[Final CfP]: Uncertainty and Imprecision on the Web of Data @ IPMU 2014

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Uncertainty and Imprecision on the Web of Data

July 15-19, 2014
Montpellier, France
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Special Session
*at the*
15th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of
Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems
http://www.ipmu2014.univ-montp2.fr

****Submission deadline December 31, 2013****

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***Short description***

Phenomena related to uncertainty and imprecision are common on the Web of
Data. On the one hand, data published as linked open data are often
incomplete and of variable quality; we are frequently faced to dealing with
missing, imperfect, vague and imprecise data in many real-world
applications. On the other hand, often these data's meta-models are of
inherently uncertain or imprecise nature and dealing with these resources
requires a suitable framework. Although active research addressing these
issues has been conducted recently, handling uncertainty and imprecision is
still an open problem in the context of the Web of Data.


The goal of this special session is to bring together researchers working
in the field of imprecise/uncertain knowledge and data management and
interested in linked open data technologies. The session will address
problems related to handling imprecision and/or uncertainty of data and
ontologies in the processes of publishing, interconnecting and querying
data by following the Linked Data principles. Two major (partly
intersecting) communities are targeted: (1) the community dealing with
reasoning under uncertainty and (2) the community focusing on knowledge
discovery, data mining, data integration and information retrieval when
data are fuzzy, imperfect or imprecise.


The topics of interest can be articulated along the following axes (the
list being non-exhaustive):


* Fuzzy ontological languages

* Linking of imperfect/imprecise/vague data

* Representaion of uncertain links

* Fuzzy/probabilistic/approximate ontology matching

* Reasoning techniques under uncertainty and fuzziness

* Imprecision and uncertainty in specific domains, e.g.:

      - the biological and bio-medical domains

      - the geo-spatial domain

      - trust, provenance and security

      - multimedia

      - multilingualism

* Quality of open data

* Fuzzy data mining and knowledge extraction

* Querying warehouses opened on the web: imprecise queries and approximate
answers


***Submissions***

Contributions to the special session can be made in terms of papers which
will undergo the standard reviewing process of the IPMU 2014 conference.
Complete information regarding the  submission process can be found at the
conference website: http://www.ipmu2014.univ-montp2.fr, more precisely in
the section Program -> Special Sessions. In the submission process, note
that the name of the special session will appear (and has to be selected)
in the list of conference tracks on the Easychair site. The accepted papers
will be published in the proceedings of IPMU 2014.


***Organizers***

Zohra Bellahsene

Anne Laurent

François Scharffe

Konstantin Todorov (Main contact)


LIRMM / University of Montpellier 2

contact: {firstname.lastname}@lirmm.fr


***Program Committee***

Jamal Atif / Université Paris 11, France

Zohra Bellahsene / University of Montpellier 2, France

Isabelle Bloch / Télécom ParisTech – LTCI, France

Fernando Bobillo / University of Zaragoza, Spain

Silvia Calegari / University of Milano, Italy

Nicola Fanizzi / University of Bari, Italy

Peter Geibel / Charité Berlin, Germany

Celine Hudelot / MAS - ECP, France

Souhila Kaci / University of Montpellier 2, France

Anne Laurent / University of Montpellier 2, France

Olivier Pivert / IRISA, France

François Scharffe / University of Montpellier 2, France

Umberto Straccia / ISTI - CNR, Italy

Matthias Thimm / Universität Koblenz, Germany

Konstantin Todorov / University of Montpellier 2, France

Serena Villata / INRIA, France