REDFifth
International Workshop on REsourceDiscovery (Full-day)
Existing
Web infrastructures such as the Semantic Web, Linking Data Projects, and Semantic Grids have
supported the publication of a tremendous amount of
resources. In order to provide users with the capability of using
available
resources in their day-to-day tasks, scalable infrastructures and
efficient
techniques to discover, select
and
access resources are required. Semantic descriptions of functionally
and
quality of resources as well as user preferences, play an important
role in the
achievement of this goal.
A resource
may be a data repository, a
database management system, a SPARQL endpoint, a link between
resources, an
entity in a social network, a semantic wiki, or a linked service.
Resources are
characterized by core information including a name, a description of
its
functionality, its URLs, and various additional Quality of Service
parameters
that express its non-functional characteristics.Resource discovery is
the process of identifying, locating and selecting existing resources
that
satisfy specific functional and non-functional requirements; also,
resource
discovery includes the problem of predicting links between resources.
Current
research includes crawling,
indexing, ranking, clustering, and rewriting techniques, for collecting
and
consuming the resources for a specific request; additionally,
processing
techniques are required to ensure an efficient
and
effective
access
of
the
resources.
The Fifth
International Workshop on Resource Discovery aims at bringing together
researchers from the database, artificial intelligence and semantic web
areas,
to discuss research issues and experiences in developing and deploying
concepts, techniques and applications that address various issues
related to resource discovery. Papers
presenting theoretical or applicative material are expected. This fifth
edition
will focus on techniques to efficiently collect and consume resources
that are
semantically described. Approaches of special interest that can
contribute to solve the resource discovery problem are query rewriting
in
Databases, service selection and composition in Service Oriented
Architectures,
social network navigational techniques, link prediction techniques, and
strategies to process queries against Linked Data or SPARQL endpoints.
Workshop key dates
Full Paper Submission Deadline: March 4, 2012 Hawaii Time Acceptance notification:
April 1, 2011
Camera ready:April 15, 2011
Workshop Full-Day: May 27/28, 2011
We invite the submission of 15
pages (long papers), short
research papers (up to 8 pages) in LNCS format.
Papers accepted to workshop will be available on-line. All
papers presented at the
workshop will be invited to be
revised and extended for a second peer-review process. At the issue of
the second review process, accepted papers in a volumen of Lecture
Notes in Computer Science by Springer.
