CfP: ESWC2016 Workshop PROFILES'16 on Dataset Profiling and Federated Search for Linked Data

[Apologies for cross-posting]

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CALL FOR PAPERS:
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The 3rd International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling & fEderated Search
for Linked Data (PROFILES’16)

- Venue: PROFILES 2016 is co-located with ESWC 2016 and takes place in
Anissaras, Crete, Greece.
- Date: May 29 or May 30, 2016. Exact date to be announced.
- URL: http://www.keystone-cost.eu/profiles2016

The PROFILES’16 workshop aims to gather innovative query and search
approaches for large-scale, distributed and heterogeneous linked 
datasets inline with dedicated approaches to analyse, describe and 
discover endpoints, as an inherent task of query distribution. 
PROFILES’16 will equally consider both novel scientific methods and
techniques for querying, assessment, profiling, and curation of 
distributed datasets as well as the application perspective, such as the 
innovative use of tools and methods for providing structured
knowledge about distributed datasets, their evolution and fundamentally, 
means to search and query the Web of Data. The workshop will provide a 
highly interactive forum for researchers in the fields of Semantic Web 
and Linked Data, Databases, Semantic Search, Text Mining, NLP and 
Information Retrieval.

The main areas of interest of PROFILES’16 include dataset/endpoint
analysis, profiling and discovery along with techniques for distributed
semantic search that take such profiles into account. In particular this 
includes:

Dataset/endpoint analysis, profiling and discovery:

- dataset profile representation (vocabularies, schemas)
- novel applications and techniques for dataset profiling
- automated approaches to dataset analysis and exploration
- analysis/monitoring of dataset and graph dynamics
- topic profiling of datasets
- assessment of dataset schema conformance and evolution
- dataset quality analysis for query routing

Distributed semantic search:

- query routing taking into account relevance and quality of
distributed datasets
- semantic annotation and expansion for keyword queries
- keyword query interpretation and disambiguation for Linked Data
- fusing, cleaning, ranking and refining search results
- scalability & performance of distributed data queries
- novel applications for federated search over Linked Data

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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We welcome the following types of contributions.

- Short (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 15 pages) research papers
- Poster abstracts and system demonstrations should not exceed 4 pages

All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted
according to the Springer LNCS proceedings style.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the PC. Papers 
will be evaluated according to their significance,
originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the
workshop. Please submit your contributions electronically
in PDF format via the Easychair system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=profiles2016.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Friday March 11, 2016: Full & short research paper, poster & demo
submission deadline
- Friday April 1, 2016: Notification of acceptance
- Friday April 15, 2016: Camera-ready paper due

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PROCEEDINGS
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The complete set of papers will be published with the CEUR Workshop
Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), listed by the DBLP.

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WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
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- Elena Demidova (University of Southampton, UK)
- Stefan Dietze (L3S Research Center, Germany)
- Julian Szymanski (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
- John Breslin (NUI Galway, Ireland)

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Charlie Abela, University of Malta
Alessandro Adamou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Marco Antonio Casanova, PUC – Rio
Mathieu D’aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Enrico Daga, The Open University
Tom Heath, Open Data Institute
Saud Aljaloud, University of Southampton
Andreas Nürnberger, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg
Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim
Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio
Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton
Carlos Pedrinaci, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Raquel Trillo Lado, University of Zaragoza
Thomas Gottron, University of Koblenz-Landau
Simon Gottschalk, L3S Research Center, Germany
Dmitry Mouromtsev, ITMO University

Received on Wednesday, 9 December 2015 05:41:13 UTC