Fifth International Workshop on Resource Discovery (RED)
May 27-31, 2012, Heraklion, Greece.
At the 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference
(ESWC 2012)

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 SPARQL endpoint, a link between resources, an entity in a social network, a semantic wiki, or a linked 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; also, resource discovery includes the problem of predicting links between resources. Current research includes crawling, indexing, ranking, clustering, and rewriting techniques, for collecting and consuming the resources for a specific request; additionally, processing techniques are required to ensure an efficient and effective access of the resources.
The Fifth 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 that address various issues related to resource discovery. Papers presenting theoretical or applicative material are expected. This fifth 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, social network navigational techniques, link prediction techniques, and strategies to process queries against Linked Data or SPARQL endpoints, can contribute to solve the resource discovery problem, and are of special interest.

Workshop key dates:
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Full Paper Submission Deadline: March 4, 2012.
Acceptance notification: April 1, 2012
Camera ready: April 15, 2012.
Workshop Full-day: May 27/28, 2012.

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 and Social Networks.
-) Resource Discovery and Peer-to-Peer.
-) 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.
-) Link Prediction Techniques for Resource Discovery.
-) QoS-based Resource Discovery and Ranking Techniques.
-) Query Optimization and Execution Techniques for Web Resources.
-) 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=red2012

Publication
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Proceedings of the workshop will be published online. All papers presented at the workshop will be invited to be revised and extended for a second peer-review process. At the issue of the second review process, accepted papers in a volumen of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer.

Workshop information
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The workshop will take place in Heraklion, May 27-31, 2012. Please
visit the website for more information:
http://www.ldc.usb.ve/RED2012/.


Workshop Chair
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Zoe Lacroix, Arizona State University and Translational Genomics Research
Institute, USA
Maria-Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela

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

Program Committee
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Maribel Acosta, AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Jose Luis Ambite, University Southern California, USA.
Yudith Cardinale, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela.
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
Alberto Fernandez, Universidad Juan Carlos I, Spain.
Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg, Germany.
Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece.
Marlene Goncalves, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela.
Andreas Harth, AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan, USA.
Birgitta K쉗ing-Ries University oj Jena, Germany.
Gunter Ladwig, AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Maria Maleshkova, KMI, The Open University, United Kingdom.
Anja Metzner, University of Applied Scinces, Augsburg, Germany.
Pascal Moli, Nantes University, LINA, France.
Fatiha Sais, IUT Orsay (Paris-Sud 11 University), France.
Sherif Sakr, National ICT Australia (NICTA) and University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia.
Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain.
Hala Skaf-Moli, Nantes University, LINA, France.
Dimitrios Skotas, University of Hannover, Germany.
Andreas Thor, Universitat Leipzig, Germany.
Maciej Zaremba, DERI and National University of Ireland, Ireland.