CfP: Applications of Semantic Technologies AST2006

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Preliminary Call for Papers

AST 2006 - Applications of Semantic Technologies

1st International AST Workshop located at the Informatik 2006
5-6 October, 2006 (Workshop days), Dresden, Germany
http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ast2006

Organized by Pascal Hitzler and York Sure, AIFB, University of=20
Karlsruhe, Germay

Objectives

Semantic Web is a major international research effort with the goal to=20
make web content available for intelligent knowledge processing. It=20
draws on standard and novel techniques from various disciplines within=20
Computer Science, including Knowledge Management, Artificial=20
Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology, Software Agents,=20
eCommerce, etc. The methods and tools developed and integrated for this=20
purpose - often called Semantic Technologies - are generic and have a=20
very large application potential outside the domain of the Semantic Web.

Such applications are currently being investigated in various=20
disciplines within Computer Science, including Ambient Intelligence,=20
Software Engineering, Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge=20
Management, Bioinformatics, etc. We believe that Semantic Technologies=20
provide methods and tools which will persist in these and other=20
application areas for the foreseeable future.

Program

To ensure a creative atmosphere during the workshop, the participants=20
will be selected based on their submitted papers, posing important=20
issues to be presented and discussed at the workshop. The workshop will=20
consist of short presentations followed by discussions about the goals=20
of the workshop: Applications of Semantic Web Technologies and outlining =

a plan for future research. In order to obtain an intensive exchange of=20
ideas between the participants, there will be extensive time for =
discussion.

A final panel will discuss the research agenda for the coming years,=20
based on the presentations and results from the demos, evaluations and=20
discussions.

Topics of Interest

This workshop shall bring together researchers and practitioners who=20
work on applications of Semantic Technologies. It shall further the=20
cross-fertilization between application areas and aid the technology=20
transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop shall=20
cover diverse application areas of Semantic Technologies, including, but =

not limited to, the following.
     * Ambient Intelligence
     * Cognitive Systems
     * Data Integration
     * Multimedia Data Management
     * Software Engineering
     * Cognitive Systems
     * Machine Learning
     * eScience
     * Information Extraction
     * Grid Computing
     * Peer-to-Peer Systems
     * eCommerce
     * eGovernment
     * Bioinformatics

Program Committee
     * J=FCrgen Angele, ontoprise GmbH Karlsruhe, Germany
     * Elmar Dorner, SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany
     * Carole Goble, University of Manchester, Germany
     * Gerhard Goos, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
     * Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany
     * Knut Hinkelmann, UAS Solothurn, Schweiz
     * Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
     * Harald Kosch, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
     * Thorsten Liebig, University of Ulm, Germany
     * Jin Liu, T-Systems Berlin, Germany
     * Rainer Malaka, EML Heidelberg, Germany
     * Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
     * Ulrich Reimer, UAS St. Gallen, Switzerland
     * Alexander Reinefeld, ZIB Berlin, Germany
     * Stefan Schlobach, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Germany
     * Michael Sintek, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
     * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
     * Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
     * Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
     * Walter Waterfeld, Software AG, Germany
     * Uwe Thaden, L3S Hannover, Germany
     * Christoph Weinhardt, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
     * Guo-Qiang Zhang, CWRU Cleveland, USA

Submission and Proceedings
     * to be announced at http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ast2006

Important Dates (may still be preliminary)
     * Deadline for paper submissions: May 12th, 2006
     * Notification of acceptance: June 9th, 2006
     * Camera-ready versions: June 30th, 2006
     * Workshop: 5th or 6th of October

This event is supported by
     * KnowledgeWeb http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/
     * SEKT http://www.sekt-project.com/
     * SmartWeb http://www.smartweb-project.de/

Please address all questions to the workshop organizers under=20
hitzler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or sure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx