ONTOCONTENT 2012 - 8th International Workshop on Ontology Content

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Category ONTOCONTENT 2012

Deadline: May 25, 2012 | Date: September 10, 2012-September 14, 2012

Venue/Country: Rome, Italy

Updated: 2012-04-29 22:00:18 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

This workshop focuses on issues related to the creation, publication, and evaluation of content for ontologies, vocabularies, and semantic data.

In particular, developing and evaluating the content of ontologies is notoriously a time consuming task when performed manually, but the increasing demand for domain specific ontologies is creating a corresponding demand for rapid assimilation of new content into ontologies without jeopardizing the quality of the ontologies themselves. There is, then, a need for the automation and semi-automation of tasks that develop ontology content, and there is also a need for automation and semi-automation of tasks that evaluate ontologies. The main topics investigated in this workshop are related to the development, evaluation (both black box an glass box), management, and documentation of ontologies using automated and semi-automated methods. Furthermore, two special tracks dedicated to specific domain of interest are open; the first track focuses on content creation and evaluation in the e-Governance domain while the second track focuses on Life Sciences.

We invite papers and project descriptions that discuss tools and the methodologies for accomplishing any of these tasks, particularly:

? Research papers presenting theoretical solutions, but with a clear illustration on how these solutions can be applied in real-world application domains.

? Position papers presenting opinions on some aspect of ontology practice, or describing work that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature to warrant attention.

? Business experience and case studies specifying requirements, challenges, or opportunities of modeling and applying ontologies in industry.

We also strongly encourage critical papers deriving lessons from failures in dealing with ontologies, not only stereotypical success reports!

Topics

Methodology and Engineering

Modeling and Engineering Methodologies

Ontology Design Patterns

Quality of Ontologies

Quality of Linked Open Data

Metrics and Tasks for Evaluation of Ontologies

Metrics and Tasks for Evaluation of Linked Open Data

Ontological Usability and Usefulness

Ontology Metadata and Libraries

Ontology Reusability

Ontology Evolution and Versioning

Methodologies for Consensus Reaching

Good, Best, and Bad Practices

Experiences/Empirical results of Ontology Management

Experiences of Light-weight vs. Heavy-weight Ontologies

Automatic and Semi-automatic Content Generation

Knowledge Harvesting

Inductive Methods for Ontologies

Quality of Ontology Mappings

Metrics and Tasks for Evaluation of Ontology Mappings

Multi-lingual Ontology Mappings

Crowdsourcing Content Generation

Participatory and Evolutionary Approaches to Ontology Engineering

Conflict Resolution and Self-adaptation in ad hoc Networks

Experiences of Light-weight vs. Heavy-weight Ontologies

Semantic Distance and Similarity

Semantics in Sensor Networks

Metrics and Tasks for Evaluation of Automatically and Semi-automatically Generated Content

e-Governance Ontology

Legal/Legislation Ontologies

Local Government Ontologies

Location Ontology (Real-Estate)

Person/Identity Ontology

Ontologies for Organizations

Ontologies for Social Networks

Ontologies for Digital Libraries

Ontologies for Public Utilities

Ontologies for Modeling Business Process

Ontologies for Supply Chains Management

Ontologies for Risk Analysis

Mappings Between e-Governance Ontologies

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Life Sciences

Biomedical Ontologies

Ontologies for Biology

Ontologies for Natural Sciences

Ontologies for Pharmacology

Ontologies for Food Science

Linked Open Data in Life Sciences

Mappings between Life Science Ontologies

Submissions

We invite (A) Research papers describing original studies of no more than 10 pages; (B) Position papers presenting opinions or work in progress of no more than 6 pages; and (C) Business experience and case studies of no more than 8 pages. All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. OTM conference/workshop proceedings are indexed by several bibliographic resources including DBLP. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. The paper submission page will be announced soon.

Important dates

Abstract Submission deadline: May 18, 2012

Paper Submission deadline: May 25, 2012

Acceptance Notification: July 2, 2012

Camera-Ready due: July 16, 2012

Author Registration due: July 16, 2012

SINCOM’12 Workshop: September 13 - 14, 2012

Program Chairs

Amanda Hicks, University of Buffalo, USA - aellenhicks(at)gmail.com

Matteo Palmonari, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy - palmonari(at)disco.unimib.it

General Chairs

Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine

Program Committee

Alan Ruttenberg, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Albert Goldfain, University at Buffalo, USA

Aldo Gangemi, LAO - CNR, IT

Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA

Andreas Schmidt, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, DE

Anna Fensel, University of Innsbruck, AT

Armando Stellato, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", IT

Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Universitaet Leipzig, DE

Barry Smith, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Boris Villazon-Terrazas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES

Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA

Christophe Roche, Université de Savoie, FR

David Osumi-Sutherland, University of Cambridge, UK

Fabian Neuhaus, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA

Francky Trichet, Université de Nantes, FR

German Rigau, The University of the Basque Country, ES

Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Trento, IT

Irene Celino, CEFRIEL, IT

Jacek Kopecky, Open University, UK

Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki, FI

Luigi Selmi, Okkam, IT

Luis Manuel Vilches Blázquez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, SP

Marcello Leida, EBTIC, UAE

Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IT

Mathias Brochhausen, University of Arkansas of Medical Sciences, USA

Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, ES

Nikos Loutas, University of Macedonia, GR

Patrice Seyed, University at Buffalo, USA

Richard Cyganiak, National University of Ireland, IE

Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, IT

Stefan Schulz, Medizinische Universitaet Graz, AT

William Hogan, University of Arkansas of Medical Sciences, USA

Zoltan Miklos, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH