[esip-semanticweb] Call for Papers - The Semantic Web meets the Deep Web (SWDW’08)

[Rahul Ramachandran]

*Call for Papers*

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*The Semantic Web meets the Deep Web (SWDW’08)*

The First International Workshop to be held in conjunction with the

IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology and Enterprise Computing, 
E-Commerce and E-Services  2008

July 21, 2008 Crystal City, Washington, D.C., USA

http://www.cis.njit.edu/~oohvr/SemanticDeepWebWS/

 

_Goals for the Workshop_

Part of the vision of the Semantic Web is to achieve the automation of 
E-business processes and E-services by equipping agent programs like 
softbots with rich semantic knowledge and reasoning capabilities to roam 
the Web, find data and services, and combine them to achieve business 
goals.   However, a large amount of valuable E-commerce information on 
the Web is not “visible” to general search engines, Web crawlers and 
agent programs, because this information is typically stored in backend 
databases. It is only accessible through Web services or Web form 
interfaces that pose challenges to the fully automated access by 
crawlers and agents.  This “hidden, invisible and non-indexable” content 
on the Web is called the Deep Web. 

 

This workshop is intended to provide a forum for researchers and 
practitioners to formulate a vision for the next generation of the Web, 
combining the Deep Web and the Semantic Web (“the Semantic Deep Web”) 
where E-businesses and other E-services will be dynamically composed 
into ad-hoc coalitions and virtual enterprises. Research approaches, 
techniques and methodologies to model, query, extract and annotate Deep 
Web resources are needed to provide a semantic layer on top of the Deep 
Web. Semantic Web knowledge constructs, such as ontologies, are needed 
for policy and process negotiations, semantic interoperation, and 
discovery, composition and flexible adaptation of cross-enterprise 
services.  In addition, existing and new Semantic Web research and 
approaches are needed to tap into the Deep Web with more intelligent 
agents and better techniques in order to understand, access, analyze and 
visualize E-commerce Deep Web sources, including those with multimedia 
contents.

 

This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 10th IEEE Conference 
on E-Commerce Technology (CEC' 08) and the 5th IEEE Conference on 
Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE ' 08) on July 21, 
2008 in Crystal City, Washington, DC U.S.A.

 

_Workshop Topics_

The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

–        Information extraction from the Deep Web, especially from 
E-commerce sites

–        Semantic annotation and indexing of the Deep Web

–        Discovery of E-commerce sites and E-services

–        Semantic query languages for the Web

–        Semantics-enabled search engines

–        Web-based cross-enterprise environments

–        Extraction of concepts, hierarchical and semantic relationships 
from the Deep Web

–        Semi-automatic analysis of service descriptions and  
Web-Database entry-form pages

–        Semi-automatic creation of ontologies from Deep Web sites

–        Semi-automatic creation of E-service ontologies

–        Semantic Web and Deep Web applications in E-commerce

–        Semantic  E-services

–        Semi-automatic labeling of semantics of results retrieved by 
Deep Web search engines

–        Agent and softbot technologies

–        Quality of ontology (QoO) definitions, measurement and use

–        Quality of ontology improvement methodologies

–        Semantics-based interoperation, collaboration and virtual 
enterprises

–        Security and privacy issues of Deep Web content extraction and 
annotation

–        Deep Web schema understanding based on polling or sampling

–        Semantic browsing and visualization of the Deep Web

–        Visions of the Web 3.0 as a Semantic Deep Web

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_Important Dates_

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–        April 21, 2008:   Paper submission due

–        April 30, 2008:   Notification of paper acceptance

–        May 15, 2008:    Camera-Ready copy of accepted workshop papers due

–        July 21, 2008:    Workshop program

 

_Paper Submissions_

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that 
are not being considered in another forum. *Long papers* will be limited 
to *8* (IEEE style) pages. *Short papers* will be limited to *4* (IEEE 
style) pages. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings 
Author Guidelines to prepare your papers with 8.5'' x 11'', two-column 
format.

 

Once a paper has been accepted, at least one author is required to 
attend the conference and present the paper. Electronic submission of 
manuscripts (in PDF) is required. All papers submitted to this workshop 
will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers will be 
published in the main conference proceedings of IEEE CEC'08 and EEE'08 
by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

 

To submit your papers, please follow this URL:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swdw08

Alternatively, papers may be submitted via email to: ya8 at njit.edu

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_Workshop  Chairs_

Yoo Jung An, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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_Program Committee_

 

Soon Ae Chun  (City University of New York, USA)

Nancy Ide  _(_Vassar College, USA)__

Weiyi Meng  (Binghamton University, USA)

Steffen Staab  (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

Rahul Ramachandran  (University of Alabama, USA)

Clement Yu  (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

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Information Technology and Systems Center
University of Alabama in Huntsville
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