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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Apologies for cross-postings</DIV>
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FINAL CALL FOR
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submission deadline is approaching: 17 days left
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<DIV><BR>
The Second International Workshop on
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ONTOLOGY
MATCHING<BR>
(OM-2007)<BR>
<A
href="http://om2007.ontologymatching.org/">http://om2007.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR> <BR>
November 11, 2007, ISWC'07 + ASWC'07 Workshop Program, Busan, Korea</DIV>
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<DIV><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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>2. To conduct an extensive evaluation of ontology matching approaches
through <BR>the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2007 campaign.
The particular <BR>focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world matching
tasks from specific <BR>domains, e.g., medicine, food. 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.
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<DIV><BR>TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited
to:<BR> Requirements to ontology matching from specific
domains;<BR> Application of ontology matching techniques in
real-world scenarios;<BR> Social and collaborative ontology
matching;<BR> Interaction design for ontology
matching;<BR> Interactive ontology
matching;<BR> Background knowledge in ontology
matching;<BR> Uncertainty in ontology
matching;<BR> Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology
matching;<BR> Performance of ontology matching
techniques;<BR> Ontology matching evaluation
methodology;<BR> Ontology matching for information
integration;<BR> Ontology matching for dynamic
environments;<BR> Systems and infrastructures.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS<BR>The schedule assumes one day workshop. The
workshop will consist of the<BR>following components: technical presentations,
OAEI'07 results presentations, <BR>posters, workshop on consensus building (of
reference alignments) and <BR>wrap-up discussion.</DIV>
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<DIV>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 2007 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><A
href="http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html">http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html</A><BR>These
should be prepared in PDF format and and should be submitted <BR>(no later than
August 3, 2007) through the workshop submission site at: </DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ISWC2007/">https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ISWC2007/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Technical papers will be refereed by the Program Committee.<BR>Accepted
papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. <BR>Contributors to the
OAEI 2007 campaign have to follow the contest conditions at: </DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/">http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/</A>.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS<BR>August 3, 2007: Deadline for
the submission of papers. <BR>September 7, 2007: Deadline for the notification
of acceptance/rejection. <BR>September 28, 2007: Workshop camera ready copy
submission. <BR>November 11, 2007: OM-2007, BEXCO, Busan, Korea. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR>1. Pavel Shvaiko<BR>University of Trento,
Italy<BR>e-mail: pavel at dit dot unitn dot it </DIV>
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<DIV>2. Jerome Euzenat<BR>INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France</DIV>
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<DIV>3. Fausto Giunchiglia<BR>University of Trento, Italy</DIV>
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<DIV>4. Bin He<BR>IBM Almaden Research Center, USA</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<BR>Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine,
USA<BR>Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy<BR>Wei
Hu, Southeast University, China<BR>Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina,
USA<BR>Todd Hughes, DARPA, USA<BR>Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina,
USA<BR>Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan<BR>Anthony
Jameson, DFKI, Germany<BR>Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton,
UK<BR>Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, USA<BR>Christian Meilicke,
University of Mannheim, Germany<BR>Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation,
USA<BR>Meenakshi Nagarajan, Wright State University, USA<BR>Luigi Palopoli,
University of Calabria, Italy<BR>Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
(ITC-IRST), Italy<BR>Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain<BR>Steffen Staab,
University of Koblenz, Germany<BR>Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy<BR>Heiner
Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany<BR>Petko Valtchev, Universite du
Quebec a Montreal, Canada<BR>Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
Netherlands<BR>Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany<BR>Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research,
USA<BR>Mikalai Yatskevich, University of Trento, Italy<BR>Songmao Zhang, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China</DIV>
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OM-2007 flyer:<BR><A
href="http://om2007.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2007_flyer.pdf">http://om2007.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2007_flyer.pdf</A><BR>-------------------------------------------------------</DIV>
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<DIV>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko<BR>University of Trento<BR>Dept. of Information and Communication
Technology<BR>Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY<BR>Web: <A
href="http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/">http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/</A><BR><A
href="http://www.ontologymatching.org/">http://www.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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