Thursday
Friday
1ST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Workshop theme and goals
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Aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers that build
hypermedia systems and infrastructures that generate and handle semantics
in order to discuss and exchange ideas on how exactly technology-wise they
achieve the level of semantics they need. In the past years, researchers
have created a number of hypermedia environments to represent, generate
and process semantics. These environments still use completely different
approaches in achieving their goals ranging from monolithic systems to
sophisticated component based approaches, from simple graph based to
elaborate multidimensional models. Although so different and manifold they
all succeed in achieving their goal: generate hypermedia semantics. One of
the main goals of the workshop will be to compare all these different
approaches and see what exactly lies beneath the various implementations
and find common aspects that might be useful for future hypermedia system
research. With respect to the latter, this workshop is an attempt to
address the call towards a "synchronization point" within the hypermedia
community [Wiil, 2005]. Furthermore, the workshop aims to broaden its
focus in order to include current research developments concerning the
Semantic hypermedia technology especially in terms of P2P and Services.
The vision of Semantic Hypermedia, "in which information is given a
well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in
cooperation" already stresses the importance of efficient end user support
for accessing and working with hypermedia information. Previous work in
the field has appeared repeatedly in the Hypertext Conferences over the
years (Collier (1987), Mehler (1999), Acedo, Pimentel, Camacho-Guerrero
(2002), Marshall, Shipman (2003), Pandis, Karousos, Tiropanis (2005),
Millard, Gibbins, Michaelidis, Weal (2005)).
Topics
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The workshop will be open to all aspects and applications of
architectures, models and infrastructures to generate semantics in Peer to
Peer and Hypermedia Systems Suggested. Topics include but are not limited
to the following:
-- Mechanics of hypermedia systems
-- Peer to peer hypermedia
-- Structural Computing Environments
-- Architectural Insights of Hypertext Systems and Models
-- Discovery of Peers and/or Hypermedia Services including indexing,
searching, retrieving, selecting, modeling and structuring XML data techniques
-- Incorporating Semantics and Ontologies in hypermedia P2P and Services
-- Grid Services and Solutions
-- Behavior and semantics of hypermedia systems
-- Types and semantics
-- Structure domains
-- Service oriented hypermedia, evolution of hypermedia systems