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About the Conference

The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's Web by exploiting machine-processable metadata. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and makes this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making tasks. Semantic Web research can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Databases and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks and Web Engineering. Many advances within these areas can contribute towards the realization of the Semantic Web.

The continuing success of ESWC as a premier publication place in the area of semantics has culminated in a record number of high-quality submissions for ESWC2007 (270 submitted papers, acceptance rate 17%) which we expect to be exceeded again this year. As a consequence the steering committee and the organizers of ESWC2008 have decided to extend the main conference from 2 days to 3 days.

The 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. ESWC 2008 will also feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium and a number of collocated workshops.

ESWC 2008 is sponsored by STI2, Semantic Technology Institutes International. For more information on STI2, please visit http://www.sti2.org.







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Ph.D. Symposium

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NEPOMUK

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Important Dates
Papers
Abstract Submission December 07, 2007
Full Paper Submission December 14, 2007
Notification February 29, 2008
Camera Ready March 14, 2008
Demos
Submission January 17, 2008
Notification February 29, 2008
Camera Ready March 14, 2008
Posters
Submission March 14, 2008
Notification April 11, 2008
Camera Ready May 09, 2008
Registration
Early Registration Until April 15, 2008
Late Registration From April 16 to May 25, 2008
On-site Registration From May 26, 2008

 
Workshops
Proposal Submission December 01, 2007
Notification December 15, 2007
Tutorials
Proposal Submission January 07, 2008
Notification January 21, 2008
Panels
Proposal Submission February 08, 2008
Notification February 29, 2008
Final Panel Description March 14, 2008
Phd Symposium
Submission March 07, 2008
Notification April 04, 2008
Camera Ready April 25, 2008

 
Topics of Interest
 
Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
  • Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.)
  • Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)
  • Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g., HLT and ML approaches)
  • Multimedia and Semantic Web
  • Semantic Annotation of Data
  • Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
  • Query Languages and Optimization for the Semantic Web
  • Rule Languages for the Semantic Web
  • Database Technologies for the Semantic Web
  • Data Semantics and Web Semantics
  • Semantic Interoperability
  • Logics for the Semantic Web
  • Semantic Web Mining
  • Reasoning on the Semantic Web
  • Behavior in the Semantic Web
  • Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web
  • Personalization and User Modelling
  • User Interfaces and Semantic Web
  • Semantics in P2P Computing and the Grid
  • Semantic Web Services (description, discovery, invocation, composition, choreography, etc.)
  • Semantics in Middleware
  • Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
  • Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Learning and other application domains
  • Evaluation of Semantic Web Technologies
  • Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
  • Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
We particularly welcome application papers which clearly show benefits of Semantic Web technologies in practical settings.
 
 
     
 
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