International Semantic Web Conference
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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.[1][2][3] Here, scientists, industry specialists, and practitioners meet to discuss the future of practical, scalable, user-friendly, and game changing solutions.[4] Its proceedings are published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag.
| International Semantic Web Conference | |
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| Abbreviation | ISWC |
| Discipline | Semantic Web |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag |
| History | 2002- |
| Frequency | annual |
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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
| Conference | Date | Place | Proceedings | Awards | Notes |
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| ISWC 2026 | 25–29 October |  Bari, Italy |
LNCS vol. tbd | ||
| ISWC 2025 | 2–6 November |  Nara, Japan |
LNCS vol. 16140, LNCS vol. 16141 | Best Research Track Paper Award: Yiwen Peng, Thomas Bonald and Fabian Suchanek: FLORA: Unsupervised Knowledge Graph Alignment by Fuzzy Logic | |
| ISWC 2024 | 11–15 November |  Baltimore, USA |
LNCS 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 Queries |
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| ISWC 2023 | 6–10 November |  Athens, Greece |
LNCS 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-Attention |
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| ISWC 2022 | 23-27 October |  Hangzhou, China |
LNCS vol. 13489 | Best Paper: Larry González, Alex Ivliev, Markus Krötzsch, Stephan Mennicke: Efficient Dependency Analysis for Rule-Based Ontologies | |
| ISWC 2021 | 24–28 October | Albany, New York, USA |
LNCS 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 2020 | 2–6 November | Athens, Greece |
LNCS vol. 12506, LNCS vol. 12507 | Best Paper: Ronald Denaux, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez: Linked Credibility Reviews for Explainable Misinformation Detection[5]
Best Student Paper: Timo Homburg, Steffen Staab, Daniel Janke: GeoSPARQL+: Syntax, Semantics and System for Integrated Querying of Graph, Raster and Vector Data[6] |
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| ISWC 2019 | 26–30 October |  Auckland, New Zealand |
LNCS vol. 11778, LNCS vol. 11779 | Best Paper: Julien Corman, Fernando Florenzano, Juan L. Reutter and Ognjen Savkovic: Validating SHACL constraints over a SPARQL endpoint[7]
Best Student Paper: Hernan Vargas, Carlos Buil Aranda, Aidan Hogan and Claudia López: RDF Explorer: A Visual Query Builder for Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs[8] 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 graphs[9] |
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| ISWC 2018 | 8–12 October | Monterey, California, USA |
LNCS 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[10]
Best Student Paper: Jaime Salas and Aidan Hogan: Canonicalisation of monotone SPARQL queries[11] |
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| ISWC 2017 | 21–25 October |  Vienna, Austria |
LNCS vol. 10587, LNCS vol. 10588 | Best Paper: Olaf Hartig, Ian Letter and Jorge Pérez: A Formal Framework for Comparing Linked Data Fragments[12]
Best Student Paper: Stephan Baier, Volker Tresp and Yunpu Ma: Improving Visual Relationship Detection using Semantic Modeling of Scene Descriptions[13] |
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| ISWC 2016 | 17–21 October | Kobe, Japan |
LNCS vol. 9981, LNCS vol. 9982 | Best Paper: Renzo Angles and Claudio Gutierrez: The multiset semantics of SPARQL patterns[14]
Linhong Zhu, Majid Ghasemi-Gol, Pedro Szekely, Aram Galstyan and Craig A. Knoblock: Unsupervised Entity Resolution on Multi-type Graphs[15] Best Student Paper: Lei Zhang, Achim Rettinger, and Ji Zhang: A Probabilistic Model for Time-Aware Entity Recommendation[16] |
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| ISWC 2015 | 11–15 October | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA |
LNCS vol. 9366, LNCS vol. 9367 | Best Paper: L. Rietveld, W. Beek, and S. Schlobach: LOD Lab: Experiments at LOD Scale [17]
Best Student Paper: Y. Roussakis, I. Chrysakis, K. Stefanidis, G. Flouris, and Y. Starakas: A Flexible Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of Evolving RDF Datasets[18] |
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| ISWC 2014 | 19–23 October | Riva del Garda, Italy |
LNCS 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[19]
Best Student Paper: Juan F. Sequeda, Marcelo Arenas and Daniel P. Miranker: OBDA: Query Rewriting or Materialization? In Practice, Both![20] |
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| ISWC 2013 | 21–25 October |  Sydney, Australia |
LNCS 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[21]
Best Student Paper: Jay Pujara, Hui Miao, Lise Getoor, William Cohen: Knowledge Graph Identification[22] |
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| ISWC 2012 | 11–15 November | Boston, USA |
LNCS vol. 7649, LNCS vol. 7650 | Best Paper: Rahul Parundekar, Craig Knoblock and José Luis Ambite: Discovering Concept Coverings in Ontologies of Linked Data Sources[23]
Best Student Paper: Jean Christoph Jung and Carsten Lutz: Ontology-Based Access to Probabilistic Data with OWL QL[24] |
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| ISWC 2011 | 23–27 October |  Bonn, Germany |
LNCS 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[25]
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 Ontologies[26] |
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| ISWC 2010 | 7–11 November | Shanghai, China |
LNCS vol. 6496, LNCS vol. 6497 | Best Paper: Shenghui Wang and Paul Groth: Measuring the dynamic bi-directional influence between content and social networks[27]
Best Student Paper: Heather S. Packer, Nicholas Gibbins and Nicholas R. Jennings: Forgetting Fragments from Evolving OWL Ontologies[28] |
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| ISWC 2009 | 25–29 October | Washington, DC, USA |
LNCS vol. 5823 | Best Paper: Ugur Kuter and Jennifer Golbeck: Semantic Web Service Composition in Social Environments[29]
Best Student Paper: Vicky Papavassiliou, Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki, Dimitris Kotzinos, and Vassilis Christophides: On Detecting High-Level Changes in RDF/S KBs[30] |
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| ISWC 2008 | 26–30 October | Karlsruhe, Germany |
LNCS vol. 5318 | Best Paper: Matthew Horridge, Bijan Parsia and Ulrike Sattler: Laconic and Precise Justifications in OWL[31] | |
| ISWC 2007 | 11–15 November |  Busan, South Korea |
LNCS vol. 4825 | Best Paper: Dimitris Zeginis, Yannis Tzitzikas, and Vassilis Christophides: On the Foundations of Computing Deltas between RDF models[32]
Best Student Paper: Sean Falconer and Margaret-Anne Storey: A cognitive support framework for ontology mapping[33] |
Held together with ASWC 2007. |
| ISWC 2006 Archived 2011-01-05 at the Wayback Machine | 5–9 November | Athens, Georgia, USA |
LNCS vol. 4273 | Best Paper: Marcelo Arenas, Jorge Perez and Claudio Gutierrez: Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL[34] | |
| ISWC 2005 Archived 2010-12-21 at the Wayback Machine | 6–10 November |  Galway, Ireland |
LNCS vol. 3729 | Best Paper: Peter Mika: Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics[35] | |
| ISWC 2004 | 7–11 November | Hiroshima, Japan |
LNCS vol. 3298 | Best Paper: Y. Guo, Z. Pan, and J. Heflin: An Evaluation of Knowledge Base Systems for Large OWL Datasets[36] | |
| ISWC 2003 | 20–23 October | Sanibel Island, USA |
LNCS vol. 2870 | Best Paper: Aimilia Magkanaraki, Val Tannen, Vassilis Christophides, Dimitris Plexousakis: Viewing the Semantic Web through RVL Lenses[37] | |
| ISWC 2002 | 9–12 June | Sardinia, Italy |
LNCS vol. 2342 | Best Paper: Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Jérôme Siméon: Building the Semantic Web on XML[38] |