Welcome to the Seventh International Semantic Web Conference Karlsruhe

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Welcome to the Seventh International Semantic
Web Conference Karlsruhe
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SWSA ISWC 2010

• The Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA)
  elected new officers
• President Jim Hendler
• Vice-Presidents Richiiro Mizoguchi, Guus
  Schreiber
• Treasurer Jerome Euzenat
• Secretary Natasha Noy
• ISWC 2010 will be held in Shanghai early in
  November 2010

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Presenters please fill out release form and use
special microphone
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http//data.semanticweb.org/
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Program Overview

• Doctoral Consortium
• Tutorials
• Workshops
• Research track
• In Use track
• Sponsor talks
• Posters Demos
• SW Challenge

Hear more on the program Wednesday night
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ISWC Research Track Submissions

• 261 Submissions
• 868 Reviews
• 3.25 Reviews / Paper
• Rebuttal phase
• 43 accepted
• 3 moved to in-use

• 19 vice chairs
• 132 pc members
• 167 external reviewers

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Papers
Best Paper Nominees

• Research Paper Sessions
• Ontology Engineering
• Semantic Web Services
• Software and Service Engineering
• Data Management
• Semantic Retrieval
• Semantic Social Networks
• Web Data Knowledge
• Non-standard Reasoning
• Description Logics
• OWL
• Rules and Relatedness
• Ontology Alignment
• User Interfaces

• D. Roman and M. Kifer Semantic Web Service
  Choreography Contracting and Enactment
• C. Cattuto, D. Benz, A. Hotho, G. Stumme
  Semantic Grounding of Tag Relatedness in Social
  Bookmarking Systems
• M. Horridge, B. Parsia, U. Sattler Laconic and
  Precise Justifications in OWL

Vote for best posteraward tonight
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• European community perspectives of
• Technologies for Information Management
• Marta Nagy-Rothengass
• Head, Technologies for Information Management
• Information Society and Media D.G.
• European Commission

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Ramesh Jain researcher, entrepreneur, teacher
Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia
magazine and Machine Vision and
Applications First Bren Professor in Bren
School of Information and Computer Sciences
Fellow of ACM, IEEE, IAPR, AAAI, and SPIE

• Researcher
• Multimedia information systems, image databases,
  machine vision, and intelligent systems
• Experiential Computing
• EventWeb
• 250 publications

• Teacher
• University of Michigan
• Univ of Calif-San Diego
• GaTech
• Univ of Calif-Irvine
• Many successful students and mentee, widely used
  book

• Enterpreneur
• Imageware
• Virage
• Praja

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Coffee Breaks
Workshops
Research Talks
Invited Speakers
Industry Talks
ISWC 2008
Panel
Dinner
Tutorials
In-use Talks
Posters
You!
Challenges
Reception
Demos
Lightning Talks