[DL] [AST 2014] Extended CfP May 11: 8th Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies

[Ignacio Traverso Ribon]

[Apologies for cross-postings]

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   EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS

   8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON APPLICATIONS OF SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES
   (AST 2014 – http://ast2014.fzi.de)

   EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 11, 2014

   CO-LOCATED WITH INFORMATIK 2014 – BIG DATA: DEALING WITH COMPLEXITY

   STUTTGART, GERMANY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

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AIM AND GOALS
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Semantic Technologies encode meanings explicitly and independent from concrete formats and application logic. This enables machines and people likewise to understand, share, and reason over semantically represented data during retrieval and processing time. They provide an abstraction layer on top of existing ICT technologies and infrastructures aiming at the interrelation and integration of data and processes in meaningful ways. In the light of the W3C’s vision of a Web of Linked Data, Semantic Technologies are substantial constituents for the creation of data stores, the building of domain vocabularies, and the specification of data handling rules.

The application of Semantic Technologies is currently being investigated in various fields, including Ambient Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge Management, Robotics, Bioinformatics and many more. We believe that the methods and tools provided by Semantic Technologies will play a crucial role in these and other application areas for the foreseeable future, in particular related to Big and Smart Data. A special emphasis will therefore be given to works that describe key issues and practices related to a synthesis of Semantic Technologies and Big and Smart Data.

The AST workshop will provide an open and stimulating environment that brings together researchers, practitioners and users from various fields to discuss goals, limitations, challenges, and real experiences related to the application and deployment of Semantic Technologies.


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline:     May 11, 2014
Review deadline:         May 25, 2014
Notification:            June 2, 2014
Camera-ready version:    June 23, 2014


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WORKSHOP SCOPE
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The AST 2014 workshop will foster cross-fertilisation between different application areas of Semantic Technologies and aid technology transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop covers diverse application areas of Semantic Technologies, including but not limited to the following:

   * Ambient Intelligence
   * Big and Smart Data
   * Cognitive Systems
   * Information Integration
   * Multimedia Data Management
   * Software Engineering
   * smartEnergy
   * Machine Learning
   * Mobile Information Systems
   * Context-Aware Computing
   * Text Mining
   * Service-Oriented Computing
   * Digital Libraries
   * Grid and Cloud Computing
   * Peer-to-Peer Systems
   * Technology-enhanced learning
   * Ubiquitous Computing
   * eScience
   * eCommerce
   * eGovernment
   * eHealth
   * Bioinformatics
   * Social Software
   * Automation
   * Complex Event Processing


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INVITED SPEAKERS
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The AST 2014 workshop will have two keynotes by experts from the fields of Big and Smart Data and Semantic Technologies:

  * Richard Benjamins, Director of Business Intelligence at Telefónica Digital, Spain
  * Valentin Zacharias, Senior Consultant Big Data at codecentric AG, Germany


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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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  * Adila Alfa Krisnadhi, Wright State University Dayton Ohio, USA
  * Andreas Abecker, disy Informationssysteme GmbH, Germany
  * Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
  * Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT- Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
  * Bernhard Schandl, mySugr GmbH, gnowsis.com, Austria
  * Christoph Beierle, University of Hagen, Germany
  * Christoph Quix, Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany
  * Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
  * François-Paul Servant, Renault, France
  * Frithjof Dau, SAP AG, Dresden, Germany
  * Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Dortmund, Germany
  * Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
  * Johannes Busse, Johannes Busse knowledge engineering, Germany
  * Jürgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  * Mark Hefke, CAS Software AG, Karlsruhe, Germany
  * Markus Luczak-Roesch, FU Berlin, Germany
  * Martin Junghans, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany
  * Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin, Germany
  * Rudi Studer, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany
  * Simone Braun, CAS Software AG, Karlsruhe, Germany
  * Stefan Schulte, TU Wien, Austria
  * Stephan Bloehdorn, IBM, Berlin, Germany
  * Stephan Grimm, Siemens AG, München, Germany
  * Thomas Fuhr, Technische Hochschule Nuremberg, Germany
  * Thorsten Liebig, derivo GmbH, Ulm, Germany
  * Ulrike Lucke, University of Potsdam, Germany
  * Valentin Zacharias, codecentric AG, Germany


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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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  * Stefan Zander, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany
  * Verónica Rivera-Pelayo, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany
  * Ignacio Traverso Ribón, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany
  * Rudi Studer, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany
  * Jürgen Bock, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany


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SUBMISSIONS
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  * We invite you to submit original research, case studies, in-use, or position papers in English language of up to 12 pages.
  * We encourage you to submit demonstration papers, which will be given special attention in a separate slot (max. 8 pages).
  * Please use the LNI templates of the GI (Word or LaTeX).
    General Link:   http://www.gi.de/service/publikationen/lni/
    LaTeX Template: http://url.fzi.de/ast2014-latex
    Word Template:  http://url.fzi.de/ast2014-word
  * Accepted contributions will be published in the GI edition “Lecture Notes in Informatics” (LNI).
  * Submission page:     https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ast20140


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CONTACT
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For further inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the AST 2014 organising committee: ast2014 at fzi.de