NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE March 22nd !!
Call for paper
Ontoweb/ECAI-02 Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic
Interoperability
see http://www.cs.vu.nl/~heiner/ECAI-02-WS
22-23 Jul 2002, Lyon, France
Topics of Interest
We especially encourage papers concerned with the problem of
achieving interoperability between terminologies, systems,
different conceptualizations and ontology languages. Papers
that try propose a useful terminology and classification of
semantic mismatch and interoperability are most welcome.
Interoperability of Terminologies:
Many standardized terminologies exist in different
disciplines and
application areas like e-Business or geographical
information processing.
Most of these standards suffer from the problem that
they are incompatible
to each other. Formal ontologies can help to integrate
these terminologies
or to find mappings between them.
Interoperability of systems:
In order to exchange information between different
information systems or
applications in general, one has to assure that the
information is
interpreted in way it was originally intended. An
excellent example is the
area of Multi-Agent systems, where Agents that might
use different
terminologies have to cooperate. Again, ontologies are
a way to explicate
the intended meaning of information and provide
interoperability. While the
main problems are similar to the previous point, in
systems
interoperability additional questions related to the
integration
architecture and run-time processing of semantic
information arise.
Although Ontologies provide solutions for some problems of
semantic interoperability, they suffer from heterogeneity
themselves. Therefore, the interoperability between
different ontologies is also an important aspect.
Harmonisation of different conceptual modelling choices:
There are always many ways to model a domain of
discourse. Often the
distinction between classes and individual or classes
and relation it is not
clear. Different conceptualizations may stress
different aspects of a
domain.
Integration of ontology languages
A number of languages for representing ontologies have
been proposed. They
do not only differ in the expressiveness, but also in
level of formality and
theroretical foundation. Therefore, the integration of
ontologies encoded in
different languages is a difficult problem
We invite proposals for new techniques for ontology
integration and merging as well as analyses of existing
techniques. Among the techniques that have been put forth:
articulation ontologies, conceptual anchoring, graph
homomorphisms, microtheories and the formalization of
context, the notion of "little theories" and theory
interpretation, and category theoretic methods.
For the special problem of assuring interoperability when
transforming knowledge models we refer to the ECAI-02
Workshop on Knowledge Transformation for the Semantic Web. A
joint session with this workshop will be held if
appropriate.
We invite contributions of different kinds. Besides regular
research papers, system presentations and presentations of
ontologies related to the topic of the workshop are welcome.
Research papers should be formatted according to the
official formatting guidelines of the ECAI main conference
not exceeding ten pages. System descriptions and ontologies
should be described in a document also formatted according
to the ECAI guidelines and not exceeding five pages. The
papers should clarify the application area and major design
decisions. A PDF version of all papers should be made
accessible on the web. The URL of the
paper should be mailed to the main contact (see below). In
the case of contributions of ontologies, the model itself
has to be made accessible on the web. The submission
proceedure will be carried out along the following dates:
March 22th: Deadline for Submissions (NEW !!)
April 20th: Notification of Acceptance
May 20th: Camera-Ready Copies
June 6th: Workshop Proceedings Due
Organization Committee
Heiner Stuckenschmidt (Main Contact)
TZI, University of Bremen, Germany.
E-Mail: heiner@tzi.de
Jérôme Euzenat
INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnont Saint-Martin
E-mail: Jerome.Euzenat@inrialpes.fr
Asunción Gómez-Pérez
Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial
(LIA),Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM)
E-mail:asun@fi.upm.es
Nicola Guarino
LADSEB-CNR, Padova, Italy
E-mail: guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it
Program Committee
Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, NL
Mike Brown, SemanticEdge, D
Oscar Corcho, Politecnical University Madrid, ES
Rose Dieng, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, F
Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhones-Alpes, F
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, I
Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Politecnical University Madrid,
ES
Michael Gruninger, NIST, USA
Nicola Guarino, LADSEB-CNR, Padova, I
Michel Klein, Free University Amsterdam, NL
Alexander Maedche, FZI Karlsruhe, D
Chris Menzel, Texas A&M University, USA
Enrico Motta, Open University, UK
Leo Obrst, Mitre Corporation, USA
Guus Schreiber, University of Amsterdam, NL
Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, D
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Bremen, D
Rudi Studer, AifB, University of Karlsruhe, D
Gerd Stumme, University of Karlsruhe, D
Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
Mike Uschold, Boeing Corporation, USA
Ubbo Visser, University of Bremen, D
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Heiner Stuckenschmidt (Dipl.-Inf.)
AI Department, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam
tel.: +31 20 44 47818
fax.: +31 20 44 47653
e-mail: heiner@cs.vu.nl
WWW: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~heiner/
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