CALL FOR PAPERS

Introduction

The Semantic Web is currently one of the most interesting and ambitious challenges that the scientific and technological community is facing. While great progresses have been made in terms of consolidation of base philosophy and infrastructure, new issues, technologies and tools are emerging.

These issues include creating, presenting and managing Semantic Web content, making semantics explicit in order to automatically integrate data from different sources, and to search for information based on its meaning rather than its syntactic form.

New and advanced methods, models, tools, and technologies for services related to creation, access, retrieval, integration, and filtering of Web content are being developed at the intersection of relevant disciplines that are making the Semantic Web fly, such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Distributed Computing, Multimedia Systems, Natural Language Processing, and Human-Computer Interaction.

While applications that demonstrate the value of the Semantic Web technologies are critically important, building applications that use Semantic Web technologies is still a relatively new practice for most software developers. This happens in the context of a widespread interest in semantic techniques for web data integration, e.g. Linking Open Data is growing very fast, microformats are blowing up on the web, social networks are blossoming, etc. How to leverage them toward the goal of having a smarter web, call it Web 3.0 or not?

This workshop aims at a relaxed meeting for brainstorming and debating among international researchers and developers on the Semantic Web, with a special focus on aspects which can enable wide-scale use of Semantic Web technologies.

Audience

The workshop aims at giving an overview of work performed by the Semantic Web community, and aims to attract researchers, developers and interested practitioners alike. The setting for the workshop is highly interactive, and presentations are expected to focus on practical aspects and open problems. The presentation language is English.

Topics

The workshop will cover either theoretical or implementation issues that anyway relate to Semantic Web applications. The following is a partial list of topics of interests:



Submission requirements

We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, government, and consulting. Accepted formats are Postscript and PDF. Papers must be submitted electronically at the conference website.

Accepted contributions will be published online in a volume of the CEUR workshop proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, and in a book with ISBN Authors of accepted contributions will be able to express their preference for an oral or poster presentation.

Authors are invited to submit their manuscript in the Springer LNCS/LNAI style. Any further information concerning typesetting can be obtained directly from the Springer-Verlag authors' section at: www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html The maximum length of a paper for SWAP is 10 pages.

Reviewing will be double-non-blind and with explicit criteria (see below).

Evaluation Criteria

Papers will be evaluated by the program committee by following a set of criteria listed below. The set of criteria can be also used by authors as a guideline to what should be included in the paper. The percentage represents the weight of the criterion in the overall evaluation.

  • Significance for further research and/or practice in the Semantic Web - 35%
  • Technical soundness - 20%
  • Awareness of related work - 15%
  • Readability and overall organization - 15%
  • Evaluation - 10%
  • Gut feeling (immediate emotional reaction to the paper) - 5%

Program committee mainly includes non-senior researchers that are highly-ranked in their respective fields.