Apologies for cross-postings
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The AAAI-05 Workshop on
Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O-2005)
http://www.c-and-o.net/
July 9-10, 2005, AAAI Workshop Program, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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OBJECTIVES
The goal of the workshop is to bring together people from the context and
ontology communities and to discuss the approaches they use for
information integration. Therefore, the workshop will push the
cross-fertilization and exchange of ideas (e.g., which of the methods from
the ontology community can be successfully adopted in the context
community, and vice versa), and, hence, make their
meeting mutually beneficial.
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TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to:
Foundations:
Coordination of multiple contexts and ontologies;
Meaning negotiation of multiple contexts and ontologies;
Languages for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies;
Logics for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies.
Theory & Practice:
Techniques and tools for matching (aligning) contexts and ontologies;
Techniques and tools for merging contexts and ontologies;
Techniques and tools for transforming contexts and ontologies;
Techniques and tools for translating contexts and ontologies;
Techniques and tools for reconciling contexts and ontologies;
Techniques for query answering based on multiple contexts and
ontologies;
Benchmarking of tools for integration of contexts and ontologies;
Comparisons of techniques and tools for matching, merging,
transforming, translating, and
reconciling contexts and ontologies;
Scalability of techniques for integration of contexts and ontologies;
Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies.
Applications:
Semantic Web;
DB model management;
E-commerce;
Telecommunications, multimedia, content indexing;
Knowledge management solutions for large organizations;
Pervasive computing systems.
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INVITED TALKS
1. Fausto Giunchiglia (http://www.dit.unitn.it/~fausto),
University of Trento, Italy
Title of the talk: "Contexts meet Ontologies: Past, Present and Future"
2. Christopher Welty (http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty/),
IBM Research, USA
Title of the talk: "Ontologies meet Contexts: Past, Present and Future"
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FORMAT, ATTENDANCE AND SUBMISSIONS
The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the
following components: keynote presentations, technical presentations,
posters/demos, and general discussion.
The audience is assumed to consist of both academia and industry. Thus,
the workshop can improve academic awareness of industrial needs, and
therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the
workshop will serve to inform industry representatives about existing
research efforts that may meet their business needs.
Attendance is limited to active participants only. Contributions to the
workshop can be made in terms of technical papers or statements of
interest. Technical papers should be not longer than 8 pages using
the AAAI-05 style (http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/workshops.html).
Statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages using the AAAI-05 style.
All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and
should be sent by email to Pavel Shvaiko:
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Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee.
Accepted papers and statements of interest will be published as AAAI
Technical report series.
Also we will publish the extended versions of the best technical papers of
the workshop in the
Journal on Data Semantics (http://lbdwww.epfl.ch/e/Springer/).
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IMPORTANT DATES
March 11, 2005: Deadline for the submissions.
April 15, 2005: Notification of acceptance/rejection.
May 13, 2005: Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers.
May 20, 2005: Camera-ready workshop notes.
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alain Leger, France Telecom, France
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA
AnHai Doan, University of Illinois, USA
Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA
Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA
Dimitris Plexousakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Fano Ramparany, France Telecom, France
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Luciano Serafini, University of Trento, Italy
Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy
Michael Gruninger, NIST, USA
Michael Uschold, Boeing, USA
Michel Plu, France Telecom, France
Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy
Ramanathan Guha, IBM Research, USA
Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA
Tim Finin, University of Maryland, USA
Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, USA
Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK
York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
1.Jerome Euzenat
INRIA Rhone-Alpes
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2.Alain Leger
France Telecom R&D Rennes
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3.Deborah L. McGuinness
Stanford University
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4.Pavel Shvaiko (CHAIR)
University of Trento
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5.Holger Wache
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Cheers,
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Pavel Shvaiko
PhD Student, University of Trento
Dept. of Information and Communication Technology
Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY
Tel: +39 (0461) 883914; Fax: +39 (0461) 882093
Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/
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