OIC 2009 - Call for Participation

[Paulo CG Costa]

Apologies for multiple postings!

It is not too late to register for OIC 09! October 20-22 at the Fairfax Campus at George Mason University.

October 20 (optional) one-day tutorial presented by Leo Obrst 
http://c4i.gmu.edu/OIC09/workshop.php

October 21-22 OIC 09 conference:
http://c4i.gmu.edu/OIC09/index.php

To register:
http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=fe0f4e77-65dd-438d-a993-45f9478f8ab2

Hope you can join us!

Paulo Costa, Kathryn Laskey, Leo Obrst - OIC 2009 Organizing Committee

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ONTOLOGY FOR THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

OIC 2009

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Tuesday, October 20 Tutorial /tr>

08:20 - 09:00		Registration and Breakfast
09:00 - 10:20		Tutorial Session 1
		Syntax, Semantics, Ontology Spectrum, Taxonomies
10:20 - 10:40		Coffee Break
10:40 - 12:00		Tutorial Session 2
		Thesauri, Conceptual Models, Logical Theories (Strong Ontologies)
12:00 - 01:20		Lunch Break
01:20 - 02:40		Tutorial Session 3
		Knowledge Representation, Logic, Ontological Engineering
02:40 - 03:00		Coffee Break
03:00 - 04:20		Tutorial Session 4
		The Semantic Web

Wednesday, October 21

08:30 - 09:30		Registration and Breakfast
09:30 - 09:40		Welcome
09:40 - 10:40		Keynote Address
	Chris Welty - The Evolving Role of Rules and Ontologies in the Semantic Web  As the semantic web evolves with new standards (like OWL-2 and RIF),  and more data (like Linked Open Data), the role of ontologies and rules  in semantic web applications is evolving as well. In this talk I will  briefly pres ent highlights of the new standards and discuss where the  technology and data seem to be taking us, and what role they will play  as the web of data continues to evolve. (Bio)
10:40 - 11:00		Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40	Plenary Paper Session
11:00 - 11:40		Substance-Blind Classification of Evidence  for Intelligence Analysis paper	David Schum, Gheor e Tecuci,  and Mihai Boicu
	Abstract
11:40 - 01:20		Lunch Break
01:20 - 03:20		Plenary Paper Session
01:20 - 02:00		Towards an Effective Methodology for  Rapidly Developing Component-Based Domain Ontologies paper
	Abstract
02:00 - 02:40		Supporting the Analytic Knowledge Manager: Formal Methods for Ontology Display and Management paper	Alan Chappell, Anthony Bladek,  Cliff Joslyn, Eric Marshall,  Liam McGrath, Patrick Paulson, Sean Stolberg, and Amanda White
	Abstract
02:40 - 03:20		Contributions to a Semantically-Based  Intelligence Analysis Enterprise Workflow System paper	Robert Schrag, Jon Pastor,  Chris Long, Eric Peterson,  Mark Cornwell, and Lance Forbes
	Abstract
03:20 - 03:40		Coffee Break
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03:40 - 05:00		Plenary Paper Session
03:40 - 04:20		Universal Core Semantic Layer paper	Barry Smith, Lowell Vizenor,  and James Schoening
	Abstract
04:20 - 05:00		Referent Tracking for  Command and Control Messaging Sy tems paper	Shahid Manzoor, Werner Ceusters,  and Barry Smith
	Abstract
05:30		Transportation to Marriott
06:00 - 08:00		Conference Dinner

Thursday, October 22

08:30 - 09:00		Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 /td>		Keynote Address
	Doug Lenat - Mistakes Were Made  Douglas Lenat founded and has run the Cyc project since 1984, leading a team  building a large and broad ontology, knowledge base, and inference engine. This  talk will describe some of the lessons learned along the way, ranging from  representation of knowledge, to choice of what knowledge to represent, to  knowledge acquisition methodologies, to reasoning strategies and tactics. It  will showcase some of the applications that forced Cyc to grapple with large  amounts of data, multiple sources, contradictory information, and so on, which  have largely come from the intelligence community and (perhaps surprisi gly, to  this audience) from the clinical research community. Dr. Lenat's work in machine  learning won the Computers and Thought Award; he helped establish the AAAI, and is a Fellow of the  AAAI and of the AAAS. Prior to Cyc, Dr. Lenat was a computer science faculty member at Stanford and  CMU, and he will briefly touch on a few "learning experiences" he had back then, that laid the foundation  for his being able to make the mistakes of the last 25 years.
10:00 - 10:20		Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:40		Plenary Paper Session
10:20 - 11:00		An Ontologi al Approach to  Information Access Control and Provenance  paper	Bill Andersen and Fabian Neuhaus
	Abstract
11:00 - 11:40		Course of Action Planning Ontology  paper	Timothy Darr
	Abstract
11:40 - 01:20		Lunch Break
01:20 - 02:00		Plenary Paper Session
01:020 - 02:00		Higher Order Uncertainty and Evidential Ontologies  paper	Justin Brody
	Plenary Discussion
		NCOR	Barry Smith
02:40 - 03:00		Coffee Break
03:00 - 04:00		Panel Discussion
		The Future of the OIC	Leo Obrst
04:00 - 04:10		Wrap Up