A first call for papers has been issued for the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2002), to be held in Sardinia, Italy, in June 2002.

ISWC 2002 follows on from the success of the first Semantic Web Working Symposium, held in Stanford in July this year. Papers must be submitted by February 15th, 2002.

Suggested topics for papers include: Agents, Applications, Bootstrapping, growth and economic models, Database technologies, Data/Information/Knowledge integration, mediation and storage, Digital libraries, publishing, and e-Books, e-business and large-scale knowledge management, e-learning, e-science and the Grid, Knowledge portals, Knowledge representation and reasoning, Languages and infrastructure, Metadata (including metadata generation and authoring), Mobile, situated and diffuse computing, Multimedia data, Natural language, Ontologies, Ontology learning, Scalability, Searching and querying, Services, including description, discovery and interoperation, Socio-cultural and collaborative aspects, Technological requirements, Trust and meaning, User interfaces, Visualisation and modelling, Web mining.

The conference chair is Jim Hendler. More information can be found on the ISWC 2002 web site.