From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Tue Jan 8 14:28:00 2008 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:28:00 +0100 Subject: [DL] DL2008 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 21st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'08) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Dresden, Germany May 13-16, 2008 http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is thought as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 15 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 23 March 2008 Camera ready papers due: 13 April 2008 DL'07 Workshop: 13-16 May 2008 (3 or 4 days) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics. Possible subjects include: * Foundations of description logics, including expressive power, decidability and complexity of reasoning, 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 representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems. * Use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Bernhard Ganter, Dresden, Germany * Georg Gottlob, Oxford, UK * Maarten Marx, Amsterdam, Netherlands * Kent Spackman, Oregon, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite submissions of papers in Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html to arrive no later than February 15, 2008. The length of submissions is limited to 11 pages, including title and abstract (if any), and list of references. Submitted papers must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair, see http://www.easychair.org/DL08/ The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series, see http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Franz Baader, Dresden, Germany (General chair) * Carsten Lutz, Dresden, Germany (PC Chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Carlos Areces, Nancy, France * Alessandro Artale, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Alex Borgida, Rutgers, USA * Sebastian Brandt, Machester, UK * Diego Calvanese, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Giuseppe de Giacomo, Rome, Italy * Volker Haarslev, Montreal, Canada * Ian Horrocks, Oxford, UK * Ulrich Hustadt, Liverpool, UK * Pascal Hitzler, Karlsruhe, Germany * Carsten Lutz, Dresden, Germany (Chair) * Maja Milicic, Dresden, Germany * Boris Motik, Oxford, UK * Ralf Moeller, Hamburg, Germany * Bijan Parsia, Manchester, UK, * Peter Patel-Schneider, Alcatel Lucent, USA * Riccardo Rosati, Rome, Italy * Uli Sattler, Manchester, UK * Umberto Straccia, Pisa, Italy * David Toman, Waterloo, Canada * Frank Wolter, Liverpool, UK * Misha Zakharyaschev, London, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information regarding registration, travel information, hotels, etc will be made available on the DL2008 homepage http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ * Enquiries about the DL2008 workshop can be made by mailing to lutz at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From iclp08pub at cs.nmsu.edu Wed Jan 2 23:09:47 2008 From: iclp08pub at cs.nmsu.edu (ICLP 08) Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:09:47 -0700 Subject: [DL] ICLP'08 CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <200801022209.m02M9lgP011709@pippo.cs.nmsu.edu> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ICLP'08 24th International Conference on Logic Programming Udine, Italy, December 9th-13th, 2008 http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it CONFERENCE SCOPE ---------------- Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions (papers, position papers, and posters) are sought in all areas of logic programming including but not restricted to: * Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation. * Implementation: Compilation, Memory Management, Virtual Machines, Parallelism. * Environments: Program Analysis, Program Transformation, Validation and Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Integration. * Language Issues: Extensions, Integration with Other Paradigms, Concurrency, Modularity, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Programming Techniques. * Related Paradigms: Abductive Logic Programming, Inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming. * Applications: Databases, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics The three broad categories for submissions are: (1) Technical papers, providing novel research contributions, innovative perspectives on the field, and/or novel integrations across different areas; (2) Application papers, describing innovative uses of logic programming technology in real-world application domains; (3) Posters, ideal for presenting and discussing current work, not yet ready for publication, for PhD thesis summaries and research project overviews. A separate session dedicated to the celebration of the 20th anniversary of stable model semantics will also be part of the program. Accepted papers and posters will be allocated time for presentation during the conference. At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to register and participate in the event. In addition to papers and posters, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, specialized sessions, workshops, and a Doctoral Student Consortium. Details, as they become available will be posted at: http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it PAPERS AND POSTERS ------------------ Papers and posters must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Emphasis will be placed on the novelty and innovative nature of the results (even if not completely polished and refined). All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel. Submissions MUST contain substantial original, unpublished material. All submissions must be written in English. Technical papers and application papers must not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs/) The limit for posters is 5 pages in the same format. The primary means of submission will be electronic, through the Easychair submission system. The submission page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ICLP08 PUBLICATION ----------- The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. All accepted papers and posters will be included in the proceedings. WORKSHOPS --------- The ICLP'08 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best place for the presentation of preliminary work, novel ideas, and new open problems to a more focused and specialized audience. Workshops also provide a venue for presenting specialised topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration in any areas related to logic programming, including cross-disciplinary areas. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ------------------- The Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming is the 4th Doctoral consortium to provide doctoral students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and word-renown experts in the field. The DC will also offer invited speakers and panel discussions. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper and presentation from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in special session of the main ICLP conference. CELEBRATING 20th YEARS OF STABLE MODEL SEMANTICS ------------------------------------------------ The year 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the publication that introduced the stable model semantics for logic programs with negation. The paper titled "The stable semantics for logic programs" by Michael Gelfond and Vladimir Lifschitz was presented at ICLP-1988. It was a momentous event that gave rise to a vibrant subfield of logic programming known now as the answer-set programming. Its distinguishing aspects are close connections to the fields of knowledge representation, satisfiability and constraint satisfaction, ever faster computational tools, and a growing list of successful applications. To celebrate the stable-model semantics, there will be a special session at ICLP 2008 dedicated to answer-set programming. The session will feature talks by Michael Gelfond and Vladimir Lifschitz. as well as by other major contributions to the field, presenting personal perspectives on the stable-model semantics, its impact and its future. There will be a panel discussion, and regular accepted ICLP papers falling into the answer-set programming area will complete the program. CONFERENCE VENUE ---------------- The conference will be held in the city of Udine, the capital of the historical region of Friuli, Italy. Located between the Adriatic sea and the Alps, close to Venice, Austria and Slovenia, Udine is a city of Roman origins, funded by Emperor Otto in 983. Rich of historical sites, Udine is also famous for its commercial and shopping opportunities and its outstanding wine and culinary traditions. SUPPORT SPONSORING AND AWARDS ----------------------------- The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP). The ALP has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants. The ALP is planning to sponsor two awards for ICLP 2008: for the best technical paper and for the best student paper. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Papers Posters Abstract submission deadline June 2nd n/a Submission deadline June 9th August 15th Notification of authors August 1st September 1st Camera-ready copy due September 15th September 15th 20 Years of Stable Models TBA Doctoral Consortium TBA Workshop Proposals June 2nd Early-bird Registration TBA Conference December 9-13, 2008 ICLP'2008 ORGANIZATION ---------------------- General Chair: Agostino Dovier (University of Udine) Program Co-Chairs: Maria Garcia de la Banda (Monash University) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University) Workshop Chair: Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University) Doctoral Student Consortium: David Warren (SUNY Stony Brook) Tom Schrijvers (K.U.Leuven) Publicity Co-Chairs: Marcello Balduccini (Kodak Research Labs) Alessandro Dal Palu' (University of Parma) Programming Competition Chair: Bart Demoen (K.U.Leuven) 20 Years of Stable Models: Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky) Andrea Formisano (University of Perugia) Program Committee: Salvador Abreu Sergio Antoy Pedro Barahona Chitta Baral Gerhard Brewka Manuel Carro Michael Codish Alessandro Dal Palu' Bart Demoen Agostino Dovier John Gallagher Michael Gelfond Carmen Gervet Gopal Gupta Manuel Hermenegildo Andy King Michael Maher Juan Moreno Navarro Alberto Pettorossi Brigitte Pientka Gianfranco Rossi Fariba Sadri Vitor Santos Costa Tran Cao Son Paolo Torroni Frank Valencia Mark Wallace Web Master: Raffaele Cipriano Local Arrangements Committee: Alberto Casagrande Elisabetta De Maria Luca Di Gaspero Carla Piazza ---------------------------------------------------- For further information: iclp08 at cs.nmsu.edu http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it From j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk Mon Jan 7 11:22:11 2008 From: j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk (John Domingue) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:22:11 +0000 Subject: [DL] The 6th European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and The Semantic Web (SSSW-2008) - Preliminary Call Message-ID: ***APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*** ======================================= THE SIXTH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (SSSW-2008) http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/sssw08/ [website is currently under construction - details will be posted here in the forthcoming months] VENUE Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain. DATE 6-12 July, 2008 DEADLINE FOR PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION 15 March, 2008 INTRODUCTION We are pleased to announce the sixth 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 2004-2007, as part of the activities of the KnowledgeWeb Network of Excellence. The school represents an opportunity for postgraduate students to equip themselves with the range of theoretical, practical, and collaboration 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. This year the school will be sponsored by a number of European projects including LUISA, NEON, SUPER and X-MEDIA and also by STI International. APPROACH Our approach combines the practical with the theoretical. Tutorial/ lecture material is augmented with hands-on practical workshops and we ensure that the sessions complement 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-2008 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. To further facilitate communication and feedback all attendees will be obliged to prepare and present a poster on their own research. TUTORS Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK) Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, UK) John Domingue (The Open University, UK) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France) Aldo Gangemi (National Research Council, Italy) Asun Gomez-Perez (Universidade Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Mark Greaves (Vulcan, Inc., US) Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Natasha Noy (Stanford, US) Chris Welty (IBM Watson Research Center, US) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE John Domingue (Director), j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk Asun Gomez-Perez (Co-Director), asun at fi.upm.es FOUNDER Enrico Motta (The Open University, 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. 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. Accepted candidates are expected to arrive on Sunday between 3pm and 6pm (July 6th) and to participate fully in the activities of the school until it ends, at 2pm on Saturday 12th July. We will not consider applications from students who cannot commit themselves to full participation for the whole duration of the school. COST OF SUMMER SCHOOL INCLUDING ACCOMMODATION, MEALS AND EXCURSION (please note that at this stage this is still an estimate) Euros 780. 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 will be posted on the web site, http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/sssw08/ at a future date. REGISTRATION Registration forms will be posted on our website at a future date. IMPORTANT DATES Registration Opens: 15th February 2008 Registration Closes: 15th March 2008 Notification of acceptance: 20th April 2008 Deadline for payments: 30th May 2008 John __________________________ Dr. John Domingue, 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 bruno.wp.mailinglist at googlemail.com Tue Jan 8 18:15:26 2008 From: bruno.wp.mailinglist at googlemail.com (Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:15:26 -0200 Subject: [DL] Re: decidability In-Reply-To: <0JUB00E17UUDHM00@mail.tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> References: <0JUB00E17UUDHM00@mail.tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Message-ID: <4783afbb.22035a0a.2a91.ffffb715@mx.google.com> Hello Ward, > What does it mean for a logic language to be undecidable? Is it a bad > language? Is it not the task of a reasoner to point out whether a > query is decidable, instead of restricting the whole language? I think the mistake in your last question is that you associate decidability with the query, but decidability is a property of a problem. And the problems (satisfiability, subsumption, etc) talked about by logicians (and loosely used by them to classify their logics as decidable or not) depend not only on the query, but also on the whole language in which the knowledge base is written. To complement what Enrico Franconi explained, another very common reasoning problem in logics in general is the validity of formulas (whether they are true in all models). Furthermore, if we have a proof calculus for our logic, that allow us to show formal proofs for certain formulas, we can also think about the problem of provability (whether we can show a proof for a formula) and its decidability. Depending on the soundness and the completeness of the calculus, the problems of validity and provability may or may not be equivalent. To say it slightly more precisely but still imprecisely, we are then interested in the question: Is the formula (query) F provable/derivable from the axioms of the theory (knowledge base and its TBox and ABox...) T according to the rules of inference of our calculus? In other words, does F "follow" from T? And then, is there a general algorithm that can decide this for us for *any* F and for *any* T? It's intuitive that the existence of such an algorithm/decision-procedure will depend on the expressiveness of the language that we use for our F's *and* T's. The more expressive, the less likely the existence of such a decision-procedure is. I hope the additional example of the reasoning problem above, with a proof-theoretical flavor, fits well your query-oriented view of the subject. I think it also creates a link between the vocabulary usually used by DLs (KB, TBox, ABox, query) and the vocabulary used in other logics that you might know. Best Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------ Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo Skype: bruno.wp | Mobile: +43(680)2109403 WebSite: http://bruno-wp.blogspot.com/ WebSite: http://www.logic.at/people/bruno/ From joerg.hoffmann at deri.at Thu Jan 10 13:08:40 2008 From: joerg.hoffmann at deri.at (Joerg Hoffmann) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:08:40 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC 2008 Final Call for System Demonstrations In-Reply-To: <476670E7.4020306@deri.at> References: <001e01c806a2$94502c90$6402a8c0@informatik.unimannheim.de> <476670E7.4020306@deri.at> Message-ID: <47860AC8.7040601@deri.at> Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this email to anyone interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR SYSTEM DEMOS 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'08) 01 - 05 June 2008 Tenerife (Spain) http://www.eswc2008.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BASIC FACTS: Demo descriptions will be published as part of the ESWC'08 proceedings. 5 pages LNCS in PDF format. Submission via ESWC'08 Demo EasyChair installation at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc08demo Submission: January 11, 2008, at 11:59 p.m. Hawaiian Time Notification: February 29, 2008 Camera Ready: March 14, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ESWC is the leading European Conference on Theory, Practice and Applications of Semantic Web Technologies, constantly attracting a high number of high quality submissions and participants from academia and industry. Besides the research paper and poster tracks, ESWC asks for demonstrations of semantic web systems and applications. This includes applications, demonstrations of innovative technologies or infrastructures that support the deployment of semantic web applications in any area covered by topics of interest for ESWC'08. To submit a demo to ESWC'08, the authors are requested to submit a demo description. The description must be submitted as a PDF file; it must be formatted in LNCS style, and it must be no longer than 5 pages maximum. The demo descriptions will be published as part of the ESWC'08 proceedings. As such, quality assurance will be strict, and the demos will be subject to review by a separate Programme Committee. All demos must show relevance, novelty and significance. The descriptions should contain sections answering the following questions, as appropriate: 1. What is the research background and application context of the demonstration? 2. What is the employed key technology, and how does it relate to pre-existing work? 3. What exactly will be demonstrated? 4. What exactly will a visitor of the demonstration learn? Submission and reviewing of demo descriptions will be electronic via the ESWC'08 Demo EasyChair installation at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc08demo In order to submit, you need to have an EasyChair account. If you do not already have such an account, you can create one by clicking on "I have no EasyChair account". Important Dates Submission: January 11, 2008, at 11:59 p.m. Hawaiian Time Notification: February 29, 2008 Camera Ready: March 14, 2008 ESWC 2008 Demo Chair: Joerg Hoffmann ESWC 2008 Demo Programme Committee: Harith Alani Lora Aroyo Alessandro Artale Abraham Bernstein Leopoldo Bertossi Walter Binder Kalina Bontcheva John Breslin Francois Bry Paul Buitelaar Christoph Bussler Andrea Cali Diego Calvanese Ying Ding Giorgios Flouris Fabien Gandon Nick Gibbins John Goodwin Guido Governatori Mark Greaves Gianluigi Greco Volker Haarslev Nicola Henze Martin Hepp Pascal Hitzler Andreas Hotho Vangelis Karkaletsis Vipul Kashyap Anastasios Kementsietsidis Hak Lae Kim Matthias Klusch Joanne Luciano Wolfgang May Dunja Mladenic Enrico Motta Daniel Oberle Bijan Parsia Terry Payne Axel Polleres Michael Schumacher Elena Simperl Michael Sintek Michael Stollberg Christos Tryfonopoulos Victoria Uren Raphael Volz From gardent at loria.fr Fri Jan 11 16:36:12 2008 From: gardent at loria.fr (Claire Gardent) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:36:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] Postdoc Opening, Nancy (France) Message-ID: <20080111153612.9B5AA573BC@loria1.loria.fr> Postdoctoral Position at INRIA Nancy (France) Field: Computational Linguistics Topic: Surface realisation and large scale over-generation detection Deadline for application: February 15, 2008. Starting Date: 01 November 2008 Employer: INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science) Nancy Grand Est (France) Job Description: The Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications (Nancy, France) has a position for a Postdoctoral fellow to work on the development of a surface realiser for French. Applicants must have a ** recent doctoral degree ** (PhD viva held in may 2007 or later) or defend their PhD before the end of 2008. They must have expertise in an area relevant to the project (linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science), strong hands-on experience in Natural Language Processing and a particular interest in NL generation. A good knowledge of Haskell is a necessity. Further particulars and details of how to apply are available at: http://www.loria.fr/~gardent The official closing date is February 15, 2007, but applications will be processed until the position is filled. Contact: Claire Gardent From r.cornet at amc.uva.nl Fri Jan 11 20:47:55 2008 From: r.cornet at amc.uva.nl (Ronald Cornet) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:17:55 +0330 Subject: [DL] 2nd Call for Papers: KR-MED 2008 "Representing and sharing knowledge using SNOMED CT" Message-ID: <20080111231755921.00000006108@06-020-2539> The vision of a universal clinical terminology, covering a broad range of health-related domains and meeting the needs of all health professionals has stimulated numerous health informatics research activities in the last two decades. SNOMED CT? (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms) is emerging as a comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology, since 2007 under a new international ownership. KR-MED 2008 will follow up the successful first SNOMED conference organized in Copenhagen in October 2006, and will address health policy makers, clinicians, nurses, system developers, informatics researchers, computer scientists, terminologists and translators. KR-MED 2008 is also the third event of the AMIA working group KR-MED. It will therefore challenge the current state and the planned roadmap of SNOMED CT development from a perspective of knowledge representation and formal ontologies. The scope of KR-MED 2008 includes the following areas: * Mapping between SNOMED CT and legacy terminologies and classifications * Partial/local use of SNOMED * Ontological aspects of SNOMED CT * Representational Languages and the Concept Model * Classifying SNOMED CT * Coding reliability * SNOMED Quality Assurance and Auditing * SNOMED and Information Models: gaps and overlaps * SNOMED and archetypes * SNOMED and the UMLS * SNOMED Viewers and Browsing tools * International interoperability * Translation issues * Terminology and standards * SNOMED in life science research * Post-Coordination * Semantic annotations with SNOMED Important dates: Paper submissions due: January 15, 2008 Notification of paper acceptance: February 28, 2008 Final paper deadline: March 31, 2008 Workshop: May 31 - June 2, 2008 Location: Arizona Grand Resort, Phoenix, Arizona Submissions: The paper has to be delivered as pdf. Full papers are restricted to 7 pages, poster / demo submissions to 1 page (including bibliography). For details see: www.kr-med.org/2008 Organizing Committee: Stefan Schulz (Freiburg University Hospital, Germany) Ulrich Andersen (International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, Denmark) Scientific Program Committee: Program Chairs: Kent Spackman (Oregon Health & Science University) Ronald Cornet (Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Hans ?hlfeldt (University of Link?ping, Sweden) Franz Baader (University of Dresden, Germany) Robert Baud (University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland) Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA) Anita Burgun (University of Rennes, France) James Cimino (Columbia University, USA) Maureen Donnelly (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA) Kathy Giannangelo (Language & Computing, USA) Josef Ingenerf (University of Lubeck, Germany) Marie-Christine Jaulent (Universit? P.M. Curie, France) Nicolette de Keizer (Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands) John Kilbourne (National Library of Medicine, USA) Yves A. Lussier (University of Chicago, USA) David Markwell (Clinical Information Consultancy, UK) Onard Mejino (University of Washington, USA) Peter Mork (Mitre Corporation, USA) Erik van Mulligen (Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands) Jon Patrick (University of Sydney, Australia) Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) Jean Marie Rodrigues (University of St. ?tienne, France) Daniel Rubin (Stanford University, USA) Patrick Ruch (University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland) Barry Smith (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA) Lowell Vizenor (National Library of Medicine, USA) ############################################################### Ronald Cornet, PhD email: R.Cornet at amc.uva.nl dept. of Medical Informatics phone: +31 (0)20 566 5188 Academic Medical Center, Room J1B-115 fax: +31 (0)20 691 9840 P.O.Box 22700 www: http://kik.amc.uva.nl/home/rcornet/ 1100 DE Amsterdam The Netherlands 'The truth is out there' From joerg.hoffmann at deri.at Sat Jan 12 12:10:54 2008 From: joerg.hoffmann at deri.at (Joerg Hoffmann) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:10:54 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC 2008 EXTENDED DEADLINE for System Demonstrations In-Reply-To: <47860AC8.7040601@deri.at> References: <001e01c806a2$94502c90$6402a8c0@informatik.unimannheim.de> <476670E7.4020306@deri.at> <47860AC8.7040601@deri.at> Message-ID: <4788A03E.5020101@deri.at> Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this email to anyone interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTENDED DEADLINE: January 17, 2008 CALL FOR SYSTEM DEMOS 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'08) 01 - 05 June 2008 Tenerife (Spain) http://www.eswc2008.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BASIC FACTS: Demo descriptions will be published as part of the ESWC'08 proceedings. 5 pages LNCS in PDF format. Submission via ESWC'08 Demo EasyChair installation at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc08demo Submission: January 17, 2008, at 11:59 p.m. Hawaiian Time (11:59 a.m. CET) Notification: February 29, 2008 Camera Ready: March 14, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ESWC is the leading European Conference on Theory, Practice and Applications of Semantic Web Technologies, constantly attracting a high number of high quality submissions and participants from academia and industry. Besides the research paper and poster tracks, ESWC asks for demonstrations of semantic web systems and applications. This includes applications, demonstrations of innovative technologies or infrastructures that support the deployment of semantic web applications in any area covered by topics of interest for ESWC'08. To submit a demo to ESWC'08, the authors are requested to submit a demo description. The description must be submitted as a PDF file; it must be formatted in LNCS style, and it must be no longer than 5 pages maximum. The demo descriptions will be published as part of the ESWC'08 proceedings. As such, quality assurance will be strict, and the demos will be subject to review by a separate Programme Committee. All demos must show relevance, novelty and significance. The descriptions should contain sections answering the following questions, as appropriate: 1. What is the research background and application context of the demonstration? 2. What is the employed key technology, and how does it relate to pre-existing work? 3. What exactly will be demonstrated? 4. What exactly will a visitor of the demonstration learn? Submission and reviewing of demo descriptions will be electronic via the ESWC'08 Demo EasyChair installation at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc08demo In order to submit, you need to have an EasyChair account. If you do not already have such an account, you can create one by clicking on "I have no EasyChair account". Important Dates Submission: January 11, 2008, at 11:59 p.m. Hawaiian Time Notification: February 29, 2008 Camera Ready: March 14, 2008 ESWC 2008 Demo Chair: Joerg Hoffmann ESWC 2008 Demo Programme Committee: Harith Alani Lora Aroyo Alessandro Artale Abraham Bernstein Leopoldo Bertossi Walter Binder Kalina Bontcheva John Breslin Francois Bry Paul Buitelaar Christoph Bussler Andrea Cali Diego Calvanese Ying Ding Giorgios Flouris Fabien Gandon Nick Gibbins John Goodwin Guido Governatori Mark Greaves Gianluigi Greco Volker Haarslev Nicola Henze Martin Hepp Pascal Hitzler Andreas Hotho Vangelis Karkaletsis Vipul Kashyap Anastasios Kementsietsidis Hak Lae Kim Matthias Klusch Joanne Luciano Wolfgang May Dunja Mladenic Enrico Motta Daniel Oberle Bijan Parsia Terry Payne Axel Polleres Michael Schumacher Elena Simperl Michael Sintek Michael Stollberg Christos Tryfonopoulos Victoria Uren Raphael Volz From tiwari at csl.sri.com Mon Jan 14 21:26:28 2008 From: tiwari at csl.sri.com (Ashish Tiwari) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:26:28 -0800 Subject: [DL] RTA'08: Call For Papers Message-ID: <200801142026.m0EKQS7Z009891@aryabhata.csl.sri.com> ******************************************************** * * * RTA 2008 * * Rewriting Techniques and Applications * * 19th International Conference * * * * July 15-17, 2008, Castle of Hagenberg, Austria * * http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/rta2008/ * * * ******************************************************** The 19th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2008) is organised as part of the RISC Summer 2008, which comprises five conferences, five workshops and the Training School in Symbolic Computation, and is followed by the 3rd International School on Rewriting in Obergurgl. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract: February 4, 2008 Paper Submission: February 11, 2008 Notification: April 4, 2008 Final version: April 25, 2008 RTA is the major forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of rewriting. Typical areas of interest include (but are not limited to): * Applications: case studies; analysis of cryptographic protocols; rule-based (functional and logic) programming; symbolic and algebraic computation; theorem proving; system synthesis and verification; proof checking; reasoning about programming languages and logics; program transformation; * Foundations: matching and unification; narrowing; completion techniques; strategies; rewriting calculi, constraint solving; tree automata; termination; combination; * Frameworks: string, term, and graph rewriting; lambda-calculus and higher-order rewriting; constrained rewriting/deduction; categorical and infinitary rewriting; integration of decision procedures; * Implementation: implementation techniques; parallel execution; rewrite tools; termination checking; * Semantics: equational logic; rewriting logic; rewriting models of programs. BEST PAPER AWARD: An award is given to the best paper or papers as decided by the program committee. STUDENT SUPPORT: Limited student support will be available and announced in future versions of this call. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR: * Andrei Voronkov University of Manchester http://www.voronkov.com/ PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: * Maribel Fern?ndez King's College London * Neil Ghani University of Leicester * J?rgen Giesl RWTH Aachen * Guillem Godoy Universidad Polit?cnica de Catalu?a * Jean Goubault-Larrecq ENS Cachan * Tetsuo Ida University of Tsukuba * Claude Kirchner INRIA * Konstantin Korovin University of Manchester * Temur Kutsia Johannes Kepler University Linz * Aart Middeldorp University of Innsbruck * Paliath Narendran SUNY at Albany * Robert Nieuwenhuis Universidad Polit?cnica de Catalu?a * Micha?l Rusinowitch INRIA * Aaron Stump Washington University in St. Louis * Jean-Marc Talbot Universit? de Provence * Yoshihito Toyama Tohoku University * Ralf Treinen Universit? Paris Diderot * Andrei Voronkov University of Manchester * Hans Zantema Technische Universiteit Eindhoven GENERAL CHAIR: * Bruno Buchberger Johannes Kepler University Linz ORGANISING COMMITTEE CHAIR: * Temur Kutsia Johannes Kepler University Linz SUBMISSIONS: Submissions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submission categories include regular research papers and system descriptions. Problem sets and submissions describing interesting applications of rewriting techniques are also welcome. The page limit for submissions is 15 pages in Springer LNCS style (10 pages for system descriptions). Papers must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system. The submission Web page is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=RTA2008 From STEPHENS_SUSIE_M at LILLY.COM Mon Jan 14 23:06:37 2008 From: STEPHENS_SUSIE_M at LILLY.COM (Susie M Stephens) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:06:37 -0500 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences workshop at WWW 2008 Message-ID: SEMANTIC WEB FOR HEALTH CARE AND LIFE SCIENCES WORKSHOP held in conjunction with The 17th International World Wide Web Conference April 21-25, 2008 Beijing, China http://ccnt.zju.edu.cn/hcls2008/ (http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/WWW2008 mirror Web site) Biomedical researchers need to be able to ask questions that span many heterogeneous data sources in order to make well-informed decisions. For this to be achieved, data about drugs, patients, diseases, genes, proteins, and pathways must be effectively integrated. Yet the integration of disparate biomedical data continues to be a challenge to achieve. Many organizations are now exploring the use of Semantic Web technologies in the hope of easing the effort of data integration. The benefits promised by the Semantic Web include aggregation of heterogeneous data using explicit semantics, simplified annotation and sharing of findings, the expression of rich and well-defined models for data aggregation and search, easier reuse of data in unanticipated ways, and the application of logic to infer additional insights. W3C has established the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLSIG) Interest Group to help organizations in their adoption of the Semantic Web. The HCLSIG is chartered to develop and support the use of Semantic Web technologies to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the domains of Health Care and Life Sciences. As a part of realizing this vision, we are organizing a workshop on the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences in conjunction with WWW2008. Audience: The workshop encourages participation from industry and academia with an emphasis on the practical aspects of applying Semantic Web technologies to the challenges of Health Care and the Life Sciences. We encourage participation from Pharmaceutical and Biotech Companies, Health Care Organizations, Universities and Research Institutes, IT Vendors, and Government Agencies. Topics of Interest: - Semantic integration - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Semantic Web applications - Semantic Web Services - Querying RDF/OWL - Query mediation and translation - Semantic mashups Submissions: Authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas listed above at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcls2008 Papers should follow the general format of refereed papers for WWW2008 as described at: http://www2008.org/submissions/index.html Important Dates: Paper submission: January 25, 2008 Notification of acceptance: February 22, 2008 Final version of accepted papers for inclusion on conference CD: February 29, 2008 Final version of accepted papers March 21, 2008 Date of workshop: April 22, 2008 Program Committee: Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant Christopher Baker, A-STAR Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, NIH Keith Boyce, ImmuneTolerance Cory Brouwer, Pfizer Bill Bug, UCSD Helen Chen, AGFA William Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University Tim Clark, Harvard University Sudeshna Das, Harvard University Don Doherty, Brainstage Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics Andrew Gibson, University of Manchester Carole Goble, University of Manchester Yufeng Guo, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Amarnath Gupta, SDSC Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe Volker Haarslev, Concordia University William Hayes, BiogenIdec Ivan Herman, W3C Yusheng He, Peking University Vipul Kashyap, Partners Healthcare Marijke Keet, Free University of Bolen-Bolzano Phil Lord, Newcastle University M. Scott Marshall, University of Amsterdam Robin McEntire, GlaxoSmithKline Parsa Mirhaji, University of Texas Mark Musen, Stanford University Fabian Neuhaus, NIST Eric Neumann, Clinical Semantics Chimezie Ogbuji, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Elgar Pichler, AstraZeneca Matthew Pocock, Newcastle University Daniel Rubin, Stanford University Matthias Samwald, University of Vienna Susanna Sansone, European Bioinformatics Institute Michael Schroeder, Dresden University Nigam Shah, Stanford University Amit Sheth, Wright State University Robert Stevens, University of Manchester Rudi Studer, Karlsruhe University Adam West, Eli Lilly Katy Wostencroft, University of Manchester Xuezhong Zhou, Nornern Jiaotong University Organizing Committee: Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University Kei Cheung, Yale University Michel Dumontier, Carleton University Eric Prud'hommeaux, W3C Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons Susie Stephens, Eli Lilly Yimin Wang, University of Karlsruhe From lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org Tue Jan 15 14:14:44 2008 From: lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org (Lejla Ibralic-Halilovic) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:14:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] Fulltime POSTDOC in Semantic Technologies, STI International, Vienna Message-ID: *Fulltime POSTDOC in Semantic Technologies, STI International, Vienna* To strengthen our team we are seeking a candidate with a PhD degree and at least 2-3 years working experience with a strong technical background in Semantic Technology and Computer Science. Experience in management of projects, in international working environments, with writing research proposals, creating and editing publications and having participated in research or open source communities are a particular plus for respective candidates. *About STI International: STI International is organized as a collaborative association of interested scientific, industrial and governmental parties. The aim of the STI International is to support the successful and enduring development of semantic technologies as a central pillar of future ICT systems. In order to support the research, technology developing and commercialization processes in the emerging field of semantic technologies, STI International coordinates, integrates, and consolidates the activities of interested academic, industrial, and governmental organizations. *What we offer: -A stimulating environment of a leading research initiative in the area of semantic technologies -Excellent connection and cooperation with research groups worldwide through our member network -Opportunity to work with internationally established academic and industrial partners -Challenging position in a new fast growing worldwide research association -Up-to-date infrastructure and resources, including funding for attending international conferences and other events *What we expect: -An excellent PhD degree, or equivalent academic degree, in Computer Science or related disciplines. -Research interest in at least one of the areas Knowledge Representation, Logics (e.g. Description Logics, First-order Logics, Logic Programming), Ontology Languages, Semantic Web Services or related Semantic Web topics. -The willingness to combine formal scientific work with application-oriented research in projects funded by the European Commission and national Austrian agencies. -High management and communication skills -High willingness for travelling -Excellent English skills , with basic German skills as a plus We are looking for individuals who will be able to continue their existing field of research within our ongoing and new research projects. *Working location: Vienna, Austria *Working start: at the latest 1.7.2008 *Duration of the contract: unlimited *How to apply: For further information regarding this position and our institute, please see www.sti2.org. We invite you to submit your application to office at sti2.org. Please include a CV in English, a list of publications, a statement of future research plans and information about research activities. Applications should be submitted not later than 28.2.2008. -- Lejla Ibralic Halilovic Semantic Technology Institute International Amerlingstrasse 19/35 A-1060 Vienna, Austria (+43) 1 23 64 002 - 18 lejla.ibralic-halilovic(at)sti2.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: STI_International_postdoc.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 53760 bytes Desc: not available URL: From r.cornet at amc.uva.nl Tue Jan 15 16:42:23 2008 From: r.cornet at amc.uva.nl (Ronald Cornet) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:42:23 +0100 Subject: [DL] KR-MED 2008 Deadline Extension Message-ID: <20080115164223522.00000003164@06-020-2539> Apologies for cross-postings, We like to inform you that we have postponed the deadline to January 31st, 23:59 (Pacific Time; UTC-8:00). All info on the conference can be found at: www.kr-med.org/2008 Submissions via: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-MED2008 Best regards, Ronald Cornet From areces at loria.fr Wed Jan 16 00:09:34 2008 From: areces at loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:09:34 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] AiML-2008: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <20080115230934.2530F57493@loria1.loria.fr> ======================================================= Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies []<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr DEADLINE: 31 March 2008 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-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logics, including the following: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic + complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics + modal and temporal logic programming + model checking + theorem proving for modal logics - theoretical aspects of modal logic + algebraic and categorical perspectives on modal logic + coalgebraic modal logic + completeness and canonicity + correspondence and duality theory + many-dimensional modal logics + modal fixed point logics + model theory of modal logic + proof theory of modal logic - specific instances and variations of modal logic + description logics + dynamic logics and other process logics + epistemic and deontic logics + modal logics for agent-based systems + modal logic and game theory + modal logic and grammar formalisms + provability and interpretability logics + spatial and temporal logics + hybrid logic + intuitionistic logic + monotonic modal logic + substructural logic Papers on related subjects will also be considered. INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers at AiML-2008 will include the following: - Mai Gehrke, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen http://www.math.ru.nl/mgehrke/ - Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~guido/ - Agi Kurucz, King's College London http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/ - Lawrence Moss, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ PAPER SUBMISSIONS In a change from previous AiML's, there will be two types of paper: (1) Full papers for publication and presentation at the conference. (2) Abstracts for short presentation only. Both types of paper should be submitted electronically using the submission page at http://www.easychair.org/AiML08/ The online submission system will be opened a few weeks before the submission deadline of 31 March 2008. (1) FULL PAPERS These will be published by College Publications http://www.collegepublications.co.uk in a volume to be made available at the meeting. Authors are invited to submit for review a full paper, not submitted elsewhere. It should be 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 appear in the conference volume, papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the style files to be provided at http://aiml08.loria.fr . At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the conference to present the paper. (2) ABSTRACTS These should at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light review. They may be made available at the conference, and authors should indicate if they would like to make a short presentation of their abstract of up to 15 minutes. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Philippe Balbiani (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Alexandru Baltag (University of Oxford, UK) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University, USA) Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France) Stephane Demri (CNRS, Cachan, France) Melvin Fitting (City University of New York, USA) Guido Governatori (University of Queensland, Australia) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London, UK) Ramon Jansana (University of Barcelona, Spain) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Edwin Mares (Victoria University of Wellington) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Dirk Pattinson (Imperial College London, UK) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia, Australia) Ildiko Sain (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jerry Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Nobu-Yuki Suzuki (Shizuoka University, Japan) Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College, London, UK) PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Carlos Areces LORIA, Nancy carlos.areces(at)loria.fr Rob Goldblatt Victoria University of Wellington rob.goldblatt(at)mcs.vuw.ac.nz LOCAL ORGANIZER Patrick Blackburn LORIA, Nancy patrick.blackburn(at)loria.fr IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 31 March 2008 Acceptance notification: 31 May 2008 Final version of full papers due: 30 June 2008 Conference: 9-12 September 2008 CONFERENCE LOCATION Advances in Modal Logic 2008 will be held at LORIA (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) in Nancy, in the Lorraine, in the east of France. FURTHER INFORMATION Information about AiML-2008 will be available at the conference website: http://aiml08.loria.fr E-mail enquiries should be directed to the local organizer or the program co-chairs. Information about AiML itself can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net From guilin_qi at yahoo.co.uk Thu Jan 17 08:44:23 2008 From: guilin_qi at yahoo.co.uk (guilin qi) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:44:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [DL] [CFP]ARea2008: International Workshop on Advancing Reasoning on the Web: Scalability and Commonsense colocated at ESWC2008 Message-ID: <848679.54138.qm@web23105.mail.ird.yahoo.com> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) 1st CALL FOR PAPERS =================================== International Workshop on Advancing Reasoning on the Web: Scalability and Commonsense (ARea 2008) https://logic.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/wiki/ARea2008 Hosted by the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-08) http://www.eswc2008.org/ June 1, 2008, Tenerife, Spain Submission Deadline for full paper: 7th of March, 2008 (12.00 AM, GMT) =================================== Workshop Description -------------------- Semantic Web Technologies provide concepts, architectures, and tools for interconnected vocabularies and applications. One of the declared goals of Semantic Web research is to enable intelligent software agents to reason about information and knowledge which is pervaded on the Web. To realize this, Semantic Web reasoning research has to face two apparently contradictory challenges: On the one hand, scalability to web size is crucial. On the other hand, expressive knowledge representation capabilities are needed, as traditionally studied in the are of commonsense reasoning. Workshop Objectives and Topics of Interest ------------------------------------------ We therefore seek to bring together researchers interested in scalable reasoning solutions for the Semantic Web as well as researchers in commonsense reasoning. We invite technical contributions and short statements of interest concerning all aspects of scalable reasoning and commonsense reasoning on and for the semantic web. These include: * new forms of reasoning * heuristic and approximate reasoning * querying and searching * scalability of reasoning to web level * nonmonotonicity for ontology languages * computational models of argumentation * dynamics of ontologies * contextualisation * temporal and spatial reasoning * inconsistency handling * rules and ontologies * uncertainty handling * planning and reasoning about action and change on the semantic web Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: 7th of March 2008 Notification: 4th of April, 2008 Camera-ready version: 18th of April, 2008 Workshop day: to be decided (between 1st and 5th of June, 2008) Submissions ----------- We will accept full papers (up to 15 pages) as well as short statements of interest (2 pages) in LNCS format. Both of these will be reviewed by members of the programme committee. Proceedings will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (bearing an ISSN number). Submissions should be sent to Guilin Qi, gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, no later than 7th of March 2008. Organisers ---------- Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Andreas Herzig, Universit? Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Zuoquan Lin, Peking University, Beijing, China Ruzica Piskac, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Guilin Qi, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Primary Contact: Guilin Qi, gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pfps at research.bell-labs.com Thu Jan 17 09:47:40 2008 From: pfps at research.bell-labs.com (Peter F. Patel-Schneider) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:47:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] call for papers for OWLED 2008 DC (papers due 15 February) Message-ID: <20080117.034740.139414745.pfps@research.bell-labs.com> Announcement and Call for Participation OWL Experiences and Directions Workshop Washington, D.C., metro area, U.S.A., 1-2 April 2008 http://webont.org/owled/2008dc/index.html SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE on 15 February!!! The fourth OWL: Experiences and Directions workshop http://www.webont.org/owled/2008dc/ will again bring users, implementors and researchers together in order to measure the current state of need against the state of the art and to set an agenda for language evolutions that satisfy users. This OWLED workshop will last two days and will be held in the Washington, D.C., area, in the first week of April 2008. The workshop will concentrate on issues related to the development and W3C standardization of OWL 1.1, but other issues related to OWL are also of interest, particularly those related to the task forces set up at OWLED 2007. As an "interim" workshop, the workshop will be more open and unconstrained than recent OWLED workshops. The workshop will have two very different kinds of activities. There will be some formal presentation of some submissions to the workshop. However, the bulk of the workshop will be devoted to self-organizing groups discussing topics related to submissions to the workshop and possibly other topics related to OWL. Making this self-organization work will require effort on the part of the attendees. Workshop attendees should read submissions accepted at the workshop before the workshop starts so that they can contribute to the discussions at the workshop. Attendees should also prepare single "slides" that can be presented during these discussions. Submissions Potential attendees who need official invitations to the workshop should submit a short statement of interest (maximum 4 pages). To allow attendees to make travel plans, submissions of interest submitted early will receive early invitations. There will also be open registration for the workshop. Attendees who are not submitting a formal paper are encouraged to submit a statement of interest. Longer papers (up to 10 pages, LNCS style) can also be submitted to the workshop and space will be reserved for authors of papers. Accepted papers will be made available to attendees before the workshop. Systems demonstrations are also welcome. Interested parties should submit a short description (maximum 4 pages) of their demonstration. For more information on submissions see the workshop web page at http://webont.org/owled/2008dc/index.html Submission details: All statements of interest, papers, and systems descriptions must be submitted online using the conference submission website http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=owled2008dc All submissions must be in PDF. All 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 Deadlines and Schedule: 21 January 2008 Statements of interest for early invitation due 1 February 2008 Early invitations sent out 8 February 2008 Statements of interest for regular invitation due 15 February 2008 Papers and system descriptions due 15 February 2008 Regular invitations sent out 1 March 2008 Paper acceptances sent out 15 March 2008 Final versions of papers and statements of interest due 1-2 April 2008 OWLED 2008 DC workshop Registration information will be available on the workshop web site. For more information send email to owled-dc-org at lists.owldl.com Organizers: Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research OWLED Steering Committee: Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Manchester (UK) John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK) Pascal Hitzler, AIFB Karlsruhe (Germany) Ian Horrocks, Oxford University (UK) Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester (UK) Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) Program Committee: Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Jeremy Carroll, HP Anne Cregan, National ICT Australia Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics Christine Golbreich, University of Versailles John Goodwin, Ordinance Survey Volker Haarslev, Concordia University Christian Halaschek-Wiener, Clados Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM TJ Watson Markus Kroetzsch, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) Joanne Luciano, MITRE Alan Ruttenberg, Creative Commons Michael Smith, Clark & Parsia Giorgos Stoilos, National and Technical University of Athens Suzzette Stoutenberg, MITRE Zhe Wu, Oracle Corporation From fgcozman at usp.br Thu Jan 17 15:23:13 2008 From: fgcozman at usp.br (Fabio Cozman) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:23:13 -0200 Subject: [DL] Question on ALC dl Message-ID: <478F64D1.1060802@usp.br> Dear DL-members, I'd be very grateful for any help with two questions concerning the ALC description logic: 1) Could someone suggest a paper or repository containing a realistic ontology written in ALC, to be used as example? Thanks! 2) I have a question on the tableau algorithm for ALC. Consider the usual tableau for verifying satisfiability of a concept C with an acyclic terminology. The first step is to "unfold" the terminology: transform all inclusions into definitions, and then replace defined concepts by their definitions until we reach primitive concepts (this is described in many places; for instance, in "An overview of tableau algorithms for description logics" by Baader and Sattler). My question is this. Suppose we have "forall r.D" in the concept C, and we go unfolding D recursively. Clearly only concepts that are "upstream" to D in the terminology will appear, as the terminology is acyclic. So, I see that if there are clashes with these "upstream" concepts in the the terminology, these clashes will be detected by the tableau method when we consider an individual b that satisfies r(a,b), where a is an individual in the tableau. But "unfolding" never touches the inclusions/definitions that are "downstream" to D in the terminology (I hope this is clear). So, if there are clashes "downstream", they do not appear. Is there a proof somewhere that the "unfolding" procedure is correct, in the sense that the parts of the terminology that are "downstream" to D do not matter? I've found statements in the literature to the effect that these parts of the terminology do not matter, but I would like to see a proof or at least a detailed explanation. I apologize if this is a silly question and the answer is obvious. Many thanks, Fabio Cozman From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Fri Jan 18 14:52:08 2008 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (ruy at cin.ufpe.br) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:52:08 -0200 (BRST) Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2008 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <1468.172.17.149.28.1200664328.squirrel@webmail.cin.ufpe.br> [** sincere apologies for duplicates **] Call for Papers 15th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2008) Edinburgh, Scotland July 1-4, 2008 (There will be a screening of George Csicsery's "Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem" http://zalafilms.com/films/juliarobinson.html with kind permission of the film director) WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The Fifteenth WoLLIC will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from July 1 to July 4, 2008. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2008/instructions.html A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 24, and the full paper by March 2 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 13, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by April 27 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2008, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (tbc). In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2008 issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation (tbc). INVITED SPEAKERS Olivier Danvy (BRICS) Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, UK) Makoto Kanazawa (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) Sam Lomonaco (U Maryland Baltimore) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh U) Henry Towsner (CMU) Nikolay Vereshchagin (Moscow) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2008 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2008). See www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES February 24, 2008: Paper title and abstract deadline March 2, 2008: Full paper deadline (firm) April 13, 2008: Author notification April 27, 2008: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lev Beklemishev (Utrecht) Eli Ben-Sasson (Technion) Xavier Caicedo (U Los Andes, Colombia) Mary Dalrymple (Oxford) Martin Escardo (Birmingham) Wilfrid Hodges (Queen Mary, U London) (Chair) Achim Jung (Birmingham) Louis Kauffman (Maths, U Ill at Chicago) Ulrich Kohlenbach (Darmstadt) Leonid Libkin (Edinburgh U) Giuseppe Longo (Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Valeria de Paiva (PARC, USA) Andre Scedrov (Maths, U Penn) Valentin Shehtman (Inst for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow) Joe Wells (Heriot-Watt U, Scotland) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (U Brasilia, Brazil) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt U, Scotland, co-chair) Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil, co-chair) STEERING COMMITTEE J. van Benthem, J. Halpern, W. Hodges, D. Leivant, A. Macintyre, G. Mints, R. de Queiroz WEB PAGE www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2008/ --- From j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk Thu Jan 24 18:15:22 2008 From: j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk (John Domingue) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:15:22 +0000 Subject: [DL] Jobs: Research Posts in Semantic Web Services in KMi at The Open University Message-ID: <4F463F08-F24C-433B-A880-B2215A87BCA3@open.ac.uk> ******Apologies for multiple postings****** The Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University needs Research Assistants and Research Associates to undertake research in Semantic Web Services within our EU-funded projects: LUISA, (http://luisa.atosorigin.es/www/index.php ) with focus is on shifting e-Learning from a learning objects-based paradigm to a paradigm based on Semantic Web Services; and SOA4ALL (http://www.soa4all.org ) which aims to combine SWS technology with the principles underlying Web and Web 2.0 to create a web of billions of services. All of our work will be centred on our framework and implemented infrastructure for developing Semantic Web Services, IRS-III (http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/irs/ ). You will be considered according to qualifications and experience. A Research Assistant requires a Masters qualification or equivalent post- graduate experience and a Research Associate requires a PhD qualification or equivalent experience. For detailed information and how to apply go to http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/ , call the KMi Recruitment Coordinator on +44 (0) 1908 654774 or email quoting either the appropriate reference number (4363 for Research Assistant or 4255 for Research Associate) Salary: ?25,134.00 - ?32,796.00 Closing date: 15th Feb 2008 john __________________________ Dr. John Domingue, 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 baojie at cs.iastate.edu Fri Jan 25 08:05:45 2008 From: baojie at cs.iastate.edu (Jie Bao) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:05:45 -0600 Subject: [DL] =?iso-8859-1?q?Complexity_of_ALCHOI_=28=AC=29?= Message-ID: Dear friends: I wonder if the complexity of the DL ALCHOI (?), i.e. ALCHOI with negations on roles is already known. I know it should be ExpTime-hard (harder on ALCIO) and in NExpTime (since it is a subset of ALBO). I wish to know the gap between these two has already been explored. Thank you in advance for your concern. Greets Jie -- Jie Bao Department of Computer Science Iowa State University http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~baojie baojie at cs.iastate.edu 515-294-7331(office), 515-509-3927(cell) From geoff at cs.miami.edu Thu Jan 31 15:05:08 2008 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:05:08 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] IJCAR, last Call for Papers Message-ID: <20080131140508.358EE11F8A9@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> IJCAR 2008 - The 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Sydney, Australia, 10th - 15th August, 2008 http://2008.IJCAR.org Last Call for Papers -------------------- ================================================ | Paper Registration Deadline is 22nd February | ================================================ IJCAR 2008 is the 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, and is a merger of leading events: CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems), FTP (Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving) and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. The IJCAR technical program will consist of presentations of high-quality original research papers, system descriptions and invited talks. There will be two days of workshops and tutorials, 10th and 11th August, and the conference 12th to 15th August. Conference chair: Peter Baumgartner (NICTA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers --------------- IJCAR 2008 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. See the IJCAR website for a detailed list of logics, methods, and applications of interest. The proceedings of IJCAR 2008 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. Submission details: Submission is electronic, through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=IJCAR2008 Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer "llncs" format, which can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The page limit is 15 pages for full papers. The page limit is 7 pages for short system descriptions that provide brief overviews or target recent developments. Full system descriptions that provide in-depth presentation of original ideas in an implemented system can be submitted as full papers. All full papers will be evaluated according to highest standards in terms of originality, significance, technical quality, and readability. Program co-chairs: Alessandro Armando (Universit`a di Genova) Peter Baumgartner (NICTA) Gilles Dowek (l'Ecole Polytechnique) Important dates: Paper registration deadline: 22nd February 2008 Paper submission deadline: 3rd March 2008 Notification of paper decisions: 18th April 2008 Final version of papers due: 23rd May 2008 Conference dates: 12th-15th August 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From ch.lange at jacobs-university.de Tue Feb 5 11:28:29 2008 From: ch.lange at jacobs-university.de (Christoph LANGE) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:28:29 +0100 Subject: [DL] 2nd CfP: SemWiki2008 - The Wiki Way of Semantics (Workshop@ESWC) In-Reply-To: <200712221216.58248.ch.lange@jacobs-university.de> References: <200712221216.58248.ch.lange@jacobs-university.de> Message-ID: <200802051128.32134.ch.lange@jacobs-university.de> [Apologies for multiple copies] Full call for papers at http://semwiki.org/semwiki2008/ Contact: chair at semwiki.org ---- second CALL FOR PAPERS SemWiki2008 3rd Workshop: 'The Wiki Way of Semantics' http://semwiki.org/semwiki2008 Submission Deadline February 22nd co-located with the 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) http://www.eswc2008.org/ Tenerife, Spain June 1-5, 2008 ---- === Executive Summary === SemWiki2008, the third workshop on Semantic Wikis, aims at reviewing the progress that has been made in the field of Semantic Wikis since the last workshops in 2006. We are interested in reviewing existing semantic wiki systems against the core wiki principles and thus identifying possibilities to improve them, in applying semantic technologies to existing wiki sites such as Wikipedia in order to make them even more productive for mass collaboration, but also in innovative, entirely new ideas for semantic wikis. Semantic Wikis try to combine the strengths of Semantic Web (machine processable, data integration, complex queries) and Wiki (easy to use and contribute, strongly interconnected, collaborativeness) technologies. Goals are diverse and include: * simple annotations of existing Wiki content; * tools that guide users from informal knowledge contained in texts to more formal structures; * full-fledged tools for ontology editing where the text is no longer in the focus of the system. Semantic Wikis contain in an integrated fashion many of the core challenges of the Semantic Web community: authoring, versioning, interlinked data, semantic browsing, semantic annotating, semantic diffs, semantic search and getting overview. In a Semantic Wiki, such methods have to be integrated into a coherent whole, while still remaining lightweight and easy to use. In this workshop, we investigate how these challenges can be tackled in an integrated fashion. === Important Dates (all dates GMT) === * Paper submission: February 22, 2008 (papers, posters, demos, position papers) * Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2008 * Camera ready deadline: April 18, 2008 * Workshop: 1st or 2nd June 2008 === Call for Contributions === We invite submissions as full and short papers, as well as posters/demos. Papers should describe original, unpublished research and must not be under review by another conference, journal, or workshop. Authors of the highest quality contributions will be invited to present their work at the workshop. Since Semantic Wikis are a very practical topic, we are also very interested in poster and demo submissions. Posters and Demos should describe prototypical implementations of systems related to the workshop topics. Highest quality submissions will be presented in a separate poster/demo session. Contributions should adhere to the following formats: * Papers 5-15 pages * Posters/Demos 2-5 pages * Short/Position Papers: 2-5 pages Papers should be formatted using the standard LNCS format and should include an abstract of no more than 120 words. Authors will be required to submit their camera ready versions using SALT (semantically annotated LaTeX; http://salt.semanticauthoring.org). It allows authors to annotate their articles directly with semantic markup. This semantic markup will be used to extract and publish metadata of the submissions on the Semantic Web. A specialized LaTeX template will be provided by the workshop organisers that allows to easily add these annotations. === Proceedings === Pre-proceedings will appear at the time of the conference online and in print. Post-proceedings will be published in the CEUR-WS series. === Topics of Interest === Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Text-Based Semantic Authoring * Acquisition of Formal Knowledge from Structured Text * Wikipedia and the Semantic Web * Mining Wikipedia * extending Wikipedia with semantic web features * ... * Collaborative Authoring of Formal Knowledge * Continuous and Integrated Knowledge Usage and Refinement * Usability and empirical studies of semantic wikis and human factors * Application of semantic wikis in * E-learning * software engineering * knowledge engineering * and other domains * Semantic Wikis in Enterprises * New Ways of Authoring, Browsing and Navigating Semantically Enhanced Data * Reusing data from Semantic Wikis in other systems * Personal Semantic Wikis === Programme === * Invited talk: Corporate Knowledge Management with Semantic Wikis at SUN * Presentations of research and position papers * Poster and demo session * Joint dinner, including a discussion on standardisation of semantic wiki data formats and ontologies (building on existing work such as WSR 3; http://www.wikisym.org/wiki/index.php/WSR_3). === Organisation === The workshop is supported by EU FP7 project KIWI and EU FP6 project NEPOMUK. Workshop co-ordinators: * Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen (DE) * Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research (AT) * Hala Skaf-Molli, LORIA INRIA-LORRAINE/Nancy-Universit? (FR) * Max V?lkel, FZI/Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH) (DE) Programme Committee: * S?ren Auer, Universit?t Leipzig (DE) * David Aum?ller, Universit?t Leipzig (DE) * Joachim Baumeister, Universit?t W?rzburg (DE) * Bj?rn Decker, IESE (DE) * Sebastian Dietzold, Universit?t Leipzig (DE) * Ludger van Elst, DFKI (DE) * Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise (DE) * Tudor Groza, DERI (IE) * Siegfried Handschuh, DERI (IE) * Tom Heath, Open University (UK) * Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz (AT) * Martin Hepp, UIBK (AT) * Malte Kiesel, DFKI (DE) * Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen (DE) * Pascal Molli, Nancy University (FR) * Claudia M?ller, Universit?t Potsdam (DE) * Amedeo Napoli, LORIA (FR) * Eyal Oren, VU (NL) * Viktoria Pammer, Know-Center Graz (AT) * Flavio De Paoli, University of Milano-Bicocca (IT) * Jean Rohmer, Thales (FR) * Peter Scheir, Know-Center Graz (AT) * Elena Simperl, DERI Innsbruck (AT) * Katharina Siorpaes Universit?t Innsbruck (AT) * Steffen Staab, Universit?t Koblenz-Landau (DE) * Jakob Vo?, GBV G?ttingen (DE) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Complete information, including Programme Committee, instructions for submission, description of the workshop, etc. are to be found at: http://semwiki.org/semwiki2008/ -- Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701 From doronp at macs.biu.ac.il Tue Feb 5 18:58:27 2008 From: doronp at macs.biu.ac.il (Doron Peled) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:58:27 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: 5th Workshop on Model Checking and AI Message-ID: <200802051758.m15HwRqG029104@deer.cs.biu.ac.il> - Call for Papers - Fifth Workshop on MODEL CHECKING and ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (MoChArt-2008) At ECAI-2008 - Patras, Greece, July 2008 http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/mochart/ INTRODUCTION Model checking is the process of determining whether or not a formula of some logic is satisfied by a model for the logic. For many logics of interest -- particularly temporal and modal logics -- model checking procedures can be efficiently automated. This has led to widespread interest in the use of model checking as a technique for verifying properties of systems, and the development of a number of widely used model checking tools (e.g., Carnegie-Mellon's SMV, Cadence-SMV, and AT&T's SPIN). The success of model checking in the computer aided verification community has led to a growth of interest in the use of model checking in AI. The MOCHART workshop brings together both researchers in AI with an interest in model checking, and researchers in model checking who are interested in AI techniques. Previous editions of the workshop were held in Riva del Garda, Italy in 2006 (as satellite workshops of ECAI), San Francisco in 2005 (as satellite workshop of Concur), Acapulco in 2003 (as satellite workshop of IJCAI03), and Lyon in 2002 (as satellite workshop of ECAI02). We are exploring the possibility of publishing a formal proceedings after the event with Springer-Verlag. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Application of model checking techniques to AI problems. - planning as model checking - model checking for multi-agent systems - diagnosis and model checking - model checking versus theorem proving - Model Checking and AI logics. - model checking for combined modal/temporal logics - model checking for logics of common sense reasoning - Relations between different techniques used in the two fields for similar purposes (e.g., reducing state explosion). - New model checking techniques specifically for AI problems. - Exploitation of AI techniques in model checking. - AI approaches to the state explosion problem - heuristics for model checking - AI approaches to automatic abstraction - Software tools for model checking in AI. - languages and software platforms for AI model checking - model checking symbolic reasoning systems & languages - Model checking for verification of AI systems. - automated verification of AI systems - case studies & experience with model checking in AI Preliminary papers and papers on applications are strongly encouraged. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: April 10th, 2008 Notification: May 10th, 2008 Workshop: July 21st-22nd, 2008 SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Submissions must be formatted according to Springer-Verlag's "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" styles, and must be no more than 15 pages in length. Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair web-based conference management system: follow the link from the workshop web page. All papers will be peer reviewed, and evaluated on the basis of relevance, technical quality, significance, evaluation, and presentation. PARTICIPATION The workshop forms part of the ECAI-2008 workshop programme, and as such delegates must register for the ECAI conference. For full information about ECAI-2008, including travel & accomodation, see: ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Doron Peled Department of Computer Science Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, 52900 Israel mailto:doron.peled at gmail.com * Michael Wooldridge Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 7ZF, United Kingdom mailto:mjw at liv.ac.uk PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Rajeev Alur (USA) * Massimo Benerecetti (Italy) * Rafael Bordini (UK) * Kousha Etessami (UK) * Michael Fisher (UK) * Gerard Holzmann (USA) * Hadas Kress-Gazit (USA) * Orna Kupferman (Israel) * Alessio Lomuscio (UK) * Ron van de Meyden (Australia) * Peter Niebert (France) * Charles Pecheur (USA) * Wojciech Penczek (Poland) * Franco Raimondi (UK) * Mark Ryan (UK) * Farn Wang (China) From ftoumani at isima.fr Wed Feb 6 17:38:10 2008 From: ftoumani at isima.fr (Farouk Toumani) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:38:10 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP- CAiSE Doctoral Consortium 2008 Message-ID: <47A9E272.4060502@isima.fr> [Many apologies if you receive this CFP more than once] Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------- CAiSE-DC2008 CAiSE Doctoral Consortium 2008 http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pjm/caisedc2008/ 17th June 2008, Montpellier, France (held in conjunction with CAiSE08) First Call for Papers The CAiSE Doctoral Consortium 2008 is an international forum for PhD students working in the areas addressed by the CAiSE conference. The forum is intended to bring together PhD students and give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructively critical atmosphere. The consortium will operate in a workshop format, giving PhD students an opportunity to showcase their research and providing them with feedback from senior international researchers. We particularly encourage students that are somewhere in the middle of their research to submit to this workshop. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium event are - To provide fruitful feedback and advice to the selected Ph.D. students on their research thesis. - To provide the opportunity to meet experts from different backgrounds working on topics related to the Information Systems Engineering field. - To interact with other PhD students and stimulate an exchange of ideas and suggestions among participants. The CAiSE Doctoral Consortium 2008 will be attended by prominent researchers in the field of information systems who will actively participate in and contribute to the discussions. The workshop in Montpellier will be the 15th Doctoral Consortium of a series held in conjunction with the CAiSE conferences in Utrecht (1994), Jyv?skyl? (1995), Heraklion (1996), Barcelona (1997), Pisa (1998), Heidelberg (1999), Stockholm (2000), Interlaken (2001), Toronto (2002), Klagenfurt/Velden (2003) Riga/Latvia (2004), Porto (2005), Luxembourg (2006) and Trondheim (2007). The submitted paper must give a clear description of the PhD work being conducted by author of the paper, and in particular: - provide a clear description of the research problem being addressed. - motivate the proposed research (ie state why the research work is being conducted, and what benefits the research will bring). - outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, briefly describe what existing work the research builds upon (citing key papers), and also briefly describe any existing solutions that have been developed or are currently being developed (citing key papers). - present clearly preliminary results from the research work, and propose a plan of research to complete the research. - point out the contributions of the applicant to the solution of the problem, and state in what aspects the suggested solution is different, new or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem. However, the paper need not be structured to answer those questions directly, but may instead follow the format of a standard conference paper. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee with respect to overall quality of presentation, the potential for future impact of the proposed PhD research on the field of Information Systems Engineering, and the likely benefit to the student of attending the consortium. 25th February 2008 Paper submission deadline 31st March 2008 Notification of acceptance 30th April 2008 Final camera ready copy of paper 9th June 2008 Copy of presentation supplied to organisors 16th June 2008 Workshop, Montpellier, France Submission Instructions To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please send a short paper describing your doctoral work to Peter McBrien pjm at doc.ic.ac.uk, with a copy to: ftoumani at isima.fr (replace ` at ' with '@' to get email address). Submissions must be made electronically, in PDF forma,t by the deadline stated, and the paper must conform to the Springer's LNCS format. The paper is restricted to 4000 words (approximately 8 pages). Submissions must be single-author, but the name of the supervisor should also be mentioned within the paper. Program Committee Zohra Bellahsene (Montpellier 2 University, France) Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu, Estonia) Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Mohand-Said Hacid (Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France) Barbara Pernici (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Michel Scholl (Universit? de Toulon et du Var, France) Antoni Olive (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Peter McBrien (Imperial College London, UK) Farouk Toumani (Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France) PC Co-chairs and Workshop Organisers Peter McBrien pjm at doc.ic.ac.uk Imperial College London Dept. of Computing 180 Queen's GateLondon SW7 BAZ, UK Farouk Toumani ftoumani at isima.fr Universit? Blaise Pascal Laboratoire LIMOS - UMR 6158Complexe scientifique des C?zeaux 63177 AUBIERE cedexFrance From jeedward at yahoo.com Wed Jan 23 13:36:54 2008 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:36:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: [DL] AIPR-08 Final call for papers Message-ID: <61718.16948.qm@web45903.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> AIPR-08 Final Call for papers The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions and the deadline for draft paper submission is approaching very soon. The conference focuses on description logics (DLs) for knowledge representation and reasoning. It will be held at the same time and place where several other major events are taking place. The website contains more details. Sincerely John Edward --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kuldar at csse.unimelb.edu.au Thu Jan 31 05:05:13 2008 From: kuldar at csse.unimelb.edu.au (Kuldar Taveter) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:05:13 +1100 Subject: [DL] CFP: Special Issue of =?utf-8?q?Elsevier=E2=80=99s_Information_S?= =?utf-8?q?ystems_Journal?= Message-ID: <47A148F9.6050208@cs.mu.oz.au> Call for Papers Elsevier?s Information Systems Journal Special Issue on ?Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for Enterprise and Business Process Modeling and Management? http://www.sfu.ca/~dgasevic/cfps/IS_VORTE/ Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules are key components of a model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy. Enterprise vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules do not exist in isolation but serve to support business processes. While many have recognized the importance of vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules in business process modeling and management, there are many open research challenges to be addressed. These challenges can be approached from different perspectives. Fundamental research explores ontological foundations and languages and methods for enterprise and business process modeling. It also covers ontological evaluation of enterprise systems and their interoperability, and ontological analysis of business process modeling. Applied research looks into enhancing business rule engines and business process management systems by ontologies. Business process modeling research aims to define how process modeling and execution languages, such as Business Process Modeling Notation and Business Process Execution Language, relate to business ontologies and rules. Enterprise integration and collaboration research addresses ontology-based service description technologies for inter-enterprise collaboration. This special issue solicits papers focussed on the described research areas. The topics to be covered by submissions include but are not limited to the following: ? Conceptual modeling o Ontological foundations for enterprise and business process modeling o Languages and methods for business vocabularies, terminologies, and taxonomies o Modeling of enterprise information integration and interoperability o Languages for conceptual modeling (for example, OWL and UML) o Agent-oriented conceptual modeling ? Business rule and business process modeling o Analysis of and experiences with OMG?s Semantics of Business Vocabularies and Rules (SBVR) o Rule modeling and rule markup o Rule-based approaches to Web service policies and choreographies o Agent-based business rule and process management o Integrating business rules with business process modeling and execution languages (for example, BPMN and BPML) ? Ontologies for enterprise systems o Ontological approaches to content and knowledge management o Ontologies for e-business registries/repositories o Web service ontologies o Ontological evaluation of enterprise systems o Ontology-based enterprise architectures o Ontology-based software engineering for enterprise solutions ? Model-driven engineering approaches in enterprise systems o Modeling and architecture frameworks o Domain engineering o Domain-specific business information and system engineering o Model transformations in enterprise and business process modeling Important Dates Submission Deadline May 1st, 2008 Reviews Completed: September 1st, 2008 Major Revisions Due: October 15th, 2008 Re-reviews Completed: December 1st, 2008 Final recommendations: January 1st, 2009 Final Manuscripts Due: February 1st, 2009 Publication Date: TBD (2009) Guest editors Dragan Ga?evi?, Athabasca University, Canada Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo (UFES), Brazil Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Submission Guidelines All manuscripts should be compliant with the submission guidelines and policies of the Information Systems journal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys). All manuscripts will be subject to the high standards of peer review and each paper will undergo double blind review. All the papers must be submitted via the online submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/is (by selecting "SI Business Proc. Modelling" during the submission process). From jeedward at yahoo.com Tue Feb 5 20:40:01 2008 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:40:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: [DL] Draft paper submission deadline is extended: AIPR-08 Message-ID: <115453.97059.qm@web45909.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Dear Colleagues and Friends Kindly share the announcement below with those who may be interested: thank you in advance. Sincerely John Edward AIPR-08 draft paper submission deadline is extended The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions and the submission deadline is extended until February 19 2008 due to several requests from the authors. The conference will be held at the same time and place where several major events (please see below) are taking place. The website contains more details. Sincerely John Edward ? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08) ? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-08) ? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08) ? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08) ? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08) ? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-08) ? 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URL: From torben at ruc.dk Wed Feb 6 14:04:51 2008 From: torben at ruc.dk (Torben Brauner) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:04:51 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: Journal of Logic, Language and Information Message-ID: <47A9B073.6080200@ruc.dk> ***CALL FOR PAPERS*** JOURNAL OF LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION (http://www.springer.com/west/home/philosophy/logic?SGWID=4-40392-70-35503189-0) Special Issue on HYBRID LOGIC IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: March 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2008 Publication: by the end of 2008 GENERAL INFORMATION 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 often actually improves the behaviour 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. This special issue has its origin in the International Workshop on Hybrid Logic (HyLo 2007), which was held 6-10 August in Dublin, Ireland as part of the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI 2007). The HyLo 2007 workshop continued a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic. TOPICS Topics of interest include not only standard hybrid-logical machinery like nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder, but generally extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power. SUBMISSIONS This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. All submissions will be refereed to usual journal standards. Submissions should not exceed 30 pages and preferably be formatted according to the guidelines for Journal of Logic, Language and Information (see ?Instructions for Authors? at the web-page of the journal). Submissions should be sent to Torben Bra?ner (as PDF file): torben at ruc.dk. Please put ?JoLLI submission? in the subject field and include the following information in the body of the email: paper title, author names, email address of the contact author, and a short abstract. GUEST EDITORS OF SPECIAL ISSUE Torben Bra?ner, Roskilde University, Denmark (editor-in-chief) Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark From Raphael.Troncy at cwi.nl Wed Feb 6 17:22:19 2008 From: Raphael.Troncy at cwi.nl (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rapha=EBl_Troncy?=) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:22:19 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC 2008 Last Call for Panel Proposals: 3 days left! Message-ID: <47A9DEBB.5010807@cwi.nl> [Apologies for cross and multiple postings. Please circulate to colleagues and prospective interested parties.] ======================================================================= 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008) Tenerife, Spain, June 1-5 2008. ======================================================================== Call for Panel Proposals: ------------------------- Proposal submission deadline: February 8, 2008 Notification date: February 29, 2008 Final panel description for inclusion in the proceedings: March 14, 2008 The ESWC is the leading European Conference on Theory, Practice and Applications of Semantic Web Technologies, constantly attracting a high number of high quality submissions participants from academia and industry. For the first time, ESWC will host panels during the main technical programme. ESWC2008 panels should focus on emerging technologies, controversial issues, or unsolved problems in the Semantic Web community. Panels are expected to stimulate lively, thoughtful, and sometimes provocative discussions. Panelists are expected to actively engage the audience and help them broaden their understanding of the issues. All areas of interests to ESWC participants are acceptable as a panel topic. Panel proposals will be accepted on the basis of their audience appeal, credentials of panelists, originality, and focus on disputed topics. Panel Proposal Submission Procedure: ------------------------------------ Panel proposals must include: * Panel title * Panel organizer(s)/moderator(s) * Short description of the topic (suitable for inclusion in the program) * Panel objective, scope, and target audience * Extended abstract of the panel, including suitable references * Panel format * The names and affiliations of the panelists * A statement for each panelist, indicating whether the panelist's participation is (a) confirmed or (b) pending in the case s/he has already been contacted and is not yet committed or (c) not yet contacted. Please append short bios for moderator and each panelist, from whom prior approval to participate should be obtained. Each panel proposal should also indicate whether other similar panels have happened in other recent conferences or workshops. If there have been similar panels then the panel proposal should point out the differences between the previous panels and the proposed panels. Proposals should be 4-6 pages long and can be submitted in either HTML or PDF. Please send proposals for ESWC2008 panels to Panel formats: -------------- Panels should last 90 minutes and typically include three to five panelists plus a moderator. Be creative about the panel format. A typical format includes: * moderator introduction * brief position statements by domain experts (It is essential that this part of the panel does not exceed a total of 30 minutes.) * discussions (at least 40 minutes) * closing statements from panelists and moderator You are also welcome to use various forms of multimedia presentations to help engage the audience. Duties of the Panel Moderator: ------------------------------ The panel moderator is the most important participant in a panel. The moderator must take an active role during the panel to ensure that the panelists stay on time and on track and to stimulate debate. The most important part of the moderator's job, however, occurs well before the panel starts. It is the duty of the moderator to force the panelists to prepare lively and controversial initial presentations and to be prepared for the debate part of the panel. Panel moderators thus must spend a significant amount of time "herding cats", i. e., getting the panelists to adequately prepare. Rapha?l Troncy (ESWC 2008 Panel Chair) -- Rapha?l Troncy CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands e-mail: raphael.troncy at cwi.nl & raphael.troncy at gmail.com Tel: +31 (0)20 - 592 4093 Fax: +31 (0)20 - 592 4312 Web: http://www.cwi.nl/~troncy/ From tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Wed Feb 6 22:52:47 2008 From: tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za (Tommie Meyer) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:52:47 +0200 Subject: [DL] Updated Call for Papers: KR 2008 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------- UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ 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 KR2008 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, 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 building knowledge bases, applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and should include a section on evaluation. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style (pdf only) Paper length is 7 pages maximum including title, author information and references. Authors may add to the paper an optional, clearly marked Appendix containing technical material (such as proofs, evaluation results etc.) supporting claims made in the paper. The Appendix must not exceed 2 additional pages in AAAI style. The evaluation of the submission will be based on the quality of the paper. The optional Appendix will be used in case reviewers are in doubt about claimed results. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 Conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. Final versions of papers will be considerably longer than the submissions: for each accepted paper 11 pages in AAAI style will be allocated in the proceedings. Topics of interest include: - Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Paraconsistent logics - Nonmonotonic logics, Default logics, Conditional logics, Argumentation - Temporal and spatial reasoning - Causal reasoning, Abduction, Model-based diagnosis - Reasoning about action and change, Action languages, Situation calculus, Dynamic logic - Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty - Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics - Graphical representations for belief and preference - Reasoning about belief and knowledge, Epistemic and doxastic logics, - Multiagent logics of belief and knowledge - Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming - Computational aspects of knowledge representation - Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning - Belief revision and update, Belief merging, Information fusion - Description logics, Ontologies - Qualitative reasoning, Reasoning about physical systems - Decision theory, Preference modelling and representation, Reasoning about preference - KR & Autonomous Agents: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics - KR & Multiagent Systems: Negotiation, Group decision making, - Cooperation, Interaction, KR & game theory - Natural language processing, Summarization, Categorization - KR and machine learning, Inductive logic programming, Knowledge discovery and acquisition - WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration - Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence KR Workshops: Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop KROW 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems KRAMAS 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html Doctoral Consortium http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html Conference Chairs: General Chair: Patrick Doherty PC Chairs: Gerhard Brewka, Jerome Lang Local Chair: Maurice Pagnucco Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz Publicity Chair: Thomas Meyer Important Dates: Submission of title and abstract: April 3, 2008 Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: June 16, 2008 KR-2008 Conference: September, 16-19, 2008 --------------------------------------------- Thomas Meyer Knowledge Systems Group Meraka Institute http://www.meraka.org.za/~tmeyer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From imapnews at abelssoft.de Sun Feb 10 11:35:53 2008 From: imapnews at abelssoft.de (Dr. Sven Abels) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:35:53 +0100 Subject: [DL] IBIS Journal: Call for Articles Message-ID: <20080210103555.700AA3003CE@paris103.server4you.de> Call for Article Submissions for the IBIS Journal - Interoperability in Business Information Systems - ISSN: 1862-6378 Call for article submissions, deadline: 16.03.2008 We would like to encourage to submit articles for inclusion in the next issue of the International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems. This will be the last call for article submissions for the third IBIS issue. We are interested in both theoretical and practical research. We are also interested in case studies and results of recently finished research projects. Although our focus is on research results, we also accept a small amount of practical articles. Contributions should be original and unpublished and are required to have a high quality. Topics of the journal include, but are not limited to: * Integration of business information systems * Enterprise modeling for Interoperability * Interoperability architectures and frameworks * Interoperability of business standards * Service-oriented architectures and web services for interoperability * Model-driven architectures for interoperability * Intelligent mediators * Coupling of information systems * Interoperability of classification systems * (Semi-)Automatic transformation of standards * Interoperability of (meta) models * Semantic integration concepts * Interoperability between domain specific standards * Semantic analysis of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data * Interoperability of catalog based information systems * Cooperation in heterogeneous information systems * Ontology matching, merging and aligning * Semantic combination of heterogeneous standards * Ontology- and model management * Interoperability of sector specific systems Authors are encouraged to submit high quality articles online at http://www.ibis-journal.net. Please carefully look at the submission guidelines to prepare your submission. A template is provided for download on our website. All submissions should be performed online using our online submission system. Current timeline for issue: 16.03. - Submission deadline 15.04. - Acceptance notification 15.05. - Camera ready submission 30.05. - Publication of journal issue We accept: * Full article submissions: up to 20.000 characters * Short article submissions: 3.000-5.000 characters * Reviews and comments: 1.000 - 3.000 characters In case of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via email at: info at ibis-journal.net Best regards, your IBIS-Editorial team __________________________________________ International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems (IBIS) http://www.ibis-journal.net info at ibis-journal.net __________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tamilin at fbk.eu Thu Feb 7 17:57:47 2008 From: tamilin at fbk.eu (Andrei Tamilin) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:57:47 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: WORM08 - ESWC Workshop on Ontologies: Reasoning and Modularity Message-ID: <47AB388B.6000902@fbk.eu> [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Ontologies: Reasoning and Modularity (WORM-08) http://dkm.fbk.eu/worm08 Hosted by the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-08) http://www.eswc2008.org June 1, 2008 - Tenerife, Spain OBJECTIVES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of the workshop is to create a forum for discussing and exchanging latest advances and practical experiences on reasoning and modularization of ontologies, their usefulness for various ontology engineering and operating tasks, discussing theoretical and practical frameworks, and system implementations. The workshop welcomes users, tool developers, and researchers to learn more about and discuss latest advances related to topics of ontology reasoning and modularity. The workshop invites contributions addressing well-defined reasoning services and novel reasoning problems, theoretical and practical frameworks for structuring complex ontologies in a modular way, applications of reasoning and modularization techniques to various ontology engineering and operation tasks, presentations of experiences and case-studies, descriptions of methodologies and tools. TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- We welcome various kinds of contributions: * presentations of novel reasoning problems/algorithms and how they link to ontology engineering and operation tasks, * presentations of novel formalisms/languages/algorithms/methodologies for working with modular ontologies, their advantages and disadvantages for ontology engineering and operation tasks * descriptions of reasoning tools for ontologies, their properties and strengths, and how they relate to existing such tools, * description of tools to support ontology engineering and operation such as ontology editors, browsers, repositories, their properties and strengths, and how they relate to existing such tools, and * applications of (modular) ontologies and their requirements regarding reasoning support, experiences and case studies, including reports of unorthodox yet fruitful applications of ontologies. The particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * standard and non-standard reasoning services * novel reasoning problems and algorithms * sharing and reuse of ontological modules * efficiency versus (in)completeness of ontology reasoning * logical formalisms for modular ontologies * requirements for ontology modularity * composing and decomposing modular ontologies * ontologies update * reasoning with modular ontologies * inference explanations and debugging of ontologies * collaborative and modular ontology engineering * ontologies plus databases - reasoning and querying * use cases and applications * systems and tools demonstrations SUBMISSIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The workshop welcomes submission of high quality original papers that describe research results on tasks related to ontology reasoning and modularity, presentations of user requirements and application scenarios, descriptions and demonstrations of systems and tools. Contributions should not exceed twelve (12) pages in length and must be formatted according to the Information for LNCS Authors (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and submitted not later than March 7, 2008 through the WORM 08 EasyChair Submission System http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=worm08. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published as a volume of CEUR-WS online proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission: March 7, 2008 Notification: April 4, 2008 Camera ready: April 18, 2008 Workshop day: June 1, 2008 ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford, UK * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK * Luciano Serafini, FBK-IRST, Italy * Evren Sirin, Clark & Parsia LLC, USA * Andrei Tamilin, FBK-IRST, Italy * Michael Wessel, Racer Systems GmbH, Germany * Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK PROGRAMME COMMITEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Jie Bao, Iowa State University, USA * Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA * Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany * Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford, UK * Mathieu d'Aquin, Open University, UK * Giuseppe De Giacomo, University of Rome, Italy * Chiara Ghidini, FBK-IRST, Italy * John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey, UK * Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA * Ian Horrocks, Oxford University, UK * Oliver Kutz, University of Bremen, Germany * Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology, Germany * Christine Parent, University of Lausanne, Switzerland * Alan Rector, University of Manchester , UK * Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK * Anne Schlicht, University of Mannheim, Germany * Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain * Luciano Serafini, FBK-IRST, Italy * Andrei Tamilin, FBK-IRST, Italy * Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Dresden University of Technology, Germany * Guido Vetere, IBM Italia * Holger Wache, FHNW, Switzerland * Michael Wessel, Racer Systems GmbH, Germany * Antoine Zimmermann, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France From isbra-l at engr.uconn.edu Fri Feb 8 04:42:51 2008 From: isbra-l at engr.uconn.edu (ISBRA Symposium Announcements) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:42:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] [ISBRA-L] ISBRA 2008 Call for Posters in Bioinformatics Message-ID: CALL FOR POSTERS IN BIOINFORMATICS ================================================ ISBRA 2008 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications May 6-8, 2008 Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra08/ ================================================ The International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. Authors are invited to submit posters that demonstrate original research in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Biomedical databases and data integration * Biomedical image processing * Bio-ontologies * Comparative genomics * Computational genetic epidemiology * Computational proteomics * Data mining and visualization * Gene expression analysis * Genome analysis * High-performance bio-computing * Molecular evolution and phylogenetics * Molecular modeling and simulation * Pattern discovery and classification * Population genetics * RNA and protein structure prediction * Sequence assembly * Software tools and applications * Systems biology SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Poster submission must be made electronically at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ISBRA08 Submissions must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 4 pages. The accepted poster papers will be published on CD-ROM and the symposium website. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the poster at the symposium. One best poster award will be given at ISBRA08. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline March 14, 2007 Notification of acceptance March 21, 2008 Final Version Submission March 31, 2008 LOCATION ISBRA 2008 will be held at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Atlanta's major attractions--Centennial Olympic Park, Underground Atlanta, CNN Center, the World of Coca-Cola, and the Georgia Aquarium (the largest in the world)--can all be reached by a ten-minute walk from the GSU campus. GENERAL CHAIRS Dan Gusfield, University of California, Davis Yi Pan, Georgia State University PROGRAM CHAIRS Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut Raj Sunderraman, Georgia State University Alexander Zelikovsky, Georgia State University POSTER CHAIRS Gulsah Altun, Georgia State University Stefan Gremalschi, Georgia State University CONTACT INFORMATION Please direct questions to Ion Mandoiu (ion at engr.uconn.edu), Alexander Zelikovsky (alexz at cs.gsu.edu), or Raj Sunderraman (raj at cs.gsu.edu). CONFERENCE WEB SITE: http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra08/ _______________________________________________ ISBRA-L mailing list ISBRA-L at dna.engr.uconn.edu http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/mailman/listinfo/isbra-l From stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de Fri Feb 8 20:29:54 2008 From: stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de (Gerd Stumme) Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:29:54 +0100 Subject: [DL] Open PhD position in Knowledge & Data Engineering Group Message-ID: <47ACADB2.6050908@cs.uni-kassel.de> The Hertie Chair of Knowledge and Data Engineering, University of Kassel, Germany, opens a position of a Research Assistant (Wiss. Mitarbeiter/in, BAT IIa). Further information can be found at . As the position requires at least basic knowlede of the German language, the remainder of this mail will be in German. We apologise to all non-German speakers. Die Hertie-Stiftungsprofessur Wissensverarbeitung der Universit?t Kassel besetzt baldm?glichst f?r zun?chst zwei Jahre eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiterin/ Mitarbeiter (BAT IIa, ganztags). Sie sollten Interesse an einem oder mehreren der Bereiche Knowledge Discovery, Web 2.0 (social bookmarking, folksonomies), Social Network Analysis, Semantic Web, Ontologien haben. Kenntnisse in einem dieser Gebiete sind von Vorteil; Programmierkenntnisse und Kenntnisse in der Systemadministration sind n?tig. Wenn Sie einen sehr guten Universit?tsabschluss in Informatik, Mathematik oder einem verwandten Gebiet haben, eine Dissertation anstreben und an teamorientierter Forschungsarbeit auf internationalem Niveau in einem interdisziplin?ren Team von Informatikern, Mathematikern und Wirtschaftsinformatikern interessiert sind, freuen wir uns ?ber Ihre Bewerbung. Die Aufgaben umfassen Mitarbeit in der Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Wissensverarbeitung, insbesondere in internationalen Projekten wie Tagora und rund um unser Soziales Lesezeichensystem BibSonomy . Das Fachgebiet finden Sie im Internet unter http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ . Weitere Ausk?nfte k?nnen bei Dr. Andreas Hotho (0561/8046252, hotho at cs.uni-kassel.de) eingeholt werden. Die Hochschule ist bestrebt, den Anteil an Frauen zu erh?hen und begr??t deshalb besonders die Bewerbung von Frauen. Schwerbehinderte Bewerber/innen werden bei entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt ber?cksichtigt. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 28. Februar 2008. Bitte richten Sie Ihre Bewerbung per Email an Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme und Dr. Andreas Hotho < { stumme, hotho } at cs . uni - kassel . de >. -- Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme, Hertie Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Kassel http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de, Tel. 0561/804-6251, Fax: -6259 -->> Try our bookmarking system http://www.BibSonomy.org now! <<-- From cfp2008b at micai.org Mon Feb 11 11:57:18 2008 From: cfp2008b at micai.org (Alexander Gelbukh (MICAI-2008)) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:57:18 -0600 Subject: [DL] CFP: MICAI 2008: Artifiical Intelligence, Mexico, Springer LNAI Message-ID: MICAI 2008: 7th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE www.MICAI.org/2008 October 27 to 31, Mexico City, Mexico Proceedings: Springer LNAI, IEEE, and special issues of journals Submission deadline: May 5 (abstract), May 12 (full paper) CALL FOR PAPERS GENERAL INFORMATION Topics of interest include all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Poster session, workshops, tutorials, and cultural events are planned. The recent MICAI events (2005, 2006, 2007) received around 450 submissions from over 40 countries each. The acceptance rate (oral session) was around 26%. Among keynote speakers were John McCarthy, Tom Mitchell, Ronald Yager, and Pedro Domingos, to name just a few. There were over 500 attendees. PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSION Papers accepted for oral session will be published by Springer in LNAI: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Poster session papers will be published separately. Special issues of journals are anticipated. Submissions are received via webpage; see guidelines there. By May 5, only abstract is to be registered; the full text is due by May 12. IMPORTANT DATES May 5: Registration of abstracts. May 12: Uploading of full text of registered papers. June 24: Acceptance notification. August 11: Camera-ready and payment deadline. CONTACT General inquiries: micai2008 at MICAI dot org; see www.MICAI.org/2008. PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your students and colleagues. We apologize if you receive this CFP more than once. We send it in good faith of its interest for you as an AI-related researcher; please let us know if this is wrong. From probst at iam.unibe.ch Tue Feb 12 10:57:43 2008 From: probst at iam.unibe.ch (Dieter Probst) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:57:43 +0100 (MET) Subject: [DL] CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION Message-ID: The local organizing committee of LC08 would welcome your circulating this announcement. CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2008 Bern, Switzerland 3-8 July 2008 http://www.lc08.iam.unibe.ch/ Tutorials: Michael Rathjen (University of Leeds) Stevo Todorcevic (University of Toronto) Anand Pillay (University of Leeds) Plenary speakers: Miklos Ajtai (IBM Almaden Research Center) Akihiro Kanamori (Bosten University) Roman Kossak (City University of New York) Hannes Leitgeb (University of Bristol) Amador Martin-Pizarro (University of Lyon) Joseph S. Miller (University of Connecticut) Jaap van Oosten (University of Utrecht) Thomas Scanlon (University of California, Berkeley) Stephen G. Simpson (Pennsylvania State University) Lajos Soukup (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Thomas Strahm (University of Bern) Matteo Viale (University of Paris 7) Special sessions: Model theory: Martin Hils, Gareth Jones, Moshe Kamensky, Krzysztof Krupinski Logic and computer science: Mariangola Dezani, Kazushige Terui, Yde Venema, Ting Zhang Set theory: Andres Caicedo, Tamas Matrai, Katherine Thomson, Todor Tsankov Computability and arithmetic: Barbara F. Csima, Antonin Kucera, Shahram Mohsenipour, Neil Thapen Program committee: Alessandro Berarducci (Pisa) Jacques Duparc (Lausanne) Mirna Dzamonja (East Anglia) Ali Enayat (Washington DC) Gerhard J?ger (Bern) Piotr Kowalski (Wroclaw) Jan Krajicek (Prague) Dave Marker (Chicago) Andre Nies (Auckland) Simon Thomas (Rutgers) William Tait (Chicago) Boban Velickovic (Paris) Albert Visser (Utrecht) Alex Wilkie (Manchester, chair) Local organizing committee: Luca Alberucci, Kai Br?nnler, Bettina Choffat, Gerhard J?ger (chair), J?rg Kr?henb?hl, Richard McKinley, Dieter Probst, J?rg Schmid, Daria Spescha, Thomas Strahm, Thomas Studer IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts: March 28, 2008 Early registration: April 30, 2008 Accomodation (special rates): April 30, 2008 Immediately following the Logic Colloquium 08, there will be a workshop on recent trends in proof theory, taking place in Bern on July 9-10. The website of the workshop will be available soon: http://wpt08.iam.unibe.ch From gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Wed Feb 13 14:38:54 2008 From: gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Guilin Qi) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:38:54 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: Fourth International Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies Message-ID: <20080213143854.96p6jq1wo7eo0ww0@webmail.uni-karlsruhe.de> [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] CALL FOR PAPERS =================================== The Fourth International Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies (C&O- 2008) - Patras, Greece. 21-22 July 2008 https://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/cando/index.htm Hosted by the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-08) http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/ Submission Deadline for full paper: 10th of April 2008 =================================== Workshop Description -------------------- Contexts and ontologies play a crucial role in knowledge representation and reasoning. Computer systems which act intelligently need the ability to represent, utilize and reason about contexts and ontologies. There were a number of projects devoted to the definition and usage of contexts as well as ontologies in intelligent KR systems. With the advent of the web and the ubiquitous connectivity, contexts and ontologies have become a relevant notion also in other, more recent, disciplines. Many application areas such as, information integration, distributed knowledge management, semantic web, multi-agent systems, distributed reasoning, data grid and grid computing, pervasive computing and ambient intelligence as well as peer-to-peer information management systems, have acknowledged the need of methods to represent and reason about knowledge which is scattered in a large set of contexts and ontologies. During the last decade, there has been a line of successful series of workshops and conferences on the development and application of contexts and ontologies. Three successful workshops have focused on combining the themes of ontologies and contexts, and have discussed them as complementary disciplines. The first two are "Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O)" and "Context Representation and Reasoning (CRR)". These two previous series of workshops was merged into the "Contexts and Ontologies: Representation and Reasoning (C&O:RR)" workshop. The C&O:RR workshop aims at keeping the focus on combination of contexts and ontologies and at emphasizing the representation and reasoning aspects of research in the field of context and ontology that was the peculiarity of the CRR workshop. This workshop is the continuation of the C&O:RR 2007 under a broader title. The goal of this workshop is to bring people from the context and ontology communities together to discuss the approaches they use for information integration from the knowledge representation and reasoning perspective. In recent years, a number of different aspects of contexts and ontologies have been studied and a number of approaches have been proposed. One perspective views an ontology as an explicit encoding of a domain model that may be shared and reused, while a context may be viewed as an explicit encoding of a domain model that is expected to be local and may contain one party's subjective view of the domain. This workshop will further explore this perspective as well as other perspectives and aims to make more progress in leveraging increased communication between the context and ontology communities. Workshop Objectives and Topics of Interest ------------------------------------------ The C&O:RR workshop is open to technical areas of interest between contexts and ontologies, with anticipated focus on: approaches to semantic heterogeneity that utilize multiple contexts and ontologies; analysis and understanding of technical problems related to combination of contexts and ontologies from the knowledge representation and reasoning perspective. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -Information interoperability and reuse via multiple contexts and ontologies. -Coordination of multiple contexts and ontologies. -Modular ontologies. -Ontology matching -Scalability of techniques for combination of contexts and ontologies -Logical formalisms for contexts and ontologies. -Distributed reasoning algorithms for contexts and ontologies. -Complexity of distributed reasoning for contexts and ontologies -Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies. -Applications of reasoning with contexts and ontologies in the areas of -Semantic web, information retrieval, e-commerce, telecommunications, -Multimedia, content indexing, grid and peer-to-peer, pervasive computing and ambient intelligence. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: 10th of April 2008 Notification: 10th of May, 2008 Camera-ready version: 26th of May, 2008 Workshop day: July 21-22, 2008 Keynote Speakers ---------------- Marco Schorlemmer: Institute IIIA, Spain Andreas Herzig: IRIT, Universit? Paul Sabatier, France Submissions ----------- Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers or statements of interest. Technical papers should be not longer than 5 pages using the ECAI Style: http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/substyles.htm. Statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. Please make clear if your paper is meant to be a statement of interest. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted no later than April 10, 2008. Authors submit their contributions by email to Guilin Qi: gqi [at] aifb [dot] uni-karlsruhe[dot] de, nolater than 10th of April 2008. Organizing Committee -------------------- J?r?me Euzenat, INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA Guilin Qi, Institute AIFB, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany Steering Committee ------------------ Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy Valeria de Paiva, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Holger Wache, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Alain Leger, France Telecom R&D, France Program Committee (not complete) ---------------------------- Massimo Benerecetti, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy Patrick Brezillon, University Paris, France Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Aldo Gangemi, Institute of cognitive sciences and technology, Italy Peter Haase, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany Pascal Hitzler, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany Jingshan Huang, Benedict College, Columbia, SC Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA David Leake, Indiana University, USA Igor Mozetic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA Carlo Penco, University of Genoa, Italy Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI, Germany Aviv Segev, Technion, Israel Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany Andrei Tamilin, ITC-IRST, Italy Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Roy Turner, University of Maine, USA Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK Roger Young, University of Dundee, UK Primary Contact: Guilin Qi, gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de -- Dr. Guilin Qi Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Telefon: +49 (721) 608 6038 Fax: +49 (721) 608 5998 web: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/gqi/ From pcm at csail.mit.edu Thu Feb 14 02:14:11 2008 From: pcm at csail.mit.edu (Philippe Cudre-Mauroux) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:14:11 -0500 Subject: [DL] 2nd Cfp: ESWC 2008 Ph.D. Symposium Message-ID: <47B395E3.1020700@csail.mit.edu> Only three weeks left before the deadline! CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Ph.D. Symposium 2008 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) June 2, 2008 Tenerife (Spain) http://www.eswc2008.org/ Sponsored by the Okkam project http://www.okkam.org/ ESWC is the leading European conference on theory, practice and application of Semantic Web Technologies, constantly attracting a large number of high quality submissions from both academia and industry. In addition to its plenary scientific sessions, the conference includes a Ph.D. Symposium to allow doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from leading scientists in the field. The ESWC 2008 Ph.D. Symposium will take place in Tenerife - Spain, on June 2, 2008. We invite doctoral students working on any aspect of the Semantic Web to submit an extended abstract describing the research problem they tackle in the context of their Ph.D. Each abstract will be thoroughly reviewed by two expert researchers in the field. In addition to the feedback received during the review process, students whose abstracts get accepted will have the opportunity to present their research agenda and interact with both their peers and experienced scientists during the symposium. All students are encouraged to submit an abstract, though preference will be given to students who are at an early stage of their Ph.D. (first or second year). Students who are submitting papers on specific portions of their work to the main conference are also invited to apply to the Ph.D. symposium. In that case, the short paper for the symposium must give an overview of the student's dissertation, while the paper for the main conference should focus on a specific piece of this work. TOPICS Topics related to the symposium include, but are not limited, to: Applications of the Semantic Web Evaluations of Semantic Web technologies Semantic Web technologies for multimedia content Personal Information Management Management of Semantic Web Data Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data Database technologies for the Semantic Web Search, query, and visualization of the Semantic Web Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction Ontology creation, extraction, evolution and search Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment Semantic Web architecture Semantic Web middleware Semantic Web services Agents on the Semantic Web Semantics in Peer-to-Peer systems and grids Emergent Semantics Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Applications Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web Semantic Web technology for collaboration and cooperation Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and other application domains SUBMISSIONS: Extended abstracts should not exceed five pages. Papers should be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) and submitted electronically as pdf files through the EasyChair conference submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2008phdsymposium . We encourage students to organize their extended abstract according to the following template: 1. Research Problem: gives a description of the overall research problem tackled in the context of the Ph.D. and its relevance to the Semantic Web area 2. Related Work: discusses the state of the art in the particular field 3. Contributions: describes how the proposed project will advance the state of the art, summarizes the expected contributions and real-world use-cases 4. Evaluation: describes the methodology used to evaluate/validate the results of the projects 5. Work Plan: sketches the different stages of the project, clearly differentiating between the results achieved so far, current work and planned work. Extended abstracts structured differently will be considered as well. The best submissions -- in terms of innovation, scientific soundness and clarity of presentation -- will be invited to the symposium for presentation. In addition to the full papers, a limited number of submissions will be accepted as two page posters. Students whose work get accepted as a full paper or poster will have to register to the symposium to present their work. 500 Euro will be awarded to the best presenter. In addition, papers and posters will be published online as CEUR Workshop Proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 7, 2008 (11:59pm CET): Extended abstracts due April 4, 2008: Notification of acceptance April 25, 2008: Camera-ready version due June 2, 2008: Ph.D. Symposium PROGRAM COMMITTEE Daniel Abadi, Yale University, U.S.A. Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland Harith Alani, University of Southampton, U.K. Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy Jeremy Carroll, HP Labs, U.K. Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A. Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Boi Faltings, EPFL, Switzerland Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Carole Goble, University of Manchester, U.K. Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Siegfried Handschuh, NUI Galway, Ireland Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, U.K. Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan Enrico Motta, The Open University, U.K. Natasha Noy, Stanford University, U.S.A. Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Research Center, Germany Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, U.K. Axel Polleres, NUI Galway, Ireland Marta Sabou, Open University, U.K. Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria Guus Schreiber, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Luciano Serafini, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy Amit Sheth, Wright State University, U.S.A. Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Elena Simperl, University of Innsbruck, Austria Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany Hideaki Takeda, University of Tokyo, Japan Tomas Vitvar, NUI Galway, Ireland Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, U.S.A. Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy Michal Zaremba, University of Innsbruck, Austria For further information and for any questions regarding the event or the submission process, please contact the Ph.D. Symposium Chair: Philippe Cudre-Mauroux M.I.T. -- U.S.A. pcm (AT) csail mit edu We would like to thank the Okkam project (http://www.okkam.org/) for sponsoring this event and STI International (http://www.sti2.org/) for its help in organizing the symposium. From cristiano_longo at yahoo.it Thu Feb 14 11:48:34 2008 From: cristiano_longo at yahoo.it (Cristiano Longo) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:48:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] KR system Message-ID: <761157.61510.qm@web27010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Morning, I started few weeks ago studying description logics, and i wold like to set up my first knowledge base, and perform some reasoning. I'm specifically interested in instance checking. May someone suggest me a free(and possibly open) KR system implementation to download(also based on semantic web)? I downloaded Pellet, but i'm not sure that it provides instance checking feature. thanks in advance, Cristiano Longo ___________________________________ L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html From q.reul at abdn.ac.uk Thu Feb 14 16:37:27 2008 From: q.reul at abdn.ac.uk (Reul, Q. H.) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:37:27 +0000 Subject: [DL] KRSS syntax in Java Message-ID: <2AD2401FC36E784094D0B3375FDA6CE802E5542C@VMAIL2.uoa.abdn.ac.uk> Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knew an API to convert and use KRSS syntax within a java program. Cheers, Quentin ****************************************** * Quentin H. Reul * * PhD Research Student * * Department of Computing Science * * University of Aberdeen, King's College * * Room 238 in the Meston Building * * ABERDEEN AB24 3UE * * Phone: +44 (0)1224 27 4485 * * http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~qreul * ****************************************** From adstotz at buffalo.edu Thu Feb 14 21:55:43 2008 From: adstotz at buffalo.edu (Adam Stotz) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:55:43 -0500 Subject: [DL] SIMA 2008 CFP Message-ID: <002f01c86f4b$f8f38b80$eadaa280$@edu> Dear Colleagues, Please see below the Call for Papers for SIMA 2008. The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Situation Management (SIMA 2008) is a one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with MILCOM 2008, November 17-19, 2008 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA. (apologies for duplicate postings) Call for Papers! 4th IEEE Workshop on Situation Management - (SIMA 2008) http://www.samrg.org/SIMA/2008 Building on the success of previous SIMA workshops, SIMA 2008 provides a unique forum for researchers in situation awareness and management, information fusion, semantic web and knowledge-based systems, real-time sensor networks, and related disciplines to exchange recent results in this new discipline and its application to a diverse range of areas including network centric warfare, homeland security, disaster recovery, and cyber security. SIMA invites scientists, engineers and decision makers from government, industry and academia to present technical papers on their research and development results in areas of situation management including but not limited to the following topics: TOPICS . Situation Monitoring and Awareness . Semantic Web Technologies, Situation Modeling and Ontologies . High-Level Information and Knowledge Fusion . Multi-Agent Systems and Distributed Situation Management . Net-Centric Warfare and Battlespace Management . Homeland Security . Disaster Response & Crisis Management . Applications in Intelligent Transportation, Industrial and Health Care . Infrastructure and Cyber Security . Architectures, Case Studies, and Deployments . Learning and Situation Discovery . Predictive Situation Modeling and Threat Analysis . Reasoning about Situations and Decision Management . Event Correlation . Autonomic and Self-Organizing Systems . Situation Specification Languages and Tools . Situation Management in Tactical, Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mobile Networks IMPORTANT DEADLINES Full Papers Due: 25 April 2008 Author Notification: 9 June 2008 Final Camera Ready Papers Due: 18 July 2008 PAPER SUBMISSION Abstracts and papers should be submitted via MILCOM's WAMS submission system at http://www.milcom.org/CallForPapers.asp (go to unclassified paper submission section and select "SIMA" as submission topic). Please also submit your submission directly to SIMA at sima at comsoc.org. For further information see http://www.samrg.org/SIMA/2008 TPC Chair: John Buford, Avaya Labs Research Workshop Chair: Gabriel Jakobson, Altusys Corp. Publicity Chair: Adam Stotz, CUBRC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ch.lange at jacobs-university.de Mon Feb 18 11:27:02 2008 From: ch.lange at jacobs-university.de (Christoph LANGE) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:27:02 +0100 Subject: [DL] New Deadline March 5: SemWiki2008 - The Wiki Way of Semantics (Workshop@ESWC) Message-ID: <200802181127.02874.ch.lange@jacobs-university.de> [Apologies for multiple copies] Full call for papers at http://semwiki.org/semwiki2008/ Contact: chair at semwiki.org ---- CALL FOR PAPERS SemWiki2008 3rd Workshop: 'The Wiki Way of Semantics' June 2, 2008 http://semwiki.org/semwiki2008 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 5 co-located with the 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) http://www.eswc2008.org/ Tenerife, Spain June 1-5, 2008 ---- === Executive Summary === SemWiki2008, the third workshop on Semantic Wikis, aims at reviewing the progress that has been made in the field of Semantic Wikis since the last workshops in 2006. We are interested in reviewing existing semantic wiki systems against the core wiki principles and thus identifying possibilities to improve them, in applying semantic technologies to existing wiki sites such as Wikipedia in order to make them even more productive for mass collaboration, but also in innovative, entirely new ideas for semantic wikis. Semantic Wikis try to combine the strengths of Semantic Web (machine processable, data integration, complex queries) and Wiki (easy to use and contribute, strongly interconnected, collaborativeness) technologies. Goals are diverse and include: * simple annotations of existing Wiki content; * tools that guide users from informal knowledge contained in texts to more formal structures; * full-fledged tools for ontology editing where the text is no longer in the focus of the system. Semantic Wikis contain in an integrated fashion many of the core challenges of the Semantic Web community: authoring, versioning, interlinked data, semantic browsing, semantic annotating, semantic diffs, semantic search and getting overview. In a Semantic Wiki, such methods have to be integrated into a coherent whole, while still remaining lightweight and easy to use. In this workshop, we investigate how these challenges can be tackled in an integrated fashion. === Important Dates (all dates GMT) === * Paper submission: March 5, 2008 (papers, posters, demos, position papers) * Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2008 * Camera ready deadline: April 18, 2008 * Workshop: June 2, 2008 === Call for Contributions === We invite submissions as full and short papers, as well as posters/demos. Papers should describe original, unpublished research and must not be under review by another conference, journal, or workshop. Authors of the highest quality contributions will be invited to present their work at the workshop. Since Semantic Wikis are a very practical topic, we are also very interested in poster and demo submissions. Posters and Demos should describe prototypical implementations of systems related to the workshop topics. Highest quality submissions will be presented in a separate poster/demo session. Contributions should adhere to the following formats: * Papers 5-15 pages * Posters/Demos 2-5 pages * Short/Position Papers: 2-5 pages Papers should be formatted using the standard LNCS format and should include an abstract of no more than 120 words. Authors will be required to submit their camera ready versions using SALT (semantically annotated LaTeX; http://salt.semanticauthoring.org). It allows authors to annotate their articles directly with semantic markup. This semantic markup will be used to extract and publish metadata of the submissions on the Semantic Web. A specialized LaTeX template will be provided by the workshop organisers that allows to easily add these annotations. === Proceedings === Pre-proceedings will appear at the time of the conference online and in print. Post-proceedings will be published in the CEUR-WS series. === Topics of Interest === Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Text-Based Semantic Authoring * Acquisition of Formal Knowledge from Structured Text * Wikipedia and the Semantic Web * Mining Wikipedia * extending Wikipedia with semantic web features * ... * Collaborative Authoring of Formal Knowledge * Continuous and Integrated Knowledge Usage and Refinement * Usability and empirical studies of semantic wikis and human factors * Application of semantic wikis in * E-learning * software engineering * knowledge engineering * and other domains * Semantic Wikis in Enterprises * New Ways of Authoring, Browsing and Navigating Semantically Enhanced Data * Reusing data from Semantic Wikis in other systems * Personal Semantic Wikis === Programme === * Invited talk: Corporate Knowledge Management with Semantic Wikis at SUN * Presentations of research and position papers * Poster and demo session * Joint dinner, including a discussion on standardisation of semantic wiki data formats and ontologies (building on existing work such as WSR 3; http://www.wikisym.org/wiki/index.php/WSR_3). === Organisation === The workshop is supported by EU FP7 project KIWI and EU FP6 project NEPOMUK. Workshop co-ordinators: * Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen (DE) * Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research (AT) * Hala Skaf-Molli, LORIA INRIA-LORRAINE/Nancy-Universit? (FR) * Max V?lkel, FZI/Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH) (DE) Programme Committee: * S?ren Auer, Universit?t Leipzig (DE) * David Aum?ller, Universit?t Leipzig (DE) * Joachim Baumeister, Universit?t W?rzburg (DE) * Bj?rn Decker, IESE (DE) * Sebastian Dietzold, Universit?t Leipzig (DE) * Ludger van Elst, DFKI (DE) * Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise (DE) * Tudor Groza, DERI (IE) * Siegfried Handschuh, DERI (IE) * Tom Heath, Open University (UK) * Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz (AT) * Martin Hepp, UIBK (AT) * Malte Kiesel, DFKI (DE) * Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen (DE) * Pascal Molli, Nancy University (FR) * Claudia M?ller, Universit?t Potsdam (DE) * Amedeo Napoli, LORIA (FR) * Eyal Oren, VU (NL) * Viktoria Pammer, Know-Center Graz (AT) * Flavio De Paoli, University of Milano-Bicocca (IT) * Jean Rohmer, Thales (FR) * Matthias Samwald, Semantic Web Company (AT) * Peter Scheir, Know-Center Graz (AT) * Elena Simperl, DERI Innsbruck (AT) * Katharina Siorpaes Universit?t Innsbruck (AT) * Steffen Staab, Universit?t Koblenz-Landau (DE) * Jakob Vo?, GBV G?ttingen (DE) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Complete information, including Programme Committee, instructions for submission, description of the workshop, etc. are to be found at: http://semwiki.org/semwiki2008/ -- Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701 From j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk Mon Feb 18 19:24:50 2008 From: j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk (John Domingue) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:24:50 +0000 Subject: [DL] CfP: 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference 2008 (ASWC 2008) Message-ID: [apologies for mulitple postings] CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference 2008 (ASWC 2008) Pathumthani, Thailand, 8th-11th December 2008 A number of prominent members of the Semantic Web community are now beginning to claim that the Semantic Web has arrived. Semantic Web search engines now index tens of thousands of ontologies and the term 'Semantic Web' regularly appears in the mainstream news and culture. Additionally, the number of Semantic Web events attracting several hundred attendees grows larger every year and industrial interest includes the majority of the large software and service companies. The 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008) will present the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It will bring together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling, logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. ASWC2008 will include a Research Track, a Semantic Web in Use Track, a Poster and Demonstration Track. ASWC2008 also encourages the submission of proposals for workshops and tutorials. Submissions The Research Track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, empirical and application-related aspects of the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web in Use Track solicits the submission of innovative and practical application papers which take into account real-world requirements. All papers should clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web - fully taking into account aspects related to both semantics and the Web. The proceedings of ASWC 2008 will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Topics include but are not limited to the following: Semantic Web Technologies Query Languages and Optimization for the Semantic Web Rule Languages, Logics and Scalable Reasoning on the Semantic Web Tools and Methodologies for Large Scale Semantic Web Data Management Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web Semantic Web Content Creation Database Technologies for the Semantic Web Semantic Web Services Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Services (description, discovery, invocation, composition, choreography) Semantic Descriptions of Enterprise Processes Semantics Applied to Mashups and Adhoc Service Aggregations Semantic Web Applications Applications of Semantic Web (e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e- Government, e-Learning, e-Culture) Case Studies of Semantic Web Applications Personalization and User Modeling Semantics in P2P Computing and the Grid Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management Semantic Web, Multimedia, and Human Computer Interaction Social Semantic Web Semantic Web and Social Networks and Processes Semantic Web Technologies for Collaboration and Cooperation Trust, Provenance, Security, Privacy, Identity and the Semantic Web Ontologies Ontology Modeling Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation) Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation Ontology Searching and Ranking ***Important Dates*** 15 July 2008 Paper Submission 10 September 2008 Notification of Acceptance 25 September 2008 Camera Ready 8-11 December 2008 Conference in Thailand Organizing Committee Conference Chairs: Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France R. K. Shyamasundar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Program Committee Chairs: John Domingue, KMi, The Open University, UK Chutiporn Anutariya, Shinawatra University,Thailand Industrial Track Chair(s): Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI-Galway, Ireland Demo Chair: Michal Zaremba, STI Innsbruck, Austria Poster Chair: Elena Simperl, STI Innsbruck, Austria Workshop Chair: Marco Ronchetti, University of Trento, Italy Local Organizing Chairs: Asanee Kawtrakul, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand Rachanee Ungrangsi, Shinawatra University, Thailand Contact us: Web Site: http://www.aswc2008.org E-mail: aswc2008 at gmail.com __________________________ Dr. John Domingue, 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 dingl at cs.rpi.edu Tue Feb 19 06:23:10 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:23:10 -0500 Subject: [DL] CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS FOR ISWC 2008 Message-ID: <3db8d3300802182123u37f49d07n84c4d7980a54e8f3@mail.gmail.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS FOR ISWC 2008 7th International Semantic Web Conference 26-30 October 2008 Karlsruhe, Germany http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/?page_id=21 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-located workshops at previous ISWC conferences have become an important meeting point for researchers willing to discuss and exchange ideas on topics related to the Semantic Web. ISWC 2008 plans to continue with this tradition and therefore invites proposals for the Workshop Program of ISWC 2008, to be held October 26-30, 2008, in Karlsruhe, Germany. Workshops will be held on 26-27 October. General Information -------------------------- * Co-located workshops must be on topics that are of interest to ISWC attendees. * Workshop duration can be half a day or a full day (October 26th and 27th only). * We strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. * Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences. We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions. * The decision on acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals will be made on the basis of overall quality of the proposal as well as how it fits in with the conference. * The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website), and proceedings. They will be required to closely cooperate with the Workshops Chairs and the ISWC 2008 local organizers to finalize all details mentioned above. * Workshop attendees must pay the ISWC 2008 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. Important Dates --------------------- * Workshop proposals are due March 28, 2008. Proposals should be sent to iswc2008-workshops '-at-' L3S.de, '-at-'=@. * Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given by April 11, 2008. The important dates for accepted workshops will be: - Workshop cfps out: 2 May - Submissions (suggested): 25 July - Acceptances (suggested): 5 Sept - Camera ready papers: 26 Sept - Camera ready proceedings: 03 Oct Submitting a proposal ----------------------------- Workshop proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length, should be in text or PDF format and should contain the following information: - The title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying its goals and motivation. - 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, the workshop audience, as well as the expected number of participants. - A brief description of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion. - A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal). - An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day meeting. - A description of past versions of the workshop, including URLs as well as submission and acceptance counts. - The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organizing committee and short description of their relevant experience. Please send your proposals by March 28, 2008 and/or inquiries by e-mail to the e-mail iswc2008-workshops '-at-' L3S.de, '-at-'=@. Workshop co-chairs -------------------------- Melliyal Annamalai Oracle, USA Daniel Olmedilla L3S & University of Hannover, Germany From STEPHENS_SUSIE_M at LILLY.COM Thu Feb 21 00:19:18 2008 From: STEPHENS_SUSIE_M at LILLY.COM (Susie M Stephens) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:19:18 -0500 Subject: [DL] Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Workshop at WWW2008 Message-ID: The agenda for the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Workshop at WWW2008 is now available at: http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/WWW2008 We hope you'll be able to join us in Beijing. Kind regards, The HCLS2008 Chairs From r.cornet at amc.uva.nl Fri Feb 22 21:40:49 2008 From: r.cornet at amc.uva.nl (Ronald Cornet) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:40:49 +0100 Subject: [DL] JBI special issue: Auditing of Terminologies Message-ID: <20080222214049728.00000002652@06-020-2539> Dear DL-community, I like to bring this to your attention. With best regards and apologies for multiple postings, Ronald Cornet Call for Papers Special Issue on Auditing of Biomedical Terminologies Journal of Biomedical Informatics Guest Editors: James Geller, Yehoshua Perl, Michael Halper, Ronald Cornet Submission deadline: May 15, 2008 Details are available on the web at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/L03.cws_home/cfp_yjbin0208 JBI Journal Home: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yjbin JBI on ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15320464 EES Authors' and Editors' Site: http://ees.elsevier.com/jbi/ Journal of Biomedical Informatics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modelling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent integration information, etc. This year we will also pay special attention to the topic of "knowledge patterns" that can be considered as good practices or models that are applied or reused throughout the knowledge engineering lifecycle. Hence, beyond traditional topics of EKAW, we solicit papers that cover research on how to describe, classify, model, extract, and apply knowledge patterns in the design of ontologies, applications and products. We regard highly the description of experiences that involve the application and identification of knowledge patterns in social network analysis, natural language processing, multimedia analysis, pattern recognition, etc. EKAW 2008 will also feature a tutorial program, student papers track, posters and demos track, and an Industry Panel. The calls for these events are separate (except the student track that follows the main track deadlines), and can be found on the conference Web site. Conference Topics of Interest and Area Keywords EKAW 2008 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application aspects. In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit papers about methodologies, models, and tools for the following topics: ONTOLOGY DESIGN Ontology design patterns Collaborative ontology design Ontology dynamics Ontology modularization Ontology evaluation and selection Automatic ontology construction NETWORKED ONTOLOGIES Ontology matching Web semantics Semantic social networks Semantics and Web2.0 Semantics in multimedia technologies Contextual reasoning KNOWLEDGE REENGINEERING Ontology learning Knowledge-based information extraction Reengineering conceptual models and schemas Reengineering folksonomies, lexicons, thesauri Hybridating Ontology Engineering and NLP techniques PROCESS KNOWLEDGE AND SEMANTIC SERVICES Ontologies and agents Semantic web services Semantic portals and intrawebs Semantic mashup Semantic grid services Knowledge Services for e-Science Problem solving methods and semantic web services Peer to Peer communication between semantic systems Brokering systems SOCIAL AND COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING Human factors in knowledge management Sustainability and cost analysis of knowledge engineering Human-ontology interaction Cognitive systems and knowledge engineering Important Dates Abstract Submission: April 14th, 2008 Full Paper Submission: April 21st, 2008 Notification: June 9th, 2008 Camera Ready: June 30th, 2008 Conference: Sept 29 - Oct 3, 2008 Submissions Paper submission and reviewing for EKAW 2008 will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Full papers should not exceed sixteen (16) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. The submission of a short abstract (using the online submission facility) will ease the reviewer assignment for research papers. Note that submission of posters and demos will only be possible from June 10th, 2008. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will *not* be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 16 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission -- details of this process will be provided on the conference web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. Best Paper Award An award will be given to the best paper (or papers) submitted to the conference as judged by the Program Chairs in collaboration with the Program Committee. A best student paper award will also be given. Conference Chair Aldo GANGEMI, Laboratory for Applied Ontology ISTC-CNR, Italy Conference Co-chair J?r?me EUZENAT, INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes & LIG, Montbonnot, France Program Committee Stuart AITKEN, U Edinburgh (UK) Harit ALANI, University of Southampton (UK) Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES, IRIT- CNRS Toulouse (FR) Richard BENJAMINS, Telef?nica R&D (ES) Johan BOS, Universit? La "Sapienza" di Roma (IT) Paolo BOUQUET, Universit? di Trento (IT) Joost BREUKER, University of Amsterdam (NL) Philipp CIMIANO, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Jean CHARLET, AP-HP et INSERM (FR) Paolo CIANCARINI, Universit? di Bologna (IT) Peter CLARK, Boeing (US) 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) Dieter FENSEL, University Of Innsbruck (AT) Alfio GLIOZZO, ISTC-CNR (IT) Asun GOMEZ-PEREZ, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (ES) Marko GROBELNIK, JSI (SL) Peter HAASE, AIFB University of Karlsruhe (DE) Udo HAHN, Jena University (DE) Gilles KASSEL, LaRIA CNRS (FR) Johannes KEIZER, UN-FAO Wolfgang MAASS, Technische Universit?t Graz (A) Peter MIKA, Yahoo Research (ES) Michele MISSIKOFF, CNR (IT) Riichiro MIZOGUCHI, Osaka University (JP) Paola MONACHESI, Utrecht University (NL) Enrico MOTTA, The Open University (UK) Mark MUSEN, Stanford University (US) Natasha NOY, Stanford University (US) Maria Teresa PAZIENZA, Universit? di Tor Vergata (IT) Wim PETERS, University of Sheffield (UK) Helena Sofia PINTO, Technical University of Lisbon (P) Robert PORZEL, University of Bremen (DE) Alun PREECE, University of Aberdeen (UK) Valentina PRESUTTI, ISTC-CNR (IT) Yannick PRI?, University of Lyon (FR) Alan RECTOR, University of Manchester (UK) Ulrich REIMER, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen (CH) Chantal REYNAUD, LRI-INRIA (FR) Marie-Christine ROUSSET, University of Paris-Sud (FR) Guus SCHREIBER, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) Nigel SHADBOLT, University of Southampton (UK) Wolf SIBERSKI, University of Hannover (DE) Derek SLEEMAN, University of Aberdeen (UK) Steffen STAAB, University of Koblenz-Landau (D) Heiner STUCKENSCHMIDT, University of Mannheim (D) Gerd STUMME, University of Kassel (DE) York SURE, SAP (DE) Vojtech SVATEK, University of Economics, Prague (CZ) Valentina TAMMA, University of Liverpool (UK) Annette ten TEIJE, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) Francky TRICHET, LINA, University of Nantes (FR) Frank VAN HARMELEN, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) Fabio VITALI, University of Bologna (IT) _____________________________________ Aldo Gangemi Senior Researcher 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.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html icq# 108370336 skype aldogangemi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Wed Feb 27 21:46:36 2008 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:46:36 +0100 Subject: [DL] KR08 Doctoral Consortium Second Call for Application Message-ID: KR2008 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Second Call for Application September 16 - 19, 2008 Sydney, Australia The 11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2008) invites PhD students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium program. The aims of the consortium are: - to provide a forum for students to present their current research, and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers; - to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas; - to support students with information and advice on academic, research and industrial careers; The Doctoral Consortium is a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers with similar interests. Students accepted into the Doctoral Consortium are waived registration fee for KR2008 and present their work during a poster session. They can apply for a scholarship that partly covers their travel expenses. We encourage submissions from PhD students at any level, and from any topic area within Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Applications must be submitted via our online submission site (see below). Each application must contain the following materials: - Thesis summary. A description of the problem being addressed, the motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum in the usual KR double-column style. - Letter of recommendation. A letter from your thesis advisor that states that (s)he supports your participation in the DC. IMPORTANT DATES May 1, 2008 Deadline for application May 25, 2008 Acceptance notification September 16-19, 2008 Doctoral consortium Application Submission The most preferred way of submission is to combine the thesis summary and letter of recommendation into a single PDF or postscript document. If you cannot do that, archive the two documents into a single zip file. In either case, the resulting single file has to be submitted via the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr08dc For further information, please contact the Doctoral Consortium chair: Carsten Lutz TU Dresden, Germany lutz at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de From tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Thu Mar 6 14:14:45 2008 From: tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za (Tommie Meyer) Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:14:45 +0200 Subject: [DL] Updated Call for Papers: KR 2008 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------- UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ 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 KR2008 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, 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 building knowledge bases, applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and should include a section on evaluation. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style (pdf only) Paper length is 7 pages maximum including title, author information and references. Authors may add to the paper an optional, clearly marked Appendix containing technical material (such as proofs, evaluation results etc.) supporting claims made in the paper. The Appendix must not exceed 2 additional pages in AAAI style. The evaluation of the submission will be based on the quality of the paper. The optional Appendix will be used in case reviewers are in doubt about claimed results. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 Conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. Final versions of papers will be considerably longer than the submissions: for each accepted paper 11 pages in AAAI style will be allocated in the proceedings. Topics of interest include: - Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Paraconsistent logics - Nonmonotonic logics, Default logics, Conditional logics, Argumentation - Temporal and spatial reasoning - Causal reasoning, Abduction, Model-based diagnosis - Reasoning about action and change, Action languages, Situation calculus, Dynamic logic - Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty - Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics - Graphical representations for belief and preference - Reasoning about belief and knowledge, Epistemic and doxastic logics, - Multiagent logics of belief and knowledge - Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming - Computational aspects of knowledge representation - Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning - Belief revision and update, Belief merging, Information fusion - Description logics, Ontologies - Qualitative reasoning, Reasoning about physical systems - Decision theory, Preference modelling and representation, Reasoning about preference - KR & Autonomous Agents: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics - KR & Multiagent Systems: Negotiation, Group decision making, - Cooperation, Interaction, KR & game theory - Natural language processing, Summarization, Categorization - KR and machine learning, Inductive logic programming, Knowledge discovery and acquisition - WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration - Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence KR Workshops: Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop KROW 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems KRAMAS 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html Doctoral Consortium http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html Conference Chairs: General Chair: Patrick Doherty PC Chairs: Gerhard Brewka, Jerome Lang Local Chair: Maurice Pagnucco Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz Publicity Chair: Thomas Meyer Important Dates: Submission of title and abstract: April 3, 2008 Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: June 16, 2008 KR-2008 Conference: September, 16-19, 2008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): - Decidability: - decision procedures based on logical calculi such as: resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi, or natural deduction - decidability in combinations of logical theories - specialized decision procedures - Complexity: - complexity analysis for fragments of first- (or higher) order logic - complexity analysis for combinations of logical theories (including parameterized complexity results) - Tractability (in logic, automated reasoning, algebra, ...) - Application domains for which complexity issues are essential (verification, security, databases, ontologies, ...) Submission procedure ==================== Submission to this special issue is completely open. We expect original articles (typically 15-30 pages; submission of larger papers will be evaluated depending on editorial constraints) that present high-quality contributions that have not been previously published in an archival venue and that must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions must comply with JSC's author guidelines. They must be written in English and should be prepared in LaTeX using the "Elsevier Article Class (elsart.cls)" with "JSC add-on style (yjsco.sty)" and "Harvard style references (elsart-harv.bst)". The package "JSC LaTex" (that contains all the necessary style files and a template) can be obtained from http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hong/jsc/JSC_LaTex_2007_Mar_12.zip The introduction of the paper MUST explicitly address the following questions in succinct and informal manner: - What is the problem? - Why is the problem important? - What has so far been done on the problem? - What is the contribution of the paper on the problem? - Is the contribution original? Explain why. - Is the contribution non-trivial? Explain why. Submission to this special issue are hereby encouraged via the EasyChair submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=addctjsc2008).. The deadline for submissions is April 6th, 2008. Guest editors: ============== Silvio Ghilardi (U. Milano) Ulrike Sattler (U. Manchester) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI,Saarbruecken) Ashish Tiwari (Menlo Park) Contact ======= For further informations please send an e-mail to Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (e-mail sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de) From tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Tue Mar 11 13:41:32 2008 From: tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za (Tommie Meyer) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:41:32 +0200 Subject: [DL] KROW@KR2008: Call For Papers Message-ID: <663B820F-AE51-4E8F-8F15-E57D38A83111@meraka.org.za> Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop (KROW 2008) Call for Papers A KR 2008 Workshop September 16 - 19, 2008 Sydney, Australia http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html KROW 2008 is one of two workshops forming an integral part of the program of the 11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2008). It is a continuation of the Australasian Ontology Workshop series: http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/conferences/aow/. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies The proceedings of the three workshops in the AOW series were published as volumes 58, 72, and 85 of the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and this will also be the case for the KROW 2008 proceedings. We also expect that extended versions of selected papers will appear in a special issue of an appropriate journal. Submission information such as format, page limits, etc. can be found on the CRPIT website: http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2008 Camera-ready copies due: July 15, 2008 Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=krow2008 Workshop Chairs Thomas Meyer Meraka Institute, South Africa tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Mehmet Orgun Macquarie University, Australia mehmet at ics.mq.edu.au Program Committee Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Mike Bain (UNSW, Australia) Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) Arina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Longbing Cao (UTS, Australia) Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Anne Cregan (UNSW, Australia) Attila Elci (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey) Aurona Gerber (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Manolis Gergatsoulis (Ionian University, Greece) Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia) Bo Hu (University of Southampton, UK) Renato Iannella (NICTA, Australia) Marijke Keet (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Ken Kaneiwa (NII, Japan) Kevin Lee (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Laurent Lefort (CSIRO, Australia) Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK) Lars Moench (University of Hagen, Germany) Deshendran Moodley (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia) Anet Potgieter (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) Murat Sensoy (Bogazici University, Turkey) Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn (TU Dresden, Germany) Kerry Taylor (CSIRO, Australia) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia) Mary-Anne Williams (UTS, Australia) Pinar Yolum (Bogazici University, Turkey) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From areces at pluton.loria.fr Tue Mar 11 14:20:13 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:20:13 +0100 Subject: [DL] [CFP] Advances in Modal Logic 2008 Message-ID: <200803111320.m2BDKDik003115@pluton.loria.fr> ======================================================= Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies []<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<> THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr DEADLINE: 31 March 2008 - SITE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS 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-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logics, including the following: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic + complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics + modal and temporal logic programming + model checking + theorem proving for modal logics - theoretical aspects of modal logic + algebraic and categorical perspectives on modal logic + coalgebraic modal logic + completeness and canonicity + correspondence and duality theory + many-dimensional modal logics + modal fixed point logics + model theory of modal logic + proof theory of modal logic - specific instances and variations of modal logic + description logics + dynamic logics and other process logics + epistemic and deontic logics + modal logics for agent-based systems + modal logic and game theory + modal logic and grammar formalisms + provability and interpretability logics + spatial and temporal logics + hybrid logic + intuitionistic logic + monotonic modal logic + substructural logic Papers on related subjects will also be considered. INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers at AiML-2008 will include the following: - Mai Gehrke, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen http://www.math.ru.nl/~mgehrke/ - Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~guido/ - Agi Kurucz, King's College London http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/ - Lawrence Moss, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ PAPER SUBMISSIONS In a change from previous AiML's, there will be two types of paper: (1) Full papers for publication and presentation at the conference. (2) Abstracts for short presentation only. Both types of paper should be submitted electronically using the submission page at http://www.easychair.org/AiML08/ The online submission system is now open. The submission deadline is 31 March 2008. (1) FULL PAPERS These will be published by College Publications http://www.collegepublications.co.uk in a volume to be made available at the meeting. Authors are invited to submit for review a full paper, not submitted elsewhere. It should be 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 appear in the conference volume, papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the style files to be provided at http://aiml08.loria.fr . At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the conference to present the paper. (2) ABSTRACTS These should at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light review. They may be made available at the conference, and authors should indicate if they would like to make a short presentation of their abstract of up to 15 minutes. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Philippe Balbiani (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Alexandru Baltag (University of Oxford, UK) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University, USA) Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France) Stephane Demri (CNRS, Cachan, France) Melvin Fitting (City University of New York, USA) Guido Governatori (University of Queensland, Australia) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London, UK) Ramon Jansana (University of Barcelona, Spain) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Edwin Mares (Victoria University of Wellington) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Dirk Pattinson (Imperial College London, UK) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia, Australia) Ildiko Sain (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jerry Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Nobu-Yuki Suzuki (Shizuoka University, Japan) Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College, London, UK) PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Carlos Areces LORIA, Nancy carlos.areces(at)loria.fr Rob Goldblatt Victoria University of Wellington rob.goldblatt(at)mcs.vuw.ac.nz LOCAL ORGANIZER Patrick Blackburn LORIA, Nancy patrick.blackburn(at)loria.fr IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 31 March 2008 Acceptance notification: 31 May 2008 Final version of full papers due: 30 June 2008 Conference: 9-12 September 2008 CONFERENCE LOCATION Advances in Modal Logic 2008 will be held at LORIA (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) in Nancy, in the Lorraine, in the east of France. FURTHER INFORMATION Information about AiML-2008 will be available at the conference website: http://aiml08.loria.fr E-mail enquiries should be directed to the local organizer or the program co-chairs. Information about AiML itself can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Fri Mar 14 06:13:54 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:13:54 -0400 Subject: [DL] 1st CFP - [7th International Semantic Web Conference] [ISWC2008] Message-ID: <47DA0992.3040708@cs.rpi.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) 26-30 October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Web continues to grow and new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications are being developed. Building on this growth, Semantic Web technologies aim at providing a shared semantic information space, changing qualitatively our experiences on the Web. As Semantic Web technologies mature and permeate more and more application areas, new research challenges are coming to the fore and some unsolved ones are becoming more acute. These issues include creating and managing Semantic Web content, making Semantic Web applications robust and scalable, organizing and integrating information from different sources for novel uses, making semantics explicit in order to improve our overall experience with information technologies, and thus enabling us to use the wealth of information that is currently available in digital form for addressing our everyday tasks. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, ISWC brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, soft computing, and human-computer interaction. General Information ----------------------------- ISWC 2008 calls for papers to its research track. The research track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Papers of the latter type are encouraged to present repeatability of their experiments, and share with the community their data and test harnesses. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following. * Applications of the Semantic Web - Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations - Semantic Web for large scale applications, desktops or personal information management - Semantic Web technologies for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness - Semantic Web technologies for P2P, services, agents, grids and middleware * Management of Semantic Web Data - Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data - Database, IR and AI technologies for the Semantic Web - Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web - Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Machine learning and information extraction for the Semantic Web - Cleaning, assurance, trust, provenance of Semantic Web data, services and processes * Ontologies - Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Searching and ranking ontologies - Ontology evaluation * Social Semantic Web - Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web - Semantic Web technologies for collaboration and cooperation - Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security * User Interfaces - Visualization of and interacting with Semantic Web data - Semantic Web content creation and annotation - Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes general questions can be send to iswc2008'at'gmail.com ('at'=@) Important Dates (research track) ----------------------------- * Abstracts due: May 9 * Submissions: May 16 * Rebuttal phase: June 14-16 * Notification: July 11 * Camera ready: August 15 Organization ----------------------------- General chair Tim Finin, US Program chairs Amit Sheth, US Steffen Staab, DE Vice Chairs Abraham Bernstein, CH Vassilis Christophides, GR Thomas Eiter, AT Yolanda Gil, US Vasant Honavar, US Anupam Joshi, US David Karger, US Craig Knoblock, US Riichiro Mizoguchi, JP Enrico Motta, UK Wolfgang Nejdl, DE Natasha Noy, US Uli Sattler, UK Guus Schreiber, NL Luciano Serafini, IT Umberto Straccia, IT Gerd Stumme, DE Frank van Harmelen, NL Kunal Verma, US From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Fri Mar 14 06:15:57 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:15:57 -0400 Subject: [DL] 1st CFP - [Doctoral Consortium] [ISWC2008] [7th International Semantic Web Conference] Message-ID: <47DA0A0D.3030809@cs.rpi.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st CFP: ISWC 2008 Doctoral Consortium http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ To be held as part of 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) 26-30 October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th International Semantic Web Conference 2008 will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany. In addition to its plenary scientific sessions, the conference will include a doctoral consortium. Alongside the great opportunity for the scientific exchange and presentation of high quality research in all aspects of Semantic Web, this forum will allow doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors as well as to get in contact with other postgraduate students. The goal of the doctoral consortium is to create an opportunity for doctoral students to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plans, and most of all to receive constructive criticism and insights related to their future work and career perspectives. Mentors (peer researchers and experts in the field) will be assigned to each student to provide individual feedback and advice on the paper, the focus of the work and further developments. Students who are submitting papers on specific portions of their work to the main conference are also invited to apply to the PhD Consortium. In this case, the short paper for the PhD Consortium must give an overview of the student's dissertation research, and the paper for the main conference should focus on a specific piece of this work. All papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium stream will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The best submissions will be selected for presentation at the ISWC 2008 Doctoral Consortium sessions. Full papers (5 pages) will be published in the main ISWC proceedings. Topics --------------------- The Doctoral Consortium track of ISWC 2008 solicits submission of PhD research papers dealing with foundational and core issues, application domains and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Applications of the Semantic Web - Applications with clear lessons learned - Evaluations of Semantic Web technologies - Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and other application domains - Semantic Web technologies for multimedia content - Personal Information Management - Management of Semantic Web Data - Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data - Database technologies for the Semantic Web - Search, query, and visualization of the Semantic Web - Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web - Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction - Ontologies - Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Evaluation and tanking of ontologies - Ontology search - Semantic Web Architecture - Semantic Web middleware - Semantic Web services - Agents on the Semantic Web - Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids - Social Semantic Web - Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web - Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation - Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security Submission Details --------------------- Doctoral Consortium papers should include a clear presentation of the PhD research direction, sound situation of the PhD research in the context of Semantic Web and related fields, a report on the work done so far and a plan of further research. All submissions should be no longer than 6 pages, in the same format as is used for the main conference papers. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 Papers must be submitted electronically through the conference submission site. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. ISWC 2008 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for 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. Important Dates --------------------- * May 16, 2007 (11:59pm Hawaii time, GMT-10): Doctoral consortium paper submissions due * July 11, 2007: Doctoral consortium paper acceptance notification * August 15, 2007: Doctoral consortium camera-ready papers due * October 26-30 2007: ISWC 2008 (exact date of DC to be decided) Further information --------------------- For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Doctoral Consortium Chair: Diana Maynard From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Fri Mar 14 06:16:40 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:16:40 -0400 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP - [Workshop Proposals] [ISWC2008] [7th International Semantic Web Conference] Message-ID: <47DA0A38.9030405@cs.rpi.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd CFP: ISWC 2008 WORKSHOP PROPOSALS http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-workshop-proposals/ To be held as part of 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) 26-30 October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-located workshops at previous ISWC conferences have become an important meeting point for researchers willing to discuss and exchange ideas on topics related to the Semantic Web. ISWC 2008 plans to continue with this tradition and therefore invites proposals for the Workshop Program of ISWC 2008. Workshops will be held on 26-27 October. General Information -------------------------- * Co-located workshops must be on topics that are of interest to ISWC attendees. * Workshop duration can be half a day or a full day (October 26th and 27th only). * We strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. * Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences. We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions. * The decision on acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals will be made on the basis of overall quality of the proposal as well as how it fits in with the conference. * The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website), and proceedings. They will be required to closely cooperate with the Workshops Chairs and the ISWC 2008 local organizers to finalize all details mentioned above. * Workshop attendees must pay the ISWC 2008 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. Important Dates --------------------- * Workshop proposals are due March 28, 2008. Proposals should be sent to iswc2008-workshops '-at-' L3S.de, '-at-'=@. * Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given by April 11, 2008. The important dates for accepted workshops will be: - Workshop cfps out: 2 May - Submissions (suggested): 25 July - Acceptances (suggested): 5 Sept - Camera ready papers: 26 Sept - Camera ready proceedings: 03 Oct Submitting a proposal ----------------------------- Workshop proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length, should be in text or PDF format and should contain the following information: * The title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying its goals and motivation. * 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, the workshop audience, as well as the expected number of participants. * A brief description of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion. * A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal). * An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day meeting. * A description of past versions of the workshop, including URLs as well as submission and acceptance counts. * The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organizing committee and short description of their relevant experience. Please send your proposals by March 28, 2008 and/or inquiries by e-mail to the e-mail iswc2008-workshops '-at-' L3S.de, '-at-'=@. Workshop co-chairs -------------------------- Melliyal Annamalai, Oracle, USA Daniel Olmedilla, L3S & University of Hannover, Germany From nbassili at csd.auth.gr Fri Mar 14 10:35:49 2008 From: nbassili at csd.auth.gr (Nick Bassiliades) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:35:49 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: RuleML-2008 (2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications) Message-ID: <47DA46F5.2010602@csd.auth.gr> [ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 11th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== Sponsored by: Silver level: Model Systems Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS, OMG, European Business Rules Conference, Belgium Business Rules Forum, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (pending) ===================================================================== Media Partners: Springer LNCS (pending approval), MoDo Marketing ===================================================================== Call for Papers Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 - http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi- Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the Web Rules and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross- fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and applications as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into account when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments. We also welcome groundwork that helps to build an effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule technology, provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of rules, and make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more usable for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures. RuleML-2008 highlights include: - Plenary keynotes and a joint Boxed Lunch Panel about "Rules on the Web" together with the Business Rules Forum featuring prominent and visionary speakers. - There will be a joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008 (http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008/), which will be broadcast from RR2008 to RuleML-2008. - A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use cases, and applications - Industry, demo and scientific research & development papers and presentations advancing and assessing the state of the art in event and rule- based systems selected in a peer-reviewed fashion by an international program committee - Invited talks given by leaders from industry and world-class experts featuring practical topics on event and rule-based computing and industry success stories - Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an informal setting. Topics of Interest ------------------ We invite industry practitioners, rule system providers, technical experts and developers, rule users, and researchers who are using rule-based systems, developing systems and applications, or exploring problems and best practices (especially in the areas of system interoperability, rule interchange, or business agility), to share their ideas, results, and experiences. We invite submissions related (but not limited to) to one or more of the following topics: - Representation and meta-annotation of rules and rule sets (modules) for publication and interchange - Collaborative authoring, modeling and engineering of rule specifications and rule repositories - Information integration of external data and domain knowledge into rules - Homogeneous and heterogeneous integration of rules and ontologies - Rules in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 - Rules in Semantic Web Technologies - Rules in Web Intelligence Research - Hybrid rule systems - Management and maintenance of distributed rule bases and rule repositories during their lifecycle - Interchange and refactoring of rule bases in heterogeneous execution environments - Verification and validation of interchanged rule bases in heterogeneous execution environments - Contributions on effective, practical, and deployable Web standards on rules as well as special purpose, vertical domain rule languages - Rule-based agility and its role in middleware - Communication between rule based systems using interchange formats and processing / communication middleware - Applications, products, research, and development in rule-based, distributed complex event processing, event communication and reaction rules - Event-driven/action rule languages and models - Rule-based Event Processing Languages and rule-based CEP - Rule patterns and CEP patterns - Practical solutions tackling the real-world Software Engineering requirements of rule-based systems in open, distributed environments - Modeling of executable rule specifications and tool support - Execution models, rule engines, and environments - Compilation vs. interpretation approaches of rules - Applications and integration of rules in web standards - Rule-based software agents and (web) services - Applications of rules in the Semantic Web and Pragmatic Web - Comparing and advancing the state of current business rules engines and management system tools - Rule interchange standards and related industry interchange formats - Interoperation between different rule formats and ontological domain conceptualization - Applications based on (Semantic) Web rule standardization or standards- proposing efforts - Translation of interchangeable and domain-independent rule formats and rule models into executable technical rule specifications - Extraction and reengineering of platform-independent, interchangeable rules and rule models from existing platform-specific resources - Natural-language processing of rules - Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules - Incorporation of rule technology into distributed enterprise application architectures - Rule-based policies and electronic contracts: their specification, execution and management - Languages for exchanging and processing information through the web - E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative strategies - Applications of rules in e.g. legal reasoning, compliance rules, security, IT government, security, risk management, trust and proof reasoning, etc. - Rule-based (multi-valued) reasoning with and representing uncertain and fuzzy information - Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic, temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualifications - Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and answer set programming RuleML-2008 Challenge --------------------- RuleML-2008 Challenge addresses the practical use of rule technologies in distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge is on rule technologies (including rule languages and engines), interoperation and interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. Intentionally, this year's challenge (as last year) does not define a specific task, data set, application domain, or technology to be used because the potential applicability of rules is very broad. Instead, a number of minimal criteria were defined which allow people to submit a broad range of applications. A submission to RuleML challenge has to meet the minimal requirement that declarative rules explicitly play a central role in the application. Basically this means that: - Rules are explicitly represented in a declarative format and they are decoupled from the application (rather than being compiled or hard-coded into the application logic). - Rules are used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful information, transform knowledge, provide decision support, provide automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of the behavioural logic of the application. The demo should preferably (but not necessarily) be embedded into a web-based or distributed environment so that there will be a need for features related to the ruleml conference topics, as listed in the call for papers. More details will be available on the RuleML-2008 web site. Important Dates --------------- - Paper Submissions due June 2, 2008 - Notification of acceptance July 18, 2008 - Final submissions due August 9, 2008 - Symposium date October 30-31, 2008 - RuleML Challenge October 30, 2008 Symposium Proceedings and Submission Details -------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case / use case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies or applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and may be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008 as: - Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) - Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) - RuleML-2008 Challenge Demo Paper + Show Cases (3-5 pages in the proceedings) Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to upload their complete papers by June 2, 2008. The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (pending) along with a CD with demo software and documents. The best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC and a Best Paper Award will be handed over at the Symposium by a Sponsor. All submissions must be done electronically via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008. We will pursue the publication of a selection of revised papers to a special issue of a high- quality journal. Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2008 consist of a demo paper of 3-5 pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a presentation, or a download site. If the link is password-protected: then please submit a password for anonymous login from any Web browser, giving us the permission to pass the password on to 3 PC members. The submissions should satisfy the minimal requirements defined in the topics of interest. The demos will be evaluated by an independent jury of experts during RuleML-2008 and prizes will be awarded to the first two best applications. Please do not hesitate to email to the appropriate Symposium Chair(s), if you have any questions. Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair Adrian Paschke, Technical University Dresden, Germany adrian.paschke AT biotec.tu-dresden.de Program Co-Chairs Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece nbassili AT csd.auth.gr Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia guido AT itee.uq.edu.au Challenge Co-Chairs Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania badica_costin AT software.ucv.ro Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan hu AT cs.nccu.edu.tw Panel Co-Chairs John Hall, Model Systems, UK john.hall AT modelsys.com Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland axel AT polleres.net Liaison Co-Chairs Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules, UK mproctor AT redhat.com Rainer von Ammon, CITT GmbH, Germany vonammon AT t-online.de Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Jan.Vanthienen AT econ.kuleuven.be Publicity Co-Chairs Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK M.L.Nickles AT cs.bath.ac.uk Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA tbost AT valocity.com (Sponsoring levels: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/) Web Chair Suzanne Embury, University of Manchester, UK Suzanne.Embury AT manchester.ac.uk Program Committee -------------------- - Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete-FORTH, Greece - Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, USA - Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino, Italy - Cristina Baroglio, University of Torino, Italy - Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs - Tim Bass, SilkRoad Inc. - Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany - Mikael Berndtsson, University of Skovde, Sweden - Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada - Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal - Peter Bollen, University of Maastricht, Netherlands - Christian Brelage, SAP Research, Germany - Donald Chapin, Business Semantics Ltd, UK - Shyi-Ming Chen, National University of Science and Technology, Taiwan - Jorge Cuellar, Siemens, Germany - Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA - Stan Devitt, Agfa Healthcare, Ontario, Canada - Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zeeland - Jurgen Dix, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Andreas Eberhart, Portland State University, USA - Opher Etzion, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa, Israel - Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck, Austria - Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada - Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany - Stijn Goedertier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium - Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies, USA - Christine Golbreich, University Rennes, France - Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany - Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece - Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece - Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece - Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK - Holger Lausen, DERI Innsbruck, Austria - John Lee, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Mark Linehan, IBM Research, USA - Heiko Ludwig, IBM Watson Research, USA - Mirko Malekovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Christopher J. Matheus, Vistology, USA - Craig McKenzie, Science Applications International, USA - Jing Mei, IBM Research Lab China, China - Zoran Milosevic, Deontik Inc, Australia - Jang Minsu, E&T Research Institute, Korea - Leora Morgenstern, Stanford, USA - Gero Muehl, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany - Jorg Muller, TU Clausthal, Germany - Chieko Nakabasami, Toyo University, Japan - Ilkka Niemela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - Bart Orriens, Tilburg University, Netherlands - Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK - Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, Rewerse, Germany - Jon Pellant, Pega Systems Inc., USA - Jeff Pollock, Oracle, USA - Alun Preece, Cardiff University, UK - Maher Rahmouni, HP Labs - Girish Ranganathan, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Dave Reynolds, HP, England - Graham Rong, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA - Antonio Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy - Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France - Marco Seirio, ruleCore, Sweden - Timos Sellis, Institute for the Management of Information Systems and National Technical University of Athens, Greece - Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany - Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The Netherlands - Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece - Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece - Terrance Swift, XSB Inc., USA - Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia - James Taylor, Fair Isaac Corp., USA - Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland - Paul Vincent, TIBCO Software, USA - George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece - Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia - Mehmet Emre Yegen, Ygntec Inc., USA From schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk Sun Mar 16 01:08:07 2008 From: schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk (Renate Schmidt) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:08:07 +0000 Subject: [DL] IJCAR'08 Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning Message-ID: <20080316000807.704AE1CC8049@rpc340.cs.man.ac.uk> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS PAAR-2008 IJCAR'08 Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning Deadline: 27 May 2008 http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/PAAR-2008/paar-2008.html GENERAL INFORMATION The first Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning will be held in August 2008, in Sydney, Australia. PAAR will be associated with the 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR-2008). SCOPE PAAR provides a forum for developers of automated reasoning tools to discuss and compare different implementation techniques, and for users to discuss and communicate their applications and requirements. This workshop will bring together different groups to concentrate on practical aspects of the implementation and application of automated reasoning tools. It will allow researchers to present their work in progress, and to discuss new implementation techniques and applications. Topics include but are not limited to: o automated reasoning in classical and non-classical logics, implementation of provers; o automated reasoning tools for all kinds of practical problems and applications; o practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies; o evaluation of implementation techniques and automated reasoning tools; o benchmarking approaches; o non-standard approaches to automated reasoning, non-standard forms of automated reasoning, new applications; o implementation techniques, optimisation techniques, strategies and heuristics; o system descriptions and demos. We are particularly interested in contributions that help the community to understand how to build useful and powerful reasoning systems in practice, and how to apply existing systems to real problems. SUBMISSIONS Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit a short (2-10 pages) abstract via EasyChair. Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Submissions should be in standard-conforming Postscript or PDF. To submit a paper, go to the EasyChair PAAR page http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paar2008 and follow the instructions there. FINAL VERSIONS The final versions should be prepared in LaTeX using the Springer Verlag llncs class. The workshop proceedings will be published as a technical report and distributed at the event. If quality and quantity of the subissions warrants this, we plan to produce a special issue of a recognized journal on the topic of the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of abstracts: May 27th, 2008 Notification: June 20th, 2008 Camera ready versions due: July 7th, 2008 Workshop: August 10th or 11th, 2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Serge Autexier Nikolaj Bjorner Peter Baumgartner Koen Claessen Bernd Fischer Ulrich Furbach Martin Giese Volker Haarslev Thomas Hillenbrand Tommi Junttila Deepak Kapur Boris Konev (Co-Chair) Konstantin Korovin Bill McCune Boris Motik Flavio LC de Moura Hans de Nivelle Albert Oliveras Brigitte Pientka Adam Pease Silvio Ranise Renate Schmidt (Co-Chair) Stephan Schulz (Co-Chair) Sanjit Seshia Geoff Sutcliffe Cesare Tinelli Josef Urban Luca Vigano Andrei Voronkov Uwe Waldmann ORGANIZERS Boris Konev, University of Liverpool Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester Stephan Schulz, TU Muenchen From areces at pluton.loria.fr Thu Mar 27 10:54:04 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:54:04 +0100 Subject: [DL] Last Call for Papers: Advances in Modal Logic Message-ID: <200803270954.m2R9s4CD015542@pluton.loria.fr> ======================================================= Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies []<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<> LAST CALL FOR PAPERS AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr DEADLINE: 31 March 2008 - SITE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS 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-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logics, including the following: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic + complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics + modal and temporal logic programming + model checking + theorem proving for modal logics - theoretical aspects of modal logic + algebraic and categorical perspectives on modal logic + coalgebraic modal logic + completeness and canonicity + correspondence and duality theory + many-dimensional modal logics + modal fixed point logics + model theory of modal logic + proof theory of modal logic - specific instances and variations of modal logic + description logics + dynamic logics and other process logics + epistemic and deontic logics + modal logics for agent-based systems + modal logic and game theory + modal logic and grammar formalisms + provability and interpretability logics + spatial and temporal logics + hybrid logic + intuitionistic logic + monotonic modal logic + substructural logic Papers on related subjects will also be considered. INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers at AiML-2008 will include the following: - Mai Gehrke, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen http://www.math.ru.nl/~mgehrke/ - Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~guido/ - Agi Kurucz, King's College London http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/ - Lawrence Moss, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ PAPER SUBMISSIONS In a change from previous AiML's, there will be two types of paper: (1) Full papers for publication and presentation at the conference. (2) Abstracts for short presentation only. Both types of paper should be submitted electronically using the submission page at http://www.easychair.org/AiML08/ The online submission system is now open. The submission deadline is 31 March 2008. (1) FULL PAPERS These will be published by College Publications http://www.collegepublications.co.uk in a volume to be made available at the meeting. Authors are invited to submit for review a full paper, not submitted elsewhere. It should be 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 appear in the conference volume, papers must be prepared in LaTeX using the style files to be provided at http://aiml08.loria.fr . At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the conference to present the paper. (2) ABSTRACTS These should at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light review. They may be made available at the conference, and authors should indicate if they would like to make a short presentation of their abstract of up to 15 minutes. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Philippe Balbiani (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Alexandru Baltag (University of Oxford, UK) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University, USA) Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France) Stephane Demri (CNRS, Cachan, France) Melvin Fitting (City University of New York, USA) Guido Governatori (University of Queensland, Australia) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London, UK) Ramon Jansana (University of Barcelona, Spain) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Edwin Mares (Victoria University of Wellington) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Dirk Pattinson (Imperial College London, UK) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia, Australia) Ildiko Sain (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jerry Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Nobu-Yuki Suzuki (Shizuoka University, Japan) Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College, London, UK) PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Carlos Areces LORIA, Nancy carlos.areces(at)loria.fr Rob Goldblatt Victoria University of Wellington rob.goldblatt(at)mcs.vuw.ac.nz LOCAL ORGANIZER Patrick Blackburn LORIA, Nancy patrick.blackburn(at)loria.fr IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 31 March 2008 Acceptance notification: 31 May 2008 Final version of full papers due: 30 June 2008 Conference: 9-12 September 2008 CONFERENCE LOCATION Advances in Modal Logic 2008 will be held at LORIA (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) in Nancy, in the Lorraine, in the east of France. FURTHER INFORMATION Information about AiML-2008 will be available at the conference website: http://aiml08.loria.fr E-mail enquiries should be directed to the local organizer or the program co-chairs. Information about AiML itself can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net From r.cornet at amc.uva.nl Mon Mar 24 21:15:35 2008 From: r.cornet at amc.uva.nl (Ronald Cornet) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:15:35 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Late Breaking News-Posters: KR-MED 2008 "Representing and sharing knowledge using SNOMED CT" Message-ID: <20080324211535835.00000003664@06-020-2539> We are happy to announce that KR-MED 2008 (Knowledge Representation in Medicine) provides the opportunity of submitting posters for presenting Late Breaking News! This call enables you to bring to attention any new topics that have emerged recently and that you want to discuss with the KR-MED audience. Areas covered by KR-MED can be found below. Your poster abstract of 1 page (including bibliography) has to be delivered as pdf and as source files (MsWord or LaTeX). For details see: www.kr-med.org/2008 For submission see: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-MED2008 Important dates: Poster submissions due: April 4th, 2008 (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, UTC -7) Notification of poster acceptance: April 14th, 2008 (notice: NO revisions or resubmissions possible) Conference: May 31 - June 2, 2008 Location: Arizona Grand Resort, Phoenix, Arizona We look forward to receiving your poster submissions! Kent Spackman (International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization) Ronald Cornet (Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) KR-MED 2008 Program Chairs ** With apologies for cross-posting ** ############################################################### Ronald Cornet, PhD email: R.Cornet at amc.uva.nl dept. of Medical Informatics phone: +31 (0)20 566 5188 Academic Medical Center, Room J1B-115 fax: +31 (0)20 691 9840 P.O.Box 22700 www: http://kik.amc.uva.nl/home/rcornet/ 1100 DE Amsterdam The Netherlands 'The truth is out there' From tommiemeyer at gmail.com Thu Mar 27 21:55:22 2008 From: tommiemeyer at gmail.com (Tommie Meyer) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:55:22 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final Call for Papers: KR 2008 Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ 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 KR2008 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, 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 building knowledge bases, applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and should include a section on evaluation. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style (pdf only) Paper length is 7 pages maximum including title, author information and references. Authors may add to the paper an optional, clearly marked Appendix containing technical material (such as proofs, evaluation results etc.) supporting claims made in the paper. The Appendix must not exceed 2 additional pages in AAAI style. The evaluation of the submission will be based on the quality of the paper. The optional Appendix will be used in case reviewers are in doubt about claimed results. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 Conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. Final versions of papers will be considerably longer than the submissions: for each accepted paper 11 pages in AAAI style will be allocated in the proceedings. Topics of interest include: - Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Paraconsistent logics - Nonmonotonic logics, Default logics, Conditional logics, Argumentation - Temporal and spatial reasoning - Causal reasoning, Abduction, Model-based diagnosis - Reasoning about action and change, Action languages, Situation calculus, Dynamic logic - Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty - Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics - Graphical representations for belief and preference - Reasoning about belief and knowledge, Epistemic and doxastic logics, - Multiagent logics of belief and knowledge - Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming - Computational aspects of knowledge representation - Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning - Belief revision and update, Belief merging, Information fusion - Description logics, Ontologies - Qualitative reasoning, Reasoning about physical systems - Decision theory, Preference modelling and representation, Reasoning about preference - KR & Autonomous Agents: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics - KR & Multiagent Systems: Negotiation, Group decision making, - Cooperation, Interaction, KR & game theory - Natural language processing, Summarization, Categorization - KR and machine learning, Inductive logic programming, Knowledge discovery and acquisition - WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration - Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence KR Workshops: Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop KROW 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems KRAMAS 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html Doctoral Consortium http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html Conference Chairs: General Chair: Patrick Doherty PC Chairs: Gerhard Brewka, Jerome Lang Local Chair: Maurice Pagnucco Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz Publicity Chair: Thomas Meyer Important Dates: Submission of title and abstract: April 3, 2008 Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: June 16, 2008 KR-2008 Conference: September, 16-19, 2008 From areces at pluton.loria.fr Fri Mar 21 15:21:14 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:21:14 +0100 Subject: [DL] E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2008 call for submissions Message-ID: <200803211421.m2LELEvs010988@pluton.loria.fr> E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2008 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. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree in the year 2007. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of the three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Inter-disciplinarity is an important feature of the theses competing for the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize. Who qualifies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2007 and December 31st, 2007. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. After a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Dissertations produced in 2007 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2008). Respectively, nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in other language than English and defended in 2006 and 2007 will be accepted for consideration this year, too. Prize ~~~~~ The prize consists of: * a certificate * a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. * an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to 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 is available on the FoLLI site) How to submit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Only electronic submissions are accepted. 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 bethaward2008 at gmail.com. Hard copy submissions are not admitted. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days after submission, nominators should write to goranko at maths.wits.ac.za or policriti at dimi.uniud.it. Important dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deadline for Submissions: April 30th, 2008. Notification of Decision: July 15th, 2008. Committee : * Anne Abeill?? (Universit?? Paris 7) * Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) * Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS) * Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) * Valentin Goranko (chair) (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) * Alexander Koller (University of Edinburgh) * Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) * Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) * Alberto Policriti (Universit?? di Udine) * Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) * Colin Stirling (University of Edinburgh) From franconi at inf.unibz.it Sat Mar 22 12:42:46 2008 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:42:46 +0100 Subject: [DL] European Master in Computational Logic - scholarships for European students Message-ID: *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** http://www.computational-logic.eu The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano (FUB), in Italy (at the heart of the Dolomites mountains in South-Tyrol), is offering the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Master of Science in Computer Science offer (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: * 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, completely in English, 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 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: - *** 31 May 2008 *** deadline for European and non-European students (notification of acceptance: 15 June 2008) - 22 August 2008: last deadline only for European students starting at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (notification of acceptance: 5 September 2008) SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT: European citizens 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 may amount up to more than 6,000 EUR per academic year, plus support on the accommodation and total reimbursement of the enrolment fees. These scholarships are also available to non-European citizens with residence in Italy. European students will also get a LLP Socrates Erasmus scholarship for the second year of study abroad, which is 330 EUR per month. NEW! Every year 10 students with European citizenship can visit Australia (Canberra, Sidney, Melbourne or Brisbane) up to 3 months to work on a research project, sponsored by the European Master. The study period in Australia is part of the study programme and it is fully recognised by the European Master's Program in Computational Logic. The guaranteed scholarship is of 3,100 EUR and it covers the travel and living expenses in Australia. The KRDB Research Centre offers the annual "IBM & KRDB" awards for the best thesis on a Computational Logic related topic, which is generously sponsored by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies; each winner will receive 500 EUR from IBM. In addition to that, the Italian site in Rome of the IBM Center for Advanced Studies supports scholarships of up to 2,400 EUR to work on a research project or on the thesis at their labs in Rome. Check the web page for detailed info on other available scholarships: http://www.computational-logic.eu 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 triennale) 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 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). 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 or Dr. Sergio Tessaris at info at fub.computational-logic.eu European Masters Program in Computational Logic 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: info at fub.computational-logic.eu Web site: http://www.computational-logic.eu From baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Wed Apr 2 14:28:44 2008 From: baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Franz Baader) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:28:44 +0200 Subject: [DL] DL 2008 registration Message-ID: <5a051c660804020528p502ef5egb2f8f8f37572aff9@mail.gmail.com> The 21st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2008) will take place in Dresden, Germany, from May 13-16 2008. Here is some important information for people that intend to attend the workshop: - Workshop registration via the workshop Web page http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ is possible now; the fee is 250,- Euro until ** April 13 **, and 300,- Euro after that. - Due to major events in Dresden just before and after the workshop, it is highly recommended to book hotel rooms as soon as possible; we have reserved blocks of rooms in hotels and university guesthouses for DL2008 participants (see the workshop Web page http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/), but most of these reservation will need to be released by ** April 10 **. Thus, please book as soon as possible. - Travel information and general information about Dresden can also be found on the workshop Web page http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ - The list of accepted papers and a stub program can now be found on the workshop Web page http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ I hope I will see you in Dresden at DL2008, -Franz Baader (Workshop Chair) From jv at imm.dtu.dk Mon Mar 31 08:34:50 2008 From: jv at imm.dtu.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen_Villadsen?=) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:34:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] Position as Assistant or Associate Professor in Algorithms and Message-ID: <20080331063450.DD10CF84064@pfepb.post.tele.dk> Logic Sender: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen_Villadsen?= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:34:53 +0200 Message-ID: <20080331063453062.3BE724AF5391784C at nbjv> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Applications are invited for a position as Assistant or Associate Professor in Algorithms and Logic at the DTU Informatics department. Through this announcement the department wishes to attract faculty whose research falls within one of the following areas: * Algorithms and Data Structures * Logic and Logic-Based Artificial Intelligence The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is located in Lyngby, 10 km north of Copenhagen, and is one of the largest technical research and educational institutions in Northern Europe with about 4,500 employees. Further information: http://www.dtu.dk/English/About_DTU/vacancies.aspx?guid=22234654 Deadline: 23 April 2008 (noon) From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Thu Apr 3 20:24:43 2008 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:24:43 +0200 Subject: [DL] RR 2008 - 2nd Int. Conf. on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems - Call for Papers (revised) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this email to anyone interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- RR 2008 The Second International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008 Karlsruhe, Germany, October 31 - November 2, 2008 Call for Papers The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) aims to be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2008 builds on the success of The First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems RR 2007, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2008, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. The reasoning landscape features theoretical areas such as knowledge representation (KR) and algorithms; design aspects of rule markup; design of ontology languages; engineering of engines, translators, and other tools; efficiency considerations and benchmarking; standardization efforts, such as the Rules Interchange Format activity at W3C; and applications. Of particular interest is also the use of rules to facilitate ontology modeling, and the relationships and possible interactions between rules and ontology languages like RDF and OWL, as well as ontology reasoning related to RDF and OWL, or querying with SPARQL. Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list: * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Standardization * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications LOCATION: The conference is co-located with ISWC 2008 (http:// iswc2008.semanticweb.org/), the International Semantic Web Conference. SUBMISSION DETAILS: RR 2008 welcomes original research and application papers dealing with web reasoning and rule systems, with particular attention to the topics listed above. Submitted papers are limited in length to fifteen (15) pages, including title, abstract, and list of references, and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html). Submitted papers must be in PDF format. The full paper submission must be preceded by the submission of an abstract. Submission is via EasyChair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2008 Papers may be accepted as: - full papers (15 pages in the proceedings) - short papers (8 pages in the proceedings) - posters (2 pages in the proceedings) Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. The best papers may also be considered for publication in a prestigious international journal. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission deadline: June 14, 2008 Paper submission deadline: June 21, 2008 Notification of acceptance decisions: July 21, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: Aug. 15, 2008 RR 2008 conference: Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2008 GENERAL CHAIR: Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna (AT) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg (DE) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Jose Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT) J?rgen Angele, Ontoprise GmbH, Karlsruhe (DE) Gregoris Antoniou, University of Crete (GR) Marcelo Arenas, Pontificia Universidad Catolico de Chile (CL) Uwe Assmann, Technische Universit?t Dresden (DE) Chitta Baral, Arizona State University (US) Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Ottawa (CA) Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) Christoph Bussler, BEA Systems, Inc. (US) Andrea Cali, University of Oxford (UK) Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (US) Hendrik Decker, Ciudad Polit?cnica de la Innovaci?n, Valencia (ES) J?rgen Dix, Universit?t Clausthal (DE) Christine Golbreich, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (FR) John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK) Gianluigi Greco, Universit? della Calabria (IT) Claudio Gutierrez, University of Chile, Santiago (CL) Giovambattista Ianni, Universit? della Calabria (IT) Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR) Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Universit? di Roma (IT) Francesca A. Lisi, Universit? di Bari (IT) Bertram Ludaescher, University of California, Davis (US) Thomas Lukasiewicz, Sapienza University of Rome (IT) Carsten Lutz, Technische Universit?t Dresden (DE) Jan Maluszynski, University of Link?ping (SE) Wolfgang May, University of G?ttingen (DE) Ralf M?ller, Technische Universit?t Hamburg (DE) Boris Motik, University of Oxford (UK) Wolfgang Nejdl, LS3 and University of Hannover (DE) Daniel Oberle, SAP AG (DE) P.F. Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (US) Axel Polleres, National University of Ireland, Galway (IE) Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Dave Reynolds, HP Labs (UK) Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble (FR) Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchestor (UK) Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft (AT) Roman Schindlauer, TU Wien (AT) Michael Sintek, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern (DE) Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens (GR) Umberto Straccia, ISTI - C.N.R Pisa (IT) Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim (DE) York Sure, SAP AG (DE) Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) Rodney Topor, University of Griffith (AUS) Dirk Vermeir, University of Brussels (BE) David Warren, SUNY at Stony Brook (US) P.T. Wood, University of London (UK) Guizhen Yang, SRI (US) LOCAL ORGANIZATION: Sebastian Rudolph, University of Karlsruhe (DE) From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Apr 4 11:02:40 2008 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:02:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR 2008 (Qatar) CFP Message-ID: <20080404090240.F11A211FE30@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LPAR 2008 15th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Doha, Qatar November 22-27, 2008 http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08/ The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 2008 edition will be held in Doha, Qatar, on the premises of the Qatar campus of Carnegie Mellon University. Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. It is logical techniques that link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated reasoning * Interactive theorem proving * Implementations of logic * Proof assistants * Program and system verification * Model checking * Rewriting and unification * Logic programming * Constraint programming * Logic and databases * Modal and temporal logics * Proof-carrying code * Translation validation * Logic for the semantic web * Foundations of security * Description logics * Non-monotonic reasoning * Specification using logics * Logic in artificial intelligence * Lambda calculus * Constructive logic and type theory * Computional interpretations of logic * Logical foundations of programming * Logical aspects of concurrency * Logic and computational complexity * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Reasoning about actions * Proof planning * Effectively presented structures * Logic of distributed systems Invited Speakers ---------------- It has been a tradition of LPAR to invite some of the most influential researchers in the focus areas to discuss their work and their vision for their fields. We are honored that the following members of the community have accepted this invitation. * Edmund Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Other invited speakers will be announced soon Submission Instructions ----------------------- Submissions must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF); papers submitted in a proprietary word processor format such as Microsoft Word cannot be considered. Submissions can be of two types: * Regular papers are meant to describe solid new research results. They can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures, bibliography and appendices. * Short papers are intended to report on interesting work in progress. They can be at most 5 pages long in the LNCS style. Papers can be electronically submitted by visiting http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dlpar2008 . Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). As with the previous editions, the accepted regular papers of LPAR'08 will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. They will be available at the conference. Programme Committe Chairs ------------------------- * Iliano Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar) * Helmut Veith (Technische Universit=E4t Darmstadt, Germany) * Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester, UK) Participation ------------- Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this policy will be removed from the proceedings. Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission deadline: 26 May 2008 Paper submission deadline: 06 June 2008 Notification of acceptance: 29 August 2008 Camera-ready papers: 19 September 2008 LPAR'08 Workshops: 22 November 2008 LPAR 2008: 23-27 November 2008 From r.cornet at amc.uva.nl Mon Apr 14 09:26:21 2008 From: r.cornet at amc.uva.nl (Ronald Cornet) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:26:21 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation KR-MED 2008 - Early Bird Rate expires April 15th Message-ID: <20080414092621442.00000006088@06-020-2539> ** With apologies for cross-postings ** Call for Participation KR-MED 2008 - Representing and sharing knowledge using SNOMED International Conference May 31st - June 2nd 2008, Phoenix, AZ, USA http://www.kr-med.org/2008 Conference organized by the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) and the Working Group on Formal (Bio-)Medical Knowledge Representation of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Collocated with the AMIA Spring Congress 2008 -------------------------------------------------- The vision of a universal clinical terminology, covering a broad range of health-related domains and meeting the needs of all health professionals has stimulated numerous health informatics research activities in the last two decades. SNOMED CT? (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms) is emerging as a comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology, since 2007 under a new international ownership. KR-MED 2008 will follow up the successful first SNOMED conference organized in Copenhagen in October 2006, and will address health policy makers, clinicians, nurses, system developers, informatics researchers, computer scientists, terminologists and translators. KR-MED 2008 is also the third conference of the AMIA working group KR-MED. It will therefore challenge the current state and the planned roadmap of SNOMED CT development from a perspective of knowledge representation and formal ontologies. -------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM: The preliminary program for KR-MED is available on http://www.kr-med.org/2008/program.html REGISTRATION: Registration is open, and handled via the AMIA Spring Congress. Registration for the AMIA Spring conference is not required for participation in KR-MED. To register, please follow the instructions from http://www.kr-med.org/2008/registration.html Please notice that the early bird rate will be valid through April 15th. VENUE: The conference will be held in: Arizona Grand Resort 8000 S. Arizona Grand Parkway Phoenix, Arizona 85044 To reserve your hotel room at the Arizona Grand Resort, via http://www.amia.org/meetings/s08/hotel.asp. PROGRAM COMMITTEE # Hans ?hlfeldt (University of Link?ping, Sweden) # Franz Baader (University of Dresden, Germany) # Robert Baud (University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland) # Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA) # Anita Burgun (University of Rennes, France) # James Cimino (Columbia University, USA) # Maureen Donnelly (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA) # Kathy Giannangelo (Language & Computing, USA) # Josef Ingenerf (University of Lubeck, Germany) # Marie-Christine Jaulent (Universit? P.M. Curie, France) # Nicolette de Keizer (Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands) # Yves A. Lussier (University of Chicago, USA) # David Markwell (Clinical Information Consultancy, UK) # Onard Mejino (University of Washington, USA) # Peter Mork (Mitre Corporation, USA) # Erik van Mulligen (Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands) # Jon Patrick (University of Sydney, Australia) # Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) # Jean Marie Rodrigues (University of St. ?tienne, France) # Daniel Rubin (Stanford University, USA) # Patrick Ruch (University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland) # Barry Smith (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA) # Lowell Vizenor (National Library of Medicine, USA) Looking forward to meeting you at KR-MED 2008 Ronald Cornet, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam Kent Spackman, International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) Scientific Program Committee Chairs ############################################################### Ronald Cornet, PhD email: R.Cornet at amc.uva.nl dept. of Medical Informatics phone: +31 (0)20 566 5188 Academic Medical Center, Room J1B-115 fax: +31 (0)20 691 9840 P.O.Box 22700 www: http://kik.amc.uva.nl/home/rcornet/ 1100 DE Amsterdam The Netherlands 'The truth is out there' From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Mon Apr 14 16:52:40 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:52:40 -0400 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP - [7th International Semantic Web Conference] [ISWC2008] Message-ID: <48036FB8.6090406@cs.rpi.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) 26-30 October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Web continues to grow and new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications are being developed. Building on this growth, Semantic Web technologies aim at providing a shared semantic information space, changing qualitatively our experiences on the Web. As Semantic Web technologies mature and permeate more and more application areas, new research challenges are coming to the fore and some unsolved ones are becoming more acute. These issues include creating and managing Semantic Web content, making Semantic Web applications robust and scalable, organizing and integrating information from different sources for novel uses, making semantics explicit in order to improve our overall experience with information technologies, and thus enabling us to use the wealth of information that is currently available in digital form for addressing our everyday tasks. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, ISWC brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, soft computing, and human-computer interaction. General Information ----------------------------- ISWC 2008 calls for papers to its research track. The research track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Papers of the latter type are encouraged to present repeatability of their experiments, and share with the community their data and test harnesses. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following. * Applications of the Semantic Web - Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations - Semantic Web for large scale applications, desktops or personal information management - Semantic Web technologies for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness - Semantic Web technologies for P2P, services, agents, grids and middleware * Management of Semantic Web Data - Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data - Database, IR and AI technologies for the Semantic Web - Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web - Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Machine learning and information extraction for the Semantic Web - Cleaning, assurance, trust, provenance of Semantic Web data, services and processes * Ontologies - Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Searching and ranking ontologies - Ontology evaluation * Social Semantic Web - Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web - Semantic Web technologies for collaboration and cooperation - Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security * User Interfaces - Visualization of and interacting with Semantic Web data - Semantic Web content creation and annotation - Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes general questions can be send to iswc2008'at'gmail.com ('at'=@) Important Dates (research track) ----------------------------- * Abstracts due: May 9 * Submissions: May 16 * Rebuttal phase: June 14-16 * Notification: July 11 * Camera ready: August 15 Organization ----------------------------- General chair Tim Finin, US Program chairs Amit Sheth, US Steffen Staab, DE Vice Chairs Abraham Bernstein, CH Vassilis Christophides, GR Thomas Eiter, AT Yolanda Gil, US Vasant Honavar, US Anupam Joshi, US David Karger, US Craig Knoblock, US Riichiro Mizoguchi, JP Enrico Motta, UK Wolfgang Nejdl, DE Natasha Noy, US Uli Sattler, UK Guus Schreiber, NL Luciano Serafini, IT Umberto Straccia, IT Gerd Stumme, DE Frank van Harmelen, NL Kunal Verma, US From demri at lsv.ens-cachan.fr Wed Apr 9 14:05:45 2008 From: demri at lsv.ens-cachan.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Demri?=) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:05:45 +0200 Subject: [DL] TIME 2008 - Call for participation Message-ID: <191E9EBB-3CBD-4D7C-8F87-36F9C95D8AF2@lsv.ens-cachan.fr> First Call For Participation TIME 2008 Fifteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning Montreal, Canada, June 16-18, 2008 http://www.time2008.org TIME 2008 aims to bring together researchers from distinct research areas involving the management of temporal data as well as the reasoning about temporal aspects of information. This unique and well-established event further has as its objectives to bridge theoretical and applied research, as well as to serve as an interdisciplinary forum for exchange among researchers from the areas of artificial intelligence, database management, logic and verification, and beyond. TIME 2008 encompasses three tracks, but has a single program committee. The conference spans three days is organized as a combination of technical paper presentations and keynote talks. The conference program is available at the following address: http://www.time2008.org/program.php Registration is available at the following address: http://www.time2008.org TOPICS Track 1: Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI Track 2: Temporal Database Management Track 3: Temporal Logic and Verification in Computer Science KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Ravi Kothuri (Oracle Corporation, Nashua, NH, USA) - Carsten Lutz (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) - James Worrell (Oxford University, UK) CONFERENCE OFFICERS General Chair: Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Program Committee Chairs: Stephane Demri, CNRS, Cachan, Paris, France Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Organization co-chairs: Sylvain Hall?, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada Roger Villemaire, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy Alexander Bolotov, University of Westminster, UK Estela Saquete Boro, University of Alicante, Spain Carlo Combi, University of Verona, Italy Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool, UK Curtis Dyreson, Utah State University, USA Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Alfonso Gerevini, University of Brescia, Italy Valentin Goranko, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Rajee Gore, ANU, Australia Fabio Grandi, Universita of Bologna, Italy Ian Hodkinson, Imperial College, UK Vijay Khatri, Indiana University, USA Ranko Lazic, University of Warwick, UK Nikos A. Lorentzos, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece Claudio Masolo, LOA-CNR, Italy Angelo Montanari, University of Udine, Italy Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Manchester University, UK James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, MA, USA Jean-Francois Raskin, ULB, Belgium Peter Revesz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Mirek Riedewald, Cornell University, USA John F. Roddick, Flinders University, Australia Richard T. Snodgrass, University of Arizona Paolo Terenziani, University of Torino, Italy David Toman, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Roger Villemaire, UQAM, Canada Sean Wang, University of Vermont, USA Pierre Wolper, University of Liege, Belgium Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK Alberto Zanardo, University of Padova, Italy FURTHER INFORMATION e-mail: info at time2008.org and http://www.time2008.org From manfred.hauswirth at deri.org Mon Apr 14 15:43:09 2008 From: manfred.hauswirth at deri.org (Manfred Hauswirth) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:43:09 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC 2008: Call for participation, accepted papers, and program Message-ID: <48035F6D.8010906@deri.org> Call for Particiation --------------------- 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008) 1-5 June 2008 Tenerife, Spain http://www.eswc2008.org/ Conference program: http://www.eswc2008.org/main_program.html Registration: http://www.eswc2008.org/formulario-registro.jsf Early registration ends April 21, 23:59 CET. ESWC 2008 statistics: 51 research papers, 3 keynotes, 2 panels, 26 demos, PhD symposium, 12 workshops, 7 tutorials ESWC 2008 is the latest in a series of annual, international events focusing on dissemination and discussion of the latest research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. The call for papers saw over 270 submissions and the program committee selected 51 papers to be presented at the conference (see below, also available at http://www.eswc2008.org/papers.html). ESWC 2008 keynotes: ------------------- Garlik: Semantic Technology for the Consumer Nigel Shadbolt (Garlik Ltd. and University of Southampton) >From Capturing Semantics to Semantic Search: A Virtuous Cycle Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona) Foundations of RDF Databases Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile) ESWC 2008 will feature 2 high-profile panels: --------------------------------------------- Panel 1: Does the Semantic Web Need Web Science? * Moderator: Wendy Hall (Univeristy of Southampton, UK) * Panelists: o Stefan Decker, DERI, Galway o Frank van Harmelen, Free University Amsterdam o Kieron O'Hara, University of Southampton, UK o Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK o Guus Schreiber, Free University Amsterdam Panel 2: Social Network Portability: Is the Semantic Web Ready? * Moderator: Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Panelists: o Dan Brickley, ASemantics o Danny Ayers, Talis o Stefan Decker, DERI, National University of Ireland o Kingsley Idehen, OpenLink o Peter Mika, Yahoo! Inc o Alexandre Passant, LaLIC, University Paris-Sorbonne In addition to the technical research paper track, a system demo track is included, with its own review process. Twenty-six demo papers were selected for presentation during the conference. The following 12 workshops are co-located with ESWC 2008: --------------------------------------------------------- * ESWC-08 Workshop on Advancing Reasoning on the Web: Scalability and Commonsense * International Workshop on Ontologies: Reasoning and Modularity (WORM-08) * 1st international workshop on Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web (IRSW2008) * 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Reuse and Reengineering over the Semantic Web * ESWC-08 Workshop on Semantic Search * 1st International Workshop on Semantic Metadata Management and Applications * 6th International Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based tools and the Semantic Web Service Challenge (EON & SWS-Challenge 2008) * 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop * 4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web * 1st International Workshop on Collective Semantics: Collective Intelligence & the Semantic Web (CISWeb 2008) * 3rd international Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management * First Workshop on Semantic Interoperability in the European Digital Library ESWC 2008 tutorials: -------------------- * Pattern-based Ontology Design * What Semantic Web researchers need to know about Machine Learning * Linking Social Networks, Microformats, and the Semantic Web using GRDDL * Ontology Engineering and Plug-in Development with the NeOn Toolkit * Transitioning Legacy Applications to Ontologies: A Hands-on Tutorial * Semantic Wikis * Semantic Web Rule Languages and Rule Interchange on the Web Accepted papers: ---------------- (see also http://www.eswc2008.org/papers.html) * Andre Bolles, Marco Grawunder and Jonas Jacobi. Streaming SPARQL - Extending SPARQL to process data streams * Glen Hart, Martina Johnson and Catherine Dolbear. Rabbit: Developing a Control Natural Language for Authoring Ontologies * Yolanda Blanco-Fernandez, Jos? J. Pazos-Arias, Alberto Gil-Solla, Manuel Ramos-Cabrer and Martin Lopez-Nores. Semantic Reasoning: A Path To New Possibilities of Personalization * Edoardo Pignotti, Peter Edwards, Alun Preece, Nick Gotts and Gary Polhill. Enhancing Workflow with a Semantic Description of Scientist's Intent * Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn. Module Extraction and Incremental Classification: A Pragmatic Approach for EL+ Ontologies * Christoph Kiefer, Abraham Bernstein and Andr? Locher. Adding Data Mining Support to SPARQL via Statistical Relational Learning Methods * Caecilia Zirn, Vivi Nastase and Michael Strube. Distinguishing between Instances and Classes in the Wikipedia Taxonomy * Jun Zhao, Graham Klyne and David Shotton. Building a Semantic Web Image Repository for Biological Research Images * Idoia Berges, Jesus Bermudez, Alfredo Go?i and Arantza Illarramendi. Semantic Web technology for Agent Communication Protocols * Yannis Tzitzikas, Yannis Theoharis and Dimitris Andreou. On Storage Policies for Semantic Web Repositories that Support Versioning * Eero Hyv?nen, Kim Viljanen, Jouni Tuominen and Katri Sepp?l?. Building a National Semantic Web Ontology and Ontology Service Infrastructure-The FinnONTO Approach * Zhe Wang, Kewen Wang, Rodney Topor and Jeff Z. Pan. Restricting and forgetting in DL-Lite * Haofen Wang, Kang Zhang, Qiaoling Liu, Duc Thanh Tran and Yong Yu. Q2Semantic: A Lightweight Keyword Interface to Semantic Search * Kay-Uwe Schmidt, J?rg D?rflinger, Tirdad Rahmani, Mehdi Sahbi, Susan Thomas and Ljiljana Stojanovic. An User Interface Adaptation Architecture for Rich Internet Applications * Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, Davide Lorusso, Tobias Henrik N?th and Ralf Moeller. Mapping Validation by Probabilistic Reasoning * Tomi Kauppinen, Jari V??t?inen and Eero Hyv?nen. Creating and Using Geospatial Ontology Time Series in a Semantic Cultural Heritage Portal * Vassilis Spiliopoulos, Alexandros Valarakos and George Vouros. CSR: Discovering Subsumption Relations for the Alignment of Ontologies * Ravish Bhagdev, Sam Chapman, Fabio Ciravegna, Vitaveska Lanfranchi and Daniela Petrelli. Hybrid Search: Effectively Combining Keywords and Ontology-based Searches * Naiwen Lin, Ugur Kuter and Evren Sirin. Web Service Composition with User Preferences * Waseem Akhtar, Jacek Kopecky, Thomas Krennwallner and Axel Polleres. XSPARQL: Traveling between the XML and RDF worlds and avoiding the XSLT Pilgrimage * Reinhard Pichler, Axel Polleres, Fang Wei and Stefan Woltran. dRDF: Entailment for Domain-restricted RDF * Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Toshiyuki Takasaki and Satoshi Oyama. Assisting Pictogram Selection with Semantic Interpretation * Christoph Kiefer and Abraham Bernstein. The Creation and Evaluation of iSPARQL Strategies for Matchmaking * Matthias Br?uer and Henrik Lochmann. An Ontology for Software Models and its Practical Implications for Semantic Web Reasoning * Katharina Siorpaes and Martin Hepp. OntoGame: Weaving the Semantic Web by Online Games * Aurona Gerber, Alta Van der Merwe and Andries Barnard. A Functioal Semantic Architecture * VinhTuan Thai, Siegfried Handschuh and Stefan Decker. IVEA: An Information Visualization Tool for Personalized Exploratory Document Collection Analysis * Bastian Quilitz and Ulf Leser. Querying Distributed RDF Data Sources with SPARQL * Stefan Dietze, Alessio Gugliotta and John Domingue. Conceptual Situation Spaces for Semantic Situation-Driven Processes * Antoine Isaac, Henk Matthezing, Lourens van der Meij, Stefan Schlobach, Shenghui Wang and Claus Zinn. Putting ontology alignment in context: usage scenarios, deployment and evaluation in a library case * Valentin Tablan, Danica Damljanovic and Kalina Bontcheva. A Natural Language Query Interface to Structured Information * Kinga Schumacher, Michael Sintek and Leo Sauermann. Combining Fact and Document Retreival with Spreading Activation for Semantic Desktop Search * Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Knud M?ller and Stefan Decker. KonneX-SALT: First Steps towards a Semantic Claim Federation Infrastructure * Dumitru Roman, Michael Kifer and Dieter Fensel. WSMO Choreography: From Abstract State Machines to Concurrent Transaction Logic * Andreas Langegger, Wolfram W?? and Martin Bl?chl. A Semantic Web middleware for Virtual Data Integration on the Web * Paolo Bouquet, Heiko Stoermer and Barbara Bazzanella. An Entity Naming System (ENS) for the Semantic Web * Gunnar Grimnes, Peter Edwards and Alun Preece. Istance Based clustering of Semantic Web Resources * Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi and Floriana Esposito. Query Answering and Ontology Population: an Inductive Approach * Anthony Ventresque, Sylvie Cazalens, Philippe Lamarre and Patrick Valduriez. Improving interoperability using query interpretation in semantic vector spaces * Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ulrike Sattler, Thomas Schneider and Rafael Berlanga-Llavori. Safe and Economic re-use of ontologies: a logic-based methodology and tool support * Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato and Floriana Esposito. Conceptual Clustering and its Application to Concept Drift and Novelty Detection * Tomas Vitvar, Jacek Kopecky, Jana Viskova and Dieter Fensel. WSMO-Lite Annotations for Web Services * Mauricio Espinoza, Asunci?n G?mez-P?rez and Eduardo Mena. Enriching an Ontology with Multilingual Information* Riccardo Rosati. Finite model reasoning in DL-Lite * Carlos Pedrinaci, John Domingue and Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros. A Core Ontology for Business Process Analysis * Sebastian Dietzold, J?rg Unbehauen and S?ren Auer. xOperator - Interconnecting the Semantic Web and Instant Messaging Networks * Simon Scerri, Siegfried Handschuh and Stefan Decker. Semantic Email as a communication medium for the Social Semantic Desktop * Angela Maduko, Kemafor Anyanwu, Amit Sheth and Paul Schliekelman. Graph Summaries for Subgraph Frequency Estimation * Laura Hollink, Mark van Assem, Antoine Isaac, Shenghui Wang and Guus Schreiber. Two Variations on Ontology Alignment Evaluation: Methodological Issues * Richard Cyganiak, Renaud Delbru, Holger Stenzhorn, Giovanni Tummarello and Stefan Decker. Semantic Sitemaps: Efficient and Flexible Access to Datasets on the Semantic Web * Dimitrios Kourtesis and Iraklis Paraskakis. Combining SAWSDL, OWL-DL and UDDI for Semantically Enhanced Web Service Discovery _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Mon Apr 14 16:53:46 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:53:46 -0400 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP - [Doctoral Consortium] [7th International Semantic Web Conference][ISWC2008] Message-ID: <48036FFA.6040804@cs.rpi.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: ISWC 2008 Doctoral Consortium http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ To be held as part of 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) 26-30 October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th International Semantic Web Conference 2008 will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany. In addition to its plenary scientific sessions, the conference will include a doctoral consortium. Alongside the great opportunity for the scientific exchange and presentation of high quality research in all aspects of Semantic Web, this forum will allow doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors as well as to get in contact with other postgraduate students. The goal of the doctoral consortium is to create an opportunity for doctoral students to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plans, and most of all to receive constructive criticism and insights related to their future work and career perspectives. Mentors (peer researchers and experts in the field) will be assigned to each student to provide individual feedback and advice on the paper, the focus of the work and further developments. Students who are submitting papers on specific portions of their work to the main conference are also invited to apply to the PhD Consortium. In this case, the short paper for the PhD Consortium must give an overview of the student's dissertation research, and the paper for the main conference should focus on a specific piece of this work. All papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium stream will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The best submissions will be selected for presentation at the ISWC 2008 Doctoral Consortium sessions. Full papers (5 pages) will be published in the main ISWC proceedings. Topics --------------------- The Doctoral Consortium track of ISWC 2008 solicits submission of PhD research papers dealing with foundational and core issues, application domains and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Applications of the Semantic Web - Applications with clear lessons learned - Evaluations of Semantic Web technologies - Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and other application domains - Semantic Web technologies for multimedia content - Personal Information Management - Management of Semantic Web Data - Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data - Database technologies for the Semantic Web - Search, query, and visualization of the Semantic Web - Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web - Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction - Ontologies - Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Evaluation and tanking of ontologies - Ontology search - Semantic Web Architecture - Semantic Web middleware - Semantic Web services - Agents on the Semantic Web - Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids - Social Semantic Web - Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web - Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation - Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security Submission Details --------------------- Doctoral Consortium papers should include a clear presentation of the PhD research direction, sound situation of the PhD research in the context of Semantic Web and related fields, a report on the work done so far and a plan of further research. All submissions should be no longer than 6 pages, in the same format as is used for the main conference papers. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 Papers must be submitted electronically through the conference submission site. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. ISWC 2008 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for 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. Important Dates --------------------- * May 16, 2007 (11:59pm Hawaii time, GMT-10): Doctoral consortium paper submissions due * July 11, 2007: Doctoral consortium paper acceptance notification * August 15, 2007: Doctoral consortium camera-ready papers due * October 26-30 2007: ISWC 2008 (exact date of DC to be decided) Further information --------------------- For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Doctoral Consortium Chair: Diana Maynard From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Mon Apr 14 16:54:11 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:54:11 -0400 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP - [Tutorial Proposals] [7th International Semantic Web Conference][ISWC2008] Message-ID: <48037013.3020302@cs.rpi.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: ISWC 2008 TUTORIAL PROPOSALS http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-tutorial-proposals-for-iswc-2008/ 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) 26-30 October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- In addition to the regular research and workshop program, ISWC 2008 invites tutorials on various topics. 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. General Information -------------------------- The topics of interest for tutorials include, but are not limited to the following: * Applications based on Semantic Web technologies * Evaluation of Semantic Web technologies * Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government e-learning, or other application domains * Semantic Web technologies for multimedia content * Personal Information Management * Management of Semantic Web Data * Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data * Database technologies for the Semantic Web * Search, query, and visualization of the Semantic Web * Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web * Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web * Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction * Ontologies * Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution * Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment * Evaluation and tanking of ontologies * Ontology search * Semantic Web Architecture * Semantic Web middleware * Semantic Web services * Agents on the Semantic Web * Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids * Social Semantic Web * Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web * Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation * Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security Important Dates -------------------------- * May 16, 2008: Tutorial proposals due * June 6, 2008: Notification of proposal acceptance * July 16, 2008: Deadline for receipt of URL for tutorial web page * September 25, 2008: Deadline for sending the tutorial notes (handouts) to the tutorial chair for reproduction (PDF preferred) * 26-27 October, 2008: Presentation of Tutorial Program Submission Information -------------------------- ISWC 2008 tutorials may be either for a full day or for a half day. Although tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects, we encourage tutorial presenters to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages in Springer LNCS format and should contain the following information: * an abstract (200 words maximum; to be published on ISWC 2008 website) * a brief description of tutorial, including aims, overview of content, presentation style, target audience, and prerequisite knowledge * an indication of full- or half-day, and a draft outline of the tutorial content and schedule * a justification of the tutorial, including relevance to ISWC 2008 * audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements * for a hands-on tutorial, please briefly describe the software that will be used for the hands-on activities, the planned procedure to allow the participants to install the software on their computers, and any special technical requirements related to these activities. Please note that any software needed for hands-on activities, and download sites for the software, must be provided by the tutorial presenters. * information on presenters (name, affiliation, contact info, expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation). Please indicate which presenter is the primary contact. The presenters of accepted tutorials will be required to create a tutorial website which gives an overview of the tutorial and includes other relevant information. Additionally we may require tutorial meta-data according to the ISWC 2008 ontology. Please submit tutorial proposals by email to David Martin at martin at ai.sri.com. Tutorial Presenters' Responsibilities -------------------------- Presenters of accepted tutorials are responsible for preparing and maintaining a Web site that describes the tutorial and provides any required materials. Submit the URL for your tutorial site to the tutorial chair by July 16, 2008. The description should make it clear that the tutorial is open to all members of the ISWC community. It should also mention that all tutorial participants must pay the ISWC 2008 conference registration fee, as well as the tutorial fee. Presenters are also responsible for the production and distribution of all technical material to be used for teaching the tutorial slides, notes, technical papers, etc. except for the reproduction of hard copies of printed materials, which will be handled by ISWC. In the case of a hands on tutorial requiring software, it is strongly recommended that the presenters provide CDs from which the participants can install the software needed on their computers. (It is not realistic to expect tutorial attendees to download the software at the beginning of the tutorial!) Tutorial presenters will need to submit the material for printed hand-outs to the tutorial presenters for pre-printing. (The deadline for this is given in important dates section.) The ISWC 2008 Organizing Committee will be responsible for the following: * Providing publicity for the tutorial as a whole on the conference's web page. The ISWC 2008 page will include the tutorial abstract and provide a link to the tutorial's local page. * Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the tutorial. * In conjunction with the tutorial presenters, determining the tutorial date and time. * Production of sufficient copies of printed tutorial materials provided by the tutorial presenters. Tutorial Chairs -------------------------- David Martin, SRI International, USA (martin at ai.sri.com) Lalana Kagal, MIT, USA (lkagal at csail.mit.edu) From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Mon Apr 14 16:54:38 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:54:38 -0400 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP - [Poster & Demo] [7th International Semantic Web Conference][ISWC2008] Message-ID: <4803702E.4080500@cs.rpi.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: ISWC 2008 POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-posters-and-demonstrations/ To be held as part of 7th International Semantic Web Conference 26-30 October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- ISWC 2008 will hold combined poster and demonstration sessions. 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. Important Dates -------------------------- * July 25, 2008: Deadline for submissions * September 5, 2008: Notification of acceptance * September 19, 2008: Camera ready abstracts due (time: 23:59 pm GMT-10 (Hawaii)) Submission Information ----------------------------- Authors must submit a two-page paper with a short abstract for evaluation. The abstract 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. A detailed list of suggested topics can be found in the calls for papers both for the Research Track and for the Semantic Web In Use track. Posters and demos are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and are not intended as advertisements for software packages. Authors submitting a full paper to another track in ISWC 2008 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. 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. Poster and demo abstracts must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer?s Author Instructions. Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. Abstracts will not be accepted in any other format. Abstracts that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review. Please submit papers at the ISWC 2008 submission page. Copyright forms will be required for all accepted papers. Details will be sent with notifications of acceptance. Further Information -------------------------- For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Posters and Demonstration co-chairs Chris Bizer and Anupam Joshi. Posters and Demonstrations co-chairs -------------------------- Chris Bizer, Free University of Berlin, Germany Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Tue Apr 29 23:53:32 2008 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:53:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] CFP: CEDAR'08 - Workshop on Complexity, Expressibility and Decidability in Automated Reasoning Message-ID: <10149.217.247.239.231.1209506012.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] *********************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * *********************************************************************** * Complexity, Expressibility, and Decidability in Automated Reasoning * * (CEDAR'08) * * http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/cedar08.html * * * * Affiliated with IJCAR 2008 Sydney, Australia, 10-15 August 2008 * * http://www.ijcar.org/2008/ * * * *********************************************************************** Decidability, and especially complexity and tractability of logical theories is extremely important for a large number of applications. Although general logical formalisms are undecidable, decidable theories - or fragments thereof - (sometimes even with low complexity) often occur in mathematics, in program verification, in the verification of reactive, real time or hybrid systems, as well as in databases and ontologies. It is therefore important to identify such decidable fragments and design efficient decision procedures for them. It is equally important to have uniform methods (e.g. resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi,...) which can be tuned to provide algorithms with optimal complexity. The goal of CEDAR is to bring together researchers interested in problems at the interface between automated reasoning and computational complexity, in particular in: - identifying (fragments of) logical theories which are decidable, resp. have low complexity, and analyzing possibilities of obtaining optimal complexity results with uniform tools; - analyzing decidability in combinations of theories and possibilities of combining decision procedures; - efficient implementations for decidable fragments; - application domains where decidability resp. tractability are crucial. Topics ====== Topics of interest for CEDAR 2008 include (but are not restricted to): - Complexity: - complexity analysis for fragments of first- (or higher) order logic - complexity analysis for combinations of logical theories (including parameterized complexity results) - Expressibility - in logic, automated reasoning, algebra, ... - Decidability: - decision procedures based on logical calculi such as: resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi, or natural deduction - decidability in combinations of logical theories - specialized decision procedures - Application domains for which complexity issues are essential (verification, security, databases, ontologies, ...) The goal of CEDAR is to bring together researchers interested in exploring the topics above, both at a theoretical level and motivated by applications, and to enhance the interaction between automated reasoning and computational complexity through invited and contributed talks. Submission and selection procedure: =================================== We plan to accept three types of papers: - Original papers (up to 15 pages, LNCS style, including bibliography); should describe original research and contain sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. - Work in progress (up to 6 pages, LNCS style, without bibliography). - Presentation-only papers (please submit an abstract of up to 3 pages, LNCS style + a link to the already published paper): may describe work previously published. The abstracts of accepted presentation-only papers will appear in the informal proceedings to be distributed at the workshop (full papers in this category will not be inserted in the proceedings). Given the informal style of the workshop, the submission of papers presenting student's work and work in progress is encouraged. The purpose of the presentation-only papers is to allow researchers to communicate good ideas that the attendees may not be aware of. Submission of papers is via Easychair http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cedar2008 Publication: ============ The final versions of the selected contributions will be collected in a volume to be distributed at the workshop. These informal proceedings will also be made accessible on the web. Important Dates =============== - 19 May 2008: Submission deadline - 19 June 2008: Notification - 10 July 2008: Final version - 10 August 2008: Workshop Invited speaker - Carsten Lutz (TU Dresden) Program and Workshop Chairs - Franz Baader (TU Dresden) - Silvio Ghilardi (U. Milano) - Miki Hermann (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) - Ulrike Sattler (U. Manchester) - Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI, Saarbruecken) Program Committee - Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy) - Franz Baader (TU Dresden) - Matthias Baaz (TU Wien) - Maria Paola Bonacina (U. Verona) - Sebastian Brandt (U. Manchester) - Christian Fermueler (TU Wien) - Silvio Ghilardi (U. Milano) - Reiner Haehnle (Chalmers U.) - Miki Hermann (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) - Felix Klaedtke (ETH Zurich) - Sava Krstic (Intel Corporation) - Christopher Lynch (Clarkson U.) - Bijan Parsia (U. Manchester) - Silvio Ranise (LORIA/INRIA-Lorraine) - Ulrike Sattler (U. Manchester) - Renate Schmidt (U. Manchester) - Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI,Saarbruecken) - Lidia Tendera (U. Opole) - Ashish Tiwari (SRI International) - Luca Vigano (U. Verona) - Frank Wolter (U. Liverpool) Contact ======= For further informations please send an e-mail to Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (sofronie [at] mpi-inf.mpg.de) From stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de Wed Apr 30 19:52:52 2008 From: stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de (Gerd Stumme) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:52:52 +0200 Subject: [DL] Open PhD position Message-ID: <4818B1F4.9020805@cs.uni-kassel.de> The Hertie Chair of Knowledge and Data Engineering, University of Kassel, Germany, opens a position of a Research Assistant (BAT IIa full-time) You should be interested in at least one of the following fields: Knowledge Discovery, Web 2.0 (social bookmarking, folksonomies), Social Network Analysis, Semantic Web, Ontologies. Skills in one of these fields as well as programming skills and knowledge of system administration are advantageous. The position requires a basic knowledge of German. -------------------------------- Die Hertie-Stiftungsprofessur Wissensverarbeitung der Universit?t Kassel besetzt baldm?glichst f?r zun?chst zwei Jahre eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche(r) Mitarbeiter(in) (BAT IIa, ganztags) Wir suchen hochmotivierte Mitarbeiter, die in den folgenden Gebieten forschen m?chten: Knowledge Discovery, Web 2.0 (social bookmarking, folksonomies), Social Network Analysis, Semantic Web, Ontologies. Ihre Aufgaben umfassen die Mitarbeit in der Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Wissensverarbeitung, insbesondere in internationalen Projekten wie Tagora und rund um unser Soziales Lesezeichensystem BibSonomy. Daf?r sind Kenntnisse in einem der oben genannten Gebiete von Vorteil. Au?erdem sind Programmiererfahrung und Kenntnisse in der Systemadministration w?nschenswert. -------------------------------- Wenn Sie einen sehr guten Universit?tsabschluss in Informatik, Mathematik oder einem verwandten Gebiet haben, eine Dissertation anstreben und an teamorientierter Forschungsarbeit auf internationalem Niveau in einem interdisziplin?ren Team von Informatikern, Mathematikern und Wirtschaftsinformatikern interessiert sind, freuen wir uns ?ber Ihre Bewerbung. Die Hochschule ist bestrebt, den Anteil an Frauen zu erh?hen und begr??t deshalb besonders die Bewerbung von Frauen. Schwerbehinderte Bewerber/innen werden bei entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt ber?cksichtigt. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 15. Mai 2008. Weitere Ausk?nfte k?nnen bei Dr. Andreas Hotho (0561/8046252) eingeholt werden. Bitte richten Sie Ihre Bewerbung per Email an Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme und Dr. Andreas Hotho. -- Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme, Hertie Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Kassel http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de, Tel. 0561/804-6251, Fax: -6259 -->> Try our bookmarking system http://www.BibSonomy.org now! <<-- From Konev at liverpool.ac.uk Tue May 6 13:58:31 2008 From: Konev at liverpool.ac.uk (Boris Konev) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 12:58:31 +0100 Subject: [DL] IJCAR'08 Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning Message-ID: <200805061158.m46BwNGI006466@csc.liv.ac.uk> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS PAAR-2008 IJCAR'08 Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning Deadline: 27 May 2008 http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/PAAR-2008/paar-2008.html GENERAL INFORMATION The first Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning will be held in August 2008, in Sydney, Australia. PAAR will be associated with the 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR-2008). SCOPE PAAR provides a forum for developers of automated reasoning tools to discuss and compare different implementation techniques, and for users to discuss and communicate their applications and requirements. This workshop will bring together different groups to concentrate on practical aspects of the implementation and application of automated reasoning tools. It will allow researchers to present their work in progress, and to discuss new implementation techniques and applications. Topics include but are not limited to: o automated reasoning in classical and non-classical logics, implementation of provers; o automated reasoning tools for all kinds of practical problems and applications; o practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies; o evaluation of implementation techniques and automated reasoning tools; o benchmarking approaches; o non-standard approaches to automated reasoning, non-standard forms of automated reasoning, new applications; o implementation techniques, optimisation techniques, strategies and heuristics; o system descriptions and demos. We are particularly interested in contributions that help the community to understand how to build useful and powerful reasoning systems in practice, and how to apply existing systems to real problems. SUBMISSIONS Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit a short (2-10 pages) abstract via EasyChair. Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Submissions should be in standard-conforming Postscript or PDF. To submit a paper, go to the EasyChair PAAR page http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paar2008 and follow the instructions there. FINAL VERSIONS The final versions should be prepared in LaTeX using the Springer Verlag llncs class. The workshop proceedings will be published as a technical report and distributed at the event. If quality and quantity of the subissions warrants this, we plan to produce a special issue of a recognized journal on the topic of the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of abstracts: May 27th, 2008 Notification: June 20th, 2008 Camera ready versions due: July 7th, 2008 Workshop: August 10th or 11th, 2008 INVITED SPEAKERS: John Slaney, http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~jks/ TBA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Serge Autexier Nikolaj Bjorner Peter Baumgartner Koen Claessen Bernd Fischer Ulrich Furbach Martin Giese Volker Haarslev Thomas Hillenbrand Tommi Junttila Deepak Kapur Boris Konev (Co-Chair) Konstantin Korovin Bill McCune Boris Motik Flavio LC de Moura Hans de Nivelle Albert Oliveras Brigitte Pientka Adam Pease Silvio Ranise Renate Schmidt (Co-Chair) Stephan Schulz (Co-Chair) Sanjit Seshia Geoff Sutcliffe Cesare Tinelli Josef Urban Luca Vigano Andrei Voronkov Uwe Waldmann ORGANIZERS Boris Konev, University of Liverpool Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester Stephan Schulz, TU Muenchen From geoff at cs.miami.edu Thu May 1 14:09:36 2008 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 08:09:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] IJCAR Calls and Awards Message-ID: <20080501120936.4EB8C11FAA1@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IJCAR 2008 - The 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Sydney, Australia, 10th - 15th August, 2008 http://2008.IJCAR.org Calls for Participation, Calls for Workshop Papers, Student Travel Awards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------- Information about IJCAR's astounding program of invited speakers, technical papers, workshops, tutorials, competitions, and social events, is available from the IJCAR WWW pages - 2008.IJCAR.org. There are 101 reasons to attend IJCAR, which are enumerated on the WWW site. Registration, accomodation, and travel/visa information is there too. Book your flight to Sydney today! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calls for Workshop Papers, Tutorial Participation ------------------------------------------------- There will be six workshops and four tutorials before IJCAR, 10th and 11th August. See their individual WWW pages, linked from the IJCAR WWW pages, for submission and participation information. + Workshops - The 5th International Verification Workshop (VERIFY'08) - Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning (PAAR-2008) - Evaluation of Systems for Higher Order Logic (ESHOL) - Complexity, Expressibility, & Decidability in Automated Reasoning (CEDAR'08) - Constraints in Formal Verification - Combining Systems for Efficient and Scalable Reasoning (CoSyScaRe 08) + Tutorials - Introduction to Nominal Isabelle - Christian Urban - Formal Methods in Use at Galois, Inc. - Joe Hurd - SMT Solvers in Program Analysis and Verification - Nikolaj Bjorner and Leonardo de Moura - Coalgebraic Logics and Applications (COALA) - Dirk Pattinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Student Travel Awards --------------------- Two award schemes that provide sponsorhips to support student attendance at IJCAR are available. See the IJCAR WWW pages for details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Wed May 7 15:45:50 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 09:45:50 -0400 Subject: [DL] ISWC 2008 deadlines this week and next Message-ID: <4821B28E.6060807@cs.rpi.edu> Deadlines for submitting papers, doctoral consortium applications and tutorial proposals for the 7th International Semantic Web Conference are fast approaching. Note that titles and abstracts for research papers should be registered by this Friday, May 9. Key upcoming dates are: * Research papers: due May 9 (abstract) & 16 (paper) * Semantic Web in Use papers: due May 16 * Tutorial proposals: due May 16 * Doctoral Consortium applications: due May 16 * Posters & Demo proposals: due July 25 * Workshops papers (13 workshops): mid-summer * Semantic Web & Billion Triples challenge: Oct 1 * ISWC 2008, Karlie's, DE: 26-30 October See http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ for CFPs and other details. Inquires about specific tracks should be sent to the appropriate chairs. Send general questions and suggestions for panel topics, invited speakers, birds of a feather meetings, etc. to ISWC08 at GMAIL.COM . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From keet at inf.unibz.it Thu May 8 12:09:13 2008 From: keet at inf.unibz.it (Marijke Keet) Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 12:09:13 +0200 Subject: [DL] Survey about and testing of OBDA Message-ID: <4822D149.4040509@inf.unibz.it> Dear All, The following may be of interest to those of you who are, or have been, directly involved in development of /real/ domain ontologies (not just toy ontologies and examples). ----- From the ontology development communities, there have been many requests for scalable ontologies and ontology-driven information systems. We---at the universities La Sapienza and Bolzano, as participant and leader of the EU FP6 TONES Project [1]---have developed such tools. That is, we know that both in theory and with test data, the tools for Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) perform significantly better, but we would like to examine that against real data---the bigger the amount of data and ontology you have, the better. While at this time we?ll not disclose the precise hypotheses, they obviously revolve around the practical aspects of the trade-off between expressiveness of the ontology language and efficient, scalable computation. To this end, we have set up a questionnaire [2] about usage and feature requests, of which we hope you will take the 5 minutes to complete, and we will test with bio-ontologies that are---or wish to be---linked to databases to assess things like performance of (conjunctive) query answering and instance classification. An informal description with links to the main references of some of the tools and their theoretical foundations is available at [3]. Interested readers may like to play with the OBDA tools in their own lab already; a pre-release can be downloaded from [4]. Also, if you would like to be involved in the testing, please do not hesitate to contact undersigned and/or Mariano Rodriguez (mrodriguez at inf.unibz.it). [1] http://www.tonesproject.org/ [2] https://www.inf.unibz.it/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=10 [3] http://keet.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/tools-to-access-data-through-an-ontology/ [4] http://www.inf.unibz.it/~rodriguez/OBDA/beta06/index.html Best regards, Marijke C. Maria Keet KRDB Research Centre Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Domenicani 3 39100 Bozen-Bolzano Italy tel: +39 04710 161287 fax: +39 04710 16009 email: keet at inf.unibz.it web: http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/ home: http://www.meteck.org From yvshashoua at gmail.com Tue May 6 21:50:37 2008 From: yvshashoua at gmail.com (Yvonne Violet Shashoua) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 15:50:37 -0400 Subject: [DL] question about the description logic EL Message-ID: <560aae80805061250p24240f6bkc0717bbb482e993f@mail.gmail.com> I was reading the Description Logic Handbook, and in the appendix, on page 535, they mention the description logic EL, which they say allows intersection of concepts and existential quantification. But it is not clear to me from the context whether they mean only limited existential quantification (where the only role allowed after the dot is TRUE) or full existential quantification. This affects whether EL is a restriction of AL or a completely separate description logic. I would love some help with understanding this. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yvshashoua at gmail.com Tue May 6 21:54:06 2008 From: yvshashoua at gmail.com (Yvonne Violet Shashoua) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 15:54:06 -0400 Subject: [DL] description logics complexity navigator Message-ID: <560aae80805061254p77701b0dxce833a27d4ce6359@mail.gmail.com> I was recently looking at the description logics complexity navigator, and it seems like the base language it chooses for you is always ALC. Is there any way to get complexity information from it about other description logics like AL, EL, or ALB? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Fri May 9 11:22:06 2008 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 11:22:06 +0200 Subject: [DL] question about the description logic EL In-Reply-To: <560aae80805061250p24240f6bkc0717bbb482e993f@mail.gmail.com> References: <560aae80805061250p24240f6bkc0717bbb482e993f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: EL allows for qualified existential quantification. As such it is a separate logic from AL. Notice that reasoning over EL TBoxes with arbitrary (possibly cyclic) GCIs is polynomial (even with additional constructs), while this is not the case for AL, for which the same problem is EXPTIME-complete. There has been a lot of work around EL recently, including work on conjunctive query answering. See, e.g., Franz Baader, Sebastian Brandt, Carsten Lutz: Pushing the EL Envelope. IJCAI 2005: 364-369 Franz Baader, Carsten Lutz, Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn: CEL - A Polynomial-Time Reasoner for Life Science Ontologies. IJCAR 2006: 287-291 Riccardo Rosat: On conjunctive query answering in EL. DL 2007 Adila Krisnadhi, Carsten Lutz: Data Complexity in the EL Family of Description Logics. LPAR 2007: 333-347 Best, - Diego On 6 May 2008, at 21:50, Yvonne Violet Shashoua wrote: > I was reading the Description Logic Handbook, and in the > appendix, on page 535, they mention the description logic EL, which > they say allows intersection of concepts and existential > quantification. But it is not clear to me from the context whether > they mean only limited existential quantification (where the only > role allowed after the dot is TRUE) or full existential > quantification. This affects whether EL is a restriction of AL or > a completely separate description logic. I would love some help > with understanding this. Thanks. > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; > for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http:// > dl.kr.org/. ** -- Diego Calvanese Faculty of Computer Science e-mail: calvanese at inf.unibz.it Free University of Bozen-Bolzano 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 Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at Fri May 9 11:16:36 2008 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 11:16:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: 2nd International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) Message-ID: <48241674.6040108@kr.tuwien.ac.at> CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) October 1-3, 2008 Napoli, Italy http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/sum08/ Originally, managing uncertainty and inconsistency has especially been explored in Artificial Intelligence. During the recent years, especially with the availability of massive amounts of data in different repositories and the possibility of integrating and exploiting these data, technologies for managing uncertainty and inconsistency have started to play a key role in databases and the Web. Some of the most prominent such technologies are probably the ranking algorithms standing behind web search engines. Techniques for handling uncertainty and inconsistency are expected to play a similarly important role in the context of the Semantic Web. The annual International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) has grown out of this very large interest on managing uncertainty and inconsistency in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, and AI. It aims at bringing together all those interested in the management of large volumes of uncertainty and inconsistency, irrespective of whether they are in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, or in AI. The very successful First International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2007) was held in Washington DC, USA, October 10-12, 2007 (see http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sum2007/). The Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) will be held in Napoli, Italy, October 1-3, 2008. Papers are solicited in all areas of massive uncertainty and inconsistency, including (but not restricted to) the topics listed below: probability logic fuzzy logic annotated logic Bayesian models Markov models possibilistic logic paraconsistent logic semantics of uncertain data formal models of uncertain data reasoning with uncertain and inconsistent information managing uncertain and imprecise information spatio-temporal uncertainty management probabilistic databases inconsistent databases uncertainty and inconsistency in the Web uncertainty and inconsistency in the Semantic Web uncertain database algebras query optimization with uncertainty query caching for uncertain databases indexing methods for uncertainty uncertain aggregate queries uncertainty in view management skyline query processing top-k queries and ranking approximate query processing uncertainty in data integration and exchange uncertainty in data streams uncertainty in information retrieval data sharing and uncertainty approximate schema and ontology mapping similarity in ontology languages similarity search and extraction information extraction data mining and machine learning vision and uncertainty audio processing and uncertainty multimedia and uncertainty text and uncertainty mobile systems and uncertainty image, speech, multimedia, and text information retrieval mining image, speech, multimedia, and text data personalization and user preferences mining in social networks uncertainty and trust issues ranking in information retrieval matchmaking and negotiation recommender systems implemented systems commercial systems novel applications We especially want to encourage submissions from uncertainty and inconsistency management in databases, as well as from uncertainty and inconsistency handling in the Web and the Semantic Web. We seek both theoretical and practical works. PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/ LNAI) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs/) and will be available at the conference. After the conference, we are also planning to bring out a special issue of a journal with selected papers from the conference. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see http://www.springer.com/ comp/lncs/Authors.html). The length should not exceed 14 pages. Submissions which deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Submissions will especially be judged for originality and scientific quality. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2008 Paper submission deadline: May 22, 2008 Paper accept/reject decisions: July 1, 2008 Camera ready papers due: July 15, 2008 Last day for early registration fee: July 15, 2008 GENERAL CHAIR Antonio Picariello (University of Napoli, Italy) PROGRAM CHAIRS Sergio Greco (University of Calabria, Italy) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK; TU Vienna, Austria) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Bir Bhanu (University of California-Riverside, USA) Fabio Gagliardi Cozman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Michael I. Dekhtyar (Tver State University, Russia) Debabrata Dey (University of Washington, USA) Juergen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany) Francesco Donini (University of Tuscia, Italy) Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna, Austria) Nicola Fanizzi (University of Bari, Italy) Filippo Furfaro (University of Calabria, Italy) Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel) John Grant (Towson University, USA) Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Eyke Huellermeier (University of Marburg, Germany) Edward Hung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Anthony Hunter (University College London, UK) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Dortmund, Germany) Christoph Koch (Cornell University, USA) Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia, Canada) Nicola Leone (University of Calabria, Italy) Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Kathryn Blackmond Laskey (George Mason University, USA) Weiru Liu (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Serafin Moral (University of Granada, Spain) Simon Parsons (City University of New York, USA) Gabriella Pasi (University of Milan, Italy) Michael Pittarelli (State University of New York, USA) Henri Prade (IRIT, France) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Luc de Raedt (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) Emad Saad (Abu Dhabi University, UAE) Domenico Sacca (ICAR-CNR, Italy) Maria Luisa Sapino (University of Torino, Italy) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland, USA) Maurice van Keulen (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Peter Vojtas (Charles University, Czech Republic) Nic Wilson (University College Cork, Ireland) Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA, USA) INVITED SPEAKERS Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo! Research, USA) Dan Suciu (University of Washington, USA) TUTORIALS Jan Chomicki (University at Buffalo, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the SUM 2008 web site at http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/sum08/ From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Fri May 9 12:23:34 2008 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Uli Sattler) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 11:23:34 +0100 Subject: [DL] description logics complexity navigator In-Reply-To: <560aae80805061254p77701b0dxce833a27d4ce6359@mail.gmail.com> References: <560aae80805061254p77701b0dxce833a27d4ce6359@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <85C0430D-1EDC-462F-BD55-E2EC7127F892@cs.man.ac.uk> On 6 May 2008, at 20:54, Yvonne Violet Shashoua wrote: > I was recently looking at the description logics complexity > navigator, and it seems like the base language it chooses for you is > always ALC. Is there any way to get complexity information from it > about other description logics like AL, EL, or ALB? --- as for now, no - but we are thinking of extending it so that it includes sub-boolean DLs. Cheers, Uli > > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; > for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/ > . ** From bonatti at na.infn.it Fri May 9 14:13:50 2008 From: bonatti at na.infn.it (Piero Bonatti) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 14:13:50 +0200 Subject: [DL] 4TH REASONING WEB SUMMER SCHOOL (RW 2008): Call for participation (DEADLINE IS APPROACHING!) Message-ID: <2963EA51-C107-49BF-A79E-43BA486BBB07@na.infn.it> ***APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*** ======================================= 4TH REASONING WEB SUMMER SCHOOL (RW 2008): Call for participation **THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS APPROACHING!** http://www.reasoningweb.org/2008/ VENUE San Servolo Island, Venice (in front of S. Marco Square). DATE 7-11 September, 2008 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS *** May 16, 2008 *** INTRODUCTION Reasoning Web 2008 is the fourth edition of a successful series of summer schools devoted to semantic web reasoning and applications, supported by the Network of Excellence REWERSE until 2007. In 2008 the school will cover basic foundational material and will survey a range of successful applications. The program will include tutorials as well as hands-on activities. The school is meant to help the participants to identify which Semantic Web ideas and techniques have actually been adopted so far, which weren't (and why), and which application needs are still waiting to be tackled with semantic techniques. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will have a limited number of participants (see application details below). A small number of scholarships will be available, details can be found on the summer school web page. PROGRAM 1. Foundations of Knowledge representation and Reasoning - T. Eiter, A. Polleres, U. Straccia 2. Representing Knowledge with Controlled Natural Language Processing - N. Fuchs 3. Semantic Multimedia - S. Staab 4. Semantic techniques for Social Networks - J. G. Breslin, S. Decker, S. Schaffert 5. Semantic techniques for Bioinformatics - P. Romano, A. Splendiani 6. Semantic Web Services - J. Cardoso ORGANIZING COMMITTEE P. A. Bonatti (Program chair), bonatti at na.infn.it M. Marchiori (Local organization), massimo at math.unipd.it C. Baroglio (PC member) J. Maluszynski (PC member) A. Polleres (PC member) S. Schaffert (PC member) REGISTRATION FEE: 750 EUR Covers: - the volume of LECTURE NOTES published by Springer, - accommodation at San Servolo Island, - all meals, - social event. APPLICATION/REGISTRATION: To apply, fill the application form at http://www.reasoningweb.org/2008/ Applications need to be made by 16 May 2008. The details on how to register will be included in the answer to accepted applicants. Registration is possible from 30 May 2008 until 15 June 2008. From sean.bechhofer at manchester.ac.uk Fri May 9 16:59:42 2008 From: sean.bechhofer at manchester.ac.uk (Sean Bechhofer) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 15:59:42 +0100 Subject: [DL] Final Call for Participation: Fifth European Semantic Web Conference Message-ID: <1FAA6389-BE3D-4A1D-927E-281A48046B35@manchester.ac.uk> [APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE/CROSS POSTING] Final Call for Participation --------------------- 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008) 1-5 June 2008 Tenerife, Spain http://www.eswc2008.org/ Late Registration still available until **May 25th**. On-site Registration fees apply from **May 26th**. Conference program: http://www.eswc2008.org/main_program.html Registration: http://www.eswc2008.org/formulario-registro.jsf From heymans at kr.tuwien.ac.at Tue May 13 11:51:17 2008 From: heymans at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Stijn Heymans) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:51:17 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: First International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web (FLOW 2008) Message-ID: ********************************** Call for Papers **************************************** FLOW 2008 First International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web http://www.cwi.ugent.be/flow2008/ in conjunction with the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2008) http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/ ********************************************************************************************* A lot of research on how to make the Web Intelligent is centered around the question of how to introduce a form of automated reasoning in Web-related activities. For example, an intelligent search would amount to posing queries that use deduction to obtain results instead of queries that return results based on the keywords of the query. An important subgoal of establishing this kind of automated reasoning is to make knowledge on the Web understandable by machines. As witnessed by approaches like the Semantic Web the traditional choice of establishing machine-understandability was obtained by formalizing knowledge using two-valued logics like Description Logics or Logic Programming. However, fuzzy logic is inherently better suited for expressing knowledge on the Web, i.e., knowledge that is uncertain, imprecise, and potentially inconsistent. Nonetheless, the take-up of fuzzy logic for making the Web more intelligent is a slow one, and a major issue is the lack of cross-fertilization between the world of fuzzy logic researchers and the world of Web researchers. Hence, the workhop's main goal will be to bring these two worlds closer together, and thus stimulate cross-over research between two different areas that are trying to make the Web more intelligent. The workshop will be an important part of events of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology which has been ranked at top 15 from 620 Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning conferences in the following popular rankings: http://www.cs-conference-ranking.org/home.html Topics: ------- Applications of fuzzy logic to Web areas such as * Ontology languages * Intelligent Search * Knowledge management and reasoning * Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment * Web Service Description, Discovery, Composition * Information extraction / Multimedia retrieval * Collaborating agents * Social Network Analysis * Web-based recommender systems * Question answering systems * Geographic Information Retrieval * ... Sumbission Details: ------------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. All workshops are required to use the WI-IAT 2008 Cyberchair system for on-line paper submission and review process (link will be added soon). The length of accepted papers should NOT exceed 4 pages (IEEE-CS format, extra payment is only available for one more extra page). Accepted workshop papers will be published in the Proceedings of WI-IAT08 Workshops by IEEE-CS Press. Important Dates: ---------------- Deadline for Submissions: July 30, 2008 Notification of acceptance: September 3, 2008 Camera-ready versions: September 30, 2008 Workshop: December 9, 2008 WI-IAT 2008 Conference: December 9 - 12, 2008 Program Committee: ------------------ Paulo Cesar G. da Costa, George Mason University, USA Ernesto Damiani, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Cristina Feier, TU Vienna, Austria Martin Hepp, STI Innsbruck, Austria Mustafa Jarrar, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Anne Laurent, LIRMM, France Jie Lu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University / TU Vienna, U.K. / Austria Trevor Martin, University of Bristol, UK Jose Angel Olivas Varela, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano, Italy Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Umberto Straccia, IST-C.N.R, Italy Ankur Teredesai, University of Washington, USA Peter Vojtas, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Organization: ------------- Stijn Heymans Knowledge Based Systems Group Institute of Information Systems Technische Universitaet Wien and Computational Web Intelligence Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Ghent University Martine De Cock Computational Web Intelligence Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Ghent University Dirk Vermeir Theoretical Computer Science Lab Dept. of Computer Science Vrije Universiteit Brussel Elie Sanchez Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale Biomathematiques et Informatique Medicale Faculte de Medecine (Universite Aix-Marseille II) From j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk Tue May 13 16:40:39 2008 From: j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk (John Domingue) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:40:39 +0100 Subject: [DL] 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference 2008 (ASWC 2008) [2nd Call for Papers] Message-ID: <6C5FBFD7-4BE2-44FE-B415-0676D41A84D4@open.ac.uk> [apologies for multiple postings] CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference 2008 (ASWC 2008) Pathumthani, Thailand, 8th-11th December 2008 A number of prominent members of the Semantic Web community are now beginning to claim that the Semantic Web has arrived. Semantic Web search engines now index tens of thousands of ontologies and the term 'Semantic Web' regularly appears in the mainstream news and culture. Additionally, the number of Semantic Web events attracting several hundred attendees grows larger every year and industrial interest includes the majority of the large software and service companies. The 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008) will present the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It will bring together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling, logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. ASWC2008 will include a Research Track, a Semantic Web in Use Track, a Poster and Demonstration Track. ASWC2008 also encourages the submission of proposals for workshops and tutorials. Submissions The Research Track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, empirical and application-related aspects of the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web in Use Track solicits the submission of innovative and practical application papers which take into account real-world requirements. All papers should clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web - fully taking into account aspects related to both semantics and the Web. The proceedings of ASWC 2008 will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Topics include but are not limited to the following: Semantic Web Technologies Query Languages and Optimization for the Semantic Web Rule Languages, Logics and Scalable Reasoning on the Semantic Web Tools and Methodologies for Large Scale Semantic Web Data Management Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web Semantic Web Content Creation Database Technologies for the Semantic Web Semantic Web Services Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Services (description, discovery, invocation, composition, choreography) Semantic Descriptions of Enterprise Processes Semantics Applied to Mashups and Adhoc Service Aggregations Semantic Web Applications Applications of Semantic Web (e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e- Government, e-Learning, e-Culture) Case Studies of Semantic Web Applications Personalization and User Modeling Semantics in P2P Computing and the Grid Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management Semantic Web, Multimedia, and Human Computer Interaction Social Semantic Web Semantic Web and Social Networks and Processes Semantic Web Technologies for Collaboration and Cooperation Trust, Provenance, Security, Privacy, Identity and the Semantic Web Ontologies Ontology Modeling Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation) Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation Ontology Searching and Ranking ***Important Dates*** 15 July 2008 Paper Submission 10 September 2008 Notification of Acceptance 25 September 2008 Camera Ready 8-11 December 2008 Conference in Thailand Organizing Committee Conference Chairs: Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France R. K. Shyamasundar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Program Committee Chairs: John Domingue, KMi, The Open University, UK Chutiporn Anutariya, Shinawatra University,Thailand Industrial Track Chair(s): Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI-Galway, Ireland Demo Chair: Michal Zaremba, STI Innsbruck, Austria Poster Chair: Elena Simperl, STI Innsbruck, Austria Workshop Chair: Marco Ronchetti, University of Trento, Italy Local Organizing Chairs: Asanee Kawtrakul, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand Rachanee Ungrangsi, Shinawatra University, Thailand Contact us: Web Site: http://www.aswc2008.org E-mail: aswc2008 at gmail.com __________________________ Prof. John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK6 7AA http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/ The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerhard at tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Thu May 15 06:04:32 2008 From: gerhard at tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Gerhard Austaller) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 06:04:32 +0200 Subject: [DL] Granularity of concepts / types in DL? Message-ID: <0DBCCB475CDE864F8F6086D69BFC5D9F0196A612@CALLISTO.ntdom.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> Hi I am developing an ontology with Prot?g? in OWL-DL but write it down in DL. I have some questions that nobody was able to answer so far... The first one is: Is there something like a type system in DL? Or is this irrelevant? Further, what's the right granularity of a concept? Let me give an example to make my point clear. I model that a house has an address. Can address now be a concept without further refinement and be written like "Main Street 4, A-543566 Luna City": Address or has it to be refined with further roles like hasStreetname, hasStreetnumber, hasZip... until every "range" is only a "simple" type like String for Streetname and Integer for Streetnumber. This leads to my second question: My I use self-defined complex types as range in OWL-DL? I'd like to use it, when I only need a container to store data without the need to model relations... Example again is my address. I'd like to have a complex type address as range of a datatype property. My last question is about individuals. E.g. I have concepts Man and Woman and I have individuals Gerhard:Man and Marry:Woman. My question now is what exactly "Gerhard" and "Marry" express in these examples. Are they just unique "identifiers" without any further semantics or information, or are they kind of "value". Hope my questions are clear and somebody could answer them. Thanks in advance Gerhard From gaines at cpsc.ucalgary.ca Thu May 15 07:33:22 2008 From: gaines at cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Dr Brian R Gaines) Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 22:33:22 -0700 Subject: [DL] Designing Visual Languages for Description Logics Message-ID: I have a paper entitle "Designing Visual Languages for Description Logics" for a special issue on visual languages for logic that will appear in JOLLI (Journal of Logic, Language and Information), and have just revised it in response to referees' comments. However, I realized that none of the comments I have received were from a DL perspective and would welcome some if anyone on this list has the time and interest to read it. The paper is available at http://cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~gaines/reports/KBS/VLDL/VLDL.pdf and the abstract is:- Description logics originated from the formalization of semantic networks as visual languages representing decidable subsets of first order logic (FOL) useful in knowledge representation. Later research on description logics has focused on issues of tractability of subsets of FOL with differing representation capabilities, and on the implementation of practical systems achieving the best possible performance. Semantic network research needs to keep pace with these developments in description logic and provide humanly attractive representation capabilities for knowledge entry, editing, and presenting the results of inference, that translate unambiguously to the underlying description logics. This paper discusses the design issues for such semantic network formalisms, and illustrates them through detailed examples of significant knowledge structures analyzed in the literature, including determinables, contrast sets, genus/differentiae, taxonomies, faceted taxonomies, cluster concepts, family resemblances, graded concepts, frames, definitions, rules, rules with exceptions, essence and state assertions, opposites and contraries, relevance, and so on. Such examples provide important test material for any visual language formalism for logic, enabling the role of visualization in understanding and communicating the major issues relating to them to be assessed. Any comments welcome. JOLLI has published little on DLs and it would be good to be accurate and representative in what is said, especially if there is related work that should be cited that I have missed, b. From yvshashoua at gmail.com Fri May 16 16:59:16 2008 From: yvshashoua at gmail.com (Yvonne Violet Shashoua) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:59:16 -0400 Subject: [DL] question about the distinction between transitive roles and transitive closure Message-ID: <560aae80805160759u2cb74e4axf764be0fe874b5ed@mail.gmail.com> I have been reading through the appendix in the Description Logic Handbook. On page 527, they mention that AL extended with transitive roles is denoted by AL_R+. That's in the section entitled Restrictions on Role Interpretations. But in the paragraph right above it, they use R^c instead of R+. Then, in a separate section, entitled Role Constructors, on page 529, they use the same symbol, R+, to denote the transitive closure role constructor. I assume that there's a difference between extending a description logic with transitive roles, and making a description logic that includes the transitive closure role constructor. But could someone clarify the distinction? And is the only difference in the notation used for the name of the language just whether you make R+ a subscript or superscript? I could use some help understanding this. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at Fri May 16 20:38:55 2008 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 20:38:55 +0200 Subject: [DL] DEADLINES EXTENDED: 2nd International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) Message-ID: <482DD4BF.8010907@kr.tuwien.ac.at> DEADLINES EXTENDED! CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) October 1-3, 2008 Napoli, Italy http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/sum08/ Originally, managing uncertainty and inconsistency has especially been explored in Artificial Intelligence. During the recent years, especially with the availability of massive amounts of data in different repositories and the possibility of integrating and exploiting these data, technologies for managing uncertainty and inconsistency have started to play a key role in databases and the Web. Some of the most prominent such technologies are probably the ranking algorithms standing behind web search engines. Techniques for handling uncertainty and inconsistency are expected to play a similarly important role in the context of the Semantic Web. The annual International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) has grown out of this very large interest on managing uncertainty and inconsistency in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, and AI. It aims at bringing together all those interested in the management of large volumes of uncertainty and inconsistency, irrespective of whether they are in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, or in AI. The very successful First International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2007) was held in Washington DC, USA, October 10-12, 2007 (see http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sum2007/). The Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) will be held in Napoli, Italy, October 1-3, 2008. Papers are solicited in all areas of massive uncertainty and inconsistency, including (but not restricted to) the topics listed below: probability logic fuzzy logic annotated logic Bayesian models Markov models possibilistic logic paraconsistent logic semantics of uncertain data formal models of uncertain data reasoning with uncertain and inconsistent information managing uncertain and imprecise information spatio-temporal uncertainty management probabilistic databases inconsistent databases uncertainty and inconsistency in the Web uncertainty and inconsistency in the Semantic Web uncertain database algebras query optimization with uncertainty query caching for uncertain databases indexing methods for uncertainty uncertain aggregate queries uncertainty in view management skyline query processing top-k queries and ranking approximate query processing uncertainty in data integration and exchange uncertainty in data streams uncertainty in information retrieval data sharing and uncertainty approximate schema and ontology mapping similarity in ontology languages similarity search and extraction information extraction data mining and machine learning vision and uncertainty audio processing and uncertainty multimedia and uncertainty text and uncertainty mobile systems and uncertainty image, speech, multimedia, and text information retrieval mining image, speech, multimedia, and text data personalization and user preferences mining in social networks uncertainty and trust issues ranking in information retrieval matchmaking and negotiation recommender systems implemented systems commercial systems novel applications We especially want to encourage submissions from uncertainty and inconsistency management in databases, as well as from uncertainty and inconsistency handling in the Web and the Semantic Web. We seek both theoretical and practical works. PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/ LNAI) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs/) and will be available at the conference. After the conference, we are also planning to bring out a special issue of a journal with selected papers from the conference. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see http://www.springer.com/ comp/lncs/Authors.html). The length should not exceed 14 pages for full papers and 9 pages for short papers. Submissions which deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Submissions will especially be judged for originality and scientific quality. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: May 29, 2008 Paper submission deadline: June 5, 2008 Paper accept/reject decisions: July 8, 2008 Camera ready papers due: July 18, 2008 Last day for early registration fee: July 18, 2008 GENERAL CHAIR Antonio Picariello (University of Napoli, Italy) PROGRAM CHAIRS Sergio Greco (University of Calabria, Italy) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK; TU Vienna, Austria) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Bir Bhanu (University of California-Riverside, USA) Fabio Gagliardi Cozman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Michael I. Dekhtyar (Tver State University, Russia) Debabrata Dey (University of Washington, USA) Juergen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany) Francesco Donini (University of Tuscia, Italy) Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna, Austria) Nicola Fanizzi (University of Bari, Italy) Filippo Furfaro (University of Calabria, Italy) Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel) John Grant (Towson University, USA) Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Eyke Huellermeier (University of Marburg, Germany) Edward Hung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Anthony Hunter (University College London, UK) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Dortmund, Germany) Christoph Koch (Cornell University, USA) Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia, Canada) Nicola Leone (University of Calabria, Italy) Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Kathryn Blackmond Laskey (George Mason University, USA) Weiru Liu (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Serafin Moral (University of Granada, Spain) Simon Parsons (City University of New York, USA) Gabriella Pasi (University of Milan, Italy) Michael Pittarelli (State University of New York, USA) Henri Prade (IRIT, France) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Luc de Raedt (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) Emad Saad (Abu Dhabi University, UAE) Domenico Sacca (ICAR-CNR, Italy) Maria Luisa Sapino (University of Torino, Italy) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland, USA) Maurice van Keulen (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Peter Vojtas (Charles University, Czech Republic) Nic Wilson (University College Cork, Ireland) Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA, USA) INVITED SPEAKERS Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo! Research, USA) Dan Suciu (University of Washington, USA) TUTORIALS Jan Chomicki (University at Buffalo, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the SUM 2008 web site at http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/sum08/ From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Mon May 19 10:19:29 2008 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Uli Sattler) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:19:29 +0200 Subject: [DL] question about the distinction between transitive roles and transitive closure In-Reply-To: <560aae80805160759u2cb74e4axf764be0fe874b5ed@mail.gmail.com> References: <560aae80805160759u2cb74e4axf764be0fe874b5ed@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <17EFF895-276A-4C97-A8AB-6C0C905FB9B1@cs.man.ac.uk> On 16 May 2008, at 16:59, Yvonne Violet Shashoua wrote: > I have been reading through the appendix in the Description Logic > Handbook. On page 527, they mention that AL extended with > transitive roles is denoted by AL_R+. That's in the section > entitled Restrictions on Role Interpretations. But in the paragraph > right above it, they use R^c instead of R+. Then, in a separate > section, entitled Role Constructors, on page 529, they use the same > symbol, R+, to denote the transitive closure role constructor. I > assume that there's a difference between extending a description > logic with transitive roles, and making a description logic that > includes the transitive closure role constructor. you are right, , there is. > But could someone clarify the distinction? if I have transitive roles, I can say, e.g., that "hasPart" is a transitive role (i.e., if x hasPart y and y hasPart z, then x hasPart z). Or that "hasAncestor" is transitive. if I have the transitive closure operator, I can apply it to a role name to denote the *smallest* transitive role containing it, e.g., I can use "hasDirectPart^+" and "hasParent^+" if I have transitive roles and role hierachies (as in DLs called SH...), I can say that a transitive role is a super-role of another role, e.g., that "hasPart" is a transitive role and a super-role of "hasDirectpart" or that "hasAncestor" is a transitive role and a superrole of "hasParent". I cannot, however, enforce that, say, "hasAncestor" is the *smallest* transitive super-role of "hasParent", only that it is *some* transitive super-role. In general, the transitive closure is a second order feature (due to the "smallest transitive relation that contains another relation), whereas transitivity and role inclusion are first order... I hope that helps, cheers, Uli > And is the only difference in the notation used for the name of the > language just whether you make R+ a subscript or superscript? I > could use some help understanding this. Thanks. --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; > for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/ > . ** From baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Mon May 19 18:13:15 2008 From: baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Franz Baader) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 18:13:15 +0200 Subject: [DL] question about the distinction between transitive roles and transitive closure In-Reply-To: <560aae80805160759u2cb74e4axf764be0fe874b5ed@mail.gmail.com> References: <560aae80805160759u2cb74e4axf764be0fe874b5ed@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5a051c660805190913g61c87a17i1e8c0e52179dcdba@mail.gmail.com> Since I am responsible for the DL Terminology Appendix in the handbook, I want to give some additional clarifications regarding syntax and names for languages. Unfortunately, there are different naming schemes for DLs, and this was already the case when I wrote the appendix. I tried to devise a consistent scheme that is relatively close to what was used then. The main idea was to distinguish between: - concept constructors (like existential restrictions, ...) - role constructors (like composition, transitive closure, inverse, ...) - restrictions on roles (like transitivity, subrole relations, ...) In the naming scheme, concept constructors are appended to the name of the familiy of DLs one considers (like the AL-family), role constructors are indicated by superscripts, and restrictions on roles by subscripts. More precisely, a letter or symbol standing for the constructor/restriction is appended/used a sub/superscript. For the case of transitivity vs transitive closure, the appendix proposes the following: - the avialability of transitive roles is expressed by the subscript R^+ - the availability of the transitive closure role constructor is expressed by the superscript + Thus, in the name of a DL transitive closure can be distinguished from transitivity by the fact that one is a superscript and the other a subscript; in addition, for transitive closure we only have a + (not R^+). What my be confusing is that we write the transitive closure of the role R as $R^+$ (but this denotes then the role itself, not the presence of the constructor in the DL). Unfortunately, people don't stick to this (or other) coherent naming scheme in their research papers. Best regards, -Franz Baader On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Yvonne Violet Shashoua wrote: > I have been reading through the appendix in the Description Logic > Handbook. On page 527, they mention that AL extended with transitive roles > is denoted by AL_R+. That's in the section entitled Restrictions on Role > Interpretations. But in the paragraph right above it, they use R^c instead > of R+. Then, in a separate section, entitled Role Constructors, on page > 529, they use the same symbol, R+, to denote the transitive closure role > constructor. I assume that there's a difference between extending a > description logic with transitive roles, and making a description logic that > includes the transitive closure role constructor. But could someone clarify > the distinction? And is the only difference in the notation used for the > name of the language just whether you make R+ a subscript or superscript? I > could use some help understanding this. Thanks. > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for more > ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. > ** > > From pavel at dit.unitn.it Mon May 19 19:49:25 2008 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 19:49:25 +0200 Subject: [DL] 1st CFP: The ISWC'08 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2008) Message-ID: <015b01c8b9d9$09d2a260$c8bca8c0@serverigtpdszq> Apologies for cross-postings --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Third International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2008) http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/ October 26 or 27, 2008, ISWC'08 Workshop Program, Karlsruhe, Germany BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, since it takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, query answering, data translation, or for navigation on the Semantic Web. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has two goals: 1. To bring together academic and industry leaders dealing with ontology matching in order to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to 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. 2. To conduct an extensive evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2008 campaign. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world matching tasks from specific domains, e.g., medicine. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements to ontology matching from specific domains; Application of ontology matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Social and collaborative ontology matching; Interactive ontology matching; Alignment management; Background knowledge in ontology matching; Reasoning for ontology matching; Uncertainty in ontology matching; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Performance of ontology-matching techniques; Ontology matching evaluation methodology; Ontology matching for information integration; Ontology matching for query answering; Ontology matching for dynamic environments; Systems and infrastructures. FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS The schedule assumes one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: technical presentations, OAEI'08 results presentations, posters, workshop on consensus building (of reference alignments) and wrap-up discussion. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of (i) technical papers addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as (ii) participating in the OAEI 2008 campaign. Technical papers should be not longerthan 12 pages using the LNCS Style. For complete style details, see Springer's Author Instructions http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html These should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted (no later than July 25, 2008) through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2008 Technical papers will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Contributors to OAEI 2008 have to follow the campaign's conditions at: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/ IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS July 25, 2008: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 8, 2008: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 25, 2008: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 26 or 27, 2008: OM-2008, Congress Center, Karlsruhe, Germany. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy e-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] it 2. Jerome Euzenat INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Isabel Cruz, University Illinois at Chicago, USA Jerome David, INRIA, France Wei Hu, Southeast University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaak, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Linkopings Universitet, Sweden Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Luigi Palopoli, University of Calabria, Italy Ivan Pilati, TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, Canada York Sure, SAP, Germany Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2008 flyer: http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/CfP_OM2008_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy Web: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ From jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk Mon May 19 21:48:27 2008 From: jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk (Jeff Z. Pan) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 20:48:27 +0100 (BST) Subject: [DL] CFP: The ISWC workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE2008) Message-ID: <2788.87.113.117.117.1211226507.squirrel@www.csd.abdn.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-posting! ************************************************************************ * * CALL FOR PAPERS * submission deadline: 25 July 2008 * * 4th Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering - SWESE2008 * * http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~sttaylor/swese2008/ * * ==INVITED SPEAKER (Prof. Steffen Staab)== * ==STUDENT GRANTS AVAILABLE (see below for details)== * * located at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC2008 * 26-30th October 2008 * Karlsruhe, Germany * ************************************************************************ Workshop Description Modern software architectures reflect advances in shared services delivery through service oriented architecture (SOA), master data management and data governance policies, and increasingly sophisticated, multi-media delivery and end-user interactions that leverage World Wide Web based technologies. Semantic Web technologies are beginning to play a significant role in each of these arenas, marking a turning point in the evolution of the Web and software engineering in general. There is increasing convergence in terms of methodology, language, and tool support to address the needs of software architects and other practitioners who require bridging technologies - between traditional software engineering, as embodied in Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and modelling languages such as the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and the Semantic Web, through the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL), for example. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to investigate potential benefits. The Object Management Group (OMG)'s Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), spearheaded by the Ontology Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG), has become an international standard (formally adopted by the OMG in October 2006), and is on its way to becoming an ISO standard. Advantages of applying Semantic Web technologies to software engineering include reusability and extensibility of data models, improvements in data quality, enhanced discovery, and automated execution of workflows. According to SETF's note "A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers" (http://www.w3.org/TR/sw-oosd-primer/), the Semantic Web can serve as a platform on which domain models can be created, shared and reused. What other potential benefits might be gained by applying Semantic Web technologies to software engineering? Could the Web-based, semantically rich formality of OWL be combined with emerging model driven development tools such as the Eclipse Modelling Framework to provide some badly needed improvements in both the process and products of software development activities? How should practitioners go about transitioning legacy software applications to ontology-based approaches and what software is needed to support development teams with intelligent semantic-based assistive tools? What is it about the amalgamation of OWL, UML and the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) that could make a difference? There appear to be a number of strong arguments in favour of bringing these technologies and methods together, but consensus on the best way forward has yet to emerge. This workshop seeks to build on prior events that have begun to address this important area. Intended Audience While the intended audience for this workshop includes those with experience or interest in Semantic Web languages and tools, it is also crucial to have participation by those with expertise in other areas such as software engineering, automatic software engineering (ASE), knowledge based software engineering (KBSE), UML/MDA, and software/legacy modernization. Topics Topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not restricted to): - Perspectives on the future of Semantic Web driven software engineering or modernization - Tools supporting software engineering using Semantic Web languages - Case studies describing applications that leverage traditional software engineering methodologies, object-oriented programming, and/or model-driven architecture (MDA) and Semantic Web tools or languages - Lessons learned in Automatic Software Engineering or KBSE applicable to Semantic Web based software engineering - Applications, case studies, and/or recommendations regarding the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) - Case studies describing application of formal methods and Semantic Web languages - Software specification, feature modelling, component discovery, and Semantic Web languages, ontologies, and/or reasoning - Ontologies for requirements, software engineering, and/or software evolution - Ontology-based reasoning for software engineering - Semantic annotations in software engineering - Transitioning legacy applications to semantically-enhanced or ontology-based applications - Semantic-based intelligent assistance tools for software developers Workshop Format and Attendance This will be an all day workshop, including a poster session and technical talks discussing competing and complementary visions for Semantic Web enabled software engineering (final format will be dependent on submissions; keynotes and panel are pending; an invited talk from Prof. Steffen Staab has been confirmed). This workshop is open to all members of the ISWC community, as well as other communities identified in Intended Audience, above. 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 will be given priority for registration. We encourage those who plan to attend this workshop, to register early in order to help conference organizers with their planning as well as insure that the workshop is not cancelled do to projected poor attendance. Organizing Committee Elisa F. Kendall, Sandpiper Software, Inc., USA Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK (contact) Marwan Sabbouh, The MITRE Corporation, USA Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI, Germany Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Program Committee Colin Atkinson (DE), University of Mannheim Ken Baclawski (US), Northeastern University Cory Casanave (US), Model Driven Solutions Roberta Cuel (IT), University of Trento Jin Song Dong (SG), National University of Singapore Dragan Gasevic, (CA) Simon Fraser University Surrey Michael Goedicke (DE), University of Essen Jakob Henriksson (DE), Technical University of Dresden Mitch Kokar (US), Northeastern University David Martin (US), SRI International Jishnu Mukerji (US), Hewlett-Packard Company Daniel Oberle (DE), SAP Research Steffen Staab (DE), University of Koblenz Michael K. Smith (US), Electronic Data System Hai Wang (UK), University of Southampton Andrea Zisman, (UK) City University, London Submissions Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor, experience reports, and show case / use case demonstrations of effective, practical technologies or applications combining software engineering with semantic technologies. Papers must be in English and may be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swese2008 as: - Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) - Short Papers (5-8 pages in the proceedings) - Position Statements (2 pages in the proceedings) - Posters (to be presented during the workshop, with 2 page descriptions submitted via the conference site for review) Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to upload their complete papers by July 25, 2008. Publication details will be posted to the workshop web site, http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~sttaylor/swese2008/index.php, as they become available. Important Dates Submission deadline: 25 July 2008 Notification of acceptance: 25 September 2008 Final submissions due: 26 September 2008 Workshop proceedings available: 26 October 2008 Sponsorship The workshop is being held in cooperation with a prominent network of excellence and is meant to act as a focal point for joint interests and future collaborations. Interested sponsors are welcome to contact the program committee. Current sponsors include: - The EU TAO Project, http://www.tao-project.eu/ Scholarships We have a limited number of student grants available, funded our workshop sponsors. We invite students to apply for this grant by Sept 30, 2008. Applications should include a statement of interest (i.e. what you bring to and expect to get from SWESE), a brief CV, a scan of a student ID or other evidence of professional status, and a letter of support from their supervisor. Any interested student can apply. Please send your application to Kalina Bontcheva and Elisa Kendall. The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. From r.cornet at amc.uva.nl Tue May 20 15:06:01 2008 From: r.cornet at amc.uva.nl (Ronald Cornet) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 15:06:01 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP extension of due date Message-ID: <20080520150601265.00000001876@06-020-2539> Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics on Auditing of Terminologies **************************************************************************** Please note that the due date has been extended to June 15th. **************************************************************************** Guest Editors: James Geller 1,2 Yehoshua Perl 1,2 Michael Halper 2,3 Ronald Cornet 4 1 New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) 2 Structural Analysis of Biomedical Ontologies Center (SABOC) at NJIT http://www.cis.njit.edu/~oohvr/SABOC/ 3 Kean University 4 University of Amsterdam Topic: The subject of quality assurance for terminologies, also known as auditing, has recently received increased attention. For example, the last AMIA conference had a session devoted to this area, which is critical for applications that use terminologies. IHTSDO, the organization in charge of the SNOMED CT. terminology, has appointed a Chief Quality Officer and organized a standing Quality Assurance Committee. Papers addressing this topic have recently appeared in leading Biomedical Informatics journals, such as JBI and JAMIA. Auditing of terminologies is essential, because terminologies may form the basis of clinical decision-support systems, patient record management systems, health care administrative systems, etc. Any terminology errors could propagate to errors in these systems, which may result in severe negative outcomes for the involved patients. The purpose of this special issue is to capture the state-of-the-art regarding the auditing of biomedical terminologies. Three kinds of papers are invited for this special issue: (1) Papers on original research on auditing of terminologies and on auditing tools, which report on recent, previously unpublished, advances; (2) Methodology review papers which collect, summarize and systematize the existing body of research in this area; (3) Auditing experience papers by "auditors or editors of biomedical terminologies." These papers will describe how auditing of leading biomedical terminologies is done in practice, but should relate that experience to the established methods and to innovations that were required in order to achieve operational goals. The purpose of this last category of papers is to reveal practical methods, which often are not published, to a wider audience. Their publication will round out the state-of-the-art description intended for this special issue. Submission: All papers will be rigorously reviewed following the standards of JBI. Guides for Authors are available directly from the homepage of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622857/authorinstructions Authors must submit their paper via the online submission system (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/jbi/. Authors can register and upload their text, tables, and figures as well as subsequent revisions through this website. Please contact the Publishing Services Coordinator in the editorial office at jbi at elsevier.com for questions regarding this process. This special issue is registered under the title "Auditing Terminologies" in the EES system. Authors submitting papers to this special issue should indicate so by selecting the "Auditing Terminologies" category at the time of submission. Acceptance: The final decision of acceptance is made by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, in consultation with the Guest Editors. Schedule: Deadline for Submissions: May 15 (earlier submissions are encouraged) Publication is planned for spring 2009. Electronic publication is available as soon as final manuscripts are accepted. -- WEB: http://web.njit.edu/~geller/ VOICE: (973) 596-3383 MESSAGES: (973) 596-3366 FAX: (973) 596-5777 _______________________________________________ protege-discussion mailing list protege-discussion at lists.stanford.edu https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/protege-discussion Instructions for unsubscribing: http://protege.stanford.edu/doc/faq.html#01a.03 From tommiemeyer at gmail.com Wed May 21 11:28:18 2008 From: tommiemeyer at gmail.com (Tommie Meyer) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:28:18 +0200 Subject: [DL] KROW@KR2008: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <3025BACB-3B62-41A0-AFD0-B20F248B958B@meraka.org.za> Apologies for cross-postings: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop (KROW 2008) September 17, 2008 Final Call for Papers A KR 2008 Workshop September 16 - 19, 2008 Sydney, Australia http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html KROW 2008 is one of two workshops forming an integral part of the program of the 11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2008). It is a continuation of the Australasian Ontology Workshop series: http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/conferences/aow/. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies The proceedings of the three workshops in the AOW series were published as volumes 58, 72, and 85 of the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and the KROW 2008 proceedings will be published as volume 90 of the same series. Extended versions of selected papers will appear in a special issue of the journal Applied Artificial Intelligence. Submission information such as format etc. can be found on the CRPIT website: http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. The page limit is 10 pages. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2008 Camera-ready copies due: July 15, 2008 KROW 2008: September 17, 2008 Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=krow2008 Workshop Chairs Thomas Meyer Meraka Institute, South Africa tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Mehmet Orgun Macquarie University, Australia mehmet at ics.mq.edu.au Program Committee Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Mike Bain (UNSW, Australia) Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) Arina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Longbing Cao (UTS, Australia) Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Anne Cregan (UNSW, Australia) Attila Elci (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey) Aurona Gerber (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Manolis Gergatsoulis (Ionian University, Greece) Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia) Bo Hu (University of Southampton, UK) Renato Iannella (NICTA, Australia) Marijke Keet (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Ken Kaneiwa (NII, Japan) Kevin Lee (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Laurent Lefort (CSIRO, Australia) Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK) Lars Moench (University of Hagen, Germany) Deshendran Moodley (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia) Anet Potgieter (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) Murat Sensoy (Bogazici University, Turkey) Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn (TU Dresden, Germany) Kerry Taylor (CSIRO, Australia) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia) Mary-Anne Williams (UTS, Australia) Pinar Yolum (Bogazici University, Turkey) From geoff at cs.miami.edu Wed May 21 13:43:40 2008 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:43:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR Call for Papers Message-ID: <20080521114340.66A7C11FAC2@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS LPAR'08 15th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning November 23-27, 2008 Carnegie Mellon University Doha, Qatar http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08 The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 2008 edition will be held in Doha, Qatar, on the premises of the Qatar campus of Carnegie Mellon University. Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. It is logical techniques that link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated reasoning * Description logics * Interactive theorem proving * Non-monotonic reasoning * Implementations of logic * Specification using logics * Proof assistants * Logic in artificial intelligence * Program and system verification * Lambda calculus * Model checking * Constructive logic and type theory * Rewriting and unification * Computional interpretations of logic * Logic programming * Logical foundations of programming * Constraint programming * Logical aspects of concurrency * Logic and databases * Logic and computational complexity * Modal and temporal logics * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Proof-carrying code * Reasoning about actions * Translation validation * Proof planning * Logic for the semantic web * Effectively presented structures * Foundations of security * Logic of distributed systems Invited Speakers ---------------- It has been a tradition of LPAR to invite some of the most influential researchers in the focus areas to discuss their work and their vision for their fields. We are honored that the following members of the community have accepted this invitation. * Edmund Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) * Amir Pnueli, New York University (USA) * Michael Backes, Saarland University and MPI-SWS (Germany) * Thomas Eiter, Technical University of Vienna (Austria) Submission Instructions ----------------------- Submissions must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be submitted in Postscript or Portable Document Format (PDF); papers submitted in a proprietary word processor format such as Microsoft Word cannot be considered. Submissions can be of two types: * Regular papers are meant to describe solid new research results. They can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures, bibliography and appendices. * Experimental and tool papers are intended to describe implementations of systems, to report experiments with implemented systems, or to compare implemented systems. They can be at most 8 pages long in the LNCS style. Both types of papers can be electronically submitted by visiting http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar2008. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). As with the previous editions, the proceedings of LPAR'08 will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. They will be available at the conference. In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practioners are encouraged to report on interesting work in progress by submitting abstracts of up to 5 LNCS pages, to be selected for a short-paper session. These abstracts will not be printed in the proceedings of LPAR'08 and they have a separate submission deadline (see below). Participation ------------- Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this policy will be removed from the proceedings. Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission deadline: 26 May 2008 Paper submission deadline: 06 June 2008 Notification of acceptance: 29 August 2008 Camera-ready papers: 19 September 2008 Short paper submission deadline: 26 September 2008 LPAR'08 Workshops: 22 November 2008 LPAR 2008: 23-27 November 2008 Program Committee ----------------- * Franz Baader, TU Dresden (Germany) * Matthias Baaz, TU Vienna (Austria) * Peter Baumgartner, National ICT (Australia) * Josh Berdine, MSR Cambridge (UK) * Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University (Austria) * Iliano Cervesato, Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar) - chair * Sagar Chaki, Carnegie Mellon SEI (US) * Hubert Comon-Lundh, ENS Cachan (France) * Javier Esparza, TU Munich (Germany) * Orna Grumberg, Technion (Israel) * Thomas Henzinger, EPFL (Switzerland) * Joxan Jaffar, NUS (Singapore) * Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen (Germany) * Claude Kirchner, INRIA & LORIA (France) * Stephan Kreutzer, Oxford University (UK) * Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University (Israel) * Alexander Leitsch, TU Vienna (Austria) * Nicola Leone, University of Calabria (Italy) * Cathy Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory (US) * Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt (Germany) * John Mitchell, Stanford University (US) * Aart Middeldorp, University of Innsbruck (Austria) * Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg (Germany) * Sanjiva Prasad, IIT Delhi (India) * Alexander Razborov, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) * Andrey Rybalchenko, MPI-SWS (Germany) * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK) * Carsten Schuermann, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark) * Helmut Seidl, TU Munich (Germany) * Henny Sipma, Stanford University (US) * Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami (US) * Ashish Tiwari, SRI (US) * Helmut Veith, TU Darmstadt (Germany) - chair * Andrei Voronkov, University of Manchester (UK) - chair Contact Information ------------------- Email: lpar08 at qatar.cmu.edu Web page: http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08 From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Tue May 27 10:57:33 2008 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:57:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] CEDAR 2008: submission deadline extended to June 2, 2008. Message-ID: <47406.139.19.24.5.1211878653.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> [please apologize for multiple copies] *********************************************************************** * DEADLINE EXTENSION * *********************************************************************** * Complexity, Expressibility, and Decidability in Automated Reasoning * * (CEDAR'08) * * http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/cedar08.html * * * * Workshop affiliated with IJCAR 2008 Sydney, Australia * 10-15 August 2008 * * http://www.ijcar.org/2008/ * * * *********************************************************************** The submission deadline for the workshop CEDAR'2008 has been extended to June 2, 2008. The goal of CEDAR is to bring together researchers interested in problems that are at the interface between automated reasoning and computational complexity, in particular in: - identifying decidable logical theories and fragments thereof which have low complexity, and analyzing possibilities of obtaining optimal complexity results with uniform tools; - analyzing decidability in combinations of theories and possibilities of combining decision procedures; - efficient implementations for decidable fragments; - application domains where decidability resp. tractability are crucial. For details see: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/cedar08.html From lausen at informatik.uni-freiburg.de Wed May 28 10:15:14 2008 From: lausen at informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Georg Lausen) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:15:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] RR 2008 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <483D1492.6010407@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> 

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                            RR 2008

             The Second International Conference on
                 Web Reasoning and Rule Systems

               http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008

       Karlsruhe, Germany, October 31 - November 2, 2008

                        Call for Papers
                     SUBMISSION IS NOW OPEN!

The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) aims to
be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results 
concerning
Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2008 builds on the success of The First
International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems RR 2007, which
received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2008, RR will
continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best
Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world.

The reasoning landscape features theoretical areas such as knowledge
representation (KR) and algorithms; design aspects of rule markup;
design of ontology languages; engineering of engines, translators,
and other tools; efficiency considerations and benchmarking;
standardization efforts, such as the Rules Interchange Format activity 
at W3C;
and applications. Of particular interest is also the use of rules
to facilitate ontology modeling, and the relationships and possible
interactions between rules and ontology languages like RDF and OWL, as well
as ontology reasoning related to RDF and OWL, or querying with SPARQL.

Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an
exhaustive list:

* Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction
* Combining open and closed-world reasoning
* Combining rules and ontologies
* Design and analysis of reasoning languages
* Efficiency and benchmarking
* Implemented tools and systems
* Standardization
* Ontology usability
* Ontology languages and their relationships
* Querying and optimization
* Rules and ontology management
    (such as inconsistency handling and evolution)
* Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency
* Reasoning with constraints
* Rule languages and systems
* Rule interchange formats and rule markup languages
* Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web
* Semantic Web Services modeling and applications
* Web and Semantic Web applications

LOCATION:

The conference is co-located with ISWC 2008 (http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/),
the International Semantic Web Conference.

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

RR 2008 welcomes original research and application papers dealing with
web reasoning and rule systems, with particular attention to the topics
listed above.  Submitted papers are limited in length to fifteen (15) pages,
including title, abstract, and list of references, and should be formatted
according to the Springer LNCS style
(see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html).
Submitted papers must be in PDF format.  The full paper submission must be
preceded by the submission of an abstract.  Submission is via EasyChair, at

  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2008

Papers may be accepted as:
- full papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
- short papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
- posters (2 pages in the proceedings)

Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series.
The best papers may also be considered for publication in a prestigious
international journal.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract submission deadline:          June 14, 2008
Paper submission deadline:             June 21, 2008
Notification of acceptance decisions:  July 21, 2008
Camera-ready papers due:               Aug. 15, 2008
RR 2008 conference:           Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2008

GENERAL CHAIR:

Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna (AT)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:

Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT)
Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg (DE)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Jose Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT)
J?rgen Angele, Ontoprise GmbH, Karlsruhe (DE)
Gregoris Antoniou, University of Crete (GR)
Marcelo Arenas, Pontificia Universidad Catolico de Chile (CL)
Uwe Assmann, Technische Universit?t Dresden (DE)
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University (US)
Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Ottawa (CA)
Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT)
Christoph Bussler, BEA Systems, Inc. (US)
Andrea Cali, University of Oxford (UK)
Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (US)
Hendrik Decker, Ciudad Polit?cnica de la Innovaci?n, Valencia (ES)
J?rgen Dix, Universit?t Clausthal (DE)
Christine Golbreich, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (FR)
John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK)
Gianluigi Greco, Universit? della Calabria (IT)
Claudio Gutierrez, University of Chile, Santiago (CL)
Giovambattista Ianni, Universit? della Calabria (IT)
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Universit? di Roma (IT)
Francesca A. Lisi, Universit? di Bari (IT)
Bertram Ludaescher, University of California, Davis (US)
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Carsten Lutz, Technische Universit?t Dresden (DE)
Jan Maluszynski, University of Link?ping (SE)
Wolfgang May, University of G?ttingen (DE)
Ralf M?ller, Technische Universit?t Hamburg (DE)
Boris Motik, University of Oxford (UK)
Wolfgang Nejdl, LS3 and University of Hannover (DE)
Daniel Oberle, SAP AG (DE)
P.F. Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (US)
Axel Polleres, National University of Ireland, Galway (IE)
Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe (DE)
Dave Reynolds, HP Labs (UK)
Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble (FR)
Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchestor (UK)
Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft (AT)
Roman Schindlauer, TU Wien (AT)
Michael Sintek, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern (DE)
Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens (GR)
Umberto Straccia, ISTI - C.N.R Pisa (IT)
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim (DE)
York Sure, SAP AG (DE)
Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT)
Rodney Topor, University of Griffith (AUS)
Dirk Vermeir, University of Brussels (BE)
David Warren, SUNY at Stony Brook (US)
P.T. Wood, University of London (UK)
Guizhen Yang, SRI (US)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION:

Sebastian Rudolph, University of Karlsruhe  (DE)
From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Wed May 28 12:40:27 2008 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Uli Sattler) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:40:27 +0100 Subject: [DL] Up to 16 PhD studentships available References: Message-ID: <9BA2328E-F9F2-4157-A12B-72BDE98D0ABF@cs.man.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-posting ============================================================== PHD STUDENTSHIPS (UP TO 16) IN THE SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER The School of Computer Science of the University of Manchester (http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk) has up to 16 studentships to offer to highly motivated research students who wish to start a PhD in September 2008 (in exceptional circumstances the start date can be deferred until April 2009). The studentships pay tuition fees and a stipend to cover living expenses for 3 years. In 2008/09, the stipend will be ?12940 per year for students who were UK residents in the 3 years before the start of the PhD, or between ?10352 and ?12940 per year for students who were not UK residents in the same period and cannot demonstrate a relevant connection to the UK. The stipend is expected to rise in subsequent years. Because of conditions associated with this funding, these studentships are open to students eligible for home fees only; this includes UK and EU nationals. The School of Computer Science of the University of Manchester is one of the leading Schools in the UK renown for the excellence of its research. The international reputation of its research reflects on its 5* rating in the last national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), which places the School among the best 6 Computer Science Departments in the UK. The School has a vibrant research environment with more than 150 PhD students, 90 research staff and 70 academic staff. The studentships can cover research on any Computer Science topic. The School has a wide spectrum of research activities in a number of subject areas, ranging from engineering and systems to theory, technology and applications including many interdisciplinary activities. (see http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/research/groups/ for an overview of the research activities of the School). Two of the studentships, in particular, must relate to research in areas of interest to the Medical Research Council (http://www.mrc.ac.uk/) If you are interested, you are encouraged to approach potential supervisors and suggest a possible PhD topic. A list of members of the academic staff with their research interests is available from: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/people/index.php?category=academic To submit an application, please follow the instructions available from: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/apply/ Applications will be processed in two phases. In the first phase, your qualifications will be considered and, if approved, you will receive an offer for a place in our PhD programme. In the second phase, you will be considered for funding. Processing of applications for funding will commence on June 20th. Applications submitted after this date will be considered only if there are still places remaining. Applicants who have already submitted an application and are eligible for these studentships will be considered automatically. From geoff at cs.miami.edu Thu May 29 23:42:43 2008 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 17:42:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR submission deadline extended Message-ID: <20080529214243.8D9A611FA27@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS LPAR'08 15th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning November 23-27, 2008 Carnegie Mellon University Doha, Qatar http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08 ---------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED ---------------------------- The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 2008 edition will be held in Doha, Qatar, on the premises of the Qatar campus of Carnegie Mellon University. Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. It is logical techniques that link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated reasoning * Logic of distributed systems * Computional interpretations of logic * Logic programming * Constraint programming * Modal and temporal logics * Constructive logic and type theory * Model checking * Decision procedures * Non-monotonic reasoning * Description logics * Ontologies * Foundations of security * Program and system verification * Implementations of logic * Proof assistants * Interactive theorem proving * Proof-carrying code * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Proof planning * Lambda calculus * Proof theory * Logic and automata * Propositional satisfiability * Logic and computational complexity * Reasoning about actions * Logic and databases * Rewriting and unification * Logic and games * Satisfiability modulo theories * Logic for the semantic web * Static analysis of programs * Logical aspects of concurrency * Specification using logics * Logical foundations of programming * Translation validation * Logic in artificial intelligence Invited Speakers ---------------- It has been a tradition of LPAR to invite some of the most influential researchers in the focus areas to discuss their work and their vision for their fields. We are honored that the following members of the community have accepted this invitation. * Edmund Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) * Amir Pnueli, New York University (USA) * Michael Backes, Saarland University and MPI-SWS (Germany) * Thomas Eiter, Technical University of Vienna (Austria) Submission Instructions ----------------------- Submissions must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be submitted in Postscript or Portable Document Format (PDF); papers submitted in a proprietary word processor format such as Microsoft Word cannot be considered. Submissions can be of two types: * Regular papers are meant to describe solid new research results. They can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures and references but excluding appendices (that reviewers are not required to read). * Experimental and tool papers are intended to describe implementations of systems, to report experiments with implemented systems, or to compare implemented systems. They can be at most 8 pages long in the LNCS style. Both types of papers can be electronically submitted by visiting http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar2008. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). As with the previous editions, the proceedings of LPAR'08 will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. They will be available at the conference. In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practioners are encouraged to report on interesting work in progress by submitting abstracts of up to 5 LNCS pages, to be selected for a short-paper session. These abstracts will not be printed in the proceedings of LPAR'08 and they have a separate submission deadline (see below). Participation ------------- Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this policy will be removed from the proceedings. Important Dates (updated) ------------------------- Abstract submission deadline: 06 June 2008 - STRICT! Paper submission deadline: 16 June 2008 - STRICT! Notification of acceptance: 29 August 2008 Camera-ready papers: 19 September 2008 Short paper submission deadline: 26 September 2008 LPAR'08 Workshops: 22 November 2008 LPAR 2008: 23-27 November 2008 Program Committee ----------------- * Franz Baader, TU Dresden (Germany) * Matthias Baaz, TU Vienna (Austria) * Peter Baumgartner, National ICT (Australia) * Josh Berdine, MSR Cambridge (UK) * Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University (Austria) * Iliano Cervesato, Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar) - chair * Sagar Chaki, Carnegie Mellon SEI (US) * Hubert Comon-Lundh, ENS Cachan (France) * Javier Esparza, TU Munich (Germany) * Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona (Italy) * J????rgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen (Germany) * Orna Grumberg, Technion (Israel) * Thomas Henzinger, EPFL (Switzerland) * Joxan Jaffar, NUS (Singapore) * Claude Kirchner, INRIA & LORIA (France) * Stephan Kreutzer, Oxford University (UK) * Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University (Israel) * Alexander Leitsch, TU Vienna (Austria) * Nicola Leone, University of Calabria (Italy) * Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt (Germany) * Cathy Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory (US) * Aart Middeldorp, University of Innsbruck (Austria) * John Mitchell, Stanford University (US) * Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg (Germany) * Sanjiva Prasad, IIT Delhi (India) * Alexander Razborov, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) * Andrey Rybalchenko, MPI-SWS (Germany) * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK) * Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam (Germany) * Carsten Sch????rmann, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark) * Helmut Seidl, TU Munich (Germany) * Henny Sipma, Stanford University (US) * Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami (US) * Ashish Tiwari, SRI (US) * Helmut Veith, TU Darmstadt (Germany) - chair * Andrei Voronkov, University of Manchester (UK) - chair Contact Information ------------------- Email: lpar08 at qatar.cmu.edu Web page: http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08 From Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at Sat May 31 00:11:30 2008 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 00:11:30 +0200 Subject: [DL] SUM 2008: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS / CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS Message-ID: <48407B92.6080008@kr.tuwien.ac.at> LAST CALL FOR PAPERS / CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) October 1-3, 2008 Naples, Italy http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/sum08/ Originally, managing uncertainty and inconsistency has especially been explored in Artificial Intelligence. During the recent years, especially with the availability of massive amounts of data in different repositories and the possibility of integrating and exploiting these data, technologies for managing uncertainty and inconsistency have started to play a key role in databases and the Web. Some of the most prominent such technologies are probably the ranking algorithms standing behind web search engines. Techniques for handling uncertainty and inconsistency are expected to play a similarly important role in the context of the Semantic Web. The annual International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) has grown out of this very large interest on managing uncertainty and inconsistency in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, and AI. It aims at bringing together all those interested in the management of large volumes of uncertainty and inconsistency, irrespective of whether they are in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, or in AI. The very successful First International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2007) was held in Washington DC, USA, October 10-12, 2007 (see http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sum2007/). The Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) will be held in Naples, Italy, October 1-3, 2008. Submissions are solicited in all areas of massive uncertainty and inconsistency, including (but not restricted to) the topics listed below: probability logic fuzzy logic annotated logic Bayesian models Markov models possibilistic logic paraconsistent logic semantics of uncertain data formal models of uncertain data reasoning with uncertain and inconsistent information managing uncertain and imprecise information spatio-temporal uncertainty management probabilistic databases inconsistent databases uncertainty and inconsistency in the Web uncertainty and inconsistency in the Semantic Web uncertain database algebras query optimization with uncertainty query caching for uncertain databases indexing methods for uncertainty uncertain aggregate queries uncertainty in view management skyline query processing top-k queries and ranking approximate query processing uncertainty in data integration and exchange uncertainty in data streams uncertainty in information retrieval data sharing and uncertainty approximate schema and ontology mapping similarity in ontology languages similarity search and extraction information extraction data mining and machine learning vision and uncertainty audio processing and uncertainty multimedia and uncertainty text and uncertainty mobile systems and uncertainty image, speech, multimedia, and text information retrieval mining image, speech, multimedia, and text data personalization and user preferences mining in social networks uncertainty and trust issues ranking in information retrieval matchmaking and negotiation recommender systems implemented systems commercial systems novel applications We especially want to encourage submissions from uncertainty and inconsistency management in databases, as well as from uncertainty and inconsistency handling in the Web and the Semantic Web. We seek both theoretical and practical works. PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/ LNAI) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs/) and will be available at the conference. After the conference, we are also planning to bring out a special issue of a journal with selected papers from the conference. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS/POSTERS/DEMOS Submissions must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see http://www.springer.com/ comp/lncs/Authors.html). The length should not exceed 14 pages for full papers, 9 pages for short papers, 4 pages for posters, and 6 pages for system descriptions (for system demos at the conference). Short papers, posters, and system descriptions should be clearly marked as such in the title and in the easychair submission system. Submissions which deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Submissions will especially be judged for originality and scientific quality. All accepted papers, posters, and system descriptions will be included in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: June 5, 2008 Poster/demo submission deadline: June 12, 2008 Accept/reject decisions: July 8, 2008 Camera ready papers/posters/demos due: July 18, 2008 Last day for early registration fee: July 18, 2008 GENERAL CHAIR Antonio Picariello (University of Naples, Italy) PROGRAM CHAIRS Sergio Greco (University of Calabria, Italy) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK; TU Vienna, Austria) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Bir Bhanu (University of California-Riverside, USA) Fabio Gagliardi Cozman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Michael I. Dekhtyar (Tver State University, Russia) Debabrata Dey (University of Washington, USA) Juergen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany) Francesco Donini (University of Tuscia, Italy) Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna, Austria) Nicola Fanizzi (University of Bari, Italy) Filippo Furfaro (University of Calabria, Italy) Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel) John Grant (Towson University, USA) Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Eyke Huellermeier (University of Marburg, Germany) Edward Hung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Anthony Hunter (University College London, UK) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Dortmund, Germany) Christoph Koch (Cornell University, USA) Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia, Canada) Nicola Leone (University of Calabria, Italy) Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Kathryn Blackmond Laskey (George Mason University, USA) Weiru Liu (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Serafin Moral (University of Granada, Spain) Simon Parsons (City University of New York, USA) Gabriella Pasi (University of Milan, Italy) Michael Pittarelli (State University of New York, USA) Henri Prade (IRIT, France) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Luc de Raedt (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) Emad Saad (Abu Dhabi University, UAE) Domenico Sacca (ICAR-CNR, Italy) Maria Luisa Sapino (University of Turin, Italy) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland, USA) Maurice van Keulen (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Peter Vojtas (Charles University, Czech Republic) Nic Wilson (University College Cork, Ireland) Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA, USA) INVITED SPEAKERS Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo! Research, USA) Dan Suciu (University of Washington, USA) TUTORIALS Jan Chomicki (University at Buffalo, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the SUM 2008 web site at http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/sum08/ From nbassili at csd.auth.gr Mon Jun 2 12:29:07 2008 From: nbassili at csd.auth.gr (Nick Bassiliades) Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:29:07 +0300 Subject: [DL] RuleML-2008: Deadline extension Message-ID: <4843CB73.1040808@csd.auth.gr> [ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] ===================================================================== Due to a number of requests we have to decided to extend the submission deadline by 2 weeks. NEW deadline for paper/demo submission: June 16 ===================================================================== 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- RuleML-2008 Highlights: - Keynote speakers: * Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), on "Rule Interchange Format: Not Just Syntax". Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008. * David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on complex event processing. * Paul Haley (Haley Ltd) on business rules. * Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan Inc, USA) on the SILK KRR system of the HALO project. (Details at: http://2008.ruleml.org/keynote.php ) - Joint Lunch Panel with the Business Rules Forum about "Rules on the Web" - RuleML-2008 Challenge with prestigious prices (Details at: http://2008.ruleml.org/challenge.php ) (Submissions at: http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw/ ) - Lightning talks / Highlight talks Accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS proceedings and a journal special issue (IEEE TKDE pending) is forthcoming. PRESS RELEASES: http://www.targetwire.com/vpo/rm/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 - http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi- Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the Web Rules and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross- fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and applications as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into account when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments. We also welcome groundwork that helps to build an effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule technology, provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of rules, and make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more usable for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures. More details in: http://2008.ruleml.org/cfp.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------- RuleML-2008 Challenge The RuleML-2008 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2008. It addresses the system demonstration for practical use of rule technologies in distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge is on rule technologies (including rule languages and engines), interoperation and interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. More details in: http://2008.ruleml.org/challenge.php -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates - Paper Submissions due June 16, 2008 (EXTENDED) - Notification of acceptance July 22, 2008 - Final submissions due August 13, 2008 - Symposium date October 30-31, 2008 - RuleML Challenge October 30, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Site is open: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008 Submission guidelines: http://2008.ruleml.org/submissions.php Topics of Interest: http://2008.ruleml.org/topics.php Organizing Committee: http://2008.ruleml.org/oc.php Program Committee: http://2008.ruleml.org/pc.php ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 11th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== Sponsored by: Gold level : Vulcan Inc (pending) Silver level: Model Systems Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss Sponsoring opportunities: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/ ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS, OMG, Dallas Rules Group, Belgium Business Rules Forum, MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems ===================================================================== Media Partners: Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing ===================================================================== From thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de Fri Jun 6 13:28:37 2008 From: thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de (Thorsten Liebig) Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:28:37 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: 4th Int. WS on Scalable SW Knowledge Bases (SSWS 2008) Message-ID: <48491F65.2060204@uni-ulm.de> *************************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested *************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCALABLE SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS (SSWS2008) http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~yug2/ssws08/home.htm At the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008 http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The series of SSWS workshops aim at creating a forum for discussing a critical issue for the Semantic Web, that is, scalability. As the Semantic Web evolves, scalability becomes increasingly important. This workshop will focus on addressing the scalability issue with respect to the development and deployment of knowledge base systems on the Semantic Web. Typically, such systems deal with information described in Semantic Web languages like OWL and RDF(S), and provide services such as storing, reasoning, querying and debugging. There are two basic requirements for these systems. First, they have to satisfy the application's semantic requirements by providing sufficient reasoning support. Second, they must scale well in order to be of practical use. Given the sheer size and distributed nature of the Semantic Web, these requirements impose additional challenges beyond those addressed by earlier knowledge base systems. This has been well recognized by the community as demonstrated by the excitement around the billion triples challenge. We expect that the above issue is going to challenge the Semantic Web for a long period of time and significant effort is needed in order to tackle the problem. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners to share their recent ideas and progresses towards building scalable knowledge base systems for the Semantic Web. The workshop will be centered on the discussion of three major aspects: 1) foundations, methods and technologies for pushing forward the state-of-the-art; 2) performance evaluation and related principles, methodologies and tools; 3) identification of important issues and future research directions. Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Semantic Web repositories * Reasoning mechanisms, techniques and systems * Query evaluation and optimization * Performance evaluation and benchmarks * Distributed knowledge base systems and P2P systems * Large scale knowledge base management * Semantic Web-based information integration We expect that the outcome of the workshop will benefit not only Semantic Web developers but also Semantic Web evaluators and end users. We also welcome participants from related disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Information Integration. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline July 25, 2008 Acceptance Notification September 5, 2008 Camera Ready Papers Due September 26, 2008 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Achille Fokoue IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA (Contact Person) Yuanbo Guo Microsoft Corp, USA Jeff Heflin Lehigh University, USA Thorsten Liebig Ulm University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ian Horrocks - University of Oxford, UK Bijan Parsia - University of Manchester, UK Pascal Hitzler - University of Karlsruhe, Germany York Sure - University of Karlsruhe, Germany Ulrike Sattler - University of Manchester, UK Kavitha Srinivas - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Takahira Yamaguchi - Keio University, Japan Ra?l Garc?a Castro - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Aditya Kalyanpur - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Boris Motik - University of Oxford, UK Oscar Corcho - University of Manchester, UK Ralf M?ller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Ying Ding - University of Innsbruck, Austria Marko Luther - DoCoMo Eurolabs Munich, Germany Timo Weith?ner - Ulm University, Germany Andy Seaborne - Hewlett-Packard, UK Jan Wielemaker - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Volker Haarslev - Condordia University, Canada From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Sat Jun 7 02:46:36 2008 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:46:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] PhD positions at KRDB Centre - Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Message-ID: ====================================================== CALL FOR INTEREST PhD opportunities at the KRDB Research Centre Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ====================================================== The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) offers regular openings for studentships for its PhD program. Up-to-date information about how to apply for the PhD program and the studentship - including deadlines, number of positions and necessary documents - can be found in the university PhD web page (see "Public Competition Announcement for PhD courses - 24th cycle") and in the faculty PhD web page . The grant amounts roughly to 45,000 Euro over the three years of the PhD. Substantial extra funding is available for participation in international conferences, schools, and workshops. The faculty of Computer Science and its PhD program are entirely based on the English language. RESEARCH TOPICS The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data of the faculty of Computer Science invites applicants to the PhD program to get in touch with the research group, in order to have a better understanding of the possible research activities in which prospective students may be involved. Relevant research topics in the centre are the following: * Computational Logic and Deductive Databases * Computational Logic and Constraint Programming * Data and Information Integration * Description Logics and Ontology Languages * Efficient Reasoning Algorithms for Description Logics * Intelligent Access to Web Resources * Logic Based Approaches to Natural Language Understanding * Logic-Based Modelling of Biological Knowledge * Natural Language Processing * Ontology Development and Evaluation * P2P Database Integration * Query Answering in Distributed Environments * Semistructured Data Management * Temporal Logics and Temporal Databases Other research topics are listed in the personal web pages of the members of the KRDB Centre, see . The research activities in the KRDB research centre require good knowledge of Logic and of Foundations of Databases, and some knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and of Knowledge Representation. Good knowledge of English is also preferred. THE KRDB RESEARCH CENTRE In recent years, knowledge and data base applications have progressively converged towards integrated technologies which try to overcome the limits of each single discipline. To be useful in realistic applications, a modern knowledge representation and reasoning system must be able to handle large data sets, and to provide expressive query languages. On the other hand, the information stored on the Web, in digital libraries, and in data warehouses is now very complex and with deep semantic structures, thus requiring more intelligent modelling languages and methodologies, and reasoning services on those complex representations to support design, management, flexible access, and integration. The KRDB Research Centre was founded in 2002, and it now comprises 12 research staff and 9 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. The KRDB centre participated in national and international projects, it is currently involved in two European projects and three European Networks of Excellence, and it is a member of the Advisory Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The international prestige of the centre is evidenced by the participation of its members as conference and PC chairs, editors of international journals, invited speakers at international events, and by their publication score in international journals and conferences. CONTACTS To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre, send an email to: Prof. Diego Calvanese Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Domenicani, 3 I-39100 Bolzano, Italy Email: calvanese at inf.unibz.it Phone: +39-0471-016-160 Fax: +39-0471-016-009 To get in touch with the current PhD students, see . From Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at Mon Jun 9 22:27:31 2008 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:27:31 +0100 Subject: [DL] SUM 2008: LAST CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS Message-ID: <484D9233.3050905@kr.tuwien.ac.at> LAST CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) October 1-3, 2008 Naples, Italy http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/sum08/ Originally, managing uncertainty and inconsistency has especially been explored in Artificial Intelligence. During the recent years, especially with the availability of massive amounts of data in different repositories and the possibility of integrating and exploiting these data, technologies for managing uncertainty and inconsistency have started to play a key role in databases and the Web. Some of the most prominent such technologies are probably the ranking algorithms standing behind web search engines. Techniques for handling uncertainty and inconsistency are expected to play a similarly important role in the context of the Semantic Web. The annual International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) has grown out of this very large interest on managing uncertainty and inconsistency in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, and AI. It aims at bringing together all those interested in the management of large volumes of uncertainty and inconsistency, irrespective of whether they are in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, or in AI. The very successful First International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2007) was held in Washington DC, USA, October 10-12, 2007 (see http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sum2007/). The Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) will be held in Naples, Italy, October 1-3, 2008. Submissions are solicited in all areas of massive uncertainty and inconsistency, including (but not restricted to) the topics listed below: probability logic fuzzy logic annotated logic Bayesian models Markov models possibilistic logic paraconsistent logic semantics of uncertain data formal models of uncertain data reasoning with uncertain and inconsistent information managing uncertain and imprecise information spatio-temporal uncertainty management probabilistic databases inconsistent databases uncertainty and inconsistency in the Web uncertainty and inconsistency in the Semantic Web uncertain database algebras query optimization with uncertainty query caching for uncertain databases indexing methods for uncertainty uncertain aggregate queries uncertainty in view management skyline query processing top-k queries and ranking approximate query processing uncertainty in data integration and exchange uncertainty in data streams uncertainty in information retrieval data sharing and uncertainty approximate schema and ontology mapping similarity in ontology languages similarity search and extraction information extraction data mining and machine learning vision and uncertainty audio processing and uncertainty multimedia and uncertainty text and uncertainty mobile systems and uncertainty image, speech, multimedia, and text information retrieval mining image, speech, multimedia, and text data personalization and user preferences mining in social networks uncertainty and trust issues ranking in information retrieval matchmaking and negotiation recommender systems implemented systems commercial systems novel applications We especially want to encourage submissions from uncertainty and inconsistency management in databases, as well as from uncertainty and inconsistency handling in the Web and the Semantic Web. We seek both theoretical and practical works. PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/ LNAI) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs/) and will be available at the conference. After the conference, we are also planning to bring out a special issue of a journal with selected papers from the conference. SUBMISSION OF POSTERS/DEMOS Submissions must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see http://www.springer.com/ comp/lncs/Authors.html). The length should not exceed 4 pages for posters and 6 pages for system descriptions (for system demos at the conference). Posters and system descriptions should be clearly marked as such in the title and in the easychair submission system. Submissions which deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Submissions will especially be judged for originality and scientific quality. All accepted posters and system descriptions will be included in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Poster/demo submission deadline: June 12, 2008 Accept/reject decisions: July 8, 2008 Camera ready posters/demos due: July 18, 2008 Last day for early registration fee: July 18, 2008 GENERAL CHAIR Antonio Picariello (University of Naples, Italy) PROGRAM CHAIRS Sergio Greco (University of Calabria, Italy) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK; TU Vienna, Austria) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Bir Bhanu (University of California-Riverside, USA) Fabio Gagliardi Cozman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Michael I. Dekhtyar (Tver State University, Russia) Debabrata Dey (University of Washington, USA) Juergen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany) Francesco Donini (University of Tuscia, Italy) Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna, Austria) Nicola Fanizzi (University of Bari, Italy) Filippo Furfaro (University of Calabria, Italy) Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel) John Grant (Towson University, USA) Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Eyke Huellermeier (University of Marburg, Germany) Edward Hung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Anthony Hunter (University College London, UK) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Dortmund, Germany) Christoph Koch (Cornell University, USA) Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia, Canada) Nicola Leone (University of Calabria, Italy) Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Kathryn Blackmond Laskey (George Mason University, USA) Weiru Liu (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Serafin Moral (University of Granada, Spain) Simon Parsons (City University of New York, USA) Gabriella Pasi (University of Milan, Italy) Michael Pittarelli (State University of New York, USA) Henri Prade (IRIT, France) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Luc de Raedt (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) Emad Saad (Abu Dhabi University, UAE) Domenico Sacca (ICAR-CNR, Italy) Maria Luisa Sapino (University of Turin, Italy) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland, USA) Maurice van Keulen (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Peter Vojtas (Charles University, Czech Republic) Nic Wilson (University College Cork, Ireland) Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA, USA) INVITED SPEAKERS Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo! Research, USA) Dan Suciu (University of Washington, USA) TUTORIALS Jan Chomicki (University at Buffalo, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the SUM 2008 web site at http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/sum08/ From adrian.paschke at biotec.tu-dresden.de Tue Jun 10 20:13:52 2008 From: adrian.paschke at biotec.tu-dresden.de (Adrian Paschke) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:13:52 +0200 Subject: [DL] RuleML-2008: One week left for submissions! In-Reply-To: <4805F394.1050502@sti2.at> Message-ID: <20080610181342.63F4570000D9@mailserver.biotec.tu-dresden.de> [ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org Latest news: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadlines are approaching: June 16 (one week left!) - RuleML-2008 Keynote speakers: * Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), on "Rule Interchange Format: Not Just Syntax". Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008. * David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on complex event processing. * Paul Haley (Haley Ltd) on business rules. * Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan Inc, USA) on the SILK KRR system of the HALO project. - Joint Lunch Panel with the Business Rules Forum about "Rules on the Web" - RuleML-2008 Challenge with prestigious prices - Lightning talks / Highlight talks Accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS proceedings and a journal special issue (IEEE TKDE pending) is forthcoming. PRESS RELEASE: http://www.targetwire.com/vpo/rm/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: http://2008.ruleml.org/cfp.pdf Submission Site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008 Submission guidelines: http://2008.ruleml.org/submissions.php Topics of Interest: http://2008.ruleml.org/topics.php Organizing Committee: http://2008.ruleml.org/oc.php Program Committee: http://2008.ruleml.org/pc.php ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 11th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== Sponsored by: Gold level : Vulcan Inc Silver level: Model Systems Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss Sponsoring opportunities: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/ ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS, OMG, Dallas Rules Group, Belgium Business Rules Forum, MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems ===================================================================== Media Partners: Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing ===================================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Wed Jun 11 03:54:34 2008 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:54:34 +0200 Subject: [DL] RR 2008 - Last CfP - 3 days left for abstract submission Message-ID: [ Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to anyone interested. ] RR 2008 The Second International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008 Karlsruhe, Germany, October 31 - November 2, 2008 Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadlines approaching: Abstract submission: June 14, 2008 Paper submission: June 21, 2008 submission url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) aims to be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2008 builds on the success of The First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems RR 2007, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2008, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. The reasoning landscape features theoretical areas such as knowledge representation (KR) and algorithms; design aspects of rule markup; design of ontology languages; engineering of engines, translators, and other tools; efficiency considerations and benchmarking; standardization efforts, such as the Rules Interchange Format activity at W3C; and applications. Of particular interest is also the use of rules to facilitate ontology modeling, and the relationships and possible interactions between rules and ontology languages like RDF and OWL, as well as ontology reasoning related to RDF and OWL, or querying with SPARQL. Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list: * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Standardization * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications LOCATION: The conference is co-located with ISWC 2008 (http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/), the International Semantic Web Conference. SUBMISSION DETAILS: RR 2008 welcomes original research and application papers dealing with web reasoning and rule systems, with particular attention to the topics listed above. Submitted papers are limited in length to fifteen (15) pages, including title, abstract, and list of references, and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html). Submitted papers must be in PDF format. The full paper submission must be preceded by the submission of an abstract. Submission is via EasyChair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2008 Papers may be accepted as: - full papers (15 pages in the proceedings) - short papers (8 pages in the proceedings) - posters (2 pages in the proceedings) Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. The best papers may also be considered for publication in a prestigious international journal. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission deadline: June 14, 2008 Paper submission deadline: June 21, 2008 Notification of acceptance decisions: July 21, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: Aug. 15, 2008 RR 2008 conference: Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2008 GENERAL CHAIR: Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna (AT) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg (DE) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Jose Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT) J?rgen Angele, Ontoprise GmbH, Karlsruhe (DE) Gregoris Antoniou, University of Crete (GR) Marcelo Arenas, Pontificia Universidad Catolico de Chile (CL) Uwe Assmann, Technische Universit?t Dresden (DE) Chitta Baral, Arizona State University (US) Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Ottawa (CA) Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) Christoph Bussler, BEA Systems, Inc. (US) Andrea Cali, University of Oxford (UK) Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (US) Hendrik Decker, Ciudad Polit?cnica de la Innovaci?n, Valencia (ES) J?rgen Dix, Universit?t Clausthal (DE) Christine Golbreich, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (FR) John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK) Gianluigi Greco, Universit? della Calabria (IT) Claudio Gutierrez, University of Chile, Santiago (CL) Giovambattista Ianni, Universit? della Calabria (IT) Manolis Koubarakis, Nat. and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR) Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Universit? di Roma (IT) Francesca A. Lisi, Universit? di Bari (IT) Bertram Ludaescher, University of California, Davis (US) Thomas Lukasiewicz, Sapienza University of Rome (IT) Carsten Lutz, Technische Universit?t Dresden (DE) Jan Maluszynski, University of Link?ping (SE) Wolfgang May, University of G?ttingen (DE) Ralf M?ller, Technische Universit?t Hamburg (DE) Boris Motik, University of Oxford (UK) Wolfgang Nejdl, LS3 and University of Hannover (DE) Daniel Oberle, SAP AG (DE) P.F. Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (US) Axel Polleres, National University of Ireland, Galway (IE) Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Dave Reynolds, HP Labs (UK) Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble (FR) Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchestor (UK) Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft (AT) Roman Schindlauer, TU Wien (AT) Michael Sintek, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern (DE) Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens (GR) Umberto Straccia, ISTI - C.N.R Pisa (IT) Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim (DE) York Sure, SAP AG (DE) Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) Rodney Topor, University of Griffith (AUS) Dirk Vermeir, University of Brussels (BE) David Warren, SUNY at Stony Brook (US) P.T. Wood, University of London (UK) Guizhen Yang, SRI (US) LOCAL ORGANIZATION: Sebastian Rudolph, University of Karlsruhe (DE) From areces at pluton.loria.fr Wed Jun 11 14:45:28 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:45:28 +0200 Subject: [DL] AiML 2008: Registration now open Message-ID: <200806111245.m5BCjS9e032145@pluton.loria.fr> ======================================================= Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies []<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr --- REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN --- 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-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. REGISTRATION Registration to AiML is now open at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/registration.php INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers at AiML-2008 will include the following: - Mai Gehrke, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen http://www.math.ru.nl/~mgehrke/ Using duality theory to export methods from modal logic - Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~guido/ Labelled modal tableaux - Agi Kurucz, King's College London http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/ Axiomatising many-dimensional modal logics - Lawrence Moss, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ Relational syllogistic logics, and other connections between modal logic and natural logic - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ Topology, connectedness, and modal logi Further information available at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/invited.php ACCEPTED PAPERS Complete list of accepted papers and abstracts is now available at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/accepted.php PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Philippe Balbiani (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Alexandru Baltag (University of Oxford, UK) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University, USA) Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France) Stephane Demri (CNRS, Cachan, France) Melvin Fitting (City University of New York, USA) Guido Governatori (University of Queensland, Australia) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London, UK) Ramon Jansana (University of Barcelona, Spain) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Edwin Mares (Victoria University of Wellington) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Dirk Pattinson (Imperial College London, UK) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia, Australia) Ildiko Sain (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jerry Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Nobu-Yuki Suzuki (Shizuoka University, Japan) Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College, London, UK) PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Carlos Areces LORIA, Nancy carlos.areces(at)loria.fr Rob Goldblatt Victoria University of Wellington rob.goldblatt(at)mcs.vuw.ac.nz LOCAL ORGANIZER Patrick Blackburn LORIA, Nancy patrick.blackburn(at)loria.fr IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 31 March 2008 Acceptance notification: 31 May 2008 Final version of full papers due: 30 June 2008 Conference: 9-12 September 2008 CONFERENCE LOCATION Advances in Modal Logic 2008 will be held at LORIA (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) in Nancy, in the Lorraine, in the east of France. FURTHER INFORMATION Information about AiML-2008 will be available at the conference website: http://aiml08.loria.fr E-mail enquiries should be directed to the local organizer or the program co-chairs. Information about AiML itself can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net From ilona.zaremba at sti2.at Mon Jun 9 11:34:21 2008 From: ilona.zaremba at sti2.at (Ilona Zaremba) Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:34:21 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Posters: 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference, Pathumthani, Thailand Message-ID: <484CF91D.3080504@sti2.at> ======================================================================= Call for Posters: 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference ======================================================================= 08 - 11 December 2008 Pathumthani (Thailand) http://aswc2008.ait.ac.th The Asian Semantic Web conference is meanwhile recognized as the yearly conference on theoretical foundations, technological building blocks and practical applications of semantic technologies on the Asian continent. Targeted at both academia and industry, the conference will present the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It will bring together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling, logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. As integral part of this conference the poster track is an opportunity for researchers and developers to present late-breaking achievements, ongoing projects, and innovative early ideas. It should provide authors and attendees a forum for exchanging experiences and establishing potential future collaborations. We welcome different types of submissions, ranging from descriptions of completed research and work in progress to more technical topics and practical applications. Submissions Authors must submit a two-page abstract formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. The topics of the poster track are fully aligned with the program of the main conference and include: Semantic Web Technologies * Query Languages and Optimization for the Semantic Web * Rule Languages, Logics and Scalable Reasoning on the Semantic Web * Tools and Methodologies for Large Scale Semantic Web Data - Management * Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web * Semantic Web Content Creation * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web Semantic Web Services * Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Services (description, discovery, invocation, composition, choreography) * Semantic Descriptions of Enterprise Processes * Semantics Applied to Mashups and Adhoc Service Aggregations Semantic Web Applications * Applications of Semantic Web (e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e-Government, e-Learning, e-Culture) * Case Studies of Semantic Web Applications * Personalization and User Modeling * Semantics in P2P Computing and the Grid * Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management * Semantic Web, Multimedia, and Human Computer Interaction Social Semantic Web * Semantic Web and Social Networks and Processes * Semantic Web Technologies for Collaboration and Cooperation Trust, Provenance, Security, Privacy, Identity and the Semantic Web Ontologies * Ontology Modeling * Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation) * Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) * Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation * Ontology Searching and Ranking Submissions will be evaluated for acceptability by a committee of independent reviewers. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the call, originality, potential impact and quality of the presentation. Full papers rejected in the other tracks, notably the research track of ASWC2008, will not automatically be considered for the poster track. A separate poster submission must be made. A poster can be provided in addition to a paper accepted for presentation in the research track or can be used to present work that was insufficiently mature to be accepted there. Submission and reviewing of posters will be electronic by sending an email to the poster chair elena.simperl at sti2.at. Posters must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers that exceed the 2 pages limit, do not follow the LNCS guidelines or are not submitted as PDF documents will be automatically rejected without a review. Important Dates Submission of poster descriptions: 15 September, 2008 Notification: 30 September, 2008 Camera Ready: 15 October, 2008 ASWC 2008 Poster Chair: Elena Simperl, Semantic Technology Institute STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria ASWC 2008 Poster Programme Committee (to be extended) Raul Garcia-Castro, UPM Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd Reto Krummenacher, STI Innsbruck Adrian Mocan, STI Innsbruck Malgorzata Mochol, FU Berlin Barry Norton, Open University Daniel Oberle, SAP Research Rob Shearer, Oxford University Max V?lkel, Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH) Denny Vrandecic, Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH) From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Mon Jun 16 19:20:02 2008 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:20:02 +0200 Subject: [DL] RR 2008 - extended deadlines Message-ID: <8987289D-32BE-4729-B0F8-C653621CE5C1@inf.unibz.it> [ Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to anyone interested. ] RR 2008 The Second International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008 Karlsruhe, Germany, October 31 - November 2, 2008 Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTENDED DEADLINES: Abstract submission: June 21, 2008 Paper submission: June 28, 2008 submission url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) aims to be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2008 builds on the success of The First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems RR 2007, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2008, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. The reasoning landscape features theoretical areas such as knowledge representation (KR) and algorithms; design aspects of rule markup; design of ontology languages; engineering of engines, translators, and other tools; efficiency considerations and benchmarking; standardization efforts, such as the Rules Interchange Format activity at W3C; and applications. Of particular interest is also the use of rules to facilitate ontology modeling, and the relationships and possible interactions between rules and ontology languages like RDF and OWL, as well as ontology reasoning related to RDF and OWL, or querying with SPARQL. Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list: * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Standardization * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications LOCATION: The conference is co-located with ISWC 2008 (http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/), the International Semantic Web Conference. SUBMISSION DETAILS: RR 2008 welcomes original research and application papers dealing with web reasoning and rule systems, with particular attention to the topics listed above. Submitted papers are limited in length to fifteen (15) pages, including title, abstract, and list of references, and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html). Submitted papers must be in PDF format. The full paper submission must be preceded by the submission of an abstract. Submission is via EasyChair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2008 Papers may be accepted as: - full papers (15 pages in the proceedings) - short papers (8 pages in the proceedings) - posters (2 pages in the proceedings) Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. The best papers may also be considered for publication in a prestigious international journal. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission deadline: June 21, 2008 Paper submission deadline: June 28, 2008 Notification of acceptance decisions: July 21, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: Aug. 15, 2008 RR 2008 conference: Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2008 GENERAL CHAIR: Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna (AT) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg (DE) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Jose Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT) J?rgen Angele, Ontoprise GmbH, Karlsruhe (DE) Marcelo Arenas, Pontificia Universidad Catolico de Chile (CL) Uwe Assmann, Technische Universit?t Dresden (DE) Chitta Baral, Arizona State University (US) Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Ottawa (CA) Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) Christoph Bussler, BEA Systems, Inc. (US) Andrea Cali, University of Oxford (UK) Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (US) Hendrik Decker, Ciudad Polit?cnica de la Innovaci?n, Valencia (ES) J?rgen Dix, Universit?t Clausthal (DE) Christine Golbreich, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (FR) John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK) Gianluigi Greco, Universit? della Calabria (IT) Claudio Gutierrez, University of Chile, Santiago (CL) Giovambattista Ianni, Universit? della Calabria (IT) Manolis Koubarakis, Nat. and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR) Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Universit? di Roma (IT) Francesca A. Lisi, Universit? di Bari (IT) Bertram Ludaescher, University of California, Davis (US) Thomas Lukasiewicz, Sapienza University of Rome (IT) Carsten Lutz, Technische Universit?t Dresden (DE) Jan Maluszynski, University of Link?ping (SE) Wolfgang May, University of G?ttingen (DE) Ralf M?ller, Technische Universit?t Hamburg (DE) Boris Motik, University of Oxford (UK) Wolfgang Nejdl, LS3 and University of Hannover (DE) Daniel Oberle, SAP AG (DE) P.F. Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (US) Axel Polleres, National University of Ireland, Galway (IE) Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Dave Reynolds, HP Labs (UK) Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble (FR) Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchestor (UK) Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft (AT) Roman Schindlauer, TU Wien (AT) Michael Sintek, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern (DE) Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens (GR) Umberto Straccia, ISTI - C.N.R Pisa (IT) Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim (DE) York Sure, SAP AG (DE) Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) Rodney Topor, University of Griffith (AUS) Dirk Vermeir, University of Brussels (BE) David Warren, SUNY at Stony Brook (US) P.T. Wood, University of London (UK) Guizhen Yang, SRI (US) LOCAL ORGANIZATION: Sebastian Rudolph, University of Karlsruhe (DE) From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jun 17 11:37:31 2008 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:37:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2008 in Australia Message-ID: <20080617093731.68F0911FA25@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IJCAR 2008 - The 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Sydney, Australia, 10th - 15th August, 2008 http://2008.IJCAR.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------- IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. IJCAR 2008 is the 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, and is a merger of the following leading conferences and workshops: + CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), + FroCoS (Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems), + FTP (Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving) + TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) Registration, accomodation, and travel/visa information is on the IJCAR 2008 web pages. Book your flight to Sydney today! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Program ------------------ + Presentation of 4 invited talks + Presentation of 26 regular research papers + Presentation of 13 system descriptions + Presentation of the Herbrand Award to Prof. Edmund Clarke, CMU. + Four workshops, four tutorials, the CADE ATP System Competition (CASC-J4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers ---------------- + Hubert Comon-Lundh Challenges in the Automated Verification of Security Protocols + Nachum Dershowitz Canonicity + Aarti Gupta Software Verification: Roles and Challenges for Automatic Decision Procedures + Carsten Lutz Query Answering in Description Logics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshops, Tutorials -------------------- There will be four workshops and four tutorials before IJCAR, 10th and 11th August. See their individual WWW pages, linked from the IJCAR WWW pages for more information. + Workshops - The 5th International Verification Workshop (VERIFY'08) - Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning/ Evaluation of Systems for Higher Order Logic (PAAR/ESHOL) - Complexity, Expressibility, & Decidability in Automated Reasoning (CEDAR'08) - Constraints in Formal Verification + Tutorials - Introduction to Nominal Isabelle - Christian Urban - Formal Methods in Use at Galois, Inc. - Joe Hurd - SMT Solvers in Program Analysis and Verification - Nikolaj Bjorner and Leonardo de Moura - Coalgebraic Logics and Applications (COALA) - Dirk Pattinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Events ------------- + Welcome reception at the conference hotel. + Excursion to the amazing Blue Mountains + Conference banquet + CASQ-J4 - the CADE Squash Competition All are included in the conference package, as well as refreshment breaks and lunches for all main conference days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Student Travel Awards --------------------- Two award schemes that provide sponsorhips to support student attendance at IJCAR are available. See the IJCAR 2008 WWW pages for details. We are also organizing room sharing at the conference hotel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Peter Baumgartner (conference chair) Peter.Baumgartner at nicta.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From fred at cin.ufpe.br Mon Jun 23 01:49:42 2008 From: fred at cin.ufpe.br (Fred Freitas) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:49:42 -0300 Subject: [DL] ** DEADLINE EXTENDED ** - CFP - SPECIAL ISSUE: ONTOLOGIES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS - J.UCS In-Reply-To: <46018C56.3000500@cin.ufpe.br> References: <46018C56.3000500@cin.ufpe.br> Message-ID: <485EE516.6000007@cin.ufpe.br> > Apologies if you receive this more than once; would you please forward > this to interested people and lists. > > > CALL FOR PAPERS - ** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED - MAY 1ST ** > > > SPECIAL ISSUE: ONTOLOGIES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS > JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE (J.UCS - http://www.jucs.org/) > > > After pursuing a long tradition of study in Philosophy, the term > ?ontology? has become the new buzzword in computer science. It is > receiving special attention not only from an active community of > researchers pertaining to many areas of informatics but also from the > industry, which is providing increasing budgets and investments to > develop this technology and make it available in business as soon as > possible. > There is at least one main reason for this recognition: ontologies > constitute the backbone of the Semantic Web, as they are responsible > for providing context to pages, thus promising to make a relevant part > of the Web contents understandable and processable by the software. > However, there are some challenging obstacles that should be tackled > to make ontologies wide-spread reputation shift from a promise to a > daily used technology. For instance, heterogeneity and evaluation are > two of these obstacles. > Following the realization of the Brazilian "Workshop on Ontologies and > their Applications" series (see http://www.ws.onto.ufal.br/ for the > first edition and http://www.icmc.usp.br/iarn2006/coevents/wonto.php > for the second), we planned this Special Issue as a follow-up for the > last edition of the workshop, although by no means limited to its > authors or participants only. With this Special Issue, we intend to > enrich the discussion on how to enhance ontologies? applicability, > thus realizing this promising technology in general, but also in > specific settings, such as e-business and e-commerce to name but a few. > > > Topics of Interest: > =================== > > Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: > > Ontology Engineering > - methodologies > - capture and learning > - management > > Semantic consistency > - foundational ontologies > - upper-level ontologies > - evaluation methods, applications and problems > > Semantic Interoperability > - composition and modularity > - merging, mapping and alignment > - ontology language interoperability > > Enhancement of ontology applicability > - linguistic ontologies applied to text processing > - patterns of ontologies for specific applications > > 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 > > > Submission procedure: > ===================== > > We encourage the submission of high-quality papers based on entirely > new work or surveys, both meeting the foci of the Special Issue. > Papers must be written in English and may have a length from 20 to 30 > pages, including tables, figures, and references. > > As for the format, papers must conform to the J.UCS style, formatted > in PDF (preferred) or PostScript. It is recommended that authors use > the J.UCS template files (see > http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/style_guide.html for > formatting instructions) to minimize possible conflicts when preparing > the camera ready. Word and Latex J.UCS style samplers are provided in > http://www.jucs.org/jucs_info/submissions. > > Papers should be submitted electronically only to one of the guest > editors (see e-mail addresses below) up to the deadline (April > 15,2007). Authors should not neglect that, together with the > camera-ready version of the paper, a Copyright Transfer Statement > (which can be downloaded from > http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/copyright.html) must be > signed and sent/faxed by each author to Mrs Dana Kaiser, Manager of > the J.UCS, via web (dkaiser at iicm.tu-graz.ac.at) or by fax (+43 316 873 > 5699). > > Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three qualified > reviewers/referees. Any other questions regarding papers submission > must also be directed to the guest editors. > > > Schedule: > ========= > May 1 2007 - Submission due date - ** DEADLINE EXTENDED ** > July 1 2007 - Notification of paper acceptance > September 15 2007 - Camera-ready paper due > October 2007 - Publication of the Special Issue on Ontologies & their > Applications > > > Guest Editors of the Special Issue on Ontologies and their Applications: > ======================================================================== > >  Dr. Fred Freitas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil > (contact person) > fred at cin.ufpe.br > >  Prof. Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany > heiner @ informatik.uni-mannheim.de > >  Dr. H.Sofia Pinto, IST/INESC-ID, Portugal > sofia at algos.inesc-id.pt > >  Dr. Andreia Malucelli, Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Paran? - > Brazil > malu at ppgia.pucpr.br > > > J,UCS - The Journal of Universal Computer Science > ================================================= > > J,UCS - The Journal of Universal Computer Science - is a high-quality > electronic publication that deals with all aspects of computer > science. J.UCS has been appearing monthly since 1995 and is thus one > of the oldest electronic journals with uninterrupted publication since > its foundation. J.UCS is a joint publication of the Know-Center, Graz, > Austria, in cooperation with the IICM, Graz University of Technology, > Austria, Joanneum Research, Austria and Springer Pub. Co. > > From guilin_qi at yahoo.co.uk Sun Jun 22 22:43:35 2008 From: guilin_qi at yahoo.co.uk (guilin qi) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:43:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [DL] CALL FOR PAPERS: 2nd International Workshop on "New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web" Message-ID: <16003.98422.qm@web23108.mail.ird.yahoo.com> ========================= CALL FOR PAPERS ========================= Second International Workshop: "New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scaleable, tolerant and dynamic" http://nefors08.larkc.eu Co-located with the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008) http://www.aswc2008.org/ Pathumthani, Thailand, 8th-11th December 2008 ============================== ===================================== Workshop Objectives =================== The Semantic Web is the vision of a Web of data usable for both humans but also machines. This web, consists of inter-connected instance data annotated with possibly expressive ontologies. Therefore a tremendous amount of information becomes available that should be processed based on formal semantics attached to it. The Semantic Web community has developed a number of languages (such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL) that deploy logic for this purpose. Impressive progress has been made on scalable storage, querying and inference for these languages, and they are successfully being deployed on large intranets and medium-scale web-applications. However existing reasoning techniques often fail to live up to the expectations put into them in this context. They can often neither deal with high number of instances, the expressiveness of the ontologies describing them or the inherent inconsistency and incompleteness of data on the Web. This workshop is intended to focus on these problems of scalability and robustness of reasoning on the Web, and furthermore to investigate alternative reasoning methods, which take incompleteness and distribution of data and knowledge as inherent properties into account. NeForS08 is the follow-up of the first international workshop on "New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scalable, tolerant and dynamic", which took place in Busan, Korea in November 2007 and was co-located with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007) and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2007). Topics of Interest ================== We welcome all research contributions that address one or more of the following topics: * Reasoning for the Web * Querying and searching * Scalability to the Web level * Efficient storage of structured data that scale to a very large size We also aim to attract participants from scientific fields not typically seen at Semantic Web events: * Economics can tell us about cost-benefit trade-off models, sunk-cost theory and the role of negotiation in obtaining near-optimal results under bounded resources * Cognitive Science can tell us about strategies of human memory and human reasoning which is so succesful in reaching good enough conclusion in limited time-spans, using methods such as priming, attention scoping, recency-based self-optimising memory, etc. * Computational Learning Theory has contributions to make with their notions of Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) computing, and strategies for abstraction and compression of information. * Combinatorial Search has made recent breakthroughs in handling massive search-spaces with heuristics based on Monte Carlo simulations. Event Information ================= The workshop will take place during the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC2008) as a full-day event. It will be organized as a full day event and include an invited talk by Kyung-il Tony Lee, president and CEO of Saltlux Inc. on the industrial view on semantic technologies and the need for large-scale reasoning. Please note that for every accepted paper at least one of the authors must attend the workshop and must register for the workshop and the main conference. 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 will be given priority. Submissions =========== The workshop invites full papers (up to 15 pages) as well as short papers (up to 5 pages). All contributions will be peer reviewed by the program commitee (see http://nefors08.larkc.eu) and accepted submissions will be published in a dedicated book. The number of accepted papers will be kept deliberately low in order to leave sufficient time for discussion after presentations. Additionally we are considering a special issue in a journal on semantic computing for extended versions of selected, high quality submissions. Submitted papers must be written in English and one of the following format must be used for the first submission: PDF, PS, DOC. For submissions please follow LNCS formatting instructions (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 for details) to prepare your paper and consider using the camera ready format even for the first submission. Furthermore papers need to be submitted electronically through the EasyChair using the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=nefors08 Important Dates =============== * September 15, 2008: Submission of papers * September 30, 2008: Notification of acceptance * October 15, 2008: Camera-ready version due * December 8, 2008: Workshop Organizers ========== Zhisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Uwe Keller, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan and The International WIC Institute/BJUT, China Program Committee ================= Ruzica Piskac, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Lael Schooler, MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Pascal Hitzler, Institut for Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany Yue Pan, IBM Research Laboratory, Beijing, China Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL, Milano, Italy Stefania Galizia, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Guilin Qi, Institut for Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, Austin, Texas, USA Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Trento, Italy Steering Committee =================== Dieter Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Contact ======= Florian Fischer Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria Technikerstr. 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria E florian.fischer at sti2.at __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! 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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 2009 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 21st annual Summer School in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the cognitive sciences. The Summer School program is organized around the components. - Language and Computation - Language and Logic - Logic and Computation We also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these there categories. 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 ******* Monday, September 1, 2008 ******* Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Wednesday October 15, 2008. 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-2009, please read the following information carefully. ALL COURSES: Courses consists of five sessions (a one-week course), each session lasting 90 minutes. Lecturers who want to offer a long, two-week course should submit two independent one-week courses (for example an introductory course in the first week of ESSLLI, and a more advanced course during the second). The ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of the two proposed courses. Timetable for Course Proposal Submission: Sept 1, 2008: Proposal Submission Deadline Oct 15, 2008: Notification June 1, 2009: 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 theme 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 sending out a Call for Papers for the workshop by November 17, 2008. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community. It should also note that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions Sept 1, 2008: Proposal Submission Deadline Oct 15, 2008: Notification Nov 10, 2008: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers (by ESSLLI PC chair) Nov 17, 2008: Workshop organizers send out (First) Call for Papers Jan 7, 2008: Workshop organizers send out Second Call for Papers Feb 2, 2008: Workshop organizers send out Third Call for Papers Feb 15, 2009: Deadline for Papers Apr 15, 2009: Notification of Workshop Contributors June 1, 2009: 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 multiple 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: Uwe Moennich (SfS, Tuebingen) Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Universitat Tuebingen Arbeitsbereich Theoretische Computerlinguistik Wilhelmstrasse 19 D-72074 T?bingen, Germany phone : +49-7071-29-74035 e-mail : um at sfs.uni-tuebingen www : http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~um/ Local co-chair: Richard Moot (LaBRI, Bordeaux) Area Specialists: Marco Baroni and Claire Gardent (Language and Computation) Paul Egre and Kjell Johan Saeboe (Language and Logic) Alex Rabinovich and Ulrike Sattler (Logic and Computation) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Christian Retore FURTHER INFORMATION: The website for ESSLLI 2009 will become operational in the second half of 2008. For this year's summer school, please see the web site at http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/. From francois.scharffe at sti2.at Thu Jun 26 17:35:01 2008 From: francois.scharffe at sti2.at (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Scharffe?=) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:35:01 +0200 Subject: [DL] Data Integration Through Semantic Technology Message-ID: <4863B725.60202@sti2.at> CALL FOR PAPERS *DIST 2008* http://events.sti2.at/dist2008 Submission deadline: 15 September 2008 Workshop: 8-11 December 2008 (co-located the with 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference 2008) DIST workshop focuses on the use of semantic technologies for heterogeneous data integration. The workshop will particularly focus on ontology mediation techniques and ontology based data integration. As the Web of data is now becoming a reality with the publication of large amount of structured knowledge as linked data, techniques are needed to properly integrate these data together in a consistent and efficient manner. We will study in this workshop the latest advances on the set of techniques relevant to integrate ontologies together, link existing datasets to ontologies, and properly merge and fusion these datasets. The workshop will be organized around presentations of original works, followed by discussions where emergent topics will be drawn. *Workshop description* While the semantic Web has been a vision for more than ten years, it is now becoming a reality with the publication of considerable amounts of interlinked data. This effort, mainly driven by the Open Linked Data project enables the development of a multitude of new applications. It also brings semantic technology researchers to experiment the techniques they have studied in the recent years on real cases. It finally brings new issue to the research front. Data integration using ontology supposes to: 1. Being able to relate data-sources to ontologies 2. Being able to interchange data between heterogeneous ontologies 3. Being able to fusion data properly The successful realization of these three points will enable a web of data as foreseen in visionary papers from the beginning of the millennium. We will in this workshop study these topics and discuss possible other issues needed to be overcome. *Topics of interest* * Ontology matching * Database to ontology mapping (mapping languages, algorithms and tools) * Data fusion * Mediators (instance transformation, query rewriting, ontology merging) * Mediation frameworks (interoperability between graphical interfaces, matching systems and mediators) * Ontology alignment representation and tools (languages, graphical tools, correspondence patterns) * Applications of ontology mediation techniques: biomedical domain, multimedia ontologies, industrial applications. *Intended Audience* This workshop is relevant for academics and industrial interested in state of the art data integration. Academics will be interested to either contribute with achievement or discuss emerging topics on semantic data integration. Industrials will bring their experience and problems in practical usage of data mediation. Workshop format The workshop will be lasting a full day. First half day scientific presentations will be held. A keynote speech at the beginning will present new trends in data integration and semantic technologies, followed by short presentations exposing the participants topics of interest. The second half of the day will be a discussion based on the workshop topics and the interests raised in the morning session. Post workshop proceedings will be published on-line. Submission guidelines Paper submission and reviewing will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Related events * Ontology Matching Workshop at ISWC 2006, 2007 and 2008: * http://www.ontologymatching.org Ontology alignment evaluation initiative (OAEI): * http://www.oaei.ontologymatching.org Linked data on the web workshop at WWW 2008: * http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2008/ Semantic data and service integration workshop at VLDB 2007: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~sdsi/ *Organizing Committee* Ryutaro Ichise Fran?ois Scharffe (contact:francois'dot'scharffe'at'sti2'dot'at) *Program Committee* Chris Bizer Jerome Euzenat Peter Haase Wei Hu Kingsley Idehen Antoine Isaac Adrian Mocan Axel Polleres Yves Raimond Pavel Shvaiko Kangping Wang -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: francois_scharffe.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 544 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk Sun Jun 29 23:37:33 2008 From: jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk (Jeff Z. Pan) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:37:33 +0100 (BST) Subject: [DL] PhD Positions on Ontology Reasoning and Next-generation Internet Message-ID: <2502.87.112.93.115.1214775453.squirrel@www.csd.abdn.ac.uk> ===================================================== PhD Positions on Ontology Reasoning and Next-generation Internet Applications Deadline: July 20, 2008 ===================================================== The Knowledge Technology (KT) group in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen is one of the key players in the area of semantics and ontology technologies with excellent balance between theoretical work and pragmatic applications. The KT group offers a friendly yet stimulating environment of a leading research group in the field of semantics and ontology; an active collaboration with leading academic institutes and major companies in fields like software engineering, multimedia, product (such as aircraft engines) engineering, bioinformatics and Web science; as well as experience of collaboration with standardisation bodies such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The KT group is looking for PhD researchers who are willing to do research within one of our new projects. The goal of the project is to combine benefits and synergy of Web 2.0 and semantic and ontology technologies. To reach this goal, it will develop a seamless integration technology for ontologies into social Web 2.0 applications, resulting in ontology-driven social Web 2.0 development. Scalable ontology reasoning technologies will play a key role in the project. Successful candidates will be awarded SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance, http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/) studentships, which include support for living expenses of ?12, 940, research expenses and a contribution towards postgraduate fees of ?3,315. Students who are not UK/EU residents are required to pay the higher overseas student fee of around ?11,000 per year. You may apply for additional support to cover the difference in fees but the SICSA studentship does not guarantee such support. The KT group expects: (1) A strong background in Computer Science, i.e., an outstanding Undergraduate (1st class honours degree) or Masters Degree (with Distinction or equivalent GPA scores) in either Computing Science or a related discipline. (2) Research interest and some expertise in at least two of the following areas: ontology, reasoning, Web 2.0, query answering, inconsistency reasoning, uncertainty reasoning, machine learning. (3) The willingness to combine formal theoretical work with application-oriented research. (4) Solid programming skills as well as personal skills required to work with the local team and our collaborators. For further information regarding to the research in the KT group and the project, please contact Dr. Jeff Z. Pan (http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jpan/). *How to apply* Applications will be processed in two phases. In the first phase, your qualifications will be considered and, if approved, you will receive an offer for a place in our PhD programme. To submit an application, please follow the instructions here: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sras/postgraduate/apply.shtml Please include your curriculum vitae, a list of publications (if applicable) and digital versions of your most relevant work (such as graduation thesis or latest publications). The deadline of first phase application is July 20, 2008. In the second phase, you will be considered for funding; invited candidates will be asked to complete the prize application form: http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/graduate-academy/SICSA-Prize2008.doc and return the completed form to gina at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Students must have or must expect to be awarded a 1st class honours degree or an MSc with Distinction or equivalent GPA scores. If you have not achieved this level, your application will not normally be considered for SICSA studentships. The deadline of the second phase application is July 31, 2008. Promoting Diversity and Equal Opportunities throughout the University The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. From beckert at uni-koblenz.de Wed Jul 2 22:03:06 2008 From: beckert at uni-koblenz.de (Bernhard Beckert) Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:03:06 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: JAR Special Issue on TESTS AND PROOFS Message-ID: <486BDEFA.2020606@uni-koblenz.de> Call for Papers Special Issue on TESTS AND PROOFS of the JOURNAL OF AUTOMATED REASONING GENERAL INFORMATION Proofs and tests have, since the onset of software engineering research, been pursued by distinct communities using rather different techniques and tools. In the past few years an increasing number of research efforts have encountered the need for combining proofs and tests, dropping earlier dogmatic views of incompatibility and taking instead the best of what each of these software engineering domains has to offer. This special issue has its origins in the Second International Conference on Tests and Proofs (TAP 2008), which was held in Prato (Italy) in April 2008. It will be published by Springer within the Journal of Automated Reasoning. TOPICS Topics of interest include the following: * Generation of test data, oracles, or preambles by deductive techniques such as - theorem proving, - model checking, - symbolic execution, - constraint logic programming, etc. * Generation of specifications by deduction * Verification techniques combining proofs and tests * Program proving with the aid of testing techniques * Transfer of concepts from testing to proving (e.g., coverage criteria) * Automatic bug finding * Formal frameworks * Tool descriptions and experience reports * Case studies 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 TAP 2008 conference are welcome to submit extended and revised versions of their papers. However, contributions are not limited to those based on papers presented at TAP 2008; any other submissions related to Tests and Proofs are highly welcome. 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 To submit a paper to the JAR Special Issue on Tests and Proofs, please proceed as follows: Go to Springer's Editorial Manager at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jars/default.asp. If you do not yet have an account, please create one using the REGISTER button at the top. Once you are registered, please login with role "Author". Under the heading "New Submissions" there is a link for creating a new manuscript. Following this link, you are asked to specify the Article Type. It is essential to select "Special Issue Tests and Proofs" from the pull down menu. This will ensure that your article is processed correctly. After clicking "Next" you can fill in the remaining data and upload a PDF file with your manuscript. You can return to the Editorial Manager at any time to modify your personal data and to follow the progress of reviewing. PAPER SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE September 30, 2008 EDITORS Bernhard Beckert (University of Koblenz, Germany) Reiner H?hnle (Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information visit the web page: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/tap2008/jar.html Or send an email to one of us: tap2008 at uni-koblenz.de From lamotte at mpi-inf.mpg.de Fri Jul 4 09:31:10 2008 From: lamotte at mpi-inf.mpg.de (Manuel Lamotte) Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:31:10 +0200 Subject: [DL] Summer School on Verification Technology, Systems & Applications Message-ID: [ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] ===================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Please consider the below call for participation in our summer school on Verification Technology, Systems & Applications, September 15-19, 2008. The school aims at participants starting at the bachelor level. Please forward the announcement to potentially interested students and researchers. thanks, best Stephan Merz Christoph Weidenbach Manuel Lamotte Roxane Wetzel ====================================================================== * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * 1st Summer School Verification Technology, Systems & Applications VTSA 2008 Saarbruecken, Germany, September 15-19, 2008 http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/vtsa08/ PROGRAM ------- We believe that all three aspects verification technology, systems & applications strongly depend on each other and that progress in the area of formal analysis and verifiation can only be made if all three aspects are considered as a whole. Our five speakers Clark Barrett SAT and SMT: Theory and Practice Gilles Barthe Formal Methods for Software Correctness and Security Martin Fraenzle Automatic Analysis of Hybrid Systems Radu Mateescu Model Checking of Action-Based Concurrent Systems Gr?goire Sutre Software Model Checking stand for this view in that they represent and will present a particular verification technology and its implementation in a system in order to successfully apply the approach to real world verification problems. PARTICIPATION ------------- The number of participants in the school is limited to 40. We expect participants to hold a bachelor (or higher) degree in computer science (or equivalent) and to have basic knowledge in propositional and first-order logic. Please apply electronically by sending an email to Manuel Lamotte (lamotte (at) mpi-inf.mpg.de) including - a one page CV - an application letter explaining your interest in the school and your experience in the area - a copy of your bachelor certificate (or equivalent or a more significant certificate) until the 20th of July, 2008. Notifications on acceptance will be given by July, 31st. The registration will be open to accepted applicants starting on August, 1st, 2008. LOCATION & TRAVEL INFORMATION ----------------------------- VTSA will be held at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics in Saarbruecken, Germany. Saarbruecken is the capital of one of Germany's 16 federal states, the Saarland. It is conveniently located in the center of Europe, on the border of Germany with France, between Luxembourg, the Saar-Mosel valley, Frankfurt, and Strasbourg. Being located on several main train and road routes, Saarbruecken is easily reachable from Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Paris, or Luxembourg. Saarbruecken also has its own (small) international airport. ABOUT VTSA ---------- The scope of VTSA is international and it is addressed at students holding a bachelor degree or researchers. The goal of VTSA is to bridge theory, system development and applications in formal analysis and verification. VTSA is supported by the German-French University, INRIA, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Graduate School on Trustworthy Software Systems. CONTACT ------- The homepage of VTSA, providing further details can be found at http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/vtsa08 If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by sending an email to Roxane Wetzel (address is wetzel at mpi-inf.mpg.de) Organizers: Stephan Merz & Christoph Weidenbach Local Organizers: Manuel Lamotte & Roxane Wetzel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ulrich.reimer at fhsg.ch Fri Jul 4 12:11:17 2008 From: ulrich.reimer at fhsg.ch (Ulrich Reimer) Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:11:17 +0200 Subject: [DL] PAKM2008: Call for Papers and Call for Workshops Message-ID: <486DF745.6060708@fhsg.ch> Please apologise for multiple postings! PAKM2008: 7th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management http://pakm2008.comp.ae.keio.ac.jp/ Hiyoshi Campus, Keio University, Japan Nov. 21 -- 23, 2008 Call for Papers: Submission deadline is 15, July 2008 Call for Workshop Proposals: --> Extended submission deadline is 15, July 2008 Motivation The PAKM Conference Series offers a communication forum and meeting ground for practitioners and researchers in developing and deploying advanced business solutions for the management of knowledge in organizations. PAKM is a forum for people to share their views, to exchange ideas, to develop new insights, and to envision completely new kinds of solutions to Knowledge Management problems. The topics will cover all relevant aspects of knowledge management. We invite practitioners and researchers from all over the world to submit papers. We are looking forward to a conference which will address a wide spectrum of topics from a variety of perspectives. Call for Papers --------------- PAKM2008 addresses all aspects of Knowledge Management and their role in next-generation business solutions. We seek original contributions in the triangle of business and organization sciences, cognitive science, and computer science that represent a true advancement beyond the state-of-the-art of Knowledge Management. Business and organization sciences provide the overall framework for developing a knowledge management approach with a focus on the business aspects rather than on information technology aspects. Computer science provides the tools needed to build the information systems that are often required to make certain aspects of a knowledge management solution work. Cognitive science helps to design knowledge management solutions in line with the cognitive capabilities of the people involved and optimally embedded in their work context. We wish to encourage the submission of contributions that espouse an interdisciplinary approach, which will therefore be favored over one-dimensional papers. Apart from a clear description of the real-world problems they address, papers must point out the business benefits of the suggested solutions. Furthermore, papers should emphasize the novel aspects of the suggested approach. Papers may address one or more of the following topics or any other topic as long as it fits into the overall conference theme: Building and maintaining knowledge inventories Knowledge directories Knowledge modeling Automatic creation of meta data Knowledge integration Collaboration and knowledge sharing Knowledge sharing communities Social software Knowledge sharing and collaboration platforms Integration of processes across organizational boundaries Capturing and securing knowledge Knowledge capturing within business processes Knowledge acquisition, lessons learned, debriefing Organizational memories Knowledge utilization Content-oriented retrieval Question answering Integration of knowledge and business processes Graphical user interfaces for retrieving and visualizing knowledge Developing new knowledge Innovation management Ontology learning and development Knowledge mining (from data, text and the Web) Communities of practice Knowledge Measurement Measuring the benefits of knowledge management solutions Benchmarking Intellectual capital Important Dates: Submissions: 15, July 2008 Notification: 15, August 2008 Camera-Ready: 30, August 2008 Submission Please submit your contribution by uploading it to the PAKM2008 conference management system. To do this go to the following URL and register as a new user: http://www.easychair.org/PAKM2008/. As soon as your password has been sent to your email address you can log in and upload your paper. If you have any questions you can contact us at: pakm2008 at ae.keio.ac.jp/ / Program Committee: (TBA) Keio University Department of Administration Engineering 3-14-1 Hiyoshi Kohoku-ku Yokohama 223-8522, Japan Phone: +81 45 566 1614 Fax: +81 45 566 1617 E-Mail: pakm2008 at ae.keio.ac.jp Call for Workshop Proposals --------------------------- The PAKM 2008 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held the day preceding the main conference, i.e. on November 21, 2008. PAKM 2008 workshops must be related to the topics of the main conference (see the call for papers for a detailed list of topics). Submission Guidelines Each submission of a proposed workshop (max two A4 pages in PDF format) should describe: - workshop title - short description of the workshop and its goals - proposed workshop duration (half-day or full-day workshop) - list of topics covered - preliminary program committee with specified chair(s) - description of workshop history (if the proposed workshop is part of a workshop series) Submissions should be sent to the following e-mail address: ulrich.reimer at fhsg.ch Important dates - July 15, 2008 -- submission deadline for workshop proposals - July 25, 2008 -- acceptance notification -- Prof. Dr. habil. Ulrich Reimer University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen Institute for Information and Process Management Head of Research and Technology Transfer Teufener Strasse 2 CH-9000 St. Gallen Switzerland Email: ulrich.reimer at fhsg.ch Tel.: +41 71 228 7659 Fax: +41 71 228 6339 Web: www.fhsg.ch/ipm www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~reimer From franconi at inf.unibz.it Tue Jul 8 06:10:31 2008 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:10:31 +1000 Subject: [DL] European Master in Computational Logic - scholarships for European students - last deadline Message-ID: *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** http://www.computational-logic.eu The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano (FUB), in Italy (at the heart of the Dolomites mountains in South-Tyrol), is offering the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Master of Science in Computer Science offer (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: * 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, completely in English, 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 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 DEADLINE: - 22 August 2008: last deadline only for European students starting at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (notification of acceptance: 5 September 2008) SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT: European citizens 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. This scholarship is only for the year of study at FUB and it may amount up to more than 6,000 EUR per academic year, plus support on the accommodation and reimbursement of the local enrolment fees. These scholarships are also available to non-European citizens with residence in Italy. European students will also get a LLP Socrates Erasmus scholarship for the second year of study abroad, which is 330 EUR per month. NEW! Several tuition fee waivers are granted by the European Master to students with good qualifications on a first come first served basis. All applicants will be considered for tuition fee waivers. NEW! Every year 10 students with European citizenship can visit Australia (Canberra, Sidney, Melbourne or Brisbane) up to 3 months to work on a research project, sponsored by the European Master. The study period in Australia is part of the study programme and it is fully recognised by the European Master's Program in Computational Logic. The guaranteed scholarship is of 3,100 EUR and it covers the travel and living expenses in Australia. The KRDB Research Centre offers the annual "IBM & KRDB" awards for the best thesis on a Computational Logic related topic, which is generously sponsored by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies; each winner will receive a laptop computer from IBM. In addition to that, the Italian site in Rome of the IBM Center for Advanced Studies supports scholarships of up to 2,400 EUR to work on a research project or on the thesis at their labs in Rome. Check the web page for detailed info on other available scholarships: http://www.computational-logic.eu 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 triennale) 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 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). 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: Sergio Tessaris (director) or Enrico Franconi at info at fub.computational-logic.eu European Masters Program in Computational Logic 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: info at fub.computational-logic.eu Web site: http://www.computational-logic.eu From V.Andrikopoulos at uvt.nl Wed Jul 9 15:29:48 2008 From: V.Andrikopoulos at uvt.nl (Vasilios Andrikopoulos) Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:29:48 +0200 Subject: [DL] Several PostDoc/Ph.D. Positions available in the area of Service Oriented Computing Message-ID: <4874BD4C.2010407@uvt.nl> Several PostDoc/Ph.D. Positions available in the area of Service Oriented Computing http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/feb/organisation/dept/ism/research/themes/soc/ ======================================================================================== The Service Oriented Computing Research group at the Services Science Institute at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, is seeking several highly motivated and dedicated PhD and Postdoc candidates to work on various European FP-7 research projects, including a Network of Excellence on Software Services (http://www.s-cube-network.eu/), and national research projects. You will have the opportunity to work in an international environment and collaborate with and visit a number of high-profile researchers from universities and research institutes all over Europe. The research projects focus on areas such as: service composition, service auditing and compliance, business process management, service analysis and design methodologies, service adaptability and dynamic services, and service-enabling legacy systems. Candidate Profile ================= Candidates should meet the following requirements: - An excellent Masters degree (avg. over 8/10) or a solid PhD in Computer Science, Information Systems or a closely related field. - Very good programming skills (e.g., Java, J2EE, ..). - Strong formal background (discrete mathematics & logic). - Very good communication and writing skills in English. - Knowledge and experience within the fields of web-services, SOA, distributed computing, business processes, and software development skills will be highly rated. Candidates should be able to work in a collaborative environment under strict deadlines with a strong commitment to achieving research excellence. Salaries & Conditions ================= For PostDocs we offer an appointment from 30 to 36 months. Depending upon qualifications and age, the monthly gross salary could range up to 3,500 Euro per month. The starting date is subject to negotiation. For PhD candidates we offer an appointment of up to 48 months. The salary starts at EUR aprox. 2.100,- gross per month in the first year and grows to EUR 2.558,- gross per month in the fourth year, based on a full-time employment. The starting date is subject to negotiation. Both PostDoc and PhD positions involve traveling and working together with several prominent research groups throughout Europe in the context of S-Cube (in particular Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Greece). Application procedure ========================== Interested candidates are requested to send their application to Alice Kloosterhuis (a.m.kloosterhuis at uvt.nl), including: 1. A cover letter describing yourself and your interests. 2. Soft copy of your publications (e.g. master or PhD thesis, conference/workshop/journal papers) 3. Your CV 4. Your transcripts 5. Proof of proficiency in English (e.g. TOEFL test or IELTS) if English is not your first language Positions will remain open until filled. Contact Person ============== Ms. Alice Kloosterhuis E-mail: a.m.kloosterhuis at uvt.nl From claudia.damato at di.uniba.it Thu Jul 10 10:51:26 2008 From: claudia.damato at di.uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:51:26 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP - Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web Workshop at ISWC 2008 Message-ID: <4875CD8E.5020102@di.uniba.it> Apologize for cross posting ******************************************************************************** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************** 4th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw2008 In conjunction with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference Karlsruhe - Germany October 26, 2008 ******************************************************************************** You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October of 2008 in Karlsruhe - Germany. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty is extremely limited. Recently, there has been a groundswell of demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers. This surge of interest creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but little history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. Audience The intended audience for this workshop includes the following: - Researchers in uncertainty reasoning technologies with interest in Semantic Web and Web-related technologies. - Semantic web developers and researchers. - People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web. - Ontology researchers and ontological engineers. - Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web. - Developers of tools designed to support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protege and Protege-OWL developers. Topic List We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. - Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web languages to enable representation of uncertainty - Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web languages - Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping - Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies - The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web - Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web - The role of uncertainty as it relates to Web services Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among Web services - Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web - Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web - Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty - The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web Important Dates July 25, 2008 Paper submissions due September 5, 2008 Paper acceptance notification September 26, 2008 Camera-ready papers due October 26, 2008 4th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web Submission Details The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2008 Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop. Submissions to the Workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop's submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2008. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, and follow the same submission format used by the ISWC 2008 Conference, the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), available at http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 2 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2008 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. Presentation and Publication URSW 2008 will be a full day workshop with four sessions. Two of those sessions will be devoted to a specific theme, while the remaining sessions will be planned in a format that invites an open debate on the results, conclusions, recommendations, and follow-up work of the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group ( http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/urw3/XGR-urw3/ ). All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after the Conference. Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 5-minute slot to share their ideas. In addition, both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2008 Conference. Program Committee The program committee is as follows (in alphabetical order): Ameen Abu-Hanna - Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain. Silvia Calegari - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA. Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy. Ernesto Damiani - University of Milan, Italy. Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy. Francis Fung - Eduworks, Inc., USA. Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA. Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA. Member of the W3C Advisory Board. Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK. Anders L. Madsen - Hugin Expert A/S, Denmark. M. Scott Marshall - Adaptive Information Disclosure, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK. Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK. Yung Peng - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA. Livia Predoiu - University of Mannheim, Germany. Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK. Daniel S??nchez ??? University of Granada, Spain. Elie Sanchez - Universit?? de La M??diterran??e Aix-Marseille II, France. Oreste Signore - Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell' Informazione "A. Faedo", Italy. Manager of the W3C Office in Italy. Nematollaah Shiri - Concordia University, Canada. Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. Umberto Straccia - Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell' Informazione "A. Faedo", Italy. Heiner Stuckenschmidt - University of Mannheim, Germany. Masami Takikawa - Cleverset, Inc., USA. Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech Republic. Organizing Committee The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order): Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain. Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA. Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy. Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy. Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA. Ken Laskey ??? MITRE Corporation, USA. Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK. Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK. Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK. Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA. Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. We are looking forward to seeing you in Karlsruhe! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Registration for KR 2008 includes attendance of KROW 2008. Registration for KR 2008 is now open: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/registration.html Important Dates Early registration deadline: July 31, 2008 KROW 2008: September 17, 2008 Workshop Chairs Thomas Meyer Meraka Institute, South Africa tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Mehmet Orgun Macquarie University, Australia mehmet at ics.mq.edu.au Program Committee Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Mike Bain (UNSW, Australia) Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) Arina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Longbing Cao (UTS, Australia) Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Anne Cregan (UNSW, Australia) Attila Elci (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey) Aurona Gerber (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Manolis Gergatsoulis (Ionian University, Greece) Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia) Bo Hu (University of Southampton, UK) Renato Iannella (NICTA, Australia) Marijke Keet (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Ken Kaneiwa (NII, Japan) Kevin Lee (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Laurent Lefort (CSIRO, Australia) Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK) Lars Moench (University of Hagen, Germany) Deshendran Moodley (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia) Anet Potgieter (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) Murat Sensoy (Bogazici University, Turkey) Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn (TU Dresden, Germany) Kerry Taylor (CSIRO, Australia) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia) Mary-Anne Williams (UTS, Australia) Pinar Yolum (Bogazici University, Turkey) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In selecting applications for travel support, preference will be given to students selected to participate in the doctoral consortium, followed by students who are first author on a paper accepted at the conference, followed by students who have other authorship on a conference or related workshop paper. Details on how to apply are at http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/general-info/student-fellowships/ Applications are due August 15, with notification of success by Sept. 1. From tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Sat Jul 12 21:52:42 2008 From: tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za (Tommie Meyer) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:52:42 +0200 Subject: [DL] FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: KR 2008 Message-ID: <399B1A78-EEA6-4FB3-B01B-340A71D48C06@meraka.org.za> [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Tutorials and opening ceremony, September 15 Early registration deadline: July 31, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ 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. KR2008 will be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. 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URL: From thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de Mon Jul 14 22:18:52 2008 From: thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de (Thorsten Liebig) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:18:52 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final CFP: WS on Scalable SW Knowledge Bases (SSWS 2008) Message-ID: <487BB4AC.8010709@uni-ulm.de> *************************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested *************************************************************************** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCALABLE SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS (SSWS2008) http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~yug2/ssws08/home.htm At the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008 http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The series of SSWS workshops aim at creating a forum for discussing a critical issue for the Semantic Web, that is, scalability. As the Semantic Web evolves, scalability becomes increasingly important. This workshop will focus on addressing the scalability issue with respect to the development and deployment of knowledge base systems on the Semantic Web. Typically, such systems deal with information described in Semantic Web languages like OWL and RDF(S), and provide services such as storing, reasoning, querying and debugging. There are two basic requirements for these systems. First, they have to satisfy the application's semantic requirements by providing sufficient reasoning support. Second, they must scale well in order to be of practical use. Given the sheer size and distributed nature of the Semantic Web, these requirements impose additional challenges beyond those addressed by earlier knowledge base systems. This has been well recognized by the community as demonstrated by the excitement around the billion triples challenge. We expect that the above issue is going to challenge the Semantic Web for a long period of time and significant effort is needed in order to tackle the problem. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners to share their recent ideas and progresses towards building scalable knowledge base systems for the Semantic Web. The workshop will be centered on the discussion of three major aspects: 1) foundations, methods and technologies for pushing forward the state-of-the-art; 2) performance evaluation and related principles, methodologies and tools; 3) identification of important issues and future research directions. Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Semantic Web repositories * Reasoning mechanisms, techniques and systems * Query evaluation and optimization * Performance evaluation and benchmarks * Distributed knowledge base systems and P2P systems * Large scale knowledge base management * Semantic Web-based information integration We expect that the outcome of the workshop will benefit not only Semantic Web developers but also Semantic Web evaluators and end users. We also welcome participants from related disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Information Integration. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline July 25, 2008 Acceptance Notification September 5, 2008 Camera Ready Papers Due September 26, 2008 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Achille Fokoue IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA (Contact Person) Yuanbo Guo Microsoft Corp, USA Jeff Heflin Lehigh University, USA Thorsten Liebig Ulm University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ian Horrocks - University of Oxford, UK Bijan Parsia - University of Manchester, UK Pascal Hitzler - University of Karlsruhe, Germany York Sure - University of Karlsruhe, Germany Ulrike Sattler - University of Manchester, UK Kavitha Srinivas - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Takahira Yamaguchi - Keio University, Japan Ra?l Garc?a Castro - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Aditya Kalyanpur - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Boris Motik - University of Oxford, UK Oscar Corcho - University of Manchester, UK Ralf M?ller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Ying Ding - University of Innsbruck, Austria Marko Luther - DoCoMo Eurolabs Munich, Germany Timo Weith?ner - Ulm University, Germany Andy Seaborne - Hewlett-Packard, UK Jan Wielemaker - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Volker Haarslev - Condordia University, Canada From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jul 15 13:23:49 2008 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:23:49 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] IJCAR in Australia, 1 month to go Message-ID: <20080715112349.772BA11FA7E@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IJCAR 2008 - The 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Sydney, Australia, 10th - 15th August, 2008 http://2008.IJCAR.org ONLY ONE MONTH TO GO ... DOWN UNDER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------- IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. IJCAR 2008 is the 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, and is a merger of the following leading conferences and workshops: + CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), + FroCoS (Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems), + FTP (Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving) + TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) Registration, accomodation, and travel/visa information is on the IJCAR 2008 web pages. ----- Book your flight to Sydney today! ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Program ------------------ + Presentation of 4 invited talks - Hubert Comon-Lundh, Nachum Dershowitz, Aarti Gupta, Carsten Lutz + Presentation of 26 regular research papers + Presentation of 13 system descriptions + Presentation of the Herbrand Award to Prof. Edmund Clarke, CMU. + Four workshops, four tutorials, the CADE ATP System Competition (CASC-J4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Events ------------- + Welcome reception at the conference hotel. + Excursion to the amazing Blue Mountains + Conference banquet + CASQ-J4 - the CADE Squash Competition ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Peter Baumgartner (conference chair) Peter.Baumgartner at nicta.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From pavel at dit.unitn.it Fri Jul 11 20:46:03 2008 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:46:03 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final CFP: The ISWC'08 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2008) Message-ID: <008d01c8e386$ff8d9210$c8bca8c0@serverigtpdszq> Apologies for cross-postings --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: submission deadline is approaching: 14 days left --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Third International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2008) http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/ October 26, 2008, ISWC'08 Workshop Program, Karlsruhe, Germany BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, since it takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, query answering, data translation, or for navigation on the Semantic Web. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has two goals: 1. To bring together academic and industry leaders dealing with ontology matching in order to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to 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. 2. To conduct an extensive evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2008 campaign. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world matching tasks from specific domains, e.g., medicine. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements to ontology matching from specific domains; Application of ontology matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Social and collaborative ontology matching; Interactive ontology matching; Alignment management; Background knowledge in ontology matching; Reasoning for ontology matching; Uncertainty in ontology matching; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Performance of ontology-matching techniques; Ontology matching evaluation methodology; Ontology matching for information integration; Ontology matching for query answering; Ontology matching for dynamic environments; Systems and infrastructures. FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS The schedule assumes one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: technical presentations, OAEI'08 results presentations, posters, workshop on consensus building (of reference alignments) and wrap-up discussion. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of (i) technical papers addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as (ii) participating in the OAEI 2008 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. For complete style details, see Springer's Author Instructions http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html These should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted (no later than July 25, 2008) through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2008 Technical papers will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Contributors to OAEI 2008 have to follow the campaign's conditions at: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/ IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS July 25, 2008: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 8, 2008: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 25, 2008: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 26, 2008: OM-2008, Congress Center, Karlsruhe, Germany. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy e-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] it 2. Jerome Euzenat INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Isabel Cruz, University Illinois at Chicago, USA Jerome David, INRIA, France Wei Hu, Southeast University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaak, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Linkopings Universitet, Sweden Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Luigi Palopoli, University of Calabria, Italy Ivan Pilati, TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, Canada York Sure, SAP, Germany Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2008 flyer: http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/CfP_OM2008_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy Web: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:50:35 +0100 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: ISWC2008 Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (STUDENT GRANTS AVAILABLE) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! ************************************************************************ * * CALL FOR PAPERS * submission deadline: 25 July 2008 * * 4th Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering - SWESE2008 * * http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~r01srt7/swese2008/ * * ==INVITED SPEAKER (Prof. Steffen Staab)== * ==INVITED SPEAKER (Dr. Daniel Oberle)== * * ==STUDENT GRANTS AVAILABLE (see below for details)== * * located at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC2008 * 26th October 2008 * Karlsruhe, Germany * ************************************************************************ Workshop Description Modern software architectures reflect advances in shared services delivery through service oriented architecture (SOA), master data management and data governance policies, and increasingly sophisticated, multi-media delivery and end-user interactions that leverage World Wide Web based technologies. Semantic Web technologies are beginning to play a significant role in each of these arenas, marking a turning point in the evolution of the Web and software engineering in general. There is increasing convergence in terms of methodology, language, and tool support to address the needs of software architects and other practitioners who require bridging technologies - between traditional software engineering, as embodied in Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and modelling languages such as the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and the Semantic Web, through the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL), for example. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to investigate potential benefits. The Object Management Group (OMG)'s Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), spearheaded by the Ontology Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG), has become an international standard (formally adopted by the OMG in October 2006), and is on its way to becoming an ISO standard. Advantages of applying Semantic Web technologies to software engineering include reusability and extensibility of data models, improvements in data quality, enhanced discovery, and automated execution of workflows. According to SETF's note "A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers" (http://www.w3.org/TR/sw-oosd-primer/), the Semantic Web can serve as a platform on which domain models can be created, shared and reused. What other potential benefits might be gained by applying Semantic Web technologies to software engineering? Could the Web-based, semantically rich formality of OWL be combined with emerging model driven development tools such as the Eclipse Modelling Framework to provide some badly needed improvements in both the process and products of software development activities? How should practitioners go about transitioning legacy software applications to ontology-based approaches and what software is needed to support development teams with intelligent semantic-based assistive tools? What is it about the amalgamation of OWL, UML and the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) that could make a difference? There appear to be a number of strong arguments in favour of bringing these technologies and methods together, but consensus on the best way forward has yet to emerge. This workshop seeks to build on prior events that have begun to address this important area. Intended Audience While the intended audience for this workshop includes those with experience or interest in Semantic Web languages and tools, it is also crucial to have participation by those with expertise in other areas such as software engineering, automatic software engineering (ASE), knowledge based software engineering (KBSE), UML/MDA, and software/legacy modernization. Topics Topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not restricted to): - Perspectives on the future of Semantic Web driven software engineering or modernization - Tools supporting software engineering using Semantic Web languages - Case studies describing applications that leverage traditional software engineering methodologies, object-oriented programming, and/or model-driven architecture (MDA) and Semantic Web tools or languages - Lessons learned in Automatic Software Engineering or KBSE applicable to Semantic Web based software engineering - Applications, case studies, and/or recommendations regarding the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) - Case studies describing application of formal methods and Semantic Web languages - Software specification, feature modelling, component discovery, and Semantic Web languages, ontologies, and/or reasoning - Ontologies for requirements, software engineering, and/or software evolution - Ontology-based reasoning for software engineering - Semantic annotations in software engineering - Transitioning legacy applications to semantically-enhanced or ontology-based applications - Semantic-based intelligent assistance tools for software developers Workshop Format and Attendance This will be an all day workshop, including a poster session and technical talks discussing competing and complementary visions for Semantic Web enabled software engineering. Keynotes: 1) Joint Metamodels for UML and OWL (by Prof. Steffen Staab) Steffen Staab is professor for databases and information systems at the University of Koblenz-Landau, leading the research group on Information Systems and Semantic Web (ISWeb). His interests lie in researching core technology for ontologies and semantic web as well as in applied research for exploiting these technologies for knowledge management, multimedia and software technology. He has participated in numerous national, European and intercontinental research projects on these different subjects and his research has led to over 100 refereed contributions in journals and conferences. Dr. Staab held positions as researcher, project leader and lecturer at the University of Freiburg, the University of Stuttgart/Fraunhofer Institute IAO, and the University of Karlsruhe and he is a co-founder of Ontoprise GmbH. For more information see: http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/ and http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~staab/. 2) Challenges beyond the scientific contributions: Ontologies in existing software development lifecycles and infrastructures (by Dr. Daniel Oberle) Daniel Oberle received his PhD from the University of Karlsruhe (Germany), Institute AIFB, Prof. Studer's group, in 2005. His thesis discussed the application of Semantic Web technologies (ontologies, reasoning) in current middleware solutions, such as application servers and Web services, to facilitate the daily tasks of developers and administrators. Daniel (co)authored over 40 refereed publications in selected workshops, conferences and journals. He is working at SAP Research CEC Karlsruhe March 2006 and is responsible for the topic of ontologies & reasoning. *Information about the SWESE2008 panel will be available soon. Please check our web site: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~r01srt7/swese2008/ This workshop is open to all members of the ISWC community, as well as other communities identified in Intended Audience, above. 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 will be given priority for registration. We encourage those who plan to attend this workshop, to register early in order to help conference organizers with their planning as well as insure that the workshop is not cancelled do to projected poor attendance. Organizing Committee Elisa F. Kendall, Sandpiper Software, Inc., USA Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK (contact) Marwan Sabbouh, The MITRE Corporation, USA Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI, Germany Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Program Committee * Ioannis N. Athanasiadis (CH), IDSIA * Colin Atkinson (DE), University of Mannheim * Ken Baclawski (US), Northeastern University * Roberta Cuel (IT), University of Trento * Jin Song Dong (SG), National University of Singapore * Dragan Gasevic, (CA) Simon Fraser University Surrey * Michael Goedicke (DE), University of Essen * Jakob Henriksson (DE), Technical University of Dresden * Mitch Kokar (US), Northeastern University * David Martin (US), SRI International * Jishnu Mukerji (US), Hewlett-Packard Company * Daniel Oberle (DE), SAP Research * Dave Reynolds (UK), Hewlett-Packard Company * Steffen Staab (DE), University of Koblenz * Michael K. Smith (US), Electronic Data System * Hai Wang (UK), University of Southampton * Rene Witte (DE), University of Karlsruhe * Andrea Zisman, (UK) City University, London Submissions Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor, experience reports, and show case / use case demonstrations of effective, practical technologies or applications combining software engineering with semantic technologies. Papers must be in English and may be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swese2008 as: - Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) - Short Papers (5-8 pages in the proceedings) - Position Statements (2 pages in the proceedings) - Posters (to be presented during the workshop, with 2 page descriptions submitted via the conference site for review) Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to upload their complete papers by July 25, 2008. Publication details will be posted to the workshop web site, http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~sttaylor/swese2008/index.php, as they become available. Important Dates Submission deadline: 25 July 2008 Notification of acceptance: 25 September 2008 Final submissions due: 26 September 2008 Workshop proceedings available: 26 October 2008 Sponsorship The workshop is being held in cooperation with a prominent network of excellence and is meant to act as a focal point for joint interests and future collaborations. Interested sponsors are welcome to contact the program committee. Current sponsors include: - The EU TAO Project, http://www.tao-project.eu/ - The EU MOST Project, http://www.most-project.eu/ Scholarships We have a limited number of student grants available, funded our workshop sponsors. We invite students to apply for this grant by Sept 30, 2008. Applications should include a statement of interest (i.e. what you bring to and expect to get from SWESE), a brief CV, a scan of a student ID or other evidence of professional status, and a letter of support from their supervisor. Any interested student can apply. Please send your application to Kalina Bontcheva and Elisa Kendall. The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. From Richard.Moot at labri.fr Fri Jul 18 15:14:10 2008 From: Richard.Moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:14:10 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2009 - Second Call for Course and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ESSLLI 2009 Monday, 20 July --- Friday, 31 July 2009 Bordeaux, France %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 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 2009 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 21st annual Summer School in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the cognitive sciences. The Summer School program is organized around the components. - Language and Computation - Language and Logic - Logic and Computation We also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these there categories. 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 ******* Monday, September 1, 2008 ******* Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Wednesday October 15, 2008. 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-2009, please read the following information carefully. ALL COURSES: Courses consists of five sessions (a one-week course), each session lasting 90 minutes. Lecturers who want to offer a long, two-week course should submit two independent one-week courses (for example an introductory course in the first week of ESSLLI, and a more advanced course during the second). The ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of the two proposed courses. Timetable for Course Proposal Submission: Sept 1, 2008: Proposal Submission Deadline Oct 15, 2008: Notification June 1, 2009: 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 theme 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 sending out a Call for Papers for the workshop by November 17, 2008. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community. It should also note that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions Sept 1, 2008: Proposal Submission Deadline Oct 15, 2008: Notification Nov 10, 2008: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers (by ESSLLI PC chair) Nov 17, 2008: Workshop organizers send out (First) Call for Papers Jan 7, 2008: Workshop organizers send out Second Call for Papers Feb 2, 2008: Workshop organizers send out Third Call for Papers Feb 15, 2009: Deadline for Papers Apr 15, 2009: Notification of Workshop Contributors June 1, 2009: 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 multiple 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: Uwe Moennich (SfS, Tuebingen) Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Universitat Tuebingen Arbeitsbereich Theoretische Computerlinguistik Wilhelmstrasse 19 D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany phone : +49-7071-29-74035 e-mail : um at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de www : http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~um/ Local co-chair: Richard Moot (LaBRI, Bordeaux) Area Specialists: Marco Baroni and Claire Gardent (Language and Computation) Paul Egre and Kjell Johan Saeboe (Language and Logic) Alex Rabinovich and Ulrike Sattler (Logic and Computation) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Christian Retore FURTHER INFORMATION: The website for ESSLLI 2009 will become operational in the second half of 2008. For this year's summer school, please see the web site at http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/. From jan.hladik at sap.com Wed Jul 16 16:03:36 2008 From: jan.hladik at sap.com (Hladik, Jan) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:03:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] PostDoc/PhD/Master postitions in semantic technologies at SAP Dresden Message-ID: At the SAP Research Center Dresden, http://www.sap.com/about/company/research/centers/dresden.epx , several positions are available for a BMBF-funded research project. Profile: -------- In addition to knowledge about semantic technologies, applicants should have experience in at least one the following areas: - User Interfaces/Human-Machine-Interaction - Information Extraction/Natural Language Processing - Business aspects/Integration of customer needs Since the deliverables and progress reports have to be written in German, German writing skills are required. The following positions are available: -------------------------------------- 1 PostDoc 3 PhD students 4 PostGraduates (i.e. with a completed Master/Diplom) For more information, please go to http://www.sap.com/germany/about/jobs/index.epx -> Schnellsuche -> enter the reference code DE-52099505-EN-08-001 Best regards, Jan Hladik -- Dr. Jan Hladik Researcher SAP AG SAP Research CEC Dresden Chemnitzer Str. 48 D-01187 Dresden, Germany P +49-351-4811-6151 E jan.hladik at sap.com http://www.sap.com/research Sitz der Gesellschaft/Registered Office: Walldorf, Germany Vorstand/SAP Executive Board: Henning Kagermann (Sprecher/Co-CEO), L?o Apotheker (Sprecher/Co-CEO), Werner Brandt, Erwin Gunst, Claus Heinrich, Bill McDermott, Gerhard Oswald, John Schwarz, Jim Hagemann Snabe, Peter Zencke Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/Chairperson of the SAP Supervisory Board: Hasso Plattner Registergericht/Commercial Register Mannheim No HRB 350269 Diese E-Mail kann Betriebs- oder Gesch?ftsgeheimnisse oder sonstige vertrauliche Informationen enthalten. 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From geoff at cs.miami.edu Sun Jul 20 09:06:38 2008 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:06:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR'08 workshops Message-ID: <20080720070638.E07D011F941@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> -------------------------------------- LPAR'08 Workshops - 22nd November 2008 -------------------------------------- preceding LPAR'08, the 15th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning November 23-27, 2008, Carnegie Mellon University, Doha, Qatar http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. APS-4 - Analytic Proof Systems 4 Organizers: Matthias Baaz and Christian Fermueller Submission deadline: October 18, 2008 Submission: 1-2 pages abstract Web: http://www.logic.at/staff/chrisf/ws/LPAR-AS-4.html 2. ALICS - Applications of Logic in Computer Security Organizer: Catherine Meadows Submission deadline: October 18, 2008 Submission: 1-5 pages abstract Web: http://chacs.nrl.navy.mil/projects/ALICS08/ 3. IWIL - International Workshop on Implementations of Logic Organizers: Boris Konev, Renate Schmidt, and Stephan Schulz Submission deadline: September 21, 2008 Submission: 10 pages abstract Web: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~konev/iwil2008/ 4. KEAPPA - Knowledge Exchange: Automated Provers and Proof Assistants Organizers: Piotr Rudnickiand Geoff Sutcliffe Submission deadline: October 18, 2008 Submission: 10 pages abstract Web: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~piotr/KEAPPA08/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eungheekim at gmail.com Wed Jul 23 09:00:03 2008 From: eungheekim at gmail.com (Eung-Hee Kim) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:00:03 +0900 Subject: [DL] CFP: The ASWC'08 Workshop For Semantic Web Health Care And Life Sciences Message-ID: <774aac610807230000o51a61c8ayb8abcfdd835af460@mail.gmail.com> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] #################################################################### WORKSHOP - CALL FOR PAPERS SEMANTIC WEB HEALTH CARE AND LIFE SCIENCES #################################################################### 2008 Asian Semantic Web Conference December 8-11, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand http://bike.snu.ac.kr/aswc-hcls/ Both Medicine and Healthcare are areas undergoing phenomenal growth, holding much promise for our future provided we can manage and apply the new knowledge gained without driving up costs. As one of the key technologies to their success, many organizations are now exploring the use of Semantic Web technologies in the hope of easing the effort of heterogeneous data integration and reuse of data in unanticipated ways, simplifying the annotation and sharing of findings, expressing rich and well-defined models for search, and facilitating the implementation of logic to infer additional insights. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Aims of the Conference ++++++++++++++++++++++ The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas of Medicine, Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Semantic Web to share their visions, research achievements, and solutions to real applications, to resolve challenging issues, and to establish worldwide cooperative research and development. +++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++ The aim of this workshop is to cover all aspects that relate to research and practical issues of Semantic Web Technologies for Life Sciences, Medicine and Healthcare. The areas of interest in support tool, application, and service perspectives, include but are not limited to ? Ontology Modeling and Integration ? Knowledge Discovery, Representation and Management ? Biomedical Applications of Semantic Web Technologies ? Anatomy Ontology ? Clinical Decision Support Systems ? Clinical Document Architecture ? Document Annotation (tools & methodologies) ? Ontologies in Medicine ? Social Semantic Web +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Paper Submission Guidelines +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Submitted papers must be written in English and one of the following formats must be used for the first submission: PDF, PS, DOC. Workshop papers will be published in a dedicated book and not in LNCS-but they will follow LNCS formatting instructions. Please refer to the Springer LNCS web site (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0) for the paper formatting instructions. Preferred maximum paper length for the camera ready is 10 printed pages including figures. We encourage the authors to use the camera ready format even for the first submission. ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ 15 September 2008 Deadline for papers submissions 30 September 2008 Notification of acceptance 15 October 2008 Camera-ready due 8 December 2008 Workshops day +++++++++++++++++ Event Information +++++++++++++++++ The workshop will take place during the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008). For every accepted paper at least one of the authors must attend the workshop and must register for the workshop and the main conference. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Organizing Committee ++++++++++++++++++++++ [ Bo-Yeong Kang ] BiKE Lab, Seoul National University, Korea Email: comeng99 at snu.ac.kr [ Hong-Gee Kim ] BiKE Lab, Seoul National University, Korea Email: hgkim at snu.ac.kr [ Hyun Namgoong ] BiKE Lab, Seoul National University, Korea Email: ngh at snu.ac.kr [ Christopher Baker ] Institute for Inforcomm Research, Singapore Email: cbaker at i2r.a-star.edu.sg [ Susie Stephens ] Eli Lilly and Company, USA Email: stephens_susie_m at lilly.com [ Sung-In Lee ] BiKE Lab, Seoul National University, Korea Email: sunginlee at snu.ac.kr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CallforPapers.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 77927 bytes Desc: not available URL: From areces at pluton.loria.fr Fri Jul 25 18:53:18 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:53:18 +0200 Subject: [DL] AiML08: Preliminary Program now Available Message-ID: <200807251653.m6PGrIdX031886@pluton.loria.fr> ======================================================= Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies []<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<>[]<> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr --- PRELIMINARY PROGRAM NOW ON-LINE --- http://aiml08.loria.fr/programme.php 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-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. REGISTRATION Registration to AiML is now open at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/registration.php INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers at AiML-2008 will include the following: - Mai Gehrke, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen http://www.math.ru.nl/~mgehrke/ Using duality theory to export methods from modal logic - Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia http://www.governatori.net Labelled modal tableaux - Agi Kurucz, King's College London http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/ Axiomatising many-dimensional modal logics - Lawrence Moss, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ Relational syllogistic logics, and other connections between modal logic and natural logic - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ Topology, connectedness, and modal logi Further information available at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/invited.php ACCEPTED PAPERS Complete list of accepted papers and abstracts is now available at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/accepted.php PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Philippe Balbiani (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Alexandru Baltag (University of Oxford, UK) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University, USA) Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France) Stephane Demri (CNRS, Cachan, France) Melvin Fitting (City University of New York, USA) Guido Governatori (University of Queensland, Australia) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London, UK) Ramon Jansana (University of Barcelona, Spain) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Edwin Mares (Victoria University of Wellington) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Dirk Pattinson (Imperial College London, UK) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia, Australia) Ildiko Sain (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jerry Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Nobu-Yuki Suzuki (Shizuoka University, Japan) Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College, London, UK) PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Carlos Areces LORIA, Nancy carlos.areces(at)loria.fr Rob Goldblatt Victoria University of Wellington rob.goldblatt(at)mcs.vuw.ac.nz LOCAL ORGANIZER Patrick Blackburn LORIA, Nancy patrick.blackburn(at)loria.fr IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 31 March 2008 Acceptance notification: 31 May 2008 Final version of full papers due: 30 June 2008 Conference: 9-12 September 2008 CONFERENCE LOCATION Advances in Modal Logic 2008 will be held at LORIA (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) in Nancy, in the Lorraine, in the east of France. FURTHER INFORMATION Information about AiML-2008 will be available at the conference website: http://aiml08.loria.fr E-mail enquiries should be directed to the local organizer or the program co-chairs. Information about AiML itself can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net From blackbur at avril.loria.fr Fri Jul 25 20:08:28 2008 From: blackbur at avril.loria.fr (Patrick Blackburn) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:08:28 +0200 Subject: [DL] Review of Symbolic Logic (RSL) Message-ID: <200807251808.m6PI8S6L021924@avril.loria.fr> The Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) has just launched a new journal, the Review of Symbolic Logic (RSL). It is published by Cambridge University Press. The first issue has just appeared and you can see the table of contents and download articles from the journal's CUP homepage at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=RSL&volumeId=1&issueId=01# RSL is devoted to philosophical and non-classical logics and their applications, history and philosophy of logic, and philosophy and methodology of mathematics. Submissions are welcome. From tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Mon Jul 21 22:17:15 2008 From: tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za (Tommie Meyer) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:17:15 +0200 Subject: [DL] KR2008: Early registration deadline approaching: July 31 Message-ID: <626DDB9C-CE95-4C7C-A25A-7A973C437CEE@meraka.org.za> [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Tutorials and opening ceremony, September 15 Early registration deadline: July 31, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ 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. KR2008 will be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. KR Workshops: Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop KROW 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems KRAMAS 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html Doctoral Consortium http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html Important Dates: Early registration deadline: July 31, 2008 KR 2008 Conference: September, 16-19, 2008 Invited Speakers Ronen Brafman, Ben Gurion University (joint ICAPS-KR speaker) Adnan Darwiche, University of California Los Angeles (joint CP-KR speaker) Norman Foo, University of New South Wales (Great Moments in KR speaker) Joe Halpern, Cornell University Conference Chairs: General Chair: Patrick Doherty PC Chairs: Gerhard Brewka, Jerome Lang Local Chair: Maurice Pagnucco Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz Publicity Chair: Thomas Meyer From heymans at kr.tuwien.ac.at Thu Jul 24 17:29:24 2008 From: heymans at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Stijn Heymans) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:29:24 +0200 Subject: [DL] Last CFP: International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic on the Web - FLOW 2008 Message-ID: *******Last Call for Papers - Submission deadline 30 July 2008 ********** FLOW 2008 First International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web http://www.cwi.ugent.be/flow2008/ Sydney, Australia in conjunction with the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2008) http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/ ********************************************************************* A lot of research on how to make the Web Intelligent is centered around the question of how to introduce a form of automated reasoning in Web-related activities. For example, an intelligent search would amount to posing queries that use deduction to obtain results instead of queries that return results based on the keywords of the query. An important subgoal of establishing this kind of automated reasoning is to make knowledge on the Web understandable by machines. As witnessed by approaches like the Semantic Web the traditional choice of establishing machine-understandability was obtained by formalizing knowledge using two-valued logics like Description Logics or Logic Programming. However, fuzzy logic is inherently better suited for expressing knowledge on the Web, i.e., knowledge that is uncertain, imprecise, and potentially inconsistent. Nonetheless, the take-up of fuzzy logic for making the Web more intelligent is a slow one, and a major issue is the lack of cross-fertilization between the world of fuzzy logic researchers and the world of Web researchers. Hence, the workhop's main goal will be to bring these two worlds closer together, and thus stimulate cross-over research between two different areas that are trying to make the Web more intelligent. The workshop will be an important part of events of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology which has been ranked at top 15 from 620 Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning conferences in the following popular rankings: http://www.cs-conference-ranking.org/home.html Topics: ------- Applications of fuzzy logic to Web areas such as * Ontology languages * Intelligent Search * Knowledge management and reasoning * Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment * Web Service Description, Discovery, Composition * Information extraction / Multimedia retrieval * Collaborating agents * Social Network Analysis * Web-based recommender systems * Question answering systems * Geographic Information Retrieval * ... Sumbission Details: ------------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. All workshops are required to use the WI-IAT 2008 Cyberchair system for on-line paper submission and review process: http://wi-consortium.org/cyberchair/wiiat08/scripts/ws_submit.php. The length of accepted papers should NOT exceed 4 pages (IEEE-CS format, extra payment is only available for one more extra page). Accepted workshop papers will be published in the Proceedings of WI-IAT08 Workshops by IEEE-CS Press. Important Dates: ---------------- Deadline for Submissions: July 30, 2008 Notification of acceptance: September 3, 2008 Camera-ready versions: September 30, 2008 Workshop: December 9, 2008 WI-IAT 2008 Conference: December 9 - 12, 2008 Program Committee: ------------------ Paulo Cesar G. da Costa, George Mason University, USA Ernesto Damiani, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Pieter De Leenheer, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Cristina Feier, TU Vienna, Austria Martin Hepp, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany Mustafa Jarrar, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Anne Laurent, LIRMM, France Jie Lu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University / TU Vienna, U.K. / Austria Trevor Martin, University of Bristol, UK Jose Angel Olivas Varela, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano, Italy Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Umberto Straccia, IST-C.N.R, Italy Ankur Teredesai, University of Washington, USA Peter Vojtas, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Organization: ------------- Stijn Heymans Knowledge Based Systems Group Institute of Information Systems Vienna University of Technology Martine De Cock Computational Web Intelligence Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Ghent University Dirk Vermeir Theoretical Computer Science Lab Dept. of Computer Science Vrije Universiteit Brussel Elie Sanchez Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale Biomathematiques et Informatique Medicale Faculte de Medecine (Universite Aix-Marseille II) -- Dr. Stijn Heymans Vienna University of Technology http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/heymans/ From claudia.damato at di.uniba.it Fri Jul 25 09:59:07 2008 From: claudia.damato at di.uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:59:07 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final CFP & DEADLINE EXTENSION: 4th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web Message-ID: <488987CB.2090202@di.uniba.it> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************** 4th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw2008 In conjunction with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference Karlsruhe - Germany October 26, 2008 !!!!! EXTENDED DEADLINE: August, 5 !!!!! ******************************************************************************** You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October of 2008 in Karlsruhe - Germany. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty is extremely limited. Recently, there has been a groundswell of demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers. This surge of interest creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but little history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. Audience The intended audience for this workshop includes the following: - Researchers in uncertainty reasoning technologies with interest in Semantic Web and Web-related technologies. - Semantic web developers and researchers. - People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web. - Ontology researchers and ontological engineers. - Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web. - Developers of tools designed to support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protege and Protege-OWL developers. Topic List We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. - Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web languages to enable representation of uncertainty - Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web languages - Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping - Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies - The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web - Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web - The role of uncertainty as it relates to Web services Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among Web services - Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web - Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web - Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty - The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web Important Dates July 25, 2008 Paper submissions due **EXTENDED TO AUGUST, 5** September 5, 2008 Paper acceptance notification September 26, 2008 Camera-ready papers due October 26, 2008 4th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web Submission Details The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2008 Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop. Submissions to the Workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop's submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2008. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, and follow the same submission format used by the ISWC 2008 Conference, the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), available at http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 2 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2008 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. Presentation and Publication URSW 2008 will be a full day workshop with four sessions. Two of those sessions will be devoted to a specific theme, while the remaining sessions will be planned in a format that invites an open debate on the results, conclusions, recommendations, and follow-up work of the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group ( http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/urw3/XGR-urw3/ ). All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after the Conference. Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 5-minute slot to share their ideas. In addition, both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2008 Conference. Program Committee The program committee is as follows (in alphabetical order): Ameen Abu-Hanna - Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain. Silvia Calegari - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA. Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy. Ernesto Damiani - University of Milan, Italy. Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy. Francis Fung - Eduworks, Inc., USA. Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA. Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA. Member of the W3C Advisory Board. Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK. Anders L. Madsen - Hugin Expert A/S, Denmark. M. Scott Marshall - Adaptive Information Disclosure, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK. Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK. Yung Peng - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA. Livia Predoiu - University of Mannheim, Germany. Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK. Daniel Sanchez - University of Granada, Spain. Elie Sanchez - Universite de La Mediterranee Aix-Marseille II, France. Oreste Signore - Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell' Informazione "A. Faedo", Italy. Manager of the W3C Office in Italy. Nematollaah Shiri - Concordia University, Canada. Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. Umberto Straccia - Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell' Informazione "A. Faedo", Italy. Heiner Stuckenschmidt - University of Mannheim, Germany. Masami Takikawa - Cleverset, Inc., USA. Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech Republic. Organizing Committee The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order): Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain. Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA. Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy. Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy. Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA. Ken Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA. Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK. Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK. Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK. Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA. Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. We are looking forward to seeing you in Karlsruhe! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: claudia_damato.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 333 bytes Desc: not available URL: From thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de Fri Jul 25 17:15:07 2008 From: thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de (Thorsten Liebig) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:15:07 +0200 Subject: [DL] DL Extension to Aug. 4! : WS on Scalable SW Knowledge Bases (SSWS 2008) Message-ID: <4889EDFB.3000009@uni-ulm.de> *************************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested *************************************************************************** *DEADLINE EXTENSION: AUGUST 4th* FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCALABLE SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS (SSWS2008) http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~yug2/ssws08/home.htm At the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008 http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The series of SSWS workshops aim at creating a forum for discussing a critical issue for the Semantic Web, that is, scalability. As the Semantic Web evolves, scalability becomes increasingly important. This workshop will focus on addressing the scalability issue with respect to the development and deployment of knowledge base systems on the Semantic Web. Typically, such systems deal with information described in Semantic Web languages like OWL and RDF(S), and provide services such as storing, reasoning, querying and debugging. There are two basic requirements for these systems. First, they have to satisfy the application's semantic requirements by providing sufficient reasoning support. Second, they must scale well in order to be of practical use. Given the sheer size and distributed nature of the Semantic Web, these requirements impose additional challenges beyond those addressed by earlier knowledge base systems. This has been well recognized by the community as demonstrated by the excitement around the billion triples challenge. We expect that the above issue is going to challenge the Semantic Web for a long period of time and significant effort is needed in order to tackle the problem. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners to share their recent ideas and progresses towards building scalable knowledge base systems for the Semantic Web. The workshop will be centered on the discussion of three major aspects: 1) foundations, methods and technologies for pushing forward the state-of-the-art; 2) performance evaluation and related principles, methodologies and tools; 3) identification of important issues and future research directions. Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Semantic Web repositories * Reasoning mechanisms, techniques and systems * Query evaluation and optimization * Performance evaluation and benchmarks * Distributed knowledge base systems and P2P systems * Large scale knowledge base management * Semantic Web-based information integration We expect that the outcome of the workshop will benefit not only Semantic Web developers but also Semantic Web evaluators and end users. We also welcome participants from related disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Information Integration. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline August 4, 2008 *extended* Acceptance Notification September 12, 2008 Camera Ready Papers Due September 26, 2008 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Achille Fokoue IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA (Contact Person) Yuanbo Guo Microsoft Corp, USA Jeff Heflin Lehigh University, USA Thorsten Liebig Ulm University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ian Horrocks - University of Oxford, UK Bijan Parsia - University of Manchester, UK Pascal Hitzler - University of Karlsruhe, Germany York Sure - University of Karlsruhe, Germany Ulrike Sattler - University of Manchester, UK Kavitha Srinivas - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Takahira Yamaguchi - Keio University, Japan Ra?l Garc?a Castro - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Aditya Kalyanpur - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Boris Motik - University of Oxford, UK Oscar Corcho - University of Manchester, UK Ralf M?ller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Ying Ding - University of Innsbruck, Austria Marko Luther - DoCoMo Eurolabs Munich, Germany Timo Weith?ner - Ulm University, Germany Andy Seaborne - Hewlett-Packard, UK Jan Wielemaker - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Volker Haarslev - Condordia University, Canada From paschke at in.tum.de Mon Aug 4 17:57:32 2008 From: paschke at in.tum.de (Adrian Paschke) Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:57:32 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: RuleML-2008: Open Calls, Deadline August 22nd Message-ID: <489726EC.8080902@in.tum.de> [ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] ============================================================================= 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org ============================================================================= Open Calls for RuleML-2008 Challenge/Showcase Demos, Lightning/Highlight Talks & Fast Abstracts Deadline: August 22nd ============================================================================= RuleML-2008 Challenge/Showcase Demos ? Prestigious prices will be awarded!!! ------------------------------------ The RuleML-2008 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2008. It addresses solutions and system demonstrations showcasing the practical use of rule technologies in distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge is on rule technologies (including rule languages and engines), interoperation, and interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. A submission to the RuleML-2008 Challenge has to meet the requirement that explicit (declarative) rules play a central role in the application. For the 2008 Challenge this means that: - Rules are available in the explicit representation of a declarative format and are decoupled from the application (rather than only existing in a form that is compiled or hard-coded into the application logic). - Rules are used in interesting and practically relevant ways, e.g. to derive new information, transform knowledge, provide decision support; or, to enable automated monitoring, enforcement, validation, or management of the behavioral logic of an application. The demo should preferably (but not necessarily) be embedded into a web-based or distributed environment so that there will be a need for features related to the RuleML symposium topics, as listed in the call for papers. Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2008 consist of (1) a link to information about the demo/showcase, e.g. a project site, an (embedded link to an) online demonstration, a presentation, or a download site and (2) demo description material (up to 3 pages), which can be either in the form of a paper (e.g., in LNCS format) and/or contain other descriptive material. The demo description material will be distributed at the Symposium as part of the official Symposium handouts and it will be published at the Symposium's Web site. The demo description material will be subject to evaluation, so the material should contain a substantial presentation of the system to enable a proper evaluation of the techniques used. The demo link should be submitted through the Challenge Website (http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw/), while the demo paper should be submitted as a pdf file by email to: ruleml2008 at easychair.org with the text 'Submission to RuleML-2008 Challenge' in the subject by August 22, 2008. After the submission of the demo link, it will be immediately available on the Web, which can provide instant visibility to information about demos/showcases. If the (embedded) link to your demo/showcase is password- protected, then please submit a password for anonymous login from any Web browser, giving us the permission to pass the password on to 3 PC members. Decisions will be notified by September 1st. The demos/showcases themselves will be evaluated during RuleML-2008, and prizes will be awarded to the first two best applications. Fast Abstracts -------------- Fast Abstracts at RuleML-2008 are short presentations, either on new ideas or work in progress, or radical opinions that can address any issue relevant to RuleML-2008. Fast Abstracts provide an opportunity to receive early feedback from the community. Contributions are particularly solicited from industrial practitioners and academics that may not have been able to prepare full papers, but seek an opportunity to engage with the RuleML community. Fast Abstracts should be 4-pages long, and must be formatted in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The submission deadline is August 22, 2008. Submissions should be sent directly by email to ruleml2008 at easychair.org, and they will be refereed on the relevance to RuleML 2008, but also on their novelty of idea and/or on their capacity to stimulate and intrigue the reader. Accepted contributions will be published in electronic form (at the Symposium's Web site and on CD), and an author will deliver a short talk in the Fast Abstracts track at the conference. Decisions will be notified by September 1st. Authors of accepted fast abstracts must provide the camera ready version by September 15. At least one author of each accepted Fast Abstract is expected to register to the conference before or on September 15. Lightning Talks --------------- A lightning talk is a five-minute presentation on any topic of interest to the RuleML community; it can be a new idea, a technology, an evaluation, an observation, a complaint, an explanation, a suggestion, a report of success or failure, a call to action, a description of a technique, or a lament. In general, it is supposed to be a short visionary talk which should initiate discussion. If you are a rule developer working on an exciting project and you do not have the time to submit a full paper, Lightning talks are a great way to interact with the RuleML community and receive feedback on your ideas. Lightning talks are presented back-to-back with a strictly enforced five minute limit, so make sure that you can fit your presentation within this time span. People interested at giving a lightning talk during RuleML-2008 should show their their interest by sending an email to ruleml2008 at easychair.org by August 22, 2008, including a title and a 250-word abstract of their intended talk. Decisions will be notified by September 1st. Highlight Talks --------------- We invite the submission of outstanding full papers that have been published between 2007 and the submission deadline (August 22, 2008). Publications that are "in press" and already linked on the journal web site are also welcome. A group of experts will select the papers to be presented at the meeting considering the impact of the work on the field, the likelihood that the work makes a good presentation, and the relevance for the topics of RuleML-2008, in general. Submissions should be sent directly to the RuleML-2008 chairs at ruleml2008 at easychair.org by August 22, 2008, and must include the following: * Name/affiliation/email of submitter (assumed to be the presenter; note that the presenter cannot change because the identity and ability to present of that person will be an essential selection criterion). * Names/affiliations/email of ALL coauthors (note: any name appearing on a published paper has to be added here). Note that all co-authors have to agree to the submission and that it is the responsibility of the submitter to guarantee that all co- author email addresses are correct (email notifications of the submission will be sent to all co-authors). * Additional contact information (for presenter). * A 250-word abstract-like argument that explains how the submitted paper(s) suit the goal of presenting highlights that impacted the field. * Sources of original publication(s) (Year, Journal, Vol., pages). * PDF with paper(s) (note: in case of the submission of 2 papers, both have to be merged into one single PDF; all reviews will be based on the content of this PDF). * Note that we will need PDF submissions. It is the responsibility of the submitter to verify that the PDF is completely viewable/printable by all major operating systems. * Each presenter can submit a maximum of one application to present a highlight. The maximal number of submissions per author/co-author is 5. All submissions will be evaluated by a group of reviewers. Reviewers will consider the following criteria: * Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to RuleML-2008 attendees, * Impact of the paper(s) on rules (while the impact of papers on science is not fully reflected by ISI/Google-like impact factors or high number of downloads, high values in such factors will clearly stand as a strong argument for acceptance), * "Presentability" of the work to a large, diverse audience, * Quality of oral presentations by the submitter (if none). These "soft" criteria attempt to capture the underlying concept, namely the presentation of exciting and thought-provoking seminars that will both contribute to the success and attraction-value of RuleML-2008 and to the impact the meeting has on advancing rule interchange and applications. The criterion of "presentability" accounts for the fact that some papers that will completely change the field, or will become citation records may not translate to exciting seminars. The selected Highlights will be presented in a special track during the RuleML-2008 Symposium. All presentations will have to be completed within 20 minutes and will be followed by 5-minute discussions. While presenters are expected to focus mostly on the chosen paper(s), short infusions of more recent data are welcome. Decisions will be notified by September 1st. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================= The RuleML-2008 Symposium ========================= Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007) devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi- Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the Web Rules and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community to help cross- fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and applications as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into account when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments. We also welcome groundwork that helps to build an effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule technology, provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of rules, and make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more usable for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures. -------------------------------------------------------------------- RuleML-2008 Highlights * Keynote speakers: o Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook), on WC3's Rule Interchange Format (RIF). Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008. o David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on "The Power of Events: An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed Enterprise Systems". o Paul Haley (Haley Systems, Inc) on business rules. o Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan, Inc.) on the SILK KRR system of the HALO project. * Joint Lunch Panel held in conjunction with the co-located Business Rules Forum on "Rules on the Web". * Lightning talks/Highlight talks * A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use cases, and applications. * Industry, demo and scientific research & development papers and presentations advancing and assessing the state of the art in event and rule-based systems selected in a peer-reviewed fashion by an international program committee. * Papers will be published as a Springer LNCS proceedings. A special issue (IEEE TKDE pending) will be forthcoming. * Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an informal setting. ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 11th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== Sponsored by: Gold level : Vulcan Inc Silver level: Model Systems Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss Sponsoring opportunities: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/ ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS, OMG, Dallas Rules Group, Belgium Business Rules Forum, MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems ===================================================================== Media Partners: Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing ===================================================================== From stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de Thu Aug 7 18:36:05 2008 From: stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de (Gerd Stumme) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:36:05 +0200 Subject: [DL] Open PhD position at Knowledge & Data Engineering Group of University of Kassel Message-ID: <489B2475.7010200@cs.uni-kassel.de> The Hertie Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering, University of Kassel, Germany, opens a position of a Research Assistant (BAT IIa, full-time) We are looking for a highly motivated person that is interested in research on the intersection of Data Mining and the Web 2.0. Skills in one of the fields Data Mining, Web 2.0, Social Network Analysis, Semantic Web as well as programming skills are advantageous. If you have an excellent university degree (on Master level) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related domain, intend to do a PhD, and are interested on team oriented research on an international level in an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists and mathematicians, then we are looking forward to your application. Application deadline is September 30, 2008. The University of Kassel aims at increasing the number of female employees and therefore welcomes escpecially applications of female researchers. Handicaped applications will be given priority, depending on their suitability. Further information will be provided by Dr. Andreas Hotho (0561/8046252). Please send your complete application via mail to Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme and Dr. Andreas Hotho. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Die Hertie-Stiftungsprofessur Wissensverarbeitung der Universit?t Kassel besetzt baldm?glichst f?r zun?chst zwei Jahre eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche(r) Mitarbeiter(in) (BAT IIa, ganztags). Wir suchen einen hochmotivierten Mitarbeiter, der an der Schnittstelle von Data Mining und Web 2.0 forschen m?chte. Ihre Arbeit in dem europ?ischen Projekt Tagora wird sich rund um unser Soziales Lesezeichensystem BibSonomy bewegen. Daf?r sind Kenntnisse in einem der Gebiete Data Mining, Web 2.0, Social Network Analysis, Semantic Web sowie Programmierkenntnise von Vorteil. Wenn Sie einen sehr guten Universit?tsabschluss in Informatik, Mathematik, Physik oder einem verwandten Gebiet haben, eine Dissertation anstreben und an teamorientierter Forschungsarbeit auf internationalem Niveau in einem interdisziplin?ren Team von Informatikern, Mathematikern und Wirtschaftsinformatikern interessiert sind, freuen wir uns ?ber Ihre Bewerbung. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 30. September 2008. Die Universit?t Kassel ist bestrebt, den Anteil an Frauen zu erh?hen und begr??t deshalb besonders die Bewerbung von Frauen. Schwerbehinderte Bewerber/innen werden bei entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt ber?cksichtigt. Weitere Ausk?nfte k?nnen bei Dr. Andreas Hotho (0561/8046252) eingeholt werden. Bitte richten Sie Ihre vollst?ndige Bewerbung per Email an Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme und Dr. Andreas Hotho. -- Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme, Hertie Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Kassel http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de, Tel. 0561/804-6251, Fax: -6259 -->> Try our bookmarking system http://www.BibSonomy.org now! <<-- From schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk Wed Aug 20 06:43:18 2008 From: schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk (Renate Schmidt) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:43:18 +0100 Subject: [DL] Book Announcement: Second-Order Quantifier Elimination Message-ID: <20080820044318.D90381CC8047@rpc340.cs.man.ac.uk> SECOND-ORDER QUANTIFIER ELIMINATION Foundations, Computational Aspects and Applications by Dov M. Gabbay, Renate A. Schmidt, and Andrzej Szalas Studies in Logic: Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Vol. 12 College Publications 2008, 308 pages ISBN 978-1-904987-56-7 In recent years there has been an increasing use of logical methods and significant new developments have been spawned in several areas of computer science, ranging from artificial intelligence and software engineering to agent-based systems and the semantic web. In the investigation and application of logical methods there is a tension between: o the need for a representational language strong enough to express domain knowledge of a particular application, and the need for a logical formalism general enough to unify several reasoning facilities relevant to the application, on the one hand, and o the need to enable computationally feasible reasoning facilities, on the other hand. Second-order logics are very expressive and allow us to represent domain knowledge with ease, but there is a high price to pay for the expressiveness. Most second-order logics are incomplete and highly undecidable. It is the quantifiers which bind relation symbols that make second-order logics computationally unfriendly. It is therefore desirable to eliminate these second-order quantifiers, when this is mathematically possible; and often it is. If second-order quantifiers are eliminable we want to know under which conditions, we want to understand the principles and we want to develop methods for second-order quantifier elimination. This book provides the first comprehensive, systematic and uniform account of the state-of-the-art of second-order quantifier elimination in classical and non-classical logics. It covers the foundations, it discusses in detail existing second-order quantifier elimination methods, and it presents numerous examples of applications and non-standard uses in different areas. These include: o classical and non-classical logics, o correspondence and duality theory, o knowledge representation and description logics, o commonsense reasoning and approximate reasoning, o relational and deductive databases, and o complexity theory. The book is intended for anyone interested in the theory and application of logics in computer science and artificial intelligence. Further information can be found at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~schmidt/publications/GabbaySchmidtSzalas08.html From Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at Mon Aug 25 10:14:17 2008 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:14:17 +0100 Subject: [DL] SUM 2008: Call for Participation Message-ID: <48B269D9.5040505@kr.tuwien.ac.at> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) October 1-3, 2008 Naples, Italy http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/sum08/ Originally, managing uncertainty and inconsistency has especially been explored in Artificial Intelligence. During the recent years, especially with the availability of massive amounts of data in different repositories and the possibility of integrating and exploiting these data, technologies for managing uncertainty and inconsistency have started to play a key role in databases and the Web. Some of the most prominent such technologies are probably the ranking algorithms standing behind web search engines. Techniques for handling uncertainty and inconsistency are expected to play a similarly important role in the context of the Semantic Web. The annual International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) has grown out of this very large interest on managing uncertainty and inconsistency in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, and AI. It aims at bringing together all those interested in the management of large volumes of uncertainty and inconsistency, irrespective of whether they are in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, or in AI. The very successful First International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2007) was held in Washington DC, USA, October 10-12, 2007 (see http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sum2007/). The Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2008) will be held in Naples, Italy, October 1-3, 2008. EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE September 1, 2008 INVITED TALKS "Heavy Tails and Web Models" Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo! Research, USA) "Managing Probabilistic Data with MystiQ: The Can-Do, the Could-Do, and the Can't-Do" Dan Suciu (University of Washington, USA) INVITED TUTORIAL "Consistent Query Answering: The First Ten Years" Jan Chomicki (State University of NY-Buffalo, USA) ACCEPTED PAPERS "Frequent Itemset Mining from Databases Including One Evidential Attribute" M.A. Bach Tobji, B. Ben Yaghlane, K. Mellouli "Evaluating Trustworthiness from Past Performances: Interval-based Approaches" J. Ben-Naim, H. Prade "A Comparative Study of Six Formal Models of Causal Ascription" S. Benferhat, J.-F. Bonnefon, P. Chassy, R. Da Silva Neves, D. Dubois, F. Dupin de Saint-Cyr, D. Kayser, F. Nouioua, S. Nouioua-Boutouhami, H. Prade, S. Smaoui "An Efficient Algorithm for Naive Possibilistic Classifiers with Uncertain Inputs" S. Benferhat, K. Tabia "Transitive Observation-Based Causation, Saliency, and the Markov Condition" J.-F. Bonnefon, D. Dubois, H. Prade "A Family of Tolerant Antidivision Operators for Database Fuzzy Querying" P. Bosc, O. Pivert "Uncertainty Management for the Retrieval of Economic Information from Distributed Markets" R. Brunner, F. Freitag, L. Navarro "Loopy Propagation in a Probabilistic Description Logic" F.G. Cozman, R.B. Polastro "On the Performance of Fuzzy Data Querying" M. Curiel, C. Gonz?lez, L. Tineo, A. Urrutia "Tractable Reasoning with Bayesian Description Logics" C. d'Amato, N. Fanizzi, T. Lukasiewicz "Approximate Reasoning for Efficient Anytime Induction from Relational Knowledge Bases" N. Di Mauro, T.M.A. Basile, S. Ferilli, F. Esposito "Fusing Uncertain Structured Spatial Information" F. Dupin de Saint-Cyr, R. Jeansoulin, H. Prade "A Neuro Fuzzy Approach for Handling Structured Data" A. Ferone, A. Petrosino "A Framework for the Partial Evaluation of SPARQL Queries" S. Flesca, F. Furfaro, A. Pugliese "An Evolutionary Perspective on Approximate RDF Query Answering" C. Gueret, E. Oren, S. Schlobach, M. Schut "Clustering Uncertain Data via K-medoids" F. Gullo, G. Ponti, A. Tagarelli "Speeding up the NRA Algorithm" P. Gursky, P. Vojtas "Uncertain Context Modeling of Dimensional Ontology Using Fuzzy Subset Theory" Y. Jiang, H. Dong "A Personalized Approach to Experience-Aware Service Ranking and Selection" F. Klan, B. Koenig-Ries "Performance Evaluation of Algorithms for Soft Evidential Update in Bayesian Networks: First Results" S. Langevin, M. Valtorta "Optimization of Queries over Interval Probabilistic Data" M. Magnani, D. Montesi "Polynomial Time Queries over Inconsistent Databases" C. Molinaro "Using OBDDs for Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases" D. Olteanu, J. Huang "A Logical Framework to Reinforcement Learning using Hybrid Probabilistic Logic Programs" E. Saad "On the Relationship between Hybrid Probabilistic Logic Programs and Stochastic Satisfiability" E. Saad "Scaling Most Probable World Computations in Probabilistic Logic Programs" G.I. Simari, M.V. Martinez, A. Sliva, V.S. Subrahmanian "Measuring the Ignorance and Degree of Satisfaction for Answering Queries in Imprecise Probabilistic Logic Programs" A. Yue, W. Liu, A. Hunter FURTHER INFORMATION For further information, including information on registration, accommodation, and travel, please refer to the SUM 2008 web site: http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/sum08/ From nbassili at csd.auth.gr Tue Aug 26 16:02:38 2008 From: nbassili at csd.auth.gr (Nick Bassiliades) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:02:38 +0300 Subject: [DL] RuleML-2008: Call for Participation Message-ID: <48B40CFE.9020407@csd.auth.gr> [ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] ===================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org *** The early registration deadline is on 19 September 2008 *** Register by September 19, receive $100 off. Special team discounts also available ===================================================================== Open Calls for RuleML-2008 Challenge/Showcase Demos, Lightning/Highlight Talks & Fast Abstracts http://2008.ruleml.org/lightning.php Submission deadline: September 15 ===================================================================== We invite you to attend the 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) to be held during October 30-31, 2008 in Orlando, Florida. As this is a relatively new event, being only its 2nd year, participants can make a difference about shaping the future direction and structure of the field, including about rule standards supporting their own approaches and about their own possible involvement in the organization of future events. Co-located with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, RuleML-2008 provides a unique opportunity to exchange your ideas about practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications. Meet the Web rules experts and discuss with them status and progress of the rules technology. Discuss your recent work with colleagues in the informal atmosphere of the symposium. You should not miss the high-quality technical presentations, the innovative applications presented in detail and the state of the art reports of the plenary speakers. RuleML-2008 is a must for all people active in rules technologies or entering the field. The scope of RuleML-2008 covers all topics relevant to rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and rule-based applications as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into account when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments. ======================= Technical Program ======================= The symposium will feature a strong, single-track technical program consisting of: * Keynote speakers: o Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook), on "Rule Interchange Format: Not Just Syntax". Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008. o David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on "The Power of Events: An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed Enterprise Systems". o Paul Haley (Haley Systems, Inc) on "Event and Process Semantics will Rule". o Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan, Inc.) on the SILK KRR system of the HALO project. * Joint Lunch Panel held in conjunction with the co-located Business Rules Forum on "Rules on the Web". * Lightning talks/Highlight talks * A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use cases, and applications. * Industry, demo and scientific research & development papers and presentations advancing and assessing the state of the art in event and rule-based systems selected in a peer-reviewed fashion by an international program committee. * Papers will be published as a Springer LNCS proceedings. A special issue (IEEE TKDE pending) will be forthcoming. * Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an informal setting. The full symposium program is available at: http://2008.ruleml.org/program.php ========================== RuleML-2008 Registration ========================== Early Registration Deadline: September 19, 2008 Late Registration Deadline: after September 19, 2008 RuleML-2008 Symposium: October 30-31, 2008 The registration page is available at: http:/2008.ruleml.org/registration.php As shown there, special discounts are available for our collaboration partners and sponsors, as well as a group discount. The symposium will be held at the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Florida, near the Walt Disney World Resort. Information about the symposium venue are available here: http://2008.ruleml.org/venue.php ========================== RuleML-2008 Challenge ========================== The new RuleML-2008 Challenge provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate rule-based tools, use cases, and applications (and to win a prestigious prize). Late-breaking demos for the RuleML-2008 Challenge are welcome. Please send title, author(s) and brief description by September, 15th to ruleml2008 at easychair.org More detail can be found at: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ruleML/lightning.php#soft ======================= Program Committee ======================= Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete-FORTH, Greece Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, USA Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino, Italy Cristina Baroglio, University of Torino, Italy Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs Tim Bass, SilkRoad Inc. Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany Mikael Berndtsson, University of Skovde, Sweden Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Peter Bollen, University of Maastricht, Netherlands Christian Brelage, SAP Research, Germany Donald Chapin, Business Semantics Ltd, UK Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Jorge Cuellar, Siemens, Germany Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA Stan Devitt, Agfa Healthcare, Ontario, Canada Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zeeland Jurgen Dix, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andreas Eberhart, fluid Operations, Germany Opher Etzion, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa, Israel Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck, Austria Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Stijn Goedertier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies, USA Christine Golbreich, University of Versailles, France Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece Martin Hepp, University of Innsbruck, Austria Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software, USA Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK Holger Lausen, DERI Innsbruck, Austria John Lee, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Mark Linehan, IBM Research, USA Heiko Ludwig, IBM Watson Research, USA Mirko Malekovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Christopher J. Matheus, Vistology, USA Craig McKenzie, SAIC Ltd., UK Jing Mei, IBM Research Lab China, China Zoran Milosevic, Deontik Inc, Australia Jang Minsu, E&T Research Institute, Korea Leora Morgenstern, Stanford, USA Gero Muehl, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Jorg Muller, TU Clausthal, Germany Chieko Nakabasami, Toyo University, Japan Ilkka Niemela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Bart Orriens, Tilburg University, Netherlands Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, Skytec AG, Germany Jon Pellant, Pega Systems Inc., USA Jeff Pollock, Oracle, USA Alun Preece, Cardiff University, UK Maher Rahmouni, HP Labs Girish Ranganathan, University of New Brunswick, Canada Dave Reynolds, HP, England Graham Rong, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA Antonio Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France Marco Seirio, ruleCore, Sweden Timos Sellis, Institute for the Management of Information Systems and National Technical University of Athens, Greece Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The Netherlands Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Terrance Swift, XSB Inc., USA Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia James Taylor, Fair Isaac Corp., USA Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Paul Vincent, TIBCO Software, USA George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Mehmet Emre Yegen, Ygntec Inc., USA ======================= Organizing Committee ======================= General Chair Adrian Paschke, Technical University Dresden, Germany adrian.paschke AT biotec.tu-dresden.de Program Co-Chairs Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece nbassili AT csd.auth.gr Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia guido AT itee.uq.edu.au Challenge Co-Chairs Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania badica_costin AT software.ucv.ro Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan hu AT cs.nccu.edu.tw Panel Co-Chairs John Hall, Model Systems, UK john.hall AT modelsys.com Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland axel AT polleres.net Liaison Co-Chairs Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules, UK mproctor AT redhat.com Rainer von Ammon, CITT GmbH, Germany vonammon AT t-online.de Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Jan.Vanthienen AT econ.kuleuven.be Publicity Co-Chairs Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK M.L.Nickles AT cs.bath.ac.uk Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA tbost AT valocity.com (Sponsoring levels: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/) Web Chair Suzanne Embury, University of Manchester, UK Suzanne.Embury AT manchester.ac.uk ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 11th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== Sponsored by: Gold level : Vulcan Inc Silver level: Model Systems Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss Sponsoring opportunities: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/ ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum, ECCAI, OASIS, OMG, Dallas Rules Group, Belgium Business Rules Forum, MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, Complex Event Processing Technical Society, ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society, IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems, IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems, IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems, Event Processing Technical Society ===================================================================== Media Partners: Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing ===================================================================== From Richard.Moot at labri.fr Fri Aug 29 16:22:33 2008 From: Richard.Moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:22:33 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2009 Deadline Extension and Final Call for Course/Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <31C9318D-7947-4177-8B0D-673E7934B8A6@labri.fr> [apologies for cross-posting] [note the new submission web site and extended deadline] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESSLLI Monday, 20 July -- Friday, 31 July 2009 Bordeaux, France 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. *** Call for Course and Workshop Proposals *** The ESSLLI 2009 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 21st annual Summer School in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the cognitive sciences. The Summer School program is organized around the components: * Language and Computation * Language and Logic * Logic and Computation. We also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these three categories. All proposals should be submitted no later than: EXTENDED Deadline: Monday, September 8, 2008. Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than: Wednesday October 22, 2008. Proposals should be submitted through a web form available at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2009. *** Guidelines for Submission *** Anyone interested in lecturing a course or organizing a workshop during ESSLLI-2009, should follow the guidelines below, and those on the website, while preparing a submission. Proposals that deviate can not be considered. Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers, and workshops are organized by 1 or max. 2 organizers. Lecturers and organizers should have obtained a PhD in their field at the time of the proposal. Courses and workshops last a week and consist of five sessions, of 90 minutes each. Lecturers who want to offer a long, two-week, course should submit two independent one-week courses. The ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of the two proposed courses. *** 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 *** Next to the courses there is room for a number of 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. Organizers are required to give a general introduction to the theme of the workshop during the first session. They are also responsible for the organization and program of the workshop including inviting the submission of papers, setting up a program committee, reviewing, expenses of invited speakers, etc. In particular, each workshop organizer will be responsible for sending out a first Call for Papers for the workshop by November 17, 2008. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community. It should also note that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. Important dates are: * Nov 17, 08 & Call for Workshop Papers * Feb 15, 09 & Deadline for Submissions * Apr 15, 09 & Notification * June 1, 09 & Deadline for Proceedings Workshop speakers will be required to register for the Summer School; they are entitled to the reduced student rate. *** Proposals Format *** The submission form at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2009 will require you to submit the following information: * Name (name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer) * Address (contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer; email, phone, fax, homepage) * Title (title of proposed course/workshop) * Type (is this a workshop, a foundational course, an introductory course, or an advanced course? If a course is introductory or advanced, what are the prerequisites?) * Section (does your proposal fit in Language & Computation, Language & Logic or Logic & Computation?) * Description (describe the proposed contents of the course, outline the program, and substantiate timeliness and relevance to ESSLLI in at most one page a4) * External funding (will you be able to find external funding to help fund your travel and accommodation expenses? if so, how?) * Further particulars (any other relevant information; e.g., experience with the field, with teaching, with ESSLLI; other information) *** 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 they are reimbursed for travel and/or accommodation expenses, up to a fixed maximum amount specified after notification. Lecturers and workshop organizers are allowed a fee-waiver. In case a course is to be taught by two lecturers, or a workshop is organized by two organizers, a lump sum is reimbursed to cover travel and/or accommodation expenses for one of them. The splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers/organizers. It should be emphasized that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs. 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. *** Programm Committtee *** Chair: Uwe Moennich (SfS, Tuebingen) Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstrasse 19 72074 Tuebingen, Germany phone: +49-7071-29-74035 e-mail: um at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~um Local co-chair: Richard Moot (LaBRI, Bordeaux) Area Specialists: Marco Baroni and Claire Gardent (Language and Computation) Paul Egre and Kjell Johan Saeboe (Language and Logic) Alex Rabinovich and Ulrike Sattler (Logic and Computation) *** Organizing Committee *** Chair: Christian Retore (LaBRI Bordeaux) *** Further Information *** The website for ESSLLI 2009 can be found at: http://esslli2009.labri.fr The website of this year's summer school at: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ From fabio at dcs.shef.ac.uk Sat Sep 6 10:55:41 2008 From: fabio at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Fabio Ciravegna) Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:55:41 +0100 Subject: [DL] UPDATE: Open position for Research ASSOCIATE in Multi-modal Management of Collective Intelligence at University of Sheffield Message-ID: <3E8AF885-CC28-450A-91CB-2A1492186734@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Apologies for multiple postings, please feel free to forward to interested parties. ______ Please note an ad was previously circulated with incorrect dates for application: - the correct dates are: - submissions: 15th September, 2008 - interviews: 29th of September, 2008 Apologies for any inconvenience caused /fc ______ The following position is available for the Web Intelligence Technologies Lab, Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield to work on the WeKnowIt project: Research Associate in Multi-modal Management of Collective Intelligence at the University of Sheffield BRIEF OUTLINE: The postholder will work on projects within the Intelligent Web Tech Lab. The work will concern the definition of new and cutting edge methodologies and technologies for accessing, sharing and manipulating collective intelligence. The post is associated to the Integrated Project WeKnowIt (http://www.weknowit.eu/) funded by the European Union as part of Framework 7, (2008-2011). DUTIES: participating in the WKI project, studying, designing, implementing and evaluating solutions for accessing and providing information in very large heterogeneous and distributed environments via media such as mobile phones and computers. Applicants must have a good first degree (1st class or 2:1 or equivalent) in computer science (or related areas) and a relevant PhD in the area (or equivalent research experience). This post is available full-time for two years, potentially renewable for the duration of the project (March 2011). REPORT TO: Lab coordinator (prof. Fabio Ciravegna) and Dr Vita Lanfranchi., project manager for WeKnowIt. Main Activities & Responsibilities: ?Design and implement modalities and interactions for accessing and sharing knowledge and information in a multimodal and multimedial environment; ?Design and implement modalities for enabling the use of social intelligence, including visualisation of communities; ?Carry out research in the area of multimodal management of collective intelligence. ?Design and implement modalities for organisational intelligence; ?Supervise and manage the use of the implemented prototype in real world conditions, i.e. in the emergency management use-case. ?Write project deliverables and scientific papers. ?Prepare and give presentations to disseminate research findings at national / international conferences. PLANNING & ORGANISING: ?Plan and prioritise own daily work. ?Deal on a daily basis with reactive requests emerging from communication with team members ?Continuously monitor and check results. The unpredictability of research means that daily planning needs to accommodate new developments. PERSON SPECIFICATION (E: Essential, D: Desirable) Applicants should demonstrate evidence of the following: Qualifications and Experience ?A good first degree in Computer Science/Web Technology (or equivalent) and a PhD in a relevant field or equivalent research experience (E) ?Proven research experience (E) ?Excellent programming skills in Java (E). ?Experience with web-related languages and standards (e.g. any of the following: PHP, P2P, JSP, Servlets, AJAX, JavaScript, XML, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, RDF, SVG, Xforms, HTTP, WSDL, SOAP) (E) ?Experience in web design and user interface development (D ? a portfolio of examples would be appreciated). ?Good Knowledge of Semantic Web Methodologies (D) ?Knowledge of database systems and RDF query languages (D) ?Experience in mobile application design and development (D) ?Experience of designing and developing research (D) ?Sound understanding of Human-Computer Interaction, including experience in user studies and/or user evaluations (a plus) ?Experience in undertaking research as part of large collaborative projects involving international partners (a plus) Communication skills ?Excellent interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to work in a group and participating in project meetings actively (E) ?Proven ability to produce independent research (E) FURTHER INFORMATION INFORMAL ENQUIRIES: For an informal discussion of these positions please contact Professor Fabio Ciravegna, tel: 0114 222 1940, email: fabio at dcs.shef.ac.uk . FURTHER INFORMATION: The post is available full-time and is tenable for an initial period of 2 years, potentially renewable until the end of the project (April 2011). SALARY: according to experience, but expected in the range of ?26,666- 31,840 TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: Will be those for grade 7 staff, a summary version is attached for information only. Please note that the terms and conditions for all appointments are currently being reviewed as part of the implementation of the University of Sheffield Grading Scheme. New appointees will be provided with the final version on appointment. BENEFITS FOR STAFF In addition to competitive pay and generous holiday entitlements, our staff enjoy access to: ?final salary pension scheme ?corporate Childcare Vouchers scheme ?Home Computing Initiative scheme: www.sheffield.ac.uk/hci ?special staff rates for S10 Health membership: www.sheffield.ac.uk/s10/index.html ?outstanding sports and recreational facilities. CLOSING DATE: 15th of September 2008. INTERVIEW DATE: 29th of September 2008 STARING DATE: as soon as possible thereafter, possibly by October 2008 How to Apply: see http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/cms_results_details.php?file=job_list&ID=6161&start=1 Informal enquiries can be sent to Prof. Fabio Ciravegna, Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK Tel:+44(0)114-22.21940, Fax:+44(0)114-22.21810 www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~fabio/ fabio at dcs.shef.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From huajunsir at gmail.com Sun Sep 7 15:44:05 2008 From: huajunsir at gmail.com (Huajun Chen @ Zhejiang University) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 21:44:05 +0800 Subject: [DL] Call for Book Chapters- Semantic e-Science- Springer AoIS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *Sorry for receiving multiple copies* ------------------------------------------ Call for Book Chapters - Springer AoIS http://www.dart.zju.edu.cn/wiki/dartgrid/index.php/Call_for_Book_Chapters_-_Springer_AoIS ------------------------------------------ Book Title: Semantic e-Science Book Series: Springer Annals of Information Systems AoIS Book Subject: Semantic/Knowledge/Web Technologies, and e-Science Applications Estimated Publishing Date: April, 2009. ------------------------------------------ Introduction As a synthesis of knowledge and web technologies, the semantic web has been gaining tremendous attention world-widely. One noteworthy movement is the increasing recognition of this new technology in typical scientific areas such as life science, earth science, and social science. In general, the merits of the semantic web with respect to scientific research are exhibited in different perspectives encompassing collective knowledge acquisition, semantic data mash-up and integration, scientific workflow management and composition, integrative knowledge discovery and data mining, logic-based hypothesis checking and so forth. However, presently, the Semantic Web researchers have largely focused on formal aspects of logic languages or general-purpose semantic application development, with insufficient consideration of requirements from specific scientific areas. On the other hand, general science researchers grow ever more dependent on the web, but they have no coherent agenda for! exploring the emerging trends on the semantic technology. It urgently requires the development of a multi-disciplinary field to foster the growth and development of e-Science applications based on the semantic technologies and related knowledge-based approaches. Topics The intended book aims to bring together the state-of-the-art studies on applications of the Semantic Web technologies in a variety of e-Science applications. The topics include but not limited to: Semantic e-Science Foundations: Knowledge representation and ontology engineering for e-Science, Knowledge aquisition for e-Science, Semantic data integration and scientific data management, Semantic web service and scientifc workflow composition, Semantic web and data mining, Collective intelligence, Web 2.0/Web 3.0 and e-Science. Semantic e-Science Applications: Semantic e-Science for Earth Science, Semantic e-Science for Social Science, Semantic e-Science for Life Science, Semantic e-Science for Material Science, Semantic e-Science for Geoscience, Semantic e-Science for Physics. Chapters on featured e-Science applications are particularly welcomed, but chapters on funndermental aspects and basic methodologies without a specific application background are also solicited. All chapters will be peer-reviewed, and we seek high-quality submissions with original research. Targeted Audience The book is primarily intended for scientists, professionals and consultants in touch with cross-disciplinary research and strategic management in e-Science and Web technologies. The book can be utilized in advanced courses as supplements to course materials in knowledge management, web technology, and e-Science education, and also serve as an addition to library reference sections. Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before Sep. 15, 2008, a 1-2 pages chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by Oct 1, 2008 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by Dec. 20, 2008. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Book chapters should be prepared according to the standard Springer-Verlag format. An author kit will be sent to the intended contributors. All chapters should be submitted electronically as email attachment in PDF file format to Dr. Huajun Chen (Email: huajunsir at gmail.com). Important Dates Author's intentions to contribute a book chapter: Sep. 15, 2008 Notification of proposal acceptance: Oct 1, 2008 Full chapter submission deadline: Dec 20, 2008 Author feedback and notification of decisions: Jan. 15, 2009 Final manuscript submission: Feb. 15th, 2009 Editors Huajun Chen, huajunsir at zju.edu.cn , huajunsir at gmail.com School of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China Yimin Wang, wang_yimin at lilly.com Lilly Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery, 8A Biomedical Grove, #02-05 Immunos, Singapore, 138648. Kei Cheung, kei.cheung at yale.edu Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA From lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org Fri Sep 5 15:14:59 2008 From: lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org (Lejla Ibralic Halilovic) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 15:14:59 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESWC2009: Call for Papers Message-ID: <007001c90f59$6a5437e0$3efca7a0$@ibralic-halilovic@sti2.org> =========================================== Call for Papers The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009) 31 May - 4 June 2009, Crete, Greece =========================================== The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's Web by exploiting machine-processable metadata. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and makes this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making tasks. Semantic Web research can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Databases and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks and Web Engineering. Many advances within these areas can contribute towards the realization of the Semantic Web. The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. ESWC 2009 will also feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium and a number of collocated workshops. The calls for these events are separate and can be found on the conference Web site (http://www.eswc2009.org/). ESWC 2009 is sponsored by STI2, Semantic Technology Institutes International. For more information on STI2, please visit http://www.sti2.org. Submissions ESWC 2009 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of the Semantic Web. We particularly encourage the submission of papers on industrial efforts and experiences with Semantic Web projects. We 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 2009 will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will *not* be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission -- details of this process will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. Best Paper Award An award will be given to the best paper (or papers) submitted to the conference as judged by the Program Chairs in collaboration with the Program Committee. Important Dates: Papers -------- Abstract Submission December 08, 2008 (compulsory) Full Paper Submission December 15, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification February 23, 2009 Camera Ready March 09, 2009 Demos -------- Submission January 16, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification February 23, 2009 Camera Ready March 09, 2009 Posters -------- Submission March 23, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification April 20, 2009 Camera Ready May 11, 2009 In-Use Track ------------ Submission December 15, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification February 23, 2009 Camera Ready March 09, 2009 Workshops --------- Proposal Submission November 22, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification December 08, 2008 Tutorials -------- Proposal Submission January 07, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification January 21, 2009 Panels ------- Proposal Submission February 02, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification February 23, 2009 Final Panel Description March 09, 2009 Phd Symposium ------------- Submission March 16, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification April 13, 2008 Camera Ready April 27, 2008 Topics of Interest Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: 1. Semantic Web Data and Ontologies * Interoperability of data on the Semantic Web * Technologies for linked data * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web * Semantic Annotation of Data * Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web * Query Languages and Optimization for the Semantic Web * Rule Languages for the Semantic Web * Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.) * Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) * Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g., HLT and ML approaches) 2. Semantic Web Services * Service Description, Composition, and Discovery * Service Orchestration and Choreography * Service Testing, Verification, and Validation * Service Monitoring, Adaptation and Management * SLA Modeling and Management * Quality of Services, Security, and Dependability * Service Engineering * Service Deployment, Execution, Infrastructures, and Architectures 3. Semantic Web Architectures * Semantics in P2P Computing * Semantics in Grid Computing * Semantics in Middleware 4. Applications on the Semantic Web * Multimedia and Semantic Web * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Interoperability of applications on the Semantic Web * Data mining on the Semantic Web * Personalization and User Modelling * User Interfaces and Semantic Web * Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals) * Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Learning and other application domains * Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web * Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation 5. Design and Evaluation of Semantic Web Applications and Technologies * Usability * Performance and scalability * Quality * Cost modeling * Testing and validation We particularly welcome application papers which clearly show benefits of Semantic Web technologies in practical settings. Semantic Web In-Use Track -------------------------- ESWC 2009 also features a "Semantic Web In-Use Track", which aims at showing the benefits of applying semantic technology in various real-life applications. The kind of contributions and presentations for this track should be different from these submitted to the scientific track. While papers submitted to the scientific track may provide an evidence of the scientific contribution through applications and evaluations (see Topics 4. and 5. above), papers submitted to the "Semantic Web In-Use Track" should be mainly organized with a presentation centered around some of or all of the following main aspects: * A description of concrete problems in specific domains of applications for which semantic technology would provide a solution. * A description of an implemented application of semantic technology in a specific domain * An assessment of the pros and cons of using semantic technology to solve a particular business problem in a specific domain * An assessment of the costs and benefits of the application of Semantic Web Technologies, times spent for implementation and deployment, efforts involved, user acceptance, returns on investment * A comparison to competing approaches using conventional or different technologies * An evidence and/or assessment of deployment and use of the application. From uwe.keller at sti2.at Thu Sep 4 23:54:09 2008 From: uwe.keller at sti2.at (Uwe Keller) Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:54:09 +0200 Subject: [DL] New Forms of Reasoning for the Semantic Web (NEFORS2008): 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <48C05901.1030607@sti2.at> ======================= 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ======================= Second International Workshop: "New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scaleable, tolerant and dynamic" http://nefors08.larkc.eu Co-located with the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008) http://www.aswc2008.org/ Pathumthani, Thailand, 8th-11th December 2008 ** SUBMISSION DEADLINE is approaching ** =================================================================== Workshop Objectives =================== The Semantic Web is the vision of a Web of data usable for both humans but also machines. This web, consists of inter-connected instance data annotated with possibly expressive ontologies. Therefore a tremendous amount of information becomes available that should be processed based on formal semantics attached to it. The Semantic Web community has developed a number of languages (such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL) that deploy logic for this purpose. Impressive progress has been made on scalable storage, querying and inference for these languages, and they are successfully being deployed on large intranets and medium-scale web-applications. However existing reasoning techniques often fail to live up to the expectations put into them in this context. They can often neither deal with high number of instances, the expressiveness of the ontologies describing them or the inherent inconsistency and incompleteness of data on the Web. This workshop is intended to focus on these problems of scalability and robustness of reasoning on the Web, and furthermore to investigate alternative reasoning methods, which take incompleteness and distribution of data and knowledge as inherent properties into account. NeForS08 is the follow-up of the first international workshop on "New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scalable, tolerant and dynamic", which took place in Busan, Korea in November 2007 and was co-located with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007) and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2007). Topics of Interest ================== We welcome all research contributions that address one or more of the following topics: * Reasoning for the Web * Querying and searching * Scalability to the Web level * Efficient storage of structured data that scale to a very large size We also aim to attract participants from scientific fields not typically seen at Semantic Web events: * Economics can tell us about cost-benefit trade-off models, sunk-cost theory and the role of negotiation in obtaining near-optimal results under bounded resources * Cognitive Science can tell us about strategies of human memory and human reasoning which is so succesful in reaching good enough conclusion in limited time-spans, using methods such as priming, attention scoping, recency-based self-optimising memory, etc. * Computational Learning Theory has contributions to make with their notions of Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) computing, and strategies for abstraction and compression of information. * Combinatorial Search has made recent breakthroughs in handling massive search-spaces with heuristics based on Monte Carlo simulations. Event Information ================= The workshop will take place during the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC2008) as a full-day event. It will be organized as a full day event and include an invited talk on the industrial view on semantic technologies and the need for large-scale reasoning. Please note that for every accepted paper at least one of the authors must attend the workshop and must register for the workshop and the main conference. 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 will be given priority. Submissions =========== The workshop invites full papers (up to 15 pages) as well as short papers (up to 5 pages). All contributions will be peer reviewed by the program commitee (see http://nefors08.larkc.eu) and accepted submissions will be published in a dedicated book. The number of accepted papers will be kept deliberately low in order to leave sufficient time for discussion after presentations. Additionally we are considering a special issue in a journal on semantic computing for extended versions of selected, high quality submissions. Submitted papers must be written in English and one of the following format must be used for the first submission: PDF, PS, DOC. For submissions please follow LNCS formatting instructions (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 for details) to prepare your paper and consider using the camera ready format even for the first submission. Furthermore papers need to be submitted electronically through the EasyChair using the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=nefors08 Important Dates =============== * September 15, 2008: Submission of papers * September 30, 2008: Notification of acceptance * October 15, 2008: Camera-ready version due * December 8, 2008: Workshop Organizers ========== Zhisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Uwe Keller, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan and The International WIC Institute/BJUT, China Program Committee ================= * Ruzica Piskac, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland * Guilin Qi, Institut f?r Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany * Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Lael Schooler, MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany * Pascal Hitzler, Institut f?r Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany * Yue Pan, IBM Research Laboratory, Beijing, China * Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China * Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL, Milano, Italy * Stefania Galizia, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom * Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, Austin, Texas, USA * Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China * Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Trento, Italy * Anupriya Ankolekar, Institut f?r Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany * Cristina Feier, Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Technical University of Viennna, Vienna, Austria * Stijn Heymans, Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Technical University of Viennna, Vienna, Austria * Kyung-Il Tony Lee, Saltlux Inc., Seoul, Korea * Anita Raja, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA * Jia Hu, Bejing University of Technology, Bejing, China Steering Committee =================== Dieter Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Contact ======= Florian Fischer Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria Technikerstr. 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria E florian.fischer at sti2.at From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Tue Sep 9 14:24:04 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:24:04 -0400 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation: ISWC 2008 Message-ID: <48C66AE4.5050509@cs.rpi.edu> [Apologies for multiple copies] ISWC 2008 Call for Participation THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SEMANTIC WEB CONFERENCE 26-30 October 2008, Karlsruhe Germany http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ ISWC 2008 is a significant gathering for the Semantic Web community, with many exciting and stimulating events. This year we are fortunate to hold the conference at the Karlsruhe Kongresszentrum, a convention facility conveniently located in Karlsruhe's city center. The ISWC 2008 program includes a great deal for practitioners, researchers, students, and business people, including both the experienced and those new to the concepts and technology. The days before the start of the main conference include the Doctoral Consortium, a series of eleven half and full-day tutorials, and thirteen workshops. The main conference features a series of keynotes and invited talks, regular paper presentations, panels, poster presentations, demonstrations, a series of lightning talks, an exhibit of products and services and several social events. * 3 keynote talks http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/program/information-on-keynotes/ * 43 research papers: http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/program/research-track/ * 14 in-use papers: http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/program/in-use-track/ * 11 tutorials (October 26 - 27) http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/tutorials/ * 13 one-day workshops (October 26 - 27) http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/workshops/ * 3 collocated conferences: OWLED2008, RR2008, FOIS2008 ----------------------------------------------------------- MAIN CONFERENCE (October 28 - 30) ----------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE TALKS. The conference will have three plenary keynote talks from distinguished researchers, one on each day. * Ramesh Jain (UC Irvine), Multimedia Semantic Web * John Giannandrea (Metaweb Technologies Inc), Freebase: An Open, Writable Database of the World?s Information * Stefan Decker (DERI Galway), Message in a Bottle or How can the Semantic Web Community be more convincing? Additional invited talks will be made by sponsors and other organizations applying Semantic Web technology and ideas, including Mark Greaves (Vulcan, Inc) and Michal Finkelstein (Thompson/Reuters). REGULAR PAPERS. A total of 57 submitted papers will be presented, 43 in the Research track and 14 in the In Use track. These were selected from over 250 submissions. RECEPTION, POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS. The ISWC reception on Tuesday evening (18:30-21:00) will also include our poster and demonstration session. There will be 55 posters presented accompanied by two page poster papers and with 32 demonstrations with two-page papers describing the systems. DINNER AND DANCING. The main conference social event will start with a reception at 19:30 on Wednesday evening, continue on to a dinner and finish with dancing until 1:00 on Thursday morning. SEMANTIC WEB CHALLENGE. A special plenary session on work submitted to the the Semantic Web and the Billion Triples challenges will be held on Wednesday afternoon. LIGHTNING TALKS. A special session provides an opportunity for any participants to present ideas, comments, calls for collaboration, scathing polemic criticisms, and more, with controversy and discussion strongly encouraged!! Talks should last no longer than two minutes and can include one PDF slide. There is no review process, but speakers are required to sign up by 12:00 on October 30. ISWC 2008 SOCIAL NETWORK. This year ISWC will have its own social networking site hosted by CrowdVine. This will facilitate attendees making connections, engaging in discussions, sharing observations and making new friends. CLOSING. At the closing session on Thursday afternoon, we will recap the events of the week, present awards for the best papers, posters and demonstrations and hear about ISWC 2009, which will be held in Washington DC. ----------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS (11 in total, October 26-27) ----------------------------------------------------------- * Intro to Semantic Web - Invited Tutorial (full day) * Reasoning for Ontology Engineering and Usage (full day) * Formal Concept Analysis for the Semantic Web * A Semantic Multimedia Web: Create, Annotate, Present and Share your Media * Working Modularly with OWL * Knowledge Representation and Extraction for Business Intelligence * RDFa?Bridging the Web of Documents and the Web of Data * RSWA 2008 - Realizing a Semantic Web Application * How to Publish Linked Data on the Web * Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences * Free Semantic Content: Using OpenCyc in Semantic Web Applications ----------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS (13 in total, October 26-27) ----------------------------------------------------------- * 2nd Int. Workshop on Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web * Terra Cognita 2008 * 3rd Int. Workshop on Ontology Matching * 3rd ExpertFinder Workshop: Personal Identification and Collaborations - Knowledge Mediation and Extraction (PICKME?08) * 7th Semantic Web Services Challenge Workshop * 4th Int. Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE2008) * 4th Int. Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web * Int. Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD2008) * Nature inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web (NatuReS) * Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008) * 4th Int. Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS2008) * 1st Int. Workshop on Incentives for the Semantic Web (INSEMTIVE 2008) * 1st Int. Workshop on Ontology-supported Business Intelligence (OBI 2008) ----------------------------------------------------------- CO-LOCATED EVENTS (3 in total) ---------------------------------------------------------- * the Fifth International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, (OWLED) * the Second International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2008) * the Fifth International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) ----------------------------------------------------------- PARTICIPATION DETAILS ----------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION. Register online (http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/registration/) by September 18 for early rates and by October 9 for late online rates. LOGISTICS. Information on hotels and travel to Karlsruhe is available on the ISWC site (http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/). Li Ding Research Scientist Tetherless World Constellation Computer Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th St, Troy, NY12180, USA, Tel: +1(518)276-4426 Fax: +1(518)276-4464 URL: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~dingl/ From areces at pluton.loria.fr Thu Sep 18 16:53:46 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:53:46 +0200 Subject: [DL] [ESSLLI 2010] Call for Bids Message-ID: <200809181453.m8IErkT5004578@pluton.loria.fr> Please distribute as widely as possible and excuses for multiple posting. ************************************************ * Call for Bids to Host the 22-th ESSLLI, 2010 * ************************************************ The Association for Logic, Language and Computation (FoLLI) and the ESSLLI Standing Committee invite proposals to host the 22-nd European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI), to be held in August 2010. *** The ESSLLI Summer School *** ESSLLI is a summer school which takes place two weeks in the summer, every year since 1989. The school hosts approximately 50 courses at both introductory and advanced level, and convokes around 400 participants each year from all over the world. The main focus of the program of the summer schools is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited lectures. Detailed information about the ESSLLI organization can be found in the ESSLLI general guide, and the organizing and program committee guides. The guides can be obtained via the Standing Committee secretary. *** Submission Procedure *** At this time we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders. Based on an evaluation of the draft proposals, promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection procedure. The ESSLLI Standing Committee (SC), in consultation with the management board of FoLLI, will finally select the site, the organizing committee, and the program committee, and supervise the subsequent organization. *** Draft Proposals *** Draft proposals should identify a target site, date and organizing team with a chair who will be responsible for the overal organization. The organization committee is responsible for all matters having to do with the practical organization. Draft proposals should at least include information on: -> Location (accessibility; school venue; accommodation and facilities) -> Proposed dates and organizing team -> Endorsement by hosting organization -> Local Language, Logic, and Computation community -> Meeting and accommodation venues; audiovisual equipment -> Catering and reception facilities; social program opportunities -> Budget estimates *** Proposal Assessment *** Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria (unordered): -> Experience of organizing team, involvement in previous ESSLLIs -> Local endorsement -> Appropriateness of proposed dates -> Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site -> Adequacy of campus facilities for the anticipated number of registrants -> Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in an appropriate range of price categories and close to the conference facilities -> Adequacy of budget projections -> Geographical and national balance with regard to meetings in the decade prior to 2010: Birmingham (2000), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Wien (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Malaga (2006), Dublin (2007), Hamburg (2008), Bordeaux (2009) *** Important Dates *** -> September 15, 2008, call for bids posted -> November 15, 2008, draft proposals due -> November/December, 2008, SC provides feedback -> January 31, 2009, final proposals due -> February, 2009, bid selected at ESSLLI SC meeting Information about FoLLI and ESSLLI can be found at: http:// www.folli.org/. If you want to consult the ESSLLI guidelines, or have any other queries about drafting your bid, please contact Sophia Katrenko or Paul Dekker. Draft proposals should be sent to: Sophia Katrenko Paul Dekker Informatics Institute ILLC/Department of Philosophy Faculty of Science Faculty of Humanities Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 419 Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 NL-1098 VA Amsterdam NL-1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 (0)20 525 6786 +31 (0)20 5254541 +31 (0)20 525 6896 (fax) +31 (0)20 5254503 (fax) katrenko at science.uva.nl p.j.e.dekker at uva.nl From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Wed Sep 24 09:45:18 2008 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:45:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] PhD / Postdoc Position Message-ID: The following position is available at Faculty 3 (Mathematics and Computer Science) of the University of Bremen, subject to position clearance: 1 Doctoral Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Researcher Computer Science (TVL 13, 35,000 to 50,000 Euro p.a. pre-tax) The successful candidate will be associated with the new group for the theory of artificial intelligence and teach courses in computer science (theoretical computer science and AI). The position can be used for scientific qualification (PhD or habilitation). Candidates should have a degree in computer science or a related field (diploma, master or PhD). The focus of the new group will be on description logic, modal logic, and related areas. Candidates with a background in knowledge representation and/or logic in computer science will be given preference. As the University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of female employees in science, women are particularly encouraged to apply. In case of equal personal aptitude and qualification, disabled persons will be given priority. The position is available from November 2008 (or later) and is initally limited to three years. Extension is possible. The application deadline is October 13, 2008, but the application process will continue until a suitable candidate is found. Please address questions and send your application under the reference number A 161/08 (email very much preferred) to: Prof. Carsten Lutz Fachbereich 3 Universitaet Bremen Postfach 33 04 40 28334 Bremen clu at informatik.uni-bremen.de We kindly ask to submit application documents as copies, as we are not able to send them back. After the application process has come to an end, all application material will be destructed. From f.j.mcneill at ed.ac.uk Wed Sep 24 13:28:54 2008 From: f.j.mcneill at ed.ac.uk (Fiona McNeill) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:28:54 +0100 Subject: [DL] 1st CFP: Workshop on Matching and Meaning: automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies. Message-ID: <20080924122854.zd0phc8maso80o4o@mail.inf.ed.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Matching and Meaning: Automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/workshops/WMM09/ 9th April 2009, part of AISB'09 Convention, Edinburgh, UK OVERVIEW The problem of semantic misalignment - of two systems failing to understand one another when their semantic representation is not identical - occurs in a huge variety of areas: the Semantic Web, databases, natural language processing; anywhere, indeed, where semantics are necessary but centralised control is undesirable or impractical. In highly dynamic domains, where interactions are between a large, diverse and evolving community, there is a need for the resolving of these misalignments - through developing and evolving existing ontologies or interpreting unknown ontologies in terms of known ones - to be done automatically and on-the-fly. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the problems of automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies in the many different domains in which it occurs. We are primarily interested in the exchange of ideas and the stimulation of debate, and the workshop is intended to be a forum for researchers to present ongoing work and ideas and to engage in discussion with other researchers from the field. We are particularly interested in novel ideas and innovative research, which may be in its early stages, and encourage reports on work in progress. Topics of interest include: * Ontology evolution * Ontology matching and alignment * Ontology versioning * Representational or structural change * Formal aspects of ontology dynamics * Foundational issues * Social and collaborative matching * Background knowledge in matching * Extensions to ontology languages to better support change * Belief revision for ontologies and the Semantic Web * Inconsistency handling in evolving ontologies * Uncertainty in matching * Change propagation in ontologies and metadata * Ontologies for dynamic environments * Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation * Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications * Open problems SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We encourage the submission of extended abstracts that discuss ongoing research, problem descriptions and overviews of the domain. These may be of any length; we expect two or three pages will be appropriate in most cases. This workshop will be non-archival so it is not necessary that abstracts should meet fixed standards; they are primarily intended to highlight ideas. Submissions will be subject to light reviewing, mainly intended to check fit to workshop. Abstracts should be submitted electronically in pdf format to f.j.mcneill-at-ed.ac.uk by 19th December 2008. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the submitting author on 13th February 2009. VENUE The workshop will take place at the Edinburgh Convention Centre at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, as part of the AISB 2009 Convention (http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb09/), on April 9th 2009. All workshop participants must be registered for the AISB 2009 Convention. Registration for this workshop is included in the convention registration fee. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: Friday, 19th December 2008 Notification: Friday, 13th February 2009 Workshop: 9th April 2009 AISB09 Convention: 6th - 9th April 2009 PROGRAMME Presentations: Authors of accepted abstracts will give presentations of their work; exact times to be decided. Posters: If it is not possible to fit in presentations for all accepted authors, some may be asked to present posters instead. There will be a session of 5 minute poster talks. Panel: The technical programme will end with a 90 minute panel discussion on a topic of mutual interest to be decided. Three speakers will speak for 10 minutes each with a brief to stimulate debate during the remaining 60 minutes. Discussion amongst all participants, rather than question-and-answering for the panel, will be strongly encouraged. ORGANISERS Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Michael Chan, University of Edinburgh, UK PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE Manuel Atencia Arcas, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, UK Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Adam Pease, Articulate Software, USA Pavel Shvaiko, TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Sun Sep 21 21:07:42 2008 From: rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Sebastian Rudolph) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:07:42 +0200 Subject: [DL] First CfP: ICCS'09 Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies Message-ID: <83813456-CCA4-4BA2-9D63-5E72C3B88C3A@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this email to anyone interested. ===First Call for Papers=== ICCS'09 Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies 26 - 31 July 2009, State University Higher School of Economics (SU HSE) , Moscow, Russia http://www.iccs.info The 17th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2009) is the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in Europe, Australia, and North America since 1993. The focus of the conference has been the representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge for research and practical application. ICCS brings together researchers and practioners in information and computer sciences as well as social science to explore novel ways that conceptual structures can be deployed. Arising from the research on knowledge representation and reasoning with Conceptual Graphs, over the years ICCS has broadened its scope to include innovations from a wider range of theories and related practices, among them other form of graph-based reasoning systems like RDF or Existential Graphs, Formal Concept Analysis, Semantic Web Technologies, Ontologies, Concept Mapping and more. Accordingly, ICCS represents a family of approaches related to conceptual structures that build on the successes with techniques derived from artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, applied mathematics and lattice theory, computational linguistics, conceptual modeling and design, diagrammatic reasoning and logic, intelligent systems and knowledge management. The activity of the field is witnessed by two recently published books ("Conceptual Structures in Practice", ed. by Hitzler and Sch?rfe and "Graph-based Knowledge Representation: Computational Foundations of Conceptual Graphs" by Chein and Mugnier) as well as by an ISO standard ("Common Logic", ISO/ IEC 24707) which orginated in this community. The 2009 ICCS's theme "leveraging semantic technologies" hints to the large overlap of the research fields of semantic technologies and conceptual structures, and emphasizes the goal of closer connecting these two areas in order to obtain a mutual benefit. Papers for ICCS 2009 are invited on, but not restricted to, the following topics: * conceptual structures - theory and applications * semantic technologies and conceptual structures[FD6] * the interplay of conceptual structures with language, semantics, semiotics and pragmatics * conceptual data processing, analysis and conceptual logic * modeling, representation and visualization of concepts * conceptual knowledge acquisition * knowledge representation and reasoning with conceptual structures * applied conceptual structures including data mining and knowledge discovery * theory and applications of formal ontologies * graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and practical research outcomes. 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 recommend the use of LaTeX2e for the final version. For more details see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs . Position papers (up to 4 pages) are also welcome. Deadlines * Monday January 5, 2009: a one page abstract submitted via conference website (Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.) * Monday January 12, 2009: full paper (not more than 14 pages) in PDF format submitted via conference website 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) . A precondition for publication is that the final version is in full compliance with Springer's format. == Conference Chairs == General Chair * Sergei Kuznetsov (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) skuznetsov at yandex.ru Program Chairs * Frithjof Dau (SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany) frithjof.dau at sap.com * Sebastian Rudolph (Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de _________________________________________________ Dr. Sebastian Rudolph Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 (0)721 693 717 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sean.bechhofer at manchester.ac.uk Tue Sep 23 10:17:01 2008 From: sean.bechhofer at manchester.ac.uk (Sean Bechhofer) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:17:01 +0100 Subject: [DL] Job Advert: Sensor Information Management @ Manchester Message-ID: *********************************************************************** Research Associate in Sensor Information Management School of Computer Science University of Manchester *********************************************************************** Application closing date: 29/09/2008 Reference: EPS/80857 This post is supported through an EU project, the goal of which is to investigate software architectures for the collection, integration and sharing of environmental sensor data. This post focuses on architecture design and development, and in particular the role of semantic technologies for describing and discovering sensor networks and their data products. Thus, solid understanding of software architectures is a very relevant skill for this post. The project is hosted by the Information Management Group (http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/img) and combines its strengths in semantic technologies and sensor data management. Applicants should have a strong first degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, and a PhD or equivalent relevant experience. You should also have research or development experience in data integration, semantic technologies and / or sensor networks. The post is available for a period of 3 years. The salary will fall in the range ??27,466 - ??33,780 p.a. More details about the post are available here: Further particulars - ref EPS/80857 (PDF - 37 KB) http://www.manchester.ac.uk/_contentlibrary/_vacancies/ furtherparticularsmax10mbpdf,138482,en.pdf For informal or preliminary enquiries, please contact: Dr Alvaro A.A. Fernandes (af at cs.man.ac.uk) Phone: +44-(0)161-275-6199 To apply for this vacancy, please download a copy of the application form either as a PDF, or RTF: * Application form PDF http://www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/vacancies/ applicationform.pdf * Application form RTF http://www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/vacancies/ applicationform.rtf Please quote reference EPS/80857 and ensure that the application reaches the University of Manchester by the closing date of 29/09/2008. Please refer to the guidance notes for more information on how to apply for our vacancies: * Guidance notes PDF http://www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/vacancies/ guidancenotes.pdf If you require copies of documentation in alternative formats; large print, Braille etc, please contact Human Resources: * hr at manchester.ac.uk To request a hard copy, please contact: The Directorate of Human Resources Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences Tel: + 44 (0) 161 275 8837 Email: eps-hr at manchester.ac.uk *********************************************************************** -- Sean Bechhofer School of Computer Science University of Manchester sean.bechhofer at manchester.ac.uk http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer From tagotnes at gmail.com Mon Sep 22 16:51:15 2008 From: tagotnes at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_=C5gotnes?=) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:51:15 +0200 Subject: [DL] PhD student position in multi-agent logics, Bergen, Norway Message-ID: <5BB3A1C3-D37D-473B-8802-3DC1C932998D@hib.no> At Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway, there is an open position for a PhD student in the area of logics for multi-agent systems. The position is full-time for four years. Salary starts at NOK 353 200 gross per year (appr. EUR 43 000 per year). Closing date for applications is 1 November 2008. For a description of the position and application procedure, see: http://hib.easycruit.com/vacancy/230697/41311 Contact: Dr. Thomas ?gotnes, tag at hib.no, +47 55587229 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas ?gotnes Bergen University College P.O. Box 7030, N-5020 Bergen, Norway Tel: (+47) 55587229 Fax: (+47) 55587790 http://home.hib.no/ansatte/tag/ tag at hib.no From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Mon Sep 29 15:45:44 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:45:44 -0400 Subject: [DL] Last call for participation - International Semantic Web Conference, October 2008, Karlsruhe Germany Message-ID: <48E0DC08.20304@cs.rpi.edu> (apology for cross posting) You are invited to ISWC 2008, the major international forum for the Semantic Web. The conference serves introductory tutorials, cutting-edge research presentation, exhibitions of the latest business products, and many social activities. It also offers great social networking opportunities for meeting academic leaders, industrial practitioners, researchers, developers, and students. ==Attending Conference== ISWC 2008 will be held in Karlsruhe Germany, October 26-30, 2008. http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ Please register online by October 9 to save 100 eu and take advantage of special hotel offers which are good if made four weeks in advance. http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/registration/ ==Highlights of the Conference Program== * 11 tutorials on, e.g., Introduction to Semantic Web, Ontology, RDFa, Multimedia, Business Intelligence, Health Care, Applications, Linked Data. (http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/tutorials) * 13 workshops on, e.g., e-science, semantic reasoning, software engineering, web service, knowledge extraction, scalability, and social network. (http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/workshops) * 10 keynote and invited industrial talks - Multimedia Semantic Web, Ramesh Jain (UCI) - Freebase: An Open, Writable, John Giannandre (Metaweb Technologies) - How can the Semantic Web Community be more convincing, Stefan Decker, (DERI Galway, Ireland) - Semantic Wikis: Fusing the two strands of the Semantic Web, Mark Greaves (Vulcan Inc.) - Internet of Services, York Sure (SAP Research) - Semantic Web @ BBN, Mike Dean (BBN) - Data Intelligence, Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft Research) - Semantic Web in Asia: Example Use Cases, Tony Lee (SaltLux) - Making the Web searchable, Peter Mika (Yahoo Inc), - Semantic Web from an industry perspective, J?rgen Angele (Ontoprise) * 57 paper presentations, including 14 in Semantic Web in-use track * 55 posters and 32 demonstrations, a panel on OWL2, and lightning talks * social events, social networking, reception, banquet and dancing. - see http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/program/social-events/ - see http://iswc2008.crowdvine.com/ for meeting people * co-located events: RR'2008 and OWLED'2008 The complete conference program is available at http://tinyurl.com/iswc08-pdf. From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Tue Sep 30 11:47:30 2008 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Uli Sattler) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:47:30 +0100 Subject: [DL] Invitation to attend OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED) 2008 Message-ID: Apologies if you receive this message more than once.... Registration Registration is now open for OWLED 2008, to be held October 26-27 in Karlsruhe, Germany, colocated with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). To register, go to the ISWC Registration page: http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/registration and make your selection in the section Conferences Early Registration. For more information about registration, including deadlines for discounted registration and student support, please visit http://webont.org/owled/2008/registration.html As the deadline for getting the best discount on registration is coming up quickly - September 30 - please consider registering as soon as possible. About OWLED Like its predecessors, the fifth workshop in the OWLED workshop series aims at bringing users, implementors and researchers together in order to measure the current state of need against the state of the art, to share experience applying OWL in applications, and to set an agenda for language evolutions that satisfy users. With the specification of OWL 2 well in progress, the workshop will be an excellent opportunity to learn about, discuss and debate new developments in the language, and to give feedback to the working group. OWLED is the best forum for meeting people who have experience using OWL. Many of the designers and leading researchers that participated in the development of OWL are in attendance and the workshop is characterized by it's the friendly sharing of knowledge and its interactive nature. Thanks to the efforts of program chairs Uli Sattler and Catherine Dolbear, and the excellent submissions. We are looking at a stimulating program this year, including a great crop of presentations and several interactive sessions. A quick overview below lists the long papers accepted for oral presentation. The web site contains the full list of accepted papers and posters and the tentative program. This year OWLED is sponsored by Clark & Parsia, IBM Research, Science Commons, and Openlink Software. Thanks to their generosity we will be able to provide some amount of funding support for students who need it. Hope to see you there! Feel free to contact me with any questions you might have. Regards, Alan Ruttenberg, general chair alanruttenberg+owled2008 at gmail.com http://www.webont.org/owled/2008/ Accepted long papers Quantities in OWL. Bijan Parsia and Michael Smith. Conjunctive Query Answering in EL using a Database. Carsten Lutz, David Toman and Frank Wolter Enhancing Web Portals with Ontology-Based Data Access: The Case Study of South Africa's Accessibility Portal for People with Disabilities. C. Maria Keet, Ronell Alberts, Aurona Gerber and Gibson Chimamiwa. OWLlink: DIG for OWL 2. Thorsten Liebig, Marko Luther, Olaf Noppens, Mariano Rodriguez, Diego Calvanese, Michael Wessel, Matthew Horridge, Sean Bechhofer, Dmitry Tsarkov and Evren Sirin. The OWL of Biomedical Investigations. Melanie Courtot, William Bug, Frank Gibson, Allyson L. Lister, James Malone, Daniel Schober, Ryan Brinkman and Alan Ruttenberg. Literate, Active OWL Ontologies. Bijan Parsia. ACE View --- an Ontology and Rule Editor based on Attempto Controlled English. Kaarel Kaljurand. Owlgres: A Scalable OWL Reasoner. Markus Stocker and Michael Smith. The OWL in the CASL - Designing Ontologies Across Logics. Oliver Kutz, Dominik Luecke, Till Mossakowski and Immanuel Normann. Managing Change: An Ontology Version Control System. Timothy Redmond, Michael Smith, Nick Drummond and Tania Tudorache. HermiT: A Highly-Efficient OWL Reasoner. Rob Shearer, Boris Motik and Ian Horrocks. What Causes Pneumonia? The Case for a Standard Semantics for "may" in OWL. Alan Rector, Robert Stevens and Nick Drummond. Biological Situational Modeling: Defining Molecular Roles in Pathways and Reactions. Michel Dumontier. Opening, Closing Worlds - On Integrity Constraints. Evren Sirin, Michael Smith and Evan Wallace. InfixOWL: An Idiomatic Interface for OWL. Chimezie Ogbuji. Judging Amy: Automated Legal Assessment using OWL 2. Saskia van de Ven, Rinke Hoekstra, Joost Breuker, Lars Wortel and Abdallah El-Ali. Probabilistic Modeling and OWL: A User Oriented Introduction to P- SHIQ(D).Pavel Klinov and Bijan Parsia. Understanding Entailments in OWL. Matthew Horridge, Johannes Bauer, Bijan Parsia, and Ulrike Sattler Easy Keys for OWL. Bijan Parsia, Ulrike Sattler, and Thomas Schneider Modelling ontologies using OWL, Description Graphs and Rules. Boris Motik, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, and Ulrike Sattler From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Sun Oct 5 05:45:29 2008 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 05:45:29 +0200 Subject: [DL] 3 PhD bursaries at KRDB Research Centre, Bolzano, Italy - Final Call - Deadline Oct. 20, 2008 Message-ID: ====================================================== FINAL CALL - DEADLINE October 20, 2008 3 PhD positions with studentship at the KRDB Research Centre Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ====================================================== The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) offers an opening for 14 positions for its PhD program, 7 of which with a three-year studentship. 3 of the 7 PhD positions with studentship are offered by the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data . The deadline for the formal application is Oct. 20, 2008. Information about how to apply for the PhD program and the studentship can be found in the university PhD web page and in the faculty PhD web page (follow link "Public Competition Announcement for PhD courses - 24th cycle") The studentship amounts roughly to 45,000 Euro over the three years of the PhD. Substantial extra funding is available for participation in international conferences, schools, and workshops. The faculty of Computer Science and its PhD program are entirely based on the English language. RESEARCH TOPICS The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data of the faculty of Computer Science also invites applicants to the PhD program to get in touch with the research group, in order to have a better understanding of the possible research activities in which prospective students may be involved. Relevant research topics in the centre are the following: * Computational Logic and Deductive Databases * Computational Logic and Constraint Programming * Data and Information Integration * Description Logics and Ontology Languages * Efficient Reasoning Algorithms for Description Logics * Intelligent Access to Web Resources * Logic Based Approaches to Natural Language Understanding * Logic-Based Modelling of Biological Knowledge * Natural Language Processing * Ontology Development and Evaluation * P2P Database Integration * Query Answering in Distributed Environments * Semistructured Data Management * Temporal Logics and Temporal Databases Other research topics are listed in the personal web pages of the members of the KRDB Centre, see . The research activities in the KRDB research centre require good knowledge of Logic and of Foundations of Databases, and some knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and of Knowledge Representation. Good knowledge of English is also preferred. CONTACTS To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre, send an email to: Prof. Diego Calvanese Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano via della Mostra, 4 I-39100 Bolzano, Italy Email: calvanese at inf.unibz.it Phone: +39-0471-016-160 Fax: +39-0471-016-009 To get in touch with the current PhD students, see . From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Sat Oct 4 17:05:33 2008 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:05:33 +0200 Subject: [DL] open postdoc position in Semantic Web (AIFB Karlsruhe) Message-ID: <48E7863D.8030507@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> job opening: POSTDOC POSITION group of Prof. Rudi Studer, AIFB, Karlsruhe, Germany (SEMANTIC WEB) profile: metadata creation/annotation, structured information retrieval, knowledge acquisition, ontology learning, large-scale text mining or semantic search The position requires German language deadline: 29th of October 2008 more information: if you have and further questions, let me know. Pascal. -- PD Dr. Pascal Hitzler Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH), 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 Springer Lehrbuch: http://www.semantic-web-grundlagen.de From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Thu Oct 2 17:40:29 2008 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu d'Aquin) Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:40:29 +0100 Subject: [DL] JOB: Research Assistant - Semantic Web Message-ID: <48E4EB6D.9090802@open.ac.uk> ****** Apologies for multiple postings ****** Research Assistant: Semantic Web (Ref: 5113) ?25,888 -- ?27,466 - Based in Milton Keynes (UK) - 15 months The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute has an opening for an experienced person to take on the role of Research Assistant to contribute to the development of the Watson Semantic Web gateway (http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk) and of related technologies, supporting Semantic Web search, semantic application development and knowledge publishing on the Semantic Web. This work takes place within the context of the EU-funded Integrated Project NeOn (http://neon-project.org). You should have experience in advanced, large-scale Web development, and have a strong interest in Semantic Web, as well as in Web 2.0 applications. Experience in languages such as Java/Javascript/PHP, in Semantic Web libraries such as Jena, and in search libraries such as Lucene would be highly advantageous. You should also demonstrate your ability to work within a research team, and will be asked to follow agile development methods. For detailed information and how to apply go to http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy-5113.php, call the KMi Recruitment Coordinator on +44 (0) 1908 654774 or email quoting the reference number. Closing date: 31st October 2008. Informal enquiries may be made to: Dr. Mathieu d'Aquin -- m.daquin at open.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)1908 655526. and/or Professor Enrico Motta -- e.motta at open.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)1908 653506. From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Mon Oct 6 19:04:48 2008 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Uli Sattler) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:04:48 +0100 Subject: [DL] First call for papers: JAR special issue on Description Logics Message-ID: <14E1FBB0-2012-4738-BBB0-B1114C45066B@cs.man.ac.uk> [apologies for cross-posting] First Call for papers Special issue of the JOURNAL OF AUTOMATED REASONING http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/JAR/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/100280/ on DESCRIPTION LOGICS IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: November 28, 2008 Reviews due: February 27, 2009 Revised version due: July 24, 2009 Final reviews due: August 31, 2009 Final version due: September 30, 2009 Publication date: January 2010 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 as logical underpinning of the web ontology languages OWL and OWL 2. Traditionally, DL research places a strong emphasis on reasoning, and involves a broad spectrum of reasoning problems ranging from classical ones like satisfiability testing and classification to more novel ones like explanation and module extraction. These problems are tackled with a wide array of reasoning techniques including tableau algorithms, automata-based approaches, and resolution. The purpose of this special issue is to provide a snapshot of the current research on reasoning in DLs, covering different approaches ranging 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 reasoning problems * complexity of reasoning * implementation and optimization techniques * empirical evaluations of reasoning techniques * application of reasoning in DLs * tools for engineering and interacting with DL knowledge bases or OWL ontologies * reasoning techniques for query answering * reasoning techniques for modularizing ontologies * non-monotonic extensions of Description Logics SUBMISSIONS This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor submitted to any journals. Authors of papers presented at DL 2008 are welcome to submit extended and revised versions of their papers. However, contributions are not limited to those based on DL papers; other submissions are welcome as well. This includes long versions of papers previously published at a conference, 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 pdf-format) should be prepared using the style files at http://www.springer.com/computer/foundations/journal/10817 and submitted to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jardl08 GUEST EDITOR Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen, Germany) http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/~clu/ Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~sattler/ FURTHER INFORMATION If you have further questions, please contact the guest editors by sending an email to "jardl08 at easychair.org". From carsten at itu.dk Wed Oct 8 14:44:06 2008 From: carsten at itu.dk (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Carsten_Sch=FCrmann?=) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:44:06 +0200 Subject: [DL] CADE-22 first call for papers Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CADE-22 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2-7, 2009 Submission Deadline: 23 Feb 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ GENERAL INFORMATION CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. The conference programme will include invited talks, paper presentations, system descriptions, workshops, tutorials, and system competitions. SCOPE We invite high-quality submissions on the general topic of automated deduction, including foundations, applications, implementations and practical experiences. Logics of interest include, but are not limited to o propositional, first-order, equational, higher-order, classical, description, modal, temporal, many-valued, intuitionistic, other non-classical, meta-logics, logical frameworks, type theory and set theory. Methods of interest include, but are not limited to o saturation, resolution, instance-based, tableaux, sequent calculi, natural deduction, term rewriting, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, constraint solving, induction, unification, proof planning, proof checking, proof presentation and explanation. Applications of interest include, but are not limited to o program analysis and verification, hardware verification, mathematics, natural language processing, computational linguistics, knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, functional and logic programming, robotics, planning, and other areas of AI. WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, SYSTEM COMPETITION: A two-day workshop and tutorial programme will be co-organized with the conference. In addition, the annual CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) will be held during the conference. Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. PUBLICATION DETAILS: The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submissions can be made in the categories 'regular papers' and 'system descriptions'. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 15 pages for regular papers and 5 pages for system descriptions. Full system descriptions that provide in-depth presentation of original ideas in an implemented system can be submitted as regular papers. For the benefit of reviewers, additional material may be provided by a clearly marked appendix or a reference to a manuscript on a website. It is at the discretion of the reviewers whether such supplements will be considered. All regular papers will be evaluated according to the highest standards in terms of originality, significance, technical quality, and readability. Submissions must be in English and standard conforming pdf format. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are strongly encouraged to produce their papers in LaTeX. Detailed instructions for electronic submission via EasyChair will be published at the conference website. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. IMPORTANT DATES: A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper. 16 Feb 2009 abstract submission deadline 23 Feb 2009 paper submission deadline 10 Apr 2009 notification of paper decisions 14 May 2009 camera-ready papers due 2-3 Aug 2009 Workshops & Tutorials 4-7 Aug 2009 Conference, including CASC PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Armando Universit? di Genova Franz Baader Technische Universit?t Dresden Peter Baumgartner NICTA, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universit? degli Studi di Verona Bernhard Beckert Universit?t Koblenz-Landau Nikolaj Bj?rner Microsoft Research Alessandro Cimatti Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento Silvio Ghilardi Universit? degli Studi di Milano J?rgen Giesl RWTH Aachen Rajeev Gor? The Australian National University Reiner H?hnle Chalmers University of Technology John Harrison Intel Corporation Miki Hermann ?cole Polytechnique Ullrich Hustadt University of Liverpool Katsumi Inoue National Institute of Informatics, Japan Tommi Junttila Helsinki University of Technology Deepak Kapur University of New Mexico Alexander Leitsch Technische Universit?t Wien Christopher Lynch Clarkson University Claude March? INRIA Saclay, Parc Orsay Universit? William McCune University of New Mexico Aart Middeldorp Universit?t Innsbruck Hans de Nivelle University of Wroclaw Albert Oliveras Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Lawrence Paulson University of Cambridge Brigitte Pientka McGill University David Plaisted University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Micha?l Rusinowitch LORIA-INRIA-Lorraine Renate Schmidt (Chair) The University of Manchester Carsten Sch?rmann IT-Universitetet i K?benhavn Aaron Stump The University of Iowa Geoff Sutcliffe University of Miami Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester Christoph Weidenbach Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik ORGANIZERS Conference Chair: Brigitte Pientka McGill University Workshop & Tutorial Chair: Aaron Stump The University of Iowa Publicity Chair: Carsten Sch?rmann IT-Universitetet i K?benhavn PC Chair: Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester From carsten at itu.dk Fri Oct 10 16:01:08 2008 From: carsten at itu.dk (Carsten Schuermann) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:01:08 +0200 Subject: [DL] CADE-22 call for workshop and tutorial proposals Message-ID: <48EF6024.9020400@itu.dk> CADE 2009 The 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction Montreal, Canada, August 2 - 7, 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals ---------------------------------------------------- CADE 2009 is the 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction, the premier conference on all aspects of automated deduction. Topics covered range from theoretical foundations to high-performance implementations in a wide variety of logics and logical theories, with applications in areas like verification and artificial intelligence. Workshop and tutorial proposals for CADE 2009 are solicited. Both well-established workshops and newer or brand new ones are encouraged. Similarly, proposals for workshops with a tight focus on a core automated reasoning specialization, as well as those with a broader, more applied focus, are very welcome. 1. Workshop Proposals Please provide the following information: + Workshop title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Brief description of workshop goals and/or topics. + Proposed workshop duration (from half a day to two days is possible). + If the workshop has met previously, please include the conference affiliation for the previous meeting. If the workshop is new, please indicate so. The CADE organizers plan to make available a small amount towards partial reimbursement for travel expenses of invited speakers. Also, CADE will take care of printing and distributing informal proceedings for workshops that would like this service. 2. Tutorial Proposals Tutorials are expected to be half-day events. Tutorial proposals should provide the following information: + Tutorial title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Brief description of the tutorial's goals and topics to be covered. + Whether or not a version of the tutorial has been given previously. CADE will take care of printing and distributing notes for tutorials that would like this service. All proposals should be sent via email in plain text to the Workshop and Tutorial Chair (astump at cs.uiowa.edu), for consideration by the CADE 2009 organizers: Brigitte Pientka (McGill University), General Chair Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester), Program Chair Carsten Schuermann (IT University of Copenhagen), Publicity Chair Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa), Workshop and Tutorial Chair Important dates: Deadline for proposal submissions: December 7, 2008 Acceptance/rejection notification: January 7, 2009 Workshop dates: August 2-3, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------- From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Wed Oct 8 14:00:34 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:00:34 -0400 Subject: [DL] Call for participation: Semantic Web Tutorials in ISWC'08, Oct 26-27, 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany Message-ID: <48ECA0E2.30808@cs.rpi.edu> (apology for cross posting) --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Semantic Web Tutorials in ISWC 2008 http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/tutorials/ 26-27 October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany Part of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ISWC 2008, the foremost gathering for the Semantic Web community, showcases the rapid progress taking place in this exciting technology area. The ISWC 2008 program includes a great deal of interest for practitioners, researchers, students, and business people, including both the experienced and those new to the concepts and technology. Along with the main conference, this year ISWC will host eleven tutorials, presented by leading Semantic Web researchers and practitioners. The tutorial program includes 2 full-day and 9 half-day tutorials, on October 26 and 27. REGISTRATION --------------------- Register online at http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/registration/ If you've already registered but would like to add a tutorial, please email the tutorial chairs, David Martin (martin at ai.sri.com) and Lalana Kagal, for instructions. PROGRAM 26 Oct, 2008 (Sunday) --------------------------------- Intro to Semantic Web - Invited Tutorial (full-day) 9:00 - 17:30 The goal for this tutorial is to give attendees an overview of the main concepts and issues in the area of the Semantic Web and Ontological Engineering. This tutorial builds upon the 6-year experience of successfully running week long summer schools within the KnowledgeWeb project. Formal Concept Analysis for the Semantic Web 9:00 - 12:30 Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a mathematical discipline which formalizes human conceptual thinking in terms of lattice theory. In the tutorial, we will introduce this field?s basic notions and techniques to the Semantic Web audience. A Semantic Multimedia Web: Create, Annotate, Present and Share your Media 9:00 - 12:30 Based on established media workflow practices, we describe a small number of fundamental processes of media production. We explain how multimedia metadata can be represented, attached to the content it describes, and benefits from the web that contains more and more formalized knowledge. Working Modularly with OWL 14:00 - 17:30 As more and more large, complex OWL ontologies become available on the Web, the need for mechanisms and methodologies for managing them becomes more urgent. This tutorial provides a practical introduction to module oriented development of OWL ontologies. RDFa: Bridging the Web of Documents and the Web of Data 14:00 - 17:30 RDFa is the bridge between the Web of Documents, targeting at human users, and the Web of Data, focusing on machines. This tutorial will introduce the usage of RDFa in real-world use cases and will enable the attendees to work with RDFa both on the client as on the server side. Knowledge Representation and Extraction for Business Intelligence 14:00 - 17:30 The tutorial will give an overview of approaches to identify, extract, and consolidate semantic information for business intelligence, also stressing the role of temporal information. PROGRAM 27 Oct, 2008 (Monday) --------------------------------- Reasoning for Ontology Engineering and Usage (full-day) 9:00 - 17:30 Engineering and using OWL ontologies is a complex task for which impressive tool support has recently been developed. Since OWL ontologies are based on logic and involve entailments, this tool support may involve reasoning, e.g., for query answering, inference explanation, etc. Our tutorial provides a comprehensive overview over such tool support from a user perspective, and explains the benefits of automated reasoning for the user. RSWA 2008: Realizing a Semantic Web Application 9:00 - 12:30 The RSWA tutorial explains how to develop step-by-step a Semantic Web application that expects a music style as an input; retrieves data from online music archives and event databases; merges them and let the users explore events related to artists that practice the required style. How to Publish Linked Data on the Web 9:00 - 12:30 This tutorial will help data publishers, researchers, developers and Web practitioners to understand Linked Data principles and practice and provide participants with a solid foundation from which to begin publishing Linked Data on the Web, as well as to implement applications that consume Linked Data from the Web. Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences 14:00 - 17:30 HCLSIG demonstrates the use of Semantic Web technologies to access data on a web scale, taking advantage of OWL and rules to allow queries to re-purpose data without the need to coordinate with the data custodian. Attendees will learn possible applications of Semantic Web tools to share data between and within organizations and solve large scale data integration problems. Free Semantic Content: Using OpenCyc in Semantic Web Applications 14:00 - 17:30 The tutorial will describe how Semantic Web researchers and practitioners can benefit from integrating their representations with the extensive upper and middle level ontological content of the free and unrestricted OpenCyc knowledge base, and other integrative vocabularies like Okkam. The syntax of OpenCyc will be described both in raw form, and as mapped onto Semantic Web standard languages, and the content of the knowledge base will be described in overview. Complete details about ISWC 2008 tutorials can be found at http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/tutorials/ From gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Sun Oct 12 16:46:50 2008 From: gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Guilin Qi) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:46:50 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: AMAI Special Issue on Commonsense Reasoning for the Semantic Web Message-ID: <20081012164650.c8q50myoyok00s4k@webmail.uni-karlsruhe.de> [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] 1st Call for paper ------------------ Journal of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) Special Issue on Commonsense Reasoning for the Semantic Web (https://logic.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/wiki/AMAI_special_issue_on_commmonsense_reasoning_in_the_semantic_web) Editor-in-Chief: Martin Charles Golumbic (University of Haifa, Israel) Guest Editors Frank van Harmelen, Vrije University Amsterdam (Frank.van.Harmelen at cs.vu.nl) Andreas Herzig, IRIT-CNRS (herzig at irit.fr) Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe (hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe (gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Descriptions --------------- Semantic Web Technologies provide concepts, architectures, and tools for interconnected vocabularies and applications. One of the declared goals of Semantic Web research is to enable intelligent software agents to reason about information and knowledge which is pervaded on the Web. To achieve this goal, a challenging and important problem is to represent commonsense knowledge on the Web and to reason with it. Indeed, commonsense reasoning is a central part of human behaviour, and how to endow computers with common sense capabilities is one of the major long-term goals of Artificial Intelligence research and is therefore also relevant to the realization of the ambitious Semantic Web vision. At the same time, the forthcoming Semantic Web constitutes an ideal application scenario for formal logic and traditional commonsense reasoning approaches. In recent years, there is a substantially increasing interest in applying theoretical approaches of commonsense reasoning to deal with practical application problems in the Semantic Web. It is indeed widely accepted that extensions of commonsense reasoning to the Semantic Web will have to be provided in the near future. In this special issue we intend to publish articles discussing commonsense reasoning aspects on the Web. Submissions describing original and solid theoretical contributions to commonsense reasoning with application to the Semantic web are especially encouraged. Topics of Interest ------------------ We encourage original and high quality work on all topics related to commonsense reasoning for the Semantic Web. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -reasoning about change and dynamics of ontologies, including ontology integration, ontology evolution, revision and update of ontologies in the Semantic Web -nonmonotonic extensions of ontology languages, including circumscriptive, default, defeasible logic, diagnosis, and autoepistemic approaches -temporal and spatial extensions of ontology languages -planning and action in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web services -combining modal logics and description logics -commonsense knowledge acquisition from the (Semantic) Web -integration of logic programming and description logics -abductive reasoning in the Semantic Web -extensions of ontology languages to enable uncertainty reasoning, including fuzzy, probabilistic and possibilistic approaches -contextualized, distributed, and modular ontology languages -non-standard reasoning in description logics, such as computing least common subsumer and matching. -paraconsistent extension of ontology languages -computational models of argumentation in the Semantic Web -approximate reasoning and compilation in description logics -scalability issues -other mathematical tools for using commonsense reasoning on the Semantic Web Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: February 28, 2009 Acceptance Deadline: May 31, 2009 Revised Version Deadline: July 31, 2009 Final Decision: September 30, 2009 Final Paper: November 30, 2009 Submission Procedure -------------------- Manuscripts must follow the AMAI guidelines for submission and have to be accompanied by abstracts. Details regarding the submission format and on-line submission site can be found at http://www.editorialmanager.com/amai/. All manuscripts should be submitted through that online system. All manuscripts must be of high quality and are subject to peer review performed by three reviewers. The refereeing will be at the same level as in any of the major journal publications in the area. Editorial Board --------------------------- Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, Greece Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, China Patrick Doherty, University of Linkoping, Sweden Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, Austria Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands Maurizio Lenzerini, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Italy Thomas Lukasiewicz, Universit? di Roma ``La Sapienza?, Italy Boris Motik : Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universit?t Mannheim, Germany Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Renata Wassermann, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil Mary-Anne Williams, the University of Technology, Australia Main contact: Guilin Qi Best regards, Guilin Qi -- Dr. Guilin Qi Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Telefon: +49 (721) 608 6038 Fax: +49 (721) 608 5998 web: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/gqi/ From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Tue Oct 21 20:24:36 2008 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:24:36 -0200 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2009 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <48FE1E64.7030401@cin.ufpe.br> [** sincere apologies for duplicates **] Call for Papers /*16th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation*/ (/*WoLLIC 2009*/) Tokyo, Japan June 21-24, 2009 (SPECIAL: There will be a screening of George Csicsery's "N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos" http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.html with kind permission of the film director) WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The Sixteenth WoLLIC will be held at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan, from June 21 to 24, 2009. It is jointly sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL). *SPECIAL EVENT* 2009 will mark the 60-th anniversary of the publication of Paul Erdos' elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem. WoLLIC will celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Erdos which was directed by George Csicsery "N is a number - A Portrait of Paul Erdos" http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.html *PAPER SUBMISSION* Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at http://wollic.org/wollic2009/instructions.html A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 28, and the full paper by March 8 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 19, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 3 (firm date). *PROCEEDINGS* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2009, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's /Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ series (TBC). In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the /Logic Journal of the IGPL/, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2009 issue of a scientific journal. *INVITED SPEAKERS* Arnold Beckmann (Swansea U, UK) Carlos Caleiro (UT Lisbon, Portugal) Thomas Eiter (Tech U Wien, Austria) Sylvain Salvati (INRIA, France) Taisuke Sato (Tokyo Inst Tech, Japan) Michiel van Lambalgen (U Amsterdam, NL) Frank Wolter (U Liverpool, UK) *STUDENT GRANTS* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2009 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2009). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *IMPORTANT DATES* February 28, 2009: Paper title and abstract deadline March 8, 2009: Full paper deadline (firm) April 19, 2009: Author notification May 3, 2009: Final version deadline (firm) *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* Toshiyasu Arai (Kobe U, Japan) Matthias Baaz (Tech U Wien) Alexandru Baltag (Oxford U) Josep Maria Font (U Barcelona) Silvio Ghilardi (U Milano) Katsumi Inoue (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) Marcus Kracht (U Bielefeld) Hiroakira Ono (JAIST, Japan) (Chair) Masanao Ozawa (Nagoya U) John Slaney (Australian Nat U) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh U) Hans Tompits (Tech U Wien) *ORGANISING COMMITTEE* Makoto Kanazawa (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan, co-chair) Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil, co-chair) Ken Satoh (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) *STEERING COMMITTEE* Samson Abramsky , Johan van Benthem , Joe Halpern , Wilfrid Hodges , Daniel Leivant , Angus Macintyre , Grigori Mints , Ruy de Queiroz *WEB PAGE* wollic.org/wollic2009/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Wed Oct 22 22:49:34 2008 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:49:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] Tableaux 2009 CfP Message-ID: <10049.217.247.235.245.1224708574.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Call for Papers, Call for Tutorials and %% %% Call for Workshop Proposals %% %% %% %% TABLEAUX 2009 %% %% %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% International Conference TABLEAUX 2009 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Oslo, Norway 6.-10. July 2009 http://heim.ifi.uio.no/martingi/Tableaux09/ IMPORTANT DATES Workshop & Tutorial submission: Friday, 9. Jan 2009 Workshop & Tutorial notification: Friday 23. Jan Abstract and Title submission: Monday, 19. Jan Paper Submission: Monday, 26. Jan Notification: Tuesday, 24. Mar End of rebuttal phase: Friday, 27. Mar Final Notification: Friday, 3. Apr Final Versions: Friday, 24. Apr Workshops: Monday, 6. July Conference: Tuesday, 7. to Friday, 10. July GENERAL INFORMATION This conference is the 18th in a series of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. In July 2009, the conference will be held in Oslo, Norway. The conference proceedings will be published in LNAI series as in the previous editions of the conference. See http://heim.ifi.uio.no/martingi/Tableaux09/ for more information on TABLEAUX 2009, and http://i12www.ira.uka.de/TABLEAUX for information about the TABLEAUX conference series. 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, many-valued...) * systems, tools, implementations and applications. As in previous years, TABLEAUX 2009 puts a special emphasis on applications. Papers describing applications of tableaux and related methods in areas such as hardware and software verification, semantic technologies, knowledge engineering, 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. For category B submissions a working implementation must exist and be available to the referees. After the notification, there will be a rebuttal phase of three days during which the authors of rejected papers will have the opportunity to respond to the reviews. Accepted papers in these categories will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions in category C will be reviewed by members of the program committee and a collection of the accepted papers in this category will be published as a Technical Report of the University of Oslo. 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. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS TABLEAUX 2009 launches a Call for Workshop Proposal on specialised subjects in the range of the conference topics. We can accept up to 2 proposals. The proposals are reviewed by members of the PC committee. The purpose of a workshop is to offer an opportunity of presenting novel ideas, ongoing research, and to discuss the state of the art of an area in a less formal but more focused way than the conference itself. It is also a good opportunity for young researchers to present their own work and to obtain feedback. The format of a workshop is left to the the organizers, but it is expected to contain significant time for discussion. The intended schedule is for one-day workshops. Further information and instructions about submissions will be available on the conference website at http://heim.ifi.uio.no/martingi/Tableaux09/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE PC Chairs * Martin Giese, Univ. of Oslo, Norway * Arild Waaler, Univ. of Oslo, Norway PC Members * Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Canberra, Australia * Bernhard Beckert, Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Christoph Benzm??ller, Saarland Univ., Saarbr??cken, Germany * Marc Bezem, Univ. of Bergen, Norway * Torben Bra??ner, Roskilde Univ., Denmark * Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien, Austria * Marta Cialdea Mayer, Univ. of Rome 3, Italy * St??phane Demri, CNRS, Cachan, France * Roy Dyckhoff, Univ. of St Andrews, Scotland * Ulrich Furbach, Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Didier Galmiche, LORIA, Henri Poincar?? Univ., Nancy, France * Valentin Goranko, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa * Rajeev Gor??, The Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia * Reiner H??hnle, Chalmers Univ., G??teborg, Sweden * Ullrich Hustadt, Univ. of Liverpool, UK * Christoph Kreitz, Univ. Potsdam, Germany * George Metcalfe, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, USA * Neil V. Murray, Univ. at Albany - SUNY, USA * Nicola Olivetti, Paul C??zanne University, Marseille, France * Jens Otten, Univ. Potsdam, Germany * Nicolas Peltier, LIG, Grenoble, France * Ulrike Sattler, Univ. of Manchester, UK * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbr??cken, Germany * Frank Wolter, Univ. of Liverpool, UK ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference co-Chairs: * Martin Giese, Univ. of Oslo, Norway * Arild Waaler, Univ. of Oslo, Norway Local organisers: * Roger Antonsen * Christian M. Hansen * Bjarne Holen (webmaster) * Magdalena Ivanovska * Espen H. Lian * Martin G. Skj??veland * Evgenij Thorstensen * Terje Aaberge From areces at pluton.loria.fr Mon Oct 27 09:43:21 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:43:21 +0100 Subject: [DL] Final Call for Bids to Host the 22-th ESSLLI, 2010 Message-ID: <200810270843.m9R8hLkW026589@pluton.loria.fr> ****************************************************** * Final Call for Bids to Host the 22-th ESSLLI, 2010 * ****************************************************** The Association for Logic, Language and Computation (FoLLI) and the ESSLLI Standing Committee invite proposals to host the 22-nd European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI), to be held in August 2010. *** The ESSLLI Summer School *** ESSLLI is a summer school which takes place two weeks in the summer, every year since 1989. The school hosts approximately 50 courses at both introductory and advanced level, and convokes around 400 participants each year from all over the world. The main focus of the program of the summer schools is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited lectures. Detailed information about the ESSLLI organization can be found in the ESSLLI general guide, and the organizing and program committee guides. The guides can be obtained via the Standing Committee secretary. *** Submission Procedure *** At this time we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders. Based on an evaluation of the draft proposals, promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection procedure. The ESSLLI Standing Committee (SC), in consultation with the management board of FoLLI, will finally select the site, the organizing committee, and the program committee, and supervise the subsequent organization. *** Draft Proposals *** Draft proposals should identify a target site, date and organizing team with a chair who will be responsible for the overal organization. The organization committee is responsible for all matters having to do with the practical organization. Draft proposals should at least include information on: -> Location (accessibility; school venue; accommodation and facilities) -> Proposed dates and organizing team -> Endorsement by hosting organization -> Local Language, Logic, and Computation community -> Meeting and accommodation venues; audiovisual equipment -> Catering and reception facilities; social program opportunities -> Budget estimates *** Proposal Assessment *** Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria (unordered): -> Experience of organizing team, involvement in previous ESSLLIs -> Local endorsement -> Appropriateness of proposed dates -> Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site -> Adequacy of campus facilities for the anticipated number of registrants -> Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in an appropriate range of price categories and close to the conference facilities -> Adequacy of budget projections -> Geographical and national balance with regard to meetings in the decade prior to 2010: Birmingham (2000), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Wien (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Malaga (2006), Dublin (2007), Hamburg (2008), Bordeaux (2009) *** Important Dates *** -> September 15, 2008, call for bids posted -> November 15, 2008, draft proposals due -> November/December, 2008, SC provides feedback -> January 31, 2009, final proposals due -> February 28, 2009, bid selected at ESSLLI SC meeting -> July 25, 2009, OC and PC progress report -> August, 2010, 22-nd ESSLLI Information about FoLLI and ESSLLI can be found at: http:// www.folli.org/. If you want to consult the ESSLLI guidelines, or have any other queries about drafting your bid, please contact Sophia Katrenko or Paul Dekker. Draft proposals should be sent to: Sophia Katrenko Paul Dekker Informatics Institute ILLC/Department of Philosophy Faculty of Science Faculty of Humanities Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 419 Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 NL-1098 VA Amsterdam NL-1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 (0)20 525 6786 +31 (0)20 5254541 +31 (0)20 525 6896 (fax) +31 (0)20 5254503 (fax) katrenko at science.uva.nl p.j.e.dekker at uva.nl From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Mon Oct 27 14:42:28 2008 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu d'Aquin) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:42:28 +0000 Subject: [DL] JOB: Research Assistant - Semantic Web - Watson (deadline approaching) Message-ID: <4905C544.5010501@open.ac.uk> ****** Apologies for multiple postings ****** Research Assistant: Semantic Web (Ref: 5113) ?25,888 -- ?27,466 - Based in Milton Keynes (UK) - 15 months The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute has an opening for an experienced person to take on the role of Research Assistant to contribute to the development of the Watson Semantic Web gateway (http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk) and of related technologies, supporting Semantic Web search, semantic application development and knowledge publishing on the Semantic Web. This work takes place within the context of the EU-funded Integrated Project NeOn (http://neon-project.org). You should have experience in advanced, large-scale Web development, and have a strong interest in Semantic Web, as well as in Web 2.0 applications. Experience in languages such as Java/Javascript/PHP, in Semantic Web libraries such as Jena, and in search libraries such as Lucene would be highly advantageous. You should also demonstrate your ability to work within a research team, and will be asked to follow agile development methods. For detailed information and how to apply go to http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy-5113.php, call the KMi Recruitment Coordinator on +44 (0) 1908 654774 or email quoting the reference number. Closing date: 31st October 2008. Informal enquiries may be made to: Dr. Mathieu d'Aquin -- m.daquin at open.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)1908 655526. and/or Professor Enrico Motta -- e.motta at open.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)1908 653506. From ghidini at fbk.eu Wed Nov 12 17:12:34 2008 From: ghidini at fbk.eu (Chiara Ghidini) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:12:34 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC 2009 CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Message-ID: <56D4DFD0-734F-4EFA-B167-31CEEB25A80A@fbk.eu> [apologies for cross-posting] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ESWC 2009 CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS http://www.eswc2009.org/calls/tutorials 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009) 31 May - 4 June 2009, Heraklion, Greece --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. In addition to the regular research and workshop programme, ESWC2009 invites tutorials on relevant topics of interest (see below). 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. ESWC2009 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 ESWC2009 should cover one topic in appropriate depth and present it in a appropriate manner which enables attendees to fully comprehend and apply emerging Semantic Web technologies. Although tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects, we encourage hands-on sessions where appropriate. SUBMISSION --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information: * abstract (200 words maximum, for inclusion on the ESWC2009 website) * tutorial description (aims, target audience, presentation method, technical requirements) * justification for the tutorial, including timeliness and relevance to ESWC2009 * 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 as single pdf files using the ESWC2009 Tutorials submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=eswc2009tutorials Submitted proposals that follow the above guidelines will be reviewed by the ESWC2009 organizing committee with respect to relevance of the topic, content and presentation method, and presenters expertise. IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Proposal Submissions: January 7, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) * Notification: January 21, 2009 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 preprinting and placement on the ESWC2009 website. For each accepted tutorial, we offer one 50% discount of the Early- Bird registration fee. TUTORIAL CHAIRS --------------------------------------------------------------------- Philippe Cudre-Mauroux (MIT, US) Chiara Ghidini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IT) CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST AND AREA KEYWORDS --------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest for ESWC2009 tutorials include, but are not limited to the following: 1. Semantic Web Data and Ontologies - Interoperability of data on the Semantic Web - Technologies for linked data - Database Technologies for the Semantic Web - Semantic Annotation of Data - Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web - Query Languages and Optimization for the Semantic Web - Rule Languages for the Semantic Web - Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.) - Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) - Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g., HLT and ML approaches) 2. Semantic Web Services - Service Description, Composition, and Discovery - Service Orchestration and Choreography - Service Testing, Verification, and Validation - Service Monitoring, Adaptation and Management - SLA Modeling and Management - Quality of Services, Security, and Dependability - Service Engineering - Service Deployment, Execution, Infrastructures, and Architectures 3. Semantic Web Architectures - Semantics in P2P Computing - Semantics in Grid Computing - Semantics in Middleware 4. Applications on the Semantic Web - Multimedia and Semantic Web - Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights - Interoperability of applications on the Semantic Web - Data mining on the Semantic Web - Personalization and User Modelling - User Interfaces and Semantic Web - Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals) - Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Learning and other application domains - Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web - Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation 5. Design and Evaluation of Semantic Web Applications and Technologies - Usability - Performance and scalability - Quality - Cost modeling - Testing and validation From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Thu Nov 13 10:28:07 2008 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:28:07 +0100 Subject: [DL] open assistant professorship position in Semantic Web (AIFB Karlsruhe) Message-ID: <491BF327.3020206@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> job opening: ASSISTANT PROFESSORSHIP POSITION (TV-L E14 German scheme) group of Prof. Rudi Studer, AIFB, Karlsruhe, Germany (SEMANTIC WEB) profile: metadata creation/annotation, structured information retrieval, knowledge acquisition, ontology learning, large-scale text mining or semantic search The position requires German language deadline: 30th of November 2008 (late submissions may also be considered) more information: if you have and further questions, let me know. Pascal. -- PD Dr. Pascal Hitzler Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH), 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 Springer Lehrbuch: http://www.semantic-web-grundlagen.de From marija.slavkovik at gmail.com Tue Nov 11 12:44:35 2008 From: marija.slavkovik at gmail.com (Marija Slavkovik) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:44:35 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Submissions 2009 ESSLLI Student Session Message-ID: <4e59c6b0811110344j2bd69b4dnea659ce699002303@mail.gmail.com> ***Apologies for multiple postings*** SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: February 1, 2009 -------------------- Call for Submissions 2009 ESSLLI Student Session The 2009 ESSLLI Student Session will take place from July 20 to July 31 in Bordeaux, France, as part of the annual European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. We hereby invite paper submissions from students in the areas of logic and computation, logic and language, and language and computation for presentation in the oral session or in the poster session. All submissions will be reviewed by three experts in the field, and those selected for presentation will be published in the proceedings. The Student Session is an excellent venue to present work in progress, and also to gain experience presenting one's research to a wide audience. As in previous years, Springer is offering 500 Euro in textbooks for the best paper award, and 250 Euro in textbooks to each of two runners-up. The deadline for submission is February 1, 2009. For more details, please see the full call for papers: http://www.stanford.edu/~icard/esslli/call From rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Sun Nov 16 11:07:31 2008 From: rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Sebastian Rudolph) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:07:31 +0100 Subject: [DL] third CfP: 7th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2009) In-Reply-To: <1AD3D576-C500-4A04-97E9-66668AE620D5@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <1AD3D576-C500-4A04-97E9-66668AE620D5@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Message-ID: <64FD54F1-D2FF-44BA-AB90-B9227A9B43A7@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this email to anyone interested. ===Third Call for Papers=== 7th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2009) May 21 - 24, 2009, Darmstadt, Germany www.icfca2009.h-da.de Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory to promote better communication between lattice theorists 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 visualization, 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, as well as diverse application domains such as Linguistics or Life Sciences. Other aspects are welcome. Possible topics include: * FCA theory * Conceptual Knowledge Processing * Concept Graphs * Lattice Drawing * Association Rules * Algorithms * FCA and Software Engineering * Lattice Theory * Data Analysis * FCA and Data Mining * FCA and Logic * Philosophical Foundations ==Submission Details== We call for scientific publications on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted in the PDF or Postscript format via the submission site (http://www.irisa.fr/LIS/icfca09/myreview/ ). For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by December 1, 2008. Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ authors.html. All submissions will be refereed. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference, therefore at least one author per paper has to register timely. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. ==Important Dates== submission of abstract: December 1 2008 submission of full paper: December 8 2008 notification of acceptance: January 26 2009 camera ready due: February 9 2009 ==Organization== Conference Chair: * Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany Program Chairs: * S?bastien Ferr?, Universit? de Rennes 1, France * Sebastian Rudolph, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany Local Chair: * Urs Andelfinger, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany. Editorial Board: * Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia * Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany * Robert Godin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada * Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia * Raoul Medina, LIMOS, Universit? Clermont-Ferrand 2, France * Rokia Missaoui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada * Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia * Uta Priss, Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom * Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany * Gerd Stumme, University Kassel, Germany * Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany * Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany Program Committee: * Mike Bain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia * Peter Becker, Concepta Consulting Pty Ltd, Australia * Radim Belohlavek, Binghamton University - State University of New York, USA * Sadok Ben Yahia, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia * Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy * Frithjof Dau, SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany * Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Universit? Paris 6, France * Linton Freeman, UCI, California, USA * Alain G?ly, Universit? Paul Verlaine, Metz, France * Joachim Hereth Correia, DMC GmbH, Germany * Wolfgang Hesse, Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany * Bjoern Koester, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany * Derrick G. Kourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa * Markus Kr?tzsch, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany * Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland * Leonard Kwuida, Dresden, Germany * Wilfried Lex, Universit?t Clausthal, Germany * Christian Lindig, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, Germany * Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, IUT de Lens - Universit? d'Artois, France * Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont Ferrand 2, France * Jean-Marc Petit, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France * Alex Pogel, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA * Sandor Radeleczki, University of Miskolc, Hungary * Camille Roth, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France * Jurg Schmid, Universit?t Bern, Switzerland * Selma Strahringer, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany * Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Quebec ? Montreal, Canada * Serhyi Yevtushenko, Luxoft, Ukraine Organization Committee: * Urs Andelfinger, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany * Peter Burmeister, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany * Markus Helmerich, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany * Stefan Heppenheimer, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany * Rudolf Wille, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany * Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany _________________________________________________ Dr. Sebastian Rudolph Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 (0)721 693 717 From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Tue Nov 25 17:00:59 2008 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:00:59 +0100 Subject: [DL] TIME 2009 Call for Papers Message-ID: TIME 2009 Call for Papers Sixteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning Brixen, Italy, July 23-25, 2009 http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/time-2009/ The TIME symposium series is a well-established annual event that brings together researchers from all areas of computer science that involve temporal representation and reasoning. This includes, but is not limited to, artificial intelligence, temporal databases, and the verification of software and hardware systems. In addition to fostering interdisciplinarity, the TIME symposia emphasize bridging the gap between theoretical and applied research. TIME 2009 encompasses three tracks, but has a single program committee. The conference will span three days, and will be organized as a combination of technical paper presentations, poster sessions, and keynote lectures. * IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: April 6 Paper Submission: April 9 Paper Notification: May 11 Camera Ready Copy Due: May 22 TIME 2009 Symposium: July 23-25 * TOPICS Track 1: Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI - temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems - spatial and temporal reasoning - reasoning about actions and change - planning and planning languages - ontologies of time and space-time - belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge - temporal learning and discovery - time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling) - time in human-machine interaction - temporal information extraction - time in natural language processing - spatio-temporal knowledge representation systems - spatio-temporal ontologies for the semantic web Track 2: Temporal Database Management - temporal data models and query languages - temporal query processing and indexing - temporal data mining - time series data management - stream data management - spatio-temporal data management, including moving objects - data currency and expiration - indeterminate and imprecise temporal data - temporal constraints - temporal aspects of workflow and ECA systems - real-time databases - time-dependent security policies - privacy in temporal and spatio-temporal data - temporal aspects of multimedia databases - temporal aspects of e-services and web applications - temporal aspects of distributed systems - novel applications of temporal database management - experiences with real applications Track 3: Temporal Logic and Verification in Computer Science - specification and verification of systems - verification of web applications - synthesis and execution - model checking algorithms - verification of infinite-state systems - reasoning about transition systems - temporal architectures - temporal logics for distributed systems - temporal logics of knowledge - hybrid systems and real-time logics - tools and practical systems - temporal issues in security * PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions of high quality papers describing research results or on-going work are solicited. Submitted papers should contain original, previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Acceptance of a paper is contingent on one author presenting the paper at the symposium. Submissions should be in PDF format (with the necessary fonts embedded). They must be formatted according to the IEEE guide- lines described at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/ proceedings/8.5x11 - Formatting files/ and must not exceed 8 pages; over-length submissions may be rejected without review. Papers are submitted electronically via Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=time2009 * CONFERENCE OFFICERS General Chair: David Toman, University of Waterloo, Canada Program Committee Chairs: Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen, Germany Jean-Francois Raskin, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Organization Chair: Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo, Canada Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy Thomas Brihaye, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium Franck Cassez, National ICT Australia Jan Chomicki, University at Buffalo, USA Carlo Combi, University of Verona, Italy Alessandro Cimatti, IRST, Italy Stephane Demri, CNRS, France Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University, Germany Michael Fisher, Liverpool, UK Tim French, University of Western Australia, Australia Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK Alfonso Gerevini, University of Brescia, Italy Valentin Goranko, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Rajeev Gore, ANU, Australia Keijo Heljanko, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Ian Hodkinson, Imperial College, UK Ulrich Hustadt, University of Liverpool, UK George Kollios, Boston University, USA Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University, Israel Francois Laroussinie, CNRS, France Salvatore Latorre, University of Salerno, Italy Nicolas Markey, CNRS, France Rupak Majumdar, University of California, USA Angelo Montanari, University of Udine, Italy Madhusudan Parthasarathy, University of Illinois, USA Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Manchester University, UK Jochen Renz, Australian National University, Australia Roger Villemaire, UQAM, Canada Sean Wang, University of Vermont, USA Jef Wijsen, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois, USA Pierre Wolper, University of Liege, Belgium Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK James Worrell, Oxford University, UK Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College, UK Carlo Zaniolo, University of California, USA * FURTHER INFORMATION Questions related to submission, reviewing, and program: time09 at informatik.uni-bremen.de Questions related to local organization: artale at inf.unibz.it From areces at pluton.loria.fr Tue Nov 25 11:31:36 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:31:36 +0100 Subject: [DL] [HyLo09] First Call for Papers Message-ID: <200811251031.mAPAVaQx009982@pluton.loria.fr> *************************************************************** Please excuse for multiple posts and distribute as widely as possible *************************************************************** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2009 (HyLo 2009) "Conmemorating the Ten Years of HyLo" http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo02 15 - 17 July, 2007 Nancy, France *************************************************************** WORKSHOP PURPOSE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of HyLo 2009 is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. HyLo 2009 will be an special event, conmemorating the ten years since the organization of the first HyLo workshop in 1999. HyLo 2009 will 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. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). SUBMISSION DETAILS: 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. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, and selected papers will be included in a special volume to conmemorate the 10th aniversary of the first Hybrid Logic Workshop. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. INVITED SPEAKERS: To be announced ORGANIZERS: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, areces at loria.fr) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, blackbur at loria.fr) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark) Torben Brauner (Roskilde University) Stephane Demri (LSV Cachan) Santiago Figueira (University of Buenos Aires) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester) Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam) IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 1st March 2009 Notification of acceptance: Monday, 30th of April 2009 Deadline for final versions: Friday, 1st of May 2009 Workshop dates: 15 to 17 July, 2007 FURTHER INFORMATION: http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 From carsten at itu.dk Wed Nov 26 15:59:47 2008 From: carsten at itu.dk (Carsten Schuermann) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:59:47 +0100 Subject: [DL] CADE-22 final call for workshop and tutorial proposals Message-ID: <492D6463.9040408@itu.dk> CADE 2009 The 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction Montreal, Canada, August 2 - 7, 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals ---------------------------------------------------- CADE 2009 is the 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction, the premier conference on all aspects of automated deduction. Topics covered range from theoretical foundations to high-performance implementations in a wide variety of logics and logical theories, with applications in areas like verification and artificial intelligence. Workshop and tutorial proposals for CADE 2009 are solicited. Both well-established workshops and newer or brand new ones are encouraged. Similarly, proposals for workshops with a tight focus on a core automated reasoning specialization, as well as those with a broader, more applied focus, are very welcome. 1. Workshop Proposals Please provide the following information: + Workshop title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Brief description of workshop goals and/or topics. + Proposed workshop duration (from half a day to two days is possible). + If the workshop has met previously, please include the conference affiliation for the previous meeting. If the workshop is new, please indicate so. The CADE organizers plan to make available a small amount towards partial reimbursement for travel expenses of invited speakers. Also, CADE will take care of printing and distributing informal proceedings for workshops that would like this service. 2. Tutorial Proposals Tutorials are expected to be half-day events. Tutorial proposals should provide the following information: + Tutorial title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Brief description of the tutorial's goals and topics to be covered. + Whether or not a version of the tutorial has been given previously. CADE will take care of printing and distributing notes for tutorials that would like this service. All proposals should be sent via email in plain text to the Workshop and Tutorial Chair (astump at cs.uiowa.edu), for consideration by the CADE 2009 organizers: Brigitte Pientka (McGill University), General Chair Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester), Program Chair Carsten Schuermann (IT University of Copenhagen), Publicity Chair Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa), Workshop and Tutorial Chair Important dates: Deadline for proposal submissions: December 7, 2008 Acceptance/rejection notification: January 7, 2009 Workshop dates: August 2-3, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------- From fmcneill at staffmail.ed.ac.uk Mon Nov 24 14:43:38 2008 From: fmcneill at staffmail.ed.ac.uk (Fiona McNeill) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:43:38 +0000 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: Workshop on Matching and Meaning: automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies. Message-ID: <20081124134338.s8d0t461c8888gcg@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Matching and Meaning: Automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/wmm-2009/ 9th April 2009, part of AISB'09 Convention, Edinburgh, UK OVERVIEW The problem of semantic misalignment - of two systems failing to understand one another when their semantic representation is not identical - occurs in a huge variety of areas: the Semantic Web, databases, natural language processing; anywhere, indeed, where semantics are necessary but centralised control is undesirable or impractical. In highly dynamic domains, where interactions are between a large, diverse and evolving community, there is a need for the resolving of these misalignments - through developing and evolving existing ontologies or interpreting unknown ontologies in terms of known ones - to be done automatically and on-the-fly. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the problems of automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies in the many different domains in which it occurs. We are primarily interested in the exchange of ideas and the stimulation of debate, and the workshop is intended to be a forum for researchers to present ongoing work and ideas and to engage in discussion with other researchers from the field. We are particularly interested in novel ideas and innovative research, which may be in its early stages, and encourage reports on work in progress. Topics of interest include: * Ontology evolution * Ontology matching and alignment * Ontology versioning * Representational or structural change * Formal aspects of ontology dynamics * Foundational issues * Social and collaborative matching * Background knowledge in matching * Extensions to ontology languages to better support change * Belief revision for ontologies and the Semantic Web * Inconsistency handling in evolving ontologies * Uncertainty in matching * Change propagation in ontologies and metadata * Ontologies for dynamic environments * Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation * Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications * Open problems SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We encourage the submission of extended abstracts that discuss ongoing research, problem descriptions and overviews of the domain. These may be of any length; we expect two or three pages will be appropriate in most cases. This workshop will be non-archival so it is not necessary that abstracts should meet fixed standards; they are primarily intended to highlight ideas. Submissions will be subject to light reviewing, mainly intended to check fit to workshop. Abstracts should be submitted electronically in pdf format to f.j.mcneill-at-ed.ac.uk by 19th December 2008. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the submitting author on 13th February 2009. VENUE The workshop will take place at the Edinburgh Convention Centre at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, as part of the AISB 2009 Convention (http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb09/), on April 9th 2009. All workshop participants must be registered for the AISB 2009 Convention. Registration for this workshop is included in the convention registration fee. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: Friday, 19th December 2008 Notification: Friday, 13th February 2009 Workshop: 9th April 2009 AISB09 Convention: 6th - 9th April 2009 PROGRAMME Presentations: Authors of accepted abstracts will give presentations of their work; exact times to be decided. Posters: If it is not possible to fit in presentations for all accepted authors, some may be asked to present posters instead. There will be a session of 5 minute poster talks. Panel: The technical programme will end with a 90 minute panel discussion on a topic of mutual interest to be decided. Three speakers will speak for 10 minutes each with a brief to stimulate debate during the remaining 60 minutes. Discussion amongst all participants, rather than question-and-answering for the panel, will be strongly encouraged. ORGANISERS Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Michael Chan, University of Edinburgh, UK PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE Manuel Atencia Arcas, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, UK Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Adam Pease, Articulate Software, USA Pavel Shvaiko, TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From guillaume.hoffmann at loria.fr Wed Nov 26 17:45:12 2008 From: guillaume.hoffmann at loria.fr (Guillaume Hoffmann) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:45:12 +0100 Subject: [DL] implementation of transitive closure Message-ID: does anyone know about a prover that implements a calculus that handles the transitive closure operator ? I'm wondering if there is any such prover based on description logic, mu-calculus or second-order logic. regards, Guillaume Hoffmann From uwe.keller at sti2.at Fri Nov 28 15:26:45 2008 From: uwe.keller at sti2.at (Uwe Keller) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:26:45 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: Int. Journal of Semantic Computing -- Special Issue on Web Scale Reasoning Message-ID: <492FFFA5.7070207@sti2.at> ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Web Scale Reasoning: Scalable, Tolerant and Dynamic International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC) (Publisher: World Scientific) http://webscare.larkc.eu Guest Editors: Z. Huang, U. Keller, S. Schlobach, and N. Zhong ======================================================================= The Semantic Web is the vision of a Web of data usable for both humans but also machines. This Web consists of inter-connected instance data annotated with possibly expressive ontologies. Therefore a tremendous amount of information becomes available that should be processed based on formal semantics attached to it. The Semantic Web community has developed a number of languages (such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL) that deploy logic for this purpose. Impressive progress has been made on scalable storage, querying and inference for these languages, and they are successfully being deployed on large intranets and medium-scale web-applications. However existing reasoning techniques often fail to live up to the expectations put into them in this context. They can often neither deal with high number of instances, the expressiveness of the ontologies describing them or the inherent inconsistency and incompleteness of data on the Web. This special issue is intended to focus on these problems of scalability and robustness of reasoning on the Web, and furthermore to investigate alternative reasoning methods, which take incompleteness and distribution of data and knowledge as inherent properties into account. ======= Topics ======= Original contributions, not currently under review or accepted by another journal, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not limited to) the following: * Scalable reasoning for the Web * Web scale querying and searching * Reasoning with inconsistent ontologies * Stream reasoning in the Semantic Web * Efficient storage of structured data that scale to a very large size * Computational learning theory for the Web * Meta-reasoning for the Web * Complex reasoning: how to find implicit information efficiently in large, expressive, or distributed ontologies. ======================= Submission Guidelines ======================= Papers should be submitted to the easychair website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webscare09 Details of the journal, manuscript preparation, and recent articles are available on the website: http://www.worldscinet.com/ijsc/ijsc.shtml See the website of this special issue http://webscare.larkc.eu for further announcement. ======================= Schedule ======================= Deadline for paper submission: March 10, 2009 Completion of first review: June 10, 2009 Minor/Major revision due: August 10, 2009 Final decision notification: October 10, 2009 Publication materials due: December 1, 2009 Publication date (tentative): May 2010 ======================= Guest Editors ======================= Zhisheng Huang Vrije Univerisity Amsterdam, The Netherlands huang AT cs.vu.nl Uwe Keller University of Innsbruck, Austria uwe.keller AT sti2.at. Stefan Schlobach Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands schlobac AT few.vu.nl Ning Zhong Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan and International WIC Institute/BJUT, China zhong AT maebashi-it.ac.jp ==================== Contact Person ==================== Florian Fischer Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria florian.fischer AT sti2.at ================== Editorial Board of the Special Issue =================== (to be announced) From areces at pluton.loria.fr Fri Nov 28 19:11:15 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:11:15 +0100 Subject: [DL] ACKERMANN AWARD 2009: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Message-ID: <200811281811.mASIBFJr027427@pluton.loria.fr> ========================================================================= ACKERMANN AWARD 2009 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS * Eligible for the 2009 Ackermann Award are PhD dissertations in topics specified by the EACSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2007 and 31.12. 2008. * The deadline for submission is 15.3.2009. * Submission details are available at www.dimi.uniud.it/eacsl/award.html www.cs.technion.ac.il/eacsl * The award consists of - a diploma, - an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference, - the publication of the abstract of the thesis and the laudation in the CSL proceedings, - travel support to attend the conference. * The 2009 Ackermann Award will be presented to the recipients at the annual conference of the EACSL (CSL'09). * The jury consists of nine members: - The president of EACSL, J. Makowsky (Haifa); - The borad-member of EACSL, A. Dawar (Cambridge); - One member of the LICS organizing committee, G. Plotkin (Edinburgh); - P.-L. Curien (Paris) - A. Durand (Paris) - J. van Benthem (Amsterdam) - M. Grohe (Berlin); - M. Hyland (Cambridge); - A. Razborov (Moscow and Princeton). * The jury is entitled to give more than one award per year. * The previous Ackermann Award recipients were: 2005: Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Konstantin Korovin, Nathan Segerlind; 2006: Stefan Milius and Balder ten Cate; 2007: Dietmar Berwanger, Stephane Lengrand and Ting Zhang. 2008: Krishnendu Chatterjee * For the three years 2007-2009, the Award is sponsored by Logitech, S.A., Romanel, Switzerland, the worlds leading provider of personal peripherals. ========================================================================= From franconi at inf.unibz.it Fri Nov 28 17:38:57 2008 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:38:57 +0100 Subject: [DL] implementation of transitive closure In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Have a look at DLP: cheers --e. On 26 Nov 2008, at 17:45, Guillaume Hoffmann wrote: > does anyone know about a prover that implements a calculus that > handles the transitive closure operator ? > I'm wondering if there is any such prover based on description logic, > mu-calculus or second-order logic. > regards, > Guillaume Hoffmann From lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org Mon Dec 1 17:28:02 2008 From: lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org (Lejla Ibralic Halilovic) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:28:02 +0100 Subject: [DL] 6th European Semantic Web Conference 2009: CFP Message-ID: <005001c953d1$cc0771c0$64165540$@ibralic-halilovic@sti2.org> The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009) 31 May - 4 June 2009, Heraklion, Greece www.eswc2009.org The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's Web by exploiting machine-processable metadata. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and makes this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making tasks. Semantic Web research can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Databases and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks and Web Engineering. Many advances within these areas can contribute towards the realization of the Semantic Web. The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. ESWC2009 will also feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a PhD Symposium and a number of collocated workshops. The calls for these events are separate and can be found on the conference Web site (http://www.eswc2009.org/calls). ESWC2009 is sponsored by STI International, Semantic Technology Institutes International. For more information on STI International, please visit http://www.sti2.org. **Topics of Interest** Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: 1. Semantic Web Data and Ontologies - Interoperability of data on the Semantic Web - Technologies for linked data - Database Technologies for the Semantic Web - Semantic Annotation of Data - Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web - Query Languages and Optimization for the Semantic Web - Rule Languages for the Semantic Web - Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.) - Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) - Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g., HLT and ML approaches) 2. Semantic Web Services - Service Description, Composition, and Discovery - Service Orchestration and Choreography - Service Testing, Verification, and Validation - Service Monitoring, Adaptation and Management - SLA Modeling and Management - Quality of Services, Security, and Dependability - Service Engineering - Service Deployment, Execution, Infrastructures, and Architectures 3. Semantic Web Architectures - Semantics in P2P Computing - Semantics in Grid Computing - Semantics in Middleware 4. Applications on the Semantic Web - Multimedia and Semantic Web - Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights - Interoperability of applications on the Semantic Web - Data mining on the Semantic Web - Personalization and User Modelling - User Interfaces and Semantic Web - Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals) - Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Learning and other application domains - Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web - Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation 5. Design and Evaluation of Semantic Web Applications and Technologies - Usability - Performance and scalability - Quality - Cost modeling - Testing and validation We particularly welcome application papers, which clearly show benefits of Semantic Web technologies in practical settings. **Important Dates** Papers Abstract Submission: December 08, 2008 (compulsory) Full Paper Submission: December 15, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification: February 23, 2009 Camera Ready: March 09, 2009 Demos Submission: January 16, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification: February 23, 2009 Camera Ready: March 09, 2009 Posters Submission: March 23, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification: April 20, 2009 Camera Ready: May 11, 2009 In-Use Track Submission: December 15, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification: February 23, 2009 Camera Ready: March 09, 2009 Workshops Proposal Submission: November 22, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification: December 08, 2008 Tutorials Proposal Submission: January 07, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification: January 21, 2009 Panels Proposal Submission: February 02, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification: February 23, 2009 Final Panel Description: March 09, 2009 PhD Symposium Submission: January 16, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification: February 23, 2009 Camera Ready: March 09, 2009 **Submissions** ESWC2009 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of the Semantic Web. We particularly encourage the submission of papers on industrial efforts and experiences with Semantic Web projects. We 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 ESWC2009 will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will *not* be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission -- details of this process will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. For more information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) please visit: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 Papers have to be submitted electronically at: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=eswc2009 Best Paper Award An award will be given to the best paper (or papers) submitted to the conference as judged by the Program Chairs in collaboration with the Program Committee. For more information please visit our website: www.eswc2009.org -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: eswc_2009_CfP.txt URL: From lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org Fri Nov 28 18:13:06 2008 From: lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org (lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:13:06 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC 2009 Call for demonstrations/posters Message-ID: <20081128181306.9v5sqs5eec04kkws@webmail.sti2.org> *ESWC 2009 Call for demonstrations/posters* 6th European Semantic Web Conference May 31 ? June 4, 2009 Crete, Greece http://www.eswc2009.org/ The ESWC is the leading European conference on theory, practice and applications of Semantic Web technologies, attracting an increasing number of participants from various communities and sectors. *Call for demonstrations* The demonstrations track of the ESWC2009 complements the overall program of the conference with demonstrations of real-world, proven-and-tested advances of semantic technologies. In addition to papers and posters presenting latest theoretical achievements the ESWC2009 is seeking demonstrations of novel applications of semantics in various sectors, as well as innovative enabling technologies and deployment infrastructures relevant for the topics of interest defined for the main conference and the research and poster tracks. Submissions to the demonstrations track must be in form of a textual description of the demonstration to be given at the conference. The submissions must be maximally 3 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. They should be submitted as PDF using the conference submission system. Accepted submissions to the demonstrations track will be published as part of the ESWC2009 proceedings. As such, the quality assurance will be strict, and the demonstrations will be subject to review by a separate Program Committee. Proposed demonstrations must show relevance, novelty and significance to the topics of the conference. The associated textual descriptions should contain sections answering the following questions, as appropriate: 1.What is the research background and application context of the demonstration? 2.What is the key technology used, and how does the demonstrated system, application or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work? What exactly will be demonstrated? What exactly will a visitor of the demonstration learn? *Call for posters* The poster track of the ESWC2009 will provide an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters 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 systems, descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are equally welcome. Authors must submit a 2-page paper (PDF, Springer LNCS style) with a short abstract for evaluation. The paper must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web and the topics of interest of ESWC2009. Submissions will be evaluated by a separate Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web area, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Papers that exceed the given page length or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected without a review. Papers submitted to the research track will NOT automatically be considered for the poster track. A separate poster submission must be made. For example, a poster can be provided for an accepted paper or can be used to present work that was insufficiently mature for the research track. *Submission* Submission and reviewing of demonstrations and posters will be electronic via the ESWC2009 Demo EasyChair installation at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc09demo and http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc09posters, respectively. *Important Dates* Submission (Demos): January 16, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification (Demos): February 23, 2009 Camera Ready (Demos): March 09, 2009 Submission (Posters): March 23, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification (Posters): April 20, 2009 Camera Ready (Posters): May 11, 2009 -------------- next part -------------- *ESWC 2009 Call for demonstrations/posters* 6th European Semantic Web Conference May 31 ? June 4, 2009 Crete, Greece http://www.eswc2009.org/ The ESWC is the leading European conference on theory, practice and applications of Semantic Web technologies, attracting an increasing number of participants from various communities and sectors. *Call for demonstrations* The demonstrations track of the ESWC2009 complements the overall program of the conference with demonstrations of real-world, proven-and-tested advances of semantic technologies. In addition to papers and posters presenting latest theoretical achievements the ESWC2009 is seeking demonstrations of novel applications of semantics in various sectors, as well as innovative enabling technologies and deployment infrastructures relevant for the topics of interest defined for the main conference and the research and poster tracks. Submissions to the demonstrations track must be in form of a textual description of the demonstration to be given at the conference. The submissions must be maximally 3 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. They should be submitted as PDF using the conference submission system. Accepted submissions to the demonstrations track will be published as part of the ESWC2009 proceedings. As such, the quality assurance will be strict, and the demonstrations will be subject to review by a separate Program Committee. Proposed demonstrations must show relevance, novelty and significance to the topics of the conference. The associated textual descriptions should contain sections answering the following questions, as appropriate: 1.What is the research background and application context of the demonstration? 2.What is the key technology used, and how does the demonstrated system, application or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work? What exactly will be demonstrated? What exactly will a visitor of the demonstration learn? *Call for posters* The poster track of the ESWC2009 will provide an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters 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 systems, descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are equally welcome. Authors must submit a 2-page paper (PDF, Springer LNCS style) with a short abstract for evaluation. The paper must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web and the topics of interest of ESWC2009. Submissions will be evaluated by a separate Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web area, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Papers that exceed the given page length or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected without a review. Papers submitted to the research track will NOT automatically be considered for the poster track. A separate poster submission must be made. For example, a poster can be provided for an accepted paper or can be used to present work that was insufficiently mature for the research track. *Submission* Submission and reviewing of demonstrations and posters will be electronic via the ESWC2009 Demo EasyChair installation at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc09demo and http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc09posters, respectively. *Important Dates* Submission (Demos): January 16, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification (Demos): February 23, 2009 Camera Ready (Demos): March 09, 2009 Submission (Posters): March 23, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification (Posters): April 20, 2009 Camera Ready (Posters): May 11, 2009 From degiacomo at dis.uniroma1.it Tue Dec 2 11:08:20 2008 From: degiacomo at dis.uniroma1.it (degiacom) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:08:20 +0100 Subject: [DL] implementation of transitive closure In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <12110DE9-D173-4607-8D29-36A623A1DDEA@dis.uniroma1.it> Look also at the Tableaux Workbench Suite (http:// twb.rsise.anu.edu.au/) for Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL) and also Renate A. Schmidt's "pdl-tableau" (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~schmidt/pdl-tableau/ ). Cheers, -Giuseppe On Nov 28, 2008, at 17:38 , Enrico Franconi wrote: > Have a look at DLP: > > cheers > --e. > > On 26 Nov 2008, at 17:45, Guillaume Hoffmann wrote: >> does anyone know about a prover that implements a calculus that >> handles the transitive closure operator ? >> I'm wondering if there is any such prover based on description logic, >> mu-calculus or second-order logic. >> regards, >> Guillaume Hoffmann > > > > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; > for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/ > . ** ---------- De Giacomo, Giuseppe Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Sapienza Universita' di Roma Via Ariosto 25 00185 Roma, Italy tel: +39 06 77274010 fax: +39 06 77274002 degiacomo at dis.uniroma1.it http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~degiacomo ---------- From Ian.Horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk Thu Dec 4 23:26:51 2008 From: Ian.Horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian.Horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:26:51 GMT Subject: [DL] Research Position on HermiT project at Oxford University Computing Laboratory Message-ID: <200812042226.mB4MQpYk000691@merc2.comlab.ox.ac.uk> OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING LABORATORY Research Assistant Post (Grade 7) Project: HermiT: Reasoning with Large Ontologies The Computing Laboratory has a vacancy for a postdoctoral research assistant to work in the area of logic based knowledge representation and reasoning. The post is funded by EPSRC as part of the HermiT project, and is available immediately until May 2011. The objectives of the project are to develop reasoning services that will allow for the successful application of ontology technologies in large scale applications. More information about the project can be found at [1]. The successful candidate will join an internationally renowned research group [2] working on a cutting edge research problem in an attractive and stimulating environment within one of the worlds leading universities and computer science departments [3]; they will be expected to contribute to all aspects of the group's activities, including publishing at and attending international conferences and workshops. The post is available immediately and is a fixed term appointment until May 2011. It will have a salary on the University grade 7 scale (currently ?28,839 to ?35,469 pa [check]); includes membership of USS; will have an annual leave entitlement of 38 days per year (inclusive of all public holidays and university closed periods). Further details of the posts, including the selection criteria and method of application are available from . Prospective candidates are also welcome to contact Dr Boris Motik (boris.motik at comlab.ox.ac.uk) or Prof Ian Horrocks (ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk) for further information about the project and/or the post. The closing date for applications is Tuesday 20th January 2009. Oxford University is and Equal Opportunities Employer. [1] http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/projects/HermiT/index.html [2] http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/knowledge/index.html [3] http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ [4] http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/news/59-full.html -- Prof Ian Horrocks Oxford University Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK Tel: +44 (0)1865 273939 FAX: +44 (0)1865 273839 Email: ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/ian.horrocks/ From Ian.Horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk Fri Dec 5 13:10:30 2008 From: Ian.Horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian.Horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 12:10:30 GMT Subject: [DL] D.Phil (PhD) Studentship on ConDOR project at Oxford University Computing Laboratory Message-ID: <200812051210.mB5CAUXt003200@merc2.comlab.ox.ac.uk> OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING LABORATORY Fully Funded D.Phil (PhD) Studentship Project: ConDOR: Consequence-Driven Ontology Reasoning The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group is offering a fully funded D. Phil (PhD) position at Oxford University's Computing Laboratory. The post is funded by EPSRC as part of the ConDOR project [1]. The aim of the project is to investigate alternative kinds of "consequence driven" reasoning procedures for widely used knowledge representation formalisms, including the W3C's OWL ontology language [2]. The studentship is fully funded (at EU fees level), and includes a stipend of at least ?12,940 per year as well as provision for travel to conferences. Students admitted with a start date between 1st January and 1st October, 2009 will receive a guarantee of 3 years funding. The successful candidate will join an internationally renowned research group [2] working on a cutting edge research problem in an attractive and stimulating environment within one of the worlds leading universities and computer science departments [3]. Further details, including eligibility requirements and application are available from [4]. Prospective candidates are also welcome to contact Dr Yevgeny Kazakov (yevgeny.kazakov at comlab.ox.ac.uk) or Prof Ian Horrocks (ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk) for further information about the project and/or the post. The closing date for applications is Tuesday 20th January 2009. Oxford University is and Equal Opportunities Employer. [1] http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/projects/ConDOR/index.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language [3] http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ [4] http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/news/56-full.html -- Prof Ian Horrocks Oxford University Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK Tel: +44 (0)1865 273939 FAX: +44 (0)1865 273839 Email: ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/ian.horrocks/ From jeedward at yahoo.com Thu Dec 4 12:56:01 2008 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 03:56:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: [DL] Special Session on Description Logic of knowledge Representation and Reasoning Message-ID: <456537.89591.qm@web45910.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Special Session on Description Logic of knowledge Representation and Reasoning at AIPR-09: call for papers ? There is a Special Session on Description Logic of knowledge Representation and Reasoning at the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) that will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rseba at brenta.disi.unitn.it Fri Dec 5 14:04:18 2008 From: rseba at brenta.disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:04:18 +0100 Subject: [DL] FroCoS'09 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20081205130418.GA17643@brenta.disi.unitn.it> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 7th International Symposium on FRONTIERS OF COMBINING SYSTEMS (FroCoS?09) Trento, Italy, September 16-18th, 2009 http://frocos09.disi.unitn.it/ MOTIVATIONS In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. In order to be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and they must be integrated into general purpose systems. The development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems has been initiated in many areas. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FROCOS) traditionally focuses on this type of research questions and activities and aims at promoting progress in the field. Like its predecessors, FROCOS?09 wants to offer a common forum for research activities in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems (with emphasis on logic-based ones), and of their practical use. RELEVANT TOPICS Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics such as combined predicate, temporal, modal, or epistemic logics; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures, and of CS techniques; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * combination of deduction systems and computer algebra; * integration of data structures into CLP formalisms and deduction processes; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least three members of the program committee. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Papers must be edited in LTEX and be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos09. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). Further information about paper submission will be made available at FROCOS?09 web page. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of FroCoS?09 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 26th, 2009 Full paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 8th, 2009 Camera Ready Copy: June 22th, 2009 Conference: September 16-18th 2009 CHAIRS - Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano, Italy - Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Franz Baader, T.U. Dresden, Germany - Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Camberra, Australia - Torben Brauner, Roskilde University, DK - Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA - Bernhard Gramlich, T.U. Wien, Austria - Sava Krstic, Intel Corporation, USA - Viktor Kuncak, E.P.F. Lausanne, France - Albert Oliveras, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain - Silvio Ranise, University of Verona, Italy - Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, Nancy, France - Ulrike Sattler, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Renate Schmidt, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Luciano Serafini, FBK-Irst, Italy - Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbruken, Germany - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK - Michael Zakharyaschev, London Knowledge Lab, UK From ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk Sat Dec 6 23:53:59 2008 From: ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Horrocks) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 22:53:59 +0000 Subject: [DL] W3C publishes OWL 2 "last call" drafts Message-ID: <75AC3236-756F-4728-832E-F1A4E5BD7444@comlab.ox.ac.uk> The W3C OWL Working Group has just published a set of eleven documents for public review. These documents cover "OWL 2", which is now fairly stable. This is a good time to review this work and send us comments (at public-owl-comments at w3.org). Comments received by 23 January will be answered and taken into account in the next round of publications. The group expects to issue the OWL 2 Candidatate Recommendations, with a call for implementations, shortly after that comment deadline. The documents are: 1. Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-syntax-20081202/ 2. Direct Semantics http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-semantics-20081202/ 3. RDF-Based Semantics http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-rdf-based-semantics-20081202/ 4. Conformance and Test Cases http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-test-20081202/ 5. Mapping to RDF Graphs http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-mapping-to-rdf-20081202/ 6. XML Serialization http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-xml-serialization-20081202/ 7. Profiles http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-profiles-20081202/ 8. Quick Reference Guide http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-quick-reference-20081202/ 9. New Features and Rationale http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-new-features-20081202/ 10. Manchester Syntax http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-manchester-syntax-20081202/ 11. rdf:text: A Datatype for Internationalized Text http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rdf-text-20081202/ Of these eleven documents: * The first seven are the core technical specification for OWL 2. Six of these now at "Last Call". This means the Working Group believes the design is done and that the only changes going forward will be editorial, along with certain items highlighted as "at risk" in the documents. The other one, "RDF-Based Semantics" (which specifies OWL 2 Full) is expected to proceed to Last Call shortly. * The "Quick Reference Guide" and "New Features and Rationale" will be a good place to start for many OWL users, these documents will be a good place to start. (A Primer is also being developed, and a earlier draft was published, but it has not yet been updated to account for the current state of the language.) * "Manchester Syntax" specifies an alternative syntax for OWL which some users prefer and some tools implement, but which is not required. * "rdf:text" specifies an XML datatype (developed jointly with the RIF Working Group) which provides a way to deal with RDF language-tagged literal strings without making them be a special case. Again, please send comments to public-owl-comments at w3.org by 23 January. Discussion on either of these lists is fine, but might not be seen by the Working Group. Ian Horrocks Chair, OWL Working Group From arcoe-09 at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Sun Dec 7 21:06:45 2008 From: arcoe-09 at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (ARCOE-09) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 21:06:45 +0100 Subject: [DL] ARCOE-09 Call for Participation Message-ID: <52c479f40812071206m3c36ca91qab5010b5d59a75aa@mail.gmail.com> Apologies for Multiple Postings ======================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ARCOE-09 at IJCAI-09 July 11-13, 2009 Pasadena, CA, USA ======================= The IJCAI-09 Workshop on Automated Reasoning about Context and Ontology Evolution (ARCOE-09) http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ARCOE2009 July 11-13, 2009 Pasadena, California, USA held at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09) http://ijcai-09.org -- Description of the workshop -- Methods of automated reasoning have solved a large number of problems in Computer Science by using formal ontologies expressed in logic. Over the years, though, each problem or class of problems has required a different ontology, and sometimes a different version of logic. Moreover, the processes of conceiving, controlling and maintaining an ontology and its versions have turned out to be inherently complex. All this has motivated much investigation in a wide range of disparate disciplines ? from logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning to Software Engineering, from Databases to Multimedia ? about how to relate ontologies to one another. ARCOE-09 aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of Artificial Intelligence (Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Contexts, and Ontologies) to discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results. Historically, there have been at least three different, yet interdependent motivations behind this type of research: defining the relationship between an ontology and its context, providing support to ontology engineers, enhancing problem solving and communication for software agents. Ontology and Context. Most application areas have recognized the need for representing and reasoning about knowledge that is distributed over many resources. Such knowledge depends on its context, i.e., on the syntactic and/or semantic structure of such resources. Research on information integration, distributed knowledge management, the semantic web, multi-agent and distributed reasoning have pinned down different aspects of how ontologies relate to and/or develop within their context. Ontology Engineering. Ontology engineers do not succeed right from the beginning when (individually or collaboratively) developing an ontology. Despite their expertise and any assistance from domain experts, revision cycles are the rule. Research on the automation of the process of engineering an ontology has improved efficiency and reduced the introduction of unintended meanings by means of interactive ontology editors. Moreover, ontology matching has studied the process of manual, off-line alignment of two or more known ontologies. Problem Solving and Communication for Agents. Agents that communicate with one another without having full access to their respective ontologies or that are programmed to face new non-classifiable situations must change their own ontology dynamically at run-time ? they cannot rely on human intervention. Research on this problem has either concentrated on non-monotonic reasoning and belief revision or on changes of signature, i.e., of the grammar of the ontology's language, with a minimal disruption to the original theory. ARCOE-09 will provide a multi-disciplinary forum, where differences in methodologies, representation languages and techniques are over-arched and hopefully overcome. Accordingly, the workshop will be structured into four tracks: three of them will focus on specific areas, the fourth one will foster links and integration. Track 1: Context and Ontology This track will select and present works about Context and Ontology, a well-established research area that has mainly concentrated on the relationship between contexts and ontologies for distributed information and for the enhancement of software agents. Track 2: Common Sense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Ontologies This track will select and present works about logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, a classic area of AI, which since its origins has produced remarkable results on logic-based methods for supporting knowledge engineers and for enhancing software agents. Track 3: Automated Ontology Evolution This track will select and present works about Automated Ontology Evolution, an area which in recent years has been drawing the attention of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning on the automation of ontology evolution. Track 4: Links and integration This track will foster links and integration by means of invited talks and (panel) discussions. Topics that are likely to be covered are: the formalization of software engineering concepts for ontology development; the relationship between automated reasoning and information retrieval; relationships between representation languages; relationships between canonical domains; relationships between contexts and ontology evolution and between Non-Monotonic Reasoning and ontology evolution. ARCOE-09 will bring the participants to position the various approaches with respect to one another. Hopefully, though the workshop will also start a process of cross-pollination and set out the constitution of a truly interdisciplinary research-community dedicated to automated reasoning about contexts and ontology evolution. -- Topics -- Track 1: Context and Ontology Submissions are welcome on the role of context and ontology in areas that include but are not limited to the following ones: - Information Integration - The role of context and ontology in Distributed Reasoning and Knowledge Management - The role of context and ontology in Semantic Web - Multi-Agent Systems - Data Grid and Grid Computing - Pervasive Computing and Ambient Intelligence - Peer-to-peer Information Systems - Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies Track 2: Common Sense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning Submissions are welcome on the role of common sense and non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies in areas that include but are not limited to the following ones: - Ontology Debugging, Update and Merging - Inconsistency Handling, Belief Revision and Theory Change for DL ontologies - Uncertainty Handling, Defeasible Reasoning and Argumentation in ontologies - Heuristic and Approximate Reasoning - Planning and Reasoning about Action and Change on the Semantic Web - Rules and Ontologies - Temporal and Spatial Reasoning Track 3: Automated Ontology Evolution Submissions are welcome on the role of automated ontology evolution in areas that include but are not limited to the following ones: - Ontology fault diagnosis and repair - Problem Solving - Agent Communication - Persistent Agents in Changing Environment - Multimedia on the Web - IT and Automated Reasoning -- Attendance -- Following IJCAI-09 policy, the total number of participants in ARCOE-09 will be limited to 75 people. This includes organizers, PC members, invited speakers, authors and attendees. Authors will be selected on significance of their submission and will be preferred on simple attendees. Attendees will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis. Please check http://ijcai-09.org for application procedure and fees. -- Submission Requirements and Dates -- ARCOE-09 will accept submissions of long abstracts, for both long presentations and poster presentations. The distinction during the selection-phase will be based on the significance and the quality of submissions as well as oriented towards fostering cross-pollination and discussions during the event. All selected abstracts will be included in the IJCAI-09 Working Notes. Authors are kindly requested to provide keywords upon submission. The format for submissions is the same as that of IJCAI-09. Please check http://ijcai-09.org for the style files. Submissions should be no longer than 3 pages. - Submission deadline: March 6, 2009 - Notification to authors: April 17, 2009 - Camera-ready version: May 8, 2009 - Workshop dates: July 11-13, 2009 -- Submit to -- Please submit to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe09 -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- - Alan Bundy School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK. Tel: +44-131-650-2716, Fax No.: +44-131-650-6899. - Jos Lehmann School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK. Tel: +44-131-650-2725, Fax No.: +44-131-650-6899. - Guilin Qi Institute AIFB, Universitaet Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany. Tel: +49-721-608-6038. - Ivan Jose Varzinczak Meraka Institute, Meiring Naude Road, CSIR, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa. Tel: +27-12-841-33-23. Please send all enquiries and communications to: arcoe-09 at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de -- Program Committee -- - Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) - Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento, Italy) - Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France) - Chiara Ghidini (FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) - Alain Leger (France Telecom R&D, France) - Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) - Thomas Meyer (Meraka Institute, South Africa) - Maurice Pagnucco (The University of New South Wales, Australia) - Valeria de Paiva (Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA) - Luciano Serafini (FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) - Pavel Shvaiko (Informatica Trentina S.P.A., Italy) - John F. Sowa (VivoMind Intelligence, Inc., USA) - Holger Wache (University of Applied Sciences, Northwestern Switzerland) - Renata Wassermann (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carsten at itu.dk Fri Dec 19 14:38:20 2008 From: carsten at itu.dk (Carsten Schuermann) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:38:20 +0100 Subject: [DL] CADE-22 second call for papers Message-ID: <494BA3CC.9040605@itu.dk> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS CADE-22 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2-7, 2009 Submission Deadline: 23 Feb 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ GENERAL INFORMATION CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. The conference programme will include invited talks, paper presentations, system descriptions, workshops, tutorials, and system competitions. SCOPE We invite high-quality submissions on the general topic of automated deduction, including foundations, applications, implementations and practical experiences. Logics of interest include, but are not limited to o propositional, first-order, equational, higher-order, classical, description, modal, temporal, many-valued, intuitionistic, other non-classical, meta-logics, logical frameworks, type theory and set theory. Methods of interest include, but are not limited to o saturation, resolution, instance-based, tableaux, sequent calculi, natural deduction, term rewriting, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, constraint solving, induction, unification, proof planning, proof checking, proof presentation and explanation. Applications of interest include, but are not limited to o program analysis and verification, hardware verification, mathematics, natural language processing, computational linguistics, knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, functional and logic programming, robotics, planning, and other areas of AI. INVITED SPEAKERS: Konstantin Korovin The University of Manchester Martin Rinard Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mark Stickel SRI International WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, SYSTEM COMPETITION: A two-day workshop and tutorial programme will be co-organized with the conference. In addition, the annual CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) will be held during the conference. Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. PUBLICATION DETAILS: The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submissions can be made in the categories 'regular papers' and 'system descriptions'. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 15 pages for regular papers and 5 pages for system descriptions. Full system descriptions that provide in-depth presentation of original ideas in an implemented system can be submitted as regular papers. For the benefit of reviewers, additional material may be provided by a clearly marked appendix or a reference to a manuscript on a website. It is at the discretion of the reviewers whether such supplements will be considered. All regular papers will be evaluated according to the highest standards in terms of originality, significance, technical quality, and readability. Submissions must be in English and standard conforming pdf format. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are strongly encouraged to produce their papers in LaTeX. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. To submit your paper please use the EasyChair submission system at this address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade22. IMPORTANT DATES: A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper. 16 Feb 2009 Abstract submission deadline 23 Feb 2009 Paper submission deadline 10 Apr 2009 Notification of paper decisions 14 May 2009 Camera-ready papers due 2-3 Aug 2009 Workshops & Tutorials 4-7 Aug 2009 Conference, including CASC PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alessandro Armando Universit? di Genova Franz Baader Technische Universit?t Dresden Peter Baumgartner NICTA, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universit? degli Studi di Verona Bernhard Beckert Universit?t Koblenz-Landau Nikolaj Bj?rner Microsoft Research Alessandro Cimatti Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento Silvio Ghilardi Universit? degli Studi di Milano J?rgen Giesl RWTH Aachen Rajeev Gor? The Australian National University Reiner H?hnle Chalmers University of Technology John Harrison Intel Corporation Miki Hermann ?cole Polytechnique Ullrich Hustadt University of Liverpool Katsumi Inoue National Institute of Informatics, Japan Tommi Junttila Helsinki University of Technology Deepak Kapur University of New Mexico Alexander Leitsch Technische Universit?t Wien Christopher Lynch Clarkson University Claude March? INRIA Saclay, Parc Orsay Universit? William McCune University of New Mexico Aart Middeldorp Universit?t Innsbruck Hans de Nivelle University of Wroclaw Albert Oliveras Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Lawrence Paulson University of Cambridge Brigitte Pientka McGill University David Plaisted University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Micha?l Rusinowitch LORIA-INRIA-Lorraine Renate Schmidt (Chair) The University of Manchester Carsten Sch?rmann IT-Universitetet i K?benhavn Aaron Stump The University of Iowa Geoff Sutcliffe University of Miami Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester Christoph Weidenbach Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik ORGANIZERS: Conference Chair: Brigitte Pientka McGill University Workshop & Tutorial Chair: Aaron Stump The University of Iowa Publicity Chair: Carsten Sch?rmann IT-Universitetet i K?benhavn PC Chair: Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester From lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org Thu Dec 18 11:24:29 2008 From: lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org (Lejla Ibralic Halilovic) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:24:29 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC2009: Call for Tutorials (deadline: January 7, 2009) Message-ID: <01a601c960fa$d39f9030$7adeb090$@ibralic-halilovic@sti2.org> [apologies for cross-posting] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ESWC 2009 CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS DEADLINE APPROACHING: January 7, 2009 http://www.eswc2009.org/calls/tutorials 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009) 31 May - 4 June 2009, Heraklion, Greece --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. In addition to the regular research and workshop programme, ESWC2009 invites tutorials on relevant topics of interest (see below). 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. ESWC2009 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 ESWC2009 should cover one topic in appropriate depth and present it in a appropriate manner which enables attendees to fully comprehend and apply emerging Semantic Web technologies. Although tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects, we encourage hands-on sessions where appropriate. SUBMISSION --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information: * abstract (200 words maximum, for inclusion on the ESWC2009 website) * tutorial description (aims, target audience, presentation method, technical requirements) * justification for the tutorial, including timeliness and relevance to ESWC2009 * 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 as single pdf files using the ESWC2009 Tutorials submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=eswc2009tutorials Submitted proposals that follow the above guidelines will be reviewed by the ESWC2009 organizing committee with respect to relevance of the topic, content and presentation method, and presenters expertise. IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Proposal Submissions: January 7, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) * Notification: January 21, 2009 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 preprinting and placement on the ESWC2009 website. For each accepted tutorial, we offer one 50% discount of the Early- Bird registration fee. TUTORIAL CHAIRS --------------------------------------------------------------------- Philippe Cudre-Mauroux (MIT, US) Chiara Ghidini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IT) CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST AND AREA KEYWORDS --------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest for ESWC2009 tutorials include, but are not limited to the following: 1. Semantic Web Data and Ontologies - Interoperability of data on the Semantic Web - Technologies for linked data - Database Technologies for the Semantic Web - Semantic Annotation of Data - Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web - Query Languages and Optimization for the Semantic Web - Rule Languages for the Semantic Web - Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.) - Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) - Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g., HLT and ML approaches) 2. Semantic Web Services - Service Description, Composition, and Discovery - Service Orchestration and Choreography - Service Testing, Verification, and Validation - Service Monitoring, Adaptation and Management - SLA Modeling and Management - Quality of Services, Security, and Dependability - Service Engineering - Service Deployment, Execution, Infrastructures, and Architectures 3. Semantic Web Architectures - Semantics in P2P Computing - Semantics in Grid Computing - Semantics in Middleware 4. Applications on the Semantic Web - Multimedia and Semantic Web - Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights - Interoperability of applications on the Semantic Web - Data mining on the Semantic Web - Personalization and User Modelling - User Interfaces and Semantic Web - Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals) - Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Learning and other application domains - Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web - Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation 5. Design and Evaluation of Semantic Web Applications and Technologies - Usability - Performance and scalability - Quality - Cost modeling - Testing and validation From lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org Thu Dec 18 12:08:07 2008 From: lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org (Lejla Ibralic Halilovic) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:08:07 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC2009: Call for Demonstrations (deadline: January 16, 2009) Message-ID: <01df01c96100$eb8d2580$c2a77080$@ibralic-halilovic@sti2.org> [apologies for cross-posting] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ESWC 2009 CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS DEADLINE APPROACHING: January 16, 2009 http://www.eswc2009.org/calls/demonstrations 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009) 31 May - 4 June 2009, Heraklion, Greece --------------------------------------------------------------------- ESWC09: Call for demonstrations ESWC is the leading European conference on theory, practice and applications of Semantic Web technologies, attracting an increasing number of participants from various communities and sectors. The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009) will take place in Heraklion, Greece, from 31st of May to 4th of June 2009, and will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies: http://www.eswc2009.org/ The demonstrations track of the ESWC2009 complements the overall program of the conference with demonstrations of real-world, proven-and-tested advances of semantic technologies. In addition to papers and posters presenting latest theoretical achievements the ESWC2009 is seeking demonstrations of novel applications of semantics in various sectors, as well as innovative enabling technologies and deployment infrastructures relevant for the topics of interest of the main conference and the research and poster tracks. Submissions to the demonstrations track must be in form of a textual description of the demonstration to be given at the conference. The submissions must be maximally 5 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. They should be submitted as PDF using the conference submission system. Accepted submissions to the demonstrations track will be published as part of the ESWC2009 proceedings. As such, the quality assurance will be strict, and the demonstrations will be subject to review by a separate Program Committee. Proposed demonstrations must show relevance, novelty and significance to the topics of the conference. The associated textual descriptions should contain sections explicitly answering the following questions: 1. What is the research background and application context of the demonstration? 2. What is the key technology used, and how does the demonstrated system, application or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work? 3. What exactly will be demonstrated? What exactly will a visitor of the demonstration learn? Failure to address the above questions will be negatively considered by the program committee. Important Dates Submission (Demos): January 16, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification (Demos): February 23, 2009 Camera Ready (Demos): March 09, 2009 Submission Details Submission and reviewing of demonstrations and posters will be electronic via the ESWC2009 Demo EasyChair installation at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2009demo Poster/Demonstration Session Chairs Elena Simperl (STI Innsbruck) Philipp Cimiano (TU Delft) More information about the demonstration session can be found here: http://www.eswc2009.org/calls/demonstrations From lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org Thu Dec 18 12:59:44 2008 From: lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org (Lejla Ibralic Halilovic) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:59:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC2009: PhD Symposium (deadline: January 16, 2009) Message-ID: <01f101c96108$21ce2340$656a69c0$@ibralic-halilovic@sti2.org> [apologies for cross-posting] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ESWC 2009 PHD SYMPOSIUM DEADLINE APPROACHING: January 16, 2009 http://www.eswc2009.org/calls/phd-symposium 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009) 31 May - 4 June 2009, Heraklion, Greece --------------------------------------------------------------------- The ESWC2009 PhD Symposium will continue the successful series of PhD symposia collocated with the main Semantic Web conferences. The goal of the symposium is to provide a unique opportunity for PhD students to open up their work in front of other academics than their supervisors. They will be able to present their work and get feedback on their topic and approach from leading scientists in the field and from fellow students. Additionally, the forum will provide an opportunity to meet other students, to learn about their work and last, but not least, to discuss PhD related issues. We welcome submissions on all major topics related to Semantic Web research, including, but not limited to those of relevance for ESWC2009. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the scientific advisory board. Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be presented in front of other students and senior researchers (either in a regular presentation session or in a poster session). Each accepted contribution will be assigned to a scientific advisor who will provide extended feedback on the presented research. We encourage submissions from all PhD students, and especially those in their first years of PhD. *Important dates* - Submission: January 16, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) - Notification: February 23, 2009 - Camera Ready: March 09, 2009 - PhD Symposium: 1st June, 2009 *Submissions* Submissions should be structured around the following topics which are the key methodological components required for a sound research narrative: - Problem: describe the core problem of the PhD and motivate its relevance for the Semantic Web area; - State of the art: describe relevant related work and point out areas that need to be improved; - Proposed Approach: present the approach taken and motivate how this is novel with respect to existing work; - Methodology: sketch the methodology that is (or will be) adopted and, in particular, the approach to be taken for evaluating the results of the work; - Results: describe the current status of the work and any results that have been reached so far; - Conclusions and future work: conclude and specify the major items of future work. Note that students which have a paper accepted in the main research track on a certain topic can still submit a paper in which they describe the overall idea and status of their PhD following the template above. Submissions should be no longer than 5 pages and must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Papers must be in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and must be submitted electronically through the conference submission site. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. We will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. For more information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) please visit: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 Submissions to the PhD Symposium (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2009dc) *PhD Symposium Chairs* Riichiro Mizoguchi, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University (Japan) Marta Sabou, Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University (U.K.) *Program Committee* Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento (Italy) Paul Buitelaar, DFKI (Germany) Mathieu d'Aquin, The Open University (U.K.) Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes (France) Carole Goble, University of Manchester (U.K.) Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd (U.K.) Martin Hepp, Bundeswehr University Munich (Germany) Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield (U.K.) Eduardo Mena, University of Zaragoza (Spain) Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research (Spain) Natasha Noy, Stanford University (U.S.A.) Daniel Olmedilla, Telefonica R&D (Spain) Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen (U.K.) Terry Payne, University of Liverpool (U.K.) Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Pavel Shvaiko, TasLab, Informatica Trentina (Italy) Elena Simperl, STI Innsbruck (Austria) Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany) Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim (Germany) Hideaki Takeda, University of Tokyo (Japan) Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool (U.K.) Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Holger Wache, University of Applied Science Northweastern Switzerland (Switzerland) Further information For any questions regarding the event please contact Marta Sabou (r.m.sabou at open.ac.uk ). From rseba at brenta.disi.unitn.it Thu Dec 11 23:07:44 2008 From: rseba at brenta.disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:07:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] FroCoS'09 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20081211220744.GA14392@brenta.disi.unitn.it> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 7th International Symposium on FRONTIERS OF COMBINING SYSTEMS (FroCoS?09) Trento, Italy, September 16-18th, 2009 http://frocos09.disi.unitn.it/ MOTIVATIONS In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. In order to be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and they must be integrated into general purpose systems. The development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems has been initiated in many areas. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FROCOS) traditionally focuses on this type of research questions and activities and aims at promoting progress in the field. Like its predecessors, FROCOS?09 wants to offer a common forum for research activities in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems (with emphasis on logic-based ones), and of their practical use. RELEVANT TOPICS Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics such as combined predicate, temporal, modal, or epistemic logics; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures, and of CS techniques; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * combination of deduction systems and computer algebra; * integration of data structures into CLP formalisms and deduction processes; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least three members of the program committee. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Papers must be edited in LTEX and be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos09. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). Further information about paper submission will be made available at FROCOS?09 web page. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of FroCoS?09 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 26th, 2009 Full paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 8th, 2009 Camera Ready Copy: June 22th, 2009 Conference: September 16-18th 2009 CHAIRS - Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano, Italy - Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Franz Baader, T.U. Dresden, Germany - Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Camberra, Australia - Torben Brauner, Roskilde University, DK - Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA - Bernhard Gramlich, T.U. Wien, Austria - Sava Krstic, Intel Corporation, USA - Viktor Kuncak, E.P.F. Lausanne, Switzerland - Albert Oliveras, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain - Silvio Ranise, University of Verona, Italy - Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, Nancy, France - Ulrike Sattler, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Renate Schmidt, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Luciano Serafini, FBK-Irst, Italy - Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbruken, Germany - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK - Michael Zakharyaschev, London Knowledge Lab, UK From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Tue Dec 9 12:19:58 2008 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:19:58 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] Tableaux 2009: Second CfP Message-ID: <682bba2c5d39a37a9bf8b3e95b73e4fe.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> [We apologize for multiple copies] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% %% %% Second Call for Papers, %% %% Call for Tutorials, and %% %% Call for Workshop Proposals %% %% %% %% TABLEAUX 2009 %% %% %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% International Conference TABLEAUX 2009 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Oslo, Norway 6.-10. July 2009 http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/ IMPORTANT DATES Workshop & Tutorial submission: Friday, 9. Jan 2009 Workshop & Tutorial notification: Friday 23. Jan Abstract and Title submission: Monday, 19. Jan Paper Submission: Monday, 26. Jan Notification: Tuesday, 24. Mar End of rebuttal phase: Friday, 27. Mar Final Notification: Friday, 3. Apr Final Versions: Friday, 24. Apr Workshops: Monday, 6. July Conference: Tuesday, 7. to Friday, 10. July GENERAL INFORMATION This conference is the 18th in a series of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. In July 2009, the conference will be held in Oslo, Norway. The conference proceedings will be published in the LNAI series as in the previous editions of the conference. See http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/ for more information on TABLEAUX 2009, and http://i12www.ira.uka.de/TABLEAUX for information about the TABLEAUX conference series. Tableaux 2009 will be collocated with FTP 2009, the workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving, see http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/ftp09/ 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, many-valued...) * systems, tools, implementations and applications. As in previous years, TABLEAUX 2009 puts a special emphasis on applications. Papers describing applications of tableaux and related methods in areas such as hardware and software verification, semantic technologies, knowledge engineering, 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. For category B submissions a working implementation must exist and be available to the referees. After the notification, there will be a rebuttal phase of three days during which the authors of rejected papers will have the opportunity to respond to the reviews. Accepted papers in these categories will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions in category C will be reviewed by members of the program committee and a collection of the accepted papers in this category will be published as a Technical Report of the University of Oslo. 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. Note that the deadline for tutorial proposals is Friday, 9. Jan 2009. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS TABLEAUX 2009 launches a Call for Workshop Proposal on specialised subjects in the range of the conference topics. We can accept up to 2 proposals. The proposals are reviewed by members of the PC committee. The purpose of a workshop is to offer an opportunity of presenting novel ideas, ongoing research, and to discuss the state of the art of an area in a less formal but more focused way than the conference itself. It is also a good opportunity for young researchers to present their own work and to obtain feedback. The format of a workshop is left to the the organizers, but it is expected to contain significant time for discussion. The intended schedule is for one-day workshops. To submit a workshop proposal, please send a description of one or two pages to the PC chairs by Friday, 9. Jan 2009. STUDENT SPONSORING Apart from significantly reduced conference fees, students will have access to budget accommodation at a rate of about 100 EUR for the whole week. If necessary, we will be able to provide further financing help. Lack of funds should not prevent you from submitting a paper to Tableaux 2009! INVITED SPEAKERS We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have accepted to give invited talks at Tableaux 2009: * Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Nancy, France * Peter Jeavons, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK * Pierre Wolper, Universit? de Liege, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE PC Chairs * Martin Giese, Univ. of Oslo, Norway * Arild Waaler, Univ. of Oslo, Norway PC Members * Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Canberra, Australia * Bernhard Beckert, Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Christoph Benzm?ller, Saarland Univ., Saarbr?cken, Germany * Marc Bezem, Univ. of Bergen, Norway * Torben Bra?ner, Roskilde Univ., Denmark * Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien, Austria * Marta Cialdea Mayer, Univ. of Rome 3, Italy * St?phane Demri, CNRS, Cachan, France * Roy Dyckhoff, Univ. of St Andrews, Scotland * Ulrich Furbach, Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Didier Galmiche, LORIA, Henri Poincar? Univ., Nancy, France * Valentin Goranko, Univ.of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa * Rajeev Gor?, The Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia * Reiner H?hnle, Chalmers Univ., G?teborg, Sweden * Ullrich Hustadt, Univ. of Liverpool, UK * Christoph Kreitz, Univ. Potsdam, Germany * George Metcalfe, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, USA * Neil V. Murray, Univ. at Albany - SUNY, USA * Nicola Olivetti, Paul C?zanne University, Marseille, France * Jens Otten, Univ. Potsdam, Germany * Nicolas Peltier, LIG, Grenoble, France * Ulrike Sattler, Univ. of Manchester, UK * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbr?cken, Germany * Frank Wolter, Univ. of Liverpool, UK ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference co-Chairs: * Martin Giese, Univ. of Oslo, Norway * Arild Waaler, Univ. of Oslo, Norway Local organisers: * Terje Aaberge * Roger Antonsen * Roar Fjellheim * Christian M. Hansen * Bjarne Holen (webmaster) * Magdalena Ivanovska * Espen H. Lian * Martin G. Skj?veland * Evgenij Thorstensen From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Tue Dec 30 12:19:33 2008 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu d'Aquin) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:19:33 +0000 Subject: [DL] JOB: Research Associate - Semantic Web Message-ID: <495A03C5.3060304@open.ac.uk> ****** Apologies for multiple postings ****** Research Associate: Semantic Web Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) ?27,183 - ?35,469, Ref: 5245 Based in Milton Keynes - Temporary 12 month contract The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute has an opening for a Research Associate to participate to the research activities realized within the NeOn EU-funded integrated project (http://neon-project.org) on knowledge sharing and ontology publication. This work is part of our ongoing research program on enabling the development of the Semantic Web, and in particular, of the next generation of Semantic Web applications, by providing the necessary foundation for the realization of such applications. More precisely, this work is at the forefront of emerging semantic technologies, combining infrastructure components for Semantic Web search (i.e., the Watson Semantic Web gateway, http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk) and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing with principles of social networks for collaborative evaluation and trust management in ontologies. Core to the work is the development of a new ontology sharing and publication system (Cupboard), which addresses the need for an open, distributed ontology repository system for the Semantic Web. For detailed information and how to apply go to http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy-5245.php, call the KMi Recruitment Coordinator on +44 (0) 1908 654774 or email quoting the reference number. Closing date: 19th January 2009. Informal enquiries may be made to: Dr. Mathieu d'Aquin - m.daquin at open.ac.uk Research Fellow Tel. +44 (0)1908 655526. and / or Professor Enrico Motta - e.motta at open.ac.uk Professor of Knowledge Technologies Tel. +44 (0)1908 653800. From marija.slavkovik at gmail.com Mon Dec 22 19:58:52 2008 From: marija.slavkovik at gmail.com (Marija Slavkovik) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:58:52 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Submissions 2009 ESSLLI Student Session In-Reply-To: <4e59c6b0811110344j2bd69b4dnea659ce699002303@mail.gmail.com> References: <4e59c6b0811110344j2bd69b4dnea659ce699002303@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4e59c6b0812221058i2e2ad2a2j2e4c650e179320ae@mail.gmail.com> ***Apologies for multiple postings*** SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: February 1, 2009 -------------------- Call for Submissions 2009 ESSLLI Student Session The 2009 ESSLLI Student Session will take place from July 20 to July 31 in Bordeaux, France, as part of the annual European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. We hereby invite paper submissions from students in the areas of logic and computation, logic and language, and language and computation for presentation in the oral session or in the poster session. All submissions will be reviewed by three experts in the field, and those selected for presentation will be published in the proceedings. The Student Session is an excellent venue to present work in progress, and also to gain experience presenting one's research to a wide audience. As in previous years, Springer is offering 500 Euro in textbooks for the best paper award, and 250 Euro in textbooks to each of two runners-up. The deadline for submission is February 1, 2009. For more details, please see the full call for papers: http://www.stanford.edu/~icard/esslli/call -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tb at imm.dtu.dk Tue Dec 23 16:37:05 2008 From: tb at imm.dtu.dk (Thomas Bolander) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:37:05 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: 6th workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6) Message-ID: <495105A1.2060309@imm.dtu.dk> ==================================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 6th Workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6) http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M6 Copenhagen, Denmark November 12-14, 2009 ==================================================================== Scope ----- 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 temporal logic, 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, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ M4M-6 will be preceded by a two-day mini-course aimed at preparing PhD students and other researchers for participation in the workshop. The mini-course is associated with the FIRST research school (http://first.dk). Paper Submissions ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories. - Regular papers up to 15 pages, describing original research. - System descriptions of up to 12 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones. - Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. Submissions should be made via EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4m6 Final versions of accepted papers will be published online in a volume of Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). A preliminary version of the proceedings will also be available at the workshop. Invited speakers ----------------- To be announced. Important dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: August 24, 2009 Notification: October 5, 2009 Camera ready versions: October 26, 2009 Workshop dates: November 12-14, 2009 Program Committee ----------------- Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine Thomas Bolander (co-chair), Technical University of Denmark Julian Bradfield, University of Edinburgh Torben Bra?ner (co-chair), Roskilde University Balder ten Cate, University of Amsterdam Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan Hans van Ditmarsch, University of Otago Melvin Fitting, City University of New York John Gallagher, Roskilde University Mai Gehrke, Radboud University Nijmegen Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano Valentin Goranko, University of the Witwatersrand Rajeev Gor?, ANU, NICTA Michael R. Hansen, Technical University of Denmark Andreas Herzig, IRIT Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool Martin Lange, LMU M?nchen Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology Angelo Montanari, University of Udine Valeria de Paiva, Cuill Inc. Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester Thomas Schneider, University of Manchester Carsten Sch?rmann, IT University of Copenhagen Gert Smolka, Saarland University Anders S?gaard, University of Copenhagen J?rgen Villadsen, Technical University of Denmark Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool Thomas ?gotnes, Bergen University College ================================================================== From jeedward at yahoo.com Sun Dec 28 16:38:24 2008 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:38:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: [DL] Special session on Description Logic of Knowledge Representation Message-ID: <208819.2275.qm@web45912.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Special Session on Description Logic of Knowledge Representation at AIPR-09: call for papers ? There is a special session on Description Logic of Knowledge Representation at the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) that will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: