Call for papers: The 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Machine Learning and Linked Open Data for Agricultural and Environmental Informatics (SML2OD2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://wp.csiro.au/sml2od2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 5, 2014 (firm) Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 10, 2014 Submission site: http://wp.csiro.au/sml2od2014/submission/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in the main conference special issues - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Overview Historical and spatial big data from the environmental and agricultural domains already exist in the modern technology-driven world. Government agencies, utilities and research bodies already have large amounts of data, but their value is not being fully realised because they are not integrated and consequently big knowledge is difficult to access. Semantic web, semantic machine learning and linked open data technology may help to build an “outer knowledge layer” so that this information could be accessed by domain people and the broader community. It can also be used to answer complex dynamic queries at run time from the system point of view. The main goal of this workshop is to identify the key challenges which are faced by the agriculture, viticulture and aquaculture communities, discuss potential solutions and identify the opportunities emerging from cross-domain interactions among agriculture experts, hydrologists, dairy experts, aquaculture experts and ICT experts. Therefore, we expect to gain from the domain experts an explanation of how they can apply semantic web standards, machine learning techniques, and linked data standards into their scientific research. There will be an open call for research papers presenting various aspects of real world applications of the linked open data concept, machine learning and semantic web technologies applied to the agricultural domains. Selected research papers, demos and late breaking results will be accepted for the workshop. There will be a keynote speaker who will explain the current trends of research in these domains. Our key areas of interest for the purpose of knowledge management are agriculture, aquaculture, environment and dairy production. This also extends to strategies for soil moisture and environmental sensor data integration, dynamic big data annotation, environmental ontology and plant disease knowledge bank. Motivation - To bring scientists, industry and domain experts to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate the evolution of environmental linked data. - To examine big data integration and big knowledge management in the context of the environment. - To explore new research and development horizons for semantic machine learning applications Topics More specifically, the topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Performance evaluation of sensor data using linked data principles; * Environmental data integration; * Smart farm and its application in linked data; * Environmental ontology; * Semantic web and big data management; * Agricultural multilingual taxonomies and glossaries; * Semantic based decision support system; * Environmental big data and knowledge management; * Applications for research that build on top of linked data; * Environmental analytics; * Agricultural informatics; * Semantic machine learning applications; * Semantic based precision agriculture. * Linked data analysis; Submission Guidelines All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. We welcome the following types of contributions: - Full research papers (up to six pages): Original research papers are invited, presenting various aspects of real world applications of the linked open data concept, machine learning and semantic web technologies applied to agricultural and environmental informatics. Each accepted paper will receive a short (15 minute) presentation slot followed by a five minute open discussion. - Late Breaking News papers (up to two pages): Short communication research papers are invited on any ongoing research work, unpublished results, theory, concept and potential future applications. All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column style. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://wp.csiro.au/sml2od2014/submission/. Workshop Chairs Dr. Ahsan Morshed, Computational Informatics, CSIRO, Australia Dr. Yanfeng Shu, Computational Informatics, CSIRO, Australia Dr. Ritaban Dutta, Computational Informatics, CSIRO, Australia Dr. Daniel Smith, Computational Informatics, CSIRO, Australia Advisory Committee Prof Craig Lindley, CSIRO, Australia Johannes Keizer, FAO of United Nations, Rome, Italy Prof Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Trento, Italy Prof Antony G Cohn, Leeds University, UK