Wednesday, January 28, 2015

CFP: Special Issue on Geospatial Semantics, deadline extended


Special Issue of the JWS on Geospatial Semantics


The Journal of Web Semantics seeks submissions for a special issue on geospatial semantics to be edited by Yolanda Gil and Raphaël Troncy. Submissions are due by January 31 February 16, 2015.

Geospatial reasoning has an increasingly larger scope in the semantic web. More and more information is geolocated, more mobile devices produce geocoded records, and more web mashups are created to convey geospatial information. Semantics can enable automated integration of geospatial information, and track the provenance of the data shown to an end user. Semantics can also improve visualizations and querying of geospatial data. Semantics can also support crowdsourcing of geospatial data, particularly to track identity through name and property changes over time. Several recent workshops on geospatial semantics have emphasized the interest in the community on these topics. Of note are workshops organized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) indicating a strong interest in standardization efforts in geospatial semantics. This special issue aims to synthesize the recent trends in research and practice in the area of geospatial semantics.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
  • Combining semantic information with more traditional representations and standards for geospatial data
  • Exploiting semantics to enhance visualizations of geospatial information
  • Use of semantics to support geospatial data integration and conflation
  • Semantic mashups of geospatial data
  • Semantic provenance of geospatial data (e.g., PROV)
  • Semantics for mobile geospatial applications
  • Geospatial linked open data
  • Managing privacy of personal geospatial data and whereabouts through semantics
  • Combining semantic web standards (W3C) with geospatial (OGC) standards (e.g., GML)
  • Format for representing geographical data (e.g., GeoJSON)
  • Semantics for crowdsourcing geospatial information
  • Semantics for exploiting geospatial information in social network platforms
  • Scalable reasoning with semantic geospatial data
  • Real world applications of semantic geospatial frameworks

Guest Editors

  • Yolanda Gil, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
  • Raphaël Troncy, Multimedia Communications Department, EURECOM

Important Dates

  • Call for papers: September 20, 2014
  • Submission deadline: January 31 February 16, 2015
  • Author notification: mid-April 2015
  • Publication: third quarter of 2015

Submission guidelines

The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific contributions of high quality. Following the overall mission of the journal, we emphasize the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative semantic methods and applications. The publication of large-scale experiments and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate scenarios and methods that introduce semantics into existing Web interfaces, contents and services.

Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in accordance with instructions given in the JWS guide for authors. The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's Web-based EES system. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Elsevier's liberal preprint policy permits authors and their institutions to host preprints on their web sites. Preprints of the articles will be made freely accessible on the JWS preprint server. Final copies of accepted publications will appear in print and at Elsevier's archival online server.

Friday, January 16, 2015

Preprints: Special Issue on the 2013 Semantic Web Challenge


Volume 27 of the Journal of Web Semantics includes papers from a special issue from the 2013 Semantic Web Challenge edited by Andreas Harth and Sean Bechhofer. Five systems sere selected as winners, four in the Open Track, with a special Big Data Prize being awarded to the best systems making use of large-scale data sets. This special issue presents articles about these five systems.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

2015 Ontology Summit: Internet of Things: Toward Smart Networked Systems and Societies



The theme of the 2015 Ontology Summit is Internet of Things: Toward Smart Networked Systems and Societies. The Ontology Summit is an annual series of events (first started by Ontolog and NIST in 2006) that involve the ontology community and communities related to each year's theme.
The 2015 Summit will hold a virtual discourse over the next three months via mailing lists and online panel sessions augmented conference calls. The Summit will culminate in a two-day face-to-face workshop on 13-14 April 2015 in Arlington, VA. The Summit's goal is to explore how ontologies can play a significant role in the realization of smart networked systems and societies in the Internet of Things.
The Summit's initial launch session will take place from 12:30pm to 2:00pm EDT on Thursday, January 15th and will include overview presentations from each of the four technical tracks. See the 2015 Ontology Summit for more information, the schedule and details on how to participate in these free an open events.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Special issue on machine learning deadline extended to 15 February 2015


The deadline for submission to the special issue on machine learning and data mining for the Semantic Web has been extended to 15 February 2015.

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: 15 February 2015
  • Author notification: 30 April 2015
  • Submission deadline for revisions: 15 June 2015
  • Author notification: 1 August 2015

Special issue editors