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International Workshop on the Semantic Web
Hawaii,
May 7, 2002
We
are please to announce two invited talks by:
Rakesh
Agrawal: Making
Semantic Web Real: Some Building Blocks
Mike
Uschold: Creating
Semantically Integrated Communities on the World Wide Web
Workshop
Outline
The "Semantic
Web" is used to denote the next evolution step of the
Web, which establishes a layer of machine understandable data.
The data is suitable for automated agents, sophisticated search
engines and interoperability services, which provide a previously
not reachable grade of automation. The ultimate goal of the
Semantic Web is to allow machines the sharing and exploitation
of knowledge in the Web way, i.e. without central authority,
with few basic rules, in a scalable, adaptable, extensible
manner.
The Semantic
Web workshop at WWW-2002 will complement the Semantic
Web track at the main conference (and other related
events) by providing a forum for active discussion
on the current achievements, pitfalls, and the future research
directions of the Semantic Web. Our goal is to provide a forum
for fruitful discussion sessions rather than a mini-conference.
We solicit papers, but at the workshop itself the emphasis
will be on sharing experiences with time for all participants
to contribute to the discussion. The workshop will be structured
around group discussions designed to help us achieve greater
understanding of the following issues: What are the recent
successes in Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Information
Integration, and other Computer Science fields that are relevant
to the Semantic Web? What are the unique challenges of the
Semantic Web that do not allow us to apply that research directly.
How do we overcome these challenges? What are new areas of
basic research that the Semantic Web needs? What are possible
killer apps for the Semantic Web? How can we achieve the critical
mass of ontologies, annotated data, tools, agents to make
the Semantic Web as ubiquitous as the regular Web is today?
Relevant workshop topics include but are not limited to:
- Trust
in the Semantic Web
- Query
languages for RDF
- Language
and Representation issues of the Semantic Web (RDF, OIL,
Topic-Maps, RSS…)
- Tools,
systems and methodologies for engineering of, storing of
and reasoning with RDF data
- Migrating
existing information to be usable for RDF applications
- Information
integration and Mediation on the Web
- Semantic
Web applications
- Semantic
Web standards
The Workshop gives the attendants the possibility to discuss
ideas, problems and visions in depth and face to face. The
objective of the workshop is to bring researchers and developers
of the Semantic Web together not only to represent mature
work, but also to discuss the ongoing development in order
to allow for smoother and faster progression of the Semantic
Web. We plan to limit the number of formal presentations and
concentrate on discussion sessions instead.
Natasha
Noy, Martin Frank,
Steffen
Staab
This event is sponsored by:
Last change,
Steffen Staab, Feb 19, 2002.
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