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| Acronym = NEFORS 2008<br />
| Title = Second International Workshop on new forms of reasoning for the semantic web: scaleable, tolerant and dynamic<br />
| Type = Workshop<br />
| Series = <br />
| Field = Semantic web<br />
| Homepage = nefors08.larkc.eu<br />
| Start date = Dec 8, 2008 <br />
| End date = Dec 11, 2008<br />
| City= Pathumthani<br />
| State = <br />
| Country = Thailand<br />
| Abstract deadline = <br />
| Submission deadline = Sep 28, 2008<br />
| Notification = Sep 30, 2008<br />
| Camera ready = <br />
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Second International Workshop on New forms of reasoning for the<br />
Semantic Web: scaleable, tolerant and dynamic<br />
<br />
http://nefors08.larkc.eu<br />
<br />
Co-located with the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008)<br />
http://www.aswc2008.org/<br />
<br />
Pathumthani, Thailand, 8th-11th December 2008<br />
<br />
===================================================================<br />
<br />
Workshop Objectives<br />
===================<br />
<br />
The Semantic Web is the vision of a Web of data usable for both humans<br />
but also machines. This web, consists of inter-connected instance data<br />
annotated with possibly expressive ontologies. Therefore a tremendous<br />
amount of information becomes available that should be processed based<br />
on formal semantics attached to it. The Semantic Web community has<br />
developed a number of languages (such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL) that<br />
deploy logic for this purpose. Impressive progress has been made on<br />
scalable storage, querying and inference for these languages, and they<br />
are successfully being deployed on large intranets and medium-scale<br />
web-applications.<br />
<br />
However existing reasoning techniques often fail to live up to the<br />
expectations put into them in this context. They can often neither<br />
deal with high number of instances, the expressiveness of the<br />
ontologies describing them or the inherent inconsistency and<br />
incompleteness of data on the Web.<br />
<br />
This workshop is intended to focus on these problems of scalability<br />
and robustness of reasoning on the Web, and furthermore to investigate<br />
alternative reasoning methods, which take incompleteness and<br />
distribution of data and knowledge as inherent properties into<br />
account.<br />
<br />
NeForS08 is the follow-up of the first international workshop on<br />
"New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scalable, tolerant and<br />
dynamic", which took place in Busan, Korea in November 2007 and was<br />
co-located with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference<br />
(ISWC 2007) and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2007).<br />
<br />
<br />
Topics of Interest<br />
==================<br />
<br />
We welcome all research contributions that address one or more of the<br />
following topics:<br />
<br />
* Reasoning for the Web<br />
* Querying and searching<br />
* Scalability to the Web level<br />
* Efficient storage of structured data that scale to a very large size<br />
<br />
We also aim to attract participants from scientific fields not<br />
typically seen at Semantic Web events:<br />
<br />
* Economics can tell us about cost-benefit trade-off models, sunk-cost<br />
theory and the role of negotiation in obtaining near-optimal results<br />
under bounded resources<br />
<br />
* Cognitive Science can tell us about strategies of human memory and<br />
human reasoning which is so succesful in reaching good enough<br />
conclusion in limited time-spans, using methods such as priming,<br />
attention scoping, recency-based self-optimising memory, etc.<br />
<br />
* Computational Learning Theory has contributions to make with their<br />
notions of Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) computing, and<br />
strategies for abstraction and compression of information.<br />
<br />
* Combinatorial Search has made recent breakthroughs in handling<br />
massive search-spaces with heuristics based on Monte Carlo<br />
simulations.<br />
<br />
<br />
Event Information<br />
=================<br />
<br />
The workshop will take place during the 3rd Asian Semantic Web<br />
Conference (ASWC2008) as a full-day event. It will be organized as a<br />
full day event and include an invited talk by Kyung-il Tony Lee,<br />
president and CEO of Saltlux Inc. on the industrial view on semantic<br />
technologies and the need for large-scale reasoning.<br />
<br />
Please note that for every accepted paper at least one of the authors<br />
must attend the workshop and must register for the workshop and the<br />
main conference. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance<br />
at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot<br />
accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have<br />
submitted a paper will be given priority.<br />
<br />
<br />
Submissions<br />
===========<br />
<br />
The workshop invites full papers (up to 15 pages) as well as short<br />
papers (up to 5 pages). All contributions will be peer reviewed by the<br />
program commitee (see http://nefors08.larkc.eu) and accepted<br />
submissions will be published in a dedicated book. The number of<br />
accepted papers will be kept deliberately low in order to leave<br />
sufficient time for discussion after presentations. Additionally we<br />
are considering a special issue in a journal on semantic computing for<br />
extended versions of selected, high quality submissions.<br />
<br />
Submitted papers must be written in English and one of the following<br />
format must be used for the first submission: PDF, PS, DOC. For<br />
submissions please follow LNCS formatting instructions (see<br />
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 for<br />
details) to prepare your paper and consider using the camera ready<br />
format even for the first submission.<br />
<br />
Furthermore papers need to be submitted electronically through the<br />
EasyChair using the following link:<br />
http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=nefors08<br />
<br />
<br />
Important Dates<br />
===============<br />
<br />
* September 15, 2008: Submission of papers<br />
* September 30, 2008: Notification of acceptance<br />
* October 15, 2008: Camera-ready version due<br />
* December 8, 2008: Workshop<br />
<br />
<br />
Organizers<br />
==========<br />
<br />
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br />
Uwe Keller, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria<br />
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan and<br />
The International WIC Institute/BJUT, China<br />
<br />
Program Committee<br />
=================<br />
<br />
Ruzica Piskac, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland<br />
Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br />
Lael Schooler, MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany<br />
Pascal Hitzler, Institut for Angewandte Informatik und Formale<br />
Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany<br />
Jia Hu, The International WIC Institute/BJUT, Beijing, China<br />
Yue Pan, IBM Research Laboratory, Beijing, China<br />
Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China<br />
Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL, Milano, Italy<br />
Stefania Galizia, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University,<br />
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom<br />
Guilin Qi, Institut for Angewandte Informatik und Formale<br />
Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany<br />
Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, Austin, Texas, USA<br />
Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China<br />
Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Trento, Italy<br />
<br />
<br />
Steering Committee<br />
===================<br />
Dieter Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria<br />
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br />
<br />
Contact<br />
=======<br />
Florian Fischer<br />
Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria<br />
Technikerstr. 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria<br />
Email: florian.fischer@sti2.at<br />
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