Fourth International Workshop on Resource Discovery (RED)
May 29-June 2, 2011, Heraklion, Greece.
At the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference
(ESWC 2011)

Existing Web infrastructures such as the Semantic Web, Linking Data Projects and
Semantic Grids have supported the publication of a tremendous amount of
resources. In order to provide users with the capability of using available
resources in their day-to-day tasks, scalable infrastructures and efficient
techniques to discover, select and access resources are required. Semantic
descriptions of functionally and quality of resources as well as user
preferences, play an important role in the achievement of this goal.
A resource may be a data repository, a database management system, a linked data
endpoint, a link between resources, a semantic wiki, or a Web service. Resources
are characterized by core information including a name, a description of its
functionality, its URLs, and various additional Quality of Service parameters
that express its non-functional characteristics. Resource discovery is the
process of identifying, locating and selecting existing resources that satisfy
specific functional and non-functional requirements. Current research includes
crawling, indexing, ranking, clustering, and rewriting techniques, for
collecting and consuming the resources for a specific request.
The Fourth International Workshop on Resource Discovery aims at bringing
together researchers from the database, artificial intelligence and semantic web
areas, to discuss research issues and experiences in developing and deploying
concepts, techniques and applications addressing various issues related to
resource discovery. Papers presenting either theoretical or applicative material
are expected. This fourth edition will focus on techniques to efficiently
collect and consume resources that are semantically described. Approaches for
query rewriting in Databases, service selection and composition in Service
Oriented Architectures, and for processing queries against Linked Data, can
contribute to solve the resource discovery problem, and are of special interest.

Workshop key dates:
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Abstract Submission Deadline: February 25, 2011.
Full Paper Submission Deadline: March 4, 2011.
Acceptance notification: April 1, 2011
Camera ready: April 15, 2011.
Workshop Full-day: May 29/30, 2011.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
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-) Ontology-based Resource Discovery.
-) Formalisms to semantically describe resources as well as user preferences
and quality.
-) Resource Discovery query languages.
-) Applications to register, produce and consume resources, e.g. crawlers,
search engines,federated frameworks.
-) Query rewriting over Web resources such as Web Services and Linked Datasets.
-) Cost-models and Optimization for Resource Discovery.
-) Automatic extraction of metadata.
-) Scalable architectures for Resource Discovery.
-) Applications in e-government, life science, healthcare, among others.
-) Benchmarks for Resource Discovery Evaluation.

Submission Guidelines
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Long papers are limited to 15 pages and short papers to 8 pages.
All papers will be formated according to the LNCS format.
Submissions can be realized through the easychair system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=red2011

Publication
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Proceedings of the workshop will be published online. As in previous editions,
papers presented at the workshop (including long and short) will be invited to
be revised and extended for a second peer-review process. At the issue of the
second review process, accepted papers will be published in a volume of Lecture
Notes in Computer Science by Springer (pending approval).

Workshop information
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The workshop will take place in Heraklion, May 29-June 2, 2011. Please
visit the website for more information:
http://www.ldc.usb.ve/RED2011/.

Workshop Organizing Committee
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Maria-Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
Edna Ruckaus, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela

Workshop Chair
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Zoe Lacroix, Arizona State University and Translational Genomics Research
Institute, USA

Program Committee
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Jose Luis Ambite, University Southern California, USA.
Yudith Cardinale, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela.
Vassilis Christophides, ICS-FORTH, Greece.
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
Joyce El Haddad, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France.
Alberto Fernandez, Universidad Juan Carlos I, Spain.
Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece.
Marlene Goncalves, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela.
Andreas Harth, AIFB, Karisruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan, USA.
Marta Rukoz, Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense University, France.
Maiguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain.
Hala Skaf-Moli, Nantes University, LINA, France.
Dimitrios Skotas, University of Hannover, Germany.
Maciej Zaremba, DERI and National University of Ireland, Ireland.