Overview

This document provides information about selected conferences and workshops scheduled to be held in 2006. See the more complete conference listing for earlier years.

Listing of Conferences for 2006

• XML 2006. December 4 - 7, 2006. Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, MA, USA.

  • The XML 2006 conference has four separate tracks: Enterprise XML Computing, XML on the Web; Documents and Publishing; Hands-On XML. Keynote speakers: Darin McBeath, Jon Bosak, and Roger Bamford.
  • Conference web site
  • Conference program
  • Four Tracks: Enterprise XML Computing, XML on the Web, Documents and Publishing, Hands-On XML
  • Call for Participation
  • Organized and hosted by IDEAlliance

• 30th Internationalization and Unicode Conference. November 15 - 17, 2006. Washington, D.C., USA.

  • "IUC 30 will include sessions with a special focus on the internationalization and globalization challenges faced by governmental, national, and international organizations as they seek to better communicate globally."
  • Conference web site
  • Conference at a Glance
  • Complete Conference Program
  • Sponsored by Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) and the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), with Media Sponsors MultiLingual Computing Inc., Localisation Research Centre, and Globalization Insider.
  • UNICODE Conference Organizer: The Object Management Group (OMG)
  • IUC 29 Conference
  • About the Internationalization and Unicode Conferences
  • Email contact: info@unicodeconference.org

• UBL International 2006. November 13 - 17, 2006. Allerød [Copenhagen], Denmark.

  • A training summit bringing together worldwide Universal Business Language expertise to deliver full-day lectures and hands-on courses from commercial training companies, and a full day of free symposium presentations, marking the launch of UBL 2.0
  • Conference host and co-organizer: Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, in partnership with Crane Softwrights Ltd and Infomenta
  • Conference main page
  • Complete program
  • Conference Workshops
  • UBL International Conference web site
  • See also: New Open Standard for Use in eBusiness is On the Way
  • See also: Universal Business Language (UBL)

• OWL Experiences and Directions Second International Workshop (OWLED 2006). November 10 - 11, 2006. Athens, Georgia, USA.

  • "... a forum for practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers, and others interested in OWL to describe real and potential applications, to share experience, and to discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications..."
  • Workshop web site
  • Co-located with ISWC 2006 and RuleML 2006.
  • [W3C] Web Ontology Language (OWL)
  • OWL 1.1 Extension to the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language
  • OWLED 2005

• RuleML 2006. Second International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web. November 10 - 11, 2006. Athens, Georgia, USA.

  • "A scientific forum for exchanging ideas on all aspects of rules for the Semantic Web, with academic and industrial tracks... rules are the next layer of focus within the Semantic Web technology stack"
  • Conference web site
  • Co-located with The Fifth International Semantic Web Conference
  • RuleML-2005
  • Rule Interchange Format WG
  • Rule Languages
  • Rule Interchange Format

• Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning. October 19 - 20, 2006. ITU Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland.

  • A workshop jointly organized by ITU-T and OASIS. A two-day event featuring an emergency management interoperability demonstration of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) OASIS standard, as well as presentations by various players active in public warning technologies.
  • Workshop web site
  • Workshop program
  • ITU-T announcement
  • See also: Tsunami Warning Markup Language (TWML)

• W3C International Workshop on the future of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL-FO) Version 2.0. October 18, 2006. Heidelberg Print Media Academy, Heidelberg, Germany.

  • "A workshop hosted by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, designed to gather inspiration, needs and techniques for a future version of XSL-FO, the formatting specification of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL). The W3C XSL Working Group expects that the enhancements for XSL-FO 2.0 will focus on layout-driven formatting, augmenting the content-driven layout facilities already defined."
  • Workshop web site
  • Extensible Stylesheet Language Family (XSL)
  • Workshop Chair: Liam Quin
  • W3C News item
  • W3C Workshops

• W3C Workshop on Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and Semantics-Driven Enforcement. October 17 - 18, 2006. Ispra, Italy.

  • The workshop will address privacy needs in this context: "To allow enterprises to control data effectively according to regulations, agreements or privacy policies, design of privacy technologies has to extend beyond user-facing front-ends. Tools have to allow control of the whole privacy value-chain..."
  • Hosted by the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission
  • Workshop web site
  • Call for Participation
  • Privacy Specifications
  • W3C Workshops

• XML Access Languages Conference. September 26, 2006. CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK

  • A one-day conference on XML Access Languages, essential tools for exploiting the full value of XML assets; hosted by XML UK, the United Kingdom chapter of the International SGML/XML Users' Group (ISUG).
  • Conference program
  • Presenters: Michael Wilson (Conference Chair), Chris Wallace, Andy Seaborne, Mark Birbeck, Jeni Tennison, Michael Kay, Liam Quin, Brian Matthews.
  • XML UK web site
  • Email contact: info@xmluk.org

• Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures Workshop (MDA4SOA 2006). September 18, 2006. Chicago, Illinois, USA.

  • The workshop "aims to tackle the research problems (as well as practical experiences) around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enable computing in service-oriented environments. Of particular interest are the architectural, technical, and developmental foundations of service-oriented architectures, and showing how they combine synergistically to enable distributed computing on the scale required by today's Internet-connected enterprise."
  • Workshop website
  • Paper Submissions. Submissions due April 27, 2006.
  • Co-located with the 2006 IEEE International Conferences on Services Computing (SCC 2006) and Web Services (ICWS 2006)

• The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006). September 18 - 22, 2006. Chicago, Illinois, USA.

  • Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing. "ICWS has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web Services, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web Services."
  • Conference website
  • Call for Papers. Paper submission due February 15, 2006.
  • Co-located with the 2006 IEEE International Conferences on Services Computing (SCC 2006)

• The 2006 IEEE International Conferences on Services Computing (SCC 2006). September 18-22, 2006. Chicago, Illinois, USA.

  • SCC 2006 has the following three major research tracks: Foundations of Services Computing, Services-Centric Business Models, and Business Process Integration and Management.
  • Conference website
  • Call for Papers. Paper submissions due February 15, 2006.
  • Co-located with the 2006 IEEE International Conference Web Services (ICWS 2006)

• 5th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2006). September 4 - 8, 2006 Krakow, Poland.

  • "The objective of the workshop Web Semantics (WebS) is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss research issues and experience in developing and deploying Semantic Web concepts, applications, and solutions being an international forum for the presentation of both theoretical and applicative results."
  • Call for Papers. Paper submission due March 10, 2006.
  • Held in conjunction with DEXA 2006 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications.
  • Chairs Eva Gahleitner and Wolfram Wöß (FAW, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria). webs@faw.uni-linz.ac.at.

• C&O-2006. The Second International Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications. August 28, 2006, Riva del Grada, Italy.

  • "The goal of the workshop is to bring together people from the context and ontology communities and to discuss the approaches they use for information integration."
  • Conference website
  • Call for Papers. Deadline for the submissions April 15, 2006.
  • Download C&O-2006 flyer
  • Chair: Pavel Shvaiko

• Workshop on Service Oriented Techniques (SOT06). August 13, 2006. Delta Hotel, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

  • Sponsored by Canada National Research Council. "The aim of the SOT workshop is to present recent research findings on service oriented techniques. We welcome papers from both academia and industry. We especially invite submissions based on theoretical foundations or innovative industrial projects."
  • Workshop website
  • Call for Papers. Paper Submission deadline: June 1, 2006
  • The Eighth International Conference of E-Commerce (ICEC06), August 14-16, 2006.
  • Organizers: Dr. Yuhong Yan (Canada National Research Council), Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)

• Extreme Markup Languages Conference 2006. August 7 - 11, 2006. Best Western Hotel Europa Downtown, Montréal, Canada.

  • "Extreme is an open marketplace of theories about markup and all the things that they support or that support them: the difficult cases in publishing, linguistics, transformation, searching, indexing, storage and retrieval, the things you wish you could do in XML..."
  • Extreme web site
  • Schedule At a Glance
  • Extreme Proceedings
  • IDEAlliance web site

• XIME-P 2006: Third International Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives. June 30, 2006. Chicago, Illinois, USA.

  • Sponsored by ACM SIGMOD. "XIME-P 2006 invites original research contributions as well as reports on industrial efforts on the implementation, utilization, and overall prospects of XQuery. The XIME-P 2006 program will feature talks and panels on research as well as industrial efforts on the implementation and utilization of XQuery."
  • Workshop website
  • Call for Papers. Paper submission due April 3, 2006
  • Co-Chairs Mike Carey, BEA Systems Inc., and Torsten Grust, Technische Universität München

• XML Prague 2006. June 17 - 18, 2006. Prague, the Czech Republic.

  • "A regular conference on XML for developers, web designers, information managers, and students, focusing this year on XML Native Databases and Querying XML. A full day of experts speaking has been extended with an additional day dedicated for participants to hold related BoF sessions and workshops."
  • Conference website
  • Abstracts of sessions
  • "A regular conference on XML for developers, web designers, information managers, and students, focusing this year on XML Native Databases and Querying XML. A full day of experts speaking has been extended with an additional day dedicated for participants to hold related BoF sessions and workshops."

• 2006 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech2006). March 6 - 9, 2006. San Jose, California, USA.

  • Conference web site
  • Conference program
  • SemTech 2006 Speaker Presentations [cache]

• Internationalizing W3C's Speech Synthesis Markup Language: Workshop II. May 30-31, 2006. Heraklion, Crete.

  • Hosted by the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH). "Attendees will identify and prioritize extensions and additions to SSML to improve its use for rendering non-English languages."
  • Call for Participation. Position papers are due 14 April.
  • Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0
  • First W3C Workshop on Internationalizing W3C's Speech Synthesis Markup Language
  • W3C Workshops