Appel: SWAE07 (FOMI)

Tue Jan 30 14:48:38 UTC 2007

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1st International Workshop on Semantic Web Architectures for
Enterprises - SWAE07

http://www.dbgroup.unimo.it/swae07
in conjunction with DEXA 2007
18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems 
Applications
Regensburg, Germany
3-7 September 2007 ****************************************

AIMS AND SCOPE

"The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to
be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community
boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation
from a large number of researchers and industrial partners.
[W3C - http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/]

SWAE aims at evaluating how and how much the Semantic Web vision has
met its promises with respect to business and market needs. Even
though the Semantic Web is a relatively new branch of scientific and
technological research, its relevance has already been envisaged for
some crucial business processes:

- Semantic-based business data integration: data integration satisfies
  both "structural" requirements of enterprises (e.g. the
  possibility of consulting its data in a unified manner), and
  "dynamic" requirement (e.g. business-to-business
  partnerships to execute an order). Information systems implementing
  semantic web architectures can strongly support this process, or
  simply enable it. - Semantic interoperability: metadata and
  ontologies support the dynamic and flexible exchange of data and
  services across information systems of different organizations. The
  development of applications for the automatic classification of
  services and the translation of such classifications into the
  different standards used by companies is a clear example of the
  potential for semantic interoperability methods and tools.

- Knowledge management: ontologies and automated reasoning tools seem
  to provide an innovative support to the elicitation, representation
  and sharing of corporate knowledge. In particular, for the shift
  from document-centric KM to an entity-centric KM approach.

- Enterprise and process modeling: ontologies and rules are becoming
  an effective way for modeling corporate processes and business
  domains (for example, in cost reduction).

The goal of the workshop is to evaluate and assess how deep the
permeation of Semantic Web models, languages, technologies and
applications has been in effective enterprise business
applications. It would also identify how semantic web based systems,
methods and theories sustain business applications such as decision
processes, workflow management processes, accountability, and
production chain management. A particular attention will be dedicated
to metrics and criteria that evaluate cost-effectiveness of system
designing processes, knowledge encoding and management, system
maintenance, etc.

Papers and demonstrations of interest for the workshop will show and
highlight the interactions between Semantic Web technologies and
business applications. In particular, the workshops aims at collecting
models, tools and practical experience in which Semantic Web
techniques have been developed and applied to support any relevant
business process, and assess their degree of success, the difficulties
which were addressed, the solutions which have been found, the new
tools which have been implemented.

TOPICS

The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Semantic Integration
* Information extraction
* Managing metadata for information integration
* Managing metadata for data classification
* Semantic Web technologies for enterprises
* Ontologies for Information Integration and data exch

* Schema mapping/evaluating/integrating
* On-the-fly Integration
* Information Integration architectures
* Reviews and evaluation of existing Integration approaches
* Data Integration in e-Commerce applications
* Integration of legacy applications in a semantic web architecture
* Semantic web and business processes
* Reliability and scalability of Semantic Web technologies and tools
* Enterprise-level tools and applications
* Costs of semantic-based architectures for enterprises
* Semantic Web and Integrated Information Systems
* Semantic based systems and business applications: cost management, 
  decision support systems, workflow management systems, etc. 
* Economic sustainability of semantic web based systems
* Metrics to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the knowledge encoding
  process

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission of abstracts: March 2, 2007 * Submission of full papers:
  March 23, 2007

* Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2007 * Camera-ready copies due: 
  May 31, 2007

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and 
application papers that are not being considered in another forum. 
Manuscripts will be limited to 5 two-column pages (IEEE Proceeding 
style) including figures and references. Please follow the IEEE 
Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your 
papers (http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp). Authors 
of accepted papers are requested to sign the IEEE copyright form.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the
conference and present the paper. Papers accepted for presentation
will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the
DEXA'07 workshops.

Authors of accepted papers are requested to send the full paper to be
received by May 31, 2007.

PC CHAIRS

Prof. Sonia Bergamaschi
Department of Computer Science
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Prof. Paolo Bouquet
Department of Information and Communication Technology
Univers
of Trento

Dott. Francesco Guerra
Department of Business Economics
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

PC COMMITTEE
Carlo Batini, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy 
Andreas Becks, Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte 
Informationstechnik FIT, Germany Francesco Bellomi, University of 
Verona , Italy Omar Boucelma, Université Aix-Marseille, France 
Andrea Calì, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Oscar Corcho, 
University of Manchester, UK Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at 
Chicago, USA Roberta Cuel, Università di Trento, Italy Stefan 
Decker, Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of 
Ireland, Galway, Ireland Alfio Ferrara, Università degli Studi di 
Milano, Italy Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 
France Matthias Hemmje, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany Mustafa 
Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Alain Leger,  France Telecom R&D, France   Claudia Niederee, L3S 
Research Center, Germany Lyndon Nixon, University of Berlin, Germany 
Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Christoph Quix, 
RWTH Aachen, Germany Peter Spyns, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany York Sure, 
Institut AIFB Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany

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