SemWiki2010

Semantic wikis as social semantic software have the mission to gather humans and computers in order to build together the next wave of ontology driven collaboration platforms. The research has shifted from proofs of concept towards foundational research in large projects, commercially sold enterprise systems and real world use cases. Besides evaluations of such use cases, technical innovation and foundational research are still needed, as the large-scale application of semantic wikis has unveiled a number of research questions. The aim of this fifth SemWiki workshop is to exchange ideas, to discuss pressing research questions arising from practical usage of semantic wikis, and to explore integrations of wikis with other semantic web technologies.

Invited Talk Confirmed
Denny Vrandečić from the Semantic MediaWiki project has been confirmed as invited speaker. As a core developer of the project, he will give a presentation about recent progress, current projects, and future directions of the Semantic MediaWiki system, which is probably the most widely used semantic wiki.

Topics
We address researchers working on (but not limited to):

- e-science and e-learning - software and knowledge engineering - enterprise workflows - knowledge management or personal knowledge management - integrations with other semantic applications and mashups - browsing and navigating - visualizing - editing linked open data - scaling wikis to the web - giving semantics to non-semantic wikis (e.g. Wikipedia) - reusing semantics gained from wikis (e.g. DBpedia) - interlinked and distributed semantic wikis - innovative plugins/extensions for existing systems (e.g. Semantic MediaWiki) - usability studies - empirical studies - analyses of semantic wiki contributors and their contributions; - overcoming entrance barriers - giving incentives for contributing - connecting knowledge and social interaction - community building - from asynchronous interactions to real-time/multi-synchronous interactions in semantic wikis - privacy: permissions, trust, licensing, access control - combining formal and informal knowledge - multimodal reasoning/strong reasoning support - transforming informal to formal knowledge - making formal knowledge accessible - on-line knowledge evaluation - coping with inconsistencies - change management, truth maintenance, versioning, and undoing semantic changes - utilizing emerging knowledge models - rapid prototyping of schema-driven applications - collaborative ontology engineering
 * Applications of semantic wikis in the fields of:
 * Integration and reuse of semantic wikis or (semantic) wiki content:
 * Human and social factors of semantic wikis:
 * Knowledge representation and reasoning in semantic wikis:

Submissions
We invite the following different kinds of contributions:

outcomes, mature work, prototypes, applications, or methodologies; authors of accepted full papers will be able to present their work in a 15 minute talk at the workshop are not yet fully worked out; authors of short papers will be able to present their work in a 5-10 minute lightning talk at the workshop in the poster and demo session during the workshop poster and demo session during the workshop addressed topic or presenting a system. A Confluence space (on this site) will be provided on request but also own wikis can be used. Additionally, we require such submissions to be exported to PDF or HTML. Primarily, the wiki space will be reviewed, but the export serves as a backup for the reviewing in case of technical problems and is used to verify that the submission complies to the guidelines, e.g., does not exceed the page limit of the respective type of contribution. Where the exported PDF or HTML is not comparable to LNCS (see below), we estimate 400 words per page.
 * full research or application papers (15 pages) describing recent research
 * short position papers (5-10 pages) describing early work and new ideas that
 * demo outlines (5 pages) describing the demonstration of a software prototype
 * poster descriptions (2 pages) outlining a poster to be presented in the
 * *wiki submissions*: A set of wiki pages explaining/demonstrating the

All submissions except Wiki submissions should be formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. For complete details on this issue see Springer's Author Instructions: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 Papers will be submitted using the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semwiki2010

In addition to ordinary submissions, all attendees of the workshop are encouraged to informally present their work in an open space session during the workshop if they are not (yet) able to submit a description of their work or to also discuss more recent work that has been done after the submission deadline of the workshop.

Important Dates
Paper Submission: Extended to 7th March 2010

Author Notification: 5th April 2010

Camera ready: 18th April 2010

Workshop: May 31, 2010

In case of questions, feel free to contact any of the organisers: chair@semwiki.org

Committees

 * Co-Organizers
 * has OC member::Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, ch.lange@jacobs-university.de
 * has OC member::Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria, sebastian.schaffert@salzburgresearch.at
 * has OC member::Hala Skaf-Molli, INRIA-Nancy University, France, skaf@loria.fr
 * has OC member::Jochen Reutelshöfer, University of Würzburg, Germany, reutelshoefer@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de


 * Program Committee Members
 * 1) Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig (DE)
 * 2) David Aumüller, Universität Leipzig (DE)
 * 3) Joachim Baumeister, Universität Würzburg (DE)
 * 4) Tobias Bürger, STI Innsbruck (AT)
 * 5) Amélie Cordier,  LIRIS, Université de Lyon (FR)
 * 6) Björn Decker, Fraunhofer IESE (DE)
 * 7) Alicia Díaz, La Plata University (AR)
 * 8) Sebastian Dietzold, Universität Leipzig (DE)
 * 9) Fred Durão, University of Aalborg (DK)
 * 10) Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise (DE)
 * 11) Fabian Gandon, INRIA - Edelweiss (FR)
 * 12) Herman Geuvers, Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
 * 13) Tudor Groza, DERI (IE)
 * 14) Siegfried Handschuh, DERI (IE)
 * 15) Martin Hepp, UniBW München (DE)
 * 16) Guoqian Jiang, Mayo Clinic (US)
 * 17) Malte Kiesel, DFKI (DE)
 * 18) Jakub Kotowski, University of Munich (DE)
 * 19) Markus Krötzsch, AIFB Karlsruhe (DE)
 * 20) Tobias Kuhn, Universität Zürich (CH)
 * 21) Thomas Kurz, Salzburg Research (AT)
 * 22) Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz (AT)
 * 23) Pascal Molli, Nancy University, INRIA (FR)
 * 24) Christine Müller, Jacobs University Bremen (DE)
 * 25) Claudia Müller-Birn, Carnegie Mellon University (US)
 * 26) Grzegorz Nalepa, AGH University Krakow (PL)
 * 27) Amedeo Napoli, CNRS, LORIA (FR)
 * 28) Viktoria Pammer, Know-Center Graz (AT)
 * 29) Alexandre Passant, DERI (IE)
 * 30) Jean Rohmer, Thales (FR)
 * 31) Marek Schmidt, Technical University of Brno (CZ)
 * 32) Matthias Samwald, Semantic Web Company (AT)
 * 33) Daniel Schwabe, University of Rio de Janeiro (BR)
 * 34) Elena Simperl, STI Innsbruck (AT)
 * 35) Rolf Sint, Salzburg Research (AT)
 * 36) Katharina Siorpaes, STI Innsbruck (AT)
 * 37) Harold Solbrig, Mayo Clinic (US)
 * 38) Stephanie Stroka, Salzburg Research (AT)
 * 39) Max Völkel, FZI Karlsruhe (DE)
 * 40) Friedel Völker, European Regiowiki Society
 * 41) Klara Weiand, University of Munich (DE)