Connectionists: CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Nature inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web (NatuResS09)

[Pascal Hitzler]

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                               CALL FOR PAPERS
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The second International Workshop on

               Nature inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web
                              (NatuResS09)
                      http://natures.few.vu.nl/2009


October 26, 2009
@ 8th international Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Washington, DC



BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
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The Semantic Web (SW) carries out the vision of a Web of data usable for
both human and machines. This web, consisting of inter-connected 
instance data annotated with possibly expressive ontologies, promises a 
huge opportunity for Web-based applications in many domains. In this web 
the vision of distributed reasoning has replaced the myth of a commonly 
agreed upon ontology every data provider would rely on.

However, existing reasoning techniques often fail to this live up to 
this distributed vision of knowledge on the web. Reasoner may not be 
able to cope with the high number of instances and/or the expressiveness 
of the ontologies describing them (scalability problem) or fail to deal 
with a sometimes unreliable network, lack of maintenance of information 
or the variety in quality (robustness problem).

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the
Semantic Web community with more Nature inspired communities, such as 
the people interested in Computational Intelligence (CI), Neural 
Networks and to discuss on current trends in Semantic Web. The workshop 
will feature invited talks from experts in the corresponding areas as 
well as contributed talks presenting submitted papers.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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We encourage the submission of papers investigating the use of nature
inspired techniques to address knowledge representation and reasoning 
problems. Those problems includes (but are not restricted to) the 
following topics :
  * Data storage and retrieval: how to efficiently create and manage a
repository  of potentially billions of (RDF) triples.
  * Data integration: how to find correspondences among the different
ontologies (alignments).
  * Complex reasoning: how to find implicit information efficiently in
large, expressive, or distributed ontologies.
The suggested keywords are
  * Neural Networks
  * Evolutionary computing (EA and others)
  * Swarm intelligence (Ants, PSO, flocking birds)
  * Potential field methods
  * Simulated annealing
  * Artificial immune systems
  * Epidemic protocols (Gossiping)
  * Ontology alignment
  * Reasoning
  * Distributed Knowledge Management System
  * Peer data management system (PDMS)
  * Complex systems
  * Data integration
  * Semantic Web
  * RDF


SUBMISSIONS
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Submitted paper should not exceed 16 pages and must be written in 
English. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer 
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Full 
instructions are available at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0
All papers should be submitted in electronic format (pdf version) using 
the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=natures09


IMPORTANT DATES
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  * Submission deadline: August 10
  * Acceptance notification: August 30
  * Camera ready papers: October 2
  * Workshop: October 26


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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  * Christophe Guéret, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  * Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
  * Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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  * Özalp Babaoglu, University Bologna, Italy
  * Jürgen Branke, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany
  * Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Oxford, UK
  * Artur Garcez, City University London, UK
  * Barbara Hammer, Clausthal, Germany
  * Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  * Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, University of Osnabrück, Germany
  * Nicolas Monmarché, Polytech'Tours, France
  * Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland
  * Sebastian Rudolph, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany
  * Christoph Schmitz, 1&1 Internet AG Karlsruhe, Germany
  * Lael Schooler, MPI Berlin, Germany
  * Martijn Schut, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  * Peter Tino, University of Birmingham, UK
  * Spyros Voulgaris, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands


SPONSORS
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The second international workshop on Nature inspired Reasoning for the
Semantic Web (NatuReS09) is sponsored by the EU funded Large Knowledge 
Collider LarKC. More information available on the LarKC website : 
http://www.larkc.eu/


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PD Dr. Pascal Hitzler
pascal at pascal-hitzler.de   http://www.pascal-hitzler.de
Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org