-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] AMCIS Mini-Track CFP: Semantic Technologies and Big Data Analytics Datum: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:34:46 +0100 Von: joerg.leukel@uni-hohenheim.de Antwort an: joerg.leukel@uni-hohenheim.de An: wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

*21st Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS’15)* Puerto Rico, August 13-15, 2015

*Mini-track:* Semantic Technologies and Big Data Analytics *Track: *Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (SIGODIS)

*Description* ** The vision of Semantic Integration for Big Data Analytics is to have heterogeneous data linked in such a way that machines can understand its meanings for the exchange and reuse of large amounts of data across heterogeneous data sources. The semantic representation of heterogeneous data, augmented with ontology of domain theories, will enable us to link a large network of human knowledge and make this knowledge machine-understandable. This will in turn enable various knowledge systems to effectively analyze and reason the big data to uncover useful information. Semantic Integration of heterogeneous data has been recognized as one of the most important research issues and has received considerable attention from both academia and industry. Semantic integration has made significant progress over several years when numerous issues have been addressed and many applications have been developed. However, despite all of these advances, the current state of semantic integration requires significant improvements to make it more effective in a broader range of applications. This mini-track will provide a forum for gaining a better understanding of the new technologies and their business aspects for semantic integration for big data analytics. Potential authors/researchers are encouraged to submit papers that address the issues related to designing, developing, and evaluating the semantic integration of large volume of heterogeneous data from the technical, behavioral, economical, or managerial perspectives.

Best papers from this mini-track will be fast tracked for publication in a special issue of International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (_http://www.idea-group.com/IJIIT_).

*Suggested topics include, but not limited to the following:*

· Semantic interoperability · Innovative design artefacts for semantic integration · Novel applications for semantic integration for Big Data Analytics · Semantic Integration for e-business and e-learning · Semantic Web/Ontology for Data Integration · Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation for Big Data Analytics · Ontology mapping, Integration, and/or alignment for Big Data Analytics · Software agents for Semantic Integration · Managerial Issues of Semantic Integration for Big Data Analytics

*Submission Process* ** Paper submissions must be made electronically through AMCIS 2015 Manuscript Submission Site _https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2015_. For submission guidelines, please refer to _http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines_.

*Important Dates* ** February 25, 2015: Manuscript submission deadline April 21, 2015: Author notification April 28, 2015: Camera-ready submission due

For more information, please visit the conference website at _http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/_or contact the mini-track co-chairs.

*Mini-track Chair* ** *Victoria Y. Yoon* Virginia Commonwealth University _vyyoon@vcu.edu_ mailto:vyyoon@vcu.edu