The World Wide Web allows anyone on the network to access a much wider variety of content than any previous information distribution mechanism. There are so many Web sites about every subject imaginable, and about subjects that were entirely unknown or alien to readers before encountering them in the Web. The inclusive nature of the World Wide Web can complicate effective site navigation and bring users in contact with materials they find offensive or inappropriate. Content filtering is an information seeking process in which contents are selected to satisfy a relatively stable and specific information need. There are two dominant approaches to tackle the problem of content filtering: content-based filtering and social information filtering. Content based filtering has limitation and social information filtering is developed as a complementary technique to address the limitations. Social information filtering finds potentially interesting contents by taking account of other people with similar taste.
People can share their taste on the Semantic Web by using RSS, shared bookmark and so on. Although individual information about their taste in traditional social information system are closed and centralized, social information filtering on the Semantic Web is so open and widely distributed. Also existing techniques are suffering from low quality results with errors, lack of accountability of results, relatively low speed processing and tyranny of the majority, we believe to explore new technology to find out the contents we really want and need getting rid us of the contents we do not want to be bothered with. This new technique allows us to improve navigation, personalize search engine results and make Web spaces safer. In order to archive this, for example new reasoning or inference techniques and high performance distributed queries will be needed. Among the specific topic areas we intend to address are, but not limited to the following:
Papers should be submitted via email to the workshop chair at swcf2005@tom.sfc.keio.ac.jp. Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a peer review process overseen by the workshop co-chairs. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two program committee members. Accepted papers will appear in informal electronic and printed proceedings that will be made available after (or before) the workshop.
Papers should not exceed 5000 words (approximately 12 pages) in length and must be submitted in PDF. Short papers (up to 6 pages) describing early research results are also welcome.
Electronic submission due: March 18 , 2005
Author notification: April 1, 2005
Workshop: May 10, 2005
For more information, please send email to swcf2005@tom.sfc.keio.ac.jp.
Registration information will be supplied later. Please see the WWW2005 web site until then.