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             The 2009 International Conference on
                 Semantic Web and Web Services
                           SWWS'09

      Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/sw...
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

Due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline has been
extended to March 17, 2009.  You are invited to submit a paper; see
below for submission instructions.  All accepted papers will be
published in the respective conference proceedings (in printed books).

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

  O  Semantic Web:
     - Machine learning approaches for semantic web
     - Semantic web for e-Business and e-Learning
     - Trust networks on semantic web
     - Database technologies for semantic web
     - Semantic knowledge portals
     - Semantic web mining
     - Semantic web inference methodologies
     - Metadata generation
     - Semantic web services
     - Semantic web trust, privacy, and security
     - Tools, languages, and techniques for semantic annotation of web
data
     - Semantic intellectual property rights
     - Semantic searching
     - Reasoning in the semantic web
     - Semantic brokering
     - Visualization and modeling
     - Hypermedia and semantic web
     - Software agents for semantic web
     - Community web portals
     - Semantic web and enterprises
     - Trust management for semantic web
     - Semantic interoperability
     - Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation
     - Semantic web mining
     - Semantic web-based knowledge management
     - Ontology languages for semantic web
     - Autonomous semantic web services
     - Service discovery, description, composition and invocation
     - Data semantics
     - Semantic verification of web sites
     - Case studies

  O  Web Services:
     - Web Service Technologies and Research Directions:
       + Enhancements to the basic web services platform
         (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, ...)
       + Advanced web service technologies including security,
         workflow/process management, transactions, mobile
         and wireless, portals, services management,
         quality-of-service (QoS)
       + Novel web service architectures
       + Development and modeling frameworks for web
         service applications
       + Composite web services, enabling technologies and
         support infrastructure
       + Data structures and models
     - Practices for developing enterprise-class web services
       and applications:
       + Design patterns
       + Architecting for customization, maintenance, and management
       + Architecting for easy integration or service "consumption"
       + Fault-tolerant architectures
       + Service mediation systems and architectures
     - Case studies of web service development and deployment:
       + e-Commerce applications using web services
       + Business-to-Business (B2B) applications using web services
       + Mobile and wireless applications using web services
       + Utility and on-demand computing using web services
       + Government applications using web services
       + Applications of web services in developing countries
     - Multimedia applications using web services
     - Communication applications using web services
     - Interactive TV applications using web services
     - Novel applications, case studies, and emerging technologies

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/sw...
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

SPONSORS (confirmed as of Feb. 20, 2009):

   Academic Sponsors include:
   United States Military Academy, Network Science Center, USA;
   Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
   MIT, USA; Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility of Argonne
   National Laboratory, USA; Functional Genomics Laboratory,
University
   of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Minnesota Supercomputing
   Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Intelligent Data
   Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin,
   Texas, USA; Harvard Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics
   Laboratory, Harvard University, USA; Texas Advanced Computing
Center,
   The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Center for the
   Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of
   Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Bioinformatics & Computational
   Biology Program, George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Institute
   of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of
   Technology, Austria; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging
   Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University,
   Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Knowledge Management & Intelligent System
   Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen, Germany; National Institute
   for Health Research; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, College of
   Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Institute for Informatics
Problems
   of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Medical Image
HPC
   & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, USA; SECLAB of
   U. of Naples Federico II, U. of Naples Parthenope, and Second U. of
   Naples, Italy; U. of North Dakota, USA; Intelligent Cyberspace
   Engineering Lab., ICEL, Texas A&M University (Com./Texas), USA;
   International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World
   Academy of Biomedical Sciences & Technologies; and European
Commission.
   Other Sponsors include:
   High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano);
   HoIP - Health without Boundaries; The International Council on
   Medical and Care Compunetics; The UK Department for Business,
   Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; VMW Solutions Ltd.; Scientific
   Technologies Corporation; and others.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

   H. R. Arabnia, PhD
   Professor, Computer Science
   Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
   Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
   Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
   The University of Georgia
   Department of Computer Science
   415 Boyd Building
   Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

   Tel: (706) 542-3480
   Fax: (706) 542-2966
   E-mail: h...@cs.uga.edu

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

   Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
   uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
   Submissions must be received by Mar. 17, 2009 and they must be in
   either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
   font size of 10 to 12).  All reasonable typesetting formats are
   acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
   follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for
   publication.)

   The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
   to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
   published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The
   first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
   name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
author.
   The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
   and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
   content of the paper.  Finally, the name of the conference (SWWS)
   must be mentioned on the first page.

   Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
   impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two experts
   in the field who are independent of the conference program
committee.
   The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
   the program committee who will recommend a decision to the co-
chairs.
   The co-chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-
Ready
   papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

IMPORTANT DATES:

   March 17, 2009:    Extended deadline for Submission of papers
                      (about 5 to 7 pages)
   April 17, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
   May 4, 2009:       Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
   July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
                      Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                      (WORLDCOMP'09 - 22 joint conferences)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

   The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
   of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
   imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
   embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
   bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
   The Program Committee for SWWS is currently being formed.  Those
   interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof.
Arabnia
   (h...@cs.uga.edu) the following information: Name, affiliation
   and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
   biography together with research interests and the name of the
   conference (SWWS) offering to help with.
   Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
   are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
   practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
   laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
   departments, deans and provosts.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

   SWWS'09 is an annual research conference about semantic web and
   web services.  It is being held jointly (same location and dates)
   with a number of other conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).  WORLDCOMP is
   the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
   computer engineering and applied computing.

   The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
topics
   into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
   The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a
number
   of research areas that interact.  The model used facilitates
   communication among researchers from all over the world in
different
   fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
   computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer science
and
   engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-
disciplinary,
   and applications) will be covered during the event.

   SWWS'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 will be composed of research
presentations,
   keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions,
   and poster presentations.  In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial
   speakers included: Prof. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
   Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H.
Holland
   (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
   Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry
Vercoe
   (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
   Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
   Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
   many other distinguished speakers.

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