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2nd Call for Contributions
http://2015.data-forum.eu/calls/contributions
Theme of EDF2015: Exploiting Data Integration
The European Data Forum (EDF) is an annual meeting place for industry,
research, policy makers, and community initiatives to discuss the challenges
and opportunities of the Global and European data economy. Spurred by recent
developments such as Big Data and Data-driven Business, data has become the
fourth production factor (next to personnel, capital, and natural resources),
which offers completely new opportunities and at the same time it confronts us
with novel challenges. The forum balances technical, business-oriented and
socio-economic, perspectives and approaches in order to develop a vibrant,
interdisciplinary stakeholder community. Special focus will be devoted to
innovation and business opportunities opened by data technologies and their
exploitation, in the perspective of a digital single market in Europe.
EDF 2015 intends to bring together all stakeholders (industry and research
institutions) involved in the data value chain in order to strengthen the
European data economy and its positioning worldwide. Specifically, the forum
will serve as a platform and a business and technology oriented exhibition
space for the 'Data Public Private Partnership' established by the European
Commission and the European data community. Stakeholders will mutually
reinforce their strategies, which will result in a forward-looking, dynamic,
and well-integrated EU-wide data ecosystem.
In the conviction that the potential of the data economy strongly relies on the
capacity to manage the multitude and variety of data that are produced, the
major focus of EDF 2015 is “data integration”. In this perspective the
conference will be an opportunity to discuss and confront experiences where the
integration of data form multiple sources (e.g. videos and text), actually
produces added value, and where innovative technologies (e.g. combining
structured and unstructured data) may contribute to open new application
scenarios towards the digital single market in Europe.
With this call for contributions we are seeking inspiring presentations
addressing concrete experiences addressing all aspects of data integration.
Conference Topics:
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The following is a non-exhaustive list of specific topics of interest at EDF
2015:
* More and more data is produced directly from sensors or other technical
devices. Therefore, EDF wants to offer a forum for sensor systems as well as
high performance computing and analytics on large-scale European datasets. Only
by making sensor data smarter and at the same time increasing our analytics
performance will we be able to handle the data tsunami expected. EDF will
provide show off examples demonstrating how the European industry approaches
those problems.
* It can be expected that European companies will predominantly benefit from
the application of data-driven technology and business approaches to their
application domains. Therefore, it is critical that we tackle the divide of
domain knowledge (mainly available within expert’s heads) and big data
analytics. Only the development of mechanisms which enable to utilize
preexisting knowledge within analytics engines as well as discovering new
knowledge from analytics results is essential. The EDF will be instrumental in
bringing communities from research fields as different as human factors, visual
analytics, and machine learning together.
* The European data economy will need a large number of data scientists of
various types. Already now qualified personnel is scarce. It will be crucial to
foster high-quality qualification programs both on the technical aspects of
data science as well as in the application and sense making within the
application areas. The EDF will address this need by offering a space to
discuss qualification needs and possible programs as well as foster such
programs on European as well as national level.
* Because of the strategic importance of multilingualism in Europe, a specific
topic of interest of EDF is the integration and co-operation of the European
data community with the language resources, natural-language and technology
communities. The synergy of these communities is critical for new types of
multilingual digital services and the creation of a European digital single
market without language barriers.
EDF 2015 will be held in Luxembourg, on November 16-17, 2015. The program will
consist of a mixture of presentations, panels and networking sessions by
industry, academics, policy makers, and community initiatives. Topics will
cover a wide spectrum of research and technology development, applications, and
socio-economic aspects of the data value chain, with a particular attention at
exploiting data integration.
We distinguish between the following types of presentations:
* In-use contribution: Presentations with a practical, industry- or
user-oriented focus by representatives of technology providers, adopters, and
user organizations. Innovative data applications in different sectors of the
European Economy (public sector, finance and insurance, health, energy,
telecommunications etc.), Open Data in use, Domain knowledge & analytics (human
in the loop)
* Research contribution: Presentations with a technical focus reporting
concrete experiences by representatives of academia and research centres. This
includes new data models and languages, optimized architectures, content
analytics, data mining, blind data analytics, predictive analytics, deep data,
predictive models, semantic technologies & the web of data, language resources
and technologies, geospatial data techniques, visual analytics, sensemaking of
big data, ubiquitous computing and augmented reality as well as adaptive
systems for contextualization and personalization.
* Impact contribution: Presentations with a specific focus on impact-creation
activities including policy development, road-mapping, standardisation,
exploitation and training, data-driven business models, legal issues, privacy
and Data Literacy Policies and the European regulatory framework, Data
Governance (Security, Provenance, and Anonymization), Socio-economic and policy
issues of Open Data.
Topics:
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* Industrial Applications
Domain knowledge & analytics (human in the loop)
Innovative data applications in different sectors of the European Economy
(public sector, finance and insurance, health, energy, telecommunications etc.)
Data for development
Open Data in Use
* Data Management & Deep Analytics
New data models and languages
Optimized architectures
Deep data and content analytics and data mining
Blind data analytics
Predictive analytics
Semantic Technologies & the Web of Data
Language Resources, Processing and Technologies
Geospatial Data Techniques
* Advanced Visualization & User Experience
Visual analytics
Sensemaking of big data
Ubiquitous computing and augmented reality
Adaptive systems for contextualization and personalization
Qualification programs and teaching approaches of sense making and big data
* Socio-economic and Policy Issues
Economic and business models for Big Data markets
Data-driven business models
Legal issues (who owns the data?), Privacy and Data Literacy
Policies and the European regulatory framework
Data Governance: Security, Provenance, and Anonymization Techniques
Socio-economic and policy issues of Open Data
* Data Visions for the Future
Submissions:
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Each proposal for a presentation will have to provide the following information:
* Contributor names and short CVs
* Type of the presentation proposed
* Title of the presentation
* Summary of the presentation (<100 words)
* Extended abstract of the presentation (at most 2 pages in 11pt A4 format)
Proposals for presentations should be submitted as a single PDF file at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edf2015
If you experience any difficulties using the submission system, please send the
proposal via e-mail to [email protected].
Proposals will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee of EDF 2015 according to
their relevance to the scope and purpose of the event.
Important Dates:
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Submission of proposals: May 15 2015, 23:59 WET
Notification of acceptance or rejection: June 5 2015
Full EDF2015 program available: end of July 2015
Further Information about the European Data Forum 2015:
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EDF2015 website: http://2015.data-forum.eu/
Overall EDF website: http://www.data-forum.eu/
LinkedIn Group: http://bit.ly/linkedin-EDF
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/EUDataForum hashtag: #EDF2015
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