-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Call for papers 6th Conference Professional Knowledge Management - Workshop: POP11 - Putting ontologies into practise Datum: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:29:19 +0200 Von: Telesko Rainer rainer.telesko@fhnw.ch An: WI@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de WI@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

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 _http://web.fhnw.ch/plattformen/pop11/_ 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 ulrich.reimer@fhsg.ch Barbara Thönssen University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW Institute for Information Systems Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland barbara.thoenssen@fhnw.ch Rainer Telesko University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW Institute for Information Systems Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland rainer.telesko@fhnw.ch 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 _http://web.fhnw.ch/plattformen/pop11_ Guidelines for Submission of papers _http://wm-konferenz2011.org/authorsEN.html_