SWIM09

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SWIM09
1st International Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management
Subevent of	the 3th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC’09)
Start	September 14 2009 (iCal)
End	September 16 2009
Homepage:	Homepage
Location
City:	Berkeley, CA
Country:	USA
Important dates
Papers due:	May 8 2009
Notification:	June 8 2009
Camera ready due:	June 18 2009

The First International Workshop on "Semantic Web Information Management" (SWIM) aims to review the most recent data-centered solutions for the Semantic Web. In particular, the workshop’s ambition is to present and analyze techniques for semantic information management, taking advantage of the synergies between the logical basis of the Semantic Web and the logical foundations of conceptual modeling. Indeed, a leitmotif of these research areas is the proposal of models and methods to represent and manage appropriately structured data, permitting it to be easily machine-processable on the Web. The long-standing experience of the information modeling community can provide a significant contribution to the substantial problems arising in semantic data management using technologies such as RDF, RDFS and OWL.

The SWIM Workshop invites researchers, engineers, service developers to present their research and works in the field of Semantic Information Management. Papers may deal with methods, models, case studies, practical experiences and technologies. Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to:

Semantic Web Data Management

 Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data
 Conversion of legacy data to semantic form
 Information Integration on the Web
 Web Metadata semantics and Use
 Semantic Web information modeling concepts
 Database technologies for the Semantic Web
 Robust and scalable knowledge management on the Web
 Information extraction for the Semantic Web
 Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
 Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution

Semantic Web Data Querying and Reasoning

 Data search, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web
 Query languages for ontologies
 Searching and Ranking ontologies
 Reasoning paradigms for Web query languages
 Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages
 User-friendly interfaces to query and reason on the Web
 Ranked Keyword search on Semantic Web data

Engineering Semantic Web Systems

 Adaptive Web systems and applications
 Semantic Web Services
 Semantic Annotation of Web Systems
 Semantic Bioinformatics
 Organization and Visualization of semantic data to support information management activities
 Semantic Web content creation and annotation
 Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts, neither submitted nor accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. They must be written in English, with no more than 6 pages (i.e. it must be formatted according to the information for IEEE CS authors). Please see the IEEE policies for further information. Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee and reviews will be returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure the high quality of the accepted papers. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices and the paper should be intelligible without them.

Authors are invited to send their manuscripts through the EasyChair system available at [1]. In case of any inquires, please do not hesitate to contact program committee chairs: SWIM organization [2].

Publishing of accepted works

The Workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE. Submission to the Workshop implies the willingness to subscribe and participate to the event for presenting the submitted work (i.e. attendance of at least one of the authors of accepted papers will be mandatory). Final versions of accepted papers must strictly adhere to the IEEE CS formatting style and must include a printable final (camera ready) version file and all source files. No changes to such formatting rules are permitted.