6th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2007)

in conjunction with
18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2007)

September 3-7, 2007
Regensburg, Germany

http://www.dexa.org/webs

Dear Colleagues,
you are invited to submit your papers to the 6th International Workshop on Web Semantics (part of the 18th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA), to be held in Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007.
The objective of the workshop Web Semantics (WebS) is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss research issues and experience in developing and deploying Semantic Web concepts, applications, and solutions being an international forum for the presentation of both theoretical and applicative results. Papers describing Semantic Web application experiences are particularly encouraged.

Topic

The relevant topics include the following (but are not limited to):

Paper Submission Details

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and application papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 5 two-column pages (IEEE Proceeding style) including figures and references. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. Authors of accepted papers are requested to sign the IEEE copyright form. The author guidelines can be found at IEEE Conference Publishing Services - Proceedings Author Forms.
Electronic submission of manuscripts (in postscript, word or pdf format) is required and will be handled via the workshop Web site http://www.dexa.org/webs. For any questions please contact webs@faw.uni-linz.ac.at.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Papers accepted for presentation will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2007 workshops.

Authors are requested to send their paper(s) to be received by March 02, 2007.

Evaluation Process

All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and technical soundness. Each paper will be refereed by at least two to three researchers in the topical area.

Important Dates

Paper submission: March 16, 2007 (new deadline)
Notification of acceptance: May 09, 2007
Camera-ready copies due: May 25, 2007
Webs 2007 Workshop: September 3-7, 2007

WebS Chair

Wolfram Wöß (FAW, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria)

Programm Committee

Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
José Francisco Aldana Montes, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Kerstin Altmanninger, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Elena Baralis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Jorge Bernardino, ISEC, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Brian Blake, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Ulrich Bodenhofer, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Paul Buhler, College of Charleston, USA
Antonio Calleja, CRC Information Technologies, Spain
Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy
Barbara Catania, DISI, University of Geneve, Switzerland
Sunil Choenni, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Valeria De Antonellis, Dipartimento di Elettronica per l'Automazione, Brescia, Italy
Cláudio De Souza Baptista, DSC, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Steven A. Demurjian, University of Connecticut, USA
Grit Denker, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Ian J Dickinson, HP Labs, Bristol, UK
Ying Ding, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia
Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
Eva Maria Gahleitner, voestalpine IT GmbH, Linz, Austria
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Université Paris VI, France
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France
Antoon Goderis, University of Manchester, UK
Abdelkader Hameurlain, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Carmem Satie Hara, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil
Stijn Heymans, Digital Enterprise Research Insitute (DERI), Innsbruck, Austria
Hiroyuki Kawano, Kyoto University, Japan
Ralf Klischewski, Faculty of Management Technology, German University in Cairo, Egypt
In-Young Ko, Information and Communications University, Korea
Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, USA
Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA
Brian Matthews, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
Jarred McGinnis, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Elke Michlmayr, WIT, TU Wien, Austria
Michele Missikoff, Lab for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems, IASI - CNR, Italy
Toni Navarrete, Departament de Technologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Ismael Navas Delgado, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Juan Pablo Palacios, Sindbad Information and Database Systems, Spain
Stefano Paraboschi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Digital Enterprise Research Insitute (DERI), Innsbruck, Austria
Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece
Detlef Plump, University of York, UK
Isidoro Ramos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Norman Revell, Middlesex University, UK
Tore Risch, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
María José Rodríguez Gil-Ortega, Sindbad Information and Database Systems, Spain
Nicolas Sabouret, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, Paris, France
Ulrich Schiel, DSC, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
Christian Schläger, WIWI, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Amandeep S. Sidhu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia
Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Germany
A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Riccardo Torlone, Università Roma Tre, Italy
Dirk Vermeir, VUB, Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Kim Viljanen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria
Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria