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1st CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
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BRIEF
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
Ontology matching is a key interoperability
enabler for the Semantic Web,
as well as a useful tactic in some classical
data integration tasks
dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. 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, data translation, query answering or navigation on the
web of data.
Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data
expressed
in the matched ontologies to interoperate.
The workshop has three goals:
1. To bring together
leaders from academia, industry and user institutions
to assess how academic
advances are addressing real-world requirements.
The workshop will strive to
improve academic awareness of industrial
and final user needs, and
therefore, direct research towards those needs.
Simultaneously, the workshop
will serve to inform industry and user
representatives about existing
research efforts that may meet their
requirements. The workshop will also
investigate how the ontology
matching technology is going to
evolve.
2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of
ontology matching
approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation
Initiative)
2012 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2012/.
The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on
real-world
specific matching tasks involving, e.g., biomedical
ontologies.
Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation
initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion
of how well
the current approaches are meeting business needs.
3. To examine similarities and differences from database
schema matching,
which has received decades of attention but is just
beginning
to transition to mainstream tools.
This year, in sync with the main conference, we
encourage submissions
specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of
the approaches proposed
(not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application
of the matching technology
in real-life scenarios and assessment of its
usefulness to the final users.
TOPICS of interest include but are not
limited to:
Business and use cases for matching (e.g.,
open government data);
Requirements to matching from
specific domains;
Application of matching techniques in
real-world scenarios;
Formal foundations and frameworks
for matching;
Matching patterns;
Instance matching and data interlinking;
Large-scale
matching evaluation;
Performance of matching techniques;
Matcher selection and self-configuration;
User involvement (including both technical and
organizational aspects);
Explanations in matching;
Social and collaborative matching;
Alignment management;
Reasoning with alignments;
Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information
integration);
Matching for emerging applications (e.g.,
linked data, search).
SUBMISSIONS
Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms
of technical papers and
posters/statements of interest addressing different
issues of ontology matching
as well as participating in the OAEI 2012
campaign. Technical papers should
be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS
Style:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and
should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers.
All
contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted
through the workshop submission site at:
IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS:
July 31, 2012: Deadline for the submission of papers.
August 31, 2012:Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
September 10, 2012: Workshop camera ready copy submission.
November 11th
or 12th, 2012: OM-2012, The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers, Boston, MA
USA.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)
TasLab,
Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy
2. Jérôme Euzenat
INRIA & LIG,
France
3. Anastasios (Tasos) Kementsietsidis
IBM Research, USA
4. Ming Mao
SAP Labs, USA
5. Natasha Noy
Stanford Center for Biomedical
Informatics Research, USA
5. Heiner Stuckenschmidt
University of Mannheim, Germany
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Michele
Barbera, SpazioDati, Italy
Chris Bizer, Free University Berlin, Germany
Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
Marco Combetto,
Informatica Trentina, Italy
Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France
Alfio
Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of
Trento, Italy
Bin He, IBM, USA
Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Antoine Isaac,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands
Krzysztof
Janowicz, University of California, USA
Anja Jentzsch, Free University
Berlin, Germany
Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK
Yannis
Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK
Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet,
Sweden
Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Rob
Lemmens, ITC, The Netherlands
Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome La
Sapienza, Italy
Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy
Fiona
McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK
Christian Meilicke, University of
Mannheim, Germany
Peter Mork, Noblis, USA
Nico Lavarini, Cogito - Expert
System, Italy
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig, Germany
Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK
Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation,
USA
Yefei Peng, Google, USA
François Scharffe, LIRMM, France
Luciano
Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague
University of Economics, Czech Republic
Cássia Trojahn dos Santos, INRIA
& LIG, France
Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, France
Giovanni Tummarello,
Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
Lorenzino Vaccari, European
Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy
Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Baoshi Yan,
LinkedIn, USA
Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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Best Regards,
Pavel