Awards | ISWC 2015

Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics. Peter Mika. Presented at ISWC 2005 in Galway, Ireland

Querying a Web of Linked Data: Foundations and Query Execution. Olaf Hartig
Towards a Linked Semantic Web: Precisely, Comprehensively and Scalably Linking Heterogeneous Data in the Semantic Web. Dezhao Song

Selected from the 38 Research track papers and the 7 Empirical Studies and Experiments track papers.

Winner:
- LOD Lab: Experiments at LOD Scale. L. Rietveld, W. Beek, and S. Schlobach
Other nominees:
- General Terminology Induction in OWL. V. Sazonau, U. Sattler and G. Brown
- Recursion in SPARQL. J. Reutter, A. Soto and D. Vrgoc

Winner:
- A Flexible Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of Evolving RDF Datasets. Y. Roussakis, I. Chrysakis, K. Stefanidis, G. Flouris, and Y. Starakas
Other nominees:
- LOD Lab: Experiments at LOD Scale. L. Rietveld, W. Beek, and S. Schlobach
- General Terminology Induction in OWL. V. Sazonau, U. Sattler and G. Brown

Selected from the 14 In Use and Software papers and the 8 Data Sets and Ontologies papers.

Winner
- Building and Using a Knowledge Graph to Combat Human Trafficking. Pedro Szekely, Craig Knoblock, Jason Slepicka, Chengye Yin, Andrew Philpot, Amandeep Singh, Dipsy Kapoor, Prem Natarajan, Daniel Marcu, Kevin Knight, David Stallard, Steve Minton, Brian Amanatullah, Todd Hughes, Mike Tamayo, David Flynt, Rachel Artiss, Shih-Fu Chang, Tao Chen and Subessware S. Karunamoorthy.
Other nominees:
- TR Discover: A Natural Language Interface for Querying and Analyzing Interlinked Datasets. Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder, Charese Smiley, Chris Brew, Tom Zielund, Hiroko Bretz, Robert Martin, Chris Dale, John Duprey, Tim Miller and Johanna Harrison
- Semantic Bridges for Biodiversity Science. Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Nicholas Del Rio, Deana Pennington and Luis Garnica Chavira

Winner
- 3cixty@Expo Milano 2015: Enabling Visitors to Explore a Smart City. Giuseppe Rizzo, Raphael Troncy, Oscar Corcho, Anthony Jameson, Julien Plu, Juan Carlos Ballesteros Hermida, Ahmad Assaf, Catalin Barbu, Adrian Spirescu, Kai-Dominik Kuhn, Irene Celino, Rachit Agarwal, Cong Kinh Nguyen, Animesh Pathak, Christian Scanu, Massimo Valla, Timber Haaker, Emiliano Sergio Verga, Matteo Rossi, Jose Luis Redondo Garcia
Second Place (tie)
- Towards a Sales Assistant using a Product Knowledge Graph. Haklae Kim, Jungyeon Yang and Jeongsoo Lee
- Exploiting Knowledge Bases for Multilingual and Cross-lingual Semantic Annotation and Search. Lei Zhang, Michael Färber, Andreas Thalhammer, Aditya Mogadala and Achim Rettinger

Semantic Access to Siemens Streaming Data: the Optique Way. Evgeny Kharlamov, Sebastian Brandt, Martin Giese, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Steffen Lamparter, Christian Neuenstadt, Özgür Lütfü Özcep, Christoph Pinkel, Ahmet Soylu, Dmitriy Zheleznyakov, Mikhail Roshchin, Stuart Watson and Ian Horrocks

Test-driven Assessment of [R2]RML Mappings to Improve Dataset Quality. Anastasia Dimou, Dimitris Kontokostas, Markus Freudenberg, Ruben Verborgh, Jens Lehmann, Erik Mannens, Sebastian Hellmann and Rik Van de Walle

Intermodal public transit routing using Linked Connections. Pieter Colpaert, Alejandro Llaves, Ruben Verborgh, Oscar Corcho, Erik Mannens and Rik Van de Walle.