[ ARCHIVE ] 1st International Workshop On Data Semantics in Social Computing Systems

Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 9 - 14, 2008

Proceedings published by Springer Verlag

MOTIVATION

The Social Web, Web 2.0, and Social Information Systems are emerging as a promising new paradigm for large-scale distributed data management, as can be seen in the success of Web-based social networks (e.g., Facebook, MySpace), online social media sites (e.g., YouTube, Flickr), and large-scale information sharing communities (e.g., Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers). At the same time, these applications also experience boundaries in terms of information dissemination and automation. Orthogonally, the Semantic Web has received considerable attention as a next-generation Web of meaning, augmenting the Web as a linked information space in which data is enriched and formalized. The Semantic Web provides mediation support and lets users engage in serendipitous reuse, discovery and maintenance of Web information. As more social applications require the exchange of data, there arises a need for a universal social networking layer on the Web that requires a flexible and universal data exchange formalism. The combination of Social Computing Systems (mainly Web 2.0) and the Semantic Web could utilize the advantages of these approaches to address the the current challenges on the Web.

The goal of this workshop is to examine the key data management research challenges at the intersection of Social Computing Systems and the Semantic Web, to promote novel research in the area of data semantics for Social Computing Systems, and to identify the state-of-the-art technologies, applications, and systems for successfully enabling the next generation of the Web. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, industry affiliates, and practitioners from the fields of databases, information systems, Social Web, Semantic Web and distributed systems. The program of the workshop will be a combination of invited talks, presentations of research papers, and discussions to foster interaction and exchange of ideas among participants. In addition to standard Q&A sessions, we also expect to have at least one panel discussion.

We solicit original papers reporting practical approaches addressing current existing problems, efforts leading to broaden social involvement, work-in-progress on the preliminary ideas and visions, demos and various system implementations.

  
TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest may include (but not limited):

• Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for social information systems;
• Data management and middleware support for social information systems;
• Data mining and knowledge discovery;
• Data modeling for social information systems;
• Distributed data storage and indexing;
• Enterprise social information systems;
• Identity on the Web;
• Incentives for social semantics;
• Integration of linked open data;
• Integration of social information systems with traditional data management systems;
• Privacy protection in social information systems;
• Query languages and query optimization;
• Social evaluation (social-metrics) for Social Semantics;
• Social features of Social Semantics;
• Social gaming for Social Semantics;
• Social mediation (e.g., Community driven approach or instance-based approach for data and ontology mediation, etc.);
• Social semantics for data contextualization;
• Social semantics for data query and search;
• Social semantics for (facet) browsing and visualization;
• Social semantics for link analysis;
• Social semantics for services mashups;
• Social semantics recommender systems, user profiling, collaborative filtering;
• Social spam detection and mitigation;
• Social tagging;
• Trust and uncertainty in social information systems;
• Theoretical and technological combination of Semantic Web and Social Web;
• XML database and integration;

  
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Stefan Decker
National University of Ireland Galway
Ireland
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Ling Liu
Georgia Institute of Technology
USA
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Program Committee co-chairs

James Caverlee
Texas A&M University
USA
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Ying Ding
University of Innsbruck
Austria
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Yihong Ding
Brigham Young University
USA
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Program Committee members

Nitya Narasimhan - Motorola Labs
Cong Yu - Yahoo!
Eugene Agichtein - Emory University
Gui-Rong Xue - Shanghai Jiao Tong University
John Berslin - "DERI, Galway, Ireland"
Gobinda Chowdhury - University of Strathclyde, UK
Li Ding - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Tom Heath - Talis, UK
Sin-Jae Kang - Daegu University, South Korea
Yiannis Kompatsiaris - ITI, Greece
Sebastian Kruk - National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Juanzi Li - Tsinghua University, China
Yves Raimond - Queen Mary London University, UK
Ioan Toma - University of Innsbruck, Austria
Xu Li - University of Arizona, USA
Cui Tao - Brigham Young University
John Paolillo - Indiana University
Paul Miller - Talis, UK
Adam Lindemann - Imindi Inc.
Jack Park - SRI International
Hyoil Han - Drexel University
Yuri Tijerino - Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan