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SKG 2006
Oct.30-Nov.2 2006, Guilin, China
http://www.culturegrid.net/SKG2006

2nd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid

The Internet and World Wide Web are milestone of information sharing. IT
professionals are in the critical historical stage of creating the new
brilliance ¾ a new interconnection environment. Semantics and knowledge are
the basis of this environment. The International Conference on Semantics,
Knowledge and Grid (SKG) is the unique cross-area international forum on
semantic computing, knowledge networking, and grid computing.
The 2nd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG2006)
is to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas of knowledge and
intelligence, semantics, and grid computing to share their visions, research
achievements and solutions to real applications, to resolve the challenge
issues and to establish worldwide cooperative research and development.
SKG2006 will be held in Guilin, a city with natural beauty and historical
treasures, located in the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of
China.

Conference Co-Chairs:
Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
James Hendler. university of Maryland, USA
Geoffrey C. Fox,  Indiana University, USA

Program Co-Chair:
Hai Zhuge Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Toru Ishida Kyoto University, Japan

Advisory Board:
David De Roure university of Southampton, UK
Carole Goble university of Manchester, UK
P.M.A. Sloot university of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Keynote Speaker: C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Themes (include but not limited to)
n	Semantics and Semantic Grid.  Semantic Normalization; Semantic
Interoperability; Semantic Visualization and modeling; Semantic Web Mining;
Semantic Brokering; Semantic Searching and Querying; Semantic-based
Interface; Automatic Semantic Annotation; Semantic Web Services; Theory and
Model of Semantic Grid.
n	Knowledge and Knowledge Grid.  Semantic Knowledge Portals; Web
Knowledge Discovery; Representation and Reasoning; Theory and Model of
Knowledge Grid; Large-Scale Distributed Knowledge Management; Ontology;
Information/ Knowledge/ Service Integration; Knowledge Flow; Internet-based
Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering.
n	Advanced Networking Model. Complex Network and Resource Management;
Resource Management Model in Grid, Internet-based Multi-agent Systems;
Nature-Inspired Computing; Autonomous Computing; Internet-based Intelligent
Applications; P2P Computing; Grid Computing; Self-Organized Intelligence;
Service-oriented Computing; Mobile Grid.
n	Systems, Tools and Applications.  Semantic-based Virtual
Organizations; e-Science; e-Business; e-Learning; e-Government; Grid
Security; Sensor networks and the Grid.
n	e-Culture or e-HASS(Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences).
Applications in Humanities; Applications in Arts; Applications in Social
Sciences

Submission: See submission page at http://www.culturegrid.net/SKG2006

Important Dates:
June 1, 2006 (Deadline for submission)
July 1, 2006 (Notification of acceptance)
August 1, 2006 (Final copy due)

Publication Information:
Accepted papers will be published in IEEE CS proceedings.  Selected
high-quality papers will be published as special issues/sections in the
following international journals after extension: Concurrency and
Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley); Journal of Systems and
Software (Elsevier); Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier).

Jinjun Chen
Swinburne university of Technology, Australia
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jchen


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