The Web Information and System Engineering conference series has established itself as the major annual event for the discussion on the novel challenges related to the efficient data storing and processing. Big data offers a lot of opportunities in terms of the increasing business value, efficiency, and productivity of the data processing platforms, but also introduces a lot of challenges that are related to the amount, heterogeneous structure, and the generating frequency of the data on the Web.

Along with the traditional problems related to the amount and frequency of new data generation, the newly-appearing challenges are related to the heterogeneous nature of data and the impact of data volumes on the value of applications using those data. From the technological perspective, the age of big data presents a variety of challenges in how to store, access, handle, stream, process, and analyze massive amounts of structured and unstructured data effectively. Using high performance computing and cloud infrastructures is essential in dealing with these issues. In the near term, the major issue with the big data oriented applications will be to find new ways to leverage the technology available today to improve the performance and scalability, reduce response time, figure out more efficient ways to deliver services to end-users, and meet the growing demand for virtualized (web and cloud) big data services.

The workshop will serve as a discussion forum on the web-scale data applications, as well as the technologies that enable scaling up the current data processing techniques to the size that is envisioned by the future Web. The workshop will look for applications with challenging requirements to processing and storing frameworks and infrastructures, as well as for the technologies addressing those requirements. Owing to our previous experience of organizing such workshops in collocation with WISE conference, we expect a successful (in terms of participation auditory and quality of presentations) event.

Event Information

The workshop addresses the current and future challenges related to the development of web-scale data-centric applications. The main topics of interest for the workshop are grouped in four main tracks (web-scale application scenarios, databases and storage technologies, big data analytics integrated solutions, parallelization and scaleup techniques), as follows:

• Web-scale application scenarios
- Resource discovery
- Streaming data aggregation and processing
- Semantically-enabled decision support systems
- Benchmarking of web-scale applications
- Personalization and contextualization
- Visualization frameworks
• Databases and storage technologies
- Databases with a scale-up potential
- Query languages and information look-up technologies
- Data mining, search, and indexing
- Context-aware data scheduling

• Big data analytics integrated solutions
- Complex solutions for data processing
- Workflow engines and data modeling technology
- Streaming data acquisition and processing platforms
- Scalable reasoning for the Web
- Cognitively-inspired approaches to deal with large and dynamic information

• Parallelization and scale-up techniques
- Web-friendly programming languages (Java etc.) support
- Parallelization libraries (MapReduce, MPI, etc.)
- Scale-up techniques (proprietary parallelization software)
- Middleware enabling the infrastructure access (HPC, Grid, Cloud)

The workshop will take place during the 2018 International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI2018), Dec 3-6, 2018, Chile, as a full-day event.

Please note that for every accepted paper at least one of the authors must attend the workshop and must register for the workshop and the main conference. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper will be given priority.



Important Dates

July 22nd, 2018

Submission of papers

August 10th, 2018

Notification of acceptance

August 30th, 2018

Camera-ready version due

Dec 3rd, 2018

Workshop



Invited Talk



Chairs

• Alexey Cheptsov, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
• Weigang Li, Universidade de Brasília, Department of Computer Science TransLab, Brazil
• Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands



Program Committee(to be confirmed)

• Neil Audsley, University of York, UK
• Michael Resch, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Bastian Koller, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
• Frank van Harmelen, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Jianfeng Du, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
• Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
• Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
• Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
• Harold Boley, RuleML, Canada
• Philip Moore, Birmingham City University, UK
• Alexey Cheptsov, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany
• Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China
• Jinguang Gu, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China

Industry Liaison group:


• Andrey Sadovykh, Marcos Almeida, SOFTTEAM, France



Venue



Schedule



Submissions

You can submit a full paper (Type I, up to 10 pages) or an abstract (Type II, limit to 500 words) to the workshop.

Note for full paper submissions:
i. We are writing to you regarding the format of the workshop papers. According to the main conference requirement, all submissions to WI including workshops should be in IEEE conference proceedings format. Please guide the authors to format their paper by following the instruction at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
ii. Although we accept submissions in the form of PDF, PS, and DOC/RTF files, you are strongly encouraged to generate a PDF version for your paper before submitting it. It is highly recommended to use LaTeX to prepare your PDF submission.

Furthermore papers need to be submitted electronically through the WI2018 system using the following link: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/wi18/scripts/ws_submit.php?subarea=S



Proceedings

The proceedings of the STeH2018 workshop will be published as part of the proceedings of WI2018 by IEEE conference proceedings series.





Contact

Alexey Cheptsov