From rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Thu Jan 1 15:45:58 2009 From: rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Sebastian Rudolph) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 15:45:58 +0100 Subject: [DL] Third CfP - ICCS'09 - DEADLINE EXTENDED Message-ID: <1BC3327C-E987-4785-95A5-1E9A479C0C1A@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this email to anyone interested. === Third Call for Papers -- DEADLINE EXTENDED BY 1 WEEK === ICCS'09 Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies 26 - 31 July 2009, State University Higher School of Economics (SU HSE) , Moscow, Russia http://www.iccs.info The 17th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2009) is the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in Europe, Australia, and North America since 1993. The focus of the conference has been the representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge for research and practical application. ICCS brings together researchers and practioners in information and computer sciences as well as social science to explore novel ways that conceptual structures can be deployed. Arising from the research on knowledge representation and reasoning with Conceptual Graphs, over the years ICCS has broadened its scope to include innovations from a wider range of theories and related practices, among them other form of graph-based reasoning systems like RDF or Existential Graphs, Formal Concept Analysis, Semantic Web Technologies, Ontologies, Concept Mapping and more. Accordingly, ICCS represents a family of approaches related to conceptual structures that build on the successes with techniques derived from artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, applied mathematics and lattice theory, computational linguistics, conceptual modeling and design, diagrammatic reasoning and logic, intelligent systems and knowledge management. The activity of the field is witnessed by two recently published books ("Conceptual Structures in Practice", ed. by Hitzler and Sch?rfe and "Graph-based Knowledge Representation: Computational Foundations of Conceptual Graphs" by Chein and Mugnier) as well as by an ISO standard ("Common Logic", ISO/ IEC 24707) which orginated in this community. The 2009 ICCS's theme "leveraging semantic technologies" hints to the large overlap of the research fields of semantic technologies and conceptual structures, and emphasizes the goal of closer connecting these two areas in order to obtain a mutual benefit. Papers for ICCS 2009 are invited on, but not restricted to, the following topics: * conceptual structures - theory and applications * semantic technologies and conceptual structures * the interplay of conceptual structures with language, semantics, semiotics and pragmatics * conceptual data processing, analysis and conceptual logic * modeling, representation and visualization of concepts * conceptual knowledge acquisition * knowledge representation and reasoning with conceptual structures * applied conceptual structures including data mining and knowledge discovery * theory and applications of formal ontologies * graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and practical research outcomes. Papers accepted or under review by other conferences or journals are not acceptable as submissions to ICCS. The language of the conference will be English. == Invited Speakers == Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc., USA Marie-Laure Mugnier, LIRMM, France John Sowa, VivoMind Intelligence Inc., USA Rudi Studer, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany Rudolf Wille, TU Darmstadt, Germany == Accomodation and Estimated Registration Fee == For those interested, the organizing committee will help to find a cheap **-quality accomodation in the professor guesthouse of HSE (about 45 EUR per day). The conference fees will be between 200 and 250 EUR. == Submission Details == Papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer's LNCS format. We recommend the use of LaTeX2e for the final version. For more details see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs . Position papers (up to 4 pages) are also welcome. Deadlines * Monday January 12, 2009: a one page abstract submitted via the submission sitehttp://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2009 (Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.) * Monday January 19, 2009: full paper (not more than 14 pages) in PDF format submitted via the submission sitehttp://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2009 Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if accepted, must be presented at the conference. Papers accepted for publication will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series by Springer-Verlag (seehttp://www.springeronline.com/lncs) . A precondition for publication is that the final version is in full compliance with Springer's format. == Conference Chairs == General Chair * Sergei Kuznetsov (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) skuznetsov at yandex.ru Program Chairs * Frithjof Dau (SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany) frithjof.dau at sap.com * Sebastian Rudolph (Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Editorial Board * Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria * Frithjof Dau, SAP Dresden, Germany * Aldo de Moor, CommunitySense, Netherlands * Harry Delugach, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA * Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia * Bernhard Ganter, Dresden Technical University, Germany * Pascal Hitzler, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany * Mary Keeler, USA * Sergei Kuznetsov, State University HSE, Moscow, Russia * Guy Mineau, Universit? Laval, Canada * Bernard Moulin, Universit? Laval, Canada * Marie-Laure Mugnier, LIRMM, France * Heather D. Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University, USA * Simon Polovina, University of Sheffield, UK * Uta Priss, Napier University, UK * Henrik Sch?rfe, Aalborg University, Denmark * John F. Sowa, VivoMind Intelligence Inc., USA * Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany * Rudolf Wille, Darmstadt Technical University, Germany * Karl-Erich Wolff, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany * Peter ?hrstr?m, Aalborg University, Denmark Programme committee (tentative) * Radim Belohlavek (USA) * Tru Cao (Vietnam) * Dan Corbett (USA) * Olivier Corby (France) * Madalina Croitoru (France) * Juliette Dibie-Barth?lemy (France) * Pavlin Dobrev (Bulgaria) * Udo Hebisch (Germany) * Joachim Hereth (Germany) * Nathalie Hernandez (France) * Wolfgang Hesse (Germany) * Richard Hill (UK) * Jan Hladik (Germany) * Andreas Hotho (UK) * Adil Kabbaj (Morocco) * Markus Kr?tzsch (Germany) * Rob Kremer (Canada) * Leonhard Kwuida (Switzerland) * Michel Leclere (France) * Robert Levinson (USA) * Philippe Martin (Australia) * Claudio Masolo (Italia) * Sergei Obiedkov (Russia) * Daniel Oberle (Germany) * John Old (UK) * Anne-Marie Rassinoux (Switzerland) * Gary Richmond (USA) * Olivier Ridoux (France) * Eric Salvat (France) * Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (Denmark) * Jeffrey Schiffel (USA) * York Sure (Germany) * Rallou Thomopoulos (USA) * Denny Vrandecic (Germany) * GQ Zhang (USA) _________________________________________________ Dr. Sebastian Rudolph Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 (0)721 608 5998 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sertkaya at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Sat Jan 3 00:38:15 2009 From: sertkaya at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Baris Sertkaya) Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:38:15 +0100 Subject: [DL] Special session on Description Logic of Knowledge Representation In-Reply-To: <208819.2275.qm@web45912.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <208819.2275.qm@web45912.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <495EA567.5040105@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Dear all, This conference announcement looks like a scam. I have noticed this only after approving it. Please ignore this announcement. Best regards, Baris Sertkaya (the list moderator) John Edward wrote: > Special Session on Description Logic of Knowledge Representation at AIPR-09: call for papers > > There is a special session on Description Logic of Knowledge Representation at the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) that will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: > ? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) > ? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) > ? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) > ? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) > ? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) > ? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) > ? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) > ? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) > ? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) > > The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. > > Sincerely > John Edward > Publicity committee > > From areces at pluton.loria.fr Mon Jan 12 17:14:42 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:14:42 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: HyLo 2009 Message-ID: <200901121614.n0CGEgOV006477@pluton.loria.fr> *************************************************************** Please excuse for multiple posts and distribute as widely as possible *************************************************************** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2009 (HyLo 2009) "Conmemorating the Ten Years of HyLo" http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 15 - 17 July, 2009 Nancy, France *************************************************************** WORKSHOP PURPOSE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of HyLo 2009 is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. HyLo 2009 will be an special event, conmemorating the ten years since the organization of the first HyLo workshop in 1999. HyLo 2009 will be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). SUBMISSION DETAILS: We invite the contribution of papers reporting new work from researchers interested in hybrid logic. Details about the submission procedure will be announced in the second call for papers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, and selected papers will be included in a special volume to conmemorate the 10th aniversary of the first Hybrid Logic Workshop. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. INVITED SPEAKERS: To be announced ORGANIZERS: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, areces at loria.fr) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, blackbur at loria.fr) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark) Torben Brauner (Roskilde University) Stephane Demri (LSV Cachan) Santiago Figueira (University of Buenos Aires) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester) Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam) IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 1st March 2009 Notification of acceptance: Monday, 30th of April 2009 Deadline for final versions: Friday, 1st of May 2009 Workshop dates: 15 to 17 July, 2009 FURTHER INFORMATION: http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 From franconi at inf.unibz.it Wed Jan 7 16:10:02 2009 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:10:02 +0100 Subject: [DL] European Master in Computational Logic - scholarships for non-European and European students Message-ID: <8E9D35EA-2629-4AED-A010-0BA375CD4E2E@inf.unibz.it> *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** http://www.computational-logic.eu The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano (FUB), in Italy (at the heart of the Dolomites mountains in South-Tyrol), is offering the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Master of Science in Computer Science offer (Laurea Specialistica). The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is an international distributed Master of Science course, in cooperation with the computer science departments in the following universities: * Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany * Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria * Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain This program, completely in English, involves studying one year at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and completing the second year with a stay in one of the partner universities. After this, the student will obtain, together with the European degree, two Master of Science degrees: the Laurea Specialistica degree from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, with legal value in Italy, and the respective Master of Science degree from the visited university, with legal value in its country. APPLICATION DEADLINES: - *** 10 FEBRUARY 2009* ** : first deadline for all European and non- European students, and final deadline for non-European students requesting an Erasmus Mundus scholarship (notification of acceptance: 10 March 2009) - 31 May 2009: deadline for all European and non-European students (notification of acceptance: 15 June 2009) - 22 August 2009: last deadline only for European students starting at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (notification of acceptance: 5 September 2009) SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT: In 2009 the European Union will offer several new Erasmus Mundus scholarships for non-European citizens (in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 more than 90 Erasmus Mundus scholarships were given). Each scholarship for each student amounts to 21,000 EUR per academic year; this includes 10 monthly grants of 1,600 EUR and a fixed amount of 5,000 EUR for fees, travel expenses, relocation costs, etc. The 10th of February 2009 is the final deadline for requesting an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for non-European students. European citizens can apply to scholarships which are granted purely on the basis of the yearly income of the applicant and of her/his parents or husband/wife. This scholarship is only for the year of study at FUB and it may amount up to more than 6,000 EUR per academic year, plus support on the accommodation and reimbursement of the local enrolment fees. These scholarships are also available to non-European citizens with residence in Italy. European students will also get a LLP Socrates Erasmus scholarship for the second year of study abroad, which is 330 EUR per month. NEW! Several tuition fee waivers are available to European students with good qualifications. All European applicants will be considered for tuition fee waivers. The IBM Center for Advanced Studies sponsors an annual "IBM & KRDB" award for the best thesis on a Computational Logic related topic defended at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; each winner will receive a laptop computer from IBM. In addition to that, the Italian site in Rome of the IBM Center for Advanced Studies supports scholarships of up to 2,400 EUR to work on a research project or on the thesis at their labs in Rome. Every year 10 students with European citizenship can visit Australia (Canberra, Sidney, Melbourne or Brisbane) up to 3 months to work on a research project, sponsored by the European Master. The study period in Australia is part of the study programme and it is fully recognised by the European Master's Program in Computational Logic. The guaranteed scholarship is of 3,100 EUR and it covers the travel and living expenses in Australia. Check the web page for detailed info on other available scholarships: http://www.computational-logic.eu THE STUDY PROGRAMME: The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in this rapidly growing area. Based on a solid foundation in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and declarative programming students will acquire in-depth knowledge necessary to specify, implement and run complex systems as well as to prove properties of these systems. In particular, the focus of instruction will be in deduction systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, artificial intelligence, formal specification and verification, syntax directed semantics, logic and automata theory, logic and computability. This basic knowledge is then applied to areas like logic and natural language processing, logic and the semantic web, bioinformatics, information systems and database technology, software and hardware verification. Students will acquire practical experience and will become familiar in the use of tools within these applications. In addition, students will be prepared for a future PhD, they will come in contact with the international research community and will be integrated into ongoing research projects. They will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Laurea triennale) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is part of the Master in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica in Informatica) and it has various strengths that make it unique amongst Italian and European universities: * Curriculum taught entirely in English: The programme is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene. * Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum. * Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities. * Other specialisations with streams in the hottest Computer Science areas, such as Web Technologies, Information and Knowledge Management, Databases and Software Engineering. * International student community. * Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment. * Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is sponsored scientifically by the European Network of Excellence on Computational Logic (CoLogNET), the European Association of Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), the Italian Association for Informatics (AICA, member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), the Italian Association for Logic and its Applications (AILA), and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO: The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, founded in 1997, boasts modern premises in the centre of Bozen-Bolzano. The environment is multilingual, South Tyrol being a region where three languages are spoken: German, Italian and Ladin. Studying in a multilingual area has shown that our students acquire the cutting edge needed in the international business world. Many of our teaching staff hails from abroad. Normal lectures are complemented with seminars, work placements and laboratory work, which give our students a vocational as well as theoretical training, preparing them for their subsequent professional careers. Studying at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano means, first and foremost, being guided all the way through the student's educational career. Bozen-Bolzano, due to its enviable geographical position in the centre of the Dolomites, also offers our students a multitude of opportunities for spending their free-time. The city unites the traditional with the modern. Young people and fashionable shops throng the city centre where ancient mercantile buildings are an attractive backdrop to a city that is in continual growth. To the south there is the industrial and manufacturing area with prosperous small and medium-sized businesses active in every economic sector. Back in the 17th century Bozen-Bolzano was already a flourishing mercantile city that, thanks to its particular geographic position, functioned as a kind of bridge between northern and southern Europe. As a multilingual town and a cultural centre Bozen-Bolzano still has a lot to offer today. Its plethora of theatres, concerts with special programmes, cinemas and museums, combined with a series of trendy night spots that create local colour make Bozen-Bolzano a city that is beginning to cater for its increasingly demanding student population. And if you fancy a very special experience, go and visit the city's favourite and most famous resident - "Oetzi", the Ice Man of Similaun, housed in his very own refrigerated room in the recently opened archaeological museum. Bozen-Bolzano and its surroundings are an El Dorado for sports lovers: jogging on the grass alongside the River Talfer-Talvera, walks to Jenesien-S.Genesio and on the nearby Schlern-Sciliar plateau, excursions and mountain climbing in the Dolomites, swimming in the numerous nearby lakes and, last but not least, skiing and snowboarding in the surrounding ski areas. FURTHER INFORMATION: Sergio Tessaris (director) or Enrico Franconi at info at fub.computational-logic.eu European Masters Program in Computational Logic Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Domenicani, 3 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy Phone: +39 0471 016 000 Fax: +39 0471 016 009 Email: info at fub.computational-logic.eu Web site: http://www.computational-logic.eu From jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk Mon Jan 5 22:43:02 2009 From: jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk (Jeff Z. Pan) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:43:02 -0000 (GMT) Subject: [DL] PhD Positions on Ontology Reasoning and Next-generation Internet Message-ID: <50941.87.114.11.98.1231191782.squirrel@www.csd.abdn.ac.uk> ================================================================ PhD Positions on Ontology Reasoning and Next-generation Internet Applications Deadline: Jan 27, 2009 ================================================================ The Knowledge Technology (KT) group in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen is one of the key players in the area of semantics and ontology technologies with excellent balance between theoretical work and pragmatic applications. The KT group offers a friendly yet stimulating environment of a leading research group in the field of semantics and ontology; an active collaboration with leading academic institutes and major companies in fields like software engineering, multimedia, product (such as aircraft engines) engineering, bioinformatics and Web science; as well as experience of collaboration with standardisation bodies such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The KT group is looking for PhD researchers who are willing to do research within one of our new projects. The goal of the project is to combine benefits and synergy of Web 2.0 and semantic and ontology technologies. To reach this goal, it will develop a seamless integration technology for ontologies into social Web 2.0 applications, resulting in ontology-driven social Web 2.0 development. Scalable ontology reasoning technologies will play a key role in the project. Successful candidates will be awarded SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance, http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/) studentships, which worth around ?18,000 per year for 3.5 years. This includes support for living expenses of around ?13,000, research expenses and postgraduate fees at the level charged to students who are UK/EU residents. Students who are not UK/EU residents may apply for additional support to cover the difference in fees. Our aim is to attract the research leaders of the future, whatever their nationality, to come and work with us in Scotland. The KT group expects: (1) A strong background in Computer Science, i.e., an outstanding Undergraduate (1st class honours degree) or Masters Degree (with Distinction or equivalent GPA scores) in either Computing Science or a related discipline. (2) Research interest and some expertise in at least two of the following areas: ontology, reasoning, Web 2.0, query answering, inconsistency reasoning, uncertainty reasoning, machine learning. (3) The willingness to combine formal theoretical work with application-oriented research. (4) Solid programming skills as well as personal skills required to work with the local team and our collaborators. For further information regarding to the research in the KT group and the project, please contact Dr. Jeff Z. Pan (http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jpan/). *How to apply* Applications will be processed in two phases. In the first phase, your qualifications will be considered and, if approved, you will receive an offer for a place in our PhD programme. To submit an application, please follow the instructions here: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sras/postgraduate/apply.shtml Please include your curriculum vitae, a list of publications (if applicable) and digital versions of your most relevant work (such as graduation thesis or latest publications). The deadline of first phase application is Jan 27, 2009. In the second phase, you will be considered for funding; invited candidates will be asked to complete the online application form: http://projectnets.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/sga/ Students must have or must expect to be awarded a 1st class honours degree or an MSc with Distinction or equivalent GPA scores. If you have not achieved this level, your application will not normally be considered for SICSA studentships. The deadline of the second phase application is Feb 8, 2009. Promoting Diversity and Equal Opportunities throughout the University The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Fri Jan 9 18:03:52 2009 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu d'Aquin) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:03:52 +0000 Subject: [DL] JOB: Research Associate - Semantic Web (deadline approaching) Message-ID: <49678378.1080804@open.ac.uk> ****** Apologies for multiple postings ****** Research Associate: Semantic Web Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) ?27,183 - ?35,469, Ref: 5245 Based in Milton Keynes - Temporary 12 month contract The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute has an opening for a Research Associate to participate to the research activities realized within the NeOn EU-funded integrated project (http://neon-project.org) on knowledge sharing and ontology publication. This work is part of our ongoing research program on enabling the development of the Semantic Web, and in particular, of the next generation of Semantic Web applications, by providing the necessary foundation for the realization of such applications. More precisely, this work is at the forefront of emerging semantic technologies, combining infrastructure components for Semantic Web search (i.e., the Watson Semantic Web gateway, http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk) and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing with principles of social networks for collaborative evaluation and trust management in ontologies. Core to the work is the development of a new ontology sharing and publication system (Cupboard), which addresses the need for an open, distributed ontology repository system for the Semantic Web. For detailed information and how to apply go to http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy-5245.php, call the KMi Recruitment Coordinator on +44 (0) 1908 654774 or email quoting the reference number. Closing date: 19th January 2009. Informal enquiries may be made to: Dr. Mathieu d'Aquin - m.daquin at open.ac.uk Research Fellow Tel. +44 (0)1908 655526. and / or Professor Enrico Motta - e.motta at open.ac.uk Professor of Knowledge Technologies Tel. +44 (0)1908 653800. From protege.stanford at gmail.com Mon Jan 5 22:46:17 2009 From: protege.stanford at gmail.com (Protege Project Stanford University) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:46:17 -0800 Subject: [DL] 2009 Protege Conference: Call for participation Message-ID: My apologies for multiple postings. Please re-distribute as widely as possible. We are pleased to announce that the 11th International Protege Conference will be held June 23-26, 2009 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Please mark these dates on your calendar and plan to join us for a few days this summer. The conference is a forum to discuss ontology development and management, applications using ontologies, common problems and solutions. The conference is also an opportunity for Protege users to meet the Protege team, and to learn about our current activities and plans. The conference will include one day of tutorials and small focused workshops on the first day and two and a half days of the main conference. The main program will include presentations, a poster session, and a demo session. Thus, we would like to solicit your contributions for all the events at the conference. You can find the detailed calls for contributions at the conference Web site:http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2009/. There will be a review process for abstracts and the number of presentations will be limited. Events at the conference will address the following topics (the list is not exhaustive): - ontology development - frames vs description logic - standard terminologies - biomedical applications - other innovative applications - interoperability between different formats - plug-in development - visualization tools - project management - ontology tools - reasoning and inference - collaboration tools - ontology repository If you have questions, you can contact the organizers by email atprotege-conf-organizers at lists.stanford.edu We look forward to your contributions and to seeing as many of you as possible in June 2009! The Protege Teamhttp://protege.stanford.edu Stanford University Stanford, CA 94306 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Sat Jan 10 22:49:07 2009 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:49:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] Tableaux 2009: Final CfP Message-ID: [We apologize for multiple copies] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% %% %% Final Call for Papers %% %% %% %% TABLEAUX 2009 %% %% %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% International Conference TABLEAUX 2009 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Oslo, Norway 6.-10. July 2009 http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract and Title submission: Monday, 19. January 2009 Paper Submission: Monday, 26. January 2009 Notification: Tuesday, 24. March 2009 End of rebuttal phase: Friday, 27. March 2009 Final Notification: Friday, 3. April 2009 Final Versions: Friday, 24. April 2009 Workshops: Monday, 6. July 2009 Conference: Tuesday, 7. to Friday, 10. July 2009 GENERAL INFORMATION This conference is the 18th in a series of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. In July 2009, the conference will be held in Oslo, Norway. The conference proceedings will be published in the LNAI series as in the previous editions of the conference. See http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/ for more information on TABLEAUX 2009, and http://i12www.ira.uka.de/TABLEAUX for information about the TABLEAUX conference series. Tableaux 2009 will be collocated with FTP 2009, the workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving, see http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/ftp09/ TOPICS Tableau methods are a convenient formalism for automating deduction in various non-standard logics as well as in classical logic. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, and system diagnosis. The conference brings together researchers interested in all aspects - theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications - of the mechanization of reasoning with tableaux and related methods. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): * analytic tableaux for various logics (theory and applications) * related techniques and concepts, e.g., model checking and BDDs * related methods (model elimination, sequent calculi, connection method, ...) * new calculi and methods for theorem proving in classical and non-classical logics (modal, description, intuitionistic, linear, temporal, many-valued...) * systems, tools, implementations and applications. As in previous years, TABLEAUX 2009 puts a special emphasis on applications. Papers describing applications of tableaux and related methods in areas such as hardware and software verification, semantic technologies, knowledge engineering, etc. are particularly invited. One or more tutorials will be part of the conference program. SUBMISSIONS The conference will include contributed papers, tutorials, system descriptions, position papers and invited lectures. Submissions are invited in four categories: A Research papers (reporting original theoretical and/or experimental research, up to 15 pages) B System descriptions (up to 5 pages) C Position papers and brief reports on work in progress D Tutorials in all areas of analytic tableaux and related methods from academic research to applications (proposals up to 5 pages) Submissions in categories A and B will be reviewed by peers, typically members of the program committee. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. For category B submissions a working implementation must exist and be available to the referees. After the notification, there will be a rebuttal phase of three days during which the authors of rejected papers will have the opportunity to respond to the reviews. Accepted papers in these categories will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions in category C will be reviewed by members of the program committee and a collection of the accepted papers in this category will be published as a Technical Report of the University of Oslo. The deadline for the submission of tutorial (Category D) and workshop proposals is Friday, 9. Jan 2009. Check information on the web page for details. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. STUDENT SPONSORING Apart from significantly reduced conference fees, students will have access to budget accommodation at a rate of about 100 EUR for the whole week. If necessary, we will be able to provide further financing help. Lack of funds should not prevent you from submitting a paper to Tableaux 2009! INVITED SPEAKERS We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have accepted to give invited talks at Tableaux 2009: * Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Nancy, France * Peter Jeavons, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK * Pierre Wolper, Universit? de Liege, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE PC Chairs * Martin Giese, Univ. of Oslo, Norway * Arild Waaler, Univ. of Oslo, Norway PC Members * Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Canberra, Australia * Bernhard Beckert, Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Christoph Benzm?ller, Saarland Univ., Saarbr?cken, Germany * Marc Bezem, Univ. of Bergen, Norway * Torben Bra?ner, Roskilde Univ., Denmark * Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien, Austria * Marta Cialdea Mayer, Univ. of Rome 3, Italy * St?phane Demri, CNRS, Cachan, France * Roy Dyckhoff, Univ. of St Andrews, Scotland * Ulrich Furbach, Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Didier Galmiche, LORIA, Henri Poincar? Univ., Nancy, France * Valentin Goranko, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa * Rajeev Gor?, The Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia * Reiner H?hnle, Chalmers Univ., G?teborg, Sweden * Ullrich Hustadt, Univ. of Liverpool, UK * Christoph Kreitz, Univ. Potsdam, Germany * George Metcalfe, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, USA * Neil V. Murray, Univ. at Albany - SUNY, USA * Nicola Olivetti, Paul C?zanne University, Marseille, France * Jens Otten, Univ. Potsdam, Germany * Nicolas Peltier, LIG, Grenoble, France * Ulrike Sattler, Univ. of Manchester, UK * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbr?cken, Germany * Frank Wolter, Univ. of Liverpool, UK ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference co-Chairs: * Martin Giese, Univ. of Oslo, Norway * Arild Waaler, Univ. of Oslo, Norway Local organisers: * Terje Aaberge * Roger Antonsen * Roar Fjellheim * Christian M. Hansen * Bjarne Holen (webmaster) * Magdalena Ivanovska * Espen H. Lian * Martin G. Skj?veland * Evgenij Thorstensen From arcoe-09 at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Wed Jan 14 17:41:40 2009 From: arcoe-09 at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (ARCOE-09) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:41:40 +0100 Subject: [DL] ARCOE-09 Second Call for Participation Message-ID: <52c479f40901140841s7dc5bd68se9a84497ddd4324a@mail.gmail.com> Apologies for Multiple Postings ======================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ARCOE-09 at IJCAI-09 July 11-12, 2009 Pasadena, CA, USA ======================= The IJCAI-09 Workshop on Automated Reasoning about Context and Ontology Evolution (ARCOE-09) http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ARCOE-09 July 11-12, 2009 Pasadena, California, USA held at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09) http://ijcai-09.org ARCOE-09 Highlights: McGuinness' and Baader's Invited Talks; IJCAI set workshop dates to July 11-12, 2009 -- Description of the workshop -- Methods of automated reasoning have solved a large number of problems in Computer Science by using formal ontologies expressed in logic. Over the years, though, each problem or class of problems has required a different ontology, and sometimes a different version of logic. Moreover, the processes of conceiving, controlling and maintaining an ontology and its versions have turned out to be inherently complex. All this has motivated much investigation in a wide range of disparate disciplines -- from logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning to Software Engineering, from Databases to Multimedia -- about how to relate ontologies to one another. ARCOE-09 aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of Artificial Intelligence (Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Contexts, and Ontologies) to discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results. Historically, there have been at least three different, yet interdependent motivations behind this type of research: defining the relationship between an ontology and its context, providing support to ontology engineers, enhancing problem solving and communication for software agents. Ontology and Context. Most application areas have recognised the need for representing and reasoning about knowledge that is distributed over many resources. Such knowledge depends on its context, i.e., on the syntactic and/or semantic structure of such resources. Research on information integration, distributed knowledge management, the semantic web, multi-agent and distributed reasoning have pinned down different aspects of how ontologies relate to and/or develop within their context. Ontology Engineering. Ontology engineers are not supposed to succeed right from the beginning when (individually or collaboratively) developing an ontology. Despite their expertise and any assistance from domain experts, revision cycles are the rule. Research on the automation of the process of engineering an ontology has improved efficiency and reduced the introduction of unintended meanings by means of interactive ontology editors. Moreover, ontology matching has studied the process of manual, off-line alignment of two or more known ontologies. Problem Solving and Communication for Agents. Agents that communicate with one another without having full access to their respective ontologies or that are programmed to face new non-classifiable situations must change their own ontology dynamically at run-time -- they cannot rely on human intervention. Research on this problem has either concentrated on non-monotonic reasoning and belief revision or on changes of signature, i.e., of the grammar of the ontology's language, with a minimal disruption to the original theory. ARCOE-09 will provide a multi-disciplinary forum, where differences in methodologies, representation languages and techniques are over-arched and hopefully overcome. Accordingly, the workshop will be structured into four tracks: three of them will focus on specific areas, the fourth one will foster links and integration. Track 1: Context and Ontology This track will select and present works about Context and Ontology, a well-established research area that has mainly concentrated on the relationship between contexts and ontologies for distributed information and for the enhancement of software agents. Track 2: Common Sense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Ontologies This track will select and present works about logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, a classic area of AI, which since its origins has produced remarkable results on logic-based methods for supporting knowledge engineers and for enhancing software agents. Track 3: Automated Ontology Evolution This track will select and present works about Automated Ontology Evolution, an area which in recent years has been drawing the attention of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning on the automation of ontology evolution. Track 4: Links and integration This track will foster links and integration by means of invited talks and (panel) discussions. Topics that are likely to be covered are: the formalisation of software engineering concepts for ontology development; the relationship between automated reasoning and information retrieval; relationships between representation languages; relationships between canonical domains; relationships between contexts and ontology evolution and between Non-Monotonic Reasoning and ontology evolution. Prof. Deborah McGuinness and prof. Franz Baader have recently accepted ARCOE-09's invitation to deliver an invited talk. The titles of their contributions will be made available after the submission deadline. ARCOE-09 will bring the participants to position the various approaches with respect to one another. Hopefully, though, the workshop will also start a process of cross-pollination and set out the constitution of a truly interdisciplinary research-community dedicated to automated reasoning about contexts and ontology evolution. -- Topics -- Track 1: Context and Ontology Submissions are welcome on the role of context and ontology in areas that include but are not limited to the following ones: - Information Integration - The role of context and ontology in Distributed Reasoning and Knowledge Management - The role of context and ontology in Semantic Web - Multi-Agent Systems - Data Grid and Grid Computing - Pervasive Computing and Ambient Intelligence - Peer-to-peer Information Systems - Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies Track 2: Common Sense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning Submissions are welcome on the role of common sense and non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies in areas that include but are not limited to the following ones: - Ontology Debugging, Update and Merging - Inconsistency Handling, Belief Revision and Theory Change for DL ontologies - Uncertainty Handling, Defeasible Reasoning and Argumentation in ontologies - Heuristic and Approximate Reasoning - Planning and Reasoning about Action and Change on the Semantic Web - Rules and Ontologies - Temporal and Spatial Reasoning Track 3: Automated Ontology Evolution Submissions are welcome on the role of automated ontology evolution in areas that include but are not limited to the following ones: - Ontology fault diagnosis and repair - Problem Solving - Agent Communication - Persistent Agents in Changing Environment - Multimedia on the Web - IT and Automated Reasoning -- Attendance -- Following IJCAI-09 policy, the total number of participants in ARCOE-09 will be limited to 75 people. This includes organisers, PC members, invited speakers, authors and attendees. Authors will be selected on significance of their submission and will be preferred to simple attendees. Attendees will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis. Please check http://ijcai-09.org for registration procedure and fees. -- Submission Requirements and Dates -- ARCOE-09 will accept submissions of long abstracts, for both long presentations and poster presentations. The distinction during the selection-phase will be based on the significance and the quality of submissions as well as oriented towards fostering cross-pollination and discussions during the event. All selected abstracts will be included in the IJCAI-09 Working Notes. Authors are kindly requested to provide keywords upon submission. The format for submissions is the same as that of IJCAI-09. Please check http://ijcai-09.org for the style files. Submissions should be no longer than 3 pages. - Submission deadline: March 6, 2009 - Notification to authors: April 17, 2009 - Camera-ready version: May 8, 2009 - Workshop dates: July 11-12, 2009 -- Submit to -- Please submit to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe09 -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- - Alan Bundy School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK. Tel: +44-131-650-2716, Fax No.: +44-131-650-6899. - Jos Lehmann School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK. Tel: +44-131-650-2725, Fax No.: +44-131-650-6899. - Guilin Qi Institute AIFB, Universitaet Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany. Tel: +49-721-608-6038. - Ivan Jose Varzinczak Meraka Institute, Meiring Naude Road, CSIR, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa. Tel: +27-12-841-33-23. Please send all enquiries and communications to: arcoe-09 at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de -- Program Committee -- - Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) - Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento, Italy) - Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France) - Chiara Ghidini (FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) - Alain Leger (France Telecom R&D, France) - Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) - Thomas Meyer (Meraka Institute, South Africa) - Maurice Pagnucco (The University of New South Wales, Australia) - Valeria de Paiva (Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA) - Luciano Serafini (FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) - Pavel Shvaiko (Informatica Trentina S.P.A., Italy) - John F. Sowa (VivoMind Intelligence, Inc., USA) - Holger Wache (University of Applied Sciences, Northwestern Switzerland) - Renata Wassermann (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Thu Jan 22 15:04:17 2009 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:04:17 +0100 Subject: [DL] open assistant professorship or postdoc position in Semantic Web (AIFB Karlsruhe) Message-ID: <49787CE1.3040401@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> job opening: ASSISTANT PROFESSORSHIP or POSTDOC POSITION (TV-L E14 German scheme) group of Prof. Rudi Studer, AIFB, Karlsruhe, Germany (SEMANTIC WEB) profile - one of the following: ontology management and engineering, intelligent data/information management, semantic search and information retrieval, knowledge acquisition, metadata creation/annotation, large-scale text mining The position requires German language deadline: 21st of February 2009 (late submissions may also be considered) more information: if you have and further questions, let me know. Pascal. -- PD Dr. Pascal Hitzler Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe email: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de fax: +49 721 608 6580 web: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de phone: +49 721 608 4751 Springer Lehrbuch: http://www.semantic-web-grundlagen.de From ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk Tue Jan 20 10:49:50 2009 From: ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Horrocks) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:49:50 +0000 Subject: [DL] Final call for comments: W3C publishes OWL 2 "last call" drafts Message-ID: <6E76CABF-1346-40C7-97E4-638BA27FA98C@comlab.ox.ac.uk> The W3C OWL Working Group has just published a set of eleven documents for public review. These documents cover "OWL 2", which is now fairly stable. This is a good time to review this work and send us comments (at public-owl-comments at w3.org). Comments received by 23 January will be answered and taken into account in the next round of publications. The group expects to issue the OWL 2 Candidatate Recommendations, with a call for implementations, shortly after that comment deadline. The documents are: 1. Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-syntax-20081202/ 2. Direct Semantics http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-semantics-20081202/ 3. RDF-Based Semantics http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-rdf-based-semantics-20081202/ 4. Conformance and Test Cases http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-test-20081202/ 5. Mapping to RDF Graphs http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-mapping-to-rdf-20081202/ 6. XML Serialization http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-xml-serialization-20081202/ 7. Profiles http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-profiles-20081202/ 8. Quick Reference Guide http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-quick-reference-20081202/ 9. New Features and Rationale http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-new-features-20081202/ 10. Manchester Syntax http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-manchester-syntax-20081202/ 11. rdf:text: A Datatype for Internationalized Text http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rdf-text-20081202/ Of these eleven documents: * The first seven are the core technical specification for OWL 2. Six of these now at "Last Call". This means the Working Group believes the design is done and that the only changes going forward will be editorial, along with certain items highlighted as "at risk" in the documents. The other one, "RDF-Based Semantics" (which specifies OWL 2 Full) is expected to proceed to Last Call shortly. * The "Quick Reference Guide" and "New Features and Rationale" will be a good place to start for many OWL users, these documents will be a good place to start. (A Primer is also being developed, and a earlier draft was published, but it has not yet been updated to account for the current state of the language.) * "Manchester Syntax" specifies an alternative syntax for OWL which some users prefer and some tools implement, but which is not required. * "rdf:text" specifies an XML datatype (developed jointly with the RIF Working Group) which provides a way to deal with RDF language-tagged literal strings without making them be a special case. Again, please send comments to public-owl-comments at w3.org by 23 January. Discussion on either of these lists is fine, but might not be seen by the Working Group. Ian Horrocks Chair, OWL Working Group From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Wed Jan 14 16:07:04 2009 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:07:04 -0200 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2009 - Second Call for Papers (DEADLINE: Feb 28) In-Reply-To: <48FE1E64.7030401@cin.ufpe.br> References: <48FE1E64.7030401@cin.ufpe.br> Message-ID: <496DFF98.8070200@cin.ufpe.br> [** sincere apologies for duplicates **] Call for Papers /*16th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation*/ (/*WoLLIC 2009*/) Tokyo, Japan June 21-24, 2009 (SPECIAL: There will be a screening of George Csicsery's "N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos" http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.html with kind permission of the film director) WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The Sixteenth WoLLIC will be held at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan, from June 21 to 24, 2009. It is jointly sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL). *SPECIAL EVENT* 2009 will mark the 60-th anniversary of the publication of Paul Erdos' elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem. WoLLIC will celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Erdos which was directed by George Csicsery "N is a number - A Portrait of Paul Erdos" http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.html *PAPER SUBMISSION* Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at http://wollic.org/wollic2009/instructions.html A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 28, and the full paper by March 8 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 19, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 3 (firm date). *PROCEEDINGS* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2009, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's /Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ series (TBC). In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the /Logic Journal of the IGPL/, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2009 issue of a scientific journal. *INVITED SPEAKERS* Arnold Beckmann (Swansea U, UK) Carlos Caleiro (UT Lisbon, Portugal) Thomas Eiter (Tech U Wien, Austria) Sylvain Salvati (INRIA, France) Taisuke Sato (Tokyo Inst Tech, Japan) Michiel van Lambalgen (U Amsterdam, NL) Frank Wolter (U Liverpool, UK) *STUDENT GRANTS* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2009 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2009). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *IMPORTANT DATES* February 28, 2009: Paper title and abstract deadline March 8, 2009: Full paper deadline (firm) April 19, 2009: Author notification May 3, 2009: Final version deadline (firm) *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* Toshiyasu Arai (Kobe U, Japan) Matthias Baaz (Tech U Wien) Alexandru Baltag (Oxford U) Josep Maria Font (U Barcelona) Silvio Ghilardi (U Milano) Katsumi Inoue (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) Marcus Kracht (U Bielefeld) Hiroakira Ono (JAIST, Japan) (Chair) Masanao Ozawa (Nagoya U) John Slaney (Australian Nat U) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh U) Hans Tompits (Tech U Wien) *ORGANISING COMMITTEE* Makoto Kanazawa (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan, co-chair) Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil, co-chair) Ken Satoh (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) *STEERING COMMITTEE* Samson Abramsky , Johan van Benthem , Joe Halpern , Wilfrid Hodges , Daniel Leivant , Angus Macintyre , Grigori Mints , Ruy de Queiroz *WEB PAGE* wollic.org/wollic2009/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de Wed Jan 21 12:27:12 2009 From: stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de (Gerd Stumme) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:27:12 +0100 Subject: [DL] Open (PhD) Positions in Project on Academic Publication Management Message-ID: <49770690.9090600@cs.uni-kassel.de> The library of the University of Kassel and the Hertie Chair on Knowledge & Data Engineering offer two positions in a national project on Web 2.0 based academic publication management. We are looking for two highly motivated researchers who are interested in working in an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, mathematicians, and librariens. As the positions require working knowledge in the German language, the remainder of this call is in German only. We apologize to all non-German speakers. Die Universit?ts-Bibliothek und der Hertie-Stiftungslehrstuhl Wissensverarbeitung der Universit?t Kassel besetzen baldm?glichst im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts "PUMA - Akademisches Publikationsmanagement" f?r zun?chst zwei Jahre je eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche(r) Mitarbeiter(in) (BAT IIa, ganztags). Im PUMA-Projekt wird ein System entwickelt, das Wissenschaftler bei der Verwaltung ihrer Publikationen unterst?tzt. Das System vernetzt das am FG Wissensverarbeitung betriebene kooperative Web 2.0-Verschlagwortungssystem BibSonomy mit dem Open-Access-Repository der Bibliothek und der Universit?ts-Forschungsdatenbank sowie weiteren Systemen. Wir suchen zwei hochmotivierte Mitarbeiter, die an der Schnittstelle von Web 2.0 und dem Bibliothekswesen arbeiten und forschen m?chten. Eine der beiden Stellen ist in der Bibliothek angesiedelt, die andere im FG Wissensverarbeitung. F?r beide Stellen sind umfangreiche Programmiererfahrungen n?tig, worzugsweise in Java, sowie Kenntnisse einer der g?ngigen Skriptsprachen. F?r die Arbeit auf der Stelle im FG Wissensverarbeitung sind dar?ber hinaus Kenntnisse in einem der Gebiete Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Social Network Analysis und der Analyse von gro?en Datenmengen von Vorteil. Wenn Sie einen sehr guten Universit?tsabschluss in Informatik, Mathematik, Physik oder einem verwandten Gebiet haben und an teamorientierter Entwicklungs- und Forschungsarbeit auf internationalem Niveau in einem interdisziplin?ren Team von Informatikern, Bibliothekaren, Mathematikern und Wirtschaftsinformatikern interessiert sind, freuen wir uns ?ber Ihre Bewerbung. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 15. Februar 2009. Die Universit?t Kassel ist bestrebt, den Anteil an Frauen zu erh?hen und begr??t deshalb besonders die Bewerbung von Frauen. Schwerbehinderte Bewerber/innen werden bei entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt ber?cksichtigt. Die Gelegenheit zur Promotion ist auf der Stelle des FG Wissensverarbeitung gegeben. Weitere Ausk?nfte k?nnen bei Herrn Dr. Helge Steenweg (Bibliothek, 0561/804-3821) und Herrn Dr. Andreas Hotho (FG Wissensverarbeitung, 0561/804-6252) eingeholt werden. Bitte richten Sie Ihre vollst?ndige Bewerbung per Email parallel an Herrn Ltd. Bibl.-Dir. Dr. Axel Halle und Herrn Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme. Die Stellenausschreibung finden Sie online unter http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/jobs/ und BibSonomy k?nnen Sie unter http://www.bibsonomy.org/ besuchen. -- Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme, Hertie Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Kassel http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de, Tel. 0561/804-6251, Fax: -6259 -->> Try our bookmarking system http://www.BibSonomy.org now! <<-- From carsten at itu.dk Mon Jan 26 12:46:53 2009 From: carsten at itu.dk (Carsten Schuermann) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:46:53 +0100 Subject: [DL] CADE-22 last call for papers Message-ID: <497DA2AD.3090809@itu.dk> LAST CALL FOR PAPERS CADE-22 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2-7, 2009 Submission Deadline: 23 Feb 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ GENERAL INFORMATION CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. The conference programme will include invited talks, paper presentations, system descriptions, workshops, tutorials, and system competitions. SCOPE We invite high-quality submissions on the general topic of automated deduction, including foundations, applications, implementations and practical experiences. Logics of interest include, but are not limited to o propositional, first-order, equational, higher-order, classical, description, modal, temporal, many-valued, intuitionistic, other non-classical, meta-logics, logical frameworks, type theory and set theory. Methods of interest include, but are not limited to o saturation, resolution, instance-based, tableaux, sequent calculi, natural deduction, term rewriting, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, constraint solving, induction, unification, proof planning, proof checking, proof presentation and explanation. Applications of interest include, but are not limited to o program analysis and verification, hardware verification, mathematics, natural language processing, computational linguistics, knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, functional and logic programming, robotics, planning, and other areas of AI. INVITED SPEAKERS: Konstantin Korovin The University of Manchester Martin Rinard Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mark Stickel SRI International WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, SYSTEM COMPETITIONS: There will be a two-day programme of eight workshops and four tutorials before the conference. In addition, two system competitions will be held during the conference. Workshops: o Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability (ADDCT) o Beyond SAT: What About First-Order Logic? o Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP) o Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants (MLPA) o Proof Search in Type Theories (PSTT) o Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) o The International Workshop on Unification (UNIF) o TPTP World Workshop (TPTPWoWo) Tutorials: o Hierarchical and Modular Reasoning in Complex Theories o Probabilistic Analysis Using a Theorem Prover o Precise, Automated and Scalable Verification of Systems Software Using SMT solvers o Logics with Undefinedness System competitions: o The CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) o Satisfiability Modulo Theories Competition (SMT-COMP) Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. STUDENT AWARDS Travel awards will be available to enable selected students to attend the conference. Details will be published on the conference website. PUBLICATION DETAILS: The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submissions can be made in the categories 'regular papers' and 'system descriptions'. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 15 pages for regular papers and 5 pages for system descriptions. Full system descriptions that provide in-depth presentation of original ideas in an implemented system can be submitted as regular papers. For the benefit of reviewers, additional material may be provided by a clearly marked appendix or a reference to a manuscript on a website. It is at the discretion of the reviewers whether such supplements will be considered. All regular papers will be evaluated according to the highest standards in terms of originality, significance, technical quality, and readability. Submissions must be in English and standard conforming pdf format. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are strongly encouraged to produce their papers in LaTeX. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. To submit your paper please use the EasyChair submission system at this address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade22. IMPORTANT DATES: A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper. 16 Feb 2009 Abstract submission deadline 23 Feb 2009 Paper submission deadline 10 Apr 2009 Notification of paper decisions 14 May 2009 Camera-ready papers due 2-3 Aug 2009 Workshops & Tutorials 4-7 Aug 2009 Conference, including CASC and SMT-COMP PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alessandro Armando Universit? di Genova Franz Baader Technische Universit?t Dresden Peter Baumgartner NICTA, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universit? degli Studi di Verona Bernhard Beckert Universit?t Koblenz-Landau Nikolaj Bj?rner Microsoft Research Alessandro Cimatti Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento Silvio Ghilardi Universit? degli Studi di Milano J?rgen Giesl RWTH Aachen Rajeev Gor? The Australian National University Reiner H?hnle Chalmers University of Technology John Harrison Intel Corporation Miki Hermann ?cole Polytechnique Ullrich Hustadt University of Liverpool Katsumi Inoue National Institute of Informatics, Japan Tommi Junttila Helsinki University of Technology Deepak Kapur University of New Mexico Alexander Leitsch Technische Universit?t Wien Christopher Lynch Clarkson University Claude March? INRIA Saclay, Parc Orsay Universit? William McCune University of New Mexico Aart Middeldorp Universit?t Innsbruck Hans de Nivelle University of Wroclaw Albert Oliveras Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Lawrence Paulson University of Cambridge Brigitte Pientka McGill University David Plaisted University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Micha?l Rusinowitch LORIA-INRIA-Lorraine Renate Schmidt (Chair) The University of Manchester Carsten Sch?rmann IT-Universitetet i K?benhavn Aaron Stump The University of Iowa Geoff Sutcliffe University of Miami Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester Christoph Weidenbach Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik ORGANIZERS: Conference Chair: Brigitte Pientka McGill University Workshop & Tutorial Chair: Aaron Stump The University of Iowa Publicity Chair: Carsten Sch?rmann IT-Universitetet i K?benhavn PC Chair: Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester From fitzgeraldsecurity at gmail.com Tue Jan 27 13:39:51 2009 From: fitzgeraldsecurity at gmail.com (william fitzgerald) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:39:51 +0000 Subject: [DL] DL ontology Query: Tree or Graph structure? Message-ID: <1d1cf33f0901270439h1016806ck9466327789760f7b@mail.gmail.com> Dear DL gurus, How does one view DL ontology structures? Are they Trees, Semantic Trees (ie semantically enhanced Trees), Directed Graphs etc? I am looking to understand the advantages of DL ontologies over representing knowledge in Tree-structures (with AND and OR operator capabilities). I work in the computer security domain. Currently looking at the advantages of DL (OWL-DL) over Attack Trees [1]. "Attack trees are multi-level diagrams consisting of one root, leaves, and children" [1]. They can also be constrained by AND and OR operators along the branches of the tree. "An attack tree is a tree in which the nodes represent attacks. The root node of the tree is the global goal of an attacker. Children of a node are refinements of this goal, and leafs therefore represent attacks that can no longer be refined. A refinement can be conjunctive (aggregation) or disjunctive (choice) [2]". Each Node can also be decorated with attributes (starting at the leave node) such as the cost or probability of an attack. Some refer to these attribute additions as semantically enriching the tree. However, my gut feeling is its nothing more than syntactically enriching the tree and that DL ontologies, by providing uniform explanations of a domain, provide semantics in a more natural and formal way. Note I have been using the term "DL ontology" rather than "DL Tree" or "DL Graph" as I am unsure of what category a DL model falls into. When developing an DL model of the attack tree paradigm or any ontology domain for that matter, one can see a Tree-like structure as a result of the class/concept hierarchy. However from what I can see, actual instances/individuals of the ontology seem to form a graph. So my question is are DL ontologies Trees, Graphs or a hybrid? Presumably a tree cannot capture "Roles" easily, like DL can. However one could argue that concepts, roles and individuals are codified in a tree structure (such as attack trees) only its not as obvious. For example from the quote above in [2] one can visualise the leaf nodes as the final atoms and so are "individuals" within an ontology. The tree root node might possibly be seen as a "Role" in an ontology. Instinctively I know what ontologies provide a better mechanism of formal explanations over Tree-like structures (like the attack tree) however I am initially finding it hard to tease out the differences of both when putting pen to paper. [Presumably I can't just argue that there is a more intuitive reasoning framework and a unified language when taking the DL approach, as one could write some constraint program to parse and understand the "semantics" of a Tree structure (just an initial thought here!) ] My query is just to get some direction on further reading that will make clear what category a DL ontology fits into and thus allow me to set about defining the advantages of using DL constrained ontologies over the old paradigm of (attack) trees within the security domain. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_tree [2] http://www.win.tue.nl/~sjouke/publications/papers/attacktrees.pdf kind regards, Will. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Wed Feb 4 13:14:09 2009 From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:14:09 +0100 Subject: [DL] DL Mailinglist Transfer Message-ID: <49898691.7070805@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Dear members of the DL mailing list, we are currently in the process of transferring the mailinglist to a new server (and a new city, from Dresden to Bremen). We will try to make the transition as smooth as possible. Alas, the new server just sent out subscription messages to all DL list members. This was accidental. Please simply ignore the message. best regards, Carsten -- * Carsten Lutz, FB Mathematik und Informatik, Universitaet Bremen * * Office phone:++49 421 21864431 mailto:clu at informatik.uni-bremen.de * From ankesh at cs.rpi.edu Wed Feb 4 21:24:13 2009 From: ankesh at cs.rpi.edu (Ankesh Khandelwal) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:24:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] NAF & De Morgan's Law Message-ID: <3543.128.113.106.49.1233779053.squirrel@webmail.cs.rpi.edu> Hi, My question doesn't directly relate to DL per se, but I thought this would be an appropriate place to find an answer to the question that I have run into as I am making efforts to map a rule language to LP. Is De Morgan's law valid for Negation As Failure? (The rule language I am trying to map assumes closed world setting) Thanks, Ankesh From gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Tue Feb 3 16:07:45 2009 From: gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Guilin Qi) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:07:45 +0100 Subject: [DL] 3rd CFP: AMAI Special Issue on Commonsense Reasoning for the Semantic Web Message-ID: <20090203160745.5a8tv1yr4sowsssk@webmail.uni-karlsruhe.de> [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] 3rd Call for paper ------------------ Journal of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) Special Issue on Commonsense Reasoning for the Semantic Web (https://logic.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/wiki/AMAI_special_issue_on_commmonsense_reasoning_in_the_semantic_web) Editor-in-Chief: Martin Charles Golumbic (University of Haifa, Israel) Guest Editors Frank van Harmelen, Vrije University Amsterdam (Frank.van.Harmelen at cs.vu.nl) Andreas Herzig, IRIT-CNRS (herzig at irit.fr) Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe (hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe (gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Descriptions --------------- Semantic Web Technologies provide concepts, architectures, and tools for interconnected vocabularies and applications. One of the declared goals of Semantic Web research is to enable intelligent software agents to reason about information and knowledge which is pervaded on the Web. To achieve this goal, a challenging and important problem is to represent commonsense knowledge on the Web and to reason with it. Indeed, commonsense reasoning is a central part of human behaviour, and how to endow computers with common sense capabilities is one of the major long-term goals of Artificial Intelligence research and is therefore also relevant to the realization of the ambitious Semantic Web vision. At the same time, the forthcoming Semantic Web constitutes an ideal application scenario for formal logic and traditional commonsense reasoning approaches. In recent years, there is a substantially increasing interest in applying theoretical approaches of commonsense reasoning to deal with practical application problems in the Semantic Web. It is indeed widely accepted that extensions of commonsense reasoning to the Semantic Web will have to be provided in the near future. In this special issue we intend to publish articles discussing commonsense reasoning aspects on the Web. Submissions describing original and solid theoretical contributions to commonsense reasoning with application to the Semantic web are especially encouraged. Topics of Interest ------------------ We encourage original and high quality work on all topics related to commonsense reasoning for the Semantic Web. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -reasoning about change and dynamics of ontologies, including ontology integration, ontology evolution, revision and update of ontologies in the Semantic Web -nonmonotonic extensions of ontology languages, including circumscriptive, default, defeasible logic, diagnosis, and autoepistemic approaches -temporal and spatial extensions of ontology languages -planning and action in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web services -combining modal logics and description logics -commonsense knowledge acquisition from the (Semantic) Web -integration of logic programming and description logics -abductive reasoning in the Semantic Web -extensions of ontology languages to enable uncertainty reasoning, including fuzzy, probabilistic and possibilistic approaches -contextualized, distributed, and modular ontology languages -non-standard reasoning in description logics, such as computing least common subsumer and matching. -paraconsistent extension of ontology languages -computational models of argumentation in the Semantic Web -approximate reasoning and compilation in description logics -scalability issues -other mathematical tools for using commonsense reasoning on the Semantic Web Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: February 28, 2009 Acceptance Deadline: May 31, 2009 Revised Version Deadline: July 31, 2009 Final Decision: September 30, 2009 Final Paper: November 30, 2009 Submission Procedure -------------------- Manuscripts must follow the AMAI guidelines for submission and have to be accompanied by abstracts. Details regarding the submission format and on-line submission site can be found at http://www.editorialmanager.com/amai/. All manuscripts should be submitted through that online system. All manuscripts must be of high quality and are subject to peer review performed by three reviewers. The refereeing will be at the same level as in any of the major journal publications in the area. Editorial Board --------------------------- Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, Greece Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, China Patrick Doherty, University of Linkoping, Sweden Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, Austria Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands Maurizio Lenzerini, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Italy Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford, UK Thomas Meyer, Meraka Institute, South Africa Boris Motik : Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universit?t Mannheim, Germany Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Renata Wassermann, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil Mary-Anne Williams, the University of Technology, Australia Main contact: Guilin Qi Best regards, Frank van Harmelen Andreas Herzig Pascal Hitzler Guilin Qi -- Dr. Guilin Qi Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Telefon: +49 (721) 608 6038 Fax: +49 (721) 608 5998 web: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/gqi/ From phismith at buffalo.edu Wed Feb 4 17:27:55 2009 From: phismith at buffalo.edu (Barry Smith) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:27:55 -0500 Subject: [DL] Postdoctoral Research Position in Ontology Message-ID: <20090204162825.573315B003D@mweb1.acsu.buffalo.edu> The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (http://ncbo.us) seeks applicants for a post-doctoral research position to work on projects relating to applications of ontology in medicine and biology. The successful candidate will work with ontology researchers in the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences in Buffalo, New York. He or she will have expertise in at least two of the following areas: ontology, logic, philosophy of science, bioinformatics, biology, medicine, computer science. Further details are available from Barry Smith or under posting number 0900040 at http://ubjobs.buffalo.edu. From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Thu Feb 5 22:03:16 2009 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:03:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] FTP 2009: First call for papers Message-ID: <41f7f36e657b7acdbba880e5806ff0a3.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> [We apologize for multiple copies] ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ==================================================================== FTP 2009 International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving Oslo, Norway, July 6-7 2009 http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/ftp09/ ==================================================================== FTP 2009 is the seventh in a series of workshops intended to focus effort on First-Order Theorem Proving as a core theme of Automated Deduction, and to provide a forum for presentation of recent work and discussion of research in progress. The workshop welcomes original contributions on theorem proving in first-order classical, many-valued, modal and description logics, including (but not restricted to): * theorem proving in first-order classical, many-valued, and modal logics, including: - satisfiability in propositional logic, - satisfiability modulo theories, - specialized decision procedures, - constraint reasoning, - equational reasoning, - term rewriting, - resolution, - paramodulation/superposition; * strategies and complexity of theorem proving procedures; * implementation techniques; * applications of first-order theorem provers to: - program verification, - model checking, - artificial intelligence, - mathematics, - computational linguistics. Previous editions of FTP took place in Schloss Hagenberg, Austria (1997); Vienna, Austria (1998); St Andrews, Scotland (2000); Valencia, Spain (2003); Koblenz, Germany (2005); and Liverpool, UK (2007). For more information about FTP, its scope and previous workshops, please see the FTP Workshop Series web page http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/FTP-WS/ . Paper Submissions ================= Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: * Extended abstracts of up to 15 pages describing original results. * Position papers of up to 10 pages describing work in progress, or future directions of research. * System descriptions of up to 10 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones, especially including experiments; sources and manuals of systems will have to be freely available online. * Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. We see this as a way to provide additional access to important developments that FTP Workshop attendees may be unaware of. Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and the standard article class/style file (10pt or 11pt). The first page should contain the title, the authors' names, e-mail and postal addresses. Submissions should be made via Easychair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftp2009 Publication =========== Accepted submissions will be published as a technical report of the University of Oslo and will be distributed at the workshop. They will also be available on the web. As for the previous editions of FTP, a journal special issue is planned after the workshop. The submission will be open to papers on First-Order Theorem Proving. Important dates =============== Full paper submission deadline: 20 April 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 27 May 2009 Final version due: 10 June 2009 Workshop: July 6-7, 2009 Program Chairs ============== * Nicolas Peltier( (CNRS - LIG) * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik, Saarbr?cken) Programme Committee =================== * Alessandro Armando (DIST - Univ. Genova) * Franz Baader (TU Dresden) * Peter Baumgartner (National ICT Australia) * Bernhard Beckert (Univ. Koblenz) * Maria Paola Bonacina (Univ. degli Studi di Verona) * Ricardo Caferra (Grenoble INP - LIG) * Martin Giese (Univ. Oslo) * Ullrich Hustadt (Univ. Liverpool) * Alexander Leitsch (Vienna Univ. of Technology) * Christopher Lynch (Clarkson University) * Nicola Olivetti (LSIS, Univ. Paul C?zanne, Marseille) * Nicolas Peltier (co-chair) (CNRS - LIG) * David Plaisted (Univ. North Carolina-Chapel Hill) * Silvio Ranise (Univ. degli Studi di Verona) * Michael Rusinowitch (LORIA - INRIA Lorraine) * Renate Schmidt (The Univ. Manchester) * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (co-chair) (Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik, Saarbr?cken) * Arild Waaler (Univ. of Oslo) * Christoph Weidenbach (Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik, Saarbr?cken) Local organization ================== Roger Antonsen (University of Oslo) From tudorache at stanford.edu Mon Feb 2 20:53:06 2009 From: tudorache at stanford.edu (Tania Tudorache) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:53:06 -0800 Subject: [DL] CFP: K-CAP 2009 - The 5th Intl. Conference on Knowledge Capture Message-ID: <49874F22.4070402@stanford.edu> Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues and mailing lists. ************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, POSTERS AND DEMOS K-CAP 2009: The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, California, USA 1-4 September, 2009 http://kcap09.stanford.edu ************************************************************ In today's knowledge-driven world, effective access to and use of information is a key enabler for progress. Modern technologies not only are themselves knowledge-intensive technologies, but also produce enormous amounts of new information that we must process and aggregate. These technologies require knowledge capture, which involve the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse sources of information as well as its acquisition directly from users. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Web, the study of knowledge capture has a renewed importance. Researchers that work in the area of knowledge capture traditionally belong to several distinct research communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and the Semantic Web. K-CAP 2009 will provide a forum that brings together members of disparate research communities that are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing. We solicit high-quality research papers for publication and presentation at our conference. Our aim is to promote multidisciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. K-CAP 2009 follows on the success of four previous conferences in 2007 (Whistler, Canada), in 2005 (Banff, Canada), in 2003 (Florida, USA), and 2001 (Victoria, Canada). The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2009 will feature Invited Talks, Technical Papers, Workshops, Posters and Demos on a range of topics including: * Knowledge acquisition tools * Authoring tools * Knowledge extraction systems * Knowledge management environments * Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition * Learning apprentices * Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools * Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge * Knowledge-based markup techniques * Advice taking systems * Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies IMPORTANT DATES Technical papers --------------------- Papers due: April 15, 2009 Author notification: May 31, 2009 Camera-ready copy due: June 30, 2009 Workshops -------------- Workshop proposals due: February 16, 2009 Notification of workshop acceptance: March 15, 2009 K-CAP 2009 workshops: September 1, 2009 Tutorials ----------- Tutorial proposals due: February 16, 2009 Notification of tutorial acceptance: March 15, 2009 K-CAP 2009 tutorials: September 1, 2009 Posters and demos ------------------------ Poster and demo submissions: June 15, 2009 Author notifications: July 5, 2009 Technical papers Complete formatting instructions (including Microsoft Word and Latex templates) are available on the conference website. Briefly, submitted papers should be 8 pages, two columns, 10-point Times Roman (or equivalent), and "US letter" page-size. Posters and demo descriptions Complete formatting instructions (including Microsoft Word and Latex templates) are available on the conference website. Briefly, submitted papers should be 2 pages, two columns, 10-point Times Roman (or equivalent), and "US letter" page-size. ABOUT THE VENUE The conference will be held in the beautiful Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, which is only 7 miles (11.2 km) away from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The location is only steps from the Redondo Beach and the bike path that runs along the South Bay in Los Angeles. Also within walking distance is a marina that offers opportunities for fishing, sailing, and free outdoor concerts. The marina has many restaurants, a water park, and seal flocks. K-CAP 2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Yolanda Gil, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Program Chair: Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany Technology Chair: Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA K-CAP 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, US) Harith Alani (University of Southampton, UK) Cecilia Aragon (Lawrence Berkeley Lab, US) Lora Aroyo (Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Ken Barker (University of Texas, US) Joachim Baumeister (University of W?rzburg, Germany) Bettina Berendt (K.U.Leuven, Germany) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Germany) Mark Burstein (BBN, US) Vinay Chaudhri (SRI International, US) Philipp Cimiano (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Peter Clark (Boeing, US) Oscar Corcho (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) Martin Dzbor (KMi, Open University, UK) James Fan (IBM Research, US) George Ferguson (University of Rochester, US) Ken Forbus (Northwestern University, US) Aldo Gangemi (Italian National Research Council, Italy) John Gennari (University of Washington, US) Asun Gomez-Perez (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) Mark Greaves (Vulcan, US) Bettina Hoser (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Jane Hunter (The University of Queensland, Australia) Robert Jaeschke (University of Kassel, Germany) Jihie Kim (USC/ISI, US) Ross King (University of Wales at Aberystwyth, UK) Tolga Konik (Stanford University, US) Rob Kremer (University of Calgary, Canada) Ugur Kuter (University of Maryland, College Park, US) Juergen Lerner (University of Konstanz, Germany) James Lester (North Carolina State University, US) Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Laboratory, US) Peter Mika (Yahoo, Spain) Vibhu Mittal (Google, US) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Claudia M?ller (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Mark Musen (Stanford University, US) Karen Myers (SRI International, US) Tomas Nordlander (University College Cork, Ireland) Tim Oates (University of Maryland Baltimore County, US) Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) Charles Rich (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US) Harald Sack (University of Potsdam, Germany) Gianni Semeraro (University of Bari, Italy) Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) Candy Sidner (BAE Systems, US) Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) Markus Strohmaier (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Gerd Stumme (University of Kassel, Germany) Prasad Tadepalli (Oregon State University, US) Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool, UK) Dan Tecuci (University of Texas, US) Annette ten Teije (Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Bob Wielinga (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Michael Witbrock (Cycorp, US) Peter Yeh (Accenture, US) K-CAP STEERING COMMITTEE Peter Clark (Boeing Company) Ken Forbus (Northwestern University) Yolanda Gil (USC) Rob Kremer (University of Calgary) Mark Musen (Stanford University) Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Derek Sleeman (University of Aberdeen) From abhinav.vit at gmail.com Fri Feb 6 12:38:28 2009 From: abhinav.vit at gmail.com (abhinav kumar) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:38:28 +0100 Subject: [DL] NAF & De Morgan's Law In-Reply-To: <3543.128.113.106.49.1233779053.squirrel@webmail.cs.rpi.edu> References: <3543.128.113.106.49.1233779053.squirrel@webmail.cs.rpi.edu> Message-ID: Hi If you use the completion semantics in a closed world setting then you can use de Morgan laws with negation as failure. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negation_as_failure Abhinav On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Ankesh Khandelwal wrote: > Hi, > > My question doesn't directly relate to DL per se, but I thought this would > be an appropriate place to find an answer to the question that I have run > into as I am making efforts to map a rule language to LP. > > Is De Morgan's law valid for Negation As Failure? > (The rule language I am trying to map assumes closed world setting) > > Thanks, > Ankesh > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for more > ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. > ** > -- Kumar Abhinav EMCL Student -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fgcozman at usp.br Thu Feb 12 17:55:49 2009 From: fgcozman at usp.br (Fabio Cozman) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:55:49 -0200 Subject: [DL] Post-doc position open in Brazil Message-ID: <49945495.9050309@usp.br> A post-doc position is open at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil, for research on reasoning by agents that combine logical and probabilistic components. The project is multi-disciplinary and includes both theoretical and practical aspects, with a focus on inference, learning, estimation, and decision making. Open software packages, to be distributed to the research community, will be produced during the work. Candidates must have excellent research record in the interface between logic and probabilities. Programming skills are necessary. An interview with candidates may be requested after initial selection. The project is to begin in March 2009. Candidates must send a short CV, list of publications and two letters of recommendation, by email, to Prof. Marcelo Finger (mfinger at ime.usp.br), until March 12 2009. From tschneider at rayva.org Sat Feb 7 19:48:55 2009 From: tschneider at rayva.org (Todd Schneider) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:48:55 -0500 Subject: [DL] ISWC 2009: Call for Papers Message-ID: ISWC 2009 Call for Papers The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) will be held 25 - 29 October, 2009, in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. Invited speakers include Patrick Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and Nova Spivack, Radar Networks. IS WC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. As the Semantic Web is rapidly entering the mainstream, IS WC 2009 will pay particular attention to showcasing scalable and usable solutions, which bring semantic technologies to web users in authentic application settings. The tracks for ISWC 2009 include Research, Semantic Web in Use, Posters & Demonstrations, Industry, Doctorial Consortium, Tutorials, and Workshops. Calls for each of these tracks is below. The International Semantic Web Conference (IS WC) series is organized and managed by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA ). See http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/ for full details. Research Track - Call for Papers The web continues to grow and increasing amounts of data are available for human and machine consumption, processing, and re-dissemination. As Semantic Web technologies (including linked data approaches) mature and become usable by end-users we can expect to encounter new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications that enable us to "surf" this web of data. These new approaches give rise to new challenges - both from a technical and human-computer interaction perspective. The goal of the research track at ISWC is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and users from the areas of artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, soft computing, and human-computer interaction to discuss the biggest challenges and proposed solutions. It solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of all areas of Semantic Web research. Papers to the research track are expected to clearly present their contribution and provide some well-principled means of evaluation. We especially encourage papers that ensure the repeatability of their experiments and share with the community their data and test harnesses. General Information ISWC 2009 calls for papers for its research track. The research track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of all areas of Semantic Web research. Papers to the research track are expected to clearly present their contribution and provide some well-principled means of evaluation. We especially encourage papers that ensure the repeatability of their experiments, and share with the community their data and test harnesses. Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? User Interfaces ? Interacting with Semantic Web data 1 Semantic Web content creation and annotation 2 Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes 3 Novel interaction paradigms aimed at linked data 4 Semantic web applications to Web-2.0 sites ? Data Semantics and Ontologies ? Beyond Description Logic: New formalisms for semantics (such as probabilistic approaches) 1 Lightweight semantics (linked data, microformats, etc). 2 Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution 3 Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment 4 Searching and ranking ontologies 5 Ontology evaluation ? Applications of the Semantic Web ? Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations 1 Semantic Web for large scale applications, desktops or personal information management 2 Semantic Web technologies for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness 3 Semantic Web technologies for P2P, services, agents, grids and middleware ? Management of Semantic Web Data ? Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data 1 Database, IR and AI technologies for the Semantic Web 2 Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web 3 Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web 4 Machine learning and information extraction for the Semantic Web 5 Cleaning, assurance, trust, provenance of Semantic Web data, services and processes ? Social Semantic Web ? Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web 1 Semantic Web technologies for collaboration and cooperation 2 Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security General questions can be sent to iswc2009 semanticweb.org Evaluation of Submitted Research Papers ISWC is a highly attractive and competitive conference series. From all previous ISWC conferences, we have seen researchers and practitioners making best use of the methods and technologies reported at the event for their own research and practice. We are very eager to maintain this high level of impact achieved by ISWC papers in the future. For this purpose, all papers will be critically reviewed by 3 reviewers and one vice chair. To assess papers, reviewers will judge originality of papers, significance for further research and/or practice related to the Semantic Web, technical soundness of the proposed approaches and readability of the submitted papers. Specific weight will be given to the evaluation of the approaches described in the papers. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable. Depending on the type of the paper and the proposed approach indications for repeatability may vary. For instance, theoretical papers may want to upload full proofs of theorems (as supplementary data), empirical work may want to upload training/test data, experimental results, or supporting movies (as supplementary data), case study work may link to case study journals for deeper insights, system papers may provide download of the software or a Web client together with full assessments in user studies, approaches that describe algorithms may want to provide the algorithm in source code and in an easy-to-install manner. Submission of Abstracts and Papers Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing system. Pre-submission of abstracts will be a strict requirement. Final papers can be submitted until 21 June 2009, 23:59 hrs, Hawaiian time. The submission platform will be opened from the beginning of May. Note the we made a special effort to cut all slack from the reviewing schedule in order to assure that we will have the newest results presented at the conference. We will, therefore, be unable to make any extensions to this submission deadline! Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Format Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 ). Formatted papers must be no longer than 16 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. ISWC 2009 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task) and submit a version of their paper to a special conference discussion system. Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. Important Dates - Research Track * Abstracts due: Monday, June 8, 2009, 23:59 Hawaii Time (GMT-10) * Submissions due: Monday, June 15 2009 23:59 Hawaii Time (GMT-10) * Rebuttal phase: July 15 - July 20, 2009 * Notification: August 4, 2009 * Camera ready: August 14, 2009 Program Committee ? Chairs ? Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland 1 David Karger, MIT, USA * Vice Chairs To Be Announced Semantic Web In Use - Call for Papers Semantic Web technologies continue to make the transition from research labs into mainstream adoption. The Semantic Web In Use track at ISWC 2009 provides a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying Semantic Web technology in real-life applications and contexts, such as industry, science, society, government or entertainment. Submissions to the Semantic Web In Use track may employ scientific methods (qualitative and/or quantitative) to understand in greater detail the application of Semantic Web technologies, or present novel practical approaches that are relevant to the deployment of Semantic Web technologies but may not otherwise gain an outlet in the ISWC series. We therefore invite the submission of original, principled papers organized around some of or all of the following aspects: * Description of concrete problems in specific application domains, for which Semantic Web technologies can provide a solution. * Description of an implemented application of Semantic Web technologies in a specific domain. * Assessment of the pros and cons of using Semantic Web technologies to solve a particular business problem or other practical problems in a specific domain. * Comparison with alternative or competing approaches using conventional or competing technologies. * Learned best practices for deploying an application based on Semantic Web technologies. * Assessment of the costs and benefits of the application of Semantic Web Technologies, e.g. time and cost of implementation and deployment, integration with legacy IT systems, user acceptance, returns on investment. * Assessment/evaluation of usage and uptake of a deployed Semantic Web application. The Semantic Web In Use track is open to submissions based on a wide-range of hypotheses, methodologies and conclusions. However priority will be given to submissions that demonstrate rigor in the methodology and analysis on which conclusions are based. Submissions/Format Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing system. Pre-submission of abstracts is preferred but not required. Final papers can be submitted until 15 June 2009, 23:59 hrs, Hawaiian time. The submission platform will be opened from the beginning of May. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0). Formatted papers must be no longer than 16 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. ISWC 2009 will not accept papers to the Semantic Web In Use track that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task) and submit a version of their paper to a special conference discussion system. Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. Authors of papers submitted to the Semantic Web In Use track (whether accepted or not) are encouraged to also consider submitting their work to the ISWC2009 Poster and Demo track, where appropriate. Please note that such submissions must be made separately to In Use track submissions and must adhere strictly to the submission requirements for Posters and Demos. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Important Dates - Semantic Web in Use * Submission Deadline: Monday, June 15, 2009 (23:59 Hawaii Time) * Notification of Acceptance: August 4, 2009 * Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: August 14, 2009 Program Committee ? Chairs ? Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics, USA 1 Tom Heath, Talis, UK Posters and Demonstrations - Call for Proposals ISWC 2009 will hold combined poster and demonstration sessions. The Poster/Demo Session is an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters and demos are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems, descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies. Submissions/Format Authors must submit a two-page paper with a short abstract for evaluation. The abstract must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. A detailed list of suggested topics can be found in the calls for papers both for the Research Track and for the Semantic Web In Use track. Posters and demos are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and are not intended as advertisements for software packages. Authors submitting a full paper to another track in ISWC 2009 may also submit the same work for consideration in the Demo/Poster track, either before or after result notification for the full paper. For example, a demo can be provided for an accepted paper, or a poster can be used to present work that was insufficiently mature for the other track. For demo submissions, authors are strongly encouraged to include in their submission a link to where the demo (live or recorded video) can be found. At least one of the Poster/Demo authors must be a registered participant at the conference, and attend the Poster/Demo Session to present the work. The abstracts for all accepted posters and demos will be given to all conference attendees and published on the conference web site. They will not be included in the formal proceedings. Poster and demo papers must be submitted in ACM format. For complete details, see ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. Please remove the ACM copyright box from the first page of your submission. Poster/Demo papers must be submitted in PDF format, and no other format will be accepted. Poster/Demo papers that exceed the page limit could be rejected without review. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Please submit papers at the ISWC 2009 submission page. Important Dates - Posters & Demonstrations * August 7, 2009: Deadline for submissions * August 24 , 2009: Notification of acceptance * September 8, 2009: Camera ready abstracts due Time for all deadlines above will be 23:59 pm Hawaiian time (GMT-10). Further Information For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Posters and Demonstration co-chairs Tania Tudorache and Harith Alani. Organizing Chairs ? Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA 1 Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK Program Committee * To be announced Industry Track - Call for Proposals ISWC 2009 is hosting an Industry Track to enable the business community to present products that utilize or enrich the Semantic Web. We invite industry vendors to submit brief presentations for this track. No formal accompanying paper is required. We encourage product and service vendors who may or may not be exhibiting at ISWC 2009 to give a presentation about their products or services. While such presentations can explicitly focus on vendor-branded products and services, we seek to allow vendors to (1) give more in-depth discussion about the specific aspects of Semantic Web technologies in their products and services; (2) explain how their products and services are helping transition clients into the Semantic Web; and (3) describe the innovative plans for their products and services that lead to greater adoption of Semantic Web standards and interoperability. The key dates for the Call for Presentations are close to the conference date to encourage vendors to include last-minute updates and innovations of general interest to ISWC attendees. We want to provide a venue for companies who might otherwise not submit a formal paper to ISWC, but nevertheless have valuable insights and engineering acumen regarding various Semantic Web technologies and their applicability. Submissions/Format Authors must submit a presentation for consideration. It is recommended that each submission also include an abstract of a maximum of 200 words. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Decisions for acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, technical depth and business applicability. Marketing and sales material will not be considered. Submissions should be in one of the following formats: * HTML * PowerPoint (PPT) slides * PDF slides * MPEG2 or MPEG4 (Screencasts) No formal paper is required. While it is difficult to handle the entire range of presentation technologies, we are willing to negotiate accommodations if one of the above formats is not suitable. If your technology is not listed and is critical to your presentation, please contact the Industry Track co-chairs. Presentations may be fully automated (e.g. screencasts) or narrated live during the conference. Submissions should also include presentation needs (e.g. projector, Internet connectivity). You may submit hyperlinks to your presentation (including the final presentation), but if you require Internet access for your presentation, please submit a backup final presentation in the unlikely event of connection problems. Presentations are expected to be either 20 or 50 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. A presentation may be mixed media (any of the above formats) and include demonstrations, but must adhere to the 20 or 50 minute limit. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Please submit presentations at the ISWC 2009 submission page. Topics Potential topics are listed below but are not inclusive. See the Research Track for additional topic areas. * Ontology Management * Reasoning Engines * Collaboration and the Semantic Web * Open Data on the Semantic Web * Open Source Strategies for Semantic Web Businesses Important Dates - Industry Track * August 1, 2009: Draft presentations due * August 31, 2009: Notification of acceptance * September 10, 2009: Final presentations due Further Information For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Industry Track co-chairs Matthew Fisher and John Callahan. Program Committee ? Chairs ? Matthew Fisher, Progeny Systems, USA 1 John Callahan, JHUAPL, USA Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers Introduction The ISWC 2009 Doctoral Consortium will take place as part of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington, DC. Alongside the plenary sessions which afford opportunity for the scientific exchange and presentation of high quality research in all aspects of the Semantic Web, this forum will allow doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors as well as to meet other postgraduate students in the field. The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to create an opportunity for PhD students to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plans, and receive constructive criticism and insights related to their future work and career perspectives. A mentor (peer researcher and expert in the field) will be assigned to each student of an accepted paper, to provide individual feedback and advice on the paper, the focus of the work and further developments. Students who are submitting papers on specific portions of their work to the main conference are also invited to apply to the Doctoral Consortium. In this case, the short paper for the Doctoral Consortium should give an overview of the student's dissertation research, and the paper for the main conference should focus on a specific piece of this work. All papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium stream will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The best submissions will be selected for presentation at the ISWC 2009 Doctoral Consortium sessions. Full papers will be published in the main ISWC proceedings. Some papers will be accepted as posters rather than full papers, depending on the nature of the submission. The poster session will take place as part of the Doctoral Consortium. Topics The Doctoral Consortium track of ISWC 2009 solicits submission of PhD research papers dealing with foundational and core issues, application domains and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Topics include, but are not limited to: ? Applications of the Semantic Web ? Applications with clear lessons learned 1 Evaluations of Semantic Web technologies 2 Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and other application domains 3 Semantic Web technologies for multimedia content 4 Personal Information Management ? Management of Semantic Web Data ? Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data 1 Database technologies for the Semantic Web 2 Search, query, and visualization of the Semantic Web 3 Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web 4 Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web 5 Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction ? Ontologies ? Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution 1 Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment 2 Evaluation and tanking of ontologies 3 Ontology search ? Semantic Web Architecture ? Semantic Web middleware 1 Semantic Web services 2 Agents on the Semantic Web 3 Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids ? Social Semantic Web ? Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web 1 Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation ? Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security Submissions/Format Doctoral Consortium papers should include a clear presentation of the PhD research direction, sound situation of the PhD research in the context of Semantic Web and related fields, a report on the work done so far and a plan of further research. They should indicate at what stage of the PhD the author is at. All submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, in the same format as is used for the main conference papers. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions. Papers must be submitted electronically through the conference submission site. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. ISWC 2009 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org . Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Important Dates - Doctorial Consortium * June 15, 2009 (11:59pm Hawaii time, GMT-10): Doctoral consortium paper submissions due * July 21, 2009: Doctoral consortium paper acceptance notification * August 7, 2009: Doctoral consortium camera-ready papers due * October 24, 2009: Doctoral consortium * October 25-29, 2009: ISWC conference Further Information For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Doctoral Consortium Chair Diana Maynard . For more information about ISWC 2009, please contact the ISWC General Chair. Program Committee * Chair Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK Tutorials - Call for Proposals The Web continues to grow and new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications are being developed. Building on this growth, Semantic Web technologies aim at providing a shared semantic information space, qualitatively changing our experiences on the Web. As Semantic Web technologies mature and permeate more and more application areas, new research challenges are becoming apparent and some unsolved ones are becoming more acute. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, ISWC brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. In addition to the regular research and workshop program, ISWC'09 aims to feature a tutorial program that would address the interests of its varied audience: novices to the Semantic Web, representatives of government and funding agencies, Semantic Web practitioners that wish to learn new technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to Semantic Web research, including, but not limited to those of relevance for ISWC'09 (http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/). We expect proposals of the following types of tutorials: * Tutorials providing an introduction to the Semantic Web; * Tutorials describing the application of Semantic Web technology in specific domains (e.g., business intelligence, life-sciences, health care). Applications to government and e-government are especially encouraged; * Tutorials presenting concrete Semantic Web technologies and trends. We encourage proposals describing both established technologies that are increasingly used by the community and novel, ground-breaking technologies. * Tutorials presenting techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research. (e.g., machine learning, NLP). Important Organizers' Responsibilities Organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for preparing and maintaining a Web site that describes the tutorial and includes other relevant information. The URL of the tutorial site should be submitted to the tutorial chair by 14 August 2009. The description should make it clear that the tutorial is open to all members of the ISWC community. It should also mention that all tutorial participants must pay the ISWC'09 conference registration fee, as well as the tutorial fee. The tutorial organizers will also be asked to provide some metadata about their tutorial, conforming to the Semantic Web Conference ontology (detailed instructions will be provided). Organizers are also responsible for the production and distribution of all technical material to be used for teaching the tutorial (slides, notes, technical papers, etc.) except for the reproduction of hard copies of printed materials, which will be handled by ISWC. In the case of a hands-on tutorial requiring software, it is strongly recommended that the organizers provide CDs from which the participants can install the software needed on their computers. (It is not realistic to expect tutorial attendees to download the software at the beginning of the tutorial!) Tutorial presenters will need to submit the material for printed hand-outs to the tutorial organizers for pre-printing. (The deadline for this is given below.) The ISWC 2009 Organizing Committee will be responsible for the following: * Providing publicity for the tutorial as a whole on the conference's web page. The ISWC 2009 page will include the tutorial abstract and provide a link to the tutorial's local page. * Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the tutorial. * In conjunction with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time. * Production of sufficient copies of printed tutorial materials provided by the tutorial organizers. Submissions/Format ISWC'09 tutorials may be either for a full day or for a half day. Although tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects, we encourage organisers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages in Springer LNCS format and should contain the following information: * An abstract (200 words maximum; to be published on the ISWC'09 website); * A justification of the tutorial, including its relevance to this conference and its relation to similar tutorials presented at other events; * A brief description of tutorial, including aims, overview of content, presentation style, target audience, and prerequisite knowledge; * An indication of full- or half-day, and a draft outline of the tutorial content and schedule * Audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements; * For a hands-on tutorial, please briefly describe the software that will be used for the hands-on activities, the planned procedure to allow the participants to install the software on their computers, and any special technical requirements related to these activities. Please note that any software needed for hands-on activities, and download sites for the software, must be provided by the tutorial presenters. * Information on presenters (name, affiliation, contact info, expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation). Please indicate which presenter is the primary contact. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Please submit tutorial proposals by email to Jennifer Golbeck at jgolbeck at umd.edu. Important Dates - Tutorials * June 19, 2009: Tutorial proposals due * July 10, 2009: Notification of proposal acceptance * August 14, 2009: Deadline for receipt of URL for tutorial web page * September 25, 2009: Deadline for sending the tutorial notes (handouts) to the tutorial chair for reproduction (PDF preferred) * October 25-26, 2009: Presentation of Tutorial Program Program Committee ? Chairs ? Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, jgolbeck at umd.edu ? Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK, r.m.sabou at open.ac.uk Workshops - Call for Proposals ISWC 2009, the Eighth International Semantic Web Conference, will be held on October 25-29 2009 at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington DC. Co-located workshops at previous ISWC conferences have become an important meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange ideas concerning focused Semantic Web topics. ISWC 2009 plans to continue with this tradition and invites proposals for the Workshop Track. General Information * Co-located workshops must be on topics that are of interest to ISWC attendees. * Workshop duration can be half a day or a full day. * We strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. * Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events. We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions. * The decision on acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal as well as how it fits in with the conference. * The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website), and proceedings. They will be required to closely cooperate with the Workshops Chairs and the ISWC 2009 local organizers to finalize all details mentioned above. * The workshop organizers will also be asked to provide some metadata about their workshop, conforming to the Semantic Web Conference ontology (detailed instructions will be provided). * Workshop attendees must pay the ISWC 2009 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. * Accepted workshops will receive one free registration to the main conference. Submissions/Format Workshop proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length, should be in text or PDF format and should contain the following information: * A title. * A 200 words abstract. * A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time. * A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest, the workshop audience, as well as the expected number of participants. * A brief description of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion. * A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal). * An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day meeting. * A description of past versions of the workshop, including URLs as well as submission and acceptance counts. * The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organizing committee and short description of their relevant experience. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Please send your proposals by *May 1*, 2009 to iswc09workshops at lists.csail.mit.edu. Important Dates - Workshops ? *May 1*, 2009 - Workshop proposals are due. ? Proposals should be submitted to iswc09workshops at lists.csail.mit.edu . ? May 22, 2009 - Notification of acceptance/rejection. ? The important dates for accepted workshops will be: ? June 8, 2009 - Workshop Call for Papers out (suggested). 1 July 31, 2009 - Submissions to workshops (suggested) 2 August 30, 2009 - Acceptance of papers for workshops (suggested) 3 October 2, 2009 - Camera ready papers 4 October 9, 2009 - Camera ready proceedings 5 October 25 - 26, 2009 - Workshops days Program Committee ? Chairs ? 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URL: From Peter.Baumgartner at rsise.anu.edu.au Sat Feb 14 07:23:06 2009 From: Peter.Baumgartner at rsise.anu.edu.au (Peter Baumgartner) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:23:06 +1100 Subject: [DL] CFP: CADE-22 Workshop 'Beyond SAT: What About First-Order Logic?' Message-ID: <18838.25418.813816.475496@evolution.local> ================================================================= CADE-22 Workshop on Beyond SAT: What About First-Order Logic? McGill University, Montreal, Canada, August 3, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================= Background ---------- The arguably most successful branch of automated reasoning today is (propositional) SAT solving. Propositional encodings and SAT solvers are widely used in AI and formal methods to solve problems from planning, diagnosis, knowledge compilation, constraint satisfaction, just to name a few, and they dominate the whole area of software and hardware verification for embedded reasoning services. However, while the success of reducing problems to propositional logic is undeniable, many problems are more naturally formulated in a more expressive logic. For instance, constraint satisfaction problems, bounded model checking and bit-vector arithmetic problems can often be encoded more succinctly in a restricted fragment of first-order, EPR (Essentially Propositional Reasoning, equivalent to the Bernays-Sch?nfinkel class). Instance-based methods for first-order logic, which natively decide EPR in a non-trivial way, can then be considered for beneficial use in problem formulation and reasoning. Similarly, Description Logics are widely used as logical underpinning of ontology languages such as OWL, which has led to the design and investigations of a number of interesting reasoning approaches and novel reasoning problems. Workshop Topic -------------- This workshop is centered around the question whether (fragments of) logics more expressive than propositional logic, in particular first-order logic, can directly be used for problem formulation and reasoning in the areas that are dominated by propositional methods today. This question becomes non-trivial under the conditions that the use of these logics shall address shortcomings of the propositional approach, such as lack of expressivity and scalability, while not compromising efficiency. We perceive this as a long-term research challenge. The workshop solicits contributions towards this challenge. The topic list includes (but is not limited to) the following: - Innovative encodings of application problems in AI and formal methods into logics more expressive than propositional logic - Problem solving with EPR: reductions from e.g. planning, bounded model checking, QBF, description and modal logics into EPR; calculi and systems for EPR and extensions like theory reasoning, equality - Finite model finders, in particular based on encodings into tractable fragments of first-order logic - Transfer of techniques developed for propositional SAT or for constraint satisfaction to theorem provers for more expressive logics - Implementation techniques and implementations - Practical applications and reports on success/failure of first-order methods - EPR Benchmark problems (the TPTP doesn't have enough) Organizers ---------- Peter Baumgartner NICTA Canberra, Australia (main contact) Nikolaj Bjorner Microsoft Research, USA Koen Claessen Chalmers University, Sweden Konstantin Korovin The University of Manchester, UK Juan Antonio Navarro P?rez MPI-SWS, Germany Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa, USA Program Committee ----------------- Peter Baumgartner NICTA Nikolaj Bjorner Microsoft Research Alessandro Cimatti IRST - Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Koen Claessen Chalmers University Enrico Giunchiglia Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Telematica Konstantin Korovin The University of Manchester Joao P. Marques Silva University College Dublin Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Juan Antonio Navarro P?rez MPI-SWS Ilkka Niemelae Helsinki University of Technology Robert Nieuwenhuis Technical University of Catalonia Hans deNivelle, University of Wroclaw David Plaisted University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Andrey Rybalchenko MPI Softwaresystems Ulrike Sattler The University of Manchester Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester Submission ---------- There are two submission categories: - Previously unpublished work: Beside mature work, we also solicit preliminary work or work in progress. Submissions should not exceed 15 printed pages. The final versions of the selected contributions will be collected in the workshop proceedings. - Presentation-only papers of previously published work: The intent of presentation-only papers is to allow authors to make their recently published work known to a wider audience. Participants who wish to submit in this category should provide a summary of up to 3 pages and an indication where the paper has appeared, or is expected to appear. The abstracts of the presentation-only papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, but the papers themselves will not be included. Submission is electronic only, through EasyChair. To submit, please go to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=beyondsat09. Publication ----------- The (informal) workshop proceedings will be distributed at the workshop and made available on the internet. Important Dates --------------- May 17: paper submissions deadline June 12: notification of acceptance July 5: final versions due August 3: workshop date Contact ------- For further information on the workshop, please contact any of the organisers. Workshop home page: http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~baumgart/beyond-SAT/ -- Peter Baumgartner Ph: +61 2 6267 6217 NICTA, Canberra Research Lab, and http://nicta.com.au/ The Australian National University http://rsise.anu.edu.au/~baumgart/ From sertkaya at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Wed Feb 18 17:33:39 2009 From: sertkaya at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Baris Sertkaya) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:33:39 +0100 Subject: [DL] Ontology Completion Plugin for Protege 4 Message-ID: <499C3863.4010606@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Dear list members, I would like to announce a Prot?g? 4 plugin that I have developed for ontology completion. I have developed an ontology completion tool called *OntoComP*, which stands for Ontology Completion Plugin. It is implemented in Java as a plugin to the Prot?g? 4 ontology editor. The plugin, the source code and the documentation on howto use it are available under: http://ontocomp.googlecode.com OntoComP enables the user to check whether an ontology contains 'all relevant information' about the application domain, and to extend the ontology appropriately if this is not the case. It achieves this by asking the user questions of the form "are instances of classes C1 and C2 also instances of the class C3?" If the user confirms such a question, then a new axiom of the application domain (that does not already follow from the ontology) has been discovered, and it is added to the ontology. If she rejects it, she is expected to give a counterexample to this question. In this case, a new individual of the application domain that is not represented in the ontology has been discovered, and it is added to the ontology. The approach guarantees that on the one hand when all such questions are answered, the ontology is complete w.r.t. a fixed interpretation, and, on the other hand, the interaction with the user is kept to a minimum. The approach is based on the extension of a well-known knowledge acquisition method developed in Formal Concept Analysis, which was presented in [1]. I would appreciate feedback and user comments on OntoComp, and would be very happy to provide support in using it. New developers, code reviews and other developer efforts are also very welcome. Best regards, Baris Sertkaya ------------------- [1] F. Baader, B. Ganter, U. Sattler, and B. Sertkaya. Completing Description Logic Knowledge Bases using Formal Concept Analysis. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07). AAAI Press, 2007. From nathalie.steinmetz at seekda.com Wed Feb 18 16:26:48 2009 From: nathalie.steinmetz at seekda.com (Nathalie Steinmetz) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:26:48 +0100 Subject: [DL] Launch of the Service-Finder portal for Web Service discovery Message-ID: <499C28B8.4010402@seekda.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (Apologies for multiple postings) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Launch of the Service-Finder portal for Web Service discovery *** http://demo.service-finder.eu/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would like to announce the release of the alpha version of the Service-Finder portal for Web Service discovery. We[1] have developed this portal, a prototype for discovering and annotating Web Services on Web scale, in the scope of the European project Service-Finder[2]. The portal[3] is embedded into a Web 2.0 environment and is aimed to support the setup of a user community that adopts and actively contributes to it. On the current alpha version of the portal you can search for services by doing free-text search or by browsing categories and/or tags. When is this portal of interest for you? Mainly if: * you need to find, test and/or use public Web Services in your daily activities; * you are curious to learn more about Web Services and the opportunities that the Web Service technologies might offer for real-world use cases; * you would simply like to play around with the portal and try it out. We are looking forward to any feedback[4] you want to provide us! This might help in our future work on further extending and enhancing the portal. Kind Regards, the Service-Finder team P.S.: In the case you have already used seekda's Web Service search engine, you might be wondering about its relationship to the Service-Finder prototype: Both portals build up on a comparable set of public Web Service descriptions. The Service-Finder prototype provides extensions with semantic annotations (e.g. categorization) and Web 2.0 features. Once the Service-Finder technology is consolidated seekda aims at integrating it into its own portal. [1] seekda (http://seekda.com) / CEFRIEL (http://www.cefriel.it) / Ontoprise (http://www.ontoprise.de) / University of Sheffield (http://www.sheffield.ac.uk) [2] http://service-finder.eu [3] http://demo.service-finder.eu [4] http://demo.service-finder.eu/feedback - -- Nathalie Steinmetz seekda OG Museumstr. 21/302, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Tel: +43 1 2365084, Fax: +43 1 2365084-99 Registration Number: FN296905 Registration Court: Innsbruck Web: http://seekda.com Jabber/Mail: nathalie.steinmetz at seekda.com Skype: nathaliesteinmetz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJnCi4HByMLdl4bqkRAsRZAJ9VyfwFrYlkPoVOBAQwQD8jpaRTdgCglbaU GycXYZqBF48IAYnSb6dajBk= =bwql -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From ankesh at cs.rpi.edu Fri Feb 20 16:27:38 2009 From: ankesh at cs.rpi.edu (Ankesh Khandelwal) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:27:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] validity of laws of predicate logic under CWA and NAF Message-ID: <2866.72.230.15.249.1235143658.squirrel@webmail.cs.rpi.edu> Dear DL-members, I have a knowledge base and a set of rules written under closed world assumption that use negation only as negation as failure. Under these circumstances are the laws of quantifier movement valid? Laws of Quantifier movements: 1. '(all x.P(x)) --> Q' equivalent-to 'exists x.(P(x)-->Q)', provided x is not free in Q 2. '(exisits x.P(x)) --> Q' equivalent-to 'all x.(P(x)-->Q)', provided x is not free in Q 3. 'P --> (all x.Q(x))' equivalent-to 'all x.(P --> Q(x))', provided x is not free in P 4. 'P --> (exists x.Q(x))' equivalent-to 'exists x.(P --> Q(x))', provided x is not free in P And/ Or are the following laws valid? 1. 'not(all x. P(x))' equivalent-to 'exists x.(not P(x))', where not has the Negation as Failure semantics. 2. 'not(exists x. P(x))' equivalent-to 'all x.(not P(x))', where not has the Negation as Failure semantics. Thank you, Ankesh From richard.moot at labri.fr Wed Feb 18 18:26:26 2009 From: richard.moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:26:26 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2009 Call for Participation Message-ID: <426F559F-2FAC-41E5-B78E-75975D3092F1@labri.fr> ====================================================================== = = = CALL FOR PARTICIPATION = = = = 21st EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION = = ESSLLI 2009 = = = = Bordeaux, July 20-31 2009 = = = ====================================================================== http://esslli2009.labri.fr/ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. The 21st edition of ESSLLI will be held in Bordeaux, recently selected as a Unesco World Heritage site. * Course Program * ESSLLI offers a total of 48 courses and workshops, divided among foundational, introductory and advanced courses, and including a total of 7 workshops. The courses and workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/programme.php * Registration * Registration for ESSLLI is open. Early registration rates are 225 euros for students and 350 euros for others. Early registration deadline: 1st of May 2009. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/reg.php Richard Moot ESSLLI Organizing Committee From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Fri Feb 20 17:09:24 2009 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Uli Sattler) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:09:24 +0000 Subject: [DL] validity of laws of predicate logic under CWA and NAF In-Reply-To: <2866.72.230.15.249.1235143658.squirrel@webmail.cs.rpi.edu> References: <2866.72.230.15.249.1235143658.squirrel@webmail.cs.rpi.edu> Message-ID: <70A26764-C6DB-45FD-9B2B-7BE1EABA0799@cs.man.ac.uk> On 20 Feb 2009, at 15:27, Ankesh Khandelwal wrote: > Dear DL-members, > > I have a knowledge base and a set of rules written under closed world > assumption that use negation only as negation as failure. > Dear Ankesh, which semantics do you use? Can you give us a reference for where it is defined? Cheers, Uli > > Under these circumstances are the laws of quantifier movement valid? > Laws of Quantifier movements: > 1. '(all x.P(x)) --> Q' equivalent-to 'exists x.(P(x)-->Q)', > provided x is > not free in Q > 2. '(exisits x.P(x)) --> Q' equivalent-to 'all x.(P(x)-->Q)', > provided x > is not free in Q > 3. 'P --> (all x.Q(x))' equivalent-to 'all x.(P --> Q(x))', provided > x is > not free in P > 4. 'P --> (exists x.Q(x))' equivalent-to 'exists x.(P --> Q(x))', > provided > x is not free in P > > And/ Or are the following laws valid? > 1. 'not(all x. P(x))' equivalent-to 'exists x.(not P(x))', where not > has > the Negation as Failure semantics. > > 2. 'not(exists x. P(x))' equivalent-to 'all x.(not P(x))', where not > has > the Negation as Failure semantics. > > Thank you, > Ankesh > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; > for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/ > . ** From areces at pluton.loria.fr Wed Feb 25 21:30:18 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:30:18 +0100 Subject: [DL] E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2009 call for submissions Message-ID: <200902252030.n1PKUIaN019661@pluton.loria.fr> E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2009 call for submissions Since 2002, FoLLI (the European Association for Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree in the year 2008. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of the three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Inter-disciplinarity is an important feature of the theses competing for the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize. Who qualifies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2008 and December 31st, 2008. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. After a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Dissertations produced in 2008 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2009). Respectively, nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in other language than English and defended in 2007 and 2008 will be accepted for consideration this year, too. Prize. ~~~~~~ The prize consists of: * a certificate * a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. * an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be published by Springer-Verlag as part of LNCS or LNCS/LNAI. (Further information on this series is available on the FoLLI site) How to submit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Only electronic submissions are accepted. The following documents are required: 1. the thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted); 2. a ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii or pdf format; 3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded; 4. two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically to bethaward2008 at gmail.com. Hard copy submissions are not admitted. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days after submission, nominators should write to goranko at maths.wits.ac.za or policriti at dimi.uniud.it, with a cc to bethaward2008 at gmail.com. Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: March 16, 2009. Notification of Decision: July 1, 2009. Committee : * Anne Abeill?? (Universit?? Paris 7) * Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) * Wojciech Buszkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) * Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS) * Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) * Valentin Goranko (chair) (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) * Alexander Koller (Saarland University) * Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) * Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) * Alberto Policriti (Universit?? di Udine) * Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) * Colin Stirling (University of Edinburgh) From areces at pluton.loria.fr Wed Feb 25 22:38:37 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:38:37 +0100 Subject: [DL] Last Call for Papers HyLo09 Message-ID: <200902252138.n1PLcbKb021081@pluton.loria.fr> *************************************************************** Please excuse for multiple posts and distribute as widely as possible *************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2009 (HyLo 2009) "Conmemorating the Ten Years of HyLo" http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 15 - 17 July, 2009 Nancy, France *************************************************************** WORKSHOP PURPOSE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of HyLo 2009 is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. HyLo 2009 will be an special event, conmemorating the ten years since the organization of the first HyLo workshop in 1999. HyLo 2009 will be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). SUBMISSION DETAILS: We invite the contribution of papers reporting new work from researchers interested in hybrid logic. Details about the submission procedure will be announced in the second call for papers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, and selected papers will be included in a special volume to conmemorate the 10th aniversary of the first Hybrid Logic Workshop. Please use the HyLo09 submission page at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hylo09, handled by the EasyChair conference system, to submit papers. Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. Authors are required to prepare their submissions in latex, using the conference's style (available at http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09). Notice that one author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. INVITED SPEAKERS: * Melvin Fitting (CUNY) * Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College) * Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen) * Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) ORGANIZERS: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, areces at loria.fr) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, blackbur at loria.fr) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark) Torben Brauner (Roskilde University) Stephane Demri (LSV Cachan) Santiago Figueira (University of Buenos Aires) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester) Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam) IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 1st March 2009 Notification of acceptance: Monday, 30th of March 2009 Deadline for final versions: Friday, 1st of May 2009 Workshop dates: 15 to 17 July, 2009 FURTHER INFORMATION: http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 From protege.stanford at gmail.com Wed Feb 25 01:42:27 2009 From: protege.stanford at gmail.com (Protege Project Stanford University) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:42:27 -0800 Subject: [DL] Call for tutorial and workshop proposals at the 11th International Protege Conference Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting Tutorial and Workshop proposals for the the 11th International Protege Conference is March 2, 2009. The 11th International Protege Conference will be held June 23-26, 2009 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We invite proposals for workshops, to be held on the first day of the conference, June 23, 2009. We expect workshops will be half-day events. The purpose of the workshops are to provide an informal setting for participants to discuss technical issues and to exchange research ideas. We expect that most of the workshops will be interactive events, centering on discussions rather than presentations. We strongly advise having more than one organizer, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We also encourage submitters to contact us before the deadline if there is any concern about overlap with other similar workshop topics. Workshop attendees must pay the conference registration fee. For details of workshop submission, please see http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2009/cfw.html. We invite proposals for tutorials, to be held on the first day of the conference, June 23, 2009. We encourage submitters to contact us before the deadline if there are any concerns about overlap with other similar tutorial topics. For details of tutorial submission, please see http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2009/cft.html. The Protege conference is a forum to discuss ontology development and management, applications using ontologies, common problems and solutions. The conference is also an opportunity for Protege users to meet the Protege team, and to learn about our current activities and plans. The conference will include one day of tutorials and small focused workshops on June 23 and two and a half days of the main conference. The main program will include presentations, a poster session, and a demo session. Thus, we would like to solicit your contributions for all the events at the conference. You can find the detailed calls for contributions at the conference Web site: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2009/. There will be a review process for abstracts and the number of presentations will be limited. All events at the conference will address the following topics (the list is not exhaustive): - ontology development - frames vs description logic - standard terminologies - biomedical applications - other innovative applications - interoperability between different formats - plug-in development - visualization tools - project management - ontology tools - reasoning and inference - collaboration tools - ontology repository The deadlines for submissions are as follows: Tutorials and Workshop (no more than 2 pages): March 2, 2009 Presentations/Posters/Demos (no more than 3 pages): April 6, 2009 (For details, please see http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2009/) If you have questions, you can contact the organizers by email at protege-conf-organizers at lists.stanford.edu We look forward to your contributions and to seeing as many of you as possible in June 2009! The Protege Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From debruijn at inf.unibz.it Thu Feb 26 17:04:47 2009 From: debruijn at inf.unibz.it (Jos de Bruijn) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:04:47 +0100 Subject: [DL] Postdoc position at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Message-ID: <49A6BD9F.7000700@inf.unibz.it> ============================================================ Job: Postdoc position at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Duration: 3 years, renewable (by mutual consent) for another 3 years Topics: Knowledge Representation, Description Logics, Rules Language requirement: English Application deadline: 25 March 2009 ============================================================ The KRDB research centre at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/) seeks applicant for a postdoctoral position. The bulk of the research to be carried out is in the context of the ONTORULE project (http://ontorule-project.eu/), and is concerned with the application of Description Logics to business rules and the combination of production rule and Description Logic formalisms. Both representational adequacy and computational complexity play important roles in such combinations. Candidates must have a strong research record and a solid background in description and/or modal logics. Experience with first-order modal and fixed-point logics, and to a lesser extent experience with active rule languages such as production rules, is considered desirable, but by no means mandatory. ============================================================ How to apply ============================================================ Please fill in the forms 'A', 'B', and 'C' that may be found at the following locations, and submit them to the address indicated on the forms: http://www.unibz.it/it/organisation/vacancies/research/nonpermanent/default.html?call=614 http://www.unibz.it/de/organisation/vacancies/research/nonpermanent/default.html?call=614 Unfortunately, the forms are only available in Italian and in German. Note that *neither* Italian *nor* German is required for this position. If you intend to apply but do not understand Italian or German (or do not understand the complicated forms), please let me know, so that I can help you fill in the forms. 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It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of HyLo 2009 is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. HyLo 2009 will be an special event, conmemorating the ten years since the organization of the first HyLo workshop in 1999. HyLo 2009 will be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). SUBMISSION DETAILS: We invite the contribution of papers reporting new work from researchers interested in hybrid logic. Details about the submission procedure will be announced in the second call for papers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, and selected papers will be included in a special volume to conmemorate the 10th aniversary of the first Hybrid Logic Workshop. Please use the HyLo09 submission page at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hylo09, handled by the EasyChair conference system, to submit papers. Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. Authors are required to prepare their submissions in latex, using the conference's style (available at http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09). Notice that one author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. INVITED SPEAKERS: * Melvin Fitting (CUNY) * Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College) * Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen) * Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) ORGANIZERS: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, areces at loria.fr) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, blackbur at loria.fr) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, co-chair) Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark) Torben Brauner (Roskilde University) Stephane Demri (LSV Cachan) Santiago Figueira (University of Buenos Aires) Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester) Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam) IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 15th March 2009 Notification of acceptance: Friday, 10th of April 2009 Deadline for final versions: Friday, 1st of May 2009 Workshop dates: 15 to 17 July, 2009 FURTHER INFORMATION: http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 From Bernardo.Cuenca.Grau at comlab.ox.ac.uk Fri Mar 6 15:46:20 2009 From: Bernardo.Cuenca.Grau at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Bernardo Cuenca Grau) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:46:20 +0000 Subject: [DL] CfP: 22nd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2009) Message-ID: <49B1373C.6090907@comlab.ox.ac.uk> Apologies for cross postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2009) CALL FOR PAPERS Oxford, United Kingdom 27-30 July 2009 http://dl.kr.org/dl2009/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is thought as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 20 April 2009 (strict!) Notification of acceptance: 01 June 2009 Camera ready papers due: 22 June 2009 DL'07 Workshop: 27-30 July 2008 (3 1/2 days) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, such as * foundations of description logics, including expressive power, decidability and complexity of reasoning, novel inference problems, and reasoning techniques for solving these problems; * extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to, closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages; * integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems; * use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, semantic web, and grid computing; * building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques; and * tools that exploit description logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite submissions of papers in Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html to arrive no later than April 20, 2009. The length of submissions is limited to 11 pages, including title and abstract (can be omitted if necessary), and list of references. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair; see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2009 The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series; see http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ Accepted submissions will be selected for either oral or poster presentation; however, no distinction will be made in the workshop proceedings: all accepted papers can be 11 pages long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * TBD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Ian Horrocks, Oxford, UK (Workshop chair) * Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Oxford, UK (PC Chair) * Boris Motik, Oxford, UK (PC Chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Achille Fokoue, IBM Research, USA * Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM Research, USA * Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA * Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden, Germany * Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK * Birte Glimm, University of Oxford, UK * Carlos Areces, LORIA, France * Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen, Germany * Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Dirk Walther, University of Liverpool, UK * Evren Sirin, IBM Research, USA * Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK * Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece * Grant Weddell, University of Waterloo, Canada * Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK * Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bolzano, Italy * Luciano Serafini, ITC-IRST, Italy * Magdalena Ortiz, TU Vienna, Austia * Maja Milicic, TU Dresden, Germany * Markus Kr?tzsch, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Meghyn Bienvenu, University of Bremen, Germany * Oliver Kutz, University of Bremen, Germany * Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research, USA * Rajeev Gore, Australian National University, Australia * Ralf M?ller, Hamburg University of Technology, germanz * Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy * Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK * Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck College, UK * Sebastian Rudolph, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Stijn Heymans, TU Vienna, Austia * Thomas Meyer, Meraka Institute, South Africa * Thomas Schneider, University of Manchester, UK * Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany * Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada * Yevgeny Kazakov, University of Oxford, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information about registration, travel information, accommodation, and so on will be made available on the DL 2009 homepage: http://dl.kr.org/dl2009/ * Enquiries about the DL 2009 workshop can be made by contacting the organizing committee: dl2009 at easychair.org * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From franconi at inf.unibz.it Fri Feb 27 18:52:09 2009 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:52:09 +0100 Subject: [DL] Postdoc position on Description Logics and Rules in Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) References: <49A6BD9F.7000700@inf.unibz.it> Message-ID: ============================================================ Job: Postdoc position at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Duration: 3 years, renewable (by mutual consent) for another 3 years Topics: Knowledge Representation, Description Logics, Rules Language requirement: English Application deadline: 25 March 2009 ============================================================ The KRDB research centre at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/) seeks applicant for a postdoctoral position. The bulk of the research to be carried out is in the context of the ONTORULE project (http://ontorule-project.eu/), and is concerned with the application of Description Logics to business rules and the combination of production rule and Description Logic formalisms. Both representational adequacy and computational complexity play important roles in such combinations. Candidates must have a strong research record and a solid background in description and/or modal logics. Experience with first-order modal and fixed-point logics, and to a lesser extent experience with active rule languages such as production rules, is considered desirable, but by no means mandatory. ============================================================ How to apply ============================================================ Please fill in the forms A, B and C that may be found at the following locations, and submit them to the address indicated on the forms: http://www.unibz.it/it/organisation/vacancies/research/nonpermanent/default.html?call=614 http://www.unibz.it/de/organisation/vacancies/research/nonpermanent/default.html?call=614 Unfortunately, the forms are only available in Italian and in German. Note that *neither* Italian *nor* German is required for this position. If you intend to apply but do not understand Italian or German (or do not understand the complicated forms), please let Jos de Bruijn know, so that he can help you fill in the forms. If you have any further questions related to the position, please don't hesitate to contact Jos at the address above. From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Sat Feb 28 17:11:37 2009 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:11:37 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP: Applications of Semantic Technologies AST2009 Message-ID: <49A96239.7030002@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Call for Papers --------------- AST 2009 - Applications of Semantic Technologies 4th International AST Workshop located at Informatik 2009, L?beck, Germany (one day, end of september or beginning of october 2009 - to be determined) http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ast2009 Organisers: Stephan Grimm, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Organised in cooperation with the Knowledge Representation Fachgruppe of the German Informatics Society (GI) and the Semantic Technology Institute Germany, STI Germany . ==== Deadline for paper submissions: April 26th, 2009 ==== Objectives ---------- Semantic Web is a major international research effort with the goal to make web content available for intelligent knowledge processing. It draws on standard and novel techniques from various disciplines within Computer Science, including Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology, Software Agents, eCommerce, etc. The methods and tools developed and integrated for this purpose ? often called Semantic Technologies ? are generic and have a very large application potential outside the domain of the Semantic Web. Such applications are currently being investigated in various disciplines within Computer Science, including Ambient Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge Management, Bioinformatics, etc. We believe that Semantic Technologies provide methods and tools which will persist in these and other application areas for the foreseeable future. Topics of Interest ------------------ This workshop shall bring together researchers and practitioners who work on applications of Semantic Technologies. It shall further the cross-fertilization between application areas and aid the technology transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop shall cover diverse application areas of Semantic Technologies, including, but not limited to, the following. * Ambient Intelligence * Cognitive Systems * Data Integration * Multimedia Data Management * Software Engineering * Service-Oriented Computing * Machine Learning * eScience * Information Extraction * Grid Computing * Peer-to-Peer Systems * eCommerce * eGovernment * Bioinformatics * Digital Libraries * Sensor Web * Semantic Web for Life Sciences * eHealth * and any other application area of Semantic Technologies Submission and Proceedings -------------------------- Submissions must not exceed 15 pages (shorter papers are also welcome) and must comply with the requirements laid out under . Information on how to submit will be posted on the workshop webpage shortly. Submissions will be reviewed. Accepted publications will appear as part of a book, bearing an ISBN number. Important Dates --------------- * Deadline for paper submissions: 26th of April, 2009 * Notification of acceptance: May 25th, 2009 * Camera-ready versions: June 15th, 2009 * Workshop: to be determined (one day between September 28th and October 2nd, 2009), 2009 Please address all general questions concerning the workshop to Pascal Hitzler under hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de From Valentin.Goranko at wits.ac.za Tue Mar 3 11:21:00 2009 From: Valentin.Goranko at wits.ac.za (Valentin Goranko) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:21:00 +0200 Subject: [DL] TABLEAUX'09 Workshop on tableaux vs automata: call for submissions Message-ID: TABLEAUX'2009 Workshop on tableaux versus automata as logical decision methods Oslo, July 6, 2009 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TOPIC AND OBJECTIVE: Terminating semantic tableaux have served for a long time as one of the practically most efficient types of decision procedures for a wide range of logical systems. On the other hand, automata-based methods for testing satisfiability and model checking for various modal and temporal logics of computations have gained very wide recognition and popularity over the past two decades, because they provide uniform, elegant, and often optimal decision procedures. Furthermore, a number of increasingly efficient automata-based tools have been implemented and used for academic and industrial purposes, and there seem to be a growing perception amongst the formal verification community that these tools are superior and preferable to the tableau-based tools. That perception, however, is not based on systematic comparative analysis, and some practical experience with well-designed tableau-based tools suggest that such perception can sometimes be misleading. Moreover, various optimization techniques, such as on-the-fly methods, draw automata-based algorithms very close to tableau-like procedures, thus strongly suggesting that tableaux and automata are closely related formalisms for deciding logical satisfiability. Yet, few formal technical results to that effect are known, and the scientific discussion on the pros and cons, similarities and differences, comparisons of applicability, efficiency, and performance between tableaux and automata has so far been rather sporadic. The purpose of the workshop is to provide an expert forum for such discussion, to provoke and foster debate between the automata and tableaux communities, and to stimulate further research on the topic. IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions deadline: May 4, 2009 Notification deadline: May 25, 2009 Preliminary programme: June 5, 2009 Final programme: June 12, 2009 Workshop: July 6, 2009 SUBMISSIONS: Submissions for workshop talks are invited by means of extended abstracts within 5 A4 pages in PDF or PS format, using Springer LNCS style. Submissions may be based on new and original, or on already published or submitted work, but they should address the topic of the workshop. The abstracts of the workshop talks will be included in informal proceedings. No formal proceedings are currently planned, but if the workshop attracts sufficiently many good and original contributions, a journal special issue will be organized after the event. WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany Stephane Demri, CNRS, Cachan, France Valentin Goranko, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Rajeev Gore, The Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia Colin Stirling, University of Edinburgh, UK Pierre Wolper, Universit? de Liege, Belgium (More PC members may join) FURTHER INFORMATION: TABLEAUX'2009 website: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/martingi/Tableaux09 Workshop website: http://www.maths.wits.ac.za/~goranko/TableauxAutomataWorkshop/TableauxAutomataWorkshop.html ENQUIRIES to: Valentin Goranko (Workshop organizer), goranko at maths.wits.ac.za.

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From ciucci at disco.unimib.it Thu Mar 12 14:00:25 2009 From: ciucci at disco.unimib.it (Davide Ciucci) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:00:25 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: Managing Vagueness and Uncertainty in the Semantic Web (VUSW09) Message-ID: <49B90769.6020802@disco.unimib.it> ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS *Managing Vagueness and Uncertainty in the Semantic Web (VUSW-09)* Milano, 15 th September 2009 http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/vusw-2009/ ================================================================== The Semantic Web has recently attracted much attention both from academia and industry, and it is widely regarded as the next step in the evolution of the World Wide Web, towards the Intelligent Web. It aims at enhancing content on the World Wide Web (WWW) with meta-data, enabling agents (machines or human users) to process, share and interpret Web content. Nowadays, for many people, the WWW has become an indispensable tool of research (it is used in order to provide useful information to humans). Unfortunately, searching the Web in its current form is not well suited for finding information which is ill-defined (in texts, pictures, videos, and so on). Up to now, users are able to only find "precise information", using the underlying binary logic. An immediate problem is that search engines usually provide a huge number of answers, many of which are completely irrelevant, whereas some of the more interesting answers are not found. One of the reasons for this unsatisfactory state of affairs is that existing Web resources are mainly oriented towards human understandability: the mark-up (meta-data) only provides rendering information for textual and graphical information intended for human consumption. Hence, a way to improve the expressiveness of the Web-knowledge is to integrate it with uncertain and vague features. The Semantic Web challenge is to develop frameworks to bring semantics to Web contents, with the aim to make agents (i.e. machines and humans) understand each other by sharing knowledge. Any agent might thus process and interpret Web contents. This could only be performed if imprecise and uncertain information can be correctly interpreted and processed. Thus, to reach this scope, Web-based Retrieval Systems must include new semantic features in order to retrieve semantically correlated information and to satisfy user's queries. However, up to now, the use of the techniques for making the Web more intelligent is still in the early stages. Hence, the objective of this workshop is to provide a concrete study and analysis for making Web-knowledge more expressive and fruitful, hosting novel research contributions (i) to develop Semantic Web tools, models and languages (e.g., Jena developers, ontologies editors developers), and (ii) to provide facilities for representing knowledge and reasoning under uncertainty and/or imprecision. *Topics:* The topics of main interest are: * Fuzzy Ontology and Fuzzy Description Logics * Probabilistic Ontology and Probabilistic Description Logics * Ontology Approximation * Ontology languages * Granular computing tools for the Semantic Web * Uncertainty reasoning tools for the Semantic Web * Concept-based Information retrieval *Submissions:* All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. All workshops are required to use the WI-IAT 2008 Cyberchair system for on-line paper submission process. 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URL: From areces at pluton.loria.fr Wed Mar 18 11:39:19 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:39:19 +0100 Subject: [DL] E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize: Extended Deadline Message-ID: <200903181039.n2IAdJEn010531@pluton.loria.fr> E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2009 call for submissions Since 2002, FoLLI (the European Association for Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree in the year 2008. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of the three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Inter-disciplinarity is an important feature of the theses competing for the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize. Who qualifies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2008 and December 31st, 2008. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. After a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Dissertations produced in 2008 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2009). Respectively, nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in other language than English and defended in 2007 and 2008 will be accepted for consideration this year, too. Prize. ~~~~~~ The prize consists of: * a certificate * a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. * an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be published by Springer-Verlag as part of LNCS or LNCS/LNAI. (Further information on this series is available on the FoLLI site) How to submit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Only electronic submissions are accepted. The following documents are required: 1. the thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted); 2. a ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii or pdf format; 3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded; 4. two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically to bethaward2008 at gmail.com. Hard copy submissions are not admitted. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days after submission, nominators should write to goranko at maths.wits.ac.za or policriti at dimi.uniud.it, with a cc to bethaward2008 at gmail.com. Important dates: Extended (strict) deadline for submissions: April 7, 2009. Notification of decision: July 1, 2009. Committee : * Anne Abeill?? (Universit?? Paris 7) * Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) * Wojciech Buszkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) * Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS) * Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) * Valentin Goranko (chair) (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) * Alexander Koller (Saarland University) * Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) * Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) * Alberto Policriti (Universit?? di Udine) * Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) * Colin Stirling (University of Edinburgh) From franconi at inf.unibz.it Tue Mar 17 14:44:46 2009 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:44:46 +0100 Subject: [DL] 5th Reasoning Web Summer School 2009 - call for participation Message-ID: <1003C423-1E21-494C-856C-DA2E8BC346B1@inf.unibz.it> 5th REASONING WEB Summer School (RW 2009) "Semantic technologies for information systems" http://www.reasoningweb.org/2009/ Brixen-Bressanone (near Bozen-Bolzano), Italy 30 August - 4 September 2008 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 10 May 2009 The "Reasoning Web" series of annual Summer Schools was started in 2005 by the Network of Excellence REWERSE. This edition will focus on the use of semantic technologies to enhance data access on the web. Courses will present a range of techniques an formalisms which bridge semantic based and data intensive systems. COURSES: 1. Description Logics. by Franz Baader 2. Ontologies and databases. by Diego Calvanese 3. Database theory for RDF. by Claudio Gutierrez 4. Database technology for RDF. by Souripriya Das 5. Answers-set semantics based tools. by Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni 6. The Semantic Desktop. by Siegfried Handschuh, Michael Sintek 7. Logical foundations of XML and XQuery. by Maarten Marx REGISTRATION FEE: ?400 (including all lunches and social events). APPLICATION: The applications have to be submitted by the *** 10th of May 2009 *** according to the instruction in the web site: http://reasoningweb.org/2009/ Details on the registration procedure will be available after the notification of acceptance of the application; details on the accommodation are already available in the web site. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Thomas Eiter, Vienna Technical University, Austria. Enrico Franconi (co-chair), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland. Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France. Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Sergio Tessaris (co-chair), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. REASONING WEB SCHOOL STEERING COMMITTEE: Uwe Assmann. Cristina Baroglio (chair). Fran?ois Bry. Norbert Eisinger. Nicola Henze. Massimo Marchiori. Axel Polleres (deputy chair). LOCAL ORGANISATION: Stefano David, Universit? Politecnica delle Marche, Italy. Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. From areces at pluton.loria.fr Thu Mar 26 15:12:51 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:12:51 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: LJ of the IGPL Special Issue on Hybrid Logics Message-ID: <200903261412.n2QECpPf004919@pluton.loria.fr> *************************************************************** Please excuse for multiple posts and distribute as widely as possible *************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Logic Journal of the IGPL Special issue on Hybrid Logic DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st May 2009 *************************************************************** Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of this special issue is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc.) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). The special issue will welcome papers in a wide range of topics, including description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. We welcome both theoretical work and work describing systems and applications on hybrid logics, broadly conceived. All submissions will be peer reviewed with respect to the usual journal criteria. Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished, research papers written in English. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Papers should not exceed 25 pages including references. Authors are required to prepare their submissions in latex, using the style available at http://hylo.loria.fr/content/SI/2009 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st May 2009 GUEST EDITORS: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, areces at loria.fr) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, blackbur at loria.fr) From rseba at brenta.disi.unitn.it Fri Mar 27 15:36:12 2009 From: rseba at brenta.disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:36:12 +0100 Subject: [DL] FroCoS'09 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20090327143612.GA5220@brenta.disi.unitn.it> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers 7th International Symposium on FRONTIERS OF COMBINING SYSTEMS (FroCoS?09) Trento, Italy, September 16-18th, 2009 http://events.unitn.it/en/frocos09/ MOTIVATIONS In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. In order to be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and they must be integrated into general purpose systems. The development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems has been initiated in many areas. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FROCOS) traditionally focuses on this type of research questions and activities and aims at promoting progress in the field. Like its predecessors, FROCOS?09 wants to offer a common forum for research activities in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems (with emphasis on logic-based ones), and of their practical use. RELEVANT TOPICS Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics such as combined predicate, temporal, modal, or epistemic logics; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures, and of CS techniques; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * combination of deduction systems and computer algebra; * integration of data structures into CLP formalisms and deduction processes; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications. INVITED SPEALERS * Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy * Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, Austria * Boris Motik, Oxford University, UK * Ashish Tiwari, SRI International, USA PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least three members of the program committee. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Papers must be edited in LATEX using the llncs style and be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos09. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). Further information about paper submission is available at FROCOS?09 web page. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of FroCoS?09 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 26th, 2009 Full paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 8th, 2009 Camera Ready Copy: June 22th, 2009 Conference: September 16-18th 2009 CHAIRS - Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano, Italy - Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Franz Baader, T.U. Dresden, Germany - Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Camberra, Australia - Torben Brauner, Roskilde University, DK - Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA - Bernhard Gramlich, T.U. Wien, Austria - Sava Krstic, Intel Corporation, USA - Viktor Kuncak, E.P.F. Lausanne, Switzerland - Albert Oliveras, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain - Silvio Ranise, University of Verona, Italy - Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, Nancy, France - Ulrike Sattler, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Renate Schmidt, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Luciano Serafini, FBK-Irst, Italy - Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbruken, Germany - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK - Michael Zakharyaschev, London Knowledge Lab, UK From tudorache at stanford.edu Wed Mar 25 20:25:17 2009 From: tudorache at stanford.edu (Tania Tudorache) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:25:17 -0700 Subject: [DL] K-CAP 2009: Deadlines for research papers and tutorial proposals approaching (The 5th Intl. Conference on Knowledge Capture) Message-ID: <49CA851D.8070504@stanford.edu> Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues and mailing lists. ==================================================================== K-CAP 2009 The 5th International Conference on Knowledge Capture 1-4 September, 2009 Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, California, USA http://kcap09.stanford.edu DEADLINES APPROACHING: ------------------------------------- Tutorial submissions: April 1, 2009 (1 week from today) Research paper submission: April 15, 2009 (3 weeks form today) See the call for tutorial proposals and call for papers below INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------------- Professor Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) Professor Daniel Weld (University of Washington) ==================================================================== CALL FOR TUTORIALS --------------------------- Web version: http://kcap09.stanford.edu/cft.html K-CAP tutorials are half-day and should aim to address a specific topic within the scope of conference or a topic which is of interest for the conference participants. It should provide either a introduction into the topic or a comprehensive overview of the topic addressed. The audience will mostly be the conference participants. The topic should be of sufficient relevance with respect to the state of the art. The course can be educational in nature or give a survey of state of the art techniques. Important Dates for Tutorials: ------------------------------ * April 1, 2009: Proposal submission deadline * April 25, 2009: Acceptance notification * July 3, 2009: Deadline for camera-ready tutorial materials * September 1, 2009: K-CAP 2009 tutorial Submitting a Proposal: ---------------------- Proposals for tutorials should be between two and five pages in length, and must include the following information: * Contact information of the proposed tutorial lecturer(s) (all names, department, university, telephone, fax and e-mail, short bio-sketch) * Tutorial title * Aims and learning objectives including the scope (general topic area) * Relevance to K-CAP attendees * Length of course and estimated attendance * Tutorial abstract (1-2 paragraphs suitable for inclusion in conference registration materials) * Full description (1-2 pages to be used for evaluation) * Relevant publications of the proposer(s) with respect to the topic and tutorial history (if any) * Will tutorial materials be provided to attendees? If so, are there any copyright issues? Timetable: ---------- All proposals should be submitted by email to hotho at cs.uni-kassel.de (preferably in PDF) by April 1, 2009. Please send your proposals and any inquiries to: Andreas Hotho, hotho at cs.uni-kassel.de CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------ Web version: http://kcap09.stanford.edu/cfp.html In today's knowledge-driven world, effective access to and use of information is a key enabler for progress. Modern technologies not only are themselves knowledge-intensive technologies, but also produce enormous amounts of new information that we must process and aggregate. These technologies require knowledge capture, which involve the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse sources of information as well as its acquisition directly from users. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Web, the study of knowledge capture has a renewed importance. Researchers that work in the area of knowledge capture traditionally belong to several distinct research communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and the Semantic Web. K-CAP 2009 will provide a forum that brings together members of disparate research communities that are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing. We solicit high-quality research papers for publication and presentation at our conference. Our aim is to promote multidisciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. K-CAP 2009 follows on the success of four previous conferences in 2007 (Whistler, Canada), in 2005 (Banff, Canada), in 2003 (Florida, USA), and 2001 (Victoria, Canada). The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2009 will feature Invited Talks, Technical Papers, Workshops, Posters and Demos on a range of topics including: * Knowledge acquisition tools * Authoring tools * Knowledge extraction systems * Knowledge management environments * Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition * Learning apprentices * Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools * Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge * Knowledge-based markup techniques * Advice taking systems * Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies IMPORTANT DATES Technical papers --------------------- Papers due: April 15, 2009 Author notification: May 31, 2009 Camera-ready copy due: June 30, 2009 Posters and demos ------------------------ Poster and demo submissions: June 15, 2009 Author notifications: July 5, 2009 Technical papers Complete formatting instructions (including Microsoft Word and Latex templates) are available on the conference website. Briefly, submitted papers should be 8 pages, two columns, 10-point Times Roman (or equivalent), and "US letter" page-size. Posters and demo descriptions Complete formatting instructions (including Microsoft Word and Latex templates) are available on the conference website. Briefly, submitted papers should be 2 pages, two columns, 10-point Times Roman (or equivalent), and "US letter" page-size. ABOUT THE VENUE The conference will be held in the beautiful Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, which is only 7 miles (11.2 km) away from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The location is only steps from the Redondo Beach and the bike path that runs along the South Bay in Los Angeles. Also within walking distance is a marina that offers opportunities for fishing, sailing, and free outdoor concerts. The marina has many restaurants, a water park, and seal flocks. K-CAP 2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Yolanda Gil, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Program Chair: Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany Technology Chair: Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA K-CAP 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, US) Harith Alani (University of Southampton, UK) Cecilia Aragon (Lawrence Berkeley Lab, US) Lora Aroyo (Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Ken Barker (University of Texas, US) Joachim Baumeister (University of W?rzburg, Germany) Bettina Berendt (K.U.Leuven, Germany) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Germany) Mark Burstein (BBN, US) Vinay Chaudhri (SRI International, US) Philipp Cimiano (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Peter Clark (Boeing, US) Oscar Corcho (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) Martin Dzbor (KMi, Open University, UK) James Fan (IBM Research, US) George Ferguson (University of Rochester, US) Ken Forbus (Northwestern University, US) Aldo Gangemi (Italian National Research Council, Italy) John Gennari (University of Washington, US) Asun Gomez-Perez (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) Mark Greaves (Vulcan, US) Bettina Hoser (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Jane Hunter (The University of Queensland, Australia) Robert Jaeschke (University of Kassel, Germany) Jihie Kim (USC/ISI, US) Ross King (University of Wales at Aberystwyth, UK) Tolga Konik (Stanford University, US) Rob Kremer (University of Calgary, Canada) Ugur Kuter (University of Maryland, College Park, US) Juergen Lerner (University of Konstanz, Germany) James Lester (North Carolina State University, US) Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Laboratory, US) Peter Mika (Yahoo, Spain) Vibhu Mittal (Google, US) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Claudia M?ller (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Mark Musen (Stanford University, US) Karen Myers (SRI International, US) Tomas Nordlander (University College Cork, Ireland) Tim Oates (University of Maryland Baltimore County, US) Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) Charles Rich (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US) Harald Sack (University of Potsdam, Germany) Gianni Semeraro (University of Bari, Italy) Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) Candy Sidner (BAE Systems, US) Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) Markus Strohmaier (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Gerd Stumme (University of Kassel, Germany) Prasad Tadepalli (Oregon State University, US) Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool, UK) Dan Tecuci (University of Texas, US) Annette ten Teije (Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Bob Wielinga (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Michael Witbrock (Cycorp, US) Peter Yeh (Accenture, US) Derek Sleeman (University of Aberdeen, UK) Siegfried Handschuh (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland) K-CAP STEERING COMMITTEE Peter Clark (Boeing Company) Ken Forbus (Northwestern University) Yolanda Gil (USC) Rob Kremer (University of Calgary) Mark Musen (Stanford University) Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Derek Sleeman (University of Aberdeen) From jraskin at ulb.ac.be Tue Mar 31 13:19:05 2009 From: jraskin at ulb.ac.be (Jean-Francois Raskin) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:19:05 +0200 Subject: [DL] TIME'09 - Final call for papers Message-ID: <3A184559-EEEB-4C55-9B43-0884BB9724F8@ulb.ac.be> TIME 2009 - Final Call for Papers Sixteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning Brixen, Italy, July 23-25, 2009 http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/time-2009/ The TIME symposium series is a well-established annual event that brings together researchers from all areas of computer science that involve temporal representation and reasoning. This includes, but is not limited to, artificial intelligence, temporal databases, and the verification of software and hardware systems. In addition to fostering interdisciplinarity, the TIME symposia emphasize bridging the gap between theoretical and applied research. TIME 2009 encompasses three tracks, but has a single program committee. The conference will span three days, and will be organized as a combination of technical paper presentations, poster sessions, and keynote lectures. * IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: April 6 (strict) Paper Submission: April 9 (strict) Paper Notification: May 11 Camera Ready Copy Due: May 22 TIME 2009 Symposium: July 23-25 * INVITED SPEAKERS Logic - Mark Reynolds, The University of West Australia AI - Froduald Kabanza, Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada DB - Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, France * TOPICS Track 1: Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI - temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems - spatial and temporal reasoning - reasoning about actions and change - planning and planning languages - ontologies of time and space-time - belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge - temporal learning and discovery - time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling) - time in human-machine interaction - temporal information extraction - time in natural language processing - spatio-temporal knowledge representation systems - spatio-temporal ontologies for the semantic web Track 2: Temporal Database Management - temporal data models and query languages - temporal query processing and indexing - temporal data mining - time series data management - stream data management - spatio-temporal data management, including moving objects - data currency and expiration - indeterminate and imprecise temporal data - temporal constraints - temporal aspects of workflow and ECA systems - real-time databases - time-dependent security policies - privacy in temporal and spatio-temporal data - temporal aspects of multimedia databases - temporal aspects of e-services and web applications - temporal aspects of distributed systems - novel applications of temporal database management - experiences with real applications Track 3: Temporal Logic and Verification in Computer Science - specification and verification of systems - verification of web applications - synthesis and execution - model checking algorithms - verification of infinite-state systems - reasoning about transition systems - temporal architectures - temporal logics for distributed systems - temporal logics of knowledge - hybrid systems and real-time logics - tools and practical systems - temporal issues in security * PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions of high quality papers describing research results or on-going work are solicited. Submitted papers should contain original, previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Acceptance of a paper is contingent on one author presenting the paper at the symposium. Submissions should be in PDF format (with the necessary fonts embedded). They must be formatted according to the IEEE guide- lines described at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/ proceedings/8.5x11 - Formatting files/ and must not exceed 8 pages; over-length submissions may be rejected without review. Papers are submitted electronically via Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=time2009 * CONFERENCE OFFICERS General Chair: David Toman, University of Waterloo, Canada Program Committee Chairs: Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen, Germany Jean-Francois Raskin, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Organization Chair: Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo, Canada Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy Thomas Brihaye, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium Franck Cassez, National ICT Australia Jan Chomicki, University at Buffalo, USA Carlo Combi, University of Verona, Italy Alessandro Cimatti, IRST, Italy Stephane Demri, CNRS, France Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University, Germany Michael Fisher, Liverpool, UK Tim French, University of Western Australia, Australia Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK Alfonso Gerevini, University of Brescia, Italy Valentin Goranko, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Rajeev Gore, ANU, Australia Keijo Heljanko, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Ian Hodkinson, Imperial College, UK Ulrich Hustadt, University of Liverpool, UK George Kollios, Boston University, USA Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University, Israel Francois Laroussinie, CNRS, France Salvatore Latorre, University of Salerno, Italy Nicolas Markey, CNRS, France Rupak Majumdar, University of California, USA Angelo Montanari, University of Udine, Italy Madhusudan Parthasarathy, University of Illinois, USA Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Manchester University, UK Jochen Renz, Australian National University, Australia Roger Villemaire, UQAM, Canada Sean Wang, University of Vermont, USA Jef Wijsen, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois, USA Pierre Wolper, University of Liege, Belgium Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK James Worrell, Oxford University, UK Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College, UK Carlo Zaniolo, University of California, USA * FURTHER INFORMATION Questions related to submission, reviewing, and program: time09 at informatik.uni-bremen.de Questions related to local organization: artale at inf.unibz.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Wed Apr 1 16:44:55 2009 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:44:55 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Contributions: Beautiful Ontologies, a special issue of the Applied Ontology Message-ID: <0D33DBBA-A78A-4716-B2A0-E80BE48D9036@open.ac.uk> Call for Contributions: Beautiful Ontologies, a special issue of the Applied Ontology Calling experts on ontology modeling, representation and design, as well as ontology users, to contribute to a special issue of Applied Ontology on `Beautiful Ontologies'. Guest editors: Mathieu d?Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute, the Open University, UK - m.daquin at open.ac.uk ) Aldo Gangemi (Semantic Technology Lab, ISTC-CNR, Italy - aldo.gangemi at cnr.it ) Deadline: 1st June 2009 Ontologies are design artifacts, to which quality notions like appropriateness, coverage, efficiency, sustainability, and elegance apply. Classical approaches to assess the quality of ontologies mostly involve automatic metrics on the structure of ontologies, unit tests, or the manual assessment by domain experts, ontology experts or users, normally using formal, objective criteria. In this special issue, we want to approach this topic from a different perspective. We would like to invite internationally recognized experts on ontology engineering, as well as ontology practitioners and users to contribute by providing positive examples of good, interesting and elegant ontology designs ? i.e., ?beautiful ontologies?. There is no constraint on the chosen ontology, on its format, on the formalism in which it is implemented, on the domain it describes, on its creator(s) or even on its 'score' according to classical evaluation methods. However, each beautiful ontology article should clearly explain why, according to the author, the chosen ontology is interesting and how it contributes to the overall discussion on ontology quality. By gathering in this way different views on concrete examples, we hope to achieve a better understanding of quality ontology design, providing a concrete reference for less experienced ontology practitioners as well as an ethnographic basis for collecting best practices in ontology design. As such, this initiative relates directly to others in the domain, like the OntologyDesignPatterns.org portal, and might generate direct contributions to them. Submission We seek submissions of articles discussing either an existing ontology as a whole, an ontology module, an ontology design pattern or even a particular characteristic of an ontology (including the way it has been used or applied). 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URL: From Richard.Moot at labri.fr Mon Mar 30 19:31:57 2009 From: Richard.Moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:31:57 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2009 - Second Call for Participation Message-ID: <9885927A-AF71-45E5-B088-572025AAECED@labri.fr> 21st EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION ESSLLI 2009 Bordeaux, July 20-31 2009 http://esslli2009.labri.fr/ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. The 21st edition of ESSLLI will be held in Bordeaux, recently selected as a Unesco World Heritage site. = Course Program = ESSLLI gathers about 500 people and offers a total of 48 courses and workshops, divided among foundational, introductory and advanced courses, and including a total of 6 workshops. The courses and workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/programme.php = Registration = Registration for ESSLLI is open. Early registration rates are 225 euros for students and 350 euros for others. *Early registration deadline*: 1st of May 2009. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/reg.php = Grants and Volunteers = There is a limited number of fee waivers available for students who want to spend some time assisting the organizing committee during ESSLLI. *Application deadline*: 19 April 2009 http://esslli2009.labri.fr/grants.php We look forward to seeing you in Bordeaux this summer! On behalf of the ESSLLI organizing committee Richard Moot From rseba at disi.unitn.it Wed Apr 1 18:51:24 2009 From: rseba at disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:51:24 +0200 Subject: [DL] FroCoS'09 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20090401165124.GA1773@disi.unitn.it> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers 7th International Symposium on FRONTIERS OF COMBINING SYSTEMS (FroCoS?09) Trento, Italy, September 16-18th, 2009 http://events.unitn.it/en/frocos09/ MOTIVATIONS In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. In order to be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and they must be integrated into general purpose systems. The development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems has been initiated in many areas. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FROCOS) traditionally focuses on this type of research questions and activities and aims at promoting progress in the field. Like its predecessors, FROCOS?09 wants to offer a common forum for research activities in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems (with emphasis on logic-based ones), and of their practical use. RELEVANT TOPICS Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics such as combined predicate, temporal, modal, or epistemic logics; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures, and of CS techniques; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * combination of deduction systems and computer algebra; * integration of data structures into CLP formalisms and deduction processes; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications. INVITED SPEAKERS * Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy * Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, Austria * Boris Motik, Oxford University, UK * Ashish Tiwari, SRI International, USA PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least three members of the program committee. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Papers must be edited in LATEX using the llncs style and be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos09. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). Further information about paper submission is available at FROCOS?09 web page. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of FroCoS?09 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 26th, 2009 Full paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 8th, 2009 Camera Ready Copy: June 22th, 2009 Conference: September 16-18th 2009 CHAIRS - Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano, Italy - Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Franz Baader, T.U. Dresden, Germany - Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Camberra, Australia - Torben Brauner, Roskilde University, DK - Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA - Bernhard Gramlich, T.U. Wien, Austria - Sava Krstic, Intel Corporation, USA - Viktor Kuncak, E.P.F. Lausanne, Switzerland - Albert Oliveras, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain - Silvio Ranise, University of Verona, Italy - Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, Nancy, France - Ulrike Sattler, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Renate Schmidt, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Luciano Serafini, FBK-Irst, Italy - Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbruken, Germany - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK - Michael Zakharyaschev, London Knowledge Lab, UK From Bernardo.Cuenca.Grau at comlab.ox.ac.uk Tue Apr 7 18:25:20 2009 From: Bernardo.Cuenca.Grau at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Bernardo Cuenca Grau) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:25:20 +0100 Subject: [DL] 2nd CfP: 22nd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2009) Message-ID: <49DB7E70.3040702@comlab.ox.ac.uk> Apologies for cross posting --------------------------------------------------------------------- 22st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2009) CALL FOR PAPERS Oxford, United Kingdom 27-30 July 2009 http://dl.kr.org/dl2009/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is thought as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 20 April 2009 (strict!) Notification of acceptance: 01 June 2009 Camera ready papers due: 22 June 2009 DL'07 Workshop: 27-30 July 2008 (3 1/2 days) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, such as * foundations of description logics, including expressive power, decidability and complexity of reasoning, novel inference problems, and reasoning techniques for solving these problems; * extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to, closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages; * integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems; * use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, semantic web, and grid computing; * building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques; and * tools that exploit description logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite submissions of papers in Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html to arrive no later than April 20, 2009. The length of submissions is limited to 11 pages, including title and abstract (can be omitted if necessary), but excluding references (i.e., the length of the paper without the references must be at most 11 pages). Papers must be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair; see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2009 The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series; see http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ Accepted submissions will be selected for either oral or poster presentation; however, no distinction will be made in the workshop proceedings: all accepted papers can be 11 pages long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh, UK * Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, USA * Rajeev Gore, The Australian National University, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Ian Horrocks, Oxford, UK (Workshop chair) * Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Oxford, UK (PC Chair) * Boris Motik, Oxford, UK (PC Chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Achille Fokoue, IBM Research, USA * Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM Research, USA * Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA * Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden, Germany * Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK * Birte Glimm, University of Oxford, UK * Carlos Areces, LORIA, France * Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen, Germany * Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Dirk Walther, University of Liverpool, UK * Evren Sirin, IBM Research, USA * Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK * Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece * Grant Weddell, University of Waterloo, Canada * Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK * Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bolzano, Italy * Luciano Serafini, ITC-IRST, Italy * Magdalena Ortiz, TU Vienna, Austia * Maja Milicic, TU Dresden, Germany * Markus Kr?tzsch, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Meghyn Bienvenu, University of Bremen, Germany * Oliver Kutz, University of Bremen, Germany * Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research, USA * Rajeev Gore, Australian National University, Australia * Ralf M?ller, Hamburg University of Technology, germanz * Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy * Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK * Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck College, UK * Sebastian Rudolph, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Stijn Heymans, TU Vienna, Austia * Thomas Meyer, Meraka Institute, South Africa * Thomas Schneider, University of Manchester, UK * Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany * Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada * Yevgeny Kazakov, University of Oxford, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information about registration, travel information, accommodation, and so on will be made available on the DL 2009 homepage: http://dl.kr.org/dl2009/ * Enquiries about the DL 2009 workshop can be made by contacting the organizing committee: dl2009 at easychair.org * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From fds at dcc.fc.up.pt Mon Apr 13 16:49:18 2009 From: fds at dcc.fc.up.pt (Fernando Silva) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:49:18 +0100 Subject: [DL] Extended Deadline: CFP for COmputational Logic and Applications (COLA'2009) Message-ID: <1239634158.11682.5.camel@localhost> Please note that the deadline was extended to the 29th of April 2009. Final Call for Papers: COLA'2009 (part of EPIA'2009) ======================================================================== ?EPIA 2009 - 14th PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE October 12-15, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal http://epia2009.appia.pt/ COLA - COmputational Logic with Applications (Thematic Track) ======================================================================== The integration of new complex intelligent systems requires more and more sound and appropriate foundations and tools, resulting in new problems and challenges for the computational logic practitioners. Computational logic has been widely used in complex applications in important areas such as the Deductive Databases, Natural Language Processing and Program Analysis, and more recently on the Semantic Web and related Web Tools. These novel applications have exposed the limits of existing approaches, showing the need for research on better languages and more sophisticated implementations of reasoning systems. The COLA thematic track of EPIA 2009 covers the broad area of Computational Logic and its applications, with special interest on topics related with new formalisms, environments, and applications. A list of non-exhaustive topics is: - Logic based knowledge representation and applications. - Declarative semantics of rule languages and applications. - Program Analysis, Program Transformation, Validation and Verification, Debugging, Profiling. - Implementation of reasoning systems, in particular logic programming, contextual logic programming and tabling systems. - Abductive and Inductive Logic Programming - Ontologies, Description Logics and integration with reasoning systems. - Reasoning with incomplete and uncertain information, including non-monotonic reasoning as well as probabilistic and fuzzy logic programming formalisms. - Reasoning on the Semantic Web. - Applications: Deductive Databases, Data Integration, Natural Language, Semantic Web, and Web Tools. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for paper submission: 29 April, 2009 Notification of paper acceptance: 31 May, 2009 Conference dates: 12-15 October, 2009 INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION: All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management website at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/EPIA2009 Submitted papers have a maximum length of 12 pages and should have been prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNAI series. The best accepted papers (the number is decided by EPIA Chairs) will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI series. The remaining accepted papers and posters will be published in a local edition, both in hard-copy, CD-ROM and on the web. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Carlos Viegas Dam?sio, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Fernando Silva, Universidade do Porto, Portugal PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bart Demoen, K. University of Leuven, Belgium David Warren, University of Stony Brook, USA Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Frank Pfenning, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Gregory Wheeler, CENTRIA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH and University of Crete, Greece In?s Dutra, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Jos? J?lio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Manuel Ojeda Aciego, Universidad de M?laga, Spain Nuno Silva, ISEP, Portugal Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany Paulo Gomes, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Priscila M.V. Lima, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Salvador Abreu, Universidade de ?vora, Portugal Terrance Swift, CENTRIA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Umberto Straccia, ISTI, CNR, Italy V?tor Santos Costa, Universidade do Porto, Portugal For more information about the EPIA 2009 conference visit http://epia2009.appia.pt/ From heflin at cse.lehigh.edu Mon Apr 13 15:37:09 2009 From: heflin at cse.lehigh.edu (Jeff Heflin) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:37:09 -0400 Subject: [DL] ISWC 2009 Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <49E34005.3000105@cse.lehigh.edu> ISWC 2009: Call for Workshop Proposals ISWC 2009, the Eighth International Semantic Web Conference, will be held on October 25-29 2009 at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington DC. Co-located workshops at previous ISWC conferences have become an important meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange ideas concerning focused Semantic Web topics. ISWC 2009 plans to continue with this tradition and invites proposals for the Workshop Track. General Information: Co-located workshops must be on topics that are of interest to ISWC attendees. Workshop duration can be half a day or a full day. We strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events. We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions. The decision on acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal as well as how it fits in with the conference. The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, for publicity (e.g., website), and for publishing electronic proceedings on the CEUR-WS website. They will be required to closely cooperate with the Workshops Chairs and the ISWC 2009 local organizers to finalize all details mentioned above. Accepted workshops will receive one free registration to the main conference. Workshop attendees must pay the ISWC 2009 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. Important Dates: *** Workshop proposals are due *May 1*, 2009. Proposals should be submitted to iswc09workshops at lists.csail.mit.edu . Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given by May 22, 2009. *** The important dates for accepted workshops will be: - Workshop cfps out (suggested): June 8 - Submissions (suggested): July 31 - Acceptances (suggested): August 30 - Camera ready papers (suggested): October 2 - Camera ready proceedings: October 9 - Workshops days: October 25-26 Submitting a proposal: Workshop proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length, should be in text or PDF format and should contain the following information: - A title. - A 200 words abstract. - A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time. - A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest, the workshop audience, as well as the expected number of participants. - A brief description of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion. - A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal). - An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day meeting. - A description of past versions of the workshop, including URLs as well as submission and acceptance counts. - The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organizing committee and short description of their relevant experience. Please send your proposals by *May 1*, 2009 to iswc09workshops at lists.csail.mit.edu . The Workshop Chairs Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, MIT, USA Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University, USA From Peter.Baumgartner at rsise.anu.edu.au Fri Apr 3 05:04:17 2009 From: Peter.Baumgartner at rsise.anu.edu.au (Peter Baumgartner) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:04:17 +1100 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: CADE-22 Workshop 'Beyond SAT: What About First-Order Logic?' Message-ID: <18901.31921.720691.965093@dyn-203-143-165-146.crl.nicta.com.au> ================================================================= CADE-22 Workshop on Beyond SAT: What About First-Order Logic? McGill University, Montreal, Canada, August 3, 2009 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions deadline: May 17 ================================================================= Background ---------- The arguably most successful branch of automated reasoning today is (propositional) SAT solving. Propositional encodings and SAT solvers are widely used in AI and formal methods to solve problems from planning, diagnosis, knowledge compilation, constraint satisfaction, just to name a few, and they dominate the whole area of software and hardware verification for embedded reasoning services. However, while the success of reducing problems to propositional logic is undeniable, many problems are more naturally formulated in a more expressive logic. For instance, constraint satisfaction problems, bounded model checking and bit-vector arithmetic problems can often be encoded more succinctly in a restricted fragment of first-order, EPR (Essentially Propositional Reasoning, equivalent to the Bernays-Sch?nfinkel class). Instance-based methods for first-order logic, which natively decide EPR in a non-trivial way, can then be considered for beneficial use in problem formulation and reasoning. Similarly, Description Logics are widely used as logical underpinning of ontology languages such as OWL, which has led to the design and investigations of a number of interesting reasoning approaches and novel reasoning problems. Workshop Topic -------------- This workshop is centered around the question whether (fragments of) logics more expressive than propositional logic, in particular first-order logic, can directly be used for problem formulation and reasoning in the areas that are dominated by propositional methods today. This question becomes non-trivial under the conditions that the use of these logics shall address shortcomings of the propositional approach, such as lack of expressivity and scalability, while not compromising efficiency. We perceive this as a long-term research challenge. The workshop solicits contributions towards this challenge. The topic list includes (but is not limited to) the following: - Innovative encodings of application problems in AI and formal methods into logics more expressive than propositional logic - Problem solving with EPR: reductions from e.g. planning, bounded model checking, QBF, description and modal logics into EPR; calculi and systems for EPR and extensions like theory reasoning, equality - Finite model finders, in particular based on encodings into tractable fragments of first-order logic - Transfer of techniques developed for propositional SAT or for constraint satisfaction to theorem provers for more expressive logics - Implementation techniques and implementations - Practical applications and reports on success/failure of first-order methods - EPR Benchmark problems (the TPTP doesn't have enough) Organizers ---------- Peter Baumgartner NICTA Canberra, Australia (main contact) Nikolaj Bjorner Microsoft Research, USA Koen Claessen Chalmers University, Sweden Konstantin Korovin The University of Manchester, UK Juan Antonio Navarro P?rez MPI-SWS, Germany Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa, USA Program Committee ----------------- Peter Baumgartner NICTA Nikolaj Bjorner Microsoft Research Alessandro Cimatti IRST - Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Koen Claessen Chalmers University Enrico Giunchiglia Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Telematica Konstantin Korovin The University of Manchester Joao P. Marques Silva University College Dublin Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Juan Antonio Navarro P?rez MPI-SWS Ilkka Niemelae Helsinki University of Technology Robert Nieuwenhuis Technical University of Catalonia Hans deNivelle, University of Wroclaw David Plaisted University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Andrey Rybalchenko MPI Softwaresystems Ulrike Sattler The University of Manchester Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester Submission ---------- There are two submission categories: - Previously unpublished work: Beside mature work, we also solicit preliminary work or work in progress. Submissions should not exceed 15 printed pages. The final versions of the selected contributions will be collected in the workshop proceedings. - Presentation-only papers of previously published work: The intent of presentation-only papers is to allow authors to make their recently published work known to a wider audience. Participants who wish to submit in this category should provide a summary of up to 3 pages and an indication where the paper has appeared, or is expected to appear. The abstracts of the presentation-only papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, but the papers themselves will not be included. Submission is electronic only, through EasyChair. To submit, please go to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=beyondsat09 . Publication ----------- The (informal) workshop proceedings will be distributed at the workshop and made available on the internet. Important Dates --------------- May 17: paper submissions deadline June 12: notification of acceptance July 5: final versions due August 3: workshop date Contact ------- For further information on the workshop, please contact any of the organisers. Workshop home page: http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~baumgart/beyond-SAT/ -- Peter Baumgartner Ph: +61 2 6267 6217 NICTA, Canberra Research Lab, and http://nicta.com.au/ The Australian National University http://rsise.anu.edu.au/~baumgart/ From rd at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk Tue Apr 7 04:46:36 2009 From: rd at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk (Roy Dyckhoff) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 03:46:36 +0100 Subject: [DL] PRNCL 2009 - Workshop on Proofs and Refutations in Non-Classical Logics Message-ID: PRNCL 2009 - Workshop on Proofs and Refutations in Non-Classical Logics (affiliated with Tableaux 2009) Call for Papers July 6, 2009, Oslo, Norway http://www.loria.fr/~galmiche/PRNCL09.html * There are various ways to design a refutation-based deduction system. Deduction systems where refutations completely replace proofs as first-class citizens, with a set of rules inductively defining refutation trees; systems combining proof-rules and refutation mechanisms (or criteria) which can occur at various levels of the proof-search process; systems where provability and refutability play dual roles, i.e., proofs and refutations are both first-class citizens; systems where refutations are understood as mechanisms that build counter-models: for example, semantic information is collected and may converge to a counter-model as the search process evolves. Such approaches are applicable to a wide range of logics like sub-structural logics, intermediate logics and their extensions, modal or temporal logics, even to type theory. The deduction systems can be based on various structures/methods: sequents, tableaux, natural deduction, connections, proof-nets, games, etc. The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum of discussion between researchers interested in non-classical logics in the perspective of proof and refutation systems. * Detailed information about topics and submission can be found on the web page. * Program Committee : R. Dyckhoff (Univ. St Andrews, Scotland); C. Fermueller (T.U. Wien, Austria); D. Galmiche (LORIA - UHP, France); D. Larchey-Wendling (LORIA - CNRS, France); F. Pfenning (CMU Pittsburgh, USA); A. Waaler (Univ. Oslo, Norway) * Important dates: extended abstract submission: May 15, 2009; Notification: June 2, 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shilov at iis.nsk.su Tue Apr 14 05:29:56 2009 From: shilov at iis.nsk.su (shilov at iis.nsk.su) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:29:56 +0700 Subject: [DL] Final CFP and DEADLINE EXTENSION (April 19, 2009): *ELSEWHERE*2009 Message-ID: Final Call For Papers and DEADLINE EXTENSION (April 19, 2009) Knowledge and Ontology *ELSEWHERE* (*ELSEWHERE*2009) http://www.iis.nsk.su/news/conferences/20090303_elsewhere/index_e.shtml Russian Workshop with International Participation) (talks and papers in English are welcome) Location and Affiliation One-day workshop Knowledge and Ontology *ELSEWHERE* (*ELSEWHERE*2009) will take place between Saturday, July 25, and Saturday, August 1, 2009 in affiliation with 17th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS'09), Moscow, Russia. It will be the second edition of the workshop. The first inaugural workshop took place October 03, 2008 in affiliation with 11th Russian National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI-08) in Dubna near Moscow. This year the workshop will be open for international participation. Talks and papers in English are welcome! Scope Rapid growth of Semantic Web technologies in the New Millennium had some negative effect in mass-consciousness. In particular, "knowledge" and "ontology" became just technical terms of Description Logic (DL), Web Ontology Language (OWL), machine learning algorithms. But "ontology" is not just a technical term of Semantic Web, and "knowledge" is not a content. Both terms have everlasting science and philosophy meaning. Ontology is a branch of philosophy that examines entities and their ties (relations), classes of entities and classes of their ties. Knowledge (in accordance with Plato) is true belief, and epistemology is another branch of philosophy that studies methodology of belief validation. Just due to these arguments "knowledge" and "ontology" are very important notions ELSEWHERE outside Semantic Web. In particular, *ELSEWHERE*2009 scope includes (but is not limited to) the following topics. * Group and Common Knowledge in Multiagent Systems. * Belief, Knowledge and Behavior of (groups of) rational agents. * Epistemology of "ontology content", "data mining", and "machine learning". * Ontological approach to classification in Informatics and Computer Science. * Ontological approach to Semantics of Computer Languages and Systems. * Ontological problems of Informatics, Computer Science and AI. * Linguistic Ontologies and Computational Linguistics. * Epistemology and ontological modeling ELSEWHERE. Program and Organizing Committee * Natasha Alechina, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Great Britain * Nikolay V. Shilov (Chair), A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia (shilov at iis.nsk.su) * Elena G. Sokolova, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia * Yuri A. Zagorulko, A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia Invited Speakers * Jack Stecher (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, http://www.nhh.no/Default.aspx?ID=677) will give a talk on Game Theory (title TBA); * Konstantin Vorontsov (Institution of Russian Academy of Sciences - Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, http://www.ccas.ru/voron/.index-eng.html) will give a talk "Machine learning techniques based on rule induction". Abstract: A survey of machine learning techniques based on rule induction: rule evaluation criteria and search heuristics, decision lists, trees and forests, weighted voting of decision rules. Paper Submission, Publication and Participation Papers (in Russian and English) are solicited. The primary target group of *ELSEWHERE*2009 are original position and work-in-progress papers (but original research papers are also welcome). Submissions (in Russian or English) could be in DOC, RTF or PDF format and should be sent (as attachments) by e-mail to Program Chair (shilov at iis.nsk.su) with "ELSEWHERE09" in subject line. Length of submissions may be up to 15 pages plus up to 5 pages with technical appendixes (1.5 intervals, font 11 pt). Extended submission deadline is Sunday, April 19. Accepted papers will be published as a special issue of Bulletin of the Novosibirsk Computing Center (with ISSN). So the final versions of accepted papers should be in Springer's LNCS format (http://www.springeronline.com/lncs) that is adopted in the Bulletin. A special issue of the Bulletin with Proceedings will be available at workshop. A post-workshop publication of the proceedings (as a volume of Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science or CEUR Workshop Proceedings) is subject to quality of accepted papers and will be decided at the workshop. At least one author of every accepted paper should register at *ELSEWHERE*2009, pay registration fee (due date, amount and mode of payment will be announced later), and present a talk in the workshop. Workshop Format Workshop will consist of two invited talks (45 minutes each) and 8-10 contributed talks (30 minutes each). Working languages of the workshop will be English and Russian (translation service will be provided). *ELSEWHERE*2009 will co-locate with ICCS'09. Participants of the workshop will enjoy the same accommodation rates as participants of ICCS'09. It is assumed that *ELSEWHERE*2009 participants will be able to attend all sessions of '09 after registration on the site for special rate. Important Dates * April 19, Sunday v *ELSEWHERE*2009 extended submission deadline (to shilov at iis.nsk.su); * May 15, Friday v *ELSEWHERE*2009 notification via e-mail; * June 5, Friday v final version due date (to shilov at iis.nsk.su); * July 26 v 31, Sunday to Friday v 17th International Conference on Conceptual Structures dates; * Knowledge and Ontology *ELSEWHERE* v a day between Saturday, July 25, and Saturday, August 1. From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Tue Apr 7 00:07:13 2009 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 00:07:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] FTP 2009: Call for papers Message-ID: <2de142ccfaae44396f46d3a71f359c4f.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS =============== FTP 2009 International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving Oslo, Norway, July 6-7 2009 http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/ftp09/ ==================================================================== FTP 2009 is the seventh in a series of workshops intended to focus effort on First-Order Theorem Proving as a core theme of Automated Deduction, and to provide a forum for presentation of recent work and discussion of research in progress. The workshop welcomes original contributions on theorem proving in first-order classical, many-valued, modal and description logics, including (but not restricted to): * theorem proving in first-order classical, many-valued, and modal logics, including: - satisfiability in propositional logic, - satisfiability modulo theories, - specialized decision procedures, - constraint reasoning, - equational reasoning, - term rewriting, - resolution - paramodulation/superposition; * strategies and complexity of theorem proving procedures; * implementation techniques * applications of first-order theorem provers to: - program verification, - model checking, - artificial intelligence, - mathematics, - computational linguistics. Previous editions of FTP took place in Schloss Hagenberg, Austria (1997); Vienna, Austria (1998); St Andrews, Scotland (2000); Valencia, Spain (2003); Koblenz, Germany (2005); and Liverpool, UK (2007). For more information about FTP, its scope and previous workshops, please see the FTP Workshop Series web page http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/FTP-WS/ . Invited speakers: ---------------- Silvio Ghilardi, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Peter Jeavons, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK (with Tableaux) Paper Submissions ================= Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: * Extended abstracts of up to 15 pages describing original results. * Position papers of up to 10 pages describing work in progress, or future directions of research. * System descriptions of up to 10 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones, especially including experiments; sources and manuals of systems will have to be freely available online. * Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. We see this as a way to provide additional access to important developments that FTP Workshop attendees may be unaware of. Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and the standard lncs article class/style file. The first page should contain the title, the authors' names, e-mail and postal addresses. Submissions should be made via Easychair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftp2009 Publication =========== Accepted submissions will be published as a technical report of the University of Oslo and will be distributed at the workshop. They will also be available on the web. As for the previous editions of FTP, a journal special issue is planned after the workshop. The submission will be open to papers on First-Order Theorem Proving. Important dates =============== Abstract submission deadline: 26 April 2009 Full paper submission deadline: 30 April 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 31 May 2009 Final version due: 10 June 2009 Workshop: 6-7 July 2009 Program Chairs ============== * Nicolas Peltier( (CNRS - LIG) * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken) Programme Committee =================== * Alessandro Armando (DIST - Univ. Genova) * Franz Baader (TU Dresden) * Peter Baumgartner (National ICT Australia) * Bernhard Beckert (Univ. Koblenz) * Maria Paola Bonacina (Univ. degli Studi di Verona) * Ricardo Caferra (Grenoble INP - LIG) * Martin Giese (Univ. Oslo) * Ullrich Hustadt (Univ. Liverpool) * Alexander Leitsch (Vienna Univ. of Technology) * Christopher Lynch (Clarkson University) * Nicola Olivetti (LSIS, Univ. Paul Cezanne, Marseille) * Nicolas Peltier (co-chair) (CNRS - LIG) * David Plaisted (Univ. North Carolina-Chapel Hill) * Silvio Ranise (Univ. degli Studi di Verona) * Michael Rusinowitch (LORIA - INRIA Lorraine) * Renate Schmidt (The Univ. Manchester) * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (co-chair) (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken) * Arild Waaler (Univ. of Oslo) * Christoph Weidenbach (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken) Local organization ================== Roger Antonsen (University of Oslo) From franconi at inf.unibz.it Wed Apr 15 01:52:39 2009 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:52:39 +0200 Subject: [DL] 5th Reasoning Web Summer School 2009 - call for participation Message-ID: <3298D3B2-6527-4571-B07A-CBBE2B4B2E59@inf.unibz.it> 5th REASONING WEB Summer School (RW 2009) "Semantic technologies for information systems" http://www.reasoningweb.org/2009/ Brixen-Bressanone (near Bozen-Bolzano), Italy 30 August - 4 September 2008 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 10 May 2009 The "Reasoning Web" series of annual Summer Schools was started in 2005 by the Network of Excellence REWERSE. This edition will focus on the use of semantic technologies to enhance data access on the web. Courses will present a range of techniques an formalisms which bridge semantic based and data intensive systems. COURSES: 1. Description Logics. by Franz Baader 2. Ontologies and databases. by Diego Calvanese 3. Database theory for RDF. by Claudio Gutierrez, Marcelo Arenas, Jorge Perez 4. Database technology for RDF. by Souripriya Das (Oracle) 5. Answers-set semantics based tools. by Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni 6. The Semantic Desktop. by Siegfried Handschuh, Michael Sintek 7. Logical foundations of XML and XQuery. by Maarten Marx REGISTRATION FEE: ?400 (including all lunches and social events). APPLICATION: The applications have to be submitted by the *** 10th of May 2009 *** according to the instruction in the web site: http://reasoningweb.org/2009/ Details on the registration procedure will be available after the notification of acceptance of the application; details on the accommodation are already available in the web site. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Thomas Eiter, Vienna Technical University, Austria. Enrico Franconi (co-chair), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland. Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France. Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Sergio Tessaris (co-chair), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. REASONING WEB SCHOOL STEERING COMMITTEE: Uwe Assmann. Cristina Baroglio (chair). Fran?ois Bry. Norbert Eisinger. Nicola Henze. Massimo Marchiori. Axel Polleres (deputy chair). LOCAL ORGANISATION: Stefano David, Universit? Politecnica delle Marche, Italy. Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Wed Apr 15 21:40:17 2009 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:40:17 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final CfP: Applications of Semantic Technologies AST2009 Message-ID: <49E63821.9090405@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Call for Papers --------------- AST 2009 - Applications of Semantic Technologies 4th International AST Workshop located at Informatik 2009, L?beck, Germany, October 2nd, 2009 http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ast2009 Organised in cooperation with the Knowledge Representation Fachgruppe of the German Informatics Society (GI) and the Semantic Technology Institute Germany, STI Germany . ==== Deadline for paper submissions: April 26th, 2009 ==== Invited Speaker --------------- Dr. Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research Objectives ---------- Semantic Web is a major international research effort with the goal to make web content available for intelligent knowledge processing. It draws on standard and novel techniques from various disciplines within Computer Science, including Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology, Software Agents, eCommerce, etc. The methods and tools developed and integrated for this purpose ? often called Semantic Technologies ? are generic and have a very large application potential outside the domain of the Semantic Web. Such applications are currently being investigated in various disciplines within Computer Science, including Ambient Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge Management, Bioinformatics, etc. We believe that Semantic Technologies provide methods and tools which will persist in these and other application areas for the foreseeable future. Topics of Interest ------------------ This workshop shall bring together researchers and practitioners who work on applications of Semantic Technologies. It shall further the cross-fertilization between application areas and aid the technology transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop shall cover diverse application areas of Semantic Technologies, including, but not limited to, the following. * Ambient Intelligence * Cognitive Systems * Information Integration * Multimedia Data Management * Software Engineering * Service-Oriented Computing * Machine Learning * eScience * Information Extraction * Grid Computing * Peer-to-Peer Systems * eCommerce * eGovernment * Bioinformatics * Digital Libraries * Sensor Web * Semantic Web for Life Sciences * eHealth * Social Sciences * Mobile Computing * and any other application area of Semantic Technologies Submission and Proceedings -------------------------- Submissions must not exceed 15 pages (shorter papers are also welcome) and must comply with the requirements laid out under . Information on how to submit will be posted on the workshop webpage shortly. Submissions will be reviewed. Accepted publications will appear as part of a book, bearing an ISBN number. Important Dates --------------- * Deadline for paper submissions: 26th of April, 2009 * Notification of acceptance: May 25th, 2009 * Camera-ready versions: June 15th, 2009 * Workshop: October 2nd, 2009 Organisers ---------- Stephan Grimm, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Programme Committee ------------------- S?ren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany Christoph Beierle, University of Hagen, Germany Stephan Bloehdorn, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Fran?ois Bry, University of Munich, Germany Johannes Busse, ontoprise GmbH, Germany Elmar Dorner, SAP AG, Germany Andreas Friesen, SAP AG, Germany Thomas Fuhr, Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Germany Gerhard Goos, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Jens Hartmann, encoway GmbH Bremen, Germany Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany Knut Hinkelmann, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Switzerland Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Dortmund, Germany Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany Daniel Krause, L3S Hannover, Germany Holger Lausen, seekda GmbH, Austria Thorsten Liebig, University of Ulm, Germany Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK Meenakshi Nagarajan, Wright State University Dayton Ohio, USA Daniel Oberle, SAP AG, Germany Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen, Switzerland Stefan Schlobach, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Germany Michael Sintek, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin, Germany Valentin Zacharias, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany Guo-Qiang Zhang, CWRU Cleveland Ohio, USA J?rgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany The event is supported by ------------------------- NeOn http://www.neon-project.org/ THESEUS http://theseus-programm.de/ SOA4All http://www.soa4all.eu/ X-Media http://www.x-media-project.org/ IME http://www.ime.uni-karlsruhe.de/ STI Germany http://www.stigermany.de/ Please address all general questions concerning the workshop to Pascal Hitzler under hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de From Bernardo.Cuenca.Grau at comlab.ox.ac.uk Mon Apr 20 21:26:25 2009 From: Bernardo.Cuenca.Grau at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Bernardo Cuenca Grau) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:26:25 +0100 Subject: [DL] Deadline Extension: International Workshop on Description Logics (DL-2009) Message-ID: <49ECCC61.1010702@comlab.ox.ac.uk> Apologies for multiple postings. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 22st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2009) CALL FOR PAPERS Oxford, United Kingdom 27-30 July 2009 http://dl.kr.org/dl2009/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is thought as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES *Paper submission deadline: April 24 2009 (extended from April 20)* Notification of acceptance: June 01 2009 Camera ready papers due: June 22 2009 DL'07 Workshop: July 27-30 2008 (3 1/2 days) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, such as * foundations of description logics, including expressive power, decidability and complexity of reasoning, novel inference problems, and reasoning techniques for solving these problems; * extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to, closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages; * integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems; * use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, semantic web, and grid computing; * building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques; and * tools that exploit description logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite submissions of papers in Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html to arrive no later than April 20, 2009. The length of submissions is limited to 11 pages, including title and abstract (can be omitted if necessary), but excluding references (i.e., the length of the paper without the references must be at most 11 pages). Papers must be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair; see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2009 The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series; see http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ Accepted submissions will be selected for either oral or poster presentation; however, no distinction will be made in the workshop proceedings: all accepted papers can be 11 pages long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh, UK * Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, USA * Rajeev Gore, The Australian National University, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Ian Horrocks, Oxford, UK (Workshop chair) * Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Oxford, UK (PC Chair) * Boris Motik, Oxford, UK (PC Chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Achille Fokoue, IBM Research, USA * Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM Research, USA * Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA * Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden, Germany * Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK * Birte Glimm, University of Oxford, UK * Carlos Areces, LORIA, France * Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen, Germany * Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Dirk Walther, University of Liverpool, UK * Evren Sirin, Clark & Parsia, USA * Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK * Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece * Grant Weddell, University of Waterloo, Canada * Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK * Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bolzano, Italy * Luciano Serafini, ITC-IRST, Italy * Magdalena Ortiz, TU Vienna, Austia * Maja Milicic, TU Dresden, Germany * Markus Kr?tzsch, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Meghyn Bienvenu, University of Bremen, Germany * Oliver Kutz, University of Bremen, Germany * Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research, USA * Rajeev Gore, Australian National University, Australia * Ralf M?ller, Hamburg University of Technology, germanz * Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy * Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK * Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck College, UK * Sebastian Rudolph, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Stijn Heymans, TU Vienna, Austia * Thomas Meyer, Meraka Institute, South Africa * Thomas Schneider, University of Manchester, UK * Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany * Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada * Yevgeny Kazakov, University of Oxford, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information about registration, travel information, accommodation, and so on will be made available on the DL 2009 homepage: http://dl.kr.org/dl2009/ * Enquiries about the DL 2009 workshop can be made by contacting the organizing committee: dl2009 at easychair.org * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Thu Apr 16 15:48:31 2009 From: gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Guilin Qi) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:48:31 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: 3rd Int. Conf. on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009) Message-ID: <20090416154831.f9qovseu8gkcwogs@webmail.uni-karlsruhe.de> Apologies for multiple postings CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009) http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2009 Chantilly, Virginia, USA October 25-26, 2009 Co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference '09 The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2009 builds on the success of the first two International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, held in 2007 in Innsbruck and in and 2008 in Karlsruhe, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2009, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list: * Representation techniques for web-based knowledge * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group, etc. * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers for past conferences were published in the Springer LNCS series (acceptance pending for this year). Papers may be accepted as: * full papers (15 pages in the proceedings) * short papers (8 pages in the proceedings) * posters (2 pages in the proceedings). The stated lengths include title, abstract and list of references. All papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TENTATIVE DATES * Abstract submission: June 28, 2009 * Paper submission: July 4, 2009 * Acceptance decisions: August 1, 2009 * Camera-ready papers due: August 25, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou FORTH-ICS (GR) Marcelo Arenas PUC Chile (CL) Leopoldo Bertossi Carleton University (CA) Piero Bonatti Univ. of Naples Frederico II(IT) Carlos Damasio Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT) Wlodek Drabent IPI PAN Warszawa (PL) Bernardo Cuenca Grau University of Oxford (UK) Volker Haarslev Concordia University (CA) Giovambattista Ianni Univ. of Calabria (IT) Manolis Koubarakis National and Kapodistrian Univ.of Athens (GR) Domenico Lembo DIS, Univ. di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (IT) Thomas Lukasiewicz Computing Lab. Univ. of Oxford (UK) Francesca Alessandra Lisi Universita degli Studi di Bari (IT) Wolfgang May Univ. Goettingen (DE) David Pearce Universidad Politde Madrid (ES) Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University (US) Guilin Qi Univ. of Karlsruhe (DE) Marie-Christine Rousset Univ. of Grenoble (FR) Sebastian Rudolph Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Sebastian Schaffert Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaf (AT) Michael Sintek DFKI GmbH (DE) Giorgos Stamou National Tech. University of Athens (GR) Heiner Stuckenschmidt Univ. of Mannheim (DE) York Sure AIFB - Universitaet Karlsruhe (DE) Peter Szeredi Budapest Univ of Tech. and Econ. (HU) Sergio Tessaris Free University of Bozen - Bolzano (IT) Hans Tompits Vienna Univ. of Technology (AT) Dirk Vermeir Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE) ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTACTS For information about papers and submissions, please contact a Program Chair: Axel Polleres PC co-Chair - RR 2009 Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) National University of Ireland, Galway IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan - Galway, Ire. Email: axel.polleresderi.org Terrance Swift PC co-Chair - RR 2009 Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CENTRIA) Departamento de Informatica FCT/UNL Quinta da Torre 2829-516 CAPARICA - Portugal Email: tswiftcs.sunysb.edu For other information about the conference, please contact the General Chair: Michael Kifer Computer Science Department SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY USA Email; kifercs.sunysb.edu From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Thu Apr 16 19:06:12 2009 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:06:12 -0300 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2009 - Call for Participation In-Reply-To: <49996B30.8070701@cin.ufpe.br> References: <48FE1E64.7030401@cin.ufpe.br> <496DFF98.8070200@cin.ufpe.br> <49996B30.8070701@cin.ufpe.br> Message-ID: <49E76584.4020309@cin.ufpe.br> [please circulate] [apologies for duplicates] *Call for Participation* /*16th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation*/ (/*WoLLIC 2009*/) Tokyo, Japan June 21-24, 2009 (SPECIAL: There will be a screening of George Csicsery's "N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos ", with kind permission of the film director) WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. WoLLIC 2009 will be held from June 21 through 24, 2009, in the National Center of Sciences , the building that houses the National Institute of Informatics in central Tokyo. It is jointly sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL). The proceedings of WoLLIC 2009 will appear as Volume 5514 of the FoLLI/LNAI subline of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science . *Special Event* 2009 will mark the 60-th anniversary of the publication of Paul Erdos' elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem. WoLLIC will celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Erdos which was directed by George Csicsery "N is a number - A Portrait of Paul Erdos ". *Tutorial Lectures *Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University): /Definable Search Problems in Bounded Arithmetic/* *Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology): /Reasoning Using Knots/* *Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool): /From Mathematical Logic to Life Science Ontologies/* Invited Talks *Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University): /New Characterisations of Definable Search Problems/* *Carlos Caleiro (Technical University of Lisbon): /Algebraic Valuations as Behavioral Logical Matrices/* *Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology): /Knot-Based Query Answering in Description Logic/* *Sylvain Salvati (INRIA Bordeaux - Sud Ouest/LaBRI): /Recognizability in the Simply Typed Lambda-Calculus/* *Taisuke Sato (Tokyo Institute of Technology): /Logic-Based Probabilistic Modeling/* *Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool): /From Mathematical Logic to Life Science Ontologies/* Contributed Papers *Sebastian Link: Spoilt for Choice: /Full First-Order Hierarchical Decompositions/* *Hubie Chen and Omer Gimenez: /On-the-fly Macros/* *Juha Kontinen and Ville Nurmi: /Team Logic and Second-Order Logic/* *Juliana Kaizer Vizzotto, Andr? Rauber Du Bois and Amr Sabry: /The Arrow Calculus as a Quantum Programming Language/* *Sara Miner More and Pavel Naumov: /An Independence Relation for Sets of Secrets/* *Hugo Herbelin and Gyesik Lee: /Forcing-based cut-elimination for Gentzen-style intuitionistic sequent calculus/* *Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets: /Learning by Questions and Answers: From Belief-Revision Cycles to Doxastic Fixed Points/* *Matthias Baaz, Agata Ciabattoni and Norbert Preining: /SAT in Monadic G?del Logics: a borderline between decidability and undecidability/* *Philippe de Groote, Sylvain Pogodalla and Carl Pollard: /On the Syntax-Semantics Interface: from Convergent Grammar to Abstract Categorial Grammar/* *Alain Lecomte and Myriam Quatrini: /Ludics and its Applications to Natural Language Semantics/* *Bernhard Heinemann: /Observational Effort and Formally Open Mappings/* *Bauer Kerstin, Raffaella Gentilini and Klaus Schneider: /Property Driven Three Valued Model Checking on Hybrid Automata/* *Gleifer Alves, Anjolina Grisi de Oliveira and Ruy de Queiroz: /Transformations via geometric perspective techniques augmented with cycles normalization/* *Linda Postniece: /Deep inference in bi-intuitionistic logic/* *Katsuhiko Sano: /Sound and Complete Tree-Sequent Calculus for Inquisitive Logic/* *Yoshihiro Maruyama: /A Duality for algebras of Lattice-Valued Modal Logic/* *Joao Marcos and Carlos Caleiro: /Classic-like analytic tableaux for finite-valued logics/* *Benjamin Rossman: /Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse Games on Random Structures/* *Majid Alizadeh: /Completions of basic algebras/* *Francesco Belardinelli and Alessio Lomuscio: /First-Order Linear-time Epistemic Logic with Group Knowledge: An Axiomatisation of the Monodic Fragment/ Cristian Prisacariu and Gerardo Schneider: /CL: An Action-based Logic for Reasoning about Contracts/*/ /*Ren-June Wang: /Knowledge, Time, and Logical Omniscience/* *Henning Christiansen and Veronica Dahl: /Abductive Logic Grammars/* *Gianluca Amato and Francesca Scozzari: /Observational Completeness on Abstract Interpretation/* *Juan Carlos Nieves, Mauricio Osorio and Claudia Zepeda: /Stratified Argumentation Semantics: An Extension-based Argumentation Semantics based on Stratified Minimal Models /*Book Exhibition*/ /The following publishers are expected to be exhibiting various books from their catalogue, prospectuses, journal samples, etc., and there will be a chance to order items at promotional prices: /The MIT Press, Springer-Verlag, A K Peters, Kluwer Acad. Pub.,Cambridge Univ. Press, CSLI Publications (Stanford Univ), Oxford Univ. Press, World Scientific. /It is likely that a few other international publishers will also take part in the book exhibit./ / *Program Committee* Toshiyasu Arai (Kobe U, Japan), Matthias Baaz (Tech U Wien), Alexandru Baltag (Oxford U), Josep Maria Font (U Barcelona), Silvio Ghilardi (U Milano), Katsumi Inoue (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan), Marcus Kracht (U Bielefeld), Hiroakira Ono (JAIST, Japan) (Chair), Masanao Ozawa (Nagoya U), John Slaney (Australian Nat U), Mark Steedman (Edinburgh U), Hans Tompits (Tech U Wien). *Organising Committee* Makoto Kanazawa (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan, co-chair), Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil), Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil, co-chair), Ken Satoh (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) *Steering Committee* Samson Abramsky , Johan van Benthem , Joe Halpern , Wilfrid Hodges , Daniel Leivant , Angus Macintyre , Grigori Mints , Ruy de Queiroz *Web Page* http://research.nii.ac.jp/wollic2009/ -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From areces at pluton.loria.fr Thu Apr 23 15:17:03 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:17:03 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: Special Issue on Hybrid Logics of the LJ-IGPL Message-ID: <200904231317.n3NDH3dW021521@pluton.loria.fr> *************************************************************** Please excuse for multiple posts and distribute as widely as possible *************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Logic Journal of the IGPL Special issue on Hybrid Logic DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st May 2009 *************************************************************** Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of this special issue is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc.) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). The special issue will welcome papers in a wide range of topics, including description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. We welcome both theoretical work and work describing systems and applications on hybrid logics, broadly conceived. All submissions will be peer reviewed with respect to the usual journal criteria. Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished, research papers written in English. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Papers should not exceed 25 pages including references. Authors are required to prepare their submissions in latex, using the style available at http://hylo.loria.fr/content/SI/2009 Submissions should be sent as .pdf files to areces (at) loria.fr DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st May 2009 GUEST EDITORS: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, areces at loria.fr) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, blackbur at loria.fr) From ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk Wed Apr 22 18:23:10 2009 From: ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Horrocks) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:23:10 +0100 Subject: [DL] OWL 2 Last Call Working Drafts Message-ID: <1D9B6A38-1C73-4A33-ABB3-FC5F81B0C6FC@comlab.ox.ac.uk> The OWL Working Group [1] has published new Working Drafts for OWL 2, a language for building Semantic Web ontologies. OWL 2 (a compatible extension of OWL 1 [2]) consists of 13 documents (7 technical, 4 instructional, and 2 group Notes). For descriptions and links to all the documents, see the OWL 2 Documentation Roadmap [3]. This is a ''Last Call'' for the technical materials and is an opportunity for the community to confirm that these documents satisfy requirements for an ontology language (see [4]). Please send your comments *by 12 May 2009* to public-owl-comments at w3.org (public archive). If possible, please offer specific changes that would address your concern. You may also wish to check the Wiki Version of the documents [5] and see if the relevant text has already been updated. Regards, Ian Horrocks on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/OWL_Working_Group [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-features-20040210/ [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-overview-20090421/ #Documentation_Roadmap [4] http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item53 [5] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/ Document_Overview#Documentation_Roadmap From Richard.Moot at labri.fr Tue Apr 21 14:15:08 2009 From: Richard.Moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:15:08 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2009 - Early registration deadline approaching Message-ID: <0022AE6A-824A-4BAF-8193-4B5AEA4E952F@labri.fr> 21st EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION ESSLLI 2009 Bordeaux, July 20-31 2009 http://esslli2009.labri.fr/ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computer science. The 21st edition of ESSLLI will be held in the city center of Bordeaux, France, wine capital of the world and a Unesco World Heritage site. = Course Program = ESSLLI gathers around 500 people from all over the world and offers a total of 48 courses and workshops, divided among foundational, introductory and advanced courses, and including a total of 6 workshops. The courses and workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. The full program can be found on our website. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/programme.php = Registration = Registration for ESSLLI is open. Early registration rates are 225 euros for students and 350 euros for others. Note that in order to benefit from the reduced early registration rate, *your payment has to reach us before the 1st of May 2009*. The late registration registration rate is 350 euros for students and 500 euros for others. Early registration deadline: 1st of May 2009. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/reg.php = Accommodation = During registration, ESSLLI participants can reserve student accommodation: simple but inexpensive rooms (12 euros a night) within easy reach by tramway of the ESSLLI lecture rooms. In addition, our website gives an extensive list of hotels in different price ranges. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/accomodation.php We look forward to seeing you in Bordeaux this summer! On behalf of the ESSLLI organizing committee Richard Moot From rseba at disi.unitn.it Wed Apr 22 18:16:51 2009 From: rseba at disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:16:51 +0200 Subject: [DL] FroCoS'09 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <20090422161651.GA20915@disi.unitn.it> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!! ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: April 26th, 2009 !!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Final Call for Papers 7th International Symposium on FRONTIERS OF COMBINING SYSTEMS (FroCoS?09) Trento, Italy, September 16-18th, 2009 http://events.unitn.it/en/frocos09/ MOTIVATIONS In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. In order to be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and they must be integrated into general purpose systems. The development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems has been initiated in many areas. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FROCOS) traditionally focuses on this type of research questions and activities and aims at promoting progress in the field. Like its predecessors, FROCOS?09 wants to offer a common forum for research activities in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems (with emphasis on logic-based ones), and of their practical use. RELEVANT TOPICS Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics such as combined predicate, temporal, modal, or epistemic logics; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures, and of CS techniques; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * combination of deduction systems and computer algebra; * integration of data structures into CLP formalisms and deduction processes; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications. INVITED SPEAKERS * Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy * Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, Austria * Boris Motik, Oxford University, UK * Ashish Tiwari, SRI International, USA PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least three members of the program committee. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Papers must be edited in LATEX using the llncs style and be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos09. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). Further information about paper submission is available at FROCOS?09 web page. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of FroCoS?09 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 26th, 2009 Full paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 8th, 2009 Camera Ready Copy: June 22th, 2009 Conference: September 16-18th 2009 CHAIRS - Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano, Italy - Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Franz Baader, T.U. Dresden, Germany - Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Camberra, Australia - Torben Brauner, Roskilde University, DK - Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA - Bernhard Gramlich, T.U. Wien, Austria - Sava Krstic, Intel Corporation, USA - Viktor Kuncak, E.P.F. Lausanne, Switzerland - Albert Oliveras, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain - Silvio Ranise, University of Verona, Italy - Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, Nancy, France - Ulrike Sattler, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Renate Schmidt, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Luciano Serafini, FBK-Irst, Italy - Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbruken, Germany - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK - Michael Zakharyaschev, London Knowledge Lab, UK From wfitzgerald at tssg.org Thu Apr 23 15:22:34 2009 From: wfitzgerald at tssg.org (william fitzgerald) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:22:34 +0100 Subject: [DL] Query: DL and additional Constraint Logic Programming Reasoning Message-ID: <49F06B9A.4060408@tssg.org> Dear DL experts, I am wondering if anyone has developed a tool (or perhaps an api, protege plugin etc) that interfaces with a constraint based reasoner such as ECLiPLSe. Currently I have developed a model in OWL-DL and use both Pellet and SWRL-Jess reasoning within the Protege ontology editor. Rather than construct a duplicate of my model within ECLiPLSe in an adhoc manner I was hoping there might already exist a tool that can either take at least take DL logic as an input or an OWL-DL ontology itself whereby I can apply additional ECLiPSe constraint reasoning. (Of course I know that like SWRL this kind of reasoning has the potential can break the original DL consistent model) Any pointers or direction is greatly welcomed. regards, Will. -- ______________________________________________________________________ | William M. Fitzgerald (MSc, BSc) | |______________________________________________________________________| |Researcher | PhD Student | |Telecommunications Software & Systems Group,| Computer Science Dept., | |ArcLabs Research and Innovation Centre, | University College Cork,| |Waterford Institute of Technology, | Cork. | |WIT West Campus, | | |Carriganore, | | |Waterford. | | |Office Ph: +353 51 302937 | | |Mobile Ph: +353 87 9527083 | | |____________________________________________|_________________________| |Web: www.williamfitzgerald.org | | www.linkedin.com/in/williamfitzgerald | | www.ryze.com/go/wfitzgerald | | www.tssg.org/people/wfitzgerald/ | |______________________________________________________________________| From meng at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Fri Apr 24 18:28:05 2009 From: meng at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:28:05 +0200 Subject: [DL] Updates on the CEL reasoner Message-ID: Dear DL-system enthusiasts, I am happy to announce that CEL has now become open source and its source codes together with documentation are now available under its new home: http://cel.googlecode.com Besides the well-known reasoning service of classification, CEL also supports supplemental reasoning services like incremental classification, module extraction and axiom pinpointing. Last but not least, I would like to introduce CEL Plug-in for Protege 4.0 that Julian and I have developed. This is still in its beta, but we have successfully tested it on large ontologies including NCI and SNOMED. For the plug-in and installation instruction, go to the Google Code site. Best regards, Meng From rseba at disi.unitn.it Fri Apr 24 15:29:10 2009 From: rseba at disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:29:10 +0200 Subject: [DL] PhD positions in ICT on Formal Verification via SMT available in Trento Message-ID: <20090424132910.GA32029@disi.unitn.it> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[[ We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message ]]] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO WHOEVER YOU MAY THINK INTERESTED. -------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: Apr 24, 2009 Doctoral Student Positions in Information and Communication Technologies on the research project "WORD-LEVEL FORMAL VERIFICATION VIA SMT SOLVING" are available at the International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies (http://www.ict.unitn.it/) of the University of Trento, Italy, under the joint supervision of Dr. ALESSANDRO CIMATTI, Embedded Systems Research Unit, FBK-Irst, via Sommarive 18, I-38100 Povo, Trento, Italy http://sra.fbk.eu/people/cimatti/, Prof. ROBERTO SEBASTIANI Software Engineering & Formal Methods Research Program DISI, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38100 Povo, Trento, Italy http://disi.unitn.it/~rseba/. The research activity will be carried out jointly within the Embedded Systems (ES) Research Unit of the Center for Scientific and Technological Research of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, and the Software Engineering & Formal Methods (SE&FM) Research Program, at Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of University of Trento. The research activity will aim at investigating and developing novel techniques, methodologies and support tools for Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) for the verification of WORD-level circuit designs. This work will be part of the "Word-Level Formal Verification via SMT Solving" (WOLFLING) project, a three-year custom research project supported by SRC/GRC (http://grc.src.org/fr/S200802_Call.asp), in strict collaboration with the Formal Verification Group at Intel, Haifa. SMT tools will be developed on top of the MathSAT SMT platform (http://mathsat4.disi.unitn.it), and Formal Verification tools will be developed on top of the NuSMV Model Checking platform (http://nusmv.fbk.eu). Both platforms are jointly developed and maintained by ES and SE&FM. The selected candidates will be initially enrolled in a stage and, if they pass the selection of the Ph.D. school, they will be enrolled as Ph.D. students. Ph.D. courses will start in Autumn 2009, and the thesis must be completed in three or four years. People enrolled in a stage and subsequent Ph.D. courses are expected to move to Trento, and will receive monetary support during both phases of their activity. Candidate Profile ================= The ideal candidate should have an MS or equivalent degree in computer science, mathematics or electronic engineering, and combine solid theoretical background and excellent software development skills. The candidate should be able to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to reaching research excellence and achieving assigned objectives. Background knowledge and/or previous experience in the following areas (in order of preference), though not mandatory, will be considered very favorably: - Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT) - Propositional Satisfiability (SAT) - Embedded Systems Design Languages (e.g. Verilog, VHDL) - Symbolic Model Checking - Automated Reasoning - Constraint Solving and Optimization Applications and Inquiries ========================== Interested candidates should inquire for further information and/or apply by sending email to Prof. Sebastiani rseba[at]disi[dot]unitn[dot]it. Applications should contain a statement of interest, with a Curriculum Vitae, and three reference persons. PDF format is strongly encouraged. Emails will be automatically processed and should have 'PHD ON WOLFLING PROJECT' as subject. Contact Person ============== Prof. ROBERTO SEBASTIANI Software Engineering & Formal Methods Research Program DISI, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38100 Povo, Trento, Italy http://disi.unitn.it/~rseba/. mailto: rseba[at]disi[dot]unitn[dot]it The Embedded Systems Research Unit at FBK ========================================= The Embedded Systems Unit consists of about 15 persons, including researchers, post-Doc, Ph.D. students, and programmers. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of design and verification of embedded systems. Current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems (Verilog, SystemC, C/C++, StateFlow/Simulink). * Formal Requirements Analysis based on techniques for temporal logics (consistency checking, vacuity detection, input determinism, cause-effect analysis, realizability and synthesis). * Formal Safety Analysis, based on the integration of traditional techniques (e.g. Fault-tree analysis, FMEA) with symbolic verification techniques. The Embedded Systems Unit is part of Fondazione Bruno Kessler, formerly Istituto Trentino di Cultura, a public research institute of the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy), founded in 1976. The institute, through its center for the scientific and technological research, is active in the areas of Information Technology, Microsystems, and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces. Today, FBK is an internationally recognized research institute, collaborating with industries, universities, and public and private laboratories in Italy and abroad. The institute's applied and basic research activities aim at resolving real-world problems, driven by the need for technological innovation in society and industry. The SW Engineering & Formal Methods Research Program at DISI ============================================================ The SW Engineering & Formal Methods R. P. at DISI currently consists on 5 faculties, 4 post-docs and 19 PhD students. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering, Agent-oriented SW engineering, Security, and Formal Methods. Referring to formal methods, current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems. * Advanced Model Checking Techniques for Formal Verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems. * Applications of Propositional Satisfiability (SAT) to various domains. The R.P. is part of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, DISI (http://disi.unitn.it/) of University of Trento. University of Trento in the latest years has always been rated among the top-three small&medium-size universities in Italy. DISI currently consists of 50 faculties, 68 research staff and support people, 21 postdocs and 146 Doctoral students, plus administrative and technical staff. DISI covers all the different areas of information technology (computer science, telecommunications, and electronics) and their applications. These disciplines above are studied individually but also with a strong focus on their integration, Location ======== Trento is a lively town of about 100.000 inhabitants, located 130 km south of the border between Italy and Austria. It is well known for the beauty of its mountains and lakes, and it offers the possibility to practice a wide range of sports. Trento enjoys a rich cultural and historical heritage, and it is the ideal starting point for day trips to famous towns such as Venice or Verona, as well as to enjoy great naturalistic journeys. Detailed information about Trento and its region can be found at http://www.trentino.to/home/index.html?_lang=en. From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Fri Apr 24 18:41:19 2009 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:41:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] Call for papers: ADDCT'09 Workshop - "Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability" Message-ID: =================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability (ADDCT'09) Workshop affiliated with CADE-22 Montreal, Canada, 2 August 2009 http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/addct09 =================================================================== Decidability, and especially complexity and tractability of logical theories is extremely important for a large number of applications. Although general logical formalisms (such as predicate logic or number theory) are undecidable, decidable theories or decidable fragments thereof (sometimes even with low complexity) often occur in mathematics, in program verification, in the verification of reactive, real time or hybrid systems, as well as in databases and ontologies. It is therefore important to identify such decidable fragments and design efficient decision procedures for them. It is equally important to have uniform methods (such as resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi, ...) which can be tuned to provide algorithms with optimal complexity. The goal of ADDCT is to bring together researchers interested in - identifying (fragments of) logical theories which are decidable, identifying fragments thereof which have low complexity, and analyzing possibilities of obtaining optimal complexity results with uniform tools; - analyzing decidability in combinations of theories and possibilities of combining decision procedures; - efficient implementations for decidable fragments; - application domains where decidability resp. tractability are crucial. Topics of interest for ADDCT include (but are not restricted to): - Decidability: - decision procedures based on logical calculi such as: resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi, or natural deduction - decidability in combinations of logical theories - Complexity: - complexity analysis for fragments of first- (or higher) order logic - complexity analysis for combinations of logical theories (including parameterized complexity results) - Tractability (in logic, automated reasoning, algebra, ...) - Application domains for which complexity issues are essential (verification, security, databases, ontologies, ...) The goal of ADDCT is to bring together researchers interested in exploring the topics above, both at a theoretical level and motivated by applications. Submission and selection procedure ---------------------------------- Submissions are encouraged in one of the following categories: - Original papers (up to 15 pages, LNCS style, including bibliography); should describe original research and contain sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. Simultaneous submission of material is prohibited. - Work in progress (up to 6 pages, LNCS style, without bibliography). - Presentation-only papers: may describe work previously published, and will not be inserted in the proceedings. We are allowing the submission of previously published work in order to allow researchers to communicate good ideas that the attendees may not be aware of. Given the informal style of the workshop, the submission of papers presenting student's work and work in progress is encouraged. Submission of papers is via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=addct2009 The final versions of the selected contributions will be collected in a volume to be distributed at the workshop and made accessible on the web. Organizers and Chairs Franz Baader (TU Dresden) Silvio Ghilardi (U. Milano) Miki Hermann (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI,Saarbruecken) Ashish Tiwari (SRI) Program Committee Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy) Franz Baader (TU Dresden) Peter Baumgartner(NICTA, Canberra) Maria Paola Bonacina (U. Verona) Christian Fermueller (T.U.Wien) Silvio Ghilardi (U. Milano) Miki Hermann (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) Ullrich Hustadt (U. Liverpool) Sava Krstic (Intel Corporation) Christopher Lynch,(Clarkson U.) Silvio Ranise (LORIA/INRIA-Lorraine and U.Verona) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI,Saarbruecken) Lidia Tendera (U. Opole) Dmitry Tishkovsky (U. Manchester) Ashish Tiwari (SRI) Luca Vigano (U. Verona) Important Dates 8 May 2009: Abstract submission 15 May 2009: Paper submission 15 June 2009: Notification 1 July 2009: Final version 2 August 2009: Workshop Contact For further informations please send an e-mail to Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Thu Apr 30 23:38:13 2009 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:38:13 +0200 Subject: [DL] postdoc / assistant professor position at AIFB, university of Karlsruhe Message-ID: <49FA1A45.2090703@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> job opening: POSTDOC / ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (TV-L E14 German scheme) where: group of Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany profile: * Cloud computing and dynamic IT infrastructure * Intelligent data/information management * Large-scale text mining and information retrieval The position requires German language skills. deadline: 22nd of May 2009 (late submissions may also be considered) more information: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/jvo/jobs/e14-aifb-studer.pdf If you have any further questions, please contact PD Dr. Pascal Hitzler, hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de. -- PD Dr. Pascal Hitzler Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe email: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de fax: +49 721 608 6580 web: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de phone: +49 721 608 4751 Springer Lehrbuch: http://www.semantic-web-grundlagen.de From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Tue May 5 22:23:44 2009 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 21:23:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Contributions: Beautiful Ontologies, a special issue of the Applied Ontology Message-ID: Deadline approaching Call for Contributions: Beautiful Ontologies, a special issue of the Applied Ontology Calling experts on ontology modeling, representation and design, as well as ontology users, to contribute to a special issue of Applied Ontology on `Beautiful Ontologies'. Guest editors: Mathieu d?Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute, the Open University, UK - m.daquin at open.ac.uk ) Aldo Gangemi (Semantic Technology Lab, ISTC-CNR, Italy - aldo.gangemi at cnr.it ) Deadline: 1st June 2009 Ontologies are design artifacts, to which quality notions like appropriateness, coverage, efficiency, sustainability, and elegance apply. Classical approaches to assess the quality of ontologies mostly involve automatic metrics on the structure of ontologies, unit tests, or the manual assessment by domain experts, ontology experts or users, normally using formal, objective criteria. In this special issue, we want to approach this topic from a different perspective. We would like to invite internationally recognized experts on ontology engineering, as well as ontology practitioners and users to contribute by providing positive examples of good, interesting and elegant ontology designs ? i.e., ?beautiful ontologies?. There is no constraint on the chosen ontology, on its format, on the formalism in which it is implemented, on the domain it describes, on its creator(s) or even on its 'score' according to classical evaluation methods. However, each beautiful ontology article should clearly explain why, according to the author, the chosen ontology is interesting and how it contributes to the overall discussion on ontology quality. By gathering in this way different views on concrete examples, we hope to achieve a better understanding of quality ontology design, providing a concrete reference for less experienced ontology practitioners as well as an ethnographic basis for collecting best practices in ontology design. As such, this initiative relates directly to others in the domain, like the OntologyDesignPatterns.org portal, and might generate direct contributions to them. Submission We seek submissions of articles discussing either an existing ontology as a whole, an ontology module, an ontology design pattern or even a particular characteristic of an ontology (including the way it has been used or applied). In order to collect a wide range of contributions, we encourage the submission of both long and short papers. In both cases, articles will be selected according to the journal's standard and high quality will be expected. Submissions to this special issue will be subject to peer-review. After a pre-selection step, in order to ensure that the highest possible quality is achieved for the contributions, the review and selection process will also include a second phase involving interactions and discussions between the authors, the guest editors and, when appropriate, the original creators of the considered ontologies. Submissions should be sent by the 1st of June 2009 to m.daquin at open.ac.uk , with CC to aldo.gangemi at cnr.it. 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URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed May 6 08:39:08 2009 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 08:39:08 +0200 Subject: [DL] ONTOLOGY MATCHING Bkumazawa@riss.osaka-u.ac.jp OOK Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ONTOLOGY MATCHING BOOK published by Springer is available --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free preview of the first two chapters is on Google books: http://books.google.it/books?id=qYVpA2t2EtQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ontology+matching Free download of its chapter 3 as sample pages is on Springer site: http://www.springer.com/978-3-540-49611-3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ONTOLOGY MATCHING Authors: Jerome Euzenat and Pavel Shvaiko URL: http://book.ontologymatching.org Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (DE), 2007 343 p., 67 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-49611-3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT Ontologies tend to be found everywhere. They are viewed as the silver bullet for many applications, such as database integration, peer-to-peer systems, e-commerce, semantic web services, or social networks. However, in open or evolving systems, such as the semantic web, different parties would, in general, adopt different ontologies. Thus, merely using ontologies, like using XML, does not reduce heterogeneity: it just raises heterogeneity problems to a higher level. Euzenat and Shvaiko's book is devoted to ontology matching as a solution to the semantic heterogeneity problem faced by computer systems. Ontology matching aims at finding correspondences between semantically related entities of different ontologies. These correspondences may stand for equivalence as well as other relations, such as consequence, subsumption, or disjointness, between ontology entities. Many different matching solutions have been proposed so far from various viewpoints, e.g., databases, information systems, artificial intelligence. With Ontology Matching, researchers and practitioners will find a reference book which presents currently available work in a uniform framework. In particular, the work and the techniques presented in this book can equally be applied to database schema matching, catalog integration, XML schema matching and other related problems. The objectives of the book include presenting (i) the state of the art and (ii) the latest research results in ontology matching by providing a detailed account of matching techniques and matching systems in a systematic way from theoretical, practical and application perspectives. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS Introduction Part I - The Matching Problem Chapter 1 - Applications Chapter 2 - The matching problem Part II - Ontology Matching Techniques Chapter 3 - Classifications of ontology matching techniques Chapter 4 - Basic techniques Chapter 5 - Matching strategies Part III - Systems and Evaluation Chapter 6 - Overview of matching systems Chapter 7 - Evaluation of matching systems Part IV - Representing, Explaining, and Processing Alignments Chapter 8 - Frameworks and formats: representing alignments Chapter 9 - Explaining alignments Chapter 10 - Processing alignments Part V - Conclusions Appendices Bibliography Index --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers, Pavel --------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, Ph.D. Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab - Informatica Trentina S.p.A. Via G. Gilli, 2 38100 Trento - Italy http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.ontologymatching.org/ From protege.stanford at gmail.com Fri May 1 19:35:08 2009 From: protege.stanford at gmail.com (Protege Project Stanford University) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 10:35:08 -0700 Subject: [DL] 2009 Protege Conference: Schedule and Early Registration Message-ID: The full schedule for the 11th International Protege Conference is now available on the conference website: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2009/schedule.html Please note that the early registration deadline is a little over two weeks from now on Friday, May 15th. We encourage those of you who have not yet registered but plan to attend the conference to register as soon as possible. The registration fee goes up significantly after May 15th: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2009/register.html We are very much looking forward to seeing all of you in June! Best Regards, The Protege Team >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Conference Announcement >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The 11th International Protege Conference will be held June 23-26, 2009 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Protege conference is a forum to discuss ontology development and management, applications using ontologies, common problems and solutions. The conference is also an opportunity for Protege users to meet the Protege team, and to learn about our current activities and plans. The conference will include one day of tutorials and small focused workshops on June 23 and two and a half days of the main conference. The main program will include presentations, a poster session, and a demo session. Thus, we would like to solicit your contributions for all the events at the conference. You can find the detailed calls for contributions at the conference Web site: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2009/. There will be a review process for abstracts and the number of presentations will be limited. All events at the conference will address the following topics (the list is not exhaustive): - ontology development - frames vs description logic - standard terminologies - biomedical applications - other innovative applications - interoperability between different formats - plug-in development - visualization tools - project management - ontology tools - reasoning and inference - collaboration tools - ontology repository If you have questions, you can contact the organizers by email at protege-conf-organizers at lists.stanford.edu From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Tue Apr 28 11:19:02 2009 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:19:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] FTP 2009: Deadline extension Message-ID: ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline extension =================================== FTP 2009 International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving Oslo, Norway, July 6-7 2009 ==================================================================== For complete information see http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/ftp09/ The submission deadline for FTP 2009 was extended to May 4, 2009, 24:00 GMT. Important dates =============== Full paper submission deadline: 4 May 2009 (24:00 GMT) Notification of acceptance/rejection: 2 June 2009 Final version due: 11 June 2009 Workshop: 6-7 July 2009 Topics of interest ================== The workshop welcomes original contributions on theorem proving in first order classical and non-classical logics including (but not restricted to): * theorem proving in first-order classical and non-classical logics, including: satisfiability in propositional logic; satisfiability modulo theories, decision procedures, constraint reasoning, equational reasoning, term rewriting, resolution, paramodulation, superposition; * strategies and complexity of theorem proving procedures; * implementation techniques * applications of first-order theorem provers to: program verification, model checking, artificial intelligence, mathematics, computational linguistics. Paper Submissions ================= Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: * Extended abstracts of up to 15 pages describing original results. * Position papers of up to 10 pages describing work in progress, or future directions of research. * System descriptions of up to 10 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones, especially including experiments; sources and manuals of systems will have to be freely available online. * Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. We see this as a way to provide additional access to important developments that FTP Workshop attendees may be unaware of. Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and the standard lncs article class/style file. The first page should contain the title, the authors' names, e-mail and postal addresses. Submissions should be made via Easychair at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftp2009 Publication =========== Accepted submissions will be published as a technical report of the University of Oslo and will be distributed at the workshop. They will also be available on the web. As for the previous editions of FTP, a journal special issue is planned after the workshop. The submission will be open to papers on First-Order Theorem Proving. From areces at pluton.loria.fr Wed May 6 22:53:51 2009 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 22:53:51 +0200 Subject: [DL] [CFP] Special Issue of the LJ-IGPL on Hybrid Logics Message-ID: <200905062053.n46KrpPD028476@pluton.loria.fr> *************************************************************** Please excuse for multiple posts and distribute as widely as possible *************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Logic Journal of the IGPL Special issue on Hybrid Logic DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st May 2009 *************************************************************** Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of this special issue is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc.) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). The special issue will welcome papers in a wide range of topics, including description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. We welcome both theoretical work and work describing systems and applications on hybrid logics, broadly conceived. All submissions will be peer reviewed with respect to the usual journal criteria. Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished, research papers written in English. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Papers should not exceed 25 pages including references. Authors are required to prepare their submissions in latex, using the style available at http://hylo.loria.fr/content/SI/2009 Submissions should be sent as .pdf files to areces (at) loria.fr DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st May 2009 GUEST EDITORS: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, areces at loria.fr) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, blackbur at loria.fr) From hr at sti2.at Tue May 12 10:29:28 2009 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 10:29:28 +0200 Subject: [DL] Job ad: PhD position In-Reply-To: <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> Message-ID: <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> Dear All, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck is currently seeking candidates for the position: Scientific Employee More Information on the job and application procedure can be found at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public_prod/owa/karriereportal.karriere_detail?asg_id_in=5533 Best Regards, HR STI Innsbruck From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Wed May 13 12:12:14 2009 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:12:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] ADDCT'07: Deadline extension (Abstract Submission Deadline May 22) Message-ID: <2548ccc4edff31984dc6ecd70a93dc40.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability (ADDCT'09) Workshop affiliated with CADE-22 Montreal, Canada, 2 August 2009 ===================================================================== For complete information- http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/addct09 Important Dates --------------- 22 May 2009: Abstract submission (* extended *) 25 May 2009: Paper submission (* extended *) 15 June 2009: Notification 1 July 2009: Final version 2 August 2009: Workshop Topics of interest for ADDCT include (but are not restricted to): ----------------------------------------------------------------- - Decidability: - decision procedures based on logical calculi such as: resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi, natural deduction - decidability in combinations of logical theories - Complexity: - complexity analysis for fragments of first- (or higher) order logic - complexity analysis for combinations of logical theories (including parameterized complexity results) - Tractability (in logic, automated reasoning, algebra, ...) - Application domains for which complexity issues are essential (verification, security, databases, ontologies, ...) Submissions are encouraged in one of the following categories: -------------------------------------------------------------- - Original papers (up to 15 pages, LNCS style, including bibliography); - Work in progress (up to 6 pages, LNCS style, without bibliography). - Presentation-only papers Submission of papers is via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=addct2009 Organizers and Chairs --------------------- Franz Baader (TU Dresden) Silvio Ghilardi (U. Milano) Miki Hermann (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI,Saarbruecken) Ashish Tiwari (SRI International) Contact ------- For further informations please send an e-mail to Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de From gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Wed May 13 22:45:02 2009 From: gqi at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Guilin Qi) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 20:45:02 -0000 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: 3rd Int. Conf. on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009) Message-ID: <4A0B3140.7020805@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Apologies for multiple postings CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009) http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2009 Chantilly, Virginia, USA October 25-26, 2009 Co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference '09 The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2009 builds on the success of the first two International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, held in 2007 in Innsbruck and in and 2008 in Karlsruhe, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2009, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list: * Representation techniques for web-based knowledge * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group, etc. * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers for past conferences were published in the Springer LNCS series (acceptance pending for this year). Papers may be accepted as: * full papers (15 pages in the proceedings) * short papers (8 pages in the proceedings) * posters (2 pages in the proceedings). The stated lengths include title, abstract and list of references. All papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TENTATIVE DATES * Abstract submission: June 28, 2009 * Paper submission: July 4, 2009 * Acceptance decisions: August 1, 2009 * Camera-ready papers due: August 25, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH-ICS (GR) Marcelo Arenas, PUC Chile (CL) Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University (CA) Piero Bonatti, Univ. of Naples Frederico II(IT) Carlos Damasio, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT) Wlodek Drabent, IPI PAN Warszawa (PL) Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford (UK) Volker Haarslev, Concordia University (CA) Giovambattista Ianni, Univ. of Calabria (IT) Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian Univ.of Athens (GR) Domenico Lembo, DIS, Univ. di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (IT) Thomas Lukasiewicz, Computing Lab. Univ. of Oxford (UK) Francesca Alessandra Lisi, Universita degli Studi di Bari (IT) Wolfgang May, Univ. Goettingen (DE) David Pearce, Universidad Politde Madrid (ES) Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University (US) Guilin Qi, Univ. of Karlsruhe (DE) Marie-Christine Rousset, Univ. of Grenoble (FR) Sebastian Rudolph, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaf (AT) Michael Sintek, DFKI GmbH (DE) Giorgos Stamou, National Tech. University of Athens (GR) Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Univ. of Mannheim (DE) York Sure, AIFB - Universitaet Karlsruhe (DE) Peter Szeredi, Budapest Univ of Tech. and Econ. (HU) Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen - Bolzano (IT) Hans Tompits, Vienna Univ. of Technology (AT) Dirk Vermeir, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE) ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTACTS For information about papers and submissions, please contact a Program Chair: Axel Polleres PC co-Chair - RR 2009 Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) National University of Ireland, Galway IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan - Galway, Ire. Email: axel.polleresderi.org Terrance Swift PC co-Chair - RR 2009 Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CENTRIA) Departamento de Informatica FCT/UNL Quinta da Torre 2829-516 CAPARICA - Portugal Email: tswiftcs.sunysb.edu For other information about the conference, please contact the General Chair: Michael Kifer Computer Science Department SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY USA Email; kifercs.sunysb.edu From tb at imm.dtu.dk Thu May 14 11:35:18 2009 From: tb at imm.dtu.dk (Thomas Bolander) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 09:35:18 -0000 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: 6th workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6) Message-ID: <4A0BD4A9.4010608@imm.dtu.dk> ==================================================================== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 6th Workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6) http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M6 Copenhagen, Denmark November 12-14, 2009 ==================================================================== Scope ----- The workshop "Methods for Modalities" (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ M4M-6 will be preceded by a two-day mini-course aimed at preparing PhD students and other researchers for participation in the workshop. The mini-course is associated with the FIRST research school (http://first.dk). Paper Submissions ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories. - Regular papers up to 15 pages, describing original research. - System descriptions of up to 12 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones. - Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. Submissions should be made via EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4m6 Final versions of accepted papers will be published online in a volume of Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). A preliminary version of the proceedings will also be available at the workshop. Invited speakers ----------------- To be announced. Important dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: August 24, 2009 Notification: October 5, 2009 Camera ready versions: October 26, 2009 Workshop dates: November 12-14, 2009 Program Committee ----------------- Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine Thomas Bolander (co-chair), Technical University of Denmark Julian Bradfield, University of Edinburgh Torben Bra?ner (co-chair), Roskilde University Balder ten Cate, University of Amsterdam Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan Hans van Ditmarsch, University of Otago Melvin Fitting, City University of New York John Gallagher, Roskilde University Mai Gehrke, Radboud University Nijmegen Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano Valentin Goranko, University of the Witwatersrand Rajeev Gor?, ANU Michael R. Hansen, Technical University of Denmark Andreas Herzig, IRIT Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool Martin Lange, LMU M?nchen Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology Angelo Montanari, University of Udine Valeria de Paiva, Cuill Inc. Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester Thomas Schneider, University of Manchester Carsten Sch?rmann, IT University of Copenhagen Gert Smolka, Saarland University Anders S?gaard, University of Copenhagen J?rgen Villadsen, Technical University of Denmark Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool Thomas ?gotnes, Bergen University College ================================================================== From croitoru at lirmm.fr Tue May 19 21:48:58 2009 From: croitoru at lirmm.fr (Madalina Croitoru) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:48:58 -0000 Subject: [DL] PhD position at LIRMM, Montpellier Message-ID: <4A12FD9B.6090902@lirmm.fr> The RCR (knowledge representation and reasoning) group at LIRMM, Montpellier, is looking for a highly motivated candidate for a three-year PhD position to investigate representation and reasoning aspects for combinatorial auctions. Combinatorial auctions (CAs) can be looked at as a way of approaching allocation problems involving multiple heterogeneous goods. Bidding is the problem of representing one's valuation function over this set of goods on offer. The research project will focus on investigating a graph based approach for representing and manipulating bids for CAs from a representational and reasoning viewpoint. The challenges of this work are twofold: (1) representation / reasoning (algorithms working on compact graphical representations are to be designed) and (2) reasoning / efficiency (structure of the represented bids can be used to characterize interesting complexity classes). The candidate must have a master?s degree in Computing Science or Applied Mathematics. The candidate should possess (1) strong analytical skills, (2) good knowledge of graph theoretical notions, (3) good knowledge of multi agent systems and (4) highly proficient skills in at least one major programming language. Interested candidates should apply by emailing croitoru at lirmm.fr as soon as possible (and no later than 25th of May 2009): ? a letter of motivation with statement of research interests ? curriculum vitae ? master studies results -- Dr. Madalina Croitoru Associate Professor University of Montpellier II LIRMM, 161 rue ADA, F34392 Montpellier Cedex 5, France Fax: +33(0)67 41 85 00 Tel: +33(0)67 41 85 39 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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After submitting a paper, please also inform guest editors by email to ijswis-smap at image.ntua.gr about the specific paper ID assigned by the submission system. If a submission is based on a prior publication in a workshop or conference, the journal submission must involve substantial advance (a minimum of 50%) in conceptual terms as well as in exposition (e.g., more comprehensive testing/evaluation/validation or additional applications/usage). ------- Summary ------- The objective of this Special Issue is to collect and report on recent high quality research that addresses the problem of managing and adapting hyper/multi-media content according to its underlying semantics. As text-based search engines give way to intelligent, collective content and context-aware engines, which not only personalize searching and delivery but also the actual content format, advanced network infrastructures are emerging. The latter are capable of end-to-end ubiquitous transmission of media content to any device, fixed or mobile, on any network, wired or wireless, at any time. This has enabled propagation of semantic media, adaptation and personalization aspects throughout the entire media analysis value chain. Research in this area is important to combine the fields of semantics and knowledge engineering with the content and navigation adaptation, mainly because of the overwhelming amount of information available as hypertext and multimedia for the purpose of entertainment, security, education, cultural or technical documentation. The very limited understanding of the semantics of such data sources and, hence, the limited ways in which they can be personalized and adapted to their end-users constitutes the need for the development of efficient adaptation techniques and methodologies. This Special Issue is addressed to those members of the community interested in extending their content analysis, indexing, retrieval, and delivery methods by leveraging adaptation and personalization technologies. The benefit is to explore how these technologies can be used to efficiently increase the level of semantics extraction from the content, e.g. by using social networks, folksonomies, ontologies and reasoning to assist personalization and adaptation. High quality contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects are expected. ------ Topics ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following semantic media adaptation & personalization aspects: # Knowledge Acquisition and Management # Personalized and Adaptive E-Learning # Knowledge Models, Ontologies and Reasoning # Personal & Ubiquitous Application Development # Semantic Context Modelling and Extraction # Adaptive & Personalized Content Summaries # Semantic Content Creation and Modelling # Adaptation & Personalization in TV Environments # Content Adaptation, Management & Delivery # Adaptive Navigation # Adaptive Content Information Retrieval & Filtering # Network and Device Adaptation -------- Contacts -------- Please address all correspondences regarding this Special Issue to the Guest Editors: Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (fmylonas AT image.ntua.gr) Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia (bielik AT fiit.stuba.sk) Yannis Kompatsiaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece (ikom AT iti.gr) Raphael Troncy, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, The Netherlands (raphael.troncy AT cwi.nl) From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Fri May 22 14:23:19 2009 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:23:19 -0000 Subject: [DL] Tableaux 2009: Call for Participation Message-ID: <5d71340f8c2f7a899146456ac9bd5587.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% %% %% Call for Participation %% %% %% %% TABLEAUX 2009 %% %% %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% International Conference TABLEAUX 2009 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Oslo, Norway 6-10 July 2009 http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/ *** EARLY REGISTRATION UNTIL 7 JUNE! *** GENERAL INFORMATION This conference is the 18th in a series of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. Tableaux 2009 will be held in Oslo, Norway, collocated with FTP 2009, the workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving, see http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/ftp09/ See the website for registration instructions. Early registration is open until Sunday, 7 June. TOPICS Tableau methods are a convenient formalism for automating deduction in various non-standard logics as well as in classical logic. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, and system diagnosis. The conference brings together researchers interested in all aspects - theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications - of the mechanization of reasoning with tableaux and related methods. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME See http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/pmwiki.php/AcceptedPapers for the list of accepted papers and http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/pmwiki.php/Programme for the conference schedule. STUDENT SPONSORING Apart from significantly reduced conference fees, students have access to budget accommodation at a rate of about 170 EUR for the whole week and the week before the conference. If necessary, we will be able to provide further financing help. INVITED SPEAKERS * Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Nancy, France * Peter Jeavons, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK * Pierre Wolper, Universit? de Liege, France WORKSHOPS In addition to the Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving (FTP), there will be several workshops on Monday, 6 July: * Tableaux versus automata as logical decision methods * Proofs and Refutations in Non-Classical Logics * Gentzen Systems and Beyond See http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/pmwiki.php/Workshops for details about these workshops TUTORIALS Two tutorials will be held on Wednesday, 8 July. * The Theory of Canonical Systems (Arnon Avron and Anna Zamansky, Tel-Aviv University, Israel) * LoTREC: Theory and Practice. Proving by Tableau becomes easier... (Bilal Said and Olivier Gasquet, Universit? Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.) See http://tableaux09.ifi.uio.no/pmwiki.php/Tutorials for details about these tutorials CONFERENCE AND PC CO-CHAIRS: * Martin Giese, Univ. of Oslo, Norway * Arild Waaler, Univ. of Oslo, Norway From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Mon May 25 12:01:26 2009 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:01:26 -0000 Subject: [DL] Deadline Extension: Beautiful Ontologies, a special issue of Applied Ontology Message-ID: <96F47320-C587-4829-A8DA-EC42F5359813@open.ac.uk> Deadline extended to 15th June Beautiful Ontologies, a special issue of Applied Ontology Calling experts on ontology modeling, representation and design, as well as ontology users, to contribute to a special issue of Applied Ontology on `Beautiful Ontologies'. Guest editors: Mathieu d?Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute, the Open University, UK - m.daquin at open.ac.uk ) Aldo Gangemi (Semantic Technology Lab, ISTC-CNR, Italy - aldo.gangemi at cnr.it ) Deadline: 15th June 2009 Ontologies are design artifacts, to which quality notions like appropriateness, coverage, efficiency, sustainability, and elegance apply. Classical approaches to assess the quality of ontologies mostly involve automatic metrics on the structure of ontologies, unit tests, or the manual assessment by domain experts, ontology experts or users, normally using formal, objective criteria. In this special issue, we want to approach this topic from a different perspective. We would like to invite internationally recognized experts on ontology engineering, as well as ontology practitioners and users to contribute by providing positive examples of good, interesting and elegant ontology designs ? i.e., ?beautiful ontologies?. There is no constraint on the chosen ontology, on its format, on the formalism in which it is implemented, on the domain it describes, on its creator(s) or even on its 'score' according to classical evaluation methods. However, each beautiful ontology article should clearly explain why, according to the author, the chosen ontology is interesting and how it contributes to the overall discussion on ontology quality. By gathering in this way different views on concrete examples, we hope to achieve a better understanding of quality ontology design, providing a concrete reference for less experienced ontology practitioners as well as an ethnographic basis for collecting best practices in ontology design. As such, this initiative relates directly to others in the domain, like the OntologyDesignPatterns.org portal, and might generate direct contributions to them. Submission We seek submissions of articles discussing either an existing ontology as a whole, an ontology module, an ontology design pattern or even a particular characteristic of an ontology (including the way it has been used or applied). In order to collect a wide range of contributions, we encourage the submission of both long and short papers. In both cases, articles will be selected according to the journal's standard and high quality will be expected. Submissions to this special issue will be subject to peer-review. After a pre-selection step, in order to ensure that the highest possible quality is achieved for the contributions, the review and selection process will also include a second phase involving interactions and discussions between the authors, the guest editors and, when appropriate, the original creators of the considered ontologies. Submissions should be sent by the 1st of June 2009 to m.daquin at open.ac.uk , with CC to aldo.gangemi at cnr.it. 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Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ M4M-6 will be preceded by a two-day mini-course aimed at preparing PhD students and other researchers for participation in the workshop. The mini-course is associated with the FIRST research school (http://first.dk). Paper Submissions ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories. - Regular papers up to 15 pages, describing original research. - System descriptions of up to 12 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones. - Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. Submissions should be made via EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4m6 Final versions of accepted papers will be published online in a volume of Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). A preliminary version of the proceedings will also be available at the workshop. Invited speakers ----------------- To be announced. Important dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: August 24, 2009 Notification: October 5, 2009 Camera ready versions: October 26, 2009 Workshop dates: November 12-14, 2009 Program Committee ----------------- Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine Thomas Bolander (co-chair), Technical University of Denmark Julian Bradfield, University of Edinburgh Torben Bra?ner (co-chair), Roskilde University Balder ten Cate, University of Amsterdam Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan Hans van Ditmarsch, University of Otago Melvin Fitting, City University of New York John Gallagher, Roskilde University Mai Gehrke, Radboud University Nijmegen Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano Valentin Goranko, University of the Witwatersrand Rajeev Gor?, ANU Michael R. Hansen, Technical University of Denmark Andreas Herzig, IRIT Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool Martin Lange, LMU M?nchen Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology Angelo Montanari, University of Udine Valeria de Paiva, Cuill Inc. Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester Thomas Schneider, University of Manchester Carsten Sch?rmann, IT University of Copenhagen Gert Smolka, Saarland University Anders S?gaard, University of Copenhagen J?rgen Villadsen, Technical University of Denmark Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool Thomas ?gotnes, Bergen University College ================================================================== From A.P.Galton at exeter.ac.uk Tue May 26 11:36:06 2009 From: A.P.Galton at exeter.ac.uk (Galton, Antony) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:36:06 -0000 Subject: [DL] FOIS2010 call for papers Message-ID: <815C84613E6CA0409FF3A004FB37F82117CC24961C@EXCHMBS02.isad.isadroot.ex.ac.uk> +------------------------------------------+ | | | FOIS 2010 | | Sixth International Conference on | | Formal Ontology in Information Systems | | http://www.formalontology.org | | | | C A L L F O R P A P E R S | | | +------------------------------------------+ CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION The FOIS conference series began with the first meeting in Trento, Italy, in June 1998, which was followed by meetings in 2001, 2004, 2006, and 2008. The sixth FOIS conference will be held in Toronto, Canada, during 11-14 May 2010, and we are now calling for papers to be considered for inclusion in the conference. Ontology began life in ancient times as a fundamental part of philosophical enquiry concerned with the analysis and categorisation of what exists. In recent years, the subject has taken a practical turn with the advent of complex computerised information systems which are reliant on robust and coherent representations of their subject matter. The systematisation and elaboration of such representations and their associated reasoning techniques constitute the modern discipline of formal ontology, which is now being applied to such diverse domains as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, bioinformatics, GIS, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, and the Semantic Web. Researchers in all these areas are becoming increasingly aware of the need for serious engagement with ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations making up their respective domains of enquiry, to provide a solid foundation for their work. FOIS is intended to provide a meeting point for researchers from these and other disciplines with an interest in formal ontology, where both theoretical issues and concrete applications can be explored in a spirit of genuine interdisciplinarity. CONFERENCE ORGANISATION Conference chair: Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Program chairs: Antony Galton (University of Exeter, UK) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Local organisation: Chris Welty (IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY, USA) Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada) TOPICS COVERED We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. While authors may focus on fairly narrow and specific issues, all papers should emphasize the relevance of the work described to formal ontology and to information systems. Papers that completely ignore one or the other of these aspects will be considered as lying outside the scope of the meeting. Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are: Foundational Issues * Kinds of entity: particulars vs universals, continuants vs occurrents, abstracta vs concreta, dependent vs independent, natural vs artificial * Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, subsumption, instantiation * Vagueness and granularity * Identity and change * Formal comparison among ontologies * Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...) * Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms, ...) * Ontology of artefacts, functions and roles * Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions and other mental attitudes; emotions, ...) * Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, ...) * Ontology of the information society (information, communication, meaning negotiation, ...) * Ontology and Natural Language Semantics, Ontology and Cognition Methodologies and Applications * Top-level vs application ontologies * Ontology integration and alignment; role of reference ontologies * Ontology-driven information systems design * Ontology-based application systems * Requirements engineering * Knowledge engineering * Knowledge management and organization * Knowledge representation; Qualitative modeling * Computational lexicons; Terminology * Information retrieval; Question-answering * Semantic web; Web services; Grid computing * Domain-specific ontologies, especially for: Linguistics, Geography, Law, Library science, Biomedical science, E-business, Enterprise integration, ... DEADLINES AND FURTHER INFORMATION Submissions: 23 October 2009 Notification of acceptance: 18 December 2009 Final camera-ready submission: 15 January 2010 Conference: 11-14 May 2010 Submitted papers should not exceed 5000 words (including bibliography). Details of the submission process, and formatting guidelines, will be provided on the conference web page at http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca. Proceedings will be published by IOS Press and available at the conference. From bakerc at unb.ca Tue May 26 19:54:13 2009 From: bakerc at unb.ca (Christopher Baker) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:54:13 -0000 Subject: [DL] Semantic Technology: Knowledge Engineering Associates Message-ID: <1243360247.4a1c2bf747f42@webmail.unb.ca> JOBS - EMPLOYMENT - GRADUATE STUDIES Semantic Technology: Knowledge Engineering Associates http://www.bioinformatics.ca/?q=resources/jobs/semantic-technology-knowledge-engineering-associates Applications are invited for Research Associate, Graduate Student and PDF positions in the Knowledge Navigation Infrastructure Team (KNIT) lead by the Innovatia Research Chair at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John http://www.innovatia.net/corp/about_us/newsItem.jsp?itemid=380 Researchers will collaboratively develop reusable infrastructures to support custom vertical search across multiple application domains in biomedical, health care, energy and telecom. Researchers will develop solutions for enterprise search using semantic web technologies, service oriented architecture, ontologies and text mining. Successful candidates will have demonstrated software development expertise and familiarity with knowledge engineering lifecycles. Candidates with demonstrated experience with two or more of the following technologies are encouraged to apply: 1) Web based Content Acquisition Strategies 2) Knowledge Representation with OWL / RDF 3) Text Mining / Natural Language Processing 4) Ontology based reasoning - instance store 5) Terminology Management and Curation 6) Literature and (Meta) Data Integration 7) Provenance Tracking / Tracability 8) Algorithm Design / Graph Matching 9) Human Computer Interaction 10) Semantically Enabled Software Architecture 11) Semantic Desktops and Publishing 12) Ontology Alignment Post Doc applicants must be eligible for an NSERC Industrial R&D Fellowship although additional industrial and top up funding is available for selected applicants at graduate and post doctoral levels. International Post Docs may apply. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Job Information Position Type: Faculty Reference (Job ID number): BAK2009-0991992 Start Date: 2009-01-01 Duration: Full Time Status: open -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact Information University of New Brunswick Computer Science and Applied Statistics Christopher Baker bakerc at unbsj.ca Tel. Number: 506 648 2303 FAX Number: 506 648-5799 http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/departments.html How To Apply: Enquiries and applications and can be made by sending a full CV and cover letter to: bakerc at unbsj.ca Christopher J. O. Baker Ph. D. Innovatia Research Chair / Associate Professor Dept. Computer Science & Applied Statistics University of New Brunswick, Canada From richard.moot at labri.fr Thu May 28 19:32:46 2009 From: richard.moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 17:32:46 -0000 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2009 Bordeaux: Program and Call for Participation Message-ID: <667D1D86-05EB-4BBF-9826-0A0B4E654533@labri.fr> ------------------------------------------------- ESSLLI Monday, 20 July -- Friday, 31 July 2009 Bordeaux, France Program and Call for Participation ------------------------------------------------- The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. *** Registration *** Registration fees are 350 euros for master's/PhD student and 500 euros for other partipants. Registration closes on July the 1st. On-site registration will not be possible. You can register online at our website. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/reg.php *Registration deadline*: 1st of July 2009 *** Program *** * Evening Lecturers * - Anne Abeille (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Universite Paris 7) - Nick Chater (University College London) - Bruno Courcelle (LaBRI, Universite de Bordeaux) - Yiannis N. Moschovakis (University of California, Los Angeles) * First Week * (20 - 24th of July, 2009) 9:15 - 10:45 * Non-deterministic Multi-valued Logics - Arnon Avron and Beata Konikowska (Introductory course, Logic and Computation) * Introduction to Abstract Categorial Grammars: Foundations and main properties - Philippe de Groote and Sylvain Salvati (Introductory course, Language and Logic) * An introduction to minimalist grammars - Greg Kobele and Jens Michaelis (Advanced course, Language and Computation) * Ontology Modelling Languages - Markus Kroetzsch and Sebastian Rudolph (Foundational course, Logic and Computation) * The Logic of Sense and Reference - Reinhard Muskens (Foundational course, Language and Logic) * The mental lexicon, blueprint of the dictionaries of tomorrow: linguistic, computational and psychological aspects of a highly valuable resource - Michael Zock (Introductory course, Language and Computation) 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 * How to do things with words: Speech Acts in Linguistics, Philosophy and Computation - Regine Eckardt and Magda Schwager(Advanced course, Language and Logic) * Temporal logics for specification and verification - Valentin Goranko (Introductory course, Logic and Computation) * Logics of individual and collective intentionality - Andreas Herzig and Emiliano Lorini (Introductory course, Logic and Computation) * Quotation and the semantics of speech reports - Emar Maier (Introductory course, Language and Logic) * Grammaticality Judgements as Linguistic Evidence - Brian Murphy (Introductory course, Language and Computation) * The Foundations of Statistics: A Simulation-Based Approach - Shravan Vasishth (Foundational course, Language and Computation) Lunch Break 14:15 - 15:45 * Logical Methods for Social Concepts - Andreas Herzig and Emiliano Lorini (Workshop, Logic and Computation) * Game semantics and its applications - Andrzej Murawski (Advanced course, Logic and Computation) * Parsing with Categorial Grammars - Gerald Penn (Workshop, Language and Computation) * Reasoning in complex theories and applications - Viorica Sofronie- Stokkermans (Advanced course, Logic and Computation) * Focus, Focus Interpretation, and Focus Sensitivity - Malte Zimmermann and Daniel Hole (Introductory course, Language and Logic) * Plurality and distributivity across language(s) and logic(s) - Eytan Zweig and George Tsoulas (Advanced course, Language and Logic) 15:45 - 17:15 Student Session 17:15 - 18:45 * Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Discourse - Nicolas Asher (Advanced course, Language and Logic) * Logicality and Invariance - Denis Bonnay (Introductory course, Language and Logic) * Games, Action and Social Software - Jan van Eijck and Rineke Verbrugge (Introductory course, Logic and Computation) * Vagueness in Communication - Manfred Krifka (Workshop, Language and Logic) * Computational Psycholinguistics - Roger Levy (Advanced course, Language and Computation) * Structures and Deduction 2009 - Michel Parigot and Lutz Strassburger (Workshop, Logic and Computation) * Week-End * (25 - 26th of July, 2009) 14th conference on Formal Grammar - FG 2009 * Second Week * (27 - 31st of July, 2009) 9:15 - 10:45 * Ontologies: Structuring, Modularity and Heterogeneity - Stefano Borgo and Oliver Kutz (Advanced course, Logic and Computation) * Meaning Composition: Empricial Problems and Formal Solutions - Louise McNally (Foundational course, Language and Logic) * Logics of Rational Agency (Pacuit) * Psycho-computational issues in Morphology Learning and Processing - Vito Pirrelli (Advanced course, Language and Computation) * Standard XML query languages for natural language processing - Ulrich Schaefer (Introductory course, Language and Computation) * Topics in the Semantics of Interrogative Clauses - Benjamin Spector and Marta Abrusan (Introductory course, Language and Logic) 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 * Computational Lexical Semantics - Gemma Boleda and Stefan Evert (Introductory course, Language and Computation) * Case, Scrambling and Default Word Order - Miriam Butt and Heike Zinsmeister (Foundational course, Language and Computation) * Event Semantics and Adverbial Modification - Berit Gehrke and Boban Arsenijevic (Introductory course, Language and Logic) * Reasoning with Probabilities - Eric Pacuit and Joshua Sack (Advanced course, Logic and Computation) * Logics with Counting - Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Advanced course, Logic and Computation) * Proof-Theoretic Semantics - Peter Schroeder-Heister (Advanced course, Language and Logic) 12:30 - 14:15 Lunch Break 14:15 - 15:45 * Dynamic Logics for Interactive Belief Revision - Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets (Advanced course, Logic and Computation) * Advances in Abstract Categorial Grammars: Language theory and linguistic modeling - Makoto Kanazawa and Sylvain Pogodalla (Advanced course, Language and Logic) * Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning: An introduction to an emerging interdisciplinary field - Detmar Meurers (Introductory course, Language and Computation) * Linguistic Information Visualization - Gerald Penn and Sheelagh Carpendale (Advanced course, Language and Computation) * New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition - Daniel Rothschild and Nathan Klinedinst (Workshop, Language and Logic) * Syntax and Semantics from an Algebraic Perspective - Edward Stabler and Edward Keenan (Introductory course, Language and Logic) 15:45 - 17:15 Student Session 17:15 - 18:45 * Logics and Agent Programming Languages - Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan (Introductory course, Logic and Computation) * Formal approaches to sign languages - Carlo Cecchetto and Carlo Geraci (Workshop, Language and Logic) * Distributional Semantic Models - Theory and Empirical Results - Stefan Evert and Alessandro Lenci (Advanced course, Language and Computation) * Referent Systems - Udo Klein and Markus Kracht (Advanced course, Language and Logic) * Corpus-Based Argument Structure - Adam Przepiorkowski (Introductory course, Language and Computation) * Explanation in Ontology Languages - Bijan Parsia and Thomas Schneider (Introductory course, Logic and Computation) *** Further Information *** The website for ESSLLI 2009 can be found at: http://esslli2009.labri.fr From pavel at dit.unitn.it Thu May 28 21:11:06 2009 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:11:06 -0000 Subject: [DL] 1st CFP: ISWC'09 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2009) Message-ID: <8CDB8EAB368D425681EDF9823D68322D@IT0AC1A0736> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2009) http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/ October 25, 2009, ISWC'09 Workshop Program, Washington DC., USA 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. 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 and data translation. 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) 2009 campaign. This year's OAEI campaign introduces two new tracks about oriented alignments and about instance matching (a timely topic for the linked data community). 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. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business cases for matching; Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Large-scale ontology matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; Uncertainty in ontology matching; 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 dynamic applications (e.g., peer-to-peer, web-services). 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 2009 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html Posters/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: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20090 Contributors to the OAEI 2009 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/. ***TENTATIVE*** IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS: August 11, 2009: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 15, 2009: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 2, 2009: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 25, 2009: OM-2009, Westfields Conference Center, Washington DC., USA. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. Jerome Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany 5. Natasha Noy Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, USA 6. Arnon Rosenthal The MITRE Corporation, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yuan An, Drexel University, USA Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM, France Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA Jingshan Huang, University of South Alabama, USA Wei Hu, Southeast University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, University of Muenster, Germany Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Bin He, IBM, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Linkopings Universitet, Sweden Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy Enzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Luca Mion, TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Labs, Germany Francois Scharffe, INRIA, France Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy York Sure, University of Koblenz, Germany Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, PAT, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Rui Zhang, University of Trento, Italy Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2009 flyer: http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2009_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.infotn.it/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iswc2009publicity at covad.net Wed Jun 3 03:27:28 2009 From: iswc2009publicity at covad.net (iswc2009publicity) Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:27:28 -0000 Subject: [DL] ISWC 2009: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <4A25D0CC.5090804@covad.net> The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) will be held 25 - 29 October, 2009, in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. Invited speakers include Patrick Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Nova Spivack, Radar Networks and Tom Mitchell, Carnegie-Mellon University. ISWC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. As the Semantic Web is rapidly entering the mainstream, ISWC 2009 will pay particular attention to showcasing scalable and usable solutions, which bring semantic technologies to web users in authentic application settings. The tracks for ISWC 2009 include Research, Semantic Web in Use, Posters & Demonstrations, Industry, Doctorial Consortium, and Tutorials (Workshops is now closed). Calls for each of these tracks is below. The International Semantic Web Conference (IS WC) series is organized and managed by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA ). See http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/ for full ISWC 20009 for conference details and http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/wiki/index.php/ISWC_2009_Calls for specifics on calls for papers. =========================================== ISWC 2009 Research Track -- Call for Papers =========================================== The most important information first ------------------------------------ Deadlines: - Abstracts: Monday, June 8, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time - Papers: Sunday, June 21, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time Detailed submission information is now available at: http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/wiki/index.php/Submission_instructions The submission system is now open at https://precisionconference.com/~semantic/ . Please read the submission instructions before submitting a paper. General Information =================== The web continues to grow and increasing amounts of data are available for human and machine consumption, processing, and re-dissemination. As Semantic Web technologies (including linked data approaches) mature and become usable by end-users we can expect to encounter new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications that enable us to "surf" this web of data. These new approaches give rise to new challenges - both from a technical and human-computer interaction perspective. The goal of the research track at ISWC is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and users from the areas of artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, soft computing, and human-computer interaction to discuss the biggest challenges and proposed solutions. It solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of all areas of Semantic Web research. Papers to the research track are expected to clearly present their contribution and provide some well-principled means of evaluation. We especially encourage papers that ensure the repeatability of their experiments and share with the community their data and test harnesses. General Information ==================== ISWC 2009 calls for papers for its research track. The research track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of all areas of Semantic Web research. Papers to the research track are expected to clearly present their contribution and provide some well-principled means of evaluation. We especially encourage papers that ensure the repeatability of their experiments, and share with the community their data and test harnesses. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - User Interfaces - Interacting with Semantic Web data - Semantic Web content creation and annotation - Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes - Novel interaction paradigms aimed at linked data - Semantic web applications to Web-2.0 sites - Natural Language Interfaces - Information Visualization - Data Semantics and Ontologies - Beyond Description Logic: New formalisms for semantics (such as probabilistic approaches) - Lightweight semantics (linked data, microformats, etc). - Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Searching and ranking ontologies - Ontology evaluation - Applications of the Semantic Web - Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations - Semantic Web for large scale applications, desktops or personal information management - Semantic Web technologies for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness - Semantic Web technologies for P2P, services, agents, grids and middleware - Semantic Web technologies for software and systems engineering - eGovernment - Mobile Semantic Web - Semantic Web technologies for life sciences and healthcare - Management of Semantic Web Data - Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data - Database, IR and AI technologies for the Semantic Web - Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web - Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Machine learning and information extraction for the Semantic Web - Cleaning, assurance, trust, provenance of Semantic Web data, services and processes - Principles & Applications of very large semantic data bases - Semantic Wikis - Social Semantic Web - Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web - Semantic Web technologies for collaboration and cooperation - Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security General questions can be sent to iswc2009 semanticweb.org Evaluation of Submitted Research Papers ======================================= ISWC is a highly attractive and competitive conference series. From all previous ISWC conferences, we have seen researchers and practitioners making best use of the methods and technologies reported at the event for their own research and practice. We are very eager to maintain this high level of impact achieved by ISWC papers in the future. For this purpose, all papers will be critically reviewed by 3 reviewers and one vice chair. To assess papers, reviewers will judge originality of papers, significance for further research and/or practice related to the Semantic Web, technical soundness of the proposed approaches and readability of the submitted papers. Specific weight will be given to the evaluation of the approaches described in the papers. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable. Depending on the type of the paper and the proposed approach indications for repeatability may vary. For instance, theoretical papers may want to upload full proofs of theorems (as supplementary data), empirical work may want to upload training/test data, experimental results, or supporting movies (as supplementary data), case study work may link to case study journals for deeper insights, system papers may provide download of the software or a Web client together with full assessments in user studies, approaches that describe algorithms may want to provide the algorithm in source code and in an easy-to-install manner. Submission of Abstracts and Papers ================================== Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the Precision Conference reviewing system. Pre-submission of abstracts will be a strict requirement. Final papers can be submitted until 21 June 2009, 23:59 hrs, Hawaiian time. The submission platform will be opened from the beginning of May. Note the we made a special effort to cut all slack from the reviewing schedule in order to assure that we will have the newest results presented at the conference. We will, therefore, be unable to make any extensions to this submission deadline! Detailed submission instructions are available now. Format ====== Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer?s Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0). Formatted papers must be no longer than 16 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. ISWC 2009 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task) and submit a version of their paper to a special conference discussion system. Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. Important Dates - Research Track ================================ - Abstracts due: Monday, June 8, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time - Submissions due: Sunday, June 21 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time - Rebuttal phase: July 15 - July 20 - Notification: August 4 - Camera ready: To be determined Program Committee ================= - Chairs - Abraham Bernstein, Switzerland - David Karger, USA - Vice Chairs - Ed Chi - Phillip Cimiano - Claudia d'Amato - Stefan Decker - Steven Drucker - Jerome Euzenat - Jennifer Golbeck - Claudio Gutierrez - Siegfired Handschuh - David Huynh - Georg Lausen - Thomas Lukasievicz - David Martin - Peter Mika - Natahsa Noy - Bijan Parsia - mc shraefel - Umberto Straccia - Heiner Stuckenschmid ===================================== Semantic Web In Use - Call for Papers ===================================== Semantic Web technologies continue to make the transition from research labs into mainstream adoption. The Semantic Web In Use track at ISWC 2009 provides a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying Semantic Web technology in real-life applications and contexts, such as industry, science, society, government or entertainment. Submissions to the Semantic Web In Use track may employ scientific methods (qualitative and/or quantitative) to understand in greater detail the application of Semantic Web technologies, or present novel practical approaches that are relevant to the deployment of Semantic Web technologies but may not otherwise gain an outlet in the ISWC series. We therefore invite the submission of original, principled papers organized around some of or all of the following aspects: * Description of concrete problems in specific application domains, for which Semantic Web technologies can provide a solution. * Description of an implemented application of Semantic Web technologies in a specific domain. * Assessment of the pros and cons of using Semantic Web technologies to solve a particular business problem or other practical problems in a specific domain. * Comparison with alternative or competing approaches using conventional or competing technologies. * Learned best practices for deploying an application based on Semantic Web technologies. * Assessment of the costs and benefits of the application of Semantic Web Technologies, e.g. time and cost of implementation and deployment, integration with legacy IT systems, user acceptance, returns on investment. * Assessment/evaluation of usage and uptake of a deployed Semantic Web application. The Semantic Web In Use track is open to submissions based on a wide-range of hypotheses, methodologies and conclusions. However priority will be given to submissions that demonstrate rigor in the methodology and analysis on which conclusions are based. Submissions/Format Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing system. Pre-submission of abstracts is preferred but not required. Final papers can be submitted until 15 June 2009, 23:59 hrs, Hawaiian time. The submission platform will be opened from the beginning of May. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer?s Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0). Formatted papers must be no longer than 16 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. ISWC 2009 will not accept papers to the Semantic Web In Use track that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task) and submit a version of their paper to a special conference discussion system. Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. Authors of papers submitted to the Semantic Web In Use track (whether accepted or not) are encouraged to also consider submitting their work to the ISWC2009 Poster and Demo track, where appropriate. Please note that such submissions must be made separately to In Use track submissions and must adhere strictly to the submission requirements for Posters and Demos. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Important Dates - Semantic Web in Use ===================================== * Submission Deadline: Monday, June 21, 2009 (23:59 Hawaii Time) * Notification of Acceptance: August 4, 2009 * Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: August 14, 2009 Program Committee ================= Chairs ------ ? Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics, USA Tom Heath, Talis, UK =============================================== Posters and Demonstrations - Call for Proposals =============================================== ISWC 2009 will hold combined poster and demonstration sessions. The Poster/Demo Session is an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters and demos are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems, descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies. Submissions/Format - Posters & Demonstrations ============================================= Authors must submit a two-page paper with a short abstract for evaluation. The abstract must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. A detailed list of suggested topics can be found in the calls for papers both for the Research Track and for the Semantic Web In Use track. Posters and demos are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and are not intended as advertisements for software packages. Authors submitting a full paper to another track in ISWC 2009 may also submit the same work for consideration in the Demo/Poster track, either before or after result notification for the full paper. For example, a demo can be provided for an accepted paper, or a poster can be used to present work that was insufficiently mature for the other track. For demo submissions, authors are strongly encouraged to include in their submission a link to where the demo (live or recorded video) can be found. At least one of the Poster/Demo authors must be a registered participant at the conference, and attend the Poster/Demo Session to present the work. The abstracts for all accepted posters and demos will be given to all conference attendees and published on the conference web site. They will not be included in the formal proceedings. Poster and demo papers must be submitted in ACM format. For complete details, see ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. Please remove the ACM copyright box from the first page of your submission. Poster/Demo papers must be submitted in PDF format, and no other format will be accepted. Poster/Demo papers that exceed the page limit could be rejected without review. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Please submit papers at the ISWC 2009 submission page. Important Dates - Posters & Demonstrations ========================================== * August 7, 2009: Deadline for submissions * August 24 , 2009: Notification of acceptance * September 8, 2009: Camera ready abstracts due Time for all deadlines above will be 23:59 pm Hawaiian time (GMT-10). Further Information =================== For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Posters and Demonstration co-chairs Tania Tudorache and Harith Alani. Organizing Chairs =================? Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK Program Committee ================= * To be announced ==================================== Industry Track - Call for Proposals ==================================== ISWC 2009 is hosting an Industry Track to enable the business community to present products that utilize or enrich the Semantic Web. We invite industry vendors to submit brief presentations for this track. No formal accompanying paper is required. We encourage product and service vendors who may or may not be exhibiting at ISWC 2009 to give a presentation about their products or services. While such presentations can explicitly focus on vendor-branded products and services, we seek to allow vendors to (1) give more in-depth discussion about the specific aspects of Semantic Web technologies in their products and services; (2) explain how their products and services are helping transition clients into the Semantic Web; and (3) describe the innovative plans for their products and services that lead to greater adoption of Semantic Web standards and interoperability. The key dates for the Call for Presentations are close to the conference date to encourage vendors to include last-minute updates and innovations of general interest to ISWC attendees. We want to provide a venue for companies who might otherwise not submit a formal paper to ISWC, but nevertheless have valuable insights and engineering acumen regarding various Semantic Web technologies and their applicability. Submissions/Format ================== Authors must submit a presentation for consideration. It is recommended that each submission also include an abstract of a maximum of 200 words. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Decisions for acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, technical depth and business applicability. Marketing and sales material will not be considered. Submissions should be in one of the following formats: ----------------------------------------------------- * HTML * PowerPoint (PPT) slides * PDF slides * MPEG2 or MPEG4 (Screencasts) No formal paper is required. While it is difficult to handle the entire range of presentation technologies, we are willing to negotiate accommodations if one of the above formats is not suitable. If your technology is not listed and is critical to your presentation, please contact the Industry Track co-chairs. Presentations may be fully automated (e.g. screencasts) or narrated live during the conference. Submissions should also include presentation needs (e.g. projector, Internet connectivity). You may submit hyperlinks to your presentation (including the final presentation), but if you require Internet access for your presentation, please submit a backup final presentation in the unlikely event of connection problems. Presentations are expected to be either 20 or 50 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. A presentation may be mixed media (any of the above formats) and include demonstrations, but must adhere to the 20 or 50 minute limit. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Please submit presentations at the ISWC 2009 submission page. Topics ====== Potential topics are listed below but are not inclusive. See the Research Track for additional topic areas. * Ontology Management * Reasoning Engines * Collaboration and the Semantic Web * Open Data on the Semantic Web * Open Source Strategies for Semantic Web Businesses Important Dates ? Industry Track ================================ * August 1, 2009: Draft presentations due * August 31, 2009: Notification of acceptance * September 10, 2009: Final presentations due Further Information =================== For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Industry Track co-chairs Matthew Fisher and John Callahan. Program Committee ================ Chairs ------ Matthew Fisher, Progeny Systems, USA John Callahan, JHUAPL, USA ===================================== Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers ===================================== Introduction ------------ The ISWC 2009 Doctoral Consortium will take place as part of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington, DC. Alongside the plenary sessions which afford opportunity for the scientific exchange and presentation of high quality research in all aspects of the Semantic Web, this forum will allow doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors as well as to meet other postgraduate students in the field. The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to create an opportunity for PhD students to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plans, and receive constructive criticism and insights related to their future work and career perspectives. A mentor (peer researcher and expert in the field) will be assigned to each student of an accepted paper, to provide individual feedback and advice on the paper, the focus of the work and further developments. Students who are submitting papers on specific portions of their work to the main conference are also invited to apply to the Doctoral Consortium. In this case, the short paper for the Doctoral Consortium should give an overview of the student?s dissertation research, and the paper for the main conference should focus on a specific piece of this work. All papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium stream will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The best submissions will be selected for presentation at the ISWC 2009 Doctoral Consortium sessions. Full papers will be published in the main ISWC proceedings. Some papers will be accepted as posters rather than full papers, depending on the nature of the submission. The poster session will take place as part of the Doctoral Consortium. Topics ====== The Doctoral Consortium track of ISWC 2009 solicits submission of PhD research papers dealing with foundational and core issues, application domains and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Topics include, but are not limited to: ? Applications of the Semantic Web ? Applications with clear lessons learned ? Evaluations of Semantic Web technologies ? Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and other application domains ? Semantic Web technologies for multimedia content ? Personal Information Management ? Management of Semantic Web Data ? Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data ? Database technologies for the Semantic Web ? Search, query, and visualization of the Semantic Web ? Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web ? Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web ? Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction ? Ontologies ? Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution ? Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment ? Evaluation and tanking of ontologies ? Ontology search ? Semantic Web Architecture ? Semantic Web middleware ? Semantic Web services ? Agents on the Semantic Web ? Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids ? Social Semantic Web ? Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web ? Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation ? Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security Submissions/Format ================== Doctoral Consortium papers should include a clear presentation of the PhD research direction, sound situation of the PhD research in the context of Semantic Web and related fields, a report on the work done so far and a plan of further research. They should indicate at what stage of the PhD the author is at. All submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, in the same format as is used for the main conference papers. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer?s Author Instructions. Papers must be submitted electronically through the conference submission site. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Papers will not be accepted in any other format. ISWC 2009 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Important Dates - Doctorial Consortium ====================================== ? June 15, 2009 (11:59pm Hawaii time, GMT-10): Doctoral consortium paper submissions due ? July 21, 2009: Doctoral consortium paper acceptance notification ? August 7, 2009: Doctoral consortium camera-ready papers due ? October 24, 2009: Doctoral consortium ? October 25-29, 2009: ISWC conference Further Information =================== For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Doctoral Consortium Chair Diana Maynard. For more information about ISWC 2009, please contact the ISWC General Chair. Program Committee ================= ? Chair Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK ============================== Tutorials - Call for Proposals ============================== The Web continues to grow and new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications are being developed. Building on this growth, Semantic Web technologies aim at providing a shared semantic information space, qualitatively changing our experiences on the Web. As Semantic Web technologies mature and permeate more and more application areas, new research challenges are becoming apparent and some unsolved ones are becoming more acute. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, ISWC brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. In addition to the regular research and workshop program, ISWC?09 aims to feature a tutorial program that would address the interests of its varied audience: novices to the Semantic Web, representatives of government and funding agencies, Semantic Web practitioners that wish to learn new technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to Semantic Web research, including, but not limited to those of relevance for ISWC?09 (http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/). We expect proposals of the following types of tutorials: ? Tutorials providing an introduction to the Semantic Web; ? Tutorials describing the application of Semantic Web technology in specific domains (e.g., business intelligence, life-sciences, health care). Applications to government and e-government are especially encouraged; ? Tutorials presenting concrete Semantic Web technologies and trends. We encourage proposals describing both established technologies that are increasingly used by the community and novel, ground-breaking technologies. ? Tutorials presenting techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research. (e.g., machine learning, NLP). Important Organizers? Responsibilities ====================================== Organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for preparing and maintaining a Web site that describes the tutorial and includes other relevant information. The URL of the tutorial site should be submitted to the tutorial chair by 14 August 2009. The description should make it clear that the tutorial is open to all members of the ISWC community. It should also mention that all tutorial participants must pay the ISWC?09 conference registration fee, as well as the tutorial fee. The tutorial organizers will also be asked to provide some metadata about their tutorial, conforming to the Semantic Web Conference ontology (detailed instructions will be provided). Organizers are also responsible for the production and distribution of all technical material to be used for teaching the tutorial (slides, notes, technical papers, etc.) except for the reproduction of hard copies of printed materials, which will be handled by ISWC. In the case of a hands-on tutorial requiring software, it is strongly recommended that the organizers provide CDs from which the participants can install the software needed on their computers. (It is not realistic to expect tutorial attendees to download the software at the beginning of the tutorial!) Tutorial presenters will need to submit the material for printed hand-outs to the tutorial organizers for pre-printing. (The deadline for this is given below.) The ISWC 2009 Organizing Committee will be responsible for the following: ? Providing publicity for the tutorial as a whole on the conference?s web page. The ISWC 2009 page will include the tutorial abstract and provide a link to the tutorial?s local page. ? Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the tutorial. ? In conjunction with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time. ? Production of sufficient copies of printed tutorial materials provided by the tutorial organizers. Submissions/Format ================== ISWC?09 tutorials may be either for a full day or for a half day. Although t tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects, we encourage organisers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages in Springer LNCS format and should contain the following information: ? An abstract (200 words maximum; to be published on the ISWC?09 website); ? A justification of the tutorial, including its relevance to this conference and its relation to similar tutorials presented at other events; ? A brief description of tutorial, including aims, overview of content, presentation style, target audience, and prerequisite knowledge; ? An indication of full- or half-day, and a draft outline of the tutorial content and schedule ? Audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements; ? For a hands-on tutorial, please briefly describe the software that will be used for the hands-on activities, the planned procedure to allow the participants to install the software on their computers, and any special technical requirements related to these activities. Please note that any software needed for hands-on activities, and download sites for the software, must be provided by the tutorial presenters. ? Information on presenters (name, affiliation, contact info, expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation). Please indicate which presenter is the primary contact. Please note that metadata about all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Please submit tutorial proposals by email to Jennifer Golbeck at jgolbeck at umd.edu. Important Dates - Tutorials =========================== ? June 19, 2009: Tutorial proposals due ? July 10, 2009: Notification of proposal acceptance ? August 14, 2009: Deadline for receipt of URL for tutorial web page ? September 25, 2009: Deadline for sending the tutorial notes (handouts) to the tutorial chair for reproduction (PDF preferred) ? October 25-26, 2009: Presentation of Tutorial Program Program Committee ================= Chairs ------ o Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, jgolbeck at umd.edu o Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK, r.m.sabou at open.ac.uk From heymans at kr.tuwien.ac.at Thu Jun 4 08:56:14 2009 From: heymans at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Stijn Heymans) Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:56:14 -0000 Subject: [DL] PhD Position at Vienna University of Technology Message-ID: The Knowledge-Based Systems Group (http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/) at the Vienna University of Technology (http://www.tuwien.ac.at/) is looking for excellent PhD candidates. The PhD candidate will work in the area of the integration of ontologies and rules, in particular the inconsistency management of such combinations. The candidate should have: - a Master's degree in Mathematics or Computer Science - a strong background in Logic Programming and its applications - a background in other Knowledge Representation paradigms such as Description Logics - a willingness to travel to project meetings and to work on project deliverables - a willingness to work in an international team - good proficiency in English The position is estimated to start as soon as possible and will run until the end of 2011 with the possibility for an extension; the salary will depend on the experience of the candidate and will be according to Austrian guidelines (http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/projects/personalkostensaetze_2008.html). The candidate is expected to work towards a PhD degree in Computer Science. We encourage interested candidates to send their resume, list of publications, and digital versions of their most relevant work to Dr. Stijn Heymans heymans at kr.tuwien.ac.at The Knowledge-Based Systems group is lead by Prof. Dr. Thomas Eiter and has a strong expertise in areas such as Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Computational Logic and Complexity, and Declarative Problem Solving. For more information, see http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/. From hr at sti2.at Thu Jun 4 16:29:25 2009 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:29:25 -0000 Subject: [DL] Job ad: Scientific Employee In-Reply-To: <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> Message-ID: <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> Dear All, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck is currently seeking candidates for the position: Scientific Employee More Information on the job and application procedure can be found at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public_prod/owa/karriereportal.karriere_detail?asg_id_in=5649 Best Regards, HR STI Innsbruck Technikerstra?e 21a 6020 Innsbruck Austria Tel.+435125076484 From carsten at itu.dk Wed Jun 10 04:37:39 2009 From: carsten at itu.dk (Carsten Schuermann) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:37:39 -0000 Subject: [DL] CADE-22 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <4A2F19B0.50205@itu.dk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CADE-22 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2-7, 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: - Student awards: 16 June 2009 - Early Registration: 25 June 2009 PROGRAMME: The conference features - 3 invited talks - 32 contributed papers of which 5 are system papers - the presentation of the Herbrand Award to Deepak Kapur - a two-day programme of workshops, tutorials and meetings - 2 system competitions INVITED TALKS: - Konstantin Korovin (The University of Manchester) Instantiation-Based Automated Reasoning: From Theory to Practice - Martin Rinard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Integrated Reasoning and Proof Choice Point Selection in the Jahob System - Mechanisms for Program Survival - Mark Stickel (SRI International) Building Theorem Provers WORKSHOPS: - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability (ADDCT) and The International Workshop on Unification (UNIF) - Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP) - Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants (MLPA) - Proof Search in Type Theories (PSTT) - Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) TUTORIALS: - Hierarchical and Modular Reasoning in Complex Theories with Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans - Probabilistic Analysis Using a Theorem Prover with Osman Hasan and Sofiene Tahar - Precise, Automated and Scalable Verification of Systems Software Using SMT Solvers with Shuvendu K. Lahiri and Shaz Qadeer - Logics with Undefinedness with William M. Farmer SYSTEM COMPETITIONS: - The CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) - Satisfiability Modulo Theories Competition (SMT-COMP) MEETINGS: - The 6th TPTP Tea Party SOCIAL EVENTS: - Welcome reception at the McCord Museum of Canadian History - Squash tournament at McGill Sports Centre - Walking or biking tour excursion through Old Montreal - Conference banquet at the elegant Pointe-?-Calli?re, Montreal's Museum of Archeology and History at the Old Port MONTREAL: Montreal is an bustling, cosmopolitan and affordable city with a charming Francophone culture. It is easily accessible from the US, Europe and world-wide with direct flights to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport (YUL) from all major cities. REGISTRATION: On-line registration is now open at: https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/registration/2009/cade/ The early registration deadline is June 25. Please refer to the conference website for registration, accommodation, travel and visa information. STUDENT AWARDS: Travel awards are available to enable selected students to attend the conference. Please refer to the conference website for details. The application deadline is June 16. SPONSORS: CADE-22 is supported by o The McGill School of Computer Science o McGill University Faculty of Science o Microsoft Research ORGANIZERS: o PC Chair: Renate Schmidt (The University of Manchester) o Conference Chair: Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) o Workshop & Tutorial Chair: Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa) o Publicity Chair: Carsten Sch?rmann (IT-Universitetet i K?benhavn) o Local Organizers: Maja Frydrychowicz (McGill University) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) We look forward to seeing you in Montreal! From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Wed Jun 10 11:15:18 2009 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:15:18 -0000 Subject: [DL] CPF IWOD 2009: 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics Message-ID: Call For Papers 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD 2009) "Ontology Evolution in Practice" http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/iwod/iwod2009 The goal of the 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics is to bring together researchers and students working on the fields of ontology evolution, revision and versioning, as well as people from the industry conducting activities (applications, case-studies) that involve the dynamic aspects of ontologies. Following the success of the two previous workshops, IWOD is quickly becoming the core annual event to discuss advances in the broad area of ontology dynamics, and to track recent work directly or indirectly related to the problem of evolving ontologies. During this year's workshop, we will place special emphasis on applications and systems relying on and supporting ontology dynamics by making "Ontology Evolution in Practice" the theme of the workshop. Alongside the general track, papers can be submitted to a special track on case studies in order to specifically encourage the submission of application papers. Topics We welcome submissions on all topics related to ontology dynamics, including (but not restricted to) the following topics: * Ontology evolution * Ontology versioning * Formal aspects of ontology dynamics * Foundational issues * Language extensions for evolution * Belief revision for ontologies * Inconsistency in evolving ontologies * Change propagation in ontologies * Ontologies for dynamic environments * Dynamic knowledge building, and use * Engineering evolvable ontologies * Requirements for ontology evolution * Case studies in ontology evolution * Tools to support ontology evolution * Application with dynamic ontologies * Open problems In addition, the theme of this year's workshop is "Ontology Evolution in Practice". We want to encourage the submission of case study papers, describing either applications with specific needs for support on the ontology evolution process or systems providing concrete solutions to problems related to the dynamic aspects of ontologies. Workshop Venue and Format The workshop will take place at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington, DC., as part of the ISWC 2009 conference (http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org). IWOD 2009 will be a half-day workshop, and will consist of two tracks (general track and case study track) with long and short presentations. The organization of a panel or general discussion session prior to the closing of the workshop will be sought. Submission Guidelines All submissions should be submitted in pdf format and should be formatted according to the LNCS Springer format (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0). The size limits are 14 pages for long papers and 6 pages for short papers. The titles of papers submitted to the case study track should start with "Case Study: ". All papers should be submitted through the easychair system ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwod2009 ) by Friday August 14 2009. Important Dates Submission deadline: August 14, 2009 Acceptance notification: September 7, 2009 Camera-ready deadline: September 21, 2009 Organizing Committee Grigoris Antoniou (co-chair, FORTH, Greece) Mathieu d'Aquin (co-chair, The Open University, United Kingdom) Dimitris Plexousakis (FORTH, Greece) PC co-chair Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) PC co-chair Giorgos Flouris (FORTH, Greece) Tentative Program Committee The following individuals have confirmed their interest in contributing to this workshop as members of the PC: * Grigoris Antoniou * Mathieu d'Aquin * Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles * Alex Borgida * James Delgrande * Giorgos Flouris * Peter Haase * Zhisheng Huang * Thomas Meyer * Marcio Moretto Ribeiro * Jeff Z. Pan * Dimitris Plexousakis * Guilin Qi * Marta Sabou * Renata Wassermann From kwuida at gmail.com Thu Jun 18 08:38:49 2009 From: kwuida at gmail.com (Leonard Kwuida) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:38:49 -0000 Subject: [DL] International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis 2010, March 15 - 18, 2010, Agadir, Morocco. CFP In-Reply-To: <4053f32e0906172322h2b6cfd62ydb1b9433d9d09d31@mail.gmail.com> References: <4053f32e0906172322h2b6cfd62ydb1b9433d9d09d31@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4053f32e0906172338n273ea5adkec1516d98fdca4ba@mail.gmail.com> 8th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 2010) March 15 - 18, 2010, Agadir, Morocco http://w3.uqo.ca/icfca10 Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since then Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a growing research eld in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and an increasing number of applications in information and knowledge processing including vizualisation, data mining and analysis, and knowledge management. The conference aims to unify theoretical and applied practitioners using Formal Concept Analysis drawing from the fields of Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences, Software Engineering, as well as diverse application domains such as Linguistics or Life Sciences. Other aspects are welcome as well. Possible topics include: FCA theory Conceptual Knowledge Processing Concept Graphs Lattice Drawing Association Rules Algorithms FCA and Software Engineering Lattice Theory Data Analysis FCA and Data Mining FCA and Logic Philosophical Foundations *Submission Details* We call for submissions on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted in PDF or Postscript format. Manuscripts should be prepared in LaTeX, using Springer style. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by October 2, 2009. Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. *Important Dates:* Submission of abstract: October 2, 2009 Submission of full paper: October 8, 2009 Notification of acceptance: November 26, 2009 Camera ready due: December 18, 2009 Conference: March 15-18, 2010 *Conference Organization* *Conference Chair:* Rokia Missaoui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada *Program Chairs:* L?onard Kwuida, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada Baris Sertkaya, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany *Local Arrangement Chair:* Ameur Boujenoui, University of Ottawa, Canada *Editorial Board:* Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia Sebastien Ferr?, Universit? de Rennes 1, France Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany Robert Godin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Raoul Medina, LIMOS, Universit? Clermont-Ferrand 2, France Rokia Missaoui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Uta Priss, Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Karl Erich Wolff , University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany * Program Committee:* Mike Bain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Jaume Baixeries, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada Peter Becker, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Radim Belohlavek, Binghamton University - State University of New York, USA Sadok Ben Yahia, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia Jean-Francois Boulicaut, INSA Lyon, France Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy Frithjof Dau, SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Universit? Paris 6, France Alain G?ly, Universit? Paul Verlaine, Metz, France Joachim Hereth, DMC GmbH, Germany Wolfgang Hesse, Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany Derrick G. Kourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa Markus Kr?tzsch, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland L?onard Kwuida, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada Wilfried Lex, Universit?t Clausthal, Germany Christian Lindig, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, Germany Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont Ferrand 2, France Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont Ferrand 2, France Jean-Marc Petit, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France Alex Pogel, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA Sandor Radeleczki, University of Miskolc, Hungary Camille Roth, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France J?rg Schmid, Universit?t Bern, Switzerland Selma Strahringer, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada Vilem Vychodil, Binghamton University - State University of New York, USA Serhyi Yevtushenko, Luxoft, Ukraine *Organization Committee:* Souad Bennani, ISIAM, Agadir, Morocco Ameur Boujenoui, University of Ottawa, Canada Lahcen Boumedjout, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais, Canada Aziz Bouslikhane, ISIAM, Agadir, Morocco -- Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais D?partement d'informatique et d'ing?nierie Laboratoire Larim Pavillon Lucien-Brault A2300 101, rue Saint-Jean-Bosco Gatineau (Qu?bec) Canada, J8X 3X7 http://kwuida.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de Thu Jun 18 10:14:42 2009 From: thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de (Thorsten Liebig) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:14:42 -0000 Subject: [DL] CFP: 5th Int. WS on Scalable SW Knowledge Bases (SSWS 2008) Message-ID: <4A39F75E.5070607@uni-ulm.de> *************************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested *************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS FIFTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCALABLE SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS (SSWS2009) http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~yug2/ssws09/home.htm At the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2009), Washington, DC USA, October 25-29, 2009 http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/ *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The series of SSWS workshops aim at creating a forum for discussing a critical issue for the Semantic Web, that is, scalability. As the Semantic Web evolves, scalability becomes increasingly important. This workshop will focus on addressing the scalability issue with respect to the development and deployment of knowledge base systems on the Semantic Web. Typically, such systems deal with information described in Semantic Web languages like OWL and RDF(S), and provide services such as storing, reasoning, querying and debugging. There are two basic requirements for these systems. First, they have to satisfy the application's semantic requirements by providing sufficient reasoning support. Second, they must scale well in order to be of practical use. Given the sheer size and distributed nature of the Semantic Web, these requirements impose additional challenges beyond those addressed by earlier knowledge base systems. This has been well recognized by the community as demonstrated by the excitement around the billion triples challenge. We expect that the above issue is going to challenge the Semantic Web for a long period of time and significant effort is needed in order to tackle the problem. This half day workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners to share their recent ideas and progresses towards building scalable knowledge base systems for the Semantic Web. The workshop will be centered on the discussion of three major aspects: 1) foundations, methods and technologies for pushing forward the state-of-the-art; 2) performance evaluation and related principles, methodologies and tools; 3) identification of important issues and future research directions. Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Semantic Web repositories * Reasoning mechanisms, techniques and systems * Query evaluation and optimization * Performance evaluation and benchmarks * Distributed knowledge base systems and P2P systems * Large scale knowledge base management * Semantic Web-based information integration We expect that the outcome of the workshop will benefit not only Semantic Web developers but also Semantic Web evaluators and end users. We also welcome participants from related disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Information Integration. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline July 31, 2009 Acceptance Notification August 30, 2009 Camera Ready Papers Due October 2, 2009 Workshop Day (half day) October 25 or 26 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Achille Fokoue IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA (Contact Person) Yuanbo Guo Microsoft Corp, USA Thorsten Liebig Ulm University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ian Horrocks - University of Oxford, UK Bijan Parsia - University of Manchester, UK Pascal Hitzler - University of Karlsruhe, Germany York Sure - University of Koblenz, Germany Kavitha Srinivas - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Takahira Yamaguchi - Keio University, Japan Ra?l Garc?a Castro - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Aditya Kalyanpur - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Volker Haarslev - Concordia University, Canada Boris Motik - University of Oxford, UK Oscar Corcho - University of Manchester, UK Ralf M?ller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Marko Luther - DOCOMO Eurolabs Munich, Germany Andy Seaborne - Hewlett-Packard, UK Jan Wielemaker - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands From q.reul at abdn.ac.uk Fri Jun 19 12:45:39 2009 From: q.reul at abdn.ac.uk (Reul, Q. H.) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:45:39 -0000 Subject: [DL] (no subject) Message-ID: <368BCC0389016643A64607A155C5A94E588739842A@VMAILB.uoa.abdn.ac.uk> Dear List, I used to use FaCT++ on Windows and it worked once I moved the dll file in the right directory. I'm trying to do the same on a MacBook and I have issues. I use the latest version of the FaCT++ jar file (i.e. 1.3) with the FaCT++ OWL 1.1 jar file. I have moved the libFaCTPlusPlusJNI.jnilib and FaCT++.Server into /System/Library/Java/Extensions but I have an error when running see below: FaCT++.Kernel: Reasoner for the SROIQ(D) Description Logic Copyright (C) Dmitry V. Tsarkov, 2002-2009. Version 1.3.0 (29 May 2009) Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Luk/ac/manchester/cs/factplusplus/AxiomPointer; at uk.ac.manchester.cs.factplusplus.FaCTPlusPlus.tellSubClassOf(Native Method) at uk.ac.manchester.cs.factplusplus.owlapi.AxiomLoader.visit(AxiomLoader.java:66) at uk.ac.manchester.cs.owl.OWLSubClassAxiomImpl.accept(OWLSubClassAxiomImpl.java:75) at uk.ac.manchester.cs.factplusplus.owlapi.OntologyLoader.loadOntologies(OntologyLoader.java:61) I have received the solution from Dimitry as follows: Axioms are new to the 1.3.0 version, so you need to have the the correspondent OWL API version. You can get it from http://code.google.com/p/factplusplus/downloads/detail?name=FaCTpp-OWLAPI-v1.3.0.1.jar&can=2&q=#makechanges . Kind regards, Quentin Reul The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. From carsten at itu.dk Mon Jun 22 12:52:12 2009 From: carsten at itu.dk (Carsten Schuermann) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:52:12 -0000 Subject: [DL] CADE-22 - Second Call for Participation Message-ID: <4A3F5F7E.5020000@itu.dk> SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CADE-22 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2-7, 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ PLEASE REGISTER NOW! The deadline for affordable hotel-style university accommodation is this week Thursday and the early registration deadline is coming Monday. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: - Hotel-style University 25 June 2009 (3 days from now) accommodation - Early Registration 30 June 2009 (8 days from now) CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. PROGRAMME: The conference features - 3 invited talks - 32 contributed papers of which 5 are system papers - the presentation of the Herbrand Award to Deepak Kapur - a two-day programme of workshops, tutorials and meetings - 2 system competitions INVITED TALKS: - Konstantin Korovin (The University of Manchester) Instantiation-Based Automated Reasoning: From Theory to Practice - Martin Rinard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Integrated Reasoning and Proof Choice Point Selection in the Jahob System - Mechanisms for Program Survival - Mark Stickel (SRI International) Building Theorem Provers WORKSHOPS: - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability (ADDCT) and The International Workshop on Unification (UNIF) - Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP) - Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants (MLPA) - Proof Search in Type Theories (PSTT) - Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) TUTORIALS: - Hierarchical and Modular Reasoning in Complex Theories with Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans - Probabilistic Analysis Using a Theorem Prover with Osman Hasan and Sofiene Tahar - Precise, Automated and Scalable Verification of Systems Software Using SMT Solvers with Shuvendu K. Lahiri and Shaz Qadeer - Logics with Undefinedness with William M. Farmer SYSTEM COMPETITIONS: - The CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) - Satisfiability Modulo Theories Competition (SMT-COMP) MEETINGS: - The 6th TPTP Tea Party SOCIAL EVENTS: - Welcome reception at the McCord Museum of Canadian History - Squash tournament at McGill Sports Centre - Walking or biking tour excursion through Old Montreal - Conference banquet at the elegant Pointe-?-Calli?re, Montreal's Museum of Archeology and History at the Old Port MONTREAL: Montreal is an exciting, cosmopolitan and affordable city with a charming Francophone culture. It is easily accessible from the US, Europe and world-wide with direct flights to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport (YUL) from all major cities. REGISTRATION: On-line registration is open at: http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ The early registration deadline is 30 June 2009. ACCOMMODATION: It is possible to reserve affordable single or shared rooms in McGill's New Residence building, which is a hotel-style university accommodation close to the conference venue and down-town Montreal. Bookings can be made using the on-line registration page. For this the deadline is Thursday, 25 June 2009. Note that this is earlier than the early registration deadline. FURTHER INFORMATION: Please refer to the conference website for further information on registration, accommodation, travel and the conference. SPONSORS: CADE-22 is supported by o The McGill School of Computer Science o McGill University Faculty of Science o Microsoft Research ORGANIZERS: o PC Chair: Renate Schmidt (The University of Manchester) o Conference Chair: Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) o Workshop & Tutorial Chair: Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa) o Publicity Chair: Carsten Sch?rmann (IT-Universitetet i K?benhavn) o Local Organizers: Maja Frydrychowicz (McGill University) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) We look forward to seeing you in Montreal! From grail.devel at gmail.com Tue Jun 23 11:15:30 2009 From: grail.devel at gmail.com (Richard Moot) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:15:30 -0000 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2009 - Final Call for Participation Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------- ESSLLI Monday, 20 July -- Friday, 31 July 2009 Bordeaux, France Program - Final Call for Participation ------------------------------------------------- *Registration deadline approaching*: 1st of July 2009 The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. *** Registration *** Registration fees are 350 euros for master's/PhD student and 500 euros for other partipants. Registration closes on July the 1st. On-site registration will not be possible. You can register online at our website. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/reg.php *Registration deadline*: 1st of July 2009 *** Program *** * Evening Lecturers * - Anne Abeille (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Universite Paris 7) - Nick Chater (University College London) - Bruno Courcelle (LaBRI, Universite de Bordeaux) - Yiannis N. Moschovakis (University of California, Los Angeles) * First Week * (20 - 24th of July, 2009) 9:15 - 10:45 * Non-deterministic Multi-valued Logics - Arnon Avron and Beata Konikowska (Introductory course, Logic and Computation) * Introduction to Abstract Categorial Grammars: Foundations and main properties - Philippe de Groote and Sylvain Salvati (Introductory course, Language and Logic) * An introduction to minimalist grammars - Greg Kobele and Jens Michaelis (Advanced course, Language and Computation) * Ontology Modelling Languages - Markus Kroetzsch and Sebastian Rudolph (Foundational course, Logic and Computation) * The Logic of Sense and Reference - Reinhard Muskens (Foundational course, Language and Logic) * The mental lexicon, blueprint of the dictionaries of tomorrow: linguistic, computational and psychological aspects of a highly valuable resource - Michael Zock (Introductory course, Language and Computation) 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 * How to do things with words: Speech Acts in Linguistics, Philosophy and Computation - Regine Eckardt and Magda Schwager(Advanced course, Language and Logic) * Temporal logics for specification and verification - Valentin Goranko (Introductory course, Logic and Computation) * Logics of individual and collective intentionality - Andreas Herzig and Emiliano Lorini (Introductory course, Logic and Computation) * Quotation and the semantics of speech reports - Emar Maier (Introductory course, Language and Logic) * Grammaticality Judgements as Linguistic Evidence - Brian Murphy (Introductory course, Language and Computation) * The Foundations of Statistics: A Simulation-Based Approach - Shravan Vasishth (Foundational course, Language and Computation) Lunch Break 14:15 - 15:45 * Logical Methods for Social Concepts - Andreas Herzig and Emiliano Lorini (Workshop, Logic and Computation) * Game semantics and its applications - Andrzej Murawski (Advanced course, Logic and Computation) * Parsing with Categorial Grammars - Gerald Penn (Workshop, Language and Computation) * Reasoning in complex theories and applications - Viorica Sofronie- Stokkermans (Advanced course, Logic and Computation) * Focus, Focus Interpretation, and Focus Sensitivity - Malte Zimmermann and Daniel Hole (Introductory course, Language and Logic) * Plurality and distributivity across language(s) and logic(s) - Eytan Zweig and George Tsoulas (Advanced course, Language and Logic) 15:45 - 17:15 Student Session 17:15 - 18:45 * Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Discourse - Nicolas Asher (Advanced course, Language and Logic) * Logicality and Invariance - Denis Bonnay (Introductory course, Language and Logic) * Games, Action and Social Software - Jan van Eijck and Rineke Verbrugge (Introductory course, Logic and Computation) * Vagueness in Communication - Manfred Krifka (Workshop, Language and Logic) * Computational Psycholinguistics - Roger Levy (Advanced course, Language and Computation) * Structures and Deduction 2009 - Michel Parigot and Lutz Strassburger (Workshop, Logic and Computation) * Week-End * (25 - 26th of July, 2009) 14th conference on Formal Grammar - FG 2009 * Second Week * (27 - 31st of July, 2009) 9:15 - 10:45 * Ontologies: Structuring, Modularity and Heterogeneity - Stefano Borgo and Oliver Kutz (Advanced course, Logic and Computation) * Meaning Composition: Empricial Problems and Formal Solutions - Louise McNally (Foundational course, Language and Logic) * Logics of Rational Agency (Pacuit) * Psycho-computational issues in Morphology Learning and Processing - Vito Pirrelli (Advanced course, Language and Computation) * Standard XML query languages for natural language processing - Ulrich Schaefer (Introductory course, Language and Computation) * Topics in the Semantics of Interrogative Clauses - Benjamin Spector and Marta Abrusan (Introductory course, Language and Logic) 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 * Computational Lexical Semantics - Gemma Boleda and Stefan Evert (Introductory course, Language and Computation) * Case, Scrambling and Default Word Order - Miriam Butt and Heike Zinsmeister (Foundational course, Language and Computation) * Event Semantics and Adverbial Modification - Berit Gehrke and Boban Arsenijevic (Introductory course, Language and Logic) * Reasoning with Probabilities - Eric Pacuit and Joshua Sack (Advanced course, Logic and Computation) * Logics with Counting - Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Advanced course, Logic and Computation) * Proof-Theoretic Semantics - Peter Schroeder-Heister (Advanced course, Language and Logic) 12:30 - 14:15 Lunch Break 14:15 - 15:45 * Dynamic Logics for Interactive Belief Revision - Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets (Advanced course, Logic and Computation) * Advances in Abstract Categorial Grammars: Language theory and linguistic modeling - Makoto Kanazawa and Sylvain Pogodalla (Advanced course, Language and Logic) * Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning: An introduction to an emerging interdisciplinary field - Detmar Meurers (Introductory course, Language and Computation) * Linguistic Information Visualization - Gerald Penn and Sheelagh Carpendale (Advanced course, Language and Computation) * New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition - Daniel Rothschild and Nathan Klinedinst (Workshop, Language and Logic) * Syntax and Semantics from an Algebraic Perspective - Edward Stabler and Edward Keenan (Introductory course, Language and Logic) 15:45 - 17:15 Student Session 17:15 - 18:45 * Logics and Agent Programming Languages - Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan (Introductory course, Logic and Computation) * Formal approaches to sign languages - Carlo Cecchetto and Carlo Geraci (Workshop, Language and Logic) * Distributional Semantic Models - Theory and Empirical Results - Stefan Evert and Alessandro Lenci (Advanced course, Language and Computation) * Referent Systems - Udo Klein and Markus Kracht (Advanced course, Language and Logic) * Corpus-Based Argument Structure - Adam Przepiorkowski (Introductory course, Language and Computation) * Explanation in Ontology Languages - Bijan Parsia and Thomas Schneider (Introductory course, Logic and Computation) *** Further Information *** The website for ESSLLI 2009 can be found at: http://esslli2009.labri.fr From dtr at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Wed Jun 24 17:54:53 2009 From: dtr at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Tran Thanh) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:54:53 -0000 Subject: [DL] [CFP] JWS special issue on Semantic Search Message-ID: <006201c9f4e4$134f6160$39ee2420$@uni-karlsruhe.de> -------------------------------------------------------- Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message -------------------------------------------------------- First call for papers for a JWS special issue on Semantic Search Yong Yu and Rudi Studer are editing a special issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on "Semantic Search" that will appear in the summer 2010. Semantic technologies, namely expressive ontology and resource description languages, scalable repositories, reasoning engines and information extraction techniques are now in a mature state such that they can be applied to enable a higher level of semantic underpinning in real?world Information Retrieval (IR) systems. This application of semantic technologies to IR tasks is typically referred to as Semantic Search. Challenges on this way include (i) identifying tasks and paradigms for semantic search systems, (ii) devising expressive annotation frameworks as well as scalable algorithms and infrastructures, (iii) investigating innovative query paradigms for semantic search systems, and (iv) applying machine learning and information extraction techniques in the context of semantic search. This special issue shall covers interdisciplinary topics between Semantic Web and search. These include but are not limited to: . Information retrieval tasks on the Semantic Web . Incentives and interaction paradigms for resource annotation . Interaction paradigms for semantic search . Semantic technologies for query interpretation, refinement and routing . Modeling expressive resource descriptions . natural language processing and information extractions for the acquisition of resource descriptions . Scalable repositories and infrastructures for semantic search . Crawling, storing and indexing of expressive resource descriptions . fusion of semantic search results on the Semantic Web . Algorithms for matching expressive queries and resource descriptions . Algorithms and procedure to deal with vagueness, incompleteness and inconsistencies in semantic search . Evaluation methodologies for semantic search . Standard datasets and benchmarks for semantic search We solicit contributions to tackle the above mentioned challenges, as well as reports on novel applications with the potential to push semantic search practical. Submission guidelines The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific contributions of high quality. Following the overall mission of the journal, we emphasize the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative semantic methods and applications. The publication of large-scale experiments and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate scenarios and methods that introduce semantics into existing Web interfaces, contents and services. Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in accordance with instructions given in the JWS Guide for Authors. The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's Web-based EES system. Final decisions of accepted papers will be approved by an editor in chief. About the Journal of Web Semantics The Journal of Web Semantics is published by Elsevier since 2003. It is an interdisciplinary journal based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of a knowledge-intensive and intelligent service Web. These areas include: knowledge technologies, ontology, agents, databases and the semantic grid, obviously disciplines like information retrieval, language technology, human-computer interaction and knowledge discovery are of major relevance as well. All aspects of the Semantic Web development are covered. Editors-in-Chief: Tim Finin, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Steffen Staab For all editors information, see http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/671322/edito rialboard The Journal of Web Semantics offers to its authors and readers: . Free availability of papers on the Web at http://www.semanticwebjournal.org/ . Professional support with publishing by Elsevier staff . Indexed by Thomson-Reuters web of science . Impact factor 3.41: the third highest out of 92 titles in Thomson-Reuters' category "Computer Science, Information Systems" Important Dates . Papers due Jan 20, 2010 . Reviews due March 14, 2010 . Notification due March 20, 2010 . Final Revisions by April 16, 2010 . Publication July 2010 Contact Information For any further questions regarding the special issue (appropriateness of your contribution, editorial issues, etc.), please feel free to contact the guest editors: . Yong Yu (yyu at apex sjtu edu cn) . Rudi Studer (studer at aifb uni-karlsruhe de) From ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk Thu Jun 25 16:54:20 2009 From: ian.horrocks at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Horrocks) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:54:20 -0000 Subject: [DL] W3C Invites Implementation of OWL 2 Message-ID: <43E8D52D-643F-4361-BBD9-E3074D94641C@comlab.ox.ac.uk> The OWL Working Group [1] invites implementation of its OWL 2 Web Ontology Language. OWL 2 is a compatible extension to OWL 1 [2], providing additional features as well as computationally tractable profiles (sub-languages). The OWL 2 technical specification comprises 9 documents, and there are a further 4 instructional documents. For descriptions and links to all the documents, see the OWL 2 Documentation Roadmap [3]. The technical specification documents are now Candidate Recommendations, indicating that the Working Group and the W3C Director believe this is a good time for systems to begin adopting OWL 2 features on an experimental basis. The group maintains a list of implementations [4], a test suite [5], and a list of the test results achieved by different reasoners [6]. The group welcomes new information about implementations and other feedback -- please send information and or comments to . The 4 instructional documents, which provide an introduction to OWL 2, are now at Last Call: overview , primer , new features and rationale, and quick reference. Finally, a new datatype used within both OWL and RIF, called rdf:PlainLiteral (formerly called rdf:text) is also a Candidate Recommendation. Comments on these documents are also welcome and should again be sent to . [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/OWL_Working_Group [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-features-20040210/ [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-overview/#Documentation_Roadmap [4] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Implementations [5] http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/projects/owltests/index.php/ OWL_2_Test_Cases [6] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Test_Suite_Status From claudia.damato at di.uniba.it Wed Jul 1 09:37:56 2009 From: claudia.damato at di.uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:37:56 -0000 Subject: [DL] CFP: 5th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web Message-ID: <4A4B1243.3010609@di.uniba.it> ---------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------- 5th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2009 In conjunction with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference Washington, D.C. - USA October 26, 2009 You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October of 2009 at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington, D.C., USA. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty is extremely limited. Recently, there has been a groundswell of demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers. This surge of interest creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but little history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. Audience The intended audience for this workshop includes the following ? Researchers in uncertainty reasoning technologies with interest in Semantic Web and Web-related technologies. ? Semantic web developers and researchers. ? People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web. ? Ontology researchers and ontological engineers. ? Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web. ? Developers of tools designed to support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Prot?g? and Prot?g?-OWL developers. Topic List We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. ? Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web languages to enable representation of uncertainty ? Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web languages ? Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts ? Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping ? Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies ? The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web ? Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web ? The role of uncertainty as it relates to Web services ? Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among Web services ? Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web ? Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web ? Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty ? The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web Important Dates August 10, 2009 Paper submissions due September 2, 2009 Paper acceptance notification September 30, 2008 Camera-ready papers due October 20, 2009 Presentations due October 26, 2008 5th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web Submission Details The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2009 Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop. Submissions to the Workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop?s submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2009. Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2009. For complete details, see Springer?s Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0). Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2009 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. Presentation and Publication URSW 2009 will be a half-day workshop divided into three sessions. Two of those sessions will be devoted to paper presentations, while the remaining session will be planned in a format that invites an open debate on the results, conclusions, recommendations, and follow-up work of the URSW-XG group. We also plan to convey a work meeting after the workshop, in case the last session need to be extended. All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after the Conference. Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 10-minute slot to share their ideas. In addition, both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2009 Conference. Program Committee The program committee is as follows (in alphabetical order): ? Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain. ? Silvia Calegari - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. ? Rommel Carvalho - George Mason University, USA. ? Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA. ? Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. ? Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy. ? Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy. ? Marcelo Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil. ? Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA. ? Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA. Member of the W3C Advisory Board. ? Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK. ? Anders L. Madsen - Hugin Expert A/S, Denmark. ? Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK. ? Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK. ? Jeff Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK. ? Yung Peng - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. ? Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA. ? Livia Predoiu - Universit?t Mannheim, Germany. ? Guilin Qi - University of Karlsruhe, Germany. ? Carlos Henrique Ribeiro - Instituto Tecnol?gico de Aeron?utica, Brazil. ? Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK. ? Daniel S?nchez - University of Granada, Spain. ? Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. ? Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. ? Giorgos Stoilos - National Technical University of Athens, Greece. ? Umberto Straccia - Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell' Informazione "A. Faedo", Italy. ? Andreas Tolke - Old Dominion University, USA. ? Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech Republic. ? Johanna Voelker - University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Organizing Committee The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order): ? ? Fernando Bobillo - University of Granada, Spain. ? ? Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA. ? ? Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy. ? ? Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy. ? ? Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA. ? ? Ken Laskey ? MITRE Corporation, USA. ? ? Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK. ? ? Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK. ? ? Matthias Nickles - Technical University of Munich, Germany. ? ? Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA. ? ? Pavel Smrz - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. We are looking forward to seeing you in D.C.! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Confirmation of the funding, as well as details on how to apply will be found at http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/wiki/index.php/ISWC_2009_Student_Fellowships. Last year's student fellows made significant contributions to the conference, and we look forward to this year's fellows being similarly engaged. In selecting applications for travel support, preference will be given to students selected to participate in the doctoral consortium, followed by students who are first author on a paper accepted at the conference, followed by students who have other authorship on a conference or workshop paper. Applications are due August 21, with notification of success by Sept. 7. Questions should be directed to iswc09_fellowships at cs.umbc.edu . From hoekstra at uva.nl Fri Jul 3 11:28:21 2009 From: hoekstra at uva.nl (Rinke Hoekstra) Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:28:21 -0000 Subject: [DL] OWLED 2009 -- Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <8AB7ABF8-4518-4A00-A5E0-A66A7234D228@uva.nl> (sincere apologies for cross posting) ***** Call for Papers ***** OWLED 2009 OWL: Experiences and Directions The Sixth International Workshop October 23-24th, Chantilly, Virginia, USA Co-located with ISWC 2009 and RR 2009 http://www.webont.org/owled/2009/ --- *Important dates* July 24th 2009 Titles and Abstract due July 31st 2009 Paper Submissions due September 1st 2009 Paper acceptances sent out October 9th 2009 Camera ready versions of papers due October 23-24th 2009 OWLED 2009 Workshop iCal calendar at [1] --- *About the Workshop* The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has been a W3C recommendation since 2004, and specification of its successor OWL 2 is being finalised. OWL plays an important role in an increasing number and range of applications and as experience using the language grows, new ideas for further extending its reach continue to be proposed. 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 and modifications. The workshop will bring users, implementors and researchers together to measure the state of need against the state of the art, and to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications. This year's 2009 OWLED workshop will be co-located with the Eighth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), and the Third International Conference on WEb Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2009) this year held in Chantilly, VA, USA on October 23 - 24, 2008. The workshop will concentrate on issues related to the development and W3C standardization of OWL 2, and beyond, but other issues related to OWL are also of interest, particularly those related to the task forces set up at OWLED 2007. As usual, the workshop will try to encourage participants to work together and will give space for discussions on various topics, to be decided and published at some point in the future. We ask participants to have a look at these topics and the accepted submissions before the workshop, and to prepare single "slides" that can be presented during these discussions. There will also be formal presentation of submissions to the workshop. More information on the workshop is forthcoming. For more information, or to offer sponsorship, please send us a note at owled2009 at easychair.org . --- *Topics* The workshop will have a special emphasis on the new features brought by OWL 2, its profiles, and topics related to the OWLED Task Forces. Papers related to either of these, including reports from the task forces, are particularly welcome. Papers about all aspects of OWL and extensions, application, theory, method, and tools, are welcome at the workshop; including but not limited to the following topics: * Applications of OWL, particularly from industry * Combinations of OWL with other Semantic Web efforts, particularly o RIF, o SKOS, and o linked data. * Ontologies built using OWL, particularly large scale efforts * Application driven requirements for OWL * Experience reports on using OWL * Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages * Performance and scalability issues * Bridges between knowledge engineering and OWL * Non-standard inference services, including: o explanations, o static verification, o modularity * Enriching ontologies with rules * Query answering and data integration * Tools for OWL, including: o editors, o visualisation tools, o parsers and syntax checkers, o versioning frameworks, * Extensions to OWL, including: o extended datatype constructors, property constructors, o class constructors, o keys, constraints, rules, o probabilistic and fuzzy extensions, non-monotonic extensions, o temporal and spatial extensions, --- *Submissions* We invite the submission of three kinds of papers: - Technical papers Technical papers can be up to 10 pages, LNCS style, can be submitted to the workshop and space will be reserved for authors of accepted papers. - Short system descriptions We welcome systems demonstrations and invite interested parties to submit a short description (maximum 4 pages) of their system. - Statements of interest These statements will not received full reviewing and might not be included in the archives of the workshop, but will be available to attendees of the workshop, and will be used to help schedule the workshop. Potential attendees who need official invitations to the workshop should submit at least such short statement of interest (maximum 4 pages). --- *General* Accepted papers will be made available to attendees before the workshop. There will be open registration for the workshop. Attendees who are not submitting a technical paper are encouraged to submit a statement of interest. All statements of interest and papers must be submitted online using the conference submission website Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=owled2009 All submissions must be in PDF. All submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS): http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html --- *People* Program Chair * Rinke Hoekstra, University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) Local Organizer * Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) Program Committee * Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic (USA) * Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester (UK) * Sebastian Brandt, University of Manchester (UK) * Jeremy Carroll, TopQuadrant (USA) * Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, University of Oxford (UK) * Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) * Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (USA) * Achille Fokoue, IBM Watson Research Center (USA) * Andrew Gibson, Universiteit van Amsterdam (The Netherlands) * Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh (UK) * Glen Hart, Ordnance Survey (UK) * Tom Heath, Talis (UK) * Szymon Klarman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) * Martin Knechtel, SAP Research CEC Dresden (Germany) * Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR Demokritos (Greece) * Markus Kroetzsch, Universit?t Karlsruhe (Germany) * Oliver Kutz, Universit?t Bremen (Germany) * Thorsten Liebig, Universit?t Ulm (Germany) * Chimezie Ogbuji, Cleveland Clinic (USA) * Ignazio Palmisano, University of Liverpool (UK) * Antonella Poggi, Universit? di Roma "La Sapienza" (Italy) * Valentina Presutti, ISTC/CNR (Italy) * Michael Schneider, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe (Germany) * Michael Smith, Clark & Parsia (USA) * Alex Tucker, FLOOP (UK) * Tania Tudorache, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BIR) (USA) * Zhe Wu, Oracle (USA) Steering Committee * Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia (USA) * Melanie Courtot, Terry Fox Laboratory (Canada) * Michel Dumontier, Carleton University (Canada) * John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK) * Pascal Hitzler, AIFB Karlsruhe (Germany) * Ian Horrocks, Oxford University (UK) * Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) * Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons (USA) [1] http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/gsa73mfjfr5is439djvbvhvv6c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics --- Drs Rinke Hoekstra Leibniz Center for Law | AI Department Faculty of Law | Faculty of Sciences Universiteit van Amsterdam | Vrije Universiteit Kloveniersburgwal 48 | De Boelelaan 1081a 1012 CX Amsterdam | 1081 HV Amsterdam +31-(0)20-5253499 | +31-(0)20-5987752 hoekstra at uva.nl | hoekstra at few.vu.nl Homepage: http://www.leibnizcenter.org/users/rinke From boris.motik at comlab.ox.ac.uk Tue Jul 7 00:24:57 2009 From: boris.motik at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Boris Motik) Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:24:57 -0000 Subject: [DL] DL 2009: Final Call for Participation Message-ID: 22nd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2009) FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Oxford, United Kingdom 27-30 July 2009 http://dl.kr.org/dl2009/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community -- it is the forum at which those interested in description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and compare experiences. The workshop programme will include three talks by eminent invited speakers, as well as 34 oral and 24 poster presentations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh, UK * Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, USA * Rajeev Gore, The Australian National University, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information about registration, travel information, accommodation, and so on is available on the DL 2009 homepage: http://dl.kr.org/dl2009/ * Enquiries about the DL 2009 workshop can be made by contacting the organizing committee: dl2009 at easychair.org * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ From fulinyun at apex.sjtu.edu.cn Tue Jul 7 09:03:02 2009 From: fulinyun at apex.sjtu.edu.cn (Linyun Fu) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:03:02 -0000 Subject: [DL] ASWC 2009 Call for Papers References: <5F4B4B8741A935419EAA0C808D0B86B02BEE51@zeus.apexlab.org> <5F4B4B8741A935419EAA0C808D0B86B02BEE52@zeus.apexlab.org> <5F4B4B8741A935419EAA0C808D0B86B02BEE53@zeus.apexlab.org> <5F4B4B8741A935419EAA0C808D0B86B02BEE54@zeus.apexlab.org> <5F4B4B8741A935419EAA0C808D0B86B02BEE55@zeus.apexlab.org> Message-ID: <5F4B4B8741A935419EAA0C808D0B86B02BEE56@zeus.apexlab.org> Apologies for cross-postings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference 2009 (ASWC 2009) Shanghai, China, 6th-9th December 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A number of prominent members of the Semantic Web community are now beginning to claim that the Semantic Web has arrived. Semantic Web search engines now index tens of thousands of ontologies and the term 'Semantic Web' regularly appears in the mainstream news and culture. Additionally, the number of Semantic Web events attracting several hundred attendees grows larger every year and industrial interest includes the majority of the large software and service companies. The 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) will present the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It will bring together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling, logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. ASWC 2009 will include a Research Track, a Semantic Web in Use Track, a Poster and Demonstration Track. ASWC 2009 also encourages the submission of proposals for workshops and tutorials. Submissions Paper Submission page: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=aswc2009 The Research Track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, empirical and application-related aspects of the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web in Use Track solicits the submission of innovative and practical application papers which take into account real-world requirements. All papers should clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web - fully taking into account aspects related to both semantics and the Web. The proceedings of ASWC 2009 will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing will be electronic via the conference submission site. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Topics include but are not limited to the following: Semantic Web Technologies Query Languages and Optimization for the Semantic Web Rule Languages, Logics and Scalable Reasoning on the Semantic Web Tools and Methodologies for Large Scale Semantic Web Data Management Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web Semantic Web Content Creation Database Technologies for the Semantic Web Semantic Web Services Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Services (description, discovery, invocation, composition, choreography) Semantic Descriptions of Enterprise Processes Semantics Applied to Mashups and Adhoc Service Aggregations Semantic Web Applications Applications of Semantic Web (e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e-Government, e-Learning, e-Culture) Case Studies of Semantic Web Applications Personalization and User Modeling Semantics in P2P Computing and the Grid Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management Semantic Web, Multimedia, and Human Computer Interaction Social Semantic Web Semantic Web and Social Networks and Processes Semantic Web Technologies for Collaboration and Cooperation Trust, Provenance, Security, Privacy, Identity and the Semantic Web Ontologies Ontology Modeling Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation) Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation Ontology Searching and Ranking ***Important Dates*** 27 July 2009 Paper Submission 10 September 2009 Notification of Acceptance 3 October 2009 Camera Ready 6-9 December 2009 Conference in Shanghai, China Organizing Committee Conference Chairs: James A. Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Ruqian Lu?Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Program Committee Chairs: Yong Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Asuncion Gomez Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA Local Organizing Chairs: Xuanjing Huang, Fudan University Xiangyang Xue, Fudan University Contact us: Web Site: http://www.aswc2009.org/ E-mail: aswc2009 at gmail.com Best Regards, Linyun Fu ASWC 2009 Conference Assistant -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Carlos.Areces at loria.fr Tue Jul 7 11:11:50 2009 From: Carlos.Areces at loria.fr (Carlos.Areces at loria.fr) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:11:50 -0000 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2010: Call for Course and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <20090707111128.13875wzmmbi4js5c@webmail.loria.fr> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 22nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2010, 9-20 August, 2010, University of Copenhagen, Denmark %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. For more information, visit the FoLLI website, as well as ESSLLI?2009 website: http://esslli2009.labri.fr/. The ESSLLI 2010 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 22nd annual Summer School on important topics of active research in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science, and the cognitive sciences, structured within the 3 traditional ESSLLI streams: -Language and Computation -Language and Logic -Logic and Computation We also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these categories. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: All proposals should be submitted, using a prescribed form that will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2010 website www.hum.ku.dk/esslli2010, through EasyChair on http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2010, not later than ******* Monday, September 7, 2009 ******* Proposers must hold PhD or equivalent degrees and should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that do not conform with these guidelines may not be considered. GUIDELINES FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: ALL COURSES: Courses are given over one week (Monday-Friday) and consist of five 90 minutes sessions, one per day. Course proposals should give a brief overview of the topic and a tentative content and structure of the course, as well as state the course?s objectives and clearly specify prerequisites, if any. Lecturers who want to offer a long, two-week course, should submit two independent one-week courses (for example an introductory course in the first week of ESSLLI, and a more advanced course during the second). The ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of the two proposed courses. TIMETABLE FOR COURSE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Sep 7, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline Oct 19, 2009: Notification Deadline Jun 30, 2010: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material by the ESSLLI?2010 local organizers FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are strictly elementary courses not assuming any background knowledge. They are intended for people who wish to get acquainted with the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses should require no special prerequisites, but may presuppose some experience with scientific methods and general appreciation of the field of the course. INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are intended to provide an introduction to the (interdisciplinary) field for students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to equip them with a good understanding of the course field's basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable experienced researchers from other fields to acquire the key competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and Computation, can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared to standard texts in the area (if any). ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or PhD students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. WORKSHOPS: Workshops run over one week and consist of five 90-minutes sessions, one per day. The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work. Workshops should have a well defined theme, and workshop organizers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop. The proposals for workshops should justify the choice of topic, give an estimate of the number of attendants and expected submissions, and provide a list of at least 15 potential submitters working in the field of the workshop. The organizers are required to give a general introduction to the theme during the first session of the workshop. They are also responsible for the organization and program of the workshop including inviting the submission of papers, reviewing, expenses of invited speakers, etc. In particular, each workshop organizer will be responsible for sending out a Call for Papers for the workshop and to organize the selection of the submissions by the deadlines specified below. The call for workshop submissions must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community and should indicate that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. TIMETABLE FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: Sep 7, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline Oct 19, 2009: Notification Deadline Nov 02, 2009: Deadline for submission of the Calls for Papers to ESSLLI?2010 PC chair Nov 09, 2009: Workshop organizers send out First Call for Papers Jan 25, 2010: Workshop organizers send out Second Call for Papers Mar 08, 2010: Workshop organizers send out Third Call for Papers Apr 12, 2010: Suggested deadline for submissions to the workshops May 24, 2010: Suggested deadline for notification of workshop contributors Jun 30, 2010: Deadline for submission of camera-ready copy of workshop proceedings to the ESSLLI?2010 Local Organizers. Notice that workshop speakers will be required to register for the Summer School; however, they will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined by the Local Organizers. FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS: A form for submitting course and workshop proposals will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2010 website www.hum.ku.dk/esslli2010. The proposers are required to submit the following information: * Name(s) of proposing lecturer(s)/ workshop organizer(s), at most two per course or workshop * Contact addresses, homepages, phones, and fax numbers (if available), of proposing lecturer(s)/ workshop organizer(s); * Title of proposed course/workshop; * Type (workshop, foundational, introductory, or advanced course) * Stream (one of: Language & Computation, Language & Logic, Logic & Computation) * Description (in at most 300 words, provide justification, relevance to ESSLLI, proposed contents and structure of the courses, resp. expected participation in the workshops) * External funding (whether the proposers will be able to obtain external funding for travel and accommodation expenses) * Further particulars (any further information that is required by the above guidelines should be included here; in particular, course objectives and prerequisites, as well as the lecturers teaching experience relevant to the proposed course, and generally in the interdisciplinary field scope of ESSLLI.) FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Prospective lecturers and workshop organizers should be aware that all teaching and organizing at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible. Lecturers and organizers are not paid for their contribution, but are reimbursed for travel and accommodation (up to fixed maximum amounts, that will be communicated to the lecturers upon notification). It should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the School cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs, especially from destinations outside Europe. Please note that in case a course or workshop is to be taught/organized by two lecturers, a lump sum will be reimbursed to cover travel and accommodation expenses for one lecturer; the splitting of that sum is up to the lecturers. The local organizers would highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses, as that would help us keep the cost of attending ESSLLI?2010 lower. ESSLLI 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chair: Valentin Goranko (Technical Univ. of Denmark) Area Specialists: Language and Computation: Walter Daelemans (Univ. of Antwerp) Sabine Schulte im Walde (Univ. of Stuttgart) Language and Logic: Yoad Winter (Utrecht Univ.) Raffaella Bernardi (Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano) Logic and Computation: Anuj Dawar (Univ. of Cambridge) Ken Shan (State Univ. of New Jersey, Rutgers) ESSLLI 2010 Program Committee dedicated email account: esslli2010 at gmail.com ESSLLI 2010 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Chair: Vincent Hendricks (University of Copenhagen) Organizing Manager: Rasmus Rendsvig ESSLLI 2010 website: www.hum.ku.dk/esslli2010 From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Jul 8 09:20:46 2009 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:20:46 -0000 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: ISWC'09 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2009) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2009) http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/ October 25, 2009, ISWC'09 Workshop Program, Fairfax, near Washington DC., USA 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. 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 and data translation. 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) 2009 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/ This year's OAEI campaign introduces two new tracks about oriented alignments and about instance matching (a timely topic for the linked data community). 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. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business cases for matching; Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Large-scale ontology matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; Uncertainty in ontology matching; 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 dynamic applications (e.g., peer-to-peer, web-services). 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 2009 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html Posters/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: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20090 Contributors to the OAEI 2009 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS: August 11, 2009: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 6, 2009: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 2, 2009: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 25, 2009: OM-2009, Westfields Conference Center, Fairfax, near Washington DC., USA. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany 5. Natasha Noy Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, USA 6. Arnon Rosenthal The MITRE Corporation, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yuan An, Drexel University, USA Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM, France Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA Jingshan Huang, University of South Alabama, USA Wei Hu, Southeast University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, University of Muenster, Germany Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Bin He, IBM, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy Enzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Luca Mion, TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Labs, Germany Fran?ois Scharffe, INRIA, France Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy York Sure, University of Koblenz, Germany Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, PAT, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Rui Zhang, University of Trento, Italy Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2009 flyer: http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2009_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.infotn.it/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please forward to interested colleagues and mailing lists. ==================================================================== K-CAP 2009 The 5th International Conference on Knowledge Capture 1-4 September, 2009 Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, California, USA http://kcap09.stanford.edu DEADLINES APPROACHING: ------------------------------------- Early registration deadline: July 15, 2009 (6 days from now) Discounted hotel reservation: August 2, 2009 INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------------- Professor Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) Professor Daniel Weld (University of Washington) ==================================================================== In today's knowledge-driven world, effective access to and use of information is a key enabler for progress. Modern technologies not only are themselves knowledge-intensive technologies, but also produce enormous amounts of new information that we must process and aggregate. These technologies require knowledge capture, which involve the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse sources of information as well as its acquisition directly from users. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Web, the study of knowledge capture has a renewed importance. Researchers that work in the area of knowledge capture traditionally belong to several distinct research communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and the Semantic Web. K-CAP 2009 will provide a forum that brings together members of disparate research communities that are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing. We solicit high-quality research papers for publication and presentation at our conference. Our aim is to promote multidisciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. K-CAP 2009 follows on the success of four previous conferences in 2007 (Whistler, Canada), in 2005 (Banff, Canada), in 2003 (Florida, USA), and 2001 (Victoria, Canada). The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2009 will feature Invited Talks, Technical Papers, Workshops, Posters and Demos on a range of topics including: * Knowledge acquisition tools * Authoring tools * Knowledge extraction systems * Knowledge management environments * Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition * Learning apprentices * Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools * Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge * Knowledge-based markup techniques * Advice taking systems * Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies ABOUT THE VENUE The conference will be held in the beautiful Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, which is only 7 miles (11.2 km) away from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The location is only steps from the Redondo Beach and the bike path that runs along the South Bay in Los Angeles. Also within walking distance is a marina that offers opportunities for fishing, sailing, and free outdoor concerts. The marina has many restaurants, a water park, and seal flocks. K-CAP 2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Yolanda Gil, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Program Chair: Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany Technology Chair: Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA From veronica at cs.sfu.ca Sat Jul 11 00:31:45 2009 From: veronica at cs.sfu.ca (Veronica Dahl) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:31:45 -0000 Subject: [DL] Call for ICLP'10 Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <4A57B41A.5080406@cs.sfu.ca> Dear all, (Sorry for any duplicate postings) Please find attached a call for workshop proposals in FLoC10, including ICLP's which I chair. Please consider putting together a proposal- it will be a wonderful event to attend! Submission deadline: July 31 (if you need more time please let me know). N.B. Our workshops within FLoC10 can be very general things: they can be tutorials or demos or traditional workshops or have survey talks by experts or some combination of these. They can be "mini conferences" with published call for papers, or very informal get-togethers by experts. Many thanks for considering this call, and for circulating it as well among potentially interested colleagues. Best regards, Veronica Dahl -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: FLoC10.CFW.txt URL: From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Wed Jul 15 11:23:53 2009 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:23:53 -0000 Subject: [DL] CPF IWOD 2009: 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics Message-ID: Call For Papers 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD 2009) "Ontology Evolution in Practice" http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/iwod/iwod2009 The goal of the 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics is to bring together researchers and students working on the fields of ontology evolution, revision and versioning, as well as people from the industry conducting activities (applications, case-studies) that involve the dynamic aspects of ontologies. Following the success of the two previous workshops, IWOD is quickly becoming the core annual event to discuss advances in the broad area of ontology dynamics, and to track recent work directly or indirectly related to the problem of evolving ontologies. During this year's workshop, we will place special emphasis on applications and systems relying on and supporting ontology dynamics by making "Ontology Evolution in Practice" the theme of the workshop. Alongside the general track, papers can be submitted to a special track on case studies in order to specifically encourage the submission of application papers. Topics We welcome submissions on all topics related to ontology dynamics, including (but not restricted to) the following topics: * Ontology evolution * Ontology versioning * Formal aspects of ontology dynamics * Foundational issues * Language extensions for evolution * Belief revision for ontologies * Inconsistency in evolving ontologies * Change propagation in ontologies * Ontologies for dynamic environments * Dynamic knowledge building, and use * Engineering evolvable ontologies * Requirements for ontology evolution * Case studies in ontology evolution * Tools to support ontology evolution * Application with dynamic ontologies * Open problems In addition, the theme of this year's workshop is "Ontology Evolution in Practice". We want to encourage the submission of case study papers, describing either applications with specific needs for support on the ontology evolution process or systems providing concrete solutions to problems related to the dynamic aspects of ontologies. Workshop Venue and Format The workshop will take place at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington, DC., as part of the ISWC 2009 conference (http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org). IWOD 2009 will be a half-day workshop, and will consist of two tracks (general track and case study track) with long and short presentations. The organization of a panel or general discussion session prior to the closing of the workshop will be sought. Submission Guidelines All submissions should be submitted in pdf format and should be formatted according to the LNCS Springer format (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0). The size limits are 14 pages for long papers and 6 pages for short papers. The titles of papers submitted to the case study track should start with "Case Study: ". All papers should be submitted through the easychair system ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwod2009 ) by Friday August 14 2009. Important Dates Submission deadline: August 14, 2009 Acceptance notification: September 7, 2009 Camera-ready deadline: September 21, 2009 Organizing Committee Grigoris Antoniou (co-chair, FORTH, Greece) Mathieu d'Aquin (co-chair, The Open University, United Kingdom) Dimitris Plexousakis (FORTH, Greece) PC co-chair Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) PC co-chair Giorgos Flouris (FORTH, Greece) Tentative Program Committee The following individuals have confirmed their interest in contributing to this workshop as members of the PC: * Grigoris Antoniou * Mathieu d'Aquin * Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles * Alex Borgida * James Delgrande * Giorgos Flouris * Peter Haase * Zhisheng Huang * Thomas Meyer * Marcio Moretto Ribeiro * Jeff Z. Pan * Dimitris Plexousakis * Guilin Qi * Marta Sabou * Renata Wassermann From schweika.floc at googlemail.com Thu Jul 16 05:49:32 2009 From: schweika.floc at googlemail.com (Nicole Schweikardt) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:49:32 -0000 Subject: [DL] FLoC 2010: Final Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: THE 2010 FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLoC 2010) Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., July 9-21, 2010 http://www.floc-conference.org FINAL CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (proposals are due by July 31, 2009) * The fifth Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'10), will be 9-21 July, 2010 hosted by the University of Edinburgh. The following seven conferences will participate in FLoC: - International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV). Workshop Chair: Tomas Vojnar . - International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP). Workshop Chair: Veronica Dahl . - International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR). Workshop Chair: Aaron Stump . - International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP). Workshop Chair: Michael Norrish . - IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS). Workshop Co-Chairs: Adriana Compagnoni and Maribel Fernandez . - International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA). Workshop Chair: Christopher A. Lynch . - International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT). Workshop Chair: Carsten Sinz . * The organizers have made arrangements to facilitate the running of pre-, post-, and mid-FLoC workshops. Each workshop will have its own registration, with uniform FLoC workshop fees. It is not necessary to register for FLoC in order to attend workshops. Meeting rooms and accommodations will be reserved by the university in the center of Edinburgh. - Pre-FLoC workshops: Friday & Saturday, July 9-10 - Mid-FLoC workshops: Wednesday & Thursday, July 14-15 - Post-FLoC workshops: Tuesday & Wednesday, July 20-21. * Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on topics relating logic, broadly understood, applied to computer science. Each workshop proposal must indicate one sponsoring conference among the participating conferences. (It is suggested that prospective workshop organizers contact the relevant conference Workshop Chair before submitting a proposal.) Workshops will have to be financially self-supporting, unless the sponsoring conference accepts financial responsibility. The FLoC Organizing Committee will determine the final list of accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop Chairs of the sponsoring conferences and subject to the availability of space and facilities. * Proposals should consist of two parts. First, a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant). A second, organizational part should include: - contact information of the workshop organizers - proposed sponsoring conference - estimate of the audience size - proposed format and agenda (for example, demo sessions, tutorials, etc.) - potential invited speakers - procedures for selecting papers and participants - plans for dissemination, if any (for example, special issues of journals) - duration (which may vary from one day to two days) and preferred period - special technical or AV needs. * Workshops are strongly encouraged to find external financial support. This will be wholly their responsibility. Modest funding, based upon numbers of registrants, minus FLoC local expenses, will be made available to each workshop. * Proposals are due by July 31, 2009. Organizers will be notified by September 15, 2009. Proposals should be submitted electronically to EasyChair at the following address (which opens June 18, 2009): http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floc10cfw (Clearly indicate at the top of the proposal the relevant conference.) For further enquiries or information, please contact: Philip Scott (FLoC Workshop Chair) Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1N 6N5 Email: phil at site.uottawa.ca ---------------------- You are subscribed to the FLoC 2010 mailing list. To unsubscribe please send an email to majordomo at informatik.uni-frankfurt.de with the keywords unsubscribe floc2010 in the message body. From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sat Jul 18 15:39:22 2009 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:39:22 -0000 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2010 - Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <49996B30.8070701@cin.ufpe.br> References: <48FE1E64.7030401@cin.ufpe.br> <496DFF98.8070200@cin.ufpe.br> <49996B30.8070701@cin.ufpe.br> Message-ID: <4A61B795.5080508@cin.ufpe.br> (please circulate; apologies for any cross-postings)*/ WoLLIC 2010 17^th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation /* *July 6^th to 9^th , 2010 * *Universidade de Bras?lia, Bras?lia, Brazil* *Scientific Sponsorship* /Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL )/ /The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI )/ /Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL )/ /European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS )/ /Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC )/ /Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL )/ *Funding* (tbc) *Special: A screening of /I want to be a mathematician: A conversation with Paul Halmos/ * *Organisation* /Department of Mathematics , Universidade de Bras?lia , Brazil Centro de Inform?tica , Universidade Federal de Pernambuco , Brazil / ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The Seventeenth WoLLIC will be held in Bras?lia, Brazil, from July 6th to 9th, 2010. It is sponsored by theAssociation for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL). *Special Event* 2010 will mark the 50-th anniversary of the first publication of Paul Halmos' classic book /Na?ve Set Theory/ by Springer Verlag. WoLLIC will celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Halmos which was directed by George Csicsery: "I want to be a mathematician. A conversation with Paul Halmos" http://zalafilms.com/films/halmos.html *Paper submission* Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2010 EasyChair website (soon to be announced). A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 28, and the full paper by March 7 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 12, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 3 (firm date). *Proceedings* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2010, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series (TBC). In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2010 issue of a scientific journal (soon to be announced). *Invited Speakers* (tba) *Student Grants* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2010 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2010). Seehttp://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *Important Dates* # February 28, 2010: Paper title and abstract deadline # March 7, 2010: Full paper deadline (firm) # April 12, 2010: Author notification # May 3, 2010: Final version deadline (firm) *Programme Committee* *Ver?nica Becher* (Buenos Aires) *Rafaella Bernardi* (Bolzano) *Ricardo Bianconi* (S?o Paulo) *Vasco Brattka* (Cape Town) *Balder ten Cate* (ENS, Cachan) *Bob Coecke* (Oxford) *Adriana Compagnoni* (Stevens) *Marcelo Coniglio* (Campinas) *Anuj Dawar* (Cambridge), chair *Valentin Goranko* (Copenhagen) *Masahito Hasegawa* (Kyoto U, Japan) *Rosalie Iemhoff* (Utrecht) *Makoto Kanazawa* (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) *Giuseppe Longo* (CNRS & ENS, Paris) *Mike Mislove* (Tulane) *Michael Norrish* (NICTA, Canberra) *Bart Selman* (Cornell) *Scott Weinstein* (Penn) *Organising Committee* Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (U Bras?lia, Brazil) (co-chair) Fl?vio L. C. Moura (U Bras?lia, Brazil) Claudia Nalon (U Bras?lia, Brazil) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) (co-chair) *Further information* Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. *Web page* http://wollic.org/wollic2010/ Steering committee Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk Tue Jul 21 16:41:32 2009 From: jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk (Pan, Dr Jeff Z.) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:41:32 -0000 Subject: [DL] CFP: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE2009) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! ************************************************************************ * * CALL FOR PAPERS * 5th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering * (SWESE2009) * * http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~r01srt7/swese2009 * * ==INVITED SPEAKER (Prof. Abraham Bernstein)== * *******STUDENT GRANTS AVAILABLE******* * * located at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC2009 * 26th October 2009 * Virginia, United States * ************************************************************************ Workshop Description The advent of the World Wide Web has led many corporations to web-enable their business applications and to the adoption of web service standards in middleware platforms. Marking a turning point in the evolution of the Web, the Semantic Web is expected to provide more benefits to software engineering. Over the past five years there have been a number of attempts to bring together languages and tools, such as the Unified Modelling Language (UML), originally developed for Software Engineering, with Semantic Web languages such as RDF and OWL. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to investigate potential benefits. A related international standardisation activity is OMG's Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), which was formally adopted in October 2006, and finalized in December 2008. Another interesting question is how to use ontology to improve guidance and traceability in software development. It has been argued that the advantages of Semantic Web Technologies in software engineering include reusability and extensibility of data models, improvements in data quality, and discovery and automated execution of workflows. According to SETF's note "A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers" (http://www.w3.org/TR/sw-oosd-primer/), the Semantic Web can serve as a platform on which domain models can be created, shared and reused. However, are there other potential benefits in the use of Semantic Web concepts in the field of Software Engineering? Could the Web-based, semantically rich formality of OWL be combined with emerging model driven development tools such as the Eclipse Modelling Framework to provide some badly needed improvements in both the process and product of software development activities? What is it about the amalgamation of OWL, UML and MDA methodology that could make a difference? Certainly, there appear to be a number of strong arguments in favour of this approach but consensus on the best way forward, if there is indeed a way forward at all has not yet formed. This workshop seeks to build on prior events that have begun to explore and evaluate this important area. Intended Audience While the intended audience for this workshop includes those with experience or interest in Semantic Web languages and tools, it is also crucial to have participation by those with expertise in other areas such as software engineering, automatic software engineering (ASE), knowledge based software engineering (KBSE), UML/MDA, and software/legacy modernization. Topics Topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not restricted to): - Visions for Semantic Web driven software engineering - Tools developed or being developed for software engineering using SW languages - Integration or application development projects combining Software Engineering techniques and Semantic Web tools or languages - Shortcomings with the Semantic Web with respect to Software Engineering - Uses, extensions and/or issues with ODM - Visions for SW driven software modernization - Integration of UML, OO programming languages and Semantic Web languages - Integration of formal methods and Semantic Web languages - Software specification and Semantic Web languages - Ontologies for software engineering - Ontologies for requirement engineering - Ontologies for software guidance, traceability and maintenance - Component discovery and ontologies - Feature modelling and ontologies - Metamodel engineering - Ontology reasoning for software engineering - Semantic annotations in software engineering - Transitioning legacy applications to ontologies - Semantic-based intelligent assistance tools for software developers - Lessons learnt and outstanding challenges for the usage of semantic technologies in software engineering - Ontology-Driven Architecture: How to introduce Semantic Web technology into mainstream development processes Workshop Format and Attendance: This will be a half day workshop, including a keynote presentation and technical talks discussing competing and complementary visions for Semantic Web enabled software engineering. Keynote: * Prof. Abraham Bernstein, Head of Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland This workshop is open to all members of the ISWC community, as well as other communities identified in Intended Audience above, such as the Software Engineering community. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper will be given priority for registration. We encourage those who plan to attend this workshop, to register early in order to help conference organizers with their planning as well as insure that the workshop is not cancelled do to projected poor attendance. Organizing Committee Elisa F. Kendall, Sandpiper Software, Inc., USA Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK (contact) Marwan Sabbouh, The MITRE Corporation, USA Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI, Germany Yuting Zhao, University of Aberdeen, UK Program Committee * Uwe Assman (DE), Technical University of Dresden * Colin Atkinson (DE), University of Mannheim * Ken Baclawski (US), Northeastern University * Roberta Cuel (IT), University of Trento * Jin Song Dong (SG), National University of Singapore * J?rgen Ebert (DE), University of Koblenz * Andreas Friesen (DE), SAP Research * Dragan Gasevic, (CA) Simon Fraser University Surrey * Michael Goedicke (DE), University of Essen * Jakob Henriksson (US), Intelligent Automation, Inc. * Mitch Kokar (US), Northeastern University * Harald K?hn (AT), BOC * David Martin (US), SRI International * Krzysztof Miksa (PL), Comarch * Jishnu Mukerji (US), Hewlett-Packard Company * Daniel Oberle (DE), SAP Research * Fernando Silva Parreiras (DE), University of Koblenz * Yuan Ren (UK), University of Aberdeen * Dave Reynolds (UK), HP Lab * Michael K. Smith (US), Electronic Data System * Hai Wang (UK), Aston University * Andrea Zisman (UK), City University, London Submissions Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor, experience reports, and show case / use case demonstrations of effective, practical technologies or applications combining software engineering with semantic technologies. Papers must be in English and may be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swese2009 as: - Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) - Short Papers (5-8 pages in the proceedings) - Position Statements (2 pages in the proceedings) - Posters (to be presented during the workshop, with 2 page descriptions submitted via the conference site for review) Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to upload their complete papers by August 10, 2009. Publication details will be posted to the workshop web site, http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~r01srt7/swese2009, as they become available. Important Dates Submission deadline: 10 Aug 2009 Notification of acceptance: 1 Sept 2009 Final submissions due: 25 Sept 2009 Workshop proceedings available: 26 October 2009 Sponsorship The workshop is being held in cooperation with a prominent network of excellence and is meant to act as a focal point for joint interests and future collaborations. Interested sponsors are welcome to contact the program committee. Current sponsors include: - The EU MOST Project, http://www.most-project.eu/ Scholarships We have a limited number of student grants available, funded our workshop sponsors. We invite students to apply for this grant by Sept 30, 2009. Applications should include a statement of interest (i.e. what you bring to and expect to get from SWESE), a brief CV, a scan of a student ID or other evidence of professional status, and a letter of support from their supervisor. Any interested student can apply. Please send your application to Yuting Zhao (yuting.zhao at adbn.ac.uk) by Sept 30, 2009. The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. From hoekstra at uva.nl Wed Jul 22 10:59:22 2009 From: hoekstra at uva.nl (Rinke Hoekstra) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:59:22 -0000 Subject: [DL] OWLED 2009 -- Deadlines Approaching Message-ID: <94C4A474-5E1F-4AC3-ADAE-942571F898D4@uva.nl> (sincere apologies for cross posting) ***** OWLED 2009 -- Deadlines Approaching ***** OWL: Experiences and Directions The Sixth International Workshop October 23-24th, Chantilly, Virginia, USA Co-located with ISWC 2009 and RR 2009 http://www.webont.org/owled/2009/ --- *Important dates* July 24th 2009 Titles and Abstract due July 31st 2009 Paper Submissions due September 1st 2009 Paper acceptances sent out October 9th 2009 Camera ready versions of papers due October 23-24th 2009 OWLED 2009 Workshop iCal calendar at [1] [1] http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/gsa73mfjfr5is439djvbvhvv6c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics --- Drs Rinke Hoekstra Leibniz Center for Law | AI Department Faculty of Law | Faculty of Sciences Universiteit van Amsterdam | Vrije Universiteit Kloveniersburgwal 48 | De Boelelaan 1081a 1012 CX Amsterdam | 1081 HV Amsterdam +31-(0)20-5253499 | +31-(0)20-5987752 hoekstra at uva.nl | hoekstra at few.vu.nl Homepage: http://www.leibnizcenter.org/users/rinke From hoekstra at uva.nl Thu Jul 23 18:04:45 2009 From: hoekstra at uva.nl (Rinke Hoekstra) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:04:45 -0000 Subject: [DL] OWLED 2009 -- Deadline Extension Message-ID: (sincere apologies for cross posting) ***** OWLED 2009 -- Deadline Extension ***** After numerous requests, deadlines for OWLED have been extended with one week. See new submission dates below. http://www.webont.org/owled/2009/ --- *Important dates* July 31st 2009 Titles and Abstract due August 7th 2009 Paper Submissions due September 1st 2009 Paper acceptances sent out October 9th 2009 Camera ready versions of papers due October 23-24th 2009 OWLED 2009 Workshop iCal calendar at [1] [1] http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/gsa73mfjfr5is439djvbvhvv6c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics --- Drs Rinke Hoekstra Leibniz Center for Law | AI Department Faculty of Law | Faculty of Sciences Universiteit van Amsterdam | Vrije Universiteit Kloveniersburgwal 48 | De Boelelaan 1081a 1012 CX Amsterdam | 1081 HV Amsterdam +31-(0)20-5253499 | +31-(0)20-5987752 hoekstra at uva.nl | hoekstra at few.vu.nl Homepage: http://www.leibnizcenter.org/users/rinke From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue Jul 28 08:31:58 2009 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:31:58 -0000 Subject: [DL] Final CFP: ISWC'09 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2009) Message-ID: <56D0C2F03E984E53A5C93DEBEF61C23C@ITN96946> Apologies for cross-postings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: submission deadline is approaching: 15 days left ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2009) http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/ October 25, 2009, ISWC'09 Workshop Program, Chantilly, near Washington DC., USA 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. 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 and data translation. 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) 2009 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/ This year's OAEI campaign introduces two new tracks about oriented alignments and about instance matching (a timely topic for the linked data community). 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. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business cases for matching; Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Large-scale ontology matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; Uncertainty in ontology matching; 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 dynamic applications (e.g., peer-to-peer, web-services). 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 2009 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html Posters/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: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20090 Contributors to the OAEI 2009 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS: August 11, 2009: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 6, 2009: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 2, 2009: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 25, 2009: OM-2009, Westfields Conference Center, Chantilly, near Washington DC., USA. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany 5. Natasha Noy Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, USA 6. Arnon Rosenthal The MITRE Corporation, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yuan An, Drexel University, USA Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM, France Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA Jingshan Huang, University of South Alabama, USA Wei Hu, Southeast University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, University of Muenster, Germany Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Bin He, IBM, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Luca Mion, TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Labs, Germany Fran?ois Scharffe, INRIA, France Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy York Sure, University of Koblenz, Germany Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, PAT, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Rui Zhang, University of Trento, Italy Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2009 flyer: http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2009_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.infotn.it/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rseba at disi.unitn.it Wed Jul 29 16:05:56 2009 From: rseba at disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:05:56 -0000 Subject: [DL] FroCoS'09: Call for Participation Message-ID: <20090729140541.GA8977@disi.unitn.it> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!! FROCOS'09 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN !!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!! EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE: August 28th, 2009 !!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Call for Participation 7th International Symposium on FRONTIERS OF COMBINING SYSTEMS (FroCoS?09) Conference Center "Panorama" Trento, Italy, September 16-18th, 2009 http://events.unitn.it/en/frocos09/ MOTIVATIONS In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. In order to be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and they must be integrated into general purpose systems. The development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems has been initiated in many areas. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FROCOS) traditionally focuses on this type of research questions and activities and aims at promoting progress in the field. Like its predecessors, FROCOS?09 wants to offer a common forum for research activities in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems (with emphasis on logic-based ones), and of their practical use. INVITED SPEAKERS & ACCEPTED PAPERS (See http://events.unitn.it/en/frocos09/accepted-and-invited-papers.) There will be 19 presentations of refereed papers, plus four long presentations from the following invited speakers: * Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy * Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, Austria * Boris Motik, Oxford University, UK * Ashish Tiwari, SRI International, USA REGISTRATION (See http://events.unitn.it/en/frocos09/accepted-and-invited-papers.) Registration is open at http://events.unitn.it/en/frocos09/. Fees: Early (before August 28th): 300EU Late (after August 28th): 400EU The fees includes VAT, and cover registration, LNAI conference proceedings, coffee breaks, lunches, the social dinner and the social events. It does not cover the hotel expenses. ACCOMODATION (See http://events.unitn.it/en/frocos09/travel-and-accommodation) A limited number of cheap and nice rooms are available at the conference site, the Conference Center "Panorama", on a first-come-first-served basis (so please book as soon as possible). Special room rates for conference participants have been negotiated with some hotels in downtown Trento. IMPORTANT: ANY QUESTION ABOUT REGISTRATION AND ACCOMODATION SHOULD BE SENT TO "convegni at unitn.it" AND *NOT* TO THE CHAIRS. TRAVELLING (See http://events.unitn.it/en/frocos09/travel-and-accommodation) Trento can be reached by train or car from Verona (nearest), Venice, Milan, Innsbruck and Munich international airports. SOCIAL EVENTS Social events involve a welcome reception, a boat excursion on the Garda Lake and the social dinner, which will be held at "Ristorante Castel Toblino", a well-known restaurant located in an ancient castle on a wonderful location on lake Toblino. ABOUT TRENTO AND TRENTO AREA (See http://www.apt.trento.it/en/Home.htm) Trento is a small Reinassance town, not far from Verona and Venice, famous for the Council (1545-1563) which gave rise to the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Trento area (Trentino) is a well-known touristic and holiday area. CHAIRS - Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano, Italy - Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Franz Baader, T.U. Dresden, Germany - Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Camberra, Australia - Torben Brauner, Roskilde University, DK - Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA - Bernhard Gramlich, T.U. Wien, Austria - Sava Krstic, Intel Corporation, USA - Viktor Kuncak, E.P.F. Lausanne, Switzerland - Albert Oliveras, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain - Silvio Ranise, University of Verona, Italy - Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, Nancy, France - Ulrike Sattler, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Renate Schmidt, Univ. of Manchester, UK - Luciano Serafini, FBK-Irst, Italy - Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbruken, Germany - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK - Michael Zakharyaschev, London Knowledge Lab, UK SPONSORS FroCos 2009 gratefully aknowledges the support from Rettorato and Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione of Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Universita` degli Studi di Trento, and Microsoft Research. Silvio Ghilardi and Roberto Sebastiani FroCoS 2009 chairs From Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au Thu Jul 30 02:58:04 2009 From: Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au (Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:58:04 -0000 Subject: [DL] CFP: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) Message-ID: 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) 1 December 2009 Held in Conjunction with the 22nd Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09) University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~aow2009 AOW 2009 is the fifth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The proceedings of the four previous workshops were published as volumes in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and this will again be the case for AOW 2009. As with the previous workshops, we are investigating the possibility of extended versions of selected papers appearing in a special issue of a suitable journal. Submission information such as format etc. can be found on the CRPIT website: http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. The page limit is 10 pages. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 25 September 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 23 October 2009 Camera-ready copies due: 13 November 2009 AOW 2009: 1 December 2009 Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow2009 This year AOW 2009 will have a best paper award, with a prize of $250(AUD) being awarded to the author(s) of the best paper. Workshop Chairs: Thomas Meyer Meraka Institute, South Africa tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Kerry Taylor CSIRO ICT Centre Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au Program Committee: Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) Arina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA) R. Cenk Erdur (Ege University, Turkey) Aurona Gerber (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia) Bo Hu (SAP Research, UK) Ken Kaneiwa (NICT, Japan) Marijke Keet (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Kevin Lee (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK) Lars Moench (University of Hagen, Germany) Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia) Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Nwe Ni Tun (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Ivan Varcinczak (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia) More to be added... From ulle.endriss at uva.nl Fri Jul 31 11:46:52 2009 From: ulle.endriss at uva.nl (Ulle Endriss) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:46:52 -0000 Subject: [DL] ECAI-2010: 1st Call for Workshop Proposals (deadline: 11 December 2009) Message-ID: <4A72BD76.6040202@uva.nl> [Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting.] ###################################################################### ## ECAI-2010 ## 1st Call for Workshop Proposals ## ECAI-2010 ## ###################################################################### The Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 16-20 August 2010 ## Lisbon, Portugal http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ Deadline for workshop proposals: 11 December 2009 ###################################################################### ## INTRODUCTION ## ###################################################################### The nineteenth biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2010) will take place on 16-10 August 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal. We invite proposals for workshops to be held during the first two days of the conference. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a central topic in contemporary computer science and informatics. The fruits of fifty years of AI research have benefited application domains as disparate as industrial systems control and medicine. The milestone events in AI research are increasingly regarded as milestones in human scientific and technological development: from the first chess playing program to defeat a reigning world champion under standard chess tournament rules, to the first robot to autonomously traverse 150 miles of rough terrain. Techniques, results, and concepts developed under the banner of AI research have proved to be of fundamental importance in areas such as economics, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and logical analysis. And of course, AI remains a topic of perennial fascination in popular culture. Initiated in 1974, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe's premier archival venue for presenting scientific results in AI. Organised by the European Coordinating Committee for AI (ECCAI), the ECAI conference provides an opportunity for researchers to present and hear about the very best research in contemporary AI. As well as a full programme of technical papers, ECAI-2010 will include the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems conference (PAIS), the Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS), and an extensive programme of workshops, tutorials, and invited speakers. ECAI-2010 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Lisbon, Portugal. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy, Lisbon promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference. ###################################################################### ## WORKSHOPS @ ECAI-2010 ## ###################################################################### Workshop proposals by all members of the international AI community are welcome. There is no restriction regarding topics, as long as there is clear relevance to ECAI. Most workshops will follow the classical format of presentations of peer-reviewed papers followed by discussion, but other formats (e.g., AI competitions) and entirely new ideas are also welcome. Whatever the format, all workshops should be interactive events and ample time should be allocated to discussion. The typical duration for a workshop is one full day, but two-day workshops can also be accommodated. If you are considering to propose a workshop or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the ECAI-2010 Workshop Chair, Ulle Endriss (ulle.endriss at uva.nl). ###################################################################### ## IMPORTANT DATES ## ###################################################################### 11 Dec 2009: workshop proposals due (early submissions are welcome!) 15 Jan 2010: workshop proposal notifications sent 29 Jan 2010: all workshop websites to be operational 29 Jan 2010: 1st call for papers to be posted for all workshops 1 Feb 2010: announcement of ECAI-2010 workshop programme 7 May 2010: workshop paper submission deadline (suggestion) 7 Jun 2010: notifications on workshop paper submissions (suggestion) 1 Jul 2010: workshop proceedings to be sent to workshop chair The paper submission and notification deadlines are suggestions only. However, the paper deadline must be after the ECAI notification date (30 April 2010) and the notifications must be sent before the ECAI early registration deadline (15 June 2010). ###################################################################### ## HOW TO PROPOSE A WORKSHOP ## ###################################################################### Please submit your proposal as a single PDF file via Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecai2010ws Each proposal should include the following information: (1) Title of the workshop (and acronym). (2) Names, affiliations, and contact details of the organisers (please indicate a primary contact person to whom correspondence should be directed). (3) Short description: What is the topic of the workshop? What is the format (peer-reviewed papers, poster sessions, invited talks, panels, competitions, ...)? (4) History of this workshop and related events: Is this the first workshop of its kind or is this part of a series? What are the most closely related workshops or similar events that have taken place over the past three years? What other closely related events will take place in 2010 (as far as you know)? (5) Size: How many people do you expect to attend? How many papers (or posters, competition entries, ...) do you expect to be submitted? What are your estimates based on? If applicable, please indicate attendance/submission numbers for previous editions. (6) Duration: 1 or 2 days (this can be revised later on if required). (7) Experience of the organisers: Please briefly argue why you are the right people to organise this workshop (scientific standing, previous events organised, ...). (8) Draft of the Call for Papers: This should include a description of the scientific goals of the workshop, the target audience, the topics to be covered, the reviewing process (if applicable), and a tentative list of Programme Committee members (please indicate who has already given their consent to serve on the PC). (9) Anything else that you feel is important! ###################################################################### ## FURTHER INFORMATION FOR WORKSHOP ORGANISERS ## ###################################################################### Proceedings: Informal proceedings will be printed by the ECAI-2010 local organisers. The workshop organisers should deliver a single PDF with the proceedings by the deadline. The default expectation is that proceedings will be no more than 200 pages, but exceptions (e.g., in case of large workshops) are possible. Please contact the workshop chair early on to request any such extensions. Registration: To avoid misunderstandings, please note that all workshop participants, including the organisers, are required to register for both the workshop and the main conference. However, we can arrange for a free workshop (not conference) registration for an invited speaker or similar. Cancellations: Please understand that we may have to cancel a workshop if not enough participants register or if deadlines are not met. ###################################################################### -- Ulle Endriss http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/ Institute for Logic, Language & Computation (ILLC) University of Amsterdam Tel: +31 (0)20 525 6511 Postbus 94242 Fax: +31 (0)20 525 5206 1090 GE Amsterdam (NL) Email: u.endriss at uva.nl From mjw at liverpool.ac.uk Fri Jul 31 16:28:29 2009 From: mjw at liverpool.ac.uk (Michael Wooldridge) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:28:29 -0000 Subject: [DL] CfP: ECAI-2010 Message-ID: <84B39BDD-0AE8-4531-B6F9-8F4012255E6C@liv.ac.uk> ###################################################################### ## ECAI-2010 ## Preliminary Call for Papers ## ECAI-2010 ## ###################################################################### The Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 16-20 August 2010 ## Lisbon, Portugal http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 February 2010 Deadline for submission of full papers: 22 February 2010 ###################################################################### ## INTRODUCTION ## ###################################################################### The ECAI-2010 Programme Committee invites the submission of papers and posters for the technical programme of the nineteenth biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a central topic in contemporary computer science and informatics. The fruits of fifty years of AI research have benefited application domains as disparate as industrial systems control and medicine. The milestone events in AI research are increasingly regarded as milestones in human scientific and technological development: from the first chess playing program to defeat a reigning world champion under standard chess tournament rules, to the first robot to autonomously traverse 150 miles of rough terrain. Techniques, results, and concepts developed under the banner of AI research have proved to be of fundamental importance in areas such as economics, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and logical analysis. And of course, AI remains a topic of perennial fascination in popular culture. Initiated in 1974, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe's premier archival venue for presenting scientific results in AI. Organised by the European Coordinating Committee for AI (ECCAI), the ECAI conference provides an opportunity for researchers to present and hear about the very best research in contemporary AI. As well as a full programme of technical papers, ECAI-2010 will include the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems conference (PAIS), the Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS), and an extensive programme of workshops, tutorials, and invited speakers. (Separate calls are issued for PAIS, STAIRS, and workshops.) ECAI-2010 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Lisbon, Portugal. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy, Lisbon promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference. ###################################################################### ## TOPICS OF INTEREST ## ###################################################################### High-quality original submissions are welcome from all areas of contemporary AI; the following list of topics is indicative only. * Agents & Multiagent Systems * Case-Based Reasoning * Cognitive Modeling & Interaction * Constraints & Search * Knowledge Representation & Reasoning * Machine Learning * Model-Based Reasoning * Natural Language Processing * Perception & Sensing * Planning & Scheduling * Robotics * Uncertainty in AI * Applications of AI An extensive list of subtopics is soon going to be available at the conference website. ###################################################################### ## IMPORTANT DATES ## ###################################################################### Deadline for electronic abstracts: Monday, 15 February 2010 Paper submission deadline: Monday, 22 February 2010 Author response period: 15-16 April 2010 Notification of acceptance/rejection: Friday, 30 April 2010 Conference: 16-20 August 2010 ###################################################################### ## SUBMISSION INFORMATION ## ###################################################################### Submissions must not exceed *SIX* (6) pages in camera-ready format. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review. Papers should be submitted using the ECAI formatting style, to be available soon on the conference website (this will be very close to previous ECAI styles). Each accepted paper will be allocated six pages in the proceedings. ECAI-2010 also accepts posters. Each poster will have *TWO* (2) pages allocated in the proceedings. Posters must follow the same formatting guidelines as full papers. Authors may indicate whether they want a submitted full paper to be considered as well as a submitted poster in case of non-acceptance of the full paper. All submissions will be subject to peer review by the ECAI-2010 Programme Committee, and evaluated on the basis of: relevance; significance of contribution; technical quality; scholarship; and quality of presentation. Reviewing for ECAI-2010 will be blind: reviewers will not be presented with the identity of paper authors. To allow for blind review, author names in a submitted paper or poster should be replaced by the unique tracking number assigned by the conference website at the submission of an electronic abstract. Authors should avoid writing anything that makes their identity obvious in the text. Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously have been formally published. (As a rule of thumb, any publication venue with an ISBN or ISSN number counts as a formal publication.) Submissions should not be submitted elsewhere during the ECAI-2010 review phase. The primary authors of submitted papers will be offered the opportunity to respond to the reviews for their papers before the final decision on acceptance or otherwise is made. The author feedback phase will last two days. The proceedings of the ECAI conference, together with those of its associated symposia, PAIS and STAIRS (calls to appear soon), will be published and distributed by IOS Press as a book and as a CD-ROM. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI-2010 formatting guidelines for inclusion in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper or poster is required to attend the conference to present the contribution. ###################################################################### ## ORGANISATION ## ###################################################################### Conference chair: Helder Coelho (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Programme chair: Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) Workshop Chair: Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Local Organisation co-chairs: Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon & APPIA, Portugal) Jo?o Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Finance co-chairs: Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon & APPIA, Portugal) Jo?o Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Sponsorship co-chairs: Pedro Henriques (University of Minho & APPIA, Portugal) Paulo Novais (University of Minho & APPIA, Portugal) Printing, Publicity & Webmaster chair: Cesar Analide (University of Minho & APPIA, Portugal) Infrastructure co-chairs: Luis Correia (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Luis Moniz (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Volunteer & Student Scholarships chair: Paulo Trigo (ISEL, Portugal) Local Workshop & Tutorial chair: Paulo Urbano (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Local STAIRS & PAIS chair: Gra?a Gaspar (University of Lisbon, Portugal) ###################################################################### From schweika.floc at googlemail.com Sat Aug 1 06:37:49 2009 From: schweika.floc at googlemail.com (Nicole Schweikardt) Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:37:49 -0000 Subject: [DL] FLoC 2010: Call for Workshop Proposals - Deadline Extension Message-ID: THE 2010 FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLoC 2010) Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., July 9-21, 2010 http://www.floc-conference.org CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS - DEADLINE EXTENSION Workshop proposals can now be submitted up to Sept. 1, 2009. The original Call for Workshop Proposals is at http://www.floc-conference.org/cfw.html Organizers will be notified by October 15, 2009. Proposals should be submitted electronically to EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floc10cfw (Clearly indicate at the top of the proposal the relevant conference.) For further enquiries or information, please contact: Philip Scott (FLoC Workshop Chair) Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1N 6N5 Email: phil at site.uottawa.ca ---------------------- You are subscribed to the FLoC 2010 mailing list. To unsubscribe please send an email to majordomo at informatik.uni-frankfurt.de with the keywords unsubscribe floc2010 in the message body. From hotho at cs.uni-kassel.de Sun Aug 2 10:58:04 2009 From: hotho at cs.uni-kassel.de (Andreas Hotho) Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:58:04 -0000 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation: K-CAP 2009 The 5th Intl. Conference on Knowledge Capture Message-ID: <4A75550A.6060603@cs.uni-kassel.de> Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues and mailing lists. ==================================================================== K-CAP 2009 The 5th International Conference on Knowledge Capture 1-4 September, 2009 Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, California, USA http://kcap09.stanford.edu DEADLINES APPROACHING: ------------------------------------- Discounted hotel reservation: August 2, 2009 INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------------- Professor Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) Professor Daniel Weld (University of Washington) ==================================================================== In today's knowledge-driven world, effective access to and use of information is a key enabler for progress. Modern technologies not only are themselves knowledge-intensive technologies, but also produce enormous amounts of new information that we must process and aggregate. These technologies require knowledge capture, which involve the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse sources of information as well as its acquisition directly from users. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Web, the study of knowledge capture has a renewed importance. Researchers that work in the area of knowledge capture traditionally belong to several distinct research communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and the Semantic Web. K-CAP 2009 will provide a forum that brings together members of disparate research communities that are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing. We solicit high-quality research papers for publication and presentation at our conference. Our aim is to promote multidisciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. K-CAP 2009 follows on the success of four previous conferences in 2007 (Whistler, Canada), in 2005 (Banff, Canada), in 2003 (Florida, USA), and 2001 (Victoria, Canada). The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2009 will feature Invited Talks, Technical Papers, Workshops, Posters and Demos on a range of topics including: * Knowledge acquisition tools * Authoring tools * Knowledge extraction systems * Knowledge management environments * Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition * Learning apprentices * Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools * Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge * Knowledge-based markup techniques * Advice taking systems * Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies ABOUT THE VENUE The conference will be held in the beautiful Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, which is only 7 miles (11.2 km) away from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The location is only steps from the Redondo Beach and the bike path that runs along the South Bay in Los Angeles. Also within walking distance is a marina that offers opportunities for fishing, sailing, and free outdoor concerts. The marina has many restaurants, a water park, and seal flocks. K-CAP 2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Yolanda Gil, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Program Chair: Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany Technology Chair: Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA From jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk Sun Aug 2 18:46:52 2009 From: jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk (Jeff Z. Pan) Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:46:52 -0000 Subject: [DL] [Fwd: how to test parsers?] Message-ID: <53653.139.133.7.37.1249231591.squirrel@www.csd.abdn.ac.uk> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: how to test parsers? From: "Sandro Hawke" Date: Thu, July 30, 2009 2:46 pm To: public-owl-wg at w3.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- How does one test an OWL parser? We had some discussion about this, but I don't remember any conclusion. If anyone knows of a good solution, I'd appreciate hearing about it. For example, a test case (WebOnt-Thing-003) says: which owlapi (version 3, thanks Matthew!) converts to: which my xslt converts back to: Swapped the subject and object on equivalentClass and adding the triple { owl:Nothing a owl:Class} are fine semantically, but it sure makes it hard to automate testing. I guess one has to know the OWL semantics to know if the parser and serializer are correct. As I recall, we talked about this under the subject of parser/serializer conformance. Maybe my best bet is to make sure the two ontologies each entail each other.... Is that good enough? Is there anything simpler I can do? -- Sandro The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. From franconi at inf.unibz.it Mon Aug 3 11:26:20 2009 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:26:20 -0000 Subject: [DL] Faculty Position in Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Message-ID: <90BEC91C-9890-4646-8788-6A3537E8351A@inf.unibz.it> Faculty Position in Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano (Italy) invites applications for a Computer Science faculty position. The position is at the level of full or associate professor, starting academic year 2010/2011. The following areas of Computer Science will be considered: database systems, foundations of data- bases, data mining, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, computational logic, information search and retrieval. The Faculty of Computer Science puts a strong emphasis on foundational and applied research, on experience in the development of scalable systems, and on the co-operation with national and international research institutions and companies. Candidates should have a strong research background and a commitment to teaching excellence, and they are expected to teach both introductory and advanced courses in Computer Science; management skills and a strong record of project funding from companies and other organisations are desirable. The teaching language for the Computer Science courses is English. Salary and support are negotiable and highly competitive at the European level. Only candidates that already hold at a university outside of Italy an academic position equivalent to the one they are applying for may express interest for the position - according to the Italian law about "chiamata diretta". The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano was founded in 1997 as a free, state-recognised university. As a central-European, internationally oriented educational establishment it acts as an important bridge between the German and Italian cultural and economic spheres. Most of the teaching staff have an international professional background. The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano offers degrees in Economics and Management, Education, Design and Art, and Science and Technology. With its almost 100,000 German-speaking and Italian-speaking inhabitants, Bozen-Bolzano, as the capital of the province of Alto Adige-South Tirol, is a multilingual business and tourist centre located in a beautiful setting in the Dolomite Alps area. For more information view the web page at http://www.inf.unibz.it or contact Prof. M. B?hlen or Prof. E. Franconi . Applicants should submit a single PDF file with their curriculum vitae, including research, teaching, and organisational records, a cover letter with the specification of the position they are applying for (associate or full professor), and three references, both by email to and by regular mail to: Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Universit?tsplatz 1 39100 Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Primary consideration will be given to applications received by October 15, 2009. From joost.vennekens at cs.kuleuven.be Mon Aug 3 17:37:41 2009 From: joost.vennekens at cs.kuleuven.be (Joost Vennekens) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:37:41 -0000 Subject: [DL] CFP KR 2010 Doctoral Consortium Message-ID: <200908031511.n73FBNV0007887@brundij.cs.kuleuven.be.> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From franconi at inf.unibz.it Tue Aug 4 01:00:15 2009 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:00:15 -0000 Subject: [DL] Master's degree on "Semantic Web" - scholarships for Europeans Message-ID: <8992F111-397A-4851-9E93-C534F716641F@inf.unibz.it> *** Master's degree on "Semantic Web" - Computer Science *** http://www.semantic-web-academy.eu/msc/ The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano (FUB), in Italy (at the heart of the Dolomites mountains in South-Tyrol), is launching a Master's degree on "Semantic Web" - a curriculum part of its Master of Science in Computer Science offer. The Semantic Web and its technology are increasingly becoming a central element of many activities in computer science. The main topics of the Master's degree on "Semantic Web" are the up-to-date technologies in the Semantic Web area. The goal of the Master's degree on "Semantic Web" is to build a new generation of Semantic Web experts, and up-skill the European workforce with ideas that point to the future. Students will be prepared for a future PhD, will come in contact with the international research community, and will be integrated into ongoing research projects; in addition, students will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Students enrolled in the Semantic Web curriculum will be able to exploit synergies with the highly successful European Masters Program in Computational Logic and the European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies which are run in parallel by the Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. LAST APPLICATION DEADLINE: - 21 AUGUST 2009: last deadline *only* for EUROPEAN students; http://www.unibz.it/en/inf/progs/mcs/admission/Pre_Enrolement_Master.html SCHOLARSHIPS: European citizens can apply to scholarships which are granted purely on the basis of the yearly income of the applicant and of her/his parents or husband/wife. This scholarship may amount up to more than 6,000 EUR per academic year, plus support on the accommodation and total reimbursement of the enrolment fees. European students may also get a LLP Socrates Erasmus scholarship for the second year of study abroad, which is 330 EUR per month. The IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Rome supports scholarships of up to 2,400 EUR to work on a research project or on the thesis at their labs in Rome. The BIT Mobility Programme supports students to do their project and/or their thesis with a scholarship (up to 500? per month) at the nearby universities Leopold-Franzens Universit?t Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck - with a large expertise on Semantic Web topics) or Universit? degli Studi di Trento. THE SEMANTIC WEB: Society is moving from being information-based to knowledge-based. Work is increasingly collaborative, and business and scientific endea- vours are conducted in a global networked way. Knowledge is no longer held locally but is globally distributed. Data and information is growing exponentially in all sectors of society. Communities generate, model, augment, exchange and transform information so the information pool rapidly changes its content and structure. Most of the major scientific aims to achieve an all inclusive information society, networked business and government depend on distributed knowledge- based systems. Knowledge is the object of this Master's degree on "Semantic Web". The Master's degree on "Semantic Web" will provide the technological basis for easier and efficient knowledge creation, sharing and exploitation: technologies at the heart of the knowledge economy. Although the World Wide Web has resulted in a revolution in informa- tion exchange among computer applications, it still cannot provide easy interoperation and information exchange. In the next generation of the Web (the Semantic Web), web resources will be more readily accessible by both human and computers with the added semantic information in a machine-understandable and machine-processable fashion. In this context, knowledge in the form of ontologies plays a pivotal role by providing a source of shared and precisely defined terms that can be understood and processed by machines. THE STUDY PROGRAMME: Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Laurea) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is a curriculum part of the Master in Computer Science, and it has various strengths that make it unique amongst Italian and European universities: * Curriculum taught entirely in English: The programme is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene. * Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum. * Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities. * International student community. * Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment. * Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations. THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO: The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, founded in 1997, boasts modern premises in the centre of Bozen-Bolzano. The environment is multi- lingual, South Tyrol being a region where three languages are spoken: German, Italian and Ladin. Studying in a multilingual area has shown that our students acquire the cutting edge needed in the international business world. Many of our teaching staff hails from abroad. Normal lectures are complemented with seminars, work placements and labora- tory work, which give our students a vocational as well as theoretical training, preparing them for their subsequent professional careers. Studying at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano means, first and foremost, being guided all the way through the student's educational career. Bozen-Bolzano, due to its enviable geographical position in the centre of the Dolomites, also offers our students a multitude of opportu- nities for spending their free-time. The city unites the traditional with the modern. Young people and fashionable shops throng the city centre where ancient mercantile buildings are an attractive backdrop to a city that is in continual growth. To the south there is the industrial and manufacturing area with prosperous small and medium- sized businesses active in every economic sector. Back in the 17th century Bozen-Bolzano was already a flourishing mercantile city that, thanks to its particular geographic position, functioned as a kind of bridge between northern and southern Europe. As a multilingual town and a cultural centre Bozen-Bolzano still has a lot to offer today. Its plethora of theatres, concerts with special programmes, cinemas and museums, combined with a series of trendy night spots that create local colour make Bozen-Bolzano a city that is beginning to cater for its increasingly demanding student population. And if you fancy a very special experience, go and visit the city's favourite and most famous resident - "Oetzi", the Ice Man of Similaun, housed in his very own refrigerated room in the recently opened archaeological museum. Bozen-Bolzano and its surroundings are an El Dorado for sports lovers: jogging on the grass alongside the River Talfer-Talvera, walks to Jenesien-S.Genesio and on the nearby Schlern-Sciliar plateau, excursions and mountain climbing in the Dolomites, swimming in the numerous nearby lakes and, last but not least, skiing and snowboarding in the surrounding ski areas. FURTHER INFORMATION: For any info please write to fub at semantic-web-academy.eu Master's degree on "Semantic Web" - Computer Science Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Universit? 1 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy Phone: +39 0471 016 000 Fax: +39 0471 016 009 Email: fub at semantic-web-academy.eu Web site: http://www.semantic-web-academy.eu/msc/ From jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk Thu Aug 6 12:12:05 2009 From: jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk (Pan, Dr Jeff Z.) Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:12:05 -0000 Subject: [DL] Research Studentships @ Aberdeen Message-ID: UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN RCUK Rural Digital Economy Research Hub Transforming Rural Communities Through Digital Innovation 8 PhD Studentships The University of Aberdeen is inviting applications for a number of PhD studentships on offer as a result of the development of a new Rural Digital Economy Research Hub funded by the UK Research Councils. The Digital Economy Hub based at Aberdeen is one of three such centres in the UK. An award of ?12.4M will fund a programme of research over the next five years, which will explore how digital technologies can be developed to enhance the delivery of crucial services such as healthcare and transport in rural areas across the UK. Around 60 research staff and students will be based in the Hub. The Hub (www.digital-rural.org) draws together the University's research strengths in areas including computer science, communications engineering, human geography, transport, healthcare, sociology, and environmental science. Experts from across these disciplines will work together to understand and assess digital technology requirements and develop and evaluate solutions. Eight fully-funded 3.5 year studentships are on offer to outstanding applicants in a range of topic areas; examples include: Hybrid Wireless-Satellite Broadband for Rural Communities Adaptive Internet Transport for the Pervasive Future Internet Security and Privacy Policy Management Agent Support for Team Problem Solving Semantic Sensor Networks Adaptive, Context Aware User Agents Automated Generation of Natural Language Generating Natural Language Summaries of Non-Textual Data Agent-Aided Collaboration in Rural Emergency Care Digital Technology and Chronic Disease Management in Rural Settings Advanced Public Transport Systems Digital Time-Use Diaries Rural Enterprise and the Digital Economy Tourism and the Digital Economy Digital Support for Rapid Response to Environmental Change Social Computing and Natural Resource Conservation Networks Sustainability and Rural Digital Transformations Community and Business Adoption Processes Candidates for the awards must have an excellent first degree and be able to demonstrate an enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research. Students working within the Hub will benefit from: * A fully-funded three and a half year PhD programme that integrates a research project with research training in interdisciplinary skills and entrepreneurship. * A personalised pathway through this programme giving a balance of skills across key technology areas, future applications and human and societal issues. * A stimulating environment bringing together research staff and students from a range of disciplines to address the challenges of the Digital Economy. * Regular seminars and meetings with representatives from industry, the public sector, government agencies. * Supervision from international leaders across a range of research areas. * Office and laboratory space in a dedicated environment on the King's College campus. Awards Each studentship will pay fees and a maintenance stipend (starting at ?13,290 p.a) for three and a half years. Studentships are only available to UK applicants or nationals of other EU states who have been OEordinarily resident' in the UK for 3 years. How to Apply Applicants should complete the application form at: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sras/documents/dhapp.doc and should specify "Digital-1" on the application. Application forms should be returned to: Graduate School Admissions Unit College of Physical Sciences St Mary's, University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, AB24 3FU Deadline for applications is Friday 14th August 2009. Queries about the studentships should be directed to the Graduate School Admissions Unit. Tel: 01224 272525, Email: cpsgrad at abdn.ac.uk The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. From jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk Thu Aug 6 15:34:15 2009 From: jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk (Pan, Dr Jeff Z.) Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:34:15 -0000 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE2009) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! ************************************************************************ * * CALL FOR PAPERS * 5th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering * (SWESE2009) * * http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~r01srt7/swese2009 * * ==INVITED SPEAKER (Prof. Abraham Bernstein)== * *******Extended Deadline: 17 Aug****** * *******STUDENT GRANTS AVAILABLE******* * * located at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC2009 * 26th October 2009 * Virginia, United States * ************************************************************************ Workshop Description The advent of the World Wide Web has led many corporations to web-enable their business applications and to the adoption of web service standards in middleware platforms. Marking a turning point in the evolution of the Web, the Semantic Web is expected to provide more benefits to software engineering. Over the past five years there have been a number of attempts to bring together languages and tools, such as the Unified Modelling Language (UML), originally developed for Software Engineering, with Semantic Web languages such as RDF and OWL. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to investigate potential benefits. A related international standardisation activity is OMG's Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), which was formally adopted in October 2006, and finalized in December 2008. Another interesting question is how to use ontology to improve guidance and traceability in software development. It has been argued that the advantages of Semantic Web Technologies in software engineering include reusability and extensibility of data models, improvements in data quality, and discovery and automated execution of workflows. According to SETF's note "A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers" (http://www.w3.org/TR/sw-oosd-primer/), the Semantic Web can serve as a platform on which domain models can be created, shared and reused. However, are there other potential benefits in the use of Semantic Web concepts in the field of Software Engineering? Could the Web-based, semantically rich formality of OWL be combined with emerging model driven development tools such as the Eclipse Modelling Framework to provide some badly needed improvements in both the process and product of software development activities? What is it about the amalgamation of OWL, UML and MDA methodology that could make a difference? Certainly, there appear to be a number of strong arguments in favour of this approach but consensus on the best way forward, if there is indeed a way forward at all has not yet formed. This workshop seeks to build on prior events that have begun to explore and evaluate this important area. Intended Audience While the intended audience for this workshop includes those with experience or interest in Semantic Web languages and tools, it is also crucial to have participation by those with expertise in other areas such as software engineering, automatic software engineering (ASE), knowledge based software engineering (KBSE), UML/MDA, and software/legacy modernization. Topics Topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not restricted to): - Visions for Semantic Web driven software engineering - Tools developed or being developed for software engineering using SW languages - Integration or application development projects combining Software Engineering techniques and Semantic Web tools or languages - Shortcomings with the Semantic Web with respect to Software Engineering - Uses, extensions and/or issues with ODM - Visions for SW driven software modernization - Integration of UML, OO programming languages and Semantic Web languages - Integration of formal methods and Semantic Web languages - Software specification and Semantic Web languages - Ontologies for software engineering - Ontologies for requirement engineering - Ontologies for software guidance, traceability and maintenance - Component discovery and ontologies - Feature modelling and ontologies - Metamodel engineering - Ontology reasoning for software engineering - Semantic annotations in software engineering - Transitioning legacy applications to ontologies - Semantic-based intelligent assistance tools for software developers - Lessons learnt and outstanding challenges for the usage of semantic technologies in software engineering - Ontology-Driven Architecture: How to introduce Semantic Web technology into mainstream development processes Workshop Format and Attendance: This will be a half day workshop, including a keynote presentation and technical talks discussing competing and complementary visions for Semantic Web enabled software engineering. Keynote: * Prof. Abraham Bernstein, Head of Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland This workshop is open to all members of the ISWC community, as well as other communities identified in Intended Audience above, such as the Software Engineering community. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper will be given priority for registration. We encourage those who plan to attend this workshop, to register early in order to help conference organizers with their planning as well as insure that the workshop is not cancelled do to projected poor attendance. Organizing Committee Elisa F. Kendall, Sandpiper Software, Inc., USA Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK (contact) Marwan Sabbouh, The MITRE Corporation, USA Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI, Germany Yuting Zhao, University of Aberdeen, UK Program Committee * Uwe Assman (DE), Technical University of Dresden * Colin Atkinson (DE), University of Mannheim * Ken Baclawski (US), Northeastern University * Roberta Cuel (IT), University of Trento * Jin Song Dong (SG), National University of Singapore * J?rgen Ebert (DE), University of Koblenz * Andreas Friesen (DE), SAP Research * Dragan Gasevic, (CA) Simon Fraser University Surrey * Michael Goedicke (DE), University of Essen * Jakob Henriksson (US), Intelligent Automation, Inc. * Mitch Kokar (US), Northeastern University * Harald K?hn (AT), BOC * David Martin (US), SRI International * Krzysztof Miksa (PL), Comarch * Jishnu Mukerji (US), Hewlett-Packard Company * Daniel Oberle (DE), SAP Research * Fernando Silva Parreiras (DE), University of Koblenz * Yuan Ren (UK), University of Aberdeen * Dave Reynolds (UK), HP Lab * Michael K. Smith (US), Electronic Data System * Hai Wang (UK), Aston University * Andrea Zisman (UK), City University, London Submissions Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor, experience reports, and show case / use case demonstrations of effective, practical technologies or applications combining software engineering with semantic technologies. Papers must be in English and may be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swese2009 as: - Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) - Short Papers (5-8 pages in the proceedings) - Position Statements (2 pages in the proceedings) - Posters (to be presented during the workshop, with 2 page descriptions submitted via the conference site for review) Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to upload their complete papers by August 10, 2009. Publication details will be posted to the workshop web site, http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~r01srt7/swese2009, as they become available. Important Dates Submission deadline: 17 Aug 2009 Notification of acceptance: 11 Sept 2009 Final submissions due: 25 Sept 2009 Workshop proceedings available: 26 October 2009 Sponsorship The workshop is being held in cooperation with a prominent network of excellence and is meant to act as a focal point for joint interests and future collaborations. Interested sponsors are welcome to contact the program committee. Current sponsors include: - The EU MOST Project, http://www.most-project.eu/ Scholarships We have a limited number of student grants available, funded our workshop sponsors. We invite students to apply for this grant by Sept 30, 2009. Applications should include a statement of interest (i.e. what you bring to and expect to get from SWESE), a brief CV, a scan of a student ID or other evidence of professional status, and a letter of support from their supervisor. Any interested student can apply. Please send your application to Yuting Zhao (yuting.zhao at adbn.ac.uk) by Sept 30, 2009. The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. From cgueret at few.vu.nl Thu Aug 6 21:25:59 2009 From: cgueret at few.vu.nl (cgueret) Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:25:59 -0000 Subject: [DL] CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Nature inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web (NatuResS09) Message-ID: <2333705ffc0eccc42feb341866af5282@few.vu.nl> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The second International Workshop on Nature inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web (NatuResS09) http://natures.few.vu.nl/2009 October 26, 2009 @ 8th international Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Washington, DC BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES ================================ The Semantic Web (SW) carries out the vision of a Web of data usable for both human and machines. This web, consisting of inter-connected instance data annotated with possibly expressive ontologies, promises a huge opportunity for Web-based applications in many domains. In this web the vision of distributed reasoning has replaced the myth of a commonly agreed upon ontology every data provider would rely on. However, existing reasoning techniques often fail to this live up to this distributed vision of knowledge on the web. Reasoner may not be able to cope with the high number of instances and/or the expressiveness of the ontologies describing them (scalability problem) or fail to deal with a sometimes unreliable network, lack of maintenance of information or the variety in quality (robustness problem). The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the Semantic Web community with more Nature inspired communities, such as the people interested in Computational Intelligence (CI), Neural Networks and to discuss on current trends in Semantic Web. The workshop will feature invited talks from experts in the corresponding areas as well as contributed talks presenting submitted papers. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================================ We encourage the submission of papers investigating the use of nature inspired techniques to address knowledge representation and reasoning problems. Those problems includes (but are not restricted to) the following topics : * Data storage and retrieval: how to efficiently create and manage a repository of potentially billions of (RDF) triples. * Data integration: how to find correspondences among the different ontologies (alignments). * Complex reasoning: how to find implicit information efficiently in large, expressive, or distributed ontologies. The suggested keywords are * Neural Networks * Evolutionary computing (EA and others) * Swarm intelligence (Ants, PSO, flocking birds) * Potential field methods * Simulated annealing * Artificial immune systems * Epidemic protocols (Gossiping) * Ontology alignment * Reasoning * Distributed Knowledge Management System * Peer data management system (PDMS) * Complex systems * Data integration * Semantic Web * RDF SUBMISSIONS ================================ Submitted paper should not exceed 16 pages and must be written in English. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Full instructions are available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 All papers should be submitted in electronic format (pdf version) using the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=natures09 IMPORTANT DATES ================================ * Submission deadline: August 10 * Acceptance notification: August 30 * Camera ready papers: October 2 * Workshop: October 26 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ================================ * Christophe Gu?ret, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam * Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH * Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================================ * ?zalp Babaoglu, University Bologna, Italy * J?rgen Branke, Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany * Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Oxford, UK * Artur Garcez, City University London, UK * Barbara Hammer, Clausthal, Germany * Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Kai-Uwe K?hnberger, University of Osnabr?ck, Germany * Nicolas Monmarch?, Polytech'Tours, France * Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland * Sebastian Rudolph, Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany * Christoph Schmitz, 1&1 Internet AG Karlsruhe, Germany * Lael Schooler, MPI Berlin, Germany * Martijn Schut, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Peter Tino, University of Birmingham, UK * Spyros Voulgaris, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands SPONSORS ================================ The second international workshop on Nature inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web (NatuReS09) is sponsored by the EU funded Large Knowledge Collider LarKC. More information available on the LarKC website : http://www.larkc.eu/ From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Thu Aug 13 16:43:23 2009 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:43:23 -0000 Subject: [DL] Deadline extension - IWOD 2009 workshop on ontology dynamics at ISWC Message-ID: Deadline extended to *Thursday* the 20th August 2009 (23:59 Hawai time, GMT -10) for the 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD 2009) "Ontology Evolution in Practice" http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/iwod/iwod2009 The goal of the 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics is to bring together researchers and students working on the fields of ontology evolution, revision and versioning, as well as people from the industry conducting activities (applications, case-studies) that involve the dynamic aspects of ontologies. Following the success of the two previous workshops, IWOD is quickly becoming the core annual event to discuss advances in the broad area of ontology dynamics, and to track recent work directly or indirectly related to the problem of evolving ontologies. During this year's workshop, we will place special emphasis on applications and systems relying on and supporting ontology dynamics by making "Ontology Evolution in Practice" the theme of the workshop. Alongside the general track, papers can be submitted to a special track on case studies in order to specifically encourage the submission of application papers. Topics We welcome submissions on all topics related to ontology dynamics, including (but not restricted to) the following topics: * Ontology evolution * Ontology versioning * Formal aspects of ontology dynamics * Foundational issues * Language extensions for evolution * Belief revision for ontologies * Inconsistency in evolving ontologies * Change propagation in ontologies * Ontologies for dynamic environments * Dynamic knowledge building, and use * Engineering evolvable ontologies * Requirements for ontology evolution * Case studies in ontology evolution * Tools to support ontology evolution * Application with dynamic ontologies * Open problems In addition, the theme of this year's workshop is "Ontology Evolution in Practice". We want to encourage the submission of case study papers, describing either applications with specific needs for support on the ontology evolution process or systems providing concrete solutions to problems related to the dynamic aspects of ontologies. Workshop Venue and Format The workshop will take place at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington, DC., as part of the ISWC 2009 conference (http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org). IWOD 2009 will be a half-day workshop, and will consist of two tracks (general track and case study track) with long and short presentations. The organization of a panel or general discussion session prior to the closing of the workshop will be sought. Submission Guidelines All submissions should be submitted in pdf format and should be formatted according to the LNCS Springer format (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0). The size limits are 14 pages for long papers and 6 pages for short papers. The titles of papers submitted to the case study track should start with "Case Study: ". All papers should be submitted through the easychair system ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwod2009 ) by Friday August 14 2009. Important Dates Submission deadline: Extended to *Thursday* 20th August 1009 (was August 14, 2009) Acceptance notification: September 7, 2009 Camera-ready deadline: September 21, 2009 Organizing Committee Grigoris Antoniou (co-chair, FORTH, Greece) Mathieu d'Aquin (co-chair, The Open University, United Kingdom) Dimitris Plexousakis (FORTH, Greece) PC co-chair Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) PC co-chair Giorgos Flouris (FORTH, Greece) Tentative Program Committee The following individuals have confirmed their interest in contributing to this workshop as members of the PC: * Grigoris Antoniou * Mathieu d'Aquin * Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles * Alex Borgida * James Delgrande * Giorgos Flouris * Peter Haase * Zhisheng Huang * Pieter De Leenheer * Thomas Meyer * Marcio Moretto Ribeiro * Jeff Z. Pan * Dimitris Plexousakis * Guilin Qi * Marta Sabou * Kewen Wang * Renata Wassermann From franconi at inf.unibz.it Sat Aug 15 10:51:31 2009 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:51:31 -0000 Subject: [DL] Q: how many Oxford fellows does it take? Message-ID: <03678D89-E4CB-4136-814A-4925CBD228B5@inf.unibz.it> Q: How many Oxford fellows does it take to change a light bulb? A: Change?!? PS: thanks to the Oxford fellows for the organisation of the DL workshop! From tb at imm.dtu.dk Sat Aug 15 11:42:26 2009 From: tb at imm.dtu.dk (Thomas Bolander) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:42:26 -0000 Subject: [DL] Last CFP: Methods for Modalities 6 (M4M-6) Message-ID: <4A86817A.4080309@imm.dtu.dk> ==================================================================== LAST CALL FOR PAPERS 6th Workshop on METHODS FOR MODALITIES (M4M-6) http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M6 Copenhagen, Denmark November 12-14, 2009 ==================================================================== Scope ----- The workshop METHODS FOR MODALITIES (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ M4M-6 will be preceded by a two-day mini-course aimed at preparing PhD students and other researchers for participation in the workshop (http://hylocore.ruc.dk/m4m6school.html). The mini-course is associated with the FIRST research school (http://first.dk). Paper Submissions ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories. - Regular papers up to 15 pages, describing original research. - System descriptions of up to 12 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones. - Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. Submissions should be made via EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4m6 Final versions of accepted papers will be published online in a volume of Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). A preliminary version of the proceedings will be provided at the workshop. Invited speakers ----------------- - Franz Baader, TU Dresden http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/~baader/index-en.html - Barteld Kooi, University of Groningen http://www.philos.rug.nl/~barteld/ - Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg University http://www.cs.aau.dk/~kgl/ - Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~schmidt/ - Yde Venema, University of Amsterdam http://staff.science.uva.nl/~yde/ Important dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: August 24, 2009 Notification: October 5, 2009 Camera ready versions: October 26, 2009 Workshop dates: November 12-14, 2009 Workshop venue -------------- M4M will take place at the IDA Conference Center in the center of Copenhagen (http://ida.dk/sites/moedecenter/english/Sider/EnglishForside.aspx). Local organisers ---------------- - Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark tb at imm.dtu.dk - Torben Bra?ner, Roskilde University torben at ruc.dk Program Committee ----------------- Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine Thomas Bolander (co-chair), Technical University of Denmark Julian Bradfield, University of Edinburgh Torben Bra?ner (co-chair), Roskilde University Balder ten Cate, University of Amsterdam Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan Hans van Ditmarsch, University of Otago Melvin Fitting, City University of New York John Gallagher, Roskilde University Mai Gehrke, Radboud University Nijmegen Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano Valentin Goranko, University of the Witwatersrand Rajeev Gor?, ANU Michael R. Hansen, Technical University of Denmark Andreas Herzig, IRIT Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool Martin Lange, LMU M?nchen Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology Angelo Montanari, University of Udine Valeria de Paiva, Cuil Inc. Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester Thomas Schneider, University of Manchester Carsten Sch?rmann, IT University of Copenhagen Gert Smolka, Saarland University Anders S?gaard, University of Copenhagen J?rgen Villadsen, Technical University of Denmark Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool Thomas ?gotnes, Bergen University College ================================================================== From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Sat Aug 15 22:49:51 2009 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:49:51 -0000 Subject: [DL] Announcement: Textbook: Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies In-Reply-To: <200908031511.n73FBNV0007887@brundij.cs.kuleuven.be.> References: <200908031511.n73FBNV0007887@brundij.cs.kuleuven.be.> Message-ID: <4A871F56.60502@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> I just wanted to announce to interested parties that our Textbook Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies by Pascal Hitzler, Markus Kr?tzsch, Sebastian Rudolph Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009, 455 pages, hardcover ISBN: 9781420090505 is now available. See http://www.semantic-web-book.org/ for more information. Covers: RDF(S) (Syntax, Semantics), OWL 1+2 (Syntax, Semantics, Description Logics, Tableau Algorithms), SPARQL, RIF, OWL+Rules, Conjunctive Queries, Tools, Applications, Exercises+Solutions Best Regards, Pascal Hitzler. -- PD Dr. Pascal Hitzler pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.pascal-hitzler.de Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org From baojie at gmail.com Mon Aug 17 11:19:28 2009 From: baojie at gmail.com (Jie Bao) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:19:28 -0000 Subject: [DL] Call for Workshops, Tutorials, Posters, and Demos - Fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) Message-ID: ( WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ) Call for Workshops, Tutorials, Posters, and Demos Fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) 6-9 December, 2009 Shanghai, China http://www.aswc2009.org/ The Asian Semantic Web Conference is the yearly conference on theoretical foundations, technological building blocks and practical applications of semantic technologies on the Asian continent. Targeted at both academia and industry, the conference will present the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It will bring together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling, logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. Besides presenting papers including latest research in the Semantic Web area, this year the conference will also include workshops, tutorials and a poster and demo session. For these three events, we welcome submissions that are aligned with the topics of the conference (http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track). Further details about the calls for workshops, tutorials, posters, and demos can be found in the conference web page: * ASWC2009 Call for Workshops (http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/callworkshops) * ASWC2009 Call for Tutorials (http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/calltutorials) * ASWC2009 Call for Posters and Demos (http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/callpostersdemos) ===Important dates=== 'Workshop Track * Proposal due: 27 Aug 2009 * Notification : 3 Sept 2009 * The important dates for accepted workshops are: ** Paper Submissions: 3 Oct 2009 ** Paper Notification: 15 Oct 2009 ** Paper Camera-ready: 22 Oct 2009 ** Workshop days: 6-7 Dec 2009 Tutorial Track * 10 Sept 2009: Proposal submission * 17 Sept 2009: Notification * 5 Nov 2009: Tutorial notes (handouts) to tutorial chair * Tutorial days: 6-7 Dec 2009 Poster and Demo Track * Poster and demo submission: 17 Sept 2009 * Notification of acceptance: 1 Oct 2009 * Camera-ready version: 15 Oct 2009 ** Poster and Demo days: 8-9 Dec 2009 ===Contacts=== * ASWC2009 Workshop Chair: Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University, Korea (hgkim at snu.ac.kr) * ASWC2009 Tutorial Chair: Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (baojie at cs.rpi.edu) * ASWC2009 Poster and Demo Chair: Ra?l Garc?a-Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain (rgarcia at fi.upm.es) From bewerbung-studer at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Mon Aug 17 18:30:45 2009 From: bewerbung-studer at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (bewerbung-studer at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:30:45 -0000 Subject: [DL] Postdoctoral Researcher / Assistant Professor position at AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Message-ID: <4A89859F.9040203@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Job opening: Postdoctoral Researcher / Assistant Professor (TV-L E14 German public service salary scale) Where: Knowledge Management Research Group (Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer), Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany We are seeking applications from individuals with a very good Ph.D. and expertise at international level in at least one of the topic areas: * Large-Scale Information Retrieval and Text Mining or * Service Description & Engineering / Cloud Computing. Further, applicants should have general competencies that qualify you for acquisition and coordination of research projects, for the guidance of Ph.D. students and for participation in the lecturing. The position requires basic German language skills. Application deadline: August 28th 2009 (review of application will continue until the position is filled, i.e. late submissions may also be considered) More information: (in German) (in English) If you have any further questions, please contact Dr. Sudhir Agarwal, agarwal at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de From tb at imm.dtu.dk Sun Aug 23 17:33:57 2009 From: tb at imm.dtu.dk (Thomas Bolander) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:33:57 -0000 Subject: [DL] M4M-6: Deadline extended till September 1 Message-ID: <4A915EF2.9050006@imm.dtu.dk> ==================================================================== Numerous authors have requested a short extension of the submission deadline. We have decided to meet their request. SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL SEPTEMBER 1 ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 6th Workshop on METHODS FOR MODALITIES (M4M-6) http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M6 Copenhagen, Denmark November 12-14, 2009 ==================================================================== Scope ----- The workshop METHODS FOR MODALITIES (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ M4M-6 will be preceded by a two-day mini-course aimed at preparing PhD students and other researchers for participation in the workshop (http://hylocore.ruc.dk/m4m6school.html). The mini-course is associated with the FIRST research school (http://first.dk). Paper Submissions ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories. - Regular papers up to 15 pages, describing original research. - System descriptions of up to 12 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones. - Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. Submissions should be made via EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4m6 Final versions of accepted papers will be published online in a volume of Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). A preliminary version of the proceedings will be provided at the workshop. Invited speakers ----------------- - Franz Baader, TU Dresden http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/~baader/index-en.html - Barteld Kooi, University of Groningen http://www.philos.rug.nl/~barteld/ - Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg University http://www.cs.aau.dk/~kgl/ - Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~schmidt/ - Yde Venema, University of Amsterdam http://staff.science.uva.nl/~yde/ Important dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2009 (extended deadline) Notification: October 5, 2009 Camera ready versions: October 26, 2009 Workshop dates: November 12-14, 2009 Workshop venue -------------- M4M will take place at the IDA Conference Center in the center of Copenhagen (http://ida.dk/sites/moedecenter/english/Sider/EnglishForside.aspx). Local organisers ---------------- - Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark tb at imm.dtu.dk - Torben Bra?ner, Roskilde University torben at ruc.dk Program Committee ----------------- Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine Thomas Bolander (co-chair), Technical University of Denmark Julian Bradfield, University of Edinburgh Torben Bra?ner (co-chair), Roskilde University Balder ten Cate, University of Amsterdam Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan Hans van Ditmarsch, University of Otago Melvin Fitting, City University of New York John Gallagher, Roskilde University Mai Gehrke, Radboud University Nijmegen Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano Valentin Goranko, University of the Witwatersrand Rajeev Gor?, ANU Michael R. Hansen, Technical University of Denmark Andreas Herzig, IRIT Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool Martin Lange, LMU M?nchen Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology Angelo Montanari, University of Udine Valeria de Paiva, Cuil Inc. Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester Thomas Schneider, University of Manchester Carsten Sch?rmann, IT University of Copenhagen Gert Smolka, Saarland University Anders S?gaard, University of Copenhagen J?rgen Villadsen, Technical University of Denmark Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool Thomas ?gotnes, Bergen University College ================================================================== From pavel at dit.unitn.it Mon Aug 24 20:33:44 2009 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:33:44 -0000 Subject: [DL] OAEI-2009: Final call for ontology matching systems participation Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Final call for ontology matching systems participation +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OAEI-2009 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative in cooperation with the ISWC Ontology Matching workshop October 25, 2009 - Chantilly, near Washington DC., USA http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ontology matching is an important task for semantic system interoperability. Yet it is not easy to assess the respective qualities of available matching systems. The Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) is a coordinated international initiative set up for evaluating ontology matching systems. OAEI campaigns consist of applying matching systems to ontology pairs and evaluating their results. OAEI-2009 is the sixth OAEI campaign. It will consist of five tracks gathering elleven test cases and different evaluation modalities. The tracks cover: (i) comparison track; (ii) expressive ontologies; (iii) directories and thesauri; (iv) oriented matching; (v) instance matching. Anyone developing ontology matchers can participate by evaluating their systems and sending the results to the organizers. Tools for evaluating results and preliminary test bench tuning are available. Final results of the campaign will be presented at the Ontology Matching workshop and published in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES June 1st, 2009: First publication of test cases June 22nd, 2009: Comments on test cases (any time before that date) July 6th, 2009: Final publication of test cases Sept. 1st, 2009: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking) Sept. 28st, 2009: Participants send final results and supporting papers Oct. 5th, 2009: Organizers publish results for comments Oct. 25th, 2009: OM-2009 workshop + OAEI-2009 final results ready. More about OAEI-2009: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/ More about OAEI: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/ More about OM-2009: http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/ More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/; Cheers, Pavel --------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, Ph.D. Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab - Informatica Trentina S.p.A. Via G. Gilli, 2 38100 Trento - Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fabio at dcs.shef.ac.uk Tue Aug 25 07:51:41 2009 From: fabio at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Fabio Ciravegna) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:51:41 -0000 Subject: [DL] second announcement: PhD Studentship on Evaluation of Semantic Web Search Message-ID: Apologies for any cross-posting -------- PhD Research Studentship on Evaluation of Semantic Web Search Technologies Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield Closing date is 7.09.2009 Required start date: October 2009 or soon thereafter Length: three years, subject to satisfactory progress Stipend: ?13,290 per annum More details: The studentship provides payment of tuition fees at the UK/EU rate Please note the studentship is reserved to UK and European candidates only! Non-EU candidates can be considered only if they are currently resident in Europe and have lived there for more than 3 years on a non- student visa! Semantic technologies are at the heart of the future Web providing ways to express knowledge and data so that it can be properly exploited. The successful candidate will study for a PhD as part of a 3-year EU-funded project entitled "Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale (SEALS)" http://www.seals-project.eu/. The goal of the SEALS project is to provide an independent, open, scalable, extensible and sustainable infrastructure (the SEALS Platform) that allows the remote evaluation of semantic technologies thereby providing an objective comparison of the different existing semantic technologies. This will allow researchers and users to effectively compare the available technologies, helping them to select appropriate technologies and advancing the state of the art through continuous evaluation. The PhD topic will be in the area of semantic search tool evaluation. As part of a team, the student will investigate new metrics for assessing the interoperability, scalability, usability, etc. of state of the art tools developed by the international semantic web community. The student will also be involved in the organisation and running of two public, worldwide evaluation campaigns which will be used to create semantic technology roadmaps identifying sets of efficient and compatible tools for developing large-scale semantic applications. More information about the project is available at: http://www.seals-project.eu/ The successful candidate will study within the Organisations, Information and Knowledge (OAK) Group which is part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. More information about the OAK group is available at: http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ CRITERIA FOR SELECTION Candidates should hold at a first or upper second honours degree or masters degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. The candidate should have excellent computer programming skills (including Java); analytic, presentational, communication and effective interpersonal skills; ability to work effectively within the research team, and a proven capacity to work to and meet deadlines. Knowledge of and experience in semantic web technologies are definitely a plus. HOW TO APPLY: please send an email to Prof. Fabio Ciravegna (f.ciravegna at dcs.shef.ac.uk ) AND Dr. Stuart Wrigley (s.wrigley at dcs.shef.ac.uk) declaring your intention to be considered for the position attaching the following documents: ? un updated Curriculum Vitae ? a cover letter explaining why you are the right person for the position The closing date is 7.09.2009 INFORMAL ENQUIRIES Informal enquiries may be directed to Prof. Fabio Ciravegna (f.ciravegna at dcs.shef.ac.uk ) AND Dr. Stuart Wrigley (s.wrigley at dcs.shef.ac.uk). --- Professor Fabio Ciravegna, Director of Research & Innovation in the Digital World, The University of Sheffield --- Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK Tel:+44(0)114-22.21940, Fax:+44(0)114-22.21810 www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~fabio/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hotho at cs.uni-kassel.de Wed Aug 26 10:13:37 2009 From: hotho at cs.uni-kassel.de (Andreas Hotho) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:13:37 -0000 Subject: [DL] 2nd CfP: SI on Bridging the Gap - Data Mining and Social Network Analysis, Semantic Web & Web2.0 Message-ID: <4A94EE9D.7020202@cs.uni-kassel.de> ===================================================================== Second Call for Papers Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics ***** Special Issue on "Bridging the Gap" ***** Data Mining and Social Network Analysis for integrating Semantic Web and Web 2.0 /* http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/events/jws_special_issue_2010 */ Abstract submission: 21 September 2009 Submission deadline: 1 October 2009 Reviews due: 1 December 2009 Notification: 15 December 2009 Final version submitted: 15 January 2010 Publication: April 2010 ===================================================================== Focus of the Special Issue -------------------------- The last years have seen increasing collaboration of researchers from the Semantic Web, Web 2.0, social network analysis and machine learning communities. Applications that use these research results are achieving economic success. Data now become available that allow researchers to analyze the use, acceptance and evolution of their ideas. Highly popular user-centered applications such as Blogs, social tagging systems, and Wikis have come to be known as "Web 2.0". A major reason for their immediate success is the high ease of use of new Web 2.0 services. These sites do not only provide data but also generate an abundance of weakly structured metadata. A good example is tagging. Here, users add keywords from an uncontrolled vocabulary, called tags, to a resource. Such metadata are easy to produce, but lack any kind of formal grounding, as used in the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web can complement the bottom-up effort of the Web 2.0 community in a top-down manner. Its central point is a stronger knowledge representation based on some kind of ontology with a fixed vocabulary and typed relations. Such a structure is typically something users have in mind when they provide their information in Web 2.0 systems. However, for further use, this structure is hidden in the data and needs to be extracted. Techniques to analyze network structures or weak knowledge representations as can be found in the Web 2.0 have a long tradition in different other disciplines, like social network analysis, machine learning and data mining. These kinds of automatic mechanisms are necessary to extract the hidden information and to reveal the structure in a way that the end user can benefit from it. Using established methods to represent knowledge gained from unstructured data will also be beneficial for the Web 2.0 in that it provides Web 2.0 users with enhanced Semantic Web features to structure their data. For this special issue, we invite contributions which show how synergies between Semantic Web and Web 2.0 techniques can be successfully used. Since both communities work on network-like data structures, analysis methods from different fields of research could form a link between those communities. Techniques can be - but are not limited to - social network analysis, graph analysis, machine learning and data mining methods. Topics of interest ------------------ Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * ontology learning from Web 2.0 data * instance extraction from Web 2.0 systems * analysis of Blogs * discovering social structures and communities * predicting trends and user behaviour * analysis of dynamic networks * using content of the Web for modelling * discovering misuse and fraud * network analysis of social resource sharing systems * analysis of folksonomies and other Web 2.0 data structures * analysis of Web 2.0 applications and their data * deriving profiles from usage * personalized delivery of news and journals * Semantic Web personalization * Semantic Web technologies for recommender systems * ubiquitous data mining in Web (2.0) environment * applications In accordance with the focus of the journal, the relatedness of your submission to the Semantic Web will be an important evaluation criterion. Submission Details ------------------ Submissions should describe original contributions and should not have been published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions based on conference papers should be extended and include a reference to the corresponding proceedings. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Final decisions on accepted papers will be approved by an editor in chief. Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in accordance with instructions given in the "Guide for Authors": The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's Web-based EES system, cf. Guest Editors ------------- * Bettina Berendt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Bettina.Berendt at cs.kuleuven.be * Andreas Hotho, University of W?rzburg, hotho at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de * Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de From Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au Fri Aug 28 05:00:59 2009 From: Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au (Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:00:59 -0000 Subject: [DL] CFP #2: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009): Papers due 25 September 2009 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) 1 December 2009 Held in Conjunction with the 22nd Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09) University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~aow2009 AOW 2009 is the fifth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The proceedings of the four previous workshops were published as volumes in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and this will again be the case for AOW 2009. As with the previous workshops, we are investigating the possibility of extended versions of selected papers appearing in a special issue of a suitable journal. Submission information such as format etc. can be found on the CRPIT website: http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. The page limit is 10 pages. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 25 September 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 23 October 2009 Camera-ready copies due: 13 November 2009 AOW 2009: 1 December 2009 Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow2009 This year AOW 2009 will have a best paper award, with a prize of $250(AUD) being awarded to the author(s) of the best paper. Workshop Chairs: Thomas Meyer Meraka Institute, South Africa tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Kerry Taylor CSIRO ICT Centre Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au Program Committee: Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) Arina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Michael Compton (CSIRO, Australia) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) R. Cenk Erdur (Ege University, Turkey) Aurona Gerber (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia) Bo Hu (SAP Research, UK) Renato Iannella (NICTA, Australia) Ken Kaneiwa (NICT, Japan) Marijke Keet (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Kevin Lee (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Laurent Lefort (CSIRO, Australia) Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK) Lars Moench (University of Hagen, Germany) Deshendran Moodley (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) Mehmet Orgun (Macquarie University, Australia) Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia) Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) Murat Sensoy (Bogazici University, Turkey) Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Markus Stumptner (University of South Australia, Australia) Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn (Thammasat University, Thailand) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Nwe Ni Tun (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Ivan Varzinczak (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia) Antoine Zimmermann (DERI, Ireland) From r.f.moeller at tu-harburg.de Wed Sep 2 10:17:56 2009 From: r.f.moeller at tu-harburg.de (Ralf Moeller) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:17:56 +0200 Subject: [DL] Job opening Message-ID: <0D4D98B4-7390-44C8-AB6D-CD39ECDD1374@tu-harburg.de> Job opening: Researcher / Postdoctoral Researcher (EGR.13 TV-L German public service salary scale) Where: Knowledge representation and reasoning group (Prof. Dr. Ralf M?ller), Institute "Software, Technology, Systems", Hamburg University of Technology, Germany We are seeking applications from individuals with a very good Master degree and/or Ph.D. in computer science with expertise in description logics, geographical information systems, databases In the two-year project (funded by the German Science Foundation, DFG) we will investigate optimization techniques for terminological and geo- spatial representation formalisms and reasoning techniques in the context of ontology-based information systems. Description logics with expressive concrete domains provide the theoretical basis for this work. For theoretically investigated representation languages, optimized reasoning algorithms will be developed such that practical query answering systems combining terminologcial and geo-spatial conceptual models can be built. Techniques for ontology-based query transformation are applied in the context of geographical information systems, which require more expressive conceptual representations than were investigated up to now (e.g. concrete domains). Application deadline: October 15th 2009 (review of applications will continue until the position is filled, i.e. late submissions might also be considered) Please send applications to the address below. Best regards, Ralf M?ller ------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Ralf M?ller Hamburg University of Technology Harburger Schlo?stra?e 20 21079 Hamburg Germany Tel.: 040 42878 3462 Email: r.f.moeller at tu-harburg.de http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~r.f.moeller From baojie at cs.rpi.edu Wed Sep 9 18:47:51 2009 From: baojie at cs.rpi.edu (Jie Bao) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:47:51 -0400 Subject: [DL] Call for Tutorials - Fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ( WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ) Call for Tutorials Fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) 6-9 December, 2009 Shanghai, China http://www.aswc2009.org/ The 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) will present the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It will bring together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling, logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. In addition to the regular research track, ASWC 2009 invites tutorials on relevant topics of interest. A tutorial should present the state of the art of a Semantic Web area and address the interests of a broad audience that includes (but not limited to) Semantic Web beginners, representatives of funding agencies, practitioners form the industrial community, and Semantic Web researchers. It may provide an introduction to technologies in Semantic Web or highly relevant areas (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Database and Information Retrieval), the application of Semantic Web in a specific domain, or other current issues and trends in appropriate depth. ==Submission== Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format and contain the following information * Type: full day or half day. * Abstract: 200 words maximum, which will be published at the ASWC website. * Justification: Relevance to the conference and relations to similar tutorials presented at other events. * Description: goals, targeted audience with prerequisite knowledge, presentation method, software will be used, and hands-on session planning (if there will be one; such a session is encouraged). * Outline and schedule * Equipment requirements * Information of the presenters: names, affiliation, contact, homepage, expertise and teaching experiences. The proposal should be submitted as a pdf file using the ASWC 2009 submission system on easychair (Please select the Tutorial Track): https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=aswc2009 Submitted proposals will be reviewed by the ASWC 2009 organizing committee based on its relevance to the conference, content and presentation method, and presenters? expertise. ==Tutorial Organizer's Responsibilities== For accepted tutorials, the organizers should * Maintain a website that describes the tutorial, and provides relevant resources, e.g., slides, software and additional references. The website URL should be ready to review by the ASWC Tutorial Chair by 5th Nov 2009. * At the conference, handle the distribution of tutorial materials, except for the hard copies of the tutorial handouts which will be printed by ASWC. If software is required for participants for hands-on sessions, please make sure to have accessible media (e.g., CDs or USB sticks) for participants to install. ==Important Dates== * 10 Sept 2009: Proposal submission due * 17 Sept 2009: Notification of proposal acceptance * 5 Nov 2009: Website URL and tutorial handouts, PDF preferred) to tutorial chair ==Tutorial Chair== Jie Bao - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, baojie AT cs.rpi.edu From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Sun Sep 13 01:57:31 2009 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:57:31 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for PhD positions at KRDB Centre, Free Univ. Bolzano, Italy - Deadline Oct. 23, 2009 Message-ID: =============================================================== CALL FOR PhD POSITIONS - DEADLINE October 23, 2009 6 fully funded PhD positions at the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy =============================================================== The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), Italy, offers an opening for 14 positions for its 3-year PhD program. Some of these positions have a PhD studentship, others have a research contract. *** 2 PhD positions with studentship, and 4 PhD positions with a research contract are offered by the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data. *** The application deadline is Oct. 23, 2009. For information about the PhD program, the studentship, and the application, please visit and click on "PhD Course 25th cycle". Additional information about the PhD program at FUB is at . A PhD studentship as well as a PhD research contract amounts roughly to 51,000 Euro over the three years of the PhD. Substantial extra funding is available for participation in international conferences, schools, and workshops. The faculty of Computer Science and its PhD program are entirely based on the English language. RESEARCH TOPICS The KRDB Research Centre invites applicants to get in touch with the research group as soon as possible (see CONTACT PERSON below), in order to have a better understanding of the possible research activities in which the applicants may be involved. Relevant research topics in the centre are the following: * Logics for Knowledge Representation * Intelligent Access to Databases * Controlled Natural Language * Temporal Aspects in Data and Knowledge * Advanced Database Technologies The topics require good knowledge of Logic, Foundations of Databases, some knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, and of Knowledge Representation. Other research topics are listed in the personal web pages of the members of the KRDB Research Centre, see . CONTACT PERSON To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre, send an email to: Prof. Diego Calvanese Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano via della Mostra, 4 I-39100 Bolzano, Italy Email: calvanese at inf.unibz.it Phone: +39-0471-016-160 Fax: +39-0471-016-009 To get in touch with the current PhD students, see . From sertkaya at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Tue Sep 15 15:30:23 2009 From: sertkaya at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Baris Sertkaya) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:30:23 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers - ICFCA 2010 - International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis Message-ID: <4AAF96EF.4060101@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> (please circulate, apologies if you receive multiple copies) ================================================================================ Second Call for Papers ICFCA 2010 8th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis March 15 - 18, 2010, Agadir, Morocco http://w3.uqo.ca/icfca10 ================================================================================ Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since then Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a growing research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and an increasing number of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data mining and analysis, and knowledge management. ICFCA is a major forum where researchers from various fields like mathematics, computer science, life sciences, linguistics and social sciences meet and discuss latest advances in Formal Concept Analysis and its applications in various application domains. We invite high ?quality submissions on both theoretical foundations of FCA and its applications in social sciences, life sciences, software engineering, linguistics, social networks and Web 2.0. Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - FCA theory - Lattice Theory - Lattice Drawing - FCA and Logic - FCA algorithms - Conceptual Knowledge Processing - Analysis of Social Networks - Data Mining in Web 2.0 - FCA and Software Engineering - Philosophical Foundations - Concept Graphs - Data Analysis - FCA in Data Mining - Association Rules Submission Details ================== Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted in PDF or Postscript format. Manuscripts should be prepared in LaTeX, using Springer style. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by October 2, 2009. Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Abstracts and papers should be submitted via https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=icfca2010. All submissions will be refereed. Proceedings =========== The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. Important Dates =============== Submission of abstract October 2, 2009 Submission of full paper October 8, 2009 Notification of acceptance November 26, 2009 Camera ready due December 18, 2009 Conference March 15-18, 2010 Conference Chair ================ * Rokia Missaoui (Universite du Quebec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada) Program Chairs ============== * Leonard Kwuida (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) * Baris Sertkaya (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany) Local Arrangement Chair ======================= * Ameur Boujenoui (Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada) Editorial Board =============== * Peter Eklund (University of Wollongong, Australia) * Sebastien Ferre (Universite de Rennes 1, France) * Bernhard Ganter (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany) * Robert Godin (Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Canada) * Sergei Kuznetsov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) * Raoul Medina (LIMOS, Universite Clermont-Ferrand 2, France) * Rokia Missaoui (Universite du Quebec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada) * Sergei Obiedkov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) * Uta Priss (Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom) * Sebastian Rudolph (AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) * Stefan E. Schmidt (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany) * Gerd Stumme (University of Kassel, Germany) * Rudolf Wille (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany) * Karl Erich Wolff (University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany) Program Committee ================= * Mike Bain (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) * Jaume Baixeries (Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Canada) * Peter Becker (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) * Radim Belohlavek (Binghamton University - State University of New York, USA) * Sadok Ben Yahia (Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia) * Jean-Francois Boulicaut(INSA Lyon, France) * Claudio Carpineto (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy) * Frithjof Dau (SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany) * Vincent Duquenne (ECP6-CNRS, Universite Paris 6, France) * Alain Gely (Universite Paul Verlaine, Metz, France) * Joachim Hereth (DMC GmbH, Germany) * Wolfgang Hesse (Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, Germany) * Tim B. Kaiser (SAP AG, Germany) * Derrick G. Kourie (University of Pretoria, South Africa) * Markus Kroetzsch (Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany) * Marzena Kryszkiewicz (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) * Leonard Kwuida (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) * Wilfried Lex (Universitaet Clausthal, Germany) * Lotfi Lakhal (Universite Aix-Marseille, France) * Engelbert Mephu Nguifo (LIMOS, Universite de Clermont Ferrand 2, France) * Lhouari Nourine (LIMOS, Universite de Clermont Ferrand 2, France) * Jean-Marc Petit (LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France) * Alex Pogel (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA) * Sandor Radeleczki (University of Miskolc, Hungary) * Camille Roth (CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France) * Juerg Schmid (Universitaet Bern, Switzerland) * Andreja Tepavcevic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) * Petko Valtchev (Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Canada) * Vilem Vychodil (Binghamton University - State University of New York, USA) Organization Committee ====================== * Omar Abahmane (Universite du Quebec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada) * Souad Bennani (ISIAM, Agadir, Morocco) * Ameur Boujenoui (Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada) * Lahcen Boumedjout (Universite du Quebec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada) * Aziz Bouslikhane (ISIAM, Agadir, Morocco) * Jamal Elachmit (ISIAM, Agadir, Morocco) From baojie at gmail.com Wed Sep 9 18:43:10 2009 From: baojie at gmail.com (Jie Bao) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:43:10 -0400 Subject: [DL] Call for Tutorials - Fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) Message-ID: ( WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ) Call for Tutorials Fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) 6-9 December, 2009 Shanghai, China http://www.aswc2009.org/ The 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) will present the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It will bring together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling, logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. In addition to the regular research track, ASWC 2009 invites tutorials on relevant topics of interest. A tutorial should present the state of the art of a Semantic Web area and address the interests of a broad audience that includes (but not limited to) Semantic Web beginners, representatives of funding agencies, practitioners form the industrial community, and Semantic Web researchers. It may provide an introduction to technologies in Semantic Web or highly relevant areas (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Database and Information Retrieval), the application of Semantic Web in a specific domain, or other current issues and trends in appropriate depth. ==Submission== Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format and contain the following information * Type: full day or half day. * Abstract: 200 words maximum, which will be published at the ASWC website. * Justification: Relevance to the conference and relations to similar tutorials presented at other events. * Description: goals, targeted audience with prerequisite knowledge, presentation method, software will be used, and hands-on session planning (if there will be one; such a session is encouraged). * Outline and schedule * Equipment requirements * Information of the presenters: names, affiliation, contact, homepage, expertise and teaching experiences. The proposal should be submitted as a pdf file using the ASWC 2009 submission system on easychair (Please select the Tutorial Track): https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=aswc2009 Submitted proposals will be reviewed by the ASWC 2009 organizing committee based on its relevance to the conference, content and presentation method, and presenters? expertise. ==Tutorial Organizer's Responsibilities== For accepted tutorials, the organizers should * Maintain a website that describes the tutorial, and provides relevant resources, e.g., slides, software and additional references. The website URL should be ready to review by the ASWC Tutorial Chair by 5th Nov 2009. * At the conference, handle the distribution of tutorial materials, except for the hard copies of the tutorial handouts which will be printed by ASWC. If software is required for participants for hands-on sessions, please make sure to have accessible media (e.g., CDs or USB sticks) for participants to install. ==Important Dates== * 15 Sept 2009: Proposal submission due (Extended) * 22 Sept 2009: Notification of proposal acceptance * 5 Nov 2009: Website URL and tutorial handouts, PDF preferred) to tutorial chair ==Tutorial Chair== Jie Bao - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, baojie AT cs.rpi.edu From vishaljain_usit at yahoo.in Wed Sep 9 20:09:52 2009 From: vishaljain_usit at yahoo.in (Vishal Jain) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:39:52 +0530 (IST) Subject: [DL] Want some tutorial or example for Ontology Message-ID: <374296.28179.qm@web95309.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Hello Frnd, ??? I need some tutorial , in which?it describes the use on protege, jena framework and pletter reasonor in some example. I create one ontology on protege on the topic computer science department, then after what should i do to implement this. or how can it will be useful in semantic web. I am new learner of semantic web and its technologies. if u guys will help me , then i will be grateful and thankful to u Bye Vishal Jain Love Cricket? Check out live scores, photos, video highlights and more. Click here http://cricket.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au Fri Sep 18 02:46:09 2009 From: Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au (Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:46:09 +1000 Subject: [DL] Final CFP: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009): Papers due 25 September 2009 Message-ID: 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) 1 December 2009 Held in Conjunction with the 22nd Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09) University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~aow2009 AOW 2009 is the fifth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The proceedings of the four previous workshops were published as volumes in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and this will again be the case for AOW 2009. As with the previous workshops, we are investigating the possibility of extended versions of selected papers appearing in a special issue of a suitable journal. Submission information such as format etc. can be found on the CRPIT website: http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. The page limit is 10 pages. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 25 September 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 23 October 2009 Camera-ready copies due: 13 November 2009 AOW 2009: 1 December 2009 Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow2009 This year AOW 2009 will have a best paper award, with a prize of $250(AUD) being awarded to the author(s) of the best paper. Workshop Chairs: Thomas Meyer Meraka Institute, South Africa tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Kerry Taylor CSIRO ICT Centre Kerry.Taylor at csiro.au Program Committee: Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) Arina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Michael Compton (CSIRO, Australia) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) R. Cenk Erdur (Ege University, Turkey) Aurona Gerber (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia) Bo Hu (SAP Research, UK) Renato Iannella (NICTA, Australia) Ken Kaneiwa (NICT, Japan) Marijke Keet (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Kevin Lee (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Laurent Lefort (CSIRO, Australia) Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK) Lars Moench (University of Hagen, Germany) Deshendran Moodley (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) Mehmet Orgun (Macquarie University, Australia) Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia) Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) Murat Sensoy (Bogazici University, Turkey) Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Markus Stumptner (University of South Australia, Australia) Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn (Thammasat University, Thailand) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Nwe Ni Tun (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Ivan Varzinczak (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia) Antoine Zimmermann (DERI, Ireland) From mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk Sun Sep 20 17:24:25 2009 From: mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk (Michael Chan) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:24:25 +0100 Subject: [DL] 1st CFP: Workshop on Matching and Meaning: Automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies. Message-ID: <4AB64929.2050007@inf.ed.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Matching and Meaning: Automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/wmm-2010 31st March 2010, part of AISB'10 Convention, Leicester, UK OVERVIEW The problem of semantic misalignment - of two (or more) systems failing to understand one another when their semantic representation is not identical - occurs in a huge variety of areas: the Semantic Web, databases, natural language processing; anywhere, indeed, where semantics are necessary but centralised control is undesirable or impractical. In highly dynamic domains, where interactions are between a large, diverse and evolving community, there is a need for the resolving of these misalignments - through developing and evolving existing ontologies or interpreting unknown ontologies in terms of known ones - to be done automatically and on-the-fly. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the problems of automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies in the many different domains in which it occurs. We are primarily interested in the exchange of ideas and the stimulation of debate, and the workshop is intended to be a forum for researchers to present ongoing work and ideas and to engage in discussion with other researchers from the field. We are particularly interested in novel ideas and innovative research, which may be in its early stages, and encourage reports on work in progress. Topics of interest include: * Ontology evolution * Ontology matching and alignment * Ontology versioning * Representational or structural change * Formal aspects of ontology dynamics * Formalisation of and reasoning with contexts * Foundational issues * Social and collaborative matching * Background knowledge in matching * Extensions to ontology languages to better support change * Non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies and the Semantic Web * Inconsistency handling in evolving ontologies * Uncertainty in matching * Change propagation in ontologies and metadata * Ontologies for dynamic environments * Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation * Matching for dynamic applictions (e.g., p2p, agents, web-services) * Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications * Open problems SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We encourage the submission of extended abstracts of 2-5 pages that discuss ongoing research, problem descriptions and overviews of the domain. Accepted papers will be included in the AISB 2010 proceedings unless the authors prefer them not to be (for example, if the work is very similar to work presented elsewhere which they nevertheless feel it would be valuable to present in this context, or if the work is at a stage where discussion would be valuable but publication would be premature). Authors wishing their submissions to be included in the convention proceedings must follow the style guide on the convention website. Submissions will be subject to light reviewing, mainly intended to check fit to workshop. Abstracts should be submitted electronically in pdf format to mchan-at-ed.ac.uk by 18th December 2009. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the submitting author on 15th February 2010. VENUE The workshop will take place at De Montfort University in Leicester, as part of the AISB 2010 Convention (http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb10/), from March 31st to 1st April, 2010. All workshop participants must be registered for the AISB 2010 Convention. Registration for this workshop is included in the convention registration fee. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: Friday, 18th December 2009 Notification: Monday, 15th February 2010 Workshop: 31st March - 1st April 2010 AISB10 Convention: 29th March - 1st April 2010 PROGRAMME Presentations: Authors of accepted abstracts will give presentations of their work; exact times to be decided. Posters: If it is not possible to fit in presentations for all accepted authors, some may be asked to present posters instead. There will be a session of 5 minute poster talks. Panel: The technical programme will end with a 90 minute panel discussion on a topic of mutual interest to be decided. Three speakers will speak for 10 minutes each with a brief to stimulate debate during the remaining 60 minutes. Discussion amongst all participants, rather than question-and-answering for the panel, will be strongly encouraged. ORGANISERS Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Michael Chan, University of Edinburgh, UK PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE Manuel Atencia Arcas, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, UK Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Adam Pease, Articulate Software, USA Pavel Shvaiko, TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From tariqali.1982 at gmail.com Mon Sep 28 13:28:37 2009 From: tariqali.1982 at gmail.com (tariq ali) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:28:37 +0500 Subject: [DL] help needed In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Respected Sir, i need some literature, tutorial etc for learning how to express algo's in DL. like i want to translate queries of data base into discription logic, i studied the basics, but still need more material for enhancing my skill to write queries on databases in description logic, sir if u can help me in this regard i will be thankfull. Tariq Ali Student of Ph. D Pakistan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ulle.endriss at uva.nl Mon Sep 28 18:33:34 2009 From: ulle.endriss at uva.nl (Ulle Endriss) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:33:34 +0200 Subject: [DL] ECAI-2010: 2nd Call for Workshop Proposals (deadline: 11 December 2009) Message-ID: <4AC0E55E.5000906@uva.nl> [Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting.] ###################################################################### ## ECAI-2010 ## 2nd Call for Workshop Proposals ## ECAI-2010 ## ###################################################################### The Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 16-20 August 2010 ## Lisbon, Portugal http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ Deadline for workshop proposals: 11 December 2009 ###################################################################### ## INTRODUCTION ## ###################################################################### The nineteenth biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2010) will take place on 16-20 August 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal. We invite proposals for workshops to be held during the first two days of the conference. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a central topic in contemporary computer science and informatics. The fruits of fifty years of AI research have benefited application domains as disparate as industrial systems control and medicine. The milestone events in AI research are increasingly regarded as milestones in human scientific and technological development: from the first chess playing program to defeat a reigning world champion under standard chess tournament rules, to the first robot to autonomously traverse 150 miles of rough terrain. Techniques, results, and concepts developed under the banner of AI research have proved to be of fundamental importance in areas such as economics, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and logical analysis. And of course, AI remains a topic of perennial fascination in popular culture. Initiated in 1974, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe's premier archival venue for presenting scientific results in AI. Organised by the European Coordinating Committee for AI (ECCAI), the ECAI conference provides an opportunity for researchers to present and hear about the very best research in contemporary AI. As well as a full programme of technical papers, ECAI-2010 will include the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems conference (PAIS), the Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS), and an extensive programme of workshops, tutorials, and invited speakers. ECAI-2010 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Lisbon, Portugal. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy, Lisbon promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference. ###################################################################### ## WORKSHOPS @ ECAI-2010 ## ###################################################################### Workshop proposals by all members of the international AI community are welcome. There is no restriction regarding topics, as long as there is clear relevance to ECAI. Most workshops will follow the classical format of presentations of peer-reviewed papers followed by discussion, but other formats (e.g., AI competitions) and entirely new ideas are also welcome. Whatever the format, all workshops should be interactive events and ample time should be allocated to discussion. The typical duration for a workshop is one full day, but two-day workshops can also be accommodated. If you are considering to propose a workshop or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the ECAI-2010 Workshop Chair, Ulle Endriss (ulle.endriss at uva.nl). ###################################################################### ## IMPORTANT DATES ## ###################################################################### 11 Dec 2009: workshop proposals due (early submissions are welcome!) 15 Jan 2010: workshop proposal notifications sent 29 Jan 2010: all workshop websites to be operational 29 Jan 2010: 1st call for papers to be posted for all workshops 1 Feb 2010: announcement of ECAI-2010 workshop programme 7 May 2010: workshop paper submission deadline (suggestion) 7 Jun 2010: notifications on workshop paper submissions (suggestion) 1 Jul 2010: workshop proceedings to be sent to workshop chair The paper submission and notification deadlines are suggestions only. However, the paper deadline must be after the ECAI notification date (30 April 2010) and the notifications must be sent before the ECAI early registration deadline (15 June 2010). ###################################################################### ## HOW TO PROPOSE A WORKSHOP ## ###################################################################### Please submit your proposal as a single PDF file via Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecai2010ws Each proposal should include the following information: (1) Title of the workshop (and acronym). (2) Names, affiliations, and contact details of the organisers (please indicate a primary contact person to whom correspondence should be directed). (3) Short description: What is the topic of the workshop? What is the format (peer-reviewed papers, poster sessions, invited talks, panels, competitions, ...)? (4) History of this workshop and related events: Is this the first workshop of its kind or is this part of a series? What are the most closely related workshops or similar events that have taken place over the past three years? What other closely related events will take place in 2010 (as far as you know)? (5) Size: How many people do you expect to attend? How many papers (or posters, competition entries, ...) do you expect to be submitted? What are your estimates based on? If applicable, please indicate attendance/submission numbers for previous editions. (6) Duration: 1 or 2 days (this can be revised later on if required). (7) Experience of the organisers: Please briefly argue why you are the right people to organise this workshop (scientific standing, previous events organised, ...). (8) Draft of the Call for Papers: This should include a description of the scientific goals of the workshop, the target audience, the topics to be covered, the reviewing process (if applicable), and a tentative list of Programme Committee members (please indicate who has already given their consent to serve on the PC). (9) Anything else that you feel is important! ###################################################################### ## FURTHER INFORMATION FOR WORKSHOP ORGANISERS ## ###################################################################### Proceedings: Informal proceedings will be printed by the ECAI-2010 local organisers. The workshop organisers should deliver a single PDF with the proceedings by the deadline. The default expectation is that proceedings will be no more than 200 pages, but exceptions (e.g., in case of large workshops) are possible. Please contact the workshop chair early on to request any such extensions. Registration: To avoid misunderstandings, please note that all workshop participants, including the organisers, are required to register for both the workshop and the main conference. However, we can arrange for a free workshop (not conference) registration for an invited speaker or similar. Cancellations: Please understand that we may have to cancel a workshop if not enough participants register or if deadlines are not met. ###################################################################### -- Ulle Endriss http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/ Institute for Logic, Language & Computation (ILLC) University of Amsterdam Tel: +31 (0)20 525 6511 Postbus 94242 Fax: +31 (0)20 525 5206 1090 GE Amsterdam (NL) Email: u.endriss at uva.nl From sertkaya at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Wed Sep 30 15:13:00 2009 From: sertkaya at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Baris Sertkaya) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:13:00 +0200 Subject: [DL] ICFCA 2010 -- Deadlines approaching Message-ID: <4AC3595C.1070802@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Dear colleagues, ICFCA 2010 deadline is approaching. Please circulate this reminder. We apologize if you receive multiple copies. ================================================================================ *** ICFCA 2010 -- Deadlines approaching *** 8th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis March 15 - 18, 2010, Agadir, Morocco http://w3.uqo.ca/icfca10 ================================================================================ Important Dates =============== Submission of abstract October 2, 2009 Submission of full paper October 8, 2009 Notification of acceptance November 26, 2009 Camera ready due December 18, 2009 Conference March 15-18, 2010 Leonard Kwuida & Baris Sertkaya ICFCA 2010 Program Chairs From baojie at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 19:44:50 2009 From: baojie at gmail.com (Jie Bao) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:44:50 -0400 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers - 4th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies Message-ID: ( WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ) ========================================================= 4th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Toronto, Canada, May 11, 2010 co-located with FOIS, KR, AAMAS, ICAPS, NMR, and DL --- 1st Call for Papers --- ========================================================= http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo4 MODULARITY, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance and ontology reasoning. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a foundation for further research and development. The workshop follows a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest work and current problems, and is this time organised as a satellite workshop of FOIS 2010, as well as being co-located with several other relevant events, namely KR, AAMAS, ICAPS, NMR, and DL. TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is Modularity: Kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/Foundational Studies: Conservativity; modular ontology languages (e.g., DDL, E-Connections, P-DL); reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; heterogeneity; - Algorithmic Approaches: distributed reasoning; modularization and module extraction; (selective) sharing and re-using, linking and importing; hiding and privacy; evaluation of modularization approaches; complexity of reasoning; reasoners or implemented systems; - Applications: Semantic Web; Life Sciences; Bio-Ontologies; Natural Language Processing; ontologies of space and time; Ambient Intelligence; collaborative ontology development; etc. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: January 29, 2010 Notification: March 1, 2010 Camera ready: March 11, 2010 Workshop day: May 11, 2010 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The workshop welcomes submission of high quality original and previously unpublished papers. Contributions should not exceed 13 pages in length and must be formatted according to IOS Press style (see http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ). Contributions should be prepared in PDF format and submitted not later than January 29 2010 through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo4 ). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers may be extended up to 16 pages and will be published as chapters in an IOS Press book in the series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'. The authors of accepted papers are also welcome to submit substantially extended versions to a planned special issue on 'Modularity in Ontologies' of the international journal 'Applied Ontology' (IOS Press). WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Oliver Kutz (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) Joana Hois (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) Jie Bao (Tetherless World Constellation & Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mathieu d'Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University of Milton Keynes, UK) Alex Borgida (Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, USA) Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy) Martin Dzbor (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University of Milton Keynes, UK) Fred Freitas (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Caixa Postal, Brazil) Silvio Ghilardi (Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy) John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK) Peter Haase (fluid Operations GmbH, Germany) Heinrich Herre (Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Germany) Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA) Vasant Honovar (Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Iowa State University, USA) Roman Kontchakov (School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK) Carsten Lutz (Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany) Till Mossakowski (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Lab Bremen, Germany) Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) Anne Schlicht (KR & KM Research Group, University of Mannheim, Germany) Thomas Schneider (Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK) Luciano Serafini (Centro Per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy) Stefano Spaccapietra (School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (KR & KM Research Group, University of Mannheim, Germany) Andrei Tamilin (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy) Dirk Walther (Department of Computer Science, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Frank Wolter (Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK) Antoine Zimmermann (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) From pakm at dke.univie.ac.at Tue Oct 13 19:17:16 2009 From: pakm at dke.univie.ac.at (PAKM Verteiler) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:17:16 +0200 Subject: [DL] KSEM Conference Program Announced Message-ID: <20091013182432.95245790@dke.univie.ac.at> (Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.) __ Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, We would like to inform you that the conference program for the ?KSEM2009 - 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management? has been published. 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You may also change your subscription by visiting this list's main screen: If you're still having trouble, please contact the list owner at: The following physical address is associated with this mailing list: Vienna, Austria Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail http://tools.dke.univie.ac.at/verteiler/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/ From pcosta at gmu.edu Wed Oct 14 23:51:29 2009 From: pcosta at gmu.edu (Paulo CG Costa) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:51:29 -0400 Subject: [DL] OIC 2009 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <5B25DEF0-C5AF-44AD-B342-B5F817F668E1@gmu.edu> 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 < > < > < > < > < > < > < > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ONTOLOGY FOR THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY OIC 2009 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Tuesday, October 20 Tutorial 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 present 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, Gheorge 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 Troy Self and Dave Kolas 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 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 Systems 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 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 surprisingly, 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 Ontological 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 Abstract 02:00 - 02:40 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From tb at imm.dtu.dk Thu Oct 1 14:38:15 2009 From: tb at imm.dtu.dk (Thomas Bolander) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:38:15 +0200 Subject: [DL] FIRST PhD Autumn School on Modal Logic Message-ID: <4AC4A2B7.6070806@imm.dtu.dk> Call for Participation FIRST PhD Autumn School on Modal Logic IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark November 10-11 2009 The goal of the Autumn School on Modal Logic is to prepare PhD students and other researchers for participation in the sixth workshop Methods for Modalities (M4M-6) which takes place November 12-14 2009 in Copenhagen. The workshop Methods for Modalities aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and decision methods based on modal logics. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. The first M4M workshop took place in Amsterdam in 1999. Since then, M4M workshops have taken place in 2001 (Amsterdam), 2003 (Nancy), 2005 (Berlin), and 2007 (Paris). See for more information on the workshop series, in particular, see why modal logic is important for computer science. A goal of having M4M in Denmark is to strengthen Danish research in reasoning methods for modal logics, which is a growing area of foundational and increasingly computational importance. The Autumn School on Modal Logic is open to anyone interested. The intended participants will have a general background in theoretical computer science, but wish to obtain more concrete knowledge on modal logic and its computational aspects. Besides a working knowledge of English, prerequisites are a basic knowledge of logic and mathematics that is usually covered in undergraduate classes on discrete mathematics. Lecturers and topics: Computational Modal Logic Carlos Areces and Patrick Blackburn, INRIA, Nancy Temporal Logics for Specification and Verification Valentin Goranko, Technical University of Denmark The Judgmental Reconstruction of Modal Logic Carsten Sch?rmann, IT University of Copenhagen Resolution-Based Theorem Proving for Modal and Description Logic Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester Hybrid Deduction Patrick Blackburn, INRIA, Nancy Time and place: The Fall school will take place at the IT University of Copenhagen November 10 and 11 2009. Registration: The registration deadline for the Autumn school is *** Friday, October 23 2009 *** Please register here: http://hylocore.ruc.dk/m4m6registration.html FIRST PhD students participate free of charge. Organization: Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Torben Bra?ner, Roskilde University Carsten Sch?rmann, IT University of Copenhagen Torben Bra?ner (torben at ruc.dk) is main organizer of the school and can be contacted for more information. The Autumn School on Modal Logic is supported by the FIRST Research School (http://first.dk) and the research project HYLOCORE (http://hylocore.ruc.dk). From tb at imm.dtu.dk Wed Oct 7 14:51:12 2009 From: tb at imm.dtu.dk (Thomas Bolander) Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:51:12 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for participation: Methods for Modalities 6 Message-ID: <4ACC8EC0.9070300@imm.dtu.dk> ==================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 6th Workshop on METHODS FOR MODALITIES (M4M-6) http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M6 Copenhagen, Denmark November 12-14, 2009 NOTE: The deadline for early registration is October 19 ==================================================================== Scope ----- The workshop METHODS FOR MODALITIES (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ Autumn School ------------- M4M-6 will be preceded by a two-day mini-course called "Autumn School on Modal Logic" aimed at preparing PhD students and other researchers for participation in the workshop. The autumn school will be taught by Carlos Areces, Patrick Blackburn, Valentin Goranko, Renate Schmidt, and Carsten Sch?rmann. Consult the autumn school home page for further information: http://hylocore.ruc.dk/m4m6school.html The autumn school is associated with the FIRST research school (http://first.dk). Registration ------------ To register for the workshop and/or the preceding autumn school on modal logic, please visit the following site: http://hylocore.ruc.dk/m4m6registration.html Note that the deadline for early registration is October 19. Workshop venue -------------- M4M will take place at the IDA Conference Center in the center of Copenhagen (http://ida.dk/sites/moedecenter/english/Sider/EnglishForside.aspx). The preceeding autumn school will take place at the IT University of Copenhagen (http://www1.itu.dk/sw5211.asp). For travelling and accommodation information, please consult the workshop home page (http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M6/). Invited speakers ----------------- - Franz Baader, TU Dresden "Small is again beautiful in description logics" (http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/~baader/index-en.html) - Barteld Kooi, University of Groningen "Logics for intelligent interaction" (http://www.philos.rug.nl/~barteld/) - Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg University "Modal logics for specification and verification" (http://www.cs.aau.dk/~kgl/) - Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester "Simulation and Synthesis of Deduction Calculi" (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~schmidt/) - Yde Venema, University of Amsterdam "Proof systems for Moss' co-algebraic modality" (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~yde/) Important dates --------------- Deadline for early registration M4M-6: October 19, 2009 Deadline for late registration M4M-6: November 5, 2009 Deadline for registration autumn school: November 5, 2009 Autumn school dates: November 11-12, 2009 M4M-6 workshop dates: November 12-14, 2009 Local organisers ---------------- - Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark tb at imm.dtu.dk - Torben Bra?ner, Roskilde University torben at ruc.dk Program Committee ----------------- Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine Thomas Bolander (co-chair), Technical University of Denmark Julian Bradfield, University of Edinburgh Torben Bra?ner (co-chair), Roskilde University Balder ten Cate, University of Amsterdam Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan Hans van Ditmarsch, University of Otago Melvin Fitting, City University of New York John Gallagher, Roskilde University Mai Gehrke, Radboud University Nijmegen Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano Valentin Goranko, University of the Witwatersrand Rajeev Gor?, ANU Michael R. Hansen, Technical University of Denmark Andreas Herzig, IRIT Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool Martin Lange, LMU M?nchen Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology Angelo Montanari, University of Udine Valeria de Paiva, Cuil Inc. Thomas Schneider, University of Manchester Carsten Sch?rmann, IT University of Copenhagen Gert Smolka, Saarland University Anders S?gaard, University of Copenhagen J?rgen Villadsen, Technical University of Denmark Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool Thomas ?gotnes, Bergen University College ================================================================== From wfitzgerald at tssg.org Fri Oct 9 20:58:04 2009 From: wfitzgerald at tssg.org (William Fitzgerald) Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:58:04 +0100 Subject: [DL] How does one handle multiple parents while still controlling disjointness? Message-ID: <4ACF87BC.1010303@tssg.org> Dear Experts, A modelling question based on your experience. What is normal practice when, for the most part you desire that two sibling classes and their associated subclasses be disjoint except for one or two subclasses that have both sibling classes as parents, in which case they are not disjoint! Consider two parent classes ClassA and ClassB. ClassA: ClassA1 subClassOf ClassA ClassA2 subClassOf ClassA ClassA3 subClassOf ClassA ClassAB subClassOf ClassA All subclasses of ClassA are disjoint ClassB: ClassB1 subclass of ClassB ClassB2 subclass of ClassB ClassAB subClassOf ClassB All subclasses of ClassB are disjoint There is a common class called ClassAB common to both ClassA and ClassB. Modelling Question: Because of the poly-hierarchy, ClassA and ClassB cannot be disjoint. No issue here. However, how does one prevent the possibility of instances of, for example, classA1 becoming instances of ClassB1 or ClassB in general? If the poly-hierarchy did not exist, then this is easily done by making ClassA and ClassB disjoint. What do DL knowledge engineers do in this case? Do you: 1) ignore/abstract away from the possibility of instances of one class being members of another? Thereby sticking to the above class hierarchy. 2) Manually assert cross-class disjointness. That is, along with stating that all subclasses of ClassA are disjoint, one now has to also say that ClassA1 isDisjointTo ClassB1 or perhaps even ClassB (might be a shorter route) and so forth. My guess is that, its not feasible if there are hundreds of classes! 3) Define a new class on the same hierarchy level (sibling class) as ClassA and ClassB called ClassCommonAB. Then set ClassAB as a subclass of ClassCommonAB only and remove ClassAB from ClassA and ClassB. That is: ClassA: ClassA1 subClassOf ClassA ClassA2 subClassOf ClassA All subclasses of ClassA are disjoint ClassB: ClassB1 subclass of ClassB ClassB2 subclass of ClassB ClassCommonAB: ClassAB ClassA, ClassB and ClassCommonAB are all disjoint. While this approach now allows for totally disjointness, that is, members of ClassA1 are not also members of ClassA2 nor ClassB nor ClassAB. Perfect! However, this approach also has its downside in that ClassAB has now no meaningful connection to ClassA or ClassB! kind regards, Will. From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Thu Oct 15 11:24:21 2009 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Uli Sattler) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:24:21 +0100 Subject: [DL] How does one handle multiple parents while still controlling disjointness? In-Reply-To: <4ACF87BC.1010303@tssg.org> References: <4ACF87BC.1010303@tssg.org> Message-ID: On 9 Oct 2009, at 19:58, William Fitzgerald wrote: > Dear Experts, > > A modelling question based on your experience. > > What is normal practice when, for the most part you desire that two > sibling classes and their associated subclasses be disjoint except > for one or two subclasses that have both sibling classes as parents, > in which case they are not disjoint! > > Consider two parent classes ClassA and ClassB. > ClassA: > ClassA1 subClassOf ClassA > ClassA2 subClassOf ClassA > ClassA3 subClassOf ClassA > ClassAB subClassOf ClassA > > All subclasses of ClassA are disjoint > > ClassB: > ClassB1 subclass of ClassB > ClassB2 subclass of ClassB > ClassAB subClassOf ClassB > > All subclasses of ClassB are disjoint > > There is a common class called ClassAB common to both ClassA and > ClassB. > > Modelling Question: > Because of the poly-hierarchy, ClassA and ClassB cannot be disjoint. > No issue here. > > However, how does one prevent the possibility of instances of, for > example, classA1 becoming instances of ClassB1 or ClassB in general? > > If the poly-hierarchy did not exist, then this is easily done by > making ClassA and ClassB disjoint. > > What do DL knowledge engineers do in this case? > > Do you: > 1) ignore/abstract away from the possibility of instances of one > class being members of another? Thereby sticking to the above class > hierarchy. > > 2) Manually assert cross-class disjointness. In OWL 2, you could simply add one axiom DisjointClasses(A1 A2 A3 B1 B2) I agree that this becomes a bit cumbersome because it needs changing when, say, you add a class B3. On the other hand, how should the system know which subclasses are disjoint and which aren't... > That is, along with stating that all subclasses of ClassA are > disjoint, one now has to also say that ClassA1 isDisjointTo ClassB1 > or perhaps even ClassB (might be a shorter route) and so forth. My > guess is that, its not feasible if there are hundreds of classes! > > 3) Define a new class on the same hierarchy level (sibling class) as > ClassA and ClassB called ClassCommonAB. Then set ClassAB as a > subclass of ClassCommonAB only and remove ClassAB from ClassA and > ClassB. > > That is: > ClassA: > ClassA1 subClassOf ClassA > ClassA2 subClassOf ClassA > > All subclasses of ClassA are disjoint > > ClassB: > ClassB1 subclass of ClassB > ClassB2 subclass of ClassB > > ClassCommonAB: > ClassAB > > ClassA, ClassB and ClassCommonAB are all disjoint. > > While this approach now allows for totally disjointness, that is, > members of ClassA1 are not also members of ClassA2 nor ClassB nor > ClassAB. Perfect! > > However, this approach also has its downside in that ClassAB has now > no meaningful connection to ClassA or ClassB! Alternatively, you could introduce two intermediate subclasses Ax and Bx that sit between Ai and A, Bi and B as follows: Bx SubClassOf B Ax SubClassOf A DisjointUnion(Bx B1 B2 B3) DisjointUnion(Ax A1 A2 A3) DisjointClasses(Ax Bx) and leave AB SubClassOf A AB SubClassOf B as it was before... Cheers, Uli > > kind regards, > Will. > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; > for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/ > . ** From baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Thu Oct 15 13:45:09 2009 From: baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Franz Baader) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:45:09 +0200 Subject: [DL] How does one handle multiple parents while still controlling disjointness? In-Reply-To: <4ACF87BC.1010303@tssg.org> References: <4ACF87BC.1010303@tssg.org> Message-ID: <5a051c660910150445g197213bfn7636ac5606e4e4c@mail.gmail.com> The solutions proposed by Uli Sattler work, but in principle this kind of hierarchy engineering is against the "spirit of DLs". The idea is that you use the expressive power of the DL to DEFINE the concepts. Subclass relationships and disjointness relationships then follow from these definitions (and can be computed by the DL reasoner). Best regards, -Franz Baader On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:58 PM, William Fitzgerald wrote: > Dear Experts, > > A modelling question based on your experience. > > What is normal practice when, for the most part you desire that two sibling > classes and their associated subclasses be disjoint except for one or two > subclasses that have both sibling classes as parents, in which case they are > not disjoint! > > Consider two parent classes ClassA and ClassB. > ClassA: > ClassA1 subClassOf ClassA > ClassA2 subClassOf ClassA > ClassA3 subClassOf ClassA > ClassAB subClassOf ClassA > > All subclasses of ClassA are disjoint > > ClassB: > ClassB1 subclass of ClassB > ClassB2 subclass of ClassB > ClassAB subClassOf ClassB > > All subclasses of ClassB are disjoint > > There is a common class called ClassAB common to both ClassA and ClassB. > > Modelling Question: > Because of the poly-hierarchy, ClassA and ClassB cannot be disjoint. No > issue here. > > However, how does one prevent the possibility of instances of, for example, > classA1 becoming instances of ClassB1 or ClassB in general? > > If the poly-hierarchy did not exist, then this is easily done by making > ClassA and ClassB disjoint. > > What do DL knowledge engineers do in this case? > > Do you: > 1) ignore/abstract away from the possibility of instances of one class being > members of another? Thereby sticking to the above class hierarchy. > > 2) Manually assert cross-class disjointness. That is, along with stating > that all subclasses of ClassA are disjoint, one now has to also say that > ClassA1 isDisjointTo ClassB1 or perhaps even ClassB (might be a shorter > route) and so forth. My guess is that, its not feasible if there are > hundreds of classes! > > 3) Define a new class on the same hierarchy level (sibling class) as ClassA > and ClassB called ClassCommonAB. Then set ClassAB as a subclass of > ClassCommonAB only and remove ClassAB from ClassA and ClassB. > > That is: > ClassA: > ClassA1 subClassOf ClassA > ClassA2 subClassOf ClassA > > All subclasses of ClassA are disjoint > > ClassB: > ClassB1 subclass of ClassB > ClassB2 subclass of ClassB > > ClassCommonAB: > ClassAB > > ClassA, ClassB and ClassCommonAB are all disjoint. > > While this approach now allows for totally disjointness, that is, members of > ClassA1 are not also members of ClassA2 nor ClassB nor ClassAB. Perfect! > > However, this approach also has its downside in that ClassAB has now no > meaningful connection to ClassA or ClassB! > > kind regards, > Will. > > --- > ** ?You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for more > ?** > ** ?information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. > ?** > From hoekstra at uva.nl Thu Oct 15 14:02:19 2009 From: hoekstra at uva.nl (Rinke Hoekstra) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:02:19 +0200 Subject: [DL] OWLED 2009 - Papers Online & Call for Participation Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting) Dear All, Papers accepted for this year's OWLED are now accessible online from the workshop website: http://www.webont.org/owled/2009 The current draft schedule can be found at: http://www.webont.org/owled/2009/schedule.html Registration is still open via the ISWC 2009 website (no late registration penalty for OWLED): https://ww2.eventrebels.com/er/Registration/StepRegInfo.jsp?ActivityID=4116&StepNumber=1 Hope to see you all next week! Best, Rinke --- Dr Rinke Hoekstra AI Department | Leibniz Center for Law Faculty of Sciences | Faculty of Law Vrije Universiteit | Universiteit van Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1081a | Kloveniersburgwal 48 1081 HV Amsterdam | 1012 CX Amsterdam +31-(0)20-5987752 | +31-(0)20-5253499 hoekstra at few.vu.nl | hoekstra at uva.nl Homepage: http://www.few.vu.nl/~hoekstra From myv at cs.rice.edu Fri Oct 16 01:29:52 2009 From: myv at cs.rice.edu (MYV) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:29:52 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [DL] FIVE YEARS OF LOGICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Message-ID: Dear Colleague: We would like to bring the community up to date on the journal Logical Methods in Computer Science www.lmcs-online.org We started this fully refereed, open access, free electronic journal in January 2005, intending to create a high-level platform for publications in all theoretical and practical areas in computer science involving logical methods, taken in a broad sense. We are now on Issue 3 of Volume 5 (there are four issues a year). So far, we have received more than 350 submissions of which we have published 162. In addition to individual submissions, our journal publishes special issues, e.g., of selected papers of high-level international conferences such as LICS, IJCAR, CAV, CSL, and RTA. We are continuing actively to develop the journal. For example, we accept survey articles, and are developing `live' surveys, which can be continually updated as knowledge progresses. In another direction, we are considering allowing authors to provide additional material of an expository nature, such as slides and videos, to enable them to interest a wider spectrum of readers in their contribution. The journal is an overlay of CoRR, the computer science repository of arXiv. There are no fees for authors nor for readers. Every paper is refereed by two or more referees, and high standards are applied. The editorial board consists of about sixty top specialists in all areas of logic in computer science. The journal is covered by Mathematical Reviews, the ISI Web of Knowledge, and the DBLP Database. We welcome your comments and suggestions, and we seek your contributions! For more information please consult our web pages: www.lmcs-online.org Yours, Editor-in-Chief: Dana S. Scott Managing Editors: Benjamin C. Pierce Gordon D. Plotkin Moshe Y. Vardi Executive Editors: Jiri Adamek Stefan Milius From wfitzgerald at tssg.org Thu Oct 15 17:47:58 2009 From: wfitzgerald at tssg.org (William Fitzgerald) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:47:58 +0100 Subject: [DL] How does one handle multiple parents while still controlling disjointness? In-Reply-To: References: <4ACF87BC.1010303@tssg.org> Message-ID: <4AD7442E.6070501@tssg.org> Thanks Uli and Maurizo for your repsonses. It turns out the way I defined it below work if and only if I define ClassAB as an equivalent class. That is ClassAB = ClassA intersection ClassB Then any member that is a member of ClassA and is also a member of ClassB *must* also be a member of ClassAB. So if I define individual a1 as a member of ClassA1 and then try assert that it is also a member of ClassB1 then I should get an inconsistency given ClassA1 is disjoint to ClassAB and ClassB1 is disjoint to ClassAB. So it all boiled down to the making the class "necessary and sufficient". Also a few house keeping tricks I learnt for the pellet forum along with the later half of this email threat, is that, given I have a controlled number of subclasses of say ClassA or ClassB, one could ensure that any member of ClassA must also be a member of at least one of its subclasses. That is apply a "covering" axiom with the union operator. So ClassA= ClassA1 union ClassA2 union ClassA3 union ClassAB (of course this "complete" class definiton also implies subsumption (subclassOf)). Thanks for replying. If there are any other comments, please ping me. My brain is in sponge mode and soaking up knowledge readily (for the moment at least :-) ). Regards, Will. Uli Sattler wrote: > > On 9 Oct 2009, at 19:58, William Fitzgerald wrote: > >> Dear Experts, >> >> A modelling question based on your experience. >> >> What is normal practice when, for the most part you desire that two >> sibling classes and their associated subclasses be disjoint except >> for one or two subclasses that have both sibling classes as parents, >> in which case they are not disjoint! >> >> Consider two parent classes ClassA and ClassB. >> ClassA: >> ClassA1 subClassOf ClassA >> ClassA2 subClassOf ClassA >> ClassA3 subClassOf ClassA >> ClassAB subClassOf ClassA >> >> All subclasses of ClassA are disjoint >> >> ClassB: >> ClassB1 subclass of ClassB >> ClassB2 subclass of ClassB >> ClassAB subClassOf ClassB >> >> All subclasses of ClassB are disjoint >> >> There is a common class called ClassAB common to both ClassA and ClassB. >> >> Modelling Question: >> Because of the poly-hierarchy, ClassA and ClassB cannot be disjoint. >> No issue here. >> >> However, how does one prevent the possibility of instances of, for >> example, classA1 becoming instances of ClassB1 or ClassB in general? >> >> If the poly-hierarchy did not exist, then this is easily done by >> making ClassA and ClassB disjoint. >> >> What do DL knowledge engineers do in this case? >> >> Do you: >> 1) ignore/abstract away from the possibility of instances of one >> class being members of another? Thereby sticking to the above class >> hierarchy. >> >> 2) Manually assert cross-class disjointness. > > In OWL 2, you could simply add one axiom > > DisjointClasses(A1 A2 A3 B1 B2) > > I agree that this becomes a bit cumbersome because it needs changing > when, say, you add a class B3. On the other hand, how should the > system know which subclasses are disjoint and which aren't... Yep my thinking exactly in point 2) above, it becomes unmanageable as new subclasses are created. > >> That is, along with stating that all subclasses of ClassA are >> disjoint, one now has to also say that ClassA1 isDisjointTo ClassB1 >> or perhaps even ClassB (might be a shorter route) and so forth. My >> guess is that, its not feasible if there are hundreds of classes! >> Maurizio had the same idea as above and would be a shorter route than having to assert disjointness for each subclass of ClassB. >> 3) Define a new class on the same hierarchy level (sibling class) as >> ClassA and ClassB called ClassCommonAB. Then set ClassAB as a >> subclass of ClassCommonAB only and remove ClassAB from ClassA and >> ClassB. >> >> That is: >> ClassA: >> ClassA1 subClassOf ClassA >> ClassA2 subClassOf ClassA >> >> All subclasses of ClassA are disjoint >> >> ClassB: >> ClassB1 subclass of ClassB >> ClassB2 subclass of ClassB >> >> ClassCommonAB: >> ClassAB >> >> ClassA, ClassB and ClassCommonAB are all disjoint. >> >> While this approach now allows for totally disjointness, that is, >> members of ClassA1 are not also members of ClassA2 nor ClassB nor >> ClassAB. Perfect! >> >> However, this approach also has its downside in that ClassAB has now >> no meaningful connection to ClassA or ClassB! > > Alternatively, you could introduce two intermediate subclasses Ax and > Bx that sit between Ai and A, Bi and B as follows: > > Bx SubClassOf B > Ax SubClassOf A > > DisjointUnion(Bx B1 B2 B3) > DisjointUnion(Ax A1 A2 A3) > > DisjointClasses(Ax Bx) > > and leave > > AB SubClassOf A > AB SubClassOf B > > as it was before... > > Cheers, Uli > >> >> kind regards, >> Will. >> >> --- >> ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; >> for more ** >> ** information, visit the description logic homepage at >> http://dl.kr.org/. ** > From universal.logic at ufc.br Fri Oct 16 13:24:38 2009 From: universal.logic at ufc.br (Universal Logic) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:24:38 -0200 (BRST) Subject: [DL] World Congress, Lisbon 2010 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <3aa25b8bc9e98310096bb079ef16be98.squirrel@correio1.ufc.br> The third edition of the World Congress and School on Universal Logic will happen April 18-25, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal. There will be: 10 invited speakers, among them: Hartry Field, George Gr?tzer, Yuri Gurevich, Gehrard Jaeger, Dana Scott 10 special sessions, among them: logic diagrams, substructural logics, non-classical mathematics, categorical logic, mutlimodal logics, paradoxes 21 tutorials, among them: Hybrid logic, Logical Pluralism, Erotetic Logics, Truth-values, Refutation, Ideospheres, How to cut and paste logical systems 1 contest: How to combine logics? Submission deadline for contributed talks has been extended to November 15, 2009 UNILOG'2010 World Congress and School on Universal Logic III April 18-25, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.uni-log.org From Sebastien.Ferre at irisa.fr Wed Oct 21 18:53:48 2009 From: Sebastien.Ferre at irisa.fr (Sebastien Ferre) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:53:48 +0200 Subject: [DL] ICCS 2010: Call for Papers Message-ID: <4ADF3C9C.3090707@irisa.fr> ** Apologies for cross-postings. ** ** Kindly forward to interested colleagues and doctoral students.** ** PDF version as attachment ** ==================================================================== Call for Papers ICCS 2010: 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures From Information to Intelligence 12 - 16 July 2010 Damai Beach Resort Kuching, Malaysia http://www.mimos.my/iccs2010 ==================================================================== The ICCS'10 Program Committee invites submission of papers and posters for the Technical Program of the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures. Since 1993 the focus of the conference (held in Europe, Australia, North America etc.) has been the representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge for research and practical applications. ICCS brings together researchers in information and computer science as well as social sciences to explore novel ways of deploying conceptual structures. The ICCS 2010 theme is ``From Information to Intelligence''. TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: - Graph based knowledge representation and reasoning; - Conceptual knowledge acquisition; - Conceptual data processing, analysis and conceptual logic; - Interplay of conceptual structures with language, semantics, semiotics and pragmatics; - Representation and reasoning with conceptual structures; - Applied conceptual structures. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for electronic abstracts: 5th January 2010 Paper submission deadline: 8th January 2010 Notification of acceptance / rejection: 5th March 2010 Conference: 12 - 16 July 2010 SUBMISSIONS DETAILS: Papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer's LNCS format. We recommend the use of LaTeX2e for the final camera ready paper. For more details please see: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0. ICCS'10 also accepts posters. Each poster will have 4 pages allocated in the proceedings. The language of the conference is English. Reviewing for ICCS'10 is blind: reviewers will not be presented with the identity of the paper authors. Submissions should be original and not previously published (any publication venue with a ISBN or ISSN number counts as a formal publication). Papers accepted for publications at ICCS'10 will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series by Springer-Verlag and must be presented at the conference. CONFERENCE CHAIRS: GENERAL CHAIR: - Dickson Lukose MIMOS, Malaysia PROGRAM CHAIRS (alphabetical order): - Madalina Croitoru LIRMM (Univ Montpellier II and CNRS), France - Sebastien Ferre IRISA / IFSIC, Univ Rennes 1, France EDITORIAL BOARD: - Galia Angelova Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria - Frithjof Dau SAP Dresden, Germany - Aldo de Moor CommunitySense, The Netherlands - Harry Delugach University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA - Peter Eklund Bernhard Ganter Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Pascal Hitzler Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany - Mary Keeler VivoMind Intelligence, Inc., USA - Sergei Kuznetsov Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Bernard Moulin Universit? Laval, Canada - Marie-Laure Mugnier LIRMM, France - Heather D. Pfeiffer New Mexico State University, USA - Simon Polovina Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Uta Priss Edinburgh Napier University - Sebastian Rudolph University of Karlsruhe, Germany - Henrik Sch?rfe Aalborg University, Denmark - John F. Sowa VivoMind Intelligence Inc., USA - Gerd Stumme University of Kassel, Germany - Rudolf Wille Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany - Karl Erich Wolff University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany - Peter ?hrstr?m Aalborg University, Denmark PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: - Jean-Fran?ois Baget LIRMM-RCR & INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes, France - Radim Belohlavek Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic - Tru H. Cao Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam - Dan Corbett DARPA, Washington, D.C., USA - Olivier Corby INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France - Juliette Dibie-Barth?lemy AgroParisTech, France - Pavlin Dobrev ProSyst Labs EOOD, Bulgaria - Ollivier Haemmerl? Universit? de Toulouse le Mirail, France - Udo Hebisch Technische Universit?t Freiberg, Germany - Joachim Hereth DMC GmbH, Germany - Nathalie Hernandez Universit? Toulouse le Mirail, France - Wolfgang Hesse Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany - Richard Hill Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Jan Hladik SAP Research Dresden, Germany - Adil Kabbaj INSEA, Rabat, Morocco - Rob Kremer University of Calgary, Canada - Markus Kr?tzsch Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH), Germany - Leonard Kwuida Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Michel Leclere LIRMM, France - Robert Levinson UC Santa Cruz, USA - Philippe Martin Eur?com, France - Claudio Masolo ISTC, Trento, Italy - Daniel Oberle SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany - Sergei Obiedkov Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - John Old Edinburgh Napier University, UK - Anne-Marie Rassinoux University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland - Gary Richmond City University of New York, USA - Olivier Ridoux Universit? de Rennes 1, France - Sebastian Rudolph University of Karlsruhe, Germany - Eric Salvat IMERIR, Perpignan, France - Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen University of Aalborg, Denmark - Jeffrey Schiffel The Boeing Company, USA - Denny Vrandecic AIFB, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany - Guo-Qiang Zhang Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Key to the pervasive adoption of Semantic Web technologies is a good set of fundamental "building blocks" - the most important of these are representation languages themselves. W3C's standard languages for the Semantic Web, RDF and OWL, have been around for several years; instead of strict standards compliance, we see "variants" of these languages emerge in applications, often tailored to a particular application's needs. These variants are often either subsets of OWL or supersets of RDF, typically with fragments OWL added. Extensions based on rules, such as SWRL and N3 logic, have been developed as well as enhancements to the SPARQL query language and protocol. In this workshop we will explore the landscape of RDF, OWL and SPARQL variants, specifically from the standpoint of "real-world semantics". Are there commonalities in these variants that might suggest new standards or new versions of the existing standards? We hope to identify common requirements of applications consuming Semantic Web data and understand the pros and cons of a strictly formal approach to modeling data versus a "scruffier" approach where semantics are based on application requirements and implementation restrictions. The workshop will encourage active audience participation and discussion and includes a keynote by Sandro Hawke (W3C) as well as a panel to be moderated by Jim Hendler (RPI). ORGANIZERS Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ora Lassila, Nokia Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County PROGRAM 08:30-08:45 Welcome, introductions, etc. [15] 08:45-09:45 Sandro's invited talk + discussion [60] 9:45 - 10:35 2 research paper [50] RDF syntax normalization using XML validation - Denny Vrandecic, Frank Dengler, Sebastian Rudolph and Michael Erdmann (research paper) [25] LexRDF Model: An RDF-based Unified Model for Heterologous Biomedical Ontologies - Cui Tao, Jyotishman Pathak, Harold Solbrig, Wei-Qi Wei and Christopher Chute (research paper) [25] 10:35-10:50 Break [15] 10:50 - 11:55 1 position paper, 2 research papers [65] Streaming OWL, Mike Dean (position paper) [10] Accessing Site-Specific APIs Through Write-Wrappers From The Web of Data - Oana Ureche, Aftab Iqbal, Richard Cyganiak and Michael Hausenblas (research paper) [25] LTML - A Language for Representing Semantic Web Service Workflow Procedures - Mark Burstein, Robert Goldman, Drew McDermott, David McDonald, Jacob Beal and John Maraist [25] 11:55 - 12:40 Panel + discussion [45] 12:40-12:45 Closing comments and Wrap-up 12:45-2:00 Lunch PANEL Title: "Little vs Large Semantics: What's next for the Semantic Web languages?" Moderator: Jim Hendler, RPI Panelists: Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia, LLC Leigh Dodds, Talis Ivan Herman, W3C Ora Lassila, Nokia From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Mon Oct 26 13:26:59 2009 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:26:59 -0200 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2010 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: *(please circulate; apologies for any cross-postings)* * * *WoLLIC 2010 17th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation * *July 6th to 9th, 2010 * *Universidade de Bras?lia, Bras?lia, Brazil* *Scientific Sponsorship* *Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL )* *The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI )* *Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL )* *European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS )* *Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC )* *Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL )* *Funding* (tbc) *Special: A screening of I want to be a mathematician: A conversation with Paul Halmos * *Organisation* *Department of Mathematics , Universidade de Bras?lia , Brazil Centro de Inform?tica , Universidade Federal de Pernambuco , Brazil * ------------------------------ Call for PapersWoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The Seventeenth WoLLIC will be held in Bras?lia, Brazil, from July 6th to 9th, 2010. It is sponsored by theAssociation for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL). *Special Event* 2010 will mark the 50-th anniversary of the first publication of Paul Halmos' classic book *Na?ve Set Theory* by Springer Verlag. WoLLIC will celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Halmos which was directed by George Csicsery: "I want to be a mathematician. A conversation with Paul Halmos"http://zalafilms.com/films/halmos.html *Paper submission* Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2010 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2010/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 28, and the full paper by March 7 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 12, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 3 (firm date). *Proceedings* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2010, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series (TBC). In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2010 issue of a scientific journal (soon to be announced). *Invited Speakers* *Marcelo Finger* *Michiel van Lambalgen* *Johann (Janos) Makowsky* *Sebastiaan Terwijn * *Student Grants* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2010 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2010). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *Important Dates* February 28, 2010: Paper title and abstract deadline March 7, 2010: Full paper deadline (firm) April 12, 2010: Author notification May 3, 2010: Final version deadline (firm) *Programme Committee* *Ver?nica Becher* (Buenos Aires) *Raffaella Bernardi* (Bolzano) *Ricardo Bianconi* (S?o Paulo) *Vasco Brattka* (Cape Town) *Balder ten Cate* (ENS, Cachan) *Bob Coecke* (Oxford) *Adriana Compagnoni* (Stevens) *Marcelo Coniglio* (Campinas) *Anuj Dawar* (Cambridge), chair *Valentin Goranko* (Copenhagen) *Masahito Hasegawa* (Kyoto U, Japan) *Rosalie Iemhoff* (Utrecht) *Makoto Kanazawa* (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) *Giuseppe Longo* (CNRS & ENS, Paris) *Mike Mislove* (Tulane) *Michael Norrish* (NICTA, Canberra) *Bart Selman* (Cornell) *Scott Weinstein* (Penn) *Organising Committee* Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (U Bras?lia, Brazil) (co-chair) Fl?vio L. C. 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URL: From Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at Sat Oct 24 11:14:20 2009 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:14:20 +0100 Subject: [DL] AAAI-10: CALL FOR TUTORIALS Message-ID: <4AE2C56C.9030204@kr.tuwien.ac.at> **** NEW TUTORIAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 13, 2009 **** AAAI-10 TUTORIAL FORUM ====================== http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2010/aaai10tutorialcall.php LATEST NEWS: * The deadline for submission of AAAI-10 Tutorial Forum Proposals has been extended to November 13, 2009. * The notification deadline will be December 7, 2009. The Tutorial Forum of the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10) will be held July 11-12, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia USA. The Tutorial Forum is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. The AAAI-10 Program Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Forum of the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10). The Tutorial Forum will be held July 11-12, 2010 in Atlanta. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial at AAAI-10 should submit a proposal to the 2010 Tutorial Forum Cochairs listed below. What Is the Tutorial Forum? The Tutorial Forum provides an opportunity for junior and senior researchers to spend two days each year freely exploring exciting advances in disciplines outside their normal focus. We believe this type of forum is essential for the cross fertilization, cohesiveness, and vitality of the AI field. We all have a lot to learn from each other; the Tutorial Forum promotes the continuing education of each member of the AAAI. Topics AAAI is interested in proposals for advanced tutorials at the leading edge of AI. We are particularly interested in tutorials that offer two types of knowledge. The first type provides in-depth background tools to help educate researchers and students for the purpose of conducting AI research; examples of this type of tutorials from AAAI-08 include "General Game Playing," "Graphical Models for Multiagent Decision-Making," and "Satisfied by Message Passing: Probabilistic Techniques for Combinatorial Problems." A second type of tutorial provides a broad overview for an AI area that potentially crosses boundaries with an interesting application area; examples of this type of tutorial from AAAI-08 include "Social Network Mining: A Tutorial on Inference and Learning with Social Network Data" and "Machine Learning for Biomedical Applications." Our goal is to present a diverse program that includes core areas of AI, new techniques from allied disciplines that can inform research within AI, and conversely emerging applications of AI techniques to new areas. Previous years' tutorial programs provide an indication of the scope and variety of possible topics. The list is not exclusive; indeed, we are expressly interested in topics that we would not have imagined to mention. Finally, note that we very much welcome proposals for educational approaches that go beyond the traditional format of four-hour tutorials, exploiting the flexibility that the one-fee program offers. Submission Requirements We need two kinds of information in the proposals: information that will be used for selecting proposals and information that will appear in the tutorial description brochure. The proposal should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality of the technical content being taught, the quality of the educational material being used, and the speakers' skill at presenting this material. Each proposal should include at least the following: * Goal of the tutorial: Who is the target audience? What will the audience walk away with? What makes the topic innovative? * Content: Detailed outline and list of additional materials, augmented with samples, such as past tutorial slides and survey articles, whenever possible. Be as complete as possible. * Tutorial description: A short paragraph summarizing the tutorial outline, and the intended duration of the symposium (default is four hours). * Prerequisite knowledge: What knowledge is assumed of the target audience. Please also submit the following information about the team of presenters: name, mailing address, phone number, email address; background in the tutorial area, including a list of publications and/or presentations; any available examples of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article or presentation materials on the subject); evidence of teaching experience (courses taught or references); and evidence of scholarship in AI or computer science. Submission Deadline Proposals must be received by November 13, 2009. Decisions about the tutorial program will be made by December 7, 2009. Speakers should be prepared to submit their tutorial descriptions and bios by January 8, 2010, and to post completed course materials on their websites by June 4, 2010. Please e-mail proposal material to Russell Greiner and Thomas Lukasiewicz at the following addresses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AAAI-10 Tutorial Program Cochairs * Russell Greiner Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E8 780-492-5461 780-492-1071 (fax) russ.greiner+Tutorial at gmail.com * Thomas Lukasiewicz Oxford University Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building, Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QD, UK 0044-1865-522566 0044-1865-273839 (fax) Thomas.Lukasiewicz at comlab.ox.ac.uk For further information about the AAAI-10 tutorial forum, please see http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2010/aaai10tutorialcall.php For information about AAAI-10 in general, visit http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai10.php From claudia.damato at di.uniba.it Thu Nov 5 19:40:21 2009 From: claudia.damato at di.uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:40:21 +0100 Subject: [DL] EKAW 2010: First call for paper Message-ID: <4AF31C15.5070707@di.uniba.it> International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management EKAW 2010 Lisbon, Portugal, 11th October-15th October 2010 http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, etc. The focus of the 17th edition of EKAW will be on "Knowledge Management and Engineering by the Masses". The call for papers in PDF available at http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt/docs/cfpEkaw2010.pdf Important dates * Submission: 19th of March 2010 * Notification: 14th of May 2010 * Camera Ready: 11th of June 2010 Organizing Committee * General and PC chairs: - Sofia Pinto (INESC-ID, Lisbon) - Philipp Cimiano (CITEC, Universit?t Bielefeld) * Workshop chair: - Siegfried Handschuh (DERI, NUI Galway) * Tutorial chair: - Victoria Uren (University of Sheffield) Demonstration chairs: - Oscar Corcho (UPM, Madrid) - Johanna V?lker (University of Mannheim) The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. The LNCS volume will contain contributed papers. EKAW 2010 will also feature a tutorial and workshop program, as well as a poster and demo track. Poster/demo notes and workshop/tutorial notes will be published separately in a companion booklet. Paper submission and reviewing for EKAW 2010 will be electronic via the EasyChair conference submissions site. Submissions should be 15 pages long (max) formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS guidelines. EKAW 2010 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application aspects. In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit papers about methodologies, models, and tools for the following topics: 1) Knowledge Management * Methodologies and tools for knowledge management * Aspects of collaboration, distribution and evolution of knowledge in KM * Advanced knowledge modeling languages and tools * Best practices / experiences in KM * Foundations of KM * Entity-oriented approaches to KM * Layered intelligence in knowledge management * Provenance, reliability and trust in knowledge management * Knowledge management for collaboration and decision support * Methods for accelerating take-up of KM technologies * Corporate memories for KM * Case-based reasoning for KM 2) Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition * Methodologies for knowledge engineering * Knowledge acquisition, ontology learning * Knowledge sharing * Knowledge evolution * Collaborative knowledge engineering * Design patterns * Techniques for knowledge acquisition based on machine learning, NLP etc. * Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge modeling * Knowledge engineering and software engineering * Ontology localization * Ontology alignment * Evolution of knowledge (including ontology evolution) * Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri, folksonomies, lexica etc.) * Knowledge acquisition and knowledge integration from heterogeneous sources (multimedia and 3D data, databases, sensor data streams, social interaction data) * Knowledge authoring and knowledge markup languages * Ontology evaluation * Dynamic, distributed and process knowledge (including web services, grid services, P2P systems, rules and business processes, problem solving methods, procedural knowledge) * Agent-based approaches to knowledge management * Knowledge mashups 3) Knowledge In Use: knowledge management and engineering for * Retrieval and proactive delivery of pertinent knowledge * Multimedia applications * Life and E-sciences * E-Government and public administration * Health and medicine * Automotive and manufacturing industry * Semantic desktop applications * The legal domain * Cultural heritage applications * Digital broadcasting and film, game and 3D media content production and sharing * Digital libraries * Virtual worlds * Storytelling * Management in critical applications * Organizing user-contributed content * Transition across organizations 4) Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Engineering * Sustainability and cost analysis of knowledge engineering * Human-knowledge interaction * Cognitive systems and knowledge engineering * Knowledge ecosystems * Knowledge and social network analysis & modeling * Knowledge in trust networks * Personal sphere in knowledge engineering and management * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition 5) Special focus knowledge management and engineering by the masses * Human-machine synergy in knowledge acquisition * Incentives for knowledge creation and semantic annotation * Enhancing human productivity (e.g. knowledge workers) * Social and human factors in knowledge management * Collective and collaborative intelligence in knowledge management * Social tagging and folksonomies, social networks * Web2.0 approaches to KM (including semantic wikis, folksonomies, etc.) * Games with a Purpose and KM * Linked Open Data / Web of Data As an important difference to earlier conferences, EKAW will accept different types of papers. The papers will all have the same status and follow the same formatting guidelines in the proceedings but will receive special treatment during the reviewing phase. In particular, each paper type will be subject to own evaluation criteria. The PC will also make sure that there is a reasonable balance of the paper types accepted. At submission time the paper has to be clearly identified as belonging to one of the following categories. A) Standard research papers These are "standard" papers presenting a novel method, technique or analysis with appropriate empirical or other types of evaluation as proof-of concept. The main evaluation criteria here will be originality, technical soundness and validation. B) In-use papers Here we are expecting papers describing applications of knowledge management and engineering in real environments. Applications need to address a sufficiently interesting and challenging problem on real and large datasets, involving many users etc. The focus is less on the originality of the approach and more on presenting real, large-scale and complex systems that solve a significant problem. Technical details to understand how the problem is solved are required. Evaluations should involve real users of a system rather than representing a pure academic exercise. The papers will be evaluated according to the significance and practical relevance of the described research as well as with respect to the technical soundness of the described solution and accompanying evaluation. C) Problem Analysis papers We invite researchers to also publish problem analysis papers which do not present any novel method, technique or approach to solving a problem, but help to understand the problem itself. Understanding the characteristics of a problem itself is an important task in research and can benefit many people working on the same or at least similar problems. We expect in-depth discussions and analysis of a certain phenomenon or problem, with clear definitions as well as qualitative and quantitative analyzes of the main characteristics of the problem. We also expect a reasonable review of the state-of-the-art stating in how far current solutions fall short. Papers will mainly be evaluated with respect to how general and technically sound their problem analysis is and how useful it will be for other researchers working on the same problem. We expect that such papers will guide future research by highlighting critical assumptions, motivating the difficulty of a subproblem or explaining why current techniques are not sufficient, all corroborated by quantitative and qualitative arguments. Evaluation criteria will also include appropriate categorization of the problem area and description of present solutions and approaches; and appropriate description of the limitations of the present solutions and approaches. D) Validation papers A fundamental characteristic of research is that it should be reproducible. In some disciplines, reproduction of results by others is a basic research activity. We would like to encourage researchers to reproduce and validate methods, results and experiments etc. proposed by others before in a new context or application, on new datasets, under new assumptions etc. The goal is clearly to reach interesting and significant new conclusions about the method/approach in question that warrant a stand-alone publication. The reproduction of results should thus lead to new knowledge about the method in question or reveal inherent problems in the assumptions of the original research or limitations of previous solutions. 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The AAAI-10 Program Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Forum of the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10). The Tutorial Forum will be held July 11-12, 2010 in Atlanta. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial at AAAI-10 should submit a proposal to the 2010 Tutorial Forum Cochairs listed below. What Is the Tutorial Forum? The Tutorial Forum provides an opportunity for junior and senior researchers to spend two days each year freely exploring exciting advances in disciplines outside their normal focus. We believe this type of forum is essential for the cross fertilization, cohesiveness, and vitality of the AI field. We all have a lot to learn from each other; the Tutorial Forum promotes the continuing education of each member of the AAAI. Topics AAAI is interested in proposals for advanced tutorials at the leading edge of AI. We are particularly interested in tutorials that offer two types of knowledge. The first type provides in-depth background tools to help educate researchers and students for the purpose of conducting AI research; examples of this type of tutorials from AAAI-08 include "General Game Playing," "Graphical Models for Multiagent Decision-Making," and "Satisfied by Message Passing: Probabilistic Techniques for Combinatorial Problems." A second type of tutorial provides a broad overview for an AI area that potentially crosses boundaries with an interesting application area; examples of this type of tutorial from AAAI-08 include "Social Network Mining: A Tutorial on Inference and Learning with Social Network Data" and "Machine Learning for Biomedical Applications." Our goal is to present a diverse program that includes core areas of AI, new techniques from allied disciplines that can inform research within AI, and conversely emerging applications of AI techniques to new areas. Previous years' tutorial programs provide an indication of the scope and variety of possible topics. The list is not exclusive; indeed, we are expressly interested in topics that we would not have imagined to mention. Finally, note that we very much welcome proposals for educational approaches that go beyond the traditional format of four-hour tutorials, exploiting the flexibility that the one-fee program offers. Submission Requirements We need two kinds of information in the proposals: information that will be used for selecting proposals and information that will appear in the tutorial description brochure. The proposal should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality of the technical content being taught, the quality of the educational material being used, and the speakers' skill at presenting this material. Each proposal should include at least the following: * Goal of the tutorial: Who is the target audience? What will the audience walk away with? What makes the topic innovative? * Content: Detailed outline and list of additional materials, augmented with samples, such as past tutorial slides and survey articles, whenever possible. Be as complete as possible. * Tutorial description: A short paragraph summarizing the tutorial outline, and the intended duration of the symposium (default is four hours). * Prerequisite knowledge: What knowledge is assumed of the target audience. Please also submit the following information about the team of presenters: name, mailing address, phone number, email address; background in the tutorial area, including a list of publications and/or presentations; any available examples of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article or presentation materials on the subject); evidence of teaching experience (courses taught or references); and evidence of scholarship in AI or computer science. Submission Deadline Proposals must be received by November 13, 2009. Decisions about the tutorial program will be made by December 7, 2009. Speakers should be prepared to submit their tutorial descriptions and bios by January 8, 2010, and to post completed course materials on their websites by June 4, 2010. Please e-mail proposal material to Russell Greiner and Thomas Lukasiewicz at the following addresses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AAAI-10 Tutorial Program Cochairs * Russell Greiner Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E8 780-492-5461 780-492-1071 (fax) russ.greiner+Tutorial at gmail.com * Thomas Lukasiewicz Oxford University Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building, Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QD, UK 0044-1865-522566 0044-1865-273839 (fax) Thomas.Lukasiewicz at comlab.ox.ac.uk For further information about the AAAI-10 tutorial forum, please see http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2010/aaai10tutorialcall.php For information about AAAI-10 in general, visit http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai10.php From universal.logic at ufc.br Mon Nov 2 11:19:50 2009 From: universal.logic at ufc.br (Universal Logic) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:19:50 -0200 (BRST) Subject: [DL] contest: how to combine logics? Message-ID: <9019f5e0088dd6c604a71a7470c5c8b5.squirrel@correio1.ufc.br> How to combine logics? This will be the contest for the universal logic 2010 price offered by Birkh?user at the World Congress on Universal Logic III Lisbon, Portugal, April 22-25, 2010 http://www.uni-log.org When we have two logics, we may want to put them together. For example on the one hand we have a temporal logic and on the other hand we have a deontic logic, how then to put them together to produce a temporal deontic logic in which we can deal with sentences such as "Sometimes it is allowed to eat chocolate"? This is a very interesting question in the engineering of logic. People have been working in the subject since about 15 years. But there are still some fundamental problems not completely solved. These problems are connected to the very nature of what a logical system is. One may wonder if the intuitive definition of combination of logic as the smallest conservative extension of two given logics really works, and also if it is always possible to combine two logics. If you want to take part to this contest send a short paper (10 to 15 pages) to unilog2010 at gmail.com before November 15th, 2009. The best ones will be selected for presentation at a special session during the congress and a jury will then decide who the winner is. From ebrahim.bagheri at gmail.com Sun Nov 8 21:00:53 2009 From: ebrahim.bagheri at gmail.com (Ebrahim Bagheri) Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:00:53 -0400 Subject: [DL] CFP: Graduate Symposium - Canadian Artificial Intelligence 2010 Message-ID: <3a2edcff0911081200p68e3148csd3c5acab269b77dd@mail.gmail.com> *Canadian Conference on AI 2010 Graduate Students Symposium* May 30th, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Call For Paper - Deadline 30 January 2010 http://glass.cs.unb.ca/~ebrahim/conf/cai-gs/ AI 2010, the twenty-third Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, invites graduate students to submit four-page extended abstracts of their thesis for possible inclusion in the AI 2010 Graduate Student Symposium and the Canadian AI proceedings published by Springer. Symposium Objectives The Symposium provides an opportunity for Master's and PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives with their peers and with a panel of established researchers in Artificial Intelligence, helping to develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research. The symposium will be a one-day pre-conference event, where students of accepted abstracts will be invited to give a presentation on their thesis work before a group of peers as well as a small team of expert AI researchers who would offer a critique of each presentation and provide support, advice, and mentoring. Each student may also be invited to participate in the poster session during the main conference. In addition, a small selection of the best student submissions will be invited to give a short talk during the main conference. PhD and Master's students are invited to submit original work in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Submissions should have emphasis on work in progress, with directions for future research clearly indicated wherever appropriate. More weight will be placed on the significance of the work, the proposed ideas or solutions, and the overall presentation than on submissions which present work with complete results. The Application Package Applicants to the symposium need to submit the following materials. Please combine all materials into one PDF document: * A four-page thesis summary that outlines the problem being addressed, the proposed plan for research, and a description of the progress to date. The most successful applications directly address all three of these components. Please be sure to distinguish between work that has already been accomplished and work that remains to be done. Be sure to include a title for your work. All submissions must be written in English. Abstracts may be up to 4 pages in length and must be formatted according to Springer's LNCS style. Please follow the instructions for authors at Springer's site for authors. The use of the LaTeX2e style file available at the web site is strongly encouraged. * Include a CV (at most two pages) that describes your background and relevant experience (research, education, employment). Your CV needs to include your anticipated graduation date, or it may be rejected without review. Please include any additional items that may indicate your potential contribution to, and benefit from, the symposium. * A letter of recommendation from your thesis advisor. It must include an assessment of the current status of your thesis research, and an expected date for thesis submission. In addition, your advisor should indicate what he or she hopes you would gain from participation in the symposium. * Participant's Expectations. A short (one page or less) statement of what you expect to gain from presenting and participating in the symposium, as well as what you think you can contribute to the symposium. For best consideration, your statement must address both of these expectations. The Reviewing Process Each abstract will be reviewed by a team of program committee members. Presenting students will be selected based on clarity of the submission, stage of research, advisor's letter and evidence of promise such as published papers or technical reports. (Partial) Financial assistance for travel and accommodations may be available to the students presenting at the Symposium. All students are encouraged to attend and participate in the Symposium, whether or not they apply to present their work. All the selected student presenters are expected to actively participate in the full Symposium, as we envision participants gaining as much by interacting with their peers as by having their presentations critiqued by the faculty panel. In addition, a senior AI researcher and faculty member will be invited to give a talk on a topic of interest to graduate students. Important Dates Package submission due January 30th, 2010 Notification of acceptance March 3rd, 2010 Final paper due March 8th, 2010 Program Co-chairs: Ebrahim Bagheri, National Research Council Canada and Athabasca University Marina Sokolova, CHEO Research Institute, University of Ottawa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Sat Nov 7 07:49:01 2009 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:49:01 +0000 Subject: [DL] CFP Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on Semantic Web Dynamics Message-ID: <07BAD22F-384B-451A-BD7D-AC58DFC688D6@open.ac.uk> Apologies for the inevitable multiple receptions. ======================================== PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Web Semantics Special Issue on Semantic Web Dynamics ======================================== Description ----------- Recent years have witnessed the arrival of more and more semantically annotated data and related ontologies in the Semantic Web. For example, the linked data initiative has been very successful in making datasets available online, with a total of about 5 billion triples all together so far. While existing semantic tools and reasoning engines are year after year getting better in dealing with time invariant domain of ontological knowledge, supporting rapidly changing information has not yet attracted sufficient attention. There are more and more heterogeneous and/or dynamic data types being created and which integration could lead to interesting applications and models (e.g. sensor data streams, geospatial information and imagery, financial transactions, news feeds, 3D models, engineering data, information for policy intelligence etc.). Current Stream Database Management Systems provide on the fly analysis of data streams, but they suffer several limitations: they cannot handle heterogeneous data streams originating from a variety of already deployed sensors; they cannot combine data streams with slowly evolving knowledge at query time; and they cannot perform reasoning tasks. And in the area of reasoning, while the problem of classical, time invariant domain of ontological knowledge has been extensively studied, the task of reasoning with rapidly changing information has been mostly neglected and constitutes a new challenge. Furthermore, ontologies, just like any structure holding knowledge and information, need to be updated too: changes could be initiated because of a change in the world being modeled; or by a change in the users? needs which would require a different conceptualization; or by the acquisition of knowledge previously unknown, unclassified or otherwise unavailable; or by the noticing of a design flaw in the original conceptualization. In all these cases, the representation of knowledge in the ontology should be modified so as to form a more accurate or adequate conceptualization of the domain. This general issue of Semantic Web Dynamics includes difficulties from both practical and theoretical points of view, raising a variety of research questions and development challenges, such as how to support the ontology and data publishers in maintaining up-to-date, adequate representations; how to detect the need for evolution and changes; how to facilitate the integration of new, dynamic sources in existing datasets and ontologies; how to validate and evaluate the impact of the changes on semantic information; how to handle changes triggered from multiple sources and collaborative updates; and how to keep track of (possibly concurrent) versions of and ensure the delivery of up-to-date and valid knowledge. Topics of Interest ------------------ For this special issue, we seek articles describing foundational and theoretical work as well as technological solutions to these challenges. More specifically, we expect submission on (but not restricted to) the following topics: ? Foundational and formal aspects of Semantic Web dynamics ? Language extensions for Semantic Web dynamics ? Reasoning with dynamic data and ontologies ? Engineering dynamic data and ontologies ? Requirements and practical issues for Semantic Web dynamics ? Applications of dynamic data and ontologies ? Theory for stream reasoning ? Logic language for stream reasoning ? Scalability issues in stream reasoning ? Ontologies for dynamic environments ? Dynamic knowledge building, and (re-)use ? Ontology evolution and versioning ? Language extensions for evolution ? Belief revision for ontologies ? Change propagation in ontologies dynamic datasets and ontologies ? Inconsistency in evolving semantic information ? Incremental reasoning ? Case studies and applications of ontology and knowledge evolution ? Tools to support dynamic data and ontologies Important Dates --------------- 31 May 2010: Submission deadline 31 August 2010: First-round reviews complete 31 October 2010: Revised papers submitted 23 December 2010: Final acceptance decisions Method of Submission -------------------- Only electronic submissions will be considered. The precise method will be announced later. Any question can be addressed to the guest editors. Guest Editors ------------- Grigoris Antoniou (FORTH, Greece) Mathieu d?Aquin (The Open University, United Kingdom) Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) From david at cs.uwaterloo.ca Thu Nov 12 16:58:53 2009 From: david at cs.uwaterloo.ca (David Toman) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:58:53 -0500 Subject: [DL] Description Logics 2010: 1st call for papers Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 23rd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2010) FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Waterloo, Ontario, Canada http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/dl2010/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is the premier forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: January 26th, 2010 Acceptance notification: March 9th, 2010 Camera ready copies: March 30th, 2010 Early registration: March 30th, 2010 Workshop: May 4 to May 7th ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, such as * foundations of description logics, including expressive power, decidability and complexity of reasoning, novel inference problems, and reasoning techniques for solving these problems; * extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to, closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages; * integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems; * use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, semantic web, and grid computing; * building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques; and * tools that exploit description logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite submissions of papers in Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html to arrive no later than January 26th, 2010. The length of submissions is limited to 11 pages, including title and abstract (can be omitted if necessary), and list of references. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair; see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2010 The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series; see http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ Accepted submissions will be selected for either oral or poster presentation; however, no distinction will be made in the workshop proceedings: all accepted papers can be 11 pages long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Grant Weddell, Waterloo (Workshop Chair) * Volker Haarslev, Concordia (PC Chair) * David Toman, Waterloo (PC Chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information about registration, travel information, accommodation, and so on will be made available on the DL 2009 homepage: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/dl2010/ * Enquiries about the DL 2009 workshop can be made by contacting the organizing committee: dl2010 at easychair.org * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. David Toman, Associate Professor D.R.Cheriton School of Computer Science tel: (519) 888-4567 ext 34447 University of Waterloo fax: (519) 885-1208 200 University Avenue West david at uwaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~david From julie.sheppard at comlab.ox.ac.uk Wed Nov 11 14:14:43 2009 From: julie.sheppard at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Julie Sheppard) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:14:43 +0000 Subject: [DL] Funded D.Phil Computer Science studentships at Oxford Message-ID: <4AFAB8C3.9030906@comlab.ox.ac.uk> Hi, We are currently advertising funded places to study for a D.Phil in Computer Science at Oxford University Computing Laboratory. Details of the advertisement can be found here: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/news/140-full.html Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Julie -- Julie Sheppard Graduate Studies Administrator Oxford University Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QD Phone: 01865 273817 Email: julie.sheppard at comlab.ox.ac.uk From mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk Wed Nov 11 17:08:35 2009 From: mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk (Michael Chan) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:08:35 +0000 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: Workshop on Matching and Meaning: Automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies. Message-ID: <4AFAE183.7060704@inf.ed.ac.uk> Apologies for possible multiple postings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Matching and Meaning: Automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/wmm-2010 31st March 2010, part of AISB'10 Convention, Leicester, UK OVERVIEW The problem of semantic misalignment - of two (or more) systems failing to understand one another when their semantic representation is not identical - occurs in a huge variety of areas: the Semantic Web, databases, natural language processing; anywhere, indeed, where semantics are necessary but centralised control is undesirable or impractical. In highly dynamic domains, where interactions are between a large, diverse and evolving community, there is a need for the resolving of these misalignments - through developing and evolving existing ontologies or interpreting unknown ontologies in terms of known ones - to be done automatically and on-the-fly. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the problems of automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies in the many different domains in which it occurs. We are primarily interested in the exchange of ideas and the stimulation of debate, and the workshop is intended to be a forum for researchers to present ongoing work and ideas and to engage in discussion with other researchers from the field. We are particularly interested in novel ideas and innovative research, which may be in its early stages, and encourage reports on work in progress. Topics of interest include: * Ontology evolution * Ontology matching and alignment * Ontology versioning * Representational or structural change * Formal aspects of ontology dynamics * Formalisation of and reasoning with contexts * Foundational issues * Social and collaborative matching * Background knowledge in matching * Extensions to ontology languages to better support change * Non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies and the Semantic Web * Inconsistency handling in evolving ontologies * Uncertainty in matching * Change propagation in ontologies and metadata * Ontologies for dynamic environments * Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation * Matching for dynamic applictions (e.g., p2p, agents, web-services) * Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications * Open problems SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We encourage the submission of extended abstracts of 2-5 pages that discuss ongoing research, problem descriptions and overviews of the domain. Accepted papers will be included in the AISB 2010 proceedings unless the authors prefer them not to be (for example, if the work is very similar to work presented elsewhere which they nevertheless feel it would be valuable to present in this context, or if the work is at a stage where discussion would be valuable but publication would be premature). Authors wishing their submissions to be included in the convention proceedings must follow the style guide on the convention website. Submissions will be subject to light reviewing, mainly intended to check fit to workshop. Abstracts should be submitted electronically in pdf format to mchan-at-ed.ac.uk by 18th December 2009. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the submitting author on 15th February 2010. VENUE The workshop will take place at De Montfort University in Leicester, as part of the AISB 2010 Convention (http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb10/), from March 31st to 1st April, 2010. All workshop participants must be registered for the AISB 2010 Convention. Registration for this workshop is included in the convention registration fee. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: Friday, 18th December 2009 Notification: Monday, 15th February 2010 Workshop: 31st March - 1st April 2010 AISB10 Convention: 29th March - 1st April 2010 PROGRAMME Presentations: Authors of accepted abstracts will give presentations of their work; exact times to be decided. Posters: If it is not possible to fit in presentations for all accepted authors, some may be asked to present posters instead. There will be a session of 5 minute poster talks. Panel: The technical programme will end with a 90 minute panel discussion on a topic of mutual interest to be decided. Three speakers will speak for 10 minutes each with a brief to stimulate debate during the remaining 60 minutes. Discussion amongst all participants, rather than question-and-answering for the panel, will be strongly encouraged. ORGANISERS Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Michael Chan, University of Edinburgh, UK PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE Manuel Atencia Arcas, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, UK Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Adam Pease, Articulate Software, USA Pavel Shvaiko, TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From hr at sti2.at Thu Nov 19 15:23:20 2009 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:23:20 +0100 Subject: [DL] Job ad: Scientific Employee In-Reply-To: <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> Message-ID: <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> Dear All, the Semantic Technology Institute at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) is currently seeking candidates for the following positions: PhD Researcher Post-Doc/Senior Researcher More Information on the job an application procedure can be found at http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/about/jobs/ Best Regards, Human Resources STI Innsbruck Technikerstra?1 21a 6020 Innsbruck Austria From jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk Mon Nov 16 09:38:27 2009 From: jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk (Pan, Dr Jeff Z.) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:38:27 +0000 Subject: [DL] =?iso-8859-1?q?Postdoctoral_Research_Fellow_=AD_Semantic_Inf?= =?iso-8859-1?q?rastructures?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Postdoctoral Research Fellow ? Semantic Infrastructures University of Aberdeen RCUK Digital Economy Hub Salary range: ?29,704-?32,458 per annum Closing Date: 20-Nov-2009 Digital Economy is an RCUK cross-council programme, aimed at realising the transformational impact of ICT for all aspects of business, society and economy. The Rural Digital Economy Hub at the University of Aberdeen is one of three large multi-disciplinary research hubs funded through this programme, and commenced its activities in October 2009. The Hub award to Aberdeen is worth ?12.4M and will fund five years of activity. The Hub will bring together a large team of researchers (70+) working in and across the disciplines of computer science, communication engineering, human geography, sociology, transport studies, health sciences and environmental science. For further details, see: www.digital-rural.org To support our ambitious research programme we have begun our first phase of recruitment involving 8 research studentships and 9 postdoctoral fellowships. As part of this activity we are looking to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to work in the area of Semantic Infrastructures. The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of the fundamental concepts underlying the Semantic Web, and the computational realisation and application of these techniques. Some knowledge of machine learning/data-mining would also be beneficial. They candidate will have a PhD or be about to complete a PhD in Computer Science. Enthusiasm for digital technology and innovation relevant to society and the economy is essential as is the ability to work in a cross-disciplinary team including colleagues in medicine and the social sciences. Should you require a visa to undertake paid employment in the UK you will be required to fulfil the minimum points criteria to be granted a Certificate of Sponsorship and Tier 2 visa. For further information on this post (including how to apply): http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=RDH013R Informal enquiries may be made to: Professor Peter Edwards (p.edwards at abdn.ac.uk) The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. From marija.slavkovik at gmail.com Wed Nov 18 12:38:33 2009 From: marija.slavkovik at gmail.com (Marija Slavkovik) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:38:33 +0100 Subject: [DL] First call for submissions ESSLLI 2010 Student session Message-ID: <4e59c6b0911180338y553f664cvcb2e838f2525f726@mail.gmail.com> This is the first call for submissions for ESSLLI 2010 Student session. Deadline for submission is February 19, 2009. The Student Session of the 22nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark from August 9 to August 20. We invite submissions of papers describing original, unpublished research conducted in the interdisciplinary areas of LOgic and COmputation, LOgic and LAnguage, and LAnguage and COmputation. All (co-)authors must be students (i.e., before the completion of the Ph.D.). To that end we particularly encourage senior academics to disseminate this information among their students and support their submission. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: natural language semantics, natural language syntax, syntax-semantics interface, semantics-pragmatics interface, discourse semantics, vagueness in natural language, Lambek calculus natural language processing, morphology, syntax, parsing, dialogue and discourse modelling, machine translation, computational psycholinguistics knowledge representation and reasoning, belief dynamics, formal verification and model checking, logics for individual and collective agency, formal argumentation, game semantics Submissions can be either long or short papers: Long papers should not exceed 8 pages of length including references and appendix. Accepted long papers will be orally presented. Short papers are papers presenting initial results. Submitted papers should not exceed 4 pages of length including references and appendix. Accepted short papers will be presented in a poster session. As in previous years, Springer is offering 1000? in prizes. The sum will be evenly split among the best short and the best long papers. For more information, see http://marija.gforge.uni.lu/esslli2010.html For more information on ESSLLI 2010 see http://esslli2010cph.info/ Best Regards, Marija Slavkovik StuS PC Chair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk Mon Nov 23 11:19:25 2009 From: jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk (Pan, Dr Jeff Z.) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:19:25 +0000 Subject: [DL] CFP Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on Semantic Web Dynamics Message-ID: Apologies for the inevitable multiple receptions. ======================================== PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Web Semantics Special Issue on Semantic Web Dynamics ======================================== Description ----------- Recent years have witnessed the arrival of more and more semantically annotated data and related ontologies in the Semantic Web. For example, the linked data initiative has been very successful in making datasets available online, with a total of about 5 billion triples all together so far. While existing semantic tools and reasoning engines are year after year getting better in dealing with time invariant domain of ontological knowledge, supporting rapidly changing information has not yet attracted sufficient attention. There are more and more heterogeneous and/or dynamic data types being created and which integration could lead to interesting applications and models (e.g. sensor data streams, geospatial information and imagery, financial transactions, news feeds, 3D models, engineering data, information for policy intelligence etc.). Current Stream Database Management Systems provide on the fly analysis of data streams, but they suffer several limitations: they cannot handle heterogeneous data streams originating from a variety of already deployed sensors; they cannot combine data streams with slowly evolving knowledge at query time; and they cannot perform reasoning tasks. And in the area of reasoning, while the problem of classical, time invariant domain of ontological knowledge has been extensively studied, the task of reasoning with rapidly changing information has been mostly neglected and constitutes a new challenge. Furthermore, ontologies, just like any structure holding knowledge and information, need to be updated too: changes could be initiated because of a change in the world being modelled; or by a change in the users' needs which would require a different conceptualization; or by the acquisition of knowledge previously unknown, unclassified or otherwise unavailable; or by the noticing of a design flaw in the original conceptualization. In all these cases, the representation of knowledge in the ontology should be modified so as to form a more accurate or adequate conceptualization of the domain. This general issue of Semantic Web Dynamics includes difficulties from both practical and theoretical points of view, raising a variety of research questions and development challenges, such as how to support the ontology and data publishers in maintaining up-to-date, adequate representations; how to detect the need for evolution and changes; how to facilitate the integration of new, dynamic sources in existing datasets and ontologies; how to validate and evaluate the impact of the changes on semantic information; how to handle changes triggered from multiple sources and collaborative updates; and how to keep track of (possibly concurrent) versions of and ensure the delivery of up-to-date and valid knowledge. Topics of Interest ------------------ For this special issue, we seek articles describing foundational and theoretical work as well as technological solutions to these challenges. More specifically, we expect submission on (but not restricted to) the following topics: * Foundational and formal aspects of Semantic Web dynamics * Language extensions for Semantic Web dynamics * Reasoning with dynamic data and ontologies * Engineering dynamic data and ontologies * Requirements and practical issues for Semantic Web dynamics * Applications of dynamic data and ontologies * Theory for stream reasoning * Logic language for stream reasoning * Scalability issues in stream reasoning * Ontologies for dynamic environments * Dynamic knowledge building, and (re-)use * Ontology evolution and versioning * Language extensions for evolution * Belief revision for ontologies * Change propagation in ontologies dynamic datasets and ontologies * Inconsistency in evolving semantic information * Incremental reasoning * Case studies and applications of ontology and knowledge evolution * Tools to support dynamic data and ontologies Important Dates --------------- 31 May 2010: Submission deadline 31 August 2010: First-round reviews complete 31 October 2010: Revised papers submitted 23 December 2010: Final acceptance decisions Method of Submission -------------------- Only electronic submissions will be considered. The precise method will be announced later. Any question can be addressed to the guest editors. Guest Editors ------------- Grigoris Antoniou (FORTH, Greece) Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University, United Kingdom) Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de Fri Nov 20 21:32:38 2009 From: stumme at cs.uni-kassel.de (Gerd Stumme) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:32:38 +0100 Subject: [DL] Two PhD positions in Knowledge & Data Engineering Group, University of Kassel Message-ID: <4B06FCE6.5090407@cs.uni-kassel.de> The Hertie Chair of Knowledge and Data Engineering, University of Kassel, Germany, opens two positions for Research Assistants (Wiss. Mitarbeiter/in, BAT IIa). Further information can be found at . As the position requires at least basic knowlede of the German language, the remainder of this mail will be in German. We apologise to all non-German speakers. An der Universit?t Kassel wird im Rahmen der hessischen Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-?konomischer Exzellenz (LOEWE) der interdisziplin?re Forschungsschwerpunkt "Gestaltung technisch-sozialer Vernetzung in situativen ubiquit?ren Systemen (VENUS)" eingerichtet. Im Fachgebiet Wissensverarbeitung werden daf?r zum 1. Januar 2010 auf zun?chst zwei Jahre die folgenden Stellen ausgeschrieben: 2 Stellen f?r wissenschaftliche(r) Mitarbeiter(in) (BAT IIa/TV-L E13) Ziel des Schwerpunkts ist, die sozial akzeptable, ?konomisch sinnvolle und rechtlich m?gliche technische Gestaltung ubiquit?rer Systeme unter Ber?cksichtigung der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Technik, Nutzern und sozialen Netzen zu erforschen. Wir suchen hochmotivierte Mitarbeiter, die an der Schnittstelle von Data Mining, Sozialer Netzwerkanalyse und Web 2.0 forschen m?chten. Daf?r sind Kenntnisse in einem der Gebiete Data Mining, Web 2.0, Social Network Analysis, Semantic Web sowie Programmierkenntnise von Vorteil. Wenn Sie einen sehr guten Universit?tsabschluss in Informatik, Mathematik, Physik oder einem verwandten Gebiet haben, eine Dissertation anstreben und an teamorientierter Forschungsarbeit auf internationalem Niveau in einem interdisziplin?ren Team von Informatikern, Mathematikern und Wirtschaftsinformatikern interessiert sind, freuen wir uns ?ber Ihre Bewerbung. Das Fachgebiet Wissensverarbeitung ist eine von der Gemeinn?tzigen Hertie-Stiftung gef?rderte Stiftungsprofessur. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 26. November 2009. Die Universit?t Kassel ist bestrebt, den Anteil an Frauen zu erh?hen und begr??t deshalb besonders die Bewerbung von Frauen. Schwerbehinderte Bewerber/innen werden bei entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt ber?cksichtigt. Bitte richten Sie Ihre vollst?ndige Bewerbung per Email an Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme. -- Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme, Hertie Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Kassel http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de, Tel. 0561/804-6251, Fax: -6259 -->> Try our bookmarking system http://www.BibSonomy.org now! <<-- From eoikarin at tcs.hut.fi Fri Dec 4 13:36:57 2009 From: eoikarin at tcs.hut.fi (Emilia Oikarinen) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:36:57 +0200 (EET) Subject: [DL] JELIA 2010 First Call for Papers Message-ID: JELIA 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS ========================== 12th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence Helsinki, Finland, September 13-15, 2010 http://jelia2010.tkk.fi/ Logics provide a formal basis and key descriptive notation for the study and development of applications and systems in Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the depth and maturity of formalisms, methodologies, and systems today, such logics are increasingly important. The European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (or Journ?es Europ?ennes sur la Logique en Intelligence Artificielle --- JELIA) began back in 1988, as a workshop, in response to the need for a European forum for the discussion of emerging work in this field. Since then, JELIA has been organised biennially, with English as the official language, and with proceedings published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. In 2010 the conference is organized for the first time in Scandinavia, following previous meetings mainly taking place in Central and Southern Europe (see the general website http://www.jelia.eu/ for details). The increasing interest in this forum, its international level with growing participation from researchers outside Europe, and the overall technical quality, has turned JELIA into a major biennial forum for the discussion of logic-based approaches to AI. Aims and Scope ============== The aim of JELIA 2010 is to bring together active researchers interested in all aspects concerning the use of logics in Artificial Intelligence to discuss current research, results, problems, and applications of both theoretical and practical nature. JELIA strives to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among researchers from various disciplines, among researchers from academia and industry, and between theoreticians and practitioners. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in all areas related to the use of logics in Artificial Intelligence including: -- Abductive and inductive reasoning -- Answer set programming -- Applications and foundations of logic-based AI systems -- Argumentation systems -- Automated reasoning including satisfiability checking and its extensions -- Computational complexity and expressiveness -- Description logics and other logical approaches to semantic web and ontologies -- Hybrid reasoning systems -- Knowledge representation, reasoning, and compilation -- Logic programming and constraint programming -- Logics for uncertain and probabilistic reasoning -- Logics in machine learning -- Logics in multi-agent systems, games, and social choice -- Non-classical such as modal, temporal, spatial, paraconsistent, and hybrid logics -- Nonmonotonic reasoning, belief revision, and updates -- Planning and diagnosis based on logic -- Preferences -- Reasoning about actions and causality Important Dates =============== * Deadline for abstract submission: May 3, 2010 * Deadline for paper submission: May 7, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: June 11, 2010 * Camera Ready Copy: June 30, 2010 Paper Submission ================ Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series. Papers should be written in English, and should be formatted according to the standard Springer LNCS style. All submissions must be received by 23:59 GMT on May 3, 2010 (abstract) and May 7, 2010 (full paper), and should be electronically submitted via the link available on the JELIA 2010 web page. There are two categories for submissions: A. Regular papers Submissions should not exceed 13 pages including figures, references, etc., and should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. Submissions must not have been previously published or be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. B. System descriptions Submissions should not exceed 4 pages, and should describe an implemented system and its application area(s). A demonstration is expected to accompany a system presentation. Papers describing systems that have already been presented in JELIA before will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the system are reported and implemented. Venue ===== The conference will be held in the main building of University of Helsinki, located in the center of Helsinki. Founded in 1550, Helsinki has been the Finnish capital since 1812, when it was rebuilt in the Empire style by the orders of the Czar of Russia, hence sharing architectural similarities with St. Petersburg even today. Located on the Baltic peninsula centrally between the east and the west, Helsinki "the Daughter of the Baltic" is a city full of contrasts: light and white in summer while dark but full of warmth in winter, with a combination of high-tech, contemporary design, and ever-present nature. Finnish design has made Helsinki world famous, and recently Helsinki was appointed World Design Capital 2012. Programme Co-Chairs =================== Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland http://www.tcs.hut.fi/~ttj/ Ilkka Niemel?, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland http://www.tcs.hut.fi/~ini/ Further Information =================== Conference web page: http://jelia2010.tkk.fi/ From jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk Sat Dec 5 12:55:41 2009 From: jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk (Pan, Dr Jeff Z.) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:55:41 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CFP] ESWC2010 Ontology and Reasoning Track: CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: ***** ESWC2010 Ontology and Reasoning Track: CALL FOR PAPERS Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010ontologiesandreasoning ***** 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference | ESWC 2010 30 May - 3 June 2010 | Heraklion, Greece http://www.eswc2010.org/ ***** ABOUT THE ESWC2010 The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010) is to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of semantics on the Web. ESWC2010 builds on the success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series, but seeks to extend its focus by collaborating with other communities and research areas, in which web semantics play an important role -- within and outside ICT. At the same time, ESWC2010 is a truly international conference, not only "European". Semantics of web content, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), data about web usage, natural language processing, etc. will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of functionality. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and make this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services, based on reasoning with metadata and ontologies, will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making tasks. Research about web semantics can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science. ESWC2010 will present the latest results in research and applications in its field. The research program will be organised in targeted research tracks. In addition, the conference will feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium, and a number of collocated workshops. The individual calls for these events can be found on the conference Web site (http://www.eswc2010.org/). ***** IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission December 15, 2009 (compulsory) Full Paper Submission December 22, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification February 24, 2010 Camera Ready March 10, 2010 ***** ONTOLOGIES AND REASONING TRACK The Ontologies and Reasoning programme involves the management of and reasoning with ontologies and rules, so as to support their applications. The central idea of this vision is to use (1) ontologies to encode application data in a machine understandable form, in order to be able to automatically integrate data from different sources and to be able to support semantic search for information based on its meaning rather than its syntactic form, and (2) rules to perform conditional decision, event processing and actions on behalf of the user. In this track we invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to the following topics: - Rules and ontology management (creation, evolution, reuse, evaluation, etc.) - Searching, visualizing, navigating and browsing ontologies - Ontology reasoning and query answering - Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web - Ontology usability - Query languages and optimization for ontologies - Combining rules and ontologies - Declarative rule-based reasoning techniques - Rule languages, standards, and rule systems - Ontology-based search - Ontology alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) - Ontology learning and metadata generation (e.g., HLT and ML approaches) - Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction - Corporate Semantic Web - applications in enterprises and economic valuation - Language extensions of OWL, ODM, RIF, RuleML, ... Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010ontologiesandreasoning ***** SUBMISSIONS ESWC2010 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of representing and using semantics on the web. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and applications papers. The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing for ESWC2010 will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will *not* be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission -- details of this process will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. ***** BEST PAPER AWARD An award will be given to the best paper (or papers) submitted to the conference as judged by the Program and Track Chairs in collaboration with the Program Committee. ***** INFORMATION AND CONTACT For further information please visit the conference website (http://www.eswc2010.org) or contact eswc2010_info at eswc2010.org ***** ESWC2010 - brought to you by Semantic Technology Institute International (http://www.sti2.org) The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From renata at ime.usp.br Tue Nov 24 13:06:19 2009 From: renata at ime.usp.br (Renata Wassermann) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:06:19 -0200 Subject: [DL] Second call for papers: NMR sub-workshop on ontologies Message-ID: <1259064379.20932.6.camel@vidaboa.ime.usp.br> Sincere apologies for multiple postings. ====================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The NMR'2010 Workshop on Commonsense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Ontologies http://ksg.meraka.org.za/nmronto2010 Collocated With KR'2010 May 14-16 2010 Sutton Place, Toronto, Canada ====================================================== -- Workshop Description -- Classical reasoning over ontologies has reached the point where it can deal with large real-world ontologies. This can largely be attributed to advances in research on description logics (DLs). A good example is the medical ontology SNOMED-CT, containing over 300,000 concepts and millions of binary relationships between them. SNOMED-CT can be represented as a DL ontology, and its subsumption hierarchy can be computed in a matter of minutes. The obvious next step now is to extend reasoning over ontologies to cover non-classical cases, such as commonsense reasoning, a well established branch of AI. The first steps in that direction have been done by the ontology community, and while research along these lines has already resulted in initial tangible results, there is a need for a more coherent approach in order to speed up progress. This need provides interesting challenges to both the ontology and commonsense reasoning communities. For the commonsense reasoning community it is a chance to determine to what extent techniques developed in its sub-areas, like e.g. non-monotonic reasoning (NMR), can be tailored to the requirements of the ontology community. For the ontology community it is an opportunity to determine whether existing results in this area can be sharpened and improved on by referring to results in the broader area of commonsense reasoning. The topic of the workshop will hence be combining commonsense reasoning approaches and techniques with ontologies. One of the main motivations is to bring ideas from the well developed area of non-monotonic reasoning, like e.g. reasoning about actions, argumentation and belief revision, for discussion in the realm of ontology engineering: evolution, debugging, update, merging, etc. Certainly these tasks can benefit from most of the advances in NMR and give new insights for research in that area as well. Commonsense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Ontologies will be of interest to: - Researchers in the ontology community, particularly DL researchers, interested in extending ontological reasoning to non-classical cases. - Researchers in the knowledge representation and commonsense reasoning community interested in applying existing NMR techniques to the area of ontologies. This workshop will focus on an emerging hot topic. As such, one of its immediate outcomes will be boosting a new and exciting hybrid research domain combining commonsense reasoning and knowledge engineering for ontologies. -- Topics of Interest -- Submissions are welcome on the role of commonsense and non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies in areas that include but are not limited to the following ones: - Ontology Debugging and Update - Ontology Merging, Alignment and Integration - Inconsistency Handling - Belief Revision and Theory Change for ontologies - Uncertainty Handling, Defeasible Reasoning and Argumentation in ontologies - Heuristic and Approximate Reasoning - NMR methods for light-weight DL ontologies - Planning and Reasoning about Action and Change on the Semantic Web - Rules and Ontologies - Temporal and Spatial Reasoning - Ontology Fault Diagnosis and Repair - Preferences and Ontologies - Formal Concept Analysis and Ontologies -- Submission Instructions -- Authors are kindly requested to follow the instructions for authors on the NMR website at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/news/conferences/NMR/2010/NMR_2010/Author_Instructions.html Please submit to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nmronto2010 -- Important Dates - Papers due: January 29 (Friday), 2010 - Notification: March 1 (Monday), 2010 - Final version: April 6 (Tuesday), 2010 - Workshop: May 14-16, 2010 -- Additional Information -- Please visit the NMR website at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/news/conferences/NMR/2010/NMR_2010/NMR10.html for more information about NMR, the venue of the workshop, the city of Toronto, accommodation and travel tips. -- Workshop Chairs -- - Ivan Jos? Varzinczak (Meraka Institute, South Africa) http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~ivarzinczak - Renata Wassermann (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) http://www.ime.usp.br/~renata -- Program Committee -- - Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete and Information Systems Laboratory, Greece) - F?bio Cozman (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) - Giorgos Flouris (University of Crete and Information Systems Laboratory, Greece) - Norman Foo (University of New South Wales, Australia) - Zhisheng Huang (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Jos Lehmann (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) - Maurice Pagnucco (University of New South Wales, Australia) - Jeff Pan (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) - Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) - Laurent Perrussel (Universit? de Toulouse 1, France) - Guilin Qi (Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany) -- Renata Wassermann Associate Professor Computer Science Department University of S?o Paulo From schweika.floc at googlemail.com Mon Nov 30 18:34:09 2009 From: schweika.floc at googlemail.com (Nicole Schweikardt) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:34:09 +0100 Subject: [DL] FLoC 2010: Call for Papers Message-ID: 2010 FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLoC'10) Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. July 9-21, 2010 http://www.floc-conference.org CALL FOR PAPERS * The fifth Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'10) will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. (www.edinburgh.org), in July 2010, at the School of Informatics at University of Edinburgh (www.inf.ed.ac.uk). * The following conferences will participate in FLoC: - CAV 2010: Int'l Conference on Computer-Aided Verification - CSF 2010: IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium - ICLP 2010: Int'l Conference on Logic Programming - IJCAR 2010: Int'l Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning - ITP 2010: Int'l Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving - LICS 2010: IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science - RTA 2010: Int'l Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications - SAT 2010: Int'l Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing * Plenary events involving all the conferences are planned. In addition to the participating conferences, FLoC'10 will host a number of pre- and post-conference workshops. There will be receptions in the Edinburgh Castle and at the National Galleries of Scotland. * Travel support for US student participants is expected. * Detailed calls for papers (as well as submission instructions) for each of the participating conferences can be found at the FLoC'10 website at http://www.floc-conference.org * Important dates: - CAV 2010: PC chairs: Byron Cook, Paul Jackson, Tayssir Touili Jan 11: abstract submission deadline Jan 15: paper submission deadline - CSF 2010: PC chairs: Michael Backes, Andrew Myers Feb 04: abstract submission deadline Feb 08: paper submission deadline - ICLP 2010: PC chairs: Manuel Hermenegildo, Torsten Schaub Jan 26: paper registration deadline Feb 02: paper submission deadline - IJCAR 2010: PC chairs: J?rgen Giesl, Reiner H?hnle Jan 15: abstract submission deadline Jan 22: paper submission deadline - ITP 2010: PC chairs: Matt Kaufmann, Lawrence C. Paulson Jan 15: abstract submission deadline Jan 22: paper submission deadline - LICS 2010: PC chair: Jean-Pierre Jouannaud Jan 10: abstract submission deadline Jan 17: paper submission deadline - RTA 2010: PC chair: Christopher Lynch Jan 15: abstract submission deadline Jan 22: paper submission deadline - SAT 2010: PC chairs: Ofer Strichman, Stefan Szeider Feb 01: abstract submission deadline Feb 08: paper submission deadline * FLoC'10 Steering Committee: - General Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi - Conference Co-chairs: Leonid Libkin, Gordon Plotkin - CAV Representative: Edmund Clarke - ICLP Representative: Manuel Hermenegildo - IJCAR Representative: Alan Bundy - ITP Representative: Tobias Nipkow - LICS Representative: Martin Abadi - RTA Representative: Juergen Giesl - SAT Representative: Enrico Giunchiglia - EasyChair Representative: Andrei Voronkov From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Thu Nov 26 00:05:57 2009 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:05:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2010 - first call for papers Message-ID: IJCAR 2010 - The 5th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Edinburgh, UK, July 16-19, 2010 as part of FLoC 2010 - Federated Logic Conference http://www.floc-conference.org/ Call for Papers --------------- IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all topics in automated reasoning. The IJCAR technical program will consist of presentations of high-quality original research papers, system descriptions, and invited talks. IJCAR 2010 is a merger of leading events in automated reasoning: CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems), FTP (Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving), and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) IJCAR 2010 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. Original research papers and descriptions of working automated deduction systems are solicited. The proceedings of IJCAR 2010 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. Submission details: Submission is electronic, through https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=ijcar2010 Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer "llncs" format, which can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The page limit is 15 pages for full papers, and 7 pages for system descriptions. Program co-chairs: Juergen Giesl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Reiner Haehnle (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Conference chair: Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh, UK) Workshop chair: Aaron Stump (University of Iowa, USA) Publicity chair: Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI-INF Saarbruecken, Germany) Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2010 Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2010 Notification of paper decisions: March 15, 2010 Final version of papers due: April 19, 2010 Conference dates: July 16-19, 2010 Student Travel Awards: Travel awards will be available to enable selected students to attend the conference. Details will be published in March 2010. Program Committee: Carlos Areces (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France) Alessandro Armando (University of Genova, Italy) Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) Peter Baumgartner (NICTA Canberra, Australia) Bernhard Beckert (University of Koblenz, Germany) Christoph Benzmueller (International University Bruchsal, Germany) Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA) Maria Paola Bonacina (Universita` degli Studi di Verona, Italy) Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh, UK) Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique, France) Christian Fermueller (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Ulrich Furbach (University of Koblenz, Germany) Didier Galmiche (LORIA Nancy, France) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Martin Giese (University of Oslo, Norway) Juergen Giesl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Bernhard Gramlich (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Reiner Haehnle (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Ullrich Hustadt (University of Liverpool, UK) Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA) Viktor Kuncak (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) Rustan Leino (Microsoft Research, USA) Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen, Germany) George Metcalfe (University of Bern, Switzerland) Aart Middeldorp (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Neil Murray (University at Albany - SUNY, USA) Tobias Nipkow (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Nicola Olivetti (LSIS, University of Aix-Marseille, France) Nicolas Peltier (LIG Grenoble, France) Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) Andre Platzer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Christophe Ringeissen (LORIA Nancy, France) Albert Rubio (UPC Barcelona, Spain) Renate Schmidt (The University of Manchester, UK) Carsten Schuermann (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Roberto Sebastiani (University of Trento, Italy) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI-INF Saarbruecken, Germany) Aaron Stump (University of Iowa, USA) Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA) Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) Ashish Tiwari (SRI International, USA) Andrei Voronkov (The University of Manchester, UK) Christoph Weidenbach (MPI-INF Saarbruecken, Germany) From ulle.endriss at uva.nl Tue Dec 1 11:44:26 2009 From: ulle.endriss at uva.nl (Ulle Endriss) Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:44:26 +0100 Subject: [DL] ECAI-2010: Final Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <4B14F38A.3030407@uva.nl> Dear colleague, Please be reminded that the deadline for submission of workshop proposals for ECAI-2010 (Lisbon, August 2010) is fast approaching: Friday, 11 December 2009 Serious proposals from all all areas of AI as well as interdisciplinary proposals with a substantial AI component are very welcome. Further information is available here (or get in touch with me directly): 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, 2010 http://ecai2010.appia.pt ECAI-2010 Call for Workshop Proposals http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/ECAI-2010/ecai-2010-workshop-call.txt Best wishes, Ulle Endriss (ECAI-2010 Workshop Chair) -- Ulle Endriss http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/ Institute for Logic, Language & Computation (ILLC) University of Amsterdam Tel: +31 (0)20 525 6511 Postbus 94242 Fax: +31 (0)20 525 5206 1090 GE Amsterdam (NL) Email: u.endriss at uva.nl From behnam at zwnj.org Thu Dec 10 20:13:04 2009 From: behnam at zwnj.org (Behnam Esfahbod ZWNJ) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:43:04 +0330 Subject: [DL] DL and Epistemic Logic Message-ID: <5d0394600912101113m62454418obd4ba88c744d14bc@mail.gmail.com> Hi, I am studying Epistemic Logic these days and I was thinking whether it's concepts has been used together with DL? Have you seen any system that uses the concepts of these two already? Here is a simple idea: extending OWL-2 with EL somehow, an agent A might be able to understand "Agent B knows which X has relation R to which Y" but the agent A doesn't have the knowledge itself. This looks similar to RDF/OWL subgraphs though. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, -Behnam From choong-ho.yi at combitech.se Tue Dec 8 16:05:48 2009 From: choong-ho.yi at combitech.se (Yi Choong-ho) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:05:48 +0100 Subject: [DL] DL for conceptual modelling Message-ID: <3DDC11BCB43AFE44812CC13258AE320704AFD3F071@Corpappl110.corp.saab.se> Dear DL friends, I am involved in a project commissioned by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) where my responsibility is to check the consistency of/among the models produced from the project. This kind of models are usually called "conceptual models", expressed by UML-like notation including typical structuring mechanisms such as: * Class, Specialisation, Aggregation, Association, Cardinality. In order to describe a Meta Model for these models, it is required that among others: * A Class is not only a set of objects, but also it can be a member of another (higher order) Class. I think DL should provide sufficient expressive power (for the structuring concepts above) and reasoning power (to check consistency, interoperability requirements etc). But I do not know which DL is suitable for this purpose, and which DL Prover and Editor to choose. I would appreciate if you could give me some Starter information, especially if you kindly share your experience with using DL for conceptual modelling. I have relatively good background in logic, but I have no experience with DL. Kind regards, Choong-ho Choong-ho Yi Systems Engineer, PhD Combitech AB SE-BOX 6011 * 171 06 Solna * Sweden Visiting address: Landsv?gen 50 A Phn +46 8 5808 6062 * Mobile +46 73 437 6062 * Fax +46 8 82 1967 choong-ho.yi at combitech.se * www.combitech.se This e-mail is private and confidential between the sender and the addressee. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying or disseminating it or any information in it. Please notify the above of any such misdirection. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ferrara at dico.unimi.it Thu Dec 10 17:43:16 2009 From: ferrara at dico.unimi.it (Alfio Ferrara) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:43:16 +0100 Subject: [DL] Instance Matching Initiative Message-ID: [Apologies for cross posting] At the address http://www.instancematching.org a new web site about instance matching is available for discussing and notifying problems and initiatives about instance matching. Instance matching is seen as a specific subtask of the more general problem of ontology matching and, for this reason, IM.org has been created in collaboration with http://www.ontologymatching.org starting from the experience of the instance matching evaluation track of OAEI 2009 ( http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/ ). If OM.org is the main reference resource about matching in general, IM.org should be seen more as a focused group on the specific field of instance matching. Every user interested in instance matching is invited to subscribe the web site and submit articles, short comments, news or links about: - Theoretical discussions and problems - Methods and techniques for IM - Experiences and empirical work - Instance Matching evaluation - Links to tools, datasets, initiatives From ipratt at cs.man.ac.uk Tue Dec 8 13:04:04 2009 From: ipratt at cs.man.ac.uk (Ian Pratt-Hartmann) Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:04:04 +0000 Subject: [DL] TIME 2010 (Paris): Call for papers Message-ID: <4B1E40B4.404@cs.man.ac.uk> TIME 2010 - First Call for Papers Seventeenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning Paris, France, 6-8 September 2010 http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/Events/TIME10/ The TIME symposium series is a well-established annual event that brings together researchers from all areas of computer science that involve temporal representation and reasoning. This includes, but is not limited to, artificial intelligence, temporal databases, and the verification of software and hardware systems. In addition to fostering interdisciplinarity, the TIME symposia emphasize bridging the gap between theoretical and applied research. TIME'10 encompasses three tracks, but has a single program committee. The conference will span three days, and will be organized as a combination of technical paper presentations, poster sessions, and keynote lectures. ================================ IMPORTANT DATES ================================ Abstract Submission: 9 April 2010 Paper Submission: 12 April 2010 Paper Notification: 20 May 2010 Camera Ready Copy Due: 4 June 2010 TIME'10 Symposium: 6-8 September 2010 ================================ TOPICS ================================ Track 1: Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI -------------------------------------------------------------- - temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems - spatial and temporal reasoning - reasoning about actions and change - planning and planning languages - ontologies of time and space-time - belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge - temporal learning and discovery - time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling) - time in human-machine interaction - temporal information extraction - time in natural language processing - spatio-temporal knowledge representation systems - spatio-temporal ontologies for the semantic web Track 2: Temporal Database Management -------------------------------------------------------------- - temporal data models and query languages - temporal query processing and indexing - temporal data mining - time series data management - stream data management - spatio-temporal data management, moving objects - data currency and expiration - indeterminate and imprecise temporal data - temporal constraints - temporal aspects of workflow and ECA systems - real-time databases - time-dependent security policies - privacy in temporal and spatio-temporal data - temporal aspects of multimedia databases - temporal aspects of e-services and web applications - temporal aspects of distributed systems - novel applications of temporal database management - experiences with real applications Track 3: Temporal Logic and Verification in Computer Science -------------------------------------------------------------- - specification and verification of systems - verification of web applications - synthesis and execution - model checking algorithms - verification of infinite-state systems - reasoning about transition systems - temporal architectures - temporal logics for distributed systems - temporal logics of knowledge - hybrid systems and real-time logics - tools and practical systems - temporal issues in security ================================ INVITED SPEAKERS ================================ Track 1: Ian Hodkinson, Imperial College London Track 2: Bart Kuijpers, Hasselt University Track 3: Martin Leucker, University of Munich ================================ PAPER SUBMISSION ================================ Submissions of high quality papers describing research results or on-going work are solicited. Submitted papers should contain original, previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Acceptance of a paper is contingent on one author presenting the paper at the symposium. Submissions should be in PDF format (with the necessary fonts embedded). They must be formatted according to the IEEE guidelines described at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/ proceedings/8.5x11 - Formatting files/instruct.pdf and must not exceed 8 pages; over-length submissions may be rejected without review. Papers are submitted electronically via Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=time10 ================================ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ================================ - General Chair: Ian Pratt-Hartmann, University of Manchester, UK - Program Committee Chairs: Nicolas Markey, CNRS & ENS Cachan, France Jef Wijsen, University of Mons, Belgium - Organization Chair: Nicolas Markey, CNRS & ENS Cachan, France ================================ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================================ - Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy - Howard Barringer, University of Manchester, UK - B?atrice B?rard, University Paris 6 - Pierre & Marie Curie, France - Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy - Davide Bresolin, University of Verona, Italy - Thomas Brihaye, University of Mons, Belgium - Jan Chomicki, University at Buffalo, NY, USA - St?phane Demri, CNRS & ENS Cachan, France - Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool, UK - Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK - Nissim Francez, The Technion, Israel - Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck College, UK - Savas Konur, University of Liverpool, UK - Martin Lange, University of Munich, Germany - Ranko Lazic, University of Warwick, UK - Inderjeet Mani, Brandeis University, MA, USA - Angelo Montanari, University of Udine, Italy - Bernhard Nebel, University of Freiburg, Germany - Hans-J?rgen Ohlbach, University of Munich, Germany - Paritosh K. Pandya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India - James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, MA, USA - Jean-Fran?ois Raskin, Free University of Brussels, Belgium - Peter Revesz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE, USA - Mark Reynolds, University of Western Australia, Australia - David Toman, University of Waterloo, Canada - X. Sean Wang, University of Vermont & NSF, USA - Michael Winter, Brock University, Canada - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College, UK - Carlo Zaniolo, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA ================================ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ================================ - Romain Brenguier, ENS Cachan, France - St?phane Demri, CNRS & ENS Cachan, France - Virginie Gu?nard, CNRS & ENS Cachan, France - Fran?ois Laroussinie, University Paris 7 - Diderot, France ================================ FURTHER INFORMATION ================================ Questions related to submission, reviewing, and program should be sent to time10 at lsv.ens-cachan.fr Questions related to local organization should be sent to time10-org at lsv.ens-cachan.fr From tariqali.1982 at gmail.com Tue Dec 8 10:14:34 2009 From: tariqali.1982 at gmail.com (tariq ali) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:14:34 +0500 Subject: [DL] help for DL operators Message-ID: Respected Sir. Can DL handle < and > operator? upto my knowledge we can write ? but can we write only wit > operator. Regards Tariq ali From turhan at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Fri Dec 11 14:31:58 2009 From: turhan at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (A.-Y. Turhan) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:31:58 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: UniDL 2010 Message-ID: <4B2249CE.1010706@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------- UniDL'10 First International Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics co-located with IJCAR 2010 at FLoC 2010 July 20, 2010 Edinburgh, UK http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/UniDL ------------------------------------------------------------------- During the recent decade, handling uncertainty has started to play an important role in ontology languages, especially in application areas like the Semantic Web, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence. For this reason, there is currently a strong research interest in description logics (DLs) that allow for dealing with uncertainty.The subject of the workshop is how to deal with uncertainty and imprecision in Description Logics (DLs). This encompasses approaches that enable probabilistic or fuzzy reasoning in DLs, but the workshop is also open for approaches based on other uncertainty formalisms. The workshop focusses on the investigation of reasoning problems and approaches for solving them, including especially tractable ones. For classical DL reasoning problems such as subsumption and satisfiability, algorithms that can handle uncertainty exist, but they are still less well-investigated than in the case of standard DLs without uncertainty. For novel reasoning services, such as query answering, computation of generalizations, modules, or explanations, it is not yet clear how to realize them in DLs that can express uncertainty. TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: * Modeling of uncertain knowledge in DLs * Different formalisations of uncertainty for DLs * Formal semantics for uncertain information in DLs * Extensions of DL reasoning problems to uncertainty * Reasoning algorithms for DLs with uncertainty, in particular * Tableau algorithms for probabilistic DLs or fuzzy DLs * Tractable DLs with uncertainty * Complexity of uncertain reasoning * System descriptions for implemented reasoning algorithms in uncertain DLs * Novel applications of DLs with uncertainty * Open and future problems IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: March 25, 2010 Notification: April 28, 2010 Final version: May 26, 2010 Workshop: July 20, 2010 SUBMISSION DETAILS: The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format in Springer's LNCS style. Submissions can be - technical papers not exceeding 10 pages, - system descriptions not exceeding 6 pages, or - position papers on work in progress not exceeding 3 pages in LNCS. Submissions exceeding these limits will not be reviewed. Submissions are via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unidl10 . WORKSHOP CHAIRS: - Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK - Rafael Penaloza, TU Dresden, Germany - Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Eyal Amir, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza - Simona Colucci, Technical University of Bari - Fabio G. Cozman, University of Sao Paulo - Manfred Jaeger, Aalborg University - Pavel Klinov, University of Manchester - Ralf M?ller, Hamburg University of Technology - Mathias Niepert, University of Mannheim - Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Luciano Serafini, IRS Trento - Giorgos Stoilos, Oxford University - Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR - Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China From schneidt at cs.man.ac.uk Fri Dec 11 15:49:16 2009 From: schneidt at cs.man.ac.uk (Thomas Schneider) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:49:16 +0000 Subject: [DL] help for DL operators In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <67FBD174-463B-454C-9EB0-98ABE7FB4806@cs.man.ac.uk> Hi Tariq Ali, are you referring to qualified number restrictions? If you want to express "I have more than (>) 5 children", then you can instead say "I have at least (>=) six children". If you want to say "I have less than (<) 5 children", then you can say "it is not the case that I have at least five children". Cheers Thomas On 8 Dec 2009, at 09:14, tariq ali wrote: > Respected Sir. > > Can DL handle < and > operator? upto my knowledge we can write ? but > can we write only wit > operator. > > > Regards > Tariq ali > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; > for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/ > . ** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr Thomas Schneider schneider (at) cs.man.ac.uk | | School of Computer Science http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~schneidt | | Kilburn Building, Room 2.114 phone +44 161 2756136 | | University of Manchester | | Oxford Road _///_ | | Manchester M13 9PL (o~o) | +-----------------------------------------------------oOOO--(_)--OOOo--+ Skagway (n.) Sudden outbreak of cones on a motorway. Douglas Adams, John Lloyd: The Deeper Meaning of Liff -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This is one of several strategic academic appointments, and we are seeking a dynamic and inspiring individual who can contribute to research and teaching in our Organisations, Information and Knowledge (OAK) research group. The group has current funds of over ?3m coming from the EU (including the coordination of a large Integrated Project and the participation in two other large IPs and a large STREP), Industry (recent funders are Rolls-Royce plc, Kodak and Lycos Europe) and UK Research Councils (EPSRC, ERC, JISC, AHRC, TSB). The group is led by Professor Fabio Ciravegna and has around 20 post-doctoral researchers and PhD students. The Department has an international reputation for the quality of its research and teaching excellence. The OAK research group focus on research and innovation in Information and Knowledge Technologies. Areas of interest include the Semantic and Future Web, their use for Knowledge Management in large organisations, Multimedia analysis (including text extraction, speech and image analysis) and Human Computer Interaction. Informal enquiries about this post should be addressed to the Head of Department, Professor John Derrick, jd at dcs.shef.ac.uk, phone +44 114 222 1849, or the head of the OAK research group, Professor Fabio Ciravegna, fabio at dcs.shef.ac.uk . 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URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Dec 15 14:01:45 2009 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:01:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] LPAR-16 - Dakar, Senegal - April 2010 Message-ID: <20091215130146.037C711FCAD@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS LPAR-16 16th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning April 25 - May 1, 2010 Dakar, Senegal http://www.lpar.net/lpar-16/ The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 16th edition will be held in Dakar, Senegal. Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. Topics ------ New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated reasoning * Verification * Interactive theorem proving and proof assistants * Model checking * Implementations of logic * Satisfiability modulo theories * Rewriting and unification * Logic programming * Satisfiability checking * Constraint programming * Decision procedures * Logic and the Web * Ontologies and large knowledge bases * Logic and databases * Modal and temporal logics * Program analysis * Foundations of security * Description logics * Non-monotonic reasoning * Specification using logics * Logic in artificial intelligence * Logic and types * Logical foundations of programming * Logical aspects of concurrency * Logic and computational complexity * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Logic of distributed systems Programme Chairs ---------------- * Ed Clarke * Andrei Voronkov Programme Committee ------------------- * Rajeev Alur * Matthias Baaz * Peter Baumgartner * Armin Biere * Nikolaj Bjorner * Iliano Cervesato * Agata Ciabattoni * Hubert Comon-Lundh * Nachum Dershowitz * Juergen Giesl * Guillem Godoy * Georg Gottlob * Jean Goubault-Larrecq * Reiner Haehnle * Claude Kirchner * Michael Kohlhase * Konstantin Korovin * Laura Kovacs * Orna Kupferman * Leonid Libkin * Aart Middeldorp * Luke Ong * Frank Pfenning * Andreas Podelski * Andrey Rybalchenko * Helmut Seidl * Geoff Sutcliffe * Ashish Tiwari * Toby Walsh * Christoph Weidenbach Submission Details ------------------ Submissions of two kinds are welcome: * Regular papers containing new results; * Experimental papers describing implementation or evaluation of systems. All submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. The page limit for all papers is 15 pages using the EasyChair class file that can be obtained at .... http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip. All papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the Web page http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dlpar16 Important Dates --------------- * Abstract submission: January 5, 2010 * Paper submission: January 12, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2010 * Proceedings version: March 15, 2010 * Short papers submission: March 17, 2010 * Short papers notification: March 25, 2010 * Conference: April 25-May 1, 2010 From ijv at acm.org Wed Dec 16 21:16:42 2009 From: ijv at acm.org (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ivan_Jos=E9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:16:42 +0100 Subject: [DL] Commonsense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Ontologies Message-ID: Sincere apologies for multiple postings. ====================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The NMR'2010 Workshop on Commonsense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Ontologies http://ksg.meraka.org.za/nmronto2010 Collocated With KR'2010 May 14-16 2010 Sutton Place, Toronto, Canada ====================================================== -- Workshop Description -- Classical reasoning over ontologies has reached the point where it can deal with large real-world ontologies. This can largely be attributed to advances in research on description logics (DLs). A good example is the medical ontology SNOMED-CT, containing over 300,000 concepts and millions of binary relationships between them. SNOMED-CT can be represented as a DL ontology, and its subsumption hierarchy can be computed in a matter of minutes. The obvious next step now is to extend reasoning over ontologies to cover non-classical cases, such as commonsense reasoning, a well established branch of AI. The first steps in that direction have been done by the ontology community, and while research along these lines has already resulted in initial tangible results, there is a need for a more coherent approach in order to speed up progress. This need provides interesting challenges to both the ontology and commonsense reasoning communities. For the commonsense reasoning community it is a chance to determine to what extent techniques developed in its sub-areas, like e.g. non-monotonic reasoning (NMR), can be tailored to the requirements of the ontology community. For the ontology community it is an opportunity to determine whether existing results in this area can be sharpened and improved on by referring to results in the broader area of commonsense reasoning. The topic of the workshop will hence be combining commonsense reasoning approaches and techniques with ontologies. One of the main motivations is to bring ideas from the well developed area of non-monotonic reasoning, like e.g. reasoning about actions, argumentation and belief revision, for discussion in the realm of ontology engineering: evolution, debugging, update, merging, etc. Certainly these tasks can benefit from most of the advances in NMR and give new insights for research in that area as well. Commonsense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Ontologies will be of interest to: - Researchers in the ontology community, particularly DL researchers, interested in extending ontological reasoning to non-classical cases. - Researchers in the knowledge representation and commonsense reasoning community interested in applying existing NMR techniques to the area of ontologies. This workshop will focus on an emerging hot topic. As such, one of its immediate outcomes will be boosting a new and exciting hybrid research domain combining commonsense reasoning and knowledge engineering for ontologies. -- Topics of Interest -- Submissions are welcome on the role of commonsense and non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies in areas that include but are not limited to the following ones: - Ontology Debugging and Update - Ontology Merging, Alignment and Integration - Inconsistency Handling - Belief Revision and Theory Change for ontologies - Uncertainty Handling, Defeasible Reasoning and Argumentation in ontologies - Heuristic and Approximate Reasoning - NMR methods for light-weight DL ontologies - Planning and Reasoning about Action and Change on the Semantic Web - Rules and Ontologies - Temporal and Spatial Reasoning - Ontology Fault Diagnosis and Repair - Preferences and Ontologies - Formal Concept Analysis and Ontologies -- Submission Instructions -- Authors are kindly requested to follow the instructions for authors on the NMR website at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/news/conferences/NMR/2010/NMR_2010/Author_Instructions.html Please submit to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nmronto2010 -- Important Dates - Papers due: January 29 (Friday), 2010 - Notification: March 1 (Monday), 2010 - Final version: April 6 (Tuesday), 2010 - Workshop: May 14-16, 2010 -- Additional Information -- Please visit the NMR website at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/news/conferences/NMR/2010/NMR_2010/NMR10.html for more information about NMR, the venue of the workshop, the city of Toronto, accommodation and travel tips. -- Workshop Chairs -- - Ivan Jos? Varzinczak (Meraka Institute, South Africa) http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~ivarzinczak - Renata Wassermann (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) http://www.ime.usp.br/~renata -- Program Committee -- - Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete and Information Systems Laboratory, Greece) - F?bio Cozman (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) - Giorgos Flouris (University of Crete and Information Systems Laboratory, Greece) - Norman Foo (University of New South Wales, Australia) - Zhisheng Huang (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Jos Lehmann (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) - Maurice Pagnucco (University of New South Wales, Australia) - Jeff Pan (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) - Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) - Laurent Perrussel (Universit? de Toulouse 1, France) - Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) -- Ivan Jos? Varzinczak - http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~ivarzinczak Knowledge Systems Group - Meraka Institute - CSIR Pretoria, South Africa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk Fri Dec 11 17:38:06 2009 From: jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk (Pan, Dr Jeff Z.) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:38:06 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CFP] ESWC2010 Ontology and Reasoning Track: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (Abstract Deadline: 15th Dec) Message-ID: ***** ESWC2010 Ontology and Reasoning Track: CALL FOR PAPERS Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010ontologiesandreasoning ***** 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference | ESWC 2010 30 May - 3 June 2010 | Heraklion, Greece http://www.eswc2010.org/ ***** ABOUT THE ESWC2010 The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010) is to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of semantics on the Web. ESWC2010 builds on the success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series, but seeks to extend its focus by collaborating with other communities and research areas, in which web semantics play an important role -- within and outside ICT. At the same time, ESWC2010 is a truly international conference, not only "European". Semantics of web content, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), data about web usage, natural language processing, etc. will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of functionality. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and make this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services, based on reasoning with metadata and ontologies, will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making tasks. Research about web semantics can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science. ESWC2010 will present the latest results in research and applications in its field. The research program will be organised in targeted research tracks. In addition, the conference will feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium, and a number of collocated workshops. The individual calls for these events can be found on the conference Web site (http://www.eswc2010.org/). ***** IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission December 15, 2009 (compulsory) Full Paper Submission December 22, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) Notification February 24, 2010 Camera Ready March 10, 2010 ***** ONTOLOGIES AND REASONING TRACK The Ontologies and Reasoning programme involves the management of and reasoning with ontologies and rules, so as to support their applications. The central idea of this vision is to use (1) ontologies to encode application data in a machine understandable form, in order to be able to automatically integrate data from different sources and to be able to support semantic search for information based on its meaning rather than its syntactic form, and (2) rules to perform conditional decision, event processing and actions on behalf of the user. In this track we invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to the following topics: - Rules and ontology management (creation, evolution, reuse, evaluation, etc.) - Searching, visualizing, navigating and browsing ontologies - Ontology reasoning and query answering - Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web - Ontology usability - Query languages and optimization for ontologies - Combining rules and ontologies - Declarative rule-based reasoning techniques - Rule languages, standards, and rule systems - Ontology-based search - Ontology alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation) - Ontology learning and metadata generation (e.g., HLT and ML approaches) - Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction - Corporate Semantic Web - applications in enterprises and economic valuation - Language extensions of OWL, ODM, RIF, RuleML, ... Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010ontologiesandreasoning ***** SUBMISSIONS ESWC2010 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of representing and using semantics on the web. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and applications papers. The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing for ESWC2010 will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will *not* be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission -- details of this process will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. ***** BEST PAPER AWARD An award will be given to the best paper (or papers) submitted to the conference as judged by the Program and Track Chairs in collaboration with the Program Committee. ***** INFORMATION AND CONTACT For further information please visit the conference website (http://www.eswc2010.org) or contact eswc2010_info at eswc2010.org ***** ESWC2010 - brought to you by Semantic Technology Institute International (http://www.sti2.org) The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. From kudinov.andrey at gmail.com Wed Dec 16 22:44:58 2009 From: kudinov.andrey at gmail.com (Andrey Kudinov) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:44:58 +0300 Subject: [DL] AiML 2010: First call for papers Message-ID: <6a67c2880912161344q7042898eq9d5520698d825d8c@mail.gmail.com> [Apologies for multiple copies] ======================================== AiML-2010: ?FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 8-TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC MOSCOW, AUGUST 25-29, 2010 ?http://aiml10.mi.ras.ru/ Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting the state of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. Information about the AiML series can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net ? > . AiML-2010 is the eighth conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logics, including: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic ? + complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics ? + modal and temporal logic programming ? + model checking ? + theorem proving for modal logics - theoretical aspects of modal logic ? + algebraic ?and categorical perspectives on modal logic ? + coalgebraic modal logic ? + completeness and canonicity ? + correspondence and duality theory ? + many-dimensional modal logics ? + modal fixed point logics ? + model theory of modal logic ? + proof theory of modal logic - specific instances and variations of modal logic ? + description logics ? + dynamic logics and other process logics ? + epistemic and deontic logics ? + modal logics for agent-based systems ? + modal logic and game theory ? + modal logic and grammar formalisms ? + provability and interpretability logics ? + spatial and temporal logics ? + hybrid logic ? + intuitionistic logic ? + substructural logics Papers on related subjects will also be considered. INVITED SPEAKERS: Heinrich Wansing (Dresden University of Technology) Joseph Halpern (Cornell University) ? to be confirmed Dick de Jongh (University of Amsterdam) Martin Otto (Darmstadt University of Technology) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA LORIA Nancy) Mati Pentus (Moscow M.V. Lomonosov State University) PAPER SUBMISSIONS: There will be two types of submissions to AiML-2010: (1) Full papers for publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference. (2) Abstracts for short presentation only. Both types of papers should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page at ?http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiml2010 (1) FULL PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit, for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings, full papers reporting on original research and not submitted elsewhere. The proceedings of AiML'2010 will be published by College Publications ? ? ? ? ? ? ?http://www.collegepublications.co.uk in a volume to be made available at the conference. The submissions should be at most 15 pages, with an optional technical appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of 100-200 words. The submissions must be typeset in LaTex, using a style file and template that will be provided on the AiML'2010 website http://aiml10.mi.ras.ru/ in due time. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for, and attend, the conference to present the paper. (2) ABSTRACTS: These should be at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light reviewing. The accepted abstracts will be made available at the conference, and the authors will have the opportunity to make short presentations (of up to 15 minutes) on them. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Carlos Areces ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (INRIA, Nancy-Grand Est, France) Philippe Balbiani ? ? ? ? ? (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Alexandru Baltag ? ? ? ? ? ?(University of Oxford, UK) Lev Beklemishev ? ? ? ? ? ? (Moscow State University, Russia) Johan van Benthem ? ? ? ? ? (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Guram Bezhanishvili ? ? ? ? (New Mexico State University, USA) Torben Brauner ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(Roskilde University, Denmark) Patrick Blackburn ? ? ? ? ? (INRIA, Nancy-Grand Est, France) Balder ten Cate ? ? ? ? ? ? (LSV, ENS Cachan, France) Stephane Demri ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(LSV, ENS Cachan, France) Melvin Fitting ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(Lehman College, CUNY, USA) Silvio Ghilardi ? ? ? ? ? ? (University of Milano, Italy) Robert Goldblatt ? ? ? ? ? ?(Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Rajeev Gore ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (The Australian National University, Australia) Andreas Herzig ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(IRIT, Toulouse, France) Ian Hodkinson ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (Imperial College London, UK) Wiebe van der Hoek ? ? ? ? ?(University of Liverpool, UK) Rosalie Iemhoff ? ? ? ? ? ? (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Alexander Kurz ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(University of Leicester, UK) Martin Lange ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany) Carsten Lutz ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(University of Bremen, Germany) Larisa Maksimova ? ? ? ? ? ?(Sobolev Inst. of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia) Edwin Mares ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Larry Moss ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(Indiana University, USA) Martin Otto ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) Dirk Pattinson ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(Imperial College London, UK) Mark Reynolds ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (University of Western Australia, Australia) Renate Schmidt ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(University of Manchester, UK) Nobu-Yuki Suzuki ? ? ? ? ? ?(Shizuoka University, Japan) Yde Venema ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Igor Walukiewicz ? ? ? ? ? ?(LABRI, Bordeaux, France) Frank Wolter ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev ? ? ? (Birkbeck College, London, UK) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR: Lev Beklemishev (chair) Valentin Shehtman M. Tsfasman Mati Pentus Ilya Shapirovsky Vladimir Podolsky IMPORTANT DATES: Full papers submission deadline: 16 March 2010 Full papers acceptance notification: 21 May 2010 Short presentations submission deadline: 1 June 2010 Short presentations acceptance notification: 21 June 2010 Final version of full papers and abstracts due: 30 June 2010 Conference: 24-27 August 2010. CONFERENCE LOCATION: Advances in Modal Logic 2010 will be held at Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow FURTHER INFORMATION: AiML 2010 website: ?http://aiml10.mi.ras.ru/ ENQUIRIES: E-mail enquiries should be directed respectively to the chair of the organizing committee, sent to lbekl(at)yandex(dot)ru, or to the PC co-chairs, sent to aimolog2010 at gmail.com. From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Sun Dec 20 04:15:44 2009 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:15:44 -0500 Subject: [DL] ESWC 2010 - AI Mashup Challenge: Call for Submissions Message-ID: <4B2D96E0.1050207@wright.edu> ESWC 2010 - AI Mashup Challenge: Call for Submissions ************************************************************ 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) 30 May ? 3 June 2010, Heraklion, Greece http://www.eswc2010.org/ AI Mashup Challenge website: http://sites.google.com/a/fh-hannover.de/aimashup/home ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ESWC2010 will include an AI Mashup Challenge. It is a great opportunity to demonstrate intelligent mashups combining existing web ressources into a new and useful service. ESWC2010 participants will vote the mashups; the winning groups will receive industry-sponsored awards. Procedure *********** - Mashup developers send a mail to the organizers, containing their Google ID, the URL of their mashup, its name and a short description. - The organizers provide them with a subpage of the mashup challenge site. - There, the developers can describe their mashup and link to its URL. Till review they can go on improving their work. - Deadline is April, 1, 2010. At that day the reviewers will start assessing the submitted mashups. - Acceptance will be communicated by May 1st 2010. - The admitted submissions are presented in a 15 minutes demo in the conference mashup session. - The session is followed by the vote. - During a conference ceremony, the awards will be passed to the winners. For more see the challenge site http://sites.google.com/a/fh-hannover.de/aimashup/home. ************************************************************* Please note: Participants must register for the conference in order to present their work and run for a prize. ************************************************************* Contact of the mashup organizers: Brigitte.Endres-Niggemeyer at fh-hannover.de From tb at imm.dtu.dk Wed Dec 16 14:52:09 2009 From: tb at imm.dtu.dk (Thomas Bolander) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:52:09 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: International Workshop on Hybrid Logic and Applications (HyLo 2010) Message-ID: <4B28E609.3060909@imm.dtu.dk> ******************************************************************* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic and Applications (HyLo 2010) Affiliated with LICS 2010 July 10, 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland ******************************************************************* Scope ----- Hybrid logic is an extension of modal logic which allows us to refer explicitly to states of the model in the syntax of formulas. This extra capability, very natural in the realm of temporal logics, where one usually wants to refer to specific times, has been shown very effective in other domains too. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have been sporadically investigated ever since, it was only in the 1990s that work on them really got into its stride. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on applied grounds, with the usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions about what happens at a particular instant, and standard modal formalisms do not allow this. What is less obvious is that the route hybrid logic takes to overcome this problem (the basic mechanism being to add nominals - atomic symbols true at a unique point - together with extra modalities to exploit them) often actually improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes far simpler to formulate modal tableau, resolution, and natural deduction in hybrid logic, and completeness and interpolation results can be proved of a generality that is simply not available in modal logic. That is, hybridization - adding nominals and related apparatus - seems a fairly reliable way of curing many known weaknesses in modal logic. Hybrid logic is now a mature field with significant impact on a range of other fields, including - description logic, - applied modal logics, - temporal logic, - memory logics, - memoryful logics, - reactive logic, - labelled deduction, and - feature logic. The topic of the HyLo workshop of 2010 is hybrid logic and its applications, for instance within the fields mentioned above. The scope is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery like nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder but, more generally, extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic and applications, for example the LICS-affiliated HyLo 2002 (http://floc02.diku.dk/HYLO) and HyLo 2006 (http://hylomol.ruc.dk/HyLo2006) which both were held as part of FLoC. Submissions ----------- Please use the HyLo 2010 submission page to submit papers (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=hylo2010). Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. The revised versions of accepted papers will be published online in a volume of Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). A preliminary version of the proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. Authors are invited to submit papers in the following two categories: - Regular papers describing original research. - Presentation-only papers describing work recently published or submitted. The presentation-only papers will be included in the preliminary proceedings, but not in the final proceedings in ENTCS. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. Authors are strongly encouraged to prepare their submissions according to the ENTCS guidelines (http://www.entcs.org). Important Dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2010 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2010 Deadline for final versions: June 15, 2006 Invited Speakers ---------------- - Moshe Vardi, Rice University, USA - NN Program Committee ----------------- Carlos Areces (INRIA Lorraine, France) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Lorraine, France) Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark), Co-chair Torben Bra?ner (Roskilde University, Denmark), Co-chair Stephane Demri (ENS de Cachan, France) Mai Gehrke (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark) Valeria de Paiva (Cuil Inc., USA) Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) Contact Details --------------- See the workshop home page (http://hylocore.ruc.dk/HyLo2010.html) for further information. Please send all correspondence regarding the workshop to the organizers: Thomas Bolander http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~tb Torben Bra?ner http://www.ruc.dk/~torben From thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de Thu Dec 17 16:45:44 2009 From: thorsten.liebig at uni-ulm.de (Thorsten Liebig) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:45:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] Final OWLlink 1.0 Specification Released Message-ID: <4B2A5228.9020906@uni-ulm.de> Today the OWLlink Working Group announces the publication of the final OWLlink protocol specification . The OWLlink interface provides an implementation-neutral mechanism for communication between OWL 2 components. It is a refinement of the outdated DIG protocol, fully aligned with the just released Web Ontology Language OWL 2. A key feature of OWLlink is its extensibility w.r.t the language and its flexibility in supporting multiple transfer protocols. The OWLlink core specification consists of the following 3 parts: o Structural Specification o HTTP/XML Binding o HTTP/Functional Binding OWLlink has already been implemented in a set of tools: o The RacerPro Reasoner v2.0 o The Prolog OWL 2 API Thea o An OWLAPI connector that allows: - OWLAPI clients to access OWLlink aware reasoners and - OWLAPI reasoners to be accessed via OWLlink Best Regards, The OWLlink Working Group From ulle.endriss at uva.nl Sat Dec 12 18:18:59 2009 From: ulle.endriss at uva.nl (Ulle Endriss) Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:18:59 +0100 Subject: [DL] ECAI-2010: Call for Papers Message-ID: <4B23D083.50209@uva.nl> ###################################################################### ## ECAI-2010 ## Call for Papers ## ECAI-2010 ## ###################################################################### The Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 16-20 August 2010 ## Lisbon, Portugal http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 February 2010 Deadline for submission of full papers: 22 February 2010 ###################################################################### ## INTRODUCTION ## ###################################################################### The ECAI-2010 Programme Committee invites the submission of papers and posters for the technical programme of the nineteenth biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a central topic in contemporary computer science and informatics. The fruits of fifty years of AI research have benefited application domains as disparate as industrial systems control and medicine. The milestone events in AI research are increasingly regarded as milestones in human scientific and technological development: from the first chess playing program to defeat a reigning world champion under standard chess tournament rules, to the first robot to autonomously traverse 150 miles of rough terrain. Techniques, results, and concepts developed under the banner of AI research have proved to be of fundamental importance in areas such as economics, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and logical analysis. And of course, AI remains a topic of perennial fascination in popular culture. Initiated in 1974, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe's premier archival venue for presenting scientific results in AI. Organised by the European Coordinating Committee for AI (ECCAI), the ECAI conference provides an opportunity for researchers to present and hear about the very best research in contemporary AI. As well as a full programme of technical papers, ECAI-2010 will include the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems conference (PAIS), the Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS), and an extensive programme of workshops, tutorials, and invited speakers. (Separate calls are issued for PAIS, STAIRS, and workshops.) ECAI-2010 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Lisbon, Portugal. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy, Lisbon promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference. ###################################################################### ## TOPICS OF INTEREST ## ###################################################################### High-quality original submissions are welcome from all areas of contemporary AI; the following list of topics is indicative only. * Agents & Multiagent Systems * Case-Based Reasoning * Cognitive Modeling & Interaction * Constraints & Search * Knowledge Representation & Reasoning * Machine Learning * Model-Based Reasoning * Natural Language Processing * Perception & Sensing * Planning & Scheduling * Robotics * Uncertainty in AI * Applications of AI An extensive list of subtopics is available at the conference website. ###################################################################### ## IMPORTANT DATES ## ###################################################################### Deadline for electronic abstracts: Monday, 15 February 2010 Paper submission deadline: Monday, 22 February 2010 Author response period: 15-16 April 2010 Notification of acceptance/rejection: Friday, 30 April 2010 Conference: 16-20 August 2010 ###################################################################### ## PAPER FORMATTING & SUBMISSION INFORMATION ## ###################################################################### Submissions for ECAI and PAIS must not exceed SIX (6) pages in camera-ready format. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review. Papers for ECAI and PAIS should be submitted using the ECAI formatting style; details of the style are available at: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/ecai2010.zip This file unpacks to a directory "ecai2010", and contains LaTeX and other style files. The file "ecai2010.tex" is an example paper in LaTeX format using the appropriate styles, and can be used as a template for ECAI and PAIS submissions. Each accepted paper will be allocated SIX (6) pages in the proceedings. ECAI 2010 also accepts posters. Each poster will have TWO (2) pages allocated in the proceedings. Posters must follow the same formatting guidelines as full papers. Authors may indicate whether they want a submitted full paper to be considered as well as a submitted poster in case of non-acceptance of the full paper. Reviewing for ECAI 2010 will be blind: reviewers will not be presented with the identity of paper authors. To allow for blind review, author names in a submitted paper or poster should be replaced by the unique tracking number assigned by the conference website at the submission of an electronic abstract. Authors should avoid writing anything that makes their identity obvious in the text. Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously have been formally published. (Any publication venue with an ISBN or ISSN number counts as a formal publication; this includes LNCS/LNAI volumes, for example.) Submissions should not be submitted elsewhere during the ECAI 2010 review phase. The proceedings of the ECAI conference, together with those of its associated symposia, PAIS and STAIRS, will be published and distributed by IOS Press as a book and as a CD-ROM. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2010 formatting guidelines for inclusion in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper or poster is required to attend the conference to present the contribution. Submission and review of papers for ECAI-2010 will be managed via the ConfMaster system: http://ecai2010.confmaster.net/ -- for the ECAI main conference http://pais2010.confmaster.net/ -- for the PAIS conference ConfMaster will go live for ECAI and PAIS abstracts and submissions on Friday 15 January 2010. Prior to this date, the sites will be used for configuration and testing. All data uploaded or registered before this date will be deleted and will not be considered for the conference. Do NOT register or upload papers before 15 January 2010! Submission for ECAI/PAIS-2010 is a two stage process: * The abstracts of all papers for submission should be registered with the relevant ECAI or PAIS web server no later than Monday 15 February 2010. * Papers should then be uploaded in PDF format no later than Monday 22 February 2010. All submissions will be subject to peer review by the ECAI 2010 Programme Committee, and evaluated on the basis of: relevance; significance of contribution; technical quality; scholarship; and quality of presentation. The primary authors of submitted papers will be offered the opportunity to respond to the reviews for their papers before the final decision on acceptance or otherwise is made. The author feedback phase will last two days, between 15-16 April 2010. ###################################################################### ## ORGANISATION ## ###################################################################### Conference chair: Helder Coelho (University of Lisbon, Portugal) ECAI Programme chair: Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) PAIS Programme chair: Rudi Studer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) STAIRS Programme chair: Asuncion Gomez Perez (Technical University of Madrid, Spain) Workshop Chair: Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Local Organisation co-chairs: Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon & APPIA, Portugal) Joao Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Finance co-chairs: Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon & APPIA, Portugal) Joao Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Sponsorship co-chairs: Pedro Henriques (University of Minho & APPIA, Portugal) Paulo Novais (University of Minho & APPIA, Portugal) Printing, Publicity & Webmaster chair: Cesar Analide (University of Minho & APPIA, Portugal) Infrastructure co-chairs: Luis Correia (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Luis Moniz (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Volunteer & Student Scholarships chair: Paulo Trigo (ISEL, Portugal) Local Workshop & Tutorial chair: Paulo Urbano (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Local STAIRS & PAIS chair: Graca Gaspar (University of Lisbon, Portugal) ###################################################################### ## AREA CHAIRS ## ###################################################################### Area chairs currently confirmed include: * Baader, Franz [Germany] * Beetz, Michael [Germany] * Bosch, Antal van den [Netherlands] * Bradzil, Pavel [Portugal] * Declerck, Thierry [Germany] * van der Gaag, Linda [Netherlands] * Geffner, Hector [Spain] * Harmelen, Frank van [Netherlands] * Hunter, Anthony [UK] * Ingrand, Felix [France] * Kraus, Sarit [Israel] * Lang, Jerome [France] * Lukasiewicz, Thomas [Austria] * Marquis, Pierre [France] * Meseguer, Pedro [Spain] * Meyer, John-Jules [Netherlands] * Mladenic, Dunka [Slovenia] * Plaza, Enric [Spain] * Poesio, Massimo [UK] * Refanidis, Ioannis [Greece] * Rosenschein, Jeff [Israel] * Rossi, Francesca [Italy] * Sierra, Carles [Spain] * Thielschler, Michael [Germany] * Wilson, Nic [Ireland] * Wolter, Frank [UK] ###################################################################### ## PLENARY SPEAKERS ## ###################################################################### The ECAI-2010 programme will include plenary talks from internationally leading researchers in AI and cognate disciplines. Plenary speakers so far confirmed include: * Ian Horrocks [Oxford University, UK] * Christos Papadimitriou [UC Berkeley, USA] * Judea Pearl [UCLA, USA] * Manuela Veloso [CMU, USA] ###################################################################### ## TUTORIAL SPEAKERS ## ###################################################################### ECAI-2010 will include a programme of masterclass tutorials from leading researchers in AI; these tutorials will be *free* to all ECAI/PAIS/STAIRS delegates. Tutorial speakers so far confirmed include: * Sarit Kraus [Bar Ilan University, Israel] -- Automated Negotiation * Ilkka Niemela [Helsinki University of Technology, Finland] -- Answer Set Programming * Joao Marques-Silva [University College Dublin, Ireland] -- Boolean Satisfiability & Optimization Algorithms & Applications More tutorial speakers to be announced soon! ###################################################################### From yzhang at CS.Trinity.Edu Mon Dec 21 03:31:57 2009 From: yzhang at CS.Trinity.Edu (Yu Zhang) Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:31:57 -0600 (CST) Subject: [DL] AI Space Odyssey - Special Issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems Message-ID: =============================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS AI Space Odyssey, Special Issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems Submissions due for review: 19 February 2010 Publication date: September/October 2010 http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/iscfp5 ============================================================== IEEE Intelligent Systems seeks original papers describing research on AI in Space. This topic has been the focus of earlier special issues, but this call is interested in a glimpse of the future from our standpoint in 2010, and hence the theme AI Space Odyssey. In anticipation of long-duration space exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, likely by many nations, we are looking for papers describing how AI has made missions possible and will help make missions a success. Whereas in the 1980s and 1990s, researchers saw AI as a panacea for intelligent autonomous systems, the AI technology used today in space applications is often regarded differently. The editors of this special issue solicit papers that describe new and novel use of AI technology for space applications. Papers may cover a variety of topics, listed here in no particular order: * semantics, ontologies, and knowledge representation; * pattern recognition and scientific discovery; * Intelligent System-Health Management (ISHM); * teleoperation and telerobotics; * planning, scheduling, constraint satisfaction; * adjustable autonomy; * agent-based and multiagent systems; * machine learning; * procedure-execution monitoring and aiding; * natural language processing and dialogue systems; * decision support; and * history of AI applications in astronautics and space exploration. In addition, the special issue will consider original papers on innovative, knowledge-based approaches to complex implementation challenges such as * AI-driven simulations, virtual reality, virtual worlds and games for engineering, operations, management, training, and so on; * software engineering, development, and verification and validation approaches for high-reliability autonomy; * innovative approaches to security issues in autonomous software systems; * software life-cycle issues with respect to very long-duration (10+ year) missions; * decision and workflow support systems for planetary exploration and extra-vehicular activities; * AI-driven robotics and approaches for human-robot teamwork; * Smart sensor systems for situational awareness; and * ubiquitous computing environments. Submission Guidelines Papers should situate the work within the field of AI, cite related work, and indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its direct contribution to the special challenges of space missions. We will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. All papers will undergo peer and editorial review. Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work and should be 3,500 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure or table as 200 words) and should follow the magazines style and presentation guidelines (see www.computer.org/intelligent/author.htm). References should be limited to 10 citations. To submit a manuscript, access the IEEE Computer Society Web-based system, Manuscript Central, at https://mc.manuscriptcentral/cs-ieee. Questions? Contact Guest Editors: Mike Shafto (mike.shafto at nasa.gov) Maarten Sierhuis (maarten.sierhuis at nasa.gov) Robert Hoffman (rhoffman at ihmc.us) From david at cs.uwaterloo.ca Tue Dec 22 18:26:41 2009 From: david at cs.uwaterloo.ca (David Toman) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:26:41 -0500 Subject: [DL] Description Logics 2010: 2nd call for papers Message-ID: [NEW: invited speakers and full programme committee] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 23rd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2010) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Waterloo, Ontario, Canada http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/dl2010/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is the premier forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: January 26th, 2010 Acceptance notification: March 9th, 2010 Camera ready copies: March 30th, 2010 Early registration: March 30th, 2010 Workshop: May 4 to May 7th ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, such as * foundations of description logics, including expressive power, decidability and complexity of reasoning, novel inference problems, and reasoning techniques for solving these problems; * extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to, closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages; * integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems; * use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, semantic web, and grid computing; * building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques; and * tools that exploit description logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite submissions of papers in Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html to arrive no later than January 26th, 2010. The length of submissions is limited to 11 pages, including title and abstract (can be omitted if necessary), and list of references. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair; see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2010 The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series; see http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ Accepted submissions will be selected for either oral or poster presentation; however, no distinction will be made in the workshop proceedings: all accepted papers can be 11 pages long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Grant Weddell, Waterloo (Workshop Chair) * Volker Haarslev, Concordia (PC Chair) * David Toman, Waterloo (PC Chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Ian Horrocks (Oxford) * Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz) * Roberto Sebastiani (Trento) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (LORIA, France) Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Meghyn Bienvenu (University of Bremen, Germany) Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, USA) Andrea Cali (University of Oxford, UK) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy) Achille Fokoue (IBM Research, USA) Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Rajeev Gore (Australian National University, Australia) Stijn Heymans (TU Vienna, Austria) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford, UK) Ulrich Hustadt (University of Liverpool, UK) Yevgeny Kazakov (University of Oxford, UK) Boris Konev (University of Liverpool, UK) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck University of London, UK) Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, UK) Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen, Germany) Tommie Meyer (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Maja Milicic (University of Manchester, UK) Ralf Moeller (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Boris Motik (University of Oxford, UK) Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK) Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester, UK) Peter F. Patel-Schneider (Bell Labs Research, USA) Riccardo Rosati (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy) Sebastian Rudolph (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Uli Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Luciano Serafini (ITC-IRST, Italy) Evren Sirin (Clark & Parsia, USA) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (Max-Planck-Institute, Germany) Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Anni-Yasmin Turhan (TU Dresden, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Misha Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck University of London, UK) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information about registration, travel information, accommodation, and so on will be made available on the DL 2009 homepage: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/dl2010/ * Enquiries about the DL 2009 workshop can be made by contacting the organizing committee: dl2010 at easychair.org * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. David Toman, Associate Professor D.R.Cheriton School of Computer Science tel: (519) 888-4567 ext 34447 University of Waterloo fax: (519) 885-1208 200 University Avenue West david at uwaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~david From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Thu Dec 31 16:47:59 2009 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:47:59 -0500 Subject: [DL] First Call for Paper: The 3rd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW'2010) Message-ID: <4B3CC7AF.9080206@cs.rpi.edu> The 3rd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW'2010) Troy NY, USA, June 15-16, 2010 http://tw.rpi.edu/ipaw2010 Interests in and needs for provenance are growing as data proliferates. Data is increasing in a wide array of application areas, including scientific workflow systems, logical reasoning systems, text extraction, social media, and linked data. As data increases and as applications become more hybrid and distributed in nature, there is increasing interest in where data came from and how it was produced in order to understand when and how to rely on it. Provenance, or the origin or source of something, can capture a wide range of information. This includes, for example, who or what generated the data, history of data stewardship, manner of manufacture, place and time of manufacture, and so on. Annotation is tightly connected with provenance since data is often commented on, described, and referred to. These descriptions or annotations are often critical to the understandability, reusability, and reproducibility of data and thus are often critical components of today?s data and knowledge systems. Provenance has been recognized to be important in a wide range of areas including databases, workflows, knowledge representation and reasoning, and digital libraries. Thus, many disciplines have proposed a wide range of provenance models, techniques, and infrastructure for encoding and using provenance. One timely challenge for the broader community is to understand the range of strengths and weaknesses of different approaches sufficiently to find and use the best models for any given situation. This also comes at a time when a new incubator group has been formed at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to provide a state of the art understanding and develop a roadmap in the area of provenance for Semantic Web technologies, development, and possible standardization. == Topics == This workshop builds on a successful line of provenance and annotation workshops (http://www.ipaw.info/). It aims to bring together a broad range of provenance researchers and users in order to discuss progress in and open research problems related to provenance and annotation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Provenance models * Architectures and data management techniques for provenance data * Provenance requirements and use cases * Provenance-aware reasoning * Provenance-aware Semantic Web applications and technologies * Presentation techniques and tools for provenance data * Security and privacy issues for provenance data * Provenance integration and interoperability * Provenance for social media * Provenance for linked data * Query languages and query processing techniques for provenance data * Storage and query interfaces for workflow provenance * Provenance analysis, mining and visualization * Provenance systems, functionality, protocols, implementation * Provenance, business processes and compliance * Provenance prototypes and commercial solutions * Provenance in scientific publications * Provenance and its relationship to annotation and metadata * Provenance for digital libraries == Submission == Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not under review for publication elsewhere. Papers may be up to 12 pages in length, including reference and appendix. Detailed submission instructions will be available on the Submission page http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipaw2010. Submitted research papers will also be automatically considered for the poster-only option. Proceedings will be published after the workshop by Springer (to be confirmed). IPAW 2010 is also soliciting shorter submissions of ongoing work in the form of proposals for demonstrations, posters, or statements of interest. Short papers may be up to 4 pages in length. Demonstration proposals should describe the context and highlights of the proposed demonstration and include a brief description of the demonstration scenario. == Important Dates == * Abstract deadline: March 8, 2010 * Submission deadline (papers, demos & posters): March 15, 2010 * Notification to authors: April 22, 2010 * Camera-ready deadline: June 1, 2010 * Presentation deadline: June 13, 2010 * Workshop: June 15-16, 2010 == Collocated Events == Provenance Hackathon (June 14, 2010) The day before the workshop. There will be a one day hackathon with a prize awarded during the conference. Provenance Challenge Planning day (June 17, 2010) The day after the workshop. There will be a one day planning meeting for the next provenance challenge. From Sebastien.Ferre at irisa.fr Wed Dec 23 16:07:51 2009 From: Sebastien.Ferre at irisa.fr (Sebastien Ferre) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:07:51 +0100 Subject: [DL] ICCS 2010: 2nd Call for Papers (deadline extension) Message-ID: <4B323247.3040603@irisa.fr> Important note: the conference dates have changed slightly, and the submission deadline has been extended accordingly. ** Apologies for cross-postings. ** ** Kindly forward to interested colleagues and doctoral students.** ==================================================================== 2nd Call for Papers ICCS 2010: 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures From Information to Intelligence 26 - 30 July 2010 (** new dates **) Damai Beach Resort Kuching, Malaysia http://www.mimos.my/iccs2010 ==================================================================== The ICCS'10 Program Committee invites submission of papers and posters for the Technical Program of the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures. Since 1993 the focus of the conference (held in Europe, Australia, North America etc.) has been the representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge for research and practical applications. ICCS brings together researchers in information and computer science as well as social sciences to explore novel ways of deploying conceptual structures. The ICCS 2010 theme is ``From Information to Intelligence''. TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: - Graph based knowledge representation and reasoning; - Conceptual knowledge acquisition; - Conceptual data processing, analysis and conceptual logic; - Interplay of conceptual structures with language, semantics, semiotics and pragmatics; - Representation and reasoning with conceptual structures; - Applied conceptual structures. IMPORTANT DATES: (** extended deadline **) Deadline for electronic abstracts: 18th January 2010 Paper submission deadline: 25th January 2010 Rebuttal phase: 1st to 3rd March 2010 Notification of acceptance / rejection: 15th March 2010 Conference: 26 - 30 July 2010 (** new dates **) SUBMISSIONS DETAILS: Papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer's LNCS format. We recommend the use of LaTeX2e for the final camera ready paper. For more details please see: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0. ICCS'10 also accepts posters. Each poster will have 4 pages allocated in the proceedings. The language of the conference is English. Reviewing for ICCS'10 is blind: reviewers will not be presented with the identity of the paper authors. Submissions should be original and not previously published (any publication venue with a ISBN or ISSN number counts as a formal publication). Papers accepted for publications at ICCS'10 will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series by Springer-Verlag and must be presented at the conference. CONFERENCE CHAIRS: GENERAL CHAIR: - Dickson Lukose MIMOS, Malaysia PROGRAM CHAIRS (alphabetical order): - Madalina Croitoru LIRMM (Univ Montpellier II and CNRS), France - Sebastien Ferre IRISA / IFSIC, Univ Rennes 1, France EDITORIAL BOARD: - Galia Angelova Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria - Frithjof Dau SAP Dresden, Germany - Aldo de Moor CommunitySense, The Netherlands - Harry Delugach University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA - Peter Eklund Bernhard Ganter Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Ollivier Haemmerl? Universit? de Toulouse le Mirail, France - Pascal Hitzler Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany - Mary Keeler VivoMind Intelligence, Inc., USA - Sergei Kuznetsov Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Bernard Moulin Universit? Laval, Canada - Marie-Laure Mugnier LIRMM, France - Heather D. Pfeiffer New Mexico State University, USA - Simon Polovina Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Uta Priss Edinburgh Napier University - Sebastian Rudolph University of Karlsruhe, Germany - Henrik Sch?rfe Aalborg University, Denmark - John F. Sowa VivoMind Intelligence Inc., USA - Gerd Stumme University of Kassel, Germany - Rudolf Wille Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany - Karl Erich Wolff University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany - Peter ?hrstr?m Aalborg University, Denmark PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: - Jean-Fran?ois Baget LIRMM-RCR & INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes, France - Radim Belohlavek Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic - Tru H. Cao Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam - Dan Corbett DARPA, Washington, D.C., USA - Olivier Corby INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France - Juliette Dibie-Barth?lemy AgroParisTech, France - Pavlin Dobrev ProSyst Labs EOOD, Bulgaria - Udo Hebisch Technische Universit?t Freiberg, Germany - Joachim Hereth DMC GmbH, Germany - Nathalie Hernandez Universit? Toulouse le Mirail, France - Wolfgang Hesse Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany - Richard Hill Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Jan Hladik SAP Research Dresden, Germany - Adil Kabbaj INSEA, Rabat, Morocco - Rob Kremer University of Calgary, Canada - Markus Kr?tzsch Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH), Germany - Leonard Kwuida Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Michel Leclere LIRMM, France - Robert Levinson UC Santa Cruz, USA - Philippe Martin Eur?com, France - Claudio Masolo ISTC, Trento, Italy - Daniel Oberle SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany - Sergei Obiedkov Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - John Old Edinburgh Napier University, UK - Anne-Marie Rassinoux University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland - Gary Richmond City University of New York, USA - Olivier Ridoux Universit? de Rennes 1, France - Eric Salvat IMERIR, Perpignan, France - Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen University of Aalborg, Denmark - Jeffrey Schiffel The Boeing Company, USA - Denny Vrandecic AIFB, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany - Guo-Qiang Zhang Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA From Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at Wed Dec 23 22:24:12 2009 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:24:12 +0100 Subject: [DL] RR 2010: Call for Papers Message-ID: <4B328A7C.6050301@kr.tuwien.ac.at> CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010) Bressanone/Brixen, Italy September 22-24, 2010 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 Co-located with the Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2010. The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2010 builds on the success of the first three International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (see http://www.rr-conference.org), held in Innsbruck, Austria (2007), Karlsruhe, Germany (2008), and Chantilly, Virginia, USA (2009), which received enthusiastic support from the Web Reasoning community. In 2010, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. Suggested topics include the following (but are not limited to): * Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the WWW Incubator Group, etc. * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the Web * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Stream reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (acceptance pending) and will be available at the conference. After the conference, there will be a special issue of the (new IOS Press) journal "Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" with selected papers from the conference. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submissions must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2010). The length should not exceed 15 pages for full papers, 9 pages for short papers, 4 pages for posters, and 6 pages for system descriptions (for system demos at the conference). The stated lengths include title, abstract, and references. Short papers, posters, and system descriptions should be clearly marked as such in the title and in the easychair submission system. Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Original research and application papers are welcome; submissions will especially be judged for originality and scientific quality. All accepted papers, posters, and system descriptions will be included in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2010 Paper/poster/demo submission deadline: May 22, 2010 Paper/poster/demo accept/reject decisions: June 24, 2010 Camera-ready due: July 15, 2010 Last day for early registration fee: July 15, 2010 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS Georg Gottlob (Oxford University, UK) GENERAL CHAIR Jos? J?lio Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) PROGRAM CHAIRS Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Mariano Rodr?guez-Muro (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete, Greece) Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile, Chile) Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Andrea Cal? (Oxford University, UK) Vinay Chaudri (Stanford Research Institute, USA) Kendall Clark (Clark & Parsia, USA) Claudia d'Amato (University of Bari, Italy) Carlos Damasio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Wlodek Drabent (IPI PAN Warszawa, Poland) Sergio Flesca (University of Calabria, Italy) Christine Golbreich (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France) Claudio Gutierrez (University of Chile, Chile) Stijn Heymans (TU Vienna, Austria) Rinke Hoekstra (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Giovambattista Ianni (University of Calabria, Italy) Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Domenico Lembo (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy) Francesca A. Lisi (University of Bari, Italy) Gergely Luk?csy (DERI Galway, Ireland) Jan Maluszynski (University of Link?ping, Sweden) Wolfgang May (University of G?ttingen, Germany) Ralf M?ller (TU Hamburg, Germany) Boris Motik (Oxford University, UK) Wolfgang Nejdl (LS3 and University of Hannover, Germany) Matthias Nickles (University of Bath, UK) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Sebastian Rudolph (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Alan Ruttenberg (ScientificCommons, Switzerland) Michael Sintek (DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Terrance Swift (SUNY Stony Brook, USA) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen, Italy) Dirk Vermeir (University of Brussels, Belgium) Zhe Wu (Oracle, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the RR 2010 web site at http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010