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Subject: CFP: Workshop on Semantic Integration at ISWC'2003 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:55:49 -0800 From: "Natasha F. Noy" noy@SMI.Stanford.EDU To: si2003@SMI.Stanford.EDU
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Call For Papers
Workshop on Semantic Integration at ISWC'2003
http://smi.stanford.edu/si2003
Monday, October 20, 2003 Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
In numerous distributed environments, including today's World-Wide Web, organizational intranets, and the emerging Semantic Web, the applications will inevitably use the information described by multiple ontologies and schemas. Interoperability among applications depends critically on the ability to map between them. Today, matching between ontologies and schemas is still largely done by hand, in a labor-intensive and error-prone process. As a consequence, semantic integration issues have now become a key bottleneck in the deployment of a wide variety of information management applications.
The high cost of this bottleneck has motivated numerous research activities on methods for describing mappings, manipulating them, and generating them semi-automatically. This research has spanned several communities (Databases, AI, WWW), but unfortunately, there has been little cross fertilization between the communities considering the problem.
This workshop examines semantic integration issues, with an emphasis on schema and ontology matching, ontology integration, and object matching and fusion. It will bring together researchers from different communities to examine cutting-edge approaches to semantic integration, to consider how different communities can leverage each other's strengths, and to discuss additional challenges brought by new application contexts.
Workshop Format ---------------------- Invited Talks
Phil Bernstein, Microsoft Research Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California
Topics -------- Workshop topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
matching schemas and ontologies languages to express semantic mappings tools for user-driven mapping between ontologies and schemas reasoning with semantic mappings mapping negotiation, semantic negotiation using semantic mappings for query answering, data transformation, and other applications object matching and fusion maintenance of semantic mappings discovery and usage of approximate mappings evaluation of matching techniques merging schemas and ontologies model management specialized matching techniques for specific application contexts
We plan to have both presentations of research papers and demonstrations of implemented systems. There will be a panel discussion as well as ample time for general discussion.
Submission procedure --------------------------- We solicit three types of submissions:
1. Research papers (6 pages, at least 10pt) 2. Demo proposals to present demonstration of implemented semantic-integration systems at the workshop (2-5 pages) 3. Position statements (1-2 pages)
Important dates -------------------- Submission deadline for research papers: July 21, 2003 Notification of paper acceptance: August 20, 2003 Camera-ready copy due: September 20, 2003 Position statements due: September 20, 2003 Workshop: October 20, 2003
Submission instructions ---------------------------- Please send submissions in PDF or PostScript format to si2003@smi.stanford.edu
Organizing committee -------------------------- AnHai Doan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alon Halevy, University of Washington Natasha Noy, Stanford University
Program committee ----------------------- Kevin Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago) Dave Embley (Brigham Young University) Venkatesh Ganti (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Michael Gruninger (University of Maryland College Park and NIST) Yannis Kalfoglou (University of Southampton) Vipul Kashyap (National Library of Medicine) Michel Klein (Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam) Craig Knoblock (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California) Jayant Madhavan (University of Washington) Alexander Maedche (FZI) Prasenjit Mitra (Stanford University) Ami Motro (George Mason University) Lucian Popa (IBM) Erhard Rahm (Universität Leipzig) Marco Schorlemmer (University of Edinburgh) Len Seligman (MITRE) Amit Sheth (University of Georgia) Mike Uschold (Boeing)
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