2nd CALL FOR EARLY PARTICIPATION

12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013)
21-25 October, 2013 Sydney, Australia
http://www.iswc2013.semanticweb.org/

ISWC is the premier venue for presenting innovative systems and research results related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data. The conference will be held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre which is superbly located on the Sydney Darling Harbour waterfront.
http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/venue

The Early Registration is extended to the 23rd of August 23:59 AEST. Register at: http://www.iswc2013.semanticweb.org/content/registration 

Accommodation: http://www.iswc2013.semanticweb.org/content/accommodation-sydney

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KEYNOTE SPEARKERS

1.  Peter Fox - Progress in Open-World, Integrative, Transparent, Collaborative Science Data Platforms
2.  Ramanathan V. Guha - Light at the End of the Tunnel
3.  Jane Hunter - Semantic Big Data in Australia - from Dingoes to Drysdale


ACCEPTED PAPERS

Research Track

 Yevgeny Kazakov and Pavel Klinov. Incremental Reasoning in OWL EL without Bookkeeping

 Heiko Paulheim and Christian Bizer. Type Inference on Noisy RDF Data

 Daniel M. Herzig, Roi Blanco, Peter Mika and Thanh Tran. Federated Entity Search using On-The-Fly Consolidation

 Daniel Gerber, Sebastian Hellmann, Lorenz Bühmann, Tommaso Soru, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo and Ricardo Usbeck. Real-time RDF extraction from unstructured data streams

 Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Evgeny Kharlamov, Egor V. Kostylev and Dmitriy Zheleznyakov. Controlled Query Evaluation over OWL 2 RL Ontologies

 Michael Ovelgönne, Noseong Park, V.S. Subrahmanian, Elizabeth K. Bowman and Kirk A. Ogaard. Personalized Best Answer Computation in Graph Databases

 Olga Nevzorova, Nikita Zhiltsov, Danila Zaikin, Olga Zhibrik, Alexander Kirillovich, Vladimir Nevzorov and Evgeniy Birialtsev. Bringing Math to LOD: A Semantic Publishing Platform Prototype for Scientific Collections in Mathematics

 Veli Bicer, Thanh Tran and Yongtao Ma. TRM - Learning Dependencies between Text and Structure with Topical Relational Models

 Fariz Darari, Werner Nutt, Giuseppe Pirrò and Simon Razniewski. Completeness Statements about RDF Data Sources and Their Use for Query Answering

 Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Michael Schuhmacher, Johannes Knopp, Christian Meilicke and Ansgar Scherp. On the Status of Experimental Research on the Semantic Web

 Bo Fu, Natalya F. Noy and Margaret-Anne Storey. Indented Tree or Graph? A Usability Study of Ontology Visualization Techniques in the Context of Mapping Evaluation

 Lorenz Bühmann and Jens Lehmann. Pattern Based Knowledge Base Enrichment

 Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo. ORCHID - Reduction-Ratio-Optimal Computation of Geo-Spatial Distances for Link Discovery

 Mohsen Taheriyan, Craig Knoblock, Pedro Szekely and José Luis Ambite. A Graph-Based Approach to Learn Semantic Descriptions of Data Sources

 Silviu Homoceanu, Philipp Wille and Wolf-Tilo Balke. ProSWIP: Property-based Data Access for Semantic Web Interactive Programming

 Muhammad Saleem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Helena Deus and Manfred Hauswirth. DAW: Duplicate-AWare Federated Query Processing over the Web of Data

 Andrea Moro, Hong Li, Sebastian Krause, Feiyu Xu, Roberto Navigli and Hans Uszkoreit. Semantic Rule Filtering for Web-Scale Relation Extraction

 Freddy Lecue. Towards Constructive Evidence of Data Flow-oriented Web Service Composition

 Mengling Xu, Zhichun Wang, Rongfang Bie, Juanzi Li, Chen Zheng, Wantian Ke and Mingquan Zhou. Discovering Missing Semantic Relations between Entities in Wikipedia

 Guido Governatori, Antonino Rotolo, Serena Villata and Fabien Gandon. One License to Compose Them All: a deontic logic approach to data licensing on the Web of Data

 Vadim Ivanov, Matthias Knorr and Joao Leite. A Query Tool for EL with Non-monotonic rules

 Andriy Nikolov, Andreas Schwarte and Christian Hütter. FedSearch: efficiently combining structured queries and full-text search in a SPARQL federation

 Piero Bonatti and Luigi Sauro. A Confidentiality Model for Ontologies

 Carsten Lutz, Inanc Seylan, David Toman and Frank Wolter. The Combined Approach to OBDA: Taming Role Hierarchies using Filters

 Ziqi Zhang, Anna Lisa Gentile, Eva Blomqvist, Isabelle Augenstein and Fabio Ciravegna. Statistical Knowledge Patterns: Identifying Synonymous Relations in Large Linked Datasets

 Alberto Tonon, Michele Catasta, Gianluca Demartini, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux and Karl Aberer. TRank: Ranking Entity Types Using the Web of Data

 Jay Pujara, Hui Miao, Lise Getoor and William Cohen. Knowledge Graph Identification

 Francesco Osborne, Enrico Motta and Paul Mulholland. Exploring Scholarly Data with Rexplore

 Nadeschda Nikitina and Sven Schewe. Simplifying Description Logic Ontologies

 Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Claudio Giuliano and Alberto Lavelli. Towards an automatic creation of localized versions of DBpedia

 Enrico Franconi, Claudio Gutierrez, Alessandro Mosca, Giuseppe Pirró and Riccardo Rosati. The Logic of Extensional RDFS

 Catia Pesquita, Cosmin Stroe, Daniel Faria, Emanuel Santos, Isabel Cruz and Francisco Couto. What's in a "nym"? Synonyms in Biomedical Ontology Matching

 Sabrina Kirrane, Ahmed Abdelrahman, Alessandra Mileo and Stefan Decker. Secure Manipulation of Linked Data

 Nicolas Matentzoglu, Samantha Bail and Bijan Parsia. A snapshot of the OWL Web

 Natasha F. Noy, Paul Alexander, Rave Harpaz, Trish Whetzel, Raymond Fergerson and Mark Musen. Getting Lucky in Ontology Search: A Data-Driven Evaluation Framework for Ontology Ranking

 Matthew Horridge, Tania Tudorache, Jennifer Vendetti, Csongor Nyulas, Mark Musen and Natasha F. Noy. Simplified Ontology Editing for the Web: Is WebProtege Enough?

 Xingjian Zhang, Dezhao Song, Sambhawa Priya and Jeff Heflin. Infrastructure for Efficient Exploration of Large Scale Linked Data via Contextual Tag Clouds

 Jacopo Urbani, Alessandro Margara, Ceriel Jacobs, Frank Van Harmelen and Henri Bal. DynamiTE: Parallel Materialization of Dynamic RDF Data

 Aibo Tian, Juan F. Sequeda and Daniel Miranker. QODI: Query as Context in Automatic Data Integration

 Chan Le Duc, Myriam Lamolle and Olivier Curé. A decision procedure for SHOIQ with transitive closure of roles

 Danh Le Phuoc, Hoan Nguyen Mau Quoc, Chan Le Van and Manfred Hauswirth. Elastic and scalable processing of Linked Stream Data in the Cloud

 Mariano Rodriguez-Muro, Roman Kontchakov and Michael Zakharyaschev. Ontology-Based Data Access: Ontop of Databases

 Chiara Del Vescovo, Pavel Klinov, Bijan Parsia, Ulrike Sattler, Thomas Schneider and Dmitry Tsarkov. Empirical Study of Logic-Based Modules: Cheap Is Cheerful

 Yujiao Zhou, Yavor Nenov, Bernardo Cuenca Grau and Ian Horrocks. Scalable OWL Query Answering? Yes We Can!

 Varish Mulwad, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi. Semantic Message Passing for Generating Linked Data from Tables


In-Use Track

 Christian Bizer, Kai Eckert, Robert Meusel, Hannes Mühleisen, Michael Schuhmacher and Johanna Völker. Deployment of RDFa, Microdata, and Microformats on the Web – A Quantitative Analysis

 Pierre Chaussecourte, Birte Glimm, Ian Horrocks, Boris Motik and Laurent Pierre. The Energy Management Adviser at EDF

 Chih-Hao Yu, Tudor Groza and Jane Hunter. Reasoning on crowd-sourced semantic annotations to facilitate cataloguing of 3D artefacts in the cultural heritage domain

 Fedelucio Narducci, Matteo Palmonari and Giovanni Semeraro. Cross-language Semantic Retrieval and Linking of E-gov Services

 Amrapali Zaveri, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Cinzia Daraio and Ricardo Pietrobon. Using Linked Data to evaluate the impact of Research and Development in Europe: a Structural Equation Model

 Yves Raimond, Michael Smethurst, Andrew McParland and Christopher Lowis. Using the past to explain the present: interlinking current affairs with archives via the Semantic Web

 Katherine Wolstencroft, Stuart Owen, Olga Krebs, Quyen Ngyuen, Jacky. L. Snoep, Wolfgang Mueller and Carole Goble. Semantic Data and Models Sharing in systems Biology: The Just Enough Results Model and the SEEK Platform

 Sebastian Hellmann, Jens Lehmann, Sören Auer and Martin Brümmer. Integrating NLP using Linked Data

 Martin G. Skjæveland, Espen H. Lian and Ian Horrocks. Publishing the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s FactPages as Semantic Web Data

 Marco Balduini, Emanuele Della Valle, Daniele Dell'Aglio, Themis Palpanas, Mikalai Tsytsarau and Cristian Confalonieri. Social listening of City Scale Events using the Streaming Linked Data Framework

 Roi Blanco, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Peter Mika and Nicolas Torzec. Entity recommendations in Web Search

 Simone Tallevi-Diotallevi, Spyros Kotoulas, Luca Foschini, Freddy Lecue and Antonio Corradi. Real-time Urban Monitoring in Dublin using Semantic and Stream Technologies

 Carole Goble, Alasdair J. G. Gray, Lee Harland, Karen Karapetyan, Antonis Loizou, Ivan Mikhailov, Yrjana Rankka, Stefan Senger, Valery Tkachenko, Antony Williams and Egon Willighagen. Incorporating Private and Commercial Data into an Open Linked Data Platform for Drug Discovery

 Tania Tudorache, Csongor I Nyulas, Natasha F. Noy and Mark Musen. Using Semantic Web in ICD-11: Three Years Down the Road

 Yingjie Hu, Krzysztof Janowicz, Grant Mckenzie, Kunal Sengupta and Pascal Hitzler. A Linked Data-driven Semantically-enabled Journal Portal for Scientometrics

 José Manuel Gómez-Pérez, Esteban García-Cuesta, Aleix Garrido and José Enrique Ruiz. When History Matters - Assessing Reliability for the Reuse of Scientific Workflows

 
Evaluation Track

 Daniele Dell'Aglio, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Marco Balduini, Oscar Corcho and Emanuele Della Valle. On Correctness in RDF stream processor benchmarking

 Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Jérôme Euzenat, Pierre Geneves and Nabil Layaïda. Evaluating and benchmarking SPARQL query containment solvers

 Michelle Cheatham and Pascal Hitzler. String Similarity Metrics for Ontology Alignment

 Jose Mora and Oscar Corcho. Towards a systematic benchmarking of ontology-based query rewriting systems

 Kjetil Kjernsmo and John S. Tyssedal. Introducing Statistical Design of Experiments to SPARQL Endpoint Evaluation

 Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Albert Haque, Felix Leif Keppmann, Andreas Harth, Iliya Enchev, Juan Sequeda, Marcin Wylot, Daniel Miranker, Paul Groth and Sever Fundatureanu. NoSQL Databases for RDF: An Empirical Evaluation

 Carlos Buil Aranda, Aidan Hogan, Jürgen Umbrich and Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche. SPARQL Web-Querying Infrastructure: Ready for Action?

 George Garbis, Kostis Kyzirakos and Manolis Koubarakis. Geographica: A Benchmark for Geospatial RDF Stores

 Dominique Ritze, Heiko Paulheim and Kai Eckert. Evaluation measures for ontology matchers in supervised matching scenarios
 
 Maribel Acosta, Amrapali Zaveri, Elena Simperl, Dimitris Kontokostas, Sören Auer and Jens Lehmann. Crowdsourcing Linked Data Quality Assessment


WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Monday All Day

 3rd International Workshop on Linked Science 2013 (LISC2013) - Supporting  Reproducibility, Scientific Investigations and Experiments - http://linkedscience.org/events/lisc2013

 8th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2013) - http://www.om2013.ontologymatching.org/

 9th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS2013) - http://www.ssws-ws.org/SSWS2013/

 CrowdSem: Crowdsourcing the Semantic Web - http://crowdsem.wordpress.com/

 LD4IE - Linked Data for Information Extraction - http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ld4ie2013/index.html

Monday Morning

 1st International Workshop on Semantic Music and Media (SMAM2013) - http://semanticmedia.org.uk/smam2013

 4th Workshop on Ontology Patterns (WOP2013) - http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2013

Monday Afternoon

 9th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2013) - http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2013

 3rd International Workshop on Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2013) - http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/derive2013

Tuesday All Day

 Doctoral Consortium

 1st International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2013) - http://www.datalift.org/en/event/semstats2013

 4th International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2013) - 2013 Special Theme: Towards Industrial Linked Data Ecosystems - http://db.uwaterloo.ca/cold2013/

 6th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks - http://knoesis.org/ssn2013

 Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology - http://privon.semanticweb.org/

Tuesday Morning

 DBpedia & NLP 2013 - http://nlp-dbpedia2013.blogs.aksw.org/2013/04/25/nlp-dbpedia-workshop-in-oct-2013-iswc-2013-in-sydney/

 WaSABi: Workshop on Semantic Web Enterprise Adoption and Best Practice - http://www.wasabi-ws.org/

Tuesday Afternoon

 2nd International Workshop on Ordering and Reasoning (OrdRing 2013) - http://streamreasoning.org/events/ordring2013

 Semantic Machine Learning and Linked Open Data Application (SML2OD2013) for Agricultural and Environmental Informatics - http://www.csiro.au/SML2OD2013


TUTORIAL PROGRAM

Monday All Day

 Relational Database to RDF (RDB2RDF) Tutorial: The new R2RML and Direct Mapping Standards, from Semantics to Practice (Full Day)

 Stream Reasoning for Linked Data (Full Day)

Monday Morning

 The Web of Things (Half Day) - http://carolinafortuna.com/web-of-things-tutorial/

Monday Afternoon

 Modelling Ontologies Visually (Half Day) - http://www.ontologyengineering.org/iswc2013

Tuesday All Day

 Microtask crowdsourcing to solve Semantic Web problems (Full Day) - https://sites.google.com/site/microtasktutorial/

Tuesday Morning

 The Mobile Semantic Web (Half Day) - http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~yli/iswc2013tut/

 Hands-on Guide to Linked Data Applications (Half Day) - http://www.csiro.au/Organisation-Structure/Divisions/ICT-Centre/Linked-Data-Applications-Tutorial.aspx

Tuesday Afternoon

 Big Data Management Tutorial (Half Day)

 Linked Data for Web Scale Information Extraction (Half Day) - http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/wsie2013/index.html


ORGANISATION

General Chair	
 Chris Welty IBM Research, US

Vice Chair 	
 Dimitrios Georgakopoulos CSIRO, Australia

Local Chair 	
 Kerry Taylor CSIRO, Australia

Local Organiser 	
 Armin Haller CSIRO, Australia
 Maxine Sherrin Web Directions, Australia

Program Chair 	
 Harith Alani Knowledge Media Institute, UK
 Lalana Kagal Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

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We look forward to seeing you at ISWC 2013 in Sydney!