Dear colleagues
We are proud to invite you warmly to the First International Pragmatic Web Conference that will replace the LAP working conference this year with a much broader scope. We hope to see you in Stuttgart and to receive many submissions!
CALL FOR PAPERS
First International Pragmatic Web Conference (PragWeb 06)
21-23 September 2006, Stuttgart, Germany
The World Wide Web has been very successful in enabling information sharing among a seemingly unlimited number of people worldwide. The vast and ever-growing amount of documents on the Web, however, results in information overload and makes it often difficult to discover the information that is relevant, because the current Web is a syntactic web. The goal of the Semantic Web is thus to provide the basis for intelligent applications that enable more efficient information retrieval and use by not just providing a set of linked documents but a collection of knowledge repositories with meaningful content and additional logics.
The key elements of the Semantic Web are ontologies representing the basic conceptual knowledge about some domain. Ontologies are not fixed specifications but always depend on the context of use. Therefore, ontologies co-evolve with their communities of use. Members of a community have to negotiate continuously about what they agree to be their shared background. This is especially important in an (inter)organisational context, where participants from different professional, social, or cultural backgrounds need to understand each other in order to collaborate effectively. In order to enable the use of the Web for communicating, agreeing upon, and cooperatively modifying ontologies, the support provided by the Semantic Web needs to be extended. The crucial questions are first how to model and analyze collaboration, context, organizational commitments, and meaning negotiation; second, how to use these conceptual models in the design and implementation of real-world tools and applications.
This new paradigm for effectively exploring and exploiting the potentials of the Web is called the Pragmatic Web. It constitutes the new challenge that will complement the Semantic Web. The goal is to augment human collaboration effectively by modelling and developing appropriate applications of the Semantic Web, such as systems for ontology negotiations or for ontology-based business interactions.
We call for contributions for the First International Pragmatic Web Conference dealing with theoretical, methodological, and technological aspects of the Pragmatic Web as well as business, governmental, and other applications.
Topics include but are not limited to:
Theory, methods, and technologies
- Technology acceptance/media choice theories
- Language/action theory
- Evaluation methods
- Communication modelling methods
- Context modelling methods
- Semantic Web technologies
- Web services
Applications
- Organisational communication
- Collaboration
- Decision support
- Knowledge management
- Negotiation
- Community informatics
- Collaborative working environments
- Active knowledge systems
- Appropriate technologies
- E-business, E-government, E-politics, E-health etc.
- Information brokers and mediators
Invited Talk by Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK
Dates
Submission Deadline: 31 May 2006
Notification of Acceptance: 1 July 2006
Final Version: 1 August 2006
Conference: 21-23 September 2006
Conference Chairs
Mareike Schoop, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Aldo de Moor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
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Patrick J. Coppock
Researcher: Philosophy and Theory of Language
Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia
Italy
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