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Subject: Deadline Extension: EON2003 at ISWC2003 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:15:55 +0200 From: "York Sure" sure@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
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***** DEADLINE EXTENSION: JULY, 28th *****
Call for papers
Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2003) http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003
Workshop at the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003)
20 October 2003
Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
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*** OBJECTIVES ***
In the Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools workshop we intend to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fastly developing research areas Ontologies and Semantic Web. Currently the semantic web attracts researchers from all around the world. Numerous tools and applications of semantic web technologies are already available and the number is growing fast. However, deploying large scale ontology solutions typically involves several separate tasks and requires applying multiple tools. Therefore pragmatic issues such as interoperability are key if industry is to be encouraged to take up ontology technology rapidly. The main aim of this workshop is therefore to encourage and stimulate discussions about the evaluation of ontology-based tools.
The large visibility of the semantic web, its tools and applications already attract industrial partners . In particular, as tools move from academic institutions into commercial environments they have to fulfil stronger requirements and in some cases new requirements (e.g. concerning scalability and multi- user access). Different tools from different sources need to interoperate. Typically tools are not anymore standalone solutions but integrated into a framework. This framework must be open to other commercialapplications and provide connectors and interfaces to industrial standards. Larger applications need also larger ontologies and therefore require substantially more performance and scalability.
A systematic evaluation of the tools might lead to a consistent level of quality and thus acceptance by industry. For the future this might lead into certification efforts for such tools.
*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***
Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Interoperability of tools (e.g. turnaround abilities) - Integration of tools into frameworks - Performance benchmarks - Scalability of tools - Certification of tools
Tools include e.g.: - Annotation tools - Inference engines - Ontology editors and browsers - Ontology servers - Ontology mapping tools - Repositories - Retrieval tools - Semantic search engines
*** PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS ***
The first workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2002) was celebrated in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2002), in September 30th, 2002.
EON2002: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/eon2002
*** SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ***
We invite three types of submissions for this workshop: - Technical papers (10 pages) in any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not limited to them) - Short position papers (2 pages) in any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not limited to them) - Experiment papers (10 pages) describing the results of the experiment proposed.
The experiment description can be found in the following URL: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003/experiment.pdf
More details on the workshop submissions can be found at the workshop website:
http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003/
*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
New Deadline paper submissions: July 28th, 2003 Notification of acceptance: August 25th, 2003 Camera ready deadline: September 22nd, 2003 Workshop: October 20th, 2003
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*** WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ***
York Sure (Contact Person) Institute AIFB University of Karlsruhe sure@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Oscar Corcho Ontology Group Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ocorcho@fi.upm.es
Jürgen Angele Ontoprise GmbH angele@ontoprise.de
*** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ***
Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant, Inc. (US) Bill Anderson, Ontology Works, Inc. (US) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Université P. Sabatier (FR) Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester (UK) Richard Benjamins, iSOCO (ES) John Davies, BT (UK) Carole Goble, University of Manchester (UK) Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University (US) Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText Lab / Sirma AI, Ltd. (BG) Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University (JP) Natasha F. Noy, Stanford University (US) Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics (US) Henrik Oppermann, Ontoprise (DE) Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University (US) Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Mike Uschold, Boeing (US)
-- York Sure eMail: sure@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu
Institute AIFB University of Karlsruhe (TH) D-76128 Karlsruhe (Germany)
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