ESWC
Mission
The annual European Semantic Web Conference presents the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies and also features a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium and a number of collocated workshops. ESWC is a focus for researchers and developers from Europe and around the world and acts as a catalyst to promote Semantic Web research results and their application in industrial settings. The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's Web by exploiting machine-processable metadata. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. Semantic Web research can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Databases and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks and Web Engineering. Many advances within these areas can contribute towards the realization of the Semantic Web.
Next Event
6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009)
Date: May 5 - June 1, 2024
Location: Heraklion, Greece
General Chair: Fabio Ciravegna
Program Chairs: Lora Aroyo, Paolo Traverso
Former Events
1st European Semantic Web Symposium (ESWS 2004)
Location: Heraklion, Greece
Academic Track Chairs: Dieter Fensel, Rudi Studer
Industrial Track Chair: Christoph Bussler
2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2005)
Location: Heraklion, Greece
General Chair: Jérôme Euzenat
Program Chair: Asunción Gómez Pérez
3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006)
Location: Budva, Montenegro
General Chair: John Domingue
Program Chair: York Sure
4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007)
Location: Innsbruck, Austria
General Chair: Enrico Franconi
Program Chairs: Michael Kifer, Wolfgang May
5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008)
Location: Tenerife, Spain
General Chair: Manfred Hauswirth
Program Chairs: Sean Bechhofer, Manolis Koubarakis
History
This conference series started its life as the European Semantic Web Symposium (ESWS), which was held in Heraklion, Greece in May of 2004. The event was established by the SEKT, DIP, and KnowledgeWeb projects that made up the SDK cluster. Based on the success of this first event, the symposium was expanded and upgraded to a conference with the new name the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). From 2005 through to 2008 the conference has grown in stature and quality, visiting Budva in Montenegro, Innsbruck in Austria, and Tenerife in Spain. The SDK Cluster that initially established the conference series later became known as ESSI with the addition of the ASG project. ESSI was the major seed for the establishment of STI International, which now runs the series as one of its major activities. In 2009 the conference will return to its spiritual home in Heraklion, Greece.
Steering Committee
Chair: John Domingue,
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK & STI International, AT
Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester School of Computer Science, UK
Enrico Franconi, KRDB Research Centre, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT
Manfred Hauswirth, DERI, National University of Ireland at Galway, IE
Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Guus Schreiber, Free University of Amsterdam, NL
York Sure, SAP Research Karlsruhe, DE
Regulations
ESWC Rules available for download (PDF)
Organizing ESWC Contract Example (PDF)
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