- From: Emanuele Della Valle <emanuele.dellavalle@polimi.it>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:07:28 +0200
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
*** Final Call for Papers -- IJSWIS Special Issue on Stream Reasoning *** The International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems seeks contributions to a Special Issue on Stream reasoning. Editors: Emanuele Della Valle, Stefano Ceri, Frank van Harmelen = Introduction = We live in a "streaming world!". For an increasing number of modern Web applications, ranging from sensor networks to social media analysis, the assumption that the world is only evolving slowly no longer holds. The time has arrived for the Semantic Web community to pick up the work done on stream and complex event processing in the data base community. This special issue seeks to build upon a call in [1] to start investigating the abstractions, foundations, methods, and tools for Stream Reasoning -- reasoning upon rapidly changing information. Several independent groups have picked up the agenda set in [1]. Several different forms of deductive and inductive Stream Reasoning have been investigated. The foundations have been established for reasoning "on the fly" on data streams while they pass by. Alternative abstractions for representing and querying semantic stream arose. The exploitation of the temporal order of data streams has been recognizing as a key optimization method for reasoning on streams. Parallelization and distribution techniques for Stream Reasoning have recently received also the attention they deserve. This IJSWIS special issue on Stream Reasoning aims at presenting new theory and and showcasing technical innovation for Semantic Web technologies that can process heterogeneous data streams in a knowledge-intensive environment. We solicit high quality, original research contributions on all aspects of Stream Reasoning, including but not limited to the following topics of interest, in order to capture the state of the art and to stimulate further developments in this and related areas. = Topics of Interests = * Theory - Formalization of Stream Reasoning - Notions of soundness and completeness - Abstractions for modelling semantic streams - Query languages for semantic streams (syntax and semantics) * Stream Reasoning methods - Incremental updates of deductive and inductive materializations - Query rewriting techniques for ontology-base access to heterogeneous streams - Combining semantic streams with massive data collections - Inductive materialization of incomplete and noisy streams - Usage and evolution of semantic models while processing data streams * Distribution and parallelization of Stream Reasoning - Scalability and high throughput issues - Distribution techniques and load balancing * Stream reasoning engineering - Protocols for interconnecting distributed stream reasoners - Interoperability of stream reasoners - Reliability and adaptability - Benchmarks * Applications of stream reasoning - Sensor Networks - Social Media - Situation awareness = Submissions Process = Please submit abstracts and papers at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijswissr2012. After submitting the paper, please also inform the guest editors by email, indicating the paper ID assigned by the submission system. Papers must be of high quality and should clearly state the technical issue(s) being addressed as related to Stream Reasoning. Research papers should present a proof of concept for any novel technique they are proposing. Wherever possible, submissions should demonstrate the contribution of the research by reporting on a systematic evaluation of the work. If a submission is based on a prior publication in a workshop or conference, the journal submission must involve substantial advance (a minimum of 30%) in conceptual terms as well as in exposition (e.g., more comprehensive testing/evaluation/validation or additional applications/usage). If this applies to your submission, please explicitly mention relevant previous publications along with the value addition in the extended manuscript being submitted. All papers must be submitted by June 15, 2012. The recommended length of submitted papers is around 8,000 words (Editors may allow longer papers if necessary). All papers are subject to peer review performed by at least three established researchers drawn from a panel of experts selected for this special issue. Accepted papers will undergo for a second cycle of revision and reviewer feedback. Please submit manuscripts as a PDF file using the online submission system. IJSWIS is the first Semantic Web journal to be included in the Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI) citation index, is one of the highly cited journals in WWW (http://bit.ly/www-j1) and is included in all major indices; see http://www.ijswis.org. = Important Dates = * Abstract Submission: Past official deadline, but we're still accepting abstracts * Submission Deadline: 31th October 2012 * Notifications: 15st December 2012 * Camera-ready papers due: 1st February 2012 * Publication: First quarter of 2013 -- Emanuele Della Valle Politecnico di Milano http://emanueledellavalle.org
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