Workshop Description

DECOR 2022 envision that this workshop will continue:

  • To bring together researchers and practitioners from the data engineering and the food computing and social media communities, with the goal of investigating and leveraging new research opportunities in the design and implementation of data infrastructure and real-world applications with emerging food and cooking recipe computing technologies.

  • To promote discussions on how to push forward innovative solutions for the challenging problem on how to store, access and retrieve pertinent information and knowledge from an increasing amount of data available to everyone.

  • To discuss several challenges associated with the progress of the multiple aspects of the Intelligent Food and Cooking Recipes area as a sub-field of the Data Engineering and Big Data arena.

The past decade has seen an enormous growth in the research related to the digital food and cooking recipes underpinnings of data engineering, as food is essential for human life and related health. The ability to collect, store, process, and evaluate cooking recipes has advanced immeasurably, and data science-driven methods have had unprecedented impact on food experience sharing and recommendations at large, mainly because of their success in analysing and predicting human cooking expectation, flavour, and taste preferences. Data Engineering stands to benefit from the food computing and recipe cooking revolution in similar ways, but realizing this vision requires thoughtful and concerted effort.

The Workshop on Data Engineering meets Intelligent Food and COoking Recipes (DECOR) aims to accelerate research in data science by providing a forum for the latest innovations in the intersection of Data Engineering and Intelligent Food and Cooking Recipes. This workshop is specifically focused on data science innovations that accelerate the organization, integration, access, and sharing of digital objects in support of the Intelligent Food and Cooking Recipes domain. This domain comprises not only the process of cooking, but also includes intelligent methods for enhancing human-food interactions, ranging from devising technology, playful interactions, multisensory experience design, understanding cross-cultural food eating habits and perception, as well as food choices and their health connections. Consequently, increasing the ability of influencing food eating habits and choices that promote, simultaneously, healthful eating-decisions and creative new human-food interaction experiences.

According to Trends on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, Data Engineering will contribute to solve the complexity of a human-centred partnership model of people and AI working together to enhance cognitive performance related to sharing dish tasting experiences. Resilience and real-time adaptability are essential for health monitoring and predictive maintenance of complex food menus and diets where data-driven decisions can improve health and dish experience quality. The research design itself will enable us to integrate the user requirements and expectations, where data-driven modelling can accelerate the design cycle while yielding more capable and predictable social media tools for food experience and recommendation sharing.

Authors will be encouraged to submit contributions addressing a range of topics in the intersection of Data Science, Data Engineering and Applied Computational Science, with impacts on on-going standardization, especially in cooperation with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42, international standards committee responsible for standardization in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We will call for contributions related to model design, use case best practices, technologies and intelligent data management tools supporting Intelligent Food and Cooking Recipes processes. In addition to primary investigations applying advanced analytic pipelines to data already stored in repositories, desirable contributions also include the reports of the full set of digital and/or Mulsemedia objects that are produced. These digital objects might include original data, software, software pipelines, models, workflows, containers, virtual machines, intermediary data, and metadata strategies.

May 9, 2022

Date

Virtual Zoom Conference

Location

Timetable

Important Dates

First round:

Progress: 100%
  • Submission deadline: January 14, 2022 (Friday)

  • Acceptance notification for authors: February 5, 2022 (Saturday)

  • Revision submission due: February 18, 2022 (Friday)

  • Final notification: March 4, 2022 (Friday)

  • Camera-ready due: March 30, 2022 (Wednesday)

  • Workshop date: May 9, 2022 (Monday)

Second round:

Progress: 100%
  • Submission deadline: February 15, 2022 (Tuesday)

  • Acceptance notification for authors: February 28, 2022 (Monday)

  • Revision submission due: March 12, 2022 (Saturday)

  • Final notification: March 16, 2022 (Wednesday)

  • Camera-ready due: March 30, 2022 (Wednesday)

  • Workshop date: May 9, 2022 (Monday)

Workshop Format

Keynote Talks

By academia experts

Short Paper Presentation

By students and young generation

Interactive Panel Discussion

Discussion and short reports

Best Paper Awards

Best paper award and most innovative student paper award

Notes on Workshop Research Papers

  • Selected papers will be invited for an extended version submitting to a special issue on the International Journal of Nutritional Science Computing and Collective Intelligence (IGI).

Organizing Committee

Co-organizers:

  • Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

  • G. Bagler, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India

  • F. Fotouhi, Wayne State University, US

  • Maria Leite, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA

Steering committee members:

  • Alan Hevner, University of South Florida, FL, USA

  • Alan Hevner, University of South Florida, FL, USA

  • Yannis Ioannidis, Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, Greece

  • Epaminodas Kapetanios, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK

  • Takuya Kitagawa, Rakuten, Japan

  • Bhavani Thuraisingham, Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

  • Pierre A. Levy, Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada

  • Yoko Yamakata, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  • Aidong Zhang, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA