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Program Chairs
Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland)
Key-Sun Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Natasha Noy (Stanford University, USA)
AREA VICE-CHAIRS
  • Applications of the Semantic Web technologies

  •       Richard Benjamins, Intelligent Software Components(iSOCO), Spain
  • User interaction

  •       Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Swizerland
  • Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web

  •       Dan Brickley, Asemantics, UK
  • Evaluation of Semantic Web technologies

  •       Vinay Chaudhri, SRI, USA
  • Natural-language technologies and information extraction

  •       Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK
  • Information integration

  •       Giuseppe De Giacomo, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
  • Ontology matching and integration

  •       Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
  • Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security

  •       Tim Finin, UMBC, USA
  • Semantic Web for Life Sciences

  •       Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
  • Formal languages and reasoning

  •       Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK
  • Personal information management

  •       David Karger, MIT, USA
  • Ontology engineering

  •       Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
  • Agents and Services for the Semantic Web

  •       Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany
  • Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids

  •       Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
  • Ontology creation, search, extraction and evolution

  •       Enrico Motta, Open University, UK
  • Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation

  •       Hideaki Takeda, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Database technologies for the Semantic Web

  •       Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Management of the Semantic Web data

  •       Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Semantic Web for e-Business technology and applications

  •       Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan
  • Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction

  •       Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

    Program Committee
    Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan, US
    Jose Luis Ambite (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
    Yuan An, University of Toronto, Canada
    C Anantaram, Tata Consultancy Services Limited,
    Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
    Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
    Lora Aroyo, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Budak Arpinar, University Of georgia, US
    Yannis Avrithis, NTUA, Greece
    Danny Ayers, , Italy
    Christopher Baker, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
    Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, UK
    Sonia Bergamaschi, Universit di Modena, Italy
    Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada
    Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
    Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, US
    Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
    John Breslin, DERI Galway, Ireland
    Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany
    Mark Burstein, BBN, US
    Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
    Jeremy Carroll, HP, UK
    Harry Chen, Image Matters, US
    Adam Cheyer, SRI International, US
    Jae Hwa Choi, Dankook University, Korea
    Jan Chomicki, University at Buffalo, US
    Vassilis Christophides, FORTH-ICS, Greece
    Philipp Cimiano, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
    Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK
    Nigel Collier, NII, Japan
    Oscar Corcho, University of Illinois at Chicago, UK
    Isabel Cruz, University of Manchester, US
    Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Univ Manchester, UK
    Mathieu D'Aquin, KMi, The Open University, UK
    Jos de Bruijn, University of Bolzano, Italy
    Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, US
    Stefan Decker, DERI Galway, Ireland
    Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany
    Alin Deutsch, University of California, San Diego, US
    Ian Dickinson, HP, UK
    Li Ding, Stanford, US
    Martin Dzbor, KMi, Open University, UK, UK
    Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise, Germany
    Boi Faltings, EPFL, Switzerland
    Wenfei Fan, University of Edinburgh, UK
    Dieter Fensel, Univ. Innsbruck, Austria
    Achille Fokoue, IBM Research, US
    Richard Fritzson, , US
    Ariel Fuxman, Microsoft Search Labs, US
    Aldo Gangemi, CNR-ISTC, Italy
    Fausto Giunchiglia, U. Trento, Italy
    Birte Glimm, University of Manchester, UK
    Richard Goodwin, IBM Research, US
    Mark Greaves, Vulcan, US
    Gianluigi Greco, University of Calabria, Italy
    Marko Grobelnik, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
    Tom Gruber, RealTravel, US
    Ramanathan Guha, Google, US
    Volker Haarslev, Concordia, Canada
    Peter Haase, Karlsruhe U, Germany
    Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland in Galway, Ireland
    Manfred Hauswirth, DERI Galway, Ireland
    Sandro Hawke, W3C, US
    Patrick Hayes, Univ. West Florida, US
    Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University, US
    Masahiro Hori, Kansai University, Japan
    Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester, UK
    Andreas Hotho, Univ Kassel, Germany
    Eero Hyvnen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
    Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
    Arantza Illarramendi, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
    Noriaki Izumi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
    Anupam Joshi, UMBC, US
    Jason J. Jung, Inha University, Korea
    Lalana Kagal, MIT, US
    Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK
    Bo Young Kang, Seoul National University, Korea
    Vangelis Karkaletsis, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Greece
    Vipul Kashyap, Partners Healthcare System, US
    Takahiro Kawamura, Toshiba, Japan
    Yevgeny Kazakov, University of Manchester, UK
    Anastasios Kementsietsidis, University of Edinburgh, UK
    Brian Kettler, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs, US
    Deepali Khushraj, Nokia Research Center, US
    Hak Lae Kim, DERI Galway, Ireland
    Ja Hee Kim, Seoul National University of Technology, Korea
    Yasuhiko Kitamura, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
    Yoshinobu Kitamura, Osaka University, Japan
    Michel Klein, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    In Young Ko, Information and Communications University(ICU)], Korea
    Paul Kogut, Lockheed-Martin, US
    Seiji Koide, Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd, Japan
    Yiannis Kompatsiaris, ITI, Greece
    Kouji Kozaki, Osaka University, Japan
    Georg Lausen, Univ. Freiburg, Germany
    Jae Ho Lee, University of Seoul, Korea
    Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Univerity of Rome, Italy
    Joshua Levy, SRI International, US
    Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China
    Yaoyong Li, University of Sheffield, UK
    Alexander Lser, SAP, Germany, Germany
    Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, US
    Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden, Germany
    Zlatina Marinova, Sirma Group Corp., Bulgaria
    Scott Marshall, , The Netherlands
    Yutaka Matsuo, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
    Cynthia Matuszek, Cycorp, US
    Luke McDowell, United States Naval Academy, US
    Prasenjit Mitra, The Pennsylvania State University, US
    Boris Motik, University of Manchester, UK
    Yohei Murakami, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan
    Mark Musen, Stanford University, US
    Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany
    Tim Oates, UMBC, US
    Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
    Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
    Jack Park, SRI International, US
    Terry Payne, University of Southhampton, UK
    Adam Pease, Articulate Software, US
    Filip Perich, Shared Spectrum, US
    Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso, US
    Dimitri Plexousakis, FORTH, Greece
    Axel Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
    Alexandra Poulovassilis, University of London, UK
    Geri Reif, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland
    Riccardo Rosati, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
    Marie-Christine Rousset, LIG (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble), France
    Lloyd Rutledge, Telematica Instituut and CWI, The Netherlands
    Alan Ruttenberg, ,UK
    Vassilis Samoladas, Technical University of Crete, Greece
    Uli Sattler, University of Manchester, UK
    Kent Seamons, BYU, US
    Luciano Serafini, IRS Trento, Italy
    Paul Shabajee, HP Labs, UK
    Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, US
    Pavel Shvaiko, Univ. Trento, Italy
    Wolf Siberski, L3S, Germany, Germany
    Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
    Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany, Germany
    Sergej Sizov, Univ. Koblenz, Germany, Germany
    Spiros Skiadopoulos, University of Peloponesse, Greece
    Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, US
    Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    Robert Stevens, , UK
    Michael Strube, EML Research, Germany
    Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Univ. Mannheim, Germany
    Rudi Studer, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
    Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
    Valentina Tamma, Univ. Liverpool, UK
    Sergio Tessaris, University of Bolzano, Italy
    Bhavani Thuraisingham, U Texas at Dallas, US
    Francesca Toni, Imperial College, UK
    Raphael Troncy, CWI, The Netherlands
    Walt Truszkowski, NASA, US
    Christos Tryfonopoulos, Max-Planck-Institut fr Informatik, Germany
    Victoria Uren, KMi The Open University, UK
    Mike Uschold, Boeing, US
    Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Ubbo Visser, Univ. Bremen, Germany
    Max Vlkel, AIFB, Universitt Karlsruhe, Germany
    Christopher Welty, IBM Research, US
    Max Wilson, University of Southampton, UK
    Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, US
    Guizhen Yang, SRI International, UK
    Milena Yankova, Sirma AI Ltd, Bulgaria
    Peter Yim, CIM Engineering, US
    Lina Zhou, UMBC, US