How are ontologies being used?

The real challenge for Semantic Web technologies and ontologies lays in the
adoption; although the need
for this disruptive technology is clear, it has not yet been fully adopted
by the mainstream. Ontologies:
where, what for, how, when and why? Ontologies are being used in several
applications, but is ontology
engineering a mature discipline? Not only are we interested in practical
realizations of the Semantic Web,
but also in visions of technology that illustrate how SW technology and
ontologies could change our
experience of the Web

Interested in the OCAS Challenge?  <http://ocas.mywikipaper.org/?q=node/8>
Interested in submitting research papers or position statements to the OCAS
 Workshop? <http://ocas.mywikipaper.org/?q=node/7>

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Questions and issues addressed by OCAS

 How are SW technologies and Ontologies being adopted by mainstream?
• Experience reports of the introduction of SW technologies and ontologies
in corporate and government
environments
• Once introduced in an environment, how do SW and ontology-based
applications evolve?
• Ontologies in manufacturing and production chains
• Ontologies supporting CAD interoperability and feature extraction; towards
smart CAD environments
• How could RDF(a) and ontologies be used to represent the knowledge encoded
in scientific documents and in
general-interest media publications?
• What ontologies do we need for representing structural elements in a
document?
• How can we capture the semantics of rhetorical structures in scholarly
communication, and of hypotheses and
scientific evidence?
• What does a network of truly interconnected documents look like? How could
interoperability across documents
be enabled?
• Are decision support systems in the biomedical domain using ontologies?
How?
• How are biomedical ontologies logically formalizing the rich set of
lexical definitions gathered? How are these
ontologies going beyond controlled vocabularies?
• Practical cases of successful and unsuccessful application of ontologies
and SW technologies in application
domains such as: financial, biomedical, e-business, engineering, law
enforcement, document management, egovernment,
legislative systems.


*We would also like to have visionary papers addressing issues such as:*


● Semantic Web + Ontologies + Ubiquitous Computing + Folksonomies =Visions
of the future, how can technology
make us look smart?
● Conceptualism vs Realism, how is this related to Ontology Engineering? How
is this related to the realization of
the Semantic Web?
● How are Semantic Web technologies and Ontologies shaping the intelligent
layer of the Web?


*OCAS Challenge *

OCAS can be summarized in a simple sentence, “Ontologies and Semantic Web
technology come of age, how is the Semantic Web changing our experience of
the Web?” Moving beyond theoretical frameworks and heading towards a
significant impact in end user experience is at the core ofOCAS. The overall
objective of the challenge is to illustrate how ontologies and SW
technologies are delivering novel user experiences.



Prizes

First place: US$ 2000

Second place: US$ 1000

Three third prizes of $500 each


Selected projects will be funded through implementation by Protech Solutions
Inc.

Projects are to focus on innovative uses of HPC and data mining in semantic
technologies for HealthCare, Medical Informatics and Computer Security.
Projects with high relevance to social networking, low-tech environments,
and third-world countries are encouraged.

Those participating in the challenge should provide a three-page manuscript
describing their software; from the manuscript it should be clear for
judges:

   - Software availability: judges and general public should be able to
   access the software. In most cases this means that the software, ontologies
   and/or infrastructure is freely accessible -free software is not compulsory.
   - Semantic Web technology: how is this application making use of semantic
   web technology? How is this application making use of existing
   infrastructure? Data sources being used, etc.
   - How is it delivering new layers of functionality based on semantic data
   sources (linked data, RDF stores, ontologies, etc).
   - How is it delivering an intelligent interconnected experience to the
   end user?
   - What is the added value?
   - How is the *Interconnectedness* of semantic data sets being delivered
   to the end user?
   - How are intelligence and interconnectivity being supported by
   the software or infrastructure?
   - Does the software or infrastructure represent a fundamental change
   for the domain rather than just an incremental improvement or just one of
   many added new features?

We would like to have applications from all domains. The GC is not limited
to web based applications, mobile platforms for devices like iPAD, iphone,
Galaxy, XOOM, HTC, etc are also encouraged.  Authors submitting to other
Challenges, workshops and conferences are welcome to also submit their work
to the OCAS challenge.

For those who require high performance computing facilities our sponsor,
http://protechsolutions.com/, will make them available free of charge.

Submission should be via Easychair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ocas2011

* All papers submitted for the OCAS
Challenge<http://ocas.mywikipaper.org/?q=node/8> should
be formatted according to the LNCS
format<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>
.*



IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission deadline: August 15
- Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 5
- Camera ready version due: September 16



Judging the Challenge:

Oscar Corcho, Ontology Engineering Group (OEG), UPM, Madrid, Spain

Pascal Hitzler, Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton,
OH, USA

Alexander Garcia, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA.

Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK

Michel Dumontier,  Carleton University, Canada

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