Book Topics
Chapters on the
following topics are
solicited, with suggestions about their contents listed as subbullets.
However, variant and alternative submissions of high-quality chapters
in semantic computing will be equally considered.
WEB CONTENT ANALYSIS
- Natural-language parsing and processing
- Semantic image and video analysis
- Semantic audio and speech analysis
- Analysis of structured/semi-structured data and semantic information extraction
- Semantic analysis of click streams, workflows, and behaviors in software, services, and networks
- Database schema integration
- Ontology alignment and integration
- Interoperability and service integration
- Rule-based transformation of semantic representations
- Integration architectures
- Natural-language interfaces
- Multimodal interfaces
- Ontology and rulebase browsers
- GUIs for Semantic Desktops and Semantic Intranets
- Semantics-focused interfaces to reduced-display (e.g., hand-held) devices
- Ontology development (including ontology population) environments
- Ontology and rulebase interchange languages and processors
- Triple stores and their mapping to relational databases
- Tools for benchmarking/scalability
- Metadata publishing and management tools
- Scalable semantic search engines
- Semantically enabled social networks
- Semantic profiles in FOAF and ontology/rule extensions
- Policies on privacy/disclosure (including their semantic representations)
- Models measuring benefits of social semantic collaborations
- Analysis, visualization, presentation of social networks
- Analysis of emergent effects within social software
- Semantics in Service Oriented Architecture, business process management, and multi-agent systems
- Formal foundations of semantic Web service technology (e.g., Petri nets, Abstract State Machines, Transaction Logics, Process Algebras, Pi-Calculus)
- Semantic interface specification and Web service composition
- Languages for semantic Web services (OWL-S, WSMO, SAWSDL, etc.)
- Enterprise Service Bus systems and Semantic Web services
- Communication infrastructures using Web services
- Applications of (combinations of) the above task areas
- Applications in the following domains
- Semantic Web industry verticals (e.g., biomedical, environmental, energy, materials, financials, ...)
- Semantic eLearning (e.g., metadata standards)
- Semantic eGovernment/eCitizen
- Semantic eTourism
- Semantic eScience
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