Fwd: 2nd CFP: ISWC'11 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2011)

FYI -- some things we may find useful from this and previous workshops -- esp if we follow michel's thought about tool development

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> From: "Pavel Shvaiko" <pavel@dit.unitn.it>
> Date: June 22, 2011 3:26:50 PM EDT
> To: <pavel.shvaiko@infotn.it>
> Subject: 2nd CFP: ISWC'11 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2011) 
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> Apologies for cross-postings
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>                            2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
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> 
>                    The Sixth International Workshop on 
>                             ONTOLOGY MATCHING
>                                   (OM-2011)
>                    http://om2011.ontologymatching.org/
>       October 23 or 24, 2011, ISWC Workshop Program, Bonn, Germany
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> 
> BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
> Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, 
> as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks 
> dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies 
> as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of 
> correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. 
> These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology
> merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. 
> Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed 
> in the matched ontologies to interoperate.
>  
> The workshop has three goals: 
> 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions 
> to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. 
> The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial 
> and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs.
> Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user 
> representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their 
> requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology 
> matching technology is going to evolve.
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> 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching 
> approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 
> 2011 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2011/. 
> The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world 
> specific matching tasks involving, e.g., open linked data and 
> biomedical ontologies. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation 
> initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion 
> of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs.
>  
> 3. To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, 
> which has received decades of attention but is just beginning 
> to transition to mainstream tools.
>  
> This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions 
> specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed 
> (not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application of the matching technology 
> in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users.
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> 
> TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: 
>     Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open government data); 
>     Requirements to matching from specific domains; 
>     Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; 
>     Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; 
>     Matching patterns; 
>     Instance matching and data interlinking; 
>     Large-scale matching evaluation; 
>     Performance of matching techniques; 
>     Matcher selection and self-configuration; 
>     User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); 
>     Explanations in matching; 
>     Social and collaborative matching; 
>     Alignment management; 
>     Reasoning with alignments; 
>     Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); 
>     Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., search, web-services).
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> 
> SUBMISSIONS
> Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and 
> posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching 
> as well as participating in the OAEI 2011 campaign. Technical papers should 
> be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style:
> http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
> Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and 
> should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. 
> All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted 
> through the workshop submission site at:
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> http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2011
>  
> Contributors to the OAEI 2011 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions 
> and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2011/.
>  
> 
> IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: 
> August 15, 2011: Deadline for the submission of papers. 
> September 12, 2011: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. 
> September 26, 2011: Workshop camera ready copy submission. 
> October 23 or 24, 2011: OM-2011, the Maritim convention center, Bonn, Germany
>  
> 
> ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
> 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)
> TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy
>  
> 2. Jérôme Euzenat 
> INRIA & LIG, France
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> 3. Tom Heath 
> Talis Systems Ltd, UK
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> 4. Christoph Quix 
> RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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> 5. Ming Mao 
> SAP Labs, USA
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> 6. Isabel Cruz 
> The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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> 
> PROGRAM COMMITTEE
> Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK 
> Chris Bizer, University of Berlin, Germany 
> Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA 
> Paolo Bouquet, OKKAM, Italy 
> Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy 
> Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France 
> Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy
> Gabriele Francescotto, OpenContent, Italy 
> Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy 
> Bin He, IBM, USA 
> Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA 
> Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China 
> Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan 
> Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands 
> Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA 
> Anja Jentzsch, FU-Berlin, Germany 
> Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK 
> Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria 
> Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden 
> Rob Lemmens, ITC, The Netherlands 
> Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy 
> Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy 
> Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK 
> Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany 
> Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA 
> Nico Lavarini, Cogito, Italy 
> Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK 
> Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA 
> Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA 
> Matteo Palmonari, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy 
> Yefei Peng, Google, USA 
> Evan Sandhaus, New York Times, USA 
> Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy 
> Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA 
> Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy 
> Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic 
> Cássia Trojahn dos Santos, INRIA & LIG, France 
> Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France 
> Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy 
> Lorenzino Vaccari, European Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy 
> Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany 
> Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands 
> Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA 
> Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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> More about ontology matching: 
> http://www.ontologymatching.org/
> http://book.ontologymatching.org/
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> 
> Best Regards,
> Pavel
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> Pavel Shvaiko, PhD
> Innovation and Research Manager
> TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy
> http://www.ontologymatching.org/
> http://www.infotn.it/ 
> http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/