Meta4eS @ OnTheMove Conferences and Workshops - Deadline extension

*********************  Deadline Extension: 9th June 2013
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                        2nd International Workshop on
Methods, Evaluation, Tools and Applications for the Creation and
Consumption
of Structured Data for the e-Society (Meta4eS)

- part of the OnTheMove Conferences & Workshops -
Graz, Austria, 9-13 September 2013

Website: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/meta4es-2013

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Sponsored by:

 - The Brussels Institute for Research and Innovation through the Open
Semantic
   Cloud for Brussels Project (OSCB, http://www.oscb.be/).

Supported by:

 - IFIP TC 12 WG 12.7 – Social Networking Semantics and Collective
Intelligence


With a special keynote session: Harold Boley, Prof. University of New
Brunswick,
                                Canada

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SCOPE


The future e-Society - renamed “OnTheMoveSociety” in the context of Meta4eS
-
is an e-inclusive society based on the extensive use of digital technologies
at all levels of interaction between its members. It is a society that
evolves
based on knowledge and that empowers individuals by creating virtual
communities that benefit from social inclusion, access to information,
enhanced participation,interaction and freedom of expression, among other.
This leads to radical changes in the dynamics and the interaction between
its members, determining new economic scenarios.

In this context, the role of the World Wide Web and the information and
communication technologies (ICTs) in the way people and organisations
exchange
information and interact in the social cyberspace is crucial. Large amounts
of
structured data are being published and shared and a growing number of
services
and applications emerge from it.

The structured data that are being published – e.g., as RDF on the Web of
Data - is the result of current popular initiatives adopted by a growing
number
of actors from transversal domains (e.g. governments, city municipalities,
etc.).
Managing such data in order to make sense of it by producing services and
applications for end-user consumption from government and public body data
is
presently a huge challenge for the research community, going towards a
Value Web.
>From a business perspective, the (dynamic) composition of services using
structured data stimulates the market.

These initiatives take into account methods for the creation and consumption
of structured data and tools that make possible their application by
end-users
to real-life situations, as well as their evaluation. The final aim is to
lower
the barrier between end-users and ICTs through contributions to the
e-Society
such as multilingual information, information visualisation, privacy and
trust,
rich multimedia retrieval, etc.


The applications must be designed in such a way to help people use their
knowledge
at best and generate new knowledge in return, while keeping intact their
privacy
and confidentiality, whether it is in e-Health, e-Government, e-Democracy
and in
other areas of the e-Society.



The second edition of the Meta4eS workshop aims at bringing together
researchers,
professionals and experts interested to discuss, demonstrate and share best
practices, ideas and results around the creation, management and,
particularly,
consumption of structured data for the e-Society. The focus will be both on
scientific and technological research and on industrial use cases from
various
application domains.



TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics related to methods, tools and applications for the creation and
consumption
of Structured Data (SD) for e-Society and their evaluation are of interest.
These
include (but are not limited to) best practices, case studies and tendencies
related to:

* Ontology Evolution from Social Processes
* Use of Natural Language Resources in the Creation and Consumption of SD
* Automatic Multimedia Annotation
* Semantic-driven Multimedia Retrieval
* Exploiting Multilingual Terminology for SD Consumption
* Automation of the generation of RDF from legacy databases
* Spatio-temporal Aspects of Data applied to e-Society
* Scientific Visualisation of SD
* SD Contribution to e-Society
* Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Sharing in e-Society
* Best Practices in Consuming SD for e-Society
* Lightweight Ontology Creation Methodologies for e-Society
* Ontology in Use for e-Society Applications (e-Energy, e-Health,
e-Government,
  Linked Open Cultural Heritage, etc.)
* Service composition for e-Society
* Security, Privacy and Trust in Consuming SD
* Evaluation (of above-mentioned Methodologies, Tools and Applications)
* Usability and Socio-Technical Systems Theory applied to SD in e-Society
* Research Projects and Live Demos regarding Applications of SD for
e-Society

IMPORTANT DATES

* Abstract Submission: 2 June 2013
* Paper Submission: 9 June 2013
* Demo & Poster Abstract Submission: 9 June 2013
* Acceptance Notification: 2 July 2013
* Camera Ready Due: 16 July 2013
* Registration Due: 16 July 2013
* OTM Conferences and Workshops: 9-13 September 2013
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three members of the workshop
Program Committee,
based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of
expression.
Submissions must be in English and are of two types: regular papers and
short papers.
Papers should not exceed 5,000 words (excluding references), and should not
exceed 10 pages in
the final camera-ready format. Short papers, of at most 5 pages in the
final camera-ready format,
may relate to a software tool demonstration, describe a small case study,
or explore preliminary
ideas about a relevant topic. Papers should be formatted according to the
Springer Verlag LNCS
style and submitted in PDF format. Author instructions can be found at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Paper submission site:

http://submissions.onthemove-conferences.org/2013/meta4es/


Papers, demos and posters presenting ongoing studies relevant to the
workshop’s topics are
encouraged for submission.

All accepted workshop papers (regular papers or short papers) will be
published by Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and indexed by ISI, ACM Digital
Library and DBLP.

Failure to commit to presentation at the workshop automatically excludes a
paper from the
Conference Proceedings.


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

* Ioana Ciuciu
  Joseph Fourier University
  E-mail: ciuciu@imag.fr


* Anna Fensel
  STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, and FTW Telecommunications
Research Center
  E-mail: anna.fensel@sti2.at

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Adrian Brasoveanu, MODUL Vienna University, Austria
* Alberto Messina, RAI – Centre for Research and Technological Innovation,
Italy
* Alina Dia Miron, Recognos, Romania
* Ana Roxin, Bougogne University, France
* Andrea Ko, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
* Andreas, Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
* Christophe Debruyne, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Christophe Roche, University Savoie, France
* Cristian Vasquez, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Davor Meersman, iMinds VUB, Belgium
* Doina Tatar, University Babes-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca, Romania
* Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway
* Efstratios Kontopoulos, School of Science and Technology,
  International Hellenic University, Greece
* Erik Mannens, iMinds-UGent-MMLab, Belgium
* Fouad Zablith, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
* Georgios  Meditskos, Informatics and Telematics Institute,
  Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
* Irene Celino CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Koen Kerremans, Erasmushogeschool Brussel, Belgium
* Magali Séguran, SAP Research, France
* Maria-Esther Vidal, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
* Marta Sabou, MODUL Vienna University, Austria
* Mike Matton, VlaamseRadio en Televisieomroep, Belgium
* Ozelín Lopez, Playence, Austria
* Peter Spyns, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Informatics and Telematics Institute,
  Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
* Yan Tang, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Yuri Katkov, Wikivote! ltd, St. Petersburg National University
  of Informational Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Russia

-- 
Ioana Ciuciu
Senior Researcher

Joseph Fourier University
SIGMA / LIG
Building C, room 227
220 Rue de la Chimie, BP 53
38041 GRENOBLE CEDEX 9
France
Tel: +33 (0)4 76 51 40 24
Fax: +33 (0)4 76 63 55 50