AI Mashup Challenge 2012 at the 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) Hersonissos, Crete, Greece; May 27–31, 2012

Submission deadline: March 31, 2012

A mashup is a lightweight (web) application that offers new functionality by combining, aggregating and transforming resources and services available on the web. The AI mashup challenge accepts and awards “intelligent” mashups that use AI technology, including but not restricted to

• machine learning and data mining
• machine vision
• natural language processing
• reasoning
• ontologies and the semantic web.

The emphasis is not on providing and consuming semantic markup, but rather on using intelligence to mashup these resources in a more powerful way.

Some examples:

• Information extraction or automatic text summarization to create a task-oriented overview mashup for mobile devices.
• Semantic Web technology and data sources adapting to user and task-specific configurations.
• Semantic background knowledge (such as ontologies, WordNet or Cyc) to improve search and content combination.
• Machine translation for mashups that cross language borders.
• Machine vision technology for novel ways of aggregating images, for instance mixing real and virtual environments.
• Intelligent agents taking over simple household planning tasks.
• Text-to-speech technology creating a voice mashup with intelligent and emotional intonation.
• The display of Pub Med articles on a map based on geographic entity detection referring to diseases or health centers.

You find more detail on the website of the 2011 challenge.

• € 1750 sponsored by Elsevier
• Speech outfit from Linguatec
• 10 O’Reilly e-books
• 10 books from Addison-Wesley

The challenge tries to mediate between a grassroot bar-camp style and standard conference organization. This means for submitters:

• You announce your mashup as soon as you are ready, simply sending an email to the organizers (address below).
• The deadline is March 31, 2012.
• At a subpage of the mashup website provided by the organizers, you explain your work and refer to its URL.
• Your mashup stays at your URL and under your control. You can go on improving it.
• At review time (March 31, 2012), reviewers need a 5 page paper (LNCS format) that explains the mashup.
• The reviewers select the most interesting mashups for presentation and vote during the conference.
• Vote is public for all conference participants, but the reviewer quota makes up 40%.
• Be prepared to a give a brief talk and a demo during the conference.
• Awards will be handed over during the conference, and everybody will congratulate the winners!

• Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer, Hannover, Germany
• Krzysztof Janowicz, Santa Barbara, USA

• Luis M. Vilches Blázquez, Universidad Politécnica Madrid, Spain
• Christoph Lange, Univ. of Bremen & Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
• Emilian Pascalau, University of Potsdam, Germany
• Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, AT&T Labs, Florham Park NJ, USA
• Jevon Wright, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
• Aidan Hogan, DERI Galway, Ireland
• Alexandre Passant, DERI Galway, Ireland
• Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Tomi Kauppinen, Muenster, Germany
• Thorsten Liebig, Univ. of Ulm & derivo GmbH, Germany
• Mao Ye, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
• Daniele dell’Aglio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer

I-SEMANTICS 2012 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems Graz, Austria, 5 – 7 September 2012

including Call for Submissions 5th Linked Data Cup

• Wolters Kluwer Germany main sponsor of I-SEMANTICS 2012
• I-SEMANTICS proceedings published by ACM ICPS
• Important Dates (Research & Application Papers & I-Challenge)
  • Abstract Submission Deadline : April 2, 2012
  • Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012
  • Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012
  • Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012
• Important Dates (I-Challenge)
  • Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012
  • Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012
  • Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012
• Important Dates (Posters & Demo Papers & PhD Track)
  • Submission Deadline: May 21, 2012
  • Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2012

I-SEMANTICS 2012 is the 8th International Conference within the I-SEMANTICS series. I-SEMANTICS 2012 brings together both researchers and practitioners in the areas of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and the Semantic Web in order to showcase cutting edge research, demonstrators and applications for the Corporate and Social Semantic Web. I-SEMANTICS 2012 is proud to announce the new format “I-CHALLENGE”, which brings to you the 5th Linked Data Cup (formerly Triplification Challenge), the Best Paper Award and the Best Poster Award. As in the past years the I-SEMANTICS Conference will be complemented by I-KNOW, the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management, aiming to reflect the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management and semantic systems.

As a conference aiming to bring together science and industry, I-SEMANTICS encourages scientific research and application-oriented contributions in the field of Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web and Linked Data. The topics of interest for this year’s conference include but are not limited to:

• The Web of Data
  • (Large scale) triplification of existing (structured) data
  • Vocabularies, taxonomies and schemas for the Web of Data
  • Querying, searching and browsing over the Web of Data
  • Data integration and interlinking for the Web of Data
  • User interaction and innovative visualizations for the Web of Data
  • Languages, tools and methodologies for representing, managing and reasoning on the Web of Data
  • (Mashup) applications utilizing (large scale) Linked Data resources
  • Recommender systems making use of the Web of Data
  • Integrating microposts into the Web of Data
  • Linked Enterprise Data and (Open) Linked Government Data
  • Connecting the Web of Data with real world sensor data
  • Location-based services and mobile semantic applications
• Quality of Semantic Data on the Web
  • Provenance information for the Web of Data
  • Large scale ontology inspection and repair
  • Co-reference detection and dataset reconciliation
  • Maintenance of Linked Data models
  • Trust, privacy and security in Semantic Web applications
• Corporate Semantic Web
  • Corporate thesauri, business vocabularies, ontologies and rules
  • Semantic business, e-commerce and m-commerce systems
  • Semantic procurement for enterprises and governments
  • Semantics, pragmatics and semiotics in organizations
  • Enterprise trust and reputation management
• Semantic Content Engineering
  • Collaborative ontology engineering
  • Ontology modularity, alignment and merging
  • Ontology design patterns and life cycle management
  • Ontology learning and knowledge acquisition
  • Quality criteria for collaboratively generated semantic content
  • Semantic annotation and tagging
  • Making sense of microposts
  • Semantic content management systems
• Semantic Multimedia
  • Semantic-driven multimedia applications
  • Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures
  • Content-based semantic multimedia analysis and data mining
  • Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval
  • Named entity recognition and disambiguation in multimedia documents
  • Human-computer interfaces for multimedia data access
  • Smart visualization and browsing of multimedia documents
  • User-generated semantic metadata for multimedia documents
• Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks
  • Case studies of and benchmarks in semantic systems usage
  • Evaluation perspectives, methods and Semantic Web research methodologies
  • Technology assessment, acceptance/media choice theories
  • Usability and user interaction with semantic technologies
  • Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations
• (Linked) Data Ecosystems & Markets
  • Economic foundations of data assets, markets and data crowd sourcing
  • Business and governance models for data commerce
  • Production principles and measures of data creation, curation and utilization
  • Business models and economic impacts of Linked (Enterprise) Data and/or large scale semantic systems
  • Case studies for sector-specific (Linked) Data strategies

All accepted full papers and short papers of I-SEMANTICS 2012 will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP series. Please note: Poster and Demo papers are planned to be published within CEUR-WS. Optional publication of PhD papers in CEUR-WS is under discussion.

For the first time in 2012 we will bring to you the I-CHALLENGE, consisting of the Best Research/Application Paper Award, the Best Poster Award, the Best PhD Paper Award and the Linked Data Cup. While the best paper will be selected by the program committee, the Best Poster will be voted by the conference audience via online voting. (Please expect more details for all the Best Paper Awards in the weeks to come.) Information on the Linked Data Cup can be found below:

• Scientific Chair
  • Harald Sack (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering)
• Program Chairs
  • H. Sofia Pinto (Technical University of Lisbon)
  • Valentina Presutti (Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology, Rome)
• Track Chairs
  • I-CHALLENGE:
    • Sebastian Hellmann (University of Leipzig)
    • Jörg Waitelonis (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering)
  • PhD Track Chair: Katrin Weller (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
  • Poster Chair: Steffen Lohmann (University of Stuttgart)
• Industry Chair
  • Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company)
• Conference Chair
  • Tassilo Pellegrini (Semantic Web Company / University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria)
• Program Committee

• Paper Submission: 6th February 2012
• Author Notification: 8th March 2012
• Camera ready: 29th March 2012
• Workshop: 17th April 2012

Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces such as semantic wikis, semantic social networks, semantic forums, etc. are social semantic software with the mission to bring together human agents and software agents in order to foster knowledge-intensive collaboration, content creation and management, annotated multimedia collection management, social knowledge diffusion and formalising, and more generally speaking ontology-oriented content management life-cycle.

The domain spans from multidisciplinary research to deployed commercial web applications and contributions from all this spectrum are encouraged. The aim of the SWCS 2012 workshop is to exchange ideas, to discuss pressing research questions arising from theoretical studies and practical usage of semantic web collaborative spaces.

Contributions to this workshop will address one or more of the following topics:

• Representing and reasoning on semantics in social web platforms:
  • reconciling formal semantics and social semantics
  • semantic social network analysis, community detection and community building
  • analyses of semantic wiki contributors and their contributions
  • combining, transforming, translating formal and informal knowledge
  • coping with disagreement, inconsistencies
  • semantics in social/human computing, and vice versa
  • change management, truth maintenance, versioning, and undoing semantic changes
  • connecting knowledge and social interaction
  • from asynchronous interactions to real-time/multi-synchronous interactions in SWCS
  • optimising, distributing, scaling SWCS
  • managing and exploiting the emergence of models and their semantics
• Interacting with and within SWCS:
  • browsing, navigating, visualizing
  • editing linked open data, schemas, rules, etc.
  • ergonomics of SWCS, interaction design and usability studies
  • object-centered sociality, knowledge-centered sociality
  • overcoming entrance barriers and giving incentives for contributing
  • provenance, traceability, permissions, trust, licensing, access control, privacy,
  • making formal knowledge accessible, social knowledge evaluation
  • mobile and multimodal accesses to SWCS
• Return on experience and applications of semantic web collaborative spaces:
  • swcs platforms in e-science, e-learning, e-health, e-governement,
  • enterprise workflows, document flows, business intelligence, technological watch
  • corporate knowledge management or personal information management
  • expert matching, team creation,
• Integration, interoperability and reuse of web collaborative spaces:
  • integrations and interoperability with other semantic applications and mashups
  • interlinking, distributing, federating SWCS
  • extending non-semantic social web platforms with semantics
  • exporting and reusing semantics gained from SWCS

• Pascal Molli, LINA, Nantes University (FR) (chair)
• Hideaki Takeda, NII National Institute of Informatics (JP)
• John Breslin, DERI NUI Galway (IE)
• Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research (AT)

We invite the following different kinds of contributions:

• full research or application papers (15 pages) describing recent research outcomes, mature work, prototypes, applications, or methodologies; authors of accepted full papers will be able to present their work in a 15 minute talk at the workshop
• short position papers (5-10 pages) describing early work and new ideas that are not yet fully worked out; authors of short papers will be able to present their work in a 5-10 minute lightning talk at the workshop
• demo outlines (5 pages) describing the demonstration of a software prototype in the poster and demo session during the workshop
• poster descriptions (2 pages) outlining a poster to be presented in the poster and demo session during the workshop

All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the ACM format. Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format.

For any further informations, please contact organizers via swcs2012@easychair.org.

• submission deadline: March 18 (extended)
• acceptance notification: April 1
• camera ready: April 15

Consider research publications: Data sets and code are essential elements of data intensive research, but these are absent when the research is recorded and preserved by way of a scholarly journal article. Or consider news reports: Governments increasingly make public sector information available on the Web, and reporters use it, but news reports very rarely contain fine-grained links to such data sources. At SePublica we will discuss and present new ways of publishing, sharing, linking, and analyzing such scientific resources as well as reasoning over the data to discover new links and scientific insights.

We are planning to have a full day workshop with two main sessions. During the first part of the workshop accepted papers will be presented; the second part of the workshop will address by means of focus groups two main questions, namely “what do we want the future of scholarly communication to be?” and “how could data be preserved and delivered in an interactive manner over scholarly communications?”. These focus groups will be followed by a panel discussion. As an outcome of these activities we will have a communique that will be the editorial for the workshop proceedings,

• Representation:
  • Formal representations of scientific data; ontologies for scientific information
  • What ontologies do we need for representing structural elements in a document?
  • How can we capture the semantics of rhetorical structures in scholarly communication, and of hypotheses and scientific evidence?
  • Integration of quantitative and qualitative scientific information
  • How could RDF(a) and ontologies be used to represent the knowledge encoded in scientific documents and in general-interest media publications?
  • Connecting scientific publications with underlying research data sets
• Technological Foundations:
  • Ontology-based visualization of scientific data
  • Provenance, quality, privacy and trust of scientific information
  • Linked Data for dissemination and archiving of research results, for collaboration and research networks, and for research assessment
  • How could we realize a paper with an API? How could we have a paper as a database, as a knowledge base?
  • How is the paper an interface, gateway, to the web of data? How could such and interface be delivered in a contextual manner?
• Applications and Use Cases:
  • Case studies on linked science, i.e., astronomy, biology, environmental and socio-economic impacts of global warming, statistics, environmental monitoring, cultural heritage, etc.
  • Barriers to the acceptance of linked science solutions and strategies to address these
  • Legal, ethical and economic aspects of Linked Data in science

submission system

• Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5 pages.
• For system/demo descriptions, a paper of minimum 2 pages, maximum 5 pages should be submitted.
• Late-breaking news should be one page maximum.

All papers and system descriptions should be formatted according to the LNCS format. For submissions that are not in the LNCS PDF format, 400 words count as one page. Submissions that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review.

Depending on the number and quality of submissions, authors might be invited to present their papers during a poster session. The author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have a double-blind review process in place.

Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers; late-breaking news get a light review w.r.t. their relevance by two reviewers. Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop (requires registering for the ESWC conference and the workshop).