<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Apologies for Multiple Postings</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">===============================================================</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">CALL FOR PAPERS </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The 5th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2015) </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="http://www.jist2015.org/">http://www.jist2015.org/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">November 11-13, 2015 (Wed - Fri) </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Yichang, China</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Submission deadline extension: August 17, 2015</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Special Attention: the best papers of JIST2015 will be invited to present at the Meet the </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Editor session of International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">which is indexed by SCI, so that authors of the best papers will propose extensions of </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">their JIST2015 papers and get feedbacks from IJSWIS editors (and possibly the PC chairs of </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">JIST2015).</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">********** </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is a regional federation of </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Semantic Technology related conferences. The mission of JIST is to bring together </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">researchers in Semantic Technology research community and other areas of semantic related </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">technologies to present their innovative research results or novel applications of semantic </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">technologies. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">JIST 2015, under the theme “Semantics for Big Data”, solicits the submission of original </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">research papers on Semantic Web and other semantic technologies, as well as papers on </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">applications of semantic technologies. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">****** </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">* Topics of Interest for Regular Technical Sessions </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">** Ontology and Reasoning </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Ontology evaluation </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Searching and ranking ontologies </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Reasoning over Semantic Web data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- New formalisms (such as probabilistic approaches) </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Lightweight semantics (linked data, microformats, etc.) </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">** Knowledge Graph</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Graph representation of knowledge graph</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Relation extraction for knowledge graph</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Schema induction for knowledge graph</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Evolution of knowledge graph</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Applications of knowledge graph</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">** Management of Semantic Web Data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Languages, tools, and methodologies for Semantic Web data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Database, IR, and AI technologies for Semantic Web data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Machine learning and information extraction on the Web </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Cleaning, assurance, and provenance of Semantic Web data, services, and processes </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">** Linked Data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Publication of Linked Data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Consumption of Linked Data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Reasoning with Linked Data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Search, query, integration, and analysis on Linked Data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Integration and mash-up of Linked Data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Mining of Linked Data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Domain specific applications (eGovernment, disaster, life science etc.) </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">** Big Data and Semantics </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Ontology engineering for big data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Ontology based data integration </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Big data verification using semantics </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Mapping big data and ontology </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">** Social Semantic Web </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Semantics for social media data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Social network analysis with Semantic Web Technologies </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Querying, mining and analysis of social semantic data </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Social Semantic Web applications </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Semantic Web technologies for collaboration and cooperation </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">** Semantic Social Media </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Building ontologies for social networks </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Emergent semantics of social networks </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Semantics for sentiment/opinion analysis </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Sentiment analysis techniques on social media </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Applications of sentiment analysis </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">** Semantics and NLP </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Semantic Text Analysis </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Pragmatic and Discourse Analysis </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Syntactic and Semantic Mapping </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Automatic Annotation </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">** Semantic Multimedia </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Semantic multimedia metadata, ontology and management </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Multimedia content analysis and processing </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Multimedia-enriched Semantic Web </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Semantic multimedia applications </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Semantic annotations and recommendations </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">** Applications of the Semantic Web </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Semantic Web for large scale applications </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Semantic Web for desktops or personal information management </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Semantic Web for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Semantic Web for P2P, services, agents, grids, and middleware </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Semantic Web for software and systems engineering </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Mobile Semantic Web </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Interface for Semantic Web </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">* Submission </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Submissions to JIST 2015 should describe original, significant research on the semantic </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">technologies. Submissions to JIST 2015 are expected to present their claimed contribution, </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">with clear evidence to support their claims. All submissions will be critically reviewed by </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">at least three members of the program committee. To assess submissions, reviewers will </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">judge their relevance to semantic technologies, their originality, the technical soundness </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">of their proposed approach and the readability of the submission. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Submissions must be in PDF format, using the style of the Springer Publications format for </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions must be no longer than *16* pages for </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">REGULAR TECHNICAL SESSIONS. Submissions that exceed this limit may be rejected without </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">review. JIST 2015 will not accept submissions that are under review for or have already </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Accepted </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">papers will be published in an LNCS post-proceedings. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Papers can be submitted electronically via <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2015">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2015</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">* Important Dates </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- (New) Submissions Deadline: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 17, 2015</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Notification of Acceptance: September 10, 2015</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Camera-ready Deadline: September 20, 2015 </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Conference: November 11-13, 2015 </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">General Chairs </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Wendy Hall,University of Southampton, UK </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Program Chairs </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Kouji Kozaki, Osaka University, Japan </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Organized by: JIST Steering Committee </span></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Prof. Guilin Qi<br>School of Computer Science and Engineering<br>Southeast University, Nanjing, China<br><br>Tel: +86 (25) 52090910<br>Homepage: <a href="http://cse.seu.edu.cn/people/qgl/index_en.htm" target="_blank">http://cse.seu.edu.cn/people/qgl/index_en.htm</a><br></div>
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