Workshop on Exploiting Structured Information on the Web (ESIW 2009)

In  recent  years  we  observe  growing  availability  of  structured information on  the  Web. While significant part of it is in a human readable form,  not  adapted  for  automated  processing (HTML, AJAX, Flash,   Deep   Web,   Web   applications),  more  machine-processable information enters  the  Web  thanks  to  complementary  top-down and bottom-up tendencies.

Bottom-up  tendencies   are  related  to  publication  of  structured information in a machine-processable form (e.g. in XML, RDF, JSON). It also covers  annotation  of unstructured content with meta-data (e.g. microformats,  RDFa, SIOC, MPEG-7). Top-down approaches are related to algorithmically structuring  unstructured  information. They combine different   methods    of   Web   mining,   information   extraction, classification, categorization,  automated linking and named entities recognition. Moreover, phenomena combining these tendencies, such as social annotation of resources, are widely present in today’s Web.

More structured information on the Web enables information integration using  shared  vocabularies  (linked  data  approach),  data  mashups (domain-specific integration),  and automated algorithmic information integration (schemas  matching,  dataspaces,  lexical techniques). In parallel, popularization  of  mashup, data monitoring and social data sharing techniques, enable easier information reuse and growing number of intelligent  services combing various dynamic information sources, algorithms and explicit or implicit users input.

The ESIW  2009  workshop  will adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to current  tendencies  in  exploiting structured information on the Web. The  workshop   will  provide  an  informal  and  vibrant  forum  for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences.

Topics
The topics of the workshop will include, but will not be limited to:


 * Federated and inter-organizational Web applications
 * Models and query languages for Web data
 * Hidden Web resource discovery, retrieval and integration
 * Warehousing Web data
 * Provenance of Web data
 * Web wrappers
 * Information extraction
 * Managing uncertainty in Web-based data
 * Methods for integrating and federating Web data
 * Novel applications that exploit structured data sources on the Web
 * Data integration and data cleaning
 * Lessons learned  from  application  of Microformats, JSON,  RESTful services
 * Innovative approaches to data mashups
 * Structured information  flows on the Web and  Web-based information  ecosystems
 * Linked data
 * Reasoning with incompletely specified structures
 * Multimedia metadata / annotation schemes and methods
 * Mining users and organizations profile from Web data

Publication
The proceedings  of WISE 2009 workshops will be published by Springer in its  Lecture  Notes  in Computer Science series. Paper length is 8 pages.

For formatting  guidelines and submission instructions please consult the Paper Submission page: http://wise2009.ue.poznan.pl/paper_submission.php

Important Dates

 * Paper Submission       May 15, 2009 (extended)
 * Author Notification    June 15, 2009
 * Camera-ready Papers    June 28, 2009
 * Author registration    June 28, 2009
 * Workshop               October 5-7, 2009

Organizers

 * has program chair::Dominik  Flejter,   Department   of   Information  Systems,  Poznan University of Economics, Poland
 * has program chair::Tomasz  Kaczmarek,   Department   of  Information  Systems,  Poznan University of Economics, Poland
 * has program chair::Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia

Program Committee Members

 * has PC member::Manuel Alvarez, University of A Coruna, Spain
 * has PC member::Michael K. Bergman, Structured Dynamics LLC, USA
 * has PC member::John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Irene Celino, CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 * has PC member::Terence Critchlow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the USA
 * has PC member::Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 * has PC member::Sebastian Dietzold, University of Leipzig, Germany
 * has PC member::Pavel Dmitriev, Yahoo!, USA
 * has PC member::Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
 * has PC member::Thomas Hornung, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany
 * has PC member::Denis Shestakov, University of Turku, Finland
 * has PC member::Celine van Damme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
 * has PC member::Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia, China