Five members of the Data Semantics Lab - David Carral, Michelle Cheatham, Pascal Hitzler, Amit Joshi, Md. Kamruzzaman Sarker - attended The 15th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2016 in Kobe, Japan, this year, which is the key conference in the Semantic Web field.

In the picture: Pascal Hitzler, Amit Joshi, Michelle Cheatham, Md. Kamruzzaman Sarker, David Carral

And we kept rather busy there. The activities we were involved in were diverse:

• David Carral presented a research paper: David Carral, Cristina Feier, Pascal Hitzler, Practical Acyclicity Notions for Query Answering over Horn-SRIQ Ontologies.
• Amit Joshi presented a resources track paper: Amit Joshi, Pascal Hitzler, Guozhu Dong, Multi-purpose Linked Data Generator.
• We presented two demos:
  • Md. Kamruzzaman Sarker, Adila A. Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler, OWLAx: A Protege Plugin to Support Ontology Axiomatization through Diagramming. This demo was nominated for the best demo award.
  • Md. Kamruzzaman Sarker, David Carral, Adila A. Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler, Modeling OWL with Rules: The ROWL Protege Plugin.
• We presented a total of 8 workshop papers
  • Michelle Cheatham, Holly Ferguson, Charles Vardeman II, Cogan Shimizu, A Modification to the Hazardous Situation ODP to Support Risk Assessment and Mitigation. WOP 2016
  • Adila A. Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz, A Spatiotemporal Extent Pattern based on Semantic Trajectories. WOP 2016
  • Adila A. Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler, A Core Pattern for Events. WOP 2016
  • Adila A. Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler, The Stub Metapattern. WOP 2016.
  • Nazifa Karima, Karl Hammar, Pascal Hitzler, How to Document Ontology Design Patterns. WOP 2016.
  • Reihaneh Amini, Michelle Cheatham, Pawel Grzebala, Helena B. McCurdy, Towards best practices for crowdsourcing ontology alignment benchmarks. OM 2016
  • Michelle Cheatham, Reihaneh Amini, Chandan Patel, Matching Instances in GeoLink. OM 2016
  • Jacob Miracle, Michelle Cheatham, Semantic Web Enabled Record Linkage Attacks on Anonymized Data. PrivOn 2016
• We were also involved in the organization of the event:
  • Pascal Hitzler was co-chair of the Journal Track.
  • Pascal Hitzler was general chair, and Adila Krisnadhi proceedings chair of the WOP workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns.
  • Michelle Cheatham was co-chair of both the PrivOn workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web and of the workshop on Ontology Matching. 
  • Pascal Hitzler was co-presenter of a tutorial on Ontology Design Patterns for Linked Data Publishing.
• DaSeLab members were on several program committees: Research track, Resources Track, Doctoral Consortium and PrivOn workshop (Pascal Hitzler), WOP workshop (David Carral, Michelle Cheatham, Cogan Shimizu)
• DaSeLab members have in addition reviewed papers for the conference and workshops: Resources Track (Reihaneh Amini, Adila Krisnadhi, David Carral, Sambhawa Priya), Reseach Track (David Carral, Raghava Mutharaju, Yuxin Ye, Adila Krisnadhi), PrivOn workshop (Lu Zhou)
• Pascal Hitzler also gave a lightning talk and chaired one of the conference sessions. 
• In addition, Pascal Hitzler organized and chaired the annual Editorial Board meeting of the Semantic Web journal, an award ceremony for the Semantic Web journal, and launched a new book at the event.

Amit Joshi presenting

At the demo session - David Carral to the left

Michelle Cheatham presenting

Pascal Hitzler presenting

Md. Kamruzzaman Sarker presenting

The "blue books" - at the front the book launched at ISWC 2016.