Last Call! METHOD 2015: The 4th International Workshop on Methods for Establishing Trust of (Open) Data - final deadline approaching: 14/07

Hello,

I believe this call is relevant to the Semantic Web community:

The deadline for all submissions is July 14th, 23:59 HST, although Davide
and I will accept pleas for a final extension with 1 day if there is enough
interest.
That means that there is one week left to submit your ideas on bringing
trust to the Web. I find it hard to believe that people don't have an
opinion on this. I'm having a hard time believing that people don't have an
opinion obout this stuff ;-) Don't hold out on us! We're looking for a
discussion-centered workshop, so don't hesitate to share your position on
this important cornerstone of the Web We Want in the form of a short 2 to 4
page paper. Data and demo papers are also still more than welcome!

Below, you can find the CfP one more time, please spread it to everyone in
your network!

Best regards,
Tom and Davide
Chairs of METHOD2015

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Last Call for Papers
METHOD 2015: The 4th International Workshop on Methods for Establishing
Trust of (Open) Data
http://trustingwebdata.org/method2015

The METHOD workshop aims to bring together researchers working on the
problem of trust and quality assessment of (open) data, and all components
that contribute to this goal. This year, METHOD will be co-located for the
second time with the International Semantic Web Conference in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, on October 11th or 12th.

Motivation
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Trust assessment of content on the Web is a highly complex concept that
depends on objective as well as subjective criteria, including the
content's provenance, but also the consumer's background, personality, and
context. However, the exact criteria and tolerances will differ for each
domain, requiring detailed knowledge about the data and its users. This
also makes it very challenging to find generic solutions that are
applicable everywhere. Therefore, stakeholders in this field are
continuously investigating new techniques to handle and prepare data in
such a way that it becomes easier for machines to process it with the goal
of trust and/or quality assessment. We found that our research community
lacks a platform for researchers and engineers to exchange views on this
matter from a technical perspective. The METHOD workshops provide a forum
for researchers and engineers to discuss approaches, theories, and concrete
technical means required to establish trust in information on the Web.

Furthermore, because this field is so new, we have observed that
researchers in the community lack a place to submit ongoing work and
untested ideas. Due to a shortage of ground-truth data, fully evaluated
approaches are scarce (and when they do appear, they are rarely sent to a
workshop). On the other hand, stakeholders in the field often own data sets
that might be useful for researchers, but these data sets remain unexposed
to the research community. Therefore, this edition of METHOD will
specifically focus on bringing research ideas and data together.

Participating
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This year, there are more ways to participate in METHOD than ever!
You can participate as follows:
1) submit a short research paper (2 to 4 pages), describing a research idea
that is highly motivated, but not necessarily fully evaluated;
2) submit a full research paper (up to 10 pages), describing more mature
research, including evaluation;
3) submit a data paper (2 to 4 pages), describing and linking to a data set
that can be used to support and/or evaluate approaches related to the
workshop topics;
4) submit a demo paper (4 to 6 pages), describing a demonstration related
to the workshop.

Submissions are handled via Easychair (submission information will be
available soon).

Submissions should be submitted in PDF, formatted according to the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science guidelines for proceedings. Submissions to
ISWC-2015/METHOD-2015 are not anonymous or blinded. All accepted
submissions will be published in the online proceedings of METHOD 2015. At
least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and
for the main conference, ISWC2015.

Authors of selected papers may be invited to submit an extended version to
the SpringerOpen Journal of Trust Management.

Topics
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The topics of METHOD highlight many different aspects of trust, including
(but not limited to):

Trust as Predictive Quality:
    Information quality & trustworthiness
    Reasoning over data provenance, trust and quality

Trust as Soft Security:
    Data curation through trust
    Data fusion and conflict resolution
    Attestation for data services and operations
    Integrity of information

Trust through Provenance:
    Data source attribution
    Traceable data publishing and re-use
    Transparency and verification of information flows
    Usage of metadata for establishing trust
    Provenance of (open) data

Trust through Reputation:
    Community- and reputation-based accountability & trust
    Trustworthiness of user ratings & recommender systems

Representing Trust:
    Trust representation and derivation from (open) data
    Modeling trust in data-centric applications

Trust Management:
    Systems for transparent management of open data
    Trust management in the Semantic Web


Important Dates
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    submission deadline: July 14, 2015 (1-day extension possible upon
request)
    author notifications: July 31, 2015
    camera-ready deadline for accepted papers: August 14, 2015
    workshop date: October 11 or 12, 2015