---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NoISE 2015: Deadline extended to **22nd of March** Workshop on Negative or Inconclusive rEsults in Semantic Web @ESWC2015, Portoroz, Slovenia - June 1st, 2015
“Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them.” ‒ George Santayana http://www.noise-workshop.org - nois...@easychair.org - #NoISE2015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every Semantic Web researcher has been there: you spend days of work, but the results just don not give the answer you were hoping for. The work ends up, like so many, part of the File Drawer Effect: they never get reported because of negative or inconclusive outcome. This occurs as a result of a publication bias towards positive results in Semantic Web. However, negative or inconclusive results are fundamental to the research process and can be just as valuable. This workshop provides a forum for such attempted approaches, methodologies, or implementations. Researchers are urged to report null, disappointing, or inconclusive attempts in the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data research field. === What will be discussed? === This workshop specifically targets sound works, thus, scientifically or technically relevant contributions, with negative or inconclusive results after an evaluation. We welcome submissions in, but not limited to, the following categories: - Applied research methodology in the context of Semantic Web and Linked Data that produces unexpected, inconclusive, provocative, or negative results. - Mismatches between theoretical designs (or properties) and experimental results. • Theoretical sound approaches that fail in implementation • Approaches with wrong assumptions regarding Semantic Web technology - Generality limitations of solutions that help to advance the state of the art. • Solutions that only outperform the state-of the-art in a very specific context • Papers that verify or refute results published in the past • Verified hypotheses from other areas (e.g., Databases, AI) that cannot be verified or equally good replicated using Semantic Web technologies - Novel groundbreaking ideas related to Semantic Web technologies whose implementation risks can not be estimated. === How can I participate? === We encourage both experienced community members and newcomers to share their insights, best practices, anecdotes, examples, and concrete experiences, while others provide questions, problems, use cases and experiences in this area. We offer various forms to participate in the workshop: **Glorious failures**: Short or extended papers, up to 6 and 12 pages, respectively. These papers should include: a) description of used datasets; b) research questions and hypotheses; c) applied evaluation protocol, benchmarks or gold standards; and d) the practiced statistical methods for result analysis. Authors are encouraged to explain the properties of the approach that support the observed negative results, and show that the results falsify the hypotheses. The focus is on methodology, rather than on problematic implementations. **Confessions**: Extended abstracts up to 2 pages that describe testimonies, short stories, experiences in a more informal fashion or technical/development issues that prevent the progress of the Semantic Web research. **Position Papers**: Extended abstracts up to 2 pages. Short essays describing your position on issues related to the workshop’s topic **Abstracts** up to 1 page A short, but otherwise, free submission format that could include questions, proposals or or any other discussion topic relevant to be discussed during the workshop. All submissions need to explicitly discuss their relevance to the field. A focus on contributions to related works is desired. === Submission Guidelines and Publication === All papers will be formatted according to the LNCS format. Submissions can be realized through the easychair system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=noise15. Accepted papers will be published online. More information about proceedings of the workshop will be announced soon. Important Dates Submission deadline: **March 22, 2015** (extended) Notifications: April 10, 2015 Camera ready version: April 17, 2015 Workshop: June 1, 2015 === Workshop Chairs === Anastasia Dimou - Ghent university, iMinds, Multimedia Lab Jacco van Ossenbruggen - CWI & VU Amsterdam Maria-Esther Vidal - Universidad Simón Bolívar Miel Vander Sande Ghent university - iMinds, Multimedia Lab === Programme Committee === Oscar Corcho - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Emanuele Della Valle - Politecnico di Milano Stefan Dietze - L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hanover Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California. Paul Groth - VU Amsterdam Aidan Hogan - Universidad de Chile Kjetil Kjernsmo - University of Oslo, Norway Dimitris Kontokostas - AKSW, Leipzig Spyros Kotoulas - IBM research Christoph Lange - University of Bonn Axel-C Ngonga Ngomo - AKSW Rudi Studer - KIT Pedro Szekely - ISI, USC Frank Van Harmelen - VU Amsterdam Ruben Verborgh - Ghent university, iMinds, Multimedia Lab Eva Blomqvist - Linköping University Jerome Euzenat - INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes
