---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP - CACM special issue on Ontological Engineering Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:15:40 -0600 From: Jintae Lee jintae@Colorado.Edu To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

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In knowledge engineering, ‘ontology’ has come to mean knowledge- level characterization of a domain or a task structure. As such, ontological engineering -- the principled design, maintenance, and application of ontologies -- has received much attention not only in academia but also in industry as it is critical in information systems and eCommerce design. For example, well-engineered domain or task ontologies are prerequisites for knowledge-level interoperability among information systems (e.g. B2B ontologies) as well as for intelligent processing by agents (e.g. search, error checking, privacy) for sharing and reuse of knowledge. Ontologies have been also studied in the context of process modeling, environmental engineering, aircraft design, machine translation, repository and catalog development in digital libraries, among others.

The goal of this special issue is to provide a picture of the accomplishments to date in this field, the progress being made, and their potential relevance to the general readership of CACM. We encourage papers that address fundamental issues and principles of ontological engineering rather than papers on specific ontologies. In particular we solicit submissions on the following, though not exclusive, topics: # Characterization of the scope and lifecycle of ontological engineering (e.g. design, management, sharing, reuse, evaluation, interoperability, implementation) # Critical analysis of the issues in each phase of ontological engineering in the context of a specific ontology (e.g. scheduling, process, common sense, eBusiness, digital library ontologies) # Comparative survey of the existing ontologies and/or methodologies # Knowledge transfer across ontologies # Frameworks for reuse and sharing of ontologies # Lessons from successes and failures in ontological engineering # Roles of data structuring technologies such as XML and RDF in ontological engineering

Guest Editors: Jintae Lee, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (Information Systems Division) Michael Gruninger, Univ. of Maryland (Institute for Systems Research) and NIST

The deadline for the submission is August 15, 2001. Authors will be notified in November, 2001. The theme issue is scheduled to appear in February, 2002.

All submissions must follow the CACM author’s revised (as of May 2001) guideline (http://www.acm.org/cacm/Authors.html). The articles submitted may range from short articles (less than 1000 words) to regular size articles (not exceed 3,000 words and have no more than three figures and three tables).

All submissions should contain the following information: # A principal contact author and his/her contact information including email address, fax number, telephone number, and postal address # A list of three potential reviewers

The paper should be submitted to the following address in the specified format # Three hardcopies sent to: Robert Fox, Office of Publications One Astor Plaza 1515 Broadway New York, New York 10036- 5701 AND # An electronic file in the pdf or the Word format as an email attachment to BOTH: jintae@colorado.edu and gruning@nist.gov

Please direct any inquiry or comment to Jintae (jintae@colorado.edu)

Authors of accepted papers will be expected to sign an ACM copyright release form.

*************************************** Jintae Lee, Associate Professor Information Systems (Campus Box 419) University of Colorado, Boulder 80309-0419 303-492-4149 (Fax) 303-492-5962 ******************************************

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