Four membes of the DaSe Lab - Michelle Cheatham, Md Kamruzzaman Sarker, Cogan Shimizu and Lu Zhou - visited the 17th International Semantic Web Confernece, ISWC 2018, this year in Monterey, California, which is the key annual conference in the field. 

Cogan Shimizu, Michelle Cheatham, Md Kamruzzaman Sarker, Lu Zhou, at ISWC 2018.

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

• We had several papers and posters, as listed below.
• The WOP workshop contribution by Cogan Shimizu, Pascal Hitzler, and Clare Paul, entitled Ontology Design Patterns for Winston's Taxonomy of Part-Whole Relationships, won the workshop's best paper award.
• The resources track paper by Lu Zhou, Michelle Cheatham, Adila Krisnadhi, and Pascal Hitzler, entitled A Complex Alignment Benchmark: GeoLink Dataset, was nominated for the best resources paper award.
• Md Kamruzzaman Sarker, Cogan Shimizu and Pascal Hitzler co-presented a tutorial on Methods and Tools for Modular Ontology Modeling.
• Cogan Shimizu and Lu Zhou presented at the Doctoral Consortium.
• Michelle Cheatham co-organized the OM workshop, and co-ran the conference and complex alignment tracks of the OM workshop.
• Pascal Hitzler was journal track chair, senior PC member, and memer of the steering committee for the WOP workshop.
• Lu Zhou co-ran the complex alignment track at the OM workshop.
• The Editorial Board meeting of the Semantic Web journal took place, with Cogan Shimizu (Editorial Assistant) in attendance.
• In terms of PC memberships, we had Cogan Shimizu (WOP workshop) and Pascal Hitzler (resources track).
• Michelle Cheatham, Monireh Ebrahimi, Cogan Shimizu, and Lu Zhou contributed as multiple reviewers for the research track and the resources track.

Papers/posters

• Lu Zhou, Michelle Cheatham, Adila Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler, A Complex Alignment Benchmark: GeoLink Dataset. In: Denny Vrandecic, Kalina Bontcheva, Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Valentina Presutti, Irene Celino, Marta Sabou, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Elena Simperl (eds.), The Semantic Web - ISWC 2018 - 17th International Semantic Web Conference, Monterey, CA, USA, October 8-12, 2018, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11137, Springer, Heidelberg, 2018, pp. 273-288.
• Cogan Shimizu, Towards a Comprehensive Modular Ontolgy IDE and Tool Suite. In: Sabrina Kirrane, Lalana Kagal (eds.), Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium at ISWC 2018, co-located with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018), Monterey, USA, October 8th to 12th, 2018. CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol-2181, CEUR-WS.org, 2018, pp. 65-72.
• Lu Zhou, A Journey From Simple to Complex Alignment on Real-World Ontologies. In: Sabrina Kirrane, Lalana Kagal (eds.), Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium at ISWC 2018, co-located with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018), Monterey, USA, October 8th to 12th, 2018. CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol-2181, CEUR-WS.org, 2018, pp. 93-101.
• Elodie Thieblin, Michelle Cheatham, Cassia Trojahn, Ondrej Zamazal, Lu Zhou, The First Version of the OAEI Complex Alignment Benchmark. In: Marieke van Erp, Medha Atre, Vanessa Lopez, Kavitha Srinivas and Carolina Fortuna (eds.), Proceedings of the ISWC 2018 Posters & Demonstrations, Industry and Blue Sky Ideas Tracks co-located with 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018), Monterey, USA, October 8th - to - 12th, 2018. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2180, CEUR-WS.org 2018. 
• Cogan Shimizu, Leah McEwen, Quinn Hirt, Towards a Pattern-Based Ontology for Chemical Laboratory Procedures. In: Martin G. Skjaeveland, Yingjie Hu, Karl Hammar, Vojtech Svated, Agnieszka Lawrynowicz (eds.), WOP 2018. Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns. Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP 2018) co-located with 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018) Monterey, USA, October 9th, 2018. CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol-2195, CEUR-WS.org, 2018, pp. 40-51.
• Cogan Shimizu, Pascal Hitzler, Clare Paul, Ontology Design Patterns for Winston's Taxonomy of Part-Whole Relationships. In: Martin G. Skjaeveland, Yingjie Hu, Karl Hammar, Vojtech Svated, Agnieszka Lawrynowicz (eds.), WOP 2018. Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns. Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP 2018) co-located with 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018) Monterey, USA, October 9th, 2018. CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol-2195, CEUR-WS.org, 2018, pp. 2-13.

Lu Zhou presenting the resources track paper

Cogan Shimizu presenting his Doctoral Consortium paper