Reasoning and inference about semantically annotated data is a key technology for any future application aiming at exploring digital information. The ART2012 workshop is a reaction on the novel challenges of the Semantic Web, which the modern information mining and reasoning technology face with. Among those challenges are size, completeness, closeness, trustworthiness, consistence, coherence, and dynamic nature of the explored data. The workshop will elaborate a strategy and a roadmap for the traditional reasoning approaches such as complete and deductive reasoning to be advanced by the novel techniques such as automated and streaming reasoning in order to get a dominating position on the Intelligent Information Management system market, leveraging the on-demand infrastructures such as high performance computing and Cloud.

ART2012 will continue the discussion forum started at the previous workshops such as NeFoRS'07, NeFoRS'08, SR'09, and NeFoRS'10.

Event Information

The list of the covered topics includes but not limited to:

• scalable reasoning for the Web
• automated reasoning
• web scale querying and searching
• reasoning with inconsistent ontologies
• temporal and spatial reasoning in the Semantic Web
• abduction reasoning in the Semantic Web
• stream reasoning in the Semantic Web
• efficient storage of structured data that scale to a very large size
• reasoning with large, expressive or distributed ontologies
• distribution and parallelization for semantic reasoning
• cognitively-inspired approaches to deal with large and dynamic information
• implementation and evaluation of scalable and dynamic reasoners
• applications of reasoning on large and dynamic datasets

The workshop will take place during the 13th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE2012), November 28th-30th, Paphos, Cyprus, 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

Sept 17th, 2012

Submission of papers

Oct 8th, 2012

Notification of acceptance

Oct 15th, 2012

Camera-ready version due

Nov 28th, 2012

Workshop

Invited Talk

Invited Talk by Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen)
"How Approximate Reasoning Helps in Centralised and Distributed OWL Reasoning"

Invited Talk by Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University)
"Real-time and Self- Adaptive Stream Data Analysis"

Chairs

• Alexey Cheptsov, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
• Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
• Zhisheng Huang, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Program Committee

• Stefan Wesner, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany
• Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Volker Tresp, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
• Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, USA
• Dongmo Zhang, University of Western Sydney, Australia
• Frank van Harmelen, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
• Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China
• Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, Greece
• Jianfeng Du, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

Schedule

9:00 - 9:10
Welcome from the organizers (Alexey Cheptsov)

9:10 - 10:10
Invited Talk by Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University), Chair: Zhisheng Huang
"Real-time and Self- Adaptive Stream Data Analysis"

10:10 - 10:40
Coffee break

10:40 - 11:20
Alexey Cheptsov (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart), Chair: Zhisheng Huang
"An Approach For Distributed Parallelization Of Large- Scale Semantic Web Reasoners Based on MPI"

11:20 - 12:00
Philip Moore (Birmingham City University), Chair: Zhisheng Huang
"Towards Integrating Emotion into Intelligent Context"

12:00 -13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:10
Zhisheng Huang (Vrije University of Amsterdam), Chair: Alexey Cheptsov
"Making Web-Scale Semantic Reasoning More Service-Oriented: The Large Knowledge Collider"

14:10 - 14:50
Christos Mettouris (University of Cyprus), Chair: Alexey Cheptsov
"Contextual Modelling in Context-Aware Recommender Systems: a generic approach"

14:50 - 15:20 Tea Break

15:20 - 16:20
Invited Talk by Jeff Pan (University of Aberdeen), Chair: Alexey Cheptsov
"How Approximate Reasoning Helps in Centralised and Distributed OWL Reasoning"

16:20 - 17:00
Wrap-up, discussion for further cooperation, concluding remarks, Chair: Jeff Pan

Submissions

The workshop invites full papers (up to 14 pages) as well as short papers (up to 6 pages). Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science guidelines for proceedings available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Papers should be submitted in PDF format.

Furthermore papers need to be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system using the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=art2012

Proceedings

The proceedings of the ART'2012 workshop will be published by Springer in its Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be published post conference.

Contact

Alexey Cheptsov
High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS),
Universitat Stuttgart, Germany

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