Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing

IEEE ICSC2009

September 14th-16th, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA

http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsc


Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society


The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation and matching of
the semantics of computational content to that of naturally expressed
user intentions in order to retrieve, manage, manipulate or even create
content, where "content" may be anything including video, audio, text,
processes, services, hardware, networks, etc.

The third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2009)
continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The
conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an
international forum for researchers and practitioners to present
research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic
Computing, as well as identifying the emerging research topics and
defining the future of the field. The event is located in Berkeley,
California. The technical program of ICSC2009 includes workshops,
invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, and more.
Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or on-going
work are invited.

Areas of interest include:

Semantic Analysis
* Natural language processing
* Image and video analysis
* Audio and speech analysis
* Data and web mining
* Analysis of behaviors of software, services and networks
* Analysis of social networks

Semantic Integration
* Metadata and other description languages
* Database schema integration
* Ontology integration
* Interoperability and service integration

Semantic Applications
* Semantic programming languages and software engineering
* Semantic system design and synthesis
* Search engines and question answering
* Semantic web services
* Content-based multimedia retrieval and editing
* Context-aware networks of sensors, devices and applications
* Human centered communications
* Semantic trusted computing
* Semantic GIS systems

Semantic Interfaces
* Natural language interfaces
* Multimodal interfaces

The main goal of the conference is to foster the dialog between experts
in each of these disciplines. Therefore we especially encourage
submissions of work that is interesting to multiple areas, such as
multimodal approaches.

Please refer to the conference website for further information:
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsc


SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript in
double-column IEEE format following the guidelines available on the
ICSC2009 web page under "submissions".

The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society
Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will
be selected for publications in internationally renowned journals.

IMPORTANT DATES
Regular Paper Submission: May 1st, 2009
Conference: September 14th-16th, 2009