed in our conference planner at http://cig.in.tu-clausthal.de/index.php?id=planner. In the case of any requests, questions, or comments, do not hesitate and contact event-owner at in.tu-clausthal.de ASAP. ****************************************************** * CIG does not take any responsibility for validity * * of content of messages sent through this list. * ****************************************************** Computational Intelligence Group Department of Computer Science Clausthal University of Technology Germany http://cig.in.tu-clausthal.de/ From info at www.lmcs-online.org Tue Oct 25 15:11:23 2005 From: info at www.lmcs-online.org (Logical Methods in CS) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:11:23 +0200 Subject: [DL] Journal "Logical Methods in CS" Message-ID: <200510251311.j9PDBNS14290@www.lmcs-online.org> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- year 1 of a new journal year 1 of a new journal year one of a new journal -------------------------EXCUSE MULTIPLE COPIES----------------------- Dear Colleague: We are writing to inform you about the progress of the open-access, online journal "Logical Methods in Computer Science," which has recently benefited from a freshly designed web site, see: http://www.lmcs-online.org In the first year of its existence, the journal received 75 submissions: 21 were accepted and 22 declined (the rest are still in the editorial process). The first issue is complete, and we anticipate that will be three in all by the end of the calendar year. Our eventual aim is to publish four issues per year. We also publish Special Issues: to date, three are in progress, devoted to selected papers from LICS 2004, CAV 2005 and LICS 2005. The average turn-around from submission to publication has been 7 months. This comprises a thorough refereeing and revision process: every submission is refereed in the normal way by two or more referees, who apply high standards of quality. We would encourage you to submit your best papers to Logical Methods in Computer Science, and to encourage your colleagues to do so too. There is a flier and a leaflet containing basic information about the new journal on the homepage; we would appreciate your posting and distributing them, or otherwise publicising the journal. We would also appreciate any suggestions you may have on how we may improve the journal. Yours Sincerely, Dana S. Scott (editor-in-chief) Gordon D. Plotkin and Moshe Y. Vardi (managing editors) Jiri Adamek (executive editor) From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Wed Nov 2 17:34:43 2005 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:34:43 +0100 Subject: [DL] KAON2 OWL Reasoner release Message-ID: <4368EAA3.2040300@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> ***Now with DIG Interface*** ***High-performance OWL DL reasoner*** The AIFB and the FZI Institute at the University of Karlsruhe, in cooperation with ontoprise GmbH, are pleased to announce KAON2 -- a new tool for management of OWL ontologies and reasoning. The following functionalities are provided by the tool: - KAON2 provides an integrated API for reading, writing, and management of OWL DL ontologies extended with SWRL rules. Currently, OWL RDF and OWL XML file formats are supported. - KAON2 provides a built-in reasoner for OWL DL (except nominals and datatypes), extended with DL-safe subset of SWRL. (I.e. KAON2 fully supports SHIQ extended with DL-safe rules.) Reasoning is based on novel algorithms, which reduce an OWL ontology to a (disjunctive) datalog program. These algorithms allow KAON2 to handle relatively large ontologies with high efficiency. Its performance compares favorably with other state-of-the-art OWL DL reasoners. Detailed performance evaluations will shortly be available at http://kaon2.semanticweb.org. - KAON2 supports the answering of conjunctive queries expressed in SPARQL. - KAON2 can be used either as a library from other applications, or in server mode. In the latter case, KAON2 is started as a server process, and clients can connect to the server using appropriate APIs. - KAON2 supports the DIG interface, and can therefore be used with ontology editors such as Prot?g? or OilEd. - KAON2 can access information stored in relational databases based on mappings between ontology entities and database tables. KAON2 is available free of charge for non-commercial usage. For download and more information about the tool, the supported formalisms and the reasoning algorithms, please visit the following Web page: http://kaon2.semanticweb.org/ Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information about KAON2. Boris Motik Peter Haase Pascal Hitzler Rudi Studer -- Dr. Pascal Hitzler Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe email: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de fax: +49 721 608 6580 web: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de phone: +49 721 608 4751 http://www.neural-symbolic.org http://www.iccs-06.hum.aau.dk From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Wed Nov 2 17:38:46 2005 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de) Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:38:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] CfP: Advances in Modal Logic (AiML) 2006 Message-ID: <200511021638.jA2GckL03751@zermelo.inf.tu-dresden.de> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AiML-2006 Advances in Modal Logic 25-28 September 2006, Noosa (Queensland, Australia) DEADLINE: 27 March 2006 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-2006 is the sixth conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logics, including the following: > applications of modal logic > computational aspects of modal logics o complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics o modal and temporal logic programming o model checking o theorem proving for modal logics > history of modal logic > philosophy of modal logic > specific instances of modal logic o description logics o dynamic logics and other process logics o epistemic and deontic logics o modal logics for agent-based systems o modal logic and game theory o modal logic and grammar formalisms o provability and interpretability logics o spatial and temporal logics > theoretical aspects of modal logic o algebraic and coalgebraic perspective on modal logic o completeness and canonicity o correspondence and duality theory o many-dimensional modal logics o modal fixed point logics o model theory of modal logic o proof theory of modal logic > variations of modal logic o hybrid logic o intuitionistic logic o monotonic modal logic o substructural logic Papers on related subjects will also be considered. INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers will include: o Renate Schmidt (Manchester, UK) o Valentin Shehtman (Moscow, Russia) o Igor Walukiewicz (Bordeaux, France) o Alberto Zanardo (Padua, Italy) PAPER SUBMISSION The Proceedings of AiML 2006 will be published by College Publications www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/kcl-publications/ In a change from previous AiMLs, the proceedings will be made available at the meeting. Authors are invited to submit a full paper (not just an abstract) of at most 15 pages plus optionally a technical appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of say 100-200 words. To be considered, submissions must be received no later than 27 March 2006. Papers must be submitted as .ps or .pdf files. The first page should include title, names of authors, the co-ordinates of the corresponding author, and some keywords describing the topic of the paper. More precise details will be available at www.itee.uq.edu.au/~aiml06/ To appear in the proceedings, papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the style files to be provided at www.itee.uq.edu.au/~aiml06/. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the conference to present the paper. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Alexandru Baltag (University of Oxford, UK) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University, USA) Julian Bradfield (University of Edinburgh, UK) Melvin Fitting (City University of New York, USA) Guido Governatori (University of Queensland, Australia) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Rob Goldblatt (Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Rajeev Gore (Australian National University, Australia) Ramon Jansana (University of Barcelona, Spain) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Maarten Marx (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Martin Otto (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) Graham Priest (University of Melbourne, Australia) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia, Australia) Ildiko Sain (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jerry Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Nobu-Yuki Suzuki (Shizuoka University, Japan) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College, London, UK) PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Ian Hodkinson Imperial College London imh at doc.ic.ac.uk Yde Venema University of Amsterdam yde at science.uva.nl LOCAL ORGANIZERS Guido Governatori School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering The University of Queensland guido at itee.uq.edu.au IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 27 March 2006 Acceptance notification: 26 May 2006 Final version for conference due: 30 June 2006 Conference: 25-28 September 2006 CONFERENCE LOCATION Advances in Modal Logic 2006 will be held at Australis Noosa Lakes Conference Centre located at Noosaville, Noosa, Sunshine Coast, Queensland. The Sunshine Coast's white surf beaches stretch for about forty miles, broken only by an occasional headland or the clear water of a river estuary. Coastal townships like Caloundra, Mooloolaba, Maroochydore, Coolum and Noosa are synonymous with the traditional Australian beach vacation. In the green, subtropical hills behind the Sunshine Coast, among the pineapple and sugar cane farms, are country hamlets. Old pubs serve excellent counter lunches on open verandas that overlook green valleys. Painters, potters and other artisans are drawn here by the tranquillity, the easy pace and the natural beauty. Noosa and Noosa National Park are legendary in Australia. The protected cove beach virtually guarantees perfect surf year round and the stroll around the headland through the National Park rewards you with spectacular seascapes. Hastings Street, the hub of Noosa, is a mecca for designer label shoppers and discerning diners. For more details, see http://www.tourismnoosa.com.au/ FURTHER INFORMATION Information about AiML-2006 can be obtained at http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~aiml06/ E-mail enquiries about AiML-2006 should be directed to the local organizers or the program co-chairs. Information about AiML can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net From seanb at cs.man.ac.uk Fri Nov 4 17:07:38 2005 From: seanb at cs.man.ac.uk (Sean Bechhofer) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:07:38 +0000 Subject: [DL] WWW 2006 Deadline Extension Message-ID: <436B874A.4020605@cs.man.ac.uk> A message on behalf of the WWW 2006 conference chairs. ============================================================================== Extension: The submission deadline for WWW2006 refereed papers has been extended to Friday November 11 11:59PM Hawaii time (hard deadline). As you may know, on Sunday October 30 there was a significant fire at the site hosting the www2006 server. No one will be allowed into the building until Christmas and half the research labs are completely destroyed. We attempted to mask the failure with a temporary site and have restored the site as quickly as possible in order to maintain the original deadline. But we have become aware that DNS and routing problems are still causing locations to be unable to reach the site even as late as Friday November 4th 2005. Given these technical difficulties, the fairest thing to do seems to be to grant a blanket 1-week extension, until November 11th 2005. In fairness to those who submitted on time and managed to find the web site, we will allow revised versions of papers to be uploaded up to the new deadline. We apologize unreservedly for the confusion stemming from this fire and its aftermath - its been an interesting exercise in network complexity, and at least nobody was hurt - and we thank you for very much for submitting your work to WWW2006. TEMPORARY WWW2006 WEBSITE: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~lac/ but SHOULD be visible at www2006.org DIRECT ACCESS to the paper submission website: http://www.openconf.org/www2006/ TEMPORARY EMAIL FOR ENQUIRIES: lescarr at gmail.com Information about the fire can be found at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4390048.stm. --- WWW2006 Co-chairs: Les Carr, Dave De Roure, Arun Iyengar WWW2006 PC Chairs: Carole Goble, Mike Dahlin From V.A.M.Tamma at csc.liv.ac.uk Fri Nov 4 22:27:05 2005 From: V.A.M.Tamma at csc.liv.ac.uk (Valentina Tamma) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:27:05 -0500 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference Message-ID: <17903CAD-281D-490E-9E52-270032283EE0@csc.liv.ac.uk> Call for Papers 3rd European Semantic Web Conference 11 - 14 June 2006 Budva (Montenegro) http://www.eswc2006.org/ The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's web via the exploitation of machine-processable meta data. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, accompanied with domain theories (Ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together an incredibly large network of human knowledge and will complement it with machine processability. Various automated services will help the user to achieve goals by accessing and providing information in machine-understandable form. This process may ultimately create truly knowledgeable systems with various specialized reasoning services systems. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Human Language Technology, Machine Learning, Databases, Multimedia Systems, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision. The 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006) will present the latest results in research and application in semantic web technologies (including knowledge mark-up languages, semantic web services, ontology management and more). ESWC 2006 will also feature a special industry-oriented event providing European industry with an opportunity to become even more familiar with these technologies. It will offer a tutorial program to get up to speed with European and global developments in this exciting new area. ESWC 2006 is co-located with general assembly of the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence. Workshops and meetings of other European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects involved in the semantic web and semantic web technologies will be able to showcase their developments. In particular we will welcome the new projects accepted at the EU IST 4th Call. ESWC 2006 is sponsored by SDK - a group of three European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects known as SEKT, DIP and Knowledge Web. Together these projects aim to improve world-wide research and standardisation in the area of the Semantic Web. For more information on SDK, please visit www.sdk-cluster.org. SUBMISSIONS ESWC 2006 welcomes the submission of excellent original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of the semantic web, particularly those relating to the subject areas indicated by the topics below. We particularly encourage the submission of papers relating to industrial efforts and experiences with semantic web projects. We also encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical and applications papers. The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing for ESWC 2006 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: http://www.eswc2006.org/. Papers, due to November 28th, 2005, should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in Springer LNCS format. IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission: November 28, 2005 Camera-Ready Papers due: March 31, 2006 Conference: June 11 - 14, 2006 CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST AND AREA KEYWORDS Topics of interest to the conference include (but are not restricted to): * Ontology Management (e.g. creation, evolution, evaluation) * Ontology Alignment (e.g. mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) * Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (including e.g. HLT and ML approaches) * Multimedia and Semantic Web * Semantic Annotation of Data * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic Web Rules and Query Languages * Reasoning on the Web (e.g. scalability, fuzziness, distribution) * Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web * Personalization and User Modelling * User Interfaces and Semantic Web * Semantic Grid and Middleware * Semantic Web Services (e.g. description, discovery, invocation, composition) * Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals) * Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Health, e- Learning, e-Science * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web * Data Semantics and Web Semantics * Semantic Interoperability * Semantic Web Mining We particularly welcome application papers which clearly show benefits of semantic web technologies in practical settings. PROGRAM CHAIR York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, DE), sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Abecker (FZI Karlsruhe, DE) Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant Inc., US) J?rgen Angele (Ontoprise, DE) Anupriya Ankolekar (University of Karlsruhe, DE) Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK) Richard Benjamins (iSOCO, ES) Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich, CH) Walter Binder (EPFL, CH) Kalina Bontcheva (University Sheffield, UK) Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento, IT) Jeen Broekstra (Technical University Eindhoven and Aduna, NL) Francois Bry (University of Munich, DE) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI Saarbruecken, DE) Christoph Bussler (DERI Galway, IE) Liliana Cabral (Open University, UK) Nigel Collier (National Institute of Informatics, JP) Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester, UK) Isabel Cruz (University Illinois at Chicago, US) Hamish Cunningham (University Sheffield, UK) Paulo da Pinheiro (Stanford University, US) John Davies (BT, UK) Jos de Bruijn (DERI Innsbruck, AT) Grit Denker (SRI, US) Ying Ding (University of Innsbruck, AT) Martin Dzbor (Open University, UK) Andreas Eberhart (Hewlett Packard, DE) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, FR) Boi Faltings (EPFL Lausanne, CH) Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck and DERI, AT) Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT) Aldo Gangemi (CNR, IT) Mari Georges (ILOG, FR) Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, IT) Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK) Christine Golbreich (University of Rennes, FR) Asun Gomez-Perez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES) Marko Grobelnik (J. Stefan Institute, SL) Nicola Guarino (CNR, IT) Volker Haarslev (Concordia University, CA) Siegfried Handschuh (FZI Karlsruhe, DE) Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, US) Nicola Henze (University of Hannover, DE) Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, DE) Masahiro Hori (Kansai University, JP) Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel, DE) Jane Hunter (University of Queensland, AU) Eero Hyv?nen (University of Helsinki, FI) Vipul Kashyap (Clinical informatics R&D, US) Atanas Kiryakov (Sirma AI, BG) Matthias Klusch (DFKI Saarbruecken, DE) Manolis Koubarakis (Technical University of Crete, GR) Ruben Lara (Tecnologia, Informacion y Finanzas, ES) Alain Leger (France Telecom, FR) Maurizio Lenzerini (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", IT) Mihhail Matskin (KTH Stockholm, SE) Diana Maynard (University Sheffield, UK) Brian McBride (Hewlett Packard, UK) Vibhu Mittal (Google Research, US) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, JP) Dunja Mladenic (J. Stefan Institute, SL) Ralf Moeller (Hamburg University of Technology, DE) Boris Motik (FZI Karlsruhe, DE) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, CA) Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover and L3S, DE) Leo Obrst (MITRE, US) Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK) Terry Payne (University of Southampton, UK) Sofia Pinto (Technical University of Lisbon, PT) Marco Pistore (University of Trento, IT) Aleksander Pivk (J. Stefan Institute, SL) Dimitris Plexousakis (University of Crete, GR) Chris Preist (HP Labs, UK) Jinghai Rao (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Marie-Christine Rousset (University Orsay, FR) Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) Guus Schreiber (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio, BR) Amit Sheth (University of Georgia and Semagix, US) Michael Sintek (DFKI Kaiserslautern, DE) Derek Sleeman (University of Aberdeen, UK) Kavitha Srinivas (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, US) Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz, DE) Ljiljana Stojanovic (FZI Karlsruhe, DE) Michael Stollberg (DERI Innsbruck, AT) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, DE) Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, DE) Gerd Stumme (University of Kassel, DE) Vojtech Svatek (University of Economics, CZ) Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb, HR) Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, JP) Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool, UK) Herman ter Horst (Philips Research, NL) Sergio Tessaris (Free University Bozen, IT) Robert Tolksdorf (Free University Berlin, DE) Paolo Traverso (Automated Reasoning Systems Division at ITC/IRST, IT) Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) Ubbo Visser (University of Bremen, DE) Holger Wache (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) Krzysztof Wecel (Poznan University of Economics, PL) Steve Willmott (Universidad Politecnica de Cataluna, ES) Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK) From alice.carpentier at deri.org Tue Nov 8 12:32:22 2005 From: alice.carpentier at deri.org (Alice Carpentier) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:32:22 +0100 Subject: [DL] DERI: open positions Message-ID: <009b01c5e458$18e59040$d6b01454@at.deri.local> The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the University of Innsbruck, Austria and the National University of Ireland, Galway, is seeking candidates for the following positions: SFI professorship at DERI Galway DERI is looking for a senior research leader in the area of Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services Applicants will be expected to possess: * an international reputation with a capacity to provide leadership in the development of semantic web / semantic web services; * an excellent record of research in these areas evidenced by publications in top ranking journals and conferences; * an ability to compete successfully for external research funding; * a clear vision for the realization of world-class research. The successful candidate will lead a team of post-doctoral and postgraduate researchers, will act as the principal scientific investigator on a number of key DERI projects and will provide thesis and research supervision to the members of their cluster. They will also be expected to perform a key role in the scientific leadership of DERI. Salary shall be commensurate with qualifications and experience and shall be internationally competitive. Detailed information on DERI Galway are available at: http://www.deri.ie For informal discussion, please contact: dieter.fensel at deri.org Please submit your application to hr at deri.org We are also seeking to fill the following key positions: Senior Researchers Post Doctoral Researchers PhD Students Scientific Programmers & Software Engineers We have specific openings in the areas of Semantic Web and Social Software Semantic Web Services Semantic Desktop Service Orientated Architecture Computational Linguistics We offer a stimulating, dynamic, multi-cultural research environment, excellent ties to research groups worldwide, regular exchange tracks with Stanford and other universities, close collaboration with leading industrial partners, up-to-date infrastructure and resources, including funding to attend international conferences. We expect a strong background in computer science for Post Doc and Senior research positions, an excellent PhD degree in Computer Science or related disciplines or an equivalent academic degree research interests in Information Management, Systems Development, Logic, Ontology Languages, Semantic Web Services, Semantics in Business Information Systems, or related Semantic Web topics, and the willingness to combine formal scientific work with application-oriented research in projects funded by the European Commission and national agencies. We are looking for individuals who will continue their existing stream of research in related areas within our ongoing and new research projects. For further information regarding these positions and DERI in general, please see http://www.deri.at or http://www.deri.ie We invite your application by e-mail to hr at deri.org. 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URL: From M.Fisher at csc.liv.ac.uk Thu Nov 10 10:26:12 2005 From: M.Fisher at csc.liv.ac.uk (Michael Fisher) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:26:12 +0000 Subject: [DL] CFP: European Conference on Logics in AI [JELIA'06] Message-ID: <1131614772.4373123467bdb@cgi.server.csc.liv.ac.uk> +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | ***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** | | ****** JELIA'06 ****** | | --------------------------- | | 10th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence | | Liverpool, U.K., September 13-15, 2006 | | http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~jelia | | | | ----> Submission deadline: 1st May 2006 <---- | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ JELIA'06 will bring together researchers interested in all aspects concerning the use of logics in AI to discuss current research, results, problems and applications of both a theoretical and practical nature. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in all areas related to the use of Logics in AI. Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series. All submissions must be received (in PS or PDF only) by 1st May, 2006, and should be submitted via the form available at the JELIA-06 web page. Papers should be written in English, and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (with standard margins). There are two categories of submission: A. Regular papers. Submissions should not exceed 13 pages including figures, references, etc., and should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. B. Tool descriptions. Submissions should not exceed 4 pages, and should describe the implemented tool and its novel features. A demonstration is expected to accompany a tool presentation. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission: 1st May, 2006 Notification of acceptance: 8th June, 2006 Camera Ready Copy: 26th June, 2006 For further details, including lists of Conference Officials and Programme Committee, see http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~jelia Send your questions and comments to jelia06 at csc.liv.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From ying.ding at deri.org Tue Nov 8 11:53:10 2005 From: ying.ding at deri.org (Ying Ding) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:53:10 +0100 Subject: [DL] Asian Semantic Web Conference 2006, Beijing, China Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20051108114949.015f7c58@mail.deri.org> (Forgive me if you received duplicate copy of this Call For Paper.) ====================================================================== Call for Research Papers 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC2006) September 3(Sunday) - 7(Thursday), 2006 Beijing, China http://www.aswc2006.org/ The vision of the Semantic Web is to make the contents of the Web unambiguously computer interpretable, enabling automation of a diversity of tasks currently performed by human beings. The goal of providing semantics and automated reasoning capabilities to the Web draws upon research in a broad range of areas including Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software Engineering, Distributed Computing and Information Systems. Contributions to date have included languages for semantic annotation of Web documents, automated reasoning capabilities for Web languages, ontologies, query and view languages, semantic translation of Web contents, semantic integration middleware, technologies and principles for building multi-agent and Grid systems, semantic interoperation of programs and devices, technologies and principles for describing, searching and composing Web Services, and more. The 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC2006) has been established to foster research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technology in Asia. ASWC will be run by ASWC steering committee in harmony with the sister conferences such as International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) and European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). ASWC2006 solicits research paper submissions for the research and industrial tracks: Research Track Industrial Track ASWC2006 also solicits poster/demo papers after the research paper notification and encourages the submission of proposals for workshops and tutorials. Please watch the ASWC2006 Web site for pertinent details. Research paper submissions The research track of ASWC2006 solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, empirical and application-related aspects of the Semantic Web. The industrial track solicits the submission of innovative and practical industrial application papers. Papers must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web. Topics include but are not limited to the following: Case Study of Semantic Web Application Data Semantics Database Technologies for the Semantic Web Evaluation of Semantic Web Techniques Knowledge Portals Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Data Large Scale Knowledge Management Machine Learning and Natural Language Technologies for the Semantic Web Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation) Peer to Peer Systems Searching, Querying and Viewing the Semantic Web Semantics in Peer to Peer and Grids Semantic Brokering Semantic Information Extraction and Semantic Annotation Semantic Integration and Interoperability Semantic Multimedia Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Government and e-Learning Semantic Web Inference Schemes Semantic Web Middleware Semantic Web Mining Semantic Web Services (description, discovery, invocation, composition) Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights Tools and Methodologies for Web Agents User Interfaces Visualization and Modeling Submission Details Research papers for both tracks must be submitted electronically via the ASWC2006 Web page at http://www.aswc2006.org/. Authors will be asked to designate whether they are submitting to the research track or the industrial track. Papers must be submitted in either PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. Research paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Papers must be no longer than 15 pages in the format. Over-length papers will be rejected. Accepted papers of both research and industrial tracks are published by Springer as LNCS. ASWC2006 will not accept papers which, at the time of submission, are under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to mark up the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details will be provided on the conference Web page, at the time of acceptance. In addition to oral presentation, authors of accepted papers may have the option of presenting their papers, plus any recent extensions to their work, at the Poster session of ASWC2006. Please watch http://www.aswc2006.org/ for changes. Important dates: March 15, 2006 Research paper submissions due March 31, 2006 Workshop and tutorial proposal submissions due April 25, 2006 Workshop and tutorial acceptance notification May 25, 2006 Research paper acceptance notification June 25, 2006 Research camera-ready papers due September 3, 2006 ASWC2006 Tutorial & Workshop Day September 4, 2006 ASWC2006 Workshop Day September 5 - 7, 2006 ASWC2006 Technical Program. Organizing committee Conference Chair Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy http://dit.unitn.it/~fausto/ Local Conference Co-Chairs: Bo Zhang, Tsinghua University, China Ruqian Lu, Chinese Academy of Science Shiqiang Yang, Tsinghua University, China Program Committee Chair Riichiro Mizoguchi Osaka University, Japan http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/ Local Co-Chair: Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Science PC members list is found at http://www.aswc2006.org/page20/page20.html Local Organizing Chair: Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Tutorial Co-Chairs: Ying Ding, DERI, Austria Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Science Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University, China Workshop Co-Chairs: Marco Ronchetti, University of Trento, Italy GuoHui Li, National University of Defense Technology Industrial Track Co-Chairs: Alain Leger, France Telecom, France Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Xinsheng Mao, IBM CSDL, China Demo Co-Chairs: Michal Zaremba, DERI, Ireland Guangwen Yang, Tsinghua University, China Sponsor Co-Chairs: York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Bin Xu, Tsinghua University, China Publicity Chair: Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China Financial Chair: Leonarda Haid-Garcia, DERI, Austria Poster Co-Chairs: Yuting Zhao (ITC-Irst), China Paritosh Pandya (TIFR), China Registration Chairs: Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China Peng Wang, Tsinghua University, China Steering Committee: Wit Abramowicz (The Poznan University of Economics, Poland) Chris Bussler (DERI-Galway, Ireland) Liu Dayou (Jilin University, China) Dieter Fensel (DERI Innsbruck, Austria) (Chair) Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento) Jim Hendler (Univ of Maryland, USA) Hong-Gee Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Daniel Schwabe (PUB-Rio, Brazil) R.K. Shyamasundar (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand) ====================================================================== From revesz at cse.unl.edu Mon Nov 14 17:13:39 2005 From: revesz at cse.unl.edu (Peter Revesz) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:13:39 -0600 (CST) Subject: [DL] TIME 2006 CFP Message-ID: TIME 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL SYMP. ON TEMPORAL REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Budapest, Hungary June 15-17, 2006 http://www.time2006.org The 13th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning will be held on June 15-17, 2006 in Budapest, Hungary. The symposium will bring together researchers working in various areas that involve the representation of and reasoning about temporal phenomena. As with previous meetings in this unique and well-established series, one of the main goals of the TIME symposium will be to bridge the gap between theoretical and applied research in temporal representation and reasoning. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Temporal representation and Reasoning in AI: temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems temporal constraint reasoning reasoning about actions and change temporal languages for planning temporal languages and architectures ontologies of time and space-time expressive power versus tractability belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge temporal learning and discovery time and nonmonotonicity time in problem solving spatio-temporal reasoning Representation and Reasoning about Time in Language database representations of temporal information from text temporal information extraction standards for encoding the values of temporal expressions in natural language temporal and spatial characterization of events establishing ordering, inclusion, and coreference relations in temporal information leveraging of ontologies for temporal information reasoning about modals, i.e., possible events, necessary events, counterfactual events, etc. semantics of indeterminate or vague temporal references semantics and pragmatics of temporal prepositions application of logics for temporal reasoning in language computational analysis of temporal aspects of narrative structure Time Management in Databases (spatio)-temporal data models/query languages/indexing/systems moving objects databases constraint databases temporal data mining time in multimedia, federated and heterogeneous systems querying time series and data streams time in workflow and ECA systems time-dependent security policies Temporal Logic in Computer Science specification and verification of systems synthesis and execution model checking algorithms verification of infinite-state systems reasoning about transition systems temporal architectures temporal logics of knowledge or distributed systems hybrid systems and real-time logics tools and practical systems temporal issues in security The symposium welcomes new directions in time research and topics that are currently underrepresented in the symposium. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: January 30, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: March 13, 2006 Camera Ready Copy Due: April 3, 2006 TIME 2006 Symposium: June 15-17, 2006 Submissions must not exceed the length of 11 pages; font size must be 11 pt or larger. The papers should be submitted as PDF files. Overlength submissions will be rejected without review. Papers should be electronically submitted via the TIME 2006 website (http://www.time2006.org). All submissions must be received by January 30, 2006. As usual within the TIME series, proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be subject to IEEE Copyright. Accepted papers will be invited for full presentation or poster presentation. One author of each accepted paper has to register for the symposium and present the paper. Camera ready papers will be produced with the author kits sent by IEEE Computer Society Press. It is also our intention to organize a special issue of a leading journal, containing extended versions of selected papers from the symposium. GENERAL CHAIR Angelo Montanari PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale Claudio Bettini Bran Boguraev Berthe Choueiry Jan Chomicki Carlo Combi Stephane Demri Michael Fisher Shashi Gadia Robert Gaizauskas Sofie Haesevoets Keijo Heljanko Jerry Hobbs George Kollios Laszlo Kozma Antonin Kucera Bart Kuijpers Alex Lascarides Lixin Li Inderjeet Mani Hans Jurgen Ohlbach Wojciech Penczek James Pustejovsky (co-Chair) Peter Revesz (co-Chair) Frank Schilder Spiros Skiadopoulos Richard Snodgrass David Toman Andre Trudel X. Sean Wang Frank Wolter Shasha Wu INVITED SPEAKERS: Antony Galton Christian Jensen From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Tue Nov 15 15:36:12 2005 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:36:12 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP: WWW06 workshop "Reasoning on the Web" RoW06 Message-ID: <4379F25C.8010809@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> RoW06 - Reasoning on the Web Workshop at WWW2006, Edinburgh, UK, May 2006 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/phi/RoW06/ First Call for Papers ===================== The advent of the Semantic Web marks a turning point in the development of the World Wide Web. As Web content is being annotated using ontologies, a huge amount of knowledge will become accessible for intelligent systems and agents on and off the Web. At the core of these developments are reasoning technologies for ontologies, inspired by research and technology stemming from automated deduction, artificial intelligence, and mathematical logic. While RDF and OWL have been established as standard ontology languages by the W3C, and W3C standardization efforts for a Semantic Web Rules Language are under way, both theory and practice of reasoning on the web are in rapid development. The quest for suitable ontology language paradigms, reasoning system, and the realization of application scenarios is ongoing and being pursued with frenzy. With respect to the realization of practical reasoning support on the web, research is currently faced with serous challenges which need to be mastered, including the following. * Providing scalable reasoning support in the face of the amount of data on the Web. * Establishing reasoning technology which can deal with the heterogeneous nature of real data on the Web. * Realizing reasoning in a modular and distributed way suitable for Web applications. * Providing reasoning systems which can be utilized by non-experts. * Developing convincing use cases which show the added value of Semantic Web technology to a larger audience. Aim and Scope ------------- This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners concerned with reasoning technology for the Semantic Web, in order to stimulate the exchange of ideas and results on Web reasoning. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Reasoning with heterogeneous ontologies * Distributed reasoning on the web * Rule-based languages for the web * Ontology languages and their relationships * Reasoning systems for the Semantic Web * Web applications of reasoning technology Submissions ----------- We invite the submission of original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere. Submitted papers must be written in English and should not exceed 8 pages in the case of research and experience papers, and 2 pages in the case of position papers. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to RoW06 at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de. Authors must adhere to the formatting instructions given for regular WWW2006 papers. Presentation ------------ Selected papers must be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each paper must register for the main conference before the early registration deadline. The workshop will include extra time for audience discussion of the presentation allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. Publication Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings, which will be distributed during the workshop. We intend to invite authors of the best papers to submit revised and extended versions of their papers for a special issue of a major Semantic Web journal. Dates (preliminary!) -------------------- We currently expect that we can move the paper submission deadline for RoW06 until after the notification deadline of the main conference. If you would possibly like to submit a paper but the deadline January 10th is too early for submitting, please contact us and let us know! January 10th, 2006: paper submission February 1st, 2006: notification February 8th, 2006: camera-ready versions May 22nd-26th: WWW 2006 May 22nd or 23rd, 2006: workshop Keynote Speaker --------------- Ian Horrocks, Manchester Organizers ---------- Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Thomas Eiter, Technische Universit?t Wien, Austria Programme Committee ------------------- Jose Alferes, UN Lisboa, Portugal J?rgen Angele, ontoprise GmbH, Germany Anupriya Ankolekar, AIFB Karlsruhe, Germany Sean Bechhofer, Manchester, UK Alex Borgida, Rutgers, USA Jos de Bruijn, DERI Innsbruck, Austria Francois Bry, LMU Munich, Germany Francois Fages, INRIA Paris, France Benjamin Grosof, MIT, USA Pat Hayes, IHMC Pensacola, USA Anthony Hunter, London, UK Markus Kr?tzsch, AIFB Karlsruhe, Germany Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden, Germany Deborah McGuinness, Stanford, USA Ralf M?ller, Hamburg, Germany Boris Motik, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany Daniel Olmedilla, Hannover, Germany Jeff Pan, Aberdeen, UK Bijan Parsia, Mindlab Maryland, USA Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Laboratories, USA Axel Polleres, Innsbruck, Austria Riccardo Rosati, Rome, Italy Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research GmbH, Austria Stefan Schloebach, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Michael Sintek, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany Giorgos Stamou, Athens, Greece Umberto Straccia, CNR, Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Mannheim, Germany Katia Sycara, CMU Pittsburgh, USA Daniele Turi, Manchester, UK Contact ------- Contact the organizers at RoW06 at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de for all information on the workshop. -- Dr. Pascal Hitzler Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe email: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de fax: +49 721 608 6580 web: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de phone: +49 721 608 4751 http://www.neural-symbolic.org From lad at cs.nott.ac.uk Wed Nov 16 14:31:02 2005 From: lad at cs.nott.ac.uk (Louise Dennis) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:31:02 +0000 Subject: [DL] CFP Automated Reasoning Workshop 2006 Message-ID: <437B3496.6000307@cs.nott.ac.uk> [Our apologies for multiple messages] ====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS THIRTEENTH WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATED REASONING 3rd-4th April 2006 http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~mxw/arw06/ A 2-day symposium to be held as part of: AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems April 3rd-6th 2006 University of Bristol, Bristol, England 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. This year there will be a keynote speech by Tom Hales of the Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh. Details of the ARW organisation and of previous ARW events can be found at http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~clare/ARW/about.html. PLENARY SPEAKERS: * Byron Cook (Microsoft) * Muffy Calder (University of Glasgow) * Tom Hales (University of Pittsburgh) TOPICS: The workshop, which is co-located with AISB 2006, 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 * Applications of automated reasoning SUBMISSIONS: 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 the workshop organisers at: lad at cs.nott.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. Submissions should be no longer than 6,000 words. Formatting instructions will be available from the symposium website shortly. ORGANISERS: Dr. Louise Dennis, University of Nottingham lad at cs.nott.ac.uk Matthew Walton, University of Nottingham mxw at cs.nott.ac.uk both at School of Computer Science and Information Technology The University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus Wollaton Road Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Clare Dixon, Chair (University of Liverpool) Jacques Fleuriot, Secretary/Treasurer (University of Edinburgh) Brandon Bennett (University of Leeds) Simon Colton (Imperial College London) David Crocker (Escher Technologies) Louise Dennis (University of Nottingham) Ulle Endriss, (Imperial College London) Alan Frisch (University of York) Ian Gent (University of St. Andrews) Ullrich Hustadt (University of Liverpool) Mateja Jamnik (Univerity of Cambridge) Manfred Kerber (University of Birmingham) Tom Melham (University of Oxford) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester) Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester) IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of papers by: 1st February 2006 Notification of decision: 15th Februrary 2006 Camera ready copies by: 20th February 2006 This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From Sergey.Berezin at synopsys.com Wed Nov 16 19:24:09 2005 From: Sergey.Berezin at synopsys.com (Sergey Berezin) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:24:09 -0800 Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2006: Call For Papers (CFP) Message-ID: <200511161824.jAGIO9G8023175@yellowstone.synopsys.com> (We appologize if you received this message multiple times) CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2006) August 16--21, 2006 Seattle, USA http://ijcar06.uni-koblenz.de/ The Third International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) is the fusion of several major conferences in Automated Reasoning: * CADE (Automated Deduction) * TABLEAUX (Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) * FTP (First-Order Theorem Proving) * FroCoS (Frontiers of Combining Systems) * TPHOLs (Theorem Proving in Higher-Order Logics). IJCAR 2006 will be part of the Federated Logic Conference, FLoC'06 (http://research.microsoft.com/floc06/), to be held in Seattle during August 10--22, 2006. Scope: IJCAR 2006 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. Original research papers and descriptions of working automated deduction systems are solicited. Logics of interest include: Propositional, first-order, classical, equational, higher-order, non-classical, constructive, modal, temporal, many-valued, substructural, description, metalogics, type theory, and set theory. Methods of interest include: Tableaux, sequent calculi, resolution, model-elimination, connection method, inverse method, paramodulation, term rewriting, induction, unification, constraint solving, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, semantic guidance, interactive theorem proving, logical frameworks, AI-related methods for deductive systems, proof presentation, efficient data-structures and indexing, integration of computer algebra systems and automated theorem provers, and combination of logics or decision procedures. Applications of interest include: Hardware and software verification, formal methods, program analysis and synthesis, computer arithmetic, metatheory of languages and logics, declarative programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation, computer security, natural language processing, linguistics, robotics, and planning. Submissions: Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Research papers can be up to 15 pages long, and system descriptions can be up to 5 pages long. In the research paper category, submissions of theoretical, practical and experimental nature are equally encouraged. Abstracts must be registered by Feb 27, 2006. All submissions must be received by March 6, 2006. Submissions that arrive late or are too long will not be considered. Submission Details: The proceedings of IJCAR 2006 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer "llncs" format, that can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Best Paper Awards: Awards will be given for the best paper and the best paper written solely by one or more students. The selection will be done by the program committee. A submission is eligible for the best student paper award if all authors are full-time students at the time of submission. The program committee may decline to make the awards or may split it among several papers. Important Dates: February 27, 2006: Paper registration March 6, 2006: Paper submissions April 24, 2006: Acceptance notification May 29, 2006: Camera-ready copy due August 16--21, 2006: IJCAR, Seattle, USA Program Chairs: Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, uli at uni-koblenz.de Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, shankar at csl.sri.com Program Committee: Alessandro Armando Matthias Baaz David Basin Bernhard Beckert Michael Beeson Maria Paola Bonacina Hubert Comon Amy Felty Rajeev Gore Martin Giese Jason Hickey Ian Horrocks Tom Henzinger Dieter Hutter Andrew Ireland Deepak Kapur Helene Kirchner Chris Lynch Michael Kohlhase Michael Maher Bill McCune Tom Melham Jose Meseguer Aart Middeldorp Ilkka Niemela Larry Paulson Christine Paulin-Mohring Carsten Schuermann Stephan Schulz John Slaney Mark Stickel Aaron Stump Geoff Sutcliffe Frank Wolter Hantao Zhang Conference Chair: John Harrison Intel Semiconductors, johnh at ichips.intel.com Workshop Chair: Maria Paola Bonacina Universita` degli Studi di Verona, mariapaola.bonacina at univr.it Publicity Chair: Sergey Berezin Synopsys, berezin at synopsys.com Steering Committee: Franz Baader Peter Baumgartner Ulrich Furbach John Harrison Reiner Haehnle Tobias Nipkow Natarajan Shankar Cesare Tinelli Toby Walsh From e.motta at open.ac.uk Wed Nov 16 19:27:37 2005 From: e.motta at open.ac.uk (Enrico Motta) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:27:37 +0000 Subject: [DL] JOBS: Research positions: Semantic Web Technologies (UK) Message-ID: <200511161900.jAGJ00Jq000726@mx.tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> JOBS: Three Research Positions in Semantic Web Technologies The Open University, UK Knowledge Media Institute Three Research Fellows/Assistants: Semantic Web Technologies http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/ The closing date for receipt of applications is 14 December 2005. The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) has three openings for Research Fellows/Assistants to undertake the design and development of semantic web technologies within the EU-funded NeOn, KnowledgeWeb and OpenKnowledge projects - see http://www.neon-project.org and http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/kweb/. The jobs will involve: i) designing and implementing methods to facilitate the development of applications which rely on networks of ontologies - i.e., ontologies connected through localised mapping mechanisms, rather than through standard import techniques; ii) designing and implementing methods which can effectively integrate information derived from heterogeneous sources on the web, by reasoning about the context of use of the information, its provenance and the trust level, which can be assigned to it; iii) developing the next generation of semantic web browsers, building on existing technology such as Magpie, see http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/magpie/main.html, to support new forms of web navigation and new ways to associate semantic markup to web content; iv) making use of semantic technologies to develop concrete solutions to support intelligent presentation and personalization of web resources. Experience in semantic technologies is essential for these vacancies. Experience in language and web technologies will also be advantageous. These appointments (max four years) will be made on the Research Staff scale, within the salary range ?20,842 - ?30,607 per annum depending on qualifications and experience. Appointment as a Research Fellow requires a PhD or three years equivalent in quality of achievement. The Knowledge Media Institute is a highly successful, 60-strong interdisciplinary laboratory founded at The Open University in 1995, and located in attractive new offices at The Open University's main campus in Milton Keynes, UK. KMi undertakes high-profile advanced research and development in Knowledge Media: a convergence of knowledge, communication and computing technologies. We offer a stimulating environment, widely acknowledged to be at the leading edge of European research and development, particularly in semantic technologies, knowledge modelling and management, new media systems, and human-computer interaction. The style, impact and content of our work are described in detail in our Web pages at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/. For further details of the vacancy, information on how to apply, and access details for disabled applicants please see the "Further Particulars" document for this job; the document is available at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/ Informal enquiries can be made to the Director of KMi, Professor Enrico Motta (e.motta at open.ac.uk). THIS POST IS OPEN TO INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL APPLICANTS. We promote diversity in employment and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Disabled applicants who meet the essential job requirements will be interviewed. Further particulars are available in large print, disk or audiotape. (Minicom +44 (0) 1908 654901 for hard of hearing). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From holger.schlingloff at first.fhg.de Wed Nov 16 18:25:06 2005 From: holger.schlingloff at first.fhg.de (Holger Schlingloff) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:25:06 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: M4M-4 Program and Call for Participation Message-ID: <437B6B72.6060208@first.fhg.de> Apologies if you recieve this call for participation more than once. Methods for Modalities - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The workshop "Methods for Modalities" (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logic. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. This year's M4M will take place in Berlin - Adlershof, Germany. It is hosted by FIRST, the Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Architecture and Software Technology, in collaboration with the computer science institute of Humboldt University. The workshop dates are December 1st and 2nd, 2005. THIS IS IN TWO WEEKS! The conference fee of 160 Euros includes the excursion with conference dinner, which will take us at Dec 1st onto a beautiful boat cruising the illuminated nightly waterways of Germany's capital. Registration is now open at http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M4/workshop.html To encourage broad participation of young researchers, posters and system demos are still accepted for presentation. For more information, see the conference web site. See you in Berlin! The Methods For Modalities Organization Team. __________________________________________________________________ The following people have agreed to give invited lectures: Fran?ois Laroussinie, ENS Cachan and CNRS. Title: Timed Modal Logics for the Verification of Real-Time Systems. Martin Lange, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t. Title: Temporal Logics for Non-Regular Properties Wim Martens, Hasselt University. Title: The Typechecking Problem for XML Transformations. Boris Motik, Universit?t Karlsruhe. Title: Description Logics and Disjunctive Datalog - More Than just a Fleeting Resemblance?. Boris Konev, University of Liverpool. Title: Theory and Practice of Theorem Proving for Monodic First-Order Temporal Logic. Uwe Scheffler, Humboldt Universit?t. Title: Vague is Modal and Predicate Modifying. __________________________________________________________________ The following is the list of accepted papers: Franz Baader, Carsten Lutz and Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn: Is Tractable Reasoning in Extensions of the Description Logic EL Useful in Practice? Thomas Bolander and Torben Bra?ner: Two Tableau-Based Decision Procedures for Hybrid Logic Davide Bresolin and Angelo Montanari: A tableau-based decision procedure for a branching-time interval temporal logic Yegor Bryukhov: Automatic proof search in logic of justified common knowledge Mika Cohen and Mads Dam: A Completeness Result for BAN Logic Massimo Franceschet and Enrico Zimuel: Modal logic and navigational XPath: an experimental comparison Regis Gascon: Verifying qualitative and quantitative properties with LTL over concrete domains Laura Giordano, Valentina Gliozzi, Nicola Olivetti and Camilla Schwind: Extensions of Tableau calculi for preference-based conditional logics Johan W. Kl?wer and Arild Waaler: Natural deduction for belief "at most" Mathis Kretz, Gerhard J?ger and Thomas Studer: Cut-free axiomatizations for stratified modal fixed point logic Martin Mundhenk, Thomas Schneider, Thomas Schwentick and Volker Weber: Complexity of Hybrid Logics over Transitive Frames Nicola Olivetti and Gian Luca Pozzato: KLMLean 1.0, a Theorem Prover for Logics of Default Reasoning Evangelos Tzanis: Hybrid Logic with operations on nominals Wouter van Atteveldt and Stefan Schlobach: A Modal View on Polder Politics Dirk Walther: ATEL with Common and Distributed Knowledge is ExpTime-Complete Evgeny Zolin: Query answering based on modal correspondence theory __________________________________________________________________ From baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Fri Nov 18 09:32:27 2005 From: baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:32:27 +0100 Subject: [DL] Reasoning in DLs: JAR special issue Message-ID: <200511180832.jAI8WRR16449@hilbert.inf.tu-dresden.de> Call for papers Special issue of the JOURNAL OF AUTOMATED REASONING http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/JAR/ on REASONING IN DESCRIPTION LOGICS IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: April 16, 2006 Reviews due: July 16, 2006 Revised version due: September 3, 2006 Final reviews due: October 1, 2006 Final version due: November 5, 2006 Publication date: March 2007 GENERAL INFORMATION Description Logics (DLs) are a successful family of logic-based knowledge representation formalisms, which can be used to represent the conceptual knowledge of an application domain in a structured and formally well-understood way. They are employed in various areas, such as natural language processing, configuration, and databases, but their most notable success so far is the adoption of the DL-based language OWL as ontology language for the Semantic Web. The most important selling point for DL systems is that they provide their users with highly optimized reasoning procedures for expressive representation languages, which -- despite their high worst-case complexity -- behave quite well in practice. Most DL systems employ tableau-based reasoning procedures, but several promising alternative approaches to reasoning in DLs are currently investigated. The purpose of this special issue is to provide a snapshot of the current research on reasoning in DLs, which shows different approaches and ranges from theoretical to applied work. TOPICS This special issue is concerned with all aspects of reasoning in Description Logics. Topics of interest include the following: * tableau-based reasoning procedures * resolution-based reasoning procedures * automata-based reasoning procedures * translation-based reasoning procedures * tractable reasoning in inexpressive DLs * procedures for non-standard inference problems * complexity of reasoning * implementation and optimization techniques * empirical evaluations of reasoning techniques * application of reasoning in DLs SUBMISSIONS This special issue seeks original high-quality contributions that have not been published in or submitted to any journal. Long versions of papers previously published at a conference are welcome, but the journal version must significantly extend the conference version (e.g., by new results; full proofs for theoretical papers; more thorough empirical evaluations for practical papers). The submissions will be refereed according to the usual standards of the Journal of Automated Reasoning. Electronic submissions (in postscript- or pdf-format) should be prepared using the style files at http://www.wkap.nl/authors/jrnlstylefiles and should be sent to jar at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de GUEST EDITOR Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/~baader/index-en.html FURTHER INFORMATION If you have further questions, please contact the guest editor by sending an email to "jar at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de". From asernadas at gmail.com Mon Nov 21 12:09:36 2005 From: asernadas at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=EDlcar_Sernadas?=) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:09:36 +0000 Subject: [DL] Lisbon positions in quantum computation, information and logic Message-ID: <63d33cf50511210309u2092b8c6kb7e61863c1ee4f09@mail.gmail.com> (we apologize for multiple postings) The Center for Logic and Computation http://clc.math.ist.utl.pt/ of the Department of Mathematics of Instituto Superior T?cnico, Lisbon, Portugal, invites applications for visiting scientists and postdoctoral positions. There are no teaching duties associated with these positions. The visiting scientist positions are for three to six months (grant of around two thousand Euro per month). Applicants should have a strong research record in topics relevant to the QuantLog project. For details see: http://clc.math.ist.utl.pt/quantlog.html The postdoctoral positions are for one year (grant of around fifteen hundred Euro per month), with the possibility of renewal upon mutual agreement. Applicants should have a recent PhD and show high research potential in the areas of quantum computation, information and logic. Messages of intent should be sent by December 9, 2005 to Am?lcar Sernadas in order to get detailed information about the formal application procedure and deadline. The selection process will take place in early January, 2006. Positions can start in February, 2006. -- Amilcar Sernadas CLC, Department of Mathematics IST, Av. Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisboa, PORTUGAL tel: 351-21-8417150 fax: 351-21-8417598 www: http://slc.math.ist.utl.pt/acs.html From alice.carpentier at deri.org Mon Nov 21 14:32:58 2005 From: alice.carpentier at deri.org (Alice Carpentier) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:32:58 +0100 Subject: [DL] Post Doctoral Research Associate Message-ID: <00ce01c5eea0$179cd7a0$0c0110ac@at.deri.local> Post Doctoral Research Associate (m/f) in Computational Linguistics The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) is seeking a candidate in the position of postdoctoral research associate (m/f) in the area of Natural Language Engineering and large- scale semantic annotation. The work will involve statistical and symbolic language processing and knowledge technologies, and their use in the eSWAN project. DERI is one of the leading research groups in the area of Semantic Web technologies with excellent ties to relevant research groups worldwide and is located right in the heart of the Alps, with an exceptional standard of living and an attractive combination of a beautiful city and unique opportunities for sports activities all year round. We expect * an excellent PhD degree in Computational Linguistics or related disciplines or an equivalent academic degree, * the willingness to combine formal scientific work with application-oriented research in projects funded by the European Commission and national agencies. The following skills (and others) will be relevant: * language processing, information retrieval, speech recognition * machine learning and information theory * technical authoring * research project administration * ontological data modelling and knowledge management * use of GATE (http://gate.ac.uk) * programming in Java and in script languages * software engineering, components, systems modelling and design * programming tools like CVS, JBuilder, make, ANT, ... * database programming in SQL and JDBC * finite state language analysis * computational linguistics We are looking for individuals who will continue their existing stream of research and lead a project that aims at large-scale information extraction from the web, utilizing a a large, distributed cluster architecture. Leading this project will also include management responsibility for a number of junior researchers. We offer * the stimulating environment of a leading research group in the area of Semantic Web research, * excellent ties to research groups worldwide, * up-to-date infrastructure and resources, including sufficient funding for attending international conferences, and * standardized exchange tracks with Stanford University and other universities. For further information regarding this position and DERI, please see http://www.deri.at. We invite your application by e-mail to hr at deri.org. Please include a current resume, a list of publications, and digital versions of your most relevant works. Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel Institut f?r Informatik University of Innsbruck Technikerstra?e 21a A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: Post Doctoral Research Associate.txt URL: From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Thu Nov 24 14:42:28 2005 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:42:28 +0100 Subject: [DL] PhD or postdoc position - reasoning/semantic web at AIFB Karlsruhe In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4385C344.2060005@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> *seeking PhD student or postdoctoral researcher for automated reasoning in semantic web* The Knowledge Management research group at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB, www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS) at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, is an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, mathematicians, and industrial engineers and one of the world leading institutes in the area of the Semantic Web. We are offering a research position (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter BAT IIa) for a PhD student or a postdoctoral researcher, on initial contract for two years, with the possibility of extending the contract. We are looking for a highly skilled person to be responsible for further development of the reasoner KAON2 (http://kaon2.semanticweb.org/). KAON2 is a reasoner for description logics which underlie the Ontology Web Language (OWL) - the language for building ontologies in the Semantic Web. It is currently one of the fastest reasoners available, which we achieved by developing several innovative and efficient reasoning algorithms that reduce inferences in description logics to query answeringon deductive databases via a resolution-based transformation. KAON2 is used in several large projects funded by the European Union, as well as for commercial purposes in cooperation with the company Ontoprise GmbH. Possible extensions of KAON2 include, but are not limited to, developing and implementing reasoning algorithms for advanced knowledge representation formalisms such as nonmonotonic or paraconsistent logics, extending the calculus for reasoning with concrete domains, extending the transformation algorithm to handle nominals, and improving performance by means of databases and heuristics. This position requires solid programming experience, if possible in an industrial setting, and also solid knowledge of mathematical logic and automated deduction. We are looking forward to receiving applications from candidates who have recently completed a Masters degree in computer science or a related field and want to pursue a PhD project, or who have recently completed a PhD degree and are interested in research and project work in an internationally acclaimed research group. Application deadline is January 12th, 2006. Earlier applications are very welcome and will be dealt with as they arrive. Late applications may be considered. Please send your application by ground mail to Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH) Institut AIFB 76128 Karlsruhe Germany If you have questions, please contact Dr. Pascal Hitzler +49 (721) 608-4751 hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de -- Dr. Pascal Hitzler Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe email: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de fax: +49 721 608 6580 web: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de phone: +49 721 608 4751 http://www.neural-symbolic.org From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Thu Dec 1 13:10:09 2005 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:10:09 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP: WWW06 workshop "Reasoning on the Web" RoW06 Message-ID: <438EE821.5010306@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> RoW06 - Reasoning on the Web Workshop at WWW2006, Edinburgh, UK, May 2006 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/phi/RoW06/ *note the modified submission deadline* Second Call for Papers ====================== The advent of the Semantic Web marks a turning point in the development of the World Wide Web. As Web content is being annotated using ontologies, a huge amount of knowledge will become accessible for intelligent systems and agents on and off the Web. At the core of these developments are reasoning technologies for ontologies, inspired by research and technology stemming from automated deduction, artificial intelligence, and mathematical logic. While RDF and OWL have been established as standard ontology languages by the W3C, and W3C standardization efforts for a Semantic Web Rules Language are under way, both theory and practice of reasoning on the web are in rapid development. The quest for suitable ontology language paradigms, reasoning systems, and the realization of application scenarios is ongoing and being pursued with frenzy. With respect to the realization of practical reasoning support on the web, research is currently faced with serous challenges which need to be mastered, including the following. * Providing scalable reasoning support in the face of the amount of data on the Web. * Establishing reasoning technology which can deal with the heterogeneous nature of real data on the Web. * Realizing reasoning in a modular and distributed way suitable for Web applications. * Providing reasoning systems which can be utilized by non-experts. * Developing convincing use cases which show the added value of Semantic Web technology to a larger audience. - Aim and Scope This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners concerned with reasoning technology for the Semantic Web, in order to stimulate the exchange of ideas and results on Web reasoning. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Reasoning with heterogeneous ontologies * Distributed reasoning on the web * Rule-based languages for the web * Ontology languages and their relationships * Reasoning systems for the Semantic Web * Web applications of reasoning technology - Submissions We invite the submission of original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere. Submitted papers must be written in English and should not exceed 8 pages in the case of research and experience papers, and 2 pages in the case of position papers. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to RoW06 at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de. Authors must adhere to the formatting instructions given for regular WWW2006 papers. - Presentation Selected papers must be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each paper must register for the main conference before the early registration deadline. The workshop will include extra time for audience discussion of the presentation allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. Publication Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings, which will be distributed during the workshop. We intend to invite authors of the best papers to submit revised and extended versions of their papers for a special issue of a major Semantic Web journal. - Dates (final! note the changes!) February 10th, 2006: paper submission March 20th, 2006: notification March 31st, 2006: camera-ready versions May 22nd-26th: WWW 2006 May 22nd or 23rd, 2006: workshop - Keynote Speakers Ed Barkmeyer, NIST, USA Ian Horrocks, Manchester, UK - Organizers Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Thomas Eiter, Technische Universit?t Wien, Austria - Programme Committee Jose Alferes, UN Lisboa, Portugal J?rgen Angele, ontoprise GmbH, Germany Anupriya Ankolekar, AIFB Karlsruhe, Germany Ed Barkmeyer, NIST, USA Sean Bechhofer, Manchester, UK Alex Borgida, Rutgers, USA Jos de Bruijn, DERI Innsbruck, Austria Francois Bry, LMU Munich, Germany Francois Fages, INRIA Paris, France Benjamin Grosof, MIT, USA Pat Hayes, IHMC Pensacola, USA Anthony Hunter, London, UK Markus Kr?tzsch, AIFB Karlsruhe, Germany Thomas Lukasiewicz, Rome, Italy Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden, Germany Deborah McGuinness, Stanford, USA Ralf M?ller, Hamburg, Germany Boris Motik, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany Daniel Olmedilla, Hannover, Germany Jeff Pan, Aberdeen, UK Bijan Parsia, Mindlab Maryland, USA Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Laboratories, USA Axel Polleres, Innsbruck, Austria Riccardo Rosati, Rome, Italy Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research GmbH, Austria Stefan Schloebach, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Michael Sintek, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany Giorgos Stamou, Athens, Greece Umberto Straccia, CNR, Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Mannheim, Germany Katia Sycara, CMU Pittsburgh, USA Hans Tompits, Vienna, Austria Daniele Turi, Manchester, UK - Contact Contact the organizers at RoW06 at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de for all information on the workshop. -- Dr. Pascal Hitzler Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe email: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de fax: +49 721 608 6580 web: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de phone: +49 721 608 4751 http://www.neural-symbolic.org From j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk Thu Dec 1 18:31:10 2005 From: j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk (John Domingue) Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:31:10 +0000 Subject: [DL] 5 New Research Posts in Semantic Web and Grid Services at KMi, The Open University Message-ID: <01e701c5f69d$05981b00$e3186c89@open.ac.uk> [Apologies for Cross Postings] The Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University has openings for five Research Fellows to undertake research in the area of Semantic Web and Grid Services - using Semantic Web technology to support the development and use of Web and Grid Services. This work will take place within the context of three new EU-funded projects: SUPER, LUISA and The Living Human Digital Library. The ideal candidate should have experience in ontologies, developing symbolic AI systems and web services. Additionally knowledge of KMi's platform IRS-III, the Web Services Modelling Ontology (WSMO), Java and/or Lisp would also be useful. Appointment as a Research Fellow requires a PhD or three years equivalent in quality of achievement. More information on these post can be found at the following urls: SUPER - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/index.cfm#2301 LUISA - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/index.cfm#2303 Living Human Digital Library - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/index.cfm#2302 Informal enquiries may be made to John Domingue (j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk) [Tel. +44 (0)1908 655014]. ***The closing date for receipt of applications is 3rd January, 2006.*** John ___________________________ Dr. John Domingue, Deputy Director, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK6 7AA http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bertossi at scs.carleton.ca Mon Dec 5 20:25:39 2005 From: bertossi at scs.carleton.ca (Leopoldo Bertossi) Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:25:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] position in AI at Carleton University Message-ID: Subject to budgetary considerations, the Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, invites applications for a tenure-track position, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, in the area of artificial intelligence and human cognition to commence July 1, 2006. A PhD and evidence of outstanding promise in research and in graduate and undergraduate teaching and supervision is required. The successful candidate will be expected to teach in our undergraduate and graduate programs, supervise graduate students, and develop a program of research leading to external funding and significant peer-reviewed publications. Experience with collaborative interdisciplinary work an asset; a $30M Centre for Research in Visualization and Simulation (V-Sim) will open in 2006. Carleton offers Canada's only free-standing, fully integrated PhD in Cognitive Science and a strong honours undergraduate degree. The applications of Canadians and permanent residents will be considered first. Carleton University is committed to equality of employment for women, Aboriginal peoples, visible minorities and persons with disabilities. Persons from these groups are encouraged to apply. Please send a c.v., two recent papers, and a description of your research programme and what your expertise would contribute to cognitive science at Carleton, to: Prof. Andrew Brook, Director, Institute of Cognitive Science, 2201 Dunton Tower, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada. Please arrange to have three letters of reference and a transcript of your highest degree sent directly to the Institute. Electronic submission of the application is acceptable but transcripts and letters must be in official or signed paper copy and sent directly to us. Review of applications will begin January 15th, 2006, but we will continue to accept applications until a suitable candidate is found. For further information on the Institute of Cognitive Science and its faculty and students, go to www.carleton.ca/ics or email Andrew Brook (abrook at ccs.carleton.ca). Carleton University is located on a scenic campus not far from the centre of Ottawa, Canada's capital. Pictures and further information at www.carleton.ca. Ottawa is the high-tech centre of Canada. Opportunities for collaborations with government labs and the private sector abound. Carleton is close to the Ottawa International Airport and schools, hospitals, parks, and other amenities are excellent. Ottawa has a rich cultural life; every year there is a blues festival, a jazz festival, a folk festival, a film festival, a spring tulip festival, Winterlude (a winter carnival), and the world's largest chamber music festival. Canada's main cultural institutions are located in Ottawa, including the National Gallery, the world-famous Museum of Civilization, and the National Arts Centre with its excellent orchestra. The city also has the longest skating rink in the world (over seven km long) and is Canadian centre for cross-country skiing. The nearest downhill ski area is a twenty minute drive away in the picturesque Gatineau Hills. From Svatek at vse.cz Thu Dec 15 09:15:38 2005 From: Svatek at vse.cz (Vojtech Svatek) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:15:38 -0500 Subject: [DL] EKAW 2006 - 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Message-ID: *** Apology for multiple cross-postings *** First Announcement =========================== EKAW 2006 - 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks 2 - 6 October 2006 Podebrady (near Prague), Czech Republic =========================== http://ekaw.vse.cz ---------------------- Key Areas (see http://ekaw.vse.cz for a more detailed list): ---------------------- * Ontologies and the Semantic Web * Semantics for Grid and Web Services * Knowledge and Social Networks * Knowledge Management * Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. ---------------------- Important deadlines ---------------------- April 1, 2006 Workshop and tutorial proposals April 12, 2006 Research abstract submissions; Industrial abstract submissions April 19, 2006 Research paper submissions; Industrial track papers submissions June 15, 2006 Poster submissions; Demo paper submissions ---------------------- Organisers ---------------------- Conference Co-chairs (joint contact: ekaw06chair at uni-koblenz.de): * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Workshop and Tutorial Chair: * Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany Poster Chair: * Helena Sofia Pinto, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Demo Chair: * Martin Labsky, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Local Arrangements: * Andrea Kutnarova, Action M Agency, andrea at action-m.com Programme Committee: * Karl Aberer, EPFL (CH) * Stuart Aitken, University of Edinburgh (UK) * Hans Akkermans, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) * Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT- CNRS Toulouse (FR) * Richard Benjamins, iSOCO (ES) * Paulo Bouquet, University of Trento (IT) * Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam (NL) * Philipp Cimiano, University of Karlsruhe (DE) * Olivier Corby, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (FR) * Paul Compton, University of New South Wales (AU) * Stefan Decker, DERI Ireland (IR) * Rose Dieng, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (FR) * John Domingue, Open University (UK) * Martin Dzbor, The Open University (UK) * Jer?me Euzenat, INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes (FR) * Dieter Fensel, University Of Innsbruck (AT) * Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland (US) * Asun Gomez-Perez, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (ES) * Marko Grobelnik, JSI (SL) * Michele Missikoff, CNR (IT) * Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University (JP) * Enrico Motta, The Open University (UK) * Mark Musen, Stanford University (US) * Enric Plaza I Cervera, Spanish Scientific Research Council, CSIC (ES) * Alun Preece, University of Aberdeen (UK) * Alan Rector, University of Manchester (UK) * Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen (CH) * Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Paris-Sud (FR) * Guus Schreiber, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) * Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton (UK) * Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen (UK) * Wolf Siberski, University of Hannover (Germany) * Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe (DE) * Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel (DE) * York Sure, University of Karlsruhe (DE) * Annette ten Teije, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) * Frank van Harmelen, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) * Hannes Werthner, University of Innsbruck (AT) * Mike Wooldridge, University of Liverpool (UK) ---------------------- Location ---------------------- Podebrady is a calm town situated 50 km to the east of Prague, easily reachable by car, by bus or by train in one hour. The town is famous for its spas and its royal descendent, King George of Podebrady. It was founded in 1224 near an important crossing on the Elbe river. As early as the 17th century a small spa was founded in Podebrady. The springs there were considered the most medicinal in the region with their high iron content. In the year 1905, an exceptionally strong spring with healing mineral water has been discovered in the courtyard of the Podebrady castle. Since 1908, heart, circulation and blood vessel diseases have been treated in the carbon bath with iron-containing water. The EKAW 2006 Welcome Party will take place at the Podebrady castle, the birthplace of King George. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague Nam.W.Churchilla 4, 13067 Praha 3, CZECH REPUBLIC phone: +420 224095462, e-mail: svatek at vse.cz web: http://nb.vse.cz/~svatek/welcom_e.htm From Carlos.Areces at loria.fr Fri Dec 16 21:39:36 2005 From: Carlos.Areces at loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:39:36 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2006: List of Accepted Courses and Preliminary Program Message-ID: <20051216203936.GP28937@pluton.loria.fr> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 18th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 31 July - 11 August, 2006, Malaga, Spain http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LIST OF ACCEPTED COURSES AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAMM ------------------------------------------------- The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering 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. LIST OF ACCEPTED COURSES AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: Language and Computation: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Week 1 * Resource-Scarce Language Engineering, by Edward Garrett (Workshop) * Introduction to Corpus Resources, Annotation and Access, by Sabine Schulte im Walde and Heike Zinsmeister (Foundational Course) * Introduction to Symbolic and Statistical NLP in Scheme, by Damir Cavar (Introductory Course) * Data-Driven Methods for Acquiring Linguistic Information, by Timothy Baldwin and Aline Villavicencio (Introductory Course) * An Empirical View on Semantic Roles Within and Across Languages, by Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado (Introductory Course) * Treebank-Based Acquisition of LFG, HPSG and CCG Resources, by Josef van Genabith, Julia Hockenmaier and Yusuke Miyao (Advanced Course) * Semantic Domains in Natural Language Processing, by Alfio Gliozzo and Carlo Strapparava (Advanced Course) Week 2 * Modelling Coherence for Generation and Dialogue Systems, by Rodger Kibble, Paul Piwek and Ielka van der Sluis (Workshop) * Computational Morphology, by Kemal Oflazer (Foundational Course) * Counting Words: An Introduction to Lexical Statistics, by Marco Baroni and Stefan Evert (Introductory Course) * Computational Semantics: Linking Language Processing to Applications, by Ann Copestake and Dan Flickinger (Introductory Course) * Word Sense Disambiguation, by Rada Mihalcea (Introductory Course) * Implementing Argument Alternations, by Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (Advanced Course) * Argument Structure, by Markus Egg and Valia Kordoni (Advanced Course) * Probabilistic Methods in Computational Psycholinguistics, by Roger Levy (Advanced Course) * Machine Learning and Dialogue, by James Henderson and Oliver Lemon (Advanced Course) Logic and Computation: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Week 1 * Proof Theory and Deep Inference, by Alessio Guglielmi (Foundational Course) * Introduction to Automated Reasoning, by Hans De Nivelle and Peter Baumgartner (Foundational Course) * Specifying and Proving in Maude, by Manuel Clavel and Narciso Marti-Oliet (Introductory Course) * Modal Logics for Multi-Agent Systems, by Valentin Goranko and Wojciech Jamroga (Introductory Course) * Expressiveness of Temporal Logics, by Fran?ois Laroussinie and Nicolas Markey (Introductory Course) * The Modal Mu-Calculus, by Yde Venema (Introductory Course) * Logics for Quantum Information Flow, by Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets (Advanced Course) * Approximate Reasoning for the Semantic Web, by Pascal Hitzler, Frank van Harmelen and Holger Wache (Advanced Course) * Coalgebras, Modal Logic, Stone Duality, by Alexander Kurz (Advanced Course) Week 2 * Workshop on Logics for Resource Bounded Agents, by Natasha Alechina and Thomas ?gotnes (Workshp) * Rationality and Knowledge, by Sergei Artemov and Rohit Parikh (Workshop) * Verification of Infinite State Systems, by Angelo Montanari and Gabriele Puppis (Introductory Course) * Proof Nets and the Identity of Proofs, by Lutz Strassburger (Introductory Course) * Semantics of Higher-Order Logic, by Chad Brown and Chris Benzmueller (Advanced Course) * Logical and Meta-Logical Frameworks, by Carsten Schuermann (Advanced Course) * Logic and Computation in Finitely Presentable Infinite Structures, by Valentin Goranko and Sasha Rubin (Advanced Course) Language and Logic: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Week 1 * Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents, by Roberta Ferrario and Nicola Guarino (Workshop) * On Logic and Language, by Raffaella Bernardi and Patrick Blackburn (Foundational Course) * Natural Language Quantifiers, by Nouwen, Rick (Introductory Course) * Working with Discourse Representation Theory, by Patrick Blackburn and Johan Bos (Introductory Course) * Mereology for Linguists, by Christopher Pi??n (Introductory Course) * From Syntactic Structures to Logical Semantics, by Christian Retor? and Alexandre Dikovsky (Advanced Course) * Temporal Anaphora in Tenseless Languages, by Maria Bittner (Advanced Course) * Linear Logic, Linguistic Resource Sensitivity and Resumption, by Ash Asudeh (Advanced Course) Week 2 * Ambiguity in Anaphora, by Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio (Workshop) * Concord Phenomena and the Syntax Semantics Interface, by Paul Dekker and Hedde Zeijlstra (Workshop) * Parsing, by Eric de la Clergerie (Foundational Course) * Proofs, Evidence, Knowledge, by Sergei Artemov (Introductory Course) * Signalling Games and Pragmatics, by Anton Benz (Introductory Course) * Higher Order Grammar, by Carl Pollard (Introductory Course) * Anaphora resolution: Theory and Practice, by Annie Zaenen (Advanced Course) * Applications and Extensions of Dynamic Semantics, by Nicholas Asher (Advanced Course) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chair: Carlos Areces INRIA Lorraine. 615, rue du Jardin Botanique 54602 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France phone : +33 (0)3 83 58 17 90 fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 e-mail : carlos.areces (at) loria.fr www : http://www.loria.fr/~areces Local co-chair: Manuel Diaz Area Specialists: Larry Moss and Gerhard Jaeger (Logic and Language) Valeria de Paiva and Juan Jose Moreno Navarro (Logic and Computation) Philip Miller and Anette Frank (Language and Computation) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Ernesto Pimentel (chair) FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information, visit the ESSLLI site at http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/. For this year's summer school, please see the web site at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05. From Carlos.Areces at loria.fr Mon Dec 19 11:12:56 2005 From: Carlos.Areces at loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:12:56 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2005 (HyLo 2006) Message-ID: <20051219101256.GB18577@loria1.loria.fr> ******************************************************************* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2006 (HyLo 2006) Affiliated with LICS 2006 August 11, 2006, Seattle, USA ******************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic in which it is possible to directly refer to worlds/times/states or whatever the elements of the (Kripke) model are meant to represent. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have been sporadically investigated ever since, it is only in the 1990s that work on them really got into its stride. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on applied grounds, because of the usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions about what happens at a particular instant,and standard modal formalisms do not allow this. What is less obvious is that the route hybrid logic takes to overcome this problem (the basic mechanism being to add nominals --- atomic symbols true at a unique point --- together with extra modalities to exploit them) often actually improves the behavior of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes far simpler to formulate modal tableau, resolution, and natural deduction in hybrid logic, and completeness and interpolation results can be proved of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. Hybrid logic is now a mature field, therefore a theme of special interest at this HyLo workshop will be the combination of hybrid logic with other logics, the basic methodological question being "what is the best way of hybridizing a given logic?" However, submissions in all areas of hybrid logic are welcome. The workshop HyLo 2006 is likely to be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic, for example the LICS-affiliated HyLo 2002 (http://floc02.diku.dk/HYLO) which was held as part of FLoC 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. If you are unsure whether your work is of relevance to the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organizers for more information. Contact details are given below. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Carlos Areces (INRIA Lorraine, France) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Lorraine, France) Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark) Torben Bra?ner (Roskilde University, Denmark) --- Chair Valeria de Paiva (PARC, USA) Melvin Fitting (Lehman College, New York, USA) Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) J?rgen Villadsen (Roskilde University, Denmark) SUBMISSIONS: We invite the contribution of papers reporting new work from researchers interested in hybrid logic. Details about the submission procedure will be announced in the second call for papers (note that the dates below are tentative). The workshop proceedings have been accepted for publication in ENTCS (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/entcs/). A preliminary version of the proceedings will also be distributed at the workshop. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES (TENTATIVE): Deadline for submissions: May 26, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2006 Deadline for final versions: July 21, 2006 CONTACT DETAILS: See the workshop homepage (http://hylomol.ruc.dk/HyLo2006) for further information. Please send all correspondence regarding the workshop to the organizers: Patrick Blackburn http://www.loria.fr/~blackbur/ Thomas Bolander http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~tb/ Torben Bra?ner --- Chair http://www.ruc.dk/~torben/ Valeria de Paiva http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vdp/ J?rgen Villadsen http://www.ruc.dk/~jv/ From stenzg at in.tum.de Tue Dec 20 13:55:44 2005 From: stenzg at in.tum.de (Gernot Stenz) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:55:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] [Tableaux2005] Special Issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning, 2nd Call for papers Message-ID: Call for papers Special issue of the JOURNAL OF AUTOMATED REASONING on AUTOMATED REASONING WITH ANALYTIC TABLEAUX AND RELATED METHODS IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: January 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2006 Publication: By the end of 2006 GENERAL INFORMATION 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. This special issue has its origins in the International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, which was held in Koblenz (Germany) in September 2005. It will be published by Springer within the Journal of Automated Reasoning. TOPICS This special issue focuses on automated reasoning with analytic tableaux. Topics of interest include the following: * 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, ...) * implementation techniques * applications SUBMISSIONS This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. Authors of papers presented at the TABLEAUX conference are welcome to submit extended and revised versions of their papers. However, contributions are not limited to those based on papers presented at TABLEAUX; other submission are welcome as well. All submissions should be written in terms understandable by general readers of the journal. And all submissions will be refereed to usual journal standards. Submissions should be formatted according to JAR's author guidelines (see the link on the special issue's web page below), and preferably be written in LaTeX. A LaTeX style file can be obtained here: http://www.springeronline.com/authors/jrnlstylefiles Submissions should be sent to (as a Postscript or PDF file): beckert at uni-koblenz.de EDITORS Bernhard Beckert (University of Koblenz, Germany) Lawrence Paulson (University of Cambridge, UK) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information visit the web page: http://tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de/JAR Or send an email to one of us: beckert at uni-koblenz.de or Larry.Paulson at cl.cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Tableaux2005 mailing list Tableaux2005 at mailbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de https://mailbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tableaux2005 From david at cs.uwaterloo.ca Tue Dec 20 17:56:50 2005 From: david at cs.uwaterloo.ca (David Toman) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:56:50 -0500 Subject: [DL] DL 2006 1st call for papers Message-ID: <8xufwvu5.fsf@cs.uwaterloo.ca> 2006 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'06) Lake District, UK May 30-June 1, 2006 homepage: http://www.mindswap.org/2006/dl/ 1st Call for Papers The 2006 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'06) 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. Accepted technical papers will be included in the workshop proceedings as normal papers (8 pages), long papers (12 pages), or as posters. 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: March 10, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2006 Camera ready papers due: May 12, 2006 DL'06 Workshop: May 30-June 1, 2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -- Tools that exploit Description Logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.mindswap.org/2006/dl/ and must arrive by March 10, 2006. Detailed submission instructions will be posted on DL'06 web site http://www.mindswap.org/2006/dl/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces Giuseppe De Giacomo Enrico Franconi Volker Haarslev Ian Horrocks Ralf Kuesters Carsten Lutz Ralf Moeller Peter Patel-Schneider Chris Welty Frank Wolter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Bijan Parsia and David Toman (PC Co-chairs) Uli Sattler (Local Arrangements Chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. David Toman, Associate Professor School of Computer Science tel: (519) 888-4567 ext 4447 University of Waterloo fax: (519) 885-1208 200 University Avenue West david at uwaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~david From manspera at itc.it Wed Dec 21 15:15:47 2005 From: manspera at itc.it (Manuela Speranza) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:15:47 +0100 Subject: [DL] ECAI 2006 deadlines and CFP Message-ID: <43A96393.3C94FC2E@itc.it> *********************************************************************** ECAI 2006 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence RIVA DEL GARDA, Italy August 28th - September 1st 2006 http://ecai2006.itc.it/ Please remind the following important dates 1) Deadline for ECAI and PAIS paper submission: 8 Feb 2006 (summaries) 10 Feb 2006 (full paper) 2) Deadline for poster submission: 10 March 2006 3) Deadline for STarting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS) paper submission: 15 April 2006 4) Deadline for System Demonstration proposal: 20 April 2006 For more information, please visit the conference website: http://ecai2006.itc.it *********************************************************************** ECAI 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS The ECAI 2006 Programme Committee invites submission of papers and posters for the Technical Programme of the 17th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Important dates (preliminary, check for updates at http://ecai2006.itc.it/) 8 Feb 2006 Deadline for paper summaries 10 Feb 2006 Deadline for paper submission 10 March 2006 Deadline for poster submission 10 April 2006 Notification of acceptance for papers and posters 10 May 2006 Camera-ready copies of papers 28 Aug 2006 Technical programme at ECAI 2006 Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to: * Abduction * Adaptive Systems * Agents * AI Architectures * AI and Creativity Applications * Artificial Life * Automated Reasoning * Bayesian Learning * Belief Revision * Case-Based Reasoning * Causality * Cognitive Modelling * Cognitive Robotics * Common-Sense Reasoning * Computer-Aided Learning * Constraint Programming * Constraint Satisfaction * Data Mining * Decision Making * Description Logics * Design and Configuration * Diagnosis * Discourse Modelling * Distributed AI * Evolutionary Computing * Game Playing * Geometric Reasoning * Information Extraction * Human Computer Interaction * Information Agents * Intelligent User Interfaces * Intelligent Databases * Knowledge Engineering * Knowledge Discovery * Knowledge Representation * Logic Programming * Machine Learning * Machine Translation * Market-Oriented Programming * Model-Based Reasoning * Multi-Agent Systems * Natural Language Processing Negotiation * Neural Networks * Nonmonotonic Reasoning * Ontologies * Perception * Philosophical Foundations * Planning * Preferences * Probabilistic Reasoning * Qualitative Reasoning * Real-Time Systems * Reasoning about Action and Change * Reinforcement Learning * Resource-Bounded Reasoning * Robotics * Satisfiability * Scheduling * Search * Semantic Web * Spatial Reasoning * Speech Processing * Temporal Reasoning * Text Mining * Theorem Proving * Uncertainty * User Modelling * Verification and Validation * Vision * Web Intelligence Formatting guidelines --------------------- Papers should be submitted using the final camera-ready formatting style, except for author names which should be omitted and replaced by the tracking number for anonymous reviewing. Submissions must not exceed five pages in camera-ready format. Overlength submissions will be rejected without review. Guidelines on the format of submissions are available on the ECAI 2006 Style Guide page (). Latex style files to support formatting of submissions are also available. Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the formatting requirements specified in the ECAI 2006 Style Guide. Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the proceedings. ECAI 2006 also accepts posters. Each poster will have two pages allocated in the proceedings. Posters must follow the same formatting guidelines as full papers, but paper length is limited to two pages. The front page must indicate 'POSTER' as the type of submission. Submitted full papers can be accepted as posters if the PC decides so. It will be possible for the author(s) to indicate whether they want their submission considered as poster in case of non-acceptance as full paper. Submission procedure -------------------- Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit title and abstract of their paper by 10 February 2006, using the web-based submission form which will be accessible from the ECAI 2006 home page. After entering/revising a summary, the corresponding author will receive an email containing the current summary status, tracking number, authorization code and an active link to the upload site. The tracking number should replace the author information on the full paper submission. Full papers must be uploaded before 12 February 2006 (23:59 CET). Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon after receipt. Only PDF files will be accepted. A free service to convert a number of widely used file formats to PDF is available at http://createpdf.adobe.com/ (the first three uses of this service are for free). Multiple Submission Policy -------------------------- ECAI 2006 will not accept submissions under review or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are not allowed to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. These restrictions only apply to journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialised meetings with limited audience. ECAI 2006 also grants permission to submit papers during the reviewing period to national AI conferences organized by ECCAI member organizations. The title page should include the statement "This paper is not under review or accepted for publication in another conference or journal". Reviewing --------- All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI 2006 Programme Committee. Reviewing for ECAI 2006 will anonymous. To allow for anonymous reviewing replace the authors line in your submission by the unique tracking number assigned after the submission of the summary form. Please avoid identifying self-references. Replace phrases like "We have shown in [n]" by "In [n] it has been shown ...".Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 10 April 2006. Conference Proceedings ---------------------- The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS Press on paper and as a CD-ROM. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2006 formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 10 June 2006. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper/poster is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Awards ------ The best paper of the conference, as selected by the ECAI 2006 Programme Committee, will receive a prize sponsored by Elsevier Science. The authors will also be invited to publish a longer version of the paper in the Artificial Intelligence Journal. The authors of the 10 next best papers will all be invited to submit a long version of their paper to a special fast-review track of the Artificial Intelligence journal. Please note that the information is preliminary (check for updates at http://ecai2006.itc.it/) Chairperson Address ------------------- Gerhard Brewka Intelligent Systems Department Computer Science Institute University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig , Germany Tel: ++49 341 9 73 22 35 Fax: ++49 341 9 73 22 99 brewka at informatik.uni-leipzig.de From paslaru at inf.fu-berlin.de Thu Dec 22 14:34:21 2005 From: paslaru at inf.fu-berlin.de (Elena Paslaru) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:34:21 -0500 Subject: [DL] WETICE-2006 CfP: International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications STICA06 Message-ID: <016001c606fc$6b00fd30$d1722da0@pcpool.mi.fuberlin.de> *** Apology for multiple cross-postings *** ======================================================== First Call for Papers STICA06 1st International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications STICA06 at the 15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2006) The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K. (26th-28th June 2006) http://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06 ========================================================== MOTIVATION ================== With distributed information systems and the Internet continually increasing in significance, collaboratively creating and managing information has become an essential requirement for the success of (virtual) organizations. This situation has led to a plethora of platforms supporting cooperation as well as joint information access among geographically dispersed user communities that have emerged in the last decades: collaborative information spaces, tele-cooperation, autonomous agents or, more recently, various Web-related forms of communication and cooperation such as discussion forums, community portals, Wikis and blogs. A fundamental requirement for an effective collaboration is the availability of technologies and tools which provide an explicit and unambiguous representation of the shared information and a feasible management of such semantics-enhanced information repositories. The emergence of the Semantic Web has marked an important stage in the evolution of semantic technologies. In this context the knowledge components i.e. ontologies are formalized using Web-suitable, but in the same time semantically unambiguous representation languages, are accessible and can be shared and reused across the World Wide Web. The Semantic Web offers new opportunities for the next generation of collaborative applications: it provides us with novel means to classify information items i.e. by means of ontologies which formally represent the consensual understanding of the application users w.r.t. a particular domain of interest. Taking advantage of this technology, the first promising implementations of Semantic Web-based collaboration platforms such as Semantic Web portals, semantic Wikis and blogs, to name only a few, have been proposed. This workshop aims at contributing to this young application field by providing a forum for practitioners and researchers to present innovative approaches to applying Semantic Web technologies in collaborative environments and to discuss the opportunities and challenges related to this topic. OBJECTIVES ================ The primary objective of this workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners working in different emerging aspects of semantics-enabled collaboration, ranging from discovering new application scenarios, proposing new methods to apply Semantic Web and related emerging technologies to current environments, pointing out issues that still need to be solved, and reporting results and experiences gained during the deployment of collaborative methods and the realization of support systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================= We invite original academic and industry contributions which report on issues related to semantic collaboration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: -- Methodologies for collaboratively creating and managing shared information -- Collaborative ontology engineering -- Semantic collaboration applications -- Collaborative Semantic Web portals -- Semantic community support systems -- Semantic Wikis -- Semantic Blogging -- Semantic Mindmapping and Conceptmapping -- Case studies, lessons learned and experience reports on semantics-aware collaborative applications -- Studies on the value added to collaboration by semantic technologies -- Future research directions in the area of semantic collaboration ORGANIZERS ================= Robert Tolksdorf, Elena Paslaru Bontas, Klaus Schild Freie Universit?t Berlin AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme Takustr. 9 D-14195 Berlin Germany {tolk|paslaru|schild}@inf.fu-berlin.de SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ================== Submission of papers will take place electronically. Detailed submission instructions will be announced on the homepage of the workshop at http://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06. The papers should be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE format (this will also be the page limit for the proceedings). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three people. The accepted papers and the summary report on the workshop will be published in the post-conference proceedings and directly mailed to the registered authors by the IEEE Computer Press after the conference. Please note that in order for an accepted paper to be published in the conference proceedings at least one of its authors is required to register and present the paper at WETICE-2006. IMPORTANT DATES ================== Deadline for paper submission: February 10, 2006 Decision to paper authors: April 7, 2006 Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: May 12, 2006 WETICE-2006 Workshops and On-site registration: June 26-28, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------ Dipl. -Inform. Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl Netzbasierte Informationssysteme Institut f?r Informatik Freie Universit?t Berlin paslaru at inf.fu-berlin.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From myv at cs.rice.edu Thu Dec 22 21:14:06 2005 From: myv at cs.rice.edu (MYV) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:14:06 -0600 (CST) Subject: [DL] 2006 Programme on Logic and Algorithms - Workshops Message-ID: <20051222201406.238544A9C5@cs.rice.edu> During the first half of 2006, the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge, UK, will hold a Special Programme on Logic and Algorithms. The programme will include six workshops: 9 - 13 January Finite and Algorithmic Model Theory (A Satellite Meeting at Durham) 27 February - 3 March Logic and Databases 20 - 24 March Mathematics of Constraint Satisfaction: Algebra, Logic and Graph Theory (A Satellite Meeting at Oxford) 10 - 13 April New Directions in Proof Complexity 8 - 12 May Constraints and Verification 3 - 7 July Games and Verification The workshops are open to participation. See http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/LAA/ws.html To join the mailing list, see http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/LAA/list.html For further information, contact vardi at cs dot rice dot edu. Moshe Vardi From pavel at dit.unitn.it Thu Dec 22 22:23:30 2005 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:23:30 +0100 Subject: [DL] 1st CfP: ECAI'06 workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O-2006) Message-ID: <004b01c6073e$065b4790$5aeaa8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second International Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O-2006) http://www.c-and-o.net/ August 28, 2006, ECAI Workshop Program, Riva del Grada, Italy. OBJECTIVES The goal of the workshop is to bring together people from the context and ontology communities and to discuss the approaches they use for information integration. Therefore, the workshop will push the cross-fertilization and exchange of ideas (e.g., which of the methods from the ontology community can be successfully adopted in the context community, and vice versa), and, hence, make their meeting mutually beneficial. TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Foundations: Information interoperability and reuse via multiple contexts and ontologies; Coordination of multiple contexts and ontologies; Languages for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies; Logics for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies. Theory & Practice: Techniques and tools for matching contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for merging contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for transforming contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for translating contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for reconciling contexts and ontologies; Techniques for query answering based on multiple contexts and ontologies; Evaluation of tools for combination of contexts and ontologies; Scalability of techniques for combination of contexts and ontologies; Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies. Applications: Semantic Web; Information Retrieval; E-commerce; Telecommunications, multimedia, content indexing; Knowledge management solutions for large organizations; Grid and P2P; Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence. INVITED TALKS: 1. Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/ 2. Selene Makarios, Stanford University, USA, http://www-formal.stanford.edu/selene/cv.html FORMAT, ATTENDANCE AND SUBMISSIONS The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: keynote presentations, technical presentations, posters, and general discussion. The audience is assumed to consist of both academia and industry. Thus, the workshop can improve academic awareness of industrial needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their business needs. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers or statements of interest. Formatting and submission instructions will be published shortly on the workshop web-site, http://www.c-and-o.net/. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers and statements of interest will be published in the workshop proceedings. Also authors of the best technical papers will be invited to submit an extended versions of their papers for possible publication in a special issue on "Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications" in the Knowledge Engineering Review Journal", http://www.cambridge.org/uk/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=KER IMPORTANT DATES April 15, 2006: Deadline for the submissions. May 10, 2006: Notification of acceptance/rejection. May 24, 2006: Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers. Aug 28, 2006: C&O-2006, Riva del Grada, Italy. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1.Jerome Euzenat INRIA Rhone-Alpes e-mail: Jerome.Euzenat at inrialpes.fr 2.Alain Leger France Telecom R&D Rennes e-mail: alain.leger at rd.francetelecom.com 3.Deborah L. McGuinness Stanford University e-mail: dlm at ksl.stanford.edu 4.Pavel Shvaiko (Chair) University of Trento e-mail: pavel at dit.unitn.it 5.Holger Wache Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam e-mail: holger at cs.vu.nl PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) Patrick Br?zillon, University Paris, France Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel J?r?me Euzenat, INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes, France Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, USA Ruediger Klein, DaimlerChrysler, Germany Alain L?ger, France Telecom R&D, France Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA Natalya Noy, Stanford University, USA Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece Fano Ramparany, France Telecom, France Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA -------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento Dept. of Information and Communication Technology Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY Tel: +39 (0461) 883386; Fax: +39 (0461) 882093 Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ PS. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: