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We are pleased to announce that submissions to practi-O-web 2017 - The International Workshop on the Practice of the Open Web are open.
Please refer to the http://sites.google.com/dis.uniroma1.it/practi-o-web2017/home web site for major information.
The workshop will be held on June 5, 2017 in Rome in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2017).
Please refer to the conference main page (http://icwe2017.webengineering.org) for information about registration.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, stakeholders and users of the Open Web, meant as
a huge and easily accessible source of data, information and services. The focus of the workshop will be on practical engineering
approaches (i) to design and develop open data and services on the Web (i.e., the
Web seen as an output media of an organization's information system), on the one
side, and (ii) to design and develop open source intelligence and retrieval techniques
on the other side (i.e., the Web seen as input media of an organization's information
system). We seek for papers describing practical engineering approaches, case
studies, lessons learned, etc.

Important Dates
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Paper submission due date: March 31, 2017
Decision notification: May 2, 2017
Camera-Ready Copy due date: May 12, 2017

Topics of interest
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The main goal of the workshop is to give to the research and practicing
community operating in open Web technology an opportunity to share ideas
and confront each other about the challenges involved in exposing data on
the Web through open services, on the one side, and to acquire information
from the open Web, on the other side. Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Reference architectures for the open Web
- Design approaches for open Web integration architectures
- Integration strategies for the open Web
  - Caching methodologies
  - Access throttling
  - Data refresh strategies
- Integration conceptual schemas for horizontal and vertical markets
- Support for streaming and big data in open Web technologies
- Monetization strategies for the open Web: the business behind the open Web
- Existing open Web initiatives and ecosystems
- Comparison between open Web approaches and (semantic) open data approaches
- Public administration open Web initiatives and approaches
- Discussions about available (or lacking) technology support for open Web
- Employment of chat bots to access data in the open Web
- Applications of Artificial Intelligence to the open Web
- Security and privacy issues
- Facing malevolent employment of open Web to create parallel markets
- Technology readiness level of public administrations for open Web
- Exposing web crawling data in the open Web
- Incorporating web crawled data in the open Web
- NLP applied to Open web and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
- Ontologies and semantic approaches for the Open web and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
- Exposing (aggregated) social network data in the open Web
- Visualization techniques for the open Web
- Efforts to address interoperability challenges for data and services discovery, integration, and exploitation in the open Web (e.g., conceptual and technical standards or software tools)
- Description of business and government cases, best practices, applications or software tools in the open Web
- Web crawling approaches and architectures for the open Web
- Social network open data acquisition and mining
- Novel approaches to Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in different domains (marketing, security, etc.)
- Focused crawling

Submission instructions
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Authors are invited to submit two types of papers, regular papers of 12 pages and demo/short papers of 6 pages.
Submitted papers should conform to the Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should describe,
in English, original work that has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. 
A single PDF versions of papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=practioweb2017. 
Post-workshop proceedings to appear in Springer's LNCS series.
Submissions will be judged on novelty, relevance, clarity of presentation, and correctness.

Authors of accepted submissions are required to register to ICWE and Workshops and to present their work.

Conference Committee
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Francesco Leotta Sapienza Università di Roma - Italy
Evangelos Kalampokis University of Macedonia - Greece and Centre for Research & Technology-Hellas
Massimo Mecella Sapienza Università di Roma - Italy 

Program Committee (preliminary)
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Peter Haase Metaphacts - Germany
Armin Haller Australian National University - Australia
Paul Hermans ProXML - Belgium
Marijn Janssen TUDelft - The Netherlands
Sabrina Kirrane Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU Wien - Austria
Domenico Lembo Sapienza Università di Roma - Italy
Nikos Loutas PwC - Belgium
Fadi Maali SAP - Ireland
Peyman Nasirifard Volkswagen AG - Germany
Vassilios Peristeras International Hellenic University - Greece
Bill Roberts Swirrl - United Kingdom
Domenico Fabio Savo Sapienza Università di Roma - Italy
Monica Scannapieco ISTAT - Italy
Efthimios Tambouris University of Macedonia - Greece