Knowledge Maps Applications and Future Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions to this Special Issue on “Knowledge Maps Applications and Future Perspectives”.

Knowledge maps are often the keystone of the most advanced frameworks and applications thanks to their ability to integrate different data sources and bridge the semantic gap between different types of data, both structured and unstructured.

The availability of knowledge maps will enable new possibilities to query, explore, visualize, and interact with information.

This Special Issue is aimed at fostering new research on the concept of “knowledge maps”, i.e., mechanisms and models to represent large-scale information sources and data to demonstrate how knowledge maps can be leveraged in different tasks such as information retrieval, exploration, detection, and classification of data.

Today, the notion of “Big Data” and its related dimensions and problems touch many aspects of very different scientific areas. The idea of this issue is to integrate ideas from different communities and approaches, with the main objective of fostering shared views on the topic.

In this Special Issue, we invite submissions exploring cutting-edge research and recent advances demonstrating how different communities and research fields (such as information retrieval and exploration, recommendation systems, etc.) can benefit from the availability of knowledge maps. Domains and applications may include different kinds of data and scenarios, from geographic information to text-based document collections such as scientific texts or social media content, as well as images and videos.

Dr. Luigi Di Caro
Dr. Claudio Schifanella
Guest Editors

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