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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON WEB SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
WebST 2016
Bilbao, Spain
July 18-22, 2016
Organized by:
University of Deusto
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/webst2016/
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--- Early registration deadline: May 28, 2016 ---
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AIM:
WebST 2016 is a research training event addressed to graduates and
postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global scope,
it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the critical,
multidisciplinary and fast developing area of web studies, which covers a large
spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation from computing
and technologies to social sciences and the humanities and has turned out to be
the largest socio-technical infrastructure in human history. Renowned academics
and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
Most subareas of web science and technology will be displayed, namely: content
analysis and information extraction, information networks, search, data and
semantics, ontologies, user behavior and personalization, online communities,
social networks, economic transactions, mobility, security and privacy, graph
analysis, web mining and applications. Main challenges and opportunities will
be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 17 six-hour courses, and 1 round
table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics from various
perspectives: philosophy, sociology, politics, digital humanities, economics,
computer science, engineering and mathematics. The organizers believe
outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students.
Interaction will be a main component of the event. Moreover, an open session
will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in
5 minutes.
ADDRESSED TO:
Graduates and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal
pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be
differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed
for some of them. WebST 2016 is also appropriate for more senior people who
want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All
will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers,
scholars, industry leaders and innovators.
REGIME:
In addition to keynotes, at least 2 courses will run in parallel during the
whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will
be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.
VENUE:
WebST 2016 will take place in Bilbao, a city famous for its gastronomy and the
seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be:
DeustoTech, School of Engineering
University of Deusto
Avda. Universidades, 24
48014 Bilbao
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Pompeu Fabra University), Distributed Web Search
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), From Data to Knowledge:
A Data-to-Network-to-Knowledge (D2N2K) Paradigm
Prabhakar Raghavan (Google), Three Vignettes from the Theory and Practice of
Large Data Analysis
Amit P. Sheth (Wright State University), Semantic, Cognitive and Perceptual
Computing – three intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing
PROFESSORS AND COURSES:
Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne), [intermediate] Social Media and Text
Analytics
Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales), [advanced] API Engineering
and Management
Vassilis Christophides (INRIA, Paris), [introductory/intermediate] Entity
Resolution in the Web of Data
Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University), [introductory] Useful Web Mining with R
Marco Gori (University of Siena), [advanced] Learning Semantic-based Structures
from Textual Sources
Alon Halevy (Recruit Institute of Technology), [introductory] Structured Data
on the Web
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate]
Construction and Mining of Text-Rich Heterogeneous Information Networks
Andreas Hotho (University of Würzburg), [intermediate] Social Semantics in the
Web
Ravi Kumar (Google), [introductory/intermediate] Computing at Scale: Models and
Algorithms
Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Foundation), [introductory/intermediate] From Social
Network Analysis to Social Media Analytics and beyond: Challenges and
Opportunities
Cathy Marshall (Texas A&M University), [introductory] Qualitative Methods for
Studying Users on the Web
Mirco Musolesi (University College London), [introductory/intermediate] Mining
Big (and Small) Mobile Data
Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester), [introductory] The Semantic Web and
Linked Data
Prabhakar Raghavan (Google), [intermediate] Introduction to Web Search Engines
Uli Sattler (University of Manchester), [introductory] OWL, Underlying Logics,
and What This Reasoning Is All about
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Towards Ontological
Foundations for Web Science
Raphael Volz (Pforzheim University of Applied Science), [introductory]
Improving Prediction Models with Open Data
OPEN SESSION
An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by
participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title,
authors, and summary of the research to florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat by
July 15, 2016.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair)
Manuel Jesús Parra Royón
Borja Sanz (co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
http://grammars.grlmc.com/webst2016/Registration.php
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only
tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to
have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be
processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be
closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the
venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event.
FEES:
Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week.
There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration
deadline.
ACCOMMODATION:
A suggestion of accommodation is available on the webpage.
CERTIFICATE:
Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
University of Deusto
Rovira i Virgili University
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