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ABOUT THE ESWC2010

The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010) is to
bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with different
aspects of semantics on the Web. ESWC2010 builds on the success of the
former European Semantic Web Conference series, but 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. At the same time, ESWC2010 is a truly international conference,
not only "European".

Semantics of web content, enriched with domain theories (ontologies),
data about web usage, natural language processing, etc. will enable a
web that provides a qualitatively new level of functionality. It will
weave together a large network of human knowledge and make this
knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services, based on
reasoning with metadata and ontologies, will help the users to achieve
their goals by accessing and processing information in
machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will
ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed
for various complex decision-making tasks. Research about web
semantics can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many
other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing,
Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia,
Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web
Science.

ESWC2010 will present the latest results in research and applications
in its field. The research program will be organised in targeted
research tracks. In addition, the conference will feature a tutorial
program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D.
symposium, and a number of collocated workshops. The individual calls
for these events can be found on the conference Web site
(http://www.eswc2010.org/).

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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission December 15, 2009 (compulsory)
Full Paper Submission December 22, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)
Notification February 24, 2010 Camera Ready March 10, 2010

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CONFERENCE TRACKS

To reflect its extended scope, the ESWC2010 research program is
organised in a number of tracks. Their specific topics of interest and
submission addresses are listed below.

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WEB OF DATA

Over the last several years, billions of triples have been published
as Linked Open Data. This networked data set provides a resource for
both the development of novel applications and the enrichment of
others. While there are some existing applications (e.g. generic
linked data browsers), there are still numerous research challenges in
creating and supporting applications based on the Web of Data.

We encourage submissions to this track that build on existing, Linked
Open Data sources for evaluation and implementation. In the context of
the Web of Data, this track is interested, among others, in the
following topics:

- Applications that use Linked Data
- Data source discovery
- Browsing and aggregating approaches
- Integrating, matching, consolidating and interlinking
- Emergent semantics
- Privacy and security
- Trust and provenance
- Data quality and expressivity
- Caching and scalability
- Dynamic ("Real-time") Systems
- Quantitative and statistical approaches (hybrid reasoning)
- Intellectual property rights
- Novel data sources (posters)
- Novel scenarios for the usage (position papers)

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010webofdatatrack

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ONTOLOGIES AND REASONING

The Ontologies and Reasoning programme involves the management of and
reasoning with ontologies and rules, so as to support their
applications. The central idea of this vision is to use (1) ontologies
to encode application data in a machine understandable form, in order
to be able to automatically integrate data from different sources and
to be able to support semantic search for information based on its
meaning rather than its syntactic form, and (2) rules to perform
conditional decision, event processing and actions on behalf of the
user.

In this track we invite high-quality submissions related (but not
limited) to the following topics:

- Rules and ontology management (creation, evolution, reuse, evaluation, etc.)
- Searching, visualizing, navigating and browsing ontologies
- Ontology reasoning and query answering
- Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web
- Ontology usability
- Query languages and optimization for ontologies
- Combining rules and ontologies
- Declarative rule-based reasoning techniques
- Rule languages, standards, and rule systems
- Ontology-based search
- Ontology alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)
- Ontology learning and metadata generation (e.g., HLT and ML approaches)
- Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction
- Corporate Semantic Web - applications in enterprises and economic valuation
- Language extensions of OWL, ODM, RIF, RuleML, ...

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010ontologiesandreasoning

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SOFTWARE AND SERVICES

The software industry in Europe competes aggressively, both for a
share of the local market (representing 30% of global spending), and
worldwide, resulting in a revenue in billions of euros. Increasingly
Software as a Service (SaaS) is opening up previously entrenched
markets so that it is essential to support its adoption. Already,
service-orientation has rapidly risen to prominence in application
construction at enterprise scale, and ontology-based semantics has
proven its usefulness in this arena. At the same time Web-based
systems, especially in the context of Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web,
are increasingly built from more lightweight, so-called RESTful
services. This track is interested in both ends of this spectrum, and
on the cross-fertilization of semantics-based support for the
engineering, deployment, provisioning and consumption of services.
Particular topics of relevance are:

- Novel semantic descriptions for services and service-based systems,
including RESTful services
- Use of semantics in the service engineering process
- Matchmaking/discovery, ranking and selection of services
- Data and protocol/process mediation
- Tools for the manual creation of semantic service descriptions
- Extraction of semantic service descriptions from unstructured and
semi-structured sources
- Automated composition and federation of semantic web services
- Service science
- Case studies and issues regarding adoption of semantics in services
- Exploiting semantics for service quality assurance
- The role of semantics in context-driven service adaptation

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010servicesandsoftwaretra

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MOBILITY

The web is used more and more in a ubiquitous way through mobile
phones and devices. They interact directly with our physical
environment, and are used in a personalized and contextualied setting.
This track solicits papers dealing with issues related to web
semantics and mobility in, e.g., the following areas:

- Semantics in mobile and ubiquitous computing
- Semantic mobile web (data models, query languages and mash-ups)
- Semantically enhanced location-based services and geo-spatial applications
- Semantic models for services, users and context (e.g. location and places)
- Sharing and social communities in mobile systems
- Semantic Web technology for personalization
- Intelligent mobile UIs
- Semantic web technology for mobile collaboration and cooperation
- Semantic data management for distributed data sources in mobile
environments, e.g. stream-based reasoning

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010mobilitytrack

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SENSOR NETWORKS

Millions of sensors are currently deployed in sensor networks around
the globe, and are actively collecting enormous amounts of data.
Together with legacy data sources, specialized software modules (e.g.,
modules for mathematical modeling and simulation) and Web 2.0
technologies such as mashups, sensor networks give us the opportunity
to develop unique applications in a variety of sectors (environment,
agriculture, health, transportation, surveillance, public security
etc.). Although many of the engineering issues associated with
managing sensor network data are solved, managing effective access to
this data remains a challenge. We would like to receive papers that
deal with how the core ideas and technologies of the Semantic Web have
been or can be applied to sensor networks to help manage access.

In this track we invite high-quality submissions related to (but not
limited to) one or more of the following topics:

- Data models and languages for semantic sensor networks
- Architectures and middleware for semantic sensor networks
- Ontologies and rules for semantic sensor networks
- Annotation tools for semantic sensor networks
- Social/human-in-the-loop sensing data
- Semantic data integration and fusion of heterogeneous sensor network
data streams
- Spatio-temporal aspects of semantic sensor networks
- Mashup technologies for semantic sensor networks
- Semantic sensor network use cases and applications
- Standardisation efforts in semantic sensor networks

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010sensornetworkstrack

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WEB SCIENCE

Web Science bridges and formalizes the social and technical aspects of
the World Wide Web. Its research questions include, for example: How
do people and organisations behave on-line when doing business and in
private life? How is security, privacy, and trust created and
maintained on the Web? How can the Web be kept stable and pro-human in
the future? Answering questions like these requires understanding of
human behaviour, semantics and pragmatics, and technological design on
the web.

The themes of this track include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

- Trust and reputation
- Security and privacy
- Government and political life
- Culture on-line
- Cybercrime
- e-Health
- E-commerce
- e-Learning

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010websciencetrack

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SOCIAL WEB

The success of Social Web applications (often called “Web2.0”
applications), such as Twitter, Wikipedia and Facebook, is evidenced
by the fast growing social networking and Web content contributed by
millions of end users. The Social Web has simplified the data
publishing process using end user friendly, interactive tools and has
increased user motivation to contribute data. The combination of
Social Web with approaches from the emerging Semantic Web allowed end
users to massively produce and utilize semantic data through tagging
and other annotations, which in turn enables smarter applications in
various Web domains including Social Web itself to mine the semantic
data and discover relationships that were not obvious previously.
These can be exploited for various purposes, for example, to
personalize applications, recommend content, and generate new
knowledge. In the past two years, there have been growing efforts in
building a Social Semantic Web that exploits both the Soc!
ial Web and semantic techniques. This track is aimed at bringing
together researchers from the two communities to address various
challenges from improving Social Web user experiences with semantic
techniques to building novel semantic applications using Social Web
data. Successful submissions will address at least some aspect of both
areas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Collaborative and collective semantic data generation and publishing
- Social and semantic bookmarking, tagging and annotation
- Enriching Social Web with semantic data: RDFs, micro formats and
other approaches
- Linked data on the Social Web
- Semantically-enabled social platforms and applications: semantic
wikis, semantic desktops, semantic portals, semantic blogs, semantic
calendars, semantic email, semantic news, etc.
- Querying, mining and analysis of social semantic data
- User profile construction based on tagging and annotations
- Reasoning and personalization based on semantics: recommendations,
social navigation, social search, etc.
- Privacy, policy and access control on Social Semantic Web
- Provenance, reputation and trust on Social Semantic Web
- Semantically-Interlinked online communities
- Semantic formation and management of online communities

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010socialwebtrack

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SEMANTIC WEB IN USE

Demonstrating the beneficial use of research results in real world
settings is a major challenge. 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 specific domains. Submissions to this track should
substantially contribute to the transition from research labs into
mainstream adoption in areas such as industry, science, society,
government or entertainment.

In this track we invite high-quality submissions related to (but not
limited to) one or more of the following topics:

- Description of concrete problems in specific application domains,
for which Semantic Web technologies can provide a solution.
- Description of an implemented application of Semantic Web
technologies in a specific domain.
- Assessment of the pros and cons of using Semantic Web 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 Semantic
Web Technologies, e.g. time spent on implementation and deployment,
efforts involved, user acceptance, returns on investment.
- Evidence of deployment of the application, and assessment/evaluation
of usage/uptake.
- Domains of interest include, but are not limited to: semantics in
the enterprise, improving access to governmental data, semantics based
solutions for health care and life sciences, digital libraries, games
with a purpose, semantic geo-data management.

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010semanticwebinusetrack

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SUBMISSIONS

ESWC2010 welcomes the submission of original research and application
papers dealing with all aspects of representing and using semantics on
the web. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and
applications papers.

The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and
reviewing for ESWC2010 will be electronic via the conference
submissions site. Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in
length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS
authors.

Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format)
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. Authors of accepted papers
will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of
their submission -- details of this process will be provided on the
conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of
each accepted paper must register for the conference.

Each paper must be submitted to the most appropriate of the eight
research tracks:

- Web of Data http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010webofdatatrack
- Ontologies and Reasoning
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010ontologiesandreasoning
- Software and Services
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010servicesandsoftwaretra
- Mobility http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010mobilitytrack
- Web Science http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010websciencetrack
- Social Web http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010socialwebtrack
- Sematic Web in Use Track
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010semanticwebinusetrack

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BEST PAPER AWARD

An award will be given to the best paper (or papers) submitted to the
conference as judged by the Program and Track Chairs in collaboration
with the Program Committee.

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INFORMATION AND CONTACT

For further information please visit the conference website
(http://www.eswc2010.org) or contact eswc2010_info@eswc2010.org

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