<html><body><p><font size="2">16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017)</font><br><font size="2">Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">*******************************************</font><br><font size="2">*** Still lots of opportunities to get involved in ISWC 2017</font><br><font size="2">*** you can submit your contributions to:</font><br><font size="2">*** Industry Track: until July 20, 2017 (**extended!!**)</font><br><font size="2">*** Poster and Demo session: until July 27, 2017</font><br><font size="2">*** One of the Workshops: until July 21, 2017</font><br><font size="2">*** Semantic Web Challenge: until September 10, 2017</font><br><font size="2">*******************************************</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">Website: </font><font size="2"><a href="http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org">http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org</a></font><br><font size="2">Facebook: </font><font size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847">https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847</a></font><br><font size="2">Twitter: @iswc2017 (</font><font size="2"><a href="https://twitter.com/ISWC2017">https://twitter.com/ISWC2017</a></font><font size="2">)</font><br><font size="2">Overview calls: </font><font size="2"><a href="http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/">http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/</a></font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">In this announcement:</font><br><font size="2">1. ISWC2017 Jam Session</font><br><font size="2">2. Call for Posters and Demos</font><br><font size="2">3. Call for Industry Track Contributions</font><br><font size="2">4. Call for contributions: Workshops</font><br><font size="2">5. Semantic Web Challenge</font><br><font size="2">6. Registration</font><br><font size="2">7. Important dates</font><br><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">1. ISWC Jam Session</font><br><font size="2">==========================================</font><br><font size="2">The ISWC jam session officially returns!</font><br><font size="2">The Semantic Web community is crowded with music lovers and several of our fine researchers are also excellent music players! After the great success of the Sydney-Jam-Session at ISWC2013 we launch the Vienna-Jam-Session at ISWC2017. </font><br><font size="2">This is a call for musicians in the Semantic Web community that want to share their musical skills and contribute to a very fun night after the ISWC 2017 poster and demo session. </font><br><font size="2">We will try and cater for all music tastes: blues, funk, soul jazz, latin… feel free to suggest anything interesting! </font><br><font size="2">If you want to get involved (sharing tunes, ideas, music sheets) request access to the shared drive </font><font size="2"><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B29uZ3ZR9sx4OGtqdlI2NHlJeTQ">https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B29uZ3ZR9sx4OGtqdlI2NHlJeTQ</a></font><br><font size="2">and join the facebook group </font><font size="2"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/420886798297740">https://www.facebook.com/groups/420886798297740</a></font><font size="2">, where we can all contribute with links, videos, suggestions etc.</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">There will be some time to rehearse a bit before the jam, all details will be announced.</font><br><br><font size="2">Jam Session Chairs</font><br><font size="2">* Aldo Gangemi, Université Paris 13, Paris, France</font><br><font size="2">* Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM Research Almaden, US</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">2. Call for Posters and Demos</font><br><font size="2">==========================================</font><br><font size="2">**deadline** July 27, 2017</font><br><font size="2">The ISWC 2017 Posters and Demonstrations complement the paper tracks of the conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters and Demonstrations encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. </font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems (free or commercial), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies, both in academia and in industry. </font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">We explicitly welcome entries from the industry. However, submissions for posters and demos should go beyond pure advertisements of commercial software packages and convey a minimal scientific contribution. </font><br><font size="2">Authors of full papers accepted for the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track are explicitly invited to submit a demonstration.</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">Detailed info: </font><font size="2"><a href="http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-posters-and-demos/">http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-posters-and-demos/</a></font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">Program Chairs</font><br><font size="2">* Nadeschda Nikitina, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK</font><br><font size="2">* Dezhao Song, Thomson Reuters, Eagan, MN, USA</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">3. Call for Industry Track Contributions</font><br><font size="2">==========================================</font><br><font size="2">**deadline** July 20, 2017 (extended!!)</font><br><font size="2">The Industry Track seeks to present the state of adoption of semantic technologies in industrial applications. These technologies may be used in specific industries (e.g., media, financials, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, government, intelligence, etc.) or as a horizontal technology, and in different application areas (e.g., business intelligence, analytics, search, content management, knowledge management, recommendation systems, data integration, etc.). </font><br><font size="2">We welcome contributions about success stories as well as experiences and discussions of obstacles that stand in the way of large scale adoption of certain technologies.</font><br><font size="2">Particular emphasis should be put on the demonstration of business value created by using the semantic technologies. </font><br><font size="2">We encourage the following two categories of submissions:</font><br><font size="2">- Success stories of business-relevant, industrial deployments of Semantic Web technologies</font><br><font size="2">- Position statements that outline potential strategic applications and use cases of semantic technologies</font><br><font size="2">Come and join us at the ISWC 2017 industry track to share your experience!</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">Detailed info: </font><font size="2"><a href="http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-contributions-industry-track-iswc-2017/">http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-contributions-industry-track-iswc-2017/</a></font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">Program Chairs</font><br><font size="2">* Achille Fokoue, IBM Yorktown, NY, USA</font><br><font size="2">* Peter Haase, metaphacts, Walldorf, Germany</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">4. Call for contributions: Workshops</font><br><font size="2">==========================================</font><br><font size="2">The full list of accepted workshops can be found at </font><br><font size="2"><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/workshops/">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/workshops/</a></font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">Please check their individual websites for the specific calls.</font><br><font size="2">The general deadline for workshop is **July 21, 2017** but can be subject to minor variations among different workshops.</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">Full list of accepted workshops:</font><br><font size="2">[BLINK] Benchmarking Linked Data</font><br><font size="2">[BlkMirror] Re-coding Black Mirror</font><br><font size="2">[DeSemWeb] Decentralizing the Semantic Web</font><br><font size="2">[HSSUE] Hybrid Statistical Semantic Understanding and Emerging Semantics</font><br><font size="2">[LD4IE] Linked Data for Information Extraction</font><br><font size="2">[MaCSeW] Managing Changes in the Semantic Web</font><br><font size="2">[NLIWOD] Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data</font><br><font size="2">[OM] Ontology Matching</font><br><font size="2">[PrivOn] Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology</font><br><font size="2">[PROFILES] Dataset PROFlLing and fEderated Search for Web Data</font><br><font size="2">[SemSci] Enabling Open Semantic Science</font><br><font size="2">[SemStats] Semantic Statistics</font><br><font size="2">[SWIT] Semantic Web Technologies for the IoT</font><br><font size="2">[S4BioDiv] Semantics for Biodiversity</font><br><font size="2">[VOILA] Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data</font><br><font size="2">[WHiSe] Humanities in the Semantic Web</font><br><font size="2">[WOMoCoE] Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution</font><br><font size="2">[WOP] Ontology Design and Patterns</font><br><font size="2">[WSP] Web Stream Processing</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">Workshops & Tutorials Chairs</font><br><font size="2">* Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile</font><br><font size="2">* Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">5. Semantic Web Challenge</font><br><font size="2">==========================================</font><br><font size="2">This year’s challenge will be about knowledge graphs, which are currently among the most prominent implementations of Semantic Web technologies. It will be centered around two important tasks for building large-scale knowledge graphs:</font><br><font size="2">Knowledge graph population. Given the name and type of a subject entity, (e.g., a company) and a relation, (e.g., CEO) participants are expected to provide the value(s) for the relation.</font><br><font size="2">Knowledge graph validation. Given a statement about an entity, e.g., the CEO of a company, participants are expected to provide an assessment about the correctness of the statement. For both tasks, users may use a portion of the knowledge graph for training. Furthermore, arbitrary sources (e.g., external datasets, Web pages, etc.) may be used as input.</font><br><font size="2">For both tasks, users may use a portion of the knowledge graph for training. Furthermore, arbitrary sources (e.g., external datasets, Web pages, etc.) may be used as input. Participants may choose to participate in one or both tasks.</font><br><font size="2">The evaluation of challenge participants will be carried out on the Knowledge Graph owned by Thomson Reuters (TR). The KG has a public and a private part; the public part can be used for building and training the candidate systems, the private part will be used for evaluation.</font><br><br><font size="2">Training data is already available at </font><font size="2"><a href="http://permid.org">http://permid.org</a></font><br><font size="2">Test data will be released on August 13th, 2017</font><br><font size="2">The submission deadline for all the tasks is September 10th, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Finalists will be announced on September 15th, 2017</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">The winning team of each task will receive 1000€. The sum will be shared amongst the winning teams if several teams are declared the winners.</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">Further details available at </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/iswc-semantic-web-challenge-2017/"><font size="2">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/iswc-semantic-web-challenge-2017/</font></a><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">Program Chairs</font><br><font size="2">* Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Paderborn, Germany</font><br><font size="2">* Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany</font><br><font size="2">* Dan Bennett, Thomson Reuters, USA</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">6. Registration</font><br><font size="2">==========================================</font><br><font size="2">Early registration is now open!</font><br><font size="2">You can find all details and register at </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/registration/"><font size="2">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/registration/</font></a><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">7. Important Dates</font><br><font size="2">==========================================</font><br><font size="2">Registration starts Open now!!</font><br><font size="2">Doctoral Consortium notifications sent June 30, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Author rebuttal period (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) June 23-27, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Submissions due (Industry track) July 20, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Notifications sent (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 14, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Camera-ready papers for Doctoral Consortium due July 18, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Workshop paper submissions due July 21, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Poster & Demo submissions due July 27, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Camera-ready papers due (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 28, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Notifications sent (Industry track) August 9, 3017</font><br><font size="2">Workshop paper notifications sent August 24, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Poster & Demo notifications sent August 24, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Student activity applications due August 31, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Final version industry track papers due August 31, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Camera-ready copies for Poster & Demo due September 4, 2017</font><br><font size="2">The last day for early registrations September 8, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Workshops & Tutorials October 21 & 22, 2017</font><br><font size="2">Conference October 23, 24 & 25, 2017</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">We thank our platinum sponsor IBM Research and our gold sponsors Siemens, Thomson Reuters, Semantic Web Company, data.world and Big Data Europe for their support. To learn more about ISWC 2017 sponsorship opportunities, please see </font><font size="2"><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/sponsorship/">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/sponsorship/</a></font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">The ISWC Organising Committee (</font><font size="2"><a href="http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/organization/">http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/organization/</a></font><font size="2">)</font><br><BR>
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