Workshop on Semantic Middleware: Enabling Large Scale Knowledge Applications

Vilamoura, Portugal: November 1-6, 2009
WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES

We are witnessing today the rise of the "Web as the Platform" as one of the major trends towards the Future Internet. The Web replaces traditional heterogeneous legacy platforms and becomes the one and only integrator platform for data and services. The platform of data enables the storing of data somewhere on the Web, while the platform of services offers applications and facilities via Web service technologies or via Web browsers (both in terms of WSDL services or REST APIs). The openness, distributedness and autonomy of prosuming entities (as equally positioned activities of producing and consuming content) makes the "Web as the Platform" grow at extreme speed, and increasing complexity and heterogeneity. As a consequence, new means of access and management were and are needed in order to cope with the wealth of data and services available on the Web. Semantic technologies, for example, are seen as tool to address the eminent issues of heterogeneity, dynamics and scalability.

As direct consequence thereof, it can be observed that the amount of semantic data, and the ubiquity of it, increases steadily, and that semantic data becomes an important asset to be exploited by actors, applications and services on the Web.

With this workshop, we aim at bringing together promising middleware and Semantic Web research, which - in integration rather than in current isolation - support the quest for scalable and dynamic systems to manage and use distribute and heterogeneous data and services on the Web. We are looking for proposals that could contribute to a new semantic middleware layer that enables the Semantic Web in the true Web sense by considering the traditional issues of data and process heterogeneity, however with a clear focus on large-scale, open and distributed environments.

The outcome of the workshop is thus expected to provide new insights, ideas, and technologies that enable a semantic middleware that delivers a platform and virtualization layer for data integration, knowledge-driven collaboration, and service computing on the Web by exploiting the ever growing amounts of semantic artifacts that are made available online.

TOPICS AND APPLICATIONS

We welcome original academia and industry papers or project descriptions that propose innovative approaches to build a semantic middleware layer for the Web. The topics of interest of this workshop include but are not limited to:

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Languages, programming and implementation techniques for middleware technology
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Extensions of existing middleware such as Web services, Grid, tuplespaces, message oriented middleware, services buses or cloud computing with semantic technologies
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Software architecture and software engineering techniques for building semantic middleware
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The usage of ontologies and reasoning in relation with middleware technologies
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Methods to deal with the complexity of managing distributed knowledge and processes
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Methods to deal with coordination of distributed services and applications working with semantic data
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Methods and techniques to increase reliability and availability of semantic middleware
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Self-organization in semantic middleware systems
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Reasoning about middleware structures, tasks and behavior
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Mobility-aware semantic middleware
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Practical experiences in using semantic middleware to realize service-oriented architectures, knowledge engineering systems, or the Web of data
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Deployment perspectives for future semantic middleware
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Studies on existing and emerging target markets for semantically enabled middleware


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline: June 14, 2008
Paper Submission Deadline: June 29, 2008
Acceptance Notification: August 14, 2008
Camera Ready & Registration: August 24, 2008
OTM Conferences & Workshops: November 1 - 6, 2008

SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at:

http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=86

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.

Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review.

The paper submission site will be announced ASAP.

CO-CHAIRS

Elena Simperl
Semantic Technology Institute STI, University of Innsbruck,Austria

Reto Krummenacher
Semantic Technology Institute STI, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Françoise Baude
INRIA, Univ. of Nice Sophia-Antipolis I3S CNRS, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

Philippe Merle
INRIA ADAM - Lille, Lille, France

Jean-Pierre Lorré
eBM WebSourcing, Ramonville Saint-Agne (Toulouse), France

CONTACT

Web: http://semels.sti2.at/index.php/SEMELS_2009
Email: reto.krummenacher@sti-innsbruck.at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Phone: +43 512 507 6452
Fax: +43 512 507 9872