I-Semantics 2008
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Call for Papers I-Semantics 2008: International Conference on Semantic Systems at Triple-I 2008 in Graz, Austria, 3-5 September 2008 Scope ==== I-SEMANTICS 2008 is the fourth conference in the I-SEMANTICS series (previous events took place in Vienna and Graz) and provides a forum of exchange for innovative businesses, European research institutions and companies that focus on semantic technologies. In continuation of the conference on Social Semantic Web (which was held for the first time in 2007 in Leipzig) I-SEMANTICS 2008 will bring together both researchers and practitioners in the areas of Social Software and the Semantic Web in order to present and develop innovative ideas that help realising the “Social Semantic Web”. Topics ==== Social Software systems such as Blogs and Wikis have led to a dramatic increase of content available on the Web. Content on the Web is nowadays already to large extents created by independent individuals instead of large publishers, it is shared and made available free of charge, and often constantly improved by collaborative processes. A question that is yet unsolved is how to find the relevant information in increasingly large and complex content bases, a problem where technologies developed in the course of the Semantic Web initiative can help. Likewise, it will be beneficial to harness social content production not only for traditional content but also for the creation and improvement of machine-understandable knowledge, such as meta-data, taxonomies and ontologies. The special focus of I-SEMANTICS 2008 is „Social Semantic Web & Semantic Social Software – Convergence of Semantic Web, Web 2.0 & Social Software”. As a conference aiming to bring together science and industry, I-SEMANTICS encourages both, scientific (research/application) and industrial contributions. The following table summarises the topics we are interested in: Semantic Social Software * Semantic Wikis and Weblogs * Semantic Desktop * Social Tagging & Folksonomies * Semantic Data Web: browsers and end-points * Storage, inference and caching for scalable SSW applications * Semantic Mashups Knowledge Modelling * Semantic Content Engineering * Knowledge acquisition and ontology management * Combining existing ontologies and schemata, social ontology sharing and matching techniques * Reasoning supporting adaptive semantic collaboration * Visualisation of Semantic Models Semantic Web Applications * Existing Tools and Applications * Application Domains * Semantic Web Services * Semantifying legacy Web applications * Social Semantic Web and Mobile services * User-interface components, template languages supporting SSC Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks * Case Studies of Semantic Systems Usage * Business Use of Semantic Systems * Technology Assessment * Usability and User Interaction with Semantic Technologies * Analysis of emergent effects within social software * Quality analysis of socially generated semantic content Economic / Entrepreneurial Aspects * Economies of “attention” for semantic collaboration * Business models for Social Semantic Web Applications * Models measuring costs/benefits * Authentication, authorization and accounting – policies, charging and billing models for social software Governance & Social Issues on the Semantic Web * Group management, presence, social interaction enablers in mobile service platforms * Strategies for implementing architectures of semantic participation * Trust and privacy issues in social software * Implementation of gratification and reward systems * Analysis of motivations and behavior of social software users Submission Information =============== Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Articles should follow the JUCS guidelines for formatting (http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/style_guide.html) and must be submitted via the online submission system available at the conference website as PDF documents (other formats will not be accepted). For the camera-ready version, we will also need the source files (Latex, OpenOffice, Word). Research/Application Papers ---------------------- Research/Application papers report on novel research and/or applications relevant to the topics of the conference. The number of pages of research papers is limited to 8 pages including references and an optional appendix. Posters, Demos & Tutorials --------------------- The conference also particularly welcomes the submission of posters, demos, and tutorials. Submissions should consist of a 2-4 page description that allows us to judge the quality of your presentation. Descriptions will also be published as part of the proceedings. Organising Committee ============== Organisation Chairs * Tassilo Pellegrini (Semantic Web School) * Georg Güntner (Salzburg NewMediaLab) Programme Chairs * Sebastian Schaffert (Salzburg Research) * Sören Auer (Universität Leipzig and University of Pennsylvania)