[CfP] Services and Applications over Linked APIs and Data #SALAD

SALAD 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS

4th workshop on Services and Applications over Linked APIs and Data
#SALAD2015 (http://salad2015.linked.services <http://salad2015.linked.services/>), co-located with ESWC
2015, Portorož, Slovenia


Important Dates
* Submission of research papers: March 16, 2015
* Notification of paper acceptance: April 3, 2015
* Submission of camera-ready papers: April 17, 2015


SALAD ingredients:
• Who?
People from the Semantic Web/Linked Data, Web services, and REST communities

• What?
Novel ideas, concepts, and applications that combine Linked Data and Web
APIs / services

• When?
ESWC workshop on June 1, 2015

• How?
An interactive workshop with lots of discussion, accepted paper
presentations and an opening keynote

• Where?
Portorož, Slovenia at the ESWC conference
(http://2015.eswc-conferences.org <http://2015.eswc-conferences.org/>)

Services and Applications for Harvesting and Creating Linked Data
The World Wide Web has undergone significant changes, developing from a
collection of a few interlinked static pages to a global ubiquitous
platform for sharing, searching and browsing dynamic and customisable
content, in a variety of different media formats. This transformation
was triggered by the ever growing number of users and websites and
continues to be supported by current developments such as the increased
use and popularity of Linked Data and Web APIs. Unfortunately, despite
some initial efforts and progress towards integrated use, these two
technologies remain mostly disjunct in terms of developing solutions and
applications. To this purpose, SALAD aim to explore the possibilities of
facilitating a better fusion of Web APIs and Linked Data, thus enabling
the harvesting and provisioning of data through applications and
services on the Web. In particular, we focus on investigating how both
static and dynamic resources (for example, sensor data or streams),
exposed via interfaces on the Web, can be used together with semantic
data, as means for enabling a shared use and providing a basis for
developing rich applications.

How do we address this challenge?
With this workshop, we aim to discover new ways to embrace the
opportunities that Web APIs offer in terms of data consumption,
processing and provisioning but also to investigate the possibilities of
integrating them more closely with Linked Data. We want to challenge
researchers towards developing integrated description and implementation
approaches through both paper submissions and interactive on-site
discussion and dialogue. In particular we are looking for description
approaches, formal models, implementation solutions, use cases and
applications that support a more automated and unified Web API and
Linked Data use.

Goals
The main goal of this workshop is to explore the possibilities of
enabling a more integrated and automated use of Web APIs, given the
context of the growing importance of Linked Data and applications,
benefiting from the available resources.
Relevant topics include:
• frameworks, methods, models and formats for describing Web APIs;
• design of distributed systems based on semantic API technology;
• overcoming performance issues in the interaction with APIs;
• development of intelligent and generic Web API clients;
• designing applications by connecting Web APIs and Linked Data for
reading and writing;
• address scalability issues while dealing with large data volumes;
• business models for Linked Data and Web APIs;
• developing technologies for a sustainable, future-proof integrated Web
API environment.

The above list is not exhaustive and we therefore actively encourage
participants to be creative. A final goal is to provide future
initiatives with the devised ideas and visions to stimulate innovation
in this research area.

Submission guidelines
We offer several opportunities to participate in SALAD:
- long papers: up to 8 pages
- short papers: up to 4 pages
- demos: up to 2 pages
- food for thought: 1 page / slide / web page / image / movie

Paper submissions will should be formatted in the Springer LNCS style.
Submissions will be made using EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=salad2015 <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=salad2015>

eMail: salad2015@easychair.org <mailto:salad2015@easychair.org>

Accepted papers will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings. Selected
papers will be included in a separate ESWC workshop papers volume.

Important Dates
All deadlines are, unless otherwise stated, at 23:59 Hawaii time.
* Submission of research papers: March 16, 2015
* Notification of paper acceptance: April 3, 2015
* Submission of camera-ready papers: April 17, 2015
* Workshop date: June 1, 2015 (full day)

Organising Committee
* Maria Maleshkova – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
* Ruben Verborgh – IBBT – ELIS, Ghent University, BE
* Steffen Stadtmüller – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE

Program Committee
* Andreas Harth - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
* Armin Haller - CSIRO, Australia
* Erik Mannens - Ghent University, Belgium
* Erik Wilde - EMC, USA
* Jacek Kopecky - University of Portsmouth, UK
* José Luis Ambite - University of Southern California, USA
* Jürgen Umbrich - DERI Galway, Ireland
* María-Esther Vidal - Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
* Peter Haase - metaphacts, Germany
* Sven Casteleyn - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Barry Norton - The British Museum, UK
* Carlos Pedrinaci - The Open University, UK
* Sudhir Agarwal - Stanford University, US
* Kjetil Kjernsmo -  University of Oslo, Norway
* Thomas Steiner - Google, Germany
* Michael Mrissa - Université de Lyon, France
* Lionel Médini - Université de Lyon, France
* Pierre-Antoine Champin - Université de Lyon, France
* Pedro Szekely - University of Southern Californi, USA
* Markus Lanthaler - Graz University of Technology, Austria
* Pieter Colpaert - MultiMedia Lab - Ghent university, Belgium

More details can be found on the workshop website:
http://salad2015.linked.services <http://salad2015.linked.services/>