holger wache gxfcrecsvunl due many last minute requests deadline postponed august 4th 2006 call papers second international workshop scalable semantic web knowledge base systems ssws 2006 httpwwwcsvunlholgerssws2006 november 5 6 2006 5th international semantic web conference iswc 2006 workshop aims creating forum discussing critical issue semantic web scalability semantic web evolves scalability becomes increasingly important workshop focus addressing scalability issue respect development deployment knowledge base systems semantic web typically systems deal information described semantic web languages like owl rdfs provide services storing reasoning querying debugging two basic requirements systems first satisfy applicationús semantic requirements providing sufficient reasoning support second must scale well order practical use given sheer size distributed nature semantic web requirements impose additional challenges beyond addressed earlier knowledge base systems well recognized community expect issue going challenge semantic web long time period significant effort needed order tackle problem workshop seeks bring together researchers practitioners share recent ideas progresses towards building scalable knowledge base systems semantic web workshop centered discussion three major aspects foundations methods technologies pushing forward stateoftheart performance evaluation related principles methodologies tools identification important issues future research directions workshop followon event ssws2005 workshop workshop topics topics interests workshop include limited reasoning mechanisms techniques systems query evaluation optimization performance evaluation benchmarks large semantic web repositories distributed concurrent knowledge base systems p2p systems large scale knowledge base management semantic webbased information integration addition workshop include working session benchmarking order able evaluate scalability existence agreed benchmarking datasets crucial importance many related domains databases theorem proving standard benchmarks exist ready guide research optimization techniques semantic web area benchmarking shave started emerge commonly agreed benchmark dataset rdf owl reasoning querying workshop address issue special working session benchmarking session existing benchmarking initiatives presented discussed organizers participants workshop aim come set requirements list candidate datasets paper submissions invite papers report completed work progress relevant topic areas including usecases descriptions demonstrations papers peerreviewed members program committee contributions prepared pdf format according formatting guidelines springerverlag lncs submissions limited maximum 14 pages full papers submissions pdf form emailed veim05lfblfewvunl later august 4th 2006 important dates submissions due august 4 2006 notification acceptance august 25 2006 cameraready versions due september 15 2006 workshop november 5 6 2006 organizers holger wache vrije universiteit amsterdam netherlands heiner stuckenschmidt university mannheim germany bijan parsia university manchester uk yuanbo guo lehigh university usa tim finin university maryland usa dave beckett yahoo usa program committee karl aberer epfl switzerland grigoris antoniou university crete ics forth greece pierreantoine champin lyon 1 university france jeen broekstra aduna netherlands raul garcia castro universidad politecnica de madrid spain oscar corcho university manchester uk ying ding university innsbruck austria volker haarslev concordia university canada steve harris garlik uk andreas harth deri ireland jeff heflin lehigh university usa pascal hitzler university karlsruhe germany atanas kiryakov ontotext lab sirma group bulgaria boris motik university manchester uk paulo pinheiro da silva university texas el paso usa dennis quan ibm watson research center usa andy seaborne hp uk york sure university karlsruhe germany danille turi university manchester uk jan wielemaker university amsterdam netherlands takahira yamaguchi keio university japan thu 07 aug 2008 100205 0200 uai cfp deadline extension scalable semantic web knowledge base systems ssws 2006