RDF Stream Processing Workshop

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Call for Papers
RDF Stream Processing Workshop

http://www.w3.org/community/rsp/rsp-workshop-2015/

In conjunction with the 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015)

May 31th, 2015 in Portoroz, Slovenia
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* Motivation

Data
 streams are an increasingly prevalent source of information in a wide 
range of domains and applications, e.g. environmental monitoring, 
disaster response, or smart cities. The RDF model is based on a 
traditional persisted-data paradigm, where the focus is on maintaining a
 bounded set of data items in a knowledge base. This paradigm does not 
fit the case of data streams, where data items flow continuously over 
time, forming unbounded sequences of data. In this context, the W3C RDF 
Stream Processing (RSP) Community Group has taken the task to explore 
the existing technical and theoretical proposals that incorporate 
streams to the RDF model, and to its query language, SPARQL. More 
concretely, one of the main goals of the RSP Group is to define a 
common, but extensible core model for RDF stream processing. This core 
model can serve as a starting point for RSP engines to be able to talk 
to each other and interoperate.

* Goal

The goal of this workshop is to bring together interested members of the community to:

    - Demonstrate their latest advances in stream processing systems for RDF.
    - Foster discussion for agreeing on a core model and query language for RDF streams.
    - Involve and attract people from related research areas to actively participate in the RSP Community Group.

Each
 of these objectives will intensify interest and participation in the 
community to ultimately broaden its impact and allow for going towards a
 standardization process. As a result of this workshop the authors will 
contribute to the W3C RSP Community Group Report that will be published 
as part of the group activities.

* Format

The workshop 
will provide a forum for the growing community to discuss challenges, 
current solutions and ideas in RDF stream processing. As such it will 
mainly consist of both research and technical slots on topics such as 
complex event processing, query language extensions, and efficient 
execution approaches for RDF data. There will be a research (lightning 
talks) session and a show-and-tell (demo) session where the developers 
of RDF stream processing engines can showcase their latest achievements.
 Moreover, we also invite application developers to show off their 
latest uses, extensions, or enhancements of existing engines. Feedback 
from developers, who use current engines, is highly valuable to advance 
the state of the art of the community.
A face-to-face meeting of the 
W3C RSP Community Group focusing on upcoming steps regarding concrete 
standardization activities will form the conclusion.

* Submission Instructions

The
 main aim of the workshop is to foster new ideas and perspectives on RDF
 stream processing from related research areas, and facilitate growth 
and discussion of the W3C RSP Community Group. For this reason, we 
encourage both research and show-and-tell contributions. Submissions 
will consist of an Expression of Interest (EoI) of one page. The EoI 
should contain author’s expertise, current research interests, relation 
to the RSP community, relevance to the broader ESWC audience and the 
indication whether it is submitted to the research session or to the 
show-and-tell (demo) session. Submissions will be managed through 
EasyChair using the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rspworkshop2015

* Important dates

Submission for EoI: Friday March 6, 2015
Notification of acceptance: Friday April 3, 2015
Workshop days: Sunday May 31, 2015

* Organizers

Jean-Paul Calbimonte, EPFL, Switzerland
Alasdair J G Gray, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Alejandro Llaves, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland, Galway

* Programme Committee

Darko Anicic, SIEMENS AG, Germany
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and LocaliData, Spain
Daniele Dell’Aglio, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Shen Gao, University of Zurich
Rene Kaiser, Joanneum Research, Austria
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG, Austria
Danh Le-Phuoc, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUIG, IE
Bernhard Ortner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany (TBC)
Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics & Business, Austria
Monika Solanki, Aston University, UK
Roland Stühmer, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany
Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Australia
Kia Teymourian, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Peter Wetz, Vienna University of Technology, Austria