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