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

Research Track Program Committee

Program Chairs

Senior Program Committee

Program Committee

  • Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
  • Faisal Alkhateeb, Yarmouk University, Jordan
  • Melliyal Annamalai, Oracle Corporation, USA
  • Kemafor Anyanwu, North Carolina State University, USA
  • Knarig Arabshian, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, USA
  • Manuel Atencia, INRIA & Universit‚ de Grenoble 1, France
  • Medha Atre, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Jie Bao, Samsung Information System America, USA
  • Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, UK
  • Dominik Benz, Knowledge & Data Engineering Group, University of Kassel, Germany
  • Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Christian Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany
  • Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
  • Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
  • John Breslin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  • Christopher Brewster, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
  • Paul Buitelaar, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  • Gregoire Burel, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • Elizabeth Cano, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Pierre-Antoine Champin, Claude Bernard University of Lyon 1, France
  • Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China
  • Smitashree Choudhury, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Vassilis Christophides, University of Crete, Greece
  • Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  • Michael Compton, CSIRO, Australia
  • Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton, UK
  • Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  • Claudia D'Amato, University of Bari, Italy
  • Danica Damljanovic, University of Sheffield, UK
  • Mathieu D'Aquin, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Pieter De Leenheer, VU University Amsterdam & Collibra NV, The Netherlands
  • Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA
  • Stefan Decker, DERI Galway, Ireland
  • Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany
  • Li Ding, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA
  • John Domingue, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Canada
  • Peter Eklund, The University of Wollongong, Australia
  • Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA & LIG, France
  • Anna Fensel, FTW Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria
  • Miriam Fernandez, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Achille Fokoue, IBM Research, USA
  • Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • Bo Fu, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
  • Mark Gahegan, Centre for eResearch and SGGES, University of Auckland, Newzealand
  • Aldo Gangemi, CNR-ISTC, Italy
  • Raúl García-Castro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  • Nicholas Gibbins, University of Southampton, UK
  • Yolanda Gil, USC/ISI, USA
  • Fausto Giunchiglia, DISI, University of Trento, ITaly
  • Birte Glimm, Universität Ulm, Germany
  • Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO) S.A., Spain
  • Olaf Görlitz, Recommind, Germany
  • Alasdair J. G. Gray, University of Manchester, UK
  • Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
  • Tudor Groza, The University of Queensland, Australia
  • Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Italy
  • Christophe Guéret, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), The Netherlands
  • Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brasil
  • Armin Haller, CSIRO, Australia
  • Harry Halpin, World Wide Web Consortium
  • Siegfried Handschuh, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  • Lynda Hardman, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands
  • Manfred Hauswirth, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  • Sandro Hawke, W3C MIT, USA
  • Cory Henson, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA
  • Rinke Hoekstra, University of Amsterdam/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Aidan Hogan, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  • Laura Hollink, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, USA
  • Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, UK
  • Katja Hose, Aalborg University, Denmark
  • Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, The Netherlands
  • Bo Hu, Fujitsu, UK
  • Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
  • Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  • Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine
  • Jason Jung, Yeungnam University, Korea
  • Hanmin Jung, KISTI, Korea
  • Hong-Geen Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
  • Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany
  • Matthias Knorr, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Jacek Kopecky, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
  • Markus Krötzsch, University of Oxford, UK
  • Ora Lassila, Nokia Services, USA
  • Jens Lehmann, Universität Leipzig, Germany
  • Freddy Lecue, IBM Research
  • Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China
  • Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Vanessa Lopez, IBM, Ireland
  • Frederick Maier, University of Georgia, USA
  • Deborah McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA
  • Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Spain
  • Alessandra Mileo, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  • Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  • Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
  • Boris Motik, University of Oxford, UK
  • Enrico Motta, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA
  • Ekawit Nantajeewarawat, Thammasat University, Thailand
  • Nadeschda Nikitina, University of Oxford, UK
  • Andriy Nikolov, fluid Operations AG, Germany
  • Natasha F. Noy, Stanford University, USA
  • Kieron O'Hara, University of Southampton, UK
  • Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Euro labs, Germany
  • Bijan Parsia, The University of Manchester, UK
  • Alexandre Passant, seevl.net, MDG Web ltd
  • Carlos Pedrinaci, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Sofia Pinto, Affiliation to Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
  • Dimitris Plexousakis, FORTH, Greece
  • Valentina Presutti, STLab (ISTC-CNR), Italy
  • Abir Qasem, Bridgewater College, USA
  • Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China
  • Riccardo Rosati, DIS, Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy
  • Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University, UK
  • Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Marta Sabou, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
  • Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Universität Potsdam, Germany
  • Hassan Saif, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Manuel Salvadores, Stanford University, USA
  • Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK
  • Luigi Sauro, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Italy
  • Francois Scharffe, LIRMM, University of Montpellier, France
  • Ansgar Scherp, University of Mannheim, Germany
  • Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Daniel Schwabe, PUC-Rio, Brasil
  • Juan F. Sequeda, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
  • Milan Stankovic, Sépage & Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
  • Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy
  • Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  • Rudi Studer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
  • Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, Newzealand
  • Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
  • Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
  • Kerry Taylor, CSIRO & Australian National University, Australia
  • Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University, USA
  • Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, France
  • Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA
  • Giovanni Tummarello, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  • Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden, Germany
  • Victoria Uren, Aston University, UK
  • Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
  • Tomas Vitvar, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  • Johanna Völker, University of Mannheim, Germany
  • Claudia Wagner, Joanneum Research, IIS, Austria
  • Haofen Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • Zhichun Wang, Beijing Normal Univeristy, China
  • Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
  • Fang Wei-Kleiner, Linköping University, Sweden
  • Fouad Zablith, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
  • Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France