The Semantic Web – ISWC 2016

The two-volume set LNCS 9981 and 9982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2016, which was held in Kobe, Japan, in October 2016. The 75 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 326 submissions.
The International Semantic Web Conference is the premier forum for Semantic Web research, where cutting edge scientific results and technological innovations are presented, where problems and solutions are discussed, and where the future of this vision is being developed. It brings together specialists in fields such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, and the social sciences. 
The Research Track solicited novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical, empirical, and practical aspects of the Semantic Web. The Applications Track solicited submissions exploring the benefits and challenges of applying semantic technologies in concrete, practical applications, in contexts ranging from industry to government and science. The newly introduced Resources Track sought submissions providing a concise and clear description of a resource and its (expected) usage. Traditional resources include ontologies, vocabularies, datasets, benchmarks and replication studies, services and software. Besides more established types of resources, the track solicited submissions of new types of resources such as ontology design patterns, crowdsourcing task designs, workflows, methodologies, and protocols and measures.

• artificial intelligence
• entity resolution
• information retrieval
• instance matching
• knowledge based systems
• knowledge management
• linked data
• Linked Open Data (LOD)
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• ontologies
• ontology alignment
• query processing
• reasoning
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• semantic web
• semantics
• social media
• SPARQL
• Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• World Wide Web

• Elsevier Labs. , Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Paul Groth

• University of Southampton , Southampton, United Kingdom

  Elena Simperl

• Heriot-Watt University , Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  Alasdair Gray

• Vienna University of Technology , Vienna, Austria

  Marta Sabou

• Technische Universität Dresden , Dresden, Germany

  Markus Krötzsch

• IBM Research Ireland , Dublin 4, Ireland

  Freddy Lecue

• for the Social Sciences, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Köln, Germany

  Fabian Flöck

• University of Southern California , Marina del Rey, USA

  Yolanda Gil

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