Farrukh:
Thanks - are you going? I propose that someone should present this
groups work to the SCM or SW people at the conference.
Duane
Farrukh Najmi wrote:
> FYI...
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> Subject:
> SemPGRID04: Call for Paper (DATE CORRECTIONS!)
> From:
> Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit <>
> Date:
> Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:57:01 -0800 (PST)
> To:
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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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