Workshop Description
Recent advances in computing and communications together with the rapid proliferation of information sources and services present unprecedented opportunities in integrative and collaborative analysis and interpretation of distributed, autonomous (and hence, inevitably semantically heterogeneous) data and knowledge sources and services in virtually every area of human activity.
Fundamental advances in collaborative approaches to knowledge acquisition and data-driven decision making from distributed, autonomous, semantically heterogeneous data and knowledge sources require synergistic synthesis of research advances, insights, algorithms, and results in multiple areas of:
The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the relevant areas of artificial intelligence, databases, knowledge bases, machine learning, information integration, ontologies, semantic web, web services, and relevant application areas (e.g., bioinformatics, environmental informatics, enterprise informatics e-science, e-government, medical informatics, security informatics, social informatics, among others) to discuss the current state of the art and open research problems in semantic web for collaborative knowledge acquisition. A secondary goal of the workshop is to facilitate collaborations between different research groups.
We invite papers that report on completed or work in progress on relevant topic areas. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. The contributions should be submitted in the form of PDF documents using the templates provided for WORD and LaTeX.
Submissions should be limited to a maximum of 6 pages for short papers, and 10 pages for long papers. PDF versions of the papers should be submitted through the SWeCKa 2007 paper submission web site no later than September 30, 2006.
Extended versions of selected papers may be published in a special
issue of a journal or an edited book.
Dr. Vasant Honavar
(Workshop Chair)
Dr. Tim Finin, (Workshop Co-Chair)
Dr. Doina Caragea
Dr. Dunja Mladenic
Dr.
York Sure
Naoki Abe, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
USA Budak Arpinar, University of Georgia, USA Doina Caragea, Iowa State University, USA Kevin C. Chang, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA Harry Chen, Image Matters, USA Claudia Diamantini, Universita Politecnica delle Marche,
Italy Li Ding, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
USA Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
USA Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland,
College Park, USA Peter Haase, UniversitäKarlsruhe,
Germany Jeff Heflin,
Lehigh University, USA Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University,
USA Alexander Lö, IBM, Almaden,
USA Lalana Kagal, MIT, USA Sally Mclean, University of Ulster,
Ireland Prem Melville, University of Texas at Austin,
USA Prasenjit Mitra, Pennsylvania State University,
USA Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute,
Slovenia Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA Jay Modi, Drexel University, USA Marina Mongiello, Politecnico di Bari,
Italy Enrico Motta, Open University, United
Kingdom Srujana Merugu, University of Texas at Austin,
USA Ion Muslea, Language Weaver, Inc., USA Tim Oates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
USA Rajesh Parekh, Yahoo!, USA Alexander Popescul, Yahoo!, USA Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin at
Madison, USA Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Steffen Staab, Universitä
Koblenz-Landau, Germany Susie Stephens, Oracle,
USA
Workshop Topics
Workshop Format
Paper Submissions
Important Dates
Accepted Papers
Workshop Schedule (Preliminary)
Organizers
Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.
Department of Computer and Information Sciences,
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.
Department of Knowledge Technologies, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Institut AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany.
Program Committee