- From: Josiane Xavier Parreira <josiane.parreira@deri.org>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:54:23 +0100
- To: public-lod@w3.org
Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS DESWEB 2012 3rd International Workshop on Data Engineering Meets the Semantic Web In Conjunction with ICDE 2012 April 1st, 2012, Washington, DC https://sites.google.com/site/desweb2012/home ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The World Wide Web has radically changed the way we share knowledge by lowering the barrier to publishing and accessing documents as part of a global information space. Despite their inarguable benefits, until recently the same principles that enabled the Web of documents have not been applied to data. While documents would be linked to others, the relation among data residing in the documents remained unclear. However, in recent years the Web has evolved from an information space of linked documents to one where the data is linked, creating the "Web of Data" - a concept that materializes the Semantic Web vision of having machine-readable information to aid the understanding of the semantics, or meaning, of information on the World Wide Web. The Semantic Web provides the tools to accomplish the Web of Data, but the successful exploitation of this available information largely depends on the ability to efficiently and effectively manage and process the data. In this context, new challenges emerge for semantic-aware data management systems. The contribution of the data management community in the Semantic Web effort is fundamental. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) has already been adopted as the representation model and exchange format for the semantics of the data on the Web. Although, until recently, RDF had not received considerable attention, the recent publication in RDF format of large ontologies with millions of entities from sites like Yahoo! and Wikipedia, the huge amounts of microformats in RDF from life science organizations, and the gigantic RDF bibliographic annotations from publishers, have made clear the need for advanced management techniques for RDF data. On the other hand, traditional data management techniques have a lot to gain by incorporating semantic information into their frameworks. Existing data integration, exchange and query solutions are typically based on the actual data values stored in the repositories, and not on the semantics of these values. Incorporation of semantics in the data management process improves query accuracy, and permits more efficient and effective sharing and distribution services. Integration of new content, on-the-fly generation of mappings, queries on loosely structured data, keyword searching on structured data repositories, and entity identification, are some of the areas that can benefit from the presence of semantic knowledge alongside the data. *** Topics of Interest *** The goal of DESWEB is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both fields of Data Management and Semantic Web. It aims at investigating the new challenges that Semantic Web technologies have introduced and new ways through which these technologies can improve existing data management solutions. Furthermore, it intends to study what data management systems and technologies can offer in order to improve the scalability and performance of Semantic Web applications. DESWEB welcomes papers on topics related, but not limited, to: Semantics in Data Management * Evolution, integration, mapping, merging and alignment of ontologies and schemas * Semantics-aware schema matching and mapping design * Semantics and data quality * Semantic data exchange and integration * Semantic annotation, lineage and provenance of data * Semantics in business processes and intelligence * Semantic-based service discovery and composition * Interoperability via Semantic Web services Management of Semantic Web Data * Languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data * Data models and query languages for the Semantic Web * Query processing and optimization * Indexing and access methods * RDF storage and compression * Update management and maintenance of RDF data * Query answering techniques on RDF databases * Benchmarking RDF Systems and applications Semantic Search and Linked Data * Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web * Searching for and ranking ontologies * Social Networking and the Semantic Web * Semantic-aware search engines * Semantic-based keyword searching in databases * Publishing relational data on the Semantic Web * Entity identification on the Semantic Web *** Submission Instructions *** Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Papers should be 6 pages long, formatted according to the ICDE formatting guidelines, and submitted electronically as PDF files through the following web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=desweb2012 All accepted papers will be included in the ICDE proceedings and will also become publicly available through the IEEE Xplore. *** Important Dates *** Submission deadline: November 1, 2011, 5pm Pacific Notification to authors: December 1, 2011 Camera ready version deadline: December 15, 2011 *** Organization *** General Chairs Denilson Barbosa, University of Alberta, Canada Rachel Pottinger, University of British Columbia, Canada Publicity Chair Josiane Xavier Parreira, DERI/NUI Galway, Ireland Technical Program Committee Grigoris Antoniou, ICS FORTH, Greece Smriti Bhagat, University of British Columbia, Canada Vanessa Braganholo, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Paolo Cappellari, Dublin City University, Ireland Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR CNR and Università della Calabria, Italy Roberto De Virgilio, University Roma Tre, Italy Renaud Delbru, DERI/NUI Galway, Ireland AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Irini Fundulaki, ICS FORTH, Greece James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Chile Michael Hausenblas, DERI/NUI Galway, Ireland Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Zachary Ives, University of Pennsylvania, USA Marcel Karnstedt, DERI/NUI Galway, Ireland Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM TJ Watson, USA Solmaz Kolahi, University of British Columbia, Canada Spyros Kotoulas, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Ioana Manolescu, INRIA Saclay Île de France, France Josiane Xavier Parreira, DERI/NUI Galway, Ireland Carlos Eduardo Santos Pires, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil Dimitris Plexousakis, ICS FORTH, Greece Axel Polleres, DERI/NUI Galway, Ireland Kai-Uwe Sattler, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany Martin Theobald, Max Planck Institute, Germany Thanh Tran, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Cong Yu, Google Research New York, USA Steering Committee Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy For issues related to the workshop, you can contact the workshop chairs using the e-mail address desweb2012@gmail.com -- *********************************************** Dr. Josiane Xavier Parreira Post-doctoral Researcher Sensor Middleware Unit Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) Phone +353 91 495838 Skype josixp ***********************************************
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