CFP SPECIAL ISSUE

CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans

SPECIAL ISSUE ON

The Human Semantic Web

Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge and Social Identity for the Knowledge Society

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on The Human Semantic Web scheduled to appear in a late 2009 issue.

The Semantic Web vision has evolved in the last years as a blueprint for a knowledge-based framework aimed at crossing the chasm from the current Web of unstructured information resources to a Web equipped with metadata and oriented to delegation of tasks to software agents. In spite of the orientation of Semantic Web technology to machine processing, a large part of useful Semantic Web applications require the building of semantic user models, and semantic end-user interfaces. The increasing popularity of open social systems has contributed an additional dimension to the complex picture of bringing semantics to the Web. Ontologies are the key piece of this framework in that they provide shared semantics to metadata, thus enabling a degree of semantic interoperability. The challenge of building person- and social-oriented semantic systems requires the integration of personal and social information models with domain and commonsense ontologies. Also, there is a need to combine metaknowledge on user interface and usability issues along with models of social networks, which may result in hybrid systems. Going a step further, cultural issues pervade the meaning of everyday’s objects and communication, so that successful applications need to consider these aspects. The special issue aims at helping in communicating and disseminating relevant recent research in systems engineering and human machine systems as applied to the context of personal and social information in the Semantic Web. The scope of the call includes systems engineering and human machine systems for organizational applications, Semantic Web approaches to Information Systems and Ontology-Based Information Systems research, as well as the diverse underlying personalization aspects, as long as they touch social, interface, cultural or personal issues. Papers dealing with aspects that touch several of these aspects are especially sought.Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Applications of the Human Semantic Web to the Knowledge Society:

• Potentially large-scale applications (e.g. to Personal Knowledge Management, Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)

• Data Semantics and Web Semantics in peer-to-peer systems, grids, multimedia

• Communication, dialogue and argumentation models

• Mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution

• Beyond HCI: Human-to-human interaction mediated by machines

2. Representing and Managing Semantic Web Data and Services:

• Languages, Tools, Methodologies, Rules

• Database, IR and AI technologies

• Integration, Analysis and Visualization

• Robust and scalable logics, knowledge management and reasoning

• Machine learning and information extraction

• Semantic Interoperability, Workflows, Web Mining

• Semantic Web Services and Processes (description, discovery, invocation, composition, choreography, cleaning, assurance, trust, provenance, etc.)

• Middleware and services for Personalization and User Modelling

• Semantic matching of user needs and web resources

3. Ontologies:

• Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)

• Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g. HLT and ML approaches)

• Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.)

• Ontology Modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution

• Searching and Ranking ontologies

4. Social Semantic Web:

• Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web

• Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation

• Representing and reasoning about Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights

• Tools and processes for sense-making, analysis and decision-making

• Supporting goal-focused conversations and strategic communication

• Human semantic recommender systems and delegatory systems (eg agents and avatars)

• Risks of using such systems for a human's reputation and authority

5. User Interfaces:

• Interacting with Semantic Web Data

• Semantic Web content creation and annotation

• Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes

Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them by clicking on http://www.ieee-smc.org/publications/. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at http://smcaieee.

manuscriptcentral.com/

Please note the following important dates.

Important dates:

Submission Deadline: 15-Nov-08

Completion of First-Round Reviews: 15-Dec-09

Revised Papers (after Minor Revisions): 19-Feb-09

Publication Materials Due: 23-March-09

Publication: in a Late 2009 issue.

WORKSHOP FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON 1ST WORLD SUMMIT ON THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY:

http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/miniconf1.htm

Please address all other correspondence regarding this special issue to

Guest Editors M. Lytras, E. Damiani, A. Naeve

GUEST EDITORS

Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy, E-mail: damiani@dti.unimi.it

Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece, Email: Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr

Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, E-mail:amb@nada.kth.se