From baojie at gmail.com Tue Jan 5 03:45:44 2010 From: baojie at gmail.com (Jie Bao) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:45:44 -0500 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP - 4th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) - Submission deadline: Jan 29, 2010 Message-ID: ========================================================= 4th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Toronto, Canada, May 11, 2010 held in conjunction with FOIS 2010 --- 2nd Call for Papers --- Submission deadline: January 29, 2010 ========================================================= http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo4 INVITED SPEAKERS Simon Colton, Imperial College London Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Barcelona MODULARITY, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance and ontology reasoning. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a foundation for further research and development. The workshop follows a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest work and current problems, and is this time organised as a satellite workshop of FOIS 2010, as well as being co-located with several other relevant events, namely KR, AAMAS, ICAPS, NMR, and DL. TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is Modularity: Kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/Foundational Studies: Conservativity; modular ontology languages (e.g., DDL, E-Connections, P-DL); reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; heterogeneity; - Algorithmic Approaches: distributed reasoning; modularization and module extraction; (selective) sharing and re-using, linking and importing; hiding and privacy; evaluation of modularization approaches; complexity of reasoning; reasoners or implemented systems; - Applications: Semantic Web; Life Sciences; Bio-Ontologies; Natural Language Processing; ontologies of space and time; Ambient Intelligence; collaborative ontology development; etc. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: January 29, 2010 Notification: March 1, 2010 Camera ready: March 11, 2010 Workshop day: May 11, 2010 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The workshop welcomes submission of high quality original and previously unpublished papers. Contributions should not exceed 13 pages in length and must be formatted according to IOS Press style (see http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ). Contributions should be prepared in PDF format and submitted not later than January 29 2010 through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2010 ). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers may be extended up to 16 pages and will be published as chapters in an IOS Press book in the series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'. The authors of accepted papers are also welcome to submit substantially extended versions to a planned special issue on 'Modularity in Ontologies' of the international journal 'Applied Ontology' (IOS Press). WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Oliver Kutz (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) Joana Hois (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) Jie Bao (Tetherless World Constellation & Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mathieu d'Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University of Milton Keynes, UK) Alex Borgida (Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, USA) Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy) Martin Dzbor (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University of Milton Keynes, UK) Faezeh Ensan (Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Canada) Fred Freitas (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) Silvio Ghilardi (Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy) John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK) Peter Haase (fluid Operations GmbH, Germany) Heinrich Herre (Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Germany) Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA) Vasant Honavar (Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Iowa State University, USA) Roman Kontchakov (School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK) Carsten Lutz (Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany) Till Mossakowski (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Lab Bremen, Germany) Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) Anne Schlicht (KR & KM Research Group, University of Mannheim, Germany) Thomas Schneider (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK) Luciano Serafini (Centro Per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy) Stefano Spaccapietra (School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (KR & KM Research Group, University of Mannheim, Germany) Andrei Tamilin (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy) Dirk Walther (Department of Computer Science, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Frank Wolter (Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK) Antoine Zimmermann (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) From stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de Mon Jan 4 11:17:07 2010 From: stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de (Gerd Stumme) Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:17:07 +0100 Subject: [DL] PhD position in Knowledge & Data Engineering Group, University of Kassel Message-ID: <4B41C023.20203@cs.uni-kassel.de> The Hertie Chair of Knowledge and Data Engineering, University of Kassel, Germany, opens a position for 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. An der Universit?t Kassel wird im Rahmen der hessischen Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-?konomischer Exzellenz (LOEWE) der interdisziplin?re Forschungsschwerpunkt "Gestaltung technisch-sozialer Vernetzung in situativen ubiquit?ren Systemen (VENUS)" eingerichtet. Im Fachgebiet Wissensverarbeitung wird daf?r auf zun?chst zwei Jahre die folgende Stelle ausgeschrieben: wissenschaftliche(r) Mitarbeiter(in) (BAT IIa/TV-L E13) Ziel des Schwerpunkts ist, die sozial akzeptable, ?konomisch sinnvolle und rechtlich m?gliche technische Gestaltung ubiquit?rer Systeme unter Ber?cksichtigung der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Technik, Nutzern und sozialen Netzen zu erforschen. 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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. Bitte richten Sie Ihre vollst?ndige Bewerbung per Email an Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme. -- 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 geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jan 5 16:31:47 2010 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:31:47 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] CSL 2010 - 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: <20100105153147.7C8F911FA13@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> CSL 2010 First Call for Papers The Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic August 23-27, 2010, Brno, Czech Republic http://www.mat.uc.pt/~csl/ Submission (title & abstract): March 26, 2010 Notification: May 17, 2010 Submission (full paper): April 2, 2010 Final papers: June 6, 2010 Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). The conference is intended for computer scientists whose research activities involve logic, as well as for logicians working on issues significant for computer science. The 19th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2010) and the 35th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2010) are federated and organized in parallel at the same place. The federated MFCS & CSL 2010 conference has common plenary sessions and social events for all participants. The technical program and proceedings of MFCS 2010 and CSL 2010 are prepared independently. The MFCS & CSL 2010 conference is accompanied by satellite workshops on more specialized topics. Suggested topics of interest include (but are not limited to) automated deduction and interactive theorem proving, constructive mathematics and type theory, equational logic and term rewriting, automata and games, modal and temporal logic, model checking, decision procedures, logical aspects of computational complexity, finite model theory, computational proof theory, logic programming and constraints, lambda calculus and combinatory logic, categorical logic and topological semantics, domain theory, database theory, specification, extraction and transformation of programs, logical foundations of programming paradigms, verification and program analysis, linear logic, higher-order logic, nonmonotonic reasoning. Proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of the LNCS series. Each paper accepted by the Programme Committee must be presented at the conference by one of the authors, and a final copy must be prepared according to Springer's guidelines. Submitted papers must be in Springer's LNCS style and of no more than 15 pages, presenting work not previously published. They must not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or journal by March 19, 2010. Papers authored or coauthored by members of the Programme Committee are not allowed. Papers will be submitted through the conference website. Submitted papers must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the papers. Full proofs may appear in a technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a well written introduction which is directed at all members of the program committee. The Ackermann Award for 2010 will be presented to the recipients at CSL'10. *** Programme Committee Armin Biere (Linz) Lars Birkedal (ITU, Denmark) Nikolaj Bjorner (Redmond) Manuel Bodirsky (Paris) Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Warsaw) Iliano Cervesato (Doha) Krishnendu Chatterjee (Klosterneuburg) Agata Ciabattoni (Vienna) Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, co-chair) Azadeh Farzan (Toronto) Georg Gottlob (Oxford) Martin Hofmann (Munich) Orna Kupferman (Jerusalem) Christof Loeding (Aachen) Joao Marques-Silva (Dublin) Tobias Nipkow (Munich) Prakash Panangaden (Montreal) R. Ramanujam (Chennai) Simona Ronchi della Rocca (Torino) Alex Simpson (Edinburgh) Pascal Tesson (Quebec) Helmut Veith (Vienna, co-chair) Yde Venema (Amsterdam) *** CSL/MFCS Plenary Speakers David Basin (Zurich) Herbert Edelsbrunner (Klosterneuburg) Erich Gr?adel (Aachen) Joseph Sifakis (Gieres) *** CSL Invited Speakers Peter O'Hearn (London) Jan Krajicek (Prague) Andrei Krokhin (Durham) Andrey Rybalchenko (Munich) Viktor Kuncak (Lausanne) *** Organizing Committee Jan Bouda (Brno, chair) *** Conference address MFCSL 2010 Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno Czech Republic mfcsl2010 at fi.muni.cz From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Jan 8 06:19:43 2010 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 00:19:43 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] LPAR-16 deadline extended Message-ID: <20100108051943.370F911F923@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS LPAR-16 16th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning April 25 - May 1, 2010 Dakar, Senegal http://www.lpar.net/lpar-16/ ============================================ SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 13th JANUARY ============================================ 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 logic, 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 16th edition will be held in Dakar, Senegal. 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. Logical techniques 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. Topics ------ 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 * Verification * Interactive theorem proving and proof assistants * Model checking * Implementations of logic * Satisfiability modulo theories * Rewriting and unification * Logic programming * Satisfiability checking * Constraint programming * Decision procedures * Logic and the Web * Ontologies and large knowledge bases * Logic and databases * Modal and temporal logics * Program analysis * Foundations of security * Description logics * Non-monotonic reasoning * Specification using logics * Logic in artificial intelligence * Logic and types * Logical foundations of programming * Logical aspects of concurrency * Logic and computational complexity * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Logic of distributed systems Programme Chairs ---------------- * Ed Clarke * Andrei Voronkov Programme Committee ------------------- * Rajeev Alur * Matthias Baaz * Peter Baumgartner * Armin Biere * Nikolaj Bjorner * Iliano Cervesato * Agata Ciabattoni * Hubert Comon-Lundh * Nachum Dershowitz * Juergen Giesl * Guillem Godoy * Georg Gottlob * Jean Goubault-Larrecq * Reiner Haehnle * Claude Kirchner * Michael Kohlhase * Konstantin Korovin * Laura Kovacs * Orna Kupferman * Leonid Libkin * Aart Middeldorp * Luke Ong * Frank Pfenning * Andreas Podelski * Andrey Rybalchenko * Helmut Seidl * Geoff Sutcliffe * Ashish Tiwari * Toby Walsh * Christoph Weidenbach Submission Details ------------------ Submissions of two kinds are welcome: * Regular papers containing new results; * Experimental papers describing implementation or evaluation of systems. All submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. The page limit for all papers is 15 pages using the EasyChair class file that can be obtained at .... http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip. All papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the Web page http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dlpar16 Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission: January 13, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2010 * Proceedings version: March 15, 2010 * Short papers submission: March 17, 2010 * Short papers notification: March 25, 2010 * Conference: April 25-May 1, 2010 From mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk Wed Jan 6 13:33:44 2010 From: mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk (Michael Chan) Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:33:44 +0000 Subject: [DL] Deadline Extension to January 15, 2010 - Workshop on Matching and Meaning: Automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies. Message-ID: <4B448328.2030807@inf.ed.ac.uk> Apologies for possible multiple postings. Note that the submission deadline has been extended to *January 15, 2010*. Submitted works do not need to be original as our primary interest is in the exchange of ideas and the stimulation of debate. Inclusion in the proceedings is optional. Thanks for forwarding the information on this Call for Submissions to those potentially interested to submit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Matching and Meaning: Automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/wmm-2010 31st March 2010, part of AISB'10 Convention, Leicester, UK OVERVIEW The problem of semantic misalignment - of two (or more) 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 * Formalisation of and reasoning with contexts * Foundational issues * Social and collaborative matching * Background knowledge in matching * Extensions to ontology languages to better support change * Non-monotonic reasoning 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 * Matching for dynamic applictions (e.g., p2p, agents, web-services) * Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications * Open problems SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We encourage the submission of extended abstracts of 2-5 pages that discuss ongoing research, problem descriptions and overviews of the domain. Accepted papers will be included in the AISB 2010 proceedings unless the authors prefer them not to be (for example, if the work is very similar to work presented elsewhere which they nevertheless feel it would be valuable to present in this context, or if the work is at a stage where discussion would be valuable but publication would be premature). Authors wishing their submissions to be included in the convention proceedings must follow the style guide on the convention website. Submissions will be subject to light reviewing, mainly intended to check fit to workshop. Abstracts should be submitted electronically in pdf format to mchan-at-ed.ac.uk by 15th January 2010. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the submitting author on 15th February 2010. VENUE The workshop will take place at De Montfort University in Leicester, as part of the AISB 2010 Convention (http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb10/), from March 31st to 1st April, 2010. All workshop participants must be registered for the AISB 2010 Convention. Registration for this workshop is included in the convention registration fee. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: *Friday, 15th January 2010* Notification: Monday, 15th February 2010 Workshop: 31st March - 1st April 2010 AISB10 Convention: 29th March - 1st April 2010 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 reutelshoefer at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Tue Jan 5 22:11:12 2010 From: reutelshoefer at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Jochen Reutelshoefer) Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:11:12 +0100 Subject: [DL] 5th Workshop on Semantic Wikis - Call for Papers Message-ID: <4B43AAF0.1010409@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> ***Call for Papers*** Fifth Workshop on Semantic Wikis Linking Data and People [SemWiki2010] co-located with ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Crete May 30 or May 31, 2010 http://www.semwiki.org/ Goals and Motivation ==================== Semantic wikis as social semantic software have the mission to gather humans and computers in order to build together the next wave of ontology driven collaboration platforms. The research has shifted from proofs of concept towards foundational research in large projects, commercially sold enterprise systems and real world use cases. Besides evaluations of such use cases, technical innovation and foundational research are still needed, as the large-scale application of semantic wikis has unveiled a number of research questions. The aim of this fifth SemWiki workshop is to exchange ideas, to discuss pressing research questions arising from practical usage of semantic wikis, and to explore integrations of wikis with other semantic web technologies. Topics ====== We address researchers working on (but not limited to): * Applications of semantic wikis in the fields of: - e-science and e-learning - software and knowledge engineering - enterprise workflows - knowledge management or personal knowledge management * Integration and reuse of semantic wikis or (semantic) wiki content: - integrations with other semantic applications and mashups - browsing and navigating - visualizing - editing linked open data - scaling wikis to the web - giving semantics to non-semantic wikis (e.g. Wikipedia) - reusing semantics gained from wikis (e.g. DBpedia) - interlinked and distributed semantic wikis - innovative plugins/extensions for existing systems (e.g. Semantic MediaWiki) * Human and social factors of semantic wikis: - usability studies - empirical studies - analyses of semantic wiki contributors and their contributions; - overcoming entrance barriers - giving incentives for contributing - connecting knowledge and social interaction - community building - from asynchronous interactions to real-time/multi-synchronous interactions in semantic wikis - privacy: permissions, trust, licensing, access control * Knowledge representation and reasoning in semantic wikis: - combining formal and informal knowledge - multimodal reasoning/strong reasoning support - transforming informal to formal knowledge - making formal knowledge accessible - on-line knowledge evaluation - coping with inconsistencies - change management, truth maintenance, versioning, and undoing semantic changes - utilizing emerging knowledge models - rapid prototyping of schema-driven applications - collaborative ontology engineering Organisation Committee ====================== * Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany ch.lange at jacobs-university.de * Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria sebastian.schaffert at salzburgresearch.at * Hala Skaf-Molli, INRIA-Nancy University, France skaf at loria.fr * Jochen Reutelsh?fer, University of W?rzburg, Germany reutelshoefer at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Programme Committee =================== # S?ren Auer, Universit?t Leipzig (DE) # David Aum?ller, Universit?t Leipzig (DE) # Joachim Baumeister, Universit?t W?rzburg (DE) # Tobias B?rger, STI Innsbruck (AT) # Am?lie Cordier, LIRIS, Universit? de Lyon (FR) # Bj?rn Decker, Fraunhofer IESE (DE) # Alicia D?az, La Plata University (AR) # Sebastian Dietzold, Universit?t Leipzig (DE) # Fred Dur?o, University of Aalborg (DK) # Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise (DE) # Fabian Gandon, INRIA - Edelweiss (FR) # Tudor Groza, DERI (IE) # Siegfried Handschuh, DERI (IE) # Martin Hepp, UniBW M?nchen (DE) # Guoqian Jiang, Mayo Clinic (US) # Malte Kiesel, DFKI (DE) # Jakub Kotowski, University of Munich (DE) # Markus Kr?tzsch, AIFB Karlsruhe (DE) # Tobias Kuhn, Universit?t Z?rich (CH) # Thomas Kurz, Salzburg Research (AT) # Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz (AT) # Pascal Molli, Nancy University, INRIA (FR) # Christine M?ller, Jacobs University Bremen (DE) # Claudia M?ller-Birn, Carnegie Mellon University (US) # Grzegorz Nalepa, AGH University Krakow (PL) # Amedeo Napoli, CNRS, LORIA (FR) # Viktoria Pammer, Know-Center Graz (AT) # Alexandre Passant, DERI (IE) # Jean Rohmer, Thales (FR) # Marek Schmidt, Technical University of Brno (CZ) # Matthias Samwald, Semantic Web Company (AT) # Daniel Schwabe, University of Rio de Janeiro (BR) # Elena Simperl, STI Innsbruck (AT) # Rolf Sint, Salzburg Research (AT) # Katharina Siorpaes, STI Innsbruck (AT) # Harold Solbrig, Mayo Clinic (US) # Stephanie Stroka, Salzburg Research (AT) # Max V?lkel, FZI Karlsruhe (DE) # Friedel V?lker, European Regiowiki Society # Klara Weiand, University of Munich (DE) Submission and Proceedings ========================== We invite the following different kinds of contributions: * full research or application papers (15 pages) describing recent research outcomes, mature work, prototypes, applications, or methodologies; authors of accepted full papers will be able to present their work in a 15 minute talk at the workshop * short position papers (5-10 pages) describing early work and new ideas that are not yet fully worked out; authors of short papers will be able to present their work in a 5-10 minute lightning talk at the workshop * demo outlines (5 pages) describing the demonstration of a software prototype in the poster and demo session during the workshop * poster descriptions (2 pages) outlining a poster to be presented in the poster and demo session during the workshop * *wiki submissions*: A set of wiki pages explaining/demonstrating the addressed topic or presenting a system. A Confluence space (on this site) will be provided on request but also own wikis can be used. Additionally, we require such submissions to be exported to PDF or HTML. Primarily, the wiki space will be reviewed, but the export serves as a backup for the reviewing in case of technical problems and is used to verify that the submission complies to the guidelines, e.g., does not exceed the page limit of the respective type of contribution. Where the exported PDF or HTML is not comparable to LNCS (see below), we estimate 400 words per page. All submissions except Wiki submissions should be formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. For complete details on this issue see Springer's Author Instructions: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 Papers will be submitted using the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semwiki2010 In addition to ordinary submissions, all attendees of the workshop are encouraged to informally present their work in an open space session during the workshop if they are not (yet) able to submit a description of their work or to also discuss more recent work that has been done after the submission deadline of the workshop. Important Dates =============== Paper Submission: 26th February 2010 Author Notification: 5th April 2010 Camera ready: 18th April 2010 Workshop: May 30 or May 31, 2010 In case of questions, feel free to contact any of the organisers: chair at semwiki.org -- Jochen Reutelsh?fer Department of Artificial Intelligence and Applied Informatics University of W?rzburg From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Sat Jan 9 23:25:24 2010 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 23:25:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2010 - Call for papers Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] IJCAR 2010 - The 5th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Edinburgh, UK, July 16-19, 2010 as part of FLoC 2010 - Federated Logic Conference http://www.floc-conference.org/ Call for Papers --------------- IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all topics in automated reasoning. The IJCAR technical program will consist of presentations of high-quality original research papers, system descriptions, and invited talks. IJCAR 2010 is a merger of leading events in automated reasoning: 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 2010 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. The proceedings of IJCAR 2010 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. Submission details: Submission is electronic, through https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=ijcar2010 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, and 7 pages for system descriptions. Program co-chairs: Juergen Giesl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Reiner Haehnle (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Conference chair: Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh, UK) Workshop chair: Aaron Stump (University of Iowa, USA) Publicity chair: Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI-INF Saarbruecken, Germany) Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2010 Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2010 Notification of paper decisions: March 15, 2010 Final version of papers due: April 19, 2010 Conference dates: July 16-19, 2010 Student Travel Awards: Travel awards will be available to enable selected students to attend the conference. Details will be published in March 2010. IJCAR 2010 invited speakers: Johan van Benthem (ILLC, Amsterdam and Stanford University) Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research, USA) Program Committee: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France) Alessandro Armando (University of Genova, Italy) Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) Peter Baumgartner (NICTA Canberra, Australia) Bernhard Beckert (University of Koblenz, Germany) Christoph Benzmueller (International University Bruchsal, Germany) Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA) Maria Paola Bonacina (Universita` degli Studi di Verona, Italy) Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh, UK) Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique, France) Christian Fermueller (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Ulrich Furbach (University of Koblenz, Germany) Didier Galmiche (LORIA Nancy, France) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Martin Giese (University of Oslo, Norway) Juergen Giesl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Bernhard Gramlich (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Reiner Haehnle (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Ullrich Hustadt (University of Liverpool, UK) Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA) Viktor Kuncak (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) Rustan Leino (Microsoft Research, USA) Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen, Germany) George Metcalfe (University of Bern, Switzerland) Aart Middeldorp (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Neil Murray (University at Albany - SUNY, USA) Tobias Nipkow (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Nicola Olivetti (LSIS, University of Aix-Marseille, France) Nicolas Peltier (LIG Grenoble, France) Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) Andre Platzer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Christophe Ringeissen (LORIA Nancy, France) Albert Rubio (UPC Barcelona, Spain) Renate Schmidt (The University of Manchester, UK) Carsten Schuermann (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Roberto Sebastiani (University of Trento, Italy) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI-INF Saarbruecken, Germany) Aaron Stump (University of Iowa, USA) Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA) Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) Ashish Tiwari (SRI International, USA) Andrei Voronkov (The University of Manchester, UK) Christoph Weidenbach (MPI-INF Saarbruecken, Germany) From kendall at clarkparsia.com Mon Jan 11 17:18:33 2010 From: kendall at clarkparsia.com (Kendall Clark) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:18:33 -0500 Subject: [DL] Post-doc position in DL modularity Message-ID: <1fc9c2ff1001110818k34a3871du8b3accf2abc983a7@mail.gmail.com> Folks, Please find a description of our post-doc position available to start immediately at http://clarkparsia.com/weblog/2010/01/08/post-doc-position-available/. In short, it's a joint appointment between University of Arizona and Clark & Parsia LLC (we make Pellet, an OWL 2 DL reasoner) to work on ontology modularity and related issues, with both theory and practical deliverables & tasks. Please email me if you have any questions; and feel free to share the posting with anyone who you think might be interested. Cheers, Kendall Clark From kwuida at gmail.com Tue Jan 12 12:08:47 2010 From: kwuida at gmail.com (Leonard Kwuida) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:08:47 +0100 Subject: [DL] ICFCA 2010: 8th conference on formal concept analysis, Agadir (Morocco), 15-18 March 2010 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4053f32e1001120308q650a4dacu5e0a8d97fcae44af@mail.gmail.com> ================================================================================ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** ICFCA 2010 *** 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS. March 15 - 18, 2010, Agadir, Morocco For more details, please see http://w3.uqo.ca/icfca10 ================================================================================ OBJECTIVES ========== ICFCA is a major forum where researchers from various fields like mathematics, computer science, life sciences, linguistics and social sciences meet and discuss latest advances in Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) and its applications in various domains. The eighth edition of the ICFCA conference will be held in the coastal city of Agadir in Morocco and will cover many topics related to lattice theory, lattice drawing,knowledge processing, social networks, data mining, software engineering, Web 2.0, etc. VENUE: Amadil Beach Hotel (http://www.hotelsatlas.com/privilege-amadil.htm) Agadir, Morocco REGISTRATION: Early registration: before January 15, 2010 ICFCA'2010 IN FIGURES: SEVEN invited talks, TWENTY-TWO regular talks, TWO tutorials and ONE workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Tutorials March 14, 2010 1. Concept-based Learning Models - Sergei O. Kusnetsov, State University Higher School of Economics, Russia 2. Social Network Analysis - Sergei Obiedkov (State University Higher School of Economics, Russia) and Camille Roth, CNRS, Paris, France Conference March 15-18, 2010 Workshop (FCA software) March 16, 2010 INVITED SPEAKERS ================ Rudolf Wille (Honorary Speaker), Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Mathematics, Presenting, Reflecting, Judging. Vasu V.S. Alagar, Concordia University, Canada The Role of Concepts, Contexts, and Components in Dependable Software Development. Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany TBA Sergei O. Kusnetsov, State University Higher School of Economics, Russia Relational Learning with FCA. Lhouari Nourine, Universit? Blaise Pascal, France About the Enumeration Algorithms of Closed Sets. Gerd Stumme, Universit?t Kassel, Germany Chaos and Order in the Web 2.0 Jean Vaillancourt, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais, Canada Statistical Methods for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. ACCEPTED PAPERS =============== Sebastien Ferre. Conceptual Navigation in RDF Graphs with SPARQL-like Queries. Pierre Colomb, Alexis Irlande and olivier raynaud. Counting the number of Moore families on n=7. S?bastien NEDJAR, Alain CASALI, Rosine CICCHETTI and Lotfi LAKHAL. Constrained Closed Datacubes. Christian Meschke. Approximations in Concept Lattices. Vincent Duquenne. Lattice Drawings & Morphisms. Uta Priss and L. John Old. Concept Neighbourhoods in Lexical Databases. Felix Distel. An Approach for Exploring Description Logic Knowledge Bases. Felix Distel. Hardness of Enumerating Pseudo-Intents in the Lectic Order. Henri M?hle and Christian Wende. Describing Role Models in Terms of Formal Concept Analysis. Annie Foret and S?bastien Ferr?. On categorial grammars as Logical Information Systems. Raoul Medina and Lhouari Nourine. Conditional Functional Dependencies: an FCA Point of View. Mikhail Klimushkin, Sergei Obiedkov and Camille Roth. Approaches to the selection of relevant concepts in the case of noisy data. Yoshiaki OKUBO and Makoto HARAGUCHI. An Algorithm for Extracting Specific Concepts with Concise Intents. Amal El Kharraz, Petko Valtchev and Hafedh Mili. Concept Analysis As A Framework For Mining Functional Features From Legacy Code. Rudolf Wille. Formal Concept Analysis of Two-Dimensional Convex Continuum Structures. Mikhail A. Babin and Sergei O. Kuznetsov. On Links between Concept Lattices and Related Complexity Problems. Florent Domenach. Aggregation of closure systems: case of hierarchies, topologies and convex geometries. Mohamed Riadh Trad, Benedicte Le Grand, Marie-Aude Aufaure and Michel Soto. Powerconcept: Conceptual Metrics' Distributed Computation. Xavier Dolques, Marianne Huchard, Jimmy Lauret, Cl?mentine Nebut and Philippe Reitz. Easing the building of model transformation: a tool for transformation generation by example based on Formal Concept Analysis. Peter Eklund and Jean Villerd. Hybrid Representations of Concept Lattices in Conceptual Knowledge Processing. Zhenghua Pan. Five Kinds of Negation Relations in Knowledge and a Logic Description. Ali JAOUA, Mohamed SALAH, Sadok Ben Yahia and Jihad A'L Jaam. Using Fringes for Minimal conceptual Decomposition of formal Contexts. ---- Rokia Missaoui, L?onard Kwuida & Baris Sertkaya ICFCA 2010 Chair and Program Co-Chairs -- Dr. Leonard Kwuida Ch?nnerwisstrasse 1 CH-8352 Elsau http://kwuida.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However, in order for these systems to be successful, it is necessary to provide a forum for researchers and developers to discuss features and exchange ideas on the realization of ontology repositories in general and to consider explicitly their role in the ontology lifecycle. In addition, it is now critical to achieve interoperability between ontology repositories, through common interfaces, standard metadata formats, etc. ORES10 intends to provide such a forum. Illustrating the importance of the problem, significant initiatives are now emerging. One example is the Open Ontology Repositories (OOR) working group set up by the Ontolog community. Within this effort regular virtual meetings are organized and actively attended by ontology experts from around the world; The Ontolog OOR 2008 meeting was held at the National Institute for Standards in Technology (NIST), generating a joint communiqu? outlining requirements and paving the way for collaborations. Another example is the Ontology Metadata Vocabulary (OMV) Consortium, addressing metadata for describing ontologies. Despite these initial efforts, ontology repositories are hardly interoperable amongst themselves. Although sharing similar aims (providing easy access to Semantic Web resources), they diverge in the methods and techniques employed for gathering these documents and making them available; each interprets and uses metadata in a different manner. Furthermore, many features are still poorly supported, such as modularization and versioning, as well as the relationship between ontology repositories and ontology engineering environments (editors) to support the entire ontology lifecycle. Submitting papers and system descriptions We want to bring together researchers and practitioners active in the design, development and application of ontology repositories, repository-aware editors, modularization techniques, versioning systems and issues around federated ontology systems. We therefore encourage the submission of research papers, position papers and system descriptions discussing some of the following questions: * How can ontology repositories "talk" to each other? * How can the abundant and complex knowledge contained in an ontology repository be made comprehensible for users? * What is the role of ontology repositories in the ontology lifecycle? * How can branching and versioning be managed in and across ontology repositories? * How can ontology repositories interoperate with ontology editors, and other applications and legacy systems? * How can connections across ontologies be managed within and across ontology repositories? * How can modularity be better supported in ontology repositories and editors? * How can ontology repositories and editors use distributed reasoning? * How can ontology repositories support corporate, national and domain specific semantic infrastructures? * How do ontology repositories support novel semantic applications? * What measurements for describing and comparing ontologies can we use? How could ontology repositories use these? Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5 pages. For system descriptions, a 5 page paper should be submitted. All papers and system descriptions should be formatted according to the LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 ). Proceedings of the workshop will be published online. Depending on the number and quality of the submissions, authors might be invited to present their papers during a poster session. Submissions can be realized through the easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ores2010 . Important dates Papers and demo submission: March 1, 2010 (23:59 Hawaii Time) Notification: April 5, 2010 Camera ready version: April 18, 2010 Workshop: May 30 or 31, 2010 Organizing committee Mathieu d'Aquin, the Open University, UK Alexander Garc?a Castro, Bremen University, Germany Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Kim Viljanen, Aalto University, Finland Program committee Ken Baclawski, Northeastern University, USA. Leo J. Obrst, MITRE Corporation, USA. Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA. Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA. Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Mike Dean, BBN, USA. John Bateman, Universit?t Bremen, Germany. Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany. Tomi Kauppinen, University of Muenster, Germany. Peter Haase, Fluid Operations, Germany. Raul Palma, Poznan University, Poland. Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands. Eero Hyv?nen, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland. Martin Luts, ELIKO TAK, Estonia. Janne Saarela, Profium Ltd, Finland. Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki, Finland. Sandro Hawke, W3C. Wolfram W??, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria -- Alexander Garcia http://www.alexandergarcia.name/ http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/75943.html http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgarciac Postal address: Alexander Garcia, Tel.: +49 421 218 64211 Universit?t Bremen Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5 D-28359 Bremen -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: From david at cs.uwaterloo.ca Wed Jan 13 14:07:21 2010 From: david at cs.uwaterloo.ca (David Toman) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:07:21 +0100 Subject: [DL] Description Logics DL 2010 final call for papers Message-ID: <87r5pu6tme.fsf@cs.uwaterloo.ca> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 23rd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2010) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Waterloo, Ontario, Canada http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/dl2010/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is the premier forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: January 26th, 2010 Acceptance notification: March 9th, 2010 Camera ready copies: March 30th, 2010 Early registration: March 30th, 2010 Workshop: May 4 to May 7th ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, such as * 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 and nonmonotonic 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; and * tools that exploit description logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 January 26th, 2010. The length of submissions is limited to 11 pages, including title and abstract (can be omitted if necessary), and list of references. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair; see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2010 The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series; see http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ Accepted submissions will be selected for either oral or poster presentation; however, no distinction will be made in the workshop proceedings: all accepted papers can be 11 pages long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Grant Weddell, Waterloo (Workshop Chair) * Volker Haarslev, Concordia (PC Chair) * David Toman, Waterloo (PC Chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Ian Horrocks (Oxford) * Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz) * Roberto Sebastiani (Trento) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (LORIA, France) Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Meghyn Bienvenu (University of Bremen, Germany) Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, USA) Andrea Cali (University of Oxford, UK) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy) Achille Fokoue (IBM Research, USA) Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Rajeev Gore (Australian National University, Australia) Stijn Heymans (TU Vienna, Austria) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford, UK) Ulrich Hustadt (University of Liverpool, UK) Yevgeny Kazakov (University of Oxford, UK) Boris Konev (University of Liverpool, UK) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck University of London, UK) Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, UK) Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen, Germany) Tommie Meyer (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Maja Milicic (University of Manchester, UK) Ralf Moeller (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Boris Motik (University of Oxford, UK) Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK) Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester, UK) Peter F. Patel-Schneider (Bell Labs Research, USA) Riccardo Rosati (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy) Sebastian Rudolph (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Uli Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Luciano Serafini (ITC-IRST, Italy) Evren Sirin (Clark & Parsia, USA) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (Max-Planck-Institute, Germany) Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Anni-Yasmin Turhan (TU Dresden, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Misha Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck University of London, UK) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information about registration, travel information, accommodation, and so on will be made available on the DL 2009 homepage: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/dl2010/ * Enquiries about the DL 2009 workshop can be made by contacting the organizing committee: dl2010 at easychair.org * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. David Toman, Associate Professor School of Computer Science tel: (519) 888-4567 ext 34447 University of Waterloo fax: (519) 885-1208 200 University Avenue West david at uwaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~david From claudia.damato at di.uniba.it Wed Jan 13 15:54:21 2010 From: claudia.damato at di.uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:54:21 +0100 Subject: [DL] 1st IRMLeS'09 CFP: 2st Int. Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning on the Semantic Web @ ESWC 2010 Message-ID: <4B4DDE9D.10900@di.uniba.it> ------------- Apologies for multiple cross-postings --------------------- 1st CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd ESWC Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning for the Semantic Web (IRMLeS 2010) 30 or 31 May 2010 | Heraklion, Greece http://irmles.di.uniba.it/2010/ In conjunction with the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) http://www.eswc2010.org/ Important dates ============================================================ * Paper submission: 7 March 2010 * Notification 5 April 2010 * Camera-ready: 18 April 2010 * Workshop day: 30 or 31 May 2010 Overview ============================================================ The upcoming 2nd International Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning for the Semantic Web (IRMLeS), will be held as part of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in Heraklion, Crete (Greece). The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the interdisciplinary research on the intersection of the Semantic Web with Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning. The workshop is conceived to provide a meeting point for the related communities to stimulate collaboration and enable cross-fertilization of ideas. Large amounts of data increasingly becoming available and described using real-life ontologies represented in Semantic Web languages recently opened up the possibility for interesting real-world data mining applications on the Semantic Web. However, exploiting this global resource of data requires new kinds of approaches for data mining and data analysis that would be able to deal at the same time with its scale and with the complexity, expressivity, and heterogeneity of the representation languages, leverage on availability of ontologies and explicit semantics of the resources, and account for novel assumptions (e.g., "open world") that underlie reasoning services within the Semantic Web. The workshop will try to address the above issues, in particular focusing on the problems of how machine learning techniques, such as statistical learning methods and inductive forms of reasoning, can work directly on the richly structured Semantic Web data and exploit the Semantic Web technologies, what is the value added of machine learning methods for the Semantic Web, and what are the challenges for developers of machine learning techniques for the Semantic Web data, for example in the area of ontology mining. Topics of interest ============================================================ The topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies: data mining techniques using ontologies, ontology mining and knowledge discovery from ontological knowledge bases, ontology-based interpretation and validation of discovered knowledge, evaluation methodologies and metrics for the interaction of knowledge discovery and ontologies, whole knowledge discovery process guided by ontologies * Inductive Reasoning with Concept Languages: inductive aggregation, concept retrieval and query answering, approximate classification, inductive methods and fuzzy reasoning for ontology mapping, construction and evolution, concept change and novelty detection for ontology evolution * Statistical learning for the Semantic Web: refinement operators for concept and rule languages, concept and rules learning, kernels and instance-based learning for structured representations, semantic (dis )similarity measures and conceptual clustering, probabilistic methods for concept and rule languages * Special focus topics: OWA vs CWA in learning, applicability of relational learning in the Semantic Web context, integration of induction and deduction, benchmarking of datasets * Applications: (in the domains of the main tracks of ESWC) plus life sciences, cultural heritage, semantic multimedia, geo-informatics, and others Paper submisssion ============================================================ The contributed papers, written in English, should be submitted in PDF or PostScript format, not exceeding the following limits * 12 pages (full papers) * 5 pages (position papers) following the ESWC formatting style (Springer LNCS). All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 referees. In addition to the ESWC workshop proceedings, depending on the quality and quantity of submissions, it is intended to publish a selection of revised accepted papers in a journal special issue or a book volume. Organizing Committee ============================================================ * Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy * Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia * Agnieszka ?awrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland * Vojte(ch Sv?tek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Program Committee ============================================================ * Sarabjot S. Anand - University of Warwick * Bettina Berendt - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven * Abraham Bernstein - University of Zurich * Floriana Esposito - University of Bari * Mohand-Said Hacid - University Lyon 1 * Melanie Hilario - University of Geneva * Andreas Hotho - University of Kassel * Jose Iria - University of Sheffield * Ross D. King - University of Aberystwyth * Jens Lehmann - University of Leipzig * Francesca A. Lisi - University of Bari * Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University * Matthias Nickles - University of Bath * Sebastian Rudolph - University of Karlsruhe * Jetendr Shamdasani - University of the West of England * Steffen Staab - University of Koblenz-Landau * Umberto Straccia - ISTI-CNR, Pisa * Volker Tresp - Siemens Further information ============================================================ http://irmles.di.uniba.it/2010/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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. The 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, usability aspects, feasibility studies; o evaluation of implementation techniques and automated reasoning tools; o performance apsects, 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, fairness; o support tools for prover development; o system descriptions and demos. We are particularly interested in contributions that help the community to understand how to build useful reasoning systems in practice, and how to apply existing systems to real problems. SUBMISSIONS Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit a short abstract of up to 10 pages 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 PDF. To submit a paper, go to the EasyChair PAAR page http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paar2010 and follow the instructions there. FINAL VERSIONS Final versions should be prepared in LaTeX using the easychair.cls class file obtainable from http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip. Proceedings will be published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings and will be available in print 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: 11 April 2010 Notification: 28 April 2010 Camera ready versions due: 21 May 2010 Workshop: 14 July 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner Daniel Le Berre Roberto Bruttomesso Koen Claessen Bernd Fischer Pascal Fontaine Jim Grundy Volker Haarslev John Harrison Thomas Hillenbrand Joe Hurd Gerwin Klein Boris Konev (Co-Chair) Konstantin Korovin Temur Kutsia Bill McCune Leonardo de Moura Hans de Nivelle Albert Oliveras Jens Otten Adam Pease Silvio Ranise Phillip R?mmer Renate Schmidt (Co-Chair) Peter Schneider-Kamp Stephan Schulz (Co-Chair) John Slaney Alan Smaill Mark Stickel Geoff Sutcliffe Josef Urban Christoph Weidenbach ORGANIZERS Boris Konev, University of Liverpool Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester Stephan Schulz, TU Muenchen From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Sat Jan 16 04:39:44 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:39:44 -0500 Subject: [DL] new journal: "Semantic Web" by IOS Press Message-ID: <4B513500.3020004@wright.edu> Announcement of a new journal Semantic Web ? Interoperability, Usability, Applicability Publisher: IOS Press ISSN: 1570-0844 http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/ Scope The journal Semantic Web ? Interoperability, Usability, Applicability brings together researchers from various fields which share the vision and need for more effective and meaningful ways to share information across agents and services on the future internet and elsewhere. As such, Semantic Web technologies shall support the seamless integration of data, on-the-fly composition and interoperation of Web services, as well as more intuitive search engines. The semantics ? or meaning ? of information, however, cannot be defined without a context, which makes personalization, trust, and provenance core topics for Semantic Web research. New retrieval paradigms, user interfaces, and visualization techniques have to unleash the power of the Semantic Web and at the same time hide its complexity from the user. Based on this vision, the journal welcome contributions ranging from theoretical and foundational research over methods and tools to descriptions of concrete ontologies and applications in all areas. We especially welcome papers which add a social, spatial, and temporal dimension to Semantic Web research, as well as application-oriented papers making use of formal semantics. The journal is peer-reviewed and will be published quarterly. IOS Press is a leading international publisher of scientific books and journals in many fields including computer & communications sciences and especially also the Semantic Web. Submissions The journal invites submissions on all topics related to the Semantic Web. Submissions can fall in one of the following categories. * Full papers ? containing original research results. Results previously published at conferences may be submitted as extended versions. * Survey articles ? full-length papers surveying the state of the art on core Semantic Web topics. * Descriptions of ontologies ? short papers describing ontology modeling and creation efforts. * Application reports ? short papers describing deployed applications of Semantic Web technologies. * Reports on tools and systems ? short papers describing mature Semantic Web related tools and systems. Review process The journal uses an open and transparent review process. Submitted manuscripts are posted on the journal homepage and are publicly available. In addition to solicited reviews, public reviews can be made by any researcher. Reviews and review responses are posted on the journal homepage. All reviewers will be acknowledged in the final printed version. While we encourage reviewers to participate in the open and transparent review process, it is also be possible to submit anonymous reviews. Editorial Board Editors-in-Chief: Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA Krzysztof Janowicz, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA Board of Editors: Claudia d?Amato, Universit? degli Studi di Bari, Italy S?ren Auer, Universit?t Leipzig, Germany Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada Philipp Cimiano, Universit?t Bielefeld, Germany Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University, UK Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Canada Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland, New Zealand Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil Manfred Hauswirth, University of Galway, Ireland Tom Heath, Talis, UK Rinke Hoekstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands Andreas Hotho, Universit?t W?rzburg, Germany Eero Hyv?nen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK Martin Raubal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK Christoph Schlieder, University of Bamberg, Germany Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA Jie Tang, Tsinghua University Beijing, China Kunal Verma, Accenture, USA Contact Journal website: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/ Contact the Editors-in-Chief: Pascal Hitzler: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Krzysztof Janowicz: jano at psu.edu -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org/ From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Thu Jan 14 15:22:41 2010 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:22:41 -0200 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2010 - Call for Papers Message-ID: [please circulate; apologies for any cross-postings] *WoLLIC 2010 17th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation * *July 6th to 9th, 2010 * *Universidade de Bras?lia, Bras?lia, Brazil* *Scientific Sponsorship* *Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL )* *The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI )* *Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL )* *European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS )* *Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC )* *Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL )* *Funding* (tbc) *Special: A screening of I want to be a mathematician: A conversation with Paul Halmos * *Organisation* *Department of Mathematics , Universidade de Bras?lia , Brazil Centro de Inform?tica , Universidade Federal de Pernambuco , Brazil * ------------------------------ Call for PapersWoLLIC 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 Seventeenth WoLLIC will be held in Bras?lia, Brazil, from July 6th to 9th, 2010. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL). *Special Event* 2010 will mark the 50-th anniversary of the first publication of Paul Halmos' classic book *Na?ve Set Theory* by Springer Verlag. WoLLIC will celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Halmos which was directed by George Csicsery: "I want to be a mathematician. A conversation with Paul Halmos ". *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 the WoLLIC 2010 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2010/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 28, and the full paper by March 7 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 11, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by April 27 (firm date). *Proceedings* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2010, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. 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 2010 issue of a scientific journal (soon to be announced). *Invited Speakers* *Marcelo Finger* *Michiel van Lambalgen* *Martin Lange* *Johann (Janos) Makowsky* *Ian Pratt-Hartmann* *Sebastiaan Terwijn* *Cesare Tinelli* *Student Grants* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2010 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2010). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *Important Dates* February 28, 2010: Paper title and abstract deadline March 7, 2010: Full paper deadline (firm) April 11, 2010: Author notification April 27, 2010: Final version deadline (firm) *Programme Committee* *Ver?nica Becher* (Buenos Aires) *Raffaella Bernardi* (Bolzano) *Ricardo Bianconi* (S?o Paulo) *Vasco Brattka* (Cape Town) *Balder ten Cate* (ENS, Cachan) *Bob Coecke* (Oxford) *Adriana Compagnoni* (Stevens) *Marcelo Coniglio* (Campinas) *Anuj Dawar* (Cambridge), chair *Valentin Goranko* (Copenhagen) *Masahito Hasegawa* (Kyoto U, Japan) *Rosalie Iemhoff* (Utrecht) *Makoto Kanazawa* (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) *Giuseppe Longo* (CNRS & ENS, Paris) *Mike Mislove* (Tulane) *Michael Norrish* (NICTA, Canberra) *Bart Selman* (Cornell) *Scott Weinstein* (Penn) *Organising Committee* Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (U Bras?lia, Brazil) (co-chair) Fl?vio L. C. Moura (U Bras?lia, Brazil) Claudia Nalon (U Bras?lia, Brazil) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) (co-chair) Steering committee *Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz* Further information Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. *Web page* http://wollic.org/wollic2010/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tommiemeyer at gmail.com Mon Jan 18 08:00:43 2010 From: tommiemeyer at gmail.com (Tommie Meyer) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:00:43 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final Call for Papers: NMR 2010 Message-ID: <0C01B952-0614-4C6D-975E-F9711E548AE3@meraka.org.za> Final Call for Papers: NMR 2010 13th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NON-MONOTONIC REASONING May 14-16, 2010, Sutton Place, Toronto, Canada Submission deadline: January 29, 2010 Notification: March 1, 2010 Website: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/NMR2010/ (Collocated with KR 2010, ICAPS 2010, FOIS 2010 and AAMAS 2010) NMR 2010 will be composed of six specialized sub-workshops: * Argument, Dialog and Decision * Declarative Programming for NMR * Action and Belief Change * Preferences and Norm * Commonsense and NMR for Ontologies * NMR and Uncertainty Papers should be submitted to the appropriate sub-workshop. If it is not clear which sub-workshop is most appropriate, please contact the program chairs for clarification. Invited speakers: Franz Baader (to be confirmed) Gerhard Brewka Marc Denecker Jack Minker Torsten Schaub The NMR workshop series is the premier specialized forum for researchers in non-monotonic reasoning and related areas. This will be the 13th workshop in the series. Its aim is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of non-monotonic reasoning, including belief revision, reasoning about actions, argumentation, declarative programming, preferences, non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies, uncertainty, and other related topics. Topics of Interest: NMR'10 welcomes the submission of papers broadly centred on issues and research in non-monotonic reasoning. We welcome papers of either a theoretical or practical nature. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): foundations of non-monotonic reasoning, default reasoning, representing actions and planning, belief revision and information fusion, reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty, answer set programming, belief updating and inconsistency handling, similarity-based reasoning, empirical studies of reasoning strategies, argument-based non-monotonic logics, abductive reasoning, algorithms and implementations, non-monotonic logics in multi-agent interaction, including negotiation and dispute resolution, non- monotonic reasoning for ontologies, declarative programming for non- monotonic reasoning, and reasoning with preferences. Programme co-chairs: Thomas Meyer tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~tmeyer/ Eugenia Ternovska ter at cs.sfu.ca http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ter From ijv at acm.org Fri Jan 22 16:08:01 2010 From: ijv at acm.org (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ivan_Jos=E9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:08:01 +0200 Subject: [DL] Last CfP: Commonsense and NMR for Ontologies Message-ID: <1865ADE1-8659-45F2-A560-09784B6DF435@acm.org> Sincere apologies for multiple postings. ====================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The NMR'2010 Workshop on Commonsense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Ontologies http://ksg.meraka.org.za/nmronto2010 Collocated With KR'2010 May 14-16 2010 Sutton Place, Toronto, Canada ====================================================== -- Workshop Description -- Classical reasoning over ontologies has reached the point where it can deal with large real-world ontologies. This can largely be attributed to advances in research on description logics (DLs). A good example is the medical ontology SNOMED-CT, containing over 300,000 concepts and millions of binary relationships between them. SNOMED-CT can be represented as a DL ontology, and its subsumption hierarchy can be computed in a matter of minutes. The obvious next step now is to extend reasoning over ontologies to cover non-classical cases, such as commonsense reasoning, a well established branch of AI. The first steps in that direction have been done by the ontology community, and while research along these lines has already resulted in initial tangible results, there is a need for a more coherent approach in order to speed up progress. This need provides interesting challenges to both the ontology and commonsense reasoning communities. For the commonsense reasoning community it is a chance to determine to what extent techniques developed in its sub-areas, like e.g. non-monotonic reasoning (NMR), can be tailored to the requirements of the ontology community. For the ontology community it is an opportunity to determine whether existing results in this area can be sharpened and improved on by referring to results in the broader area of commonsense reasoning. The topic of the workshop will hence be combining commonsense reasoning approaches and techniques with ontologies. One of the main motivations is to bring ideas from the well developed area of non-monotonic reasoning, like e.g. reasoning about actions, argumentation and belief revision, for discussion in the realm of ontology engineering: evolution, debugging, update, merging, etc. Certainly these tasks can benefit from most of the advances in NMR and give new insights for research in that area as well. Commonsense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Ontologies will be of interest to: - Researchers in the ontology community, particularly DL researchers, interested in extending ontological reasoning to non-classical cases. - Researchers in the knowledge representation and commonsense reasoning community interested in applying existing NMR techniques to the area of ontologies. This workshop will focus on an emerging hot topic. As such, one of its immediate outcomes will be boosting a new and exciting hybrid research domain combining commonsense reasoning and knowledge engineering for ontologies. -- Topics of Interest -- Submissions are welcome on the role of commonsense and non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies in areas that include but are not limited to the following ones: - Ontology Debugging and Update - Ontology Merging, Alignment and Integration - Inconsistency Handling - Belief Revision and Theory Change for ontologies - Uncertainty Handling, Defeasible Reasoning and Argumentation in ontologies - Heuristic and Approximate Reasoning - NMR methods for light-weight DL ontologies - Planning and Reasoning about Action and Change on the Semantic Web - Rules and Ontologies - Temporal and Spatial Reasoning - Ontology Fault Diagnosis and Repair - Preferences and Ontologies - Formal Concept Analysis and Ontologies -- Submission Instructions -- Authors are kindly requested to follow the instructions for authors on the NMR website at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/news/conferences/NMR/2010/NMR_2010/Author_Instructions.html Please submit to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nmronto2010 -- Important Dates - Papers due: January 29 (Friday), 2010 - Notification: March 1 (Monday), 2010 - Final version: April 6 (Tuesday), 2010 - Workshop: May 14-16, 2010 -- Additional Information -- Please visit the NMR website at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/news/conferences/NMR/2010/NMR_2010/NMR10.html for more information about NMR, the venue of the workshop, the city of Toronto, accommodation and travel tips. In October 2010 there will be a special conference on 30 years of Non-monotonic Reasoning (NonMon at 30): http://sites.google.com/site/nonmonat30/home The Journal of AI Research (JAIR) has agreed to publish a special issue on non-monotonic reasoning based, in part, on technical presentations to be given at the NonMon at 30 conference. For this special issue there will be an open CFP that would allow, in particular, to include papers presented at NMR to be eligible for consideration. The Journal of Philosophical Logic has also agreed to publish a special NMR 30th anniversary issue. Authors of the best philosophically inclined papers drawn from NMR2010 and KR2010 will be invited to submit papers to this special issue. -- Workshop Chairs -- - Ivan Jos? Varzinczak (Meraka Institute, South Africa) http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~ivarzinczak - Renata Wassermann (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) http://www.ime.usp.br/~renata -- Program Committee -- - Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete and Information Systems Laboratory, Greece) - F?bio Cozman (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) - Giorgos Flouris (University of Crete and Information Systems Laboratory, Greece) - Norman Foo (University of New South Wales, Australia) - Zhisheng Huang (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Jos Lehmann (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) - Maurice Pagnucco (University of New South Wales, Australia) - Jeff Pan (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) - Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) - Laurent Perrussel (Universit? de Toulouse 1, France) - Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) -- Ivan Jos? 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While existing semantic tools and reasoning engines are year after year getting better in dealing with time invariant domain of ontological knowledge, supporting rapidly changing information has not yet attracted sufficient attention. There are more and more heterogeneous and/or dynamic data types being created and which integration could lead to interesting applications and models (e.g. sensor data streams, geospatial information and imagery, financial transactions, news feeds, 3D models, engineering data, information for policy intelligence etc.). Current Stream Database Management Systems provide on the fly analysis of data streams, but they suffer several limitations: they cannot handle heterogeneous data streams originating from a variety of already deployed sensors; they cannot combine data streams with slowly evolving knowledge at query time; and they cannot perform reasoning tasks. And in the area of reasoning, while the problem of classical, time invariant domain of ontological knowledge has been extensively studied, the task of reasoning with rapidly changing information has been mostly neglected and constitutes a new challenge. Furthermore, ontologies, just like any structure holding knowledge and information, need to be updated too: changes could be initiated because of a change in the world being modelled; or by a change in the users? needs which would require a different conceptualization; or by the acquisition of knowledge previously unknown, unclassified or otherwise unavailable; or by the noticing of a design flaw in the original conceptualization. In all these cases, the representation of knowledge in the ontology should be modified so as to form a more accurate or adequate conceptualization of the domain. This general issue of Semantic Web Dynamics includes difficulties from both practical and theoretical points of view, raising a variety of research questions and development challenges, such as how to support the ontology and data publishers in maintaining up-to-date, adequate representations; how to detect the need for evolution and changes; how to facilitate the integration of new, dynamic sources in existing datasets and ontologies; how to validate and evaluate the impact of the changes on semantic information; how to handle changes triggered from multiple sources and collaborative updates; and how to keep track of (possibly concurrent) versions of and ensure the delivery of up-to-date and valid knowledge. Topics of Interest For this special issue, we seek articles describing foundational and theoretical work as well as technological solutions to these challenges. More specifically, we expect submission on (but not restricted to) the following topics: ? Foundational and formal aspects of Semantic Web dynamics ? Language extensions for Semantic Web dynamics ? Reasoning with dynamic data and ontologies ? Engineering dynamic data and ontologies ? Requirements and practical issues for Semantic Web dynamics ? Applications of dynamic data and ontologies ? Theory for stream reasoning ? Logic language for stream reasoning ? Scalability issues in stream reasoning ? Ontologies for dynamic environments ? Dynamic knowledge building, and (re-)use ? Ontology evolution and versioning ? Language extensions for evolution ? Belief revision for ontologies ? Change propagation in ontologies dynamic datasets and ontologies ? Inconsistency in evolving semantic information ? Incremental reasoning ? Case studies and applications of ontology and knowledge evolution ? Tools to support dynamic data and ontologies Important Dates 31 May 2010: Submission deadline 31 August 2010: First-round reviews complete 31 October 2010: Revised papers submitted 23 December 2010: Final acceptance decisions Method of Submission Submission should be realized through Elsevier's Electronic Submission system (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/jws, selecting "Special Issue: Semantic Web Dynamics" as article type. A guide for authors is available concerning the use of this system at http://epsupport.elsevier.com/al/12/1/article.aspx?aid=1520&bt=4 Guest Editors/Contacts Grigoris Antoniou - FORTH, Greece (antoniou at ics.forth.gr) Mathieu d?Aquin - The Open University, United Kingdom (m.daquin at open.ac.uk ) Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From haarslev at cse.concordia.ca Mon Jan 25 21:25:46 2010 From: haarslev at cse.concordia.ca (Volker Haarslev) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:25:46 -0500 Subject: [DL] Description Logics 2010: Deadline Extension Message-ID: <41817381-1709-474A-98A8-EE98A57B47BF@cse.concordia.ca> [Submission deadline has been extended until February 1st, 2010] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 23rd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2010) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Waterloo, Ontario, Canada http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/dl2010/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is the premier forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 1st, 2010 Acceptance notification: March 9th, 2010 Camera ready copies: March 30th, 2010 Early registration: March 30th, 2010 Workshop: May 4 to May 7th ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, such as * 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 and nonmonotonic 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; and * tools that exploit description logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 1st, 2010. The length of submissions is limited to 11 pages, including title and abstract (can be omitted if necessary), and list of references. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair; see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2010 The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series; see http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ Accepted submissions will be selected for either oral or poster presentation; however, no distinction will be made in the workshop proceedings: all accepted papers can be 11 pages long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Grant Weddell, Waterloo (Workshop Chair) * Volker Haarslev, Concordia (PC Chair) * David Toman, Waterloo (PC Chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Ian Horrocks (Oxford) * Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz) * Roberto Sebastiani (Trento) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (LORIA, France) Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Meghyn Bienvenu (University of Bremen, Germany) Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, USA) Andrea Cali (University of Oxford, UK) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy) Achille Fokoue (IBM Research, USA) Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Rajeev Gore (Australian National University, Australia) Stijn Heymans (TU Vienna, Austria) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford, UK) Ulrich Hustadt (University of Liverpool, UK) Yevgeny Kazakov (University of Oxford, UK) Boris Konev (University of Liverpool, UK) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck University of London, UK) Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, UK) Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen, Germany) Tommie Meyer (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Maja Milicic (University of Manchester, UK) Ralf Moeller (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Boris Motik (University of Oxford, UK) Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK) Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester, UK) Peter F. Patel-Schneider (Bell Labs Research, USA) Riccardo Rosati (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy) Sebastian Rudolph (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Uli Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Luciano Serafini (ITC-IRST, Italy) Evren Sirin (Clark & Parsia, USA) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (Max-Planck-Institute, Germany) Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Anni-Yasmin Turhan (TU Dresden, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Misha Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck University of London, UK) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information about registration, travel information, accommodation, and so on will be made available on the DL 2009 homepage: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/dl2010/ * Enquiries about the DL 2009 workshop can be made by contacting the organizing committee: dl2010 at easychair.org * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. David Toman, Associate Professor D.R.Cheriton School of Computer Science tel: (519) 888-4567 ext 34447 University of Waterloo fax: (519) 885-1208 200 University Avenue West david at uwaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~david From baojie at gmail.com Mon Jan 25 18:28:32 2010 From: baojie at gmail.com (Jie Bao) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:28:32 -0500 Subject: [DL] Final CfP (Extended Deadline): 4th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO 2010) Message-ID: ========================================================= 4th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Toronto, Canada, May 11, 2010 held in conjunction with FOIS 2010 --- Final Call for Papers --- Submission deadline (EXTENDED): February 3, 2010 ========================================================= http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo4 INVITED SPEAKERS Simon Colton, Imperial College London Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Barcelona MODULARITY, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance and ontology reasoning. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a foundation for further research and development. The workshop follows a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest work and current problems, and is this time organised as a satellite workshop of FOIS 2010, as well as being co-located with several other relevant events, namely KR, AAMAS, ICAPS, NMR, and DL. TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is Modularity: Kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/Foundational Studies: Conservativity; modular ontology languages (e.g., DDL, E-Connections, P-DL); reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; heterogeneity; - Algorithmic Approaches: distributed reasoning; modularization and module extraction; (selective) sharing and re-using, linking and importing; hiding and privacy; evaluation of modularization approaches; complexity of reasoning; reasoners or implemented systems; - Applications: Semantic Web; Life Sciences; Bio-Ontologies; Natural Language Processing; ontologies of space and time; Ambient Intelligence; collaborative ontology development; etc. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission (EXTENDED): February 3, 2010 Notification: March 1, 2010 Camera ready: March 11, 2010 Workshop day: May 11, 2010 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The workshop welcomes submission of high quality original and previously unpublished papers. Contributions should not exceed 13 pages in length and must be formatted according to IOS Press style (see http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ). Contributions should be prepared in PDF format and submitted not later than January 29 2010 through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2010 ). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers may be extended up to 16 pages and will be published as chapters in an IOS Press book in the series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'. The authors of accepted papers are also welcome to submit substantially extended versions to a planned special issue on 'Modularity in Ontologies' of the international journal 'Applied Ontology' (IOS Press). WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Oliver Kutz (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) Joana Hois (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) Jie Bao (Tetherless World Constellation & Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mathieu d'Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University of Milton Keynes, UK) Alex Borgida (Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, USA) Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy) Martin Dzbor (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University of Milton Keynes, UK) Faezeh Ensan (Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Canada) Fred Freitas (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) Silvio Ghilardi (Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy) John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK) Peter Haase (fluid Operations GmbH, Germany) Heinrich Herre (Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Germany) Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA) Vasant Honavar (Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Iowa State University, USA) Roman Kontchakov (School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK) Carsten Lutz (Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany) Till Mossakowski (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Lab Bremen, Germany) Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) Anne Schlicht (KR & KM Research Group, University of Mannheim, Germany) Thomas Schneider (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK) Luciano Serafini (Centro Per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy) Stefano Spaccapietra (School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (KR & KM Research Group, University of Mannheim, Germany) Andrei Tamilin (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy) Dirk Walther (Department of Computer Science, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Frank Wolter (Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK) Antoine Zimmermann (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) From Quentin.Reul at vub.ac.be Tue Jan 26 12:12:41 2010 From: Quentin.Reul at vub.ac.be (Quentin Reul) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:12:41 +0100 Subject: [DL] Developer Job at VUB STARLab Message-ID: VUB STARLab (http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/) takes part in several national and European projects in the domain of the Social Web by investigating methodologies to collaboratively represent knowledge. This knowledge is then used in real-life application to enable semantic interoperability across distributed systems. Your task will be to implement and validate these methodologies according to the STARLab Research Roadmap. You have completed an academic education in Computer Science or a related discipline, which enables you to be a good problem solver. You have experience in programming and software engineering to develop Web Services applications. You have an extensive knowledge of software design, information system design and database design using UML, ORM, and/or (E)ER. Knowledge of J2EE, JBoss Application Server and Eclipse- based programming is mandatory, but not sufficient. You have excellent oral and written communication skills in English (with evidence) and are capable of quickly picking up the major aspects of new scientific and industrial disciplines that you encounter. We offer you a temporary contract of one year with a possible extension to several years, in principle full-time (38 hours/week). Salary depends on age and experience and conforms to regular practices in Belgium. You will work in an international, academic research environment. For more information about this vacancy, please contact Prof. Robert Meersman, STARLab Director, meersman at vub.ac.be and Mr Quentin Reul (quentin.reul at vub.ac.be ). For applications, please use the STARLab application form and include your educational and/or professional CV (see http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/website/node/469) . Please respond to this vacancy before February 19, 2010. ============================ Quentin Reul Researcher Vrije Universiteit Brussel STARLab 10G730 Pleinlaan 2 1050 Brussel Tel: +32 (0)2 629 3487 Fax: +32 (0)2 629 3819 http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From agata at logic.at Thu Jan 28 11:31:41 2010 From: agata at logic.at (Agata Ciabattoni) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:31:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Message-ID: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 1 Post-Doctoral Position at the Vienna University of Technology The position is associated to the project "Fuzzy Logics: from Mathematics to Medical Application" funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund WWTF. The project is a cooperation between the Vienna University of Technology (Dr. Agata Ciabattoni) and the Medical University of Vienna (Univ.-Prof.Dr.Klaus-Peter Adlassnig). Further details can be found at http://www.logic.at/WWTF016/. * Candidates are expected to have very good knowldege in mathematical logic, knowledge representation and/or formal ontologies. They should have (or shortly expect to receive) a PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or a closely related field. * The post is for a fixed term appointment of up to 24 months. * Application deadline is March 8, 2010. * The application, containing the candidate's cv, a short description of his/her research interests and achievements and at least one recommendation letter, should be sent to postdoc2010 at logic.at. From franconi at inf.unibz.it Wed Jan 27 20:59:06 2010 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:59:06 +0100 Subject: [DL] European Master in Computational Logic - many scholarships for all students Message-ID: <30AC20E8-4DF5-4CEB-8CD3-47C81640FAE0@inf.unibz.it> *** 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 Magistrale). 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 Within this program, completely in English, students will spend the first semester of the first year at the Technische Universitaet Dresden (TUD), the second semester of the first year at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), and the second year in one of the 4 partner universities chosen by the student. After this, the student will obtain a joint European Master of Science degree. APPLICATION DEADLINE: - *** 15 May 2010 *** deadline for European and non-European students (notification of acceptance: 15 June 2008) SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT: Several scholarships (all including a tuition/enrolment fee waiver) are offered by the EMCL to the best students for the duration of the master program: a FULL scholarship of 750 EUR per month; a SMALL scholarship of 200 EUR per month; and a SIMPLE tuition/enrolment fee waiver. European students will get a LLP Socrates Erasmus scholarship for the second year of study, corresponding to 330 EUR per month. 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 a tuition/enrolment fee waiver. These scholarships are also available to non-European citizens with residence in Italy. 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, 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tommiemeyer at gmail.com Mon Feb 1 12:51:38 2010 From: tommiemeyer at gmail.com (Tommie Meyer) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:51:38 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final Call for Papers: NMR 2010 - Deadline Extended to February 8 Message-ID: Final Call for Papers: NMR 2010 13th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NON-MONOTONIC REASONING May 14-16, 2010, Sutton Place, Toronto, Canada Extended deadline: February 8, 2010 Notification: March 1, 2010 Website: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/NMR2010/ (Collocated with KR 2010, ICAPS 2010, FOIS 2010 and AAMAS 2010) NMR 2010 will be composed of six specialized sub-workshops: * Argument, Dialog and Decision * Declarative Programming for NMR * Action and Belief Change * Preferences and Norm * Commonsense and NMR for Ontologies * NMR and Uncertainty Papers should be submitted to the appropriate sub-workshop. If it is not clear which sub-workshop is most appropriate, please contact the program chairs for clarification. Invited speakers: Franz Baader (to be confirmed) Gerhard Brewka Marc Denecker Jack Minker Torsten Schaub The NMR workshop series is the premier specialized forum for researchers in non-monotonic reasoning and related areas. This will be the 13th workshop in the series. Its aim is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of non-monotonic reasoning, including belief revision, reasoning about actions, argumentation, declarative programming, preferences, non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies, uncertainty, and other related topics. Topics of Interest: NMR'10 welcomes the submission of papers broadly centred on issues and research in non-monotonic reasoning. We welcome papers of either a theoretical or practical nature. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): foundations of non-monotonic reasoning, default reasoning, representing actions and planning, belief revision and information fusion, reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty, answer set programming, belief updating and inconsistency handling, similarity-based reasoning, empirical studies of reasoning strategies, argument-based non-monotonic logics, abductive reasoning, algorithms and implementations, non-monotonic logics in multi-agent interaction, including negotiation and dispute resolution, non- monotonic reasoning for ontologies, declarative programming for non- monotonic reasoning, and reasoning with preferences. Programme co-chairs: Thomas Meyer tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~tmeyer/ Eugenia Ternovska ter at cs.sfu.ca http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ulle.endriss at uva.nl Fri Jan 29 15:34:04 2010 From: ulle.endriss at uva.nl (Ulle Endriss) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:34:04 +0100 Subject: [DL] ECAI-2010 Workshop Programme Message-ID: <4B62F1DC.4030804@uva.nl> Please distribute widely (apologies if you receive this more than once). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is my pleasure to announce the Workshop Programme of ECAI-2010, the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, to be held in on 16-20 August 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal. ECAI-2010 will have 21 satellite workshops, to take place during the first two days of the conference, in parallel with an extensive tutorial programme. The workshop programme covers a wide spectrum of research in AI and will be of interest to both theoreticians and practitioners. Information regarding the individual workshops is available via the ECAI-2010 website. Most workshops operate with paper submission deadlines around the beginning of May. Best wishes, Ulle Endriss (ECAI-2010 Workshop Chair) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ECAI-2010 WORKSHOP PROGRAMME (full details at http://ecai2010.appia.pt/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA) * Configuration (ConfWS) * Advances in Preference Handling (M-PREF) * Modelling and Reasoning in Context (MRC) * Automated Reasoning about Context and Ontology Evolution (ARCOE) * Explanation-aware Computing (ExaCt) * Language, Pragmatics and Explanation (LPE) * Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNR) * Planning to Learn (PlanLearn) * Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems (ERLARS) * Benchmarking Intelligent (Multi-)Robot Systems (BIMRS) * Intelligent Engineering Techniques for Knowledge Bases (I-KBET) * Ubiquitous Data Mining (UDM) * Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA) * AI for Simulation | Simulation for AI (AISSAI) * Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) * Intelligent Agents and Technologies for e-Business (IAT4EB) * Agents Applied in Health Care (A2HC) * Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC) * Artificial Intelligence and Logistics (AILog) * Spatio-Temporal Dynamics (STeDY) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Ulle Endriss http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/ Institute for Logic, Language & Computation (ILLC) University of Amsterdam Tel: +31 (0)20 525 6511 Postbus 94242 Fax: +31 (0)20 525 5206 1090 GE Amsterdam (NL) Email: u.endriss at uva.nl From hr at sti2.at Fri Feb 5 12:34:58 2010 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:34:58 +0100 Subject: [DL] Job ad: Scientific Employee In-Reply-To: <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> Message-ID: <4B6C0262.8030803@sti2.at> Dear All, the Semantic Technology Institute at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) is currently seeking candidates for the following positions: - PhD Researcher More Information on the job and the application procedure can be found at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public_prod/owa/karriereportal.karriere_detail?asg_id_in=5845 Best Regards, Human Resources STI Innsbruck Technikerstra?e 21a 6020 Innsbruck Austria From lmagnani at unipv.it Wed Feb 3 21:23:36 2010 From: lmagnani at unipv.it (Lorenzo Magnani) Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:23:36 +0100 Subject: [DL] **** Call for Papers **** LRR10: LOGIC, REASONING AND RATIONALITY Message-ID: <4B69DB48.50000@unipv.it> **** Call for Papers **** LRR10: LOGIC, REASONING AND RATIONALITY http://www.lrr10.ugent.be/ September 20-22, 2010 Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, Belgium The idea that there is a strong connection between logic, reasoning, and rationality, which was very popular among the philosophers of the Wiener Kreis, has long been out of fashion. Findings from history and philosophy of science and from cognitive psychology have revealed that the traditional logician's tool, Classical Logic, is not fit for explicating human reasoning either in the sciences or in everyday life. Times have changed, however. Today, a multiplicity of formal frameworks (ranging from non-classical logics over probability theory to Bayesian networks) is available in addition to Classical Logic. Also, historians and philosophers of science as well as psychologists have described a rich variety of patterns in both scientific and common sense reasoning. The aim of LRR10 is to stimulate the use of formal frameworks to explicate concrete examples of human reasoning and, conversely, to challenge scholars in formal studies by presenting them with interesting new examples of actual reasoning. Therefore, we welcome papers in all areas related to non-classical logics and non-classical formal frameworks. We also welcome case studies from history and philosophy of science, as well as from psychology, that enhance our apprehension of concrete reasoning patterns that occur in the sciences and in everyday life. Finally, we welcome contributions that deal with the philosophical implications of the present-day insights for our understanding of rationality. Contributions may cover topics from the following (non-exhaustive) list: - non-classical logics (adaptive logics, paraconsistent logics, relevant logics, modal logics, non-monotonic logics, epistemic and doxastic logics, erotetic logics, many-valued logics, fuzzy logics, conditional logics, ...) - formal methods in philosophy of science and in epistemology (probability theory, bayesian and causal nets, ...) - knowledge and belief dynamics (belief revision, belief merging, conceptual change, ...) - reasoning patterns (induction, abduction, IBE, analogical reasoning, model-based reasoning, inconsistency-handling, defeasible reasoning, causal reasoning, argumentation schemes, historical case-studies, ...) - present-day views on rationality (bounded rationality, rationality and values,fallibilism, ...) Confirmed keynote speakers: Arnon Avron, Diderik Batens, Giovanna Corsi, Newton da Costa, Nancy Nersessian, Thomas Nickles, Graham Priest and Andrzej Wisniewski Practical information: * If you would like to present a paper at the conference, please submit an abstract (500 to 1000 words) by MARCH 15, 2010 to the following e-mail address: LRR10 at UGent.be. * Please write "ABSTRACT SUBMISSION" in the Subject header of your mail. * Abstracts can be submitted in .doc, .docx or .pdf. Abstracts received will be acknowledged by e-mail. All abstracts will be carefully refereed. Timetable: * March 15, 2010: deadline for submission of abstracts * May 1, 2010: notification of acceptance of abstracts * May 15, 2010: deadline for speaker confirmation of attendance * September 19, 2010: Academic Session in honour of Diderik Batens (partly in Dutch, followed by a reception) * September 20-22, 2010: Conference -- From Bertram.Fronhoefer at inf.tu-dresden.de Sun Feb 7 20:46:34 2010 From: Bertram.Fronhoefer at inf.tu-dresden.de (Bertram =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fronh=C3=B6fer?=) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:46:34 +0100 Subject: [DL] Announcement: ICCL Summer School 2010 Message-ID: <20100207194629.GA28617@janeway.inf.tu-dresden.de> Call for Participation ICCL Summer School 2010 COGNITIVE SCIENCE, COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC AND CONNECTIONISM Technische Universit?t Dresden August 29 -- September 11, 2010 http://www.computational-logic.org/iccl-ss-2010 TOPIC The summer school will focus on the relationship between modern formal logic (including its use for automated reasoning and computation) and, on the other hand, the rationality and common sense underlying human reasoning. Traditionally, a huge gap is perceived between the symbolic representation of knowledge used in modern logic and the sub-symbolic representation considered dominant in human reasoning. Psychological experiments of the past even suggested that people often don't reason logically and, in general, that logic seems to play only a minor role in human reasoning. However, recently, new ways of explaining human reasoning seem to revive its relatedness to logic. Connectionist models even show a closer relation between formal reasoning and brain activities. For these reasons this summer school attempts to bring together researchers from various sides for an exchange of views. REGISTRATION If you want to attend the summer school, we'd prefer that you register by April 1, 2010. (See the online registration on the web page mentioned above.) For all who want to apply for a grant, this deadline is obligatory. After April 1, 2010, registration will be possible as long as there are vacant places. (Since we intend to restrict participation to about 60 people, in case of excessive demand, we will have to close the registration to the summer school.) People applying until April 1, 2010, and applying for a grant will be informed about respective decisions on grants at latest by end of April 2010. FEES We ask for a participation fee of 200 EUR. GRANTS A limited number of grants may be available, please indicate in your application if the only possibility for you to participate is via a grant. Applications for grants must include an estimate of travel costs (to be filled in the respective part of the online registration form). INTEGRATED WORKSHOP It will be possible for some participants to present their research work during a small workshop integrated in the summer school. If you would like to do so, please register by means of the online workshop registration form on the web page mentioned above: (The title of your proposed talk, and, in addition, an extended abstract or a full paper of at most 10 pages in postscript or pdf format must be submit by April 1, 2010.) A program committee consisting of the summer school lecturers will select among the submissions. Notification of acceptance of a talk at the integrated workshop will be at latest by end of April 2010. Please note that participation at the summer school is a prerequisite for participation at the workshop. COURSE PROGRAM COGNITION, LANGUAGE, AND NEURAL COMPUTATION. Jerome Feldman (ICSI, Bekeley, USA) NEURO-SYMBOLIC COGNITIVE REASONING Artur d'Avila Garcez (City University London, UK) CONNECTIONIST MODEL GENERATION Steffen H?lldobler (Technische Universit?t Dresden) COMPLEX NETWORKS OF MINDFUL ENTITIES. Lu?s Moniz Pereira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY IN DEDUCTIVE REASONING Marco Ragni (University of Freiburg) COMPUTING EVENT STRUCTURES WITH LOGIC PROGRAMS Fritz Hamm / Fabian Schlotterbeck (Universit?t T?bingen) PEOPLE INVOLVED Chair of the ICCL Summer School 2010 Steffen H?lldobler Organizing Committee Julia Koppenhagen Bertram Fronh?fer NOTE ON FUNDING This Summer School is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with financial means from the German Federal Foreign Office From jfrazee at mail.utexas.edu Thu Feb 11 17:57:10 2010 From: jfrazee at mail.utexas.edu (Joey Frazee) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:57:10 -0600 Subject: [DL] NASSLLI 2010: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: <103f6a951002110857v247464d3hbecc8fd8f57699f9@mail.gmail.com> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Fourth North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information NASSLLI 2010 June 20-26, 2010 http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/ The North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) is a summer school with classes in the interface between computer science, linguistics, and logic. After previous editions at Stanford University, Indiana University, and UCLA, NASSLLI will return to Bloomington, Indiana, June 20?26, 2010. The summer school, loosely modeled on the long-running ESSLLI series in Europe, will consist of a number of courses and workshops, selected on the basis of the proposals. Courses and workshops meet for 90 or 120 minutes on each of five days, June 21?25, and there will be tutorials on June 20 and a day-long workshop on June 26. The instructors are prominent researchers who volunteer their time and energy to present basic work in their disciplines. Many are coming from Europe just to teach at NASSLLI. NASSLLI courses are aimed at graduate students and advanced undergraduates in wide variety of fields. The instructors know that people will be attending from a wide range of disciplines, and they all are pleased to be associated with an interdisciplinary school. The courses will also appeal to post-docs and researchers in all of the relevant fields. We hope to have 100-150 participants. In addition to classes in the daytime, the evenings will have social events and plenary lectures. Bloomington is a wonderful place to visit, known for arts, music, and ethnic restaurants. All of this is within 15 minutes walking from campus. We aim to make NASSLLI fun and exciting. Joey Frazee Student Program Committee From marija.slavkovik at gmail.com Wed Feb 17 15:20:56 2010 From: marija.slavkovik at gmail.com (Marija Slavkovik) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:20:56 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2010 student session - DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: <4e59c6b1002170620i6c853059od2d3bd045e2bbf15@mail.gmail.com> Apologies if you are receiving this more than once. Please forward this information further to where you think it will be useful. *********************************************************************************** Due to a time honored tradition of deadline extensions for the student sessions, the deadline for submissions has been extended until March 3rd, 2010. OLD DEADLINE: 19.02.2010 NEW DEADLINE: 03.03.2010 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 30.05.2010 ESSLLI2010 Copenhagen: 09.08-20.08.2010 For more information on submissions for the Student Session please visit: http://marija.gforge.uni.lu/esslli2010.html For more information on ESSLLI2010 Copenhagen: http://esslli2010cph.info/ Feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding the Student Session. 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URL: From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Thu Feb 18 04:16:26 2010 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:16:26 -0200 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2010 - CFP - DEADLINE APPROACHING (Feb 28th) Message-ID: *WoLLIC 2010 17th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation * *July 6th to 9th, 2010 * *Universidade de Bras?lia, Bras?lia, Brazil* *Scientific Sponsorship* *Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL )* *The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI )* *Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL )* *European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS )* *Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC )* *Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL )* *Funding* (tbc) *Special: A screening of I want to be a mathematician: A conversation with Paul Halmos * *Organisation* *Department of Mathematics , Universidade de Bras?lia , Brazil Centro de Inform?tica , Universidade Federal de Pernambuco , Brazil * ------------------------------ Call for PapersWoLLIC 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 Seventeenth WoLLIC will be held in Bras?lia, Brazil, from July 6th to 9th, 2010. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL). *Special Event* 2010 will mark the 50-th anniversary of the first publication of Paul Halmos' classic book *Na?ve Set Theory* by Van Nostrand. WoLLIC will celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Halmos which was directed by George Csicsery: "I want to be a mathematician. A conversation with Paul Halmos" http://zalafilms.com/films/halmos.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 the WoLLIC 2010 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2010/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 28, and the full paper by March 7 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 11, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by April 27 (firm date). *Proceedings* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2010, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. 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 2010 issue of *Journal of Computer Systems and Sciences* (soon to be confirmed). *Invited Speakers* *Marcelo Finger* *Michiel van Lambalgen* *Martin Lange* *Johann (Janos) Makowsky* *Ian Pratt-Hartmann* *Sebastiaan Terwijn* *Cesare Tinelli* *Student Grants* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2010 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2010). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *Important Dates* February 28, 2010: Paper title and abstract deadline March 7, 2010: Full paper deadline (firm) April 11, 2010: Author notification April 27, 2010: Final version deadline (firm) *Programme Committee* *Ver?nica Becher* (Buenos Aires) *Raffaella Bernardi* (Bolzano) *Ricardo Bianconi* (S?o Paulo) *Vasco Brattka* (Cape Town) *Balder ten Cate* (ENS, Cachan) *Bob Coecke* (Oxford) *Adriana Compagnoni* (Stevens) *Marcelo Coniglio* (Campinas) *Anuj Dawar* (Cambridge), chair *Valentin Goranko* (Copenhagen) *Masahito Hasegawa* (Kyoto U, Japan) *Rosalie Iemhoff* (Utrecht) *Makoto Kanazawa* (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) *Giuseppe Longo* (CNRS & ENS, Paris) *Mike Mislove* (Tulane) *Michael Norrish* (NICTA, Canberra) *Bart Selman* (Cornell) *Scott Weinstein* (Penn) *Organising Committee* Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (U Bras?lia, Brazil) (co-chair) Fl?vio L. C. Moura (U Bras?lia, Brazil) Claudia Nalon (U Bras?lia, Brazil) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) (co-chair) *Steering Committee* *Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz.* *Further information* *Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee.* *Web page* *http://wollic.org/wollic2010/ * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We welcome original contributions on various aspects of first-order theorem proving, including (but not restricted to): * theorem proving in first-order classical, many-valued, and modal logics, including: - satisfiability in propositional logic, - satisfiability modulo theories, - specialized decision procedures, - constraint reasoning, - equational reasoning, - term rewriting, - resolution, - paramodulation/superposition; * strategies and complexity of theorem proving procedures; * implementation techniques; * applications of first-order theorem provers to: - program verification, - model checking, - artificial intelligence, - mathematics, - computational linguistics. Guest editors: ============== Nicolas Peltier (CNRS - LIG, France) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI,Saarbruecken, Germany) 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 a journal and that must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere (extended and/or improved versions of conference papers are acceptable). * 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. * All the main definitions, theorems and algorithms must be illustrated by simple but meaningful examples. Without these, the paper will not be considered. Submission to this special issue is via the EasyChair submission system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftpjsc2010. The deadline for submissions is **** May 1st, 2010 **** Submissions must comply with JSC's author guidelines. They must be written in English and should be prepared in LaTeX. The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class "elsarticle". The Elsevier LaTeX style file package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained from http://www.elsevier.com/latex. It consists of the file: elsarticle.cls, complete user documentation for the class file, bibliographic style files in various styles, and template files for a quick start. An older version of the "Elsevier Article Class (elsart.cls)" with "JSC add-on style (yjsco.sty)" and "Harvard style references (elsart-harv.bst)" can be obtained as the package "JSC LaTex" (that contains all the necessary style files and a template) from http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hong/jsc/JSC_LaTex_2007_Mar_12.zip Contact ======= For further informations please send an e-mail to Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (e-mail: sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de) From torben at ruc.dk Tue Feb 16 16:39:28 2010 From: torben at ruc.dk (Torben Brauner) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:39:28 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: International Workshop on Hybrid Logic and Applications (HyLo 2010) Message-ID: <4B7ABC30.4040805@ruc.dk> ******************************************************************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic and Applications (HyLo 2010) Affiliated with LICS 2010 July 10, 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland ******************************************************************* Scope ----- Hybrid logic is an extension of modal logic which allows us to refer explicitly to states of the model in the syntax of formulas. This extra capability, very natural in the realm of temporal logics, where one usually wants to refer to specific times, has been shown very effective in other domains too. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have been sporadically investigated ever since, it was 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, with the usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions about what happens at a particular instant, and standard modal formalisms do not allow this. What is less obvious is that the route hybrid logic takes to overcome this problem (the basic mechanism being to add nominals - atomic symbols true at a unique point - together with extra modalities to exploit them) often actually improves the 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 simply not available in modal logic. That is, hybridization - adding nominals and related apparatus - seems a fairly reliable way of curing many known weaknesses in modal logic. Hybrid logic is now a mature field with significant impact on a range of other fields, including - description logic, - applied modal logics, - temporal logic, - memory logics, - memoryful logics, - reactive logic, - labelled deduction, and - feature logic. The topic of the HyLo workshop of 2010 is hybrid logic and its applications, for instance within the fields mentioned above. The scope is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery like nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder but, more generally, extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic and applications, for example the LICS-affiliated HyLo 2002 (http://floc02.diku.dk/HYLO) and HyLo 2006 (http://hylomol.ruc.dk/HyLo2006) which both were held as part of FLoC. Submissions ----------- Please use the HyLo 2010 submission page to submit papers (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=hylo2010). Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. The revised 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 be distributed at the workshop. Authors are invited to submit papers in the following two categories: - Regular papers describing original research. - Presentation-only papers describing work recently published or submitted. The presentation-only papers will be included in the preliminary proceedings, but not in the final proceedings in ENTCS. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. Authors are strongly encouraged to prepare their submissions according to the ENTCS guidelines (http://www.entcs.org). Important Dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2010 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2010 Deadline for final versions: June 15, 2006 Invited Speakers ---------------- - Moshe Vardi, Rice University, USA - NN Program Committee ----------------- Carlos Areces (INRIA Lorraine, France) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Lorraine, France) Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark), Co-chair Torben Bra?ner (Roskilde University, Denmark), Co-chair Stephane Demri (ENS de Cachan, France) Mai Gehrke (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark) Valeria de Paiva (Cuil Inc., USA) Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) Contact Details --------------- See the workshop home page (http://hylocore.ruc.dk/HyLo2010.html) for further information. Please send all correspondence regarding the workshop to the organizers: Thomas Bolander http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~tb Torben Bra?ner http://www.ruc.dk/~torben From turhan at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Mon Feb 22 17:59:23 2010 From: turhan at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (A.-Y. Turhan) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:59:23 +0100 Subject: [DL] 2. CFP: Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics (UniDL'10) Message-ID: <4B82B7EB.5050600@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------- UniDL'10 First International Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics co-located with IJCAR 2010 at FLoC 2010 July 20, 2010 Edinburgh, UK http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/UniDL ------------------------------------------------------------------- During the recent decade, handling uncertainty has started to play an important role in ontology languages, especially in application areas like the Semantic Web, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence. For this reason, there is currently a strong research interest in description logics (DLs) that allow for dealing with uncertainty. The subject of the workshop is how to deal with uncertainty and imprecision in Description Logics (DLs). This encompasses approaches that enable probabilistic or fuzzy reasoning in DLs, but the workshop is also open for approaches based on other uncertainty formalisms. The workshop focusses on the investigation of reasoning problems and approaches for solving them, including especially tractable ones. For classical DL reasoning problems such as subsumption and satisfiability, algorithms that can handle uncertainty exist, but they are still less well-investigated than in the case of standard DLs without uncertainty. For novel reasoning services, such as query answering, computation of generalizations, modules, or explanations, it is not yet clear how to realize them in DLs that can express uncertainty. SPONSOR UniDL is sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) INVITED SPEAKER Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: * Modeling of uncertain knowledge in DLs * Different formalisations of uncertainty for DLs * Formal semantics for uncertain information in DLs * Extensions of DL reasoning problems to uncertainty * Reasoning algorithms for DLs with uncertainty, in particular * Tableau algorithms for probabilistic DLs or fuzzy DLs * Tractable DLs with uncertainty * Complexity of uncertain reasoning * System descriptions for implemented reasoning algorithms in uncertain DLs * Novel applications of DLs with uncertainty * Open and future problems IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: March 25, 2010 Notification: April 28, 2010 Final version: May 26, 2010 Workshop: July 20, 2010 SUBMISSION DETAILS: The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format in Springer's LNCS style. Submissions can be - technical papers not exceeding 10 pages, - system descriptions not exceeding 6 pages, or - position papers on work in progress not exceeding 3 pages in LNCS. Submissions exceeding these limits will not be reviewed. Submissions are via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unidl10 . WORKSHOP CHAIRS: - Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK - Rafael Penaloza, TU Dresden, Germany - Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Eyal Amir, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza - Simona Colucci, Technical University of Bari - Fabio G. Cozman, University of Sao Paulo - Manfred Jaeger, Aalborg University - Pavel Klinov, University of Manchester - Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology - Mathias Niepert, University of Mannheim - Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Luciano Serafini, IRS Trento - Giorgos Stoilos, Oxford University - Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR - Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China -- * Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Theoretical Computer Science, TU Dresden * * Phone:++49 351 463 39 167 mailto:turhan at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de * From uschold at gmail.com Thu Feb 18 07:03:00 2010 From: uschold at gmail.com (Michael F Uschold) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:03:00 -0800 Subject: [DL] Request for "Good" Ontologies In-Reply-To: <406b38b51002161919r7c379c46yb26e38dfd3cce40d@mail.gmail.com> References: <406b38b51002142331u2f9618bk63f5adb311553cf6@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161845v3cf1d962o798153a9645292cf@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161849wb7c2977j349efb6e79be6761@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161851l7197a593j894abfd1354f71d0@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161853w2a99c34bj93fc59ac3270207e@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161904t565c6159o7eff533e09088b15@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161909h3d525b58ifef05ca5bd475e62@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161910v6543ce60q614b2c3113fda33@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161913i2b130b67ob10d8fc3a0519442@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161919r7c379c46yb26e38dfd3cce40d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <406b38b51002172203yc5f674ei7d595f53620e44ba@mail.gmail.com> This message is about an effort you may wish to know about and hopefully contribute to. * * *WHAT: **T*he NeOn project is supporting an effort to collect high quality ontologies. I invite you to submit one or more "exemplary ontologies" to a growing catalog in the Ontology Design Patterns Wiki. Identify one or more ontologies that: - you have significant knowledge or experience with, - you regard as an excellent example of a "high quality" ontology See: "What is an Exemplary Ontology" for ideas about this; edit them if you wish. Can you or any of your colleagues think of exemplary ontologies to add to the catalog? Think first about the ontologies you have used that are authored by others, rather than your own. *WHY: to make it easy for people to find good ontologies to draw inspiration from and to emulate.* * If you don't have much time, I will make it easier by talking you through it on the phone. I'm UscholdM on Skype.* * * *HOW: Quick Instructions:* 1. Visit *Ontology Design Patterns Wiki* (http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/) 2. Click the "*How to register*" link at lower left of the page; follow instructions to get a login name and password. ---Or paste: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Odp:Register into your browser 3. See: "*What is an Exemplary Ontology*" link for some criteria ---Or paste: h ttp://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Odp:WhatIsAnExemplaryOntology into your browser 4. Visit *Exemplary Ontology Catalogue* page to make sure the ontology is not already there. ---Or paste: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Ontology:Main into your browser 5. Click the *Su**bmit a new Exemplary Ontology* button. 6. Fill out a form describing various aspects of the exemplary ontology. Key fields are: 1. *Name *of ontology 2. *Description (Short)* 3. *Purpose *of the ontology 4. *Justification *(why you think this is an exemplary ontology) 5. *URI *of where to find the ontology 6. *References *One or more references to learn more. 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URL: From chaim.zins at gmail.com Mon Mar 1 12:04:30 2010 From: chaim.zins at gmail.com (chaim Zins) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:04:30 +0200 Subject: [DL] [DIGLIB] Request for "Good" Ontologies In-Reply-To: <406b38b51002172203yc5f674ei7d595f53620e44ba@mail.gmail.com> References: <406b38b51002142331u2f9618bk63f5adb311553cf6@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161849wb7c2977j349efb6e79be6761@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161851l7197a593j894abfd1354f71d0@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161853w2a99c34bj93fc59ac3270207e@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161904t565c6159o7eff533e09088b15@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161909h3d525b58ifef05ca5bd475e62@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161910v6543ce60q614b2c3113fda33@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161913i2b130b67ob10d8fc3a0519442@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002161919r7c379c46yb26e38dfd3cce40d@mail.gmail.com> <406b38b51002172203yc5f674ei7d595f53620e44ba@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4400b3131003010304w7dce836fia40dd8f69e788eb5@mail.gmail.com> Dear Michael, 10 Pillars of Knowledge is an example of a systematic and comprehensive map (or ontology) of human knowledge. In fact it is an ontology of human knowledge major fields. http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/map/map.html (Please note that the map is not in the public domain. Therefore, if you'll decide to include it in your project, please let me know. Thanks). If you have any comment on the map please feel free to share it with me. All the best, Chaim On 2/18/10, Michael F Uschold wrote: > > This message is about an effort you may wish to know > about and hopefully contribute to. > * > * > *WHAT: **T*he NeOn project is > supporting an effort to collect high quality ontologies. > > > I invite you to submit one or more "exemplary ontologies" > to a growing catalog in the Ontology Design Patterns Wiki. > > Identify one or more ontologies that: > > - you have significant knowledge or experience with, > - you regard as an excellent example of a "high quality" ontology > See: "What is an Exemplary Ontology" for > ideas about this; edit them if you wish. > > Can you or any of your colleagues think of exemplary ontologies to add to > the catalog? Think first about the ontologies you have used that are > authored by others, rather than your own. > > *WHY: to make it easy for people to find good ontologies to draw > inspiration from and to emulate.* > > > * If you don't have much time, I will make it easier by talking you > through it on the phone. I'm UscholdM on Skype.* > * > * > *HOW: Quick Instructions:* > > 1. Visit *Ontology Design Patterns Wiki* > (http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/) > 2. Click the "*How to register*" link at > lower left of the page; follow instructions to get a login name and > password. > ---Or paste: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Odp:Register into > your browser > 3. See: "*What is an Exemplary Ontology*" > link for some criteria > ---Or paste: h > ttp://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Odp:WhatIsAnExemplaryOntology into > your browser > 4. Visit *Exemplary Ontology Catalogue* page > to make sure the ontology is not already there. > ---Or paste: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Ontology:Main into > your browser > 5. Click the *Su**bmit a new Exemplary Ontology* button. > 6. Fill out a form describing various aspects of the exemplary > ontology. Key fields are: > 1. *Name *of ontology > 2. *Description (Short)* > 3. *Purpose *of the ontology > 4. *Justification *(why you think this is an exemplary ontology) > 5. *URI *of where to find the ontology > 6. *References *One or more references to learn more. > > Thanks very much, > Michael > ====== > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Chaim Zins, PhD. Knowledge Mapping Research, Jerusalem, Israel; Visiting Professor at the Information Science Post-Graduate Program, S?o Paulo State University (UNESP), Marilia, Brazil. Mail: Chaim Zins 26 Hahaganah St, Jerusalem 97852, Israel; Tel/Fax: 972-2-5816705 Email: chaim.zins at gmail.com Homepage: www.success.co.il 10 Pillars of Knowledge: Map of Human Knowledge (http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/index.html) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dario.dellamonica at dimi.uniud.it Tue Mar 2 13:43:53 2010 From: dario.dellamonica at dimi.uniud.it (Dario Della Monica) Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:43:53 +0100 Subject: [DL] call for paper GandALF 2010 Message-ID: <4B8D0809.7050204@dimi.uniud.it> [We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message] ********************************************************* --------------------- GandALF 2010 ---------------------- ********************************************************* 1st International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification Minori, Amalfi Coast, Italy, June 17-18, 2010 http://gandalf.dia.unisa.it/ **************************************** | CALL FOR PAPERS | **************************************** OBJECTIVES The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers from academia and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to concrete applications, and to stimulate cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on any relevant topic in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome. INDICATIVE LIST OF TOPICS The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: Automata Theory Automated Deduction Logical aspects of Computational Complexity Concurrency and Distributed computation Decision Procedures Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification Finite Model Theory First-order and Higher-order Logics Formal Languages Formal Methods for Complex Systems (e.g., Interactive Systems, Systems Biology) Games and Automata for Verification Game Semantics Game Theory Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems Verification Logics of Programs Modal and Temporal Logics Model Checking Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems Program Analysis and Software Verification Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems Synthesis and Execution PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions, not exceeding fifteen (15) pages using EPTCS format, should be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission. Papers must be submitted in PDF or PS format by using EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=gandalf2010). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission March 21, 2010 Paper submission March 28, 2010 Acceptance notification May 1, 2010 Final version May 20, 2010 Conference June 17-18, 2010 INVITED SPEAKERS Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Poland) Javier Esparza (Germany) Wolfgang Thomas (Germany) PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. A special issue of a major international journal to publish an extended and revised version of the best symposium papers is also under consideration. INFO Please visit the conference website (http://gandalf.dia.unisa.it) for more information. GENERAL CHAIR Margherita Napoli (Italy) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Angelo Montanari (Italy) Mimmo Parente (Italy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Parosh Aziz Abdulla (Sweden) Dietmar Berwanger (France) Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Poland) Ahmed Bouajjani (France) Krishnendu Chatterjee (Austria) Thomas Colcombet (France) Ugo Dal Lago (Italy) Giorgio Delzanno (Italy) Rocco De Nicola (Italy) Luca de Alfaro (USA) Emanuela Fachini (Italy) Marco Faella (Italy) Alessandro Ferrante (Italy) Stefania Gnesi (Italy) Valentin Goranko (Denmark) Antonin Kucera (Czech Republik) Salvatore La Torre (Italy) Kamal Lodaya (India) Christof Loding (Germany) P. Madhusudan (USA) Rupak Majumdar (USA) Luke Ong (UK) Gennaro Parlato (USA) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (UK) Gabriele Puppis (UK) Alexander Rabinovich (Israel) Jean-Francois Raskin (Belgium) Mark Reynolds (Australia) Guido Sciavicco (Spain) Colin Stirling (UK) Tomas Vojnar (Czech Republic) ADVISORY CHAIRS Stefano Crespi Reghizzi (Italy) Jozef Gruska (Czech Republik) Oscar H. Ibarra (USA) Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini (Italy) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dario Della Monica (Italy) Fabio Mogavero (Italy) Aniello Murano (Italy) Francesco Sorrentino (USA) Nicola Vitacolonna (Italy) -- Dario Della Monica, PhD Student University of Udine - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science via delle Scienze, 206 - 33100 - Udine (UD) phone: (+39) 0432 558469 cell: (+39) 328 2477327 fax: (+39) 0432 558499 email: dario.dellamonica [at] dimi.uniud.it web site: http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~dario.dellamonica -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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An interview with candidates may be requested after initial selection. The project is to begin, no later than April 2009. Candidates must send a short CV, list of publications and two letters of recommendation, by email, to Prof. Marcelo Finger (mfinger at ime.usp.br), until March 1 2009. From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Mar 1 16:11:10 2010 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:11:10 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] LPAR-16 Short Papers - CFP Message-ID: <20100301151110.7A5A111FAD6@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ===================== CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS ===================== LPAR-16 16th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning April 25 - May 1, 2010 Dakar, Senegal http://www.lpar.net/lpar-16/ 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 logic, 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 16th edition will be held in Dakar, Senegal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practioners are encouraged submit short papers reporting on interesting work in progress or providing system descriptions. They need not be original. Extended versions of the short papers may be submitted concurrently with or after LPAR-16 to another conference or a journal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Logical techniques 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. Topics ------ 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 * Verification * Interactive theorem proving and proof assistants * Model checking * Implementations of logic * Satisfiability modulo theories * Rewriting and unification * Logic programming * Satisfiability checking * Constraint programming * Decision procedures * Logic and the Web * Ontologies and large knowledge bases * Logic and databases * Modal and temporal logics * Program analysis * Foundations of security * Description logics * Non-monotonic reasoning * Specification using logics * Logic in artificial intelligence * Logic and types * Logical foundations of programming * Logical aspects of concurrency * Logic and computational complexity * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Logic of distributed systems Programme Chairs ---------------- * Ed Clarke * Andrei Voronkov Programme Committee ------------------- * Rajeev Alur * Matthias Baaz * Peter Baumgartner * Armin Biere * Nikolaj Bjorner * Iliano Cervesato * Agata Ciabattoni * Hubert Comon-Lundh * Nachum Dershowitz * Juergen Giesl * Guillem Godoy * Georg Gottlob * Jean Goubault-Larrecq * Reiner Haehnle * Claude Kirchner * Michael Kohlhase * Konstantin Korovin * Laura Kovacs * Orna Kupferman * Leonid Libkin * Aart Middeldorp * Luke Ong * Frank Pfenning * Andreas Podelski * Andrey Rybalchenko * Helmut Seidl * Geoff Sutcliffe * Ashish Tiwari * Toby Walsh * Christoph Weidenbach Submission Details ------------------ Short papers are limited in length to 5 pages in the EasyChair format. The class style may be downloaded from http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip. Short papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page ... http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar16short The short paper proceedings will be available as an EasyChair collection volume. 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 --------------- Paper submission deadline: 17 March 2010 Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2010 Final version: 1 April 2010 LPAR-16: 25 April - 1 May 2010 From hans.cools at agfa.com Thu Feb 25 10:06:00 2010 From: hans.cools at agfa.com (hans.cools at agfa.com) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:06:00 +0100 Subject: [DL] Request for "Good" Ontologies In-Reply-To: <406b38b51002172203yc5f674ei7d595f53620e44ba@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Michael, As an exaple of our ontology series, we put 'Countries' on http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Ontology:Main, using SKOS. Kind Regards, Hans Cools | Agfa HealthCare Researcher | HE/Advanced Clinical Applications Research T +32 3444 8185 | F +32 3 444 8401 | M +32 499 59 55 75 Quadrat NV, Kortrijksesteenweg 157, 9830 Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium http://www.agfa.com/healthcare/ Click on link to read important disclaimer: http://www.agfa.com/healthcare/maildisclaimer Michael F Uschold Sent by: public-semweb-lifesci-request at w3.org 18/02/2010 07:03 To owl at lists.mindswap.org, diglib at infoserv.inist.fr, dl at dl.kr.org, elsnet-list at mailman.let.uu.nl, obo-discuss at lists.sourceforge.net, people at semanticdesktop.org, protege-discussion at lists.stanford.edu, protege-owl at lists.stanford.edu, public-media-annotation at w3.org, semanticdesktop at lists.deri.org, semantic_web at googlegroups.com, sem-grd at ogf.org, swikig at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, public-semweb-lifesci at w3.org cc Subject Request for "Good" Ontologies This message is about an effort you may wish to know about and hopefully contribute to. WHAT: The NeOn project is supporting an effort to collect high quality ontologies. I invite you to submit one or more "exemplary ontologies" to a growing catalog in the Ontology Design Patterns Wiki. Identify one or more ontologies that: you have significant knowledge or experience with, you regard as an excellent example of a "high quality" ontology See: "What is an Exemplary Ontology" for ideas about this; edit them if you wish. Can you or any of your colleagues think of exemplary ontologies to add to the catalog? Think first about the ontologies you have used that are authored by others, rather than your own. WHY: to make it easy for people to find good ontologies to draw inspiration from and to emulate. If you don't have much time, I will make it easier by talking you through it on the phone. I'm UscholdM on Skype. HOW: Quick Instructions: 1. Visit Ontology Design Patterns Wiki ( http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/) 2. Click the "How to register" link at lower left of the page; follow instructions to get a login name and password. ---Or paste: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Odp:Register into your browser 3. See: "What is an Exemplary Ontology" link for some criteria ---Or paste: h ttp://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Odp:WhatIsAnExemplaryOntology into your browser 4. Visit Exemplary Ontology Catalogue page to make sure the ontology is not already there. ---Or paste: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Ontology:Main into your browser 5. Click the Submit a new Exemplary Ontology button. 6. Fill out a form describing various aspects of the exemplary ontology. Key fields are: 1. Name of ontology 2. Description (Short) 3. Purpose of the ontology 4. Justification (why you think this is an exemplary ontology) 5. URI of where to find the ontology 6. References One or more references to learn more. Thanks very much, Michael ====== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jfrazee at mail.utexas.edu Wed Feb 24 20:29:50 2010 From: jfrazee at mail.utexas.edu (Joey Frazee) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:29:50 -0600 Subject: [DL] CFP: NASSLLI 2010 Student Session Message-ID: <103f6a951002241129n53f628ebt4966e70a652818fa@mail.gmail.com> CALL FOR PAPERS NASSLLI 2010 STUDENT SESSION June 26, 2010 The Student Session is organized as part of the Fourth North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information to be held in Bloomington, IN USA from June 20-26, 2010. ABOUT THE STUDENT SESSION The NASSLLI Student Session provides an opportunity for pre-doctoral students to present original, unpublished work to an interdisciplinary audience. Authors will also receive useful feedback on their submissions from multiple reviewers. We invite submissions in all areas related to the school: logic, computation, language, and any combinations thereof. Papers to the Student Session must represent original work. They should be written with an eye towards two audiences: the wide multi-disciplinary body of students and researchers who will attend NASSLLI, and also the narrower set of people in the particular area of the paper. In short, they should be substantial contributions that can be appreciated by both insiders and outsiders. The organizers anticipate accepting between 10 and 20 papers. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Joey Frazee, UT Austin Joshua Herring, Indiana University Wes Holliday, Stanford University Thomas Icard, Stanford University Joshua Sack, Reykjav?k University Robert Rose (chair), Indiana University Elizabeth Allyn Smith, Ohio State University Andreas Stuhlm?ller, MIT SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions should be formatted as PDF files, and should not exceed 10 pages. All authors on the papers need to be pre-doctoral students. Please make your submission at the EasyChair site for the NASSLLI Student Session by the deadline listed below. Submissions will be reviewed by the Student Session's program committee and additional reviewers. IMPORTANT DATES * Submissions: April 5, 2010 * Notification: April 19, 2010 * Presentation Date: June 26, 2010 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS All presenters at the Student Session will be required to register for NASSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student registration fee. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Presenters who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant. From rseba at disi.unitn.it Fri Feb 26 22:24:56 2010 From: rseba at disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:24:56 +0100 Subject: [DL] PhD position in ICT on Formal Verification via SMT available in Trento Message-ID: <20100226212456.GA8214@disi.unitn.it> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[[ We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message ]]] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO WHOEVER YOU MAY THINK INTERESTED. -------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 26, 2010 One Doctoral Student Position in Information and Communication Technologies on the research project "WORD-LEVEL FORMAL VERIFICATION VIA SMT SOLVING" is available at the International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies (http://www.ict.unitn.it/) of the University of Trento, Italy, under the joint supervision of Dr. ALESSANDRO CIMATTI, Embedded Systems Research Unit, FBK-Irst, via Sommarive 18, I-38100 Povo, Trento, Italy http://sra.fbk.eu/people/cimatti/, cimatti[at]fbk[dot]eu Prof. ROBERTO SEBASTIANI Software Engineering & Formal Methods Research Program DISI, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38100 Povo, Trento, Italy http://disi.unitn.it/~rseba/. rseba[at]disi[dot]unitn[dot]it The research activity will be carried out jointly within the Embedded Systems (ES) Research Unit of the Center for Scientific and Technological Research of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, and the Software Engineering & Formal Methods (SE&FM) Research Program, at Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of University of Trento. The research activity will aim at investigating and developing novel techniques, methodologies and support tools for Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) for the verification of WORD-level circuit designs. This work will be part of the "Word-Level Formal Verification via SMT Solving" (WOLFLING) project, a three-year custom research project supported by SRC/GRC (http://grc.src.org/fr/S200802_Call.asp), in strict collaboration with the Formal Verification Group at Intel, Haifa, Israel. SMT tools will be developed on top of the MathSAT SMT platform (http://mathsat4.disi.unitn.it), and Formal Verification tools will be developed on top of the NuSMV Model Checking platform (http://nusmv.fbk.eu). Both platforms are jointly developed and maintained by ES and SE&FM. The selected candidate will be initially enrolled in a stage and, if he/she passes the selection of the Ph.D. school, he/she will be enrolled as Ph.D. students. Ph.D. courses will start in Autumn 2010, and the thesis must be completed in three or four years. People enrolled in a stage and subsequent Ph.D. courses are expected to move to Trento, and will receive monetary support during both phases of their activity. Candidate Profile ================= The ideal candidate should have an MS or equivalent degree in computer science, mathematics or electronic engineering, and combine solid theoretical background and excellent software development skills. The candidate should be able to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to reaching research excellence and achieving assigned objectives. Background knowledge and/or previous experience in the following areas (in order of preference), though not strictly mandatory, will be considered very favorably: - Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT) - Propositional Satisfiability (SAT) - Embedded Systems Design Languages (e.g. Verilog, VHDL) - Symbolic Model Checking - Automated Reasoning - Constraint Solving and Optimization Applications and Inquiries ========================== Interested candidates should inquire for further information and/or apply by sending email to Prof. Sebastiani (rseba[at]disi[dot]unitn[dot]it) with Dr. Cimatti (cimatti[at]fbk[dot]eu) in CC. Applications should contain a statement of interest, with a Curriculum Vitae, and three reference persons. PDF format is strongly encouraged. Emails will be automatically processed and should have 'PHD ON WOLFLING PROJECT' as subject. Contact Person ============== Prof. ROBERTO SEBASTIANI Software Engineering & Formal Methods Research Program DISI, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38100 Povo, Trento, Italy http://disi.unitn.it/~rseba/. mailto: rseba[at]disi[dot]unitn[dot]it The Embedded Systems Research Unit at FBK ========================================= The Embedded Systems Unit consists of about 15 persons, including researchers, post-Doc, Ph.D. students, and programmers. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of design and verification of embedded systems. Current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems (Verilog, SystemC, C/C++, StateFlow/Simulink). * Formal Requirements Analysis based on techniques for temporal logics (consistency checking, vacuity detection, input determinism, cause-effect analysis, realizability and synthesis). * Formal Safety Analysis, based on the integration of traditional techniques (e.g. Fault-tree analysis, FMEA) with symbolic verification techniques. The Embedded Systems Unit is part of Fondazione Bruno Kessler, formerly Istituto Trentino di Cultura, a public research institute of the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy), founded in 1976. The institute, through its center for the scientific and technological research, is active in the areas of Information Technology, Microsystems, and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces. Today, FBK is an internationally recognized research institute, collaborating with industries, universities, and public and private laboratories in Italy and abroad. The institute's applied and basic research activities aim at resolving real-world problems, driven by the need for technological innovation in society and industry. The SW Engineering & Formal Methods Research Program at DISI ============================================================ The SW Engineering & Formal Methods R. P. at DISI currently consists on 5 faculties, 4 post-docs and 19 PhD students. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering, Agent-oriented SW engineering, Security, and Formal Methods. Referring to formal methods, current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems. * Advanced Model Checking Techniques for Formal Verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems. * Applications of Propositional Satisfiability (SAT) to various domains. The R.P. is part of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, DISI (http://disi.unitn.it/) of University of Trento. University of Trento in the latest years has always been rated among the top-three small&medium-size universities in Italy. DISI currently consists of 50 faculties, 68 research staff and support people, 21 postdocs and 146 Doctoral students, plus administrative and technical staff. DISI covers all the different areas of information technology (computer science, telecommunications, and electronics) and their applications. These disciplines above are studied individually but also with a strong focus on their integration, Location ======== Trento is a lively town of about 100.000 inhabitants, located 130 km south of the border between Italy and Austria. It is well known for the beauty of its mountains and lakes, and it offers the possibility to practice a wide range of sports. Trento enjoys a rich cultural and historical heritage, and it is the ideal starting point for day trips to famous towns such as Venice or Verona, as well as to enjoy great naturalistic journeys. Detailed information about Trento and its region can be found at http://www.trentino.to/home/index.html?_lang=en. From sofia at ontol.inesc-id.pt Fri Feb 26 21:59:01 2010 From: sofia at ontol.inesc-id.pt (HSofia Pinto) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:59:01 +0000 Subject: [DL] EKAW 2010: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <4B883615.9020108@ontol.inesc-id.pt> 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management EKAW 2010 Lisbon, Portugal, http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt 2nd Call for Papers The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, etc. The focus of the 17th edition of EKAW will be on "Knowledge Management and Engineering by the Masses". EKAW 2010 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application aspects. The call for papers with detailed topics is available electronically at: http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt/call-for-papers.html Important dates * Submission: 19th of March 2010 * Notification: 14th of May 2010 * Camera Ready: 11th of June 2010 Organizing Committee * General and PC chairs: - Sofia Pinto (INESC-ID, Lisbon) - Philipp Cimiano (CITEC, Universit?t Bielefeld) * Workshop chair: - Siegfried Handschuh (DERI, NUI Galway) * Tutorial chair: - Victoria Uren (University of Sheffield) Demonstration chairs: - Oscar Corcho (UPM, Madrid) - Johanna V?lker (University of Mannheim) The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. The LNCS volume will contain contributed papers. EKAW 2010 will also feature a tutorial and workshop program, as well as a poster and demo track. Poster/demo notes and workshop/tutorial notes will be published separately in a companion booklet. Paper submission and reviewing for EKAW 2010 will be electronic via CMT System at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/EKAW2010. Submissions should be 15 pages long (max) formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS guidelines. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Helena Sofia Pinto Phone + 351 - 21 - 3100388 Instituto Superior Tecnico Email sofia.pinto at dei.ist.utl.pt Departamento de Eng. Informatica Av. Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisboa PORTUGAL INESC-ID Email sofia at inesc-id.pt Rua Alves Redol, 9 1000-029 Lisboa PORTUGAL --------------------------------------------------------------------- From reutelshoefer at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Tue Feb 23 22:15:50 2010 From: reutelshoefer at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Jochen Reutelshoefer) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:15:50 +0100 Subject: [DL] Extended Deadline: 5th Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki2010) Message-ID: <4B844586.5050809@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> ***Final Call for Papers*** Fifth Workshop on Semantic Wikis Linking Data and People [SemWiki2010] co-located with ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Crete May 31, 2010 http://www.semwiki.org/ *** DEADLINE EXTENSION: 7th March! *** Goals and Motivation ==================== Semantic wikis as social semantic software have the mission to gather humans and computers in order to build together the next wave of ontology driven collaboration platforms. The research has shifted from proofs of concept towards foundational research in large projects, commercially sold enterprise systems and real world use cases. Besides evaluations of such use cases, technical innovation and foundational research are still needed, as the large-scale application of semantic wikis has unveiled a number of research questions. The aim of this fifth SemWiki workshop is to exchange ideas, to discuss pressing research questions arising from practical usage of semantic wikis, and to explore integrations of wikis with other semantic web technologies. Topics ====== We address researchers working on (but not limited to): * Applications of semantic wikis in the fields of: - e-science and e-learning - software and knowledge engineering - enterprise workflows - knowledge management or personal knowledge management * Integration and reuse of semantic wikis or (semantic) wiki content: - integrations with other semantic applications and mashups - browsing and navigating - visualizing - editing linked open data - scaling wikis to the web - giving semantics to non-semantic wikis (e.g. Wikipedia) - reusing semantics gained from wikis (e.g. DBpedia) - interlinked and distributed semantic wikis - innovative plugins/extensions for existing systems (e.g. Semantic MediaWiki) * Human and social factors of semantic wikis: - usability studies - empirical studies - analyses of semantic wiki contributors and their contributions; - overcoming entrance barriers - giving incentives for contributing - connecting knowledge and social interaction - community building - from asynchronous interactions to real-time/multi-synchronous interactions in semantic wikis - privacy: permissions, trust, licensing, access control * Knowledge representation and reasoning in semantic wikis: - combining formal and informal knowledge - multimodal reasoning/strong reasoning support - transforming informal to formal knowledge - making formal knowledge accessible - on-line knowledge evaluation - coping with inconsistencies - change management, truth maintenance, versioning, and undoing semantic changes - utilizing emerging knowledge models - rapid prototyping of schema-driven applications - collaborative ontology engineering Organisation Committee ====================== * Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany ch.lange at jacobs-university.de * Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria sebastian.schaffert at salzburgresearch.at * Hala Skaf-Molli, INRIA-Nancy University, France skaf at loria.fr * Jochen Reutelsh?fer, University of W?rzburg, Germany reutelshoefer at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Programme Committee =================== # S?ren Auer, Universit?t Leipzig (DE) # David Aum?ller, Universit?t Leipzig (DE) # Joachim Baumeister, Universit?t W?rzburg (DE) # Tobias B?rger, STI Innsbruck (AT) # Am?lie Cordier, LIRIS, Universit? de Lyon (FR) # Bj?rn Decker, Fraunhofer IESE (DE) # Alicia D?az, La Plata University (AR) # Sebastian Dietzold, Universit?t Leipzig (DE) # Fred Dur?o, University of Aalborg (DK) # Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise (DE) # Fabian Gandon, INRIA - Edelweiss (FR) # Tudor Groza, DERI (IE) # Siegfried Handschuh, DERI (IE) # Martin Hepp, UniBW M?nchen (DE) # Guoqian Jiang, Mayo Clinic (US) # Malte Kiesel, DFKI (DE) # Jakub Kotowski, University of Munich (DE) # Markus Kr?tzsch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE) # Tobias Kuhn, Universit?t Z?rich (CH) # Thomas Kurz, Salzburg Research (AT) # Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz (AT) # Pascal Molli, Nancy University, INRIA (FR) # Christine M?ller, Jacobs University Bremen (DE) # Claudia M?ller-Birn, Carnegie Mellon University (US) # Grzegorz Nalepa, AGH University Krakow (PL) # Amedeo Napoli, CNRS, LORIA (FR) # Viktoria Pammer, Know-Center Graz (AT) # Alexandre Passant, DERI (IE) # Jean Rohmer, Thales (FR) # Marek Schmidt, Technical University of Brno (CZ) # Matthias Samwald, Semantic Web Company (AT) # Daniel Schwabe, University of Rio de Janeiro (BR) # Elena Simperl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (AT) # Rolf Sint, Salzburg Research (AT) # Katharina Siorpaes, STI Innsbruck (AT) # Harold Solbrig, Mayo Clinic (US) # Stephanie Stroka, Salzburg Research (AT) # Max V?lkel, FZI Karlsruhe (DE) # Friedel V?lker, European Regiowiki Society # Klara Weiand, University of Munich (DE) Submission and Proceedings ========================== We invite the following different kinds of contributions: * full research or application papers (15 pages) describing recent research outcomes, mature work, prototypes, applications, or methodologies; authors of accepted full papers will be able to present their work in a 15 minute talk at the workshop * short position papers (5-10 pages) describing early work and new ideas that are not yet fully worked out; authors of short papers will be able to present their work in a 5-10 minute lightning talk at the workshop * demo outlines (5 pages) describing the demonstration of a software prototype in the poster and demo session during the workshop * poster descriptions (2 pages) outlining a poster to be presented in the poster and demo session during the workshop * *wiki submissions*: A set of wiki pages explaining/demonstrating the addressed topic or presenting a system. A Confluence space (on this site) will be provided on request but also own wikis can be used. Additionally, we require such submissions to be exported to PDF or HTML. Primarily, the wiki space will be reviewed, but the export serves as a backup for the reviewing in case of technical problems and is used to verify that the submission complies to the guidelines, e.g., does not exceed the page limit of the respective type of contribution. Where the exported PDF or HTML is not comparable to LNCS (see below), we estimate 400 words per page. All submissions except Wiki submissions should be formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. For complete details on this issue see Springer's Author Instructions: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 Papers will be submitted using the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semwiki2010 In addition to ordinary submissions, all attendees of the workshop are encouraged to informally present their work in an open space session during the workshop if they are not (yet) able to submit a description of their work or to also discuss more recent work that has been done after the submission deadline of the workshop. Important Dates =============== Paper Submission EXTENDED TO: 7th March 2010 Author Notification: 5th April 2010 Camera ready: 18th April 2010 Workshop: May 31, 2010 In case of questions, feel free to contact any of the organisers: chair at semwiki.org -- Jochen Reutelsh?fer Department of Intelligent Systems University of W?rzburg, Germany http://www.is.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/ From ch.lange at jacobs-university.de Sat Feb 27 17:38:31 2010 From: ch.lange at jacobs-university.de (Christoph LANGE) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:38:31 +0100 Subject: [DL] Deadline Extension/Keynote: ESWC Workshop Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web (ORES) Message-ID: <201002271738.33683.ch.lange@jacobs-university.de> ESWC 2010 Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web ORES 2010 - Call for papers and system descriptions - http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/ DEADLINE EXTENDED TO March 7, 2010 The deadline for the ORES workshop has been extended to March 7, 2010. We would also like to announce the invited talk as part of the workshop, which will be given by Nigam Shah from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (http://www.stanford.edu/~nigam/). The growing number of online ontologies makes the availability of ontology repositories, in which ontology practitioners can easily find, select and retrieve reusable components, a crucial issue. The recent emergence of several ontology repository systems is a further sign of this. However, in order for these systems to be successful, it is necessary to provide a forum for researchers and developers to discuss features and exchange ideas on the realization of ontology repositories in general and to consider explicitly their role in the ontology lifecycle. In addition, it is now critical to achieve interoperability between ontology repositories, through common interfaces, standard metadata formats, etc. ORES10 intends to provide such a forum. Illustrating the importance of the problem, significant initiatives are now emerging. One example is the Open Ontology Repositories (OOR) working group set up by the Ontolog community. Within this effort regular virtual meetings are organized and actively attended by ontology experts from around the world; The Ontolog OOR 2008 meeting was held at the National Institute for Standards in Technology (NIST), generating a joint communiqu? outlining requirements and paving the way for collaborations. Another example is the Ontology Metadata Vocabulary (OMV) Consortium, addressing metadata for describing ontologies. Despite these initial efforts, ontology repositories are hardly interoperable amongst themselves. Although sharing similar aims (providing easy access to Semantic Web resources), they diverge in the methods and techniques employed for gathering these documents and making them available; each interprets and uses metadata in a different manner. Furthermore, many features are still poorly supported, such as modularization and versioning, as well as the relationship between ontology repositories and ontology engineering environments (editors) to support the entire ontology lifecycle. Submitting papers and system descriptions We want to bring together researchers and practitioners active in the design, development and application of ontology repositories, repository-aware editors, modularization techniques, versioning systems and issues around federated ontology systems. We therefore encourage the submission of research papers, position papers and system descriptions discussing some of the following questions: * How can ontology repositories ?talk? to each other? * How can the abundant and complex knowledge contained in an ontology repository be made comprehensible for users? * What is the role of ontology repositories in the ontology lifecycle? * How can branching and versioning be managed in and across ontology repositories? * How can ontology repositories interoperate with ontology editors, and other applications and legacy systems? * How can connections across ontologies be managed within and across ontology repositories? * How can modularity be better supported in ontology repositories and editors? * How can ontology repositories and editors use distributed reasoning? * How can ontology repositories support corporate, national and domain specific semantic infrastructures? * How do ontology repositories support novel semantic applications? * What measurements for describing and comparing ontologies can we use? How could ontology repositories use these? Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5 pages. For system descriptions, a 5 page paper should be submitted. All papers and system descriptions should be formatted according to the LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0). Proceedings of the workshop will be published online. Depending on the number and quality of the submissions, authors might be invited to present their papers during a poster session. Submissions can be realized through the easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ores2010. Important dates Papers and demo submission: March 7, 2010 (23:59 Hawaii Time) Notification: April 5, 2010 Camera ready version: April 18, 2010 Workshop: May 30 or 31, 2010 Organizing committee Mathieu d'Aquin, the Open University, UK Alexander Garc?a Castro, Bremen University, Germany Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Kim Viljanen, Aalto University, Finland Program committee Ken Baclawski, Northeastern University, USA. Leo J. Obrst, MITRE Corporation, USA. Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA. Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA. Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Mike Dean, BBN, USA. John Bateman, Universit?t Bremen, Germany. Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany. Tomi Kauppinen, University of Muenster, Germany. Peter Haase, Fluid Operations, Germany. Raul Palma, Poznan University, Poland. Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands. Eero Hyv?nen, Helsinki University of Technology and University of Helsinki, Finland. 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URL: From evren at clarkparsia.com Wed Mar 3 15:37:48 2010 From: evren at clarkparsia.com (Evren Sirin) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:37:48 -0500 Subject: [DL] OWLED 2010: First Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies for cross posting] ===================================== CALL FOR PAPERS OWLED 2010 OWL: Experiences and Directions The Sixth International Workshop June 21-22, San Francisco, California, USA Co-located with 2010 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2010) http://www.semantic-conference.com/ Close to W3C Workshop RDF Next Steps http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/ ===================================== The adoption of the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language in real-world applications continues to grow as the research and tools for OWL mature. The new version OWL 2 -- becoming a W3C recommendation late last year -- has been a positive factor in this direction. As the experience in using OWL in different applications and domains increases, the strengths and weaknesses of the language are discovered, resulting in new research and development that further extends its reach. The OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED) workshop series aims at bringing users, implementors and researchers from academia and industry together to describe applications of OWL, to share experience, and to discuss extensions to the language for satisfying application requirements. The workshop will allow the OWL community to set an an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications. This year's OWLED workshop will be co-located with the 2010 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech) that will be held in San Francisco, California on June 21-22. The W3C Workshop on RDF Next Steps will be held near-by in Stanford, CA on June 26-27. Tutorials about OWL 2 and related technologies may be organized for the larger SemTech community; contact the chairs if you're interested. As usual, the OWLED workshop will try to encourage participants to work together and will give space for discussions on various topics to be decided and published at some point in the future. There will also be formal presentation of submissions to the workshop. More information on the workshop is forthcoming. For more information or to offer sponsorship, please send us a note at owled2010 at easychair.org. Important dates --------------- April 7, 2010 Titles and abstract due April 14, 2010 Paper submissions due May 14, 2010 Notifications of acceptance June 4, 2010 Final versions of papers due June 21-22, 2010 OWLED 2010 workshop Topics ------- Papers about all aspects of OWL and extensions, applications, theory, methods and tools, are welcome at the workshop; including but not limited to the following topics: - Applications of OWL, particularly from industry - Experience reports on using OWL, OWL 2 and its profiles - Application-driven requirements for OWL - Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages - Using OWL for data integration - Query answering with OWL and relationship between SPARQL and OWL - Ontologies built using OWL, particularly large scale efforts - Performance and scalability issues - Bridges between knowledge engineering and OWL - Enriching ontologies with rules - Non-standard inference services, including: * explanations * static verification * modularity - Tools for OWL, including: * editors * reasoners * visualization tools * parsers and syntax checkers * versioning frameworks - Extensions to OWL, including: * extended constructors for datatypes, properties or classes * keys, constraints, rules * non-monotonic, probabilistic or fuzzy extensions * temporal and spatial extensions Submissions ----------- We invite the submission of three kinds of papers: - Technical papers Technical papers can be up to 10 pages, LNCS style, can be submitted to the workshop and space will be reserved for authors of accepted papers. - Short system descriptions We welcome system demonstrations and invite interested parties to submit a short description (maximum 4 pages) of their system. - Statements of interest These statements will not receive full reviewing and might not be included in the archives of the workshop, but will be available to attendees of the workshop, and will be used to help schedule the workshop. Potential attendees who need official invitations to the workshop should submit at least such short statement of interest (maximum 4 pages). Organization ------------ General Chair: Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia, LLC (USA) PC Chair: Evren Sirin, Clark & Parsia, LLC (USA) Program Committee: to be announced Steering Committee: Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia (USA) Melanie Courtot, Terry Fox Laboratory (Canada) Michel Dumontier, Carleton University (Canada) Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK) Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons (USA) Contacts -------- For more information on OWLED 2010 please contact the chairs at owled2010 at easychair.org or see http://www.webont.org/owled/2010/. From huang at cs.vu.nl Tue Mar 2 19:51:38 2010 From: huang at cs.vu.nl (Zhisheng Huang) Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:51:38 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: 4th International Workshop on New Forms of Reasoning for the Semantic Web (NeFoRS2010) Message-ID: <4B8D5E3A.8000702@cs.vu.nl> 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Workshop on New Forms of Reasoning for the Semantic Web: Scalable & Dynamic - NEFoRS2010 Website: http://nefors10.larkc.eu 30 May 2010, Heraklion, Greece co-located with the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010) 1. Introduction Initiatives like Linked Open Data have resulted in a rapid growth of the Web of data, and this growth is expected to continue. While impressive progress has been made in recent years in scalable storing, querying, and reasoning with languages like RDFS and OWL, existing reasoning techniques fail to perform when applied at Web-scale, due to the quantities of instance data, expressiveness of the ontologies, or the inherent inconsistency and incompleteness of data on the Web. These problems of scale are increasingly compounded by the appearance of highly dynamic data streams. Data streams occur in modern applications such as traffic engineering, applications of RFID tags, telecom call recording, medical record management, financial applications, and clickstreams. On the Web, many sites distribute and present information in real-time streams of semi-structured text. In many of these application areas, the ability to perform complex reasoning tasks that combine streaming information (both data and text) with background knowledge would be of great benefit. Stream reasoning is a new multidisciplinary approach for semantically processing high-frequency high-volume streams of information in combination with rich background knowledge. This workshop is a joint continuation of earlier successful workshop on scalable and dynamic reasoning for the Semantic Web, NeFoRS'07, NeFoRS'08, and SR'09. 2. Event Information We welcome all research contributions that address one or more of the following topics: * 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 * reasoning with large, expressive or distributed ontologies * theory for stream reasoning * management of semantic streams * reasoning on streams * semantic analysis of text streams * on-line learning from streams * distribution and parallelization for semantic streams * cognitively-inspired approaches to deal with large and dynamic information * implementation and evaluation of scalable and dynamic reasoners * applications of reasoning on large and dynamic datasets The workshop will take place during the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010) as a full-day event. 3. Important Dates March 8, 2010 Submission of papers April 13, 2010 Notification of acceptance April 27, 2010 Camera-ready version due May 30 or 31, 2010 Workshop 4. Organisation Chairs * Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Zhisheng Huang, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Program Committee * Daniele Braga, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Irene Celino, CEFRIEL, Italy * Marko Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia * Michael Grossnicklaus Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Ohio, USA * Mihai Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility, Austria * Marko Luther, DOCOMO Research Labs, Munich, Germany * Vassil Momtchev, Ontotext, Bulgaria * Jose Quesada, Max Planck Institute, Germany * Angus Roberts, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom * Magnus Sahlgren, SICS, Sweden * Anne Schlicht, University of Mannheim, Germany * Stefan Schlobach, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Lael Schooler, Max Planck Institute, Germany * Volker Tresp, SIEMENS, Germany * Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, Ireland * Michael Witbrock, Cyc Europe 5. Submissions The workshop invites full papers (up to 15 pages) as well as short papers (up to 5 pages). Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science guidelines for proceedings available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Furthermore papers need to be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system using the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=nefors10 6.Contact Zhisheng Huang (email: huang at cs.vu.nl) Group of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands From Joost.Vennekens at cs.kuleuven.be Wed Mar 3 10:55:15 2010 From: Joost.Vennekens at cs.kuleuven.be (Joost Vennekens) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:55:15 +0100 Subject: [DL] KR 2010 - Early Registration 12 March Message-ID: <201003030955.o239tFX2012432@borgraf.cs.kuleuven.be.> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From avtaev at gmail.com Tue Mar 9 01:00:06 2010 From: avtaev at gmail.com (Aliaksandr Autayeu) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 01:00:06 +0100 Subject: [DL] ANN: S-Match Open Source, the first release Message-ID: =============================================================== S-Match Open Source Released =============================================================== ANNOUNCING S-Match Open Source, the first release. About S-Match -------------- S-Match is a semantic matching framework. S-Match takes any two tree like structures (such as database schemas, classifications, lightweight ontologies) and returns a set of correspondences between those tree nodes which semantically correspond to one another. S-Match contains implementations of the semantic matching, minimal semantic matching and structure preserving semantic matching algorithms. S-Match applies as a solution in many fields, including: * information integration, * ontology evolution and alignment, * peer-to-peer information sharing, * digital libraries integration, * web service composition, * agent communication, and * query answering on the web. S-Match is extendable to host new algorithms. Subscribe to S-Match low traffic mailing list or RSS news feed to receive further announcements. Resources --------- Homepage: http://semanticmatching.org Documentation: http://semanticmatching.org/documentation.html Download: http://semanticmatching.org/download.html Bug Tracker: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/s-match/ Mailing Lists: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/s-match-announce Forums: http://sourceforge.net/projects/s-match/forums/ RSS News Feed: http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_keepsake.php?group_id=288592 From eoikarin at tcs.hut.fi Thu Mar 11 11:30:55 2010 From: eoikarin at tcs.hut.fi (Emilia Oikarinen) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:30:55 +0200 (EET) Subject: [DL] JELIA 2010 Second Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *** Second call for papers -- Invited speakers announced *** *** Apologies for receiving multiple copies *** JELIA 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS ========================== 12th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence Helsinki, Finland, September 13-15, 2010 http://jelia2010.tkk.fi/ Logics provide a formal basis and key descriptive notation for the study and development of applications and systems in Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the depth and maturity of formalisms, methodologies, and systems today, such logics are increasingly important. The European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (or Journ?es Europ?ennes sur la Logique en Intelligence Artificielle --- JELIA) began back in 1988, as a workshop, in response to the need for a European forum for the discussion of emerging work in this field. Since then, JELIA has been organised biennially, with English as the official language, and with proceedings published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. In 2010 the conference is organized for the first time in Scandinavia, following previous meetings mainly taking place in Central and Southern Europe (see the general website http://www.jelia.eu/ for details). The increasing interest in this forum, its international level with growing participation from researchers outside Europe, and the overall technical quality, has turned JELIA into a major biennial forum for the discussion of logic-based approaches to AI. Aims and Scope ============== The aim of JELIA 2010 is to bring together active researchers interested in all aspects concerning the use of logics in Artificial Intelligence to discuss current research, results, problems, and applications of both theoretical and practical nature. JELIA strives to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among researchers from various disciplines, among researchers from academia and industry, and between theoreticians and practitioners. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in all areas related to the use of logics in Artificial Intelligence including: -- Abductive and inductive reasoning -- Answer set programming -- Applications and foundations of logic-based AI systems -- Argumentation systems -- Automated reasoning including satisfiability checking and its extensions -- Computational complexity and expressiveness -- Description logics and other logical approaches to semantic web and ontologies -- Hybrid reasoning systems -- Knowledge representation, reasoning, and compilation -- Logic programming and constraint programming -- Logics for uncertain and probabilistic reasoning -- Logics in machine learning -- Logics in multi-agent systems, games, and social choice -- Non-classical such as modal, temporal, spatial, paraconsistent, and hybrid logics -- Nonmonotonic reasoning, belief revision, and updates -- Planning and diagnosis based on logic -- Preferences -- Reasoning about actions and causality Important Dates =============== * Deadline for abstract submission: May 3, 2010 * Deadline for paper submission: May 7, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: June 11, 2010 * Camera ready copy: June 30, 2010 Paper Submission ================ Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series. Papers should be written in English, and should be formatted according to the standard Springer LNCS style. All submissions must be received by 23:59 GMT on May 3, 2010 (abstract) and May 7, 2010 (full paper), and should be electronically submitted via the link available on the JELIA 2010 web page. There are two categories for submissions: A. Regular papers Submissions should not exceed 13 pages including figures, references, etc., and should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. Submissions must not have been previously published or be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. B. System descriptions Submissions should not exceed 4 pages, and should describe an implemented system and its application area(s). A demonstration is expected to accompany a system presentation. Papers describing systems that have already been presented in JELIA before will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the system are reported and implemented. Venue ===== The conference will be held in the main building of University of Helsinki, located in the center of Helsinki. Founded in 1550, Helsinki has been the Finnish capital since 1812, when it was rebuilt in the Empire style by the orders of the Czar of Russia, hence sharing architectural similarities with St. Petersburg even today. Located on the Baltic peninsula centrally between the east and the west, Helsinki "the Daughter of the Baltic" is a city full of contrasts: light and white in summer while dark but full of warmth in winter, with a combination of high-tech, contemporary design, and ever-present nature. Finnish design has made Helsinki world famous, and recently Helsinki was appointed World Design Capital 2012. Invited Speakers ================ Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~brewka/ Adnan Darwiche, UCLA, USA http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~darwiche/ St?phane Demri, CNRS, France http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/~demri/ Programme Co-Chairs =================== Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland http://www.tcs.hut.fi/~ttj/ Ilkka Niemel?, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland http://www.tcs.hut.fi/~ini/ Further Information =================== Conference web page: http://jelia2010.tkk.fi/ Co-located events ================= European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM) http://www.helsinki.fi/pgm2010/ From fabio at dcs.shef.ac.uk Fri Mar 5 17:40:28 2010 From: fabio at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Fabio Ciravegna) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:40:28 +0000 Subject: [DL] University of Sheffield: PhD studentship on information extraction for knowledge management Message-ID: <8DE9EE99-2F7B-46F5-94BE-1FF0D4D20F69@dcs.shef.ac.uk> ** apologies for multiple postings *** One studentships is available at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Sheffield to work in the area of information extraction and semantic technologies. Details are below. For information, please contact Fabio Ciravegna (fabio at dcs.shef.ac.uk) Start date of the studentship: October 2010 or before Length: three years, subject to satisfactory progress Stipend: ?13,290 per annum More details: The studentship provides payment of tuition fees at the UK/EU rate (this means that non EU candidates can only be considered if they have alternative sources of funding -- we cannot provide those) Closing date for submissions is 25.03.2010. Interviews (via videoconference or telephone for candidates not in Sheffield) will be held Monday 12.4.2010 TOPIC The project is funded by Rolls-Royce plc as part of the ?90m Samulet program. The studentship will concern the study of models of information extraction based on Machine Learning that enable porting to different corpora in the same domain with limited or no training. Application will be to real world scenarios and data at Rolls-royce plc. CRITERIA FOR SELECTION Candidates should hold at a first class honour degree or masters degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. The candidate should have excellent computer programming skills (including Java); analytic, presentational, communication and effective interpersonal skills; ability to work effectively within the research team, and a proven capacity to work to and meet deadlines. It is required knowledge of and experience in one of: Natural Language Processing, Information extraction from text, Text processing, Machine learning Information retrieval. HOW TO APPLY: please send an email to Prof. Fabio Ciravegna (f.ciravegna at dcs.shef.ac.uk) declaring your intention to be considered for the position attaching the following documents: ?an updated Curriculum Vitae ? a cover letter explaining why you are the right person for the position INFORMAL ENQUIRIES Informal enquiries may be directed to Prof. Fabio Ciravegna (f.ciravegna at dcs.shef.ac.uk). Further Details The successful candidate will study within the Organisations, Information and Knowledge (OAK) Group which is part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. More information about the OAK group is available at: http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ -- Professor Fabio Ciravegna, Director of Research & Innovation in the Digital World, The University of Sheffield --- 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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Thu Mar 11 18:37:57 2010 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:37:57 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] LPAR-17 in Indonesia - Calls for Papers and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <20100311173757.7ED0311F9C4@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> =========================== LPAR-17 CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS =========================== ============================================================ The 17th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning ============================================================ Yogyakarta, Indonesia - October 10th-15th, 2010 http://www.computational-logic.org/lpar-17/Home.html 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 logic, 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 17th LPAR will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 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 extreme, 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. Logical techniques 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. Topics ------ 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 * Verification * Interactive theorem proving and proof assistants * Model checking * Implementations of logic * Satisfiability modulo theories * Rewriting and unification * Logic programming * Satisfiability checking * Constraint programming * Decision procedures * Logic and games * Logic and the Web * Ontologies and large knowledge bases * Logic and databases * Modal and temporal logics * Program analysis * Foundations of security * Description logics * Non-monotonic reasoning * Uncertainty reasoning * Logics for vague and inconsistent data * Specification using logic * Logic in artificial intelligence * Logic and types * Logical foundations of programming * Logical aspects of concurrency * Logic and computational complexity * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Logic of distributed systems Programme Chairs ---------------- * Chris Fermueller * Andrei Voronkov Submission Details ------------------ Submissions of two kinds are welcome: * Regular papers that 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 that describe implementations of systems, report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented systems. They can be up to 8 pages long in the LNCS style. Both types of papers can be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChar: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar17. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). Workshop Proposals ------------------ LPAR-17 workshops will be held on October 10, either as one-day or half-day events. If you would like to propose a workshop for LPAR-17, please contact the workshop chair, Laura Kovacs, via email, by the proposal deadline (see below). Workshop proposals should contain the following data: * Name of the workshop. * Brief description of the workshop, including workshop topics. * Valid web address of the workshop. * Contact information of the workshop organizers. * An estimate of the audience size. * Proposed format of the workshop (for example, regular talks, tool demos, poster presentations, etc.). * Duration of the workshop (one-day or half-day). * Potential invited speakers (if any). * Procedures for selecting papers and participants. * Special technical or AV needs. Note that workshops will have to be financially self-supporting. Participation ------------- Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. Important Dates --------------- * Workshop proposals: 2 April 2010 * Workshop notification: 7 April 2010 * Abstract submission: 1 June 2010 * Paper submission: 8 June 2010 * Notification of acceptance: 26 July 2010 * Camera-ready papers: 6 August 2010 * Conference: 10-15 October 2010 From Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at Sat Mar 13 00:52:15 2010 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:52:15 +0000 Subject: [DL] UniDL'10: Call for Papers Message-ID: <4B9AD3AF.1040502@kr.tuwien.ac.at> Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------- UniDL'10 First International Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics co-located with IJCAR 2010 at FLoC 2010 July 20, 2010 Edinburgh, UK http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/UniDL ------------------------------------------------------------------- During the recent decade, handling uncertainty has started to play an important role in ontology languages, especially in application areas like the Semantic Web, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence. For this reason, there is currently a strong research interest in description logics (DLs) that allow for dealing with uncertainty. The subject of the workshop is how to deal with uncertainty and imprecision in Description Logics (DLs). This encompasses approaches that enable probabilistic or fuzzy reasoning in DLs, but the workshop is also open for approaches based on other uncertainty formalisms. The workshop focusses on the investigation of reasoning problems and approaches for solving them, including especially tractable ones. For classical DL reasoning problems such as subsumption and satisfiability, algorithms that can handle uncertainty exist, but they are still less well-investigated than in the case of standard DLs without uncertainty. For novel reasoning services, such as query answering, computation of generalizations, modules, or explanations, it is not yet clear how to realize them in DLs that can express uncertainty. SPONSOR UniDL is sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) INVITED SPEAKER Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: * Modeling of uncertain knowledge in DLs * Different formalisations of uncertainty for DLs * Formal semantics for uncertain information in DLs * Extensions of DL reasoning problems to uncertainty * Reasoning algorithms for DLs with uncertainty, in particular * Tableau algorithms for probabilistic DLs or fuzzy DLs * Tractable DLs with uncertainty * Complexity of uncertain reasoning * System descriptions for implemented reasoning algorithms in uncertain DLs * Novel applications of DLs with uncertainty * Open and future problems IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: March 25, 2010 Notification: April 28, 2010 Final version: May 18, 2010 **Updated** Workshop: July 20, 2010 SUBMISSION DETAILS: The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format in Springer's LNCS style. Submissions can be - technical papers not exceeding 10 pages, - system descriptions not exceeding 6 pages, or - position papers on work in progress not exceeding 3 pages in LNCS. Submissions exceeding these limits will not be reviewed. Submissions are via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unidl10 . WORKSHOP CHAIRS: - Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK - Rafael Penaloza, TU Dresden, Germany - Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Eyal Amir, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza - Simona Colucci, Technical University of Bari - Fabio G. Cozman, University of Sao Paulo - Manfred Jaeger, Aalborg University - Pavel Klinov, University of Manchester - Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology - Mathias Niepert, University of Mannheim - Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Luciano Serafini, IRS Trento - Giorgos Stoilos, Oxford University - Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR - Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China From gerberaj at gmail.com Fri Mar 12 12:41:26 2010 From: gerberaj at gmail.com (Aurona Gerber) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:41:26 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: Journal of Information Systems Knowledge and Ontologies (JISKO) Message-ID: <4B9A2866.2060008@meraka.org.za> /*Open-access journals is the new way to publish research results because of enhanced visibility and citations. JISKO will appear as soon as we accepted high-quality submissions on the relevant topics. */ Journal of Information Systems Knowledge and Ontologies (JISKO) http://www.ibimapublishing.com//journals/JISKO/jisko.html Special Volume 2010 Topic: Semantics, Knowledge and Ontologies: past, present and future role in the knowledge society. // because of enhanced visibi The term 'Knowledge Society' emerged towards the end of the 1990's and is used to describe a society that uses its knowledge as primary asset, resource and production mechanism. In this type of society, the sharing, use and creation of knowledge are the primary activities of any endeavour, and not labour or any other investment. In general, a knowledge society is seen as more than an information society because it includes human, cultural and social aspects and this knowledge enables economic growth and empowers and develops all sectors of society. Within this special issue of JISKO, we want to investigate a knowledge society and information systems in the light of recent events and advances such as * technological advances including as the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 * interconnectivity, networks and virtual societies that are not constrained by geographic proximity * information systems and global change (enterprise, economic, cultural, climate) The scope of the journal is available at http://www.ibimapublishing.com/journals/JISKO/jisko.html and topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * The Knowledge Society * Knowledge in the Information Society * Knowledge and Ontologies in Information Systems * Ontologies and Ontology * Information Systems Knowledge Management and Engineering * Enterprise Knowledge Management and Engineering * All aspects in Ontology Construction, Engineering, Modelling, Learning, Population and Evaluation * All aspects Ontology Evolution and Maintenance * All aspects in Ontology Adoption, Evaluation and Management * Ontology Languages * Ontology Use in Information Systems * Ontology Coupling, Integration and Matching * Semantic Web Applications Submission Guidelines Only original research papers will be considered. Authors should limit initial submissions to no more than 30 double-spaced pages in 12-point font with appropriate margins, inclusive of all materials (i.e., references, figures, tables and appendices). submission guidlines are available at: http://www.ibimapublishing.com/journals/JISKO/author.html A double-blind review will be conducted and papers will be returned to the authors, often with brief explanatory notes for further action. Submissions will be screened to ensure the submissions fit with the special issue. Manuscript Submission: Submissions will be accepted for this theme throughout year 2010. No deadline. Review process: 3-4 weeks in double blind peer-review process Revise and resubmit: 3-4 weeks once received Publication: 3-4 weeks from final acceptance Submissions may be sent by email to: submit at ibimapublishing.com . In the email, please indicate the journal name for greater processing efficiency. The Journal of Information Systems Knowledge and Ontologies (JISKO) is an international peer reviewed and open-access applied research journal which accepts contributions that are based on original research, best practices, case studies, and real-world experiences. Aurona Gerber Editor-in-chief Journal of Information Systems Knowledge and Ontologies (JISKO) http://www.ibimapublishing.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jfrazee at mail.utexas.edu Thu Mar 11 11:55:22 2010 From: jfrazee at mail.utexas.edu (Joey Frazee) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:55:22 -0000 Subject: [DL] (PN) CFP: NASSLLI 2010 Student Session Message-ID: <103f6a951002241129n53f628ebt4966e70a652818fa@mail.gmail.com> CALL FOR PAPERS NASSLLI 2010 STUDENT SESSION June 26, 2010 The Student Session is organized as part of the Fourth North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information to be held in Bloomington, IN USA from June 20-26, 2010. ABOUT THE STUDENT SESSION The NASSLLI Student Session provides an opportunity for pre-doctoral students to present original, unpublished work to an interdisciplinary audience. Authors will also receive useful feedback on their submissions from multiple reviewers. We invite submissions in all areas related to the school: logic, computation, language, and any combinations thereof. Papers to the Student Session must represent original work. They should be written with an eye towards two audiences: the wide multi-disciplinary body of students and researchers who will attend NASSLLI, and also the narrower set of people in the particular area of the paper. In short, they should be substantial contributions that can be appreciated by both insiders and outsiders. The organizers anticipate accepting between 10 and 20 papers. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Joey Frazee, UT Austin Joshua Herring, Indiana University Wes Holliday, Stanford University Thomas Icard, Stanford University Joshua Sack, Reykjav?k University Robert Rose (chair), Indiana University Elizabeth Allyn Smith, Ohio State University Andreas Stuhlm?ller, MIT SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions should be formatted as PDF files, and should not exceed 10 pages. All authors on the papers need to be pre-doctoral students. Please make your submission at the EasyChair site for the NASSLLI Student Session by the deadline listed below. Submissions will be reviewed by the Student Session's program committee and additional reviewers. IMPORTANT DATES * Submissions: April 5, 2010 * Notification: April 19, 2010 * Presentation Date: June 26, 2010 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS All presenters at the Student Session will be required to register for NASSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student registration fee. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Presenters who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant. ---- [[ Petri Nets World: ]] [[ http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets/ ]] [[ Mailing list FAQ: ]] [[ http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets/pnml/faq.html ]] [[ Post messages/summary of replies: ]] [[ petrinet at informatik.uni-hamburg.de ]] From gerberaj at gmail.com Fri Mar 12 12:40:41 2010 From: gerberaj at gmail.com (Aurona Gerber) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:40:41 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for descriptions: JISKO Knowledge and Ontology-driven Projects Reference List Message-ID: <4B9A2839.7030708@meraka.org.za> /*Open-access journals is the new way to publish research results because of enhanced visibility and citations. 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URL: From antonino.rotolo at unibo.it Thu Mar 18 18:52:51 2010 From: antonino.rotolo at unibo.it (Antonino Rotolo) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:52:51 +0100 Subject: [DL] [RuleML-2010] 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings] 1st Call for Papers RuleML-2010 4th International Web Rule Symposium: Research Based and Industry Focused October 21-23, 2010, Washington, DC, USA Co-located with the 13th Business Rules Forum http://2010.ruleml.org/ Overview and Aim ====================================================== The International Web Rule Symposium has evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002, international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since 2007. This year, the 4th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML-2010) will be held near Washington, DC, USA, co-located with the 13th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business Rules event. RuleML-2010 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications, which need language standards for rules (inter)operating in, e.g., the Semantic Web, Enterprise Systems, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications. RuleML-2010 is a research-based, industry-focused symposium: its main goal is to build a bridge between academia and industry in the field of rules and semantic technology, and so to stimulate the cooperation and interoperability between business and research, by bringing together rule system providers, participants in rule standardization efforts, open source communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the symposium has also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid progress in practical rule and event processing technologies. As a result, RuleML-2010 will feature hands-on demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range of thematic tracks. It will thus be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management, integration, interoperation, and interchange of rules in distributed enterprise intranets and open distributed environments. Conference Theme ====================================================== This year, we particularly welcome submissions that address applications of Web rule technologies for business and information systems. We invite you to share your ideas, results, and experiences: as an industry practitioner, rule system provider, technical expert, developer, rule user or researcher, exploring foundations, developing systems and applications, or using rule-based systems. We invite high-quality submissions related to (but not limited to) one or more of the following topics: Track Topics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rules, Semantic Technology, and Cross-Industry Standards Rule Transformation and Extraction Rules and Uncertainty Rules and Norms Rules and Inferencing Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules Rule-Based Distributed/Multi-Agent Systems We also welcome submissions on miscellaneous rule topics, such as - Rules and ontologies - Execution models, rule engines, and environments - Graphical processing, modeling and rendering of rules Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are particularly encouraged. RuleML-2010 Challenge ====================================================== The RuleML-2010 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2010. Rules are used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful information, transform knowledge, provide decision support, and provide automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of the behavioral logic of an application. The Challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Conference Language ====================================================== The official language of the conference will be English. Submission ====================================================== Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show/use case demonstrations of effective and practical rule-based technologies, or applications deployed in distributed environments. RuleML-2010 Submission Guidelines, Springer Proceedings, Best Paper Award -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers must be in English and may be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2010 as: Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) Short Papers (8 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 the abstracts of their papers before May 25, 2010 and to upload their complete papers by June 1, 2010. The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC and a Best Paper Award will be presented at the Symposium. All submissions must be made electronically. A selection of revised papers will be resubmitted to a special issue of a journal. RuleML-2010 Challenge Submission Guidelines -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be announced Review Process ====================================================== The submitted papers will pass the blind review process. At least three members of the Program Committee will review each submission. Important Dates: ====================================================== Abstract submission deadline: May 25, 2010 Paper Submission deadline: June 1, 2010 Notification of acceptance: July 7, 2010 Camera ready due: July 28, 2010 Symposium dates: October 21-23, 2010 Conference Venue ====================================================== RuleML-2010 will take place at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, which is located 5 miles southwest of Washington, DC. The symposium is co-located with the 13th Business Rules Forum. Hilton Alexandria Mark Center 5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, Virginia, United States 22311 Internet: http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/DCAAHHF-Hilton-Alexandria-Mark-Center-Virginia/index.do Program Committee ====================================================== General Chairs -------------------- Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative, USA Program Chairs -------------------- John Hall, Model Systems, UK Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna, Italy Liaison Chair -------------------- Mark Proctor, Red Hat, UK Track Chairs -------------------- Rules, Semantic Technology, and Cross-Industry Standards Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA Robert Golan, DBMind, USA Rule Transformation and Extraction Mark Linehan, IBM, USA Rules and Uncertainty Davide Sottara, University Bologna, Italy Rules and Norms Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia Rules and Inferencing Grigoris Antoniou, Information Systems Laboratory, FORTH, Greece Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK Adrian Paschke, Free Univ. Berlin, Germany Rule-Based Distributed/Multi-Agent Systems Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania RuleML-2010 Challenge Chairs ------------------------------ Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG-CNR, Italy Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aspocp10 at gmail.com Mon Mar 22 14:52:07 2010 From: aspocp10 at gmail.com (aspocp10 at gmail.com) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:52:07 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [DL] ASPOCP 2010 Call For Papers Message-ID: <201003221352.o2MDq77v023533@krlab.cs.ttu.edu> =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2010 3rd Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/proj/aspocp10/ Collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming 2010 Edinburgh (Scotland, U.K) July 16-19, 2010 =============================================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE Since its introduction in the 1990s, answer set programming (ASP) has been widely applied to various knowledge-intensive tasks and combinatorial search problems. ASP was found to be closely related to SAT, which has led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. While this has been the most studied relationship, the relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), or first-order logic (FOL) is also the subject of active research. New methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on the relation between ASP and other paradigms, such as the use of pseudo-Boolean solvers, QBF solvers, and FOL theorem provers. Furthermore, the practical application of ASP also fosters work on multi-paradigm problem-solving, and in particular language and solver integration. The most prominent examples in this area currently are the integration of ASP with description logics (in the realm of the Semantic Web) and constraint satisfaction. This workshop will facilitate the discussion about crossing the boundaries of current ASP techniques, in combination with or inspired by other computing paradigms. TOPICS Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): - Relating ASP to classical logic formalisms (SAT/FOL/QBF/SMT/DL). - Relating ASP to constraint programming. - Relating ASP to other logic programming paradigms. - Relating ASP to other nonmonotonic languages. - New methods of computing answer sets using algorithms or systems of other paradigms. - ASP and probabilistic reasoning. - ASP and machine learning. - Language extensions to ASP. - ASP and argumentation. - ASP and multi-agent systems. - Multi-paradigm problem solving involving ASP. - Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms. - Embedding ASP for challenging applications. - Hybridizing ASP with procedural approaches. - Enhanced grounding or beyond grounding. SUBMISSIONS Papers must describe original research and should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format . Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aspocp10 IMPORTANT DATES (tentative) Submission deadline: March 26, 2010 Notification: April 16, 2010 Camera-ready articles due: April 30, 2010 Workshop: July 20, 2010 PROCEEDINGS The workshop contributions will be published electronically, using the Computing Research Repository (CoRR). Informal proceedings will be provided at the workshop. Selected papers will also be published in a special edition of AI Communications. LOCATION The workshop will be held in Edinburgh (Scotland, U.K), collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) 2010. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Marcello Balduccini (Kodak Research Labs, USA) Stefan Woltran (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig, Germany) Pedro Cabalar (Corunna University, Spain) Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria, Italy) Michael Fink (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Martin Gebser (University of Potsdam, Germany) Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University, USA) Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) Marco Maratea (University of Genoa, Italy) Emilia Oikarinen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Axel Polleres (DERI, National University of Ireland, Ireland) Ashish Sabharwal (Cornell University, USA) Guillermo R. Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna, Italy) Miroslaw Truszczynski (University of Kentucky, USA) Dirk Vermeir (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Jia-Huai You (University of Alberta, Canada) From dario.dellamonica at dimi.uniud.it Tue Mar 23 16:58:52 2010 From: dario.dellamonica at dimi.uniud.it (Dario Della Monica) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:58:52 +0100 Subject: [DL] GandALF 2010 -- extended deadline: March 31, 2010 Message-ID: <4BA8E53C.6060707@dimi.uniud.it> *** EXTENDED DEADLINES - Abstract and Submission: 31 March 2010 *** [We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message] ******************************************************************************** --------------------- GandALF 2010 ------------------------ ******************************************************************************** 1st International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification Minori, Amalfi Coast, Italy, June 17-18, 2010 http://gandalf.dia.unisa.it/ ************************************************ | CALL FOR PAPERS | ************************************************ OBJECTIVES The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers from academia and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to concrete applications, and to stimulate cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on any relevant topic in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome. INDICATIVE LIST OF TOPICS The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: Automata Theory Automated Deduction Logical aspects of Computational Complexity Concurrency and Distributed computation Decision Procedures Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification Finite Model Theory First-order and Higher-order Logics Formal Languages Formal Methods for Complex Systems (e.g., Interactive Systems, Systems Biology) Games and Automata for Verification Game Semantics Game Theory Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems Verification Logics of Programs Modal and Temporal Logics Model Checking Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems Program Analysis and Software Verification Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems Synthesis and Execution PAPER SUBMISSION Deadline extension for the submission of full papers to March 31 (even for those who did not submit the abstract). Submissions, not exceeding fifteen (15) pages using EPTCS format, should be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission. Papers must be submitted in PDF or PS format by using EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=gandalf2010). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission March 31, 2010 Acceptance notification May 1, 2010 Final version May 20, 2010 Conference June 17-18, 2010 INVITED SPEAKERS Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Poland) Javier Esparza (Germany) Pino Persiano (Italy) Wolfgang Thomas (Germany) PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. A special issue of a major international journal to publish an extended and revised version of the best symposium papers is also under consideration. INFO Please visit the conference website (http://gandalf.dia.unisa.it) for more information. GENERAL CHAIR Margherita Napoli (Italy) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Angelo Montanari (Italy) Mimmo Parente (Italy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Parosh Aziz Abdulla (Sweden) Dietmar Berwanger (France) Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Poland) Ahmed Bouajjani (France) Krishnendu Chatterjee (Austria) Thomas Colcombet (France) Ugo Dal Lago (Italy) Giorgio Delzanno (Italy) Rocco De Nicola (Italy) Luca de Alfaro (USA) Emanuela Fachini (Italy) Marco Faella (Italy) Alessandro Ferrante (Italy) Stefania Gnesi (Italy) Valentin Goranko (Denmark) Antonin Kucera (Czech Republik) Salvatore La Torre (Italy) Kamal Lodaya (India) Christof Loding (Germany) P. Madhusudan (USA) Rupak Majumdar (USA) Luke Ong (UK) Gennaro Parlato (USA) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (UK) Gabriele Puppis (UK) Alexander Rabinovich (Israel) Jean-Francois Raskin (Belgium) Mark Reynolds (Australia) Guido Sciavicco (Spain) Colin Stirling (UK) Tomas Vojnar (Czech Republic) ADVISORY CHAIRS Stefano Crespi Reghizzi (Italy) Jozef Gruska (Czech Republik) Oscar H. Ibarra (USA) Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini (Italy) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dario Della Monica (Italy) Fabio Mogavero (Italy) Aniello Murano (Italy) Francesco Sorrentino (USA) Nicola Vitacolonna (Italy) -- Dario Della Monica, PhD Student University of Udine - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science via delle Scienze, 206 - 33100 - Udine (UD) phone: (+39) 0432 558469 cell: (+39) 328 2477327 fax: (+39) 0432 558499 email: dario.dellamonica [at] dimi.uniud.it web site: http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~dario.dellamonica From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Mar 22 19:08:00 2010 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:08:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] CSL 2010 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <20100322180800.C075C11FA05@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> Second Call for Papers CSL 2010 Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic August 23-27, 2010, Brno, Czech Republic http://mfcsl2010.fi.muni.cz/csl Submission (title & abstract): March 26, 2010 Submission (full paper): April 2, 2010 Notification: May 17, 2010 Final papers: June 6, 2010 Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). The conference is intended for computer scientists whose research activities involve logic, as well as for logicians working on issues significant for computer science. The 19th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2010) and the 35th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2010) are federated and organized in parallel at the same place. The federated MFCS & CSL 2010 conference has common plenary sessions and social events for all participants. The technical program and proceedings of MFCS 2010 and CSL 2010 are prepared independently. The MFCS & CSL 2010 conference is accompanied by satellite workshops on more specialized topics. Suggested topics of interest include (but are not limited to) automated deduction and interactive theorem proving, constructive mathematics and type theory, equational logic and term rewriting, automata and games, modal and temporal logic, model checking, decision procedures, logical aspects of computational complexity, finite model theory, computational proof theory, logic programming and constraints, lambda calculus and combinatory logic, categorical logic and topological semantics, domain theory, database theory, specification, extraction and transformation of programs, logical foundations of programming paradigms, verification and program analysis, linear logic, higher-order logic, nonmonotonic reasoning. Proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of the LNCS series. Each paper accepted by the Programme Committee must be presented at the conference by one of the authors, and a final copy must be prepared according to Springer's guidelines. Submitted papers must be in Springer's LNCS style and of no more than 15 pages, presenting work not previously published. They must not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or journal by March 19, 2010. Papers authored or coauthored by members of the Programme Committee are not allowed. Papers will be submitted through the conference website. Submitted papers must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the papers. Full proofs may appear in a technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a well written introduction which is directed at all members of the program committee. The Ackermann Award for 2010 will be presented to the recipients at CSL'10. There will be a Special Issue of the Journal LMCS (Logical Methods in Computer Science) based on selected papers of CSL 2010. *** Programme Committee Armin Biere (Linz) Lars Birkedal (ITU, Denmark) Nikolaj Bjorner (Redmond) Manuel Bodirsky (Paris) Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Warsaw) Iliano Cervesato (Doha) Krishnendu Chatterjee (Klosterneuburg) Agata Ciabattoni (Vienna) Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, co-chair) Azadeh Farzan (Toronto) Georg Gottlob (Oxford) Martin Hofmann (Munich) Orna Kupferman (Jerusalem) Christof Loeding (Aachen) Joao Marques-Silva (Dublin) Tobias Nipkow (Munich) Prakash Panangaden (Montreal) R. Ramanujam (Chennai) Simona Ronchi della Rocca (Torino) Alex Simpson (Edinburgh) Pascal Tesson (Quebec) Helmut Veith (Vienna, co-chair) Yde Venema (Amsterdam) *** CSL/MFCS Plenary Speakers David Basin (Zurich) Herbert Edelsbrunner (Klosterneuburg) Erich Gr?adel (Aachen) Joseph Sifakis (Gieres) *** CSL Invited Speakers Peter O?Hearn (London) Jan Krajicek (Prague) Andrei Krokhin (Durham) Andrey Rybalchenko (Munich) Viktor Kuncak (Lausanne) *** Organizing Committee Jan Bouda (Brno, chair) *** Conference address MFCSL 2010 Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno Czech Republic mfcsl2010 at fi.muni.cz From ghidini at fbk.eu Mon Mar 22 11:09:03 2010 From: ghidini at fbk.eu (Chiara Ghidini) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:09:03 +0100 Subject: [DL] PhD Positions in Data and Knowledge Management at FBK-irst Message-ID: <1FBFFCED-D2D4-459B-805B-C7FDEB6F4FBA@fbk.eu> PhD Positions in Data and Knowledge Management at FBK-irst, Trento, Italy ========================================================================== The Data and Knowledge Management (DKM) research unit of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-irst) is looking for PhD students working in the areas of: * Contextualize knowledge representation * Collaborative knowledge engineering * Semantic annotation of Processes * Statistical-logical knowledge representation Details on the DKM research unit, as well as a link to the descriptions of the PhD positions are provided at the bottom of this email. Closing date for applications is April 20, 2010, before 12 noon, local time. Informal enquiries are encouraged. Please contact Dr. Chiara Ghidini (ghidini at fbk.eu). HOW TO APPLY: The positions are included in the FBK Project Specific Grants of the ICT International Doctoral School, University of Trento. Please quote the specific project you are interested in when applying, as failure to do so may result in ineligibility for these positions. All the positions are covered by a scholarship (details can be found in the call). LINKS [1] DKM web site: http://dkm.fbk.eu/ [2] PhD positions at DKM : https://dkm.fbk.eu/index.php/Open_Positions [3] FBK Project Specific Grants: http://ict.unitn.it/application/project_specific_grants [4] Application for PhD Positions: http://ict.unitn.it/application _______________________________________________ From hr at sti2.at Tue Mar 23 13:49:48 2010 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:49:48 +0100 Subject: [DL] Job ad: PhD Researcher In-Reply-To: <4B6C0284.8070601@sti2.at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> <4B6C0262.8030803@sti2.at> <4B6C0284.8070601@sti2.at> Message-ID: <4BA8B8EC.2080101@sti2.at> Dear All, the Semantic Technology Institute (http://www.sti-innsbruck.at) at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) is currently seeking candidates for the following position: - PhD Researcher More Information on the job and the application procedure can be found at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public_prod/owa/karriereportal.karriere_detail?asg_id_in=5845 Best Regards, Human Resources STI Innsbruck Technikerstra?e 21a 6020 Innsbruck Austria From hr at sti2.at Tue Mar 23 14:57:44 2010 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:57:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] Job ad: PhD Researcher In-Reply-To: <4BA8B8EC.2080101@sti2.at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> <4B6C0262.8030803@sti2.at> <4B6C0284.8070601@sti2.at> <4BA8B8EC.2080101@sti2.at> Message-ID: <4BA8C8D8.5060201@sti2.at> As the job ad on the website of the university (http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public_prod/owa/karriereportal.karriere_detail?asg_id_in=5845 ) is unfortunately not yet available in English her an English version: The Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck is currently seeking candidates for the following position: *PhD Researcher * Main tasks: - Preparation and implementation of courses (lectures, practicals, seminars) - Implementation of research projects focusing on semantic web - Guidance of students and interns - Teaching Required Qualifications: ? Master's degree in computer science ? Research interests in logic, ontology language, semantic web services, semantics in business information systems or related fields ? Willingness to combine formal scientific work with application-oriented research in order to solve real-world problems ? Willingness to work in an international environment We kindly invite you to submit your written application until 07.04.2010 to: *Universit?t Innsbruck Chiffre MIP-5845 *Posteinlaufstelle der Zentralen Dienste Innrain 52 A-6020 Innsbruck HR schrieb: > Dear All, > > the Semantic Technology Institute (http://www.sti-innsbruck.at) at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) is currently seeking candidates for the following position: > > - PhD Researcher > > > More Information on the job and the application procedure can be found at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public_prod/owa/karriereportal.karriere_detail?asg_id_in=5845 > > > Best Regards, > > Human Resources > STI Innsbruck > Technikerstra?e 21a > 6020 Innsbruck > Austria > > > > > > From Konev at liverpool.ac.uk Tue Mar 23 13:41:58 2010 From: Konev at liverpool.ac.uk (Boris Konev) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:41:58 +0000 Subject: [DL] Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning 2010: Second CFP Message-ID: <20100323124158.GA31485@konev.csc.liv.ac.uk> [Apologies for earlier empty message] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FLoC/IJCAR'10 Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning Deadline: 11 April 2010 http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/PAAR-2010/paar-2010.html INVITED SPEAKERS Andrei Voronkov Lawrence C. Paulson GENERAL INFORMATION The second Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning will be held in July 2010 in Edinburgh, UK. PAAR will be part of FLoC 2010 and associated with the 5th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR-2010). 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. The 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, usability aspects, feasibility studies; o evaluation of implementation techniques and automated reasoning tools; o performance apsects, 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, fairness; o support tools for prover development; o system descriptions and demos. We are particularly interested in contributions that help the community to understand how to build useful reasoning systems in practice, and how to apply existing systems to real problems. SUBMISSIONS Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit a short abstract of up to 10 pages 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 PDF. To submit a paper, go to the EasyChair PAAR page http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paar2010 and follow the instructions there. FINAL VERSIONS Final versions should be prepared in LaTeX using the easychair.cls class file obtainable from http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip. Proceedings will be published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings and will be available in print 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: 11 April 2010 Notification: 28 April 2010 Camera ready versions due: 17 May 2010 Workshop: 14 July 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner Daniel Le Berre Roberto Bruttomesso Koen Claessen Bernd Fischer Pascal Fontaine Jim Grundy Volker Haarslev John Harrison Thomas Hillenbrand Joe Hurd Gerwin Klein Boris Konev (Co-Chair) Konstantin Korovin Temur Kutsia Bill McCune Leonardo de Moura Hans de Nivelle Albert Oliveras Jens Otten Adam Pease Silvio Ranise Phillip R?mmer Renate Schmidt (Co-Chair) Peter Schneider-Kamp Stephan Schulz (Co-Chair) John Slaney Alan Smaill Mark Stickel Geoff Sutcliffe Josef Urban Christoph Weidenbach ORGANIZERS Boris Konev, University of Liverpool Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester Stephan Schulz, TU Muenchen From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Fri Mar 19 18:32:06 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:32:06 -0400 Subject: [DL] CfP: Web Reasoning and Rule Systems 2010 Message-ID: <4BA3B516.1060604@wright.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010) Bressanone/Brixen, Italy September 22-24, 2010 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 Co-located with the Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2010. The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2010 builds on the success of the first three International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (see http://www.rr-conference.org), held in Innsbruck, Austria (2007), Karlsruhe, Germany (2008), and Chantilly, Virginia, USA (2009), which received enthusiastic support from the Web Reasoning community. In 2010, 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. Suggested topics include the following (but are not limited to): * Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge * 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 * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the WWW Incubator Group, etc. * 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 * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Stream reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and will be available at the conference. After the conference, there will be a special issue of the (new IOS Press) journal "Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" with selected papers from the conference (see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net). SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 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), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2010). The length should not exceed 15 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). The stated lengths include title, abstract, and references. Short papers, posters, and system descriptions should be clearly marked as such in the title and in the easychair submission system. Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Original research and application papers are welcome; 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 Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2010 Paper/poster/demo submission deadline: May 22, 2010 Paper/poster/demo accept/reject decisions: June 24, 2010 Camera-ready due: July 15, 2010 Last day for early registration fee: July 15, 2010 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS Georg Gottlob (Oxford University, UK) GENERAL CHAIR Jos? J?lio Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) PROGRAM CHAIRS Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Mariano Rodr?guez-Muro (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete, Greece) Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile, Chile) Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Andrea Cal? (Oxford University, UK) Vinay Chaudri (Stanford Research Institute, USA) Kendall Clark (Clark & Parsia, USA) Claudia d'Amato (University of Bari, Italy) Carlos Damasio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Wlodek Drabent (IPI PAN Warszawa, Poland) Sergio Flesca (University of Calabria, Italy) Christine Golbreich (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France) Claudio Gutierrez (University of Chile, Chile) Stijn Heymans (TU Vienna, Austria) Rinke Hoekstra (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Giovambattista Ianni (University of Calabria, Italy) Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Natalya G. Keberle (Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine) Domenico Lembo (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy) Francesca A. Lisi (University of Bari, Italy) Gergely Luk?csy (DERI Galway, Ireland) Jan Maluszynski (University of Link?ping, Sweden) Wolfgang May (University of G?ttingen, Germany) Ralf M?ller (TU Hamburg, Germany) Boris Motik (Oxford University, UK) Wolfgang Nejdl (LS3 and University of Hannover, Germany) Matthias Nickles (University of Bath, UK) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Sebastian Rudolph (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Alan Ruttenberg (ScientificCommons, Switzerland) Michael Sintek (DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Terrance Swift (SUNY Stony Brook, USA) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen, Italy) Dirk Vermeir (University of Brussels, Belgium) Zhe Wu (Oracle, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the RR 2010 web site at http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From pgroth at gmail.com Thu Mar 25 16:12:58 2010 From: pgroth at gmail.com (Paul Groth) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:12:58 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: Using Provenance in the Semantic Web Message-ID: <4BAB7D7A.2090300@gmail.com> (Apologies for cross-posting) Call for Papers: Journal of Web Semantics Special Issue on Using Provenance in the Semantic Web Editors: Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute Paul Groth, Free University of Amsterdam The Web is a decentralized system full of information provided by diverse open sources of varying quality. For any given question there will be a multitude of answers offered, raising the need for assessing their relative value and for making decisions about what sources to trust. In order to make effective use of the Web, we routinely evaluate the information we get, the sources that provided it, and the processes that produced it. A trust layer was always present in the Web architecture, and Berners-Lee envisioned an "oh-yeah?" button in the browser to check the sources of an assertion. The Semantic Web raises these questions in the context of automated applications (e.g. reasoners, aggregators, or agents), whether trying to answer questions using the Linked Data cloud, use a mashup appropriately or determine trust on a social network. Therefore, provenance is an important aspect of the Web that becomes crucial in Semantic Web research. This special issue on "Using Provenance in the Semantic Web" of the Journal of Web Semantics aims to collect representative research in handling provenance while using and reasoning about information and resources on the web. Provenance has been addressed in a variety of areas in computer science targeting specific contexts, such as databases and scientific workflows. Provenance is important in a variety of contexts, including open science, open government, and intellectual property and copyright. Provenance requirements must be understood for specific kinds of Web resources, such as documents, services, ontologies, workflows, and datasets. We seek high quality sSubmissions should that describe ongoing workrecent projects, articulate research challenges, or put forward synergistic perspectives on provenance. We solicit submissions that advance the Semantic Web through exploiting provenance, addressing research issues including: . representing provenance . relating provenance to the underlying data and information . managing provenance in a distributed web . reasoning about trust based on provenance . handling incomplete provenance . taking advantage of the web's structure for provenance Submissions may focus on uses of provenance in the Semantic Web for: . linked data . social networking . data integration . inference from diverse sources . trust and proof Papers may also focus on application areas, highlighting the challenges and benefits of using provenance: . provenance in open science . provenance in open government . provenance in copyright and intellectual property for documents . provenance in web publishing Important Dates We will aim at an efficient publication cycle in order to guarantee prompt availability of the published results. We will review papers on a rolling basis as they are submitted and explicitly encourage submissions well before the submission deadline. Submission deadline: 5 September 2010 Author notification: 15 December 2010 Revisions submitted: 1 February 2010 Final decisions: 15 March 2011 Publication: 1 April 2011 The submission site is http://ees.elsevier.com/jws/default.asp. Submission guidelines The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific contributions of high quality. Following the overall mission of the journal, we emphasize the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative semantic methods and applications. The publication of large-scale experiments and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate scenarios and methods that introduce semantics into existing Web interfaces, contents and services. Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in accordance with instructions given in the "Guide for Authors" (available from the publisher), details can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/671322/authorinstructions. The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's Web-based EES system available at http://ees.elsevier.com/jws/default.asp. Final decisions of accepted papers will be approved by an editor in chief. About the Journal of Web Semantics The Journal of Web Semantics is published by Elsevier since 2003. It is an interdisciplinary journal based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of a knowledge-intensive and intelligent service Web. These areas include: knowledge technologies, ontology, agents, databases and the semantic grid, obviously disciplines like information retrieval, language technology, human-computer interaction and knowledge discovery are of major relevance as well. All aspects of the Semantic Web development are covered. Editors-in-Chief: Tim Finin, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Steffen Staab For all editors information, see http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/671322/editorialboard. The Journal of Web Semantics offers to its authors and readers: * Free availability of papers on the Web at http://www.semanticwebjournal.org * Professional support with publishing by Elsevier staff * Indexed by Thomson-Reuters web of science * Impact factor 3.41: the third highest out of 92 titles in Thomson-Reuters' category "Computer Science, Information Systems -- Dr. Paul Groth (pgroth at few.vu.nl) http://www.few.vu.nl/~pgroth Postdoc Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Group Artificial Intelligence Section Department of Computer Science VU University Amsterdam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Richard.Moot at labri.fr Mon Mar 22 18:21:35 2010 From: Richard.Moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:21:35 +0100 Subject: [DL] E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2010 call for nominations Message-ID: <59271156-9580-48BA-9347-29A809B7B651@labri.fr> [ Please redistribute. Apologies for multiple postings. ] E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2010 call for nominations Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information, http://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 2009. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Interdisciplinarity 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, 2009 and December 31st, 2009. 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 2009 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2010). The present call for nominations for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Award 2010 will also accept nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in another language than English and defended in 2008 or 2009. 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 FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer). For further information on this series see 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 buszko at amu.edu.pl. Hard copy submissions are not admitted. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days, nominators should write to buszko at amu.edu.pl. Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: April 30, 2010. Notification of Decision: July 20, 2010. Committee : Natasha Alechina (Nottingham) Lev Beklemishev (Moscow) Wojciech Buszkowski (chair) (Poznan) Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS) Nissim Francez (Haifa) Alexander Koller (Saarbruecken) Alberto Policriti (Udine) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester) Rob van der Sandt (Nijmegen) Colin Stirling (Edinburgh) Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden) From sebastian.rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Thu Mar 25 11:37:46 2010 From: sebastian.rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Sebastian Rudolph) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:37:46 +0100 Subject: [DL] ISWC 2010 Call for Workshop/Tutorial Proposals, Call for Submissions Message-ID: <87B89F49-69A0-406E-954C-36359979A7EF@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> ISWC 2010 Combined Call for Submissions Submissions are invited for ISWC 2010, the Ninth International Semantic Web Conference, to be held November 7-11, 2010, in Shanghai, China. Accepted submissions will be distributed in electronic form to attendees of the conference; accepted research papers will also be published by Springer-Verlag. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the conference and present the work. Further, up-to-date information is available at http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ISWC workshops are smaller, less formal settings for the presentation and discussion of ongoing work related to the Semantic Web. Workshop proposals will be primarily evaluated on the interest of the workshop to a viable fraction of the Semantic Web community. Proposals Due May 7, 2010 Notification May 28, 2010 Calls Out June 11, 2010 TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ISWC tutorials should teach students, researchers, and others about particular topics related to the Semantic Web. Tutorial proposals will be primarily evaluated on the interest of the tutorial to a viable fraction of the Semantic Web community. Proposals Due May 14, 2010 Notification May 28, 2010 RESEARCH PAPERS Research papers must describe original, significant research on the Semantic Web or on Semantic Web technologies or systems. Authors of accepted papers may submit an accompanying poster or demo (see below). Note that abstracts must be submitted one week before the due date for submissions. Abstracts Due June 21, 2010 Submissions Due June 28, 2010 Notification August 16, 2010 SEMANTIC WEB IN USE In-use papers must present implemented Semantic Web applications or discuss or evaluate the use of Semantic Web techniques or use of other technologies in the Semantic Web. Of particular interest are comparisons between different technologies or approaches and lessons learned from applications. Papers on the use of the Semantic Web in China are specially welcome. Submissions Due June 28, 2010 Notification August 16, 2010 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium is designed to allow doctoral students to present their work to members of the Semantic Web community and receive feedback on their research. Submissions to the Doctoral Consortium must describe work performed as part of an ongoing PhD degree. Submissions Due June 28, 2010 Notification August 16, 2010 POSTERS AND DEMOS Posters must describe original research on the Semantic Web or on Semantic Web technologies or systems. Posters can present preliminary results or describe work still in progress. System demonstrations must present a novel hardware or software system of interest in the Semantic Web. Poster submissions and system demonstrations can overlap the work described in other kinds of submissions. Submissions Due August 23, 2010 Notification September 13, 2010 INDUSTRY TALKS Industry talks provide an opportunity to present technical information about Semantic Web products and services. Submissions (abstracts only) will be primarily evaluated based on relevance to the Semantic Web, interest to conference attendees, technical depth and business applicability. Marketing and sales material will not be considered. Submissions Due September 7, 2010 Notification September 21, 2010 SEMANTIC WEB CHALLENGE The Semantic Web Challenge is the premier event for demonstrating practical progress towards achieving the vision of the Semantic Web. This year's 8th edition of the challenge will consist of two tracks: the open track and the billion triples track. The winners in both categories will be selected and announced at the conference. Submissions Due October 1, 2010 _________________________________________________ Dr. Sebastian Rudolph senior researcher & project leader at AIFB Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) rudolph at kit.edu phone +49 721 608 - 7362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 721 608 - 5998 From turhan at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Thu Mar 25 11:39:31 2010 From: turhan at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (A.-Y. Turhan) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:39:31 +0100 Subject: [DL] UniDL'10: Deadline extension to 11th of April Message-ID: <4BAB3D63.7050307@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> ------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers New submission deadline: 11. of April ------------------------------------------------------------------- UniDL'10 First International Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics co-located with IJCAR 2010 at FLoC 2010 July 20, 2010 Edinburgh, UK http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/UniDL ------------------------------------------------------------------- During the recent decade, handling uncertainty has started to play an important role in ontology languages, especially in application areas like the Semantic Web, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence. For this reason, there is currently a strong research interest in description logics (DLs) that allow for dealing with uncertainty. The subject of the workshop is how to deal with uncertainty and imprecision in Description Logics (DLs). This encompasses approaches that enable probabilistic or fuzzy reasoning in DLs, but the workshop is also open for approaches based on other uncertainty formalisms. The workshop focusses on the investigation of reasoning problems and approaches for solving them, including especially tractable ones. For classical DL reasoning problems such as subsumption and satisfiability, algorithms that can handle uncertainty exist, but they are still less well-investigated than in the case of standard DLs without uncertainty. For novel reasoning services, such as query answering, computation of generalizations, modules, or explanations, it is not yet clear how to realize them in DLs that can express uncertainty. SPONSOR UniDL is sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) INVITED SPEAKER Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: * Modeling of uncertain knowledge in DLs * Different formalisations of uncertainty for DLs * Formal semantics for uncertain information in DLs * Extensions of DL reasoning problems to uncertainty * Reasoning algorithms for DLs with uncertainty, in particular * Tableau algorithms for probabilistic DLs or fuzzy DLs * Tractable DLs with uncertainty * Complexity of uncertain reasoning * System descriptions for implemented reasoning algorithms in uncertain DLs * Novel applications of DLs with uncertainty * Open and future problems IMPORTANT DATES: *New* submission deadline: April 11, 2010 Notification: April 29, 2010 Final version: May 18, 2010 Workshop: July 20, 2010 SUBMISSION DETAILS: The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format in Springer's LNCS style. Submissions can be - technical papers not exceeding 10 pages, - system descriptions not exceeding 6 pages, or - position papers on work in progress not exceeding 3 pages in LNCS. Submissions are via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unidl10 . The workshop prceedings will be published as CEUR proceedings. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: - Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK - Rafael Penaloza, TU Dresden, Germany - Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Eyal Amir, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza - Simona Colucci, Technical University of Bari - Fabio G. Cozman, University of Sao Paulo - Manfred Jaeger, Aalborg University - Pavel Klinov, University of Manchester - Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology - Mathias Niepert, University of Mannheim - Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Luciano Serafini, IRS Trento - Giorgos Stoilos, Oxford University - Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR - Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China From aspocp10 at gmail.com Thu Mar 25 18:15:51 2010 From: aspocp10 at gmail.com (aspocp10 at gmail.com) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:15:51 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [DL] ASPOCP 2010 Deadline Extension Message-ID: <201003251715.o2PHFpo6009664@krlab.cs.ttu.edu> =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2010 3rd Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/proj/aspocp10/ Collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming 2010 Edinburgh (Scotland, U.K) July 16-19, 2010 =============================================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE Since its introduction in the 1990s, answer set programming (ASP) has been widely applied to various knowledge-intensive tasks and combinatorial search problems. ASP was found to be closely related to SAT, which has led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. While this has been the most studied relationship, the relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), or first-order logic (FOL) is also the subject of active research. New methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on the relation between ASP and other paradigms, such as the use of pseudo-Boolean solvers, QBF solvers, and FOL theorem provers. Furthermore, the practical application of ASP also fosters work on multi-paradigm problem-solving, and in particular language and solver integration. The most prominent examples in this area currently are the integration of ASP with description logics (in the realm of the Semantic Web) and constraint satisfaction. This workshop will facilitate the discussion about crossing the boundaries of current ASP techniques, in combination with or inspired by other computing paradigms. TOPICS Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): - Relating ASP to classical logic formalisms (SAT/FOL/QBF/SMT/DL). - Relating ASP to constraint programming. - Relating ASP to other logic programming paradigms. - Relating ASP to other nonmonotonic languages. - New methods of computing answer sets using algorithms or systems of other paradigms. - ASP and probabilistic reasoning. - ASP and machine learning. - Language extensions to ASP. - ASP and argumentation. - ASP and multi-agent systems. - Multi-paradigm problem solving involving ASP. - Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms. - Embedding ASP for challenging applications. - Hybridizing ASP with procedural approaches. - Enhanced grounding or beyond grounding. SUBMISSIONS Papers must describe original research and should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format . Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aspocp10 IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: March 30, 2010 ***NEW Notification: April 16, 2010 Camera-ready articles due: April 30, 2010 Workshop: July 20, 2010 PROCEEDINGS The workshop contributions will be published electronically, using the Computing Research Repository (CoRR). Informal proceedings will be provided at the workshop. Selected papers will also be published in a special edition of AI Communications. LOCATION The workshop will be held in Edinburgh (Scotland, U.K), collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) 2010. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Marcello Balduccini (Kodak Research Labs, USA) Stefan Woltran (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig, Germany) Pedro Cabalar (Corunna University, Spain) Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria, Italy) Michael Fink (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Martin Gebser (University of Potsdam, Germany) Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University, USA) Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) Marco Maratea (University of Genoa, Italy) Emilia Oikarinen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Axel Polleres (DERI, National University of Ireland, Ireland) Ashish Sabharwal (Cornell University, USA) Guillermo R. Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna, Italy) Miroslaw Truszczynski (University of Kentucky, USA) Dirk Vermeir (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Jia-Huai You (University of Alberta, Canada) From leon.essence at gmail.com Mon Mar 29 11:34:35 2010 From: leon.essence at gmail.com (Jun Fang) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:34:35 +0800 Subject: [DL] Package which transforms DL into FOL Message-ID: <6869a86b1003290234v7f1f4b48x6d3f94cd984bcb11@mail.gmail.com> Dear Colleagues: Does there exist (Java) package which transforms Description Logics into corresponding First-order Logics? Thanks. -- Best Regards! Jun Fang -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From denny.vrandecic at kit.edu Mon Mar 29 11:59:01 2010 From: denny.vrandecic at kit.edu (Denny Vrandecic) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:59:01 +0200 Subject: [DL] Package which transforms DL into FOL In-Reply-To: <6869a86b1003290234v7f1f4b48x6d3f94cd984bcb11@mail.gmail.com> References: <6869a86b1003290234v7f1f4b48x6d3f94cd984bcb11@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <407AB3CF-D274-42F6-982C-3FB19E7A5E97@kit.edu> A bit outdated, but check out KAON2 by Boris Motik and maybe the OWL Tools wrapper around it, it translates a pretty big fragment of OWL DL into Datalog. cheers, denny On Mar 29, 2010, at 11:34, Jun Fang wrote: > Dear Colleagues: > > Does there exist (Java) package which transforms Description Logics into corresponding First-order Logics? > > Thanks. > > > -- > Best Regards! > > Jun Fang From tb at imm.dtu.dk Mon Mar 29 15:01:44 2010 From: tb at imm.dtu.dk (Thomas Bolander) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:01:44 +0200 Subject: [DL] HyLo 2010: Deadline extended till April 7 Message-ID: <4BB0A4B8.4030903@imm.dtu.dk> ******************************************************************* HYLO 2010 DEADLINE EXTENDED! New deadline is Wednesday April 7 ******************************************************************* FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic and Applications (HyLo 2010) Affiliated with LICS 2010 July 10, 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland ******************************************************************* Scope ----- Hybrid logic is an extension of modal logic which allows us to refer explicitly to states of the model in the syntax of formulas. This extra capability, very natural in the realm of temporal logics, where one usually wants to refer to specific times, has been shown very effective in other domains too. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have been sporadically investigated ever since, it was 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, with the usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions about what happens at a particular instant, and standard modal formalisms do not allow this. What is less obvious is that the route hybrid logic takes to overcome this problem (the basic mechanism being to add nominals - atomic symbols true at a unique point - together with extra modalities to exploit them) often actually improves the 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 simply not available in modal logic. That is, hybridization - adding nominals and related apparatus - seems a fairly reliable way of curing many known weaknesses in modal logic. Hybrid logic is now a mature field with significant impact on a range of other fields, including - description logic, - applied modal logics, - temporal logic, - memory logics, - memoryful logics, - reactive logic, - labelled deduction, and - feature logic. The topic of the HyLo workshop of 2010 is hybrid logic and its applications, for instance within the fields mentioned above. The scope is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery like nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder but, more generally, extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic and applications, for example the LICS-affiliated HyLo 2002 (http://floc02.diku.dk/HYLO) and HyLo 2006 (http://hylomol.ruc.dk/HyLo2006) which both were held as part of FLoC. Submissions ----------- Please use the HyLo 2010 submission page to submit papers (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=hylo2010). Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. The revised 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 be distributed at the workshop. Authors are invited to submit papers in the following two categories: - Regular papers describing original research. - Presentation-only papers describing work recently published or submitted. The presentation-only papers will be included in the preliminary proceedings, but not in the final proceedings in ENTCS. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. Authors are strongly encouraged to prepare their submissions according to the ENTCS guidelines (http://www.entcs.org). Important Dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: April 7, 2010 (strict) Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2010 Deadline for final versions: May 17, 2010 Invited Speakers ---------------- - Moshe Vardi, Rice University, USA - Gert Smolka, Saarland University, Germany Program Committee ----------------- Carlos Areces (INRIA Lorraine, France) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Lorraine, France) Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark), Co-chair Torben Bra?ner (Roskilde University, Denmark), Co-chair Stephane Demri (ENS de Cachan, France) Mai Gehrke (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark) Valeria de Paiva (Cuil Inc., USA) Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) Contact Details --------------- See the workshop home page (http://hylocore.ruc.dk/HyLo2010.html) for further information. Please send all correspondence regarding the workshop to the organizers: Thomas Bolander http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~tb Torben Bra?ner http://www.ruc.dk/~torben From baojie at gmail.com Tue Mar 30 13:42:47 2010 From: baojie at gmail.com (Jie Bao) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:42:47 -0400 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation and Proposals - The Metadata Committee of The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2010 Message-ID: *Call for Participation and Proposals* The Metadata Committee of The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2010 Nov 7th-11th, 2010. Shanghai, China ==Objectives== In the past decade, the semantic web technologies have been matured, and the amount of semantic data published on the Web has increased dramatically. The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), one of the major events for the Semantic Web, has collected data about the conference itself (e.g., papers, people and satellite events) since 2004. The data, along with data from several other Web-related conferences such as ESWC and WWW, is publicly accessible from the "Semantic Web Dog Food" (SWDF) server (http://data.semanticweb.org). The International Semantic Web Conference 2010 plans to extend the scope of the data it will collect about the event, and to encourage the development of innovative applications that use the ISWC data as well other linked data (including other SWDF data). The goal is to demonstrate the value of semantic technologies, to explore novel approaches in building semantic applications, and to better serve the Semantic Web community by "eating our own dog food". ==How to Participate== For this goal, ISWC 2010 establishes a Metadata Committee. Each member of the committee will be responsible for a specific project that contributes new data related to the conference or builds an application consuming the ISWC data. To participate in the committee, interested parties should submit a proposal for participation that contains information about * Type of the project (e.g., data contribution or application development) * Topic (e.g., scope of the data or the functionality of the application) * Brief description about the proposed approach * Project schedule * Participants and contact information Interested parties should email the proposal to the Metadata Committee Chair (Jie Bao, baojie at cs.rpi.edu) by the submission deadline. During ISWC 2010, participants of the committee will report their work at an "ISWC Metadata Demonstration Session" session. Successful participants are expected to submit a paper after the conference describing their projects. Selected papers will be published online at CEUR proceedings. ==Topics of the Proposal== Topics of the proposal include but are not limited to * New forms of data related to ISWC (e.g., about submissions, participants, schedule, on-site activities, etc.) * Mashup ISWC data with Social Web data (e.g., from Facebook or Twitter) * Visualization of ISWC data * Applications to improve real-time interactive of conference participants. * Better means for searching ISWC data * Applying ISWC data to improve community building * Discovering community-related knowledge from ISWC data ==Proposal Deadlines== * Proposal due: June 7th, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: June 14th, 2010 * Presentation about the project: Nov 7th-11th, 2010 (TBD) From franconi at inf.unibz.it Tue Mar 30 15:35:22 2010 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:35:22 +0200 Subject: [DL] European Master in Computational Logic - many scholarships for all students Message-ID: <8B317556-0570-46ED-89BA-C083DB7429E0@inf.unibz.it> *** 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 Magistrale). 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 Within this program, completely in English, students will spend the first semester of the first year at the Technische Universitaet Dresden (TUD), the second semester of the first year at the Free Uni- versity of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), and the second year in one of the 4 partner universities chosen by the student. It is possible to spend 3 months at the National ICT Australia (NICTA) Research Centre of Excellence, which gives the possibility to work on a project at one of the world's leading research centers. After this, the student will obtain a joint European Master of Science degree. APPLICATION DEADLINE: - *** 15 May 2010 *** deadline for European and non-European students (notification of acceptance: 15 June 2008) SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT: Several scholarships (all including tuition/enrolment fee waivers) are offered by the EMCL to the best students for the duration of the master program: FULL scholarships of 750 EUR per month; SMALL scholarships of 200 EUR per month; and SIMPLE tuition/enrolment fee waivers. All European students will get a LLP Socrates Erasmus scholarship for the second year of study, corresponding to 330 EUR per month. 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 a tuition/enrolment fee waiver. These scholarships are also available to non-European citizens with residence in Italy. 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, 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 Magistrale 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 fred_freitas_br at yahoo.com.br Mon Mar 29 17:19:33 2010 From: fred_freitas_br at yahoo.com.br (Fred) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:19:33 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP - The Joint VORTE-MOST 2010 Workshop at the IEEE EDOC Conference, Vitoria, Brazil Message-ID: <4BB0C505.1020000@yahoo.com.br> CALL FOR PAPERS The Joint - 5th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise - International Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies and Semantic Technologies (VORTE-MOST 2010) http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/vorte2010 Co-located event at the Fourteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2010) http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br 25-29 October 2010, Vit?ria, ES, Brazil Ontology is a cross-disciplinary field concerned with the study of concepts and theories that can be used for representing shared conceptualizations of specific domains. Ontological Engineering is a discipline in computer and information science concerned with the development of techniques, methods, languages and tools for the systematic construction of concrete artifacts capturing these representations, i.e., models (e.g., domain ontologies) and metamodels (e.g., upper-level ontologies). In recent years, there has been a growing interest in diverse areas in computer science such as software and data engineering, knowledge representation, natural language processing, information science, among many others. The objective of VORTE-MOST 2010 is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the relation between ontology and information models, and theoretical topics such as formal ontology, formal logics, conceptual modelling, enterprise computing, computational linguistics, cognitive science, knowledge representation, the Semantic Web, and MDE (Model-Driven Engineering), as well as more practical topics as a result of applications of ontologies in diverse fields, such as knowledge management, informatics for education, ontology-based information and database integration, information processing (retrieval, classification and extraction), to mention just a few. TOPICS ? Ontology Engineering ? o methodologies o capture and learning o management ? Ontology and Conceptual Modeling ? o Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling o Ontology and Epistemology in Information Systems o Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments o Conceptual Modeling for the Semantic Web o Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration ? Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for Enterprise Modeling ? o Ontologies and Business Process Modeling o Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling o Ontologies and Business Rules o Enterprise Reference Ontologies, Taxonomies and Vocabularies ? Semantic Consistency ? o Foundational Ontologies o Upper-Level Ontologies o Evaluation Methods, Applications and Problems ? Semantic Interoperability ? o Composition and Modularity o Merging, Mapping and Alignment o Ontology Language Interoperability o Global Ontologies and Local as View (LAV) integration methods, problems and practice ? Enhancement of Ontology Applicability ? o Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing o Patterns of ontologies for specific applications ? Ontologies for Information Sharing ? o Ontology-based information integration o Mediators and brokers o Agents and ontologies o Ontology-based data transformation and data migration tools o Ontology-enabled interoperability in e-science, life sciences, e-business, culture o User friendly semantic system integration tools ? Ontology Applications ? o The Semantic Web o Knowledge management o E-commerce, e-government o E-learning and e-science - agents and multiagents patterns and applications o Information retrieval, extraction and classification o Ontologies and semantic technologies in Education o Ontologies and natural language processing o Ontology visualization VORTE 2010 is the 5th workshop associated with the EDOC conference series that intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modelling, information systems, semantic web, model-driven engineering, business rules, and business process management. The goal of the workshop is to discuss the role that (foundational and domain) ontologies/vocabularies and business rules play in the conceptual design and implementation of next generation enterprise solutions. MOST was held for the first time during the 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER?2009) and it was created as the unification of two existing workshops: (i) Workshop on Ontologies and Applications (WONTO) ? organized since 2005 also in three editions, and (ii) Workshop on Ontologies and Metamodels in Software and Data Engineering (WOMSDE) ? organized since 2006 for three consecutive editions. VORTE-MOST 2010 can also be seen as a 5th edition of these joint scientific fora. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit two types of papers: ? Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describe interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and ? Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results than short papers. All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair athttp://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2010. All submissions should be in English. All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2010 Workshops will be published after the workshop with an ISBN in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper must register for the main conference (there will be no workshop-only registration at EDOC 2010) and present their papers at the workshop. The registration needs to be done via the EDOC 2010 website (http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/). The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be accessible through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop. Post-conference Journal Publication We are planning to invite selected papers for publication in a well-known international journal. (To be confirmed) IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: April 17th, 2010 Paper Notification: June 4th, 2010 Camera Ready Copy: June 16th, 2010 Workshop: October xx, 2010 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ? Ebrahim Bagheri, National Research Council of Canada, Canada, Ebrahim.Bagheri(at)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca ? Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, University of Twente, The Netherlands, l.o.bonino(at)ewi.utwente.nl ? Fred Freitas, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, fred(at)cin.ufpe.br ? Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil, gguizzardi(at)acm.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED) > ? Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany > > ? Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy > > . Andr?ia Malucelli, PUC-Paran?, Brazil > > ? Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway > > ? Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University, UK > > ? Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA > > ? Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany > > ? Daniel Schwabe, PUC-RJ, Brazil > > ? Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada > > ? Evandro Costa, UFAL, Brazil > > ? Fabio Porto, Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, Switzerland > > . Fred Fonseca, Pennsylvania State University, USA > > ? Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany > > ? Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada > > ? Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand > > ? Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada > > ? Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA > > ? Lu?s Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands > > ? Mara Abel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil > > . Marco Antonio Casanova, PUC-Rio, Brazil > > ? Maria Luiza Machado Campos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil > > ? Martin Doerr, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece > > ? Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia > > ? Mustafa Jarrar, STARLAB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium > > ? Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain > > ? Oscar Pastor, Technical University of Valencia, Spain > > ? Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, USA > > ? Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA > > ? Peter Rittgen, University College of Bor?s, Sweden > > ? Renata Vieira, PUC-RS, Brazil > > ? Renata Wassermann, University of S?o Paulo, Brazil > > ? Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan > > ? Rinke Hoekstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands > > ? Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia > > ? Roberta Ferrario, LOA-CNR, Italy > > ? Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland / DERI, Ireland > > . Sofia Pinto, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal > > ? Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine > > ? Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany > > ? Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada LINKS EDOC2010 web site: http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/ easy chair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2010 formatting guidelines: http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html -- []s Fred Freitas ************ Centro de Inform?tica - CIn Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE - Brazil Currently at the Knowledge Representation Knowledge Management research group at the University of Mannheim, Germany http://ki.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/people/fred_freitas.html Research interests: Ontologies, semantic web, ontology-based text processing -- []s Fred Freitas ************ Centro de Inform?tica - CIn Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE - Brazil Currently at the Knowledge Representation Knowledge Management research group at the University of Mannheim, Germany http://ki.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/people/fred_freitas.html Research interests: Ontologies, semantic web, ontology-based text processing From rendsvig at gmail.com Wed Mar 31 16:19:14 2010 From: rendsvig at gmail.com (Rasmus K. Rendsvig) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:19:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2010 Poster and Call for Participation Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************** ESSLLI 2010 / UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN / DENMARK / AUGUST 9-20, 2010 The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) 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. During two weeks, around 50 courses and 10 workshops are offered to the attendants, each of 1.5 hours per day during a five days week, with up to seven parallel sessions. ESSLLI also includes a student session (papers and posters by students only, 1.5 hour per day during the two weeks) and four evening lectures by senior scientists in the covered areas. In 2010, the venue for ESSLLI will be The University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Chair of the Program Committee is Valentin Goranko (The Technical University of Denmark), and Chair of the Organizing Committee is Vincent F. Hendricks (The University of Copenhagen). The registration for ESSLLI 2010 is open, and until June 1, an early bird discount is available. * Student: ?300 before June 1, 2010, 350? after. * Regular: ?450 before June 1, 2010, 480? after. Different accommodation packages are available, from 21?/night to 46?/night. All packages are currently available, but availability cannot be guaranteed after May 3, 2010. The rooms suggested are at Danhostel Copenhagen City, a mere 10 minute walk from the main venue. For more information and links to registration and accommodation pages, please visit the ESSLLI 2010 website: http://esslli2010cph.info/ Attached is the ESSLLI 2010 poster -- feel free to print and/or circulate. Best regards, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, ESSLLI 2010 Organization Committee ------ Rasmus K. Rendsvig Department of Philosophy and Science Studies Roskilde University, Denmark Web Manager -- Logic and Rational Interaction : http://loriweb.org Managing Editor -- AUTOMATIC PRESS / VIP : http://www.vince-inc.com/automatic.html Web: http://sites.google.com/site/rendsvig/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: esslliposter2010cph.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1113350 bytes Desc: not available URL: From richard.booth at uni.lu Wed Mar 31 10:20:06 2010 From: richard.booth at uni.lu (Richard Booth) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:20:06 +0200 Subject: [DL] Open PhD position (Luxembourg/Lens): Dynamics of Argumentation Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings ---------------------- The University of Luxembourg is inviting applications for a 2+2-year PhD position in Computer Science (ref. number F1-070088). The position is embedded in a project "Dynamics of Argumentation" (http://icr.uni.lu/dynarg/DYNARG/Home.html), which is a common project between the Individual and Collective Reasoning (ICR) group at the Computer Science and Communication Research Unit (CSC) in Luxembourg (Responsible: Leon van der Torre) and the Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens (CRIL) at the Universit?? d'Artois, in Lens, France (Responsible: Souhila Kaci). The position is foreseen as a co-tutuelle position, that is the student will receive a degree from both universities. The successful candidate will be expected to work on abstract argumentation theory and belief dynamics. Offer: * A 2+2-year PhD position in Computer Science * Work in cooperation with 2 first class and highly active research groups (ICR and CRIL) in a friendly working environment; * Salary: 2300 Euros/month (gross) * Starting date: as soon as possible. Profile: * Candidates must hold a master degree in computer science or related areas; * The ideal candidate should have a strong background in logic-based approaches to artificial intelligence, e.g., in knowledge representation, reasoning about uncertainty, or reasoning about preferences. * Candidates should be proficient in mathematical reasoning and be capable of working with abstract concepts. * Candidates should possess good oral and written English skills. Applications should include an introduction letter indicating the motivation, a detailed CV including copies of the MSc diploma and information about the grades, and the names and contact details of two referees. We accept only electronic submissions, which should be sent to Richard Booth (richard.booth at uni.lu) and Leon van der Torre (leon.vandertorre at uni.lu), quoting the reference number for this position F1-070088. The deadline for applications is **April 15, 2010**. More information can be obtained from Richard Booth (richard.booth at uni.lu). DYNARG project homepage: http://icr.uni.lu/dynarg/DYNARG/Home.html University of Luxembourg homepage: http://www.uni.lu ICR homepage: http://http://icr.uni.lu CRIL homepage: http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr The University of Luxembourg, which was founded in 2003, is a research university at the heart of Europe. The Computer Science and Communication Research (CSC) research unit, which belongs to the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication and counts around 150 people, is located in the city of Luxembourg, next to the European Institutions. From schneid at fzi.de Mon Mar 29 20:32:09 2010 From: schneid at fzi.de (Michael Schneider) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:32:09 +0200 Subject: [DL] Package which transforms DL into FOL In-Reply-To: <6869a86b1003290234v7f1f4b48x6d3f94cd984bcb11@mail.gmail.com> References: <6869a86b1003290234v7f1f4b48x6d3f94cd984bcb11@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <0EF30CAA69519C4CB91D01481AEA06A001C23F81@judith.fzi.de> [I'm not sure if this mail will go through dl at dl.kr.org] Hi! I can't point you to a concrete software package, but I have a few hints below that might be helpful as a start to find such software. But first, I wanted to mention that you will probably need to further refine your question by telling which concrete first-order logic dialect or syntax you want to see as output. In principle, what you see on the right-hand side of the tables in the OWL 2 Direct-Semantics [1] are Standard-FOL translations of the different constructs of the OWL 2 syntax, and therefore of an expressive description logic (well, there are a lot of set expressions, but a translation of these formulas into "real" FOL syntax is pretty straight-forward). But do you want to see this particular format used in the OWL 2 Direct-Semantics as the output? I guess not, because it's not directly machine processible. There is a standard exchange syntax for FOL, called "KIF" [2]. The paper at [3] describes the processing of OWL ontologies by (a modified version of) the FOL theorem prover Vampire using KIF as a representation language. The paper at [4] follows a related approach, but seems to use another FOL syntax supported by Vampire, namely the TPTP syntax [5]. I can't tell for sure, but I'd say chances are good that the authors of these people have used some translation software to these different FOL syntaxes, so why not just asking them for such software? Best, Michael [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] From: semantic-web-request at w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request at w3.org] On Behalf Of Jun Fang Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 11:35 AM To: semantic-web at w3.org; dl at dl.kr.org Subject: Package which transforms DL into FOL Dear Colleagues: Does there exist (Java) package which transforms Description Logics into corresponding First-order Logics? Thanks. -- Best Regards! Jun Fang -- Dipl.-Inform. Michael Schneider Research Scientist, Information Process Engineering (IPE) Tel : +49-721-9654-726 Fax : +49-721-9654-727 Email: michael.schneider at fzi.de WWW : http://www.fzi.de/michael.schneider ======================================================================= FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universit?t Karlsruhe Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, D-76131 Karlsruhe Tel.: +49-721-9654-0, Fax: +49-721-9654-959 Stiftung des b?rgerlichen Rechts, Az 14-0563.1, RP Karlsruhe Vorstand: Prof. Dr.-Ing. R?diger Dillmann, Dipl. Wi.-Ing. Michael Flor, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolffried Stucky, Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums: Ministerialdirigent G?nther Le?nerkraus ======================================================================= From longo at dmi.unict.it Tue Apr 6 17:40:43 2010 From: longo at dmi.unict.it (longo at dmi.unict.it) Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:40:43 +0200 Subject: [DL] About the domain of an Interpretation Message-ID: <20100406174043.10475okommu707p7@mbox.dmi.unict.it> Dear dl readers, it is not clear to me if the domain of an interpretation (with the descriptive semantic) is just a set or may be a class or something else. Thank you in advance, Cristiano Longo ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From mjw at liverpool.ac.uk Thu Apr 1 15:07:59 2010 From: mjw at liverpool.ac.uk (Wooldridge, Michael) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:07:59 +0100 Subject: [DL] AI Journal Funding Opportunities - Deadline for this call 14 May 2010 Message-ID: <200BF007-BEEE-41D4-AAF8-E9BAD9EBB68B@liverpool.ac.uk> Artificial Intelligence Journal: FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES for PROMOTING AI RESEARCH Deadline for proposals: May 14, 2010 BACKGROUND Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) is one of the longest established and most respected journals in AI, and since it was founded in 1970, it has published many of the key papers in the field. The operation of the Editorial Board is supported financially through an arrangement with AIJ's publisher, Elsevier. The editorial board of Artificial Intelligence is now in the unique position of being able to make available substantial funds, of the order of US$250,000 per annum, to support the promotion and dissemination of AI research. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THIS FUNDING? In providing this funding, AIJ aims to: * promote and raise awareness of AI research and practice; * encourage the timely and widespread dissemination of AI research results, techniques, and tools; * promote interaction and exchange of ideas between AI researchers, practitioners, and students; * promote the exploitation of AI research results, techniques, and tools. In this call, a proportion of available funds have been set aside for activities that are fundamentally new, and likely to lead to the establishment of a new research community or new direction for AI research. WHAT KINDS OF ACTIVITIES WILL AIJ CONSIDER FUNDING? Broadly speaking, any activity that achieves the goals described above might be considered as a candidate for funding. For example: * student travel scholarships for a conference or workshop; * funds for an invited speaker to present at a conference or workshop; * funds to support a web site to disseminate proceedings of an AI related conference or workshop; * start up funds for a workshop in a promising new area of research; * funding to organise a summer school on some aspect of AI. This list is absolutely not intended to be exhaustive, and we strongly encourage you to consider innovative ways in which the goals set out above can be achieved. See below for the criteria that will be used to evaluate proposals. WHAT KINDS OF ACTIVITIES DOES AIJ PREFER NOT TO FUND? Some guidelines: * We prefer not to fund individuals. By preference, requests will come from organisations such as a foundation, charitable body, or the organising committee of an event. AIJ does not exclude the possibility of funding individuals, but this is likely to be exceptional. Note that AIJ will not fund individual requests for travel funds. * We prefer not to fund research projects. Research projects involving staffing costs would probably not, in our view, be a cost effective use of the funds. * We won't fund duplicate activities. For example, if there is already an established, successful, and wellregarded conference in the area of X, then in all likelihood we would not provide seed funds to set up a duplicate, competitor conference. * We prefer not to fund activities where alternative sources of funding are readily available. * Activities are funded on a not-for-private-profit basis. AIJ will not fund activities that lead directly to profit for the organisation or individuals involved. However, we recognise that with some events, (e.g., large conferences) it is necessary to budget for a surplus; in this case, proposals should describe what will happen to the surplus. There is no hard and fast rule about how much you can ask for: you should ask for what you need to make your activity successful. However, here are some broad principles; as ever, these are only guidelines. First, if you are applying on behalf of a large (> 80 participants), successful, and scientifically strong conference, then please bear in mind that several such conferences applied for funding for (e.g.) student travel grants and invited speakers in the December 2009 round of AIJ funding, and received typically US$10K each. Although, as always, there may be exceptions to this, it may be helpful to use this amount as a guideline. Note that we would be reluctant to spend more than US$50K on an individual activity. Proposals may include the possibility of AIJ underwriting an activity (to an agreed limit) in the event of a loss. Finally, we urge you to investigate whether it is possible to "leverage" AIJ funding, for example by obtaining matched funding from elsewhere. In this case, the value of every dollar spent by AIJ is effectively doubled, which makes for a compelling funding case. HOW CAN I BID FOR FUNDS? A proposal should contain the following sections: * What? Describe exactly what activity funding is requested for. Please note that AIJ funds specific activities. For example, "we request funds to support a conference on X" is not a specific request, while "we request travel funds to bring invited speaker X to conference Y " is a specific request. Provide any contextual information that you think is relevant. * How Much? A (high level) budget that provides details of the use of requested funds, and, where appropriate, describes how the requested amount fits into an overall budget for the activity/event (e.g., in the case of requesting conference travel funds for students, what is the overall conference budget?) * Why? Brief justification for funding; note that priority will be given to activities for which no alternative funds are available. * Who? Describe who will benefit from the proposed activity. * When? Dates of the proposed activity, and date by which funding would be needed. * Where? Location of the proposed activity. * Contact details: Name, affiliation, contact details for the responsible party (postal address, email, telephone number, fax), web address of event if available. Proposals should under no circumstances exceed more than two pages in total. Proposals should be submitted in PDF via the EasyChair web review system at the following URL: http://tinyurl.com/aijournal2 HOW WILL PROPOSALS BE EVALUATED? We anticipate issuing calls for proposals approximately two or three times per annum, with FRIDAY MAY 14, 2010 being the deadline for the current call. Further calls will be issued later - watch the AIJ web site for details (http://www.aijd.org/). The AIJ sponsorship committee will assess proposals on the basis of: * scientific quality of proposed activities; * likely level of impact on the international AI community; * cost effectiveness/value for money. All bidders will be informed by email of the outcome of their proposal as soon as an outcome is known. We anticipate notification of decisions on this round of funding being sent out no later than July 15, 2010. If a proposal is approved for funding, then please be aware it may take time to transfer funds: if you are bidding for funds to support an event, then we suggest your proposal should be submitted at least 6 months before the event takes place. Note that where a proposal is felt to have merit but is not fundable in its submitted form, we may return to bidders to discuss possible modifications; where this is felt to be necessary, we will try to do this practicably and expeditiously. A summary of successful proposals will be made publicly available on the AIJ website. MY PROPOSAL WAS REJECTED - CAN I APPEAL? The decision of the AIJ sponsorship committee with respect to funding decisions is final. We regret that it will not be possible to enter any correspondence with respect to unsuccessful proposals. From schweika.floc at googlemail.com Tue Apr 6 10:25:40 2010 From: schweika.floc at googlemail.com (Nicole Schweikardt) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 10:25:40 +0200 Subject: [DL] FLoC 2010: Call for Participation Message-ID: 2010 FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLoC'10) Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. July 9-21, 2010 http://www.floc-conference.org Early registration deadline: 17 May 2010. * The fifth Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'10) will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. (www.edinburgh.org), in July 2010, at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (www.inf.ed.ac.uk). * FLoC'10 promises to be the premier scientific meeting in computational logic in 2010. The following conferences will participate in FLoC: - CAV 2010: Int'l Conference on Computer-Aided Verification - CSF 2010: IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium - ICLP 2010: Int'l Conference on Logic Programming - IJCAR 2010: Int'l Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning - ITP 2010: Int'l Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving - LICS 2010: IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science - RTA 2010: Int'l Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications - SAT 2010: Int'l Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing The eight major conferences will be accompanied by more than fifty workshops and a number of other affiliated events. * Program: The FLoC'10 program includes plenary talks by David Basin, Georg Gottlob, David Harel, and Gordon Plotkin, as well as keynote talks by Deepak Kapur and J Strother Moore. Please consult the FLoC website for further information on invited speakers and contributed talks of all the participating conferences. * The city of Edinburgh: Edinburgh (http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/city/introduction), one of the most vibrant, cosmopolitan cities in Europe, has been regularly voted one of the most desirable places to live in the world - and the University is at the heart of it all. Located throughout the centre of the city, the campus plays an integral part in the activities of Scotland's lively capital. Set against a beautiful backdrop of stunning architecture, Edinburgh is a welcoming, cosmopolitan city with a large and diverse student population. The city offers an exciting array of entertainment, history, culture and sport, with the lush Scottish countryside and coastline just a few miles away. It is a safe and prosperous city, with an abundance of parks and green spaces for recreation and reflection. FLoC receptions will be held at the Edinburgh Castle (11 July) and the National Galleries of Scotland (16 July). * Registration: For online registration for FLoC, please follow the link on the FLoC website at http://floc-conference.org/registration.html Registration is now open. The deadline for early registration is 17 May. Standard rates will apply for those who register between 18 May and 30 June. For those who register after 30 June, late rates will apply. Note that it is possible to register early, and then add components (e.g., additional workshops, additional registration days, etc.) later on. * Accomodation: Very affordable accommodation has been booked at the University's Pollock Halls campus, about 15-minute walk from the conference site. Room types include single/double rooms with shared facilities/ensuite, and standard hotel rooms in a 3-star Victorian mansion. Alternatively, blocks of rooms have been booked at several hotels in the cite centre. For details, see http://floc-conference.org/accommodation.html * Student Travel Grants: FLoC has raised funds to help students with participating in the 2010 meeting. See details on the conference website. * FLoC'10 Steering Committee: - General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi - Conference Co-chairs: Leonid Libkin, Gordon Plotkin - CAV Representative: Edmund Clarke - ICLP Representative: Manuel Hermenegildo - IJCAR Representative: Alan Bundy - ITP Representative: Tobias Nipkow - LICS Representative: Martin Abadi - RTA Representative: Juergen Giesl - SAT Representative: Enrico Giunchiglia - EasyChair Representative: Andrei Voronkov ---------------------- You are subscribed to the FLoC 2010 mailing list. To unsubscribe please send an email to majordomo at informatik.uni-frankfurt.de with the keywords unsubscribe floc2010 in the message body. From Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at Thu Apr 8 01:11:26 2010 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:11:26 +0100 Subject: [DL] UniDL'10: Deadline extension to 11th of April Message-ID: <4BBD111E.60407@kr.tuwien.ac.at> ------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers New submission deadline: 11. of April ------------------------------------------------------------------- UniDL'10 First International Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics co-located with IJCAR 2010 at FLoC 2010 July 20, 2010 Edinburgh, UK http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/UniDL ------------------------------------------------------------------- During the recent decade, handling uncertainty has started to play an important role in ontology languages, especially in application areas like the Semantic Web, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence. For this reason, there is currently a strong research interest in description logics (DLs) that allow for dealing with uncertainty. The subject of the workshop is how to deal with uncertainty and imprecision in Description Logics (DLs). This encompasses approaches that enable probabilistic or fuzzy reasoning in DLs, but the workshop is also open for approaches based on other uncertainty formalisms. The workshop focusses on the investigation of reasoning problems and approaches for solving them, including especially tractable ones. For classical DL reasoning problems such as subsumption and satisfiability, algorithms that can handle uncertainty exist, but they are still less well-investigated than in the case of standard DLs without uncertainty. For novel reasoning services, such as query answering, computation of generalizations, modules, or explanations, it is not yet clear how to realize them in DLs that can express uncertainty. SPONSOR UniDL is sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) INVITED SPEAKER Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: * Modeling of uncertain knowledge in DLs * Different formalisations of uncertainty for DLs * Formal semantics for uncertain information in DLs * Extensions of DL reasoning problems to uncertainty * Reasoning algorithms for DLs with uncertainty, in particular * Tableau algorithms for probabilistic DLs or fuzzy DLs * Tractable DLs with uncertainty * Complexity of uncertain reasoning * System descriptions for implemented reasoning algorithms in uncertain DLs * Novel applications of DLs with uncertainty * Open and future problems IMPORTANT DATES: *New* submission deadline: April 11, 2010 Notification: April 29, 2010 Final version: May 18, 2010 Workshop: July 20, 2010 SUBMISSION DETAILS: The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format in Springer's LNCS style. Submissions can be - technical papers not exceeding 10 pages, - system descriptions not exceeding 6 pages, or - position papers on work in progress not exceeding 3 pages in LNCS. Submissions are via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unidl10 . The workshop prceedings will be published as CEUR proceedings. We adopt the same double submission policy as the DL workshop, that is, we also welcome submissions of papers that have recently been published at other conferences and workshops (e.g., KR, AAAI, ECAI, DL, and URSW). WORKSHOP CHAIRS: - Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK - Rafael Penaloza, TU Dresden, Germany - Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Eyal Amir, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza - Simona Colucci, Technical University of Bari - Fabio G. Cozman, University of Sao Paulo - Manfred Jaeger, Aalborg University - Pavel Klinov, University of Manchester - Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology - Mathias Niepert, University of Mannheim - Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Luciano Serafini, IRS Trento - Giorgos Stoilos, Oxford University - Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR - Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China From evren at clarkparsia.com Thu Apr 8 15:39:46 2010 From: evren at clarkparsia.com (Evren Sirin) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:39:46 -0400 Subject: [DL] OWLED 2010: Deadline extension Message-ID: [Apologies for cross posting] *** New deadline for abstracts: April 14 *** *** New deadline for papers: April 21 *** ===================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS OWLED 2010 OWL: Experiences and Directions The Sixth International Workshop June 21-22, San Francisco, California, USA Co-located with 2010 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2010) http://www.semantic-conference.com/ Close to W3C Workshop RDF Next Steps http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/ ===================================== The adoption of the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language in real-world applications continues to grow as the research and tools for OWL mature. The new version OWL 2 -- becoming a W3C recommendation late last year -- has been a positive factor in this direction. As the experience in using OWL in different applications and domains increases, the strengths and weaknesses of the language are discovered, resulting in new research and development that further extends its reach. The OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED) workshop series aims at bringing users, implementors and researchers from academia and industry together to describe applications of OWL, to share experience, and to discuss extensions to the language for satisfying application requirements. The workshop will allow the OWL community to set an an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications. This year's OWLED workshop will be co-located with the 2010 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech) that will be held in San Francisco, California on June 21-22. The W3C Workshop on RDF Next Steps will be held near-by in Stanford, CA on June 26-27. Tutorials about OWL 2 and related technologies may be organized for the larger SemTech community; contact the chairs if you're interested. As usual, the OWLED workshop will try to encourage participants to work together and will give space for discussions on various topics to be decided and published at some point in the future. There will also be formal presentation of submissions to the workshop. More information on the workshop is forthcoming. For more information or to offer sponsorship, please send us a note at owled2010 at easychair.org. Important dates --------------- April 14, 2010 Titles and abstract due April 21, 2010 Paper submissions due May 14, 2010 Notifications of acceptance June 4, 2010 Final versions of papers due June 21-22, 2010 OWLED 2010 workshop Topics ------- Papers about all aspects of OWL and extensions, applications, theory, methods and tools, are welcome at the workshop; including but not limited to the following topics: - Applications of OWL, particularly from industry - Experience reports on using OWL, OWL 2 and its profiles - Application-driven requirements for OWL - Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages - Using OWL for data integration - Query answering with OWL and relationship between SPARQL and OWL - Ontologies built using OWL, particularly large scale efforts - Performance and scalability issues - Bridges between knowledge engineering and OWL - Enriching ontologies with rules - Non-standard inference services, including: * explanations * static verification * modularity - Tools for OWL, including: * editors * reasoners * visualization tools * parsers and syntax checkers * versioning frameworks - Extensions to OWL, including: * extended constructors for datatypes, properties or classes * keys, constraints, rules * non-monotonic, probabilistic or fuzzy extensions * temporal and spatial extensions Submissions ----------- We invite the submission of three kinds of papers: - Technical papers Technical papers can be up to 10 pages, LNCS style, can be submitted to the workshop and space will be reserved for authors of accepted papers. - Short system descriptions We welcome system demonstrations and invite interested parties to submit a short description (maximum 4 pages) of their system. - Statements of interest These statements will not receive full reviewing and might not be included in the archives of the workshop, but will be available to attendees of the workshop, and will be used to help schedule the workshop. Potential attendees who need official invitations to the workshop should submit at least such short statement of interest (maximum 4 pages). Organization ------------ General Chair: Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia, LLC (USA) PC Chair: Evren Sirin, Clark & Parsia, LLC (USA) Program Committee: Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich (Switzerland) Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) Anne Cregan, National ICT Australia (Australia) Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, University of Oxford (UK) Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (USA) Catherine Dolbear, SHARP (UK) Michel Dumontier, Carleton University (Canada) Achille Fokoue, IBM Watson Research Center (USA) John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK) Volker Haarslev, Concordia University (Canada) Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University (USA) Jan Hladik, SAP Research (Germany) Rinke Hoekstra, University of Amsterdam (NL) Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester (UK) Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software (USA) Markus Kroetzsch, Karlsruhe University (Germany) Thorsten Liebig, University of Ulm (Germany) Joanne Luciano, Harvard Medical School (USA) Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen (Germany) Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology (Germany) Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) Chimezie Ogbuji, Cleveland Clinic (USA) Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen (UK) Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) Riccardo Rosati, Universita di Roma La Sapienza (Italy) Edna Ruckhaus, Universidad Sim?n Bol?var (Venezuela) Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons (USA) Michael Schneider, FZI Research Center for Information Technology (Germany) Baris Sertkaya, SAP Research (Germany) Robert Stevens, University of Manchester (UK) Alex Tucker, FLOOP (UK) Evan Wallace, NIST (USA) Zhe Wu, Oracle (USA) Steering Committee: Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia (USA) Melanie Courtot, Terry Fox Laboratory (Canada) Michel Dumontier, Carleton University (Canada) Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK) Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons (USA) Contacts -------- For more information on OWLED 2010 please contact the chairs at owled2010 at easychair.org or see http://www.webont.org/owled/2010/. From lenzerini at dis.uniroma1.it Thu Apr 8 15:15:46 2010 From: lenzerini at dis.uniroma1.it (Maurizio Lenzerini) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:15:46 +0200 Subject: [DL] About the domain of an Interpretation In-Reply-To: <20100406174043.10475okommu707p7@mbox.dmi.unict.it> References: <20100406174043.10475okommu707p7@mbox.dmi.unict.it> Message-ID: <4BBDD702.4010408@dis.uniroma1.it> The notion of domain of interpretation in DL is exactly the notion of domain of interpretation in first-order logic: it is a non-empty set. Cheers. longo at dmi.unict.it wrote: > Dear dl readers, it is not clear to me if the domain of an > interpretation (with the descriptive semantic) is just a set or may be a > class or something else. > > Thank you in advance, > Cristiano Longo > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for > more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at > http://dl.kr.org/. ** -- Maurizio ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Maurizio Lenzerini Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Antonio Ruberti Sapienza Universit? di Roma Via Ariosto 25, I-00185 Roma, Italy Tel: +39 - 06 - 77274008 Fax: +39 - 06 - 77274002 E-mail: lenzerini at dis.uniroma1.it Home page: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~lenzerini From s.wong.731 at googlemail.com Sun Apr 11 02:22:30 2010 From: s.wong.731 at googlemail.com (Steve W) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:22:30 +0100 Subject: [DL] Formalising real numbers Message-ID: Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to formalise the real numbers in DL? 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The following conferences will participate in FLoC: - CAV 2010: Int'l Conference on Computer-Aided Verification - CSF 2010: IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium - ICLP 2010: Int'l Conference on Logic Programming - IJCAR 2010: Int'l Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning - ITP 2010: Int'l Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving - LICS 2010: IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science - RTA 2010: Int'l Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications - SAT 2010: Int'l Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing The eight major conferences will be accompanied by more than fifty workshops and other affiliated events. FLoC has received funds to provide travel grants of up to $750 for student participants of FLoC'10. Funds can be requested to cover airfare and lodging. We expect to award about 100 grants. Application deadline is May 3, 2010. 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From kanazawa.makoto at gmail.com Wed Apr 14 13:35:49 2010 From: kanazawa.makoto at gmail.com (Makoto Kanazawa) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:35:49 +0900 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2011 Call for Course and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 23rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2011 August 1-12, 2011 Ljubljana, Slovenia 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 computer science. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within or around the three main 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. For more information, visit the FoLLI website, as well as the ESSLLI 2010 website: http://esslli2010cph.info/. CALL FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The ESSLLI 2011 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 23rd annual Summer School on important topics of active research in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the cognitive sciences. All proposals should be submitted, using a prescribed form that will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2011 website, no later than: June 14, 2010 Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision by September 15, 2010. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Proposers of courses and workshops should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that do not conform with these guidelines may 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 must have obtained a Ph.D. or an equivalent degree at the time of the submission deadline. Courses and workshops run over one week (Monday-Friday) and consist of five 90-minute sessions. 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 and an advance course in the second). 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 who wish 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 competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses should have no special prerequisites, but may presuppose some experience with scientific methods and general appreciation of the field of the course. INTRODUCTORY COURSES Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are intended to provide an introduction to the (interdisciplinary) field for students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to equip them with a good understanding of the field's basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable experienced researchers from other fields to acquire the key competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Introductory courses in a topic at the interface of two fields 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 Ph.D. students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. TIMETABLE FOR COURSE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Jun 14, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 15, 2010: Notification Deadline Jun 1, 2011: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material by the ESSLLI 2011 local organizers 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. The proposals for workshops should justify the choice of topic, give an estimate of the number of attendants and expected submissions, and provide a list of at least 15 potential submitters working in the field of the workshop. The organizers are required to give a general introduction to the theme during the first session of the workshop. They are also responsible for various organizational matters, including soliciting submissions, reviewing, drawing up the program, taking care of expenses of invited speakers, etc. In particular, each workshop organizer will be responsible for sending out a Call for Papers for the workshop and to organize the selection of the submissions by the deadlines specified below. The call for workshop submissions must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community and should indicate that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. TIMETABLE FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: Jun 14, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 15, 2010: Notification Deadline Oct 15, 2010: Deadline for submission of the Calls for Papers to ESSLLI 2011 PC chair Nov 1, 2010: Workshop organizers send out First Call for Papers Dec 15, 2010: Workshop organizers send out Second Call for Papers Jan 15, 2011: Workshop organizers send out Third Call for Papers Feb 15, 2011: Deadline for submissions to the workshops Apr 15, 2011: Suggested deadline for notification of workshop contributors Jun 1, 2011: Deadline for submission of camera-ready copy of workshop proceedings to the ESSLLI 2011 Local Organizers. 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 A form for submitting course and workshop proposals will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2011 web site: http://esslli2011.ijs.si/. The proposers are required to submit the following information: * Contact address and fax number * Name, email, affiliation, homepage of each lecturer / workshop organizer (at most two per course or workshop) * Title of proposed course/workshop * Abstract (abstract of the proposal, max 150 words) * Type (workshop, foundational, introductory, or advanced course) * Areas (one or more of: Computation, Language, Logic, or Other) * Description (describe the proposed contents of the course and substantiate timeliness and relevance to ESSLLI in at most one A4 page) * Tentative outline of the course / expected participation in the workshop * External funding (whether the proposers will be able to obtain external funding for travel and accommodation expenses) * Further particulars (e.g., course prerequisites, previous teaching experiences, etc.) 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 expenses (up to fixed maximum amounts, which will be communicated to the lecturers upon notification). Lecturers and workshop organizers will have their registration fee waived. In case a course or workshop is to be taught/organized by two people, a lump sum will be reimbursed to cover travel and accommodation expenses for one of them; the splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers/organizers. It should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the School cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs, especially from destinations outside Europe. The local organizers would highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses, as that would help us keep the cost of attending ESSLLI 2011 lower. ESSLLI 2011 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) Local Co-chair: Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) Area specialists: Language and Computation: Markus Egg (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin) Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Language and Logic: Hans-Christian Schmitz (Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin) Louise McNally (UPF, Barcelona) Logic and Computation: Ralph Matthes (IRIT, CNRS and University of Toulouse) Eric Pacuit (Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg) ESSLLI 2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Chair: Darja Fiser (University of Ljubljana) ESSLLI 2011 website: http://esslli2011.ijs.si/ From schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk Wed Apr 14 15:53:42 2010 From: schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk (Renate Schmidt) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:53:42 +0100 Subject: [DL] Phd Studentship in Automated Reasoning Message-ID: <20100414135342.2D9D81CC804B@rpc340.cs.man.ac.uk> [Please forward to potentially interested students.] EPSRC funded PHD STUDENTSHIP IN AUTOMATED REASONING CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 14 May 2010 ANTICIPATED START DATE: July - September 2010 One EPSRC funded PhD studentship is available in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. ABOUT THE PROJECT The project forms part of an EPSRC Research Project with the aim to automatically generate implemented automated reasoners. Reasoning is needed in many subfields of computer science from verification of programs, ontology reasoning for the semantic web, multi-agent systems to artificial intelligence and text mining but also other fields including mathematics, computational linguistics and philosophy. Implementing an automated reasoner from scratch or even implementing one as an extension of an existing reasoner is a time-consuming and difficult undertaking. As an alternative we intend to develop technology and software for automatically generating implemented automated reasoners. The idea is that a user-defined logical formalisation of an application is automatically transformed, first, into a deduction calculus, and finally into an implemented automated reasoner. This will give non-expert users and developers the ability to build implemented reasoners with relative ease in a supported way. The foundation of the project will be a tableau calculus synthesis framework that we developed in recent work and have already applied to a number of logics. The focus of the PhD project will be on tableau prover generation for modal and description logics (or other non-classical logics depending on the background of the successful applicant). The expected tasks include significantly contributing to the development of a prototype implementation of a tableau prover generator and auxiliary tools, conducting case studies for various logics, developing refinements and optimisations, and undertaking an evaluation of the developed technology. The project will be supervised by Dr Renate Schmidt and Dr Dmitry Tishkovsky. WHO CAN APPLY The successful applicant is expected to conduct research leading to original contributions to the project culminating in a PhD thesis. Expected qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience: - A first class BSc(Hons), strong MSc degree, or equivalent, in an appropriate discipline; - Background in computer science and/or mathematics with significant knowledge of logic and/or automated reasoning, preferably including modal, description, first-order logic, tableau-based reasoning and equality reasoning; - Good programming skills; - Good communication skills in English, both oral and written; - Ability to work collaboratively. The studentship is expected to start between 1 July 2010 and 30 September 2010 subject to negotiation, and is available for up to three years with a stipend of 13,290 pounds per annum (tax free), full university registration fees for UK/EU students, a contribution of about 74% to the university registration fees for Non-EU international students, plus travel money for attending conferences. HOW TO APPLY To apply for the studentship, please send a detailed CV, copies of transcripts (academic records of marks for courses taken), names of at least two referees (email addresses preferred) and covering letter by email to: pgr-admissions at cs.man.ac.uk. Email submission of PDF and/or plain text are acceptable. The deadline for applications is *14 May 2010*. Late applications may be considered. FURTHER INFORMATION For further details about the studentship and the project please contact Dr Renate Schmidt, preferably by email at schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk. Additional information about postgraduate research in the School can be found at http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/phd/. NOTE Formal application to be admitted by the PhD program in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester needs to be made separately by the successful candidate. -- Renate Schmidt schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk Computer Science University of Manchester From longo at dmi.unict.it Wed Apr 14 17:41:12 2010 From: longo at dmi.unict.it (longo at dmi.unict.it) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:41:12 +0200 Subject: [DL] satisfiability vs. unsatisfiability Message-ID: <20100414174112.17652z84gdwiy8m0@mbox.dmi.unict.it> Theorem 3.27 of the Description Logics Handbook says that in the dl AL the UN-satisfiability of a concept w.r.t. a finite set of inclusions is ExpTime hard. Do this result extends to the satisfiability (of a concept ...) in ALC? Thank you in advance, Cristiano Longo ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Wed Apr 14 11:57:53 2010 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Uli Sattler) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:57:53 +0100 Subject: [DL] Formalising real numbers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7345B46C-6DA4-4BB6-9982-BC7B8B7EB721@cs.man.ac.uk> Hi Steve, instead of axiomatizing structures like real numbers, these are traditionally 'integrated' in form of so-called concrete domains (in OWL, a weak form of those is supported in form of 'datatypes'): have a look at C. Lutz. Description Logics with Concrete Domains?A Survey. In Advances in Modal Logics Volume 4. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2003. F. Baader and P. Hanschke. A Scheme for Integrating Concrete Domains into Concept Languages. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-91, pages 452?457, Sydney (Australia), 1991. Cheers, Uli On 11 Apr 2010, at 01:22, Steve W wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know if it's possible to formalise the real numbers in > DL? I know the supremum property requires at least second-order > logic, but can it somehow be reformualted and still fit in FOL or > even DL? Has there been any attempt? > > Thanks > Steve > --- > ** 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 Fri Apr 16 08:58:24 2010 From: baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Franz Baader) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:58:24 +0200 Subject: [DL] satisfiability vs. unsatisfiability In-Reply-To: <20100414174112.17652z84gdwiy8m0@mbox.dmi.unict.it> References: <20100414174112.17652z84gdwiy8m0@mbox.dmi.unict.it> Message-ID: Since ExpTime is a deterministic complexity class, it is actually irrelevant whether you consider satisfiability or unsatisfiability. Thus, Theorem 3.27 also holds for satisfiability, and the hardness trivially transfers to the larger language ALC. Note, however, that ExpTime-hardness for ALC with GCI was known before (see the IJCAI'912 paper by Schild). The result for AL is a strengthening of this. The most recent result in this direction is that, even for FL_0, subsumption w.r.t. GCIs is ExpTime hard (see my ECAI'05 paper with Sebastian Brandt and Carsten Lutz). Best regards, -Franz On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:41 PM, wrote: > Theorem 3.27 of the Description Logics Handbook says that in the dl AL the > UN-satisfiability of a concept w.r.t. a finite set of inclusions is ExpTime > hard. Do this result extends to the satisfiability (of a concept ...) in > ALC? > > Thank you in advance, > Cristiano Longo > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > --- > ** ?You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for more > ?** > ** ?information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. > ?** > From lenzerini at dis.uniroma1.it Sat Apr 24 09:35:01 2010 From: lenzerini at dis.uniroma1.it (Maurizio Lenzerini) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:35:01 +0200 Subject: [DL] DEIS'10 - Advanced School on Data Exchange, Integration, and Streams Message-ID: <4BD29F25.7080809@dis.uniroma1.it> Advanced School on Data Exchange, Integration, and Streams DEIS'10 - GI-Dagstuhl Seminar 10452, November 7-12, 2010, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany The Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI) and the Dagstuhl-Leibniz Center for Informatics jointly sponsor research seminars on timely topics in computer science that have yet to be covered in textbooks. These research seminars are targeted at graduate students and recent PhDs who are interested in learning actively about new developments. The main aim of DEIS'10 is to expose young researchers from both academia and industry to state-of-the-art developments in information integration and to prepare them for productive research in data exchange, data integration, and data streams. Organization DEIS'10, which is organized by Phokion G. Kolaitis, Maurizio Lenzerini, and Nicole Schweikardt, will take place at Schloss Dagstuhl on November 7-12, 2010. It will consist of tutorials on each of the main topics, presentations of specialized topics by the participants, and evening problem sessions. Tutorials: There will be three two-hour long tutorials on data exchange, data integration, and data streams, presented by the three organizers. Participant presentations: There will be a total number of approximately twenty 45-minute long presentations by the participants followed by a 15-minute discussion. Problem sessions: There will be three 90-minute long problem sessions whose purpose is twofold: (1) the participants will develop solutions to exercises that will be assigned by the organizers during their tutorial presentations; (2) the organizers and the participants will discuss open research problems on the topics of the Advanced School. Participation DEIS'10 is aimed at advanced doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior industrial researchers. Specialized knowledge of the topics of the Advanced School is not required. The main criterion for selection will be a solid background on the principles and practice of database systems, and demonstrated research potential. Interested parties are asked to submit an application at the DEIS'10 application website at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deis10 Attendance at the seminar, including accommodation and full board at Schloss Dagstuhl costs 40 Euros per person per day. For more information, including information about the precise application procedure, and the possibility of financial support for participants, please visit http://www.tks.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/events/deis10 Timeline - June 15, 2010: Opening of the application submission server - July 15, 2010: Deadline for submitting applications for participation at DEIS'10 - September 1, 2010: Announcement of decisions and assignment of topics - November 7-12, 2010: the DEIS'10 advanced school takes place at Schloss Dagstuhl From jeffpan.sw at googlemail.com Fri Apr 23 10:31:39 2010 From: jeffpan.sw at googlemail.com (Jeff Pan) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:31:39 +0100 Subject: [DL] Final CFP: 6th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (deadline extended to 2 May) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! ************************************************************************ * * CALL FOR PAPERS * 6th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering * (SWESE2010) * * http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc280/event/workshop/swese2010/ * * (for previous workshops, see http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jpan/) * *******Deadline Extended to: 2 May, 2010****** * * * located at 2010 Semantic Technology Conference * 25 June 2010 * San Francisco, United States * ************************************************************************ Workshop Description The advent of the World Wide Web has led many corporations to web-enable their business applications and to the adoption of web service standards in middleware platforms. Marking a turning point in the evolution of the Web, the Semantic Web is expected to provide more benefits to software engineering. Over the past five years there have been a number of attempts to bring together languages and tools, such as the Unified Modelling Language (UML), originally developed for Software Engineering, with Semantic Web languages such as RDF and OWL. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to investigate potential benefits. A related international standardisation activity is OMG's Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), which was formally adopted in October 2006, and finalized in December 2008. Recently, more and more researchers are also investigating how to use ontology to improve guidance and traceability in software development. It has been argued that the advantages of Semantic Web Technologies in software engineering include reusability and extensibility of data models, improvements in data quality, and 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. However, are there other potential benefits in the use of Semantic Web concepts in the field of 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 product of software development activities? What is it about the amalgamation of OWL, UML and MDSD methodology that could make a difference? Certainly, there appear to be a number of strong arguments in favour of this approach but consensus on the best way forward, if there is indeed a way forward at all has not yet formed. This workshop seeks to build on prior events that have begun to explore and evaluate 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): - Visions for Semantic Web driven software engineering - Tools developed or being developed for software engineering using SW languages - Integration or application development projects combining Software Engineering techniques and Semantic Web tools or languages - Shortcomings with the Semantic Web with respect to Software Engineering - Uses, extensions and/or issues with ODM - Visions for SW driven software modernization - Integration of UML, OO programming languages and Semantic Web languages - Integration of formal methods and Semantic Web languages - Software specification and Semantic Web languages - Ontologies for software engineering - Ontologies for requirement engineering - Ontologies for software guidance, traceability and maintenance - Component discovery and ontologies - Feature modelling and ontologies - Metamodel engineering - Ontology reasoning for software engineering - Semantic annotations in software engineering - Transitioning legacy applications to ontologies - Semantic-based intelligent assistance tools for software developers - Lessons learnt and outstanding challenges for the usage of semantic technologies in software engineering - Ontology-Driven Architecture: How to introduce Semantic Web technology into mainstream development processes Workshop Format and Attendance: This will be a half day workshop, including a keynote presentation and technical talks discussing competing and complementary visions for Semantic Web enabled software engineering. This workshop is open to all members of the SemTech community, as well as other communities identified in Intended Audience above, such as the Software Engineering community. 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) Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI, Germany Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Yuting Zhao, University of Aberdeen, UK Program Committee (Tentative) * Uwe Assman (DE), Technical University of Dresden * Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (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 * J?rgen Ebert (DE), University of Koblenz * Andreas Friesen (DE), SAP Research * Dragan Gasevic, (CA) Simon Fraser University Surrey * Michael Goedicke (DE), University of Essen * Jakob Henriksson (US), Intelligent Automation, Inc. * Mitch Kokar (US), Northeastern University * Harald K?hn (AT), BOC * David Martin (US), SRI International * Krzysztof Miksa (PL), Comarch * Jishnu Mukerji (US), Hewlett-Packard Company * Daniel Oberle (DE), SAP Research * Fernando Silva Parreiras (DE), University of Koblenz * Yuan Ren (UK), University of Aberdeen * Dave Reynolds (UK), HP Lab * Michael K. Smith (US), Electronic Data System * Hai Wang (UK), Aston University * 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=swese2010 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 25 Apr, 2010. Publication details will be posted to the workshop web site, http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc280/event/workshop/swese2010/, as they become available. Important Dates Submission deadline: 2 May 2010 Notification of acceptance: 16 May 2010 Final submissions due: 24 May 2010 Workshop proceedings available: 25 June 2010 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Mon Apr 26 05:25:18 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:25:18 -0400 Subject: [DL] Journal CfP: Semantic Web Tools and Systems Message-ID: <4BD5079E.2000301@wright.edu> == special call for papers on == SEMANTIC WEB TOOLS AND SYSTEMS = Description = The "Semantic Web" journal invites submissions of short papers describing mature Semantic Web related tools and systems. These reports should be brief and pointed, indicating clearly the capabilities of the described tool or system. It is strongly encouraged, that the described tools or systems are free, open, and accessible on the Web. If this is not possible, then they have to be made available to the reviewers. For commercial tools and systems, exceptions can be arranged through the editors. Submissions will be reviewed along the following dimensions: (1) Quality, importance, and impact of the described tool or system. (2) Clarity, illustration, and readability of the describing paper, which shall convey to the reader both the capabilities and the limitations of the tool. = Topics of Interest = We invite submissions on all kinds of tools and systems related to the semantic web, including, but not limited to, the following. * ontology editors * ontology engineering systems * Semantic Web development toolkits * ontology learning and acquistion tools * Annotation tools * ontology alignment and merging tools * ontology revision and evolution tools * ontology evaluation tools * RDF stores * RDF reasoners * OWL reasoners * RIF editors and reasoners * Semantic Wiki engines * Semantic Desktop systems * Semantic browsers * Semantic search tools * Semantic Mashup tools If you are uncertain if your tool or system is suitable for this call, please direct your inquiry to Pascal = Important Dates = Submission Deadline: 30th of June, 2010. Acceptance Notification: 31st of August, 2010 Final Paper: 30th of September, 2010 = Submissions = Submissions should be 8-10 pages in length. Exceptions can be arranged, please contact Pascal for inquiries. Please see the submission information and guidelines at . When entering your manuscript into the review system, please state "Tools and Systems" in the cover letter. Please also note the journal's open review process detailed at . = Contact = Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University Please direct all inquiries to Pascal = Editorial Board = Claudia d'Amato, Universit? degli Studi di Bari, Italy S?ren Auer, Universit?t Leipzig, Germany Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada Philipp Cimiano, Universit?t Bielefeld, Germany Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University, UK Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Canada Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland, New Zealand Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil Manfred Hauswirth, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway Tom Heath, Talis, UK Rinke Hoekstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands Andreas Hotho, Universit?t W?rzburg, Germany Eero Hyv?nen, Aalto University, Finland Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK Axel Polleres, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway Martin Raubal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK Christoph Schlieder, University of Bamberg, Germany Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA Jie Tang, Tsinghua University Beijing, China Kunal Verma, Accenture, USA online version of this call: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/special-call-semantic-web-tools-and-systems -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Fri Apr 16 00:06:39 2010 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:06:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2010 - Call for participation Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IJCAR 2010 - The 5th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Edinburgh, UK, July 16-19, 2010 http://www.floc-conference.org/IJCAR-home.html as part of FLoC 2010 - Federated Logic Conference http://www.floc-conference.org/ Call for Participation --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all topics in automated reasoning. The IJCAR technical programme will consist of presentations of high-quality original research papers, system descriptions, and invited talks. IJCAR 2010 is a merger of leading events in automated reasoning: 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) Registration, accomodation, and travel/visa information for all FLoC conferences and workshops is on the FLoC 2010 web pages. Book your trip to Edinburgh today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Program ------------------ + Presentation of 2 invited IJCAR talks + Presentation of 2 plenary/keynote FLoC invited talks + Presentation of 28 regular research papers + Presentation of 12 system abstracts + Presentation of the Herbrand Award + 13 workshops, 2 competitions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers ---------------- + Invited IJCAR Speakers ---------------------- + Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research Redmond + Johan van Benthem, Stanford University and University of Amsterdam + Plenary and Keynote Invited Talks at FLoC ----------------------------------------- + David Basin, ETH Zurich + Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshops, Competitions ----------------------- There will be thirteen workshops and two system competitions associated with IJCAR. See their individual WWW pages, linked from the FLoC WWW pages for more information. + Workshops - AUTOMATHEO 2010: Workshop on Automated Mathematical Theory Exploration (Workshop affilliated to FLoC) (with ITP) - CLoDeM2010: International Workshop on Comparing Logical Decision Methods (with LICS) - EMSQMS 2010: Workshop on Evaluation Metods for Solvers, and Quality Metrics for Solutions (with CAV) - LfSA 2010: Logics for Systems Analysis (with LICS) - MLPA-10: 2nd Workshop on Module Systems and Libraries for Proof Assistants (with ITP) - PAAR-2010: Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning - SVARM 2010: Synthesis, Verification and Analysis of Rich Models (with CAV) - UITP10: 9th International Workshop On User Interfaces for Theorem Provers (with ITP) - UniDL10: 1st Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics - UNIF 2010: 24th International Workshop on Unification (with RTA) - VERIFY-2010: 6th International Verification Workshop - WING 2010: Workshop on Invariant Generation - WST 2010: 11th International Workshop on Termination (with RTA) + Competitions - CASC-J5: 5th IJCAR ATP System Competition - Termination 2010: 7th International Termination Competition --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Events ------------- + Welcome reception at the Scottish National Galleries. + Conference banquet at the luxurious Prestonfield Hotel. + CASQ-J5 - the CADE Squash Competition --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings ----------- At registration the proceedings of all FLoC conferences and workshops will be provided, at no additional cost, on a USB stick. Hard copy IJCAR 2010 proceedings are optionally available, for an additional cost. Remember to tick the hardcopy proceedings box when you register. Please note that hard copies are offered at appr. 50% discount during registration and will not be on sale later on or during the conference. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration ------------ For online registration for IJCAR, please follow the link on the FLoC website at http://floc-conference.org/registration.html Registration is now open. The deadline for early registration is 17 May. Standard rates will apply for those who register between 18 May and 30 June. For those who register after 30 June, late rates will apply. Note that it is possible to register early, and then add components (e.g., additional workshops, additional registration days, etc.) later on. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accomodation ------------ Very affordable accommodation has been booked at the University's Pollock Halls campus, about 15-minute walk from the conference site. Room types include single/double rooms with shared facilities/ensuite, and standard hotel rooms in a 3-star Victorian mansion. Alternatively, blocks of rooms have been booked at several hotels in the cite centre. For details, see http://floc-conference.org/accommodation.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Student Travel Grants -------------------- FLoC has raised funds to help students with participating in the 2010 meeting. CADE is also funding the Woody Bledsoe Student Bursary scheme for students attending IJCAR 2010. Application deadline is May 3, 2010. The application form and further details are available on the conference website http://www.floc-conference.org/floc-student-grants.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For all enquiries about FLoC conferences email: floc-admin at inf.ed.ac.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Tue Apr 27 00:53:54 2010 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:53:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] Special JSC issue on First Order Theorem Proving Message-ID: <9f6b08e2d6fb6deda7ac5461272823fe.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] ---------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Symbolic Computation Special Issue on First Order Theorem Proving http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/ftp-special-issue.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline for submissions **** May 1st, 2010 **** ----------------------------------------------------------------- This special issue is dedicated to the topics of FTP 2009, namely all aspects of First-Order Theorem Proving as a core theme of Automated Deduction. We welcome original contributions on various aspects of first-order theorem proving, including (but not restricted to): * theorem proving in first-order classical, many-valued, and modal logics, including: - satisfiability in propositional logic, - satisfiability modulo theories, - specialized decision procedures, - constraint reasoning, - equational reasoning, - term rewriting, - resolution, - paramodulation/superposition; * strategies and complexity of theorem proving procedures; * implementation techniques; * applications of first-order theorem provers to: - program verification, - model checking, - artificial intelligence, - mathematics, - computational linguistics. Guest editors: ============== Nicolas Peltier (CNRS - LIG, France) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI,Saarbruecken, Germany) Deadline ======== The deadline for submissions is **** May 1st, 2010 **** If you would like to submit a paper and need a deadline extension please send an e-mail to Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (e-mail: sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de) before May 1st, 2010. 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 a journal and that must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere (extended and/or improved versions of conference papers are acceptable). * 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. * All the main definitions, theorems and algorithms must be illustrated by simple but meaningful examples. Without these, the paper will not be considered. Submission to this special issue is via the EasyChair submission system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftpjsc2010. Submissions must comply with JSC's author guidelines. They must be written in English and should be prepared in LaTeX. The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class "elsarticle". The Elsevier LaTeX style file package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained from http://www.elsevier.com/latex. It consists of the file: elsarticle.cls, complete user documentation for the class file, bibliographic style files in various styles, and template files for a quick start. An older version of the "Elsevier Article Class (elsart.cls)" with "JSC add-on style (yjsco.sty)" and "Harvard style references (elsart-harv.bst)" can be obtained as the package "JSC LaTex" (that contains all the necessary style files and a template) from http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hong/jsc/JSC_LaTex_2007_Mar_12.zip Contact ======= For further informations please send an e-mail to Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (e-mail: sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de) From fred_freitas_br at yahoo.com.br Mon Apr 26 16:00:24 2010 From: fred_freitas_br at yahoo.com.br (Fred) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:00:24 +0200 Subject: [DL] New deadline : May, 2 - CFP - The Joint VORTE-MOST 2010 Workshop at the IEEE EDOC Conference, Vitoria, Brazil Message-ID: <4BD59C78.4010009@yahoo.com.br> ** New deadline : May, 2, 2010 ** CALL FOR PAPERS The Joint - 5th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise - International Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies and Semantic Technologies (VORTE-MOST 2010) http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/vorte2010 Co-located event at the Fourteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2010) http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br 25-29 October 2010, Vit?ria, ES, Brazil Ontology is a cross-disciplinary field concerned with the study of concepts and theories that can be used for representing shared conceptualizations of specific domains. Ontological Engineering is a discipline in computer and information science concerned with the development of techniques, methods, languages and tools for the systematic construction of concrete artifacts capturing these representations, i.e., models (e.g., domain ontologies) and metamodels (e.g., upper-level ontologies). In recent years, there has been a growing interest in diverse areas in computer science such as software and data engineering, knowledge representation, natural language processing, information science, among many others. The objective of VORTE-MOST 2010 is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the relation between ontology and information models, and theoretical topics such as formal ontology, formal logics, conceptual modelling, enterprise computing, computational linguistics, cognitive science, knowledge representation, the Semantic Web, and MDE (Model-Driven Engineering), as well as more practical topics as a result of applications of ontologies in diverse fields, such as knowledge management, informatics for education, ontology-based information and database integration, information processing (retrieval, classification and extraction), to mention just a few. TOPICS ? Ontology Engineering ? o methodologies o capture and learning o management ? Ontology and Conceptual Modeling ? o Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling o Ontology and Epistemology in Information Systems o Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments o Conceptual Modeling for the Semantic Web o Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration ? Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for Enterprise Modeling ? o Ontologies and Business Process Modeling o Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling o Ontologies and Business Rules o Enterprise Reference Ontologies, Taxonomies and Vocabularies ? Semantic Consistency ? o Foundational Ontologies o Upper-Level Ontologies o Evaluation Methods, Applications and Problems ? Semantic Interoperability ? o Composition and Modularity o Merging, Mapping and Alignment o Ontology Language Interoperability o Global Ontologies and Local as View (LAV) integration methods, problems and practice ? Enhancement of Ontology Applicability ? o Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing o Patterns of ontologies for specific applications ? Ontologies for Information Sharing ? o Ontology-based information integration o Mediators and brokers o Agents and ontologies o Ontology-based data transformation and data migration tools o Ontology-enabled interoperability in e-science, life sciences, e-business, culture o User friendly semantic system integration tools ? Ontology Applications ? o The Semantic Web o Knowledge management o E-commerce, e-government o E-learning and e-science - agents and multiagents patterns and applications o Information retrieval, extraction and classification o Ontologies and semantic technologies in Education o Ontologies and natural language processing o Ontology visualization VORTE 2010 is the 5th workshop associated with the EDOC conference series that intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modelling, information systems, semantic web, model-driven engineering, business rules, and business process management. The goal of the workshop is to discuss the role that (foundational and domain) ontologies/vocabularies and business rules play in the conceptual design and implementation of next generation enterprise solutions. MOST was held for the first time during the 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER?2009) and it was created as the unification of two existing workshops: (i) Workshop on Ontologies and Applications (WONTO) ? organized since 2005 also in three editions, and (ii) Workshop on Ontologies and Metamodels in Software and Data Engineering (WOMSDE) ? organized since 2006 for three consecutive editions. VORTE-MOST 2010 can also be seen as a 5th edition of these joint scientific fora. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit two types of papers: ? Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describe interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and ? Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results than short papers. All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair athttp://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2010. All submissions should be in English. All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2010 Workshops will be published after the workshop with an ISBN in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper must register for the main conference (there will be no workshop-only registration at EDOC 2010) and present their papers at the workshop. The registration needs to be done via the EDOC 2010 website (http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/). The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be accessible through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop. Post-conference Journal Publication We are planning to invite selected papers for publication in a well-known international journal. (To be confirmed) IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: ** New deadline : May, 2, 2010 ** Paper Notification: June 4th, 2010 Camera Ready Copy: June 16th, 2010 Workshop: October xx, 2010 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ? Ebrahim Bagheri, National Research Council of Canada, Canada, Ebrahim.Bagheri(at)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca ? Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, University of Twente, The Netherlands, l.o.bonino(at)ewi.utwente.nl ? Fred Freitas, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, fred(at)cin.ufpe.br ? Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil, gguizzardi(at)acm.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED) > ? Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany > > ? Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy > > . Andr?ia Malucelli, PUC-Paran?, Brazil > > ? Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway > > ? Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University, UK > > ? Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA > > ? Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany > > ? Daniel Schwabe, PUC-RJ, Brazil > > ? Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada > > ? Evandro Costa, UFAL, Brazil > > ? Fabio Porto, Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, Switzerland > > . Fred Fonseca, Pennsylvania State University, USA > > ? Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany > > ? Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada > > ? Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand > > ? Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada > > ? Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA > > ? Lu?s Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands > > ? Mara Abel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil > > . Marco Antonio Casanova, PUC-Rio, Brazil > > ? Maria Luiza Machado Campos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil > > ? Martin Doerr, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece > > ? Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia > > ? Mustafa Jarrar, STARLAB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium > > ? Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain > > ? Oscar Pastor, Technical University of Valencia, Spain > > ? Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, USA > > ? Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA > > ? Peter Rittgen, University College of Bor?s, Sweden > > ? Renata Vieira, PUC-RS, Brazil > > ? Renata Wassermann, University of S?o Paulo, Brazil > > ? Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan > > ? Rinke Hoekstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands > > ? Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia > > ? Roberta Ferrario, LOA-CNR, Italy > > ? Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland / DERI, Ireland > > . Sofia Pinto, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal > > ? Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine > > ? Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany > > ? Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada LINKS EDOC2010 web site: http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/ easy chair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2010 formatting guidelines: http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html -- []s Fred Freitas ************ Centro de Inform?tica - CIn Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE - Brazil Currently at the Knowledge Representation Knowledge Management research group at the University of Mannheim, Germany http://ki.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/people/fred_freitas.html Research interests: Ontologies, semantic web, ontology-based text processing From geoff at cs.miami.edu Wed May 5 11:33:56 2010 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 05:33:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR-17 in Indonesia - CFP and Workshops Message-ID: <20100505093356.EB43B11FB4F@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ============================================================ The 17th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning ============================================================ Yogyakarta, Indonesia - October 10th-15th, 2010 http://www.computational-logic.org/lpar-17/Home.html 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 logic, 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 17th LPAR will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Conference Chair: Steffen Hoelldobler Programme Chairs: Chris Fermueller, Andrei Voronkov Submissions of two kinds are welcome: * Regular papers that describe solid new research results. * Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems, report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented systems. The submission deadline is 8th June. =============================================================================== LPAR-17 WORKSHOPS October 10th, 2010 ============================================================ APS 5 - 5th International Workshop on Analytic Proof Systems ============================================================ http://www.logic.at/staff/chrisf/ws/LPAR-AS-5.html Analyticity is a topic that connects foundational issues in logic with applications, mainly in automated deduction and analysis of proofs. The workshop is primarily intended to enhance awareness for its topic and to promote corresponding discussions and contacts between experienced experts and younger colleagues. The submission deadline is 10th September. Organizers: Matthias Baaz, Christian Fermueller ========================================================================== IWIL 2010 - The 8th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics ========================================================================== http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/IWIL-2010/iwil-2010.html IWIL has been unusually sucessful in bringing together many talented developers, and thus in sharing information about successful implementation techniques for automated reasoning systems and similar programs. We are looking for contributions describing implementation techniques for and implementations of automated reasoning programs, theorem provers for various logics, logic programming systems, and related technologies. The submission deadline is 9th August. Organizers: Evgenia Ternovska, Stephan Schulz, Geoff Sutcliffe =============================================================================== From kanazawa.makoto at gmail.com Tue May 11 07:47:14 2010 From: kanazawa.makoto at gmail.com (Makoto Kanazawa) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 14:47:14 +0900 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2011: Open for Submissions Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 23rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2011 August 1-12, 2011 Ljubljana, Slovenia http://esslli2011.ijs.si/ 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 computer science. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within or around the three main 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. For more information, visit the FoLLI website, as well as the ESSLLI 2010 website: http://esslli2010cph.info/. CALL FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The ESSLLI 2011 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 23rd annual Summer School on important topics of active research in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the cognitive sciences. All proposals should be submitted via the EasyChair system, using a prescribed form that is available on the ESSLLI 2011 website, no later than: June 14, 2010 Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision by September 15, 2010. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Proposers of courses and workshops should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that do not conform with these guidelines may 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 must have obtained a Ph.D. or an equivalent degree at the time of the submission deadline. Courses and workshops run over one week (Monday-Friday) and consist of five 90-minute sessions. 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 and an advance course in the second). 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 who wish 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 competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses should have no special prerequisites, but may presuppose some experience with scientific methods and general appreciation of the field of the course. INTRODUCTORY COURSES Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are intended to provide an introduction to the (interdisciplinary) field for students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to equip them with a good understanding of the field's basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable experienced researchers from other fields to acquire the key competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Introductory courses in a topic at the interface of two fields 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 Ph.D. students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. TIMETABLE FOR COURSE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Jun 14, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 15, 2010: Notification Deadline Jun 1, 2011: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material by the ESSLLI 2011 local organizers 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. The proposals for workshops should justify the choice of topic, give an estimate of the number of attendants and expected submissions, and provide a list of at least 15 potential submitters working in the field of the workshop. The organizers are required to give a general introduction to the theme during the first session of the workshop. They are also responsible for various organizational matters, including soliciting submissions, reviewing, drawing up the program, taking care of expenses of invited speakers, etc. In particular, each workshop organizer will be responsible for sending out a Call for Papers for the workshop and to organize the selection of the submissions by the deadlines specified below. The call for workshop submissions must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community and should indicate that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. TIMETABLE FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: Jun 14, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 15, 2010: Notification Deadline Oct 15, 2010: Deadline for submission of the Calls for Papers to ESSLLI 2011 PC chair Nov 1, 2010: Workshop organizers send out First Call for Papers Dec 15, 2010: Workshop organizers send out Second Call for Papers Jan 15, 2011: Workshop organizers send out Third Call for Papers Feb 15, 2011: Deadline for submissions to the workshops Apr 15, 2011: Suggested deadline for notification of workshop contributors Jun 1, 2011: Deadline for submission of camera-ready copy of workshop proceedings to the ESSLLI 2011 Local Organizers. 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 A form for submitting course and workshop proposals will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2011 web site: http://esslli2011.ijs.si/. The proposers are required to submit the following information: * Contact address and fax number * Name, email, affiliation, homepage of each lecturer / workshop organizer (at most two per course or workshop) * Title of proposed course/workshop * Abstract (abstract of the proposal, max 150 words) * Type (workshop, foundational, introductory, or advanced course) * Areas (one or more of: Computation, Language, Logic, or Other) * Description (describe the proposed contents of the course and substantiate timeliness and relevance to ESSLLI in at most one A4 page) * Tentative outline of the course / expected participation in the workshop * External funding (whether the proposers will be able to obtain external funding for travel and accommodation expenses) * Further particulars (e.g., course prerequisites, previous teaching experiences, etc.) 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 expenses (up to fixed maximum amounts, which will be communicated to the lecturers upon notification). Lecturers and workshop organizers will have their registration fee waived. In case a course or workshop is to be taught/organized by two people, a lump sum will be reimbursed to cover travel and accommodation expenses for one of them; the splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers/organizers. It should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the School cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs, especially from destinations outside Europe. The local organizers would highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses, as that would help us keep the cost of attending ESSLLI 2011 lower. ESSLLI 2011 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) Local Co-chair: Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) Area specialists: Language and Computation: Markus Egg (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin) Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Language and Logic: Hans-Christian Schmitz (Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin) Louise McNally (UPF, Barcelona) Logic and Computation: Ralph Matthes (IRIT, CNRS and University of Toulouse) Eric Pacuit (Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg) ESSLLI 2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Chair: Darja Fiser (University of Ljubljana) ESSLLI 2011 website: http://esslli2011.ijs.si/ EasyChair submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2011 From kroening at comlab.ox.ac.uk Fri Apr 30 12:31:50 2010 From: kroening at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Daniel Kroening) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:31:50 +0100 Subject: [DL] Three Postdocs at Oxford University In-Reply-To: <3A0B771091C3C740912DF27086F0857C020A8AF293A7@MAILBOX.usilu.net> References: <3A0B771091C3C740912DF27086F0857C020A8AF293A7@MAILBOX.usilu.net> Message-ID: <46FD0790-542E-43A8-9987-B2B8D570ECBE@comlab.ox.ac.uk> Postdoctoral Researcher The Automated Formal Verification Group is advertising a post for a Grade 7 Research Assistant to work on the automated verification of concurrent programs that make use of shared memory under the direction of Daniel Kroening and Jo?l Ouaknine in the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. Applicants should have (or shortly expect to receive) a PhD in Computer Science or a closely related field. The primary selection criteria are strong programming and systems skills, some experience of tool construction, and basic knowledge of program analysis. A background in theoretical computer science or mathematics is desirable. Candidates with prior experience with programming for the x86 memory model are especially encouraged to contact us, although this is by no means a necessary requirement. The work will take place within the Verification group in the Oxford University Computing La bo ratory, which comprises, in addition to the two investigators, world-leading experts in software verification and model checking such as Marta Kwiatkowska, Tom Melham, Luke Ong, and Bill Roscoe. The posts will have a salary on the University grade 7 scale (currently ?28,839 to ?35,469 pa). The official ad for the post and instructions for applying can be found here: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/news/179-full.html We expecting to advertise two additional posts for Postdocs to work on program analysis in the near future. We welcome any inquiries via e-mail to Daniel Kroening and Jo?l Ouaknine. PhD Studentship The Automated Formal Verification Group is offering a fully funded DPhil (Oxford's "PhD") position at Oxford University's Computing Laboratory. The position is associated with a project under the supervision of Daniel Kroening and Jo?l Ouaknine and will address the correctness of multi-threaded concurrent software. The studentship is fully funded (at EU fees level ? overseas candidates will need supplementary funding) for 3? years. The studentship includes a stipend of at least ?12,940 per year as well as provision for travel to conferences. Candidates must satisfy the usual requirements for studying for a doctorate at Oxford. The formal advertisement and instructions for applying are online at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/news/149-full.html. From ocorcho at fi.upm.es Fri May 7 16:45:37 2010 From: ocorcho at fi.upm.es (Oscar Corcho) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 16:45:37 +0200 Subject: [DL] EKAW2010 call for poster and demos In-Reply-To: <052c01caede9$41810da0$c48328e0$@upm.es> References: <052c01caede9$41810da0$c48328e0$@upm.es> Message-ID: <056f01caedf3$f59aa8f0$e0cffad0$@upm.es> The poster and demonstration session of EKAW 2010 is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their innovative prototypes, ongoing projects, lessons learned and late-breaking results, to discuss with other conference participants and to establish new collaborations. We also encourage contributions that are likely to stipulate critical or controversial discussions about any of the areas of the EKAW conference series (knowledge management, knowledge engineering and acquisition, and knowledge in use), and with a special focus on knowledge management and engineering by the masses, which is this year?s special topic. For further information about EKAW 2010, please refer to the conference homepage: http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to the following areas (from those of the main conference): 1) Knowledge Management * Methodologies and tools for knowledge management * Aspects of collaboration, distribution and evolution of knowledge in KM * Advanced knowledge modeling languages and tools * Best practices / experiences in KM * Foundations of KM * Entity-oriented approaches to KM * Layered intelligence in knowledge management * Provenance, reliability and trust in knowledge management * Knowledge management for collaboration and decision support * Methods for accelerating take-up of KM technologies * Corporate memories for KM * Case-based reasoning for KM * Large-scale distributed reasoning 2) Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition * Methodologies for knowledge engineering * Knowledge acquisition, ontology learning * Knowledge sharing * Knowledge evolution * Collaborative knowledge engineering * Design patterns * Techniques for knowledge acquisition based on machine learning, NLP etc. * Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge modeling * Knowledge engineering and software engineering * Ontology localization * Ontology alignment * Evolution of knowledge (including ontology evolution) * Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri, folksonomies, lexica etc.) * Knowledge acquisition and knowledge integration from heterogeneous sources (multimedia and 3D data, databases, sensor data streams, social interaction data) * Knowledge authoring and knowledge markup languages * Ontology evaluation * Dynamic, distributed and process knowledge (including web services, grid services, P2P systems, rules and business processes, problem solving methods, procedural knowledge) * Agent-based approaches to knowledge management * Knowledge mashups 3) Knowledge In Use: knowledge management and engineering for * Retrieval and proactive delivery of pertinent knowledge * Multimedia applications * Life and E-sciences * E-Government and public administration * Health and medicine * Automotive and manufacturing industry * Semantic desktop applications * The legal domain * Cultural heritage applications * Digital broadcasting and film, game and 3D media content production and sharing * Digital libraries * Virtual worlds * Storytelling * Management in critical applications * Organizing user-contributed content * Transition across organizations 4) Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Engineering * Sustainability and cost analysis of knowledge engineering * Human-knowledge interaction * Cognitive systems and knowledge engineering * Knowledge ecosystems * Knowledge and social network analysis & modeling * Knowledge in trust networks * Personal sphere in knowledge engineering and management * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition 5) Special focus knowledge management and engineering by the masses * Human-machine synergy in knowledge acquisition * Incentives for knowledge creation and semantic annotation * Enhancing human productivity (e.g. knowledge workers) * Social and human factors in knowledge management * Collective and collaborative intelligence in knowledge management * Social tagging and folksonomies, social networks * Web2.0 approaches to KM (including semantic wikis, folksonomies, etc.) * Games with a Purpose and KM * Linked Open Data / Web of Data Submission ----------- Authors must submit a 2-page paper in PDF format (ACM style - http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates -, double column), which describes the planned contents of the poster or demo to be presented. The paper should clearly indicate the type of presentation (i.e. poster, demo or both) and an informative abstract motivating its relevance with respect to the topics of interest of EKAW 2010. Each paper will be reviewed by members of the poster/demonstration program committee, who will judge the originality, topicality and clarity of the proposed contents. The submission site is available at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/EKAW2010/ Important Dates ----------- Submission: June 18, 2010 Notification: July 9, 2010 Camera Ready: July 30, 2010 Poster/Demonstration Chairs ------------ Oscar Corcho (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid) Johanna Voelker (University of Mannheim) Poster/Demonstration Program Committee ------------ Andriy Nikolov (KMI, Open University) Christian Meilicke (University of Mannheim) Christopher Thomas (Wright State University) Elena Montiel Ponsoda (Universidad Polit?chnica de Madrid) Eva Blomqvist (STLab, ISTC-CNR) Fouad Zablith (KMI, Open University) Frank Dengler (AIFB, University of Karlsruhe) Guillaume Ereteo (INRIA France) H?ctor P?rez Urbina (Clark & Parsia LLC) Holger Lewen (AIFB, University of Karlsruhe) Jose Iria (University of Sheffield) Kai Eckert (University of Mannheim) Katharina Siorpaes (STI Innsbruck) Klaas Dellschaft (University of Koblenz) Laura Hollink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Malte Kiesel (DFKI Kaiserslautern) Mark van Assem (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Michiel Hildebrand (CWI Amsterdam) Ondrej Svab-Zamazal (University of Economics, Prague) Paul Doran (University of Liverpool) Ralf Krestel (L3S Hannover) Ra?l Palma (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre) Simon Schenk (University of Koblenz) Simon Jupp (University of Manchester) Sofia Angeletou (KMI, Open University) Tania Tudorache (BMIR, Stanford University) Tudor Groza (DERI Galway) Veronique Malaise (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Vit Novacek (DERI Galway) Zoi Kaoudi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Se certific? que el correo entrante no contiene virus. 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[Note that comments will only be visible after a screening by the editor (to avoid spamming), and that public reviews must not be anonymous.] Best Regards, Pascal. -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Tue May 11 06:55:42 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 00:55:42 -0400 Subject: [DL] CfP: "Real-World Applications of OWL" SWJ special issue Message-ID: <4BE8E34E.3040203@wright.edu> == journal special issue, call for papers == REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS OF OWL = Description = The "Semantic Web" journal invites submissions for a special issue on "Real-world Applications of OWL." Submissions should consist of short papers describing deployed applications which use the Web Ontology Language OWL. The reports should be brief and pointed, indicating clearly, in what sense and to what extent OWL has been used in the application. These submissions will be reviewed along the following dimensions: (1) Quality, importance, and impact of the described application. (2) Clarity and readability of the describing paper, which shall convey to the reader the key ideas regarding the use of OWL in the application. Applications can cover all possible application areas. If you are uncertain if your application is suitable for this call, please direct your inquiry to the guest editors. = Important Dates = Submission Deadline: 15th of July, 2010. Acceptance Notification: 15th of September, 2010 Final Paper: 15th of October, 2010 = Submissions = Submissions should be 8-10 pages in length. Exceptions can be arranged, please contact the guest editors. Please see the submission information and guidelines at . When entering your manuscript into the review system, please state "OWL applications special issue" in the cover letter. Please also note the journal's open review process detailed at . = Guest Editors = Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Canada Rinke Hoekstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Please direct all inquiries to the guest editors. online version of this call: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/special-issue-real-world-applications-owl -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From richard.booth at uni.lu Fri May 7 02:40:06 2010 From: richard.booth at uni.lu (Richard Booth) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 02:40:06 +0200 Subject: [DL] Second Call for Papers - BNAIC 2010 (Benelux Conference on AI) Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings --------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: BNAIC 2010 BNAIC 2010 The 22nd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence Luxembourg, October 25-26 2010 http://bnaic2010.uni.lu Organised by: Computer Science and Communication Research Unit (CSC), University of Luxembourg Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor Introduction BNAIC is an international scientific conference for research in Artificial Intelligence. The BNAIC conferences series was initiated in 1988 by the Netherlands Association for Artificial Intelligence (later incorporating Belgium and Luxembourg to become the Benelux Association for AI) in order to promote research in AI among Benelux AI researchers, scientists and engineers in related disciplines. This year we are delighted to bring BNAIC for the first time to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. According to the success of previous years, BNAIC 2010 will include invited speakers, research and industry presentations and project demonstrations. Topics Authors are invited to submit papers on all aspects of artificial intelligence. Possible topics of submissions include, but are not limited to: * AI for Ambient Intelligence * AI for Games & Entertainment * Embodied Artificial Intelligence * Intelligent Agents & Multi-Agent Systems * Knowledge Representation * Ontologies * Semantic Web-Techniques & Technologies * Knowledge Management * Knowledge-based Systems * Logic in AI * Logic Programming * Natural Language Processing * Speech & Image Processing & Understanding * Cognitive Modelling * Reinforcement Learning * Planning & Scheduling * Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining * Machine Learning * Classification * Clustering * Pattern Discovery * Process Mining * Visualization * Case-Based Reasoning * Constraint Programming * Evolutionary Algorithms * Neural Networks * Verification & Validation * Search & Retrieval * Personalization & Adaptation * Recommender systems * Hybrid Intelligent Systems * AI in law, music, art, education, tutoring, medicine, bioinformatics, software, e-commerce, logistics, robotics, and other business & industry applications. Important Dates * Paper submissions: June 4, 2010 * Author notification: August 8, 2010 * Camera-ready papers: September 15, 2010 * Author registration: September 15, 2010 * Early registration: September 25, 2010 * Conference dates: October 25-26, 2010 Submission details Researchers are invited to submit unpublished original research, but high-quality research results possibly already published in international conferences or journals are also welcome. Three types of submissions are invited: Type A: REGULAR PAPERS Papers presenting new original work. Submitted papers should not exceed a length of 8 pages. These papers will be reviewed on overall quality and relevance. A-Papers can be accepted for either oral or poster presentation. All accepted papers will be fully published in the proceedings. Type B: COMPRESSED CONTRIBUTIONS Papers that have been accepted after June 1st, 2009 for AI-related refereed conferences or journals can be resubmitted and will be accepted as compressed contributions. Authors are invited to submit the officially published version (without page restriction) together with a one or two-page abstract. B-Papers will be accepted for either oral or poster presentation. The abstract of the paper will be published in the proceedings. Every author may submit at most one B-paper of which they are the corresponding author, and only if they do not submit any A-paper as corresponding author. Type C: DEMONSTRATIONS & APPLICATIONS Proposals for demonstrations will be evaluated based on submitted demonstration summaries stating the following: the purpose of the system to be demonstrated, its user groups, the organization or project for which it is developed, the developers, and the technology used. In addition, the system requirements and the duration of the demo (not exceeding 30 minutes) should be mentioned. Especially master students are encouraged to submit papers presenting their applications and experiences. The maximum size of demonstration summaries is 2 pages (in English). Papers and demonstration summaries should be submitted electronically via Easychair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bnaic2010) by June 4th, 2010. See http://bnaic2010.uni.lu/instructions.html for more details. Submission implies willingness of at least one author to register for BNAIC'10 and present the paper. For each paper, a separate author registration is required. Authors keep the copyright of their submissions. The BNAIC Proceedings are published under ISSN series number 1568-7805. General Chairs Pascal Bouvry (University of Luxembourg) Eric Dubois (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) Thibaud Latour (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg) Program Chairs Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg) Gregoire Danoy (University of Luxembourg) Benjamin Gateau (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) Isabelle Jars (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) Djamel Khadraoui (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) Marcin Seredynski (University of Luxembourg) From Richard.Moot at labri.fr Tue Apr 27 14:09:17 2010 From: Richard.Moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:09:17 +0200 Subject: [DL] E.W. Beth Dissertation Award 2010 - deadline extended Message-ID: <35770D94-61B3-4EA8-869F-3BA5219AEA5A@labri.fr> E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2010 call for nominations Deadline extended: May 16, 2010 !!! Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information, http://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 2009. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Interdisciplinarity 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, 2009 and December 31st, 2009. 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 2009 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2010). The present call for nominations for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Award 2010 will also accept nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in another language than English and defended in 2008 or 2009. 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 FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer). For further information on this series see 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 buszko at amu.edu.pl. Hard copy submissions are not admitted. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days, nominators should write to buszko at amu.edu.pl. Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: April 30, 2010 (extended: May 16, 2010) Notification of Decision: July 20, 2010. Committee : Natasha Alechina (Nottingham) Lev Beklemishev (Moscow) Wojciech Buszkowski (chair) (Poznan) Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS) Nissim Francez (Haifa) Alexander Koller (Saarbruecken) Alberto Policriti (Udine) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester) Rob van der Sandt (Nijmegen) Colin Stirling (Edinburgh) Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden) From schweika.floc at googlemail.com Sat May 1 19:28:48 2010 From: schweika.floc at googlemail.com (Nicole Schweikardt) Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 19:28:48 +0200 Subject: [DL] FLoC 2010: 2nd Call for Participation Message-ID: 2010 FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLoC'10) Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. July 9-21, 2010 http://www.floc-conference.org DEADLINES (All deadlines are firm!): * deadline for student travel grant application: 3 MAY 2010. * early registration deadline: 17 MAY 2010. NEW CANCELLATION POLICY: details are given below. * The fifth Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'10) will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. (www.edinburgh.org), in July 2010, at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (www.inf.ed.ac.uk). * FLoC'10 promises to be the premier scientific meeting in computational logic in 2010. The following conferences will participate in FLoC: - CAV 2010: Int'l Conference on Computer-Aided Verification - CSF 2010: IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium - ICLP 2010: Int'l Conference on Logic Programming - IJCAR 2010: Int'l Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning - ITP 2010: Int'l Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving - LICS 2010: IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science - RTA 2010: Int'l Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications - SAT 2010: Int'l Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing The eight major conferences will be accompanied by more than fifty workshops and a number of other affiliated events. * Program: The FLoC'10 program includes plenary talks by David Basin, Georg Gottlob, David Harel, and Gordon Plotkin, as well as keynote talks by Deepak Kapur and J Strother Moore. Please consult the FLoC website for further information on invited speakers and contributed talks of all the participating conferences. * The city of Edinburgh: Edinburgh (http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/city/introduction), one of the most vibrant, cosmopolitan cities in Europe, has been regularly voted one of the most desirable places to live in the world - and the University is at the heart of it all. Located throughout the centre of the city, the campus plays an integral part in the activities of Scotland's lively capital. Set against a beautiful backdrop of stunning architecture, Edinburgh is a welcoming, cosmopolitan city with a large and diverse student population. The city offers an exciting array of entertainment, history, culture and sport, with the lush Scottish countryside and coastline just a few miles away. It is a safe and prosperous city, with an abundance of parks and green spaces for recreation and reflection. FLoC receptions will be held at the Edinburgh Castle (11 July) and the National Galleries of Scotland (16 July). * Registration: For online registration for FLoC, please follow the link on the FLoC website at http://floc-conference.org/registration.html Registration is now open. The deadline for early registration is 17 May. Standard rates will apply for those who register between 18 May and 30 June. For those who register after 30 June, late rates will apply. Note that it is possible to register early, and then add components (e.g., additional workshops, additional registration days, etc.) later on. * Accomodation: Very affordable accommodation has been booked at the University's Pollock Halls campus, about 15-minute walk from the conference site. Room types include single/double rooms with shared facilities/ensuite, and standard hotel rooms in a 3-star Victorian mansion. Alternatively, blocks of rooms have been booked at several hotels in the cite centre. For details, see http://floc-conference.org/accommodation.html * Cancellation Policy: If a participant is unable to attend FLoC because of force majeure (e.g., volcanic ash causing flight cancellation) or because of visa denial, their registration fee and accommodation payments will be refunded in full, except for a GBP 50 administrative charge. * Student Travel Grants: FLoC has raised funds to help students with participating in the 2010 meeting. See details on http://www.floc-conference.org/floc-student-grants.html * FLoC'10 Steering Committee: - General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi - Conference Co-chairs: Leonid Libkin, Gordon Plotkin - CAV Representative: Edmund Clarke - ICLP Representative: Manuel Hermenegildo - IJCAR Representative: Alan Bundy - ITP Representative: Tobias Nipkow - LICS Representative: Martin Abadi - RTA Representative: Juergen Giesl - SAT Representative: Enrico Giunchiglia - EasyChair Representative: Andrei Voronkov ---------------------- You are subscribed to the FLoC 2010 mailing list. To unsubscribe please send an email to majordomo at informatik.uni-frankfurt.de with the keywords unsubscribe floc2010 in the message body. From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Fri May 7 13:53:18 2010 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 13:53:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] DEADLINE EXTENSION: Special JSC issue on First Order Theorem Proving Message-ID: <5953fbf453b5c3b9b028f136b75a2f46.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> [Apologies for multiple copies] ---------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENSION Journal of Symbolic Computation Special Issue on First Order Theorem Proving http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/ftp-special-issue.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Due to several requests, the submission deadline for the * * special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on * * First Order Theorem Proving is extended until * * *** JUNE 1st, 2010 *** * ---------------------------------------------------------------- Further information about this special issue and details about the topics of interest and the submission procedure can be found at: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/ftp-special-issue.html Submission ========== Submission to this special issue is completely open. We expect original articles (typically 15-30 pages) that present high-quality contributions in the area of First Order Theorem Proving (in a wide sense) that have not been previously published in a journal and are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere (extended or improved versions of conference papers are acceptable). Submissions must comply with JSC's author guidelines. The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class "elsarticle". The Elsevier LaTeX style file package can be obtained from http://www.elsevier.com/latex. Further details on how to prepare the paper are mentioned at: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/ftp-special-issue.html Submission to this special issue is via EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftpjsc2010. Guest editors: ============== Nicolas Peltier (CNRS - LIG,France) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI,Saarbruecken,Germany) ------------------------------------------------------------------- For further informations please send an e-mail to Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (e-mail: sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de) ------------------------------------------------------------------- From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Mon May 10 22:36:46 2010 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 22:36:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2010 - 2nd Call for participation Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IJCAR 2010 - The 5th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Edinburgh, UK, July 16-19, 2010 http://www.floc-conference.org/IJCAR-home.html as part of FLoC 2010 - Federated Logic Conference http://www.floc-conference.org/ Call for Participation --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all topics in automated reasoning. The IJCAR technical programme will consist of presentations of high-quality original research papers, system descriptions, and invited talks. IJCAR 2010 is a merger of leading events in automated reasoning: 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) Registration, accomodation, and travel/visa information for all FLoC conferences and workshops is on the FLoC 2010 web pages. Book your trip to Edinburgh today! DEADLINES: * early registration deadline: 17 MAY 2010. * standard registration: 18 MAY 2010 - 30 JUNE 2010. * late registration: after 30 JUNE 2010. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Program ------------------ + Presentation of 2 invited IJCAR talks + Presentation of 2 plenary/keynote FLoC invited talks + Presentation of 28 regular research papers + Presentation of 12 system abstracts + Presentation of the Herbrand Award to David Plaisted + 13 workshops, 2 competitions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers ---------------- + Invited IJCAR Speakers ---------------------- + Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research Redmond + Johan van Benthem, Stanford University and University of Amsterdam + Plenary and Keynote Invited Talks at FLoC ----------------------------------------- + David Basin, ETH Zurich + Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshops, Competitions ----------------------- There will be thirteen workshops and two system competitions associated with IJCAR. See their individual WWW pages, linked from the FLoC WWW pages for more information. + Workshops - AUTOMATHEO 2010: Workshop on Automated Mathematical Theory Exploration (Workshop affilliated to FLoC) (with ITP) - CLoDeM2010: International Workshop on Comparing Logical Decision Methods (with LICS) - EMSQMS 2010: Workshop on Evaluation Metods for Solvers, and Quality Metrics for Solutions (with CAV) - LfSA 2010: Logics for Systems Analysis (with LICS) - MLPA-10: 2nd Workshop on Module Systems and Libraries for Proof Assistants (with ITP) - PAAR-2010: Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning - SVARM 2010: Synthesis, Verification and Analysis of Rich Models (with CAV) - UITP10: 9th International Workshop On User Interfaces for Theorem Provers (with ITP) - UniDL10: 1st Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics - UNIF 2010: 24th International Workshop on Unification (with RTA) - VERIFY-2010: 6th International Verification Workshop - WING 2010: Workshop on Invariant Generation - WST 2010: 11th International Workshop on Termination (with RTA) + Competitions - CASC-J5: 5th IJCAR ATP System Competition - Termination 2010: 7th International Termination Competition --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Events ------------- + Welcome reception at the Scottish National Galleries. + Conference banquet at the luxurious Prestonfield Hotel. + CASQ-J5 - the CADE Squash Competition --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings ----------- At registration the proceedings of all FLoC conferences and workshops will be provided, at no additional cost, on a USB stick. Hard copy IJCAR 2010 proceedings are optionally available, for an additional cost. Remember to tick the hardcopy proceedings box when you register. Please note that hard copies are offered at appr. 50% discount during registration and will not be on sale later on or during the conference. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration ------------ For online registration for IJCAR, please follow the link on the FLoC website at http://floc-conference.org/registration.html Registration is now open. The deadline for early registration is 17 May. Standard rates will apply for those who register between 18 May and 30 June. For those who register after 30 June, late rates will apply. Note that it is possible to register early, and then add components (e.g., additional workshops, additional registration days, etc.) later on. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accomodation ------------ Very affordable accommodation has been booked at the University's Pollock Halls campus, about 15-minute walk from the conference site. Room types include single/double rooms with shared facilities/ensuite, and standard hotel rooms in a 3-star Victorian mansion. Alternatively, blocks of rooms have been booked at several hotels in the cite centre. For details, see http://floc-conference.org/accommodation.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Student Travel Grants -------------------- FLoC has raised funds to help students with participating in the 2010 meeting. CADE is also funding the Woody Bledsoe Student Bursary scheme for students attending IJCAR 2010. Application deadline is May 3, 2010. The application form and further details are available on the conference website http://www.floc-conference.org/floc-student-grants.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For all enquiries about FLoC conferences email: floc-admin at inf.ed.ac.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tb at imm.dtu.dk Sun May 9 00:48:48 2010 From: tb at imm.dtu.dk (Thomas Bolander) Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 00:48:48 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: Post-proceedings of HyLo 2010 Message-ID: <4BE5EA50.6060702@imm.dtu.dk> ************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS Post-Proceedings of Hybrid Logic and Applications (HyLo 2010) Submission deadline: September 15, 2010 ************************************************************* The post-proceedings of the HyLo 2010 workshop (http://hylocore.ruc.dk/HyLo2010.html) will be published, after a formal refereeing procedure, as a volume of Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/entcs). Submissions are not restricted to works presented at the workshop. General information ------------------- Hybrid logic is an extension of modal logic which allows us to refer explicitly to states of the model in the syntax of formulas. Developed in the last fifteen years or so, Hybrid logic is now a mature field on its own with significant impact on a range of other fields. Submissions ----------- The post-proceedings volume editors welcome original high-quality contributions on hybrid logic and applications that have not been published or submitted elsewhere. The scope is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery like nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder but, more generally, extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power. Please use the HyLo 2010 submission page to submit papers (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=hylo2010). Use the submission category "Additional papers". Papers should not exceed 17 pages including references. Authors must prepare their submissions according to the ENTCS guidelines (http://www.entcs.org). Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee of HyLo 2010. Important dates --------------- The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2010. Contact Details --------------- Please send all correspondence regarding submissions to the organizers of HyLo 2010: Thomas Bolander http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~tb Torben Bra?ner http://www.ruc.dk/~torben From Thomas.Lukasiewicz at comlab.ox.ac.uk Tue May 4 02:42:26 2010 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 02:42:26 +0200 Subject: [DL] Web Reasoning and Rule Systems 2010: Call for Papers Message-ID: <4BDF6D72.9020402@comlab.ox.ac.uk> CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010) Bressanone/Brixen, Italy September 22-24, 2010 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 Co-located with the Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2010. The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2010 builds on the success of the first three International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (see http://www.rr-conference.org), held in Innsbruck, Austria (2007), Karlsruhe, Germany (2008), and Chantilly, Virginia, USA (2009), which received enthusiastic support from the Web Reasoning community. In 2010, 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. Suggested topics include the following (but are not limited to): * Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge * 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 * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the WWW Incubator Group, etc. * 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 * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Stream reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and will be available at the conference. After the conference, there will be a special issue of the (new IOS Press) journal "Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" with selected papers from the conference (see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net). SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 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), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2010). The length should not exceed 15 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). The stated lengths include title, abstract, and references. Short papers, posters, and system descriptions should be clearly marked as such in the title and in the easychair submission system. Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Original research and application papers are welcome; 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 Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2010 Paper/poster/demo submission deadline: May 22, 2010 Paper/poster/demo accept/reject decisions: June 24, 2010 Camera-ready due: July 15, 2010 Last day for early registration fee: July 15, 2010 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS Georg Gottlob (Oxford University, UK) GENERAL CHAIR Jos? J?lio Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) PROGRAM CHAIRS Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Mariano Rodr?guez-Muro (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete, Greece) Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile, Chile) Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Andrea Cal? (Oxford University, UK) Vinay Chaudri (Stanford Research Institute, USA) Kendall Clark (Clark & Parsia, USA) Claudia d'Amato (University of Bari, Italy) Carlos Damasio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Wlodek Drabent (IPI PAN Warszawa, Poland) Sergio Flesca (University of Calabria, Italy) Christine Golbreich (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France) Claudio Gutierrez (University of Chile, Chile) Stijn Heymans (TU Vienna, Austria) Rinke Hoekstra (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Giovambattista Ianni (University of Calabria, Italy) Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Natalya G. Keberle (Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine) Domenico Lembo (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy) Francesca A. Lisi (University of Bari, Italy) Gergely Luk?csy (DERI Galway, Ireland) Jan Maluszynski (University of Link?ping, Sweden) Wolfgang May (University of G?ttingen, Germany) Ralf M?ller (TU Hamburg, Germany) Boris Motik (Oxford University, UK) Wolfgang Nejdl (LS3 and University of Hannover, Germany) Matthias Nickles (University of Bath, UK) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Sebastian Rudolph (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Alan Ruttenberg (ScientificCommons, Switzerland) Michael Sintek (DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Terrance Swift (SUNY Stony Brook, USA) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen, Italy) Dirk Vermeir (University of Brussels, Belgium) Zhe Wu (Oracle, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the RR 2010 web site at http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 From thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de Thu May 6 19:45:14 2010 From: thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de (Thorsten Liebig) Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 19:45:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] 3rd CfP: SEMAPRO 2010 || October 25 - 30, 2010 - Florence, Italy Message-ID: <4BE3002A.2090808@uni-ulm.de> ============== SEMAPRO 2010 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS SEMAPRO 2010: The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing October 25 - 30, 2010 - Florence, Italy General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/SEMAPRO10.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPSEMAPRO10.html Submission deadline: May 20, 2010 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Publisher: CPS ( see: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps ) Archived: IEEE CSDL (Computer Science Digital Library) and IEEE Xplore Submitted for indexing: Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI's Engineering Information Index Other indexes are being considered: INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html SEMAPRO 2010 Tracks (tracks' topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Basics on semantics Fundamental of semantics processing; Semantic-based techniques for feature selection; Semantic-based pruning; Semantic interoperability; Semantics uncertainty; Semantics pre-processing and post-processing; Semantics harmonization; Constraint-based semantics processing; Embedded semantics into the discovery process; Semantics in spatial and spatio-temporal models Ontology fundamentals for semantic processing Ontology learning; Ontology for semantic interoperability; Ontologies and data pre-processing; Ontology-based evaluation and semantic patterns; Global core ontologies; Progressive ontologies; Bridging semantics through ontologies; Ontology mapping and ontology visualization; Ontology in information systems; Ontology-based semantic mediation; Ontology design and maintenance for conceptual model integration; Reverse engineering of ontologies from conceptual models Semantic technologies Basics of Ontology and Semantic Web; Semantic storing, computing, representation, communications; Semantic-driven system design; Syntactic and semantic processing models; Hardware and software support for semantic processing; Microprocessors for semantic processing; Multi-model semantic systems; Semantic annotation of multimedia supports; Semantic multimedia information retrieval; Natural language semantic processing; Context-based semantic processing; Content-based semantic processing; Scalability to the Web level; Performance in semantic processing; Information security in semantic processing Semantic Deep Web Ontology plug-in search; Information extraction from the Deep Web /e-commerce sites/; Semantic Deep Web annotation and indexing; Deep Web-based ontology; Semantic Deep Web crawlers; Semantic browsing and visualization; Semantic Deep Web data fusion; Semiautomatic ontology generation; Metrics for quality of ontology; Similarity measures for ontology alignment; Measurements for quality of search; Tools for semantic Deep Web Semantic reasoning Reasoning methods; Reasoning for the Web; Ontology expressiveness; Ontology alignment, mapping and merging; Expressing formal semantics; Languages (RDF, RDF Schema, OWL, etc); Robustness of reasoning on the Web; Patterns on semantic reasoning; Querying and searching; Scalable and tolerant reasoning; Dynamic reasoning for the Semantic Web; Ontologies and problem-solving methods; Computational learning theory; Approximate reasoning/computing; Strategies for abstraction and compression of information; Cognitive semantic reasoning; Attention semantic scoping; Recency-based self-optimizing memory; Cost-benefit trade-off reasoning models; Negotiation in obtaining near-optimal reasoning results under bounded resources Semantic content searching Methodologies for innovative information retrieval technologies; Combinatorial search; Massive search-spaces with heuristics (e.g., based on Monte Carlo simulations); Searching using metadata, semantics, and ontology; Advanced searching in digital libraries; Advanced use of RDF and OWL; Expressiveness of the content ontologies; Inherent inconsistency and incompleteness of data on the Web; Scalability of semantic processing; Specialized search engines (Hakia, Matrixware and seekda) Hypertext and hypermedia semantic Hypertext techniques and semantic applications; Hypertext and ontologies; Hypertext semantic models; Spatial semantic hypertext; Self-organized hypertext; Semantic adaptive hypertext; Web and hypertext link analysis; Hypertexts and semantic Web; Hypertext semantic applications Semantic voice-video-speech (VVS) searching Engines and methods for VVS advanced searching; Patterns in VVS searching; Contextual VVS searching; Rapid VVS searching; Accuracy in VVS searching; Noise in VVS searching; Performance in VVS searching; Metrics for VVS searching; Text and VVS searching; Applications of VVS Semantic multimedia Efficient storage of structured data that scale to a very large size; Automatic generation of multimedia presentations; Advanced process for multimedia information mining; Semantic metadata extraction; Annotation tools and methods for content semantics; Media ontology generation/learning/reasoning; Semantic multimedia streaming; Semantics enabled multimedia applications /annotation/browsing/storage/retrieval/visualization Semantic social media Community detection and evolution in social media; Recommendation and ranking systems; Search in social media; Event detection, trend identification and tracking in social media; Influence, trust and reputation in social media; Opinion/sentiment analysis, polarity identification; Feed distillation and ranking blogs; Mining microblogging and real time data; Folksonomy, tag semantics, clustering and usage; Advertising models for the social web; Indexing social media content, index freshness; Visualizing social network data; Spam detection, social network spam and profile spam Semantic networking Semantic-based QoS (Quality of Service) control and scheduling; Semantic QoE (Quality of Experience) evaluation; Semantic-based Internet data streaming and delivery; Semantics enabled networking and middleware; Semantic routing; Semantic interfaces Domain-oriented semantic applications Semantics for managing pharmaceutical data; Semantic processing for biomedical knowledge; Speech, text and picture recognition; Semantic email workflow and content; Semantic blogs and wikis; Semantic email addressing; Semantic web and digital libraries; Semantic processing in e-Health; Semantic-driven tutoring systems Economics and governance of semantics technologies Organizational views; Legal; Business; Regulations; Assessment; Standards; Harmonization; Cross-nation mediation Semantic applications/platforms/tools Market for semantic technologies; Applications, services and systems based on semantic processing; User friendly semantic system integration tools; Ontology-based data transformation and data migration tools; Ontology mapping tools and languages; Ontology-enabled interoperability in e-science, life sciences, e-business, culture; Commercial cost models for semantic applications; Semantic solutions for business intelligence; Semantic processing platforms ; Supporting ontology platforms/tools (Prot?g?, etc); Semantic query languages (SPARQL, etc); Ontology-enabled search engines; Semantic Web search engines; Interoperability of data, systems, and organizations; Experiments and lessons learned; Standard activities ========== SEMAPRO Advisory Chairs Harith Alani, Knowledge Media Institute/The Open University, UK Petre Dini, IARIA / Concordia University, Canada Laurianne Sitbon, National ICT Australia/Queensland Research Laboratory - Brisbane, Australia Ren? Witte, Concordia University - Montr?al, Canada SEMAPRO 2010 Industry Liaison Chairs Stefania Galizia, INNOVA S.p.A., Italy Peter Haase, Fluid Operations, Germany Thorsten Liebig, derivo GmbH - Ulm, Germany SEMAPRO 2010 Research/Industry Chairs Nima Dokoohaki, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)-Kista, Sweden Ralf Krestel, L3S Research Center - Hannover, Germany Massimo Paolucci, DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH - Munich, Germany Darin L. Stewart, Oregon Health & Science University, USA Committee members: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ComSEMAPRO10.html ==================== From cfp2010 at MICAI.org Fri May 21 20:59:19 2010 From: cfp2010 at MICAI.org (MICAI 2010) Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 13:59:19 -0500 Subject: [DL] Deadline EXTENSION: MICAI 2010 - Artificial Intelligence, Springer LNAI, Mexico Message-ID: 9th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence MICAI-2010 November 8-13, Pachuca (near Mexico City), Mexico Publication: Springer LNAI www.micai.org/2010 *** EXTENDED *** deadline: June 1, 2010 abstract, June 8 full paper Due to numerous requests from interested authors we decided to extend the deadline. Please make sure to upload your abstract by June 1, and you will have time until June 8 to upload the full text of your paper (don't hesitate to contact us for late submissions in case of problems). Call for papers: == GENERAL INFORMATION Acceptance rate at recent MICAI events was 26% of over 400 submissions from over 40 countries. Topics: all areas of Artificial Intelligence, research or applications. Workshops and tutorials. Travel grants for student authors. Best papers awards. == PROCEEDINGS Springer LNAI; special issues of journals anticipated. Poster session: IEEE CPS anticipated. == VENUE AND TOURS Pachuca City: in 1 hour from Mexico City. Regular buses are available. Tours: Ancient pyramids of Teotihuacan -- one of the most important archaeological sites in the Americas. More tours anticipated. == DATES June 1, 2010 (*** EXTENDED ***): Registration of abstracts. June 8, 2010 (*** EXTENDED ***): Upload full text of registered papers. July 25, 2010: Notification of acceptance. August 7, 2010: Camera-ready and payment deadline. PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your colleagues and students. We apologize if you receive multiple copies. 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From geoff at cs.miami.edu Thu May 20 20:15:51 2010 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 14:15:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR-17 submission deadlines Message-ID: <20100520181551.3A77F11F876@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ============================================================ The 17th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning ============================================================ Yogyakarta, Indonesia - October 10th-15th, 2010 http://www.computational-logic.org/lpar-17/Home.html --------------------------------------- Abstract submission deadline - 1st June Paper submission deadline - 8th June --------------------------------------- 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 logic, 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 17th LPAR will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Conference Chair: Steffen Hoelldobler Programme Chairs: Chris Fermueller, Andrei Voronkov Submissions of two kinds are welcome: * Regular papers that describe solid new research results. * Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems, report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented systems. See the web site http://www.computational-logic.org/lpar-17/Home.html for all the details. =============================================================================== From hr at sti2.at Fri May 21 12:06:58 2010 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 12:06:58 +0200 Subject: [DL] Open position: PhD Researcher In-Reply-To: <4BA8C8D8.5060201@sti2.at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> <4B6C0262.8030803@sti2.at> <4B6C0284.8070601@sti2.at> <4BA8B8EC.2080101@sti2.at> <4BA8C8D8.5060201@sti2.at> Message-ID: <4BF65B42.6030807@sti2.at> Dear All, the Semantic Technology Institute (http://www.sti-innsbruck.at) at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) is currently seeking candidates for the following position: - PhD Researcher More Information on the job and the application procedure can be found at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public_prod/owa/karriereportal.karriere_detail?asg_id_in=6057 Best Regards, Human Resources STI Innsbruck Technikerstra?e 21a 6020 Innsbruck Austri From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Mon May 17 20:44:12 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 14:44:12 -0400 Subject: [DL] open PhD positions at Kno.e.sis Center Message-ID: <4BF18E7C.9060002@wright.edu> = open PhD positions at Kno.e.sis Center = The Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) is one of the largest and most influential academic research centers in Semantic Web and some of the Web 3.0 topics in the US. These new emerging areas combine a number of traditional CS fields (Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, Databases, Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Extraction, Distributed Computing, Mobile and Sensor Web, High Performance computing). Students who are seeking world-class research and guidance are welcome to apply for our PhD program. We have 15 faculty and over 45 funded researchers (mostly PhD students) and funding from major federal agencies as well as Microsoft Research, HP Labs, IBM Research and Google. Students are exceptionally successful (see http://www.slideshare.net/knoesis/inauguration-flash - interns at top companies, employment in top industry R&D labs, academic institutions and startups, alumni have started startups, etc.). For more information, plese see the folling pages: http://bit.ly/coe-k - a quick intro http://knoesis.org - our center; note in particular: http://knoesis.org/news/inauguration/ http://knoesis.org/aboutus/joiningus/ http://knoesis.org/aboutus/joiningus/joiningfaq/ http://knoesis.org/news/ http://knoesis.org/projects/ If you are interested in joining us, please contact any of our faculty members, including me. Students with an MS/ME and those who know what they like (and is in our area of expertise) and want in life (those who are ambitious) are especially welcome. Admissions are granted all year around. Strong CS background and research inclination is required. All PhD students in the Center have financial assistantships (some MS students are also partially supported). Information on how to apply can be found here: http://knoesis.org/aboutus/joiningus/ The department offers a pre-screening to check whether your credentials are strong enough for enrolling: https://www.engineering.wright.edu/cse/grad-pre-eval.shtml If you have done CS courses beyond Bachelor's degree, most of the credits can be transferred, reducing the remaining course work. -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Sat May 22 18:29:34 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:29:34 -0400 Subject: [DL] RR2010 call for position papers and PhD proposals Message-ID: <4BF8066E.3000603@wright.edu> CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS AND PHD PROPOSALS 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010) Bressanone/Brixen, Italy September 22-24, 2010 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 Co-located with the Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2010. The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2010 builds on the success of the first three International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (see http://www.rr-conference.org), held in Innsbruck, Austria (2007), Karlsruhe, Germany (2008), and Chantilly, Virginia, USA (2009), which received enthusiastic support from the Web Reasoning community. In 2010, 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. POSITION PAPERS submitted to the conference shall present a clearly defined and preferably controversial position concerning a topic of interest for the community. They shall stimulate discussion and critical assessment of the state of the art and of ongoing research trends. PHD PROPOSALS can only be submitted by PhD students and should contain either a PhD plan (for students at the beginning of their PhD research) or a summary of results achieved for a dissertation (for students at the end of their PhD research). In either case, the goal is to stimulate discussion with established researchers in the field as fruitful feedback to the student. Topics of interest include the following (but are not limited to): * Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge * 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 * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the WWW Incubator Group, etc. * 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 * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Stream reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers SUBMISSION OF POSITION PAPERS AND PHD PROPOSALS 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), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2010). The length should not exceed 4 pages for position papers and PhD proposals. They should be clearly marked as such in the title and in the easychair submission system. Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. All accepted papers, posters, and system descriptions will be included in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: June 8, 2010 Sccept/reject decisions: July 1, 2010 Camera-ready due: July 15, 2010 Last day for early registration fee: July 15, 2010 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS Georg Gottlob (Oxford University, UK) CONFIRMED TUTORIAL SPEAKER Axel Polleres (DERI Galway, Ireland) GENERAL CHAIR Jos? J?lio Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) PROGRAM CHAIRS Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Mariano Rodr?guez-Muro (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete, Greece) Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile, Chile) Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Andrea Cal? (Oxford University, UK) Vinay Chaudri (Stanford Research Institute, USA) Kendall Clark (Clark & Parsia, USA) Claudia d'Amato (University of Bari, Italy) Carlos Damasio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Wlodek Drabent (IPI PAN Warszawa, Poland) Sergio Flesca (University of Calabria, Italy) Christine Golbreich (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France) Claudio Gutierrez (University of Chile, Chile) Stijn Heymans (TU Vienna, Austria) Rinke Hoekstra (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Giovambattista Ianni (University of Calabria, Italy) Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Natalya G. Keberle (Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine) Domenico Lembo (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy) Francesca A. Lisi (University of Bari, Italy) Gergely Luk?csy (DERI Galway, Ireland) Jan Maluszynski (University of Link?ping, Sweden) Wolfgang May (University of G?ttingen, Germany) Ralf M?ller (TU Hamburg, Germany) Boris Motik (Oxford University, UK) Wolfgang Nejdl (LS3 and University of Hannover, Germany) Matthias Nickles (University of Bath, UK) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Sebastian Rudolph (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Alan Ruttenberg (ScientificCommons, Switzerland) Michael Sintek (DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Terrance Swift (SUNY Stony Brook, USA) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen, Italy) Dirk Vermeir (University of Brussels, Belgium) Zhe Wu (Oracle, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the RR 2010 web site at http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Mon May 17 03:44:11 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 21:44:11 -0400 Subject: [DL] DEADLINES EXTENDED: Web Reasoning and Rule Systems 2010: Call for Papers Message-ID: <4BF09F6B.8070002@wright.edu> DEADLINES EXTENDED! CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010) Bressanone/Brixen, Italy September 22-24, 2010 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 Co-located with the Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2010. The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2010 builds on the success of the first three International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (see http://www.rr-conference.org), held in Innsbruck, Austria (2007), Karlsruhe, Germany (2008), and Chantilly, Virginia, USA (2009), which received enthusiastic support from the Web Reasoning community. In 2010, 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. Suggested topics include the following (but are not limited to): * Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge * 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 * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the WWW Incubator Group, etc. * 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 * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Stream reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and will be available at the conference. After the conference, there will be a special issue of the (new IOS Press) journal "Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" with selected papers from the conference (see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net). SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 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), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2010). The length should not exceed 15 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). The stated lengths include title, abstract, and references. Short papers, posters, and system descriptions should be clearly marked as such in the title and in the easychair submission system. Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Original research and application papers are welcome; 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/poster/demo submission deadline: June 8, 2010 Paper/poster/demo accept/reject decisions: July 1, 2010 Camera-ready due: July 15, 2010 Last day for early registration fee: July 15, 2010 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS Georg Gottlob (Oxford University, UK) GENERAL CHAIR Jos? J?lio Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) PROGRAM CHAIRS Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Mariano Rodr?guez-Muro (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete, Greece) Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile, Chile) Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Andrea Cal? (Oxford University, UK) Vinay Chaudri (Stanford Research Institute, USA) Kendall Clark (Clark & Parsia, USA) Claudia d'Amato (University of Bari, Italy) Carlos Damasio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Wlodek Drabent (IPI PAN Warszawa, Poland) Sergio Flesca (University of Calabria, Italy) Christine Golbreich (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France) Claudio Gutierrez (University of Chile, Chile) Stijn Heymans (TU Vienna, Austria) Rinke Hoekstra (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Giovambattista Ianni (University of Calabria, Italy) Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Natalya G. Keberle (Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine) Domenico Lembo (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy) Francesca A. Lisi (University of Bari, Italy) Gergely Luk?csy (DERI Galway, Ireland) Jan Maluszynski (University of Link?ping, Sweden) Wolfgang May (University of G?ttingen, Germany) Ralf M?ller (TU Hamburg, Germany) Boris Motik (Oxford University, UK) Wolfgang Nejdl (LS3 and University of Hannover, Germany) Matthias Nickles (University of Bath, UK) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Sebastian Rudolph (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Alan Ruttenberg (ScientificCommons, Switzerland) Michael Sintek (DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Terrance Swift (SUNY Stony Brook, USA) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen, Italy) Dirk Vermeir (University of Brussels, Belgium) Zhe Wu (Oracle, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the RR 2010 web site at http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 -- * Mailingliste der GI Fachgruppe 0.1.6 Logik in der Informatik * * Homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/alg/loginf/ * -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From francois.scharffe at inria.fr Mon May 31 10:42:41 2010 From: francois.scharffe at inria.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Scharffe?=) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 10:42:41 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: Workshop on Knowledge Injecting into and Extraction from Linked Data (KIELD2010) Message-ID: <4C037681.9050809@inria.fr> [Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS - Workshop on Knowledge Injecting into and Extraction from Linked Data (KIELD2010) Co-located with EKAW 2010 - 11th to 15th October 2010 Website: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Odp:KIELD2010 Submissions: KEY DATES Submission deadline: July 15th Authors notified: August 9th Camera-ready version August 25th Workshop October 11 or 15 The KIELD workshop aims at gathering three prominent sub-communities of Knowledge Engineering and Management: Knowledge Modelling, Knowledge Discovery and Linked Data. The rapid growth of the Linked Data cloud, in parallel with on-the-fly design of relevant vocabularies, presents new opportunities for traditional research disciplines. The workshop welcomes research, application, and position papers on the following topics (non-exclusive): Ontology engineering for Linked Data Methodologies Ontology patterns extraction Ontology patterns identification and discovery Pattern-based triplification Anti-patterns or worst practices Data mining from Linked Data Entity recognition Link prediction Pattern mining Sequential patterns Rule mining Linked Data in use Domain applications based-on linked data Linked data exploitation Interaction with linked data There will be two categories of papers: * Regular research and application papers of up to 12 pages * Position papers of up to 6 pages All submissions should indicate into which category they fall. N.B. The workshop is organised in association with EKAW (http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt/). In order to register for CIAO2010, it is also necessary to register for EKAW 2010. From hr at sti2.at Tue May 25 09:37:46 2010 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 09:37:46 +0200 Subject: [DL] Open position: PhD Researcher In-Reply-To: <4BF65B42.6030807@sti2.at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> <4B6C0262.8030803@sti2.at> <4B6C0284.8070601@sti2.at> <4BA8B8EC.2080101@sti2.at> <4BA8C8D8.5060201@sti2.at> <4BF65B42.6030807@sti2.at> Message-ID: <003301cafbdd$2ba6db20$82f49160$@at> Dear All, the Semantic Technology Institute (http://www.sti-innsbruck.at) at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) is currently seeking candidates for the following position: - PhD Researcher More Information on the job and the application procedure can be found at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public_prod/owa/karriereportal.karriere_detail?asg_id_in=6054 Best Regards, Human Resources STI Innsbruck Technikerstra?e 21a 6020 Innsbruck Austria From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Mon May 24 09:29:59 2010 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 08:29:59 +0100 Subject: [DL] Deadline Extended: Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on Semantic Web Dynamics Message-ID: <72571030-F272-4A05-B93A-79DF51BA1213@open.ac.uk> ======================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Web Semantics Special Issue on Semantic Web Dynamics ======================================== DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE, 14 2010! Description Recent years have witnessed the arrival of more and more semantically annotated data and related ontologies in the Semantic Web. For example, the linked data initiative has been very successful in making datasets available online, with a total of about 5 billion triples all together so far. While existing semantic tools and reasoning engines are year after year getting better in dealing with time invariant domain of ontological knowledge, supporting rapidly changing information has not yet attracted sufficient attention. There are more and more heterogeneous and/or dynamic data types being created and which integration could lead to interesting applications and models (e.g. sensor data streams, geospatial information and imagery, financial transactions, news feeds, 3D models, engineering data, information for policy intelligence etc.). Current Stream Database Management Systems provide on the fly analysis of data streams, but they suffer several limitations: they cannot handle heterogeneous data streams originating from a variety of already deployed sensors; they cannot combine data streams with slowly evolving knowledge at query time; and they cannot perform reasoning tasks. And in the area of reasoning, while the problem of classical, time invariant domain of ontological knowledge has been extensively studied, the task of reasoning with rapidly changing information has been mostly neglected and constitutes a new challenge. Furthermore, ontologies, just like any structure holding knowledge and information, need to be updated too: changes could be initiated because of a change in the world being modelled; or by a change in the users? needs which would require a different conceptualization; or by the acquisition of knowledge previously unknown, unclassified or otherwise unavailable; or by the noticing of a design flaw in the original conceptualization. In all these cases, the representation of knowledge in the ontology should be modified so as to form a more accurate or adequate conceptualization of the domain. This general issue of Semantic Web Dynamics includes difficulties from both practical and theoretical points of view, raising a variety of research questions and development challenges, such as how to support the ontology and data publishers in maintaining up-to-date, adequate representations; how to detect the need for evolution and changes; how to facilitate the integration of new, dynamic sources in existing datasets and ontologies; how to validate and evaluate the impact of the changes on semantic information; how to handle changes triggered from multiple sources and collaborative updates; and how to keep track of (possibly concurrent) versions of and ensure the delivery of up-to- date and valid knowledge. Topics of Interest For this special issue, we seek articles describing foundational and theoretical work as well as technological solutions to these challenges. More specifically, we expect submission on (but not restricted to) the following topics: ? Foundational and formal aspects of Semantic Web dynamics ? Language extensions for Semantic Web dynamics ? Reasoning with dynamic data and ontologies ? Engineering dynamic data and ontologies ? Requirements and practical issues for Semantic Web dynamics ? Applications of dynamic data and ontologies ? Theory for stream reasoning ? Logic language for stream reasoning ? Scalability issues in stream reasoning ? Ontologies for dynamic environments ? Dynamic knowledge building, and (re-)use ? Ontology evolution and versioning ? Language extensions for evolution ? Belief revision for ontologies ? Change propagation in ontologies dynamic datasets and ontologies ? Inconsistency in evolving semantic information ? Incremental reasoning ? Case studies and applications of ontology and knowledge evolution ? Tools to support dynamic data and ontologies Important Dates Extended to June, 14 2010: Submission deadline 31 August 2010: First-round reviews complete 31 October 2010: Revised papers submitted 23 December 2010: Final acceptance decisions Method of Submission Submission should be realized through Elsevier's Electronic Submission system (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/jws, selecting "Special Issue: Semantic Web Dynamics" as article type. A guide for authors is available concerning the use of this system at http://epsupport.elsevier.com/al/12/1/article.aspx?aid=1520&bt=4 Guest Editors/Contacts Grigoris Antoniou - FORTH, Greece (antoniou at ics.forth.gr) Mathieu d?Aquin - The Open University, United Kingdom (m.daquin at open.ac.uk ) Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk ) -- 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 pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Tue Jun 1 04:49:41 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 22:49:41 -0400 Subject: [DL] Journal 2nd CfP: Semantic Web Tools and Systems Message-ID: <4C047545.4090405@wright.edu> CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS AND PHD PROPOSALS 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010) Bressanone/Brixen, Italy September 22-24, 2010 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 Co-located with the Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2010. The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2010 builds on the success of the first three International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (see http://www.rr-conference.org), held in Innsbruck, Austria (2007), Karlsruhe, Germany (2008), and Chantilly, Virginia, USA (2009), which received enthusiastic support from the Web Reasoning community. In 2010, 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. POSITION PAPERS submitted to the conference shall present a clearly defined and preferably controversial position concerning a topic of interest for the community. They shall stimulate discussion and critical assessment of the state of the art and of ongoing research trends. PHD PROPOSALS can only be submitted by PhD students and should contain either a PhD plan (for students at the beginning of their PhD research) or a summary of results achieved for a dissertation (for students at the end of their PhD research). In either case, the goal is to stimulate discussion with established researchers in the field as fruitful feedback to the student. Topics of interest include the following (but are not limited to): * Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge * 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 * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the WWW Incubator Group, etc. * 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 * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Stream reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers SUBMISSION OF POSITION PAPERS AND PHD PROPOSALS 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), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2010). The length should not exceed 4 pages for position papers and PhD proposals. They should be clearly marked as such in the title and in the easychair submission system. Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. All accepted papers, posters, and system descriptions will be included in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: June 8, 2010 Sccept/reject decisions: July 1, 2010 Camera-ready due: July 15, 2010 Last day for early registration fee: July 15, 2010 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS Georg Gottlob (Oxford University, UK) CONFIRMED TUTORIAL SPEAKER Axel Polleres (DERI Galway, Ireland) GENERAL CHAIR Jos? J?lio Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) PROGRAM CHAIRS Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Mariano Rodr?guez-Muro (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete, Greece) Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile, Chile) Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Andrea Cal? (Oxford University, UK) Vinay Chaudri (Stanford Research Institute, USA) Kendall Clark (Clark & Parsia, USA) Claudia d'Amato (University of Bari, Italy) Carlos Damasio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Wlodek Drabent (IPI PAN Warszawa, Poland) Sergio Flesca (University of Calabria, Italy) Christine Golbreich (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France) Claudio Gutierrez (University of Chile, Chile) Stijn Heymans (TU Vienna, Austria) Rinke Hoekstra (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Giovambattista Ianni (University of Calabria, Italy) Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Natalya G. Keberle (Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine) Domenico Lembo (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy) Francesca A. Lisi (University of Bari, Italy) Gergely Luk?csy (DERI Galway, Ireland) Jan Maluszynski (University of Link?ping, Sweden) Wolfgang May (University of G?ttingen, Germany) Ralf M?ller (TU Hamburg, Germany) Boris Motik (Oxford University, UK) Wolfgang Nejdl (LS3 and University of Hannover, Germany) Matthias Nickles (University of Bath, UK) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Sebastian Rudolph (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Alan Ruttenberg (ScientificCommons, Switzerland) Michael Sintek (DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Terrance Swift (SUNY Stony Brook, USA) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen, Italy) Dirk Vermeir (University of Brussels, Belgium) Zhe Wu (Oracle, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the RR 2010 web site at http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From richard.booth at uni.lu Sun May 30 14:11:41 2010 From: richard.booth at uni.lu (Richard Booth) Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 14:11:41 +0200 Subject: [DL] Third Call for Papers - BNAIC 2010 ***NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE JUNE 13*** Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings ------------------ THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS - BNAIC 2010 **NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE JUNE 13** BNAIC 2010 The 22nd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence Luxembourg, October 25-26 2010 http://bnaic2010.uni.lu Organised by: Computer Science and Communication Research Unit (CSC), University of Luxembourg Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor Introduction BNAIC is an international scientific conference for research in Artificial Intelligence. The BNAIC conferences series was initiated in 1988 by the Netherlands Association for Artificial Intelligence (later incorporating Belgium and Luxembourg to become the Benelux Association for AI) in order to promote research in AI among Benelux AI researchers, scientists and engineers in related disciplines. This year we are delighted to bring BNAIC for the first time to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. According to the success of previous years, BNAIC 2010 will include invited speakers, research and industry presentations and project demonstrations. Invited speakers Jerome Lang (CNRS, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France) Michael Mateas (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Topics Authors are invited to submit papers on all aspects of artificial intelligence. Possible topics of submissions include, but are not limited to: * AI for Ambient Intelligence * AI for Games & Entertainment * Embodied Artificial Intelligence * Intelligent Agents & Multi-Agent Systems * Knowledge Representation * Ontologies * Semantic Web-Techniques & Technologies * Knowledge Management * Knowledge-based Systems * Logic in AI * Logic Programming * Natural Language Processing * Speech & Image Processing & Understanding * Cognitive Modelling * Reinforcement Learning * Planning & Scheduling * Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining * Machine Learning * Classification * Clustering * Pattern Discovery * Process Mining * Visualization * Case-Based Reasoning * Constraint Programming * Evolutionary Algorithms * Neural Networks * Verification & Validation * Search & Retrieval * Personalization & Adaptation * Recommender systems * Hybrid Intelligent Systems * AI in law, music, art, education, tutoring, medicine, bioinformatics, software, e-commerce, logistics, robotics, and other business & industry applications. Important Dates * Paper submissions: June 13, 2010 * Author notification: August 8, 2010 * Camera-ready papers: September 15, 2010 * Author registration: September 15, 2010 * Early registration: September 25, 2010 * Conference dates: October 25-26, 2010 Submission details Researchers are invited to submit unpublished original research, but high-quality research results possibly already published in international conferences or journals are also welcome. Three types of submissions are invited: Type A: REGULAR PAPERS Papers presenting new original work. Submitted papers should not exceed a length of 8 pages. These papers will be reviewed on overall quality and relevance. A-Papers can be accepted for either oral or poster presentation. All accepted papers will be fully published in the proceedings. Type B: COMPRESSED CONTRIBUTIONS Papers that have been accepted after June 1st, 2009 for AI-related refereed conferences or journals can be resubmitted and will be accepted as compressed contributions. Authors are invited to submit the officially published version (without page restriction) together with a one or two-page abstract. B-Papers will be accepted for either oral or poster presentation. The abstract of the paper will be published in the proceedings. Every author may submit at most one B-paper of which they are the corresponding author, and only if they do not submit any A-paper as corresponding author. Type C: DEMONSTRATIONS & APPLICATIONS Proposals for demonstrations will be evaluated based on submitted demonstration summaries stating the following: the purpose of the system to be demonstrated, its user groups, the organization or project for which it is developed, the developers, and the technology used. In addition, the system requirements and the duration of the demo (not exceeding 30 minutes) should be mentioned. Especially master students are encouraged to submit papers presenting their applications and experiences. The maximum size of demonstration summaries is 2 pages (in English). Papers and demonstration summaries should be submitted electronically via Easychair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bnaic2010) by June 13th, 2010. See http://bnaic2010.uni.lu/instructions.html for more details. Submission implies willingness of at least one author to register for BNAIC'10 and present the paper. For each paper, a separate author registration is required. Authors keep the copyright of their submissions. The BNAIC Proceedings are published under ISSN series number 1568-7805. General Chairs Pascal Bouvry (University of Luxembourg) Eric Dubois (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) Thibaud Latour (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg) Program Chairs Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg) Gregoire Danoy (University of Luxembourg) Benjamin Gateau (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) Isabelle Jars (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) Djamel Khadraoui (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) Marcin Seredynski (University of Luxembourg) From s.wong.731 at gmail.com Sun May 30 03:38:31 2010 From: s.wong.731 at gmail.com (Steve W) Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 02:38:31 +0100 Subject: [DL] Decision problems of DL vs. FOL Message-ID: Hi all, According to the Wikipedia article on DL, it says that the decision problems are more efficient than those of FOL. Are DL decision problems not equivalent to those in FOL? For example, isn't subsumption checking equivalent to checking implication? 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Funds can be requested to cover airfare (on US carriers, for flights from the US) and lodging (meals and registration fees will not be funded). We expect to award about 10 grants. The application deadline is June 7, 2010, and recipients will be notified by June 17. This funding is available only to students attending academic institutions in the US, regardless of immigration/visa status. Funds will be provided after the conference, upon submission of receipts and a short report detailing the awardee's experience at and benefit from FLoC'10 (these reports will be used to compile a final report to our sponsors). Awardees are expected to spend up to one day during the meeting helping with logistics. Applicants' advisors should send a brief statement certifying the applicants' educational status and describing the financial need and the merit of the applicant. Special efforts will be made to bring to FLoC students from under-represented groups. Applications must be received by the deadline. Applicants are required to apply at the following web form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?formkey=dEF3N1RVOG1CNmRvYlJiTHVOQXgxU1E6MA Advisor letters (plaintext only) should be sent to floc10 at cs.rice.edu by June 7, 2010. If you have questions, please contact vardi at cs.rice.edu. From sebastian.rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Sat May 29 09:56:05 2010 From: sebastian.rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Sebastian Rudolph) Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 09:56:05 +0200 Subject: [DL] ISWC 2010 Call for Submissions Message-ID: <16FE48A1-587C-4515-8ADF-CFB083711A5A@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> ISWC 2010 Combined Call for Submissions Submissions are invited for ISWC 2010, the Ninth International Semantic Web Conference, to be held November 7-11, 2010, in Shanghai, China. Accepted submissions will be distributed in electronic form to attendees of the conference; accepted research papers will also be published by Springer-Verlag. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the conference and present the work. Further, up-to-date information is available at http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org RESEARCH PAPERS Research papers must describe original, significant research on the Semantic Web or on Semantic Web technologies or systems. Authors of accepted papers may submit an accompanying poster or demo (see below). Note that abstracts must be submitted one week before the due date for submissions. Abstracts Due June 21, 2010 Submissions Due June 28, 2010 Notification August 16, 2010 SEMANTIC WEB IN USE In-use papers must present implemented Semantic Web applications or discuss or evaluate the use of Semantic Web techniques or use of other technologies in the Semantic Web. Of particular interest are comparisons between different technologies or approaches and lessons learned from applications. Papers on the use of the Semantic Web in China are specially welcome. Submissions Due June 28, 2010 Notification August 16, 2010 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium is designed to allow doctoral students to present their work to members of the Semantic Web community and receive feedback on their research. Submissions to the Doctoral Consortium must describe work performed as part of an ongoing PhD degree. Submissions Due June 28, 2010 Notification August 16, 2010 POSTERS AND DEMOS Posters must describe original research on the Semantic Web or on Semantic Web technologies or systems. Posters can present preliminary results or describe work still in progress. System demonstrations must present a novel hardware or software system of interest in the Semantic Web. Poster submissions and system demonstrations can overlap the work described in other kinds of submissions. Submissions Due August 23, 2010 Notification September 13, 2010 INDUSTRY TALKS Industry talks provide an opportunity to present technical information about Semantic Web products and services. Submissions (abstracts only) will be primarily evaluated based on relevance to the Semantic Web, interest to conference attendees, technical depth and business applicability. Marketing and sales material will not be considered. Submissions Due September 7, 2010 Notification September 21, 2010 SEMANTIC WEB CHALLENGE The Semantic Web Challenge is the premier event for demonstrating practical progress towards achieving the vision of the Semantic Web. This year's 8th edition of the challenge will consist of two tracks: the open track and the billion triples track. The winners in both categories will be selected and announced at the conference. Submissions Due October 1, 2010 _________________________________________________ Dr. Sebastian Rudolph senior researcher & project leader at AIFB Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) rudolph at kit.edu phone +49 721 608 - 7362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 721 608 - 5998 From pfps at research.bell-labs.com Tue Jun 1 20:17:58 2010 From: pfps at research.bell-labs.com (Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 14:17:58 -0400 Subject: [DL] Decision problems of DL vs. FOL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100601.141758.788795194110887690.pfps@research.bell-labs.com> It probably would be better to say "easier" decision problems than FOL, and, even then, provide caveats, or, better, to rewrite the entire introductory part of the page. Most description logics have decidable inference, and thus are decidably easier than FOL. However, the beauty of Wikipedia is that anyone can make improvements to most pages. Feel free to do so. peter From: Steve W Subject: [DL] Decision problems of DL vs. FOL Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 20:38:31 -0500 > Hi all, > > According to the Wikipedia article on DL, it says that the decision > problems are more efficient than those of FOL. Are DL decision problems > not equivalent to those in FOL? For example, isn't subsumption checking > equivalent to checking implication? Is instance checking not equivalent > to evaluating the truth value of a predicate given a constant? Assuming > what I said is correct, then do all decision problems of DL have an > equivalent form in FOL? Which problems of FOL are not supported by DL? > > Thanks for any input. > > Cheers, > Steve From franconi at inf.unibz.it Tue Jun 1 20:31:36 2010 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 20:31:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] Decision problems of DL vs. FOL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2D585C91-671A-470B-82DE-A48F3B6BBAE1@inf.unibz.it> On 30 May 2010, at 03:38, Steve W wrote: > According to the Wikipedia article on DL, it says that the decision problems are more efficient than those of FOL. Are DL decision problems not equivalent to those in FOL? The problems are equivalent, but the languages are different - typically DLs are fragments of FOL. > For example, isn't subsumption checking equivalent to checking implication? Indeed, but it is equivalent to checking logical implication between very special fragments of FOL: \phi \models \psi where \phi is a set of TBox and ABox axioms and \psi is a TBox (subsumption) axiom; so, if you are in a decidable DL, then \phi and \psi can not be full fledged FOL formulas. > Is instance checking not equivalent to evaluating the truth value of a predicate given a constant? Like above, where \psi is a set of ground atoms (ABox). > Assuming what I said is correct, then do all decision problems of DL have an equivalent form in FOL? Which problems of FOL are not supported by DL? All problems which make sense in FOL make sense in DLs: sat, validity, entailment, falsifiablity, etc. Moreover, in DLs some problems make more sense than in FOL, like classification, and all the non-standard DL reasoning problems (like least-common-subsumer, etc). cheers --e. From schneidt at cs.man.ac.uk Wed Jun 2 09:33:27 2010 From: schneidt at cs.man.ac.uk (Thomas Schneider) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:33:27 +0100 Subject: [DL] Decision problems of DL vs. FOL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Steve, you're right that each standard decision problem in DL is a special case of some decision problem in FOL. The reason is that most DLs can be embedded into FOL. What the article means with "more efficient" is the following. While, for instance, the satisfiability problem in FOL is undecidable, it is decidable in standard DLs. For most of them it is still of high complexity, so the word "efficient" seems a bit problematic in that sentence. However, there are DLs for which the standard decision problems are efficiently decidable in a stronger sense, e.g., for the EL and DL-Lite family which correspond to the OWL fragments EL and QL. You can find more information about the relation between DLs and FOL, and about the complexity of reasoning in Sections 2.2.1.3, 3, 4.2 of [1]. [1] F. Baader et al., The Description Logic Handbook, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2007. Cheers Thomas On 30 May 2010, at 02:38, Steve W wrote: > Hi all, > > According to the Wikipedia article on DL, it says that the decision > problems are more efficient than those of FOL. Are DL decision > problems not equivalent to those in FOL? For example, isn't > subsumption checking equivalent to checking implication? Is instance > checking not equivalent to evaluating the truth value of a predicate > given a constant? Assuming what I said is correct, then do all > decision problems of DL have an equivalent form in FOL? 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The 17th LPAR will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Conference Chair: Steffen Hoelldobler Programme Chairs: Chris Fermueller, Andrei Voronkov Submissions of two kinds are welcome: * Regular papers that describe solid new research results. * Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems, report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented systems. See the web site http://www.computational-logic.org/lpar-17/Home.html for all the details. =============================================================================== LPAR-17 WORKSHOPS October 10th, 2010 ============================================================ APS 5 - 5th International Workshop on Analytic Proof Systems ============================================================ http://www.logic.at/staff/chrisf/ws/LPAR-AS-5.html Analyticity is a topic that connects foundational issues in logic with applications, mainly in automated deduction and analysis of proofs. The workshop is primarily intended to enhance awareness for its topic and to promote corresponding discussions and contacts between experienced experts and younger colleagues. The submission deadline is 10th September. Organizers: Matthias Baaz, Christian Fermueller ========================================================================== IWIL 2010 - The 8th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics ========================================================================== http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/IWIL-2010/iwil-2010.html IWIL has been unusually sucessful in bringing together many talented developers, and thus in sharing information about successful implementation techniques for automated reasoning systems and similar programs. We are looking for contributions describing implementation techniques for and implementations of automated reasoning programs, theorem provers for various logics, logic programming systems, and related technologies. The submission deadline is 9th August. Organizers: Evgenia Ternovska, Stephan Schulz, Geoff Sutcliffe =============================================================================== From s.wong.731 at gmail.com Wed Jun 2 14:46:04 2010 From: s.wong.731 at gmail.com (Steve W) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:46:04 +0100 Subject: [DL] Decision problems of DL vs. FOL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: If I understand correctly, DL handles only unary and binary predicates -- is that supposed to be a limitation? Any n-ary predicates can be encoded as binary ones, e.g., F(a,G(b,c)), right? On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Thomas Schneider wrote: > The reason is that most DLs can be embedded into FOL. > > But, can any FOL formula be translated to DL? Thanks for the pointer. Steve > On 30 May 2010, at 02:38, Steve W wrote: > > Hi all, >> >> According to the Wikipedia article on DL, it says that the decision >> problems are more efficient than those of FOL. Are DL decision problems not >> equivalent to those in FOL? For example, isn't subsumption checking >> equivalent to checking implication? Is instance checking not equivalent to >> evaluating the truth value of a predicate given a constant? Assuming what I >> said is correct, then do all decision problems of DL have an equivalent form >> in FOL? Which problems of FOL are not supported by DL? >> >> Thanks for any input. >> >> Cheers, >> Steve >> --- >> ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for >> more ** >> ** information, visit the description logic homepage at >> http://dl.kr.org/. ** >> > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Dr Thomas Schneider schneider (at) cs.man.ac.uk | > | School of Computer Science http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~schneidt | > | Kilburn Building, Room 2.114 phone +44 161 2756136 | > | University of Manchester | > | Oxford Road _///_ | > | Manchester M13 9PL (o~o) | > +-----------------------------------------------------oOOO--(_)--OOOo--+ > > Prague (vb.) > To declaim loudly and pompously upon any subject about which the > speaker has less knowledge than at least one other person at the > table. > > Douglas Adams, John Lloyd: The Deeper Meaning of Liff > > > > > > > > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for more > ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. > ** > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You have more ways of using roles (which represent binary predicates) in more expressive DLs, but if you allow their full use, you'd have to allow arbitrarily many variables to be quantified over, and already the 3-variable fragment of FOL is undecidable. (Disclaimer: I admit that some features in more expressive yet still decidable DLs require more than three variables in the standard translation, but those are used in such a controlled way that the target fragment is again restricted enough and more or less well- behaved.) > But, can any FOL formula be translated to DL? No. The fragment obtained by translating any of the commonly used DLs into FOL is strictly smaller than FOL; for ALC it's the guarded fragment restricted to 2 variables. Section 4.2 has some of this information and more ... Cheers Thomas > > Thanks for the pointer. > Steve > > > On 30 May 2010, at 02:38, Steve W wrote: > > Hi all, > > According to the Wikipedia article on DL, it says that the decision > problems are more efficient than those of FOL. Are DL decision > problems not equivalent to those in FOL? For example, isn't > subsumption checking equivalent to checking implication? Is instance > checking not equivalent to evaluating the truth value of a predicate > given a constant? Assuming what I said is correct, then do all > decision problems of DL have an equivalent form in FOL? Which > problems of FOL are not supported by DL? > > Thanks for any input. > > Cheers, > Steve > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; > for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/ > . ** > > + > ----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Dr Thomas Schneider schneider (at) > cs.man.ac.uk | > | School of Computer Science http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/ > ~schneidt | > | Kilburn Building, Room 2.114 phone +44 161 > 2756136 | > | University of > Manchester | > | Oxford Road _/// > _ | > | Manchester M13 9PL > (o~o) | > +-----------------------------------------------------oOOO--(_)-- > OOOo--+ > > Prague (vb.) > To declaim loudly and pompously upon any subject about which the > speaker has less knowledge than at least one other person at the > table. > > Douglas Adams, John Lloyd: The Deeper Meaning of Liff > > > > > > > > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; > for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/ > . ** > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr Thomas Schneider schneider (at) cs.man.ac.uk | | School of Computer Science http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~schneidt | | Kilburn Building, Room 2.114 phone +44 161 2756136 | | University of Manchester | | Oxford Road _///_ | | Manchester M13 9PL (o~o) | +-----------------------------------------------------oOOO--(_)--OOOo--+ Prague (vb.) 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Candidates must have a degree in computer science or a related field (diploma, MSc or PhD). The focus of the group is on description logic, modal logic in computer science, 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 October 2010 and is initally limited to three years, extension possible. The application deadline is June 30, 2010, but applications will continue to be considered until the position is filled. Please address questions and send your application under the reference number A 95/10 (email much preferred) to: Prof. Carsten Lutz Fachbereich 3 Universitaet Bremen Postfach 33 04 40 28334 Bremen clu at 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 stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de Wed Jun 9 17:51:44 2010 From: stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de (Gerd Stumme) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:51:44 +0200 Subject: [DL] JOB: Junior Professor in Software Engineering, University of Kassel Message-ID: <4C0FB890.4060301@cs.uni-kassel.de> The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Kassel (Germany) invites applications for the newly created Junior Professor Position (W1) in Software Engineering for Ubiquitous Computing Applications (Position No. 13917). This position is initially for a fixed-term of 3 years with a potential extension for further 3 years depending on a successful evaluation of research and teaching activities. The position will be part of the interdisciplinary research cluster ?Design of socio-technical networking applications in situative ubiquitous computing systems (VENUS)? funded by the State of Hesse as part of its LOEWE-program for scientific excellence. The Junior Professor will represent the field ?Software Engineering for Ubiquitous Computing Applications? in research and teaching. Applicants must possess a doctoral degree and an excellent research record in at least one of the following areas: ? Software development for ubiquitous computing systems and mobile services ? Design and implementation of contextual, adaptive software systems ? Design and implementation of multimodal user interfaces ? Software development methods ? Sensor data processing ? Service oriented software architectures for ubiquitous systems Experience in collaboration projects between research and industry as well as teaching experience are highly desirable. A working knowledge of the German language is required. Information about the VENUS project is available at www.iteg.uni-kassel.de/venus. For further information please contact Prof. Gerd Stumme (stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de). Applications including full curriculum vitae should be sent to junior.prof at vs.uni-kassel.de. The closing date for applications is June 23, 2010. -- 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 claudia.damato at di.uniba.it Mon Jun 7 11:30:09 2010 From: claudia.damato at di.uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:30:09 +0200 Subject: [DL] 1st CfP "Special Issue on Induction on the Semantic Web" for International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) Message-ID: <4C0CBC21.3080804@di.uniba.it> [Apologies for possible multiple copies] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) Special Issue on "Induction on the Semantic Web" ----------------------------------------------------------------- Overview Increasingly, real-world data is published in the Semantic Web languages. The vast availability of these data has uncovered one of the main current limitations of deductive reasoning (generally adopted in the Semantic Web context), i.e., its limitations to scale to large amounts of data. Alternative approaches such as data mining and machine learning methods have been found effective to cope with the web's scale and can also be used to capture new knowledge emerging from the data that is not logically derivable. However, exploiting this global resource of data requires new kinds of approaches for data mining and machine learning that need to be able to deal with the heterogeneity and complexity of Semantic Web data. Depending on the data sources under consideration and the perspective of the individual researcher, the idiosyncrasies of the Semantic web -- e.g., the expressivity of the employed language, the richness of the ontologies novel assumptions (e.g., "open world") -- might play a major role in the analysis. The primary goal of the special issue is to showcase cutting edge research on the intersection of the Semantic Web with Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning, e.g.: * How can machine learning techniques, such as statistical learning methods and inductive forms of reasoning, work directly on the richly structured Semantic Web data and exploit the Semantic Web technologies? * How could machine learning techniques contribute to the full realization of the Semantic Web view? * What are the challenges for developers of machine learning techniques for the Semantic Web data? Topics of Interest The topics of interest of the special issue include, but are not limited to: * Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies: o data mining techniques using ontologies, o ontology mining and knowledge discovery from ontological knowledge bases, o ontology-based interpretation and validation of discovered knowledge, o whole knowledge discovery process guided by ontologies * Knowledge Discovery and Linked Data o learning ontologies from Linked Data o discovering hidden knowledge from Linked Data o learnig semantic relationship from Linked Data * Inductive Reasoning with Concept Languages: o inductive aggregation, o concept retrieval and query answering, o approximate classification, o inductive methods and fuzzy reasoning for ontology mapping, o construction, refinement and evolution of ontologies o concept change and novelty detection for ontology evolution * Statistical learning for the Semantic Web: o refinement operators for concept and rule languages, o concept and rules learning, o kernels and instance-based learning for structured representations, o semantic (dis-)similarity measures and conceptual clustering, o probabilistic methods for concept and rule languages * Other topics: o Open World Assumption (OWA) vs. Closed World Assumption (CWA) in learning, o applicability of relational learning in the Semantic Web context, o integration of induction and deduction, o evaluation methodologies and metrics for machine learning methods applied to ontologies * Applications: o challenges in practical applications of Machine Learning/Data Mining on the Semantic Web o life sciences, o cultural heritage, o semantic multimedia, o geo-informatics, o bio-informatics o Semantic Web Services o and others Submission Process Submissions to this special issue should follow the journal's guidelines for submission, and be made via the IJSWIS Submission System. After submitting a paper, please also inform the guest editors by email. Papers must be of high quality and should clearly state the technical issue(s) being addressed as related to Induction on the Semantic Web. Wherever possible, submissions should demonstrate the contribution of the research by reporting on a systematic evaluation of the work. If a submission is based on a prior publication in a workshop or conference, the journal submission must involve substantial advance (a minimum of 30%) in conceptual terms as well as in exposition (e.g., more comprehensive testing/evaluation/validation or additional applications/usage). If this applies to your submission, please explicitly reveal the relevant previous publications. The recommended length of submitted papers is between 5,500 to 8,000 words. All papers are subject to peer review performed by at least three established researchers drawn from a panel of experts selected for this special issue. Accepted papers will undergo for a second cycle of revision and reviewer feedback. Please submit manuscripts as a PDF file using the online submission system. The International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) is the first Semantic Web journal to be included in the Thomson ISI citation index. More information on the journal can be found at http://www.ijswis.org. Dates * October 1, 2010 - Submission Deadline * January 1, 2011 - Notifications * February 15, 2011 - Revised Papers * March 15, 2011 - Final Versions * Fall 2011 - Publication in a fall issue Guest Editors * Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland * Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy * Volker Tresp, Siemens AG, Germany -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Hub brings together a large team of researchers (60+) working in and across the disciplines of computer science, communications engineering, human geography, sociology, transport studies, health sciences and environmental science. For further details, see: www.dotrural.ac.uk To support our ambitious research programme we are looking to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to work on issues surrounding provenance of linked open data derived from sensors (both human and machine). The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of the fundamental concepts underlying the Semantic Web, and the computational realisation and application of these techniques. Some knowledge of models of provenance would also be beneficial. They candidate will have a PhD or be about to complete a PhD in Computer Science. Enthusiasm for digital technology and innovation relevant to society and the economy is essential as is the ability to work in a cross-disciplinary team including colleagues in medicine and the social sciences. Should you require a visa to undertake paid employment in the UK you will be required to fulfil the minimum points criteria to be granted a Certificate of Sponsorship and Tier 2 visa. As appropriate, at the time an offer of appointment is made you will be asked to demonstrate that you fulfil the criteria in respect of financial maintenance and competency in English. Please do not hesitate to contact Diane Norris, HR Adviser, for further information on this. Post reference: 1141158 Closing Date: 29 Jun 2010 Further particulars: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/category.php?categoryid=Research Informal enquiries may be made to: Professor Peter Edwards ( p.edwards at abdn.ac.uk) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lenzerini at dis.uniroma1.it Mon Jun 7 23:57:54 2010 From: lenzerini at dis.uniroma1.it (Maurizio Lenzerini) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:57:54 -0400 Subject: [DL] DEIS'10 - Advanced School on Data Exchange, Integration, and Streams Message-ID: <4C0D6B62.3030303@dis.uniroma1.it> Advanced School on Data Exchange, Integration, and Streams DEIS'10 - GI-Dagstuhl Seminar 10452, November 7-12, 2010, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany The Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI) and the Dagstuhl-Leibniz Center for Informatics jointly sponsor research seminars on timely topics in computer science that have yet to be covered in textbooks. These research seminars are targeted at graduate students and recent PhDs who are interested in learning actively about new developments. The main aim of DEIS'10 is to expose young researchers from both academia and industry to state-of-the-art developments in information integration and to prepare them for productive research in data exchange, data integration, and data streams. Organization DEIS'10, which is organized by Phokion G. Kolaitis, Maurizio Lenzerini, and Nicole Schweikardt, will take place at Schloss Dagstuhl on November 7-12, 2010. It will consist of tutorials on each of the main topics, presentations of specialized topics by the participants, and evening problem sessions. Tutorials: There will be three two-hour long tutorials on data exchange, data integration, and data streams, presented by the three organizers. Participant presentations: There will be a total number of approximately twenty 45-minute long presentations by the participants followed by a 15-minute discussion. Problem sessions: There will be three 90-minute long problem sessions whose purpose is twofold: (1) the participants will develop solutions to exercises that will be assigned by the organizers during their tutorial presentations; (2) the organizers and the participants will discuss open research problems on the topics of the Advanced School. Participation DEIS'10 is aimed at advanced doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior industrial researchers. Specialized knowledge of the topics of the Advanced School is not required. The main criterion for selection will be a solid background on the principles and practice of database systems, and demonstrated research potential. Interested parties are asked to submit an application at the DEIS'10 application website at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deis10 Attendance at the seminar, including accommodation and full board at Schloss Dagstuhl costs 40 Euros per person per day. For more information, including information about the precise application procedure, and the possibility of financial support for participants, please visit http://www.tks.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/events/deis10 Timeline - June 15, 2010: Opening of the application submission server - July 15, 2010: Deadline for submitting applications for participation at DEIS'10 - September 1, 2010: Announcement of decisions and assignment of topics - November 7-12, 2010: the DEIS'10 advanced school takes place at Schloss Dagstuhl From fgeo at ics.forth.gr Tue Jun 15 09:05:20 2010 From: fgeo at ics.forth.gr (Giorgos Flouris) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:05:20 +0300 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) Message-ID: <7486B46B07B941D7AB51ECB988F6CC68@ics.forth.gr> [apologies for multiple copies] =============================================== Call for Papers 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) =============================================== http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/iwod/iwod2010 Workshop Description and Motivation ----------------------------------- Ontologies constitute one of the main pillars of the Semantic Web and of semantic applications. As ontologies model dynamic environments (e.g., e-science ontologies), they are often subject to change. The support for dynamicity is one of the core ontology management problems and has many facets, being dealt with in different fields, like ontology evolution, ontology versioning and others. Following previous successful organizations (as part of ESWC-07, ISWC-08 and ISWC-09), IWOD has established itself as the core annual event to discuss advances in the broad area of ontology dynamics, and to track recent work directly or indirectly related to the problem of evolving ontologies. The goal of the 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) is to bring together researchers and students working on the fields of ontology evolution, revision, merging and versioning, as well as people from the industry conducting activities (applications, case studies) that involve the dynamic aspects of ontologies. Our aim is to trigger discussions and allow interested researchers, students and practitioners to present and discuss recent advances related to these fields. Both theoretical research works as well as works describing implemented systems or tools are welcome. Topics of Interest ------------------ We encourage submissions on all topics related to ontology dynamics, including original theoretical work on the issues involved directly or indirectly with change as well as applications or implemented systems related to such issues. We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in the following topics: - Ontology evolution - Ontology versioning - Ontology merging - Formal aspects of ontology dynamics - Foundational issues - Language extensions for evolution - Belief revision for ontologies - Inconsistency/incoherency/invalidity in evolving ontologies - Change propagation in ontologies and metadata - Ontologies for dynamic environments - Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation - Engineering evolvable ontologies - Requirements for ontology evolution - Case studies in ontology evolution - Tools to support ontology evolution - Applications with dynamic ontologies - Open problems Workshop Venue and Format ------------------------- The workshop will take place in Shangai, China, as part of the ISWC-10 conference (http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/) on November 7 or 8, 2010. IWOD-10 will be a half-day workshop with regular paper presentations. We will also consider having an invited talk by a prominent scientist working on the field of ontology dynamics. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Only electronic submissions will be considered. All submissions should be submitted in pdf format, to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwod10. Submissions should not exceed 14 pages and should be formatted according to the LNCS Springer format (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0). The workshop proceedings will both be uploaded to CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/) and placed on electronic media for distribution at the conference. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: August 23, 2010 Acceptance notification: September 17, 2010 Camera-ready deadline: October 7, 2010 Workshop day: November 08, 2010 (tentative) Organizing Committee -------------------- Giorgos Flouris (fgeo at ics.forth.gr) Guilin Qi (gqi at seu.edu.cn) IWOD Series Steering Committee ------------------------------ Grigoris Antoniou Mathieu d'quin Giorgos Flouris Jeff Z. Pan Dimitris Plexousakis Program Committee ----------------- Grigoris Antoniou Alessandro Artale Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles Mathieu d'Aquin Giuseppe De Giacomo James Delgrande Peter Haase Nathalie Hernandez Zhisheng Huang Diana Maynard Thomas Meyer Enrico Motta Natasha Noy Jeff Z. 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The following speakers have accepted to give courses: Javier Esparza: Building a Software Model-Checker Wan Fokkink: Protocol Validation with mCRL Marta Kwiatkowska: Probabilistic Model Checking Markus M?ller-Olm: Fundamentals of Software Model Checking Wang Yi: Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems Participation is free (except for travel and accommodation costs) and open to anybody holding at least a Bachelor degree (or equivalent) in computer science. The number of participants is limited. Please apply electronically by *July 23th, 2010* by sending - 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 higher) to jun.pang at uni.lu. For details please see the Web page of the school. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue Jun 15 19:28:09 2010 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:28:09 +0200 Subject: [DL] 1st CFP: ISWC'10 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2010) Message-ID: <1ED03078A6C34CFA89719037E4F798F8@ITN96946> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2010) http://om2010.ontologymatching.org/ November 7 or 8, 2010, ISWC'10 Workshop Program, Shanghai, China BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks. 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 and data translation. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has two goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2010 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks involving, e.g., biomedical ontologies and linked data. 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: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open linked data); Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Ontology matching patterns; Instance matching; Large-scale ontology matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; Uncertainty in ontology matching; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., search, web-services). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2010 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20100 Contributors to the OAEI 2010 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/. *TENTATIVE* IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: September 1, 2010: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 27, 2010: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 12, 2010: Workshop camera ready copy submission. November 7 or 8, 2010: OM-2010, Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany 5. Ming Mao SAP Labs, USA 6. Isabel Cruz The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paolo Besana, Universite de Rennes 1, France Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France AnHai Doan, Kosmix, USA Alfio Ferrara, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Tom Heath, Talis, UK Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA Bin He, IBM, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Luca Mion, Informatica Trentina, Italy Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Filippo Nardelli, Cogito, Italy Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Yefei Peng, Yahoo Labs, USA Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany Fran?ois Scharffe, INRIA, France Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, EC DG Environment, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Italy Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Rui Zhang, Jilin University, China Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sebastian.rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Mon Jun 14 11:40:57 2010 From: sebastian.rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Sebastian Rudolph) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:40:57 +0200 Subject: [DL] ISWC 2010 Call for Research, In-Use, and DC Submissions Message-ID: ISWC 2010 Call for Research, In-Use, and DC Submissions Abstracts for the Research Track of ISWC 2010, the Ninth International Semantic Web Conference, are due on June 21. Full papers for the Research Track, In-Use Track, and Doctoral Consortium are due on June 28. Further, information is available at http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org RESEARCH PAPERS Research papers must describe original, significant research on the Semantic Web or on Semantic Web technologies or systems. Authors of accepted papers may submit an accompanying poster or demo (see below). Note that abstracts must be submitted one week before the due date for submissions. Abstracts Due June 21, 2010 Submissions Due June 28, 2010 Notification August 16, 2010 SEMANTIC WEB IN USE In-use papers must present implemented Semantic Web applications or discuss or evaluate the use of Semantic Web techniques or use of other technologies in the Semantic Web. Of particular interest are comparisons between different technologies or approaches and lessons learned from applications. Papers on the use of the Semantic Web in China are specially welcome. Submissions Due June 28, 2010 Notification August 16, 2010 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium is designed to allow doctoral students to present their work to members of the Semantic Web community and receive feedback on their research. Submissions to the Doctoral Consortium must describe work performed as part of an ongoing PhD degree. Submissions Due June 28, 2010 Notification August 16, 2010 _________________________________________________ Dr. Sebastian Rudolph senior researcher & project leader at AIFB Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) rudolph at kit.edu phone +49 721 608 - 7362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 721 608 - 5998 From mjw at liverpool.ac.uk Fri Jun 18 13:25:26 2010 From: mjw at liverpool.ac.uk (Wooldridge, Michael) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:25:26 +0100 Subject: [DL] ECAI-2010: Call for Participation Message-ID: ###################################################################### ## ECAI-2010 ## Call for Participation ## ECAI-2010 ## ###################################################################### The Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 16-20 August 2010 ## Lisbon, Portugal http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: **** FRIDAY 25 JUNE 2010 **** ###################################################################### ## INTRODUCTION ## ###################################################################### The ECAI-2010 Programme Committee invites you to attend the nineteenth biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. ECAI-2010 combines an outstanding program of 135 technical papers and nearly 100 short papers/posters in the main conference, world-leading plenary and tutorial speakers, a full range of workshops, the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS) conference, and the Starting AI Researchers (STAIRS) symposium. And of course, ECAI-2010 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Lisbon, Portugal. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy, Lisbon promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference. ###################################################################### ## INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS ## ###################################################################### * Ian Horrocks (Oxford University, UK) OWL: a Reasonable Ontology Language? * Manuela Veloso (CMU, USA) Autonomous Mobile Robots Coexisting with Humans in Indoor Environments * Judea Pearl (UCLA, USA) The Logic of Causes and Counterfactuals * Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley, USA) Computing Nash equilibria: The plot thickens ###################################################################### ## INVITED TUTORIAL SPEAKERS ## ###################################################################### * Sarit Kraus (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Automated agents that interact proficiently with people: cooperative and competitive settings * Joao Marques-Silva (University College Dublin, Ireland) Boolean Satisfiability & Optimization Algorithms & Applications * Paul E. Dunne (University of Liverpool, UK) Argumentation in AI * Rina Dechter (University of California, USA) Advances in Search and Inference for Graphical Models * Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Computational Social Choice * Ilkka Niemel? (Aalto University, Finland) Answer set programming ###################################################################### ## ECAI/PAIS TECHNICAL PAPER SCHEDULE ## ###################################################################### The full schedule of ECAI/PAIS technical papers is available online: http://tinyurl.com/27dvw7o ###################################################################### ## WORKSHOPS ## ###################################################################### WS1 11th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA) Monday and Tuesday, 16 and 17 August 2010 WS2 13th Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS) Monday, 16 August 2010 WS3 5th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-PREF) Monday, 16 August 2010 WS4 6th International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context (MRC) Tuesday, 17 August 2010 WS5 2nd Workshop on Automated Reasoning about Context and Ontology Evolution (ARCOE) Monday and Tuesday, 16 and 17 August 2010 WS6 5th International Workshop on Explanation-aware Computing (ExaCt) Monday, 16 August 2010 WS8 10th International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA) Monday, 16 August 2010 WS9 3rd Planning to Learn Workshop (PlanLearn) Tuesday, 17 August 2010 WS10 3rd International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems (ERLARS) Monday, 16 August 2010 WS11 Benchmarking Intelligent (Multi-)Robot Systems (BIMRS) Tuesday, 17 August 2010 WS12 Intelligent Engineering Techniques for Knowledge Bases (I-KBET) Tuesday, 17 August 2010 WS13 Ubiquitous Data Mining (UDM) Monday, 16 August 2010 WS14 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA) Tuesday, 17 August 2010 WS15 Artificial Intelligence for Simulation | Simulation for Artificial Intelligence (AISSAI) Tuesday, 17 August 2010 WS16 Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) Monday, 16 August 2010 WS17 Intelligent Agents and Technologies for e-Business (IAT4EB) Tuesday, 17 August 2010 WS19 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC) Tuesday, 17 August 2010 WS20 Artificial Intelligence and Logistics (AILog) Tuesday, 17 August 2010 WS21 Spatio-Temporal Dynamics (STeDY) Monday, 16 August 2010 ###################################################################### ## REGISTRATION ## ###################################################################### Registration is via the ECAI web site: http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ Or go directly to: http://tinyurl.com/2f2jlw9 ###################################################################### From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Mon Jun 21 03:50:08 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:50:08 -0400 Subject: [DL] CfP: "Real-World Applications of OWL" SWJ special issue Message-ID: <4C1EC550.3090907@wright.edu> == journal special issue, call for papers == REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS OF OWL = Description = The "Semantic Web" journal invites submissions for a special issue on "Real-world Applications of OWL." Submissions should consist of short papers describing deployed applications which use the Web Ontology Language OWL. The reports should be brief and pointed, indicating clearly, in what sense and to what extent OWL has been used in the application. These submissions will be reviewed along the following dimensions: (1) Quality, importance, and impact of the described application. (2) Clarity and readability of the describing paper, which shall convey to the reader the key ideas regarding the use of OWL in the application. Applications can cover all possible application areas. If you are uncertain if your application is suitable for this call, please direct your inquiry to the guest editors. = Important Dates = Submission Deadline: 15th of July, 2010. Acceptance Notification: 15th of September, 2010 Final Paper: 15th of October, 2010 = Submissions = Submissions should be 8-10 pages in length. Exceptions can be arranged, please contact the guest editors. Please see the submission information and guidelines at . When entering your manuscript into the review system, please state "OWL applications special issue" in the cover letter. Please also note the journal's open review process detailed at . = Guest Editors = Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Canada Rinke Hoekstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Please direct all inquiries to the guest editors. = Guest Editorial Board = Ian Horrocks, Oxford University Ora Lassila, Nokia Thorsten Liebig, University of Ulm Mark Musen, Stanford Massimo Paolucci, NTT DoCoMo Lab Munich Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons Evren Sirin, Clark & Parsia online version of this call: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/special-issue-real-world-applications-owl Please direct all inquiries to the guest editors. -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From rendsvig at gmail.com Tue Jun 22 14:29:34 2010 From: rendsvig at gmail.com (Rasmus K. Rendsvig) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:29:34 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation: ESSLLI 2010 Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************** ESSLLI 2010 / UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN / DENMARK / AUGUST 9-20, 2010 http://esslli2010cph.info/ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) 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. During two weeks,46 foundational, introductory and advanced courses + 6 workshops headed by some of the most prominent scholars in the fields are offered to the attendants, each of 1.5 hours per day during a five days week, with up to seven parallel sessions. ESSLLI also includes a student session (papers and posters by students only, 1.5 hour per day during the two weeks) and four evening lectures by senior scientists in the covered areas. In 2010, the venue for ESSLLI will be The University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Chair of the Program Committee is Valentin Goranko (The Technical University of Denmark), and Chair of the Organizing Committee is Vincent F. Hendricks (The University of Copenhagen). The registration for ESSLLI 2010 is open, see http://esslli2010cph.info/?page_id=40 ? * Student: 350?. ? * Regular: 480? Different accommodation packages are available, from 21?/night to 46?/night. All packages are currently available, but availability cannot be guaranteed. The rooms suggested are at Danhostel Copenhagen City, a mere 10 minute walk from the main venue. For more information and links to registration and accommodation pages, please visit the ESSLLI 2010 website: http://esslli2010cph.info/ Best regards, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, ESSLLI 2010 Organization Committee From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Fri Jun 18 14:05:52 2010 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:05:52 -0300 Subject: [DL] CFP - WoLLIC 2011, May 18-21, Philadelphia Message-ID: *WoLLIC 2011 18th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation * *May 18th to 21st, 2011 * *University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA* *Scientific Sponsorship* *Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL )* *The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI )* *Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL )* *European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS )* *Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC )* *Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL )* *Organisation* *Department of Mathematics , University of Pennsylvania , USA Centro de Inform?tica , Universidade Federal de Pernambuco , Brazil * ------------------------------ Call for PapersWoLLIC 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 eighteenth WoLLIC will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, from May 18th to 21st, 2011. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL). *Special Event* (tba) *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 the WoLLIC 2011 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2011/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by January 1st, and the full paper by January 8 (firm date). Notifications are expected by February 21, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by March 1 (firm date). *Proceedings* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2011, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. 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 2011 issue of a scientific journal (soon to be announced). *Invited Speakers* (tba) *Student Grants* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2011 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant. See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *Important Dates* January 1, 2011: Paper title and abstract deadline January 8, 2011: Full paper deadline (firm) February 21, 2011: Author notification March 1, 2011: Final version deadline (firm) ** *Programme Committee* Krzysztof Apt (Amsterdam) (tbc) Sergei Artemov (New York) Jeremy Avigad (Pittsburgh) Arnold Beckman (Swansea) Lev Beklemishev (Moscow) (CHAIR) Alessandro Berarducci (Pisa) Andreas Blass (Ann Arbor) (tbc) Sam Buss (San Diego) Achim Jung (Birmingham) Benedikt L?we (Amsterdam) Janos Makowski (Haifa) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Andrew Odlyzko (Minneapolis) (tbc) Vincent van Oostrom (Utrecht) Prakash Panangaden (Montr?al) Rohit Parikh (New York) Fernando Pereira (Philadelphia) (tbc) Ruy de Queiroz (Recife) Alexander Shen (Marseilles and Moscow) Bas Spitters (Nijmegen) Helmut Veith (Wien) Yde Venema (Amsterdam) (tbc) Scott Weinstein (Philadelphia) Frank Wolter (Liverpool) * * *Organising Committee* Vivek Nigam (UPenn) Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) Andre Scedrov (UPenn) (co-chair) * * *Steering Committee* Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. * Further information * * Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. 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The following conferences will participate in FLoC: - CAV 2010: Int'l Conference on Computer-Aided Verification - CSF 2010: IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium - ICLP 2010: Int'l Conference on Logic Programming - IJCAR 2010: Int'l Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning - ITP 2010: Int'l Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving - LICS 2010: IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science - RTA 2010: Int'l Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications - SAT 2010: Int'l Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing The eight major conferences will be accompanied by more than fifty workshops and a number of other affiliated events. * Program: The FLoC'10 program includes plenary talks by David Basin, Georg Gottlob, David Harel, and Gordon Plotkin, as well as keynote talks by Deepak Kapur and J Strother Moore. Please consult the FLoC website for further information on invited speakers and contributed talks of all the participating conferences. * The city of Edinburgh: Edinburgh (http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/city/introduction), one of the most vibrant, cosmopolitan cities in Europe, has been regularly voted one of the most desirable places to live in the world - and the University is at the heart of it all. Located throughout the centre of the city, the campus plays an integral part in the activities of Scotland's lively capital. Set against a beautiful backdrop of stunning architecture, Edinburgh is a welcoming, cosmopolitan city with a large and diverse student population. The city offers an exciting array of entertainment, history, culture and sport, with the lush Scottish countryside and coastline just a few miles away. It is a safe and prosperous city, with an abundance of parks and green spaces for recreation and reflection. FLoC receptions will be held at the Edinburgh Castle (11 July) and the National Galleries of Scotland (16 July). * Registration: For online registration for FLoC, please follow the link on the FLoC website at http://floc-conference.org/registration.html Registration is open. The deadline for early registration was 17 May. Standard rates will apply for those who register between 18 May and 30 June. For those who register after 30 June, late rates will apply. Note that it is possible to register early, and then add components (e.g., additional workshops, additional registration days, etc.) later on. * Accomodation: Very affordable accommodation has been booked at the University's Pollock Halls campus, about 15-minute walk from the conference site. Room types include single/double rooms with shared facilities/ensuite, and standard hotel rooms in a 3-star Victorian mansion. Alternatively, blocks of rooms have been booked at several hotels in the cite centre. For details, see http://floc-conference.org/accommodation.html * Cancellation Policy: If a participant is unable to attend FLoC because of force majeure (e.g., volcanic ash causing flight cancellation) or because of visa denial, their registration fee and accommodation payments will be refunded in full, except for a GBP 50 administrative charge. * FLoC'10 Steering Committee: - General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi - Conference Co-chairs: Leonid Libkin, Gordon Plotkin - CAV Representative: Edmund Clarke - ICLP Representative: Manuel Hermenegildo - IJCAR Representative: Alan Bundy - ITP Representative: Tobias Nipkow - LICS Representative: Martin Abadi - RTA Representative: Juergen Giesl - SAT Representative: Enrico Giunchiglia - EasyChair Representative: Andrei Voronkov From penaloza at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Thu Jul 1 10:25:14 2010 From: penaloza at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Rafael Penaloza) Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:25:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation: UniDL 2010 Message-ID: <4C2C50EA.7050907@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation ------------------------------------------------------------------- UniDL'10 First International Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics co-located with IJCAR 2010 at FLoC 2010 July 20, 2010 Edinburgh, UK http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/UniDL ------------------------------------------------------------------- During the recent decade, handling uncertainty has started to play an important role in ontology languages, especially in application areas like the Semantic Web, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence. For this reason, there is currently a strong research interest in description logics (DLs) that allow for dealing with uncertainty. The subject of the workshop is how to deal with uncertainty and imprecision in Description Logics (DLs). This encompasses approaches that enable probabilistic or fuzzy reasoning in DLs, but the workshop is also open for approaches based on other uncertainty formalisms. The workshop focusses on the investigation of reasoning problems and approaches for solving them, including especially tractable ones. For classical DL reasoning problems such as subsumption and satisfiability, algorithms that can handle uncertainty exist, but they are still less well-investigated than in the case of standard DLs without uncertainty. For novel reasoning services, such as query answering, computation of generalizations, modules, or explanations, it is not yet clear how to realize them in DLs that can express uncertainty. INVITED TALK "A Probabilistic Abduction Engine for Media Interpretation based on Ontologies" Ralf M?ller (TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany) ACCEPTED PAPERS "Compatibility Formalization Between PR-OWL and OWL" Rommel Carvalho, Kathryn Laskey and Paulo Costa "Gibbs Sampling in Probabilistic Description Logics with Deterministic Dependencies" Oliver Gries and Ralf M?ller "Pronto: A Practical Probabilistic Description Logic Reasoner" Pavel Klinov "Relationships between Probabilistic Description and First-Order Logics" Pavel Klinov and Bijan Parsia "Probabilistic logic encoding of spatial domains" Paulo Santos, Fabio Cozman, Valquiria Fenelon Pereira and Britta Hummel "Towards Approximative Most Specific Concepts by Completion for EL with Subjective Probabilities" Anni-Yasmin Turhan and Rafael Pe?aloza "Using f-SHIN to represent objects: an aid to visual grasping" Nicola Vitucci, Mario Arrigoni Neri and Giuseppina Gini FURTHER INFORMATION For further information, including information on registration, accommodation, and travel, please refer to the UniDL 2010 and FLoC 2010 web sites: http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/UniDL http://www.floc-conference.org/ From cimatti at fbk.eu Wed Jun 30 15:53:47 2010 From: cimatti at fbk.eu (Alessandro Cimatti) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:53:47 +0200 Subject: [DL] Postdoc positions available Message-ID: <20100630135347.GA32714@fbk.eu> [ Apologies for multiple copies of this message ] Post-Doc Positions Available Embedded System Research Unit Center for Information and Communication Technology Fondazione Bruno Kessler Trento, Italy !!! Application Deadline Approaching !!! The Embedded System Research Unit (http://es.fbk.eu) of the Information and Communication Technology Center of the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy, is seeking candidates for Post-Doc positions, to be hosted according to the call of proposal "Trentino - The Trentino programme of research, training and mobility of post-doctoral researchers", to be funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento, see: http://www.uniricerca.provincia.tn.it/binary/pat_uniricerca/news/call_1_post_doc_2010_incoming_en.1273589322.pdf Applications are invited in the broad field of formal verification and planning. Topics of interest include: - Model Checking - Safety Analysis - Schedulability - Planning and Run-time Monitoring Project proposals may have a duration of between two and three years. Candidate Profile ================= The ideal candidate should have a PhD degree in computer science, mathematics or electronic engineering, combine solid theoretical background and software development skills, and have some degree of autonomy. The candidate should be able to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to reaching research excellence and achieving assigned objectives. In depth previous experience in at least one of the following areas will be considered favorably: - Symbolic Model Checking - Propositional Satisfiability - Satisfiability Modulo Theory - Requirements Analysis - Constraint Solving and Optimization - Monitoring and Diagnosability - Software Verification - Safety Analysis (FTA, FMEA) We draw attention on the following requirements stated in the call for proposal. (1) The proposing researcher must have a PhD, obtained in Italy or abroad no more than three years before the deadline of this call. (2) The proposing researcher must not have had any working relationship (including any fellowship, scholarship, research grant, contract, cooperation) with any research organizations which have their registered office or operating centres inside Trento Province, longer than 30 days on the whole, during the two years before the deadline of this call. Applications and Inquiries ========================== Potential candidates should express their interest and/or inquire for further information by sending email to . Applications should contain a statement of interest, with a Curriculum Vitae, and the names of three reference persons. PDF format is strongly encouraged. Emails will be automatically processed and should have 'RIF: ES/postdoc' as subject. Potential candidates will be interviewed in order to define the objectives of the research activities and to obtain the endorsement of the hosting institution. If successful, they will be required to complete the application through the PAT site by July 13th, 2010. The applications will be evaluated by an independent team of experts. The Embedded System Research Unit ================================= The Embedded Systems Unit consists of about 15 persons, including researchers, post-Doc, PhD students, and programmers. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of design and verification of embedded systems. Current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems (Verilog, SystemC, C/C++, StateFlow/Simulink) * Formal Requirements Analysis based on techniques for temporal logics (consistency checking, vacuity detection, input determinism, cause-effect analysis, realizability and synthesis) * Model-based engineering and formal verification of aerospace systems using model checking techniques, on-board reasoning systems for autonomous vehicles using planning techniques * Formal Safety Analysis, based on the integration of traditional techniques (e.g. Fault-tree analysis, FMEA) with symbolic verification techniques The unit develops and maintains several tools: * the NuSMV symbolic model checker (http://nusmv.fbk.eu) * the MathSAT SMT solver (http://mathsat.fbk.eu) * the Formal Safety Analysis Platform FSAP (http://fsap.fbk.eu) * the Requirements Analysis Tool RAT (http://rat.fbk.eu) The unit is currently involved in several research projects, funded by the European Union, the European Space Agency, the European Railway Agency, as well as in industrial technology transfer projects. The projects aim at applying research results to key application domains such as space, avionics, railways, hardware design and mobile embedded applications. A list of past and present projects, the unit has been involved in, include: - MISSA (http://es.fbk.eu/index.php?n=Projects.MISSA) - COCONUT (http://es.fbk.eu/index.php?n=Projects.COCONUT) - EURAILCHECK (https://es.fbk.eu/projects/eurailcheck/) - OMC-ARE (https://es.fbk.eu/index.php?n=Projects.OMCARE) - COMPASS (http://compass.informatik.rwth-aachen.de) The Embedded Systems (ES) Unit is part of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Center of Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), formerly Istituto Trentino di Cultura, a private non-profit research centre established by the government of Autonomous Province of Trento (PAT) in 1976. The institute, through its ICT Center, is active in the areas of Information Technology, Microsystems, and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces. Today, FBK is an internationally recognized research institute, collaborating with industries, universities, and public and private laboratories in Italy and abroad. The institute's applied and basic research activities aim at resolving real-world problems, driven by the need for technological innovation in society and industry. Location ======== Trento is a lively town of about 100.000 inhabitants, located 130 km south of the border between Italy and Austria. It is well known for the beauty of its mountains and lakes, and it offers the possibility to practice a wide range of sports. Trento enjoys a rich cultural and historical heritage, and it is the ideal starting point for day trips to famous towns such as Venice or Verona, as well as to enjoy great naturalistic journeys. Detailed information about Trento and its region can be found at http://www.trentino.to/home/index.html?_lang=en. Links ===== Autonomous Province of Trento, University and Scientific Research: http://www.uniricerca.provincia.tn.it/ Call for applications: http://www.uniricerca.provincia.tn.it/binary/pat_uniricerca/news/call_1_post_doc_2010_incoming_en.1273589322.pdf Fondazione Bruno Kessler: http://www.fbk.eu/ Center for Information Technology: http://cit.fbk.eu/ Embedded Systems Research Unit: https://es.fbk.eu/ Contact Persons =============== * Alessandro Cimatti mailto: http://es.fbk.eu/people/cimatti * Marco Bozzano mailto: http://es.fbk.eu/people/bozzano From francois.scharffe at inria.fr Wed Jun 30 14:53:13 2010 From: francois.scharffe at inria.fr (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Fran=E7ois_Scharffe?=) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:53:13 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP and keynote speaker annoucement; KIELD workshop @ EKAW 2010 Message-ID: <4C2B3E39.2000604@inria.fr> Apologies for cross posting. 1st Workshop on Knowledge Injection into and Extraction from Linked Data ========================================================================== * Prof. Martin Hepp will give a keynote to the workshop: Ontology Engineering for Linked Data: What Makes For A Good Ontology? The first workshop on knowledge injection into and extraction from linked data is a co-located event with EKAW 2010 , held in Lisbon (Portugal) on October 2010. Notice: the exact date of the workshop is still to be fixed. It will be either October 11th or 15th. Motivation and objectives The first workshop on Knowledge Injection to and Extraction from Linked Data (KIELD2010 at EKAW 2010 ) will gather three prominent sub-communities of Knowledge Engineering and Management: Knowledge Modelling, Knowledge Discovery and Linked Data. The rapid growth of the Linked Data cloud, in parallel with on-the-fly design of relevant vocabularies, presents new opportunities for traditional research disciplines. Most notably: * Although the popular vocabularies reflect today needs, they sometimes lack deeper ontological reflections. State-of-the-art knowledge modelling, especially the pattern-based ontology design principles, could help connect Linked Data vocabularies to more sophisticated models, while keeping themselves simple. Furthermore, collaborative ontology design methodologies could find their way to the process of vocabulary design, currently undertaken by VoCamp communities and stand-alone groups. * The linked data themselves represent a large and growing resource woven from numerous components. Empirical knowledge discovery in linked data, carried out by machine learning and data mining algorithms, could reveal interesting patterns on frequently used structures, which could then be fuelled back to the vocabulary design. Existing techniques for mining network-structured data, such as graph databases or web links, are likely to require adaptation so as to take account of links that are typed according to semantically rich and heterogeneous schemata. Aside the EKAW 2010 conference itself, the workshop is informally associated with the series of WOP workshops - Workshops on Ontology Patterns . Participants of the previous successful WOP (1st edition at ISWC2009) are encouraged to submit to KIELD 2010. By this interdisciplinary nature KIELD2010 aims at being of high interest for both researchers and practitioners of all three areas mentioned above. Furthermore, it will give space to ongoing and pioneering research activities, which would still be too preliminary as conference publications, although extremely hot as topics in the semantic technology field. Key topics The workshop welcomes research, application, and position papers on the following topics (non-exclusive): Ontology engineering for Linked Data * Methodologies * Ontology patterns extraction * Ontology patterns identification and discovery * Pattern-based triplification * Anti-patterns or worst practices Data mining from Linked Data * Entity recognition * Link prediction * Pattern mining * Sequential patterns * Rule mining Linked Data in use * Domain applications based-on linked data * Linked data exploitation * Interaction with linked data Paper Submission Two types of submissions will be accepted: full papers presenting recent research results, and position papers presenting either research in progress or key issues in the scientific discussion. All submissions have to be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format, in PDF. Full papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 6 pages. All submissions must be performed through KIELD EasyChair . The accepted papers will be published in workshop notes, under CEUR. (to be confirmed) Program Committee * Eva Blomqvist, ISTC-CNR, Italy * Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation, Italy * Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy * Mathieu d'Aquin, KMI Open University, UK * Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy * Aldo Gangemi, STLab ISTC-CNR, Italy * Alfio Gliozzo, STLab ISTC-CNR, Italy * Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia * Tom Heath, Talis, UK * Luigi Iannone, Manchester University, UK * David Jensen, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA * Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland * Pascal Poncelet, Ecole des Mines d'Ales, France * Marko Rodriguez, AT&T, and Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Organizers * Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy * E-mail: valentina.presutti_at_cnr.it * Francois Scharffe, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France * E-mail: francois.scharffe_at_inria.fr * Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic * E-mail: svatek_at_vse.cz Important dates * July 15, 2010: Paper submission deadline * August 9, 2010: Paper acceptance notification * August 25, 2010: Camera-ready versions of papers * October 11th: Workshop day Best Regards, Valentina Presutti, Fran?ois Scharffe, Vojtech Svatech From franconi at inf.unibz.it Fri Jul 2 08:44:58 2010 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 08:44:58 +0200 Subject: [DL] 3rd KRDB school on Trends in the Web of Data Message-ID: <724468E6-B777-42AA-80DF-536627D99F06@inf.unibz.it> 3rd KRDB school on Trends in the Web of Data (KRDBs-2010) Brixen-Bressanone (near Bozen-Bolzano), Italy 17-18 September 2010 http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/school/2010/ Call for Participation The 2010 edition of the KRDB school will be focussed on methods, techno- logies, and formalisms to publish, share, access, and integrate hetero- geneous and autonomous data on the Web. The lecturers of the school are: Danny Ayers: (Semantic) Web platforms Jonathan Ellis: NoSQL and Cloud Computing Tom Heath: Linked Data Peter Mika: Semantic Search Martin Hepp: The GoodRelations Ontology for E-Commerce Marko Rodriguez: Graph Databases Detailed information about the lectures can be found on the web page. The participation to the school is free of charge. Students are required to apply by sending an email including personal details and a short curriculum vitae et studiorum to: . Applications are continuosly evaluated as soon as the are submitted on a first-come-first-served basis until there are available places. The final deadline for the application is on the 27th of August. VENUE The school will take place in the charming town of Brixen-Bressanone, near Bozen-Bolzano in South Tyrol at the heart of the Dolomites - the pink mountains of the Alps. Like Bozen-Bolzano, Brixen-Bressanone has always been a crossroads of various cultures and it is distinguished by its mediaeval Gothic architecture. The mediaeval alleys and the wealth of historical references are an ideal starting point for excursions into the countryside and for practising a whole variety of sports and leisure activities. Leaving directly from the town centre delegates can set off on their bikes or on foot for excursions into the surrounding hills and mountains. Brixen-Bressanone is on the main arterial road between Austria/Germany and Italy and it is easily accessible from everywhere by train, car, bus or plane. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nurmamat at gmail.com Tue Jun 29 19:20:44 2010 From: nurmamat at gmail.com (Nurmamat Helil) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:20:44 +0900 Subject: [DL] problem with negated roles of SROIQ Message-ID: Hi: I am not very familiar with DL. now I have to represent a class $A=\{x|(x,y) \in \neg R \wedge y \in C \}$ using DL can I use negated role provided by SROIQ. -- Nurmamat Helil Postdoctoral Candidate School of Computer Science and Engineering Chung-Ang University Seoul, 156-756, South Korea Email: nurmamat at gmail.com From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Thu Jul 1 07:55:14 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:55:14 -0400 Subject: [DL] Journal CfP: Semantic Web Tools and Systems - deadline extension Message-ID: <4C2C2DC2.5060109@wright.edu> == special call for papers on == SEMANTIC WEB TOOLS AND SYSTEMS = Description = The "Semantic Web" journal invites submissions of short papers describing mature Semantic Web related tools and systems. These reports should be brief and pointed, indicating clearly the capabilities of the described tool or system. It is strongly encouraged, that the described tools or systems are free, open, and accessible on the Web. If this is not possible, then they have to be made available to the reviewers. For commercial tools and systems, exceptions can be arranged through the editors. Submissions will be reviewed along the following dimensions: (1) Quality, importance, and impact of the described tool or system. (2) Clarity, illustration, and readability of the describing paper, which shall convey to the reader both the capabilities and the limitations of the tool. = Topics of Interest = We invite submissions on all kinds of tools and systems related to the semantic web, including, but not limited to, the following. * ontology editors * ontology engineering systems * Semantic Web development toolkits * ontology learning and acquistion tools * Annotation tools * ontology alignment and merging tools * ontology revision and evolution tools * ontology evaluation tools * RDF stores * RDF reasoners * OWL reasoners * RIF editors and reasoners * Semantic Wiki engines * Semantic Desktop systems * Semantic browsers * Semantic search tools * Semantic Mashup tools If you are uncertain if your tool or system is suitable for this call, please direct your inquiry to Pascal = Important Dates = *deadline extended* Submission Deadline: 31th of July, 2010. Acceptance Notification: 30th of September, 2010 Final Paper: 31st of October, 2010 *papers will be processed as they come in, and notification is planned earlier in these cases* = Submissions = Submissions should be 8-10 pages in length. Exceptions can be arranged, please contact Pascal for inquiries. Please see the submission information and guidelines at . When entering your manuscript into the review system, please state "Tools and Systems" in the cover letter. Please also note the journal's open review process detailed at . = Contact = Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University Please direct all inquiries to Pascal = Editorial Board = Claudia d'Amato, Universit? degli Studi di Bari, Italy S?ren Auer, Universit?t Leipzig, Germany Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada Philipp Cimiano, Universit?t Bielefeld, Germany Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University, UK Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Canada Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland, New Zealand Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil Manfred Hauswirth, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway Tom Heath, Talis, UK Rinke Hoekstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands Andreas Hotho, Universit?t W?rzburg, Germany Eero Hyv?nen, Aalto University, Finland Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK Axel Polleres, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway Martin Raubal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK Christoph Schlieder, University of Bamberg, Germany Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA Jie Tang, Tsinghua University Beijing, China Kunal Verma, Accenture, USA online version of this call: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/special-call-semantic-web-tools-and-systems -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Wed Jun 30 12:11:10 2010 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:11:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2010 - Final Call for Participation Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IJCAR 2010 - The 5th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Edinburgh, UK, July 16-19, 2010 http://www.floc-conference.org/IJCAR-home.html as part of FLoC 2010 - Federated Logic Conference http://www.floc-conference.org/ Call for Participation --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all topics in automated reasoning. The IJCAR technical programme will consist of presentations of high-quality original research papers, system descriptions, and invited talks. IJCAR 2010 is a merger of leading events in automated reasoning: 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) Registration, accomodation, and travel/visa information for all FLoC conferences and workshops is on the FLoC 2010 web pages. DEADLINES (all deadlines are firm) * standard registration: 18 MAY 2010 - 30 JUNE 2010. * late registration: after 30 JUNE 2010. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Program ------------------ + Presentation of 2 invited IJCAR talks + Presentation of 2 plenary/keynote FLoC invited talks + Presentation of 28 regular research papers + Presentation of 12 system abstracts + Presentation of the Herbrand Award to David Plaisted + 13 workshops, 2 competitions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers ---------------- + Invited IJCAR Speakers ---------------------- + Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research Redmond + Johan van Benthem, Stanford University and University of Amsterdam + Plenary and Keynote Invited Talks at FLoC ----------------------------------------- + David Basin, ETH Zurich + Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshops, Competitions ----------------------- There will be thirteen workshops and two system competitions associated with IJCAR. See their individual WWW pages, linked from the FLoC WWW pages for more information. + Workshops - AUTOMATHEO 2010: Workshop on Automated Mathematical Theory Exploration (Workshop affilliated to FLoC) (with ITP) - CLoDeM2010: International Workshop on Comparing Logical Decision Methods (with LICS) - EMSQMS 2010: Workshop on Evaluation Metods for Solvers, and Quality Metrics for Solutions (with CAV) - LfSA 2010: Logics for Systems Analysis (with LICS) - MLPA-10: 2nd Workshop on Module Systems and Libraries for Proof Assistants (with ITP) - PAAR-2010: Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning - SVARM 2010: Synthesis, Verification and Analysis of Rich Models (with CAV) - UITP10: 9th International Workshop On User Interfaces for Theorem Provers (with ITP) - UniDL10: 1st Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics - UNIF 2010: 24th International Workshop on Unification (with RTA) - VERIFY-2010: 6th International Verification Workshop - WING 2010: Workshop on Invariant Generation - WST 2010: 11th International Workshop on Termination (with RTA) + Competitions - CASC-J5: 5th IJCAR ATP System Competition - Termination 2010: 7th International Termination Competition --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Events ------------- + Welcome reception at the Scottish National Galleries. + Conference banquet at the luxurious Prestonfield Hotel. + CASQ-J5 - the CADE Squash Competition --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings ----------- At registration the proceedings of all FLoC conferences and workshops will be provided, at no additional cost, on a USB stick. Hard copy IJCAR 2010 proceedings are optionally available, for an additional cost. Remember to tick the hardcopy proceedings box when you register. Please note that hard copies are offered at appr. 50% discount during registration and will not be on sale later on or during the conference. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration ------------ For online registration for IJCAR, please follow the link on the FLoC website at http://floc-conference.org/registration.html Registration is now open. The deadline for early registration was 17 May. Standard rates apply for those who register between 18 May and 30 June. For those who register after 30 June, late rates will apply. Note that it is possible to register early, and then add components (e.g., additional workshops, additional registration days, etc.) later on. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accomodation ------------ Very affordable accommodation has been booked at the University's Pollock Halls campus, about 15-minute walk from the conference site. Room types include single/double rooms with shared facilities/ensuite, and standard hotel rooms in a 3-star Victorian mansion. Alternatively, blocks of rooms have been booked at several hotels in the cite centre. For details, see http://floc-conference.org/accommodation.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For all enquiries about FLoC conferences email: floc-admin at inf.ed.ac.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de Mon Jun 28 23:29:17 2010 From: thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de (Thorsten Liebig) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:29:17 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: 6th Int. WS on Scalable SW Knowledge Bases (SSWS 2010) Message-ID: <4C29142D.4050106@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 SIXTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCALABLE SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS (SSWS2010) http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~yug2/ssws10/home.htm At the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010), Shanghai, China, November 7-11, 2010 http://iswc2010.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 half day 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 27, 2010 (11:59PM Hawaii Time) Acceptance Notification September 17, 2010 Camera Ready Papers Due October 15, 2010 Workshop Day (full day) November 8, 2010 (tentative) ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Achille Fokoue IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA (Contact Person) Yuanbo Guo Microsoft Corp, USA Thorsten Liebig Ulm University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS (to be confirmed) Ian Horrocks - University of Oxford, UK Bijan Parsia - University of Manchester, UK Pascal Hitzler - University of Karlsruhe, Germany York Sure - University of Koblenz, Germany 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 Volker Haarslev - Concordia University, Canada Boris Motik - University of Oxford, UK Oscar Corcho - University of Manchester, UK Ralf M?ller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Marko Luther - DOCOMO Eurolabs Munich, Germany Andy Seaborne - Hewlett-Packard, UK Jan Wielemaker - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands From tkren at kr.tuwien.ac.at Wed Jul 14 20:21:33 2010 From: tkren at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Krennwallner) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:21:33 +0200 Subject: [DL] 10 PhD student positions in Computational Logic at Vienna University of Technology Message-ID: <4C3E002D.1080403@kr.tuwien.ac.at> The Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) is offering 10 PhD student positions within the doctoral program "Mathematical Logic in Computer Science" which is launched in Fall 2010; five of the positions are reserved for female applicants. The program is jointly organized by the faculties of Informatics, Mathematics, and Physics, with a strong emphasis on Logic in Computer Science; computational logic is one of the priority research areas of the Faculty of Informatics. TU Wien has a strong international reputation in various fields targeted in the program, including * Logic in Databases, * Computer Aided Verification, * Constraint Satisfaction and Satisfiability, * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, * Finite Model Theory, * Quantum Information and Recursion Theory, * Proof Theory and Automated Deduction, * Many Valued and Fuzzy Logic, * Complexity Theory, * Set Theory. The program is interdisciplinary and fosters the application of Mathematical Logic to Computer Science; two envisaged key application areas are * Model-Based Design and Verification, * Advanced Information Systems. The faculty of the program consists of M. Baaz, A. Ciabattoni, T. Eiter (coordinator), M. Goldstern, G. Gottlob (associated), A. Leitsch, R. Pichler, K. Svozil, S. Szeider, H. Veith and S. Woltran. Candidates must have an MSc or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related fields, and an excellent record of study. They should have solid basic knowledge in logic, discrete mathematics, and computer science; knowledge in fields targeted in the program is desired. Each PhD student position is funded for three years (regular employment contract with full social benefits). The yearly salary ranges from a minimum of 12,724 Euro to 25,915 Euro before taxes, depending on cofunding via associated projects. Applications are solicited starting immediately, and will be considered starting from September 10, 2010, until all positions are filled, but no longer than March 15, 2011. Further details about the program and the application procedure are available at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/drkolleg/. For additional information, please send email to dk-info at dbai.tuwien.ac.at. From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Thu Jul 8 07:18:05 2010 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:18:05 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: Advanced Language Technologies for Digital Libraries (ALT4DL) Message-ID: <96397488-13D4-423C-9B60-745397672FFE@inf.unibz.it> (Apologies for cross-posting) ================================================================ ADVANCED LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES (ALT4DL) http://disi.unitn.it/~alt4dl/ ================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- We invite authors to submit papers for a volume on Advanced Language Technologies for Digital Libraries to be published in the Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) Hot Topic subline [1]. The volume aims at presenting how state-of-the art Language Technologies are applied to the challenges faced by Digital Libraries together with providing a introductory grounding to the underlying fields. Hence, it will promote this emerging research area and disseminate its results whilst motivating the non-expert reader. It originates from two workshops, NLP4DL and AT4DL held in Viareggio and Trento, respectively, in 2009, but it is open also to contributions that were not presented at that time. We aim at gathering contributions both from the Library and the Computer Science community. DEADLINES --------- Abstract submission Deadline: 22nd July, 2010 Full paper submission Deadline: 15th September, 2010 Notification Deadline: 10th November, 2010 Camera Ready Deadlines: 10th December, 2010 BACKGROUND ---------- The fast growth of digital material is challenging for research in many disciplines, and in particular, for natural language technologies. Multilingual aspects pose particular difficulties regarding a wide spectrum of problems: from extracting text from images, to developing usable search engines for accessing this digital library content. The EU has funded many projects to bring forward research in this field and to facilitate end-user access to cultural and scientific heritage. Therefore, it is time to bring together recent research results and to give both researchers and practitioners a comprehensive view on this evolving area. We are interested in highlighting the role of Language Technologies in enhancing document image processing and in accessing and searching digital libraries in general. Today much of our Cultural Heritage have been digitised by scanning books and other kinds of documents, but their printed text needs to be extracted via document image processing techniques in order for the content to be accessible, searchable, and analysable. Language Technologies can also play a crucial role in accessing and searching digital libraries that do not contain the scanned table of contents, abstracts or books, but simply provide metadata records describing their physical collections. Despite mass-digitisation efforts, this 'legacy metadata' is still predominant in library catalogues. To this end, nowadays cutting edge Language Technologies need to be fine-tuned to work on such well structured but limited data. Libraries across the globe are keen to provide subject-based access to their digital library collections via the linked data cloud. With each library indexing their digital libraries in their local language, the true value of this data is yet to be achieved. Web 2.0 brings particular challenges for digital libraries as increasingly multilingual user generated content, such as annotations and tags, are created. Not forgetting that all this needs to be done on mobile devices, which need to be optimised for the multilingual society in which we live in. All the Cross Language tasks, such Named Entity Disambiguation, Cross-Language Image Retrieval, Word Sense Disambiguation, etc. need to be harnessed to help users navigate the multilingual digital library world. In a nutshell, it is the aim of this volume to present the current issues related to the multilingual aspects encountered when searching and navigating through digital libraries, and more generally, through e-repositories. TOPICS ------- Against this background, we are particularly interested in the application of Language Technologies to the following topics: - Access and Search (in Digital Libraries) - Social Web (and Digital Libraries) - Innovative Applications (of Digital Libraries) - Cross Language Processing (in Digital Libraries) - Document Image Processing (in Digital Libraries) - Metadata processing (in Digital Libraries) - Mobile technologies and Digital Libraries INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AUTHORS --------------------------- Both Abstracts and Full Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair System [2]. The only accepted format both for submitted abstracts and full papers is Adobe PDF. The PDF file must be uploaded to the system by the submission deadlines. Each abstracts may consist of up to one (1) page. Each full paper may consist of up to twenty (20) pages. Full paper submissions should be made following the Author's Instructions for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) [3]. EDITORS ------- Raffaella Bernardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Sally Chambers, European Library, the Netherlands Bjoern Gottfried, University of Bremen, Germany Frederique Segond, Xerox, France Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy PUBLICATION ----------- Papers will be published in a volume of the LNCS Hot Topic subline which is expected to be available in February 2011. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE ------------------- Galja Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology, India Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Stefan Gradmann, Europeana, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany Udo Kruschwitz, Essex University, UK Andreas Lattner, University of Frankfurt, Germany Mikolaj Leszczuk, AGH Krakow, Poland Stefan Pletschacher, University of Salford, UK Viliam Simko, CIANT, Prague, Czech Republic Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan LINKS ----- [1] Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) Hot Topic subline, http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-12-72945-0 [2] EasyChair System, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alt4dl [3] Author's Instructions for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 First Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (NLP4DL) Workshop, Viareggio, Italy (June 15, 2009) http://www.cacaoproject.eu/natural-language-processing/ Workshop on Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries 2009 (AT4DL 2009), Trento, Italy (September 8, 2009) http://www.cacaoproject.eu/at4dl/ CONTACT ------- To receive further information please email to alt4dl at disi.unitn.it From eoikarin at tcs.hut.fi Thu Jul 8 11:17:25 2010 From: eoikarin at tcs.hut.fi (Emilia Oikarinen) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:17:25 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [DL] JELIA 2010 Call for Participation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *** Apologies for receiving multiple copies *** JELIA 2010 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================= 12th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence Helsinki, Finland, September 13-15, 2010 http://jelia2010.tkk.fi/ Logics provide a formal basis and key descriptive notation for the study and development of applications and systems in Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the depth and maturity of formalisms, methodologies, and systems today, such logics are increasingly important. The European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (or Journ?es Europ?ennes sur la Logique en Intelligence Artificielle --- JELIA) began back in 1988, as a workshop, in response to the need for a European forum for the discussion of emerging work in this field. Since then, JELIA has been organized biennially, with English as the official language, and with proceedings published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. In 2010 the conference is organized for the first time in Scandinavia, following previous meetings mainly taking place in Central and Southern Europe (see the general website http://www.jelia.eu/ for details). The increasing interest in this forum, its international level with growing participation from researchers outside Europe, and the overall technical quality, has turned JELIA into a major biennial forum for the discussion of logic-based approaches to AI. Registration and Travel Information =================================== Registration as well as travel and accommodation information is available on JELIA 2010 web pages http://jelia2010.tkk.fi/ JELIA 2010 Registration Fees Early (until Aug 9) Late (Aug 10 - Sep 1) Regular 250 EUR 400 EUR Student 150 EUR 250 EUR including JELIA 2010 technical sessions and invited talks, coffee breaks, the combined JELIA/PGM welcome reception on September 13, conference Banquet and excursion on September 14, JELIA 2010 LNAI conference proceedings, and conference accessories (bag, programme, info, ...) Scientific Program ================== The scientific program consists of three invited talks, 26 regular papers, and 5 system descriptions. See details in the preliminary program at http://jelia2010.tkk.fi/schedule.shtml Invited Speakers ================ Gerhard Brewka (http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~brewka/): Nonmonotonic Tools for Argumentation Adnan Darwiche (http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~darwiche/): Relax, Compensate and then Recover: A Theory of Anytime, Approximate Inference Stephane Demri (http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/~demri/): Counter Systems for Data Logics Venue ===== The conference will be held in the main building of University of Helsinki, located in the center of Helsinki. Founded in 1550, Helsinki has been the Finnish capital since 1812, when it was rebuilt in the Empire style by the orders of the Czar of Russia, hence sharing architectural similarities with St. Petersburg even today. Located on the Baltic peninsula centrally between the east and the west, Helsinki "the Daughter of the Baltic" is a city full of contrasts: light and white in summer while dark but full of warmth in winter, with a combination of high-tech, contemporary design, and ever-present nature. Finnish design has made Helsinki world famous, and recently Helsinki was appointed World Design Capital 2012. Co-located events ================= European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM) http://www.helsinki.fi/pgm2010/ From fanizzi at di.uniba.it Tue Jul 6 09:56:56 2010 From: fanizzi at di.uniba.it (N. Fanizzi) Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:56:56 +0200 Subject: [DL] 1st CFP URSW@ISWC2010 Message-ID: <4C32E1C8.7090201@di.uniba.it> [Apologies for multiple copies] CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2010 In conjunction with the 9th International Semantic Web Conference Shanghai, China November 7, 2010 You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in November of 2010 at the Shanghai International Convention Center, China. 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, Prot?g? developers, OWL-API 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 --------------- September 7 Paper submissions due September 30 Paper acceptance notification October 15 Camera-ready papers due November 4 Presentations due November 7 6th 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 2010 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=ursw2010. Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2010. For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). 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 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2010 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 2010 will be a full-day workshop divided into three sessions. Two of those sessions will be devoted to paper presentations, while the remaining session will be planned in a format that invites an open debate on the results, conclusions, recommendations, and follow-up work of the URSW-XG group. We also plan to convey a work meeting after the workshop, in case the last session need to be extended. 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 10-minute slot to share their ideas. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2010 Conference. In addition, technical papers accepted for presentation at the URSW 2010 will be eligible for participating in the selection to the planned LNCS volume on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web -- Vol. II. This will be the second volume of this series and will include selected papers from the URSW 2008 to URSW 2010. Organizing Committee -------------------- The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order): Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain. Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA 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 - Technical University of Munich, Germany. Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA. Program Committee ----------------- The confirmed members of the program committee are the following (in alphabetical order): Fernando Bobillo - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil Claudia D'Amato - University of Bari, Italy Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy Marcelo Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA Livia Predoiu - Universit?t Mannheim, Germany Guilin Qi - University of Karlsruhe, Germany Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK Daniel S?nchez - University of Granada, Spain Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Giorgos Stoilos - Oxford University, UK Umberto Straccia -- ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA Johanna Voelker - University of Karlsruhe, Germany We are looking forward to seeing you in Shanghai! -- Nicola Fanizzi Dipartimento di Informatica . Universit? di Bari Via E. Orabona, 4 . 70125 Bari . Italy http://www.di.uniba.it/~fanizzi tel: +39-80-5442246 . fax: +39-80-5443196 http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolafanizzi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Jul 7 22:16:45 2010 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 22:16:45 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: ISWC'10 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2010) Message-ID: <3D8297D16CB84EA9A3EAEC6C306F9EBA@ITN96946> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2010) http://om2010.ontologymatching.org/ November 7, 2010, ISWC'10 Workshop Program, Shanghai, China BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks. 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 and data translation. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has two goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2010 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks involving, e.g., biomedical ontologies and linked data. 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: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open linked data); Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Ontology matching patterns; Instance matching; Large-scale ontology matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; Uncertainty in ontology matching; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., search, web-services). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2010 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20100 Contributors to the OAEI 2010 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/. *TENTATIVE* IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: September 1, 2010: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 27, 2010: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 12, 2010: Workshop camera ready copy submission. November 7, 2010: OM-2010, Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany 5. Ming Mao SAP Labs, USA 6. Isabel Cruz The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paolo Besana, Universite de Rennes 1, France Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France AnHai Doan, Kosmix, USA Alfio Ferrara, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Tom Heath, Talis, UK Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA Bin He, IBM, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Luca Mion, Informatica Trentina, Italy Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Filippo Nardelli, Cogito, Italy Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Yefei Peng, Yahoo Labs, USA Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany Fran?ois Scharffe, INRIA, France Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, EC DG Environment, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Italy Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Rui Zhang, Jilin University, China Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Sat Jul 17 23:14:19 2010 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:14:19 +0200 Subject: [DL] 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP2010) - Call for Papers Message-ID: <38466EC1-4B98-4D4B-AEF9-9F74C3BFDDCE@inf.unibz.it> CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================== 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives SWAP 2010 ========================================================== Bressanone-Brixen, Italy September 21-22, 2010 http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/swap2010/ Organized by the KRDB Research Centre Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Collocated with the 4th Int. Conf. on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010/ ========================================================== **** SUBMIT YOUR MOST INTERESTING 2009-2010 PAPER!! **** **** AND **** **** SHARE YOUR IDEAS WITH THE SEMANTIC WEB COMMUNITY **** ========================================================== The Semantic Web is currently one of the most interesting and ambitious challenges that the scientific and technological community is facing. While great progresses have been made in terms of consolidation of base philosophy and infrastructure, new issues, technologies, and tools are emerging. These issues include creating, presenting and managing Semantic Web content, making semantics explicit in order to automatically integrate data from different sources, and to search for information based on its meaning rather than its syntactic form. New and advanced methods, models, tools, and technologies for services related to creation, access, retrieval, integration, and filtering of Web content are being developed at the intersection of relevant disciplines that are making the Semantic Web fly, such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Information Systems, Distributed Computing, Multimedia Systems, Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Networks, and Web Science. Applications that use Semantic Web technologies and succeed in leveraging the added value of semantics on the Web are emerging. However, designing and building them is still a challenge due to the rapid evolution of standards, technologies, and tools, and the need for well-established methodologies. This happens in the context of a widespread interest in semantic techniques for web data access and integration, e.g. for linked open data, microformats, and social networks. SWAP 2010 aims at being a relaxed meeting for brainstorming and debating among international researchers and developers on the Semantic Web, with a special focus on aspects which can enable wide-scale use of Semantic Web technologies. See below for a detailed list of topics. Audience The workshop aims at attracting researchers, developers and interested practitioners alike. The setting for the workshop is highly interactive, and presentations are expected to focus on practical issues and the underlying theoretical aspects and open problems, reporting both on learned experiences and on ongoing work. The presentation language is English. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission requirements We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, government, and consulting. Submitted manuscripts may describe either: * original research, or work in progress that is sufficiently mature to be presented to the Semantic Web community at large; * work that is of high relevance for the Semantic Web community and that has already been published or accepted recently (i.e., in 2009 or 2010) at a highly ranked conference in the Semantic Web area (ISWC, ESWC) or in related areas (e.g., KR, IJCAI, AAAI, PODS, SIGMOD, VLDB, ...); * a position statement on one or more aspects of relevance for the Semantic Web. ====================================================================== We especially welcome what the authors consider as their recent most important contribution to Semantic Web research, whether original, work in progress, or already accepted or published. ====================================================================== Authors should clearly indicate on the cover page to which of the above categories (original, work in progress, accepted, published, or position paper) their submission belongs. For already published or accepted papers they should indicate also the publication venue and date. Papers will be reviewed by the PC co-chairs and the members of the SWAP steering committee, to judge relevance to SWAP and potential interest for the Semantic Web community. Based on the evaluation, papers will be accepted either for oral presentation, or for poster presentation. Submissions that are not relevant to SWAP 2010 will be rejected. Accepted contributions will be distributed in electronic format at the workshop. After the workshop, selected contributions will undergo a further critical reviewing process and, if accepted, will be published online in a volume of post-workshop proceedings of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series, ISSN 1613-0073, http://ceur-ws.org/. Papers must be submitted electronically at the conference website using the EasyChair submission system. Manuscripts should be in pdf and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. Information concerning typesetting can be obtained directly from Springer at: http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html. The maximum length of submissions is 16 pages for regular papers (original, work in progress, accepted, or published), and 2 pages for positions papers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Sep. 1, 2010 Paper submission deadline - Sep. 9, 2010 Author notification - Sep. 15, 2010 Final version due - Sep. 21-22, 2010 SWAP 2010 Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics The workshop will cover both theoretical and implementation issues that relate to Semantic Web applications. The following is a partial list of topics of interests: * Applications of Semantic Web technologies, such as: - Semantic Web in life sciences and e-science - Semantic Web for e-business - Semantic Web for e-government - Semantic Web for e-learning - Semantic Web for P2P systems and grids - Semantic Web and multimedia - Novel Semantic Web applications - Presentation and discussions of application scenarios * Representation and Management of Semantic Web data - Methodologies for Semantic Web data management - Tools for Semantic Web data management - Robust, scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Data semantics and linked data - Searching and querying Semantic Web data - Machine learning and information extraction on the Semantic Web - Large-scale knowledge management - Semantic coordination, integration, matching, interoperability - Semantic Web mining - Semantic information retrieval - Semantic wikis - Semantic Web middleware - Systems of annotation extraction * Ontologies and Languages in the Semantic Web - Ontology design, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Reasoning over ontologies and data - Linked data and microformats - New languages for the Semantic Web - Web 2.0-based ontology learning - Semantic Web services * User Interfaces to the Semantic Web - Visualizing Semantic Web data - Natural language technologies for the Semantic Web - Assistive technologies and the Semantic Web - Web 2.0 personalization - Web 2.0 technologies for recommender systems * Social Semantic Web - Social networks on the Semantic Web - Semantic Portals - Semantic Web technology for collaboration and cooperation - Semantic Web personalization - Semantic Web trust, privacy, security, and intellectual property rights - Analysis of social online communities - Social aspects of distributed cooperative annotation * Semantic Web Agents * Evaluation and benchmarking of Semantic Web techniques and tools ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization: - Paolo Traverso, University of Trento (general chair) - Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (PC co-chair) - Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari (PC co-chair) - Mariano Rodriguez-Muro, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (local arrangements) SWAP Steering Committee: - Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento - Oreste Signore, W3C Office in Italy/CNR - Heiko Stoermer, FBK, Trento, Italy - Giovanni Tummarello, FBK Trento, Italy & DERI Galway, Ireland See http://www.swapconf.it/ for previous editions of SWAP. Contact chairs by email at swap2010-chairs at inf.unibz.it From francois.scharffe at inria.fr Fri Jul 16 11:41:19 2010 From: francois.scharffe at inria.fr (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Fran=E7ois_Scharffe?=) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:41:19 +0200 Subject: [DL] Deadline extension; KIELD workshop @ EKAW 2010 Message-ID: <4C40293F.8080305@inria.fr> Apologies for cross posting. 1st Workshop on Knowledge Injection into and Extraction from Linked Data ========================================================================== * Deadline extended to July 20th, 2010. * Prof. Martin Hepp will give a keynote to the workshop: Ontology Engineering for Linked Data: What Makes For A Good Ontology? The first workshop on knowledge injection into and extraction from linked data is a co-located event with EKAW 2010 , held in Lisbon (Portugal) on October 2010. Notice: the exact date of the workshop is still to be fixed. It will be either October 11th or 15th. Motivation and objectives The first workshop on Knowledge Injection to and Extraction from Linked Data (KIELD2010 at EKAW 2010 ) will gather three prominent sub-communities of Knowledge Engineering and Management: Knowledge Modelling, Knowledge Discovery and Linked Data. The rapid growth of the Linked Data cloud, in parallel with on-the-fly design of relevant vocabularies, presents new opportunities for traditional research disciplines. Most notably: * Although the popular vocabularies reflect today needs, they sometimes lack deeper ontological reflections. State-of-the-art knowledge modelling, especially the pattern-based ontology design principles, could help connect Linked Data vocabularies to more sophisticated models, while keeping themselves simple. Furthermore, collaborative ontology design methodologies could find their way to the process of vocabulary design, currently undertaken by VoCamp communities and stand-alone groups. * The linked data themselves represent a large and growing resource woven from numerous components. Empirical knowledge discovery in linked data, carried out by machine learning and data mining algorithms, could reveal interesting patterns on frequently used structures, which could then be fuelled back to the vocabulary design. Existing techniques for mining network-structured data, such as graph databases or web links, are likely to require adaptation so as to take account of links that are typed according to semantically rich and heterogeneous schemata. Aside the EKAW 2010 conference itself, the workshop is informally associated with the series of WOP workshops - Workshops on Ontology Patterns . Participants of the previous successful WOP (1st edition at ISWC2009) are encouraged to submit to KIELD 2010. By this interdisciplinary nature KIELD2010 aims at being of high interest for both researchers and practitioners of all three areas mentioned above. Furthermore, it will give space to ongoing and pioneering research activities, which would still be too preliminary as conference publications, although extremely hot as topics in the semantic technology field. Key topics The workshop welcomes research, application, and position papers on the following topics (non-exclusive): Ontology engineering for Linked Data * Methodologies * Ontology patterns extraction * Ontology patterns identification and discovery * Pattern-based triplification * Anti-patterns or worst practices Data mining from Linked Data * Entity recognition * Link prediction * Pattern mining * Sequential patterns * Rule mining Linked Data in use * Domain applications based-on linked data * Linked data exploitation * Interaction with linked data Paper Submission Two types of submissions will be accepted: full papers presenting recent research results, and position papers presenting either research in progress or key issues in the scientific discussion. All submissions have to be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format, in PDF. Full papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 6 pages. All submissions must be performed through KIELD EasyChair . The accepted papers will be published in workshop notes, under CEUR. (to be confirmed) Program Committee * Eva Blomqvist, ISTC-CNR, Italy * Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation, Italy * Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy * Mathieu d'Aquin, KMI Open University, UK * Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy * Aldo Gangemi, STLab ISTC-CNR, Italy * Alfio Gliozzo, STLab ISTC-CNR, Italy * Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia * Tom Heath, Talis, UK * Luigi Iannone, Manchester University, UK * David Jensen, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA * Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland * Pascal Poncelet, Ecole des Mines d'Ales, France * Marko Rodriguez, AT&T, and Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Organizers * Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy * E-mail: valentina.presutti_at_cnr.it * Francois Scharffe, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France * E-mail: francois.scharffe_at_inria.fr * Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic * E-mail: svatek_at_vse.cz Important dates * July 15, 2010: Paper submission deadline * August 9, 2010: Paper acceptance notification * August 25, 2010: Camera-ready versions of papers * October 11th: Workshop day Best Regards, Valentina Presutti, Fran?ois Scharffe, Vojtech Svatech From ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk Mon Jul 19 13:07:45 2010 From: ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Horrocks) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:07:45 +0100 Subject: [DL] Fwd: Scalable Ontology Reasoning References: Message-ID: <2D6DD0BE-DDC2-4C63-832F-2495768AEBDE@comlab.ox.ac.uk> Begin forwarded message: > From: Wendy MacCaull > Date: 15 July 2010 15:26:57 GMT+01:00 > To: Ian Horrocks > Subject: Scalable Ontology Reasoning > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Research Scientist/PostDoc - Scalable Methods for Ontological Reasoning using High Performance Computing with Applications to Healthcare > > This is a 2 year contract position to develop scalable methods for ontological reasoning with applications to health care. Strong implementation skills are required; ideally the candidate will demonstrate proficiency in high performance computing methodologies, in strategies for (automated) reasoning, and in ontology development (though proficiency in some and commitment to developing proficiency in the other may be acceptable). Case studies will involve very large ontologies for health care. The candidate will have the opportunity to work with researchers in an interdisciplinary 6 year R&D project led by Dr. Wendy MacCaull, at StFX University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, carried out in collaboration with industry partners and the local health authority (see www.logic.stfx.ca). > > This position is partially supported by the ACEnet/Oracle Research Collaboration Program which has the goal of reducing barriers to the efficient, effective, and widespread use of the ACEnet Research Computing Platform through the creation of innovative open source grid, middleware, or web/portaltechnologies. > > Qualifications: PhD in appropriate area or MSc with 2-3 years experience in theorem proving strategies. Excellent written and oral skills in English. > > Salary: $44,500 per year (plus medical and dental benefits and a funding allowance for conference presentations). Second year funding is contingent on satisfactory performance during the first year. > > To apply: Send a 1 page Letter of Application describing how you fit the requirements of this position to Wendy MacCaull at wmaccaul at stfx.ca Include as attachments: > (1) A detailed CV; > (2) Names and contact information for 3 references (names, addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers); > (3) Copies of recent publications and/or detailed descriptions of projects and previous experience. > Use as the subject: Methods for Scalable Ontological Reasoning. We will begin reviewing applications on August 2nd, 2010 and hope to have the successful candidate in place by September/October 2010. From nurmamat at gmail.com Fri Jul 16 04:34:30 2010 From: nurmamat at gmail.com (Nurmamat Helil) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:34:30 +0900 Subject: [DL] problem with negated roles of SROIQ Message-ID: Hi: I am going to use negated roles assertions like (alice, Boc): \neg likes in SWRL rule does it allowed or it can be simulated by classical negation in SWRL like not like(alice, Bob). the second question: is the negated role assertion of SROIQ allowed in the head of SWRL rule? -- Nurmamat Helil School of Computer Science and Engineering Chung-Ang University Seoul, South Korea Email: nurmamat at gmail.com From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Mon Jul 19 07:17:59 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:17:59 -0400 Subject: [DL] Call for open reviews: Semantic Web journal Message-ID: <4C43E007.5080700@wright.edu> The "Semantic Web" journal currently has more than 40 submitted papers listed as under review. You are INVITED TO PARTICIPATE in the journal's open and transparent review process by commenting on submitted papers or by providing proper additional reviews. See http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/underreview for the papers currently under review. For more information about the review process, see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/reviewers . For more information about the journal, see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net Pascal Hitzler Krzysztof Janowicz Editors-in-Chief -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From schneidt at cs.man.ac.uk Mon Jul 19 13:31:50 2010 From: schneidt at cs.man.ac.uk (Thomas Schneider) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:31:50 +0100 Subject: [DL] problem with negated roles of SROIQ In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Nurmamat, when you say "negated role provided by SROIQ", you probably mean the feature of negated role assertions? These are restricted to ABoxes, i.e., you can say that a pair (a,b) of individuals is not connected via a role R. However, this does not seem sufficient to define your class A. I believe there is no way to exactly define that class in SROIQ, but depending on what you want to do with A, you can try some workarounds. Since your definition of A is ambiguous -- do I assume correctly that you want to express A=\{x| *there exists a y such that* (x,y) \in \neg R \wedge y \in C \} and that $neg R$ refers to the set of all pairs of individuals that are not in R? Then you could define a new role S to be disjoint to R, which would imply that S is subsumed by $\neg R$. Now if you define the class A' to be equivalent to $\exists S.C$, you would get that A' is a subclass of A. Perhaps this already suffices for what you want to express? Cheers Thomas On 29 Jun 2010, at 18:20, Nurmamat Helil wrote: > Hi: > > I am not very familiar with DL. now I have to represent a class > $A=\{x|(x,y) \in \neg R \wedge y \in C \}$ using DL > can I use negated role provided by SROIQ. > > -- > Nurmamat Helil > Postdoctoral Candidate > School of Computer Science and Engineering > Chung-Ang University > Seoul, 156-756, South Korea > Email: nurmamat at gmail.com > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; > for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/ > . ** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr Thomas Schneider schneider (at) cs.man.ac.uk | | School of Computer Science http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~schneidt | | Kilburn Building, Room 2.114 phone +44 161 2756136 | | University of Manchester | | Oxford Road _///_ | | Manchester M13 9PL (o~o) | +-----------------------------------------------------oOOO--(_)--OOOo--+ Kirby (n.) 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Fanizzi) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:56:41 +0200 Subject: [DL] URSW 2010: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <4C4D5BD9.8070905@di.uniba.it> Apologies for cross-postings ********************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************** 6th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2010 In conjunction with the 9th International Semantic Web Conference Shanghai, China November 7, 2010 You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in November of 2010 at the Shanghai International Convention Center, China. 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, Prot?g? developers, OWL-API 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 September 7, 2010 Paper submissions due September 30, 2010 Paper acceptance notification October 15, 2010 Camera-ready papers due November 4, 2010 Presentations due November 7, 2010 6th 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 2010 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=ursw2010 Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2010. For complete details, see Springer?s Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). 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 must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2010 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 2010 will be a full-day workshop divided into three sessions. Two of those sessions will be devoted to paper presentations, while the remaining session will be planned in a format that invites an open debate on the results, conclusions, recommendations, and follow-up work of the URSW-XG group. We also plan to convey a work meeting after the workshop, in case the last session need to be extended. 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 10-minute slot to share their ideas. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2010 Conference. In addition, technical papers accepted for presentation at the URSW 2010 will be eligible for participating in the selection to the planned Springer LNCS volume on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web ? Vol. II. This will be the second volume of this series and will include selected papers from URSW 2008 to URSW 2010. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order): * Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain. * Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA * 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 - Technical University of Munich, Germany. * Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA. PROGRAM COMMITTEE The confirmed members of the program committee are the following (in alphabetical order): * Fernando Bobillo - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain * Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA * Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA * Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil * Claudia D'Amato - University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy * Marcelo Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil * Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA * Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA * Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK * Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK * Matthias Nickles - Technical University of Munich, Germany * Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK * Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA * Livia Predoiu - Universit?t Mannheim, Germany * Guilin Qi - University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK * Daniel S?nchez - University of Granada, Spain * Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Giorgos Stoilos - Oxford University, UK * Umberto Straccia ? ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy * Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA * Johanna Voelker - University of Karlsruhe, Germany We are looking forward to seeing you in Shanghai! From fgeo at ics.forth.gr Tue Jul 27 11:09:37 2010 From: fgeo at ics.forth.gr (Giorgos Flouris) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:09:37 +0300 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) Message-ID: <1785CF7C4F0C4E8783377AB8A9F9DB64@ics.forth.gr> [apologies for multiple copies] =============================================== Call for Papers 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) =============================================== http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/iwod/iwod2010 Workshop Description and Motivation ----------------------------------- Ontologies constitute one of the main pillars of the Semantic Web and of semantic applications. As ontologies model dynamic environments (e.g., e-science ontologies), they are often subject to change. The support for dynamicity is one of the core ontology management problems and has many facets, being dealt with in different fields, like ontology evolution, ontology versioning and others. Following previous successful organizations (as part of ESWC-07, ISWC-08 and ISWC-09), IWOD has established itself as the core annual event to discuss advances in the broad area of ontology dynamics, and to track recent work directly or indirectly related to the problem of evolving ontologies. The goal of the 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) is to bring together researchers and students working on the fields of ontology evolution, revision, merging and versioning, as well as people from the industry conducting activities (applications, case studies) that involve the dynamic aspects of ontologies. Our aim is to trigger discussions and allow interested researchers, students and practitioners to present and discuss recent advances related to these fields. Both theoretical research works as well as works describing implemented systems or tools are welcome. Topics of Interest ------------------ We encourage submissions on all topics related to ontology dynamics, including original theoretical work on the issues involved directly or indirectly with change as well as applications or implemented systems related to such issues. We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in the following topics: - Ontology evolution - Ontology versioning - Ontology merging - Formal aspects of ontology dynamics - Foundational issues - Language extensions for evolution - Belief revision for ontologies - Inconsistency/incoherency/invalidity in evolving ontologies - Change propagation in ontologies and metadata - Ontologies for dynamic environments - Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation - Engineering evolvable ontologies - Requirements for ontology evolution - Case studies in ontology evolution - Tools to support ontology evolution - Applications with dynamic ontologies - Open problems Workshop Venue and Format ------------------------- The workshop will take place in Shangai, China, as part of the ISWC-10 conference (http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/) on November 7 or 8, 2010. IWOD-10 will be a half-day workshop with regular paper presentations. We will also consider having an invited talk by a prominent scientist working on the field of ontology dynamics. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Only electronic submissions will be considered. All submissions should be submitted in pdf format, to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwod10. Submissions should not exceed 14 pages and should be formatted according to the LNCS Springer format (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0). The workshop proceedings will both be uploaded to CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/) and placed on electronic media for distribution at the conference. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: August 23, 2010 Acceptance notification: September 17, 2010 Camera-ready deadline: October 7, 2010 Workshop day: November 08, 2010 (tentative) Organizing Committee -------------------- Giorgos Flouris (fgeo at ics.forth.gr) Guilin Qi (gqi at seu.edu.cn) IWOD Series Steering Committee ------------------------------ Grigoris Antoniou Mathieu d'quin Giorgos Flouris Jeff Z. Pan Dimitris Plexousakis Program Committee ----------------- Grigoris Antoniou Alessandro Artale Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles Mathieu d'Aquin Giuseppe De Giacomo James Delgrande Peter Haase Nathalie Hernandez Zhisheng Huang Diana Maynard Thomas Meyer Enrico Motta Natasha Noy Jeff Z. Pan Dimitris Plexousakis Chantal Reynaud Marcio Moretto Ribeiro Marta Sabou Ljiljana Stojanovic Shenghui Wang Renata Wassermann From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jul 27 13:42:50 2010 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:42:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR-17 call for short papers, workshop submissions Message-ID: <20100727114250.E410D11FB5A@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ============================================================ The 17th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Yogyakarta, Indonesia - October 10th-15th, 2010 ============================================================ http://www.computational-logic.org/lpar-17/Home.html CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practioners are encouraged to submit short papers reporting on interesting work in progress or providing system descriptions. They need not be original. Extended versions of the short papers may be submitted concurrently with or after LPAR-17 to another conference or a journal. The short paper proceedings will be available as an EasyChair collection volume. Short papers are limited in length to 5 pages in the EasyChair format. Short papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page ... http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar17short Submission deadline: 30 August 2010 Notification: 6 September 2010 =============================================================================== LPAR-17 WORKSHOPS October 10th, 2010 ========================================================================== IWIL 2010 - The 8th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics ========================================================================== http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/IWIL-2010/iwil-2010.html IWIL has been unusually sucessful in bringing together many talented developers, and thus in sharing information about successful implementation techniques for automated reasoning systems and similar programs. We are looking for contributions describing implementation techniques for and implementations of automated reasoning programs, theorem provers for various logics, logic programming systems, and related technologies. Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit a position statement (2 pages), a short paper (up to 5 pages), or a full paper (up to 15 pages), in EasyChair format. Submission is via EasyChair ... http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwil2010 Submission deadline: 9 August 2010 Notification: 27 August 2010 ============================================================ APS 5 - 5th International Workshop on Analytic Proof Systems ============================================================ http://www.logic.at/staff/chrisf/ws/LPAR-AS-5.html Analyticity is a topic that connects foundational issues in logic with applications, mainly in automated deduction and analysis of proofs. The workshop is primarily intended to enhance awareness for its topic and to promote corresponding discussions and contacts between experienced experts and younger colleagues. The submission deadline is 10th September. Submissions are 1-2 page abstracts. Submissions must be emailed to ... analytic at logic.at Submission deadline: 10 September 2010 Notification: 15 September 2010 =============================================================================== From semeraro at di.uniba.it Tue Jul 20 20:17:33 2010 From: semeraro at di.uniba.it (Giovanni Semeraro) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:17:33 +0200 Subject: [DL] 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2010) - Call for Papers Message-ID: <001f01cb2837$d4b364f0$f8bbccc1@SemeraroVAIO> Apologies for multiple copies CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================== 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives SWAP 2010 ========================================================== Bressanone-Brixen, Italy September 21-22, 2010 http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/swap2010/ Organized by the KRDB Research Centre Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Collocated with the 4th Int. Conf. on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010/ ========================================================== **** SUBMIT YOUR MOST INTERESTING 2009-2010 PAPER!! **** **** AND **** **** SHARE YOUR IDEAS WITH THE SEMANTIC WEB COMMUNITY **** ========================================================== The Semantic Web is currently one of the most interesting and ambitious challenges that the scientific and technological community is facing. While great progresses have been made in terms of consolidation of base philosophy and infrastructure, new issues, technologies, and tools are emerging. These issues include creating, presenting and managing Semantic Web content, making semantics explicit in order to automatically integrate data from different sources, and to search for information based on its meaning rather than its syntactic form. New and advanced methods, models, tools, and technologies for services related to creation, access, retrieval, integration, and filtering of Web content are being developed at the intersection of relevant disciplines that are making the Semantic Web fly, such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Information Systems, Distributed Computing, Multimedia Systems, Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Networks, and Web Science. Applications that use Semantic Web technologies and succeed in leveraging the added value of semantics on the Web are emerging. However, designing and building them is still a challenge due to the rapid evolution of standards, technologies, and tools, and the need for well-established methodologies. This happens in the context of a widespread interest in semantic techniques for web data access and integration, e.g. for linked open data, microformats, and social networks. SWAP 2010 aims at being a relaxed meeting for brainstorming and debating among international researchers and developers on the Semantic Web, with a special focus on aspects which can enable wide-scale use of Semantic Web technologies. See below for a detailed list of topics. Audience The workshop aims at attracting researchers, developers and interested practitioners alike. The setting for the workshop is highly interactive, and presentations are expected to focus on practical issues and the underlying theoretical aspects and open problems, reporting both on learned experiences and on ongoing work. The presentation language is English. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission requirements We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, government, and consulting. Submitted manuscripts may describe either: * original research, or work in progress that is sufficiently mature to be presented to the Semantic Web community at large; * work that is of high relevance for the Semantic Web community and that has already been published or accepted recently (i.e., in 2009 or 2010) at a highly ranked conference in the Semantic Web area (ISWC, ESWC) or in related areas (e.g., KR, IJCAI, AAAI, PODS, SIGMOD, VLDB, ...); * a position statement on one or more aspects of relevance for the Semantic Web. ====================================================================== We especially welcome what the authors consider as their recent most important contribution to Semantic Web research, whether original, work in progress, or already accepted or published. ====================================================================== Authors should clearly indicate on the cover page to which of the above categories (original, work in progress, accepted, published, or position paper) their submission belongs. For already published or accepted papers they should indicate also the publication venue and date. Papers will be reviewed by the PC co-chairs and the members of the SWAP steering committee, to judge relevance to SWAP and potential interest for the Semantic Web community. Based on the evaluation, papers will be accepted either for oral presentation, or for poster presentation. Submissions that are not relevant to SWAP 2010 will be rejected. Accepted contributions will be distributed in electronic format at the workshop. After the workshop, selected contributions will undergo a further critical reviewing process and, if accepted, will be published online in a volume of post-workshop proceedings of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series, ISSN 1613-0073, http://ceur-ws.org/. Papers must be submitted electronically at the conference website using the EasyChair submission system. Manuscripts should be in pdf and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. Information concerning typesetting can be obtained directly from Springer at: http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html. The maximum length of submissions is 16 pages for regular papers (original, work in progress, accepted, or published), and 2 pages for positions papers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Sep. 1, 2010 Paper submission deadline - Sep. 9, 2010 Author notification - Sep. 15, 2010 Final version due - Sep. 21-22, 2010 SWAP 2010 Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics The workshop will cover both theoretical and implementation issues that relate to Semantic Web applications. The following is a partial list of topics of interests: * Applications of Semantic Web technologies, such as: - Semantic Web in life sciences and e-science - Semantic Web for e-business - Semantic Web for e-government - Semantic Web for e-learning - Semantic Web for P2P systems and grids - Semantic Web and multimedia - Novel Semantic Web applications - Presentation and discussions of application scenarios * Representation and Management of Semantic Web data - Methodologies for Semantic Web data management - Tools for Semantic Web data management - Robust, scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Data semantics and linked data - Searching and querying Semantic Web data - Machine learning and information extraction on the Semantic Web - Large-scale knowledge management - Semantic coordination, integration, matching, interoperability - Semantic Web mining - Semantic information retrieval - Semantic wikis - Semantic Web middleware - Systems of annotation extraction * Ontologies and Languages in the Semantic Web - Ontology design, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Reasoning over ontologies and data - Linked data and microformats - New languages for the Semantic Web - Web 2.0-based ontology learning - Semantic Web services * User Interfaces to the Semantic Web - Visualizing Semantic Web data - Natural language technologies for the Semantic Web - Assistive technologies and the Semantic Web - Web 2.0 personalization - Web 2.0 technologies for recommender systems * Social Semantic Web - Social networks on the Semantic Web - Semantic Portals - Semantic Web technology for collaboration and cooperation - Semantic Web personalization - Semantic Web trust, privacy, security, and intellectual property rights - Analysis of social online communities - Social aspects of distributed cooperative annotation * Semantic Web Agents * Evaluation and benchmarking of Semantic Web techniques and tools ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization: - Paolo Traverso, University of Trento (general chair) - Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (PC co-chair) - Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari (PC co-chair) - Mariano Rodriguez-Muro, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (local arrangements) SWAP Steering Committee: - Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento - Oreste Signore, W3C Office in Italy/CNR - Heiko Stoermer, FBK, Trento, Italy - Giovanni Tummarello, FBK Trento, Italy & DERI Galway, Ireland See http://www.swapconf.it/ for previous editions of SWAP. Contact chairs by email at swap2010-chairs at inf.unibz.it From adrian.paschke at gmx.de Sat Jul 24 12:25:55 2010 From: adrian.paschke at gmx.de (Adrian Paschke) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:25:55 +0200 Subject: [DL] Semantic Web Applications and Tools Workshop (SWAT4LS 2010) Message-ID: <201007241026.o6OAPtOI008309@informatik.uni-bremen.de> 3rd Int. Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences Berlin, 10th December 2010 http://www.swat4ls.org/2010/ Overview SWAT4LS is a workshop that provides a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of Web based information systems and semantic technologies in life sciences, biomedical informatics and computational biology. _____ Rationale The web is a key medium for information publishing, and web based information systems play a key role in biomedical information exchange and integration. At the same time, the variety and complexity of biomedical information call for the adoption of semantic-based solutions. The Semantic Web provides a set of technologies and standards that are key to support semantic markup, ontology development, distributed information resources and collaborative social environments. Altogether the adoption of the web-based semantic-enabled technologies in the Life Sciences has potential impact on the future of publishing, biological research and medicine. This workshop will provide a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of these technologies and tools in biomedical informatics and computational biology. It will showcase experiences, information resources, tools development and applications. It will bring together researchers, both developers and users, from the various fields of Biology, Bioinformatics and Computer Science, to discuss goals, current limits and some real use cases for Semantic Web technologies in Life Sciences. _____ Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Standards, Technologies, Tools for the Semantic Web * Semantic Web standards and new proposals (RDF, OWL, SKOS, Linked Data, . ) * Biomedical Ontologies and related tools * Alternative approaches to integrate semantic representations and web based solutions * Formal approaches to large biomedical knowledge bases * Systems for a Semantic Web for Bioinformatics * RDF stores, Reasoners, query and visualization systems for life sciences * Semantic biomedical Web Services * Semantics aware Biological Data Integration Systems * Existing and prospective applications of the Semantic Web for Bioinformatics * Semantics aware application tools * Semantic Wikis * Semantic collaborative research environments * Case studies, use cases, and scenarios _____ Type of contributions The following possible contributions are sought: * Research papers * Position papers * Posters * Software demos We are also accepting proposals for tutorials, hackathons or other related events to be held on Dec 8th (hackathons) and Dec 9th (tutorials). If interested, please contact info at swat4ls.org _____ Proceedings All accepted communications will be published in the proceedings. Proceedings for the last editions of the workshop have been pubslished via the CEUR-WS.org Workshop Proceedings service (see http://ceur-ws.org/). Best papers will be invited to a journal special issue (probably BMC Bioinformatics). _____ Special issue Authors of accepted contributions to the last editions of SWAT4LS have been invited to submit extended and revised contributions for a special issue in BMC Bioinformatics (dedicated to the SWAT4LS 2008 edition), and for a special issue of the BMC Journal of Biomedical Semantics (dedicated to the SWAT4LS 2009 edition, in preparation). We will continue with this approach and we will announce more detailed infomation as soon as we have reached an agreement with publishers. _____ Deadlines * Submission openinig: 7 September 2010 * Papers submission deadline: 12 October 2010 * Posters and demo submission deadline: 1 November 2010 * Communication of acceptance: 8 November 2010 * Camera ready: 21 November 2010 _____ Instructions All papers and posters must be in English, formatted according to LNCS format ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and submitted in pdf format. * Submissions for papers should report original research, and should be between 8 and 15 pages. * Submissions for position papers should report qualified opinions, recommendations or conclusions, and should be between 3 and 6 pages. * Submissions for posters should be between 2 and 4 pages. * Submissions for software demo proposals should also be between 2 and 4 pages. _____ Submission All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair submission system. A link will be provided when registrations open. To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Program Committee. _____ Workshop Chairs * Adrian Paschke, Corporate Semantic Web, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany * Albert Burger, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, and Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom * Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy * M. Scott Marshall, Adaptive Information Disclosure Group, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Andrea Splendiani, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics dept., Rothamsted Research, UK Program Committee See website http://www.swat4ls.org/2010/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Tue Aug 3 10:50:33 2010 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:50:33 +0200 Subject: [DL] In Bressanone (Italy) - 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP2010) - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <02FAC6A9-07CC-41B7-B640-339FC00C9C5C@inf.unibz.it> Apologies for multiple copies. CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================== 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives SWAP 2010 ========================================================== Bressanone-Brixen, Italy September 21-22, 2010 http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/swap2010/ Organized by the KRDB Research Centre Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Collocated with the 4th Int. Conf. on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010/ ========================================================== **** SUBMIT YOUR MOST INTERESTING 2009-2010 PAPER!! **** **** AND **** **** SHARE YOUR IDEAS WITH THE SEMANTIC WEB COMMUNITY **** ========================================================== The Semantic Web is currently one of the most interesting and ambitious challenges that the scientific and technological community is facing. While great progresses have been made in terms of consolidation of base philosophy and infrastructure, new issues, technologies, and tools are emerging. These issues include creating, presenting and managing Semantic Web content, making semantics explicit in order to automatically integrate data from different sources, and to search for information based on its meaning rather than its syntactic form. New and advanced methods, models, tools, and technologies for services related to creation, access, retrieval, integration, and filtering of Web content are being developed at the intersection of relevant disciplines that are making the Semantic Web fly, such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Information Systems, Distributed Computing, Multimedia Systems, Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Networks, and Web Science. Applications that use Semantic Web technologies and succeed in leveraging the added value of semantics on the Web are emerging. However, designing and building them is still a challenge due to the rapid evolution of standards, technologies, and tools, and the need for well-established methodologies. This happens in the context of a widespread interest in semantic techniques for web data access and integration, e.g. for linked open data, microformats, and social networks. SWAP 2010 aims at being a relaxed meeting for brainstorming and debating among international researchers and developers on the Semantic Web, with a special focus on aspects which can enable wide-scale use of Semantic Web technologies. See below for a detailed list of topics. Audience The workshop aims at attracting researchers, developers and interested practitioners alike. The setting for the workshop is highly interactive, and presentations are expected to focus on practical issues and the underlying theoretical aspects and open problems, reporting both on learned experiences and on ongoing work. The presentation language is English. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission requirements We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, government, and consulting. Submitted manuscripts may describe either: * original research, or work in progress that is sufficiently mature to be presented to the Semantic Web community at large; * work that is of high relevance for the Semantic Web community and that has already been published or accepted recently (i.e., in 2009 or 2010) at a highly ranked conference in the Semantic Web area (ISWC, ESWC) or in related areas (e.g., KR, IJCAI, AAAI, PODS, SIGMOD, VLDB, ...); * a position statement on one or more aspects of relevance for the Semantic Web. ====================================================================== We especially welcome what the authors consider as their recent most important contribution to Semantic Web research, whether original, work in progress, or already accepted or published. ====================================================================== Authors should clearly indicate on the cover page to which of the above categories (original, work in progress, accepted, published, or position paper) their submission belongs. For already published or accepted papers they should indicate also the publication venue and date. Papers will be reviewed by the PC co-chairs and the members of the SWAP steering committee, to judge relevance to SWAP and potential interest for the Semantic Web community. Based on the evaluation, papers will be accepted either for oral presentation, or for poster presentation. Submissions that are not relevant to SWAP 2010 will be rejected. Accepted contributions will be distributed in electronic format at the workshop. After the workshop, selected contributions will undergo a further critical reviewing process and, if accepted, will be published online in a volume of post-workshop proceedings of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series, ISSN 1613-0073, http://ceur-ws.org/. Papers must be submitted electronically at the conference website using the EasyChair submission system. Manuscripts should be in pdf and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. Information concerning typesetting can be obtained directly from Springer at: http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html. The maximum length of submissions is 16 pages for regular papers (original, work in progress, accepted, or published), and 2 pages for positions papers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Sep. 1, 2010 Paper submission deadline - Sep. 9, 2010 Author notification - Sep. 15, 2010 Final version due - Sep. 21-22, 2010 SWAP 2010 Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics The workshop will cover both theoretical and implementation issues that relate to Semantic Web applications. The following is a partial list of topics of interests: * Applications of Semantic Web technologies, such as: - Semantic Web in life sciences and e-science - Semantic Web for e-business - Semantic Web for e-government - Semantic Web for e-learning - Semantic Web for P2P systems and grids - Semantic Web and multimedia - Novel Semantic Web applications - Presentation and discussions of application scenarios * Representation and Management of Semantic Web data - Methodologies for Semantic Web data management - Tools for Semantic Web data management - Robust, scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Data semantics and linked data - Searching and querying Semantic Web data - Machine learning and information extraction on the Semantic Web - Large-scale knowledge management - Semantic coordination, integration, matching, interoperability - Semantic Web mining - Semantic information retrieval - Semantic wikis - Semantic Web middleware - Systems of annotation extraction * Ontologies and Languages in the Semantic Web - Ontology design, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Reasoning over ontologies and data - Linked data and microformats - New languages for the Semantic Web - Web 2.0-based ontology learning - Semantic Web services * User Interfaces to the Semantic Web - Visualizing Semantic Web data - Natural language technologies for the Semantic Web - Assistive technologies and the Semantic Web - Web 2.0 personalization - Web 2.0 technologies for recommender systems * Social Semantic Web - Social networks on the Semantic Web - Semantic Portals - Semantic Web technology for collaboration and cooperation - Semantic Web personalization - Semantic Web trust, privacy, security, and intellectual property rights - Analysis of social online communities - Social aspects of distributed cooperative annotation * Semantic Web Agents * Evaluation and benchmarking of Semantic Web techniques and tools ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization: - Paolo Traverso, University of Trento (general chair) - Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (PC co-chair) - Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari (PC co-chair) - Mariano Rodriguez-Muro, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (local arrangements) SWAP Steering Committee: - Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento - Oreste Signore, W3C Office in Italy/CNR - Heiko Stoermer, FBK, Trento, Italy - Giovanni Tummarello, FBK Trento, Italy & DERI Galway, Ireland See http://www.swapconf.it/ for previous editions of SWAP. Contact chairs by email at swap2010-chairs at inf.unibz.it From hr at sti2.at Mon Aug 2 13:35:38 2010 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 13:35:38 +0200 Subject: [DL] Open position: PhD student in EU projects PeerAssist and PlanetData In-Reply-To: <4C173C33.200@sti2.at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> <4B6C0262.8030803@sti2.at> <4B6C0284.8070601@sti2.at> <4BA8B8EC.2080101@sti2.at> <4BA8C8D8.5060201@sti2.at> <4BF65B42.6030807@sti2.at> <003501cafbdd$2bd8e7a0$838ab6e0$@at> <4C173C33.200@sti2.at> Message-ID: <00b401cb3236$d4801e20$7d805a60$@at> _____ PhD student in EU projects PeerAssist and PlanetData The Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck ( http://www.sti-innsbruck.at), formerly known as DERI Innsbruck, was founded in 2002 and has developed into a challenging and dynamic research institute of approximately 40 people. STI Innsbruck collaborates with an international network of institutes in Asia, Europe and the USA, as well as with global industrial partners. Our major objective is to establish Semantic technologies as a core pillar of modern Computer Science, thereby providing interoperability and scalability for Semantically Enabled Service Orientated Architectures. STI Innsbruck is currently seeking candidates for the position of a PhD student. We offer: * The stimulating environment of a leading research institute in the fields of Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures and formal languages and reasoning. * Long-term collaboration to well-known academic institutions and major companies around the world. * A multicultural working place with state-of-the-art infrastructure and resources including funding for attending international conferences, PhD symposia, summer schools, etc. We expect: * A strong background in Computer Science or Information Technologies and focused research interest and expertise in at least one of the following areas: knowledge representation, ontology engineering, semantic technologies, social networks and web communities research, mobile and RFID-enabled services, information retrieval methods, reasoning, formal languages, data mining, visualization techniques, human-computer interaction. * A formal degree and interest required for pursuing a PhD at the University of Innsbruck. * Interest in working for the EU projects PeerAssist and PlanetData. The main objectives of the PeerAssist project are the conceptualization, design, implementation and demonstration of a flexible Peer-to-Peer (P2P) platform, which will allow elderly people (not necessarily familiar with ICT technologies) to build virtual communities dynamically based on interests and needs they share. The PeerAssist platform will facilitate establishing on demand ad-hoc communities with friends, family, neighbors, caregivers, facilitators, care providers, etc., based on shared interests and communication needs. The community building and the P2P interaction will be achieved using information extracted from peer roles, profiles and user modeling, context that describes the overall user environment, and the specific request initiated, or service provided, by a peer, all of which are represented semantically in a machine understandable form. PlanetData ( http://www.planet-data.eu) is an EU Network of Excellence coordinated by STI Innsbruck. Its main aim is to establish an interdisciplinary, sustainable European community of researchers, helping organizations to expose their data on the Web in a useful way. PlanetData will push forward the state-of-the-art in large-scale data management and its application to the creation of useful, open data sets. The projects? consortia are interdisciplinary team of engineers and researchers in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Web Science and Knowledge Management from all over Europe of industrial and academic organizations. The contribution of STI Innsbruck is on semantic technologies for context-aware knowledge representation, capturing and processing of the information arriving from sensors, as well as on the design, prototyping and end-user evaluation of novel mobile and augmented reality services that comprise information about the communities and social networks. As part of the projects, the candidate will be also involved in community building, workshop and symposium organization, contributing to roadmaps and white papers, as well as supporting the provision of semantic and service infrastructures to the wider research community. The projects will run for 24 (PeerAssist) and 48 (PlanetData) months, while starting in September-October 2010. We kindly invite you to submit your application to hr at sti2.at. Please include a current resume, a list of publications (if applicable), and digital versions of your most relevant works (such as graduation thesis or latest publications). In case of further questions regarding this position please contact Dr. Anna Fensel ( anna.fensel at sti2.at). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joana at informatik.uni-bremen.de Fri Jul 30 22:29:03 2010 From: joana at informatik.uni-bremen.de (Joana Hois) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:29:03 +0200 Subject: [DL] 1st CfP: Applied Ontology Special Issue on Modularity in Ontologies Message-ID: <1280521743.1825.119.camel@name> ========================================================= --- Applied Ontology --- --- Special Issue on Modularity in Ontologies --- --- Call for Papers --- Submission deadline: December 2010 http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womoAO/ ========================================================= Applied Ontology - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling IOS Press, ISSN: 1570-5838 Editors-in-Chief: Nicola Guarino, Mark A. Musen MODULARITY, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalisation, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance and ontology reasoning. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularisation and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a solid foundation and exciting prospects for further research and development. This special issue invites submission of high quality original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. Submissions must be formatted according to IOS Press style ( www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ) and should be prepared in PDF format. Contributions must be received not later than December 2010 through the EasyChair Submission System ( www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aowomo11 ). IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: December 2010 Notification (expected): March 2011 Revised Version: May 2011 Publication (expected): Fall 2011 GUEST EDITORS Oliver Kutz, Joana Hois (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Sat Aug 7 03:59:28 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:59:28 -0400 Subject: [DL] Journal Special Call for Survey articles on Semantic Web topics Message-ID: <4C5CBE00.2040701@wright.edu> special call for papers on SURVEY ARTICLES ON SEMANTIC WEB TOPICS Description The "Semantic Web" journal invites submissions of full-length papers surveying the state of the art of topics central to the journal's scope. Survey articles should have the potential to become well-known introductory and overview texts. These submissions will be reviewed along the following dimensions: (1) Suitability as introductory text, targeted at researchers, PhD students, or practitioners, to get started on the covered topic. (2) How comprehensive and how balanced is the presentation and coverage. (3) Readability and clarity of the presentation. (4) Importance of the covered material to the broader Semantic Web community. Topics of Interest We invite submissions on all topics related to the Semantic Web. Important Dates Abstract Submission: 15th of September, 2010 Feedback about abstract: 20th of September, 2010 Paper Submission: 30th of October, 2010 Acceptance Notification: 20th of December, 2010 Final Paper: 31st of January, 2011 Abstracts and papers will be processed as they come in, and notification is planned earlier in these cases. Submissions Abstracts should consist of * List of authors * Tentative title * Abstract * Tentative table of contents * Tentative page count Abstracts must be sent by email to Pascal Hitzler with subject line "SWJ Survey abstract: ". The purpose of the abstract submission is that we can give you feedback on your planned survey, before you start putting too much work into this. This will also allow us to avoid duplicate topic. For the paper submission, please see the submission information and guidelines at . When entering your manuscript into the review system, please state "Survey paper" in the cover letter. Please also note the journal's open review process detailed at . Contact Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA Please direct all inquiries to Pascal Hitzler, pascal at pascal-hitzler.de. Editorial Board Claudia d'Amato, Universit? degli Studi di Bari, Italy S?ren Auer, Universit?t Leipzig, Germany Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada Philipp Cimiano, Universit?t Bielefeld, Germany Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University, UK Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Canada Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland, New Zealand Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil Manfred Hauswirth, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway Tom Heath, Talis, UK Rinke Hoekstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands Andreas Hotho, Universit?t W?rzburg, Germany Eero Hyv?nen, Aalto University, Finland Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK Axel Polleres, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway Martin Raubal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK Christoph Schlieder, University of Bamberg, Germany Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA Jie Tang, Tsinghua University Beijing, China Kunal Verma, Accenture, USA -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From pavel at dit.unitn.it Mon Aug 2 18:00:25 2010 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:00:25 +0200 Subject: [DL] 3rd CFP: ISWC'10 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2010) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2010) http://om2010.ontologymatching.org/ November 7, 2010, ISWC'10 Workshop Program, Shanghai, China BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks. 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 and data translation. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has two goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2010 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks involving, e.g., biomedical ontologies and linked data. 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: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open linked data); Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Ontology matching patterns; Instance matching; Large-scale ontology matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; Uncertainty in ontology matching; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., search, web-services). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2010 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20100 Contributors to the OAEI 2010 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/. *TENTATIVE* IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: September 1, 2010: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 27, 2010: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 12, 2010: Workshop camera ready copy submission. November 7, 2010: OM-2010, Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany 5. Ming Mao SAP Labs, USA 6. Isabel Cruz The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paolo Besana, Universite de Rennes 1, France Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin and Kosmix Corp., USA Alfio Ferrara, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Tom Heath, Talis, UK Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA Bin He, IBM, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Augusto Mabboni, Business Process Engineering, Italy Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Luca Mion, Informatica Trentina, Italy Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Filippo Nardelli, Cogito, Italy Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Yefei Peng, Yahoo Labs, USA Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany Fran?ois Scharffe, INRIA, France Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Cassia Trojahn dos Santos, INRIA, France Lorenzino Vaccari, EC DG Environment, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Italy Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Rui Zhang, Jilin University, China Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The track gives conference attendees a way to learn about novel on-going research projects that might not yet be complete, but whose preliminary results are already interesting. The track also provides presenters with an excellent opportunity to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting from knowledgeable sources. Full papers accepted for the Research and In-Use tracks are explicitly invited to submit a poster or demo to the Posters and Demo track. The submission format is the same as for the normal posters and demos but must cite the accepted full paper and needs to include an explanation on what the Demo/Poster adds on top of the conference presentation. Such added value could include: a) extended results and experiments not presented in the conference paper for space reasons, b) a demo of a supporting prototype implementation wherever software is available. Important Dates =============== * Abstracts due: August 23, 2010, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time * Notification: September 13, 2010 Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest for the posters and demonstrations track include, but are not limited to: * Semantic User Interfaces * Interacting with Semantic Web data * Semantic data annotation * Semantic Data Mashup * Natural Language Interfaces * Semantic Visualization * Semantic Data Processing * Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution * Ontology reasoning, mapping, merging, and alignment * Semantic Searching * Ontology evaluation * Applications of the Semantic Web * Semantic Web for desktops or personal information management * Semantic Web technologies for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness * Semantic Web technologies for e-Science, e-Commerce, e-Government * Semantic Web technologies for software and systems engineering * Mobile Semantic Web Applications * Semantic Wikis * Social Semantic Web Applications Submission Information ====================== Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing system. Papers must be submitted via EasyChair to the Posters and Demos track of ISWC2010 at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2010 Authors must submit a four-page paper with a short abstract for evaluation. The abstract must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web. All poster and demo submissions will undergo a common review process, including those ones that have full papers accepted. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Submissions must be in PDF. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions that exceed the page limit may be rejected without review. For details on the LNCS style, see Springer's Author Instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 For demo submissions, authors are strongly encouraged to include in their submission a link to where the demo (live or recorded video) can be found. At least one of the authors must be a registered participant at the conference, and attend their 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, but will not be published by Springer in the printed conference proceedings. Metadata for all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Poster and Demo co-chairs: Axel Polleres Huajun Chen _________________________________________________ Dr. Sebastian Rudolph senior researcher & project leader at AIFB Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) rudolph at kit.edu phone +49 721 608 - 7362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 721 608 - 5998 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Wed Aug 4 21:31:01 2010 From: tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za (Tommie Meyer) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 21:31:01 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: AOW 2010 @ AI 2010 Message-ID: <1A0DC50E-25F6-45E2-862B-CD6BF30A8018@meraka.org.za> Apologies for cross postings 6th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2010) 7 December 2010 Held in Conjunction with the 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2010) Adelaide, Australia http://krr.meraka.org.za/~aow2010 AOW 2010 is the sixth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. For the second year running, AOW 2010 will have a best paper award, with a prize of $250(AUD) being awarded to the author(s) of the best paper. 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 - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The AOW 2010 proceedings will be published at a suitable venue to be announced soon. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their AOW 2010 papers as chapters in a forthcoming Springer book. 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Bolzano, Italy - Deadline Oct. 18, 2010 Message-ID: <119EF21E-53F3-446E-ADDE-0C43BEAD327B@inf.unibz.it> =============================================================== CALL FOR PhD POSITIONS - DEADLINE October 18, 2010 3 fully funded PhD positions at the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy =============================================================== The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), Italy, offers an opening for 18 positions for its 3-year PhD program. 9 of the positions are fully funded by a PhD studentship. *** 3 of the PhD positions with studentship are offered by the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data. *** The application deadline is Oct. 18, 2010 (arrival date of documents, electronic application is not possible). For information about the PhD program, the studentship, and the application, please visit . To download the call, click on "Public Competition Announcement for PhD courses - 26th cycle". A PhD studentship amounts roughly to 51,000 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 invites applicants to get in touch with the research group as soon as possible (see CONTACT PERSON below), in order to have a better understanding of the possible research activities in which the applicants may be involved. Relevant research topics in the centre are the following: * Logics for Knowledge Representation * Intelligent Access to Databases * Controlled Natural Language * Temporal Aspects in Data and Knowledge * Advanced Database Technologies The topics require good knowledge of Logic, Foundations of Databases, some knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, and of Knowledge Representation. Other research topics are listed in the personal web pages of the members of the KRDB Research Centre, see . CONTACT PERSON To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre, send an email to prof. Diego Calvanese . To get in touch with the current PhD students, see . From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Wed Aug 18 08:16:55 2010 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:16:55 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation: 4th Int. Conf. on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010) - Bressanone, Italy, Sep. 22-24, 2010 Message-ID: <6BC23343-83EE-465E-A6CB-308527C9737A@inf.unibz.it> Apologies for multiple receipts due to crossposting. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 4th Int. Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010) Bressanone/Brixen, Italy September 22-24, 2010 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010/ Co-located with: - the 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2010), - the 1st Int. Workshop on Business Models, Business Rules and Ontologies (BuRO 2010) - the 3rd KRDB school on Trends in the Web of Data (KRDBs 2010) --------------------------------------------------------------------- KEY DATES: - Regular registration deadline: Aug. 31, 2010 - Student early registration deadline: Aug. 31, 2010 REGISTRATION: http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/rr2010/registration/registration.html PROGRAM: http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/rr2010/program/program.html OVERVIEW: The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2010 builds on the success of the first three International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (see http://www.rr-conference.org/), held in Innsbruck, Austria (2007), Karlsruhe, Germany (2008), and Chantilly, Virginia, USA (2009), which received enthusiastic support from the Web Reasoning community. In 2010, 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. KEYNOTE TALKS: - Datalog+-: Rule-Based Languages for Ontological Reasoning and Query Answering Georg Gottlob (Oxford University, UK) - Data Validation with OWL Integrity Constraints Evren Sirin (Clark & Parsia, USA) TUTORIAL: - SPARQL1.1: new features and friends (OWL2, RIF) Axel Polleres (DERI Galway), National University of Ireland (Galway, Ireland) ACCEPTED PAPERS: * Redundancy Elimination on RDF Graphs in the Presence of Rules, Constraints, and Queries R. Pichler, A. Polleres, S. Skritek, S. Woltran * A Rule-Based Language for Complex Event Processing and Reasoning D. Anicic, P. Fodor, S. Rudolph, R. Stuehmer, N. Stojanovic, R. Studer * Query-Based Access Control for Ontologies M. Knechtel and H. Stuckenschmidt * Defeasibility in Answer Set Programs via Argumentation Theories H. Wan, M. Kifer, B. Grosof. * Extending Paraconsistent SROIQ F. Maier * A Rule-Based Approach to XML Processing and Web Reasoning J. Coelho, B. Dundua, M. Florido, T. Kutsia * Learning to Rank Individuals in Description Logics Using Kernel Perceptrons N. Fanizzi, C. d'Amato, F. Esposito * On the Termination of the Chase Algorithm M. Meier * Processing RIF and OWL2RL within DLVHEX P. Obermeier, M. Marano, and A. Polleres. * Inconsistency-Tolerant Semantics for Description Logics D. Lembo, M. Lenzerini, R. Rosati, M. Ruzzi, D.F. Savo. * Usability of a Visual Language for DL Concept Descriptions F. Naufel do Amaral. * Secrecy-Preserving Query Answering for EL J. Tao, G. Slutzki, V. Honavar. * A RESTful SWRL Rule Editor C. Ke?ler. * A Step Toward Tight Integration of Fuzzy Ontological Reasoning with Forward Rules S. Bragaglia, D. Sottara, F. Chesani, P. Mello. * KWilt: A Semantic Patchwork for Flexible Access to Heterogeneous Knowledge K. Weiand, S. Hausmann, T. Furche, F. Bry * Analyzing the AIR Language: A Semantic Web (Production) Rules Language A. Khandelwal, J. Bao, L. Kagal, I. Jacobi, L. Ding, J. Hendler * A Probabilistic Abduction Engine for Media Interpretation based on Ontologies O. Gries, R. M?ller, A. Nafissi, M. Rosenfeld, K. Sokolski, M. Wessel * On the Semantic Relationship between Datalog and Description Logics M. Kr?tzsch, S. Rudolph, P. Schmitt * A Rule-Based System for End-User E-Mail Annotations G. Fiumara, M. Marchi, R. Pagano, A. Provetti * A RPL through RDF: Expressive Navigation in RDF Graphs H. Zauner, B. Linse, T. Furche, F. Bry * Composition of Semantic Web Services in a Constructive Description Logic L. Bozzato, M. Ferrari * Embeddings of Simple Modular Extended RDF C. Viegas Dam?sio, A. Analyti, G. Antoniou CHAIRS: General Chair - Jos? J?lio Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Program Chairs - Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) - Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK) Local Arrangements - Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) - Mariano Rodr?guez-Muro (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Sponsorship Chair - Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) COLOCATED EVENTS: * 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2010) http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/swap2010/ * 1st Int. Workshop on Business Models, Business Rules and Ontologies (BuRO 2010) http://ontorule-project.eu/dissemination/events/buro2010 * 3rd KRDB school on Trends in the Web of Data (KRDBs 2010) http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/school/2010/ From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Wed Aug 18 09:00:09 2010 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:00:09 +0200 Subject: [DL] 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP2010) - ***FInal*** Call for Papers - In Bressanone (Italy) Sep. 22-24, 2010 Message-ID: <60A18C9A-4E6E-4923-8CAB-602A2F0BB0BF@inf.unibz.it> Apologies for multiple receipts due to cross-postings. --------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS submission deadline is approaching: 2 weeks left --------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================== 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives SWAP 2010 ========================================================== Bressanone-Brixen, Italy September 21-22, 2010 http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/swap2010/ Organized by the KRDB Research Centre Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Collocated with the 4th Int. Conf. on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010/ ========================================================== **** SUBMIT YOUR MOST INTERESTING 2009-2010 PAPER!! **** **** AND **** **** SHARE YOUR IDEAS WITH THE SEMANTIC WEB COMMUNITY **** ========================================================== The Semantic Web is currently one of the most interesting and ambitious challenges that the scientific and technological community is facing. While great progresses have been made in terms of consolidation of base philosophy and infrastructure, new issues, technologies, and tools are emerging. These issues include creating, presenting and managing Semantic Web content, making semantics explicit in order to automatically integrate data from different sources, and to search for information based on its meaning rather than its syntactic form. New and advanced methods, models, tools, and technologies for services related to creation, access, retrieval, integration, and filtering of Web content are being developed at the intersection of relevant disciplines that are making the Semantic Web fly, such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Information Systems, Distributed Computing, Multimedia Systems, Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Networks, and Web Science. Applications that use Semantic Web technologies and succeed in leveraging the added value of semantics on the Web are emerging. However, designing and building them is still a challenge due to the rapid evolution of standards, technologies, and tools, and the need for well-established methodologies. This happens in the context of a widespread interest in semantic techniques for web data access and integration, e.g. for linked open data, microformats, and social networks. SWAP 2010 aims at being a relaxed meeting for brainstorming and debating among international researchers and developers on the Semantic Web, with a special focus on aspects which can enable wide-scale use of Semantic Web technologies. See below for a detailed list of topics. Audience The workshop aims at attracting researchers, developers and interested practitioners alike. The setting for the workshop is highly interactive, and presentations are expected to focus on practical issues and the underlying theoretical aspects and open problems, reporting both on learned experiences and on ongoing work. The presentation language is English. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission requirements We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, government, and consulting. Submitted manuscripts may describe either: * original research, or work in progress that is sufficiently mature to be presented to the Semantic Web community at large; * work that is of high relevance for the Semantic Web community and that has already been published or accepted recently (i.e., in 2009 or 2010) at a highly ranked conference in the Semantic Web area (ISWC, ESWC) or in related areas (e.g., KR, IJCAI, AAAI, PODS, SIGMOD, VLDB, ...); * a position statement on one or more aspects of relevance for the Semantic Web. ====================================================================== We especially welcome what the authors consider as their recent most important contribution to Semantic Web research, whether original, work in progress, or already accepted or published. ====================================================================== Authors should clearly indicate on the cover page to which of the above categories (original, work in progress, accepted, published, or position paper) their submission belongs. For already published or accepted papers they should indicate also the publication venue and date. Papers will be reviewed by the PC co-chairs and the members of the SWAP steering committee, to judge relevance to SWAP and potential interest for the Semantic Web community. Based on the evaluation, papers will be accepted either for oral presentation, or for poster presentation. Submissions that are not relevant to SWAP 2010 will be rejected. Accepted contributions will be distributed in electronic format at the workshop. After the workshop, selected contributions will undergo a further critical reviewing process and, if accepted, will be published online in a volume of post-workshop proceedings of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series, ISSN 1613-0073, http://ceur-ws.org/. Papers must be submitted electronically at the conference website using the EasyChair submission system. Manuscripts should be in pdf and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. Information concerning typesetting can be obtained directly from Springer at: http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html. The maximum length of submissions is 16 pages for regular papers (original, work in progress, accepted, or published), and 2 pages for positions papers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: - Sep. 1, 2010 Paper submission deadline ***2 WEEKS FROM NOW*** - Sep. 9, 2010 Author notification - Sep. 15, 2010 Final version due - Sep. 21-22, 2010 SWAP 2010 Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics The workshop will cover both theoretical and implementation issues that relate to Semantic Web applications. The following is a partial list of topics of interests: * Applications of Semantic Web technologies, such as: - Semantic Web in life sciences and e-science - Semantic Web for e-business - Semantic Web for e-government - Semantic Web for e-learning - Semantic Web for P2P systems and grids - Semantic Web and multimedia - Novel Semantic Web applications - Presentation and discussions of application scenarios * Representation and Management of Semantic Web data - Methodologies for Semantic Web data management - Tools for Semantic Web data management - Robust, scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Data semantics and linked data - Searching and querying Semantic Web data - Machine learning and information extraction on the Semantic Web - Large-scale knowledge management - Semantic coordination, integration, matching, interoperability - Semantic Web mining - Semantic information retrieval - Semantic wikis - Semantic Web middleware - Systems of annotation extraction * Ontologies and Languages in the Semantic Web - Ontology design, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Reasoning over ontologies and data - Linked data and microformats - New languages for the Semantic Web - Web 2.0-based ontology learning - Semantic Web services * User Interfaces to the Semantic Web - Visualizing Semantic Web data - Natural language technologies for the Semantic Web - Assistive technologies and the Semantic Web - Web 2.0 personalization - Web 2.0 technologies for recommender systems * Social Semantic Web - Social networks on the Semantic Web - Semantic Portals - Semantic Web technology for collaboration and cooperation - Semantic Web personalization - Semantic Web trust, privacy, security, and intellectual property rights - Analysis of social online communities - Social aspects of distributed cooperative annotation * Semantic Web Agents * Evaluation and benchmarking of Semantic Web techniques and tools ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization: - Paolo Traverso, University of Trento (general chair) - Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (PC co-chair) - Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari (PC co-chair) - Mariano Rodriguez-Muro, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (local arrangements) SWAP Steering Committee: - Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento - Oreste Signore, W3C Office in Italy/CNR - Heiko Stoermer, FBK, Trento, Italy - Giovanni Tummarello, FBK Trento, Italy & DERI Galway, Ireland See http://www.swapconf.it/ for previous editions of SWAP. Contact chairs by email at swap2010-chairs at inf.unibz.it From dhelic at tugraz.at Tue Aug 17 19:50:39 2010 From: dhelic at tugraz.at (Denis Helic) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:50:39 +0200 Subject: [DL] Open Position at Graz University of Technology / Knowledge Management Institute Message-ID: <20100817195039.19222cvpaa8bf0n4@webmail.tugraz.at> Dear Colleagues, the position of University Professor for Knowledge Management is open at the Knowledge Management Institute of Graz University of Technology. For more information please see the job description below. Best Regards Denis Helic For the job description in German please scroll down. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCEMENT OF AVAILABLE POSITION UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE The School of Computer Science (Fakult?t f?r Informatik) at Graz University of Technology seeks to fill the position of University Professor for Knowledge Management at its Institute of Knowledge Management. The University offers a full time employment contract under private law. We expect the successful candidate to start on 1st of March 2011. We are looking for a proven researcher and academic teacher to continue the past emphasis on knowledge management, knowledge technologies and collaboration technologies (e.g. Web 2.0). We would like to see a focus on integration of knowledge management, learning and service-oriented knowledge management. We expect a continued cooperation with the Know-Center, Austria?s competence center for knowledge management and knowledge-based systems at Graz University of Technology. The position will initiate and execute international research projects, as well as network with other parts of the computer science team at the University. A proven record of experience and cooperation in teaching of computer science and in associated programs will include the supervision of diploma and master theses, as well as of doctoral dissertations. We expect also that candidates show a willingness to contribute to all phases of computer science and its related studies. Qualifications: ? Completion of a relevant academic program in Austria or of an equivalent foreign program, including a doctoral degree and a relevant habilitation (venia docendi) or a qualification that is equivalent to a habilitation; ? Excellent science record with publications in internationally recognized conferences and journals; ? Documented experience in applied research and in the cooperation with industry; ? International orientation with excellence in the English language and with a multi-year international professional record; ? Experience in the initiation, scientific direction and execution of contract research, specifically with the programs of the European Union?s research initiatives; ? Ability in setting up, maintaining and directing research teams; ? Experience in the set-up and establishment of research networks and communities in topics relevant to knowledge management; The main place of residence will have to be in or near Graz. Graz University of Technology desires an increase in the share of positions held by of females, especially in leadership and in science. We therefore want to encourage qualified women to apply. With equal qualifications, women will be preferentially offered a position. Applications will include the usual material such as copies of certificates and diplomas, a CV with a description of the research and professional career, list of publications, copies of the 3 most important publications, an overview of past and planned research agendas, and teaching activities. This material is to be submitted in writing and preferably electronically, not later than 30th of September 2010 (postal date stamp) to the Dean of the School of Computer Science, Inffeldgasse 10, 8010 Graz, Austria. The Dean: Wotawa ------------------------------------------------------------------------- An der Fakult?t f?r Informatik der Technischen Universit?t Graz ist die Universit?tsprofessur f?r Wissensmanagement am Institut f?r Wissensmanagement (www.kmi.tugraz.at) in Form eines privatrechtlichen, zeitlich unbefristeten Arbeitsverh?ltnisses zur Technischen Universit?t Graz voraussichtlich ab 1.3.2011 neu zu besetzen. Gesucht wird eine in Forschung und Lehre bereits ausgewiesene Pers?nlichkeit, die sich erfolgreich mit Wissensmanagement, Wissenstechnologien und Kollaborationstechnologien wie etwa Web 2.0 auseinandergesetzt hat. Die Schwerpunktsetzung soll auf die Integration von Wissensmanagement, Lernen und Service-Orientierung abzielen. Die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Know-Center, ?sterreichs Kompetenzzentrum f?r Wissensmanagement und wissensbasierte Systeme an der TU Graz, wird erwartet. Erfahrung in der Anbahnung und Durchf?hrung von internationalen Forschungsprojekten, insbesondere mit den Projektlinien der Europ?ischen Forschungsf?rderung, sowie die Vernetzung mit den Themen der Informatikgruppe an der TU Graz sind erforderlich. Ausgewiesene Erfahrung und Einbindung in der Lehre in informatiknahen Studieng?ngen, inklusive intensiver Betreuung von Diplom-, Master- und Doktorarbeiten wird gefordert. Es wird erwartet, dass sich die Bewerberin oder der Bewerber in allen Phasen der informatiknahen Studien in der Lehre einbringt. Die Verlegung des Wohnsitzes in den Gro?raum Graz wird vorausgesetzt. Die Technische Universit?t Graz strebt eine Erh?hung des Frauenanteiles, insbesondere in Leitungsfunktionen und beim wissenschaftlichen Personal an und fordert deshalb qualifizierte Frauen ausdr?cklich zur Bewerbung auf. Bei gleicher Qualifikation werden Frauen vorrangig aufgenommen. Die Unterlagen m?ssen bis sp?testens 30.9.2010 (Datum des Poststempels) im Dekanat f?r Informatik, TU Graz, Inffeldgasse 10/2, A-8010 Graz, ?sterreich, einlangen. Die elektronische Form ist erw?nscht. Der Dekan: Wotawa -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Univ. Doz. DI Dr. techn. Denis Helic, IWM, TU Graz, Austria homepage: http://coronet.iicm.edu/denis/homepage/ tel: +43-316-873-9252 fax: +43-316-873-9280 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From fanizzi at di.uniba.it Mon Aug 23 12:36:06 2010 From: fanizzi at di.uniba.it (N.Fanizzi) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:36:06 +0200 Subject: [DL] URSW'10: (3rd) Call for Papers Message-ID: <4C724F16.9040400@di.uniba.it> Apologies for cross-postings ********************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************** 6th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2010 In conjunction with the 9th International Semantic Web Conference Shanghai, China November 7, 2010 You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in November of 2010 at the Shanghai International Convention Center, China. 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, Prot?g? developers, OWL-API 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 September 7, 2010 Paper submissions due September 30, 2010 Paper acceptance notification October 15, 2010 Camera-ready papers due November 4, 2010 Presentations due November 7, 2010 6th 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 2010 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=ursw2010 Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2010. For complete details, see Springer?s Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). 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 must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2010 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 2010 will be a full-day workshop divided into three sessions. Two of those sessions will be devoted to paper presentations, while the remaining session will be planned in a format that invites an open debate on the results, conclusions, recommendations, and follow-up work of the URSW-XG group. We also plan to convey a work meeting after the workshop, in case the last session need to be extended. 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 10-minute slot to share their ideas. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2010 Conference. In addition, technical papers accepted for presentation at the URSW 2010 will be eligible for participating in the selection to the Springer LNCS volume on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web ? Vol. II. This will be the second volume of this series and will include selected papers from URSW 2008 to URSW 2010. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order): * Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain. * Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA * 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 - Technical University of Munich, Germany. * Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA. PROGRAM COMMITTEE The confirmed members of the program committee are the following (in alphabetical order): * Fernando Bobillo - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain * Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA * Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA * Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil * Claudia D'Amato - University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy * Marcelo Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil * Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA * Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA * Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK * Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK * Matthias Nickles - Technical University of Munich, Germany * Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK * Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA * Livia Predoiu - Universit?t Mannheim, Germany * Guilin Qi - University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK * Daniel S?nchez - University of Granada, Spain * Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Giorgos Stoilos - Oxford University, UK * Umberto Straccia ? ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy * Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA * Johanna Voelker - University of Karlsruhe, Germany We are looking forward to seeing you in Shanghai! From fgeo at ics.forth.gr Fri Aug 20 15:45:27 2010 From: fgeo at ics.forth.gr (Giorgos Flouris) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:45:27 +0300 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) -- SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED Message-ID: <40E27CC2859647289865C6E62110F836@ics.forth.gr> [apologies for multiple copies] *** DEADLINE EXTENDED *** =============================================== Call for Papers 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) =============================================== http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/iwod/iwod2010 Workshop Description and Motivation ----------------------------------- Ontologies constitute one of the main pillars of the Semantic Web and of semantic applications. As ontologies model dynamic environments (e.g., e-science ontologies), they are often subject to change. The support for dynamicity is one of the core ontology management problems and has many facets, being dealt with in different fields, like ontology evolution, ontology versioning and others. Following previous successful organizations (as part of ESWC-07, ISWC-08 and ISWC-09), IWOD has established itself as the core annual event to discuss advances in the broad area of ontology dynamics, and to track recent work directly or indirectly related to the problem of evolving ontologies. The goal of the 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) is to bring together researchers and students working on the fields of ontology evolution, revision, merging and versioning, as well as people from the industry conducting activities (applications, case studies) that involve the dynamic aspects of ontologies. Our aim is to trigger discussions and allow interested researchers, students and practitioners to present and discuss recent advances related to these fields. Both theoretical research works as well as works describing implemented systems or tools are welcome. Topics of Interest ------------------ We encourage submissions on all topics related to ontology dynamics, including original theoretical work on the issues involved directly or indirectly with change as well as applications or implemented systems related to such issues. We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in the following topics: - Ontology evolution - Ontology versioning - Ontology merging - Formal aspects of ontology dynamics - Foundational issues - Language extensions for evolution - Belief revision for ontologies - Inconsistency/incoherency/invalidity in evolving ontologies - Change propagation in ontologies and metadata - Ontologies for dynamic environments - Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation - Engineering evolvable ontologies - Requirements for ontology evolution - Case studies in ontology evolution - Tools to support ontology evolution - Applications with dynamic ontologies - Open problems Workshop Venue and Format ------------------------- The workshop will take place in Shangai, China, as part of the ISWC-10 conference (http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/) on November 7 or 8, 2010. IWOD-10 will be a half-day workshop with regular paper presentations. We will also consider having an invited talk by a prominent scientist working on the field of ontology dynamics. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Only electronic submissions will be considered. All submissions should be submitted in pdf format, to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwod10. Submissions should not exceed 14 pages and should be formatted according to the LNCS Springer format (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0). The workshop proceedings will both be uploaded to CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/) and placed on electronic media for distribution at the conference. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: September 2, 2010 [EXTENDED] Acceptance notification: September 17, 2010 Camera-ready deadline: October 7, 2010 Workshop day: November 08, 2010 (tentative) Organizing Committee -------------------- Giorgos Flouris (fgeo at ics.forth.gr) Guilin Qi (gqi at seu.edu.cn) IWOD Series Steering Committee ------------------------------ Grigoris Antoniou Mathieu d'quin Giorgos Flouris Jeff Z. Pan Dimitris Plexousakis Program Committee ----------------- Grigoris Antoniou Alessandro Artale Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles Mathieu d'Aquin Giuseppe De Giacomo James Delgrande Peter Haase Nathalie Hernandez Zhisheng Huang Diana Maynard Thomas Meyer Enrico Motta Natasha Noy Jeff Z. Pan Dimitris Plexousakis Chantal Reynaud Marcio Moretto Ribeiro Marta Sabou Ljiljana Stojanovic Shenghui Wang Renata Wassermann From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Aug 13 13:46:47 2010 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:46:47 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] IWIL workshop at LPAR-17 in Indonesia - Extended deadline Message-ID: <20100813114647.6311411F9C8@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ========================================================================== IWIL 2010 - The 8th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics The 17th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Yogyakarta, Indonesia - October 10th-15th, 2010 ========================================================================== http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/IWIL-2010/iwil-2010.html ---------------------------- EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE ---------------------------- IWIL has been unusually sucessful in bringing together many talented developers, and thus in sharing information about successful implementation techniques for automated reasoning systems and similar programs. We are looking for contributions describing implementation techniques for and implementations of automated reasoning programs, theorem provers for various logics, logic programming systems, and related technologies. Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit a position statement (2 pages), a short paper (up to 5 pages), or a full paper (up to 15 pages), in EasyChair format. Submission is via EasyChair ... http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwil2010 Submission deadline: 6 September 2010 Notification: 17 September 2010 Worhsop: 10 October 2010 =============================================================================== From hr at sti2.at Fri Aug 20 15:07:21 2010 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:07:21 +0200 Subject: [DL] Open position: PhD student in EU project Envision In-Reply-To: <00be01cb3236$d4df5520$7e9dff60$@at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> <4B6C0262.8030803@sti2.at> <4B6C0284.8070601@sti2.at> <4BA8B8EC.2080101@sti2.at> <4BA8C8D8.5060201@sti2.at> <4BF65B42.6030807@sti2.at> <003501cafbdd$2bd8e7a0$838ab6e0$@at> <4C173C33.200@sti2.at> <00be01cb3236$d4df5520$7e9dff60$@at> Message-ID: <4C6E7E09.2070104@sti2.at> PhD-Researcher in EU FP7 Project ENVISION STI Innsbruck is research institute at the University of Innsbruck and established itself as one of the key players in the area of semantic technologies, with excellent ties to other relevant public and corporate research institutions worldwide. * We offer:* ? The stimulating environment of a leading research group in the fields of Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures and formal languages and reasoning. ? Long-term collaboration to well-known academic institutions and major companies around the world. ? A multicultural working place with state-of-the-art infrastructure and resources including funding for attending international conferences, PhD symposia, summer schools, etc. *We expect:* ? A researcher (PhD student) with a strong background in Computer Science or Information Technologies and focused research interest and expertise in at least one of the following areas: knowledge representation, information retrieval methods, reasoning, formal languages, data mining, visualization algorithms. ? Interest in working for the EU FP7 project ENVISION. The ENVISION project provides an ENVIronmental Services Infrastructure with ONtologies that aims to support non ICT-skilled users in the process of semantic discovery and adaptive chaining and composition of environmental services. Innovations in ENVISION are: on-the-Web enabling and packaging of technologies for their use by non ICT-skilled users, support for migrating environmental models to be provided as models as a service (Maas), and the use of data streaming information for harvesting information for dynamic building of ontologies and adapting service execution. The ENVISION project will develop solutions to support the creation of web-based applications enabled for dynamic discovery and visual service chaining, and will provide support for visual semantic annotation tools and multilingual ontology management. The execution infrastructure that ENVISION project aims to build will comprises a semantic discovery catalogue and a semantic service mediator based on a generic semantic framework and adaptive service chaining with data-driven adaptability Scenario requirements and pilots from the ENVISION user partners focus on landslide hazard assessment and environmental pollution (oil spills) decision support systems. The benefit of ENVISION for the wider community will be better accessibility to modelling tools using the Web and it will provide greater flexibility through improved connections to distributed sources of information. The project consortium is an interdisciplinary team of engineers and researchers in Computing Science, GeoInformatics and Knowledge Management from all over Europe. The contribution of STI Innsbruck is on semantic technologies for service discovery and mediation. The aim is to develop a semantic catalogue system that supports registration and discovery of distributed environmental services. The semantic catalogue will be build on top of a standardized OGC catalogue extended with scalable semantic discovery techniques. The project will run for 30 months. The project started in January 2010. For further information regarding our organization, research and projects, please see http://www.sti-innsbruck.at . We kindly invite you to submit your application to: Universit?t Innsbruck Chiffre MIP-6196 / Chiffre 6184 Posteinlaufstelle der Zentralen Dienste Innrain 52 A-6020 Innsbruck Please include a current resume, a list of publications (if applicable), and digital versions of your most relevant works (such as graduation thesis or latest publications). In case of any further questions regarding this position please contact Ioan Toma at ioan.toma at sti2.at -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In the project, we will develop process methodologies and tools for the creation of semantic data for different types of Web sources jointly exploiting human intelligence, community effects and automatic machine processing. The findings will be validated in three use cases in real-world settings. For more information go to www.insemtives.eu/ *We offer* * The opportunity to take part in an innovative European research project focusing on several hot topics in to date?s Web and Semantic Web research: incentives, Web 3.0, social applications, lightweight knowledge engineering and semantic annotation. * A stimulating environment of a leading research group in the fields of semantic technologies, with excellent ties worldwide. * An up-to-date infrastructure and resources, including funding for attending international conferences, PhD symposia, summer schools. * A multicultural working place with modern infrastructure and facilities in a location with high life quality. *We expect* * A strong background in Computer Science or related disciplines. * Willingness to work in an international environment and to take actively part in large-scale international research projects. * Willingness to combine formal scientific work with application-oriented research in order to solve real-world problems. * Research interest and expertise in the following areas: ontologies, ontology engineering, ontology languages, Web 2.0, social Web, social applications, collaborative applications, games, incentives. We kindly invite you to submit your application to: Universit?t Innsbruck Chiffre MIP-6196 / Chiffre 6184 Posteinlaufstelle der Zentralen Dienste Innrain 52 A-6020 Innsbruck Please include a current resume, a list of publications (if applicable), and digital versions of your most relevant works (e.g., graduation thesis). In case of any questions regarding this position please contact Katharina Siorpaes at katharina (dot) siorpaes (at) sti2.at. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paolucci at docomolab-euro.com Wed Aug 11 17:39:54 2010 From: paolucci at docomolab-euro.com (Paolucci, Massimo) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:39:54 +0200 Subject: [DL] Open Researcher Position at DOCOMO Euro-Labs Message-ID: <317B40DA788E894D8FDD440D2835F5F702D59166@DEMAIL.docomolab-euro.com> DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH (DOCOMO Euro-Labs) belongs to the Japanese premier mobile operator, NTT DOCOMO. The European research subsidiary is researching on future telecommunication systems and platforms with the support of highly motivated and qualified researchers from different technical domains within a multicultural working environment. We currently have the following opening: --------------------------------------------------- Researcher SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES and SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING --------------------------------------------------- The Smart and Secure Services Research Group at DOCOMO Euro-Labs is working on service enablers for the next generation of mobile networks and applications. To realize our vision of value-added mobile services, we're looking for a highly technical and hands-on computer scientist to further expand our team in the area of Semantic Technologies and Service-oriented Computing. Applicants should meet the following requirements: * Very high technical competence and strong academic record. * Solid, relevant hands-on technical experience, and a record of individual technical achievement. * Ability to achieve challenging goals in a fast paced R&D environment. * Substantial experience in at least one of the following fields: Semantic Technologies and service-oriented platforms, Knowledge Representation, Artificial Intelligence. * Strong knowledge of the Semantic Web and related standards (e.g., OWL, RDF, GRDLL, SPARQL), ideally in a mobile application setting. * Experiences with advanced database systems, Internet platforms and semantic mash-ups, e.g. for social networks on the Semantic Web * Knowledge of Multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-7, XMP). * Excellent English language skills orally and in writing. --------------------------------------------------- General: Your workplace will be in Munich, Germany. Your assignment requires a principal interest in core concepts of Mobile Services and Telecommunication Platforms, e.g. RCS (GSMA Rich Communication Suite) and IMS (3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem) technology. The position is initially limited for two years with a possibility to be converted into an unlimited one. --------------------------------------------------- Applications & Inquiries: Please send us your complete job application as electronic file (curriculum vitae, graduation & score certifications, reference letter, starting availability, salary expectation) to: info at docomolab-euro.com For further information and inquiries, please feel free to contact: Massimo Paolucci paolucci at docomolab-euro.com DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Landsbergerstrasse 312, 80687 Munich http://www.docomolab-euro.com --------------------------------------------------- Massimo Paolucci DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Landsberger Strasse 308-312, 80687 Munich Phone: +49-89-56824-238 Fax: +49-89-56824-300 Mobile: +49-162-2919238 mailto:paolucci at docomolab-euro.com http://www.docomolab-euro.com Managing Directors (Geschaeftsfuehrer): Dr. Masami Yabusaki, Mr. Naoki Tani, Mr. Seiichi Ikeda Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 132976 -------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 and data translation. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has two goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2010 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks involving, e.g., biomedical ontologies and linked data. 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: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open linked data); Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Ontology matching patterns; Instance matching; Large-scale ontology matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; Uncertainty in ontology matching; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., search, web-services). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2010 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20100 Contributors to the OAEI 2010 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: September 1, 2010: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 27, 2010: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 12, 2010: Workshop camera ready copy submission. November 7, 2010: OM-2010, Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany 5. Ming Mao SAP Labs, USA 6. Isabel Cruz The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paolo Besana, Universite de Rennes 1, France Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin and Kosmix Corp., USA Alfio Ferrara, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Tom Heath, Talis, UK Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA Bin He, IBM, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Augusto Mabboni, Business Process Engineering, Italy Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Luca Mion, Informatica Trentina, Italy Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Filippo Nardelli, Cogito, Italy Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Yefei Peng, Yahoo Labs, USA Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany Fran?ois Scharffe, INRIA, France Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Cassia Trojahn dos Santos, INRIA, France Lorenzino Vaccari, EC DG Environment, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Italy Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Rui Zhang, Jilin University, China Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sebastian.rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Wed Aug 18 08:24:43 2010 From: sebastian.rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Sebastian Rudolph) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:24:43 +0200 Subject: [DL] **** Last Call **** ISWC2010 Posters and Demos, Deadline 23 Aug Message-ID: <14DC04C9-61AE-4AD2-8BD6-084DD5AAEDB9@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> =============================================================================== ISWC2010 - Ninth International Semantic Web Conference November 7-11, 2010, in Shanghai, China http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/ =============================================================================== Posters and Demonstrations Track *Last Call* for Submissions Strict Deadline: *August 23, 2010* =============================================================================== The posters and demonstrations track of ISWC 2010 continues the established tradition of providing an interaction and connection opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their new and innovative work-in-progress. The track gives conference attendees a way to learn about novel on-going research projects that might not yet be complete, but whose preliminary results are already interesting. The track also provides presenters with an excellent opportunity to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting from knowledgeable sources. Full papers accepted for the Research and In-Use tracks are explicitly invited to submit a poster or demo to the Posters and Demo track. The submission format is the same as for the normal posters and demos but must cite the accepted full paper and needs to include an explanation on what the Demo/Poster adds on top of the conference presentation. Such added value could include: a) extended results and experiments not presented in the conference paper for space reasons, b) a demo of a supporting prototype implementation wherever software is available. Important Dates =============== * Abstracts due: August 23, 2010, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time * Notification: September 13, 2010 Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest for the posters and demonstrations track include, but are not limited to: * Semantic User Interfaces * Interacting with Semantic Web data * Semantic data annotation * Semantic Data Mashup * Natural Language Interfaces * Semantic Visualization * Semantic Data Processing * Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution * Ontology reasoning, mapping, merging, and alignment * Semantic Search * Ontology evaluation * Applications of the Semantic Web * Semantic Web for desktops or personal information management * Semantic Web technologies for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness * Semantic Web technologies for e-Science, e-Commerce, e-Government * Semantic Web technologies for software and systems engineering * Mobile Semantic Web Applications * Semantic Wikis * Social Semantic Web Applications Submission Information ====================== Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing system. Papers must be submitted via EasyChair to the Posters and Demos track of ISWC2010 at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2010 Authors must submit a four-page abstract for evaluation. The abstract must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web. All poster and demo submissions will undergo a common review process, including those ones that have full papers accepted. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Submissions must be in PDF. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions that exceed the page limit may be rejected without review. For details on the LNCS style, see Springer's Author Instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 For demo submissions, authors are strongly encouraged to include in their submission a link to where the demo (live or recorded video) can be found. At least one of the authors must be a registered participant at the conference, and attend their 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, but will not be published by Springer in the printed conference proceedings. Metadata for all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Poster and Demo co-chairs: Axel Polleres Huajun Chen _________________________________________________ Dr. Sebastian Rudolph senior researcher & project leader at AIFB Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) rudolph at kit.edu phone +49 721 608 - 7362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 721 608 - 5998 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fanizzi at di.uniba.it Thu Sep 2 10:15:27 2010 From: fanizzi at di.uniba.it (N. Fanizzi) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:15:27 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final CFP URSW 2010 In-Reply-To: <4C4ECE9B.80905@unizar.es> References: <4C4ECE9B.80905@unizar.es> Message-ID: <4C7F5D1F.6070700@di.uniba.it> [Apologies for multiple copies] CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2010 In conjunction with the 9th International Semantic Web Conference Shanghai, China November 7, 2010 You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in November of 2010 at the Shanghai International Convention Center, China. 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, Prot?g? developers, OWL-API 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 --------------- September 7 Paper submissions due September 30 Paper acceptance notification October 15 Camera-ready papers due November 4 Presentations due November 7 6th 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 2010 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=ursw2010. Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2010. For complete details, see Springer?s Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). 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 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2010 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 2010 will be a full-day workshop divided into three sessions. Two of those sessions will be devoted to paper presentations, while the remaining session will be planned in a format that invites an open debate on the results, conclusions, recommendations, and follow-up work of the URSW-XG group. We also plan to convey a work meeting after the workshop, in case the last session need to be extended. 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 10-minute slot to share their ideas. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2010 Conference. In addition, technical papers accepted for presentation at the URSW 2010 will be eligible for participating in the selection to the planned LNCS volume on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web ? Vol. II. This will be the second volume of this series and will include selected papers from the URSW 2008 to URSW 2010. Organizing Committee -------------------- The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order): Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain. Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA 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 - Technical University of Munich, Germany. Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA. Program Committee ----------------- The confirmed members of the program committee are the following (in alphabetical order): Fernando Bobillo - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil Claudia D'Amato - University of Bari, Italy Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy Marcelo Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA Livia Predoiu - Universit?t Mannheim, Germany Guilin Qi - University of Karlsruhe, Germany Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK Daniel S?nchez - University of Granada, Spain Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Giorgos Stoilos - Oxford University, UK Umberto Straccia ? ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA Johanna Voelker - University of Karlsruhe, Germany We are looking forward to seeing you in Shanghai! From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Sun Aug 29 04:20:34 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:20:34 -0400 Subject: [DL] please PhD funding available in "Semantic Web" at Kno.e.sis Center, WSU, Dayton, Ohio Message-ID: <4C79C3F2.5020709@wright.edu> The Knowledge Engineering Lab at the Kno.e.sis Center at Wright State University, Datyon, Ohio, U.S.A., has several positions available for prospective PhD students. The lab focuses on knowledge representation and reasoning with ontologies for the Semantic Web. Kno.e.sis, which is the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing, is one of the leading places for Semantic Web research in the United States. A Bachelor or Master degree is required, as well as very good English language skills. Applicants should either have excellent programming skills, or should have excellent background in theory and foundations, preferrably logic in computer science (or be able to acquire this quickly). There is no application deadline - applications will be processed as they come in. Applicants shall send a CV, including grades, to Pascal Hitzler, pascal.hitzler at wright.edu. Kno.e.sis Center: http://www.knoesis.org/ Knowledge Engineering Lab: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de/knoelab.html Homepage of Pascal Hitzler: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de/ Please address any questions regarding the positions to Pascal Hitzler, pascal.hitzler at wright.edu -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From richard.booth at uni.lu Wed Sep 1 13:51:44 2010 From: richard.booth at uni.lu (Richard Booth) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:51:44 +0200 Subject: [DL] MIWAI 2010 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND STUDENT TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies for Multiple Copies Due to Cross Posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================ MIWAI'10 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================ The 4th Mahasarakham International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence. December 9-10, 2010, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand. http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***NEW - STUDENT TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS*** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some travel scholarships are now available for students wishing to attend MIWAI 2010: . At least one scholarship for students enrolled at universities outside Thailand of up to a maximum of 20,000 Thai Baht (approx 630 USD). . FOUR scholarships for students enrolled at Thai universities of 2,500 Baht each. More scholarships may be made available soon. For details about how to apply see http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/MIWAI_2010/Awards_%26_Scholarships.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers due: October 15, 2010 Author notification: November 12, 2010 Camera-ready papers due: November 22, 2010 Registration deadline: December 2, 2010 Tutorial: December 8, 2010 Workshop dates: December 9-10, 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- About MIWAI --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has broad applications in real world problems. Examples include control, planning and scheduling, pattern recognition, knowledge mining, software applications and strategy games. The ever-evolving needs in business both on a local and on a global scale demand better technologies for solving more and more complex problems. Such needs can be found in all industrial sectors and in any part of the world. This workshop aims to be a meeting place where excellence in AI research meets the needs for solving dynamic and complex problems in the real world. The academic researchers, developers, and industrial practitioners will have extensive opportunities to present their original work, technological advances and practical problems. Participants can learn from each other and exchange their experiences in order to fine tune their activities in order to help each other better. The main purposes of the MIWAI series of workshops are as follows: . to provide a meeting place for AI researchers and practitioners in Thailand and beyond. . to inform Thai students about cutting-edge AI research via the presence of outstanding international invited speakers. . to raise the standards of practice of AI research in the whole of Thailand by providing Thai researchers and students with feedback from an internationally-renowned program committee. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers + Tutorials --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers: 1.Arun Agarwal (University of Hyderabad, India) 2.Anthony Cohn (University of Leeds, UK) Tutorial (December 8): Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham) "Reasoning using Argumentation: An Introduction" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awards --------------------------------------------------------------------------- There will be five awards given out at the workshop: (i) Best original paper: Given to the best category A submission (see below), from any origin. (ii) Best original paper by a PhD student: Given to the best category A paper whose first author is a registered PhD student, from any origin. (iii) Best original paper by a Masters student: Given to the best category A paper whose first author is a registered Masters student, from any origin. (iv) Best demonstration: Given to the best demonstration (see category C submissions below - note this prize will only be awarded in case at least 3 demonstrations are presented at the workshop). (v) Best reviewer: Given to the reviewer who has given the most helpful feedback on the papers they have been assigned to review. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of papers is due on October 15, 2010. The research areas in AI include but not limited to: - Agent-based simulation - Agent-oriented software engineering - Agents and Web services - Agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets - AI in video games - Computer vision - Constraint satisfaction - Data mining - Decision theory - Distributed AI - E-Commerce and AI - Game theory - Internet/WWW intelligence - Industrial applications of AI - Intelligent tutoring - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Machine learning - Multiagent planning and learning - Multiagent systems and their applications - Multiagent systems and evolving intelligence - Natural language processing - Neural networks - Planning and scheduling - Robotics - Uncertainty in AI - Web services Submission requirements --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions of the following three categories are invited: Category A: REGULAR PAPERS ........................................................................... Papers presenting new original work. Submitted papers should not exceed a length of 12 pages in the IEEE format style (templates here: http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/MIWAI_2010/textemplate.zip, http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/MIWAI_2010/wordtemplate.zip) Regular papers will be reviewed on overall quality and relevance. Reviewing of category A papers will be (at least) double-blind. In order to make blind reviewing possible, the authors should follow that: . The authors' names and institutions should not appear in the paper. . Unpublished work of the authors should not be cited. . Using "we" or "us" in reviews of literature should be avoided, e.g., "In [1] we have proposed..." should be changed to "In [1] the authors have proposed...". The program committee will evaluate Category A papers as either rejected? or accepted as a long paper, or accepted as a short paper. All accepted category A papers (long and short) will be fully published in the proceedings. Category B: COMPRESSED CONTRIBUTIONS ........................................................................... Papers that have been accepted after June 1 2009 for AI-related refereed conferences or journals can be resubmitted and will be accepted as "compressed contributions". Authors are invited to submit the published version (without page or format restriction) together with a 1 or 2-page abstract prepared in the IEEE format style (links to templates above). Note the above double-blind instructions apply only to category A papers, not to category B. The abstract of the paper will be published in the proceedings. Every author may submit at most one B-paper of which they are the corresponding author, and only if they do not submit any A-paper as corresponding author. Category C: DEMONSTRATIONS AND APPLICATIONS ........................................................................... Proposals for demonstrations will be evaluated based on submitted demonstration summaries stating the following: the purpose of the system to be demonstrated, its user groups, the organization or project for which it is developed, the developers, and the technology used. In addition, the system requirements and the duration of the demo (not exceeding 30 minutes) should be mentioned. Especially master students are encouraged to submit papers presenting their applications and experiences. The maximum size of demonstration summaries is 2 pages (links to templates above). Reviewing of category C papers will be double-blind (see above under "category A" papers for details). The workshop proceedings will be published with ISBN number. At least one author of each accepted paper (in each submission category) is required to attend the workshop. Language Requirements ........................................................................... As MIWAI is an international workshop, its official language is English. This means all submitting authors must submit an English language version of their paper, as well as present their paper in English if accepted for the workshop. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Committees --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advisory Committee --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Wanchai Rivepaiboon (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand) -Wirat Pongsiri (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) -Sujin Butdeesuwan (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) -Somnuk Puangpronpitag (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) Program Co-Chairs --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham University, Thailand) - Chattrakul Sombattheera (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) Publicity Chairs --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Wijittra Noisanguan (Rajamangala University of Technology, Isan, Surin campus, Thailand) -Mana Setwong (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) Program Committee (provisional) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Arun Agarwal (Hyderabad, India) - Samir Aknine (Paris 6, France) - Laor Boongasame (Bangkok University, Thailand) - Roger Boyle (Leeds, UK) - Kosin Chamnongthai (KMUTT, Bangkok, Thailand) - Matthew Dailey (AIT, Bangkok, Thailand) - Juergen Dix (Clausthal, Germany) - Patrick Doherty (Linkoping, Sweden) - Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) - Jerome Lang (CNRS, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France) - Kittichai Lavangnananda (KMUTT, Bangkok, Thailand) - Fangzhen Lin (HKUST, Hong Kong) - Jerome Mengin (IRIT, Toulouse, France) - Ekawit Nantajeewarawat (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand) - Eric Pacuit (Tilburg, Netherlands) - Vineet Padmanabhan (Hyderabad, India) - Patrice Perny (Paris 6, France) - Supawan Phonphitakchai (Naresuan University, Thailand) - Guilin Qi (Southeast University, Nanjing, China) - Jun Shen (Wollongong, Australia) - Alok Singh (Hyderabad, India) - Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand) - Siriwan Suebnukarn (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand) - Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand) - Leon van der Torre (Luxembourg) - Thanaruk Theeramunkong (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand) - Siba Kumar Udgata (Hyderabad, India) - Paul Weng (Paris 6, France) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please direct any comments or enquiries to Chattrakul Sombattheera (chattrakul.s[AT]msu.ac.th) or Richard Booth (richard.booth[AT]uni.lu). From tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Sun Sep 5 23:27:21 2010 From: tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za (Tommie Meyer) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:27:21 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: AOW 2010 @ AI 2010 Message-ID: Apologies for cross postings 6th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2010) 7 December 2010 Held in Conjunction with the 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2010) Adelaide, Australia http://krr.meraka.org.za/~aow2010 AOW 2010 is the sixth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. 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 - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The proceedings of all previous Australasian Ontology Workshops were published in the CRPIT Series and this will also be the case for AOW 2010. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their AOW 2010 papers as chapters in a forthcoming Springer book. For the second year running, AOW 2010 will have a best paper award, with a prize of $250(AUD) being awarded to the author(s) of the best paper. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 24 September 2010 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 22 October 2010 Camera-ready copies due: 12 November 2010 AOW 2010: 7 December 2010 Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow2010 Workshop Chairs: Thomas Meyer Meraka Institute, South Africa tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Mehmet Orgun Macquarie University mehmet.orgun at mq.edu.au Kerry Taylor CSIRO ICT Centre Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au Program Committee : Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Arina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Michael Compton (CSIRO, Australia) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) R. Cenk Erdur (Ege University, Turkey) Aurona Gerber (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia) Bo Hu (SAP Research, UK) Renato Iannella (NICTA, Australia) Ken Kaneiwa (NICT, Japan) Marijke Keet (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Kevin Lee (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Laurent Lefort (CSIRO, Australia) Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK) Lars Moench (University of Hagen, Germany) Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia) Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) Murat Sensoy (Bogazici University, Turkey) Markus Stumptner (University of South Australia, Australia) Boontawee (Meng) Suntisrivaraporn (Thammasat University, Thailand) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Nwe Ni Tun (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Ivan Varzinczak (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Sat Sep 11 16:37:57 2010 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:37:57 +0200 Subject: [DL] One PhD position on Multilingual Interactive Question Ansering (FUB-FBK, Italy) Message-ID: ======================================================================== Call for one PhD position on Multilingual Interactive Question Answering at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Bolzano, Italy); research project carried out jointly with Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy). Submission Deadline: 18th of October 2010 ======================================================================== Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK ? Trento, Italy) and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB ? Bolzano, Italy) are seeking candidates for a 3-year PhD project on Multilingual Interactive Question Answering. Interactive Question Answering systems require some understanding of the dialogue context and user needs to interact with end-users properly. The project aims at investigating how statistically based language technologies and logic based query answering methods over ontologies can be combined to achieve such an understanding. As a case study, the PhD project will build on top of the experience of the QALL-ME (http://qallme.fbk.eu/) and OBDA at FUB (http://obda.inf.unibz.it/) projects. In particular, the following directions will be investigated: (i) easy porting of the technologies over different domains; (ii) scalability of the technologies over large datasets (e.g., question answering over Wikipedia); (iii) extendibility over multiple languages and cross-language scenarios; (iv) design and implementation of principled techniques for modeling interaction, particularly in case of system failures. The project will be jointly supervised by FBK (Research Unit on Human Language Technologies - http://hlt.fbk.eu/en/home) and FUB (KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data - http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/). The PhD studentship amounts roughly to 51,000 Euro over the three years. Substantial extra funding is available for participation in international conferences, schools, and workshops. **Eligibility criteria**: Master?s degree (Laurea Specialistica), or Italian undergraduate degree from the old system, or a foreign degree equivalent to one of these degrees. The ideal candidate should have a good background in Computational Logic and Computational Linguistics. **Deadline**: Applications should arrive by the 18th of October 2010. Further information on the application procedure can be found at: http://www.unibz.it/en/public/research/phd/prospectivePhdstudents.html (click on "Public Competition Announcement for PhD courses - 26th cycle" to download the call). We invite applicants to get in touch with the research groups as soon as possible (see Contact Persons below), in order to have a better understanding of the possible research activities in which the applicants may be involved. Contact Persons: Bernardo Magnini - Fondazione Bruno Kessler (magnini at fbk.eu), Raffaella Bernardi ? Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano (bernardi at inf.unibz.it) Diego Calvanese ? Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano (calvanese at inf.unibz.it) From claudia.damato at di.uniba.it Wed Sep 8 10:59:32 2010 From: claudia.damato at di.uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:59:32 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2nd CfP "Special Issue on Induction on the Semantic Web" for International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) Message-ID: <4C875074.3040804@di.uniba.it> [Apologies for possible multiple copies] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) Special Issue on "Induction on the Semantic Web" ----------------------------------------------------------------- Overview Increasingly, real-world data is published in the Semantic Web languages. The vast availability of these data has uncovered one of the main current limitations of deductive reasoning (generally adopted in the Semantic Web context), i.e., its limitations to scale to large amounts of data. Alternative approaches such as data mining and machine learning methods have been found effective to cope with the web's scale and can also be used to capture new knowledge emerging from the data that is not logically derivable. However, exploiting this global resource of data requires new kinds of approaches for data mining and machine learning that need to be able to deal with the heterogeneity and complexity of Semantic Web data. Depending on the data sources under consideration and the perspective of the individual researcher, the idiosyncrasies of the Semantic web -- e.g., the expressivity of the employed language, the richness of the ontologies novel assumptions (e.g., "open world") -- might play a major role in the analysis. The primary goal of the special issue is to showcase cutting edge research on the intersection of the Semantic Web with Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning, e.g.: * How can machine learning techniques, such as statistical learning methods and inductive forms of reasoning, work directly on the richly structured Semantic Web data and exploit the Semantic Web technologies? * How could machine learning techniques contribute to the full realization of the Semantic Web view? * What are the challenges for developers of machine learning techniques for the Semantic Web data? Topics of Interest The topics of interest of the special issue include, but are not limited to: * Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies: o data mining techniques using ontologies, o ontology mining and knowledge discovery from ontological knowledge bases, o ontology-based interpretation and validation of discovered knowledge, o whole knowledge discovery process guided by ontologies * Knowledge Discovery and Linked Data o learning ontologies from Linked Data o discovering hidden knowledge from Linked Data o learnig semantic relationship from Linked Data * Inductive Reasoning with Concept Languages: o inductive aggregation, o concept retrieval and query answering, o approximate classification, o inductive methods and fuzzy reasoning for ontology mapping, o construction, refinement and evolution of ontologies o concept change and novelty detection for ontology evolution * Statistical learning for the Semantic Web: o refinement operators for concept and rule languages, o concept and rules learning, o kernels and instance-based learning for structured representations, o semantic (dis-)similarity measures and conceptual clustering, o probabilistic methods for concept and rule languages * Other topics: o Open World Assumption (OWA) vs. Closed World Assumption (CWA) in learning, o applicability of relational learning in the Semantic Web context, o integration of induction and deduction, o evaluation methodologies and metrics for machine learning methods applied to ontologies * Applications: o challenges in practical applications of Machine Learning/Data Mining on the Semantic Web o life sciences, o cultural heritage, o semantic multimedia, o geo-informatics, o bio-informatics o Semantic Web Services o and others Submission Process Submissions to this special issue should follow the journal's guidelines for submission, and be made via the IJSWIS Submission System. After submitting a paper, please also inform the guest editors by email. Papers must be of high quality and should clearly state the technical issue(s) being addressed as related to Induction on the Semantic Web. Wherever possible, submissions should demonstrate the contribution of the research by reporting on a systematic evaluation of the work. If a submission is based on a prior publication in a workshop or conference, the journal submission must involve substantial advance (a minimum of 30%) in conceptual terms as well as in exposition (e.g., more comprehensive testing/evaluation/validation or additional applications/usage). If this applies to your submission, please explicitly reveal the relevant previous publications. The recommended length of submitted papers is between 5,500 to 8,000 words. All papers are subject to peer review performed by at least three established researchers drawn from a panel of experts selected for this special issue. Accepted papers will undergo for a second cycle of revision and reviewer feedback. Please submit manuscripts as a PDF file using the online submission system. The International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) is the first Semantic Web journal to be included in the Thomson ISI citation index. More information on the journal can be found at http://www.ijswis.org. Dates * October 1, 2010 - Submission Deadline * January 1, 2011 - Notifications * February 15, 2011 - Revised Papers * March 15, 2011 - Final Versions * Fall 2011 - Publication in a fall issue Guest Editors * Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland * Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy * Volker Tresp, Siemens AG, Germany -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Best Regards Denis Helic For the job description in German please see http://mibla.tugraz.at/09_10/Stk_23/23.html#289 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCEMENT OF AVAILABLE POSITION UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE The School of Computer Science (Fakult?t f?r Informatik) at Graz University of Technology seeks to fill the position of University Professor for Knowledge Management at its Institute of Knowledge Management. The University offers a full time employment contract under private law. We expect the successful candidate to start on 1st of March 2011. We are looking for a proven researcher and academic teacher to continue the past emphasis on knowledge management, knowledge technologies and collaboration technologies (e.g. Web 2.0). We would like to see a focus on integration of knowledge management, learning and service-oriented knowledge management. We expect a continued cooperation with the Know-Center, Austria?s competence center for knowledge management and knowledge-based systems at Graz University of Technology. The position will initiate and execute international research projects, as well as network with other parts of the computer science team at the University. A proven record of experience and cooperation in teaching of computer science and in associated programs will include the supervision of diploma and master theses, as well as of doctoral dissertations. We expect also that candidates show a willingness to contribute to all phases of computer science and its related studies. Qualifications: ? Completion of a relevant academic program in Austria or of an equivalent foreign program, including a doctoral degree and a relevant habilitation (venia docendi) or a qualification that is equivalent to a habilitation; ? Excellent science record with publications in internationally recognized conferences and journals; ? Documented experience in applied research and in the cooperation with industry; ? International orientation with excellence in the English language and with a multi-year international professional record; ? Experience in the initiation, scientific direction and execution of contract research, specifically with the programs of the European Union?s research initiatives; ? Ability in setting up, maintaining and directing research teams; ? Experience in the set-up and establishment of research networks and communities in topics relevant to knowledge management; The main place of residence will have to be in or near Graz. Graz University of Technology desires an increase in the share of positions held by of females, especially in leadership and in science. We therefore want to encourage qualified women to apply. With equal qualifications, women will be preferentially offered a position. Applications will include the usual material such as copies of certificates and diplomas, a CV with a description of the research and professional career, list of publications, copies of the 3 most important publications, an overview of past and planned research agendas, and teaching activities. This material is to be submitted in writing and preferably electronically, not later than 15th of October 2010 (postal date stamp) to the Dean of the School of Computer Science, Inffeldgasse 10, 8010 Graz, Austria. The Dean: Wotawa -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Univ. Doz. DI Dr. techn. Denis Helic, IWM, TU Graz, Austria homepage: http://coronet.iicm.edu/denis/homepage/ tel: +43-316-873-9252 fax: +43-316-873-9280 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeffpan.sw at googlemail.com Mon Sep 6 19:06:02 2010 From: jeffpan.sw at googlemail.com (Jeff Pan) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 18:06:02 +0100 Subject: [DL] PhD Vacancies: Linked Open Data & the Crowd Message-ID: Supervisors Professor Peter Edwards & Dr Jeff Pan (Computing Science) and Professor John Nelson (Centre for Transport Research, Geography & Environment) Funding Eligibility Tuition fees will be paid at UK/EU rates, for 2010/2011 this is ?3,400. A maintenance grant will also be paid for 2010/2011 which is ?13,590. The studentship will be fully funded by dot.rural, which is supported by RCUK Digital Economy Programme (http://www.rcukdigitaleconomy.org.uk/) Funding Notes Unfortunately, applications from International applicants cannot be accepted for this studentship due to specific criteria set out by the funding body. Application Deadline 17 September 2010 Start Date ASAP (1st October 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter) References Description The concept of Linked Open Data has recently achieved widespread coverage, in part due to the emergence of sites such as data.gov.uk, which aims to open up UK Government datasets to the public. Linked Data is a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Web using URIs and RDF (the Resource Description Framework). There are many challenges associate with the creation and curation of such data, and one solution that has been suggested is to make use of large numbers of users (the "crowd") to perform tasks such as creation of new data, parsing/linking existing unstructured data, and correcting errors. Of course, once crowd-sourcing is introduced, issues will arise as to what is the "truth" ? in terms of the reliability of new data and any edits to existing data ? and how to query and exploit such data with mixed trust level. This studentship will be based in the RCUK-funded dot.rural Digital Economy research hub (www.dotrural.ac.uk) and the successful applicant will work closely with an interdisciplinary team that is exploring how linked data principles can be used to create a connected multi-modal transport information 'ecosystem'. This will integrate a range of information and knowledge sources including transport operator timetables, sensor data and information/knowledge from local inhabitants in order to support services such as real-time travel alerts and interactive personalised travel planners at key stages in the journey planning process. This PhD will explore the issues associated with crowd-sourcing and linked data (using the transport scenario above), and in particular will investigate the role of provenance solutions to support annotation of content, trustworthy querying solutions, and methods to make assessments of quality and reliability. Educational Background: 1st or 2(1) in Computer Science (with knowledge/experience of the Semantic Web). Application Procedure Formal applications can be completed online: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply. You should apply for MSc with a view to transfer to PhD in Computing Science, to ensure that your application is passed to the correct College for processing. Please note, you should apply at least 4 days before the deadline to allow us to contact you for further information, if required. All applications received up to, and including the closing date, will be processed. Informal academic enquiries should be directed to Dr J Pan ( http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jpan/), with a copy of your current CV. All general enquiries should be directed to the Graduate School Admissions Unit . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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KEY DATES: - Sep. 7, 2010: industry track deadline (see http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/node/20 ) - Sep. 10, 2010: application deadline for student travel awards (see http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/node/74 ) - Sep. 31, 2010: early registration deadline - Nov. 6, 2010: late registration deadline REGISTRATION: http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/registration PROGRAM: http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/program TRAVEL INFORMATION (including visa): http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/node/4 KEYNOTE TALKS: - Advanced Evaluation of Web Search - Methodology and Technology Li Xiaoming (Peking University, China) - What does It Look Like, Really? Imagining how Citizens might Effectively, Usefully and Easily Find, Explore, Query and Re-present Open/Linked Data mc schraefel (University of Southampton, UK) TUTORIALS: - Introduction to the Semantic Web (Invited Tutorial) - OWL 2 - Theory and Practice - Ten Ways to Make your Semantic App Addictive - Linked Open Services (LOS) - Linked Data for eGovernment - Semantic Search Tutorial - Combine the Web of Data and the Web of Documents (RDFa and Drupal 7) - Web Rules: Fundamentals, Applications, and Standards WORKSHOPS: - 6th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2010) - 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN) - Role of the Semantic Web in Provenance Management (SWPM) - Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES2010) - The 5th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2010) - Workshop on Cross-Cultural and Cross-Lingual Aspects of the Semantic Web (C3LSW2010) - International Workshop on Evaluation of Semantic Technologies (IWEST 2010) - The 2nd Workshop on Ontology Patterns (WOP2010) - The 6th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS2010) - Third International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2010) - Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web (SMR2) - 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) - The first International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD) _________________________________________________ Dr. Sebastian Rudolph senior researcher & project leader at AIFB Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) rudolph at kit.edu phone +49 721 608 - 7362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 721 608 - 5998 From truewz at gmail.com Thu Sep 16 04:36:13 2010 From: truewz at gmail.com (Wang Zhe) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:36:13 +1000 Subject: [DL] PhD Scholarships at Griffith University, Australia In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: = PhD Scholarships at Griffith University, Australia = The Research Program ?Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Technologies? of the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS) at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, is seeking for strong candidates for PhD scholarships available in early 2011. The IIIS has a leading research team in Artificial Intelligence and its applications. Successful candidates will work in a project on computational logics and their applications in ontology engineering, funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC). Brisbane is one of the most attractive cities in Australia due to its pleasant weather and life style. Further information about Brisbane can be found at: http://www.ourbrisbane.com/ An international candidate can apply for both living allowance scholarship (~A$22,500 per annum, tax free) and tuition fee scholarship. The duration of each scholarship is for 3 years. A successful candidate should - possess an undergraduate or masters degree, or be close to completion of such studies (preferably, by the end of July 2011); - have a good background in at least one of computer science, mathematics, statistics, logic or related areas; - show interest in an area like computational logic, ontology engineering, semantic technologies, nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming, or probabilistic reasoning. Interested applicants are encouraged to first contact Associate Professor Kewen Wang, email: k.wang at griffith.edu.au, phone: +61 7 3735 5028 *Due Date for applications: October 31, 2010* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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University regulations require doctoral students to hold a Master's or equivalent degree (e.g. Diplom). Applications should include a curriculum vitae and a personal statement why you are interested in this position. To apply or for further information please contact Thomas Studer by email (tstuder at iam.unibe.ch). From aaron-stump at uiowa.edu Tue Sep 21 23:04:16 2010 From: aaron-stump at uiowa.edu (Aaron Stump) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:04:16 -0000 Subject: [DL] CADE 23: Call for Workshops and Tutorials Message-ID: <4c991b95.110edf0a.78cf.ffffa5fb@mx.google.com> ========================================================================= CADE-23 The 23rd International Conference on Automated Deduction Wroclaw, Poland, July 31 - August 5, 2011 http://cade23.ii.uni.wroc.pl/ ========================================================================= Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals ---------------------------------------------------- CADE-23 is the 23rd International Conference on Automated Deduction, the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. Topics of interest range from theoretical foundations to high-performance implementations in a wide variety of logics and logical theories, with applications in areas like - verification, testing and synthesis: program analysis and verification, hardware verification, systematic software and hardware testing, synthesis. - (computer-aided) mathematics, - natural language processing, computational linguistics, - knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, - functional and logic programming, - robotics, planning, and other areas of AI. Workshop and tutorial proposals for CADE-23 are solicited. Both well-established workshops and newer 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 this. 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. 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-23 workshops and tutorials committee: Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research), Program Co-Chair Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (Max Planck Institute), Program Co-Chair Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa), Workshop and Tutorial Chair Important dates: Deadline for proposal submissions: December 7, 2010 Acceptance/rejection notification: January 7, 2011 Workshop dates: July 31 - August 1, 2011 ===================================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences Berlin, 10th December 2010 http://www.swat4ls.org/2010/ ********************************************************* News: * Special issue in BMC Bioinformatics * Nature proceedings / CEUR Proceedings * 2 keynotes * Tutorial day on Semantic Web Services, Linked Data, D2RQ, * Semantic Web Meetup in Semantic Life Sciences and Chemistry * Panel discussion ********************************************************* Overview SWAT4LS is a workshop that provides a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of Web based information systems and semantic technologies in life sciences, biomedical informatics and computational biology. ________________________________________ Rationale The web is a key medium for information publishing, and web based information systems play a key role in biomedical information exchange and integration. At the same time, the variety and complexity of biomedical information call for the adoption of semantic-based solutions. The Semantic Web provides a set of technologies and standards that are key to support semantic markup, ontology development, distributed information resources and collaborative social environments. Altogether the adoption of the web-based semantic-enabled technologies in the Life Sciences has potential impact on the future of publishing, biological research and medicine. This workshop will provide a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of these technologies and tools in biomedical informatics and computational biology. It will showcase experiences, information resources, tools development and applications. It will bring together researchers, both developers and users, from the various fields of Biology, Bioinformatics and Computer Science, to discuss goals, current limits and some real use cases for Semantic Web technologies in Life Sciences. ________________________________________ Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Standards, Technologies, Tools for the Semantic Web o Semantic Web standards and new proposals (RDF, OWL, SKOS, Linked Data, ) o Biomedical Ontologies and related tools o Alternative approaches to integrate semantic representations and web based solutions o Formal approaches to large biomedical knowledge bases ? Systems for a Semantic Web for Bioinformatics o RDF stores, Reasoners, query and visualization systems for life sciences o Semantic biomedical Web Services o Semantics aware Biological Data Integration Systems ? Existing and prospective applications of the Semantic Web for Bioinformatics o Semantics aware application tools o Semantic Wikis o Semantic collaborative research environments o Case studies, use cases, and scenarios ________________________________________ Type of contributions The following possible contributions are sought: ? Research papers ? Position papers ? Posters ? Software demos ________________________________________ Proceedings All accepted communications will be published in the proceedings, either Nature Proceedings or via CEUR-WS ( http://ceur-ws.org/) ________________________________________ Special issue Authors of accepted contributions to the 2010 edition of SWAT4LS will be invited to submit extended and revised contributions for a special issue in BMC Bioinformatics. ________________________________________ Deadlines ? Submission openinig: 13 September 2010 ? Papers submission deadline: 12 October 2010 ? Posters and demo submission deadline: 1 November 2010 ? Communication of acceptance: 8 November 2010 ? Camera ready: 21 November 2010 ________________________________________ Instructions All papers and posters must be in English, formatted according to LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and submitted in pdf format. ? Submissions for papers should report original research, and should be between 8 and 15 pages. ? Submissions for position papers should report qualified opinions, recommendations or conclusions, and should be between 3 and 6 pages. ? Submissions for posters should be between 2 and 4 pages. ? Submissions for software demo proposals should also be between 2 and 4 pages. ________________________________________ Submission All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair submission system. A link will be provided when registrations open. To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Program Committee. ________________________________________ Full Program (more detailed information available at http://www.swat4ls.org/2010/progr.php) Wednesday 8th December 2010 Location: Free University of Berlin - Tutorial: Semantic Web meets Cloud Computing Presenter: Jonas Almedia (Univ. Texas MDAnderson Cancer Center, Huston, USA) - Free Hackathon Thursday 9th December 2010 Location: Free University of Berlin or Harnak Hause (to be confirmed) - Tutorial: Interoperable Semantic Web services - Presenters: Jon Ison (EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, U.K.), Matus Kalas (Bergen Center for Computational Science, Bergen, Norway) - Tutorial: Producing Linked Data Presenters: TBD - Tutorial: D2RQ Presenters: Radoslaw Oldakowski (Free University of Berlin) - 7th Berlin Semantic Web Meetup - Semantic Health Care and Life Sciences Presentations from Meetup participants - SWAT4LS / Meetup Dinner + poster session Friday 10th December 2010 Location: Harnak Hause The workshop will run from 9.00 to 19.00, followed by the optional social dinner. It will feature: - Keynotes: - Christopher Baker: A renaissance for the point mutation: from legacy data to semantic web service - Jonas Almeida: Development of Integrative Bioinformatics Applications using Cloud Computing resources and Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS). - Accepted papers presentations - Flash presentations - Poster session - Demo session - Panel discussion (Confirmed participants: Chris Baker, Jonas Almeida, Chirs Bizer) ________________________________________ Workshop Chairs ? Adrian Paschke, Corporate Semantic Web, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany ? Albert Burger, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, and Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom ? Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy ? M. Scott Marshall, Adaptive Information Disclosure Group, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ? Andrea Splendiani, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics dept., Rothamsted Research, UK ________________________________________ Scientific Program committee (more to be confirmed): ? Erick Antezana, Bayer CropScience, Ghent, Belgium ? Pedro Barahona, Department of Informatics, New University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal ? Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America ? Werner Ceusters, NY CoE in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States of America ? Kei Cheung, Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, United States of America ? Tim Clark, Massachuttes General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America ? Marie-Dominique Devignes, LORIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France ? Olivier Dameron, INSERM U936, University of Rennes 1, France ? Asuman Dogac, Department of Computer Eng., Middle East Technical University, Ankara ,Turkey ? Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ? Toshiaki Katayama, Human Genome Center (HGC), University of Tokyo, Japan ? C. Maria Keet, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy ? Graham Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden ? Michael Krauthammer, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, United States of America ? Patrick Lambrix, Department of Computer and Information Science, Link?ping University, Link?ping, Sweden ? Phillip Lord, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom ? Alistair Miles, Centre for Genomics and Global Health, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, Uk ? Stephan Philippi, Institute for Software Technology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany ? Marco Roos, Instituut voor Informatica, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ? Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, Cambridge, MA, United States of America ? Matthias Samwald, DERI, Galway, Ireland, and Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria ? Nigam Shah, Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford, United States of America ? Michael Schroeder, Biotechnology Centre, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany ? Robert Stevens, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom ? Tetsuro Toyoda, Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan ________________________________________ Registrations The deadline for early bird registration is October 8th. http://www.swat4ls.org/2010/rform.php As spaces are limited, we encourage interested participants to register in advance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These technologies require knowledge capture, which involves the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse online sources as well as its acquisition directly from human experts. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Web, the study of knowledge capture has a renewed importance. Researchers who work in the area of knowledge capture traditionally participate in several distinct research communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, human?computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and the Semantic Web. K-CAP 2011 will provide a forum that brings together members of disparate research communities who are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for automated reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing. We solicit high-quality research papers for publication and presentation at our conference. Our aim is to promote multidisciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. K-CAP 2011 follows on the success of five previous conferences in 2009 (California, USA), 2007 (Whistler, Canada), in 2005 (Banff, Canada), in 2003 (Florida, USA), and 2001 (Victoria, Canada), and of the series of Knowledge Acquisition Workshops (KAW), the first of which took place in the same location (Banff, Canada) in 1986. K-CAP 2011 is particularly important in the history of our discipline, as it coincides with the 25th anniversary of the first Knowledge Acquisition Workshop at the Banff Centre. The Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2011 will feature Invited Talks, Technical Papers, Workshops, Posters and Demos on a range of topics including: * Knowledge acquisition tools * Knowledge authoring tools * Knowledge extraction systems * Knowledge management environments * Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web and the Web of Linked Data * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition * Learning apprentices * Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools * Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge * Knowledge-based markup techniques * Advice taking systems * Knowledge engineering and modelling methodologies There will be also a special session in the conference on ?25 years of Knowledge Acquisition Research?, in which presented papers and invited talks will review advances in the past 25 years in all the aforementioned areas. Important dates All deadlines are on 11:59PM Hawaii time. Technical papers Paper abstracts due: February 8, 2011 Papers due: February 15, 2011 Author notification: March 31, 2011 Camera-ready copy due: April 30, 2011 Posters and demos Poster and demo submissions: April 15, 2011 Author notifications: May 15, 2011 Technical Paper Submission Guidelines Technical papers must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submissions website. Submissions must be in PDF format. Microsoft Word users please prepare your paper using the K-CAP Microsoft Word template. LaTeX users please use the K-CAP class file, sigproc-KCAPsample.tex example template file (please follow the instructions contained within when submitting), sigproc.bib example bibtex file used by sigproc-KCAPsample.tex, and example pdf of sigproc-KCAPsample.tex. Papers must be no more than 8 unnumbered "US-letter" size pages (including references) using a 10-point Times Roman font for the main body text. All material on each page should fit within a rectangle of 18x23.5 cm (7"x9.25"), centered on the page, beginning 1.9 cm (.75") from the top of the page and ending with 2.54 cm (1") from the bottom. The right and left margins should be 1.9 cm (.75"). The text should be in two 8.45 cm (3.33") columns with a .83 cm (.33") gutter. Specific instructions for titles, headings, graphics and tables appear in the template files. Papers that violate the guidelines may be rejected without review. Authors will be required to transfer copyright of accepted papters to ACM. -- Oscar Corcho Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial Facultad de Inform?tica Campus de Montegancedo s/n Boadilla del Monte-28660 Madrid, Espa?a Tel. (+34) 91 336 66 05 Fax (+34) 91 352 48 19 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carsten at itu.dk Tue Sep 21 19:19:30 2010 From: carsten at itu.dk (Carsten Schuermann) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:19:30 -0000 Subject: [DL] CADE-23 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <73E35343-4D42-414F-B7E0-ED84C1AAED7C@itu.dk> =================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS CADE-23 23nd International Conference on Automated Deduction Wroclaw, Poland July 31- August 5, 2011 http://cade23.ii.uni.wroc.pl/ =================================================================== 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, synthesis, systematic software and hardware testing, (computer-aided) 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: TBA WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, SYSTEM COMPETITIONS: System competitions such as The CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. STUDENT AWARDS Travel awards will be available to enable selected students to attend the conference. Details will be published on the conference website. PUBLICATION DETAILS: The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submissions can be made in the categories o 'regular papers' and o 'system descriptions'. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is o 15 pages for regular papers and o 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=cade2011 IMPORTANT DATES (tentative): A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper. 7 December 2010 Deadline for Workshop/Tutorial proposals 7 January 2011 Notification (Workshops/Tutorials) 1 February 2011 Abstract submission deadline 7 February 2011 Paper submission deadline 20 March 2011 Notification of paper decisions 20 April 2011 Camera-ready papers due 31 July-1 August 2011 Workshops & Tutorials 2-5 Aug 2011 Conference, including CASC PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Armando Universit? di Genova Franz Baader Technische Universit?t Dresden Peter Baumgartner NICTA Canberra Nikolaj Bjorner Microsoft Research (PC co-chair) Maria Paola Bonacina Universita` degli Studi di Verona Bernhard Beckert Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Alessandro Cimatti FBK-irst Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Stephanie Delaune CNRS, LSV Bruno Dutertre SRI International Ulrich Furbach University of Koblenz Silvio Ghilardi Universit? degli Studi di Milan J?rgen Giesl RWTH Aachen Rajeev Gore The Australian National University John Harrison Intel Corporation Ullrich Hustadt University of Liverpool Reiner H?hnle Chalmers University of Technology Deepak Kapur University of New Mexico Viktor Kuncak EPFL Alexander Leitsch Technische Universit?t Wien Christopher Lynch Clarkson University Claude March? INRIA Saclay, Parc Orsay Universit? Aart Middeldorp Universit?t Innsbruck Tobias Nipkow TU Munchen Hans de Nivelle University of Wroclaw Albert Oliveras Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Lawrence Paulson University of Cambridge Frank Pfenning CMU Brigitte Pientka McGill University David Plaisted University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Michael Rusinowitch LORIA-INRIA-Lorraine Renate A. Schmidt University of Manchester Carsten Schuermann IT University of Copenhagen Roberto Sebastiani DISI, University of Trento Gert Smolka Universit?t des Saarlandes Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans Max Planck Institute for Informatics (PC co-chair) Aaron Stump University of Iowa Geoff Sutcliffe University of Miami Cesare Tinelli University of Iowa Andrei Voronkov University of Manchester Christoph Weidenbach Max Planck Institute for Informatics Frank Wolter University of Liverpool ORGANIZERS: Conference Chair: Hans de Nivelle University of Wroclaw Workshop & Tutorial Chair: Aaron Stump The University of Iowa Publicity Chair: Carsten Sch?rmann IT-Universitetet i K?benhavn PC Chairs: Nikolaj Bj?rner Microsoft Research Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik From jeffpan.sw at googlemail.com Sat Oct 2 22:50:35 2010 From: jeffpan.sw at googlemail.com (Jeff Pan) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:50:35 +0100 Subject: [DL] PhD Studentship on Trust Reasoning for Linked Data Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! ===================================================== PhD Studentship on Trust Reasoning for Linked Data Applications received by October 20, 2010, are assured full consideration. ===================================================== 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) and Object Management Group (OMG). The KT group is looking for one PhD candidate who will be based in the RCUK-funded dot.rural Digital Economy research hub (www.dotrural.ac.uk). The title of the PhD project is *Linked Open Data & the Crowd*. There are many challenges associate with the creation and curation of linked data, and one solution that has been suggested is to make use of large numbers of users (the "crowd") to perform tasks such as creation of new data, parsing/linking existing unstructured data, and correcting errors. Of course, once crowd-sourcing is introduced, issues will arise as to what is the "truth" ? in terms of the reliability of new data and any edits to existing data ? and how to query and exploit such data with mixed trust levels. This PhD will explore the issues associated with crowd-sourcing and linked data, and in particular on trust reasoning for linked data, so as to support provenance and to make assessments of quality and reliability. Tuition fees will be paid at UK/EU rates, for 2010/2011 this is ?3,400. A maintenance grant will also be paid, for 2010/2011 which is ?13,590. Unfortunately, applications from International applicants cannot be accepted for this studentship due to specific criteria set out by the funding body. The KT group expects: (1) A strong background in Computer Science, i.e., a good Undergraduate (at the 2-1 level or higher) or Masters Degree in either Computing Science or a related discipline. (2) Research interest and some expertise in at least one of the following areas: ontology, reasoning, linked data, query answering, inconsistency reasoning, uncertainty reasoning, provenance. (3) The willingness to combine formal theoretical work with application-oriented research. (4) Solid programming skills as well as personal skills required to work closely with other collaborators in the Digital Economy research hub. Informal academic enquiries should be directed to Dr J Pan ( http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jpan/), with a copy of your current CV. All general enquiries should be directed to the Graduate School Admissions Unit( http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cops/graduate/admissions/enquiry/). Formal applications can be completed online: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply. In your application, 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). 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REGISTRATION: http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/registration PROGRAM: http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/program TRAVEL INFORMATION (including visa): http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/node/4 KEYNOTE TALKS: - Advanced Evaluation of Web Search - Methodology and Technology Li Xiaoming (Peking University, China) - What does It Look Like, Really? Imagining how Citizens might Effectively, Usefully and Easily Find, Explore, Query and Re-present Open/Linked Data mc schraefel (University of Southampton, UK) - The Open Graph Protocol Design Decisions Austin Haugen (Facebook, USA) - Semantic Technology at The New York Times: Lessons Learned and Future Directions Evan Sandhaus (The New York Time Company, USA) TUTORIALS: - Introduction to the Semantic Web (Invited Tutorial) - OWL 2 - Theory and Practice - Ten Ways to Make your Semantic App Addictive - Linked Open Services (LOS) - Linked Data for eGovernment - Semantic Search Tutorial - Combine the Web of Data and the Web of Documents (RDFa and Drupal 7) - Web Rules: Fundamentals, Applications, and Standards WORKSHOPS: - 6th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2010) - 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN) - Role of the Semantic Web in Provenance Management (SWPM) - Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES2010) - The 5th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2010) - Workshop on Cross-Cultural and Cross-Lingual Aspects of the Semantic Web (C3LSW2010) - International Workshop on Evaluation of Semantic Technologies (IWEST 2010) - The 2nd Workshop on Ontology Patterns (WOP2010) - The 6th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS2010) - Third International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2010) - Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web (SMR2) - 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) - The first International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD) _________________________________________________ Dr. Sebastian Rudolph senior researcher & project leader at AIFB Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) rudolph at kit.edu phone +49 721 608 - 7362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 721 608 - 5998 From tkren at kr.tuwien.ac.at Mon Sep 20 19:50:16 2010 From: tkren at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Krennwallner) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:50:16 -0000 Subject: [DL] 10 PhD student positions in Computational Logic at Vienna University of Technology Message-ID: <20100920174956.GB23142@kr.tuwien.ac.at> The Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) is offering 10 PhD student positions within the doctoral program "Mathematical Logic in Computer Science" which is launched in Fall 2010; five of the positions are reserved for female applicants. The program is jointly organized by the faculties of Informatics, Mathematics, and Physics, with a strong emphasis on Logic in Computer Science; computational logic is one of the priority research areas of the Faculty of Informatics. TU Wien has a strong international reputation in various fields targeted in the program, including * Logic in Databases, * Computer Aided Verification, * Constraint Satisfaction and Satisfiability, * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, * Finite Model Theory, * Quantum Information and Recursion Theory, * Proof Theory and Automated Deduction, * Many Valued and Fuzzy Logic, * Complexity Theory, * Set Theory. The program is interdisciplinary and fosters the application of Mathematical Logic to Computer Science; two envisaged key application areas are * Model-Based Design and Verification, * Advanced Information Systems. The faculty of the program consists of M. Baaz, A. Ciabattoni, T. Eiter (coordinator), M. Goldstern, G. Gottlob (associated), A. Leitsch, R. Pichler, K. Svozil, S. Szeider, H. Veith and S. Woltran. Candidates must have an MSc or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related fields, and an excellent record of study. They should have solid basic knowledge in logic, discrete mathematics, and computer science; knowledge in fields targeted in the program is desired. Each PhD student position is funded for three years (regular employment contract with full social benefits). The yearly salary ranges from a minimum of 12,724 Euro to 25,915 Euro before taxes, depending on cofunding via associated projects. Applications are solicited starting immediately, and will be considered starting from September 10, 2010, until all positions are filled, but no longer than March 15, 2011. Further details about the program and the application procedure are available at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/drkolleg/. For additional information, please send email to dk-info at dbai.tuwien.ac.at. From ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk Fri Sep 24 12:00:55 2010 From: ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Horrocks) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:00:55 -0000 Subject: [DL] Postdoc vacancies in OUCL Information Systems Group Message-ID: OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS GROUP POST-DOCTORIAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSTS The Computing Laboratory has a vacancy for three postdoctoral research assistants to work in the Information Systems Group. The posts are funded by EPSRC as part of the LogMap project (1 post) and ExODA project (2 posts) - see http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/projects/LogMap/ and http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/projects/ExODA/ for more information. The posts are available immediately and will be of 24 months (for LogMap) or 36 months (for ExODA) duration. Applicants should have, or expect shortly to obtain, a PhD in computer science or some other relevant discipline, and should have a strong background in theoretical computer science. Experience in some or all of the following areas would be useful but is not essential: logics and automated reasoning; databases and database theory; ontologies and ontology languages; knowledge representation. Implementation experience would also be useful. The posts will require occasional travel to international conferences and workshops. The successful applicants will join an internationally leading and rapidly growing research group led by Professor Georg Gottlob and Professor Ian Horrocks - see http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/research/is/ - and with more than 25 doctoral and post-doctoral researchers working on a range of projects in the area of databases and knowledge representation and reasoning. Further particulars, including details of how to apply, are available from http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/news/documents/info-syst-posts-fps.pdf The closing date for applications is 22nd October 2010. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.booth at uni.lu Mon Oct 4 10:53:36 2010 From: richard.booth at uni.lu (Richard Booth) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:53:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] BNAIC 2010 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting **************************************************************** ***************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***************************************************************** The 22nd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2010) Luxembourg, October 25-26 2010 http://bnaic2010.uni.lu ***************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION BNAIC is an international scientific conference for research in Artificial Intelligence. The BNAIC conferences series was initiated in 1988 by the Netherlands Association for Artificial Intelligence (later incorporating Belgium and Luxembourg to become the Benelux Association for AI) in order to promote research in AI among Benelux AI researchers, scientists and engineers in related disciplines. This year we are delighted to bring BNAIC for the first time to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. According to the success of previous years, BNAIC 2010 will include invited speakers, research presentations and project demonstrations. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Jerome Lang, Senior Resercher at CNRS, Paris, France Title: Incomplete Knowledge and Communication Issues in Voting - Michael Mateas, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Cruz Title: The Algorithm is the Message: AI as an Expressive Medium ACCEPTED PAPERS For the full list see http://bnaic2010.uni.lu/accepted_papers.html REGISTRATION Deadline for on-line registration is October 20th, the registration site can be accessed from the conference website at http://bnaic2010.uni.lu/registration.html. IMPORTANT DATES Online registration until: October 20, 2010 All registrations done after October 20 will have to be done on-site without additional cost. Conference: October 25-26, 2010 CHAIRS General Chairs: - Pascal Bouvry (University of Luxembourg) - Eric Dubois (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) - Thibaud Latour (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) - Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg) Program Chairs: - Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg) - Gregoire Danoy (University of Luxembourg) - Benjamin Gateau (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) - Isabelle Jars (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) - Djamel Khadraoui (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) - Marcin Seredynski (University of Luxembourg) From hr at sti2.at Mon Sep 20 15:15:41 2010 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:15:41 -0000 Subject: [DL] Open position: PhD student in various EU projects In-Reply-To: <00be01cb3236$d4df5520$7e9dff60$@at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> <4B6C0262.8030803@sti2.at> <4B6C0284.8070601@sti2.at> <4BA8B8EC.2080101@sti2.at> <4BA8C8D8.5060201@sti2.at> <4BF65B42.6030807@sti2.at> <003501cafbdd$2bd8e7a0$838ab6e0$@at> <4C173C33.200@sti2.at> <00be01cb3236$d4df5520$7e9dff60$@at> Message-ID: <4C975C7E.7060403@sti2.at> The *Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck* (*http://www.sti-innsbruck.at* ), formerly known as *DERI Innsbruck*, was founded in 2002 and has developed into a challenging and dynamic research institute of approximately 40 people. *STI Innsbruck* collaborates with an international network of institutes in Asia, Europe and the USA, as well as with global industrial partners. Our major objective is to establish Semantic technologies as a core pillar of modern Computer Science, thereby providing interoperability and scalability for Semantically Enabled Service Orientated Architectures. STI Innsbruck is currently seeking candidates for the position of a PhD student. We offer * A stimulating environment of a leading research group in the fields of Semantic Web, Semantic Web services, formal languages and reasoning * Excellent ties to research groups worldwide * Up-to-date infrastructure and resources, including funding for attending international conferences, PhD symposia, summer schools, etc. * Standardized international exchange programs such as BIT * Opportunity to work in nationally funded integrated research projects * Opportunity to take part in FP7 1^st Call international research projects focusing on topics such as Web 2.0, service-oriented computing, formal languages and reasoning, ontologies and ontology engineering * Opportunity to work with internationally established academic and industrial partners * Multicultural working place with modern infrastructure and facilities We expect * A strong background in Computer Science or related disciplines * Willingness to work in an international environment * The ability to take part in large-scale international research projects * Willingness to combine formal scientific work with application-oriented research in order to solve real-world problems * Research interest and expertise in at least one of the areas: Formal languages and reasoning (Description Logics, Logic Programming), ontology languages, Semantic Web services, ontologies, business aspects of semantic systems. 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URL: From sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de Thu Oct 7 10:28:33 2010 From: sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 10:28:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] Tableaux 2011 First Call for Papers Message-ID: <731f6814fc8e3ae5547c19d38d0748ea.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> [Apologies for multiple copies] First Call for Papers, Call for Tutorials, and Call for Workshop Proposals TABLEAUX 2011 International Conference TABLEAUX 2011 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Bern, Switzerland 4 July - 8 July 2011 http://www.tableaux11.unibe.ch/ IMPORTANT DATES Workshop & Tutorial submission: Monday, 10 Jan 2011 Workshop & Tutorial notification: Monday, 24 Jan 2011 Abstract and Title submission: Monday, 24 Jan 2011 Paper Submission: Monday, 31 Jan 2011 Notification: Monday, 28 Mar 2011 Final Versions: Monday, 25 Apr 2011 Workshops: Monday, 4 July 2011 Conference: Tuesday, 5 July - Friday, 8 July 2011 GENERAL INFORMATION This conference is the 20th in a series of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. In July 2011, the conference will be held in Bern, Switzerland. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer LNAI series as in the previous editions of the conference. See http://www.tableaux11.unibe.ch/ for more information on TABLEAUX 2011, 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 2011 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 Short papers reporting work in progress (up to 5 pages) 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. 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 Bern. 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 Monday, 10. Jan 2011. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS TABLEAUX 2011 launches a Call for Workshop Proposal on specialised subjects in the range of the conference topics. We can accept up to three 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 Monday, 10. Jan 2011. INVITED SPEAKERS We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give invited talks at TABLEAUX 2011: * Maria Paola Bonacina, University of Verona, Italy * Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Kazushige Terui, Kyoto University, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE PC Chairs * Kai Br?nnler, University of Bern, Switzerland * George Metcalfe, University of Bern, Switzerland PC Members * Arnon Avron, Tel Aviv University, Israel * Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Canberra, Australia * Bernhard Beckert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Torben Bra?ner, Roskilde University, Denmark * Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien, Austria * Marta Cialdea, University of Rome 3, Italy * Roy Dyckhoff, University of St Andrews, Scotland * Martin Giese, University of Oslo, Norway * Valentin Goranko, Technical University of Denmark * Rajeev Gor?, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia * Reiner H?hnle, Chalmers University, G??teborg, Sweden * Ullrich Hustadt, University of Liverpool, UK * Martin Lange, University of Kassel, Germany * Dale Miller, INRIA, Saclay, France * Neil V. Murray, University at Albany - SUNY, USA * Nicola Olivetti, Paul C??zanne University, Marseille, France * Jens Otten, University of Potsdam, Germany * Dirk Pattinson, Imperial College London, UK * Andr? Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, UK * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbr??cken, Germany * Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche, Fribourg University, Switzerland * Luca Vigan?, University of Verona, Italy * Arild Waaler, University of Oslo, Norway ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference Chairs: * Kai Br?nnler, University of Bern, Switzerland * George Metcalfe, University of Bern, Switzerland Local Organizers: * Samuel Bucheli * Lukas Gerber * Roman Kuznets * Richard McKinley * Nia Stephens From jaeschke at cs.uni-kassel.de Fri Oct 8 15:24:34 2010 From: jaeschke at cs.uni-kassel.de (=?UTF-8?B?Um9iZXJ0IErDpHNjaGtl?=) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:24:34 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: 9th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2011) Message-ID: <4CAF1B92.2070905@cs.uni-kassel.de> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We apologize for possible cross-postings. Please, forward this message to anyone who might be interested. - ------------------------------------------------- ICFCA 2011 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - ------------------------------------------------- 9th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2011) May 2 - 6, 2011, Nicosia, Cyprus http://www.unic.ac.cy/icfca2011/ Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc. Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? FCA theory ? Lattice Theory ? Lattice Drawing ? Philosophical Foundations ? FCA and Logic ? Conceptual Knowledge ? Concept Graphs ? Data Analysis ? FCA and Data Mining ? Association Rules and Pattern Mining ? Analysis of Social Networks ? Data Mining on Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web ? Algorithms and Complexity Theory ? FCA and Software Engineering SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite 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. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by December 8, 2010. The submission is to be done via the conference EasyChair account at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca2011. 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, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. IMPORTANT DATES submission of abstracts: December 8, 2010 submission of full papers: December 15, 2010 notification of acceptance: February 6, 2011 camera ready copies due: February 21, 2011 ORGANIZATION The conference will be hosted by the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Further information is available at http://www.unic.ac.cy/icfca2011/. Conference Chair: ? Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Program Chairs: ? Robert J?schke, Universit?t Kassel, Germany ? Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Quebec ? Montreal, Canada Editorial Board: ? Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia ? Sebastien Ferr?, Universit? de Rennes 1, France ? 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 ? Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany ? Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany ? Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany ? Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany ? Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany Program Committee: (to be confirmed) ? Mike Bain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia ? Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain ? Peter Becker, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia ? Radim Belohlavek, Binghamton University - State University of New York, USA ? Sadok Ben Yahia, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia ? Jean-Fran?ois Boulicaut, INSA Lyon, France ? Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy ? Frithjof Dau, SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany ? Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Universit? Paris 6, France ? Alain G?ly, Universit? Paul Verlaine, Metz, France ? Joachim Hereth, DMC GmbH, Germany ? Wolfgang Hesse, Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany ? Tim B. Kaiser, SAP AG, Germany ? Derrick G. Kourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa ? Markus Kr?tzsch, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany ? Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland ? L?onard Kwuida, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland ? Wilfried Lex, Universit?t Clausthal, Germany ? Lotfi Lakhal, Aix-Marseille Universit?, France ? Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont Ferrand 2, 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 ? J?rg Schmid, Universit?t Bern, Switzerland ? Andreja Tepav?evi?, University of Novi Sad, Serbia ? Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada ? Vilem Vychodil, Binghamton University - State University of New York, USA Organization Committee: (to be completed) ? Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkyvG5IACgkQWcPCeO+FKgMLcwCgjjElp31+s3DfCAm7zp8aGWhD cPQAn24Sz/oWseV9aYa1MVh15b/GYxwL =UpEU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Bertram.Fronhoefer at inf.tu-dresden.de Fri Oct 1 19:43:41 2010 From: Bertram.Fronhoefer at inf.tu-dresden.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bertram_Fronh=F6fer?=) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 19:43:41 +0200 Subject: [DL] Professor position Message-ID: REMINDER: Deadline on October 15, 2010. Please pass this job offer on to people you consider qualified and interested. (the attached text is both in German and in English) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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About Current Release --------------------- The release of 2010.09.18 contains these improvements: * new GUI with edit and advanced navigation facilities * SPSM integrated * additional knowledge bases * additional renderer * precision and recall calculation filters Resources --------- Homepage: http://semanticmatching.org Download: http://semanticmatching.org/download.html Documentation: http://semanticmatching.org/documentation.html Mailing Lists: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/s-match-announce Forums: http://sourceforge.net/projects/s-match/forums/ RSS News Feed: http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_keepsake.php?group_id=288592 From claudia.damato at di.uniba.it Wed Oct 6 10:26:02 2010 From: claudia.damato at di.uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:26:02 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Chapters: "Collaboration and the Semantic Web: Social Networks, Knowledge Networks and Knowledge Resources" Message-ID: <4CAC329A.3070501@di.uniba.it> ***** Apologies for multiple postings ****** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Collaboration and the Semantic Web: Social Networks, Knowledge Networks and Knowledge Resources ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editors: Stefan Br?ggemann, OFFIS, Germany Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy Call for Chapters: Proposals Submission Deadline: November 1, 2010 Full Chapters Due: March 1, 2011 Submission Date: June 15, 2011 Website http://redir.ec/CollSemWeb Overview Social media and the semantic web only co-existed in the past, but when these developments became massively popular, they began to have an influence on collaborative working. Learners and online workers now have a variety of knowledge resources at hand. Integrated semantic applications, linked data, social networks, and networked digital solutions can now be used in collaborative learning environments and present participants with the context-aware information that they need. Semantic technologies have shown their potential for integrating valuable knowledge bases and information systems, and they are being applied to the composition of digital learning and working platforms. These semantic technologies not only have potential for solving the semantic heterogeneity of knowledge resources, trust, and accountability, but also provide solutions for contemporary data quality management cycles, which are necessary to ensure the high-quality integration of shared knowledge resources. Objectives The primary goal of the book is to showcase cutting edge research on the intersection of Semantic Web, Collaborative Work, and Social Media. For example: How can richly structured Semantic Web data and existing semantic web technologies together build next-generation systems for collaborative work? How could knowledge management techniques contribute to the full realization of integrated semantic applications? What are the challenges for developers of social systems with integrated semantic web data? Audience The book addresses researchers and practitioners in the fields of semantic web, knowledge management, data integration, and data quality management by summarizing recent research results. Developer of systems in the area of semantic web, knowledge management, and data integration are addressed as well and will get an overview on semantic web, knowledge management, and collaboration. Topics The topics of interest of the book include, but are not limited to: Social Media Collaborative work Semantic applications Semantic technologies Digital solutions Networked applications Networked knowledge Data quality Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies Trust and provenance Semantic heterogeneity: querying and management Reasoning methods for handling semantic knowledge Knowledge management Knowledge discovery and linked data Discovering hidden knowledge from linked data Learning ontologies from linked data Applications Challenges in practical applications of semantic technologies on Social systems Collaborative working environments Health informatics Life sciences Semantic multimedia Information systems Data quality and others Submission Process Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 1, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 1, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 1, 2011. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Dates 1st Proposal Submission Deadline: November 1, 2010 Full chapter Submission: March 1, 2011 Notification: May 15, 2011 Revised Chapter Submission: June 15, 2011 Final Acceptance Notifications: June 30, 2011 Submission of Final Chapters: July 15, 2011 Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global in early 2012. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document): Stefan Br?ggemann, OFFIS, Germany email: brueggemann (at) offis.de Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy email: claudia.damato (at) di.uniba.it -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: claudia_damato.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 334 bytes Desc: not available URL: From fgeo at ics.forth.gr Tue Nov 2 08:01:07 2010 From: fgeo at ics.forth.gr (Giorgos Flouris) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:01:07 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation: 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) Message-ID: <87C15475E33F4DD8A3B09B6FEE0B17CF@ics.forth.gr> Dear all: please consider participating in the 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10), that will take place on November 8, 2010, as part of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference, in Shangai, China. Details on the workshop appear below. [apologies for multiple copies] =============================================== Call for Participation 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) =============================================== http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/iwod/iwod2010 Workshop Description and Motivation ----------------------------------- Ontologies constitute one of the main pillars of the Semantic Web and of semantic applications. As ontologies model dynamic environments (e.g., e-science ontologies), they are often subject to change. The support for dynamicity is one of the core ontology management problems and has many facets, being dealt with in different fields, like ontology evolution, ontology versioning and others. Following previous successful organizations (as part of ESWC-07, ISWC-08 and ISWC-09), IWOD has established itself as the core annual event to discuss advances in the broad area of ontology dynamics, and to track recent work directly or indirectly related to the problem of evolving ontologies. The goal of the 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-10) is to bring together researchers and students working on the fields of ontology evolution, revision, merging and versioning, as well as people from the industry conducting activities (applications, case studies) that involve the dynamic aspects of ontologies. Our aim is to trigger discussions and allow interested researchers, students and practitioners to present and discuss recent advances related to these fields. Both theoretical research works as well as works describing implemented systems or tools are welcome. Topics of Interest ------------------ We are interested on all topics related to ontology dynamics, including original theoretical work on the issues involved directly or indirectly with change as well as applications or implemented systems related to such issues. We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in the following topics: - Ontology evolution - Ontology versioning - Ontology merging - Formal aspects of ontology dynamics - Foundational issues - Language extensions for evolution - Belief revision for ontologies - Inconsistency/incoherency/invalidity in evolving ontologies - Change propagation in ontologies and metadata - Ontologies for dynamic environments - Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation - Engineering evolvable ontologies - Requirements for ontology evolution - Case studies in ontology evolution - Tools to support ontology evolution - Applications with dynamic ontologies - Open problems Workshop Venue and Format ------------------------- The workshop will take place in Shangai, China, as part of the ISWC-10 conference (http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/) on November 8, 2010. IWOD-10 will be a half-day morning workshop with 5 regular paper presentations. It will also feature an invited talk by Zhisheng Huang. Organizing Committee -------------------- Giorgos Flouris (fgeo at ics.forth.gr) Guilin Qi (gqi at seu.edu.cn) IWOD Series Steering Committee ------------------------------ Grigoris Antoniou Mathieu d'quin Giorgos Flouris Jeff Z. Pan Dimitris Plexousakis Program Committee ----------------- Grigoris Antoniou Alessandro Artale Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles Mathieu d'Aquin Giuseppe De Giacomo James Delgrande Peter Haase Nathalie Hernandez Zhisheng Huang Diana Maynard Thomas Meyer Enrico Motta Natasha Noy Jeff Z. Pan Dimitris Plexousakis Chantal Reynaud Marcio Moretto Ribeiro Marta Sabou Ljiljana Stojanovic Shenghui Wang Renata Wassermann From hr at sti2.at Mon Oct 25 16:01:10 2010 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:01:10 +0200 Subject: [DL] Open position: PhD student in various EU projects In-Reply-To: <4C975C7E.7060403@sti2.at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> <4B6C0262.8030803@sti2.at> <4B6C0284.8070601@sti2.at> <4BA8B8EC.2080101@sti2.at> <4BA8C8D8.5060201@sti2.at> <4BF65B42.6030807@sti2.at> <003501cafbdd$2bd8e7a0$838ab6e0$@at> <4C173C33.200@sti2.at> <00be01cb3236$d4df5520$7e9dff60$@at> <4C975C7E.7060403@sti2.at> Message-ID: <4CC58DA6.2020502@sti2.at> The *Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck* (*http://www.sti-innsbruck.at* ), formerly known as *DERI Innsbruck*, was founded in 2002 and has developed into a challenging and dynamic research institute of approximately 40 people. *STI Innsbruck* collaborates with an international network of institutes in Asia, Europe and the USA, as well as with global industrial partners. Our major objective is to establish Semantic technologies as a core pillar of modern Computer Science, thereby providing interoperability and scalability for Semantically Enabled Service Orientated Architectures. STI Innsbruck is currently seeking candidates for the position of a PhD student. We offer * A stimulating environment of a leading research group in the fields of Semantic Web, Semantic Web services, formal languages and reasoning * Excellent ties to research groups worldwide * Up-to-date infrastructure and resources, including funding for attending international conferences, PhD symposia, summer schools, etc. * Standardized international exchange programs such as BIT * Opportunity to work in nationally funded integrated research projects * Opportunity to take part in international research projects focusing on topics such as Web 2.0, service-oriented computing, formal languages and reasoning, ontologies and ontology engineering * Opportunity to work with internationally established academic and industrial partners * Multicultural working place with modern infrastructure and facilities We expect * A strong background in Computer Science or related disciplines * Willingness to work in an international environment * The ability to take part in large-scale international research projects * Willingness to combine formal scientific work with application-oriented research in order to solve real-world problems * Research interest and expertise in at least one of the areas: Formal languages and reasoning (Description Logics, Logic Programming), ontology languages, Semantic Web services, ontologies, business aspects of semantic systems. 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Applied to ontology engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance and ontology reasoning. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularisation and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a solid foundation and exciting prospects for further research and development. This special issue invites submission of high quality original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. Submissions must be formatted according to IOS Press style ( www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ) and should be prepared in PDF format. Contributions must be received not later than December 2010 through the EasyChair Submission System ( www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aowomo11 ). IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: December 2010 Notification (expected): March 2011 Revised Version: May 2011 Publication (expected): Fall 2011 GUEST EDITORS Oliver Kutz, Joana Hois (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) From lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org Wed Oct 27 15:42:10 2010 From: lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org (Lejla Ibralic Halilovic) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:42:10 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESWC 2011: Call for Research Papers Message-ID: <00e201cb75dc$c3475d00$49d61700$@ibralic-halilovic@sti2.org> *apologies for multiple posting* ESWC2011 - CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS ***************************************************** The 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011) 29th May - 2nd June 2011 Heraklion, Greece http://www.eswc2011.org ***************************************************** *About ESWC2011* The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of semantic technologies. Following a successful re-launch in 2010 as a multi-track conference, ESWC 2011 builds on the success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series, and seeks to extend its focus by collaborating with other communities and research areas, in which Web semantics play an important role, within and outside ICT, and in a truly international, not just ?European? context. The semantics of content, enriched with domain ontologies, data about systems? usage, natural language processing, and many other aspects, will enable a qualitatively new level of functionality on the Internet, or in any other application environment relying thereupon. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge, and make this knowledge machine-processable. A variety of automated services, based on reasoning over metadata and ontologies, will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge-based functionality will ultimately lead to truly intelligent behavior, which will be employed for a variety of complex decision-making tasks. Research on semantic technologies can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas, including Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science. These complementarities are reflected in the outline of the technical program of the ESWC 2011; in addition to the research and in-use tracks, we have furthermore introduced two special tracks this year, putting particular emphasis on inter-disciplinary research topics and areas that show the potential of exciting synergies for the future. In 2011, these special tracks focus on data-driven, inductive and probabilistic approaches to managing content, and on Digital Libraries, respectively. The calls for the technical program, in particular the topics promoted by each track, can be found on the conference Web site at: http://test.eswc2011.org/content/cfp Below we list the twelve tracks of the ESWC 2011 and the associated track chairs. ?Research tracks: - Social Web and Web Science (Chairs: Alexandre Passant, DERI, IE; Denny Vrandecic, KIT, DE) - Ontologies (Chairs: Matthieu d?Aquin, The Open University, UK; Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, DE) - Reasoning (Chairs: Emanuele della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, IT; Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, US) - Semantic Data Management (Chairs: Vassilis Christophides, FORTH ICS, GR; Axel Polleres, DERI, IE) - Linked Open Data (Chairs: Mariano Consens, University of Toronto, CA; Paul Groth, Free University of Amsterdam, NL; Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig, DE) - Software, Services, Processes and Cloud Computing (Chairs: Barry Norton, KIT, DE; Michael Stollberg, SAP Research, DE) - Natural Language Processing (Chairs: Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, DE; Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, SL) - Sensor Web (Chairs: Harith Alani, Knowledge Media Institute, OU, UK; Luca Mottola, Swedish Insitute of Computer Science, SE) - Mobile Web (Chairs: Ora Lassila, Nokia, FI; Alessandra Toninelli, INRIA, FR) ?In-use track: - Semantic Web In-Use (Chairs: Daniel Olmedilla, Telefonica I+D, ES; Pavel Shvaiko, TasLab- Informatica Trentina S.p.A., IT) ?Special tracks 2011: - Inductive and probabilistic approaches (Chairs: Rayid Ghani, Accenture, US; Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University, PL) - Digital Libraries (Chairs: Martin Doerr, FORTH ICS, GR; Carlo Meghini, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, IT; Allen Renear, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, US) ESWC 2011 will present the latest results in research and applications in its field. Besides the technical program organized over twelve tracks, the conference will feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters exhibition, a doctoral symposium, and a number of collocated workshops. The individual calls for these events can be found on the conference Web site at: http://www.eswc2011.org/ *Important Dates* - Abstract submission: December 6, 2010 (compulsory) - Full-paper submission: December 13, 2010 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) - Notification: February 21, 2011 - Submission of camera-ready version of accepted papers: March 7, 2011 *Submission Details* The proceedings of the conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing will be electronic, where each track will operate on its own conference management system instance. For all tracks, papers must not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted as PDF (Adobe's Portable Document 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 might 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 in order for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Each paper must be submitted to the most appropriate of the twelve research tracks. The program committee might decide to forward a paper to another track if it better fits the topics there. ***************************************************** For more detailed information, please visit the conference website: http://www.eswc2011.org ESWC2011 brought to you by STI International (http://www.sti2.org) From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Thu Oct 28 18:46:42 2010 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:46:42 +0100 Subject: [DL] ANN: 8th Summer School on Ontology Eng. and the Semantic Web Message-ID: *** FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT *** THE 8TH SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (SSSW-2011) 10-16 July, 2011, Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain. http://sssw.org/2011 IMPORTANT DATES Registration opens: 10 January, 2011 Registration closes: 31 March 2011 Notification of acceptance: 29 April 2011 Deadline for payments: 20 May 2011 Summer school: 10-16 July 2011 INTRODUCTION We are pleased to announce the eight Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2011). The successful and groundbreaking SSSW series of summer schools started in 2003 and is now a well-established event within the research community and a role model for several other initiatives. Presented by leading researchers in the field, it 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 understanding and applying Semantic Technologies. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants. APPROACH >From the very beginning the school pioneered an innovative pedagogical approach, combining the practical with the theoretical, and adding teamwork and a competitive element to the mix. Specifically, tutorial/lecture material is augmented with hands-on practical workshops and we ensure that the sessions complement each other by linking them to a group project. Work on developing and presenting a project in cooperation with other participants serves as a means of consolidating the knowledge and skills gained from lectures and practical sessions. It also introduces an element of competition among teams, as prizes are awarded to the best projects at the end of the week. Participants will be provided with electronic versions of all course lectures and all necessary tools and environments for the hands-on sessions. PC access with all tools pre-installed will be available on site as well. SSSW 2011 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 to the school. To further facilitate communication and feedback all attendees will present a poster on their research. TOPICS Knowledge Representation Ontology Design Design Patterns Ontology Matching and Alignment Linked Open Data Web Science Semantic and Language Technologies for Knowledge Management Devices and Ubiquitous Computing Semantic Search Trust and Provenance E-commerce and E-business Personal Information Management Semantic Web Applications. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Enrico Motta (Director and Founder), e.motta at open.ac.uk Asun Gomez-Perez (Co-Director), asun at fi.upm.es Mathieu d'Aquin (Vice-Director), m.daquin at open.ac.uk Oscar Corcho (Vice-Director), ocorcho at fi.upm.es INVITED SPEAKERS (Provisional) Manfred Hauswirth (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland) Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US) Martin Hepp (Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen, Germany) Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research, Spain) Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) TUTORS Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University, UK) Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK) Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, UK) J?r?me Euzenat (INRIA and LIG, France) Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Asun Gomez-Perez (UPM, Spain) Tom Heath (Talis, UK) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Valentina Presutti (ISTC-CNR, Italy) HOW TO APPLY We welcome applicants from anywhere in the world. Normally, but not exclusively, applicants will be postgraduate students in relevant disciplines with some knowledge of semantic technologies. Some basic acquaintance with knowledge representation languages for the Semantic Web (RDF, OWL, etc.) is required. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2011. Accepted candidates are expected to arrive on Sunday, July 10th, between 3pm and 6pm and to participate fully in the activities of the school until its conclusion, at 2pm on Saturday, July 16th. Applicants should keep in mind that we will not consider applications from students who cannot commit themselves to a full participation for the whole duration of the school. Students are also required to bring and present a poster at the summer school, describing their own research. Apart from activities directly related to lectures, the summer school schedule is rightly famous for its unrivalled social programme, which enables informal interaction between all participants to the school - i.e., students, tutors, invited speakers, school staff, etc. These events include a gala dinner outside Cercedilla, walks in the mountain, discos, and sport activities. STUDENT GRANTS We expect to provide a number of grants for students who would not otherwise be able to attend the school. More details about student grants will be published at a later date. VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION Cercedilla is a small village in the mountains near Madrid. The school will be held in the Residence of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. The Residence has a range of facilities to make your stay more pleasant including en suite bathrooms and nearby activities like a swimming pool, bars and restaurants in the village. The nearest airport is Madrid-Barajas. Participants will be able to use local rail links from Madrid to Cercedilla. More information about how to reach Cercedilla can be found at http://sssw.org/2011/venue-details.php COST OF SUMMER SCHOOL INCLUDING ACCOMMODATION, MEALS AND EXCURSION: ?800. -- 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 universal.logic at ufc.br Wed Oct 20 12:59:44 2010 From: universal.logic at ufc.br (Universal Logic) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:59:44 -0200 (BRST) Subject: [DL] is logic universal? Message-ID: <61c61f99b307b46a38c52b4e441d9ee3.squirrel@correio1.ufc.br> A special issue of the journal Logica Universalis dedicated to the question "is logic universal?" has been released. http://www.springerlink.com/content/120443/?Content+Status=Accepted The authors have tried to answer the following questions: 1. Do all human beings have the same capacity of reasoning? Do men, women, children, Papuans, yuppies, reason in the same way? 2. Does reasoning evolve? Did human beings reason in the same way two centuries ago? In the future will human beings reason in the same way? Are computers changing our way of reasoning? Is a mathematical proof independent of time and culture? 3. Do we reason in different ways depending on the situation? Do we use the same logic for everyday life, in physics, and in questions to do with the economy? 4. Do the different systems of logic reflect the diversity of reasoning? 5. Is there any absolute true way of reasoning? >------------------ Jean-Yves Beziau Editor-in-Chief Logica Universalis - Journal http://www.birkhauser-science.com/LU Studies in Universal logic - Book Series http://www.springer.com/series/7391 World Congress and School on Universal Logic http://www.uni-log.org From nicolepierra85 at yahoo.com Thu Nov 4 17:46:35 2010 From: nicolepierra85 at yahoo.com (Nicole Pierra) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 09:46:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [DL] questions in containment role-value-map Message-ID: <486226.86264.qm@web57312.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Hello ? I have some questions regarding a concept that I am trying to construct and would be grateful for your help. ? The concept constructor is:? CC1 (R1, R2, R3)? (S1 S2 S3). This is a containment role-value-map. ? { x | for all y, if ? element of?(R1, R2, R3) then? element of (S1 S2 S3)?} ? My questions are: ? 1. If I maps R1 to set of empty elements, would that make the role chain (R1, R2, R3) empty? ? 2. If the first role chain (Rn) is mapped to an empty set, will my concept by empty as well???Or will my concept be equivalent to the?set of X which has in (S1 S2 S3)? ? ? Thanks in advance Nicole ? ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Thomas.Lukasiewicz at comlab.ox.ac.uk Thu Nov 4 15:50:35 2010 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:50:35 +0000 Subject: [DL] AAAI-11: Call for Tutorials Message-ID: <4CD2C83B.4020906@comlab.ox.ac.uk> /Call for Proposals/ *AAAI-11 Tutorial Forum* Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 7-11, 2011 * San Francisco, California, USA http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2011/aaai11tutorialcall.pdf /Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence/ The AAAI-11 Program Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Forum of the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11). The Tutorial Forum will be held August 7-8, 2011 in San Francisco. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial at AAAI-11 should submit a proposal to the 2011 Tutorial Forum Cochairs (listed below) via EasyChair. * * *What Is the Tutorial Forum?* The Tutorial Forum provides an opportunity for junior and senior researchers to spend two days each year freely exploring exciting advances in disciplines outside their normal focus. We believe this type of forum is essential for the cross fertilization, cohesiveness, and vitality of the AI field. We all have a lot to learn from each other; the Tutorial Forum promotes the continuing education of each member of the AAAI. To encourage full participation by technical conference registrants, no separate fee will be charged for admittance to the Tutorial Forum in 2011. * * *Topics* AAAI is interested in proposals for advanced tutorials at the leading edge of AI. We are particularly interested in tutorials that offer two types of knowledge. The first type provides in-depth background tools to help educate researchers and students for the purpose of conducting AI research; examples of this type of tutorials from AAAI-10 include "Sampling Techniques for Probabilistic and Deterministic Graphical Models," "Voting Theory," and "Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for MDPs." A second type of tutorial provides a broad overview for an AI area that potentially crosses boundaries with an interesting application area; examples of this type of tutorial from AAAI-10 include "Exploiting Statistical and Relational Information on the Web and in Social Media: Applications, Techniques, and New Frontiers," "Towards Intelligent Web Search: Inferring Searcher Intent," and "Machine Learning Meets Knowledge Representation in the Semantic Web." Our goal is to present a diverse program that includes core areas of AI, new techniques from allied disciplines that can inform research within AI, and conversely emerging applications of AI techniques to new areas. Previous years' tutorial programs provide an indication of the scope and variety of possible topics. The list is not exclusive; indeed, we are expressly interested in topics that we would not have imagined to mention. Finally, note that we very much welcome proposals for educational approaches that go beyond the traditional format of four-hour tutorials, exploiting the flexibility that the open format program offers. * * *Submission Requirements* We need two kinds of information in the proposals: information that will be used for selecting proposals and information that will appear in the tutorial description brochure. The proposal should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality of the technical content being taught, the quality of the educational material being used, and the speakers' skill at presenting this material. Each proposal should include at least the following: /Goal of the tutorial:/ Who is the target audience? What will the audience walk away with? What makes the topic innovative? /History:/ List of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an estimate of the audience size. /Content:/ Detailed outline and list of additional materials, augmented with samples, such as past tutorial slides and survey articles, whenever possible. Be as complete as possible. /Tutorial description:/ A short paragraph summarizing the tutorial outline, and the intended duration of the symposium (default is four hours). /Prerequisite knowledge:/ What knowledge is assumed of the target audience. Please also submit the following information about the team of presenters: name, mailing address, phone number, email address; background in the tutorial area, including a list of publications and/or presentations; any available examples of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article or presentation materials on the subject); evidence of teaching experience (courses taught or references); and evidence of scholarship in AI or computer science. *Submission Deadline* Proposals must be received by December 3, 2010. Decisions about the tutorial program will be made by January 14, 2011. Speakers should be prepared to submit their tutorial descriptions and bios by January 28, 2011, and to post completed course materials on their websites by July 1, 2011. Submissions must be in pdf format and made via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaai2011tutorialforum. *Tutorial Cochairs* Thomas Lukasiewicz Oxford University Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building, Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QD, UK 0044-1865-522566 0044-1865-273839 (fax) Thomas.Lukasiewicz at comlab.ox.ac.uk Patrick Pantel Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 ppantel at microsoft.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From claudia.damato at di.uniba.it Mon Nov 22 18:41:06 2010 From: claudia.damato at di.uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:41:06 +0100 Subject: [DL] Deadline Extension: New Book on Collaboration and the Semantic Web Message-ID: <4CEAAB32.3050905@di.uniba.it> Call for Chapter Proposals ?Collaboration and the Semantic Web: Social Networks, Knowledge Networks and Knowledge Resources? An Edited Book on Collaboration and the Semantic Web By Stefan Br?ggemann, OFFIS, Germany and Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy Proposal Submission Deadline: December 28, 2010 Web Site: http://redir.ec/CollSemWeb Overview Social media and the semantic web only co-existed in the past, but when these developments became massively popular, they began to have an influence on collaborative working. Learners and online workers now have a variety of knowledge resources at hand. Integrated semantic applications, linked data, social networks, and networked digital solutions can now be used in collaborative learning environments and present participants with the context-aware information that they need. Semantic technologies have shown their potential for integrating valuable knowledge bases and information systems, and they are being applied to the composition of digital learning and working platforms. These semantic technologies not only have potential for solving the semantic heterogeneity of knowledge resources, trust, and accountability, but also provide solutions for contemporary data quality management cycles, which are necessary to ensure the high-quality integration of shared knowledge resources. Objectives The primary goal of the book is to showcase cutting edge research on the intersection of Semantic Web, Collaborative Work, and Social Media. For example: ? How can richly structured Semantic Web data and existing semantic web technologies together build next-generation systems for collaborative work? ? How could knowledge management techniques contribute to the full realization of integrated semantic applications? ? What are the challenges for developers of social systems with integrated semantic web data? Audience The book addresses researchers and practitioners in the fields of semantic web, knowledge management, data integration, and data quality management by summarizing recent research results. Developer of systems in the area of semantic web, knowledge management, and data integration are addressed as well and will get an overview on semantic web, knowledge management, and collaboration. Topics The topics of interest of the book include, but are not limited to: Social Media ? Collaborative work ? Semantic applications ? Semantic technologies ? Digital solutions ? Networked applications ? Networked knowledge ? Data quality Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies ? Trust and provenance ? Semantic heterogeneity: querying and management ? Reasoning methods for handling semantic knowledge ? Knowledge management ? Knowledge discovery and linked data ? Discovering hidden knowledge from linked data ? Learning ontologies from linked data Applications Challenges in practical applications of semantic technologies on ? Social systems ? Collaborative working environments ? Health informatics ? Life sciences ? Semantic multimedia ? Information systems ? Data quality ? and others Submission Process Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 1, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 1, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 1, 2011. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Dates Proposal Submission Deadline: December 28, 2010 Full chapter Submission: March 1, 2011 Notification: May 15, 2011 Revised Chapter Submission: June 15, 2011 Final Acceptance Notifications: June 30, 2011 Submission of Final Chapters: July 15, 2011 Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global in early 2012. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: claudia_damato.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 346 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jaeschke at cs.uni-kassel.de Mon Nov 8 17:44:38 2010 From: jaeschke at cs.uni-kassel.de (=?UTF-8?B?Um9iZXJ0IErDpHNjaGtl?=) Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:44:38 -0000 Subject: [DL] 2nd Call for Papers: 9th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2011) Message-ID: <4CD828E1.6060701@cs.uni-kassel.de> We apologize for possible cross-postings. Please, forward this message to anyone who might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ICFCA 2011 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------- 9th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2011) May 2 - 6, 2011, Nicosia, Cyprus http://www.unic.ac.cy/icfca2011/ Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc. Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? FCA theory ? Lattice Theory ? Lattice Drawing ? Philosophical Foundations ? FCA and Logic ? Conceptual Knowledge ? Concept Graphs ? Data Analysis ? FCA and Data Mining ? Association Rules and Pattern Mining ? Analysis of Social Networks ? Data Mining on Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web ? Algorithms and Complexity Theory ? FCA and Software Engineering SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite 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. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by December 8, 2010. The submission is to be done via the conference EasyChair account at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca2011. 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, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. IMPORTANT DATES submission of abstracts: December 8, 2010 submission of full papers: December 15, 2010 notification of acceptance: February 6, 2011 camera ready copies due: February 21, 2011 ORGANIZATION The conference will be hosted by the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Further information is available at http://www.unic.ac.cy/icfca2011/. Conference Chair: ? Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Program Chairs: ? Robert J?schke, Universit?t Kassel, Germany ? Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Quebec ? Montreal, Canada Editorial Board: ? Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia ? Sebastien Ferr?, Universit? de Rennes 1, France ? 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 ? Leonard Kwuida, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland ? 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 ? Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany ? Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany ? Baris Sertkaya, SAP Research Center, Dresden, Germany ? Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany ? Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany ? Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany Program Committee: (to be confirmed) ? Mike Bain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia ? Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain ? Peter Becker, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia ? Radim Belohlavek, Binghamton University - State University of New York, USA ? Sadok Ben Yahia, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia ? Jean-Fran?ois Boulicaut, INSA Lyon, France ? Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy ? Frithjof Dau, SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany ? Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Universit? Paris 6, France ? Alain G?ly, Universit? Paul Verlaine, Metz, France ? Joachim Hereth, DMC GmbH, Germany ? Wolfgang Hesse, Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany ? Tim B. Kaiser, SAP AG, Germany ? Derrick G. Kourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa ? Markus Kr?tzsch, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany ? Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland ? L?onard Kwuida, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland ? Wilfried Lex, Universit?t Clausthal, Germany ? Lotfi Lakhal, Aix-Marseille Universit?, France ? Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont Ferrand 2, 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 ? J?rg Schmid, Universit?t Bern, Switzerland ? Andreja Tepav?evi?, University of Novi Sad, Serbia ? Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada ? Vilem Vychodil, Binghamton University - State University of New York, USA Organization Committee: (to be completed) ? Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus From joana at informatik.uni-bremen.de Wed Nov 24 23:12:10 2010 From: joana at informatik.uni-bremen.de (Joana Hois) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:12:10 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP: Applied Ontology Special Issue on Modularity in Ontologies Message-ID: <1290636731.1763.163.camel@name> ========================================================= --- Applied Ontology --- --- Special Issue on Modularity in Ontologies --- --- Call for Papers --- Abstract Submission deadline: 31 December 2010 Paper Submission deadline: 31 January 2011 http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womoAO/ ========================================================= Applied Ontology - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling IOS Press, ISSN: 1570-5838 Editors-in-Chief: Nicola Guarino, Mark A. Musen MODULARITY, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalisation, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance and ontology reasoning. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularisation and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a solid foundation and exciting prospects for further research and development. This special issue invites submission of high quality original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. Submissions must be formatted according to IOS Press style ( www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ) and should be prepared in PDF format. Contributions must be received not later than December 2010 through the EasyChair Submission System ( www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aowomo11 ). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: till 31st December 2010 Paper Submission: closes 31st January 2011 Notification (expected): March/April 2011 Revised Version due: June 2011 Publication (expected): Fall 2011 GUEST EDITORS Oliver Kutz, Joana Hois (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue Oct 19 20:18:06 2010 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:18:06 -0000 Subject: [DL] [ESWC-2011] IN-USE track CFP Message-ID: <466689983DC04637B4137AFA592E9964@ITN96946> Apologies for cross-postings --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), IN-USE TRACK http://www.eswc2011.org/ May 29 - June 2, 2011, Heraklion, Greece The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of semantic technologies. ESWC 2011 builds on the success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series (http://www.eswc2010.org/), and seeks to extend its focus by collaborating with other communities and research areas, in which Web semantics play an important role, within and outside ICT. IN-USE TRACK DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Bringing the research results down to exploitation by the final users as well as demonstrating the beneficial use of these results in real world settings is a major challenge. Semantic technologies are among transversal enabling technologies, and, hence, can be applied in various domains, ranging from eGovernment to manufacturing. The Semantic Web in Use track is particularly devoted to showcase implemented applications, learned best practices as well as assessments and evaluations of semantic technologies in real world settings. Submissions to this track should substantially contribute to the knowledge transfer from research labs into mainstream adoption. Special interest for this year's ESWC in Use track includes linking open (e.g., government) data, sentiment analysis (e.g., over social networks and blogs) and scalable show cases (e.g., scenarios with large volumes of data and/or near real-time response requirements). TOPICS of INTEREST In this track we invite original submissions conforming to generally accepted practices for scientific papers covering (but not limited to) one or more of the following topics: - Description of the concrete problems in specific application domains, for which the semantic technologies can provide a solution. - Description of an implemented application of the semantic technologies in a specific domain. - Assessment of the pros and cons of using the semantic technologies to solve a particular business problem or other practical problems in a specific domain. - Comparison with alternative or competing approaches using conventional or competing technologies. - Assessment of the costs and benefits of the application of the semantic technologies, e.g., time spent on implementation and deployment, efforts involved, final user acceptance, returns on investment. - Evidence of deployment of the application, and assessment/evaluation of usage/uptake. - Application of the semantic technologies to problems where their scalability to large amounts of data and/or short response times are demonstrated. - Domains of interest include, but are not limited to: enterprise applications, eGovernment, eParticipation, eEnvironment, eMobility and Smart cities, eHealth, eInclusion, life sciences, media and entertainment, telecommunications, cultural heritage, financial services, energy and utilities, manufacturing. SUBMISSIONS The proceedings of the conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing will be electronic. Papers must not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Papers must be submitted as PDF (Adobe's Portable Document 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. The contributions to the in-Use track hould be submitted through the track submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2011inuse IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: Dec. 6, 2010 (compulsory) Full paper submission: Dec. 13,2010 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notifications sent out: Feb. 21,2011 Final versions due: March 7,2011 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Harith Alani George Anadiotis Giuseppe Angelini S?ren Auer Stefano Bertolo Olivier Bodenreider Paolo Bouquet Fran?ois Bry Pablo Castells John Davies Mike Dean Lee Feigenbaum Aldo Gangemi Fausto Giunchiglia John Goodwin Peter Haase Bin He Tom Heath Nicola Henze Ivan Herman Geert-Jan Houben Eero Hyv?nen Renato Iannella Antoine Isaac Alexander Ivanyukovich Krzysztof Janowicz Yannis Kalfoglou Birgitta K?nig-Ries Rub?n Lara Nico Lavarini Alain Leger Maurizio Lenzerini Bernardo Magnini Vincenzo Maltese Massimo Marchiori Peter Mika Luca Mion Andriy Nikolov Lyndon Nixon Leo Obrst Massimo Paolucci Yefei Peng Erhard Rahm Yves Raimond Sebastian Schaffert Hannes Schwetz Kavitha Srinivas Andrei Tamilin Klaus-Dieter Thoben Andraz Tori Tania Tudorache Lorenzino Vaccari Yannis Velegrakis Michael Witbrock Baoshi Yan Ilya Zaihrayeu Songmao Zhang Best Regards, Pavel Shvaiko & Daniel Olmedilla (ESWC 2011 *Semantic Web in-Use* track co-chairs) --------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, Ph.D. Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab - Informatica Trentina S.p.A. 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URL: From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Tue Nov 16 17:07:44 2010 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:07:44 -0300 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2011, Philadelphia, May 18-21, 2011 - Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *WoLLIC 2011 18th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation * *May 18th to 21st, 2011 * *University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA* *Scientific Sponsorship* *Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL )* *The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI )* *Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL )* *European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS )* *Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC )* *Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL )* *Organisation* *Department of Mathematics , University of Pennsylvania , USA Centro de Inform?tica , Universidade Federal de Pernambuco , Brazil * ------------------------------ Call for PapersWoLLIC 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 eighteenth WoLLIC will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, from May 18th to 21st, 2011. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (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 the WoLLIC 2010 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2011/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by January 1, and the full paper by January 8 (firm date). Notifications are expected by February 21, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by March 1 (firm date). *Proceedings* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2011, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. 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 2011 issue of a scientific journal (soon to be confirmed). *Invited Speakers* *Rajeev Alur *(Philadelphia) *Rosalie Iemhoff * (Utrecht) *John Mitchell * (Stanford) *Vladimir Voevodsky * (Princeton) *Yoad Winter * (Utrecht) *Student Grants* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2011 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: February 18, 2011). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *Important Dates* January 1, 2011: Paper title and abstract deadline January 8, 2011: Full paper deadline (firm) February 21, 2011: Author notification March 1, 2011: Final version deadline (firm) *Programme Committee* Sergei Artemov (New York) Jeremy Avigad (Pittsburgh) Arnold Beckman (Swansea) Lev Beklemishev (Moscow) (CHAIR) Alessandro Berarducci (Pisa) Andreas Blass (Ann Arbor) (tbc) Sam Buss (San Diego) Achim Jung (Birmingham) Benedikt L?we (Amsterdam) Janos Makowsky (Haifa) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Vincent van Oostrom (Utrecht) Prakash Panangaden (Montr?al) Rohit Parikh (New York) Ruy de Queiroz (Recife) Alexander Shen (Marseilles and Moscow) Bas Spitters (Nijmegen) Helmut Veith (Wien) Yde Venema (Amsterdam) Scott Weinstein (Philadelphia) Frank Wolter (Liverpool) *Steering Committee* Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. *Organising Committee* Vivek Nigam (U Penn) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) Andre Scedrov (U Penn) (co-chair) *Further information* Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. *Web page* http://wollic.org/wollic2011/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Applied to ontology engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance and ontology reasoning. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a foundation for ongoing multi-disciplinary research and development. The workshop follows a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest work and current problems, and is this time organised as a satellite workshop of ESSLLI 2011 (week 2, see http://esslli2011.ijs.si/?p=306 ), following an introductory ESSLLI course on notions of modularity in ontologies (week 1, see http://esslli2011.ijs.si/?p=310 ). TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is Modularity: Kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/Foundational Studies: Conservativity and syntactic approximations for modules; modular ontology languages; reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; networks of ontologies; heterogeneity; - Algorithmic Approaches: distributed reasoning; modularization and module extraction; (selective) sharing and re-using, linking and importing; hiding and privacy; evaluation of modularization approaches; complexity of reasoning; reasoners or implemented systems; - Applications: Semantic Web; life sciences; bio-ontologies; natural language processing; ontologies of space and time; ambient intelligence; collaborative ontology development; etc. The workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community. 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. IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative) Paper Submission: February 15, 2011 Notification: April 15, 2011 Camera ready: June 1, 2011 Workshop: August 8-12, 2011 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The workshop welcomes submission of high quality original and previously unpublished papers. Contributions should not exceed 13 pages in length and must be formatted according to IOS Press style (see http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ). Contributions should be prepared in PDF format and submitted not later than February 15, 2011, through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2011 ). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee (TBA). Accepted papers may be extended up to 16 pages and are expected to be published as chapters in an IOS Press book in the series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'. (Find the WoMO 2010 proceedings here http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=16268 ) WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Oliver Kutz (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) Thomas Schneider (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany) PROGRAM COMMITTEE and INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA From ulle.endriss at uva.nl Mon Nov 8 21:14:53 2010 From: ulle.endriss at uva.nl (Ulle Endriss) Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:14:53 -0000 Subject: [DL] MSc Logic at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam Message-ID: <4CD85A29.2000707@uva.nl> [Apologies if you receive this more than once. Please forward to potentially interested students and appropriate mailing lists.] ************************************************************************* The MSc Logic Programme at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam URL: http://www.illc.uva.nl/MScLogic/ ************************************************************************* The MSc Logic, offered by the the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, is a two-year Master's programme providing intensive interdisciplinary research training for excellent students with a first degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics, or a related discipline. *Courses*: We offer a unique combination of over 40 courses in Mathematical Logic, Theoretical Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Formal Semantics and Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Mathematical Economics. You will be guided by an academic mentor to design your own personal programme of study out of this pool of courses, supplemented with a number of small individual research projects. The final semester is devoted to the writing of a Master's thesis, which in the past has often lead to scholarly publications. *Language*: All courses are taught in English. At any given time, the programme hosts students from at least 25 different countries. *Career opportunities*: Most of our graduates embark on an academic career and continue with a PhD, often at top universities all over the world. Other career opportunities include the software industry and management consulting. *Application*: The application deadlines for September 2011 entry are 1 April 2011 for students from European countries and 1 February 2011 for all others (earlier deadlines may apply for certain funding schemes). Please visit http://www.illc.uva.nl/MScLogic/ to find out more. You can download a poster at http://www.illc.uva.nl/MScLogic/poster.pdf. ************************************************************************* -- Ulle Endriss http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/ Institute for Logic, Language & Computation (ILLC) University of Amsterdam Tel: +31 (0)20 525 6511 Postbus 94242 Fax: +31 (0)20 525 5206 1090 GE Amsterdam (NL) Email: u.endriss at uva.nl From universal.logic at ufc.br Wed Nov 24 11:42:38 2010 From: universal.logic at ufc.br (Universal Logic) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:42:38 -0200 (BRST) Subject: [DL] free access to logica universalis / papers of interes] Message-ID: <8b8d9eb23cf21319dd936cec83ce82a5.squirrel@correio3.ufc.br> Free access to all papers published in Logica Universalis is avalaible up to November 30: http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/mathematics/journal/11787 Last issue of the journal is on the topic "is logic universal?" In the next future there will be special issues of the journal on the following topics: - Visual reasoning with diagrams - Multimodal logics - Categorical logics - Hexagon of opposition Subscription to the print version (hard copy) of the journal is avalaible at a very good price for individuals (38 euros per year including postage and handling). Among many interesting papers published since the start of the journal - freely downloadable up to November 30 - you can find: A New Modal Lindstroom Theorem Johan van Benthem http://www.springerlink.com/content/t26u1781q78508x2/ Generalized Definitional Reflection and the Inversion Principle Peter Schroeder-Heister http://www.springerlink.com/content/e543v66615054247/ Structuralist Logic: Implications, Inferences, and Consequences Arnold Koslow http://www.springerlink.com/content/b7115xg144h521g1/ Things That are Right with the Traditional Square of Opposition Terence Parsons http://www.springerlink.com/content/813595g60860521g/ Applications of Squares of Oppositions and Their Generalizations in Philosophical Analysis Jan Wolenski http://www.springerlink.com/content/g7063211k0543g72/ Russell and His Sources for Non-Classical Logics Irving H. Anellis http://www.springerlink.com/content/u1u6432708318164/ The Concept of Relevance and the Logic Diagram Tradition Jan Dejnozka http://www.springerlink.com/content/502120568051v101/ What is a Logic Translation? Till Mossakowski, Razvan Diaconescu and Andrzej Tarlecki http://www.springerlink.com/content/k768u15734x5l230/ Symmetric Generalized Galois Logics Katalin Bimb? and J. Michael Dunn http://www.springerlink.com/content/4t680856130n006l/ >------------------ Jean-Yves Beziau Editor-in-Chief Logica Universalis http://www.logica-universalis.org From franconi at inf.unibz.it Thu Nov 25 16:31:34 2010 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:31:34 +0100 Subject: [DL] From DL to FOL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <83A4A221-DFA2-4A56-874A-DAA0ED17575D@inf.unibz.it> On 21 Nov 2010, at 20:16, Rodolfo Rieckhof wrote: > Hello, > I am new to this so this question maybe fairly trivial. I want to transform the DL Formulas that represent Domain and Range in Fist order Logic. What i have: > The two DL sentences > isManufacteredBy.T Product (Domain) > T isManufacteredBy.Manufaterer (Range) > > In FOL ? > x( y. isManufacteredBy(x,y) -> Product (x)) (Domain) > x ( T -> y( isManufacteredBy(x,y) Manufacterer(y) ) ) (Range) > > I am not really sure about the transformation in FOL beacause i dont know how to translate the T to FOL. Could any tell me how this should be done. the \top class contains all possible objects in the universe, so you can neglect it in the context of a universal quantification. \forall x( \exists y. isManufacteredBy(x,y) -> Product (x)) (Domain) \forall x ( \forall y ( isManufacteredBy(x,y) -> Manufacterer(y) ) ) (Range) --e. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As such we welcome proposals that cover any topic which related to the Semantic Web which of interest. ***************************************************** Proposals should have the following structure: - Proposer's Name: - Proposer's host institution: - Panel Title: - Panel Topic: <1-2 paragraphs> - Why the Panel will be of interest for the audience: <1-2 paragraphs> - Panelists: Name: Short Bio: <1-paragraph> Confirmed: ***************************************************** The deadline for proposals is January 17th 2011. ***************************************************** Please send your proposal either as plain text or as a PDF to the Panel Co-Chairs: John Domingue: j.b.domingue at open.ac.uk Asun Gomez-Perez: asun at fi.upm.es ***************************************************** ESWC2010 brought to you by STI International From Thomas.Lukasiewicz at comlab.ox.ac.uk Thu Dec 2 02:02:00 2010 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:02:00 +0000 Subject: [DL] AAAI-11: Final Call for Tutorials Message-ID: <4CF6F008.5040100@comlab.ox.ac.uk> /Call for Proposals/ *AAAI-11 Tutorial Forum* Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 7-11, 2011 * San Francisco, California, USA http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2011/aaai11tutorialcall.pdf /Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence/ The AAAI-11 Program Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Forum of the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11). The Tutorial Forum will be held August 7-8, 2011 in San Francisco. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial at AAAI-11 should submit a proposal to the 2011 Tutorial Forum Cochairs (listed below) via EasyChair. * * *What Is the Tutorial Forum?* The Tutorial Forum provides an opportunity for junior and senior researchers to spend two days each year freely exploring exciting advances in disciplines outside their normal focus. We believe this type of forum is essential for the cross fertilization, cohesiveness, and vitality of the AI field. We all have a lot to learn from each other; the Tutorial Forum promotes the continuing education of each member of the AAAI. To encourage full participation by technical conference registrants, no separate fee will be charged for admittance to the Tutorial Forum in 2011. * * *Topics* AAAI is interested in proposals for advanced tutorials at the leading edge of AI. We are particularly interested in tutorials that offer two types of knowledge. The first type provides in-depth background tools to help educate researchers and students for the purpose of conducting AI research; examples of this type of tutorials from AAAI-10 include "Sampling Techniques for Probabilistic and Deterministic Graphical Models," "Voting Theory," and "Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for MDPs." A second type of tutorial provides a broad overview for an AI area that potentially crosses boundaries with an interesting application area; examples of this type of tutorial from AAAI-10 include "Exploiting Statistical and Relational Information on the Web and in Social Media: Applications, Techniques, and New Frontiers," "Towards Intelligent Web Search: Inferring Searcher Intent," and "Machine Learning Meets Knowledge Representation in the Semantic Web." Our goal is to present a diverse program that includes core areas of AI, new techniques from allied disciplines that can inform research within AI, and conversely emerging applications of AI techniques to new areas. Previous years' tutorial programs provide an indication of the scope and variety of possible topics. The list is not exclusive; indeed, we are expressly interested in topics that we would not have imagined to mention. Finally, note that we very much welcome proposals for educational approaches that go beyond the traditional format of four-hour tutorials, exploiting the flexibility that the open format program offers. * * *Submission Requirements* We need two kinds of information in the proposals: information that will be used for selecting proposals and information that will appear in the tutorial description brochure. The proposal should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality of the technical content being taught, the quality of the educational material being used, and the speakers' skill at presenting this material. Each proposal should include at least the following: /Goal of the tutorial:/ Who is the target audience? What will the audience walk away with? What makes the topic innovative? /History:/ List of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an estimate of the audience size. /Content:/ Detailed outline and list of additional materials, augmented with samples, such as past tutorial slides and survey articles, whenever possible. Be as complete as possible. /Tutorial description:/ A short paragraph summarizing the tutorial outline, and the intended duration of the symposium (default is four hours). /Prerequisite knowledge:/ What knowledge is assumed of the target audience. Please also submit the following information about the team of presenters: name, mailing address, phone number, email address; background in the tutorial area, including a list of publications and/or presentations; any available examples of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article or presentation materials on the subject); evidence of teaching experience (courses taught or references); and evidence of scholarship in AI or computer science. *Submission Deadline* Proposals must be received by December 3, 2010. Decisions about the tutorial program will be made by January 14, 2011. Speakers should be prepared to submit their tutorial descriptions and bios by January 28, 2011, and to post completed course materials on their websites by July 1, 2011. 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Topics of interest range from theoretical foundations to high-performance implementations in a wide variety of logics and logical theories, with applications in areas like - verification, testing and synthesis: program analysis and verification, hardware verification, systematic software and hardware testing, synthesis. - (computer-aided) mathematics, - natural language processing, computational linguistics, - knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, - functional and logic programming, - robotics, planning, and other areas of AI. Workshop and tutorial proposals for CADE-23 are solicited. Both well-established workshops and newer 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 this. 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. 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URL: From jaeschke at cs.uni-kassel.de Mon Dec 6 16:42:34 2010 From: jaeschke at cs.uni-kassel.de (=?UTF-8?B?Um9iZXJ0IErDpHNjaGtl?=) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:42:34 +0100 Subject: [DL] Final Call for Papers: 9th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2011) Message-ID: <4CFD046A.2090300@cs.uni-kassel.de> We apologize for possible cross-postings. Please, forward this message to anyone who might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ICFCA 2011 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------- 9th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2011) May 2 - 6, 2011, Nicosia, Cyprus http://www.unic.ac.cy/icfca2011/ Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc. Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * FCA theory * Lattice Theory * Lattice Drawing * Philosophical Foundations * FCA and Logic * Conceptual Knowledge * Concept Graphs * Data Analysis * FCA and Data Mining * Association Rules and Pattern Mining * Analysis of Social Networks * Data Mining on Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web * Algorithms and Complexity Theory * FCA and Software Engineering Submission Details We invite 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. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by December 8, 2010. The submission is to be done via the conference EasyChair account at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca2011. Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference, therefore at least one author per paper has to register timely. All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. Important Dates submission of abstracts: December 8, 2010 submission of full papers: December 15, 2010 notification of acceptance: February 6, 2011 camera ready copies due: February 21, 2011 Organization The conference will be hosted by the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Further information is available at http://www.unic.ac.cy/icfca2011/. Conference Chair: * Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Program Chairs: * Robert J?schke, Universit?t Kassel, Germany * Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Quebec ? Montreal (UQAM), Canada Editorial Board: * Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia * Sebastien Ferr?, Universit? de Rennes 1, France * 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 * Leonard Kwuida, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland * 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 * Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany * Baris Sertkaya, SAP Research Center, Dresden, Germany * Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany * Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany * Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany Program Committee: (to be confirmed) * Mike Bain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia * Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain * Peter Becker, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia * Radim Belohlavek, Binghamton University - State University of New York, USA * Sadok Ben Yahia, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia * Jean-Fran?ois Boulicaut, INSA Lyon, France * Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy * Nathalie Caspard, LACL, Universit? Paris 12, France * Stephan Doerfel, KDE Group, University of Kassel, Germany * Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Universit? Paris 6, France * Alain G?ly, Universit? Paul Verlaine, Metz, France * Joachim Hereth, DMC GmbH, Germany * Wolfgang Hesse, Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany * Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, Universit? Montpellier, France * Tim B. Kaiser, SAP AG, Germany * Derrick G. Kourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa * Markus Kr?tzsch, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany * Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland * Wilfried Lex, Universit?t Clausthal, Germany * Lotfi Lakhal, Aix-Marseille Universit?, France * Bruno Leclerc, CAMS-EHESS, Paris, France * Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont Ferrand 2, France * Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, 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 * Mohamed Rouane-Hacene, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada * J?rg Schmid, Universit?t Bern, Switzerland * Andreja Tepav?evi?, University of Novi Sad, Serbia * Vilem Vychodil, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Organization Committee: * George Chailos, University of Nicosia, Cyprus * Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus * Nectarios Papanicolaou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus * George Portides, University of Nicosia, Cyprus * Andreas Savva, University of Nicosia, Cyprus -- Robert J?schke Tel: +49-(0)561-804-6253 Universit?t Kassel E-Mail: jaeschke at cs.uni-kassel.de Wilhelmsh?her Allee 73 WWW: http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de 34121 Kassel PGP: 0xEF852A03 <>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.bibsonomy.org/ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<> From Bertram.Fronhoefer at inf.tu-dresden.de Fri Nov 26 10:26:30 2010 From: Bertram.Fronhoefer at inf.tu-dresden.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bertram_Fronh=F6fer?=) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:26:30 +0100 Subject: [DL] Master Course Computational Logic Message-ID: <1A11E341-F08A-4F89-8DE2-969522B4547C@inf.tu-dresden.de> Dear recipient of this mail, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that fresh Erasmus Mundus scholarships are available for Non-European AND European students who intend to enroll in our European Master's Program in Computational Logic in the fall of 2011. The deadline for application is 31 January, 2011. More details are given below. In particular, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that we are able to provide grants to EU-students for doing their project at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). Please spread this information as wide as possible among friends and colleagues, at your old universities and the places, where you currently live and work. Many thanks -- Bertram Fronh?fer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The European Master's Program in Computational Logic We are glad to announce to you the possibility to join our European Master's Program of Computational Logic. This program is offered jointly at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the Technische Universit?t Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal and the Technische Universit?t Wien in Austria. Within this program you have the choice to study at two /three of the four European universities. In addition you can do your project work at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will graduate with a MSc in Computer Science and obtain a double/multiple degree. Information on the universities and the program including the application form are provided here: http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year. In addition, we would like to draw your attention to the ERASMUS-MUNDUS scholarship program. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers 2-year scholarships up to 48.000 EUR for non-EU students and up to 23.000 EUR for EU students of our European Master's Program in Computational Logic. More information on the application procedure is available from: http://www.emcl-study.eu/application.html Do not hesitate to contact us again if you have any further questions. Kind regards -- Steffen H?lldobler Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universit?t Dresden 01062 Dresden, Germany phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40 fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42 email: sh at iccl.tu-dresden.de From lobrst at mitre.org Tue Nov 30 19:05:28 2010 From: lobrst at mitre.org (Obrst, Leo J.) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:05:28 -0500 Subject: [DL] Announcement: First IAOA Summer Institute in Applied Ontology, Tuscany, Italy, July 17-23, 2011 Message-ID: <0111C34BD897FD41841D60396F2AD3D304DE6C82D8@IMCMBX2.MITRE.ORG> =============================================== First IAOA Summer Institute in Applied Ontology Firenze, Italy July 17-23, 2011 Topic: Process Ontology and its Applications =============================================== The International Association for Applied Ontology (www.iaoa.org), in cooperation with the Vespucci Initiative (www.vespucci.org), announces its first Summer Institute in Applied Ontology. The IAOA promotes interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, and applications of ontological analysis more generally. This first Summer Institute in Applied Ontology will take place July 17-23, 2011, and will focus on the topic of Process Ontology and its applications to the analysis of processes in the human environment, in engineering, and in business. The Summer Institute facilitators will be: Antony Galton (University of Exeter, UK) Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada) Werner Kuhn (University of Muenster, Germany) David Mark (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA). Venue: Firenze, Italy (see http://vespucci.org/presentation) Accommodation: hotel, bed and breakfast, or camp ground in Fiesole (20 minutes by bus from Firenze; shuttle bus or car to venue) Application: at vespucci.org and www.iaoa.org, starting December 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance: until mid April 2011 (at the latest). Travel grants may be available for participants with special financial needs, if these are stated and justified in the application. Goals and Contents: Understanding processes has become one of the key challenges to society: how much does our climate change, and why? how can deforestation of the Amazon be put under control? how can manufacturing processes be optimized? Process ontology provides the theory, tools, and techniques to analyze processes and to improve the design and use of information systems that support human decisions in dynamic situations. The institute will feature tutorials on ontology, progressing into research discussions and group work on the ontological analysis of processes. Participants will learn to: - apply basic ontological distinctions and formal ontology; - sort out the different kinds of things that go under the name "process"; - identify spatio-temporal patterns underlying processes; - understand implications of choosing between three- and four-dimensionalism - relate existing process ontologies to each other; - specify complex states, processes and events in terms of simpler ones; - design domain-specific process ontologies (e.g. in manufacturing, e-commerce, geography, biology) from more generic ontologies. From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Tue Nov 30 02:20:13 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:20:13 -0500 Subject: [DL] Semantic Web Journal: Call for Special Issue Proposals Message-ID: <4CF4514D.4010703@wright.edu> Semantic Web Journal: Call for Special Issue Proposals http://www.semantic-web-journal.net Semantic Web research is interdisciplinary in nature. Indeed, progress towards the Semantic Web vision requires the incorporation of fundamental state-of-the-art and future developments from many domains including Computer & Information Science, Cognitive Science, Geographic Information Science, the social sciences, and many more. To establish bridges between these domains, it is thus important to demonstrate what and how they contribute to the Semantic Web vision, and what the Semantic Web can offer in return to these disciplines. Hence, the Semantic Web Journal calls for Special Issue proposals on topics which (a) are within the topical realm of a neighboring domain but (b) contribute directly or indirectly to Semantic Web research. Research published in such special issues should strengthen the in-depth information exchange between disciplines by providing novel and high-quality contributions and at the same time demonstrate the impact on foundational research questions relevant for Semantic Web. While such manuscripts can be written with a specific audience in mind, the key ideas and contributions should be accessible to the broader Semantic web community. Proposals for special issues shall be sent to the Editors-in-Chair (contact at semantic-web-journal.net) and contain the following information in a single PDF file: * Names and affiliations of all guest editors * Topic of the special issue * Tentative list of Guest Editorial Board members * A short description of the topic * Why the topic is currently of interest * Why the topic is relevant to this call * Credentials of the guest editors regarding their research impact and their community standing with respect to the topic * A draft call for papers, including a suggested time-line It will be assumed that all proposed guest editors are aware of the journal's open and transparent review policy described at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/reviewers#review Submission deadline: 10th of January, 2011 Best Regards, Pascal Hitzler. -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From paschke at mi.fu-berlin.de Thu Nov 25 19:02:08 2010 From: paschke at mi.fu-berlin.de (Adrian Paschke) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:02:08 +0100 Subject: [DL] Open POSITIONS in Semantic Web at Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <02b901cb8cca$e35e6d90$aa1b48b0$@fu-berlin.de> Open POSITIONS at Freie Universitaet Berlin Corporate Semantic Web AG Corporate Semantic Web (http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/en/groups/ag-csw/) at the Freie Universitaet Berlin is currently seeking candidates for two positions as a PhD student in a 2-year industrial research project in Semantic Patent Informatics and one position in a 1-year stipendium for a Master/PhD/Post-Doc student in a industry research project on semantic multi-media annotation. The Semantic Patent Informatics project is aiming at the semantic representation and reasoning on patents and national patent laws. The Semantic Multi-Media annotation project is aiming at the annotation of multi-media objects in films. Freie Universitaet Berlin is a leading research institution. It is one of the nine German Elite universities successful in all three funding lines in the federal and state Excellence Initiative. The AG Corporate Semantic Web at the Freie Universitaet Berlin was founded in 2008 and has developed into a challenging and dynamic research group. Our major objective is to establish Semantic technologies as a core pillar of modern enterprise information technology and systems. We offer * A stimulating environment of a leading research group in the fields of Semantic Web, formal languages and reasoning, rule-based and ontology-based systems and services * Excellent ties to research groups worldwide * Up-to-date infrastructure and resources, including funding for attending international conferences, PhD symposia, summer schools, etc. * Opportunity to work with internationally established academic and industrial partners * Multicultural working place with modern infrastructure and facilities We expect The ideal candidate holds a very good Master degree (or German diploma degree) in Computer Science or related field and is able to consider both theoretical and practical and implementation aspects in her/his work. Fluent English communication and programming skills are fundamental requirements. * A strong background in Computer Science or related disciplines * Willingness to work in an international environment * The ability to take part in a large-scale international research project with an industry partner * Willingness to combine formal scientific work with application-oriented research in order to solve real-world problems * Research interest and expertise in at least one of the areas: 1. For the Patent Informatics Project: Formal languages and reasoning (Description Logics, Logic Programming, normative legal reasoning), rule and ontology languages, Semantic Web, formal logic-based patent informatics, logic-based natural language processing and knowledge representation. 2. For the Semantic Multi-Media Annotation Project: Semantic Web, Multi-Media Annotation Ontologies, Linked Data and Triplestores, Adobe Flash Programming, eCommerce Web Applications, automated Object Recognition in Multi-Media films The position starts as soon as possible and is a full-time position for the Patent Informatics projects (salary TV?D TV-L 13) and stipendium for the Semantic Multi-Media Annotation project (salary post-doc 2.500 Euro/Month, Phd student 2.000 Euro/Month, master student 800 Euro/Month; + 100 Euro/Month per child). Excellent candidates are invited to apply to one of these positions with: ? Curriculum vitae and copies of degree certificates/transcripts, ? Writing samples/copies of relevant scientific papers (e.g. thesis, etc.), ? Letters of recommendation. The university strives to increase the proportion of women in scientific service and therefore particularly welcomes applications from women. Also handicapped applicants, if qualified, will be given preference. Please send your application in a printed version indicating in the subject "041950/CSW/SPI" for the Patent Informatics project and "041950/CSW/EXIST" for the Semantic Multi-Media Annotation project to the following contact. The application deadline is December 6th. Contact and application: Freie Universit?t Berlin Institut f?r Informatik AG Corporate Semantic Web Melanie Siering K?nigin-Luise-Stra?e 24-26 D-14195 Berlin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeffpan.sw at googlemail.com Wed Dec 8 10:18:24 2010 From: jeffpan.sw at googlemail.com (Jeff Pan) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:18:24 +0000 Subject: [DL] ESWC2011 PhD Symposium: CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! ***** ESWC2011 PhD Symposium: CALL FOR PAPERS Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2011phdsymposium ** Authors of accepted papers can apply for a travel grant ** ***** 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference | ESWC 2011 29 May - 2 June 2011 | Heraklion, Greece http://www.eswc2011.org/ ***** The ESWC2011 PhD Symposium aims at providing starting PhD students with a platform for receiving feedback on their work by other PhD Students and experienced researchers outside their own group or university. The Symposium aims at students doing their PhD in the area of semantic web technologies or related topics, in particular, this includes the topics of the ESWC2011 special tracks. * Social Web and Web Science * Ontologies * Reasoning * Semantic Data Management * Linked Open Data * Software, Services, Processes and Cloud Computing * Natural Language Processing * Sensor Web * Mobile Web Note, that submissions should have a clear focus on the use or the development of semantic web technologies in or for at least one of these areas. For more detailed information about possible topics we refer to the Call for papers of the respective track. While the Symposium is open to all PhD Students, it is first of all meant for PhD Students at the beginning of their work that have a well defined problem statement and some ideas about the solution that they want to discuss with. 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. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by a number of experienced researchers that provide feedback on your plans and suggest future directions. The Program committee will pick papers for oral and poster presentations. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of ESWC 2011 that are published by Springer in the LNCS series. Further, authors of accepted papers can apply for a travel grant. Details about the application will be announced after the notification. Submissions must 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. Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2011phdsymposium Important Dates: * Submission: January 13, 2011 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) * Notification: February 24, 2011 * Camera Ready: March 10, 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Wed Dec 8 11:30:33 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:30:33 -0500 Subject: [DL] Semantic Web journal: The EBM Special Issues Volume 1, Number 1-2 / 2010 is Online Message-ID: <4CFF5E49.9010105@wright.edu> The Semantic Web journal first issue is out: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/issues http://iospress.metapress.com/content/j8748565511j/ and it's actually visible to all - no subscription is necessary. It contains vision statements on various Semantic Web topics and so should hopefully be a perfect source of inspiration for research. Pascal. -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From jaeschke at cs.uni-kassel.de Fri Dec 10 11:29:39 2010 From: jaeschke at cs.uni-kassel.de (=?UTF-8?B?Um9iZXJ0IErDpHNjaGtl?=) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:29:39 +0100 Subject: [DL] Extended Deadline CfP: 9th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2011) Message-ID: <4D020113.6090803@cs.uni-kassel.de> ** Apologies for cross-posting ** Due to a large number of requests, the deadlines for the submission of both abstracts and papers have been extended by one week each. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ICFCA 2011 EXTENDED DEADLINE CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------- 9th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2011) May 2 - 6, 2011, Nicosia, Cyprus http://www.unic.ac.cy/icfca2011/ Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc. Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * FCA theory * Lattice Theory * Lattice Drawing * Philosophical Foundations * FCA and Logic * Conceptual Knowledge * Concept Graphs * Data Analysis * FCA and Data Mining * Association Rules and Pattern Mining * Analysis of Social Networks * Data Mining on Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web * Algorithms and Complexity Theory * FCA and Software Engineering Submission Details We invite 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. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by December 15, 2010. The submission is to be done via the conference EasyChair account at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca2011. Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference, therefore at least one author per paper has to register timely. All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. Important Dates submission of abstracts: December 15, 2010 EXTENDED submission of full papers: December 22, 2010 EXTENDED notification of acceptance: February 6, 2011 camera ready copies due: February 21, 2011 Organization The conference will be hosted by the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Further information is available at http://www.unic.ac.cy/icfca2011/. Conference Chair: * Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Program Chairs: * Robert J?schke, Universit?t Kassel, Germany * Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Quebec ? Montreal (UQAM), Canada Editorial Board: * Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia * Sebastien Ferr?, Universit? de Rennes 1, France * 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 * Leonard Kwuida, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland * 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 * Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany * Baris Sertkaya, SAP Research Center, Dresden, Germany * Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany * Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany * Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany Program Committee: (to be confirmed) * Mike Bain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia * Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain * Peter Becker, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia * Radim Belohlavek, Binghamton University - State University of New York, USA * Sadok Ben Yahia, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia * Jean-Fran?ois Boulicaut, INSA Lyon, France * Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy * Nathalie Caspard, LACL, Universit? Paris 12, France * Stephan Doerfel, KDE Group, University of Kassel, Germany * Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Universit? Paris 6, France * Alain G?ly, Universit? Paul Verlaine, Metz, France * Joachim Hereth, DMC GmbH, Germany * Wolfgang Hesse, Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany * Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, Universit? Montpellier, France * Tim B. Kaiser, SAP AG, Germany * Derrick G. Kourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa * Markus Kr?tzsch, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany * Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland * Wilfried Lex, Universit?t Clausthal, Germany * Lotfi Lakhal, Aix-Marseille Universit?, France * Bruno Leclerc, CAMS-EHESS, Paris, France * Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont Ferrand 2, France * Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, 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 * Mohamed Rouane-Hacene, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada * J?rg Schmid, Universit?t Bern, Switzerland * Andreja Tepav?evi?, University of Novi Sad, Serbia * Vilem Vychodil, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Organization Committee: * George Chailos, University of Nicosia, Cyprus * Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus * Nectarios Papanicolaou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus * George Portides, University of Nicosia, Cyprus * Andreas Savva, University of Nicosia, Cyprus From carsten at itu.dk Fri Dec 10 16:23:59 2010 From: carsten at itu.dk (Carsten Schuermann) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:23:59 +0100 Subject: [DL] CADE-23: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <90F139D5-2687-4E9C-B301-D950BB4270CB@itu.dk> ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS CADE-23 23nd International Conference on Automated Deduction Wroclaw, Poland July 31- August 5, 2011 http://cade23.ii.uni.wroc.pl/ ================================================================== 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, systematic software and hardware testing, mathematics, natural language processing, computational linguistics, knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, functional and logic programming, robotics, planning, synthesis, and other areas of AI. INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- * Koen Claessen, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Byron Cook, Microsoft Research, Cambridge and Queen Mary, Univ. of London * Xavier Leroy, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France * Aarne Ranta, University of Gothenburg, Sweden STUDENT AWARDS -------------- Travel awards will be available to enable selected students to attend the conference. Details will be published on the conference website. PUBLICATION DETAILS ------------------- The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS/LNAI series. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Submissions can be made in the categories o 'regular papers' and o 'short system descriptions'. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is o 15 pages for regular papers and o 5 pages for short 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=cade2011 IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission Deadlines * Abstracts: 1 February 2011 * Full Papers: 7 February 2011 Other Dates * Notification: 20 March 2011 * Final Version: 20 April 2011 * Workshops/Tutorials: 31 July-1 August 2011 * Conference: 2-5 August 2011 PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- * Alessandro Armando, Universit? di Genova and FBK-irst, Italy * Franz Baader, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany * Peter Baumgartner, NICTA Canberra, Australia * Bernhard Beckert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Nikolaj Bj?rner, Microsoft Research, USA (PC co-chair) * Maria Paola Bonacina, Universit? degli Studi di Verona, Italy * Alessandro Cimatti, FBK-irst, Italy * Stephanie Delaune, CNRS, LSV, France * Bruno Dutertre, SRI International, USA * Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, Germany * Silvio Ghilardi, Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy * J?rgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen, Germany * Rajeev Gor?, The Australian National University, Australia * John Harrison, Intel Corporation, USA * Ullrich Hustadt, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom * Reiner H?hnle, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, USA * Viktor Kuncak, EPFL, Switzerland * Alexander Leitsch, Technische Universit?t Wien, Austria * Christopher Lynch, Clarkson University, USA * Claude March?, INRIA Saclay, France * Aart Middeldorp, Universit?t Innsbruck, Austria * Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA * Tobias Nipkow, TU M?nchen, Germany * Hans de Nivelle, University of Wroclaw, Poland * Albert Oliveras, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain * Lawrence Paulson, University of Cambridge, United Kindgom * Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Brigitte Pientka, McGill University, Canada * David Plaisted, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA * Michael Rusinowitch, INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France * Renate A. Schmidt, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom * Carsten Sch?rmann, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento, Italy * Gert Smolka, Saarland University, Germany * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbr?cken, Germany (PC co-chair) * Aaron Stump, University of Iowa, USA * Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, USA * Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa, USA * Andrei Voronkov, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom * Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbr?cken, Germany * Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom CONFERENCE CHAIR * Hans de Nivelle, University of Wroclaw, Poland PROGRAMME CHAIRS * Nikolaj Bj?rner, Microsoft Research, USA * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL CHAIR * Aaron Stump, University of Iowa, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR * Carsten Sch?rmann, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark LOCAL ORGANIZERS * Hans de Nivelle * Katarzyna Wodzynska -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de Sun Dec 12 23:00:53 2010 From: sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:00:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] TABLEAUX 2011: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies] Second Call for Papers, Call for Tutorials, and Call for Workshop Proposals TABLEAUX 2011 International Conference TABLEAUX 2011 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Bern, Switzerland 4 July - 8 July 2011 http://www.tableaux11.unibe.ch/ IMPORTANT DATES Workshop & Tutorial Submission: Monday, 10 Jan 2011 Workshop & Tutorial Notification: Monday, 24 Jan Abstract and Title Submission: Monday, 24 Jan Paper Submission: Monday, 31 Jan Notification: Monday, 28 Mar Final Versions: Monday, 25 Apr Short Paper Submission: Monday, 2 May Short Paper Notification: Monday, 16 May Workshops: Monday, 4 July Conference: Tuesday, 5 July - Friday, 8 July GENERAL INFORMATION This conference is the 20th in a series of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. In July 2011, the conference will be held in Bern, Switzerland. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer LNAI series as in the previous editions of the conference. See http://www.tableaux11.unibe.ch/ for more information on TABLEAUX 2011, 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 2011 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 Short papers reporting work in progress (up to 5 pages) 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. 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 Bern. 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 Monday, 10. Jan 2011. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS TABLEAUX 2011 launches a Call for Workshop Proposal on specialised subjects in the range of the conference topics. We can accept up to three 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 Monday, 10. Jan 2011. INVITED SPEAKERS We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give invited talks at TABLEAUX 2011: * Maria Paola Bonacina, University of Verona, Italy * Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Kazushige Terui, Kyoto University, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE PC Chairs * Kai Br?nnler, University of Bern, Switzerland * George Metcalfe, University of Bern, Switzerland PC Members * Arnon Avron, Tel Aviv University, Israel * Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Canberra, Australia * Bernhard Beckert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Torben Bra?ner, Roskilde University, Denmark * Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien, Austria * Marta Cialdea, University of Rome 3, Italy * Roy Dyckhoff, University of St Andrews, Scotland * Martin Giese, University of Oslo, Norway * Valentin Goranko, Technical University of Denmark * Rajeev Gor?, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia * Reiner H?hnle, Chalmers University, G?teborg, Sweden * Ullrich Hustadt, University of Liverpool, UK * Martin Lange, University of Kassel, Germany * Dale Miller, INRIA, Saclay, France * Neil V. Murray, University at Albany - SUNY, USA * Nicola Olivetti, Paul C?zanne University, Marseille, France * Jens Otten, University of Potsdam, Germany * Dirk Pattinson, Imperial College London, UK * Andr? Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, UK * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbr?cken, Germany * Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche, Fribourg University, Switzerland * Luca Vigan?, University of Verona, Italy * Arild Waaler, University of Oslo, Norway ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference Chairs: * Kai Br?nnler, University of Bern, Switzerland * George Metcalfe, University of Bern, Switzerland Local Organizers: * Samuel Bucheli * Lukas Gerber * Roman Kuznets * Richard McKinley * Nia Stephens From esslli2011stus at gmail.com Tue Dec 14 12:17:19 2010 From: esslli2011stus at gmail.com (Student Session) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:17:19 +0000 Subject: [DL] Call for papers: ESSLLI 2011 Student Session Message-ID: ***PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY*** *Deadline for submissions:* March 25, 2011 The Student Session of the 23rd European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia on August 1-12, 2011. We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language, Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and will appear in the proceedings. This is an excellent opportunity to receive valuable feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a diverse audience. ESSLLI 2011 will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and will feature a wide range of foundational and advanced courses and workshops in all areas of Logic, Language, and Computation. Consult the main ESSLLI websitefor further information, including registration information and course listings . *Instructions for Authors:* Authors must be students, i.e., may not have received the Ph.D. degree before August 2011. All submissions must be in PDF format and be submitted to the conference EasyChair website. Submissions may be singly or jointly authored. No one may submit more than one singly and one jointly authored paper. There are two types of papers. Long papers of up to 8 pages will be considered for both oral presentation and the poster session. Short papers of up to 4 pages will be considered as submissions for the poster session. Submissions must be received by midnight GMT on *March 25, 2011.* Accepted papers will eventually have to be written in LaTeX in standard LNCS format; the easiest thing is to do this in advance by using the Springer class files for LaTeX2e, which can be downloaded here. Springer has continued their support of the Student Session by offering generous prizes for Best Paper, Best Poster, and several Runners-Up. To get a sense of the range and subject matter of the Student Session, take a look at the proceedings from the 2010 Student Sessionand the 2009 Student Session . A Springer volume of selected papers from the 2008-2009 Student Sessions was published and can be found here. Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters relating to the Student Session to the chair, Daniel Lassiter (NYU), at esslli2011stus at easychair.org. For general inquiries about ESSLLI 2011, please consult the main ESSLLI page. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Lutz.Schroeder at dfki.de Tue Dec 14 13:32:29 2010 From: Lutz.Schroeder at dfki.de (Lutz Schroeder) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:32:29 +0100 Subject: [DL] Post-doctoral position in coalgebraic logic at DFKI Bremen Message-ID: <4D0763DD.3010704@dfki.de> [Thanks for distributing the job advertisement below.] The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher for its Safe and Secure Cognitive Systems Lab in Bremen working in the area of security policies within the DFG-project GenMod2, which will start in February 2010. The project GenMod2 ("Generic Algorithms in Modal and Hybrid Logics") is concerned with the further development of a coalgebraic generic framework for automatic deduction in various extensions of modal logic, including probabilistic, strategy-oriented, and non-monotonic logics. Applications of such logics are found on the one hand in various areas of knowledge representation, that is, in extensions of description logic, and on the other hand in the specification and verification of reactive systems. One of the goals of the project is to increase the scope and efficiency of the generic modal reasoner CoLoSS. We expect applicants to have experience in at least one of the following topics: Modal logic / description logic Automatic reasoning Coalgebra In the field of innovative software technologies, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is the leading research institution in Germany, and in the international science community the DFKI ranks among the most important ?Centers of Excellence? worldwide. The position is at the postdoctoral level; however, candidates without a PhD can be considered in case of exceptional qualification. In this case, the position offers the opportunity to work towards a PhD from the University of Bremen. The initial employment contract will run for two years. More information about the lab is available at http://www.dfki.de/web/research/sks The DFKI is an equal opportunities employer. Women are especially encouraged to apply. Handicapped applicants with equal qualification will be given preferential treatment. Applications should be sent to PD Dr. Lutz Schr?der, DFKI, Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5, 28359 Bremen, or via e-mail to Lutz.Schroeder at dfki.de. -- -------------------------------------- PD Dr. Lutz Schr?der Senior Researcher DFKI Bremen Safe and Secure Cognitive Systems Cartesium, Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5 D-28359 Bremen phone: (+49) 421-218-64216 Fax: (+49) 421-218-9864216 mail: Lutz.Schroeder at dfki.de www.dfki.de/sks/staff/lschrode -------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsches Forschungszentrum f?r K?nstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender) Dr. Walter Olthoff Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 ------------------------------------------------------------- From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Mon Dec 13 17:31:13 2010 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Uli Sattler) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:31:13 +0000 Subject: [DL] OWLED 2011 Call for papers Message-ID: [Apologies for cross posting] CALL FOR PAPERS: OWLED 2011 OWL: Experiences and Directions The Eighth International Workshop June 5-6, San Francisco, California, USA http://www.webont.org/owled/2011/ Co-located with 2011 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2011) http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/ The adoption of the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language in real-world applications continues to grow as the research and tools for OWL mature. The new version, OWL 2, has been a positive factor in this direction. As the experience in using OWL in different applications and domains increases, the strengths and weaknesses of the language are discovered, resulting in new research and development that further = extends its reach. The OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED) workshop series aims to bring users, developers and researchers from academia and industry together to describe applications of OWL, to share experience, and to = discuss extensions to the language for satisfying further application = requirements. The workshop will allow the OWL community to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications. This year the OWLED workshop will be held June 5-6 in San Francisco, California and be co-located with the 2011 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech). As usual, the OWLED workshop will try to encourage participants to work together and will give space for discussions on various topics to = be decided and published at some point in the future. Tutorials on OWL = 2 and related technologies will be organized for the larger SemTech community. There will also be formal presentation of submissions to the workshop. More information on the workshop is forthcoming. For more information = or to offer sponsorship, please send us a note at = owled2011 at easychair.org Important dates --------------- January 10, 2011 Tutorial/demo proposals due February 28, 2011 Titles and abstract due March 7, 2011 Paper submissions due April 14, 2011 Notifications of acceptance May 14, 2011 Final versions of papers due June 5-6, 2011 OWLED 2011 workshop Topics ------- Papers about all aspects of OWL and extensions, applications, theory, methods and tools, are welcome at the workshop; including but not limited to the following topics: - Application-driven requirements for OWL - Applications of OWL, particularly * from industry or * for data integration * for service interoperability * for sophisticated/non-obvious inference * for knowledge discovery - Experience reports on using OWL, OWL 2 and its profiles - OWL ontologies, particularly if highly expressive or large scale - Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages - OWL based information systems - Query answering with OWL - Performance and scalability experiences - Bridges between knowledge engineering and OWL - Non-standard inference services, including: * explanations * static verification * modularity - Tools for OWL, including: * collaborative editing and versioning * parsers and syntax checkers * high performance reasoners * visualization tools - Extensions to OWL, including: * extended constructors for datatypes, properties or classes * constraints, rules * non-monotonic, probabilistic or fuzzy extensions * temporal and spatial extensions Submissions ----------- - Tutorials We invite proposals (maximum 4 pages) for 90 minute tutorials that cover basic, intermediate and advanced OWL-related topics of interest = to the OWLED and SemTech communities. Proposals should provide the title, intended audience, skills developed, motivation, objectives, detailed outline, instructor biography and prior tutorial/teaching experience. - Application Track Application papers (maximum 4 pages; LNCS style) may present novel practical approaches in using OWL, or may employ scientific methods (qualitative and/or quantitative) to understand in greater detail the = application of OWL in real-world systems. - Research Track Research papers (maximum 10 pages; LNCS style) should clearly describe = original, significant research pertaining to OWL. - Statement of Interest A statement of interest (maximum 4 pages; LNCS style) can be about ideas, solutions, methods, products, research projects or implementation experience pertaining to OWL. Organization ------------ General Chair: Melanie Courtot, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre (Canada) Program Chair: Michel Dumontier, Carleton University (Canada) Program Committee: * Jie Bao, RPI (USA) * Mike Bergman, Structured Dynamics LLC (Canada) * Kendall Clark, Clark and Parsia (USA) * Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University (UK) * Achille Fokoue, IBM * John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK) * Janna Hastings, EBI (UK) * Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University (USA) * Martin Hepp, Universitaet der Bundeswehr M=FCnchen (Germany) * Robert Hoehndorf, University of Cambridge (UK) * Rinke Hoekstra, Leibniz Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) * Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester (UK) * Markus Kroetzsch, Oxford University (UK) * Joanne Luciano, RPI (USA) * Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen (Germany) * Bijan Parsia, Manchester University (UK) * James Malone, EMBL/EBI (UK) * Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology (Germany) * Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) * Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) * Bjoern Peters, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (USA) * Alexandre Riazanov, UNB (Canada) * Sebastian Rudolph, KIT/AIFB Karlsruhe (Germany) * Alan Ruttenberg, University of Buffalo (USA) * Matthias Samwald, DERI (Ireland) * Uli Sattler, University of Manchester (UK) * Michael Schneider, FZI (Germany) * Thomas Schneider, Universitaet des Saarlandes (GermanY) * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany) * Zhe Wu, Oracle (USA) * Antoine Zimmermann, DERI (Ireland) Steering Committee: * Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia (USA) * Melanie Courtot, Terry Fox Laboratory (CA) * Michel Dumontier, Carleton University (CA) * Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) * Alan Ruttenberg, University at Buffalo (USA) * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK) * Michael Schneider, FZI Research Center for Information Technology (DE) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de Wed Dec 15 14:50:41 2010 From: stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de (Gerd Stumme) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:50:41 +0100 Subject: [DL] Junior Professor "Software Engineering for Ubiquitous Computing Applications" Message-ID: <4D08C7B1.3030203@cs.uni-kassel.de> The Research Center for Information System Design (IteG) of the University of Kassel (Germany) invites applications for the newly created position of a Junior Professor (W1) in Software Engineering for Ubiquitous Computing Applications. This position is initially for a fixed-term of 3 years with a potential extension for further 3 years depending on a successful evaluation of research and teaching activities. The position will be part of the interdisciplinary research cluster ?Design of socio-technical networking applications in situative ubiquitous computing systems (VENUS)? funded by the State of Hesse as part of its LOEWE program for scientific excellence. The Junior Professor will represent the field ?Software Engineering for Ubiquitous Computing Applications? in research and teaching. Applicants must possess a doctoral degree and an excellent research record in at least one of the following areas: ? Software development for ubiquitous computing systems and mobile services ? Design and implementation of contextual, adaptive software systems ? Design and implementation of multimodal user interfaces ? Software development methods ? Sensor data processing ? Service oriented software architectures for ubiquitous systems Experience in collaboration projects between research and industry as well as teaching experience are highly desirable. A working knowledge of the German language is required. Information about the VENUS project is available at http://www.iteg.uni-kassel.de/venus. For further information please contact Prof. Gerd Stumme (stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de). Applications including full curriculum vitae, certificates, and the three most relevant publications should be sent to junior.prof at vs.uni-kassel.de. The closing date for applications is January 14, 2011. Applications from women are particularly welcome. Equally qualified disabled persons will be given preference. -- 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 mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk Sat Dec 18 01:48:14 2010 From: mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk (Michael Chan) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:48:14 +0000 Subject: [DL] 1st CFP: IJCAI-11 Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data (LHD-11) Message-ID: <4D0C04CE.6020504@inf.ed.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for papers for LHD-11 workshop at IJCAI-11, July 2011, Barcelona: Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/lhd-11/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An interdisciplinary approach is necessary to discover and match meaning dynamically in a world of increasingly large data. This workshop aims to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government for interaction and discussion. The workshop will feature: * A panel discussion representing industrial and governmental input, entitled "Big Society meets Big Data: Industry and Government Applications of Mapping Meaning". Panel members will include: * Peter Mika (Yahoo!) * Alon Halevy (Google) * Tom McCutcheon (Dstl) * (tbc) * An invited talk from Fausto Giunchglia, discussing the relationship between social computing and ontology matching; * Paper and poster presentations; * Workshop sponsored by: Yahoo! Research, W3C and others Workshop Description The problem of semantic alignment - that of two systems failing to understand one another when their representations are not identical - occurs in a huge variety of areas: Linked Data, database integration, e-science, multi-agent systems, information retrieval over structured data; anywhere, in fact, where semantics or a shared structure are necessary but centralised control over the schema of the data sources is undesirable or impractical. Yet this is increasingly a critical problem in the world of large scale data, particularly as more and more of this kind of data is available over the Web. In order to interact successfully in an open and heterogeneous environment, being able to dynamically and adaptively integrate large and heterogeneous data from the Web "on the go" is necessary. This may not be a precise process but a matter of finding a good enough integration to allow interaction to proceed successfully, even if a complete solution is impossible. Considerable success has already been achieved in the field of ontology matching and merging, but the application of these techniques - often developed for static environments - to the dynamic integration of large-scale data has not been well studied. Presenting the results of such dynamic integration to both end-users and database administrators - while providing quality assurance and provenance - is not yet a feature of many deployed systems. To make matters more difficult, on the Web there are massive amounts of information available online that could be integrated, but this information is often chaotically organised, stored in a wide variety of data-formats, and difficult to interpret. This area has been of interest in academia for some time, and is becoming increasingly important in industry and - thanks to open data efforts and other initiatives - to government as well. The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government who are involved in all aspects of this field: from those developing, curating and using Linked Data, to those focusing on matching and merging techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Integration of large and heterogeneous data * Machine-learning over structured data * Ontology evolution and dynamics * Ontology matching and alignment * Presentation of dynamically integrated data * Incentives and human computation over structured data and ontologies * Ranking and search over structured and semi-structured data * Quality assurance and data-cleansing * Vocabulary management in Linked Data * Schema and ontology versioning and provenance * Background knowledge in matching * Extensions to knowledge representation languages to better support change * Inconsistency and missing values in databases and ontologies * Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation * Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., p2p, agents, streaming) * Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications * Open problems * Foundational issues Applications and evaluations on data-sources that are from the Web and Linked Data are particularly encouraged. Submission LHD-11 invites submissions of both full length papers of no more than 6 pages and position papers of 1-3 pages. Authors of full-papers which are considered to be both of a high quality and of broad interest to most attendees will be invited to give full presentations; authors of more position papers will be invited to participate in "group panels" and in a poster session. All accepted papers (both position and full length papers) will be published as part of the IJCAI workshop proceedings, and will be available online from the workshop website. After the workshop, we will be publishing a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Review and authors of the best quality submissions will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers (subject to the overall standard of submissions being appropriately high). All contributions should be in pdf format and should be uploaded via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lhd11. Authors should follow the IJCAI author instructions http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/calls/formatting_instructions. Important Dates Abstract submission: March 14, 2011 Notification: April 25, 2011 Camera ready: May 16, 2011 Early registration: TBA Late registration: TBA Workshop: 16th July, 2011 Organising Committee: Fiona McNeill (University of Edinburgh) Harry Halpin (Yahoo! Research) Michael Chan (University of Edinburgh) Program committee: Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) Krisztian Balog (University of Amsterdam) Paolo Besana (University of Edinburgh) Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research) Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento) Ulf Brefeld (Yahoo! Research) Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation) Vinay Chaudri (SRI) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid) Shady Elbassuoni (Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes) Eraldo Fernandez (Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro) Aldo Gangemi (CNR) Pat Hayes (IHMC) Ivan Herman (W3C) Tom McCutcheon (Dstl) Shuai Ma (Beihang University) Ashok Malhorta (Oracle) Daniel Miranker (University of Texas-Austin) Adam Pease (Articulate Software) Valentina Presutti (CNR) David Roberston (University of Edinburgh) Juan Sequeda (University of Texas-Austin) Pavel Shvaiko (Informatica Trentina) Jamie Taylor (Google) Eveylne Viegas (Microsoft Research) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From michael at dcs.bbk.ac.uk Tue Dec 14 18:05:42 2010 From: michael at dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Michael Zakharyaschev) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:05:42 +0000 Subject: [DL] Post-doctoral position in London Message-ID: <3E5DE288-7DA1-4F17-99B8-250FB907DE1A@dcs.bbk.ac.uk> The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Birkbeck College London is seeking a post-doctoral research assistant to work on the EPSRC funded project ?ExODA: Integrating Description Logics and Database Technologies for Expressive Ontology-Based Data Access.? Experience in one or more of the following areas would be desirable: logics and automated reasoning, databases and database theory, ontology?s and ontology languages and knowledge representation. The post will require occasional travel to international conferences and workshops, as well as close collaboration with the Information Systems Group at the Oxford Computing Laboratory led by Professors G.Gottlob and I.Horrocks. For details visit http://jobs.bbk.ac.uk/fe/tpl_birkbeckcollege01.asp?s=raCzFKhUsJVaXxJsp&jobid=38412,3487482349&key=15132881&c=403465238725&pagestamp=setuimrxwiusceacir and contact Michael Zakharyaschev (michael at dcs.bbk.ac.uk) Michael Zakharyaschev Professor of Computer Science Birkbeck College London http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ocorcho at fi.upm.es Wed Dec 22 09:40:24 2010 From: ocorcho at fi.upm.es (Oscar Corcho) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:40:24 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP (2): Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP2011) In-Reply-To: <025c01cb5906$76e8df80$64ba9e80$@upm.es> References: <025c01cb5906$76e8df80$64ba9e80$@upm.es> Message-ID: <060701cba1b3$e1afe4d0$a50fae70$@upm.es> ==================================================================== 6th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP2011) -- Celebrating 25 years of Knowledge Acquisition Research -- June 25-29, 2011 Banff, Alberta, Canada http://kcap2011.stanford.edu/ ==================================================================== In today's knowledge-driven society, effective access to and use of information is a key enabler for progress. Modern technologies not only are themselves knowledge intensive, but also they produce enormous amounts of new information that we must process and aggregate. These technologies require knowledge capture, which involves the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse online sources as well as its acquisition directly from human experts. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Web, the study of knowledge capture has a renewed importance. Researchers who work in the area of knowledge capture traditionally participate in several distinct research communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, human?computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and the Semantic Web. K-CAP 2011 will provide a forum that brings together members of disparate research communities who are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for automated reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing. We solicit high-quality research papers for publication and presentation at our conference. Our aim is to promote multidisciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. K-CAP 2011 follows on the success of five previous conferences in 2009 (California, USA), 2007 (Whistler, Canada), in 2005 (Banff, Canada), in 2003 (Florida, USA), and 2001 (Victoria, Canada), and of the series of Knowledge Acquisition Workshops (KAW), the first of which took place in the same location (Banff, Canada) in 1986. K-CAP 2011 is particularly important in the history of our discipline, as it coincides with the 25th anniversary of the first Knowledge Acquisition Workshop at the Banff Centre. The Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2011 will feature Invited Talks, Technical Papers, Workshops, Posters and Demos on a range of topics including: * Knowledge acquisition tools * Knowledge authoring tools * Knowledge extraction systems * Knowledge management environments * Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web and the Web of Linked Data * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition * Learning apprentices * Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools * Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge * Knowledge-based markup techniques * Advice taking systems * Knowledge engineering and modelling methodologies There will be also a special session in the conference on ?25 years of Knowledge Acquisition Research?, in which presented papers and invited talks will review advances in the past 25 years in all the aforementioned areas. Important dates All deadlines are on 11:59PM Hawaii time. Technical papers Paper abstracts due: February 8, 2011 Papers due: February 15, 2011 Author notification: March 31, 2011 Camera-ready copy due: April 30, 2011 Posters and demos Poster and demo submissions: April 15, 2011 Author notifications: May 15, 2011 Technical Paper Submission Guidelines Technical papers must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submissions website . Submissions must be in PDF format. Microsoft Word users please prepare your paper using the K-CAP Microsoft Word template. LaTeX users please use the K-CAP class file, sigproc-KCAPsample.tex example template file (please follow the instructions contained within when submitting), sigproc.bib example bibtex file used by sigproc-KCAPsample.tex, and example pdf of sigproc-KCAPsample.tex. Papers must be no more than 8 unnumbered "US-letter" size pages (including references) using a 10-point Times Roman font for the main body text. All material on each page should fit within a rectangle of 18x23.5 cm (7"x9.25"), centered on the page, beginning 1.9 cm (.75") from the top of the page and ending with 2.54 cm (1") from the bottom. The right and left margins should be 1.9 cm (.75"). The text should be in two 8.45 cm (3.33") columns with a .83 cm (.33") gutter. Specific instructions for titles, headings, graphics and tables appear in the template files. -- Oscar Corcho Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial Facultad de Inform?tica Campus de Montegancedo s/n Boadilla del Monte-28660 Madrid, Espa?a Tel. (+34) 91 336 66 05 Fax (+34) 91 352 48 19 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From organization at arcoe.org Wed Dec 22 10:41:29 2010 From: organization at arcoe.org (ARCOE) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:41:29 +0200 Subject: [DL] IJCAI-11 Workshop ARCOE - First Call for Papers Message-ID: Sincere apologies for multiple postings. ======================= CALL FOR PAPERS ARCOE-11 at IJCAI-11 Date: July 17-18 2011 Barcelona, Spain ======================= The IJCAI-11 Workshop on Automated Reasoning about Context and Ontology Evolution (ARCOE-11) http://www.arcoe.org held on 17 and 18 July 2011 at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11) -- 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-based languages. 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 designing, controlling and maintaining an ontology as well as its different 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-11 aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of Artificial Intelligence (Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Contexts, and Ontologies) and related disciplines 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 recognised the need for representing and reasoning about knowledge that is distributed over many resources. Such knowledge, as well as its intrinsic relevance and usability, depends on its context. The latter is determined by the syntactic and/or semantic structure of the resources, the scope of the underlying language, among other things. 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 are not supposed to succeed right from the beginning when (individually or collaboratively) developing and maintaining an ontology. Despite their expertise and any assistance from domain experts, revision cycles are the rule. Moreover quite often different ontologies have to be integrated in such a way for them to be operable together (merging). 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 that provide support for ontology change (debugging, updates and repair), maintenance (versioning) and integration (merging). 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 solely on human intervention. Research on this problem has either concentrated on techniques borrowed from the non-monotonic reasoning and belief revision communities or on changes of signature, i.e., of the grammar of the ontology's language, with a minimal disruption to the original theory. This is also an important issue in the emerging area of General Game Playing. ARCOE-11 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 consist of presentations and discussions around the theme of 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 consist of presentations and discussions around the theme of Common Sense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning in logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for ontologies. These are classic areas of AI, which since their origins have produced remarkable results on logic-based methods for supporting knowledge engineers and for enhancing software agents. Track 3: Automated Ontology Evolution This track will consist of presentations and discussions around the theme of Automated Ontology Evolution for agents and general problem solving, an area which in recent years has been drawing the attention of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning on the assessment of change impact and 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 formalisation 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-11 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 -- ARCOE-11 welcomes submissions on the tracks below as well on their intersection. (The division in tracks is only for organizational purposes during the workshop. Authors are not required to assign themselves to a specific track at the time of submission.) 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 the 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 - Non-classical belief revision - 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 - Ontology versioning - Adaptive systems and reconfiguration - General problem solving - Agent communication - Persistent agents in changing environment - Multimedia on the Web - IT and automated reasoning -- Attendance -- Authors and submissions will be selected on the significance of the contribution, on how the work positions itself with respect to Tracks 1-3 above, and on the submission's potential to foster discussions and integration. Also, authors will be preferred to simple attendees. Attendees are welcome, but will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis. Please check the IJCAI-11 website for registration procedure, fees as well as cancellation policies. -- Submission Requirements and Dates -- ARCOE-11 will accept submissions of long abstracts, for both long presentations and poster presentations. The distinction during the selection-phase will be based on 1) Relevance, significance and quality of the submission; 2) Degree of interdisciplinarity of the contribution with respect to Tracks 1-3 above, i.e., the contribution's potential to foster cross-pollination and discussions on ARCOE main themes during the event. In an effort to integrate this relatively new research area, submissions to ARCOE-11 should be able to explicitly and uniformly introduce their work relative to the call for papers and to other approaches. For instance, given specific approaches such as DL-based belief revision, or Context Logic integrated by Natural Language Processing (NLP), or Higher-Order Logic (HOL) or Machine Learning (ML), the authors are expected to introduce their proposals by clearly positioning themselves relative to: 1) Specific canonical problems in their respective area; 2) Paradigms, tools and applications within their own approach; 3) ARCOE's list of canonical problems in Tracks 1-3, i.e., the contribution should be able to make clear how it is positioned relative to ontology and context, ontology engineering and/or general problem solving and communication for agents. All selected abstracts will be included in the Working Notes. Authors are kindly requested to provide keywords upon submission. The format for submissions is the same as that of IJCAI-11. Please check the IJCAI author instructions website for the style files. Submissions should be no longer than 5 pages and in PDF format. The possibility is being considered of publishing extended versions of the best works from the workshop in a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal. Submission deadline: March 14, 2011 Notification: April 25, 2011 Camera ready: May 16, 2011 Early registration: [TBA] Late registration: [TBA] Workshop dates: 17 and 18 July 2011 -- Submit to -- Please submit to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe11 -- 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: +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: +44-131-650-6899 Ivan Varzinczak (primary contact) CSIR Meraka Institute Meiring Naude Road, CSIR, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa. Tel: +27-12-841-2594, Fax: +27-12-841-4720 -- Program Committee -- - Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) - Christoph Benzmueller (Articulate Software, USA) - Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham University, Thailand) - Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento, Italy) - Jim Delgrande (Simon Fraser University, Canada) - Jerome Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France) - Nicola Fanizzi (University of Bari, Italy) - Giorgos Flouris (FORTH, Greece) - Chiara Ghidini (FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) - Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy) - Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) - Thomas Meyer (Meraka Institute, South Africa) - Alessandra Mileo (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland) - Amedeo Napoli (LORIA CNRS, France) - Maurice Pagnucco (The University of New South Wales, Australia) - Valeria de Paiva (Cuil Inc., USA) - Jeff Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK) - Dimitris Plexousakis (FORTH, Greece) - Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) - Marcio Ribeiro (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) - Luciano Serafini (FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) - Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Thu Dec 16 12:41:25 2010 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:41:25 -0300 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2011 - CFP - DEADLINE APPROACHING (Jan 1, 2011) Message-ID: *WoLLIC 2011 18th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation * *May 18th to 21st, 2011 * *University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA* *Scientific Sponsorship* *Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL )* *The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI )* *Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL )* *European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS )* *European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL )* *Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC )* *Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL )* *Organisation* *Department of Mathematics , University of Pennsylvania , USA Centro de Inform?tica , Universidade Federal de Pernambuco , Brazil * ------------------------------ There will be a Special Session honoring Max Kanovich on the occasion of his 65-th birthday Speakers include John Mitchell, Mitsuhiro Okada, Paul Rowe, and others (tba) Call for PapersWoLLIC 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 eighteenth WoLLIC will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, from May 18th to 21st, 2011. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (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 the WoLLIC 2011 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2011/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by January 1, and the full paper by January 8 (firm date). Notifications are expected by February 21, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by March 1 (firm date). *Proceedings* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2011, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. 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 2011 issue of the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic (to be confirmed). *Invited Speakers* *Rajeev Alur* (Philadelphia) *Rosalie Iemhoff* (Utrecht) *John Mitchell* (Stanford) *Vladimir Voevodsky* (Princeton) *Yoad Winter* (Utrecht) *Michael Zakharyaschev* (London) *Student Grants* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2011 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: February 18, 2011). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *Important Dates* January 1, 2011: Paper title and abstract deadline January 8, 2011: Full paper deadline (firm) February 21, 2011: Author notification March 1, 2011: Final version deadline (firm) *Programme Committee* Sergei Artemov (New York) Jeremy Avigad (Pittsburgh) Arnold Beckman (Swansea) Lev Beklemishev (Moscow) (CHAIR) Alessandro Berarducci (Pisa) Andreas Blass (Ann Arbor) (tbc) Sam Buss (San Diego) Achim Jung (Birmingham) Benedikt L?we (Amsterdam) Janos Makowsky (Haifa) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Vincent van Oostrom (Utrecht) Prakash Panangaden (Montr?al) Rohit Parikh (New York) Ruy de Queiroz (Recife) Alexander Shen (Marseilles and Moscow) Bas Spitters (Nijmegen) Helmut Veith (Wien) Yde Venema (Amsterdam) Scott Weinstein (Philadelphia) Frank Wolter (Liverpool) *Steering Committee* Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. *Organising Committee* Vivek Nigam (U Penn) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) Andre Scedrov (U Penn) (co-chair) *Further information* Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. *Web page* http://wollic.org/wollic2011/ * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From schneider at ps.uni-saarland.de Wed Dec 22 18:30:02 2010 From: schneider at ps.uni-saarland.de (Thomas Schneider) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:30:02 +0100 Subject: [DL] 2nd CfP: 5th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO 2011) Message-ID: ======================================================== 5th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 8-12, 2011 held in conjunction with ESSLLI 2011 --- First Call for Papers --- Submission deadline: February 15, 2011 ======================================================== http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo5 MODULARITY, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance and ontology reasoning. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a foundation for ongoing multi-disciplinary research and development. The workshop follows a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest work and current problems, and is this time organised as a satellite workshop of ESSLLI 2011 (week 2, see http://esslli2011.ijs.si/?p=306 ), following an introductory ESSLLI course on notions of modularity in ontologies (week 1, see http://esslli2011.ijs.si/?p=310 ). TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is Modularity: Kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/Foundational Studies: Conservativity and syntactic approximations for modules; modular ontology languages; reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; networks of ontologies; heterogeneity; - Algorithmic Approaches: distributed reasoning; modularization and module extraction; (selective) sharing and re-using, linking and importing; hiding and privacy; evaluation of modularization approaches; complexity of reasoning; reasoners or implemented systems; - Applications: Semantic Web; life sciences; bio-ontologies; natural language processing; ontologies of space and time; ambient intelligence; collaborative ontology development; etc. The workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community. 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. IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative) Paper Submission: February 15, 2011 Notification: April 15, 2011 Camera ready: June 1, 2011 Workshop: August 8-12, 2011 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The workshop welcomes submission of high quality original and previously unpublished papers. Contributions should not exceed 13 pages in length and must be formatted according to IOS Press style (see http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ). Contributions should be prepared in PDF format and submitted not later than February 15, 2011, through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2011 ). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers may be extended up to 16 pages and are expected to be published as chapters in an IOS Press book in the series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'. (Find the WoMO 2010 proceedings here http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=16268 ) INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Oliver Kutz (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) Thomas Schneider (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA) Simon Colton (Imperial College, London, UK) Melanie Courtot (BC Cancer Care & Research, Vancouver, Canada) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) Faezeh Ensan (University of New Brunswick, Canada) Fred Freitas (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milan, Italy) Janna Hastings (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK) Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK) Joana Hois (University of Bremen, Germany) C. Maria Keet (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College, London, UK) Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) Till Mossakowski (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Bremen, Germany) Leo Obrst (MITRE, McLean, VA, USA) Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester, UK) Daniel Pokrywczynski (University of Liverpool, UK) Anne Schlicht (University of Mannheim, Germany) Marco Schorlemmer (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain) Andrei Tamilin (FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy) Dirk Walther (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) From serafini at fbk.eu Fri Dec 17 10:54:54 2010 From: serafini at fbk.eu (Luciano Serafini) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:54:54 +0000 Subject: [DL] Open Positions in Data and Knowledge Management at FBK Message-ID: <177D285A-FC46-4CFF-A6A9-7D401B5DFC74@fbk.eu> Open Positions in Data and Knowledge Management at FBK Researcher in the area of Knowledge representation and reasoning Opening date: 09 December 2010 Closing date: 16 January 2011 Official call The successful candidate will work primarily at the development of systems for the acquisition and representation of contextualized knowledge, and the development of efficient and scalable reasoning and search algorithm to be used to support knowledge extraction from multimedia content (natural language and images) and it?s semantic enrichment with background knowledge. The activity will require the integration of the module for knowledge representation and integration with system of natural language and image processing. The activities will be carried out within the project LiveMemories (www.livememories.org) Funded by : Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy), Major Projects 2006, and in future projects in this area. The candidate is expected to work in collaboration with other researchers, programmers, and students involved in this and other related projects. Due to FBK's attempt to promote equal opportunity and gender balance, in case of equal applications, female candidates will be given preference. The ideal candidate should have: * PhD in Computer Science or Software Engineering * Solid theoretical background in semantic web, automated reasoning, logic and knowledge representation * Skills in experimental work and software development * Previous research experience * Good knowledge of English (oral and written) Additional requirements: * Background knowledge in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, natural language processing, database * Ability to work in a collaborative environment and deliver in research projects Type of contract: Research position (R3 level) for a 3 years contract. Salary offer will be approximately 37.800,00 euro per year before tax. To apply online, please send your detailed CV with three reference persons and list of publications to jobs at fbk.eu . Emails should have Ref.Code: DKM_R32011 Please send your CV with permission of the Personal data Protection Code, Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 June 2003. Those candidates who will pass the preliminary curricula screening will be contacted shortly for an interview. Those applicants who will not be selected, will be notified of the exclusion at the end of the selection process. Please note that FBK may contact those candidates admitted to evaluation within a period of 6 months for selection process of similar vacancies. Research assistant in the area of WEB 2.0 Opening date: 09 December 2010 Closing date: 16 January 2010 Official call The Data and Knowledge Management (DKM) Research Unit of the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Centre for Information Technology, is seeking a candidate for a research position. The successful candidate will work primarily at: 1. the development of MoKi, the modeling wiki for the acquisition and representation of procedures and documental flows in complex organizations, and for the representation of an ontology ofdocuments; and 2. the support of usage of MoKi in several use cases within the ProDe (Progetto Interregionale Dematerializzazione). The use cases will be provided by several Italian regions, which will use MoKi to model different typologies of procedures and documents. The candidate is expected to work in collaboration with other researchers, programmers, and students involved in this and other related projects. Due to FBK's attempt to promote equal opportunity and gender balance, in case of equal applications, female candidates will be given preference. The ideal candidate should have: * Master or PhD in Computer Science or Software Engineering; * Solid skills in software development ? Some background in conceptual modelling ? Previous software development experience * Good knowledge of Italian (oral and written) Additional requirements: * Ability to work in a collaborative environment and deliver in research projects. Type of contract: collaboration contract (co.co.pro) for a 1 year. Salary offer will approximately Euros 30.400,00 before tax per year. To apply online, please send your detailed CV with three reference persons to jobs at fbk.eu. Emails should have Ref.Code: DKM_MoKi2011 Please send your CV with permission of the Personal data Protection Code, Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 June 2003. Those candidates who will pass the preliminary curricula screening will be contacted shortly for an interview. Those applicants who will not be selected, will be notified of the exclusion at the end of the selection process. Please note that FBK may contact those candidates admitted to evaluation within a period of 6 months for selection process of similar vacancies. From torben at ruc.dk Mon Dec 20 16:54:22 2010 From: torben at ruc.dk (Torben Brauner) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:54:22 +0100 Subject: [DL] New book Message-ID: <4D0F7C2E.7050102@ruc.dk> BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT Hybrid Logic and its Proof-Theory by Torben Bra?ner Applied Logic Series, Vol. 37 Springer, 2011 ISBN 978-94-007-0001-7 * This is the first book-length treatment of hybrid logic and its proof-theory. Hybrid logic is an extension of ordinary modal logic which allows explicit reference to individual points in a model (where the points represent times, possible worlds, states in a computer, or something else). This is useful for many applications, for example when reasoning about time one often wants to formulate a series of statements about what happens at specific times. * There is little consensus about proof-theory for ordinary modal logic. Many modal-logical proof systems lack important properties and the relationships between proof systems for different modal logics are often unclear. In the present book we demonstrate that hybrid-logical proof-theory remedies these deficiencies by giving a spectrum of well-behaved proof systems (natural deduction, Gentzen, tableau, and axiom systems) for a spectrum of different hybrid logics (propositional, first-order, intensional first-order, and intuitionistic). * All these proof systems can be motivated independently, but the fact that the systems can be given in a uniform way shows that hybrid logic and hybrid-logical proof-theory is a natural enterprise. * Further information can be found at http://www.springer.com/philosophy/logic+and+philosophy+of+language/book/978-94-007-0001-7 From clu at informatik.uni-bremen.de Mon Dec 27 17:46:44 2010 From: clu at informatik.uni-bremen.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:46:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] Postdoc / PhD position at University of Bremen Message-ID: <4D18C2F4.9050809@informatik.uni-bremen.de> The following position is available at the Faculty for Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bremen, subject to position clearance: 1 Postdoctoral Researcher / Doctoral Research Assistant in Computer Science (TVL-13, 35,000 to 50,000 Euro p.a. pre-tax) The successful candidate will be associated with the group `theory of artificial intelligence', which focusses on logic-based knowledge representation (in particular description logics), modal logic in computer science, and related areas. He/she will be carrying out research in the mentioned subject areas, teach courses in computer science (theoretical computer science and AI), and participate in the supervision of Bachelor, MSc and PhD theses. Candidates must have a degree in computer science or a related field (diploma, MSc or PhD). The position can be used for further scientific qualification (PhD or habilitation). 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. Applications of persons with migratory background are welcome. The position is available from March 2011 and is initally limited to three years, extension possible. The application deadline is January 21, 2011. Please address questions and send your application under the reference number A 220/10 via email (much preferred) to: hederich at informatik.uni-bremen.de or via regular mail to Prof. Carsten Lutz Fachbereich 3 Universitaet Bremen Postfach 33 04 40 28334 Bremen 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 jeffpan.sw at googlemail.com Thu Dec 30 11:41:47 2010 From: jeffpan.sw at googlemail.com (Jeff Pan) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:41:47 +0000 Subject: [DL] ESWC2011 PhD Symposium: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! ***** ESWC2011 PhD Symposium: CALL FOR PAPERS Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2011phdsymposium ** Authors of accepted papers can apply for a travel grant ** ***** 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference | ESWC 2011 29 May - 2 June 2011 | Heraklion, Greece http://www.eswc2011.org/ ***** The ESWC2011 PhD Symposium aims at providing starting PhD students with a platform for receiving feedback on their work by other PhD Students and experienced researchers outside their own group or university. The Symposium aims at students doing their PhD in the area of semantic web technologies or related topics, in particular, this includes the topics of the ESWC2011 special tracks. * Social Web and Web Science * Ontologies * Reasoning * Semantic Data Management * Linked Open Data * Software, Services, Processes and Cloud Computing * Natural Language Processing * Sensor Web * Mobile Web Note, that submissions should have a clear focus on the use or the development of semantic web technologies in or for at least one of these areas. For more detailed information about possible topics we refer to the Call for papers of the respective track. While the Symposium is open to all PhD Students, it is first of all meant for PhD Students at the beginning of their work that have a well defined problem statement and some ideas about the solution that they want to discuss with. 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. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by a number of experienced researchers that provide feedback on your plans and suggest future directions. The Program committee will pick papers for oral and poster presentations. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of ESWC 2011 that are published by Springer in the LNCS series. Further, authors of accepted papers can apply for a travel grant. Details about the application will be announced after the notification. Submissions must 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. Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2011phdsymposium Important Dates: * Submission: January 13, 2011 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) * Notification: February 24, 2011 * Camera Ready: March 10, 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: