Call for Papers - Special Session on the Web of Data
(DATAWEB)
Production and deployment of Open,
Linked and Big Data
To be held in conjunction with the 17th
Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2013), September 19-21, 2013,
Thessaloniki, Greece, http://pci2013.epy-mathra.gr/
Proceedings to be published by ACM.
Organizers:
Special Session description:
The evolution of
technologies now effectively supports the creation and existence of the Web of
Data. However, the production and mass consumption of data have been a matter
of debate over methodologies that should be employed in the technological and
business domain. Data over the Web can be seen under
three major perspectives. One that deals with their “openness”, one that
addresses their interconnection and one that discusses new ways of managing
their performance.
This special session aims
to stimulate a multi-origin discussion about data production and deployment
within the Web corpus. It is focused on new models, languages and applications
that exploit the Web of data in order to act as a global repository of
interlinked resources.
We seek original articles
balanced between theoretical and practical approaches in research aspects
and/or applications that utilize either Open, Linked and Big Data. We further
encourage the submission of contributions that discuss and address exploitation
issues of data in different disciplines. Submitted papers may deal with
methods, models, case studies, practical experiences and technologies, but also
with work in progress solutions. The thematic categories are divided in three parts:
1. Open Data
Definition@wikipedia: “Open data
is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and
republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other
mechanisms of control. The goals of the open data movement are similar to those
of other "Open" movements such as open source, open content, and open
access.”
Topics of interest cover the following
areas (but are not limited to):
●
Business models,
marketplaces and crowdsourcing platforms for Open Data
●
Policies, strategies for
the development of data ecosystems
●
Country/nationwide
challenges and opportunities
●
Privacy and provenance
issues
●
Reliability and
trustworthiness of Open Data
●
Case studies for
domain/sector-specific open data strategies (smart cities, environmental and
geospatial research, social media)
●
Methodologies for open
data production, cleansing and utilization
●
Heterogeneity, quality assurance,
vocabulary repair and maintenance
●
Benchmarks and metrics
in Open Data usage
●
Open Data usability,
user interaction and case studies with lessons learned
2. Linked Data
From the moment they were
officially introduced in 2008, Linked Open Data (LOD) and their applications
are flourishing. The Open Data movement, along with the maturity of Web 3.0
technologies has led various Organizations to publish their data, making them
accessible worldwide. One of the fundamental issues that follows the initial
success of these LOD initiatives is a way to standardize the effort according
to effective functional and technical specifications.
Topics of interest cover the following
areas (but are not limited to):
● Methodologies for Linked
Data production and deployment
● Assessing trustworthiness
in Linked Data
● Linked Data publication
and visualization
● AI technologies for Linked
Data
● Engineering Linked Data stems
● Searching and ranking
methodologies and algorithms
● Linked Data real world
applications and uses (e-Government, health, energy, finance)
● Rule interchange formats
● Reasoning
● Query languages
● Data cleansing techniques
● Social media interactivity
● Adaptive Linked Data
systems
● Services development and
orchestration
● Provenance and right
management
● Dataset description,
discovery and consolidation
● Architectural paradigms
● Mobile Linked Data
● Business models
3.
Big Data
In this thematic category we aim to investigate how the
well-defined concepts of data utilization can be applied in order to develop
new techniques and methods for the sustainable and socially balanced
exploitation of huge data pools.
Topics of interest cover the following
areas (but are not limited to):
●
Scalable, distributed
and parallel algorithms for solving Big Data
●
Harvesting Linked Data
from large heterogeneous sources
●
Connecting massive
unstructured data with well-defined linked formats
●
Semantic models and
environments to support Big Data
●
Data management for
mobile and pervasive computing
●
Data Management in large
social graphs
●
Crowdsourcing as a
solution to Big Data handling
●
Big Data analytics in
government and society (public sector, social security, etc.)
●
Visualization and
presentation of Big Data
●
Security, privacy issues
derived from Big Data handling
●
Complex applications in:
○
Science, scientific data
mining
○
Large scale
recommendation systems (e.g. medicine, biology, finance, business, etc.)
○
Communications and
social media applications
○
Real-life problems
(urban, transportation, weather, energy consumption, etc.)
Program committee: (to be extended)
Jose Maria Alvarez Rodriguez, Web
Semantics Oviedo – WESO, Spain
Christos-Nikolaos, Anagnostopoulos,
University of the Aegean, Greece
Lefteris Angelis, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Phil Archer, W3C
Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of
Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
Alvaro Graves, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
Harry Halpin, W3C
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of
Technology, the Netherlands
Keith Jeffery, STFC, UK
Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR
Demokritos, Greece
Theodoros Karounos, Greek Free / Open
Source Software Society (GFOSS), Greece
Ioanna, Lykourentzou, INRIA – Nancy,
France
Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University,
Greece
Petros Stefaneas, National Technical
University of Athens, Greece
Nicolaos Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus
University of Technology, Cyprus
Prodromos Tsiavos, London School of
Economics, UK
Athina Vakali, Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, Greece
Manolis Wallace, University of the
Peloponnese, Greece
Submission Guidelines - Proceedings
The submitted papers will
be evaluated by the members of the Special Session Technical Program Committee
(see below). The paper submission, as well as the publication procedures after
acceptance, follow the PCI 2013 Paper Submission and Proceedings Guidelines as
described in the official web page of the conference -->
Important Dates:
Special
Session paper submissions: April 5, 2013
Notification
of paper acceptance: May 3, 2013
Camera-ready
paper due: May 31, 2013
