May 12, 2008
Because some people have found it difficult to find the right submission pages with the current link structure, we decided to feature the links on the front page:
Submissions and reviewing for the different tracks and activities will be managed independently.
- Research track
- In use track
- Posters and demos
- Tutorials — submissions proposals for tutorial by 16 May via email to David Martin (martin at ai.sri.com.
- Doctoral consortium
- Semantic Web Challenge
- Workshops — the call for workshop proposals is closed. information on submissions to accepted workshops will appear here soon.
May 9, 2008
For easier assignment of reviewing responsibilities we requested authors of ISWC research paper submissions to enter their paper titles, keywords and abstracts into the EasyChair system by May 9.
ISWC is using pre-submission of paper submission metadata for the first time. It has been brought to our attention that for this reason public awareness about abstract pre-submission has been below expectation. Therefore, we grant an extension to authors for providing their data until the final submission deadline, i.e. May 16.
In order to facilitate review assignments and a thorough reviewing process, we do however strongly encourage authors to register their papers and submit their abstracts using the ISWC 2008 research paper submissions site the as early as possible, preferably today.
May 5, 2008
Deadlines for submitting papers, Doctoral Consortium applications and tutorial proposals for the Seventh International Semantic Web Conference are fast approaching. ISWC ‘08 will be held 26-30 October 2008 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Key upcoming dates include:
- Research papers: due 16 May
- Semantic Web in Use papers: due 16 May
- Tutorial proposals: due 16 May
- Doctoral Consortium applications: due 16 May
- Posters & Demo proposals: due 25 July
- Workshops papers (13 workshops): varies
- Semantic Web & Billion Triples challenge: due 1 Oct
- ISWC 2008 CONFERENCE: 26-30 October
See the ISWC 2008 site for CFPs and other details. Inquires about specific tracks should be sent to the appropriate chairs. Send general questions and suggestions for panel topics, invited speakers, birds of a feather meetings, etc. to iswc08@gmail.com.
May 2, 2008
The call for the ISWC 2008 Sixth Semantic Web Challenge and Billion Triples tracks is out.
“We invite submissions to the sixth annual Semantic Web Challenge, the premiere event for demonstrating practical progress towards achieving the vision of the Semantic Web. The central idea of the Semantic Web is to extend the current human-readable web by encoding some of the semantics of resources in a machine-processable form. Moving beyond syntax opens the door to more advanced applications and functionality on the Web. Computers will be better able to search, process, integrate and present the content of these resources in a meaningful, intelligent manner.
As the core technological building blocks are now in place, the next challenge is to show off the benefits of semantic technologies by developing integrated, easy to use applications that can provide new levels of Web functionality for end users on the Web or within enterprise settings. Applications submitted should demonstrate clear practical value that goes above and beyond what is possible with conventional web technologies alone.
Unlike in previous years, the Semantic Web Challenge of 2008 will consist of two tracks: the Open Track and the Billion Triples Track. The key difference between the two tracks is that the Billion Triples Track requires the participants to make use of the data set –a billion triples– provided by the organizers. The Open Track has no such restrictions.
As before, the Challenge is open to everyone from academia and industry. The authors of the best applications will be awarded prizes and featured prominently at special sessions during the conference.
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May 2, 2008
The following workshops will be held as part of 2008 international Semantic Web Conference. Watch the 2008 ISWC workshop page for more information, including dates and links to workshop pages.
- Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web
- Terra Cognita 2008
- 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Matching
- 3rd ExpertFinder Workshop: Personal Identification and Collaborations - Knowledge Mediation and Extraction (PICKME’08)
- 7th Semantic Web Services Challenge Workshop
- 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE2008)
- Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
- International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD2008)
- Nature inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web (NatuReS)
- Social Data on the Web
- 4th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS2008)
- Incentives for the Semantic Web
- Ontology-supported Business Intelligence (OBI 2008)
April 28, 2008
We anticipate having funds from the US National Science Foundation to partially support students currently enrolled in US universities in attending ISWC 2008. Students will be required to submit application and include proof of student status and a letter of recommendation. Since the funds are limited, only partial travel support can be provided. Preference will be given to students who are participating in the doctoral consortium, are an author or co-author on a paper, or are presenting a poster or demonstration. Awards will be based on a combination of merit and need and will probably range from US$ 500-1500.
March 6, 2008
You can now download the printable conference call here as PDF (updated 26. March 2008).
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.
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
Dates
- Abstracts due: May 9
- Submissions: May 16
- Rebuttal phase: June 14-16
- Notification: July 11
- Camera ready: August 15
Evaluation of Submitted Research Papers
ISWC is a highly attractive conference series. From all previous ISWC conferences,
we have seen researchers and practitioners making best use of the methods and technologies reported at the event for their own research and practice. We are very eager to maintain this high level of impact achieved by ISWC papers in the future. For this purpose, all papers will be critically reviewed by 3 reviewers and one vice chair.
To assess papers, reviewers will judge originality of papers, significance for further research and/or practice related to the Semantic Web, technical soundness of the proposed approaches and readability of the submitted papers.
Specific weight will be given to the evaluation of the approaches described in the papers. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable. Depending on the type of the paper and the proposed approach indications for repeatability may vary. For instance, theoretical papers may want to offer links to full proofs of theorems, empirical work may want to offer download of training and test data and experimental results, case study work may link to case study journals for deeper insights, system papers may provide download of the software or a Web client together with full assessments in user studies, approaches that describe algorithms may want to
provide the algorithm in source code and in an easy-to-install manner.
Submission of Abstracts and Papers
Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing system. Presubmission of abstracts will be a strict requirement. Final papers can be submitted until May 16, 23:59 hrs, Hawaiian time. The submission platform will be opened from beginning of April.
Formatting
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. Formatted papers must be no longer than 16 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. ISWC 2008 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. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference.
