[okfn-discuss] SEMANTiCS 2016, Leipzig, Sep 12-15, 2nd Call for Research & Innovation Papers

[Sebastian Hellmann]

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2nd Call for Research & Innovation Papers

SEMANTiCS 2016 - The Linked Data Conference
Transfer // Engineering // Community

12th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Leipzig, Germany
September 12 -15, 2016
http://2016.semantics.cc

Important Dates (Research & Innovation)
* Abstract Submission Deadline:       April 14, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii 
time)
* Paper Submission Deadline:           April 21, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii 
time)
* Notification of Acceptance:            May 26, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii 
time)
* Camera-Ready Paper:                    June 16, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii 
time)

Submissions via Easychair: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research
As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS’16 proceedings are expected to be 
published by ACM ICP.

The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals 
who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and 
encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information 
managers, IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from 
organisations ranging from NPOs, through public administrations to the 
largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts 
and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in the fields of 
semantic software, enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies, 
methodologies in knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The 
SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities 
in interlinking areas like knowledge management, technical 
documentation, e-commerce, big data analytics, enterprise search, 
document management, business intelligence and enterprise vocabulary 
management.
The success of last year’s conference in Vienna with more than 280 
attendees from 22 countries proves that SEMANTiCS 2016 will continue a 
long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world. 
There will be presentations on industry implementations, use case 
prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss 
semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal 
settings. SEMANTICS addresses problems common among information 
managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist 
departments working to develop, implement and/or evaluate semantic 
software systems.

The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel 
discussions of important topics and presentations by people who make 
things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with 
experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value 
to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues in any stage 
of implementation. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a 
long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make 
SEMANTiCS for our community the major industry related event across Europe.


#SEMANTiCS 2016 will especially welcome submissions for the following 
hot topics:
* Data Quality Management
* Data Science (Data Mining, Machine Learning, Network Analytics)
* Semantics on the Web, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org
* Corporate Knowledge Graphs
* Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems

Following the success of previous years, the ‘horizontals’ (research) 
and ‘verticals’ (industries) below are of interest for the conference:
Horizontals
* Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration
* Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search
* Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies
* Big Data & Text Analytics
* Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization
* Semantic Information Management
* Document Management & Content Management
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
* Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking
* Smart Data & Semantics in IoT
* Semantics for IT Safety & Security
* Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing
* Community, Social & Societal Aspects

Verticals
* Industry & Engineering
* Life Sciences & Health Care
* Public Administration
* Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM)
* Education & eLearning
* Media & Data Journalism
* Publishing, Marketing & Advertising
* Tourism & Recreation
* Financial & Insurance Industry
* Telecommunication & Mobile Services
* Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology
* Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids
* Food, Agriculture & Farming
* Safety, Security & Privacy
* Transport, Environment & Geospatial

#Research / Innovation Papers
The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes the submission of 
papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the 
topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have 
been submitted for publication elsewhere. The Research & Innovation 
track at SEMANTiCS is a single-blind review process (author names are 
visible to reviewers, reviewers stay anonymous). The submitted abstract 
and the topics are leveraged to find adequate reviewers for submitted 
papers. Please write an email to 
semantics2016researchtrack at easychair.org, if you have any questions.

Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting and must not 
exceed 8 pages in length for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, 
including references and optional appendices. The layout templates can 
be found here: 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates All accepted 
full papers and short papers will be published in the digital library of 
the ACM ICP Series. Research & Innovation papers should be submitted 
through EasyChair at: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research. Papers 
must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. 
Other formats will not be accepted. For the camera-ready version, the 
source files (Latex, WordPerfect, Word) will also be needed.

Important Dates (Research & Innovation)
* Abstract Submission Deadline:            April 14, 2016 (11:59 pm, 
Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline:                April 21, 2016 (11:59 pm, 
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance:                 May 26, 2016 (11:59 pm, 
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper:                         June 16, 2016 (11:59 pm, 
Hawaii time)

Research and Innovation Chairs:
* Anna Fensel, University of Innsbruck
* Amrapali Zaveri, Stanford University
Contact email address: semantics2016researchtrack at easychair.org

Research and Innovation Deputy Chairs:
* Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology
* Artem Revenko, Semantic Web Company

Conference Chairs:
* Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University
* Tassilo Pellegrini, UAS St. Pölten

Senior Program Committee:
* Paul Buitelaar, Insight - National University of Ireland, Galway
* Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
* Claudia D'Amato, University of Bari
* Brian Davis, DERI NUIG
* Victor de Boer, VU Amsterdam
* Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer Germany
* Michel Dumontier, Stanford University
* Agata Filipowska, Department of Information Systems, Poznan University 
of Economics
* Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT-Austrian Institute of Technology
* Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University
* Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg
* Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Universidad de Oviedo
* Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research
* Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig
* Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG Österreich
* Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim
* Tassilo Pellegrini, University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten
* Marta Sabou, Vienna University of Technology
* Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, 
University of Potsdam
* Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche, Fujitsu
* Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University - iMinds
* Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science