[iaoa-education] Note on courses and speakers in -> FW: WebST 2016: early registration 14 February

[Frank Loebe]

Hello,

I just ran across the call for participation below. I think it's 
interesting to notice some of the courses and some of the speakers, not 
at least in connection with ISAO. The event starts (roughly) a week 
after the end of FOIS as well as it happens 3 weeks later than ISAO.

NB:
I think (parts of) this would be relevant to be listed in the education 
wiki (not yet sure whether this should go into a new category of 
"[Summer/Winter] Schools with relevant courses", as distinguished from 
regular/repeated courses at universities in the "courses around the 
world" page). Of course, the same applies to ISAO. I put these additions 
on my todo list. If anyone else agrees and can be quicker with 
implementing them, please feel free to do so.

Best regards,
Frank


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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON WEB SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

WebST 2016

Bilbao, Spain

July 18-22, 2016

Organized by:
University of Deusto
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/webst2016/
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--- Early registration deadline: February 14, 2016 ---

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AIM:

WebST 2016 is a research training event addressed to graduates and 
postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global 
scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the 
critical, multidisciplinary and fast developing area of web studies, 
which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and 
industrial innovation from computing and technologies to social sciences 
and the humanities and has turned out to be the largest socio-technical 
infrastructure in human history. Renowned academics and industry 
pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.

Most subareas of web science and technology will be displayed, namely: 
content analysis and information extraction, information networks, 
search, data and semantics, ontologies, user behavior and 
personalization, online communities, social networks, economic 
transactions, mobility, security and privacy, graph analysis, web mining 
and applications. Main challenges and opportunities will be identified 
through 4 keynote lectures, 20 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, 
which will tackle the most active and promising topics from various 
perspectives: philosophy, sociology, politics, digital humanities, 
economics, computer science, engineering and mathematics. The organizers 
believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most 
motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. 
Moreover, an open session will give participants the opportunity to 
present their own work in progress in 5 minutes.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduates and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal 
pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will 
be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may 
be assumed for some of them. WebST 2016 is also appropriate for more 
senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments 
and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and 
discuss with major researchers, scholars, industry leaders and innovators.

REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, at least 2 courses will run in parallel during 
the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses 
they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

WebST 2016 will take place in Bilbao, the capital of the Basque Country 
region, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. 
The venue will be:

DeustoTech, School of Engineering
University of Deusto
Avda. Universidades, 24
48014 Bilbao

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo Labs), Big Data in the Web

Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), From Data to 
Knowledge: A Data-to-Network-to-Knowledge (D2N2K) Paradigm

Prabhakar Raghavan (Google), tba

Amit P. Sheth (Wright State University), Building Intelligent Systems: 
Semantic, Cognitive and Perceptual Computing to Exploit 
Physical-Cyber-Social Big Data

PROFESSORS AND COURSES:

Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne), [intermediate] Social Media 
and Text Analytics

Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales), [advanced] API 
Engineering and Management

Vassilis Christophides (INRIA, Paris), [introductory/intermediate] 
Entity Resolution in the Web of Data

Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University), [introductory] Useful Web Mining 
with R

Aldo Gangemi (Italian National Research Council, Rome), 
[intermediate/advanced] Open Knowledge Extraction: From Machine Reading 
to the Semantic Web

Marco Gori (University of Siena), [advanced] Learning Semantic-based 
Structures from Textual Sources

Alon Halevy (Recruit Institute of Technology), [introductory] Structured 
Data on the Web

Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] 
Construction and Mining of Text-Rich Heterogeneous Information Networks

Andreas Hotho (University of Würzburg), [intermediate] Social Semantics 
in the Web

Ravi Kumar (Google), [introductory/intermediate] Computing at Scale: 
Models and Algorithms

Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Foundation), [introductory/intermediate] From Social 
Network Analysis to Social Media Analytics and beyond: Challenges and 
Opportunities

Cathy Marshall (Texas A&M University), [introductory] Qualitative 
Methods for Studying Users on the Web

Mirco Musolesi (University College London), [introductory/intermediate] 
Mining Big (and Small) Mobile Data

Marc Najork (Google), [introductory] Search Engine Architecture

Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester), [introductory] The Semantic Web 
and Linked Data

Prabhakar Raghavan (Google), [intermediate] How To Build a Search Engine

Uli Sattler (University of Manchester), [introductory] OWL, Underlying 
Logics, and What This Reasoning Is All about

Munindar P. Singh (North Carolina State University), 
[introductory/intermediate] Web Applications as Sociotechnical Systems: 
A Basis for a Science of Security and Privacy

Barry Smith (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Towards Ontological 
Foundations for? Web Science

Raphael Volz (Pforzheim University of Applied Science), [introductory] 
Improving Prediction Models with Open Data

OPEN SESSION

An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress 
by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing 
title, authors, and summary of the research to florentinalilica.voicu 
(at) urv.cat by July 15, 2016.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair)
Manuel Jesús Parra Royón
Borja Sanz (co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/webst2016/Registration.php

The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template 
is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will 
be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each 
course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will 
be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period 
will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the 
capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to 
register prior to the event.

FEES:

Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the 
week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the 
registration deadline.

ACCOMMODATION:

Suggestions of accommodation will be available on the webpage in due time.

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

University of Deusto
Rovira i Virgili University