The 12th International Semantic Web Conference
and the 1st Australasian Semantic Web Conference
21-25 October 2013, Sydney, Australia

Program - Wednesday

 

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Registration + Help Desk: 7:30 - 18:00 in Foyer in SCEC

* Denotes best paper award nominee in the respective track.

Wednesday - Oct 23 - SCEC

  Track 1
[Parkside 110B]
Track 2
[Parkside Ballroom B]

Track 3
[Parkside 110A]

09:00 - 09:15

Opening Ceremony
[Parkside Ballroom B]

09:15 - 10:15

Invited Talk -- Ramanathan V. Guha
"Light at the End of the Tunnel"
Chair: Chris Welty
[Parkside Ballroom B]

10:15 - 11:00

Morning Tea
[Parkside Ballroom Foyer]

11:00 - 12:40 Semantic Web Landscape
Chair: Elena Simperl
Reasoning
Chair: Pascal Hitzler
Industry Track
Session 1
12:40 - 14:20

Lunch
[Parkside Ballroom Foyer]

JWS Lunch
[Invitation only]
14:20 - 15:00 Geo-Spatial Semantics
Chair: Krzysztof Janowicz
Life Science
Chair: Patrice Seyed
Industry Track
Session 2
15:00 - 15:15

Break

15:15 - 16:15 Natural Language Processing
Chair: Raphaël Troncy
Search
Chair: Jeff Heflin
Industry Track
Session 3

16:15 - 16:55

Afternoon Tea
[Parkside Ballroom Foyer]

16:55 - 18:05

Minute Madness
[Parkside 110B]
Chairs: Tudor Groza,Eva Blomqvist

 
Evening

Posters & Demos Session
Cocktail Reception with Canapés
(18:05 - 21:00)
[Parkside Ballroom B/Parkside Ballroom Foyer]

SWJ Dinner
(20:00 - 21:30
[Invitation only]

 

Industry Track
 
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11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk -- Andrew Woolf
Bureau of Meteorology
12:00 - 12:20

 

Michael Schmidt (fluid Operations), Christian Hütter, Timo Weber, Peter Haase, Andriy Nikolov (fluid Operations)
A Semantic Approach to Data Center Management

12:20 - 12:40

David Damen (Argus Labs, Belgium)
How Semantic Technologies supercharge a platform for context-aware applications
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14:20 - 14:40 Hans Constandt (OntoForce)
DISQOVER Links For Lives: Building a Linked Data UX (User eXperience) for Federated Query and Faceted Search Linking HealthCare and Life sciences Data for All Users
14:40 - 15:00 Terry Roach (UNSW)
Semantic Business Architecture Modelling in Financial Industry Regulation
 
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15:15 - 15:35 Daniel P. Miranker (Capsenta Inc), Juan F. Sequeda (Capsenta Inc)
Integrating Relational Databases with the Semantic Web: Four Scenarios
15:35 - 15:55 Michael Pizzo (Microsoft), Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft Research)
OData and the Semantic Web
15:55 - 16:15 Speaker Panel

 

Semantic Web Landscape
  Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Michael Schuhmacher, Johannes Knopp, Christian Meilicke and Ansgar Scherp.
On the Status of Experimental Research on the Semantic Web
Research Track
  Nicolas Matentzoglu, Samantha Bail and Bijan Parsia.
A snapshot of the OWL Web
Research Track
 

Christian Bizer, Kai Eckert, Robert Meusel, Hannes Mühleisen, Michael Schuhmacher and Johanna Völker.

Deployment of RDFa, Microdata, and Microformats on the Web – A Quantitative Analysis

Semantic Web In Use Track
  José Manuel Gómez-Pérez, Esteban García-Cuesta, Aleix Garrido and José Enrique Ruiz.
When History Matters - Assessing Reliability for the Reuse of Scientific Workflows
Semantic Web In Use Track
 

Matthew Horridge, Tania Tudorache, Jennifer Vendetti, Csongor Nyulas, Mark Musen and Natasha F. Noy.

Simplified Ontology Editing for the Web: Is WebProtege Enough?

Research Track

 

Reasoning
  Yevgeny Kazakov and Pavel Klinov.
Incremental Reasoning in OWL EL without Bookkeeping *
Research Track
  Fariz Darari, Werner Nutt, Giuseppe Pirrò and Simon Razniewski.
Completeness Statements about RDF Data Sources and Their Use for Query Answering
Research Track
  Jacopo Urbani, Alessandro Margara, Ceriel Jacobs, Frank Van Harmelen and Henri Bal.
DynamiTE: Parallel Materialization of Dynamic RDF Data
Research Track
  Vadim Ivanov, Matthias Knorr and Joao Leite.
A Query Tool for EL with Non-monotonic rules
Research Track
  Freddy Lecue.
Towards Constructive Evidence of Data Flow-oriented Web Service Composition
Research Track

 

Geo-Spatial Semantics
  Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo.
ORCHID - Reduction-Ratio-Optimal Computation of Geo-Spatial Distances for Link Discovery
Research Track
  George Garbis, Kostis Kyzirakos and Manolis Koubarakis.
Geographica: A Benchmark for Geospatial RDF Stores
Evaluation Track

 

Life Science
  Katherine Wolstencroft, Stuart Owen, Olga Krebs, Quyen Ngyuen, Jacky. L. Snoep, Wolfgang Mueller and Carole Goble.
Semantic Data and Models Sharing in systems Biology: The Just Enough Results Model and the SEEK Platform
Semantic Web In Use Track
  Tania Tudorache, Csongor I Nyulas, Natasha F. Noy and Mark Musen.
Using Semantic Web in ICD-11: Three Years Down the Road *
Semantic Web In Use Track

 

Natural Language Processing
  Olga Nevzorova, Nikita Zhiltsov, Danila Zaikin, Olga Zhibrik, Alexander Kirillovich, Vladimir Nevzorov and Evgeniy Birialtsev.
Bringing Math to LOD: A Semantic Publishing Platform Prototype for Scientific Collections in Mathematics
Research Track
  Andrea Moro, Hong Li, Sebastian Krause, Feiyu Xu, Roberto Navigli and Hans Uszkoreit.
Semantic Rule Filtering for Web-Scale Relation Extraction
Research Track
  Sebastian Hellmann, Jens Lehmann, Sören Auer and Martin Brümmer.
Integrating NLP using Linked Data
Semantic Web In Use Track

 

Search
  Daniel M. Herzig, Roi Blanco, Peter Mika and Thanh Tran.
Federated Entity Search using On-The-Fly Consolidation
Research Track
  Natasha F. Noy, Paul Alexander, Rave Harpaz, Trish Whetzel, Raymond Fergerson and Mark Musen.
Getting Lucky in Ontology Search: A Data-Driven Evaluation Framework for Ontology Ranking
Research Track
  Roi Blanco, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Peter Mika and Nicolas Torzec.
Entity recommendations in Web Search *
Semantic Web In Use Track

* Denotes best paper award nominee in the respective track.