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<DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px"><FONT size=5>CALL FOR
CHAPTERS</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Proposals Submission Deadline: 10/1/2006</DIV>
<DIV>Full Chapters Due: 1/31/2007</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-STYLE: italic"><FONT
size=5>Emerging Technologies for Semantic Work Environments:<BR><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(85,85,85)">Techniques, Methods, and
Applications</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>A book edited by Joerg Rech, Bjoern Decker, and Eric Ras, <BR>Fraunhofer
Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Germany</DIV>
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<P><B>Introduction</B><BR>Today’s work is characterized by a high degree of
innovation and thus demands a good overview of relevant knowledge about the
world as well as the organization. However, quick innovation cycles as well as
time pressure drives the trend away from classical searches to a context
sensitive, pro-active information offering. Semantic Work Environments (SWE)
such as such as Semantic Wikis or Semantic Desktops applications support the
work of the user by collecting knowledge about the current needs in a specific
activity, and by providing processed and improved knowledge that can be
integrated into current work. <BR>SWEs such as Semantic Wikis combine the
strengths of Semantic Web and Wiki Technology - typically for a specific
application domain such as requirement engineering - and represent the "semantic
web in the small". Instead of making all content in the internet machine
readable (i.e., "semantic web in the large") the SWE approach tackles the
problem on a smaller, more focused scale. SWEs will play an important role for
knowledge storage, acquisition, and processing for specific application domains
and enable the widespread use of automated inference mechanisms on top of the
semantic information. </P>
<P><B>Book Objectives & Mission</B><BR>The objective of this book is to
provide an overall view of the field of semantic work environments by bringing
together various research studies, presumably in different subfields, and
underlining the similarities between the different processes, issues, and
approaches. The book’s mission is to give a clear description of the
fundamentals in semantic work environments theory, filling the gap in the
literature, and to provide concrete results from applications and prototypes of
semantic work environments in industry. The area is wide and entails many facets
that the book must clarify, including: <BR></P>
<LI>differences and similarities between traditional and semantic work
environments,
<LI>identification of requirements and quality aspects of semantic work
environments,
<LI>design and development of semantic work environments,
<LI>evaluation of semantic work environments,
<LI>reports on the state-of-the-art regarding semantic work environments,
<LI>investigation on how processes affect the quality in semantic work
environments. <BR>Additionally, this book will provide a compendium of
definitions and explanations of main terms, concepts, and topics of semantic
work environments.
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<P><B>Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the
following:</B><BR></P>
<P><I>Introductory Chapters</I> </P>
<LI>State-of-the-art of Semantic Work Environment
<LI>Terminology for Semantic Work Environments<BR>
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<P><I>Construction of Semantic Work Environment related Chapters</I> </P>
<LI>Requirements for Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Analysis and Design for Semantic Work Environment
<LI>Semantic Work Environment Project Management
<LI>Seeding / Starting Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Interoperability of Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Connecting Semantic Environment to the Semantic Web in the large<BR>
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<P><I>Semantics, Metadata and Data in Semantic Work Environment related
Chapters</I> </P>
<LI>Semantics, Metadata, and Ontologies for Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Ontology Development for Semantic Work Environment
<LI>Inference Mechanisms for Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Metadata, Data, and Content Integration for Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Metadata, Data, and Content Exchange for Semantic Work Environments<BR>
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<P><I>Quality of Systems and Content in Semantic Work Environment related
Chapters</I> </P>
<LI>Quality of Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Quality Metrics on Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Performance, Optimization, and Tuning of Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Maintaining Semantic Work Environments<BR>
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<P><I>Examples and Evidence for Semantic Work Environment related Chapters</I>
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<LI>Criteria for Evaluating Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Examples of Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Semantic Work Environment Experiments and Case Studies
<LI>Experiment Designs to Evaluate Semantic Work Environments<BR>
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<P><I>Miscellaneous Chapters</I> </P>
<LI>Management of Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Standards and Semantic Work Environments
<LI>Teaching Principles of Semantic Work Environments<BR>
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<P><I>Outlook related Chapters</I> </P>
<LI>Semantic Work Environment Trends
<LI>Semantic Work Environments in 5, 10, and 25 years
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<P><B>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</B><BR>Researchers and practitioners are invited to
submit on or before<B> October 1, 2006</B>, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal
clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of
accepted proposals will be notified by <B>November 1, 2006 </B>about the status
of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are
expected to be submitted by <B>January 31, 2007</B>. All submitted chapters will
be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be
published by Idea Group Inc., http://www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea
Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech
Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints. </P>
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<P style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded
electronically (Word document) or by mail to:</P>
<P style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Joerg Rech<BR>Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental
Software Engineering (IESE)<BR>Fraunhofer-Platz 1<BR>67663 Kaiserslautern,
Germany<BR>Tel.: +49 631/6800-2210<BR>Fax.: +49 631/6800-1599<BR>email: <A
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