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

http://kmi.tugraz.at/workshop/KASW08/
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!EXTENDED Submission deadline!: May 16, 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 position papers and demos. Demo
submissions should consist of a brief description (1-4 pages) and a
screenshot of the working prototype. Position papers should state the
author's research position with respect to the workshop topics and
could briefly describe the author's experiences, work-in-progress or
ongoing developments in the field.

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

!EXTENDED Submission deadline!: May 16, 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 must be following the J.UCS format. Submissions will
be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. For
questions and comments, please contact the workshop co-chairs. Please
use the workshop submission system for submitting articles. Accepted
papers will be included in the printed TRIPLE-I conference
proceedings.

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:

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