Call for participation: 2006 Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium

["Daniel Lemire" <lemire@acm.org>]

 The 2006 Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium will be held June
6th at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. We invite you to attend. This
event which will be held in conjunction with Canadian AI 2006.

    * On-line registration is available. THERE WILL BE NO ON-SITE REGISTRATION.
    http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/~kone/SWIG06/CSWWS2006-registration.htm
    * Industry partner and sponsor: OntoText (ontotext.com)
    * One plenary talk by Professor Michael N. Huhns, Director of the
Center of Information Technology at the University of South Carolina,
      USA.
    * Two Tutorials:
          o State of Affairs in Semantic Web Services
            Michael Stollberg
            Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Austria
          o MDA Standards for Ontology Development
            Dragan Gasevic, Dragan Djuric, Vladan Devedzic
            Simon Fraser University, Canada
    * Proceedings in the Semantic Web and Beyond series of Springer-Verlag:
          o A Trust Model for Sharing Ratings of Information Providers
on the Semantic Web
            Jie Zhang, Robin Cohen
          o Ontoligent Interactive Query Tool
            Christopher Baker, Xioa Su, Greg Butler, Volker Haarslev
          o A Rule-based Approach for Semantic Annotation Evolution in
the CoSWEM System
            Phuc-Hiep Luong, Rose Dieng-Kunt
          o Incorporating multiple ontologies into IEEE learning
object metadata standard
            Phaedra Mohammed, Permanand Mohan
          o Applying and Inferring Fuzzy Trust in Semantic Web Social Networks
            Mohsen Lesani, Saeed Bagheri
          o Integrating Ontologies by Means of Semantic Partitioning
            Gizem Olgu, Atilla Elçi
          o DatalogDL: Datalog Rules Parameterized by Description Logic
            Jing Mei, Harold Boley, Jie Li, Virendrakumar C. Bhavsar,
Zuoquan Lin
          o Completion Rules for Uncertainty Reasoning with the
Description Logic ALC
            Volker Haarslev, Hsueh-Ieng Pai, Nematollaah Shiri
          o Fulfilling the Needs of a Metadata Creator and Analyst -
An Investigation of RDF Browsing and Visualization Tools
            Shah Khusro and A. Min Tjoa
          o A Semantic Web Mediation Architecture
            Michael Stollberg, Emilia Cimpian, Adrian Mocan, Dieter Fensel
          o Resolution-based Explanations for Reasoning in Description Logic ALC
            Xi Deng, Volker Haarslev, Shiri Nematollaah
          o A Distributed Agent System Upon Semantic Web Technologies
to Provide Biological Data
            Farzad Kohantorabi, Gregory Butler, Christopher J.O. Baker
          o Toward the Identification and Elimination of Semantic
Conflicts for Integration of Ontologies
            Yevgen Biletskiy, David Hirtle, Olga Vorochek

      A Birds of Feather and Poster sessions are also scheduled with the
      parallel session.