[topicmapmail] Final CFP Due Mar. 15: WWW2002 Workshop on Real World RDF and Semantic Web Applications

[Vipul Kashyap]

First WWW 2002 Workshop on Real World RDF and Semantic
Web Applications

In Conjunction with WWW 2002
7 May 2002
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

http://paul.rutgers.edu/~kashyap/workshop.html

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Special Book on Workshop Proceedings in the series
"Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and
Applications"
by IOS Press
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SCOPE

The Semantic Web is a key initiative being promoted by
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as the next
generation of the current web. The objective of this
workshop is to discuss commercial applications that
make immediate advances and to gain insight into the
evolution of semantic web technology. Early commercial

applications that make use of machine-understandable
metadata range from information retrieval to
Web-enabling of old-tech IBM 3270 sessions. Current
developments include metadata-based Enterprise
Application Integration (EAI) systems, data modeling 
solutions, and wireless applications.

Machine-understandable metadata is emerging as a new
foundation for component-based approaches to
application development. Within the context of
reusable distributed components, Web services
represent the latest architectural advancement. RDF
Servers enable these two concepts to be synthesized
providing powerful new mechanisms for quickly
modeling, creating and deploying complex applications
that readily adapt to real world needs. At the same 
time, we welcome submissions that describe
applications which are trying to achieve the above
goal through the use of other specifications such as
WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, ebXML, XML, possibly in conjunction
with transformation languages such as XSLT, RuleML,
etc.

We invite submissions that discuss real applications
(piloted, deployed, robust prototypes) attacking real
world problems in the Semantic Web arena today instead
of the future. This potentially means very pragmatic
decisions (e.g., executable agents that run in the
context of graph-based application models) caused by
the limitations of today's technology (e.g., are there
robust/scalable RDF parsers, stores, and inference
engines?). Submissions that also address issues
related to the business aspects, e.g., is there a 
market ?, is there a sustainable value proposition ?,
what is the business model, etc., will receive special
consideration. 

TOPICS

- Applications (prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on
the RDF Model and Semantics 
- Semantic Web applications (prototypes, pilots,
deployed) based on XML and various variants 
- Web Services based applications (prototypes, pilots,
deployed) based on WSDL, SOAP, UDDI, ebXML and other
related standards 
- Enterprise Application and Data Integration, and the
Semantic Web 
- E-Commerce and the Semantic Web 
- Implementations of Semantic Web applications on
component models such as J2EE and .NET 
- Model driven approaches for Semantic Web
Applications 
- Architectures for Semantic Web Applications
(distributed objects, agents) 
- Scalability, Extensibility and Robustness of
Semantic Web Applications 
- Information accuracy of Semantic Web Applications
(e.g., precision, recall, classification accuracy) 
- Tools for creating Semantic Web components
(ontologies, mappings, etc.) 
- Tools for creating Web Services 
- Return on Investment for Semantic Web Applications 
- Sustainable Business Models for Semantic Web
Applications 
- Integrated Application Development environments for
the Semantic Web

...and other aspects of realizing the vision of the
Semantic Web!

IMPORTANT DATES

15 March 	Submission Deadline
5 April		Notification of Acceptance
15 April	Final Camera Ready Version
May 7		Workshop

SUBMISSION

Please submit your paper by e-mail to
vipul_kashyap@yahoo.com AND shklar@cs.rutgers.edu. If
you are unable to do so for any reason, please 
let us know at the above e-mail address.

PUBLICATION

A Special Book will be published with Workshop
Proceedings after the Conference. This will be a part
of the series "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
and Applications" by IOS Press

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Co-Chair: Vipul Kashyap, 	Research Scientist, USA
Co-Chair: Leon Shklar, 		Information Architects, USA
Rafael Alonso,			Sarnoff Corporation, USA
Yogi Arumainayagam, 		Thomson Legal and Regulatory,
USA
Abraham Bernstein,		Stern School of Business, NYU, USA
Cliff Behrens, 			Telcordia Technologies, USA 
Klemens Boehm, 			ETH, Zurich, Switzerland 
Munir Cochinwala, 		Telcordia Technologies, USA
Mike Dean,			BBN Technologies, USA
Stefan Decker, 			Stanford University, USA 
Umesh Dayal, 			HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA 
Johannes Ernst, 		R-Objects, USA
Ora Lassila                  	Nokia Research, USA
Alexa McCray			National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA
Brian McBride                  	HP Labs, Bristol, UK 
Amit Sheth                  	Voquette, and LSDIS Lab,
UGA, USA 
Surya Sripada                 	Boeing, USA 


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