[OKFN-Greece] SEMANTiCS 2018, Vienna, Sep 10-13, Open Calls

[Sebastian Hellmann]

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Call for Papers, Posters & Workshops and Tutorials
SEMANTiCS 2018 - The Linked Data Conference
14th International Conference on Semantic Systems

Vienna, Austria
September 10 -13, 2018
http://2018.semantics.cc

Important Dates (Research & Innovation incl. Data Science Track)
Abstract Submission Deadline:    April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline:    April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance:     June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper:         August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)

Submission via Easychair on 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2018

SEMANTiCS’18 proceedings will be published as Open Access by Elsevier 
Procedia Computer Science.

The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals 
who make semantic computing work, understand its benefits, and encounter 
its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, 
IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from a wide spectrum 
of organisations ranging from SMEs and non-profit organizations, to 
public administration bodies, 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, including 
enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies, methodologies in 
knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The SEMANTiCS community 
is highly diverse; attendees routinely interlinking areas such as 
knowledge management, technical documentation, e-commerce, big data 
analysis, enterprise search, document management, business intelligence 
and enterprise vocabulary management.

Given the success of last year’s conference in Amsterdam, which 
attracted more than 370 attendees from 28 countries, SEMANTiCS 2018 is 
bound to continue a long tradition of bringing together a community 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 a broad range of regular 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 evaluate 
semantic software systems.
The SEMANTiCS program will provide a rich mix of technical talks, panel 
discussions on emerging topics and presentations by people who make 
things work - just like you. In addition, attendees will have a unique 
opportunity to network with experts in a variety of fields. These 
relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter 
technical challenges 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 the key event across 
Europe for a diverse community of industry leaders and academic experts 
alike.
Following the success of the previous year, this year’s SEMANTiCS will 
also again feature a special Data Science track, which offer a unique 
opportunity to bring together researchers and practitioners interested 
in the intersection of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and Data 
Science and provide a platform to present their ideas and discuss the 
most important scientific, technical and socio-economic challenges in 
this emerging field.

SEMANTiCS 2018 particularly welcomes submissions on the following key 
topics:
*Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org
*Corporate Knowledge Graphs
*Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies
*Data Quality Management
*Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
*Ethics and Explainable AI
*Data Science (special track, see below)

Following the success of previous years, we welcome any submissions 
related, but not limited to, the following ‘horizontal’ (research) and 
‘vertical’ (industries) topics:

Horizontals
*Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration
*Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search
*Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies
*Semantics in 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
*Semantic Services
*Semantics for IT Safety & Security
*Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing
*Community, Social & Societal Aspects

Verticals
*Industry & Engineering
*Life Sciences & Health Care
*Public Administration
*e-Science
*Digital Humanities
*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

We invite contributions to the following tracks:

# Research and Innovation Track
The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes 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. Papers must not exceed 12 pages in 
length for full papers and 6 pages for short papers, including 
references and optional appendices.

Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline:    April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline:    April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance:     June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper:         August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)

Author instructions: Proceedings should follow the guidelines of the 
Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format.  Details will be provided soon.

# Data Science Track
Following the success of last year’s inaugural edition, SEMANTiCS will 
again feature a Data Science track that provides a unique opportunity to 
bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the 
intersection between data science and Semantic Technologies. Semantics 
will provide a forum to present their ideas and discuss the most 
important scientific, technical and socio-economic challenges of this 
emerging field. The detailed Call for Data Science papers is available 
here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls

Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline:    April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline:    April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance:     June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper:         August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)

Author instructions: Proceedings should follow the guidelines of the 
Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format. Details will be provided soon.

# Posters and Demos Track
The Posters & Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in progress, 
late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller contributions 
in all fields related to the Semantic Web in a broader sense. These 
include submissions on innovative applications with impact on end users, 
such as demos of solutions that users may test or that are yet in the 
conceptual phase, but are worth discussing, and also applications or 
pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or 
business partners. The detailed Call for Poster & Demos papers is 
available here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls

Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline:        June 11, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance:     July 2, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper:         August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)

Author instructions: Proceedings should follow the guidelines of the 
CEUR Workshop proceedings format. Details will be provided soon.

# Industry and Use Case Track
Focusing strongly on industry needs, SEMANTICS invites presentations on 
enterprise solutions that deal with semantic processing of data and/or 
information in areas like Linked Data, Data Publishing, Semantic Search, 
Recommendation Services, Sentiment Detection, Search Engine Add-Ons, 
Thesaurus and/or Ontology Management, Text Mining, Data Mining and any 
related fields. All submissions have a strong focus on real world 
applications beyond the prototypical stage and demonstrate the power of 
semantic systems! The detailed Call for Industry and Use Case 
Presentations is available here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls

Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline:    May 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline:        May 28, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance:     August 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)

# Workshops and Tutorials
Workshops and tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2018 allow your organisation or 
project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased 
visibility. The workshops and tutorials will provide a forum for 
presenting widely recognized contributions and findings to a diverse and 
knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a 
dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a 
closed format for research/commercial project consortia meetings. A 
detailed call for workshops and tutorials is available here: 
https://2018.semantics.cc/calls

Important Dates for Workshops:
Workshop Proposals due:         April 1, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notification of Acceptance:     April 14,  2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)

Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars, 
show-cases, etc., without call for papers):
Submission deadline:         July 1,  2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notifications:             July 10,  2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)

# Vocarnival
Bootstrap your new Vocabulary project: At the carnival you can present 
your ideas and early stage vocabs to find the right people to get the 
Vocab discussion going. For this event we use a very open definition of 
what a vocabulary is. Ontologies, classifications, thesauri, concept and 
metadata schemes, whatever their format, in RDF or not, are all welcome. 
We require at least a project website. Details to follow.

The detailed calls  will be available on the conference website 
http://2018.semantics.cc

Research and Innovation Chairs:
Anna Fensel, University of Innsbruck
Victor de Boer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Data Science Track Chairs:
Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology
Laura Hollink, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Alexander Schindler, Vienna University of Technology

Industry and Use case Presentations
Tobias Bürger, BMW
Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer
Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs:
Javier D. Fernández, WU Vienna
Tobias Kuhn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Posters and Demos
Ali Khalili, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Maria Koutraki, FIZ Karlsruhe

Conference Chairs:
Elmar Kiesling, TU Wien
Tassilo Pellegrini, UAS St. Pölten

The program committee will be announced on the conference website 
http://2018.semantics.cc