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* First CALL FOR PAPERS
* Submission deadline: Mar 12, 2007
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* 3rd Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering
- SWESE 2007
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* located at the 4th European Semantic Web Conference
(ESWC2007)
* ESWC2007 Workshop Dates: June 6-7, 2007
* Innsbruck, Austria
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Workshop Description
The advent of the World Wide Web has led many corporations
to
web-enable their business applications and to the adoption
of web
service standards in middleware platforms. Marking a turning
point
in the evolution of the Web, the Semantic Web is expected
to
provide more benefits to software engineering. Over the past
five
years there have been a number of attempts to bring
together
languages and tools, such as the Unified Modelling Language
(UML),
developed for Software Engineering, with Semantic Web
languages
such as RDF and OWL. The Semantic Web Best Practice and
Deployment
Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering
Task
Force (SETF) to investigate potential benefits. A related
international standardisation activity is OMG's Ontology
Definition Metamodel (ODM), which was formally adopted in
October
2006.
It has been argued that the advantages of Semantic Web
Technologies in software engineering include reusability
and
extensibility of data models, improvements in data quality,
and
discovery and automated execution of workflows. According
to
SETF's note "A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented
Software
Developers" (http://www.w3.or
g/TR/sw-oosd-primer/), the Semantic
Web can serve as a platform on which domain models can be
created,
shared and reused. However, are there any other potential
benefits
related to the reversal of this approach and the use of
Semantic
Web concepts in the field of Software Engineering? Could
the
Web-based, semantically rich formality of OWL be combined
with
emerging model driven development tools such as the Eclipse
Modelling Framework to provide some badly needed
improvements in
both the process and product of software development
activities?
What is it about the amalgamation of OWL, UML and the Model
Driven
Architecture (MDA) that could make a difference? Certainly,
there
appear to be a number of strong arguments in favour of this
approach but consensus on the best way forward, or if there
is
indeed a way forward at all has not yet formed. This
workshop
seeks to build on prior events that have begun to explore
and
evaluate this important area.
The workshop organisers believe that the informal nature of
the
workshop, located at the major event on the Semantic Web,
will aid
to further exchange between practitioners and researchers
working
on these and other issues related to Semantic Web enabled
software
engineering by providing a forum for discussing the major
challenges of the area and the different approach being
taken to
resolve them. In fact, the first two SWESE workshops at
ISWC2005
and ISWC2006 turned out to be huge successes, with more than
50
participants in SWESE2005 and more than 60 in SWESE2006.
Intended Audience
While the intended audience for this workshop includes those
with
experience or interest in Semantic Web languages and tools,
it is
also crucial to have participation by those with expertise
in
other areas such as Automatic Software Engineering,
Software
Engineering, OO/UML/MDA, Semantic Web, and Software/legacy
Modernization.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Visions for Semantic Web driven software engineering
- Tools developed or being developed for software
engineering using SW
languages
- Integration or application development projects combining
Software
Engineering techniques and Semantic Web tools or languages
- Lessons learned in Automatic Software Engineering or KBSE
applicable to
SW based SE
- Shortcomings of the Semantic Web with respect to Software
Engineering
- Uses, extensions and/or issues with ODM
- Visions for SW driven software modernization
- Integration of UML, OO programming languages and Semantic
Web languages
- Integration of formal methods and Semantic Web languages
- Software specification and Semantic Web languages
- Ontologies for software engineering
- Component discovery and ontologies
- Feature modelling and ontologies
- Ontology-based reasoning for software engineering
- Semantic annotations in software engineering
- Ontology-Driven Architecture: How to introduce Semantic
Web technology
into mainstream development processes
Workshop Format and Attendance
This will be an all day workshop a poster session and
technical
talks discussing competing visions for Semantic Web enabled
software engineering (final format will be dependent on
submissions; keynotes and panel are pending).
This workshop is open to all members of the ISWC community,
as
well as other communities identified in the Intended
Audience
discussion above.
Although submission of a paper is not a requirement for
attendance
at the workshop, in the event that the workshop cannot
accommodate
all who would like to participate, those who have submitted
a
paper will be given priority for registration. We encourage
those
who plan to attend this workshop, to register early in order
to
help conference organisers with their planning as well as
insure
that the workshop is not canceled do to projected poor
attendance.
Organizing Committee
- Elisa F. Kendall, Sandpiper Software
- Evan Wallace, NIST
- Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen (contact)
- Phil Tetlow, IBM
- Marwan Sabbouh, MITRE
- Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI at University of Karlsruhe
Program Committee (in progress)
- Colin Atkinson (DE), University of Mannheim
- Ken Baclawski (US), Northeastern University
- Roberta Cuel (IT), University of Trento
- Jin Song Dong (SG), National University of Singapore
- Dragan Gasevic, (CA) Simon Fraser University Surrey
- Michael Goedicke (DE), University of Essen
- Holger Knublauch (US), TopQuadrant
- Mitch Kokar (US), Northeastern University
- Alain Leger (FR), France Telecom
- David Martin (US), SRI International
- Jishnu Mukerji (US), Hewlett-Packard Company
- Daniel Oberle (DE), SAP Research
- Adrian Paschke (DE), Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
- Dave Reynolds (UK), HP
- Marta Sabou (UK), Open University
- Steffen Staab (DE), University of Koblenz
- Hai Wang (UK), University of Southampton
- Andrea Zisman, (UK) City University, bond
Submissions and Publication
We invite three forms of submission to this workshop:
Full papers
Short position papers
Posters
Format required for submissions:
Technical papers shall be up to 15 pages length, position
papers 5
pages. The workshop content will be available for
publication in
separate ESWC2007 workshop proceedings. Please use the
Springer's
LNCS format for accepted papers. Complete details on this
format
are available at Springeronline.
htt
p://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-1
64-2-72376-0,
00.html
Technical papers will be peer reviewed by a group of
experts
representing a cross-section of fields relevant to Semantic
Web
enabled software engineering.
Publication:
All accepted papers will be published online as part of the
workshop proceedings.
Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit revised
and
extended versions of their papers for a special issue of a
major
Semantic Web journal. [NB: the best papers in SWESE2005 are
to be
published in the Journal of Web Semantics, while those in
SWESE2006 are invited to submit to the Journal of Data
Semantics.]
Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 12, 2007
Acceptance notification: April 4, 2007
Camera-ready deadline: April 24, 2007
ESWC2007 Workshop dates: June 6-7, 2007
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