This document provides an overview and schedule for ISWC 2015 held from October 11-15, 2015. It summarizes attendance statistics, the research and applied paper submission and review process, award nominees, and highlights of the program including keynotes, paper sessions, and social events. The general chair is Steffen Staab from the University of Koblenz-Landau and University of Southampton. ISWC 2015 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of semantic web and linked data.

1. October 11-15, 2015
Welcome!
Steffen Staab
General Chair ISWC2015
Univ. Koblenz-Landau &
Univ. Southampton

2. ISWC is about...
You
&
Semantic Web
Papers
Workshops
Tutorials
Coffee
Break
Discussions
Lightning
Talks
Posters
Demos
Minute
Madness
Mentoring
Social Events
Industry
Talks

3.  Lehigh University
 Organization Committee
 Sponsors
 SWSA
ISWC is brought to you by...

4.  447 registrants
• From 36 countries and 6 continents
• From 23 different states in the US
 Break down
• 146 students
• 190 academic employees
• 111 industry or government personnel
ISWC 2015 Attendance

5. ISWC 2015: From Research to Practice
 Research
• Research Track
• Empirical Studies
and Experiments
 Applied
• In-use and software
• Data sets and
ontologies
• Industry

6. Research Program Chairs
Research Track: Marcelo Arenas & Oscar Corcho
Empirical Studies & Evaluation: Elena Simperl & Markus Strohmaier

7.  Research track
• 172 submissions, 38 papers accepted
• 22% acceptance rate
 Empirical Studies and Experiments track
• 24 submissions, 7 papers accepted
• 29% acceptance rate
 Innovation #1:
make sure to include additional material properly
• This was generally well done
Statistics – Research Program

8.  Getting your papers accepted. Which
country should you belong to?
• Portugal, Russian Federation,
Venezuela, Singapore
 Who are the most prolific countries?
• USA (74 authors), Germany (72), Italy
(49), China (48)
Some key facts about the research track

9.  The team (research track)
• Senior PC members: 18
• Regular PC members: 152
• External reviewers: 99
 Reviews
• 534 reviews in total
• 112 external reviews
• 20 papers with four reviews
 Innovation #2:
encouraged reviewers to sign reviews
• ~10% of reviews signed
Statistics – Reviewing (Research)

10.  The team (ESE track)
• PC members: 20
• External reviewers: 14
 Reviews
• 80 reviews in total
• 16 external reviews
Statistics – Reviewing (ESE)

11.  Award winner
• Maribel Acosta
 Runners up
Krzysztof Janowicz Irene Celino
Best Reviewer Award – Research Papers

12. ➢Research Track
➢Empirical Studies & Evaluation
General Terminology Induction in OWL
V. Sazonau, Ul Sattler and G. Brown
Thursday 2pm (Monroe)
Recursion in SPARQL
J. Reutter, A. Soto and D. Vrgoc
Tuesday 4pm (EventCenter)
LOD Lab: Experiments at LOD Scale
L. Rietveld, W. Beek, and S. Schlobach
Thursday 11:20am (EventCenter)
Nominees for Best Research Paper

13. ➢Research Track
➢Empirical Studies & Evaluation
General Terminology Induction in OWL
V. Sazonau, Ul Sattler and G. Brown
Thursday 2pm (Monroe)
LOD Lab: Experiments at LOD Scale
L. Rietveld, W. Beek, and S. Schlobach
Thursday 11:20am (EventCenter)
A Flexible Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of
Evolving RDF Datasets
Y. Roussakis, I. Chrysakis, K. Stefanidis, G. Flouris, and
Y. Starakas
Thursday 2:40pm (EventCenter)
Nominees Best Student Research Paper

14.  Wednesday 4pm-5pm (Berks)
 Send a 1-slide PDF file to Oscar Corcho
(ocorcho@fi.upm.es)
• Deadline: Tuesday midnight
 You will receive a confirmation and a
number specifying the order of your talk
 Prepare for a 2-minute talk
• Maximum: 30 talks
Lightning Talks

15.  See your session chair
15 minutes before the session
 Stick to the schedule as it is – people want to
pick specific talks from the schedule
 Sands Event Center: presenters must upload
their slides in advance
 Many more statistics at
• http://scientometrics.geog.ucsb.edu/iswc/
• Thanks to Krzysztof Janowicz
Paper Sessions

16. Applied Program Chairs
In-use & software: Mathieu d‘Aquin & Kavitha Srinivas
Data Sets and Ontologies: Paul Groth & Michel Dumontier

17. Statistics – Applied Program
In Use and Software
34 papers submitted:
23 In-Use, 11 Software
14 accepted
Authors from USA (59),
Germany (28),
Ireland (21), UK (20),
Italy (17),…
Data Sets and
Ontologies
35 papers submitted:
15 ontologies, 20 datasets
8 accepted
Authors from USA (33),
Germany (28), France (10),
Brazil (9), UK (8)

18. ➢In-use & software
➢Data sets & ontologies
Best Reviewer Award – Applied Papers
Markus Krötzsch
Knowledge Systems group
Department of Computer Science
Technical University of Dresden

19. ➢In-use & software
➢Data sets & ontologies
TR Discover: A Natural Language Interface for Querying and
Analyzing Interlinked Datasets [IU&S]
Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder, Charese Smiley, Chris Brew, Tom Zielund, Hiroko
Bretz, Robert Martin, Chris Dale, John Duprey, Tim Miller and Johanna Harrison
Building and Using a Knowledge Graph to Combat Human
Trafficking [IU&S]
Pedro Szekely, Craig Knoblock, Jason Slepicka, Chengye Yin, Andrew Philpot,
Amandeep Singh, Dipsy Kapoor, Prem Natarajan, Daniel Marcu, Kevin Knight,
David Stallard, Steve Minton, Brian Amanatullah, Todd Hughes, Mike Tamayo,
David Flynt, Rachel Artiss, Shih-Fu Chang, Tao Chen and Subessware S.
Karunamoorthy.
Semantic Bridges for Biodiversity Science [D&O]
Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Nicholas Del Rio, Deana Pennington and Luis Garnica
Chavira
Nominees for Best Applied Paper

20. Natasha Noy
Semantic Web Science Association

21. ➢SWSA Distinguished Dissertation
Award
➢SWSA 10-year Award
Semantic Web Science Association

22. ➢ Olaf Hartig
Querying a Web of Linked Data:
Foundations and Query Execution
➢ Dezhao Song
Towards a linked Semantic Web:
Precisely, comprehensively and scalably
linking heterogeneous data in the Semantic Web
SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award

23. ➢ Peter Mika
Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks
and semantics
Presented at ISWC 2005 in Galway, Ireland
SWSA 10-year Award

24. Off to an exciting ISWC-2015 !!!