SWWS 2012 - The International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS)

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Semantic Web:
Machine learning approaches for semantic web
Semantic web for e-Business and e-Learning
Trust networks on semantic web
Database technologies for semantic web
Semantic knowledge portals
Semantic web mining
Semantic web inference methodologies
Metadata generation
Semantic web services
Semantic web trust, privacy, and security
Tools, languages, and techniques for semantic annotation of web data
Semantic intellectual property rights
Semantic searching
Reasoning in the semantic web
Semantic brokering
Visualization and modeling
Hypermedia and semantic web
Software agents for semantic web
Community web portals
Semantic web and enterprises
Trust management for semantic web
Semantic interoperability
Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation
Semantic web mining
Semantic web-based knowledge management
Ontology languages for semantic web
Autonomous semantic web services
Service discovery, description, composition and invocation
Data semantics
Semantic verification of web sites
Case studies
Web Services:
Web Service Technologies and Research Directions:
+ Enhancements to the basic web services platform (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, ...)
+ Advanced web service technologies including security, workflow/process management, transactions, mobile and wireless, portals, services management, quality-of-service (QoS)
+ Novel web service architectures
+ Development and modeling frameworks for web service applications
+ Composite web services, enabling technologies and support infrastructure
+ Data structures and models
Practices for developing enterprise-class web services and applications:
+ Design patterns
+ Architecting for customization, maintenance, and management
+ Architecting for easy integration or service "consumption"
+ Fault-tolerant architectures
+ Service mediation systems and architectures
Case studies of web service development and deployment:
+ e-Commerce applications using web services
+ Business-to-Business (B2B) applications using web services
+ Mobile and wireless applications using web services
+ Utility and on-demand computing using web services
+ Government applications using web services
+ Applications of web services in developing countries
Multimedia applications using web services
Communication applications using web services
Interactive TV applications using web services
Novel applications, case studies, and emerging technologies