HPCSW Workshop at ISWC 2014

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                                   CALL FOR PAPERS


3rd Workshop on High-Performance Computing for the Semantic Web
(HPCSW 2014)

October 19|20, 2014 (TBD)

http://csel.cs.colorado.edu/~ergo7756/hpcsw2014/index.html

collocated with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014)

October 19 - 23, 2014 in Riva del Garda - Trentino, Italy

http://iswc2014.semanticweb.org/


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IMPORTANT DATES

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Paper Submission Deadline: July 7, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Time)

Acceptance Notification:   July 30, 2014

Camera Ready Papers Due:   August 20, 2014

Workshop Day (half day):   October 19|20, 2014 (TBD)



OVERVIEW AND TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Over the last several years, there has been an increase of research in
parallel semantic
web data processing (SWDP) in the semantic web community as well as
burgeoning
interest in the high-performance computing (HPC) community. The goal of the
High-Performance Computing for the Semantic Web (HPCSW) workshop is to
facilitate
synergy between the HPC and semantic web communities as well as between
academia
and industry to further scalability of SWDP.

HPCSW is a half-day workshop that will begin with presentations of
technical papers
submitted for publication and will end with a discussion among (but not
limited to) invited
participants. Proceedings will be published online. Papers should present
work in which
HPC in some form (e.g., parallelism, supercomputers, FPGAs, etc.) is
employed to
improve SWDP (any kind of processing of semantic web data). Broad topics
for
papers include (but are not limited to):

* Parallelizing SWDP.
* Exploiting HPC architectures for SWDP.
* Employing parallel graph algorithms for SWDP.
* Benchmarks for SWDP from a HPC perspective.

The following questions will guide (but not limit) the discussion:

* How important is it to have high-performant applications for the semantic
web?
* What are the boundaries of HPC for SWDP?
* What SWDP lends itself to HPC and/or parallel processing?
* What pre-existing work in HPC can be leveraged for SWDP?
* How can scalable graph analytics be used for semantic web processing?
* What are the tradeoffs between commodity HPC and specialized HPC for
SWDP?
(e.g., MapReduce vs. "hand-coded", commodity clusters vs. supercomputers)


We expect that the issue of scalability is going to challenge the Semantic
Web
for a long period of time and significant effort is needed in order to
tackle the problem.
This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners to
share their
recent ideas and progress towards building scalable systems for the
Semantic Web;
participants from related disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence,
Databases,
Information Integration, Supercomputing, and High-Performance Computing are
also welcome.


SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

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Papers must be submitted by 23:59 Hawaii Time on July 7, 2014
at the following address:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpcsw2014.

Position/short papers should not exceed six (6) pages in length, and full
papers
should not exceed sixteen (16) pages in length. All papers must be
formatted
according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in
PDF
(Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. More information about the
Springer's
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) is available on the Springer LNCS
Web
site http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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    * Eric Goodman (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
    * David Mizell (Cray, Inc., USA)
    * Jacopo Urbani (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
    * Jesse Weaver (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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    * Alexey Cheptsov (HLRS, Stuttgart, Germany)
    * Andy Kopser (YarcData, Seattle, WA, USA)
    * Cliff Joslyn (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, WA, USA)
    * David Haglin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA,
USA)
    * David Mizell (Cray, Inc., Seattle, WA, USA)
    * Eric Goodman (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA)
    * Gregory Todd Williams (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY,
USA)
    * Jacopo Urbani (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
    * Jesse Weaver (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA,
USA)
    * Juergen Umbrich (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway,
Ireland)
    * Rob Vesse (YarcData, Seattle, WA, USA)
    * Sinan al-Saffar (Semantic Scale LLC, Tampa, FL, USA)
    * Spyros Kotoulas (IBM Research, Ireland Research Lab, Dublin, Ireland)



For further questions, please contact Eric Goodman (
eric.goodman@colorado.edu).


Eric Goodman
Sandia National Laboratories
Ph.D. Student, University of Colorado Boulder