Call for research papers

With only a few years, the rapid developing Web has led to revolutionary changes in the whole human society. The Semantic Web is the next generation of the Web. It provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across applications, enterprises, and community boundaries. Semantic Web technology facilitates building a large-scale Web of machine-readable knowledge that allows for data reuse and integration. Nowadays, many scholars and experts are devoting them to the work of applying the Semantic Web theories into specific practice, while in turn improving the Semantic Web theories and techniques according to the demand in practice. Web Science involves the full scope of Web-related applications, integrating all directions of Web-related interdisciplinary research into a new field. This joint conference aims to promote expansions from the Semantic Web to Web Science, and to discuss the core technology on the Next Generation Web, including swarm intelligence, semantic search, Web security, natural language processing (NLP) etc.

1. Scope and Interests

The theme of CSWS 2014 is Semantics and Big Data. CSWS 2014 invites submissions of original work. The topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to:

+ Languages, tools, and methodologies for ontology engineering
+ Ontology extraction/induction from data and the Web
+ Ontology engineering (including ontology matching, merging, evolution, versioning, etc.)
+ Ontology/knowledge patterns
+ Semantic search
+ Ontology management and maintenance
+ Ontology and data quality and evaluation
+ Ontologies for semantic technologies
+ NLP and Knowledge Representation
+ NLP and Machine Learning
+ NLP and Text Mining
+ Network analysis of the Web and human communities on the Web
+ Micro-level processes and interactions on the Web
+ Collective intelligence and social computing
+ The architecture and philosophy of the Web
+ The intersection of design and human interaction on the Web
+ Economics and social innovation on the Web
+ Governance, democracy, intellectual property, and the commons
+ Personal data, trust, and privacy
+ Social media mining and searching
+ Studies of Linked Data, the Cloud, and digital eco-systems.
+ Web access, literacy, and development
+ Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web
+ People-driven Web technologies, including crowd-sourcing, open data, and new interfaces

2. Instructions for Authors

Submission is via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csws2014. Accepted papers written in English will be published by Springer in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) Proceedings (http://www.springer.com/computer?SGWID=0-146-6-466612-0) and will be indexed by EI. Accepted papers written in Chinese will be published in a special issue of Journal of Southeast University (Chinese Edition, 东南大学学报中文版), Journal of Wuhan University (Natural Science Edition, 武汉大学学报理学版) or ZHONGWEN XINXI XUEBAO (中文信息学报) (Not Confirmed). At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the conference and present their work to ensure publication of their paper.

Submissions should not have been previously accepted, published, presented, or be under review for another conference or journal. Submissions should be written in either English or Chinese, and be no longer than 14 pages (research paper) or 4 pages (poster & demo paper), following the LNCS style. Accepted papers, before publication in journals, should be further revised following corresponding styles.
中文录用论文还需要满足待出版期刊的相关要求。对于无法满足期刊要求的中文录用论文可以在会后改成英文论文，在英文会议论文集中出版。

3. Dates

Abstract submission deadline: May 19, 2014
Full paper submission deadline: May 26, 2014
Notification: June 20, 2014
Camera-ready: July 4, 2014

4. Further Information

For further information, please contact the PC co-chairs

Dongyan Zhao, Peking University, Email: zhaodongyan@pku.edu.cn
Jianfeng Du, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Email:
jfdu@gdufs.edu.cn

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With regards,

Wei Hu, PhD, CSWS2014 Publicity Chair
whu@nju.edu.cn | whu.nju@gmail.com
State Key Lab. for Novel Software Technology
Dept. of Computer Science & Technology
Nanjing University, PR China