- From: pavel <pavel@dit.unitn.it>
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:36:15 +0200
- To: "Pavel" <pavel@dit.unitn.it>
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C&O-2005 submission deadline is approaching: 17 days left
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The AAAI-05 Workshop on
Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O-2005)
http://www.c-and-o.net/
July 9-10, 2005, AAAI Workshop Program, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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OBJECTIVES
The goal of the workshop is to bring together people from the context and ontology communities and
to discuss the approaches they use for information integration. Therefore, the workshop will push the
cross-fertilization and exchange of ideas (e.g., which of the methods from the ontology community
can be successfully adopted in the context community, and vice versa), and, hence, make their
meeting mutually beneficial.
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TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to:
Foundations:
Coordination of multiple contexts and ontologies;
Meaning negotiation of multiple contexts and ontologies;
Languages for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies;
Logics for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies.
Theory & Practice:
Techniques and tools for matching (aligning) contexts and ontologies;
Techniques and tools for merging contexts and ontologies;
Techniques and tools for transforming contexts and ontologies;
Techniques and tools for translating contexts and ontologies;
Techniques and tools for reconciling contexts and ontologies;
Techniques for query answering based on multiple contexts and ontologies;
Benchmarking of tools for integration of contexts and ontologies;
Comparisons of techniques and tools for matching, merging, transforming, translating, and
reconciling contexts and ontologies;
Scalability of techniques for integration of contexts and ontologies;
Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies.
Applications:
Semantic Web;
DB model management;
E-commerce;
Telecommunications, multimedia, content indexing;
Knowledge management solutions for large organizations;
Pervasive computing systems.
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INVITED TALKS
1. Fausto Giunchiglia (http://www.dit.unitn.it/~fausto), University of Trento, Italy
Title of the talk: "Contexts meet Ontologies: Past, Present and Future"
2. Christopher Welty (http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty/), IBM Research, USA
Title of the talk: "Ontologies meet Contexts: Past, Present and Future"
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FORMAT, ATTENDANCE AND SUBMISSIONS
The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components:
keynote presentations, technical presentations, posters/demos, and general discussion.
The audience is assumed to consist of both academia and industry. Thus, the workshop can improve
academic awareness of industrial needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs.
Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry representatives about existing research
efforts that may meet their business needs.
Attendance is limited to active participants only. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms
of technical papers or statements of interest. Technical papers should be not longer than 8 pages using
the AAAI-05 style (http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/workshops.html). Statements of interest should
not exceed 2 pages using the AAAI-05 style. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and
should be sent by email to Pavel Shvaiko:
pavel@dit.unitn.it
Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee.
Accepted papers and statements of interest will be published as AAAI Technical report series.
Also we will publish the extended versions of the best technical papers of the workshop in the
Journal on Data Semantics (http://lbdwww.epfl.ch/e/Springer/).
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IMPORTANT DATES
April 20, 2005: Extended deadline for the submissions.
May 11, 2005: Extended deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
May 18, 2005: Extended deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers.
Note that this is a tight schedule: it allows only 1 week for preparing a camera-ready copy.
Unfortunately, we are unable to change these dates.
This tight timeline is due to scheduling problems in the AAAI'05 conference.
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
AnHai Doan, University of Illinois, USA
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA
Timothy W. Finin, University of Maryland, USA
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
Michael Gruninger, NIST, USA
Ramanathan Guha, IBM Research, USA
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK
Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, USA
Alain Leger, France Telecom R&D, France
Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy
Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Natalya Noy, Stanford University, USA
Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA
Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece
Michel Plu, France Telecom, France
Fano Ramparany, France Telecom, France
Luciano Serafini, ITC-IRST, Italy
Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA
Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Michael Uschold, Boeing, USA
Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
1.Jerome Euzenat
INRIA Rhone-Alpes
e-mail: Jerome.Euzenat@inrialpes.fr
2.Alain Leger
France Telecom R&D Rennes
e-mail: alain.leger@rd.francetelecom.com
3.Deborah L. McGuinness
Stanford University
e-mail: dlm@ksl.stanford.edu
4.Pavel Shvaiko (CHAIR)
University of Trento
e-mail: pavel@dit.unitn.it
5.Holger Wache
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
e-mail: holger@cs.vu.nl
Cheers,
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Pavel Shvaiko
PhD Student, University of Trento
Dept. of Information and Communication Technology
Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY
Tel: +39 (0461) 883914; Fax: +39 (0461) 882093
Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/
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