ISWC2008

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ISWC2008
7th International Semantic Web Conference
Start	Oct 26 2008 (iCal)
End	Oct 30 2008
Homepage:	iswc2008.semanticweb.org
Location
City:	Karlsruhe
Country:	Germany
Important dates
Workshops due:	March 28 2008
Papers due:	May 16 2008
Posters due:	July 25 2008
Demos due:	July 25 2008
Notification:	July 11 2008
Camera ready due:	Aug 15 2008
Event in series ISWC
Subevents: INSEMTIVE2008, OM-2008, PICKME2008, SDoW2008, SemWiki Meeting ISWC 2008

ISWC 2008, the International Semantic Web Conference 2008, will be hosted by the AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH). It is a major international forum where visionary and state-of-the-art research of all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Topics 3 Calls for contributions 4 Important dates 5 Committees 5.1 Organization

[edit] Introduction

The Web continues to grow and new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications are being developed. Building on this growth, Semantic Web technologies aim at providing a shared semantic information space, changing qualitatively our experiences on the Web. As Semantic Web technologies mature and permeate more and more application areas, new research challenges are coming to the fore and some unsolved ones are becoming more acute. These issues include creating and managing Semantic Web content, making Semantic Web applications robust and scalable, organizing and integrating information from different sources for novel uses, making semantics explicit in order to improve our overall experience with information technologies, and thus enabling us to use the wealth of information that is currently available in digital form for addressing our everyday tasks. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, ISWC brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, soft computing, and human-computer interaction.

ISWC 2008 calls for papers to its research track. The research track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Papers of the latter type are encouraged to present repeatability of their experiments, and share with the community their data and test harnesses.

[edit] Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following.

• Applications of the Semantic Web
  • Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations
  • Semantic Web for large scale applications, desktops or personal information management
  • Semantic Web technologies for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness
  • Semantic Web technologies for P2P, services, grids and middleware
• Management of Semantic Web Data
  • Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data
  • Database, IR and AI technologies for the Semantic Web
  • Search, query, integration, analysis of the Semantic Web
  • Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
  • Machine learning and information extraction for the Semantic Web
  • Cleaning, assurance, trust, provenance of Semantic Web data, services and processes
• Ontologies
  • Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution
  • Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
  • Searching and ranking ontologies
  • Ontology evaluation
• Social Semantic Web
  • Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
  • Semantic Web technology for collaboration and cooperation
  • Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security
• User Interfaces
  • Visualization of and interacting with Semantic Web data
  • Semantic Web content creation and annotation
  • Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes

[edit] Calls for contributions

• Call for Research Track - http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-research-papers/
• Call for Semantic Web In Use Track - http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/calls/cfp-semantic-web-in-use/
• Call for Posters and Demonstrations - http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-posters-and-demonstrations/
• Call for Doctoral Consortium - http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/
• Call for Workshop proposals - http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-workshop-proposals/
• Call for Tutorial proposals - http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-tutorial-proposals-for-iswc-2008/

[edit] Important dates

See also http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/important-dates/.

• Workshop Proposals (March 28)
• Research Track (May 16)
• Semantic Web In Use Track (May 16)
• Doctoral Consortium (May 16)
• Tutorial (May 16)
• Posters/Demos (July 25)
• Semantic Web Challenge (July 4)

[edit] Committees

[edit] Organization

• General Chair: Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
• Local Chair: Rudi Studer (Universität Karlsruhe (TH), FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik)
• Local Organizing Committee
  • Anne Eberhardt (Universität Karlsruhe)
  • Holger Lewen (Universität Karlsruhe)
  • York Sure (SAP Research Karlsruhe)
• Program Chairs
  • Amit Sheth (Wright State University)
  • Steffen Staab (Universität Koblenz Landau)
• Semantic Web in Use Chairs
  • Mike Dean (BBN)
  • Massimo Paolucci (DoCoMo Euro-labs)
• Semantic Web Challenge Chairs
  • Jim Hendler (RPI, USA)
  • Peter Mika (Yahoo, ES)
• Workshop chairs
  • Melliyal Annamalai (Oracle, USA)
  • Daniel Olmedilla (Hannover Univ., DE)
• Tutorial Chairs
  • Lalana Kagal (MIT)
  • David Martin (SRI)
• Poster and Demos Chairs
  • Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin)
  • Anupam Joshi (UMBC)
• Doctoral Consortium Chairs
  • Diana Maynard (Sheffield)
• Sponsor Chairs
  • John Domingue (The Open University)
  • Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan Inc.)
• Metadata Chairs
  • Richard Cyganiak (DERI/Freie Universität Berlin)
  • Knud Möller (DERI)
• Publicity Chair
  • Li Ding (RPI)