CfP: Intl. Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from the Social Web (KASW'08)

Call for Papers: International Workshop on 
"Knowledge Acquisition from the Social Web" KASW'08
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September 3-5, Graz, Austria 
held in conjunction with the Triple-I Conference

http://kmi.tugraz.at/workshop/KASW08/
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Submission deadline: April 28, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2008
Camera-ready version: June 30, 2008
Workshop: One day format, between September 3-5, 2008

OBJECTIVES

This workshop aims to develop and bring together a community of
researchers
interested in discussing the manifold challenges and potentials of
knowledge
acquisition from the social web.

With the advent of the "Social Web", a new breed of web applications
has enriched
the social dimension of the web. On the social web, actors can be
understood as
social agents - technological or human entities - that collaborate,
pursue goals,
are autonomous, and are capable of exhibiting flexible problem solving
and social
behavior. By participating in the social web, both technological and
human agents
leave complex traces of social interactions and their motivations
behind, which can
be studied, analyzed and utilized for a range of different purposes.
The broad
availability and open accessibility of these traces in social web
corpora, such as
in del.icio.us, Wikipedia, weblogs and others, provides researchers with
opportunities for, for example, novel knowledge acquisition techniques and
strategies, as well as large scale, empirically coupled "in the field"
studies of
social processes and structures.

This workshop aims to develop and bring together a diverse community
of researchers
interested in the social web by seeking submissions that are focusing on
understanding and evaluating the role of agents, goals, structures,
concepts,
context, knowledge and social interactions in a broad range of social web
applications. Examples for such applications include, but are not
limited to social
authoring (e.g. wikis, weblogs), social sharing (e.g. del.icio.us,
flickr), social
networking (Facebook, LinkedIn) and social searching (e.g. wikia,
eurekster, mahalo)
applications. 

FORMAT

While the workshop is open to anyone interested in the topics of the
workshop, it is
the particular intention to utilize this workshop as an opportunity to
gather and
build a strong network of researchers with similar interests. To
support this, we
will put special emphasis on room for interaction and networking, and
on discussing
the accepted papers in detail. For that purpose, we will consider, for
example, to
designate significant time for discussions, provide all accepted
papers on the
workshop website before the event, encourage presenters to read their
colleagues'
papers before the workshop takes place, and prepare questions. This
aims to improve
the ability of participants to relate to each others work, to
communicate - and to
increase the overall quality of interactions at the workshop.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We encourage submissions from researchers with a variety of
backgrounds, including
common sense reasoning, natural language processing, data mining,
automatic
classification, ontology, semantic web, requirements engineering,
knowledge
management and information sciences.

The main topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not
limited to:

- Knowledge discovery and mining on the social web
- Text-extraction and understanding on the social web
- Social Network Analysis on the social web
- Folksonomies and Ontology learning

- Multi Agent Systems and the social web
- Agent-oriented modeling and engineering of social web applications
- Goals and motivations on the social web
- Acquiring commonsense knowledge from the social web

- Trust, reputation and social interactions on the social web
- Information diffusion and knowledge transfer on the social web
- Evaluation of and evaluation techniques for social web applications

The workshop is accepting papers (6 to 8 pages) ranging from theoretical
contributions including novel methods, techniques and algorithms,
rigid evaluations
to empirical or analytical case studies related to the topics of interest.
Work-in-progress contributions which seek advice or collaborations - or
contributions which would simply seek the feedback from other workshop
participants
are particularly welcome. However, all contributions should exhibit a
level of
maturity where a) an interesting issue has already been narrowed down
sufficiently
and B) adequate prior work has been done (e.g. first results, an
exploratory study,
comprehensive analysis of related approaches, etc).

In addition, we will accept demos. Demo submissions should consist of
a brief
description (1-4 pages) and a screenshot of the working prototype.

ABOUT TRIPLE-I

The TRIPLE-I Conference series is a joint venture of the conferences
I-KNOW, I-MEDIA
and I-SEMANTICS. TRIPLE-I reflects the increasing importance and
convergence of
knowledge management, new media technologies and semantic systems.
This unique
concept aims at bridging the gaps between the various communities and
their
technology fields.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: April 28, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2008
Camera-ready version: June 30, 2008
Workshop: One day format, between September 3-5, 2008

SUBMISSION

All submissions (paper or demo) must be following the J.UCS format.
All submissions
will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
For questions
and comments, please contact the workshop co-chairs. Information about
submitting
articles will be made available on the workshop website. 

Organizing Committee:

Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel
Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University
Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz-Landau
Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology

contact: markus.strohmaier (at) tugraz.at 

Program Committee (to be completed):

Anjo Anjewierden, University of Twente, Netherlands
Ciro Cattuto, ISI foundation, Italy
Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California, USA
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada
Henry Lieberman, MIT, USA
Claudia Müller, University of Potsdam, Germany
Kotaro Nakayama, Osaka University, Japan
Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
Arno Scharl, Modul University Vienna, Austria
Marc Spaniol, MPII Saarbrücken, Germany