With more than 400 participants every year I-SEMANTICS is one of the largest conferences in Europe in the field of semantic systems and the Semantic Web. It is held concurrently with the I-KNOW Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies. The combination represents a unique approach bridging the gap between highly affiliated communities and complementary research fields.
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Keynotes
We are very excited to present to you the keynoters who we have the honor of presenting at I-SEMANTICS 2012:
Lora Aroyo
Associate Professor of Intelligent Information Systems Web and Media within the Department of Computer Science at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Lora has gained fame through her work on integrating Web and TV data with the help of semantics (watch Social Web & TV scenarious; watch the Social Web & TV demonstrator). Within her keynote she will give insights into this emerging field and its opportunities.Eric Duval
Professor in the research unit on human-computer interaction, at the computer science department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Eric’s current favorite research topics focus on Research 2.0 and Learning Analytics. In his keynote he will present ideas on how to innovate research practices. He will also be a key participant of our Research 2.0 Special Track. In general, Eric’s research focuses on management of and access to structured and unstructured data, including federated search, harvesting, content management, but also more end user oriented aspects like information visualization, mobile information devices, multi-touch displays and mash-ups. Eric has been applying his research results to technology enhanced learning, access to music and ‘research2.0′.
Chris Welty
Research Scientist at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY
Chris is best known for his work on ontologies, in the Semantic Web, and specifically the OntoClean project. Chris will contribute his vast experiences on Semantics to the conference. He is a Research Scientist at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY, and formerly a professor in the Computer Science Department of Vassar College and a distinguished lecturer of the Association for Computing Machinery.
To submit a paper please choose from the following links:
Main Conference
Poster & Demo Track
PhD Track
I-CHALLENGE / Linked Data Cup
Proceedings
I-SEMANTICS 2012 proceedings will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP Series and will contain all accepted papers from the Research & Application track and the I-CHALLENGE. Poster and Demo papers are planned to be published at CEUR-WS.
Conference Topics
As a conference aiming to bring together science and industry, I-SEMANTICS encourages scientific research and application-oriented contributions in the field of Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web and Linked Data. The topics of interest for Research and Application Papers include (but are not limited to):
The Web of Data
- (Large scale) triplification of existing (structured) data
- Vocabularies, taxonomies and schemas for the Web of Data
- Querying, searching and browsing over the Web of Data
- Data integration and interlinking for the Web of Data
- User interaction and innovative visualizations for the Web of Data
- Languages, tools and methodologies for representing, managing and reasoning on the Web of Data
- (Mashup) applications utilizing (large scale) Linked Data resources
- Recommender systems making use of the Web of Data
- Integrating microposts into the Web of Data
- Linked Enterprise Data and (Open) Linked Government Data
- Connecting the Web of Data with real world sensor data
- Location-based services and mobile semantic applications
Quality of Semantic Data on the Web
- Provenance information for the Web of Data
- Large scale ontology inspection and repair
- Co-reference detection and dataset reconciliation
- Maintenance of Linked Data models
- Trust, privacy and security in Semantic Web applications
Corporate Semantic Web
- Corporate thesauri, business vocabularies, ontologies and rules
- Semantic business, e-commerce and m-commerce systems
- Semantic procurement for enterprises and governments
- Semantics, pragmatics and semiotics in organizations
- Enterprise trust and reputation management
Semantic Content Engineering
- Collaborative ontology engineering
- Ontology modularity, alignment and merging
- Ontology design patterns and life cycle management
- Ontology learning and knowledge acquisition
- Quality criteria for collaboratively generated semantic content
- Semantic annotation and tagging
- Making sense of microposts
- Semantic content management systems
Semantic Multimedia
- Semantic-driven multimedia applications
- Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures
- Content-based semantic multimedia analysis and data mining
- Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval
- Named entity recognition and disambiguation in multimedia documents
- Human-computer interfaces for multimedia data access
- Smart visualization and browsing of multimedia documents
- User-generated semantic metadata for multimedia documents
Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks
- Case studies of and benchmarks in semantic systems usage
- Evaluation perspectives, methods and Semantic Web research methodologies
- Technology assessment, acceptance/media choice theories
- Usability and user interaction with semantic technologies
- Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations
(Linked) Data Ecosystems & Markets
- Economic foundations of data assets, markets and data crowd sourcing
- Business and governance models for data commerce
- Production principles and measures of data creation, curation and utilization
- Business models and economic impacts of Linked (Enterprise) Data and/or large scale semantic systems
- Case studies for sector-specific (Linked) Data strategies
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