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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Apologies for
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FINAL CALL FOR
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The Third International Workshop
on<BR>
ONTOLOGY
MATCHING<BR>
(OM-2008)<BR>
</FONT><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>October 26, 2008, ISWC'08 Workshop Program,
Karlsruhe, Germany<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 an<BR>alignment, that is,
a set of correspondences between the semantically<BR>related entities of those
ontologies. These correspondences can be used<BR>for various tasks, such as
ontology merging, query answering, data <BR>translation, or for navigation on
the Semantic Web. Thus, matching </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>ontologies
enables the knowledge and data expressed in </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>the matched
ontologies to interoperate.<BR><BR><BR>The workshop has two goals:<BR><BR>1. To
bring together academic and industry leaders dealing with ontology<BR>matching
in order to assess how academic advances are addressing<BR>real-world
requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic<BR>awareness of
industrial needs, and therefore, direct research towards<BR>those needs.
Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry<BR>representatives
about existing research efforts that may meet their<BR>business needs.<BR><BR>2.
To conduct an extensive evaluation of ontology matching<BR>approaches through
the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative)<BR>2008 campaign. The
particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on<BR>real-world matching tasks
from specific domains, e.g., medicine.<BR>Therefore, the ontology matching
evaluation initiative itself will provide<BR>a solid ground for discussion of
how well the current approaches are<BR>meeting business needs.<BR><BR><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> Interactive
ontology matching;<BR> Alignment
management;<BR> Background knowledge in ontology
matching;<BR> Reasoning for 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 query
answering;<BR> Ontology matching for dynamic
environments;<BR> Systems and
infrastructures.<BR><BR><BR>FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS<BR>The schedule assumes one
day workshop. The workshop will consist of the<BR>following components:
technical presentations, OAEI'08 results<BR>presentations, posters, workshop on
consensus building </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>(of reference
alignments) and wrap-up discussion.<BR><BR>Contributions to the workshop can be
made in terms of<BR>(i) technical papers addressing different issues of ontology
matching as <BR>well as (ii) participating in the OAEI 2008 campaign. Technical
papers </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>should be not
longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>For complete
style details, see Springer's Author Instructions<BR></FONT><A href=""><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>These should be prepared in PDF format and should
be submitted<BR>(no later than July 25, 2008) through the workshop submission
site at:<BR><BR></FONT><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2008</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Technical papers will be refereed by the Program
Committee.<BR>Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.<BR>Contributors to OAEI 2008 have to follow the campaign's
conditions at:<BR><BR></FONT><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/</FONT></A><BR><BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS<BR>July 25,
2008: Deadline for the submission of papers.<BR>September 8, 2008: Deadline for
the notification of acceptance/rejection.<BR>September 25, 2008: Workshop camera
ready copy submission.<BR>October 26, 2008: OM-2008, Congress Center, Karlsruhe,
Germany.<BR><BR>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR>1. Pavel Shvaiko<BR>TasLab, Informatica
Trentina, Italy<BR>e-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] it<BR><BR>2.
Jerome Euzenat<BR>INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France<BR><BR>3. Fausto
Giunchiglia<BR>University of Trento, Italy<BR><BR>4. Heiner
Stuckenschmidt,<BR>University of Mannheim, Germany<BR><BR>PROGRAM
COMMITTEE<BR>Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA<BR>Paolo
Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy<BR>Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh,
UK<BR>Isabel Cruz, University Illinois at Chicago, USA<BR>Jerome David, INRIA,
France<BR>Wei Hu, Southeast University, China<BR>Ryutaro Ichise, National
Institute of Informatics, Japan<BR>Antoine Isaak, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
Netherlands<BR>Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany<BR>Yannis Kalfoglou, University of
Southampton, UK<BR>Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners
HealthCare System, USA<BR>Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology,
Austria<BR>Patrick Lambrix, Linkopings Universitet, Sweden<BR>Christian
Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany<BR>Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation,
USA<BR>Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA<BR>Luigi Palopoli, University of
Calabria, Italy<BR>Ivan Pilati, TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy<BR>Marco
Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain<BR>Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
(ITC-IRST), Italy<BR>Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy<BR>Eleni Stroulia,
University of Alberta, Canada<BR>York Sure, SAP, Germany<BR>Ludger van Elst,
DFKI, Germany<BR>Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy<BR>Baoshi Yan,
Bosch Research, USA<BR>Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China<BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Download
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size=3>-------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko<BR>TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy<BR>Web: </FONT><A href=""><FONT
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