Call For Papers: First International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Social Networks (SPSN 2011)Call For Papers: First International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Social Networks (SPSN 2011)

Posted on July 4, 2011 by admin

SPSN 2011: First Int. Workshop on Security and Privacy in Social Networks 2011

Link: http://spsn11.media.mit.edu/

In conjunction with IEEE Conference on Social Computing 9\10 October 2011, Boston, Massachusetts

Overview

As the area of online social networking develops and many online services add social features to their offerings, the definition of online social networking services broadens. Online social networking services range from social-interaction centered sites such as Facebook or MySpace, to information-dissemination-centric services such as Twitter or Google Buzz, to social interaction features added to existing sites and services such as Flickr or Amazon. Each of these services has different characteristics of social interaction, and different vulnerabilities susceptible to attack.

The value of online social networking sites stems from people spending a great deal of their time on these networks. Updating their personal profiles, browsing for social or professional interactions or taking part in social oriented online applications and events, people nowadays become immersed in their preferred online social environments, creating an exciting entanglement between their real and virtual identities. However, this immersion holds also great perils for the users, their friends, their employers, and may even endanger national security.

There is a great deal of information in the patterns of communication exercised by the user with his peers. These patterns are affected by many factors of relationship and context, and could be used in reverse – to infer the relationship and context. Later on, these relationships can be further used in order to deduce additional private information that was intended to remain disclosed. A recent study carried out at MIT had said to reveal the sexual orientation of Internet users based on social network contacts. In this example, the users whose privacy was compromised did not even place this information online, but rather – notify their social interaction to users, who apparently did disclose this information.

Yet, in other cases, this problem can become even worse, due to the (false) assumption of users that information that is marked as “private” will remain private and will not be disclosed by the network. Indeed, although the operators of social networks rarely betray the confidence of their users, no security mechanism is perfect. As these networks often utilize standard (and not necessarily updated) security methods, a determined attacker can sometimes gain access to such unauthorized information. The combination of sensitive private information, managed by users who are not security aware, in an environment that is not hermetically sealed is a sure cause for frequent leaks of private information and identity thefts.

This problem becomes even more threatening when viewed from the corporate (or even national) perspective. Users that possess sensitive commercial or security-related information are expected to be under severe control in their workplaces. However, while interacting virtually in social networks, the same people tend to often shed their precautions, supported by a false sense of intimacy and privacy, while being unaware of the damage their naive behavior may cause. As it is hard (and sometimes illegal) to monitor the behavior of online social networks users, these platforms possess a significant threat for the safety and privacy of sensitive information. Hard to detect and almost impossible to prevent – leaks of business, military or governmental data through social networks could become the security epidemic of the 21st century.

The workshop aims to bring to the forefront innovative approaches for analyzing and enhancing the security and privacy dimensions in online social networks. In order to facilitate the transition of such methods from theory to mechanisms designed and deployed in existing online social networking services, we need to create a common language between the researchers and practitioners of this new area — spanning from the theory of computational social sciences to conventional security and network engineering.

Objectives

The guiding goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who deal with the design and analysis of online social networking side by side with those who design security and privacy protocols, in order to:

1. Survey and discuss the current state of research that deals with security and privacy in social networks.
2. Create a community of researchers and practitioners who are interested in enabling current social networks to incorporate dedicated security methods.
3. Create new opportunities and set the ground for future collaboration between participants, generating insights that can be carried forward into future work.
4. Foster creativity and imagine the underlying technological changes in the way we network and communicate that will take place over the next 5-10 years.

Submission

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. We welcome work in progress in addition to more mature work. Submission could be made in the form of either
• A short position paper of up to 4 proceedings pages in length.
• A full-length technical paper of up to 8 proceedings pages in length.

Submission must be in PDF format, in accordance with the IEEE conference paper style.

Submissions should be done via the submissions website at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spsn2011.

All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation by the Technical Program Committee.

Should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work in order for the paper to be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE Digital Library.

Accepted papers will be included in the workshop’s proceedings. The organizers intend to publish extended versions of selected papers as a handbook on the topic of security and privacy in social networks.

Topics

The proposed topics for the workshop include but are not limited to the following:

• Malware propagation in social networks
• Information leakage via social networks
• Social currency mechanisms – potential and risks
• Privacy management in social networks – access controls, permissions
• Identity theft in social networks
• Collaborative detection of distributed network attacks
• Peer-to-peer based security mechanisms
• Trust and reputation in social networks
• Socially inspired network security architectures
• Socially aware network security protocols
• Security configuration based on social contexts groups (social-firewall, authentication protocols, etc.)
• Configuring security protocol parameters based on social information
• Privacy-preserving methods for data access and data mining.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: 22 July 2011
• Author Notification: 20 August 2011
• Final Manuscript: 27 August 2011
• Workshop Date: 9-11 October 2011

Organizing Committee

• Yaniv Altshuler, Human Dynamics Group, MIT Media Laboratory
• Yuval Elovici, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Armin Cremers, University of Bonn
• Nadav Aharony, Human Dynamics Group, MIT Media Laboratory
• Yehudith Naftalovich (administrative assistant)

Technical Program Committee

• Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT
• Alfred Bruckstein, Technion
• Bruno Lepri, MIT / FBK, Trento, Italy
• Christian Thurau, Fraunhofer Institute
• V.S Subrahmanian, University of Maryland
• Rami Puzis, Ben Gurion University
• Max Little, MIT / Oxford University
• Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT
• Sagi Ben Moshe, Technion
• Ronen Vaisenberg, University of California, Irvine
• Arie Matsliah, IBM Research
• Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Technion
• Manuel Cebrian, UCSD
• Wei Pan, MIT
• Muli Ben-Yehuda, Technion and IBM Research
• Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University
• Santi Phithakkitnukoon, MITSPSN 2011: First Int. Workshop on Security and Privacy in Social Networks 2011

Link: http://spsn11.media.mit.edu/

In conjunction with IEEE Conference on Social Computing 9\10 October 2011, Boston, Massachusetts

Overview

As the area of online social networking develops and many online services add social features to their offerings, the definition of online social networking services broadens. Online social networking services range from social-interaction centered sites such as Facebook or MySpace, to information-dissemination-centric services such as Twitter or Google Buzz, to social interaction features added to existing sites and services such as Flickr or Amazon. Each of these services has different characteristics of social interaction, and different vulnerabilities susceptible to attack.

The value of online social networking sites stems from people spending a great deal of their time on these networks. Updating their personal profiles, browsing for social or professional interactions or taking part in social oriented online applications and events, people nowadays become immersed in their preferred online social environments, creating an exciting entanglement between their real and virtual identities. However, this immersion holds also great perils for the users, their friends, their employers, and may even endanger national security.

There is a great deal of information in the patterns of communication exercised by the user with his peers. These patterns are affected by many factors of relationship and context, and could be used in reverse – to infer the relationship and context. Later on, these relationships can be further used in order to deduce additional private information that was intended to remain disclosed. A recent study carried out at MIT had said to reveal the sexual orientation of Internet users based on social network contacts. In this example, the users whose privacy was compromised did not even place this information online, but rather – notify their social interaction to users, who apparently did disclose this information.

Yet, in other cases, this problem can become even worse, due to the (false) assumption of users that information that is marked as “private” will remain private and will not be disclosed by the network. Indeed, although the operators of social networks rarely betray the confidence of their users, no security mechanism is perfect. As these networks often utilize standard (and not necessarily updated) security methods, a determined attacker can sometimes gain access to such unauthorized information. The combination of sensitive private information, managed by users who are not security aware, in an environment that is not hermetically sealed is a sure cause for frequent leaks of private information and identity thefts.

This problem becomes even more threatening when viewed from the corporate (or even national) perspective. Users that possess sensitive commercial or security-related information are expected to be under severe control in their workplaces. However, while interacting virtually in social networks, the same people tend to often shed their precautions, supported by a false sense of intimacy and privacy, while being unaware of the damage their naive behavior may cause. As it is hard (and sometimes illegal) to monitor the behavior of online social networks users, these platforms possess a significant threat for the safety and privacy of sensitive information. Hard to detect and almost impossible to prevent – leaks of business, military or governmental data through social networks could become the security epidemic of the 21st century.

The workshop aims to bring to the forefront innovative approaches for analyzing and enhancing the security and privacy dimensions in online social networks. In order to facilitate the transition of such methods from theory to mechanisms designed and deployed in existing online social networking services, we need to create a common language between the researchers and practitioners of this new area — spanning from the theory of computational social sciences to conventional security and network engineering.

Objectives

The guiding goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who deal with the design and analysis of online social networking side by side with those who design security and privacy protocols, in order to:

1. Survey and discuss the current state of research that deals with security and privacy in social networks.
2. Create a community of researchers and practitioners who are interested in enabling current social networks to incorporate dedicated security methods.
3. Create new opportunities and set the ground for future collaboration between participants, generating insights that can be carried forward into future work.
4. Foster creativity and imagine the underlying technological changes in the way we network and communicate that will take place over the next 5-10 years.

Submission

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. We welcome work in progress in addition to more mature work. Submission could be made in the form of either
• A short position paper of up to 4 proceedings pages in length.
• A full-length technical paper of up to 8 proceedings pages in length.

Submission must be in PDF format, in accordance with the IEEE conference paper style.

Submissions should be done via the submissions website at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spsn2011.

All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation by the Technical Program Committee.

Should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work in order for the paper to be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE Digital Library.

Accepted papers will be included in the workshop’s proceedings. The organizers intend to publish extended versions of selected papers as a handbook on the topic of security and privacy in social networks.

Topics

The proposed topics for the workshop include but are not limited to the following:

• Malware propagation in social networks
• Information leakage via social networks
• Social currency mechanisms – potential and risks
• Privacy management in social networks – access controls, permissions
• Identity theft in social networks
• Collaborative detection of distributed network attacks
• Peer-to-peer based security mechanisms
• Trust and reputation in social networks
• Socially inspired network security architectures
• Socially aware network security protocols
• Security configuration based on social contexts groups (social-firewall, authentication protocols, etc.)
• Configuring security protocol parameters based on social information
• Privacy-preserving methods for data access and data mining.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: 22 July 2011
• Author Notification: 20 August 2011
• Final Manuscript: 27 August 2011
• Workshop Date: 9-11 October 2011

Organizing Committee

• Yaniv Altshuler, Human Dynamics Group, MIT Media Laboratory
• Yuval Elovici, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Armin Cremers, University of Bonn
• Nadav Aharony, Human Dynamics Group, MIT Media Laboratory
• Yehudith Naftalovich (administrative assistant)

Technical Program Committee

• Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT
• Alfred Bruckstein, Technion
• Bruno Lepri, MIT / FBK, Trento, Italy
• Christian Thurau, Fraunhofer Institute
• V.S Subrahmanian, University of Maryland
• Rami Puzis, Ben Gurion University
• Max Little, MIT / Oxford University
• Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT
• Sagi Ben Moshe, Technion
• Ronen Vaisenberg, University of California, Irvine
• Arie Matsliah, IBM Research
• Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Technion
• Manuel Cebrian, UCSD
• Wei Pan, MIT
• Muli Ben-Yehuda, Technion and IBM Research
• Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University
• Santi Phithakkitnukoon, MIT

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Call For Participation: CANOE Summer School 2011 – International Summer School on Technologies for Realizing Social Networks and Applications (CSS 2011)Call For Participation: CANOE Summer School 2011 – International Summer School on Technologies for Realizing Social Networks and Applications (CSS 2011)

Posted on July 3, 2011 by admin

International Summer School on
Technologies for Realizing Social Networks and Applications
August 22nd-26th, 2011, Sundvolden (near Oslo, Norway)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

***Registration Deadline is July 15th, 2011***

Organized and sponsored by the
Canada-Norway Partnership in Higher Education (CANOE)

Link: http://canoe.ifi.uio.no/index.php/about-summer-school-2011

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OVERVIEW AND TOPICS

Lectures are given by renowned researchers and industry practitioners
from major providers of social networks and online services worldwide.
Lectures combine theory and foundations, concepts and algorithms, as
well as applications and case studies. Lectures also feature advanced
topics, research questions, and group discussions. Particular emphasis
is put on encouraging participants to actively participate in
discussions, brainstorming, and break-out sessions. Participants will
have the opportunity to demonstrate their research in poster
presentations.

The Summer School aims at bringing together graduate students,
researchers, and practitioners interested in the following topics:

* Design of Popular Online Social Networks
* Mobile Social Networks
* Lessons Learned from Architecting Large-scale Decentralized Social
Applications

The Summer School will be held at the Sundvolden Hotel, one of the
oldest Norwegian hotels. The area’s picturesque landscape is enclosed
by a number of fjords and lies at the foot of the Krokskogen mountain.
At the same time, it is conveniently accessible by bus from both Oslo
and the Gardermoen airport (Oslo airport).

The Summer School is hosted by the Networks and Distributed Systems
Group at the University of Oslo and co-organized by the Middleware
Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto.

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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Saikat Guha, Microsoft Research, India.
Privad: Practical Privacy in Online Advertising

Gunnar Kreitz, Spotify
Spotify: A Peer-assisted Music-on-Demand Streaming System

Chaitanya Mishra, Facebook
Searching Social Networks at Scale

Daniel Myers, Google
Reliable, Fast Notifications for Internet-scale Social Applications

Jayme Rotsaert, Netlog
Distributed Social Data

Daniele Quercia, University of Cambridge, UK
1-Mobile Social-networking Recommender Systems
2-The Relationship Between Personality & Use of Social-networking
Sites

Maarten van Steen, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Decentralizing Wikipedia: A Scientific Experiment in Engineering
Middleware Solutions

Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece
From Social Networking to Anthropocentric Systems

Other speakers to be determined

————————————————————————–

REGISTRATION

Registration site is open! Registration deadline is July 15.

The registration fee is 5950 NOK (about 758 Euro / $US 1066) for
shared accommodations (one person in a double room) or 6950 NOK (about
885 Euro / $US 1245) for one person in a single room.

Registration includes access to the school, accommodations (5 nights),
and all meals (including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and breaks).

Please note, the summer school operates on a non-for-profit basis.
The fees are exclusively for board and lodging at the hotel.

————————————————————————–

MORE INFORMATION

The summer school is organized and sponsored by Canada-Norway Partnership
in Higher Education (CANOE), hosted by the Networks and Distributed
Systems
Group at the University of Oslo, and co-organized by the Middleware
Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto.International Summer School on
Technologies for Realizing Social Networks and Applications
August 22nd-26th, 2011, Sundvolden (near Oslo, Norway)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

***Registration Deadline is July 15th, 2011***

Organized and sponsored by the
Canada-Norway Partnership in Higher Education (CANOE)

Link: http://canoe.ifi.uio.no/index.php/about-summer-school-2011

————————————————————————–

OVERVIEW AND TOPICS

Lectures are given by renowned researchers and industry practitioners
from major providers of social networks and online services worldwide.
Lectures combine theory and foundations, concepts and algorithms, as
well as applications and case studies. Lectures also feature advanced
topics, research questions, and group discussions. Particular emphasis
is put on encouraging participants to actively participate in
discussions, brainstorming, and break-out sessions. Participants will
have the opportunity to demonstrate their research in poster
presentations.

The Summer School aims at bringing together graduate students,
researchers, and practitioners interested in the following topics:

* Design of Popular Online Social Networks
* Mobile Social Networks
* Lessons Learned from Architecting Large-scale Decentralized Social
Applications

The Summer School will be held at the Sundvolden Hotel, one of the
oldest Norwegian hotels. The area’s picturesque landscape is enclosed
by a number of fjords and lies at the foot of the Krokskogen mountain.
At the same time, it is conveniently accessible by bus from both Oslo
and the Gardermoen airport (Oslo airport).

The Summer School is hosted by the Networks and Distributed Systems
Group at the University of Oslo and co-organized by the Middleware
Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto.

————————————————————————–

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Saikat Guha, Microsoft Research, India.
Privad: Practical Privacy in Online Advertising

Gunnar Kreitz, Spotify
Spotify: A Peer-assisted Music-on-Demand Streaming System

Chaitanya Mishra, Facebook
Searching Social Networks at Scale

Daniel Myers, Google
Reliable, Fast Notifications for Internet-scale Social Applications

Jayme Rotsaert, Netlog
Distributed Social Data

Daniele Quercia, University of Cambridge, UK
1-Mobile Social-networking Recommender Systems
2-The Relationship Between Personality & Use of Social-networking
Sites

Maarten van Steen, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Decentralizing Wikipedia: A Scientific Experiment in Engineering
Middleware Solutions

Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece
From Social Networking to Anthropocentric Systems

Other speakers to be determined

————————————————————————–

REGISTRATION

Registration site is open! Registration deadline is July 15.

The registration fee is 5950 NOK (about 758 Euro / $US 1066) for
shared accommodations (one person in a double room) or 6950 NOK (about
885 Euro / $US 1245) for one person in a single room.

Registration includes access to the school, accommodations (5 nights),
and all meals (including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and breaks).

Please note, the summer school operates on a non-for-profit basis.
The fees are exclusively for board and lodging at the hotel.

————————————————————————–

MORE INFORMATION

The summer school is organized and sponsored by Canada-Norway Partnership
in Higher Education (CANOE), hosted by the Networks and Distributed
Systems
Group at the University of Oslo, and co-organized by the Middleware
Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto.

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Call For Papers: 1st International Workshop on Linked Science 2011 (LISC2011)Call For Papers: 1st International Workshop on Linked Science 2011 (LISC2011)

Posted on July 2, 2011 by admin

Collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011)
October 23rd or 24th, 2011
Bonn, Germany
OBJECTIVES

Scientific efforts are traditionally published only as articles, with an estimate of millions of publications worldwide per year; the growth rate of PubMed alone is now 1 paper per minute. The validation of scientific results requires reproducible methods, which can only be achieved if the same data, processes, and algorithms as those used in the original experiments were available. However, the problem is that although publications, methods and datasets are very related, they are not always openly accessible and interlinked. Even where data is discoverable, accessible and assessable, significant challenges remain in the reuse of the data, in particular facilitating the necessary correlation, integration and synthesis of data across levels of theory, techniques and disciplines. In the LISC 2011 (1st International Workshop on Linked Science) we will discuss and present results of new ways of publishing, sharing, linking, and analyzing such scientific resources motivated by driving scientific requirements, as well as reasoning over the data to discover interesting new links and scientific insights.

Making entities identifiable and referenceable using URIs augmented by semantic, scientifically relevant annotations greatly facilitates access and retrieval for data which used to be hardly accessible. This Linked Science approach, i.e., publishing, sharing and interlinking scientific resources and data, is of particular importance for scientific research, where sharing is crucial for facilitating reproducibility and collaboration within and across disciplines. This integrated process, however, has not been established yet. Bibliographic contents are still regarded as the main scientific product, and associated data, models and software are either not published at all, or published in separate places, often with no reference to the respective paper.

In the workshop we will discuss whether and how new emerging technologies (Linked Data, and semantic technologies more generally) can realize the vision of Linked Science. We see that this depends on their enabling capability throughout the research process, leading up to extended publications and data sharing environments. Our workshop aims to address challenges related to enabling the easy creation of data bundles—data, processes, tools, provenance and annotation—supporting both publication and reuse of the data. Secondly, we look for tools and methods for the easy correlation, integration and synthesis of shared data. This problem is often found in many disciplines (including astronomy, biology, climate change research, geosciences, cultural heritage, etc.), as they need to span techniques, levels of theory, scales, and disciplines. With the advent of Linked Science, it is timely and crucial to address these identified research challenges through both practical and formal approaches.

SUBMISSIONS

We invite two kinds of submissions:
– Research papers. These should not exceed 12 pages in length.
– Position papers. Novel ideas, experiments, and application visions from multiple disciplines and viewpoints are a key ingredient of the workshop. We therefore strongly encourage the submission of position papers. Position papers should not exceed 5 pages in length.

Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science guidelines for proceedings. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. All submissions will be done electronically via the LISC2011 web submission system.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop.
Information about registration will appear soon on the ISCW2011 Web pages.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

In both categories, papers are expected in (but not restricted to) the following topics:

– Key research life cycle challenges in enabling linked science and proposed solution strategies
– Interrelationship of existing traditional solutions and new linked science solutions
– Formal representations of scientific data
– Ontologies for scientific information
– Reasoning mechanisms for linking scientific datasets
– Integration of quantitative and qualitative scientific information
– Ontology-based visualization of scientific data
– Semantic similarity in science applications
– Semantic integration of crowd sourced scientific data
– Connecting scientific publications with underlying research datasets
– Provenance, quality, privacy and trust of scientific information
– Enrichment of scientific data through linking and data integration
– Semantic driven data integration
– Support for data publishing for sharing and reuse
– Case studies on linked science, i.e., astronomy, biology, environmental and socio-economic impacts of global warming, statistics, environmental monitoring, cultural heritage, etc.
– Barriers to the acceptance of linked science solutions and strategies to address these
– Linked Data for
– dissemination and archiving of research results
– collaboration and research networks
– research assessment
– Applications for research that build on top of Linked Data
– Legal, ethical and economic aspects of Linked Data in science

PROCEEDINGS

We expect the workshop proceedings to be published as CEUR Workshop
Proceedings (see http://ceur-ws.org).

IMPORTANT DATES

– Paper submission deadline: August 15
– Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 5
– Camera ready version due: September 16

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

– Tomi Kauppinen, University of Muenster, Germany
– Line C. Pouchard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

– Mathieu d’Aquin, Open University, UK
– Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
– Carsten Keßler, University of Muenster, Germany
– Kerstin Kleese-Van Dam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
– Eric G. Stephan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
– Jun Zhao, University of Oxford, UK

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

– Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
– V. Balaji, Princeton University and NOAA/GFDL, USA
– Luis Bermudez, Open Geospatial Consortium, USA
– Benno Blumenthal, Columbia University, USA
– Chris Bizer, Free University of Berlin, Germany
– Tim Clark, Harvard University, USA
– Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
– Anusuriya Devaraju, University of Münster, Germany
– Stefan Dietze, The Open University, UK
– Kai Eckert, Mannheim University Library, Germany
– Peter Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
– Auroop Ganguly, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
– Damian Gessler, U. of Arizona, USA
– Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
– John Harney, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
– Laura Hollink, TU Delft, The Netherlands
– Maria Indrawan, Monash University, Australia
– Antoine Isaac, Europeana, The Netherlands
– Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA
– Matt Jones, UC Santa-Barbara, USA
– Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany
– Chris Lynnes, NASA, USA
– Deborah L. McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
– Jim Myers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
– Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, University of Texas El Paso, USA
– Martin Raubal, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
– Mark Schildhauer, UC Santa-Barbara, USA
– Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs

Link: http://linkedscience.org/events/lisc2011

When Oct 23, 2011 – Oct 24, 2011
Where Bonn, Germany
Submission Deadline Aug 15, 2011
Notification Due Sep 5, 2011
Final Version Due Sep 16, 2011

Collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011)
October 23rd or 24th, 2011
Bonn, Germany
OBJECTIVES

Scientific efforts are traditionally published only as articles, with an estimate of millions of publications worldwide per year; the growth rate of PubMed alone is now 1 paper per minute. The validation of scientific results requires reproducible methods, which can only be achieved if the same data, processes, and algorithms as those used in the original experiments were available. However, the problem is that although publications, methods and datasets are very related, they are not always openly accessible and interlinked. Even where data is discoverable, accessible and assessable, significant challenges remain in the reuse of the data, in particular facilitating the necessary correlation, integration and synthesis of data across levels of theory, techniques and disciplines. In the LISC 2011 (1st International Workshop on Linked Science) we will discuss and present results of new ways of publishing, sharing, linking, and analyzing such scientific resources motivated by driving scientific requirements, as well as reasoning over the data to discover interesting new links and scientific insights.

Making entities identifiable and referenceable using URIs augmented by semantic, scientifically relevant annotations greatly facilitates access and retrieval for data which used to be hardly accessible. This Linked Science approach, i.e., publishing, sharing and interlinking scientific resources and data, is of particular importance for scientific research, where sharing is crucial for facilitating reproducibility and collaboration within and across disciplines. This integrated process, however, has not been established yet. Bibliographic contents are still regarded as the main scientific product, and associated data, models and software are either not published at all, or published in separate places, often with no reference to the respective paper.

In the workshop we will discuss whether and how new emerging technologies (Linked Data, and semantic technologies more generally) can realize the vision of Linked Science. We see that this depends on their enabling capability throughout the research process, leading up to extended publications and data sharing environments. Our workshop aims to address challenges related to enabling the easy creation of data bundles—data, processes, tools, provenance and annotation—supporting both publication and reuse of the data. Secondly, we look for tools and methods for the easy correlation, integration and synthesis of shared data. This problem is often found in many disciplines (including astronomy, biology, climate change research, geosciences, cultural heritage, etc.), as they need to span techniques, levels of theory, scales, and disciplines. With the advent of Linked Science, it is timely and crucial to address these identified research challenges through both practical and formal approaches.

SUBMISSIONS

We invite two kinds of submissions:
– Research papers. These should not exceed 12 pages in length.
– Position papers. Novel ideas, experiments, and application visions from multiple disciplines and viewpoints are a key ingredient of the workshop. We therefore strongly encourage the submission of position papers. Position papers should not exceed 5 pages in length.

Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science guidelines for proceedings. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. All submissions will be done electronically via the LISC2011 web submission system.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop.
Information about registration will appear soon on the ISCW2011 Web pages.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

In both categories, papers are expected in (but not restricted to) the following topics:

– Key research life cycle challenges in enabling linked science and proposed solution strategies
– Interrelationship of existing traditional solutions and new linked science solutions
– Formal representations of scientific data
– Ontologies for scientific information
– Reasoning mechanisms for linking scientific datasets
– Integration of quantitative and qualitative scientific information
– Ontology-based visualization of scientific data
– Semantic similarity in science applications
– Semantic integration of crowd sourced scientific data
– Connecting scientific publications with underlying research datasets
– Provenance, quality, privacy and trust of scientific information
– Enrichment of scientific data through linking and data integration
– Semantic driven data integration
– Support for data publishing for sharing and reuse
– Case studies on linked science, i.e., astronomy, biology, environmental and socio-economic impacts of global warming, statistics, environmental monitoring, cultural heritage, etc.
– Barriers to the acceptance of linked science solutions and strategies to address these
– Linked Data for
– dissemination and archiving of research results
– collaboration and research networks
– research assessment
– Applications for research that build on top of Linked Data
– Legal, ethical and economic aspects of Linked Data in science

PROCEEDINGS

We expect the workshop proceedings to be published as CEUR Workshop
Proceedings (see http://ceur-ws.org).

IMPORTANT DATES

– Paper submission deadline: August 15
– Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 5
– Camera ready version due: September 16

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

– Tomi Kauppinen, University of Muenster, Germany
– Line C. Pouchard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

– Mathieu d’Aquin, Open University, UK
– Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
– Carsten Keßler, University of Muenster, Germany
– Kerstin Kleese-Van Dam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
– Eric G. Stephan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
– Jun Zhao, University of Oxford, UK

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

– Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
– V. Balaji, Princeton University and NOAA/GFDL, USA
– Luis Bermudez, Open Geospatial Consortium, USA
– Benno Blumenthal, Columbia University, USA
– Chris Bizer, Free University of Berlin, Germany
– Tim Clark, Harvard University, USA
– Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
– Anusuriya Devaraju, University of Münster, Germany
– Stefan Dietze, The Open University, UK
– Kai Eckert, Mannheim University Library, Germany
– Peter Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
– Auroop Ganguly, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
– Damian Gessler, U. of Arizona, USA
– Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
– John Harney, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
– Laura Hollink, TU Delft, The Netherlands
– Maria Indrawan, Monash University, Australia
– Antoine Isaac, Europeana, The Netherlands
– Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA
– Matt Jones, UC Santa-Barbara, USA
– Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany
– Chris Lynnes, NASA, USA
– Deborah L. McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
– Jim Myers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
– Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, University of Texas El Paso, USA
– Martin Raubal, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
– Mark Schildhauer, UC Santa-Barbara, USA
– Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs

Link: http://linkedscience.org/events/lisc2011

When Oct 23, 2011 – Oct 24, 2011
Where Bonn, Germany
Submission Deadline Aug 15, 2011
Notification Due Sep 5, 2011
Final Version Due Sep 16, 2011
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Call For Papers: 1st International Workshop on Ontologies come of Age in the Semantic Web (OCAS 2011)Call For Papers: 1st International Workshop on Ontologies come of Age in the Semantic Web (OCAS 2011)

Posted on June 29, 2011 by admin
When Oct 23, 2011 – Oct 24, 2011
Where Bonn, Germany
Submission Deadline Aug 15, 2011
Notification Due Sep 5, 2011
Final Version Due Sep 16, 2011

Link: http://ocas.mywikipaper.org

First International Workshop on Ontologies come of Age in the Semantic Web, OCAS2011
Collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011)
October 23rd or 24th, 2011
Bonn, Germany

Also, OCAS Challenge:
Prizes
First place: US$ 2000
Second place: US$ 1000
Three third prizes of $500 each

For the Challenge, specifically for the Challenge, check http://ocas.mywikipaper.org/?q=node/8

The OCAS Workshop

The real challenge for Semantic Web technologies and ontologies lays in the adoption; although the need for this disruptive technology is clear, it has not yet been fully adopted by the mainstream. Ontologies: where, what for, how, when and why? Ontologies are being used in several applications, but is ontology engineering a mature discipline? Not only are we interested in practical realizations of the Semantic Web, but also in visions of technology that illustrate how SW technology and ontologies could change our experience of the Web.

Questions addressed by OCAS2011:

• How are SW technologies and ontologies being adopted by mainstream?
• Experience reports of the introduction of SW technologies and ontologies in corporate and government environments
• Once introduced in an environment, how do SW and ontology-based applications evolve?
• Ontologies in manufacturing and production chains
• Ontologies supporting CAD interoperability and feature extraction; towards smart CAD environments
• How could RDF(a) and ontologies be used to represent the knowledge encoded in scientific documents and in general-interest media publications?
• What ontologies do we need for representing structural elements in a document?
• How can we capture the semantics of rhetorical structures in scholarly communication, and of hypotheses and scientific evidence?
• What does a network of truly interconnected documents look like? How could interoperability across documents
be enabled?
• Are decision support systems in the biomedical domain using ontologies? How?
• How are biomedical ontologies logically formalizing the rich set of lexical definitions gathered? How are these
ontologies going beyond controlled vocabularies?
• Practical cases of successful and unsuccessful application of ontologies and SW technologies in application domains such as: financial, biomedical, e-business, engineering, law enforcement, document management, egovernment, legislative systems.

Organizing Committee

Alexander García Castro (http://www.alexandergarcia.name/) is an instructor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He is currently working on the application and development of SW technologies and ontologies in translational research. He is particularly interested in Knowledge Management, Ontology engineering and Semantic Web Technologies in the biomedical domain. Alexander has been leading the development of the ORATEOntology repository, focusing on manual and automatic mapping facilities. He has also led the development of a number of Protégé plug-ins. In addition Alexander has successfully participated in a number of Semantic Web related projects, some of them have been awarded at in international contests such as the 2009 Elsevier Grand Challenge. In addition Alexander has successfully organized workshops such as ORES (at ESWC2010), SERES (at ISWC2010), SePublica (http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/) (at ESWC2011) and OSEMA (at ESWC2011). email

Ken Baclawski is an Associate Professor of the College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University. His primary research area is ontology based computing. This includes research in the Semantic Web, formal ontology-based methods for software engineering and software modeling, and ontology-based methods in biology and medicine. He was one of the founders of the OOR initiative. He and his students have been active developers of the OOR. Professor Baclawski holds 10 US and UK patents. He has authored articles in such journals and conferences as the US National Academy of Science, Information Systems, the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, and the International Semantic Web Conference. He has served on numerous peer review panels for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Association for Computing Machinery, and has organized and served on many program committees of research conferences. He serves as a consultant to companies and government laboratories, and has edited and written several books and research monographs. email

John Bateman is a full Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English and Linguistics Departments of the University of Bremen, specializing in functional, computational and multimodal linguistics. His research interests include functional linguistic approaches to multilingual and multimodal document design, dialogue systems and discourse structure. He has been investigating the relation between language and social context for many years, focusing particularly on accounts of register, genre, functional variation, lexicogrammatical description and theory, multilingual and multimodal linguistic description, and computational instantiations of linguistic theory. He has published widely in all these areas, as well as authoring several introductory and survey articles on natural language generation and systemic-functional linguistics. His current interests centre on the application of functional linguistic and corpus methods to multimodal meaning making, analysing and critiquing multimodal documents of all kinds, the development of linguistically-motivated ontologies, and the construction of computational dialogue systems for robothuman communication.

Kim Viljanen is a working as a doctoral candidate in the Semantic Computing Research Group at the Aalto University, focusing on semantic web, linked data, future of web and content management technologies. He has published many scientific papers, has given lots of talks both internationally and in Finland, and acted as a lecturer. Kim has participated in the creation of award winning applications such as the semantic portals MuseumFinland and HealthFinland. He is currently developing the Finnish semantic web infrastructure FinnONTO, focusing his research work on the Ontology Library ONKI.

Christoph Lange (http://kwarc.info/clange/) is a Ph.D. student at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. His thesis, to be submitted in January 2010, as well as his recent publications, focus on collaborative authoring of mathematical documents using Semantic Web technologies. This involves document ontologies, interactive assistive services embedded into documents, as well as Linked Data publishing. He was a chair of the Semantic Wiki workshop series(http://www.semwiki.org/) at ESWC 2008 to 2010, of the ORES (Ontology Repositories) workshop (http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/) and the AI Mashup Challenge at ESWC 2010 (http://sites.google.com/a/fh-hannover.de/aimashup/), and a PC member of WIMS 2011 (http://wims.vestforsk.no/), the Balisage Markup conference (http://www.balisage.net/) 2010 and 2011, and I-SEMANTICS(http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/) 2007 through 2011. email

Program Committee

1. Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.
2. John Bateman, Universität Bremen, Germany.
3. Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany.
6. Raul Palma, Poznan University, Poland.
7. Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
8. Fabian Neuhaus, University of Maryland, USA.
12. William Hogan, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
13. Nigam Shah, Stanford University, USA.
14. Peter Haase, Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Germany.
15. Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada
16. Leyla Garcia, Bundeswehr University, Germany.
17. Benjamin Good, Novartis, USA
18. Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester, UK
19. Oliver Kutz, University of Bremen, Germany.
20. Raul Garcia Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
21. Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA.
22. Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK.
23. Carlos Toro, VICOMTech Industrial Applications. Spain
24. Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan.
25. Carlos Pedrinaci, Open University, England
26. Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki, Finland

IMPORTANT DATES

– Paper submission deadline: August 15
– Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 5
– Camera ready version due: September 16

When Oct 23, 2011 – Oct 24, 2011
Where Bonn, Germany
Submission Deadline Aug 15, 2011
Notification Due Sep 5, 2011
Final Version Due Sep 16, 2011

Link: http://ocas.mywikipaper.org

First International Workshop on Ontologies come of Age in the Semantic Web, OCAS2011
Collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011)
October 23rd or 24th, 2011
Bonn, Germany

Also, OCAS Challenge:
Prizes
First place: US$ 2000
Second place: US$ 1000
Three third prizes of $500 each

For the Challenge, specifically for the Challenge, check http://ocas.mywikipaper.org/?q=node/8

The OCAS Workshop

The real challenge for Semantic Web technologies and ontologies lays in the adoption; although the need for this disruptive technology is clear, it has not yet been fully adopted by the mainstream. Ontologies: where, what for, how, when and why? Ontologies are being used in several applications, but is ontology engineering a mature discipline? Not only are we interested in practical realizations of the Semantic Web, but also in visions of technology that illustrate how SW technology and ontologies could change our experience of the Web.

Questions addressed by OCAS2011:

• How are SW technologies and ontologies being adopted by mainstream?
• Experience reports of the introduction of SW technologies and ontologies in corporate and government environments
• Once introduced in an environment, how do SW and ontology-based applications evolve?
• Ontologies in manufacturing and production chains
• Ontologies supporting CAD interoperability and feature extraction; towards smart CAD environments
• How could RDF(a) and ontologies be used to represent the knowledge encoded in scientific documents and in general-interest media publications?
• What ontologies do we need for representing structural elements in a document?
• How can we capture the semantics of rhetorical structures in scholarly communication, and of hypotheses and scientific evidence?
• What does a network of truly interconnected documents look like? How could interoperability across documents
be enabled?
• Are decision support systems in the biomedical domain using ontologies? How?
• How are biomedical ontologies logically formalizing the rich set of lexical definitions gathered? How are these
ontologies going beyond controlled vocabularies?
• Practical cases of successful and unsuccessful application of ontologies and SW technologies in application domains such as: financial, biomedical, e-business, engineering, law enforcement, document management, egovernment, legislative systems.

Organizing Committee

Alexander García Castro (http://www.alexandergarcia.name/) is an instructor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He is currently working on the application and development of SW technologies and ontologies in translational research. He is particularly interested in Knowledge Management, Ontology engineering and Semantic Web Technologies in the biomedical domain. Alexander has been leading the development of the ORATEOntology repository, focusing on manual and automatic mapping facilities. He has also led the development of a number of Protégé plug-ins. In addition Alexander has successfully participated in a number of Semantic Web related projects, some of them have been awarded at in international contests such as the 2009 Elsevier Grand Challenge. In addition Alexander has successfully organized workshops such as ORES (at ESWC2010), SERES (at ISWC2010), SePublica (http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/) (at ESWC2011) and OSEMA (at ESWC2011). email

Ken Baclawski is an Associate Professor of the College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University. His primary research area is ontology based computing. This includes research in the Semantic Web, formal ontology-based methods for software engineering and software modeling, and ontology-based methods in biology and medicine. He was one of the founders of the OOR initiative. He and his students have been active developers of the OOR. Professor Baclawski holds 10 US and UK patents. He has authored articles in such journals and conferences as the US National Academy of Science, Information Systems, the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, and the International Semantic Web Conference. He has served on numerous peer review panels for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Association for Computing Machinery, and has organized and served on many program committees of research conferences. He serves as a consultant to companies and government laboratories, and has edited and written several books and research monographs. email

John Bateman is a full Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English and Linguistics Departments of the University of Bremen, specializing in functional, computational and multimodal linguistics. His research interests include functional linguistic approaches to multilingual and multimodal document design, dialogue systems and discourse structure. He has been investigating the relation between language and social context for many years, focusing particularly on accounts of register, genre, functional variation, lexicogrammatical description and theory, multilingual and multimodal linguistic description, and computational instantiations of linguistic theory. He has published widely in all these areas, as well as authoring several introductory and survey articles on natural language generation and systemic-functional linguistics. His current interests centre on the application of functional linguistic and corpus methods to multimodal meaning making, analysing and critiquing multimodal documents of all kinds, the development of linguistically-motivated ontologies, and the construction of computational dialogue systems for robothuman communication.

Kim Viljanen is a working as a doctoral candidate in the Semantic Computing Research Group at the Aalto University, focusing on semantic web, linked data, future of web and content management technologies. He has published many scientific papers, has given lots of talks both internationally and in Finland, and acted as a lecturer. Kim has participated in the creation of award winning applications such as the semantic portals MuseumFinland and HealthFinland. He is currently developing the Finnish semantic web infrastructure FinnONTO, focusing his research work on the Ontology Library ONKI.

Christoph Lange (http://kwarc.info/clange/) is a Ph.D. student at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. His thesis, to be submitted in January 2010, as well as his recent publications, focus on collaborative authoring of mathematical documents using Semantic Web technologies. This involves document ontologies, interactive assistive services embedded into documents, as well as Linked Data publishing. He was a chair of the Semantic Wiki workshop series(http://www.semwiki.org/) at ESWC 2008 to 2010, of the ORES (Ontology Repositories) workshop (http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/) and the AI Mashup Challenge at ESWC 2010 (http://sites.google.com/a/fh-hannover.de/aimashup/), and a PC member of WIMS 2011 (http://wims.vestforsk.no/), the Balisage Markup conference (http://www.balisage.net/) 2010 and 2011, and I-SEMANTICS(http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/) 2007 through 2011. email

Program Committee

1. Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.
2. John Bateman, Universität Bremen, Germany.
3. Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany.
6. Raul Palma, Poznan University, Poland.
7. Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
8. Fabian Neuhaus, University of Maryland, USA.
12. William Hogan, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
13. Nigam Shah, Stanford University, USA.
14. Peter Haase, Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Germany.
15. Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada
16. Leyla Garcia, Bundeswehr University, Germany.
17. Benjamin Good, Novartis, USA
18. Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester, UK
19. Oliver Kutz, University of Bremen, Germany.
20. Raul Garcia Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
21. Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA.
22. Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK.
23. Carlos Toro, VICOMTech Industrial Applications. Spain
24. Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan.
25. Carlos Pedrinaci, Open University, England
26. Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki, Finland

IMPORTANT DATES

– Paper submission deadline: August 15
– Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 5
– Camera ready version due: September 16

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Call For Papers: Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2011)Call For Papers: Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2011)

Posted on June 28, 2011 by admin
When Oct 23, 2011 – Oct 24, 2011
Where Bonn, Germany
Submission Deadline Aug 8, 2011

Link: http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/derive2011

In recent years, researchers in several communities involved in aspects of the web have begun to realise the potential benefits of assigning an important role to events in the representation and organisation of knowledge and media. While a good deal of relevant research has been done in the semantic web community (for example on the modeling of events), a lot of complementary research has been done in other communities, such as multimedia processing and information retrieval. The goal of this workshop is to advance research on this general topic within the semantic web community, by both building on existing semantic web work and integrating results and methods from other areas, with a particular focus on issues that are central to the semantic web.

Intended Audience
We invite participants from various areas of research that are represented in the semantic web community, such as: artificial intelligence, information and communication technologies, data mining, data science, human- computer interaction, humanities, and web information systems. We specifically invite contributions focusing on particular application areas, such as tourism, entertainment, cultural heritage, or government.

Organisers
Marieke van Erp, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Willem Robert van Hage VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Laura Hollink Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Anthony Jameson DFKI, Germany
Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, France

Contact
deriveworkshop[at]gmail[dot]com

When Oct 23, 2011 – Oct 24, 2011
Where Bonn, Germany
Submission Deadline Aug 8, 2011

Link: http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/derive2011

In recent years, researchers in several communities involved in aspects of the web have begun to realise the potential benefits of assigning an important role to events in the representation and organisation of knowledge and media. While a good deal of relevant research has been done in the semantic web community (for example on the modeling of events), a lot of complementary research has been done in other communities, such as multimedia processing and information retrieval. The goal of this workshop is to advance research on this general topic within the semantic web community, by both building on existing semantic web work and integrating results and methods from other areas, with a particular focus on issues that are central to the semantic web.

Intended Audience
We invite participants from various areas of research that are represented in the semantic web community, such as: artificial intelligence, information and communication technologies, data mining, data science, human- computer interaction, humanities, and web information systems. We specifically invite contributions focusing on particular application areas, such as tourism, entertainment, cultural heritage, or government.

Organisers
Marieke van Erp, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Willem Robert van Hage VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Laura Hollink Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Anthony Jameson DFKI, Germany
Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, France

Contact
deriveworkshop[at]gmail[dot]com

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Call For Papers: Innovation and New Trends In Information System (INTIS 2011)Call For Papers: Innovation and New Trends In Information System (INTIS 2011)

Posted on June 27, 2011 by admin
When Nov 22, 2011 – Nov 22, 2011
Where Tangier – Morocco
Abstract Registration Due Jul 5, 2011
Submission Deadline Jul 26, 2011
Notification Due Sep 2, 2011
Final Version Due Oct 2, 2011

Link: http://ensat.uae.ma/INTIS2011

Information Systems have witnessed this last decade a profound mutation because of the new constraints and requirements that have been added to the earlier systems. Users’ needs have changed radically, and systems/data interoperability is more than anytime a requirement that should be fulfilled. Users require a smooth and transparent access to distributed and heterogeneous data at anytime and anywhere. The web in this sens, has allowed to alleviate these problems but is considered not mature enough to address these issues, because of other constraints that have been added such as security, the use of data and services standards, and the performances of web applications that are unfortunately less in comparison with those of thick clients. Another aspect that have changed the reality of the Information Systems world is certainly the mobility that arises a new class of constraints such as security, display and performance management, and so on.

When Nov 22, 2011 – Nov 22, 2011
Where Tangier – Morocco
Abstract Registration Due Jul 5, 2011
Submission Deadline Jul 26, 2011
Notification Due Sep 2, 2011
Final Version Due Oct 2, 2011

Link: http://ensat.uae.ma/INTIS2011

Information Systems have witnessed this last decade a profound mutation because of the new constraints and requirements that have been added to the earlier systems. Users’ needs have changed radically, and systems/data interoperability is more than anytime a requirement that should be fulfilled. Users require a smooth and transparent access to distributed and heterogeneous data at anytime and anywhere. The web in this sens, has allowed to alleviate these problems but is considered not mature enough to address these issues, because of other constraints that have been added such as security, the use of data and services standards, and the performances of web applications that are unfortunately less in comparison with those of thick clients. Another aspect that have changed the reality of the Information Systems world is certainly the mobility that arises a new class of constraints such as security, display and performance management, and so on.

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Call For Papers: SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Semantics and Ontologies (SSO 2011)Call For Papers: SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Semantics and Ontologies (SSO 2011)

Posted on June 26, 2011 by admin
When Nov 1, 2011 – Nov 1, 2011
Where Chicago, Illinois U.S.
Submission Deadline Jul 21, 2011

Link: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SocopWorkshops/Spatial_Semantics_And_Ontologies_2011

Semantic technologies are a new and emerging area. Semantics, ontologies, and the Semantic Web are just starting to be practiced by the spatial and the computer science communities. Geospatial applications needing semantics are still being identified for problems such as references to location, geographic scale, locational analysis, spatial data user interface, and many more. The design and development of tools to meet application needs are active and challenging research areas. Although the medical and life sciences formed the early domains to promote and use semantic technologies, there is now strong interest in researching what is needed in the spatial and geospatial domains. The purpose of this workshop is to promote research regarding semantics as it pertains to the spatial domain.

When Nov 1, 2011 – Nov 1, 2011
Where Chicago, Illinois U.S.
Submission Deadline Jul 21, 2011

Link: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SocopWorkshops/Spatial_Semantics_And_Ontologies_2011

Semantic technologies are a new and emerging area. Semantics, ontologies, and the Semantic Web are just starting to be practiced by the spatial and the computer science communities. Geospatial applications needing semantics are still being identified for problems such as references to location, geographic scale, locational analysis, spatial data user interface, and many more. The design and development of tools to meet application needs are active and challenging research areas. Although the medical and life sciences formed the early domains to promote and use semantic technologies, there is now strong interest in researching what is needed in the spatial and geospatial domains. The purpose of this workshop is to promote research regarding semantics as it pertains to the spatial domain.

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Call For Papers: Workshop on the Trend and Future of Web Science (TFWS 2011)Call For Papers: Workshop on the Trend and Future of Web Science (TFWS 2011)

Posted on June 25, 2011 by admin
When Oct 19, 2011 – Oct 19, 2011
Where Dalian, China
Submission Deadline Jul 7, 2011

This workshop aims to discuss key issues and practices of Web Science. Web Science is concerned with the full scope of socio-technical relationships that are engaged in the World Wide Web, and is thus inherently interdisciplinary. We need to understand “science of decentralized information systems” and analyze its usefulness and benefit to people. In order to understand phenomena of Web evolution, interplay between aspects of computer science in different fields (e.g. computer and information science, sociology, law, communication, and psychology, etc.) is required. The workshop will provide a cross-disciplinary forum for researchers to share their research efforts and ideas between industry and academia. In particular, we will discuss what the future of the Web Science might be in the light of the recent wave of Semantic Web and Social Web technologies and services. In addition, we will organize invited talks that will discuss the interdisciplinary challenges of Social Semantic Web. We solicit the following types of submissions:
Highly-innovative research contributions; new perspectives on semantic and social data mining, empirical studies for emerging trends and technologies, etc.
Position papers discussing the future of the Web Science
By bringing together representatives of academia and industry, the workshop is also a means for identifying new research problems and disseminating results of the research and practice.

Topics of Interest

The aim of this workshop is to cover all aspects that relate to research and practical issues of Web Science. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Semantic and Social Data
(Governmental) Linked Data
General ontologies for (open) linked data
Creating and combining social and linked data
Scalable solutions for linking linked data
Linked data analysis Entity disambiguation on large scale linked data
Enabling social trust using provenance
Visualizing semantic & linked data
The dark side of the Web (e.g. cybercrime and terrorism)
Trust and privacy Evolving technologies (e.g. search technologies)
Case studies of communities such as Twitter, Facebook as well as empirical findings in social semantic web
Mining collective and semantic-based social network
Mining semantics of social relationships
Integrating computational network analysis and semantic web techniques
Data Science including modeling, resolving, and querying the Web of Data
Data Science on Technology/Competitive/Collective Intelligence
Trends and Technologies on Data Science

Link:  http://semanticweb.org/wiki/TFWS2011

When Oct 19, 2011 – Oct 19, 2011
Where Dalian, China
Submission Deadline Jul 7, 2011

This workshop aims to discuss key issues and practices of Web Science. Web Science is concerned with the full scope of socio-technical relationships that are engaged in the World Wide Web, and is thus inherently interdisciplinary. We need to understand “science of decentralized information systems” and analyze its usefulness and benefit to people. In order to understand phenomena of Web evolution, interplay between aspects of computer science in different fields (e.g. computer and information science, sociology, law, communication, and psychology, etc.) is required. The workshop will provide a cross-disciplinary forum for researchers to share their research efforts and ideas between industry and academia. In particular, we will discuss what the future of the Web Science might be in the light of the recent wave of Semantic Web and Social Web technologies and services. In addition, we will organize invited talks that will discuss the interdisciplinary challenges of Social Semantic Web. We solicit the following types of submissions:
Highly-innovative research contributions; new perspectives on semantic and social data mining, empirical studies for emerging trends and technologies, etc.
Position papers discussing the future of the Web Science
By bringing together representatives of academia and industry, the workshop is also a means for identifying new research problems and disseminating results of the research and practice.

Topics of Interest

The aim of this workshop is to cover all aspects that relate to research and practical issues of Web Science. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Semantic and Social Data
(Governmental) Linked Data
General ontologies for (open) linked data
Creating and combining social and linked data
Scalable solutions for linking linked data
Linked data analysis Entity disambiguation on large scale linked data
Enabling social trust using provenance
Visualizing semantic & linked data
The dark side of the Web (e.g. cybercrime and terrorism)
Trust and privacy Evolving technologies (e.g. search technologies)
Case studies of communities such as Twitter, Facebook as well as empirical findings in social semantic web
Mining collective and semantic-based social network
Mining semantics of social relationships
Integrating computational network analysis and semantic web techniques
Data Science including modeling, resolving, and querying the Web of Data
Data Science on Technology/Competitive/Collective Intelligence
Trends and Technologies on Data Science

Link:  http://semanticweb.org/wiki/TFWS2011

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Call for papers: The 10th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2011)Call for papers: The 10th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2011)

Posted on June 19, 2011 by admin
8-10 December 2011, Hong Kong
The conference program consists of high quality technical papers that are reviewed and selected by an international program committee. Papers are solicited on all technical aspects of web-based learning and related technologies, including but not limited to the following topics:
  • Technology Enhanced Learning
  • Personalized and Adaptive Learning
  • Computer Support for Intelligent Tutoring
  • Intelligent Tools for Visual Learning
  • Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages Learning
  • Game-based Learning
  • Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
  • Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
  • Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments
  • Intelligent Learner and Group Modeling
  • Human Factors and Affective Computing for Learning
  • E-Learning Platforms and Tools
  • Design, Model and Framework of e-Learning Systems
  • Deployment, Organization and Management of Learning Objects
  • E-Learning Metadata and Standards
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies for E-learning
  • Mobile, Situated and Blended Learning
  • Pedagogical Issues
  • Practice and Experience Sharing
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit original papers reporting on research results or novel applications in web-based learning. All accepted full papers will be published as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Selected papers will be recommended for possible publication in some international journals, including IEEE Trans. on Learning Technologies and World Wide Web, Springer. Papers for submissions should be formatted in single column of no more than 10 pages in single line spacing according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guideline. Any identification information about the authors should NOT be included in the manuscript to facilitate double-blind review. All papers should be submitted in PDF format. Please refer to the conference website
(http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2011/) for more information and send us email at icwl2011@cs.cityu.edu.hk for any inquiry.
*** Paper Submission Deadline: June 30, 2011 (extended) ***
Committee Information
Conference Co-Chairs
Rynson Lau
City University of Hong Kong
Wolfgang Nejdl
University of Hannover, Germany
Program Co-Chairs
Howard Leung
City University of Hong Kong
Elvira Popescu
University of Craiova, Romania
Yiwei Cao
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Workshop Co-Chairs
Dickson Chiu
Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
Maggie Wang
The University of Hong Kong
Tutorial Chair
Wenyin Liu
City University of Hong Kong
Sponsorship Chair
Hong Va Leong
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Registration Chair
Jiying Wang
City University of Hong Kong
Local Arrangement Chair
Hao Yuan
City University of Hong Kong
Publicity Co-Chairs
Frederick Li
University of Durham, UK
Hua Wang
University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Lizhe Wang
Indiana University, USA
Steering Committee Representatives
Qing Li
City University of Hong Kong
Timothy Shih
National Central University, Taiwan
Web and Media Chair
Edmond Ho
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Please refer to the conference website
(http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2011) for more information and send us email at icwl2011@cs.cityu.edu.hk for any inquiry.
8-10 December 2011, Hong Kong
The conference program consists of high quality technical papers that are reviewed and selected by an international program committee. Papers are solicited on all technical aspects of web-based learning and related technologies, including but not limited to the following topics:
  • Technology Enhanced Learning
  • Personalized and Adaptive Learning
  • Computer Support for Intelligent Tutoring
  • Intelligent Tools for Visual Learning
  • Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages Learning
  • Game-based Learning
  • Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
  • Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
  • Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments
  • Intelligent Learner and Group Modeling
  • Human Factors and Affective Computing for Learning
  • E-Learning Platforms and Tools
  • Design, Model and Framework of e-Learning Systems
  • Deployment, Organization and Management of Learning Objects
  • E-Learning Metadata and Standards
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies for E-learning
  • Mobile, Situated and Blended Learning
  • Pedagogical Issues
  • Practice and Experience Sharing
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit original papers reporting on research results or novel applications in web-based learning. All accepted full papers will be published as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Selected papers will be recommended for possible publication in some international journals, including IEEE Trans. on Learning Technologies and World Wide Web, Springer. Papers for submissions should be formatted in single column of no more than 10 pages in single line spacing according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guideline. Any identification information about the authors should NOT be included in the manuscript to facilitate double-blind review. All papers should be submitted in PDF format. Please refer to the conference website
(http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2011/) for more information and send us email at icwl2011@cs.cityu.edu.hk for any inquiry.
*** Paper Submission Deadline: June 30, 2011 (extended) ***
Committee Information
Conference Co-Chairs
Rynson Lau
City University of Hong Kong
Wolfgang Nejdl
University of Hannover, Germany
Program Co-Chairs
Howard Leung
City University of Hong Kong
Elvira Popescu
University of Craiova, Romania
Yiwei Cao
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Workshop Co-Chairs
Dickson Chiu
Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
Maggie Wang
The University of Hong Kong
Tutorial Chair
Wenyin Liu
City University of Hong Kong
Sponsorship Chair
Hong Va Leong
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Registration Chair
Jiying Wang
City University of Hong Kong
Local Arrangement Chair
Hao Yuan
City University of Hong Kong
Publicity Co-Chairs
Frederick Li
University of Durham, UK
Hua Wang
University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Lizhe Wang
Indiana University, USA
Steering Committee Representatives
Qing Li
City University of Hong Kong
Timothy Shih
National Central University, Taiwan
Web and Media Chair
Edmond Ho
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Please refer to the conference website
(http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2011) for more information and send us email at icwl2011@cs.cityu.edu.hk for any inquiry.
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