- From: Oshani Seneviratne <oshani@csail.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:15:56 -0700
- To: public-lod@w3.org
Dear colleagues, We are happy to inform you about AAAI-2015 symposium focused on bridging the gap of using structured data and advanced computing technologies in the humanitarian space. Here is the call for participation, and we invite both position papers and technical papers. Given the expertise and insights this community in linked data, we hope for your valuable participation. Thanks, Lalana, Hemant and Oshani ========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS AAAI 2015 Spring Symposium Structured Data for Humanitarian Technologies: Perfect fit or Overkill? March 23–25, 2015 • Palo Alto, California http://www.knoesis.org/hemant/symposium/aaai2015 ========================================================= Technology is playing an increasingly important role in all aspects of humanitarian operations including search and rescue, early warning, and coordination of relief logistics. However, applications that support humanitarian operations often consume data stored in standalone databases, or in spreadsheets requiring manual steps for data merging and management. Moreover, the data structure is driven by schemas developed in isolation as opposed to ontological structures supported by the community such as Humanitarian eXchange Language (HXL) and Management Of A Crisis (MOAC). Consequently, the increasingly unorganized and scattered information becomes noise in the overall system, slowing down decision making processes. The goal of this symposium is to assess the role of Structured Data (SD) standards such as Linked Data, which can be quickly reused, integrated and extended, in the humanitarian space. Using SD would permit effective integration of and analysis over data generated by multiple parties, including informal communities i.e. the "crowd", relief organizations, and more formally by government agencies. However, there are several important challenges that prevent its widespread adoption such as the lack of data sources, lack of mature libraries, and lack of standards across different humanitarian sectors. This symposium proposes to investigate the role of SD in the humanitarian relief domain. Is the technology mature enough to warrant further investigation or do the disadvantages outweigh the utility of SD for this domain? The symposium will take place March 23-25, 2015. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA and will include a mixture of invited talks, paper presentations, panels, system demonstrations, and discussions. The symposium will include a panel discussion that will bring together experts in Structured Data standards with those in Crisis Informatics to debate the role of such standards in humanitarian technologies. For more information, please see http://knoesis.org/hemant/symposium/aaai2015 Topics: =================== We invite position papers (upto 5 pages including references) discussing these issues as well as technical papers (upto 8 pages including references) that demonstrate the effective use of Structured Data in the humanitarian domain or where another comparable technology has been used to address the reuse and integration issues. We invite papers on various research topics in the context of extracting, organizing, and using structured data in the applications for humanitarian relief, including but not limited to the following: * Data schemas/ontologies for disaster management * Data schemas/ontologies for need/offer to assist coordination * Schemas/ontologies for humanitarian response and recovery operations * Applications of SD in humanitarian technologies * Use cases for SD in humanitarian operations at various levels- field, regional and headquarters Submission: =================== Papers must be prepared in AAAI format and submitted using the easychair site. All accepted papers will be published in a proceedings issued as a AAAI technical report. Late breaking ideas are encouraged as the subject of short papers. Important Dates: =================== * October 24, 2014: Submissions due * November 21, 2014: Author notifications * December 1, 2014: Accepted camera-ready copy due to AAAI * March 23-25, 2015: Symposium General symposium information: =================== General information on the 2015 AAAI Spring Symposia is available from the AAAI Website. This includes information about registration, location, transportation, and hotel accommodations. Program Committee: =================== * Ken Anderson (University of Colorado, USA) * Marcos Borges (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) * Carlos Castillo (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar) * Tina Comes (Center for Integrated Emergency Management, Norway) * Carsten Keßler (The City University of New York, USA) * Patrick Meier (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar) * Andrés Monroy-Hernández (Microsoft Research, USA) * Kate Starbird (University of Washington, USA) * Bartel van de Walle (Tilburg University, Netherlands) * Sarah Vieweg (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar) * [TBA ...] Organizers: =================== * Lalana Kagal (MIT, lkagal@csail.mit.edu) * Hemant Purohit (Kno.e.sis - Wright State U, hemant@knoesis.org) * Oshani Seneviratne (MIT, oshani@csail.mit.edu)
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