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ESWC 2008: Call for participation, accepted papers, and program


                 Call for Particiation
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           5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008)
                 1-5 June 2008
                Tenerife, Spain

               http://www.eswc2008.org/

Conference program: http://www.eswc2008.org/main_program.html
Registration: http://www.eswc2008.org/formulario-registro.jsf

Early registration ends April 21, 23:59 CET.

ESWC 2008 statistics:
51 research papers, 3 keynotes, 2 panels, 26 demos, PhD symposium,
12 workshops, 7 tutorials

ESWC 2008 is the latest in a series of annual, international events focusing on
dissemination and discussion of the latest research and applications of
Semantic Web technologies. The call for papers saw over 270 submissions and the
program committee selected 51 papers to be presented at the conference (see
below, also available at http://www.eswc2008.org/papers.html).

ESWC 2008 keynotes:

Garlik: Semantic Technology for the Consumer
Nigel Shadbolt (Garlik Ltd. and University of Southampton)

>From Capturing Semantics to Semantic Search: A Virtuous Cycle
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona)

Foundations of RDF Databases
Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile)

ESWC 2008 will feature 2 high-profile panels:

Panel 1: Does the Semantic Web Need Web Science?

Panel 2: Social Network Portability: Is the Semantic Web Ready?

In addition to the technical research paper track, a system demo track
is included, with its own review process. Twenty-six demo papers were
selected for presentation during the conference.

The following 12 workshops are co-located with ESWC 2008:

ESWC 2008 tutorials:

Accepted papers:

(see also http://www.eswc2008.org/papers.html)

  • Edoardo Pignotti, Peter Edwards, Alun Preece, Nick Gotts and Gary Polhill. Enhancing Workflow with a Semantic Description of Scientist's Intent

  • Jun Zhao, Graham Klyne and David Shotton. Building a Semantic Web Image Repository for Biological Research Images

  • Vassilis Spiliopoulos, Alexandros Valarakos and George Vouros. CSR: Discovering Subsumption Relations for the Alignment of Ontologies

  • Waseem Akhtar, Jacek Kopecky, Thomas Krennwallner and Axel Polleres. XSPARQL: Traveling between the XML and RDF worlds and avoiding the XSLT Pilgrimage