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<div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><strong>#EDF2015</strong><span style="color:rgb(178,34,34)"><strong> Exploiting Data Integration</strong></span>
<p class=""><a href="http://2015.data-forum.eu/"><strong>http://2015.data-forum.eu/</strong></a></p>
<p>The European Data Forum (EDF) is an annual meeting place for
industry, research, policy makers, and community initiatives to discuss
the challenges and opportunities of the Global and European data
economy. Spurred by recent developments such as Big Data and Data-driven
Business, data has become the fourth production factor (next to
personnel, capital, and natural resources), which offers completely new
opportunities and at the same time it confronts us with novel
challenges. The forum balances technical, business-oriented and
socio-economic, perspectives and approaches in order to develop a
vibrant, interdisciplinary stakeholder community. Special focus will be
devoted to innovation and business opportunities opened by data
technologies and their exploitation, in the perspective of a digital
single market in Europe.</p>
<p>EDF 2015 intends to bring together all stakeholders (industry and
research institutions) involved in the data value chain in order to
strengthen the European data economy and its positioning worldwide.
Specifically, the forum will serve as a platform and a business and
technology oriented exhibition space for the 'Data Public Private
Partnership' established by the European Commission and the European
data community. Stakeholders will mutually reinforce their strategies,
which will result in a forward-looking, dynamic, and well-integrated
EU-wide data ecosystem.</p>
<p>In the conviction that the potential of the data economy strongly
relies on the capacity to manage the multitude and variety of data that
are produced, the major focus of EDF 2015 is “data integration”. In
this perspective the conference will be an opportunity to discuss and
confront experiences where the integration of data form multiple sources
(e.g. videos and text), actually produces added value, and where
innovative technologies (e.g. combining structured and unstructured
data) may contribute to open new application scenarios towards the
digital single market in Europe.</p>
<p>With this call for contributions we are seeking inspiring
presentations addressing concrete experiences addressing all aspects of
data integration.</p>
<p align="center"><span style="color:rgb(178,34,34)"><strong>Conference Topics</strong></span></p>
<p>The following is a non-exhaustive list of specific topics of interest at EDF 2015:</p>
<ul><li>
More and more data is produced directly from sensors or other
technical devices. Therefore, EDF wants to offer a forum for sensor
systems as well as high performance computing and analytics on
large-scale European datasets. Only by making sensor data smarter and at
the same time increasing our analytics performance will we be able to
handle the data tsunami expected. EDF will provide show off examples
demonstrating how the European industry approaches those problems.</li><li>
It can be expected that European companies will predominantly benefit
from the application of data-driven technology and business approaches
to their application domains. Therefore, it is critical that we tackle
the divide of domain knowledge (mainly available within expert’s heads)
and big data analytics. Only the development of mechanisms which enable
to utilize preexisting knowledge within analytics engines as well as
discovering new knowledge from analytics results is essential. The EDF
will be instrumental in bringing communities from research fields as
different as human factors, visual analytics, and machine learning
together.</li><li>
The European data economy will need a large number of data scientists
of various types. Already now qualified personnel is scarce. It will be
crucial to foster high-quality qualification programs both on the
technical aspects of data science as well as in the application and
sense making within the application areas. The EDF will address this
need by offering a space to discuss qualification needs and possible
programs as well as foster such programs on European as well as national
level. </li><li>
Because of the strategic importance of multilingualism in Europe, a
specific topic of interest of EDF is the integration and co-operation of
the European data community with the language resources,
natural-language and technology communities. The synergy of these
communities is critical for new types of multilingual digital services
and the creation of a European digital single market without language
barriers.</li></ul><p>EDF 2015 will be held in Luxembourg, on November 16-17, 2015.
The program will consist of a mixture of presentations, panels and
networking sessions by industry, academics, policy makers, and community
initiatives. Topics will cover a wide spectrum of research and
technology development, applications, and socio-economic aspects of the
data value chain, with a particular attention at exploiting data
integration.</p>
<p>We distinguish between the following types of presentations:</p>
<ul><li>
<em>In-use contribution</em>: Presentations with a practical,
industry- or user-oriented focus by representatives of technology
providers, adopters, and user organizations. Innovative data
applications in different sectors of the European Economy (public
sector, finance and insurance, health, energy, telecommunications etc.),
Open Data in use, Domain knowledge & analytics (human in the loop)</li><li>
<em>Research contribution</em>: Presentations with a technical focus
reporting concrete experiences by representatives of academia and
research centres. This includes new data models and languages, optimized
architectures, content analytics, data mining, blind data analytics,
predictive analytics, deep data, predictive models, semantic
technologies & the web of data, language resources and technologies,
geospatial data techniques, visual analytics, sensemaking of big data,
ubiquitous computing and augmented reality as well as adaptive systems
for contextualization and personalization.</li><li>
<em>Impact contribution</em>: Presentations with a specific focus on
impact-creation activities including policy development, road-mapping,
standardisation, exploitation and training, data-driven business models,
legal issues, privacy and Data Literacy Policies and the European
regulatory framework, Data Governance (Security, Provenance, and
Anonymization), Socio-economic and policy issues of Open Data.</li></ul><p> </p>
<p align="center"><span style="color:rgb(178,34,34)"><strong>Topics</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Industrial Applications</strong></p>
<ul><li>
Domain knowledge & analytics (human in the loop)</li><li>
Innovative data applications in different sectors of the European
Economy (public sector, finance and insurance, health, energy,
telecommunications etc.)</li><li>
Data for development</li><li>
Open Data in Use</li></ul><p><strong>Data Management & Deep Analytics</strong></p>
<ul><li>
New data models and languages</li><li>
Optimized architectures</li><li>
Deep data and content analytics and data mining</li><li>
Blind data analytics</li><li>
Predictive analytics</li><li>
Semantic Technologies & the Web of Data</li><li>
Language Resources, Processing and Technologies</li><li>
Geospatial Data Techniques</li></ul><p><strong>Advanced Visualization & User Experience</strong></p>
<ul><li>
Visual analytics</li><li>
Sensemaking of big data</li><li>
Ubiquitous computing and augmented reality</li><li>
Adaptive systems for contextualization and personalization</li><li>
Qualification programs and teaching approaches of sense making and big data</li></ul><p><strong>Socio-economic and Policy Issues</strong></p>
<ul><li>
Economic and business models for Big Data markets</li><li>
Data-driven business models</li><li>
Legal issues (who owns the data?), Privacy and Data Literacy</li><li>
Policies and the European regulatory framework</li><li>
Data Governance: Security, Provenance, and Anonymization Techniques</li><li>
Socio-economic and policy issues of Open Data</li></ul><p><strong>Data Visions for the Future</strong></p>
<p align="center"><span style="color:rgb(178,34,34)"><strong>Submissions</strong></span></p>
<p>Each proposal for a presentation will have to provide the following information:</p>
<ul><li>
Contributor names and short CVs</li><li>
Type of the pres<strong>ent</strong>ation proposed</li><li>
Title of the presentation</li><li>
Summary of the presentation (<100 words)</li><li>
Extended abstract of the presentation (at most 2 pages in 11pt A4 format)</li></ul><p>Proposals for presentations should be submitted as a single PDF file at <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edf2015">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edf2015</a> .<br>
If you experience any difficulties using the submission system, please send the proposal via e-mail to <a href="mailto:edf2015@data-forum.eu">edf2015@data-forum.eu</a>.<br>
Proposals will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee of EDF 2015
according to their relevance to the scope and purpose of the event.</p>
<p align="center"><span style="color:rgb(178,34,34)"><strong>Important Dates</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Submission of proposals: May 15 2015, 23:59 WET</strong></p>
<p>Notification of acceptance or rejection: June 5 2015</p>
<p>Full EDF2015 program available: end of July 2015</p>
<p align="center"><span style="color:rgb(178,34,34)"><strong>Further Information about the European Data Forum 2015</strong></span></p>
<p>EDF2015 website: <a href="http://2015.data-forum.eu/">http://2015.data-forum.eu/</a></p>
<p>Overall EDF website: <a href="http://www.data-forum.eu/">http://www.data-forum.eu/</a></p>
<p>LinkedIn Group: <a href="http://bit.ly/linkedin-EDF">http://bit.ly/linkedin-EDF</a></p>
<p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/EUDataForum">https://twitter.com/#!/EUDataForum</a> hashtag: #EDF2015</p>
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