Where and when
This workshop will be held as part of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) in Washington, DC.
The date of the Workshop is the 26th of October, 2009, during the morning session. Submissions must be sent before August 17th, 2009. More information about the workshop calendar is available on this page: dates
Aim and scope
The Semantic Web (SW) carries out the vision of a Web of data usable for both human and machines. This web, consisting of inter-connected instance data annotated with possibly expressive ontologies, promises a huge opportunity for Web-based applications in many domains. In this web the vision of distributed reasoning has replaced the myth of a commonly agreed upon ontology every data provider would rely on.
However, existing reasoning techniques often fail to this live up to this distributed vision of knowledge on the web. Reasoner may not be able to cope with the high number of instances and/or the expressiveness of the ontologies describing them (scalability problem) or fail to deal with a sometimes unreliable network, lack of maintenance of information or the variety in quality (robustness problem).
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the Semantic Web community with more Nature inspired communities, such as the people interested in Computational Intelligence (CI), Neural Networks and to discuss on current trends in Semantic Web. The workshop will feature invited talks from experts in the corresponding areas as well as contributed talks presenting submitted papers.
Acknowledgements
The second international workshop on Nature inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web (NatuReS09) is sponsored by the EU funded Large Knowledge Collider LarKC
Call for papers
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