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           The 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC),

                               IN-USE TRACK 

                      http://www.eswc2011.org/

               May 29 - June 2, 2011, Heraklion, Greece

The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference is to bring 

together researchers and practitioners dealing with different 

aspects of semantic technologies. ESWC 2011 builds on the 

success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series 

(http://www.eswc2010.org/), and seeks to extend its focus by 

collaborating with other communities and research areas,

in which Web semantics play an important role, within and 

outside ICT. 

IN-USE TRACK DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES

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Bringing the research results down to exploitation 

by the final users as well as demonstrating the beneficial

use of these results in real world settings is a major challenge. 

Semantic technologies are among transversal enabling technologies, 

and, hence, can be applied in various domains, ranging from 

eGovernment to manufacturing. The Semantic Web in Use track 

is particularly devoted to showcase implemented applications, 

learned best practices as well as assessments and evaluations 

of semantic technologies in real world settings. Submissions 

to this track should substantially contribute to the knowledge 

transfer from research labs into mainstream adoption.  

Special interest for this year's ESWC in Use track includes

linking open (e.g., government) data, sentiment analysis 

(e.g., over social networks and blogs) and scalable show cases 

(e.g., scenarios with large volumes of data and/or near real-time 

response requirements).

TOPICS of INTEREST  

In this track we invite original submissions conforming to generally 

accepted practices for scientific papers covering (but not limited to) 

one or more of the following topics:

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   - Description of the concrete problems in specific application domains, 

     for which the semantic technologies can provide a solution. 

   - Description of an implemented application of the semantic 

     technologies in a specific domain. 

   - Assessment of the pros and cons of using the semantic technologies 

     to solve a particular business problem or other practical problems 

     in a specific domain. 

   - Comparison with alternative or competing approaches using 

     conventional or competing technologies. 

   - Assessment of the costs and benefits of the application of 

     the semantic technologies, e.g., time spent on implementation 

     and deployment, efforts involved, final user acceptance, 

     returns on investment. 

   - Evidence of deployment of the application, and assessment/evaluation 

     of usage/uptake.

   - Application of the semantic technologies to problems where 

     their scalability to large amounts of data and/or short response 

     times are demonstrated.

   - Domains of interest include, but are not limited to: 

     enterprise applications, eGovernment, eParticipation, eEnvironment, 

     eMobility and Smart cities, eHealth, eInclusion, life sciences, 

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     media and entertainment, telecommunications, cultural heritage, 

     financial services, energy and utilities, manufacturing.

SUBMISSIONS

The proceedings of the conference will be published in Springer's 

Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing 

will be electronic. Papers must not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length 

and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors: 

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Papers must be submitted as PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) 

and will not be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages 

or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically 

without a review. The contributions to the in-Use track hould be submitted 

through the track submission site at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2011inuse

IMPORTANT DATES

     Abstract submission:    Dec. 6, 2010 (compulsory)

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     Full paper submission:  Dec. 13,2010 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)

     Notifications sent out: Feb. 21,2011 

     Final versions due:      March 7,2011

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Harith Alani

George Anadiotis

Giuseppe Angelini

Sören Auer

Stefano Bertolo

Olivier Bodenreider

Paolo Bouquet

François Bry

Pablo Castells

John Davies

Mike Dean

Lee Feigenbaum

Aldo Gangemi

Fausto Giunchiglia

John Goodwin

Peter Haase
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Bin He

Tom Heath

Nicola Henze

Ivan Herman

Geert-Jan Houben

Eero Hyvönen

Renato Iannella

Antoine Isaac

Alexander Ivanyukovich

Krzysztof Janowicz

Yannis Kalfoglou

Birgitta König-Ries

Rubén Lara

Nico Lavarini

Alain Leger

Maurizio Lenzerini

Bernardo Magnini

Vincenzo Maltese

Massimo Marchiori

Peter Mika

Luca Mion

Andriy Nikolov
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Lyndon Nixon

Leo Obrst

Massimo Paolucci

Yefei Peng

Erhard Rahm

Yves Raimond

Sebastian Schaffert

Hannes Schwetz

Kavitha Srinivas

Andrei Tamilin

Klaus-Dieter Thoben

Andraz Tori

Tania Tudorache

Lorenzino Vaccari

Yannis Velegrakis

Michael Witbrock

Baoshi Yan

Ilya Zaihrayeu

Songmao Zhang

Best Regards, 
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Pavel Shvaiko & Daniel Olmedilla

(ESWC 2011 *Semantic Web in-Use* track co-chairs)