Appel: ESWC 2014, Final Call for Workshops

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:01:22 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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==== Final Call for Workshops ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-workshops

The organizers of the 11th ESWC 2014 cordially invite you to submit a
workshop proposal. ESWC is a major venue for discussing the latest
scientific results and innovations in the field of semantic technologies
on the Web and Linked Data, attracting a high number of high quality
submissions and participants from academia and industry alike.

Co-located workshops at ESWC conferences are distinguished meeting
points for discussing ongoing work and latest ideas related to semantic
technologies and the Semantic Web. Of particular interest are workshop
proposals with an interdisciplinary standpoint, proposals focusing on a
specific technology of general interest, or gathering a
sub-community. We encourage the submission of workshop proposals on:
 
* Fundamental problems of the Semantic Web / Linked Data such as
  ontology mining, heterogeneity, scalability and distribution,
  uncertainty, etc.
* Applications of Semantic Web technologies in specific domains,
* Important enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of
  the Semantic Web, and
* Aspects of Semantic Web research that have been neglected so far, 
* Techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for
  Semantic Web research (e.g., machine learning, NLP, data mining)



# General Information and Criteria 

Each proposal will be reviewed by the members of the workshop programme
committee, and ranked based on the overall quality of the proposal and
the workshop's fit to the conference as detailed below. Their
recommendation will determine the final decision on the
acceptance/rejection of each proposal, which is to be taken by the
workshop and tutorial chairs as well as by the local and the general
chair of ESWC 2014.
 
The criteria for judging the quality of workshop proposals are as follows:
 
* Co-located workshops cover topics falling in the general scope of the
  ESWC conference.
* Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not
  mini-conferences.
* We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that
  attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions.
* Workshops should have a clear focus on a specific technology, problem
  or application.
* There is potentially a significant community interested in the
  workshop's topic.
* Workshop duration can be half a day or a full day.
* We strongly advise having more than one organizer and no more than
  four, preferably from different institutions, bringing different
  perspectives to the workshop topic.
 
In case overlapping workshops are proposed, the workshop chair may
contact the organisers to discuss the possibility of merging
workshops. Please note that the duration of a workshop might need to be
adjusted based on the overall number of submissions received. Further,
workshops that receive less than 5 submissions or have less than 10
people registered at the early registration deadline might be canceled.
 
The organizers of accepted workshops will be responsible for their own
reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website, timelines and call for
papers), and proceedings production. They will be required to closely
cooperate with the Workshop Chair and the ESWC 2014 local organizers to
finalize all organizational details. Workshop attendees must pay the
ESWC 2014 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference
registration fee.

Organizers of workshops and tutorials will get a free registration for
workshops and tutorials at the pre-conference days, i.e. they will only
have to pay the main conference fee.


# Important Dates 

Workshop proposals due: Nov 22, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time 
Notification of acceptance: Dec 6, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Workshop Web site due: Dec 16, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time 
Workshop camera-ready proceedings due: Apr 25, 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Workshop days: May 25 and May 26, 2014



# Suggested Timeline for Workshops

Submission deadline: March 6, 2014 
Notifications: April 1, 2014
Camera ready version: April 15, 2014



# Submission Guidelines 

Workshop proposals have to be submitted via Easychair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014workshops-tutorials. Each
proposal must consist of a single PDF document written in English, not
longer than 3 pages, which contains the following information:
 
1. The title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying
   its goals and motivation.
2. A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this
   time.
3. A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest,
   the workshop audience, as well as the expected number of
   participants.
4. A brief description (draft outline) of the proposed workshop format,
   discussing the mix of events and activities such as paper
   presentations, invited talks, panels, hacking session, or general
   discussion, and and an approximate timeline.
5. A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50%
   have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal).
6. An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a
   half-day or full-day event.
7. Related Workshops and Conferences: Is this the continuation of a
   workshop series or a new workshop to address an emerging issue?
   Please provide information about past versions of this workshop and
   other related workshops (including URLs and submission/acceptance
   counts, if available).
8. Names and contact information of the workshop organizers/chair(s)
   (name, affiliation, email address, homepage and short (one paragraph)
   biography of each chair, explaining the chair's expertise for the
   workshop including past experience in organizing/facilitating
   workshops). Preferably a single contact person per submission.

The best papers of each workshop will be included in the supplementary
proceedings of ESWC 2014, which will appear in the Springer LNCS series.


# Workshop Chair 

Harald Sack (Hasso-Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering, DE)
email: harald.sack at hpi.uni-potsdam.de        



# Programme Committee 

Abraham Bernstein (University of Zuerich, CH)
Chris Bizer (University of Mannheim, DE)
Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, FR)
Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck, AT)
Aldo Gangemi (CNR Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, IT)
Asuncion Gomez-Perez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES)
Frank van Harmelen (VU University Amsterdam, NL)
Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE)
Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, US)
Enrico Motta (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
Rudi Studer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE)