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.