1st International Semantic Web Conference ISWC2002

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1st International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC2002)
Sardinia, Italy, June 2002
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Sponsors

• Patrons
• OntoWeb
• DAML
• IST
• Platinum
• Network Inference
• OnToKnowledge
• ibrow

• Gold
• Ontoprise
• INTAP
• France Telecom RD
• WonderWeb
• Silver
• CognIT a.s
• Sandpiper Software
• Nokia

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Conference Organizaton

• General Chair Jim Hendler
• Program Chair Ian Horrocks
• Organisation Chair Michele Missikoff
• Financial Chair Jérôme Euzenat
• Sponsorship Chairs Ying Ding, Deb
  McGuinness
• Local Coordination Nicoletta Dessí

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Topics

• Agents
• Applications
• Bootstrapping
• Database technologies
• Integration, mediation and storage
• Digital libraries
• e-business
• e-learning
• e-science and the Grid
• Knowledge portals
• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• Languages and infrastructure
• Metadata

• Mobile and diffuse computing
• Multimedia data
• Natural language
• Ontologies
• Ontology learning
• Scalability
• Searching and querying
• Services
• Socio-cultural and collaborative aspects
• Technological requirements
• Trust and meaning
• User interfaces
• Visualisation and modelling
• Web mining

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Technical Program

• 133 papers submitted
• 95 research papers
• 22 position papers
• 16 system description papers
• 40 papers accepted
• 27 research papers
• 6 position papers
• 7 system description papers
• 56 posters accepted
• Best paper prize (sponsored by Springer)

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Submissions by Nationality

• Australia 8
• Austria 3
• Belgium 1
• Canada 2
• China 5
• Czech Republic 2
• France 8
• Germany 14
• Greece 2
• India 1
• Ireland 1
• Italy 9

• Japan 5
• Korea 3
• Netherlands 10
• Portugal 1
• Sardinia 1
• Slovak Republic 1
• Spain 5
• Sweden 1
• Switzerland 3
• Thailand 1
• UK 19
• USA 26

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Submissions by Nationality

• Australia 8
• Austria 3 (1)
• Belgium 1
• Canada 2 (1)
• China 5
• Czech Republic 2
• France 8 (2)
• Germany 14 (6)
• Greece 2 (1)
• India 1
• Ireland 1
• Italy 9 (3)

• Japan 5
• Korea 3
• Netherlands 10 (4)
• Portugal 1
• Sardinia 1
• Slovak Republic 1
• Spain 5
• Sweden 1
• Switzerland 3 (1)
• Thailand 1
• UK 19 (7)
• USA 26 (14)

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Program Committee Members (48)

• USA
• Germany
• Italy
• UK
• Greece
• Netherlands

• Australia
• France
• Spain
• Japan
• Switzerland
• Belgium

Plus 37 Additional Referees
Best reviewer prize
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Thanks To

• Asunción Gómez-Pérez for organising the tutorials
• Raphael Malyankar for organising the poster
  session
• Steffen Staab for organising the metadata markup
  of abstracts
• Invited speakers and panelists
• All of you for attending
• Michele Dieter for bringing us to such a lovely
  place

Shame about the weather!
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• Jérôme Euzenat for organising just about
  everything else, including finances, web site,
  etc.
• Local organisers, in particular Nicoletta Dessí,
  Consult Umbria and student volunteers
• All the sponsors for their support
• Deborah McGuinness and Ying Ding for persuading
  so many sponsors to part with their cash!