Topics of interest to ESWC 2008 include, but are not limited to:

Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.)
Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)
Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g., HLT and ML approaches)
Multimedia and Semantic Web
Semantic Annotation of Data
Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
Query Languages and Optimization for the Semantic Web
Rule Languages for the Semantic Web
Database Technologies for the Semantic Web
Data Semantics and Web Semantics
Semantic Interoperability
Logics for the Semantic Web
Semantic Web Mining
Reasoning on the Semantic Web
Behavior in the Semantic Web
Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web
Personalization and User Modelling
User Interfaces and Semantic Web
Semantics in P2P Computing and the Grid
Semantic Web Services (description, discovery, invocation, composition, choreography, etc.)
Semantics in Middleware
Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Learning and other application domains
Evaluation of Semantic Web Technologies
Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation

We particularly welcome application papers which clearly show benefits of Semantic Web technologies in practical settings.