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Call for Papers

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architectures are intended to allow autonomous peers to interoperate in a decentralized, distributed manner for fulfilling individual and/or common goals. Peers have equivalent capabilities in providing other peers with data and/or services. Confederations of peers may be forged or broken opportunistically through the choices made by individual peers. The overall performance of a P2P network emerges from local point-to-point interactions of (all) peers on the network.

The P2P paradigm in general offers a prospect of robustness, scalability and availability of large pool of storage and computational resources. The approach has been shown to be effective for basic but essential tasks such as file sharing. P2P, however, offers opportunities not addressed in existing architectures. They include the creation, maintenance, exchange, acquisition, and use of knowledge by peers. Because they are autonomous, peers can represent knowledge in a number of diverse forms, e.g. contexts, knowledge bases, files, databases, etc. In order to facilitate the interoperation, peers may agree on a shared conceptualization of a knowledge domain in the form of, for instance, ontology, and collectively maintain it over time. Apart from this, peers should be able to locate other peers, having required pieces of information and/or providing required services; agree on the meaning of the pieces of information (service delivery protocols) they want to exchange; and interoperate, based on the reached agreement, in a meaningful, purpose-driven way.

The P2PKM workshop is intended to serve as an active forum for researchers and practitioners, where they will have the possibility to exchange and discuss novel ideas, research results and experiences, laying in the intersection of the P2P, Knowledge Management (KM), Semantic Web, databases, pervasive computing, agents, as well as other related fields.

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

• Methodologies to analyze, design and deploy distributed KM solutions;
• Data models and distributed query languages;
• Meta-data representation and management;
• Semantic Web and P2P KM systems;
• Semantic web services to support P2P KM;
• Semantics-driven peer coordination mechanisms;
• Protocols, algorithms and techniques to support semantic interoperability;
• Role of ontologies in P2P KM systems;
• Distributed knowledge discovery;
• Trust and reputation as means to support knowledge acquisition;
• Agent-mediated KM;
• P2P and databases;
• P2P KM in location- and context-aware environments;
• Mobile and ubiquitous P2P KM;
• P2P to support (virtual) communities of practice and interest networks;
• Organizational impacts of P2P technologies, and social adoption of distributed technologies;
• P2P KM system architectures, infrastructure and middleware;
• Experience with deployed systems, performance evaluation and benchmarking;

Important Dates

Submission Instructions

We invite the submission of high quality technical papers. The submitted papers should be formatted as close as possible to the Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 12 pages including figures and references. Interested authors should send their papers by email to Ilya Zaihrayeu at . PDF format is preferred, but other formats (PS, DOC) are also acceptable. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop electronic proceedings, and hardcopies of the proceedings will be handed out at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present their work. The authors of the best papers (dealing with issues related to semantics) will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for a special issue of the LNCS Journal of Data Semantics.

Organization

Workshop Co-Chairs

Ilya Zaihrayeu
University of Trento, Italy
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Dave Robertson
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Steering Committee

Matteo Bonifacio, ITC-Irst, Italy
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy

Program Committee

John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Zachary G. Ives, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Chiara Ghidini, ITC-Irst, Italy
Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Switzerland
Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Gabriel Kuper, University of Trento, Italy
Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria's Competence Center for Knowledge Management, Austria
Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy
Mark Maybury, MITRE Corporation, USA
Gianluca Moro, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany
Terry Paine, University of Southampton
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Univ. of Stanford, USA
Christoph Schmitz, Universität Kassel, Germany
Carles Sierra, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Bernard Traversat, SUN Microsystems, USA
Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Wamberto Vasconcelos, Univ. of Aberdeen, UK
Chris Walton, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK

Registration and Accommodation

For registration and accommodation details see corresponding page on the MobiQuitous conference web site, www.mobiquitous.org.

Acknowledgements
We appreciate support from the FP6 Network of Excellence project KnowledgeWeb

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