WebS 2009

The objective of the workshop Web Semantics (WebS) is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss research issues and experience in developing and deploying Semantic Web concepts, applications, and solutions being an international forum for the presentation of both theoretical and applicative results. Papers describing Semantic Web application experiences are particularly encouraged.

TOPICS:
The relevant topics include the following (but are not limited to):


 * Knowledge management and sharing
 * Modeling of Semantic Web
 * Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution
 * Semantic and context awareness
 * Interoperability and data integration through semantic technology
 * Search, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web
 * Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
 * Semantic Web data querying and reasoning
 * Document analysis and semantic extraction
 * Semantic Web supporting business processes
 * Semantic Web for e-sciences
 * Semantic Web for e-business
 * Semantic Web mining
 * Semantic Web inferences schemes
 * Semantic Web applications
 * Database technologies for the Semantic Web
 * Intelligent user interfaces
 * Dynamic ontology generation and adaptation
 * Languages, tools and methodologies for semantic annotations of web data
 * Applications on mobile devices
 * Enhanced accessibility and multimodal interfaces
 * Reasoning


 * Special track: Ontologies in Biomedicine
 * Ontologies for genetics, proteomics, diseases, privacy etc.
 * Conceptual models for biological and medical data
 * Semantics in Biological Data Modeling
 * Use of semantics to manage Interoperation in Biomedical Databases
 * Semantic Web technologies and formalisms for Biomedical Data
 * Ontology representation and exchange languages for Bioinformatics
 * Support of Ontologies for Biological Information Retrieval and Web Services
 * Change Management in Biomedical Ontologies
 * Tools for Development and Management of Biomedical Ontologies

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and application papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 5 two-column pages (IEEE Proceeding style) including figures and references. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. Authors of accepted papers are requested to sign the IEEE copyright form. The author guidelines can be found at IEEE Conference Publishing Services - Proceedings Author Forms. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF, postscript, or word format) is required and will be handled via the workshop Web site https://www.dexa.org/dexadriver/. For any questions please contact webs@faw.uni-linz.ac.at.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Papers accepted for presentation will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2009 workshops. Authors are requested to send their paper(s) to be received by March 06, 2009.

EVALUATION PROCESS:
All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and technical soundness. Each paper will be refereed by at least three researchers in the topical area.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: March 06, 2009 Notification of acceptance: May 08, 2009 Camera-ready copies due: May 27, 2009 Webs 2009 Workshop: 31 August - 04 September, 2009

WEBS CHAIR:
Wolfram Wöß (FAW, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria)

PROGRAMM COMMITTEE:

 * has PC member::Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
 * has PC member::José Francisco Aldana Montes, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
 * has PC member::Kerstin Altmanninger, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
 * has PC member::Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
 * has PC member::Elena Baralis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
 * has PC member::Jorge Bernardino, ISEC, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
 * has PC member::Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 * has PC member::Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Janez Brank, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 * has PC member::Paul Buhler, College of Charleston, USA
 * has PC member::Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy
 * has PC member::Barbara Catania, DISI, University of Geneve, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Sunil Choenni, University of Twente, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Brian Davis, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Valeria De Antonellis, Dipartimento di Elettronica per l'Automazione, Brescia, Italy
 * has PC member::Cláudio De Souza Baptista, DSC, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
 * has PC member::John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
 * has PC member::Steven A. Demurjian, University of Connecticut, USA
 * has PC member::Ian J Dickinson, HP Labs, Bristol, UK
 * has PC member::Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA
 * has PC member::Nickolas J. G. Falkner, School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia
 * has PC member::Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Université Paris VI, France
 * has PC member::Fabien Gandon, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France
 * has PC member::Stephan Grimm, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Abdelkader Hameurlain, Université Paul Sabatier, France
 * has PC member::Carmem Satie Hara, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil
 * has PC member::Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna, Austria
 * has PC member::Eva Maria Hauth, voestalpine IT GmbH, Linz, Austria
 * has PC member::Stijn Heymans, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 * has PC member::Hiroyuki Kawano, Kyoto University, Japan
 * has PC member::Ralf Klischewski, Faculty of Management Technology, German University in Cairo, Egypt
 * has PC member::In-Young Ko, Information and Communications University, Korea
 * has PC member::Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, USA
 * has PC member::Michele Missikoff, Institute of Systems Analysis and Computer Science (IASI), Italy
 * has PC member::Ismael Navas Delgado, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
 * has PC member::Detlef Plump, University of York, UK
 * has PC member::Isidoro Ramos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
 * has PC member::Tore Risch, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
 * has PC member::Simon Scerri, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Bernhard Schandl, Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems, University of Vienna, Austria
 * has PC member::Amandeep S. Sidhu, WA Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
 * has PC member::Elena Simperl, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * has PC member::Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia
 * has PC member::Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
 * has PC member::Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Germany
 * has PC member::Christian Thomsen, Dept. of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark
 * has PC member::A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 * has PC member::Riccardo Torlone, Università Roma Tre, Italy
 * has PC member::Mario Verdicchio, University of Bergamo, Italy
 * has PC member::Dirk Vermeir, VUB, Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
 * has PC member::Kim Viljanen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
 * has PC member::Albert Weichselbraun, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
 * has PC member::Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria
 * has PC member::Marek Wisniewski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
 * has PC member::Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria