Preface

The ISWC Doctoral Consortium (ISWC-DC) is held in conjunction with the In-
ternational Semantic Web Conference and provides Ph.D. students working on
the Semantic Web area the opportunity to share and discuss their research prob-
lems in a critical but supportive environment. ISWC-DC is open to submissions
of students at different stages of a Ph.D. program. Evaluation of the submissions
is conducted according to the student level into the Ph.D. program.
    This volume contains doctoral proposals accepted at ISWC-DC 2015, which
was held in Bethlenhem, Pennsylvania on October 12th 2015. The call for papers
of the ISWC-DC 2015 edition was open for three types of proposals: Early Stage,
Middle Stage, and Final Stage Ph.D. students. All the proposals included in this
volume went through a peer-review process that resulted out in the acceptance
of 12 out of 24 submissions. All the accepted submissions were evaluated by
three international senior reseachers in terms of: Motivation and Relevance of
the Proposed Research; Analysis of the State-of-the-Art; Novelty of the Pro-
posed Approach; Relevance of the Initial Results; Feasibility of the Empirical
Evaluation Methodology; Analysis of Lessons Learned, Open Issues, and Fu-
ture Directions; and Clarity and Presentation. Additionally, all the papers and
their corresponding evaluations were meta-reviewed by two additional senior
researchers. Comments of the reviewers and meta-reviewers were taken into ac-
count by the authors and included in the camera ready versions of the accepted
papers.

Accepted doctoral proposals cover Linked Data management techniques, Linked
Data mining, and Knowledge Discovery. For what we are proud to call a very
exciting scientific event, we would like to warmly thank, in no particular order:
the authors of the papers, the Program Committee, the ISWC Local Chairs and
General Chair, and the supporting institutions. Furthermore, we thank Easy-
Chair for providing the tools to create this proceedings. Without the effort of
all the above, the ISWC-DC 2015 could not have been successful.


October, 2015                                                  Fabio Ciravegna
Bethlenhem                                                   Maria-Esther Vidal
Program Committee

Harith Alani             KMi, The Open University
Fabio Ciravegna          University of Sheffield
Oscar Corcho             Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Philippe Cudre-Mauroux   U. of Fribourg
Claudia Damato           Università degli Studi di Bari
Fabien Gandon            Inria
Siegfried Handschuh
Pascal Hitzler           Wright State University
Lalana Kagal             MIT
Diana Maynard            University of Sheffield
Enrico Motta             Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Natasha Noy              Google
Axel Polleres            Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU
                         Wien
Guus Schreiber           VU University Amsterdam
Elena Simperl            University of Southampton
Maria Esther Vidal       Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science
Ziqi Zhang               University of Sheffield