SABRE Conference on Social Semantic Web (CSSW 2007)

The concept of Social Software was coined to characterize a variety of software and services on the Web, which enable new ways of communication and exploit social interactions for creating large content bases from a multitude of user contributions. The Semantic Web is a extension of the current Web aiming at enhanced search and navigation facilities and at integrating information from multiple sources. A question at the moment actively discussed in conference panels, visionary papers and project proposals is how the different approaches Social Software and Semantic Web can be combined in a synergetic way.

CSSW will provide a podium for the rapidly emerging field of approaches aiming at exploiting Social Software concepts for the bootstrapping of the Semantic Web and lifting Social Software to the semantic collaboration level. CSSW aims at combining three different perspectives on the Social Semantic Web: the business and entrepreneurial perspective focusing the added value of specific social semantic web applications, the technical perspective enables and supports the exploitation of the “ant intelligence” of social networks and last but not least the social perspective, which explores motivations, benefits and emergent effects. CSSW targets to bring these three perspectives together, to widen existing horizons, to create novel ideas and to find new ways of understanding this emerging field.

CSSW is supported by the following organizations and projects:

GI-Fachgruppe Methoden und Werkzeuge zur Entwicklung interaktiver Systeme (INSYDE)

Leipziger Informatik Verbund

Project, funded by BmBF as part of the research initiative “Software Engineering 2006”

Please also have a look at the SABRE (Software, Agents, and Services for Business, Research, and E-Sciences) website for further information.

Invited Talk

Kingsley Idehen will give an invited talk on “Hello Data Web – Exposing the Data Web”. Kingsley is Founder, President and CEO of OpenLink Software, a leading provider of high-performance Universal Data Access, Data Integration, Hybrid Database Engine technology and developer of the Virtuoso Server. With his entrepreneurial experience, his contributions to the technical foundations of the future Web and his backing of the Open Data initiatives he ideally combines the different perspectives on the Social Semantic Web.

Topics of Interest

CSSW covers all topics related to Social Semantic Collaboration (SSC) in Web based environments. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Economic / Entrepreneurial Perspective

• Business aspects of SSC
• Economies of “attention” for semantic collaboration
• Business models for SSC
• Models measuring costs/benefits of SSC
• Authentication, authorization and accounting – policies, charging and billing models for social software
• Experimental use cases involving social software in areas of telecommunications, dating, recruitment, eTourism, eBusiness, eGovernment, etc.

Technical Perspective

• Applying Social Software strategies such as tagging, mashups for SSC
• Semantic Data Web: browsers and end-points
• Extracting semantic content from existing information sources, e.g. Wikipedia
• Collaborative, community-driven ontology construction
• Combining existing ontologies and schemata, social ontology sharing and matching techniques
• Reasoning supporting adaptive semantic collaboration, e.g. Description-Logic-Learning
• Storage, inference and caching for scalable SSC 
• Exposing and interconnecting Web-APIs as light-weight Semantic Web Services
• Social Semantic Web and Mobile services
• User-interface components, template languages supporting SSC 

Social Perspective

• Analysis, visualization, presentation of social networks
• Approaches combining Social Software & Semantic Web 
• Group management, presence, social interaction enablers in mobile service platforms
• Strategies for implementing architectures of semantic participation
• Trust and privacy issues in social software
• Implementation of gratification and reward systems
• Quality analysis of socially generated semantic content
• Analysis of motivations and behavior of social software users
• Knowledge acquisition and ontology management in SSC
• Analysis of emergent effects within social software

Submission types

Authors are invited to submit original papers.

• Research papers – maximum 10 pages
• Posters – 4 pages
• Demos – 4 pages

Papers for submissions should be formatted according to GI-LNI style and submitted in PDF format. Submission details will be announced here shortly.
All papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI). Best papers from CSSW 2007 will be considered for revision, extension, and publication in a special issue of the Journal of Online Engineering.

Dates and Conference Format

Paper, demo, poster submission: June 1st
The submission deadline is strict, no extensions will be given.

Notification of acceptance: July 25th

Conference: September 26–28th

CSSW will be a two day conference with possible accompanying workshops:

• First day / 26th: 3 research paper sessions, demo and poster session
• Second day / 27th: invited speaker, 2 research paper sessions, concluding panel discussion
• Third day / 28th: workshops

Paper acceptance is strictly limited to maximum 18 research papers. Additionally, poster and demo submissions are possible.

Committees

Conference Organizers
Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany and University of Pennsylvania, USA
Chris Bizer, FU Berlin, Germany
Claudia Mueller, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Anna V. Zhdanova, University of Surrey, UK

Program Committee
John G. Breslin, DERI, Ireland
Jorge Cardoso, University of Madeira, Spain
Richard Cyganiak, FU Berlin, Germany
Jörg Diederich, L3S, Germany
Sebastian Dietzold, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Kai Fischbach, Universität Köln, Germany
Walter Goix, Telecom Italia, Italy
Andreas Harth, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Tom Heath, Open University, UK
Florian Heidecke, Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland
Ceriel Jacobs, Vakantieland, The Netherlands
Dongwon Jeong, Kunsan National University, Korea
Jason J. Jung, Inha University, Korea
Berit Jungmann, T-Systems MMS, Germany
Markus Krötzsch, AIFB – University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Jens Lehmann, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Volkmar Pipek, Universität Siegen, Germany
Axel Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Thomas Riechert, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Harald Sack, Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany
Leo Sauermann, DFKI, Germany
Sebastian Schaffert, salzburgresearch, Austria
Jan Schmidt, Bamberg, Germany
Frank Schönefeld, T-Systems MMS, Germany
Christian Stegbauer, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Martin Strohbach, NEC Europe, Europe
Kim Viljanen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finnland
Jakob Voss, Wikimedia e.V., Germany
Jürgen Ziegler, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

to be completed.

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