The ISWC 2019 Posters and Demonstrations complement the paper tracks of the conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters and Demonstrations encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. In 2019, for the first time, poster submissions were subject to double-blind review, whereas demo submissions were single-blind as in previous years due to the possible inclusion of online demos. We received 59 poster and 43 demo
Preface The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the premier venue for presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications concerning semantics, data, and the Web. It is the most important international venue to discuss and present latest advances and applications of the semantic Web, knowledge graphs, linked data, ontologies and artificial intelligence (AI) on the Web. submissions. We had to remove 4 poster and 1 demo submissions because they exceeded the page limit. The program committee, consisting of 41 members for posters and 45 members for demos, accepted 39 posters and 37 demos. Decisions were mainly based on relevance, originality, and clarity. Besides, we conditionally accepted one poster that was transferred from the industry track.
The industry track provides an opportunity for industry adopters to highlight and share key outcomes and new research challenges posed by real world implementations. This year we had many exciting submissions, spanning from Knowledge Graph construction, to Question Answering, Data Integration and Semantic Services. Each short submission was reviewed by at least three PC members. We accepted 16 out 25 abstracts. The submissions were assessed in terms of innovative aspects, experiences, impact, lessons learned, business value in the application domain and in terms of the degree to which semantic technologies were critical to the offering.
The outrages ideas track, which was newly introduced last year after a first showing 2011, is sponsored by the prestigious CCC Blue Sky ideas and it solicits visionary ideas, long term challenges, and opportunities for the Semantic Web that are outside of the current topics in the field and are not mature or specific enough to be accepted in the regular research track. The track received nine submissions of which two were accepted.
September 2019 Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa and Gong Cheng Posters and Demonstrations Track Chairs Anna Lisa Gentile and Christophe Guéret Industry Track Chairs Maria Keet and Abraham Bernstein Outrageous Ideas Track Chairs Program Committee (Posters & Demonstrations) – Pierpaolo Basile, Dipartimento di Informatica – University of Bari – Andrew Bate, University of Oxford – Robert Brijder, Hasselt University – Volha Bryl, Springer Nature – Miguel Ceriani, Sapienza University of Rome – David Chaves-Fraga, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – Weiwei Cheng, Amazon – Diego Collarana, Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Bonn – Sergio Consoli, European Commission, Joint Research Centre – Ernesto William De Luca, Georg-Eckert-Institute – Leibniz-Institute for international Textbook Research – Anastasia Dimou, Ghent University – Jiwei Ding, Nanjing University – Anca Dumitrache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – Pavlos Fafalios, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH-ICS – Mariano Fernández López, Universidad San Pablo CEU – Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis, Departamento de Informatica y Sistemas.
Universidad de Murcia – Agata Filipowska, Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics – George H. L. Fletcher, Eindhoven University of Technology – Sainyam Galhotra, University of Massachusetts – Roberto Garcia, Universitat de Lleida – Rafael S Gonçalves, Stanford University – Paul Groth, University of Amsterdam – Giovanna Guerrini, DISI- University of Genova – Kalpa Gunaratna, Samsung Research America – Peter Haase, metaphacts – Robert Hoehndorf, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology – Tomáš Horváth, Eötvös Loránd University – Katja Hose, Aalborg University – Pan Hu, University of Oxford – Wei Hu, Nanjing University – Ioana Hulpus, University of Mannheim, Germany – Valentina Janev, The Mihajlo Pupin Institute – Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, The Alan Turing Institute – Tomi Kauppinen, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science – Takahiro Kawamura, Japan Science and Technology Agency – Natalya Keberle, Zaporizhzhya National University – Mayank Kejriwal, Information Sciences Institute – Evgeny Kharlamov, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence and University of Oslo – Tomas Kliegr, University of Economics, Prague – Patrick Koopmann, TU Dresden – Kouji Kozaki, Osaka Electro-Communication University – Jyoti Leeka, Microsoft Research – Pasquale Lisena, EURECOM – Annett Mitschick, TU Dresden – Varish Mulwad, GE Global Research – Khai Nguyen, Cinnamon AI Labs – Vit Novacek, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway – Fabrizio Orlandi, Trinity College Dublin – Francesco Osborne, The Open University – Harshvardhan Jitendra Pandit, ADAPT, Trinity College Dublin – Rafael Peñaloza, University of Milano-Bicocca – Catia Pesquita, LaSIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa – Alina Petrova, University of Oxford – María Poveda-Villalón, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – Martin Ringsquandl, Siemens Corporate Technology – Giuseppe Rizzo, LINKS Foundation – Julian Rojas, Ghent University – Alessandro Russo, STLab, ISTC-CNR – Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe, Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure & KIT Karlsruhe – Ognjen Savkovic, Free University of Bolzano – Barış Sertkaya, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences – Pavel Shvaiko, Trentino Digitale – Jennifer Sleeman, University of Maryland Baltimore County – Timo Stegemann, University of Duisburg-Essen – Zequn Sun, Nanjing University – Andreas Thalhammer, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG – Ilaria Tiddi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – Anna Tordai, Elsevier – Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM – Marieke van Erp, KNAW Humanities Cluster – Martin Voigt, AI4BD GmbH – Zhe Wu, eBay – Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University – Ran Yu, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences – Ondřej Zamazal, University of Economics, Prague – Lei Zhang, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure – Ziqi Zhang, Sheffield University – Lihua Zhao, Accenture Program Committee (Industry) – Luca Costabello, Accenture Labs – Fabien Gandon, INRIA – Dario Garigliotti, University of Stavanger – Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM Research – Alberto Gonzalez Paje, Accenture Labs – Rafael S Gonçalves, Stanford University – Christophe Guéret, Accenture Labs – Peter Haase, metaphacts – Ashutosh Jadhav, IBM – Freddy Lecue, Thales – Yingjie Li, JPMorgan Chase – Nuno Lopes, TopQuadrant, Inc – Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research – Gulnar Mehdi, Siemens AG – Raghava Mutharaju, IIIT-Delhi, India – Andriy Nikolov, metaphacts GmbH – Matteo Palmonari, University of Milano-Bicocca – Colin Puri, Accenture – Héctor Pérez-Urbina, Google – Martin Rezk, Google – Giuseppe Rizzo, LINKS Foundation – Mariano Rodríguez Muro, Google – Juan F. Sequeda, data.world – Evren Sirin, Clark & Parsia, LLC – Dezhao Song, Thomson Reuters – Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research – Seema Sundara, Oracle – Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science Program Committee (Outrageous Ideas)