Hello

The second Global Grid Forum Semantic Grid Workshop will be held as part of GGF11 in Hawaii in June. The theme is "Semantic Grid Applications", to be broadly interpreted as all use of Semantic Web technologies in Grid computing projects (in applications or within the Grid computing environment).

The CFP is on http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf11semgrdcfp.html and appended below. The paper deadline is April 26.

Thanks - I hope to see some of you in Hawaii.

-- Dave

            GGF11 Semantic Grid Applications Workshop

                         Call for Papers

Semantic Web technologies, such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) for metadata representation, are increasingly being applied to Grid computing infrastructure and applications, facilitating interoperability and reuse of services, data and tools. The purpose

of

the GGF Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-GRD) is to help Grid users and developers realize this added value from Semantic Web technologies.

Following on from the successful Semantic Grid workshop at GGF9, the GGF Semantic Grid Research Group is holding its second workshop at GGF11, which will be in Honolulu June 4-9, 2004. The theme of the workshop is Semantic Grid Applications, reflecting the GGF11 emphasis on real Grids, and the event is being organized in conjunction with the Applications Working Group (APPS-RG). The workshop will be a combination of invited presentations and refereed submissions, and is aimed at practitioners and would-be practitioners of Grid computing benefiting from Semantic Web tools and techniques.

We invite short and long papers describing Grid computing projects that are making use of Semantic Web technologies and concepts,

whether

this is within the Grid application or within the Grid computing environment. We are equally interested in papers that apply Semantic Web technologies to data, services (e.g. for description, discovery and composition), environments and collaborative tools. Topics of interest include applications with the following features:

* Metadata (RDF and RDFS) to describe data and resources
* Interoperability achieved through Semantic Web technologies
* Integration of heterogeneous data sources
* Metadata capture and semantic annotation
* Metadata stores ("triplestores" and querying)
* Tools for Semantic Grid
* Use of Semantic Web technologies to support virtual organizations
* Autonomic computing using Semantic Web technologies
* Use of Semantic Web Services (e.g. using OWL-S)
* Capturing and representing knowledge in PSEs
* Development, deployment and management of ontologies (e.g. in

OWL)

* Integration using ontology mapping
* Use of advanced techniques, e.g. agent-based computing,

inference,

  planning.

We also welcome demonstrations of Semantic Web technologies being applied to Grid computing, to be exhibited during a demos session at the workshop.

The proceedings of the workshop will be published as a GGF Informational Document.

Workshop organizers

The workshop is being held by the GGF Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-GRD) in conjunction with the Applications Working Group (APPS-RG). The Workshop Co-Chairs are:

David De Roure Semantic Grid Research Group Geoffrey Fox Grid Computing Environments and Semantic Grid Research Groups Carole Goble Semantic Grid Research Group Simon J. Cox Applications Working Group

The submissions chair is Danius Michaelides and the proceedings chair is Luc Moreau. For further information please see the Web site or contact Danius Michaelides on dtm@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Submissions

Papers should be typeset in 12pt single column format, for letter or A4 sized paper. Full papers should not exceed 10 pages; short papers (extended abstracts) may be up to 4 pages. Submission format for review is Word or PDF. Please submit papers to the submissions chair.

We also welcome demonstrations. To propose a demonstration, please submit a URL referring to a one page proposal which may include hyperlinks to more detail. Demonstrations may be live or

pre-recorded.

Important Dates

Paper and demo submission: April 26, 2004 Notification to authors: May 5, 2004 Final versions of papers: May 21, 2004

We welcome early or outline submissions at any time from authors who would like feedback from the organizers prior to the paper and demo submission deadline. We will provide feedback as quickly as possible. Please submit outlines, and any queries about the workshop, to Danius Michaelides from GGF10 onwards.

Program Committee

Mark Baker University of Portsmouth, UK Jim Blythe Information Sciences Institute, USC William Johnston Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Kerstin Kleese CLRC Daresbury Laboratory, UK Libby Miller ILRT, University of Bristol, UK Jim Myers Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Marlon Pierce Indiana University

Registration

The Workshop is open to anyone registered for GGF. Participants may also be able to register for the workshops only. Please see the main GGF web site.

-- Prof David De Roure phone +44 (0)23 8059 2418 Head of Grid and Pervasive Computing fax +44 (0)23 8059 2865 School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton email dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dder/

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