[Web4lib] cfp: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans

[Miltiadis D. Lytras]

CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and
Humans

SPECIAL ISSUE ON
The Human Semantic Web
Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge and Social Identity for
the Knowledge Society

Special Issue in Late 2009

The First World Summit on the Knowledge Society,
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/summit.htm is the conference/origin
of the special issue

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and
Humans seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on The Human
Semantic Web scheduled to appear in a late 2009 issue.
The Semantic Web vision has evolved in the last years as a blueprint for a
knowledge-based framework aimed at crossing the chasm from the current Web
of unstructured information resources to a Web equipped with metadata
and oriented to delegation of tasks to software agents. In spite of the
orientation of Semantic Web technology to machine processing, a large part
of useful Semantic Web applications require the building of semantic user
models, and semantic end-user interfaces. The increasing popularity of
open social systems has contributed an additional dimension to the complex
picture of bringing semantics to the Web. Ontologies are the key piece of
this framework in that they provide shared semantics to metadata, thus
enabling a degree of semantic interoperability.
The challenge of building person- and social-oriented semantic systems
requires the integration of personal and social information models with
domain and commonsense ontologies. Also, there is a need to combine
metaknowledge on user interface and usability issues along with models of
social networks, which may result in hybrid systems. Going a step further,
cultural issues pervade the meaning of everyday’s objects and
communication, so that successful applications need to consider these
aspects. The special issue aims at helping in communicating and
disseminating relevant recent research in systems engineering and human
machine systems as applied to the
context of personal and social information in the Semantic Web. The scope
of the call includes systems engineering and human machine systems for
organizational applications, Semantic Web approaches to Information
Systems and Ontology-Based Information Systems research, as well as the
diverse underlying personalization aspects, as long as they touch social,
interface, cultural or personal issues. Papers dealing with aspects that
touch several of these aspects are especially sought.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Applications of the Human Semantic Web to the Knowledge Society:
• Potentially large-scale applications (e.g. to Personal Knowledge
Management, Semantic Desktop, Knowledge
Portals)
• Data Semantics and Web Semantics in peer-to-peer systems, grids, multimedia
• Communication, dialogue and argumentation models
• Mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution

2. Ontologies for social and personal interaction:
• Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and
reconciliation)
• Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g. HLT and ML approaches)
• Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.)
• Ontology Modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution
• Searching and Ranking ontologies

3. Social Semantic Web:
• Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
• Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
• Representing and reasoning about Trust, Privacy, Security and
Intellectual Property Rights
• Tools and processes for sense-making, analysis and decision-making
• Supporting strategic communication

4. Social Semantic Web:
Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
Representing and reasoning about Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual
Property Rights
Tools and processes for sense-making, analysis and decision-making
Supporting strategic communication

5. User Interfaces:
• Interacting with Semantic Web Data
• Semantic Web content creation and annotation
• Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes


Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently
submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are
responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines.
You can access them by clicking on http://www.ieee-smc.org/publications/.
Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Please
submit your paper to Manuscript Central at http://smcaieee.
manuscriptcentral.com/


Please note the following important dates.
Important dates:

WORKSHOP FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON 1ST WORLD SUMMIT ON THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY:
Submission through http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/submissions

Presentation on SUMMIT: 24-26 September 2008

Selected Papers from Summit - Submission Deadline: 15-Nov-08
Completion of First-Round Reviews: 15-Dec-05
Revised Papers (after Minor Revisions): 19-Feb-09
Publication Materials Due: 23-March-09
Publication: in a Late 2009 issue.
Please address all other correspondence regarding this special issue to

Guest Editors M. Lytras, E. Damiani, A. Naeve

GUEST EDITORS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy, E-mail: damiani at dti.unimi.it
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece, Email: Lytras at ceid.upatras.gr
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, E-mail:amb at nada.kth.se