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LAST CALL FOR PAPERS (WITH DEADLINE EXTENSION)
THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
SCALABLE SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS (SSWS '07)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=s
sws2007cfp
ON THE MOVE FEDERATED CONFERENCES 2007 (OTM'07)
http://www.cs.rmit.
edu.au/fedconf
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 25 - 30, 2007
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
This workshop aims at creating a forum for discussing a
critical issue for the
Semantic Web, that is, scalability. As the Semantic Web
evolves, scalability becomes
increasingly important. This workshop will focus on
addressing of the scalability
issue with respect to the development and deployment of
knowledge base systems on the
Semantic Web. Typically, such systems deal with information
described in Semantic Web
languages like OWL and RDF(S), and provide services such
as storing, reasoning,
querying and debugging. There are two basic requirements
for these systems. First,
they have to satisfy the application's semantic
requirements by providing sufficient
reasoning support. Second, they must scale well in order
to be of practical use.
Given the sheer size and distributed nature of the
Semantic Web, these requirements
impose additional challenges beyond those addressed by
earlier knowledge base
systems. This has been well recognized by the community.
We expect that the above
issue is going to challenge the Semantic Web for a
long time of period and
significant effort is needed in order to tackle the
problem.
This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and
practitioners to share their
recent ideas and progresses towards building scalable
knowledge base systems for the
Semantic Web. The workshop will be centered on the
discussion of three major aspects:
1. foundations, methods and technologies for pushing
forward the state-of-the-art;
2. performance evaluation and related principles,
methodologies and tools;
3. identification of important issues and future research
directions.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
TOPICS OF INTERESTS for the workshop include, but are not
limited to:
* Reasoning mechanisms, techniques and systems
* Query evaluation and optimization
* Performance evaluation and benchmarks
* Large Semantic Web repositories
* Distributed and concurrent knowledge base systems and P2P
systems
* Large scale knowledge base management
* Semantic Web-based information integration
In addition, the workshop will include a working session
on benchmarking and other
relevant topics solicited beforehand to participants. In
order to be able to evaluate
scalability, the existence of agreed benchmarking
datasets is of crucial
importance. In many related domains such as databases and
theorem proving, standard
benchmarks exist and are ready to guide research on
optimization techniques. In the
Semantic Web area, such benchmarking shave only just
started to emerge and there is
no commonly agreed benchmark dataset for RDF and OWL
reasoning and querying. The
workshop will address this issue in a special working
session on benchmarking. In
this session, existing benchmarking initiatives will be
presented and discussed by
organizers and participants of the workshop. The aim is to
agree on a classification
of the existing datasets and requirements for additional
datasets.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission Deadline July 20, 2007 (EXTENDED)
Paper Submission Deadline July 26, 2007
Acceptance Notification September 1, 2007
Camera Ready Due September 10, 2007
Registration Due September 10, 2007
OTM Conferences November 25 - 30, 2007
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on
originality, significance,
technical soundness, clarity of expression, and relevance
to SSWS. All submissions
must be in English, and will be refereed by a program
committee comprising members of
the Working Group. Research submissions must not exceed
10 pages following the
Springer format. Submissions should be made in PDF
format. Detailed formatting
instructions can be found at: http://
www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag
as LNCS. Failure to commit
to presentation at the conference automatically
excludes a paper from the
proceedings.
The paper submission site is located at
h
ttp://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ssws/2007/papers/
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE
Achille Fokoue
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA (Contact Person)
(http://domino.research.ibm.com/c
omm/research_people.nsf/pages/achille.index.html,
achille us.ibm.com)
Yuanbo Guo
Microsoft Corp
(http://www.lehigh.edu/~yu
g2, yug2lehigh.edu)
Thorsten Liebig
Ulm University, Germany
(http:
//www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/ki/liebig.html,
thorsten.liebiguni-ulm.de)
Bijan Parsia
University of Manchester, UK
(http://www.cs.man.a
c.uk/~bparsia/, bparsiacs.man.ac.uk)
Program Committee Members
Pascal Hitzler - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
York Sure - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Kavitha Srinivas - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Takahira Yamaguchi - Keio University, Japan
Raúl García Castro - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid,
Spain
Aditya Kalyanpur - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Oscar Corcho - University of Manchester, UK
Jeff Heflin - Lehigh University, USA
Ralf Möller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Ian Horrocks - University of Manchester, UK
Boris Motik - University of Manchester, UK
Pierre-Antoine Champin - Lyon 1 University, France
Ying Ding - University of Innsbruck, Austria
Marko Luther - DoCoMo Eurolabs Munich, Germany
Timo Weithöner - Ulm University, Germany
Andy Seaborne - Hewlett-Packard, UK
Ulrike Sattler - University of Manchester, UK
Jan Wielemaker - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Volker Haarslev - Condordia University, Canada
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