SWIM2010

SWIM 2010 is the 2th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SEMANTIC WEB INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Workshop held in conjunction with ICWE 2010, 5-9 July 2010, Vienna, Austria

Workshop website: http://mais.dia.uniroma3.it/SWIM2010

IMPORTANT DATES

• April 28, 2010: Abstract submission (23h59 Hawaii Time)
• April 28, 2010: Paper submission (23h59 Hawaii Time)
• May 21, 2010: Author notification (23h59 Hawaii Time)
• June 7, 2010: Camera-ready submission (23h59 Hawaii Time)

WORKSHOP AIMS AND SCOPE

As the World Wide Web grows, it is becoming more and more complex for humans to efficiently find and exploit the information we need. The underlying idea of having a description of data available on the Web, organized in such a way as to be used by machines for automation, integration and reuse across various applications, has been promoted by a number of research fields.

The Second 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.

Contributions are invited for novel research addressing these issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Efficiently and Effectively storing large amount of semantic data
• Querying and Reasoning about semantic data
• Exploiting such semantic data in real world scenarios

This workshop would cover the emerging area of Semantic Web calling researchers to debate, propose, and elaborate the foundations for a data-modeling approach to these problems, by presenting running research and projects on these topics.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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

TARGET AUDIENCE

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.

PAPER SUBMISSION

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 12 pages (i.e. it must be formatted according to the information for Springer_LNCS authors). Please see the LNCS 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 at https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=swim2010. In case of any inquires, please do not hesitate to contact PC chairs: dvr@dia.uniroma3.it.

PROCEEDINGS

The Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as an LNCS volume.. 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 LNCS guidelines and must include a printable file of the camera-ready version, as well as all source files thereof. No changes to such formatting rules are permitted. Authors of accepted papers must also download and sign a copyright form that will be made available on the Web site of the conference.

Depending on the quality of the submissions, authors of selected papers may be invited to submit extended versions for publication in prestigious international journals.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Roberto De Virgilio, Universita' Roma Tre, Italy
• Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
• Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

STEERING COMMITTEE

• Roberto De Virgilio, Universita' Roma Tre, Italy
• Pierluigi Del Nostro, Universita' Roma Tre, Italy
• Giorgio Gianforme, Universita' Roma Tre, Italy
• Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
• Stefano Paolozzi, Universita' Roma Tre, Italy
• Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Devis Bianchini, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
• Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Jorge Bernardino, Polytechnic of Coimbra, Portugal
• Paolo Cappellari, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9. IRELAND
• Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
• Claudio de Souza Baptista, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brasil
• Roberto De Virgilio, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
• Pierluigi Del Nostro, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
• Tommaso Di Noia, Technical University of Bari, Italy
• Ismael Navas Delgado, Universidad de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
• Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Giorgio Gianforme, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
• Fausto Giunchiglia, Università di Trento, Trento, Italy
• David M. Hansen, George Fox University, Oregon, USA
• Stijn Heymans, Vienna University of Technology, Wien, Austria
• Jan Hidders, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
• Sebastian Link, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
• Stefano Paolozzi, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
• Tore Risch, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
• Simon Scerri, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
• Amandeep S. Sidhu, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia
• A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Wien, Austria
• Riccardo Torlone, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
• Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
• Gottfried Vossen, University of Munster, Germany
• Wolfram WöB, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria