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Call for papers
6th Conference Professional Knowledge
Management
From Knowledge to
Action
Workshop: POP11 - Putting ontologies
into practise
21st of February to 23rd of February 2011,
Innsbruck
The topic
The use of ontologies has progressed from a research topic to
a model for knowledge representation in practical applications
over the last 5 to 10 years. While the use of ontologies
facilitates a wide range of advanced, content-oriented
applications in
knowledge management, a main bottleneck for implementing such
applications is to obtain, share and maintain the required
ontologies. Although lots of ontologies are available and
although there has been a lot of work on ontology learning,
ontology matching
and integration, it still requires a great deal of time and
effort to create and adapt them - and continuously update them -
for any reallife application. These issues currently seem to be
the main obstacles for a further spread of this technology.
Moreover,
many applications need quite focused ontologies for a specific
context which simply do not exist and have to be created first.
A variety of quite different approaches may help to provide
ontologies needed for advanced knowledge management
applications. Besides ontology learning, population and
integration supporting the collaborative engineering of
ontologies by a community of
domain experts is an important issue because it allows to better
balance the overall effort of creating and maintaining
ontologies over many people and thus raises the acceptance and
ensures the quality of the generated ontologies. Moreover, while
a growing
number of ontologies are available on the web and while several
ontology repositories have emerged recently, finding a
suitable ontology and adapting it to ones needs is still time
consuming. In particular, as ontologies are always developed
with a specific point of view on a domain of discourse it can be
very difficult to tweak a given ontology to a slightly different
viewpoint, usually leading to the development of a completely
new ontology. Instead, it would be preferable to integrate
different perspectives on the same domain of discourse in one
ontology rather than creating a complete new ontology each time
a (slightly)
different view is needed.
In this workshop we will discuss all kinds of approaches that
aim at facilitating the (semi-) automatic and manual creation,
reuse, adaption and maintenance of ontologies for real-life
applications, i.e. support the management aspects of the
ontology life
cycle.
Topics of Interest
Submitted papers should present theoretical approaches or
practical case studies addressing one or more of the following
or related topics:
• Ontology learning
• Ontology population
• Ontology matching and merging
• Ontology engineering and evolution
• Ontology lifecycle management
• Modularization and versioning of ontologies
• Collaborative ontology modelling
• Finding, reusing and adapting ontologies
• Practical aspects of managing and maintaining
ontologies in organisations
• Evaluation and quality assurance of ontologies
• Combining ontology-based approaches with social
tagging
• Integrating ontologies with associative
networks (aka lightweight ontologies)
Addressed Audience
The targeted audience includes researchers and practitioners
in the field of ontology engineering and use. Besides paper
presentations, this workshop will offer open spaces for targeted
discussions.
Organizers
Ulrich Reimer
University of Applied Sciences Sankt Gallen
Institute for Information and Process Management
Teufener Strasse 2
CH-9000 St. Gallen
Barbara Thönssen
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
Institute for Information Systems
Riggenbachstrasse 16
CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
Rainer Telesko
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
Institute for Information Systems
Riggenbachstrasse 16
CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
Program Committee
• Andreas Abecker FZI, Germany
• Udo Hahn University of Jena, Germany
• Siegfried Handschuh DERI Galway, Ireland
• Knut Hinkelmann FHNW, Switzerland
• Andreas Hotho University of Kassel, Germany
• Michael Kohlhase Jacobs University, Germany
• Emmanuela Merelli University of Camerino, Italy
• Barbara Re University of Camerino, Italy
• Uwe Riss SAP Research, Germany
• Andreas Schmidt FZI, Germany
• Hans-Peter Schnurr Ontoprise, Germany
• Michael Sintek DFKI, Germany
• Steffen Staab University of Koblenz-Landau,
Germany
• York Sure University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
• Wilfrid Utz BOC Asset Management, Austria
• Daniela Wolff FHNW, Switzerland
Review Process
All submissions will be subject to review by the POP11
Program Committee. Review criteria include originality of ideas,
technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of
presentation. It is intended to have three reviews per
submission. Notification
of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to
the corresponding author.
Website
Guidelines for Submission of papers