[ workshop tag cloud ] Adaptation Aggregation Applications Dataportability FOAF Flexibility Extensibility Interoperability Linking Linked Data Mash-ups Microformats User Modeling User Profiles Reusability Semantic Web Social Web Syndication Web 2.0

About

Nowadays, numerous Web applications rely on implicitly or explicitly collected data on their users and their behavior in order to provide adapted and personalized contents and services. As these applications become increasingly connected, a major challenge is to allow various applications to exchange, reuse, and integrate their data and user models, hence, to allow for user modeling and personalization across application boundaries. A great body of Semantic Web research on the use of well-defined standards, vocabularies, and ontologies is currently being adopted to provide extensibility, flexibility, interoperability, and reusability.

On the one hand, the ability of exchanging, reusing, and integrating the user models allows applications to enhance and broaden their user models with additional data. On the other hand, it helps users to get the content and services that suit their needs and situations and to syndicate these services in so-called mash-ups. This type of open-world user modeling poses several challenges to the Semantic Web community:

• How can Semantic Web technology be employed to cope with semantic and syntactic heterogeneity in user modeling?
• How can personalization and user modeling techniques be beneficial for Semantic Web systems?

This workshop aims to bring together academic and industrial researchers and practitioners in the fields of Semantic Web, user modeling, and personalization in order to discuss theoretical and practical knowledge, open research issues, applications, and experiences for common benefit.

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Topics

The workshop will tackle challenges posed by linking user data and applications, including, but not limited to, the following themes:

• User modeling and personalization in the Semantic Web
• Aggregation and integration of distributed user data/profiles
• Linking data on the Social Web
• Semantic Mashups linking applications
• Techniques for connecting distributed user-generated data
• Methods for exchanging user data
• Intertwining social networking services
• Studies assessing the use of external/public user data for personalization
• Applications demonstrating intermixing of user profiles from different sources

This workshop aims to bring together academic and industrial researchers and practitioners in the fields of Semantic Web, user modeling, and personalization in order to discuss theoretical and practical knowledge, open research issues, applications, and experiences for common benefit.

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Paper Submission

All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two independent referees. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop.

Research papers must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors; and further information about Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available at: Information for LNCS Authors

We welcome both full papers and short papers (e.g. experience reports, preliminary reports of work in progress, system demonstration, etc). Full papers should not exceed 12 pages in length, short papers should not exceed 6 pages. Papers must be written in English. Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lupas2010

The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

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Program Committee

• Lora Aroyo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
• Shlomo Berkovsky (CSIRO, Australia)
• John Breslin (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)
• Francesca Carmagnola (University of Torino, Italy)
• Federica Cena (University of Torino, Italy)
• Florian Daniel (University of Trento, Italy)
• Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)
• Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel, Germany)
• Dominikus Heckmann (DFKI, Germany)
• Daniel Krause (L3S Research Center, Germany)
• Milos Kravcik (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
• Tsvi Kuflik (University of Haifa, Israel)
• Daniel Olmedilla (Telefonica R&D, Spain)
• Rob Warren (University of Zurich, Switzerland)