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Ontology matching
is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web,
since 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, query answering, data
translation, or for navigation on the Semantic Web.
Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data
expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate.
The workshop has two goals:
To bring together academic and industry leaders to assess how academic
advances are addressing real-world requirements.
The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial needs,
and therefore direct research towards those needs.
Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry representatives
about existing research efforts that may meet their business needs.
Moreover, it is central to the aims of the workshop to evaluate how technologies
for ontology matching are going to evolve, which research topics are in the academic
agenda and how these can fit emerging business issues.
To conduct an extensive, rigorous and
transparent evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the
OAEI
(Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative)
2008 campaign.
The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world matching
tasks from specific domains, such as cultural heritage and medicine.
Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a
solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs.
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Audience:
The workshop encourages participation from both academia and industry
with its emphasis on theoretical and practical aspects of ontology matching.
On the one side, we expect representatives from industry to present business
cases and their requirements for ontology matching.
On the other side, we expect academic participants to present their approaches
vis-a-vis those industrial requirements.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Requirements to ontology matching from specific domains (e.g., civil protection, bioinformatics);
- Application of ontology matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., emergency response);
- Social and collaborative ontology matching;
- Interactive ontology matching;
- Alignment management;
- Background knowledge in ontology matching;
- Reasoning for ontology matching;
- Uncertainty in ontology matching;
- Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching;
- Performance of ontology-matching techniques;
- Ontology matching evaluation methodology;
- Ontology matching for information integration;
- Ontology matching for query answering;
- Ontology matching for dynamic environments (e.g., peer-to-peer, agents, web-services);
- Systems and infrastructures.
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Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers addressing
different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2008 campaign.
Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the
LNCS Style.
These should be prepared in PDF format
and should be submitted
(no later than July 25, 2008)
through the workshop submission site at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2008
Contributors to the
OAEI 2008 campaign
have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at
http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/.
Important Dates:
July 25, 2008: CLOSED [26 papers received for the technical track]
Deadline for the submission of papers.
- September 8, 2008:
Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
- September 25, 2008:
Workshop camera ready copy submission.
- October 26, 2008:
OM-2008,
Congress Center,
Karlsruhe, Germany.
Contributions will be refereed by the
Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of
CEUR-WS.
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Organizing Committee:
TasLab,
Informatica Trentina,
Italy
E-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] it
Jérôme Euzenat
INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
Fausto Giunchiglia
University of Trento, Italy
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
University of Mannheim, Germany
Program Committee:
- Olivier Bodenreider,
National Library of Medicine, USA
- Paolo Bouquet,
University of Trento, Italy
- Paolo Besana,
University of Edinburgh, UK
- Isabel Cruz,
University Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Jérôme David,
INRIA, France
- Wei Hu,
Southeast University, China
- Ryutaro Ichise,
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Antoine Isaak,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Anthony Jameson,
DFKI, Germany
- Yannis Kalfoglou,
Ricoh Europe plc, UK
- Vipul Kashyap,
Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA
- Monika Lanzenberger,
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Patrick Lambrix,
Linkopings Universitet, Sweden
- Christian Meilicke,
University of Mannheim, Germany
- Peter Mork,
The MITRE Corporation, USA
- Natasha Noy,
Stanford University, USA
- Luigi Palopoli,
University of Calabria, Italy
- Ivan Pilati,
TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy
- Marco Schorlemmer,
IIIA-CSIC, Spain
- Luciano Serafini,
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy
- Umberto Straccia,
ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
- Eleni Stroulia,
University of Alberta, Canada
- York Sure,
SAP, Germany
- Ludger van Elst,
DFKI, Germany
- Yannis Velegrakis,
University of Trento, Italy
- Baoshi Yan,
Bosch Research, USA
- Songmao Zhang,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Acknowledgements:
We appreciate support from the
Trentino as a Lab
project of the
European Network of the Living Labs
and
OpenKnowledge
European STREP (FP6-027253).
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