Committee

Conference Chairs 2018

​Research and Innovation Chairs:

• Anna Fensel, University of Innsbruck
• Victor de Boer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Data Science Track Chairs:

• Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology
• Laura Hollink, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
• Alexander Schindler, Vienna University of Technology

Industry and Use case Presentations:

• Tobias Bürger, BMW
• Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer
• Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs:

• Javier D. Fernández, WU Vienna
• Tobias Kuhn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Posters and Demos

• Ali Khalili, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Maria Koutraki, FIZ Karlsruhe

Conference Chairs:

• Elmar Kiesling, TU Wien
• Tassilo Pellegrini, UAS St. Pölten

Vocarnival:

• Alexandra Garatzogianni, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology (TIB), Leibniz University of Hannover

Organisation / Local Chair 

• Thomas Thurner,Semantic Web Company 
• Niina Novak, ​Vienna University of Technology

Permanent Advisory Board

• Sören Auer, Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
• Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company
• Tobias Bürger, BMW Group
• Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer Germany
• Anna Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck
• Dieter Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck
• Erwin Folmer, Kadaster, University of Twente
• Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology 
• Mike Heininger, GfWM - Austria, wissen.io
• Sebastian Hellmann, Institute of Applied Informatics e.V. at the University of Leipzig
• Ute John, GfWM - Germany, WissensWertSchöpfung
• Martin Kaltenböck, Semantic Web Company
• Tassilo Pellegrini, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
• Axel Polleres, Institute for Information Business of WU Wien
• Felix Sasaki, DFKI, W3C Fellow
• Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Programme Committee - Poster & Demo Track

• Maribel Acosta (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Natanael Arndt (Leipzig University)
• Jarosław Bąk (Poznan University of Technology)
• Wouter Beek (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Stefan Bischof (Siemens AG Österreich)
• Jean-Paul Calbimonte (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland HES-SO)
• Davide Ceolin (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Ioannis Chrysakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH))
• Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
• Enrico Daga (The Open University)
• Victor de Boer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Klaas Andries de Graaf (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Dieter De Paepe (Ghent University)
• Emanuele Della Valle (Politecnico di Milano)
• Anastasia Dimou (Ghent University)
• Anca Dumitrache (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Ivan Ermilov (Universität Leipzig)
• Valeria Fionda (University of Calabria)
• Roberto Garcia (Universitat de Lleida)
• Raúl García-Castro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
• Peter Haase (metaphacts)
• Karl Hammar (Jönköping University)
• Laura Hollink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Matthew Horridge (Stanford University)
• Filip Ilievski (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Tomi Kauppinen (Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science)
• Ali Khalili (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Elmar Kiesling (Vienna University of Technology)
• Sabrina Kirrane (Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU Wien)
• Maria Koutraki (FIZ Karlsruhe)
• Michael Lauruhn (Elsevier)
• Valentina Maccatrozzo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Erik Mannens (iMinds - Ghent University - Multimedia Lab)
• Michael Martin (University of Leipzig, Department for Business Applications)
• Miguel A. Martinez-Prieto (University of Valladolid)
• Marios Meimaris (National Technical University of Athens)
• Albert Meroño-Peñuela (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Nandana Mihindukulasooriya (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
• Raghava Mutharaju (GE Global Research)
• Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen)
• George Papastefanatos (IMIS / RC “Athena”)
• Tassilo Pellegrini (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)
• Giuseppe Pirrò (Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR-CNR))
• Axel Polleres (Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU Wien)
• Thomas Riechert (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences)
• Giuseppe Rizzo (ISMB)
• Víctor Rodríguez Doncel (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
• Vadim Savenkov (Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU))
• Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Jodi Schneider (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
• Mohamed Ahmed Sherif (Paderborn University, Data Science Group)
• Tommaso Soru (University of Leipzig)
• Ruben Taelman (Ghent University)
• Annette Ten Teije (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Thomas Thurner (Semanic Web Company)
• Riccardo Tommasini (Politecnico di Milano)
• Ricardo Usbeck (University of Paderborn)
• Frank Van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Jacco van Ossenbruggen (CWI & VU University Amsterdam)
• Serena Villata (CNRS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis)
• Veruska Zamborlini (University of Amsterdam)
• Amrapali Zaveri (Maastricht University)
• Antoine Zimmermann (École des Mines de Saint-Étienne)

Programme Committee Research and Innovation Track

• Alessandro Adamou (The Open University)
• Rajendra Akerkar (Western Norway Research Institute, Norway)
• Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez (Carlos III University of Madrid)
• Grigoris Antoniou (University of Huddersfield)
• Natanael Arndt (Leipzig University)
• Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT CNRS)
• Wouter Beek (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Stefan Bischof (Siemens AG Österreich)
• Carlos Bobed (University of Rennes 1)
• Uldis Bojars (IMCS – University of Latvia)
• Charalampos Bratsas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
• John Breslin
• Irene Celino (CEFRIEL)
• Davide Ceolin (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Pierre-Antoine Champin (LIRIS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1)
• Jean Charlet (AP-HP & INSERM UMRS 1142)
• Vinay Chaudhri (Independent Researcher)
• Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University)
• Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
• Pieter Colpaert (Ghent University)
• Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
• Gianluca Correndo (University of Southampton)
• Aba-Sah Dadzie (The Open University)
• Enrico Daga (The Open University)
• Laura M. Daniele (TNO - Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research)
• Sándor Darányi
• Victor de Boer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Stefan Decker (RWTH Aachen University)
• Elena Demidova (L3S Research Center)
• Sylvie Despres (Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale et de BIOinformatique (LIM&BIO))
• Chiara Di Francescomarino (Fondazione Bruno Kessler-IRST)
• Stefan Dietze (L3S Research Center)
• Anastasia Dimou (Ghent University)
• Mauro Dragoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK-IRST)
• Anca Dumitrache (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Samhaa El-Beltagy (Nile University)
• Catherine Faron Zucker (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis)
• Anna Fensel (STI International)
• Javier D. Fernández (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
• Agata Filipowska (Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics)
• Aldo Gangemi (Università di Bologna & CNR-ISTC)
• Roberto Garcia (Universitat de Lleida)
• José María García (University of Seville)
• Raúl García-Castro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
• Daniel Garijo (Information Sciences Institute)
• Juan Miguel Gomez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
• Benjamin Heitmann (RWTH Aachen University, Database and Information Systems Group (i5))
• Eelco Herder (Radboud University)
• Rinke Hoekstra (University of Amsterdam)
• Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology)
• Zhisheng Huang (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Eero Hyvönen (Aalto University)
• Valentina Janev (The Mihajlo Pupin Institute)
• Carlos Juiz (University of the Balearic Islands)
• Naouel Karam (Freie Universität Berlin)
• Elmar Kiesling (Vienna University of Technology)
• Magnus Knuth (Leipzig University)
• Efstratios Kontopoulos (Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research & Technology - Hellas)
• Tobias Kuhn (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Christoph Lange (University of Bonn & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)
• Michael Lauruhn (Elsevier)
• Maxime Lefrançois (MINES Saint-Etienne)
• Isaac Lera (UIB)
• Steffen Lohmann (Fraunhofer)
• Sandra Lovrenčić (University of Zagreb, Faculty of organization and informatics Varazdin, Pavlinska 2, HR-42000 Varazdin, Croatia)
• Chun Lu (Université Paris-Sorbonne & Sépage)
• Maria Maleshkova (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Carlos Martinez-Ortiz (Netherlands eScience Center)
• Albert Meroño-Peñuela (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Franck Michel (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France)
• Andras Micsik (SZTAKI)
• Riichiro Mizoguchi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
• Dmitry Mouromtsev (NRU ITMO, Russia)
• Lyndon Nixon (MODUL Technology GmbH)
• Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese (University of Bologna)
• Leo Obrst (MITRE)
• Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen)
• Heiko Paulheim (University of Mannheim)
• Tassilo Pellegrini (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)
• Catia Pesquita (LaSIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
• Cédric Pruski (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)
• Xiuquan Qiao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China)
• Artem Revenko (Semantic Web Company GmbH)
• Giuseppe Rizzo (ISMB)
• Oscar Rodríguez Rocha (INRIA)
• Dumitru Roman (SINTEF)
• Marco Rospocher (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
• Anisa Rula (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• Marta Sabou (Vienna University of Technology)
• Harald Sack (FIZ Karlsruhe, Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure & KIT Karlsruhe)
• Felix Sasaki (Lambdawerk)
• Vadim Savenkov (Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU))
• Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Pavel Shvaiko (Informatica Trentina)
• Ronny Siebes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl (Jagiellonian University)
• Monika Solanki (University of Oxford)
• Ioannis Stavrakantonakis (KAYAK)
• Holger Stenzhorn (Saarland University Hospital)
• Simon Steyskal (Siemens AG Austria)
• Vojtěch Svátek (University of Economics, Prague)
• Ruben Taelman (Ghent University)
• Thomas Thurner (Semanic Web Company)
• Konstantin Todorov (LIRMM / University of Montpellier)
• Raphaël Troncy (EURECOM)
• Mathias Uslar (OFFIS)
• Maria Esther Vidal (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science)
• Serena Villata (CNRS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis)
• Joerg Waitelonis (yovisto GmbH)
• Shenghui Wang (OCLC Research)
• Krzysztof Wecel (Poznan University of Economics)
• Wolfram Wöß (Institute for Application Oriented Knowledge Processing, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
• Veruska Zamborlini (University of Amsterdam)
• Eva Zangerle (Databases and Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck)
• Amrapali Zaveri (Maastricht University)
• Antoine Zimmermann (École des Mines de Saint-Étienne)