[foaf-protocols] Fwd: Call for Papers "Identity and Reference in web-based Knowledge Representation" workshop

Tue Mar 10 01:48:55 CET 2009

It looks like the paper we are writing for SPOT2009 could fit in here  
very well also :-)

Henry

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> Date: 9 March 2009 17:00:31 CEST
> To: Larry Masinter <masinter at adobe.com>, "www-tag at w3.org" <www-tag at w3.org 
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> Subject: RE: Call for Papers "Identity and Reference in web-based  
> Knowledge   Representation" workshop
>
> FYI, Paolo Bouquet informs me that the submission deadline for this  
> has been extended to March 16.
>
>
>
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> Subject: Call for Papers "Identity and Reference in web-based  
> Knowledge Representation" workshop
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> IR-KR2009 at IJCAI-09
>
> July 11-13, 2009
> Pasadena, CA, USA
> =======================
>
> The IJCAI-09 Workshop on
> "Identity and Reference in web-based Knowledge Representation" (IR- 
> KR2009)
> http://ir-kr.okkam.org/
>
> July 11-13, 2009
> Pasadena, California, USA
>
> held at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
> (IJCAI-09)
> http://ijcai-09.org
>
>
> -- IR-KR2009 goals --
>
> The goal of this workshop, which in past years was mainly organised
> within the Web and Semantic Web (SW) communities (see past editions at
> WWW2006, WWW2007, ESWC200q8), is to widen debate on the impact and the
> challenges that the notions of *identity* and *reference* in
> web-oriented KR poses to some of the core concepts of AI.
>
> -- Background & Description of the workshop --
>
> The Semantic Web initiative advances the idea that the web may become
> a space not only for publishing and interlinking documents (through
> HTML hyperlinks), but also knowledge bases (e.g. in the form of RDF
> graphs) in an open and fully decentralized environment.
>
> Even though models and languages used to implement the nascent
> Semantic Web have been taken from long-standing research in AI, SW and
> AI have different priorities. While traditionally a strong focus
> within AI has been developing theories and code to support sound and
> complete reasoning, web-oriented KR has a primary concern of web-wide
> information interoperability and integration.
>
> Perhaps the most central issue in reconciling these concerned is the
> Principle of Global Identifiers: "global naming leads to global
> network effects" (see Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One,
> 2004, at http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webarch-20041215/). As for the
> web of documents, the overall value of such open and distributed
> network of truly interlinked knowledge sources, based on global names,
> would be immensely bigger than the sum of the value of the components.
>
> This central role of identity and reference for a web-scale KR poses
> new challenges to traditional KR, and many researchers have suggested
> that the concept of URI may deeply affect the notions of language
> (e.g. the semantics of using the "same" URI in different models),
> reference (e.g. rigid vs. non rigid designation), interpretation
> (e.g. the meaning of "links" across knowledge bases) & reasoning
> (e.g. distributed reasoning across theories) in traditional
> logic-based KR in AI. This workshop addresses these challenges.
>
> -- Expected outcome --
>
> The anticipated outcome of the workshop is to assess the state of the
> art in the area of Identity and Reference in AI and the SW, and to go
> beyond the limited scope of the current Semantic Web, as well as to
> discuss and critically evaluate approach and next steps in
> implementing and reasoning about identity and reference. It is
> expected that the workshop will provide a valuable opportunity for
> cross-fertilization across different research communities.
>
> -- Workshop format --
>
> Based on the successful experience in the past workshops on this
> topic, the format of IR-KR2009 will be the following:
>
>    * a keynote talk that illustrates the importance of the topic
>    * very short presentations of the accepted papers, to give
>      participants an overview of the research work of the main
>      workshop contributors
>    * presentation of a detailed list of topics to discuss, by the
>      workshop chair
>    * extensive, moderated plenary discussion
>    * collaborative write-up of conclusions and next steps
>
> -- Submissions --
>
> The workshop aims at collecting contributions which can roughly be
> grouped as follows:
>
>    * Foundations: formal and conceptual theories of identity and
>      reference for web-oriented KR
>    * Formal theories: semantics for KR on the web, soundness and
>      completeness of web-oriented reasoning, semantics of interlinked
>      data
>    * Vision papers: visionary solutions to the problems of identity
>      and reference in KR
>    * Project papers: descriptions of research & development projects
>      in this area
>    * Experiences: contributions from research and industry that
>      illustrate case studies or approaches to deal with the issues of
>      identity and reference on a web-scale
>    * Critical viewpoints: discussions of advantages and disadvantages
>      of the proposed approaches
>
> We especially encourage contributions from groups or organizations
> which are working on assembling large knowledge-based data collections
> in order to compare the different practical solutions which were found
> for integrating semantic data from multiple sources.
>
> -- Submission Requirements and Dates --
>
> IR-KR2009 will accept submissions for full papers, posters and
> demonstrations. The selection will be based on the significance and
> the quality of submissions as well as oriented towards fostering
> cross-pollination and discussions during the event. All selected
> abstracts will be included in the IJCAI-09 Working Notes. Authors are
> kindly requested to provide keywords upon submission. The format for
> submissions is the same as that of IJCAI-09. Please check
> http://ijcai-09.org for the style files. Submissions should be no
> longer than 5 pages.
>
> - Submission deadline (papers, posters, demos): March 6, 2009
> - Notification to authors: April 17, 2009
> - Camera-ready version: May 8, 2009
> - Workshop dates: July 11-13, 2009
>
> Submissions will be managed through EasyChair.org at:
>
> https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=irkr2009
>
> -- Attendance --
>
> Following IJCAI-09 policy, the total number of participants in
> IR-KR2009 will be limited to 75 people. This includes organizers, PC
> members, invited speakers, authors and attendees. Authors will be
> selected based on the significance of their submission and will be
> preferred during registration to non-presenting
> attendees. Non-presenting attendees will be selected on a
> first-come-first-served basis. Please refer to http://ijcai-09.org for
> the application procedure and fees.
>
> -- Workshop Chair --
>
> Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento [PRIMARY CONTACT]
> bouquet at disi.unitn.it
>
> -- Workshop Organizers --
>
> Marko Grobelnik, IJS, Slovenia
> marko.grobelnik at ijs.si
>
> Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh
> hhalpin at ibiblio.org
>
> Frank van Harmelen. VU Amsterdam
> Frank.van.Harmelen at cs.vu.nl
>
> Heiko Stoermer. University of Trento
> stoermer at dit.unitn.it
>
> Giovanni Tummarello. DERI Galway
> giovanni.tummarello at deri.org
>
> Michael Witbrock, Cycorp Inc
> witbrock at cycorp.eu
>
> -- Program Committee --
>
> Confirmed members:
>
> Bo Andersson
> Karl Aberer
> Michael K. Bergman
> Dan Brickley
> Werner Ceusters
> Kendall Clark
> Richard Cyganiak
> Hugh Glaser
> Nicola Guarino
> Gregor Hackenbroich
> Tom Heath
> Alexander Löser
> Antonio Maña
> Larry Masinter
> Bijan Parsia
> Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> Valentina Presutti
> Marta Sabou
> Leo Sauermann
> Luciano Serafini
> Dagobert Soergel
> Andraz Tori
> Bernard Vatant
>