Committee

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

 

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