- From: Anne Schlicht <anne@informatik.uni-mannheim.de>
- Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:58:10 +0200
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
[Apologies for cross-postings] -- Submission deadline extended to August 14! -- ________________________________________________ Second International Workshop on Modular Ontologies ________________________________________________ October 28, 2007 Whistler, British Columbia, Canada http://webrum.uni-mannheim.de/math/lski/WoMO07/ Topics * Logical formalisms for Modular Ontologies * Sharing and reuse of ontology modules - linking and importing approaches * Identification and analysis of common scenarios for ontology integration or modularization * Methodologies for providing semantic guarantees on merged ontologies * Methodologies for extracting semantically meaningful modules from large ontologies * Selective information sharing between ontology modules * Requirements of modular ontology languages * Reconciling inconsistent ontology modules * Ontology language extensions to support modularity * Modular ontology tools for collaborative ontology development * Case studies, software tools, use cases, and application * Open problems Workshop Description Realizing the full potential of the Semantic web requires the large-scale adoption and use of ontology-based approaches to sharing of information and resources. Constructing large ontologies typically requires collaboration among multiple individuals or groups with expertise in specific areas, with each participant contributing only a part of the ontology. Therefore, instead of a single, centralized ontology, in most domains, there are multiple distributed ontologies covering parts of the domain. Because no single ontology can meet the needs of all users under every conceivable scenario, the ontology that meets the needs of a user or a group of users needs to be assembled from several independently developed ontology modules. Thus, in realistic applications, it is often desirable to logically integrate different ontologies, wholly or in part, into a single, reconciled ontology. Ideally, one would expect the individual ontologies to be developed as independently as possible from the rest, and the final reconciliation to be seamless and free from unexpected results. This would allow for the modular design of large ontologies and would facilitate knowledge reuse. Few ontology development tools, however, provide any support for integration, and there has been relatively little study of the problem at a fundamental level. Important Dates Submissions due: August 14, 2007 Notification of acceptance: September 8, 2007 Camera-ready versions due: September 20, 2007 Workshop: October 28, 2007 Organizers Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, University of Manchester, UK, bcg@cs.man.ac.uk Vasant Honavar, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, honavar@cs.iastate.edu Anne Schlicht, University of Mannheim, Germany, anne@informatik.uni-mannheim.de (main contact) Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK, frank@csc.liv.ac.uk Program Committee Andrei Tamilin, University of Trento, Italy Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Chiara Ghidini, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy Christine Parent, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Djamal Benslimane, Université Claude Bernard Lyon Frank Loebe, University of Leipzig, Germany Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France Jie Bao, Iowa State University, USA Klaus Luettich, University of Bremen, Germany Luciano Serafini, ITC-irst, Italy Marie-Christine Rousset, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France Marta Sabou, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Mathieu D'Aquin, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Michael Sintek, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany Michel Klein, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Oliver Kutz, University of Manchester, UK Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester, UK Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Stefano Borgo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy Till Mossakowski, DFKI, Bremen, Germany Antoine Zimmermann, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
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