Mini-conference
“Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Technologies for the Knowledge Society”
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/miniconf1.htm
[A Workshop
for Special issue on IEEE Transactions Journal will be organized also in the
context of the mini conference]
in the
context of the Athens 1st World Summit on The Knowledge Society
Athens,
September 24-28, 2008
http://knowledge-summit.org/
TWO THEMES:
The Human Semantic Web: Personalization, Management of
Personal Knowledge and Identity, Systems for the Knowledge Society”
Web 2.0 for the Knowledge Society: Social Networking,
Collaboration, Management of Knowledge in Social Networks
If you are
interested in serving as Members of the Program Committee please contact Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras
The
mini-conference “Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Collaboration Technologies for the
Knowledge Society” will promote a knowledge transfer channel where academics,
practitioners, and researchers can discuss, analyze, criticize, synthesize,
communicate, elaborate, and simplify the more-than-promising technology of the
semantic Web in the context of information systems. This mini-conference aims
to establish value-adding knowledge transfer and personal development channels
in three distinctive areas: academia, industry, and government.
Within the
Conference there are two pillars:
EDITORS/CHAIRS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy, E-mail: damiani AT dti.unimi.it
Miltiadis
Lytras, University of Patras, Greece, Email: Lytras
AT ceid.upatras.gr
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, E-mail:amb AT nada.kth.se
Gottfried Vossen ,
University of Muenster, Germany, Email: vossen AT
helios.uni-muenster.de
CALL FOR
PAPERS
The Human
Semantic Web: Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge and Identity,
Systems for the Knowledge Society”
Workshop
for a Special Issue on an IEEE Transactions Special Issue
The
Semantic Web vision has evolved in the last years as a blueprint for a
knowledge-based framework aimed at crossing the chasm from the current Web of
unstructured information resources to a Web equipped with metadata and oriented
to delegation of tasks to software agents. Ontologies are the key piece of this
framework in that they provide shared semantics to metadata, thus enabling a
degree of semantic interoperability. The requirements of large-scale deployment
and interoperability of the Semantic Web vision represent a major challenge to
data and knowledge engineering, which raises a number of issues and
requirements regarding how to represent, create, manage and use both ontologies as shared knowledge representations, but also
large volumes of metadata records used to annotate Web resources of a diverse
kind. The special issue aims at helping in communicating and disseminating
relevant recent research in knowledge and data engineering as applied to the
context of Information Systems. The scope of the call includes Knowledge
Engineering for organizational applications, Semantic Web approaches to
Information Systems and Ontology-Based Information Systems research, as well as
the diverse underlying Database and Knowledge Representation aspects. Papers
dealing with aspects that touch both aspects are especially sought. This is
intended to initiate a dialog between the organizational and more technical
views of the field.
Topics
include, but are not limited to, the following:
1.
Applications of the Human Semantic Web to the Knowledge Society:
•
Potentially large-scale applications (e.g. to Personal Knowledge Management,
Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
• Data
Semantics and Web Semantics in peer-to-peer systems, grids, multimedia
•
Communication, dialogue and argumentation models
•
Mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution
2.
Representing and Managing Semantic Web Data and Services:
•
Languages, Tools, Methodologies, Rules
• Database,
IR and AI technologies
•
Integration, Analysis and Visualization
• Robust
and scalable logics, knowledge management and reasoning
• Machine
learning and information extraction
• Semantic
Interoperability, Workflows, Web Mining
• Semantic
Web Services and Processes (description, discovery, invocation, composition,
choreography, cleaning, assurance, trust, provenance, etc.)
•
Middleware and services for Personalization and User Modelling
• Semantic
matching of user needs and web resources
3.
Ontologies:
• Ontology
Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)
• Ontology
Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g. HLT and ML approaches)
• Ontology
Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.)
• Ontology
Modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution
• Searching
and Ranking ontologies
4. Social
Semantic Web:
• Social
networks and processes on the Semantic Web
• Semantic
web technology for collaboration and cooperation
•
Representing and reasoning about Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual
Property Rights
• Tools and
processes for sense-making, analysis and decision-making
•
Supporting strategic communication
5. User
Interfaces:
•
Interacting with Semantic Web Data
• Semantic
Web content creation and annotation
• Mashing
up Semantic Web data and processes
CALL FOR
PAPERS
Web 2.0 for
the Knowledge Society: Social Netowrking,
Collaboration, Management of Knowledge in Social Networks
EDITORS/CHAIRS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy, E-mail:
address@hidden
Miltiadis
Lytras, University of Patras, Greece, Email: address@hidden
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, E-mail:address@hidden
Gottfried Vossen ,
University of Muenster, Germany, Email: address@hidden
The key
objective of the miniconference is to advancing the
knowledge on design variables and conditions for social networks. Knowledge
Management and Semantic Web are used as the technological lenses for the
specification and analysis of these variables towards a new era of social
interactions and human experiences with computers.
As semantic
technologies prove their value with targeted applications, there are increasing
opportunities to consider their application insocial
contexts for learning and human development. Knowledge management has been
accepted as a critical enabler aiming to increase knowledge-related performance
by better use of intellectual assets, in addition to which many governments are
forced to increasingly deal with knowledge services that form larger parts of
the global economy and society. Thus there are recent examples of applications
of semantics for empowering knowledge management or better supporting knowledge
services for social networks. The special issue aims at communicating and
disseminating recent research and success stories that bring the power of semantics
to improve upon traditional knowledge management approaches, or realize
emerging requirements of knowledge services for social networks.
In the
context of knowledge management, social and human issues are of equal if not
higher importance than the technical issues that have tended to receive the
bulk of attention in the past. Consequently, papers that touch these aspects,
or those that extend technical and domain knowledge to social and human issues
are especially sought. This is intended to initiate a dialog between the
social, psychological and technical views of the field.
References:
[1]. Lytras
M. (2005), Semantic Web and Information Systems: An Agenda Based on Discourse
with Community Leaders, in International Journal on Semantic Web and Information
Systems, Inaugural Issue, 1(1), pp: i-xii
[2]. Sheth, A. Ramakrishnan C., Thomas
C., (2005). Semantics for the Semantic Web: The Implicit, the Formal and the
Powerful, in International Journal on Semantic Web and Information
Systems, Inaugural Issue, 1(1), 1-18.
[3] Downes S. (2005). Semantic networks and social networks, in
The Learning Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 411-417
[3] Finin T., Ding L. and Zou L.
(2005), Social networking on the semantic web, in The Learning Organization
Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 418-435
[4] Lytras
M., Sicilia M.A., Kinshuk, Sampson D. (2005), Special
Issue on semantic and social aspects of learning in organizations, , in The
Learning Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5,
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&containerId=22676
Topics:
Topics
include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Design
variables and conditions for social networks
* New forms
of interaction in social systems
* Blogging
as a social activity and approaches to semantic blogs
*
Collaborative filtering in social settings
* Analysing social interaction for finding knowledge on Web
users
* Semantic
Desktops
* Social
Network Analysis enabled by the Semantic Web
* Learning
and Knowledge Communities
* Analysis
of Large Online Communities Web Communities of Practice
* Network
Analysis for Building Social Networks
* Implicit,
Formal, and Powerful Semantics in Communities
* Semantic
Social Networks Metadata and Annotation Techniques
* Metadata
schema describing individuals and social ties
* Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based
categorization systems
* Wikis,
semantic Wikis and other collaborative knowledge creation systems
* Online
Social Networking
*
Applications of Online Semantic Networks
* Knowledge
Management with Semantic Networks
* Emerging
Human Experiences in Social Networks
* Analysis
of Human Behaviour in Semantic Social Networks
Please feel
free to contact address@hidden if you have any questions.
International
Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems (included in SCI, Thompson
Scientific) and Information Sciences (included in SCI) + One more IEEE
Transactions Issue.
Deadline
for Paper Submission
Deadline
for full paper submission is June 5, 2008. Please visit the website of Athens
1st World Summit on the Knowledge Society for getting information about author
guidelines and your paper submission or contact Dr Tania Petrou
at address@hidden
Registration:
350 Euros - 150 Euros if Registered in Summit also
More
information about the Summit
Website:
http://knowledge-summit.org/
Sponsor of
the Summit: The Open Research Society (ORS) www.open-knowledge-society.org/