Deadline approaching: Workshop on Semantics and Analytics for Emergency Response (SAFE2015)

CFP: Workshop on Semantics and Analytics for Emergency Response (SAFE2015)

When: May 24, 2015
Where: Kristiansand, Norway
Collocated with the The 12th International Conference on Information
Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM2015)
Workshop URI: http://linkedscience.org/events/safe2015/
Submission Deadline: February 9, 2015. 23:59pm Hawaii Time
Submissions via: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=safe2015
Notifications: March 2nd, 2015

Emergencies require massive coordinated efforts from various
departments, government organizations and public bodies to help and
assist affected communities. Responders must rapidly gather information,
determine where to deploy resources and make prioritization decisions
regarding how best to deal with an evolving situation. Sharing accurate,
real time and contextual information between different agencies,
organizations and individuals is therefore crucial to developing good
situation awareness for emergency responders. However, with the
involvement of multiple organizations and agencies, each with their own
response protocols, knowledge practices and knowledge representations,
sharing critical information is considerably more difficult. Applying
semantic technologies to represent information can provide excellent
means for effectively sharing and using data within different
organizations. Using highly structured, self-descriptive pieces of
information, interlinked with multiple data resources can help develop a
unified and accurate understanding of an evolving scenario. This
provides an excellent framework for developing applications and
technologies that are highly generic, reproducible and extendible to
different regions, conditions, and scenarios. In addition, the semantic
descriptions of data can enable new forms of analyses on this data, such
as checking for inconsistencies, verifying developments according to
planned scenarios, or trying to discover interesting semantically
meaningful patterns in data. Such analytics can be performed either in
real-time as the scenario unfolds, e.g., through semantic stream
processing and event detection techniques, or as an after-action
analysis to learn from past events.

SAFE2015 targets the intersection between Semantic Web and Linked Data,
and the field of information systems for Emergency Response. The focus
is on the use of semantic technologies to gather, share and integrate
knowledge, as well as for supporting novel methods for analyzing such
information, in order to provide better situation awareness, decision
support, and potential for after-action reviews. This full-day workshop
will be highly interactive, including presentations, demos, poster
discussions, group work sessions, and road-mapping activities. We invite
submissions in the form of research papers, demonstrations and poster
papers, related to the workshop topics listed below.

Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

* Semantic Annotation and Mining, for understanding the content and
context of both static sources and streaming data, such as social media
streams.
* Integration of unstructured or semi-structured data with Linked Data.
* Interactive Interfaces and visual analytics methodologies for managing
multiple large-scale, dynamic, evolving datasets, while exploiting their
underlying semantics.
* Vocabularies, ontologies and ontology design patterns for modelling,
managing, sharing and analysing information in the Security and
Emergency Response domains.
* Stream reasoning and event detection over RDF streams.
* Collaborative tools and services for citizens, organisations,
communities, which exploit semantic technologies, and/or produce
semantically well-specified information, such as Linked Data.
* Privacy, ethics, trustworthiness and legal issues in the social
Semantic Web and the use of semantic technologies, such as Linked Data.
* Use case analysis, with specific interest for use cases that involve
the application of semantic technologies and Linked Data methodologies
in real-life scenarios.

Submissions

The workshop welcomes submissions describing novel research, both
verified results as well as work in progress and system demonstrations.
Submission categories:
* Full research papers, up to 10 pages.
* Position papers, up to 5 pages.
* Demos & Posters, up to 4 pages.
Paper submissions will have to be formatted in the Springer LNCS style.
Submissions are made using EasyChair
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=safe2015). Papers will be
published as online proceedings, e.g. in CEUR-WS.

Workshop organizers

Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University, Sweden
Tomi Kauppinen, Aalto University, Finland
Vita Lanfranchi, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Carsten Kessler, Hunter College–CUNY, USA
Suvodeep Mazumdar, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Received on Tuesday, 3 February 2015 09:26:12 UTC