[sem-grd] Deadline Approaching: CFP: Special Issue of JWSR on 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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Felix Heine              Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing
Paderborn University, Fuerstenallee 11, 33102 Paderborn, Germany
phone: +49 (0) 5251 60-6322            fax: +49 (0) 5251 60-6297
mailto:fh at upb.de                          http://www.upb.de/pc2/





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