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> From: Antoine Isaac <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2 December 2011 09:01:59 GMT
> To: Antoine Isaac <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: CFP: ESWC12 (with Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage track) - Abstract Deadline Dec 5
> 
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> 
> CFP ESWC12 - 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference
> May 27 - 31, 2012
> 
> Info at: http://2012.eswc-conferences.org/
> 
> The mission of ESWC is to bring together researchers and practitioners
> dealing with different aspects of semantic technologies. Building on its
> past success, ESWC is seeking to broaden its focus to span other
> relevant research areas in which semantics in a Web context plays an
> important role. The goal of the Semantic Web is to create a Web of
> knowledge and services in which the semantics of content is made
> explicit and content is linked to both other content and services. This
> network of knowledge-based functionality will weave together a large
> network of human knowledge, and make this knowledge machine-processable
> to support intelligent behaviour by machines. It will support novel
> applications allowing to combine content from heterogeneous sites in
> unforeseen ways and support enhanced matching between users needs and
> content.
> 
> Creating such an interlinked Web of knowledge which spans unstructured,
> RDF as well as multimedia content and services requires the
> collaboration of many disciplines, including but not limited to:
> Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Database and
> Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning,
> Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and
> Web Science.
> 
> In addition to the research and in-use tracks, we have furthermore
> introduced two special tracks this year, putting particular emphasis on
> inter-disciplinary research topics and areas that show the potential of
> exciting synergies for the future.
> 
> *Important Dates*
> 
> Abstract submission December 5th, 2011
> Full-paper submission December 12th, 2011
> Notification of acceptance/rejection February 22nd, 2012
> Camera-ready papers March 9th, 2012
> 
> *Additional Information*
> 
> ESWC2012 welcomes the submission of original research and application
> papers dealing with all aspects of representing and using semantics on
> the Web. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and
> applications papers. The proceedings of this conference will be
> published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper
> submission and reviewing for ESWC2012 will be electronic via the
> conference submissions site. Each paper must be assigned to one of the
> tracks below:
> 
> 
> Program Chairs
> - Philipp Cimiano
> - Axel Polleres
> 
> General Chair
> - Elena Simperl
> 
> 
> Research tracks
> - Ontologies (Chairs: Chiara Ghidini, Dimitris Plexousakis)
> - Reasoning (Chairs: Giovambattista Ianni, Markus Krötzsch)
> - Semantic Data Management (Chairs: Claudio Gutierrez, Andreas Harth)
> - Linked Open Data (Chairs: Sören Auer, Juan Sequeda)
> - Social Web and Web Science (Chairs: Fabien Gandon, Matthew Rowe)
> - Software, Services, Processes and Cloud Computing (Chairs: Matthias
> Klusch, Carlos Pedrinaci)
> - Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval (Chairs: Paul
> Buitelaar, Johanna Völker)
> - Mobile and Sensor Web (Chairs: Alasdair J G Gray, Kerry Taylor)
> - Machine Learning (Chairs: Claudia d'Amato, Volker Tresp)
> 
> Special tracks 2012
> - EGovernment: Using Semantics for Promoting Interoperability in the
> Public Sector (Chairs: Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Vassilios Peristeras)
> - Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage (Chairs: Antoine Isaac, Vivien
> Petras)
> 
> In-use & Industrial track
> - In-use & Industrial track (Chairs: Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Yves Raimond)
> 
> Check the website for detailed descriptions of each of these tracks.
> 
> Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be
> formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be
> submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not
> be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not
> follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a
> review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic
> annotations for the abstract of their submission - details of this
> process will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of
> acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for
> the conference. More information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in
> Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the Springer LNCS Web site
> (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors).
> 
> Submission will be through the Easychair system:
> https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=eswc2012
>