“Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Technologies for the Knowledge Society”

10 Special Issue - 4 in ISI SCI Journals

2 Main Tracks

Deadline: 30th June

Proceedings: Springer LNCS -
Note: If you are interested in publishing your article in the special issues please contact Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras at miltiadis dot lytras at gmail.com

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WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEB SCIENCE - A SPECIAL EVENT AND EB FORMATION AT MINICONFERENCE

International Journal of Web science

(Print) ISSN 1757-8795

(Online) ISSN 1757-8809,

COEDITORS IN CHIEF ERNESTO DAMIANI, MILTIADIS LYTRAS

Mini-conference

“Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Technologies for the Knowledge Society”

Athens 1st World Summit on The Knowledge Society
Athens, September 24-28, 2008
http://knowledge-summit.org/

TWO THEMES:

The Human Semantic Web: Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge and Identity, Systems for the Knowledge Society”

Web 2.0 for the Knowledge Society: Social Netowrking, Collaboration, Management of Knowledge in Social Networks

EDITORS/CHAIRS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy, E-mail: damiani at dti dot .unimi dot it
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece, Email: Lytras at ceid dot upatras dot gr
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, E-mail:amb at nada dot kth dot se
Gottfried Vossen , University of Muenster, Germany, Email: vossen at helios dot uni minus muenster dot de

Program Committee Members [PC is open to SW experts- if you wish to join drop a mail at Lytras at ceid dot upatras dot gr]

William Grosky, Professor and Chair. Department of Computer and Information Science University of Michigan, USA

Hend S. Al-Khalifa, Assistant Professor, Information Technology Department, CCIS, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

John Davies, PhD, Next Generation Web Research IT Futures Research Centre, UK

Christopher Brewster, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UNITED KINGDOM

Miguel Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain

Prof.. José Enrique Armendáriz-Iñigo, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain

Prof. Rajkumar Kannan, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

Prof. Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, University of Oviedo, Spain

Prof. Claudio Sartori, Universita' di Bologna, Italy

Prof. Luis Álvarez Sabucedo, University of Vigo, Spain

Dr. Karim Mohammed Rezaul, Centre for Applied Internet Research, University of Wales, UK

Prof. Luis Álvarez Sabucedo, University of Vigo, Spain

Prof. Raquel Trillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Maria Vargas-Vera, Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Human Semantic Web: Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge and Identity, Systems for the Knowledge Society”
Workshop for a Special Issue on an IEEE Transactions Special Issue

 The mini-conference “Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Collaboration Technologies for the Knowledge Society” will promote a knowledge transfer channel where academics, practitioners, and researchers can discuss, analyze, criticize, synthesize, communicate, elaborate, and simplify the more-than-promising technology of the semantic Web in the context of information systems. This mini-conference aims to establish value-adding knowledge transfer and personal development channels in three distinctive areas: academia, industry, and government.

Within the Conference there are two pillars:

The Semantic Web vision has evolved in the last years as a blueprint for a knowledge-based framework aimed at crossing the chasm from the current Web of unstructured information resources to a Web equipped with metadata and oriented to delegation of tasks to software agents. Ontologies are the key piece of this framework in that they provide shared semantics to metadata, thus enabling a degree of semantic interoperability. The requirements of large-scale deployment and interoperability of the Semantic Web vision represent a major challenge to data and knowledge engineering, which raises a number of issues and requirements regarding how to represent, create, manage and use both ontologies as shared knowledge representations, but also large volumes of metadata records used to annotate Web resources of a diverse kind. The special issue aims at helping in communicating and disseminating relevant recent research in knowledge and data engineering as applied to the context of Information Systems. The scope of the call includes Knowledge Engineering for organizational applications, Semantic Web approaches to Information Systems and Ontology-Based Information Systems research, as well as the diverse underlying Database and Knowledge Representation aspects. Papers dealing with aspects that touch both aspects are especially sought. This is intended to initiate a dialog between the organizational and more technical views of the field.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Applications of the Human Semantic Web to the Knowledge Society:
• Potentially large-scale applications (e.g. to Personal Knowledge Management, Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
• Data Semantics and Web Semantics in peer-to-peer systems, grids, multimedia
• Communication, dialogue and argumentation models
• Mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution

2. Representing and Managing Semantic Web Data and Services:
• Languages, Tools, Methodologies, Rules
• Database, IR and AI technologies
• Integration, Analysis and Visualization
• Robust and scalable logics, knowledge management and reasoning
• Machine learning and information extraction
• Semantic Interoperability, Workflows, Web Mining
• Semantic Web Services and Processes (description, discovery, invocation, composition, choreography, cleaning, assurance, trust, provenance, etc.)
• Middleware and services for Personalization and User Modelling
• Semantic matching of user needs and web resources

3. Ontologies:
• Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)
• Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g. HLT and ML approaches)
• Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.)
• Ontology Modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution
• Searching and Ranking ontologies

4. Social Semantic Web:
• Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
• Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
• Representing and reasoning about Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
• Tools and processes for sense-making, analysis and decision-making
• Supporting strategic communication

5. User Interfaces:
• Interacting with Semantic Web Data
• Semantic Web content creation and annotation
• Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes

CALL FOR PAPERS

Web 2.0 for the Knowledge Society: Social Netowrking, Collaboration, Management of Knowledge in Social Networks

EDITORS/CHAIRS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy, E-mail: damiani@dti.unimi.it
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece, Email: Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, E-mail:amb@nada.kth.se
Gottfried Vossen , University of Muenster, Germany, Email: vossen@helios.uni-muenster.de

The key objective of the miniconference is to advancing the knowledge on design variables and conditions for social networks. Knowledge Management and Semantic Web are used as the technological lenses for the specification and analysis of these variables towards a new era of social interactions and human experiences with computers.

As semantic technologies prove their value with targeted applications, there are increasing opportunities to consider their application insocial contexts for learning and human development. Knowledge management has been accepted as a critical enabler aiming to increase knowledge-related performance by better use of intellectual assets, in addition to which many governments are forced to increasingly deal with knowledge services that form larger parts of the global economy and society. Thus there are recent examples of applications of semantics for empowering knowledge management or better supporting knowledge services for social networks. The special issue aims at communicating and disseminating recent research and success stories that bring the power of semantics to improve upon traditional knowledge management approaches, or realize emerging requirements of knowledge services for social networks.

In the context of knowledge management, social and human issues are of equal if not higher importance than the technical issues that have tended to receive the bulk of attention in the past. Consequently, papers that touch these aspects, or those that extend technical and domain knowledge to social and human issues are especially sought. This is intended to initiate a dialog between the social, psychological and technical views of the field.

References:
[1]. Lytras M. (2005), Semantic Web and Information Systems: An Agenda Based on Discourse with Community Leaders, in International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Inaugural Issue, 1(1), pp: i-xii
[2]. Sheth, A. Ramakrishnan C., Thomas C., (2005). Semantics for the Semantic Web: The Implicit, the Formal and the
Powerful, in International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Inaugural Issue, 1(1), 1-18.
[3] Downes S. (2005). Semantic networks and social networks, in The Learning Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 411-417
[3] Finin T., Ding L. and Zou L. (2005), Social networking on the semantic web, in The Learning Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 418-435
[4] Lytras M., Sicilia M.A., Kinshuk, Sampson D. (2005), Special Issue on semantic and social aspects of learning in organizations, , in The Learning Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5,
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&containerId=22676

Topics:
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Design variables and conditions for social networks
* New forms of interaction in social systems
* Blogging as a social activity and approaches to semantic blogs
* Collaborative filtering in social settings
* Analysing social interaction for finding knowledge on Web users
* Semantic Desktops
* Social Network Analysis enabled by the Semantic Web
* Learning and Knowledge Communities
* Analysis of Large Online Communities Web Communities of Practice
* Network Analysis for Building Social Networks
* Implicit, Formal, and Powerful Semantics in Communities
* Semantic Social Networks Metadata and Annotation Techniques
* Metadata schema describing individuals and social ties
* Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based categorization systems
* Wikis, semantic Wikis and other collaborative knowledge creation systems
* Online Social Networking
* Applications of Online Semantic Networks
* Knowledge Management with Semantic Networks
* Emerging Human Experiences in Social Networks
* Analysis of Human Behaviour in Semantic Social Networks

Please feel free to contact Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr if you have any questions.

International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems (included in SCI, Thompson Scientific) and Information Sciences (included in SCI) + One more IEEE Transactions Issue.

 Deadline for Paper Submission

Deadline for full paper submission is June 30, 2008.

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More information about the Summit

Website:  http://knowledge-summit.org/
Sponsor of the Summit: The Open Research Society (ORS) www.open-knowledge-society.org/