CALL FOR PAPERS  
            Engineered Applications of Semantic Web
                            SWEA
	      http://sisinflab.poliba.it/kes2007/

                  INVITED SESSION at the
             11th International Conference on
Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
                       	  KES 2007

		   Vietri sul Mare, Italy
		   September 12-14, 2007

	    http://kes2007.kesinternational.org/



SCOPE

Since the cornerstone article "The Semantic Web" by Tim Berners-Lee,
James Hendler and Ora Lassila, thanks to the conjunction of both
academic and industrial efforts, many theoretical results have been
produced, languages and technologies implemented, frameworks proposed
and scenarios hypothesized in order to go from a "web of links" towards
a "web of meanings". In spite of an initial skepticism about the
Semantic Web initiative, promising prototypes and tools have been
developed, both exploiting and boosting Semantic Web technologies.
Relevant applications and scenarios include, among others:

    * semantic matchmakers
    * semantic web portals
    * semantic social networks
    * semantic web services
    * ontology mappers and mergers
    * ontology browsers
    * e-science
    * e-business
    * e-commerce, e-negotiation, e-marketplace
    * e-learning
    * folksonomies and collaborative tagging 
    * semantic based multimedia sources categorization and
classification
    * supply chain management
    * semantic-based user interfaces
    * PIM, user profiling
    * mobile computing
    * ubiquitous computing



The aim of this KES'07 session is to gather researchers from various
fields in order to present the most prominent engineered prototypes and
tools successfully exploiting semantic web technologies and approaches.
They must be able either to solve issues that would be unfeasible / much
harder without semantics or to help the development and circulation of
Semantic Web related technologies as well as to be reused in different
contexts (not necessarily the web).



SUBMISSION

Papers are invited from authors with interests on the indicated scope
and related areas of application. The conference proceedings will be
published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in AI as part of the
LNCS/LNAI series. When formatting papers, please refer to the
Springer-Verlag web site, and strictly follow the Instructions to LNCS
Authors. Please note that the required paper length is eight pages in
Springer format. Papers longer than this will be subject to a penalty
charge. Papers very much longer or shorter than the required length may
be rejected.

To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the
SWEA Programme Committee. Papers may be rejected without being sent to
the reviewers if they are too long. Papers may be rejected without being
reviewed if it is judged that they do not lie sufficiently within the
scope of the conference.

All oral and poster papers must be presented by one of the authors who
must register for the conference and pay the fee. Authors are not
encouraged to submit multiple papers, and authors will be restricted to
one paper per registration. Extended versions of selected papers will be
considered for publication in the KES Journal (International Journal of
Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems) published by IOS
Press, see KES Journal



IMPORTANT DATES
The proposed schedule of important dates for the session is as follows:

    * March 12, 2007 Submission deadline
    * April 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance
    * April 27, 2007 Camera-ready Due



PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)

    * Bettina Berendt - University of Berlin (Germany)
    * Paolo Bouquet - Università degli Studi di Trento (Italy) 
    * Floriana Esposito - Università degli Studi di Bari (Italy) 
    * Matthias Hemmje - FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany) 
    * Andreas Hotho - University of Kassel (Germany)
    * Dunja Mladenic - J. Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
    * Olfa Nasraoui - University of Louisville (United States)
    * Claudia Niederée - L3S Research Center (Germany)
    * Giovanni Tummarello - Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy)


ORGANIZATION

Tommaso DI NOIA
    Politecnico di Bari
    Bari, Italy
    tel : +39 080 5963903
    fax : +39 080 5963410
    mail: t.dinoia@poliba.it

Eugenio DI SCIASCIO
    Politecnico di Bari
    Bari, Italy
    tel : +39 080 5963903
    fax : +39 080 5963410
    mail: disciascio@poliba.it

Giovanni SEMERARO
    Università degli Studi di Bari
    Bari, Italy
    tel : +39 080 544 2140
    fax : +39 080 544 3300
    mail: semeraro@di.uniba.it