- From: Giorgos Flouris <fgeo@ics.forth.gr>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 18:36:49 +0200 (EET)
- To: George Flouris <fgeo@ics.forth.gr>
[apologies if you receive multiple copies] **** DEADLINE EXTENDED **** Due to a number of requests, the submission deadline for IWOD-07 was extended to Thursday, March, 15. **** DEADLINE EXTENDED **** CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================== International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-07) http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/iwod/ (to be held as part of the ESWC-07 conference, in Innsbruck, Austria, on 7 June, 2007) =================================================================== Workshop Description -------------------- One of the crucial tasks to be performed towards the realization of the vision of the Semantic Web is the encoding of human knowledge in ontologies using formal representation languages. Simply creating an ontology is not enough though; ontologies, just like any structure holding knowledge, need to be updated for several reasons, including a change in the world being modeled, a change in users' needs, the acquisition of knowledge previously unknown, classified or otherwise unavailable or a design flaw in the original conceptualization. In all these cases, the representation of our knowledge in the ontology should be modified so as to form a more accurate or adequate conceptualization of the domain. Such a modification presents several difficulties from both the practical and the theoretical point of view, as it is not always clear what the expected, or desired, result of any particular modification should be, nor how such a result can be determined. Workshop Objectives and Topics of Interest ------------------------------------------ This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the field of ontology dynamics in order to discuss and analyze important characteristics, open research issues and recent research developments on the field. We encourage submissions on all topics related to ontology dynamics, including theoretical work on the issues involved directly or indirectly with change as well as applications or implemented systems related to such issues. We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in the following topics: o Ontology evolution o Ontology versioning o Formal aspects of ontology dynamics o Foundational issues o Extensions to ontology languages to better support change o Belief revision for ontologies and the Semantic Web o Inconsistency handling in evolving ontologies o Change propagation in ontologies and metadata o Ontologies for dynamic environments o Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation o Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications o Open problems Workshop Venue -------------- The workshop is open to all members of the Semantic Web community. It will take place in Innsbruck, Austria, as part of the ESWC 2007 conference (http://www.eswc2007.org), on 7 June 2007. All workshop participants must pay the ESWC 2007 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference fee. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Only electronic submissions will be considered. All submissions should be submitted in pdf format, as an email attachment to Giorgos Flouris (flouris@isti.cnr.it). Submissions should not exceed 14 pages and should be formatted according to the LNCS Springer format (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0). All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the IWOD 2007 program committee and at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: March 9, 2007 *** EXTENDED TO: March, 15, 2007 *** Acceptance notification: April 4, 2007 Camera-ready deadline: April 24, 2007 Organizing Committee -------------------- Giorgos Flouris (CNR, Italy) - co-chair Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University, United Kingdom) - co-chair Grigoris Antoniou (FORTH, Greece) Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) Dimitris Plexousakis (FORTH, Greece) Program Committee ----------------- Peter Haase Christian Halaschek-Wiener Andreas Herzig Zhisheng Huang Yarden Katz Thomas Meyer Enrico Motta Wim Peters Peter Plessers Guilin Qi Heiner Stuckenschmidt Holger Wache Renata Wassermann
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