iswc2015 opening session
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October 11-15, 2015
Welcome!
Steffen StaabGeneral Chair ISWC2015Univ. Koblenz-Landau & Univ. Southampton
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447 registrants• From 36 countries and 6 continents• From 23 different states in the US
Break down• 146 students• 190 academic employees• 111 industry or government personnel
ISWC 2015 Attendance
ISWC 2015: From Research to Practice
Research• Research Track• Empirical Studies
and Experiments
Applied• In-use and software• Data sets and
ontologies• Industry
Research Program ChairsResearch Track: Marcelo Arenas & Oscar CorchoEmpirical Studies & Evaluation: Elena Simperl & Markus Strohmaier
Research track• 172 submissions, 38 papers accepted• 22% acceptance rate
Empirical Studies and Experiments track• 24 submissions, 7 papers accepted• 29% acceptance rate
Innovation #1: make sure to include additional material properly
• This was generally well done
Statistics – Research Program
Getting your papers accepted. Which country should you belong to?
• Portugal, Russian Federation, Venezuela, Singapore
Who are the most prolific countries?• USA (74 authors), Germany (72), Italy
(49), China (48)
Some key facts about the research track
The team (research track)• Senior PC members: 18• Regular PC members: 152• External reviewers: 99
Reviews• 534 reviews in total• 112 external reviews• 20 papers with four reviews
Innovation #2: encouraged reviewers to sign reviews
• ~10% of reviews signed
Statistics – Reviewing (Research)
The team (ESE track)• PC members: 20• External reviewers: 14
Reviews• 80 reviews in total• 16 external reviews
Statistics – Reviewing (ESE)
Award winner• Maribel Acosta
Runners upKrzysztof Janowicz Irene Celino
Best Reviewer Award – Research Papers
➢Research Track➢Empirical Studies & Evaluation
General Terminology Induction in OWLV. Sazonau, Ul Sattler and G. BrownThursday 2pm (Monroe)
Recursion in SPARQLJ. Reutter, A. Soto and D. VrgocTuesday 4pm (EventCenter)
LOD Lab: Experiments at LOD ScaleL. Rietveld, W. Beek, and S. SchlobachThursday 11:20am (EventCenter)
Nominees for Best Research Paper
➢Research Track➢Empirical Studies & Evaluation
General Terminology Induction in OWLV. Sazonau, Ul Sattler and G. BrownThursday 2pm (Monroe)
LOD Lab: Experiments at LOD ScaleL. Rietveld, W. Beek, and S. SchlobachThursday 11:20am (EventCenter)
A Flexible Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of Evolving RDF Datasets
Y. Roussakis, I. Chrysakis, K. Stefanidis, G. Flouris, and Y. Starakas
Thursday 2:40pm (EventCenter)
Nominees Best Student Research Paper
Wednesday 4pm-5pm (Berks) Send a 1-slide PDF file to Oscar
Corcho ([email protected])• Deadline: Tuesday midnight
You will receive a confirmation and a number specifying the order of your talk
Prepare for a 2-minute talk• Maximum: 30 talks
Lightning Talks
See your session chair 15 minutes before the session
Stick to the schedule as it is – people want to pick specific talks from the schedule
Sands Event Center: presenters must upload their slides in advance
Many more statistics at• http://scientometrics.geog.ucsb.edu/iswc/ • Thanks to Krzysztof Janowicz
Paper Sessions
Applied Program Chairs In-use & software: Mathieu d‘Aquin & Kavitha SrinivasData Sets and Ontologies: Paul Groth & Michel Dumontier
Statistics – Applied Program
In Use and Software34 papers submitted:
23 In-Use, 11 Software14 acceptedAuthors from USA (59),
Germany (28), Ireland (21), UK (20), Italy (17),…
Data Sets and Ontologies
35 papers submitted:15 ontologies, 20 datasets
8 acceptedAuthors from USA (33),
Germany (28), France (10), Brazil (9), UK (8)
➢In-use & software➢Data sets & ontologies
Best Reviewer Award – Applied Papers
Markus Krötzsch Knowledge Systems group
Department of Computer ScienceTechnical University of Dresden
➢In-use & software➢Data sets & ontologies
TR Discover: A Natural Language Interface for Querying and Analyzing Interlinked Datasets [IU&S]
Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder, Charese Smiley, Chris Brew, Tom Zielund, Hiroko Bretz, Robert Martin, Chris Dale, John Duprey, Tim Miller and Johanna Harrison
Building and Using a Knowledge Graph to Combat Human Trafficking [IU&S]
Pedro Szekely, Craig Knoblock, Jason Slepicka, Chengye Yin, Andrew Philpot, Amandeep Singh, Dipsy Kapoor, Prem Natarajan, Daniel Marcu, Kevin Knight, David Stallard, Steve Minton, Brian Amanatullah, Todd Hughes, Mike Tamayo, David Flynt, Rachel Artiss, Shih-Fu Chang, Tao Chen and Subessware S. Karunamoorthy.
Semantic Bridges for Biodiversity Science [D&O]Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Nicholas Del Rio, Deana Pennington and Luis Garnica
Chavira
Nominees for Best Applied Paper
Natasha NoySemantic Web Science Association
➢SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award
➢SWSA 10-year Award
Semantic Web Science Association
➢ Olaf Hartig
Querying a Web of Linked Data:
Foundations and Query Execution
➢ Dezhao Song
Towards a linked Semantic Web:
Precisely, comprehensively and scalably
linking heterogeneous data in the Semantic Web
SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award
➢ Peter Mika
Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks
and semantics
Presented at ISWC 2005 in Galway, Ireland
SWSA 10-year Award
Off to an exciting ISWC-2015 !!!