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- Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 23:40:00 +0200
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Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ningth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2014) http://om2014.ontologymatching.org/ October 19th or 20th, 2014, ISWC Workshop Program, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy 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. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2014 campaign. Besides real-world specific matching tasks, involving, e.g., large biomedical ontologies, OAEI-14 will include evaluation of interactive matchers and matchers for query answering. 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 new uses, 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. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big and open data); Requirements to matching from specific domains (e.g., energy); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., search, web-services). 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 2014 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: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2014 TENTATIVE DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 11, 2014: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 1, 2014: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. August 15, 2014: Camera ready copy submission. October 19th or 20th, 2014: OM-2014, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Informatica Trentina, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Ming Mao Electronic Arts, USA 4. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz University of Oxford, UK 5. Juanzi Li Tsinghua University, China 6. Axel Ngonga University of Leipzig, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed): Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Chris Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Michelle Cheatham, Write State University, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton, UK Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM, USA Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany Yefei Peng, Google, USA Andrea Perego, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic Cássia Trojahn, IRIT, 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 Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Program Manager Informatica Trentina, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel
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