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DEADLINE
EXTENSION TO 11 MARCH,
2007
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CALL
FOR PAPERS
OWLED 2007
OWL: Experiences and Directions
http://owled2007.iut-velizy.uvsq.fr/Third
International Workshop
Innsbruck, Austria
6-7 June 2007
Submissions
due **11 March, 2007 NEW DEADLINE**
Online submission at
http://www.easychair.org/OWLED2007/==================================================
The
W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has been a W3C recommendation since 2004.
The
OWL: Experiences and Direction (OWLED) workshop series is a forum
for
practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers, and
others
interested in OWL to describe real and potential applications, to
share
experience, and to discuss requirements for
language
extensions/modifications. At OWLED 2006 it was agreed to move
forward with a
member submission of the OWL 1.1 proposal which extends OWL DL
in ways that
have been requested by users, that have effective reasoning
algorithms, and
that developers of OWL reasoning systems are willing to
support.
The 3rd OWL: Experiences and Directions workshop (OWLED 2007) will
again
bring users, implementors and researchers together in order to measure
the
current state of need against the state of the art and to set an agenda
for
language evolutions that satisfy users. OWLED 2007 shall in
particular
present industrial efforts and experiences with OWL. It shall
further the
interaction between industry, theoreticians and tool builders,
help
consolidate OWL 1.1, clarify the relationships between OWL and rules
and
initiate the specification of OWL 2.0.
Building on the success of the
2005 OWLED and the 2006 OWLED workshops, the
2007 OWLED workshop will again
be immediately after one of the main Semantic
Web conferences, namely the
ESWC conference, and is colocated with the First
International Conference on
Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR2007.
Topics
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OWLED
2007 welcomes the submission of papers about all aspects of OWL
and
extensions, application, theory, method, tool, including but not limited
to
the following topics:
- All applications of OWL
- Application-driven
requirements for OWL
- Implementation techniques for OWL and related
languages
- Performance and scalability issues
- Bridges between knowledge
engineering and OWL
- Non-standard inference services, including
explanations, static
verification, modularity
- Enriching ontologies with
rules
- Query answering and data integration
- Tools for OWL including:
editors, visualisation tools, parsers and syntax
checkers, versioning
frameworks
- Extensions to OWL including: extended datatype constructors,
property
constructors, class constructors keys, constraints, rules
probabilistic and
fuzzy extensions, non-monotonic extensions, temporal and
spatial
extensions
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Submissions
of papers on industrial efforts, experiences reports, system
descriptions,
position papers (especially about new features or issues with
OWL), and
survey papers about theory or tools (for example comparing
different ways of
combining rules with OWL) are strongly encouraged. We
particularly
welcome:
- Descriptions of industry system or industrial applications
-
Experience reports with OWL or OWL 1.1 (or any fragment or extension)
Domain
or application ontologies (e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture,
e-Learning
etc.)
- Industry requirements
- Life Sciences or other
community requirements
- Implementation issues with OWL or OWL 1.1
- Demos
with OWL or OWL 1.1
- Reasoning with OWL and rules in practical
applications
- Requirements for a potential OWL 2.0
revision
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Workshop
Format
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The goal of the workshop will be to
maximise discussion. The technical
sessions will therefore consist of short
presentations of selected papers
(grouped by topic area) followed by directed
discussion. As in prior years,
there will be session(s) devoted to
standardization efforts, to some issues
deferred from 2006 (alternative
syntaxes, constraints, SPARQL and OWL, rules
and OWL), and a report, with
discussion, on the progress of the OWL 1.1 W3C
submission and working
group.
Submissions
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Submissions can be either
long or short papers. Papers must be no longer
than 10 pages. Short
submissions no longer than 4 pages are welcome.
Interested parties may send
the organizers a one page description of their
demo.
All submissions must
be received before 11 March 2007. All papers must be
submitted online using
the submission website
http://www.easychair.org/OWLED2007/Submissions
must be in PDF, and will not be accepted in any other format. It
is the
responsibility of the authors to ensure that their submission
displays and
prints correctly on common PDF viewers. Submissions must be
formatted in the
style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes
in Computer
Science (LNCS). For details see
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html.
Proceedings
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All
accepted submissions and demo descriptions will be made available from
the
workshop web site; these may be updated with final versions after
the
reviewing process. Final versions of accepted papers will be published
on
CEUR-WS. Presentation materials from the workshop will also be placed on
the
web site. All submissions will be reviewed by the workshop
committee.
Decisions on the acceptance of papers will be communicated to
authors no
later than 14 April,
2007.
Organization
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General Chair: Bijan Parsia,
University of Manchester (UK)
Programme
Chairs
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Christine Golbreich, University of
Versailles (France)
Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM TJ Watson (USA)
Steering
Committee
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Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University
of Manchester (UK)
Pascal Hitzler, AIFB Karlsruhe (Germany)
Ian Horrocks,
University of Manchester (UK)
Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester
(UK)
Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA)
Program
Committee
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Dean
Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA)
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
(Italy)
Kendall Clark, Clark&Parsia LLC (USA)
Catherine Dolbear,
Ordinance Survey of Great Britain (UK)
Peter Fox, High Altitude Observatory
(USA)
Volker Haarslev, Concordia University (Canada)
Peter Haase, AIFB
(Germany)
Rinke Hoekstra, University of Amsterdam(NL)
Vipul Kashyap,
Partners HealthCare System (USA)
Alain Léger, France Telecom
(France)
François-Marie Lesaffre, Arcelor (France)
Thorsten Liebig, Ulm
University, (Germany)
Yann Loyer, University of Versailles (France)
Joanne
Luciano, Harvard Medical School (USA)
Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden
(Germany)
Pierre Mariot, Ardans (France)
Maryann Martone, BIRN
(USA)
Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University (USA)
Anne Monceaux, EADS
CCR (France)
Boris Motik, University of Manchester (UK)
Chris Mungall,
Gene Ontology and Lawrence Berkeley Labs (USA)
Gary Ng, Web Methods
(USA)
Daniel Oberle, SAP AG (Germany)
Massimo Paolucci, NTT DoCoMo
(Germany)
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen (UK)
Riccardo Rosati,
Universita di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)
Daniel Rubin, CBIO (USA)
Alan
Ruttenberg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, (USA)
Ulrike Sattler, University of
Manchester (UK)
Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universitat Amsterdam
(NL)
François-Paul Servant, Renault (France)
Margherita Sini, FAO
(Italy)
Kent Spackman, SNOMED (USA)
Robert Stevens, BioHealth Informatics
Group University of Manchester (UK)
Susie Stephens, Oracle (USA)
Umberto
Straccia, ISTI-CNR Pisa (Italy)
Hans Teijgeler, ISO Standards
(NL)