ICSC 2008
Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic ComputingSanta Clara, CA, USA - August 4-7, 2008
Special Sessions
Special sessions at ICSC2008 are an important modality to supplement the regular program with a focused and in-depth view at a specific field: the special tracks will provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in a given area and highlight important research directions in a field of special interest to Semantic Computing. The special sessions at ICSC 2008 are:
Scalability in Semantic Computing: the European View
This special session will give an overview of some of the most important achievements of European research in its enterprize towards the realization of scalable and robust semantic technologies. In particular the papers presented throughout the session will address the following topics:
Semantic Service Orientation
Semantic Middleware
Semantic Web Reasoning
Identity and Reference Management
Semantic Business Process Management
Organizers: Paolo Bouquet, Nuria De Lama, John Domingue, Elena Simperl
Semantic Analysis of Tactical Chat
Military use of chat, as a grassroots technology, has become so widespread in the last fifteen years that Joint communities have just begun to scratch the surface of this robust communications technology. Historically, IRC room-based chat has been the preferred paradigm for tactical users, due to its ease of use and robustness on high-jitter networks. Migration to XMPP-based chat is now being discussed for a way forward, though this change in protocol raises many questions for the current concept of operations (CONOPS), especially for edge, tactical, users.
This special session will focus on current research being performed within DoD to analyze current usage of chat, in order to assist Fleet users both today and in the future.
Organizers: Emily W. Medina, LorRaine T. Duffy
Mobile Semantic Computing
This session will examine how the research in the intersection of mobile computing, semantic web and web services can serve as a foundation for new architectural and communication paradigms that can enhance service creation, distribution, discovery, integration and utilization in distributed and ubiquitous environments. Some of the initial areas that our early research have highlighted are :
1. Semantic annotation of data in bandwidth constrained environments such as mobile networks to promote efficient bandwidth utilization
2. Possibilities of using microformats such as RDFa and opportunities that can be explored by their usage in applications such as mashups
3. Utilization of semantic annotation in the client side for more intelligent data gathering and processing
4. Ontologies and meta models to describe execution environments for services
5. Role of semantic web in taking the foundations of social computing and Web 2.0 to the mobile environment.
6. Semantically rich policies to control interaction and behavior of devices in mobile environments., in particular to enable security and
7. Privacy.
Organizers.: Karthik Gomadam, Anupam Joshi, Amit Sheth
Special sessions at ICSC2008 are an important modality to supplement the regular program with a focused and in-depth view at a specific field: the special tracks will provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in a given area and highlight important research directions in a field of special interest to Semantic Computing. The special sessions at ICSC 2008 are:
Scalability in Semantic Computing: the European View
This special session will give an overview of some of the most important achievements of European research in its enterprize towards the realization of scalable and robust semantic technologies. In particular the papers presented throughout the session will address the following topics:
Semantic Service Orientation
Semantic Middleware
Semantic Web Reasoning
Identity and Reference Management
Semantic Business Process Management
Organizers: Paolo Bouquet, Nuria De Lama, John Domingue, Elena Simperl
Semantic Analysis of Tactical Chat
Military use of chat, as a grassroots technology, has become so widespread in the last fifteen years that Joint communities have just begun to scratch the surface of this robust communications technology. Historically, IRC room-based chat has been the preferred paradigm for tactical users, due to its ease of use and robustness on high-jitter networks. Migration to XMPP-based chat is now being discussed for a way forward, though this change in protocol raises many questions for the current concept of operations (CONOPS), especially for edge, tactical, users.
This special session will focus on current research being performed within DoD to analyze current usage of chat, in order to assist Fleet users both today and in the future.
Organizers: Emily W. Medina, LorRaine T. Duffy
Mobile Semantic Computing
This session will examine how the research in the intersection of mobile computing, semantic web and web services can serve as a foundation for new architectural and communication paradigms that can enhance service creation, distribution, discovery, integration and utilization in distributed and ubiquitous environments. Some of the initial areas that our early research have highlighted are :
1. Semantic annotation of data in bandwidth constrained environments such as mobile networks to promote efficient bandwidth utilization
2. Possibilities of using microformats such as RDFa and opportunities that can be explored by their usage in applications such as mashups
3. Utilization of semantic annotation in the client side for more intelligent data gathering and processing
4. Ontologies and meta models to describe execution environments for services
5. Role of semantic web in taking the foundations of social computing and Web 2.0 to the mobile environment.
6. Semantically rich policies to control interaction and behavior of devices in mobile environments., in particular to enable security and
7. Privacy.
Organizers.: Karthik Gomadam, Anupam Joshi, Amit Sheth
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