CFP : 2nd Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery (LD4KD2015)

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LD4KD2015
2nd Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery

http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2015/

co-located with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles
and Practice of Knowledge Discovery 2015 (ECML/PKDD 2015)
September 7th - 11th 2015, Porto, Portugal (http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/ )

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Linked Data have attracted a lot of attention in recent years, as the
underlying technologies and principles provide new ways, following the
Semantic Web standards, to overcome typical data management and consumption
issues such as reliability, heterogeneity, provenance or completeness.
However, the way in which Linked Data can be applicable and beneficial to
the Knowledge Discovery (KDD) process is still not completely understood.
Many aspects of KDD could in fact benefit from Linked Data, e.g. mining
Linked Data sources, using Linked Data to enrich, represent or integrate
local data for data preparation, interpretation or visualisation.

The LD4KD2015 workshop encourages the participation of researchers from the
Knowledge Discovery field to discuss and get informed about the use,
benefits and challenges of Linked Data, while Linked Data researchers can
take advantage of and adapt Knowledge Discovery methods in their domain.

*SCOPE*

We welcome high quality position papers, research papers and demos in which
(1) Linked Data are used as support of Knowledge Discovery processes to
extract useful knowledge, or
(2) Knowledge Discovery techniques are adapted to work and possibly extend
Linked Data.

Topics of either theoretical and applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

- Linked Data for data pre-processing: cleaning, sorting, filtering
or enrichment
- Linked Data applied to Machine Learning
- Linked Data for pattern extraction and behaviour detection
- Linked Data for pattern interpretation, visualization or optimisation
- Reasoning with patterns and Linked Data
- Reasoning on and extracting knowledge from Linked Data
- Linked Data mining
- Links prediction or links discovery using KDD
- Graph mining in Linked Data
- Interacting with Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery

*IMPORTANT DATES*

Paper submission deadline: Monday, June 22, 2015
Paper acceptance notification: Monday, July 13, 2015
Camera-ready deadline: Monday July 27, 2015
Workshop day: Friday September 11, 2015

*SUBMISSIONS*

Articles should be written following the Springer LNCS template (see
authors instructions at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and can be up
to 10 pages in lenght for research papers or 5 pages for demos and position
papers and demos, including figures and references.

Submissions are exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format, through
the EasyChair system. The submission site is
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ld4kd2015

* PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

Enrico Daga, The Open University, United Kingdom
Floriana Esposito, University of Bari, Italy
Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy
Johannes Fürnkranz, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Amedeo Napoli, University of Nancy, France
Matthias Nickles, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Andriy Nikolov, Fluid Operations AG, Germany
Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany
Vojtěch Svátek, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
Isabelle Tellier, University of Paris III, France
Andrea Tettamanzi, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Volker Tresp, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

(more to be announced)

* ORGANISING COMMITTEE *

Ilaria Tiddi, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
ilaria.tiddi@open.ac.uk

Mathieu d'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
mathieu.daquin@open.ac.uk

Claudia d’Amato, University of Bari, Italy
claudia.damato@uniba.it