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ESAS: The 9th IEEE International Workshop on
Engineering Semantic Agents & Semantics, Agents and Intelligence
(ESAS 2014)
(In conjunction with COMPSAC 2014: The 38th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Software and Applications,
Vasteras, Sweden, 21 - 25th July 2014: http://www. compsac.org)

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WEB Site: http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/esas2014.php
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Explorations into intelligent software agents, mobile agents, and multi agent systems side by side with the use of semantic technologies, especially but not limited to the following topics of interest:

Web Semantics and Reasoning:
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- Knowledge Representation for the Web

- Ontologies and Linked Data

- Development Ontologies

- Semantic Web Rule Languages and systems

- Semantic Querying Languages and systems

- Ontology engineering and inference on the e-Technology such as Social Web, e-health, e-learning etc.

- Semantic Annotation

- Ontology Alignment and Merging

- Semantic based Reasoning: Scalability, Incompleteness, Expressivity, Vagueness, and Uncertainty.


Systems on Semantic Web Technologies:
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- Software development

- Software systems

- Systems and agent technology

- Systems and reasoning

- Systems and semantic technology

- Semantic intelligence in systems

- Database systems

- Embedded systems

- Healthcare information systems

- Education, and so on.


Semantics of Big Data:

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- Big Data Search and Mining

- Big Data & Web platforms

- Big Data and Social Networks

- Scalability and Big Data

- Knowledge Discovery from Big Data

- Computational Intelligence for Big Data

- Linked Big Data

- Security Intelligence with Big Data.


Intelligent e-Technology and Semantic Web:
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- Semantics for Managing Business Data

- Semantic Intelligent Enterprise Portals

- Semantic Processing in e-Learning

- Semantic Processing in e-Health

- Semantic Processing in Bio-information systems

- Semantic Processing in Social Networking

- Semantic Processing in Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust.


Important Dates:
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* March 23, 2014: Deadline for paper submission

* April 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance/rejection

* April 28, 2014: Camera-ready due


Program Committee:
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- Rajkumar Kannan, Department of Computer Science, Bishop Heber College, India
- Alex Abramovich, Gordon College, Israel
- Bo Hu, University of Southampton, UK
- Chattrakul Sombattheera, Mahasarakham University, Thailand
- Ibrahim Gökçen, GE International, Turkey
- Laurentiu Vasiliu, Peracton Ltd., Ireland
- Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University, USA
- M. Osman Ünalir, Egean University, Turkey
- Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Mehmet Emin Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK
- Metin Zontul, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey
- Mustafa Jarrar, Sina Institute - Birzeit University, Palestine
- R. Cenk Erdur, Agean University, Turkey
- R. Rajesh, Bharathiar University, India
- Rym Z. Mili, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
- Sule Yildirim Yayilgan, Gjovik University College, Norway
- Susmit Bagchi, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea
- Vassilya Abdulova, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey
- Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA
- Vitaliy Mezhuev, Berdyansk State University
- Zafer Dogan, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey
- Zeki Bayram, Eastern Mediterranean Univ., TRNC

Paper Submission:
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Papers must be submitted electronically. Find submission details on ESAS 2014 WEB site (http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/esas2014.php).

The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for the IEEE conference proceedings.

All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least two or three reviewers.

Papers should be no more than 6 pages.


Organizers:

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Atilla Elci

Aksaray University, Turkey
Email: atilla.elci (at) gmail.com



Duygu Celik

Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey
Email: duygucelik (at) msn.com, duygucelik (at) aydin.edu.tr



Mehmet A. Orgun

Macquarie University, Australia
Email: mehmet.orgun (at) mq.edu.au



Rainer Unland

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Email: Rainer.Unland (at) icb.uni-due.de



Behnam Rahnama

Okan University, Turkey
Email: behnam (at) brahnama.com