http://ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/evodyn2013

Workshop Description and Motivation
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Over the course of the last decade, the Semantic Web research has engaged in capturing and representing global knowledge in the form of the Linked Data cloud and expressive distributed ontologies of various levels of granularity. Usually, emphasis is put on representing as up-to-date and accurate a state of knowledge as possible. However, an important aspect that is still often being overlooked, and has been treated only in a rather rudimentary fashion so far, is the evolution of knowledge itself. Ontology dynamics and versioning is one aspect of this field that has been well studied, but merely for the purposes of change-management, which is only one of many facets of knowledge evolution. The purpose of this workshop is to create and foster a research community concerned with all aspects of how knowledge evolves and changes over time in the context of the Semantic Web. This includes analysis of trends and change in formal descriptions (i.e., ontologies), but also in associated 搑awer?sources of knowledge (Linked Data, scientific publications, unstructured or semi-structured web content, traditional data stores, e-mail or on-line discussion threads, etc.).

In our IWOD/EvoDyn workshop series, we have aimed at fostering a comprehensive and coherent approach to studying (and ultimately facilitating) the process of knowledge evolution by bringing together researchers and practitioners from the following fields:
* Data mining and knowledge discovery in dynamic resources.
* Ontology dynamics and versioning.
* Trend analysis (in multiple applications, including internet search, corpus evaluation, etc.).
* Social network analysis (especially in the context of emergent and evolving patterns in social networks).
* Natural Language Processing (evolution of terminology, language use, semantics).
* Knowledge Representation (temporal ontologies, temporal logics, belief revision, etc.)
* Discourse Analysis and Philosophy of Science (the definition and understanding of what particular phases of the knowledge evolution are, and how can we delimit, identify or even trigger them)

EvoDyn 2013 builds on the success of the 2012 and 2011 editions and on the previous workshops aggregated under the IWOD workshop series organized mostly at ISWC (running back to the first IWOD in 2007). EvoDyn continues in the tradition of IWOD in being the core annual event to discuss advances in the broad area of ontology dynamics, and to track recent work directly or indirectly related to the problem of evolving ontologies. More details on all the workshops of the IWOD/EvoDyn series can be found at: http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/iwod/

Topics of Interest
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We encourage submissions on all topics related to ontology dynamics, including original theoretical work on the issues involved directly or indirectly with change as well as applications or implemented systems related to such issues. We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in the following topics:

Foundations of Knowledge Evolution:
* Philosophical and epistemological aspects of evolving knowledge
* Evolving knowledge as a complex system
* Models and ontologies for knowledge evolution and change management

Temporal Aspects of Knowledge Capture:
* Dynamic ontology learning
* Ontology-based data mining
* Hypothesis and claim extraction
* Information retrieval and extraction for detecting paradigm shifts
* Evolution of ontologies from a general purpose design to a usable application-oriented form

The Representation and Reasoning of Evolving Knowledge:
* Time representation and temporal reasoning
* Semantic evolution and discovery
* Provenance in evolution
* Reasoning for trend analysis
* Reasoning for knowledge shift detection

Knowledge Integration and Analysis Over Time:
* Time-aware ontology alignment and data integration
* Similarity metrics for evolving knowledge
* Detecting, managing and reconciling conflicting knowledge

The Visualization and Presentation of Evolving Knowledge:
* Representing, querying and browsing evolving knowledge
* Visualizing trends, changes and paradigm shifts
* Visual summarization of knowledge sub-domains
* User interfaces for evolving knowledge presentation

Application Domains:
* Genetics / Molecular Biology
* Biomedical informatics
* Neuroscience / Neuroinformatics
* Business analytics
* Legal studies
* Digital humanities

We especially encourage submissions that cover more aspects across multiple above-mentioned categories. Furthermore, short system descriptions related to the above topics are highly welcome.

Workshop Venue and Format
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The workshop will take place in Nanjing, China, as part of the 14th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2013 - http://www.wise2013.org/), on October 13, 2013.

EvoDyn-13 is planned to be a full-day workshop, organized in the following blocks:
* Invited talk (to be confirmed)
* Paper presentations (20-25 minutes per paper, including discussion)
* A panel with 3-4 invited experts from fields relevant to the topic of the workshop (to be confirmed)
* A wrap-up event actively involving the workshop organizers (as moderators), the panelists, the paper authors and the general audience

Submission Guidelines
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Submissions must be no longer than 14 pages. They should be in PDF, and formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS):
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

All submissions should be submitted through easychair, using the following link: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=evodyn2013

Intended audience
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The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers that are interested in the problems of capturing, representation and processing evolving knowledge from as many different perspectives as possible. This includes the Semantic Web, Data Mining and Analysis, Linked Data, Knowledge Representation, Scientific Workflow and Natural Language Processing communities. We are eager to gain additional insights also from the point of view of Complex Systems, Philosophy of Science and other relevant fields. Apart from researchers tackling problems related to a comprehensive study of knowledge evolution, we also strongly encourage the participation of practitioners from application domains where knowledge evolution is an issue. This includes Biomedical informatics, Neuroinformatics, and Biomedicine in general. We also include domains like Internet Search, Business Analytics, Legal Studies or Digital Humanities. Ideally, we would like to see the practitioners and researchers actively network and collaborate in order to define and understand the most relevant and important lines of research pertinent to the underlying goal of understanding and enabling the processes of discovery, paradigm shift and breakthrough.

Important Dates
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Submission deadline:  August 5th, 2013
Acceptance notification: August 23rd, 2013
Camera-ready deadline:  September 10th, 2013
Workshop day:   October 13th, 2013

Organizing Committee
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Giorgos Flouris, FORTH-ICS, Greece
Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China
Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia

Steering Committee
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* Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK
* Gully Burns, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
* Mathieu d'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
* Giorgos Flouris, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
* Carole Goble, Information Management Group, Manchester University
* Tudor Groza, School of ITEE, The University of Queensland
* Zhisheng Huang, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam
* Guilin Qi, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China
* Vit Novacek, DERI (Digital Enterprise Research Institute), National University of Ireland Galway
* Jeff Z. Pan, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen
* Dimitris Plexousakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
* Fouad Zablith, Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Program Committee
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* Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK
* Paul Buitelaar, DERI Galway, Ireland
* Gully Burns, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA
* Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, USA
* Tim Clark, MGH, Harvard University, USA
* Mathieu d'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
* Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR, Italy
* Tudor Groza, School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Australia
* Jerome Euzenat, INRIA & LIG, France
* Zhisheng Huang, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Michael Lawley, CSIRO, Australia
* Thomas Meyer, Meraka Institute, South Africa
* Vit Novacek, DERI (Digital Enterprise Research Institute), National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
* Dimitris Plexousakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece
* Livia Predoiu, University of Magdeburg, Germany
* Cartic Ramakrishnan, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
* Marcio M. Ribeiro, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
* Agnes Sandor, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
* Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA
* Renata Wasserrmann, Universidade de Sao Paolo, Brazil
* Fouad Zablith, Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut, Lebanon