CfP: I-Semantics 2009: International Conference on Semantic Systems
Adrian Paschke
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Call for Papers
I-Semantics 2009: International Conference on Semantic Systems
Graz, Austria, 2 - 4 September 2009
Scope
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I-SEMANTICS 2009 (www.i-semantics.at) is the 5th conference in the I-SEMANTICS series and provides a forum for academic and industrial research & development that focuses on semantic technologies and the Semantic Web. I-SEMANTICS 2009 will bring together both researchers and practitioners in the areas of Social Software and the Semantic Web in order to present and develop innovative ideas that help realising the “Social Semantic Web” and the “Corporate Semantic Web”.
I-SEMANTICS 2009 will be the host of this year`s regional Pragmatic Web Conference as well as the second edition of the TRIPLIFICATION Challenge. Further on I-SEMANTICS will be complemented by I-KNOW (www.i-know.at), the International Conference on Knowledge Management. This setup is aiming to reflect the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management and semantic systems.
Topics
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Social Software systems such as Blogs and Wikis have led to a dramatic increase of content available on the Web and within organisations. Professional content is nowadays to large extents created by independent individuals instead of large publishers, it is shared and made available free of charge, and often constantly improved by collaborative processes. A question that is yet unsolved, is how to find the relevant information in increasingly large and complex content bases, a problem where technologies developed in the course of the Semantic Web initiative can help. Likewise, it will be beneficial to harness social content production not only for traditional content but also for the creation and improvement of machine-understandable knowledge, such as meta-data, taxonomies and ontologies for purposes on the web as well as within organisations.
The special focus of I-SEMANTICS 2009 is „Semantic Web & Semantic Social Software – Pragmatic Aspects for Corporations, Communities and Individuals”.
As a conference aiming to bring together science and industry, I-SEMANTICS encourages both, scientific (research/application) and industrial contributions. The following table summarises the topics we are interested in:
Semantic Social Software
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• Semantic / structured blogging
• Semantic / structured tagging
• Semantic wikis
• Semantic content management systems
• Semantic data web: browsers and end-points
• Semantic desktop
• Semantic mashups
• Storage, inference and caching for scalable SSW applications
Semantic Content Engineering
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• Ontology Engineering & Ontology Merging
• Ontology Design Patterns
• Ontology Life Cycle Management
• Ontology Learning
• Ontology and semantic knowledge federation
• Linguistic and statistic approaches (text-mining, NLP, etc.) for structuring and extracting content and entities
• Automated annotation, extreme tagging and digital curation approaches
Web of Data and Linked Data
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• Contributing to the linked data cloud
• Triplification approaches
• Vocabularies, taxonomies, schemas
• Semantic interoperability
• Upper level ontologies for open data
• Linked Data Applications & Linked Data Browsing
• Querying Linked Data
• Using Linked Data in Enterprises
Building Blocks for Semantic Web Applications
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• Rules and ontologies as building blocks for Semantic Web Applications
• Existing tools and applications
• Application domains
• Application stacks for the design of semantic applications
• Design processes from requirements to maintenance
• Design patterns, Best practices and Reference Models
• Persistence of semantic data
• Applications utilizing open data sets
• Semantic media management and retrieval
• Semantic web services
• Semantifying legacy web applications and semantic heterogeneous information systems
• Social semantic web and mobile services
• User-interface components, template languages supporting semantic social content
• Integration of distributed semantic repositories
• Policy Awareness & Policy Aware Web
Pragmatic Web
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For a detailed description of the topics of this year`s Pragmatic Web Conference (ICPW 09) please go to http://www.pragmaticweb.info/
• Theories, Frameworks, Models and Methods...inspired by Pragmatics and Pragmatism, or less formally, case study reflections on "pragmatic" uses of the Web that supported the negotiation of social/work relationships and common ground
• Applied pragmatic theory
• Communication, dialogue and argumentation models
• Pragmatic Web media for communicative actions
• Pragmatic collaboration and coordination tools
• Pragmatic context models (e.g. within conversation-based collaborations)
• Pragmatic design principles for Web contents where trust and commitment to action play a role
• Vocabularies / ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts, deontic primitives, etc.)
• Linguistic metaphor: its value for framing the Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Web
• Pragmatic model of scientific inquiry in Semantic Web research
• Negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution, and coordination combining existing ontologies and schemata, collaborative ontology sharing and matching techniques
• Integrative frameworks: approaches to integrating insights from component disciplines (e.g. language-action perspectives,cognition, linguistics, semiotics, knowledge representation, philosophy, interaction design, negotiation, media studies)
• Pragmatic reasoning supporting adaptive semantic collaboration and virtual collaborative teams
• Sense making, analysis and decision-making in a cooperative or non-cooperative pragmatic model
• Argumentation, dialogue and debate
• Personalized / role-based Pragmatic Web Agents and intelligent conversation or action based web services
• Pragmatic Web based human-human and human-computer interaction
• Semiotically motivated approaches to information systems
• Semiotic engineering and Semiotics in business computing
• Semiotic theory, concepts, methods and techniques, and their practical applications
Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks
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• Case studies of semantic systems usage
• Use cases for semantic web systems
• Evaluation perspectives, methods and Semantic Web research methodologies
• Technology assessment, acceptance/media choice theories
• Usability and user interaction with semantic technologies
• Analysis of emergent effects within social software
• Ontology quality models
• Quality analysis of socially generated semantic content
Corporate Semantic Web
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• Semantics, Pragmatics and Semiotics in Organizations
• Corporate Semantic Web business applications and deep semantic web
• Social software in a corporate context
• Semantic Business Information Management
• Semantic Enterprise Application Integration
• Corporate thesauri, corporate business vocabularies / ontologies and business rules
• Semantic Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• Semantic Business Process Management
• Semantic Business Information Systems
• Semantic technologies in enterprise governance, enterprise decision management and enterprise operations management
• Economic and entrepreneurial aspects of semantic-enriched enterprise application systems and enterprise service networks
• Economies of "attention" for semantic collaboration
• Business models for social semantic web applications
• Business use and use cases for corporate semantic web systems
• Models measuring costs/benefits of semantic technologies in the sense of entrepreneurial activity
• Implementation of gratification and reward systems
• Authentication, authorization, pricing, and accounting - policies, charging and billing models for semantic (social) software
• Methodologies for the introduction of enterprise wikis & semantically enhanced enterprise software
Governance & Social Issues on the Semantic Web
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• Group management, presence, social interaction enablers in mobile service platforms
• Strategies for implementing architectures of semantic participation
• Trust and privacy issues in social software
• Analysis of motivations and behavior of social software users
Triplification Challenge
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I-SEMANTICS 2009 will also hold the 2nd TRIPLFICATION Challenge. We encourage submissions such as:
• Applications of Linked Data tools and techniques such as for example Triplify, Virtuoso or D2RQ on custom Web applications and data sets exposing a large quantity and variety of content.
• Implementations of exporters and mappers from existing content repository formats (such as mbox mailing list archives, BibTeX, XML-Schemes etc.) into RDF and Linked Data.
• Adoptions / configurations of Triplify for standard Web applications, such as for example Wikis, Weblogs, Webshops, Forums, Web-Gallery, ERP/CRM systems and Web-calendar software. You can find popular Web applications for example at SourceForge.
• Portings of the Triplify script into other Web application programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, ASP. The Triplify script is very small (<300 lines of code) however, the port should be as compatible as possible with the current reference implementation but integrate well with the environment given by the programming language.
• Applications showcasing the benefits of Linked Data to end-users such as for information syndication, specialized search, browsing or augmentation of content.
The challenge is open to anyone interested in applying Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies. This might include students, developers, researchers, and people from industry. Individual or group submissions are both acceptable.
Please find further information at http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/triplification_challenge.
Submission Information
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All accepted papers of I-SEMANTICS 2009 will appear in the printed conference proceedings published by the Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS). Selected papers will also be invited for an extension to be published as journal publication in a special issue of Elsevier DKE (Data & Knowledge Engineering). Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Articles should follow the JUCS guidelines for formatting (http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/style_guide.html) and must be submitted via the online submission system available at the conference website as PDF documents (other formats will not be accepted). For the camera-ready version, we will also need the source files (Latex, OpenOffice, Word).
Research/Application Papers
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Research/Application papers report on novel research and/or applications relevant to the topics of the conference. The number of pages of research papers is limited to 8 pages including references and an optional appendix.
Posters, Demos & Tutorials
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The conference also particularly welcomes the submission of posters, demos, and tutorials. Submissions should consist of a 2-4 page description that allows us to judge the quality of your presentation. Descriptions will also be published as part of the proceedings.
Important Dates
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• Paper Submission Deadline: 9 March 2009
• Acceptance of Notification: to be announced
• Submission of Camera-Ready Paper: to be announced
• Conference: 2 - 4 September 2009
Organising Committee
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(in alphabetical order)
Programme Chairs
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* Wernher Behrendt (Salzburg Research)
* Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company)
* Michael Hausenblas (Joanneum Research / DERI Galway)
* Adrian Paschke (Free University of Berlin)
* Klaus Tochtermann (Know Center Graz)
* Hans Weigand (University of Tilburg)
Organisation Chairs
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* Georg Güntner (Salzburg NewMediaLab)
* Markus Luczak-Rösch (Free University of Berlin)
* Tassilo Pellegrini (Semantic Web School)
Adrian Paschke
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3rd International Pragmatic Web Conference Track
(ICPW 2009)
at
International Conference on Semantic Systems
(i-Semantics 2009)
2 - 4 September 2009, Messecongress|Graz, Austria
http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/pragmatic_web_track
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Papers will be published in JUCS conference proceedings.
Selected best papers will be invited to a forthcoming special issue
of Elsevier Data & Knowledge Engineering (www.elsevier.com/locate/datak)
on "Pragmatic Web".
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Call for Papers
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The PRAGMATIC WEB track is a special track within the i-Semantics 2009. It is centered around the study of "pragmatics" in the Semantic Web. That is, it draws attention to how communicative actions with a pragmatic context are performed via Web media and illuminates how mutual understanding and commitments to actions can evolve in conversations. For further information about the Pragmatic Web track see http://www.pragmaticweb.info/
Topics of Interest
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* Theories, Frameworks, Models and Methods
...inspired by Pragmatics and Pragmatism, or less formally, case study
reflections on "pragmatic" uses of the Web that supported the negotiation
of social/work relationships and common ground
* Applied pragmatic theory
* Communication, dialogue and argumentation models
* Pragmatic Web media for communicative actions
* Pragmatic collaboration and coordination tools
* Pragmatic context models (e.g. within conversation-based collaborations)
* Pragmatic design principles for Web contents where trust and commitment to
action play a role
* Vocabularies / ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts,
deontic primitives, etc.)
* Linguistic metaphor: its value for framing the Syntactic, Semantic and
Pragmatic Web
* Pragmatic model of scientific inquiry in Semantic Web research
* Negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution, and coordination combining
existing ontologies and schemata, collaborative ontology sharing and
matching techniques
* Integrative frameworks: approaches to integrating insights from component
disciplines (e.g. language-action perspectives, cognition, linguistics,
semiotics, knowledge representation, philosophy, interaction design,
negotiation, media studies)
* Pragmatic reasoning supporting adaptive semantic collaboration and virtual
collaborative teams
* Sense making, analysis and decision-making in a cooperative or non-
cooperative pragmatic model
* Argumentation, dialogue and debate
* Personalized / role-based Pragmatic Web Agents and intelligent
conversation or action based web services
* Pragmatic Web based human-human and human-computer interaction
* Semiotically motivated approaches to information systems
* Semiotic engineering and Semiotics in business computing
* Semiotic theory, concepts, methods and techniques, and their practical
applications
Description
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TRUST AND COMMITMENT: Whether we look at our geo-political and
environmental context, work within and between organizations, or our
local communities, there has never been a greater need for
understanding across cultural, intellectual, and other boundaries.
Whether the context is international policy, distributed teamwork, e-
business, or community mobilisation, fundamentally, people must build
trust and commitment to common goals by talking and acting together.
What role does the Web have to play in these complex processes?
GET PRAGMATIC: The study of "pragmatics" is driven by an interest in
action. It illuminates how it is that we manage to evolve mutual
understanding and commitments in conversation. Central to this
perspective is the understanding that the meaning of everything we
say and do is contextual. When contexts change, meanings change in
conversations, documents, and models of the world. This is something
that we manage fluently in face-to-face conversation, but when
working on the Web over space and time, tools must still support
adaptation to new contexts. A focus on pragmatics draws attention to
how communicative actions are performed via Web media.
THE PRAGMATIC WEB CONFERENCE TRACK at i-Semantics 2009 is a unique forum
to envision and debate how the emerging social, semantic, multimedia Web
mediates the ways in which we construct shared meaning. While there is
much research and development into topics relevant to this challenge such as
collaboration, usability, knowledge representation, and social
informatics, the Pragmatic Web conference provides common ground for
dialogue at the nexus of these topics.
WE INVITE YOU as a researcher or practitioner working on these
challenges to join the special Pragmatic Web track at the i-Semantics 2009
in September to share your work, and to come and
find out what others are doing. This is an emerging network of people
exploring the intersection of established intellectual traditions and
the fast changing Web: come and help shape the community!
CHALLENGES include:
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* How can we better understand the usefulness, and limitations, of a
concept such as "Web Pragmatics"
* What pragmatic design principles improve websites where trust and
commitment to action are central?
* What are the tradeoffs for users of more structured Web
collaboration media? (e.g. in learnability, scaleability,
intelligibility)
* How can participatory work practices and collaboration tools be
orchestrated in the design of the standards, data models and
ontologies that underpin data-driven Web applications?
* What role does pragmatics play in the design of personalised
information and personalised actions channelled through the Web?
* What impact (intended or unintended, productive or disruptive) do
different levels of computational infrastructure have on Web pragmatics?
* How can we clarify our understandings of increasingly important
concepts on the Web such as "social ties", "metadata", "knowledge
representation", and "transaction"?
* If "context" is pivotal in making human interaction meaningful, how
can we take context into account to improve Web applications?
Submission Information
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All accepted papers of Pragmatic Web Conference Track at I-SEMANTICS 2009 will appear in the printed i-Semantics conference proceedings published by the Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS). Selected papers will also be invited for an extension to be published as journal publication in the forthcoming special issue of Elsevier Data & Knowledge Engineering (www.elsevier.com/locate/datak)
on "Pragmatic Web".
Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Articles should follow the JUCS guidelines for formatting (http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/style_guide.html) and must be submitted via the online submission system available at the conference website as PDF documents (other formats will not be accepted). For the camera-ready version, we will also need the source files (Latex, OpenOffice, Word).
Research/Application Papers
Research/Application papers report on novel research and/or applications relevant to the topics of the conference. The number of pages of research papers is limited to 8 pages including references and an optional appendix.
Posters, Demos & Tutorials
The conference also particularly welcomes the submission of posters, demos, and tutorials. Submissions should consist of a 2-4 page description that allows us to judge the quality of your presentation. Descriptions will also be published as part of the i-Semantics proceedings.
Important Dates
---------------
- Paper Submission Deadline: 9 March 2009
- Acceptance of Notification: to be announced
- Submission of Camera-Ready Paper: to be announced
- Conference: 2 - 4 September 2009
Pragmatic Web Conference Track Chairs
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Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Programme Committee
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(to be announced soon)
Adrian Paschke
Please be informed that, in response to numerous requests for extension of
the submission deadline, the BPM 2009 Steering Committee has decided on an
extended date for workshop paper submissions.
For better consistency and improved synchronization among all BPM 2009
workshops, including the 2nd International Workshop on Event-Driven Business
Process Management (edBPM 2009)
(http://icep-edbpm09.fzi.de/), the new deadline is:
Deadline paper submissions: 22 May 2009
We would appreciate it if you could help distribute the updated CfP
with the new deadlines widely to your colleagues and
groups.
Kind regards,
Adrian Paschke
(On behalf of the Chairs - edBPM09)
Call for Papers
edBPM 09
2nd International Workshop on Event-Driven Business Process Management
7 September 2009, Ulm, Germany
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Information about the workshop
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The recently coined term "Event-Driven Business Process Management" (EDBPM)
is nowadays an enhancement of Business Process Management (BPM) by new
concepts of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event Driven Architecture
(EDA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and
Complex Event Processing (CEP). In this context BPM means a software
platform which provides companies the ability to model, manage, and optimize
these processes for significant gain. As an independent system, CEP is a
parallel running platform that analyses and processes events. The BPM- and
the CEP-platform correspond via events which are produced by the
BPM-workflow engine and by the ? if distributed - IT services which are
associated with the business process steps. Also events coming from
different event sources in different forms can trigger a business process or
influence the execution of the process or a service, which can result in
another event. Even more, the correlation of these events in a particular
context can be treated as a complex, business level event, relevant for the
execution of other business processes or services. A business process -
arbitrarily fine or coarse grained - can be seen as a service again and can
be "choreographed" with other business processes or services, even between
different enterprises and organisations.
Loosely coupled event-driven architecture for BPM provides important
benefits:
- Responsiveness. Events can occur at any time from any source and Processes
respond to them immediately, whenever they happen and wherever they happen.
- Agility. New processes can be modeled, implemented, deployed, and
optimized more quickly in response to changing business requirements.
- Flexibility. Processes can span heterogeneous platforms and programming
languages. Participating applications can be upgraded or changed without
breaking the process model.
Authors are invited to submit novel contributions in the above mentioned
problem domain. Specifically, the relevant topics include, but are not
limited to:
- Event-driven BPM: Concepts e.g. Role of event processing in BPM, Business
Events: types and representation, Event stream processing in business
processes, Data- and event-driven business processes
- Design-time CEP and BPM e.g. Modelling events in human-oriented tasks,
Semantics/Ontologies for event-driven BPM, BPMN and event processing.
- Run-time CEP and BPM e.g. Event pattern detection, BPEL and event
processing, Reasoning about unknown/similar events
- Applications/Use cases for event-driven BPM e.g. Event-driven
monitoring/BAM , Event-driven SLA monitoring
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Submission
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The following types of submission are solicited:
- Long paper submissions, describing substantial contributions of novel
ongoing work. Long papers should be at most 12 pages long.
- Short paper submissions, describing work in progress. These papers should
be at most 6 pages long.
Papers should be submitted in the new LNBIP format
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0). Papers have
to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted
elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of
the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an
indication of the submission category (Long Paper/ Short Paper). Papers can
be uploaded via the workshop page on easychair, the address can be found on
the workshop homepage (http://icep-edbpm09.fzi.de).
Selected papers will be published in the Special issue in Journal of
Software Process Improvement and Practice for selected BPM 2009 workshop
papers.
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Important Dates
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Deadline paper submissions: 22 May 2009
Notification of acceptance: 16 June 2009
Camera-ready papers: 01 July 2009
Workshops: 7 September 2009
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Organizing Committee
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Rainer von Ammon, CITT Regensburg, Germany
Opher Etzion, IBM Research Haifa,
Israel Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Nenad Stojanovic, FZI Research Center for Information Technologies at the
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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Program Committee
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- Marco Aiello, Rijksuniversiteit of Groningen, Netherlands
- Karim Ba?na, ENSIAS, Morocco
- Martin Bartonitz, Saperion AG, Germany
- Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Djamal Benslimane, Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon, France
- Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, USA
- Anis Charfi, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany
- Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany
- Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy.
- Vincenzo D'Andrea, University Degli Studi di Trento, Italy
- J?rg Desel, KU Eichst?tt, Germany
- Schahram Dustdar, TU Vienna, Austria
- Christian Fillies, Semtation GmbH, Germany
- Albert Fleischmann, jCOM1 AG, Germany
- Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
- Torsten Greiner, Bausparkasse Schw?bisch Hall, Germany
- Claude Godard, University Henri Poincar? Nancy, France
- Guido Governatori, NICTA, Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia
- Helge He?, IDS Scheer AG, Germany
- Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada
- Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
- Gerti Kappel, TU Vienna, Austria
- Anton Kramm, Valial Solution, Germany
- Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA
- Shailendra Mishra, Oracle, USA
- Massimo Mecella, SAPIENZA Universit? di Roma, Italy
- Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Boris Petkoff, AccordSystems, Germany
- Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany
- Wolfgang Reisig, HU Berlin, Germany
- Guy Sharon, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel
- Harald Schoening, Software AG, Germany
- Bernhard Seeger, University of Marburg, Germany
- York Sure, SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany
- Azzelarabe Taleb-Bendiab, Liverpool John Moores Universtiy, UK
- Farouk Toumani, Blaise Pascale University, France
- Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Christian Wolff, University of Regensburg, Germany
- Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands
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Additional Information
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A complete overview about relevant topics, detailed workshop information And
contact addresses can be found on the workshop website