4th International  Workshop on New Forms of Reasoning for the Semantic Web: Scalable & Dynamic  - NEFoRS2010

                              Website: http://nefors10.larkc.eu
                              30 May 2010, Heraklion, Greece
         co-located with the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010)

1. Introduction
Initiatives like Linked Open Data have resulted in a rapid growth of the Web of data, and this growth is expected to continue. While impressive progress has been made in recent years in scalable storing, querying, and reasoning with languages like RDFS and OWL, existing reasoning techniques fail to perform when applied at Web-scale, due to the quantities of instance data, expressiveness of the ontologies, or the inherent inconsistency and incompleteness of data on the Web.

These problems of scale are increasingly compounded by the appearance of highly dynamic data streams. Data streams occur in modern applications such as traffic engineering, applications of RFID tags, telecom call recording, medical record management, financial applications, and clickstreams. On the Web, many sites distribute and present information in real-time streams of semi-structured text. In many of these application areas, the ability to perform complex reasoning tasks that combine streaming information (both data and text) with background knowledge would be of great benefit. Stream reasoning is a new multidisciplinary approach for semantically processing high-frequency high-volume streams of information in combination with rich background knowledge.

This workshop is a joint continuation of earlier successful workshop on scalable and dynamic reasoning for the Semantic Web, NeFoRS'07, NeFoRS'08, and SR'09.

2. Event Information

We welcome all research contributions that address one or more of the following topics:

    * scalable reasoning for the Web
    * web scale querying and searching
    * reasoning with inconsistent ontologies
    * stream reasoning in the Semantic Web
    * efficient storage of structured data that scale to a very large size
    * reasoning with large, expressive or distributed ontologies
    * theory for stream reasoning
    * management of semantic streams
    * reasoning on streams
    * semantic analysis of text streams
    * on-line learning from streams
    * distribution and parallelization for semantic streams
    * cognitively-inspired approaches to deal with large and dynamic information
    * implementation and evaluation of scalable and dynamic reasoners
    * applications of reasoning on large and dynamic datasets

The workshop will take place during the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010) as a full-day event.

3. Important Dates

March 8, 2010 Submission of papers
April 13, 2010 Notification of acceptance
April 27, 2010 Camera-ready version due
May 30 or 31, 2010 Workshop

4. Organisation

Chairs

    * Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    * Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    * Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
    * Zhisheng Huang, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Program Committee

    * Daniele Braga, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    * Irene Celino, CEFRIEL, Italy
    * Marko Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
    * Michael Grossnicklaus Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy and ETH, Zurich
    * Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Ohio, USA
    * Mihai Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility, Austria
    * Marko Luther, DOCOMO Research Labs, Munich, Germany
    * Vassil Momtchev, Ontotext, Bulgaria
    * Jose Quesada, Max Planck Institute, Germany
    * Angus Roberts, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
    * Magnus Sahlgren, SICS, Sweden
    * Anne Schlicht, University of Mannheim, Germany
    * Stefan Schlobach, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
    * Lael Schooler, Max Planck Institute, Germany
    * Volker Tresp, SIEMENS, Germany
    * Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, Ireland
    * Michael Witbrock, Cyc Europe
    * (More to be added)

5. Submissions

The workshop invites full papers (up to 15 pages) as well as short papers (up to 5 pages). Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science guidelines for proceedings available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Papers should be submitted in PDF format.

Furthermore papers need to be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system using the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=nefors10

6.Contact

Zhisheng Huang (email: huang@cs.vu.nl)
Group of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning,
Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

欢迎各种具有新想法的文章，包括涉及不成熟的想法和技术但有发展潜力的小论文！

很好的机会，请大家不要错过最后机会！

以下是引用Huang在2010-3-15 18:44:00的发言： 许多国内的学生学者并不太清楚参加国际学术研讨会（workshop）的价值。他们大多关注的是论文是否会被sci检索。实际上，参加workshop是一个提升自己论文质量的好途径。通过workshop的论文评审，评审人一般都会对论文提出很好的修改建议，这样的论文再向最高级别的国际会议冲击就更有保证。当前的国际一流学术会议竞争非常激烈，许多录取率只在10%左右。如果没有通过较好的论文预评审过程，成功的几率是很低的。