-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: KCap05 workshop on Integrating Ontologies Datum: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:38:38 -0700 (PDT) Von: Peter Clark clarkp@puffin.rt.cs.boeing.com Firma: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

K-Cap Workshop on Integrating Ontologies ======================================== October 2, 2005 in Banff, Canada http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/intont2005

Objectives

The Integrating Ontologies workshop will bring together researchers and application developers from the area of ontology software interoperability. Its goal is to promote the exchange of knowledge, ideas, and future challenges for handling multiple competing ontologies. The workshop will facilitate methodological and technical discussions.

For many domains, a variety of ontologies have been engineered, learned, and extended. Each is an interface for a similar purpose yet uses different nomenclatures. To enable collaboration within and across application domains, software agents require transparency between the various formalisms. This requires both semantic alignment and syntactical translation. Purely manual approaches are error-prone, onerous, and insufficient to support the vision of dynamic systems interoperability. However, recent research in data model alignment exploits "meaning" that is explicit and implicit in ontologies and schemas. Consequently, if heterogeneity can be mitigated with minimal use of standards by way of partially or fully automated alignment, then the interoperability of and for commercial, non-profit, military, and government systems will be simplified and improved. This workshop will exhibit new approaches to alignment, translation, and other methods that promise to help fulfil the vision of the Semantic Web.

Organization

The one-day workshop will consist of the three components: - Research presentations will feature the latest efforts for ontology alignment and mapping described in reviewed papers; - Tool demonstrations will display alignment-empowered tools in action; - Ontology alignment contest results will be presented. The contest will benchmark tools against prearranged ontology pairs. Some pairs will be synthesized by the organizers of this workshop and some will be taken from the real world. Collectively, they will challenge the limits of the alignment algorithms. A separate call will be issued for the contest.

Topics

The main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - ontology/schema alignment and matching - ontology/schema mapping and transformation - ontology/schema merging and integration - ontology/schema mediation and reconciliation - reuse of knowledge from disparate sources (text, user input, etc.) for ontology alignment - automatic and semi-automatic approaches - mapping languages - applications for and tools based on alignment - integration within larger applications - evaluation approaches - translation of information between heterogeneous sources

Dates

Paper submission deadline: July 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2005 Camera ready deadline: September 2, 2005 Workshop: October 2, 2005

Submission

Interested authors should submit an electronic PDF version of their papers to Marc Ehrig (email: ehrig@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) prior to the submission deadline. The first page of submitted papers should include: title, author names, affiliations, and electronic mail addresses for all authors. Full-paper submissions should not exceed eight pages, including title page and abstract. Alternatively, people can submit a two-page short paper describing the technology they would like to demonstrate, or a two-page position paper on current ongoing research. Papers should be formatted according to the guidelines of the main conference (http://www.kcap05.org/).

Organizing Committee

Benjamin Ashpole, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Lab, bashpole@atl.lmco.com Marc Ehrig (main contact), University of Karlsruhe, ehrig@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, jerome.euzenat@inrialpes.fr Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, heiner@cs.vu.nl

Program Committee (to be completed)

Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant Inc.) Jos de Bruijn (DERI Innsbruck) Oscar Corcho (Univesity of Manchester) Christine Golbreich (University Rennes 1) Lewis Hart (Applied Minds) Todd Hughes (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs) Ryutaro Ichise (NII, Tokyo) Yannis Kalfoglou (University of Southampton) Natasha Noy (Stanford University) Amit Sheth (University of Georgia and Semagix) Pavel Shvaiko (University of Trento) Michael Sintek (DFKI, Kaiserslautern) Umberto Straccia (CNR) York Sure (University of Karlsruhe) Mike Ushold (Boeing Corp.) Petko Valtchev (DIRO, Université de Montréal)

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