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| A conference on the topic of Pike and the Semantic Web will
be held at Linköping University, Sweden, on August 22-24 2002
(Thursday to Saturday). The programme will consists of roughly
equal parts of presentations, panels and workshops.
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| The Pike focus of the conferences centres around language
development, application development, and the open software and
standards approach.
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| The `Semantic Web' focus of the conference includes areas
such as metadata handling, information structuring, and E-learning.
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| Call for contributions |
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| The conference will accept submission of papers, presentations
and workshop topics until the 31st of July. Papers should be about
4-8 pages when printed, but submissions should preferably be made
in the form of plain text, simple HTML, PDF or PostScript files. (PDF and
PS files should be formatted for an A4 page, have 3-4 cm margins,
have no headers or footers, and use a font such as Times Roman
or Computer Modern for the main text.)
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| For presentations and workshops, send an abstract of the topic.
See the contact information section below for the
submission address. You may also read the full
conference announcement that we posted to some
newsgroups on July 11, 2002.
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| Preliminary programme |
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| The preliminary plan for the conference is to start after lunch
(1 pm) on Thursday, August 22, and that the afternoon will be devoted
mainly to presentations of and discussions about Pike-related projects.
The Friday will focus on the Semantic Web, integrated software
environments, and related matters. The Saturday will mainly consist
of workshops, and include a workshop on the future development of
Pike.
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| More details about the programme are available at http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2002/program.
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| Location |
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| The conference will be held at Linköping University, building B,
with the lecture hall "Visionen" as the primary location. Go to
entrance 27 of building B and proceed to an open cafeteria area,
where one of the entrances to Visionen can be found. (It is also
possible to enter through entrance 27 of building E, which is at
the other end of the same corridor as entrace 27 of building B.)
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| From the train station, take bus 202 towards the university
area (watch for "Universitetet-Lambohov" at the front of the bus,
or you'll risk a one-hour detour while the bus goes to the opposite
terminus before heading towards the university). There are three
bus stops in the university area, and the middle one--"Vallfarten"--
is the closest one to building B.
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| Taxis, of course, can take you directly to the University.
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| Registering |
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conference will charge a small fee (20 Euro). Payment can be made in cash
on arrival if no other means of payment turns out to be practical.
Registration can be submitted by email (see Contact information
below).
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| Meals |
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| The conference will probably not be arranging for meals, but lunch
is available at the university cafeterias for about 5-6 Euro on
Thursday and Friday, and from various local restaurants at prices
ranging from 5-10 Euro for simple meals.
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| Lodgings |
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| The conference committee will be happy to help you find suitable
lodgings in Linköping, but you will have to make the actual reservations
yourself. There is a hotel, Scandic Linköping Väst, within walking
distance of Linköping University. Various other lodgings, ranging
from plain bed-and-breakfast inns to full-service hotels, are available in
central Linköping, at a distance of a 10-minute bus ride or a 30-minute
walk.
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| Please note that it can be difficult to find hotel rooms on short
notice.
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| Scandic Linköping Väst hotel, which is the one closest to where the
conference will be held, as the following contact information: phone:
+46 13 495 50 00, fax: +46 495 50 11, email: linkoping@scandic-hotels.com.
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| Travel arrangements |
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| Much as with lodgings, the conference committee can help you find
suitable ways of getting to and from Linköping, but you may have to
make the actual reservations yourself. Most ways of getting to
Linköping by means of public transportations will bring you to the
combined train/bus station near central Linköping, from which buses
can take you to the university in some 15 minutes.
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| The nearest airports are Linköping airport, Norrköping airport
(30-40 minutes from Linköping), Nyköping/Skavsta airport (also known
as Stockholm South, some 90 minutes from Linköping), and Stockholm/Arlanda
airport (2.5 hours from Linköping). The airports at Linköping and
Norrköping are small airports with only a few international flights
each day.
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| (People travelling from the UK or Ireland may note that Ryanair offers
fairly frequent and wallet-friendly flights to Nyköping/Skavsta.)
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| About Linköping |
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| Linköping is a town in central Sweden, with a population of about
130 000 people. Linköping University has about 20 000 students
and some 3 000 employees (including graduate students).
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| Popular tourist sights in Linköping include a 15th-century cathedral
and an airforce museum.
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| Contact information |
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| Questions, comments, contributions, and preliminary registration can be
mailed to
stensson@pike.ida.liu.se.
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| For paper submissions, please include a plain-text abstract in the
email if the paper itself is not a plain-text document.
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