A Technical Track of the 23rd Annual ACM SAC:

The Semantic Web and Applications (SWA)

The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, March 16 - 20, 2008



*** Extended submission deadline: September 16, 2007 ***





CALL FOR PAPERS

The technical track “The Semantic Web and Applications (SWA)” focuses on the topics related to Semantic Web Technologies and their Applications. The Semantic Web is a next generation web. The current web content is not easy to be processed by machines. On the other hand, the web content in the Semantic Web can be processed easily by machines. The techniques to realize and/or utilize the Semantic Web are discussed in this track.

The focus of this track is to present research concerning issues such as: 1) learning/constructing ontologies for Semantic Web applications; 2) utilizing ontologies for data management, integration and interoperability in Semantic web applications; 3) building architectures for achieving Semantic Web goals for specific application domains; and 4) improving search techniques (or engines) with Semantic Web and text mining technologies.

This track aims to tackle research problems and practical applications for the Semantic Web. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers on the theoretical, technical and practical issues of Semantic Web and its Applications. We are particularly interested in applying Semantic Web technologies to specific application domains (e.g., the e-business, medical informatics and bioinformatics).

Topics include, but are not limited to:
  • Semantic interoperability
  • Ontology-enabled interoperability among e-sources
  • Emergent semantics
  • Ontology, Taxonomy, and Folksonomy
  • Schema mapping/matching and integration
  • Learning structures from the Web for Semantic Web-enabled applications
  • Ontology generation/learning
  • Building/utilizing ontologies and knowledge bases
  • Semantics and ontologies in data integration
  • Ontology-enabled search (engines)
  • Semantic Web-enabled search (engines)
  • Semantic web-enabled question answering system
  • Ontology-enabled information retrieval
  • Semantic Web-enabled information retrieval
  • Semantic Web-enabled Information extraction
  • Full-text search in XML and/or Semantic Web documents
  • Data management and integration for Semantic Web-enabled applications
  • Semantic annotation
  • Semantic Web personalization
  • Semantic Web-enabled user modelling
  • Semantic Web services
  • Reasoning
  • Querying the Semantic Web
  • Semantic Web mining
  • Question Answering over the Semantic Web
  • Text mining for Semantic Web-enabled application
  • Natural language processing for Semantic Web-enabled application
  • Applying Semantic Web techniques to e-business, medical informatics, bioinformatics, and legal domains

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

Authors are invited to submit original papers via submission systems (see below) as a PDF file. Since the track papers will be published by ACM proceedings, authors must submit manuscripts using the ACM format. See ACM SAC 2008's announcement for template files and details.
  • The standard extension of a paper at SAC is 5 pages in ACM format (approximately 4000 words). Longer papers (up to 8 pages maximum) will imply an additional charge.
  • For submitting abstracts and papers, please click HERE. The use of this web site will be mandatory for this (SWA) track. This is the ONLY URL that will allow authors to submit a paper to the SWA track. Please contact Jeff Allen (jallen AT cs.iupui.edu) for any problems with the system.
  • A paper cannot be submitted to more than one track.

IMPORTANT DUE DATES

        Sep. 16, 2007     Paper & Abstract submission (Firm deadline) --- extended
        Oct. 19, 2007     Author notification --- extended
        Oct. 30, 2007     Camera-Ready Papers --- firm deadline


PROGRAM CHAIRS

        Hyoil Han (hhan AT ischool.drexel.edu)      Drexel University, USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

George Abraham, Drexel University, USA
Yuan An, Drexel University, USA
Sofia J. Athenikos, Drexel University, USA
Protima Banerjee, Drexel University, USA
Stephan Bloehdorn, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Jinli Cao, La Trobe University, Australia
Jorge Cardoso, University of Madeira, Portugal
Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Yunan Chen, Drexel University, USA
Thippaya Chintakovid, Drexel University, USA
Namyoun Choi, Drexel University, USA
Stefan Conrad, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany
Stefania Costache, L3S Research Center, Germany
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Yihong Ding, Brigham Young University, USA
Samhaa El-Beltagy, Cairo University, Egypt
Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
Gerald Gannod, Miami University, USA
Raul Garcia-Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Fabio Grandi, University of Bologna, Italy
Peter Haase, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Hele-Mai Haav, Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA
Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland / DERI, Ireland
Kenji Hatano, Doshisha University, Japan
Ralf Heese, Humboldt-Universit¨at Berlin, Germany
Ramón Hermoso Traba, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Stijn Heymans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Hawoong Jeong , Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Istvan Jonyer, Oklahoma State University, USA
Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Natalya Keberle, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
Uwe Keller, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Christoph Kiefer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Haklae Kim, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Arun Kumar, IBM India Research Lab., India
Haewoon Kwak, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Steffen Lamparter, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Sang-Goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Yugyung Lee, University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA
SeungJin Lim, Utah State University, USA
Jiangang Ma, Victoria University, Australia
Yuxin Mao, Zhejiang University, China
Jun Miyazaki, Nara Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Tony Moore, Drexel University, USA
JungHwan Oh, University of North Texas, USA
Eyal Oren, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Feng Pan, USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI), USA
Fabio Porto, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Xiaojun Qi, Utah State University, USA
Delip Rao, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Lawrence Reeve, IBM Corp., USA
Tarmo Robal, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Dumitru Roman, University of Innsbruck / DERI Innsbruck, Austria
Melike Şah, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Sangsoo Sung, Google Inc., USA
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University, USA
Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Xian Wu, IBM China Research Lab., China
Seong-Joon Yoo, Sejong University, Korea
Suk-Chung Yoon, Widener University, USA
Yong Yu, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
Lei L Zhang, IBM China Research Lab, China




For further information on this track, please contact hhan AT ischool.drexel.edu



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