The Workshop's anticipated outcome

The anticipated outcome of the workshop is to access the state of the art in the area and to go beyond the limited scope of the Semantic Web, as well as to discuss the approach and evaluate critically the next steps in pursuing this topic. It is also expected that the workshop will provide a valuable opportunity for cross-fertilization across different research communities.

Format

In 2008, we successfully worked with the following format which we would like to maintain for IR-KR 2009:

• a keynote talk that illustrates the importance of the topic
• very short presentations of the accepted papers, to give participants an overview of the research work of the main workshop contributors
• presentation of a detailed list of topics to discuss, by the workshop chair
• extensive, moderated plenary discussion
• collaborative write-up of conclusions and next steps
  

Demo and possibly poster presentations will be also invited in the workshop Call for Contributions.