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The Third International Workshop on Pervasive Computing in Embedded Systems (PECES 2011)

7th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-Semantics 2011)

Fifth International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2011) (RR2011)

The Fifth International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems will take place in Galway, Ireland at the Digital Research Enterprise Institute from August 29-30, 2011.

The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) aims to be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results on all topics concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. This joint conference is devoted to all aspects of Semantic Web Reasoning, with an emphasis on rule-based approaches and languages. It welcomes both theoretical and practical works on this wide subject.

The reasoning landscape features theoretical areas such as knowledge representation (KR) and algorithms; design aspects of rule markup; design of ontology languages; engineering of engines, translators, and other tools; standardization efforts, such as the Rules Interchange Format activity at W3C; and applications. Of particular interest is also the use of rules to facilitate ontology modeling, and the relationships and possible interactions between rules and ontology languages like RDF and OWL, as well as ontology reasoning related to RDF and OWL.

7th Reasoning Web Summer School (ReasoningWeb 2011)

Following the successes from the last six years, the 7th Reasoning Web Summer School 2011 will take place in Galway, Ireland at the Digital Research Enterprise Institute from August 23-27.

The series of summer schools was initiated by the REWERSE Network of Excellence with the intention to create an annual European educational event in the field of the Semantic Web to be continued also after REWERSE end (February 2008).

At its Seventh edition, the Reasoning Web summer school will traditionally focused on the foundational issues concerning the development and the use of rule-based languages, Reasoning and Querying on the Semantic Web, takes stock of the the actual use of Semantic Web languages by presenting the state of art in research areas that constitute the current and the promising Reasoning on the Web application fields.

Particularly, we plan to cover foundations of Semantic Web languages such as OWL, RIF and SPARQL in Description Logics or Logic Programming, but also new trends on the Semantic Web, such as Linked Data, Reasoning with Uncertain and Messy data from the Web, or scalability issues in Querying large amount of data from the Web.

27th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP)

Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming.

Web Science Doctoral Summer School 2011 (WebScience 2011)

The objective of Web Science is to better understand the complex, cross-displinary dynamics driving the development of the Web. Web Scientists need new methodologies for gathering evidence and finding ways to anticipate how human interaction affects development of a system that is constantly adapting. For example, game theoretic analysis from economics may provide analysis of the impact of selfish or collaborative behaviours, sociological analysis will explain social motivations and behaviours underpin social media services, legal analysis will shed light on tthe impact of policy and governance, complex system analysis provides models of how macro behaviours emerge and mathematical and computing analysis are required to engineer appropriate solutions to support the Web's evolution. These are only a few the of the disciplines required to create holistic understanding of the Web as a dynamic, socially adaptive technology.

The Second Web Science Trust Doctoral Summer School at DERI will provide a unique cross-disciplinary grounding in techniques for Web analysis. A mix of national and international contributors will deliver lectures and seminars on the dynamics and dimensions of the Web. Applicants are not necessarily expected to have a computing background, though some technical knowledge of computing and the Web would be advisable. Participants will have also have an opportunity to work in small groups on topic-specific breakout sessions.

8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2011)

The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of semantic technologies. Following a successful re-launch in 2010 as a multi-track conference, ESWC 2011 builds on the success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series, and seeks to extend its focus by collaborating with other communities and research areas, in which Web semantics play an important role, within and outside ICT, and in a truly international, not just 'European' context.

Research on semantic technologies can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas, including Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science.  These complementarities are reflected in the outline of the technical program of the ESWC 2011; in addition to the research and in-use tracks, we have furthermore introduced two special tracks this year, putting particular emphasis on inter-disciplinary research topics and areas that show the potential of exciting synergies for the future. In 2011, these special tracks focus on data-driven, inductive and probabilistic approaches to managing content, and on Digital Libraries, respectively.

ESWC 2011 will present the latest results in research, technologies and applications in its field. Besides the technical program organized over twelve tracks, the conference will feature a workshop and tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters exhibition, a doctoral symposium, as well as the ESWC summer school, which will be held prior to the conference from May, 22 to May, 28 in Kalamaki in the south of Crete.

2nd International Workshop on Logic-Based Interpretation of Context: Modeling and Applications (Log-IC 2011)

Following the success of the previous edition, Log-IC 2011 will provide a forum for researchers investigating context-aware applications and context-based or distributed reasoning with the goal of sharing and comparing their views on the efficacy of different context representation and context interpretation frameworks. Log-IC 2011 will also propose targeted discussions on the topic.

1st International Workshop on Linked Web Data Management (LWDM 2011)

Recently, research attention is being progressively shifting from data organization and representation to linkage and composition of the huge amount of data available on the Web. In this context, the Web has evolved from a global information space of linked documents to a global database, where resources are identified (by means of URIs), semantically described (by means of RDF) and connected through RDF links. Linked Data have been made a reality by the Semantic Web technology stack, by the evolution of Web 2.0 and Social Web solutions and by the availability of more and more linked data sources on the Web. The great availability of Linked Data raises data management issues, that must be faced in a dynamic, highly distributed and heterogeneous environment such as the Web. Linked Data can be published, maintained, queried and rapidly combined to build new, value-added applications that fit domain-specific goals.

The first International Workshop on Linked Web Data Management (LWDM) aims to stimulate participants to discuss about data management issues related to the Linked Data and the relationships with other Semantic Web technologies, proposing new models, languages and applications that exploit the Web as a huge, interlinked, dynamic repository of linked resources.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Wikimania 2010

Wikimania is the annual international conference of the Wikimedia community. It's organized by a different local team each year -- this year's conference is taking place in Gdańsk, Poland. Wikimania allows the community and the general public to learn about and share their experiences with free knowledge initiatives all over the world.

The previous conferences were held in Frankfurt, Germany (2005), Boston, USA (2006), Taipei, Taiwan (2007), Alexandria, Egypt (2008), and Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009).

WikiSym 2010: the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym2010)

WikiSym is a symposium (conference) series dedicated to wiki and open collaboration research and practice.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

COST Action IC0801: 2nd Joint Working Group Workshops (COST AT: WG Workshops )

The 2nd Joint Working Group Workshops of all 5 of the Action’s WGs will be held in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, co-located with EUMAS-2009. For an overview of event please consult its preliminary programme.

The Semantic Web: From Research to Reality (Business Breakfast)

You are invited to a business breakfast on Wednesday 25th of November from 8:00-9:45 am that will explore, demystify and explain some of the legal challenges and commercial possibilities of the Semantic Web, the next evolution of the World Wide Web.

The seminar which is being organised by the Irish Software Association in association with business law firm Mason Hayes+Curran and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) will be held at the offices of MH+C, South Bank House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4.

This is a must attend event for anyone in the technology sector as well as those in business and the public sector who use the World Wide Web to interface with their clients and the customers they serve.

To book a place, please register with Amie Hanley at amiehanleymhc.ie.

Seminar Programme

• 8.00 am  Light buffet breakfast
• 8.15 am  Chairman's introduction, Sean Baker, Chairman, Irish Software Association
• 8.25 am  From Research to Reality, Liam O'Morain, Business Development Consultant, DERI
• 9.00 am  Legal Challenges and Commercial Possibilities, Philip Nolan, Partner and Head of Commercial Department, Mason Hayes+Curran
• 9.30 am  Questions and Answers
• 9.45 am  Seminar close

About the Organisers

This event is a collaboration between three leading organisations.

• The Irish Software Association (ISA), which has represented the interests of software and IT services companies in Ireland since 1978, is the leading voice of software technology and Service in Ireland.
• DERI is an internationally recognised institute in Semantic Web research, education and technology transfer.
• Mason Hayes+Curran is one of Ireland's leading business law firms and offers a broad spectrum of services to business, institutional and government clients. Its technology practice is highly regarded and advises Irelands leading technology companies as well as multinationals operating in Ireland.

Why this seminar?

The Semantic Web is a complex innovation, but it is no longer about research and is more about reality. Anyone using a computer has first hand experience of the necessity to interpret meaning out of what you see. Whether you are using Google to search for an unusual holiday destination or trying to make sense of your customer data, you want information that is more accessible, not an unhelpful list of information sources or multiple documents that you have to trawl through in order to find what you require.

The vision of the Semantic Web is of a "web of linked data" rather than a "web of linked pages". This linked data has yet to be created on a wide scale and will therefore greatly enable the vast amount of content on the World Wide Web to be harnessed and interconnected.
Anyone in the business or technology world knows that most information is not very accessible. Research is now coming to fruition thanks to Semantic Web technologies which will access and process data from all areas, exponentially enhancing the value of the information, by making it meaningful.

In Ireland, the 130 plus post doctoral researchers at DERI are right at the heart of this evolving technology and with high profile users of its latest technology to include the US Administration, they are one to watch.

This seminar will examine some of the key issues around Semantic Web technology and will demystify and describe its key components. It will explore the next evolution of this web technology and offer a vision of what might be possible. The seminar will also address the many complex legal issues connected with the Semantic Web and will address the social and commercial challenges the Semantic Web offers.

This is a must attend event for anyone in the technology sector as well as those in business and the public sector who use the World Wide Web to interface with their clients and the customers they serve.

7th International Joint Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC)

This year's ICSOC and its European partner ServiceWave Conference series are particularly pleased to join forces. The joint ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009 aims to provide a world-leading forum and unique opportunity for academic researchers and industry practitioners to report on groundbreaking research work in service oriented computing. The joint conference fosters the creation of cross-community scientific excellence by gathering academic and industrial experts from various disciplines such as business process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless & mobile communication networks, grid computing, networking, service science and software engineering.

5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2009)

The Fifth International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2009) will continue to serve as a premier international forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications.

8th OnTheMove Federated Conferences and Workshops (OTM2009)

The 8th edition of OnTheMove (OTM 2009) now co-locates five successful interrelated and complementary conferences that together attempt to span a relevant range of research and development issues, from fundamental technology to enterprise application. They are DOA = infrastructure and architecture, ODBASE = meaning of data, CoopIS = applications of distributed computing in organizations, GADA = grid computing, high-performance and distributed applications, IS = information security. Each conference covers multiple research vectors, viz. theory (e.g. underlying formalisms), conceptual level (e.g. technical designs and conceptual solutions) and applications (e.g. case studies and industrial best practices).

All five "federated" conferences share the rigorous scientific study of the distributed, conceptual and ubiquitous aspects of modern computing systems, and share the resulting application-pull created by the WWW. For DOA'09, the primary emphasis will be on the distributed objects underlying the required architectures; ODBASE'09 concentrates on the knowledge bases, databases and methodologies required for enabling semantical use; CoopIS'09 will report on the state of the art on interaction of such technology and methods within an enterprise or networked organization; IS'09 covers fundamental issues related to security in the networked world, and for GADA'09, the focus will be on the integration of heterogeneous yet highly performant computing systems and data resources with the aim of providing a global computing space such as e.g. Web Science intends to become.

8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2009)

ISWC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. As the Semantic Web is rapidly entering the mainstream, ISWC 2009 will pay particular attention to showcasing scalable and usable solutions, which bring semantic technologies to web users in authentic application settings.

3rd International Conference on Web Rasoning and Rule Systems (RR2009)

The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) aims to be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. The two successful series of RR, RR 2007 and RR 2008, have received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2009, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. The reasoning landscape features theoretical areas such as knowledge representation (KR) and algorithms; design aspects of rule markup; design of ontology languages; engineering of engines, translators, and other tools; efficiency considerations and benchmarking; standardization efforts, such as the Rules Interchange Format activity at W3C; and applications. Of particular interest is also the use of rules to facilitate ontology modeling, and the relationships and possible interactions between rules and ontology languages like RDF and OWL, as well as ontology reasoning related to RDF and OWL, or querying with SPARQL.

9th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P2009)

P2P2009 continues the oldest and largest conference devoted to peer-to-peer computing, held every year since 2001. Proceedings of the conference are published by IEEE and will be available through the Xplore digital library.

Topics that relate to Peer-to-Peer systems, Peer-to-Peer applications, Grid systems, large-scale distributed systems, and overlay networks are open for consideration. Experience with applications, and papers with the potential to open up new directions for research are especially encouraged.

MALLOW Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in agent systems (COIN)

The COIN workshop series brings together the topics of coordination, organization, institutions and norms in the context of multi-agent systems.

For this edition of COIN, the focus is on how COIN topics influence and are realized in on-line communities, where it is necessary to take into account social, legal, economic and technological dimensions of agent-agent, agent-human, human-human interactions in order to ensure social order within these environments. Furthermore, the dynamic nature of such communities, combined with their potential dissimilarity to conventional human social structures - which means that simply transporting existing conventions does not necessarily work - and the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats posed by alternative interaction modalities deriving from the different physics of virtual environments, leads to the exploration and establishment of new normative frameworks that do not necessarily have parallels in the physical world but are well reflected in "made natures" such as the Web. Such frameworks are not only interesting for the agent community but also have attracted interest of the Semantic Web Community in events such as the recent W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking.

7th International Conference on Business Process Management Conference (BPM2009)

BPM 2009 is the seventh conference in a series that provides the most distinguished specialized forum for researchers and practitioners in business process management (BPM). The conference has a record of attracting innovative research of highest quality related to all aspects of business process management including theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, architectures, and empirical findings.

Traditionally, the BPM conference attracts the outstanding researchers in the field and abides to the highest academic standards. BPM solicits original research papers that break new ground in or make significant novel contributions to the field. The acceptance rate in previous editions has been around 14%. The BPM conference also aims at bridging the viewpoints of leading research outcomes with practical demands and industrial experience. In addition to the main research track, BPM 2009 will include an industrial papers track. Accordingly, the conference encourages practitioners to submit experience and application papers reporting on innovative industrial implementations and applications of business process management methods and techniques, with particular focus on their impact on information technology use or business practice.

4th IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2009)

Semantic web technologies render dynamic, heterogeneous, distributed, shared content equally accessible to human reader and software agents. Distributed agents functioning autonomously can utilize semantic Web content to gather and aggregate knowledge, reason and infer new results towards achieving their goals and generating new knowledge. Such knowledge in turn may be disseminated and used to achieve the shared goal of the agents system. Here the vision is to achieve a synergy with multi-agent systems (MAS) technologies whereby both semantics and agents will be equally in the center stage. ESAS workshop series aims at garnering the synergy of both technologies by taking up both the semantic web and the agent aspects of the common research issue. Topics of interest span a wide spectrum in both theory and practice of autonomous semantic agents, context-aware intelligent agents, agents as semantic web services, software agents, mobile agents, agent architectures, multi-agent systems, agent communities, cooperation and goal seeking through sharing policy and ontology, safety & security in systems, other QoS issues, and so on.

7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009)

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 on Web services. ICWS aims to identify emerging research topics and define the future of Web services. Over the past seven years, ICWS has grown steadily, attracting over 250 participants on a regular basis. ICWS 2008 was held on September 21-26, 2008 in Beijing, China; ICWS 2007 was held on July 9-13, 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; ICWS 2006 was held on September 18-22, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA; ICWS 2005 was held on July 11-15, 2005 in Orlando, Florida, USA; ICWS 2004 was held on July 6-9, 2004 in San Diego, California, USA; ICWS 2003 was held on June 23-26, 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

From technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline for the emerging modern services science. ICWS 2009 will co-locate with the 3rd World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2009) to explore all aspects of "Services" (Science and Technology), which has been formally promoted by IEEE Computer Society since 2003. In addition, ICWS 2009 will be supported by a set of keynotes, panels, and tutorials. The technical program of ICWS 2009 will include a refereed research track, an application and industry track, a work-in-progress track, and a poster track. The research track will highlight foundational work that strives to push beyond the limits of existing Web services platforms and products, including experimental efforts, innovative systems and investigations that identify weaknesses in the existing Web services models.

Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech2009)

Now in its fifth year, the annual SemTech Conference represents virtually the entire spectrum of business, government, and consumer activity taking place within the emerging field of semantic technologies. It is taking place on 14-18 June 2009 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. SemTech is the world's largest forum on real-world commercial, strategic, and future applications of semantic technologies, giving attendees an unparalleled opportunity to connect with the industry's brightest minds from across the globe. More than 1,000 technologists, researchers, marketers, executives, academics, entrepreneurs, and evangelists from organizations of all sizes are expected to attend SemTech 2009. SemTech 2009's more than 220 hours of technical and business-oriented presentations at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels include topic areas such as: Business/Marketplace; Collaboration and Social Networks; Data Integration and Mashups; Application Development; Foundational Topics; Government/Military; Finance; Health Care/Life Sciences/Pharmaceutical; Knowledge Engineering and Enterprise Information Management; Linked Data; Publishing; Advertising/Marketing; Semantic Web and Web 3.0; Semantic Rules; Query/Search; Service Oriented Architectures; Ontologies; Taxonomies; and Unstructured Information.

International Workshop on Integration of the Real World and the Future Internet (RWI2009)

Recently, Future Internet research has attracted a lot of attention across the globe with a number of initiatives such as the Future Internet Assembly in Europe, GENI in the US and AKARI in Japan. A common theme is the requirement to adopt an all encompassing approach taking into account requirements and views from a number of angles: networking protocols, socio-economics, services, security, etc. One of the important aspects is the integration of the real world into the Future Internet and the requirements coming from the vision of the interconnection of artefacts embedded in our real environment, forming a society of “intelligent things” and “smart spaces” and making the real world "clickable". The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing the Future Internet and in particular the real world aspect of it. The workshop should serve as a place to exchange ideas between different national and regional initiatives as well as research projects and researchers.

1st International Workshop on the Semantic Sensor Web (SemSensWeb2009)

Previous Sensor Internet, Sensor Web and Sensor Grid proposals make very little use of semantics (e.g., they do not use semantic annotations, metadata, ontologies etc.) and, in fact, whenever these proposals do refer to semantic concepts, they do so in an unprincipled and non-systematic way. On the contrary, the use of explicit semantics for Web and Grid resources as pioneered by many Semantic Web and Semantic Grid projects enables us to overcome the heterogeneity of data and resources, and to improve tasks like data sharing, service discovery and composition etc. In this workshop, we would like to explore whether the core ideas and technologies of the Semantic Web can also be applied to sensor networks to allow the development of an open information space which we call the Semantic Sensor Web. The Semantic Sensor Web unifies the real and the virtual world by integrating sensor technologies and Semantic Web technologies.

6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009)

The ESWC is the leading European Conference on Theory, Practice and Applications of Semantic Web Technologies, constantly attracting a high number of high quality submissions participants from academia and industry. It will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies and will also feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track and a Ph.D. symposium. Besides the main technical program, ESWC will host workshops on topics related to the Conference theme. Workshops promote scientific exchange amongst researchers interested in a particular topic and act as a meeting point for the community. The workshops should provide the opportunity to present and discuss ongoing work and new ideas in subfield of Semantic Web research.

18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009)

The International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) cordially invite you to participate in the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009) to be held in Madrid, Spain´s capital. The World Wide Web Conference is the global event that brings together key researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, businesses, and standards bodies working to shape the Web. Organized by IW3C2 since 1994, the WWW conference is the annual opportunity for the International community to discuss and debate the evolution of the Web. The conference will feature a range of presentations on world-class research, as well as stimulating talks, workshops, tutorials, panels, and late-breaking posters. A separate track will be devoted to current W3C activities of interest to the WWW community. WWW2009 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web covering the implications of ubiquitous access to the Web through the "three screens" – computer, phone, and TV – and how such Web access will change the way we live, work, and interact in the future. Accepted refereed papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Topics of discussion will include Browsers and User Interfaces, Data Mining, Industrial Practice and Experience, Internet Monetization, Mobility, Performance and Scalability, Rich Media, Search, Security and Privacy, Semantic / Data Web, Social Networks and Web 2.0, Web Engineering, XML and Web Data.

6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2008)

The Sixth International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing follows the five previous editions in Vienna, Austria (2007), Chicago, USA (2006), in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2005), New York City, USA (2004) and Trento, Italy (2003). ICSOC'08 builds on the success of previous conferences in this series, establishing bridges between established and new service research and applications communities and fostering cross-community scientific excellence. This year, the conferences focuses on building bridges with the business community because of its ongoing contribution to the emerging field of Services Science.

4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2008)

Over the last two decades, many organization and individuals have relied on electronic collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer applications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and produce joint products that would have been impossible to develop without the contributions of multiple collaborators. Technology has evolved from standalone tools, to open systems supporting collaboration in multi-organizational settings, and form general purpose tools to specialized collaboration grids. Future collaboration solutions that fully realize the promises of electronic collaboration requires advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and interoperation with application-specific components and tools. The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2008) will continue to serve as a premier international forum for discussions among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications.

OnTheMove Federated Conferences and Workshops (OTM 2008)

OnTheMove (OTM) while existing since 2002 now for the first time returns to the North American continent co-locating five successful related and complementary conferences: DOA = infrastructure, ODBASE = meaning of data, CoopIS = application in organizations, GADA = grid computing, high-performance and distributed applications, IS = information security. Each conference covers multiple research vectors, viz. theory (e.g. underlying formalisms), conceptual (e.g. technical designs and conceptual solutions) and applications (e.g. case studies and industrial best practices). All five conferences share the scientific study of the distributed, conceptual and ubiquitous aspects of modern computing systems, and share the resulting application-pull created by the WWW. For DOA'08, the primary emphasis will be on the distributed objects underlying the required archtitectures; ODBASE'08 concentrates on the knowledge bases and methods required for enabling semantical use; CoopIS'08 will report on the state of the art on interaction of such technology and methods within an enterprise or networked organization; and for GADA'08, the focus is on the integration of heterogeneous computing systems and data resources with the aim of providing a global computing space.

5th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS08)

Since its inception ten years ago, the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems has explored the multiple perspectives on the notion of ontology that have arisen from such diverse research communities as philosophy, logic, computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, and various scientific domains.

As ontologies have been applied in new and exciting domains such as the World Wide Web, bioinformatics, and geographical information systems, it has become evident that there is a need for ontologies that have been developed with solid theoretical foundations based on philosophical, linguistic, and logical analysis. Similarly, there is also a need for theoretical research that is driven by the issues that have been raised by recent work in the more applied domains.

FOIS is intended to be a forum in which to explore this interplay between the theoretical insights of formal ontology and their application to information systems and emerging semantic technologies.

7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008)

The Web continues to grow and new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications are being developed. Building on this growth, Semantic Web technologies aim at providing a shared semantic information space, changing qualitatively our experiences on the Web. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, ISWC brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, soft computing, and human-computer interaction.

ISWC 2008 calls for papers to its research track. The research track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical and practical aspects of Semantic Web research.

6th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS2008)

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 services. ICWS 2008 is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. It is the sixth year of gathering to formally explore "Services" Science and Technology, which was formally promoted by IEEE Computer Society in 2003! From technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry.

As a major implementation technology for modernizing services industry,Web services are Internet-based application components published using standard interface description languages and universally available via uniform communication protocols. As in the fifth consecutive year, the program of ICWS 2008 will continue to feature research papers with a wide range of topics, focusing on various aspects of IT services. Some of the topics include Web services specifications and enhancements, Web services discovery and integration, Web services security, Web services standards and formalizations, Web services modeling, Web services-oriented software engineering, Web services-oriented software testing, Web services-based applications and solutions, Web services realizations, semantics in Web services, and all aspects of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure.

12th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2008)

The objective of the international workshop series on cooperative information agents (CIA), since its establishment in 1997, is to provide a distinguished, interdisciplinary forum for researchers, programmers, and managers to get informed about, present, and discuss latest high quality results in research and development of agent-based intelligent and cooperative information systems, and applications for the Internet, Web and Semantic Web.

34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2008)

VLDB is a premier annual international forum for database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers, and users. VLDB 2008, the 34th conference in the series, will be held in Auckland, New Zealand. The conference will feature research talks, tutorials, demonstrations, and workshops. It will cover current issues in database and information systems research. Databases remain one of the technological cornerstones of emerging applications of the twenty-first century. New Zealand is, like its neighbour Australia, highly active in this area in both research and industry and is supported by strong international links. The VLDB delegates who will convene in downtown Auckland will experience a vibrant metropolitan area with one of the highest living standards in the world, fast-growing business activity in high-tech areas and a very rich international research culture. The affordable price level and the excellent flight connections will make New Zealand an unforgettable VLDB experience - not to mention that all this comes with the great outdoors and the easygoing lifestyle in New Zealand. The University of Auckland is looking forward to your visit.

International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC ´08)

The International Conference on Electronic Commerce brings together the top of the scientific research community in e-commerce and e-business from all over the world. The theme of this conference is semantic technology moving towards interoperability.

The conference will be organized into several tracks, which focus on the latest developments and innovations in e-commerce in the following areas of interest:

• Business-to-business e-commerce: adoption of IOS, technologies for interoperable processes, and e-collaboration for global reach
• Business-to-consumer e-commerce: trends, problem areas, and solutions with emphasis on emerging markets
• E-government, policy and law: state-of-the-art and future regulation of e-commerce, including public strategies in limiting illicit activities and copyright violations
• Business/Enterprise Architectures: state-of-the-art and strategies for unifying extended enterprise resource base
• Mobile and pervasive commerce: alternative interaction metaphors that facilitate context aware, geo-spatially relevant services to users in novel environments
• Electronic Markets and Multiagent Systems: autonomous, intelligent, decentralized systems, that utilized AI-based and game-theoretic approaches to facilitate both heuristic and theoretically sound decision making
• Semantic Web ontologies, rules and services: decentralized knowledge-based systems and methodologies that support the exchange of information (including workflows, policies, services and ontological knowledge) in dynamic and heterogeneous environments

32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC2008)

COMPSAC is a major international forum for researchers, practitioners, managers, and policy makers interested in computer software and applications. It was first held in Chicago in 1977, and since then it has been one of the major forums for academia, industry, and government to discuss the state of art, new advances, and future trends in software technologies and practices.  The technical program includes keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case studies, panel discussions and fast abstracts. It also includes a number of workshops on emerging important topics.

3rd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2008)

ESAS workshop series aims at garnering the synergy of both technologies by taking up both the semantic web and the agent aspects of the common research issue. Topics of interest span a wide spectrum in both theory and practice of autonomous semantic agents, context-aware intelligent agents, agents as semantic web services, software agents, mobile agents, agent architectures, multi-agent systems, agent communities, cooperation and goal seeking through sharing policy and ontology, safety & security in systems, other QoS issues, and so on.

Mobile agent and MAS technologies are crucial in realizing multi-party dynamic application systems. Semantic Web technologies augment MAS by enabling agents with functioning based on the semantics of their mission and of the world around them. Agents, implemented as Web services in developing distributed control and processing applications, entail interesting consequences such as situation awareness, semantic composition of services, context sensitive long-lasting transactions, effecting service policies and quality levels, etc. Complex applications could become realizable with novel features such as factory floor automation for flexible production, collaborative discovery of uncharted geography (for example, cooperative labyrinth discovery), traffic management and info dissemination with facilitation of emergency services, financial markets forecasting with optimization of portfolio gain, etc.

5th International Conference on Services Computing (SCC2008)

Services Computing, as a new cross discipline, addresses how to enable IT technology to help people perform business services more efficiently and effectively. Building on its great success in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007, the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008) continues to bridge the gap between Services Computing and Business models with an emerging suite of ground-breaking technology that includes service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and management, services engineering and grid/utility computing, and Web 2.0. The theme of SCC 2008 is "Services: Business, Technology, and Application". From a technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry.

SCC 2008 will be co-located with and strategically part of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2008) to explore "Services" (Science and Technology), which has been formally promoted by IEEE Computer Society since 2003. IEEE Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Summit, IEEE International Services Computing Contest, IEEE SOA Standards Symposium, IEEE Services Computing Workshops, Services University, and IEEE Services Computing Ph.D. Student Symposium will be featured at this joint event in Hawaii, USA.

20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'08)

The CAISE Conference is celebrating its 20th birthday! After these 20 years, Information Systems (IS) now support and underlie most, if not all, of our human activities. Considering the major economic and social development challenges now at stake, it is time to enter into the era of Sustainable Information Systems (SIS). As our world of interdependent activities and information technology continues to undergo profound changes and transformations, it is fundamental to maintain an adequate balance between activities and systems, and to promote their evolution in the context of sustainability.

CAiSE’08 aims to bring together practitioners and researchers in the field of information systems engineering. CAiSE’08 invites submissions on the development, evolution, requirements and usage of information systems. This year’s special theme is "Sustainable Information Systems" (SIS) which are information systems with built-in support to handle evolution. Information systems are growing rapidly in scale and complexity. At the same time, information system evolution is a fact of life in today’s organizations. Furthermore, nomadism and mobile communication lead to a process of continuous change of services provided by information systems. SIS should continuously simplify adequacy between system and enterprise requirements as well as assimilation of new supporting technologies. In addition, approaches for SIS should reduce the failure rate in IS development and allow for the definition of quality & maturity of IS development. An SIS must meet the needs of the present without compromising its ability to meet future requirements related to its context of use, and, consequently, must enable and facilitate innovative policies and practices at the activity level.

ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference (SIGMOD/PODS2008)

The annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. We invite the submission of original research contributions and industrial papers, as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, and panels. We encourage submissions relating to all aspects of data management defined broadly, and particularly encourage work on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities.

5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008)

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

The 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. ESWC 2008 will also feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium and a number of collocated workshops.

XTech 2008: The Web on the Move (XTech2008)

XTech is the premier European conference for developers, information designers and managers working with web and standards-based technologies. We bring together the worlds of web development, open source, Web 2.0 and open standards.

The theme for this year’s conference is “The Web on the Move”. For years we have been developing and promoting open data standards, enabling data portability. Recent developments have led to web-wide programming APIs and virtualization. It’s no longer just our data on the move, it’s our applications and even our servers too.

What impact will this era of unprecedented portability have on us? How should we change the way we build for the web? XTech 2008 will examine the technology, war stories and practical concerns of developing for today’s web.

17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008)

The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008) is to be held at Beijing International Convention Center in the historical and charming city of Beijing, host to the 2008 Olympics games.

The World Wide Web Conference is a global event bringing together key researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, businesses, and standards bodies working to shape the Web. Since its inception in 1994, the WWW conference has become the annual venue for international discussions and debate on the future evolution of the Web.

The main theme of the conference is "One World, One Web". The conference will explore how Web access is moving from the desktop to cell phones and TV screens, and how most users are moving from passive browsing experiences on the Internet to active participation in building Web communities. Topics of discussion will include Browsers and UI, Data Mining, Mobility, Multimedia, Performance and Scalability, Search, Security and Privacy, Semantic Web, Social Networks and Web 2.0, Technology for Developing Regions, and Web Engineering.

24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2008)

Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering techniques and methodologies in the design, development and assessment of information systems for different computing platforms and application environments. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering will continue in its tradition of being a premier forum for presentation of research results and advanced data-intensive applications and discussion of issues on data and knowledge engineering. The mission of the conference is to share research solutions to problems of today's information society and to identify new issues and directions for future research and development work.

11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT2008)

The EDBT series of conferences is an established and prestigious forum for the exchange of the latest research results in data management. Held every two years in an attractive European location, the conference provides unique opportunities for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore new ideas, techniques, and tools, and to exchange experiences.

Data management constitutes the essential enabling technology for scientific, engineering, business, and social communities. Technological trends, new computation paradigms, novel applications, sophisticated user interactions, they all require robust and flexible database technology to be deployed in a variety of environments and for several diverse purposes. Peer-to-peer architectures, the Grid, personal information systems, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, networked sensors, biomedical informatics, virtual digital libraries, virtual communities, and trust management are just a small sample of the great challenges ahead of us that drive research and development of the next generation of database technology.

The new information paradigms and requirements will move our research community away from any narrow interpretation of databases and expand its focus to the hard problems faced by broad visions of data, information, and knowledge management.

Researchers are encouraged to send contributions that pick up on brand new challenges and explore new and exciting technical directions wherever data management issues may be found.

23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2008)

For the past twenty-two years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2007 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and this year is hosted by the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) and Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brasil.

2nd international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technologies (SAMT2007)

The international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technologies (SAMT) targets to narrow the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media - The Semantic Gap.

SAMT started out as two workshops, EWIMT 2004 and EWIMT 2005, that quickly achieved enormous success in attracting high-quality papers and over 100 participants from across Europe and beyond. Last year EWIMT turned into the full-fledged conference SAMT, addressing integrative research on new knowledge-based forms of digital media systems. SAMT brings together those forums, projects, institutions and individuals investigating the integration of knowledge, semantics and low-level multimedia processing, and links them with industrial research and development engineers who exploit the underlying emerging technology.

In cooperation with the European Commission DG Information Society, the third day of the conference will feature keynote talks from EC representatives. SAMT 2007 is organized in Genova by the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technology of the National Research Council of Italy.

RIDE Project Workshop: Roadmap and strategies towards semantic interoperability in eHealth systems (RIDE2007)

This workshop is one of a series of workshops organised by the RIDE project “A Roadmap for Interoperability of eHealth Systems in Support of COM 356 with Special Emphasis on Semantic Interoperability” (a co-ordination action project funded by the European Commission). The project examines the European-wide state of the art in eHealth interoperability, identifies goals and challenges towards a European harmonisation of eHealth systems and develops a roadmap towards the introduction of interoperable eHealth solutions in a collaborative and co-ordinated way in Europe. One special topic of interest for the RIDE project is the semantic interoperability of eHealth systems, i. e. the ability of systems to understand and process the information exchanged. The project regularly organizes workshops in order to disseminate the results achieved so far and to gain feedback and further input from stakeholders involved in eHealth in Europe.

The objective of this workshop is to reflect on and debate about the roadmaps and strategies towards semantic interoperability for eHealth solutions. Several stakeholders will present their views for discussion in order to address multiple perspectives on this topic. The results of the workshop will feed into the further activities of the RIDE project and ultimately contribute to the shaping of eHealth interoperability in European member states.

This workshop is organised by DERI and features prominent experts in healthcare and emergent technologies to enable interoperability in eHealth.

6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007)

To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, the International Semantic Web Conference brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction.

In addition to this call for papers for the research track, ISWC 2007 will include a Semantic Web In Use track, a poster and demonstration track, a doctoral consortium, and a special competition known as the Semantic Web Challenge. The calls for those tracks can be found on the ISWC 2007 Web site.

1st Int'l Joint Workshop on Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web (SMR2)

One challenge of service coordination in the semantic Web is concerned with how to best connect the ultimate service requester with the ultimate service provider. Like intermediaries in the physical economy, a special kind of software agents, so called middle-agents, is supposed to solve this problem based on the declarative characterization of the capabilities of both service requester and provider agents. In fact, the standard Web service interaction life cycle corresponds to the classical service matchmaking process. More generally, resource retrieval extends the notion of service matchmaking to the process of discovering any kind of resource (services, data, information, knowledge) for given settings, participating entities, and purposes. It is at the core of several scenarios in the Semantic Web area, spanning from web-services, grid computing, and Peer-to-Peer computing, to applications such as e-commerce, human resource management, or social networks applications such as mating and dating services. The SMR2 workshop provides a forum for promoting, presenting, and discussing the latest scientific advances on semantic Web service and resource retrieval; establishing and fostering cross-disciplinary relations between relevant parties in research and/or business for the purpose of joint work on solutions to relevant problems in the domain. SMR2 is co-organized by Axel Polleres from DERI and supported by the DERI Lion project

The 2007 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07)

Following the great successes of WI'01, WI'03, WI'04 , WI'05 and WI'06 , WI 2007 is planned to provide a leading international forum for researchers and practitioners (1) to present the state-of-the-art of WI technologies; (2) to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent information technology; and (3) to cross-fertilize ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent information systems among different domains. By idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying foundations and the enabling technologies of Web intelligence, WI 2007 will capture current important developments of new models, new methodologies and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of Web-based intelligent information systems.

On The Move Federated Conference and Workshops (OTM2007)

OnTheMove (OTM) in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal in 2007 co-locates five successful related and complementary conferences: DOA = infrastructure, ODBASE = meaning of data, CoopIS = application in organizations, GADA = grid computing, high-performance and distributed applications, IS = information security. Each conference covers multiple research vectors, viz. theory (e.g. underlying formalisms), conceptual (e.g. technical designs and conceptual solutions) and applications (e.g. case studies and industrial best practices).

4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap 2007)

Information in all forms is increasingly available, but using it effectively requires a range of technologies for acquiring and representing that information. These technologies constitute knowledge capture, and involve the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse sources of information as well as its acquisition directly from users. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Internet, the study of knowledge capture has a renewed importance.

Although there has been considerable work in the area of knowledge capture, activities have been distributed across several distinct research communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, and the Semantic Web community. K-CAP 2007 will provide a forum that brings together disparate research communities such as these, whose members are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for reasoning. We solicit high-quality research papers for publication and presentation at our conference. Our aim is to promote multidisciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. K-CAP 2007 follows on the success of three previous conferences in 2005 (Banff, Canada), in 2003 (Florida, USA), and 2001 (Victoria, Canada).

Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup Workshop (SAAKM 2007)

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.

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
• Member 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.

5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM2007)

BPM 2007 is the fifth in a conference series that provides the leading forum for researchers and practitioners in all aspects of Business Process Management. BPM 2007 will be held in Brisbane, Australia and is organised by the Business Process Management Research Group, Faculty of Information Technology of the Queensland University of Technology.

The academic program will follow the highest academic standards and the acceptance rate is usually under 20%. Traditionally, the BPM conference attracts the world-leading researchers in all areas of Business Process Management. In 2007, we will complement the strong academic program with a series of complementary events including the co-located 12th Australasian Workshop for Requirements Engineering, a number of BPM-related workshops, tutorials, panel discussions and an industry-only one-day event on Business Process Management. The latter one will be targeted towards Australia's leading BPM practitioners.

5th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC)

The Fifth International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing follows on the success of four previous editions in Chicago (2006), Amsterdam (2005), New York City (2004) and Trento (2003), establishing ICSOC as the flagship conference in the field of service-oriented computing. ICSOC 2007 will continue the tradition of fostering cross-community scientific excellence and establishing strong links between academia and industry.

ICSOC will aim to cover a variety of topics including service description, discovery and composition, service deployment, platform configuration and capacity planning, monitoring, service middleware, service-oriented architectures, service management, information as a service, service development and maintenance, novel business models for SOAs, economical implications of Web Services and SOAs, service science, mobile and peer-to-peer services, data services, quality of service, exception handling, service reliability and security.

9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp07)

The annual Ubiquitous Computing conference series provides the premier forum in which to present research results in all areas relating to the design, implementation, application and evaluation of ubiquitous computing technologies, bringing together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines and geographical areas who are exploring the frontiers of computing as it moves beyond the desktop and becomes increasingly interwoven into the fabrics of our lives.

After Tokyo in 2005 and Orange County California in 2006, the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007) will come for four days to Innsbruck in Tyrol, Austria in September 2007.

2nd Int'l Workshop on Applications of Logic Programming to the Web, Semantic Web and Web Services (ALPSWS2007)

This workshop is focused at applications of Logic Programming as a paradigm for declarative knowledge representation and reasoning for the Web. The idea is to bring together the large body of work related to  applications of LP to the Web, Semantic Web and Web Services. This year's edition of ALPSWS is co-located with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2007) in Porto, Portugal. The previous workshop ALPSWS2006 was held in Seattle, Washington and co-located with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP2006), part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC2006).

Reasoning Web 2007 Summer School (ReasoningWeb2007)

The Reasoning Web summer school, organized by the REWERSE (http://rewerse.net/) Network of Excellence, is taking place the third time this year in Dresden between September 3-7. This summer school is devoted to educate its attendees in Semantic Web Languages and reasoning techniques on top of those languages towards making the Semantic Web vision real. This said, the event is not only devoted to purely theoretical aspects but also aimed to convey practical aspects like emerging application areas for Semantic Web technologies and Semantic Web reasoning in particular. For instance, this year's edition features three blocks of lectures ranging Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning over Rules and Rule Languages to Applications of Semantic Web Reasoning.

7th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to Peer Computing (P2P2007)

P2P2007 is the seventh in a series of annual conferences concerned with overlay network technologies. Overlay networks combine and share the resources owned by devices that are distributed around the Internet, which are normally relegated to the role of clients. Examples of such technologies include Peer-to-Peer Systems and Grids, but in general, any large-scale distributed system characterized by decentralization and sharing of resources can benefit from an overlay-based approach.

The focus of this year's conference is on applications. We invite papers that reflect experience with practical applications of the current state of the art, or that explore new application areas. We are interested in real, large-scale, deployed applications particularly, rather than "toy" examples composed of few nodes. The key issues to be considered are scalability, robustness, and security; we believe that these aspects are fundamental issues that must be solved before (legal) peer-to-peer and grid services will become mainstream.

9th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC2007)

The International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) annually brings together the leaders of the scientific research community in e-commerce and e-business from all over the world. This conference marks the second time that the conference will be held in the United States, having most recently been held in Xi'an, China and in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

ICEC'07 will feature: invited keynote presentations; panels on topical issues on technology, business and public policy; refereed paper presentations on emerging and continuing research issues; and tutorials and workshops that are designed to identify new areas for knowledge development and sharing. With involvement from the IT industry and the business community, ICEC'07 will encourage new dialogues and exchanges that will enable each side to take advantage of what the other has to offer in terms of technological, managerial and public policy know how.

The conference theme of ICEC'07 will focus on the discovery of innovative techniques and technologies that strive to identify and overcome such difficulties, and set the foundation for new research endeavours that will allow e-commerce to grow much more rapidly in the years to come. ICEC'07 will have multiple scientific tracks, each chaired by research leaders.

31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC2007)

COMPSAC is a major international forum for researchers, practitioners, managers, and policy makers interested in computer software and applications. It was first held in Chicago in 1977, and since then it has been one of the major forums for academia, industry, and government to discuss the state of art, new advances, and future trends in software technologies and practices. The technical program includes keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case studies, panel discussions and fast abstracts. It also includes a number of workshops on emerging important topics.

The creation of trustworthy and dependable software spans all aspects of software engineering. COMPSAC is a unique forum to bring together these facets and their major stakeholders. Building on the trustworthy, secure, and dependable software themes of highly successful recent COMPSAC conferences, the technical theme for the 31st conference is SOFTWARE ENGINEERING -- CRITICAL FEATURES and INFRASTRUCTURES

7th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2007)

The Seventh International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE'07) will be held in July 2007 in Como, Italy. ICWE'07 aims at promoting research and scientific excellence on Web Engineering and at bringing together practitioners, scientists, and researchers interested in technologies, methodologies, tools, and techniques used to develop and maintain Web-based applications and to enable and improve the dissemination and use of Web-related content. ICWE'07 invites original submissions in any of the following categories: research papers, industrial experience papers, demonstrations, workshops and tutorials.

The submissions may cover new approaches in Web Engineering, novel viewpoints, challenges, and visions on any aspect of Web Engineering, reports on the implementation or deployment of advanced Web projects in an industrial or application scenario, or descriptions of Web Engineering education experiences.

19th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'07)

CAiSE'07 aims to bring together practitioners and researchers in the field of information systems engineering. CAiSE'07 invites submissions on the development, maintenance, procurement and usage of information systems - especially submissions dealing with aspects related to information systems engineering in ubiquitous environments.

4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2007)

The 4th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007) will present the latest results in research and application of Semantic Web technologies, including knowledge mark-up languages, Semantic Web services, and ontology management. ESWC 2007 will also feature a special industry-oriented event, a forum for gaining a better understanding of these new technologies and their business aspects. The conference will offer a tutorial program to get up to speed with European and global developments in this exciting new area.

ESWC 2007 is sponsored by ESSI - a group of European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects. Together these projects aim to improve world-wide research and standardisation in the area of the Semantic Web. For more information on ESSI, please visit www.essi-cluster.org.

Semantic Technology Conference 2007 (SemTech2007)

Semantics is a hot industry sector - a $2 billion per year market and projected to grow to over $50 billion by the year 2010. Leading analysts have estimated that 35-65% of our System Integration costs are due to Semantic issues. And in every sector of the market - software infrastructure and tools, methodology, internet based activity and support for implementation projects - both inside the enterprise, and across the Internet, our biggest software challenges come down to creating and resolving meaning. In other words: semantics.

The SemTech Conference is where Semantic Technologies and Web 3.0 (the Semantic Web) come to life - in products, in working applications, in case studies, and in conversations with hundreds of developers, enterpreneurs, and practitioners who are building a new industry. SemTech 2007 is a world-class educational program. Join us this year, as an attendee, presenter, exhibitor, or sponsor.

The 2007 program will include a wide variety of presentations - both business and technology focused - from all communities. If you have a good story or case study that relates your experience and success in working with semantic technology then we invite you to make a proposal for the conference. The official deadline for submitting speaking proposals is past, however we do accept proposals for "Late Breaking News" sessions as well as for replacement speakers.

16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)

The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007) is to be held at the world-famous Banff Springs Hotel in the Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. The World Wide Web Conference is the global event that brings together the key innovators, decision-makers, technologists, businesses, and standards bodies shaping the Web.

Organized by the IW3C2 since 1994, the WWW conference is the annual gathering place of the international Web community to discuss and debate the future evolution of the Web.

Artificial Intelligence and Social Semantic Collaboration - Special track at FLAIRS 2007 (SemSoc2007)

Collaboration, acquisition and dissemination infrastructures like Wikis and Blogs are providing the foundation for joint collaborative knowledge creation and are essentially simplified knowledge acquisition tools. Social Software maps the social connections between different people into the technical infrastructure. Online Social Networking enables collaboration relationships as first class citizens, and allows exploiting these relationships for automated information distribution and classification.

P2P and Grid computing develops technology to interconnect large communities without centralized infrastructures for data and computation sharing, which is necessary to build heterogeneous, multiorganizational collaboration networks. The application of the mentioned technologies, especially in combination with the Semantic Web, to the desktop computer in order to improve personal information management and collaboration is the main topic of this special track.

Media in Transition: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age (MIT5)

Irish Digital Libraries Summit

The goal of the summit is to bring together researchers, librarians, library systems suppliers, and policy makers in order to facilitate the implementation of cutting edge technological developments in libraries. This four-way interaction is necessary for the future development of digital libraries in Ireland. We will present and discuss current and future research and development activities in the domain of digital libraries in the context of next generation Internet technologies (Semantic Web, Web 2.0).

23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'07)

The 23rd International Confe­rence on Data Engineering provides a premier forum for sharing and exchanging research and engineering results to problems encountered in today's information society.

ICDE especially encourages submissions that make efforts (1) to expose practitioners to how the research results and tools can contribute to their everyday problems in practice and to provide them with an early opportunity to evaluate these tools; (2) to raise awareness in the research community of the problems of practical applications of data engineering and to promote the exchange of data engineering technologies and experience among researchers and practitioners; (3) to identify new issues and directions for future research and development in the data engineering field.

SFI CSET Roadshow in NUI, Galway (SFI_CSET2007)

Centres for Science, Engineering & Technology (CSETs) help link scientists and engineers in partnerships across academia and industry to address crucial research questions, foster the development of new and existing Irish-based technology companies, attract industry that could make an important contribution to Ireland and its economy, and expand educational and career opportunities in Ireland in science and engineering. DERI is one such CSET and will present its research at the CSET Roadshow.

The overall objective of the SFI CSET Roadshow is to highlight the benefits of industry-academic collaboration through the CSET programme and to engage and encourage industry to get involved.

22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2007)

For the past twenty-one years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2007 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by Seoul National University in Seoul and The Suwon University in Gyeonggi-do.

International Workshop on Service Composition (sercomp'06)

Composition of services in dynamic environments has received much interest for its potential to support Business-to-Business (B2B) or Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). One of such dynamic environments is the World Wide Web, which makes available a huge and rapidly growing number of heterogeneous services. Recent efforts to develop ontology languages for the Web and ways of describing web services semantically in this environment have resulted in a number of prototype systems that can dynamically combine services and interact with them.

This workshop aims to tackle the research problems around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enable composition of services in the context of the WWW. Of particular interest are the methodologies that enable automatic or semiautomatic composition of services, semantic web service, web services, and e-services. The workshop especially welcomes contributions that exploit rich semantic descriptions of web services for semi-automatic and automatic composition using web intelligence and autonomous agents technology.

International Conference on Semantics - Semantics 2006 (Semantics 2006)

From Visions to Applications - Semantics: The New Paradigm Shift in IT

Semantics 2006 is the first concentrated event in Europe focussing on applied aspects of semantic technologies. The event addresses researchers to contribute new research ideas, interesting applications, industrial adoption scenarios and visions in the Semantic Web domain.

Besides the impact on the research community, Semantics 2006 aims to bring together researchers with industry representatives like Chief Level Executives, Project Managers, Software Vendors and Investors.

Semantics 2006 is a sequel of the Semantics 2005, which took place from 23rd - 25th of November 2005 at the Tech Gate Vienna and attracted 250 visitors. The annual event is organized by a consortium, consisting of the Austrian Computer Society, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NIWA websolutions, profactor Steyr, Salzburg New Media Lab and the Semantic Web School.

DERI Research Day 2006 (DERI2006)

The DERI Research Day will be held in DERI Galway, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway and attendance is by invitation only. Chaired by DERI's Directors Prof. Stefan Decker and Prof. Manfred Hauswirth, the DERI Research Day brings together premier Irish academics and industry to present DERI's latest research projects and results to a focused audience and to talk about the future of informatics in Ireland - especially with a focus towards semantics. It offers a forum for researchers and practitioners coming from a wide variety of areas to discuss common interests, share and exchange expertise and establish new connections inside Irish academic institutions as well as with industry.

5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006)

ISWC is a major international forum where visionary and state-of-the-art research of all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. ISWC2006 follows the 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002 which was held in Sardinia, Italy, 9-12 June 2002), the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003 which was held in Florida, USA, 20 - 23 October 2003), 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004 which was held in Hiroshima, Japan, 7 - 11 November 2004), and 4th International Semantic Web Conference 2005 (ISWC'05 which was held in Galway, Ireland, 6 - 10 November, 2005).

5th European NKOS Workshop (with Semantic Web Special Session) (NKOS2006)

For the fifth time, an NKOS Workshop will be arranged as official workshop of the European Digital Library Conference. This time the workshop takes place on September 21st, as part of ECDL 2006 in Alicante, Spain (http://www.ecdl2006.org/).

The workshop aims to address key challenges for KOS posed by the overlapping themes of

• User-centred design issues
• KOS Interoperability
• KOS representations and service protocols
• Terminology services
• Social tagging

A significant feature of this NKOS workshop will be a special session highlighting Semantic Web applications of KOS in Digital Libraries. This builds on Semantic Web contacts established at previous NKOS workshops at ECDL and represents a convergence of semantic Digital Library efforts from the library world and Semantic Web communities. The session will focus on theoretical and practical issues involved in building next-generation Semantic Digital Libraries that provide machine support for end-users in their search for content and information.

• Deployment of Semantic Web methods
• in support of Knowledge
• Organization systems and services

Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architecture Workshop (mda4soa'06)

A new paradigm - service-orientation - is currently emerging for distributed computing and e-business processing; it has evolved from object-oriented and component-based computing to enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries. This new paradigm utilizes services (autonomous platform-independent computational elements that can be described, published, discovered and accessed over the Internet using standard protocols) as fundamental elements for developing applications/solutions; services will be important for customers and not the specific software or hardware component that is used to implement the services. In this context, services become the next level of abstraction in the process of creating systems that would enable automation of e-businesses. This paradigm shift is changing the way the computer software is developed and used (designed, architected, delivered, consumed, and analysed), and this way of reorganizing software applications and infrastructure into a set of interacting services is usually referred to as Service-oriented Architectures (SOA).

The Congress on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (CoSTEP 2006)

The 2006 Congress on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (CoSTEP) is one of the major events planned for celebrating the 60th anniversary of IEEE Computer Society. CoSTEP will be the premiere professional forum where practitioners, researchers, technologists, managers, and decision makers gather to explore the most recent advances in software technology and engineering practice. The first CoSTEP will be held from September 17-22, 2006, at Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Chicago, where four international conferences will be co-located:

• The 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2006),
• the 4th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006),
• the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006), and
• the 2006 IEEE Workshops on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP 2006).

Advances in Semantics for Web services 2006 Workshop (semantics4ws'06)

Web services have added a new level of functionality to the current Web by taking a first step towards seamless integration of distributed software components using Web standards. Nevertheless, current Web service technologies around SOAP, WSDL and UDDI operate at a syntactic level and, therefore, although they support interoperability (i.e. interoperability between the many diverse application development platforms that exist today) through common standards, they still require human interaction to a large extent. For example, the human programmer has to manually search for appropriate Web services in order to combine them in a useful manner, which limits scalability and greatly curtails the added economic value of envisioned with the advent of Web services.

1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2006)

The vision of the Semantic Web is to make the contents of the Web unambiguously computer interpretable, enabling automation of a diversity of tasks currently performed by human beings. The goal of providing semantics and automated reasoning capabilities to the Web draws upon research in a broad range of areas including Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software Engineering, Distributed Computing and Information Systems. Contributions to date have included languages for semantic annotation of Web documents, automated reasoning capabilities for Web languages, ontologies, query and view languages, semantic translation of Web contents, semantic integration middleware, technologies and principles for building multi-agent and Grid systems, semantic interoperation of programs and devices, technologies and principles for describing, searching and composing Web Services, and more.

The 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC2006) has been established to foster research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technology in Asia. ASWC will be run by ASWC steering committee in harmony with the sister conferences such as International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) and European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC).

Workshop on Internet Archiving (WIA2006)

The workshop aims to build a collaborative network that will work to develop Internet archiving in Ireland over the coming years and will work to build international links in the area. It is intended that such a network would be an important foundation stone for the development of Irish participation in collaborative funding bids on a European and international scale over the coming years.

Applications of Logic Programming in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services (ALPSWS2006)

Co-located with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP2006), part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC2006), Seattle, Washington.

The advent of the Semantic Web promises machine readable semantics and a machine-processable next Generation of the Web. The first step in this direction is the annotation of static data on the Web by machine processable information about knowledge and its structure by means of Ontologies. The next step in this direction is the annotation of dynamic applications and services invocable over the Web in order to facilitate automation of discovery, selection and composition of semantically described services and data sources on the Web by intelligent methods, which is called Semantic Web Services. Many workshops and conferences were dedicated to these promising areas mostly with generic topics and bringing together people from a widespread variety of research fields with different understandings of the topic. The plethora of these workshops and conferences makes it hard to keep track of the various approaches of a particular technology such as declarative logic programming in our case.

In this workshop we want to advance the applications of Logic Programming as a paradigm for declarative knowledge representation and reasoning for the Web. The idea is to bring together the impressive body of work related to applications of LP to Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services.

W3C, Face-to-Face Meeting - Semantic Annotation of WSDL Working Group (SAWSDL Meeting)

On June 20 and 21, the W3C Semantic Annotations for WSDL (SAWSDL) Working Group is meeting at DERI Galway for its first face-to-face meeting. The SAWSDL WG was started recently in order to bring together the diverse Semantic Web Service research groups and build a standard that will serve as the common ground for describing Web Services semantically. The working group has members from such major Semantic Web Services research centers as DERI, University of Maryland, IBM and many others.

3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006)

The 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference will be held in Budva, Montenegro from the 11th - 14th June, 2006. It will present the latest results in research and application in semantic web technologies (including knowledge markup languages, Semantic Web services, ontology management and more).

ESWC 2006 will also feature a special industry-oriented event providing European industry with an opportunity to become even more familiar with these technologies. It will offer a tutorial program, focusing on the latest in Semantic Web technologies.

ESWC 2006 is co-located with a meeting of the Knowledge Web network of excellence . Workshops and meetings of other European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects involved in the semantic web and semantic web technologies will be able to showcase their developments.

Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium (CSWWS 2006)

For the Canadian SWWS, the Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG) is inviting original, relevant (context of the semantic Web), high quality papers from all over the world. Some of the contributions may be full papers, short papers or tutorials proposals. Tutorials should be based on simple concepts, applications and tools of interest to a wide range of public.

15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006)

The 'New Wave' investigates the next wave of capability for the web, the semantic and pervasive web, and how these will transform society over the next decade. It will scrutinize the cyber future for business and industry and show how the commercial world is adopting and adapting the latest academic and industrial research.

7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2006)

The strong growth in wireless communications and the ever increasing availability of mobile multi-purpose devices have created a global computing environment that plays a key role in the daily activities of millions of people. Users communicate, work, and confer using a wide range of devices all connected via an array of communication networks that provide voice and data access regardless of geographic position.

This infrastructure aggregation presents a number of challenges especially when it comes to data-intensive applications: scale, variable and intermittent connectivity, provision of location-dependent applications, bandwidth/power consumption, device size limitations, and multimedia delivery across hybrid networks.

Conventional issues in data management have to be thought and evaluated anew in this rapidly changing environment. Non-traditional issues including semantics of data, location-centric data services, broadcast and multicast delivery, data availability techniques, security of data, as well as privacy questions have to be addressed. MDM'06 focuses on challenges and opportunities for data management and access technology in the evolving world of mobile, wearable, and pervasive computing.

eGalway Week (eGalway)

The central event of eGalway week will be the Broadband Conference & Expo on Wednesday 26th of April in the Radisson Hotel. At this, Internet Service Providers, eBusinesses and the Public sector will demonstrate the many uses of the Internet and the services and products people can avail of online. The Minister for Communications, Noel Dempsey, will be addressing the conference. There is no charge to attend the event in the Radisson and we are invited to attend.

Semantic Web Services Challenge 2006 Phase I (SWSC 2006)

The goal of the SWS Challenge is to develop common a common understanding of various technologies intended to facilitate the automation of mediation, choreography and discovery for Web Services. The intent of this challenge is to explore the trade-offs among existing approaches. Additionally we would like to figure out which parts of problem space may not yet be covered. The workshops aim to provide a forum for discussion based on a common application. This Challenge workshops seeks participation from industry and academic researchers developing software components and/or intelligent agents that have the ability to automate mediation, choreography and discovery processes between Web services.

Emerging Technologies for Web-based Communities, Workshop at IADIS 2006 (ET-WBC 2006)

The organizing committee of the Emerging Technologies for Web-based Communities (ET-WBC 2006) workshop is soliciting contributions as full, short or position papers. These papers may describe complete or work in progress about emerging theories, applications, technologies and tools of interest and value to Web-based communities.

Keynote speech by an expert in the field (to be announced). Selected papers to be published in the proceedings of the workshop and best papers to appear in related jounal recommended by the main conference organizers.

Submission Deadline (papers): November 25 th, 2005, Notification of acceptance: December 25th 2005, Final Manuscripts: January 10th, 2006.

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