From mehmet at ics.mq.edu.au Thu Jan 18 18:55:48 2007 From: mehmet at ics.mq.edu.au (Mehmet Orgun) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:55:48 +1100 (EST) Subject: [OWL] CFP: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2007) Message-ID: <200701182355.l0INtmjY015635@marcus.ics.mq.edu.au> [apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS ================== 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2007) July 24-27, 2OO7, Beijing, China In Conjunction with 31st IEEE Annual IntÆl Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007) (http://www.compsac.org/) Beginning 2006, COMPSAC is designated as the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Software Technology and Applications. WORKSHOP THEME -------------- Applying Semantic Web Technologies in Research and Development of Software Agents, Mobile Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Semantic web technologies render dynamic, heterogeneous, distributed, shared content equally accessible to human reader and software agents. Here the vision is to achieve a synergy with multi-agent systems (MAS) technologies whereby agents will be in the center stage. Distributed agents functioning autonomously can utilize semantic Web content to gather and aggregate knowledge, reason and infer new results towards achieving their goals and generating new knowledge. Such knowledge in turn may be disseminated and used to achieve the shared goal of the agents system. ESAS workshop series aims at garnering the synergy of both technologies by taking up both the semantic web aspect and the agent aspect of the common research issue. Topics of interest span a wide spectrum of both theory and practice of agent architectures, software agents, mobile agents, autonomous semantic agents, context-aware intelligent agents, agents as semantic web services, multi-agent systems, agent communities, cooperation and goal seeking through sharing policy and ontology, safety & security in systems, other QoS issues, and so on. Mobile agent and MAS technologies are crucial in realizing multi-party application systems. Semantic Web technologies augment MAS by enabling agents with functioning based on the semantics of their mission and of the world around them. Agents, implemented as Web services in developing distributed control and processing applications, entail interesting consequences such as situation awareness, semantic composition of services, context sensitive long-lasting transactions, effecting service policies and quality levels, etc. Complex applications could become realizable with novel features such as factory floor automation for flexible production, collaborative discovery of uncharted geography (for example, cooperative labyrinth discovery), traffic management and info dissemination with facilitation of emergency services, financial markets forecasting with optimization of portfolio gain, etc. We envisage a strong undercurrent of intelligent software agents, mobile agents, and MAS running through this workshop. Side by side with the use of semantic Web technologies, there are several foci of interest: * Software Agents, Mobile Agents, and MAS: issues relating to architecture, implementation, coordination, service levels, etc. of semantic or otherwise agents. * Agent, MAS and Semantic Web Technologies: concomitant utilization of specific technologies in agent, MAS, and semantic Web implementations; semantic agent communities & applications; case studies of best-practice MAS applications; projects in the making; * Ontologies for Agents and MAS: agent cooperation ontology; ontology of workflow in MAS; ontologies for distributed applications; sharing and semantic interoperability; discovery and operations on ontologies; * Platforms for agent and MAS implementation: languages, frameworks, tools, integrated development environments and software engineering practices supporting semantic or otherwise software agent & MAS architectures, coordination, trust & security mechanisms, description, discovery and composition of agent-based services. * Other subjects of relevance in software agents, mobile agents, agent-based and multi-agent systems. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- March 20, 2007 deadline for paper submission. April 16, 2007 notification of acceptance. April 30, 2007 camera-ready document and author registration due. SUBMISSION ---------- Original papers not being submitted to journals or other conferences will be considered. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee according to its originality, significance, correctness, presentation, and relevance. We encourage authors to present position papers on practical studies and experiments, critiques of existing work, emerging issues, and novel ideas under development. Papers must be submitted electronically via the ESAS 2007 Submission Page (http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/2007/ESAS/). Manuscripts will be limited to 6 pages including all figures, tables, and references. The format of submitted papers must follow the IEEE conference proceedings guidelines (i.e., 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format (PDF: instruct.pdf; DOC: instruct.doc); Layout Guide (PDF: format.pdf; DOC: format.doc; all under ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/). Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the 31st IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007). It should be noted that all IEEE COMPSAC conference proceedings are published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS). All CPS Publications are captured in the online IEEE Digital Library, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index (Elsevier's Engineering Information Index). At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the workshop for the paper to be included in the proceedings. International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2006, http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2006/ESAS.html) held in conjunction with the 30th COMPSAC (http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2006/index.html) was a great success with 35% acceptance rate. Please refer to the Post-Workshop Activity section below for information on ongoing journal publication. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ------------------- Atilla ELCI (Chairman) Internet Technology Research Center and Dept. of Computer Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus, Turkey Atilla.Elci at emu.edu.tr Mamadou Tadiou KONE (Co-Chair) Dept. of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Laval University, Qu‰bec, Canada Kone.Mamadou at ift.ulaval.ca Tharam S. DILLON (Co-Chair) Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Australia tharam3 at it.uts.edu.au Mehmet A. ORGUN (Co-Chair) Department of Computing Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia mehmet at comp.mq.edu.au PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- * Alia ABDELMOTY, Cardiff University, UK * Mohamed ABORIZKA, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt * Alex ABRAMOVICH, Gordon College, Israel * Khalil A. ABUOSBA, Arab Academy- B & F Jordan * Zeki BAYRAM, Eastern Mediterranean Univ. TRNC * Elizabeth CHANG, Curtin University of Technology, Australia * Hasan DAVULCU, Arizona State University, U.S.A. * Marin DIMITROV, OntoText Lab, Bulgaria * Asuman DOGAC,Middle East Technical University, Turkey * Schahram DUSTDAR, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Vadim ERMOLAYEV, Zaporozhye State University, Ukraine * Martin GAEDKE, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * M.Adeeb GHONAIMY, Ain Shams University, Egypt * Paolo GIORGINI, University of Trento, Italy * Fausto GIUNCHIGLIA, University of Trento, Italy * Ibrahim GOKCEN, General Electric Co. Global Research Center, USA * Giancarlo GUIZZARDI, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy * Ismail Khalil IBRAHIM, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Mustafa JARRAR, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit, Belgium * Eui-Hyun JUNG, Anyang University, Korea * Ahmad KAYED, Applied Science University, Jordan; SNC- Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (on leave) * C. Maria KEET, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Alexander KOSTIN, Eastern Mediterranean Univ. TRNC * Pieter De LEENHEER, Semantics Tech & Appls Research Lab., Vrije Universiteit, Belgium * Jiming LIU, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong * Brahim MEDJAHED, University of Michigan, USA * John-Jules MEYER, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands * Vitaliy MEZHUEV, Berdyansk State University, Ukraine * Eyal OREN, DERI Galway, Ireland * Michal PECHOUCEK, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic * Aleksander PIVK, Jozef Stefan Insitute, Slovenia * Stanislav POKRAEV, Telematica Instituut, The Nederlands * R. RAJESH, Bharathiar University, India * Mustafa RIZA, Eastern Mediterranean Univ. TRNC * Markus SCHAAL, Bilkent Univ. Turkey * Michael STOLLBERG, DERI Innsbruck, Austria, and Stanford University, USA * Vijayan SUGUMARAN,Oakland University, USA * Jan TREUR, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * M. Osman UNALIR, Egean University, Turkey * Rainer UNLAND, University of Essen, Germany * Laurentiu VASILIU, DERI Galway Ireland * Stephen J.H. YANG, National Central University, Taiwan * Goran ZUGIC, Semantion, Inc., Canada The Program Committee is being expanded. Those interested in joining may contact the workshop chairperson Atilla.Elci at EMU.edu.tr by supplying the following information: * Name, position and affiliation * Contact numbers and mailing address * E-mail and Web site addresses * Research interests and a list of relevant publications * A brief biography. LIKELY PARTICIPANTS ------------------- We expect researchers and practitioners of software agents, mobile agents, MAS and semantic Web technologies to propose papers and to attend the workshop. Those with interests in ontology-based systems, semantic agents, and agent-based systems are welcome. Researchers working on the following are especially encouraged to propose papers: realization of multi-agent systems through semantic web technology, ontology-based agent applications, distributed control and processing applications, security, interoperability, service levels and quality issues in such systems. Enterprises and research centers developing ontgologies, languages, integrated development environments, tools, and middleware that can be employed in engineering the above are encouraged to propose demo and tutorial presentations. POST-WORKSHOP ACTIVITY ---------------------- The authors of a number of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in a relevant journal. Best papers of ESAS 2006 are being prepared for a special issue of the Multiagent and Grid Systems - An International Journal, IOS Press, ISSN 1574-1702, http://www.iospress.nl/flyers_j/15741702.pdf. GENERAL INQUIRIES ----------------- For updated information, please refer to http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/workshops/ESAS.html or contact the workshop chairperson Atilla.Elci at EMU.edu.tr. From asidhu at biomap.org Sun Jan 28 18:18:11 2007 From: asidhu at biomap.org (Amandeep S. Sidhu) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:18:11 +1100 Subject: [OWL] CFP: 2nd Ontologies for Biomedical Systems Track with IEEE CBMS 2007 Message-ID: <1170026291.45bd2f334020c@mail.opentransfer.com> 2nd Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems for 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems http://cbms07.biomap.org/ Biomedical Ontologies have developed in an uncoordinated way, often reflecting mere relations of 'association' between what are called 'concepts', and serving primarily the purposes of information extraction from on-line biomedical literature and databases. In this track we will broadly cover current research on development biomedical ontologies, and various issues in biomedical informatics addressed by these ontologies. Track will consist of papers in a biomedical informatics sub discipline, refereed by international program committee. Papers selected for this special track should report on significant unpublished work suitable for publication as a conference paper. This track will broadly address following areas: * Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data * Biomedical Data Integration, Analysis and Interoperability * Support of Ontologies for Biological Information Retrieval and Web Services * Tools for Development and Management of Biomedical Ontologies Last year the special track on ONTOLOGIES FOR BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS at CBMS 2006 got a good response and some high quality papers. We have accepted 8 of 17 papers submitted to the track. More information about this track can be found at: http://cbms06.biomap.org/ In recent years, we have learned a great deal about the criteria which must be satisfied if ontology is to allow true information integration and automatic reasoning across data and information derived from different sources. The goal of this track is to survey existing biomedical ontologies and reform them in such a way as to allow true information integration in biomedical domain. Authors are invited to submit original papers exploring the theories, techniques, and applications of biomedical ontologies. Papers are invited (but not limited) to the following themes: * Biomedical Ontologies for Genetics, Proteomics, Diseases, Privacy etc. * Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data * Semantics in Biological Data Modeling * Use of semantics to manage Interoperation in Biomedical Databases * Semantic Web technologies and formalisms for Biomedical Data * Ontology representation and exchange languages for bioinformatics * Biomedical Ontologies and OWL * Biological Data Integration and Management using Ontologies * Biomedical Data Engineering using Ontologies * Application of Biomedical Ontologies for Heterogeneous Database Access * Query Optimization Techniques for Biomedical Database using Ontologies * Support of Ontologies for Biological Information Retrieval and Web Services * Change Management in Biomedical Ontologies * Tools for Development and Management of Biomedical Ontologies Special Issue and Edited Book For second year, we will be running a Special Issue of International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA) on "Ontologies for Bioinformatics II" in early 2008. Current issue of Ontologies for Bioinformatics, to be published in 2007 received 24 papers of which 8 are accepted. High Quality submissions will be published as book chapters in book entitled "Biomedical Data and Applications", as a part of Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence of Springer in late 2007. Important Dates February 15, 2007 Submission of a 3-page paper summary March 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance April 15, 2007 Final camera-ready paper (6 pages, maximum) due April 15, 2007 Pre-registration deadline Paper Submission and Publication Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. There are two possibilities for initially submitting a paper: * A full paper (6 pages). It is strongly encouraged to submit a full paper, which enables reviewers to assess it more objectively and authors to substantially improve the paper based on the review feedback. In this way, the high quality of this conference series can be adequately maintained and/or improved. * A summary (3 pages). CBMS 2007 serves also as a forum for exchanging interesting and novel results of a work in progress and in this manner provides participants with an opportunity to come up-to-date on important issues. In this way, the 3-pages summaries are also accepted in the case that a full paper can not be delivered until the deadline. No hardcopy submissions are being accepted. Electronic submissions of original technical research papers through online submission system (http://cbms2007.uni-mb.si/papers/) will only be accepted in PDF format. File size is limited to 2 MB. There are two possibilities for presenting an accepted paper: oral presentation (regular papers) or poster presentation (short papers). Authors can also indicate their preference when submitting a paper. The final decision will be made by the Program Committee based on the reviews. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the CBMS 2007 Symposium. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Additionally, selected high quality papers may be invited to submit a substantially extended version for the special issue of an international medical informatics journal (Journal of Medical Systems, International Journal of Medical Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine,Computer methods and programs in biomedicine). At least one of authors must pre-register to have the paper published in the proceedings. If you only plan to attend and are not submitting a paper, pre-registration is still strongly encouraged. This conference is space-limited, and registration may not be available on-site. For further questions, please contact technical program chair: cbms07 at biomap.org Track Chairs * Tharam S. Dillon (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Elizabeth Chang (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Technical Program Chairs * Amandeep S. Sidhu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA) Track Program Committee Alexey Tsymbal (Siemens, Germany) David Hansen (e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO, Australia) David Taniar (Monash University, Australia) Ernesto Damiani (Computer Science Department, Milan University, Italy) Fabio Porto (Database Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland) Farookh K. Hussain (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Fedja Hadzic (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Huiru Zheng (University of Ulster, UK) Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA) James Geller (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) Jason Wang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) Li Liao (University of Delaware, USA) Ling Feng (Tsinghua University, China) Maja Hadzic (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Midori Harris (GO Consortium, European Bioinformatics Institute) Mustafa Jarrar (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Pornpit Wongthongtham (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Rajugan Rajagopalapillai (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Robert Meersman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Silke Eckstein (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany) Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Sun Kim (School of Informatics, Indiana University, USA) Vicky Nassis (La Trobe University, Australia) Wenny Rahayu (La Trobe University, Australia) Werner Ceusters (New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences, USA) Yi Pan (Georgia State University, USA) _______________________________________________ -- Amandeep S. Sidhu, MIEEE, MACM, MACS, MISCB Senior Researcher (Bioinformatics) Room CB10.04.130 Faculty of Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia UTS Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"it.uts.edu.au Personal Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"biomap.org Personal Web: http://www.amandeep.org/ Project Web: http://www.proteinontology.info/ Ph: +61 2 9514 4469 Fax: +61 2 9514 1807 Mobile: +61 448897900