Aims & Scope
The journal Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability is an international and interdisciplinary journal bringing together researchers from various fields which share the vision and need for more effective and meaningful ways to share information across agents and services on the future Internet and elsewhere.
As such, Semantic Web technologies shall support the seamless integration of data, on-the-fly composition and interoperation of Web services, as well as more intuitive search engines. The semantics – or meaning – of information, however, cannot be defined without a context, which makes personalization, trust and provenance core topics for Semantic Web research.
New retrieval paradigms, user interfaces and visualization techniques have to unleash the power of the Semantic Web and at the same time hide its complexity from the user. Based on this vision, the journal welcomes contributions ranging from theoretical and foundational research over methods and tools to descriptions of concrete ontologies and applications in all areas. Papers which add a social, spatial and temporal dimension to Semantic Web research, as well as application-oriented papers making use of formal semantics, are especially welcome.
The journal is co-published by the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft AKA.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz
Professor Geographic Information Science and Geoinformatics
Department of Geography
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Email: contact@semantic-web-journal.net
Managing Editors
Eva Blomqvist
Linköping University
Sweden
Cogan Shimizu
Kansas State University
USA
Editorial Assistant
Sanaz Saki Norouzi
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS, USA
Editorial Board
Mehwish Alam
FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
& Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Germany
Claudia d’Amato
University of Bari
Italy
Stefano Borgo
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Italy
Boyan Brodaric
Geological Survey of Canada
Italy
Philipp Cimiano
Bielefeld University
Germany
Oscar Corcho
Politechnic University of Madrid
Spain
Bernardo Cuenca-Grau
Oxford University
United Kingdom
Elena Demidova
University of Bonn
Germany
Jerome Euzenat
INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes
France
Mark Gahegan
University of Auckland
New Zealand
Aldo Gangemi
University of Bologna and ISTC-CNR
Rome, Italy
Anna Lisa Gentile
IBM Research Almaden
USA
Rafael Goncalves
Stanford University
USA
Dagmar Gromann
University of Vienna
Austria
Armin Haller
Australian National University
Australia
Aidan Hogan
Universidad de Chile
Chile
Katja Hose
Aalborg University
Denmark
Eero Hyvönen
Aalto University and University of Helsinki
Finland
Sabrina Kirrane
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien)
Austria
Agnieszka Lawrynowicz
Poznan University of Technology
Poland
Freddy Lecue
CortAIx Thales
France
Maria Maleshkova
University of Siegen
Germany
Raghava Mutharaju
IIIT-Delhi
India
Axel Polleres
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien)
Austria
Guilin Qi
Southeast University
China
Marta Sabou
Technische Universität Wien (TUWien)
Austria
Harald Sack
FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Germany
Christoph Schlieder
University of Bamberg
Germany
Stefan Schlobach
VU University Amsterdam
Austria
Oshani Seneviratne
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
USA
Ruben Verborgh
Ghent University - imec
Belgium
GQ Zhang
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
USA
Editorial Assistant
Cogan Shimizu
Wright State University
USA
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Extra
Semantic Web journal 10-year award 2022: In October 2022, we proudly announced the winners of the 10-year award. Congratulations to Claus Stadler, Jens Lehmann, Konrad Höffner and Sören Auer. View the announcement here.
Semantic Web journal 10-year award 2023: In November 2023, the Editors-in-Chief announced the winners of the 10-year award. Congratulations to Hajo Rijgersberg, Mark van Assem and Jan Top. View the announcement here.
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