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IICAI-09 Call for papers: special session on AI in Bioinformatics

IICAI-09 Call for papers: special session on AI in Bioinformatics

 

There will be a special session on AI in Bioinformatics at the 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09) will be held in Tumkur (near Bangalore), India during December 16-18 2009. The conference consists of paper presentations, special workshops, sessions, invited talks and local tours, etc.  We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website: http://www.iiconference.org   for more details of the conference.

 

Sincerely

 

 

Ed

Publicity Committee

 


Rutledge, Lloyd | 6 Apr 2009 14:31
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CFP: Journal of Web Semantics - New Interaction Designs for Semantic Web (2 more weeks)

   ------------------------------
   CALL FOR JOURNAL PAPERS
   (apologies for cross-posting)
   ------------------------------

   Exploring New Interaction Designs Made Possible by the Semantic Web

   Special Issue Call: Journal of Web Semantics

   Overview:
   In this Special Issue, we seek papers that look at the challenges and
   innovate possible solutions for everyday computer users to be able to
   produce, publish, integrate, represent and share, on demand, information
   from and to heterogeneous data sources. Challenges touch on interface
   designs to support end-user programming for discovery and manipulation of
   such sources, visualization and navigation approaches for capturing,
   gathering and displaying and annotating data from multiple sources, and
   user-oriented tools to support both data publication and data exchange. The
   common thread among accepted papers will be their focus on such user
   interaction designs/solutions oriented linked web of data challenges.
   Papers are expected to be motivated by a user focus and methods evaluated
   in terms of usability to support approaches pursued.

   Motivation:
   The current personal computing paradigm of single applications with their
   associated data silos may finally be on its last legs as increasing numbers
   move their computing off the desktop and onto the Web. In this transition,
   we have a significant opportunity, and requirement, to reconsider how we
   design interactions that take advantage of this highly linked data.
   Context of when, where, what, and whom, for instance, is increasingly
   available from mobile networked devices and is regularly if not
   automatically published to social information collectors like Facebook,
   LinkedIn, and Twitter.

   Intriguingly, little of the current rich sources of information are being
   harvested and integrated. The opportunities such information affords,
   however, as sources for compelling new applications would seem to be a
   goldmine of possibility. Imagine applications that, by looking at one's
   calendar on the net, and with awareness of whom one is with and where they
   are, can either confirm that a scheduled meeting is taking place, or log
   the current meeting as a new entry for reference later. Likewise, documents
   shared by these participants could automatically be retrieved and available
   in the background for rapid access. Furthermore, on the social side,
   mapping current location and shared interests between participants may also
   recommend a new nearby location for coffee or an art exhibition that may
   otherwise have been missed. Larger social applications may enable not only
   the movement of seasonal ills like colds or flus to be tracked, but more
   serious outbreaks to be isolated.

   The above examples may be considered opportunities for more proactive
   personal information management applications that, by awareness of context
   information, can better automatically support a person's goals. In an
   increasingly data rich environment, the tasks may themselves change. We
   have seen how mashups have made everything from house hunting to
   understanding correlations between location and government funding more
   rapidly accessible. If, rather than being dependent upon interested
   programmers to create these interactive representations, we simply had
   access to the semantic data from a variety of publishers, and the widgets
   to represent the data, then we could create our own on-demand mashups to
   explore heterogeneous data in any way we chose.

   For each of these types of applications, interaction with information - be
   it personal, social or public - provides richer, faster, and potentially
   lighter-touch ways to build knowledge than our current interaction
   metaphors allow. What is the bottleneck to achieving these enriched forms
   of interaction? Fundamentally, we see the main bottleneck as a lack of
   tools for easy data capture, publication, representation and manipulation.

   Example:
   The mashup is a summative demonstration of the problem: to combine only two
   resources like a map and an apartment listing, one requires an API for a
   map service, programming knowledge/skills to get the apartment data from
   one source, say by having to scrape web pages, and plug that into the
   other. If the person wishes to use a different map, they may need to
   rewrite how the data from the apartment listing is plugged into that
   visualization. If they wish to use a completely different visualization,
   such as a heat graph, they will need to develop that code themselves.

   The barrier to entry for non-programmers is too high for most to be
   interested to attempt construction. By the time they would have the data
   they need, it may no longer even be relevant for the questions they wish to
   explore. Even for sufficiently skilled programmers, there are better things
   we could be doing with our time than constantly re-inventing the wheel.

   Challenges:
   Challenges to be addressed in this issue include, but are not restricted
   to:

    - approaches to support integrating data that is readily published,
   such as RSS feeds that are only lightly structured.

    - approaches to apply behaviors to these data sources.

    - approaches to make it as easy for someone to create and to publish
   structured data as it is to publish a blog.

    - approaches to support easy selection of items within resources for
   export into structured semantic forms like RDF.

    - facilities to support the pulling in of multiple sources; for
   instance, a person may wish to pull together data from three organizations.
   Where will they gather this data? What tools will be available to explore
   the various sources, align them where necessary and enable multiple
   visualizations to be explored?

    - methods to support fluidity and acceleration for each of the
   above: lowering the interaction cost for gathering data sources, exploring
   them and presenting them; designing lightweight and rapid techniques.

    - novel input mechanisms: most structured data capture requires the
   use of forms. The cost of form input can inhibit that data from being
   captured or shared. How can we reduce the barrier to data capture?

    - evaluation methods: how do we evaluate the degree to which these
   new approaches are effective, useful or empowering for knowledge builders?

    - user analysis and design methods: how do we understand context and
   goals at every stage of the design process? What is different about
   designing for a highly personal, contextual, and linked environment?

   This issue focuses on innovative interaction design that takes advantage
   of linked, semantic data on the Web. Therefore, particularly relevant work
   includes interaction designs to support rapid data selection or production,
   reuse, representation, and designs that help users understand and control
   their data environment. Real user evaluations that demonstrate that these
   attributes are experienced as facile and fluid are expected as part of work
   presented. We are also interested in evaluated models or frameworks that
   will support such interaction, either by dealing with the limitations of
   current data sources, or in particular, by making it easy for ordinary
   computer users to produce shared data formats for these data interaction
   tools. The preference is for RDF-based tools. Also of interest is what new
   applications may be produced when such effortless heterogeneous data
   merging becomes possible not *just* for Ajax hackers but for
   anyone currently using the Web.

   Submission:

   We welcome three types of submission for this Special Issue:

      Full papers from 10-30 pages of journal format.
      Short papers (4-6 page) demonstration papers with evaluations of new tools
          that address any of the above challenges.
      Short (1-2 page) forward-looking more speculative papers addressing the
          challenges outlined above.

   Please upload papers to the Journal of Web Semantics
   http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/671322/description#description

   Key Dates:
       Papers due April 20
       Reviews to Authors by May 15
       Authors' Revisions by June 7
       Additional comments by Reviewers to Authors by June 23
       Final Revisions by July 15
       Publication Jan 2010

   Editorial Committee for the Special Issue:

   Co-editors:
       mc schraefel, University of Southampton, UK
       Lloyd Rutledge, Open Universiteit Nederland

   Program Committee:
       Abraham Bernstein, U of Zürich
       Duane Degler, IPGEMS
       Steven Drucker, LiveLabs Research, Microsoft
       Jennifer Golbeck, U of Maryland
       David Karger, MIT

   Homepage: http://swui.webscience.org/JWS2009/

Rutledge, Lloyd | 17 Apr 2009 22:28
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CFP: Journal of Web Semantics - Interaction special issue deadline extended to 30 April

Due to numerous requests, the deadline for submissions to the Journal of
Web Semantics special issue on "Exploring New Interaction Designs Made
Possible by the Semantic Web" is extended from April 20th to April 30th.

------------------------------
CALL FOR JOURNAL PAPERS
(apologies for cross-posting)
------------------------------

Exploring New Interaction Designs Made Possible by the Semantic Web

Special Issue Call: Journal of Web Semantics

Overview:
In this Special Issue, we seek papers that look at the challenges and
innovate possible solutions for everyday computer users to be able to
produce, publish, integrate, represent and share, on demand, information
from and to heterogeneous data sources. Challenges touch on interface
designs to support end-user programming for discovery and manipulation
of
such sources, visualization and navigation approaches for capturing,
gathering and displaying and annotating data from multiple sources, and
user-oriented tools to support both data publication and data exchange.
The
common thread among accepted papers will be their focus on such user
interaction designs/solutions oriented linked web of data challenges.
Papers are expected to be motivated by a user focus and methods
evaluated
in terms of usability to support approaches pursued.

Motivation:
The current personal computing paradigm of single applications with
their
associated data silos may finally be on its last legs as increasing
numbers
move their computing off the desktop and onto the Web. In this
transition,
we have a significant opportunity, and requirement, to reconsider how we
design interactions that take advantage of this highly linked data.
Context of when, where, what, and whom, for instance, is increasingly
available from mobile networked devices and is regularly if not
automatically published to social information collectors like Facebook,
LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Intriguingly, little of the current rich sources of information are
being
harvested and integrated. The opportunities such information affords,
however, as sources for compelling new applications would seem to be a
goldmine of possibility. Imagine applications that, by looking at one's
calendar on the net, and with awareness of whom one is with and where
they
are, can either confirm that a scheduled meeting is taking place, or log
the current meeting as a new entry for reference later. Likewise,
documents
shared by these participants could automatically be retrieved and
available
in the background for rapid access. Furthermore, on the social side,
mapping current location and shared interests between participants may
also
recommend a new nearby location for coffee or an art exhibition that may
otherwise have been missed. Larger social applications may enable not
only
the movement of seasonal ills like colds or flus to be tracked, but more
serious outbreaks to be isolated.

The above examples may be considered opportunities for more proactive
personal information management applications that, by awareness of
context
information, can better automatically support a person's goals. In an
increasingly data rich environment, the tasks may themselves change. We
have seen how mashups have made everything from house hunting to
understanding correlations between location and government funding more
rapidly accessible. If, rather than being dependent upon interested
programmers to create these interactive representations, we simply had
access to the semantic data from a variety of publishers, and the
widgets
to represent the data, then we could create our own on-demand mashups to
explore heterogeneous data in any way we chose.

For each of these types of applications, interaction with information -
be
it personal, social or public - provides richer, faster, and potentially
lighter-touch ways to build knowledge than our current interaction
metaphors allow. What is the bottleneck to achieving these enriched
forms
of interaction? Fundamentally, we see the main bottleneck as a lack of
tools for easy data capture, publication, representation and
manipulation.

Example:
The mashup is a summative demonstration of the problem: to combine only
two
resources like a map and an apartment listing, one requires an API for a
map service, programming knowledge/skills to get the apartment data from
one source, say by having to scrape web pages, and plug that into the
other. If the person wishes to use a different map, they may need to
rewrite how the data from the apartment listing is plugged into that
visualization. If they wish to use a completely different visualization,
such as a heat graph, they will need to develop that code themselves.

The barrier to entry for non-programmers is too high for most to be
interested to attempt construction. By the time they would have the data
they need, it may no longer even be relevant for the questions they wish
to
explore. Even for sufficiently skilled programmers, there are better
things
we could be doing with our time than constantly re-inventing the wheel.

Challenges:
Challenges to be addressed in this issue include, but are not restricted
to:

 - approaches to support integrating data that is readily published,
such as RSS feeds that are only lightly structured.

 - approaches to apply behaviors to these data sources.

 - approaches to make it as easy for someone to create and to publish
structured data as it is to publish a blog.

 - approaches to support easy selection of items within resources for
export into structured semantic forms like RDF.

 - facilities to support the pulling in of multiple sources; for
instance, a person may wish to pull together data from three
organizations.
Where will they gather this data? What tools will be available to
explore
the various sources, align them where necessary and enable multiple
visualizations to be explored?

 - methods to support fluidity and acceleration for each of the
above: lowering the interaction cost for gathering data sources,
exploring
them and presenting them; designing lightweight and rapid techniques.

 - novel input mechanisms: most structured data capture requires the
use of forms. The cost of form input can inhibit that data from being
captured or shared. How can we reduce the barrier to data capture?

 - evaluation methods: how do we evaluate the degree to which these
new approaches are effective, useful or empowering for knowledge
builders?

 - user analysis and design methods: how do we understand context and
goals at every stage of the design process? What is different about
designing for a highly personal, contextual, and linked environment?

This issue focuses on innovative interaction design that takes advantage
of linked, semantic data on the Web. Therefore, particularly relevant
work
includes interaction designs to support rapid data selection or
production,
reuse, representation, and designs that help users understand and
control
their data environment. Real user evaluations that demonstrate that
these
attributes are experienced as facile and fluid are expected as part of
work
presented. We are also interested in evaluated models or frameworks that
will support such interaction, either by dealing with the limitations of
current data sources, or in particular, by making it easy for ordinary
computer users to produce shared data formats for these data interaction
tools. The preference is for RDF-based tools. Also of interest is what
new
applications may be produced when such effortless heterogeneous data
merging becomes possible not *just* for Ajax hackers but for
anyone currently using the Web.

Submission:

We welcome three types of submission for this Special Issue:

   Full papers from 10-30 pages of journal format.
   Short papers (4-6 page) demonstration papers with evaluations of new
tools
       that address any of the above challenges.
   Short (1-2 page) forward-looking more speculative papers addressing
the
       challenges outlined above.

Please upload papers to the Journal of Web Semantics
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/671322/desc
ription#description

Key Dates:
    Papers due April 30 (extended)
    Reviews to Authors by May 15
    Authors' Revisions by June 7
    Additional comments by Reviewers to Authors by June 23
    Final Revisions by July 15
    Publication Jan 2010

Editorial Committee for the Special Issue:

Co-editors:
    mc schraefel, University of Southampton, UK
    Lloyd Rutledge, Open Universiteit Nederland

Program Committee:
    Abraham Bernstein, U of Zurich
    Duane Degler, IPGEMS
    Steven Drucker, LiveLabs Research, Microsoft
    Jennifer Golbeck, U of Maryland
    David Karger, MIT

Homepage: http://swui.webscience.org/JWS2009/

John Edward | 19 Apr 2009 18:02
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Extended draft paper submission: BCBGC-09 call for papers

Extended draft paper submission: BCBGC-09 call for papers

 

This Extended Call for Papers for the 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) is for those who didn't get a chance to submit the papers for the earlier call for papers. The papers received and accepted in response to this extended call for papers will be included in the final version of the respective conference proceedings. These proceedings will be either ready by the time of the conference (i.e., they will be available during the conference) or soon after the conference (before the end of August 2009), based how fast the proceedings can be prepared.

Note: If you have already submitted a paper (whether accepted or rejected or currently under review) for MULTICONF-09, please DO NOT submit that paper again to this extended call for papers.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Draft paper submission date: May 11, 2009
Acceptance/rejection decision: May 21, 2009
Camera ready paper and copyright and pre-registration due: May 28, 2009
Conference dates: July 13-16, 2009

 

 

BCBGC-09 will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include:

·         International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09)

·         International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09)

·         International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09)

·         International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09)

·         International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09)

·         International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09)

·         International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09)

·         International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09)

·         International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09)

 

The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details.

 

Sincerely

John Edward

Publicity committee


dawnwatson13 | 18 Apr 2009 20:44
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Extended draft paper submission: MULTICONF-09 call for papers

Extended draft paper submission: MULTICONF-09 call for papers

 

This Extended Call for Papers is for those who didn't get a chance to submit the papers for the earlier call for papers. The papers received and accepted in response to this extended call for papers will be included in the final version of the respective conference proceedings. These proceedings will be either ready by the time of the conference (i.e., they will be available during the conference) or soon after the conference (before the end of August 2009), based how fast the proceedings can be prepared.

Note: If you have already submitted a paper (whether accepted or rejected or currently under review) for MULTICONF-09, please DO NOT submit that paper again to this extended call for papers.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Draft paper submission date: May 11, 2009
Acceptance/rejection decision: May 21, 2009
Camera ready paper and copyright and pre-registration due: May 28, 2009
Conference dates: July 13-16, 2009

 

The extended deadline for draft paper submission at the 2009 Multi Conference in Computer Science, Information Technology and Control systems and Computational Science and Computer Engineering (MULTICONF-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) is just few weeks from now. We invite draft paper submissions. The event consists of the following conferences:

·        International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09)

·        International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09)

·        International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09)

·        International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09)

·        International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09)

·        International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09)

·        International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09)

·        International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09)

·        International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09)

·        International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09)

 

The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org  contains more details.

 

Sincerely

Dawn Watson

Publicity committee

 

Edward Mellon | 25 Apr 2009 16:13
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Extended draft paper submission: MULTICONF-09 call for papers

Extended draft paper submission: MULTICONF-09 call for papers

 

This Extended Call for Papers is for those who didn't get a chance to submit the papers for the earlier call for papers. The papers received and accepted in response to this extended call for papers will be included in the final version of the respective conference proceedings. These proceedings will be either ready by the time of the conference (i.e., they will be available during the conference) or soon after the conference (before the end of August 2009), based how fast the proceedings can be prepared.

Note: If you have already submitted a paper (whether accepted or rejected or currently under review) for MULTICONF-09, please DO NOT submit that paper again to this extended call for papers.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Draft paper submission date: May 11, 2009
Acceptance/rejection decision: May 21, 2009
Camera ready paper and copyright and pre-registration due: May 28, 2009
Conference dates: July 13-16, 2009

LOCATION:

 

Orlando, Florida, USA

 

 

The extended deadline for draft paper submission at the 2009 Multi Conference in Computer Science, Information Technology and Control systems and Computational Science and Computer Engineering (MULTICONF-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) is very close from now. We invite draft paper submissions. The event consists of the following conferences:

·        International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09)

·        International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09)

·        International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09)

·        International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09)

·        International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09)

·        International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09)

·        International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09)

·        International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09)

·        International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09)

·        International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09)

 

The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org  contains more details.

 

Sincerely

Edward Mellon

Publicity committee

Chris Bizer | 28 Apr 2009 12:40
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CfP: 7th Semantic Web Challenge - Open Track and Billion Triples Track

Call for Participation

7th Semantic Web Challenge - Open Track and Billion Triples Track

at the 

8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)

Chantilly, Virginia, USA 
October 25-29, 2009

http://challenge.semanticweb.org/  

****************************************************************************

We invite submissions to the seventh annual Semantic Web Challenge, the premiere event for demonstrating
practical progress towards achieving the vision of the Semantic Web.

The central idea of the Semantic Web is to extend the current human-readable Web by encoding some of the
semantics of resources in a machine-processable form. Moving beyond syntax opens the door to more
advanced applications and functionality on the Web. Computers will be better able to search, process,
integrate and present the content of these resources in a meaningful, intelligent manner.

As the core technological building blocks are now in place, the next challenge is to show off the benefits of
semantic technologies by developing integrated, easy to use applications that can provide new levels of
Web functionality for end users on the Web or within enterprise settings. Applications submitted should
demonstrate clear practical value that goes above and beyond what is possible with conventional web
technologies alone.

The Semantic Web Challenge of 2009 will consist of two tracks: the Open Track and the Billion Triples Track.
The key difference between the two tracks is that the Billion Triples Track requires the participants to
make use of the data set — a billion triples — that has been crawled from the Web and is provided by the
organizers. The Open Track has no such restrictions.

As before, the Challenge is open to everyone from academia and industry. The authors of the best
applications will be awarded prizes and featured prominently at special sessions during the conference.

GOALS
-----
The overall goal of this event is to advance our understanding of how semantic technologies can be
exploited to produce useful applications for the Web. Semantic Web applications should integrate,
combine, and deduce information from various sources to assist users in performing specific tasks.

The specific goal of the Billion Triples Track is to demonstrate the scalability of applications as well as
capability to deal with the specifics of data that has been crawled from the public Web.

We stress that the goal of this is not to be a benchmarking effort between triple stores, but rather to
demonstrate applications that can work on Web scale using realistic Web-quality data.

Minimal Requirements
--------------------
Submissions for the Semantic Web Challenge must meet the following minimum requirements:

For the Open Track:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. The meaning of data has to play a central role.
     * Meaning must be represented using formal descriptions.
     * Data must be manipulated/processed in interesting ways to derive useful information and
     * this semantic information processing has to play a central role in achieving things that alternative
technologies cannot do as well, or at all;
2. The information sources used
     * should be under diverse ownership or control
     * should be heterogeneous (syntactically, structurally, and semantically), and
     * should contain substantial quantities of real world data (i.e. not toy examples).
3. The application has to be an end-user application, i.e. an application that provides a practical value
to domain experts.

Although we expect that most applications will use RDF, RDF Schema, or OWL this is not a requirement. What is
more important is that whatever semantic technology is used, it plays a central role in achieving
interesting new levels of functionality or performance.

It is required that all applications assume an open world, i.e. that the information is never complete.

Additional Desirable Features
-----------------------------
In addition to the above minimum requirements, we note other desirable features that will be used as
criteria to evaluate submissions.
- The application provides an attractive and functional Web interface (for human users) 
- The application should be scalable (in terms of the amount of data used and in terms of distributed
components working together).  Ideally, the application should use all data that is currently published
on the Semantic Web. 
- Rigorous evaluations have taken place that demonstrate the benefits of semantic technologies, or
validate the results obtained.
- Novelty, in applying semantic technology to a domain or task that have not been considered before
- Functionality is different from or goes beyond pure information retrieval
- The application has clear commercial potential and/or large existing user base
- Contextual information is used for ratings or rankings
- Multi-media documents are used in some way
- There is a use of dynamic data (e.g. workflows), perhaps in combination with static information
- The results should be as accurate as possible (e.g. use a ranking of results according to context)
- There is support for multiple languages and accessibility on a range of devices

For the Billion Triples Track:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The primary goal of the Billion triple track is to demonstrate applications that can work on Web scale using
realistic Web-quality data.  The organizers therefore provide a billion triple large dataset that has
been crawled from the Web and has to be used by the applications.  The functionality of the applications can
involved anything from helping people figure out what is in the dataset via browsing, visualization,
profiling, etc; could include inferencing that adds information not directly queriable in the original
dataset; etc.

Submissions for the Billion Triples Track must meet the following minimum requirements:

1. The tool or application has to make use of at least a significant portion of the data provided by the organizers.
2. The tool or application is allowed to use other data that can be linked to the target dataset, but there is
still an expectation that the primary focus will be on the data provided.
3. The tool or application does not have to be specifically an end-user application, as defined for the Open
Track Challenge, but usability is a concern.  The key goal is to demonstrate an interaction with the large
data-set driven by a user or an application.  However, given the scale of this challenge, solutions that
can be justified as leading to such applications, or as crucial to the success of future applications,
will be considered.

It is desired that all applications assume an open world, i.e. that the information is never complete. 
However, applications that can show useful ways to "close the world" for sections of the dataset will be considered.

Additional Desirable Features
-----------------------------
In addition to the above minimum requirements, we note other desirable features that will be used as
criteria to evaluate submissions.
-  The application should do more than simply store/retrieve large numbers of triples
-  The application or tool(s) should be scalable (in terms of  the amount  of data used and in terms of
distributed components working together)
-  The application or tool(s) should show the use of the very large, mixed quality data set
-  The application should either function in real-time or, if pre-computation is needed, have a real-time
realization (but we will take a wide view of "real time" depending on the scale of what is done)

How to participate
------------------
Visit http://challenge.semanticweb.org in order to participate and register for the Semantic Web
Challenge by submitting the required information as well as a link to the application on the online
registration form. The form will be open until October 1, 2009, 12am CET. 

The requirements of this entry are:

1) Abstract: no more than 200 words.
2) Description: The description will show details of the system including why the system is innovative,
which features or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and what lessons were
learned. Papers should not exceed eight pages and must be formatted according to the same guidelines as
the papers in the Research Track (see http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/).
3) Web access: The application should be accessible via the web. If the application is not publicly
accessible, passwords should be provided. We also ask to provide a (short) instruction on how to start and
use the application.

Descriptions will be published in the form of an online proceedings.

Prizes
------

A prize in money will be provided to the winners along with publicity for their work: 
1. Prize: 1.000 € 
2. Prize: 500 € 
3. Prize: 250 € 

The winners will also be asked to give a live demonstration of their application at the ISWC 2009
conference. The winners will also be asked to give a live demonstration of their application at the ISWC
2009 conference. The best applications will also have a chance to appear as full papers in the Journal of
Web Semantics.

In the event that one of the tracks receive less than a minimal number of submissions, the organizers
reserve the right to merge the two tracks of the competition.

IMPORTANT DATES
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October 1, 2009: Submissions due
October 25-29, 2009: ISWC 2009 Technical Program

SWC Co-Chairs
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Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research Barcelona)

Contact:
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Peter Mika 
Yahoo! Research Barcelona 
Avinguda Diagonal 177, 8th floor 
Barcelona, 08018 
Catalunya, Spain 
(Phone) +34 93 183-8846 
(Fax) + 34 93 183-8901 
Email: pmika at yahoo-inc.com 
Web: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~pmika/

Cheers,

Chris Bizer and Peter Mika

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CfP: K-CAP 2009 Workshop on Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup (SAAKM 2009)

[Apologies for cross posting]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup (SAAKM 2009)
http://saakm2009.semanticauthoring.org/
1 September 2009

co-located with the 5th International Conference on
Knowledge Capture (K-Cap 2009)
Redondo Beach, California, USA, 1-4 September 2009
http://kcap09.stanford.edu/
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Capturing knowledge by using markup techniques and by supporting semantic
annotations is a major technique for creating metadata. It is beneficial
in a wide range of content-oriented intelligent applications.
One important application for instance is the Semantic Web. The research
about the WWW currently strives to augment syntactic information
already present in the Web by semantic metadata in order to achieve a
Semantic Web that human and software agents can understand. Here, one
of the most urgent challenges now is a knowledge-capturing problem,
i.e., how one may turn existing syntactic resources into knowledge
structures. A solution is to markup web documents in order to create
metadata on the web or to author new documents in a way that they
contain markup directly.

Another application is the indexing and searching of multimedia (and
multilingual) data. It is difficult to completely process the content of
multimedia data, even with technologies based on natural language
processing, image processing, machine vision and speech recognition.
Therefore, semantic annotation is one of the promising methodologies
to define semantic structures on the content.

WORKSHOP GOALS

This workshop aims at bringing together members of different overlapping
communities that share the interest on semantic authoring and annotation
for developing methods and tools:
* Semantic Web researchers who use semantic authoring and annotation
to enrich the web with distributed relational meta-data in order to
enable a machine-readable web.
* Members of the human language technology community, developing
information extraction systems for the generation of meta-data
* People from the multimedia content domain, indexing and searching
of multimedia (and multilingual) data.
* Researchers who address innovative topics and applications by semantic
annotation (semantic annotation of databases, annotation of
web/grid services, semantic hypertext, etc.)
This will give an opportunity to push further the discussion upon the
potential of semantic annotation across these communities.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Potential topics include but are not limited to:
* semantic authoring and publishing
* document engineering
* deriving semantics from document structure and content
* ontology-based authoring and markup
* knowledge markup in the Semantic Web
* standards for supporting knowledge markup, e.g.,
   RDFa, microformats, GRDDL
* using semantic annotations to define knowledge
* integrated software architecture based on semantic annotation
* multimedia annotation (e.g., by using MPEG-7)
* annotation of software components
* linguistic aspects of semantic annotation
* capturing knowledge through Information Extraction and NLP
* text mining for creating knowledge markup
* mining semantic information from blogs, forums or news sources.
* collaborative, shared tagging and annotation
* evaluation of annotation frameworks
* semantic annotation in Semantic Wikis
* semantic annotation of multilingual web sources
* deriving formal semantics from (flat or hierarchical) tagging systems
* vocabularies and ontologies for semantic authoring and annotation
* tools for supporting knowledge markup, semantic annotation,
   semantic authoring, ...

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: June 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2009
Camera-ready paper submission: July 27, 2009
Workshop date: September 1, 2009

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

* Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland
* Michael Sintek, DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany
* Nigel Collier, NII, Japan
* Anita de Waard, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We invite submissions of full technical papers and short position papers.
Authors of accepted technical and position papers will be invited to
present their papers in the workshop

Format requirements for submissions of technical papers are:
* Full papers - should not exceed 8 pages in length (including references)
* Position papers - are expected up to 3 pages.

Papers must be submitted as PDF and strictly adhere to ACM
proceedings format:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

For submissions, the authors are expected to use the following link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saakm09

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