From: Mike Dean (mdean@bbn.com)
Date: 04/05/03
Due to schedule conflicts with the DAML PI Meeting and EU FP6 proposals, the deadline for submission of full papers to the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) has been extended: paper titles, authors, abstracts, and keywords are still due on April 15 (the original deadline for everything) full papers are now due on May 2 An updated announcement appears below. Submissions are now being accepted at [1]. Mike [1] http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org/submit 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) Sanibel Island, Florida, USA 20-23 October 2003 http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org Contents: Call for Papers Call for Posters Industrial Track Call Call for Demos Call for Sponsors Organizing Committee This information is also available from the conference home page http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org. ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The vision of the Semantic Web is to make web data machine processable, and rests on the premise that to do so we need to accommodate, somehow, the semantics of these data. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision. Among those are languages for semantic annotation of Web documents, ontologies, technologies and methodologies for building multi-agent systems, semantic interoperation of programs that have been developed totally independently, technologies and methodologies for describing, searching and composing Web Services, and more. Following the success of the First International Semantic Web Conference in Sardinia, Italy in 2002, the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference is announced for 2003. The conference will be co-located with the K-CAP (Knowledge Capture) conference. Joint sessions of the two conferences will be planned so that participants can share papers and invited speakers of common interest. Submissions ISWC2003 welcomes the submission of original research papers dealing with all aspects of the Semantic Web, particularly those relating to the subject areas indicated by the topics below. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical and applications papers. In addition to those, we encourage the submission of papers relating to industrial efforts and experiences with Semantic Web projects. These papers will be presented in the Industrial Track and will be submitted to the Industrial Track Chair. The conference also encourages the submission of proposals for workshops and tutorials, submission of posters as well as system demonstrations. Please see the Web site http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org. Conference Topics Of Interest and Area Keywords Suggested topics include: * Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotations of Web Data * Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation) * Large Scale Knowledge Management * Data Semantics * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web * Knowledge Portals * Tools and Methodologies for Multi-Agent Software Systems * Semantic Brokering * Semantic Interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Web Services (service description, discovery, invocation, composition) * Semantic Web Inference Schemes * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic Web for e-Business and e-Learning * Searching and Querying * User Interfaces * Visualization and modelling Senior Program Committee Paolo Atzeni (Universita di Roma, Tre, Italy) Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena, Italy) Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Umesh Dayal (Hewlett-Packard, USA) Stefan Decker (USC ISI, USA) Oren Etzioni (University of Washington, USA) Alon Halevy (University of Washington, USA) Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Jerry Hobbs (USC ISI, USA) Masahiro Hori (IBM, Japan) Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester, UK) Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine, USA) Roger King (University of Colorado, USA) Ora Lassila (Nokia, USA) David Martin (SRI, USA) Brian McBride (Hewlett-Packard, UK) Deborah McGuinness (Stanford University, USA) Robert Meersman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Riichiro Mizogouchi (Osaka University, Japan) Peter Patel-Schneider (Lucent, USA) Guus Schreiber (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Zbigniew Rus (University of North Carolina, USA) Amit Sheth (University of Georgia, USA) Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Gerhard Weikum (University of Saarland, Germany) Reviewers Karl Aberer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Anupriya Ankolekar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Budak Arpinar (University of Georgia, USA) Bettina Berendt (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Harold Boley (National Research Council, Canada) Mark Burstein (BBN, USA) Vassilis Christophides (ICS-FORTH, Greece) Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Susan Davidson (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Steven Demurjian (University of Connecticut, USA) Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) David Embley (Brigham Young University, USA) Wenfei Fan (Bell Laboratories and Temple University, USA) Richard Fikes (Stanford University, USA) Tim Finin (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Jeremy Frumkin (University of Arizona, USA) Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel) Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK) Benjamin Grosof (MIT, USA) Nicola Guarino (CNR, Italy) Andreas Hotho (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Zack Ives (University of Washington, USA) Anupam Joshi (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Gerti Kappel (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Alfons Kemper (University of Passau, Germany) Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Donald Kossmann (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Georg Lausen (University of Freiburg, Germany) Chen Li (University of California, Irvine, USA) Ling Liu (Georgia Tech, USA) Bertram Ludaescher (University of California, San Diego, USA) Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, France) Massimo Marchiori (W3C and University of Venice, Italy) Frank McCabe (Fujitsu, USA) Luke McDowell (University of Washington, USA) Pavlos Moraitis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Enrico Motta (Open University, UK) Natasha F. Noy (Stanford University, USA) Terry Payne (University of Southampton, UK) Adam Pease (Teknowledge, USA) Erhard Rahm (University of Leipzig, Germany) Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA) Michael Sintek (DFKI, Germany) Divesh Srivastava (Bell Laboratories, USA) Stefan Staab (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Gerd Stumme (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Claude Vogel (CONVERA, USA) Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany) Carlo Zaniolo (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Important Dates April 15, 2003 Paper titles, authors, abstracts, and keywords due May 2, 2003 Full Paper Submission June 15, 2003 Acceptance Notification July 15, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers due Please note that the deadline for paper submission is strict: no extensions will be allowed. Submission Details * Paper submission and reviewing for ISWC2003 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org * The only formats allowed for submission are PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format). These are widely supported and well-known standards: papers will not be accepted in any other format (e.g., MS Word) because of compatibility problems between software versions, machines, and nationalities. See the conference WWW site for information about how to convert other formats (e.g., MS Word) to PDF/PostScript. * Note that the electronic submission site is likely to be very busy around the paper submission deadline. You are strongly urged to submit your abstract and your paper as far in advance of the deadline as possible. * Submitted papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. * Papers must be no longer than 16 pages, including figures and references, when formatted using the style files provided. Overlength papers will be rejected. * ISWC2003 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. * PLEASE monitor http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org for further submission details or changes. About the Conference Venue The conference will be held at the Sundial Resort on Sanibel Island: http://www.sundialresort.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR POSTERS The Poster Session at ISWC2003 is an opportunity to discuss late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and innovative work-in-progress which may not yet be ready for a full paper. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems, completed work, or work in progress are all welcome. Summaries or extended abstracts MUST clearly demonstrate a relevance to the Semantic Web. Submissions will be evaluated for acceptability by the Poster Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, significance, and clarity. High quality papers not accepted for publication as conference papers may be considered for inclusion as posters with the permission of the authors. In this event, the author(s) will need to submit a 2-page camera-ready version for the poster collection. Papers appearing in the main conference or as posters may also be submitted to specialized ISWC workshops. Accepted posters will be displayed at the conference. Details about poster size, display materials, session, etc., will be made available later. Extended abstracts/summaries for accepted posters will be distributed to conference attendees and will also be made available on the Web. At least one author must register for the conference and attend the poster session. Submissions Submissions must consist of a camera-ready extended abstract or summary of the work to be described in the poster, not to exceed two (2) pages in IJCAI two-column format. Further details about format for poster submissions will be made available at the conference Web site. The primary means of submission will be electronic. Submissions should be in PDF or Postscript format. Abstracts and summaries must be submitted via the Poster Submissions page at the ISWC2003 Web site (http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org). Contact Raphael Malyankar (iswc-posters@asu.edu) if you cannot use this page, have questions, or experience problems with your submission. All submissions must be received by July 13, 2003. Early submission is encouraged. Decisions about acceptance or rejection will be made on an ongoing basis, and early submissions are expected to receive early notifications. Submissions which are late, too long, or require substantial revision, will not be considered. Submissions must be in camera-ready format; gven the tight publication schedule, revisions after August 31, 2003 will not be feasible. Important Dates July 13, 2003 Abstract/summary submission cutoff date August 31, 2003 Notifications will be sent by this date ------------------------------------------------------------ INDUSTRIAL TRACK CALL The industrial track of the conference encourages submissions covering innovative commercial implementations of semantic web technology, novel applications of semantic web technology, and experience in applying research advances to practical situations. Such papers should describe innovative implementations, new approaches to fundamental challenges (such as large scale ontologies or semantic complexity), or other major technical improvements to the state-of-the-practice. Industrial / application / experience submissions may be either full papers whose technical density is comparable to research submissions or extended abstracts. Discouraged are papers or abstracts that are marketing oriented or are pure product descriptions or specifications. The goal of the industrial track is to demonstrate the application of research results in software products as well as state real world requirements from practical applications that might encourage further research into specific domains of semantic web technology. Conference Topics Of Interest and Area Keywords Suggested topics include: * Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotations of Web Data * Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation) * Large Scale Knowledge Management * Data Semantics * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web * Knowledge Portals * Tools and Methodologies for Multi-Agent Software Systems * Semantic Brokering * Semantic Interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Web Services (service description, discovery, invocation, composition) * Semantic Web Inference Schemes * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic Web for e-Business and e-Learning * Searching and Querying * User Interfaces * Visualization and modelling Industrial Track Committee Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant, USA) Bill Andersen (OntologyWorks, USA) J|rgen Angele (Ontoprise, Germany) John Davies (British Telecom, UK) Alain Leger (France Telecom, France) Andreas Persidis (Biovista, Greece) Satish Thatte (Microsoft, USA) David Trastour (Hewlett-Packard, UK) Michael Uschold (The Boeing Company, USA) Arian Zwegers (Baan, Netherlands) Important Dates April 15, 2003 Paper titles, authors, abstracts, and keywords due May 2, 2003 Full Paper Submission June 15, 2003 Acceptance Notification July 15, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers due Please note that the deadline for paper submission is strict: no extensions will be allowed. Submission Details * Paper submission and reviewing for ISWC2003 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org * The only formats allowed for submission are PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format). These are widely supported and well-known standards: papers will not be accepted in any other format (e.g., MS Word) because of compatibility problems between software versions, machines, and nationalities. See the conference WWW site for information about how to convert other formats (e.g., MS Word) to PDF/PostScript. * Note that the electronic submission site is likely to be very busy around the paper submission deadline. You are strongly urged to submit your abstract and your paper as far in advance of the deadline as possible. * Submitted papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. * Papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including figures and references, when formatted using the style files provided. Overlength papers will be rejected. * ISWC2003 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. * PLEASE monitor http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org for further submission details or changes. About the Conference Venue The conference will be held at the Sundial Resort on Sanibel Island: http://www.sundialresort.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR DEMOS The ISWC 2003 Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. This program is intended to showcase state-of-the-art Semantic Web implementations. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their innovation, relevance, scientific contribution, presentation, and user friendliness, as well as potential logistical constraints. This program is primarily to encourage the early exhibition of research prototypes, but interesting mature systems are also eligible (commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstration program). Areas of Interest We would like to encourage the submission of proposals for demonstrations of software related to any areas of the Semantic Web. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - User tools - Annotation tools - Novel query interfaces - Ontology development environments - Ontology libraries - Tools for merging or integrating ontologies - Reusable components - Parsers (RDF, DAML+OIL, OWL, etc.) - Repositories and inference systems - Applications - Agent systems embedded in the Semantic Web - Systems that identify and compose web services - Knowledge portals Format for Submission Demo proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be sent to the Demo Chair. * An abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated, not to exceed two pages, including title, authors, full contact information, references and acknowledgments. * A detailed description of hardware and software requirements expected to be provided by the local organizer. Demonstrators are encouraged to be flexible in their requirements (possibly with different demos for different logistical situations). Please state what you can bring yourself and what you absolutely must have provided. We will do our best to provide equipment and resources but nothing can be guaranteed at this point beyond space and power. Please contact the demo chair at one of the addresses below for any specific questions. * A "Script Outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying narrative, and either a web address for accessing the demo or visual aids (e.g., screen-shots, snapshots, or sketches). No more than 6 pages, total. Submissions Procedure Both electronic and hardcopy submissions are welcome. Electronic submissions should be plain text, HTML, or PDF format. Please submit proposals and any inquiries to the ISWC 2003 Demo Chair: Jeff Heflin Computer Science and Engineering Lehigh University 19 Memorial Drive West Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA heflin@cse.lehigh.edu phone: (610) 758-6533 fax: (610) 758-4096 Important Dates July 13, 2003 Demo proposal submission cutoff date August 31, 2003 Notifications will be sent by this date ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR SPONSORS ISWC2003 offers you the opportunity to be a corporate sponsor of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), which will be held in Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, 20-23 October 2003 (See http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org/ for conference details). This meeting builds on the success of the Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS) held at Stanford University during the summer of 2001 and the 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002) held in Sardinia, Italy during the summer of 2002. These conferences were very successful and each attracted over 200 attendees from university, government, and industry. The meeting's sponsors include innovative companies both small and large and several US and EC government organizations. The ISWC conference is a major meeting for bringing researchers and practitioners together, and for helping both to describe critical paths for web development and to help in transferring this emerging technology to industrial use. The Semantic Web area is an important and dynamic sub-field of web R&D, which attracts a growing industrial community as well as from the World Wide Web consortium and significant interest and funding from both the US and EU governments. This increasing interest presents an opportunity for your organization to be associated with this important trend in the web of the future. The Semantic Web is already producing a new Web that provides a machine understandable meaning to Web pages. By accessing directly the meaning of pages, computers can harvest information, saving us the time and effort to read pages and pages to find the information we seek. To this extent the Semantic Web is becoming a fertile environment for Data Mining and Information Retrieval across the web and across heterogeneous Databases. Furthermore, the growing community of Web Services is already taking advantage of the emergence of the Semantic Web to reduce the automatic interoperability barrier. To highlight the growing range of industrial applications of the Semantic Web, in ISWC2003 we will organize an industrial track that will provide an opportunity to showcase new products and the contribution from industry side. The exhibition will be held during the conference, and it will offer an excellent chance you should not miss to brand your company with your products and services. We have created several sponsorship levels to make it easier for small companies to have an opportunity to get involved or for larger companies to make their presence felt. The sponsorship levels and benefits are: * Silver (1000$US) - your logo on our web site - your logo in our published proceedings, - acknowledgement of your support in our published proceedings - pay extra 500$US more, you will have one free exhibition * Gold (2500$US) - silver - one free registration - the distribution to all participants of short materials (brochure or advertisement) that you provide - pay extra 500$US more, you will have one free exhibition * Platinum (5000$US): - gold - an additional (2nd) registration - one free exhibition during the conference Notes: If you are only interested in the exhibition, you need to pay 1000$US for it. In addition, we have opportunities for higher sponsorship levels including the ability to sponsor conference or affiliated events. Please contact one of the sponsorship chairs below for more information. Thank you for your support! * Ying Ding: Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 13, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria (Email: ying.ding@uibk.ac.at, Tel: +43 512 507 6112, Fax: +43 512 507 9872) * Massimo Paolucci: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes ave, Pittsburgh PA, 15213-3891, USA (Email: paolucci@cs.cmu.edu, Tel +1 (412) 268-7019, Fax +1 (412) 268-5569) ------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Program Chair: Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Program Co-Chair: John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada) Tutorial Chair: Asun Gomez-Perez (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) Workshops Chairs: Sheila McIlraith (Stanford University, USA) and Dimitris Plexousakis (University of Crete, Greece) Industrial Track Chair: Christoph Bussler (Oracle, USA) Poster Chair: Raphael Malyankar (Arizona State University, USA) Finance Chair: Jerome Euzenat (INRIA, Rhone-Alpes, France) Publicity Chair: Mike Dean (BBN, USA) Local Arrangements Chair: Jeff Bradshaw (University of West Florida, USA) Sponsor Chairs: Ying Ding (University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Massimo Paolucci (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Demonstration Chair: Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA) Registration Chair: Atanas Kiryakov (Sirma AI, Ltd, Bulgaria)
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