AST2006

event in series::AST2006 is the title:=1st International Applications of Semantic Technologies Workshop, located in has location city::Dresden, has location country::Germany.

For more information, see web site:=http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ast2006.

Important Dates

 * Deadline for paper submissions: paper deadline:=June 16, 2006
 * Notification of acceptance: notification:=July 21, 2006
 * Camera-ready versions: camera ready due:=August 4, 2006
 * Workshop: October 5-6, 2006

Objectives
Semantic Web is a major international research effort with the goal to make web content available for intelligent knowledge processing. It draws on standard and novel techniques from various disciplines within Computer Science, including Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology, Software Agents, eCommerce, etc. The methods and tools developed and integrated for this purpose – often called Semantic Technologies – are generic and have a very large application potential outside the domain of the Semantic Web.

Such applications are currently being investigated in various disciplines within Computer Science, including Ambient Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge Management, Bioinformatics, etc. We believe that Semantic Technologies provide methods and tools which will persist in these and other application areas for the foreseeable future.

Program
To ensure a creative atmosphere during the workshop, the participants will be selected based on their submitted papers, posing important issues to be presented and discussed at the workshop. The workshop will consist of short presentations followed by discussions about the goals of the workshop: Applications of Semantic Web Technologies and outlining a plan for future research. In order to obtain an intensive exchange of ideas between the participants, there will be left extensive time for discussion.

A final panel will discuss the research agenda for the coming years, based on the presentations and results from the demos, evaluations and discussions.

Topics of Interest
This workshop shall bring together researchers and practitioners who work on applications of Semantic Technologies. It shall further the cross-fertilization between application areas and aid the technology transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop shall cover diverse application areas of Semantic Technologies, including, but not limited to, the following.


 * Ambient Intelligence
 * Cognitive Systems
 * Data Integration
 * Multimedia Data Management
 * Software Engineering
 * Cognitive Systems
 * Machine Learning
 * eScience
 * Information Extraction
 * Grid Computing
 * Peer-to-Peer Systems
 * eCommerce
 * eGovernment
 * Bioinformatics

Workshop Organising Committee

 * has OC member::Pascal Hitzler, Institute AIFB at University of Karlsruhe (DE). email: hitzler [at] aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
 * has OC member::York Sure, Institute AIFB at University of Karlsruhe (DE). email: sure [at] aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

Program Committee

 * has PC member::Jürgen Angele, ontoprise GmbH Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Elmar Dorner, SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Carole Goble, University of Manchester, Germany
 * has PC member::Gerhard Goos, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Wolfgang Hesse, Marburg, Germany
 * has PC member::Knut Hinkelmann, Solothurn, Schweiz
 * has PC member::Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
 * has PC member::Harald Kosch, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
 * has PC member::Thorsten Liebig, University of Ulm, Germany
 * has PC member::Jin Liu, T-Systems Berlin, Germany
 * has PC member::Rainer Malaka, EML Heidelberg, Germany
 * has PC member::Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
 * has PC member::Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Alexander Reinefeld, ZIB Berlin, Germany
 * has PC member::Stefan Schlobach, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Germany
 * has PC member::Michael Sintek, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
 * has PC member::Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
 * has PC member::Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
 * has PC member::Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
 * has PC member::Giovanni Tummarello, University of Ancona, Italy
 * has PC member::Walter Waterfeld, Software AG, Germany
 * has PC member::Uwe Thaden, L3S Hannover, Germany
 * has PC member::Matthias Wagner, DoCoMo, Germany
 * has PC member::Christoph Weinhardt, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Guo-Qiang Zhang, CWRU Cleveland, USA