INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 3RD FUTURE INTERNET SYMPOSIUM (FIS2010)
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FIS2010
September 20-22, 2010
Berlin, Germany
http://www.fis2010.org
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ABOUT FIS2010
The Future Internet Symposium (FIS) is a venue for European and international researchers to share their work on next generation Internet technologies. FIS is a scientific forum for the European Union's Future Internet Initiative, an effort to align European Internet research on the shared challenges presented by Europe's increasingly Internet-based society and economy. FIS is intended to bridge traditional disciplinary boundaries of Internet research, emphasizing the use of machine understandable semantics to enable diverse communities, devices, and organizational groupings to share Internet resources. An additional and equally important role for the Future Internet Symposium is to be a home for the Future Internet community. In this respect the Symposium will serve the interest of the emerging community and foster new researchers (PhD students and fresh Post-docs) as they progress to become the new leaders in this emerging field. Finally, the Symposium will co-operate fully with other initiatives in the area of the Future Internet, especially those within the European Arena.
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FIS2010 PROGRAM
Choose to visit one of five interesting tutorials or seven different workshops on the workshop and tutorial day on 20th of September, listen to the interesting keynote by Christian Bizer (FU Berlin) and by Mario Campolargo (EC) on 21st of September and follow the industrial keynote by Iddo Bante (CTIT) and the panel discussion on the topic "The future of Linked Data in industry and public services" on 22nd of September. Stay up to date listening to research papers within the scope of symposium tracks "Internet of Services, Things and Content", "Network Architecture and Protocols" and "Semantic Technologies"!
International Workshop on Evaluation of Semantic Technologies - Full-day Workshop at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010), Shanghai, China
The consistent evaluation of semantic technologies is critical not only for future scientific progress but also for their widespread industrial adoption. Such evaluation needs to address development quality (correctness or robustness) as well as deployment qualities (interoperability or scalability).
While the community is evolving towards a more thorough evaluation of semantic technologies, the field's inherent dynamism makes the evaluation of semantic technologies a difficult task: as previous evaluation methods and techniques become obsolete, new ones have to be developed as fast as semantic technologies evolve.
IWEST workshop aims are twofold: (1) to discuss the current trends and future challenges of evaluating semantic technologies, and (2) to support communication and collaboration with the goal of aligning the various evaluation efforts within the community and accelerating innovation in all the associated fields as has been the case with both the TREC benchmarks in information retrieval and the TPC benchmarks in database research.
In line with the goals of the workshop, we will also incorporate the results of the 1st International Evaluation Campaign for Semantic Technologies - a wide-ranging evaluation campaign which has been organised by the Semantic Evaluation At Large Scale (SEALS) Initiative.
Submissions
High quality papers are invited from researchers interested in all aspects of formal evaluation and benchmarking with reference to semantic technologies. In addition, we also invite papers from participants of the 1st International Evaluation Campaign for Semantic Technologies.
We invite contributions describing benchmarking approaches applied to semantic technologies including, but not limited to:
Ontology Engineering Tools
Semantic Search Tools
Semantic Web Service Tools
Ontology Matching Tools
Ontology Storage and Reasoning Systems
We encourage full papers (max 12 pages), short papers (max 6 pages) and short demo papers (max 2 pages) describing significant work in progress, late breaking results or ideas / challenges for the domain. Submissions must be in PDF. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Regular Papers and Evaluation Campaign Abstracts should be submitted using easychair no later than 23:59 GMT on August 27, 2010. Full Evaluation Campaign Papers should be also submitted using easychair no later than 23:59 GMT on September 17, 2010. Please note, submission of an Evaluation Campaign Paper is dependent upon submission of an Evaluation Campaign Abstract by August 27, 2010.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Important Dates
Regular Papers: Aug 27, 2010
Evaluation Campaign Papers (Abstract): Aug 27, 2010
Evaluation Campaign Papers (Paper): Sep 17, 2010
Notifications: Sep 24, 2010
Camera-ready Versions: Oct 15, 2010
Workshop: Nov 7/8, 2010
Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Asunción Gómez-Pérez (Main contact)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Prof. Fabio Ciravegna
University of Sheffield, UK
Prof. Dr. Frank van Harmelen
Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr. Jeff Hefflin
Lehigh University, USA
Evaluation Campaign Committee
Dr. Raúl García Castro
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Dr. Stuart Wrigley
University of Sheffield
Dr. Zhisheng Huang
Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sponsors
This workshop is sponsored by the SEALS and the LarKC projects.
CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
Deadline for submissions ***EXTENDED*** August 9th, 2010
1st COIN Workshop
on Future Enterprise Systems (FES 2010)
in conjunction with
Future Internet Symposium 2010 (FIS 2010)
Berlin, Germany
September 20, 2010
INVITATION TO SUBMIT A BUSINESS IDEA TO THE 2ND ESTC AWS INNOVATION SEED CAMP
INVITATION TO ACT AS MENTOR AT THE 2ND ESTC AWS INNOVATION SEED CAMP
VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION
SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS
GENERAL CONTACT
ABOUT ESTC2010
The 4th European Semantic Technology Conference - ESTC2010 - will be organized in Vienna, Austria for the fourth time in a row.
The aim of the conference is to bring together the world's leading thinkers, innovators, developers, engineers, and senior practitioners responsible for information technology to learn about how to integrate this advanced technology into their current systems.
The ESTC2010 program will consist of several interesting workshops, keynotes by prominent international experts, round tables and the innovation seed camp.
ESTC AWS INNOVATION SEED CAMP
After the successful initiation of the Innovation Seed Camp last year (based on the previous ESTC business idea competitions), ESTC2010 will continue this tradition, offering those with innovative business ideas involving the use of semantics or Internet technology the chance to reach out to the exploitation network of experts and investors.
The innovation seed camp will be organized as a full day workshop, starting with elevator pitches of the best submitted ideas, continuing with private expert mentoring sessions for participants with investors and VCs, and conclude with an investors forum.
INVITATION TO SUBMIT A BUSINESS IDEA TO THE 2ND ESTC AWS INNOVATION SEED CAMP
Don't miss your chance to present your application idea of Semantics or Internet technology to the panel of investors - best ideas will be awarded a prize! Submission deadline is October 11, 2010.
INVITATION TO ACT AS MENTOR AT THE 2ND ESTC AWS INNOVATION SEED CAMP
We invite experts, VCs and investors to apply to act as mentors for the ESTC Innovation Seed Camp. Your role will be to evaluate new business ideas and to discuss with and support new up-and-coming entrepreneurs. You will gain access to all submission data and will be able to participate in the evaluation process as well as in the Seed Camp itself.
Take this opportunity to discover up-and-coming innovations, entrepreneurs and start-up companies for your future investments!
If you are interested to join in as mentor, please send an email to
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VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION
The ESTC2010 will take place in the Imperial Riding School Vienna, a Renaissance Hotel (Marriott Group) in the 3rd Vienna district.
For more information about the venue and how to get there, please visit:
The ESTC2010 participants can book their accommodation at a special group price. For more information about the accommodation and the special discount, please visit:
ACTIVE - A consortium of twelve partner organisations from seven different European countries, co-ordinated by British Telecommunications, which aims to increase the productivity of knowledge workers in a pro-active, contextualised, yet easy and unobtrusive way.
AVCO - The Austrian Private Equity and Venture Capital Organisation
AWS - The Austrian National Promotion Bank
BMVIT - Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology
FFG - The Austrian Research Promotion Agency
OCG - The Austrian Computer Society
KiWi - Knowledge in a Wiki is a service-oriented platform for building Social Media applications augmented by semantic technologies
seekda GmbH - Based upon recent research results from the World Wide Web, seekda is developing high-end industry solutions for e-Tourism.
GENERAL INFORMATION AND CONTACT
For more information please visit the conference website
The Phaistos Networks (Pathfinder) article and video about ESWC2010 are also
available online:
http://news.pathfinder.gr/periscopio/eswc2010.html (Please note: Article and some parts of the movie are in Greek.)
STI International Consultancy and Research GmbH (STI Research) in Vienna, Austria, seeks applications for a junior research position in large-scale data management and semantic technology starting in October/November 2010.
The position is part of the European Union Network of Excellence PlanetData. The goal of the network is to establish a sustainable European community of researchers that supports organisations in exposing their data in new and useful ways. For further information: http://www.planet-data.eu The candidate will also support the activities of STI Research in a number of European and national research projects in the areas of semantic technology, Internet of Services and Future Internet: SEALS (http://www.seals-project.eu), SOFI (http://www.sofi-project.eu) and FI Austria (http://www.fi-austria.at).
As part of the projects, the candidate will be involved in community building, workshop and symposium organisation, contributing to roadmaps and white papers, as well as supporting the provision of semantic and service infrastructures to the wider research community.
The position will offer an opportunity to network with major European institutes active in semantics and service technology research and perform PhD research in a relevant topic such as:
representing and processing stream-like data
scalable techniques to integrate, publish and access data on the Web
capturing the context in which data is produced and understood
assessing the quality of data and recording, preserving and where possible repairing it
maintaining access control and privacy for data published on the Web
Through the PlanetData network, the researcher will have access to a highly scalable data infrastructure, supporting relational, RDF and stream processing, as well as novel large data sets from a broad range of vertical domains.
The candidate should have a Bachelor or MSc degree in Computer Science, and good knowledge of one or more of the following fields: databases, data management, data processing, streaming data, semantic technologies, Linked Data.
Proficiency in English and Java programming are expected. Strong system skills as well as professional experience, especially with real-life deployments, are a definite plus.
STI Research offers a dynamic research environment with opportunities for international collaboration and personal advancement. Salary is based on the Austrian government research tarif.
Applicants should e-mail a curriculum vitae with list of publications and the names and email addresses of at least two professional references, under the subject of “STI Junior Researcher”, respecting the application deadline of 31 August 2010, to:
STI International is pleased to welcome a new associated member, Eoweo, a French spin-off which goal is to develop innovative closed & open applications using semantic technologies and semantic standards.
STI International invites organizations from all over the world to become a contributing member of the association. For more details, see http://www.sti2.org/member-services
