CFP: Workshop on Ontology Patterns (WOP2009) @ ISWC 2009

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**********Call for papers**********
1st Workshop on Ontology Patterns (WOP2009) @ ISWC 2009
http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP2009:Main

October 25th, 2009
Westfields Conference Center near Washington, DC
Call for Papers
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This workshop provides an arena for proposing and discussing good  
practices, patterns, pattern-based ontologies, systems etc. The aim is  
to broaden the pattern community that will develop its own “language”  
for discussing and describing relevant problems and their solutions.  
The workshop will be held in conjunction with ISWC2009 on October  
25th. It will be a full-day workshop consisting of three parts;  
papers, posters, and “pattern writing” sessions.

Topics

The main aim of the workshop is to discuss and collect best practices  
from different perspectives and communities dealing with the Semantic  
web. Papers will be published in the online CEUR-workshop proceedings.  
Original research papers and poster papers are invited to consider the  
following (non exhaustive) list of topics:


o    Good practices of ontology design
o	 Good practices for Linked Data and related applications
o    Good practices for hybridization of semantic web and NLP techniques
o    Good Practices and Patterns of semantic social networks, semantic  
wikis, semantic blogs
o    Pattern-based methodologies for Semantic Web ontologies and  
software engineering
o    Ontology Design Patterns and Linked Data
o    Ontology Patterns and Microformats
o    Application Profiles

o    Software patterns and good practices for semantic web applications
o    Ontology design patterns (ODPs) for specific knowledge domains  
e.g. multimedia, fishery and agriculture, user profiling, business  
modeling, etc.

o    Tools support for pattern-based knowledge engineering
o    Collaboration patterns in ontology design and engineering
o    Pattern-based ontology evaluation and selection
o    Domain specific applications based on patterns and succesful  
stories

o    Correspondence patterns for ontology matching and integration
o    Automatic ontology construction (ontology learning) based on  
patterns
o    Lexico-syntactic patterns
o    Reasoning patterns
o    Processes and services - process patterns
o    Re-engineering patterns for conceptual models, folksonomies,  
lexicons, thesauri

o    Contextual reasoning and patterns as context
o    Knowledge patterns and knowledge re-engineering based on patterns
o    Pattern-based information extraction
o    Problem solving methods and patterns

o    Quality evaluation of patterns
o    Benefits of ontology patterns and knowledge patterns
o    Web semantics from a pattern perspective


Important dates

•    Submission deadline - August 9
•    Notification of acceptance - September 7
•    Workshop date - October 25

Some references to related work can be found at http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP2009:Main#Related_references

Submission instructions at http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP2009:Submission

PC members

http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP2009:Main#Program_Committee


WOP2009 Chairs

Papers - Kurt Sandkuhl, Jönköping University(SE)
Posters - Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics(CZ)
Patterns -Eva Blomqvist, ISTC-CNR(IT) and Francois Scharffe, INRIA(FR)

Steering Committee

Eva Blomqvist, ISTC-CNR (IT)
Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR (IT)
Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR (IT)
Alan Rector, University of Manchester (UK)
Francois Scharffe, INRIA (FR)
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz(DE)
Chris Welty, IBM Research (US)