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Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: 1st Anouncement: IJCAI-03 Workshop on Ontologies and
Distributed Systems
Announcement:
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IJCAI-03 Workshop on Ontologies and
Distributed Systems
August 9th, Acapulco
Mexico
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Important Dates and Deadlines
Deadline for the submission of papers:
Month day, year. March 7th, 2003
Notification of acceptance/rejection:
March 21st, 2003
Deadline for the receipt of
camera-ready papers: May 23rd, 2003.
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The main purpose of this workshop is
two-fold:
1. identify and discuss these new challenges
as well as ways
towards solutions in terms of stable infrastructure,
advanced
methods and professional tools.
2. discuss unconventional new ideas to cope
with the new
challenges that arise in distributed and weakly
structured
environments
The workshop should be seen as an opportunity for
comparing and
discussing traditional and new methods for capturing,
describing
and using semantics descriptions of certain domains and to try
to
bridge gaps between the two where-ever necessary.
Fundamental Issues
One part of the workshop will be devoted to
fundamental issues of
ontological research.As such it will not be devoted to
a specific
application area, but will rather address more
fundamental
questions. The topics of interests
include but are not limited to
the ones listed below:
- Ontology and Infrastructure
- Methods and Algorithms
- Tools and Systems
Advanced Issues
The second part of the workshop is devoted to less well explored
topics
that have come into focus recently as a response to the
new problems we face
when trying to use ontologies in a
heterogeneous distributed environments.
These environments
include the use of ontologies in peer-to-peer and
multi-agent
systems as well as the semantic web. A couple of
additional
questions arise with respect to these environments. The topics
of
interest include but are not limited to:
- Ontology Evolution
- Ontology Coordination
- Ontologies + Agent Systems
Beyond contributions to the mentioned topics we strongly
encourage work
that tries to bridge the gap between traditional
methods and techniques of
building, and using ontologies and new
approaches that have been developed in
response of new
challenges.
Organizing Committee
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Fausto Giunchiglia
Department of Information and Communication
Technology University of Trento
38050 Povo di Trento, ITALY
Asuncion Gomez-Perez
Facultad de Informatica Universidad Politecnica de
Madrid
Campus de Montegancedo, sn Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Spain
Adam Pease
Teknowledge
1810 Embarcadero Rd, Palo Alto, CA, 94303, USA
Heiner Stuckenschmidt (Chair)
Artificial Intelligence Department, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, NL
York Sure
Institut AIFB Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
D-76128
Karlsruhe, Germany
Steven Willmott
Languages and Systems Department Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
Tentative Program Committee
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Troels Andreasen
Paolo Bouquet
Joost Breuker
Stephen Cranefield
Ian Dickinson
Rose Dieng
Jerome Euzenat
Martin Frank
Fausto Giunchiglia
Asuncion Gomez-Perez
Nicola Guarino
Siegfried Handschuh
Frank van Harmelen
Vipul Kashyap
Michel Klein
Alexander Maedche
Eduardo Mena
Natasha Noy
Dan O'Leary
Borys Omelayenko
Adam Pease
Alun Preece
Guus Schreiber
Luciano Serafini
Steffen Staab
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Gerd Stumme
York Sure
Valentina Tamma
Ingo Timm
Ubbo Visser
Steve Willmot