The Industrial Track within ASWC 2008 is making a Call for Software Solutions, where inventors and authors have the opportunity to present an early positioning on the market of their solution.

BEST SOLUTIONS TO GET CASH PRIZES !!!

Semantic Web and Semantic Web technologies have entered the maturity phase where stable software prototypes can be put forward as possible solutions for various business applications. The Industrial Track within ASWC 2008 is making a Call for Software Solutions, where inventors and authors have the opportunity to present an early positioning on the market of their solution, being comprised of a business value proposition for their offering and high-level technical description of the proposed solution. The goals of the track are threefold:

• first to give the opportunity for inventors/authors to expose their solution proposition to an audience made of business/industry and academia - a very first business pitch,
• second to allow business, academia and inventors to attend thematic  round-tables where to debate/exchange business and research issues,
• third, to allow all participants at ASWC2008 to attend a business networking event, where the attendees have a chance to interact in an informal manner.

For more information see: http://aswc2008.ait.ac.th/solutions.html

CASH PRIZES

Prizes are going to be offered for the BEST SOLUTIONS as follows:

• Best Solution: 3,000 Euro;
• 2nd best Solution: 1,300 Euro;
• 3rd solution: 700 euro.

For more information see:

http://aswc2008.ait.ac.th/bsa.html

AREAS:

The proposed solutions have to be designated as belonging to one of the following areas:

• Area A - Innovative solutions: Here new ideas and/or patents already filed as well as open-source solution that start to gather critical mass are strongly encouraged to be presented.
• Area B - Commercialization phase: Solutions describing a novel application of a new capability in an industrial setting. Innovation projects can be reported here prior to full deployment (e.g., as pilots or proofs of concept).
• Area C - Deployed applications: Papers must describe a deployed usage of semantic technologies to a real-world problem, including a description of the application and scope of the user base. A performance / qualitative comparison of the employed semantic solution to competing conventional technologies solutions is desired. This will be considered as a plus factor in selecting the best solutions.

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

ASWC08 online submission system:

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ASWC2008/Default.aspx