2nd CFP: International workshop on Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD'12) in conjunction with EKAW 2012

SnipCFP: (Submission deadline in ~4 weeks, Keynote speaker:Anthony
Jameson,DFKI, Topics: computational models, HCI and Application domains for
Semantic data exploration)

[Apologies for cross-posting]

CALL FOR PAPERS:
*  Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD) *

   http://imash.leeds.ac.uk/event/iesd.html

International Workshop at EKAW 2012,Galway City,Ireland.
October 8/9 2012


KEYNOTE SPEAKER:ANTHONY JAMESON, DFKI
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Title: How Can We Support Multifocal Exploration of Semantic Data?
Abstract: Interaction designs for the exploration of semantic data (and,
more generally of other types of content on the web) tend to presuppose
that users (as is normally necessary in the physical world) will be
pursuing one line of exploration at a time, backtracking or restarting when
they want to switch to a different line of exploration. This talk will
address the following questions:
What types of task exist where users can benefit from being able to explore
along multiple lines in parallel, as in computational search strategies
like best-first search and beam search?
Why is multifocal exploration generally difficult with current systems?
What new interaction designs can better support multifocal exploration?
How can these forms of interaction be enhanced with intelligent techniques
(e.g., for summarization or recommendation)?
Dr Jameson will present concrete instantiations of some of these ideas from
ongoing work in the projects GLOCAL and EventMAP.


IMPORTANT DATES
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 - Submission Deadline: August 15th, 2012
 - Notification of acceptance: September 5th, 2012
 - Camera ready:TBA
 - Workshop day: October 8/9th, 2012


OVERVIEW
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IESD 2012 will provide a forum to discuss approaches for exploring semantic
data. Semantic data is available widely and semantic data exploration is
becoming a key activity in a range of application domains, such as
government organisations, education, life science, cultural heritage, and
media. Several novel interfaces and interaction means for exploration of
semantic data are being proposed, for example semantic data browsers,
ontology/content visualisation environments and semantic wikis. Although on
the rise, the current solutions are still maturing and need to take into
account human factors to make exploration intuitive or employ necessary
computational models to aid the intuitiveness and improve the effectiveness
of exploration tasks. Lessons also can be learned from the commonalities
and differences in exploration requirements between different domains.
Hence, greater benefits can be achieved by bringing together expertise
from different communities, including HCI, Semantic Web, and personalisation
with the potential application domain demands.

Time is ripe to bring together the different disciplines related to semantic
data exploration (semantic technologies, intelligent user interfaces,
adaptation and personalisation, visualisation) and form an international
community to identify the major challenges and research directions.
The workshop is intended to make the first step in shaping such community
and providing a forum that focuses on semantic data exploration and enables:

 - sharing techniques and experience
 - identifying potential domains and application areas
 - designing and reflecting on evaluation studies
 - identifying future research directions

IESD '12 will bring together different disciplines related to semantic data
exploration and form an international community to identify the major
challenges and research directions.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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IESD 2012 aims to create a forum for academic and industrial researchers
and practitioners to discuss methods and techniques for intelligent
exploration of semantic data from three angles:

 - Computational models:
     methods and techniques for analysing semantic data to discover
     connections (e.g. relatedness, similarity, complementarity,
     contradictions, and causality), entity and ontology summarisation
     methods, graph exploration, visualisation and navigation,
     user/context modelling, adaptation and personalisation, feedback
     and prompts.

 - Human factors:
     key human factors that impact the exploration of large interconnected
     complex data; effective interaction environments to help users in
     discovering connections and making sense of large volumes of
     structured and unstructured heterogeneous data (including large
     ontologies, Linked Data, semantically augmented corpus,
     semantic-enriched social data); comparison of different approaches to
     help users in a manner that does not overwhelm or confuse, intuitive
     ways to empower lay users of knowledge enriched technologies to
     explore semantic data.

 - Domains and applications:
     information needs which require exploration of semantic data; domains
     where semantic data is available and required for the practice
     (e.g. medical, media, social web, public administration, education,
     environmental/sustainability science); requirements gathering and
     evaluation studies; lessons learnt.

Further details: http://imash.leeds.ac.uk/event/iesd.html

PAPER SUBMISSION
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We welcome the following types of contributions.

* Short (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 12 pages) research papers will be
reviewed by at least two independent referees.
* Demo papers (system demonstrations) and position statements should not
exceed 3 pages.

A more detailed Call for Papers and submission instructions can be found at
the IESD'12 website: http://imash.leeds.ac.uk/event/submission.html

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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* Dhaval Thakker (University of Leeds, UK)
* Melike Sah (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
* Kouji Kozaki (Osaka University, Japan)
* Igor Popov (University of Southampton, UK)
* Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds,UK)
* Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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* Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amstredam, NL
* Neil Benn, University of Leeds, UK
* Emammnuel Blenchard,Aalborg University, Denmark
* Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China
* Ilaria Corda, British Library, UK
* Owen Conlan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Sheffield, UK
* Mariana Damova, Ontotext, Bulgaria
* Dimoklis Despotakis, University of Leeds, UK
* Christo Dichev, Winston Salem State University, USA
* Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Centre, Hannover, Germany
* Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
* Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany
* Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, NL
* Dominic Jones, from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
* Jarred Mcginnis, Press Association, UK
* Lydia Lau, University of Leeds, UK
* Yves Raimond, BBC, UK
* Declan O’Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Thanh Tran, AIFB, Germany
* Fan Yang-Turner, University of Leeds, UK


For further questions please contact us at iesd12@googlegroups.com