ESWC 2014 - 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2014

ESWC is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations related to the Semantic Web. The 11th edition of ESWC will take place from May 25th, 2014 to May 29th, 2014 in Anissaras, Crete, Greece. Besides a main focus on advances in Semantic Web research and technologies, ESWC 2014 is seeking to broaden its attention to span other relevant research areas in which Web semantics plays an important role.
The goal of the Semantic Web is to create a Web of knowledge and services in which the semantics of content is made explicit and content is linked to both other content and services. This arrangement of knowledge-based functionalities is weaving together a large network of human knowledge, and making this knowledge machine-processable to support intelligent behaviour by machines. Additionally, it supports novel applications allowing content from heterogeneous sources to be combined in unforeseen ways and support enhanced matching between users needs, software functionalities and online content.
Creating such an interlinked Web of knowledge which bridges between heterogeneous content and services requires collaboration between several computer science domains. Also, within this hybrid space that the Web has become, where humans and software interact in a complex manner, fundamentally requires an inter-disciplinary approach to find novel solutions to the problems generated.
ESWC 2014 will feature twelve thematic research tracks (see below) and an in-use and industrial track. Submissions of interdisciplinary research papers, covering more than one thematic track, are also encouraged. In addition, the in-use and industrial track will provide an opportunity for dialogue and discussion on industrial applications, tools, deployment experiences, case studies and usage analysis.
Submitted papers should describe original work, present significant results, and provide rigorous, principled, and repeatable evaluation. We strongly encourage and appreciate the submission of papers incorporating links to data sets and other material used for evaluation as well as to live demos and software source code.
We therefore encourage submissions addressing several conference research topics. However, each paper should be associated with at least one of the topics of the conference. The main research topics this year are:
Vocabularies, Schemas, Ontologies;
Reasoning;
Linked Open Data;
Social Web;
Web Science;
Data Management, Big data, Scalability;
Natural Language Processing;
Information Retrieval;
Machine Learning;
Mobile Web;
Sensors;
Streams;
Services, processes, and cloud computing.
Additional special research topics this year are:
Cognition and Semantic Web;
Policies, Rights, Governance;
Semantic multimedia web.
Important Dates
Abstract submission: Wednesday 8th of January, 2014 (sharp) - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Full paper submission: Monday 13th of January, 2014 (sharp) - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Authors rebuttal: Wednesday 19th-21st of February, 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Acceptance notification: Wednesday 26th of February, 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Camera ready: Monday 10th of March, 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time