WWW2006

15th International World Wide Web Conference
Edinburgh, Scotland (23-26 May, 2006)

The World Wide Web Conference is the global event to bring together the key influencers, decision makers, technologists, businesses and standards bodies shaping the future of the web. This year’s event will feature numerous workshops focused on Semantic Web technologies.

Reasoning on the Web (RoW06)
This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners concerned with reasoning technology for the Semantic Web, in order to stimulate the exchange of ideas and results on Web reasoning.

Evaluating Ontologies for the Web (EON2006)
The aim of this workshop is to ground Ontology Evaluation firmly on the needs of the Semantic Web, especially regarding its web-like characteristics like high interconnectivity, constant change and incompleteness. The workshop will encourage and stimulate discussion about the current state of the art in Ontology Evaluation and its future direction.

Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia (SWAMM)
The multimedia community has a long tradition in annotating multimedia assets, a tradition that predates the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web community, on the other hand, has more experience in developing generic languages and tools based on an explicit and formally defined semantics. This workshop invites contributions on all topics related to annotating multimedia assets using Semantic Web languages and tools.

Models of Trust for the Web (MTW)
As it gets easier to add information to the web via html pages, wikis, blogs, and other documents, it gets tougher to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate or untrustworthy information. Apart from inaccurate or outdated information, we also need to anticipate Semantic Web Spam (SWAM) — where spammers publish false facts and scams to deliberately mislead users. This workshop will bring together researchers and experts from different communities (e.g., Information Systems, Database, Semantic Web, Web Services) interested in topics like trust, provenance, privacy, security, reputation and spam, in order to address current challenges of their application to distributed environments like the Web.

Identity, Reference, and the Web
How should the nature of the intended referent or a URI be known in an interoperable and preferably automatic manner? This workshop will explore the nature of identification and reference on the Web, building on current work in Web Architecture, the Semantic Web and informal community-based tagging (folksonomy), as well as current practice in XML and theory in philosophy and linguistics. This workshop should bring together researchers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds in order to discuss and clarify these issues.

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