ICOSE 2012 - International Conference on Ontological and Semantic Engineering (ICOSE 2012)

The VIII. International Conference on Ontological and Semantic Engineering is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Ontological and Semantic Engineering. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Natural Language Processing
Multimedia Analysis
Audio and Speech Processing
Content and Information Management
Knowledge Engineering
Data Mining
Semantic Database Theory and Systems
Service-oriented Architectures and Computing
Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services
Novel User Interfaces for Semantic Computing
Knowledge acquisition, extraction and representation
Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages
Ontology evolution
Semantic Web Services
Hypertext, multimedia, and hypermedia semantics
Semi-structured data
Management of Large Ontology Bases
Ontology modularization
Data and ontology integration, merge, alignment, fusion
Semantic Middleware
Ontological support in location-aware services and mobile information systems
Information Dissemination
Searching and Managing Dynamic Contents
Self-organization in Information Systems
Emergent semantics in peer-to-peer architectures
Data Filtering, Cleansing, and Summarization
Metadata Management
Multimedia Semantics
Audio and Speech Processing
Natural Language Processing
User Interfaces
Semantic data models and semantic querying
Semantic dataspaces
Ontology management including development, integration, mapping, maintenance and evolution of ontologies
Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages
Management of large ontology-driven data and knowledge bases
Semantic information retrieval
Emergent semantics
Social semantic systems
Semantic multimedia management
Metadata management
XML and Semantics
Hypertext, multimedia, and hypermedia semantics
Data and ontology integration, merging, alignment, and fusion
Semantic middleware
Semantic SOA
Ontological support for location-aware services and mobile information systems
Searching and managing dynamic knowledge

Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences in the following domains:
Web 2.0
Personal Information Management
Media Archives and Digital Libraries
Enterprise-wide Information Systems
Web-based Information Systems
Web Services
e-Commerce
e-Science
e-Organizations (virtual organizations, virtual marketplaces, etc.)
Bioinformatics
Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems
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