Intelligent Web Services meet Social
Computing (IWEBSS)
AAAI Spring Symposium 2012, March 26-28,
Stanford, California
http://vitvar.com/events/aaai-ss12
AAAI Website:
http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss12symposia.php
October 7, 2011: Submission of Abstracts
November 9, 2011: Notification of acceptance/rejection
January 10, 2012: Submission of papers
Development of web services faces significant challenges concerning quality of
design, development costs, endorsement of services by the community,
integration and interoperability of services from different domains and
effective sharing of services among users and developers. This spring symposium
will bring together two lines of research whose combination can help in dealing
with these issues, namely intelligent web services and social computing
research. Social Computing is a promising approach that can help to understand
user and community behaviour and related computational challenges around Web
services development.
*Topics of Interest*
The topics of the symposium include the following:
- Social and technical requirements for collaborative web service development
- Platforms and user interfaces for crowdsourcing web service development, and
verification
- Techniques for contextualized reviewing and rating of web services
- Methods to incentivize, boost, and influence community participation
throughout the lifecycle of web services
- Methods to define and mashup service descriptions with Linked Data
vocabularies
- Systems and techniques for context- and social-based recommendation of web
services
- Methods for collaborative authoring of semantic annotations (for example
RDFa, SAWSDL)
- Argumentation frameworks and norms for reaching consensus on service
implementation, description, and integration
- Trust in collaborative web service construction
- Mining, monitoring and analysis of behaviour and activities of web service
online communities (such as ProgrammableWeb, and Seekda)
- Analysis of web service usage patterns and associated social and technical
parameters
- Extraction of web service descriptions from tags
- Case studies for use of social computing to construct and manage web services
*Submissions*
Abstracts of no more than 400 words must be submitted in PDF to EasyChair
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaaisymposia2012) by October 7,
2012. Authors of accepted abstracts will need to submit either a short (3 page)
or long (6 page) paper versions by January 10, 2012.
*Format*
The symposium will include presentations of short and long papers, research
proposals, demonstrations, invited speakers, panel and open discussions.
Researchers working in areas of semantic web, web services, linked data,
intelligent agents, social networks, social computing or web science will be
encouraged to participate in the symposium.
*Chairs*
Tomas Vitvar (Czech Technical University), Harith Alani (Knowledge Media
Institute, Open University, UK), David Martin (Apple)
*Organizing Committee*
- Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Ching Man (Albert) Au Yeung, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto,
Japan
- Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland
- Ciro Cattuto, ISI, Italy
- John Domingue, KMi, Open University, UK
- Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
- Michael Hausenblas, DERI, National University of Ireland
- Conor Hayes, DERI, National University of Ireland
- Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, UK
- Mike Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA
- Mathias Klusch, Germany Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany.
- Jacek Kopecký, KMi, Open University, UK
- John Musser, ProgrammableWeb.com
- Terry Pane, Liverpool University, UK
- Massimo Paolucci, NTT DoCoMo Research Europe, Germany
- Alexandre Passant, DERI, National University of Ireland
- Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland.
- Carlos Pedrinaci, KMi, Open University, UK
- Marta Sabou, Modul University, Austria
- Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
- Steve Vinoski, Basho Technologies, USA
- Erik Wilde, UC Berkley, USA
- Steve Willmott, 3Scale Networks, Spain
- Maciej Zaremba, DERI, National University of Ireland
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