Re: [regrep] [Fwd: SemPGRID04: Call for Paper (DATE CORRECTIONS!)]

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

Following up on this posting from January 2004: Is anyone attending this
conference? Did we submit an abstract?

Thanks,
Joe

Farrukh Najmi wrote:
> 
> FYI...
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> Regards,
> Farrukh
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> Subject: SemPGRID04: Call for Paper (DATE CORRECTIONS!)
> Resent-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 14:04:51 -0500 (EST)
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> From: Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit <hongsuda@ISI.EDU>
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> ****************** CALL FOR PAPERS ************************
> 
>                         2nd Workshop on
>       Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing (SemPGRID)
>                               at the
>         Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference
>                   17-18 May 2004, New York, USA
>                      in cooperation with the
>             GGF Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-GRD)
>         Workshop URL: http://www.isi.edu/~hongsuda/SemPGRID04
> 
> Topics and Content
> -----------------------------------
> 
> The  Semantic Web is widely accepted as a means to enhance the Web
> with machine processable content. However, mostly the Semantic Web
> is  aiming  at techniques and technologies for static information,
> in  contrast to dynamic services or distributed computing. Several
> interest  groups  and  efforts  are  working on infrastructure for
> enabling  distributed computing. The organization of these efforts
> are  in part top down organized efforts, involving multiple formal
> organizations  and  dedicated  projects,  and  bottom-up  efforts,
> sometimes  started  by  single  organizations  or individuals in a
> grassroots effort.
> 
> The  Grid  is  aiming  at  technologies  which allow the flexible,
> secure,  coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of
> individuals,   institutions,   and   resources,  enabling  virtual
> organizations.   Problems   encountered   include  authentication,
> authorization,    resource   access,   resource   discovery,   and
> interoperation  of  active services. The same problems are eminent
> in  the  Peer-to-Peer  (P2P)  area,  where  projects are typically
> organized  in  a  bottom-up  fashion.   Infrastructures  like  the
> TeraGrid  and  SUN's  JXTA  are  emerging,   attracting   numerous
> applications.  However, each application uses its own data format,
> and it is hard to see how applications interoperate.
> 
> A  related  area  is  Web  Services:  driven  by  industry efforts
> numerous  specifications  are developed, which are of interest for
> the  Grid  projects  as  well  as  for  the  Peer-to-Peer efforts.
> Although  there  is  an  agreement that Web Services would benefit
> from  more  semantics, little systematic research has been done on
> how  to  combine the notions of Web Services with the Semantic Web,
> Peer-to-Peer and/or Grid computing technologies.
> 
> Topics of interest for technical papers include, but are not
> limited to, the following:
>     * Scalable infrastructures for service discovery in Grid
>       computing and P2P networks, e.g., based on reconfiguration
>       of the network with respect to shared interests or shared
>       ontologies
>     * Interoperation infrastructure for enabling heterogeneous
>       peers to exchange and translate information
>     * Emergent Semantics and incrementally learning and evolution
>       of ontologies in an P2P environment
>     * Metadata infrastructures for P2P and Grid computing
>     * Task ontologies and service composition languages
>     * Service Composition framework
>     * Data Integration of P2P and Grid applications
>     * Interaction of the Semantic Web and Grid Services
>     * Semantics-based routing
>     * Agent-Architectures based on P2P and Grid Computing
>       technology
>     * The role of Semantics in the Open Grid Service Architecture
> 
> The  workshop  will  be  organized in part around talks presenting
> research  results in the intersection of the Semantic Web, P2P and
> Grid  computing.  Another  important  part of the workshop will be
> break-out groups, focusing on the amalgamation of Semantic Web and
> distributed  computing.  We  hope the break-out groups will evolve
> into independent working groups and generate follow-up activities,
> which contribute to the technology areas.  The proceedings will be
> published  on  the  Web.
> 
> Submission and Important Dates
> -----------------------------------
> We  invite  the submission of technical papers as well as position
> statements.  The  submitted papers should be formatted as close as
> possible     to     the    rules    of    Springer    LNCS    (see
> http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html,             section
> "Proceedings   and  Other  Multi-author  Volumes"  for  formatting
> instructions).   Technical   papers  should  have  max.  20  pages
> including  references,  Position papers should not exceed 2 pages.
> Please  submit  documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to hongsuda@isi.edu.
> 
>     * Submissions due: March 10, 2004
>     * Notification for acceptance: April 1, 2004
>     * Camera ready due: April 15, 2004
>     * Workshop date*: May 17-18, 2004
> 
> Workshop Chairs
> -----------------------------------
> Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
> karl.aberer@epfl.ch, http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/aberer/
> 
> Stefan Decker, DERI Galway, Ireland and USC/Information Sciences
> Institute, USA
> stefan@isi.edu http://www.isi.edu/~stefan
> 
> David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
> dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk, http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dder/
> 
> Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
> carole@cs.man.ac.uk, http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~carole/
> 
> Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA
> hongsuda@isi.edu, http://www.isi.edu/~hongsuda
> 
> Program Committees
> -----------------------------------
> * Karl Aberer (EPFL)
> * I. Budak Aripnar (University of Georgia)
> * Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne)
> * Mario Cannataro (University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro)
> * Stefan Decker (USC-ISI)
> * David de Roure (University of Southampton)
> * Johannes Ernst (R-Objects)
> * Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory)
> * Yolanda Gil (ISI/USC)
> * Carole Goble (University of Manchester)
> * Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam)
> * Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester)
> * Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine)
> * David Karger (MIT)
> * Carl Kesselman (ISI/USC)
> * Chen Li (University of California at Irvine)
> * Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover and Learninglab Lower Saxony)
> * Sylvia Ratnasamy (U.C.Berkeley)
> * Mario Schlosser (McKinsey & Company)
> * Amit Sheth (University of Georgia
> * Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe)
> * Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit (USC-ISI)
> * Bernard Traversat (SUN Microsystems)
> 
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Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Associate
Booz | Allen | Hamilton