Appel: ESWC 2014 Call for Workshops

Tue Oct 15 20:08:39 UTC 2013

Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:41:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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==== 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. Each proposal
must consist of a single PDF document written in English, not longer
than 3 pages, which contains the following information:

The title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying
its goals and motivation.
A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this
time.
A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest, the
workshop audience, as well as the expected number of participants.
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.
A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50%
have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal).
An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a
half-day or full-day event.
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).
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 ZÃ¼rich, CH)
Chris Bizer (University of Mannheim, DE)
Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble RhÃ´ne-Alpes, FR)
Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck, AT)
Aldo Gangemi (CNR Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, IT)
Asuncion Gomez-Perez (Universidad PolitÃ©cnica 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)

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