FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

The 7th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2017)

http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/aist/jist2017

November 10-12, 2017 (Fri - Sun) Gold Coast, Australia

The mission of the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is to bring together researchers in Semantic Technology research community and other areas of semantic related technologies to present their innovative research results or novel applications of semantic technologies.

In this announcement:

1. Important Dates (deadlines extended)
2. Recommendation to SCI Journals
3. Call for Papers (including a new special track)
4. Submission Guide
5. Organization

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1. Important Dates

• Abstract submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 8, 2017
• Full paper submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 15, 2017
• Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2017
• Camera-ready Deadline: September 30, 2017
• Conference: November 10-12, 2017

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2. Recommendation to SCI Journals

A number of best papers accepted at JIST 2017 will be invited to present at the Meet the Editor session of SCI indexed journals, including International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), for fast-track publication in a special issue in these journals. Up to five papers will be selected and published. An indicative timeline is given below:

• Manuscript revision proposal: mid November 2017
• Submission of revised manuscript: mid January 2018
• Notification of acceptance: mid March 2018
• Publication: second half 2018

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3. Call for Papers

Call for Research Track Papers

JIST 2017 research track solicits submissions of original research work on semantic technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Ontology and reasoning
• Knowledge Graph
• Linked Data
• Big Data and semantics, exchange and integration
• Data streams and the Internet of Things
• Machine learning and information extraction on the Semantic Web
• Semantic Web services and processes
• Trust, privacy, and security on the Semantic Web
• Social Semantic Web
• Natural language processing and semantics
• Semantic multimedia
• Novel applications of semantic technologies

Call for In-Use Track Papers

Quality shared resources such as public ontologies, datasets and software are highly valuable to the research community, hence, JIST 2017 in-use track also calls for submissions of public, shared resources of interest to the Semantic Web community.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Description of an implemented application
• Description of concrete problems
• Analysis and evaluation of semantic tools
• Lessons learned and best practices
• Linked Data, open data and vocabularies in production use
• Semantic resources
• Semantic technology in new application domains

Call for Special Track Papers

The philosophy behind Special Tracks is to facilitate the proactive participation of researchers from certain fields or communities who have linked the semantic technology with their research fields.

Special Tracks accept 8-page short papers that will be reviewed in the same way as the Research Track papers and will be included in the Proceedings if accepted. In JIST 2017, we have two special tracks.

Special Track on Energy-awareness & Semantic Technologies:

As semantic technologies gain momentum, their impact on resources and society increases. Energy-consumption is one of the main challenges of 21st century. The potential contribution of semantic technologies towards this problem is twofold.

On the one hand semantic technologies can assist in energy management as they are often the core of context-aware, self-adaptive applications. For instance, ontologies are used to integrate heterogeneous sources such as sensors or reasoners are employed in grid management applications. On the other hand, the efficiency of semantic technologies is still mainly assessed by running times. While computational and cognitive complexity are investigated, work on their energy-consumption is still in its infancy. However, assessing and managing their energy-consumption is a vital prerequisite for for their usefulness on mobile devices, for instance.

The special track calls for contributions regarding, but not limited to:

• energy-adaptive semantic technologies
• measurement frameworks for energy consumption of semantic technologies
• application of semantic technologies for energy management
• ontologies for energy management
• semantic technologies for power or grid management

Special Track on Semantic Processing for Knowledge Graphs:

Semantic technologies such as Linked Data promote publication of various data and knowledge on the web with semantic links among them. They form huge sized knowledge bases called Knowledge Graphs in a large variety of domains. An important technical feature of Knowledge Graphs is their rich semantics. This special track focuses on semantics of Knowledge Graphs, especially on how to use their semantics towards practical applications.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Semantic processing and reasoning for Knowledge Graph
• Application using semantics of Knowledge Graph
• Modelling of semantics for Knowledge Graph
• Development of Knowledge Graph (Ontology, Linked Data)

Call for Poster & Demo Papers

JIST 2017 cordially invites you to submit Poster and Demo papers. For details please check our website:

http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/aist/jist2017

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4. Submission

Submissions to JIST 2017 should describe original, significant research on semantic technologies. JIST 2017 will not accept submissions that are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Submissions to JIST 2017 are expected to present their claimed contribution, with clear evidence to support their claims. All submissions will be critically reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. To assess submissions, reviewers will judge their relevance to semantic technologies, their originality, the technical soundness of their proposed approach and the readability of the submission.

JIST 2017 submissions are not anonymous.

Submissions must be in PDF format, using the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions must be no longer than *16* pages for the Research and In-Use Tracks, and no longer than *8* pages for the Special Tracks. Submissions that exceed these limits may be rejected without review. Submissions to the In-Use Track that are less than 16 pages can be considered.

Accepted papers will be published in an LNCS proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there.

Papers can be submitted electronically via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2017. Please select the corresponding tracks when you submit your paper(s).

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5. Organization

General Chairs

• Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand
• Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia

Program Chairs

• Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
• Zhe Wang, Griffith University, Australia

Organized by: JIST Steering Committee

Program Committee:

Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain Chantana Chantrapornchai, Kasetsart University, Thailand Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University, China Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany Dejing Dou, University of Oregon, USA Jianfeng Du, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China Alessandro Faraotti, IBM, Italy Zhiyong Feng, Tianjin University, China Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada Armin Haller, Australian National University, Australia Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University, Finland Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK Takahiro Kawamura, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan Evgeny Kharlamov, University of Oxford, UK Martin Kollingbaum, University of Aberdeen, UK Kouji Kozaki, Osaka University, Japan Adila A. Krisnadhi, Wright State University & Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia Michael John Lawley, CSIRO Australian E-Health Research Centre, Australia Yuan-Fang Li, Monash University, Australia Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Wei Liu, The University of Western Australia, Australia Yinglong Ma, North China Electric Power University, China Yue Ma, Université Paris Sud, France Theofilos Mailis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Maria Vanina Martinez, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca, Argentina Eduardo Mena, University of Zaragoza, Spain Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Trina Myers, James Cook University, Australia Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China Edelweis Rohrer, Universidad de la República, Uruguay Tong Ruan, ECUST, China Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Sa-Kwang Song, KISTI, Korea Giorgos Stoilos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Kerry Taylor, Australian Bureau of Statistics & Australian National University, Australia Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Zhe Wang, Griffith University, Australia Xin Wang, Tianjin University, China Haofen Wang, Shenzhen Gowild Robotics Co. Ltd, China Shenghui Wang, OCLC Research, Netherlands Guohui Xiao, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Bin Xu, Tsinghua University, China Xiaowang Zhang, Tianjin University, China Amal Zouaq, University of Ottawa, Canada