ISWC2006

The 5th International Semantic Web Conference is held in located in::Athens, Georgia. Accepted research papers of ISWC2006 are listed in the separate article ISWC2006 papers. An unofficial but readable conference schedule is found at http://schedule.semanticweb.org.

ISWC2006 had an acceptance rate of acceptance rate:=24%.

Research/Academic Track
The dream of the Web was to create a human communication and collaboration platform for sharing knowledge custom term paper and enabling a universal space for information and services. We all are now much more connected, and in turn face new resulting problems: service and information overload caused by insufficient support for information selection, organization and collaboration. The Semantic Web, by providing standards for formulating and distributing metadata and ontologies, enables means for information organization and selective access. However, the Semantic Web requires new infrastructure on all levels - e.g., human-computer interaction, expressive representation and query languages, reasoning engines, data representation and integration, interoperability middleware, and distributed computing.

To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, the International Semantic Web Conference brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, and human-computer interaction.

The Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006) follows on the success of previous conferences and workshops in Galway, Ireland (2005), Hiroshima, Japan (2004), Sanibel Island, USA (2003), Sardinia, Italy (2002), and Stanford, USA (2001).

The research track of ISWC2006 solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical and practical aspects of Semantic Web research.

The papers that have been accepted for ISWC 2006 are listed at ISWC2006 papers.

Topics of Interest
Topics include, but are not limited to:

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 * Applications of Semantic Web technologies with clear lessons learned
 * Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and e-learning, e-health, digital libraries, tourism, mobile & ubiquitous applications, digital TV
 * Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data
 * Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
 * Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution
 * Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
 * Database technologies for the Semantic Web
 * Semantic Web middleware
 * Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web
 * Semantic Web services
 * Agents on the Web
 * Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security
 * Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
 * Social software
 * Semantic multimedia
 * Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids
 * Searching, querying, visualizing and interpreting the Semantic Web
 * Evaluation of Semantic Web techniques
 * The Semantic Desktop
 * User-centered Semantic Web applications and/or interaction design
 * Security for the Semantic Web

Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions.

Papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission site. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. Formatted papers must be no longer than 14 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. ISWC2006 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance.

Workshops
Below is the complete ISWC2006 workshop programme. Please refer to the events' webpages for latest information on timing and registration.

The same information in a timeline:

Tutorials
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Program committee

 * has PC member::José Luis Ambite, USC-ISI, USA
 * has PC member::Troels Andreasen, Roskilde Univ., Denmark
 * has PC member::Anupriya Ankolekar, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Wolf-Tilo Balke, University of Hannover, Germany
 * has PC member::Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, UK
 * has PC member::Zohra Bellahsene, Université Montpellier II, France
 * has PC member::Richard Benjamins, ISOCO S.A., Spain
 * has PC member::Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Walter Binder, EPFL, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
 * has PC member::Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::François Bry, University of Munich, Germany
 * has PC member::Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany
 * has PC member::Liliana Cabral, The Open University, UK
 * has PC member::Andrea Cali, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
 * has PC member::Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
 * has PC member::Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Italy
 * has PC member::Silvana Castano, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 * has PC member::Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, USA
 * has PC member::Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway
 * has PC member::Philipp Cimiano, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Kendall Clark, Mindlab, University of Maryland, USA
 * has PC member::Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
 * has PC member::Ion Constantinescu, EPFL, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester, UK
 * has PC member::Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, EPFL, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK
 * has PC member::Jos de Bruijn, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * has PC member::David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
 * has PC member::Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
 * has PC member::Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA
 * has PC member::Keith Decker, University of Delaware
 * has PC member::Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH, Germany
 * has PC member::Grit Denker, SRI International, USA
 * has PC member::Ian Dickinson, Hewlett Packard, UK
 * has PC member::John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
 * has PC member::Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
 * has PC member::Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
 * has PC member::Martin Dzbor, KMI, Open University, UK
 * has PC member::Lim Ee-Peng, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
 * has PC member::Max Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA
 * has PC member::Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
 * has PC member::Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA, France
 * has PC member::Boi Faltings, EPFL, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * has PC member::Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
 * has PC member::Fred Fonseca, Penn State, USA
 * has PC member::Gerhard Friedrich, University Klagenfurt, Austria
 * has PC member::Aldo Gangemi, CNR-ISTC, Italy
 * has PC member::Vladimir Geroimenko, University of Plymouth, UK
 * has PC member::Nick Gibbins, University of Southampton, UK
 * has PC member::Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
 * has PC member::Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
 * has PC member::Christine Golbreich, Université de Rennes 1, France
 * has PC member::Asuncion Gomez-Perez, UPM, Spain
 * has PC member::Marko Grobelnik, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
 * has PC member::William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
 * has PC member::Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada,
 * has PC member::Mohand-Said Hacid, Univ. Lyon 1, France
 * has PC member::Sung-Kuk Han, Wonkwang University, Korea
 * has PC member::Siegfried Handschuh, National Unversity of Ireland in Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University, USA
 * has PC member::Kaoru Hiramatsu, NTT CS Lab, Japan
 * has PC member::Masahiro Hori, Kansai University, Japan
 * has PC member::Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK
 * has PC member::Jane Hunter, DSTC, Australia
 * has PC member::Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
 * has PC member::Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * has PC member::Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
 * has PC member::Takahiro Kawamura, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
 * has PC member::Rich Keller, NASA Ames, USA
 * has PC member::Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
 * has PC member::Roger King, University of Colorado, USA
 * has PC member::Yasuhiko Kitamura, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
 * has PC member::Michel Klein, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherland
 * has PC member::Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany
 * has PC member::Yiannis Kompatsiaris, ITI, Thessaloniki, Grece
 * has PC member::Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
 * has PC member::Thibaud Latour, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
 * has PC member::Georg Lausen, Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
 * has PC member::David Leake, Indiana University, USA
 * has PC member::Domenico Lembo, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
 * has PC member::Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
 * has PC member::Fernanda Lima, Universidade Católica de Brasílica, Brazil
 * has PC member::Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA
 * has PC member::Joanne Luciano, Harvard Medical School, USA
 * has PC member::Bob MacGregor, Siderean Software, USA
 * has PC member::David Maluf, NASA Ames, USA
 * has PC member::David Martin, SRI, USA
 * has PC member::Mihhail Matskin, KTH, Sweden
 * has PC member::Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
 * has PC member::Brian McBride, Hewlett Packard, Bristol, UK
 * has PC member::Luke McDowell, United States Naval Academy, USA
 * has PC member::Deborah McGuinness, KSL, Stanford University, USA
 * has PC member::Simon Miles, University of Southampton, UK
 * has PC member::Prasenjit Mitra, Pennsylvania State University, USA
 * has PC member::Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan
 * has PC member::Marina Mongiello, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
 * has PC member::Pavlos Moraitis, René Descartes University, France
 * has PC member::Boris Motik, University of Manchester, UK
 * has PC member::Enrico Motta, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK
 * has PC member::John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
 * has PC member::Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
 * has PC member::Tim Oates, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
 * has PC member::Sam Gyun Oh, SungKyunKwan University, Korea
 * has PC member::Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
 * has PC member::Yue Pan, IBM China Research Laboratory, China
 * has PC member::Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Euro-labs, Germany
 * has PC member::Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK
 * has PC member::Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs, USA
 * has PC member::Terry Payne, University of Southampton, UK
 * has PC member::Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso
 * has PC member::Dimitris Plexousakis, FORTH, University of Crete, Greece
 * has PC member::Line Pouchard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
 * has PC member::Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Germany
 * has PC member::Yuzhong Qu, Southeast University, China
 * has PC member::Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina, USA
 * has PC member::Chantal Reynaud, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay - LRI, France
 * has PC member::Mark Roantree, Dublin City University, Ireland
 * has PC member::Andrea Rodriguez, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
 * has PC member::Alan Ruttenberg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, USA
 * has PC member::Henryk Rybinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
 * has PC member::Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK
 * has PC member::Norman Sadeh, CMU, USA
 * has PC member::Fereidoon Sadri, University of North Carolina, USA
 * has PC member::Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK
 * has PC member::Michel Scholl, CNAM, France
 * has PC member::mc schraefel, University of Southampton, UK
 * has PC member::Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Michael Schumacher, EPFL, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA
 * has PC member::Wolf Siberski, University of Hannover, Germany
 * has PC member::Carles Sierra, IIIA/CSIC, Spain
 * has PC member::Nuno Silva, ISEP, Portugal
 * has PC member::Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
 * has PC member::Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany
 * has PC member::Andrzej Skowron, Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Poland
 * has PC member::Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen, UK
 * has PC member::Steffen Staab, Univerity of Koblenz, Germany
 * has PC member::Giorgos Stamou, University of Athens, Greece
 * has PC member::Lynn Andrea Stein, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, USA
 * has PC member::Umberto Straccia, ISTI-NCR, Italy
 * has PC member::Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universität Mannheim, Germany
 * has PC member::Rudi Studer, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
 * has PC member::York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 * has PC member::Said Tabet, Inferware Corp., USA
 * has PC member::Hideaki Takeda, National Institute for Informatics, Japan
 * has PC member::Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
 * has PC member::Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania, USA
 * has PC member::Herman ter Horst, Philips Research, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
 * has PC member::Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
 * has PC member::Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin
 * has PC member::Raphaël Troncy, CWI, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete, Greece
 * has PC member::Andrzej Uszok, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * has PC member::Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Ubbo Visser, University of Bremen, Germany
 * has PC member::Dan Vodislav, CNAM, France
 * has PC member::Christopher Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
 * has PC member::Graham Wilcock, University of Helsinki, Finland
 * has PC member::Steve Willmott, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
 * has PC member::Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK
 * has PC member::Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan
 * has PC member::Guizhen Yang, SRI International, USA
 * has PC member::Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
 * has PC member::Yong Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
 * has PC member::Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
 * has PC member::Djamel A. Zighed, University of Lyon, France