Final CfP: 4th Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Conference (KESW2013)

[CfP] 2nd Int Workshop on Ordering and Reasoning (OrdRing2013) <at> ISWC2013

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[CALL FOR PAPERS]

2nd International Workshop on Ordering and Reasoning (OrdRing2013)
October 21st/22nd, 2013 - Sydney, Australia

Collocated with the 12th International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC 2013)

http://www.streamreasoning.org/events/ordring2013

IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission deadline: 3 July 2013
Paper submission deadline: 10 July 2013
Notification of acceptance: 9 August 2013

GOALS AND TOPICS
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More and more applications require real-time processing of massive,
dynamically generated, ordered data; where order is often an essential
factor reflecting recency, proximity or relevance. Stream and
rank-aware data management techniques are progressively providing
reactive and reliable query answering over such massive datasets,
allowing integration of highly dynamic sources. Key to their success
is the use of streaming algorithms that harness the natural or
enforceable orders in the data. The expressive power of Semantic
technologies is needed in those applications, but Semantic
Technologies risk being unable to address the needs of those
applications, because they do not consider ordering as an essential
property. Ranking results is often seen as an “added task”, performed
after inference, without affecting the inference process, which is
order-agnostic.

However, we perceive a trend towards order-aware semantic
technologies: both researchers and practitioners understand that order
matters in reasoning over massive and highly dynamic data. The idea of
Stream Reasoning is gaining considerable momentum. Some top-k query
answering techniques for Linked Data appeared. Several works are
considering SPARQL query answering on RDF annotated with labels
partially ordered. The Description Logic community is investigating
top-k ontological query answering.

This workshop aims at bringing together this growing and very active
community interested in integrating ordering with reasoning by using
methods inspired by stream and rank-aware data management. We see this
workshop as a first step to stimulate and guide a paradigm shift in
semantic technologies.

Topics include, but not limited to:

  - Inferencing with streaming algorithms
  - Ontological query answering over highly dynamic data
  - Incremental maintenance of materialization of highly dynamic data
  - Ontological top-k query answering over massive ordered data
  - A top-k query answering for fuzzy logics
  - Continuous query answering for fuzzy logics
  - Knowledge Representation for ordered facts
  - Applications of stream reasoning and top-k ontological query answering
  - Role of parallelization and distribution in order-aware semantic 
technologies
  - Harvesting and combining orders in data
  - Approximation approaches to inference with orderings
  - Proposals for and applications of benchmarks
  - Implementation and evaluation experiences

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PROCEEDINGS
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We will welcome submissions describing ideas, experiments, and
application visions originating from requirements for, and efforts
aimed at, interleaving ordering and reasoning. We will encourage demos
and posters not exceeding 4 pages, short position papers not exceeding
6 pages as well as longer technical papers not exceeding 12 pages.
They should follow the LNCS proceedings style files.

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. All submissions will be done
electronically via the OrdRing2013 web submission system
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ordring2013).

The Workshop Proceedings will be published as CEUR Workshop
Proceedings (www.ceur-ws.org)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Emanuele Della Valle (Politecnico di Milano)
Markus Krötzsch (University of Oxford)
Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Irene Celino (CEFRIEL)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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* Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology)
* David Carral (Wright State University)
* Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
* Peter Haase (fluid Operations)
* Carsten Lutz (Universität Bremen)
* Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen)
* Axel Polleres (Siemens AG Österreich / DERI, National University of 
Ireland, Galway)
* Sebastian Rudolph (Technische Universität Dresden)
* Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau)
* Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR)
* Guido Vetere (IBM)
* Haofen Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
* Kewen Wang (Griffith University)
* Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics)
* Zhe Wu (Oracle)

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Dr. Markus Kroetzsch
Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Room 306, Parks Road, OX1 3QD Oxford, United Kingdom
+44 (0)1865 283529               http://korrekt.org/

Jailbreaking the PDF hackathon

Good News All!  The upcoming "Jailbreaking the PDF" hackathon
(http://scholrev.org/hackathon) now has a venue.  We will convene
Monday morning, May 27 at the Agence Bibliographique de l'enseignement
Superieur (ABES):
http://www.abes.fr/Connaitre-l-ABES/Presentation-de-l-ABES.

There is no registration fee; the event is free.  Bring yourself &
your favorite laptop, and we'll supply the food, drinks wifi,
repository, and everything else necessary to hack away.

Future announcements will be posted at http://scholrev.org/hackathon.

For further information, please contact either myself or Alex Garcia-Castro.

--
Alexander Garcia
http://www.alexandergarcia.name/
http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/75943.html
http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgarciac

Call for papers: Vagueness, Imprecision and Uncertainty in Description Logics

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Vagueness, Imprecision and Uncertainty in Description Logics
Special Session at the Joint Rough Set Symposium (JRS 2013)
	(October 11-14, Halifax, Canada)

http://cs.smu.ca/jrs2013/
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Description Logics (DLs) are a well-established group of knowledge
representation formalisms targeted towards the representation of
terminological knowledge and reasoning procedures for it. For
applications in areas such as the Semantic Web, Bio-medicine, Context-aware
systems and others, representation of merely crisp information is not
enough. Instead it is important to deal with vague or uncertain terms,
as well as with imprecise definitions in order to reflect better the
real-world semantics and build more adequate knowledge-based systems. In
recent years, several extensions of DLs have been developed to address
these needs. However, many problems remain open in these extensions --
ranging
from fundamental questions such as what kind of semantics do applications
require to enhancing existing reasoning algorithms and systems to handle the
associated, possibly large, data.

This special session aims at bringing together researchers working on
rough, fuzzy, and probabilistic extensions to DLs, and discussing
the latest results in the area.

We solicit theoretical contributions, new empirical results, implementation
and modeling experience reports, and system demonstrations.
The session will encourage discussions that aid in the further advancement
of this emerging area.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Decidable rough DL languages
- Rough reasoning
- Scalable reasoning with data properties for rough set attributes
- Interaction of rough ontologies with large amounts of data
- Applications of rough ontologies
- Rough set decision tables and DLs
- Vagueness and imprecision in DLs
- Fuzzy and other extensions of DLs for vagueness
- Probabilistic DLs
- Possibilistic and other extensions of DLs for uncertainty
- System descriptions and empirical results
- Experiences on modeling vague, imprecise or uncertain knowledge

Submissions are made through Easychair at
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=jrs2013

When submitting, please make sure to select the corresponding Special
Session.

Submitted paper should be between 8 and 10 pages long, in
Springer LNCS format. All accepted papers will be published in
Springer's LNAI series.

A Special Issue of a journal is planned for the best submissions.

Submission Deadline: May 25

Organizers:
Maria Keet. University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Pavel Klinov. University of Ulm, Germany.
Rafael Peñaloza. TU Dresden, Germany.
Anni-Yasmin Turhan. TU Dresden, Germany.

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Dr. rer. nat. Rafael Penaloza
Technische Universität Dresden
Fakultät Informatik
Institut für Theoretische Informatik
Lehrstuhl für Automatentheorie
01062 Dresden
Tel.: +49 (351) 463-38351
Fax: +49 (351) 463-37959
E-Mail: penaloza@...
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[CfP] (Deadline extended) 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (with DL 2013)

CFP ICARIS 2013 - NEWS: extended deadline 18 May; Keynotes; special issue in NACO; student bursaries

CALL FOR PAPERS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
**Apologies for cross-posting**

12th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems - ICARIS 2013
August 27-29, 2013 - University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

icaris2013@...
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris2013/
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2013

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                   NEWS
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* EXTENDED DEADLINE: 18th May 2013

* Proceedings in LNCS, Springer (only for regular papers of 2nd track)

* Special issue in NATURAL COMPUTING

* STUDENT BURSARIES for the most competitive students from any country

* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge, UK
- Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK
- Benedict Seddon, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
- Alan Winfield, University of the West of England, UK
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* Important Dates:
- Extended paper submission:  18th May 2013
- Author notification:        18th June 2013
- Camera Ready submission:    28th June 2013

* Keynote Speakers:
- Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge, UK
- Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK
- Benedict Seddon, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
- Alan Winfield, University of the West of England, UK

* Student Bursaries:
ICARIS 2013 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that it is  
making available a limited number of student bursaries, which will be  
awarded on a competitive basis to PhD students from any country.  
Details will be published shortly in ICARIS 2013 website.
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris2013/

* Special Session in NATURAL COMPUTING:
We are pleased to announce a special issue in Natural Computing by  
Springer. All accepted papers, and best abstracts are invited to  
submit the extended versions of their works to this special issue. The  
special issue will begin in December 2013 to conclude all processes  
around June/July 2014.

* Submission Guidelines:
As the previous editions, ICARIS 2013 is divided into two main tracks
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris2013/submit.html

Please submit your manuscript for any tracks using the following link:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2013

- Track on Computational Immunology (Oral & Posters submission)
This track aims is to attract researchers from computer science,  
information science, engineering, biomathematics, biomedicine,  
bioinformatics, systems biology, and immunology to share and exchange  
their knowledge of state-of-the-art research issues, methodologies,  
ideas, and challenges.
Authors are requested to submit an abstract up to 500 words in length,  
one figure and references. All abstracts will undergo a quick review  
process for relevance to the conference and technical accuracy. All  
accepted abstracts will be published in a book of abstracts.

- Track on Immune-inspired Engineering (Regular Paper - Oral & Posters  
submission)
This track is for research into the development and application of  
artificial immune systems. Authors may submit their manuscripts as  
EITHER an abstract paper or regular paper, both of which may qualify  
for an oral or poster presentations.
All papers and abstracts will undergo a double blind peer-review  
process. Authors are requested to submit a PDF file following the LNCS  
formatting instructions:  
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2013

Regular Papers should be a maximum of fourteen (14) pages. All  
accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer  
Science, Springer.
Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words, include no more than one  
figure and include appropriate references. All accepted abstracts will  
be published in a book of abstracts.

If you wish to present a poster and do not wish to be considered for  
oral presentation, then please indicate this when you submit the  
abstract. We reserve the right to allocate poster presentation slots  
to submissions that have requested oral presentation.

During the submission authors must make clear which track the paper  
should to be considered for.

* Conference Location:
This conference is hosted by the University of Nottingham, and will be  
held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, situated on the  
University Park Campus. New for 2013, onsite hotel accommodation will  
be available at a competitive delegate rate. The University of  
Nottingham is easily accessible by public transport, 15 minutes from  
Nottingham City Centre. Nottingham is located in central England, 25  
minutes taxi from Nottingham East Midlands Airport, and 1 hr 45 mins  
from London St Pancras on the Midland Mainline. For further details  
please refer to the conference website.

We look forward to welcoming you to Nottingham in August 2013 !!
Uwe Aickelin, Julie Greensmith, Mario Pavone and Jon Timmis.

RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium -- application deadline extended

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Dear All,

The deadline for applications to the RR2013 Doctoral Consortium has been 
extended to April 28th.

Also the grant application has been extended (see the complete call below).

Started last year in Vienna, the RR Doctoral Consortium and related 
events (mentoring lunch, poster session) have been a very positive 
experience for students at any stage of their doctoral research.

If you are a PhD student, consider submitting a research summary that, 
if accepted, will be part of the proceedings of RR2013, Mannheim, Germany.

We would appreciate a lot if you can advertise it to among the students 
of your institution or your contacts that may be interested in applying 
to the RR doctoral consortium.

best regards,

Alessandra, Domenico, & Wolfgang

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Doctoral Consortium, RR 2013 - CFP
27-29 July, Mannheim, Germany
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Extended deadlines:

Application: April 28th, 2013
Notification: May 8th, 2013
Grant Application: May 10th, 2013

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The RR2013 Doctoral Consortium will provide doctoral students in Web 
Reasoning and related areas with the unique opportunity to present and 
discuss their research directions, being involved into state-of-the-art 
research discussion and being supported in establishing fruitful 
collaborations with prominent researchers and pioneers the field of Web 
Reasoning and Rules and related areas.

The co-location of RR2013 with the Reasoning Web Summer School and with 
other relevant related events will provide multiple opportunities for 
participating students to enhance their education.

The Consortium will allow participants to interact with established 
researchers through the following initiatives: The poster presentation 
session accompanied by a written research summary, which will be 
distributed at the conference.
The poster presentation session will be preceded by a spotlight 
presentations session where poster presenters give 5-minute teaser talks 
as advertisement for their posters. The mentoring lunch will consist of 
a lunch break where a senior researcher shares a lunch table with 3-4 
students. The researcher will be charged with initiating and driving a 
discussion on general topics concerning research, career, and Web 
Reasoning as a discipline. He will also be available for answering 
questions by the students.

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Important Dates
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Application Deadline: April 28th, 2013 (EXTENDED)
Notification: May 8th, 2013
Camera Ready: May 20th, 2013

Tentative schedule for grant, if available:
Grant Application: May 10th, 2013 (EXTENDED)
Grant Notification: May 15th, 2013

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Submission Information
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To apply for participation to the RR2013 Doctoral Consortium students 
are asked to submit

1. A research summary (max 6 pages) of their PhD research addressing the 
following aspects:
- Applicant's complete name, address and affiliation as well as the 
title of the research
- The main problem you are trying to tackle and why it is relevant
- What is the state-of-the-art in relation to existing solutions to the 
problem
- Advances beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of your specific 
contribution and research plan
- Current status of the research plan
- Expected achievements and possible evaluation metrics to establish the 
level of success of your results
- References

2. A statement of interest in participating to the Doctoral Consortium 
(less than 1 page, uploaded as an attachment)

Both the research summary and the attachment must be in PDF format and 
be formatted according to the Springer Publications format for Lecture 
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Submission will be managed via Easychair

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcrr2013

All the accepted contributions have to be presented.

The best submissions will present their work as regular (15 min) 
presentation, and they will be given the option to have their research 
summaries included in the conference proceedings (Springer LNCS). All 
the other accepted submissions will be presented at the poster 
presentation session, preceded by the 5-min talk.

Students whose work has been accepted at the poster presentation session 
should prepare a poster as well in A0 portrait format (more details 
provided soon).

Students presenting a poster to the Reasoning Web Summer School can use 
the same poster for the DC if accepted as short presentations.

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Grants & Awards for U.S. students attending RR
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The organizing committee is considering the possibility of offering 
scholarships to participants from the U.S. to partially cover 
registration and/or accommodation fees, depending on available 
sponsorships. Details will be announced as soon as we have more 
information about the number and amount of scholarships.

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Chair
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Alessandra Mileo, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUIG

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List of Mentors
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The list of mentors will be communicated along with their area of 
expertise once the review process has been completed.

ECAL'13 Paper & Abstract Submission Deadline Extended - Friday May 10

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ECAL'13 Paper & Abstract Submission Deadline Extended - *Friday May 10*

ECAL 2013, European Conference on Artificial Life,
an International Conference on the Designing, Programming, Evolving,
Simulation and Synthesis of Natural and Artificial Living Systems

2-6 September 2013, Taormina, Italy - http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/

*Paper/Abstract Submission: May 10, 2013*
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecal2013
Proceedings by MIT Press.
Best Papers in Artificial Life Journal (confirmed).

* 17 Tracks

ECAL Manuscripts - General Track
Track on Adaptive Hardware & Systems and Bioelectronics
Track on Adaptive Living Material Technologies and Biomimetic Microsystems
Track on Artificial Immune, Neural and Endocrine Systems
Track on Artificial Organs and Tissues & Organ-on-a-Chip
Track on Astrobiology
Track on Bioinspired Learning and Optimization
Track on Bioinspired Robotics
Track on Biologically Inspired Engineering
Track on Evolvable Hardware, Evolutionary Electronics & BioChips
Track on Foundations of Complex Systems and Biological Complexity
Track on Immunoinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Immunology
Track on Music and the Origins and Evolution of Language
Track on Mathematical Models for Life Sciences
Track on Programmable Nanomaterials
Track on Synthetic and Systems Biochemistry and Biological Control
Track on The Sciences of the Artificial for Economics, Finance and  
Market Design

* 8 Plenary Speakers

Roberto Cingolani, IIT, Italy

Roberto Cipolla, University of Cambridge, UK

Dario Floreano, EPFL, Swiss

Martin Hanczyc, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Henrik Hautop, Lund, Denmark

Didier Keymeulen, Caltech, USA

Steve Oliver - University of Cambridge, UK

Rolf Pfeifer, ETH, Swiss

http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/keynote.php

* 12 Workshops

A TRUCE workshop on Unconventional Computing in 2070

Artificial Life Based Models of Higher Cognition

Artificial Consciousness

Artificial Life in Massive Data Flow

Collective and Swarm Robotics

Evolution and Development of Networks, from Systems Biology to  
Computational Neuroscience

2nd International Workshop on the Evolution of Physical Systems

ERLARS 2013 - 6th International Workshop on Evolutionary and  
Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems

Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems

HSB - 2nd International Workshop on Hybrid Systems and Biology

Protocells: Back to the Future

What Synthetic Biology can offer to Artificial Intelligence?  
Perspectives in the Bio-Chem-ICT and other scenarios

http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/workshops.php

* 5 Tutorials

Cell Pathway Design for Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology

Exploring Prebiotic Chemistry Spaces

Designing Adaptive Humanoid Robots Through the FARSA Open-Source Framework

New Generation Sequencing Data Production, Analysis, and Archiving

PyCX: A Python-Based Simulation Code Repository for Complex Systems Education

http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/tutorials.php

We look forward to seeing you in Sicily!

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[CfP] (Deadline approaching) 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (with DL 2013)

RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium - Extended Deadlines

AST 2013: 3rd Call for Papers (7th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies)

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>>> NEW DEADLINE: May 12, 2013

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 7th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies

                              (AST 2013)

                       http://ast2013.fzi.de/

     at INFORMATIK 2013 (16-20 September 2013, Koblenz, Germany)

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      <<<  Discuss about application areas on our forum at  >>>
      <<<         http://ast2013.fzi.de/?page_id=33         >>>
      <<< as input to the OpenSpace session at the workshop >>>

Aim, Scope, Goals:
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Semantic Web denotes a major international research effort with the goal
to make Web content available for intelligent knowledge processing. The
Semantic Web draws on standard and novel techniques from various
disciplines related to Computer Science, including Artificial
Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology, Software Agents,
Ontologies, Knowledge Management and eCommerce. The developed and
integrated methods and tools – often called Semantic Technologies – are
generic and have a very large application potential outside the domain
of Semantic Web.

Applications of Semantic Technologies are currently being investigated
in various fields, including Ambient Intelligence, Software Engineering,
Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge Management and
Bioinformatics. In recent years, the amount of data published on the
Semantic Web as so-called Linked Data has exploded. We believe that the
methods and tools provided by Semantic Technologies will play a crucial
role in these and other application areas for the foreseeable future, in
particular for added-value services in organizations.

The AST2013 workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners
who work on applications of Semantic Technologies in order to foster
cross-fertilisation between application areas and aid technology
transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop covers
diverse application areas of Semantic Technologies, including, but not
limited to, the following:

* Ambient Intelligence
* Cognitive Systems
* Information Integration
* Multimedia Data Management
* Software Engineering
* smartEnergy
* Machine Learning
* Service-Oriented Computing
* Digital Libraries
* Grid and Cloud Computing
* Peer-to-Peer Systems
* Technology-enhanced learning
* eScience
* eCommerce
* eGovernment
* Bioinformatics
* Social Software
* Automation

The event will be organised as a full-day workshop with a keynote
address and several contributed talks. There will be an additional slot
reserved for an OpenSpace session to creatively explore new application
areas. We believe that this will spark fruitful discussions among
participants and initiate future collaborations and exploitation areas
for Semantic Technologies.

Important Dates:
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* Paper submission deadline: May 12, 2013
* Notification: May 20, 2013
* Registration for INFORMATIK 2013: June 30, 2013
* Camera ready version: July 1, 2013
* AST Workshop: September 17, 2013

Workshop Organisers:
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* Jürgen Bock (FZI Research Center for Information Technologies,
  Karlsruhe)
* Catherina Burghart (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences)
* Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT)

Programme Committee:
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* Armin Haller, CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra
* Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
* Christoph Beierle, University of Hagen, Germany
* Frithjof Dau, SAP AG, Dresden
* Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Dortmund, Germany
* Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
* Jens Hartmann, EnBW, EnSoC, Karlsruhe
* Johannes Busse, Johannes Busse knowledge engineering
* Jürgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
* Mark Hefke, CAS Software AG
* Markus Luczak-Roesch, FU Berlin, Germany
* Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin, Germany
* Simone Braun, CAS Software AG
* Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Stefan Schlobach, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Germany
* Stefan Schulte, TU Wien, Austria
* Stephan Bloehdorn, IBM, Berlin
* Stephan Grimm, Siemens AG, München
* Thomas Fuhr, Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences
  Nuremberg, Germany
* Thorsten Liebig, derivo GmbH, Ulm
* Ulrike Lucke, University of Potsdam
* York Sure, gesis Leibnitz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften