Archive for February, 2010

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010 – http://amcis2010.org/)
Lima, Peru, August 12 – 15, 2010

TRACK: Agent-Based Information Systems (SIGABIS)
Chair: Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University

Complete Papers Due: March 1, 2010

This Track is sponsored by AIS Special Interest Group on Agent-Based Information Systems (SIGABIS). Best papers from this Track will be fast tracked for publication in a special issue of International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT).

The purpose of this track is to provide a forum for academics and practitioners to identify and explore the issues, opportunities, and solutions related to semantic technologies and intelligent systems design, implementation, integration and deployment. An increasing number of artificial intelligence-based systems are being developed in different application domains employing a variety of tools and technologies. This track is intended to increase cross-fertilization of ideas from these domains, and share the lessons learned.

Mini-Tracks
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* Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining (Chair: Riyaz T. Sikora)
* Intelligent Agent & Multi-Agent Systems and Semantic Web Applications
(Co-chairs: Vijayan Sugumaran, Stefan Kirn)

A brief description of each of the mini-tracks is given below.

Mini-Track: Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining =====================================
Riyaz T. Sikora (co-chair SIGABIS)
University of Texas at Arlington

One of the side effects of the increase in connectivity and collaboration has been the phenomenal increase in the magnitude and volatility of the available data. Intelligent methods are now emerging as a way to deal with this staggering variety and volume of data in distributed and heterogeneous environments. This has become especially relevant since most large-scale information systems applications of today assume that components will be added dynamically and that they will be autonomous (serve different users or providers and fulfill different goals) and heterogeneous (be built in different ways).

The mini-track on AI and DM provides a forum to bring together like-minded researchers, teachers, and practitioners to advance this important field. The AI/DM mini-track will seek research and applications highlighting the frontiers of new knowledge and advances in AI and DM. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Foundations of AI and DM
* Machine Learning and Statistical Learning Algorithms
* Data Mining
* Pattern Recognition
* Intelligent Agents
* Heuristic Search
* Intelligent Information Retrieval
* Support Vector Machines
* Web/Text mining
* Intelligent Search Techniques
* Reinforcement Learning

Mini-Track: Intelligent Agent & Multi-Agent Systems and Semantic Web Applications ===============================================================
Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University
Stefan Kirn, Universität Hohenheim

Intelligent agent and semantic technologies have been one of the most important and rapidly advancing areas in Information Technology. There is a tremendous explosion in the development of multi-agent systems and semantic web applications in a variety of fields such as electronic commerce, supply chain management, intelligent manufacturing, mass customization, information retrieval and filtering, decision support, simulation, and healthcare. While research on various aspects of intelligent agent and semantic technologies is progressing at a very fast pace, this is only the beginning. There are still a number of issues that have to be explored in terms of the design, implementation and deployment of multi-agent systems and semantic technologies. For example, salient characteristics of agents in different domains, formal approaches for agent-oriented modeling, ontology based information system, ontology engineering, semantic web for e-learning, and organizational impact of agent-based systems & semantic technologies are some of the areas in need of further research. The purpose of this mini-track is to provide a forum for academics and practitioners to identify and explore the issues, opportunities, and solutions related to intelligent agent and semantic technology design, implementation, integration and deployment.

Possible Topics (but not limited to):
* Intelligent Applications in Business
* Distributed Intelligent Systems
* Agent architectures and behavior models
* Models and architectures for agent-oriented information systems
* Agent-oriented software engineering
* Multi-agent systems and applications in various domains
* Agent collaboration and coordination
* Human and agent interaction models
* Agent-based e-commerce applications
* Semantic interoperability
* Semantic web for e-business and e-learning
* Service discovery, description, and composition
* Semantic Web mining
* Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation
* Ontology mapping, Integration, and/or alignment
* Software agents for Semantic Web
* Innovative Semantic Web/Ontology applications
* Semantic technologies and tools

Best papers from both the mini-tracks will be fast tracked for publication in a special issue of International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT).

Announcement of a new journal

Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability

Publisher: IOS Press
ISSN: 1570-0844

http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/

Scope

The journal Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability brings together researchers from various fields which share the vision and need for more effective and meaningful ways to share information across agents and services on the future internet and elsewhere. As such, Semantic Web technologies shall support the seamless integration of data, on-the-fly composition and interoperation of Web services, as well as more intuitive search engines. The semantics – or meaning – of information, however, cannot be defined without a context, which makes personalization, trust, and provenance core topics for Semantic Web research. New retrieval paradigms, user interfaces, and visualization techniques have to unleash the power of the Semantic Web and at the same time hide its complexity from the user. Based on this vision, the journal welcome contributions ranging from theoretical and foundational research over methods and tools to descriptions of concrete ontologies and applications in all areas. We especially welcome papers which add a social, spatial, and temporal dimension to Semantic Web research, as well as application-oriented papers making use of formal semantics.
The journal is peer-reviewed and will be published quarterly.
IOS Press is a leading international publisher of scientific books and journals in many fields including computer & communications sciences and especially also the Semantic Web.

Submissions

The journal invites submissions on all topics related to the Semantic Web. Submissions can fall in one of the following categories.

* Full papers – containing original research results. Results previously published at conferences may be submitted as extended versions.

* Survey articles – full-length papers surveying the state of the art on core Semantic Web topics.

* Descriptions of ontologies – short papers describing ontology modeling and creation efforts.

* Application reports – short papers describing deployed applications of Semantic Web technologies.

* Reports on tools and systems – short papers describing mature Semantic Web related tools and systems.

Review process

The journal uses an open and transparent review process. Submitted manuscripts are posted on the journal homepage and are publicly available. In addition to solicited reviews, public reviews can be made by any researcher. Reviews and review responses are posted on the journal homepage. All reviewers will be acknowledged in the final printed version. While we encourage reviewers to participate in the open and transparent review process, it is also be possible to submit anonymous reviews.

Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief:

Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
Krzysztof Janowicz, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA

Board of Editors:

Claudia d’Amato, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada
Philipp Cimiano, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University, UK
Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Canada
Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Manfred Hauswirth, University of Galway, Ireland
Tom Heath, Talis, UK
Rinke Hoekstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Andreas Hotho, Universität Würzburg, Germany
Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK
Martin Raubal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK
Christoph Schlieder, University of Bamberg, Germany
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University Beijing, China
Kunal Verma, Accenture, USA

Contact

Journal website: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/

Contact the Editors-in-Chief:
Pascal Hitzler: pascal.hitzler@wright.edu
Krzysztof Janowicz: jano@psu.edu

Call for Papers

I-Semantics 2010: 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems

Graz, Austria, 1 – 3 September 2010

http://www.i-semantics.at

including

Call for Papers

5th AIS SigPrag International Conference on Pragmatic Web

(ICPW 2010)

&

Call for Submission

3rd Triplification Challenge

Scope

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I-SEMANTICS 2010 (www.i-semantics.at) is the 6th conference in the I-SEMANTICS series and provides a forum for academic and industrial research & development that focuses on semantic technologies and the Semantic Web. I-SEMANTICS 2010 will bring together both researchers and practitioners in the areas of Linked Data, Social Software and the Semantic Web in order to present and develop innovative ideas that help realising the “Social Semantic Web” and the “Corporate Semantic Web”.

I-SEMANTICS 2010 will be the host of this year`s regional Pragmatic Web Conference as well as the third edition of the TRIPLIFICATION Challenge. Further on I-SEMANTICS will be complemented by I-KNOW (www.i-know.at), the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management. This setup is aiming to reflect the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management and semantic systems.