Call for Papers
The ICSE 2014 Workshop on Inclusive Web Programming, Hyderabad, India,
May 31-June 4, 2014
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/inclusivewebprogramming/
Submission Site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwp2014
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Description
The workshop connects three themes - open data, web programming and the need to provide better analytics over the web with open data to citizens to promote better quality
of life.
Open Government Data is a recent and rapidly growing phenomenon. Governments are
increasingly taking initiatives to make their data available online in open formats and
under licenses that allow use, reuse & redistribution of government data. More than two
hundred open data catalogs exist for cities, state and federal governments that have made
their data publicly available. Prominent among them are London (UK), Chicago (USA),
Washington DC (USA), Dublin (Ireland), USA (data.gov), India (data.gov.in) and Kenya
(opendata.go.ke). Some of these agencies have also opened up their data as a platform
encouraging development of applications for public good. There is a World Wide Web
Consortium's working group on Government Linked Data (W3C GLD WG) specifically to
promote usage of open data programmatically with web standards.
The second theme is web programming. Services Oriented Architecture technologies like Web
Services have simplified application integration across organizations and over the web in
the past (2003-2008). However, their adoption in practice was somewhat limited due to
plethora of middleware technologies to assemble such services (SOAP, JMS, UDDI, .Net).
Recently, this has seen a shift with mass-scale adoption of web standards
(HTTP, JSON, REST) for integration leading to reduction of the entry barrier.
Consequently, web application development has become democratized with more situational
applications being developed by non-programmers at higher levels of abstractions.
Specifically, applications are being developed (composed) from available services with the
aim to quickly prototype a capability following standard patterns of data (resource)
access. If the application is found useful, a new application is built with more robust
constituent services by the same or more trained developer later. Sites like
programmableweb.com are promoting such simplified web-programming model.
The third theme is sustainability as a domain to build useful and analytical applications
that improve citizens' quality of life. As human population increases and resources become
scarce, there is an increasing challenge faced by governments about how to promote better
usage of what we have. The scientific community has responded to these challenges by
promoting the computational sustainability vision where resources consumed by a city, such
as water, energy, land, food and air, can be monitored to know the accurate present
picture and then optimized for resource efficiency without degrading quality of services
it provides -traffic movement, water availability, sanitation, public safety, etc.
Industry has joined the vision with a "smart" or "intelligent" prefix for cyber-physical
systems, which involve sensing the data through physical instruments, interconnecting and
integrating them from multiple sources and analyzing them for intelligent patterns.
The trends are converging. In this context, the aims of the workshop are to:
1. Draw the attention of the Software engineering community to the research
challenges and opportunities in building web applications using open data
for citizens
2. Draw the attention on the multi-disciplinary dimension and its impact on
government e.g., transportation, energy, water management, building, infrastructure
3. Identify unique issues of this domain and what new (hybrid) techniques may be
needed. As example, since governments and citizens are involved, data security
and privacy are first-class concerns.
4. Explore the software life cycle for the web applications including building,
hosting and maintenance, commercialization, upgrades and retirement
5. Cloud hosting issues
6. Elaborate a benchmark for testing web applications techniques for city
applications
7. Provide a platform for sharing best-practices and discussion
8. Understand how governments can help in better usage of their data and building of
high-quality, usable applications, and provide feedback to improve
We encourage submissions that deal with topics involved in building web or mobile programs (applications and APIs) leveraging open data. Special preference will be given to contributions that go beyond open to other data sources (e.g., enterprise) and drive citizen centric decisions.??Topics of interest include, but not restricted to,
are:
1. Experience in building and deploying Applications (apps) using public data
2. Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for working with Public Data
3. API programming model
4. API composition
5. API patterns
6. Web-program testing
7. Web programming life cycle
8. Semantic APIs
9. Pivacy-preserving issues in open data
10. Semantic models and APIs
11. Linked open data tools
12. Semantic event detection and classification
13. Applications in cities e.g., transportation, public safety, healthcare,
water / energy / building management
14. Web-based spatio-temporal reasoning, analysis and visualization
15. User interfaces and interaction
16. Issues in scaling out; Case studies, successes, lessons learnt
Organizers
* Dr. Biplav Srivastava, IBM Research - India, New Delhi
* Ms Neeta Verma, National Informatics Centre, DeitY, Govt of India
Program Committee
* Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Infosys Labs
* Dr. Ullas Nambiar, EMC, India
* Arjun Natarajan, IBM Research, USA
* Florian Pinel, IBM Research, USA
* Dr. Sugata Ghosal, IBM Research India
* Pankaj Dhoolia, IBM Research India
* Bob Schloss, IBM Research, USA
* Dr. Maja Vukovic, IBM Research, USA
* Dr. Tope Omitola, University of Southampton, UK
* Prof. Mark Fox, University of Toronto, Canada
* Dr. Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia
* Pramod Anantharam, Wright State University, USA
* D P Misra, NIC, India