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DEW 2018: Data Exploration in the Web 3.0 Age (DEW 2018)
http://swlab.unica.it/dew2018/

Conference Track @27th IEEE WETICE Conference
Paris, France, June 27-29, 2018
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** Update: New submission deadline (March 16, 2018) **


CALL FOR PAPERS
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Over the course of the last years, currently emerging Web 3.0 environments have provided a strong potential for the integration of data sources, applications and tools. In such a pervasive and highly dynamic scenario, existing techniques for accessing and managing web content seem to be actually inadequate to satisfy the user needs. More implicit and automatic ways of exploring data information are needed to improve the usability of web resources.
These challenges are not limited to enhance information retrieval, but aims to raise awareness of how such information can be put to use in order to transform a specific dataset into a particularly significant resource when used in conjunction with other sources of information, also raising several important challenges for future data and web mining methods.

The goal of the Data Exploration in the Web 3.0 Age (DEW 2018) IEEE track is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the areas related to data exploration, in a very broad sense. The track welcomes contributions from data mining, query languages, data visualization, graph databases and other fields related to the analysis and exploitation of data. Papers focusing on Semantic technologies and Graph databases are particularly welcome.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Any work related to data exploration is welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Text and Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery
* Faceted Search and Browsing
* Information Retrieval
* Data Visualization and UX for Web 3.0 data
* Querying interfaces and languages including Constrained natural languages
* Entity Recognition and merging, Type classification, record linkage and property ranking
* Privacy and Security issues in Data Exploration
* Machine learning and statistical methods for natural language and Web 3.0 data
* Platforms and Applications exploring data in all domains including social, web, bioinformatics and finance
* Knowledge graph creation, reasoning, and exploration
* Data streams and the Internet of Things
* Semantic Web and Linked Data analytics


COMMITTEES
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Program Chairs
Maurizio Atzori, University of Cagliari
Barbara Pes, University of Cagliari

Technical Program Committee
Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, University of A Coruña, Spain
Muhao Chen, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Nicoletta Dessì, University of Cagliari, Italy
Matteo Interlandi, Microsoft, U.S.A.
Giuseppe M. Mazzeo, Facebook, U.S.A.
Fabio Persia, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Daniele Riboni, University of Cagliari, Italy
Timo Sztyler, University of Mannheim, Germany
Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Danuta Zakrzewska, Politechnika Łódzka, Poland


SUBMISSIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
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Papers up to six (6) double-column pages (including figures, tables and references) should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere and are to be formatted according to the IEEE template provided at the DEW 2018 website. Technical paper authors MUST submit their manuscripts through EasyChair in PDF format.
Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in a volume available under IEEE Digital Library. The proceedings will be submitted for indexing through INSPEC, Compendex, Thomson Reuters, DBLP, Google Scholar and EI Index, and available in both Elsevier Scopus and ISI Web of Science databases.
Distinguished quality papers presented at the DEW 2018 will be also selected for publication in internationally renowned journals.


IMPORTANT DATES
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* Abstract submission deadline: February 19, 2018
* Submission deadline: February 26, 2018
* Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2018
* Camera-ready submission: April 13, 2018


CONTACT: For any question regarding DEW 2018 please contact the organizers at atzori@unica.it