Workshop on Seamless Integration of Semantic Technologies in Computer-supported Office Work (SISTCOW)

Held in conjunction with ​15th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2011), 12, 13 & 14 September 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Call for papers

Integration of semantic technologies in Computer-supported Office Work (COW) is a hot research topic in knowledge management and semantic web communities. The aim of the research in this field is to increase the performance of knowledge work by:

• Providing knowledge workers with tools for effective information organization and quick information access
• Intelligent information search
• Context-aware information assistance

During the last decade, dozens of research projects worldwide were targeted at developing methodologies, technologies and tools to solve problems of knowledge workers. However, after years, semantic technologies are still not a part of daily work performed by office workers outside computer laboratories. Reasons are manifold: low user acceptance, huge modeling effort needed to bootstrap solutions. The goal of the workshop is to gather researchers who are working on integrating semantic technologies in habitual office environment to exchange information and knowledge about problems preventing successful implementation of promising semantic web ideas in real office environments and to discuss about possible solutions of these problems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Semantic annotations in COW
   1. Tagging documents and e-mails using semantic data structures, e.g. Linked Data
   2. Using RDFa in HTML Mails
   3. Annotating e-mail attachments
   4. Enriching document content with semantic mashups
   5. Semantic e-mail markups in e-mail headers
   6. Semantic annotation in Instant Messaging
2. Efficient search and navigation in semantically annotated collections of documents and e-mails
   1. Semantic search in COW
   2. Extending Microsoft search to support semantic search
3. Semi-automatic knowledge extraction from user interaction logs in office environment
   1. Enriching semantic data structures by user interaction data
   2. Supporting identified interaction habits based on semantic data structures
4. Semi-automatic document classification
   1. E-mail/IM classification using background knowledge bases
   2. Ontology-based classification
   3. Classifying parts of bigger documents
5. Architectures supporting semantic technologies in computer-aided office work
   1. Architectures for storing semantic document metadata (server-based vs. embedded)
   2. Semantic indexing (documents, e-mail, IM)
   3. Storing metadata related to parts of larger documents
   4. Semantic data formats and vocabularies supporting e-mails and document annotations: RDF, eRDF, Linked Data
   5. Semantic data structures to annotate user-system interaction in office environments
   6. Workflow-supportive architectures for digital collaborative work
6. Extending Office applications to utilize semantic technologies
   1. Developing Plugins for integrating semantic technologies in MSOffice documents
   2. Extending MSOffice SmartTags functionality to use semantic structures
   3. PlugIns leveraging application interaction based on semantic technologies
   4. Application integration based on semantic technologies
   5. Semantic Communication Support Systems

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in AI as part of the LNCS/LNAI series. When formatting papers, please refer to the Springer-Verlag web site, and strictly follow the Instructions to LNCS Authors.

Papers are required in PDF format for review purposes, but authors are required to upload editable word-processor files (LaTeX or MS Word) at the end of the review process (see the Springer web site to find out about the files required).

Please note that the required paper length is 10 pages in Springer format. Papers longer than this will be subject to an extra charge.

All papers for the conference must be submitted in electronic form using the PROSE software review system available ​... here ...

Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the KES Journal (International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems) published by IOS Press, and other journals listed here.

All oral and poster papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the fee. Authors are not encouraged to submit multiple papers, and authors may be restricted to one paper per registration.

By submitting a paper for the conference you undertake that, if the paper is accepted, you will pay the fee, attend the conference, and present the paper.

By submitting a paper you also indicate that you accept the KES Terms and Conditions, available by request or on the conference web site, and that you agree to abide by them.

Important Dates

• Manuscript due: 8 Mai 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 15 Mai 2011
• Final paper due: 1 June 2011
• Registration deadline for presenting authors: 1 June 2011

Programm committee

Workshop Chairs

​Oleg Rostanin, ​http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~rostanin
​German Research Center for Arrtificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH),
Trippstadterstr. 122 67633, Kaiserslautern, Germany

​Simon Scerri
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI),
National University of Ireland, Galway

​Benedikt Schmidt
​SAP Research,
Bleichstrasse 8 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

PC Members

• Sebastian Doeweling, SAP Research
• Heiko Maus, DFKI GmbH
• Knud Hinnerk Möller, DERI
• Bernhard Schandl, Gnowsis.COM
• Sven Schwarz, DFKI GmbH

Special thanx to Gunnar Grimnes, DFKI GmbH, for kindly supporting.

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