9^TH INTERNATIONAL SEMANTIC SENSOR NETWORKS WORKSHOP - SSN2018

HELD AT THE 17^TH INTERNATIONAL SEMANTIC WEB CONFERENCE 

 Abstract

Rapid growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) means that connected sensors and actuators will be inundating the Web infrastructure with data. Semantics is increasingly seen as a key enabler for integration of sensor data and the broader Web ecosystem. The W3C and the Open Geospatial Consortium standardisation bodies have taken a second look at the Semantic Sensor Network ontology and have published a new standard ontology for representing Sensors, Observations, Sampling, Actuation and Sensor Networks. Analytical and reasoning capabilities afforded by Semantic Web standards and technologies are considered important for developing advanced applications that go from capturing observations to recognition of events, deeper insights and actions. Furthermore, the contribution of semantics to sensing and actuation patterns is currently being explored. Major industries including manufacturing, transport and logistics, personal and public health, smart cities and smart energy, crisis management and many others are spanning commercial, civic, and scientific operations that involve sensors, web, services and semantics. This workshop will continue the activity started within ISWC in 2006, and complemented by special tracks at ESWC since 2010. This 2018 edition benefits from renewed energy arising from the October 2017 W3C recommendation and OGC standard and, more importantly, increases significance due to the growth of IoT-enabled applications.

Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Semantic integration in heterogeneous sensor networks
• Evaluation of ontologies for sensing and sensors
• Citizen sensors, participatory sensing and social sensing
• Semantic middleware for sensor networks
• Semantic interoperability and alignment with other standards and ontologies
• Experience in sensor network applications of semantic technologies
• Semantic algorithms for data fusion and situation awareness
• Semantic reasoning for network topology management
• Formal reasoning in sensor networks
• Ontologies for sensor and RFID networks
• Semantic policy management in sensor networks
• Semantic feedback, control and actuation
• Semantic discovery of sensors, sensor data and services
• Emergent semantics and ambient intelligence in sensor systems
• Semantic approaches to status monitoring and configuration of sensor systems
• Scalability, security, trust and privacy in semantic sensor networks
• Semantic provenance of sensor data
• Semantically informed analytics of sensor data
• Semantics and OGC SensorThings
• Web of Things
• Novel applications of semantic sensor networks, physical/IoT-cyber-social data
• Sensors and observations for symbol grounding
• Integration of semantic sensor networks with Internet/Web of Things
• Linked sensor data
• SSN/IoT ontology quality and semantic web best practices

Submission Guidelines

Important dates

• Papers submission deadline: June 1, 2018 (midnight Hawaii time)
• Notification to authors: June 27, 2018
• End of early bird registration rate for ISWC: June 27, 2018
• Workshop date: October 9th, 2018

Submission types

We invite research papers and demonstration papers, either in long (16 pages) or short (8 pages) format.

• All papers have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc-ssn2018).
• All research submissions must be in English, and no longer than 16 pages for long papers, and 8 pages for short papers (including references).
• Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions.
• SSN2018 submissions are not anonymous.
• We encourage embedding metadata in the PDF/HTML to provide a machine readable link from the paper to the resource. See the ISWC 2017 HTML Submission Guide
• Accepted papers will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there.

Event Chairs

• Kerry Taylor - Australian National University and University of Surrey, UK
• Maxime Lefrançois - MINES Saint-Étienne, France
• Raúl García-Castro - Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Amélie GyrardKnowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis), Wright State University, Ohio, U.S.

Steering Committee

• Amit Sheth - Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis), Wright State University, Ohio, U.S.
• Manfred Hauswirth - Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Berlin, Germany. Open Distributed Systems at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany
• Kerry Taylor - Australian National University and University of Surrey, UK