The document provides an overview of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). ESWC is the main European conference on semantic technologies that has been organized annually since 2004. In 2010, it had approximately 300 participants. ESWC features a multi-track technical program, invited speakers, posters, demos, workshops, tutorials, a PhD symposium, and co-located events. It is coordinated by an international steering committee and will be held in Paphos, Cyprus in 2012.

1. Extended Semantic Web Conference
ESWC
Elena Simperl
STI Board, Crete, May 2011
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2. Overview
• Main European conference on semantic technologies.
• Organized since 2004, multi-track since 2010.
• Number of participants in 2010: ~ 300.
• Coordinated by Steering Committee
– Chair: John Domingue, KMI, The Open University, UK & STI
International, AT
– Members:
• Lora Aroyo, VU University of Amsterdam, NL
• Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester School of Computer Science, UK
• Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK
• Enrico Franconi, KRDB Research Centre, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,
IT
• Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University, FI
• Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
• Paolo Traverso, FBK, Center for Information Technology - IRST, IT
– Rules: GC of last four events, PCs of the last four events who have
not acted as GC.
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3. Structure of the conference
• Technical program organized into tracks
• Invited speakers
• Posters and demos
• Workshops
• Tutorials
• PhD symposium
• Co-located events
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4. Technical program
• Tracks (26 chairs)
– Social Web and Web Science
– Ontologies
– Reasoning
– Semantic Data Management
– Linked Open Data
– Software and Services
– Natural Language Processing
– Sensor web
– Mobile Web
– Semantic Web In-Use
– Special tracks: Inductive and probabilistic reasoning/Digital libraries
• Papers received: 247
• Accepted: 58
• Rejected:189
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5. • Invited speakers: 6 + 1
• 7 years award
– Fausto Giunchiglia, Pavel Shvaiko, Mikalai Yatskevich: S-
Match: an Algorithm and an Implementation of Semantic
Matching.
– Runner-up: Marc Ehrig, York Sure: Ontology Mapping -
An Integrated Approach.
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6. Co-located events
• Project-specific: Insemtives, digital libraries,
eGovernment
• Proposal day
• AI Mashup challenge
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7. Location
• 2012: Paphos, Cyprus
• 2013: TBC
• From 2014 on: call for bids
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