From: "York Sure" <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe
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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 11:45:31 +0100
Subject: Call for Papers: EON2002
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Call for Papers: EON2002 - Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools
OntoWeb-SIG3 Workshop at the 13th International Conference on
Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management EKAW 2002
Siguenza (Spain), 30th September 2002
This CfP can be also found at the website of the workshop:
http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/eon2002
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Description
In the Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools workshop we intend to bring
together researchers and practitioners from the fastly developing
research areas Ontologies and Semantic Web. Currently the semantic
web attracts researchers from all around the world. Numerous tools
and applications of semantic web technologies are already available
and the number is growing fast. However, deploying large scale
ontology solutions typically involves several separate tasks and
requires applying multiple tools. Therefore pragmatic issues such as
interoperability are key if industry is to be encouraged to take up
ontology technology rapidly. The main aim of this workshop is
therefore to encourage and stimulate discussions about the evaluation
of ontology-based tools.
The large visibility of the semantic web, it’s tools and applications
already attracts industrial partners, e.g. in numerous projects
funded by the European Commission. In particular, as tools move from
academic institutions into commercial environments they have to
fulfil stronger requirements and in some cases new requirements (e.g.
concerning scalability and multi-user access). Different tools from
different sources need to interoperate. Typically tools are not
anymore standalone solutions but integrated into a framework. This
framework must be open to other commercial applications and provide
connectors and interfaces to industrial standards. Larger
applications need also larger ontologies and therefore require
substantially more performance and scalability.
A systematic evaluation of the tools might lead to a consistent level
of quality and thus acceptance by industry. For the future this might
lead into certification efforts for such tools.
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Interoperability of tools (e.g. turnaround abilities)
- Integration of tools into frameworks
- Performance benchmarks
- Scalability of tools
- Certification of tools
Tools include e.g.:
- Annotation tools
- Inference engines
- Ontology editors and browsers
- Ontology servers
- Ontology mapping tools
- Repositories
- Retrieval tools
- Semantic search engines
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Workshop Organising Committee
Jürgen Angele, Ontoprise GmbH (D)
York Sure (Contact Person), Institute AIFB/U of Karlsruhe (D)
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Program Committee
Richard Benjamins, iSOCO (ES)
Mike Brown, Semantic Edge (G)
Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester (UK)
Jesus Contreras, iSOCO (ES)
Carole Goble, University of Manchester (UK)
Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (ES)
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) *
Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText Lab / Sirma AI, Ltd. (BG)
Robert Meersmann, StarLab Brussels (BE)
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (D)
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe (G)
Mike Uschold, Boeing (USA)
(*) to be confirmed
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Submission and Proceedings
We invite submissions of technical papers and short position papers
(two pages). To ensure a creative atmosphere of the workshop, the
participants will be selected on the basis of their submitted papers,
posing important issues to be presented and discussed at the
workshop. The workshop will consist of presentations followed by
discussions. In order to obtain an intensive exchange of ideas
between the participants, there will be left extensive time for
discussion following each presentation. A final panel will discuss
the research agenda for the coming years and predicted development
trends to serve industrial requirements.
We explicitly encourage people to make demos of their tools.
Format requirements for submissions of papers are:
- Maximum 10 pages, excluding title page and bibliography for
technical papers
- Maximum 2 pages, excluding title page and bibliography for short
position papers
All submissions should be made electronically if possible, by email
attachment and preferably in Postscript or PDF format. Only if
electronic submission is impossible should you send three hardcopies.
All submissions must be sent to the workshop contact, York Sure at
[log in to unmask] Although not required for the initial
submission, we recommend to follow the format guidelines of EKAW
2002, as this will be the required format for accepted papers (cf.
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
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Important Dates
First call for papers: March 5th, 2002
Deadline paper submissions: April 15th, 2002
Notification of acceptance: May 31st, 2002
Camera ready deadline: June 30th, 2002
Workshop: September 30th, 2002 in Siguenza (Spain)
Please do not hesitate to contact York Sure for any questions you
have!
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York Sure
eMail: [log in to unmask]
phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu
Institute AIFB
University of Karlsruhe (TH)
D-76128 Karlsruhe (Germany)
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