The objective of the First International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Cloud Computing Applications (KDCloudApps 2015) is to provide a forum to exchange and discuss recent advances, results, experiences and lessons learned from the development of applications that apply tools, techniques, methods, and models supported by Knowledge Discovery (KD) and Cloud Computing (CC) technologies. Additionally, KDCloudApps also provides a forum to discuss how KD and CC technologies interact in order to provide more scalable and flexible intelligent information systems.

KDCloudApps 2015 will be held at the Instituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI), Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (UPV).

SCOPE
The topics of interest for KDCloudApps 2015 workshop are related with applications that incorporate current advances of: natural language processing techniques for knowledge discovery, sentiment analysis, opinion mining, social network analysis, news mining, semantic enrichment, semantic Web, cloud resource monitoring, cloud computing, ontologies to support knowledge discovery, reasoning on ontologies for knowledge discovery, service-oriented applications, ambient intelligence, pervasive systems and ubiquitous computing. The central themes of this conference incorporate current innovations and advances in the areas of: artificial intelligence, natural language processing, soft computing, databases, information retrieval, social networks, distributed computing, Web engineering, among others.

WORKSHOP TOPICS OF INTEREST
The organizers of KDCloudApps 2015 cordially invite researchers, graduate students, professionals
and entrepreneurs to participate submitting research papers related with one or more of the themes proposed for the Workshop:
Advances in cloud computing applications
Cloud computing and the Semantic Web
Cloud Computing for Vehicle Tracking Systems
Cloud resource allocation
Cloud resource monitoring
Context-oriented Information Integration
Context-oriented Information Retrieval
Databases and information retrieval applications
Human-Computer semantic interaction
Linked data management
Linked open data
Natural language processing applications
Ontology-based information systems
Ontological engineering
Ontology learning applications
Personalized data access on the semantic web
Persuasive systems
Pervasive systems
Reasoning and inference mechanisms applications
Recovering and indexing content using a semantic approach
Search and query Methods for Semantic Web applications
Semantic Content Personalization and Adaptation
Semantic integration of data, multimedia and services
Semantic Web Services
Semantic Web user interfaces
Sentiment analysis
Service-oriented applications
Service-oriented driver assistance
Social collaboration platforms and semantic web
Social web applications
Ubiquitous and mobile information systems
Vehicular tracking networks

PAPER SUBMMISSION
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and application papers that are not being considered in another forum. All submitted papers will be peer review by at least three members of the technical committee, and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, clarity and scientific-technical rigor reported.

Manuscripts will be limited to 5 two-column pages (Conference Publishing Services (CPS) style) including figures and references. Please follow the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. The guidelines for authors can be found at Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF, postscript, or word format) is required. Submissions not conforming to the CPS format or being obviously out of the scope of the workshop will be rejected without review. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Full Papers: April 15th, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: May 15th, 2015
Camera-ready Copies and Registration of Participation: May 25th, 2015
Workshop: between September 1-4, 2015 in Valencia, Spain

PUBLICATION
Accepted Papers will be published in the DEXA Workshops Proceedings 2015
by Conference Publishing Services (CPS).

An extended version of selected accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the Komputer Sapiens magazine, which is indexed by CONACYT, the Mexican Council of Science and Technology.

General Chair
Dr. Víctor J. Sosa-Sosa
Laboratorio de Tecnologías de la Información
CINVESTAV-Tamaulipas
Parque Científico y Tecnológico TECNOTAM
Km. 5.5 carretera Cd. Victoria, Soto La Marina
Tel. +52(834) 107 02 20
Fax. +52(834) 107 02 24 y (834) 314 73 92
C.P. 87130, Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas
vjsosa@tamps.cinvestav.mx

Program Co-Chairs
Dr. Eduardo Pinto Avendaño
Facultad de Ciencias de la Computación
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
4 sur 104 Centro Histórico
Teléfono +52(222) 2295500 ext. 5013
C.P. 72000, Puebla, Puebla
dpinto@cs.buap.mx

Dr. Fernando Martínez Reyes
Facultad de Ingeniería
Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua
Circuito Universitario 2, Nuevo Campus
Tel. (+52) (614) 4429500 ext.2585
CP. 31125, Chihuahua, Chihuahua
fmartine@uach.mx

Dra. Maricela Claudia Bravo Contreras
Departamento de Sistemas
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
UAM, Unidad Azcapotzalco
Avenida San Pablo 180, Azcapotzalco, Reynosa Tamaulipas
Te. +52 (55) 53189000
CP. 02200, Ciudad de México, D.F.
mcbc@correo.azc.uam.mx

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Iván López Arévalo, CINVESTAV, Tamaulipas
José Guadalupe Rodríguez García, CINVESTAV, Zacatenco, D.F. México
Azucena Montes Rendón, UNAM, México
Gabriel González Serna, CENIDET, Cuernavaca
Hugo Pablo Leyva, UAM, Azcapotzalco, D.F. México
José Alejandro Reyes Ortiz, UAM, Azcapotzalco
Arantza Aldea, University of Oxford Brooks, UK
Muhammad Younas, University of Oxford Brooks, UK
Leonid Sheremetov, IMP, México
Christophe Onambélé, University of Paris, France
Iris Miliaraki, Max Planck Institue für Informatik, Germany
Ndapa Nakashole, Max-Planck Institue for Informatics, Germany
Juan Pavón, Universidad Computlense de Madrid, Spain
Brian Davis, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), Ireland
Nitish Aggarwal, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), Ireland
Víctor M. Gonzalez, ITAM, México
Hugo Mitre Hernández, CIMAT-Zacatecas, México
José Bravo, Castilla-La Mancha University, (UCLM) España
Georgeta Bordea, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland
André Freitas, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland

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