----- Original Message ----- From: Heiner Stuckenschmidt To: kaw@swi.psy.uva.nl ; seweb-list@cs.vu.nl ; www-rdf-interest@w3.org ; ontoweb-list@cs.vu.nl ; ontology@cs.umbc.edu ; www-rdf-logic@w3.org 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 ================

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 heiner@cs.vu.nl http://www.cs.vu.nl/~heiner/

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 ======================

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