Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:00:29 +0100 From: Titi Roman <dumitru.roman@deri.org> To: swws-interest@w3c.or.kr, wsmo-discussion@lists.deri.org, deri-research@lists.deri.org, kweb-all@lists.deri.org, dip-all@lists.deri.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, sekt@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Subject: cfp: Mobile Services and Ontologies Workshop (MoSO 2006) Message-ID: <437F683D.2030304@deri.org>
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***Apologies for multiple postings*** Call for Submissions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Services and Ontologies Workshop (MoSO 2006) http://www.deri.at/events/workshops/mdm2006/ at The 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06) http://www.mdm2006.kddilabs.jp/ May 8, 2006, Nara, Japan -------------------------------------------------------- THEME OF THE WORKSHOP The theme of the workshop is the intersection of three major trends in today’s computing: * mobile computing becomes more and more important. Mobile portable devices have outnumbered already traditional desktop computers and will mould the view of computers future generations will have. * service-oriented computing is viewed by many analysts as the computing paradigm of the near future. It allows for the dynamic integration of functionality provided by different parties. * research on ontologies, in particular in connection with work on the semantic web and semantic web services allows for machine understandable description of functionality and for automatic interaction of devices without the need for human involvement. The proposed workshop investigates how mobile computing can benefit from service-orientation and ontologies and vice versa. The vision is to extend the typically rather limited capabilities of mobile devices by using services offered by other devices, network providers or third parties. Adding ontologies to this scenario allows this extension to be transparent to the human user. GENERAL OVERVIEW Today, computers are changing from big, grey, and noisy things on our desks to small, portable, and ever networked devices most of us are carrying around. This new form of mobility imposes a shift in how we view computers and the way we work with them. In developing countries like India and China ‘Mobile Internet’ can become the only Internet a large portion of population will get access to. Services offer the possibility to overcome the limitations of individual mobile devices by making functionality offered by others available to them on an “as-needed” basis. Thus, using the service-oriented computing paradigm in mobile environments will considerably enlarge the variety of accessible applications and will enable new business opportunities in the mobile space by delivering integrated functionalities across wireless networks. Network hosted mobile services will allow mobile operators and third party mobile services provider to extend their businesses by making their network services available to a broader audience (e.g. developers, service providers, etc.); device hosted service will allow great potential for big innovations for applications and services that can be provided by individual mobile device owners. These mobile services offer functionalities and behaviors that can be described, advertised, discovered, and composed by others. Eventually, they will be able to interoperate even though they have not been designed to work together. This type of interoperability is based on the ability to understand other services and reason about their functionalities and behaviors when necessary. In this respect, mobile services can benefit from marrying the Semantic Web, which provides the infrastructure for the extensive usage of distributed knowledge, to be deployed for modeling services and add meaning, through ontologies, enabling lightweight discovery and composition of mobile services. The ability to appropriately combine mobility and semantic grounded data sharing has generated and is continuously triggering challenging questions in several areas of computer science, engineering and networking. This workshop aims to tackle the research problems around methods, concepts, models, languages and technologies that enable new opportunities in the mobile space through adoption, usage, and integration of mobile services and ontologies. Of particular interest are the methodologies and technologies that would allow automatic tasks to be performed with respect to mobile services and the use of ontologies in this context. This proposed workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry attendees addressing many of these issues, and promote and foster a greater understanding of mobile service and ontologies and their potential in enabling new business opportunities in the mobile space. TOPICS The following indicates the general focus of the workshop. However, related contributions are welcome as well. - architectures for mobile internet services - languages for describing mobile services - discovery and matchmaking of ontology based mobile services - adaptive selection of mobile services - ontology management in mobile environments - contracting and negotiation with ontology-based mobile services (service level agreements) - approaches to composition of ontology based mobile services - invocation, adaptive execution, monitoring, and management of mobile services - interaction protocols and conversation models for mobile services - ontology-based security and privacy issues in mobile services - mobile service applications - analysis and design approaches for mobile services - reasoning with mobile services - ontology-based policies for mobile services - tools for discovery, matchmaking, selection, mediation, composition, management, and monitoring of mobile services - mobile service development - multi agent systems and mobile services WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE The program will occupy a full day, and will include presentations of papers selected from the full papers category (see 'submissions' below). Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. The MDM 2006 conference formalities are applied for fees and respective organizational aspects. 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 (in any category) will be given priority for registration. SUBMISSIONS Two categories of submissions are solicited: (1) Full papers (up to 14 pages). (2) Position papers (up to 3 pages). All submissions should be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html All the papers should be submitted in electronic format using the link: http://www.easychair.org/MOSO06/submit/. Full papers will receive a peer-review. Position statements are intended to present very early or planned future work that is regarded as relevant to the workshop. Position statements are limited to 3 pages; position statements will not receive a peer-review. All accepted full papers as well as all position papers of attendees will be published in the workshop proceedings. Currently, the post-workshop proceedings are under negotiation with a major publisher (see further and up to date information on the workshop website). IMPORTANT DATES Submissions: February 6, 2006 Acceptance: March 13, 2006 Final copy: April 1, 2006 Workshop day: May 8, 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Christoph Bussler (DERI, Ireland) Birgitta König-Ries (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany) Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck, Austria) Jari Veijalainen (University of Potsdam, Germany) PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed; to be extended) Nelson Baloyian, University of Chile, Chile Martin Bauer, NEC Europe, Germany Sonia Ben Mokhtar, INRIA, France Richard Benjamins, iSOCO, Spain Yolande Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Patricia Charlton, Motorola Labs, UK John Domingue, Open University, UK Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria and Ireland Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Walter Goix, Telecom Italia, Italy Martin Hepp, DERI Innsbruck, Austria Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland Valérie Issarny, INRIA, France Christian Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Oskar Juhlin, Interactive Institute, Sweden Michael Klein, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany Antonio Liotta, University of Essex, UK Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada Mitsuji Matsumoto, Waseda University, Japan Vladimir Oleshchuk, Agder University College, Norway Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Stefan Poslad, Queen Mary College, UK Tore Risch, Uppsala University, Sweden Brahmananda Sapkota, DERI, Ireland Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Thomas Strang, DLR, Germany / DERI Innsbruck, Austria Do van Thanh, Telenor, Norway Vagan Terziyan, Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Finland Ioan Toma, DERI Innsbruck, Austria Alexander Wahler, NIWA, Austria Matthias Wagner, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Mathias Weske, HPI, Univ. of Potsdam, Germany Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Yelena Yesha, University of Maryland, USA Note: Check the workshop web site for frequent updates to the PC members list.
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