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Subject: [oagi-si] Semantic Technology Conference - Official Call for
Papers
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:52:44 -0000
From: "semantic_conference" <speaker@semantic-conference.com>
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Announcing the First Annual Conference on
SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY
March 7-10, 2005 * San Francisco, California
CALL for PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
Proposal Submissions - due October 4, 2004
Submit proposals and/or questions to speaker@semantic-conference.com
Conference web site: www.semantic-conference.com
Interested practitioners and researchers are hereby invited to
present a paper at the first conference focused on the application of
Semantic Technologies to Information Systems and the Web. The event
will be held on March 7-10, 2005 at the beautiful Stanford Court
Hotel in San Francisco, California.
The event is organized around two key themes:
1. Semantics in the Enterprise
2. Semantics on the Internet
A number of appropriate topic areas are identified below. Speakers
are invited to offer additional topic areas related to the subject of
Semantic Technology if they see fit.
The conference is designed to maximize cross-fertilization between
research and industry. We are looking for research and/or academic
treatments, vendor and/or analyst reports on the state of the
commercial marketplace, and case study presentations from developers
and implementers. For some topics we may include introductory
tutorials.
The conference is sponsored and directed by Semantic Arts, Inc, and
Dave McComb, author of the book Semantics in Business Systems (Morgan
Kaufmann, 2003). It will be conducted by a professional conference
management firm to be announced shortly. Additional sponsorship
opportunities will be available to appropriate media and vendor
organizations. Please make inquiries at sponsor@semantic-
conference.com
The conference program will include papers and/or presentations of 50
minutes in length on the following topics:
TOPIC AREAS
============
Business Vocabularies
Topics should cover methods or approaches to building and/or using
shared business vocabularies and the role that Semantics plays in
ensuring that consistent meaning is captured.
Ontology and Taxonomy
This topic should cover methods and tools for more structured
organization of data or knowledge. The marketplace should review the
ontology and taxonomy editors and how this functionality is being
grafted onto existing products.
Semantic Modeling
Current practices in semantic conceptual modeling. Case study to
describe how Semantic Modeling led to superior solution. Marketplace
could examine how commercial products and modeling techniques can
support Semantic Modeling (from Protégé to UML or ERWIN)
Semantic Brokers
Use of Semantic Brokers to achieve Enterprise Application
Integration. We are specifically looking for case studies and
comparison of vendor products in this area.
Web Services
New developments in Web services include semantically searchable
service definitions in WSDL 2.0. Presentations in this section
should go beyond mainstream Web services implementation and explore
how semantic definition enhances finding and reuse of services.
Semantic Queries
Talks in this section will focus on emerging query languages that
operate at a semantic model level. Distributed and/or agent-based
technologies could be discussed.
OWL and RDF for internal use
The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is the W3C standard for
representation of semantics on the Web. It is the direct successor
to RDF (and DAML+OIL). Presentations in this section should focus on
the application of these technologies to internal systems, which many
companies have been working on for some time.
The Semantic Web
Presentations in this section should focus on external, or web based
application of the semantic web technologies. We are looking for
presentations to explain the underlying technologies, demonstrations
of existing products and Case Studies of Web based companies using
these technologies.
Unstructured Data
This topic will focus on the use of semantic based technologies to
extract meaning and structure from unstructured data, such as email
or unstructured text.
Business Rules
We are looking for presentations that either present an ontology of
business rules (that is a formal, structured decomposition of type of
rules that can be instantiated in a given framework) or case studies
of methodologies covering experience of using a domain ontology for
the expression of Business Rules.
Semantic Search
This topic is for the application of semantics to Search technology.
We are looking for case studies from existing search sites, research
into applying semantics to deepen search results and analysis of the
state of the market for search currently.
Upper Models
Topics in this section should discuss progress with and use of any of
the various proposed "upper ontologies" including Cyc, SUMO, WordNet,
UBL, RossettaNet or others.
Knowledge Representation
There is of course a great deal of overlap between Semantic
Technology and Knowledge Management. In this topic we're looking for
Knowledge Management products or projects that have specifically
benefited from the application of Semantic Technologies.
Data Warehousing
Semantic technologies are being used to correlate data from diverse
sources into a common data repository. We're looking for Case
Studies, Vendor products that use Semantics and any research in the
area of applying semantics to the population or querying of data
warehouses.
Other Topics
You are welcome to suggest other topic areas, but if you do, please
indicate candidates to complete all three treatments of the topic
(research, case study and marketplace)
Proposal Submissions - due October 4, 2004
====================================
Please submit a proposal for a 50-minute presentation and paper in
the following format:
1. Topic Area (from the above list or if "other" describe the topic)
2. Title of Presentation (should be descriptive of the subject
matter - not too "cute")
3. Brief abstract of Presentation, suitable for publication (limit
to 250 words)
4. Longer description of talk (for evaluation purpose, if
appropriate)
5. Treatment (please define as research, case study or marketplace)
6. Author Credentials/Bio suitable for publication (limit to 250
words)
7. Author portrait photo suitable for publication - color
(preferred) or B&W
(please provide as .jpg file, limit to 250 KB file size)
Key Dates & Speaker Deadlines
==========================
October 4 Presentation proposals due
October 18 Speakers notified of selection
January 28 Speaker Papers and/or PowerPoint files due
Presentation Guidelines
===================
Submit proposals and/or questions to speaker@semantic-conference.com
Each presentation will be 50 minutes in length. Presentations must
not be sales presentations for vendor products. Where vendors have
done something unique in the field they are encouraged to describe
this and how it can impact the participants whether or not they
implement vendors product.
PowerPoint slides must be provided for each presentation. A written
paper is optional, however is "expected" from all research/academic
proposals.
The conference proceedings will be published on CD-ROM. In order for
a presentation to be included in the proceedings the final
presentation file and/or paper must be provided to the organizers by
January 28, 2005.
Presentations and Papers due January 28, 2005
All speakers are invited to include a paper of length 1000-2000 words
should they wish (academic/research papers are expected to provide a
written paper). Papers will be published after the conference. The
conference proceedings will be published on CD-ROM. In order for a
paper to be included in the proceedings the final paper must be made
available by January 28, 2005.
Honorarium
==========
Speakers will be given a free pass to the conference as well as a
$300 honorarium. Travel expenses will not be provided.
Questions and Inquiries
===================
All questions and inquiries about the conference may be directed to:
speaker@semantic-conference.com
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