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Journal of Software (JSW, ISSN 1796-217X)
Special Issue on Semantic Extensions to Middleware
Middleware technology is traditionally seen to provide the functionality necessary to abstract providers and
consumers from syntactic and technical heterogeneities. In large scale, open and dynamic systems however,
where communication partners may not know each other, traditional solutions like CORBA are not appropriate
anymore; the same counts for Web service-based approaches. These technologies require a priori agreement of
the message exchange patterns, interfaces and data models to be used. This is clearly not guaranteeable in more
advanced open and collaborative systems. Semantic technologies are often presented as a solution for automating
computer processes and mediating between heterogeneous data. As semantics become more of a part of the
underlying data and process layers of large scale systems, extensions are also required in the middleware layer to
not only support knowledge mediation and coordination but to provide new functionalities not previously possible
due to the introduction of machine processability of the data and processes being integrated at the middleware.
As knowledge is becoming more ubiquitous in the Internet, we expect millions, even billions of knowledge and
service providers and consumers to interact, integrate and coordinate on the emerging, open Semantic Web just as
today millions of clients exchange data and perform work over the existing Web infrastructure. This produces the
need for scalable and dynamic systems that support collaborative work with distributed and heterogeneous
knowledge and applications.
This special issue aims at publishing high quality research papers related to semantic extensions to middleware,
and middleware solutions for the Semantic Web and for large scale service computing architectures. Researchers
working in these areas worldwide are invited to contribute.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to:
- Extensions to existing middleware such as Web services, Grid systems, tuplespaces, message-oriented
middleware etc. with semantic technologies ; - Middleware solutions for large scale (Semantic) Web applications ;
- Semantics-driven middleware solutions for mobile and ubiquitous computing ;
- Development and engineering methods for semantic extensions to middleware;
- Ontologies and metadata schemes to capture aspects of middleware layer functionality ;
- Reasoning approaches to efficiently support the functionality of middleware ;
- Scalable solutions to support large scale mediation, collaboration and coordination of heterogeneous data
and processes ; - Methods to deal with coordination of distributed services and applications working with semantic data ;
- Approaches to knowledge-driven self-organization in middleware ;
- Practical experiences in using semantic extensions of middleware to realize large scale knowledge systems
or service-oriented architectures ; - Deployment perspectives for semantic middleware ;
- Studies on target markets for semantic extensions to current middleware and backwards compatibility.
Important Dates
Submission Guidelines
We invite original research papers, survey and tutorial papers, on both applied and theoretical aspects, which are
previously unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be written in
English and not exceed 12 pages in length. Whenever applicable, submissions must include the following
elements: title, authors, affiliations, contacts, abstract, index terms, introduction, main text, conclusions, appendixes,
acknowledgements, references and biographies. Submissions must be directly sent in PDF format via email to the
Guest Editors: jsw-special-se2m@sti2.at, with a covering e-mail clearly stating the name, address and affiliation of
the corresponding author. Please identify your submission in the email subject line “Submission -JSW Special
Issue on Semantic Extensions to Middleware”. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at
http://www.academypublisher.com/forauthors.html.
Guest Editors
- Reto Krummenacher
Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Email: reto.krummenacher@sti2.at
Dr. Elena Simperl
Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Email: elena.simperl@sti2.at
Dr. Lyndon J. B. Nixon
Semantic Technology Institute International, Vienna, Austria
Email: lyndon.nixon@sti2.org
Dr. Emanuele Della Valle
CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Email: dellava@cefriel.it
Dr. Ronaldo Menezes
Dept. of Computer Science, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
Email: rmenezes@cs.fit.edu
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