CALL FOR PAPERS

The Semantic Web: The Goal of Web Intelligence

Part of the Digital Documents Track

 

Thirty-eighth Annual

HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES

 

January 3 - 6, 2005

Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort

on the Big Island of Hawaii

 

Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

Mirror sites: http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/      and    http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/

 

Before a ubiquitous Semantic Web or “intelligent web” can be realized, there are a number of challenging issues in a number of divergent disciplines that must be solved. For example, how can we better gather, fuse, interpret, analyze, and visualize information stored on the Web.  In other words, how can we provide a rapid and profound understanding of the information that is available on the Web? This mini-track seeks to explore novel, multidisciplinary research in these and other broad issues related to the Semantic Web.

 

Incredible volumes of information, much of it in the form of digital documents, are readily available from virtually any computer in the world. Unfortunately, this increase in information often overwhelms the people it is intending to help. This phenomenon can be seen in business, science, military, and government. The Semantic Web is one of several proposed solutions to this problem.  This minitrack seeks to explore the topic of the Semantic Web, with a focus on how to derive increasingly relevant information from Web-based digital document resources.

 

This minitrack, “The Semantic Web: The Goal of Web Intelligence,” will look at technologies and issues including the use of intelligent agents; information retrieval; knowledge discovery; data mining; data and sensor fusion; text, image and video analysis; ontologies; visualization; and decision support methods. Our aim is to bring together researchers who are experts in the broad, multidisciplinary issues related to the Semantic Web.

 

Topics: Papers describing unpublished, original work are solicited on any topic from state-of-the-art research to practice in software development and its application in industry. Topics of interest include (but not limited to):

 

·  Semantic Web

·  Web Intelligence

·  Software Agents

·  Ontologies

·  Information retrieval

·  Semantic Markup, i.e., DAML, RDF, and XML

·  WSDL and Web services

·  Machine Learning

·  Security and trust issues

·  Usability

·  Textual, image, and remote sensing data analysis

·  Grid Computing

·  Data visualization and presentation

 

 

Semantic Web Minitrack Chairs

 

Thomas E. Potok

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

PotokTE@ornl.gov

Mark T. Elmore

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ElmoreMT@ornl.gov

 

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

March 31, 2004          Abstracts to be submitted to Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content.

 

June 15, 2004             Authors submit full papers to the appropriate Minitrack following format and submission instructions on the web site.

 

August 15, 2004         Minitrack Chairs send Acceptance/Rejection notices to Authors.

October 1, 2004          Authors submit Final Version of paper electronically to publisher.   At least one author of each paper must register by this date to attend the conference to present the paper.  

December 1, 2004      Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at the conference rate.



INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, or currently submitted elsewhere.


• Consult the conference website for the listing and description of Minitracks for HICSS-38.

• (optional)  Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and verification of appropriate content.

Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair.   If unsure of which Minitrack is appropriate, submit abstract to the Track Chair for guidance. 

 

• Submit your full paper according to the detailed formatting and submission instructions found on the HICSS website.  Note:  All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references.



HICSS-38 CONFERENCE TRACKS

* Collaboration Systems and Technology - Co-Chair: Jay Nunamaker; E-mail:  jnunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu; Co-Chair: Robert O. Briggs; E-mail: bob@GroupSystems.com

* Complex Systems - Chair: Robert Thomas; E-mail: rjt1@cornell.edu

* Decision Technologies for Management - Chair: Dan Dolk; E-mail: drdolk@nps.navy.mil

* Digital Documents and the Media - Chair: Michael Shepherd; E-mail: shepherd@cs.cal.ca                        

* Emerging Technologies -    Chair: Ralph H. Sprague; E-mail: sprague@hawaii.edu  

* Information Technology in Health Care - Chair: William Chismar; E-mail: chismar@cba.hawaii.edu

* Internet & the Digital Economy - Co-Chair: David King; E-mail: david.king@jda.com Co-Chair: Alan Dennis; E-mail: ardennis@indiana.edu

* Organizational Systems & Technology - Chair: Hugh Watson; Email: hwatson@terry.uga.edu

* Software Technology - Chair: Gul Agha; E-mail: agha@cs.uiuc.edu


HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice.   Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature.  Submissions undergo a peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings.  Submissions must not have been previously published.

 

For the latest information; visit the HICSS web site at:    http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

or the mirror sites   : http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/      and    http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/

 

CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION

Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair                           

Email:  sprague@hawaii.edu

 

Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator

Email:  hicss@hawaii.edu

 

Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator

Email: eidennis@indiana.edu

 

2005 CONFERENCE VENUE

Hilton Waikoloa Village (on the Big Island of Hawaii)

425 Waikoloa Beach Drive

Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738

Tel: 1-808-886-1234

Fax: 1-808-886-2900

www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com