From: Sheila McIlraith (sheila@cs.toronto.edu)
Date: 04/19/04
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TWO WEEK EXTENSION TO ISWC2004 SUBMISSION DEADLINE
In response to numerous requests, the ISWC2004 Research Track and Industrial
Track submission deadlines have been extended to Friday April 30 (11:59pm Hawaii Time).
3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004)
Sunday, November 7 -- Thursday, November 11, 2004
Hiroshima Prince Hotel, Hiroshima, Japan
http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/
The vision of the Semantic Web is to make the contents of the Web
unambiguously computer interpretable, enabling automation of a diversity of
tasks currently performed by human beings. The goal of providing semantics
and automated reasoning capabilities for the Web draws upon research in a
broad range of areas including Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software
Engineering, Distributed Computing and Information Systems. Contributions
to date have included languages for semantic annotation of Web documents,
automated reasoning capabilities for Web languages, ontologies, query and
view languages, semantic translation of Web contents, semantic integration
middleware, technologies and principles for building multi-agent and Grid
systems, semantic interoperation of programs and devices, technologies and
principles for describing, searching and composing Web Services, and more.
The 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004) follows on the
success of previous conferences and workshops in
Sanibel Island, USA in 2003 (http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org),
Sardinia, Italy in 2002 (http://iswc2002.semanticweb.org), and
Stanford, USA in 2001 (http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/).
The organizing committee solicits research submissions for the main research
track of the conference, as well as for the accompanying industrial and
posters track:
- research track (http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/CF/researchTrack.php)
- industrial track (http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/CF/industrialTrack.php)
- posters track (http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/CF/posterTrack.php)
ISWC2004 also encourages the submission of proposals for workshops and
tutorials, and system demonstrations. Please see the ISWC2004 Web site for
pertinent details.
RESEARCH TRACK SUBMISSIONS
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The research track of ISWC2004 solicits the submission of original, principled
research papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, empirical and
application-related aspects of the Semantic Web. Papers must clearly
demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web. Topics include but are not
limited to the following:
- Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Data
- Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation)
- Large Scale Knowledge Management
- Data Semantics
- Database Technologies for the Semantic Web
- Semantic Web Middleware
- Knowledge Portals
- Tools and Methodologies for Web Agents
- Peer to Peer Systems
- Semantic Brokering
- Semantic Integration and Interoperability
- Semantic Web Mining
- Semantic Web Services (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, Querying and Viewing the Semantic Web
- User Interfaces
- Visualization and Modelling
INDUSTRIAL TRACK SUBMISSIONS
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The industrial track of ISWC2004 invites the submission of original papers
describing industrial advances in semantic technologies. The goals of the
track are to help researchers understand the current status and needs of
industry, as well as to allow industry to communicate recent advances.
Papers must be designated as belonging to one of the following three broad
areas:
- Deployed applications, demonstrating the application of Semantic Web
technologies to real-world problems and assessing their impact
- Industrialization of technology, demonstrating successful efforts at an
industrial scale on productization of research results and assessing their
competitiveness and/or potential
- Industrial innovations, describing novel applications of new capabilities
and deployment plans in an industrial setting
Please consult the Industrial Track Web page for further information.
(http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/CF/industrialTrack.php)
POSTER TRACK SUBMISSIONS
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To accommodate late-breaking results and work in progress, the poster track
of ISWC2004 solicits contribution of poster submissions. Accepted posters
will be presented in a separate plenary poster session during the conference
and poster summaries will be distributed to conference attendees and
published on the Web.
Please consult the Poster Track Web page for further information.
(http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/CF/posterTrack.php)
IMPORTANT DATES (revised)
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Paper titles & abstracts - Research & Industrial Tracks: April 30
Paper submission - Research & Industrial Tracks: April 30
Acceptance notification - Research & Industrial Tracks: June 28
Camera-ready papers - Research & Industrial Tracks: September 6
Poster summary submissions - Poster Track: July 12
Poster acceptance notification: September 6
Camera-ready poster summaries - Poster Track: September 20
The deadlines for submissions are strict: no further extensions will be given.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
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Research and industrial track papers must be submitted electronically via the
ISWC2004 Web page at http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/. Authors will be
asked to designate whether they are submitting to the research paper track,
the industrial track or the poster track. Papers must be submitted in either
PostScript or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers will not
be accepted in any other format.
Research and industrial track paper submissions must be formatted in the
style of the Springer Publications format f or Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers must
be no longer than 15 pages in Springer LNCS format. Poster summaries must
be no longer than 2 pages in IJCAI03 format (linked from:
http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/format/). Over-length papers will be rejected.
ISWC2004 will not accept any paper in the research or industrial track 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. Authors of
accepted papers will be required to mark up the abstract of their submission
for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details will be
provided on the conference Web page, at the time of acceptance.
Please monitor http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/ for further submission details
or changes.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE VENUE
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The conference will be held at the Hiroshima Prince Hotel, which is a four-
star equivalent hotel located at the edge of a small peninsula facing the
picturesque islands that dot the Seto Inland Sea. Hiroshima city has two
World Heritages one of which is called Miyajima to which fast-boat
transportation is available at the hotel port. Miyajima has one of the best
Shrines to visit in Japan.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair: Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)
Program Co-Chairs: Sheila McIlraith (University of Toronto, Canada),
Dimitris Plexousakis (University of Crete. Greece)
Local Arrangements Chair: Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Industrial Track Co-Chairs: Jun-ichi Akahani (NTT Laboratories, Japan)
Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant Inc., USA)
Posters Chair: Jeremy Carroll (Hewlett-Packard Labs, UK)
Tutorial Co-Chairs: Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine, USA)
Takahira Yamaguchi (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Workshop Chair: Natasha Noy (Stanford University, USA)
Metadata Chair: Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Semantic Web Challenge Co-Chairs:
Michael Klein (Vrije University, Netherlands)
Ubbo Visser (University of Bremen, Germany)
Software Demonstrations Chair: Stefan Decker (DERI, Ireland)
Sponsor Co-Chairs: Akira Maeda (Hitachi Ltd., Japan)
Massimo Paolucci (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Publicity Chair: Akiko Inaba (Osaka University, Japan)
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