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Registration now available — for SWESE participants, SemTech's Friday Only registration fee is $195.
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The agenda is now online!
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: 2 May 2010
- Notification of acceptance: 16 May 2010
- Final submissions due: 24 May 2010
- Workshop proceedings available: 25 June 2010
Please see the submissions page for details.
Workshop Description
The advent of the World Wide Web has led many corporations to web-enable their business applications and to the adoption of web service standards in middleware platforms. Marking a turning point in the evolution of the Web, the Semantic Web is expected to provide more benefits to software engineering. Over the past five years there have been a number of attempts to bring together languages and tools, such as the Unified Modelling Language (UML), originally developed for Software Engineering, with Semantic Web languages such as RDF and OWL. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to investigate potential benefits. A related international standardisation activity is OMG's Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), which was formally adopted in October 2006, and finalized in December 2008. Recently, more and more researchers are also investigating how to use ontology to improve guidance and traceability in software development.
It has been argued that the advantages of Semantic Web Technologies in software engineering include reusability and extensibility of data models, improvements in data quality, and discovery and automated execution of workflows. According to SETF's note A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers, the Semantic Web can serve as a platform on which domain models can be created, shared and reused.
However, are there other potential benefits in the use of Semantic Web concepts in the field of Software Engineering? Could the Web-based, semantically rich formality of OWL be combined with emerging model driven development tools such as the Eclipse Modelling Framework to provide some badly needed improvements in both the process and product of software development activities? What is it about the amalgamation of OWL, UML and MDSD methodology that could make a difference? Certainly, there appear to be a number of strong arguments in favour of this approach but consensus on the best way forward, if there is indeed a way forward at all has not yet formed. This workshop seeks to build on prior events that have begun to explore and evaluate this important area.
Workshop Format and Attendance
This will be a half day workshop, including a keynote presentation and technical talks discussing competing and complementary visions for Semantic Web enabled software engineering.
This workshop is open to all members of the SemTech community, as well as other communities identified in Intended Audience above, such as the Software Engineering community.
Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper will be given priority for registration.
We encourage those who plan to attend this workshop, to register early in order to help conference organizers with their planning as well as insure that the workshop is not cancelled do to projected poor attendance.
Sponsorship
The workshop is being held in cooperation with a prominent network of excellence and is meant to act as a focal point for joint interests and future collaborations. Interested sponsors are welcome to contact the program committee.