CfP: ESWC2015 Workshop PROFILES'15 on Dataset Profiling and Federated Search for Linked Data

[Apologies for cross-posting]

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CALL FOR PAPERS:
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The 2nd International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling & fEderated Search
for Linked Data (PROFILES’15)

Co-located with 12th ESWC Conference (ESWC 2015), May 31 – June 4, 2015.

Venue: Portoroz, Slovenia.
Date: June 1 , 2015 (to be confirmed)
URL: www.keystone-cost.eu/profiles2015/

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The PROFILES’15 workshop aims to gather innovative query and search
approaches for large-scale, distributed and heterogeneous linked 
datasets inline with dedicated approaches to analyse, describe and 
discover endpoints, as an inherent task of query distribution. 
PROFILES’15 will equally consider both novel scientific methods and
techniques for querying, assessment, profiling, and curation of
distributed datasets as well as the application perspective, such as the 
innovative use of tools and methods for providing structured knowledge 
about distributed datasets, their evolution and fundamentally, means to 
search and query the Web of Data.
The workshop will provide a highly interactive forum for researchers in
the fields of Semantic Web and Linked Data, Databases, Semantic Search, 
Text Mining, NLP and Information Retrieval.

The main areas of interest of PROFILES’15 include dataset/endpoint
analysis, profiling and discovery along with techniques for distributed 
semantic search that take such profiles into account.
In particular this includes:

Dataset/endpoint analysis, profiling and discovery:

     dataset profile representation (vocabularies, schemas)
     novel applications and techniques for dataset profiling
     automated approaches to dataset analysis and exploration
     analysis/monitoring of dataset and graph dynamics
     topic profiling of datasets
     assessment of dataset schema conformance and evolution
     dataset quality analysis for query routing

Distributed semantic search:

     query routing taking into account relevance and quality of
distributed datasets
     semantic annotation and expansion for keyword queries
     keyword query interpretation and disambiguation for Linked Data
     fusing, cleaning, ranking and refining search results
     scalability & performance of distributed data queries
     novel applications for federated search over Linked Data

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IMPORTANT DATES
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     March 6, 2015: Full & short research paper, poster & demo
submission deadline
     April 3, 2015: Notification of acceptance
     April 17, 2015: Camera-ready paper

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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We welcome the following types of contributions:

    1. Short (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 15 pages) research papers.
    2. Poster abstracts and system demonstrations should not exceed 4 pages.

All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted
according to the Springer LNCS proceedings style.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the PC. Papers
will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, 
technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. Please 
submit your contributions electronically in PDF format via the Easychair 
system:

=> https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=profiles2015.

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PROCEEDINGS
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The complete set of papers will be published with the CEUR Workshop
Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), listed by DBLP. The best papers of the 
workshop will be included in the supplementary proceedings of ESWC 2015, 
which will appear in the Springer LNCS series.

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WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
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     Elena Demidova (L3S Research Center, Germany)
     Stefan Dietze (L3S Research Center, Germany)
     Julian Szymanski (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
     John Breslin (NUI Galway, Ireland)

(Co-organised by ICT COST Action KEYSTONE, IC1302)

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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     Charlie Abela, University of Malta, Malta
     Alessandro Adamou, The Open University, UK
     Marco Antonio Casanova, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
     Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
     Mathieu d’Aquin, The Open University, UK
     Enrico Daga, The Open University, UK
     Christophe Gueret, Data Archiving Network Services (DANS), NL
     Tom Heath, The Open Data Institute (ODI), UK
     Laura Hollink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
     Markus Luczak-Rösch, University of Southampton, UK
     Abdulhussain E. Mahdi, University of Limerick, Ireland
     Andreas Nürnberger, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany
     Heiko Paulheim, Mannheim University, Germany
     Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil
     Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University, UK
     Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, UK
     Raquel Trillo Lado, Universidad Zaragoza, Spain
     Thomas Gottron, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

For any enquiries, please contact profiles2015@easychair.org.

Received on Monday, 19 January 2015 18:20:55 UTC