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Jesse Weaver | 26 May 00:02
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CFP: SSWS+HPCSW Workshop at ISWC 2012

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

JOINT WORKSHOP ON SCALABLE AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE SEMANTIC WEB SYSTEMS
                        (SSWS+HPCSW 2012)

              http://tw.rpi.edu/ssws.hpcsw.2012/

   At the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2012),
 Boston, USA, November 11-15, 2012 http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

As the Semantic Web evolves, scalability becomes increasingly important.
This joint workshop will focus on addressing the scalability issue with
respect to the development and deployment of 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, analysis, etc. There are two basic requirements for
these systems. First, they have to satisfy an application's semantic
requirements. 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 new challenges beyond those addressed by previous
systems. This has been well recognized by the community as demonstrated by
the excitement around the billion triples challenge.

For 2012, the 8th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge
Base Systems (SSWS2012) and the 2nd Workshop on High-Performance Computing
for the Semantic Web (HPCSW2012) are merging together for the first time to
address this broader issue of scalability. The event is the 2012 Joint
Workshop on Scalable and High-Performance Semantic Web Systems (SSWS+HPCSW
2012), collocated with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference in
Boston, USA. This joint workshop will have two tracks regarding
scalability: one for knowledge base systems, and another for
high-performance computing.

We expect that the issue of scalability 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 joint workshop seeks to bring together researchers
and practitioners to share their recent ideas and progress towards building
scalable systems for the Semantic Web; participants from related
disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Information
Integration, Supercomputing, and High-Performance Computing are also
welcome.

* Knowledge Base Track

This track 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; and (3) identification of important issues and
future research directions. Topics of interest for the track 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
Papers submitted for this track should be full papers not exceeding 16
pages.

* High-Performance Track

Over the last several years, there has been an increase of research in
parallel Semantic Web data processing (SWDP) in both the Semantic Web
community and the high-performance computing (HPC) community. As specific
examples, use of HPC won the 2009 billion triples challenges, a parallel
inference engine won the 2010 IEEE SCALE challenge, and the SuperComputing
conference has had a birds-of-a-feather on semantic database processing for
the last two years. Such events warrant special attention to scalability
achieved by means of HPC, and this track seeks to facilitate synergy
between relevant communities as well as between academia and industry.
Topics include, but are not limited to:

    * Novel parallelization of SWDP.
    * Exploiting HPC architectures for SWDP.
    * Employing known parallel graph algorithms for SWDP.
    * Benchmarks for SWDP from a HPC perspective.

This track will accept short/position papers not exceeding 6 pages and full
papers not exceeding 16 pages.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2012 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Acceptance Notification: August 21, 2012
Camera Ready Papers Due: September 10, 2012
Workshop Day (full day): November 11|12, 2012 (TBD)


ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Achille Fokoue
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Thorsten Liebig
derivo GmbH, Germany

Eric Goodman
Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Jesse Weaver
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Jacopo Urbani
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

David Mizell
Cray Inc., USA


JOINT PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Jans Aasman (Franz Inc., USA)
Robert Adolf (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Sinan al-Saffar (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Alexey Cheptsov (High Performance Computing Center (HLRS), Germany)
Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Mike Dean (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)
Achille Fokoue (IBM Research, USA)
Raúl García-Castro (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
Eric Goodman (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Yuanbuo Guo (Microsoft, USA)
Volker Haarslev (Concordia University, Canada)
David Haglin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA)
Aidan Hogan (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland)
Bill Howe (University of Washington, USA)
Cliff Joslyn (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Anastasios Kementsietsidis (IBM Research, USA)
Pavel Klinov (Ulm University, Germany)
Spyros Kotoulas (IBM Research, Ireland)
Thorston Liebig (derivo GmbH, Germany)
David Mizell (Cray Inc., USA)
Ralf Möller (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Bijan Parsia (Univeresity of Manchester, UK)
Axel Polleres (Siemens, Germany)
Mariano Rodriguez-Muro (Free University of Bolzano, Italy)
Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Andy Seaborne (Epimorphics Ltd., UK)
Kavitha Srinivas (IBM Research, USA)
Jacopo Urbani (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Jesse Weaver (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Gregory Todd Williams (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Takahira Yamaguchi (Keio University, Japan)



Jesse Weaver
Ph.D. Student, Patroon Fellow
Tetherless World Constellation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Christian De Sainte Marie | 25 May 18:40
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(Reminder) Standards for Smart Applications workshop <at> ECAI 2012: deadline approaching

(Apologies for cross-posting)

This short note to remind you that the paper submission deadline for the ECAI workshop on "Standards for Smart Applications" (S4SA) is May 28: that is, next Monday [1].

[1] http://sites.google.com/site/s4sa2012/

If you intend to submit a paper, but you are not sure if you can make the deadline, please contact me directly (see contact info on the workshop Web site).

Also, the submission deadline is right after the notification of acceptance for RuleML (May 27), and one week after the notification of acceptance for ECAI (today 21 May): if your paper was rejected and you think that it is relevant to S4SA but you do not have the time to adapt it to the specific focus of the workshop, just add an explanation in front why it is relevant and how you will refocus it if accepted, and submit it. In most cases, we expect that it will be enough to help the PC decide about its value for S4SA.

For the S4SA programme committee,
Christian de Sainte Marie

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Jens Lehmann | 24 May 18:26
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Sorry, I don’t speak SPARQL - A Survey


Dear all,

many Semantic Web applications are currently based on SPARQL. In 
particular, an increasing number of systems, such as question answering 
systems, keyword search or search by example internally construct SPARQL 
queries. However, lay users do not understand this language, so it is 
difficult to give the user feedback on what queries the system 
constructed. To address the gap between SPARQL and natural language, the 
AKSW and CITEC groups [1,2] have devised an approach for transforming 
SPARQL queries to natural language.

You (yes, you ^_^) can help us by judging the quality of the 
translations we present in this survey:

http://sparql2nl.aksw.org/eval

The survey can be done by both - SPARQL experts and lay users. For lay 
users, it takes 5 minutes to complete and 15 minutes for experts. In 
addition to the interesting (sometimes challenging) questions, there are 
also great prices to win. 10 randomly selected participants will receive 
Amazon vouchers:

1st price: 200 Euro
2nd price: 100 Euro
3rd price: 50 Euro
4th - 10th price: 25 Euro

If you want to win a price, you need to fill in your name at the end of 
the survey.

Kind regards,

Axel Ngonga, Lorenz Bühmann, Christina Unger, Daniel Gerber and Jens Lehmann

[1] http://aksw.org
[2] https://www.cit-ec.de
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Dave Kolas | 24 May 16:19
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Call for Papers: GIScience in the Big Data Age 2012 (GIBDA2012)

====================================================== Call for Papers Workshop on GIScience in the Big Data Age 2012 (GIBDA2012) in conjunction with the seventh International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2012 (GIScience 2012) Columbus, Ohio, USA on September 18th, 2012 http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/gibda2012/ The rapidly increasing information universe with new data created at a speed surpassing our capacities to store it, calls for improved methods to retrieve, filter, integrate, and share data. The vision of a data-intensive science hopes that the open availability of data with a higher spatial, temporal, and thematic resolution will enable us to better address complex scientific and social questions. However, on the downside, understanding, sharing, and reusing these data becomes more challenging. Big Data is not only big because it involves a huge amount of data, but also because of the high-dimensionality and inter-linkage of these data sets. The on-the-fly integration of heterogeneous data from various sources has been named one of the frontiers of Digital Earth research, Bioinformatics, the Digital Humanities, and other emerging research visions. >From a more technical perspective, a knowledge infrastructure is required to handle Big Data. Currently, the most promising approach is the Linked Data cloud. While the Web has changed with the advent of the Social Web from mostly authoritative towards increasing amounts of user-generated content, it is essentially still about linked documents. These documents provide structure and context for the described data and easy their interpretation. In contrast, the upcoming Data Web is about linking data, not documents. Such data sets are not bound to a specific document but can be easily combined and used outside of the original context. With a growth rate of millions of new facts encoded as RDF-triples per month, the Linked Data cloud allows users to answer complex queries spanning multiple sources. Due to the uncoupling of data from its original creation context, semantic interoperability, identity resolution, and ontologies are central methodologies to ensure consistency and meaningful results. Space and time are fundamental ordering relations to structure such data and provide an implicit context for their interpretation. Prominent geo-related Linked Data hubs include Geonames.org as well as the Linked Geo Data project, which provides a RDF serialization of Open Street Map. Furthermore, many other Linked Data sources contain location references, e.g., observation data provided by sensors. This full day workshop is a follow-up event of the successful first workshop on Linked Spatiotemporal Data at GIScience 2010. While this first workshop was centered around Linked Data and geo-ontologies, the GiBDA 2012 workshop takes a broader perspective by highlighting data-intensive science as the research vision and Linked Data as a promising knowledge infrastructure. We hope that the workshop will help better define the data, knowledge representations, infrastructure, reasoning methodologies, and tools needed to link and query massive data based on their spatial and temporal characteristics. *List of Relevant Topics* Topics of interest for the Linked Spatiotemporal Data workshop include (but are not limited to): • Mining Big Data • Learning geo-ontologies out of massive data • Abduction-based frameworks and systems • Mining Location-based Social Networks • Studying the geo-indicativeness of massive, semi-structured data • Analogy-based search in Big Data • Semantic heterogeneity and ontology alignment • Semantics-enabled geo-statistics • Retrieving and browsing of Linked Spatiotemporal Data • Learning Linked Spatiotemporal Data from existing sources • Spatiotemporal indexing of Linked Data • Harvesting Linked Data from heterogeneous sources • Spatial extensions to query languages (e.g., GeoSPARQL) • Visualizing and browsing through Linked Spatiotemporal Data • Big Data and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) • Spatiotemporal aspects of data quality, trust, and provenance • Tag and vocabulary recommendations for annotating VGI • Maintenance of outgoing links • Application of Linked Spatiotemporal Data • Linked Data and Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) • Linked Data and mobile applications • Linked Data gazetteers and Points Of Interest • Linked Data in the domain of cultural heritage research • Integration and Interoperation of Linked Spatiotemporal Data • Ontologies and vocabularies to support interoperability • Geo-Ontology Design Patterns • Identity assumptions and resolution for data fusion and integration • The role of space and time to structure Linked Data • Versioning of spatiotemporal data. • Semantic annotation and Microformats • Adding contextual information to Linked Data *Workshop Format and Structure* The full day workshop will focus on intensive discussions setting a roadmap towards publishing, structuring, retrieving, and consuming Linked Spatiotemporal Data and understanding how GIScience can contribute to the vision of a data-intensive science. The workshop will accept three kinds of contributions, full research papers presenting new work in the indicated areas, statements of interest, and data challenge papers. While the research papers will be selected based on the review results adhering to classical scientific quality criteria, the statements of interest should raise questions, present visions, and point to the open gaps. However, statements of interest will also be reviewed to ensure quality and clarity of the presented ideas. We also welcome demonstrations of existing tools, applications, and geo-ontologies. Details for the data challenge are given below. The presentation time per speaker will be restricted to 5 minutes for statements of interest and 10 minutes for full papers. Based on the presented work, all workshop participants will decide on 2–3 research topics to be discussed in breakout groups. In a final session, the breakout groups will present their findings on research topics and challenges and try to integrate them across the discussed topics. *Submissions and Proceedings* All presented papers will be made available through the workshop Web-page, the electronic conference proceedings of GIScience 2012, as well as via CEUR-WS. Full research papers should be approximately 7-10 pages, while statements of interest and data challenge papers should be between 5-6 pages. Selected papers may be considered for a fast-track submission to the Semantic Web journal by IOS Press. *Data Challenge* The website http://spatial.linkedscience.org/ contains a growing collection of metadata for proceedings of conferences on topics related to geographic information science. So far, it contains most of the metadata for the GIScience, COSIT, ACM GIS, and AGILE conference series. Within the GIBDA Data Challenge, we are looking for • innovative analyses of the data • interactive visualizations • approaches for cleaning the data up • pattern and topic mining • enrichment and interlinking with other datasets (e.g., from the Linked Data cloud) • insights into GIScience as research field • adding social roles and aspects The raw data can be queried via SPARQL using the SPARQL endpoint spatial.linkedscience.org/sparql. Submissions to the data challenge are to be submitted through EasyChair as a brief description of the entry, along with a link to the demo/analysis/dataset. Entries to the challenge will be evaluated by the program committee based on innovativeness and potential impact. The winner will be awarded a $250 price and will present at the workshop. *Important Dates* • Submission due: 18. June 2012 • Acceptance Notification: 6. July 2012 • Camera-ready Copies: 16. July 2012 *Organizing Committee* • Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA • Carsten Keßler, University of Münster, Germany • Tomi Kauppinen, University of Münster, Germany • Dave Kolas, BBN Technologies, USA
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Alexander Garcia Castro | 24 May 16:10
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Robert Stevens at Sepublica (ESWC workshop), keynote

Dear all, Robert Stevens will be our keynote speaker. The tittle of his talk will be "Semantic publishing: What does it all mean anyway?"
Robert will open our afternoon session. From 2 to 5pm we will be discussing issues related to semantics in publications and semantic publications. You are all invited to attend our discussion, we are planning to generate a communique out of this session. 


SePublica 2012

… the scientific publication as an interface to the web of data…

semantics in scientific publications,  is it just about linking?

what does a scientific publication in the semantic web look like

what should it deliver, how should it change the user experience

what do we want the next generation of scholarly communication to be like?


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Stefan Schlobach | 23 May 10:47
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Fully funded PhD position on Pragmatic Semantics for the Web of Data at VU University Amsterdam.

Fully funded PhD position (KRR group @ VU University Amsterdam)
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JOB OPENING: The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning group,
headed by Prof. Frank van Harmelen at the VU University Amsterdam
is looking for an enthusiastic PhD student for a 4 year full time
position on the project Pragmatic Semantics for the Web of Data funded
by the Dutch Science Foundation NWO.

WHAT WE OFFER: A world-class research team in semantic technologies,
a stimulating work environment, and life in a vibrant and multicultural
city that always ranks among the highest on the quality of life indexes.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR: A talented and motivated individual with a thorough
background in Computer Science and/or Artificial Intelligence. We are
particularly looking for students with experience with formal logical
methods, the ability to turn theories into practical programs and an
interest in validating their theories empirically in practical applications.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:  The Web of Data (WoD) connects data in a
similar way as the WWW connects documents. Atomic data-units
called resources are connected via typed links with arbitrary
resources anywhere on the Web, together forming a gigantic graph
of linked data. The meaning of the types can be fixed using
standardised ontology languages such as RDFS and OWL. The
semantics of these languages are based on logical paradigms that
were designed for small and hand-made knowledge bases, and come
with classical model-theory for assigning truth to formulas, and
entailment based on this truth. However, in highly complex,
dynamic, context-dependent, opinionated, contradictory and multi-
dimensional networks as the WoD, such classical semantics are
insufficient, as they are one-dimensional, often prone to logical
fallacies, and usually intractable.

On the Web in general, and the Web of Data in particular, every
bit of information is context-dependent, biased towards a
particular viewpoint, opinionated, dated, uncertain or vague. The
WoD is a market-place of ideas, not a database, and has to be
dealt with accordingly. We have to adapt the formal semantics of
existing formalisms to the new requirements. The goal of this
project is to develop such novel semantic paradigms for dealing
with the complex character of the Web of Data by integrating
market-place formalisms such as optimization of truth into the
semantics of the standard representation languages.

More information is available on: http://altsemantics.wordpress.com/

REQUIREMENTS
- A Master in Computer Science, Information Sciences, Artificial
   Intelligence, Logic or a related field
- Genuine interest in addressing real-world problems.

APPOINTMENT, SALARY, LOCATION: The appointment will be at the
VUA, starting at Sep 1 2012 at the earliest.
http://tinyurl.com/VU-personnel-guide contains a review of
working conditions at the VU.

INTERESTED? For more information please contact Dr. Stefan
Schlobach <k.s.schlobach@ vu.nl>. Please send your application
to Elly Lammers <elly.lammers <at> vu.nl> by email *before 15 June 2012*.
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George Fazekas | 21 May 19:07
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researcher job to open soon: Semantic Web/Semantic Audio

Dear All,

There will be a job opening soon at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London.

We just received notification of funding for an 8 month project due to start early next month. The project aims to extend a Semantic Web ontology for audio features building on prior work in our group including the Music Ontology (http://musicontology.com/), with wide community involvement. Knowledge of Semantic Web technologies and Audio DSP or Semantic Audio are essential. Due to the short time before the project start we would like interested applicants to contact us by email and send a short expression of interest. 

A formal job posting and specification will be sent out soon, so please do not send job applications yet.

Please contact me (gyorgy.fazekas <at> eecs.qmul.ac..uk) and/or Simon Dixon (simon.dixon <at> eecs.qmul.ac.uk) if you are interested.

Best wishes,
George


George Fazekas
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Centre for Digital Music (room 109)
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7986 - Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 7997
E-mail: gyorgy.fazekas <at> eecs.qmul.ac..uk
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/

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Markus Krötzsch | 21 May 15:47
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Upcoming RR deadlines and new TC format

Dear Web/ontology/semantics researchers,

the RR 2012 deadlines are near (papers next week, abstract registration 
this week [1]). Hence I'd like to draw attention to a new submission 
format this year: Technical Communications (TCs). The idea is to present 
ongoing or recently published work without submitting a full paper (TCs 
are 4 pages maximum; a full paper or report published elsewhere can back 
up the submission). Authors can thus reach a relevant audience and get 
valuable feedback (RR is well known for its lively discussions). To 
support this, the time given to talks is not determined by the 
submission format (see [1] for details).

This doesn't affect the importance of research papers. There will be 
Springer proceedings as usual. However, TCs can hopefully add some 
interesting features to the program. It is not too late to consider an 
own submission -- Vienna is always worth a visit.

Cheers,

Markus

P.S. Sorry for cross-posting this to multiple W3C lists. I wonder if one 
can configure one's W3C subscription to filter duplicates.
P.P.S. Let me also mention the RR Doctoral Consortium and Reasoning Web 
Summer School (just before RR). Especially US students should have a 
look at the travel grants (application deadlines are this week).

[1] The complete RR call for papers:

                         CALL FOR PAPERS

                             RR 2012
The 6th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
             Vienna, Austria, 10-12 September 2012
              http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2012/

== DEADLINE EXTENSION ==

Abstract submission:        May 25 (was May 14), 2012, before 23:59 UTC
Full papers submission:     May 30 (was May 23), 2012, before 23:59 UTC
Notification of acceptance: June 22, 2012

***Submission deadlines have been extended due to popular demand***

== RR ==

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.

== Highlights in 2012 ==

In addition to regular papers, RR 2012 solicits the submission of
TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS (TCs) that report about some interesting
recent work, preliminary result, or inspiring viewpoint. Selected
TCs will be invited for a full presentation like regular papers.

RR 2012 is co-located with a number of interesting events:

- 8th Reasoning Web Summer School
     4-8 September, http://reasoningweb.org/2012/
- COMMA 2012: 4th Int. Conf. on Computational Models of Argument
     10-12 September, http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/events/comma2012/
- DEXA 2012: 23rd Int. Conf. on Database and Expert Systems
     Applications 03-07 September, http://www.dexa.org/
- 2nd Workshop "Datalog 2.0"
     11-13 September, http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/datalog-2.0/

The Reasoning Web Summer School is a great opportunity particularly
for young researchers to combine with attendance of the conference.
Submissions by summer school participants are particularly encouraged.

== Topics ==

RR welcomes original research from all areas of Web Reasoning.
Topics of particular interest are:

- Semantic Web, Rule and Ontology Languages, and related logics
- Reasoning, Querying, Searching and Optimization
- Incompleteness, Inconsistency and Uncertainty
- Non-monotonic, Commonsense, and Closed-World Reasoning for the Web
- Dynamic information, Stream Reasoning and Complex Event Processing
- Decision Making, Planning, and Intelligent Agents
- Reasoning, Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction and
   IR Technologies
- Large-scale data management and reasoning on the Web of Data
- Data Integration, Dataspaces and Ontology-Based Data Access
- Non-Standard Reasoning
- Algorithms for distributed, parallelized, and scalable reasoning
- System Descriptions and Experimentation
- Applications and Experience Papers

== Submissions ==

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer within the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Submissions must
be prepared in Springer's LaTeX style llncs (http://bit.ly/oPRW8y).
There are two submission formats:

- Full papers (up to 15 pages)
   Original research works in the above areas

- Technical Communications (up to 4 pages)
   Results and ideas with interest to the RR audience,
   including reports about recent own publications, position papers,
   and presentations of preliminary results

All accepted works will be included in the proceedings, with
Technical Communications clearly marked as such. All full papers and
selected Technical Communications will be invited to give a talk at
the conference. All accepted works will have the opportunity to
present a poster.

Submissions can be made in EasyChair:

       http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2012

== Important Dates ==

Abstract submission:         May 25, 2012, before 23:59 UTC
Full papers submission:      May 30, 2012, before 23:59 UTC
Notification of acceptance: June 22, 2012

== Invited Speakers ==

- Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig
- Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari
   * additional invited speakers will be announced soon

== Program Committee ==

- Darko Anicic, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Jean-François Baget, LIRMM Montpellier
- Chitta Baral, Arizona State University
- Salem Benferhat, University of Artois
- Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza
- Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig
- François Bry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
- Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International U.S.A.
- Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia LLC Washington DC
- Tommaso Di Noia, Technical University of Bari
- Francesco M Donini, University of Tuscia
- Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna
- Michael Fink, TU Vienna
- Birte Glimm, Ulm University
- Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad of Chile
- Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Aidan Hogan, National University of Ireland Galway
- Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria
- Yevgeny Kazakov, University of Oxford
- Michael Kifer, Stony Brook University
- Clemens Kupke, University of Oxford
- Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg
- Domenico Lembo, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
- Francesca Alessandra Lisi, University of Bari
- Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford
- Wolfgang May, University of Göttingen
- Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland Galway
- Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology
- Marie-Laure Mugnier, University of Montpellier II
- Magdalena Ortiz, TU Vienna
- Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen
- Rafael Peñaloza, TU Dresden
- Axel Polleres, Siemens AG Österreich
- Andrea Pugliese, University of Calabria
- Guilin Qi, Nanjing University China
- Riccardo Rosati, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
- Sebastian Rudolph, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University
- Mantas Simkus, TU Vienna
- Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen
- Andrei Voronkov, University of Manchester

== Organization ==

General chair:
- Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University

Program chairs:
- Markus Krötzsch, University of Oxford
- Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR

Local Chair:
- Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna

Doctoral Consortium Chair:
- Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland Galway

Sponsorship Chair:
- Marco Maratea, University of Genova

Publicity Chair:
- Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria

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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/
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Oshani Seneviratne | 21 May 13:12
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Call for Research Papers ISWC 2012

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Call for Research Papers
http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/call-research-papers

11th International Semantic Web Conference
http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/
Boston - USA
November 11-15, 2012
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ISWC is the premier venue for presenting innovative systems and
research results related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data. We
solicit the submission of original research papers for ISWC 2012's
research track, dealing with analytical, theoretical, empirical, and
practical aspects of all areas of the Semantic Web. Submissions to the
research track should describe original, significant research on the
Semantic Web or on Semantic Web technologies, and are expected to
provide some principled means of evaluation.

To maintain the high level of quality and impact of the ISWC series,
all papers will be reviewed by three program committee members and one
vice chair of the program committee. To assess papers, reviewers will
judge their originality and significance for further advances in the
Semantic Web, as well as the technical soundness of the proposed
approaches and the overall readability of the submitted papers. We
will give specific attention to the evaluation of the approaches
described in the papers. We strongly encourage evaluations that are
repeatable: preference will be given to papers that provide links to
the data sets and queries used to evaluate their approach, as well as
systems papers providing links to their source code or to some live
deployment.

Topics Of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Management of Semantic Web data and Linked Data
* Languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing
Semantic Web data
* Database, IR, NLP and AI technologies for the Semantic Web
* Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web
* Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
* Cleaning, assurance, and provenance of Semantic Web data, services,
and processes
* Semantic Web Services
* Semantic Sensor Web
* Evaluation of semantic web technologies
* Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the Semantic Web
* Ontology modularity, mapping, merging, and alignment
* Ontology Dynamics
* Social and Emergent Semantics
* Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
* Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security
* User Interfaces to the Semantic Web
* Interacting with Semantic Web data and Linked Data
* Information visualization of Semantic Web data and Linked Data
* Personalized access to Semantic Web data and applications
* Semantic Web technologies for eGovernment, eEnvironment, eMobility or eHealth
* Semantic Web and Linked Data for Cloud environments

Submission
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Pre-submission of abstracts is a strict requirement. All papers and
abstracts have to be submitted electronically via the Conference
Submission System
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2012.

All research submissions must be in English, and no longer than 16
pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review.
Submissions must be in PDF formatted in the style of the Springer
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For
details on the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions.
ISWC-2012 submissions are not anonymous.

Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic
annotations for the abstract of their submission, which will be made
available on the conference web site. Details will be provided at the
time of acceptance.

Accepted papers will be distributed to conference attendees and also
published by Springer in the printed conference proceedings, as part
of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. At least one author
of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present
the paper there.

Prior Publication And Multiple Submissions
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ISWC 2012 will not accept research 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. The
conference organizers may share information on submissions with other
venues to ensure that this rule is not violated.

Submission of a Poster or Demo together with your Accepted Research Paper
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Authors of accepted papers are invited to submit also a poster or a
demo to the Posters and Demo track. The submission format is the same
as for normal poster and demo submissions but the submission must cite
the corresponding paper from the research track.

Important Dates
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Abstracts: June 1, 2012, 11:59pm Hawaii time
Full Paper Submission: June 8, 2012, 11:59pm Hawaii time
Author Rebuttals: July 9-11, 2012
Notifications: July 26, 2012
Camera-Ready Versions: September 4, 2012
Conference: November 11-15, 2012
No extensions of the submission deadline will be granted.

Research Track Chairs
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Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University, USA

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Mathieu D'Aquin | 21 May 11:38
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PhD Studenships - Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University

Dear all, 

Positions are available for PhD students at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, UK (see http://kmi.open.ac.uk/studentships/vacancies.php) in topics relevant to this mailing list. 

The deadline for applications is June 7, 2012.

The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is home to internationally recognised researchers in semantic technologies, educational multimedia, collaboration technologies, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and human-computer interaction. KMi offers students an intellectually challenging environment with exceptional research and computer facilities. 

The following two PhD projects are in particular related to the use and development of knowledge technologies, ontologies, the Semantic Web and Linked Data. Please contact the relevant members of KMi for more information.

Web Data Mining
Contact: Mathieu d'Aquin (m.daquin <at> open.ac.uk)

The Web is currently being flooded with data, from information reported in documents for human consumption to, more and more, open data available in structured and reusable forms (APIs, linked data, etc.) While a lot of efforts have been dedicated to the integration of data, using conceptual models such as ontologies, we are now facing the unprecedented need for support in "interpreting" data gathered from a large number of distributed, heterogeneous and un-controlled sources on the Web. 

In this PhD studentship, which is inter-disciplinary in nature, the aim is to investigate the combination of ontology-based, top-down approaches to data interpretation, with techniques originating from data mining to make sense of data through the bottom-up emergence of meaningful information patterns. Contributions are therefore expected in the areas of the Semantic Web, linked data, ontology engineering, data mining, data analytics and machine learning. 

Visual Exploration of Research Spaces
Contact: Enrico Motta (e.motta <at> open.ac.uk)

A PhD studentship is available at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University on the Visual Exploration of Research Spaces. This project is inherently interdisciplinary and the successful candidate will contribute to our established research in one or more areas, including human-computer interaction, semantic, statistical and natural language technologies. The main aim of this project is to investigate methods for improving the ability of users to explore the rich set of data which are now available about scholarly research, by developing i) new knowledge-based methods for aggregating data from both traditional (e.g., bibliographic servers) and other sources (e.g., blogs, tweets, conference web sites, etc), as well as ii) novel visual analytics solutions, able to support a seamless and flexible exploration of this rich set of aggregated types of data. In particular, we are interested in building on the work carried out on the KC-Viz system for ontology navigation and visualization - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/technologies/name/kc-viz, which relies on a novel abstraction mechanism based on the notion of key concepts, which denote the most important elements of an ontology and act as 'islands' to structure the exploration process and abstract from the large space of concepts in an ontology. Thus, we are interested in developing new methods that can employ this navigation metaphor in the context of research spaces, by identifying the appropriate notions and abstraction techniques, which apply in the research domain.


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Mike Bergman | 21 May 07:23
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ANN: UMBEL v 1.05

We have just released version 1.05 of UMBEL. It provides detailed 
mappings to schema.org and GeoNames. The overall ontology has also been 
modularized, which has allowed the development of a cool big graph 
visualization [1].

For more details, see my longer announcement [2].

Thanks, Mike

[1] http://umbel.org/content/umbel-graph
[2] 
http://www.mkbergman.com/999/new-umbel-release-gains-schema-org-geonames-capabilities/
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