CFP: Semantic Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval (SMR06@VLDB)

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

              CALL FOR PAPERS=20
                 SMR 2006
        1st International Workshop on
  Semantic Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval:
           Issues and Perspectives
       http://sisinflab.poliba.it/smr06/

         Co-located with VLDB 2006
  The Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX)
      Seoul, Korea - September 11, 2006=20
       http://aitrc.kaist.ac.kr/~vldb06/

Matchmaking is basically the process of discovering, based on a given =
request, promising partners for some kind of purpose. It is a process =
common to several scenarios in the Internet era, spanning from =
e-commerce to web-services, to grid computing, to human resource =
management, to actual dating services, to Peer-to-Peer computing. Both =
requests and partner descriptions are usually, but not always, given =
some kind of structure.

Obviously, main issues emerge when the search is not limited to identity =
matches but, as in real life, when the objective is finding partners =
suitable at least to some extent, or -- when a single partner cannot =
fulfill the request
-- find a pool of cooperating partners able to accomplish it.
As this process may lead to various possible matches, the notion of =
ranking becomes central, to provide a list of potential partners ordered =
according to some criteria.

--- TOPICS ---

Aims of the workshop are:
- Gather researchers from different communities and from both academia =
and industry to debate and find common ground on matchmaking issues.
- Present open and emerging issues, and possible solutions to =
matchmaking problems, which we summarize in the next section.
- Propose shared and acceptable methods to evaluate effectiveness of =
approaches to matchmaking.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
  - approximate matchmaking
  - hybrid resource retrieval
  - web services discovery and composition
  - hybrid resource retrieval
  - approximate reasoning for resource retrieval
  - non-monotonic reasoning for resource retrieval
  - resource annotation for matchmaking
  - Efficient storage of semantic-based annotations for matchmaking and =
retrieval
  - Semantic matchmaking and retrieval applications for:
   * P2P and B2C E-marketplaces
   * Semantic Grid
   * Mobile commerce
   * Workflow composition
   * Business processes
   * Dating systems
   * Competencies management
   * Multimedia

--- SUBMISSION ---

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions (not =
published or under consideration in other journals or conferences) on =
the topics of the workshop. All submissions must be in English. =
Submissions must clearly identify the nature of the paper as research, =
experience, or position. All submitted papers will be carefully =
evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and =
clarity of expression by three members of the Program Committee.

It is planned (without confirmation yet) to publish post workshop =
proceedings in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science =
(LNCS) series. Informal proceedings will be handed out at the workshop =
site.

Authors should submit their papers in PDF format through the conference =
management system that can be accessed at =
http://www.easychair.org/SMR06/.

Submissions must not exceed 15 pages for full length papers and 6 pages =
for research-in-progress proposals and must be formatted using the =
camera-ready templates of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Author instructions can be found at =
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

--- IMPORTANT DATES ---

The proposed schedule of important dates for the workshop is as follows:
  * Submission Deadline=A0 : May 10, 2006
  * Notification of Acceptance : Jun 23, 2006
  * Camera-ready Due : Jul 10, 2006
  * Early registration deadline : Jul 12, 2006

--- PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---

* Boualem Benatallah - The University of New South Wales - Australia
* Fabio Casati - HP Labs - USA
* Tommaso Di Noia - Technical University of Bari - Italy
* Eugenio Di Sciascio - Technical University of Bari - Italy
* Francesco Donini - University of Tuscia - Italy
* Lalan Kagal - MIT - USA
* Mick Kerrigan - DERI - Austria
* Werner Kie=DFling - Lehrstuhl f=FCr Informatik II, Universit=E4t =
Augsburg - Germany
* Matthias Klusch - DFKI - Germany
* Ruben Lara - Tecnolog=ECa, Informaci=F2n y Finanzas - Spain
* Alain Leger - France Telecom - France
* Massimo Mecella - University of Rome "La Sapienza" - Italy
* Massimo Paolucci - DoCoMo Laboratories - Germany
* Yun Peng - UMBC - USA
* Euripides Petrakis - Technical University of Crete - Greece
* Axel Polleres - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Spain
* Marta Sabou - The Open University - UK
* Ulrike Sattler - University of Manchester - UK
* Pavel Shvaiko - University of Trento - Italy
* Robert Stevens - University of Manchester - UK

--- ORGANIZATION ---

Tommaso DI NOIA
Politecnico di Bari
Bari, Italy
tel : +39 080 5963903
fax : +39 080 5963410
t.dinoia@xxxxxxxxx

Eugenio DI SCIASCIO
Politecnico di Bari
Bari, Italy
tel : +39 080 5963903
fax : +39 080 5963410
disciascio@xxxxxxxxx

Francesco M. DONINI
Universit=E0 della Tuscia
Viterbo, Italy
tel : +39 0761 357 861
fax : +39 0761 357 887
donini@xxxxxxxxx