IWI2

IWI2 is the 2nd Workshop on Innovations in Web Infrastructure, colocated with WWW2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. It starts at May 22 2006 9:00 and ends at May 22 2006 18:00. For more information, see http://www.wmin.ac.uk/~courtes/iwi2006/.

Description

Underlying the infrastructure of the web is a communications infrastructure, which is responsible for implementing much of the structure and functionality of the document repository. Recently, there has been increasing interest in innovative network topologies and communication paradigms, such as peer-to-peer networks, content-based networking, and publish/subscribe which produce decentralization of control, decoupling of producers and consumers of information and asynchronous as well as synchronous information delivery. Yet there is little focus on how this research can benefit the web.

Topics

• ontology-based routing by content
• meta-data management in P2P networks
• communications support for distributed reasoning
• web topologies and distributed agents
• content-based networking for distributed collaboration and virtual communities
• decentralized access control and trust

Committee members

Organizing Committee

• Simon Courtenage University of Westminster, UK
• David Lewis Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Thanassis Tiropanis AIT, Greece

Program Committee

• George Ghinea, Brunel University, UK
• Maurice Mulvenna, Ulster University, UK
• Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia
• Lars Schmidt-Thieme, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
• Laura Thomson, RMIT, Australia
• Phil Trwoga, University of Westminster, UK