Cfp URSW 2013: 9th International Workshop on, Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web at ISWC 2013

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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9th International Workshop on
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2013

In conjunction with the
  12th International Semantic Web Conference

Sydney, Australia
October 21-22, 2013
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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 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October 
of 2013 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia.
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
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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
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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
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July 10	Paper submissions due
August 9	Paper acceptance notification
August 31	Camera-ready papers due
October 21-22	9th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web


SUBMISSION DETAILS
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The URSW 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 2013 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=ursw2013. 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 2013. 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 and 
references. 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 2013 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
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	URSW 2013 will be a half-day workshop divided into sessions. The first session could start with a 
workshop's keynote presentation, which will be followed by sessions devoted to presenting  selected 
technical and position papers. The last session will be planned in a format that invites an open 
debate on the 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 the URSW 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 
2013 Conference.
In addition, technical papers accepted for presentation at the URSW 2013 will be eligible for 
participating in an international journal special issue or in a post-proceedings book.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Fernando Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain
Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA
Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA
Claudia d’Amato - University of Bari, Italy
Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy
Kathryn 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 - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Michael Pool - Vertical Search Works, Inc., USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Fernando Bobillo – University of 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
Claudia d’Amato - University of Bari, Italy
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
Alessandra Mileo - DERI Galway, Ireland
Matthias Nickles - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK
Rafael Peñaloza, Technical University Dresden, Germany
Michael Pool -Vertical Search Works, Inc., USA
Livia Predoiu - University of Oxford, UK
Guilin Qi - Southeast University, China
Célia Ralha - University of Brasilia, Brazil
Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK
Daniel Sánchez  - University of Granada, Spain
Thomas Scharrenbach - Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Switzerland
Luciano Serafini - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Giorgos Stoilos - National and Technical University of Athens, Greece
Umberto Straccia - ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA
Matthias Thimm - Universität Koblenz, Germany
Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech Republic

We are looking forward to seeing you in Sydney!

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