SWAP 2008

5th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2008) FAO-UN, Roma, Italy 15-17 December 2008 http://swapconf.it/2008/

SWAP 2008 aims at giving an overview of work performed by the Semantic Web community, and aims to attract researchers, developers and interested practitioners alike.

The setting for the workshop is highly interactive, and presentations are expected to focus on practical aspects and open problems. The workshop will cover either theoretical or implementation issues that anyway relate to Semantic Web applications.

The following is a partial list of topics of interests:

Semantic Web data
 * 1) Applications of Semantic Web technologies
 * 2) Data Semantics and Linked Data
 * 3) Semantic Social Networks
 * 4) Semantic Portals
 * 5) Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and e-learning
 * 6) Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing
 * 1) Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
 * 2) Ontology Design, Extraction, and Evolution
 * 3) Ontology Mapping, Merging, and Alignment
 * 4) Semantic Web technology for collaboration and cooperation
 * 5) Semantic Multimedia
 * 6) Semantics in P2P systems and grids
 * 7) Searching, Querying, Visualizing and Interpreting the Semantic Web
 * 8) Evaluation of Semantic Web techniques
 * 9) Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Data
 * 10) Large Scale Knowledge Management
 * 11) Semantic Brokering
 * 12) Semantic Coordination, Integration, Matching and Interoperability
 * 13) Semantic Web Mining
 * 14) Semantic Information Retrieval
 * 15) Visualization and Modeling
 * 16) Semantic Web Personalization
 * 17) Semantic Web middleware
 * 18) Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web
 * 19) Semantic Web services
 * 20) Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Agents
 * 21) Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
 * 22) Systems of annotation extraction
 * 23) Social aspects of distributed cooperative annotation
 * 24) Presentation and discussions of application scenarios
 * 25) Analysis of social online communities
 * 26) Web 2.0 personalization
 * 27) Web 2.0 technologies for recommender systems
 * 28) Web 2.0-based ontology learning
 * 29) Assistive technologies and the Semantic Web

Important Dates: October 17th - Paper Submission November 14th - Notifications November 21st - Camera Ready December 15th - Tutorial Day December 16-17 - SWAP 2008

Please, find the detailed call for papers and submission requirements at http://swapconf.it/2008/callforpapers.php. Jointly organized by:

delle Ricerche), Roma - http://www.istc.cnr.it
 * Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (Consiglio Nazionale
 * Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Roma - http://www.fao.org

In collaboration with:

General Chairs Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR) Johannes Keizer (FAO-UN)
 * W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Office in Italy,
 * Semedia Group (DEIT, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche),
 * University of Trento.

Program Chairs Valentina Presutti (ISTC-CNR) Heiko Stoermer (Universit? di Trento) This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP