Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010

Veranstaltungshinweis - Umgang mit „Gürteltieren“ – Strukturieren von Prozessstoff mit Hilfe der IT

Am 17. September 2010 veranstaltet das Gemeinsames Juristisches Prüfungsamt der Länder Berlin und Brandenburg eine Fortbildungsveranstaltung mit dem Thema: Umgang mit „Gürteltieren“ – Strukturieren von Prozessstoff mit Hilfe der IT

Beschreibung
Ein Großteil der richterlichen Tätigkeit besteht in der strukturierenden Aufbereitung des Prozessstoffes, zunächst für das eigene Verständnis (Aktenauszug), dann zur Erläuterung für Kollegen (Votum), für die Parteien (mündliche Verhandlung) und
schließlich beim Abfassen des Urteils. Gerade bei Akten aus Groß- oder Umfangverfahren („Gürteltieren“) kann dies schon infolge der Menge der zu verarbeitenden Informationen zu einer besonderen Herausforderung werden. Hierbei kann die Informationstechnologie
helfen, die Informationen aus der Akte für sich – und andere – zu
ordnen und zu strukturieren. Im Seminar sollen beispielhaft verschiedene in der Berliner und Brandenburger Justiz bereits testweise eingesetzten Programme, die eine vereinfachende Strukturierung von Informationen ermöglichen, vorgestellt werden,
wobei auch die Pilotanwender aus der Justiz von ihren Erfahrungen berichten werden. Hieraus soll sich eine offene und lebhafte Diskussion zu etwaigen Einsatzmöglichkeiten dieser technischen Hilfsmittel in der Justiz aus Sicht der Anwender entwickeln. Technische Vorkenntnisse der Teilnehmer werden nicht vorausgesetzt.


Programm
10.00 – 11.00 Uhr E-Justice – Chancen in wirtschaftlich schwieriger Zeit - Prof. Dr. Fritjof H a f t, Gründer und Geschäftsführer Normfall GmbH


11.00 – 11.30 Uhr „Normfall Manager“ – Erfahrungsbericht aus der Praxis verwaltungsgerichtlicher Großverfahren - RiVGH Monika T h ü r m e r Hessischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof


11.30 – 11.45 Uhr „Normfall Manager“ – Impulsreferat über die Erfahrungen aus der Praxis an einem Landgericht mit anschließender Diskussion - VPräsLG Dr. Holger W e n d t l a n d
Vizepräsident des Landgerichts Frankurft/Oder


12.00 – 13.00 Uhr Mittagessen


13.00 – 14.00 Uhr „Snippit“ – Software zum Erstellen juristischer Gliederungen und Lösungsskizzen -  Vorstellung mit anschließender Diskussion - RiAG Jörg T e g e d e r - Landgericht Berlin


14.00 – 14.15 Uhr Kaffeepause


14.15 – 14.45 Uhr „Logos“ – die visuelle Softwareplattform
Vorstellung mit anschließender Diskussion - Dr. Tilo W e n d
Geschäftsführer Knowledge Tools


14.45 – 15.15 Uhr „Logos“ – Erfahrungsbericht aus der Praxis an einem Landgericht - VRi’inLG Sigrid P a r t i k e l - Landgericht Berlin


15.15 – 15.45 Uhr „Logos“ – Erfahrungsbericht aus der Praxis eines Ministerialbeamten im Gesetzgebungsverfahren - Herr RD Matthias S c h m i d - Bundesministerium der Justiz


15.45 – 16.00 Uhr Kaffeepause


16.00 – 17.00 Uhr Abschließende Diskussion


Moderation
RiKG Dr. Ulrich W i m m e r
Kammergericht Berlin

Veranstaltungshinweis als PDF

Call for Papers – DEVS 2011 - SYMPOSIUM ON THEORY OF MODELING AND SIMULATION

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
          SYMPOSIUM ON THEORY OF MODELING AND SIMULATION (DEVS 2011)
       April 4-9 2011. Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel Boston, MA. USA.
http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/wainer/DEVS11
                              Sponsored by
          The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
             in cooperation with ACM/SIGSIM and ICST (pending)
The purpose of this symposium is to provide a forum to discuss recent
advancements in Theory of M&S. The main focus is on theory of modeling,
methodology, practice and software to cope with the challenges arising
out of these, as well as lessons learned and challenges. The Symposium
bridges different areas in the field of Theory of M&S, including formal
modeling, model-checking, graph transformation, modeling methodologies.
It also provides an opportunity to exchange ideas with other SpringSim'11
symposia participants in different fields.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
Theory
- DEVS, Petri Nets, Finite State Machines, Timed Automata, Process Algebras,
etc.
- Hybrid system modeling and integration of formalisms
- Formal analysis and symbolic reasoning
- Model Checking
- Graph Transformations
M&S Software
- M&S Software, including frameworks and libraries for DEVS, PN, FSM, TA,
PA, etc.
- Education aspects of Theory of M&S
Methodology
- Parallel & distributed simulators
- Middleware and simulators Interoperability (grid, cloud, web services,
etc.)
- M&S Engineering
- M&S-Based development methods
Practice and Lessons Learned
- Military systems and infrastructures
- Real-time and embedded systems
- High performance computing
- Software-intensive/networked systems
- Transportation and traffic systems
- Ecological and environmental systems
- Standards
All papers will be included in the conference proceedings and archived in
both
the the ACM and EU Digital Libraries; Full Papers will be also printed in
hard copy.
Important Dates
===============
Paper Submission: 21 Nov 2010
Notification:   21 Dec 2010
Final Paper:    25 Jan 2011
Main conference: 4-9 Apr 2011
Submission Procedures
=====================
The conference committee will accept three types of papers submitted as a
PDF file to the conference website (http://www.scs.org/springsim/submission)
as
listed below. Final version of all the papers must comply with the SCS
conference
format. All the submitted papers should be original and not have been
submitted
to other venues; they will be peer reviewed with respect to their quality,
originality and relevance. The authors of the accepted paper must register
in
advance for inclusion of their paper in the conference proceedings. The
authors
of the accepted paper must register in advance for inclusion of their paper
in
the conference proceedings.
1. Full manuscript: 8 pages in final conference format. In addition to
publication
in the conference proceedings, they will be considered for best paper award
and for
possible inclusion in a Special Issue of the Simulation Journal (SCS). Full
papers
will be published both in hard copy and CD-ROM.
2. Work in Progress: Short papers up to 6 pages in final conference format.
3. Short Papers: Papers with industrial focus, military or government
applications,
and work-in-progress in abstract or short paper format.
DEVS AWARD
==========
This year, the Symposium will hold the Second Bernard P. Zeigler DEVS M&S
Award, to
recognize high-impact innovations in M&S methods, applications and tools
(sponsored
by RTSync - Chair: Doohwan Kim).
WORKSHOPS
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Authors interested in organizing satellite workshops can contact the
organizers. Up
to date, two workshops have been confirmed:
- M&S and Software Engineering (Chairs: Andrea D'Ambroggio - UniRoma "La
Sapienza" -
       and Dorina Petriu - Carleton University -).
- DEVS Standardization (Chairs: Xiaolin Hu - Georgia State - and Hessam
Sarjoughian
       - University of Phoenix -).
DEVS 2011 Organizing committee
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General Chairs:
Gabriel A. Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
Mamadou K. Traoré, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Program Chairs:
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Jan Himmelspach, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Advisory Board
Bernard P. Zeigler (FIEEE, FSCS, LAA-SCS), University of Arizona, USA
(Chair)
Christos Cassandras (FIEEE, FIFAC), Boston University, USA
François Cellier (FSCS), ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Mo Jamshidi (FIEEE, FASME, FAAAS), University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Kishor Trivedi (FIEEE, GCM IEEE CS), Duke University, USA
DEVS 2011 International Technical Program Committee
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•       Theory
o Fernando Barros, Universidade da Coimbra, Portugal
o Pedro D’Argenio, FAMAF, Argentina
o Juan de Lara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
o Norbert Giambiasi, LSIS, Marseille, France
o Dan Hirsch, Intel Corp., Argentina
o Moon Ho Hwang, DS Delmia Corp., USA
o Tag Gon Kim, KAIST, Korea
o Hernán Melgratti, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
o Enrico Tronci, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
o Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK
o Lin Uhrmacher, Universität Rostock, Germany
o Hans Vangheluwe, McGill University, Canada
o Francesco Zanichelli, Universitá di Parma, Italy
•       Methodology
o Olivier Dalle, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and Université de Nice, France
o Maximiliano Cristiá, Flowgate Consulting and CIFASIS-UNR, Argentina
o Andrea D'Ambrogio, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
o Ernesto Kofman, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
o Yvan Labiche, Carleton University, Canada
o Lisandru Muzy, Université de Corse
o Libero Nigro, Universitá della Calabria, Italy
o James Nutaro, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
o Hiren Patel, University of Waterloo, Canada
o Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada
o Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University, USA
o Alfonso Urquia, UNED, Spain
o Andreas Tolk, Old Dominion University, USA
o Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University, USA
•       Practice and Lessons Learned
o Lisane Brisolara, UFPel, Brazil
o Olaf Hagendorf, Universität Wismar, German
o C. Anthony Hunt, UCSF, USA
o Lewis Ntaimo, Texas A&M, USA
o Gabriela Nicolescu, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
o Thorsten Pawletta, Universität Wismar, Germany
o Sabri Pllana, University of Vienna
o Eric Ramat, Université du Littoral, France
o José Luis Risco-Martín, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
o Mamadou Seck, TU Delft, Netherlands
o Yujing Wu, The MathWorks, USA
•       M&S Software
o Alex Chow, RTSync, USA
o Jean-Baptiste Filippi, Université de Corse
o Claudia Frydman, LSIS, Marseille, France
o Xiaolin Hu, Georgia State University, USA
o Saurabh Mittal, Dunip Technologies, USA
o Pieter Mosterman, The MathWorks, USA
o Taisy Silva Weber, UFRGS, Brazil
o Alexander Verbraeck, TU Delft, Netherlands
o Emilia Vilani, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil
o N. L. Vijaykumar, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
o Gregory Zacharewicz, Université de Bordeaux, France
[Apologies for multiple postings]
[Problems/issues: contact Gabriel.Wainer@sce.carleton.ca]

Call for Papers - The 4th Mahasarakham International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence.

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MIWAI'10 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 4th Mahasarakham International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence.

December 9-10, 2010, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand.

http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/


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Important Dates
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Papers due:                                 October 15, 2010
Author notification:                     November 12, 2010
Camera-ready papers due:         November 22, 2010
Registration deadline:                 December 2, 2010
Workshop dates:                          December 9-10, 2010


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About MIWAI
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has broad applications in real
world problems. Examples include control, planning and scheduling,
pattern recognition, knowledge mining, software applications and
strategy games. The ever-evolving needs in business both on a local
and on a global scale demand better technologies for solving more and
more complex problems. Such needs can be found in all industrial
sectors and in any part of the world.

This workshop aims to be a meeting place where excellence in AI
research meets the needs for solving dynamic and complex problems in
the real world. The academic researchers, developers, and industrial
practitioners will have extensive opportunities to present their
original work, technological advances and practical problems.
Participants can learn from each other and exchange their experiences
in order to fine tune their activities in order to help each other
better.

The main purposes of the MIWAI series of workshops are as follows:

•to provide a meeting place for AI researchers and practitioners in
Thailand and beyond.

•to inform Thai students about cutting-edge AI research via the
presence of outstanding international invited speakers.

•to raise the standards of practice of AI research in the whole of
Thailand by providing Thai researchers and students with feedback from
an internationally-renowned program committee.


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Invited Speakers
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1.Anthony Cohn (University of Leeds, UK)
2.TBC


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Awards
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There will be five awards given out at the workshop:

(i) Best original paper: Given to the best category A submission (see
below), from any origin.

(ii) Best original paper by a PhD student: Given to the best category
A paper whose first author is a registered PhD student, from any
origin.

(iii) Best original paper by a Masters student: Given to the best
category A paper whose first author is a registered Masters student,
from any origin.

(iv) Best demonstration: Given to the best demonstration (see category
C submissions below - note this prize will only be awarded in case at
least 3 demonstrations are presented at the workshop).

(v) Best reviewer: Given to the reviewer who has given the most
helpful feedback on the papers they have been assigned to review.

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Call for Papers
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Submission of papers is due on October 15, 2010. The research areas in
AI include but not limited to:

- Agent-based simulation
- Agent-oriented software engineering
- Agents and Web services
- Agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets
- AI  in video games
- Computer vision
- Constraint satisfaction
- Data mining
- Decision theory
- Distributed AI
- E-Commerce and AI
- Game theory
- Internet/WWW intelligence
- Industrial applications of AI
- Intelligent tutoring
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Machine learning
- Multiagent planning and learning
- Multiagent systems and their applications
- Multiagent systems and evolving intelligence
- Natural language processing
- Neural networks
- Planning and scheduling
- Robotics
- Uncertainty in AI
- Web services


Submission requirements
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Submissions of the following three categories are invited:

Category A: REGULAR PAPERS
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Papers presenting new original work. Submitted papers should not
exceed a length of 12 pages in the IEEE format style (templates here:
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/MIWAI_2010/textemplate.zip,
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/MIWAI_2010/wordtemplate.zip)
Regular papers will be reviewed on overall quality and relevance.
Reviewing of category A papers will be (at least) double-blind. In
order to make blind reviewing possible, the authors should follow
that:

•The authors' names and institutions should not appear in the paper.
•Unpublished work of the authors should not be cited.
•Using "we" or "us" in reviews of literature should be avoided, e.g.,
"In [1] we have proposed..." should be changed to "In [1] the authors
have proposed...".

The program committee will evaluate Category A papers as either
“rejected” or “accepted as long paper” or “accepted as short paper”.
All accepted category A papers (long and short) will be fully
published in the proceedings.

Category B: COMPRESSED CONTRIBUTIONS
..................................................................................................
Papers that have been accepted after June 1 2009 for AI-related
refereed conferences or journals can be resubmitted and will be
accepted as “compressed contributions”. Authors are invited to submit
the published version (without page or format restriction) together
with a 1 or 2-page abstract prepared in the IEEE format style (links
to templates above). Note the above double-blind instructions apply
only to category A papers, not to category B. The abstract of the
paper will be published in the proceedings. Every author may submit at
most one B-paper of which they are the corresponding author, and only
if they do not submit any A-paper as corresponding author.

Category C: DEMONSTRATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
..................................................................................................
Proposals for demonstrations will be evaluated based on submitted
demonstration summaries stating the following: the purpose of the
system to be demonstrated, its user groups, the organization or
project for which it is developed, the developers, and the technology
used. In addition, the system requirements and the duration of the
demo (not exceeding 30 minutes) should be mentioned. Especially master
students are encouraged to submit papers presenting their applications
and experiences. The maximum size of demonstration summaries is 2
pages (links to templates above). Reviewing of category C papers will
be double-blind (see above under “category A” papers for details).

The workshop proceedings will be published with ISBN number.

At least one author of each accepted paper (in each submission
category) is required to attend the workshop.

Language Requirements
..................................................................................................
As MIWAI is an international workshop, its official language is
English. This means all submitting authors must submit an English
language version of their paper, as well as present their paper in
English if accepted for the workshop.

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Committees
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Advisory Committee
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-Wanchai Rivepaiboon (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)
-Wirat Pongsiri (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
-Sujin Butdeesuwan (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
-Somnuk Puangpronpitag (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)

Program Co-Chairs
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- Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
- Chattrakul Sombattheera (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)

Publicity Chairs
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-Wijittra Noisanguan (Rajamangala University of Technology, Isan,
Surin campus, Thailand)
-Mana Setwong (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)

Program Committee (provisional)
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- Arun Agarwal (Hyderabad, India)
- Samir Aknine (Paris 6, France)
- Laor Boongasame (Bangkok University, Thailand)
- Roger Boyle (Leeds, UK)
- Kosin Chamnongthai (KMUTT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Matthew Dailey (AIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Juergen Dix (Clausthal, Germany)
- Patrick Doherty (Linkoping, Sweden)
- Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
- Jerome Lang (CNRS, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France)
- Fangzhen Lin (HKUST, Hong Kong)
- Jerome Mengin (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
- Ekawit Nantajeewarawat (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Eric Pacuit (Tilburg, Netherlands)
- Vineet Padmanabhan (Hyderabad, India)
- Supawan Phonphitakchai (Naresuan University, Thailand)
- Guilin Qi (Southeast University, Nanjing, China)
- Jun Shen (Wollongong, Australia)
- Siriwan Suebnakarn (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Leon van der Torre (Luxembourg)
- Thanaruk Theeramunkong (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Siba Kumar Udgata (Hyderabad, India)
- Paul Weng (Paris 6, France)

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Contact
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Please direct any comments or enquiries to Chattrakul Sombattheera
(chattrakul.s[AT]msu.ac.th) or Richard Booth
(richard.booth[AT]uni.lu).

Call for Papers: ARGAIP 2010 - 1st Workshop on Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy

- Call for Papers -

ARGAIP 2010

1st Workshop on Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy:
computational and philosophical perspectives


http://wsarg2010.ing.unibs.it/

Part of the 11th Symposium of the Italian Association for the Artificial Intelligence

Brescia, December 1-3, 2010

Argumentation is an important and exciting research topic that cuts across a variety of disciplines: Philosophy, Psychology, Communications Studies and Computer Science, in particular Artificial Intelligence. In spite of the wide range of disciplines interested in Argumentation, scientific communities tend to be organized along disciplinary boundaries, with only moderate integration occurring between computational models and philosophical theories of Argumentation. This workshop aims to rectify this situation, bringing together people
from various disciplines (most notably, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Psychology) and asking them to compare their methods and results in the study of Argumentation.

The “Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy: computational and philosophical perspectives” workshop will be hosted by the University of Brescia, Italy, in the context of the 11th Symposium on Artificial Intelligence of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2010), December 1-3. The expected date of the workshop, December 1, is to be confirmed (a possible change to December 2/3 depends on organizational reasons).

Submissions are invited for full papers, in English or Italian, no longer than 8 pages (including references), presenting original research on Argumentation from a philosophical and/or computational perspective (see details below). Each contribution will be reviewed.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Analysis of controversies
- Applications of argumentation technologies (e.g. e-democracy, risk assessment, law and medicine)
- Argument schemes
- Argumentation and epistemology
- Argumentation and game theory
- Argumentation and human-computer interaction
- Argumentation for coordination and coalition formation
- Argumentation in a legal context
- Argumentation in a medical context
- Argumentation in a political context
- Argumentation in agent and multi-agent systems
- Argumentation in debate
- Argumentation in the media
- Argumentation structures
- Argumentation, trust and reputation
- Argumentation-based negotiation
- Computational properties of argumentation
- Decision making based on argumentation
- Dialogue systems based on argumentation
- Fallacies
- Formal and informal models for argumentation
- Implementation of argumentation systems
- Persuasion research
- Reasoning about action and time with argumentation
- Rhetoric and argumentation
- Strategies and argumentation
- Systems for learning through argument
- Tools for supporting argumentation
- Visual argumentation

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2010
Acceptance Notification: October 20, 2010
Camera ready: October 28, 2010
Early registration: October 25, 2010
Workshop: December 1, 2010 (to be confirmed)

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be made available via the workshop web-site and possibly published in the Symposium Proceedings (the publication of the Symposium Proceedings is to be confirmed by AI*IA). Furthermore, the
possibility of publishing an extended version of selected accepted papers in a special issue of a journal is under consideration by the organising committee of the workshop.
Papers should be written in English or Italian and not exceed 8 pages, including references. All papers should be prepared in the AAAI style available from the conference website. Paper submission is managed through EasyChair and is open between July 27 and September 30.

Organising committee

Workshop Chair: Massimiliano Giacomin (University of Brescia, Italy)
Computational Track Chair: Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy)
Philosophical Track Chair: Fabio Paglieri (ISTC-CNR Roma, Italy)

Montag, 12. Juli 2010

6th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web

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               CALL FOR PAPERS
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        6th International Workshop on
  Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
        http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2010

           In conjunction with the
  9th International Semantic Web Conference

              Shanghai, China
              November 7, 2010

You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty
Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 9th
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in November of 2010 at the
Shanghai International Convention Center, China.

ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research
on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop
is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization
between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web
community.

Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing
many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the
ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty
is extremely limited. Recently, there has been a groundswell of
demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web
researchers and developers.

This surge of interest creates a unique opening to bring together two
communities with a clear commonality of interest but little history of
interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark
dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision.

AUDIENCE

The intended audience for this workshop includes the following:

* Researchers in uncertainty reasoning technologies with interest in
Semantic Web and Web-related technologies.
* Semantic web developers and researchers.
* People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the
Semantic Web.
* Ontology researchers and ontological engineers.
* Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web.
* Developers of tools designed to support Semantic Web
implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé developers,
OWL-API developers...

TOPIC LIST

We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to
the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web (including
fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore,
the following list should be just an initial guide.

* Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web languages
to enable representation of uncertainty
* Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web languages
* Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that
terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts
* Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology
mapping
* Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies
* The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic
Web
* Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or
controversial information in the Semantic Web
* The role of uncertainty as it relates to Web services
* Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve
interoperability among Web services
* Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic
Web
* Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of
the Semantic Web
* Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning
with uncertainty
* The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web

IMPORTANT DATES

September 7, 2010   Paper submissions due
September 30, 2010  Paper acceptance notification
October 15, 2010    Camera-ready papers due
November 4, 2010    Presentations due
November 7, 2010    6th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for
the Semantic Web

SUBMISSION DETAILS

The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position
papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least
three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be
based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential
significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will
be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting
authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2010
Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop.

Submissions to the Workshop are only accepted in electronic format and
should be sent via the workshop’s submission site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2010

Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format
for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the
very same format adopted by the ISWC 2010. For complete details,
see Springer’s Author Instructions
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed
12 pages, including figures. Submissions exceeding this limit
will not be reviewed.
Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research
efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 4 pages.

Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2010 conference, papers
that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been
published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference
will not be accepted to the URSW workshop.

PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION

URSW 2010 will be a full-day workshop divided into three sessions.
Two of those sessions will be devoted to paper presentations, while
the remaining session will be planned in a format that invites an
open debate on the results, conclusions, recommendations, and
follow-up work of the URSW-XG group. We also plan to convey a
work meeting after the workshop, in case the last session need
to be extended.

All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the
workshop and published in the workshop proceedings, which will
be available as a separate publication after the Conference.
Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to
present their work, while authors of accepted position
papers will have a 10-minute slot to share their ideas. Both
technical and position papers will be published in the URSW
Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2010 Conference.

In addition, technical papers accepted for presentation at the URSW 2010
will be eligible for participating in the selection to the planned Springer
LNCS volume on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
– Vol. II. This will be the second volume of this series and will
include selected papers from URSW 2008 to URSW 2010.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order):

* Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain.
* Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA
* Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA.
* Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy.
* Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy.
* Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA.
* Ken Laskey – MITRE Corporation, USA.
* Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK.
* Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK.
* Matthias Nickles - Technical University of Munich, Germany.
* Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The confirmed members of the program committee are the following (in
alphabetical order):

* Fernando Bobillo - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
* Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA
* Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA
* Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
* Claudia D'Amato - University of Bari, Italy
* Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy
* Marcelo Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil
* Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA
* Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA
* Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK
* Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK
* Matthias Nickles - Technical University of Munich, Germany
* Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK
* Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA
* Livia Predoiu - Universität Mannheim, Germany
* Guilin Qi - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
* Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK
* Daniel Sánchez - University of Granada, Spain
* Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
* Giorgos Stoilos - Oxford University, UK
* Umberto Straccia – ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
* Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA
* Johanna Voelker - University of Karlsruhe, Germany

We are looking forward to seeing you in Shanghai!

RuleML-2010 - 4th International Rule Challenges

Latest News
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RuleML-2010 - 4th International Rule Challenges
October 21-23, 2010, Washington, DC, USA
http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/ruleml2010/ruleml-2010-challenge.html
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* Call for Demos - Submission Deadline  - August 20th, 2010         *
* Forthcoming RuleML special journal issue                          *
* International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS)  *
* Springer journal AI & Law                                         *
* New categories in the Challenge with prestigious prizes           *
* 15% RuleML-2009 Partner discounts - see registration page         *
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Overview and Aim
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The RuleML-2010 Challenge is one of the highlights at RuleML-2010 with prestigious prizes.
Submissions of benchmarks/evaluations, demos, case studies / use cases, experience reports, best practice solutions (e.g. design patterns, reference architectures, models), rule-based implementations/ tools/ applications, demonstrations engineering methods,implementations of rule standards (e.g. RuleML, RIF, SBVR, PRR, rule-based Event Processing languages, BPMN+rules, BPEL+rules, ...), rules + industrial standards (e.g. XBRL, MISMO, Accord, ...), and industrial problem statements are particularly encouraged.

This year, the RuleML-2010 Challenge will have a special focus theme:
* Modelling Rules in the temporal and geospatial applications
- temporal modelling and reasoning
- geospatial modelling and reasoning
- cross-linking between temporal and geospatial knowledge
- visualization of rules with graphic models in order to support end-user interaction

Key themes of the RuleML-2010 Challenge include the following:
* Demos related to the RuleML-2010 Track Topics <http://2010.ruleml.org /topics.html >
* Extensions and implementations of W3C RIF
* Editing environments and IDEs for Web rules
* Benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines
* Distributed rule bases and rule services
* Reports on industrial experience about rule systems

Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications from the main focus theme and for the all categories. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session.

Submission
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The peer-reviewed and selected papers will be published in additional
special Challenge proceedings (will be published as CEUR proceedings)
along with the online publication of your demo in the highly visible
growing Rules Challenge pool. A selection of revised papers from the
Challenge will be invited to already agreed upcoming journal special
issues in the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems
(IJCIS), and the Springer journal AI & Law.

The submission is composed of two parts:
- open-source or commercial demo
- demo papers describing research, implementation, and technical
details of your submission.

Submissions to the Rules Challenge 2010 consist of a demo paper of 4-8 pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a presentation about the demonstration, or a download site for the demonstration.

Demo papers submission website:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2010challenge

Demo systems submission website:
http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw

Please upload all demo papers submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). To ensure high quality,
submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based
on the evaluation criteria in the web site:

http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/ruleml2010/ruleml-2010-challenge.html

Important Date
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Submission deadline for demo papers and demo systems:
August 20th, 2010

Notification of accepted demo papers and demo systems:
September 3rd, 2010

Submission deadline for demo systems only:
September 17th, 2010 (contingent on availability of demo slots)

Notification for demo systems only:
October 1st, 2010

Rule Challenge Chairs
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Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG-CNR, Italy
Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna - CIRSFID, Italy
Omair Shafiq - University of Calgary, Canada
Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna - Department of Computer Science, Italy


Program Committee
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Hassan Ait-Kaci, IBM Canada Ltd., Canada
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, Inc., US
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Mikael Berndtsson, University of Skövde, Sweden
Antonis Bikakis, Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H., Greece
Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Peter Bollen, Department of Organization & Strategy, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Jordi Cabot, INRIA-École des Mines de Nantes, France
Carlos Castro, Departamento de Informática Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Horatiu Cirstea, Loria, France
Claudia d'Amato, Computer Science Department - University of Bari, Italy
Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, US
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, Dept. of Computer Science, UK
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies, US
Guido Governatori, NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
Minsu Jang, Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH - ITI, Greece
Ian Mackie, University of Sussex, UK
Christopher J.  Matheus, Versatile Information Systems, Inc., US
Jing    Mei, Versatile Information Systems, Inc., US
Jörg P. Müller, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Maher Rahmouni, Hewlett Packard Labs, UK
Dave Reynolds, Epimorphics Ltd, UK
Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Terrance Swift, CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Leon van der Torre, ILIAS, Luxembourg
Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia

BWSS 2010 - THE SECOND BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL SIMULATION

Deadline Approaching

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  July 13, 2010
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BWSS 2010 -  THE SECOND BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL SIMULATION

São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil, October 24-25, 2010


Submission details can be found at the BWSS 2010  web site:
http://www.ncc.furg.br/bwss2010

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Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa - C3/PPGMC/FURG
Centro de Ciências Computacionais
Prog. Pós-grad. Modelagem Computacional
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
96.201-900 Rio Grande, RS, Brasil.