ISWC2006

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ISWC2006
5th International Semantic Web Conference
Start	November 5 2006 (iCal)
End	November 9 2006
Homepage:	iswc2006.semanticweb.org
Location
City:	Athens, Georgia
Country:	USA
Important dates
Papers due:	May 22 2006
Posters due:	July 14 2006
Demos due:	July 14 2006
Notification:	July 26 2006
Camera ready due:	August 25 2006
Event in series ISWC
Subevents: OM-2006, OWLED 2006, SAAW2006, SEBIZ2006, SSN2006, SSWS2006, SWESE2006, SWPW2006, SWUI2006, Semantic Web Challenge 2006, SemanticDesktopWS2006, Terra Cognita 2006, URSW2006, WCMHLT2006, WOMO2006

The 5th International Semantic Web Conference is held in Athens, Georgia. Accepted research papers of ISWC2006 are listed in the separate article ISWC2006 papers. An unofficial but readable conference schedule is found at http://schedule.semanticweb.org.

ISWC2006 had an acceptance rate of 24%0.24
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Contents 1 Research/Academic Track 2 Topics of Interest 3 Workshops 4 Tutorials 5 Program committee

[edit] Research/Academic Track

The dream of the Web was to create a human communication and collaboration platform for sharing knowledge and enabling a universal space for information and services. We all are now much more connected, and in turn face new resulting problems: service and information overload caused by insufficient support for information selection, organization and collaboration. The Semantic Web, by providing standards for formulating and distributing metadata and ontologies, enables means for information organization and selective access. However, the Semantic Web requires new infrastructure on all levels - e.g., human-computer interaction, expressive representation and query languages, reasoning engines, data representation and integration, interoperability middleware, and distributed computing.

To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, the International Semantic Web Conference brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, and human-computer interaction.

The Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006) follows on the success of previous conferences and workshops in Galway, Ireland (2005), Hiroshima, Japan (2004), Sanibel Island, USA (2003), Sardinia, Italy (2002), and Stanford, USA (2001).

The research track of ISWC2006 solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical and practical aspects of Semantic Web research.

The papers that have been accepted for ISWC 2006 are listed at ISWC2006 papers.

[edit] Topics of Interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Applications of Semantic Web technologies with clear lessons learned
• Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and e-learning, e-health, digital libraries, tourism, mobile & ubiquitous applications, digital TV
• Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data
• Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
• Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution
• Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
• Database technologies for the Semantic Web
• Semantic Web middleware
• Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web
• Semantic Web services
• Agents on the Web
• Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security
• Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
• Social software
• Semantic multimedia
• Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids
• Searching, querying, visualizing and interpreting the Semantic Web
• Evaluation of Semantic Web techniques
• The Semantic Desktop
• User-centered Semantic Web applications and/or interaction design
• Security for the Semantic Web

Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions.

Papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission site. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. Formatted papers must be no longer than 14 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. ISWC2006 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance.

[edit] Workshops

Below is the complete ISWC2006 workshop programme. Please refer to the events' webpages for latest information on timing and registration.

	Title	deadline	start	end
OM-2006	International Workshop on Ontology Matching	245395911 August 2006	2454045.333335 November 2006 08:00:00	2454045.755 November 2006 18:00:00
WOMO2006	First International Workshop on Modular Ontologies	24539513 August 2006	2454045.364585 November 2006 08:45:00	2454045.729175 November 2006 17:30:00
URSW2006	Uncertainty Reasoning for the Web 2006 Workshop	245394831 July 2006	2454045.3755 November 2006 09:00:00	2454045.708335 November 2006 17:00:00
SSWS2006	Second International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems	24539524 August 2006	2454045.3755 November 2006 09:00:00	2454045.755 November 2006 18:00:00
SWPW2006	2nd International Semantic Web Policy Workshop	245395911 August 2006	2454045.3755 November 2006 09:00:00	2454045.729175 November 2006 17:30:00
SAAW2006	Semantic Authoring and Annotation Workshop	245395810 August 2006	2454046.333336 November 2006 08:00:00	2454046.56 November 2006 12:00:00
Terra Cognita 2006	Terra Cognita 2006 - Directions to the Geospatial Semantic Web	245393821 July 2006	2454046.333336 November 2006 08:00:00	2454046.756 November 2006 18:00:00
SWUI2006	The 3rd International Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop	245395911 August 2006	2454046.354176 November 2006 08:30:00	2454046.739586 November 2006 17:45:00
SemanticDesktopWS2006	Semantic Desktop and Social Semantic Collaboration Workshop	245395810 August 2006	2454046.3756 November 2006 09:00:00	2454046.729176 November 2006 17:30:00
SSN2006	Semantic Sensor Networks Workshop	245392710 July 2006	2454046.3756 November 2006 09:00:00	2454046.520836 November 2006 12:30:00
SWESE2006	2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering	245395810 August 2006	2454046.3756 November 2006 09:00:00	2454046.756 November 2006 18:00:00
WCMHLT2006	Web Content Mining with Human Language Technologies workshop 2006	24539491 August 2006	2454046.541676 November 2006 13:00:00	2454046.708336 November 2006 17:00:00
OWLED 2006	OWL: Experiences and Directions 2006	24539557 August 2006	2454050.3645810 November 2006 08:45:00	2454051.7083311 November 2006 17:00:00

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[edit] Tutorials

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[edit] Program committee

• José Luis Ambite, USC-ISI, USA
• Troels Andreasen, Roskilde Univ., Denmark
• Anupriya Ankolekar, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, University of Hannover, Germany
• Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, UK
• Zohra Bellahsene, Université Montpellier II, France
• Richard Benjamins, ISOCO S.A., Spain
• Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Walter Binder, EPFL, Switzerland
• Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
• Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
• François Bry, University of Munich, Germany
• Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany
• Liliana Cabral, The Open University, UK
• Andrea Cali, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
• Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
• Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Italy
• Silvana Castano, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
• Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, USA
• Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway
• Philipp Cimiano, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Kendall Clark, Mindlab, University of Maryland, USA
• Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
• Ion Constantinescu, EPFL, Switzerland
• Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester, UK
• Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, EPFL, Switzerland
• Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK
• Jos de Bruijn, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
• Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
• Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA
• Keith Decker, University of Delaware
• Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH, Germany
• Grit Denker, SRI International, USA
• Ian Dickinson, Hewlett Packard, UK
• John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
• Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Martin Dzbor, KMI, Open University, UK
• Lim Ee-Peng, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
• Max Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA
• Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
• Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA, France
• Boi Faltings, EPFL, Switzerland
• Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
• Fred Fonseca, Penn State, USA
• Gerhard Friedrich, University Klagenfurt, Austria
• Aldo Gangemi, CNR-ISTC, Italy
• Vladimir Geroimenko, University of Plymouth, UK
• Nick Gibbins, University of Southampton, UK
• Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
• Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
• Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
• Christine Golbreich, Université de Rennes 1, France
• Asuncion Gomez-Perez, UPM, Spain
• Marko Grobelnik, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
• Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada,
• Mohand-Said Hacid, Univ. Lyon 1, France
• Sung-Kuk Han, Wonkwang University, Korea
• Siegfried Handschuh, National Unversity of Ireland in Galway, Ireland
• Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University, USA
• Kaoru Hiramatsu, NTT CS Lab, Japan
• Masahiro Hori, Kansai University, Japan
• Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK
• Jane Hunter, DSTC, Australia
• Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
• Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan
• Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
• Takahiro Kawamura, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
• Rich Keller, NASA Ames, USA
• Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
• Roger King, University of Colorado, USA
• Yasuhiko Kitamura, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
• Michel Klein, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherland
• Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany
• Yiannis Kompatsiaris, ITI, Thessaloniki, Grece
• Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• Thibaud Latour, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
• Georg Lausen, Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
• David Leake, Indiana University, USA
• Domenico Lembo, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
• Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
• Fernanda Lima, Universidade Católica de Brasílica, Brazil
• Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA
• Joanne Luciano, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Bob MacGregor, Siderean Software, USA
• David Maluf, NASA Ames, USA
• David Martin, SRI, USA
• Mihhail Matskin, KTH, Sweden
• Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
• Brian McBride, Hewlett Packard, Bristol, UK
• Luke McDowell, United States Naval Academy, USA
• Deborah McGuinness, KSL, Stanford University, USA
• Simon Miles, University of Southampton, UK
• Prasenjit Mitra, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan
• Marina Mongiello, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
• Pavlos Moraitis, René Descartes University, France
• Boris Motik, University of Manchester, UK
• Enrico Motta, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK
• John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
• Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
• Tim Oates, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
• Sam Gyun Oh, SungKyunKwan University, Korea
• Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
• Yue Pan, IBM China Research Laboratory, China
• Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Euro-labs, Germany
• Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK
• Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs, USA
• Terry Payne, University of Southampton, UK
• Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso
• Dimitris Plexousakis, FORTH, University of Crete, Greece
• Line Pouchard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Germany
• Yuzhong Qu, Southeast University, China
• Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina, USA
• Chantal Reynaud, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay - LRI, France
• Mark Roantree, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Andrea Rodriguez, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
• Alan Ruttenberg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, USA
• Henryk Rybinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
• Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK
• Norman Sadeh, CMU, USA
• Fereidoon Sadri, University of North Carolina, USA
• Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK
• Michel Scholl, CNAM, France
• mc schraefel, University of Southampton, UK
• Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Michael Schumacher, EPFL, Switzerland
• Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA
• Wolf Siberski, University of Hannover, Germany
• Carles Sierra, IIIA/CSIC, Spain
• Nuno Silva, ISEP, Portugal
• Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
• Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany
• Andrzej Skowron, Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Poland
• Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen, UK
• Steffen Staab, Univerity of Koblenz, Germany
• Giorgos Stamou, University of Athens, Greece
• Lynn Andrea Stein, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, USA
• Umberto Straccia, ISTI-NCR, Italy
• Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universität Mannheim, Germany
• Rudi Studer, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
• York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Said Tabet, Inferware Corp., USA
• Hideaki Takeda, National Institute for Informatics, Japan
• Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
• Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Herman ter Horst, Philips Research, The Netherlands
• Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
• Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin
• Raphaël Troncy, CWI, The Netherlands
• Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete, Greece
• Andrzej Uszok, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
• Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Ubbo Visser, University of Bremen, Germany
• Dan Vodislav, CNAM, France
• Christopher Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
• Graham Wilcock, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Steve Willmott, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK
• Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan
• Guizhen Yang, SRI International, USA
• Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
• Yong Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Djamel A. Zighed, University of Lyon, France