[sem-grd] Reminder - GGF16 Semantic Grid workshop - deadline Jan 12

[David De Roure]

Happy New Year everyone!

Can I just remind you please that we need your position papers submitted
by next Thursday (Jan 12) for the GGF16 workshop in Athens on Feb 15.  

These are short documents (2-5 pages) under any of the themes in the 
CFP below (i.e. use cases, experience reports, ontologies, tools and
technologies, and demonstrations).  Remember our aim is to broaden
discussion so we look forward to a wide range of positions.  Projects
might want to submit multiple position papers.

Submissions to Nicky Harding please (nch at ecs.soton.ac.uk).

BTW The workshop web site is http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf16/

Thanks - we look forward to your papers!

-- Dave


                   3rd GGF Semantic Grid Workshop
                   ------------------------------

               http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf16/
                       Wednesday Feb 15, 2006
                        GGF16 Athens, Greece

                      Call for Position Papers

Building on the experiences of the current Semantic Grid activities
and on the latest challenges in Grid computing, the 3rd Semantic Grid 
Workshop at the Global Grid Forum 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, 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 community.

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 
by January 31.

Note. On Tuesday Feb 14 (10:30am-12pm) 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.

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, indicating which of the
above categories the paper is in. To be considered for presentation
these must be received by January 12, 2006. We will acknowledge
receipt of your submission. The preliminary programme will be
announced on January 16, four weeks before the event.  For demos please
give a title and one paragraph outline by email, suitable for listing 
on a Web page.

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.