MoDeST 2015 - First Workshop on Mobile Deployment of Semantic Technologies (MoDeST)

Driven by the ubiquity of mobile devices and wireless connectivity, recent work has studied how mobile systems can leverage the Semantic Web as an integrated & online knowledge platform. Example applications cover diverse domains such as context-awareness, augmented reality, recommender systems, tourism, and mHealth; for instance, leveraging geocoded semantic data to dynamically present the user with rich, location-specific information. At the same time, current studies show that, due to their unique restrictions, mobile systems require tailored data management, querying and reasoning solutions. Promising approaches include distributing query execution or reasoning across online query endpoints and services, thus outsourcing computationally intensive work; as well as achieving efficient and scalable data access locally on the device, avoiding issues such as intermittent connectivity and network data privacy. In any case, the highly dynamic nature of mobile systems, often requiring continuous adaptation to new scenarios, will introduce new challenges to semantic technologies. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and software practitioners with interest in developing tools & techniques for efficient storage, manipulation, querying of & reasoning over Semantic Web data on mobile platforms, as well as applications illustrating the effective use of Semantic Web knowledge in mobile settings.