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[Knud Steiner]

C a l l   f o r   P a p e r s

International Workshop on Web Semantics
WEBS 2002

in conjunction with
DEXA 2002
13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
http://www.dexa.org

Aix-en-Provence, France
September 2 - 6, 2002

=B7    To qualify the content of information objects in order to enable
navigational tools such as indexes, cross-references, citation systems, or
glossaries.
=B7    To link pieces of information together for the purpose of enabling
navigation between them, e.g. for creating thesaurus-like hypertext=
 interfaces
for corporate information and knowledge bases.
=B7    To filter views of information adapted for specific users and/or=20
purposes,
e.g. to define partial views depending on user profiles and/or knowledge
domains.
=B7    To structure unstructured information objects or to combine=
 unstructured
information bases with structured ones in a way that an arbitrary structure=
 is
imposed without altering its original form.

The workshop WEBS aims at being an international forum for the presentation=
 of
both theoretical and applicative results. Papers describing application
experiences are particularly encouraged. Papers presented will deal with,=
 but
not limited to, the following areas:

=B7    Knowledge Management
=B7    Semantic Web
=B7    Ontologies
=B7    Knowledge Sharing
=B7    Global Knowledge Interchange
=B7    Use of Semantic Languages and XML/RDF Infrastructures
=B7    Metadata and Ontologies
=B7    Visual modelling of semantic webs
=B7    Semantic Web for e-learning and e-science
=B7    Semantic Web for e-business and Large-scale Knowledge Management
=B7    Etc.

Chair:
A M. Tjoa (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)

Co- Chairs:
N. Revell (Middlesex University, UK)
V. Marik (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)

Organising Chair:
R.R. Wagner (FAW, Austria)

Programme Committee:
Abramowicz W., Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Adiba M., Laboratoire IMAG-LSR, France
Bauknecht K., University of Zurich, Switzerland
Debenham J., University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Euzenat J., Inria, France
Fankhauser P., Fraunhofer-IPSI, Germany
Fensel D., Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hameurlain A., Universit=E9 Paul Sabatier, France
Harmelen F., Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hori M., IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
Kappel G., Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Karagiannis D., University of Vienna, Germany
K=FCng J., University of Linz, Austria
Lacher M., Stanford University, USA
Lassilo O., Nokia Research Lab., USA
Leonhard M., University of Geneve, Switzerland
Marik V., Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Meersman R.A., Free University Brussel, Belgium
Metais E., CEDRIC/CNAM of Paris, France
Ossenbruggen J. van, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pernul G., University of Essen, Germany
Plexousakis D., University of Crete, Greece
Ramos I., Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Reich S., Salzburg Research, Austria
Revell N., Middlesex University, UK
Srinivasan B., Monash University, Australia
Staab S., University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Steiner K., FAW, Austria
Sugimoto Shigeo, University of Library and Information Science, Japan
Takizawa M., Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Teufel S., University of Fribourg, Germany
Tjoa A Min, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Wagner R.R., FAW, Austria
Wing M., Middlesex University, UK
Winiwarter W., EC3, Austria
W=F6=DF W., FAW, Austria
Zarri G.P., CNRS, France
Zaslavsky A., Monash University, Australia


Important Dates:
Paper submission:  28  February 2002
Notification:      15  April 2002
Camera ready:      15  May 2002

Please send papers in electronic form (pdf-format) to:
rwagner@faw.uni.linz.ac.at

Papers should be not longer than 10 pages. Accepted papers will be=20
published by
IEEE Computer Society Press.