ISWC 2018

'' ISWC is the premier venue for presenting innovative systems and research results related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data, attracting a large number of high quality submissions every year and participants from both industry and academia. ISWC brings together researchers from different areas, such as artificial intelligence, databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel methods and technologies for accessing, interpreting and using information on the Web in a more effective way.

Besides the main technical program, ISWC will host several workshops on topics related to the general theme of the conference. The role of the workshops is to provide a setting for focused, intensive scientific exchange among researchers and practitioners interested in a specific topic. As such, workshops are the primary venues for the exploration of emerging ideas as well as for the discussion of novel aspects of established research topics. ''

Submissions
All submissions should be submitted in English via EasyChair as a single PDF file not longer than 4 (four) pages containing the following sections: We strongly advise having more than one chair, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic, ideally with a mix of both junior and senior researchers. We also strongly advise to have a maximum of five workshop organisers. We welcome workshops with an innovative structure and a diverse programme which attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. We highly encourage workshops with open review procedure (i.e., publicly available submissions and reviews, non-anonymous reviews). Proposed workshops should have a core theme that is much more selective than the broader scope of the main conference. We may reject or propose to merge workshops that overlap significantly with other workshops in terms of theme. Accepted workshops will be required to prepare a workshop web page containing their call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organisation and timelines. While the ISWC workshop and local chairs will assist with the local organisation of the workshop, the workshop organisers will be responsible for conducting their own reviewing process, for publicity of their workshop, and for publishing electronic proceedings. Workshop attendees must pay the ISWC workshop registration fee as well as the conference registration fee. At least two workshop organisers must be registered before the early registration date ends and ultimately attend the conference and participate in the workshop (the free registration counts towards the two registrations required). At the discretion of the chairs, workshops may be cancelled if organisers have not registered in a timely manner or if a workshop has received too few submissions.’
 * Title and Acronym
 * Workshop Type: established/emerging
 * Abstract: 200 word summary of the workshop purpose
 * Topics: What topics of interest will be covered by the workshop? (Bulleted list; no longer than half a page)
 * Motivation (emerging only): Why is the topic timely and of particular interest to ISWC participants? (One to three paragraphs)
 * Continuation (established only): Why is it worthwhile to continue the workshop in 2018? Discussion may include novel topics that are emerging, external developments that prompt new challenges, etc. Workshops should also argue why they continue to be relevant and maintain a focused identity versus the main conference. (No longer than half a page)
 * Past Workshops (established only): describe the development of the workshop series over the past 3-5 years. Provide quantitative information on submissions and attendance. (No longer than a page)
 * Workshop Format: The intended mix of events, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demos and general discussion (Either a tabular schedule or a one paragraph summary)
 * Audience (emerging only): Who and how many people are likely to attend? (One paragraph)
 * Community (emerging only): Demonstrate that there is an existing community interested in the topic e.g., by providing references for recent papers related to the core topic of the workshop, and/or a discussion why the workshop would attract submissions. (No longer than half a page)
 * Chair(s): Name, affiliation, email address, homepage and short (one paragraph) biography of each chair, explaining the chair’s expertise in the workshop topic and experience in organising relevant events.
 * Program Committee: Names and affiliations of potential PC members (at least 50% of PC members should have confirmed).
 * Proposed Length: Half-day or full-day?

Important Dates

 * Workshop & Tutorial proposals	January 21, 2018
 * Workshop & Tutorial proposals notifications	February 15, 2018
 * Abstracts (Research, In-use, and Resource tracks)	March 30, 2018
 * Papers (Research, In-use, and Resource tracks)	April 6, 2018
 * Doctoral Consortium submissions	April 13, 2018
 * Author rebuttal phase	May 7-11, 2018
 * Doctoral Consortium notifications	May 14, 2018
 * Paper notifications (Research, In-use, and Resource tracks)	May 25, 2018
 * Doctoral Consortium camera-ready submissions	May 28, 2018
 * Industry papers	June 1, 2018
 * Workshop papers	June 1, 2018
 * End of Early Registration period	June 1, 2018
 * Poster & Demo submissions	June 8, 2018
 * Camera-ready papers (Research, In-use, and Resource tracks)	June 15, 2018
 * Industry papers notifications	June 22, 2018
 * Poster & Demo notifications	July 13, 2018
 * Workshop papers notifications	July 13, 2018
 * End of Standard Registration period	July 15, 2018
 * Industry papers camera-ready papers 	July 20, 2018
 * Poster & Demo camera-ready submissions	July 24, 2018
 * Workshops & Tutorials	October 8-9, 2018
 * Main conference	October 10-12, 2018

Committees

 * General Chair
 * has general chair::Elena Simperl, Professor at University of Southampton, UK


 * Local Chair
 * has local chair::Rafael Gonçalves, Research Software Engineer at Stanford University, USA


 * Research Track Chairs
 * has research track chair::Denny Vrandečić, Ontologist at Google, Mountain View, USA
 * has research track chair::Kalina Bontcheva, Senior Researcher at University of Sheffield, UK


 * In-Use Track Chairs
 * has in-use track chair::Irene Celino, Research Manager at Cefriel, Italy
 * has in-use track chair::Marta Sabou, Senior Researcher at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria


 * Resource Track Chairs
 * has resource track chair::Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Assistant Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
 * has resource track chair::Valentina Presutti, Researcher at Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy


 * Journal Chairs
 * has journal chair::Abraham Bernstein, Professor at University of Zurich, Switzerland
 * has journal chair::Pascal Hitzler, Professor at Wright State University, USA
 * has journal chair::Steffen Staab, Professor at University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany


 * Workshop and Tutorial Chairs
 * has workshop chair::Amrapali Zaveri, Postdoctoral Researcher at Maastricht University, Netherlands
 * has workshop chair::Elena Demidova, Senior Researcher at the L3S Research Center in Hannover, Germany


 * Poster and Demo Chairs
 * has demo chair::Medha Atre, Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, India
 * has demo chair::Marieke van Erp, Knaw Humanities Cluster, Netherlands


 * Industry Track Chairs
 * has industry track chair::Vanessa Lopez, Research Engineer at IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland
 * has industry track chair::Kavitha Srinivas, Rivet Labs, USA


 * Doctoral Consortium Chair
 * has doctoral consortium chair::Sabrina Kirrane, Postdoctoral Researcher at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria


 * Sponsorship Chairs
 * has sponsorship chair::Laura Koesten, Research Student at the Open Data Institute, UK
 * has sponsorship chair::Maria Maleshkova, Senior Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
 * has sponsorship chair::Annalisa Gentile, Research Staff Member at IBM Research, San Jose, USA


 * Student Coordinators
 * has student coordinators::Bo Fu, Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach, USA
 * has student coordinators::Anisa Rula, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy


 * Proceedings Chair
 * has proceedings chair::Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Postgraduate Research Student at University of Southampton, UK


 * Metadata Chair
 * has metadata chair::Oana Inel, Student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands


 * Publicity Chair
 * has publicity chair::Maribel Acosta, Research Associate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany


 * Semantic Web Challenge
 * Heiko Paulheim, Professor at University of Mannheim, Germany


 * Local Committee
 * Brigid Neff, Meeting Planner Manager
 * Tania Tudorache, Senior Research Scientist
 * Heidi Wu, Finance Manager
 * Galina Malukhina, Division Manager
 * Mark Musen, Professor