CISWSN 2008

=2nd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks (CISWSN 2008)=
 * http://www.iit.pwr.wroc.pl/~krzysiek/CISWSN.htm
 * co-located with IEEE/WIC/ACM Joint International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology 2008, Sydney, Australia, 9-12 December 2008

Semantic web environment has been evolving. Its emerging environment is characterised by intensive collaboration, cooperation and knowledge processing activities with formation of complex social and economical networks in the background. Various knowledge processing techniques are being used to address data portability and Web information discovery problems. Collective intelligence is a key issue to collaboratively share knowledge and even generate new knowledge. Many Web 2.0 platforms (e.g., blogs and wikis) have been developed to exchange meaningful information and support user-centered tasks on a variety of domains (e.g., e-learning, e-commerce, and e-government). Local knowledge is annotated into a large repositories of content including not only simple documents but also multimedia data. For example, collaborative tagging (e.g., del.icio.us) can play an important role in knowledge (or information) sharing between people on social networks. Modelling the dynamics and evolution of such complex systems, involving knowledge processing with intelligent information agents acting on behalf of thousands of users, is a new and promising research area with many practical applications.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas of knowledge and intelligence, semantics, agents and grid computing to share their visions, research achievements and solutions, to resolve the challenge issues and to establish worldwide cooperative research and development. We also want to provide a platform for discussing research topics underlying the concepts of Social Semantics for Linked Data by contacting members of different communities that share the common interest on social semantic collaborative intelligence on the web for developing methods and tools: - Semantic Web researchers who use social semantic techniques for modeling collaboration and intelligence on the web. - Members of the Linked Open Data initiative who provide means for publishing and using linked open data on the web. - Members of the Intelligent Agent community who develop agents and algorithms for collaboration and intelligence on the web.

This will give an opportunity to push further the discussion upon the potential of social semantic collaborative intelligence across these communities.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

 * Ontology mapping and merging
 * Context and ontologies
 * Semantic and knowledge grids
 * Applications and case studies for Semantic Web or Semantic Grid


 * Data Portability and Linked Data
 * Open Linked Data sets (e.g. Health or Environmental domains)
 * Harvesting and integration of open linked data sets
 * Applications that publish, interlink, and query the Web of Data
 * Collective Intelligence - Collaborative tagging on Web 2.0
 * Collaborative filtering and personalization
 * Community mining techniques
 * Trend detection


 * Innovative social media applications
 * Evolution of complex Web-based social systems
 * Online Social Networks on the Web
 * Argumentation on the web

IMPORTANT DATES

 * Paper submission deadline: July 30, 2008
 * Notification of paper acceptance: September 3, 2008
 * Camera-ready of accepted papers: September 30, 2008

STEERING COMMITTEE

 * has PC member::Jason J. Jung, Yeungnam University, Korea
 * has PC member::Tudor Groza, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Hak Lae Kim, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
 * has PC member::Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
 * has PC member::Paolo Torroni, DEIS, Universita di Bologna, Italy
 * has PC member::Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::David Peterson, BoaB Interactive, Australia
 * has PC member::John Breslin, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Hong Gee Kim, Bio-Medical Knowledge Engineering Lab, Seoul National University, South Korea

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 * has PC member::Jason J. Jung, Yeungnam University, Korea
 * has PC member::Tudor Groza, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Hak Lae Kim, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Potential participants are invited to submit full papers, not exceeding 4 pages in length, using the IEEE Computer Society's 2-column conference proceedings format. The formatting instructions and author guidelines can be found at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/ieeecs/publications.

The manuscripts should be submitted electronically using the WI-IAT 2008 Cyberchair electronic submission system. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two program committee members.

PROCEEDINGS AND POST-WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI. In addition, extended versions of selected papers may be published in chosen prospective journals or in an edited book (TBA): A number of papers will be selected to be published in a special issue of Computing and Informatics journal.
 * International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
 * Journal of Universal Computer Science
 * International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking

This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP