RED 2008

First International Workshop on REsource Discovery (RED)

 * http://bioinformatics.eas.asu.edu/RED/red2008.html
 * in conjunction with 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2008)
 * 24-26 November 2008
 * Linz, Austria from

A resource  corresponds to an  information source  such as a  data repository or  database management system (e.g., a query form or a textual search engine), a link between resources (an index or hyperlink), or  a service  such as  an application  or  tool. Resources are characterized by core information  including  a name,  a description of  its input and its output (parameters or format), its address, and various additional properties expressed as metadata.

Resource discovery is the process of identifying and locating existing resources that have a particular property. Machine-based resource discovery relies on crawling, clustering, and classifying resources  discovered  on the Web automatically. Resources are organized with respect to metadata that characterize their content (for data sources), their semantics (in terms of  ontological  classes  and  relationships),   their characteristics  (syntactical properties),  their performance  (with metrics and benchmarks),   their quality  (curation, reliability, trust),  etc.  Resource discovery systems allow the  expression of  queries to identify and locate resources that implement specific tasks.

The International  Workshop on  Resource Discovery  aims at bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners to discuss  research issues and experience in developing and deploying concepts,  applications,  and  solutions  addressing  various  issues related to resource discovery. Papers presenting  either  theoretical  or  applicative  material are expected. Because of the dynamic  research  and  development  effort  towards  supporting resource discovery for the life sciences, we expect to receive many  contributions  in the scope of this very exciting application domain. However, we encourage  the submission of generic solutions  or  the presentation of  application experiences  other  than related to life sciences.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

 * Service publication standards (UDDI, OWL-S, etc.)
 * Web services
 * BioMoby services
 * Resource semantics
 * Resource formats and metadata
 * Resource metadata for efficient execution
 * Data-centric Web services
 * Domain ontologies for resources
 * Metadata models for describing web resources
 * Automatic extraction of metadata in particular with Web 2.0 tools (wikis, blogs...)
 * Models for registration of resources
 * Automatic registration of resources
 * Resource indexing
 * Visualization of resource metadata
 * Query languages for resource discovery
 * user-friendly interface for resource discovery
 * Resource mining, discovering services on the Web
 * Mobile web services
 * Service discovery protocols
 * Identification protocols that can distinguish between resources and metadata
 * Interoperability-driven resource discovery
 * Discovery for integration, composition, workflow, dataflow
 * Metadata for resource mapping
 * Dynamic service composition
 * Service efficiency prediction
 * QoS-based service discovery
 * Resource relevance measures
 * Semantics-driven resource discovery
 * Discovery on the private (or invisible) web

Workshop information
The workshop  will take place in Linz, Austria from 24-26 November 2008. Please visit the conference website for more information: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/.

Workshop key dates

 * Submission deadline: July 1st
 * Acceptance notification: September 30th
 * Camera ready: October 15th
 * Maximum number of pages: 10 pages

Publication
The workshop proceedings will published by the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) books@ocg.at series. We expect to invite selected papers  to be extended for publication in  a special issue of the International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS) (www.inderscience.com/)

Workshop Chair
Zoe Lacroix, Arizona State University and Translational Genomics Research Institute, USA Contact: zoe@iiwas.org

Program committee

 * has PC member::Bernd Amann, LIP6, Universit? de Pierre et Marie Curie, France
 * has PC member::Marie-Dominique Devignes, INRIA Lorraine, LORIA, France
 * has PC member::Juliana Freire, University of Utah, USA
 * has PC member::Christine Froidevaux, LRI, Universite Paris-Sud (Orsay), France
 * has PC member::Carole Goble, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
 * has PC member::Daniela Grigori, Universit? de Versailles Saint-Quentin, France
 * has PC member::Cartik Kothari, University of British Columbia, Canada
 * has PC member::Phillip Lord, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK
 * has PC member::Bertram Ludascher, University of California, Davis, USA
 * has PC member::Herve Menager, Institut Pasteur, France
 * has PC member::Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA
 * has PC member::Patricia Rodriguez-Tome, Center for Advanced Studies, CRS4, Italy
 * has PC member::Malika Smail-Tabbone, LORIA and Universite Henri Poincare, France
 * has PC member::Pierre Tuffery, INSERM & Universite Diderot (Paris 7), France
 * has PC member::Maria-Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela

This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP