ESWC 2010 Conference Opening

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ESWC2010 People
315 participants
45 different countries
23 Sponsors

Participant Countries @ ESWC2009
304 participants
35 different countries
15 Sponsors

Participants across Continents 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

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

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%)

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

Invited Speakers at the ESWC2010
Aldo Gangemi
A Pattern Science for the Semantic Web
Sean Bechhofer
SKOS: Past, Present and Future

Workshops Co-Chairs
Kalina Bontcheva
Nicola Henze

10 Workshops @ ESWC2010 (138 participants)

Tutorials Co-Chairs
Anna Fensel
Aldo Gangemi

9 Tutorials @ ESWC2010 (81 participants)

PhD Symposium Co-Chairs
Annette ten Teije
Heiner Stuckenschmidt

PhD Symposium
Submitted – 33 Accepted – 10 Acceptance Rate 30%
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

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

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

Semantic Web Technologies Co-ordinators
Harith Alani
Martin Szomszor

More of the Organization Team
Proceedings Chair: Yiannis Kompatsiaris
Publicity Chair: Valentina Presutti
Treasurer: Alexander Wahler
Conference Administrator: Lejla Ibralic-Halilovic

Sponsors
Sponsorship Chair: Manolis Koubarakis

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ESWC 2010 Conference Opening

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