Call for Papers
1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference
KGSWC 2019
Co-located with the International Scientific Convention UCLV 2019
Jun 23-30, 2019, Villa Clara, Cuba
http://www.kgswc.org/

Background and Aims
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The Iberoamerican Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference is an international scientific conference series devoted to knowledge graph and semantic web research. The 1st edition of the conference KGSWC 2019, will take place in Villa Clara, Cuba in June 2019. The goals of the conference are (i) to provide a forum for the semantic web community, bringing together researchers and practitioners in industry to share ideas about R&D projects and (ii) to increase the adoption of the semantic web technologies in the region.

Topics
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Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
Linked Data
Reasoning
Social Web & Web Science
Mobile Web, Sensors and Semantic Streams
Services, APIs, Processes and Cloud Computing
Vocabularies, Schemas, Ontologies
Combining Semantic Graphs with Property Graphs
Probabilistic Knowledge Graphs
Benchmarking and Empirical Evaluation
Scientific Semantic Web
Text Mining and Natural Language Processing
Deep Learning on Knowledge Graphs

Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: March 5, 2019
Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2019
Camera-ready papers: April 15, 2019
Date of the conference: Jun 23-30, 2019

Submissions and Proceedings
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KGSWC 2019 invites to submit high-quality unpublished research papers on the topics of the conference. The submissions cannot be under review or acceptance for publication in a journal or another conference. The papers will be reviewed at least by three independent reviewers and submitted for plagiarism detection check.

The submissions must be written in English using the Springer style (LNCS/CCIS one-column page format) (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0). We receive full papers (12-15 pages) and short papers (6-8 pages) and may be submitted in PDF via the Easychair system below:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kgswc2019

It is planned to publish the proceedings of KGSWC 2019 with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (final approval pending).

Organizing Committee
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General Chair
Boris Villazón-Terrazas (Arvato Bertelsmann, Spain/Germany)

Local Committee
Yusniel Hidalgo-Delgado (Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas, Cuba)
Amed Leiva Mederos (Universidad Central de las Villas, Cuba)

Workshops and Tutorials
Pedro Szekely (University of Southern California, United States)
José Emilio Labra Gayo (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)

Posters and Demos
Victor Saquicela (Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador)
Mauricio Espinosa (Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador)

Datathon
Nelson Piedra (Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador)

Program Committee Members (incomplete list)
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Juan Antonio Lossio Ventura (University of Florida, USA)
Jean-Paul Calbimonte (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland HES-SO, Switzerland)
Jose Todesco (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Boris Villazón Terrazas (Arvato Bertelsmann, Spain/Germany)
Erick Antezana (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Jose Emilio Labra Gayo (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
Regina Motz (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Freddy Priyatna (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Maria Hallo, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador
Maricela Bravo (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco, Mexico)
María Del Mar Roldan-García (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)
Pedro Szekely (University of Southern California, USA)
Raúl García-Castro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Victor Saquicela (Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador)
Maria Esther Vidal (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela)
Nelson Piedra (Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador)
C. Maria Keet (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Irlán Grangel-González (University of Bonn, Germany)
Carlos Buil Aranda (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile)
Diego Collarana (Fraunhofer IAIS Bonn, Germany)
Francisco Edgar Castillo Barrera (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
Fernando Ortiz (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Jose Mora (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Harry Halpin (World Wide Web Consortium, USA)
Jose Senso (University of Granada, Spain)
Jorge De La Calleja (Universidad Politécnica de Puebla, Mexico)
Ghislain Auguste Atemezing (Mondeca, France)
Ivan Lopez-Arevalo (Cinvestav – Tamaulipas, Mexico)
Alfredo Simón-Cuevas (CUJAE, Cuba)
Amed Leiva-Mederos (Central University of Las Villas, Cuba)
Takanori Ugai (Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan)
Terunobu Kume (Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan)
Panos Alexopoulos (Textkernel B.V., Netherlands)
Leticia Arco (Central University of Las Villas, Cuba)
Yusniel Hidalgo-Delgado (Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas, Cuba)
Daniel Garijo (Information Sciences Institute, USA)
Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz (The Alan Turing Institute, UK)
María Laura Caliusco (National Technological University, Argentina)
Erik Mannens (iMinds - Ghent University - Multimedia Lab, Belgium)
Ismael Navas-Delgado (University of Malaga, Spain)
Joachim Neubert (ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Germany)
José Luis Redondo García (Amazon Research, UK)
Alejandro Rodríguez-González (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Edelweis Rohrer (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Jose María Álvarez Rodríguez (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)
Alberto Fernandez (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Rafael S. Gonçalves (Stanford University, USA)
Miguel Castanedo (Arvato Bertelsmann, Spain)
Carlos García-Alvarado (Ernst & Young, Spain)
Daniel Schwabe (Dept. of Informatics, PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Omar Vera (SPENDIT AG, Germany)
Victor Mendez (PredictX, UK)
Ozelin Lopez (PredictX, UK)
Paloma Rubio (PwC, UK)
Nicholas Béliz Osorio (Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panamá)