August 28, 2016, 
Prague - Czech Republic

DCSA website: www.is.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/is/events/dcsa2016adbis/

  EasyChair Login for DCSA'2016: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcsa2016

Workshop in collaboration with 
The 20^th international conference of Advanced Data Bases and Information Systems 2016
(http://adbis2016.vsb.cz)

ADBIS 2016
Prague - Czech Republic, August 28-31, 2016

Massive data collections and the usage of that data for smart applications has become the key to the process for improving the efficiency, reliability, and security of a traditional application. There are many issues that should be taken into consideration as the first step: (a) Modeling, analytics and design of data and smart applications, (b) Metadata, ontologies, vocabularies perspectives, (c) Semantic web for smart applications, (d) Applications of existing technologies, etc.

The classical approach where people had to learn how equipment can be used is not appropriate anymore. Applications are only accepted if they are natural to the users. In the past, research tried participatory design based on some knowledge of the main users, their way of operating systems and their main desires and demands. This research and technology development must however be extended by tools that can be used in an intuitive way, within many different cultures, within a variety of deployment scenarios, within a group of people deploying the techniques, within different collaboration scenarios, and within different levels of attention.
Cities, regions, application will not become directly intelligent and useful.
Smart application can be based on: High quality content,
Often updated, with Minimal effort, e.g. download and processing time and space, and Ease of use. Therefore, we need applications that do not require additional training, are simple to operate, are obvious to operate, are simple for everybody, straightforward, within expectation, provide services and features, context-sensitive help, selection of wording, simple dialogues and tasks, and are simple to remember, error robust, reliable, of high quality. Applications are becoming SMART if they are Simple in any step of usage, are Motivational for any user, are Attainable for the goals the user has in mind, tend to be Rewarding since they seem to be worthwhile, right time, match efforts and needs, and Time-efficient within the limits and expectations of all members of the community of practice. This set of criteria can be considered as a lacuna of challenges that novel systems must meet.

The concept of smart applications includes various aspects such as environmental sustainability, social sustainability, regional competitiveness, natural resources management, cybersecurity, and quality of life improvement. With the massive deployment of networked smart devices and sensors, unprecedented large amounts of sensory data can be collected and processed by advanced computing paradigms which are today the enabling techniques for smart applications. For example, given historical, environmental, population and economic information, salient modelling and analytics are needed to simulate the impact of potential application development strategies, which will be critical for intelligent decision making. Analytics are indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data in order to design the optimal policies for real time automatic control in the cyber-physical smart system. The uncertainties and security concerns in the data collected from heterogeneous resources aggravate the problem, making smart planning, operation, monitoring and control highly challenging.

To address some of those concerns if not all the 2^nd International Work-shop on Data Centered Smart Applications (DCSA 2016) is proposed with the aim to provide a platform for exchanging empirical and theoretical research results about DCSA problems and solutions.

The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

Papers will be subject to peer review by at least three members of an international program committee.
The workshop website (http://www.is.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/is/events/dcsa2016adbis/) is maintained by Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany and uses the EasyChair paper submission and review system.

DCSM will include papers in the CCIS proceedings published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science series. The expected length of DCSA papers are 11 pages according to the general policy. 

For each accepted paper at  least  one author will have to register for the workshop and conference in order to publish the paper in the CCIS proceedings.