Awards

At the closing ceremony, a number of awards were given for excellence in the various tracks. A hearty congratulations are due to all of the winners and nominees.

Best Paper Award (Research Track)

Winner:

  • Discovering Concept Coverings in Ontologies of Linked Data Sources
    Rahul Parundekar, Craig Knoblock and José Luis Ambite

Other Nominees:

  • The Not-So-Easy Task of Computing Class Subsumptions in OWL RL
    Markus Krötzsch

  • Personalised Graph-based Selection of Web APIs
    Milan Dojchinovski, Jaroslav Kuchar, Tomas Vitvar and Maciej Zaremba

  • Ontology-Based Access to Probabilistic Data with OWL QL
    Jean Christoph Jung and Carsten Lutz

  • A Formal Semantics for Weighted Ontology Mappings
    Manuel Atencia, Alexander Borgida, Jérôme Euzenat, Chiara Ghidini and Luciano Serafini (Thr. Nov 14, ~11:30am, Georgian)

Best Student Paper Award (Research Track)

Winner:

  • Ontology-Based Access to Probabilistic Data with OWL QL
    Jean Christoph Jung and Carsten Lutz

Other Nominees:

  • Personalised Graph-based Selection of Web APIs
    Milan Dojchinovski, Jaroslav Kuchar, Tomas Vitvar and Maciej Zaremba

Best In Use Paper Award (In Use Track)

Winner:

  • ourSpaces - Design and Deployment of a Semantic Virtual Research Environment
    Peter Edwards, Edoardo Pignotti, Alan Eckhardt, Kapila Ponnamperuma, Chris Mellish, Thomas Bouttaz

Other Nominees:

  • Applying Semantic Web Technologies for Diagnosing Road Traffic Congestions
    Freddy Lecue, Anika Schumann, Marco Sbodio
  • A Comparison of Hard Filters and Soft Evidence for Answer Typing in Watson
    Chris Welty, J. William Murdock, Aditya Kalyanpur, James Fan
  • Embedded EL+ Reasoning on Programmable Logic Controllers
    Stephan Grimm, Michael Watzke, Thomas Hubauer, Falco Cescolini

Best Demonstration Award

Winner (24% of votes): 

  • Everything is Connected: Using Linked Data for Multimedia Narration of Connectionsbetween Concepts
    Miel Vander Sande, Ruben Verborgh, Sam Coppens, Tom De Nies, Pedro Debevere, Laurens De Vocht, Pieterjan De Potter, Davy Van Deursen, Erik Mannens and Rik Van de Walle

Best Poster Award

Winner (57% of votes): 

  • Towards Licenses Compatibility and Composition in the Web of Data
    Serena Villata and Fabien Gandon

SWSA Ten Year Award

  • Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities
    Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry Payne,  Katia Sycara 
  • Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema
    Jeen Broekstra, Arjohn Kampman, Frank van Harmelen

 

Semantic Web Challenge 2012 Winners

Of this year’s 24 submissions, the panel of experts selected 4 Open Track Challenge winners and 1 Billion Triples Track winner (see also).

Open Track challenge

  • 1st prize: "Event Media", by Houd Khrouf, Vuk Milicic and Raphaël Troncy from EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France
  • 2nd prize: “Semantic Processing of Urban Data”, by S. Kotoulas, V. Lopez, R Lloyd, M. Sbodid, F. Lecue, M. Stephenson, E. Daly, V. Bicer, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, G. Di Lorenzo, A. Schumann and P. Aonghusa from IBM research’s Smart Cities Team
  • 3rd prize: jointly awarded to: “Open Self Medication”, by Olivier Curé of Universite Paris-Est, LIGM, CNRS and “Wildfire Monitoring”, by K. Kyzirakos, M. Karpathiotakis, G. Garbis, C. Nikoladu, K. Bereta, I Papatousis, T. Herekakis, D. Michail , M. Koubarakis and C. Kontoes from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, National Observatory of Athens and the Harokopeio University of Athens

Billion Triples Track challenge

  • “Exploring the linked data cloud“, by X. Zhang, D. Song, S.Priya, Z. Daniels, K. Reynolds and J. Heflin of Lehigh University, USA