[sem-grd] CFP: GGF16 Semantic Grid workshop

[David De Roure]

I am pleased to announce the 3rd GGF Semantic Grid Workshop, to be 
held at GGF16 which is in Athens, Greece, February 13-16, 2006.  

The workshop will be on Wednesday February 15, with a "Semantic 
Grid 101" on Tuesday 14.

You are invited to submit short position papers, which need to be 
received by January 12 to be considered for presentation in the 
workshop programme.  All positions will be published on the Web.

Please circulate the Call for Papers, which is included below and
available on

    http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf16/GGF16semgridCFP.html

Text and PDF versions are also available from the workshop website

    http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf16/

Many thanks - we look forward to receiving your papers.

-- Dave

Semantic Grid Workshop at GGF16

Call for Position Papers
------------------------

GGF16 Athens, Greece. February 13-16, 2006.

Semantic Grid Workshop Wednesday Feb 15 1:30pm-7:00pm (with a 
preparatory Semantic Grid 101 session Tuesday Feb 14 10:30am-12pm)

Building on the experiences of the current Semantic Grid activities
and on the latest challenges in Grid computing, the 3rd GGF Semantic
Grid Workshop aims to broaden discussion and awareness of Semantic
Grid activities and set the scene for future work. This is an exciting
opportunity for people to present their work and for others to
discover the state of the art in Semantic Grid. All uses of Semantic
Web technologies (such as RDF for metadata representation), in both
Grid middleware and applications, are in scope.

The workshop is based around position papers, which are invited under
the themes described below. All position papers will be published on
the Web, and the Programme Committee will select a subset for
presentation at the workshop in order to provide a balanced programme
of interest to a wide range of participants. At the end of the
workshop there will be a panel session looking at future challanges 
to set an agenda for the GGF Semantic Grid Research Group.

Before the workshop we will hold a Semantic Grid 101 session which
will provide a quick introduction to Semantic Web and Semantic Grid
for newcomers, so that everyone can gain maximum benefit from the
workshop. This session is open to everyone whether or not they 
attend the workshop.

The themes are as follows:

* Use cases. Real examples which demand a Semantic Grid approach 
  (whether or not a Semantic Grid approach has been attempted so far!) 
  These are wide-ranging, from information services in semantic 
  datagrids to service discovery and negotiation in Grid middleware 
  to social networks and distributed collaboration to novel applications.
  
* Experience reports. What worked and what didn't when you used Semantic
  Web technologies in your Grid middleware and applications (e.g.
  semantically described services and resources, knowledge services,
  semantic datagrid, RDF triplestores and query languages, ontologies
  such as OWL-S). Where did your metadata come from? What was the
  reaction of your users? What lessons did you learn?
  
* Ontologies. Tell us about the ontologies (and folksomonies) you are
  using, in whatever representation (e.g. RDFS or OWL), whether new or
  whether you've imported existing schemas representation; e.g. CIM in 
  OWL. How might the community benefit from your ontologies?
  
* Tools and technologies. Especially for "technology innovators", tell 
  us about the approaches you wish to promote to address the challenges 
  and to realise the opportunities arising from the semantically-enabled
  Grid. This includes Semantic Web tools and technologies but also
  agent-based systems, peer-to-peer and other approaches that utilize
  machine processable metadata.
  
* Open Laptop Demonstrations. Short demos you can do informally on your
  laptop in a coffee break (interactive or videos).
                                   
Note that individuals and projects may submit multiple position papers
(plus a demo) if you wish; e.g. a Grid project using semantic
technologies may wish to present both use cases and experiences.

The Workshop will be open to all GGF attendees but is limited to 50
participants - priority will be given to those who have submitted
position papers. All workshop materials, including papers and
presentations, will be made available to the community via the Web.

Submission details

Papers should be 2-5 pages in length and be submitted in Word or PDF
format to Nicky Harding nch at ecs.soton.ac.uk. To be considered for
presentation these must be received by 12 January 2006. We will
acknowledge receipt of your submission. The preliminary programme 
will be announced on 16th January, four weeks before the event.

Programme Committee

David De Roure University of Southampton, UK
Geoffrey Fox   Indiana University, USA
Carole Goble   University of Manchester, UK
Jonathan Dale  Fujitsu, USA
Jane Hunter    University of Queensland, Australia
Jim Myers      National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA

Enquiries

If you have any queries or seek further information, please contact
Nicky Harding by email on nch at ecs.soton.ac.uk or by phone on
+44 23 8059 4474.

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