International Workshop on
Semantic e-Science
3rd September, 2006,
Beijing, China. (SeS2006), co-located with ASWC2006
Call
for Papers
In the successful series of
Semantic Grid and e-Science events we
intend to bring together researchers and practitioners around the world
from the quickly developing research areas of the Semantic Web, Grid
and e-Science. As semantic technologies are being widely accepted in
various e-science areas such as life science or bioinformatics, it is
necessary and urgent to offer semantically enriched methods, tools,
middleware to facilitate semantic modeling, system building, searching,
and data analyzing in e-science applications. Thus the
main goal of this workshop is to lay the foundations for e-Science
within the Semantic Web scenario.
The
aim of this workshop is to ground Semantic e-Science firmly on the
needs of the Semantic Web and general science research community. We
want to encourage and stimulate discussion about the current state of
the art in Semantic e-Science and its future direction. Currently,
ontologies and the Semantic Web attract researchers from all around the
world and from various disciplines. There have been many approaches of
using ontologies in the e-Science domain, which has been introduced in
several past Semantic Grid and e-Science events. However, the role of
ontology in the Semantic e-Science research has still not been
unambiguously formalized. On the other hand, ontology-based tools for
various e-Science branches have been widely developed and already
attracted the attention from traditional science research community and
provided real cases and experience for applying Semantic Web
technologies. We regard it as necessity to set a research agenda at
this point in time, in order to steer the development and the research
efforts in the most rewarding direction towards our common goal of
realizing the Semantic e-Science. Otherwise we fear that effort,
motivation and funding may be invested less effectively, slowing the
realization and adaptation of the Semantic Web technology in the
e-Science research. Furthermore, there is also a great opportunity for
the building the collaboration between the EU and non-EU universities,
especially Asian universities, which locate at the one of the most
active economical areas around the world. The holding of this workshop
would help to build closer connection between researchers from both
sides, and consolidate the collaborations.
Main
topics
of interest include but are not limited to:
Semantic
e-Science Foundations:
Semantic
Infrastructure and Architecture for e-Science
Semantic
Web and Grid middleware
Service
Oriented Architecture for Semantic Grid
Scalability
and flexibility of e-Science infrastructure
Semantic
Data Integration for e-Science
Semantic
Web services for e-Science
Ontology
Engineering for e-Science
Web
Trust for e-Science
Knowledge
Management for e-Science
Complex
e-Science Process Management
Complex
Semantic Network
Semantic
Web Applications and Ontologies for:
System
Biology, Bio&Medical Informatics
Complex
Biological Network Modeling.
Geography,
Environment and Climate
Chemistry,
Physics and Mechanics
Web
Service applications
P2P
applications
Digital
Libraries and Scientific Publication
Ubiquitous
and Mobile Semantic Web applications
Information
Retrieval and Machine Learning
HCI
issues and Usability
Case
study and user issues
Submission
and Proceedings
Interested
authors should submit an electronic PDF and source version of their
papers to Yimin
Wang
prior to the paper submission deadline. The first page of submitted
papers should include: title, author names, affiliations, postal
addresses, electronic mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers for all
authors, and a brief abstract. All correspondence will be sent to the
author mentioned as contact person in the electronic title page (by
default, the first author). Submissions should not exceed 10 pages and
should be formatted according to the guidelines of the Springer Lecture
Notes. Out workshop also accpets posters and demos up to 4 pages
length with LNCS format.
The workshop proceedings will be published in electronic version
online. Extended version of selected papers will be published as a supplement issue of BMC
Bioinformatics journal (confirmed) and CAI (confirmed), depending on the different aspects of proceedings.
The workshop proceedings have good chance to be selected to these two journal special issues.
BMC Bioinformatics is a respectable, SCI indexed journal with a focus
on bio/medical informatics, with impactor 5.2. CAI is an active journal
which is also SCI-indexed.
Important
Dates
Full Paper Submission Deadline: July 15th, 2006
Notification
of acceptance: Auguest 5th, 2006
Camera
ready deadline: August 15th, 2006
Workshop
date: September 3th, 2006 (to be settled)