The Journal of Web Semantics invites submissions for a special issue on Ontology-Based Software Architectures to be edited by Martin G. Skjæveland, Roman Kontchakov and Martin Giese. Submissions are due by 31st December 2020.
Semantic technologies and knowledge-based
systems are gaining momentum in society and industry. A variety of standards,
techniques and tools have become available for the development, deployment, and
maintenance of ontologies and related artefacts. However, the use of ontologies
as an active integrating component in complex software systems is less well
understood. The lack of a clear understanding of the role of an ontology in a
software system is one of the major challenges to the adoption of ontologies
and semantic technologies in mainstream software. This special issue solicits
best practices, practitioner insights and novel theoretical contributions to
architectures, techniques, orchestrations of artefacts and tools for the
realisation of successful ontology-based software systems.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
Ontology-based software architectures
Submissions must clearly state their contributions’ role and relevance in the application, development or management of ontology-based software systems.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
Ontology-based software architectures
- development methodologies, environments and tools
- system architecture, ontology architecture
- management and orchestration of multiple ontology-based systems
- design and management of artefacts (ontologies, constraints, mappings, data sources, queries, interfaces, etc.)
- lessons learned and new insights to the field
- best practices of development, deployment and maintenance
- benefits and costs, especially in comparison with alternative technologies
- socio-technical aspects
- ontology engineering tools and methodologies
- ontology reasoners
- ontology alignment and integration
- data quality and constraints
- ontology-based data integration
- ontology-based data access
- ontology-driven user interfaces,
including visualisation, query interfaces, etc.
Submissions must clearly state their contributions’ role and relevance in the application, development or management of ontology-based software systems.
Guest Editors
- Martin
G. Skjæveland (martige@ifi.uio.no) is a researcher at the
University of Oslo, and adjunct associate professor at the University of
Stavanger.
- Roman
Kontchakov (roman@dcs.bbk.ac.uk) is a Reader at Birkbeck,
University of London.
- Martin Giese (martingi@ifi.uio.no) is a professor at the University of Oslo.
Review committee
- Mara Abel (Federal University of
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Sören Auer (Leibniz University of
Hannover, Germany)
- Eva Blomqvist (Linköping
University, Sweden)
- Oscar Corcho (Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
- Anastasia Dimou (Ghent University,
Netherlands)
- Paul Groth (University of
Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Aidan Hogan (Universidad de Chile,
Chile)
- Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz (City,
University of London, UK)
- Evgeny Kharlamov (Bosch, Germany
and University of Oslo, Norway)
- Maxime Lefrançois (MINES
Saint-Etienne, France)
- Boris Motik (University of Oxford,
UK)
- Bijan Parsia (University of
Manchester, UK)
- Mariano Rodríguez Muro (Google,
US)
- Ognjen Savkovic (Free University
of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
- Juan Sequeda (data.world, US)
- (additional reviewers to be confirmed)
Important Dates
Call for papers: 2 September 2020Submission deadline: 31 December 2020
Author notification: 31 March 2021
Publication: Q3 2021
Submission guidelines
The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original
scientific contributions of high quality. Following the overall mission of the
journal, we emphasize the publication of papers that combine theories, methods
and experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative
semantic methods and applications. The publication of large-scale experiments
and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate scenarios and
methods that introduce semantics into existing Web interfaces, contents and services.Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in accordance with instructions given in the JWS guide for authors. The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's Web-based Editorial Manager (EM) system. Please state the name of the SI in your cover letter and, at the time of submission, please select “VSI: OBSA” when reaching the Article Type selection.
Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Elsevier's liberal preprint policy permits authors and their institutions to host preprints on their web sites. Preprints of the articles will be made freely accessible via JWS First Look. Final copies of accepted publications will appear in print and at Elsevier's archival online server.