co-located with the
International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP2006), part of the
Federated Logic Conference (FLOC2006),
Seattle, Washington, August 10 - 22, 2006
An International Workshop (ALPSWS2006)
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co-located with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP2006), part of the |
The advent of the Semantic Web promises machine readable semantics and a machine-processable next Generation of the Web. The first step in this direction is the annotation of static data on the Web by machine processable information about knowledge and its structure by means of Ontologies. The next step in this direction is the annotation of dynamic applications and services invocable over the Web in order to facilitate automation of discovery, selection and composition of semantically described services and data sources on the Web by intelligent methods, which is called Semantic Web Services. Many workshops and conferences were dedicated to these promising areas mostly with generic topics and bringing together people from a widespread variety of research fields with different understandings of the topic. The plethora of these workshops and conferences makes it hard to keep track of the various approaches of a particular technology such as declarative logic programming in our case.
In this workshop we aimed at advancement of applications of Logic Programming as a paradigm for declarative knowledge representation and reasoning for the Web. The idea was to bring together the impressive body of work related to applications of LP to Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services. We expected the following major benefits:
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Besides full papers, we also encouraged short paper submissions of up to 6 pages which present preliminary results, system descriptions or practical real-world use cases and implementations.
Overall, there were 13 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least 3 programme committee members. The committee decided to accept 7 papers (6 full-length papers and one short paper) for presentations. 5 of the papers which could not be considered for full presentations, resubmitted extended abstracts which have been presented as posters during the workshop
For accepted submissions, at least one author was present to present the paper in the workshop.
The best papers in the workshop will be published in a dedicated section of a special issue on 'Logic Programming and the Web' in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), see
http://www.dsi.unive.it/~tplp/.
As you can see in the program below, two papers have been selected to resubmit a revised version to this special issue. Special Thanks goes to Massimo Marchiori for his support!
More information on the venue, and other related events at FLoC is available at the conference web site.
The main objective of the workshop was to deal with the area that is the intersection of Semantic Web and Logic Programming. The workshop was organized in part around talks presenting research results in this area selected from the accepted submissions. Another important part of the workshop was to identify challenges and open problems in this area and provide an opportunity for new ideas and initiatives to bubble up and get the attention they deserve.
In order to facilitate and enable a rich interaction environment a part of the workshop was dedicated towards discussion using the open-space methodology. Open-space methodology facilities and enables effective on site agenda building and execution.
The co-organizers of the workshop had successfully deployed open-space agenda building in scientific workshops in the past - e.g., the Semantics in P2P and Grid Computing Workshops at the World Wide Web Conference 2004 and the Friend of a Friend Workshop in Galway, 2004, and it also turned out to encourage fruitful discussions this time.
The open discussions and especially the way the agenda was built in interaction with the audience, gives rise to expect new initiatives to develop and have further impact on the future in order to reconnect the Semantic Web and Logic Programming fields.
We plan to set up an online platform to exchange information and to keep the discussion alive after the workshop shortly.
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