Events

Linked AI: AAAI Spring Symposium "Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence" (AAAI Spring Symposium)

The goal of Linked Data is to enable people to share structured data on the Web as easily as they can share documents today. The basic assumption behind Linked Data is that the value and usefulness of data increases the more it is interlinked with other data. Linked Data is simply about using the Web to create typed links between data from different sources. Today, this emerging Web of Data includes data sets as extensive and diverse as DBpedia, Geonames, US Census, EuroStat, MusicBrainz, BBC Programmes, Flickr, DBLP, PubMed, UniProt, FOAF, SIOC, OpenCyc, UMBEL, Virtual Observatories, and Yago.

The availability of this linked data creates a new opportunity for the exploitation of AI techniques that have historically played central role in knowledge representation, information extraction, information integration, and cognitive agents. The symposium is aimed at bringing together the researchers working on Linked Data and AI. Our hope is to create a new community interested in utilizing AI techniques such as ontologies, machine learning, data fusion, etc. in exploring the linked open data. Successful submissions will address at least some aspect of both areas.

25th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC)

The conference will be held on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences
Western Switzerland (HES-SO) in Sierre, Switzerland. Designated hotels are situated in
Crans-Montana, the ski resort.

19th International WWW Conference (WWW2010)

The World Wide Web was first conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The first conference of the series, WWW1, was held at CERN in 1994 and organized by Robert Cailliau. The IW3C2 was founded by Joseph Hardin and Robert Cailliau later in 1994 and has been responsible for the conference series ever since. Except for 1994 and 1995 when two conferences were held each year, WWWn became an annual event held in late April or early May. The location of the conference rotates among North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2001 the conference designator changed from a number (1 through 10) to the year it is held; i.e., WWW11 became known as WWW2002, and so on. The WWW Conference series aims to provide the world a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The conferences bring together researchers, developers, users and commercial ventures – indeed all who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer. The conferences are organized by the IW3C2 in collaboration with Local Organizing Committees and Technical Program Committees. The series provides an open forum in which all opinions can be presented, subject to a strict process of peer review. Conference Chairs: Michael Rappa and Paul Jones Program Chairs: Juliana Friere and Soumen Chakrabarti Hosts: North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

WWW2010 workshop: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010) (LDOW2010)

The Web is increasingly understood as a global information space consisting not just of linked documents, but also of linked data. More than just a vision, the resulting Web of Data has been brought into being by the maturing of the Semantic Web technology stack, and by the publication of large datasets according to the principles of Linked Data. To date, the Web of Data has grown to a size of roughly 13.1 billion RDF triples, with contributions coming increasingly from companies, government and public sector projects, as well as from individual Web enthusiasts. In addition to publishing and interlinking datasets, there is intensive work on Linked Data browsers, Web of Data search engines and other applications that consume Linked Data from the Web.

LDOW2010 follows the successful LDOW2008 workshop at WWW2008 in Beijing and the LDOW2009 workshop at WWW2009 in Madrid. As the publication of Linked Data on the Web continues apace, the need becomes more pressing for principled research in the areas of user interfaces for the Web of Data as well as on issues of quality, trust and provenance in Linked Data. We also expect to see a number of submissions related to current areas of high Linked Data activity, such as government transparency, life sciences and the media industry. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for exposing high quality, novel research and applications in these (and related) areas. In addition, by bringing together researchers in this field, we expect the event to further shape the ongoing Linked Data research agenda.

2nd Workshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web (SPOT2010)

More than ever, the Semantic Web is becoming reality as it is an integrated component of the Web we are browsing everyday - be it the Open Linked Data movement that nowadays exposes over 10 billion triples of RDF or the annotated and structured information available on Web pages used by major search engines, such as Yahoo! SearchMonkey and Google. Moreover, social data about people and their interaction is made available in machine-understandable format in projects like FOAF or SIOC. Facing this amount of data, privacy and trust consideration is an important step to take right now.

7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010)

The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) is to bring together researchers and practioners dealing with different aspects of semantics on the Web. ESWC2010 builds on the success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series, but seeks to extend its focus by engaging with other communities within and outside ICT, in which semantics can play an important role. At the same time, ESWC2010 is a truly international conference.

22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'10)

CAiSE'10 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of information systems engineering. CAiSE'10 invites submissions on the design, development, maintenance, and usage of information systems - and especially submissions dealing with evolving information systems. This year's special theme is "Evolving information systems". Modern information systems are the result of the interconnection of systems of many organizations, are running in variable contexts, and require both a lightweight approach to interoperability and the capability to actively react to changing requirements and failures. In addition, users of information systems are becoming more and more mobile and ubiquitous, requiring the system to adapt to their varying usage contexts and goals. The evolution of an information system should be a continuous process rather than a single step, and it should be inherently supported by the system itself and the design of the information system should consider evolution as an inherent property of the system. The special events and invited speakers of CAiSE '10 will shed light on this theme from various perspectives.

International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web – Services and Applications (ISWSA 2010) (ISWSA 2010)

The 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web - Services and Applications (ISWSA 2010) will be held in Faculty of Information Technology, Isra University, Amman, Jordan, from June 14 to June 16, 2010.

The aim of ISWSA 2010 is to enable researchers and industry practitioners explore the technical and legal aspects of intelligent semantic web and web applications. This conference is organized by ACM Professional Chapter ACM Jordan ISWSA  and Isra University in cooperation with the Ministry of ICT.

The 8th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2010)

The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web services, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web-based services. ICWS 2010 is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. It is the eighth year of gathering to formally explore "Services" Science and Technology in the field of Services Computing, which was formally promoted by IEEE Computer Society since 2003. 

ICWS 2010 will be co-located with the 6th IEEE 2010 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010), the 3rd IEEE 2010 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2010), and the 7th IEEE 2010 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2010) to grow itself to continute to be the most prestigious professional conference dedicated to Web services.

Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10)

The Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 11–15, 2010. The purpose of the AAAI-10 conference is to promote research in AI and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in related disciplines.

The Fourth International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2010)

Pervasive services are emerging as the next paradigm for distributed and mobile computing, in which services built out of pervasive infrastructure and information, and are seamlessly available anywhere, anytime, and in any format. This exciting new paradigm is the result of recent research and technological advances in wireless & sensor networks, distributed systems, Grid computing, mobile & agent computing and autonomic computing & services.
The 2010 International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'2010), to be held in Berlin, Germany, provides a forum for researchers, engineers, application & service developers and users to present their latest advances in the field of pervasive services. Use cases and usage models for these pervasive services are of particular interest to the conference

Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP 2010) (ASPOCP 2010)

Since its introduction in the late 1980s, answer set programming (ASP) has been widely applied to various knowledge-intensive tasks and combinatorial search problems. ASP was found to be closely related to SAT, which has led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. While this has been the most studied relationship, the relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified boolean formulas (QBF), or first-order logic (FOL) is also the subject of active research. New methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on the relation between ASP and other paradigms, such as the use of pseudo-Boolean solvers, QBF solvers, and FOL theorem provers. Furthermore, the practical application of ASP also fosters work on multi-paradigm problem-solving, and in particular language and solver integration. The most prominent examples in this area currently are the integration of ASP with description logics (in the realm of the Semantic Web) and constraint satisfaction. This workshop will facilitate the discussion about crossing the boundaries of current ASP techniques, in combination with or inspired by other computing paradigms.

12th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2010)

The European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (or Journées Européennes sur la Logique en Intelligence Artificielle - JELIA) began back in 1988, as a workshop, in response to the need for a European forum for the discussion of emerging work in this field. Since then, JELIA has been organised biennially, with proceedings published in the Springer-Verlag series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Previous meetings took place in Roscoff, France (1988), Amsterdam, Netherlands (1990), Berlin, Germany (1992), York, UK (1994), Évora, Portugal (1996), Dagstuhl, Germany (1998), Málaga, Spain (2000), Cosenza, Italy (2002), Lisbon, Portugal (2004), Liverpool, UK (2006), and Dresden, Germany (2008).

The increasing interest in this forum, its international level with growing participation from researchers outside Europe, and the overall technical quality, have turned JELIA into a major biennial forum for the discussion of logic-based approaches to artificial intelligence.

Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 210)

The aim of SASO conference series is to provide a forum for laying the foundations of a new principled approach to engineering systems, networks and services based on self-adaptation and self-organization. To this end, the meeting aims to attract participants with different backgrounds, to foster cross-pollination between different research fields, and to expose and discuss innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and application

EKAW 2010 - Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses (EKAW 2010 )

The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, etc. The focus of the 17th edition of EKAW will be on Knowledge Management and Engineering by the Masses. Besides a research track, EKAW will feature a tutorial and workshop program, as well as a poster and demo track. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. Poster/demo notes and workshop/tutorial notes will be published separately in a companion booklet.

9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010)

The 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010) is jointly organized by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and IBM Research – China and will be held 7-11 Nov, 2010 at Shanghai International Convention Center.

The 11th IEEE International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2010)

The aim of this eleventh edition of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), Nancy, France (2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008), and Poznan, Poland (2009).