The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is a series of academic conferences and the premier international forum for the Semantic Web, Linked Data and Knowledge Graph Community. : Rank 2 in WWW category.: Rank 4 in Database category.: Rank 2 in SW category. Here, scientists, industry specialists, and practitioners meet to discuss the future of practical, scalable, user-friendly, and game changing solutions.:ISWC2012 web site. Its proceedings are published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag.

The annual ISWC conference series was established in 2002 by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) after the success of the Semantic Web Working Symposium, a three-day conference held at Stanford University in the summer of 2001. SWSA continues to oversee the ISWC conference and choose organizers for future ISWC instances based on bids.

Overview + ISWC conferencesConferenceDatePlaceProceedingsAwardsNotesISWC 202625–29 October Bari, ItalyLNCS vol. tbdISWC 20252–6 November Nara, JapanLNCS vol. 16140, LNCS vol. 16141 Best Research Track Paper Award: Yiwen Peng, Thomas Bonald and Fabian Suchanek: FLORA: Unsupervised Knowledge Graph Alignment by Fuzzy LogicISWC 202411–15 November Baltimore, USALNCS vol. 15231, LNCS vol. 15232, LNCS vol. 15233 Best Research Track Paper Award: Kate Lin, Tarfah Alrashed and Natasha Noy: Relationships are Complicated! An Analysis of Relationships Between Datasets on the Web Best Research Track Student Paper Award: Benjamín Farías, Wim Martens, Carlos Rojas and Domagoj Vrgoč: PathFinder: Returning Paths in Graph QueriesISWC 20236–10 November Athens, GreeceLNCS vol. 14265, LNCS vol. 14266 Best Research Track Paper Award: Genivika Mann, Alishiba Dsouza, Ran Yu and Elena Demidova: Spatial Link Prediction with Spatial and Semantic Embeddings Best Research Track Student Paper Award: Alishiba Dsouza, Ran Yu, Moritz Windoffer and Elena Demidova: Iterative Geographic Entity Alignment with Cross-AttentionISWC 202223-27 October Hangzhou, ChinaLNCS vol. 13489 Best Paper: Larry González, Alex Ivliev, Markus Krötzsch, Stephan Mennicke: Efficient Dependency Analysis for Rule-Based OntologiesISWC 202124–28 October Albany, New York, USALNCS vol. 12922 Best Paper: Mehdi Ali, Max Berrendorf, Mikhail Galkin, Veronika Thost, Tengfei Ma, Volker Tresp, Jens Lehmann: Improving Inductive Link Prediction Using Hyper-Relational Facts ISWC 20202–6 November Athens, GreeceLNCS vol. 12506, LNCS vol. 12507 Best Paper: Ronald Denaux, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez: Linked Credibility Reviews for Explainable Misinformation Detection Best Student Paper: Timo Homburg, Steffen Staab, Daniel Janke: GeoSPARQL+: Syntax, Semantics and System for Integrated Querying of Graph, Raster and Vector DataISWC 2019 26–30 October Auckland, New ZealandLNCS vol. 11778, LNCS vol. 11779 Best Paper: Julien Corman, Fernando Florenzano, Juan L. Reutter and Ognjen Savkovic: Validating SHACL constraints over a SPARQL endpoint Best Student Paper: Hernan Vargas, Carlos Buil Aranda, Aidan Hogan and Claudia López: RDF Explorer: A Visual Query Builder for Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs Vito Walter Anelli, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Azzurra Ragone and Joseph Trotta: How to make latent factors interpretable by feeding Factorization machines with knowledge graphsISWC 2018 8–12 October Monterey, California, USALNCS vol. 11136, LNCS vol. 11137 Best Paper: Sumit Bhatia, Purusharth Dwivedi and Avneet Kaur: That’s interesting, tell me more! Finding descriptive support passages for explaining knowledge graph relationships Best Student Paper: Jaime Salas and Aidan Hogan: Canonicalisation of monotone SPARQL queries ISWC 2017 21–25 October Vienna, AustriaLNCS vol. 10587, LNCS vol. 10588 Best Paper: Olaf Hartig, Ian Letter and Jorge Pérez: A Formal Framework for Comparing Linked Data Fragments Best Student Paper: Stephan Baier, Volker Tresp and Yunpu Ma: Improving Visual Relationship Detection using Semantic Modeling of Scene DescriptionsISWC 201617–21 October Kobe, JapanLNCS vol. 9981, LNCS vol. 9982 Best Paper: Renzo Angles and Claudio Gutierrez: The multiset semantics of SPARQL patterns Linhong Zhu, Majid Ghasemi-Gol, Pedro Szekely, Aram Galstyan and Craig A. Knoblock: Unsupervised Entity Resolution on Multi-type Graphs

Best Student Paper: Lei Zhang, Achim Rettinger, and Ji Zhang: A Probabilistic Model for Time-Aware Entity RecommendationISWC 201511–15 October Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USALNCS vol. 9366, LNCS vol. 9367 Best Paper: L. Rietveld, W. Beek, and S. Schlobach: LOD Lab: Experiments at LOD Scale Best Student Paper: Y. Roussakis, I. Chrysakis, K. Stefanidis, G. Flouris, and Y. Starakas: A Flexible Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of Evolving RDF DatasetsISWC 201419–23 October Riva del Garda, ItalyLNCS vol. 8796, LNCS vol. 8797 Best Paper: Ricardo Usbeck, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Michael Röder, Daniel Gerber, Sandro Athaide Coelho, Sören Auer and Andreas Both: AGDISTIS - Graph-Based Disambiguation of Named Entities using Linked Data Best Student Paper: Juan F. Sequeda, Marcelo Arenas and Daniel P. Miranker: OBDA: Query Rewriting or Materialization? In Practice, Both!ISWC 201321–25 October Sydney, AustraliaLNCS vol. 8218, LNCS vol. 8219 Best Paper: Carsten Lutz, Inanc Seylan, David Toman and Frank Wolter: The Combined Approach to OBDA: Taming Role Hierarchies using Filters Best Student Paper: Jay Pujara, Hui Miao, Lise Getoor, William Cohen: Knowledge Graph IdentificationISWC 201211–15 November Boston, USALNCS vol. 7649, LNCS vol. 7650 Best Paper: Rahul Parundekar, Craig Knoblock and José Luis Ambite: Discovering Concept Coverings in Ontologies of Linked Data Sources Best Student Paper: Jean Christoph Jung and Carsten Lutz: Ontology-Based Access to Probabilistic Data with OWL QLISWC 201123–27 October Bonn, GermanyLNCS vol. 7031, LNCS vol. 7032 Best Paper: Mohamed Morsey, Jens Lehmann, Sören Auer and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo: DBpedia SPARQL Benchmark Performance Assessment with Real Queries on Real Data Best Student Paper: Chiara Del Vescovo, Damian Gessler, Pavel Klinov, Bijan Parsia, Ulrike Sattler, Thomas Schneider and Andrew Winget: Decomposition and Modular Structure of BioPortal OntologiesISWC 20107–11 November Shanghai, ChinaLNCS vol. 6496, LNCS vol. 6497 Best Paper: Shenghui Wang and Paul Groth: Measuring the dynamic bi-directional influence between content and social networks Best Student Paper: Heather S. Packer, Nicholas Gibbins and Nicholas R. Jennings: Forgetting Fragments from Evolving OWL OntologiesISWC 200925–29 October Washington, DC, USALNCS vol. 5823 Best Paper: Ugur Kuter and Jennifer Golbeck: Semantic Web Service Composition in Social Environments Best Student Paper: Vicky Papavassiliou, Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki, Dimitris Kotzinos, and Vassilis Christophides: On Detecting High-Level Changes in RDF/S KBsISWC 200826–30 October Karlsruhe, GermanyLNCS vol. 5318 Best Paper: Matthew Horridge, Bijan Parsia and Ulrike Sattler: Laconic and Precise Justifications in OWLISWC 200711–15 November Busan, South KoreaLNCS vol. 4825 Best Paper: Dimitris Zeginis, Yannis Tzitzikas, and Vassilis Christophides: On the Foundations of Computing Deltas between RDF models Best Student Paper: Sean Falconer and Margaret-Anne Storey: A cognitive support framework for ontology mappingHeld together with ASWC 2007.ISWC 2006 5–9 November Athens, Georgia, USALNCS vol. 4273 Best Paper: Marcelo Arenas, Jorge Perez and Claudio Gutierrez: Semantics and Complexity of SPARQLISWC 2005 6–10 November Galway, IrelandLNCS vol. 3729 Best Paper: Peter Mika: Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semanticsISWC 20047–11 November Hiroshima, JapanLNCS vol. 3298 Best Paper: Y. Guo, Z. Pan, and J. Heflin: An Evaluation of Knowledge Base Systems for Large OWL DatasetsISWC 200320–23 October Sanibel Island, USALNCS vol. 2870 Best Paper: Aimilia Magkanaraki, Val Tannen, Vassilis Christophides, Dimitris Plexousakis: Viewing the Semantic Web through RVL LensesISWC 20029–12 June Sardinia, ItalyLNCS vol. 2342 Best Paper: Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Jérôme Siméon: Building the Semantic Web on XML

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