CFP: 4th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web

CALL FOR PAPERS
4th International Workshop on
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2008
In conjunction with the
7th International Semantic Web Conference
Karlsruhe - Germany
October 26-27, 2008
You are invited to participate in the upcoming International Workshop 
on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as 
part of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 
October of 2008 in Karlsruhe - Germany.
ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research 
on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The International Workshop on 
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web is an exciting opportunity 
for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty 
reasoning community and the Semantic Web community.
Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for 
realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of 
current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty is extremely 
limited. Recently, there has been a groundswell of demand for 
uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and 
developers.
This surge of interest creates a unique opening to bring together two 
communities with a clear commonality of interest but little history of 
interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark 
dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision.
Audience
The intended audience for this workshop includes the following
ƒL Researchers in uncertainty reasoning technologies with interest 
in Semantic Web and Web-related technologies.
ƒL Semantic web developers and researchers.
ƒL People in the knowledge representation community with interest 
in the Semantic Web.
ƒL Ontology researchers and ontological engineers.
ƒL Web services researchers and developers with interest in the 
Semantic Web.
ƒL Developers of tools designed to support semantic web 
implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protég? and Protég?-OWL 
developers.
Topic List
We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the 
general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web (including fuzzy 
theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the 
following list should be just an initial guide.
ƒL Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web languages 
to enable representation of uncertainty
ƒL Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web 
languages
ƒL Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that 
terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts
ƒL Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem 
of ontology mapping
ƒL Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within 
ontologies
ƒL The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to 
the Semantic Web
ƒL Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, 
ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web
ƒL The role of uncertainty as it relates to Web services
ƒL Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to 
improve interoperability among Web services
ƒL Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the 
Semantic Web
ƒL Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the 
context of the Semantic Web
ƒL Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing 
and reasoning with uncertainty
ƒL The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web
Important Dates
July 25, 2008 Paper submissions due
September 5, 2008 Paper acceptance notification
September 26, 2008 Camera-ready papers due
October 26-27, 2008 4th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning 
for the Semantic Web
Submission Details
The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and 
position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability 
by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about 
acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, 
originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all 
accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at 
least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant 
at the ISWC 2008 Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop.
Submissions to the Workshop are only accepted in electronic format and 
should be sent via the workshop’s submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2008 
. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, and follow the same 
submission format used by the ISWC 2008 Conference, the Springer 
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 
available at http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html 
 .
Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 
pages, including figures. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be 
reviewed.
Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any 
research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not 
exceed 2 pages.
Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2008 conference, 
papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have 
already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or 
another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop.
Presentation and Publication
URSW 2008 will be a full day workshop divided into four sessions. Two 
of those sessions will be devoted to a specific theme, while the 
remaining sessions will be planned in a format that invites an open 
debate on the results, conclusions, recommendations, and follow-up 
work of the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator 
Group (http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/urw3/XGR-urw3/).
All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop 
and published in the workshop proceedings, which will be available as 
a separate publication after the Conference. Authors of accepted 
technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while 
authors of accepted position papers will have a 5-minute slot to share 
their ideas.
In addition, both technical and position papers will be published in 
the URSW Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2008 
Conference.
We are also planning to publish revised versions of selected papers in 
an LNCS volume or a
special issue of an international journal.
Program Committee
The program committee is still being formed. Currently, it as follows 
(in alphabetical order):
ƒL Ameen Abu-Hanna - Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
ƒL Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain.
ƒL Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA.
ƒL Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
ƒL Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy.
ƒL Ernesto Damiani - University of Milan, Italy.
ƒL Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy.
ƒL Francis Fung - Eduworks, Inc., USA.
ƒL Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA.
ƒL Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA. Member of the W3C 
Advisory Board.
ƒL Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK.
ƒL Anders L. Madsen - Hugin Expert A/S, Denmark.
ƒL M. Scott Marshall - Adaptive Information Disclosure, 
Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
ƒL Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK.
ƒL Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK.
ƒL Yung Peng - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.
ƒL Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA.
ƒL Livia Predoiu - Universität Mannheim, Germany.
ƒL Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK.
ƒL Daniel Sánchez ? University of Granada, Spain.
ƒL Elie Sanchez - Universit? de La Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II , 
France.
ƒL Nematollaah Shiri - Concordia University, Canada.
ƒL Oreste Signori - ISTI-CNR, Manager of the W3C Office, Italy.
ƒL Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.
ƒL Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.
ƒL Umberto Straccia - Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell' 
Informazione "A. Faedo", Italy.
ƒL Heiner Stuckenschmidt - Universität Mannheim, Germany.
ƒL Masami Takikawa - Cleverset, Inc., USA.
ƒL Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech Republic.
Organizing Committee
The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order):
ƒL Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain.
ƒL Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA.
ƒL Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy.
ƒL Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy.
ƒL Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA.
ƒL Ken Laskey ? MITRE Corporation, USA.
ƒL Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK.
ƒL Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK.
ƒL Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK.
ƒL Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA.
ƒL Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Karlsruhe!
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Ken Laskey
MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934
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McLean VA 22102-7508