iswc2015 opening session

October 11-15, 2015

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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 (ocorcho@fi.upm.es)• 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 !!!