ACM Symposium on Appliced Computing (SAC) 2012

A Technical Track on
The Semantic Web and Applications (SWA)

Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy, March 25-29, 2012

*** EXTENDED Paper submission deadline: September 7, 2011 ***


CALL FOR PAPERS

The technical track "The Semantic Web and Applications (SWA)" focuses on the topics related to Semantic Web Technologies and their Applications. The techniques to realize and/or utilize the Semantic Web are discussed in this track.

The focus of this track is to present research concerning issues such as: 1) learning/constructing ontologies for Semantic Web applications; 2) utilizing ontologies for data management, integration and interoperability in Semantic web applications; 3) architectures for achieving Semantic Web goals for specific application domains; and 4) improving search techniques (or engines) with Semantic Web technologies.

This track aims to tackle research problems and practical applications for the Semantic Web. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers on the theoretical, technical and practical issues of Semantic Web and its Applications. We are particularly interested in applying Semantic Web technologies to specific application domains (e.g., e-learning, e-business, social informatics, medical informatics and bioinformatics).

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Semantic interoperability
  • Ontology-enabled interoperability among e-sources
  • Emergent semantics
  • Ontology, Taxonomy, and Folksonomy
  • Schema mapping/matching and integration
  • Learning structures from the Web for Semantic Web-enabled applications
  • Ontology generation/learning
  • Building/utilizing ontologies and knowledge bases
  • Semantics and ontologies in data integration
  • Ontology-enabled search (engines)
  • Semantic Web-enabled search (engines)
  • Semantic web-enabled question answering system
  • Ontology-enabled information retrieval
  • Semantic Web-enabled information retrieval
  • Semantic Web-enabled Information extraction
  • Full-text search in XML and/or Semantic Web documents
  • Data management and integration for Semantic Web-enabled applications
  • Semantic annotation
  • Semantic Web personalization
  • Semantic Web-enabled user modelling
  • Semantic Web services
  • Reasoning
  • Querying the Semantic Web
  • Semantic Web mining
  • Question Answering over the Semantic Web
  • Text mining for Semantic Web-enabled application
  • Natural language processing for Semantic Web-enabled application
  • Semantic Social Network
  • Semantic Social Informatics
  • Recommendations via Semantic Technologies
  • Semantic Technologies
  • Semantic Knowledge Discovery
  • Visualization of Semantic Technology Applications
  • Privacy and Security in Semantic Web Applications
  • Applying Semantic Web technologies to e-learning, e-business, social informatics, medical informatics, bioinformatics, and legal domains

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

Authors are invited to submit original papers via submission systems (see below) as a PDF file. Since the track papers will be published by ACM proceedings, authors must submit manuscripts using the ACM format. See ACM SAC 2012's announcement for template files and details.

  • The standard extension of a paper at SAC is 6 pages in ACM format. Longer papers (up to 8 pages maximum) will imply an additional charge and the charge is 80USD per extra page.
  • For submitting abstracts and papers, please click HERE.
  • The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown on the top of the first page without the author's information.
  • A paper cannot be submitted to more than one track.
  • All paper submissions MUST BE "Original, unpublished work."

IMPORTANT DUE DATES (Firm deadlines - all deadlines will be strictly enforced.)

Sep. 7, 2011 *** EXTENDED *** Paper & Abstract submission
Oct. 12, 2011 Author notification
Nov. 2, 2011 Camera-Ready Paper submission

PROGRAM CHAIR

Hyoil Han (hyoil.han@acm.org) Marshall University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Haris Abdullah
Hend S. Al-Khalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Idir Amine Amarouche, USTHB/Bab Ezzouar, Algeria
Emra Aşkaroğlu
Jose Javier Astrain, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain
Sofia J. Athenikos, Collective[i], USA
Hajer Baazaoui, ISAMM/ Riadi-GDL Laboratory- Manouba University - Tunis, Tunisia
Israel Wakwoya Bayissa, INRIA, France
Ioan Marius Bilasco, Université Lille 1, France
Stephan Bloehdorn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Carlos Bobed Lisbona, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Loris Bozzato, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Stefan Brüggemann, Astrium GmbH, Germany
Volha Bryl, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Liliana Cabral, The Open University, United Kingdom
Irene Celino, CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Song-il Cha, China
Efthymios Chondrogiannis, National Technical University Athens, Greece
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
Massimiliano Dal Mas,
Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy
Ricardo de Almeida Falbo
Soheila Dehghanzadeh
Roberto De Virgilio, Università Roma Tre, Italy
Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany
Yihong Ding, Fujifilm Medical Systems, USA
Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Rute Drebes, Federal University of Campina Grande - (UFCG), Brazil
Lucas Drumond, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Samhaa El-Beltagy, Cairo University, Egypt
Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy
Farnoush Farhadi
Bouarab-Dahmani Farida, Tizi Ouzou University, Algeria
Renato Fileto, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Andre Freitas, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
Raul Garcia-Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Teresa García-Valverde, University of Murcia, Spain
Fabio Grandi, University of Bologna, Italy
Sven Groppe, IFIS University of Lubeck, Germany
Ikbel Guidara, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Hele-Mai Haav, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Hyoil Han, Marshall University, USA
Kenji Hatano, Doshisha University, Japan
Ralf Heese, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Benjamin Heitmann, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
Stijn Heymans, SemanticBits LLC, USA
Guilherme Coan Hobold, UFSC, Brazil
Frederik Hogenboom, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Ahmad Ali Iqbal, University of New South Wales and National ICT Australia, Australia
Ken Kaneiwa, Iwate University, Japan
Wajahat Ali Khan, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Asad Masood Khattak, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Selma Khouri, LISI/ENSMA Poitiers University, France
HakLae Kim, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
Steffen Lamparter, Siemens AG, Germany
Sang-Goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
SangKeun Lee, Korea University, Korea
Yugyung Lee, University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA
Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea
Zhang Lingyu
Cristiano Longo, University of Catania, Italy
Nuno Lopes, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
Pedro Lopes, DETI/IEETA, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Tarsis Marinho de Souza, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
Miguel A. Martínez-Prieto, University of Valladolid, Spain
Bruno Martins
Viviana Mascardi, University of Genoa, Italy
Abdul-Rahman Mawlood-Yunis, Canada Revenue Agency, Canada
Pasquale Minervini, University of Bari, Italy
Roberto Mirizzi, Politecnico di Bari. Italy
Jun Miyazaki, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Shahab Mokarizadeh, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Byung-Kwon Park, Dong-A University, Korea
Jyotishman Pathak, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA
Yannis Plegas, University of Patras, Greece
Azzurra Ragone, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Ticianne Ribeiro, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Tarmo Robal, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Deise Saccol, Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil
Saguna Saguna, Monash University, Australia
Melike Şah, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Sana Sellami, LSIS laboratory in Marseilles, France
Huayou Si
Marlos Silva, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
Carlos Solis, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland
Lubomir Stanchev, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA
Umberto Straccia, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Sangsoo Sung, Google Inc., USA
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University, USA
John Timm, IBM Research, USA
Raquel Trillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Fernando Wagner
Xian Wu, IBM China Research Lab., China
Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
Fu Zhang



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