DL Extension to Aug. 4! : WS on Scalable SW Knowledge Bases (SSWS 2008)

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                      *DEADLINE EXTENSION: AUGUST 4th*

   FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCALABLE SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE BASE
                            SYSTEMS (SSWS2008)

           http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~yug2/ssws08/home.htm

  At the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) Karlsruhe,
       Germany, October 26-30, 2008 http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The  series of  SSWS workshops  aim at  creating a  forum for  discussing=
 a
critical issue for the Semantic Web, that is, scalability.  As the Semant=
ic
Web evolves, scalability becomes increasingly important. This workshop wi=
ll
focus on addressing  the scalability issue with respect  to the developme=
nt
and deployment of  knowledge base systems on the  Semantic Web.  Typicall=
y,
such systems deal with information described in Semantic Web languages li=
ke
OWL and RDF(S),  and provide services such as  storing, reasoning, queryi=
ng
and debugging.  There are two basic requirements for these systems.  Firs=
t,
they have  to satisfy the application's semantic  requirements by providi=
ng
sufficient reasoning support.  Second, they  must scale well in order to =
be
of  practical use.   Given the  sheer size  and distributed  nature  of t=
he
Semantic Web, these requirements  impose additional challenges beyond tho=
se
addressed by earlier knowledge base systems.  This has been well recogniz=
ed
by  the community  as demonstrated  by  the excitement  around the  billi=
on
triples challenge.

We expect that the above issue is going to challenge the Semantic Web for=
 a
long period of time and significant effort is needed in order to tackle t=
he
problem.   This  workshop   seeks   to  bring   together  researchers   a=
nd
practitioners to  share their recent ideas and  progresses towards buildi=
ng
scalable knowledge base systems for the Semantic Web.

The workshop will be centered on  the discussion of three major aspects: =
1)
foundations,   methods   and   technologies   for   pushing   forward   t=
he
state-of-the-art;  2)   performance  evaluation  and   related  principle=
s,
methodologies and  tools; 3) identification of important  issues and futu=
re
research directions.  Topics of interest  for the workshop include, but a=
re
not limited to:

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

We expect that  the outcome of the workshop will  benefit not only Semant=
ic
Web  developers but also  Semantic Web  evaluators and  end users.  We al=
so
welcome   participants  from   related  disciplines   such   as  Artifici=
al
Intelligence, Databases and Information Integration.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline        August 4, 2008  *extended*
Acceptance Notification          September 12, 2008
Camera Ready Papers Due          September 26, 2008


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Achille Fokoue
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA (Contact Person)

Yuanbo Guo
Microsoft Corp, USA

Jeff Heflin
Lehigh University, USA

Thorsten Liebig
Ulm University, Germany


PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Ian Horrocks - University of Oxford, UK
Bijan Parsia - University of Manchester, UK
Pascal Hitzler - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
York Sure - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Ulrike Sattler - University of Manchester, UK
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
Boris Motik - University of Oxford, UK
Oscar Corcho - University of Manchester, UK
Ralf M=F6ller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Ying Ding - University of Innsbruck, Austria
Marko Luther - DoCoMo Eurolabs Munich, Germany
Timo Weith=F6ner - Ulm University, Germany
Andy Seaborne - Hewlett-Packard, UK
Jan Wielemaker - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Volker Haarslev - Condordia University, Canada