Call for Papers: DATAWEB session on Open Data




Call for Papers - Special Session on the Web of Data
(DATAWEB)


Production and deployment of Open,
Linked and Big Data






To be held in conjunction with the 17th
Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2013), September 19-21, 2013,
Thessaloniki, Greece, http://pci2013.epy-mathra.gr/  

Proceedings to be published by ACM.





Organizers:


Ioannis
Anagnostopoulos
, University of Central Greece, Greece


Yannis
Charalabidis
, University of the Aegean, Greece


Agisilaos
Papantoniou
, National Technical University of Athens, Greece


Michalis
Vafopoulos
, National Technical University of Athens, Greece





Special Session description:


The evolution of
technologies now effectively supports the creation and existence of the Web of
Data. However, the production and mass consumption of data have been a matter
of debate over methodologies that should be employed in the technological and
business domain.
Data over the Web can be seen under
three major perspectives. One that deals with their “openness”, one that
addresses their interconnection and one that discusses new ways of managing
their performance.


This special session aims
to stimulate a multi-origin discussion about data production and deployment
within the Web corpus. It is focused on new models, languages and applications
that exploit the Web of data in order to act as a global repository of
interlinked resources.


We seek original articles
balanced between theoretical and practical approaches in research aspects
and/or applications that utilize either Open, Linked and Big Data. We further
encourage the submission of contributions that discuss and address exploitation
issues of data in different disciplines. Submitted papers may deal with
methods, models, case studies, practical experiences and technologies, but also
with work in progress solutions. The thematic categories are divided in three parts:





1. Open Data


Definition@wikipedia: “Open data
is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and
republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other
mechanisms of control. The goals of the open data movement are similar to those
of other "Open" movements such as open source, open content, and open
access.”





Topics of interest cover the following
areas (but are not limited to):


    
Business models,
marketplaces and crowdsourcing platforms for Open Data


    
Policies, strategies for
the development of data ecosystems


    
Country/nationwide
challenges and opportunities


    
Privacy and provenance
issues


    
Reliability and
trustworthiness of Open Data


    
Case studies for
domain/sector-specific open data strategies (smart cities, environmental and
geospatial research, social media)


    
Methodologies for open
data production, cleansing and utilization


    
Heterogeneity, quality assurance,
vocabulary repair and maintenance


    
Benchmarks and metrics
in Open Data usage


    
Open Data usability,
user interaction and case studies with lessons learned








2. Linked Data


From the moment they were
officially introduced in 2008, Linked Open Data (LOD) and their applications
are flourishing. The Open Data movement, along with the maturity of Web 3.0
technologies has led various Organizations to publish their data, making them
accessible worldwide. One of the fundamental issues that follows the initial
success of these LOD initiatives is a way to standardize the effort according
to effective functional and technical specifications.





Topics of interest cover the following
areas (but are not limited to):


     Methodologies for Linked
Data production and deployment


     Assessing trustworthiness
in Linked Data


     Linked Data publication
and visualization


     AI technologies for Linked
Data


     Engineering Linked Data stems


     Searching and ranking
methodologies and algorithms


     Linked Data real world
applications and uses (e-Government, health, energy, finance)


     Rule interchange formats


     Reasoning


     Query languages


     Data cleansing techniques


     Social media interactivity


     Adaptive Linked Data
systems


     Services development and
orchestration


     Provenance and right
management


     Dataset description,
discovery and consolidation


     Architectural paradigms


     Mobile Linked Data


     Business models





3.
Big Data


In this thematic category we aim to investigate how the
well-defined concepts of data utilization can be applied in order to develop
new techniques and methods for the sustainable and socially balanced
exploitation of huge data pools.





Topics of interest cover the following
areas (but are not limited to):


    
Scalable, distributed
and parallel algorithms for solving Big Data


    
Harvesting Linked Data
from large heterogeneous sources


    
Connecting massive
unstructured data with well-defined linked formats


    
Semantic models and
environments to support Big Data


    
Data management for
mobile and pervasive computing


    
Data Management in large
social graphs


    
Crowdsourcing as a
solution to Big Data handling


    
Big Data analytics in
government and society (public sector, social security, etc.)


    
Visualization and
presentation of Big Data


    
Security, privacy issues
derived from Big Data handling


    
Complex applications in:


    
Science, scientific data
mining


    
Large scale
recommendation systems (e.g. medicine, biology, finance, business, etc.)


    
Communications and
social media applications


    
Real-life problems
(urban, transportation, weather, energy consumption, etc.)








Program committee: (to be extended)


Jose Maria Alvarez Rodriguez, Web
Semantics Oviedo – WESO, Spain


Christos-Nikolaos, Anagnostopoulos,
University of the Aegean, Greece


Lefteris Angelis, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece


Phil Archer, W3C


Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of
Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia


Alvaro Graves, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US


Harry Halpin, W3C


Marijn Janssen, Delft University of
Technology, the Netherlands


Keith Jeffery, STFC, UK


Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR
Demokritos, Greece


Theodoros Karounos, Greek Free / Open
Source Software Society (GFOSS), Greece


Nikolaos Loutas, PwC


Ioanna, Lykourentzou, INRIA – Nancy,
France


Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University,
Greece


Petros Stefaneas, National Technical
University of Athens, Greece


Nicolaos Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus
University of Technology, Cyprus


Prodromos Tsiavos, London School of
Economics, UK


Athina Vakali, Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, Greece


Manolis Wallace, University of the
Peloponnese, Greece





Submission Guidelines - Proceedings


The submitted papers will
be evaluated by the members of the Special Session Technical Program Committee
(see below). The paper submission, as well as the publication procedures after
acceptance, follow the PCI 2013 Paper Submission and Proceedings Guidelines as
described in the official web page of the conference -->






Important Dates:


Special
Session paper submissions: April 5, 2013


Notification
of paper acceptance: May 3, 2013


Camera-ready
paper due: May 31, 2013