ESWC 2011- 2nd CfP: Workshop on User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web (UWeb)
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.] UWeb 2011 International Workshop on User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web In conjunction with ESWC 2011 Heraklion, Greece 29 May - 02 June 2011 http://wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/uweb2011/ IMPORTANT DATES * 4 March 2011: Full short research paper submission deadline (11:59pm Hawaiian time) * 1 April 2011: Notification of acceptance * 15 April 2011: Final camera-ready paper * 6 May 2011: Demo position paper submission deadline * 29/30 May 2011: UWeb 2011 workshop day OVERVIEW Social Web sites, such as Facebook, YouTube, Delicious, Flickr and Wikipedia, and numerous other Web applications, such as Google and Amazon, rely on implicitly or explicitly collected data about their users and their activities to provide personalized content and services. As these applications become more and more connected, a major challenge is to allow various applications to exchange, reuse, and integrate user data from different sources. The amount of user data available on the Web is tremendously growing and reasoning on such heterogeneous user data distributed across the Web, i.e. exploiting user data on the Web, is a non-trivial problem that poses several challenges to the Semantic Web community. While the linking of user data provides advantages for recommendation and personalization, it also raises questions related to provenance, trust and privacy: how does one know that the data gathered from several sources can be trusted, and how can one avoid that sensitive personal data is disclosed to certain services or used to infer and expose sensitive information? Trust and privacy, and associated policies, may therefore impact reasoning on user data. This workshop aims to discuss research on user data in the Social Semantic Web from both angles: * techniques and applications for linking, reusing and reasoning about user data, as well as * trust and privacy techniques and their impact on society. UWeb joins the SPOT (http://spot.semanticweb.org/) and LUPAS (http://www.personal-reader.de/lupas/) workshops from ESWC 2010 and provides a forum for academic and industrial researchers and practitioners in the fields of the Social and Semantic Web, trust, privacy, user modeling, and personalization to discuss theoretical and practical knowledge, open research issues, applications, and experiences. TOPICS OF INTEREST == The workshop will tackle challenges posed by linking user data on the Social Semantic Web, including, but not limited to, the following themes: * Linking, aggregating, integrating and/or mining user data on the Social Web * Intertwining Social Web services, Semantic Mashups * Techniques and data formats for connecting distributed user data (e.g. FOAF, SIOC, etc.) * User profiling and personalization in the Social Semantic Web * Semantic technologies for trust and privacy on the Web * Trust and privacy in social online communities * Semantic Web technologies for access control * User modeling and mining vs. privacy * Studies assessing the use of external/public user data * Applications demonstrating intermixing of user data from different sources PAPER SUBMISSION All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. We welcome the following types of contributions. * Short (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 15 pages) research papers will be reviewed by at least two independent referees. Accepted research papers will be included in the main workshop proceedings (published at CEUR-WS.org). * Demo papers (system demonstrations) and position statements should not exceed 2 pages. They will undergo a more lightweight review proccess and will thus not be considered for the main workshop proceedings but will be published on the workshop website. All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors: * http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at * http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uweb2011 The main workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Further, we try to prepare a special issue at a journal (descision is pending), for which we would like to consider extended versions of the best papers as well. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS === * Fabian Abel (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) * Eelco Herder (L3S Research Center, Germany) * Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
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Thanks everybody. I plan to improve the quality of the data in the following days. I'll keep you informed. 2011/2/7 Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com: BTW - how about Linked Open Email Data (LOED)? Other emails archive spaces will follow!! Kingsley, what do you have in mind? -- Sergio Fernández CTIC - Technological Center Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Gijón C/ Ada Byron, 39 Edificio Centros Tecnológicos 33203 Gijón - Asturias - Spain Tel.: +34 984 29 12 12 Fax: +34 984 39 06 12 E-mail: sergio.fernan...@fundacionctic.org http://www.fundacionctic.org Privacy Policy: http://www.fundacionctic.org/privacidad
ICWE 2011: Last Call for Papers (special focus Web Data Engineering)
11th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2011) http://icwe2011.webengineering.org June 20-24, 2011, Paphos, Cyprus *** Last Call for Papers *** *Submission deadline extended to February 21, 2011 (23:59 Hawaii Time)* The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) aims at promoting scientific and practical excellence on Web Engineering, and at bringing together researchers and practitioners working in technologies, methodologies, tools, and techniques used to develop and maintain Web-based applications leading to better systems, and thus to enabling and improving the dissemination and use of content and services through the Web. A special focus of ICWE 2011 will be Web Data Engineering. *Topics of Interest* The conference fosters original submissions covering, but not restricted to the following topics of interest: Web application engineering * Processes and methods for Web application development * Conceptual modeling of Web applications * Model-driven Web application development * Domain-specific languages for Web application development * Component-based Web application development * Web application architectures and frameworks * Rich Internet Applications * Mashup development and end user Web programming * Patterns for Web application development and pattern mining * Web content management and data-intensive Web applications * Web usability and accessibility * I18N of Web applications and multi-lingual development * Testing and evaluation of Web applications * Deployment and usage analysis of Web applications * Performance modeling, monitoring, and evaluation * Empirical Web engineering * Web quality and Web metrics * Adaptive, contextualized and personalized Web applications * Mobile Web applications and device-independent delivery Web service engineering * Web service engineering methodologies * Web Service-oriented Architectures * Semantic Web services * Web service-based architectures and applications * Quality of service and its metrics for Web applications * Inter-organizational Web applications * Ubiquity and pervasiveness * Linked Data Services Web data engineering * Semantic Web engineering * Web 2.0 technologies * Social Web applications * Web mining and information extraction * Linked Data * Web data linking, fusion * Information quality assessment * Data repair strategies * Dataset dynamics * Dataset introspection * Linked Data consumption, visualisation and exploration * Deep Web * Web science and Future Internet applications *Submission instructions* Authors of the research and industrial papers track must explain the relationship of their work to the Web Engineering discipline in their submissions. Research papers must comprise substantial innovative discussion with respect to the related work and must be well motivated and presented. * Extension: Papers must not be longer than 15 (fifteen) pages. * Format: according to the LNCS guidelines. * Submission: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwe2011 *Publishing of accepted works* The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as an LNCS volume. Official proceedings will include: full papers (15 pages), demonstration papers (4 pages) and posters (4 pages). Workshop papers and contributions to the doctoral consortium will be published separately. Final versions of accepted papers must strictly adhere to the LNCS guidelines and must include a printable file of the camera-ready version, as well as all source files thereof. No changes to such formatting rules are permitted. Authors of accepted papers must also download and sign a copyright form that will be made available on the Web site of the conference. Each paper requires at least one full registration to the main conference. Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the JCR-indexed Journal Of Web Engineering (pending agreement). *Important Dates* * Submission deadline: February 21, 2011 (23:59 Hawaii Time) * Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2011 * Camera-ready version: April 28, 2011 *Program Chairs* * Oscar Diaz, University of the Basque Country, Spain * Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany In case of inquiries, please contact the program chairs at: pcchairs [at] icwe2011.webengineering.org *Conference Committee* General Chair * George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Industrial Track Chair * Andreas Doms, SAP Research, Germany Workshop Chairs: * Nora Koch, LMU and Cirquent GmbH, Germany * Andreas Harth, KIT, Germany Tutorial Chairs * Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland Demo Poster Chairs * Axel Ngonga, Universitat Leipzig * Pelechano Vicente, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Doctoral Consortium Chairs *
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On 2/8/11 3:59 AM, Sergio Fernández wrote: Thanks everybody. I plan to improve the quality of the data in the following days. I'll keep you informed. 2011/2/7 Kingsley Idehenkide...@openlinksw.com: BTW - how about Linked Open Email Data (LOED)? Other emails archive spaces will follow!! Kingsley, what do you have in mind? Sergio, A major Linked Open Data space that aggregates data from a variety of mailing lists. Basically, along the lines of DBpedia (for Wikipedia general knowledge), LOGD (various Govt initiatives), LOC (Product Service Offers) etc.. We can also enrich the graph by passing mail content through a variety of NLP services. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
ESWC 2011-CfP: LinkedLearning 2011 - 1st International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age
[Apologies for cross-posting] LinkedLearning2011 - International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age In conjunction with the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2011) Heraklion, Greece, 29 May - 02 June 2011 - http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/meducator/linkedlearning - IMPORTANT DATES * 4 March 2011: Full short research paper submission deadline (11:59pm Hawaiian time) * 1 April 2011: Notification of acceptance * 15 April 2011: Camera-ready paper * 22 April 2011: Poster demo submission deadline * 29/30 May 2011: LinkedLearning 2011 workshop day OVERVIEW While sharing of open learning and educational resources on the Web became common practice throughout the last years a large amount of research was dedicated to interoperable eLearning repositories based on semantic technologies. However, although the Semantic Web has seen large-scale success in its recent incarnation as a Web of Linked Data, there is still only little adoption of the successful Linked Data principles in the eLearning domain. This workshop builds on the fundamental belief that the Linked Data approach has the potential to fulfill the eLearning vision of Web-scale interoperability of eLearning resources as well as highly personalised and adaptive eLearning applications. The workshop aims to become a highly interactive research forum for exploring the promises of the Web of Linked Data in technology-enhanced learning by gathering researchers from the Semantic Web area as well as the field of eLearning. TOPICS OF INTEREST == We welcome papers describing current trends on research in (a) how eLearning approaches take advantage of Linked Data on the Web and (b) how Linked Data principles and semantic technologies are being applied in eLearning contexts. Both rather application-oriented as well as rather theoretical papers are welcome. Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following: * Linked data for informal learning * Personalisation and context-awareness in eLearning * Usability and advanced user interfaces in learning environments and linked data * Light-weight eLearning metadata schemas * Exposing learning object metadata via RDF/SPARQL service-oriented approaches * Semantic syntactic mappings between eLearning metadata schemas and standards * Controlled vocabularies, ontologies and terminologies for eLearning * Personal mobile learning environments and linked data * Learning flows and designs and linked data * Linked data in (visual) learning analytics and educational data mining * Linked data in organizational learning and learning organizations * Linked data for harmonizing individual learning goals and organizational objectives * Competency management and linked data * Collaborative learning and linked data * Linked-data driven social networking collaborative learning SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION == We welcome the following types of contributions. * Short (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 15 pages) research papers * Poster abstracts and system demonstrations should not exceed 2 pages. All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0). Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at * http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=linkedlearning2011 Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. The main workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Further, we are considering a Journal special issue on the same topic which might provide opportunities to invite selected papers from the workshop. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS === * Stefan Dietze, The Open University (UK) * Mathieu d'Aquin, The Open University (UK) * Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University Simon Fraser University (Canada) * Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá (Spain) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE === * Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Soeren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany * Chara Balasubramaniam, St George's University London, UK * Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Charalampos Bratsas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Dan Brickley, W3C Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK * John Domingue, The Open University, UK Semantic Technologies Insitute International, Austria. * Nikolas Dovrolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece * Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada * Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia * Eleni Kaldoudi,Democritus University of Thrace,
