[CfP] ISWC 2019 - **One week left** to submit your work to Industry, Posters & Demos, Outrageous Ideas tracks, Reproducibility + more ISWC info

18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019)
“Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data, Linked Schemas and AI on the Web”
Auckland, New Zealand, 26-30 October, 2019
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/

The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the premier venue for
presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications
concerning semantics, data, and the Web. It is the most important
international venue to discuss and present latest advances and applications
of the semantic Web, knowledge graphs, linked data, ontologies and
artificial intelligence (AI) on the Web.

ISWC attracts a large number of high quality submissions every year and
participants from both industry and academia. ISWC brings together
researchers from different areas, such as artificial intelligence,
databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer
interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate,
develop and use novel methods and technologies for accessing, interpreting
and using information on the Web in a more effective way.

Follow us:
Twitter: @iswc_conf  , #iswc_conf ( https://twitter.com/iswc_conf )
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13612370
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISWConf/

Become part of ISWC 2019 by submitting to the following tracks & activities
or just attend them!
(All deadlines are 23:59:59 Hawaii time.)


In this announcement:
*  Highlights
1. Call for Industry papers
2. Call for Posters & Demos papers
3. Call for Outrageous Ideas
4. Call for Workshop papers
5. Call for Semantic Web Challenges systems
6. Call for participation in the ISWC Reproducibility Initiative
7. Student Travel Grants


*  Highlights
*******************************************
* The Outrageous Ideas track is sponsored by the prestigious CCC Blue Sky
ideas
* Posters & Demos track: poster submissions will be subject to **double
blind** peer review, whereas demonstration submissions are single-blind.
* The ISWC Reproducibility Initiative is running for the first time and
will evaluate submissions from the accepted papers of the ISWC **Research
Track**.
* Student Travel Grants: If you are a student interested in attending ISWC
2019, you may be eligible to apply for travel grants to support the costs
of travel and lodging. This year, travel grants are funded by the Semantic
Web Science Association (SWSA) and the U.S. National Science Foundation
(NSF).


1. Call for Industry papers
*******************************************
The industry track seeks to present the state of adoption of semantic
technologies in industrial settings. Semantics is used in applications in
many industries, including media, financials, telecommunications,
healthcare, life sciences, government, intelligence, smart cities,and
 cultural heritage. It enables applications capabilities as varied as
business intelligence, analytics, search, content management, knowledge
management, recommendation systems, information extraction and data
integration.

We encourage results and ideas from companies large and small. We welcome
contributions about success stories as well as experience reports and
discussions of obstacles that stand in the way of large-scale adoption of
semantic technologies.

Across all submissions, emphasis should be put on demonstrating the
business value and impact created by using semantic technologies to address
real life problems.

Come and join us at the ISWC 2019 industry track to share your experiences
with the largest community of researchers and practitioners in the Semantic
Web field!
Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
 - Applications of semantic technologies in specific industrial domains
(automotive, financial, healthcare and life sciences, energy industry, etc.)
 - Development and application of knowledge graphs for specific industries
 - Successful application domains: knowledge management, data integration,
search, business intelligence, data analytics, semantics-based explainable
AI, etc.
 - Industrial and business trends related to the usage of Linked Data, Open
Data and Semantic Web technologies
 - Comparison of semantic technologies with alternative or conventional
approaches for industry and business analytics in real world scenarios
 - Financial and strategic investments in semantic technologies

Successful submissions to this track will emphasize:
 - Real-world deployment experiences and strategic decision-making related
to semantic technologies
 - Success stories of business-relevant, industrial deployments of Semantic
Web technologies
 - Discussion of scalability of the presented technologies
 - Quantitative measurements of the business value created by using
semantic technologies
 - A clear description of the impact in the respective industry and
motivation for the need of semantic web technologies
 - Best practises and concrete lessons learned from these experiences,
measuring in a meaningful way the role of semantics and how it differs from
a solution that would otherwise be a state of the art IT solution with no
semantic technologies
 - Areas where further research (or research in novel directions) is
required, positioning and outlining potential strategic applications and
use cases of semantic technologies

Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-industry/

== Important Dates ==
Submissions due                       June 28, 2019

== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-industry@inria.fr
Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM Research, San Jose, California, US
Christophe Gueret, Accenture Labs Dublin, Dublin, Ireland


2. Call for Posters & Demos papers
*******************************************

The ISWC 2019 Posters and Demonstrations complement the paper tracks of the
conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research
results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in
progress. The informal setting of the Posters and Demonstrations encourages
presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the work. Such
discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters,
while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of
the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers.

We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web and which
address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track, the
Resources Track, the In-Use Track, and the Industry Track. Posters that
describe reports on Semantic Web software systems (free or commercial),
descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome.
Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related
implementations and technologies, both in academia and in industry.

We explicitly welcome entries from the industry. However, submissions for
posters and demonstrations should go beyond pure advertisements of
commercial software packages and convey a minimal scientific contribution.

Authors of full papers accepted for the Research Track, the Resources
Track, the In-Use Track, and the Industry Track are explicitly invited to
submit a demonstration. The submission should be formatted as the other
demonstrations but must cite the accepted full paper and needs to include
an explanation of its added value with respect to the conference paper. The
added value could include: a) extended results and experiments not
presented in the conference paper for reasons of space, or b) a
demonstration of a supporting prototype implementation.

Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-posters-demos/

== Important Dates ==
Submissions due                       June 28, 2019

== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-poster-demo@inria.fr
Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa,  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and
Ontology Engineering Group (OEG), Spain
Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China


3. Call for Outrageous Ideas
*******************************************
The Outrageous Ideas track is part of ISWC again! As in 2011 and 2018, this
track is sponsored by the prestigious CCC Blue Sky ideas and it solicits
visionary ideas, long term challenges, and opportunities for the Semantic
Web that are outside of the current topics in the field and are not mature
or specific enough to be accepted in the regular research track. The
contributions will have to have convincing arguments that the proposed
topic is promising as well as relevant, and they should relate, compare, or
contrast their proposition as much as possible to the existing literature
from relevant fields, possibly including fields outside the Semantic Web
Community.

We solicit visionary papers with significant impact on the field as well as
outside the field, where the following topics might provide some
inspiration:
 - Actionable and reliable knowledge generation
 - Blockchain and the Semantic Web
 - Deep learning and knowledge graphs
 - Graph embeddings
 - Knowledge cyborgs
 - Knowledge driven virtual reality
 - Knowledge Graphs in Nature
 - Semantic data programming and weak supervision
 - Semantic web and lifelong learning
 - Semantic Web in low resource settings
 - Trust and reliable knowledge on the Web
 - <Your better or outrageous idea here>

Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-outrageous-papers/

== Important Dates ==
Submissions due                       June 28, 2019

== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-outrageous-idea@inria.fr
Abraham Bernstein, University of Zürich, Department of Informatics, Zürich,
Switzerland
Maria Keet, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa


4. Call for Workshop papers
*******************************************
ISWC is the premier venue for presenting innovative systems and research
results related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data, attracting a large
number of high quality submissions every year and participants from both
industry and academia. ISWC brings together researchers from different
areas, such as artificial intelligence, databases, natural language
processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information
retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel
methods and technologies for accessing, interpreting and using information
on the Web in a more effective way.

Besides the main technical program, ISWC will host several workshops on
topics related to the general theme of the conference. The role of the
workshops is to provide a setting for focused, intensive scientific
exchange among researchers and practitioners interested in a specific
topic. As such, workshops are the primary venues for the exploration of
emerging ideas as well as for the discussion of novel aspects of
established research topics.

Find our workshops & deadlines here:
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/program-workshop/


5. Call for Semantic Web Challenges systems
*******************************************
ISWC 2019 will run multiple Challenges (SWCs) with the aim to evaluate and
compare software solutions for the Semantic Web in a systematic way. Each
SWC will:
 - Define a task to be addressed,
 - Provide a training and a test dataset and
 - Define evaluation measures to compare the performance of participating
systems.

Find our challenges & deadlines here:
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/challenges/

6. Call for participation in the ISWC Reproducibility Initiative
*******************************************
Many papers submitted to ISWC provide a very strong evaluation. Other
researchers willing to build on top of these results often have a hard time
to continue the work because the results in the paper are difficult to
reproduce. Hence, as an author of a research track paper, we would like to
invite you to submit your contribution to the Reproducibility Initiative.

The ISWC Reproducibility Initiative has the following goals:
 - To enable easy sharing of code and experimentation set-ups (take a paper
and reuse it).
 - To make more code and data available.
 - To highlight the impact and increase the credibility of the Semantic Web
research.
 - To facilitate the dissemination of research results.
 - We would like to build a culture where sharing results, code, and
scripts is the norm rather than an exception.

The challenge is to do this efficiently, which means building technical
expertise on how to do better research via creating repeatable and
shareable methods and results.

Considering reproducibility as a goal, the assessment of papers will
consider a spectrum varying from:
 - Basic availability of source code and data
 - Fully reproducible results given that the data, source code, and
documentation are made available.

The Reproducibility Initiative is open to the accepted papers of the ISWC
Research Track that have some significant experimental results that are
prone to be reproducible. For the reproducibility assessment, a member of
the Programme Committee will interact with the authors to check the
availability of the data, source code, documentation, configuration
requirements and reproduce the most important results of the paper.

Further info: http://repro.semanticweb.org/

== Important Dates ==
Submissions due                       July 9, 2019

== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-reproducibility@inria.fr
Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Science and Technology Facilities Council,
United Kingdom
Michael Cochez, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany


7. Student Travel Grants
*******************************************
If you are a student interested in attending ISWC 2019, you may be eligible
to apply for travel grants to support the costs of travel and lodging. This
year, travel grants are funded by the Semantic Web Science Association
(SWSA) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

Find more details and apply for a student travel award by following the
steps here: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/student-travel-grants/

== Important Dates ==
Applications due:     July 26, 2019
Notification:        August 31, 2019


Looking forward to your submissions & see you all in Auckland!

The ISWC 2019 Organising Team (
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/organizing-committee/ )