CALL FOR PAPERS

The Semantic Web and Applications (SWA) track (https://sites.google.com/view/sac2022-swa/home) 
in the 37th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC) 2022. (http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2022/)
will be held in Brno, Czech Republic.
April 25 - April 29, 2022.

ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING
For the past thirty one years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum 
for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. 
ACM SAC 2019 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is hosted by
University of Cyprus, Cyprus.

SEMANTIC WEB AND APPLICATIONS TRACK CALL FOR PAPERS
The technical track "The Semantic Web and Applications (SWA)" focuses on the topics related to 
Semantic Web Technologies and their Applications. The techniques to realize and/or utilize 
the Semantic Web are discussed in this track. 
The focus of this track is to present research concerning issues such as: 1) learning/constructing ontologies 
for Semantic Web applications; 2) utilizing ontologies for data management, integration and interoperability 
in Semantic web applications; 3) architectures for achieving Semantic Web goals for specific application domains; 
and 4) improving search techniques (or engines) with Semantic Web technologies. 
This track aims to tackle research problems and practical applications for the Semantic Web. 
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers on the theoretical, technical and practical issues 
of Semantic Web and its Applications. We are particularly interested in applying Semantic Web technologies 
to specific application domains (e.g., e-learning, e-business, social network, geographic information system, 
medical informatics and bioinformatics).

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Semantic Big Data
Semantic interoperability
Ontology-enabled interoperability among e-sources
Emergent semantics
Ontology, Taxonomy, and Folksonomy
Schema mapping/matching and integration
Learning structures from the Web for Semantic Web-enabled applications
Ontology generation/learning
Building/utilizing ontologies and knowledge bases
Semantics and ontologies in data integration
Ontology-enabled search (engines)
Semantic Web-enabled search (engines)
Semantic web-enabled question answering system
Ontology-enabled information retrieval
Semantic Web-enabled information retrieval
Semantic Web-enabled Information extraction
Full-text search in XML and/or Semantic Web documents
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Data management and integration for Semantic Web-enabled applications
Semantic annotation
Semantic Web personalization
Semantic Web-enabled user modeling
Semantic Web services
Reasoning
Querying the Semantic Web
Semantic Web mining
Question Answering over the Semantic Web
Text mining for Semantic Web-enabled application
Natural language processing for Semantic Web-enabled application
Semantic Social Network
Semantic Social Informatics
Recommendations via Semantic Technologies
Semantic Technologies
Semantic Knowledge Discovery
Visual Analytics with Semantics
Data Analytics with Semantics
Semantic aspects in Privacy and Security of Semantic Web Applications
Semantic aspects in Social Network
Semantic aspects in Geographic Information System
Geospatial semantics and the Semantic Web
Deep learning (or neural network) on semantics
Deep learning (or neural network) on NLP
Applying Semantic Web technologies to e-learning, e-business, social network, 
geographic information system, medical informatics, bioinformatics, and legal domains

SUBMISSION TYPES
Authors are invited to submit original papers. 
Top papers will be invited to extend and submit it to an international journal.

Submissions should fall into the following categories: 
• Original and unpublished research work 
• Reports of innovative computing applications in sciences, engineering, and business areas 
• Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains 
• Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems 

Each paper will be double-blindly reviewed by at least three reviewers; 
this is an ACM requirement as SAC is a “Refereed Conference”. 
Please adhere to this requirement when you prepare for your paper. 
Double-blindly means that the author of a paper does not know the reviewers of his/her paper and 
reviewers do not know the authors of the papers they reviewed.
Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings and ACM digital library. 

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES
Authors are invited to submit original papers in PDF format. 
Since the track papers will be published by ACM proceedings, 
authors must submit manuscripts using the ACM format. 
See ACM SAC author kit (http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2022/authorkit.html) for template files and details.

Regular papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. 
Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages at additional fee of US$80 per page.
Posters are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. 
Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page at additional fee of US$80. 
Regular paper submission site: http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2022/submission.html

SRC Abstracts are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages allowed. 

The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference 
should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. 
Only the title should be shown on the top of the first page without the author's information.
A paper cannot be submitted to more than one track.
All paper submissions MUST BE "Original, unpublished work."

Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. 
An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster 
to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in 
excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library.

STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION 
As before, SAC 2022 organizes a Student Research Competition (SRC) Program to provide graduate students 
the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. 
Submission to the SRC program should be in electronic form via The Student Research Abstract SUBMISSION page 
(http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2022/submission_src.html) in the conference web site as a PDF file.

IMPORTANT DUE DATES
October 15, 2021:	Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts
December 10, 2021:	Notification Paper acceptance/rejection and SRC Acceptance
December 21, 2021:	Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC
December 21, 2021:	Author registration due date

April 28, 2022: 		SRC Oral Presentations
April 27, 2022:		Non-SRC Posters Program
April 26, 2022: 		SRC Posters Exhibit

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Hyoil Han, Illinois State University, USA 
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA 
Sangsoo Sung, Google Inc., USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Idir Amine Amarouche, USTHB/Bab Ezzouar, Algeria
Sofia Athenikos, Twitter, USA
Monalessa Perini Barcellos, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil
Ioan Marius Bilasco, Université Lille 1, France
Andrea Cimmino, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
Heito Barros, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
Carlos Bobed , University of Zaragoza, Spain
Loris Bozzato, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Julio Cesar dos Reis, University of Campinas, Brazil
Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy
Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
Samhaa El-Beltagy, Cairo University, Egypt
Ricardo Falbo, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil
Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy
Bouarab-Dahmani Farida, Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria
Said Fathalla, University of   Bonn, Germany
Fatiha Saïs, LRI - Paris Saclay University, France
Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Sven Groppe, IFIS University of Lubeck, Germany
Marcelo de Paiva Guimarães, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Lavdim Halilaj, Robert Bosch GmbH
Ramon Hermoso, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Xiang Ji, Facebook, USA
Petr Kremen, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
SangKeun Lee, Korea University, Korea
Valeria Magalhães Pequeno, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, TechLab, Portugal
Miguel A. Martínez-Prieto, University of Valladolid, Spain
Bruno Martins, Instituto Superior Técnico, INESC-ID, Portugal
Jun Miyazaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Fabio Mercorio, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Tarmo Robal, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Sana Sellami, Aix-Marseille University, France
Dongwan Shin, New Mexico Tech
Marlos Silva, Instituto Federal de Alagoas
Andrea Tettamanzi, Nice Sophia Antipolis University, France

CONTACT
For further information on this track, please contact the SWA program chairs:
hyoil.han@acm.org, soon.chun@csi.cuny.edu, or sangsoos@google.com.