WebS 2011 - 10th International Workshop on Web Semantics

The objective of the workshop Web Semantics (WebS) is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss research issues and experience in developing and deploying Semantic Web concepts, applications, and solutions being an international forum for the presentation of both theoretical and applicative results.

Papers describing Semantic Web application experiences are particularly encouraged.

The special topic "Reliability of ontologies" aims on detecting reusable ontologies and measuring the reliability of possible reusable ontology candidates. How can we measure the reliability and the usability of ontologies? Which adaptations of state-of-the-art ontology engineering methodologies are necessary to support modeling reusable ontologies? What measurements for defining and comparing ontologies can be used and how could ontology repositories use them?
These are some of the open research questions to be addressed by papers dedicated to this year's special topic.

TOPICS

The relevant topics include the following (but are not limited to):

Knowledge management and sharing
Interoperability and data integration through semantic technology
Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution
Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
Ontology learning and metadata generation
Ontology evaluation (guidelines)
Document analysis and semantic extraction
Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction
Modeling of Semantic Web
Search, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web
Semantic and context awareness
Semantic Web supporting business processes
Semantic Web for e-sciences
Semantic Web for e-business
Semantic Web mining
Semantic Web data querying and reasoning
Semantic Web inference schemes
Semantic Web applications
Database technologies for the Semantic Web
Intelligent user interfaces
Dynamic ontology generation and adaptation
Languages, tools and methodologies for semantic annotations of web data
Applications on mobile devices
Enhanced accessibility and multimodal interfaces
Reasoning
Special Topic: Reliability of ontologies
Ontology evaluation and reliability measurement
Ontological metrics
Ontology comparison
Ontology reuse methods and methodologies (metrics for reusability)
PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and application papers that are not being considered in another forum.

Manuscripts will be limited to 5 two-column pages (IEEE Proceeding style) including figures and references. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. Authors of accepted papers are requested to sign the IEEE copyright form. The author guidelines can be found at IEEE Conference Publishing Services - Proceedings Author Forms.

Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF, postscript, or word format) is required. Paper submission. For any questions please contact webs-AT-faw.uni-linz.ac.at.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Papers accepted for presentation will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2011 workshops.
Authors are requested to send their paper(s) to be received by March 04, 2011.

EVALUATION PROCESS

All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and technical soundness. Each paper will be refereed by at least three researchers in the topical area.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: March 04, 2011
Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2011
Webs 2011 Workshop: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 (DEXA: 29 August - 02 September, 2011)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE

WEBS CHAIRS

Christina Feilmayr (FAW, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria)
Wolfram Wöß (FAW, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Witold Abramowicz, Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
José Francisco Aldana Montes, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Kerstin Altmanninger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Mario Arrigoni Neri, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy
Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
Elena Baralis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Jorge Bernardino, ISEC, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Paul Buhler, Modus21, LLC, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Radek Burget, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Barbara Catania, DISI, University of Genoa, Italy
Sunil Choenni, Rotterdam University, The Netherlands
Valeria De Antonellis, Dipartimento di Elettronica per l'Automazione, Brescia, Italy
Cláudio De Souza Baptista, DSC, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Steven A. Demurjian, University of Connecticut, USA
Ian J Dickinson, Epimorphics Ltd, Bristol, UK
Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia
Bernadette Farias Lóscio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Christina Feilmayr, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Alfio Ferrara, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France
Stephan Grimm, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Abdelkader Hameurlain, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Carmem Satie Hara, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil
Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna, Austria
Eva Maria Hauth, Hagenberg Software GmbH, Hagenberg, Austria
Stijn Heymans, SemanticBits, Herndon, USA
Hiroyuki Kawano, Kyoto University, Japan
Ralf Klischewski, Faculty of Management Technology, German University in Cairo, Egypt
In-Young Ko, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, USA
Michele Melchiori, Dept. of Information Engineering (DII), University of Brescia, Italy
Michele Missikoff, Institute of Systems Analysis and Computer Science (IASI), Italy
Ismael Navas Delgado, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece
Detlef Plump, University of York, UK
Niko Popitsch, University of Vienna, Austria
Isidoro Ramos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Tore Risch, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Nicolas Sabouret, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, Paris, France
Simon Scerri, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland
Bernhard Schandl, Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems, University of Vienna, Austria
Ulrich Schiel, DSC, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
Elena Simperl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia
Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Riccardo Torlone, Università Roma Tre, Italy
Alexander Ulanov, Hewlett-Packard Labs Russia, St.Petersburg, Russia
Mario Verdicchio, University of Bergamo, Italy
Kim Viljanen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Albert Weichselbraun, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria
Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria