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Semantic Web Workshop Issues First Call for Papers
1st Workshop on The Semantic Web meets eGovernment (SWEG'06)
at the
2006 AAAI Spring Symposium Series
Stanford University, California, USA
March 27-29, 2006
http://imu.iccs.ntua.gr/sweg/
Important Dates and Submission Details
- Submissions due: October 21, 2005
- Notification of acceptance: November 4, 2005
- Deadline for final versions: January 27, 2006
- Symposium: March 27-29, 2006
Those interested in participating should send a three-page extended abstract
describing their related work and areas of interest. Submissions may discuss
work in any stage of development, from concepts and future directions to finished work.
All accepted papers will provide the framework for the discussions
during the symposium. Papers must be written in English.
Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee,
and selected on the basis of their relevance and originality.
PDF-submissions in AAAI format should be sent to Stojanovic@fzi.de.
For formatting instructions see http://www.aaai.org/Publications/instructions.html
and http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html.
The Symposium organizers will consider the publication of a post-conference
edited book in the "Semantic Web and Beyond" Springer series co-edited
by Amit Sheth and Ramesh Jain.
High quality submissions may also be encouraged for submission
to a special issue of the "International Journal on Semantic Web
and Information Systems" and will be subject to a quicker review cycle.
Topics and Content
The Semantic Web (SW) has been in the focus of the AI community for the last five years. However, after years of intensive research and impressive scientific results, what the SW now really needs is real-world use cases, in order to demonstrate its added (business) value. Moreover, the full application potential of some SW technologies, like Semantic Web Services and Rules has been neglected due to lack of large-scale testing domains. Finally, the next application-driven research challenges for SW can be defined only through the feedback from real use-cases. Therefore, the Semantic Web requires a large, dynamic, heterogeneous and shared information space to be effectively evaluated.
On the other hand, the domain of eGovernment is unique because of its enormous challenge to achieve interoperability, given the manifold semantic differences of interpretation of, e.g., law, regulations, citizen services, administrative processes, best-practices, and, last, but not least, the many different languages to be taken into account within and across regions, nations and continents. These semantic differences are related to a great variety of IT solutions (on local, regional, inter-/national level) which will have to be networked (despite any effort of standardisation). In consequence, some of the key obstacles for networked computer applications in governmental processes and services are those kinds of barriers in which the different meanings of data objects and interfaces cannot be automatically mediated. Setting up seamless eGovernment services requires information integration as well as process integration involving a variety of objects with specific semantics.
Therefore, the combination of these two domains seems to be quite natural: the eGovernment domain can provide an ideal test bed for existing SW research, and SW technologies can be an ideal platform to achieve the vision of a knowledge-based, user-centric, distributed and networked eGovernment.
In this Symposium we invite contributions which tackle theoretical, technical and application aspects of the usage of Semantic Web methods for eGovernment problems.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to:
- Ontologies for e-Government domain
- Management in eGovernment domain using semantic technologies
- Information integration and Interoperability
- Semantic eGovernment services
- Semantic eGovernment systems
- Methodologies and Methods for realizing semantic eGovernment
- Adoption of semantic technologies in eGovernment
Chairs
- Andreas Abecker (FZI, University of Karlsruhe)
- Amit Sheth (Semagix and LSDIS Lab, University of Georgia)
- Gregoris Mentzas (ICCS, National Technical University of Athens)
- Ljiljana Stojanovic (FZI, University of Karlsruhe)
Program Committee (partial list-will be updated)
- Athman Bouguettaya (Department of CS, E-Commerce & E-Government Research Lab)
- Mills Davis (TopQuadrant, USA)
- John Domingue (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK)
- Tom van Engers (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Jeff Heflin (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University)
- Ann Macintosh (International Teledemocracy Centre, Napier University, UK)
- William McIver (NRC Institute for Information Technology, Canada)
- Michele Missikoff (Instituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica "Antonio Ruberti"- CNR, Italy)
- Enrico Motta (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK)
- Enrico Nardelli (NESTOR - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
- Nenad Stojanovic (AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
- Rudi Studer (AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
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