ESWC 2009

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. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and makes this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making tasks. 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.

The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. ESWC 2009 will also feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium and a number of collocated workshops. The calls for these events are separate and can be found on the conference Web site (http://www.eswc2009.org/).

ESWC 2009 is sponsored by STI2, Semantic Technology Institutes International. For more information on STI2, please visit http://www.sti2.org.

Submissions
ESWC 2009 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of the Semantic Web. We particularly encourage the submission of papers on industrial efforts and experiences with Semantic Web projects. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and applications papers.

The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing for ESWC 2009 will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors.

Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will *not* be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission -- details of this process will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference.

Best Paper Award
An award will be given to the best paper (or papers) submitted to the conference as judged by the Program Chairs in collaboration with the Program Committee.

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Program Chairs

 * has PC chair::Lora Aroyo (VU University Amsterdam, NL)
 * has PC chair::Paolo Traverso (FBK, Center for Information Technology - IRST, IT)

PC Vice Chairs

 * has PC chair::Karl Aberer (EPFL, CH)
 * has PC chair::Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK)
 * has PC chair::Isabel Cruz (University Illinois at Chicago, USA)
 * has PC chair::Dave de Roure (University of Southampton, UK)
 * has PC chair::John Davies (BT, UK)
 * has PC chair::John Domingue (The Open University, UK)
 * has PC chair::Thomas Eiter (TUV, A)
 * has PC chair::Asunción Gómez-Pérez (UPM, E)
 * has PC chair::Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, IT)
 * has PC chair::Martin Hepp (DERI Innsbruck, A)
 * has PC chair::Masahiro Hori (Kansai University, JP)
 * has PC chair::Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford, UK)
 * has PC chair::Matthias Klusch (DFKI, D)
 * has PC chair::Manolis Koubarakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, GR)
 * has PC chair::Natasha Noy (Stanford University, USA)
 * has PC chair::Massimo Paolucci (DoCoMo Eurolabs, D)
 * has PC chair::Luciano Serafini (FBK IRST, IT)
 * has PC chair::Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
 * has PC chair::Chris Welty (IBM, USA)

PC Members

 * has PC member::Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich, CH)
 * has PC member::Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK)
 * has PC member::Alan Ruttenberg (Science Commons, USA)
 * has PC member::Aldo Gangemi (CNR-ISTC, IT)
 * has PC member::Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT)
 * has PC member::Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, USA)
 * has PC member::Alexander Löser (Technische Universität Berlin, D)
 * has PC member::Alkis Simitsis (HP Labs, USA)
 * has PC member::Anastasios Kementsietsidis (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
 * has PC member::Andrea Cali (University of Oxford, UK)
 * has PC member::Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel, D)
 * has PC member::Andrei Tamilin (FBK, Center for Information Technology - IRST, IT)
 * has PC member::Antoine Isaac (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
 * has PC member::Anupriya Ankolekar (HP Labs, USA)
 * has PC member::Arantza Illarramendi (Basque Country University, E)
 * has PC member::Axel Hahn (University of Oldenburg, D)
 * has PC member::Axel Polleres (DERI, National University of Ireland, IR)
 * has PC member::Bernardo Cuenca Grau (Oxford University, UK)
 * has PC member::Bernhard Thalheim (Christian Albrechts University Kiel, D)
 * has PC member::Bertram Ludaescher (UC Davis, USA)
 * has PC member::Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester, UK)
 * has PC member::Boi Faltings (EPFL Lausanne, CH)
 * has PC member::Boris Motik (University of Oxford, UK)
 * has PC member::Carlos Hurtado (University of Chile, RCH)
 * has PC member::Christine Golbreich (University of Versailles, F)
 * has PC member::Christoph Bussler (Merced Systems, Inc., USA)
 * has PC member::Christopher Baker (Institute for Infocomm Research, SG)
 * has PC member::Christos Tryfonopoulos (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, D)
 * has PC member::Costas Vassilakis (University of Peloponnese, GR)
 * has PC member::Cristina Baroglio (University of Torino, IT)
 * has PC member::Dan Brickley (Asemantics, UK )
 * has PC member::Daniel Oberle (SAP AG, D)
 * has PC member::Daniel Olmedilla (L3S Research Center, D)
 * has PC member::Danny Ayers (Talis Information Ltd., UK)
 * has PC member::Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, UK)
 * has PC member::Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT)
 * has PC member::Djamel A. ZIGHED (University of Lyon, F)
 * has PC member::Dunja Mladenic (J. Stefan Institute, SI)
 * has PC member::Epaminondas Kapetanios (University of Westminster, UK)
 * has PC member::Fabien Gandon (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, F)
 * has PC member::Francesca Alessandra Lisi (University of Bari, IT)
 * has PC member::François Bry (LMU Muenchen, D)
 * has PC member::Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG)
 * has PC member::Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft, NL)
 * has PC member::Georg Lausen (University of Freiburg, D)
 * has PC member::George Vouros (University of the Aegean, GR)
 * has PC member::Georgia Koutrika (Stanford University, USA)
 * has PC member::Georgios Paliouras (Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", GR)
 * has PC member::Gerald Reif (University of Zurich, CH)
 * has PC member::Gerd Stumme (University of Kassel, D)
 * has PC member::Gerhard Friedrich (University Klagenfurt, A)
 * has PC member::Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, IT)
 * has PC member::Giorgos Flouris (FORTH-ICS, GR)
 * has PC member::Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, GR)
 * has PC member::Giorgos Stoilos (National Technical University of Athens, GR)
 * has PC member::Graham Wilcock (University of Helsinki, FI)
 * has PC member::Guido Governatori (NICTA, AU)
 * has PC member::Hak Lae Kim (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, IR)
 * has PC member::Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh, UK)
 * has PC member::Heiko Stoermer (University of Trento, IT)
 * has PC member::Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, D)
 * has PC member::Herman ter Horst (Philips Research, NL)
 * has PC member::Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics and The University of Tokyo, JP)
 * has PC member::Holger Wache (University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland, CH)
 * has PC member::Ion Androutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), GR)
 * has PC member::Jacco van Ossenbruggen (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences, NL)
 * has PC member::Jan Maluszynski (Linkoping University, SE)
 * has PC member::Jane Hunter (University of Queensland, AU)
 * has PC member::Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK)
 * has PC member::Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore, SG)
 * has PC member::Jinghai Rao (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
 * has PC member::Joanne Luciano (Harvard Medical School, USA)
 * has PC member::John Breslin (National University of Ireland, Galway, IR)
 * has PC member::John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey, UK)
 * has PC member::Jos de Bruijn (Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, IT)
 * has PC member::Jose Julio Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, P)
 * has PC member::Kai-Uwe Sattler (TU Ilmenau, D)
 * has PC member::Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK)
 * has PC member::Kavitha Srinivas (IBM Research, USA)
 * has PC member::Laura Hollink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
 * has PC member::Laure Vieu (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, F)
 * has PC member::Leo Obrst (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
 * has PC member::Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, CDN)
 * has PC member::Line Catherine Pouchard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
 * has PC member::Ljiljana Stojanovic (FZI, D)
 * has PC member::Lyndon Nixon (STI International, A)
 * has PC member::M. Scott Marshall (University of Amsterdam, NL)
 * has PC member::Marcelo Arenas (PUC, RCH)
 * has PC member::Marco Pistore (FBK, Center for Information Technology - IRST, IT)
 * has PC member::Marie-Christine Rousset (University of Grenoble, F)
 * has PC member::Mario Cannataro (University of Catanzaro, IT)
 * has PC member::Mark Greaves (Vulcan Inc, USA)
 * has PC member::Mark Roantree (Dublin City University, IR)
 * has PC member::Martin Dzbor (The Open University, UK)
 * has PC member::Michael Schumacher (EPFL Lausanne, CH)
 * has PC member::Michael Sintek (DFKI GmbH, D)
 * has PC member::Michael Stollberg (SAP Research CEC Dresden, D)
 * has PC member::Michal Zaremba (STI Innsbruck, A)
 * has PC member::Mieczyslaw Kokar (Northeastern University, USA)
 * has PC member::Mihhail Matskin (KTH, SE)
 * has PC member::Mike Dean (BBN Technologies, USA)
 * has PC member::Milena Yankova (Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Corp., BG)
 * has PC member::Mohand-Said Hacid (Lyon University - UCBL, F)
 * has PC member::Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA)
 * has PC member::Nicholas Gibbins (University of Southampton, UK)
 * has PC member::Nick Bassiliades (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR)
 * has PC member::Nicola Leone (University of Calabria, IT)
 * has PC member::Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, E)
 * has PC member::Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento, IT)
 * has PC member::Paul - Alexandru Chirita (Adobe Systems Inc., RO)
 * has PC member::Paul Buitelaar (DFKI GmbH, D)
 * has PC member::Paulo Pinheiro da Silva (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
 * has PC member::Pavel Shvaiko (TasLab, Informatica Trentina, IT)
 * has PC member::Peter Haase (University of Karlsruhe, D)
 * has PC member::Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research, E)
 * has PC member::Peter Wood (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
 * has PC member::Ralf Moeller (Hamburg University of Technology, D)
 * has PC member::Riccardo Rosati (DIS, Sapienza University of Rome, IT)
 * has PC member::Robert Tolksdorf (Freie Universität Berlin, D)
 * has PC member::Ruben Lara (Telefonica R&D, E)
 * has PC member::Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, D)
 * has PC member::Saikat Mukherjee (Siemens Corporate Research, USA)
 * has PC member::Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, E)
 * has PC member::Scott Marshall (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
 * has PC member::Sebastian Schaffert (Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, A)
 * has PC member::Sergej Sizov (University of Koblenz-Landau, D)
 * has PC member::Silvana Castano (University of Milano, IT)
 * has PC member::Simon Miles (King's College London, UK)
 * has PC member::Spiros Skiadopoulos (University of Peloponnese, GR)
 * has PC member::Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
 * has PC member::Takahira Yamaguchi (Keio University, JP)
 * has PC member::Terry Payne (University of Southampton, UK)
 * has PC member::Thierry Declerck (DFKI GmbH, D)
 * has PC member::Tomas Vitvar (STI Innsbruck, A)
 * has PC member::Ubbo Visser (TZI - Center for Computing Technologies University of Bremen, D)
 * has PC member::Ulrich Reimer (University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, CH)
 * has PC member::Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, IT)
 * has PC member::Vangelis Karkaletsis (NCSR "Demokritos", GR)
 * has PC member::Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)
 * has PC member::Vasilis Samoladas (Technical University of Crete, GR)
 * has PC member::Veronique Malaise (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
 * has PC member::Victoria Uren (The Open University, UK)
 * has PC member::Vinay Chaudhri (SRI, USA)
 * has PC member::Vojtech Svatek (University of Economics, Prague, SK)
 * has PC member::Walter Binder (EPFL Lausanne, CH)
 * has PC member::Wlodek Drabent (IPI PAN Warszawa, PL)
 * has PC member::Wolf Siberski (L3S Research Center, D)
 * has PC member::Wolfgang May (Universitaet Goettingen, D)
 * has PC member::Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover, D)
 * has PC member::Yannis Avrithis (National Technical University of Athens, GR)
 * has PC member::Yaoyong Li (Sheffield University, UK)
 * has PC member::Yevgeny Kazakov (The University of Oxford)
 * has PC member::Yiannis Kompatsiaris (CERTH - ITI, GR)
 * has PC member::Ying Ding (Indiana University, USA)
 * has PC member::Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, CA)
 * has PC member::York Sure (SAP Research Karlsruhe, D)
 * has PC member::Yuan An (Drexel University, USA)
 * has PC member::Zlatina Marinova (Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Corp., BG)
 * has PC member::Zohra Bellahsene (LIRMM, F)