Following up on this posting from January 2004: Is anyone attending this
conference? Did we submit an abstract?
Thanks,
Joe
Farrukh Najmi wrote:
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> FYI...
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> Regards,
> Farrukh
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> Subject: SemPGRID04: Call for Paper (DATE CORRECTIONS!)
> Resent-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 14:04:51 -0500 (EST)
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> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:57:01 -0800 (PST)
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> ****************** CALL FOR PAPERS ************************
>
> 2nd Workshop on
> Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing (SemPGRID)
> at the
> Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference
> 17-18 May 2004, New York, USA
> in cooperation with the
> GGF Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-GRD)
> Workshop URL: http://www.isi.edu/~hongsuda/SemPGRID04
>
> Topics and Content
> -----------------------------------
>
> The Semantic Web is widely accepted as a means to enhance the Web
> with machine processable content. However, mostly the Semantic Web
> is aiming at techniques and technologies for static information,
> in contrast to dynamic services or distributed computing. Several
> interest groups and efforts are working on infrastructure for
> enabling distributed computing. The organization of these efforts
> are in part top down organized efforts, involving multiple formal
> organizations and dedicated projects, and bottom-up efforts,
> sometimes started by single organizations or individuals in a
> grassroots effort.
>
> The Grid is aiming at technologies which allow the flexible,
> secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of
> individuals, institutions, and resources, enabling virtual
> organizations. Problems encountered include authentication,
> authorization, resource access, resource discovery, and
> interoperation of active services. The same problems are eminent
> in the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) area, where projects are typically
> organized in a bottom-up fashion. Infrastructures like the
> TeraGrid and SUN's JXTA are emerging, attracting numerous
> applications. However, each application uses its own data format,
> and it is hard to see how applications interoperate.
>
> A related area is Web Services: driven by industry efforts
> numerous specifications are developed, which are of interest for
> the Grid projects as well as for the Peer-to-Peer efforts.
> Although there is an agreement that Web Services would benefit
> from more semantics, little systematic research has been done on
> how to combine the notions of Web Services with the Semantic Web,
> Peer-to-Peer and/or Grid computing technologies.
>
> Topics of interest for technical papers include, but are not
> limited to, the following:
> * Scalable infrastructures for service discovery in Grid
> computing and P2P networks, e.g., based on reconfiguration
> of the network with respect to shared interests or shared
> ontologies
> * Interoperation infrastructure for enabling heterogeneous
> peers to exchange and translate information
> * Emergent Semantics and incrementally learning and evolution
> of ontologies in an P2P environment
> * Metadata infrastructures for P2P and Grid computing
> * Task ontologies and service composition languages
> * Service Composition framework
> * Data Integration of P2P and Grid applications
> * Interaction of the Semantic Web and Grid Services
> * Semantics-based routing
> * Agent-Architectures based on P2P and Grid Computing
> technology
> * The role of Semantics in the Open Grid Service Architecture
>
> The workshop will be organized in part around talks presenting
> research results in the intersection of the Semantic Web, P2P and
> Grid computing. Another important part of the workshop will be
> break-out groups, focusing on the amalgamation of Semantic Web and
> distributed computing. We hope the break-out groups will evolve
> into independent working groups and generate follow-up activities,
> which contribute to the technology areas. The proceedings will be
> published on the Web.
>
> Submission and Important Dates
> -----------------------------------
> We invite the submission of technical papers as well as position
> statements. The submitted papers should be formatted as close as
> possible to the rules of Springer LNCS (see
> http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, section
> "Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes" for formatting
> instructions). Technical papers should have max. 20 pages
> including references, Position papers should not exceed 2 pages.
> Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to .
>
> * Submissions due: March 10, 2004
> * Notification for acceptance: April 1, 2004
> * Camera ready due: April 15, 2004
> * Workshop date*: May 17-18, 2004
>
> Workshop Chairs
> -----------------------------------
> Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
> , http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/aberer/
>
> Stefan Decker, DERI Galway, Ireland and USC/Information Sciences
> Institute, USA
> http://www.isi.edu/~stefan
>
> David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
> , http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dder/
>
> Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
> , http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~carole/
>
> Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA
> , http://www.isi.edu/~hongsuda
>
> Program Committees
> -----------------------------------
> * Karl Aberer (EPFL)
> * I. Budak Aripnar (University of Georgia)
> * Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne)
> * Mario Cannataro (University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro)
> * Stefan Decker (USC-ISI)
> * David de Roure (University of Southampton)
> * Johannes Ernst (R-Objects)
> * Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory)
> * Yolanda Gil (ISI/USC)
> * Carole Goble (University of Manchester)
> * Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam)
> * Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester)
> * Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine)
> * David Karger (MIT)
> * Carl Kesselman (ISI/USC)
> * Chen Li (University of California at Irvine)
> * Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover and Learninglab Lower Saxony)
> * Sylvia Ratnasamy (U.C.Berkeley)
> * Mario Schlosser (McKinsey & Company)
> * Amit Sheth (University of Georgia
> * Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe)
> * Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit (USC-ISI)
> * Bernard Traversat (SUN Microsystems)
>
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Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Associate
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
