SWAP2006

SWAP2006 is the 3rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop (Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives), located in Pisa, Italy.

For more information, see http://www.swapconf.it/2006/.

Important Dates

• Deadline for paper submissions: October 27, 2006
• Notification of acceptance: November 25, 2006
• Camera-ready versions: December 5, 2006
• Workshop: December 19-20, 2006

Objectives

The third Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (Pisa, 19-20 December, 2006) aims at bringing together researchers and participants interested in Semantic Web technologies. The discussions are expected to be in Italian or in English according to the speaker preference and the interested audience. Contributions are expected in English and will be published as a Workshop Proceedings and made available online. Although we expect mostly Italian speakers, international contributions are encouraged and very welcome.

Topics of Interest

The workshop will cover theoretical, practical and implementational issues on Semantic Web. The following is a partial list of topics of interests:

• Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and e-learning
• Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing

Semantic Web data

• Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
• Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution
• Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
• Semantic Web middleware
• Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web
• Social networks based on Semantic Web technologies
• Semantic Web services
• Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Agents
• Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
• Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
• Semantic multimedia
• Semantics in P2P systems and grids
• Searching, querying, visualizing and interpreting the Semantic Web
• Evaluation of semantic Web techniques
• Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Data
• Large Scale Knowledge Management
• Data Semantics
• Knowledge Portals
• Semantic Brokering
• Semantic coordination, integration, matching and interoperability
• Semantic Web Mining
• Semantic Information Retrieval
• Visualization and Modelling
• Semantic Web Personalization
• Systems of collaborative annotation
• Systems of annotation extraction
• Applications of Semantic Web technologies
• Social aspects of distributed cooperative annotation
• Presentation and discussions of application scenarios

Workshop Organising Committee

• Giovanni Tummarello, Universita` Politecnica delle Marche (IT)
• Oreste Signore, W3C Office in Italy/CNR (IT)
• Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento (IT)

Program Committee

• Danny Ayers, Independent
• Zavisa Bjelogrlic, @Semantics
• Dan Brickley, SkyPixel
• Jeen Broekstra, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
• Silvana Castano, University of Milano
• Aldo Gangemi, LOA-CNR
• Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento
• Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR
• Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe
• Massimo Marchiori, University of Padova
• Stefano Mazzocchi, MIT
• Christian Morbidoni, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche
• Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Reseach Center and Hanover University
• Paolo Puliti, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche
• Paolo Romano, National cancer Research Institute of Genoa, IST
• Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari
• Luciano Serafini, IRST-ITC
• Maria Simi, University of Pisa
• Steffen Staab, University Koblenz
• Heiko Stoermer, University of Trento
• Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR
• Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen - Bolzano
• Elias Torres, IBM Advanced Internet Technologies