AST 2010 - Applications of Semantic Technologies

5th International AST Workshop located at the Informatik 2010 - September 29th, 2010, Leipzig, Germany

http://km.aifb.kit.edu/ws/ast2010

Organisers:
Andreas Abecker, FZI - IPE Karlsruhe, Germany
Stephan Bloehdorn, Karlsruhe Service Research Institute at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Stephan Grimm, FZI - IPE Karlsruhe, Germany


==== Deadline for paper submissions: April 25th, 2010 ====



Objectives
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Semantic Web is a major international research effort with the goal to make web content available for intelligent knowledge processing. It draws on standard and novel techniques from various disciplines within Computer Science, including Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology, Software Agents, eCommerce, etc. The methods and tools developed and integrated for this purpose - often called Semantic Technologies - are generic and have a very large application potential outside the domain of the Semantic Web.

Such applications are currently being investigated in various disciplines within Computer Science, including Ambient Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge Management, Bioinformatics, etc. We believe that Semantic Technologies provide methods and tools which will persist in these and other application areas for the foreseeable future.


Topics of Interest
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This workshop shall bring together researchers and practitioners who work on applications of Semantic Technologies. It shall further the cross-fertilization between application areas and aid the technology transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop shall cover diverse application areas of Semantic Technologies, including, but not limited to, the following.

* Ambient Intelligence
* Bioinformatics, eHealth and Life Sciences
* Business Process Management
* Cognitive Systems
* Digital Libraries
* eCommerce
* eGovernment
* eScience
* Grid and Cloud Computing
* Information Integration
* Internet of Things
* Machine Learning
* Mobile Computing
* Multimedia Data Management
* Social Sciences
* Software Engineering
* Service-Oriented Computing
* Service Innovation and Management
* Text Mining and Information Extraction
* and any other application area of Semantic Technologies

Along the spotlight topic "Service Science" of Informatik 2010, we specifically encourage submissions that cover applications of Semantic Technologies in the aforementioned areas of Service-Oriented Computing, Service Innovation and Management, Business Process Management and other areas relevant for our increasingly services-led economy. We plan to cluster these topics in a spotlight session of the AST 2010 workshop.


Program Committee (tentative)
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* Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany
* Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
* Christoph Beierle, University of Hagen, Germany
* François Bry, University of Munich, Germany
* Johannes Busse, ontoprise GmbH, Germany
* Elmar Dorner, SAP AG, Germany
* Andreas Friesen, SAP AG, Germany
* Thomas Fuhr, Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Germany
* Gerhard Goos, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
* Jens Hartmann, encoway GmbH Bremen, Germany
* Mark Hefke, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
* Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany
* Knut Hinkelmann, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Switzerland
* Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Dortmund, Germany
* Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
* Daniel Krause, L3S Hannover, Germany
* Holger Lausen, seekda GmbH, Austria
* Thorsten Liebig, University of Ulm, Germany
* Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
* Meenakshi Nagarajan, Wright State University Dayton Ohio, USA
* Daniel Oberle, SAP AG, Germany
* Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen, Switzerland
* Stefan Schlobach, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Germany
* Michael Sintek, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
* Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
* Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin, Germany
* Valentin Zacharias, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
* Guo-Qiang Zhang, CWRU Cleveland Ohio, USA
* Jürgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany


Submission and Proceedings
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Submissions must not exceed 6 pages and must comply with the requirements laid out under (http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/).

Submissions shall be submitted online via (http://139.18.8.225:8080/ConfISS/portal/conferenceOverview.html?cid=15).
Submissions shall be in English language.

Submissions will be reviewed. Accepted publications will appear as part of a book, bearing an ISBN number. There will be the possibility to include extended versions of accepted submissions with up to 12 pages in an electronic proceedings on CD.


Important Dates
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* Deadline for paper submissions: April 25th, 2010
* Notification of acceptance: May 26th, 2010
* Camera-ready versions: June 11th, 2010
* Workshop: September 29th, 2010


This event is supported by
* STI Germany http://www.stigermany.de/
* NeOn http://www.neon-project.de
* THESEUS http://theseus-programm.de/
* ACTIVE http://www.active-project.eu/

Please address all general questions concerning the workshop to Stephan Grimm under stephan.grimm@fzi.de .