Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

August 12, 2012

4th International Workshop on Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications (GDM 2013)

Filed under: Conferences,Graphs,Networks — Patrick Durusau @ 6:13 pm

4th International Workshop on Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications (GDM 2013)

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: October 7, 2011
Author Notification: November 21, 2011
Final Camera-ready Copy Deadline: November 28, 2011
Workshop: April 11, 2012 (Brisbane, Australia)

From the call for papers:

The GDM workshop targets researchers that concentrate on all aspects of managing graph data such as: “How to store graph data?”, “How to efficiently index graph data?” and “How to query graph databases?”. Hence, we are interested in applications of graph databases in different practical domains. The workshop invites original research contributions as well as reports on prototype systems from research communities dealing with different theoretical and applied aspects of graph data management. Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly establish the research contribution, and relation to previous research. Position and survey papers are also welcome.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Methods/Techniques for storing, indexing and querying graph data.
  • Methods/Techniques for estimating the selectivity of graph queries.
  • Methods/Techniques for graph mining.
  • Methods/Techniques for compact (compressed) representation of graph data.
  • Methods/Techniques for measuring graph similarity.
  • Methods/Techniques for large scale and distributed graph processing.
  • Tools/Techniques for graph data management for social network applications.
  • Tools/Techniques for graph data management of chemical compounds.
  • Tools/Techniques for graph data management of protein networks.
  • Tools/Techniques for graph data management of multimedia databases.
  • Tools/Techniques for graph data management of semantic web data (RDF).
  • Tools/Techniques for graph data management for spatio-temporal applications.
  • Tools/Techniques for graph data management for Business Process Management applications.
  • Tools/Techniques for visualizing, browsing, or navigating graph data
  • Analysis/Proposals for graph query languages.
  • Advanced applications and tools for managing graph databases in different domains.
  • Benchmarking and testing of graph data management techniques.

Being held in conjunction with the 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Brisbane, Australia, April 8-12, 2013.

August 1, 2012

Balisage 2012 – Proceedings & Symposium

Filed under: Conferences,CS Lectures — Patrick Durusau @ 8:07 pm

The Balisage Proceedings and Symposium materials are online! (before the conference/symposium):

Balisage 2012

cover: http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol8/cover.html
table of contents: http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol8/contents.html

Symposium

cover: http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol9/cover.html
table of contents: http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol9/contents.html

As of tomorrow, you have 4 days (starts August 6th) to make the Symposium and 5 days (starts August 7th) to make Balisage.

Same day ticket purchase/travel is still possible but why risk it? Besides, I’m sure Greece can’t afford Interpol fees anymore. 😉

Your choices are:

Attend or,

Spend the rest of the year making up lame excuses for not being at Balisage in Montreal.

Choice is yours!

July 31, 2012

WDM 2012 : Special Session on Web Data Matching

Filed under: Conferences,Data Mining — Patrick Durusau @ 2:58 pm

Call for Papers of the Special Session on Web Data Matching – WDM 2012

When Nov 21, 2012 – Nov 23, 2012
Where SĂŁo Carlos, Brazil
Submission Deadline Aug 15, 2012
Notification Due Sep 15, 2012
Final Version Due Sep 30, 2012

From the call for papers:

Under the framework of the 8th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP 2012), 21-23 November 2012 in SĂŁo Carlos, Brazil

Objectives

In recent years, research in area of web mining and web searching grows rapidly, mainly thanks to growing complexity of digital data and the huge quantity of new data available every day. A Web user wishing to find information on a particular subject must usually guess the keywords under which that information might be classified by a standard search engine. There are also new approaches such as the various methods of the classification of web data based an analysis of unstructured and structured web data and use of human and social factors. WDM workshop focuses mainly (but not only) on methods of analysis of web data leading to their classification and use to improve user orientation at Web.

Specific topics of interest

To address the aforementioned aspects of evolution of social networks, the preferred topics for this special session are (but not limited to):

  • Web pattern recognition and matching
  • Web information extraction
  • Web content mining
  • Web genre detection
  • Deep web analysis
  • Relevance and ranking of web data
  • Web search systems and applications
  • Mapping structured and unstructured web data

I realize it is fashionable to sprinkle “web” or “web scale” in papers and calls for papers but is the object of our study really any different?

Does it matter for authorship, genre, entity extraction, data mining, whether the complete texts of Shakespeare are on your local hard drive or some website?

Or to put it another way, should the default starting point be to consider all the data on the Web?

How would you create a lens or filter to enable a user to start with “relevant” resources for a query?

July 30, 2012

Search Solutions 2012: your opportunity to shape this year’s event

Filed under: Conferences,Search Engines,Searching — Patrick Durusau @ 3:06 pm

Search Solutions 2012: your opportunity to shape this year’s event by Tony Russell-Rose.

From the post:

We’re just in the process of drafting the programme for Search Solutions 2012, to be held on November 28-29 at BCS London. As in previous years, we aim to offer a topical selection of presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval, whilst maintaining the collegiate spirit of a community event. If you’ve never been before, take a look at last year’s programme.

We don’t normally issue a formal “call for papers” as such, but if you’d like to get involved (perhaps as a panellist or speaker) and have an interesting case study or demo to present, then drop me a line. In the meantime, save the date: tutorials day on November 28, main event on November 29.

The 2011 programme page has presentation downloads if you are having trouble making up your mind. 😉

July 29, 2012

OSCON 2012

Filed under: Conferences,CS Lectures,Interface Research/Design,Open Source,Programming,Software — Patrick Durusau @ 2:39 pm

OSCON 2012

Over 4,000 photographs were taken at the MS booth.

I wonder how many of them include Doug?

Drop by the OSCON website after you count photos of Doug.

Your efforts at topic mapping will improve from the experience.

From the OSCON site visit.

What you get from counting photos of Doug is unknown. 😉

July 27, 2012

New Standards for Language Studies [Workshop]

Filed under: Conferences,Information Science,Language,Metadata — Patrick Durusau @ 8:13 am

New Standards for Language Studies

Important dates:

Registration (submission): September 30th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: October 10th, 2012
Workshop: Paris, November, 15-16, 2012

From the call for papers:

We are pleased to announce an international interdisciplinary workshop to be held at Paris-Sorbonne University on November 15th and 16th, 2012. The symposium is for the discussion of the Interactive Linguistics methods jointly with the Associative Semantics (AS) and Meta-Informative Centering Theory (MIC) currently developed at CELTA (Centre de Linguistique Théorique et Appliquée).

The 3rd Workshop aims at discussing foundational issues of language studies introducing interactive methods which are step by step being derived from research in the AI domain, especially Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD) and diverse programming paradigms.

Keywords: information – semantic roles – meta-information – attention-driven centring of utterance – subjecthood and topicality – predication – context – speech acts – modularity – multi-agent systems – distributed systems.

For further information, please visit the CELTA website pages: http://www.celta.paris-sorbonne.fr/forum/

Importantly, we sincerely encourage researchers (linguists, computer scientists, psychologists, neurologists, logicians and philosophers) who are interested in the research topics specified in the preliminary discussion forum to join us by sending their name and surname(s), affiliation and e-mail address to: celta@paris-sorbonne.fr

You will receive a free subscription account for posting your replies and proposals to the Forum.

Computationally rigorous but from what I read on the forum, definitely a European approach.

A reminder that computer science as experienced in the United States was at one time a healthier mix of humanists, linguists, mathematicians, and computer scientists. Before it became a “profession/discipline.”

Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN) [Conference]

Filed under: Conferences,Networks,Social Networks — Patrick Durusau @ 7:51 am

Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN)

Important Dates:

Paper submission due:Aug. 15 2012
Notification of paper acceptance:Sep. 15 2012
Final manuscript due:Sep. 30 2012
Registration and full payment due:Sep. 30 2012
Conference date:Nov. 21-23 2012

Conference venue: SĂŁo Carlos, Brazil.

From the Call for Papers:

The International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2012) brings together an interdisciplinary venue for social scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of intelligent methods applied to Social Networks, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. These social network systems are usually characterized by the complex network structures and rich accompanying contextual information. Recent trends also indicate the usage of complex network as a key feature for next generation usage and exploitation of the Web. This international conference on Computational Aspect of Networks is focused on the foundations of social networks as well as case studies, empirical, and other methodological works related to the computational tools for the automatic discovery of Web-based social networks. This conference provides an opportunity to compare and contrast the ethological approach to social behavior in animals (including the study of animal tracks and learning by members of the same species) with web-based evidence of social interaction, perceptual learning, information granulation, the behavior of humans and affinities between web-based social networks. The main topics cover the design and use of various computational intelligence tools and software, simulations of social networks, representation and analysis of social networks, use of semantic networks in the design and community-based research issues such as knowledge discovery, privacy and protection, and visualization.

We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application, and cover a broad set of intelligent methods, with particular emphasis on Social Network computing.

One of the more interesting aspects of social network study, at least to me, is the existence of social networks of researchers who are studying social networks. Implies, to me at least, that “subjects” of discussion have their origins in social networks.

Some approaches, I won’t name names, take “subjects” as given and never question their origins. That leads directly to fragile systems/ontologies because change isn’t taken into account.

Clearly saying “stop” is insufficient, else the many attempts to fix some standardized language would have succeeded long ago.

If you know approaches that attempt to allow for change, would appreciate a note.

July 21, 2012

Graph Drawing Sept 19~21, 2012 | Redmond, Washington

Filed under: Conferences,Graphs — Patrick Durusau @ 6:52 pm

Graph Drawing Sept 19~21, 2012 | Redmond, Washington

Too late for a paper but posters are being accepted until: August 20, 2012.

From the webpage:

Graph Drawing is concerned with the visualization of graphs and networks and is motivated by those application domains where it is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Examples of such application domains include social sciences, Internet and Web computing, information systems, computational biology, networking, VLSI circuit design, and software engineering. Bridging the gap between theoretical advances and system implementations is therefore a key factor of Graph Drawing.

The International Symposium on Graph Drawing is the main annual event in this area. This year the conference celebrates its 20th anniversary. It will take place on September 19-21, 2012, and will be hosted by Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, USA. Researchers and practitioners working on any aspect of graph drawing are invited to contribute papers and posters, and participate in the graph drawing contest.

The range of topics that are within the scope of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing includes (but is not limited to):

  • Design and experimentation of graph drawing algorithms
  • Visualization of graphs and networks in application areas
  • Graph visualization and data mining
  • Geometric and topological graph theory
  • Optimization on graphs
  • Software systems for graph visualization
  • Interfaces for interacting with graphs
  • Cognitive studies on graph drawing readability and user interaction

Accepted papers and abstract of accepted posters will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Selected papers will be invited for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications. Best paper awards for each of the two tracks will be given.

Apologies for not seeing this earlier. Will have it on my list for next year.

Just so you don’t miss it, a listing of all prior Graph Drawing conferences appears under Tradition.

The proceedings for 1992 and 1993 are available as PDF files. Proceedings for 1994 forward, appear Springer titles.

July 19, 2012

GraphLab Workshop Presentations

Filed under: Conferences,Graphs,Networks — Patrick Durusau @ 10:16 am

GraphLab Workshop Presentations

Just in case you missed the GraphLab workshop, most of the presentations are now available online, including an introduction to GraphLab 2.1!

Very much worth your time to review!

OK, just a sample:

GraphLab Version 2 Overview (60 mins) (GraphLab Keynote Slides) by Carlos Guestrin

Large scale ML challenges by Ted Willke, Intel Labs

See the agenda for more of same.

July 18, 2012

2013 FOSE Call for Presentations

Filed under: Conferences,Government,Software — Patrick Durusau @ 3:55 pm

2013 FOSE Call for Presentations

From the webpage:

The FOSE Team welcomes presentation proposals that provide meaningful, actionable insights about technology development for government IT decision makers. We are looking for presentations that detail use-case studies, lessons learned, or emerging trends that improve operational efficiency and ignite innovation within and across government agencies. We are also specifically seeking Local, Federal and State Government Employees with stories to tell about their IT experiences and successes.

It’s a vendor show so prepare accordingly.

Lots of swag, hire booth help at the local modeling agency, etc.

You can’t make a sale if you don’t get their attention.

Deadline for submissions: September 14, 2012.

Topic map based solutions should make a good showing against traditional ETL (Extra Tax and Labor) solutions.

No charge for use the expansion of ETL (it probably isn’t even original but if not, I don’t remember the source).

July 16, 2012

International BASP Frontiers Workshop 2013

Filed under: Astroinformatics,Biomedical,Conferences,Signal/Collect — Patrick Durusau @ 1:28 pm

International BASP Frontiers Workshop 2013

January 27th – February 1st, 2013 Villars-sur-Ollon (Switzerland)

The international biomedical and astronomical signal processing (BASP) Frontiers workshop was created to promote synergies between selected topics in astronomy and biomedical sciences, around common challenges for signal processing.

The 2013 workshop will concentrate on the themes of sparse signal sampling and reconstruction, for radio interferometry and MRI, but also open its floor to many other interesting hot topics in theoretical, astrophysical, and biomedical signal processing.

Signal processing is one form of “big data” and is rich in subjects, both in the literature and in the data.

Proceedings from the first BASP workshop are available. Be advised it is a 354 MB zip file. If you aren’t on an airport wifi, you can find those proceedings here.

July 14, 2012

Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2012)

Filed under: Conferences,Geometry,Knowledge Management,Mathematics,Mathematics Indexing — Patrick Durusau @ 10:34 am

Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2012) (talks listing)

From the “general information” page:

As computers and communications technology advance, greater opportunities arise for intelligent mathematical computation. While computer algebra, automated deduction, mathematical publishing and novel user interfaces individually have long and successful histories, we are now seeing increasing opportunities for synergy among these areas.

The conference is organized by Serge Autexier (DFKI) and Michael Kohlhase (JUB), takes place at Jacobs University in Bremen and consists of five tracks

The overall programme is organized by the General Program Chair Johan Jeuring.

Which I located by following the conference reference in: An XML-Format for Conjectures in Geometry (Work-in-Progress)

A real treasure trove of research on searching, semantics, integration, focused on computers and mathematics.

Expect to see citations to work reported here and in other CICM proceedings.

June 30, 2012

Predictive Analytics World

Filed under: Conferences,Predictive Analytics — Patrick Durusau @ 6:48 pm

Predictive Analytics World

I mention a patent on “predictive coding” and now a five (5) day conference on predictive analytics?

The power of blogging? Or self-delusion. Your call. 😉

Seriously, if you are interested in predictive analytics, this looks like a good opportunity to learn more.

It has all the earmarks of a “vendor” conference so I predict you will be spending money but the contacts and basic information should be worth your while.

Suggestions of other predictive analytic resources that aren’t vendor posturing and useful as general introduction?

Reasoning that if it is information, then you should be using a topic map to either trail blaze or navigate it.

June 25, 2012

Show Me The Money!

Filed under: Conferences,XBRL,XML,XPath,XQuery — Patrick Durusau @ 2:28 pm

I need to talk to Tommie Usdin about marketing the Balisage conference.

The final program came out today and here is what Tommie had to say:

When the regular (peer-reviewed) part of the Balisage 2012 program was scheduled, a few slots were reserved for presentation of “Late breaking” material. These presentations have now been selected and added to the program.

Topics added include:

  • making robust and multi-platform ebooks
  • creating representative documents from large document collections
  • validating RESTful services using XProc, XSLT, and XSD
  • XML for design-based (e.g. magazine) publishing
  • provenance in XSLT transformation (tracking what XSLT does to documents)
  • literate programming
  • managing the many XML-related standards and specifications
  • leveraging XML for web applications

The program already included talks about adding RDF to TEI documents, compression of XML documents, exploring large XML collections, Schematron, relation of XML to JSON, overlap, higher-order functions in XSLT, the balance between XML and non-XML notations, and many other topics. Now it is a real must for anyone who thinks deeply about markup.

Balisage is the XML Geek-fest; the annual gathering of people who design markup and markup-based applications; who develop XML specifications, standards, and tools; the people who read and write, books about publishing technologies in general and XML in particular; and super-users of XML and related technologies. You can read about the Balisage 2011 conference at http://www.balisage.net.

Yawn. Are we there yet? 😉

Why you should care about XML and Balisage:

  • US government and others are publishing laws and regulations and soon to be legislative material in XML
  • Securities are increasingly using XML for required government reports
  • Texts and online data sets are being made available in XML
  • All the major document formats are based in XML

A $billion here, a $billion there and pretty soon you are talking about real business opportunity.

Your un-Balisaged XML developers have $1,000 bills blowing overhead.

Be smart, make your XML developers imaginative and productive.

Send your XML developers to Balisage.

(http://www.balisage.net/registration.html)

June 21, 2012

Knowledge Discovery Using Cloud and Distributed Computing Platforms (KDCloud, 2012)

Filed under: Cloud Computing,Conferences,Distributed Systems,Knowledge Discovery — Patrick Durusau @ 2:49 pm

Knowledge Discovery Using Cloud and Distributed Computing Platforms (KDCloud, 2012)

From the website:

Paper Submission August 10, 2012

Acceptance Notice October 01, 2012

Camera-Read Copy October 15, 2012

Workshop December 10, 2012 Brussels, Belgium

Collocated with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2012

From the website:

The 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery Using Cloud and Distributed Computing Platforms (KDCloud, 2012) provides an international platform to share and discuss recent research results in adopting cloud and distributed computing resources for data mining and knowledge discovery tasks.

Synopsis: Processing large datasets using dedicated supercomputers alone is not an economical solution. Recent trends show that distributed computing is becoming a more practical and economical solution for many organizations. Cloud computing, which is a large-scale distributed computing, has attracted significant attention of both industry and academia in recent years. Cloud computing is fast becoming a cheaper alternative to costly centralized systems. Many recent studies have shown the utility of cloud computing in data mining, machine learning and knowledge discovery. This workshop intends to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to discuss new and emerging trends in cloud computing technologies, programming models, and software services and outline the data mining and knowledge discovery approaches that can efficiently exploit this modern computing infrastructures. This workshop also seeks to identify the greatest challenges in embracing cloud computing infrastructure for scaling algorithms to petabyte sized datasets. Thus, we invite all researchers, developers, and users to participate in this event and share, contribute, and discuss the emerging challenges in developing data mining and knowledge discovery solutions and frameworks around cloud and distributed computing platforms.

Topics: The major topics of interest to the workshop include but are not limited to:

  • Programing models and tools needed for data mining, machine learning, and knowledge discovery
  • Scalability and complexity issues
  • Security and privacy issues relevant to KD community
  • Best use cases: are there a class of algorithms that best suit to cloud and distributed computing platforms
  • Performance studies comparing clouds, grids, and clusters
  • Performance studies comparing various distributed file systems for data intensive applications
  • Customizations and extensions of existing software infrastructures such as Hadoop for streaming, spatial, and spatiotemporal data mining
  • Applications: Earth science, climate, energy, business, text, web and performance logs, medical, biology, image and video.

It’s December, Belgium and an interesting workshop. Can’t ask for much more than that!

June 16, 2012

Deep Dive with MongoDB [Virtual Conference]

Filed under: Conferences,MongoDB — Patrick Durusau @ 3:46 pm

Deep Dive with MongoDB (online conference)

Wednesday July 11th 11:00 AM EDT / 8:00 AM PDT

From the webpage:

This four hour online conference will introduce you to some MongoDB basics and get you up to speed with why and how you should choose MongoDB for your next project. The conference will begin at 8:00am PST with a brief introduction and last until 12:00pm PST covering four topics with plenty of time for Q&A.

The program:

  • Introduction 8:00-8:10am PST
  • 8:10am PST Building Your First App – Asya Kamsky, Senior Solutions Architect, 10gen
  • 9:00am PST Schema Design with MongoDB: Principles and Practices – Antoine Girbal, Solutions Architect, 10gen
  • 9:50am PST Replication and Replica Sets – Asya Kamsky, Senior Solutions Architect, 10gen
  • 11:05am PST – Introducing MongoDB into Your Organization – Edouard Servan-Schreiber, Director for Solution Architecture, 10gen

What I wonder about is which startup or startup conference is going to put out a call for papers, do peer review and then on the days of the meeting, conference speakers in with inexpensive software and tweets the presentations right before they start.

Imagine having 1,000 people listening to your presentation instead of < 50. Could increase the impact of your ideas and the reach of your startup. (Jack Park forwarded this to my attention.)

Third International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2012)

Filed under: Conferences,Linked Data — Patrick Durusau @ 3:30 pm

Third International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2012)

Important dates:

Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2012, 23.59 Hawaii time
Acceptance notification: August 21, 2012
Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: September 10, 2012
Workshop date: November, 2012

Abstract:

The quantity of published Linked Data is increasing dramatically. However, applications that consume Linked Data are not yet widespread. Current approaches lack methods for seamless integration of Linked Data from multiple sources, dynamic discovery of available data and data sources, provenance and information quality assessment, application development environments, and appropriate end user interfaces. Addressing these issues requires well-founded research, including the development and investigation of concepts that can be applied in systems which consume Linked Data from the Web. Following the success of the 1st International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data, we organize the second edition of this workshop in order to provide a platform for discussion and work on these open research problems. The main objective is to provide a venue for scientific discourse — including systematic analysis and rigorous evaluation — of concepts, algorithms and approaches for consuming Linked Data.

….

Objectives

The term Linked Data refers to a practice for publishing and interlinking structured data on the Web. Since the practice has been proposed in 2006, a grass-roots movement has started to publish and to interlink multiple open databases on the Web following the Linked Data principles. Due to conference workshops, tutorials, and general evangelism an increasing number of data publishers such as the BBC, Thomson Reuters, The New York Times, the Library of Congress, and the UK and US governments have adopted Linked Data principles. The ongoing effort resulted in bootstrapping the Web of Data which, today, comprises billions of RDF triples including millions of links between data sources. The published datasets include data about books, movies, music, radio and television programs, reviews, scientific publications, genes, proteins, medicine, and clinical trials, geographic locations, people, companies, statistical and census data, etc.

…

Several open issues that make the development of Linked Data based applications a challenging or still impossible task. These issues include the lack of approaches for seamless integration of Linked Data from multiple sources, for dynamic, on-the-fly discovery of available data, for information quality assessment, and for elaborate end user interfaces. These open issues can only be addressed appropriately when they are conceived as research problems that require the development and systematic investigation of novel approaches. The International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD) aims to provide a platform for the presentation and discussion of such approaches. Our main objective is to receive submissions that present scientific discussion (including systematic evaluation) of concepts and approaches, instead of exposition of features implemented in Linked Data based applications. For practical systems without formalization or evaluation we refer interested participants to other offerings at ISWC, such as the Semantic Web Challenge or the Demo Track. As such, we see our workshop as orthogonal to these events.

Probably prejudice on my part but I think topic maps would make a very viable approach for “…seamless integration of Linked Data from multiple sources…” Integration of dynamic resources is going to require a potentially semantically dynamic solution. One like topic maps.

Semantic Technology For Intelligence, Defense, and Security STIDS 2012

Filed under: Conferences,Defense,Intelligence — Patrick Durusau @ 1:37 pm

SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY FOR INTELLIGENCE, DEFENSE, AND SECURITY STIDS 2012

Paper submissions due: July 24, 2012
Notification of acceptance: August 28, 2012
Camera-ready papers due: September 18, 2012
Presentations due: October 17, 2012

Tutorials October 23
Main Conference October 24-26
Early Bird Registration rates until September 25

From the call for papers:

The conference is an opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between researchers and practitioners of semantic-based technologies with particular experience in the problems facing the Intelligence, Defense, and Security communities. It will feature invited talks from prominent ontologists and recognized leaders from the target application domains.

To facilitate interchange among communities with a clear commonality of interest but little history of interaction, STIDS will host two separate tracks. The Research Track will showcase original, significant research on semantic technologies applicable to problems in intelligence, defense or security. Submissions to the research track are expected to clearly present their contribution, demonstrate its significance, and show the applicability to problems in the target applications domain. The Applications Track provides a forum for presenting implemented semantic-based applications to intelligence, defense, or security, as well as to discuss and evaluate the use of semantic techniques in these areas. Of particular interest are comparisons between different technologies or approaches and lessons learned from applications. By capitalizing on this opportunity, STIDS could spark dramatic progress toward transitioning semantic technologies from research to the field.

A hidden area where it will be difficult to cut IT budgets. Mostly because it is “hidden.” 😉

Not the only reason you should participate but perhaps an extra incentive to do well!

June 13, 2012

SeRSy 2012

Filed under: Conferences,Recommendation,Semantic Web — Patrick Durusau @ 2:21 pm

SeRSy 2012: International Workshop on Semantic Technologies meet Recommender Systems & Big Data

Important Dates:

Submission of papers: July 31, 2012
Notification of acceptance: August 21, 2012
Camera-ready versions: September 10, 2012

[In connection with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, USA, November 11-15, 2012.]

The scope statement:

People generally need more and more advanced tools that go beyond those implementing the canonical search paradigm for seeking relevant information. A new search paradigm is emerging, where the user perspective is completely reversed: from finding to being found. Recommender Systems may help to support this new perspective, because they have the effect of pushing relevant objects, selected from a large space of possible options, to potentially interested users. To achieve this result, recommendation techniques generally rely on data referring to three kinds of objects: users, items and their relations.

Recent developments of the Semantic Web community offer novel strategies to represent data about users, items and their relations that might improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to move towards a new generation of recommender systems which fully understand the items they deal with.

More and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space: the Web of Data. Today, Web of Data includes different types of knowledge represented in a homogeneous form: sedimentary one (encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense) and real-time one (news, data streams, …). This data might be useful to interlink diverse information about users, items, and their relations and implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the recommendation process.

The challenge is to investigate whether and how this large amount of wide-coverage and linked semantic knowledge can be automatically introduced into systems that perform tasks requiring human-level intelligence. Examples of such tasks include understanding a health problem in order to make a medical decision, or simply deciding which laptop to buy. Recommender systems support users exactly in those complex tasks.

The primary goal of the workshop is to showcase cutting edge research on the intersection of Semantic Technologies and Recommender Systems, by taking the best of the two worlds. This combination may provide the Semantic Web community with important real-world scenarios where its potential can be effectively exploited into systems performing complex tasks.

Should be interesting to see whether the semantic technologies or the recommender systems or both get the “rough” or inexact edges.

June 11, 2012

HBase Con2012

Filed under: Conferences,HBase — Patrick Durusau @ 4:26 pm

HBase Con2012

Slides and in some cases videos from HBase Con2012.

Mostly slides at this point, I could six (6) videos as of June 11, 2012 in the late afternoon on the East Coast.

Will keep checking back as there is a lot of good content.

June 9, 2012

GraphConnect San Francisco

Filed under: Conferences,Graphs — Patrick Durusau @ 4:51 am

GraphConnect San Francisco


Submissions due: August 1, 2012

Author Notifications: September 1, 2012

Conference: November 5-6, 2012

From the webpage:

Graphs are Everywhere

The NOSQL movement has taken the world by storm, bringing a new coherency and meaning to connected data, and giving developers and technical leads the power to manage modern data at a new speed and size.

Now with the Google Knowledge Graph and Facebook’s Open Graph, graphs have reached a new level of relevance in today’s connected world.

GraphConnect San Francisco is a place where developers, technical decision makers, and thought leaders alike will convene to demonstrate and discuss the power of the graph ecosystem through graph databases, network analysis and social applications.

A young conference but one that has a lot of promise!

Since it hasn’t (yet) developed any conference habits (good or bad), it will be interesting to see if remote attendance/participation is possible. Something very “lite” weight. Streaming audio/video, posted slides, with announcement of a Twitter handle at the start of each presentation. With a local moderator to read/capture tweets or longer questions, that should work well enough.

Remote attendees won’t have the social advantages of being in San Francisco in early November (which are considerable) but that’s a cost of not attending.

June 7, 2012

Lucene Revolution 2012 – Slides/Videos

Filed under: Conferences,Lucene,Mahout,Solr,SolrCloud — Patrick Durusau @ 2:16 pm

Lucene Revolution 2012 – Slides/Videos

The slides and videos from Lucene Revolution 2012 are up!

Now you don’t have to search for old re-runs on Hulu to watch during lunch!

June 5, 2012

Information Filtering and Retrieval: Novel Distributed Systems and Applications – DART 2012

Filed under: Conferences,Filters,Information Retrieval — Patrick Durusau @ 7:55 pm

6th International Workshop on Information Filtering and Retrieval: Novel Distributed Systems and Applications – DART 2012

Paper Submission: June 21, 2012
Authors Notification: July 10, 2012
Final Paper Submission and Registration: July 24, 2012

In conjunction with International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management – IC3K 2012 – 04 – 07 October, 2012 – Barcelona, Spain.

Scope

Nowadays users are more and more interested in information rather than in mere raw data. The huge amount of accessible data sources is growing rapidly. This calls for novel systems providing effective means of searching and retrieving information with the fundamental goal of making it exploitable by humans and machines.
DART focuses on researching and studying new challenges in distributed information filtering and retrieval. In particular, DART aims to investigate novel systems and tools to distributed scenarios and environments. DART will contribute to discuss and compare suitable novel solutions based on intelligent techniques and applied in real-world applications.
Information Retrieval attempts to address similar filtering and ranking problems for pieces of information such as links, pages, and documents. Information Retrieval systems generally focus on the development of global retrieval techniques, often neglecting individual user needs and preferences.
Information Filtering has drastically changed the way information seekers find what they are searching for. In fact, they effectively prune large information spaces and help users in selecting items that best meet their needs, interests, preferences, and tastes. These systems rely strongly on the use of various machine learning tools and algorithms for learning how to rank items and predict user evaluation.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest will include (but not are limited to):

  • Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
  • Web Personalization and Recommendation
  • Web Advertising
  • Web Agents
  • Web of Data
  • Semantic Web
  • Linked Data
  • Semantics and Ontology Engineering
  • Search for Social Networks and Social Media
  • Natural Language and Information Retrieval in the Social Web
  • Real-time Search
  • Text categorization

If you are interested and have the time (or graduate students with the time), abstracts from prior conferences are here. Would be a useful exercise to search out publicly available copies. (As far as I can tell, no abstracts from DART.)

June 1, 2012

Are You Going to Balisage?

Filed under: Conferences,RDF,RDFa,Semantic Web,XML,XML Database,XML Schema,XPath,XQuery,XSLT — Patrick Durusau @ 2:48 pm

To the tune of “Are You Going to Scarborough Fair:”

Are you going to Balisage?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Remember me to one who is there,
she once was a true love of mine.

Tell her to make me an XML shirt,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
Without any seam or binary code,
Then she shall be a true lover of mine.

….

Oh, sorry! There you will see:

  • higher-order functions in XSLT
  • Schematron to enforce consistency constraints
  • relation of the XML stack (the XDM data model) to JSON
  • integrating JSON support into XDM-based technologies like XPath, XQuery, and XSLT
  • XML and non-XML syntaxes for programming languages and documents
  • type introspection in XQuery
  • using XML to control processing in a document management system
  • standardizing use of XQuery to support RESTful web interfaces
  • RDF to record relations among TEI documents
  • high-performance knowledge management system using an XML database
  • a corpus of overlap samples
  • an XSLT pipeline to translate non-XML markup for overlap into XML
  • comparative entropy of various representations of XML
  • interoperability of XML in web browsers
  • XSLT extension functions to validate OCL constraints in UML models
  • ontological analysis of documents
  • statistical methods for exploring large collections of XML data

Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information. Participants typically include XML users, librarians, archivists, computer scientists, XSLT and XQuery programmers, implementers of XSLT and XQuery engines and other markup-related software, Topic-Map enthusiasts, semantic-Web evangelists, members of the working groups which define the specifications, academics, industrial researchers, representatives of governmental bodies and NGOs, industrial developers, practitioners, consultants, and the world’s greatest concentration of markup theorists. Discussion is open, candid, and unashamedly technical.

The Balisage 2012 Program is now available at: http://www.balisage.net/2012/Program.html

Graph Processing Berlin

Filed under: Conferences,Graphs — Patrick Durusau @ 7:17 am

Graph Processing Berlin

From the sign-up/homepage:

Are you curious and interested to learn more about Graph Processing technologies? Are you willing to visit the coolest city in Europe right now? or are you living in town?

If the answer to that questions is positive, we are planning to launch a one day workshop about Graph Processing in Berlin for the last months of this year.

There you will learn the basics for working your graph from the best guys who build, work or collaborate with the most important projects on the field right now.

Our focus will be technologies like Neo4j, Giraph and Hadoop, OrientDB, with a high focus on applications like Recommendations systems, Graph Theory, Analytics, etc…

Register here, and we will send you more information as soon as we reach the minimum level of audience!

Send it to your colleges and friends, as much as we are more fun it will be!

The Graph Processing Berlin team.

If you register you will see:

Relationships are a two way street. You are asking people to give you their recommendation, so what are you giving them?

Asking you for email addresses to advertise the conference.

Today I get an email saying I can track the # people I have entered as email addresses.

#1 Good conferences don’t need guilt tripping, “…what are you giving them.” to get viral advertising.

#2 Spamming my friends isn’t being viral, just vulgar.

The conference may be a good one. Let’s hope its marketing mis-steps are just that, mis-steps.

May 31, 2012

Large Heterogeneous Data 2012

Filed under: Conferences,Heterogeneous Data,Mapping,Semantics — Patrick Durusau @ 12:56 pm

Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large Heterogeneous Data 2012 (LHD-12)

Important Dates

  • Deadline for paper subsmission: July 31, 2012
  • Author notification: August 21, 2012
  • Deadline for camera-ready: September 10, 2012
  • Workshop date: November 11th or 12th, 2012

Take the time to read the workshop description.

A great summary of the need for semantic mappings, not more semantic fascism.

From the call for papers:

An interdisciplinary approach is necessary to discover and match meaning dynamically in a world of increasingly large data sources. This workshop aims to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government for interaction and discussion. This will be a half-day workshop which primarily aims to initiate discussion and debate. It will involve

  • A panel discussion focussing on these issues from an industrial and governmental point of view. Membership to be confirmed, but we expect a representative from Scottish Government and from Google, as well as others.
  • Short presentations grouped into themed panels, to stimulate debate not just about individual contributions but also about the themes in general.

Workshop Description

The problem of semantic alignment – that of two systems failing to understand one another when their representations are not identical – occurs in a huge variety of areas: Linked Data, database integration, e-science, multi-agent systems, information retrieval over structured data; anywhere, in fact, where semantics or a shared structure are necessary but centralised control over the schema of the data sources is undesirable or impractical. Yet this is increasingly a critical problem in the world of large scale data, particularly as more and more of this kind of data is available over the Web.

In order to interact successfully in an open and heterogeneous environment, being able to dynamically and adaptively integrate large and heterogeneous data from the Web “on the go” is necessary. This may not be a precise process but a matter of finding a good enough integration to allow interaction to proceed successfully, even if a complete solution is impossible.

Considerable success has already been achieved in the field of ontology matching and merging, but the application of these techniques – often developed for static environments – to the dynamic integration of large-scale data has not been well studied.

Presenting the results of such dynamic integration to both end-users and database administrators – while providing quality assurance and provenance – is not yet a feature of many deployed systems. To make matters more difficult, on the Web there are massive amounts of information available online that could be integrated, but this information is often chaotically organised, stored in a wide variety of data-formats, and difficult to interpret.

This area has been of interest in academia for some time, and is becoming increasingly important in industry and – thanks to open data efforts and other initiatives – to government as well. The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government who are involved in all aspects of this field: from those developing, curating and using Linked Data, to those focusing on matching and merging techniques.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Integration of large and heterogeneous data
  • Machine-learning over structured data
  • Ontology evolution and dynamics
  • Ontology matching and alignment
  • Presentation of dynamically integrated data
  • Incentives and human computation over structured data and ontologies
  • Ranking and search over structured and semi-structured data
  • Quality assurance and data-cleansing
  • Vocabulary management in Linked Data
  • Schema and ontology versioning and provenance
  • Background knowledge in matching
  • Extensions to knowledge representation languages to better support change
  • Inconsistency and missing values in databases and ontologies
  • Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation
  • Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., p2p, agents, streaming)
  • Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications
  • Open problems
  • Foundational issues

Applications and evaluations on data-sources that are from the Web and Linked Data are particularly encouraged.

Several years from now, how will you find this conference (and its proceedings)?

  • Large Heterogeneous Data 2012
  • Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large Heterogeneous Data 2012
  • LHD-12

Just curious.

Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation from Social Media

Filed under: Conferences,Knowledge Capture,Social Media — Patrick Durusau @ 7:08 am

Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation from Social Media KECSM2012 – November 11 – 12, Boston, USA.

Important dates

  • Jul 31, 2012: submission deadline full & short papers
  • Aug 21, 2012: notifications for research papers
  • Sep 10, 2012: camera-ready papers due
  • Oct 05, 2012: submission deadline poster & demo abstracts
  • Oct 10, 2012: notifications posters & demos

From the website:

The workshop aims to become a highly interactive research forum for exploring innovative approaches for extracting and correlating knowledge from degraded social media by exploiting the Web of Data. While the workshop’s general focus is on the creation of well-formed and well-interlinked structured data from highly unstructured Web content, its interdisciplinary scope will bring together researchers and practitioners from areas such as the semantic and social Web, text mining and NLP, multimedia analysis, data extraction and integration, and ontology and data mapping. The workshop will also look into innovative applications that exploit extracted knowledge in order to produce solutions to domain-specific needs.

We will welcome high-quality papers about current trends in the areas listed in the following, non-exhaustive list of topics. We will seek application-oriented, as well as more theoretical papers and position papers.

Knowledge detection and extraction (content perspective)

  • Knowledge extraction from text (NLP, text mining)
  • Dealing with scalability and performance issues with regard to large amounts of heterogeneous content
  • Multilinguality issues
  • Knowledge extraction from multimedia (image and video analysis)
  • Sentiment detection and opinion mining from text and audiovisual content
  • Detection and consideration of temporal and dynamics aspects
  • Dealing with degraded Web content

Knowledge enrichment, aggregation and correlation (data perspective)

  • Modelling of events and entities such as locations, organisations, topics, opinions
  • Representation of temporal and dynamics-related aspects
  • Data clustering and consolidation
  • Data enrichment based on linked data/semantic web
  • Using reference datasets to structure, cluster and correlate extracted knowledge
  • Evaluation of automatically extracted data

Exploitation of automatically extracted knowledge/data (application perspective)

  • Innovative applications which make use of automatically extracted data (e.g. for recommendation or personalisation of Web content)
  • Semantic search in annotated Web content
  • Entity-driven navigation of user-generated content
  • Novel navigation and visualisation of extracted knowledge/graphs and associated Web resources

I like the sound of “consolidation.” An unspoken or tacit goal of any knowledge gathering. Not much use in scattered pieces on the shop floor.

Collocated with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2012)

May 29, 2012

Destination: Montreal!

Filed under: Conferences,XML,XML Data Clustering,XML Query Rewriting,XML Schema,XPath,XQuery,XSLT — Patrick Durusau @ 3:04 pm

If you remember the Saturday afternoon sci-fi movies, Destination: …., then you will appreciate the title for this post. 😉

Tommie Usdin and company just posted: Balisage 2012 Call for Late-breaking News, written in torn bodice style:

The peer-reviewed part of the Balisage 2012 program has been scheduled (and will be announced in a few days). A few slots on the Balisage program have been reserved for presentation of “Late-breaking” material.

Proposals for late-breaking slots must be received by June 15, 2012. Selection of late-breaking proposals will be made by the Balisage conference committee, instead of being made in the course of the regular peer-review process.

If you have a presentation that should be part of Balisage, please send a proposal message as plain-text email to info@balisage.net.

In order to be considered for inclusion in the final program, your proposal message must supply the following information:

  • The name(s) and affiliations of all author(s)/speaker(s)
  • The email address of the presenter
  • The title of the presentation
  • An abstract of 100-150 words, suitable for immediate distribution
  • Disclosure of when and where, if some part of this material has already been presented or published
  • An indication as to whether the presenter is comfortable giving a conference presentation and answering questions in English about the material to be presented
  • Your assurance that all authors are willing and able to sign the Balisage Non-exclusive Publication Agreement (http://www.balisage.net/BalisagePublicationAgreement.pdf) with respect to the proposed presentation

In order to be in serious contention for inclusion in the final program, your proposal should probably be either a) really late-breaking (it happened in the last month or two) or b) a paper, an extended paper proposal, or a very long abstract with references. Late-breaking slots are few and the competition is fiercer than for peer-reviewed papers. The more we know about your proposal, the better we can appreciate the quality of your submission.

Please feel encouraged to provide any other information that could aid the conference committee as it considers your proposal, such as a detailed outline, samples, code, and/or graphics. We expect to receive far more proposals than we can accept, so it’s important that you send enough information to make your proposal convincing and exciting. (This material may be attached to the email message, if appropriate.)

The conference committee reserves the right to make editorial changes in your abstract and/or title for the conference program and publicity. (emphasis added to last sentence)

Read that last sentence again!

“The conference committee reserves the right to make editorial changes in your abstract and/or title for the conference program and publicity.”

The conference committee might change your abstract and/or title to say something …. controversial? ….attention getting? ….CNN / Slashdot worthy?

Bring it on!

Submit late breaking proposals!

Please!

May 27, 2012

LREC Conferences

Filed under: Conferences,Natural Language Processing — Patrick Durusau @ 10:28 am

LREC Conferences

From the webpage:

The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation is organised by ELRA biennially with the support of institutions and organisations involved in HLT.

LREC Conferences bring together a large number of people working and interested in HLT.

Full proceedings, including workshops, tutorials, papers, etc., are available from 2002 forward!

I almost forgot to hit “save” for this post because I was reading a tutorial on Arabic parsing. 😉

You really owe it to yourself to see this resource.

Hundreds of papers at each conference on issues relevant to your processing of texts.

Getting a paper accepted here should be your goal after seeing the prior proceedings!

Once you get excited about the prior proceedings and perhaps attending in the future, here is my question:

How do you make the proceedings from prior conferences effectively available?

Subject to indexing/search over the WWW now but that isn’t what I mean.

How do you trace the development of techniques or ideas across conferences or papers, without having to read each and every paper?

Moreover, can you save those who follow you the time/trouble of reading every paper to duplicate your results?

May 22, 2012

MongoSF Highlights

Filed under: Conferences,MongoDB — Patrick Durusau @ 2:57 pm

I am on the Mongo mailing list and so got the monthly news about MongoDB, which included a list of highlights from MongoSF:

Except in the email the links had all the tracking trash that marketing types seem to think is important.

I visited the 10gen site and harvested the direct links for your convenience. I didn’t insert tracking trash for my blog.

Enjoy!

PS: It would really be nice to get emails that have the tracking trash if you insist but also clean links that can be forwarded to others, used in blog posts, real information type activities. Not to single out 10gen, I see it every day. From people who should know better.

PPS: There are more presentations to view at: Featured Presentations.

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