Call for Research & Innovation Papers
SEMANTiCS 2016 - The Linked Data Conference

The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from organisations ranging from NPOs, through public administrations to the largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in the fields of semantic software, enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies, methodologies in knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities in interlinking areas like knowledge management, technical documentation, e-commerce, big data analytics, enterprise search, document management, business intelligence and enterprise vocabulary management.

The success of last year’s conference in Vienna with more than 280 attendees from 22 countries proves that SEMANTiCS 2016 will continue a long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world. There will be presentations on industry implementations, use case prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal settings. SEMANTICS addresses problems common among information managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist departments working to develop, implement and/or evaluate semantic software systems.

The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel discussions of important topics and presentations by people who make things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues in any stage of implementation. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS for our community the major industry related event across Europe.

SEMANTiCS 2016 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics:

• Data Quality Management
• Data Science (Data Mining, Machine Learning, Network Analytics)
• Semantics on the Web, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org
• Corporate Knowledge Graphs
• Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies
• Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems

Following the success of previous years, the ‘horizontals’ (research) and ‘verticals’ (industries) below are of interest for the conference:

Horizontals

• Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration
• Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search
• Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies
• Big Data & Text Analytics
• Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization
• Semantic Information Management
• Document Management & Content Management
• Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
• Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking
• Smart Data & Semantics in IoT
• Semantics for IT Safety & Security
• Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing
• Community, Social & Societal Aspects

Verticals

• Industry & Engineering
• Life Sciences & Health Care
• Public Administration
• Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM)
• Education & eLearning
• Media & Data Journalism
• Publishing, Marketing & Advertising
• Tourism & Recreation
• Financial & Insurance Industry
• Telecommunication & Mobile Services
• Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology
• Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids
• Food, Agriculture & Farming
• Safety & Security
• Transport, Environment & Geospatial

Research / Innovation Papers

The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes the submission of papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS is a single-blind review process (author names are visible to reviewers, reviewers stay anonymous). The submitted abstract and the topics are leveraged to find adequate reviewers for submitted papers. Please write an email to semantics2016researchtrack@easychair.org,  if you have any questions.

Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting and must not exceed 8 pages in length for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, including references and optional appendices. The layout templates can be found here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates All accepted full papers and short papers will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP Series. Research & Innovation papers should be submitted through EasyChair at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Other formats will not be accepted. For the camera-ready version, the source files (Latex, WordPerfect, Word) will also be needed.

Important Dates (Research & Innovation)

• Abstract Submission Deadline:                April 14, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
• Paper Submission Deadline:                April 21, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
• Notification of Acceptance:                 May 26, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
• Camera-Ready Paper:                         June 16, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)

Research and Innovation Chairs:

• Anna Fensel, University of Innsbruck
• Amrapali Zaveri, Stanford University

Contact email address: semantics2016researchtrack@easychair.org 

Research and Innovation Deputy Chairs:

• Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology
• Artem Revenko, Semantic Web Company

Conference Chairs: 

• Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University
• Tassilo Pellegrini, UAS St. Pölten

Senior Program Committee:

• Paul Buitelaar, Insight - National University of Ireland, Galway
• Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• Claudia D'Amato, University of Bari
• Brian Davis, DERI NUIG
• Victor de Boer, VU Amsterdam
• Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer Germany
• Michel Dumontier, Stanford University
• Agata Filipowska, Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics
• Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT-Austrian Institute of Technology
• Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University
• Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg
• Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Universidad de Oviedo
• Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research
• Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig
• Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG Österreich
• Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim
• Tassilo Pellegrini, University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten
• Marta Sabou, Vienna University of Technology
• Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam
• Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University - iMinds
• Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science

Program Committee:

• Alessandro Adamou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
• Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute
• Vladimir Alexiev, Ontotext Corp
• Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez, Carlos III University of Madrid
• Stefan Bischof, Siemens AG Österreich
• Volha Bryl, Springer Nature
• Irene Celino, CEFRIEL
• Pierre-Antoine, Champin LIRIS
• Roland Cornelissen, Metamatter
• Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton
• Roberta Cuel, University of Trento
• Aba-Sah Dadzie, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
• Elena Demidova, L3S Research Center
• Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari
• Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext
• Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK-IRST
• Samhaa El-Beltagy, Cairo University
• Ingo Feinerer, University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt
• Javier D. Fernández, Computer Science Department. University of Valladolid
• Fabien Gandon, Inria
• Jorge Garcia, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• Roberto Garcia, Universitat de Lleida
• José María García, University of Seville
• Alain Giboin, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
• Juan Miguel Gómez-Berbís, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Expert System
• Michael Granitzer, University of Passau
• Benjamin Heitmann, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway
• Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center
• Laura Hollink, CWI
• Katja Hose, Aalborg University
• Valentina Janev, Mihailo Pupin Institute, University of Belgrade
• Anja Jentzsch, Hasso Plattner Institut
• Ali Khalili, VU University Amsterdam
• Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU Wien
• Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig
• Christoph Lange, University of Bonn
• Nelia Lasierra Beamonte, UMIT – University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology
• Isaac Lera, University of the Balearic Islands
• Steffen Lohmann, Fraunhofer IAIS
• Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research
• Sandra Lovrenčić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of organization and informatics Varazdin
• Markus Luczak-Roesch, University of Southampton
• Elisa Marengo, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• John P. Mccrae, National University of Ireland, Galway
• Andras Micsik, SZTAKI
• Andrea Moro Sapienza, Università di Roma
• Dmitry Mouromtsev, NRU ITMO, Russia
• Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin
• Lyndon Nixon, MODUL University
• Inna Novalija, Jozef Stefan Institute
• Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, STLab, ISTC-CNR
• Leo Obrst, MITRE
• Maryam Panahiazar, Stanford University
• Alexander Panchenko, Université catholique de Louvain
• Viviana Patti, University of Turin
• Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna
• Xiuquan Qiao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
• Achim Rettinger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Mariano Rico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• Giuseppe Rizzo, ISMB
• Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
• Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University
• Anisa Rula, University of Milano-Bicocca
• Felix Sasaki, W3C
• Vadim Savenkov, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)
• Francois Scharffe, 3Top
• Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
• Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina
• Nadine Steinmetz, TU Ilmenau
• Holger Stenzhorn, Saarland University Hospital
• Simon Steyskal, Siemens AG Austria
• Vojtěch Svátek, University of Economics, Prague
• Konstantin Todorov, LIRMM
• Ioan Toma, STI Innsbruck
• Jürgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economy and Business (WU)
• Joerg Waitelonis, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam
• Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics
• Eva Zangerle, Databases and Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck