Geospatial Semantic Web Blog

The journal of Knowledge Engineering Review recently began publishing abstracts of PhD dissertations in intelligent systems, artificial intelligence and related areas.

About KER

The Knowledge Engineering Review is committed to the development of the field of artificial intelligence and the clarification and dissemination of its methods and concepts. KER publishes analyses – high quality surveys providing balanced but critical presentations of the primary concepts in an area; technical tutorials – detailed introductions to an area; application and country surveys commentaries and debates; book reviews; and a popular ‘from the journals’ section, giving the contents of current journals in theoretical and applied artificial intelligence.

How to submit

Provide the following information in plain text and email it to Peter McBurney:

• Dissertation Title
• Candidate
• Department and University
• Supervisor(s)
• Year awarded
• URL (for further info)
• Abstract (about 300 words)

Source: UMBC Agents List

GeoS 2007 — Mexico City, Mexico.

The second edition GeoS 2007 www.geosco.org aims at providing a timely forum for the exchange of state-of-the-art research results in the areas of modeling and processing of geospatial semantics. Geospatial semantics play an important role for next-generation spatial databases and geographic information systems, as well as specialized geospatial web services. This conference will bring together researchers whose expertise will address such issues as:

• Theories for geospatial semantic information
• Formal representations for geospatial data
• Models and languages for geoontologies
• Alignment and integration of geoontologies
• Integration of semantics into spatial query processing
• Similarity comparisons of spatial datasets
• Ontology-based spatial information retrieval
• Ontology-driven GIS
• Geospatial Semantic Web
• Multicultural aspects of spatial knowledge

Important dates:

• Paper submission: June 15, 2007
• Submission of camera-ready papers: August 30, 2007
• Conference: November 29-30, 2007

Title: The Geospatial Web — How Geo-Browsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society.

Description: You are cordially invited to submit chapters for an upcoming book on the Geospatial Web, published by Springer London in the Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series.

By integrating cartographic data with geo-tagged knowledge repositories, the emerging Geospatial Web will revolutionize the production, distribution and consumption of media products. This edited volume will bring together high quality contributions on the technical foundations of the Geospatial Web, present information services and collaborative environments built on top of geo-browsers such as Google Earth and NASA World Wind, and investigate the economic and societal impacts of such knowledge-intensive applications.

A particular focus of the book is the integration of geospatial and semantic technology, for example to extract geospatial context from unstructured textual resources.

Important Dates:

• Oct 10, 2006: Paper Submission Deadline
• Nov 01, 2006: Notification of Acceptance
• Dec 01, 2006: Camera-ready Copy of Final Chapters Due
• May 31, 2007: Publication

For more information, visit http://geoweb.know-center.at/. Download a copy of the CFP in PDF.

For those who are in the Geospatial Semantic Web field, this event may be of interest.

Artificial Intelligence and the Web
a special track of technical conference papers at AAAI-06
21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston, 16-20 July 2006

The web has quickly grown from a modest hypertext system of interest to computer researchers to a ubiquitous information system including virtually all of human knowledge. Today’s Web provides ready access to not only text, images, and audio files, but also to structured and semi-structured information, services and people. It offers an open, decentralized (and uncontrollable!) environment in which anyone can publish information and services coupled with powerful search engines and agents to find and rank results. All of this is ubiquitously available from wired, wireless and mobile devices. Oh, and did we mention that it’s free?

The special track on “AI and the Web” invites technical papers on the use of AI techniques, systems and concepts involving the Web. We are especially interested in receiving papers in two active research areas: (i) using text and language analysis to interpret and understand natural language text found on the web and (ii) developing and exploiting “Semantic Web” languages and systems that explicitly encode knowledge using languages such as RDF and OWL. Innovative papers in other areas describing research involving both AI and the Web are definitely encouraged also.

See conference web for more detail.