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                 C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S   
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        The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web   
                        and Web Services   
                           SWWS'08   
      
     Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA   
      
   You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.   
   All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings/   
   book.   
      
   SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the   
   following:   
      
     O  Semantic Web:   
        - Semantic interoperability   
        - Machine learning approaches for semantic web   
        - Semantic web for e-Business and e-Learning   
        - Trust networks on semantic web   
        - Database technologies for semantic web   
        - Semantic knowledge portals   
        - Semantic web mining   
        - Semantic web inference methodologies   
        - Metadata generation   
        - Semantic web services   
        - Semantic web trust, privacy, and security   
        - Tools, languages, and techniques for semantic annotation of web   
   data   
        - Semantic intellectual property rights   
        - Semantic searching   
        - Reasoning in the semantic web   
        - Semantic brokering   
        - Visualization and modeling   
        - Hypermedia and semantic web   
        - Software agents for semantic web   
        - Community web portals   
        - Semantic web and enterprises   
        - Trust management for semantic web   
        - Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation   
        - Semantic web mining   
        - Semantic web-based knowledge management   
        - Ontology languages for semantic web   
        - Autonomous semantic web services   
        - Service discovery, description, composition and invocation   
        - Data semantics   
        - Semantic verification of web sites   
        - Case studies   
      
     O  Web Services:   
        - Web Service Technologies and Research Directions:   
          + Enhancements to the basic web services platform   
            (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, ...)   
          + Advanced web service technologies including security,   
            workflow/process management, transactions, mobile   
            and wireless, portals, services management,   
            quality-of-service (QoS)   
          + Novel web service architectures   
          + Development and modeling frameworks for web   
            service applications   
          + Composite web services, enabling technologies and   
            support infrastructure   
          + Data structures and models   
        - Practices for developing enterprise-class web services   
          and applications:   
          + Design patterns   
          + Architecting for customization, maintenance, and management   
          + Architecting for easy integration or service "consumption"   
          + Fault-tolerant architectures   
          + Service mediation systems and architectures   
        - Case studies of web service development and deployment:   
          + e-Commerce applications using web services   
          + Business-to-Business (B2B) applications using web services   
          + Mobile and wireless applications using web services   
          + Utility and on-demand computing using web services   
          + Government applications using web services   
          + Applications of web services in developing countries   
        - Multimedia applications using web services   
        - Communication applications using web services   
        - Interactive TV applications using web services   
        - Novel applications, case studies, and emerging technologies   
      
   SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:   
      
      Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper   
      (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to   
      Prof. H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 25, 2008 (hra@cs.uga.edu). email   
      submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable.  All   
   reasonable   
      typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted   
      papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format   
      to prepare their papers for publication.)   
      
      The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited   
   to   
      7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously   
   published   
      or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page   
   of   
      the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name,   
   affiliation,   
      postal address, and email address of each author as well as the   
   name   
      of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, SWWS'08).   
      The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author   
      and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the   
      content of the paper.   
      
      Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are   
      independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'   
      evaluations will then be reviewed by one member of the program   
      committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs of the   
   track.   
      The track chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-   
   Ready   
      papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.   
      
   CONFERENCE SPONSORS:   
      
      The list of co-sponsors of SWWS'08 will soon be finalized which   
      will include research laboratories and centers affiliated with   
   major   
      institutions.  The reputation and caliber of the co-sponsors of the   
      2008 conference will be comparable to the 2007 offering of the   
      conference which included:   
      
      Academic Co-sponsors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)   
      Media Lab., MIT + Computational Biology and Functional Genomics   
   Lab.,   
      Harvard University + Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology   
      Lab., Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University + Biomedical   
   Cybernetics   
      Lab., Harvard University + Texas Advanced Computing Center,   
   University   
      of Texas at Austin + Statistical and Computational Intelligence   
   Lab.,   
      Purdue University + Center for Computational Biology and   
      Bioinformatics, Indiana University and Purdue University   
   Indianapolis   
      (IUPUI) + University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab. +   
   BioMedical   
      Informatics and Bio-Imaging Lab. of Georgia Institute of Technology   
      and Emory University + Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis   
   Lab.,   
      University of Texas at Austin + Statistical Genetics Research Group   
      of Columbia University, New York + Institute for Informatics   
   Problems   
      of the Russian Academy of Sciences + University of North Dakota   
      (Grand Forks, North Dakota).   
      
      Corporate Co-sponsors: Google, Intel, and Salford Systems.   
      Other Co-sponsors: Int'l Technology Inst. (ITI), GridToday,   
   HPCwire,   
      HPC Software Inc., STEM Education Society, and Hodges' Health.   
      
   MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   
      
      The program committee includes members of the chapters of World   
      Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing;   
      AI; imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;   
      
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