CALL  FOR  PAPERS

Paper Submission Deadline : July 13th, 2014

Special track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment (AgroSEM'14)

8th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'14)

November 27-29, 2014

Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences Germany, 

http://www.mtsr-conf.org/

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The 7th Edition of the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment (AgroSEM 2014) is hosted as part of MTSR 2014. This track aims to bring together researchers and practitioners that are dealing with theoretical, methodological, experimental and application-oriented aspects of knowledge engineering, applied to agriculture, food and environment. It aims to serve as a discussion forum where researchers and interested experts will present the results of their work, and establish liaisons with other groups that are working on related subjects. In addition, it aims to outline the rich potential of these subjects as an application field for advanced metadata- and semantic-driven systems and services.

TOPICS:

Topics include but are not limited to contributions dealing with the following issues in the context of agriculture, food & environment:

•  Information standards and specifications
•  Metadata schemas and application profiles
•  Multilingual vocabularies, taxonomies, glossaries and thesauri
•  Metadata generation, harvesting, and exchange
•  Knowledge representation, acquisition, elicitation and extraction
•  Knowledge integration, semantic annotation
•  Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, Linked Open Vocabularies
•  Infrastructures, systems and services for knowledge organization
•  Knowledge repositories and archives
•  Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages
•  Ontology development, integration, lifecycle (construction, alignment, evolution …), and evaluation
•  Management of large ontology-driven knowledge bases

IMPORTANT DATES:

July 13th, 2014          Paper submission (Springer LNCS style, PDF file submission)

August 17th, 2014     Acceptance/rejection notification

August 31st, 2014     Camera-ready papers due

Nov 27th - 29th, 2014 MTSR’2014 at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany

SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS:

Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages) about complete or ongoing research.

Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity following a double-blind peer review process. Submitted papers have to follow the LNCS proceedings formatting style and guidelines. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to register to the Conference and present their work in the form of either oral presentation or poster. 

The submission is to be done via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mtsr2014

PUBLICATION

Proceedings have been published in the Springer's CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science) Series in previous events. In particular, the proceedings of the previous Special Track on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment at MTSR'13 have been published in Vol. 390 of the CCIS Series (http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-03437-9/page/3).

Revised and extended versions of best papers of MTSR’2014 will be published in selected international journals, including the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience), and Program: Electronic library and information systems (Emerald) (list incomplete).

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Special Track Chairs

Juliette Dibie. AgroParisTech & INRA (France)

Liliana Ibanescu. AgroParisTech & INRA (France)

Miguel-Ángel Sicilia. University of Alcalá (Spain)

Lydie Soler. INRA (France)

Special Track Steering Committee

Ioannis Athanasiadis. Democritus University of Thrace (Greece)

Sander Janssen. Alterra, Wageningen UR (The Netherlands)

Caterina Caracciolo, FAO of the United Nations (Italy)

Nikos Manouselis. Agro-Know (Greece)

Juan Pane. Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay), Universidad de Trento (Italy)

Special Track Program Committee

Marcos Baez, University of Trento (Italy)

Ansgar Bernardi. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) (Germany)

Christopher Brewster, Aston Business School, Aston University (United Kingdom)

Patrice Buche. INRA (France)

Andreas Drakos, Agroknow (Greece)

Hannes Ebner, Metasolustions (Sweden)

Nikos Houssos, National Documentation Center (Greece)

Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR “Demokritos” (Greece)

Diane Le Hénaff, INRA RD 10 (France)

Leonardo Lezcano, University of Alcala (Spain)

Claire Nedellec. INRA (France)

Nikos Palavitsinis, Agroknow (Greece)

Juan Pane. Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay), Universidad de Trento (Italy)

Jr. Ivo Pierozzi. Embrapa Agricultural Informatics (Brazil)

Vassilis Protonotarios, Agroknow (Greece)

Andrea E. Rizzoli. IDSIA (Switzerland)

Mathieu Roche. CIRAD (France)

Carlos Rodriguez, University of Trento (Italy)

Catherine Roussey. IRSTEA (France)

Armando Stellado, University of Tor Vergata (Italy)

Jan Top. Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Sciences (The Netherlands)

Lorenzino Vaccari, Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy)

Elisabeth (Lieke) Verhelst, Informagic (Netherlands)

Karen Vignare, University of Maryland University College (United States)