ESWC 2010 Conference Opening

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Pictture based on a source from: Alexandre Passant and John Breslin

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ESWC2010 People

315 participants 45 different countries

23 Sponsors

Participant Countries @ ESWC2009

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304 participants 35 different countries 15 Sponsors

Participants across Continents

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Continent 2009 2010

South America 2 5

North America 7 12

Europe 280 270

Asia 12 14

Africa 0 2

Australia 3 3

New Zealand 0 1

PC Chairs

Grigoris Antoniou Eero Hyvönen

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ESWC2010 Eight Research Tracks

Social Web Julita Vassileva & Jie

Bao Web Science

Noshir Contractor & Les Carr

Web of Data Paul Groth &

Denny Vrandecic Services & Software:

Andreas Metzger & Elena Simperl

Mobility Matthias Wagner &

Hans Gellersen Sensor Networks

Alan Smeaton & Oscar Corcho

Ontologies & Reasoning Jeff Pan & Adrian

Paschke Semantic Web In Use

Stuart Campbell & Sören Auer

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ESWC2010 Submissions & Acceptance Rates Social Web: 31 submitted, 8 accepted (25,8%) Web Science: 7 submitted, 0 accepted (0%) Web of Data: 45 submitted, 10 accepted (22,2%) Services & Software: 26 submitted, 5 accepted (19,2%) Mobility: 11 submitted, 5 accepted (45,5%) Sensor Networks: 7 submitted, 1 accepted (14,3%) Ontologies & Reasoning: 67 submitted, 12 accepted (17,9%) Semantic Web In Use: 51 submitted, 11 accepted (21,6%)

TOTAL: 245 submitted, 52 accepted (~21,2%)

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A Truly International Conference

Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic,

Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland,

Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,

Switzerland, UK

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Tunisia, USA, Venezuela

Invited Speakers at the ESWC2010

Noshir Contractor From Disasters to WoW:

Using Web Science to understand and enable 21st century multidimensional networks

Wolfgang Wahlster The Semantic Product Memory:

An Interactive Black Box for Smart Objects

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Invited Speakers at the ESWC2010

Aldo Gangemi A Pattern Science for the Semantic Web

Sean Bechhofer SKOS: Past, Present and Future

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Workshops Co-Chairs

Kalina Bontcheva Nicola Henze

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10 Workshops @ ESWC2010 (138 participants)

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Tutorials Co-Chairs

Anna Fensel Aldo Gangemi

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9 Tutorials @ ESWC2010 (81 participants)

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PhD Symposium Co-Chairs

Annette ten Teije Heiner Stuckenschmidt

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PhD Symposium

Submitted – 33 Accepted – 10 Acceptance Rate 30%

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country submitted accepted

Australia 2 2

Austria 3 1

Germany 4 1

Hungary 1 1

Ireland 2 1

Italy 4 2

Netherlands 2 1

Sweden 1 1

country submitted accepted

Canada 1 0

China 1 0

Czech Republic 1 0

Latvia 2 0

Malaysia 1 0

Philippines 1 0

Portugal 1 0

Slovakia 1 0

Spain 3 0

United Kingdom 1 0

United States 1 0

Posters & Demos @ ESWC2010

Co-Chairs: Liliana Cabral & Tania Tudorache

Posters Submitted - 43 Accepted - 32 Acceptance Rate - 74%

Demos Accepted - 17

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ESWC2010 Panel

Tuesday, 1st June 2010 @ 16:30 - 18:00 "Linked Data: Now what?” Chair: Carlos Pedrinaci Panelists:

Noshir Contractor | Northwestern University, US Dieter Fensel | STI Innsbruck, AT Tom Heath | Talis Information Ltd, UK Sören Auer | University of Leipzig, DE Aldo Gangemi| ISTC-CNR, IT

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News from the Front: Latest results from 11 EU projects Lyndon Nixon Alexander Wahler

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Semantic Web Technologies Co-ordinators Harith Alani Martin Szomszor

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More of the Organization Team

Proceedings Chair: Yiannis Kompatsiaris

Publicity Chair: Valentina Presutti

Treasurer: Alexander Wahler

Conference Administrator: Lejla Ibralic-Halilovic

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Sponsors

Sponsorship Chair: Manolis Koubarakis

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Have an Inspiring Conference!

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