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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON WEB SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
WebST 2016
Bilbao, Spain
July 18-22, 2016
Organized by:
University of Deusto
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/webst2016/
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AIM:
WebST 2016 is a research training event addressed to graduates and
postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a
global scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent
advances in the critical, multidisciplinary and fast developing
area of web studies, which covers a large spectrum of current
exciting research and industrial innovation from computing and
technologies to social sciences and the humanities and has turned
out to be the largest socio-technical infrastructure in human
history. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and
share their views with the audience.
Most subareas of web science and technology will be displayed,
namely: content analysis and information extraction, information
networks, search, data and semantics, ontologies, user behavior
and personalization, online communities, social networks, economic
transactions, mobility, security and privacy, graph analysis, web
mining and applications. Main challenges and opportunities will be
identified through 4 keynote lectures, 20 six-hour courses, and 1
round table, which will tackle the most active and promising
topics from various perspectives: philosophy, sociology, politics,
digital humanities, economics, computer science, engineering and
mathematics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will
attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction
will be a main component of the event. Moreover, an open session
will give participants the opportunity to present their own work
in progress in 5 minutes.
ADDRESSED TO:
Graduates and postgraduates from around the world. There are no
formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since
there will be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge
background may be assumed for some of them. WebST 2016 is also
appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves
updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely
find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers,
scholars, industry leaders and innovators.
REGIME:
In addition to keynotes, at least 2 courses will run in parallel
during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose
the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from
one to another.
VENUE:
WebST 2016 will take place in Bilbao, the capital of the Basque
Country region, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the
Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be:
DeustoTech, School of Engineering
University of Deusto
Avda. Universidades, 24
48014 Bilbao
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo Labs), Big Data in the Web
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), From Data
to Knowledge: A Data-to-Network-to-Knowledge (D2N2K) Paradigm
Prabhakar Raghavan (Google), tba
Amit P. Sheth (Wright State University), Building Intelligent
Systems: Semantic, Cognitive and Perceptual Computing to Exploit
Physical-Cyber-Social Big Data
PROFESSORS AND COURSES:
Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne), [intermediate] Social
Media and Text Analytics
Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales), [advanced] API
Engineering and Management
Vassilis Christophides (INRIA, Paris), [introductory/intermediate]
Entity Resolution in the Web of Data
Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University), [introductory] Useful Web
Mining with R
Aldo Gangemi (Italian National Research Council, Rome),
[intermediate/advanced] Open Knowledge Extraction: From Machine
Reading to the Semantic Web
Marco Gori (University of Siena), [advanced] Learning
Semantic-based Structures from Textual Sources
Alon Halevy (Recruit Institute of Technology), [introductory]
Structured Data on the Web
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),
[intermediate] Construction and Mining of Text-Rich Heterogeneous
Information Networks
Andreas Hotho (University of Würzburg), [intermediate] Social
Semantics in the Web
Ravi Kumar (Google), [introductory/intermediate] Computing at
Scale: Models and Algorithms
Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Foundation), [introductory/intermediate] From
Social Network Analysis to Social Media Analytics and beyond:
Challenges and Opportunities
Cathy Marshall (Texas A&M University), [introductory]
Qualitative Methods for Studying Users on the Web
Mirco Musolesi (University College London),
[introductory/intermediate] Mining Big (and Small) Mobile Data
Marc Najork (Google), [introductory] Search Engine Architecture
Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester), [introductory] The
Semantic Web and Linked Data
Prabhakar Raghavan (Google), [intermediate] How To Build a Search
Engine
Uli Sattler (University of Manchester), [introductory] OWL,
Underlying Logics, and What This Reasoning Is All about
Munindar P. Singh (North Carolina State University),
[introductory/intermediate] Web Applications as Sociotechnical
Systems: A Basis for a Science of Security and Privacy
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Towards
Ontological Foundations for Web Science
Raphael Volz (Pforzheim University of Applied Science),
[introductory] Improving Prediction Models with Open Data
OPEN SESSION
An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in
progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract
containing title, authors, and summary of the research to
florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat by July 15, 2016.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair)
Manuel Jesús Parra Royón
Borja Sanz (co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
http://grammars.grlmc.com/webst2016/Registration.php
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration
template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of
organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the
respective demand for each course.
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests
will be processed on a first come first served basis. The
registration period will be closed and the on-line registration
facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete.
It is much recommended to register prior to the event.
FEES:
Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during
the week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees
depend on the registration deadline.
ACCOMMODATION:
Suggestions of accommodation will be available on the webpage in
due time.
CERTIFICATE:
Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
University of Deusto
Rovira i Virgili University