[sem-grd] CFP: Special Issue of JWSR about Semantically Augmented Metadata

[Felix Heine]

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Special Issue on

“Bridging Communities:
Semantically Augmented Metadata for Services, Grids, and Software 
Engineering”

The International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR)

--> Submission Deadline: May 15, 2005 <--

http://www.upb.de/pc2/cfp-idea

Guest Editors: Odej Kao, Felix Heine

Introduction
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In large-scale distributed system, semantically rich metadata is a key 
issue,
e.g. for machine-processible description of entities. Examples are the
behavioral description of interfaces in service oriented architectures, 
as well
as the description of resources in Grid environments. Semantically rich
descriptions are necessary preconditions for automatic management, 
automatic
configuration, and user-friendly discovery of entities. They are a vital 
part of
future information repositories and brokering applications, in order to 
resolve
interoperability problems in large heterogeneous environments. 
Researchers from
different fields are working on these topics. The Grid community has 
started the
Semantic Grid initiative, which exploits technologies from the Semantic Web
community like Ontologies and Description Logics. Research targets the
description of resources, services and workflows, but also the 
description of
contents of databases and many more application specific issues. 
Researchers
from the software engineering community are developing different 
technologies
following a similar goal, e.g. graph-based approaches to describe the 
behavior
of services to support the software engineering process, and for online
composition of modules and services. The Semantic Web community has e.g.
designed the OWL-S ontology for service description.

Objective of the Special Issue
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This special issue aims to bridge research communities which focus on 
the common
goal of augmenting metadata to semantically-rich information. Papers of 
interest
include surveys of the methods presently used in these fields, papers
highlighting the relationship between different methods, and papers 
presenting
new approaches, also from fields not mentioned here.

Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:
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- Semantically rich metadata
- Ontologies for resource and service description
- Graph-based service description
- Metadata based on Description Logics
- Standards for the description of services
- New methods for service description
- Architectures for white-, yellow and green pages
- Algorithms for semantically rich matching of descriptions
- Description and matching of workflows
- Semantic metadata for databases

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
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Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 15, 
2005,
papers for this special theme issue on “Bridging Communities: Semantically
Augmented Metadata for Services, Grids, and Software Engineering”. All
submissions must be original and not be under review by another 
publication.
Authors of accepted papers will be notified by July 15, 2005 about the
acceptance status and sent paper organizational guidelines. Full 
chapters are
expected to be submitted by November 15, 2005. All submitted papers will be
reviewed on a blind review basis. Papers must follow APA style for 
reference
citations. The special issue of the journal is tentatively scheduled to be
published by Idea Group, Inc. <www.idea-group.com>, publisher of the 
“Idea Group
Publishing,” “Information Science Publishing,” “IRM Press,” CyberTech
Publishing" and "Idea Group Reference".

Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically to:
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Felix Heine, fh at upb.de

Program Committee (preliminary)
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John Brooke, University of Manchester
Gregor Engels, Paderborn University
Carole Goble, University of Manchester
Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Montreal
Patrick Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola
Ralf Möller, TU Hamburg-Harburg
Dave Snelling, Fujitsu
Benno Stein, University Weimar


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