From: by way of Stefan Decker ([email protected])
Date: 11/06/00
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Intelligent Systems special issue on
SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY
MOTIVATION
In less than a decade, the World Wide Web (WWW) has become a major
component of modern life. With the growing amount of information on the
Web, however, users are losing the means to organize and to search through
all this content. Search engines produce more and more irrelevant hits,
and the business community struggles to provide the necessary levels of
interoperability and data exchange necessary for the world of e-commerce.
There is an emerging awareness that providing the next wave of major change
on the Web, and enabling business-to-business e-commerce requires a
new set of markup languages and tools that will allow more of the Web
content�not just form�to become machine readable. Languages must be
developed that will allow for the recognition of the semantic context in
which Web materials are used, for the reconciliation of terminological
differences between diverse user communities.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, has named this web of ontology
and logic the "semantic web". In recent years, a research community has
come into existence to make the vision a reality. Work in this area has led
to exciting new innovations, including
languages for expressing Web resources in a machine-interpretable manner
new system architectures for enabling intelligent information access
tools for providing support for finding, accessing, presenting, and
maintaining information sources
applications that fully exploit the new possibilities provided by
machine-processable semantics.
BACKGROUND
The Web has dramatically changed the availability of information. Currently
there are around 1000 million documents in the Web, which are used by
more than 200 million users internationally. Moreover, the number of Web
resources is growing astronomically. The exponential grow of the Web
makes it increasingly difficult to find, access, present, and maintain the
information of use to a wide variety of users. Currently, pages on Web must use
representations rooted in languages such as HTML or SGML and must make use
of protocols that allow browsers to present information to human
readers. The information content, however, is mainly presented by natural
language. Thus, there is a wide gap between the information available to
computer-based tools and the information kept in human-readable form.
We are soliciting papers for a special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems
that describe approaches that may help to realize the vision of the "semantic
Web". In particular, we are seeking papers on languages, architectures,
tools, and applications of and for the semantic web.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors should note that IEEE Intelligent Systems is a journal of applied
artificial intelligence, addressing the needs of both the research
community and
the engineering community. A direct and lively writing style should be
adopted. Manuscripts should be original and should have between 6 and 10
magazine pages (not more than 7500 words) with up to 10 references. For
additional details, please refer to
http://www.computer.org/intelligent/author.htm. Manuscripts should be sent
to [email protected] in PDF format by December 20, 2000.
GUEST EDITORS
Dieter Fensel
Division of Mathematics & Computer Science
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel. (mobil): +31-(0)6-51850619,
Fax: +31-(0)20-872 27 22
Email: [email protected]
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dieter
Mark Musen
Stanford Medical
Informatics
Stanford University
Email:
[email protected]
http://smi-web.stanford.edu/people/musen/
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline
Acceptance decisions
Revisions deadline
Scheduled publication
December 20, 2000
January 20, 2001
February 20, 2001
Early 2001
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Dieter Fensel
Division of Mathematics & Computer Science,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, NL
The Netherlands
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Tel. (mobil): +31-(0)6-51850619,
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Email: [email protected]
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dieter
Privat: Liendenhof 64, NL-1108 HB Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Tel.: +31-(0)20-365 52 60.
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