CFP: 3rd International WS on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS '07)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
SCALABLE SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS (SSWS '07)

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=3Dssws2007cfp

ON THE MOVE FEDERATED CONFERENCES 2007 (OTM'07)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf

Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 25 - 30, 2007
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

This  workshop aims  at creating  a forum  for discussing  a critical  is=
sue  for the
Semantic Web, that is, scalability.  As the Semantic Web evolves, scalabi=
lity becomes
increasingly important.   This workshop will  focus on addressing of  the=
 scalability
issue with respect to the development and deployment of knowledge base sy=
stems on the
Semantic Web. Typically, such systems deal with information described in =
Semantic Web
languages  like OWL  and RDF(S),  and provide  services such  as  storing=
, reasoning,
querying and  debugging. There are two  basic requirements for  these sys=
tems. First,
they have to satisfy the  application's semantic requirements by providin=
g sufficient
reasoning support.   Second, they must  scale well in  order to be of  pr=
actical use.
Given the sheer  size and distributed nature of the  Semantic Web, these =
requirements
impose  additional  challenges  beyond  those  addressed by  earlier  kno=
wledge  base
systems.  This  has been well recognized by  the community. We expect  th=
at the above
issue  is  going to  challenge  the  Semantic  Web for  a  long  time of =
 period  and
significant effort is needed in order to tackle the problem.

This workshop  seeks to bring together  researchers and practitioners  to=
 share their
recent ideas and progresses towards  building scalable knowledge base sys=
tems for the
Semantic Web. The workshop will be centered on the discussion of three ma=
jor aspects:

   1. foundations, methods and technologies for pushing forward the state=
-of-the-art;
   2. performance evaluation and related principles, methodologies and to=
ols;
   3. identification of important issues and future research directions.


WORKSHOP TOPICS

TOPICS OF INTERESTS for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Reasoning mechanisms, techniques and systems
* Query evaluation and optimization
* Performance evaluation and benchmarks
* Large Semantic Web repositories
* Distributed and concurrent knowledge base systems and P2P systems
* Large scale knowledge base management
* Semantic Web-based information integration

In addition,  the workshop will include  a working session on  benchmarki=
ng and other
relevant topics solicited beforehand to participants. In order to be able=
 to evaluate
scalability,   the  existence  of   agreed  benchmarking   datasets  is  =
 of  crucial
importance. In many  related domains such as databases  and theorem provi=
ng, standard
benchmarks exist and  are ready to guide research on  optimization techni=
ques. In the
Semantic Web area,  such benchmarking shave only just started to  emerge =
and there is
no commonly  agreed benchmark  dataset for  RDF and OWL  reasoning and  q=
uerying. The
workshop will  address this issue  in a special  working session on  benc=
hmarking. In
this session,  existing benchmarking initiatives  will be presented and  =
discussed by
organizers and participants of the workshop.  The aim is to agree on a cl=
assification
of the existing datasets and requirements for additional datasets.


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline     July 14, 2007
Paper Submission Deadline        July 22, 2007
Acceptance Notification          September 1, 2007
Camera Ready Due                 September 10, 2007
Registration Due                 September 10, 2007
OTM Conferences                  November 25 - 30, 2007


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submitted papers will be  carefully evaluated based on originality, s=
ignificance,
technical soundness,  clarity of expression,  and relevance to SSWS.  All=
 submissions
must be in English, and will be refereed by a program committee comprisin=
g members of
the  Working Group.  Research  submissions must  not  exceed 10  pages fo=
llowing  the
Springer  format. Submissions  should  be  made in  PDF  format. Detailed=
  formatting
instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.ht=
ml

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failu=
re to commit
to  presentation  at   the  conference  automatically  excludes  a   pape=
r  from  the
proceedings.
The paper submission site is located at
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ssws/2007/papers/


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Achille Fokoue
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA (Contact Person)
(http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/achille.in=
dex.html,
[email protected])

Yuanbo Guo
Microsoft Corp
(http://www.lehigh.edu/~yug2, [email protected])

Thorsten Liebig
Ulm University, Germany
(http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/ki/liebig.html, thorsten.liebig@uni-ulm=
.de)

Bijan Parsia
University of Manchester, UK
(http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~bparsia/, [email protected])


Program Committee Members

Pascal Hitzler - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
York Sure - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Kavitha Srinivas - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Takahira Yamaguchi - Keio University, Japan
Ra=FAl Garc=EDa Castro - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Aditya Kalyanpur - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Oscar Corcho - University of Manchester, UK
Jeff Heflin - Lehigh University, USA
Ralf M=F6ller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Ian Horrocks - University of Manchester, UK
Boris Motik - University of Manchester, UK
Pierre-Antoine Champin - Lyon 1 University, France
Ying Ding - University of Innsbruck, Au