Call for Papers:
Engineering the Semantic Enterprise
(ESE2012)
Workshop at WISE2012
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16 November, 2012 Paphos, Cyprus
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Objectives
Two main trends have emerged in
enterprise over the past few years. On the
one hand, Web 2.0 tools such as
blogs for personal information management,
microblogs for real-time
notifications and wikis for enterprise-scale
collaboration have become widely
used for information management,
leading to a move towards what is
termed "Enterprise 2.0". At the same time,
Semantic Web technologies have
emerged, allowing enterprise users to
transparently provide structured
and meaningful data in the enterprise
thanks to vocabularies representing
social data and leading towards the
Corporate Semantic Web and the
Semantic Enterprise. These technologies offer
new ways to enable data integration
between heterogeneous components, to
enhance information management and
improve sharing with an enterprise,
leading to a "Social Semantic
Enterprise" where both Semantic Web
technologies and Social Web
principles converge, resembling recent trends on
the Web with schema.org or the
Facebook Open Graph protocol. The adoption
of the Semantic Web technologies is
visible
major challenges remain:
- the volume of created content
requires both new methods for the retrieval
of Semantic Web data available in
the enterprise but also new approaches to
personalization to deliver
appropriate information to knowledge workers at
the right time
- the distributed characteristic of
enterprise data sources results in a
need for methodologies and designs
that allow for close to real-time
integration of available data.
We aim to bring together Semantic
Web experts, practitioners and users to
discuss the application of semantic
technologies in enterprise. This
workshop is motivated by recent
developments in the domain leading to many
enterprise applications that
strengthen the connection between enterprise
and Web data and systems, while at
the same time posing new technical and
methodological challenges.
The workshop will serve as a forum
for the confluence of new ideas that will
help to drive research and
applications in the area of the semantic
technologies deployed in an
enterprise context.
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Topics of Interest
We encourage the submission of
research papers (full or short),
demonstrations and posters that
deal with (but are not limited to)
the following topics of interest:
a) Semantic Web and the enterprise
- Enterprise architectures
exploiting semantic technologies
- Linked Open Data in enterprise
systems, and linked enterprise data
- Semantic Web standards in the
enterprise
- Corporate Semantic Web
- Integration of enterprise and Web
data
- Scalability of enterprise systems
exploiting Semantic Web technologies
- Real-time integration of
enterprise data and distributed systems
b) Social applications,
personalization, and privacy in an enterprise
context
- Case studies of semantic
technologies deployment in different enterprise
applications
- Demonstrations of the use of
social networking in the enterprise
- Methodologies and tools enabling
a Social Semantic Enterprise
- Personalization techniques with
applications in enterprise context
- User modeling in social semantic
enterprise
- Recommender systems exploiting
Semantic Web techniques
- Trust, privacy and security
- Human aspects of Semantic
Enterprise: decision-making, usability,
user interface design
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Submissions
We seek the following kinds of
submissions:
1. Full scientific papers: should
present mature work - up to 12 pages
in LNCS format
2. Short scientific and position
papers: up to 4 pages in LNCS
3. Demonstration papers: up to 4
pages in LNCS
Submitted papers will be carefully
evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness,
and clarity of exposition by
at least two members of the program
committee.
All submitted papers MUST be
formatted according to the author
guidelines provided by Springer
LNCS format [1] and in PDF format.
Please submit papers in PDF format
only via EasyChair at
The proceedings of the ESE 2012
workshop will be published by Springer
in its Lecturer Notes in Computer
Science series as well as by CEUR [2].
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Important Dates
* Abstract submission deadline: 27
August, 2012, 23:59 CET
* Paper submission deadline: 3
September, 2012, 23:59 CET
* Notification of acceptance: 5
October, 2012
* Camera-ready versions of accepted
papers: 20, October, 2012
* Workshop date: 28 November, 2012
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Organising Committee
* Maciej Dabrowski, DERI, NUI
Galway
* Alexandre Passant, seevl.net
* Eric Gordon Prud'hommeaux, W3C
* John Breslin, NUI Galway
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Programme Committee to be confirmed
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Contact
For further information about the
workshop, please contact the
workshop chairs at maciej [dot]
dabrowski [at] deri [dot] org
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