Call for Participation: SEMANTiCS 2015, 11th International Conference on Semantic Systems

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== Apologies for Crossposting ==


Below you will find useful information and links about the program, our 
satellite events and registration opportunities for

SEMANTiCS 2015 -- 11th International Conference on Semantic Systems

15-17 September 2015, Vienna / Austria
http://www.semantics.cc/ // #semantics2015 // #semanticsconf

*— Conference Scope ---*
The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals 
who make semantic computing work, and understand its benefits and know 
its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, 
IT-architects, software engineers, and researchers, from organisations 
ranging from NPOs, universities, public administrations to the largest 
companies in the world.



*— Conference Program ---*

The 2015 edition offers a rich program consisting of 5 keynotes, 24 
scientific presentations, 30 industry talks, 38 posters and various 
workshops and social events. For details please visit our program page:

http://www.semantics.cc/programme



*— Keynote Speakers --- *

·Jeanne Holms -- Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA

·Peter Mika -- Director Semantic Lab at Yahoo

·Oscar Orcho -- Associate Professor for Artifical Intelligence, 
Universidad de Madrid

·Klaus Tochtermann -- Leibniz Information Center for Economics

·Sam Rehman -- CTO at EPAM Systems

*— Workshops & Satellite Events ---*

*MeetUp: SMART DATA SOLUTIONS*

An outlook into the world of data centric business, technologies and 
innovations: Data is everywhere these days and efficient data management 
is THE key factor for success in nearly all industries in the meantime. 
McKinsey lists data as a key factor for production alongside with labor 
and capital in one of their recent reports. Furthermore, Data is 
produced in huge amounts by sensors, social networks or mobile devices 
and the amounts of data available worldwide grow exponentially…

Place: Haus der Ingenieure, Eschenbachgasse 9, 1010 Wien
Date: 15.09.2015, Entrance: 18:30pm CET ; Start event: 19:30 - 22:30pm CET

*2nd International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data*

In recent years, Semantic Web technologies have strengthened their 
position in the areas of data and knowledge management. Standards for 
organizing and querying semantic information, such as RDF(S) and SPARQL 
are adopted by large academic communities, while corporate vendors adopt 
semantic technologies to organize, expose, exchange and retrieve their 
datasets as Linked Data.

Chairs: Alejandra Garcia-Rojas M. (Ontos AG), Robert Isele or Rene 
Pietzsch, Jens Lehmann (AKSW, University of Leipzig)
Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 13.00 CEST


*The SEMANTIC EXPERIENCE Coffee & Cocktail LOUNGE*

Sponsored Event: Enjoy semantic technology inspiration in a relaxed 
atmosphere. Refresh yourself with Viennese coffee or a cocktail and get 
in touch with semantic industry experts.

Date: 15th of September 2015, 15.45 to 18.00 CEST
Room: LC Club Room

*Linked Data in Industry 4.0*

The overall goal of the workshop is to identify challenges and 
limitations from the manufacturing engineering industry in the scope of 
the mentioned design principles, and bring them together with experts 
and solution approaches from the linked data community in the scope of 
Industry 4.0.

Chairs: Thomas Moser (FH St. Pölten), Stefan Hupe (IoT Austria)
Date: 15th of September 2015, 14.00 to 17.00 CEST

*European Data Economy Workshop - Focus Data Value Chain & Big and Open 
Data*

This workshop is to overview the state of the art in Europe regarding 
Big and Open Data initiatives and its impact in the Europan economy and 
benefits for theEuropean society. Representatives from the Big Data 
Value Association, the annual European Data Forum and data related 
projects will participate during the first session of the workshop. 
Furthermore it gives information about the Austrian Big Data Study 
carried out in 2014 by AIT and IDC

Chairs: Nelia Lasierra (STI Innsbruck), Martin Kaltenböck (Semantic Web 
Company)
Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 13.00 CEST

*1st Workshop on Data Science: Methods, Technology and Applications 
(DSci15)*

This workshop is meant as an opportunity to bring together researchers 
and practitioners interested in data science to present their ideas and 
discuss the most important scientific, technical and socio-economical 
challenges of this emerging field.

Chairs: Bernhard Haslhofer (AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology), 
Elena Simperl (Univ. Southampton), Rainer Stütz (AIT - Austrian 
Institute of Technology), Ingo Feinerer (FH Wiener Neustadt)
Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 17.00 CEST

*Workshop on Linked Data Strategies - Commercialisation of Interlinked Data*

In this workshop, we will give several demos and concrete examples of 
how Linked Data can be used by enterprises in various industries. The 
workshop aims to give users and providers of Linked Data valuable 
methods and best practices at hand, which help them to make profound 
decisions in their Linked Data projects.

Chairs: Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer), Andreas Blumauer (Semantic 
Web Company), Tassilo Pellegrini (FH St. Pölten)
Date: 15th of September 2015, 14.00 to 15.30 CEST

*Hackathon on "The power of Linked Data in Agriculture and Food Safety"*

“Data+Need=Hack”, this is the idea of a hackathon that brings together 
like-minded people to develop, in a short time frame, novel solutions to 
problems around the theme “Agriculture and Food Safety”.

Chairs: Christian Blaschke (Semantic Web Company, Vienna), Stasinos 
Konstantopoulos (Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications of the 
NCSR Demokritos, Athens)
Date: 18th of September 2015, 10.00 to 16.00 CEST



*— Registration ---*

To register, please go to:
http://www.semantics.cc/registration

We are looking forward to meet you at SEMANTiCS 2015!


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      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">Below you will find useful information and links
        about
        the program, our satellite events and registration opportunities
        for</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">SEMANTiCS 2015 -- <span>11th International
          Conference on Semantic Systems</span><br>
        <br>
        15-17 September 2015, Vienna / Austria<br>
        <a href="http://www.semantics.cc/" target="_blank">http://www.semantics.cc/</a>
        // #semantics2015
        // #semanticsconf<br>
        <br>
        <b>— Conference Scope ---</b><br>
        The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for
        professionals who make
        semantic computing work, and understand its benefits and know
        its limitations.
        Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers,
        IT-architects, software
        engineers, and researchers, from organisations ranging from
        NPOs, universities,
        public administrations to the largest companies in the world.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB"><br>
        <br>
        <b>— Conference Program ---</b></span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">The 2015 edition offers a rich program consisting
        of 5
        keynotes, 24 scientific presentations, 30 industry talks, 38
        posters and various
        workshops and social events. For details please visit our
        program page:</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.semantics.cc/programme"
          target="_blank">http://www.semantics.cc/programme</a></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB"><br>
        <br>
        <b>— Keynote Speakers --- </b></span></p>
    <p><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"
        lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New
            Roman&quot;">        
          </span></span></span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Jeanne
        Holms -- Chief Knowledge
        Architect at NASA</span></p>
    <p><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"
        lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New
            Roman&quot;">        
          </span></span></span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Peter
        Mika -- Director Semantic Lab
        at Yahoo </span></p>
    <p><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"
        lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New
            Roman&quot;">        
          </span></span></span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Oscar
        Orcho -- Associate Professor
        for Artifical Intelligence, Universidad de Madrid</span></p>
    <p><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"
        lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New
            Roman&quot;">        
          </span></span></span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Klaus
        Tochtermann -- Leibniz
        Information Center for Economics </span></p>
    <p><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"
        lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New
            Roman&quot;">        
          </span></span></span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Sam
        Rehman -- CTO at EPAM Systems</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
          style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">—
          Workshops <span> </span>&amp; Satellite Events ---</span></b><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB"><br>
        <br>
        <b>MeetUp: SMART DATA SOLUTIONS</b></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%">An
        outlook
        into the world of data centric business, technologies and
        innovations: Data is everywhere these days and efficient data
        management is
        THE key factor for success in nearly all industries in the
        meantime. </span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">McKinsey
        lists data as a key factor for production alongside with labor
        and capital in
        one of their recent reports. </span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%">Furthermore, Data is
        produced in huge amounts by sensors, social networks
        or mobile devices and the amounts of data available worldwide
        grow
        exponentially…</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%">Place:
        Haus
        der Ingenieure, Eschenbachgasse 9, 1010 Wien<br>
        Date: 15.09.2015, Entrance: 18:30pm CET ; Start event: 19:30 -
        22:30pm CET</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"><span> </span></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
          style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">2nd
          International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%">In
        recent
        years, Semantic Web technologies have strengthened their
        position in the areas
        of data and knowledge management. Standards for organizing and
        querying
        semantic information, such as RDF(S) and SPARQL are adopted by
        large academic
        communities, while corporate vendors adopt semantic technologies
        to organize,
        expose, exchange and retrieve their datasets as Linked Data.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">Chairs: Alejandra Garcia-Rojas M. (Ontos AG),
        Robert
        Isele or Rene Pietzsch, Jens Lehmann (AKSW, University of
        Leipzig)<br>
        Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 13.00 CEST</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB"><br>
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
          style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">The
          SEMANTIC
          EXPERIENCE Coffee &amp; Cocktail LOUNGE</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">Sponsored Event: Enjoy semantic technology
        inspiration
        in a relaxed atmosphere. Refresh yourself with Viennese coffee
        or a cocktail
        and get in touch with semantic industry experts.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">Date: 15th of September 2015, 15.45 to 18.00 CEST<br>
        Room: LC Club Room</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
          style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Linked
          Data
          in Industry 4.0</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">The overall goal of the workshop is to identify
        challenges and limitations from the manufacturing engineering
        industry in the
        scope of the mentioned design principles, and bring them
        together with experts and
        solution approaches from the linked data community in the scope
        of Industry
        4.0.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">Chairs: Thomas Moser (FH St. Pölten), Stefan Hupe
        (IoT
        Austria)<br>
        Date: 15th of September 2015, 14.00 to 17.00 CEST</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
          style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">European
          Data
          Economy Workshop - Focus Data Value Chain &amp; Big and Open
          Data</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">This workshop is to overview the state of the art
        in
        Europe regarding Big and Open Data initiatives and its impact in
        the Europan
        economy and benefits for the<span>  </span>European
        society. Representatives from the Big Data Value Association,
        the annual
        European Data Forum and data related projects will participate
        during the first
        session of the workshop. Furthermore it gives information about
        the Austrian
        Big Data Study carried out in 2014 by AIT and IDC</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">Chairs: Nelia Lasierra (STI Innsbruck), Martin
        Kaltenböck
        (Semantic Web Company)<br>
        Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 13.00 CEST</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
          style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">1st
          Workshop
          on Data Science: Methods, Technology and Applications (DSci15)</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">This workshop is meant as an opportunity to bring
        together researchers and practitioners interested in data
        science to present
        their ideas and discuss the most important scientific, technical
        and
        socio-economical challenges of this emerging field.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">Chairs: Bernhard Haslhofer (AIT - Austrian
        Institute
        of Technology), Elena Simperl (Univ. Southampton), Rainer Stütz
        (AIT - Austrian
        Institute of Technology), Ingo Feinerer (FH Wiener Neustadt)<br>
        Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 17.00 CEST</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
          style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Workshop
          on
          Linked Data Strategies - Commercialisation of Interlinked Data</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">In this workshop, we will give several demos and
        concrete examples of how Linked Data can be used by enterprises
        in various
        industries. The workshop aims to give users and providers of
        Linked Data
        valuable methods and best practices at hand, which help them to
        make profound
        decisions in their Linked Data projects.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">Chairs: Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer), Andreas
        Blumauer (Semantic Web Company), Tassilo Pellegrini (FH St.
        Pölten)<br>
        Date: 15th of September 2015, 14.00 to 15.30 CEST</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
          style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Hackathon
          on
          "The power of Linked Data in Agriculture and Food Safety"</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">“Data+Need=Hack”, this is the idea of a hackathon
        that
        brings together like-minded people to develop, in a short time
        frame, novel
        solutions to problems around the theme “Agriculture and Food
        Safety”. </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">Chairs: Christian Blaschke (Semantic Web Company,
        Vienna), Stasinos Konstantopoulos (Institute of Informatics
        &amp;
        Telecommunications of the NCSR Demokritos, Athens)<br>
        Date: 18th of September 2015, 10.00 to 16.00 CEST</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB"><br>
        <br>
        <b>— Registration ---</b></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">To register, please go to:<br>
        <a href="http://www.semantics.cc/registration" target="_blank">http://www.semantics.cc/registration</a>
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
        lang="EN-GB">We are looking forward to meet you at SEMANTiCS
        2015!</span></p>
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