[CfP] - Second Call for Papers - Special Issue in the Journal of Web Semantics on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web

Dear members of the mailing list,

The Journal of Web Semantics invites submissions for a special issue on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web.

Deadline: 30th August 2017
Author Notification: 30th October 2017
Planned Publication: 28th February 2018

This special issue focuses on providing new techniques and innovative solutions to address challenges portrayed by managing the ever-growing Web of Data, fostering wider adoption of Semantic technologies within different domains and scenarios. We welcome original submissions that address (but are not restricted to) the following areas:

●       Management of Data Versioning
○     Representation and maintenance of data versions and changes (change representation, change detection)
○     Efficient indexing to resolve time-based queries
○     Efficient versioned data access (retrieval, sharing, distribution, streaming)
○     Languages to query versioned data stores
○     Benchmarking of versioning data stores
●       Reasoning of Evolving Knowledge
○     Evolving patterns extraction
○     Reasoning for trend analysis
○     Reasoning for knowledge shift detection
○     Exploitation of reasoning results to recommendation systems
●       Visualization and Presentation of Evolving Knowledge
○     Browsing evolving knowledge
○     Visualizing trends
○     Visual summarization of knowledge sub-domains
○     User interfaces for evolving knowledge presentation
●       Data Preservation
○     Digital preservation for the Web of Data
○     Dynamics of context or background (tacit) knowledge
○     Design of evolution-aware Linked Data applications (for appraisal, storage management, interlinking, analysis)
●       Data Quality and Provenance
○     Incremental quality assessment for evolving knowledge
○     Provenance in evolution
●       Ontology Evolution and Concept Drift:
○     Representation of evolving ontologies
○     Efficient access of different versions of an ontology
○     Concept drift representation
○     Detection and prediction

More information can be found here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-managing-the-evolution-and-preservation-of <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-managing-the-evolution-and-preservation-of>

Guest Editors:

Jeremy Debattista, ADAPT Center, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Javier D. Fernández,  Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Jürgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Maria-Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany


Best Regards,
On Behalf of the Guest Editors 
Jeremy Debattista