ESWC 2009

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Infobox - Conference
type	Conference
start date	May 31, 2009
end date	June 4, 2009
location	Crete, Greece
country	Greece
homepage	http://www.eswc2009.org...
Important Dates
abstract due	December 08, 2008
submission due	December 15, 2008
notification due	February 23, 2009
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part of	ESWC

The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's Web by exploiting machine-processable metadata. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and makes this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making tasks. Semantic Web research can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Databases and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks and Web Engineering. Many advances within these areas can contribute towards the realization of the Semantic Web.

The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. ESWC 2009 will also feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium and a number of collocated workshops. The calls for these events are separate and can be found on the conference Web site (http://www.eswc2009.org/).

ESWC 2009 is sponsored by STI2, Semantic Technology Institutes International. For more information on STI2, please visit http://www.sti2.org.

Submissions

ESWC 2009 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of the Semantic Web. We particularly encourage the submission of papers on industrial efforts and experiences with Semantic Web projects. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and applications papers.

The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing for ESWC 2009 will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors.

Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will *not* be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission -- details of this process will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference.

Best Paper Award

An award will be given to the best paper (or papers) submitted to the conference as judged by the Program Chairs in collaboration with the Program Committee.

Important Dates:

Papers
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Abstract Submission             December 08, 2008 (compulsory)
Full Paper Submission           December 15, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notification                    February 23, 2009
Camera Ready                    March 09, 2009

Demos
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Submission                      January 16, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notification                    February 23, 2009
Camera Ready                    March 09, 2009

Posters
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Submission                      March 23, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notification                    April 20, 2009
Camera Ready                    May 11, 2009

In-Use Track
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Submission                      December 15, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notification                    February 23, 2009
Camera Ready                    March 09, 2009

Workshops
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Proposal Submission             November 22, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notification                    December 08, 2008

Tutorials
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Proposal Submission             January 07, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notification                    January 21, 2009

Panels
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Proposal Submission             February 02, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notification                    February 23, 2009
Final Panel Description         March 09, 2009

Phd Symposium
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Submission                      March 16, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notification                    April 13, 2008
Camera Ready                    April 27, 2008

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

1. Semantic Web Data and Ontologies

• Interoperability of data on the Semantic Web
• Technologies for linked data
• Database Technologies for the Semantic Web
• Semantic Annotation of Data
• Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web
• Query Languages and Optimization for the Semantic Web
• Rule Languages for the Semantic Web
• Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.)
• Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)
• Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g., HLT and ML approaches)

2. Semantic Web Services

• Service Description, Composition, and Discovery
• Service Orchestration and Choreography
• Service Testing, Verification, and Validation
• Service Monitoring, Adaptation and Management
• SLA Modeling and Management
• Quality of Services, Security, and Dependability
• Service Engineering
• Service Deployment, Execution, Infrastructures, and Architectures

3. Semantic Web Architectures

• Semantics in P2P Computing
• Semantics in Grid Computing
• Semantics in Middleware

4. Applications on the Semantic Web

• Multimedia and Semantic Web
• Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
• Interoperability of applications on the Semantic Web
• Data mining on the Semantic Web
• Personalization and User Modelling
• User Interfaces and Semantic Web
• Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
• Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Learning and other application domains
• Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
• Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation

5. Design and Evaluation of Semantic Web Applications and Technologies

• Usability
• Performance and scalability
• Quality
• Cost modeling
• Testing and validation

We particularly welcome application papers which clearly show benefits of Semantic Web technologies in practical settings.

Semantic Web In-Use Track

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ESWC 2009 also features a "Semantic Web In-Use Track", which aims at showing the benefits of applying semantic technology in various real-life applications. The kind of contributions and presentations for this track should be different from these submitted to the scientific track. While papers submitted to the scientific track may provide an evidence of the scientific contribution through applications and evaluations (see Topics 4. and 5. above), papers submitted to the "Semantic Web In-Use Track" should be mainly organized with a presentation centered around some of or all of the following main aspects:

• A description of concrete problems in specific domains of applications for which semantic technology would provide a solution.
• A description of an implemented application of semantic technology in a specific domain
• An assessment of the pros and cons of using semantic technology to solve a particular business problem in a specific domain
• An assessment of the costs and benefits of the application of Semantic Web Technologies, times spent for implementation and deployment, efforts involved, user acceptance, returns on investment
• A comparison to competing approaches using conventional or different technologies
• An evidence and/or assessment of deployment and use of the application.