Deadline Extension: URSW 2012

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CALL FOR PAPERS (AND EXTENDED
SUBMISSION DEADLINE)

8th International Workshop on

Uncertainty Reasoning for the
Semantic Web (URSW 2012)

http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2012

In conjunction with the

11th International Semantic Web
Conference (ISWC 2012)

Boston, USA

November 11-12, 2012

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You are invited to participate in
the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the
Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 11th
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in November
of 2012 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers,
USA.

ISWC is a major international
forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects
of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop
is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and
cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning
community and the Semantic Web community.

Effective methods for reasoning
under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects
of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of
current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty
is extremely limited. Recently, there has been a
groundswell of demand for uncertainty reasoning
technology among Semantic Web researchers and
developers.

This surge of interest creates a
unique opening to bring together two communities with a
clear commonality of interest but limited history of
interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW
could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the
Semantic Web vision.

AUDIENCE

The intended audience for this
workshop includes the following:

- Researchers in uncertainty
reasoning technologies with interest in Semantic Web and
Web-related technologies;

- Semantic web developers and
researchers;

- People in the knowledge
representation community with interest in the Semantic
Web.

- Ontology researchers and
ontological engineers;

- Web services researchers and
developers with interest in the Semantic Web;

- Developers of tools designed to
support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena
developers, Protégé developers, OWL-API developers.

TOPIC LIST

We intend to have an open
discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject
of uncertainty in the Semantic Web (including fuzzy
theory, probability theory, and other approaches).
Therefore, the following list should be just an initial
guide.

- Syntax and semantics for
extensions to Semantic Web languages to enable
representation of uncertainty;

- Logical formalisms to support
uncertainty in Semantic Web languages;

- Probability theory as a means of
assessing the likelihood that terms in different
ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts;

- Architectures for applying
plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping;

- Using fuzzy approaches to deal
with imprecise concepts within ontologies;

- The concept of a probabilistic
ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web;

- Best practices for representing
uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial
information in the Semantic Web;

- The role of uncertainty as it
relates to Web services;

- Interface protocols with support
for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability
among Web services;

- Uncertainty reasoning techniques
applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web;

- Existing implementations of
uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the
Semantic Web;

- Issues and techniques for
integrating tools for representing and reasoning with
uncertainty;

- The future of uncertainty
reasoning for the Semantic Web.

IMPORTANT DATES

August 7, 2012 Paper
submissions due

August 21 Paper
acceptance notification

September 10 Camera-ready
papers due

November 11-12 URSW 2012

SUBMISSION DETAILS

The URSW workshop will be
accepting submissions of technical papers and position
papers. Each submission will be evaluated for
acceptability by at least three members of the Program
Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on
relevance to the above topic list, originality,
potential significance, topicality, and clarity. Since
all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop,
we require that at least one of the submitting authors
must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2012
conference, and committed to attend the URSW workshop.

Submissions to the workshop are
only accepted in electronic format and should be sent
via the workshop’s submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ursw2012 .
Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer
publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by
the ISWC 2011. For complete details, see Springer’s
Author Instructions ( http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 ).

Technical papers submitted to the
URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including
figures. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be
reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas,
projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to
the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 4 pages. Following
the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2012
conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are
under review for or have already been published in or
accepted for publication in a journal or another
conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop.

PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION

URSW 2012 will be a full-day
workshop divided into 4 sessions. The first session will
start with the workshop's keynote presentation, which
will be followed by technical paper presentations.
Sessions two and three will be devoted to presenting our
selected technical and position papers, while the
remaining session will be planned in a format that
invites an open debate on results, conclusions, and
recommendations. We plan to convey a work meeting after
the workshop, if the last session needs to be extended.

All papers accepted to URSW 2012
will be presented during the workshop and published in
the workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted technical
papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while
authors of accepted position papers will have a
10-minute slot to share their ideas. After each
presentation, 5 minutes will be allocated to questions
from the audience. Both technical and position papers
will be published in the URSW workshop proceedings, to
be available after the ISWC 2012 Conference.

In addition, technical papers
accepted for presentation at URSW 2012 will be eligible
for participating in an international journal special
issue or in a post-proceedings book.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The organizing committee is as
follows (in alphabetical order):

Fernando Bobillo - University of
Zaragoza, Spain

Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason
University, USA

Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason
University, USA

Nicola Fanizzi - University of
Bari, Italy

Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason
University, USA

Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE
Corporation, USA

Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of
Oxford, UK

Trevor Martin - University of
Bristol, UK

Matthias Nickles - Technical
University of Munich, Germany

Michael Pool - Vertical Search
Works, Inc., USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The confirmed members of the
program committee are the following (in

alphabetical order):

Fernando Bobillo - Universidad de
Zaragoza, Spain

Silvia Calegari - University of
Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason
University, USA

Davide Ceolin - VU University
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason
University, USA

Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Nicola Fanizzi - University of
Bari, Italy

Marcelo Ladeira - University of
Brasilia, Brazil

Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason
University, USA

Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE
Corporation, USA

Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of
Oxford, UK

Trevor Martin - University of
Bristol, UK

Matthias Nickles - University of
Bath, UK

Rafael Peñaloza - Technical
University Dresden, Germany

Michael Pool - Vertical Search
Works, Inc., USA

Livia Predoiu - University of
Magdeburg, Germany

Guilin Qi - Southeast University,
China

Célia Ralha - University of
Brasilia, Brazil

Dave Robertson - University of
Edinburgh, UK

Daniel Sánchez - European Centre
for Soft Computing, Spain

Sergej Sizov - University of
Koblenz-Landau, Germany

Giorgos Stoilos - National and
Technical University of Athens, Greece

Umberto Straccia - ISTI-CNR, Pisa,
Italy

Matthias Thimm - Universität
Koblenz, Germany

Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion
University, USA

Peter Vojtas - Charles University,
Czech Republic

We are looking forward to seeing
you in Boston!

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