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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>21st Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS’15)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><span style='color:black'>Puerto Rico, August 13-15, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>Mini-track:</span></b><span style='color:black'> Semantic Technologies and Big Data Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>Track: </span></b><span style='color:black'>Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (SIGODIS)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>Description<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><span style='color:black'>The vision of Semantic Integration for Big Data Analytics is to have heterogeneous data linked in such a way that machines can understand its meanings for the exchange and reuse of large amounts of data across heterogeneous data sources. The semantic representation of heterogeneous data, augmented with ontology of domain theories, will enable us to link a large network of human knowledge and make this knowledge machine-understandable. This will in turn enable various knowledge systems to effectively analyze and reason the big data to uncover useful information. Semantic Integration of heterogeneous data has been recognized as one of the most important research issues and has received considerable attention from both academia and industry. Semantic integration has made significant progress over several years when numerous issues have been addressed and many applications have been developed. However, despite all of these advances, the current state of semantic integration requires significant improvements to make it more effective in a broader range of applications. This mini-track will provide a forum for gaining a better understanding of the new technologies and their business aspects for semantic integration for big data analytics. Potential authors/researchers are encouraged to submit papers that address the issues related to designing, developing, and evaluating the semantic integration of large volume of heterogeneous data from the technical, behavioral, economical, or managerial perspectives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><span style='color:black'>Best papers from this mini-track will be fast tracked for publication in a special issue of International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (<a href="http://www.idea-group.com/IJIIT"><span style='color:black'>http://www.idea-group.com/IJIIT</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>Suggested topics include, but not limited to the following:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:6.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Semantic interoperability<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Innovative design artefacts for semantic integration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Novel applications for semantic integration for Big Data Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Semantic Integration for e-business and e-learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Semantic Web/Ontology for Data Integration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation for Big Data Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Ontology mapping, Integration, and/or alignment for Big Data Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Software agents for Semantic Integration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Managerial Issues of Semantic Integration for Big Data Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Submission Process<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Paper submissions must be made electronically through AMCIS 2015 Manuscript Submission Site <a href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2015"><span style='color:black'>https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2015</span></a>. For submission guidelines, please refer to <a href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines" target="_blank"><span style='color:black'>http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>February 25, 2015: Manuscript submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>April 21, 2015: Author notification<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>April 28, 2015: Camera-ready submission due<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>For more information, please visit the conference website at <a href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:black'>http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/</span></a> or contact the mini-track co-chairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Mini-track Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Victoria Y. Yoon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Virginia Commonwealth University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>vyyoon@vcu.edu</span><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>