WEB-KR3 2011 - WEB-KR3 International Workshop on Web-scale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval and Reasoning

The World Wide Web has become the carrier for the largest human knowledge repository in history. As its knowledge bases are growing towards a practically ‘infinite’ volume, Web-scale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning (Web-KR3) is becoming a real issue and an urgent task. Although the Web community has developed a number of knowledge representation languages and reasoning methods, when the volume goes Web-scale, existing approaches meet many challenging problems, such as scalability, inconsistency, uncertainty and dynamics. Hence, a unified approach to Web-KR3 needs to be developed.

Following the successful 2010 version of the workshop under the same title. This workshop aims to bringing together researchers from Web research, Artificial Intelligence (AI), high performance computing, cognitive science, knowledge management, and machine learning to discuss all issues of Web-KR3 in a synergistic setting. The workshop will be co-located with the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology.
Topics of Interest

Research contributions should be related but are not limited to one or more of the following topics:

Expressivity of Web-scale common sense knowledge.
Web enabled real-time retrieval and reasoning.
New forms of inductive and deductive reasoning (e.g. cognitive and nature inspired methods).
Spatial and Temporal reasoning methods for the Web.
Parallelization and distribution techniques for Web-scale knowledge retrieval and reasoning.
Inconsistency, uncertainty, and relevancy of Web-scale reasoning.
Granularity of knowledge representation, retrieval and reasoning.
Web-scale ontology and rule interchange and integration.(e.g. via OWL 2, RIF, and RuleML)
Dynamics of knowledge updating and forgetting on the Web.
Distributed query answering over Web-scale data.
Cross-fertilizing Web-KR3 with Distributed AI, Distributed Description Logic, and Distributed Logic Programming.