我们鼓励一切对语义网推理技术提出新思路的论文，你可以大胆展开思路，提出一切可能的技术与方法。我们特别鼓励年轻的学子使用科学的论证方法提出新创意。

下面只是部分感兴趣的问题， 比如说，
如何有效地组织和存储海量（数十亿级以上）语义数据（如RDF三元组）使之能够非常有效地进行推理？
如果有效地处理不一致性的海量语义数据的技术？
如何有效地处理动态的实时变化的海量语义数据？
能否提出一个新的逻辑系统它不必在逻辑上是完备的(complete)的，但能有效地应用于海量语义数据的推理？
如何在语义推理技术中引入语用的思想，能够从使用者的角度动态地调整推理策略和表达数据等？
如何采用接近推理的技术，使得推理的结果不必每次都是绝对正确，但都是比较接近正确的结论？
等等，等等。。。

有关NEFORS2008国际会议的详细内容请见下列网站的具体通知：http://nefors08.larkc.eu

我们将挑选部分高质量的优秀论文，出版在一个国际学术刊物的专辑上。目前语义网领域的顶级期刊Journal of Web Semantics已经同我们联系了。

如果你对本国际学术会议感兴趣的话，我将在近期进一步解答你的提问。

========================= CALL FOR PAPERS =========================

Second International Workshop: "New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scaleable, tolerant and dynamic"

http://nefors08.larkc.eu

Co-located with the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008) http://www.aswc2008.org/

Pathumthani, Thailand, 8th-11th December 2008

===================================================================

Workshop Objectives
===================
The Semantic Web is the vision of a Web of data usable for both humans but also
machines. This web, consists of inter-connected instance data annotated with possibly
expressive ontologies.  Therefore a tremendous amount of information becomes available
that should be processed based on formal semantics attached to it. The Semantic Web
community has developed a number of languages (such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL) that
deploy logic for this purpose. Impressive progress has been made on scalable storage,
querying and inference for these languages, and they are successfully being deployed on
large intranets and medium-scale web-applications.

However existing reasoning techniques often fail to live up to the expectations put into
them in this context. They can often neither deal with high number of instances, the
expressiveness of the ontologies describing them or the inherent inconsistency and
incompleteness of data on the Web.

This workshop is intended to focus on these problems of scalability and robustness of
reasoning on the Web, and furthermore to investigate alternative reasoning methods,
which take incompleteness and distribution of data and knowledge as inherent
properties into account.

NeForS08 is the follow-up of the first international workshop on "New forms of reasoning
for the Semantic Web: scalable, tolerant and dynamic", which took place in Busan,
Korea in November 2007 and was co-located with the 6th International Semantic Web
Conference (ISWC 2007) and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2007).

Topics of Interest
==================
We welcome all research contributions that address one or more of the following topics:
* Reasoning for the Web
* Querying and searching
* Scalability to the Web level
* Efficient storage of structured data that scale to a very large size

We also aim to attract participants from scientific fields not typically seen at Semantic Web events:
* Economics can tell us about cost-benefit trade-off models, sunk-cost theory and the
role of negotiation in obtaining near-optimal results under bounded resources
* Cognitive Science can tell us about strategies of human memory and human reasoning
which is so succesful in reaching good enough conclusion in limited time-spans, using methods such as priming, attention scoping, recency-based self-optimising memory, etc.
* Computational Learning Theory has contributions to make with their notions of Probably
Approximately Correct (PAC) computing, and strategies for abstraction and compression
of information.
* Combinatorial Search has made recent breakthroughs in handling massive search-spaces
with heuristics based on Monte Carlo simulations.

Event Information
=================
The workshop will take place during the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC2008) as a full-day event.
It will be organized as a full day event and include an invited talk by Kyung-il Tony Lee, president and CEO of Saltlux Inc. on the industrial view on semantic technologies and
the need for large-scale reasoning.

Please note that for every accepted paper at least one of the authors must attend the
workshop and must register for the workshop and the main conference.
Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the
event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those
who have submitted a paper will be given
priority.

Submissions
===========
The workshop invites full papers (up to 15 pages) as well as short papers (up to 5
pages). All contributions will be peer reviewed by the program commitee (see
http://nefors08.larkc.eu) and accepted submissions will be published in a dedicated book.
The number of accepted papers will be kept deliberately low in order to leave sufficient
time for discussion after presentations.
Additionally  we are considering a special issue in a journal on semantic computing for
extended versions of selected, high quality submissions.

Submitted papers must be written in English and one of the following format must be
used for the first submission: PDF, PS, DOC. For submissions please follow LNCS formatting instructions (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 for details) to
prepare your paper and consider using the camera ready format even for the first
submission.

Furthermore papers need to be submitted electronically through the EasyChair using the
following link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=nefors08

Important Dates
===============
* September 15, 2008: Submission of papers
* September 30, 2008: Notification of acceptance
* October 15, 2008: Camera-ready version due
* December 8, 2008: Workshop

Organizers
==========
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Uwe Keller, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan and The International WIC Institute/BJUT, China

Program Committee
=================
Ruzica Piskac, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lael Schooler, MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Pascal Hitzler, Institut for Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany
Yue Pan, IBM Research Laboratory, Beijing, China
Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL, Milano, Italy
Stefania Galizia, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Guilin Qi, Institut for Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany
Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, Austin, Texas, USA
Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

Steering Committee
===================
Dieter Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Contact
=======
Florian Fischer
Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Technikerstr. 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
E florian.fischer@sti2.at

请问一个俗一点的问题，收录的论文会被EI或ISTP索引么

我是完全能够理解国内学子提出这类问题的。由于长期身在海外， 我个人可以说对EI或ISTP
几乎一无所知。我甚至不是很清楚EI或ISTP究竟是什么东西。只听说过，由于中国学术界的原因，著名的LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)已经不再被国内很看重的某些国际索引机构所收录， 这是不是EI或ISTP索引？ 值得注意的是，国际语义网大会的会议录都是以LNCS形式出版的。如果真是这样的话， 这种以EI或ISTP索引为参考标准的学术评估体系，无疑是在扼杀国内学子对语义网研究的热情。

希望我的上述判断是不正确的。

A档是SCI, SSCI索引的国内外期刊论文

B档是Engineering Village (EI) 索引的的期刊或会议论文

C档是收录在ISI Proceedings (ISTP) 中的会议论文

SCI, SSCI在前两年已经宣布不再收录LNCS，而EI和ISTP也不能保证收录LNCS。

比如ISWC, ASWC在07年以前以LNCS发表的被EI索引了，而07年合办的那个会议却没有被EI索引。

国内评价体系大概就是这样，黄老师能否介绍一下国外学术评估体系？

谢谢jpz6311whu提供的信息。这对我来说算是对国内学术评估体系的启蒙教育。
可是我还是不太清楚这些A,B,C档同博士生毕业和职称评审等是如何挂钩的？每年都要评审一次吗？如果一个教授两年没有A档文章会是如何呢？不同的学校之间对其要求是不是差距很大？。。。。这许许多多的问题，欢迎大家提供信息， 先谢了！

国外学术评估体系各个国家之间可能有一定的差距。在这里我只能介绍我所熟悉的荷兰和英国等国家的情况。

这里总的来说不存在对个人的严格学术评价体系。虽然大学里有条文规定，教授对其博士生，以及博士生对其教授，在年终时要做一次互评。教授要说博士生哪一些做得很好，并指出哪些还要努力等等， 博士生要说教授指导得好不好等，希望要如何更好地指导等等。但实际上师生关系融洽，这些规定在我们的系里一直没有真正执行过。

国家对大学的一个专业科研水平是每四年正规地评审一次。评审团进驻学校，先听汇报，然后考察其科学研究情况（包括发表的论文，实现的系统演示等）。由于评审专家本身都是本专业的资深研究人员，他们不必对论文采用分级计数的办法来核定其水平，而是从研究的具体成果内容上去判定，因此从来没有概念把论文与索引或影响因子等挂钩。

（一言难尽，后面我将继续介绍。。。）

在现实应用中，有许多这样的例子。如我们的研究人员协同意大利米兰市政府，把米兰全城的信息实时生成与语义管理，如每条街道的车辆与交通的实时信息和城市中的所有手机的状态和位置的数据等，每时每刻都产生大量的语义数据。针对这些动态的实时变化的海量语义数据进行管理和推理具有重大的应用前景。此外，韩国的一个手机公司也参加了我们的实例研究。

对于博士生毕业，我们院要求A+C, 2B+C, 或者B+3C论文发表才能有答辩资格。这个要求再国内应该算是相对较低的了。

职称评定我不是很清楚，据说要求也不是很高，不然中国高校怎么会有这么多教授，其实有些教授水平也不高。另外，国内职称评定有论资排辈的现象，年轻教师一般要等若干年才“论”到自己评职称。

刚刚说的是国外论文发表档次，其实在国内发表论文还有另外两个档次，国内“权威”和“核心”，前者大约相当B档，后者大约相当C档。

“如何采用接近推理的技术，使得推理的结果不必每次都是绝对正确，但都是比较接近正确的结论？”
什么是接近推理？fuzzy reasoning属于接近推理吗，Probabilistic reasoning呢？如何理解？

谢谢jpz6311whu的回答。

有意思的是“核心”比“权威”低一档， 看来中文的语义是很灵活的。
“团结在以XXX为核心周围”要改成“团结在以XXX为权威周围”。A档文章如何称呼？

不同系统有不同做法， 大多数采用外挂数据库的办法。现有的数据库方法处理千万级三元组的数据已经完全没有问题。

接近推理（approximate reasoning）是指采用变通的手段以减低计算复杂性而获得近似推理结论的方法。通常的做法有(1)采用非标准推理方法，如S3 entailment （2）减少语言表达复杂性，使之更容易推理， （3）转换推理询问， 使之更容易获得结论。

fuzzy reasoning（模糊推理）等方法可以不太严格地看成一种接近推理。但模糊推理好像并不能减低计算复杂性。我到目前为止还没有看到一个研究证明：如果没有采用模糊逻辑，表达起来就很复杂，如果用模糊逻辑，其表达就变得很简单。如果谁能证明这一点，就是有价值的论文了。

基本正确。但由于采用概率统计中的样本抽样（sampling）的方法可以把大量的数据中抽出一部分数据，来进行推理，故近年来被看成一种有希望的接近推理技术， 这是一个等待突破的方向。

scalability= scale + ability， 指的是具备处理超大规模数据的能力， 也就是海量数据处理的能力。应对日益增长的知识库， 这已成为日益重要的问题。这也就是我们这次国际会议的中心议题。

New Forms of Reasoning for the Semantic Web
   (http://nefors08.larkc.eu/)

Workshop Proceedings
The proceeding of all workshops will be published in a book. Submitted papers must be
written in English, and must comply with the LNCS formatting instructions. Please refer
to the Springer LNCS web site for the paper formatting instructions. We encourage the
authors to use the camera ready format even for the first submission. The following
formats will be accepted: PDF, PS, DOC.

Important dates:
15 September 2008    Deadline for papers submissions
30 September 2008    Notification of acceptance
15 October 2008      Camera ready due
8 December 2008      Workshops day

海量语义数据不是由一两个本体组成，而是由数十个乃至上百上千个本体及其实例数据组成。虽然现在还没有标准的海量语义数据集供基准测试（benchmarking）用，但实际上很容易获得海量语义数据，也就是很容易遇到海量语义数据处理问题，即把你问题中所能涉及到的一切可能相关的本体都往里加。

值得注意这就是语义网的核心精神所在，数据是分布式生成的，你不必为自己的特定应用系统设计自己的专用数据，而是把网络上别人的数据，只要是有关的数据（虽然很大部分可能是不相关的）全部拿来共享。

September 28, 2008
Submission of papers (Extended Deadline!)

October 8, 2008
Notification of acceptance

October 15, 2008
Camera-ready version due

December 8, 2008
Workshop