ESWC 2010 - 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference | ESWC 2010

The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010) is to
bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with different
aspects of semantics on the Web. ESWC2010 builds on the success of the
former European Semantic Web Conference series, but seeks to extend
its focus by collaborating with other communities and research areas,
in which web semantics play an important role -- within and outside
ICT. At the same time, ESWC2010 is a truly international conference,
not only "European".

Semantics of web content, enriched with domain theories (ontologies),
data about web usage, natural language processing, etc. will enable a
web that provides a qualitatively new level of functionality. It will
weave together a large network of human knowledge and make this
knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services, based on
reasoning with metadata and ontologies, will help the users to achieve
their goals by accessing and processing information in
machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will
ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed
for various complex decision-making tasks. Research about web
semantics can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many
other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing,
Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia,
Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web
Science.

ESWC2010 will present the latest results in research and applications
in its field. The research program will be organised in targeted
research tracks. In addition, the conference will feature a tutorial
program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D.
symposium, and a number of collocated workshops. The individual calls
for these events can be found on the conference Web site
(http://www.eswc2010.org/).


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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission December 15, 2009 (compulsory)
Full Paper Submission December 22, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notification February 24, 2010 Camera Ready March 10, 2010

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CONFERENCE TRACKS

To reflect its extended scope, the ESWC2010 research program is
organised in a number of tracks. Their specific topics of interest and
submission addresses are listed below.

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WEB OF DATA

Over the last several years, billions of triples have been published
as Linked Open Data. This networked data set provides a resource for
both the development of novel applications and the enrichment of
others. While there are some existing applications (e.g. generic
linked data browsers), there are still numerous research challenges in
creating and supporting applications based on the Web of Data.

We encourage submissions to this track that build on existing, Linked
Open Data sources for evaluation and implementation. In the context of
the Web of Data, this track is interested, among others, in the
following topics:

- Applications that use Linked Data
- Data source discovery
- Browsing and aggregating approaches
- Integrating, matching, consolidating and interlinking
- Emergent semantics
- Privacy and security
- Trust and provenance
- Data quality and expressivity
- Caching and scalability
- Dynamic ("Real-time") Systems
- Quantitative and statistical approaches (hybrid reasoning)
- Intellectual property rights
- Novel data sources (posters)
- Novel scenarios for the usage (position papers)