SisInf Lab RSS Service http://sisinflab.poliba.it Il 23 e 24 Maggio si svolgerà presso il Politecnico di Bari l'edizione locale dell'Android University Hackathon - AUH. Tutte le informazioni e le indicazioni epr iscriversi sono disponibili all'indirizzo http://gdriv.es/auh Mon, 06 May 2013 12:44:14 +0200 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=1284 To be held in conjunction with Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies Conference (ANT'13) June 25-28, 2013, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Website: http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~iupt2013/ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission: Feb 10, 2013 Author Notification: Mar 10, 2013 Final Manuscript: Apr 1, 2013 The new developments in this area raise many research questions including interaction, security, collaboration, context, discovery, and privacy of physical things in the virtual world. Despite the tremendous progress in Internet technologies the research community continues to wrestle with some of these questions. This Symposium focuses on disseminating novel ideas and research directions in this fast emerging area of the Internet of Things. This Symposium also aims to bring together academics and practitioners in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the issues and opportunities to explore new research directions and develop new ideas for the Internet of Things. The Symposium will be platform to provide opportunities for researchers from academia and industry to join hands, exchange ideas and focus on solutions that will enhance the life of the growing population on the Internet. It will lead to identifying new directions and setting the scope for developme nts in this area. The participants will be enlightened with intellectual discussions, highlighting the advances in technology that bridges the physical world and the digital world. This Symposium aims at gathering researchers from the fields of wireless networking and Internet applications to discuss new opportunities and hurdles to leverage the possibilities of new applications and services for the Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things. The 3rd International Symposium on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things will take place in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2013), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in June 25-28, 2013. Specific topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Communication systems and architectures for the Internet of Things - Robustness of environmental management with the Internet of Things - Future technologies bridging the physical and virtual worlds - Business models and processes for the Internet of Things - Impacts on the security, privacy and risks on the physical world - Applications and interaction for social networking - Location and discovery of things on the Internet - Web of Things - Smart Objects - Case studies in areas of Healthcare, Agriculture, Logistics and Transport - Green Internet of Things - Mobile Internet of Things - Internet of Services - Sensor Webs - Semantic Web of Things PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- All accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Elsevier. Authors should submit paper with no more than 6 pages length using the Easychair submission system, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iupt2013 Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two members of the Symposium Program Committee. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues. ORGANIZATION ------------ General Chairs: Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Program Chairs: Lina Yao, University of Adelaide, Australia Sujith Samuel Mathew, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Michele Ruta, Technical University of Bari, Italy Publicity Chairs: Rui Zeng, Yunnan Normal University,Kunming, China Yongrui Qin, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Committee http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~iupt2013/#/OrganizingCommittee Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:34:15 +0100 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=1237 RR 2012 The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR welcomes original research from all areas of Web Reasoning. Topics of particular interest are: - Semantic Web, Rule and Ontology Languages, and related logics - Reasoning, Querying, Searching and Optimization - Incompleteness, Inconsistency and Uncertainty - Non-monotonic, Commonsense, and Closed-World Reasoning for the Web - Dynamic information, Stream Reasoning and Complex Event Processing - Decision Making, Planning, and Intelligent Agents - Reasoning, Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction and IR Technologies - Large-scale data management and reasoning on the Web of Data - Data Integration, Dataspaces and Ontology-Based Data Access - Non-Standard Reasoning - Algorithms for distributed, parallelized, and scalable reasoning - System Descriptions and Experimentation - Applications and Experience Papers Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:57:25 +0200 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=1179 SeRSy 2012 People generally need more and more advanced tools that go beyond those implementing the canonical search paradigm for seeking relevant information. A new search paradigm is emerging, where the user perspective is completely reversed: from finding to being found. Recommender Systems may help to support this new perspective, because they have the effect of pushing relevant objects, selected from a large space of possible options, to potentially interested users. To achieve this result, recommendation techniques generally rely on data referring to three kinds of objects: users, items and their relations. Recent developments of the Semantic Web community offer novel strategies to represent data about users, items and their relations that might improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to move towards a new generation of recommender systems which fully understand the items they deal with. More and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space: the Web of Data. Today, Web of Data includes different types of knowledge represented in a homogeneous form: sedimentary one (encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense) and real-time one (news, data streams, ...). This data might be useful to interlink diverse information about users, items, and their relations and implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the recommendation process. The challenge is to investigate whether and how this large amount of wide-coverage and linked semantic knowledge can be automatically introduced into systems that perform tasks requiring human-level intelligence. Examples of such tasks include understanding a health problem in order to make a medical decision, or simply deciding which laptop to buy. Recommender systems support users exactly in those complex tasks. The primary goal of the workshop is to showcase cutting edge research on the intersection of Semantic Technologies and Recommender Systems, by taking the best of the two worlds. This combination may provide the Semantic Web community with important real-world scenarios where its potential can be effectively exploited into systems performing complex tasks. Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:55:07 +0200 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=1178 http://sites.google.com/site/aixiadc2012/ The AI*IA Doctoral Consortium (DC) is offered as part of the Symposium of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), that will take place in University of Rome “La Sapienza” on 14th-16th June, 2012. The Consortium is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program on Artificial Intelligence. Students at any stage in their doctoral studies are encouraged to apply, since contributions describing both mature and preliminary work are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission Deadline: April 13, 2012 April 23, 2012 Acceptance Notification: April 27, 2012 May 7, 2012 Deadline for the Final Research Summary Version: May 8, 2012 May 18, 2012 Doctoral Consortium: June 15, 2012 AI*IA Symposium: June 14-16, 2012 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:48:25 +0100 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=1118 We are glad to announce that dr. Tommaso Di Noia of SisInfLab is a 2011 awardee of HP (Hewlett-Packard) Labs prestigious Innovation Research Program Award with the project "Semantic Expert Finding for Service Portfolio Creation". It is the first time that a researcher from an Italian University becomes a winner since the program start in 2008. Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:21:12 +0200 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=1042 A SisInfLab alumnus, Nicola De Leo, won the "56th National Engineers Congress Award" as best degree thesis in the ICT field with a work titled "Monitoraggio del comportamento di un autoveicolo attraverso l'interfaccia OBD-II modificata per via semantica", Supervisors: Eugenio Di Sciascio, Michele Ruta. Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:08:03 +0200 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=1038 The paper "A Semantic-based Pervasive Computing Approach for Smart Building Automation" by Giuseppe Loseto received Best Poster Award at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference held on May 29 - June 2, 2011 in Heraklion (Greece). Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:06:53 +0200 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=1034 Floriano Scioscia, currently post-doctoral research fellow at SisInfLab, won the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence) 'Marco Cadoli' 2011 Award for the best Ph.D. thesis on Artificial Intelligence. Congratulations to Floriano from all SisInfLab people! Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:33:22 +0200 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=1024 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation (SPIM 2011) Search engines implementing the canonical search paradigm are adequate for most ad-hoc keyword-based search tasks, but they reach limits when user needs have to be satisfied in a personalized way. With the advent of the Semantic Web, new opportunities emerge for semantic information retrieval systems to better match user needs. Next generation search engines should implement a novel search paradigm, where the user perspective is completely reversed: from finding to being found. Recommender Systems may help to support this new perspective, because they have the effect of pushing relevant objects to potentially interested users. An emerging approach is to use Semantic Web technologies to model information about users, their needs and preferences, their context and relations, and to incorporate data from other resources like Linked Open Data. The aim of the workshop is to investigate whether and how this large amount of wide-coverage and linked semantic knowledge can significantly improve the search/recommendation process in those tasks that cannot be solved merely through a straightforward matching of queries and documents. Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:24:31 +0200 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=1007 CIKM 2011 will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 24th-28th October 2011. Glasgow is Scotland's largest city and one of the most visited cities in Europe. A cosmopolitan metropolis, Glasgow is a culturally rich, vibrant night time city with a long history at the forefront of socio-economic and political change in Scotland and the UK, offering everything one would expect from a great British city but with a Scottish flare. Since 1992, the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. In CIKM 2011, we will continue the tradition of promoting collaboration among multiple areas. We encourage submissions of high quality papers on all topics in the general areas of databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Papers that bridge across these areas are of special interest and will be considered for a "Best Interdisciplinary Paper" award. Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:22:13 +0200 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=1006 The paper "Semantic-based Geographical Matchmaking in Ubiquitous Computing" by Michele Ruta, Floriano Scioscia, Eugenio Di Sciascio and Giacomo Piscitelli received Best Paper Award at the Fourth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing held on October 25 - 30, 2010 in Florence. Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:17:27 +0100 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=917 On October 28th Michele Ruta is going to give an invited talk at NexTech 2010 in Florence (Italy) titled “If Objects Could Talk: Novel Resource Discovery Approaches in Pervasive Environments”. NexTech 2010 event includes the following conferences: The Fourth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2010), The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2010), The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences (ADVCOMP 2010), The Second International Conference on Advances in P2P Systems (AP2PS 2010), The Second International Conference on Emerging Network Intelligence (EMERGING 2010). For more information visit http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/NexTech10.html Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:19:25 +0200 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=896 Conjunctive Query Containment under Constraints and Access Limitations: Two Chase Techniques [SLIDES] Ontological Query Answering under Extended Entity-Relationship Schemata [SLIDES] Ontology Querying with Datalog +- [SLIDES] Querying the Deep Web [SLIDES] Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:06:40 +0200 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=894 Semantic Web Technologies and Applications part 1 [SLIDES] Semantic Web Technologies and Applications part 2 [SLIDES] Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:58:50 +0200 SisInf Lab http://sisinflab.poliba.it/rss.php?id=893