[agents] Final CfP: Applications of Semantic Technologies AST2008

[Pascal Hitzler]

Final Call for Papers
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AST 2008 - Applications of Semantic Technologies

3rd International AST Workshop located at the Informatik 2008
September 9th, 2008, Munich, Germany

http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ast2008

Invited speaker:
Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin

Organisers:
Stephan Grimm, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Organised in cooperation with the Knowledge Representation Fachgruppe of
the German Informatics Society (GI)
<http://fbki.kuenstliche-intelligenz.de/index.php?id=7707>.


==== Deadline for paper submissions: April 25th, 2008 ====



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

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


Topics of Interest
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This workshop shall bring together researchers and practitioners who
work on applications of Semantic Technologies. It shall further the
cross-fertilization between application areas and aid the technology
transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop shall
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
     * Service-Oriented Computing
     * Machine Learning
     * eScience
     * Information Extraction
     * Grid Computing
     * Peer-to-Peer Systems
     * eCommerce
     * eGovernment
     * Bioinformatics
     * Digital Libraries


Program Committee (to be completed)
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     * Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
     * Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany
     * Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
     * Christoph Beierle, University of Hagen, Germany
     * Johannes Busse, ontoprise GmbH, Germany
     * François Bry, University of Munich, Germany
     * Elmar Dorner, SAP AG, Germany
     * Andreas Friesen, SAP AG, Germany
     * Thomas Fuhr, FH Nürnberg, Germany
     * Gerhard Goos, University of Karlsruhe and FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
     * Jens Hartmann, TZI Bremen, Germany
     * Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany
     * Knut Hinkelmann, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Switzerland
     * Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Dortmund, Germany
     * Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
     * Daniel Krause, L3S Hannover, Germany
     * Holger Lausen, University of Innsbruck, Austria
     * Thorsten Liebig, University of Ulm, Germany
     * Jin Liu, T-Systems Berlin, Germany
     * Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
     * Ralf Möller, TU Hamburg-Harburg and Racer Systems, Germany
     * Daniel Oberle, SAP AG, Germany
     * Axel Polleres, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
     * Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen,
Switzerland
     * Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
     * Stefan Schlobach, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Germany
     * Michael Sintek, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
     * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
     * Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin, Germany
     * Guo-Qiang Zhang, CWRU Cleveland, USA



Submission and Proceedings
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Submissions must not to exceed 6 pages and must comply with the
requirements laid out under
<http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/gi-edition-lecture-notes-in-informatics-lni-2005/autorenrichtlinien/>.

Submissions shall be submitted online via
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=informatik2008ws>.
Submissions shall be in english language.

Submissions will be reviewed. Accepted publications will appear as part
of a book, bearing an ISBN number.

Important Dates
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     * Deadline for paper submissions: 25th of April, 2008
     * Notification of acceptance: May 26th, 2008
     * Camera-ready versions: June 6th, 2007
     * Workshop: 9th of September, 2007


This event is supported by
     * NeOn http://www.neon-project.de
     * Theseus http://theseus-programm.de/
     * X-Media http://www.x-media-project.de
     * Graduate college Information Management and Market Engineering
http://www.ime.uni-karlsruhe.de/

Please address all general questions concerning the workshop to Pascal
Hitzler under hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de