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Extended Deadline (Full Paper)

March 10, 2006
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Call for Papers
5th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2006),
http://www.dexa.org/drupal/?q=webs

in conjunction with
DEXA 2006
17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications

September 4 - 8, 2006
Krakow, Poland
http://www.dexa.org/

Dear Colleagues,

you are invited to submit your papers to the 5th International Workshop on Web Semantics (part of the 17th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA), to be held in Krakow, Poland, September 4 - 8, 2006.

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.

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

• Knowledge Management and Sharing
• Domain Specific vs. Upper Level Ontologies
• Visual Modelling of Semantic Webs
• Semantic Web for e-learning
• Semantic Web for e-sciences
• Semantic Web for e-business
• Semantic Information Brokering and Interoperability
• Document Analysis and Semantic Extraction
• 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 Interoperability

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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and application papers that are not being considered in another forum.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 postscript, word or pdf format) is required and will be handled via the workshop Web site http://www.dexa.org/drupal/?q=webs. 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'06 workshops.
Authors are requested to send the full paper to be received by March 10, 2006.

EVALUATION PROCESS

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

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: March 10, 2006
Notification of acceptance: May 9, 2006
Camera-ready copies due: May 26, 2006
Webs 2006 Workshop: September 4 - 8, 2006

WEBS CHAIRS

Eva Gahleitner (FAW, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria)
Wolfram Wöß (FAW, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Abramowicz Witold, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Adiba Michel, Laboratoire IMAG-LSR, France
Aldana Montes José Francisco, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Baralis Elena, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Bernardino Jorge, ISEC, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
Bhowmick Sourav Saha, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Binder Walter, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Blake Brian, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Bodenhofer Ulrich, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria
Brank Janez, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Buhler Paul, College of Charleston, USA
Burget Radek, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
Burstein Mark, BBN Technologies, Boston, MA, USA
Calleja Antonio, CRC Information Technologies, Spain
Carminati Barbara, University of Insubria, Italy
Catania Barbara, DISI, University of Geneve, Switzerland
Cavedon Lawrence, CSLI, Stanford University, CA, USA
Chalupsky Hans, University of Southern California, USA
Choenni Sunil, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Costilla Carmen, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Cremades José, CRC Information Technologies, Spain
De Antonellis Valeria, Dipartimento di Elettronica per l'Automazione, Brescia, Italy
De Souza Baptista Cláudio, DSC, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
Debenham John, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Demurjian Steven A., University of Connecticut, USA
Denker Grit, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Dickinson Ian J, HP Labs, Bristol, UK
Dillon Tharam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Ding Ying, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Feng Ling, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Fensel Dieter, University Innsbruck, Austria
Ferrara Alfio, DICO - Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Ferrari Elena, University of Insubria, Italy
Gahleitner Eva, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Ganascia Jean-Gabriel, Université Paris VI, France
Gandon Fabien, ISRI, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Goderis Antoon, University of Manchester, UK
Gómez Jorge Carlos Marx, Universität Magdeburg, Germany
Gupta S.K., IIT Delhi, India
Hameurlain Abdelkader, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Hara Carmem Satie, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil
Hayes Pat, University of West Florida, USA
Hess Andreas, University College, Dublin, Ireland
Heymans Stijn, VUB, Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Hori Masahiro, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
Hotho Andreas, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Howard Randy, George Manson University, USA
Isoird Gael, Le Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, France
Kalinis Panos, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Kaski Samuel, University of Helsinki, Finland
Kawano Hiroyuki, Kyoto University, Japan
Klein Michael, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Klein Michel, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Klischewski Ralf, Faculty of Management Technology, German University in Cairo, Egypt
Klusch Matthias, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrucken, Germany
Ko In-Young, Information and Communications University, Korea
Leonard Michel, University of Geneve, Switzerland
Lilien Leszek, Western Michigan University, USA
Madhusudan Therani, Department of MIS, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Madria Sanjay Kumar, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Malyankar Raphael, Arizona State University, USA
Matthews Brian, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
McGinnis Jarred, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Michlmayr Elke, WIT, TU Wien, Austria
Missikoff Michele, Lab for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems, IASI - CNR, Italy
Mondal Anirban, University of Tokyo, Japan
Navas Delgado Ismael, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Navarrete Toni, Departament de Technologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Ng Wee Keong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Omelayenko Borys, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Palacios Juan Pablo, Sindbad Information and Database Systems, Spain
Paolucci Massimo, DoCoMo EuroLabs, USA
Paraboschi Stefano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Paslaru Bontas Elena, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Pedersen Torben Bach, Aalborg University, Denmark
Penin Manuel Lama, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Plexousakis Dimitris, University of Crete, Greece
Plump Detlef, University of York, UK
Priebe Torsten, WIWI, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Ramos Isidoro, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Revell Norman, Middlesex University, UK
Risch Tore, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Rodríguez Gil-Ortega María José, Sindbad Information and Database Systems, Spain
Sabouret Nicolas, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, Paris, France
Sala Michel, Le Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, France
Schiel Ulrich, DSC, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
Schläger Christian, WIWI, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Smith Dan, School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK
Solanki Monika, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Srinivasan Bala, Monash University, Australia
Sugimoto Shigeo, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Takizawa Makoto, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Teufel Stephanie, University of Fribourg, Germany
Tjoa A Min, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Torlone Riccardo, Università Roma Tre, Italy
Trastour David, HP Labs, Bristol, UK
Vermeir Dirk, VUB, Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Walton Chris, CISA, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Winiwarter Werner, University of Vienna, Austria
Wöß Wolfram, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Zaslavsky Arkady, Monash Universtity, Australia