Apologies for cross-posting!<br><br>************************************************************************<br>*<br>* CALL FOR PAPERS<br>* 6th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering<br>* (SWESE2010)<br>
*<br>* <a href="http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc280/event/workshop/swese2010/">http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc280/event/workshop/swese2010/</a><br>*<br>* (for previous workshops, see <a href="http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jpan/">http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jpan/</a>)<br>
*<br>*******Deadline Extended to: 2 May, 2010******<br>*<br>*<br>* located at 2010 Semantic Technology Conference<br>* 25 June 2010<br>* San Francisco, United States<br>*<br>************************************************************************<br>
<br><br>Workshop Description<br><br><br>The advent of the World Wide Web has led many corporations to<br>web-enable their business applications and to the adoption of web<br>service standards in middleware platforms. Marking a turning point<br>
in the evolution of the Web, the Semantic Web is expected to<br>provide more benefits to software engineering. Over the past five<br>years there have been a number of attempts to bring together<br>languages and tools, such as the Unified Modelling Language (UML),<br>
originally developed for Software Engineering, with Semantic Web<br>languages such as RDF and OWL. The Semantic Web Best Practice and<br>Deployment Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software<br>Engineering Task Force (SETF) to investigate potential benefits. A<br>
related international standardisation activity is OMG's Ontology<br>Definition Metamodel (ODM), which was formally adopted in October<br>2006, and finalized in December 2008. Recently, more and more<br>researchers are also investigating how to use ontology to improve<br>
guidance and traceability in software development.<br><br><br>It has been argued that the advantages of Semantic Web<br>Technologies in software engineering include reusability and<br>extensibility of data models, improvements in data quality, and<br>
discovery and automated execution of workflows. According to<br>SETF's note "A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software<br>Developers" (<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/sw-oosd-primer/">http://www.w3.org/TR/sw-oosd-primer/</a>), the Semantic<br>
Web can serve as a platform on which domain models can be created,<br>shared and reused.<br><br><br>However, are there other potential benefits in the use of Semantic<br>Web concepts in the field of Software Engineering? Could the<br>
Web-based, semantically rich formality of OWL be combined with<br>emerging model driven development tools such as the Eclipse<br>Modelling Framework to provide some badly needed improvements in<br>both the process and product of software development activities?<br>
What is it about the amalgamation of OWL, UML and MDSD methodology<br>that could make a difference? Certainly, there appear to be a<br>number of strong arguments in favour of this approach but<br>consensus on the best way forward, if there is indeed a way<br>
forward at all has not yet formed. This workshop seeks to build on<br>prior events that have begun to explore and evaluate this<br>important area.<br><br><br>Intended Audience<br><br>While the intended audience for this workshop includes those with<br>
experience or interest in Semantic Web languages and tools, it is<br>also crucial to have participation by those with expertise in<br>other areas such as software engineering, automatic software<br>engineering (ASE), knowledge based software engineering (KBSE),<br>
UML/MDA, and software/legacy modernization.<br><br><br>Topics<br><br>Topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not restricted to):<br>- Visions for Semantic Web driven software engineering<br>- Tools developed or being developed for software engineering using<br>
SW languages<br>- Integration or application development projects combining Software<br> Engineering techniques and Semantic Web tools or languages<br>- Shortcomings with the Semantic Web with respect to Software Engineering<br>
- Uses, extensions and/or issues with ODM<br>- Visions for SW driven software modernization<br>- Integration of UML, OO programming languages and Semantic Web languages<br>- Integration of formal methods and Semantic Web languages<br>
- Software specification and Semantic Web languages<br>- Ontologies for software engineering<br>- Ontologies for requirement engineering<br>- Ontologies for software guidance, traceability and maintenance<br>- Component discovery and ontologies<br>
- Feature modelling and ontologies<br>- Metamodel engineering<br>- Ontology reasoning for software engineering<br>- Semantic annotations in software engineering<br>- Transitioning legacy applications to ontologies<br>
- Semantic-based intelligent assistance tools for software developers<br>- Lessons learnt and outstanding challenges for the usage of semantic<br> technologies in software engineering<br>- Ontology-Driven Architecture: How to introduce Semantic Web technology into<br>
mainstream development processes<br><br><br>Workshop Format and Attendance:<br><br>This will be a half day workshop, including a keynote presentation<br>and technical talks discussing competing and complementary<br>visions for Semantic Web enabled software engineering.<br>
<br>This workshop is open to all members of the SemTech community, as<br>well as other communities identified in Intended Audience above,<br>such as the Software Engineering community.<br><br>Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the<br>
workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot<br>accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have<br>submitted a paper will be given priority for registration.<br><br>We encourage those who plan to attend this workshop, to register<br>
early in order to help conference organizers with their planning<br>as well as insure that the workshop is not cancelled do to<br>projected poor attendance.<br><br><br>Organizing Committee<br><br> Elisa F. Kendall, Sandpiper Software, Inc., USA<br>
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK (contact)<br> Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI, Germany<br> Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK<br> Yuting Zhao, University of Aberdeen, UK<br><br><br>Program Committee (Tentative)<br>
<br> * Uwe Assman (DE), Technical University of Dresden<br> * Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA)<br> * Colin Atkinson (DE), University of Mannheim<br> * Ken Baclawski (US), Northeastern University<br>
* Roberta Cuel (IT), University of Trento<br> * Jin Song Dong (SG), National University of Singapore<br> * Jürgen Ebert (DE), University of Koblenz<br> * Andreas Friesen (DE), SAP Research<br> * Dragan Gasevic, (CA) Simon Fraser University Surrey<br>
* Michael Goedicke (DE), University of Essen<br> * Jakob Henriksson (US), Intelligent Automation, Inc.<br> * Mitch Kokar (US), Northeastern University<br> * Harald Kühn (AT), BOC<br> * David Martin (US), SRI International<br>
* Krzysztof Miksa (PL), Comarch<br> * Jishnu Mukerji (US), Hewlett-Packard Company<br> * Daniel Oberle (DE), SAP Research<br> * Fernando Silva Parreiras (DE), University of Koblenz<br> * Yuan Ren (UK), University of Aberdeen<br>
* Dave Reynolds (UK), HP Lab<br> * Michael K. Smith (US), Electronic Data System<br> * Hai Wang (UK), Aston University<br> * Andrea Zisman (UK), City University, London<br><br><br>Submissions<br><br>Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical<br>
relevance and technical rigor, experience reports, and show case<br>/ use case demonstrations of effective, practical technologies or<br>applications combining software engineering with semantic<br>technologies.<br><br>Papers must be in English and may be submitted at<br>
<a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swese2010">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swese2010</a> as:<br><br>- Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)<br>- Short Papers (5-8 pages in the proceedings)<br>
- Position Statements (2 pages in the proceedings)<br>- Posters (to be presented during the workshop, with 2 page descriptions<br> submitted via the conference site for review)<br><br>Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format<br>
(<a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>). Submissions will<br>be peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality,<br>significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.<br>
Authors are requested to upload their complete papers by 25 Apr,<br>2010.<br><br>Publication details will be posted to the workshop web site,<br><a href="http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc280/event/workshop/swese2010/">http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc280/event/workshop/swese2010/</a>, as they<br>
become available.<br><br><br>Important Dates<br><br> Submission deadline: 2 May 2010<br> Notification of acceptance: 16 May 2010<br> Final submissions due: 24 May 2010<br> Workshop proceedings available: 25 June 2010<br>
<br><br>Sponsorship<br><br>The workshop is being held in cooperation with a prominent network<br>of excellence and is meant to act as a focal point for joint<br>interests and future collaborations. Interested sponsors are<br>
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