From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A9B07EEEF for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:51:12 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy) identity=pra; client-ip=194.42.17.130; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy"; x-sender="announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: PermError (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: cannot correctly interpret sender authenticity information from domain of announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=194.42.17.130; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy"; x-sender="announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@theano.cs.ucy.ac.cy) identity=helo; client-ip=194.42.17.130; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy"; x-sender="postmaster@theano.cs.ucy.ac.cy"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0BhAwBN/3pVmYIRKsJCGg6DVl+vKgGGIod4ghSFeoFDTAEBAQEBARIBAQEBAQgLCwchDCKFEQMCWFsXE4gzCTqiAa8lhSKNAIEugTgKBwEKQ4Q4BYZ6hWiDfhGHL4gkQINBgmOBDodBF4cKAhF4ZgEKAQEBNA0PgRRBOwIvAQGBAQkXgSQBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0BhAwBN/3pVmYIRKsJCGg6DVl+vKgGGIod4ghSFeoFDTAEBAQEBARIBAQEBAQgLCwchDCKFEQMCWFsXE4gzCTqiAa8lhSKNAIEugTgKBwEKQ4Q4BYZ6hWiDfhGHL4gkQINBgmOBDodBF4cKAhF4ZgEKAQEBNA0PgRRBOwIvAQGBAQkXgSQBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,602,1427752800"; d="scan'208,217";a="135902263" Received: from theano.cs.ucy.ac.cy ([194.42.17.130]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 12 Jun 2015 17:51:11 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by theano.cs.ucy.ac.cy (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE698D10 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2015 18:51:10 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.ucy.ac.cy Received: from theano.cs.ucy.ac.cy ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (theano.cs.ucy.ac.cy [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id HO5DGAg8H0b4 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2015 18:51:04 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [10.16.16.114] (Georges-Mac-Pro.in.cs.ucy.ac.cy [10.16.16.114]) by theano.cs.ucy.ac.cy (Postfix) with SMTP id C170521C1 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:28:17 +0300 (EEST) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 From: Announce Announcements To: "cs.cmu.edu," Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:30:45 +0300 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; Boundary="--=BOUNDARY_6121730_EVDU_CMHB_VWTY_MALG" X-Validation-by: announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy Subject: [Caml-list] Second CFP: 6th Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities (SASC 2015) This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ----=BOUNDARY_6121730_EVDU_CMHB_VWTY_MALG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The 6th Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities (S4SC 2015) collocated with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2015) Bethlehem, PA, USA October 11-12, 2015 http://kat.ee.surrey.ac.uk/wssc/index.html Important Dates (All deadlines are Hawaii time) - full paper submission: July 1, 2015 - notification of acceptance: July 31, 2015 - submission of camera ready version: August 7, 2015 - Workshop date: October 11/12, 2015 Scope and Objectives This workshop will explore the interfaces between the Web, the Web of Data,= and the City Smart environment. It will further explore how the Web, and t= he intelligences built on top of, and around the Web, can make the notion o= f the Smart Connected City possible and realizable. The workshop aims to gather researchers, city departments, service provider= s, application developers, entrepreneurs, and citizens to present and debat= e Semantic Web technologies, Linked Data and data analytics and evaluations= for smart city applications as well as impact of user engagements and soci= al networks. The workshop will also focus on related standardisation activi= ties in W3C, IEEE and ETSI. It continues on from the successful earlier workshops on the same theme at: The 5th Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities (http://blog.soton.ac.uk/s= 4sc/) SemCity13 (http://aida.ii.uam.es/wims13/semcity.php) AAAI 14 (http://research.ihost.com/semanticcities14/) AAAI 12 (http://research.ihost.com/semanticcities12/) IJCAI 13 (http://research.ihost.com/semanticcities13/) Topics of Interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 1. Semantic platforms to integrate, manage and publish government data Provenance, access control and privacy-preserving issues in open data Collaborative and evolving semantic models for cities. Challenges and lesso= ns learned Semantic data integration and organization in cities: social media feeds, s= ensor data, simulation models and Internet of things in city models Big data and scaling out in semantic cities. Managing big data using knowle= dge representation models Knowledge acquisition, evolution and maintenance of city data Challenges in managing and integrating real-time and historical city data Big Data in Dynamic Smart City Environments 2. Process and standards for defining, publishing and sharing open city (go= vernment) data Platforms and best practices for city data interoperability Foundational and applied ontologies for semantic cities Publishing Public and Government Data and Open Data 3. Robust inference models for semantic cities Large-scale / stream-based reasoning Semantic event detection and classification Spatio-temporal reasoning, analysis and visualization Machine Learning and Semantics 4. City applications involving semantic models Intelligent user interfaces and contextual user exploration of semantic dat= a relating to cities Use cases, including, but not limited to, transportation (traffic predictio= n, personal travel optimization, carpool and feet scheduling), public safet= y (suspicious activity detection, disaster management), healthcare (disease= diagnosis and prognosis, pandemic management), water management (flood pre= vision, quality monitoring, fault diagnosis), food (food traceability, carb= on-footprint tracking), energy (smart grid, carbon footprint tracking, elec= tricity consumption forecasting) and buildings (energy conservation, fault = detections) 5. City as a Smart Utility Internet of Things Interaction Paradigms in the Smart City Smart City operating systems Semantic Complex Event Reasoning City services discovery Service Ranking, Provenance, and Semantic Web Discovery Sustainability issues in developing Smart City Applications Impact of Smart City services and applications Discovery of Data and Sensors Submission Types and Publication For providing a forum for sharing novel ideas, S4SC'15 welcomes a broad spe= ctrum of contributions, including: Full research papers Position papers Case studies Descriptions of experiments Evaluations How to submit Authors of accepted works are expected to attend the conference to present = their work. The maximum length of: Short papers, up to 6 pages Full Research papers, up to 16 pages Position papers, up to 4 pages Case Studies papers, up to 16 pages Demo papers, and descriptions of experiments, including evaluation reports = (up to 16 pages) Submissions to the Demo track should describe what will be demonstrated (th= is may include screenshots and sample script for the demo). Authors are enc= ouraged to include a link to where the demo (live or recorded video) can be= found. Authors are advised to make clear in their submission: What is the research background and application context of the demonstratio= n? What are the key technologies used, and how does the demonstrated system, a= pplication or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work? What will be the key concepts learnt by participants of the demonstration? Submissions must be in PDF formatted in the style of the Springer Publicati= ons format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details of the= LNCS style, see Springer's Author Instructions. Paper submissions to be made electronically through the EasyChair submissio= n system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Ds4sc2015 Important Dates (All deadlines are Hawaii time) - full paper submission: July 1, 2015 - notification of acceptance: July 31, 2015 - submission of camera ready version: August 7, 2015 - Workshop date: October 11 or 12, 2015 (exact date will be confirmed) Organising Committee - Tope Omitola, University of Southampton, UK - John Breslin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland - Payam Barnaghi, University of Surrey, UK - Jan Holler, Ericsson, Sweden - Biplav Srivastava, IBM Research, India - John Davies, BT, UK Advisors - Manfred Hauswirth, Technical University of Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS - Amit Sheth, Wright State University, USA - Ralf Toenjes, University of Applied Science Osnabr=FCck, Germany Program Committee - Herwig Schreiner, Siemens, Austria - Spyros Kotoulas, IBM Research, Smarter Cities Technology Centre, Dublin, = Ireland - Monika Solanki, University of Oxford - Septimiu Nechifor, Siemens, Romania - Pramod Anantharam, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University - Rosario Uceda-Sosa, IBM - Mirko Presser, Alexandra Institute, Denmark - Konstantinos Vandikas, Ericsson, Sweden - Andreas Emrich, DFKI/University of Saarbrucken, Germany - Alessandra Mileo, Insight Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway,= Ireland - Taha Osman, Nottingham Trent University, UK - Sebastian Rios, University of Chile - Jose Gomez-Perez, Expert System, Spain - Maria Bermudez, University of Surrey, UK - Sarah Gallacher, ICRI-Cities, UCL, UK - Frieder Ganz, Adobe, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. ----=BOUNDARY_6121730_EVDU_CMHB_VWTY_MALG Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable HTML Message
The 6th Workshop on Semantics for Smarter= Cities
(S4SC 2015)
collocated with the 14th International Semantic = Web Conference (ISWC2015)
Bethlehem, PA, USA

October 11-12, 2015<= br>
http://kat.ee.surrey.ac.uk= /wssc/index.html

<= br>Important Dates (All deadlines are Hawaii time)

–= ; full paper submission: July 1, 2015

– notification of accepta= nce: July 31, 2015

– submission of camera ready version: August= 7, 2015

– Workshop date: October 11/12, 2015


Scope and Objectives

This workshop= will explore the interfaces between the Web, the Web of Data, and the City= Smart environment. It will further explore how the Web, and the intelligen= ces built on top of, and around the Web, can make the notion of the Smart C= onnected City possible and realizable.

The workshop aims to gather r= esearchers, city departments, service providers, application developers, en= trepreneurs, and citizens to present and debate Semantic Web technologies, = Linked Data and data analytics and evaluations for smart city applications = as well as impact of user engagements and social networks. The workshop wil= l also focus on related standardisation activities in W3C, IEEE and ETSI.
It continues on from the successful earlier workshops on the same the= me at:

The 5th Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities (http://blog.soton.ac.uk/s4sc/)

SemCity13 (http://aida.ii.uam.es/wims13/semcity.php)

AA= AI 14 (http://rese= arch.ihost.com/semanticcities14/)

AAAI 12 (http://research.ihost.com/semanticcitie= s12/)

IJCAI 13 (http://research.ihost.com/semanticcities13/)


Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. Semanti= c platforms to integrate, manage and publish government data
Provenance,= access control and privacy-preserving issues in open data
Collaborative= and evolving semantic models for cities. Challenges and lessons learnedSemantic data integration and organization in cities: social media feeds, = sensor data, simulation models and Internet of things in city models
Big= data and scaling out in semantic cities. Managing big data using knowledge= representation models
Knowledge acquisition, evolution and maintenance = of city data
Challenges in managing and integrating real-time and histor= ical city data
Big Data in Dynamic Smart City Environments

2. Pro= cess and standards for defining, publishing and sharing open city (governme= nt) data
Platforms and best practices for city data interoperability
= Foundational and applied ontologies for semantic cities
Publishing Publi= c and Government Data and Open Data

3. Robust inference models for s= emantic cities
Large-scale / stream-based reasoning
Semantic event de= tection and classification
Spatio-temporal reasoning, analysis and visua= lization
Machine Learning and Semantics

4. City applications invo= lving semantic models
Intelligent user interfaces and contextual user ex= ploration of semantic data relating to cities
Use cases, including, but = not limited to, transportation (traffic prediction, personal travel optimiz= ation, carpool and feet scheduling), public safety (suspicious activity det= ection, disaster management), healthcare (disease diagnosis and prognosis, = pandemic management), water management (flood prevision, quality monitoring= , fault diagnosis), food (food traceability, carbon-footprint tracking), en= ergy (smart grid, carbon footprint tracking, electricity consumption foreca= sting) and buildings (energy conservation, fault detections)

5. City= as a Smart Utility
Internet of Things
Interaction Paradigms in the S= mart City
Smart City operating systems
Semantic Complex Event Reasoni= ng
City services discovery
Service Ranking, Provenance, and Semantic = Web Discovery
Sustainability issues in developing Smart City Application= s
Impact of Smart City services and applications
Discovery of Data an= d Sensors
Submission Types= and Publication

For providing a forum for sharing no= vel ideas, S4SC’15 welcomes a broad spectrum of contributions, includi= ng:
Full research papers
Position papers
Case studies
Descripti= ons of experiments
Evaluations
How to submit

Authors of accept= ed works are expected to attend the conference to present their work. The m= aximum length of:
Short papers, up to 6 pages
Full Research papers, u= p to 16 pages
Position papers, up to 4 pages
Case Studies papers, up = to 16 pages
Demo papers, and descriptions of experiments, including eval= uation reports (up to 16 pages)

Submissions to the Demo track should= describe what will be demonstrated (this may include screenshots and sampl= e script for the demo). Authors are encouraged to include a link to where t= he demo (live or recorded video) can be found. Authors are advised to make = clear in their submission:

What is the research background and appli= cation context of the demonstration?
What are the key technologies used,= and how does the demonstrated system, application or infrastructure relate= to pre-existing work?
What will be the key concepts learnt by participa= nts of the demonstration?

Submissions must be in PDF formatted in th= e style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer S= cience (LNCS). For details of the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author In= structions.

Paper submissions to be made electronically through the = EasyChair submission system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Ds4sc2015

Important Dates (All de= adlines are Hawaii time)

– full paper submission: July 1, 2015<= br>
– notification of acceptance: July 31, 2015

– submi= ssion of camera ready version: August 7, 2015

– Workshop date: = October 11 or 12, 2015 (exact date will be confirmed)


Organising Committee

- Tope Omitola, University of Southampton, UK

- John Breslin, Na= tional University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

- Payam Barnaghi, Univ= ersity of Surrey, UK

- Jan Holler, Ericsson, Sweden

- Biplav = Srivastava, IBM Research, India

- John Davies, BT, UK

= Advisors

- Man= fred Hauswirth, Technical University of Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS

- Am= it Sheth, Wright State University, USA

- Ralf Toenjes, University of= Applied Science Osnabr=FCck, Germany

Program Committee

- Herwig Schreiner,= Siemens, Austria

- Spyros Kotoulas, IBM Research, Smarter Cities T= echnology Centre, Dublin, Ireland

- Monika Solanki, University of Ox= ford

- Septimiu Nechifor, Siemens, Romania

- Pramod Ananthara= m, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University

- Rosario Uceda-Sosa, IBM
<= br>- Mirko Presser, Alexandra Institute, Denmark

- Konstantinos Van= dikas, Ericsson, Sweden

- Andreas Emrich, DFKI/University of Saarbr= ucken, Germany

- Alessandra Mileo, Insight Centre, National Universi= ty of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

- Taha Osman, Nottingham Trent Univer= sity, UK

- Sebastian Rios, University of Chile

- Jose Gomez-P= erez, Expert System, Spain

- Maria Bermudez, University of Surrey, U= K

- Sarah Gallacher, ICRI-Cities, UCL, UK

- Frieder Ganz, Ado= be, Germany

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