CFP: Concept Drift & Linked Data - 2nd CfP for Drift-a-LOD Workshop at SEMANTiCS'17

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2nd Call for Papers: *Drift-a-LOD2017: Detection, Representation and 
Management of Concept Drift in Linked Open Data*
*Workshop at SEMANTiCS, Amsterdam, September 11 2017*.

#driftalod
https://2017.semantics.cc/satellite-events/drift-lod

Paper submission date: July 4, 2017.


The continuous growth of the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud is extending 
to various new domains. In many of these, facts change continuously: 
political landscapes evolve, medical discoveries lead to new cures, 
artists form new collaborations. In terms of knowledge representation, 
we observe that instances change their roles, new relations appear, old 
ones become invalid, and classes change both their definition and 
member-instances.

The evolution of LOD poses concrete new challenges to stakeholders: data 
publishers need to detect changes in the real world and capture them in 
their datasets; users and applications need automated tools to adapt 
querying over diachronic datasets; knowledge engineers want to 
understand modelling practices behind ontology changes; linguists study 
drift in the meaning of words. As a continuation of last year’s 
successful Drift-a-LOD, this workshop seeks to form a community of 
researchers and practitioners working on detecting, representing and 
managing concept drift in and for LOD.

Drift-a-LOD’17 will bring together different communities that define, 
identify and manage the dynamics of concepts in their knowledge bases 
using various domain-specific methods (statistical inference, symbolic 
reasoning, natural language processing, etc.), leveraging the LOD cloud 
as a data source or as a result publishing platform.


== TOPICS ==

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

* detecting and predicting concept drift (using any method, incl. 
reasoning, data mining, word embeddings, NLP)
* representation of concept drift
* reasoning, querying, machine learning in the presence of evolving 
knowledge and drifting concepts
* theoretical explanations of drift dynamics
* visualization and presentation of evolving knowledge
* ontology evolution and concept drift
* empirical studies of how concepts drift
* evaluation of concept drift detection methods
* applications working in the presence of concept drift
* frameworks addressing concept identity over time

== IMPORTANT DATES ==

July 4, 2017: deadline to submit papers
August 1, 2017: notifications to authors
August 14, 2017: camera ready versions
September 11, 2017: workshop

== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ==

We invite full papers and short papers. Contributions should follow the 
ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting and must not exceed 8 pages in length 
for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, including references and 
optional appendices. The layout templates can be found here: 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Papers 
should be submitted through the EasyChair submission system at 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=driftalod2017

Contributions may be accepted as either long of short presentations 
depending on quality, novelty, and potential to stimulate a discussion 
at the workshop. Accepted contributions will be published on the CEUR-WS 
website (or equivalent).

At least one author needs to register for the workshop. Day passes for 
the workshop are available at 40 euro (excl. VAT).

== WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ==

Laura Hollink, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands
Albert Meroño Peñuela, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sándor Darányi, University of Borås, Sweden
Efstratios Kontopoulos, Center for Research & Technology Hellas, Greece


Dr. Efstratios Kontopoulos / Postdoctoral Researcher, Semantic Technologies

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Technology Hellas (CERTH)
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