3rd European Semantic Web Conference 2006

Welcome to ESWC 2006!

ESWC 2006 Sponsors

The 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference will be held in Budva, Montenegro from the 11th - 14th June, 2006. It will present the latest results in research and application in Semantic Web technologies (including knowledge markup languages, Semantic Web services, ontology management and more).

ESWC 2006 will also feature a special industry-oriented event providing European industry with an opportunity to become even more familiar with these technologies. It will offer a tutorial program, focusing on the latest in Semantic Web technologies.

ESWC 2006 is co-located with a meeting of the Knowledge Web network of excellence . Workshops and meetings of other European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects involved in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web technologies will be able to showcase their developments. ESWC 2006 is sponsored by ESSI (formerly SDK), a group of four European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects known as SEKT, DIP, Knowledge Web and ASG. Collectively these projects aim to improve world-wide research and standardisation in the areas of the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Systems.

Invited Speakers:

Speakers:

Title:


	Frank van Harmelen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam		Where does it break? or: Why the Semantic Web is not just "research as usual"

	Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California		Toward large-scale shallow semantics for higher-quality NLP

	Anthony Jameson DFKI and International University in Germany		Usability and the Semantic Web

Important Dates

Papers:

	Deadline:		28, November, 2005
	Notification:		15, February, 2006
	Camera-Ready:		24, March, 2006

Tutorials / Workshops:

	Deadline:		28, November, 2005
	Notification:		19, December, 2005

Posters / Demos:

	Proposals:		1, March, 2006
	Notification:		7, April, 2006
	Camera-Ready:		2, May, 2006

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Conference Topics of Interest and Area Keywords

Topics of interest to the conference include (but are not restricted to):

Ontology Management (e.g. creation, evolution, evaluation)
Ontology Alignment (e.g. mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)
Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (including e.g. HLT and ML approaches)
Multimedia and Semantic Web
Semantic Annotation of Data
Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
Semantic Web Rules and Query Languages
Reasoning on the Web (e.g. scalability, fuzziness, distribution)
Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web
Personalization and User Modelling
User Interfaces and Semantic Web
Semantic Grid and Middleware
Semantic Web Services (e.g. description, discovery, invocation, composition)
Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Health, e-Learning, e-Science
Database Technologies for the Semantic Web
Data Semantics and Web Semantics
Semantic Interoperability
Semantic Web Mining

We particularly welcome application papers which clearly show benefits of Semantic Web technologies in practical settings.