ESWC2006

The ESWC2006 is the title:=3rd European Semantic Web Conference, taking place from 11 - end date:=14 June 2006 in has location city::Budva (has location country::Montenegro). For further information, see web site:=http://www.eswc2006.org/.

Description
The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's web via the exploitation of machine-processable meta data. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, accompanied with domain theories (Ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together an incredibly large network of human knowledge and will complement it with machine processability. Various automated services will help the user to achieve goals by accessing and providing information in machine-understandable form. This process may ultimately create truly knowledgeable systems with various specialized reasoning services systems. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Human Language Technology, Machine Learning, Databases, Multimedia Systems, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision.

The 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006) will present the latest results in research and application in semantic web technologies (including knowledge mark-up languages, semantic web services, ontology management and more). ESWC 2006 will also feature a special industry-oriented event providing European industry with an opportunity to become even more familiar with these technologies. It will offer a tutorial program to get up to speed with European and global developments in this exciting new area.

ESWC 2006 is co-located with general assembly of the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence. Workshops and meetings of other European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects involved in the semantic web and semantic web technologies will be able to showcase their developments. In particular we will welcome the new projects accepted at the EU IST 4th Call.

ESWC 2006 is sponsored by SDK - a group of three European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects known as SEKT, DIP and Knowledge Web. Together these projects aim to improve world-wide research and standardisation in the area of the Semantic Web. For more information on SDK, please visit www.sdk-cluster.org.

Submissions
ESWC 2006 welcomes the submission of excellent original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of the semantic web, particularly those relating to the subject areas indicated by the topics below. We particularly encourage the submission of papers relating to industrial efforts and experiences with semantic web projects. We also encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical and applications papers.

The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing for ESWC 2006 will be electronic, via the conference WWW site: http://www.eswc2006.org/. Papers, due to November 28th, 2005, should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in Springer LNCS format.

Conference Topics of Interest and Area Keywords
Topics of interest to the conference include (but are not restricted to):


 * Ontology Management (e.g. creation, evolution, evaluation)
 * Ontology Alignment (e.g. mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)
 * Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (including e.g. HLT and ML approaches)
 * Multimedia and Semantic Web
 * Semantic Annotation of Data
 * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
 * Semantic Web Rules and Query Languages
 * Reasoning on the Web (e.g. scalability, fuzziness, distribution)
 * Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web
 * Personalization and User Modelling
 * User Interfaces and Semantic Web
 * Semantic Grid and Middleware
 * Semantic Web Services (e.g. description, discovery, invocation, composition)
 * Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
 * Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Health, e-Learning, e-Science
 * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web
 * Data Semantics and Web Semantics
 * Semantic Interoperability
 * Semantic Web Mining

We particularly welcome application papers which clearly show benefits of semantic web technologies in practical settings.

Organisation Committee

 * Chair: has general chair::John Domingue (The Open University, UK)
 * Programme Chair: has program chair::York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, DE)
 * Workshop Chair: has workshop chair::Holger Wache (VU Amsterdam, NL)
 * Semantic Web Technologies Coordinator: has OC member::Tom Heath (The Open University, UK)

Program committee
Programme committee:
 * has PC member::Andreas Abecker (FZI Karlsruhe, DE)
 * has PC member::Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant Inc., US)
 * has PC member::Jürgen Angele (Ontoprise, DE)
 * has PC member::Anupriya Ankolekar (University of Karlsruhe, DE)
 * has PC member::Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK)
 * has PC member::Richard Benjamins (iSOCO, ES)
 * has PC member::Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich, CH)
 * has PC member::Walter Binder (EPFL, CH)
 * has PC member::Elena Paslaru Bontas (FU Berlin, DE)
 * has PC member::Kalina Bontcheva (University Sheffield, UK)
 * has PC member::Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento, IT)
 * has PC member::Jeen Broekstra (Technical University Eindhoven and Aduna, NL)
 * has PC member::Jos de Bruijn (DERI Innsbruck, AT)
 * has PC member::Francois Bry (University of Munich, DE)
 * has PC member::Paul Buitelaar (DFKI Saarbruecken, DE)
 * has PC member::Christoph Bussler (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA)
 * has PC member::Liliana Cabral (Open University, UK)
 * has PC member::Jeremy J. Carroll (HP Labs, UK)
 * has PC member::Nigel Collier (National Institute of Informatics, JP)
 * has PC member::Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester, UK)
 * has PC member::Isabel Cruz (University Illinois at Chicago, US)
 * has PC member::Hamish Cunningham (University Sheffield, UK)
 * has PC member::John Davies (BT, UK)
 * has PC member::Grit Denker (SRI, US)
 * has PC member::Joerg Diederich (L3S and University of Hannover, DE)
 * has PC member::Ying Ding (University of Innsbruck, AT)
 * has PC member::Martin Dzbor (Open University, UK)
 * has PC member::Andreas Eberhart (Hewlett Packard, DE)
 * has PC member::Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, FR)
 * has PC member::Boi Faltings (EPFL Lausanne, CH)
 * has PC member::Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck and DERI, AT)
 * has PC member::Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT)
 * has PC member::Fabien Gandon (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, FR)
 * has PC member::Aldo Gangemi (CNR, IT)
 * has PC member::Mari Georges (ILOG, FR)
 * has PC member::Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, IT)
 * has PC member::Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK)
 * has PC member::Christine Golbreich (University of Rennes, FR)
 * has PC member::Asun Gomez-Perez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES)
 * has PC member::Marko Grobelnik (J. Stefan Institute, SL)
 * has PC member::Nicola Guarino (CNR, IT)
 * has PC member::Volker Haarslev (Concordia University, CA)
 * has PC member::Axel Hahn (University of Oldenburg, DE)
 * has PC member::Siegfried Handschuh (FZI Karlsruhe, DE)
 * has PC member::Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
 * has PC member::Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, US)
 * has PC member::Nicola Henze (University of Hannover, DE)
 * has PC member::Martin Hepp (University of Innsbruck and DERI, AT)
 * has PC member::Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, DE)
 * has PC member::Masahiro Hori (Kansai University, JP)
 * has PC member::Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester, UK)
 * has PC member::Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel, DE)
 * has PC member::Jane Hunter (University of Queensland, AU)
 * has PC member::Eero Hyvnen (University of Helsinki, FI)
 * has PC member::Vangelis Karkaletsis (NCSR Demokritos, GR)
 * has PC member::Vipul Kashyap (Clinical informatics R)
 * has PC member::Paulo Pinheiro da Silva (University of Texas at El Paso, US)