ISWC is a major international forum where visionary and state-of-the-art research of all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented.
ISWC News-Weblog
February 25, 2008
ISWC 2008 will hold combined poster and demonstration sessions. The Poster and Demo Session is an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters and demos are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Poster and demo abstracts must be submitted by July 25, 2008. The Poster and Demo Session is chaired by Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin) and Anupam Joshi (UMBC).
February 20, 2008
The ISWC 2008 Doctoral Consortium (DC) allows PhD students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors as well as interact with other postgraduate students. Students who submit papers to the main conference are also invited to apply to the DC. All papers submitted to the DC track will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The best submissions will be selected for presentation at the ISWC 2008 DC sessions. Five page papers will be published in the main ISWC proceedings. The deadline for submissions is May 16. The ISWC 2008 DC is chaired by Diana Maynard.
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.”
November 20, 2007
In case you have not been at the ISWC/ASWC 07 closing ceremony, here is your chance to see the presentation. It can be watched in Quicktime Format. Please note that you can control the presentation by clicking just as you would do with a normal presentation.
November 7, 2007
The initial version of our website was launched just in time for ISWC 2007. The page will be updated as ISWC 2008 approaches and will feature all the information you need to make your visit to Karlsruhe a complete success.
