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Peirce-List, I am forwarding this announcement of the First International Pragmatic Web Conference to be held in September of this year in Stuttgart, Germany and which my friend and colleague Aldo de Moor is co-chairing. As some of you may know, for the past several years Aldo and I and several others have begun thinking & writing about and developing workshops around the possible evolution of a Pragmatic Web (PW) meant as a further development of the yet not fully realized Semantic Web proposed by Tim-Berners Lee and others. A key component of the PW is the pragmatism and semeiotic of Peirce, for example, the Conceptual Graphs (CGs) of John Sowa. Indeed, Nathan Houser's lead article "Peirce in the 21st Century" in the Fall 2005 Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society suggests that Sowa's work in web centered research into CGs--based on Peirce's Existential Graphs (EGs)--represents a kind of application of Peirce's logical idea which "have begun to show great promise in the competitive marketplace of ideas." (730) One should note that as far as the proposed PW goes, there are as well significant European influences in the mix, many of which, however, can also be seen as either based on or related to or at least congruent with Peircean pragmatism, for example, Language Action Theory, certain aspects of Habermas which inform Aldo's work, and much else. If one is interested in the possibility of the development of a global web culture rooted in philosophical pragmatism and tools coming out of logic as semeiotic, etc. de Moor's recent work is in fact a good place to start. A few week's ago I suggested to him that he ask Joe Ransdell to put his ICCS 2005 invited paper on the PW on the Arisbe site and I see that Joe has done so. See Aldo de Moor's "Patterns for the Pragmatic Web" http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/demoor/patterns.pdf I hope to see some of you at the First International Pragmatic Web Conference . Gary Richmond 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 (submissions to be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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
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