I-SEMANTICS 2008

I-SEMANTICS 2008
International Conference on Semantic Systems
Subevent of	TRIPLE-I 2008
Start	September 3 2008 (iCal)
End	September 5 2008
Homepage:	Homepage
Location
City:	Graz
Country:	Austria
Important dates
Papers due:	April 14 2008
Submissions due:	April 14 2008
Notification:	May 31 2008
Camera ready due:	June 30 2008
Event in series I-SEMANTICS

I-SEMANTICS '08 (former SEMANTICS) offers a forum of exchange for innovative businesses and European research institutions and companies that concentrate on semantic technologies. Vendors and developers of semantic technologies and applications will present their products and services to the public.Leading international experts will discuss state of the art developments and future trends from the technological, economical and social view and present up-to-the-minute research & development in semantic systems.

Call for Papers

I-SEMANTICS '08 invites original paper submissions to the following not limited list of topics:

• Semantic Social Software
  • Semantic Wikis and Webblogs
  • Semantic Desktop
  • Social Tagging & Folksonomies
  • Semantic Mashups

• Knowledge Modelling
  • Semantic Content Engineering (in rich content environments)
  • Ontology Engineering & Ontology Merging
  • Visualisation of Semantic Models
  • Combined Social and Formal Approaches for Knowledge Models

• Semantic Web Architectures
  • Design & Implementation of Semantic Systems
  • Semantic Web Frameworks
  • Storage & Retrieval of Semantic Data
  • Interoperability Issues

• Studies, Metrices & Benchmarks
  • Case Studies of Semantic Systems Usage
  • Business Use of Semantic Systems
  • Technology Assessment
  • Usability and User Interaction with Semantic Technologies

Organisers

Programme chairs:

• Sören Auer, Leipzig, Germany
• Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg, Austria
• Tassilo Pellegrini, Vienna, Austria

Programme committee

• Tom Baker, Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten, Germany
• Michael K. Bergman, Web Scientist
• Chris Bizer, Free University Berlin
• Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company
• John Breslin, DERI Galway
• Tobias Buerger, Salzburg Research
• Richard Cyganiak, DERI Galway
• Violeta Damjanovic, Salzburg Research
• Sebastian Dietzold, University of Leipzig
• Orri Erling, OpenLink Software
• Erich Gams, Salzburg Research
• Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation
• Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes, DFKI
• Tudor Groza, DERI Galway
• Georg Güntner, Salzburg Research
• Tom Heath, Talis
• Sebastian Hellmann, Universität Leipzig
• Geert-Jan Houben, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Jiri Kopsa, Sun Microsystems
• Stefan Kühne, University of Leipzig
• Christoph Lange, DERI Galway / Jacobs University Bremen
• Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig
• Frank Loebe, University of Leipzig
• Steffen Lohmann, University of Duisburg
• Dickson Lukose, MIMOS Malaysia
• Michael Martin, Universität Leipzig
• Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research Barcelona
• Daniel Mitterdorfer, Salzburg Research
• Claudia Mueller, University of Potsdam
• Tassilo Pellegrini, Semantic Web Company
• Thomas Riechert, University of Leipzig
• Harald Sack, University of Potsdam
• Alexander Stocker, KNow Center Graz
• Raphaël Troncy, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
• Jakob Voss, Wikimedia e.V.
• Christoph Wieser, Salzburg Research
• Anna V. Zhdanova, ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien