ESWC 2016 - 13th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2016)

ESWC is one of the key academic conferences to present research results and new developments in the area of the Semantic Web. For its 13th edition, ESWC will be back in Hersonissou, Crete, between Sunday May 29th and Thursday June 2nd 2016.
The goal of the Semantic Web is to create a network of data and knowledge that interconnect across the Web and where both content and the meaning of content are manipulated by processes, services and applications. This endeavor naturally draws from and impact on many disciplines of computing (and connected areas), related to data and information management, knowledge engineering, machine intelligence, human knowledge and languages, softwares services and applications. We are therefore seeking contribution to research at the intersection of the Semantic Web and these areas, as described in the 9 core research tracks of the conferences, as well as demonstration of the impact of Semantic Web Technologies in concrete application and the industry, through the “In Use and Industrial” Track.
In addition to the main focus on advances in Semantic Web research and technologies, ESWC 2016 is looking to broaden the Semantic Web research community’s understanding and focus on current key areas directly affecting the development of the Semantic Web, namely: Trust, Privacy, Smart Cities and GeoSpatial Data. The conference therefore also includes 2 additional research tracks focusing on these specific aspects.
Indeed, through the interaction between Semantic Web technologies the Internet of Things and the Smart Cities the Semantic Web has the potential to reach beyond the borders of the traditional Web into the everyday life of people around the world. This puts a special attention on urban and geographical information, and on applications that can benefit from the meaningful exploitation of such data, as interconnected with other, heterogeneous and distributed data regarding all aspects of the life of a city (transport, health, education, energy, water, etc).
Such a broadening of the application and impact of Semantic Web technologies also emphasises the challenges posed to privacy and the trust relationship between agents (humans or machines) on the Web. While it is becoming crucial for such technologies, often employed to share, disseminate and integrate data from various sources, to become more privacy aware, we are also looking for research and concrete development in which semantics and the ability to interconnect information from across the web can support users in managing, assessing and enforcing privacy and trust in their activities.
Tracks:
Research Tracks:
Vocabularies, Schemas, Ontologies - chairs: Krzysztof Janowicz and Rinke Hoekstra
Reasoning - chairs: Uli Sattler and Thomas Schneider
Linked Data - chairs: Monika Solanki and Aidan Hogan
Social Web and Web Science - chairs: Claudia Müller-Birn and Steffen Staab
Semantic Data Management, Big data, Scalability - chairs: Philippe Cudré-Mauroux and Katja Hose
Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval - chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles and Pablo N. Mendes
Machine Learning - chairs: Claudia d'Amato and Jens Lehmann
Mobile Web, Sensors and Semantic Streams - chairs: Raúl García Castro and Jean-Paul Calbimonte
Services, APIs, Processes and Cloud Computing - chairs: Maria Maleshkova and Karthik Gomadam
Special Tracks:
Trust and Privacy - chairs: Sabrina Kirrane and Pompeu Casanovas
Smart Cities, Urban and Geospatial Data - chairs: Carsten Kessler and Vanessa Lopez
In Use and Industrial Track:
chairs: Mike Lauruhn and Jacco van Ossenbruggen