Social Web and Web Science Track
Chairs
Alexandre Passant, DERI, IE
Denny Vrandecic, KIT, DE
PC (click to expand)
Fabian Abel, L3S Hannover, DE
Harith Alani, KMI, Open University, UK
Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, DE
Scott Bateman, University of Saskatchewan, CA
Edward Benson, MIT, US
Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, AU
John Breslin, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE
Ciro Cattuto, ISI Fundation, Torino, IT
Federica Cena, University of Turin, IT
Richard Cyganiak, DERI, IE
Antonina Dattolo, University of Udine, IT
Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, US
Ying Ding, Indiana University, US
Jon Dron, Athabasca University, CA
Guillaume Ereteo, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, FR
Anna Fensel, FTW, AT
Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, FR
Cristina Gena, University of Turin, IT
Steve Harris, Garlik, UK
Aidan Hogan, DERI, IE
Ekaterini Ioannou, L3S Hannover, DE
Neil Ireson, University of Sheffield, UK
Robert Jaschke, University of Kassel, DE
Lalana Kagal, MIT, US
Pranam Kolari, Yahoo! Labs, US
Georgia Koutrika, IBM Almaden Research Center, US
Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen, DE
Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, CN
Meena Nagarajan, IBM, US
Matthew Rowe, KMI, Open University, UK
Christopher Thomas, Wright State University, US
Mischa Tuffield, Garlik, UK
Ansgar Scherp, University of Koblenz, DE
Juan Sequeda, The University of Texas at Austin, US
Paul Smart, University of Southampton, UK
Sergey Sosnovsky, DFKI, DE
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, DE
Markus Strohmeier, University of Graz, AT
Shenghui Wang, VU Amsterdam, NL
Katrin Weller, University of Düsseldorf, DE
Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney, AU
Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, SG
Lina Zhou, University of Maryland Baltimore County, US
Ontologies Track
Chairs
Mathieu d'Aquin, KMI, Open University, UK
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, DE
PC (click to expand)
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, FR
Eva Blomqvist, Jönköping University, SE
Ales Buh, Joseph Stefan Institute, SL
Jean CHARLET, INSERM UMRS, FR
Oscar Corcho, Polytechnical University Madrid, ES
Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis, University of Murcia, ES
Chiara Ghidini, Bruno Kessler Foundation, IT
Asun Gomez-Perez, Polytechnical University Madrid, ES
Pierre Grenon, EBML-EBI, UK
Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr, DE
Patrick Lambrix, Linköping UNiversity, SE
Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, JP
Viktoria Pammer, Technical University of Graz, AT
Helena Sofia Pinto, INESC-ID, PT
Dimitris Plexousakis, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, GR
Chantal Reynaud, INRIA Saclay, FR
Marta Sabou, MODUL University Vienna, AT
Ansgar Scherp, University of Koblenz, DE
Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Luciano Serafini, Bruno Kessler Foundation, IT
Michael Sintek, DFKI, DE
Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK
Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics Prague, CZ
Johanna Voelker, University of Mannheim, DE
Reasoning Track
Chairs
Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, US
PC (click to expand)
Jose Julio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT
Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
Andre Bolles, University of Oldenburg, DE
Alessandro Bozzon, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Daniele Braga, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT
Óscar Corcho, UPM, ES
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford, UK
Claudia d'Amato, Università degli Studi di Bari, IT
Mathieu D'Aquin, Open University, UK
Michael Grossnicklaus, Portland State University, US
Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Markus Krötzsch, University of Oxford, UK
Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford, UK
Marko Luther, DOCOMO, DE
Frederick Maier, Wright State University, US
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK
Axel Polleres, DERI, IE
Guilin Qi, Southeast University, CN
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, NO
Riccardo Rosati, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", IT
Sebastian Rudolph, KIT, DE
Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Michael Sintek, DFKI, DE
Evren Sirin, Clark & Parsia, US
Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Annette ten Teije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Kristin Tufte, Portland State University, US
Guido Vetere, IBM, IT
Zhe Wu, Oracle, US
Semantic Data Management Track
Chairs
Vassilis Christophides, FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, GR
Axel Polleres, DERI, IE
PC (click to expand)
Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, CH
Aidan Boran, Bell Labs, US
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Vassilis Christophides, FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, GR
Oscar Corcho Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
Orri Erling, OpenLink, NL
George H. L. Fletcher, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Irini Fundulaki, FORTH-ICS, GR
Claudio Gutierrez Universidad de Chile, CL
Steve Harris, Garlik, UK
Andreas Harth, KIT, DE
Panagiotis Karras, National University of Singapore, SG
Greg Karvounarakis, LogicBlox, US
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM Research, US
Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Corp, BG
Manolis Koubarakis, University of Athens, GR
Reto Krummenacher, STI Innsbruck, AT
Georg Lausen, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, DE
Axel Polleres, DERI, IE
Sherif Sakr, University of New South Wales, UK
Andy Seaborne, HP Labs, UK
Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University, US
Umberto Straccia, ISTI - C.N.R., IT
Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, IE and Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IT
Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, IT
Maria Esther Vidal, University Simón Bolívar, VE
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Max-Planck Institut Informatik, DE
Linked Open Data Track
Chairs
Mariano Consens, University of Toronto, CA
Paul Groth, Free University of Amsterdam, NL
Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig, DE
PC (click to expand)
José Luis Ambite, University of Southern California, US
Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, DE
Christian Bizer, Free University of Berlin, DE
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, IT
Dan Brickley, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Lin Clark, DERI, IE
Richard Cyganiak, DERI, IE
Christophe Gueret, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK
Andreas Harth, KIT, DE
Olaf Hartig, Humboldt University, Berlin
Oktie Hassanzadeh, University of Toronto, CA
Sebastian Hellmann, University of Leipzig, Germany
Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Anja Jentzsch, Free University of Berlin, DE
Spyros Kotoulas, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Yuzhong Qu, Southeast University, CN
Yves Raimond, BBC, UK
Juan Sequeda, University of Texas, US
Nigam Shah, Stanford University, US
York Sure, University of Koblenz-Landau and GESIS, Germany
Thanh Tran, KIT, DE
Mischa Tuffield, Garlik, UK
Jun Zhao, University of Manchester, UK
Services, Processes and Software Track
Chairs
Barry Norton, KIT, DE
Michael Stollberg, SAP Research, DE
PC (click to expand)
Sudhir Agarwal, KIT, DE
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Violeta Damjanovic, Salzburg Research, AT
Irene Celino, CEFRIEL, IT
Pieter De Leenheer, VU Amsterdam, NL
Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, IT
Federico Facca, Create-Net, IT
José Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, UK
Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, PL
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, CA
Stephan Grimm, FZI, DE
Sergio Gusmeroli, TXT e-solutions S.p.A, IT
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, DE
Holger Kett, Fraunhofer IAO, DE
Reto Krummenacher, STI Innsbruck, AT
Dave Lambert, Open University, UK
Florian Lautenbacher, University of Augsburg, DE
Niels Lohmann, Universität Rostock, DE
Jan Mendling, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE
Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Europe, DE
Carlos Pedrinaci, Open University, UK
Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, NO
Monika Solanki, University of Leicester, UK
Nenad Stojanovic, FZI Karlsruhe, DE
Ioan Toma, STI Innsbruck, AT
Juergen Vogel, SAP Research, DE
Natural Language Processing Track
Chairs
Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, DE
Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, SI
PC (click to expand)
Guadalupe Aguado-de-Cea, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
Enrique Alfonseca, Google Zurich, CH
Nathalie Aussenac Gilles, IRIT, FR
Roberto Basili, Università Tor Vergata, IT
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
Christopher Brewster, Aston University, US
Peter Clark, Boeing, US
Thierry Declerck, DFKI, DE
Blaz Fortuna, Jozef Stefan Institute, SI
Aldo Gangemi, STLab, IT
Claudio Giuliano, FBK, IT
Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, FR
Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, IE
Laura Hollink, Delft University of Technology, NL
Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, DE
José Iria, IBM, CH
Vanessa Lopez, KMI, The Open University, UK
Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
John McCrae, University of Bielefeld, DE
Paola Monachesi, University of Utrecht, NL
Roberto Navigli, Università "La Sapienza", IT
Achim Rettinger, KIT, DE
Marta Sabou, MODUL University Vienna, AT
Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz, DE
Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, CZ
Dennis Spohr, University of Bielefeld, DE
Christina Unger, University of Bielefeld, DE
Victoria Uren, University of Sheffield, UK
Johanna Voelker, University of Mannheim, DE
René Witte, Concordia University, CA
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Università Tor Vergata, IT
Sensor Web Track
Chairs
Harith Alani, KMI, The Open University, UK
Luca Mottola, Swedish Insitute of Computer Science, SE
PC (click to expand)
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
Ciro Cattuto, ISI Turin, IT
Kerry Taylor, CSIRO ICT Centre, AU
Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, UK
Yong Liu, NCSA - University of Illinois, US
Josiane Xavier Parreira, DERI, IE
Vinny Reynolds, DERI, IE
Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, US
Mark Roantree, Dublin City University, IE
Pedro J. Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
Philip Bonnet, University of Copenhagen, DK
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK
Kay Roemer, University of Luebeck, DE
David De Roure, University of Oxford, UK
Eric Pauwels, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, NL
Cory Henson, Wright State University, US
Jamie Payton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US
Nenad Stojanovic, FZI, DE
Mobile Web Track
Chairs
Ora Lassila, Nokia, FI
Alessandra Toninelli, INRIA, FR
PC (click to expand)
Licia Capra, UCL London, UK
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, IT
Cristian Borcea, NJIT, US
Valérie Issarny, INRIA, FR
Deepali Khushraj, Nokia, US
Mika Mannermaa, Nokia, FI
Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna, IT
Enrico Motta, KMI, The Open University, UK
Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo, DE
Terry Payne, University of Liverpool, UK
David Provost, Nokia, US
Anand Ranganathan, IBM, US
Bernhard Schandl, University of Wien, AT
Matthias Wagner, DoCoMo, DE
Semantic Web in Use Track
Chairs
Daniel Olmedilla, Telefonica I+D, ES
Pavel Shvaiko, TasLab - Informatica Trentina S.p.A., IT
PC (click to expand)
Harith Alani, KMI, The Open University, UK
George Anadiotis, IMC Technologies, GR
Giuseppe Angelini, WEBSS, IT
Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, DE
Stefano Bertolo, Private individual, LU
Olivier Bodenreider, US National Library of Medicine, US
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, IT
François Bry, University of Munich, DE
Pablo Castells, UAM, ES
John Davies, BT, UK
Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN Technologies, US
Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics Inc, US
Aldo Gangemi, CNR-ISTC, IT
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, IT
John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey, UK
Peter Haase, Fluid Operations, DE
Bin He, IBM Research, US
Tom Heath, Talis Systems Ltd, UK
Nicola Henze, University of Hannover, DE
Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium, NL
Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, NL
Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) and University of Helsinki, FI
Renato Iannella, Semantic Identity, AU
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Alexander Ivanyukovich, Trient Consulting Group, IT
Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, US
Yannis Kalfoglou, RICOH Europe plc, UK
Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext AD, BG
Birgitta König-Ries, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, DE
Rubén Lara, Telefonica R&D, ES
Nico Lavarini, Cogito, Expert System, IT
Alain Leger, France Telecom R&D, FR
Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome "La Sapienza", IT
Bernardo Magnini, FBK-irst, IT
Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, IT
Massimo Marchiori, UNIPD and UTILABS, IT
Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, ES
Luca Mion, TasLab, Informatica Trentina, IT
Andriy Nikolov, The Open University, UK
Lyndon Nixon, STI International, AT
Leo Obrst, MITRE, US
Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Euro labs, DE
Yefei Peng, Google, US
Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, DE
Yves Raimond, BBC, UK
Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, AT
Hannes Schwetz, AWSG, AT
Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, US
Andrei Tamilin, FBK-irst, IT
Klaus-Dieter Thoben, BIBA at University of Bremen, DE
Andraz Tori, Zemanta, SI
Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, US
Lorenzino Vaccari, EC - JRC, IT
Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, IT
Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, US
Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, US
Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, IT
Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN
Inductive and probabilistic approaches
Chairs
Rayid Ghani, Accenture, US
Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University, PL
PC (click to expand)
Sarabjot S. Anand, University of Warwick, UK
Mikhail Bilenko, Microsoft Research, US
Stephan Bloehdorn, KIT, DE
Chad Cumby, Accenture Technology Labs, US
Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, IT
Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, IT
Blaz Fortuna, Institute Jozef Stefan, SI
Eric Gaussier, LIG-UJF, FR
Melanie Hilario, University of Geneva, CH
Luigi Iannone, University of Manchester, UK
Ivan Jelinek, Czech Technical University, CZ
Jörg-Uwe Kietz, University of Zurich, CH
Ross D. King, University of Aberystwyth, UK
Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig, DE
Yan Liu, University of Southern California, US
Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK
Sebastian Rudolph, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
Dou Shen, Microsoft Adcenter Labs, US
Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz-Landau, DE
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, IT
Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, CZ
Volker Tresp, Siemens, DE
Joaquin Vanschoren, Leiden University, NL
Digital Libraries Special Track
Chairs
Martin Doerr, FORTH ICS, GR
Carlo Meghini, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, IT
Allen Renear, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, US
PC (click to expand)
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, CA
Bruno Bachimont, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, FR
Carlo Meghini, CNR ISTI, IT
Traugott Koch, Max Planck Digital Library, DE
Alistair Miles, University of Oxford, UK
Marcia LeiZeng, Kent State University, US
Eva Méndez, University Carlos III of Madrid, ES
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Dimitris Kotzinos, FORTH and Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying, TEI of Serres, GR
Trond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NW
Panos Constantopoulos, Athens University of Economics & Business, GR
Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) and University of Helsinki, FI
Carole Palmer, University of Illinois, USA
Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan, UK
Allen Renear, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Jen-Shin Hong, National Chi Nan University, TW
Ingeborg Torvik Solvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NW
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI, IT
Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, US
Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE