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Meta4eS 2012 : Methods, Evaluation, Tools and Applications for the Creation and Consumption of Structured Data for the e-Society | |||||||||
Link: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/meta4es-2012 | |||||||||
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Methods, Evaluation, Tools and Applications for the Creation and Consumption of Structured Data for the e-Society (Meta4eS) - part of the OnTheMove Conferences & Workshops - Rome, Italy, 10-14 September 2012 Website: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/meta4es-2012 =============================================================================== Supported by: - Open Semantic Cloud for Brussels (OSCB, http://www.oscb.be/) Project - IFIP TC 12 WG 12.7 ? Social Networking Semantics and Collective Intelligence With a special keynote session (tba). =============================================================================== SCOPE The future e-Society - renamed ?OnTheMoveSociety? in the context of OTM 2012 - is a society created by extensive use of digital technologies at all levels of interaction between its members. It is a society that evolves based on knowledge and that empowers individuals by creating virtual communities that benefit from social inclusion, access to information, enhanced interaction and freedom of expression, among other. This leads to radical changes in the dynamics and the interaction between its members, determining new economic scenarios. The e-Society benefits from the ability to compress both space and time, which allows sharing large amounts of data in real time anywhere in the world. In this context, the role of the World Wide Web and the telecommunication technologies in the way people and organisations exchange information and interact in the social cyberspace is crucial. Large amounts of structured data are being published and shared and a growing number of services and applications emerge from it. The applications must be designed in such a way to help people use their knowledge at best and generate new knowledge in return, while keeping intact their privacy and confidentiality, whether it is in e-Health, e-Government, e-Democracy or in any other area of the e-Society. A current popular initiative adopted by a growing number of actors from transversal domains (e.g. governments, city municipalities, etc.) encourage publishing structured data (e.g. RDF) on the Web of Data. Managing such data in order to make sense of it by producing services and applications for end-user consumption from government and public bodies data is presently a huge challenge for the research community. This initiative takes into account methods for the creation and consumption of structured data and tools that make possible their application by end-users to real-life situations, as well as their evaluation. The final aim is to lower the barrier between end-users and information and communication technologies through contributions to the e-Society such as multilingual information, information visualisation, privacy and trust, rich multimedia retrieval, etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, professionals and experts interested to discuss, demonstrate and share best practices, ideas and results around the creation and particularly the consumption of structured data for the e-Society. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics related to methods, tools and applications for the creation and consumption of Structured Data (SD) for e-Society and their evaluation are of interest. These include (but are not limited to) best practices, case studies and tendencies related to: * Ontology Evolution from Social Processes * Exploitation of Natural Language Resources in the Creation and Consumption of SD * Automatic Multimedia Annotation * Semantic-driven Multimedia Retrieval * Mining Structured Data of Natural Language Resources from Unstructured Data * Exploiting Multilingual Terminology for SD Consumption * Database Atomisation * Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Data applied to e-Society * Scientific Visualisation of SD * SD Contribution to e-Society * Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Sharing in e-Society * Best Practices in Consuming SD for e-Society * Lightweight Ontology Creation Methodologies for e-Society * Ontology in Use for e-Society Applications * Security, Privacy and Trust in Consuming SD * Evaluation (of above-mentioned Methodologies, Tools and Applications) * Usability and Socio-Technical Systems Theory applied to SD in e-Society * Research Projects and Live Demos regarding Applications of SD for e-Society IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract Submission: 31 May 2012 * Paper Submission: 4 June 2012 * Demo & Poster Abstract Submission: 4 June 2012 * Acceptance Notification: 2 July 2012 * Camera Ready Due: 16 July 2012 * Registration Due: 16 July 2012 * OTM Conferences and Workshops: 10-14 September 2012 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three members of the workshop Program Committee, based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English and are of two types: full papers and demo and poster abstracts. Papers should not exceed 5,000 words (excluding references and appendices), and should not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Demo and poster abstracts should be 2 pages long. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style and submitted in PDF format. Author instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Paper submission site: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper Papers, demos and posters presenting ongoing studies around the workshop?s topics are encouraged for submission. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings by Springer Verlag LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the workshop automatically excludes a paper from the Conference Proceedings. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS * Ioana Ciuciu Vrije Universiteit Brussel E-mail: iciuciu@vub.ac.be * Anna Fensel STI Innsbruck E-mail: anna.fensel@sti2.at PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Adrian M. P. Brasoveanu, MODUL Vienna University, Austria * Alberto Messina, Multimedia Information Engineering Area RAI - Centro Ricerche e Innovazione Tecnologica, Italy * Alejandro Vaisman, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium * Alina Dia Miron, Recognos, Romania * AndreaKo, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary * Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Andres Dominguez Burgos, Erasmushogeschool Brussel, Belgium * Andriy Nikolov, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, United Kingdom * Bart Jansen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Christophe Debruyne, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Christophe Roche, University Savoie, France * Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom * Cristian Vasquez, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom * Davor Meersman, Curtin University, Australia * Delia David, Facebook, California, US * Doina Tatar, University Babes-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca, Romania * Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway * Efstratios Kontopoulos, School of Science and Technology, International Hellenic University, Greece * Elena Simperl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Erik Mannens, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium * Esteban Zimanyi, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium * Fouad Zablith, American University of Beirut, Lebanon * Frederik Temmermans, Universum Digitalis, Belgium * Georgios Meditskos, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece * Irene Celino, CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * John Domingue, Open University, United Kingdom * Koen Kerremans, Erasmushogeschool Brussel, Belgium * Liliana Ibanescu, AgroParisTech & I.N.R.A. M?t@risk, France * Magali S?guran, SAP Research, France * Maria-Esther Vidal, Universidad Sim?n Bol?var, Venezuela * Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext, Bulgaria * Marta Sabou, MODUL Vienna University, Austria * NMike Matton, VlaamseRadio en Televisieomroep, Belgium * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine * Ozel?n Lopez,Playence, Austria * Peter Spyns, EWI Flamish Government, Belgium * Pieter de Leenheer, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands * Roger Roberts, Radio-T?l?vision Belge de la Communaut? Fran?aise, Belgium * Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece * Yan Tang, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Yuri Katkov, Wikivote! ltd, St. Petersburg National University of Informational Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Russia |
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