The Third International Workshop on Ontology Matching

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.

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.

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/.

Technical Papers:

• Incoherence as a basis for measuring the quality of ontology mappings
  Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt
• Resolution of conicts among ontology mappings: a fuzzy approach
  Alfio Ferrara, Davide Lorusso, Giorgos Stamou, Giorgos Stoilos, Vassilis Tzouvaras, and Tassos Venetis
• On fixing semantic alignment evaluation measures
  Jérôme David and Jérôme Euzenat
• Towards a benchmark for instance matching
  Alfio Ferrara, Davide Lorusso, Stefano Montanelli, and Gaia Varese
• Using quantitative aspects of alignment generation for argumentation on mappings
  Antoine Isaac, Cassia Trojahn, Shenghui Wang, and Paulo Quaresma
• A community based approach for managing ontology alignments
  Gianluca Correndo, Harith Alani, and Paul Smart

Organizing Committee:

• Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)
  TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy
  E-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] it
• Jérôme Euzenat
  INRIA & LIG, 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 of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France
• Wei Hu, Southeast University, China
• Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Antoine Isaac, 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, Linköpings 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, FBK-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

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