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The
8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC),
IN-USE TRACK
http://www.eswc2011.org/
May 29 - June 2, 2011, Heraklion, Greece
The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference
is to bring
together researchers and practitioners dealing with different
aspects of semantic technologies. ESWC 2011 builds on the
success of the
former European Semantic Web Conference series
(http://www.eswc2010.org/), and 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.
IN-USE TRACK DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
Bringing
the research results down to exploitation
by the final users as well as
demonstrating the beneficial
use of these results in real world settings is
a major challenge.
Semantic technologies are among transversal enabling
technologies,
and, hence, can be applied in various domains, ranging from
eGovernment to manufacturing. The Semantic Web in Use track
is
particularly devoted to showcase implemented applications,
learned best
practices as well as assessments and evaluations
of semantic technologies in
real world settings. Submissions
to this track should substantially
contribute to the knowledge
transfer from research labs into mainstream
adoption.
Special interest for this year's ESWC in Use track includes
linking open (e.g., government) data, sentiment analysis
(e.g., over
social networks and blogs) and scalable show cases
(e.g., scenarios with
large volumes of data and/or near real-time
response
requirements).
TOPICS of INTEREST
In this track we invite
original submissions conforming to generally
accepted practices for
scientific papers covering (but not limited to)
one or more of the following
topics:
- Description of the concrete problems in specific
application domains,
for which the semantic
technologies can provide a solution.
- Description of an
implemented application of the semantic
technologies in a specific domain.
- Assessment of the pros and
cons of using the semantic technologies
to solve a
particular business problem or other practical problems
in a specific domain.
- Comparison
with alternative or competing approaches using
conventional or competing technologies.
- Assessment of the
costs and benefits of the application of
the
semantic technologies, e.g., time spent on implementation
and deployment, efforts involved, final user
acceptance,
returns on investment.
- Evidence of deployment of the application, and assessment/evaluation
of usage/uptake.
- Application of
the semantic technologies to problems where
their
scalability to large amounts of data and/or short response
times are demonstrated.
- Domains
of interest include, but are not limited to:
enterprise applications, eGovernment, eParticipation, eEnvironment,
eMobility and Smart cities, eHealth, eInclusion,
life sciences,
media and entertainment,
telecommunications, cultural heritage,
financial
services, energy and utilities, manufacturing.
SUBMISSIONS
The proceedings of the conference
will be published in Springer's
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Paper submission and reviewing
will be electronic. Papers must not exceed
fifteen (15) pages in length
and must be formatted according to the
information for LNCS authors:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
Papers must be submitted as PDF (Adobe's Portable
Document Format)
and will not be accepted in any other format. Papers that
exceed 15 pages
or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected
automatically
without a review. The contributions to the in-Use track hould
be submitted
through the track submission site at:
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract
submission: Dec. 6, 2010
(compulsory)
Full paper submission: Dec.
13,2010 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notifications sent
out: Feb. 21,2011
Final versions
due: March 7,2011
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Harith Alani
George
Anadiotis
Giuseppe Angelini
Sören Auer
Stefano Bertolo
Olivier
Bodenreider
Paolo Bouquet
François Bry
Pablo Castells
John
Davies
Mike Dean
Lee Feigenbaum
Aldo Gangemi
Fausto
Giunchiglia
John Goodwin
Peter Haase
Bin He
Tom Heath
Nicola
Henze
Ivan Herman
Geert-Jan Houben
Eero Hyvönen
Renato
Iannella
Antoine Isaac
Alexander Ivanyukovich
Krzysztof
Janowicz
Yannis Kalfoglou
Birgitta König-Ries
Rubén Lara
Nico
Lavarini
Alain Leger
Maurizio Lenzerini
Bernardo Magnini
Vincenzo
Maltese
Massimo Marchiori
Peter Mika
Luca Mion
Andriy
Nikolov
Lyndon Nixon
Leo Obrst
Massimo Paolucci
Yefei Peng
Erhard
Rahm
Yves Raimond
Sebastian Schaffert
Hannes Schwetz
Kavitha
Srinivas
Andrei Tamilin
Klaus-Dieter Thoben
Andraz Tori
Tania
Tudorache
Lorenzino Vaccari
Yannis Velegrakis
Michael
Witbrock
Baoshi Yan
Ilya Zaihrayeu
Songmao Zhang