kg4s2024: The second international Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability - KG4S - 2024 Aldemar Knossos Royal & Royal Villa Hersonissos, Greece, May 26-27, 2024

KG4S 2024

2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Sutainabilityco-located with ESWC 2024 in Hersonissos, Greece

https://2024.kg4s.org/

Call for Papers

Knowledge Graphs have in the past decade emerged as a core Semantic Web technology, powering many real-world applications. Not the least because of an increased focus on Explainable AI and Data Science, where knowledge graphs can play a key role in both providing semantic interoperability and data integration (linking), as well as reasoning with the represented knowledge. Knowledge graphs have been applied in general scenarios, such as Web search and retrieval, and in many domain-specific applications. This workshop targets knowledge graphs specifically for sustainability, e.g., applications targeting sustainability challenges. This is highly timely and important due to the current state of the world, including ecological challenges such as the global climate crisis, acute loss of biodiversity, as well as social sustainability challenges such as increased unrest and threats to democracy in many countries around the world. As researchers of Semantic Web technologies, such as knowledge graphs, we should answer these challenges and contribute to their resolution. This also shows in an increased number of funded projects targeting technological solutions with sustainability goals in mind, as well as industry initiatives.

After a successful first edition of the workshop in 2023, the KG4S 2024 workshop once again invites novel research and advances in knowledge graph solutions for sustainability. The workshop's objectives are to share preliminary research results from academia and industry, as well as identify challenges and opportunities that can lead to new collaborations, new directions, and future research. The aim is to increase the contribution of knowledge graphs to the transformation towards global sustainability. Examples of knowledge graphs applications for sustainability include climate data expressed in knowledge graphs, for breaking climate data silos, knowledge graphs for supporting circular economy, and knowledge graphs for sustainable smart cities.

More specific research topics include, but are not limited to:

• Knowledge graphs consisting of, or linking, sustainability data
• Knowledge graph schemas (ontologies) for sustainability data
• Spatial and temporal aspects of knowledge graphs pertaining to sustainability
• Knowledge graphs or ontology patterns specifically important for describing, linking, and using sustainability data
• Knowledge graphs interfaces that support sustainability analysis
• Web infrastructure and approaches, related to knowledge graphs, for supporting sustainability aspects of the Web itself
• Applications supporting sustainability solutions by using knowledge graphs or other related Semantic Web technologies
• Sustainable use and development of KGs and KG-based applications

Important Dates

• Paper submission: March 7, 2024
• Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2024
• Camera-ready copy due: April 18, 2024
• Workshop: May 26 or May 27, 2024

Submission Guidelines

The workshop welcomes the following types of submissions:

• Long papers (up to 10 pages + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references) describing research results and applications of KGs for sustainability.
• Short papers (up to 6 pages of main paper content + 1 page of references) describing ongoing work, preliminary results, demos, resources (such as a specific KG), needs analyses, positions, and vision statements.
• Summaries (up to 4 pages, including references), of existing publications as workshop papers that have been previously published in another journal, conference, or workshop. These summaries will not be considered for publication in the proceedings, but may be accepted for a presentation at the workshop. Such submissions must clearly indicate on the first page of the submission that this is a resubmission/summary of a published paper, for being presented/discussed at the workshop.

All submissions must be made through the following EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kg4s2024

More detailed formatting instructions can be found on our website: https://2024.kg4s.org/

Accepted papers will be published as Open-Access in the CEUR-WS series.

Organizers

Workshop chairs

• Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University, Sweden
• María Poveda-Villalón, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Raúl García-Castro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Pascal Hitzler, Kansas State University, USA
• Daniel Hernández, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Proceedings and Publicity

• Mikael Lindecrantz, Ragn-Sells, Sweden