Call for Papers for IEEE ICSC2009 (DEADLINE EXTENSION)

FULL PAPER AND DEMO DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 10TH!

Call for Papers (DEADLINE EXTENSION)

Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing

IEEE ICSC2009

September 14th-16th, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsc

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society

The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation and matching of the semantics of computational content to that of naturally expressed user intentions in order to retrieve, manage, manipulate or even create content, where "content" may be anything including video, audio, text, processes, services, hardware, networks, etc.

The third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2009) continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying the emerging research topics and defining the future of the field. The event is located in Berkeley, California. The technical program of ICSC2009 includes workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, and more. Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited.

Areas of interest include:

Semantic Analysis Natural language processing Image and video analysis Audio and speech analysis Data and web mining Analysis of behaviors of software, services and networks Analysis of social networks

Semantic Integration Metadata and other description languages Database schema integration Ontology integration Interoperability and service integration

Semantic Applications Semantic programming languages and software engineering Semantic system design and synthesis Search engines and question answering Semantic web services Content-based multimedia retrieval and editing Context-aware networks of sensors, devices and applications Human centered communications Semantic trusted computing * Semantic GIS systems

Semantic Interfaces Natural language interfaces Multimodal interfaces

The main goal of the conference is to foster the dialog between experts in each of these disciplines. Therefore we especially encourage submissions of work that is interesting to multiple areas, such as multimodal approaches.

Please refer to the conference website for further information: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsc

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Dana Scott, Turing Award Winner, Carnegie Mellon University Charles J. Fillmore, University of California Berkeley Alex Acero, Microsoft Research Ruzena Bajcsy, University of California Berkeley

WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS ICSC 2009 features four workshops and two Special Sessions: Graph Algorithms for Semantic Computing Workshop on Semantic Computing and Multimedia Systems Middleware for the Semantic Web: Towards Knowledge in the Cloud SWIM: Semantic Web Information Management Special Session on Semantic Speech Retrieval Special Session on Semantic-Based Interoperability

SUBMISSIONS - Regular Papers Authors are invited to submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format following the guidelines available on the ICSC2009 web page under "submissions".

    * Demonstration Papers Authors are invited to submit an 2-page technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format following the guidelines available on the ICSC2009 web page under "demonstrations".

The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be selected for publications in internationally renowned journals.

IMPORTANT DATES Regular paper submission: May 10th, 2009 (extended) Demo descriptions: May 10th, 2009 (extended) Workshop and special sessions: Please refer to ICSC website. Conference: September 14th-16th, 2009