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CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web (IWSW 2016)
Havana, Cuba. November 2, 2016
Co-located with INFO 2016
http://iwsw2016.blogspot.com/
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The Semantic Web Research Group at University of Informatics Sciences from Havana, Cuba, invites the scientific community, professors, students and all people interested in research, innovation and technological development, to participate in the Second International Workshop on Semantic Web, to be held on November 2, 2016 at Convention Center, Havana, Cuba.

IWSW 2016 is a forum for the semantic web and linked open data communities, where practitioners in industry, academia and others interested in these topics are welcome for presenting theoretical and applied research work, share experience and discuss the latest scientific results and technology innovations around semantic technologies and linked open data.

This workshop will be held in conjunction with XIV International Congress on Information INFO 2016. The official languages are Spanish and English.

TOPICS
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Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
- Management of Semantic Web Data and Linked Data
- Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
- Languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data
- Database, IR, NLP and AI technologies for the Semantic Web
- Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web
- Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the Semantic Web
- User Interfaces to the Semantic Web
- Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
- Publication and Consumption of Linked Data

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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Papers will be peer reviewed by a program committee, and could be written in English or Spanish. Contributions should be original, unpublished work. The workshop welcomes:
* Short Papers: For ongoing work, preliminary results, or applications. Papers should be up to 6 pages. The oral presentation will be 15 minutes.
* Full Papers: For work with complete results. Papers should be up to 10 pages. The oral presentation will be 20 minutes.
Submissions must use the PDF file format and must adopt the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submissions that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review.
All papers have to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair conference submission system:
* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwsw2016

PROCEEDINGS
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The workshop proceedings will be published in http://ceur-ws.org/. Selected papers will be published in Revista Cubana de Ciencias Informáticas indexed in Scielo Citation Index and DOAJ.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: Jul 15, 2016
Notification of acceptance: Jul 30, 2016
Camera ready papers: Sep 10, 2016

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Yusniel Hidalgo Delgado; Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas; Cuba (Chair).
Ernesto Ortíz Muñoz; Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas; Cuba.
Amed A. Leiva Mederos; Universidad Central de las Villas; Cuba.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Amed A. Leiva Mederos; Universidad Central de las Villas; Cuba
Juan Pedro Febles Rodríguez; Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas; Cuba
María A. Medina Nieto; Universidad Politécnica de Puebla, México
Alfredo Simón Cuevas; Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría; Cuba
José A. Senso; Universidad de Granada; España
Iván López Arévalo; Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados; México
Nelson Piedra; Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja; Ecuador
Peter Wetz; Vienna University of Technology; Austria
Boris Villazón Terrazas; Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe; España
Carlos Buil Aranda; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Chile
David Vilares Calvo, Universidad de A Coruña, España
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