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[SEM-GRD] Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing
Hello,
I hope this workshop at the Web conference in Budapest in
May will be of interest. The call for papers is on
http://www.isi.edu/~stefan/SemPGRID/
The paper deadline is 1st April. Please advertise to
colleagues, and I'd be grateful if anyone can suggest any
appropriate mailing lists for further distribution. The
ASCII version is below.
This workshop is "in cooperation with SEM-GRD" (it involves
two chairs of this GGF group) and is led by Stefan Decker,
who is a Semantic Web guy, and Karl Aberer who brings the
Peer to Peer. One of our goals is to maintain the Semantic
Grid thread at the Web conference, started last year with
the Semantic Grid panel - so this is part of our "bridging"
of the Grid and Web communities.
Thanks
-- Dave
*******CALL FOR PAPERS*******
1st Workshop on
Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing
at the
Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference
20 May 2003, Budapest, Hungary
in cooperation with the
GGF Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-GRD)
Workshop URL: http://www.isi.edu/~stefan/SemPGRID
Topics and Content
-----------------------------------
The Semantic Web is widely accepted as a means to enhance the Web
with machine processable content. However, mostly the Semantic Web
is aiming at techniques and technologies for static information,
in contrast to dynamic services or distributed computing. Several
interest groups and efforts are working on infrastructure for
enabling distributed computing. The organization of these efforts
are in part top down organized efforts, involving multiple formal
organizations and dedicated projects, and bottom-up efforts,
sometimes started by single organizations or individuals in a
grassroots effort.
The Grid is aiming at technologies which allow the flexible,
secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of
individuals, institutions, and resources, enabling virtual
organizations. Problems encountered include authentication,
authorization, resource access, resource discovery, and
interoperation of active services. The same problems are eminent
in the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) area, where projects are typically
organized in a bottom-up fashion. Reusable infrastructures like
SUN's JXTA are emerging, attracting numerous application based on
of this infrastructures appear. However, each application uses
its own data format, and it is hard to see how applications
interoperate.
A related area is Web Services: driven by industry efforts
numerous specifications are developed, which are of interest for
the Grid projects as well as for the for the Peer-to-Peer efforts.
Although there is an agreement that Web Services would benefit
from more semantics, little systematic research has been done on
the problem of how to combine the notions of Web Services with the
results of the Semantic Web, Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing.
Topics of interest for technical papers include, but are not
limited to the following:
* Scalable infrastructures for service discovery in Grid
computing and P2P networks, e.g., based on reconfiguration
of the network with respect to shared interests or shared
ontologies
* Interoperation infrastructure for enabling heterogeneous
peers to exchange and translate information
* Emergent Semantics and incrementally learning and evolution
of ontologies in an P2P environment
* Metadata infrastructures for P2P and Grid computing
* Task ontologies and service composition languages
* Semantics-based routing
* Semantics-based topologies in P2P network
* Agent-Architectures based on P2P and Grid Computing
technology
The workshop will be organized in part around talks presenting
research results in the intersection of the Semantic Web, P2P and
Grid computing. Another important part of the workshop will be
break-out groups, focusing on the amalgamation of Semantic Web and
distributed computing. We hope the break-out groups will evolve
into independent working groups and generate follow-up activities,
which contribute to the technology areas. The proceedings will be
published on the Web and a workshop report will summarize the
outcome of the break out groups.
Submission and Important Dates
-----------------------------------
We invite the submission of technical papers as well as position
statements. The submitted papers should be formatted as close as
possible to the rules of Springer LNCS (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, section
"Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes" for formatting
instructions). Technical papers should have max. 20 pages
including references, Position papers should not exceed 2 pages.
Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to stefan@isi.edu.
* Submissions due: *April 1st, 2003*
* Notification for acceptance: *April 15, 2003*
* Camera ready due: *May 1, 2003*
* Workshop date*:* *May 20, 2003*
Workshop Chairs
-----------------------------------
Karl Aberer Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
karl.aberer@epfl.ch http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/aberer/
Stefan Decker Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, USA
stefan@isi.edu http://www.isi.edu/~stefan
David De Roure University of Southampton, UK dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dder/
Carole Goble The University of Manchester, UK carole@cs.man.ac.uk
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~carole/
Program Committee (partially confirmed)
-----------------------------------
* Karl Aberer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
* Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne)
* Stefan Decker (ISI/USC)
* David de Roure (University of Southampton)
* Johannes Ernst (R-Objects)
* Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck)
* Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory)
* Yolanda Gil (ISI/USC)
* Carole Goble (University of Manchester)
* Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam)
* Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester)
* David Karger (MIT)
* Carl Kesselman (ISI/USC)
* Chen Li (University of California at Irvine)
* Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover and Learninglab Lower Saxony)
* Sylvia Ratnasamy (U.C.Berkeley)
* Mario Schlosser (Stanford University)
* Amit Sheth (University of Georgia
* Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe)
* Bernard Traversat (SUN Microsystems)