- From: Bernardo Cuenca Grau <bernardo@mindswap.org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:11:49 -0400 (EDT)
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
- Cc: semweb@mindswap.org, owl-s@lists.mindswap.org, pellet-devel@lists.mindswap.org, pellet-users@lists.mindswap.org, swoop@lists.mindswap.org
> Apologies for cross-posting > > ************************************************************ > Call for Papers: "OWL: EXPERIENCES AND DIRECTIONS" > > Galway, Ireland 11-12 November 2005 > Workshop website: http://www.mindswap.org/OWLWorkshop > Submission website: http://www.easychair.org/OWL-2005/submit > > Important Dates: > > Submissions due: 14th August, 2005 > Notification of acceptance: 5th September, 2005 > Final versions due: 30th September, 2005 > Workshop: 11-12 November, 2005 > > Publication: The Workshop proceedings will be published online by CEUR. > Authors > of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their > paper > to Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics. Those papers will be subject to a > ``fast track'' > reviewing process. > > Workshop Organisers: > > Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Maryland (USA) > Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester (UK) > Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland (USA) > Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) > > ************************************************************* > > The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has now been a W3C recommendation > for more than one year. OWL is playing an important role in an > increasing number and range of applications, and is the focus of > research into tools, reasoning techniques, formal foundations, > language extensions etc. This level of experience with OWL means that > the community is now in a good position to discuss how OWL be > applied, adapted and extended to fulfil current and future > application demands. > > The aim of the workshop is to establish a forum for practitioners in > industry and academia, tool developers and others interested in OWL to > describe real and potential applications, to share experience and to > discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. > The workshop will bring users, implementors and researchers together > to measure the state of need against the state of the art, and to set > an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based > technologies into new applications. > Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: > - Applications of and experience with OWL > - Application-driven requirements for OWL > - Performance and scalability issues > - Extensions to OWL, including > - non-monotonic extensions > - rules extensions > - extensions for representing temporal and spatial information > - extended property constructors > - keys > - extended class constructors > - extended datatype constructors > - probabilistic and fuzzy Extensions > - Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages > - Reasoning-related tasks for OWL, including explanation > - Security and Trust for OWL-based information > - Tools for OWL, including > - editors > - visualisation tools > - parsers and syntax checkers > - versioning frameworks > - OWL based Semantic Web Service frameworks > > Submissions can be either technical papers or short "position" > papers. Submissions that base their conclusions on application > experience are especially encouraged. > > Workshop Format: > > The goal of the workshop will be to maximise discussion. The technical > sessions will therefore consist of short presentations of papers > (grouped by topic area) followed by directed discussion, and a poster > session, also followed by directed discussion. > The workshop may also have one session in common with the > International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the > Semantic Web (RuleML-2005) in which the integration of OWL with rules > languages will be discussed. > > Submission details: > > All relevant submissions will be made available from the workshop web > site; these may be updated with final versions after the reviewing > process. > > Presentation materials from the workshop will also be placed on the > web site. > > Submissions must be in PDF, and will not be accepted in any other > format. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that their > submission displays and prints correctly on common PDF viewers. > > Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications > format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details see > http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376- > 0,00.html. > > Further details will be made available from the workshop web site at > http://www.mindswap.org/OWLWorkshop > > > > Technical paper submissions must be no longer than 10 pages, and > shorter submissions are welcome. Position paper submissions must be > no longer than 4 pages. All submissions must be received before 11:59 > PM PST 14 August 2005. Submission will be via the workshop web site. > > The Workshop proceedings will be published online by CEUR. Authors > of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their > paper > to Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics. Those papers will be subject to a > ``fast track'' > reviewing process. > > > > Reviewing and Participation: > > > All submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Decisions > on the acceptance of papers will be communicated to authors no later > than 5 September 2005. Authors of accepted papers plus programme > committee members will be invited to participate in the > workshop. Authors who need invitations before this date should send a > message to the workshop committee at owl-ws-organizers@mindswap.org > indicating why they need an advance invitation and provide their > qualifications to receive an invitation. Applications from other > interested parties will be considered after submission-based > invitations have been extended, but numbers will be strictly limited. > > Workshop Committee: > > Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA) > Phil Archer, ICRA (UK) > Michael Champion, Microsoft (USA) > Dan Connolly, W3C (USA) > Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (USA) > Enrico Franconi, University of Bolzano (Italy) > Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland (USA) > Christine Golbreich, University Rennes 2 (France) > Pat Hayes, University of West Florida (USA) > Kaoru Hiramatsu, NTT (Japan) > Joanne Luciano, BioPAX (USA) > Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden (Germany) > Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Labs of America (USA) > Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto (Canada) > Boris Motik, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) > Enrico Motta, Open University (UK) > Gary Ng, Cerebra (USA) > Natasha Noy, Stanford University (USA) > Alan L. Rector, University of Manchester (UK) > Andrew Schain, NASA (USA) > Monica Schraefel, University of Southampton (UK) > Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universitat Amsterdam (Netherlands) > Evan Wallace, NIST (USA) > Christopher Welty, IBM Research (USA) > >
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