Program Committee

Program Chairs

  • Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, DE
  • Axel Polleres, Siemens AG, AT

Research Track: Ontologies

Chairs

  • Chiara Ghidini, FBK, IT
  • Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete and FORTH-ICS, GR

Research Track: Reasoning

Chairs

  • Giovambattista Ianni, Universitá della Calabria, IT
  • Markus Kroetzsch, University of Oxford, UK

Research Track: Semantic Data Management

Chairs

  • Claudio Gutierrez, University of Chile, CL
  • Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE

Research Track: Linked Open Data

Chairs

  • Sören Auer, Chemnitz University of Technology, DE
  • Juan Sequeda, University of Texas at Austin, US

Research Track: Social Web and Web Science

Chairs

  • Fabien Gandon, INRIA, FR
  • Matthew Rowe, KMi, The Open University, UK

Research Track: Services, Processes and Cloud Computing

Chairs

  • Matthias Klusch, DFKI, DE
  • Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University, UK

Research Track: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval

Chairs

  • Paul Buitelaar, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, IE
  • Johanna Völker, University of Mannheim, DE

Research Track: Mobile and Sensor Web

Chairs

  • Alasdair J G Gray, University of Manchester, UK
  • Kerry Taylor, CSIRO ICT Centre, AU

Research Track: Machine Learning

Chairs

  • Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, IT
  • Volker Tresp, Siemens AG, DE

Special Track: EGovernment: Using Semantics for Promoting Interoperability in the Public Sector

Chairs

  • Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES
  • Vassilios Peristeras, European Commission, EU

Special Track: Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage

Chairs

  • Antoine Isaac, Europeana / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
  • Vivien Petras, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, DE

Special Track: EU Project Networking

Chairs

  • Lyndon Nixon, STI Research, Austria-AT

In-use & Industrial Track

Chairs

  • Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, eXascale Infolab, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Switzerland-CH
  • Yves Raimond, BBC, United Kingdom-UK

Members (all tracks)

  • Fabian Abel, TU Delft, NL
  • Sudhir Agarwal, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
  • Harith Alani, The Open University, UK
  • Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant Inc, US
  • José Luis Ambite, University of Southern California, US
  • Sofia Angeletou, British Broadcasting Corporation, UK
  • Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK
  • Dimitris Apostolou, University of Piraeus, GR
  • Lora Aroyo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
  • Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, DE
  • Marie-Aude Aufaure, Ecole Centrale Paris, FR
  • Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Insitute des Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, FR
  • Daniel Gayo Avello, University of Oviedo, ES
  • Reza B'Far, Oracle Corporation, US
  • Franz Baader, Technische Universität Dresden, DE
  • Bruno Bachimont, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, FR
  • Thomas Baker, DCMI Ltd, US
  • Jie Bao, Samsung Information System America, US
  • Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, UK
  • Payam Barnaghi, University of Surrey, UK
  • Roberto Basili, Università Tor Vergata, IT
  • John Bateman, Universität Bremen, DE
  • Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, UK
  • Zohra Bellahsene, Université Montpellier 2, FR
  • Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, IT
  • Bettina Berendt, Katholieke Universiteit. Leuven, BE
  • Sonia Bergamaschi, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT
  • Luis Bermudez, Open Geospatial Consortium, US
  • Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, CA
  • Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, DE
  • Stephan Bloehdorn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
  • Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University, Sweden-SE
  • Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company, AT
  • Uldis Bojars, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, LV
  • Piero Bonatti, University of Naples Federico II, IT
  • Francesco Bonchi, Yahoo! Research, ES
  • Philippe Bonnet, IT University of Copenhagen, DK
  • Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, United UK
  • Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, US
  • Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, IT
  • Johan Bos, University of Groningen, NL
  • Cecile Bothorel, Telecom Bretagne, FR
  • Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, IT
  • Karin Breitman, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, BR
  • Christopher Brewster, Aston University, UK
  • Dan Brickley, Institute of Computer Science - FORTH', GR
  • Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, CA
  • François Bry, Universität München, DE
  • Liliana Cabral, The Open University, UK
  • Andrea Calì, University of London, UK
  • Donatella Castelli, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, IT
  • Ciro Cattuto, ISI Fundation, IT
  • Irene Celino, CEFRIEL, IT
  • Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, IT
  • Yannis Charalabidis, University of Aegean, GR
  • Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, US
  • Christian Chiarcos, Universität Potsdam, DE
  • Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia LLC, US
  • Michael Compton, CSIRO, AU
  • Mariano Consens, University of Toronto, CA
  • Bonaventura Coppola, IBM Research, US
  • Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
  • Paulo Costa, George Mason University, US
  • Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
  • Carlo Curino, Yahoo! Research, US
  • Richard Cyganiak, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland Galway, IE
  • Mathieu D'Aquin, The Open University, UK
  • Souripriya Das, Oracle, US
  • Frithjof Dau, SAP, DE
  • Pieter De Leenheer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL & Collibra nv/sa, BE
  • Gerard De Melo, International Computer Science Institute Berkeley, USA
  • David De Roure, University of Oxford, UK
  • Roberto De Virgilio, Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre, IIT
  • Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN Technologies, US
  • Thierry Declerck, Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, DE
  • Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, IT
  • Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, IT
  • Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, DE
  • Martin Doerr, University of Crete and Institute of Computer Science - FORTH, GR
  • Kai Eckert, Mannheim University Library, DE
  • Peter Edwards, University of Aberdeen, UK
  • Orri Erling, OpenLink, NL
  • Federico Michele Facca, CREATE-NET, IT
  • Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, IT
  • Tim Finin, UMBC, US
  • Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, AT
  • Kai Fischbach, University of Cologne, DE
  • Giorgos Flouris, University of Crete and Institute of Computer Science - FORTH, GR
  • Bo Fu, University of Victoria, CA
  • Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, FR
  • Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, IT
  • Roberto Garcia, Universitat de Lleida, ES
  • Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Universidad de Oviedo, SES
  • Hugh Glaser, Seme4, UK
  • Birte Glimm, Universität Ulm, DE
  • Alfio Gliozzo, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, US
  • Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Intelligent Software Components S.A., ES
  • Asunción Gómez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
  • Guido Governatori, National ICT Australia Ltd, AU
  • Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, DE
  • Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford, UK
  • Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, FR
  • Stephan Grimm, Siemens AG, DE
  • Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, SI
  • Paul Groth, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
  • Tudor Groza, School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, AU
  • Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, CA
  • Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, IT
  • Christophe Guéret, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
  • Ramanathan Guha, Google, US
  • Giancarlo Guizzardi, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO)/Federal University ofEspirito Santo (UFES), BR
  • Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO
  • Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, CA
  • Peter Haase, Fluid Operations, DE
  • Hakim Hacid, Bell Labs, FR
  • Udo Hahn, Jena Universität, DE
  • Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Tony Hammond, Nature Publishing Group, UK
  • Siegfried Handschuh, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland Galway, IE
  • Steve Harris, Garlik, UK
  • Olaf Hartig, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, DE
  • Alois Haselböck, Siemens AG, AT
  • Bernhard Haslhofer, Cornell University Information Science, US
  • Tom Heath, Talis Systems Ltd, UK
  • Ralf Heese, Freie Universität Berlin, DE
  • Sebastian Hellmann, Universität Leipzig, DE
  • Cory Henson, Wright State University, US
  • Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr Munich, DE
  • Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium, NL
  • Stijn Heymans, SRI International, US
  • Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, CA
  • Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, US
  • Aidan Hogan, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland Galway, IE
  • Katja Hose, Max-Planck-Institut, DE
  • Andreas Hotho, Universität Würzburg, DE
  • Nicholas Humfrey, British Broadcasting Corporation, UK
  • David Huynh, Metaweb, US
  • Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University & University of Helsinki, FI
  • Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, US
  • Jason Jung, Yeungnam University, KR
  • Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
  • Marcel Karnstedt, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland Galway, IE
  • C. Maria Keet, University of KwaZulu-Natal, ZA
  • Gregg Kellogg, Kellogg Associates, US
  • Kristian Kersting, Fraunhofer IAIS & Universität Bonn, DE
  • Holger Kett, Fraunhofer IAO, DE
  • Jörg-Uwe Kietz, University of Zurich, CH
  • Ross King, University of Walesm, Aberystwyth, UK
  • Sheila Kinsella, Datahug, IE
  • Ralf Klischewski, German University in Cairo, EG
  • Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California, US
  • Pascale Kuntz, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique, FR
  • Oliver Kutz, University of Bremen, DE
  • Georg Lausen, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, DE
  • Florian Lautenbacher, Softplant, DE
  • Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University of Technolgy, PL
  • Laurent Lefort, CSIRO ICT Centre, AU
  • Jens Lehmann, Universität Leipzig, DE
  • Marcello Leida,Etisalat BT Innovation Centre, AE
  • Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, -PT
  • Alexander Lenk, Forschungszentrum Informatik, DE
  • Francesca Alessandra Lisi, Università degli Studi di Bari, IT
  • Yong Liu, University of Illinois, US
  • Vanessa Lopez, IBM Dublin, UK
  • Nikos Loutas, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland Galway, IE
  • Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford, UK
  • Carsten Lutz, Universität Bremen, DE
  • Maria Machado, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, BR
  • Pedro Jose Marron, Universität Duisburg-Essen & Fraunhofer FKIE, DE
  • Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, UK
  • Christopher Matheus, Bell Labs Research, IE
  • Andrea Maurino, Università di Milano, IT
  • Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
  • Philipp Mayr, GESIS, DE
  • John McCrae, University of Bielefeld, DE
  • Massimo Mecella, SAPIENZA Università di Roma, IT
  • Pablo N. Mendes, Freie Universität Berlin, DE
  • Jan Mendling, Wirtschafts Universität Vienna, AT
  • Gregoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens, GR
  • Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, ES
  • Ivan Mikhailov, OpenLink Software, RU
  • Zoltan Miklos, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH
  • Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, JP
  • Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, SI
  • Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, IT
  • Elena Mugellini, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, CH
  • Felix Naumann, Hasso Plattner Institute, DE
  • Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome, IT
  • Günter Neumann, Intelligente Lösungen für die Wissensgesellschaft, DE
  • Marco Neumann, KONA, US
  • Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig, DE
  • Maximilian Nickel, Universität Munich, DE
  • Matthias Nickles, Technische Unversität Munich, DE
  • Andriy Nikolov, The Open University, UK
  • Malvina Nissim, University of Bologna, IT
  • Barry Norton, Ontotext AD, BG
  • Natasha F. Noy, Stanford University, US
  • Leo Obrst, MITRE, US
  • Silver Oliver, British Broadcasting Corporation, UK
  • Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University, US
  • Johan Oomen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
  • Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, ES
  • Kevin Page, University of Oxford, UK
  • Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
  • Michael Panzer, OCLC, US
  • Massimo Paolucci, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, DE
  • Josiane Xavier Parreira, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland Galway, IE
  • Alexandre Passant, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland Galway, IE
  • Terry Payne, University of Liverpool, UK
  • Jamie Payton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US
  • Rafael Peñaloza, Technische Universität Dresden, DE
  • Matthew Perry, Oracle America Inc, US
  • Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, UK
  • Danh Le Phuoc, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland Galway, IE
  • H. Sofia Pinto, Instituto Superior Técnico, PT
  • Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, IT
  • Guilin Qi, Southeast University, CN
  • Anand Ranganathan, IBM, US
  • Achim Rettinger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
  • Chantal Reynaud, Université Paris-Sud, FR
  • Myriam Ribiere, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, FR
  • Mark Roantree, Dublin City University, IE
  • Andrea Rodriguez, University of Concepcion, CL
  • Kurt Rohloff, Raytheon BBN Technologies, US
  • Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, NO
  • Riccardo Rosati, Università di Roma, IT
  • Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IT
  • Edna Ruckhaus, Universidad Simón Bolívar, VE
  • Sebastian Rudolph, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
  • Stefanie Rühle, University of Gottingen, DE
  • Marta Sabou, MODUL University Vienna, AT
  • Harald Sack, Universität Potsdam, DE
  • Evan Sandhaus, The New York Times, US
  • Felix Sasaki, Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH & Fachhochschule Potsdam, DE
  • Kai-Uwe Sattler, Technische Universität Ilmenau, DE
  • Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK
  • Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, AT
  • Bernhard Schandl, Gnowsis.com, AT
  • Thomas Scharrenbach, University of Zurich, CH
  • Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
  • Jodi Schneider, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland Galway, IE
  • Michael Schneider, Forschungszentrum Informatik, DE
  • Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, AT
  • Daniel Schwabe, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, BR
  • Tom Scott, Nature Publishing Group, UK
  • Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, IT
  • Juan F. Sequeda, Department of Computer Sciences, , US
  • Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IT
  • Barış Sertkaya, SAP Research Dresden, DE
  • Ryan Shaw, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US
  • Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University, US
  • Michael Sintek, Intelligente Lösungen für die Wissensgesellschaft, DE
  • Katharina Siorpaes, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, AT
  • Sergej Sizov, Universität Koblenz, DE
  • Steffen Staab, Universität Koblenz-Landau, DE
  • Johann Stan, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France, FR
  • Milan Stankovic, hypios & University Paris-Sorbonne, FR
  • Thomas Steiner, Google, DE
  • Florian Steinke, Siemens AG, DE
  • Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK
  • Adrian Stevenson, Mimas, University of Manchester, UK
  • Giorgos Stoilos, University of Oxford, UK
  • Nenad Stojanovic, FZI Karlsruhe, DE
  • Michael Stollberg, SAP, DE
  • Henry Story, http://bblfish.net/ and Apache, FR
  • Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universität Mannheim, DE
  • Fabian M. Suchanek, INRIA Saclay, FR
  • York Sure, Universität Koblenz-Landau & GESIS, DE
  • Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics Prague, CZ
  • Lars Svensson, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, DE
  • Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, GR
  • Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
  • Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen, IT
  • Bryan Thompson, SYSTAP, LLC, US
  • Andreas Thor, Universität Leipzig, DE
  • Ioan Toma, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, AT
  • Alessandra Toninelli, Engineeering Group, IT
  • Sebastian Tramp, Universität Leipzig, DE
  • Thanh Tran, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
  • Francky Trichet, University of Nantes, FR
  • Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, FR
  • Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan, UK
  • Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, US
  • Mischa Tuffield, PeerIndex, UK
  • Giovanni Tummarello, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland Galway, IE & Fondazione Bruno Kessler,IT
  • Vassilis Tzouvaras, National Technical University of Athens, GR
  • Jacopo Urbani, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
  • Alejandro A. Vaisman, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE
  • Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatic, NL
  • Paola Velardi, University of Roma, IT
  • Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simón Bolívar, VE
  • Boris Villazón-Terrazas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
  • Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
  • George Vouros, University of  Piraeus, GR
  • Denny Vrandecic, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
  • Holger Wache, University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland, CH
  • Haofen Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN
  • Kewen Wang, Griffith University, AU
  • Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
  • Zhe Wang, University of Oxford, UK
  • Albert Weichselbraun, University of Applied Sciences Chur, CH
  • Maria Wimmer, Universität Koblenz-Landau, DE
  • Peter Wood, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
  • Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, US
  • Ying Zhang, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), NL
  • Jun Zhao, University of Oxford, UK
  • Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, FR
  • Ingo Zinnikus, Intelligente Lösungen für die Wissensgesellschaft, DE