[sem-grd] Deadline extension: Special Issue of JWSR on Semantically Augmented Metadata

[Felix Heine]

*** Deadline extended until May 31, 2005 ***

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)

--> **Extended** Submission Deadline: May 31, 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
31, 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 Moeller, TU Hamburg-Harburg
Dave Snelling, Fujitsu
Benno Stein, University Weimar


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