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*** Extended paper submission deadline: April 29, 2011. ***
Apologies for possible multiple posts
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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International Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web - (SasWeb2011)
in conjunction with UMAP 2011, Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011
http://semantic-adaptive-social-web.uniud.it/events/2011/sasweb/
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SPECIAL ISSUE
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ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology will publish a
special issue with papers from this workshop: authors of the best papers
will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for the special
issue "Semantic Adaptive Social Web".
More info at http://tist.acm.org/CFPs/TIST-SI-SASWeb.html
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of papers: April, 29 2011
Notification of authors: May, 13 2011
Delivery of camera-ready: May, 31 2010
MOTIVATIONS
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Social Web (also called Web 2.0) is growing daily, together with the
number of users and applications.
In this way, users generate a significant part of Web content and
traffic: they create, connect,
comment, tag, rate, remix, upload/download, new or existing resources in
an architecture of participation,
where user contribution and interaction add value.
Users are also involved in a broad range of social activities like
creating friendship relationships,
recommending and sharing resources, suggesting friends, creating groups
and communities, commenting friends
activities and profiles and so on.
At the same time, Semantic Web (also called Intelligent Web), whose main
goal is to describe Web resources
in a way that allows machines to understand and process them, has
started to go out from academies and
begins to be exploited in many web sites, incorporating high-quality
user contributed content and semantic
annotations using Internet-based services as an enabling platform.
The recent advances in the Semantic Web area, and specifically the
widespread use of weak semantic techniques
(the so-called 'lowercase' semantic web), such as the use of
microformats (e.g. eRDF, RDFa) to attach semantics
to content, also provide new standardized ways to process and share
information. This approach allows information
intended for end-users (such as contact information, geographic
coordinates, calendar events) to also be automatically
processed by machines, and this obviates other more complicated methods
of processing, such as natural language processing
or screen scraping.
In this workshop we are interested to analyze the benefits adaptation
and personalization have to offer in the Web of the
future, the so called Social Semantic Web or Web 3.0, that puts together
Semantic Web and Social Web.
OBJECTIVES
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The workshop aims at discussing the state-of-the-art, open problems,
challenges and innovative
research approaches in adaptation and personalization for the Social
Semantic Web. It provides a
forum for proposing innovative and open models, applications and new
data sharing scenarios, as
well as novel technologies and methodologies for creating and managing
these applications.
Examples of stimulating application fields are social bookmarking
environments, publication
sharing systems, intelligent cultural guides, collaborative working,
social networking sites, digital
libraries, e-learning and recommender systems.
Four specific questions motivate this workshop:
1. How adaptation and personalization methodologies can augment Web 3.0
environments?
2. What models, techniques, tools are the most adequate to support Web
3.0 users?
3. What are the features and challenges of Web 3.0 applications and
services?
4. How Semantic Web advances can be exploited for adaptation in such
contexts?
TOPICS
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Topics of interest for this Workshop include but are not limited to:
General
- Web 3.0: features, limitations, advantages, differences
- Adaptation and personalization and recommendation models and goals
- User, group and community modelling in Social Semantic Web
- Reasoning and personalization based on semantics in the Social
Semantic Web
- Semantic Web platforms and applications
- Novel approaches and/or systems combining semantic, social and
adaptive aspects
- The impact of Social Web on Semantic Web, and vice versa
Information Access and Extraction
- Advanced tools for information access
- Recommender Systems
- Personalized content ranking
- Social navigation support
- Social search and browsing
- Personal information Spaces
- Information extraction, opinion mining, and sentiment analysis
- Creation of structured collective knowledge from users' contributions
- How collective knowledge of users can improve the intelligent
behaviour of the systems
Sharing User Data and Knowledge
- Sharing user profiles and decentralized user modelling in social networks
- Sharing ontologies
- Automatic and semi-automatic user data aggregation
- Linked Open Data
- Mashups Knowledge sharing
Folksonomies and tagging
- Automatic and semantic tagging
- Semantic tagging
- Folksonomies vs. Ontologies
- Ontology-based computer supported tagging
- User profile construction based on tagging and annotations
- Tag recommendation
Social networks
- Social network analysis for user and group modelling
- Computing trust and reputation in social networks
- Social Semantic recommendations and Adaptation in social networks
User Awareness
- Motivating participation
- User identities
- Capturing and processing implicit and explicit feedback
- Trust-based recommendation
- Social visualizations
Evaluation methodologies and approaches
- Social applications and recommendation evaluations
- User studies and novel metrics for Web 3.0
FORMAT
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We welcome work at all stages of development: papers can describe
applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions.
* Full papers (10-12 pages)
* Short papers (4-6 pages)
* Demos (2-4 pages for description)
Papers should be formatted according to the general UMAP2011 submission
guidelines; they must comply with the LNCS formatting instruction
(Springer author guidelines). Accepted formats are Postscript and PDF.
SUBMISSION
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Please submit your paper via EasyChair before registration:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sasweb2011
You need to open a personal account upon the first login, if you do not
have one.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Federica Cena - Department of Computer Science, University of Turin, Italy.
Antonina Dattolo - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Udine, Italy.
Ernesto W. De Luca - School IV - Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
Pasquale Lops - Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo
Moro, Italy.
Till Plumbaum - School IV - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
Julita Vassileva - Department of Computer Science, University of
Saskatchewan, Canada.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Liliana Ardissono, Universitŕ degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Lora Aroyo, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, TasICT Centre, Australia
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
David Bueno Vallejo - Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Ivan Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Francesca Carmagnola, University of Turin, Italy
Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Cristina Gena, University of Turin, Italy
Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Darina Dicheva, Winston Salem University, USA
Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, United Kingdom
Eelco Herder, Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany
Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany
Gilles Hubert, IRIT, Toulouse, France
Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel
Dietmar Jannach, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany
Vincenzo Loia, Univesity of Salerno, Italy
Luca Mazzola, ITC, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Alessandro Micarelli, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Sergey Sosnovsky, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence,
Saarbrucken, Germany
Armando Stellato, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa, Italy
Markus Zanker, University Klagenfurt, Austria
Torsten Zesch, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
CONTACT
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