ESWC2006

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The ESWC2006 is the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, taking place from 11 - 14 June 2006 in Budva (Montenegro). For further information, see http://www.eswc2006.org/.

[edit] Description

The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's web via the exploitation of machine-processable meta data. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, accompanied with domain theories (Ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together an incredibly large network of human knowledge and will complement it with machine processability. Various automated services will help the user to achieve goals by accessing and providing information in machine-understandable form. This process may ultimately create truly knowledgeable systems with various specialized reasoning services systems. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Human Language Technology, Machine Learning, Databases, Multimedia Systems, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision.

The 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006) will present the latest results in research and application in semantic web technologies (including knowledge mark-up languages, semantic web services, ontology management and more). ESWC 2006 will also feature a special industry-oriented event providing European industry with an opportunity to become even more familiar with these technologies. It will offer a tutorial program to get up to speed with European and global developments in this exciting new area.

ESWC 2006 is co-located with general assembly of the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence. Workshops and meetings of other European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects involved in the semantic web and semantic web technologies will be able to showcase their developments. In particular we will welcome the new projects accepted at the EU IST 4th Call.

ESWC 2006 is sponsored by SDK - a group of three European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects known as SEKT, DIP and Knowledge Web. Together these projects aim to improve world-wide research and standardisation in the area of the Semantic Web. For more information on SDK, please visit www.sdk-cluster.org.

[edit] Submissions

ESWC 2006 welcomes the submission of excellent original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of the semantic web, particularly those relating to the subject areas indicated by the topics below. We particularly encourage the submission of papers relating to industrial efforts and experiences with semantic web projects. We also encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical and applications papers.

The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing for ESWC 2006 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: http://www.eswc2006.org/. Papers, due to November 28th, 2005, should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in Springer LNCS format.

[edit] Conference Topics of Interest and Area Keywords

Topics of interest to the conference include (but are not restricted to):

• Ontology Management (e.g. creation, evolution, evaluation)
• Ontology Alignment (e.g. mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)
• Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (including e.g. HLT and ML approaches)
• Multimedia and Semantic Web
• Semantic Annotation of Data
• Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
• Semantic Web Rules and Query Languages
• Reasoning on the Web (e.g. scalability, fuzziness, distribution)
• Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web
• Personalization and User Modelling
• User Interfaces and Semantic Web
• Semantic Grid and Middleware
• Semantic Web Services (e.g. description, discovery, invocation, composition)
• Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
• Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Health, e-Learning, e-Science
• Database Technologies for the Semantic Web
• Data Semantics and Web Semantics
• Semantic Interoperability
• Semantic Web Mining

We particularly welcome application papers which clearly show benefits of semantic web technologies in practical settings.

[edit] Committee members

[edit] Organisation Committee

• Chair: John Domingue (The Open University, UK)
• Programme Chair: York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, DE)
• Workshop Chair: Holger Wache (VU Amsterdam, NL)
• Semantic Web Technologies Coordinator: Tom Heath (The Open University, UK)

[edit] Program committee

Programme committee:

• Andreas Abecker (FZI Karlsruhe, DE)
• Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant Inc., US)
• Jürgen Angele (Ontoprise, DE)
• Anupriya Ankolekar (University of Karlsruhe, DE)
• Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK)
• Richard Benjamins (iSOCO, ES)
• Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich, CH)
• Walter Binder (EPFL, CH)
• Elena Paslaru Bontas (FU Berlin, DE)
• Kalina Bontcheva (University Sheffield, UK)
• Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento, IT)
• Jeen Broekstra (Technical University Eindhoven and Aduna, NL)
• Jos de Bruijn (DERI Innsbruck, AT)
• Francois Bry (University of Munich, DE)
• Paul Buitelaar (DFKI Saarbruecken, DE)
• Christoph Bussler (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA)
• Liliana Cabral (Open University, UK)
• Jeremy J. Carroll (HP Labs, UK)
• Nigel Collier (National Institute of Informatics, JP)
• Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester, UK)
• Isabel Cruz (University Illinois at Chicago, US)
• Hamish Cunningham (University Sheffield, UK)
• John Davies (BT, UK)
• Grit Denker (SRI, US)
• Joerg Diederich (L3S and University of Hannover, DE)
• Ying Ding (University of Innsbruck, AT)
• Martin Dzbor (Open University, UK)
• Andreas Eberhart (Hewlett Packard, DE)
• Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, FR)
• Boi Faltings (EPFL Lausanne, CH)
• Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck and DERI, AT)
• Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT)
• Fabien Gandon (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, FR)
• Aldo Gangemi (CNR, IT)
• Mari Georges (ILOG, FR)
• Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, IT)
• Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK)
• Christine Golbreich (University of Rennes, FR)
• Asun Gomez-Perez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES)
• Marko Grobelnik (J. Stefan Institute, SL)
• Nicola Guarino (CNR, IT)
• Volker Haarslev (Concordia University, CA)
• Axel Hahn (University of Oldenburg, DE)
• Siegfried Handschuh (FZI Karlsruhe, DE)
• Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
• Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, US)
• Nicola Henze (University of Hannover, DE)
• Martin Hepp (University of Innsbruck and DERI, AT)
• Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, DE)
• Masahiro Hori (Kansai University, JP)
• Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester, UK)
• Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel, DE)
• Jane Hunter (University of Queensland, AU)
• Eero Hyvnen (University of Helsinki, FI)
• Vangelis Karkaletsis (NCSR Demokritos, GR)
• Vipul Kashyap (Clinical informatics R)
• Paulo Pinheiro da Silva (University of Texas at El Paso, US)