[agents] The 2nd Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD'13)

[Kouji Kozaki]

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CALL FOR PAPERS:
*  The 2nd Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD'13) *
	
   http://imash.leeds.ac.uk/event/2013/iesd.html

International Workshop at Hypertext 2013,Paris, France. 
May 1 2013


IMPORTANT DATES
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 - Research papers & Demo Submission Deadline: January 25th, 2013
 - Notification of acceptance(papers & demo): February 18th, 2013
 - Camera ready:February 26th, 2013
 - Workshop day: May 1st, 2013

OVERVIEW
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IESD’13 will continue to provide a forum to discuss approaches for 
exploring semantic data following stimulating IESD 2012 workshop at 
EKAW 2012. 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’13 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'13 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/2013/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'13 website: http://imash.leeds.ac.uk/event/2013/submission.html

IESD CHALLENGE
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We have continued the IESD challenge following from the strong participation 
we received for the first version of the workshop. The Challenge is designed 
to attract participations from the Semantic Web community particularly 
focusing on semantic data exploration. 
The Challenge will be open to everyone from industry and academia. 

A more details can be found at 
http://imash.leeds.ac.uk/event/2013/challenge.html


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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* Dhaval Thakker (University of Leeds, UK)
* Kouji Kozaki (Osaka University, Japan)
* Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds,UK)
* Anthony Jameson (The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
* Riichiro Mizoguchi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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* Emammnuel Blenchard,Aalborg University, Denmark
* Veli Bicer,IBM Research, Ireland
* Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China
* Owen Conlan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Sheffield, UK
* Mathieu D'Aquin, Open University, 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
* Peter Haase, fluid Operations, Germany
* Eelco Herder, L3S Research Centre, Germany
* Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, NL
* Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
* Lydia Lau, University of Leeds, UK
* Suvodeep Mazumdar, University of Sheffield, UK
* Declan O’Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Fan Yang-Turner, University of Leeds, UK


For further questions please contact us
http://imash.leeds.ac.uk/event/2013/contact.html

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Kouji Kozaki, Dr. Eng., Associate Professor
I.S.I.R., Osaka University, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
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