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 2015
- Axel Polleres (WU Vienna) Conference Chair
- Tassilo Pellegrini (FH St. Pölten) Conference Co-Chair
- Sebastian Hellmann (InfAI) Research & Innovation Chair
- Josianne Parreira (Siemens) Research & Innovation Co-Chair
- Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer) Industry & Use Case Chair
- Erwin Folmer (PiLOD) Industry & Use Case Co-Chair
- Agata Filipowska (Poznan University of Economics) Poster & Demo Chair
- Ruben Verborgh (Ghent University) Poster & Demo Co-Chair
- Anna Fensel (STI) Workshop and Satelite Events Chair
- Martin Kaltenböck (Semantic Web Company) Publicity Chair
- Brigitte Lutz (Office of the CIO of City of Vienna, ADV) Publicity Co-Chair
- Axel Ngonga (InfAI) Sponsoring Chair
- Jürgen Umbrich (WU Vienna) Local Chair
- Gerhard Wohlgenannt (WU Vienna) Local Chair
Programme Committee - Industry & Use Case
- Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer, Chair
- Erwin Folmer, TNO Information and Communication Technology, Co-Chair
- Bernhard Pflugfelder, AutoVision GmbH, Co-Chair
- Phil Archer, W3C
- Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company
- Stephen Buxton, Marklogic
- Mike Doane, Gravity Zero
- Dr. Christoph Goller, IntraFind AG
- Dr. Fabian Heinemann, Roche Diagnostics
- Mike Heininger, bee network & GfWM Austria
- Aleksandar Kapisoda, Boehringer Ingelheim
- Thomas Kelly, Cognizant
- Christian Kohl, de Gruyter
- Marcel van Mackelenbergh, Belastingdienst
- Jarred Mc Ginnis, Independent Consultant
- Bert van Nuffelen, Tenforce
- Sam Rehman, EPAM
- Mikael Rinne, Altotech
- Dr. Benedikt Wachinger, Clueda AG
Programme Committee - Posters and Demos
- Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT CNRS
- Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company
- Volha Bryl, University of Mannheim
- Roberta Cuel, University of Trento
- Aba-Sah Dadzie
- Ben De Meester, Ghent University - iMinds - MMLab
- Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext
- Anna Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck
- Wolfgang Gassler, University of Innsbruck, Insitute of Computer Science, Research Group Databases and Information Systems
- Alain Giboin, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
- Pieter Heyvaert, Multimedia Lab, Ghent University - iMinds
- Anja Jentzsch, Hasso Plattner Institut
- Efstratios Kontopoulos, CERTH-ITI
- Christoph Lange, University of Bonn
- Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology
- Steffen Lohmann, University of Stuttgart
- Sandra Lovrenčić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of organization and informatics Varazdin, Pavlinska 2, HR-42000 Varazdin, Croatia
- Michael Luggen, University of Fribourg
- Jacek Malyszko, Poznan University of Economics, Departament of Information Systems
- Lyndon Nixon, MODUL University
- Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, STLab, ISTC-CNR
- Leo Obrst, MITRE
- Bartosz Perkowski, Department of Information Systems
- Eugen Ruppert, TU Darmstadt - FG Language Technology
- Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam
- Muhammad Saleem, AKSW, University Of Leizpig
- Bernhard Schandl, mySugr GmbH
- Nadine Steinmetz, Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering
- Holger Stenzhorn, Saarland University Hospital
- Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Joachim Van Herwegen, MMLab - UGent - iMinds
- Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science
- Boris Villazón-Terrazas, iSOCO, Intelligent Software Components
- Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics
- Eva Zangerle, Databases and Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck
Additional Reviewers
- Nuria García-Santa, iSOCO, Intelligent Software Components
- Magnus Knuth, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam
- Dinesh Reddy, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam
- oerg Waitelonis, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam
Permanent Advisory Board
- Sören Auer, Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
- Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company
- Christian Dirschl, Wolter Kluwer Germany
- Anna Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck
- Dieter Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck
- Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology
- Mike Heininger, GfWM - Austria, wissen.io
- Michael Dekner, GfWM - Austria
- Dieter Weitz, GfWM - Austria, wissensentwicklung.at
- Sebastian Hellmann, Institute of Applied Informatics e.V. at the University of Leipzig
- Martin Kaltenböck, Semantic Web Company
- Tassilo Pellegrini, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
- Axel Polleres, Institute for Information Business of WU Wien
- Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institute at the University Potsdam
Programme Committee - Research & Innovation
- Alessandro Adamou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
- Guadalupe Aguado-De-Cea, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute
- Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT CNRS
- Ciro Baron, University of Leipzig
- Charalampos Bratsast, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Martin Brümmer, Universität Leipzig
- Volha Bryl, University of Mannheim
- Paul Buitelaar, Insight centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway
- Irene Celino, CEFRIEL
- Pierre-Antoine Champin, LIRIS
- Christian Chiarcos, Goethe-Universität
- Key-Sun Choi, KAIST
- Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu, Université Joseph Fourier
- Roland Cornelissen, Metamatter
- Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton
- Roberta Cuel, University of Trento
- Aba-Sah Dadzie, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
- Enrico Daga, The Open University
- Claudia D'Amato University of Bari
- Mathieu D'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
- Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari
- Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center
- Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext
- Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- Samhaa El-Beltagy, Cairo University
- Henrik Eriksson, Linkping University
- Anna Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck
- Miriam Fernandez, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
- Agata Filipowska, Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics
- Marco Fossati, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- Fabien Gandon, INRIA
- Roberto Garcia, Universitat de Lleida
- José María García, Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck
- Wolfgang Gassler, Insitute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck
- Alain Giboin, INRIA Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée
- Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO) S.A.
- Jorge Gracia, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Michael Granitzer, University of Passau
- Andreas Harth, AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology
- Benjamin Heitmann, Insight centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway
- Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center
- Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg
- Sirko Hunnius, IfG.CC - The Potsdam eGovernment Competence Center
- Anja Jentzsch, Hasso Plattner Institut
- Efstratios Kontopoulos, CERTH-ITI
- Christoph Lange, University of Bonn
- Ivo Lašek, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
- Nelia Lasierra Beamonte, STI Technology Institute Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck
- Steffen Lohmann, University of Stuttgart
- Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research
- Sandra Lovrenčić, University of Zagreb
- Markus Luczak-Roesch, University of Southampton
- Elisa Marengo, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- John P. Mccrae, Cognitive Interaction Technology, Center of Excellence
- Pablo Mendes, IBM Research Almaden
- Uroš Milošević, Institute Mihailo Pupin
- Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Andrea Moro, Universita di Roma, Sapienza
- Lyndon Nixon, MODUL University Vienna
- Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, STLab, ISTC-CNR
- Leo Obrst, MITRE
- Vito Claudio Ostuni, Politecnico di Bari
- Viviana Patti, Università di Torino
- Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim
- Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna and ISTC-CNR
- Mateusz Radzimski, Universidad Carlos III Madrid
- Achim Rettinger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Giuseppe Rizzo, EURECOM
- Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University
- Eugen Ruppert, FG Language Technology , TU Darmstadt
- Marta Sabou, MODUL University Vienna
- Muhammad Saleem, AKSW
- Felix Sasaki, W3C
- Bernhard Schandl, mySugr GmbH
- Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina
- Elena Simperl, University of Southampton
- Ronald Stamper, Measur Ltd
- Nadine Steinmetz, Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering
- Holger Stenzhorn, Saarland University Hospital
- Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Vojtěch Svátek, University of Economics, Prague
- Alexandru Todor, AG Corporate Semantic Web
- Robert Tolksdorf, Networked Information Systems , Freie Universität Berlin
- Ioan Toma, STI Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck
- Jürgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economy and Business
- Ricardo Usbeck, University of Leipzig
- Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche, Fujitsu Laboratories
- Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University – iMinds
- Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar
- Boris Villazón-Terrazas, iSOCO, Intelligent Software Components
- Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics
- Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
- Rupert Westenthaler, Salzburg Research
- Patrick Westphal Universität Leipzig
- Wolfram Wöß, Institute for Application Oriented Knowledge Processing, Johannes Kepler University Linz
- Eva Zangerle, University of Innsbruck