Research Challenges

• Network Analysis and Visual Analytics

Coordinators: Bill Ribarsky and  Akhtarur Siddique
- Network analysis and clustering and prediction
- Latent variables and hidden networks and hypergraphs
- Network evolution
- Agent based models

• Contractual reasoning and semantics and taxonomies

Coordinators: Benjamin Grosof and Leora Morgenstern and Andreas Cali
- Parsimonious representation of a financial contract
- Contract evolution
- Data models and schema and metadata and schema.
- Taxonomies and ontologies and polyhierarchies

• Information integration and entity resolution and information quality

Coordinators: Lucian Popa and Joe Langsam and Mark Flood and Bill Nichols
- Human language technologies and document collections
- Information extraction
- Entity resolution

• Social media and crowdsourcing and market mechanisms

Coordinators: Johannes Gehrke and Louiqa Raschid and Michael Wellman
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• Metadata and model representation and model management

Coordinators: Phil Bernstein and H.V. Jagadish 
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