The SEMANTiCS conference series is a joint effort of the European Semantic Web and Linked Data community, including people and organisations from industry, research, NGO and governmental sector.
Conference Chairs 2017
- Victor de Boer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Conference Chair
- Tassilo Pellegrini (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences) Conference Co-Chair
- Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer) Industry & Use Case Chair
- Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) Industry & Use Case Chair
- Catherine Faron Zucker (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis) Research & Innovation Chair
- Rinke Hoekstra (Elsevier) Research & Innovation Chair
- Bernhard Haslhofer (Austrian Institute of Technology) Data Science Chair
- Laura Hollink (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica) Data Science Chair
- Sebastian Hellmann (AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University) Poster & Demo Chair
- Javier Fernandez (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Poster & Demo Chair
- Anna Fensel (University of Innsbruck) Workshop & Satellite Chair
- Laura Daniele (TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research) Workshop & Satellite Chair
- Jan Voskuil (Taxonic) Sponsoring Chair
- Simon Scerri (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) Sponsoring Chair
- Alexandra Garatzogianni (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) Sponsoring Chair
- Arjen Santema (Kadaster) Promotion Chair
- Miel van der Sande (Universiteit Gent) Promotion Chair
- Ronald Siebes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Organisation / Local Chair
- Catelijne Rauch (TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research) Organisation / Local Chair
- Thomas Thurner (Semantic Web Company) Organisation / Local Chair and European Linked Data Contest
Programme Committee
- Marie-Helene Abel, HEUDIASYC - Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
- Alessandro Adamou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, United Kingdom
- Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway, Norway
- Harith Alani, KMi, The Open University, United Kingdom
- Vladimir Alexiev, Ontotext Corp, Bulgaria
- Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
- Sören Auer, University of Bonn & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
- Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT CNRS, France
- Wouter Beek, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Stefan Bischof, Siemens AG Österreich, Austria
- Peter Bloem, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Charalampos Bratsas, Open Knowledge Greece & Mathematics Department of Aristotle University, Greece
- John Breslin, ,
- Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Volha Bryl, Springer Nature, Germany
- Paul Buitelaar, Insight - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
- Jose Camacho Collados, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Irene Celino, CEFRIEL, Italy
- Davide Ceolin, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Pierre-Antoine Champin, Université de Lyon, France
- Jean Charlet, AP-HP & INSERM UMRS 1142, France
- Vinay Chaudhri, Independent Researcher, USA
- Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, South Korea
- Philipp Cimiano, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Pieter Colpaert, Ghent University - iMinds - ELIS - Multimedia Lab, Belgium
- Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Roland Cornelissen, Metamatter, Netherlands
- Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, Italy
- Aba-Sah Dadzie, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, United Kingdom
- Enrico Daga, The Open University, United Kingdom
- Claudio Delli Bovi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Elena Demidova, L3S Research Center, Germany
- Sylvie Despres, Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale et de BIOinformatique (LIM&BIO), France
- Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-IRST, Italy
- Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
- Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany
- Anastasia Dimou, Ghent University - iMinds - Multimedia Lab, Belgium
- Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK-IRST, Italy
- Anca Dumitrache, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Samhaa El-Beltagy, Nile University, Egypt
- Henrik Eriksson, Linköping University, Sweden
- Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble, France
- Ingo Feinerer, University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, Austria
- Miriam Fernandez, Knowledge Media Institute, United Kingdom
- Javier D. Fernández, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
- Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
- Alexandra Garatzogianni, ,
- Roberto Garcia, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
- José María García, University of Seville, Spain
- Raúl García-Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
- Daniel Garijo, Information Sciences Institute, Spain
- Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM Research Almaden, USA
- Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Expert System, Spain
- Jorge Gracia, Ontology Engineering Group. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany
- Alasdair Gray, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
- Paul Groth, Elsevier Labs, Netherlands
- Anika Groß, Institute of Computer Science, Universität Leipzig, Germany
- Johanna Grüblbauer, FHSTP, Austria
- Christophe Guéret, Accenture, Ireland
- Peter Haase, metaphacts, Germany
- Karl Hammar, Jönköping University, Sweden
- Olaf Hartig, Linköping University, Sweden
- Benjamin Heitmann, RWTH Aachen University, Database and Information Systems Group (i5), Germany
- Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, Universität Leipzig, Germany
- Eelco Herder, L3S, Germany
- Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, USA
- Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands
- Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University, Finland
- Ignacio Iacobacci, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
- Valentina Janev, Mihailo Pupin Institute, University of Belgrade, Serbia
- Anja Jentzsch, Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany
- Carlos Juiz, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
- Naouel Karam, FU Berlin, Germany
- Tomi Kauppinen, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Finland
- Ali Khalili, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU Wien, Austria
- Magnus Knuth, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig, Greece
- Efstratios Kontopoulos, Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research & Technology - Hellas, Greece
- Spyros Kotoulas, IBM Research, Ireland
- Tobias Kuhn, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Benedikt Kämpgen, Empolis Information Management GmbH, Germany
- Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden
- Christoph Lange, University of Bonn & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany, Germany
- Michael Lauruhn, Elsevier, USA
- Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
- Maxime Lefrançois, MINES Saint-Etienne, France
- Isaac Lera, UIB, Spain
- Steffen Lohmann, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
- Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research, Ireland
- Sandra Lovrenčić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of organization and informatics Varazdin, Pavlinska 2, HR-42000 Varazdin, Croatia, Croatia
- Chun Lu, Université Paris-Sorbonne & Sépage, France
- Markus Luczak-Roesch, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Albert Meroño-Peñuela, VU, Netherlands
- Franck Michel, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France, France
- Andras Micsik, SZTAKI, Hungary
- Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Ontology Engineering Group. Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial. Facultad de Informática. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Andrea Moro, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
- Thomas Moser, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
- Dmitry Mouromtsev, NRU ITMO, Russia, Russia
- Helmut Nagy, Semantic Web Company GmbH, Austria
- Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Lyndon Nixon, MODUL Technology GmbH, Austria
- Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy
- Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA
- Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Maryam Panahiazar, Stanford, USA
- Alexander Panchenko, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Viviana Patti, University of Turin, Italy
- Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna, Italy
- Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences, Portugal
- Jasmin Pielorz, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
- Cédric Pruski, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
- Xiuquan Qiao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China, China
- Alessandro Raganato, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Achim Rettinger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Artem Revenko, Semantic Web Company, Austria
- Mariano Rico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
- Giuseppe Rizzo, ISMB, Italy
- Víctor Rodríguez Doncel, Ontology Engineering Group - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Oscar Rodríguez Rocha, INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, France
- Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
- Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Anisa Rula, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Marta Sabou, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe, Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure & KIT Karlsruhe, Germany
- Felix Sasaki, W3C, Germany
- Leo Sauermann, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Austria
- Vadim Savenkov, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria
- Alexander Schindler, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
- Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Jodi Schneider, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA
- Markus Seidl, University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria
- Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
- Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina, Italy
- Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl, Jagiellonian University, Poland
- Nadine Steinmetz, TU Ilmenau, Germany
- Holger Stenzhorn, Saarland University Hospital, Germany
- Simon Steyskal, Siemens AG Austria, Austria
- Vojtěch Svátek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
- Annette Ten Teije, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Konstantin Todorov, LIRMM, France
- Jürgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economy and Business (WU), Austria
- Mathias Uslar, OFFIS, Australia
- Herbert Van De Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, USA
- Willem Robert van Hage, Netherlands eScience Center, Netherlands
- Frank Van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University – imec, Belgium
- Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science, Venezuela
- Serena Villata, CNRS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis, France
- Joerg Waitelonis, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam, Germany
- Shenghui Wang, OCLC Research, Netherlands
- Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
- Thomas Woltron, Fachhochschule Wr. Neustadt, Austria
- Wolfram Wöß, Institute for Application Oriented Knowledge Processing, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, Austria
- Veruska Zamborlini, Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Eva Zangerle, Databases and Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Amrapali Zaveri, Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
Permanent Advisory Board
- Sören Auer, Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
- Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company
- Tobias Bürger, BMW Group
- Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer Germany
- Anna Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck
- Dieter Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck
- Erwin Folmer, Kadaster, University of Twente
- Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology
- Mike Heininger, GfWM - Austria, wissen.io
- Sebastian Hellmann, Institute of Applied Informatics e.V. at the University of Leipzig
- Ute John, GfWM - Germany, WissensWertSchöpfung
- Martin Kaltenböck, Semantic Web Company
- Tassilo Pellegrini, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
- Axel Polleres, Institute for Information Business of WU Wien
- Felix Sasaki, DFKI, W3C Fellow
- Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institute at the University Potsdam
Programme Committee of the P&D track
- Maribel Acosta, Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Alessandro Adamou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
- Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
- James Anderson, datagraph, Germany
- Jarosław Bąk, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
- Wouter Beek, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Stefan Bischof, Siemens AG Österreich, Austria
- Jean-Paul Calbimonte, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland HES-SO, Switzerland
- Davide Ceolin, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Ioannis Chrysakis, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece
- Pieter Colpaert, Ghent University - iMinds - ELIS - Multimedia Lab, Belgium
- Jeremy Debattista, University of Bonn, Germany
- Anastasia Dimou, Ghent University - iMinds - Multimedia Lab, Belgium
- Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA
- Anca Dumitrache, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Fajar J. Ekaputra, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
- Valeria Fionda, University of Calabria, Italy
- Daniel Garijo, Information Sciences Institute, USA
- José Miguel Giménez García, Université de Lyon, CNRS, France
- Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, USA
- Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Leif Isaksen, Lancaster University, UK
- Elmar Kiesling, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU Wien, Austria
- Tobias Kuhn, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Christoph Lofi, TU Delft, Netherlands
- Valentina Maccatrozzo, Huygens ING, Netherlands
- Erik Mannens, iMinds - Ghent University - Multimedia Lab, Belgium
- Miguel A. Martinez-Prieto, DataWeb Research, Department of Computer Science, University of Valladolid, Spain
- Marios Meimaris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Albert Meroño-Peñuela, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Ontology Engineering Group. Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Raghava Mutharaju, GE Global Research, USA
- George Papastefanatos, IMIS / RC “Athena”, Greece
- Giuseppe Pirrò, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR-CNR), Italy
- María Poveda-Villalón, Ontology Engineering Group. Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Giuseppe Rizzo, ISMB, Italy
- Oscar Rodríguez Rocha, INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, France
- Guillermo Rodríguez-Cano, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Felix Sasaki, W3C, Germany
- Vadim Savenkov, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria
- Patrik Schneider, TU Wien, Austria
- Ruben Taelman, Data Science Lab – Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium
- Ilaria Tiddi, Knowledge Media Institute - The Open University, UK
- Riccardo Tommasini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM: Graduate School & Research Center, France
- Frank Van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Joerg Waitelonis, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam, Germany
- Shenghui Wang, OCLC Research, Netherlands
- Amrapali Zaveri, Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France