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The Ninth International Conference on Information, eKNOW 2017 |
| Call for Papers |
The variety of the systems and applications and the heterogeneous nature of information and knowledge representation require special technologies to capture, manage, store, preserve, interpret and deliver the content and documents related to a particular target.
Progress in cognitive science, knowledge acquisition, representation, and processing helped to deal with imprecise, uncertain or incomplete information. Management of geographical and temporal information becomes a challenge, in terms of volume, speed, semantic, decision, and delivery.
Information technologies allow optimization in searching an interpreting data, yet special constraints imposed by the digital society require on-demand, ethics, and legal aspects, as well as user privacy and safety.
Nowadays, there is notable progress in designing and deploying information and organizational management systems, experts systems, tutoring systems, decision support systems, and in general, industrial systems.
Capturing, representing, and manipulating knowledge was and still is a fascinating and extremely useful challenge from both theoretical and practical perspective. Using validated knowledge for information and process management, and for decision support mechanisms raises a series of questions the conference is aimed at.
We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.
Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.
Knowledge fundamentals
Knowledge acquisition, processing, and management
Linguistic knowledge representation
Knowledge modeling and virtualization
Types of knowledge: structural, behavioral, relationships, etc.
Knowledge representation: visual-picture, connectionist model, semi-structured [a la workflow], structured/formal
Knowledge acquisition status: potential new knowledge, guessed semantics, confirmed semantics, auditing confirmed semantics, etc.
Knowledge update: probable insertion, validated insertion, auditing the insertion periodically based on new knowledge, etc.
Trends on annotation and extraction
Natural Languages-based features and systems
Annotation handling (multilingual, semantic, shared, open, prosody, etc.)
Annotation as a Service (AaaS)
Handling argument-based knowledge
Event-based knowledge
Tagging and supertagging
Extraction patterns
Uncertain reasoning
Visual error analysis
Domain-specific paraphrase extraction
Tweets and sentence compression
Role labeling semantic
Heterogeneous annotations
Trends on news and social media
New events-based knowledge
In-context news creation
Superlative expressions
News highlights generation systems
News special summarization systems (e.g, for blind and/or visually impaired people)
Sentiment classification (emotion, irony, sarcasm, rhetorical questions, opinion, etc.)
Rumor dynamics and social media
Contextual pragmatic models
Social prediction
Prediction semantic analysis
Predictability of distrust
Aspect-based sentiment analysis
Argument generation systems
Relevance of citation recommendation
Retrieval bias and retrieval performance
High-speed captioning images
Language models for images
Participative KM platforms
Trends on knowledge processing support and mechanisms
Open knowledge bases
Structured knowledge bases
Big knowledge applications
Linked knowledge objects
Knowledge datasets
Machine translation systems
Convolution neural networks
Hybrid representations and equivalent semantics
Processing bilingual information
Topic trends and temporal signatures
Cross-view features
Pattern-based knowledge
Ranking optimization in context
Concept-based classification and ranking
KM design for life long learning and long term uses
Knowledge identification and discovery
Mining for knowledge
Knowledge identification: semantic-ID, etc.
Knowledge discovery: how to express knowledge requests?, how to find knowledge?, etc.
Knowledge refinement: after many acquisitions, former knowledge can change semantically or structurally, etc.
Knowledge clustering
Knowledge management systems
Knowledge data systems
Industrial systems
Context-aware and self-management systems
Imprecision/Uncertainty/Incompleteness in databases
Cognitive science and knowledge agent-based systems
Databases and mobility in databases
Zero-knowledge systems
Expert systems
Tutoring systems
Digital libraries
Knowledge management (KM) and event processing (EP)
Methodologies and approaches to overcome technical hurdles and improve the interplay between KM and EP
Applications from various domains (e.g. financial, manufacturing, trading, telecommunication, service), which benefit from an integrated KM and EP
Knowledge semantics processing and ontology
Dynamic knowledge ontology;
Collaborative knowledge ontology
Knowledge matching
Contextual reasoning
Tools for knowledge ontology
Context-based information extraction
Knowledge trading systems
Knowledge exchange portals;
Cognitive sytems and knowledge processing
Human aspects in knowledge processing
Technological foresight and socio-economic evolution modelling
Anticipatory networks and decisions
Expert information management
Foresight support systems
Generating technological recommendations and rankings
Information society evolution
Online and real-time Delphi
Ontological knowledge bases of technologies and products
Roadmapping support systems
Strategic support systems
Technological information fusion
Technological policy decision support systems
Process analysis and modeling
Analysis and development of business architectures
Data mining and information retrieval for business processes
Business process modelling
Business process composition
Analysis and management lifecycle
Reasoning on business processes
Optimization of business processes
Adaptive business processes
Business process reengineering
Integration of processes
Process discovery
Business process quality
Resource allocation
Process management
Criteria for measurement of business process models
Monitoring business processes
Business process visualization
Management of business process integration
On-demand business transformation
Performance measurement
Conformance and risk management
Prediction
Business transformation
Packaged industry applications
Industry solutions
Information management
Informational mining/retrieval/classification
Geographic and spatial data infrastructures
Information technologies
Information management systems
Information ethics and legal evaluations
Optimization and information technology
Organizational information systems
Decision support systems
Multi-criteria decision theory
Artificial intelligence
Adaptive design for decision support systems
Support technologies: knowledge-driven, data-driven, model-driven, and geographically-driven systems
Support methods: artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic/evolutionary algorithms
Modeling, interfaces, and performance
Applications using decision support systems
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.
Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.
Important deadlines:
| Submission (full paper) |
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| Notification | January 10, 2017 |
| Registration | January 25, 2017 |
| Camera ready | February 5, 2017 |
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.
Contribution types
- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
- doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]
Proposals for:
- mini symposia: [in the proceedings, digital library]
- workshops: [in the proceedings, digital library]
- tutorials: [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- panels: [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
FORMATS
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.
Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available.
Slides-based contributions can use the corporate/university format and style.
Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.
Once you receive the notification of contribution acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.
We would recommend that you should not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 contributions per event are recommended, as each contribution must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings and in the digital library, or posted on the www.iaria.org (for slide-based contributions).
CONTRIBUTION TYPE
Regular Papers (up to 6-10 page article -6 pages covered the by regular registration; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost- ) (oral presentation)
These contributions could be academic or industrial research, survey, white, implementation-oriented, architecture-oriented, white papers, etc. They will be included in the proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing.
Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the appropriate contribution type.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
Short papers (work in progress) (up to 4 pages long) (oral presentation)
Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. These contributions represent partial achievements of longer-term projects. They could be academic or industrial research, survey, white, implementation-oriented, architecture-oriented, white papers, etc. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
Ideas contributions (2 pages long) (oral presentation)
This category is dedicated to new ideas in their very early stage. Idea contributions are expression of yet to be developed approaches, with pros/cons, not yet consolidated. Ideas contributions are intended for a debate and audience feedback. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Idea. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. For more details, see the Ideas explanation page.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
Extended abstracts (2 pages long) (oral presentation)
Extended abstracts summarize a long potential publication with noticeable results. It is intended for sharing yet to be written, or further on intended for a journal publication. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Extended abstract. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
Posters (paper-based, two pages long) (oral presentation)
Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic.
A two-page paper summarizes a presentation intended to be a POSTER. This allows an author to summarize a series of results and expose them via a big number of figures, graphics and tables.
Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Poster Two Pages. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing.
8-10 presentation slides are suggested.
Also a big Poster is suitable, used for live discussions with the attendees, in addition to the oral presentation.
Posters (slide-based, only) (oral presentation)
Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic. The slides must have comprehensive comments.
This type of contribution only requires a 8-10 slide-deck. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Poster (slide-only). The slide-deck will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
8-10 presentation slides are suggested.
Also a big Poster is suitable, used for live discussions with the attendees, additionally to the oral presentation.
Presentations (slide-based, only) (oral presentation)
These contributions represent technical marketing/industrial/business/positioning presentations. This type of contribution only requires a 12-14 slide-deck. Please submit the contributions following the submission instructions by using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Presentation (slide-only). The slide-deck will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
Demos (two pages) [posted on www.iaria.org]
Demos represent special contributions where a tool, an implementation of an application, or a freshly implemented system is presented in its alfa/beta version. It might also be intended for thsoe new application to gather the attendee opinion. A two-page summary for a demo is intended to be. It would be scheduled in special time spots, to ensure a maximum attendance from the participants. Please submit the contributions following the submission instructions by using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Demos. The Demos paper will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
Doctoral forum submissions: (up to 6-10 page article -6 pages covered the by regular registration; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost- ) (oral presentation)
There contributions refer to PhD dissertations, new PhD approaches, and PhD out-of-the-book thinking, etc. They will be included in the proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the appropriate contribution type Doctoral forum.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
Tutorial proposals
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for 2-3 hour long. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA site.
Please send your proposals to tutorial proposal
Panel proposals
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA site.
Please send your proposals to panel proposal
Workshop proposals
See http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
Mini Symposium proposal
See http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
