JWS Volumes
Journal of Web Semantics Volume & Special Issue Collection
JOURNAL OF WEB SEMANTICS
Volume and Special Issue Collection
Aims and Scope
The Journal of Web Semantics is an interdisciplinary journal based on both theoretical and applied research involving using or creating explicit representations of knowledge for Web-related information systems. At the core of our interests is work on extracting semantic information from Web resources, Semantic Web languages, technologies, ontologies, tools and resources, and linked semantic data.
These areas include, but are not limited to, the following major technology areas: knowledge technologies, ontology, agents, databases and the semantic grid, obviously disciplines like information retrieval, language technology, human-computer interaction and knowledge discovery are of major relevance as well. All aspects of the Semantic Web development are covered. The publication of large-scale experiments and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate scenarios and methods that introduce semantics into existing Web interfaces, contents and services. The journal emphasizes the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative semantic methods and applications.
The Journal of Web Semantics addresses various prominent application areas including: e-business, e-community, knowledge management, e-learning, digital libraries and e-sciences.
Each of these areas is covered by an Associate Editor (AE) who supports the Editors-in-Chief (EiC). Furthermore, AE’s manage the review process for submitted papers in the respective areas.
The Journal of Web Semantics publishes four types of papers:
Research papers: Research papers are judged by originality, technical depth and correctness, as well as interest to our target readership. Research papers are recommended to have 15 - 25 pages in double column format.
Survey papers: We welcome survey papers that integrate the existing literature in (some area of) semantic web research and put its results in context.
A survey article should:
- develop a framework or overview of an area that helps to organise and structure the existing literature;
- identify/evaluate trends, and expose topics that need additional research;
explain what is currently known about the relevant area, and what it means to researchers and practitioners;
provide the basic knowledge that would enable new researchers to enter the area, current researchers to continue developments, and practitioners to apply the results.
Survey papers are recommended to have 15–25 pages (in Elsevier double column format).
Ontology papers: We publish community-oriented description of ontology papers, if they generate interest from real-world users and Semantic Web experts. Ontology papers are recommended to have 6 - 8 pages in double column format. Interested authors may here find a detailed Call-for-Ontology papers.
System papers: Widely adopted semantic systems and systems that generate a far above average amount of interest in the Semantic Web community, may be explained in systems papers. Systems papers are recommended to have 6 - 8 pages in double column format. Interested authors may here find a detailed Call-for-System papers.
Benchmark papers: The purpose of benchmark papers is to present novel benchmarks including datasets that deal with problems of interest to the community as well as extensive evaluations. Benchmark papers are recommended to have 15 - 25 pages in double column format.
Shorter or longer papers are allowable if the objectives of a paper warrant deviating length. Descriptions that are either unnecessarily short or long will negatively impact chances of acceptance.
Readers are also encouraged to visit the Journal of Web Semantics blog, at http://journalofwebsemantics.blogspot.com/ for more information and related links.
Conference-style Review Cycle
We have employed a conference-style review cycle since January 2015 which repeats monthly, with the exception of January and August when the editorial office is closed. Each monthly review cycle follows an 18-week schedule - for example, in February 2019 the schedule will be:
1st Feb: Author submission
7th Feb: EiC assignment to AE
14th Feb: AE assignment to Editorial Board Reviewers
28th Mar: EB Reviewers complete reviews
4th Apr: AE decision to EiC
11th Apr: EiC decision to Authors
25th Apr: Author resubmission (minor revision)
2nd May: AE decision to EiC
9th May: EiC decision to Authors
9th May: Author resubmission (major revision)
30th May: AE decision to EiC
6th June: EiC decision to Author
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Prof. Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Prof. Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Prof. Andreas Hotho, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Associate Editors
Christian Bizer, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University, School of Computer Science, China
Philip Cimiano, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford, UK
Claudia D'Amato, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, St Ismier, France
Aldo Gangemi, University of Bologna and ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
Lynda Hardman, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Olaf Hartig, Linköping Universitet, Linköping, Sweden
Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, The Republic of Korea
Matthias Klusch, DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany
Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Axel Polleres, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Guilin Qi, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Ansgar Scherp, University of Essex, UK
Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece
Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
Kewen Wang, Griffiths University, Australia
Editorial Board
Marcelo Arenas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Macul, Santiago, Chile
Rafael Berlanga Llavori, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Eva Blomqvist, Linköping Universitet, Linköping, Sweden
Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK
Irene Celino, CEFRIEL, Politecnico de Milano, Italy
Jeremy Debattista, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Science Foundation Ireland
Gerard de Melo, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
Daniele Dell'Aglio, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Stefan Dietze, GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany
Mauro Dragoni, Foundazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Jianfeng Du, Guangdong University, China
Miriam Fernandez, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Fabian Flӧck, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany
Paul Groth, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tudor Groza, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Katja Hose, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Jason Jung, Chung Ang University Korea, Dongjak, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
Hak-Lae Kim, Jungang University, Korea
Jin-Dong Kim, Database Center for Life Science, Japan
Christian Kindermann, University of Manchester, UK
Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics & Business, Vienna, Austria
Spyros Kotoulas, IBM Research, Dublin 15, Ireland
Christoph Lange, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Zhiyuan Liu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland
David Martin, Nuance Communications, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA
Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, UK
Wolfgang Nejdl, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
Ana Ozaki, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Peter Patel-Schneider, Nuance Communications, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA
Heiko Paulheim, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Giuseppe Pirro, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Valentina Presutti, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Rome, Italy
Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oshani Seneviratne, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA
Juan Sequeda, Capsenta Labs, Austin, Texas, USA
Luciano Serafini, data.world, USA
Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain
Kuldeep Singh, Nuance Communications, India
Ahmet Soylu, Norwegian University of Science & Technology NTNU, Gjovik, Norway
Markus Strohmaier, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Mainz, Germany
Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
Juergen Umbrich, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Jacopo Urbani, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Marieke van Erp, KNAW, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Evelyn Viegas, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA
Serena Villata, University Cote d'Azur, CNRS, INRIA, France
Atsuko Yamaguchi, Center for Life Science, Japan
Xiaowang Zhang, College of Intelligence & Computing, Tianjin University, China
Antoine Zimmerman, Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
International Advisory Board
Tim Berners-Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, UK
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA
Former Editors-in-Chief
Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, New York, USA
Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Steffen Staab, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany
Rudi Studer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
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