5th European Semantic Web Conference 2008

	~~Call for Workshop Proposals~~ <<CLOSED>>
	5th European Semantic Web Conference 01 - 05 June 2008 Tenerife (Spain) http://www.eswc2008.org/ The ESWC is the leading European Conference on Theory, Practice and Applications of Semantic Web Technologies, constantly attracting a high number of high quality submissions participants from academia and industry. Besides the main technical programme, ESWC will host a number of workshops on topics related to the general theme of the conference. The role of the workshops is to provide a platform for a more intensive scientific exchange amongst researchers interested in a particular topic and as a meeting point for the community. The workshops should provide the opportunity to present and discuss ongoing work and new ideas in subfield of Semantic Web research. In order to meet these goals, workshop should address topics that satisfy the following criteria: the topic falls in the general scope of the ESWC conference (compare http://www.eswc2008.org/) there is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application there is a sufficiently large community interested in the topic In particular, we encourage the submission of workshop proposals on fundamental problems of the semantic web such as heterogeneity, scalability and distribution applications of semantic web technologies in specific domains important enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the semantic web aspects of semantic web research that have been neglected so far Workshop proposals should be sent to the workshop chair (heiner@informatik.uni-mannheim.de) before December 2007 as a single PDF file of no more than 5 pages and should contain the following information name, address and experience of the workshop organizers the proposed topic and its role in the semantic web a clear explanation of the scope of the workshop a description of the community addressed, information about it size and related activities if possible a tentative list of PC members Proposers of accepted workshops have to prepare a workshop webpage containing a call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timelines by mid January. Other relevant dates are the following. Important Dates Workshop Proposals Due: December 1, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2007 Workshop URL Due: January 11, 2008 Proposed timeline for workshops Deadlines: March 7, 2008 Notifications: April 4, 2008 Camera ready: April 18, 2008 Workshop Notes Due: May 1, 2008 Heiner Stuckenschmidt (ESWC 2008 Workshop Chair)