The World Wide Web has become the carrier for the largest human knowledge repository in history. As its knowledge bases are growing towards a practically ‘infinite’ volume, Web-scale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning (Web-KR³) is becoming a real issue and an urgent task. Although the Web community has developed a number of knowledge representation languages and reasoning methods, when the volume goes Web-scale, existing approaches meet many challenging problems, such as scalability, inconsistency, uncertainty and dynamics. Hence, a unified approach to Web-KR³ needs to be developed.

This workshop thus aims to bringing together researchers from Web research, Artificial Intelligence (AI), high performance computing, cognitive science, knowledge management, and machine learning to discuss all issues of Web-KR³ in a synergistic setting. The workshop is a full day workshop and will be co-located with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology.

Topics of Interest

Research contributions should be related but are not limited to one or more of the following topics:

• Scalable knowledge representation languages for the Web.
• Expressivity of Web-scale common sense knowledge.
• Parallelization and distribution techniques for Web-scale knowledge retrieval and reasoning.
• Inconsistency, uncertainty, and relevancy of Web-scale reasoning.
• Granularity of knowledge representation, retrieval, and reasoning.
• New forms of inductive and deductive reasoning (e.g. cognitive and nature inspired methods).
• Web-scale ontology and rule interchange and integration.(e.g. via OWL 2, RIF, and RuleML)
• Dynamics of knowledge updating and forgetting on the Web.
• Distributed query answering over Web-scale data.
• Cross-fertilizing Web-KR³ with Distributed AI, Distributed Description Logic, and Distributed Logic Programming.

Papers for Oral Presentation

The presentation schedule of the workshop is listed as follows:

• Manuel Salvadores, Gianluca Correndo, Tope Omitola, Nick Gibbins, Steve Harris, and Nigel Shadbolt, "4s-reasoner: RDFS Backward Chained Reasoning Support in 4store"
• Mamdouh Farouk and Mitsuru Ishizuka, "Semantic Structure Content for Dynamic Web Pages"
• Surjeet Mishra, Amarendra Gorai, Tavleen Oberoi, and Hiranmay Ghosh, "Efficient Visualization of Content and Contextual Information of an online Multimedia Digital Library for Effective Browsing"

Submissions

WI/IAT 2010 Web-KR³ Workshop Paper Submission system

All submissions for the Web-KR³ 2010 Workshop are expected to be written in English. Submissions are to be 4 pages in length (IEEE-CS format). A maximum of one additional page can be included, but is subject to a surcharge on the conference registration fee.

Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Press in the WI/IAT 2010 Workshop Proceedings and will be provided on the workshop day. The papers in the workshop proceedings will also be available in the IEEE Digital Library, the ACM Digital Library, and will be indexed by Engineering Index (EI), etc.

Style Files for Paper Submission

IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines:

• DOC: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.doc
• PDF: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.pdf
• PS: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.ps
• LaTex Formatting Macros: ftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex8.5x11x2.zip

Important Dates

• April 23th, 2010 : Workshop paper submission due.
• June 7th, 2010 : Notification of paper acceptance.
• June 21st, 2010 : Camera ready version submission due.
• July 5th, 2010 : Presentation Schedule release.
• August 31st, 2010 : Workshop day.

Workshop Co-Chairs

• Zhisheng Huang,
  Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group,
  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Harold Boley,
  Semantic Web Lab,
  National Research Council, Canada.
• Yi Zeng,
  International WIC Institute,
  Beijing University of Technogy, China.

Program Committee

• Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
• Jeff Pan (The University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
• Barry Bishop (Ontotext, Bulgaria)
• Danica Damljanovic (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
• Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China)
• Spyros Kotoulas (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
• Peter Haase (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
• Dongmo Zhang ( University of Western Sydney, Australia)
• Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
• Holger Wache (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland)
• Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
• Wei Hu (Nanjing University, China)
• Jun Fang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
• Dragan Gasevic (Athabasca University, Canada)
• Marta Sabou (Open University, United Kingdom)
• Nikolaus Wulff ( Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
• Yong Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
• Nick Bassiliades (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
• Adrian Giurca (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany)
• Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada)