The ExpertFinder Initiative

3rd International ExpertFinder Workshop: PICKME2008
(Personal Identification and Collaborations - Knowledge Mediation and Extraction),

27th October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany

co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008)

Our keynote speaker will be Ora Lassila - a Research Fellow at the Nokia Research Center Cambridge, working on Semantic Web and its applications to mobile and ubiquitous computing.

Ora Lassila has been involved in various Semantic Web activities since 1996, and worked on various complex applications involving KR for a good 10 years prior to that. He also participate in various committees, boards and working groups.

• Malgorzata Mochol, Free University of Berlin, Germany
• Anna V. Zhdanova, ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria
• Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Free University of Berlin, Germany
• John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
• Axel Polleres, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland

• Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland;
• Diego Berrueta, CTIC Foundation, Spain;
• Chris Bizer, Freie Unversität Berlin;
• Aleman-Meza Boanerges, LSDIS Lab, University of Georgia, USA;
• Harold Boley, NRC Institute of Information Technology, Canada;
• Irene Celino, CERIEL Politecnico di Milano, Italy;
• Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain;
• Tom Heath, Talis Information Lt, UK;
• Alain Leger, France Telekom, France;

Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=pickme2008

Both full and position papers will be published in accompanying online proceedings (CEUR).

Personal Identification and Collaborations: Knowledge Mediation and Extraction (PICKME 2008)

27th October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany

Emanuele Della Valle	CEFRIEL, Italy
Dario Cerizza	CEFRIEL, Italy
Irene Celino	CEFRIEL, Italy

Abstract:

Abstract:
In this paper we propose that there are several ways that Expert-finder can be developed and applied successfully to foster communication and coordination among different, distributed teams during emergency relief operations, irrespective of their affiliation and denomination, and take this first workshop call for papers as an opportunity to invite interested parties in the humanitarian technology community to take part and collaborate in future effort to harmonise conceptual and semantic references as a step towards resolution of conflicts and imperfect communication flow

Tereza Iofciu	L3S Research Center
Jörg Diederich	L3S Research Center
Peter Dolog	Aalborg University
Wolf-Tilo Balke	L3S Research Center

Abstract:

Aidan Hogan	DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
Andreas Harth	DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway

Abstract:
We provide a benchmark dataset for expert finding within the computer science domain. We show how large isolated data graphs from disparate structured data sources can be combined to form one, large, well-linked RDF graph and implement these methods to achieve our dataset. Such a graph lends itself to links analysis and thus opens up possibilities for analysis by expert finding techniques.