SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue May 2003 Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management http://www.fgwm.de Subscribe or unsubscribe via http://www.fgwm.de Send contributions to: fgwm@dwm.uni-hildesheim.de TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Call for Papers: Workshop on Knowledge and Experience Management (FGWM'03) 2. Call for Papers: Mobile Benutzer - Mobiles Wissen - Mobiles Internet (in German language only) 3. Call for Papers: 2nd International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE) 4. Call for Papers and Deadline Extension: Netobjectdays 2003 5. Call for Papers: Semantic Web Workshop at SIGIR 2003 6. Call for Papers: Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2003) 7. Call for Papers: First European Web Mining Forum 8. Job Openings at the New AI Research Lab in Germany 9. Postdoctoral or Graduate Posts in Knowledge Representation and Ontologies for the Semantic Web. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 1. Call for Papers: Workshop on Knowledge and Experience Management (FGWM'03) FGWM 2003 --------- Workshop on Knowledge and Experience Management to be held as part of the Workshop Week "Teaching-Learning-Knowledge-Adaptivity" (LLWA) http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/LLWA/fgwm October 6 - 8, 2003 Karlsruhe, Germany The goal of this workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the "Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement der GI" (http://www.fgwm.de/) is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners for exchanging ideas and innovative applications around knowledge and experience management. We welcome contributions about current research from these or adjacent areas. In contrast to other workshops, we strongly encourage submissions describing ongoing research efforts that would usually considered to be too premature. In order to stimulate interesting discussions, such submissions should be at least well organized and clearly written. Topics of Interest ------------------ - Applications of Knowledge and Experience Management (Corporate Memories, E-Commerce, WWW, Design, Tutoring/eLearning, Robotic, Medicine, etc.) - "Lessons-Learned" for IT-based Knowledge Management solutions - Integration of Knowledge Management and Business Processes - Agile approaches to Knowledge Management - Knowledge Representation (Ontologies, Similarity, Retrieval, Adaptation knowledge, etc.) - Authoring and Maintenance Support Systems - Just-In-Time Retrieval and Just-In-Time Knowledge Capturing - Methods for Knowledge and Experience Retrieval (Case-Based Reasoning, Logic-based approaches, Text-based approaches etc.) Important Dates --------------- June 22: Deadline for paper submissions and demo/poster announcements July 25 : Final version of accepted submissions October 6.-8: Workshop Knowledge and Experience Management Submissions ----------- Please send your submission either as PS or PDF file via email to: to fgwm03@dwm.uni-hildesheim.de Submissions should not exceed 8 pages in length and should follow the formatting instructions at: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/LLWA/paperstyle/llwa03-submit.pdf Organization ------------ Ralph Bergmann, Universität Hildesheim (bergmann@dwm.uni-hildesheim.de) Martin Schaaf, Universität Hildesheim (schaaf@dwm.uni-hildesheim.de) Program Committee ----------------- Andreas Abecker, FZI Karlsruhe Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Fraunhofer IESE Ralph Bergmann, Universität Hildesheim Harald Holz, Universität Kaiserslautern Ioannis Iglezakis, DaimlerChrysler, Ulm Mirjam Minor, Humboldt Universität Berlin Markus Nick, Fraunhofer IESE Uli Reimer, Business Operation Systems, Kreuzlingen Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI, Kaiserslautern Martin Schaaf, Universität Hildesheim Reiner Schmidt, Universität Rostock Sascha Schmitt, Universität Kaiserslautern Steffen Staab, Universität Karlsruhe Armin Stahl, Universität Kaiserslautern ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 2. Call for Papers: Mobile Benutzer - Mobiles Wissen - Mobiles Internet Call for Papers Mobile Benutzer - Mobiles Wissen - Mobiles Internet Workshop im Rahmen der 33. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. Frankfurt am Main, 30.9. - 2.10.2003 http://www.informatik2003.de http://ivs.tu-berlin.de/mobilesWissen Hintergrund und Motivation des Workshops ---------------------------------------- Wissen ist in unserer post-industriellen Gesellschaft zu einem wesentlichen ökonomischen Faktor geworden. Das Management von Wissen gewinnt damit zunehmend an Bedeutung für den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg von Unternehmen. Allerdings ist Wissen wertlos, wenn es nicht zur richtigen Zeit am richtigen Ort und in der richtigen Form zur Verfügung steht. Wissensmanagement entfaltet sein Potential erst dann vollständig, wenn es integraler Bestandteil von Geschäftsprozessen geworden ist. Die Prozesse finden aber zunehmend dezentral statt, bis hin zu virtuellen Arbeitsgruppen oder gar virtuellen Unternehmen. Es gilt, mobile Geräte, dezentralisierte Prozesse und Wissensmanagement als zusammengehöriges Thema aufzufassen, als mobiles Wissensmanagement. Im Kontext des Internets wird die Darstellung von Wissensinhalten und Zusammenhängen unter der Bezeichnung Semantic Web subsumiert. Ziel der Semantic Web-Aktivitäten ist es, Internet-Dokumente jeglicher Art semantisch anzureichern, um ihre maschinelle Verarbeitung zu unterstützen. Arbeiten im Bereich Topic Maps gehören zu diesen Aktivitäten hinzu. Gleichzeitig verlagert sich die Informationsverarbeitung immer mehr von stationären Rechnern hin zu mobilen Endgeräten wie Laptop, PDA und Mobiltelefon. Die Möglichkeit, Wissen mit hoher Bandbreite ortunabhängig auf mobile Endgeräte zu transportieren, zwischen diesen direkt auszutauschen und Wissen auch offline zu benutzen, eröffnet völlig neue Potentiale im Bezug auf Geschäftsprozesse und Kundeninteraktionen. Aufgrund dieser Potentiale ist es sinnvoll und erforderlich, sich näher mit Fragen zu möglichen Einsatzbereichen des mobilen Wissensmanagements, der Realisierung von mobilen Anwendungen und mit technischen, organisatorischen und prozessbezogenen Aspekten der Einbindung von mobilen Endgeräten in das Wissensmanagement auseinander zu setzen. Dank mobiler Geräte und semantische Informationen werden Prozesse der Entdeckung, Verarbeitung, Weitergabe und Speicherung von Wissen technisch mehr unterstützt werden, als es derzeit der Fall ist. Gerade aber das Entdecken von Wissen und die Motivation der Menschen dieses Wissen zur Verfügung zu stellen wird durch die derzeitige und auch die zukünftige Technologie noch nicht hinreichend unterstützt. Jeder von und kennt die Schwierigkeiten Mitarbeiter zu motivieren Ihren Beitrag zur "Wissensdatenbank" in Unternehmen zur Verfügung zu stellen. Vorbilder hierfür sind soziale Netzwerke, in denen Neuigkeiten je nach Interessenlage und Kontakten zwischen den Akteuren des Netzwerks wandern. In diesem Zusammenhang sind auch Peer-to-Peer-Netzwerke interessant, die ohne eine zentrale Instanz, Wissensflüsse in sich schnell ändernden Umgebungen unterstützen. Für den Workshop "Mobile Benutzer - Mobiles Wissen - Mobiles Internet" werden Beiträge zu den nachfolgend aufgeführten Themengebieten erbeten. Auch auf das Thema mobiles Wissensmanagement bezogene Beiträge, die sich schwerpunktmäßig mit einem der Teilgebiete, d.h. mobile Technologien oder Wissensmanagement, befassen, sind für den Workshop von Interesse, wenn sie dabei die Möglichkeit einer Integration in das Gesamtgebiet berücksichtigen. Im Workshop werden Vertreter verschiedener Disziplinen zu Wort kommen. Es besteht die Hoffnung, dass daraus am Ende des Workshops neue - gerade auch interdisziplinäre - Kooperationen entstehen. Potentiale, innovative Anwendungen im mobilen Wissensmanagement --------------------------------------------------------------- * Integration mobiler Anwendungen in Wissensmanagementsysteme * Nutzungspotentiale und Einsatzbereiche von mobilen Anwendungen (bspw. E-Learning, Medizin) * Kontext-sensitive, personalisierte Wissensmanagement-Anwendungen * Möglichkeiten spontaner Vernetzung und Peer-to-Peer Kommunikation * Realisierte Lösungen im Bereich mobiles Wissensmanagement * Praxiserfahrungen bezüglich Akzeptanz von mobilen Wissensmanagement-Anwendungen * Anreizsysteme für mobile Wissensmanagement-Anwendungen * Modellierung mobiler Wissensflüsse Mobile Technologien ------------------- * Mobiles Internet * Spontane Netzwerke * Überblick und Bewertung der technischen Infrastruktur von mobilen Anwendungen * Lösungsmöglichkeiten hinsichtlich technischer Grenzen wie Übertragungskapazitäten, unterschiedliche Displaygrößen (Präsentation und Benutzungsoberflächen) mobiler Endgeräte, usw. * Überblick über mobile Technologien * Überblick über Abrechnungsmodelle für mobile Mehrwertdienste Wissensmanagement ----------------- * Wissensentdeckung, -speicherung, -verarbeitung, -bewertung * Methoden und Anreizsysteme, Wissen der Allgemeinheit zur Verfügung zu stellen. * Wissensmodellierung * Workflows für wissensintensive Prozesse * Kollaborative Anwendungen im Wissensmanagement * Information Retrieval, Push-Technologien, intelligente Agenten als Werkzeuge zur Informationsvermittlung * Werkzeuge für den Aufbau und der Pflege von Wissens- und Informationsräumen (Semantic Web, Topic Maps) * Integration von Wissensmanagement und Content Management Wichtige Termine ---------------- 15. Mai 2003 Einsendeschluss für Beiträge 13. Juni 2003 Entscheidung über Annahme/Überarbeitung 15. Juli 2003 Abgabe der überarbeiteten druckreifen Fassungen Beiträge -------- Der Call for Papers richtet sich an Wissenschaftler und Anwender. Beiträge aus der Wissenschaft sollten einen Umfang von maximal 6 Seiten nach dem LNI-Format (http://www.gi-ev.de/LNI/autorenrichtlinien/index.html) haben. Für Beiträge aus der Praxis wird um die Zusendung einer aussagefähigen Zusammenfassung, einer Präsentation, o.ä. gebeten. Sie werden durch ein Programmkomitee begutachtet. Alle angenommenen Beiträge werden in einem Tagungsband in der Reihe "Lecture Notes in Informatics" veröffentlicht, der zur Veranstaltung verfügbar ist. Alle eingereichten Beiträge sollten einen Titel und die Anschrift der Autoren und Autorinnen enthalten und im MS-Word-Format oder PDF eingereicht werden. Hinweise zum Upload der Beiträge und weitere Informationen zum Workshop finden Sie unter: http://ivs.tu-berlin.de/mobilesWissen Gastredner ---------- Steve Pepper CEO Ontopia AS, Oslo Mitautor des Standards "XML Topic Maps" Organisatoren ------------- Prof. Dr. Kurt Geihs, TU Berlin Prof. Dr. Norbert Gronau, Universität Oldenburg Sonja Martens, OFFIS e.V. Prof. Dr. Kai Rannenberg, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Thomas Schwotzer, TU Berlin Programmkomitee --------------- Dirk Balfanz, Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung e.V. Darmstadt Andreas Degenhardt, T-Mobile Oswald Drobnik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Kurt Geihs, TU Berlin Norbert Gronau, Universität Oldenburg Martin Jähn, Martin Jähn & Partner GmbH Wolfgang Johannsen, Accenture GmbH Andreas Lattner, Technologie-Zentrum Informatik (TZI), Universität Bremen Franz Lehner, Universität Regensburg Sonja Martens, OFFIS e.V. Ralph Michaels, Deutsche Telekom AG Thomas Preuß, FH Brandenburg Kai Rannenberg, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Thomas Schwotzer, TU Berlin Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin Mitveranstalter --------------- * GI Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme * GI Fachgruppe Multimedia ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 3. Call for Papers: 2nd International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE) C A L L F O R P A P E R S 2nd International Conference on ONTOLOGIES, DATABASES, AND APPLICATIONS OF SEMANTICS FOR LARGE SCALE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ODBASE) 3-7 November 2003, Catania, Sicily, Italy http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/odbase/2003 Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag ** 2002 acceptance rate is 1/4 ** The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE'03) provides a forum on ontologies and data semantics that is inclusive of the many computing disciplines involved in developing the "semantic" web. The program committee of ODBASE 2003 reflects this wide diversity. In order to draw a highly diverse body of researchers and practitioners, ODBASE'03 is part of the Federated Symposium Event "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003" that co-locates three conferences: Data and Web Semantics (ODBASE'03); Distributed Objects, Infrastructure and Enabling Technology and Internet Computing (DOA'03); and Workflow, Cooperation, and Interoperability (CoopIS'03). Of particular relevance to ODBASE 2003 are papers that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, artificial intelligence, networking, and mobile computing. ODBASE 2003 also encourages the submission of research and practical experience papers concerning scale issues in ontology management, information integration, and data mining, as well as papers that examine the information needs of various Web and knowledge applications, including electronic commerce, electronic government, mobile systems, and bioinformatics. ODBASE 2003 will consider three categories of papers: research, application experience, and position. Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results. Application experience papers must describe existing, real-world scale systems (and not "academic" or small scale prototypes); preference will be given to papers that describe software products or systems that are in wide experimental use. Position papers will be accepted only if they contain potentially controversial opinions of experts, and most importantly, highlight important and new research issues. The number of accepted position papers is expected to be small. Authors of accepted position papers will be invited to present their opinions during a panel session and will be given a modest amount of proceedings space (see word limits below). Specific areas of interest to ODBASE'03 include but are not limited to: Management of Semantically-Expressive Information * Knowledge Modelling * Ontology Languages and Specification * Ontology Extraction, Learning and Evolution * Hypertext, Multimedia, and Hypermedia Data Management * Semi-Structured Data * Management and Integration of Large Ontology Bases * Data Integration * Semantic Middleware * Information Dissemination * Searching and Managing Dynamic Contents * Self-organization in Information Systems * Information Retrieval * Data Filtering, Cleansing, and Summarisation * Multimedia Metadata Annotation * Data and Web Mining Applications, Evaluations, and Experience * Media Archives and Digital Libraries * Enterprise-wide Information Systems * Web-based Information Systems * Location-Dependent Information Services * Web Services * Intelligent Information Agents * Electronic Commerce * Electronic Government * Bioinformatics * Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2003 Acceptance Notification: August 10, 2003 Final Version Due: August 30, 2003 Conference: November 3-7, 2003 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Research and application experience submissions must not exceed 8,000 words, and position papers must not exceed 2,000 words. Submissions must clearly identify the nature of the paper as research, experience, or position. Submissions can either be in Postscript, MS Word, or PDF format and should be done through the following URL: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/submit.html The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. ORGANISATION COMMITTEE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS (fedconf@cs.rmit.edu.au) Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit of Brussels, Belgium Douglas Schmidt, University of California at Irvine, USA Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS (odbase2003@cs.rmit.edu.au) Roger (Buzz) King, University of Colorado, USA Maria Orlowska, University of Queensland, Australia Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany PUBLICITY CHAIR Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Aberer Karl (EPFL Lausanne) Bussler Christoph (Oracle Corporation) Carlis John (Univ. of Minnesota) Catarci Tiziana (University of Rome "La Sapienza") Chen Arbee (National Dong Hwa University) Colomb Bob (University of Queensland) Dayal Umeshwar (HP Labs) Decker Stefan (ISI) Delis Alex ( Polytechnic University NY) Drew Pamela (Boeing Computing Services) Euzenat Jerome (INRIA) Fensel Dieter (Univ. of Insbruck) Gal Avigdor (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) Gil Yolanda (ISI) Goble Carole (Univ. of Manchester) Green Peter (University of Queensland) Guarino Nicola (ISTC-CNR) Kashyap Vipul (NIH) Klas Wolfgang (Univ. of Vienna) Lenzerini Maurizio (Università di Roma "La Sapienza") Lee Dik (HKUST China) Li Qing (City University of HK) Liu Chengfei (University of South Australia) Liu Ling (Georgia Tech) Tok Wang Ling (University of Singapore) Maedche Alexander (FZI Karlsruhe) Mark Leo (Georgia Tech) Marjanovic Oliviera (University of New South Wales) McLeod Dennis (University of Southern California) Mendelzon Alberto (University of Toronto) Missikoff Michele (CNR) Mylopoulos John (University of Toronto) Navathe Sham (Georgia Tech) Neuhold Erich (GMD-IPSI ) Papazoglou Mike (Tilburg University) Rosemann Michael (Queensland University of Technology) Sadiq Shazia (University of Queensland) Sadiq Wasim (SAP Australia) Schulz Karsten (SAP Australia) Sheth Amit (University of Georgia) Sycara Katia (Carnegie Mellon University) Zeleznikow John (University of Edinburgh) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 4. Call for Papers and Deadline Extension: Netobjectdays 2003 Call for Papers 4th Annual International Conference on Object-Oriented and Internet based Technologies, Concepts, and Applications for a Networked World including GPCE'03 ACM-Conf. Generative Programming, and Component Engineering ICWS'03 International Conference on Web Service Approach MATES'03 Conference on Multiagent System Technologies W3C - Member-Meeting Fair and Conference Centre Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany September 22 - 25, 2003 www.netobjectdays.org DEADLINE Extension Call-for-Paper: ---------------------------------- MATES'03 Conference on Multiagent System Technologies: 2003-05-12 Net.ObjectDays (Main Conference): 2003-05-23 ICWS'03 International Conference on Web Service Approach: 2003-05-23 GPCE'03 ACM-Conference Important Dates / Submission guidelines: ---------------------------------------- Submit your contribution in English, using a pdf or postscript-format. Formatting instructions and templates for Word and TeX can be found at: http://www.netobjectdays.org [Menu: For Authors] May 23, 2003 Paper submission for the main conference (5000-6000 words, app. 12-13 pages) cfp-research@netobjectdays.org (June 20, 2003 Notification of acceptance) (June 30, 2003 Camera-ready copies in electronic format) March 28, 2003 Workshop proposals: (closed) cfp-ws@netobjectdays.org April 28, 2003 Tutorial suggestions (closed) cfp-tut@netobjectdays.org May 23, 2003 Panel suggestions scp-node@netobjectdays.org May 30, 2003 Industry papers: cfp-industry@netobjectdays.org June 22, 2003 Doctorial symposium (Young Researcher Workshops) cfp-doc@netobjectdays.org Details: http://www.netobjectdays.org/node03/de/Dates/index.html Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Dieter Rombach Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering and University of Kaiserslautern, Dept. of Computer Science Martin Verlage Market Maker Software AG The Main Conference ------------------- The Conference provides a forum for the presentation of mature research results that fit the general theme "Objects, Components, Architectures, Services and Applications for a Networked World". Special emphasis will be given to the practical applicability and evaluation of reported results. Research papers will be fully reviewed. In addition to the technical program, the conference will include keynote talks by internationally well-known experts and panel discussions. This years NODe will cover five main topics: - Object-oriented technologies and concepts - Component-based approaches and Software Product Lines - Agent technology , Database Systems, Exchange Formats, Middleware and the Web - Knowledge Management for the Internet - Application and Challenges in E-Business and E-Government Besides research papers, we strongly encourage submissions from industry and public sector epresentatives engaged in E-Government projects. Our special interest is in state-of-the-art applications under industrial conditions and finished or on-going case studies. A full review of these papers will be the rule. However, we also offer industrial and public-sector participants the opportunity to indicate that they want to present/publish without going through the full review process. In this case, the NODe-PC will apply an application-oriented quality and interest check to ensure high standards and provide an opportunity to present/publish in specially marked sessions/sections of the proceedings. Conference languages are both German and English. However, we strongly encourage submissions and talks in English to allow our international guests to attend the presentations. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest focus on, but are not limited to, the following themes: * Object-Oriented Technologies and Concepts - Programming Languages, (CASE) Tools and Environments - OO-Programming Languages - Criticism and Extensions - Software Development Concepts (UML; etc.) - Strategies for ensuring Software Quality, e.g., testing and inspections - Security (Architectures/ Security Engineering) - Virtual Machines and Processors, esp. Java - (Object-oriented) Framework Technologies - Agile Processes and Agile Modeling OO - Generic Programming * Component-based approaches and Software Product Lines - Domain Engineering and Software Product Lines - Business issues of Software Product Lines - Software Reusability - Architecture-centric development - Integrated Systems Development in practice - Components and their Applicability - Software Patterns and Frameworks - Modeling of Component-Based Systems (e.g., using UML) - Aspect-Oriented Software Development - Generative Programming - Component Market Places * Agent technology, Database Systems, Exchange Formats, Middleware and the Web - Distributed and Wireless Computing - Mobility, communication and coordination of Agents - Applications of Agent Technology, Agents in E-Commerce - Web-Based Applications, WEB Services - Middleware, especially EJB, CORBA, SOAP, .NET, Jini - Agent Platforms, Agent Engineering - Object Bases, XML Databases - Query Languages for Object Bases and XML Databases - XML-Schema Integration and Transformation - XML-Based Software Technologies - XML Security Concepts - Exchange formats for catalogue data * Knowledge Management for the Internet - Knowledge Sharing and Filtering - Distributed Information Retrieval on the Internet, Web-based text mining - Ontological Engineering - Acquiring and using meta knowledge - The Semantic Web - Experience-based Web Engineering * Applications and Challenges in E-Business and E-Government - E-Procurement - Citizen-Centric Portals - Government-to-Business - E-Participation, E-Democracy - E-Collaboration - Controlling success of E-Applications - Testing of E-Applications - Usability Engineering for E-Applications - Privacy, Trust and Security issues Workshops --------- Since NODe is dedicated to the exchange of research ideas it will host an exciting variety of high-level workshops. These workshops provide a forum for highly focused meetings, dealing with the specific topics and interests of the participants. Papers should be submitted directly to the workshop of your choice. All submissions will be fully reviewed by specialized workshop PCs. Accepted workshop-papers will be presented in special tracks of the NODe main conference and will be published in the official conference proceedings and on CD. Outstanding workshop papers will be included in an extra best of proceedings that will be published with a major publishing company. Tutorials --------- The conference will offer a full day of tutorials from renowned experts in the fields. Tutorials will take place on the special tutorial day (Monday, Sep. 22). Young Researcher Workshop ------------------------- NODe will continue to offer young researchers a forum to present to and discuss their ideas with a highly interested audience and well-known experts. Proceedings ----------- All papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will be published by a well-known publishing company (probably by Springer in LNCS) and on a conference CD. Conference History and Guiding Principles ----------------------------------------- Ever-evolving and increasingly powerful information and communication technologies have substantially changed the nature of global relationships, sources of competitive advantage and opportunities for economic and social development. The Internet, portable computers/devices and wireless communication technologies have turned the globe into an interconnected network of individuals, firms, organizations, and governments communicating and interacting with each other through a variety of channels. Net.ObjectDays (NODe) is one of the main international conferences that focus on object-oriented and internet-based technologies, concepts, services, and applications. It is the integrative successor of the well known JavaDays, STJA, and JIT conferences and is organized in this format for the fourth time. It puts strong emphasis on the active exchange of concepts and technologies between academia and industry. Continuing in this tradition, this year's NODe will offer the opportunity to meet and work with leaders from research and industry. NODe 2003 especially focuses on topics such as object-oriented (distributed) technologies, concepts and systems, component-based approaches and software product lines, agent-related technologies, knowledge management for the Internet, advanced database systems and the Web, quality, security, and reliability issues for all kinds of E-Business, specifically for E-Government and B2B E-Commerce, including both the engineering and use of web-based applications. As systems ought to be engineered well to be able to cope with the influx of the above-mentioned technologies in a positive way, the integrative factor of software architectures and component-driven technologies (especially their demands with regards to structures (patterns and architectures) and processes (enhanced life-cycles and workflows)) form additional focuses of NODe 2003. However, as in the years before, NODe will be open to questions and aspects of object-oriented and Internet-based technology in general and invites submissions related to a wide variety of topics in these areas. Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Dieter Rombach Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering and University of Kaiserslautern, Dept. of Computer Science Sauerwiesen 6 D-67661 Kaiserslautern Phone: +49 (0) 6301 707 100 Fax: +49 (0) 6301 707 200 rombach@iese.fhg.de Martin Verlage Market Maker Software AG Karl-Marx-Str. 13 67655 Kaiserslautern Phone: +49 (0) 631 36 49-0 Fax: +49 (0) 631 36 49-109 m.verlage@market-maker.de Organizing Committee -------------------- K. Czarnecki, University of Waterloo/Can. T. Dittmar, Daedalos Consulting B. Franczyk, University of Leipzig R. Hofmann, Intershop Communications F. Langhammer, Living Pages Research B. Lenz, tranSIT Ilmenau C. Müller-Schloer, University of Hannover W. Kühnhauser, Techn. University of Ilmenau R. Unland, University of Essen M. Weber, University of Ulm H.G. Weissenbach, Dripke.Wolf.Weissenbach J. Westerhausen, STIFT Thüringen ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 5. Call for Papers: Semantic Web Workshop at SIGIR 2003 Call for Papers Semantic Web Workshop funded by Ontoweb (www.ontoweb.org) Workshop at SIGIR 2003 (http://www.sigir2003.org) 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference July 28 - August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada Invited talks ------------- - Prof. Jim Hendler, University of Maryland, USA (to be confirmed) - Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText, Bulgaria The emergence of the Internet has brewed the revolution of information storage and retrieval. The web was initially designed for direct human processing. With its current structure, machine-based approaches to web applications are not possible unless its content is transformed into a machine-readable format encoding semantic information. Ontologies are the backbone technology for the Semantic Web by providing machine-processable semantics of data and information sources that can be communicated between different agents. The Semantic Web goes beyond the simple bag-of-words approach currently used by search engines and get closer to the meaning of the texts. Semantic Web initiatives have met with growing enthusiasm of researchers and developers world-wide, both in academia and in, which encourages the integration of efforts that have been ongoing from different disciplines, involving specialists in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Knowledge Representation, Artificial Intelligence and database. These efforts are aimed at capturing the semantics of digital content of all sorts and origins, and making current Web to be easily accessed and precisely retrieved. Topics of interest may include (but not limited): -Ontology-based Information Retrieval or Semantic Information Retrieval - Metadata in Information Retrieval - Ontology Learning based on Information Extraction and Natural Language Processing Technologies - Automatic Indexing and Cataloguing - Information Retrieval and Web Services - Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotations - Knowledge Portals - Semantic Web Mining - Semantic Web Searching and Querying - Semantic Web for multimedia retrieval - Semantic Web for multilingual information retrieval - Semantic Web for digital library - Semantic Interoperability and integration - Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer - Semantic Web for Information Visualization - Peer to Peer for Information Retrieval - User studies for Semantic Web - Business applications and best of practice ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Ying Ding University of Innsbruck, Austria, http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/infweb/, ying.ding@uibk.ac.at Keith Van Rijsbergen Iadh Ounis Joemon Jose University of Glasgow, UK, http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/ {keith, ounis, jj}@dcs.gla.ac.uk SUBMISSIONS ----------- Maximum length of paper should be no more than 15 pages. This workshop uses the same guidelines as the main conference. The instructions can be found at http://www.sigir2003.org/papers.html. Submissions should be sent electronically by email in WORD or PDF format to the organising committee: ying.ding@uibk.ac.at, ounis@dcs.gla.ac.uk, jj@dcs.gla.ac.uk The submission deadline is May 20, 2003 IMPORTANT DATES --------------- May 20, 2003 Electronic submission of full papers June 10, 2003 Notification of paper acceptance June 30, 2003 Camera-ready of accepted papers Aug 1, 2003 Workshop July 28 to Aug 1, 2003 Conference & workshops PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED) ----------------------------------- Alan Gilchrist, UK, Alain Leger, FrenchTelecom, France Alexander Maedche, FZI, Germany Asun Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText, Bulgaria Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK Chen Chaomei, Drexel University, USA Chen Hinchun, Arizona University, USA David Harper, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria Dieter Merkl, TU Vienna, Austria Enrico Motta, Open University, UK Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, IT Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK Jan Paralic, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia Jeen Broekstra, Aidministrator, NL John Davies, BritishTelecom, UK John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Micheal Klein, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL Mounia Lamas, Queen Marry University of London, UK Robert Engels, CognIT, Norway Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Stefan Stab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Stefen Decker, University of California, USA Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany York Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK Yves Chiaramella, CLIPS-IMAG, FR ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 6. Call for Papers: Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2003) Call for papers Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2003) http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003 Workshop at the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003) 20 October 2003 Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA OBJECTIVES ---------- In the Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools workshop we intend to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fastly developing research areas Ontologies and Semantic Web. Currently the semantic web attracts researchers from all around the world. Numerous tools and applications of semantic web technologies are already available and the number is growing fast. However, deploying large scale ontology solutions typically involves several separate tasks and requires applying multiple tools. Therefore pragmatic issues such as interoperability are key if industry is to be encouraged to take up ontology technology rapidly. The main aim of this workshop is therefore to encourage and stimulate discussions about the evaluation of ontology-based tools. The large visibility of the semantic web, it’s tools and applications already attract industrial partners . In particular, as tools move from academic institutions into commercial environments they have to fulfil stronger requirements and in some cases new requirements (e.g. concerning scalability and multi-user access). Different tools from different sources need to interoperate. Typically tools are not anymore standalone solutions but integrated into a framework. This framework must be open to other commercialapplications and provide connectors and interfaces to industrial standards. Larger applications need also larger ontologies and therefore require substantially more performance and scalability. A systematic evaluation of the tools might lead to a consistent level of quality and thus acceptance by industry. For the future this might lead into certification efforts for such tools. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Interoperability of tools (e.g. turnaround abilities) - Integration of tools into frameworks - Performance benchmarks - Scalability of tools - Certification of tools Tools include e.g.: - Annotation tools - Inference engines - Ontology editors and browsers - Ontology servers - Ontology mapping tools - Repositories - Retrieval tools - Semantic search engines PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS ------------------ The first workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2002) was celebrated in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2002), in September 30th, 2002. EON2002: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/eon2002 SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS -------------------------- We invite three types of submissions for this workshop: - Technical papers (10 pages) in any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not limited to them) - Short position papers (2 pages) in any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not limited to them) - Experiment papers (10 pages) describing the results of the experiment proposed. The experiment description can be found in the following URL: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003/experiment.pdf If you are interested in participating in the experiment we encourage you to send us an expression of interest until the 15th. More details on the workshop submissions can be found at the workshop website: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003/ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Experiment expression of interest: May 15th, 2003 Deadline paper submissions: July 14th, 2003 Notification of acceptance: August 25th, 2003 Camera ready deadline: September 22nd, 2003 Workshop: October 20th, 2003 WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------- York Sure (Contact Person) Institute AIFB University of Karlsruhe sure@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Oscar Corcho Ontology Group Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ocorcho@fi.upm.es Jürgen Angele Ontoprise GmbH angele@ontoprise.de PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant, Inc. (US) Bill Anderson, Ontology Works, Inc. (US) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Université P. Sabatier (FR) Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester (UK) Richard Benjamins, iSOCO (ES) John Davies, BT (UK) Carole Goble, University of Manchester (UK) Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University (US) Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText Lab / Sirma AI, Ltd. (BG) Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University (JP) Natasha F. Noy, Stanford University (US) Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics (US) Henrik Oppermann, Ontoprise (DE) Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University (US) Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Mike Uschold, Boeing (US) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 7. Call for Papers: First European Web Mining Forum Call for Papers First European Web Mining Forum Workshop at ECML/PKDD-2003 22 September 2003, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ewmf03/ Important Dates --------------- Deadline for paper submission: June 13, 2003 Notification of acceptance: July 4, 2003 Deadline for final contributions July 11, 2003 Workshop Goals -------------- The Web presents a key driving force for a large spectrum of applications in which a user interacts with a company, a governmental authority, a non-governmental organization, or another non-profit institution. The application providers should combine knowledge about user expectations and Web semantics, in order to form personalised, user-friendly, and business-optimal services. Enabling methodologies include data mining, text mining, and ontology learning. Recipient technologies include user profiling, usage analysis, ontology extraction for the Semantic Web, intelligent search and recommendation systems based on user preferences, page content, and site semantics. The EWMF'03 workshop is organised by the KDNet interest group Web Mining Forum on knowledge discovery from and about the Web. It aims to bring together various perspectives on Web mining and stress the synergy effects between Web usage mining, Web content mining and Web intelligence, and of Semantic Web Mining, which is the subject of a workshop series in the ECML/PKDD conference since 2001. To ensure an interactive atmosphere, we plan to complement the presentations of workshop contributions by a panel discussion. This panel will identify the most important common and complementary research subjects of the researchers in the Web mining subdomains and will promote mutual understanding and cross-fertilisation among research groups. Topics of interest ------------------ EWMF'03 calls for international contributions related to Web content analysis, ontology learning for Web content and for the Semantic Web, Web usage mining, mining the Semantic Web, and the exploitation of the mining results in e-applications. We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Enabling methodologies - Data warehousing for Web data - Ontology and instance learning - Text and hypertext classification - Web usage mining taking content/structure into account - Web content and structure mining - Information extraction Using the syntactic, vocabulary and logical layer of the Semantic Web for mining - Incorporation of background knowledge in the mining process Technologies for Web applications - Ontology extraction for the Semantic Web - User profiling - Intelligent search - Recommendation systems -Permission marketing Applications of these methodologies and technologies Persons interested in participating should submit a paper (less than 6000 words) addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions. Submit before June 13, 2003 in electronic form (strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf to: ewmf03@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de. Although not required for the initial submission, we recommend to use the Springer LNCS format, as this will be the required format for accepted papers. Alternatively, printed copies can be sent to: Andreas Hotho Institute AIFB University of Karlsruhe 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany People who want to attend the workshop have to register to the main conference ECML/PKDD-2003. Publication of the workshop proceedings --------------------------------------- The workshop notes will be distributed during the workshop and published online. We are currently negotiating the publication of the workshop proceedings in a post-workshop volume. Organizing Committee -------------------- Bettina Berendt Institute of Information Systems, Humboldt University Berlin, email: berendt@wiwi.hu-berlin.de Andreas Hotho Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany email: hotho@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Dunja Mladenic J. Stefan Institute, Department for Intelligent Systems, Ljubljana, Slovenia email: Dunja.Mladenic@ijs.si Maarten van Someren SWI, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands email: maarten@swi.psy.uva.nl Myra Spiliopoulou Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg email: myra@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Gerd Stumme Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany email: stumme@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Program Committee ----------------- Ed Chi (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto, USA) Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel) Marko Grobelnik (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia) Oliver Guenther (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) Stefan Haustein (University of Dortmund, Germany) Joerg-Uwe Kietz (Swiss Life, Zuerich, Switzerland) Ee-Peng Lim (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Alexander Maedche (Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany) Brij Masand (Data Miners, Boston, USA) Yannis Manolopoulos (Aristotle University, Greece) Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University, Chicago, USA) Claire Nedellec (University Paris Sud, France) George Paliouras (Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research, Athens, Greece) Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University, Canada) John R. Punin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., USA) Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA) Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Stefan Wrobel (Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Sankt Augustin, Germany) Mohammed Zaki (Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 8. Job Openings at the New AI Research Lab in Germany New AI Research Lab About to Be Launched - Job openings at all levels! Don't forget to turn on your speakers before following the link: http://www.ai-center.com/jobs/ Keywords: Computer games, intelligent agents, planning & scheduling, plan recognition, machine learning & statistics, probability theory, knowledge representation, decision theory, search control, constraint programming, local search If you are unable to view the Flash animation, please have a look at this text file: http://www.ai-center.com/jobs/jobs.txt Note, however, that the Flash version includes additional links. Alexander Nareyek http://www.ai-center.com/home/alex/ Tel: +1 (412) 268 3882 Fax: +1 (412) 268 5576 Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 9. Postdoctoral or Graduate Posts in Knowledge Representation and Ontologies for the Semantic Web. POSTDOCTORAL OR GRADUATE POSTS IN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION & ONTOLOGIES FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE POSTDOCTORAL OR GRADUATE POSTS IN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION & ONTOLOGIES FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB (Ref. no. 336/03) One postdoctoral researcher and two graduate or postdoctoral researchers are required in Manchester to join an international research team working on tools and technologies for use in the Semantic Web and E-Science Programme. The CO-ODE project, an international collaboration between Stanford's PROTÉGÉ team and Manchester and Southampton Universities' OWL and CommonKADS ontology development teams, aims to harmonise two Knowledge Representation paradigms: frames and description logics. HyOntUse, a separate project, will build on CO-ODE's harmonised platform to produce a robust end-user ontology authoring environment that will be a key part of the UK and international Semantic Web infrastructure, particularly for biomedicine. CO-ODE: we are looking for two graduate or postdoctoral candidates with experience of all stages of software development, from requirements analysis through specification, build, test and document. You should be a fast learner, as comfortable working with poorly specified problems as with those that are very well understood but highly complex. HyOntUse: one postdoctoral candidate, or a graduate with suitable experience in lieu of a PhD, is required. You should be capable of innovative research in a new area and of carrying it through to practical software. All applicants should have strong skills in software engineering and Java programming with a background which includes knowledge representation, object oriented design, and/or HCI and tool development. Working familiarity with web technologies (XML, XSLT, XML Schema, RDF, etc.) is highly desirable. The ability to work in a team and be sensitive to the controversies that inevitably arise in collaborations is essential. Knowledge of the biomedical domain would be an advantage but is not required. For further information please see http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/ All posts are tenable immediately. The CO-ODE posts are for two years in the first instance, the HyOntUse post for three years. Starting salary in the range: £25451 to £30660 per annum. Additional PhD studentships are available in related areas. See http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/ for details. Informal enquiries may be made to Dr. Jeremy Rogers or Prof. Alan Rector, Medical Informatics Group, Department of Computer Science, Kilburn Building, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 275 6133/6239/6188; fax: +44 (0)161 275 6204; email: arector@cs.man.ac.uk or jrogers@cs.man.ac.uk or Karon Mee tel +44 (0)161 275 6248; email: kmee@cs.man.ac.uk Application forms and further particulars are available at http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies or from the Office of the Director of Personnel, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 275 2028; fax: +44 (0)161 275 2471; Minicom (for the hearing impaired): +44 (0)161 275 7889; e-mail: personnel@man.ac.uk. Please quote ref: 336/03. Closing date for applications: 9 May 2003 (Interviews will probably be held during the week beginning 26 May 2003) AS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER THE UNIVERSITY WELCOMES APPLICATIONS FROM SUITABLY QUALIFIED PEOPLE FROM ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDER OR DISABILITY. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................