SDS23: The First IEEE International Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces The Hills Hotel (hybrid) Laguna Hills, CA, United States, February 1-3, 2023 |
Conference website | https://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/SDS23/ |
Abstract registration deadline | November 30, 2022 |
Submission deadline | November 30, 2022 |
In recent years, multiple dataspace initiatives were formed and are growing in both implementation and memberships. Dozens of individual dataspaces and use-cases are arising in their context, as listed in the International Data Spaces Association’s “Data Space Radar” and Gaia-X’ initial list, and even more from other initiatives. The European Union pushes this trend even more by including dataspaces as key element in their data strategy and spending 4-6 billion Euros on establishing these in various domains. The main challenges of this trend on dataspaces are twofold. First, no common definition of dataspaces and their core components exist, which complicates interoperability and FAIRness even at conceptual level. This probably produces isolated solutions tailored to specific use-cases only. Second, the various arising dataspaces in the wild follow different goals and have individual implementations and technology readiness levels. The lack of reusable core components forces stakeholders to reinvent these and leads to diverging implementations and therefore high costs.
The workshop intends to bring together people interested in dataspaces and the role of Semantic Computing in these, who may be from different communities such as dataspace drivers, law and policymakers as well as the researchers from the Semantic Computing community. Since members of these different communities rarely have chances to interact, we design the workshop to be highly interactive and communicative. We aim at a full-day workshop with ⅔ formal presentations and ⅓ collaboration using the Open Space technique. This approach enables us to identify promising topics for collaboration and follow-up activities by enabling a dynamic agenda driven by the participants’ shared interests.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must have four to six pages, be original, and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Please format your papers according to the ICSC formatting guidelines, which you can find at https://www.ieee-icsc.org/submission.
List of Topics
The topics of this workshop aim to discuss both conceptual definitions and actual implementations of dataspaces, and to promote the role of Semantic Computing in these. The main topics of this workshop include but are not limited to:
Conceptual Perspective:
- Surveys on definitions and visions
- What are dataspaces and what are their core elements?
- How are components and data life cycles structured?
- The role of stakeholders in decision processes
- Impact and potential of unique identifiers
- Conceptual reusable assets
State-of-the-art of Implementations:
- How do arising dataspaces coincide/differ with each other?
- Requirements of customers, stakeholders, and politics
- Who drives their implementations and what are their technology readiness levels?
- Common reusable elements
- Gap between academic definitions and actual implementations
Semantic Computing for Dataspaces:
- Review of arising dataspaces with a focus on Semantic Computing
- Potential of methods and solutions from Semantic Computing for dataspaces
- Tailored benefits of ontologies, unique identifiers, algorithms, etc.
- Measuring political, practical, scientific, performance, etc. challenges for adoption
Program Committee
Please consult our website at https://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/SDS23/ for latest updates on the workshop and our program committee.
Publication
Each paper will be peer-reviewed. Papers accepted by the SDS23 workshop will be published in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. We require at least one author of each accepted paper to attend the workshop and give an oral presentation. We encourage additional participants to join the workshop for discussion only.
Venue
The workshop will be at the The Hills Hotel, Laguna Hills, California, USA (format: hybrid) in conjunction with the 17th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), see https://www.ieee-icsc.org/.
Submission | November 30, 2022, PST | |
Notification of acceptance | December 09, 2022, PST | |
Registration | December 14, 2022, PST | |
Camera-Ready Submission | January 13, 2023, PST |
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to sds@dbis.rwth-aachen.de