Of possible interest... Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: [log in to unmask] > 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 > > Apologies for cross-posting > --------------------------- > > 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 >