Due to various requests, we decided to extend the deadline to May 27, 2011.
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AST 2011 - 6th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies

Located at INFORMATIK 2011, Berlin, Germany

October 6th, 2011

http://km.aifb.kit.edu/ws/ast2011/

Important Dates
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* Deadline for paper submissions: May 20th, 2011 (extended from May 15th)
* Notification of acceptance: June 20th, 2011
* Camera-ready versions: July 1st, 2011
* Workshop: October 6th, 2011

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. The Semantic Web draws
on standard and novel techniques from various disciplines related to Computer
Science, including Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology,
Software Agents, Ontologies, Knowledge Management and eCommerce. The developed
and integrated methods and tools – often called Semantic Technologies – are
generic and have a very large application potential outside the domain of
Semantic Web.

Applications of Semantic Technologies are currently being investigated in
various fields, including Ambient Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cognitive
Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge Management and Bioinformatics. In recent
years the amount of data published on the Semantic Web as so-called Linked Data
has exploded. We believe that the methods and tools provided by Semantic
Technologies will play a crucial role in these and other application areas for
the foreseeable future, in particular for community-based information platforms.

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 "Communities" of INFORMATIK 2011, we specifically
encourage submissions that cover applications of Semantic Technologies in
the areas of social networks, wikis, microblogging sites and community
sites. We plan to cluster these topics in a spotlight session.

Organisers
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Catherina Burghart, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
Stephan Grimm, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Jens Wissmann, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany

Program Committee
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Andreas Abecker, disy Informationssysteme, Germany
Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Christoph Beierle, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
Stephan Bloehdorn, KIT, Germany
Francois Bry, University of Munich, Germany
Thomas Fuhr, University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Germany
Armin Haller, CSIRO, Australia
Jens Hartmann, EnBW, Germany
Claudia Hess, Systec-CAx, Germany
Mark Hefke, CAS Software AG, Germany
Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, USA
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Germany
Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
Daniel Krause, L3S Research Center, Germany
Thorsten Liebig, University of Ulm, Germany
Markus Luczak-Roesch, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Ulrike Lucke, University of Potsdam, Germany
Carolin Michels, Fraunhofer ISI, Germany
Daniel Oberle, SAP, Germany
Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stefan Schulte, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
York Sure, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
Robert Tolksdorf, Free University Berlin, Germany
Valentin Zacharias, FZI, Germany
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 at http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/

Submissions shall be submitted online via EasyChair
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=informatik2011

Submissions shall be in English language.

You can contact the workshop chairs at
ast.workshop@googlemail.com