Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006)
                             November 5 - 9, 2006
                             Athens, Georgia, USA
                       http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org

The dream of the Web was to create a human communication and collaboration platform for sharing knowledge and enabling a universal space for information and services. We all are now much more connected, and in turn face new resulting problems: service and information overload caused by insufficient support for information selection, organization and collaboration. The Semantic Web, by providing standards for formulating and distributing metadata and ontologies, enables means for information organization and selective access. However, the Semantic Web requires new infrastructure on all levels - e.g., human-computer interaction, expressive representation and query languages, reasoning engines, data representation and integration, interoperability middleware, and distributed computing.

To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, the International Semantic Web Conference brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, and human-computer interaction.

The Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006) follows on the success of previous conferences and workshops in Galway, Ireland (2005), Hiroshima, Japan (2004), Sanibel Island, USA (2003), Sardinia, Italy (2002), and Stanford, USA (2001).

The organizing committee is soliciting contributions for the various activities.
Please see http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org for submission details.

Important dates are:

Research/Academic Track

May 22, 2006 (Midnight Hawaii time): Paper submissions due
July 26, 2006: Paper acceptance notification
August 25, 2006: Camera-ready papers due

Semantic Web in Use Track

May 22, 2006 (Midnight Hawaii time): Paper submissions due
July 26, 2006: Paper acceptance notification
August 25, 2006: Camera-ready papers due

Doctoral Consortium Track

May 22, 2006 (Midnight Hawaii time): Paper submissions due
July 26, 2006: Notification of acceptance
August 25, 2006: Final versions due

Posters and Demos

July 14, 2006: Deadline for submissions
September 8, 2006: Notification of acceptance
September 29, 2006: Deadline for camera-ready paper

Semantic Web Challenge

July 14, 2006: Paper submissions due
August 7, 2006: Notification of acceptance
August 21, 2006: Camera-ready papers due

Tutorial Proposals

May 19, 2006: Tutorial proposals due
June 19, 2006: Notification of proposal acceptance
July 16, 2006: Deadline for receipt of URL for tutorial web page
September 8, 2006: Deadline for sending the tutorial chair the tutorial notes and the technical paper
November 5, 2006: Presentation of Tutorial Program