ISWC is a major international forum where visionary and state-of-the-art research of all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented.
February 19, 2008
ISWC 2008 will have a special track on the Semantic Web in Use for papers that highlight applications in business, government, science, education or society. The ISWC 2007 in use track had twelve full papers and the ISWC 2006 had nine industry track papers. Papers for the 2008 In Use track must be submitted by 16 May, 2008. The ISWC 2008 Semantic Web in Use track is chaired by Mike Dean (BBN) and Massimo Paolucci (DoCoMo).
February 18, 2008
ISWC 2008 seeks proposals for tutorials that present the state of the art of a Semantic Web area enabling attendees to fully appreciate the current issues, main schools of thought, and possible application areas. Although tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects, we encourage organizers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. The half- or full-day tutorials will be given on 26-27 October, just before the main conference begins. Email proposals to David Martin (martin@ai.sri.com) by 16 May 2008. The ISWC 2008 tutorial program is chaired by Lalana Kagal (MIT) and David Martin (SRI).
February 17, 2008
The call for ISWC 2008 workshop proposals is out. Three-page proposals for half- or full-day workshops are due by 28 March. The selected workshops will be held 26-27 October during the two days before the start of the main conference. The ISWC-08 workshop program is co-chaired by Melliyal Annamalai (Oracle) and Daniel Olmedilla (L3S & Univ. of Hannover).
January 18, 2008
The sponsoring details for this year’s ISWC2008 have been finalized. Companies interested in sponsoring should please visit our sponsoring section. You can also find the sponsoring opportunities here (updated as of 02/04/08).
December 6, 2007
The International Semantic Web Conference has held a Semantic Web Challenge since 2003. Each year, a special challenge theme is defined and groups are invited to submit papers describing applications or systems built to address the challenge. The entries are evaluated and a short list is invited to present demonstrations at the conference. Finally, a panel of judges selects he best ones which receive awards — both honorary and financial. It has become very popular and successful part of ISWC.
Jim Hendler and Peter Mika, the Semantic Web Challenge organizers for ISWC 2008, have a new theme focused on scalability.
“This is the first public pre-announcement of the Open Web, Billion Triples Challenge, which will be organized as a special track of next year’s Semantic Web Challenge. This track will be in addition to the traditional SWC competition and it will focus on pushing the limits in tool design on the fronts of scalability in size and robustness in the face of data typically found on the Web. The goal of the competition is also to generate new application ideas, i.e. to show what is possible with Web metadata today.
The details of this Challenge are yet to be determined and we are calling on the Semantic Web community to help us in its formation. For this purpose we have set up a mailing list and would like to invite everyone interested in this new Challenge to join this list. The mailing list will serve to discuss the data sets and rules of competition, and later to disseminate all other information regarding the new Challenge.”
