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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Apologies for
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FINAL CALL FOR
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submission deadline is approaching: 17 days left
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The First International Workshop on
<BR>
ONTOLOGY
MATCHING<BR>
(OM-2006)<BR>
<A
href="http://www.om2006.ontologymatching.org/">http://www.om2006.ontologymatching.org/</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><BR>November 5 or 6, 2006, ISWC'06 Workshop
Program, Athens, Georgia, USA <BR><BR><BR>BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND
OBJECTIVES<BR>Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the
Semantic Web, <BR>since it takes the ontologies as input and determines as
output <BR>correspondences between the semantically related entities of those
ontologies. <BR>These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as
ontology merging, <BR>query answering, data translation, or for navigation on
the Semantic Web. <BR>Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data
expressed in the <BR>matched ontologies to interoperate.<BR><BR>The workshop has
two goals: <BR>1. To bring together academic and industry leaders dealing with
ontology matching<BR>in order to assess how academic advances are addressing
real-world requirements. <BR>The workshop will strive to improve academic
awareness of industrial needs, and <BR>therefore, direct research towards those
needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will <BR>serve to inform industry
representatives about existing research efforts that may <BR>meet their business
needs. <BR><BR>2. To conduct an extensive evaluation of ontology matching
approaches through <BR>the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2006
campaign. The particular <BR>focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world
matching tasks from specific <BR>domains, e.g., medicine, jobs. Therefore, the
ontology matching evaluation <BR>initiative itself will provide a solid ground
for discussion of how well the <BR>current approaches are meeting business
needs. <BR><BR><BR>TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited
to:<BR> Application of ontology matching techniques in
real-world scenarios; <BR> Requirements to ontology matching
from specific domains; <BR> Formal foundations and frameworks
for ontology matching; <BR> Performance of ontology-matching
techniques; <BR> Background knowledge in ontology matching;
<BR> Uncertainty in ontology matching; <BR>
Interactive ontology matching; <BR> Ontology matching
evaluation methodology; <BR> Ontology matching for information
integration; <BR> Ontology matching for query answering;
<BR> Ontology matching for dynamic environments (e.g., P2P
systems); <BR> Systems and infrastructures.
<BR><BR><BR>INVITED TALKS<BR>1. Fausto Giunchiglia, <BR>University of Trento,
Italy.<BR>Tentative title: Background Knowledge in Ontology Matching. <BR><BR>2.
Amit Sheth, <BR>University of Georgia and Semagix, USA.<BR>Tentative
title: Matching, Mapping and Alignment in the context of <BR>Real World
Ontologies and Semantic Services. <BR><BR><BR>FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS<BR>The
schedule assumes one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the<BR>following
components: keynote presentations, technical presentations,<BR>OAEI'06 results
presentations, posters and consensus building workshop, <BR>wrap-up
discussion.<BR><BR>Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of (i)
technical papers <BR>addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as
(ii) participating <BR>in the OAEI 2006 campaign. Technical papers should be not
longer than 12 pages <BR>using the LNCS Style. For complete style details, see
Springer's Author
Instructions<BR>http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html<BR>These
should be prepared in PDF format and should be sent <BR>(no later than August
11, 2006) by email to Pavel Shvaiko: <BR><BR>pavel at dit dot unitn dot
it<BR><BR>Technical papers will be refereed by the Program
Committee.<BR>Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
<BR><BR>Contributors to the OAEI 2006 campaign have to follow the contest
conditions <BR>at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2006/.<BR><BR><BR>IMPORTANT
DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS<BR>August 11, 2006: Deadline for the submission of
papers. <BR>September 14, 2006: Deadline for the notification of
acceptance/rejection. <BR>September 21, 2006: Workshop camera ready copy
submission. <BR>November 5 or 6, 2006: OM-2006, GA Center, Athens, Georgia, USA.
<BR><BR><BR>IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE OAEI'06 CAMPAIGN<BR>early June, 2006: First
publication of test cases.<BR>June 28, 2006: Comments on test cases (any time
before that date).<BR>July 3, 2006: Final publication of test
cases.<BR>September 4, 2006: Preliminary results due (for
interoperability-checking). <BR>September 15, 2006: Participants send final
results and supporting papers. <BR>October 9, 2006: Organizers publish results
for comments. <BR>November 5 or 6, 2006: OM-2006, GA Center, Athens, Georgia,
USA;<BR>
OAEI'06 final results ready. <BR><BR><BR>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR><BR>1. Pavel
Shvaiko<BR>University of Trento, Italy<BR>e-mail: pavel at dit dot unitn dot it
<BR><BR>2. Jerome Euzenat<BR>INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France<BR><BR>3. Natasha Noy
<BR>Stanford University, USA <BR><BR>4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt <BR>University of
Mannheim, Germany <BR><BR>5. Richard Benjamins <BR>Intelligent Software
Components, Spain <BR><BR>6. Michael Uschold <BR>The Boeing Company, USA
<BR><BR><BR>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<BR>Benjamin Ashpole, Lockheed Martin Advanced
Technology Labs, USA <BR>Richard Benjamins, Intelligent Software Components,
Spain <BR>Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy <BR>Jerome Euzenat, INRIA
Rhone-Alpes, France <BR>Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
<BR>Andreas Hess, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands <BR>Wei Hu,
Southeast University, China <BR>Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina,
USA <BR>Todd Hughes, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs, USA <BR>Michael
Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA <BR>Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute
of Informatics, Japan <BR>Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK
<BR>Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University, USA <BR>Meenakshi Nagarajan,
University of Georgia, USA <BR>Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA <BR>Satya
Sahoo, University of Georgia, USA <BR>Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence
Research Institute, Spain <BR>Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy
<BR>Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany <BR>Umberto Straccia,
ISTI-C.N.R., Italy <BR>Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
<BR>York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany <BR>Michael Uschold, The Boeing
Company, USA <BR>Petko Valtchev, University of Montreal, Canada <BR>Mikalai
Yatskevich, University of Trento, Italy
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Shvaiko<BR>University of Trento<BR>Dept. of Information and Communication
Technology<BR>Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY<BR>Web:
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