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The Second International
Workshop on<BR> Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications
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(C&O-2006)<BR>
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<DIV><BR> August 28, 2006, ECAI Workshop Program, Riva del Grada,
Italy.<BR><BR><BR>OBJECTIVES<BR>The goal of the workshop is to bring together
people from the context and<BR>ontology communities and to discuss the
approaches they use for information<BR>integration. Therefore, the workshop will
push the cross-fertilization and<BR>exchange of ideas (e.g., which of the
methods from the ontology community<BR>can be successfully adopted in the
context community, and vice versa), and,<BR>hence, make their meeting mutually
beneficial.<BR><BR><BR>TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited
to:<BR>Foundations: <BR> Information interoperability and
reuse via multiple contexts and ontologies;<BR> Coordination
of multiple contexts and ontologies; <BR> Languages for
combination of multiple contexts and ontologies; <BR> Logics
for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies. <BR>Theory & Practice:
<BR> Techniques and tools for matching contexts and
ontologies;<BR> Techniques and tools for merging contexts and
ontologies;<BR> Techniques and tools for transforming contexts
and ontologies;<BR> Techniques and tools for translating
contexts and ontologies; <BR> Techniques and tools for
reconciling contexts and ontologies; <BR> Techniques for query
answering based on multiple contexts and ontologies;<BR>
Evaluation of tools for combination of contexts and
ontologies;<BR> Scalability of techniques for combination of
contexts and ontologies;<BR> Comparison of uses of contexts
and ontologies.<BR>Applications:<BR> Semantic
Web;<BR> Information Retrieval;<BR>
E-commerce;<BR> Telecommunications, multimedia, content
indexing; <BR> Knowledge management solutions for large
organizations; <BR> Grid and P2P;<BR>
Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence.<BR><BR><BR>INVITED TALKS:<BR>1.
Frank van Harmelen, <BR>Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands,<BR><A
href="">http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR>2. Selene Makarios, <BR>Stanford University, USA, <BR><A
href="">http://www-formal.stanford.edu/selene/cv.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>FORMAT, ATTENDANCE AND SUBMISSIONS<BR>The schedule assumes a one day
workshop. The workshop will consist of the<BR>following components: keynote
presentations, technical presentations,<BR>posters, and general
discussion.<BR><BR>The audience is assumed to consist of both academia and
industry. Thus, the<BR>workshop can improve academic awareness of industrial
needs, and therefore<BR>direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the
workshop will<BR>serve to inform industry representatives about existing
research efforts<BR>that may meet their business needs.<BR><BR>Contributions to
the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers or <BR>statements of
interest. Formatting and submission instructions will be <BR>published shortly
on the workshop web-site, <A
href="">http://www.c-and-o.net/</A>.<BR><BR>Contributions will be refereed by
the Program Committee.<BR>Accepted papers and statements of interest will be
published in the <BR>workshop proceedings. Also authors of the best technical
papers will <BR>be invited to submit an extended versions of their papers for
possible <BR>publication in a special issue on <BR>"Contexts and Ontologies:
Theory, Practice and Applications" <BR>in the Knowledge Engineering Review
Journal",<BR><A
href="">http://www.cambridge.org/uk/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=KER</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>IMPORTANT DATES<BR>April 15, 2006: Deadline for the submissions.
<BR>May 10, 2006: Notification of acceptance/rejection. <BR>May 24, 2006:
Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers. <BR>Aug 28, 2006: C&O-2006,
Riva del Grada, Italy.<BR><BR><BR>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR>1.Jerome
Euzenat<BR>INRIA Rhone-Alpes<BR>e-mail: <A
href="mailto:Jerome.Euzenat@inrialpes.fr">Jerome.Euzenat@inrialpes.fr</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR>2.Alain Leger<BR>France Telecom R&D Rennes<BR>e-mail: <A
href="mailto:alain.leger@rd.francetelecom.com">alain.leger@rd.francetelecom.com</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR>3.Deborah L. McGuinness<BR>Stanford University<BR>e-mail: <A
href="mailto:dlm@ksl.stanford.edu">dlm@ksl.stanford.edu</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR>4.Pavel Shvaiko (Chair)<BR>University of Trento<BR>e-mail: <A
href="mailto:pavel@dit.unitn.it">pavel@dit.unitn.it</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR>5.Holger Wache<BR>Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam<BR>e-mail: <A
href="">holger@cs.vu.nl</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)<BR>Patrick Brézillon,
University Paris, France <BR>Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
<BR>Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel <BR>Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
<BR>Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA <BR>Fausto Giunchiglia, University
of Trento, Italy <BR>Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
Netherlands <BR>Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA <BR>Yannis
Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK <BR>Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics
R&D, USA <BR>Ruediger Klein, DaimlerChrysler, Germany <BR>Alain Léger,
France Telecom R&D, France <BR>Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento,
Italy <BR>Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA <BR>Natalya Noy,
Stanford University, USA <BR>Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA <BR>Dimitris Plexousakis,
University of Crete, Greece <BR>Fano Ramparany, France Telecom, France <BR>Pavel
Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy <BR>Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of
Mannheim, Germany <BR>York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
<BR>Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands <BR>Christopher
Welty, IBM Research, USA <BR></DIV>
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size=2>--------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko<BR>University of Trento<BR>Dept. of Information and Communication
Technology<BR>Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY<BR>Tel: +39 (0461)
883386; Fax: +39 (0461) 882093<BR>Web: <A
href="http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/">http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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