1st CFP: ISWC'10 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2010)

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                   The Fifth International Workshop on 
                            ONTOLOGY MATCHING
                                (OM-2010)
                   http://om2010.ontologymatching.org/
    November 7 or 8, 2010, ISWC'10 Workshop Program, Shanghai, China 


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. 
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 and data translation. 
Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed 
in the matched ontologies to interoperate.

The workshop has two 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 
approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 
2010 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/. 
The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world 
specific matching tasks involving, e.g., biomedical ontologies and 
linked data. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative 
itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well 
the current approaches are meeting business needs. 


TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: 
    Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open linked data); 
    Requirements to matching from specific domains; 
    Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; 
    Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; 
    Ontology matching patterns; 
    Instance matching; 
    Large-scale ontology matching evaluation; 
    Performance of matching techniques; 
    Matcher selection and self-configuration; 
    Uncertainty in ontology matching; 
    User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); 
    Explanations in matching; 
    Social and collaborative matching; 
    Alignment management; 
    Reasoning with alignments; 
    Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); 
    Matching for dynamic 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 2010 campaign. Technical papers should 
be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style:
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html
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: 

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20100 

Contributors to the OAEI 2010 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions 
and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/. 


*TENTATIVE* IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: 
September 1, 2010: Deadline for the submission of papers. 
September 27, 2010: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. 
October 12, 2010: Workshop camera ready copy submission. 
November 7 or 8, 2010: OM-2010, Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)
TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy

2. Jérôme Euzenat 
INRIA & LIG, France

3. Fausto Giunchiglia 
University of Trento, Italy

4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt 
University of Mannheim, Germany 

5. Ming Mao 
SAP Labs, USA 

6. Isabel Cruz 
The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Paolo Besana, Universite de Rennes 1, France 
Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA 
Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy 
Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France 
AnHai Doan, Kosmix, USA 
Alfio Ferrara, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy 
Tom Heath, Talis, UK 
Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China 
Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan 
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA 
Bin He, IBM, USA 
Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK 
Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria 
Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden 
Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy 
Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China 
Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy 
Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK 
Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany 
Luca Mion, Informatica Trentina, Italy 
Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA 
Filippo Nardelli, Cogito, Italy 
Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA 
Yefei Peng, Yahoo Labs, USA 
Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany 
François Scharffe, INRIA, France 
Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy 
Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA 
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy 
Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy 
Lorenzino Vaccari, EC DG Environment, Italy 
Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany 
Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy 
Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Italy 
Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA 
Rui Zhang, Jilin University, China 
Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 

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More about ontology matching: 
http://www.ontologymatching.org/
http://book.ontologymatching.org/
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Best Regards,
Pavel

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Pavel Shvaiko, PhD
Innovation and Research Project Manager
TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy
http://www.ontologymatching.org/
http://www.infotn.it/ 
http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/