IWI2

event series:=IWI2 is the title:=2nd Workshop on Innovations in Web Infrastructure, colocated with subevent of::WWW2006 in has location city::Edinburgh, has location state::Scotland, has location country::United Kingdom. It starts at start date:=May 22 2006 9:00 and ends at end date:=May 22 2006 18:00. For more information, see web site:=http://www.wmin.ac.uk/~courtes/iwi2006/.

Description
Underlying the infrastructure of the web is a communications infrastructure, which is responsible for implementing much of the structure and functionality of the document repository. Recently, there has been increasing interest in innovative network topologies and communication paradigms, such as peer-to-peer networks, content-based networking, and publish/subscribe which produce decentralization of control, decoupling of producers and consumers of information and asynchronous as well as synchronous information delivery. Yet there is little focus on how this research can benefit the web.

Topics

 * ontology-based routing by content
 * meta-data management in P2P networks
 * communications support for distributed reasoning
 * web topologies and distributed agents
 * content-based networking for distributed collaboration and virtual communities
 * decentralized access control and trust

Organizing Committee

 * has OC member::Simon Courtenage University of Westminster, UK
 * has OC member::David Lewis Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
 * has OC member::Thanassis Tiropanis AIT, Greece

Program Committee

 * has PC member::George Ghinea, Brunel University, UK
 * has PC member::Maurice Mulvenna, Ulster University, UK
 * has PC member::Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia
 * has PC member::Lars Schmidt-Thieme, University of Freiburg, Germany
 * has PC member::Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
 * has PC member::Laura Thomson, RMIT, Australia
 * has PC member::Phil Trwoga, University of Westminster, UK