Call For Papers: Special issue of the Journal on Data Semantics (JoDS)

WEB REASONING AND RULE SYSTEMS

On the occasion of the 8th International Conference on Web Reasoning
and Rule Systems (RR 2014), this special issue will collect original
research contributions on the major topics of the conference, which
include all areas of Web Reasoning, with an emphasis on combinations
with Rule Systems.

Submissions may include, but are not restricted to, extended RR 2014
conference papers (both full papers and technical communications).

Topics of particular interest are:

* Semantic Web, rule and ontology languages, and related logics
* Reasoning, querying, searching and optimization
* Incompleteness, inconsistency and uncertainty
* Non-monotonic, commonsense, and closed-world reasoning for the Web
* Dynamic information, stream reasoning and complex event processing
* Decision making, planning, and intelligent agents
* Machine learning, knowledge extraction and information retrieval
* Data management, data integration and reasoning on the web of data
* Ontology-based data access
* System descriptions, applications and experiences


Submissions
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Deadline: January 15, 2015

Submissions have to be formatted according to the journal's guidelines at

http://www.springer.com/13740

and have to be uploaded into Springer's Electronic Management System at

https://www.editorialmanager.com/jods

Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting
a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the
"Web Reasoning and Rule Systems" special issue.


Guest Editors
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Marie-Laure Mugnier, University of Montpellier and Inria, France
Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

The editors can be reached by emailing

mugnier@lirmm.fr and roman@dcs.bbk.ac.uk.


Guest Editorial Board
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(The following list is subject to extension.)

Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, USA
Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna, Austria
Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy
Marco Montali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Boris Motik, University of Oxford, UK
Magdalena Ortiz, TU Vienna, Austria
Giorgio Orsi, University of Oxford, UK
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria, Italy
Michael Thomazo, TU Dresden, Germany