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Seventh Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) Workshop on "Ontology-based
knowledge discovery: Using metadata and ontologies for improving access to
agricultural information",
in collaboration with the Fifth Conference of the Asian Federation for
Information Technology in Agricultural (AFITA - 2006)
Bangalore, India
9 - 10 November 2006
Introduction
The goal of the Seventh AOS workshop is to provide a platform for
implementers to demonstrate how ontologies can extract and acquire additional
knowledge from existing agricultural information systems. It aims to bring
together research communities, with special focus on agriculture, whose
members are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge and in creating
representations and formalizations that can be useful for reasoning and
knowledge discovery.
The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Automatic and semi-automatic metadata generation
* Decision-support tools
* Knowledge acquisition methods
* Knowledge elicitation techniques
* Knowledge extraction techniques
* Knowledge representation techniques (in ontologies)
* Metadata and accurate knowledge mark-up
* Ontology application
* Ontology learning
* Ontology life cycle
* Ontology modelling
* Question-answering systems
* Rules in ontologies
Important dates
* Paper submission deadline : May 30, 2006
* Announcement of paper acceptance : June 15, 2006
* Camera-ready paper submission deadline : July 29, 2006
Paper submission
All papers should be written in English. Electronic version (MS Word) of the
paper should be uploaded via: http://caitian.cn:7001/lianong/en/send.jsp
Workshop programme committee
Howard Beck, University of Florida, USA
Jayantha Chaterjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
Italy
Gauri Salokhe, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy
Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA
Zhong Wang, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
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