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Since the cornerstone article "The Semantic Web" by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila, thanks to the conjunction of both academic and industrial efforts, many theoretical results have been produced, languages and technologies implemented, frameworks proposed and scenarios hypothesized in order to go from a "web of links" towards a "web of meanings". In spite of an initial skepticism about the Semantic Web initiative, promising prototypes and tools have been developed, both exploiting and boosting Semantic Web technologies.
Usefulness of Semantic Web technologies is now commonly acknowledged and the offsprings of the basic initiative are increasingly widespread in a variety of application fields, encompassing information retrieval, ubiquitous computing, e-commerce, Web service discovery and composition, data integration, multimedia, social networking, healthcare, among many others.
The contribution of Semantic Web researches to these various fields basically lies in making information structured and interoperable and therefore really machine understandable, thus providing means for machines to somehow automatically "reason" on such information.
As Semantic Web technologies permeate increasingly large application fields, new issues emerge. They include easily creating and managing Semantic Web content, making applications more robust and scalable, devising innovative and useful reasoning services.
Relevant applications and scenarios include, among others:
- machine learning and the semantic web
- recommender sytstmes
- semantic matchmakers
- semantic web portals
- semantic social networks
- semantic web services
- ontology mappers and mergers
- ontology browsers
- e-science
- e-business
- e-commerce, e-negotiation, e-marketplace
- e-learning
- folksonomies and collaborative tagging
- semantic based multimedia sources
categorization and classification
- supply chain management
- semantic-based user interfaces
- PIM, user profiling
- mobile computing
- ubiquitous computing
The aim of this KES'08 session is to gather
researchers from various fields in order to present
the most prominent engineered prototypes and tools
successfully exploiting semantic web technologies and
approaches. They must be able either to solve issues
that would be unfeasible / much harder without
semantics or to help the development and circulation
of Semantic Web related technologies as well as to be
reused in different contexts (not necessarily the
web).
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Papers are invited from authors with interests on
the indicated scope and related areas of application.
The conference proceedings will be published by
Springer-Verlag in
Lecture Notes in AI as part of the LNCS/LNAI series. When formatting
papers, please refer to the Springer-Verlag web site,
and strictly follow the Instructions to LNCS Authors. Please
note that the required paper length is eight pages in
Springer format. Papers longer than this will be
subject to a penalty charge. Papers very much longer
or shorter than the required length may be
rejected.
To ensure high quality, all papers will be
thoroughly reviewed by the SWEA Programme Committee.
Papers may be rejected without being sent to the
reviewers if they are too long. Papers may be
rejected without being reviewed if it is judged that
they do not lie sufficiently within the scope of the
conference.
The papers will be scheduled for presentation either
orally or by poster, depending on their attributes, author preferences
and referee recommendations. Please note that poster presentations are
regarded as being of equal importance to oral presentations.
All papers for KES2008 must be submitted in
electronic form using the PROSE
software review system. Click here
for the PROSE Paper Submission and Login page.
All oral and poster papers must be presented by
one of the authors who must register for the
conference and pay the fee. Authors are not
encouraged to submit multiple papers, and authors
will be restricted to one paper per
registration.
Extended versions of selected papers
will be considered for publication in the KES
Journal (International Journal of Knowledge-Based
and Intelligent Engineering Systems) published by IOS
Press, see KES Journal
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The proposed schedule of important
dates for the session is as follows:
March 03 [EXTENDED] March 10, 2008
Submission dealine- April 11, 2008
Notification of acceptance
- April 18, 2008
Camera-ready Due
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- Roberto Basili - University of Tor Vergata - Italy
- Bettina Berendt - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium
- Paolo Bouquet - University of Trento - Italy
- Floriana Esposito - University of Bari - Italy
- Andreas Hotho - University of Kassel - Germany
- Tomasz Kaczmarek - Poznan University of Economics - Poland
- Freddy Lecue - Orange-France Telecom - France
- Pasquale Lops - University of Bari - Italy
- Roberto Pirrone - University of Palermo - Italy
- Michele Ruta - Technical University of Bari - Italy
- Oreste Signore - W3C Office in Italy/CNR - Italy
- Armando Stellato - University of Rome "Tor Vergata" - Italy
- Giovanni Tummarello - DERI Galway - Ireland
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- Marco DE GEMMIS
- University of Bari (Università degli Studi di
Bari)
Bari, Italy
tel : +39 080 544 2276
fax : +39 080 544 3196
mail: degemmis@di.uniba.it
- Tommaso DI NOIA
- Technical University of Bari (Politecnico di Bari)
Bari, Italy
tel : +39 080 5963903
fax : +39 080 5963410
mail: t.dinoia@poliba.it
- Eugenio DI SCIASCIO
- Technical University of Bari (Politecnico di Bari)
Bari, Italy
tel : +39 080 5963903
fax : +39 080 5963410
mail: disciascio@poliba.it
- Giovanni SEMERARO
- University of Bari (Università degli Studi di
Bari)
Bari, Italy
tel : +39 080 544 2140
fax : +39 080 544 3196
mail: semeraro@di.uniba.it
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