[DL] [CFP] The 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Materials Science colocated with ISWC 2026

[Huanyu Li]

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The 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Materials Science (SeMatS)
(https://sites.google.com/view/semats2026)
collocated with the 25th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2026
(https://iswc2026.semanticweb.org)

Expanding and adapting Semantic Web technologies to the Materials Science domain can significantly
enhance research outcomes by enabling the uniform consideration, integration, and analysis of
heterogeneous data from diverse sources and formats. Implementing these technologies can improve
the traceability and reproducibility of scientific procedures, experiments, and simulations.
It also facilitates automatable data management solutions and empowers researchers to answer
scientific inquiries using semantic queries. Moreover, machine learning methods can benefit from
enhanced data completeness and coherence.

The primary objective of this workshop is to gather professionals from the Semantic Web and in Materials Science
and Engineering to show the recent advances in the use of Semantic Web technologies for Materials Science
and Engineering, as well as provide a platform for discussing issues, finding collaboration opportunities and developing a community for this interdisciplinary field.

The workshop will cover topics within the intersection of the scope of the Semantic Web domain
and the Materials Science and Engineering domain (MSE), including but not limited to:
- Knowledge Graph construction in MSE
- Ontology design and design methodologies in the MSE domain
- Efficient integration and communication of ontologies in MSE
- Data interoperability and data integration in MSE
- Data quality assurance and data governance in SW-based MSE systems
- Ontology-based reasoning and inference in MSE
- Semantic search and information retrieval in MSE
- Semantic annotation and metadata management in MSE
- Machine learning and AI techniques applied to MSE using SW technologies
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) applied to MSE data
- Large Language Models (LLM) in MSE
- Visualization techniques for MSE data
- Microscope and image processing applications in MSE using SW technologies
- Collaborative and distributed approaches for managing MSE data
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in MSE
- Lessons learned and best practices for implementing SW applications in MSE systems

Contributions:
- Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of:
    * Full research papers (8-12 pages)
    * Papers presenting negative results (8-12 pages)
    * In-Use and Experience papers (8-12 pages)
    * Position and vision papers (6-8 pages)
    * Short research papers (4-6 pages)
    * System/demo/in-practice papers (4-6 pages)
    * Industrial statement papers (2 pages)
    (plus unlimited references)
- Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in
the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP.
We also invite authors of accepted papers to submit an extended version to the Special Issue on Semantic Materials Science and Engineering (SMSE) at the Semantic Web Journal:
(https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-semantic-materials-science-and-engineering-smse)


Submissions:
- Submissions must be in PDF and should be written in English, following the CEUR-WS one-column template.
Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw, while an
offline version with the style files is available from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip.
For details on the PDF submission format, please look at The New CEURART Style.
- Submissions should be uploaded in PDF format through the workshop submission site at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semats2026

Important dates:
- Submission: July 24th, 2026 (11:59 pm, AoE)
- Notifications: August 21st, 2026 (11:59 pm, AoE)
- Event: October 25th or October 26th,  2026

PC members:
- D'Souza, Jennifer (TIB Hannover, Germany)
- Dembska, Marta (DLR Institute of Data Science, Germany)
- Dernek, Ozan (Case Western University, US)
- French, Roger H. (Case Western University, US)
- Goldbeck, Gerhard (Goldbeck Consulting, UK)
- Horsch, Martin Thomas (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway)
- Liu, Nan (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
- Ma, Chuangtao (Aalborg University, Denmark)
- Marx, Edgard (Byondis, Germany)
- Mercuri, Francesco (CNR, Italy)
- Nasrabadi, Hossein Beygi (FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany)
- Norouzi, Ebrahim (FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany)
- Soru, Tommaso (Serendipity AI, UK)
- Tan, He (Jönköping University, Sweden)
- Waitelonis, Jorg (FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany)

Organizers:
- Andre Valdestilhas (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Huanyu Li (Linköping University, Sweden)
- Patrick Lambrix (Linköping University, Sweden)
- Harald Sack (FIZ Karlsruhe, Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany)

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