CALL FOR
PAPERS
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
"Knowledge and Data Engineering in the Semantic Web
Era"
Special Issue
Early 2007
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering seeks original
manuscripts for a Special Issue on Knowledge and Data Engineering in
the Semantic Web Era scheduled to appear in an early 2007 issue.
The Semantic Web vision has evolved in the last years as a blueprint
for a knowledge-based framework aimed at crossing the chasm from the
current Web of unstructured information resources to a Web equipped
with metadata and oriented to delegation of tasks to software agents.
Ontologies are the key piece of this framework in that they provide
shared semantics to metadata, thus enabling a degree of semantic
interoperability. The requirements of large-scale deployment and
interoperability of the Semantic Web vision represent a major challenge
to data and knowledge engineering, which raises a number of issues and
requirements regarding how to represent, create, manage and use both
ontologies as shared knowledge representations, but also large volumes
of metadata records used to annotate Web resources of a diverse kind.
The special issue aims at helping in communicating and disseminating
relevant recent research in knowledge and data engineering as applied
to the context of Information Systems. The scope of the call includes
Knowledge Engineering for organizational applications, Semantic Web
approaches to Information Systems and Ontology-Based Information
Systems research, as well as the diverse underlying Database and
Knowledge Representation aspects. Papers dealing with aspects that
touch both aspects are especially sought. This is intended to initiate
a dialog between the organizational and more technical views of the
field. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Knowledge-based tools and techniques for or enabled
by Semantic Web applications.
* How semantic mapping is achieved in databases and
knowledge representations.
* Engineering of ontologies for Information Systems
and their associated data management requirements.
* Algorithms and representations for Semantic Web
approaches to Knowledge management. * Knowledge
integration through ontologies, semantic metadata and databases of
annotations.
* Design and modeling of Semantic Web repositories
and distributed knowledge-based systems.
* Semantic Web and metadata query languages and
implementation frameworks.
* Management of semantic metadata.
Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently
submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are
responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission
guidelines. You can access them by clicking on
http://www.computer.org/mc/tkde/author.htm. Please thoroughly read
these before submitting your manuscript.
Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at
http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/.
Please feel free to contact the Peer Review Manager, Suzanne Werner at
swerner@computer.org or the guest editors at Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr if
you have any questions.
Please note the following important dates.
Important dates: Submission Deadline: 15-Sep-05
Completion of First-Round Reviews: 15-Dec-05
Revised Papers (after Minor Revisions): 19-Jan-06
Publication Materials Due: 23-Jun-06
Publication: in an Early 2007 issue. Please address all other
correspondence regarding this special issue to Guest Editors G. Vossen,
M. Lytras, N. Koudas GUEST EDITORS
Gottfried Vossen University of Muenster, Germany Email:
vossen@helios.uni-muenster.de
Miltiadis Lytras Research Academic Computer Technology Institute,
Hellas and AIS SIGSEMIS Email: Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr
Nick Koudas AT&T Labs Research, USA Email:
koudas@research.att.com