[agents] CFP:JIST 2012 (The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference)

[Kouji Kozaki]

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* Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS
* The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2012)
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* http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/jist2012/
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* December 2-4, 2012
* Nara, Japan
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The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is a regional 
federation of Semantic Web related conferences. The mission of JIST is to 
bring together researchers in Semantic Web research community and other 
areas of semantic related technologies to present their innovative research 
results or novel applications of semantic technologies. The JIST 2012 
solicits the submission of original research papers on Semantic Web and 
other semantic technologies, as well as papers on applications of semantic 
technologies.

* Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

** Ontology and Reasoning
- Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution
- Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
- Ontology evaluation
- Searching and ranking ontologies
- Reasoning over Semantic Web data
- New formalisms (such as probabilistic approaches)
- Lightweight semantics (linked data, microformats, etc.)

** Management of Semantic Web Data
- Languages, tools, and methodologies for Semantic Web data
- Database, IR, and AI technologies for Semantic Web data
- Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
- Machine learning and information extraction on the Web
- Cleaning, assurance, and provenance of Semantic Web data, services, and
processes

** Linked Data 
- Publication of Linked Data
- Consumption of Linked Data
- Reasoning with Linked Data
- Search, query, integration, and analysis on Linked Data
- Integration and mashup of Linked Data
- Mining of Linked Data
- Domain specific applications (eGovernment, disaster, life science etc.)

**Social Semantic Web
- Semantics for social media data
- Social network analysis with Semantic Web Technologies 
- Querying, mining and analysis of social semantic data
- Social Semantic Web applications
- Semantic Web technologies for collaboration and cooperation
- Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security

** Applications of the Semantic Web
- Semantic Web for large scale applications
- Semantic Web for desktops or personal information management
- Semantic Web for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness
- Semantic Web for P2P, services, agents, grids, and middleware
- Semantic Web for software and systems engineering
- Mobile Semantic Web
- Interface for Semantic Web

* Submission

Submissions to JIST 2012 should describe original, significant research 
on the semantic technologies. Submissions to JIST 2012 are expected to
present their claimed contribution, with  clear evidence to support their 
claims. All submissions will be critically reviewed by at least three 
members of the program committee. To assess submissions, reviewers will
judge their relevance to semantic technologies, their originality, the 
technical soundness of their proposed approach and the readability of
the submission. 
Submissions must be in PDF format, using the style of the Springer 
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Submissions must be no longer than 16 pages.  
Submissions that exceed this limit may be rejected without review. 
JIST 2012 will not accept submissions that are under review for or have 
already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or 
another conference.

All submissions be submitted via EasyChair  at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2012

Accepted papers will be distributed to conference attendees and also 
published by Springer in the printed conference proceedings. 
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the 
conference and present the paper there.


* Important Dates

- Submissions due: the end of August - the beginning of September, 2012 
  (will be announced soon)
- Conference dates: December 2-4, 2012

* Organization

** General Chair
- Riichiro Mizoguchi: Osaka University, Japan

** Program Chairs
- Hideaki Takeda: National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
- Yuzhong Qu: Nanjing University, China


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Kouji Kozaki, Dr. Eng., Associate Professor
I.S.I.R., Osaka University, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
Tel: +81-6-6879-8416, Fax:+81-6-6879-2120
Email: kozaki at ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
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