Re: METHOD 2015: The 4th International Workshop on Methods for Establishing Trust of (Open) Data @ ISWC2015 - 1st CFP

Hi Tom,

I'm forwarding your upcoming workshop to the W3C Data on the Web Best
Practices working group as well, this is highly relevant to the W3C Data
Activity.

Cheers,

Eric Stephan

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Tom De Nies <tom.denies@ugent.be> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As it is relevant to the PROV community, we would like to bring our
> workshop on Methods for Establishing Trust of (Open) Data to your
> attention, which will be held at ISWC 2015. As some of you probably already
> know, there's many ways to participate this year, including "data papers",
> where a dataset to support or evaluate trust assessment is described.
> Please help spread the word!
>
> We're very excited to see your ideas!
>
> Best regards,
> Tom De Nies and Davide Ceolin,
> Chairs of METHOD 2015
> ---
> 1st Call for Papers
> METHOD 2015: The 4th International Workshop on Methods for Establishing
> Trust of (Open) Data
> http://trustingwebdata.org/method2015
>
> The METHOD workshop aims to bring together researchers working on the
> problem of trust and quality assessment of (open) data, and all components
> that contribute to this goal. This year, METHOD will be co-located for the
> second time with the International Semantic Web Conference in Bethlehem,
> Pennsylvania, on October 11th or 12th.
>
> Motivation
> ----------
> Trust assessment of content on the Web is a highly complex concept that
> depends on objective as well as subjective criteria, including the
> content's provenance, but also the consumer's background, personality, and
> context. However, the exact criteria and tolerances will differ for each
> domain, requiring detailed knowledge about the data and its users. This
> also makes it very challenging to find generic solutions that are
> applicable everywhere. Therefore, stakeholders in this field are
> continuously investigating new techniques to handle and prepare data in
> such a way that it becomes easier for machines to process it with the goal
> of trust and/or quality assessment. We found that our research community
> lacks a platform for researchers and engineers to exchange views on this
> matter from a technical perspective. The METHOD workshops provide a forum
> for researchers and engineers to discuss approaches, theories, and concrete
> technical means required to establish trust in informati!
>  on on the Web.
>
> Furthermore, because this field is so new, we have observed that
> researchers in the community lack a place to submit ongoing work and
> untested ideas. Due to a shortage of ground-truth data, fully evaluated
> approaches are scarce (and when they do appear, they are rarely sent to a
> workshop). On the other hand, stakeholders in the field often own data sets
> that might be useful for researchers, but these data sets remain unexposed
> to the research community. Therefore, this edition of METHOD will
> specifically focus on bringing research ideas and data together.
>
> Participating
> -------------
> This year, there are more ways to participate in METHOD than ever!
> You can participate as follows:
> 1) submit a short research paper (2 to 4 pages), describing a research
> idea that is highly motivated, but not necessarily fully evaluated;
> 2) submit a full research paper (up to 10 pages), describing more mature
> research, including evaluation;
> 3) submit a data paper (2 to 4 pages), describing and linking to a data
> set that can be used to support and/or evaluate approaches related to the
> workshop topics;
> 4) submit a demo paper (4 to 6 pages), describing a demonstration related
> to the workshop.
>
> Submissions are handled via Easychair (submission information will be
> available soon).
>
> Submissions should be submitted in PDF, formatted according to the Lecture
> Notes in Computer Science guidelines for proceedings. Submissions to
> ISWC-2015/METHOD-2015 are not anonymous or blinded. All accepted
> submissions will be published in the online proceedings of METHOD 2015. At
> least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and
> for the main conference, ISWC2015.
>
> Authors of selected papers may be invited to submit an extended version to
> the SpringerOpen Journal of Trust Management.
>
> Topics
> -------
> The topics of METHOD highlight many different aspects of trust, including
> (but not limited to):
>
> Trust as Predictive Quality:
>     Information quality & trustworthiness
>     Reasoning over data provenance, trust and quality
>
> Trust as Soft Security:
>     Data curation through trust
>     Data fusion and conflict resolution
>     Attestation for data services and operations
>     Integrity of information
>
> Trust through Provenance:
>     Data source attribution
>     Traceable data publishing and re-use
>     Transparency and verification of information flows
>     Usage of metadata for establishing trust
>     Provenance of (open) data
>
> Trust through Reputation:
>     Community- and reputation-based accountability & trust
>     Trustworthiness of user ratings & recommender systems
>
> Representing Trust:
>     Trust representation and derivation from (open) data
>     Modeling trust in data-centric applications
>
> Trust Management:
>     Systems for transparent management of open data
>     Trust management in the Semantic Web
>
>
> Important Dates
> ---------------
>     submission deadline: July 1, 2015
>     author notifications: July 31, 2015
>     camera-ready deadline for accepted papers: August 14, 2015
>     workshop date: October 11 or 12, 2015
>