ICSC 2018

'' Semantic Computing (SC) addresses the derivation, description, integration, and use of semantics (“meaning”, "context", “intention”) for all types of resource including data, document, tool, device, process and people.

The scope of SC includes, but is not limited to, analytics, semantics description languages and integration (of data and services), interfaces, and applications including biomed, IoT, cloud computing, SDN, wearable computing, context awareness, mobile computing, search engines, question answering, big data, multimedia, and services.

The technical program of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2018) will include workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, poster sessions, and more. Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or ongoing work are invited. ''

Topics

 * Analytics (from contents to semantics): Structured data, image and video, audio and speech, big data, natural language, deep learning
 * Description and Integration: Semantics description language, ontology integration, interoperability
 * Use of Semantics in IT Applications: Multimedia, IoT, cloud computing, SDN, wearable computing, mobile computing, search engine, question answering, robotics, web service, security and privacy
 * Use of Semantics in Interdisciplinary Applications such as biomedicine, healthcare, manufacturing, engineering, education, finance, entertainment, business, science, humanity
 * Interface: Natural language, multi-modal

Submissions
Authors are invited to submit an 8-page (regular), 4-page (short), or 6-page (industry) technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format following the guidelines available on the ICSC2018 web page.

All papers will be double blind reviewed. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be selected for the best paper/poster awards and for publication in internationally renowned journals.

Important Dates
September 24, 2017 (PDT)    Workshop Proposals Deadline October 1, 2017 (PDT)       Abstract Submission Deadline October 29, 2017 (PDT)      (Extended) Full Paper Submission Deadline December 8, 2017 (PST)      (Extended) Notification of Acceptance December 15, 2017 (PST)     Workshop Paper Submission Deadline December 31, 2017 (PST)     Camera-ready and Registration Deadline

Committees

 * General Co-Chairs
 * has general co-chair::Dick Bulterman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 * has general co-chair::Atsushi Kitazawa, NEC Solution Innovators, Japan
 * has general co-chair::David Ostrowski, Ford, USA
 * has general co-chair::Phillip Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA


 * Program Committee Co-Chairs
 * has program co-chair::Michael Bloodgood, The College of New Jersey, USA
 * has program co-chair::Jianquan Liu, NEC, Japan
 * has program co-chair::Fabio Persia, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
 * has program co-chair::Elin Anna Topp, Lund University - LTH, Sweden


 * Publicity Committee Co-Chairs
 * has publicity committee co-chair::Maurizio Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy
 * has publicity committee co-chair::Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada
 * has publicity committee co-chair::Biswanath Dutta, Indian Statistical Institute
 * has publicity committee co-chair::Ryutaro Ichise, NII, Japan
 * has publicity committee co-chair::Sangjun Lee, Soongsil University, Korea
 * has publicity committee co-chair::Ansgar Scherp, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
 * has publicity committee co-chair::Mustafa Sert, Başkent University, Turkey
 * has publicity committee co-chair::Jun Takamatsu, NAIST, Japan


 * Workshop and Special Session Committee Co-Chairs
 * has workshop chair::Srividya Bansal, Arizona State University, USA
 * has workshop chair::Cristiane Chaves Gattaz, Centro Universitário da FEI, Brazil
 * has workshop chair::Daniela D'Auria, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
 * has workshop chair::Mohammad Farazi, Birmingham City University, UK
 * has workshop chair::Robert Mertens, HSW University of Applied Sciences, Hamelin, Germany
 * has workshop chair::Salim Perchy, IARIA, France
 * has workshop chair::Giovanni Pilato, Italian National Research Council, Italy
 * has workshop chair::Lubomir Stanchev, Cal Poly, USA
 * has workshop chair::Guigang Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China


 * Publication and Registration Chair
 * has publication chair::Bryan Chou, University of California, Irvine, USA


 * Finance and Local Arrangement Chair
 * has finance chair::Taehyung Wang, California State University Northridge, USA


 * Program Committee
 * has PC member::Agnese Augello, National Research Council, Italy
 * has PC member::Maurizio Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy
 * has PC member::Sören Auer, University of Bonn & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
 * has PC member::Mathieu Barthet, Queen Mary University of London, UK
 * has PC member::Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy
 * has PC member::Roberto Basili, Univ. of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
 * has PC member::Gábor Bella, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Mårten Björkman, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
 * has PC member::Jean-Pierre Briot, Université Paris 6 – CNRS, France
 * has PC member::Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale - CNR, Italy
 * has PC member::Simon Clippingdale, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Japan
 * has PC member::Matthew Cooper, FX Palo Alto Lab, USA
 * has PC member::Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
 * has PC member::Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy
 * has PC member::Daniela D'Auria, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
 * has PC member::Alexander Dekhtyar, California Polytechnic State University, USA
 * has PC member::Lingjia Deng, University of Pittsburgh, USA
 * has PC member::Julian Dolby, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
 * has PC member::Shyamala Doraisamy, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
 * has PC member::Markus Endler, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 * has PC member::Sina Fakhraee, Ford Motors, USA
 * has PC member::Margaret Fleck, University of Illinois, USA
 * has PC member::Mouzhi Ge, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
 * has PC member::Vito Gentile, University of Palermo, Italy
 * has PC member::Joseph Giampapa, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 * has PC member::Rafael S Gonçalves, Stanford University, USA
 * has PC member::William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA
 * has PC member::Rodrigo Guido, São Paulo State University
 * has PC member::Masahiro Hayakawa, NEC Solution Innovators, Japan
 * has PC member::Takahiro Hayashi, Niigata University, Japan
 * has PC member::Sven Helmer, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
 * has PC member::Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University, Findland
 * has PC member::Ignazio Infantino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
 * has PC member::Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University, Japan
 * has PC member::Yueying Kao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
 * has PC member::Makoto P. Kato, Kyoto University, Japan
 * has PC member::John Kender, Columbia University, USA
 * has PC member::Marouane Kessentini, University of Michigan, USA
 * has PC member::Atsushi Keyaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
 * has PC member::Fakheredine Keyrouz, A Notre Dame University, Lebanon
 * has PC member::Tracy Holloway King, eBay, USA
 * has PC member::Shuichi Kurabayashi, Keio University, Japan
 * has PC member::Marco La Cascia, University of Palermo, Italy
 * has PC member::Xirong Li, Renmin University, China
 * has PC member::Jacek Malec, Lund University, Sweden
 * has PC member::Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Umberto Maniscalco, CNR, Italy
 * has PC member::Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Italy
 * has PC member::Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research of Technology, Hellas, Greece
 * has PC member::Fionn Murtagh, University of Derby; Goldsmiths University of London, UK
 * has PC member::Shinichi Nagano, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
 * has PC member::Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
 * has PC member::Pierre Nugues, Lund University, Sweden
 * has PC member::Klimis Ntalianis, Athens University of Applied Sciences, Greece
 * has PC member::Fabrizio Milazzo, University of Palermo, Italy
 * has PC member::Oscar Martinez Mozos, Techn. University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain
 * has PC member::Lazaros Nalpantidis, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
 * has PC member::Klimis Ntalianis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 * has PC member::Giovanni Pilato, Italian National Research Council, Italy
 * has PC member::Arianna Pipitone, University of Palermo, Italy
 * has PC member::Luigi Pontieri, ICAR, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
 * has PC member::Pathmeswaran Raju, Birmingham City University, UK
 * has PC member::Antonio Rinaldi, University of Naples, Italy
 * has PC member::Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Germany
 * has PC member::Irene Russo, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale - CNR Pisa, Italy
 * has PC member::Nestor Rychtyckyj, Ford, USA
 * has PC member::Anton Rytting, University of Maryland, USA
 * has PC member::Pasi Saari, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
 * has PC member::Alessandro Saffiotti, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
 * has PC member::Mark Sandler, Queen Mary University of London, UK
 * has PC member::Salvatore Sorce, University of Palermo, Italy
 * has PC member::Hiroyuki Shigematsu, NEC Solution Innovators, Japan
 * has PC member::Hiroaki Shiokawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
 * has PC member::Masumi Shirakawa, Hapicom, Japan
 * has PC member::Alkis Simitsis, HP Labs, USA
 * has PC member::Sahar Sohangir, Florida Atlantic University, USA
 * has PC member::Leonel Sousa, INESC-ID, IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 * has PC member::Benjamin Strauss, The Ohio State University, USA
 * has PC member::Yu Suzuki, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
 * has PC member::Marc Verhagen, Brandeis University, USA
 * has PC member::Shoko Wakamiya, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
 * has PC member::Xiaoyu Wang, Snapchat, USA
 * has PC member::Takehiro Yamamoto, Kyoto University, Japan
 * has PC member::Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA
 * has PC member::Qiusha Zhu, SENZARI Inc., USA
 * has PC member::Amal Zouaq, University of Ottawa, Canada


 * Additional Reviewers
 * Ramón Barber Castaño, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 * Muhao Chen, UCLA, USA
 * Julien Corman, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
 * Danilo Croce, Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Italy
 * Vitor Pinheiro de Almeida, IBM Research, Brazil
 * Simone Filici, Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Italy
 * Davide Lanti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
 * Paul Rodrigues, University of Maryland, USA
 * Poorva Sharma, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
 * Vinitha Subburaj, West Texas A&M University, USA
 * Andrea Vanzo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy