16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017 ******************************************* *** Deadlines reminder highlight - Doctoral Consortium: 25th May 2017 ******************************************* Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847 Twitter: @iswc2017 (https://twitter.com/ISWC2017) Overview calls: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/ In this announcement: 1. Keynote speakers 2. Call for contributions: Doctoral Consortium, Poster&Demo, Industry Track 3. Student Grants 4. Accepted Workshops and Tutorials 5. Important dates 1. Keynote speakers ========================================== We are delighted to announce the keynote speakers for this year edition of ISWC. Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) https://tw.rpi.edu/web/person/Deborah_L_McGuinness Prof. McGuinness is a leading authority on the semantic web and has been working in knowledge representation and reasoning environments for over 25 years. Deborah's primary research thrusts include work on explanation, trust, ontologies, escience, open data, and semantically-enabled schema and data integration. Nada Lavrac (Jozef Stefan Institute) http://kt.ijs.si/nada_lavrac/ Prof. Lavrac is Head of the Department of Knowledge Technologies at Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI). She is an expert on machine learning and data mining, in particular inductive logic programming and intelligent data analysis in medicine. Jamie Taylor (Google) https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-taylor-853953/ Dr. Taylor has been deeply involved with Google's knowledge graph efforts. Prior to Google, he worked on Freebase at Metaweb. Details about the talks will be announced soon at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/ 2. Call for Contributions ========================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Doctoral Consortium papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **deadline** May 25, 2017 The Consortium aims to broaden the perspectives and to improve the research and communication skills of these students. The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who have sufficient time prior to completing their dissertation to benefit from the consortium experience. Generally, students at the end of their first year, in their second or at the beginning of their third year of PhD will benefit the most from the Doctoral Consortium. In the Consortium, the students will present their proposals, get specific feedback and advice on how to improve their research plan and discuss other students’ proposals. All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The international program committee will select the best submissions for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium. We anticipate that students with accepted submissions at the Doctoral Consortium will receive travel fellowships to offset some of the travel costs but they will be asked to attend the whole day of the Doctoral Consortium. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/doctoral-consortium/ Program Chairs * Lora Aroyo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Posters and Demos -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **deadline** July 27, 2017 The ISWC 2017 Posters and Demonstrations complement the paper tracks of the conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters and Demonstrations encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems (free or commercial), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies, both in academia and in industry. We explicitly welcome entries from the industry. However, submissions for posters and demos should go beyond pure advertisements of commercial software packages and convey a minimal scientific contribution. Authors of full papers accepted for the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track are explicitly invited to submit a demonstration. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-posters-and-demos/ Program Chairs * Nadeschda Nikitina, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK * Dezhao Song, Thomson Reuters, Eagan, MN, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Industry Track Contributions -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **deadline** July 10, 2017 The Industry Track seeks to present the state of adoption of semantic technologies in industrial applications. These technologies may be used in specific industries (e.g., media, financials, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, government, intelligence, etc.) or as a horizontal technology, and in different application areas (e.g., business intelligence, analytics, search, content management, knowledge management, recommendation systems, data integration, etc.). We welcome contributions about success stories as well as experiences and discussions of obstacles that stand in the way of large scale adoption of certain technologies. Particular emphasis should be put on the demonstration of business value created by using the semantic technologies. We encourage the following two categories of submissions: - Success stories of business-relevant, industrial deployments of Semantic Web technologies - Position statements that outline potential strategic applications and use cases of semantic technologies Come and join us at the ISWC 2017 industry track to share your experience! Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-contributions-industry-track-... Program Chairs * Achille Fokoue, IBM Yorktown, NY, USA * Peter Haase, metaphacts, Walldorf, Germany 3. Student Grants ========================================== If you are a student interested in attending ISWC 2017 you may be eligible to apply for a grant to support the costs of travel and lodging. This year, travel grants are funded by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The deadline for applying for an ISWC 2017 travel award is August 31st, 2017. Further info on the application process at: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/student-travel-grants/ Student Coordinators * Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA * Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 4. Accepted Workshops and Tutorials ========================================== Tutorials (https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/tutorials/): [KGC] Constructing Domain-specific Knowledge Graphs [StreamApp] How to Build a Stream Reasoning Application [HDT] HDT: Queryable Compression Format for Linked Data [MT4OBDA] Methods and Tools for Developing Ontology-Based Data Access Solutions [SemDaPra] Semantic Data Management in Practice [SWoTIoT] Semantic Web meets Internet of Things (IoT) and Web of Things (WoT) [RegLGD] Representation and Querying for Linked Geospatial Data Workshops (https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/workshops/): [HSSUE] Hybrid Statistical Semantic Understanding and Emerging Semantics [VOILA] Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data [WOP] Ontology Design and Patterns [S4BioDiv] Semantics for Biodiversity [OM] Ontology Matching [WHiSe] Humanities in the Semantic Web [SemSci] Enabling Open Semantic Science [SemStats] Semantic Statistics [PROFILES] Dataset PROFlLing and fEderated Search for Web Data [DeSemWeb] Decentralizing the Semantic Web [MaCSeW] Managing Changes in the Semantic Web [BlkMirror] Re-coding Black Mirror [PrivOn] Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology [SWIT] Semantic Web Technologies for the IoT [LD4IE] Linked Data for Information Extraction [WOMoCoE] Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution [BLINK] Benchmarking Linked Data [NLIWOD] Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data [WSP] Web Stream Processing Workshops & Tutorials Chairs * Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile Santiago, Santiago, Chile * Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy 5. Important Dates ========================================== Doctoral Consortium submissions due May 25, 2017 Registration starts June 1, 2017 Doctoral Consortium notifications sent June 30, 2017 Author rebuttal period (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) June 23-27, 2017 Submissions due (Industry track) July 10, 2017 Notifications sent (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 14, 2017 Camera-ready papers for Doctoral Consortium due July 18, 2017 Workshop paper submissions due July 21, 2017 Poster & Demo submissions due July 27, 2017 Camera-ready papers due (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 28, 2017 Notifications sent (Industry track) July 31, 3017 Workshop paper notifications sent August 24, 2017 Poster & Demo notifications sent August 24, 2017 Student activity applications due August 31, 2017 Final version industry track papers due August 31, 2017 Camera-ready copies for Poster & Demo due September 4, 2017 The last day for early registrations September 8, 2017 Workshops & Tutorials October 21 & 22, 2017 Conference October 23, 24 & 25, 2017 We thank our generous gold sponsors Siemens, Thomson Reuters, Semantic Web Company and data.world for their support. To learn more about ISWC 2017 sponsorship opportunities, please see https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/sponsorship/ The ISWC Organising Committee ( http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/organization/)