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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Workshop on Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web - (SasWeb2012)
in conjunction with UMAP 2012, Montreal, Canada, July 16-20, 2012

http://sasweb.uniud.it/events/2012sasweb/


IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of papers: May 13 2012
Notification of authors: June 04 2012
Delivery of camera-ready copy: June 18 2012

MOTIVATIONS
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The paradigm of Social Semantic Web combines technologies, strategies
and methodologies from the area of Semantic Web, social software and Web
2.0. It has become a widespread paradigm exploited by
most services and applications, which benefit from the aspects coming
from the two worlds. This new paradigm is considered as a new generation
of the Web, called Web 3.0.
The social aspect of this paradigm, the Social Web, has grown
considerably in the last years with the involvement of millions of users
with applications like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr; it allows users
creating content, opinions, tags, ratings, friendship relationships,
groups and communities, and so on. The main problems related to the
management of that big amount of data are:
i) the strong dependence with the specific application or services in
which it is created and managed, with a serious difficulty in sharing
information across platforms, services or applications
ii) the need of filtering the most relevant information to users
according to their interests and context, i.e. the need of adaptive
systems.
At the same time, there has been a considerable amount of research in
the area of Semantic Web, aiming at providing standards for representing
data in a machine processable format. Most of the research is devoted to
using and contributing to existing and emerging web standards as well as
widely used "formats", such as structured vocabularies (e.g. schema.org,
RDFa, microformats, microdata, FB open graph, google social graph API,
activitystreams.org, etc.), with the aim of making simpler the
integration of data across applications and services.Thus, Semantic and
Adaptive Social Web can be seen as the new paradigm, which leverages
crowdsourcing for building a new generation of
intelligent services and applications. The aim of the 3rd edition of the
workshop is to analyse benefits adaptation and personalization have to
offer in such
Semantic Social Web, investigating novel opportunities, challenges and
open issues for user modelling and adaptation in such a context

TOPICS
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The list below provides the topics of interest of this workshop.
All of them have to be considered within the combined Web3.0/Adaptation
and Personalization perspective.
Topics not explicitly listed below, which adhere to the goals of the
workshop, will also be considered.

General
- Web 3.0: features, advantages, limitations
- The impact of Social Web on Semantic Web, and vice versa
- Adaptation, personalization and recommendation models and goals
- User, group and community modeling in Social Semantic Web
- Reasoning, personalization and recommendations in the Semantic Social Web
- Semantic Web platforms and applications
- Semantic reasoning for improving novelty, diversity and serendipity
- Novel approaches and/or systems combining semantic, social and
adaptive aspects
- Mining and analysis of data, opinion mining and sentiment analysis
- Semantic Adaptive Social Web APPification (impact of mobile apps on
Semantic Adaptive Social Web applications)


User Modeling
- User model construction based on Social Data
- User model representation based on Semantic Web techniques
- New generation of user models and user modelling techniques
- User model interoperability: sharing user profiles and decentralized
user modelling
- Use of Linked Data
- Social network analysis for user and group modelling
- Novel security, trust and reputation models
- Motivating user participation
- User identities
- Capturing and processing implicit and explicit feedback
- Techniques and data formats for user activities representation on the
Social Web
- Techniques for social user data collection, aggregation and analysis


Human-computer interaction
- Info vis & Social visualization
- Novel HCI interaction modalities
- Folksonomy and ontology visualisation
- Novel tagging modalities

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 UMAP2012 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=sasweb2012
You need to open a personal account upon the first login, if you do not
have one.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Lora M. Aroyo - VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Federica Cena - University of Turin, Italy
Antonina Dattolo - University of Udine, Italy
Pasquale Lops - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Julita Vassileva - University of Saskatchewan, Canada

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Fabian Abel - TU Delft, The Netherlands
Liliana Ardissono, University of Turin, Italy
Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, TasICT Centre, Australia
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
David Bueno Vallejo - Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Ivan Cantador, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Cristina Gena, University of Turin, Italy
Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Ernesto W. De Luca - Technische Universit?§t Berlin, Germany
Darina Dicheva, Winston Salem University, USA
Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany
Andreas Hotho, University of Wurzburg, 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, University of Salerno, Italy
Luca Mazzola, ITC, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Till Plumbaum , Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Sergey Sosnovsky, German Research Center for AI, Saarbrucken, Germany
Armando Stellato, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa, Italy
Markus Zanker, University Klagenfurt, Austria


CONTACT
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e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web page: http://sasweb.uniud.it/events/2012sasweb/











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