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Program Committee

Program Chairs

Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, SI
Elena Simperl, KIT, DE

Research Track: Social Web and Web Science

Chairs

Alexandre Passant, DERI, Ireland-IE
Denny Vrandecic, KIT, Germany-DE

Members (click to expand)

Fabian Abel, L3S Hannover, Germany-DE
Harith Alani, KMI, Open University
Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany-DE
Scott Bateman, University of Saskatchewan, Canada-CA
Edward Benson, MIT, United States-US
Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia-AU
John Breslin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland-IE
Ciro Cattuto, ISI Fundation, Torino, Italy-IT
Federica Cena, University of Turin, Italy-IT
Richard Cyganiak, DERI, Ireland-IE
Antonina Dattolo, University of Udine, Italy-IT
Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, United States-US
Ying Ding, Indiana University, United States-US
Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Canada-CA
Guillaume Ereteo, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France-FR
Anna Fensel, FTW, Austria-AT
Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France-FR
Cristina Gena, University of Turin, Italy-IT
Steve Harris, Garlik, United Kingdom-UK
Aidan Hogan, DERI, Ireland-IE
Ekaterini Ioannou, L3S Hannover, Germany-DE
Neil Ireson, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom-UK
Robert Jaschke, University of Kassel, Germany-DE
Lalana Kagal, MIT, United States-US
Pranam Kolari, Yahoo! Labs, United States-US
Georgia Koutrika, IBM Almaden Research Center, United States-US
Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen, Germany-DE
Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China-CN
Meena Nagarajan, IBM, United States-US
Matthew Rowe, KMI, Open University, United Kingdom-UK
Ansgar Scherp, University of Koblenz, Germany-DE
Juan Sequeda, The University of Texas at Austin, United States-US
Paul Smart, University of Southampton, United Kingdom-UK
Sergey Sosnovsky, DFKI, Germany-DE
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany-DE
Markus Strohmeier, University of Graz, Austria-AT
Christopher Thomas, Wright State University, United States-US
Mischa Tuffield, Garlik, United Kingdom-UK
Shenghui Wang, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Katrin Weller, University of Düsseldorf, Germany-DE
Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia-AU
Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore-SG
Lina Zhou, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States-US

Research Track: Ontologies

Chairs

Mathieu D´Aquin, Open University, United Kingdom-UK
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany-DE

Members (click to expand)

Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, France-FR
Eva Blomqvist, Jönköping University, Sweden-SE
Ales Buh, Joseph Stefan Institute, Slovenia-SI
Jean Charlet, INSERM UMRS, France-FR
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain-ES
Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States-US
Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis, University of Murcia, Spain-ES
Chiara Ghidini, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy-IT
Asun Gomez-Perez, Polytechnical University Madrid, Spain-ES
Pierre Grenon, EBML-EBI, United Kingdom-UK
Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr, Germany-DE
Patrick Lambrix, Linköping UNiversity, Sweden-SE
Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom-UK
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, JP
Viktoria Pammer, Technical University of Graz, Austria-AT
Helena Sofia Pinto, INESC-ID, Portugal-PT
Dimitris Plexousakis, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece-GR
Chantal Reynaud, INRIA Saclay, France-FR
Marta Sabou, MODUL University Vienna, Austria-AT
Ansgar Scherp, University of Koblenz, Germany-DE
Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Luciano Serafini, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy-IT
Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany-DE
Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, United Kingdom-UK
Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic-CZ
Johanna Voelker, University of Mannheim, Germany-DE

Research Track: Reasoning

Chairs

Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Italy-IT
Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, United States-US

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Jose Julio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal-PT
Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States-US
Andre Bolles, University of Oldenburg, Germany-DE
Daniele Braga, Politecnico di Milano, Italy-IT
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy-IT
Irene Celino, CEFRIEL, Italy-IT
Oscar Corcho, Polytechnical University Madrid, Spain-ES
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford, United Kingdom-UK
Claudia d´Amato, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy-IT
Mathieu D´Aquin, Open University, United Kingdom-UK
Daniele Dell'Aglio, CEFRIEL, Italy-IT
Michael Grossniklaus, Portland State University, United States-US
Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Markus Krötzsch, University of Oxford, United Kingdom-UK
Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford, United Kingdom-UK
Marko Luther, DOCOMO, Germany-DE
Frederick Maier, Wright State University, United States-US
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom-UK
Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, United Kingdom-UK
Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China-CN
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway-NO
Riccardo Rosati, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy-IT
Sebastian Rudolph, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany-DE
Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany-DE
Evren Sirin, Clark & Parsia, United States-US
Annette ten Teije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Kristin Tufte, Portland State University, United States-US
Guido Vetere, IBM, Italy-IT
Zhe Wu, Oracle, United States-US
Antoine Zimmermann, LIRIS Lyon, France-FR

Research Track: Semantic Data Management

Chairs

Vassilis Christophides, FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Greece-GR
Axel Polleres, DERI, Ireland-IE

Members (click to expand)

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland-CH
Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland-CH
Aidan Boran, Bell Labs, United States-US
Alessandro Bozzon, Politecnico di Milano, Italy-IT
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy-IT
Oscar Corcho, Polytechnical University Madrid, Spain-ES
Orri Erling, OpenLink, Netherlands-NL
George H. L. Fletcher, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands-NL
Irini Fundulaki, FORTH-ICS, Greece-GR
Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Chile-CL
Steve Harris, Garlik, United Kingdom-UK
Andreas Harth, KIT, Germany-DE
Aidan Hogan, DERI Galway, Ireland-IE
Marcel Karnstedt, DERI Galway, Ireland-IE
Panagiotis Karras, National University of Singapore, Singapore-SG
Greg Karvounarakis, LogicBlox, United States-US
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM Research, United States-US
Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext AD, Bulgaria-BG
Dimitris Kotzinos, TEI of Serres, Greece-GR
Manolis Koubarakis, University of Athens, Greece-GR
Reto Krummenacher, STI Innsbruck, Austria-AT
Georg Lausen, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany-DE
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Max-Planck Institut Informatik, Germany-DE
Sherif Sakr, University of New South Wales, United Kingdom-UK
Andy Seaborne, HP Labs, United Kingdom-UK
Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University, United States-US
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy-IT
Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy-IT
Tran Duc Thanh, KIT Karlsruhe, Germany-DE
Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, IE and Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy-IT
Jacopo Urbani, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy-IT
Maria Esther Vidal, University Simón Bolívar, Venezuela-VE
Jesse Weaver, RPI, NY, United States-US

Research Track: Linked Open Data

Chairs

Mariano Consens, University of Toronto, Canada-CA
Paul Groth, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig, Germany-DE

Members (click to expand)

José Luis Ambite, University of Southern California, United States-US
Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany-DE
Christian Bizer, Free University of Berlin, Germany-DE
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy-IT
Dan Brickley, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Lin Clark, DERI, Ireland-IE
Richard Cyganiak, DERI, Ireland-IE
Christophe Gueret, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom-UK
Andreas Harth, KIT, Germany-DE
Olaf Hartig, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany-DE
Oktie Hassanzadeh, University of Toronto, Canada-CA
Sebastian Hellmann, University of Leipzig, Germany-DE
Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Anja Jentzsch, Free University of Berlin, Germany-DE
Spyros Kotoulas, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Yuzhong Qu, Southeast University, China-CN
Yves Raimond, BBC, United Kingdom-UK
Juan Sequeda, The University of Texas at Austin, United States-US
Nigam Shah, Stanford University, United States-US
York Sure, University of Koblenz-Landau and GESIS, Germany-DE
Thanh Tran, KIT, Germany-DE
Mischa Tuffield, Garlik, United Kingdom-UK
Jun Zhao, University of Manchester, United Kingdom-UK

Research Track: Software, Services, Processes and Cloud Computing

Chairs

Barry Norton, KIT, Germany-DE
Michael Stollberg, SAP Research, Germany-DE

Members (click to expand)

Sudhir Agarwal, KIT, Germany-DE
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy-IT
Irene Celino, CEFRIEL, Italy-IT
Violeta Damjanovic, Salzburg Research, Austria-AT
Pieter De Leenheer, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL, Collibra NV, Belgium-BE
Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy-IT
Federico Facca, Create-Net, Italy-IT
José Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, United Kingdom-UK
Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland-PL
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada-CA
Stephan Grimm, FZI, Germany-DE
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany-DE
Holger Kett, Fraunhofer IAO, Germany-DE
Reto Krummenacher, STI Innsbruck, Austria-AT
Dave Lambert, Open University, United Kingdom-UK
Florian Lautenbacher, University of Augsburg, Germany-DE
Niels Lohmann, Universität Rostock, Germany-DE
Jan Mendling, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany-DE
Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany-DE
Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Europe, Germany-DE
Carlos Pedrinaci, Open University, United Kingdom-UK
Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy-IT
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway-NO
Monika Solanki, University of Leicester, United Kingdom-UK
Nenad Stojanovic, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany-DE
Ioan Toma, STI Innsbruck, Austria-AT
Jürgen Vogel, SAP Research, Germany-DE

Research Track: Natural Language Processing

Chairs

Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, Germany-DE
Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, Slovenia-SI

Members (click to expand)

Guadalupe Aguado-de-Cea, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain-ES
Enrique Alfonseca, Google Zurich, Switzerland-CH
Nathalie Aussenac Gilles, IRIT, France-FR
Roberto Basili, Università Tor Vergata, Italy-IT
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom-UK
Christopher Brewster, Aston University, United States-US
Peter Clark, Boeing, United States-US
Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany-DE
Blaz Fortuna, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia-SI
Aldo Gangemi, STLab, Italy-IT
Claudio Giuliano, FBK, Italy-IT
Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France-FR
Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, Ireland-IE
Laura Hollink, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands-NL
Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany-DE
José Iria, IBM, Switzerland-CH
Vanessa Lopez, KMI, The Open University, United Kingdom-UK
Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom-UK
John McCrae, University of Bielefeld, Germany-DE
Paola Monachesi, University of Utrecht, Netherlands-NL
Roberto Navigli, Università "La Sapienza", Italy-IT
Achim Rettinger, KIT, Germany-DE
Marta Sabou, MODUL University Vienna, Austria-AT
Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz, Germany-DE
Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic-CZ
Dennis Spohr, University of Bielefeld, Germany-DE
Christina Unger, University of Bielefeld, Germany-DE
Victoria Uren, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom-UK
Johanna Voelker, University of Mannheim, Germany-DE
René Witte, Concordia University, Canada-CA
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Università Tor Vergata, Italy-IT

Research Track: Sensor Web

Chairs

Harith Alani, KMI, Open University
Luca Mottola, Swedish Insitute of Computer Science, Sweden-SE

Members (click to expand)

Philip Bonnet, University of Copenhagen, DK
Ciro Cattuto, ISI Fundation, Torino, Italy-IT
Oscar Corcho, Polytechnical University Madrid, Spain-ES
David De Roure, University of Oxford, United Kingdom-UK
Cory Henson, Wright State University, United States-US
Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, United States-US
Yong Liu, NCSA - University of Illinois, United States-US
Pedro J. Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany-DE
Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, United Kingdom-UK
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Max-Planck Institut Informatik, Germany-DE
Eric Pauwels, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, Netherlands-NL
Jamie Payton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States-US
Vinny Reynolds, DERI, Ireland-IE
Mark Roantree, Dublin City University, Ireland-IE
Kay Roemer, University of Luebeck, Germany-DE
Nenad Stojanovic, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany-DE
Kerry Taylor, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia-AU
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom-UK

Research Track: Mobile Web

Chairs

Ora Lassila, Nokia, Finland-FI
Alessandra Toninelli, INRIA, France-FR

Members (click to expand)

Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy-IT
Cristian Borcea, NJIT, United States-US
Valérie Issarny, INRIA, France-FR
Deepali Khushraj, Nokia, United States-US
Mika Mannermaa, Nokia, Finland-FI
Enrico Motta, KMI, The Open University
Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Europe, Germany-DE
Terry Payne, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom-UK
David Provost, Nokia, United States-US
Anand Ranganathan, IBM, United States-US
Bernhard Schandl, University of Wien, Austria-AT
Matthias Wagner, DoCoMo, Germany-DE

In-Use Track: Semantic Web In-Use

Chairs

Daniel Olmedilla, Telefonica I+D, Spain-ES
Pavel Shvaiko, TasLab - Informatica Trentina S.p.A., Italy-IT

Members (click to expand)

Harith Alani, KMI, Open University
George Anadiotis, IMC Technologies, Greece-GR
Giuseppe Angelini, WEBSS, Italy-IT
Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany-DE
Stefano Bertolo, Private individual, Luxembourg-LU
Olivier Bodenreider, US National Library of Medicine, United States-US
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy-IT
François Bry, University of Munich, Germany-DE
Pablo Castells, UAM, Spain-ES
John Davies, BT, United Kingdom-UK
Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN Technologies, United States-US
Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics Inc, United States-US
Aldo Gangemi, STLab, Italy-IT
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy-IT
John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom-UK
Peter Haase, Fluid Operations, Germany-DE
Bin He, IBM Research, United States-US
Tom Heath, Talis Systems Ltd, United Kingdom-UK
Nicola Henze, University of Hannover, Germany-DE
Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium, Netherlands-NL
Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands-NL
Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) and University of Helsinki, Finland-FI
Renato Iannella, Semantic Identity, Australia-AU
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Alexander Ivanyukovich, Trient Consulting Group, Italy-IT
Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, United States-US
Yannis Kalfoglou, RICOH Europe plc, United Kingdom-UK
Birgitta König-Ries, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany-DE
Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext AD, Bulgaria-BG
Rubén Lara, Telefonica R&D, Spain-ES
Nico Lavarini, Cogito, Expert System
Alain Leger, France Telecom R&D, France-FR
Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy-IT
Bernardo Magnini, FBK-irst, Italy-IT
Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy-IT
Massimo Marchiori, UNIPD and UTILABS, Italy-IT
Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Spain-ES
Luca Mion, TasLab, Informatica Trentina
Andriy Nikolov, The Open University, United Kingdom-UK
Lyndon Nixon, STI International, Austria-AT
Leo Obrst, MITRE, United States-US
Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Europe, Germany-DE
Yefei Peng, Google, United States-US
Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany-DE
Yves Raimond, BBC, United Kingdom-UK
Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria-AT
Hannes Schwetz, AWSG, Austria-AT
Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, United States-US
Andrei Tamilin, FBK-irst, Italy-IT
Klaus-Dieter Thoben, BIBA at University of Bremen, Germany-DE
Andraz Tori, Zemanta, Slovenia-SI
Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, United States-US
Lorenzino Vaccari, EC - JRC, Italy-IT
Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, Slovenia-SI
Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, United States-US
Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy-IT
Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China-CN

Special Track: Inductive and Probabilistic Approaches

Chairs

Rayid Ghani, Accenture, United States-US
Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University, Poland-PL

Members (click to expand)

Sarabjot S. Anand, University of Warwick, United Kingdom-UK
Mikhail Bilenko, Microsoft Research, United States-US
Stephan Bloehdorn, KIT, Germany-DE
Chad Cumby, Accenture Technology Labs, United States-US
Claudia d´Amato, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy-IT
Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy-IT
Blaz Fortuna, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia-SI
Eric Gaussier, LIG-UJF, France-FR
Melanie Hilario, University of Geneva, Switzerland-CH
Luigi Iannone, University of Manchester, United Kingdom-UK
Ivan Jelinek, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic-CZ
Jörg-Uwe Kietz, University of Zurich, Switzerland-CH
Ross D. King, University of Aberystwyth, United Kingdom-UK
Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig, Germany-DE
Yan Liu, University of Southern California, United States-US
Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, United Kingdom-UK
Sebastian Rudolph, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany-DE
Dou Shen, Microsoft Adcenter Labs, United States-US
Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz, Germany-DE
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy-IT
Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic-CZ
Volker Tresp, Siemens, Germany-DE
Joaquin Vanschoren, Leiden University, Netherlands-NL

Special Track: Digital Libraries

Chairs

Martin Doerr, FORTH ICS, Greece-GR
Carlo Meghini, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy-IT
Allen Renear, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States-US

Members (click to expand)

Trond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway-NO
Bruno Bachimont, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France-FR
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI, Italy-IT
Panos Constantopoulos, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece-GR
Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany-DE
Jen-Shin Hong, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan-TW
Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) and University of Helsinki, Finland-FI
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands-NL
Traugott Koch, Max Planck Digital Library, Germany-DE
Dimitris Kotzinos, FORTH and Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying, TEI of Serres, Greece-GR
Marcia LeiZeng, Kent State University, United States-US
Eva Méndez, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain-ES
Alistair Miles, University of Oxford, United Kingdom-UK
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada-CA
Carole Palmer, University of Illinois, United States-US
Ingeborg Torvik Solvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway-NO
Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom-UK
Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, United States-US