[agents] 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD)

[Kouji Kozaki]

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS:
*  Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD) *
	
   http://imash.leeds.ac.uk/event/iesd.html

International Workshop at EKAW 2012,Galway City,Ireland. 
October 8/9 2012



NEW!
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Anthony Jameson(DFKI, Germany) has been confirmed as a keynote speaker 
for IESD. 

Title: How Can We Support Multifocal Exploration of Semantic Data?


IMPORTANT DATES
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 - Submission Deadline: August 15th, 2012
 - Notification of acceptance: September 5th, 2012
 - Camera ready:TBA
 - Workshop day: October 8/9th, 2012


OVERVIEW
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IESD'12 will provide a forum to discuss approaches for exploring semantic 
data. Semantic data is available widely and semantic data exploration is 
becoming a key activity in a range of application domains, such as 
government organisations, education, life science, cultural heritage, and 
media. Several novel interfaces and interaction means for exploration of 
semantic data are being proposed, for example semantic data browsers, 
ontology/content visualisation environments and semantic wikis. Although on 
the rise, the current solutions are still maturing and need to take into 
account human factors to make exploration intuitive or employ necessary 
computational models to aid the intuitiveness and improve the effectiveness 
of exploration tasks. Lessons also can be learned from the commonalities 
and differences in exploration requirements between different domains. 
Hence, greater benefits can be achieved by bringing together expertise 
from different communities, including HCI, Semantic Web, and personalisation 
with the potential application domain demands.

Time is ripe to bring together the different disciplines related to semantic 
data exploration (semantic technologies, intelligent user interfaces, 
adaptation and personalisation, visualisation) and form an international 
community to identify the major challenges and research directions. 
The workshop is intended to make the first step in shaping such community 
and providing a forum that focuses on semantic data exploration and enables:

 - sharing techniques and experience
 - identifying potential domains and application areas
 - designing and reflecting on evaluation studies
 - identifying future research directions

IESD'12 will bring together different disciplines related to semantic data 
exploration and form an international community to identify the major 
challenges and research directions. 


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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IESD'12 aims to create a forum for academic and industrial researchers 
and practitioners to discuss methods and techniques for intelligent 
exploration of semantic data from three angles:

 - Computational models: 
     methods and techniques for analysing semantic data to discover 
     connections (e.g. relatedness, similarity, complementarity, 
     contradictions, and causality), entity and ontology summarisation 
     methods, graph exploration, visualisation and navigation, 
     user/context modelling, adaptation and personalisation, feedback 
     and prompts.
 
 - Human factors: 
     key human factors that impact the exploration of large interconnected 
     complex data; effective interaction environments to help users in 
     discovering connections and making sense of large volumes of 
     structured and unstructured heterogeneous data (including large 
     ontologies, Linked Data, semantically augmented corpus, 
     semantic-enriched social data); comparison of different approaches to 
     help users in a manner that does not overwhelm or confuse, intuitive 
     ways to empower lay users of knowledge enriched technologies to 
     explore semantic data.

 - Domains and applications: 
     information needs which require exploration of semantic data; domains 
     where semantic data is available and required for the practice 
     (e.g. medical, media, social web, public administration, education, 
     environmental/sustainability science); requirements gathering and 
     evaluation studies; lessons learnt.

Further details: http://imash.leeds.ac.uk/event/iesd.html

PAPER SUBMISSION
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We welcome the following types of contributions.

* Short (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 12 pages) research papers will be 
  reviewed by at least two independent referees.
* Demo papers (system demonstrations) and position statements should not 
  exceed 3 pages.

A more detailed Call for Papers and submission instructions can be found at
the IESD'12 website: http://imash.leeds.ac.uk/event/submission.html

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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* Dhaval Thakker (University of Leeds, UK)
* Melike Sah (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
* Kouji Kozaki (Osaka University, Japan)
* Igor Popov (University of Southampton, UK)
* Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds,UK)
* Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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* Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amstredam, NL
* Neil Benn, University of Leeds, UK
* Emammnuel Blenchard,Aalborg University, Denmark
* Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China
* Ilaria Corda, British Library, UK
* Owen Conlan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Sheffield, UK
* Mariana Damova, Ontotext, Bulgaria
* Dimoklis Despotakis, University of Leeds, UK
* Christo Dichev, Winston Salem State University, USA
* Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Centre, Hannover, Germany
* Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
* Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany
* Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, NL
* Dominic Jones, from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
* Jarred Mcginnis, Press Association, UK
* Lydia Lau, University of Leeds, UK
* Yves Raimond, BBC, UK
* Declan O'ullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Thanh Tran, AIFB, Germany
* Fan Yang-Turner, University of Leeds, UK


For further questions please contact us at iesd12 at googlegroups.com